History of Duel Links - The DSoD Era - Part 1

[@whirlwynnd]

This video pleases me

[@nikc101]

Oh hey long time no see Whirlwynnd Lmao

[@groovy111]

The man himself!

[@josephmarcus8601]

The DSOD era was wild. Decks like Invoked, Shiranui, Darklords and Blackwings had some insane power that we don’t see in Duel links nowadays.

[@jacopodeldeo4308]

Normal aleister?

[@lucapangrazi9217]

I mean... ddd and melodious are quite good atm

[@diegourbina5083]

@@lucapangrazi9217 they are nowhere near prime power level of the decks he mentioned.

[@oscarchrispayana8363]

@@lucapangrazi9217 i played ddd at tournament, they left behind if u say it on power ranking if u compare it on DSOD era, man i miss that good old days

[@174Anime]

whats nuts is how a xyz's engine brought back darklords after they gutted it.

[@GenericGMR]

The fact that the first HALF of the DSOD got an hour long video really shows how absurdly powerful this meta was. Still get flashbacks every time I see 3 set cards or a normal summoned aleister.

[@gyrozeppeli4862]

I hate invoked so much lol

[@morbius4296]

You know whats funny? Invoked cocytus is an R rarity card

[@godofmercy123]

I still cant believe Scud got released instead of literally anyone else

[@luciacabalvelazquez8460]

Haha moment

[@ninstar06]

Fun drinking game: every time Aleister the Invoker (or Invoked monsters in general) is mentioned, take a shot

[@HunterGuy953]

Five minutes later:*dies in alcohol*

[@shadownightdragon6524]

I did this.......... Now I'm a ghost thanks a lot.

[@orangegalen]

Take a sip, and you'll still be drunk in 5 minutes.

[@kaelshobel5826]

Alcohol Posioning the musical

[@k-dawgHI]

No matter if it’s Duel Links or the TCG… Aleister is omnipresent 😓

[@venjacobs6150]

As someone who is only recently getting into duel links, this series has been incredibly informative. It really helps understanding when and how all the content, which feels so overwhelming at first glance, came out and how it comes together. I didn't even realize DSoD came out that late in the game's life! This has increased my enjoyment of the game significantly. And the videos themselves all well paced, and plenty engaging enough. You're doing a great job, and thanks for putting in all the effort to make these!

[@flexican5399]

👁

[@AnimatedCarl]

Ah yes! Here we are! My start to Duel Links. I'm gonna go back in time and kick my own ass for building Spell Counters when Invoked, Magician Girls, Gravekeepers, Ritual Beasts, and Blackwings were on the table. ...I used a Dream Ticket on Breaker, the Magical Warrior...

[@adriannaranjo4397]

I dont blame you, breaker was a popular choice. When spending on Dream Tickets you should just also take into consideration the future

[@snowwolf199]

Oof

[@UncrownedKing17]

Kind of the same for me, I started in July, before dsod released, during the synchro era.

[@Jyxero]

I was building literally trash decks back then (Scraps & Morphtronic... They have "Junk box") and used Dreams for 2nd Kuriboh & Nobleman of extermination... Spell counter might be useful on Pendulum thou

[@treebush]

LOL

[@zRunes]

This was a good time in the game. Banger after banger new archetypes. I feel like the last 6 months of boxes currently haven't gave us nearly as much

[@IrregularHunterDash]

No cap, the only thing I can remember in the past few months were DDD’s, Harpies and pendulums LOL

[@seanhudson7328]

Yeah this was a good time in the game. Was a fun challenging game that had plenty of different overpowered decks to chose from. Been disappointed lately by the releases konami has had. Feels kind of stale now.

[@doctorplague6967]

Cyber Dragons, Black Wings, Lunalight, Blue-eyes and Shiranui: *Ripping the meta* Me: Building a shark deck one card at the time because sharks are neat

[@orangegalen]

And here is where I started playing. So many powerful decks and cards in this era. So much PTSD as well...

[@skream2018]

That was fun Era i miss this Time.

[@winner78222]

Ahh. Such good memories. Man I love that spellcaster. He was so loyal and he's such a kind king. His reign is truly an era that will be remembered forever in history.

[@RyansFine]

This was when I was King of Games. Silent Invoked / berry and chocolate magician girls, lava golemn, and jinzo. Destiny draw and 2-3 Solemn Scold to trigger it more easily by lowering life. Loved that deck was so sad when I couldnt play it anymore

[@lolly8750]

DSOD era is boarderline the best year of all without a daubt nower days the meta decks are so weak that its not really fun anymore

[@DemonGiraffe95]

To people who didn't start playing until after October 2019 you are blessed for not experiencing Darklords with Beatdown every turn, god what a nightmare that was

[@e.t.1947]

The most insane era of duel links history with bordeline broken decks like invoked and shiranui

[@skream2018]

I love this Era that was so fun.

[@-Yu_Tsugami]

@@skream2018 more like powercreep every other deck to the point u only met the same ass deck for most of the time. yep really 'fun'.

[@gyrozeppeli4862]

Not borderline, just busted

[@addenanda]

@@-Yu_Tsugami definitely more fun to play broken ass deck than really weak tier 1 deck right now.

[@ARMRStudios]

Invoked Magician Girls and Darklords are probably my favorite DL decks of all time

[@Ramon____OC]

I personally hated this era so much, the power creep level was insane, most higher than some old TCG decks. All the time facing the same 3 decks, over a year.....

[@eleonarcrimson858]

the same 3 decks? i do not remember ladder being as vanilla as harpies, gaia and clock tower. that era had cydras, invoked, shiranui, crystrons, darklords, ritual beasts, blackwings, dm and some rogue decks like blue eyes, shs, luna lights. You are crazy if u think only 3 decks were playable this era.

[@Ramon____OC]

@@eleonarcrimson858 you mean: shiranui > blackwing > all invoked variants

[@eleonarcrimson858]

@@Ramon____OC so rogue decks have no name now gotcha.

[@lucidreverie3024]

ah yes i prefer when the meta was just darklord and other darklord

[@nunocarvalho6671]

@@eleonarcrimson858 if you were playing anything but invoked, bw or shiranui you were stupid and probably losing

[@nachosterli7995]

Played since the release, tried a lot of decks and ended up being KoG a couple of times… Never felt as invincible as I did while playing invoked, that deck was instant destruction. My all time favorite!

[@runningoncylinders3829]

It's like they just couldn't miss during this era! I remember stuff like Shira, Despa, Cydra, Invoked lasting a while and being tough as nails. Early Arc-V stuff this soon like SHS and LL were very fun. I love how ambitious they were in this era.

[@elizh1482]

I started in this era and nothing of the Decks we have today in Duellinks is half so strong like these decks… so much power these decks had….

[@lilsunny7399]

As much as I hated invoked, this era has a soft spot for me since Dec 2019 was the first and so far only time i grinded out a KoG. most of the time i'm happy hitting legend and idc about a couple hundred gems for hours of torment. The deck i used was ironically, one of the ones he brushed off. Yosenju. Kama 2 + 3 paired well to chip away and search, tsujik was a nice boost, izna could draw through your deck faster, sword sting was insane, oyam (not sure if that was this pack and he didnt mention it, or later) was basically unkillable by battle and not a lot of decks besides invoked had a consistent way to remove a lava golem from their board.

[@ThallesHGB]

Yes, me too. I toped some tournaments with Yosenjus killikng decks like Invoked, DM, RB, Shira. Yosenjus + shadow game + Lava Golem was too powerfull

[@Draco-pn7ru]

Heads up, this is a Duel Links story of mine experimental deck builders might find interesting. (text wall warning) 58:45 "HERE IT IS, HERE IT IS" I thought, *"it"* was the final piece I needed to take Thunder Dragons (TD) to the next level and re-invent the deck. Glow Up Bulb released here and made the cut for the final UR tuner that can *SS itself from the GY* in my 30 card Spell Specialist Grass Thunder Dragon (TD) deck. This was an idea I literally saw NO ONE play (for good reason too because the deck had as many Box URs as a full Dark World Deck) It focused on 2 spells being Gold Sarcophagus and That Grass Looks Greener to far surpass the consistency of every other TD deck at the time. *2x Glow Up Bulb,* *3x Jet Synchron,* and *3x Plague Spreader Zombie* made up the roster of tuners that made the multiple Synchro spam plays happen. Now wait your wondering, how the heck are you going draw the spells Sarc or Grass Consistently in a 30 card deck? Well you see there was a busted skill that practically guaranteed a spell in your opening hand called Spell Specialist. It requires you to play 5 different spells to activate, but if you played 3x of a spell you wanted (3Grass and 3Sarc) you would be practically guaranteed to open at least 1 of them with another random spell on average.(I played 1x(Mallet,IntoThe Void,Card Of Sanctity) This skill got nerfed as to take down the probability of you opening up your busted spells sometime later, but for a while you could abuse it to open god hands like a goldmine. The plays would involve either drawing any tuner + Sarc(Combo1) or drawing Grass + TD Hawk(Combo2). What this would do is give you 2 VERY possible hands where you could make anything from double Blackrose, Brionic, Scrap Dragon, basically any 2 Synchros with both combos, but there was a difference between them. The difference: Now If you had another extender like maybe you already drew TD Hawk specifically for combo1 OR you drew TD Duo specifically for combo2, you could also make a Vermilion Dragon Mech in the same turn as your 2 other Synchros (much easier to do with combo 2) Grass on average would mill me 2-3 tuners and at least 1 TD Dark or TD Roar, with the rest of the card in my hand being fodder for the tuners to SS themselves or combo extenders, there is no loss here. I ran 2 Aloof Lupine to fill in the rest of the necessary consistency LIGHTSWORN WAS NOT OPTIMAL. To give you the time period, this was before we got Levianeer but after TD Duo. This deck, this deck was awesome and I was the only one playing it while the rest of the TD players relied on RNG to draw what they wanted. Just goes to show the players out there who also hate mirror matches, knowing what cards the other is playing, and the idea that they have an equal chance of winning as does their opponent will not be so vocal about the actual good decks they unearth through experimentation. Edit: Grammar Fix, if you got this far you deserve a trophy for patience+reading lol

[@Draco-pn7ru]

Some people might ask how I dealt with backrow, I ran 2 Nine-Tailed Fox (the fire one) because it helped facilitate Synchro plays and it tributes the monsters affected by the backrow. I had a game plan vs SuperHeavy Samurai too, I would throw in a copy of Hyper Psychic Riser because its effect prevents all SuperHeavies from attacking and the game would go to deck out in my favor all the time.

[@rexxereldritch5579]

This is the time were i started playing. I remember when i knew nothing about the metagame and just wanted to make roleplay decks for fun.

[@Winter0263]

thanks to aleister I kept playing spellbook silent for three years. this era was nasty as hell because Al was dominating DL , OCG and TCG AT THE SAME TIME

[@SkyFireYZ]

I started playing around this time. Its nice to look back and see how broken the decks were

[@theghostwing1]

I miss Element sabers, it worked so well and was so fun to play.

[@lordwarryl5712]

57:39 "There can only be one winner, and you're looking at him. Lets go This era is the most impactful of the gens for me, it's also nostalgic since it covers the pre pandemic and pos pandemic year in duel links.

[@kionafu]

ahhh lunalights.. memories. i hope they bring back bird and marten one day 😔 or introduce panther and leo dancer with arc-v, that would shake the meta so hard

[@B.27y]

My favorite decks are from DSoD Era

[@seanprice7408]

That starting music is definitely from an old yugioh game, brings back crazy memories

[@KiryuRyo]

The 2019 November KC Cup was so crazy. The average DP for each player was much higher than most KC Cups. I remember my friend got 75000DP and that wasn't even enough to get top 100 global, but if you got that result now you could get top 10 global. I personally managed to get 61000DP and top 500 global with Ancient Gears which I was really proud of. It's actually the Duelist I decklist shown in the KC report too!

[@celestial_illusions]

i played DL actively from the start till somewhere in the middle of GX era, and returned for a very short time at the release of 5ds, so it's really nice to see these, as it's been quite some time since i've played

[@adriannaranjo4397]

Absolutely nobody: Konami: "Let's add Aliester to Duel Links, it definitely wont break the game no matter how hard we try to nerf it"

[@mohwe1007]

That didn’t last time well

[@eleonarcrimson858]

i mean they just needed to hit invocation to 3 and aliester to 3. They just didn't want to since it was a ur.

[@RyansFine]

@@eleonarcrimson858 Eh it went from broken to unplayable, wouldnt say they fixed it. And its a big fuck you to people that spent money to get 3 copies of 2 sets of ultras in a 200 box set -_-

[@ibilesfighter3.16]

Man I love that Library theme at the beggining, so damn good

[@iriswav7379]

It feels nice to check how people played the decks back in the day, I remember joining DL day 1 when it launched and play naturian strawberry beatdown all day. I left during the middle of the DM era, then comeback at the start of the GX era. I love that I was there for every type of meta besides the DM meta

[@walterblack3042]

To this day,magician girls with quintet magician is my fav deck in duel links.Its just so much fun and it's not OP

[@alvaroalmonfrey8455]

Yeah this era had probably the highest power level the game has ever seen. Full power darklord, invoked elementsaber and shiranui are stronger than onomats could ever hope to be and far stronger than anything we have right now

[@vanesslifeygo]

Blair coming in for DSoD to support the DARKsworns was about as random as seeing Ritual Beasts doing well...I played irl and the games that weren't Duel Links so this is definitely not what I expected

[@zalaathrun20]

I have a question. The UR and SR drem tickets are to my understanding able to get you any card from any deck or box as long as they're not from the 2 more recent boxes (with the exception of the selection boxes). If that's right why I'm unable to select Ebon Illusion Magician with either SR dream ticket, from the 4th anniversary event from like a week ago, or the one from the arc V world intrudction, even when the box in which that magician comes in is from all the way in sept., and many boxes have been released.

[@lordvaust5830]

My best friend started playing Duel Links about a year ago. His first deck was Super-Sams, and it destroyed the game. At the time he played it (not when the deck released), it was a monster of a deck because no meta decks at the time had proper outs to their monsters and Sams were extremely consistent. He still plays the deck, even in Master Duel and it’s still serving him well. Never underestimate the big-booty-boys. They will sit on you when you least expect it.

[@01loganmc10]

A year later, and I’m still disappointed that the script didn’t have you say “the Netherworld Cometh and went” at 36:19 …

[@Straswa]

Great vid, I remember how rampant Shiranui was back in the day.

[@snowwolf199]

I first got into Duel Links on the 1st anniversary of the game in the middle of the GX era, and I had not played a single game of Yu-Gi-Oh, I only found the game after watching the anime on Netflix but now I am pretty good at the game (The only problem l have is that I keep on building outdated decks) so these videos are really interesting to watch for me so keep up the good work!

[@kristofgriffin384]

I downloaded Duel Links in March of 2019, basically around the 5D's era. The most recent Box during that time was Warriors Unite. I remember whenever I got 50 gems I'd spend it immediately, even making a makeshift Synchro deck, with cards like Dark Magician, Red-Eyes, Shi-En, and Stardust Charge Warrior being my deck's aces.

[@toxicjagermain7558]

I miss old shiranui, the new one is just so lame running only like 6 monsters and a ton of traps. Instead of doing sick combos it's just stall and wait to draw monsters in order to facilitate GY synchros

[@danielbeesley1326]

I saw Kiteroid show up, and a shiver ran down my spine.

[@speedygods7973]

I can’t wait for more video and see more Negative1 reaction to the video to the history of duel link

[@156-ricardo6]

Miss the relinquished, dinos and harpies times

[@garchompdude]

I remember running grave keepers in this era whilst trying to pull elementsabers

[@jozefmauroraponi4434]

37:37 Death. Despair. Sorrow. Everything bad you could think of, somehow was in that box

[@Itsnotdiego]

HONEY WAKE UP THE LAW POSTED A NEW DUEL LINKS VID!

[@sagacious03]

Great video! Thanks for uploading!

[@raina1848]

Invoked Elementsaber gave me PTSD, but I still love Invoked Magician Girls. One of my favorites of this era. Next is my favorite mini box, Fortress of Gears! Vision Hero Vyon gets released...only to go right back on the banlist after that KC Cup.

[@skream2018]

E saber invoked was a nice deck.

[@Fencer_Nowa]

i hate the fact duel links also had to suffer normal summon aleister.

[@Pitomin69]

dark cavalry aint once per turn right? as long as u have discard fodder

[@chrismiller3548]

I got into duel links right as the blue eyes structure came out. Climbing the ladder with karma cut blue eyes was fun

[@shizukousapostle1stapostle710]

I cry every time i look at my invoked saber deck..

[@calebnarsh8459]

*insert picture of Michael Scott holding a jar of sand saying, "I was there"*

[@montolonzo3836]

*normal summons Aleister*

[@radandpaisley]

I remember the collective sigh of relief when Shirnaui got nerfed, only for BEWD and Cyber Dragon to jump back on top lol

[@syaefullrizcky]

DSoD era is so crazy!! So many great and power house decks battle for supremacy Cant wait for Tea DSoD and Witchcrafter to come!

[@shawesomest]

This is gonna have a combined length of a feature film, my lord

[@danieleconvertini4996]

Guys, do you think that duel links is ready for Elemental Hero Absolute Zero or Elemental Hero Sunrise?

[@thisachannel8566]

Its crazy to think this was just last year.

[@Jaketruescience]

Was waiting on this awesome work on these videos

[@Jaketruescience]

Awesome work on these videos was waiting on this one

[@lucidreverie3024]

this was around the time i started playing the game with shiranui being my first deck

[@brycehawes7990]

This brings me much joy

[@snowwolf199]

Everyone: Listens to paper crinkling for ASMR Me: Listens to the meta game of Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links

[@emred4653]

lets go! my boy superheavy samurai

[@Springy05]

This is about where I left the game for a while. Lets see what holds in the rest of DSoD and Zexal

[@lildannyboi13]

this was around the time i first started playing duel links. judgement force was the first box i bought from

[@AstralTaurus]

Thank you for reminding me how much i hated having to deal with invoked lol

[@hyperspacesushi]

Personally I love just rolling up with a U.A deck in Duel Links. They're so scuffed and your opening hand REALLY decides the outcome of the duel...but ohmygod they're so fun to use! ...If not a U.A deck, Dragunity has my vote---

[@SusPyro1]

thx for u work here, really good.

[@ferdinandpurczeld234]

We are still not at the point where I joined. All these historic moments I missed sound exciting.

[@thecardgame_mercenary]

Our favourite Normal Summon

[@Sillimant_]

god I miss being able to play synchro shiranui and that grass looks greener. it was an inevitable ban, but still

[@uncontrolledsubstance7705]

A bit surprised you didn't mention a key piece of support for future resonator decks from soul of resurrection with red resonator.

[@diegourbina5083]

This is where I entered DL and like everyone else I wasted my free couple thousand gems. It’s so nuts and sad we will probably never see power levels like this in duel links again.

[@shadowxxrami6669]

The best era in duel links history without a competition. I've been waiting for this one 😍

[@jacopodeldeo4308]

Normal summon aleister?

[@sean1oo1]

@@jacopodeldeo4308 add invocation to hand?

[@CharmCityGamer]

YES! So happy! Thank you Law!

[@kenyonlemke9285]

Still waiting for my god damn gravekeeper's commandant. This card would complete gravekeeper's.

[@skairuballad2439]

Love your series, keep it going! I took a break sometime after the start of the DSOD era so this is new stuff to know for sure. Then I refused to return for Zexal because not too fond of that era though when you cover it I'll check that out. I still have my Zexal locked I refuse that era. Returned for a while during the pendulum era start.

[@Pikatwig16]

Curious why it is you say the world's name as a phoentic sound instead of just saying "D-S-O-D". Also, a minor correction for the opening bit. The movie was based on the continuity of the original manga, not the anime.

[@ram5487]

Damn, I remember playing darklord, because it was affordable. Then it got banned. Then i played shiranui, because it was affordable. which got banned.

[@envoy2477]

Think about people who played thunder dragons lol Konami hit them right in their meow meow

[@UltimateRareBingler]

flip summon aliester

[@irinashidou9524]

Cries in not seeing dragunity despite how Good they are (in my opinion)

[@eddie3928]

Love the duelist of the roses 🌹 music 🎶

[@mako6531]

Wow! I'm amazed, and also waiting for the next one..

[@kenthartig7065]

Hold up, this man called invoker an engine. There was a whole thing about how he's actually considered a wincon

[@JCBro-yg8vd]

Ah yes, the part where Blue Eyes became a consistent meta game threat almost from day one.

[@jacopodeldeo4308]

Normal aleister best deck

[@TheSandwhichman108]

So Samurai destroyer is basically colossal fighter but for machines instead cause that’s what I’m getting from it.

[@granddoppelganger7138]

Bizzare era yet so fun to play

[@alisethera9349]

I wonder if the melodious section involved a last minute change seeing as melodious was still shit when the last video came out.

[@Gogogadgetyoutubehandle]

Okay, NOW I can watch these videos and be like “Hey I remember that. I hated it!”

[@Osindileyo]

You forgot to mention that shiranui was tier 0 with grass. It was almost unbeatable if it resolved grass.

[@oscarchrispayana8363]

shiranui only tier 0 for 1 week, suddenly ALEISTER ES come with 30 trap deck and also crystron killing 30 cards shiranui

[@Osindileyo]

@@oscarchrispayana8363 killing crystron and shira? You’re high off you’re mind. Crystron was the best deck of multiple formats and tier 0 shira was only stopped by the limiting of grass and the nerf of spell specialist, not by invoker.

[@oscarchrispayana8363]

@@Osindileyo did you even going to MW / MCS? or watch top player playing? You can ask TPC how full power crystron killing Grass shira

[@Osindileyo]

@@oscarchrispayana8363 i should be asking you that. You’re deluded.

[@oscarchrispayana8363]

@@Osindileyo ofc im joining dkayed tournament, i remember that luke topping tournament with 30 crystrons

[@jefftheninja8293]

3:56 Dark Cavalry is not a once per turn negate as long as you have cards in hand to discard just a trivial detail thats all.

[@SantosBASED]

God I loved this Era