Gone In 60 Seconds : The Tier 1 Yugioh Deck That Was Only Legal For 10 Days (Dark Matter Rulers)

[@dabarker.y7465]

I played a regional where this deck was legal, the entire top 8 was hieratic dragon ruler. Decks was bonkers fr

[@michaelnelson1127]

If something like THAT happened, then frankly, the deck couldn’t have been disassembled sooner!

[@whateverdot]

I thought the deck was meh when it got released.

[@manoperez9221]

@@michaelnelson1127 88i8

[@omega5040]

@@michaelnelson1127 the deck was extremely consistent, really good at breaking boards, didn't care about floodgates and could easily otk. I argue that it still be good in todays format, it's pretty similar to Rocket link. Put those two together and it has even more power

[@ich3730]

@@whateverdot doesnt matter what you think tho stats dont lie xD

[@rhysjonsmusic]

Whoever thought sending 3 dragons from deck to gy AS A COST was a good idea in a format where foolish burial is limited should be fired

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

Komoney doesn't seem to understand the balance in their game.

[@Ricky-101]

I know, remember when Firewall Dragon wasn't banned but everything else was because of it.

[@lloydbagby8355]

@@Ricky-101 much like fucking needlefibare now sereuy that needs to be band then all of the tunners can comeback

[@Ricky-101]

@@lloydbagby8355 Or having Upstart Goblin at one. Why can't we have it at three😭, is that to much to ask for.

[@lloydbagby8355]

@@Ricky-101 no tgc are afraid of exdioa so they ban game because it was degenerate and upstart because staple but even then 3 upstart would not break the game more than it is now

[@danieljimenez4300]

But then Konami let firewall dragon ruin over a year of competitive play refusing to admit he was the problem

[@tinyboivideos5083]

Yeah man can't be banning a main character card 😂 Komoney business strategy goes like: Blindfolded guy throws dart at dartboard with several cards and or decks, hits a few, takes blindfold off, welcome new banlist 😂😂😂

[@Levixne]

Needlefiber pretending not to be worried

[@tinyboivideos5083]

@@Levixne oh they have like 5 copies of halqi up on the dart board for a meme joke even 😂

[@RuggedRing]

@@Levixne why ban needlefiber when you can ban all the tuners instead

[@johndotcue]

Firewall dragon was not the problem card 🙂

[@skynyrdjesus]

Having not played Yu-Gi-Oh since about 2004, I watch these videos just for the fascinating word soup lmfao

[@ashharkausar413]

Yugioh was wild in 2014-2015, it's still pretty crazy but link summoning toned down the crazy summoning abit.

[@pepito69]

Same, the thing that is bringing me back though it's duel links

[@jamestomlin5525]

Same, although it's been since '08 for me Lol so much has changed

[@peace_ful_eyes]

I stopped around late 2017. Just felt like the game wasn’t the same at that point.

[@THEFLAWEDCASUAL]

same

[@CassiusKent]

I remember waking up to this banned list and thinking: "Scorched Earth then?"

[@samgafford2371]

Kekw

[@ClubbingSealCub]

imagine finding you here

[@strugglingvgcplayer9120]

this one is gonna hurt to watch, i love Galaxy Eyes Dark Matter Dragon it’s so cool

[@hyperspeedgameplay8652]

Yeah but creepy

[@vincenzo_barra]

Ah, a fellow vgc player

[@samgafford2371]

Same

[@BlueSkyYGO]

I used it up to got banned in my Blue-eyes/Felgrand Deck

[@flamingphoenixleo223]

Just play for fun/casually and kinda just ignore banlist

[@dragonknight46208]

I remember being confused about Dark Matter Dragon being banned, because at the time I still thought Blue-Eyes was the best meta deck and didn't think it was that broken.

[@shen.daniel]

"A deck that could probably win a YCS but never had the chance" Did someone just say rock boi?

[@ssengageisop3952]

;p;

[@Sebastian-tm6hk]

They really said "NO" to Adamancipators, both Konami and the rona.

[@matteo964]

This was the opportuny for dragon ruler to become tier 0 for once. But banlist said no

[@The2bGaming]

Dragon Rulers were absolutely a tier zero deck once Judgement was banned

[@Jrpg_guy]

Their are an tier zero dexk power wise..well to their time at least.

[@sodaftpm185]

@@Jrpg_guy When Spellbook of Judgement got banned, yes they where tier 0.

[@arsenicwafers7536]

They were the world champion deck of 2013. They beat prophecy that was considered Tier 0... dragon rulers were considered tier 0

[@acetraker1988]

Dragon Rulers where never Tier 0, as being tier 0 requires over 65% of the placements, what they where no where near that as the format had another top deck.

[@FGj-xj7rd]

Adamants took some lessons here lol. Not even playable for an event.

[@Zurenza]

Adamants? lol

[@FGj-xj7rd]

@@Zurenza I don't even know their full name lol.

[@baconsir1159]

To be fair, they _were_ at full power for more than a few months. They were just months that everything was shut down because of COVID

[@rxquestgordo]

Adamancipator was so powerful that konami crippled it at a point where there is nothing but non official online tournaments that they make no money off of. Thats remarkable

[@FGj-xj7rd]

@@rxquestgordo Lmao.

[@Farfa]

Amazing as always! Great video.

[@kevster2577]

Coming from schools that never gave Yugioh a chance, I love hearing all these stories of the shenanigans I've missed over the years. One day I'll find me some Yugioh friends and finally get to play again!

[@dbomba]

You can start by playing online and making friends there. Maybe you can check the local shops that host tournaments near you. It's all fun

[@davidkats7110]

I had something similar. KZbin and dn was where I made my friends at. Summercamps when I was younger/ how I got introduced.

[@Talguy21]

@@dbomba Local tournaments might not be possible for a while yet, but I second the sentiment of what you're saying.

[@alonsoarana5307]

Galaxy Eyes looking like Homelander 👌

[@TheoJay615]

Hey cap, I would love to see a history video on that one ycs a few years back that was so big it ended up being split into two!

[@Base_Bass_Forte]

Did he ever make it.? (The video)

[@xatuyou8045]

Full power lunalight was only legal for 11 days.

[@SicilianAmericanDreams]

Tell me more

[@-rlmn]

@@SicilianAmericanDreams more

[@timothymurphy1090]

@@SicilianAmericanDreams duel overload with wise strix, and the infinite negate combo

[@parodinzess2781]

@@-rlmn more1!1!!12!

[@janithernest3929]

Thanks cap this is exactly the video I wanted Ik dark matter didn’t have it chance to shine during his release but at least he shined during guardragon format. Anyways great video and me asking for a dragon ruler video is over

[@whambamduel]

As a guy who played number 95 for fun in his Blue-Eyes deck before it was banned, this gives me a sad nostalgia. I'd send dragon spirit of white, arkbrave dragon, and a white stone of legend. On the standby phase, the arkbrave would give me the dragon spirit, which would banish back row, then any time the dragon spirit was jeopardized while the opponent controlled a monster, I'd tag it out.

[@RetailFox]

Min-Maxing decks is why we can't have nice things.

[@janithernest3929]

HOLY CRAP!! Is feel like this is the dragon ruler video I’ve been waiting for? Thanks, Cap I actually didn’t think you’d make this I saw the stream and I thought u were getting annoyed by my whole “day waiting for dragon ruler” but Damn!!

[@nrpbrown]

Dude, i've barely played Yugioh past 5Ds Era but I've kept half an eye on the game and that's still enough for me to love and appreciate your videos. Keep it up!

[@gracefulcharity8412]

I was so hyped for this deck. Dark matter made everything super powerful. Very short but a loved format for me.

[@nightsider2705]

This just reminds me of Blockdragon. Except it was a Pandemic that stalled before the Banlist killed the Rocky Deck.

[@vparsa87]

This was yugioh's own version of set rotation. Dragon rulers had to go so the other decks could function.

[@tomasmedina7993]

Arc V is simultaneously my favorite and least favorite era on the tcg. On one hand, we had some great products, many viable decks, and the return of forgotten mechanics like fusion and synchro. On the other hand, we had obscure power creep, multiple tier 0 decks, and the maximum crisis distribution fiasco.

[@lingybalinka1339]

I'm stupid, what happened with Maximum Crisis?

[@tomasmedina7993]

@@lingybalinka1339 You're not stupid haha. It's kind of been forgotten. Konami tried to be slick and short-printed the secrets in Maximum Crisis like crazy. People reported entire cases with no secret rares. Konami claimed that the people opening boxes were just unlucky, but once it became apparent that the missing secrets weren't a coincidence, Konami claimed that it was a "mistake" and replaced the defective cases.

[@lingybalinka1339]

@@tomasmedina7993 Why am I not surprised, thanks

[@Levixne]

Everyone forgets this happened We were dealing with this deck for months online

[@alexandrubragari1537]

Yeah xd i remember it too well on DN

[@MuTen_09]

More than a year

[@bobisjustlost]

i remember a previous video of urs saying u didnt like what became of the channel and decided on a new direction. so far i am very pleased with the new direction youre taking the channel. videos like this are miles better than generic replays.

[@andresl2596]

Sometimes we don't have a clever comment or joke to make about the video, especially when I wasn't playing during this period of the game. But I will always say how happy it makes me to see your channel flourishing in this new direction and I hope you are seeing the improvement in your audience's reception. As always, shout-outs from Brazil!

[@DivineLight661]

New drinking game, take a shot of rum everytime he says "dragon".

[@kennymcmillian5523]

This makes me sad that 95 is banned. I want it back so much but I know it won't happen.

[@Kuribohdudalala]

The last thing dragons need is more support

[@randomprofile5853]

Errata might fix it, maybe.

[@johnnycapote9817]

You could always play the deck casually. Idgaf if someone gets mad and scoops. If its not a tournament then its fair game

[@arielbrathwaite7747]

@@johnnycapote9817 no

[@eririspencersawamura5291]

No If it came back now Dragon Link would literally become an FTK deck

[@crystalbreaker947]

I lived the game during this... this was 2014-2015... I remember vividly... Are we this old?

[@crusaderoffelgrand3885]

I still miss dark matter in Felgrand, good times

[@jrhocke]

I think that the production quality on your videos have gone up a notch recently. Not to say that your videos were low quality before, just that this one in particular is very good. The music volume was perfect in the background. Not too loud but I could hear it clearly. Very well made video top to bottom.

[@undzad]

what is this instrumental

[@thischannelisnotmine]

Some people might not agree with me, but the same thing happened to World Chalice when they lost Ib, with agarpain it was nuts.

[@Knightmare-Requiem]

Id truthfully love to see these old decks against the new meta.

[@sodaftpm185]

They wouldn't be able to compete at all. Watch Lithium2300's videos on that same exact topic.

[@beatleplayer1011]

Damn I started playing again right after this banlist I had no clue what could have been

[@HmongHero90]

At least this deck had a limited time to play. That Geshiki hand loop was shut down before it even got legalized lol

[@sodaftpm185]

Like Full Power Flame Noble Knight Igknight here in the TCG recently.

[@animeknight99]

I remember Number 95. Dragon Rulers got banned before it came out in the TCG

[@lordofthered1257]

This card could come back.

[@W0r1dzSHIVfT]

hopefully, maybe nerf the banish effect doe

[@rolodwayne5841]

@@W0r1dzSHIVfT dont errata the card just leave it alone. I hate erratas they butchered the cards legacy and make them worthless just look at what they did to ced and dmoc amongs others.

[@W0r1dzSHIVfT]

@@rolodwayne5841 I must say cards like Sangan and Ced too a massive hit...what it dmoc btw?

[@NickWuebker]

@@W0r1dzSHIVfT Dark Magician of Chaos

[@maximogladiator4973]

Sinister serpent and ring of destruction too were destroyed by the Erratum :/

[@JaHaskins12]

Hieratic DMD. Man, that week several people quit yugioh at my locals because of playing against it. I miss this deck. :(

[@desshinta9428]

I ran a blue-eyes deck at that time that took FULL advantage of this, lasting until dark matter got banned. It was glorious, but since number 97 came out there's been other options.

[@King-gv4lg]

i mean getting a 33k beatstick out so easily with numeron combo aint that bad. Just gotta time it right so it dont get negated

[@supercanadian0640]

This thumbnail is almost as scary as Ghopper's

[@janithernest3929]

U know it's kinda funny how we have scary monster like dark matter dragon and then we have monsters like hungry burger

[@qualityqueen1553]

Dark matter dragon looks like a zombie black winged dragon.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Dark matter is Astrals dark side

[@samuelkadwell8212]

I love how you play Lakey Inspired in the video

[@lucapangrazi9217]

I miss dark matter, it made my felgrand deck really powerfull, and in my current rank 8 spam deck it would be just a game changer

[@michaelflanagan7718]

I’m obsessed with videos like this, anything about old format and decks are the best

[@BrianBlairNerdChannel]

I hate the premiere thing on KZbin like it’s just a taunt and it doesn’t make me want to watch the video.

[@JesseNightingale]

Agreed I would tolerate it like streams if you could just put it in the watch later list on the notifaction tab but no they don't even let us do that..

[@JuCarlin]

Played this on The first Legacy of the Duelist game when it was legal there OTKs for days

[@mavenYGO]

Duelist Alliance and HAT are 2 of my favourite formats. I miss the xyz-just before pepe era's

[@adri8382]

That moment is when i started to play Yugioh.. i wanted to create a good deck in Dueling network so i google "best yugioh deck" and i copied this Darkmatter dragon ruler deck. I got rekted so hard because i didn't know what to do and a few dudes message me "hahahah I BEAT DRAGON RULERS WITH ROGUE", "Imagine losing using dragon ruler lmao". Good memories

[@borreloaddragonxx7631]

Played against this deck where red-eyes sword was combined into the deck to beef up number 95, but I was playing cyber dragon ftk. Literally overpowered the dark matter dragon with cyber end with power bond and limiter removal. I got asked to leave though because I was suspected of cheating for drawing into a power bond at the time, but I ended up getting the dragon ruler player banned for two weeks from the shop for being a poor sport.

[@rogerthemanful]

1. Nice story and karma 2. Red eyes sword??? 3. What was dark matter deck like facing against it?

[@strikezero114]

I can live with an elpy ban if it meant 95 could come back even at just 1. With galactic spiral dragon now existing, i could use the hieratic build to do old fashioned chaos dragon builds

[@CTChief117]

Man that game changed. I rememberd wher it was just putting down cards. Now you go up down left right backflip and sacrifice a cow.

[@imbazed22]

Ye and cards like Moebius, Frostmonarch were sick af

[@thetitsarefree]

As someone who put the game down in Dragon Ruler vs Spellbooks format it’s good to see the reign truly come to an end. Power creep is necessary in Yu-Gi-Oh but some archetypes should’ve never been made

[@Raan-Shi]

And now, whenever someone talks about Galaxy Monster, they all go "Oh it's broken" when it's only Dark Matter and it's not playable with Galaxy (since they only have one main deck dragon) :')

[@milesstorzillo7650]

4, you forgot Afterglow, Paladin, and Cloud.

[@duhneelo]

Lightsworn ruler was mine and I miss my guy Eclipse wyvern

[@AkatPlays]

I remember stomping my friends with lightsworn rulers, such a fun deck

[@KonoDioDaddy]

This is around the time I came in. Built e heros (was young at time) then transitioned to Masked heros and Infernoids and did pretty well with my budget decks. I miss this format.

[@bmcoyne88]

I think Dark Matter Dragon Ruler should be considered an option for Cross Banlist format.

[@emotionalsupport]

I still remember I bought 20 copies of the Hieratic secret rare continuous trap card for a dollar each and when the hype for the engine went up each copy sold for $50 a pop. I played Hieratics since they were released and I knew something silly like that card would never change the deck that made it worth $50. I still sold them to all the scrubs who thought it would help though. Meanwhile kept a playset for myself just for collection purposes ggez

[@literallygrass1328]

Sigma male

[@mr.person1219]

For the longest time, I mained Hieratic Rulers. Man, it was my all time favorite deck, how I missed them.

[@ΠαναγιώτηςΜ-ψ2ρ]

So many of my memories were awaken from this video.Keep up the good work man.That's the kind of videos we want from CapG.

[@elin111]

The deck at least had 10 days, Rocks had zero days.

[@ennedp6925]

0:23 i think it was the beginning of crazy powercreep and expensive decks, Guess i havent played in a while

[@frankieyuen9363]

I remember those 10 days I banished all 9 monsters in a hero deck good times

[@sodaftpm185]

LOL!!!!!!!

[@EizaYgo]

95 was banned for a similar reason, broken dragons abuse It was an awesome card I miss that card and eclipse wyvern a lot

[@rubberduckie5518]

CapG you make this sound like a conspiracy documentary and I love it!

[@dylanfinley1335]

I keep telling these youngins about this deck. DRuler was scary but this was the scariest deck that saw I think 2 tourneys in its time and all top tables saw this deck. Tier 0 at its finest.

[@deus9906]

I remember playing this for the time it was legal, damn that was fun

[@warbeast787]

Same here, i loved the deck

[@drewmantheoriginal3106]

Number 95 is my favorite XYZ monster and my favorite number monster. I hope it comes off the list again at some point I would love to finally play it again.

[@y2jaymes433]

Looking forward to the upcoming Duel Terminals archetypes video you mentioned! Please give Shaddolls some love

[@POTATOEMPN]

I still play with a "Remove From Play" deck with stuff like D.D. Warrior and Macro Cosmos....I have enough cards to basically counter anything somebody will do, and effects that can delete virtually any monster and counter summons of all kinds, and all with the minimum card limit. Very rarely lose when I get to duel people who like to to a "Free Play" where there are no illegal cards.

[@ajemison3]

aye i kinda guessed it. great video once again that duelist advent era was probably one of the best circuit years in the time i remember playing.

[@TheMonsterClubCorporation]

The manga looks so on point! We love to welcome you to the Monster Club and send you some products to unbox and unpack an start a new card collection!

[@Coliteral]

2012 format post inzektor/windup/rescue rabbit deck nerfs was the best format ever hell diverse during that year period you had dark worlds too glad beasts show up and do work.

[@syn9669]

I remember abusing this engine in galaxies, it was enjoyable.

[@HeartYgo]

looking at this with hindsight makes me go.... ''well I dont see the problem here it wasnt even that strong'' forgetting this was in mr 3

[@k0ngbuster]

I don't understand how or why folks out there consider Deck Profile videos to be boring. I find these to be very interesting, and preserving the history of this game.

[@cuauhtemocgonzales2530]

I didn't know the Dragon Ruler format that used Dark Matter. In 2016 I thought it was kinda busted if there was a way to turbo it out. Well up until Links really did that and busted the card.

[@samuelvtg7905]

Before they banned Dark Matter Dragon I woulf always use him with Divine Dragon Lord Felgrand. I was a little sad about the ban because I lost a great way to dump Felgrand and Arkbrave into my GY but the ban was gona happen eventualy because of how busted Dark Matter dragon was in other decks.

[@woahtv6377]

i used this deck only in the yugioh game for xbox and it went crazy first turn kill everytime no if ands or buts

[@dakotastein9499]

i wonder what it would be like if for just one world championship ,they set the rules to traditional format (no limited/ban list)

[@luismacharigue2056]

Legend has it that mkhol40 still has that shirt on till this day

[@seanakima50515e]

I ran nekroz during this format And let me tell you... Best format of my life

[@xerahisbetter8806]

The galaxy sub class could’ve been something. Favorite subclass ever.

[@sodaftpm185]

What do you mean could've been something?

[@Okiramasu]

2020 had the best format, TONS OF GOOD DECKS THAT WHERE GOOD AND HAD GOOD ART

[@aliasmask8365]

I got this card not knowing a ban list was coming up and never got a chance to play it since I was at a family event.

[@lefterisstavraggelis5191]

I live for the day when these guys come back. I'll pull them out of their binder and just make the deck again!! I'm hoping at least.

[@zachpetersen9425]

I think the main reason why they were banned was they did not want to deal with the silliness of this deck and Nationals

[@lalalazy9780]

I stopped playing right around here. I played Lightsworn Dragon Rulers, Noble Knights, Tellar Knights XYZ's, and Fire/Ice Hands Traptrix Monarchs. When Lavalval Chain and the Big Rulers got banned, right when Shaddolls got shitted on also nerfing my friend's decks I was done. They purposely killed the best meta they ever had because "waahh the players aren't playing what we want them to play, shovel your money to us for Nekroz cards". I flipped to MTG right then and there and never looked back. Granted WoC is doing some suspect things also. 👀🧐

[@endeavor1299]

And then there's me, a Dragon Ruler mainer who's still regretting not having had the chance to play it for how hard it was to find that fuc*ing Dark Matter...

[@kuyagoldlink7563]

Yup, thanks for the memories. I played heiratic rulers 1 day before it was banned and not even at a real life event. I feel cheated as well man.

[@alist3r226]

My main for fun deck would be Phantom Knighys, but Galaxy-deck is OP

[@astrograph7875]

As someone who started playing yugioh during zoo format, *looks at endboard and main deck* "wtf, This was meta at one point?"

[@user-a6k9i6n9o6M]

Other player: I summon a monster in atk position Me: you will be gone in 60 sec XD

[@franciscolozada1059]

I still hold on to these cards till this day, although i don't get my hopes up for it to come back but if it does im ready for them.

[@ianthefifth7790]

Konami broke their game less than 3 years after making it. And to this day, they're still figuring out how to fix it as they keep making it more complicated and harder to fix.

[@Gay_Priest]

The simple fix would be format rotations like every other successful card game so that old cards can't have unintended interactions and make broken combos

[@axmendez1999]

The funny thing is I was buying everything for this deck at the time but as soon as I got everything shit already got put on the banlist so I just played lightsworns and eventually synchrons until I quit yu-gi-oh my senior year of high school in late 2017

[@Koburakage]

Cap mentioned ARG articles and it got me thinking. Does anybody know why the Alter Reality Games articles stopped coming out for Yu-gi-oh?

[@MegaCapitalG]

I’ll do a story on Arg soon

[@Koburakage]

@@MegaCapitalG just came across this video again and was wondering if the ARG video was still in the books or if it had been shelved. Been out of the game for a few years now, but still come across your content from time to time.

[@Antartica1342]

Robinhood is the single worst investing app. Dont let this mans extremely convincing arguments and amazing sponsorship doing skills fool you.

[@blackb965]

So what’s the best?

[@Antartica1342]

@@blackb965 TD Ameritrade or Fidelity

[@siphemanana2551]

@Mister Perfection what? You wouldn't jump the chance if it meant making more money especially if you're a YugiTuber?

[@Antartica1342]

@@siphemanana2551 we dont mind him doing sponsorships. Thats fine we support it. t's just that the product being sponsored is TRASH

[@Perfectt852]

Their was a tournament my locals had and we could use banned cards as limited expect certain ones and they forgot to put djinn on their. My first game I locked down my opponent and then they restarted the tournament and added it to the list of cards we couldn't use. I still won the tournament even without the lock

[@kathrineculver696]

Honestly Galaxy eyes is my very favorite archetype of all time I feel akin to the cards. Sadly looking at the entire history of the archetype Konami has always screwed over the deck

[@aidenkarma3844]

Same and yeah :(

[@Zurenza]

I remember in Duelist Alliance i played Ritual Beasts, and despite the fact that i got to banish 3-9 RB monster's, this deck was a massive pain in the ass to play against when going First. Because unless you knew ahead of time you were against it, and sure as an RB player i'd set 2+ Steeds. At the time, if i remember correctly, the format was mostly "Play Floodgate monster/set back row and pass." when going first, thinking Nekroz, Shaddol's(Construct) and RB(Search and Set 3 traps). Then you of course had BA and Evilswarm(Rarely) along with a few other's. That sucks because guess what, they can not only play around it but also get over it with EASE, that shit sucked i got OTK'ed by this deck SO OFTEN and this was before Hand Traps were extremely common as well, before ASH or Ghost Ogre even existed too. So i'm watching this Dragon Player dump half his deck into his graveyard, summon 5 extra deck monster's on his first turn, despite how many Responses i had and OTK me. I hated playing against that deck just as much as i hate playing against the same kind of decks now.