Hearthstone Pro Rates WEIRD Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards! ft. @Rarran

[@Cimoooooooo]

Holy shit, I completely forgot about Drytron 😂😂😂 To be fair, TWO good Ritual Decks compared to every other good Fusion, Synchro, XYZ, and Pendulum deck/archetype still makes it the worst summoning mechanic 😂

[@markchang2964]

Drytron!

[@JCDGAMING01]

Voiceless

[@JCDGAMING01]

@@Cimoooooooo also herald of ultimateness had decent playrate

[@chrisnguyen126]

Gemini summoning enters the chat

[@minatoarisato3181]

I can't believe you remembered megalith over drytron as a good ritual deck, as compensation for such blasphemy we drytron mains request that they be included in the next Rates video.

[@Zetact_]

The funnier fake out for Chaos Max would be to talk about how Blue-Eyes won worlds at the time Chaos Max was new, and then say, "And they did not play Chaos Max."

[@Crimson_Dragon01]

I was waiting for him to say something like this.

[@polocatfan]

What's funny is they released a crazy retrain of dragon master knight and it requires a chaos ritual monster, but people just play illusion of chaos as the requirement iirc.

[@wierdtromebonekid]

​​@@polocatfanyeah illusion of chaos can search soul, leading to a combo with toy box that leads to magia Everytime

[@Depressed_Spider]

Cimo metaphorically holding a flashlight under his chin telling you horror stories about how a deck or card used to terrorize playgrounds and struck fear into the hearts of duelists before cutting himself off, taking a 180° turn and explaining how bad it actually was will never stop being entertaining.

[@GentleIceZ]

"Gather 'round the fire, children, and let me spin you the tale... OF *INSECT BARRIER AND DNA SURGERY!* MWAHAHAHAHA!!"

[@KaiserTheDarkWolf]

Well technically Nerkoz WAS that manace, no joke i used to play the deck in my peak as a YuGiOh player before retire from the competitive in 2017 and i win in my locals and online i also manage to get a lot with that deck. It was the best deck after 2 years of expansions? Surely not but Trishula and Brionac really could push a lot of matchups that people dont belive possible. The only other deck that i play this much was Ritual Beast, my second most favorite deck ever. I invested a lot of hours in that deck tho, learn every single combo, every single start, it was really the MOST compelling deck i ever play in my life. Atleast in YuGiOh. After the deck was powercreep i made a good call, in my personal opinion: If this is not enough t be competitive in yu gi oh, i dont have nothing more to do in this game. So i left yugioh competitive forever.

[@thensnes7544]

The Card Games cinematic universe has been one of my favorite genres of youtube lmao They need to come up with an official name for the group

[@Obmelg]

The Cardvengers

[@leebulger7112]

@@Obmelg I have a complete collection of banned Yugioh cards but none of them are Ritual Monsters.

[@dudeweedlmao8519]

The Hard Card Gang

[@csrjjsmp]

The Legends of Runeterra

[@Filthykur]

The Cardigans

[@michel0dy]

In case Rarran reads this: Fairy types can be super weird looking because in the OCG they're "Tenshi" type, meaning "Angel", which feels more adequate to cards like Herald of Perfection for sure. It's another case of the TCG trying to avoid religious imagery.

[@GentleIceZ]

In other words, they're biblically accurate fairies

[@GrimmShane]

Mythologically acurate Fae, here to steal your children and Cheat​@@GentleIceZ

[@Masterblader158]

If he had seen a good number of more traditional Angel or Fallen Angel fairy cards he might have been able to make connection himself of "ooh this covers angels" but them by their own with TCG still stuck in 90s for religious stuff being called Fairy ain't easy to see the whole Biblically Accurate (but not really/fully since traditional look was still common) Angels thing.

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

Dw, he won't read this.

[@astrograph2520]

biblically accurate Herlald

[@faeb.9618]

"have you ever seen a blue card" oh he's thinking about links and not rituals is he

[@johnlewandoski1645]

Unless he got destroyed by drytoron

[@Kaiasky]

Idk, he's seen a lot of cards at this point, like before cimo he did stuff with stevie. The "what cards have you already seen" thing has gotta be an eternal challenge

[@peteryanes3413]

Nope he say from 05 he play a little bit of goat before

[@rickytorres4213]

Or Obelisk..

[@callumb7201]

He also played swordsoul on MD for a bit, Monk could super be an answer here

[@danieltaylor4185]

For context on the Fairy type, the type was changed somewhat from its original meaning, similar to how "Undead" became "Zombie" in English. That's why a lot of ghost and vampire monsters are Zombies. The Fairy type was originally "Angel" type. So, with that context, it kind of makes sense that some fairies have the feathery wings and mostly-human bodies, and some fairies are cosmic horror monstrosities.

[@risingmoonutopiabeyond1458]

DON'T FORGET YOKAI, WHICH ONLY EXISTED AS A TYPE ON YUGIOH GX MANGA, THAT LATER YOKAI MONSTER WOULD BE PRINTED IN THE ZOMBIE UMBRELLA

[@loltaunt]

A cute fact about evigishikis that cimo didnt mention is that the japanese name for them is eviritua, as in evil ritual. As you can probably guess, gishiki is the japanese word for ritual, so localization did a nice switch there.

[@mylifeatscho0l]

Man I really wish you would’ve shown some drytron stuff in this vid, was waiting for it the entire time and it never happened. Fav deck of all time

[@seanxi]

right I was screaming Eva is at 3 in MD

[@diomed4570]

a Blue card? Where is CGB when we need him!

[@mitsosoftheelves]

Chasing Mesa Falcons probably!

[@rhinoboy09]

Can we just get a Cimoo, Rarran & cgb podcast ? Maybe monthly and talking about the current state of Their games and maybe card games in general. P.s don't stop these vids though.

[@YourSuizo]

Or just a video with all 3 of them together, like a live duel of evaluating cards (Rarran has done vids with them both together, but each perspective were recorded separately)

[@rhinoboy09]

@@YourSuizo agreed , love the idea of a MTG/YGO/HS game against each other , all playing thier own cards/games with slightly modified rules to make it work. Played slow enough I'll learn a lot about magic is a , YGO/HS guy.

[@noprisoners8621]

Maybe just cimoo and cgb, raran is just kid eating glue in the back

[@Kwikpanik]

Advanced Ritual Art WAS used for Herald of Perfection. A key part of the Kristya portion of the deck was that you'd use ARA to dump 4 low-level fairies like Happy Lover, summon your Herald, immediately summon Kristya, and grab back a fairy from the grave with Kristya's effect to fuel a negate with Herald.

[@Lightn0x]

It was errata'd later. The first version of the card did indeed say that it can ONLY be summoned with its own ritual spell. The errata made it infinitely better.

[@Gumunista]

Every kid saw Relinquished in the anime and thought it was literally the best card ever Brother was Mikanko before Mikanko

[@StriderYGO]

And then there was Gusto being Mikanko before Mikanko EDIT: Don't come at me with that one Amazoness

[@MrShukaku1991]

And yubel being Mikanko before Mikanko

[@cimpler]

but didnt it have like other bullshit effects that were never real outside of the anime?

[@christopherb501]

​@@cimpler Aside from _just_ the opponent taking damage while you didn't, no, not really.

[@rileyblack7160]

​@cimpler "Other bullshit mechanics that are only in the anime and not the TCG" is the reason about two thirds of the cards were even sold tbh. Worst offender was probably Castle of Dark Illusions

[@ServusLeuts]

At this point I just wanna give a shout-out to the crew. Been dealing with some annoying things lately, but between you, rarran and cgb, there's been daily uploads and it just helps me and probably lots of others just decompress and watch these videos. I love that these are always 1+ hours so I can watch it and be immersed. Praise the Rarran cinematic universe 🙌🏻

[@2elunatic]

i relate so much. my week has been pretty bad but these videos genuinely give me something to look forward to

[@an2wei]

01:14 Not Cimo citing megalith as a good modern ritual deck instead of Drytron or Voiceless Voice 💀

[@Bigparr43]

Drytron was one of the most frustrating decks I have ever played against outside of Tear

[@SpecterVonBaren]

WTF kind of name is Voiceless Voice?

[@Jack-kn1mr]

​@@SpecterVonBarena yugioh name

[@ppcsi6692]

​@@SpecterVonBarenkonami butchered the translation, in the ocg it was known as Silent Force, it is one of my favorite archetypes but that name is so stupid in the tcg

[@navypukevomit]

@@SpecterVonBaren It's a nod to a bad 2002 English translation/localization of a card, that was once again translated/localized in 2024.

[@aiynar-1]

This series, between rarran, cgb and you have gotten me back into yugioh for the first time since I was 12! That's.... 20 years ago i guess. Just bought cards for a deck I really like to goldfish in master duel for like 20 euroes and i'm loving it

[@diegorojas8959]

Cimooo forgeting the Kuriboh was the first hand trap...also wasnt Veiler released at that point?

[@rajkanishu]

Mentioning Kuriboh is irrelevant, it saw zero play ever and has nothing to do with modern hand traps that interrupt plays and negate effects and it would just make the discussion longer while adding nothing of value to it and Veiler came out in 2010

[@joshuaking1754]

And what of the other heralds

[@diegorojas8959]

@@rajkanishu good sir!!! Cimooo use Kuriboh to psychologically tortute MBT in their Zorc mirror in history of Jank, that's enough relevance

[@WangerZ3291]

​@diegorojas8959 but that's jank, that's the point of the series

[@ryansanagustin6553]

@@joshuaking1754 *Historically* the heralds didn’t really see too much play, and even then the only one that was really worth playing is orange light

[@SerechII]

I love watching the progression of Cimo explaining the different types of summons to different guests, I can't wait until a year from now LSV is on links, rarran is on pends, etc lol

[@moonjelly5]

You can really tell that Alex has not played post 2020 competitive Yu-Gi-Oh when his mind goes to Megalith being a good modern ritual archetype instead of Drytron (which was a Tier 1 deck) and Voiceless Voice (which is really recent and a good deck). Megalith is the modern ritual deck that saw play

[@Cimoooooooo]

Holy shit, I completely forgot about Drytron 😂😂😂

[@filiplucic]

Don't forget the Cyber Angels, they could also sneak a Herald in there. They really showed their power in prog 😂

[@moonjelly5]

@@Cimoooooooo That's okay. You can't cover everything. Thank you for the video.

[@Dyleniz]

​@@Cimoooooooo I was wondering when was drytron and cyber angels gonna appear after nekroz

[@risingmoonutopiabeyond1458]

@@Dyleniz ME AS A FORMER CYBER ANGEL WAS ON THE SAME PAGE

[@slanax]

I love how the early sets of Yugioh have future-proofed absolutely nothing, every card is worded differently and half the cards can do anything from cold fusion to war crimes when combined with just the next few sets, but they *did* specify 'Level 1 or higher monster' on even the very first prints of Black Illusion Ritual. The card tells you to offer level stars but still has the foresight to anticipate that several series into the future there would be monsters that aren't level 1 or higher.

[@torbergqvist8151]

tbh I feel like the reason they put the level requirement was just for the sake of consistency. But it is possible that they foresaw themselves adding monsters without levels.

[@PapiCito]

Just a quick heads up, advance ritual art can be used for every ritual monster. Doesn't matter if it says "only can be summoned" by its original ritual. Just a ruling Konami made. It's of the ritual spells that don't have a monsters name on it like generic ritual spells. Yes its weird and confusing, by talk to konami, not my rule lol 😅

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

Rarran Cimoooo collab dropped everything I was doing (a heart surgery they'll be fine)

[@rajkanishu]

watch it with the patient I'm sure they'll love it

[@amuroray1085]

I was your patient blud bro...

[@TheUltimateShade667]

One of my favourite decks has always been Gishki, so cool to see some ritual love. I think a cool idea would be a video focusing on archetypes. Maybe similar to Rarran's videos with the titans or colossal minions where you show a bunch of cards from an archetype and try to figure out what card was potentially banned. Or maybe just show 4-5 cards from an archetype and ask if they were played competitively or not. Had this idea because a lot of my favourite cards will never be seen in these videos. There's no way you're showing Ancient Gear Golem or Dark World Grapha in these showcases. Archetypes are also more or less a Yu-Gi-Oh thing. Other games have them sure, but Yu-Gi-Oh for the most part revolves around them.

[@amethonys2798]

The recent support Gishki got last year is actually decent. Usually played in Spright/Runic piles, but the new ritual and level 2 are both very strong legacy support.

[@johnokland1652]

Should of shown him the food deck just to see his face when they took a meme vanilla monster from some of the earliest sets and gave it a semi competent rogue strategy archetype

[@astorakino829]

Cimo Drytron and Voiceless Voice errasure is crazy (I know they weren't the best deck nor got card banned - but oh god Drytron with Eva and Perfectness was ANNOYING)

[@bl00by_]

I mean Drytron was very close to be the best deck, even with VFD in the format. People just sided against it really hard. I remember playing 3 droll, d.d crow and cycle reader just to have a chance against it.

[@Asako_Gaming]

Gishki was my favourite deck of all time as a casual. I never done the loops with it but I loved Levianima and Soul Ogre. As for Chaos Max, again as a casual I loved facing it in Master Duel with my Amazoness deck, they summon it, you set a monster, they cant resist the double piercing only to find out it is Amazoness Swords Woman.

[@ShinDB]

Kinda wish you would've showed him the pre errata version of Relinquished. It'd be funny to see his reaction to this long convoluted text box that doesn't properly explain how the effect is supposed to work nor mentions any summoning condition lmao

[@MiyaoMeow588]

Cimo mentioned a new Ritual deck coming out in the OCG, I assume he's talking about Ryu-ge. I should mention, the boss monster being a Ritual monster is basically irrelevant. There's not even an accompanying Ritual spell, it just specials itself out. It's dressing

[@GDRunny]

I do wonder what the point of it being a ritual is at that point, never really liked cards that just are a type for no reason

[@Pepesmall]

​@@GDRunnyyou could summon it with advanced ritual art

[@jamesduckerofficial2739]

1:13:39 how could you forget about drytron? Probably the best generic ritual archetype that can fully use the extra deck instead of only relying on the ritual monsters.

[@risingmoonutopiabeyond1458]

THEY AREN'T TAHT IMPACTFUL TO BEGGIN WITH, HE ALSO FORGOT ASUKA'S CYBER ANGELS, BUT I HAVE TO BE HONEST WITH THE FACT THAT THEY ARE EVEN MORE IRRELEVANT THAN DRYTRON, EVEN WHEN IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE DECKS

[@amethonys2798]

​@risingmoonutopiabeyond1458 Drytron was literally the best deck of the format where people were unironically playing Cycle Reader in the side solely for that deck. The only reason it didn't reach tier 0 is people oversided for it at events (and thus people had less outs to say VFD so VW got more tops than it probably deserved).

[@emred4653]

rituals probably hardest to evaulate since how many cards factor to them being good or bad

[@inkarozu2309]

Back in the day I trolled my locals with a demise and ruin chaos build with the sky scourges and trade-ins for consistency. It was a lot of fun and cleared the board very easily. My favorite ritual deck though was Zealgigas OTK, its soo easy to put 2 out on the same turn and exceed into gustaf max mp2 to finish the opponent off.

[@ThMdyCh]

21:43 Cimo Cimo Cimo.... How dare you disrespect the mighty Kuriboh like that....

[@dshockeybreaks]

was completely unplayed tho lol so

[@bobowon5450]

@@dshockeybreaks are you joking? did you not see in the duelest kingdom championship game when reknown japanese player yu gi moto used it in combo with multiply in order to defeat the games very creator?

[@starner00]

@@dshockeybreaksJapan played it a lot in side board when Cyber Stein OTK was a thing.

[@freyachobi]

​@@dshockeybreaks Kuriboh was a side deck staple for GOAT to get out of OTKs, particularly reasoning gate

[@DarknessDpa]

​@@dshockeybreaksHey it's good in Crooked Cook decks to combat Chaos Max, then Kaiju the Max away. Won me a game in MD like 2 and a half years ago

[@newbiesama]

0:22 I think Rarran is now thinking about Link cards

[@SDREHXC]

I thought so too but then he said he read one in 2005/2006 so I think he actually understood, whether by accident or on purpose is another question though.

[@Masterblader158]

Rarran talking about "learning from previous rituals" and mainly referring to the Gishki when talking Nekroz is so fitting of him seeing the lore connection from effects even if he doesn't know the background of why the Gishki are VERY ok with self sacrifice and Nekroz worked to not build around that...and then that resulting in them going from strong to strongest....and it all started with OG Ice Barrier showing how much you can grow. Rituals never really needing bans to knee cap them being strong, except Djinn who is just unfun, and only needing consistency hits actually shows that them being the worst special summoning method overall mainly comes from not being as easy to break with just one copy like you can do elsewhere (due to how Ritual Spells work), actually makes them seem balanced compared to what Visas lore decks can do. Also as a dedicated Blue Eyes player (from starter Deck Kaiba) the summoning of MAX through Advanced Ritual Art putting a Blue Eyes in GY is sometimes the best part of getting him out (unless its against a deck that requires more effort to stop it which case lmao sucks to only target and destroy) since that makes so many other effects live, but still compared to the ED Blue Eyes that made world win possible its just a extra in the deck if it has a use against other decks. Got nothing on what 2 Jets can do, using them in MD had so many "opponent can't read effects and wasted two monster wipes". No mention of Drytron being a cancerous deck to play against, sure it and Voiceless Voice didn't reach Nekroz levels but still playable to good degree? Certainly can't have Rarran try and rate Drytron that is an actual insane amount of reading to be saved for after being able to read Pends.

[@dudono1744]

Drytron rituals have one of the craziest condition to use an effect you can find on a ritual monster.

[@SaniFakhouri]

Love these videos. Yu-Gi-Oh! is such a information dense game, and seeing all these cards broken up and evaluated makes understanding the meta through history a lot more palatable to someone who's never played it before.

[@TwistedBOLT]

Herald CAN be summoned with ARA. A lot of old ritual monsters say they MUST BE summoned with a specific ritual spell rather than they CAN BE despite not actually having those restrictions. Modern reprints of herald have the "you can" clause. If you want a ritual to have a restriction on how it's summoned you need it to have Alba Zoa's "Cannot be Ritual Summoned, except by..." text.

[@cortert103]

Cimo has clearly not played modern yugioh for a while. Megalith being the most playable modern ritual deck? Drytron and Voiceless were both Tier 1

[@Noiredevahn]

Nekroz cards 100% got banned. Shurit and unicore were both banned at some point. Maybe even more cards.

[@RunicSigils]

Nope, just "card". Shurit was banned for a time. Brionac and Unicore were only limited.

[@MasterQuestMaster]

But the Ritual Monsters weren’t banned, and that was the question.

[@GodzillaFreak]

Come on Cimo, herald of perfection literally comes from the handtrap archetype!

[@filipvadas7602]

1. A video focused on Ritual Monsters is nice to see. And ,yeah, Rituals are frustratingly *underpowered* on average. Even the good Ritual Archetypes are good because they are relatively generic and can combo into smth else 2. Relinquished was weird because it existed before they introduced troublesolving card text the effect was explained in a way that was so obtuse it actually left out the Ritual Summoning requirement before the errata lol However, Relinquished was a huge deal because it was among, if not THE, first of the alternate summoning mechanic monsters that both had an effect and was somewhat *worth* the effort to summon. Its only I think from the early 2010s onward that Konami really went ham and started pushing Rituals a lot more.

[@TeaTimeMr]

[Suggestion] - Show the Guests Multiple Cards (Combopieces and Red Herings) and they have to figure out the combo, and evaluate if the combo was banned. I find one of the most interesting parts of yugioh are the combos you can play. And teaching non-yugioh players some of those combos or see if they can figure them out would make a very fun upgrade to this format i think.

[@KenLinx]

You oughta let the guest look up these cards when played in the anime. I feel like 70% of the enjoyment of playing Yugioh is playing the cards after seeing them used in the anime.

[@DeluxeFlame]

So many questions he asks while contemplating sounds similar to a spelling bee contestant asking for words facts, origins, used in a sentence, and I'm here for it.

[@TheDarkFuryKnight]

Lmao, I was able to catch this one minutes after release, this is going to be fun.

[@GunnarWahl]

herald of perfection also came out with herald of green and purple light, which were usable in the herald deck as something to discard for perfection or to negate a trap or spell. So they were also hand traps.

[@MegaMetal96]

21:45 literally erasing Kuribohs legacy, that is crazy

[@joshuaarnett762]

And after all kuriboh has done for him

[@risingmoonutopiabeyond1458]

WELL, FOR A FACT HE'S NOT THAT IMPORTANT, SIMPLY BECAUSE HE DOESN'T HAVE EFFECTS LIKE POST EFECT VEILER CARDS DID, HE'S JUST A BATTLE HANDTRAP, TOTALLY ON OTHER SIDE, WITH HANDTRAPS THAT REALLY DO (TRAP)

[@MegaMetal96]

@@risingmoonutopiabeyond1458nobody asked

[@22Vnnami]

Ritual cards were so sad to me. As a 9 year old, I remember opening more magic ruler packs than lob or metal raiders, combined, finding all these beefy vanilla monsters and seeing the restriction that they needed a spell to bring them out. I thought the idea was so cool. Until I tried to play them and realized it was complete garbage after 2 games with my friends. It was so obviously bad, I even knew when I was 9. Finding a spell without search power AND the specified monster AND fodder takes a miracle and near an entire opening hand’s worth of cards, usually for a beater worse than “tribute for Summoned Skull.”

[@supsup335]

Nobody tell the necroz, gishki, nouvelle, drytron, voiceless voice, chaos maxx, herald and demise players about this video🤣

[@tsume_akuma8321]

Chaos Max Turbo is one of the most fun and stupidly bad decks in Yugioh, because it is so cheap to bring out CMD, with a good opening hand you can have 3 full summons ready to go, which many decks often can't respond to. If you get both Chaos Max and Chaos on the field, you also have a free OTK on board. It's like a 20% chance, but if you pull it off, steamrolling a Meta Deck is so satisfying.

[@TheArcv2]

21:57 Everyone is saying Cimo is forgetting Kuribo which is whatever but the question Rarran is asking is if there are hand trap negates/destroys and the bigger miss to that question relevant Herald of perfection was there were fairy specific hand traps Herald of Orange Light plus green and purple

[@Steve-iz5om]

The Triangle of CGB, Rarran and Cimoooo is so wholesome. I realy enjoy watching you guys rating cardboard ! Thank you for the content!

[@sorceresssophia2949]

The evigishki ftk sounded hilariously evil. If that happened to me I’d cry

[@janisir4529]

I still find it hilarious that it ever existed.

[@amethonys2798]

I mean you just concede and go game 2 once they start the loop.

[@CatManThree]

Cimo correcting rarran on the pronunciation of Evigishki with the wrong pronunciation lol

[@chaos_ae]

The gustkraken hand loop was sustainable at one copy, not exactly good but it did function. The combo became using hieratic dragons as the tribute fodder and overlaying for m7 with wattail or labradorite dragon.

[@AzureExia]

In this era like 6 or 7 hand traps existed- Veiler, all 3 herald cards, d.d crow, Gorz, honest, kalut, battle fader, kuriboh, and I think that's it for the 5Ds era of YGO

[@d.r.643]

I was just thinking that. Honest was such an annoying card back then.

[@Rayzersword]

A lot of those cards you mentioned weren't released until at least a year after ARA. Honest didn't come out until like 3 years later.

[@deadlineuniverse3189]

I’m pretty sure Hanetawa was legal for all of the 1 FTK burn players to get annoyed by

[@TheArcv2]

⁠@@Rayzerswordhe’s talking about the herald era which cimo said only had d.d. Crow

[@GunnarWahl]

@@d.r.643 and good for herald

[@jorgitosilva]

Ultimate Solitaire? Seriously... in Yugi oh? ... The fact that a yugioh player actually calls something "solitaire" i cannot even imagine how awful it should have been...

[@AcroxShadow]

Taking a few minutes to set up a field of individual interactions your opponent can potentially play around is not solitaire. Taking potentially 45 minutes looping the same effects over and over again to kill your opponent on the actual first turn is solitaire.

[@Cassapphic]

I want in a completely unrelated video that is otherwise very heavily themed, to just flashbang rarran or cgb or whoever else, with a shinobird, combining rituals and spirits is just such a funny concept they have to learn about it eventually.

[@ynnaD2413]

The problem with rituals is that once you hit the consistency of the cards the cards just fall apart and fail(aka limiting them). I couldn’t see rituals ever being banned in yugioh cause of this.

[@joelsasmad]

Have we ever had a super poly -type ritual? Something that can't be negated and takes your opponent's monster?

[@kristianschuff1723]

Meanwhile drytron 1 card full combo

[@syrelian]

There's enough ways to hunt down Rituals that playing 1 of is shockingly tolerable There's also enough Alternative Ritual Spells that can summon any Ritual(As a reminder, Ritual Monsters listing their Ritual needed is not a hard restriction, unlike "Must be Fusion Summoned using listed materials" but rather closer to reminder text), you'd have to really gut the available support options for a strong Ritual Deck to completely die

[@ragenaros4475]

No Voicless Voice which is actually strong ritual monster nowdays in modern? Odd

[@JJMomoida]

Hungry Burger mentioned 🍔

[@wierdtromebonekid]

My friends and i as kids would do a fun rule putting our rituals in the fusion deck and just requiring the ritual spell and mats to summon, it was a lot of fun and made game much more interesting

[@Rizz3n]

You're producing these at lightning speed haha. Thank you!

[@jasikshaw9309]

Considering his reaction to Nekroz, I'm hoping beyond all hope that we get a video with Rarran being taught how to play Nekroz like we got with Alex teaching him Edison

[@csrjjsmp]

Hearing the gustkraken explanation just reminded me of when cgb said yugioh players just need to get gud

[@MikeMozzaro]

I am severely disappointed in the lack of Drytron in this video.

[@cortert103]

Yeah he said the best modern example of a ritual deck was Megalith? Like Drytron was literally Tier 1

[@cortert103]

Forgot to mention Voiceless too

[@floflo1645]

tbf to Cimo drytron was good because of the non-rituals monters + machine angle consistency as an engine. The board was not really made of rituals. They did not even play their in archetype boss monster even though it is a very good card. I think herald did see some plays in some drytron variants but he did show that card in the video. At least now with their newer boss monster they actually do some ritual shit and aren't not just a deck that spam good stuff from the extra deck.

[@hannessteffenhagen61]

Drytron would be a poor fit for the video because you need to read all the non-ritual cards to figure out why it's good.

[@CarterPSN]

Konami limiting the Nekroz deck about 3 weeks after the set came out was the reason I stopped playing Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@NewtBannner]

21:45 don’t disrespect Kuriboh like that

[@redsoxrox37]

I was there in Nekroz format when Bull Blader was actually a card to out the Djinn lock 😂

[@filipvadas7602]

Fun fact: Relinquished's real face isn't the eyeball, its the little face right above it. Let that knowledge haunt you like it does me.

[@kermitthefrogsgreenmememac6453]

I'm absolutely devastated by this information

[@nightangelx1513]

Really hope they cover hungry burger. That card was meta defining.

[@SerechII]

Yeeees, I need all of these crossover videos pumped straight into my veins

[@sendouvincent8232]

OK I was expecting Drytron, Dogmatika and Voiceless Voice to appear.... I still have nightmares of the first two seasons of Master Duel when I see a Drytron XYZ, Beatrice, EVA and the Heralds...

[@Trent110000]

Thank you for putting the thumbnail at the start, you're a cool dude

[@SnailBot]

I thought you gonna show drytron after nekroz his brain going to melt but I like you show some archtype in package cause something like snake eye flamberge from outsider might be looking fine.

[@ExamplePrime]

Relinquished was the start of incredibly complex boss cards

[@olivierdubois9372]

I was really shocked when Cimo talked about Megalith as an example of a modern ritual deck of all things, because we've had Drytron and Silent Voice since then, but it makes sense when you consider he hasn't really played competitively for a few years.Also they never banned Rituals, but they did hit a lot of the supporting cards that made them good, like Djinn, Orange Light, Eva , etc

[@Krokodilius]

herald is one of the most miserable yugioh cards to go along with all the other miserable yugioh cards.

[@megatenshi]

Glad you told him about Gustkraken! That was the deck to get me my first tournament top when I was way younger. I've always loved Gishkis, whether it's a handloop variant, Zielgigas nonsense, or modern Neremanas plays. Using a Gishki ritual as material for the same one, then recycling it with Aquamirror will just always feel like cheating lmao

[@PhantomMarth]

🎉❤ It's amazing to see collabs with some of my favs, you and are now a new fav cause your content is fun!

[@TheTamally]

That Gishki FTK deck is EXACTLY what we just had with Nadu in MTG. Like, theoretically it's infinite but it it's not entirely deterministic and there are ways to play around it so you have to actually play it out.

[@majickman]

Crazy that Cimo has never heard of Voiceless Voice

[@peteryanes3413]

They was good but wasn't the beat deck or anything got hit from the Deck

[@Kayden760]

I can’t believe you didn’t tell Rarran about the “gentalman’s agreement” with djinn!

[@charlottesfunandfreechannel]

you forgot about Blue-eyes chaos dragon which must be summon with blue-eyes white dragon to use its effect, Blue-eyes Chaos Max dragon can be summon with any level 8 monster. So both ritual is combo that would go together

[@cameton_youtube]

In future, maybe "FTK, OTK, or never played" should be the categories for cards like these, and have guests try to figure out how to break a card. As rarran pointed out, banned/not banned seems kinda hard with these cards

[@PandaShakes]

This was really fun and interesting to learn about the ritual's history. Would love to see this for other special summons since I know nothing about them besides fusion

[@YukiFubuki.]

unfortunately most other summons may not be as interesting since they were in the most case just good from the start so didnt needed to be elevated over time like how fusions and rituals needed it is interesting that synchro summoning being the first new summoning mechanic introduced after all the other original summoning mechanics were first considered as a mix of fusion and ritual summoning as the process required that the player send from field to grave at least 2 monsters with the total lvls equal to the lvl of the synchro monster to be summon with 1 of them being a tuner and the rest being non-tuner (basically anything that isnt a tuner), the matching lvl requirement is reminiscence of ritual but because it required a 'tuner' monster it made people though of it as a fusion-adjacent mechanic more so then ritual just with more generic materials and also because contact fusion was a thing, the fact that some early synchro monsters did required specific tuner monster too also helped pushed the mindset that it was fusion-adjacent into the forefront though this was quickly done away with something to note is that aside from ritual all other summoning mechanic has its own upgraded or adjacent version in the manga and anime but were reformatted into just being the regular versions in real life or adjusted to simply be more unique requirements within the mechanic's parameters if it couldnt fit into the real game fusion summoning -> contact fusion (ditches fusion spell in exchange for moving materials off of field as cost since normally you dnt need materials on field) synchro -> double/triple tuning (multiple tuners) and delta accel/limit-over accel synchro (using tuners and non-tuners that also synchro monsters themselves) xyz -> xyz evolution (xyz summoning using an xyz monster itself as the sole material into a higher or lower rank, may result in less overlay units) pendulum -> overscale/transcendent pendulum (pendulum summoning pendulum monsters whose scale value is over or under your pendulum scales range) link -> reincarnation link (using a link monster as the sole link material to summon another copy of itself; hence reincarnation)

[@faereman]

"That's a fairy?" Well, to be fair, the "fairy" type is actually the Angel type in the OCG, buy you know... censorship and all that. Manju is a bit of a weird one still, but a LOT of fairy monsters make way more sense when you realize they're supposed to be angels instead.

[@Seraph-qp7hz]

Cimooo was really out here talking about lack of hand traps in old YuGiOh, with Herald of Perfection on screen, while literally every other main deck Herald monster released at the time was a hand trap.

[@bananaslamma35]

Man whenever I see it I'm reminded that Nekroz of Brionac is basically just Seiya wearing the Odin Cloth.

[@eddysegafan6655]

I enjoy these videos keep them goin' I also wanna say that music in the background for each of these videos, sounds oddly similar to the "13th dilemma" from Kingdom Hearts 2 👀 i can't get it outta my head. Maybe I've just been playing too much lol

[@deathwolf890]

throw back to when chaos max first dropped, I was playing yang zings and had to set a 0 def monster turn one and then got one shot with double piercing damage

[@jamessunderlandseventh7410]

Come on Cimo we gonna need an extra Ritual Episode including Drytron and Voiceless Voice!

[@SackofDooDoo]

Herald of Perfection clearly is designed to look like Smough. Now you can't unsee it...

[@freyachobi]

Kuriboh and D.D. Crow would like a word Cimo. You need to have like a cheat sheet for hand trap release dates on the side when making these

[@seagrave764]

This is a crazy throwback to me, I never really was into Yugioh but I did have Doom Dozer and Demise and occasionally played a OTK version of the deck in school, i wasn't aware at the time this was an actual high tier strategy

[@DenkiRay]

It's quite hilarious how they have been printing Ritual cards for years, yet they almost always sucked ass.

[@Begeru]

I love that you showed Demose in conjunction with ARA. Demise OTK was PEAK Yugioh for me!

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

Ah, you are indeed going through all the summoning styles, cool!

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

Aw, I would've loved if you showed some Megalith cards, especially Phul. That card's a ritual player's wet dream AND it teaches a lot about card zone management and functions.

[@finaldarkfire]

Imagine the timeline where Ritual Monsters ended up being an Extra Deck monster alongside Fusions? I mean when you think back to early Yugioh, you can kinda see the design logic how Fusions and Rituals as the two Extra Deck monsters could balance each other out: Fusions are summoned with a generic spell card (Polymerization) but need specific monsters as materials, while each Ritual monster needs a specific spell card, but only generic materials that just need to meet the level requirement. Of course I think it's all too easy to imagine just how BUSTED this would make Rituals XD

[@ThuNguyen-lr2nd]

You should do a video where you show your guest banned cards throughout history and they have to guess which ones are no longer banned