The Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Vol. 1 Metagame

[@serenolopez-darwin1975]

Ok so I am the one of your 16000 subscribers that can read Japanese, and I looked up the "Official Rules" ("公式ルール") from the OCG. Here is a summary from the Yugioh japanese wiki: No tribute summoning. You can normal summon any monster regardless of level. You may only play one spell and one trap card per turn. This actually includes setting *and* activating, the wiki specifies that if you set a spell card you can't play activate another spell card from hand that turn. Fusion materials have to come from the field, they can't come from the hand like on Polymerization. Instead of losing instantly for drawing from an empty deck, whenever either player runs out of cards in their deck, the player with the higher LP wins. No hand size limit. First player doesn't get to draw on their first turn. If you draw 2 games in a single match, the entire match is considered a draw. After activating a trap card, it just stays on the field unless it specifies that it's destroyed after activation. Bouncing a fusion monster returns it to the "fusion deck" (doesn't say "extra deck"). You can't activate hand effects (Kuribo is essentially useless until second master rule...lol) This was apparently sourced from something called "ザ・ヴァリュアブル・ブック", literally "the valuable book" which was a starter book included with volume 1 (?). You can actually buy a copy here for 25 bucks: www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%81%8A%E3%83%BB%E6%88%AF%E3%83%BB%E7%8E%8B-%E3%82%AA%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0-%E5%85%AC%E5%BC%8F%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B0-%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-%E6%84%9B%E8%94%B5%E7%89%88%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9/dp/408782764X

[@HumanReverend]

Thank you, you are the most important scholar of our times

[@buttersbb3328]

Not all heroes wear neck belts and school jackets without their arms in the sleeves.

[@athath2010]

Do we know if the wiki is accurate, though? Has anyone actually bought a copy of that rulebook to check?

[@Holital]

136 pages wtf

[@PuchuKt]

JUNIOR JOURNEY REFERENCE

[@abdalln8554]

Censoring M**** card but sprinkling in as much MtG terms as possible is such a good bit.

[@Eddie_Enfer]

First OCG formats monsters be like: Tenmaoh: Lord of never ending death - Absolute lord of underworld and hell, Has never been defeated in battle, he can destroy the world only by breathing Atk 800 / def 700

[@hi-i-am-atan]

earth winged beast

[@inferno7892]

Certifiable power creep instance

[@buttersbb3328]

I am SHOCKED that they had the balls to launch the OCG without including the undeniable raw sex appeal of Skull Servant.

[@awkwardcultism]

Where tha' Wight women at?

[@leaffinite2001]

​@@awkwardcultism good one

[@melvint-p9500]

🤤skel snernvernant...

[@yugimumoto1]

I am too. Idk how it even sold

[@lordice5]

A true travesty...

[@knuckl6972]

As an average Jimmy/Bimmy, I can confirm that I just walk around the city telling strangers that Hitotsu Me-Giant was the strongest Level 4 monster in OCG Volume One.

[@Amyler00]

The only way Yugioh was played in my school was seeing how many cards you could steal from your friends, but this stuff seems interesting too.

[@chukaval7009]

😂

[@rhysjonsmusic]

Your name is certainly a flash from the past, I hope things are going well for you.

[@philipscdi2029]

The way of life, I lost my dear Red Eyes, but got my hands on a pot of greed

[@usblryuzaki]

Where you from? Here in Brazil was the same thing. Really sad :c

[@GargeBarge]

Oh you were on that original Yu-Gi-Oh

[@rexdavis12]

I know this is an April fools joke but please continue with this. I can see this format catching on but ironically if that makes sense

[@arachnofiend2859]

Fits right in with the RBY Ubers video in terms of "let's pick an awful unplayable meta and take it completely seriously". That is a formula that will slap every time

[@clemdelaclem]

You're clearly not familiar with the channel this is all he does, which is why we love him

[@tq1238]

@@clemdelaclem This video got recommended to me a bunch, so I wouldn't be surprised if others found him recently too.

[@rexdavis12]

@@clemdelaclem well shit, time to binge

[@hekonaleeinos5510]

@@clemdelaclem Yeah, i was just thinking : "isn't this a normal video for him ?"

[@davidahia8311]

Reverend cleaning up the early Metas, can't wait until he covers the pre-15th century Chess meta where ... Queens CAN ONLY move ONE SPACE?? WOW, that's the Only Ghost Type Move is Lick of pre-15th century Chess, what a time that was!

[@HumanReverend]

Wtf is that real? What were they cooking...

[@sealeo5772]

​@@HumanReverendThe reason behind the change is hilarious. Basically the Spanish just thought that their queen was such a girlboss that she deserved to move any number of spaces.

[@gogovish]

@@sealeo5772 were they wrong though?

[@GibbousTT]

When did Action Button talk about chess? @@mude_13

[@nathanielmohr9622]

There was a time before that as well where the queen could only move diagonally, and only exactly 2 spaces at a time, jumping pieces like the knight does.

[@M3rtyville]

It is simple, there were no rules like in the tv series. Just summon Silver Fang against Gaia and destroy it for 100 damage because the field power bonus of the full moon doubling the attack of a wolf. To prevent that, your opponent needs to attack the moon before you summon Silver Fang.

[@KnightofFunnyJunk]

Back in the day we went by 2 different rule sets. Official rules, which was how the characters in the battle city arc would summon monsters to the field so by abiding to the tributing monsters to summon stronger monsters to the field. The other set of rules we called "Pegasus rules" which was doing duels how the Dueliest Kingdom arc would do them which was summoning beatsticks from your hand but your lifepoints were 2K instead of 4K

[@ENCHANTMEN_]

"reading flavor text and taking it at face value" has to be my favorite bit on the channel

[@bewill5121]

Going for the throat will never not be funny

[@M3rtyville]

makes you want to see him make videos on yugioh

[@WhoMightThis1Be]

The best thing about this format is that if you are traveling or dont have your copy of Firegrass at hand you can improvise and play it with like a bunch of rocks and sticks you found on the ground instead

[@TNMelee]

I'm putting this on the big screen at etsucon and making everyone watch

[@stephentoothman7852]

It's incredible that hitotsu-me giant's Japanese card name is just "cyclops"

[@ExeloMinish]

It's less crazy if you know "hitotsu-me" just means "one-eyed". Quite a few early cards that had english (or engrish) names in japanese got japanese names in english. Thunderbolt became Raigeki, Dragon Egger became Ryu-Ran, Time Bomb turned into Jigen Bakudan, Gargoyle was now Ryu-Kishin, and so on

[@lpfan4491]

@@ExeloMinish It is still crazy because one argubly just isn't supposed to do this in localization, plus it randomly erases naming-relations, plus it randomly generates new ones(Anti-Raigeki was literally just called Thunderrod, not Anti-Thunderbolt, doesn't matter that it is specifically designed to respond to that card.)...and it is not like all of these are functionally equivalent either. Ryu-Kishin for example means fierce dragon god, which...is there some link between that and the concept of a gargoyle that I am not aware of?

[@od-vn9ws]

@@lpfan4491 The funniest are the early ones like "Birdman" who became "Harpie's Brother" in English. Except he wasn't supposed to be a Harpie card, so he had to be specifically excluded from any Harpie support.

[@lpfan4491]

@@od-vn9ws Yeah, it gets very funny when localization has an actual gameplay-effect that they have to block with an exclusion-clause. Sometimes it is impossible to prevent and then there are the cases where it is 100% the localizer's fault.(Remember Elf Swordsman? Who is even literally still refered to as an Elf who is a swordsman in flavor text? Lmao)

[@Zero_Chaos]

After rewatching this video for like the 20th time, I still find myself awestruck at how good this is especially considering it's an "April 1st" vid. Just incredible stuff. As a huge retro card game nerd, I love when old niche shit gets a deep dive like this

[@dooooooook3610]

I love this meta game because it’s like “I bought exactly 40 cards and that’s my deck”

[@ccckk3639]

yugioh cards taste almost as good as they look so its cool to see that they have another use too

[@emmamorris6577]

real

[@cpugamer1012]

I would literally perform a blood sacrifice to get more videos of you covering weird metas like this. Idc if it's yugioh, pokemon, or fuckin competitive Mario party. This shit slaps harder than my dad after I struck out in little league.

[@imsoready1114]

Wow I can't believe that you exposed and thoroughly destroyed The Duel Logs with FACTS and LOGIC. I can't believe they would be so wrong when they claimed that Hitotsu-Me Giant was the strongest (level 4 or lower) in the format. Thank you sir Reverend for bringing this really IMPORTANT truth to light.

[@Murph_E]

This part of the video annoyed me a bit because, in both examples he used, the person only says “the strongest level 4 monster”, not “the strongest level 4 (or lower) monster”. Whether or not mammoth graveyard and silver fang share its attack stat is irrelevant because they aren’t level 4 monsters. He misrepresents what they said in his own examples and then smugly dunks on it when he’s just wrong. I get that it’s just a cute little bit he’s doing, but when it’s an unnecessary addition to a video and is just flat out wrong, it’s a little bothersome. Otherwise the video is quite good, though

[@doggerlander]

@@Murph_E why would anyone break down the strength of specifically every level 4 monster?

[@leaffinite2001]

​@Murph_E idk i think the implication in "strongest lvl 4 monster" is undeniably "strongest lvl 4 or lower monster" since the important thing about lvl 4 is its the highest level you dont need to tribute summon, and as a result the strongest lvl 4 monster is almost always equivalent to the strongest lvl 4 or lower monster, only because they dont make lvl 3, 2, or 1 monsters as strong as lvl 4 monsters. Theres no reason to bring up the strongest lvl 4 monster excluding lower lvl monsters outside of... idk just listing it off as a fun fact.

[@TheFatestPat]

Looking at the original OCG is pretty neat. You get to see how they slowly introduced the different elements and strategies. When they brought it over to the USA we got like 12 sets all jammed packed into one release.

[@eliascsjunior]

And they still chose to give us the best spells but the worst traps and monsters just because they wanted 🤷‍♀️

[@lpfan4491]

@@eliascsjunior I mean, at least it was a proper indication of things to come. The TCG is basically the scuffed cousin of the OCG.

[@J3Puffin]

@@lpfan4491the scuff is mutual. it’s like one continuous Mobius loop of sandpaper scraping against the bottom of a shoe

[@MidWestWolf1985]

i love your video style and seeing ygo videos from you is always a treat because you treat the game as it should be treated: as a game for insane people

[@amycatass]

The bombshell of NO TRIBUTE SUMMONS caught me off guard even as someone who was already aware. Great vid

[@nintenx1235]

As someone who loves the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG enough to become a judge this is one of my favorite videos on the subject because it starts with arguably more interesting topic then immediately throws it away to talk about a children's card game.

[@Sludgefriend]

You’re the only person that makes videos. Thanks for that

[@OdaSwifteye]

Yo, Competitive Dragon Quest Monsters videos.

[@Hanbei]

fun fact you could argue that Kagemusha of the Blue Flame is the first Six Sam card from a purely lore-centric perspective, as the "blue flame" is Shien

[@autobotstarscream765]

Iirc, he also _legally_ counts as a "Shien", making him exactly as useful and relevant as Chamberlain of the Six Samurai (not at all).

[@hoodedman6579]

@@autobotstarscream765 Him existing is why they refer to “Shien effect monsters” instead of just “Shien monsters”. That is his legacy.

[@mrfishman9016]

@@hoodedman6579 frog the jam moment

[@applenaught6768]

Reverend is the only person im willing to let explain to me what missing the timing is.

[@misterbadguy7325]

Really, the Game Boy game was the first form of what would become the card game. Nearly all the early monsters are derived from there, as are most of the rules. It's crazy to think about, but the card game probably started life as an adaptation of the Game Boy game.

[@serenolopez-darwin1975]

You forgot to mention the most important part of AlphaGo vs Sedol: Sedol (the best human player in the world) resigned from professional play after losing to it, stating that he believed that the age of human development of the game was over as AI had now surpassed human capability for Go strategy.

[@Millus1987]

it even looks like the plot of a yugioh GX episode

[@usblryuzaki]

Just some corrections: He was ranked second best player in the world and he only retired in 2019, 3 years after the match. But yes, he retired because AI is taking over.

[@_JesusChrist.]

@@usblryuzakijeez, this comment is straight from the 1950’s

[@funkgab2013]

Yet another amazing video. Loved transition from the complex intricacies of Go to “too long didn’t read” monster card game.

[@BlumenCT]

Having binged your RBY meta stuff this feels like a natural extension of your videos lmfao. Just absolutely miserable but fascinating. I love it. No one ever talks about the early OCG, especially with how sets were localized initially by getting chopped up and rearranged. The whole 800 ATK thing stands out. ....Not sure it's gonna catch on like Goat or Edison though. Or maybe you'll be at the helm of this new movement.

[@LateNightTableCo]

3:06 i can tell you poured your heart into this intro. It’s very powerful and inspiring, but still retains that slight dry delivery you’ve coined. And then it just HARD cuts to HMG vs Dark Gray

[@craniifer]

I've always loved how the grander the flavor text, the more underwhelming the card.

[@HumanReverend]

Dark magician has the lamest most copout flavor text in history and it's really funny. Red-Eyes is arguably even worse, it literally just says "a scary dragon with a strong attack" or something like that

[@lpfan4491]

Red Eye's flavor text was so buttcheeks that they had to update it in japanese. Before: Its attack power is of the highest level possible. An extremely rare card! After: A black dragon with crimson eyes. Black flames of wrath incinerate everything its eyes lay on. (For comparison, the english one is really just: A ferocious dragon with a deadly attack.)

[@wadespencer3623]

If a card has enough words on it to be any good, there's no room for flavor text.

[@smob0]

I love how adding a single monster with 1000 attack points and a type that can use one of the equipment spells could be quite format warping.

[@supershortvids11]

Another banger format to cover would be OCG original exodia format. It's almost equally degenerate and substantially less fun than even this. This is a phenomenal video btw

[@Katagara84]

I expected more Yugioh. I didn't expect a deep dive into the realest form of Yugioh

[@JohnAdams-ze7fj]

This is probably the KZbin video that I come back to the most. It scratches such a strange itch, everything just works. From the deadpan delivery to the fun editing to the vibin’ song selection. I know this was an April fools joke but I really hope you keep up the “review x shitty niche format of x game” I’d watch whatever, be it pokemon, yugioh or fuckin’ fossil fighters, this is some quality content

[@seda_11]

4 minutes in and the editing combined with the delivery has already made me laugh several times. Your comedic timing is on point and the deadpan delivery makes it even better. Also I love that you censored [REDACTED] in a different way every time. Keep it up man, this is great.

[@larhyperhair]

The YGO Junior rules use one spell/one trap per turn and also no tribute summoning. Perhaps that's what people consider the "first rules"?

[@awkwardcultism]

The first two rule sets of Yu-Gi-Oh were the 公式 (Official) and エキスパート(Expert) rules. This video is about the Official rules. According to Japanese sources, the Official rules came first and the Expert rules were added later, so at one point in time, even if for only two weeks, this is how Yu-Gi-Oh was meant to be played.

[@misterbadguy7325]

@@awkwardcultism From what I've read, the Expert rules happened sometime after Volume 2.

[@NitroNEXT]

"Ancient rules" seems more fitting. Like the card I suppose.

[@feartheoldblood7222]

"I even have doubles" That small insert made me lose it. Season 3 is coming boys

[@HumanReverend]

I pogged so hard when they confirmed it

[@robertussin005]

best bits 3:04 - intro goes hard 4:00 - that guy from law of the normal 8:50 - mammoth graveyard 10:00 - nemuriko 10:42 - nemuriko again 13:31 - fuckin uhh no? 15:53 - the game plan 16:24 - [citation needed] 17:07 - HHTurtle 18:50 - Hitodenchak

[@byssted]

as a yugioh fan honestly didnt even realize this was an april fools video. this absolutely tracks with what i watch already. anyway with regards to the rules only being released with the decks: Yeah! that tracks. they did the same in the US where they released the official rulebook in a starter deck AFTER the first set had been our for months :)

[@ColonelCorson]

I know that this is probably just an April Fools' Day post, but I'd love to see you cover more Yu-Gi-Oh stuff like this. It was really entertaining and your brand of humor made it really enjoyable.

[@1stCallipostle]

Holy shit it's fuckin Cory Dude is undodgeable

[@ColonelCorson]

@@1stCallipostle Hey there, it's nice to see you here too.

[@tcoren1]

9:45 pretty sure the "ruler of blue flame" here is great shogun shien, which is a wild connection

[@TheShinyFeraligatr]

It is, the card's Japanese name is Shien no Kagemusha, or Body Double of Shien.

[@JulianBliss]

How can one man make so many highly edited bangers

[@superkonijn988]

I will always remember when i was at someone's house and saw a waterpaint drawn Fissure artwork as a painting on their wall and didn't realize it was from Yu-gi-oh until i got a stack of cards from a fleemarket a month later.

[@kaan-kaant]

The combination of deep knowledge and absolute contempt for Yu-Gi-Oh has got to make for some of the most enjoyable content on KZbin. We need more because otherwise I'm going to have the lines in your skull servant deck video memorised by June.

[@nopatiencejoe6376]

Glad to see even in the first set the card art was wildly inconsistent as the rest of the pre-GX era.

[@moonjelly5]

I miss it. I love those ugly little goobers.

[@MrCheeze]

The funniest thing to me is that... Dark Magician's "ultimate wizard in terms of attack and defense" is completely accurate. Also, I've seen many people claim that tribute summoning was _always_ a thing in the official card game, just not the manga. Interesting to see that that's a myth, and tribute summoning really wasn't a thing on the initial release.

[@misterbadguy7325]

It was never a thing in the international release, which came out long after Tribute Summoning had been added, which is probably the source of their confusion.

[@_JesusChrist.]

“Sup” -Trance the Magic Sworsdman

[@ich3730]

i wonder what the purpose of the stars was then. It cant be aesthetic, they look dogshit on the card and out of place compared to the dark and gritty theme of the frames and monsters. And it cant be for powerlevel because monsters already have a number on them to show they are more powerful, their attack stat.

[@redeyeskuriboh2839]

@@ich3730 1: They look fine. 2: Obviously they intended to use them for a mechanic to be introduced later into the game (tribute summoning).

[@leaffinite2001]

​@@ich3730idk kids love stats dude

[@canaldecasta]

I wanna know the process of creation behind these cards. Why such a uhh diverse line-up of really weird monsters with designs ranging from regular animal to cartoon background character.

[@HumanReverend]

I think Takahashi just drew a bunch of monsters for reference and was like they'll pick the ones they want for a cohesive theme and Konami just went "yeah we'll take all of these thanks." There are even multiple monsters that are just different poses / perspectives of obviously the same monster and they just used all of them.

[@amazingkool]

Oh shit oh fuck, this is my first new reverend video since I found the channel and binged literally all of it.

[@rubythebee3958]

Reverend, I need you to know that this is my favorite video ever

[@MioAppreciator]

i'm being completely genuine and unironic when i say this video is going down as my #1 moment of 2023 so far. i'll bet my switch oled that it'll still rank top 5 by the end of the year. i don't know if i just like yugioh more than pokemon or if you just went super saiyan god on production but it's so fucking good. i really hope it takes off in the algorithm like your rby ubers vid did.

[@kingspheal363]

Completely forgot this was a yugioh video and the hatsu mi giant gave me whiplash

[@awkwardcultism]

Hatsune Miku Giant

[@topazlight1586]

I've never played Yu-Gi-Oh! in my life but this video has forever altered how I imagine Hitotsu-Me Giant sounding

[@katherinehemken5544]

When you showed LaLa Li-Oon, my fucking jaw dropped. Did you know that its acid rain makes it very dangerous?

[@demonnoises]

Thank you for using some Duelists of the Roses music in this, I am absolutely grooving

[@PriestOfTheHelix]

Ima keep it real, I saw a bunch of your RBY videos and decided to binge pretty much everything. I have no idea how the fuck Yugioh is played, and I understand even less after this video. 10/10 would watch again.

[@bleiz3842]

Please make more Yu-Gi-Oh! videos. This video kicks ass.

[@StarkMaximum]

I believe the "if you don't play a card on your turn you lose the duel" rule is a commonly assumed rule of Duelist Kingdom from the anime to explain why they sometimes play a card on their turn that seems to not really do much for their overall strategy, and I guess the idea was less "i guess that's just how they wrote the duel" and more "oh clearly if they didn't do that they'd immediately lose". It's equally odd because I don't remember that ever being said in the show at any point.

[@robynmchenry8315]

If I remember right Kaiba vs Pegasus in particular strongly implies it with him using Monster Reborn on Saggi the Dark Clown who was the only target after crush card.

[@yasahana4447]

Mako says that rule in the manga where he shouts at Yugi that if he doesn't play a card he loses. though this was never in the official rules

[@wadespencer3623]

Kind of strange to take any rules from Duelist Kingdom given it's... Duelist Kingdom.

[@Envy_May]

​​@@wadespencer3623 though the card game was originally based on duelist kingdom first and foremost, just loosely in many ways

[@TheShinyFeraligatr]

@@Envy_May The rules of the card game are based on the original Official Card Game rules which are based loosely on the Yugioh DM1 rules which are based loosely on Duelist Kingdom which is a mix of the original first-few duels manga rules and Monster Collection and the original manga rules were based loosely on Magic The Gathering. It's a very long game of telephone.

[@emeraldkat7344]

I understand this is an April fools thing but this was really entertaining and I hope the idea of going through hypothetical yugioh formats is revisited

[@PunishedFelix]

The major flaw in Deleuze and Guattari's masterpiece of "Nomadology" is that, while it explores and compares the deep metaphysics of Chess and Go, it fails to consider the truly awe inspiring territories evoked by OCG Vol. 1 and the Hitotsu Me Giant metagame

[@kheireddineattala1281]

Press F to all the goofs who got distracted into thinking this is not a YGO channel

[@catfoodtastesgood5808]

Real

[@GiovannisDaedra]

Hitodenchak melted our hearts so you know it's top tier

[@allan4848]

That set up around 3:00 is great. Fantastic videos so far Also your voice reminds me of the bearded guy from Mission Hill.

[@ShoXwavee]

Finally, a yugioh history video that is actually informative and funny to watch at the same time.

[@BatmannotBruceWayne1]

Holy fuck my 30th favourite Yugiboomer KZbinr posted

[@shplop]

There's something about the creatures in early yu gi oh and pokemon, they were just making monsters in a lab. Nothing like the guys they made then

[@Blackacre438]

So deckbuilding in this format would be weird, right? Every player wants to max out on DM, Gaia, Silver Fang, The Giant, Mammoth Graveyard, and the three Holes for removal. That's 24 cards in the deck locked down, and only sixteen cards left to build your own deck with. Or Five playsets plus a fun-of. That just becomes a matter of the balance you strike between 800 Attackers and equip cards. To maximize synergy you'd want to pick five from the three equip cards you could use on high level monsters (Beast Fang, Book of Secret Arts, Legendary Sword) to act as removal, and the three 800 attackers compatible with those cards (Dark Grey, Kagemusha of the Blue Flame, Nemuriko). The only other option you have is to run four or even all five of the 800 attackers, giving you one last 40th spot for a Legendary Sword, or four spots for some tiny combination of equips.

[@moonjelly5]

If Reverend and Rata did a colab, my head would explode from joy.

[@PiePie453]

"Let's go! 2121 is not worth livibg in, scientists got fucked by Nirvana High Paladin"

[@mb778_]

these idiots were so preoccupied that everyone on earth caught on fire

[@Flying_Titor]

Oh god the duelist of the roses soundtrack at 14:45 hit me like A TRUCK, haven't heard it in so many years

[@Envy_May]

18:22 (for the record it's effect destruction damage which is half of the destroyed monsters' points, the manga mentions this a few times)

[@FaliggetFTW]

Your RBY Ubers video was amazing, but you just took it to another level. This video is a work of art.

[@halowaffle25]

Damn I was legit excited for more Rev Yugioh. I guess this kind of counts?

[@halowaffle25]

Nah this is a banger nvm.

[@goldbug9353]

I don't even play Yu GI Oh and I still enjoy your videos, I can see the effort you put in and they always make me smile!

[@tobigrantlbart]

The reason I love your videos is because they mimmick the way my brain thinks very well. Going from games created 2600 bce to Yu-Gi-Oh OCG Vol. 1 is a jump in thoughts, which I would probably make if you let me sit alone for long enough.

[@iuuuuutubi]

This is the best YuGiOh video I've seen in a long while. I love videos about the older sets with wacky nonsense monsters.

[@WortsUsernameEver]

11:05 Kurama: Winged Beast/Effect (Wind) *3 ATK: 800/DEF: 800: Flip: This card's name becomes "The Furious Sea King", also its DEF becomes 700, its attribute becomes Water and change its Type to Aqua. At the end of the damage step, if this defense position monster was attacked; inflict 100 damage to your opponent. This card must be face-up to activate and resolve this effect.

[@HumanReverend]

Oh my God how did I not catch this

[@Mellowbaton]

I never really got into Yu-Gi-Oh, but this video has me enthralled fr. You’re such a good writer

[@Drowzzzzz]

I am hoping with every fiber of my being that this becomes a genuine channel mainstay. I really enjoy the commentary style of this entire channel but I’m much more of a competitive yugioh player than a Pokémon frog. Nonetheless this type of content would find a niche in the yugitubing community

[@cognitiveAfflatus]

The description isn't entirely inaccurate but man how much I would love to have 2 people putting out the level of quality content of Rata. This was a fucking hilarious video.

[@jeffreytam7684]

10:43 Shadow Wizard Money Gang jumpscare

[@chainswordcs]

your line delivery and timing is on point

[@aBlackMage]

YT recommended this to me, and I clicked expecting a serious retrospective. I instead received genuinely one of the funniest videos I've seen in a months. Your deadpan delivery of these monsters' menacing-sounding descriptions while the card says 'ATK 800' fucking sent me

[@Alexxave32]

My friend, that intro is beyond golden, it glistens in different colors portraying the genius behind it!

[@perturbo4253]

I've literally never played a single game of yugioh in my life, nor do I know a single thing about its rules, but I still watched the whole video because I like the funny man on the internet

[@NinjaLobsterStudios]

I'm trying to design a card game (Its going to be a deck builder but i havent decided how much i want board state to factor into the gameplay), and while i was initially concerned about how basic the first prototypes were going to be (and how "fun" they would be) I just think back to this video and remember how minimalist the first YGO format was and that people actually played it lmao

[@Garvant_]

16:27 hearing that music not on a Therealjims video feels weird

[@PeacefulZealot]

Right?! I was thinking the same thing!

[@DoublemanFM]

The funniest thing about this format is how the rules specify you can't play more than one Spell or Trap regardless of whether you Set or activated the card... Which isn't at all enforceable since nowhere in the rules does it state that the type of card you Set has to be revealed, so in a real life scenario even if you knew for a fact your opponent did this on an earlier turn and then activated the offending card later a judge call would literally do nothing since the judge has no way of knowing if the player actually did cheat unless they admit to it. This is also assuming you perfectly keep track of your opponent's resource allocation on every turn throughout the entire Duel and use that as a reference every single time your opponent activates a card that they Set on an earlier turn at the same time they Set or activated another card. There's also absolutely zero backrow removal in this format and no rule that you have to reveal your Set cards at the end of the game so there's literally nothing stopping you from just Setting a useless monster and using it to bluff a Trap Hole. It's essentially a fully legal cheat.

[@Bugnight]

That intro goes hard pat yourself on the back for that king 👑

[@mrdelirious8706]

Finally, the Reverend x DuelLogs collab we've been waiting for!

[@HecateArtworks]

I like how i've been excited for your next Pokémon video yet I got a lecture on games of the past and that Hitotsu-Me Giant has an above average number... I'll never doubt u again Cooler Natu with glasses

[@m.f.3347]

Been rewatching your videos since I just saw ITYSL and I can't believe how many references you've crammed in lmao

[@mandalorianhunter1]

Great video, I have been watching Yu-Gi-Oh videos recently and glad to know how the meta of the original game came to be how it is now with all the bans of cards we saw used so casually in the anime to be considered ban worthy in the current meta Thanks for the video

[@v.richard9993]

He says he'll lose if he does not summon a monster because in the series when Joey was dueling against a guy he says he'll lose the game if he doenst set a monster card in his turn

[@maxmustermann5590]

Your Video quality is increasing exponentially. This is amazing

[@FlameIsLucky]

that switch from intro to main topic is so good

[@borrelsupremacy]

Idk why, but this the most informative video I've ever seen on KZbin that wasn't tech related.

[@DanielFlrenss]

Have you realized the heart of the cards yet? Oh and hitotsu-me giant is the strongest level 4 monster, in fact he is the only level 4 monster, TheDuelLogs had you set up from the very beginning, you got baited!

[@jgiraffe3192]

Ready for vol. 2! Great delivery reading those descriptions.

[@ultimapower6950]

I just realized something: Dark Magician and Gaia the Fierce Knight are pretty much the Mewtwo and Mew of the Yu-Gi-Oh Volume 1 OCG.