How BLUE-EYES White Dragon STOLE a Yu-Gi-Oh World Championship!

If you don't keep up with the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG meta, it may surprise you to find out that Yugioh's Most prolific and well known card, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, is actually... TERRIBLE!
But, on one starry occasion, in 2016, by some miracle, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, won a world championship. This is how it happened.
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[@CardmarketYGO]

This video made me really really want to play a Blue-Eyes deck. So here's the deck list of the winner for the Yu-Gi-Oh World Championship 2016: bit.ly/3H8hshE

[@brunobarbosa9728]

Loved the video. You should do more of these interesting stories in long form!

[@snootydooty3543]

Can you do a galaxy eyes video next time?

[@patm6018]

When Blue-Eyes got their structure deck support around 2014.. Evilswarm Ophion was a massive problem.

[@pharaohstiller5423]

I still have mine💯🎉🥶

[@miguelyanezlorenzo5037]

This entire situation feels like something Kaiba would 100% do. "What do you mean my deck is bad? Well, I run the tournaments, so everything that counters my deck is now banned. Might as well have a chat with Pegasus to have him make me some broken Blue-Eyes support."

[@youcanthandlemyname7393]

actually im pretty sure after duelist kingdom kaiba corp starts making the cards in the anime.

[@mangasaint]

@@youcanthandlemyname7393 that wouldn’t explain why he went outta his way to get Blue Eyes Shining Dragon if he could have just made his own support. He probably didn’t want to “cheat” for the movie so he sought out official support.

[@wolf512full]

@@youcanthandlemyname7393 in the Manga yes, not in the Anime. In gx we see Pegasus' Company is still active and printing new cards (we even get to see him making the design for Rainbow dragon)

[@michaelcaboose8685]

“Screw the rules, I have Blue-Eyes White Dragon support!”

[@rgfang3359]

Konami unironically engineering the most favorable conditions for the archetype to win is just hilarious to me.

[@Eclectic.Nostalgia]

These classic cards are the reason why I still play YuGiOh online. I don't care how strong meta decks are. I'm just here to enjoy the game

[@KaoruMzk]

Ah yes, that one time Konami rigged worlds because they wanted to promote a movie. The double brick in the finals was hilarious.

[@Zanji1234]

?? double brick?? O_o

[@KaoruMzk]

@@Zanji1234 as in both players bricked.

[@noshitsherlock5195]

@@Zanji1234 yeah all bricked up like Kaiba whenever someone even mentions Blue Eyes White Dragon

[@Bigbadbo121]

@@noshitsherlock5195 tbf, who DOESN'T get all bricked up when they see Blue-Eyes White Dragon jet?

[@tumage8592]

Its like THE garnet but with the added thing that his high Attack stat mattered very much when he was played, and he soanned multiple bricky Archetypes

[@lmnisop5516]

"very few have faced this creature and lived to tell the tale" yeah because it requires two tributes. It hardly ever gets out on the field

[@futuredirector23]

dude i can summon 3 in one turn simply by using 2 different combos its easy as hell to do now, also dont hate on the card that is still considered the strongest non-effect monster main deck creature. i mean come on

[@LorianandLothric]

Blue-Eyes is super easy to summon in the deck. What are you talking about?

[@lifeiswonderful22]

Very reminiscent of Kaiba sacrificing Obelisk for Blue Eyes to defeat Ishizu.

[@hamoodhabibi7026]

That was awesome

[@lionablaze8747]

blue-eyes and dark magician need retrains that can special summon themselves from the hand while always being treated as blue-eyes or dark magician. that way, they can never be bricks in the hand.

[@futuredirector23]

its called alternative white dragon, the entire eyes of blue arch-type, the 2 stones and varies other cards let you summon blue-eyes for free

[@Fressbremse]

@@futuredirector23 No, Alternative is not treated as Blue Eyes while in the hand or deck. You still need regular Blue Eyes, that are sucky bricks.

[@MrEffectfilms]

​@@FressbremseIf this happened it would basically just replace the originals and they've both become so iconic that I'm sure Konami doesn't want that and most players probably don't want that either. Nostalgia and loyalty are powerful and I can see people resisting this because they don't like the idea of the two most iconic monsters from this game getting replaced.

[@seankelly6620]

The story of Brick Eyes lives on in Duel Links as well as a Blue Eyes deck in a best of 3 out of 5 decks won 1st place in 2019. It was also the Six Sam mirror in the Finals

[@SaraphDarklaw]

Six Sams ruined duel links for me. I haven’t played since they released.

[@Otzkar]

blue eyes was so good due to snipe hunter. you basically had infinite discards due to ancients and it all came down to discarding 4, poping the opponents board and otking

[@mouthyschannel2474]

It's kinda like the 2016 issue. Though except instead of not allowing the better decks to be played, they weren't allowed to exist to begin with.

[@BatmannotBruceWayne1]

@@Otzkarit was karma cut, not snipe hunter. Blue-Eyes was already basically had all the cards it played at worlds 2016 when it became good in duel links, the only cards it was really missing was Crystal wing synchro dragon and trade-in. But Karma cut was introduced, and was the best form of removal in the game, banishing the monster, and all copies of it in the graveyard, and Blue-Eyes was the best at abusing this, having the best discard fodder in the game, while also being independently powerful.

[@Otzkar]

we are both right and refering to different formats. I was talking about the format starting may 2019. you are talking about the format that arose in march of 2020 that used alternative evolution and as you mentioned carma cut. there was even a third format in march of 2021 where blue eyes got to tier 1 again by use of ultimate dragons and alternative eyes in the main deck.

[@matheushenrique-mw4gm]

"So far out of the meta that it's basically playing Magic", now that just screams "Emotional damage!!!!!!!"

[@thecurdy]

I really love these kind of video essays you make. That's how I found you (Pot of Greed video) and I hope there are more to come in the future. Stay on it I love the content

[@SakuraAvalon]

To be fair to Kaiba, when the card game was first introduced. There was no Trap cards. Spells were rare, and Monster destroying Spells even rarer. Monsters with effects were rare. And there was no Tribute Summon mechanic. Blue-Eyes was basically a 3000 ATK/4 star/Vanilla.

[@lynnusuk2092]

Clearly he was playing alternative blue-eyes before it was even made

[@naui5257]

Also, he literally was the only person in the world who had playable copies. And by having rival character status, he’s strong, but Yugi will literally have the out everytime for plot convenience.

[@Xygard]

@@naui5257 I mean he rip the other blue eyes and yugi always conveniently had something to counter bewd either magic cylinder, mirror force, other things

[@BananaMana69]

You're a little mistaken, monsters with effects did not exist when Blue Eyes came out but traps did. Dragon capture jar could put Blue Eyes in def and then you could power up a Dark Magician with an equip and take down Blue Eyes.

[@SakuraAvalon]

@@BananaMana69 Talking about the manga. Traps aren't a thing until Pegasus duels Yugi(on VHS).

[@norahporter4075]

i wonder if anyone has made a tearlaments + blue-eyes deck, with the send-to-graveyard effects that appear on sage and stone and all that. if the tearlament fusion can be relevant with blue-eyes, that could be fun

[@futuredirector23]

i played with it a little bit but couldnt find anything that would work, now that tear has been all but murdered it may work a bit better

[@Pr1est0fDoom]

This is the first time I see a full breakdown of how BEWD managed to win Worlds. Cimoooooooo's History of Yu-Gi-Oh! series is very close to reaching this format as well.

[@adamcogan211]

Honestly one of the most fantastic videos you’ve ever put out. Had me engaged from start to finish!

[@AustinSamuelF]

Fun fact, Konamis first Blue-Eyes card was printed in 1998 with the SDK style art as a promo for a PS1 game in Japan.

[@BasicLee_]

the staticky sounds y'all used when breaking down Tcg and OCg differences for worlds scared the crap out of me lol! I was watching in the background while doing work

[@themugofthenorth]

Love this type of videos! Keep up the brilliant work!

[@botindeldiablo]

the finals turning into BRICK CITY is the most soulful thing ever

[@williehawkinsii4845]

You forgot that DDD structure deck that got pushed back to AstroWorld so the felgrand structure deck that had support for blue eyes was released earlier

[@lawngoat933]

Gotta love Return of The Dragonlords

[@danielramsey6141]

@@lawngoat933 Yeah, I will never forgive them for that BETRAYAL!!! Not only was it a Backstab, but a Blatant insult after proof In the OCG of how Strong D/D/D can be!

[@williehawkinsii4845]

@@danielramsey6141 to make it worse the pendulum magician got support in Dragon caller magician which would have allowed them to beat over all the blue eyes monsters in battle but the card came out in the TCG in the very next set after world

[@yungjaeson]

yugioh fans when the deck designed to have a winning matchup vs the other decks that were kneecapped by the ban list wins (they never could have seen it coming)

[@CaptainHandsome]

2:16 If you want to get really technical, there's a card called Rabidragon with 2950 ATK and 2900 DEF making it the vanilla monster with the highest stats in the game (5850 VS 5500) but Blue Eyes does still remain the gold standard for Attack points.

[@marccheckley6935]

The energy you put into these videos is just brilliant keep it up!

[@Ms666slayer]

Something similar happened with Tellarknight however even that in Worlds most top decks were hit, Tellar actually computed and won big tournaments when all of those decks were at full strength unlike Blue Eyes that entered the metro with every deck being obliterated and also be designed to counter that meta specifically.

[@Dyleniz]

"we might not won nats but we won worlds" - Deneb 2016 probably

[@petersonkendon]

You guys should talk about when you guys started playing and some of your favorite formats!! Keep up the great videos 🙏

[@TheRamblemanWhoSings]

can't wait for Dark Magician to randomly be meta relevant archetype (maybe it has, but I don't know)

[@naui5257]

Dark Magician itself hasnt been. But it gained recognition since Magicians Souls, which is a Dark Magician card, was meta during SPYRAL format. Also Dragoon was a thing which used Dark Magician, so yeah. DM had its time in the spotlight even if the archetype never had the same level of attention as Blue-Eyes did

[@TheRamblemanWhoSings]

@@naui5257 not wrong there, it had card from the archetype help other decks

[@naui5257]

@@TheRamblemanWhoSings At least more and more Protag decks have become meta and even the rivals and sidekicks. Except Vehicroids. I doubt they’ll ever be good.

[@TheRamblemanWhoSings]

@@naui5257 yea, RIP Vehicroids

[@ReederMG]

This video was really fun. Please more content like it

[@erikaseveryns2173]

This is such a great video!! I love Adam’s content

[@muhammedaksoy9604]

Only seeing him on shorts being very calm and composed all the time is very different then seeing him right now fan boying for the blue eyes white dragon like I do on a daily basis

[@Salamanotgreat]

but.... right now theres only 3 copies of Blue Eyes White Dragon in this world tho?

[@Vaeltis]

Good video, think the main thing to give feedback on is that the sound effects added in need to be tuned down a bit, they're very jarring when it happens cause of volume but also gives a sense of audio cracking/tearing.

[@stayslapped1568]

Hey man that Blue Eyes deck was sweet, it countered all that pendulum summoning bull shit

[@aldaco16]

They even pushed back structure I needed so they can have the return of the dragon lords spell card for said worlds

[@Anonymityfan]

This got me back into Yugioh for a while, for the legendary card that was one of the best monsters in the beginning to becomming irrelevant in competitive play to coming back in the world championship no less. I loved the game then.

[@marcusduff6220]

Wow what a great video 👏🏻 I’m just getting into playing the game so it’s safe to say I knew very little of any of this but now thanks to you brilliantly simplifying it I can go and impress my new friends with what I’ve learned!! Seriously informative and extremely entertaining to watch 🙌🏻 Looks like I’m going to blitz this channel before our next game 🙈 reminder is set and I’m looking forward to your next video 😁 keep ip the good work

[@GuyrillaBraun]

I haven't played YGO since the game released in NA, haven't watched the anime since the OG series, and I don't even remember how to play the game, but I love the charisma and energy the Cardmarket team has. Just very enjoyable and entertaining content.

[@zeo4481]

It WON it fair and square

[@peredurxiv9174]

6:54 Lol, someone told the editor to put shaddoll construct, and not EL shaddoll construct.

[@insertusername9755]

*listening while organizing my blue eyes structure deck*

[@CardmarketYGO]

I literally did the same. - Adam

[@Dyleniz]

Also Stellar despite being a teir 2 deck at the height of duelist alliance format won worlds the meme in 2015 was "we might not won NATs but we won worlds"

[@real_Schrooten]

8mins in and he still hasn't started to tell the story...

[@TheOfficialRandomGuy]

Blue-Eyes White Privilege tournament.

[@zexalblazer3314]

I just love watching the enthusiasm that he has

[@AlphaDTT]

i Remember watching that World championship Live and seeing the American players face, it was so devastating

[@bbsorihibae]

Nice video, my friend actually owns a blue eyes deck and yea.. Maybe DMs isn't meta either but atleast it doesn't brick so much with the amount of stuff you can do. Also when watching this I think of the biggest F called Red Eyes which outside of Dragoon is even worse then both Blue eyes and Dark Magician. I lowkey love the Summoned Skull cards tho. P.s. pretty much a full archetype only player with sometimes some staples or actual fitting engines. (So no Baronne, DPE and such bs mechs in every deck)

[@relatosdeladimensiondifere9841]

I just wanna add the point of the delay of pendulum domation on tcg, thing that left out D/D/D out of the picture being a high tier on ocg

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

Fun fact: in the TCG, blue eyes shining was one of the promos for seeing the Yugioh Pyramid of Light movie. But blue eyes ultimate was printed after, making blue eyes shining unplayable

[@NAMEMERKEN]

Please use a different sound for the text flashes(like at 13:00). It's like earrape lol.

[@TXODM]

I still use blue eyes white dragon but not as the main archetype of my deck but instead as a support card in a generalized dragon deck and I deck my main stars are azure eyes white dragon, red eyes darkness metal dragon, Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8, mirage dragon, 5 headed drago, first of the dragons, fusion gate, dragon mirror and dragon shield. Basically I try to lock my opponents out of activating traps and spell cards while recycling my dragon cards using red eyes darkness metal dragon in azure eyes white dragon among a few other things. Also run DNA surgery set to dragon to farther lock out movement. I play old school lol

[@GreatgoatonFire]

All this makes me glad MTG never had tv show. WotC getting hung up on making Raging Goblin support because it was popular in the show would bite.

[@CrimsonPriestessofMiracles]

Blue-Eyes White Dragon is my favorite archetype of all time! 🥰

[@plainbagel9192]

Orrr you Lord of D with a flute on the field....in the old days

[@Aleksriku]

11:00-11:05 That sparkle made me realize that you have blue-eyes? And you are talking about the blue-eyes white dragon? coincidence, I guess? 👀

[@Zenbon111]

Brick-Eyes White Dragon VS Blue-Eyes Brick Dragon

[@mcdawol]

The blue eyes support in the last couple of years have been beautiful

[@leonshirogane5541]

me looking at the holiness of the platinum cards my eyes was leaking. what a majestic creature... thing

[@Man_named_guiseppe]

Well i got into yugioh because of season 0 and near the final era of the season 0 did show vlue eyes and i became a fan of it since when i first saw it

[@evanrobbins2411]

Said he’s nervous even holding that blue eyes. It’s covered in his finger prints lol

[@buddasogudda]

Love the storytelling

[@XYGamingRemedyG]

The time they printed a couple cards to specifically give Blue-Eyes meta counters? 🤔

[@mrnoneofurbusiness7942]

where the buster blader decks at?

[@Alexifeu]

I have a Blue Eyes shirt but only cuz it was the only yugioh merch i could find that was original

[@Borchert97]

If Konami ever decides to engineer a popular anime deck as meta again, please do it with the Egyptian Gods. I feel like the archetype as a whole has gotten SO much good support the past 2 years. Ra got Ancient Chant, The True Sun God, Sun God Unification, Blaze Cannon, and Millennium Revelation and a Ra deck is now pretty much capable of turboing out its God card in one turn almost every game. Slifer got support that ties it in with Yugi's "Knight" series of cards, Joker's Straight gets you all three original King/Queen/Jack's Knights on the board, Thunderspeed Summon will then search AND summon Slifer. Slifer also has Thunderforce Attack AND The Revived Sky God which literally draws you up to a hand of 6 cards. Obelisk got Fist of Fate, The Breaking Ruin God, Soul Energy MAX!!!, and Magical Trick Mirror, and there's already a couple really good combos with Foolish Burial Goods to send a Soul Energy MAX to the GY to search an Obelisk directly from the Deck, and there's potential for a Skill Drain variant of the deck that uses both The Breaking Ruin God and Skill Drain on the opponent's turn to Special Summon Obelisk and then turn Obelisk's effect off that would send him back to the GY. All three decks have good generic support that works for all three of them, Ra's Disciple, Reactor Slime, Guardian Slime, Egyptian God Slime, Mound of the Bound Creator, Soul Crossing, and Metal Reflect Slime. The decks don't heavily rely on their Extra Deck either, aside from maxing out on copies of Egyptian God Slime and then filling the rest with generic Links or Rank 10s, so Pot of Extravagance and Prosperity are almost always shoe-ins for an Egyptian God Deck. There's some other support out there too but it's far more niche and not nearly good enough to seriously consider running, things like The True Name or Divine Evolution, are cute and can be used but more often than not you won't be running them. How Konami proceeds from here will be interesting, I feel like all three Egyptian Gods are only maybe 2 support cards away from actually being good, they're very close, they're extremely good for a casual-based deck and imo could prove to be solid rogue decks in the near future.

[@T3DRAGOON]

This was great to watch.

[@agunemon]

Tbf BEWD was meta that year together with BA and ABC... Joined OCG ACW that year with a buster blue eyes... Won 4 blueeyes matchups but lost to every other deck... Including a nothe buster blader deck.

[@tastyndylicious]

Can't wait for the Dark Magician handtrap that prevents GY interaction

[@Madanth0ny]

As a OG yugioh player I just wish we can regular summon and Xyz and syncro summon that’s it’s need a face pace duel rush duels are pretty fun

[@blackbot7113]

13:05 Seems like someone screwed up the transparency there. ;)

[@BatmannotBruceWayne1]

Hi guys, it’s me from the future. Blue-Eyes achieves tier 0 in 2030

[@jeffe2267]

the audio balance seems off -- quiet voice volume, loud sound effects.

[@kingblue2646]

2024 will be the Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth sweep, baby.

[@memegod2872]

Ah yes, i remember using card of consonance to discard blue eyes and draw 2 cards

[@WingedEspeon]

I thought Blue eyes had some niche use in early yu-gi-oh as a monster reborn target.

[@dephy11]

I wish e-heros get this much quality support one day. Like maybe a re-train of the vanilla monsters. Like they released a neos and flame wingman combo why not a re-train of the vanilla heroes. Hell, put in a re-train of bubbleman too why not

[@naggl3s]

Have you seen HERO support? HERO gets decent to good support every year to 2 years and E-HERO cards have been in meta decks since Little City and Perfect Circle

[@RabblesTheBinx]

HERO cards have a _ton_ of support, though. Hell, even _my_ deck can routinely get out 3-4 monsters totalling over 10k by turn 2 (more than enough to wipe most opponents), and I'm worse at card games than Joey fucking Wheeler.

[@Anonymityfan]

This was the high point of yugioh since it's start imo. It allowed bLue eyes to become relevant along with Cyber dragons, Dark Magician etc. It was an era of the return of the classics. Idk if it will ever be that good again.

[@reallugia97]

blue eyes jet dragon is such an amazing card for blue eyes decks, get 2 of them on the field with a dictator of d and you will dominate

[@Magnamhut]

Oh my god it's card market guy

[@pscitheai]

missed a card the asslaut wyrm level 4 drgon 1900 attk i think it is when it attacks can sac it to summon a dragon from your hand

[@enterprebirb7465]

Thank you, now I finally have a single source for everytime people try to tell me pendulum was ever competitively viable. lol

[@whitesage922]

and then, konami said that in october 2023 a new support for blue-eyes will see the light, aswell as a support for dark magician

[@dcdubzgaming3846]

Dude really misread the vanilla text in blue eyes🤣

[@BlueRadium]

If a few new Jet Dragon-tier cards, with equal or greater synergizing shut downs, exclusively for a Blue Eyes deck were released, at the right time without ban list yeeting, the decent-ish old support could further syngerize in just the right way to bring Blue Eyes back to worlds. Big set of ifs, but Jet Dragon is tier 0 material, were it not all by its lonesome at that level for Blue Eyes. It single handedly elevates Blue Eyes to not-total garbage. Toss in thorough bricking reduction and, like, token fodder production, hand trap searching, maybe something unique that makes it both a counter-ish to itself and other tier 0 decks like regularly available banishment, would have a place at the big kid table.

[@suizided]

Never heard of it.

[@Lcngopher]

In 2022, magic the gathering printed zero new vanilla creatures for the first time in the games history. It shows how far creature power creep has come in that game. In yu-gi-oh, its even more of a marker on power creep because the monsters are your main resource in the game.

[@mrbasalt8553]

Cosmo Brain works good with Blue Eyes. I always use it in Duel Link but I ain't good at it I'm only Legend Rank 1

[@Anonymityfan]

Isn't it fair to ban exclusive cards if people in some parts of the world don't have access to them?

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

Blue eyes had another somewhat supporter card back than called Kaibaman

[@XLuxtra]

Dark Mgician and Redeyes Support? Oh dear. We gonna tackle Dragoon Summer escapades in 2020?

[@christopherharts1995]

Gonna win worlds with an Egyptian god deck

[@RyouWoodware]

What doesn't make sense to me is why pegesis makes support for a card that there's only 4 copies in the world

[@jadenyuki312]

I’ve been saying this since it happened

[@whitestrake8]

I will say this on behalf of blue eyes players a win is a win 🎉🎉🎉

[@TexasKing100]

My favorite memory with blue eyes white dragon was when Pokemon Go first came out, one of my friends screamed that he caught a blue eyes white dragon, and some rando chick nearby screamed "dont you mean blue eyes white privilidge"

[@jarzz3601]

I forgot they made the plat blue eyes :)

[@digitalduken9973]

I've said this under every single video where this topic is covered (mostly because this is just obscure trivia and not really looked at as a super legit win given the rigging). That final match is arguably one of the worst if not the worst world's final match in the history of the game, and that's saying something when previous finals have had FTKs in it. I'd rather watch a final with an FTK than that mirror and I hate FTK decks. It mainly is just looked back on as a horribly rigged tournament with a bad finals and a deck that would never see any relevance afterwards. They didn't even hit the deck on the banlist which usually they do because the deck didn't need any hits at all.

[@noisepoIIution]

Have any other anime decks won a world championship?

[@blakebambam3143]

You forgot about ancient rules!! The card ancient rules lets you summon a blue eyes or dark magician without tributing.

[@goblinslayer1115]

It always disappoints me that Blue-Eyes will never become a top tier meta deck because of much konami keeps giving it bad cards with 0 consistency on purpose. Cause if branded, dragon link, tearlements, sprights and kashtira can spam a bunch of monsters on the field in a single turn why can't Blue-Eyes get the same treatment?

[@antonissmaff]

Blue eyes was amazing until halq ban.Maybe they will print another card that helps tuners so you can send consistently stone of the ancients to the graveyard and actually play blue eyes

[@goblinslayer1115]

@@antonissmaff bystial package gives it some pretty nice consistency and the new level 2 tuner gives it access to baronne

[@chaoscontroller316]

One day, Blue-Eyes White Dragon will win another World Tournament. I can't predict how or when, but you will see that Dragon somewhere in a winning deck again.

[@jacobmillington7203]

I told Finn to play blue eyes but no he had to play pendulum