Gone Fishin' - The Story of Yugioh's Dreaded Fish OTK And How Konami Absolutely Hated The Deck

[@Aktheman77]

This deck was ahead of it's time in terms of comboing and poping off in one turn it were able to spam monsters like no other deck backthen

[@sodaftpm185]

So like B-LOOD/Diamond Dude Turbo and DAD Return?

[@Aktheman77]

@@sodaftpm185 these decks needed 3/4 cards do pop off but this deck just needed sea king to resolve to full combo the way it worked (1 card gets you to full combo) looked pretty much like modern yugioh

[@banditkade]

The best part was that the combo had inherent protection from Effect Veiler: all you had to do was discard a card to bring back a GY Fishborg before summoning SDKC, as SDKC has the effect of negating targets by sac'ing a fish.

[@Renegade77784]

Coelacanth is such a good card. I'm surprised people don't abuse the Fish engine more in the Master Rule 5 Era since Oyster Meister's effect isn't once per turn. You can spam xyz and AA Zeus sends Oyster Meister to the grave so you can get 2 or 3 tokens then, you can use the tokens for link summons.

[@Aktheman77]

@@Renegade77784 N I B I R U Ash blossom Veiler Imperm

[@Zetact_]

Konami: "We want you to use Fish monsters for Synchro decks. Here's Coelacanth, Oyster Meister, Royal Swamp Eel, Fishborg Blaster, etc." Players: "Cool, sounds fun." [makes a Fish Synchro deck] Konami: "No not like that" I wonder what Konami wanted them to do?

[@pableitor2009]

People often says that GOAT format was yugioh peak, but I really find this era the true peak of yugioh. The amount of different decks and techs from this era were amazing, and the skill required to play some of those decks was insane

[@CCRexKanin]

I miss 5D's era. Would still play if pendulums never happened tbh

[@ravenous14]

Plus anything had the potential to be decent (bar a few archetypes like Cloudians)

[@nicholascarpenter952]

Until Konami fucjed your deck over.

[@nightmare674]

Yeaaaahhhh, that's what I'm always saying. I played most yugioh eras but that time was really fun as fuck. I played against so many different decks in my local.

[@MrMarinus18]

I think GX and especially 5DS was the height of Yugioh. Late DM and early GX had a few cards that were just a little too dominant. Cards that were pretty much mandatory in every single deck. Also early GX decks are the most boring to me as they usually don't really have any kind of real strategy. They are just a bunch of individually good cards thrown together.

[@bearxbear]

Oh man, seeing a list with Snowman Eater, Ladd, and Gorz is so nostalgic. Even though I was a full-fledged part-time casual during this era and had no idea about anything really going on in the meta, it's really cool to learn about what I was missing out on. Great vid & editing Cap!

[@albertorodrigomolinasortiz471]

One of my first purchases when I started the game was a Red Dragon Archfiend tin, from which I pulled Coelacanth, and since then I decided someday I would make a good fish deck. When the first fish tuner came later to the TCG it started, and I played and improved the deck for years. My most memorable version used TG Librarian to syncrho a lot, summon two Shooting Quasar Dragon (was not out in tcg yet so I only built this in Dueling Network) and drew my entire deck and finished with an Exodia win. I remember that was the only time a banlist hit more than a couple of my cards, and since then Fishborg never came back.

[@ShineKami666]

Ah, this deck was cool. Red Nova Dragon and Shooting Star Dragon as options.

[@banditkade]

Edit: HOLY SHIT, THAT'S LITERALLY MY DECKLIST at the 8-minute mark!! I'd love to go over what went into building that deck if you're interested! God, I love to reminisce! Hi, long-time Water Deck player, here. I went to the Phantom Darkness Sneak Peek event and pulled SDKC from one of my packs. At the time, when I first read his effect, I said "You're not good now, but give it time, and I'll bet you'll be great". I went on to run Fish for years and this is what it got me: a three-month winning streak at locals (sep-nov 2010), 2 National Championship invites, a regional top-8 and a top 1000 mat. The Nationals invites were to the 2011 Nationals held in my backyard in Pittsburgh where I ran the Trish Loop FTK, and went 4-3 before eventually dropping. One of the best days of my life at that point. So many great memories running Fish; thank you so much for this video! Speaking of which, I'm surprised you didn't go over the Trish Loop FTK: the deck was able to summon Trish 5 times on the first turn, and was able to set up the field with Formula Synchron to rip the card the opponent drew on the next turn. It was horrible, degenerate, and worked often enough for me to run it at nats that year, lol. I figured if plants were able to set up a field of 5 monsters, 5 cards set backrow and 5 cards in hand after THEIR first turn, I should be able to do the opposite: destroy everything on their side on the first turn. Another OTK: Scrap Archfiend, SDKC, and Mist Wurm combined to make 8000 damage with built-in field clearing. Used by bringing out 2 Royal Swamp Eels, 1 Oyster, and 1 level 4 fish.

[@megaraptor007]

I wish I was good at deck building because I knew the moment I saw Deep-sea King it was broken. I still think that but its too slow now.

[@banditkade]

@@megaraptor007 I saw one dude from early 2020 manage to make a fish deck that was 38 monsters and like 2 spells. I forget the deck's accolades, and I haven't played the game in over 5 years, but I almost wanted to come back because of that list. Sadly the rest of 2020 happened, lol. The recent addition of a Fish tuner named "Greethys" is another reason for me to come back, since it sounds so much like my surname lol.

[@megaraptor007]

@@banditkade thats awesome. I haven't really played in... years. Haven't been to a tournament (mostly locals) in over 10 years. Was playing online but life gets in the way, ya know? But I hope that if you do come back, may the heart of the cards be with ya

[@banditkade]

@@megaraptor007 Likewise! A lot changes in 10 years lol! Regardless of what you do, I hope the heart of the cards is always with you!

[@Kuribohdudalala]

@@megaraptor007 it isn’t too slow thoguh. Dugaris revives it from grave EZ. If we ever get more good fish support, the card will be banned

[@Penterror]

5ds was the best era of yugioh frog monarchs, fish otk, agents, dark worlds, plants, TG, lightsworn. So much fun

[@vehicledestroyer]

agents and darkworld were released during the early xyz era

[@Penterror]

@@vehicledestroyer it was like the very beginning when we had the starter deck. Agents and dw still say 5ds on them

[@vehicledestroyer]

@@Penterror i mean yea they only say that because konami release schedule is trash and tcg is alwways behind. we still got them during the xyz era for us

[@JanizMakudomaru]

Not to mention the birth of Legendary Six Samurai.

[@RealGateGuardian]

Gravekeepers, Blackwings, Zombies & X-Sabers too

[@ButterclawEnthusiast]

how about the story of the Tech Genus archetype? from how they rose to fame in the late 5Ds and early zexal era to when they got a big wave of support in savage strike that allowed the deck to finally play how konami intended. It'd be interesting to hear this story from you especially because you were topping with the deck back in the day

[@Farfa]

What can I say cap, amazing as always!

[@sarthakarora3212]

Same comment no.900. At least try to write something else.

[@arilenn3293]

@@sarthakarora3212 go back to fortnite! FOOL!

[@ricardodiaz231]

Yoooooo

[@SomeRandomGuyOutHere]

@@sarthakarora3212 who cares, comments don't exist to entertain.

[@sarthakarora3212]

@@SomeRandomGuyOutHere entertain? When you praise someone you don't say the same thing every time do you? He puts no thought into giving a praise despite being a friend or colleague, he as many ways to say cap vids suck but only 1 way to praise or appreciate him?

[@simas4609]

I've never heard for this deck but that's why I love this guy. It's so great to learn about history of this game.

[@bobothehobo4158]

This was the last deck I played before quitting the game. Such a fun deck, one of the first "15+ move" turn decks I feel.

[@user-fe8gx3ie5v]

Quitting is g*y.

[@thatman666]

CapG’s a freaky fish guy.

[@lightespeon8043]

Well said Yuuki "That Man" Terumi

[@bikivlogz8336]

You missed the trish hand loop for 5 and ftk deck variants that happend just as librarian was released before fishborg got banned

[@DuelingDexperts]

This is really the variant that got it all banned since if you look at that list we also lost dewloren, D.D.R., Gold sarc, and symbols of heritage in that list which were all part of the ♾️ Trish deck. I remember playing that one time going first opp dropped maxx c on my coelacanth summon, yeah ended up looping his whole deck because he just refused to surrender. Was pretty funny watching him lose by deck out with his entire deck banished due to Trish.

[@fagonfly]

Fish OTK was the first meta deck I ever played. Really nostalgic for me.

[@rhystictomato5635]

So many great little turns of phrase in the writing of this video - “stars aligning” when talking about the introduction of synchro summoning, “sink or swim” for the water deck’s first major performance.... very clever Cap

[@aMereVelleity]

The harpoon bit at the end made this video 100x better.

[@Reynar7]

FROG FTK is the reason why I don't trust Frogs in real life. Nothing like sitting there doing nothing while they burn you in an infinite loop.

[@CybercoreProtos]

Wow, I left yugioh for a while about 2007 and came back to yugioh in 2014 and looking at these stories you put up I can't believe I missed some interesting things during that span of 7 years as the card game was evolving. I will tell you when I went back to yugioh I couldn't believe how different it was from when I first started playing in 2002 to 2014. These cards you show me will always bring nostalgia and memories.

[@binhosmingos7356]

I think you forgot to mention about Vylon Fish. Vylon Fish was such a fun and competitive deck back in the day. Turbo-ing out Vylon Omegas and Epsilon all with the help of Ancient Mausoleum and Deepsea King.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Do you mean Mausoleum of the Emperor?

[@megaprotodude]

Seeing Billy at the beginning of the vid brought back memories. Used to play at the same locals back in the 5ds era.

[@animeknight99]

I remember Big Fish. That card was good back then

[@kidzzone7356]

it was everyone laughed when i said i was playing fishie fishie beatdown funny name i know ppl werent laughing when they got otk'd!

[@banditkade]

What I find so funny is that while I was running this deck, (the one at the 8-minute mark) I always thought of its defenses as "bend, but don't break", despite running more traps than my contemporaries at the time. I suppose it's because I always used Fish Depth Charge and Water Art as ways to pick off threats that would get in the way of the combo; I favored getting rid of backrow with Depth Charge, and the same goes for Water Art, except I could hit things like Veiler, Gorz, and Fader as well. Oyster plus those two set backrow meant I was disposing of at least two threats if I went first, in addition to being able to look at my opponent's hand to see what else could possibly get thrown in my face. I ran Caius for similar reasons: I already had this frog engine, and Caius was just strong enough to warrant the use of things like Bottomless or Torrential such that they used it BEFORE I got the combo off. Most monsters didn't post a threat, so I'd just let them attack; so long as I had life points, I had ways of otk-ing, and leaving a monster on the field actually helped me, since the Colossal Arms OTK needed a monster with at least 1900 atk, which was common. It was definitely more control-oriented than the other otk-builds at the time, but I had always been more of a control player, anyway. Only now, I had ways of sneaking in game-point damage at any time.

[@supercanadian0640]

Can't wait to hear Cap attempt to pronounce Coelacanth

[@flamcheeseful]

He fucking nailed it

[@brsurvivor1]

I'm a new subscriber to your channel, as I don't play the game anymore but I love your content and the nostalgia it brings with videos like this. When I did used to play the game, a guy at my local used to run this before it got hit, but he used to run Mausoleum of the Emperor and Star Blast as easy way to get the big fish out. The reason he stopped playing it because he got caught stacking his deck in order to open God hands every time

[@fatherarkham1233]

This is an amazing video. I remember when LOB and MRD were the only sets out lol. I left playing before Pendulums and Links but have returned because my son has sparked an interest. Good stuff bro.

[@rimekairos]

I would love to see a video of Flamvell Guard and how this unassuming vanilla tuner stood alongside some of the most terrifying dragon decks we've ever seen.

[@GatorRay]

It was played in Dragon Rulers for CRYING OUT LOUD! Also I'd like to see him talk about Reptilianne Vaskii which according to Rata "Saw play in Dragon Ruler Format" (I mean it. I seriously want a "This card was actually meta?" episode on Vaskii)

[@curranman75]

I learned that when I pulled big fish as an ultimate rare 1st ed I should've been more happy lol

[@SirNoweth]

This deck was my jam back in the day. I remember playing online with it and loving every moment of it. It was the deck that got me obsessed with the TCG and the one I felt I most resonated with. The blow to Fishborg pretty much devastated me to the point I quit the game. The deck may now only be a memory, but I’ll always remember my experience with it fondly. Thanks so much for this video and for bringing me back to those good times. Fish OTK for life!

[@Slayerthecrow]

It would be cool if they make support for this boss monster, just to make Fish Synchro something more than a memory.

[@_SlimYGO]

Having played this deck back in the day I can attest to how insane it was. Clearly ahead of its time. Great video Cap!

[@Thedowche]

This was my first competitive deck back then. I built it cause it was fairly budget and highly consistent. I remember playtesting for hours just to see what combos I could pull off and it pissed all my friends off seeing me combo like that. I loved this deck so much. Definitely top 3 of all time for me.

[@sattazahn]

Was just looking for a video about the past formats and found this. Not only is this a great video but funnily enough the first track used in the video is actually my outro theme xD Still an amazing video and a fantastic trip back to the 5Ds era

[@danielclarke7791]

This video was highly enjoyable cap! Thank you for this history trip!

[@rebmon10438]

I remember reading that on pojo back in the day and built that deck just for fun to play at locals at times.

[@alexdalyin9105]

I liked DDR/Gold Sarc, you could play Hidden Armory to search DDR. But there was also Star Blast. These cards allowed some traps by axing the Frog cards

[@Ahhmaro]

one card that was severely underrated in that deck was mausoleum of the emperor. 2.5 cards for full combo. It was also broken w/ Ladd

[@dragonqueenniisan4122]

I remember this change. I managed to pull out a (somewhat) consistent combo to get 2 Colossal Fighters and an Arm, but it was very hit or miss trying to pull out 2 level 8 synchros at the time + the level 4.

[@musiyevonchilla6769]

Damn a card which can swarm 4 monsters on the board out of nowhere sounds neat

[@sodaftpm185]

Yes.

[@ExistentHope]

Not only that but can tribute them to negate card effects too !

[@TheAnbu42]

I love the effort put into these and it takes me back to my start of my yugioh career back around 2009. Well done researching all of this.

[@Lokikikiki]

This was the best era. So many combos and meta options. Control actually was playable.

[@sodaftpm185]

It's arguably why Hard Once Per Turn exists nowadays.

[@Prince_of_Despair]

Control is still playable

[@sodaftpm185]

@@Prince_of_Despair When you're playing Mystic Mine, yes.

[@TheRJB0]

I remember being so excited to build Fish again when Shooting Quasar got announced. I remember the pure devastation I felt when they released the Fisborg F/L list. It was tragedy followed by catastrophe, because the next list was our old friend March 2012. RIP to a real one

[@sodaftpm185]

Quasar Turbo would've placed Deep Sea OTK over the edge now that the deck has a consistent method to play well first turn.

[@desroth]

My only regret about all of this is that I left high school and started college right as the synchro era started and I missed all of this, since the college I went to no one played Yugioh and I had no one to play with anymore so I stopped... Still have my old deck sleeved up, and I often think about dipping my toe back in once the coof is over.

[@AKingofBacon]

Really love your style of storytelling with these Yugioh history videos. Really been digging the content

[@RogueHero]

Considering I was playing Naruto during this era. It was interesting learning about this deck that I've heard about but never seen in action. Good video cap

[@DarkeLourd]

Fish OTK was coming together right around the time I stopped playing and would have been right up my alley. I had played a casual Legendary Ocean deck for years leading up to then and could see the applications a lot of the then-new cards could have, but there was one big thing that killed the deck for me. I'm a sucker for themeing. I really, really wanted boss monsters that fit my deck. And therefore, using Fish and Aqua monsters to summon mostly Dragons and Warriors was a no from me. I could have made an exception for the Ice Barrier synchros maybe and probably reluctantly played Gorz and LaDD , but the ubiquity of goodstuff extra decks with the Signer dragons and the almost complete lack of on-theme options, let alone GOOD ones, was a big part of why I drifted away from the game.

[@duelistacademy2014]

I loved this deck. I topped with it at a few regional back in the day. I feel you missed one point, while it did suck that they changed armory arm. The deck just evolved. We dropped the fighter and played 3 army arm. So if anyone left a monster out you just put 3 armory arms in it and attack it we sea king. 2800 x 3 is 8400 burn damage!. Also you didn't mentioned the mind blowing combos with level eater and trishula that came latter on. But good video x

[@OminousSlush]

Where can I get that stardust around 2:40

[@Weareonenation303]

I'm pretty sure SDKC would have been banned ages ago if it was Warrior or Dragon support. DFKC can easily be special summoned and the swarm effect is a soft OPC to boot. Too bad it's Fish support Also, Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth is a mouthful! Kaijus: *YES*

[@Zetact_]

Support that doesn't cover the "main" types or attributes deserves to be broken, at least within reason. Snake Rain has been out for over a decade and not done anything relevant because Konami never prints Reptiles. FIRE was so starved for support that they literally just started making most FIRE monsters have 200 DEF and say, "They have Rekindling, that's more than enough."

[@brentmartin4166]

I figured you would mention the FTK version with Dewloren as well here.. it was most of the same core deck. But would either Trishula the opponent into No cards to play on there own turn, Or Tempest them after drawing there own deck out w/ Librarian to just burn them to death in the 1st turn..

[@vanguardRailgun924]

And we haven’t seen a good Fish deck since.

[@Zetact_]

There's Merlanteans, until you remember that Sea Serpent is also a type that exists.

[@Renegade77784]

@@Zetact_ New Water Daedalus boss monster is needed ASAP.

[@AsgneonthebesT]

Well there is rank 4 sharks spam with valiant shark lancer

[@crimsonshadow1477]

This was a deck I actually remembered, I started playing again right on the ban list where they banned blaster...i remember hearing about people being sad that their fishy bois couldn't go nuts, had a friend who loved the deck

[@maximusatlas9377]

The 5ds era was my favorite era because of decks like this. Originality was praised and respect trophy within itself.

[@edwinrocha2704]

I loved this & reading the nostalgic comments from people just brings back memories from those days

[@moonshinespaz8559]

I built a XYZ remora deck back in the day that utilized Deepsea that was pretty fun. God I miss those days of fun deck builds that could somewhat compete.....

[@ArthurBarnhart]

Good times! The best of times really! I played Gravekeepers at that YCS as well, I miss these days in yugioh

[@volkaizer6444]

I played fish-themed deck with Coelacanth for fun on YVD even before the deck got massive support. The deck was fun 😃

[@DarkdustDragon]

I feel like Phantom Darkness might be the most game changing set in the history of this game and it deserves a discussion video. It is the only pack I can think of that didn't release during a Pandemic where I straight up could not find it on shelves because people just scooped it up.

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[@sodaftpm185]

Umm explain why I should be interested?

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[@SnackMuay]

Fun fact: Fish OTK is a top deck in Edison format, which is a format from before November 2010. So it was actually possible before it saw major play.

[@stephcurry30hs9]

This made me come back to ygo after goat format

[@sodaftpm185]

Wow... how come?

[@stephcurry30hs9]

@@sodaftpm185 somthing about it just was cool.....it wasn't archetype based...synchro era is peak ygo popularity so I think alot of people reacted the same....plant synchro is my favorite format ever

[@sodaftpm185]

Wow... how come?

[@par5495]

Big fish... I haven't heard that name in years. Thank you so much for these nostalgia trips. I miss what this game used to be so much.

[@nickberg8070]

I did a really goofy version of Fish otk when royal swamp eel first dropped. I was able to end on a Colossal fighter and Thought Ruler Archfiend. I was a humble budget player back then. Good times

[@JohnSmith-hv1rm]

Seeing some of these old school OTK decks makes me think I'm not smart enough for yugioh

[@palle3051]

Where is the Trish loop first turn? I missed it in this Video. It was the first "OTK" with this deck.

[@jorblor6476]

theres actually a few really cool fish cards rn, its like two cards away from being legit oyster meister is pretty tight with link monsters too

[@seanakima50515e]

Loved this deck. Idk if it ever hit meta play bit the Blaze Fenix Otk/Ftk was a fun one as well, play at least 5 cards then summon it 3 times. Put 2 copies back summon it 2 more times via fusion gate and fusion material

[@tensazangetsu0001]

Man look at that young buck calvan tahan I forget he had long hair back in the day

[@RyuzakiTaiyou]

There was also a version of the deck that played Royal Swamp Eel. No clue how popular that was.

[@trainfan4449]

It was more limited in what you could pull out of the extra deck. Its the version my dad ran. 7s and 8s where the common pulls

[@panopticpunk]

i have YET to see a level limit area B/ gravity bind deck. I won SOO many tournaments with it. WTF?! lvl 3 or lower monster deck was AMAZING. Stealth bird, des lacuda, swarm of locusts, swarm of scarabs... ---- it, im going to find my deck now. xD Ah. wave motion cannon.. so good.

[@TheRealKazmir]

I got a regional top with this deck!! I used caius instead of LAD but I swapped around some. Sided in the fish depth charges, such fun! What an odd era of Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@WhoNeedsMeta]

Honestly, I don't think Konami hated the deck, I think they just think it happened to be the deck that exploited the text of Armory Arm. That errata was for sure necessary.

[@TheSandwhichman108]

Speaking of dark armed dragon I made a build of zombie world called dark armed world that’s a sort of lock down beat down hybrid that’s works by stacking the grave with needle worm nest and getting out big level eight synchros like beelez and the underrated chaos ruler.

[@musiyevonchilla6769]

About the errata: I get the Idea behind it, but the OTK should still work if u are able to summon 2 colossal fighter with the Armory Arm equipped to one of ur opponents strong monster

[@nintendalex]

Nicky Lacaille Is from my City and he is still considered a legend by all

[@brauliopedraza6783]

Woah. I know that guy in the 1st few seconds of the video. If I'm not mistaken we went to hs together. Crazy

[@Eung-Homie]

This is so cool! I met Billy Break in like 2012-2013 era, I had just made fire fists and I went to a YCS and he absolutely pushed my shit in with his fire fist deck lol, dude was really cool

[@philipchristensen260]

Man was really expecting you to include the coolest water OTK deck. It ran a long loop with a equip spell that was called symbol of heritage that you would use to loop dewloren. It was a 3 step OTK that you would pull of in one turn by using Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth. First you had to draw the entire deck. Then you had to loop synchros to get 3 dewloren in the graveyard that you looped with symbol of heritage. Ultimataly the third step was to loop Trishhula to banish their entire board and hand from play. BTW are you also the owner of that youtube channel for one piece? You sound exacly like it and I watch his videos every weak.

[@saiyan_princestudios9790]

I loved this fish deck in duel links even if it’s just part of it. Was meta a few years ago. Funny enough no frogs in the DL version bc of the 20 card deck list. The new fish cards are insanely good too for water xyz decks.

[@TheSandwhichman108]

The red nova build is my favorite variant mainly cause red nova is a personal favorite synchro of mine.

[@ebolahh_same8610]

Holy fuck i recall this! Def gave rivals to d.a.d. in a sense, very nostalgic 😪 thanks kappa for the continuous trips down memory lane

[@killerdude666]

I had a different build for the fish otk deck i used spell card to get big fish on field like star blast pay 1500lp get big fish on field and otk opponents was really good actually because most people don't expect to get otk with big fish coelacanth

[@nighthauntingsyugioh7882]

I remember when first turn Quasar was an impressive play.

[@sodaftpm185]

Now we have Borreload Savage Dragon being objectively better than Quasar and Blazar.

[@CyberZayne]

I still find ways to make the deck work as both OTK and a control deck on a casual level. Without the frog engine even.

[@reptiledisfunction9232]

What an awesome story I love reliving my yugioh days and the detail of Konami hating on armory arm is so interesting. Sick ass video wish I still played this game

[@quinkelly1441]

i use to have a super fish deck i built it after the the super fish was release mother gizzly into i think angler fish which counted as 2 tribute for water which made summonding the super fish easyer it was a fun deck

[@GatorRay]

This is so funny to look back on. Konami back then: We don't like the message this OTK has of you're screwed if you go into your boss monster. Konami international later on after the split: Here's an archetype dedicated to dealing with monsters that are based on stuff from Japanese media like Kaiju films and Ultraman.

[@thesmilingvagrants]

Back when summoning a bunch of monsters and using a bunch of monster effects in one turn was actually impressive and cool

[@ProtossTempest]

I am proud you learned how to pronounce "coelacanth" The dino kid in me cringed in pain every time you called it "koo-ala-kint" on stream

[@LevskiAjani]

I actually made and topped a regional with a version when Royal swamp eel dropped.

[@Eiji475]

One of my all time favorite decks. Went 5-2 in a regionals with it right before the errata came out. Made so many people salty haha

[@rdxgamer1772]

I love seeing these weird decks and how they preform

[@ExistentHope]

I was just playing against that card on Tag Force 6 that fish card was powerful but I beat it with a Clear World Attribute Chaos Sorcerer deck.

[@tubbymontana7090]

I love this an archive on yugioh history is lit is there a video in the first ever tournament

[@sabes44]

5Ds was the best time in yugioh. Hands down

[@sodaftpm185]

Why is it your favorite era?

[@sodaftpm185]

Why is it your favorite era?

[@LauncherSpiderMk7]

So much nostalgia. This era was when I finally had my own money to spend on yugioh and could actually build. There was so much diversity and creativity in the meta. I remember when Plant Synchro got nerfed, but then we all just bounced back by making Chaos Plant Synchro lol.

[@covershopkid]

Not only did I enjoy it, I wish it never ended.

[@benallen7704]

It was a shame they hit it. I liked it and ran it and Six Sams. Fishys were my second deck. Even after they hit the Colossal Arm combo [and Mega is absolutely right; Komoney HATED that combo] I saw some decent success with it in locals. Winning a few times even. It still could spam out massive amounts of synchros that were hard to kill. And it was one of only a few decks that could constantly make Mist Wurm AND Trishula. Mean.

[@destroyerda013]

MBT made a return look at this deck like 6 months ago i believe. It still works pretty well with the new fish support that has come out. It also is no longer just an FTK but also a semi grindy deck with ways to search almost anything in itself.

[@sodaftpm185]

Link?

[@destroyerda013]

@@sodaftpm185 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYXEmI1vqbSfaZo

[@TKDragon75]

Wait, this sounds like you could still use that card in a Shark Swarm deck. Like the deck I run, it could at least be a one off use to get more monsters for xyz summoning on.