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[@MBTYuGiOh]

Thanks for an amazing year. So happy we ended this one tied up. 😂

[@Ch00choh]

Balanced, as all things should be

[@cloud3328]

cope

[@UltanOfficial]

You are annoyed you aren't winning, be honest.

[@fluffalpenguin]

I want a history of jank video dedicated to the dark world mirror. Not because either deck is jank, but because the mirror is jank. If we got an FTK mirror, we definitely deserve a Dark World mirror.

[@JinTGC]

33:10 Alex doesn't have to crash Inashici here, you can just enter BP with no monsters, go to MP2, then normal him so he isn't forced to attack since BP is already done.

[@DemonFox369]

This is why knowing game mechanics is so important

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

The original "entering battle phase without doing anything in MP1"

[@SuperSayianWarrior]

Imagine for a moment, if Evenly was a card back in late 2011? People wouldve been doing that All day long

[@DEG99Y]

Someone has bern playing too much duel links or simething

[@BOD513]

I was actually yelling at the video when he didn’t do that play

[@guidofalconi1178]

Dark World’s biggest weakness wasn’t the mirror match, it was the fact that it made your opponents deck more consistent. I’m glad that they showed it on game 2 and 3.

[@Sintra4]

Yup. Any deck whose strongest starters have a cost of "your opponent draws a card and sets up their graveyard" and "your opponent gets a free link/synchro material" is gonna have a rough time no matter what. Speaking of Ceruli, the thought of running him against SPYRAL decks running Where Arf Thou and Sylvan Princessprite makes me giggle. He is literally a starter for your opponent at that point.

[@Joe.Elston-Gardner]

It was so easy to side deck against as well, and yeah you help them draw the outs

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

I always saw them as "waste 10 minutes of them drawing cards. Just for me to flip Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror."

[@Hiri8]

100% but god how I love Dark World

[@thotobliterator1587]

@@Sintra4 true, that’s why you need to use modern DW support to make him work on your favor. Don’t give your enemy the chance to use Ceruli, use him for Underworld goddess first. Genta, some self special summon when discarded card, your self summoned boss monsters(Grapha and Reign Beaux OK) it should be easy to get 4 monsters on your field plus Ceruli or whatever monster they have that you want gone. Link 5, use Underworld goddess, she is a blue eyes level beater with a once per turn negate of graveyard summons for your enemy.

[@lvl5Vaporeon]

Friend: *I activate card destruction* Both players see each other's dark world cards get sent to grave. Me and my Friend: *FUCK*

[@TrevorAllenMD]

Confession, I 75% expected MBT to pronounce the Dark World cards wrong. Despite their names literally being colors.

[@StarboyXL9]

Why would you expect Joseph of all people to mispronounce names based on precious metals? Do you not know his ethnicity?

[@Barracius]

I definitely remember pronouncing Goldd as "Glodd" for a while.

[@haohryuz-arc2261]

I mean, he did call one of them "Celuri" in this video. Apparently he doesn't know every color.

[@MercenaryPen]

@@haohryuz-arc2261 yup Celery, vegetable of dark world

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

I love this time in Yugioh. Playing casually from early Synchros to early XYZ was so fun.

[@pokemasterskye4231]

History of Yu-Gi-Oh! episode wins Cimoooooooo: 32 MBT: 32 Thank you for an amazing year of Yu-Gi-Oh! content Cimo and friends and I hope you all have a happy New Year

[@chanlennox8133]

That’s actually so cool, ending the year on a tie

[@draketheduelist]

Me: "Oh boy, Dark World. I remember this breaking the meta and being so explosive that people gentleman's aggreement'd out of it because it was no fun and it basically churned non-stop advantage. Can't wait to see it go off..." MBT: "Darkworld was godawful and never did anything." Me: 🤨😡🤬 "...How long have I been bad at Yugioh? ..." 😭

[@CobaltSanderson]

At least 10 years apparently

[@endeav0r_49]

Well, dark world's biggest issue is that the non stop card advantage goes to both players. A deck that draws a lot isn't that good if it makes your opponent draw a lot too

[@Sotosleon293]

To be fair if you played Dueling Network or any online battle app and played singles then Dark World was really strong. If you played Bo3 they kinda suck

[@NickersonGeneral]

Literally me as MBT started trash talking Demise OTK lol

[@sekaihunter9378]

@@Sotosleon293 That's why it was pretty decent in Duel Links for a while too. That game has 4000 starting LP and you're always playing in Singles as well. The thing is, if Dark World irl was cheap, Dark World in Duel Links was expensive like HELL. It was literally the most expensive deck, with all key cards like Dealings, Gate, Snoww and Grapha being spreaded to completely different Main Boxs as UR. It's safe to say that the price to play Darkworld in Duel Links was even more expensive than to just buy those cards irl.

[@cascada5200]

1:00 Deck List/ Breakdown 14:30 Duels

[@graboidfan31]

Its been almost 11 years. Please Konami give us a new Dark World MONSTER

[@alyshacoe2082]

Alongside a new atlantean and fire king, for me that trio is peak yugioh deck design

[@resuteru502]

Volcanics here... wait your goddamn turn.

[@Marcusjnmc]

'.' they gave the entire danger archetype

[@graboidfan31]

@@resuteru502 volcanics have had a new monster more recently than dark worlds have by about 4 or 5 years

[@resuteru502]

@@graboidfan31 Volcanics got one support trap card in 2015. Their last MONSTER was 2008 (Counter). You asked about MONSTER cards. Wait your turn.

[@damagedpotato]

Dark world will always be one of my top 3 memories from a locals. I was working at a game shop when it came out so of course we opened a bunch the day before the release date to stock the shelves before the tournament and I decided that I would build a quick darkworld deck to show the players what it could do on day one to try and get people to buy the singles. Turn 1 I set morphing jar and pass. My opponent plays change of heart, obviously flips the jar because no one expected dark world that day,...and leaves what two silvas and a gold does. Ahh...good times

[@StarboyXL9]

Absolutely eviscerated

[@knightofendor8384]

Dude you just killed a man

[@nnnp634]

DW is my favourite archetype of all time and Karakuri is really cool as well. This period of time (starting with the last episode) is my favourite. Decks are finally fast again, for the first time since Tele-DAD. I do hate when people activate D Fissure against me - I've lost to worst of decks on DB because I couldn't draw removal in time.

[@Maawaa]

Spoilers: I feel like it was a big throw from Cimo in the first game to Monster Reborn the Saizan instead of Grapha. Like, it is a tuner, but Grapha is huge and it stops Joseph from just summoning it?

[@beebothebluegod4094]

Exactly my thinking.

[@clayxros576]

Cimo tends to get tunnel visioned at times, similar to Gage but usually in a less egregious way. MBT tends to he reckless or greedy lol

[@JakeLT64]

I mean sure that’s good with hindsight, but dark smog was not a common card at all, so I understand not playing around it. Meanwhile summoning Saizan back here would’ve led to bureido, summon nishipachi from deck, change its own position to draw 1, synch nishi with cydra into bureido again and get another summon from deck. If he drew any karakuri with that draw 1 he could get ninishi here and go burei for game. Even without he can get more advantage/draws

[@Maawaa]

@@JakeLT64 I didn't think of that, I was assuming Grapha was better than Saizan even if Dark Smog was not present but you make a good case for the tuner

[@cameraredeye3115]

I still think Grapha would have been the better play in Game 1, just to push more damage and force MBT to out his own Grapha just to make a comeback, not to mention play around Dark Smog which is basically a D.D. Crow that synergizes with Dark World strats. Yeah, Cimo should have been able to pull a 2-0 or even a 3-0 sweep. That was a big throw...

[@freddymartinez2240]

Karakuri! Finally. My favorite deck of all time. Fun gimmicks. The first deck I invested in way back when. My version used Royal Decree, ETel and a set of psychic commanders. Loved this episode.

[@coreygolphenee9633]

No de synchro though which is rough that's when the deck goes stupid

[@jirehjirehjirehjireh]

I can’t wait for you guys the show the power of Machina Fortress in an episode or two. It’s relevance to machine decks throughout history can’t be understated

[@coreygolphenee9633]

It's essentially the first dragon ruler

[@azerlox]

I applaud Cimo for running Karakuri. I'm hoping for History of Jank, he (or Joe) runs Karakuri OTK. That would be nuts to see.

[@yuyiming1765]

I am just surprised that he didn't play cash cache, anatomy, desynchro that would make the deck much more explosive. he could play the symphonic karakuri combo deck for history of jank that would be pretty cool .

[@shipu302]

@@yuyiming1765 Were Cache and Anatomy already out by this time? Those cards kinda feel mandatory to play.

[@erisesoteric7571]

@@shipu302 Why would you play cache if basic combo gives you Cache from the ED? Just play better cards to draw into.

[@Click3tyClick]

Yea I hope History of Jank eventually transitions into just playing with fun but less successful archetypes so we can see a balls to the wall Karakuri otk deck with de synchro, instant fusion, e-tele psychic commander, etc.

[@shipu302]

@@erisesoteric7571 Because it's a ROTA for the archetype.

[@prancinNOOB]

Wow, early dark world decks were absolutely garbage. No Upstart, no reckless, no allure, side decked skill drain, no beige, no foolish burial, cerulli, raven, jar... Can't wait for the 100th ycs episode. Not only did dark world win, but my other favorite deck, Fortune Heroes, went undefeated day 1. Although that deck might show up in history of jank instead.

[@migggy4760]

Yes! This version of dark world was god awful lol

[@coreygolphenee9633]

But you have card destruction which is usually a win button

[@KingJames-rs8bt]

I want to see junk dopple and dark synchro later so bad

[@DemonFox369]

For Dark World Dealings, you gotta discard at the same time so you don’t cheat and select after your opponent chose.

[@condedepiamonte93]

That is true Although Duelingbook has some lag in that regard So, it's impossible for them to discard At the same time in the simulator

[@NJoCaulfield]

Karakuri is one of my favorite combo decks. They're still playable to this day, and there are a lot of different ways to build them! You can play Auroradon combos if you want to be explosive but fragile. You can play Infinitracks if you want to be better insulated against handtraps and to have a better resource loop. You can play Tzolkin if you want to be hilarious and terrible. You can play Machina if you want to focus on small engines and play their nutty archetypal trap. You can play Scraps if you want a better board breaking game and more fodder for synchro plays. You can also mix and match! The deck is super fluid and can weave into a lot of generic synchro and machine decks. They can do whatever you want! That's the beauty of the clockwork Japanese robots!

[@jirehjirehjirehjireh]

Earth Machine in general is the funnest subsection of decks in the game! It genuinely feels like the Yugioh version of Legos with how easily you can splash one archetype into another to creator your own combo deck.

[@krullachief669]

Another bonus to playing Karakuri Machina is that Machina already has some fantastic control tool monsters that are absolute houses of their own anyway.

[@pandaman1331]

Props to Cimo for playing so well with a deck he never played before. Concerning Dark Worlds. I always found it strange that nobody bothered playing DAD in it even though it's so easy to manipulate your graveyard. Would give it additional fire power and you still had the Leviair to get Monsters back. Other version played triple fabled raven which in my opinion should have been an insentive to include BLS. Regardless of what they did, I feel like Dark Worlds haven't been played to their max at that time

[@elidwor1856]

At the time Dark World was considered a solitaire style deck for most people. Where you dug until you found card destruction or a game winning virus card. DAD didnt fit in that gameplan (easy to bin darks, but hard to get them out). I agree, Dark World never got optimized, return from the different dimension should have been an absolute staple in every sideboard.

[@draketheduelist]

...I played Fabled Raven and DAD... Maybe that's why my version was actually good. GY manipulation is pretty easy for Darkworld.

[@elidwor1856]

@@draketheduelist eyy! I did too, but a few formats later (september wind up format). Topped a regional playing card trooper, fabled raven, only 1 dealings in the main, dark armed and 3 call of the haunted. It wasnt on the same power level as other DW decks, but it won the mirror, had an awesome wind up match up, and sided into a gameplan that played through difi/macro.

[@XenoMonicals]

I've tried playing triple Raven in that deck, and honestly, it just feels like empty calories. There's plenty of ways to discard for effect.

[@draketheduelist]

@@elidwor1856 Strangely, D-Fi and Macro never caught on in my meta. People knew D-Fi was a thing (less so Macro on account of (1) people thought Helios was mandatory, and (2) GX cards in general could gargle our kuribohs), but it was always seen as super bricky and often shut down a lot of GY-based strats that people would just rather play for themselves, like Plant Turbo and Agents. Floodgates just weren't considered fun. You win because you drew the other guy's off switch. Booo-riiing. Maybe that's why metas take a while to shake out. Most people just want to play _fun_ stuff, especially when it's new and novel.

[@supersonicstyleatsonicspeed]

Please do Junk Doppel in this series. I want to see Shooting Quasar Dragon summoned in this series REALLY BADLY!

[@NickWuebker]

That might be in the next episode.

[@Marcusjnmc]

'.' the history of jank is also a series

[@supersonicstyleatsonicspeed]

@@Marcusjnmc Who cares. It doesn't give the respect Shooting Quasar Dragon deserves

[@screwtokaiba]

They can't play Quasar at this timespan quite yet. Quasar is end of 2011 whereas this is still around mid-late of 2011. If Quasar shows up at all, it would be around when Order of Chaos comes around

[@Marcusjnmc]

@@screwtokaiba that's within a few episodes & could be the next one

[@Carlet_S]

you can't do a dark world episode and just NOT show what the world's worst mirror looks like

[@AtomicArtumas]

So, Dark World has the exact same issue that PACMAN had. "Great game 1, never wins again after that." I really feel like it would be interesting to see some of these major formats played extensively with a custom ban list that removes the 100% hard counters to decks that should've been way better but were exceedingly easy to board against. Like, how different would this format be if DiFi, Macro, etc. just... didn't exist?

[@coreygolphenee9633]

Nah it was more the issue quasar decks had, there's 4 or 5 hands in there that are easy and win you the game, but the rest is very beatable and the strategy dies to any card commonly sided basically at the time

[@XenoMonicals]

While I was expecting this matchup eventually after our Patreon match..... I was expecting it to be in History of Jank lol But yeah, Dark World is all 1 huge turn, and hope it gets rid of enough cards that the opponent can't come back from it

[@quangduybui2181]

We have jank for that as well: Gravekeeper Dark World 100% Dark World cards work under Necrovalley at that time (it allowed cards to be moved away from the GY BY ITS OWN EFFECT), and Royal Tribute discards for effect.

[@zeo4481]

33:10 Fool Main Phase 2 Exists! Also - Dark World ? Why isn't this in Jank?

[@xDemangrlicxx]

I must ask on behalf of 037wolf, please show the original ver of junk doppel. One of my personal favorites and one of the first decks where main protagonist cards actually can put in work.

[@coreygolphenee9633]

It's so god damn hard to play, I had to write down and memorize combo lines for it because you have to know every hand that gets you to quasar to have a shot, its a hard to deck to showcase if you don't already play it

[@alicethegrinsecatz1611]

The Virus-traps doesn't effect cards add by Pot of Duality because Pot of Duality say "add", not "draw".

[@LocalChamp]

Karakuri is one of my favorite decks in the history of the game I'm glad it had a good showing.

[@lamiaprincess6371]

Probably the biggest problem with Dark World is despite all of these really powerful draw cards, and cards that would eventually be incorporated into the deck such as Trade-In and Reckless Greed... The deck bricks. Constantly. Drawing too many monsters or too many Spell or Traps pretty much spells a death sentence for this deck, since you really need specific combinations of both in order to make plays. Giving your opponent cards and having side problems was an issue, but it was always looking at a hand where you went Grapha pass or sometimes didn't end on a monster always felt so bad. If you ever do History of Jank for like 2013/2014, please pick this deck back up! It was the jank deck that I played and honestly the deck with good Rank 8s like Felgrand and Zombiestein is a lot of fun since you can turn Graphas into an actual board.

[@MercenaryPen]

got to love that Level 8 Karakuri Burrito

[@MysteriousGuardian]

We are so close to Fabled Unicore control. One of the funniest decks to ever be competitive.

[@AzzyReal]

This was the deck that got me into the game seriously for the first time, bought 3 SDs and never looked back. Grapha will always be one of my favorite monsters of all time, and I hope they really are getting an R structure deck in the OCG

[@monkeybench]

I was just getting back into the game trying to play E-Heroes. My two friends who wanted me to play again were playing (pre-ban) Inzektors and Darkworld at locals 🙃 I still hear my mates saying "Summon Grapha" and "Hornet pop", on repeat, in my nightmares 😂

[@devilmaygame8497]

Dark Worlds got me serious and also had me run BA. Also, rank 5 exceeds were great before the deck fell off hard.

[@AzzyReal]

@@devilmaygame8497 Adreus and Tiras always did xD

[@devilmaygame8497]

@@AzzyReal volcasaurus as well

[@hamsterboya]

This series has been one of my favorite pieces of yugioh content. It is such a joy to learn about formats during times I took a break from the game. Cimo and MBT are both doing a great job. Hope you both continue to have success in the new year.

[@otangakudyokeman7124]

kinda disagree on doing a great job, blv me some misplays are just terrible which doesnt help showcasing the real potential of a deck (but I admit, this one was okayish)

[@davsr7789]

Cimooo forgor the MP2 exist and crashed for nothing in game 3 lol

[@BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA]

Psa! You don't have to crash with karakuris if you enter battle phase then go to mp2 and summon them. Prevents you from crashing!

[@ashtonwestfall4777]

Cant you also just go directly to end phase after main 1

[@SlashWest]

Can't you just summon the Karakuri searcher in M2 so you don't have to attack?

[@dankanubis1345]

Yes

[@josephfigliano441]

History of Jank better have the Dark World mirror when the time comes

[@Torpedoman316]

Been waiting for this one. I played some dark world in elemental energy and when this deck came out, I really felt like I had a truly great deck! I hope they do another structure deck revamp in the near future

[@chimeratcg07]

One of the best structure decks Konami ever printed.

[@banditkeef3864]

Man I’m building a danger darkworld deck right now, they are still good.

[@kaijuemperor]

God I loved playing dark worlds and Grapha. I remember playing it back when you could overlay 2 Graphas into Felgrand The Divine Dragon Knight

[@TheShogun100100]

Early dark world lists are painful to watch. 3 reckless greed is an absolute must along with some other glaring omissions here and playing ceruli.

[@Nathan-sy5ff]

Awesome set! As someone who also got back into Yugioh at this time with Dark Worlds, I really hope you get to revisit Dark Worlds when people learned how to build them and how they became more refined later, such as with the deck that won at Long Beach in 2012. (fewer monsters, Foolish, Upstarts/Reckless Greeds, etc.)

[@christophertomes6777]

Cimo, note for next time: you can always go to MP2 instead of normaling a dude in MP1 and losing it to forced battle.

[@kokorikopi]

In the god-awful fan translation of the Arc-V Tag Force PSP game, the Dark World structure deck is commented with "Don't buy this! Only assholes play Dark Worlds!" Joseph, please say the word Cerulean.

[@Joe.Elston-Gardner]

Around now was when Yu-Gi-Oh was at its best for me.

[@agenttatsu]

Can you not just play in MP2 to avoid having to attack with the Karakuris?

[@tameyournyanta5254]

It's 3:30 am here now, in Japan, waiting for sunrise. Karaoke till night, let my friends sleep first, kinda feel bad for my throat. Anyway, I remember my old Darkworld deck, and the time I self milled, most embarrassing thing to happen in local tournament.

[@TromboneMaster95]

Why doesn't Cimo just normal summon a karakuri in main phase 2 so that he doesn't have to attack that turn?

[@MegaStarIncorporated]

mbt's sleeves hit different in this episode

[@morenostalgiasupport1817]

When they finally get to modern Yu-Gi-Oh in history of jank, I hope MBT plays dark world ftk

[@kiefetakahashi585]

Happy New Years Eve! :)

[@rickymoneyman509]

Dark world is my favorite archetype of the entire game 🔥🔥

[@thatzombiplayer7993]

Same friend

[@JFarenci]

Wait.. oh God what is Joseph's list T-T Post edit: for reference Dark World only really got good when it streamlined into its deep draw builds. You cut down on gameplans besides Grapha Turbo w/ one or two tour guides and crammed in as much draw as possible to get to cards like skill drain, viruses, and card destruction to blow out games. The deck had some incredible match-ups post side where you would find your silver bullets almost every game.. what Joesph is playing here is not that list.

[@BillyBob-xx5jr]

Tbf he didn't build it, he used the historical top 32 list. They'll likely revisit DW when the deck gets more streamlined, but showing us this version, even if not perfected, is cool and gives us a taste of what it was like before optimization.

[@mattr791]

Hopefully we will get to see the dark world mirror in history of jank

[@chibiraptor]

33:00 just go to m2 before summoning. Alternatively, can't you just not enter your battle phase and ignore the "must attack" text?

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

I'm not sure if anything has changed, but I don't think you can just skip your battle phase unless it's the first turn of the duel, or some other effect prevents you from attacking (older rulings state you still had to enter your battle phase even if Gravity Bind was live for example and you controlled Berserk Gorilla for example. You can't attack but the ruling was you HAD to enter your battle phase). I think you would have to just enter battle phase after doing nothing in MP1 and then end it to go to MP2 if you want to prevent yourself from having to attack.

[@chibiraptor]

@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting Right now, you can choose to go straight from MP1 to the End phase. Entering the battle phase after MP1 is optional. I'm pretty sure that was the case when Karakuri were meta, 'cause I remember watching my opponents do that, but I don't have old rulebooks handy.

[@chibiraptor]

@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting According to rule book version 5 (Which still refers to the extra deck as the fusion deck, so its before karakuri), at the end of your main phase 1, you can choose to enter your battle phase OR go straight to the end phase. "At the end of Main Phase 1, you can choose to enter the battle phase, or proceed to the end phase" is the exact quote. I was wrong about the karakuri specifically, though. The rules say that if you have a monster that must attack, you must enter your battle phase.

[@Manualzion]

Ah, opening the absolute nuts followed by a brick that makes Monarchs jealous. That's the dark world I remember playing aginst, only without the "Bricking" part.

[@migggy4760]

I hope they run dark world again cause that decklist mbt was using was god awful lol competitive dark world decks never used ceruli lol

[@ashleyjones8597]

Why didn't he syncro, and then activate fissure after...maybe I'm blind or just bad. But that seemed stupid to me.

[@samgadson6572]

I feel like for histories purpose we need a darkworld v darkworld mirror.

[@terratheterribl]

I played dark worlds in middle school before Grapha or any of the new support. I never played it well, as I had singles of at least every card in the archetype except the rainbow guy, who I spent so long looking for that I thought he didn't even exist. Goldd, Silva and Bron are still some of my favorite cards, alongside "Dark Blade" who's flavor text said he was from the Dark World. As a kid, that obviously meant he was part of the archetype.

[@thatonetrainer5818]

Ending the year off rite

[@thepureheartofdark]

Dark bricks gotta love it. It's either no discards effects or no monsters to discard every other hand.

[@apostolisfasfalis7533]

Play a dark world mirror for history of jank please ,it will be very very funny

[@Shinigamimon434]

I loved Dark Worlds back in 2011-2012!

[@cubbykeow6807]

Dark world is my favorite, DW is the only deck that i've bought with 3 boxes of structure deck. Then I've quit playing yugioh for years maybe like 8 years. But now I'm back again few months ago playing my DW deck again, because of Danger! deck. Let's go Danger! Dark world, haha

[@denfallas]

Wtf is that Karakuri list? No instant, no 3 nisipachi + machine dupe, no karakuri draw spells? I’ve always seen karakuri as a otk deck tbh

[@geiseric222]

They are using the decks that topped historically at the time

[@endlessgadgets8046]

So happy to see Karakuri featured in this series! Definitely one of my favorite decks of all time.

[@TK-sq8mj]

Weird that MBT's deck sides Cydra but doesn't have Fortress Dragon, especially with how Dark World rarely uses the extra

[@alwayskindasleepy69]

Pretty sure fortress dragon was supposed to be side board card 15

[@dankanubis1345]

Yes, Karakuri! This was my first deck and my introduction to Yu-Gi-Oh. I still have the deck with all the new support. So many good memories

[@OmegaRpg953]

Great vid

[@sergiodelatorre9127]

Well everyone’s commenting about dark world and I have been playing karakuri all my life so I love this episode. Pd: if you want to play karakuri today the best is turbo crystron aurodadon ending in beast and the lvl 9 synchros you can pm me if you want to see my decklist.

[@fight5422]

can't wait for the history of jank when we get the dark world mirror

[@BOD513]

My all time favorite deck Karakuri! But I’ll be honest I was yelling at the screen when Cimo didn’t know Karakuri could walk around the BP.

[@sh1nypantsgaming661]

Why crash when you could just go to main 2?

[@Renigade68]

catching up on this series now, you mentioned Junk Dopple being a thing in this video but didn't actually cover it, ah well, I really like that deck, granted Septepmter 2011 is my favourite Yugioh format period so I would have liked seeing you spend more episodes here in general but ah well, maybe when history of jank gets to this point you'll cover it.

[@sermonking]

Thanks to cimoooooooo for shouting out long beach....

[@Greg501-]

How much for a Dark World mirror match video?

[@JamFlexx]

God, I'm 17 seconds in and already so many iconic, fun to play & against decks from my past. Now everything is so different, not bad but different.

[@Tokumastu1]

The funniest thing is Alex leaving Nishipachi in attack thinking he's dead without realizing that if Nishipachi is targeted for attack it switches to defense. The standard Karakuri effect is that all of the main deck monsters switch positions when attack and so many never read this.

[@steven_tanyt]

I love Dark World!

[@cancerstinks1]

My greatest Yugioh achievement was when I did a Card Destruction Dark World OTK

[@DemonFox369]

A Dark World player’s worst nightmare: another Dark World player.

[@DrugsAreForWinners]

It's interesting to see that apart from the Caius deck, Agents and Darkworlds really kicked off the trend of $30 budget structure deck builds really started to kick off.

[@xephionsaketzu]

i mean danger made dark world pretty strong

[@thotobliterator1587]

2:54 PLUS the bonus power of if Ceruli discarded him, he can target a card in your opponents hand and if it’s a monster, it becomes yours. Even if the monster sucks ass, it’s a free body/ free material for extra deck stuff. Back then might not be great but nowadays that’s AMAZING. The best link monsters are vague in materials(I:P, ACCESSCODE, Underworld goddess) all powerful link staples, all do well in dark world, at least modern dark world. Genta and the special summoned discard guys, plus the boss monsters that self revive without any turn limit, it becomes easier to get 4 bodies on the field. 2 bodies become I:P, two more bodies get added to become an ACCESSCODE with 4300 attack, and can’t be destroyed by effects. You can also wait for your opponent to summon a monster, and then be like “I ACTIVATE I:P MASQUERENA TO LINK SUMMON ON YOUR TURN!!! I USE 3 monsters from my field, and 1 from yours, with I:Ps link rating of 2, to SUMMON UNDERWORLD GODDESS OF THE CLOSED WORLD!!!!

[@lastfirst8350]

I play danger Dark world with serzial and evil eye seline

[@astreagc1187]

No Tg Agents? So disappointing….

[@pokeize1]

So.... its more like heavy storm, reborn and warning that wins more than karakuris.... geez he do be get those three all 3 games....

[@dalecowles3406]

Ya I played dark world and had sum success with it. Funny enough I had better success with it than anyone else in my area. A other fun fact I’m 5-0 in dark world mirror matches. The most successful build I had was dark world turbo I net decked the ycs 100 build and before I get crap for it I was supposed to go to that tournament but do to a guy not telling ahead of time that he couldn’t go I missed out. So I told the guys at the shop about it told them I don’t want to hear anyone giving me crap about net decking this deck because I was supposed to go to that event. Yep I missed out on getting a tour guild play mat. Also one reason ppl could had crap success with playing dark world is because a lot of ppl I played didn’t even know how they played.

[@trantigone]

I think the only misplays were, in game 3 - Cimo could've gone to main 2 to prevent having to crash the level 2 into silva, and then in game 2 he could've used reborn to summon back the two and make naturia beast with Merchant, which would've 100% been the end of the game

[@nnnp634]

Dark world dealings is probably the worst card ever actually played. It is somewhat for a good archetype to function, but going -1 and recycling opponents hand is such an insane cost. It could be a good list for DuelLogs- best cards with high maintainance cost or cards with highest maintainance cost which saw play.

[@thimbletoe]

Watching this super late and at 22:55 Ceruli wouldnt get its discard effect off as it was discarded by Dark Smog and not a "Dark World" card, not sure how much it matter here but it could have made a difference in some way, I say this as a Dark World lover myself

[@CobaltSanderson]

That is the absolute worst 2011 Karakuri decklist I’ve ever seen lol

[@Shaderoberts101]

Cimoo, "I really hate how these guys have to attack" proceedes to normal search then suiside his monster. Me thinking, 🤔 Why not just go to main, battle, main 2 first then normal?

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

I love strategies that give old, obscure, and overlooked cards a chance to shine, which is why I love Dark World. Forced Requisition goes from an amusing gimmick to a monstrously oppressive because it makes it so that any time you discard a card, your opponent has to as well. That means it effectively makes Dark World Dealings 2 for 1 for you *_and_* your opponent, Gates of Dark World from +1 for you *_and_* -1 for your opponent on top of that, etc. But the biggest advantage of all comes when it's paired with Dark Smog, because it can get rid of your opponent's draw even if it's a Quick-Play like Mystical Space Typhoon. 29:57 - It's *_Hinotama_* not Sparks you damned fool. 33:09 - Easy mistake to make when you're not used to playing around the bizarre-ass Karakuri effects but you can just go to the Battle Phase, do nothing, go to Main Phase 2, and then summon without having to attack.

[@RedDragonForce2]

I always found it interesting that Karakuri became an archetype and never did anything with Karakuri Spider, which was a worse version of Catastor, with the exact opposite effect in mind.

[@austenlewis4154]

Wasn't it ycs Colombus where this deck hyped I remember staying at a friend's house the night before the ycs and testing this deck against everyone at his apartment in Columbus because everyone was scared of it and the testing was so bad I switched my deck the night before the event