Duelist Alliance (August 2014) | The History of Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@carpedm9846]

"Come on joseph, its just one in thirty chance." Has got to get into the best of 2022 reel.

[@antonbrown17]

He's just too good

[@NightingaleAlt]

I made involuntary noises at work when that card popped up ;D

[@DJcystrom]

Yes!! You're so right!!!

[@RamixTheRed]

As soon as he said it I knew what was coming

[@omi-kuro4323]

Been a while to find a misplay around here. Cimo's Tunnel: 1: MR3 arrives and HE CANNOT DRAW FOR TURN! 2: Forgot to remove Vanity's Emptiness, a bug misplay

[@silversalamence10]

3. Revives Felis when it was milled from Shaddoll Fusion.

[@donjuan6996]

4. MBT attacks with Castel after using Altair’s effect.

[@williamcronshaw5262]

Remember when we used to have to remind them to draw for turn?

[@jamv6572]

Ironically enough, this is episode 100 of History, so Cimo saying "what feels like after 100 episodes" is almost correct.

[@akellis11]

102 in the playlist with 1 best of, maybe a few probated for schedule upload, I counted 98 but not sure lol

[@alexanderfakerson2346]

102 in playlist with 2 best ofs I think this is the 100th

[@dotslashluis9353]

Too bad that episode 2.5 is non canon, otherwise this would technically be the 101st episode.

[@rsands8879]

In today’s episode of History of Not Reading Cards, only Tellarknights can attack the turn you use Altair’s effect.

[@dylanrobertson9026]

And also you don’t draw for first turn anymore

[@lordtyman]

My favorite part is MBT even said it in the card by card, or do you think that was recorded later

[@quasnof]

And vanities emptiness goes to grave, wenn a hedgehog goes to grave, see the end of game two.

[@iamdanieloliveira]

@@lordtyman Pretty sure that part is always recorded later. There are many examples of them talking about card details during the deck build part and learning these things for the first time during the actual game. I think something similar happened with Cimo last episode of progression.

[@Awsorne]

Also Felis needs to be sent by Monster effect

[@NixDolores]

Cimo illegally 1st turn drawing 2/3 games, not sending his Vanity's after Mathematician, and still losing. I love the History of Yugioh with Alex Cimo and Joseph Rothschild.

[@mikejennette8478]

Mbt attacking with non tellarknights after summoning Altair too. Dzeef would be proud of the lack of reading cards

[@Joe-qs8in]

And summoning Felis being sent by a spell! It’s primarily a synchro piece for Math-man to Black Rose a board or facilitate other synchro/Xyz plays; it just has incidental synergy as Construct material.

[@tyranitararmaldo]

And activating Shaddoll Fusion, sending materials from deck, and MBT not controlling an Extra Deck monster.

[@imeverywhere629]

Alex drawing the 1/30 Shadoll Fusion was actually hilarious tbh

[@thepuzzycatzz4313]

1) You can really feel the modern Yugioh sweat experience here: "I will activate... ---> NO" "I will summon... ---> NO" 2) Alex Cimo is REALLY the incarnation of Atem 3) Cowboy FOR GAME BABYYY

[@PNL1992]

Another misplay- Felis doesn’t get revived when set to the graveyard by Shaddoll fusion. Only by monster effect does it get summoned. It’s in the deck to combo with Mathematician.

[@xatuyou8045]

It’s not a misplay. It’s an illegal play.

[@ShadowReignhart]

@@xatuyou8045 Given how casual they are, I think misplay is correct. In a tournament setting then 100% illegal play.

[@johndoe9343]

@@ShadowReignhart The semantics are important here though. Last I checked... A misplay is when you play suboptimally. But an illegal play is when you ignore/break the rules of the game.

[@Charmander_R27]

Yeah, he's thinking it's better Wulf, it's not.

[@cybzer0560]

@@ShadowReignhart No no no no! STOP being soft! People like you are the reason they keep "making" mistakes. They NEVER improve because everyone's like "oh its fine its just casual, theyre friends". Then people get annoyed when they make mistakes over and over, and cant read, and it repeats. How about you start complaining and asking Cimo and MBT to put an EFFORT in making less mistakes so we dont have to deal with it in the future.

[@NewtBannner]

I can’t believe we are only one core set away from …… SECRETS OF ETERNITY was released in January 2015. This set introduced the Infernoids, a series of monsters that can Special Summon themselves to the field by banishing other Infernoids from either the hand or graveyard. Notable cards in set include Farfa, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss, Qliphort Monolith, Uni-Zombie, Nephe Shaddoll Fusion, and a card that would bolster Satellarknight to combat the Burning Abyss Shaddoll meta, Stellarknight Constellar Diamond. In this series, both Nyhmnim and myself will be opening 24 booster packs or 1 box of a core Yu-Gi-Oh! booster set. We will build a deck and play a best 2 out of 3, and the winner will receive a small prize to upgrade their deck. HOWEVER! Each episode, we will open another box of the next set that was released moving in chronological order, constantly upgrading our decks before dueling each other at the end of each episode. This is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Progression Series.

[@cardinal01]

And this set changed everything

[@zdelrod829]

The copypasta still runs rampant on every Cimo video since that episode.

[@celesticeyes]

if cimoooooooo wants to embrace the meme he should just reuse this part in every episode of the set

[@lunarrequiem9553]

Morphtronic Smartfon is the most notable card out of Secrets of Eternity and I won't hear otherwise.

[@toni98MK]

I just bought 3 italian packs of secrets of eternity. And got Mischief of the Gnomes and Uni-zombie. Both cards I do in fact play right now 7 years later xD

[@chavosaur2221]

As a fan of Progression series and Progression playoffs, seeing the small pieces of these decks that were played in both series, (Alex’s Shadoll’s in Prog and Joseph’s SatellarKnights in playoffs,) come to full power in this episode was freaking crazy and a blast to watch. I didn’t play in this format but holy CRAP what an increase in play!!!

[@pandaman1331]

The best Shaddolls version arguably was the Star Seraph version from the OCG with Denko Sekka and double DAD. That deck had so much power.

[@sekaihunter9378]

@@pandaman1331 My god, Denko Sekka is THE ultimate silver bullet against trap decks like Tellarknights. If that doesn't make it any more appealing it is also a LIGHT target for Construct too.

[@pandaman1331]

@@sekaihunter9378 Shaddolls in 2015 is the worst matchup against Satellarknights. Even ignoring Denko Sekka, Winda alone craps on them. It still buffles me that Shaddolls wasn't tier 0. They feel so much more powerful than BA, Tellarknights and Qliphort.

[@sekaihunter9378]

@@pandaman1331 Like they said, the format still had so many floodgates that stunned Shaddoll on its track. Vanity wasn't banned until the very end of 2015, and Shadow Mirror wasn't just good against Shaddoll but against BA too so it was used in all sorts of side deck and even main deck. Shaddoll Fusion isn't inherently broken unless opponent control an ED monster, which makes it become a Poly turn 1, and if the Shaddoll player dare to chose to blind second for SF's full potential, then of course the opponent WILL have their turn 1 setting up all kinds of floodgates. And the funny part is, they would just flip those floodgates up before you had the chance to summon Sekka, so every time you must have another backrow removals on top of it.

[@pandaman1331]

@@sekaihunter9378 The thing is, I had a this exact duel from 2015 on my friend's and my channel. And he stomped me with Shaddolls. The thing here is, we don't play with side decks. The Folldgates are nice and all but Vanity's isn't exactly difficult to remove for Shaddolls. And unlike Stellarknights, Shaddolls float a lot and gain advantage every time they are removed from the field. So even with floodgates, Shaddolls will simply outgrind Satellarknights. That's why I'm pretty sure that the main rason Tellarknights could compete was because of the side-deck. With cards like Anti-Spell Fragrance. But feel free to share your thought on it. You can watch the matchup on YGOPRO Duels channel.

[@zeusalternative1270]

Duellist Aliance was released in August 15 2014 and this set changed everything, not only did Duelist Aliance introduced a new summoning mechanic in Pendulum summoning it also brought forth three tier one archetypes at release, a tier 2 archetype in yang zing, a fun casual deck in Ultra Athletes as well as several generic support cards including Felis lightsworn archer, Time-space trap hole, The monarch stormforth, Artifact Lancea and Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer

[@silversalamence10]

Duellist Aliance was released in August 15 2014 and this set changed everything, not only did Duelist Aliance introduce *more cards related to the* new summoning mechanic *introduced in Super Starter Space Time Showdown,* Pendulum summoning it also brought forth three tier one archetypes at release, a tier 2 archetype in yang zing, a fun casual deck in Ultra Athletes as well as several generic support cards including Felis lightsworn archer, Time-space trap hole, The monarch stormforth, Artifact Lancea and Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer

[@cascada5200]

0:45 Ad Factor POGCIMO130 1:55 Deck List / Breakdown 17:30 Duels

[@Herohater50]

Misplays. Cimo drew 1st turn games 1 and 2. Cimo also sent a card with mathematician and didn’t send emptiness after resolving.

[@cephery8482]

Now that is some proper cheating. Been a while.

[@frankwest5388]

Also attacking with Castel, after using Altair’s revival, which locks you out of attacking with non tellars

[@05stapj]

MBT attacked with non tellar monsters after using Altair

[@xRawrC00kiex]

ironic how they have to keep reminding themselves that they get to draw turn one until duelist alliance. but forget when at duelist alliance itself.

[@jetnight3849]

The Felis summon was a cheat as well, shaddoll fusion isn't a monster effect, but he still lost so w/e

[@cosminsssalex9362]

The Shaddoll Structure Deck introduced me to Yugioh, so I am SOOOOO excited for this episode. For one, I am Team Cimo!

[@VanitysRuler]

I adore this set, so much, you can see the essence of it coursing through the rest of yugiohs history with strong recursive decks like BA and future card design like Shaddoll fusion affecting every single good fusion spell since release

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

This is the set I’ve always considered to be the beginning of “modern” Yugioh.

[@exileddarkness2683]

I remember coming back into Yugioh around this point in time and loving it. It’s when I discovered that combos weren’t really my play style and that midrange and control were. Once we get into Yosenju, I hope that either MBT or Cimo plays it. I remember piloting Yosenju during Spyral Format and doing rather well cuz no one expected it

[@secretlyaslug2325]

If we don't see Yosenju in History you will absolutely see it in jank. Virtually guaranteed when Kaijus come out and Yosenju Kaijus was really playable and unique.

[@TheForeverRanger]

@@secretlyaslug2325 They are still playable since they can play a large variety of floodgates and can run Duality, Prosperity and Extrav. They are rogue at best but I still have fun with them.

[@adambartholomew6575]

Beginning of episode: "This is the set that made Yugioh what it is today" End of episode: "This isn't fun" Yup, that about sums it up

[@beppe1922]

Exactly...

[@stuckmeister7750]

notice that all the cards that made the game not fun are DM era floodgates. Has nothing to do with the cards released in the set.

[@adambartholomew6575]

@@stuckmeister7750 In this episode the floodgates that make an impact are Shadow-imprisoning Mirror(Released in 2007)and Vanity's Emptiness(Released in 2010). Neither of these are DM era floodgates. Soul Charge is also an incredibly unfun card, which was released in 2014. In terms of cards from the set itself: Shaddoll Construct is a card that provides far more value than any card should, doing something when it ETBs, battles, and Dies; Furthermore Shaddoll Fusion is lazy card design that circumvents the effort required for a regular fusion summon and carries an arbitrary restriction which is ultimately pointless when decks are built to put out bosses from the extra deck. Both of these are concepts that carry over into the modern game: Lazy card design for the sake of unnecessary power in the easiest way possible, and individual cards with enough value and affects to spread across 2 or more.

[@stuckmeister7750]

@@adambartholomew6575 Apologies for getting the era of the floodgates wrong, but that doesn't really change the fact that they weren't complaining that the new decks at the time were unfun. They were complaining about old floodgates ruining the game.

[@adambartholomew6575]

@@stuckmeister7750 Perhaps, however, the quotes were meant as more of a jab at the modern game and an attempt at comedy; don't take it too literally

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

The set that truly changed everything. Man, what I would've gave to have started playing this game and knew anything about it when I was starting 8th grade, would've been a great pasttime going into high school.

[@VooDooSaurus]

The cowboy for game was great! Especially with Cimo’s crazy top deck

[@szoooo0-q6p]

Cowboy for game has been and always will be one of the most CLASSIC ways to close out games/sets.

[@lordnevaman5925]

Ahh, Shaddoll, bringing me flashbacks of me and one of my buddies in Highschool. Got dumpstered by that deck too many times.

[@typical_doza]

I use to play yugioh before Duelist Alliance, but it was just for fun and I always went back and forth with the game. It was around 2014 when I got into competitive yugioh, exactly when this set dropped and I was immediately hooked with this game.

[@infiniteshay8660]

Very happy to see Cimo on Shaddoll. After my hiatus, Shaddoll during Duelist Alliance was the deck that got me back into play. Things were so fast that Shaddoll helped me get back up to speed since it did things i remembered from the good old days

[@frankwest5388]

Something funny about Duelist Alliance for me, is how every card in that set doesn’t miss timing, except the floating effects of the Yang Zing. Which frustrates me, since I might be the last Yang Zing player out there… I mainly just splash the Yang Zing Zefras into pendulum strats or Metalfoes. Also for the first time since Snowmaneater in late 5Ds era flip effects are relevant. Someone that will only ever happen again when Subterror Guru get released in Vrains. I think it’s interesting that DA was clearly made, with the goal of having every major summoning mechanic represented in a major way and I would argue for the first time, the monsters were all made with that summoning mechanic in mind. Shaddoll is fusion, Satellarknights are xyz, Yang Zing Synchro, and Odd-eyes-Performapal the new Pendulum mechanic. This theming clearly continues in the next couple of sets with the minor summoning mechanics, Ritual with Nekroz and tribute summons with Qli Also noteworthy is for me, that for the first time it feels like every card released had a clear and direct impact on the gamestate, which really made the pace of modern Yugioh

[@chibiraptor]

Modern yugioh players don't appreciate how old summoning mechanics used to just get abandoned. After 5ds started, miracle fusion was the only fusion card that ever saw high tier play. After zexal started, synchro monsters basically dropped out of existence.

[@HareHaruhi]

@@chibiraptor tbf fusions were rarely summoned properly, they saw play because of scientist, Stein and metamorphosis also because of future fusion, but the fusion was more like a bonus in that case

[@sekaihunter9378]

Finally, here it is! The set that introduced me back into the game! I still remember this day 7 years ago, playing Tellars-wait, it's already 7 years since this set's release???

[@wesmindo5729]

34:53 the moment... You probably used all the luck you had for that week haha. I enjoyed this particular video especially a lot since Shaddoll is my all time favorite deck. Good job you two. 👏

[@SeelieFhey]

I remember brewing a jank shaddoll list with a friend where you ran A/D changer as your light to send off fusion and trigger flips the turn they were set, as well as a couple copies of ghostrick go round so you could just keep flipping guys for disruption. It wasn't good but man it was funny when you got to do it.

[@Grayewick]

Ah yes, the set that gave birth to my all time favorite deck and prime abuser of Super Polymerization, Shaddolls. Game 1 Turn 1 was the freest Winda of all time btw

[@bchung100]

Protagonist powers and heart of the cards right there on Shaddoll Fusion!!!

[@cyanrose0712]

I saw shaddoll and immediately loved this video. They are one of my archetypes of yugioh, tied with only Gravekeeper for my favorite.

[@scythermantis]

Vanity's Emptiness sends itself to the graveyard whenever a card is sent from the field OR DECK to the graveyard via mathematician

[@DeltaShinyZeta]

Here are today’s illegal actions: 17:53 Cimo cannot draw for turn 1 because of the new Master Rules (in game 3, MBT did not draw for turn 1 which is evident they are playing with the new Master Rules) 21:51 Cimo cannot draw for turn 1 because of the new Master Rules (in game 3, MBT did not draw for turn 1 which is evident they are playing with the new Master Rules) 27:31 MBT cannot attack with Castel because of Altair’s attacking restriction when it activates its effect 29:15 Cimo must send Vanity’s to the GY because Shaddoll Hedgehog was sent from the Deck to the GY 36:02 Cimo cannot summon Felis because it must be sent to the GY by a monster effect in order to trigger it (Shaddoll Fusion doesn’t trigger it)

[@danielknapp159]

Woah, what was that edit between game 2 and 3? It skipped the end. Did not even hear anyone surrender.

[@aVo_001]

I was at GenCon 2014 and was able to open some of the first packs of Duelist Alliance anyone had ever touched. What a day that was. I immediately began building Satellarknights and was able to sell off key Yang Zing cards for ridiculously high prices due to all the hype.

[@marcosolivarria9770]

Duelist Alliance is when I got competitive because there was so many cool things you could do. Shaddolls are my favorite deck of all time and there's a reason why. Sad to see once again so many illegal plays mess up the games but hey, that's History of Yugioh for you.

[@glrbrasil]

The next set with the upgrades to BA, Dolls and Satellar, also introducing Qlis made for a very interesting format, then there was the Hero Structure, and things were great up to Nekroz

[@cherrycreamsoda4253]

Pendulum era is where I got my start. Time to sit back, relax, and enjoy formats of yesteryear.

[@pandaman1331]

Not my start generally but my start in competitive yu-gi-oh. Also my point of return after dropping the game with the beginning of the synchro era. I was too much of a yugiboomer to accept the new mechanics.

[@Liliana_the_ghost_cat]

I started at the tail end of the pendulum era. The announcement of Master Duel 4 and the link mechanic is still fresh in my mind. Toss format was also fresh in my mind too. I was a noob though so I thought anime decks were genuinely good so I didn't have that great of a knowledge of that era as I thought (although to be fair that was around the time where Blue-Eyes won a WCS and then a couple years Thunder Dragon was meta so I definetely came in a time where it was a very easy mistake to make)

[@diarmuidodonovan4785]

I really liked these games! It was actually super interesting to see each deck having to try to play around the floodgates and each having their best power plays nerfed by the opponent's trap cards

[@OsirusHandle]

Alex yelling "Yolo" really caught me off guard

[@cardinal01]

"This set changed everything" yeah our real Cimo has returned.

[@pandaman1331]

I mean, has he ever been wrong? Yu-Gi-Oh is by natue an ever changing game. And some sets just introduce enormous changes. Like the ban of first turn draws.

[@ketchwatempo4307]

Seems like no one is mentioning the fact that you’re no longer supposed to draw on turn 1 starting at duelist alliance format

[@pandaman1331]

Oh right, completely forgot about that.

[@redblood421]

I was looking for the no 1st turn draw commet

[@chibiraptor]

18:00 winda is the best floodgate monster in the game at this point, fusion using beast and hedgehog for winda, draw 1, search falco, set falco and SSG, is 1000% the play.

[@coreygolphenee9633]

And people complain about vanity's at least you can just MST vanity's.

[@DaemonRayge]

Oh man. Can't believe we are finally getting to the point in the series where the trip down memory lane is coming to an end for me. I actually left the game right around this point. And came back for Master Duel (Unless you count Duel Links). This is gonna be a learning experience for me.

[@ZeroX7649]

Cimo: Protagonist powers, activate! *Still loses*

[@nickvanwalderveen425]

Man, I remember playing Nationals once, and actually have someone play Giant Hand against me (when it still was the prize card), and I was honestly just stunned for a moment

[@Yaboi-h]

cimoooooooo activating vanity while on the fusion deck vs the trap spam deck while having nothing he can summon is the funniest shit

[@Knight_Shadow777]

God, I love this format. One of my favorites and some of the most fun I had playing Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@tadejzinreih5071]

Damn, not playing shaddoll fusion game 1 and setting on a winda + vanity against a trap deck. Or not activating the trap to send squamata and dragon to have 3 darks with DAD in hand :O but overall great decklists and game 2 was played better by Simon, when he used break skill to destroy 101. Great job so far with the series, really looking forward to Nekroz :) also I hope Cimo will opt to play the easiest deck to pilot, as we see more his mistakes than his opponent's :) good job cimooo overall!

[@cybzer0560]

And he says his hand was bad game 1

[@michaelgrey1503]

I remember this was the first format I really started playing competitively. It's a very fun format, though it's much harder to play in it if you're not playing one of the top decks. That said, I did play Evilswarm during this time and it was a house of a deck against Shaddoll and could usually provide enough backrow-based interruption against Tellers if I went first.

[@nightwish7074]

This was the set that I came back to when I first rejoined Yugioh! I was 19 at the time, and I brought my Pyro Burn deck (which was literally just three Blaze of Destruction structure decks) to a local tournament. I remember getting absolutely cremated by Yang Zings and Lightsworns. The guy playing Yang Zings still comes to the same locals to this day, except he's on Tear Sprights and I'm on going 2nd Swordsoul. Man this set brings back memories. Something worth noting that may be touched on later in the series, some Satellar players began running Pinpoint Guard over Call of the Haunted, trading the ability to recycle the Trap with a future Triverr for the guarantee that the monster revived off of its effect survives for a turn, as well as being summoned in Defense position to prevent battle damage - something that came up surprisingly frequently when using Call of the Haunted.

[@nightwish7074]

Another thing to note: I'm really hoping we end up seeing Superheavy Samurai in History of Jank soon. To this day, one of my all-time favorite archetypes, despite how god awful it was. Being able to steal an opponent's Soul Charge or Raigeki off of Susanowo was hilarious.

[@thunderworm24]

The real Duelist Alliance was the cards we didn't read along the way. Regardless Satellar was always a painful experience, whether you're on the recieving end of the floodgates or backrow or you're bricking on said backrow with no engine cards. Looking forward to the match with Burning Abyss!

[@Lunanemm]

This is riiiight when I started playing Yugioh again, and good lord seeing these decks of a nostalgia bomb... 8 years? It's been 8 years?! Lord...

[@Ronald_Ruck]

Wow, early upload. For a second I thought I missed the whole day.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

The moment at 35:00, if it doesn't end up on the MBT clips channel we will riot

[@jaxonfenn6976]

FANTASTIC commentary. Great job Joseph.

[@Supahnindoh]

So excited to finally be here in YGOs history. This is around the time i first started playing the game

[@gustavrider5561]

Ultra Athlete Represent, love that archetype so much.

[@PlantmandotEXE]

Unironically played full stun Sat Knights right as Master Duel dropped and I had a ton of fun just playing Trivver spam.

[@shockz1715]

B4 the reprint, there were moments in time when Castel was worth $30 and up.

[@mandoman69]

Finally here.... This was my introduction to this game

[@in-textbaptist4947]

Got into competitive YGO as a freshman in high school literally the day this set came out (I knew nothing about it or modern YGO) I searched on KZbin "yugioh best deck" or something like that, and a BA profile came up, and the rest is history.

[@vergilrules1616]

I vividly remember this set. It really is one of the best sets of all time. I actually still have my shaddoll deck to this day. But even more I remember this set because after it released on a Friday, that Saturday was my first ever regional that I played in. I played fire fist after finally finishing it, thinking it would be one of my best decks because it was just previously 3.5 axis format. I entered the tournament the day after the set dropped and got wrecked by every single archetype that this set released. I remember activate warning on a flip shaddoll Only to learn that it got an effect. Anyway. I remember losing to skill drain yang zing summoning a goyo guardian that was unaffected by skill drain that just wrecked my day. I remember teller and ba both being underrated at this regionals. Actually at the start of the day deneb was less than $20 and by the end of the day it had skyrocketed to over $45 per copy. Dante was actually a very similar situation. I believe the initial was something like $10 to $15 and it's skyrocketed up and beyond. I finished 194th out of over 500 I believe at my first regional and was proud of that! I know in a few further sets down the road, my buddy pulled a Dante and traded it straight up for a first edition. Ghost stardust when Dante peeked at like $90 ( I believe this was after the release of Beatrice, but still). I remember abyss dweller jumping in price from being worth almost nothing to being a $25 super rare because of shaddoll and ba. I actually got my first copy by trading a Dante that I pulled for that and a Draco sack. When Dante's were $50. I went on the pick up and build but shaddoll and tellars and then actually combine them into. a tellardoll deck that was just a blast! I actually still have the the profile on my account if anyone would be interested, you go check it out. It was a super fun deck(please ignore any cringe moments. I was new to meta and in college so it's a cheap laptop recording and I'm ignorant) But thank you guys for doing this. It's such a trip down memory lane and is just an awesome feeling.

[@kendrajade6688]

Thanks for the birthday gift, Cimooooo and MBT!

[@setokaiba2711]

game summary- cimo throws game 1, allows mbt to cheat w altair, then sends with math and keeps an emptyness...then using felis eff to summon off shaddoll fusion...

[@xXbaker115Xx]

I've been playing yugioh for 8 years thats crazy. While at first I only played at locals after I moved shortly after starting I only played online but it has been such a huge part of my life its crazy to think a children's card game can mean so much to me

[@shuttertv9905]

LETS GOOOOOO! one of my all time favorite formats!!

[@DoomBringerTGC]

Where to even start, attacking with non-tellarknights after using Altair? Drawing for 1st turn? Vanity's staying on the field after sending off Mathematician? Felis triggering off Shaddoll Fusion? I get that this is for entertainment and it's just duels between 2 friends but can we at least have SOME reading?

[@bighonkies]

I ran a Bujin/shaddoll deck during this format. Lots of times I'd play Bujins during game one, then drop shaddoll fusion on them game 2 after they make their board.

[@SeraSmiles]

Hype for the best set in all of Yugioh. I cannot wait for history of jank to hit this set, the format was *filled* with it

[@Yugiohdeckmaster41]

2 things, 1 baby dragon (wyvern and collapse) can combo and banish eclipse 2 felis cant be summoned like wulf, only when sent by monster effect, hence why its at 1 along side 3 mathematician cause that the combo for the level 7 synchro spellcaster

[@AirRunnersViper]

Oh boy one of the best and most iconic periods ever in Yugioh!

[@AjeetSingh-xq4yb]

34:21 from there on is what you're looking for.

[@eliascsjunior]

You know what this set definitely changed as well? RULINGS

[@jacka7xhollow]

This is so nostalgic for me, the set that i entered into yugioh during and the awesome Shaddoll archtype which was my first meta deck. Immediately in game one as soon as i saw Cimo's hand he should have just raw fusioned for Winda and plused off beast and Hedge then let Winda sit on the field holding down Josephs specials to 1. Not setting that up allows tellars to just Deneb set 4 pass and you're so behind on advantage at that point, plus El shaddoll fusion wasn't released yet so the hedge search was pretty pointless and those backrow just hammered in the game. Winda is kinda an auto win against a lot of decks if you can protect it and gain your own advantage slowly since he had the shadow games and could have had access to any doll after the hedge search if he went raw Winda first turn, just my experience i played dolls vs tellars so much at YCS Chicago.

[@Charmander_R27]

Satellarknight names just make me want to rewatch Bakemonogatari again.

[@lucqq3792]

I never finished it, I forgot her name but that weird girl with the black hair in the later seasons (owaraminogatari?) put me off

[@hannibal9852]

So early!!! Thank you for the good morning vibes lol

[@ObeliskTGS]

Tellarknight Dennis, Assassins Creed, Ukulele, Vegas and Del Taco. Those were nicknames people had for the monsters and I cannot hear them otherwise.

[@donaldlivingston75]

I feel like MBT should have resigned upon Cimooo's legendary topdeck. That HAS to be in the highlight reel. Holy shit. It's a damn shame that Shadow Imprison pretty much blanked it

[@zeusalternative1270]

Today in illegal plays: 27:30 MBT activated Altair so only Tellarknights can attack, so Castel attack was illegal 29:08 Mathematician mill shuts down Emptiness which means that MBTs call of the haunted are live, he could had survived. 36:02 Felis only revives herself if milled by a monster effect, not a spell like Shadoll fusion And as a missplay in 33:06 Winda effect activates if send to GY in general so it works when detached as material when 101 dies so Cimo could get back his fusion.

[@bki9840]

Shadow imprisoning mirror would negate the Winda, wouldn't it?

[@PrototypePlatform]

34:47 easily the funniest clip yet

[@XJ-0641]

Oh god, I remember this time in yugioh far too well. Tellarknight, Vanities, the Rank 4 Suite thats been good before and will continue to be good later

[@jtbakon70]

This set is the last time I really bought a lot of sealed product of Yugioh. I bought four boxes, wanting to play Shaddolls. I thought the archetype seemed really cool, and I liked Winda being able to shut down excessive special summoning. HOWEVER, out of four whole boxes I pulled exactly one Shaddoll Fusion. Wasn't happy about that. So instead I pivoted and played Burning Abyss after pulling three copies of Dante. The resource loop of that deck with three cir, graff, and dante made it easy to grind out games until finding a win condition.

[@Ruby_Mullz]

This is my favourite era of YGO and I’m so glad you’ve finally reached it! I can’t believe Shaddoll isn’t playing 3 soul charge but Tellarknight is playing 2. Players seem to still have a sense of morality before we all went oonga boonga FTK

[@coreygolphenee9633]

This right when players realized that every deck can be anti meta lockdown and quasar at the same time lol

[@melcasucre2971]

In every prog series, i'm just waiting for that exact set to start watching

[@johndoe9343]

The duality of man: Dragon Horn Hunter the living tragedy and Pepe Turn Toad

[@beppe1922]

Ah, a milestone in my memories of this game, the set that made me seriously consider giving up Yugioh for good. A bit of a forerunner to the last straw that came later, the dreaded MR4...

[@sevennights6377]

I really love this format and these duels were great!

[@MeanderingSlacker]

You know what's concerning. Cimo is still playing Bls. That means that gage will still be tunneling into chaos by this point. Oh no.

[@divineoblivion1]

The next Yugioh series protagonist needs to be Cimo. If he doesn't have the Heart of the Cards on his side, no other human being does

[@MogFlintlock]

Best part of the top deck: MBT clearly already knowing it's coming.

[@blightX9]

Cant wait to see progression get to this set so we can see gages chaos list with some shaddolls in it

[@ShikanRaider]

I was waiting for MBT to overlay all 5 Tellarknight monsters for Rhongo, until I realized that card isn't out at that point.

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

34:48 - Aaaaaaannnnnnd that's going in the 2022 highlight reel.

[@kylemiskovic6271]

Just thought I'd point out as a Lightsworn player that you couldn't have activated Felis' effect off of Shaddoll Fusion; she can only be summoned if milled by a monster effect.

[@ghgfjfgkghdfh]

Yeah i agree with MBT's rant after the match, because it really showcased the power of floodgates and how degenerate they can be when the best decks of the meta are all entirely archetype based and can be shutdown by targeted floodgates, and the how swingy games can be with Soul Charge being in the game and the availability of generic rank 4 removal.

[@Dunker401]

I think they are underselling triverr. Like satellar without triverr is just a fair control deck. With triverr it’s a completely different beast. It literally made the deck one of the most oppressive control strategies of the format, and it’s a shame we are probably not gonna see the deck at full power.

[@darkcreeper4316]

17:50 no idea why Cimo didn't make winda here searching falco and drawing 1 with beast having the perfect set-up for next turn... Especially against a deck like satellarknight that plays 20 or so backrows

[@SirenLuna107]

I loved playing shaddol heros Dark Law+Construct turn one plus backrow was so oppressive

[@pokemasterskye4231]

History of Yu-Gi-Oh! episode wins Cimoooooooo: 52 MBT: 48

[@zig555]

I know i'm in the minority but I hope we get to see Jeff Jones top 8 Yang Zings.

[@pandaman1331]

I second this.