The 2022 Yugioh TCG Recap

[@7HEPK]

you should do a video like that but for every year of yugioh`s history

[@goodandfren3926]

THIS

[@matt3608]

Best comment

[@Be4rstr1ker]

I would love to see this

[@TheBlackboxgameingCo]

Is that not what he’s doing with the retro formate series?

[@majespectorkuro8630]

“The year is 2005, and here’s the top decks! Summoned skull beat down. Okay the next set! Summoned sk-“

[@whiteshadow2535]

A: I really like learning about, the TCG meta and history, and B: This is literally the best video for learning the upcoming cards and engines for master duel

[@TaylorLeprechaun]

I can't imagine how long a video like this took to put together. Fantastic job! I would love to see one for the other years of the TCG

[@your_boywee_tam9155]

If I was to take a guess, maybe a year

[@garrettmarple2819]

😂😂😂

[@mogwai694]

Please do these for previous years. Helps new players that weren’t present in part formats learn.

[@hightidekraken]

I forget Adventure was this year sometimes it feels like a 2021 release (which it almost is a year old at the time of writing this so that makes sense lol) As much as YGO has problems and Konami causes issues I love this game similar to how Law himself put it. I’ve made fantastic memories this year alone including being able to go the NA Championship with a close friend and get 2nd in the tag duel tournament which was a blast and also getting several cards signed from all sorts of people.

[@FobbitMedic]

Love this!! As a returning player, this is super helpful to get up to speed on what's been happening in the meta and why. Now I don't feel as lost at locals and have a better feel for what different decks are trying to accomplish. Please do more set reviews like this!

[@zanzax6438]

You might not be back for long 😂

[@FobbitMedic]

@@zanzax6438 I say returning but I've already been playing about 8 months lol. Still getting caught up to speed on the older metas and specific cards that carried into current metas or could.

[@DefaultSeaTurtle]

As someone who stopped paying close attention to the game around 2019-2020, I found this extremely interesting and helpful to catch up! I'd love to see more modern videos like this maybe once or twice a year, if you wanted.

[@KixMusaid]

Bro this video is literally perfect, as someone who likes looking back in the game’s history, this is great documentation

[@CaramelFrapple]

Gotta give this year major props for un-fucking the financial pit that was the barrier for entry to the game. We went from starting the year off with players having to spend half a grand on just the staple cards every deck needed to play at a competitive level, with almost every top deck running between 1-1.5 grand, to having that same $500 be enough to build almost any deck available.

[@GuardianGrarl]

Before 1:16 : Meh... After 1:16 : You have my attention Master Law.

[@clubpat54]

I love you Law, don't think you can get away playing Volibear's theme as an ending song without me loving Einar Selviks smooth Nordic call and commenting about it.

[@JStech0421]

Excellent Video! 2022 was an interesting year for yugioh and we saw so much power creep come in and come out the game. I really enjoyed playing adventure dragon link this year and it got me so many tops at events! I will hold that format dear to my heart❤️ keep up the great work

[@Frank-pt5ls]

I have seen many end of the year video reviews but this has to be the most enjoyable of all. Even though it’s an hour long but it really didn’t feel like. Good job

[@tatethompson9986]

This really reminds me of the league recaps Nicky Boi does, great work as always keep it up.

[@four-en-tee]

This year was like 3 years worth of meta changes rolled into 1.

[@jayveasey]

I could watch something like this every day. Amazing video my dude. Hope to see more from other years!

[@BezimiennyMarcel]

That's a great video. A lot of research, no fluff, no bullshit and a good look at the current state of TCG.

[@jayyopeo]

My first year collecting with yugioh. Been a Rollercoaster and I enjoyed every min of it

[@leohuang2610]

Excellently made video. Very comprehensive and accurate. Mentioning Ghoti and not Dracoslayers for DABL was weird, but that's all. I'd like all the meta deck from nats, adjusted to the current list, to be viable right now. Except for floo.

[@brentmiller9520]

Fantastic summary. You've earnt an algorithm bump.

[@justkaku1293]

Am I the only one who immediately thinks of Nickyboi's League Season Recaps with this style of video? I love it so much

[@thesevenmasks3362]

It's exactly nickyboi (and bricky before him) style. I love it so much

[@justkaku1293]

@@thesevenmasks3362 It's still great after all this time

[@TorresProductionsLLC]

i was surprised you didn’t talk about how much the community all assumed PK Brave was going to be tier 0 after grand creators and the first PPG event seemed to suggest that, but then literally within a week everyone moved on to better adventure decks

[@andrejv.2834]

People were expecting phantom knight to be a meta deck back in bode for some reason which is even funnier

[@Aides1128]

I’ve been experimenting with the new grapha in a branded tear deck. It’s a one card gossip shadow that enables you to clear bricks and extend during your opponent’s turn. All you need is king of the swamp

[@literallygrass1328]

King + another name + a way to fuse

[@Raminator243]

Can’t you use dark hex sealed fusion for this?

[@Aides1128]

@@Raminator243 yeah you can do it with any fusion substitute

[@SmallPope-o5j]

Killer video! Very informative and straight to the point.

[@thezestylime0989]

having come back into the game just after dimension force released after about 9-10 years out of it, oh boy has this year been a bit wierd. the game moves so fast now, both meta wise and turn plays. I'd been playing online a bit with master duel, and got back into physical with 3 branded structures, and syplimented with predaplant support. been having a great time all in all, looking forward to next year (minus kashtira, that's stupid)

[@dracoblizzard7944]

56:48 people were talking about making Constellar Diamond using Ptolemaeus's effect, not by hard making it. You could already hard make it with any tellernight rank 4, the difference is now you can make it turn 1 with 3 level 4s.

[@julianluk3489]

This detail also bothered me so much when I rewatched it multiple times. I dunno how he managed to miss it.

[@rambotv3563]

It’s amazing seeing much more movement in the yugioh community. I felt like yugioh was slowly dieing but this year showed me that yugioh still has much more to it.

[@awildsylveon9896]

I get most of my yugioh fix from master duel and we are currently in our version of branded meta, with the most recent set adding labyrinth and runick. Can't wait for spright to show up

[@beatsbyash]

Brother your videos are amazing to lay down to. So relaxing/calming!

[@PiantaBroker]

great video. it's a video I can either watch or listen in the background. can't wait for next year.

[@VORTEX___]

4:35 fusion destiny hard draw was one of the sackiest, most powerful, highest variance plays this year. they should have limited FD very early on to at least minimize it.

[@sebastianchavez1225]

hard errata it so it can only be used by HERO decks honestly DPE and Dragoon being generic was the biggest mistake of the year

[@Berkkoisback]

This is the literal best video in the channel. Keep it up king

[@tiagoabner]

A quick correction regarding YCS Rio: Tactical Masters had been released already, but it wasn't legal for this event because it wasn't available in Brazil already due to distribution issues. This happens from time to time in Brazil, as customs clearance is especially complex. This happened earlier in 2022 with GFTP2 not being legal for Brazilian Nationals (so no Heatsoul or Borrelend), and in 2023 (with the Fire King structure deck still not being available).

[@traplover6357]

Need to know the song used in the Power of the Elements section. 🔥 song

[@Bass897]

This gives me Nickyboi vibes. Amazing video to round out this year of yugioh!

[@KingKasper]

The fact you used mysic from yugioh forbidden memories is ELITE 💯

[@orderofanewmoonlight6163]

I hope we get BASED format as a legacy format in the future

[@Yslohr]

For what it's worth, Hidden Arsenal Chapter 1 was an okay set if you were playing exactly Dragunity. Guisarme is a card that a lot of players under-estimated on release but actually allows a lot of combo versatility. While not majorly represented Dragunity did manage to take a day 2 nawcq spot later that year and some regional top 32.

[@chadisnotachad]

Short printing is a strategy for Konami to sell more cards, and I'm happy to see it not working as much anymore. Sucks that Legendary Duelist is dead though

[@delgande]

Legendary Duelists sucked. They were nostalgia bait and it would have been better to just release the legacy support in a Core set and call it a day. Buying legendary duelists felt like a waste of money since only about 5 cards are worthwhile and the rest are reprinted garbage

[@SimplyXera]

Love these long retrospective videos!

[@Virgil200]

I stepped away from the game in 2020. These kinds of videos are really helpful in getting caught up

[@huynghiepdu]

yo, history of Yugioh Master Duel? Almost 1 year bro

[@Alexifeu]

ALL MY FRIENDS GOT LEGEND OF THE CRYSTAL BEAST AND ME TOO... We wanted to play Yu-Gi-Oh! in real life and I bought my first Deck THIS ONE. And my friends also bought a deck and we randomly all got the same exact one. Legend of the Crystal Beast xD

[@pieromorantearenaza4801]

Dude you straight up have some of the highest quality content on the Yugi tube! You deserve WAY more subs pd: PLEASE make a new history of duel links vid

[@TheAandJStudio]

Playing Adventure Prank on MD was some of the most fun i've had in Yu-Gi-Oh in awhile.

[@literallygrass1328]

"""""Fun""""" that deck is the least interesting deck ever. It does 1 linear line every game and dies if interacted with.

[@neogalactic1195]

This video is amazing, thank you for all the hard work you put into this

[@Zac_the_Intern]

So sad to see that the Daruma cannon got a mention, but not Dracoslayer for being the first time a Pendulum deck would be good enough to top a YCS in like 2 years

[@andrejv.2834]

Almost 3 years

[@lilsunny7399]

One thing you didn't mention, though i dont blame you. POTE also saw some new support for Rikka including Princess and Konkon that let people experiment for a bit pairing them with Sunavalon to create a very solid board breaking deck that could tribute remove threats on the opponent's turn and recur resources quickly. It didn't see much if any high level play mostly because of how complex the lines were and yeah, spright and tear just came out. But it was still looked at.

[@garrettmarple2819]

It won a damn YCS too which is crazy

[@ViserionGames]

In darkwing blast you missed dracoslayers! There were 4 new cards released that brought a full deck with a decent matchup against tearalmaent. It it has easy access to both necrovalley and abyss dweller, and has been consistently showing tournament play! I loved the video though. Thank you!

[@dragontowergaming4669]

The gwen theme is the music in the background, yugioh meets league

[@angelcastiel7876]

I know its a lot to ask, but can you do a history of Synchros? Because Synchros came out right before I quit YGO.

[@ilikeedm6168]

Wow really nice and well researched video!

[@catteomustacheo3690]

Love taliyah's log in theme

[@AnhMai-ih8vc]

Absolutely amazing video

[@blord1205]

Seeing this almost a year later is crazy. I'm so glad I never had to play TCG during Tear 0.

[@CzaDevian]

Mate this is the first video I see from you, very impressive and super well received in returnee players like me, cheers #subscribed

[@VORTEX___]

9:00 we had the remote ycs end of february which was won by BASED60 by paulie aronson.

[@TheLawYGO]

I’m going to be covering remote duel YCS events later, they deserve their own analysis

[@hyoroemongaming569]

My best take from your video is infos that might be overlooked form hyped card. That Ptolemaeus restriction So thats what Herald focus for Isoiria lol

[@necessaryevil2560]

A master duel meta recap since it got made would be awesome

[@furkankocaman356]

“Impact: Shelf bulk” who says it’s goin on my shelf and not the basement bins! Lol

[@sunwukong7581]

Pls can you continue the duel links history, I really love it

[@nathanheming9270]

I'm excited for more despia/branded support

[@WalterWhite-gw3vm]

This vid was very well done👍👍

[@andrejv.2834]

Maybe the funniest thing that happened this year has gotta be spright being the most hyped up thing in the past few years at least, because of the ocg results as usual And then they'd come, make exactly one major finals, and not even make top 4s in many events And another funny thing was adventurer phantom knight being hyped up for months, again because of the ocg, and then they'd proceed to do absolutely nothing except for like one top 16 in grand creators format

[@isb_adamas]

Can’t imagine how much time this vid took to make!

[@eduardosantillan3048]

Amazing video!

[@crypticloki]

Remember when hala was everyone's biggest fear? How far we've come

[@asc114]

oh boi its that time of the year agane

[@lifequality]

Really amazing video! my respect! On a different note: I found it very sad to see how worse the yugioh experience has become on the competitive side over the last years now. I mean you can´t really find much positive stuff looking at these formats...tier 0 shit that lasted too long. tight tier 1 sets that were gating players by having a few very expenisve cards that - for the most part - were shortprinted. I am a huge yugioh fan. But this insane stuff that Konami isn´t really trying to balance is just disheartening.

[@eu4um]

Great vid! Deck variety isnt always a good thing tho. I'll take a year of Tear 0 over 1 month of HalqDon DPEScythe lock any day

[@nexus5253]

Hopefully in 2023 we’ll finally get volcanic support.

[@jazzerokami2443]

Zeri's theme when you showed Spright 👀 I've seen what you did there

[@fabianyusif4152]

Amazing video bro great jop

[@asheketchupp206]

Can definitely see the nickyboi inspiration in this video, but I like it! You should do this for each year!

[@hathucquan5350]

i’m still hoping for the Duel Links era recap video…. I know he kinda ditched this but damn a man can hope

[@TheLawYGO]

someone didn't stay to the end of the video

[@gappy_1]

Interestingly enough both Andres and Chris got banned after they won their Ycs

[@duelme1234]

10 month late oops. I enjoyed the video but for topics like mine, i feel like the portrayal of the card was quite...revisionist(?) in a sense. Most people knew that mine was a powerful card even since 2019, but the main point of discussion was forcing main deck s/t removal and whether or not the increase chance of bricking/not drawing the out was healthy/manageable or not. Also, you forgot to mention how players thought the nov banlist was detached from reality and seemingly made for the previous meta. Would love to see these aspcets of the video improve for the 2023 recap and i look forward to it in 2 months.

[@smallman9545]

i enjoyed this a lot. very clear inspiration from nickyboy

[@jonathanperigo6853]

I dont even play yu gi oh. But I find this interesting. Is there any chance you would be willing to make videos explaining how the major competitive strategies work for people like me who dont understand what they are reading when they see a YGO card? lol.

[@shirasagiruri-1971]

There’s no such name as Illusion of Chaos and Magician’s Soul, those are Illusion of SPYRAL and SPYRAL’s Soul instead 🐸

[@terydtl4427]

just curious but what song did you use for the power of the elements section?

[@nexusdevworks]

Amazing video

[@mageside]

So.... anyone down for Ishizu's cards to get hit? The Tearlaments struggled before their release to hold top place

[@vinnythewebsurfer]

Tearlament Ishizu is the definition of a deck that’s beloved by Pro players, despised by everyone else that has no care to out shuffle decks for 20 mins

[@lefteron6804]

Darkwing blast also brought us Lady. Not that it was enough to help against the current meta.

[@TheNewblade1]

Its weird how people aren't referencing the way both world decks were hyped and flopped due to bad timing.

[@undefinederror5306]

Shooting riser was hit because you can foolish 2 cards in 2 turns. You can foolish a combo piece during your turn, then use halq to Summon shooting riser to send snow.

[@andrejv.2834]

But you can't use their effects that turn

[@undefinederror5306]

@@andrejv.2834 send water enchantress during your opponent's turn. Send snow during your turn.

[@andrejv.2834]

@@undefinederror5306 it's a cute play ig but decks that used shooting riser would usually have enough bodies to otk on turn 3 anyway

[@undefinederror5306]

@@andrejv.2834 Idk, there were times where the 2nd shooting riser would come up, then I would use it to dump a monster to Synchro, let's say savage, for an extra negate and body.

[@sammy8020]

Great video

[@VuTran-sr4ul]

53:06 Mystic Mine Bum 💀

[@monkeylemur]

Crystal Beast made 0 impact this year. But it'll probably make a surprise top next banlist. It'll depend on how much they ban the Ishizu stuff, but it's got the support of really good players.

[@lefteron6804]

Shout out to Edyboi, for the format.

[@desmond-vo5lg]

Sry and i know this is nitpicky but did law really say that diamond and ptolemaeus didn't see play because of diamonds summoning condition? Like the whole thing is ptolemaeus cheats out diamond without its condition having to be met.

[@jackferdinger4180]

God 2022 was such a based year for YuGiOh

[@reecenaidu6020]

Lol I bought duelest of the roses back in the day and returned it XD

[@swarrior67]

If the star of the product it's Royal Knight of the Ice Barrier you know something is wrong (Ice Barrier Enjoyer).

[@DJStriker106]

Whats the song used at the start of the grand creators section?

[@Zaffr3]

Something that always annoyed me about TCG Duels from the Deep that they used Mako as the poster character instead of Shark in the OCG. I get that most of the western audience doesn't like Zexal but really replacing Mako with Shark, injustice much.

[@frankyquilavafireblast895]

I love your sassiness and wit

[@dootthethird]

Is it possible to have the musics used in this video? Amazing stuff by the way, I e really enjoyed this year especially with the advent of Branded

[@TheLawYGO]

Most of the music are League of Legends champion themes

[@dootthethird]

@@TheLawYGOthanks!

[@seanperson2032]

Me, a dragunity fan: Hidden arsenal is great, I got dual terminal rarities for like half my favorite locals deck and got 2nd and 3rd copies of cards I wanted to make variations on the deck. TheLawYGO: yeah so hidden arsenal chapter 1 was a flop from the get go Me: awww....