The Darkest Timeline - The Story of Yugioh’s First Ever Emergency Banlist

[@cookiecutter6735]

Today I learnt that Allure of Dankness used to be a TCG exclusive. Wonderfull stuff.

[@TecTitan]

"Dad Return" "Tele-DAD" I feel like this has something to do with absentee fathers in the yugioh communitee lol

[@animeoutlands1588]

YES! Quality Content!

[@alonsoarana5307]

Isn’t this the timeline where everyone has a goatee and wears eyeliner and trench coats?

[@elchicoalto5635]

thank you for making these videos! as a new player myself, I definitely like hearing about past formats and banlists! keep up the good work!

[@eliasjerhada]

I miss old Yugioh, pre pendulum

[@Trekkie46]

Or at least DUEA format. I'd call that a silver age.

[@phaggott]

@@Trekkie46 right, I reconnected w. YGO in the sknights & all that era I could not believe what the game had came to. Sugoi indeed. Then found Cap with his Dn commentaries. Fond memories... I was able to truck along with some netdecked Constellar build and then Nekroz, then Cosimo?? They killt DN, ygopro was ok, then came real despair; links I had to leave.. still subbed to cap tho

[@phaggott]

Lmao I remember reading towers like WUT??🤨🤔🤔🤔!!!

[@qzy-179SanTzxkW]

That's why i don't go to regionals, facing all these op pendulum decks running around right now is annoying

[@Srock8994]

stunt94u what? Pendulums are borderline unplayable rn competitively

[@AnarchoBearBear]

Still waiting for you to teach my history class

[@StarTard8]

We must have the story of the first truly terrifying and consistent FTK in YGO: The Magical Scientist FTK!! I WILL NEVER GIVE UP!

[@emildokle261]

It surely was horrifying but not nearly as frog ftk at the synchro era , either broken synchro field or ftk

[@royalsoldierofdrangleic4577]

LoL, and the much newer pendulum ftk... i think it is the most consistent ftk deck ever, because can work as a normal pendulum deck if cannot ftk

[@undeadinside3571]

pepe at full power was cancerous

[@StarTard8]

I want this story not cause Scientist was the best, but because it was the FIRST. Before Scientist FTK came about there were NO decks that could consistently kill you before your first draw. Scientist changed that INSTANTLY, and I don’t think people realize what kinds of cancer existed back then. If you think Frogs and Pendulums were bad, back when Scientist was being used as a win button, Last Will, Painful Choice, Monster Reborn, Premature Burial, DMoC, Graceful Charity, Pot of Greed, AND Last Will were all legal SIMULTANEOUSLY. And the deck was LITERALLY unstoppable: no Crush Card, no hand traps, just the dice roll and pure dumb luck (which didn’t exist because of the aforementioned cards). It was and still is considered by many to be the most consistent and dirty FTK of all time because of the environment it was played in.

[@cameraredeye3115]

@@StarTard8 Lol I guarantee that FTK would be broken today if it were legal. Even though we have Impermanence AND Veiler, that deck could just run Called by the Grave and Red Reboot/Forbidden Lance to stop both cards.

[@DarkSymphony777]

i predict that the dragon rulers will be next for story time with capG

[@CGTradez]

Wym there’s plant synchro that just wouldn’t die, or even blackwings

[@dongliker]

@@CGTradez plant synchro was the best deck this game ever saw

[@JonBc14]

After my childhood, I came back into the game right after the Gladiator's Assault (GLAS) pack during my early high school years, I had nooo idea that Allure of Darkness was a TCG exclusive at the time until now & one of my first decks that I picked up (alongside E-Heroes) was Glads & I had no idea of what the meta was as a kid lol

[@akumaouja4062]

An emergency banlist right before nationals despite cards still being fairly new and being sold to solve a problem. If that isn't a sign of why Upperdeck should have stayed in charge then I don't know what is.

[@ramel7031]

Cosign 100%

[@gravekeepersven82]

amen!

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

ah yes, visions of the link era and Master Peace

[@derekfreiley7980]

Man I remember Shonen Jump Houston. That tournament was crazy. None of us expected Six Samurai to win. Cap, you should tell the Pied Piper story

[@ebolahh_same8610]

That Dark Armed overnight price jump tho 👀👀☕🐸😂😂

[@molehansman247]

Pulled one from a tin and sold it for £180 when i was like 14. Was amazing

[@dangeryu-gi-ohchannel5513]

This was my first event outside of locals! I played my dad's Ultimate Insects with tripple Doom Dozer and Pinch Hopper. I only won one match but i one around 7 games so i was a happy 13 year old. It was also heald at the old convetion center that was next to the river by the twin Norfolk Southern - CSX Transportation railway diamonds/bridges. It was alot of fun for me back then. - Danger!

[@nettlednedflanders5736]

#FreemyboiStratos

[@spookyskeleton1787]

Boi lol

[@johnblunt6693]

Free my nigga stratos

[@phaggott]

Lmao they threw the book at him

[@sirspookybones1118]

👌

[@johnblunt6693]

When you find your nigga stratos

[@CallMeNevermore]

In ten years we will hear about World Chalice, the one hit wonder archetype that won the largest European YCS in this game's history.

[@sXe4life]

Damn Cap... This channel of yours is a jewel. Keep up the good work.

[@House_Of_Champs]

Who would win, 13 DAD decks or 1 samurai boi

[@MegaCapitalG]

Find out in an upcoming Yugioh Story about Shonen Jump Houston 2008 that may or may not be titled "Party Crashers"

[@gregoryzalack7980]

Oh I remember those days, I was at the Columbus tournament you talked about. I was one of the gladiator players. I got wrecked so bad one of the worst tournaments I took part in. I was jumping for joy when that list came out!

[@HorizonsEndUS]

My favorite era of Yugioh Phantom Darkness

[@cameraredeye3115]

How about this for your your next story? "Dragon Rulers: A Parade of Dragons So Powerful, It Took Using the Banlist to Finally Defeat Them"

[@HorizonsEndUS]

Papa G could you do the actual Rise And Fall Dark Armed Dragon he deserves it.

[@HorizonsEndUS]

The A Listers not even that Dark Armed Dragon has too Formats named after him. He’s also been in tier decks on and off for a decade

[@nunocarvalho6671]

1 dad doesnt help, it woule be used if you had more

[@dred_dreamr]

@@nunocarvalho6671 dad isnt limited to 1 anymore, u can play him at 3 now

[@nunocarvalho6671]

@@dred_dreamr my comment is 1 year old

[@smithclone]

I got my first top 8 around this time. G beast, DAD and lightsworn were all at max power. And I made top with a incomplete g beast deck. Only 2 beastiari and 3 gyzerus not herc.

[@mcnizzle9934]

Love the vids bro nothing like working OT listening to some Yugioh 🤙🏽

[@akumar9836]

Synchro cat and dragon rulers are more memorable than this, also the magical scientist and chaos format, all are devastating deck types. I also remember monarch, light and darness dragon, machine otk, demise otk, destiny control, tele dad and others, they are not as powerful as the decks i mentioned in the above paragraph. The next devastating deck i expect is tech genus utilising needlefiber. A deck that can summon powerful control cards like no tomorrow, such as shooting quasar, cosmo blazar, stardust warrior, t.g. Blaster etc..

[@theoneafterthelast]

Like I always say. I am truly impressed with the amount of detail, insight and research that you put into these videos. I don't see how someone can go to this video and dislike it though. Like it's exactly what you're looking for.

[@LukesYuGiOhChannel]

This was some dark stuff! Great story again. Can't believe it's been a decade since those great days.

[@danielclarke7791]

Awesome vid sir! I enjoyed it & listened to the whole vid!

[@KHaskins23]

Makes me miss playing the game more even though the only decks I had were Six Samurai, Rainbow Beast, & Volcanic.

[@YouTubeEnjoyer328]

I love these videos, I like listening to you talk and I love the old intos and outros

[@Kuribohdudalala]

I think everyone loves these videos

[@RohanSpartin]

Man, if I hadn't stopped playing towards the end of the first Yugioh anime, and invested more money into the game in the GX era, I could have been a damn good player, as these types of decks are my jam!

[@Omojuze41]

I legit cried when Lavalval Chain was first banned :'(

[@nouvelle147]

Stratos Memes, Stratos Memes Everywhere...

[@amiibopimp852]

Gone, reduced to atoms

[@Michaelalvinjonesii]

Excellent content sir! Keep it up!

[@mahdiishaque7845]

If dad return is the darkest era, would that make Pepe the funniest era

[@Trekkie46]

Nice try, but there was nothing funny about that top-deck full recovery format.

[@justinbryan6249]

@@Trekkie46 What are you guys talking about? What's Pepe?.

[@Trekkie46]

@@justinbryan6249 Pepe stands for Performage Performapal. It was one of the strongest Pendulum decks ever. Several of its cards were emergency banned a week or so after they were released in Breakers Of Shadow.

[@haydenmichelli3065]

@@Trekkie46 I'm so glad I didn't purchase that deck. I was playing burning abyss at the time IRL and was playtesting the shit out of PEPE before it was released on devpro, absolutely awesome deck to play. I wouldn't say the deck did anything especially degenerate, but it was unfair in power level and resource recovery versus everything else available at the time. It made decent boards, but not anything that would stop you from playing yugioh while slowly beating you down/OTK you when your deck ran out of resources. It was only emergency banned because of how unbelievably unfair the deck was in resource management, recovery and consistency, not because it was degenerate or broken like alot of decks were. Hell, even dragon rulers weren't degenerate, they were just unbelievably unfair based on the power level of decks at the time. Spellbooks with judgement were down right degenerate at the time, with a damn near guaranteed jowgen first turn lock every game, or Nekroz's releaser unicore lock. Hell even shadolls super poly winda combo would be considered degenerate at the time. Or qliphort towers turbo was near impossible to break through.

[@davidguile2146]

I love your videos man

[@richcast66]

Long after Tele dad was a thing, I made a lavalval chain dad deck that went almost undefeated on dueling network. One of the most consistent and deadly decks I've ever constructed

[@danielscott7985]

This is respectable content.

[@nanya524]

Man, I had an XYZ Dragon Cannon deck way back in the day that got KILLED by the bans/limits when BLS-Envoy was finally killed off. It wasn't Envoy that sank my deck, it was losing Night Assailant, Cyber Jar and a few others. Then, years later, my T.G.-Plant-Synchron deck got hit when T.G. Striker (NOT a meta card) was limited. I gave up playing the game a few months later when Gearagias came out.

[@emildokle261]

Its amazing how i was playing MUD and perfect circle deck before that time and then switched to playing completely casually ( Monarch decks with a lot of control cards) until 2013 and after playing Spellbooks i left playing meta until DUEA , never stopped playing meta since then ! YuGiOh surely its a fun game besides all the bad formats and the dramatic increase in the speed

[@KumaPaws376]

I read the title as “Fire” banlist lol

[@magicianzero3960]

Excellent content as always dude🤘

[@stevenboucher7762]

Hey Cap G, I have a question. What do you think of doing a YuGiOh tournament but to make it interesting by making it where the players can only use the cards from Battle City Tournament, Dungeon Dice, and Duelist Kingdom? Now for the cards that are currently banned, they will be placed at 1. What do you think Cap G?

[@funGohan]

Ishizu Tearalaments here we go again :v

[@joshuahernandez2763]

This is the reason to watch your channel,

[@CaliburXL99]

Dude u should do a new hierarchy series with the top 10 most broken draw cards used in competitive yugioh history lesson.

[@noodles00p]

Makyura got a whole month of play before the double barrel got pulled on it, one would've thought it'd be the first emergency ban considering it was already banned in OCG and was just too good. Talk about insane flashbacks.

[@dom5g419]

One of the best formats ever!

[@bobsmith8405]

The more stories the better, thanks for this

[@chavalya1995]

5:00 to 5:40 THIS IS WHY STRATOS IS BANNED!!!! #FreeStratos

[@Rebellions]

Him Free...

[@vince5456]

Ahh, yes, the time where OTKs and FTKs are just everywhere. This is the time I stopped playing.

[@jettisone]

Damn, bringing the old intro back, nice

[@vanidemo]

This is the content I subbed for

[@immortallegend648]

How about the fact that DAD was about $350 - $380 a card. I had this whole deck and it was fast and fun!

[@hgetgbg2e1f]

Uploaded at the same time as Celza

[@veritassyfer1185]

LOL, I know Diaz. We played at locals in NYC (Started in Bronx) at locals in a mall and a store that held weekly tournaments. The guy always called himself "Kaiba". He was a big fan of Blue Eyes White Dragon.

[@philithegamer8265]

Seto Kaiba is essentially Chris Chan if Chris Chan was rich.

[@killerzer0x74]

About halfway through the video.....still waiting to hear about that ban list

[@zanezonair]

"your favorite deck might be forever fractured" Me: **sad cat face crying as i look at my amorphage deck**

[@crossfirehunter3652]

I liked the thumbnail so much I have it saved to put on something it might be my new profile pic

[@majinbahamut3985]

I really like these because I have gone in and out of the game ever since its inception.

[@ExistentHope]

Tele DAD format also was pretty interesting too and Plant Synchro Black Wings.

[@Londokian]

Tomorrow this video will be one year old

[@theMOCmaster]

the cyber-stein emergency ban is the first emergency ban...

[@ButterclawEnthusiast]

i love the yugioh stories cap!

[@animeknight99]

Top 10 Fake Ban List? 1214 ads and counting

[@royvink9376]

This brings back memories! I forgot why i quit back in the day. always remembered it was before synchro summoning was a big deal i actually quit after how they killed the dark deck. i spend hundreds of euros on this set (was 19 only had school and a part time job) only for it to be destroyed after this and the next ban list. I still have really fond memories of the game.

[@Ghaleonh41]

Ah, this was one of my favorite times in the game & definitely one of the best sets!

[@ShadowsWrath4]

8:26 G, dude. G, my man. "Cyber Dragon" does not equal "Cyber Valley". I mean, unless I heard it wrong and my memory is messing with me today. That was a long time ago, after all.

[@MegaCapitalG]

whoops, I meant Cyber Valley

[@fooblaUK]

I haven't played yugioh since, teledad /5D. Been watching some videos, I know what pendulums, xyz, links are. But i just have no idea where to start lmao. Its so intimidating now.

[@MirageUchiha]

Tele-DaD was the bane of my existence back back in the day. Lol

[@covershopkid]

I need some badass bgm to this type of video too. Great vid though

[@ma_dd]

The thumbnail art of DAD is very cool

[@output4794]

I was playing Gladiator Beast at the time. Yugioh was the most fun back then.

[@iicapnjazzii6779]

You know its gonna be good when he has the djinn intro

[@theoneafterthelast]

Rise and fall of Beaver Warrior.

[@Hclody95]

i dont know how you can tell those stories like that happened decades ago, i feel like t was yesterday chaos format with yata... anyway first emergency banlist was december 2002: imperial order and jinzo to 1, they were soloing the meta

[@Hynotama]

Now I remember why I stopped playing in tournaments. Because they're filled to the brim with OTK/FTK trash.

[@justjonathan8033]

this is why i suscribed

[@eulefranz944]

I love these videos:)takes me back to good ol---wait. Anyways, this is a series that is perfect for your channel and for every ygo player!

[@nealcaffrey2562]

I love to play my old nintendo yugioh games like ,,GX World Championship 2007" and ,,5 ds 2010" best time for me

[@vizzerdrix2747]

You talked a lot about dad format and phantom darkness(‘cause there’s so much to say, and I’m ok with that)but what about “light of destruction”?

[@The_Juggla]

But Stratos' original text only allowed it to target "Elemental Hero" monsters

[@SwagMaster824]

Today I learned that Upper Deck was actually designing Yu-Gi-Oh cards and Konami didn’t design every single card in existence. That’s awesome. Allure is such a greatly designed card as well.

[@USHistoryFinal2009]

Came here to comment that I liked your reference at the end of the vid to the Shin chan dub. "Money makes life happy!"

[@iunnor]

So we gonna ignore the fact that a copy of DAD was like $300 and we needed like 2 or 3 to actually stand a chance at a tournament?

[@immortallegend648]

DAD and blackwings! My second favorite deck

[@whirlysquirrely3368]

I really wish the game would slow down like limiting special summoning to 2 a turn

[@trihazardknight]

im still waiting for my duel terminal lore

[@samhayes-astrion]

7:40 D/D/Ds were a thing back then!? Holy fuck, what timeline _is_ this, cap!?

[@d.e.g.e.3061]

D.D. dude ftw

[@alexmiller5383]

The deck is back, but does it matter in 2019?

[@TCGrodney89]

We called the deck in the Netherlands, the little car. It was as expensive as a little car. XD

[@sorenjonasson1506]

I Love this Series

[@te-jay6058]

It's still my favorite set of all time. Soooo many Darkness cards :)))

[@uzair6327]

More videos like this please

[@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937]

Community reference. I’m here for this.

[@mrdiskus676]

My boy jerry wang. Amount of times we’d go drinking the night before regionals just for him to there drunk and dominate

[@AtticusSP]

God I wish we still had banlists on a schedule instead of whenever Konami feels like it.

[@fhsrthjjtryhjert405]

I wish I wasnt a kid at the time

[@maple1234567890321]

which is better: tele dad or dad return? I personally think it is tele dad