Despair From the Dark.. The Secret Meta Call?

[@grumple3277]

turtle bad.

[@minasobhy8235]

Just wanna say i absolutely love this kinda videos. Maybe the live gameplay is more of my personal preference but keep up the great work!

[@THEpuy]

HVen’t watched the video yet but needs more pyramid turtle

[@GoatFormat]

you know what as much as it pains me to admit..... you might be right

[@grumple3277]

turtle bad.

[@Priest-Seto]

Like we need more cowbell

[@dixonnass2443]

​@@grumple3277turtle into coston and tribute next turn, yep so bad. noob

[@curtismanes3556]

Call of the Mummy, personally, seems like a decent card that doesn't get seen more in zombie decks in the format. Special summon a zombie and you still get your normal summon, underrated in my opinion.

[@Dizzy2death]

I used to max out on on despair, turtle, kokki, call of the mummy, book of Life, card of safe return. Premature had synergy with giant trunades for huge pushes, compulsive evac was good with call of the mummy, I think I ran a giant rat or two with creature swaps, reapers. It was actually a decent beat down deck

[@KiwiAvs]

Nice video, fun to see different deck varieties, especially from older cards that aren't as popular.

[@GoatFormat]

Me too its my favorite part about the format. Trying new things

[@Roge9]

I just recently discovered this channel exists and that people still play old school yugioh in both offline and online events. That's really cool. Think I might get into it via duelingbook as I'm pretty nostalgic towards it. I feel like it's much easier to get into than modern yugioh, personally.

[@CloudMountainJuror]

Very fun idea! My first thought would be reducing the number of Despairs from 3 to 2, since as shown it can be really bricky, and 2 should hopefully be enough to keep the engine alive. I really like the Double Coston tech allowing easier DMoC paired with Despair as an excuse to run it.

[@GoatFormat]

triple despair is insane behavior I only do that just to max it out to ensure it comes up when m dueling. 3 is way too much

[@RarecuisineSaucegod-ig8bc]

The competitive info is on lock. This is what we need. The spice. Keep it up JDZ. Also you should bring Skilled Brown Magician on the channel. Dude got the spicy decks on lock.

[@GoatFormat]

Ill have to see if I can reach out Im a big skilled brown magician Fan! maybe we can do a collaboration

[@RarecuisineSaucegod-ig8bc]

@@GoatFormat heck yes! I wanna see what he comes up with for the channel. I'll be waiting.

[@TheMokeyMokeyChannel]

Its been 3 years, since I posted my zombie deck. I made the claim using Despair from the dark and Fear from the dark are great tech choices for the deck for the same reasons this video has. Back then everybody called me nuts for that + playing mulitple book of life. And my ratio was 1x Despair, 1x Fear, 2x Regen. Mummy. Also I argued that if you play zombies, then you usually play turtle and creature swap. but morphing jar + creature swap is wonderful to trigger ur own discard effects, thats how I played the deck. Im glad that atleast despair is getting some spotlight

[@letsmakeit110]

I like it. The entire package seems a little thick to slot into a bog-standard chaos turbo list, but that's where I'll be looking.

[@tylerleswing]

The spice is in!

[@0riginzer036]

I tried using him a while ago when messing with Berserk Dragon. It does kinda work.

[@catandfishfc]

This is very close to the deck I had as a 6 year old. I had nothing but zombie cards lol, think it must have been the theme of boosters at the time.

[@Dizzy2death]

Back 2005 i played a zombie beatdown i built from structure decks. Call of the mummy used to slap. Also my meta had a ton of people trying to hand control with dropoff and donzoaloog. Bruh i think i just talked myself into rebuilding it lol Despair, kokkis, turtles, reapers, card of safe return, trunades, call of the mummy, compuls, creature swap, book of Life, prema+coth, raigeki break. That was the core, had a ton of synergy i think with a Singleton giant rat, card destruction, trinity (minus duo), sangan and single coston. Ran a bunch of removal too. Opponents have a bunch of dead cards against you.

[@cooldeadpunk777]

All the reborn cards not a single CoSR?

[@beautyorpower5288]

add to the list of things my 4 year old nephew and JDZ have in common they both like to draw

[@Oblio1942]

Despair from the Dark in defense, Eye of Truth, and Bad Reaction to Simochi is the best way to get your friends to want to fight you

[@marvelcardplayer]

More zombie love??? IS THE “Z” IN JDZ ZOMBIE??? Let’s fucking gooooo!!

[@disasterarea9341]

always felt like this card has potential. really hilarious against duo with great atk and def

[@SurPatel-uz2fu]

Yo JDZ, if you're taking requests, can you make a video on that Chaos machine deck you mentioned on a video/stream recently?

[@GoatFormat]

Yo this is on the list!! its coming

[@RenegadeGamer89]

Despair could be a sneaky tech against Chaos Turbo since they play Card Destruction and sometimes Morphing Jar.

[@JUAMPILLAS]

Oh woow, very interesting deck 👌🏻 i wanna play it.

[@GoatFormat]

its a fun deck honestly!

[@Willam.v1]

Chaos warrior with sorcs next!

[@azurephantom100]

there is a trap card called dark deal that could activate its summoning effect and you will remove the normal spell the opp wanted to use

[@TheGismo30]

Hey, quick question: Is there a reason you ring in the end phase? Couldn‘t you just ring your own guy in the draw phase? I think I‘ve seen something similar before but I can‘t remember the reasoning exactly.

[@lifitcg]

If you mean like at around 21:00, if the opponent just set a card that could stop the ring of destruction (like book of moon) then they won't be able to activate it in their own endphase, whereas if you wait until your own drawphase to use Ring the book of moon will be live. If you mean why didn't he Ring his own Tribe in opponents drawphase before the opponent even had a chance to set those 2 cards, at that point if the opponent had topdecked book of moon then he could play Book from hand to counter the ring. Of course there are levels to this, because if I'm the opponent here and I have book and expect you to Ring me in my endphase, then I won't set book, and will be able to counter Ring with book from my hand in my own endphase. There are other general considerations like in a game where you are so far ahead and likely to win anyway then the risk of waiting is not high, and letting the opponent play out their turn gives you more chance to see what unknown cards they might have

[@GoatFormat]

@@lifitcg you are absolutely correct Its usually more optimal to hold the ring until endphase to play around book of moon if they have two and set one hold one or just hold the book till EP you just have to eat that and most times you target your own cards so if they do hold book you can get it back your next turn. But ripping during draw phase or on attack declaration can backfire

[@PPV-eq1fb]

Why no call of the mummy? Could be really good with some vampire lords and Ryu Kokki‘s🤔

[@GoatFormat]

We tried it for a while and everytime I drew it either I had a monster or I didnt have a pay off. Call of the mummy is a tricky card. When its good its great but alone its just doing nothing which as you knw in this format you need your cards especially your spells to be as active as possible. so for those reasons we had to cut it. It for sure could work though if you give it a shot

[@xnickx9287]

Why not to put also 2 Copy of " card of the safe return"? You have potentially 5/6 card to Reborn: 3 Book of life, 1 premature, 1 call and the mof that can recicle one of the spells.

[@justinspivey6543]

Lmaooooo😂😂😂😂

[@soyelpinchimanix8974]

double book o' moon 304

[@kaioxys]

I run call of the mummy in my version.

[@Prodigial]

Let Essskevin play whatever he wants on ladder as long as it's not Chaos Turbo. I swear, 90% of matches above 800 rank are that god forsaken deck and it is making the format so fucking boring. I switched over to casual matches just to get away from it and actually have fun playing GOAT again.

[@GoatFormat]

Its really important to not get caught up in the grind of chaos turbo everyone likes to play that deck because its so consistent but defeating that deck with off meta makes it a good challenge and keeps the playing xp fresh