The 2023 Yugioh TCG Recap

[@TheLawYGO]

So my info on Valiant Smashers was a bit off, specifically in terms of Memento due to YGOProDeck’s info on the pack completely omitting most of Memento’s TCG info. This resulted in not only non-updated text on their displayed cards, but also me missing that the strategy had 3 Ultra Rares in the set, not 0. Apologies for the misinformation.

[@federicocelletti766]

What’s the soundtrack you use when you explain fire kings?

[@victikirby15]

This was such a weird year. Starting off with Tear Zero and ending with “PLAY A FIRE DECK PLAY A FIRE DECK PLAY A FIRE DECK” It was also the year that I bought my first physical product since getting into the game with Master Duel, purchasing three Fire King SDs to play with.

[@chimeratcg07]

2023 YGO will always be memorable to me, the year that I took competitive YGO seriously, and I even attended 2 Regional events, which I have never competed on a level higher than Locals/OTS Store prior to that.

[@idosarts_and_krafts]

Good for you, fellow duelist

[@Gentleman_Bandito]

I also started playing competitive this year, and now look forwards to next year as well!

[@evanferrell7779]

Same here! Started back in the late summer/fall and had my first two regionals in October/November and had a great time! 5-3 at first and 4-3-1 at second!

[@chimeratcg07]

@@evanferrell7779 first regionals 5-3-0 (8 rounds) second regionals 4-4-1 (9 rounds)

[@captainsunshine64]

Nice! Keep at it!

[@traplover6357]

1:17 YCS Sydney 19:33 YCS Lyon (And Team YCS Mexico City) 22:04 Team YCS Las Vegas 30:22 YCS Lima 32:37 YCS Bogota 32:54 YCS Los Angeles 34:10 YCS London 43:23 YCS Santiago 44:04 YCS Philadelphia 54:29 WCQ Central America 58:16 WCQ South America 58:57 WCQ Europe 1:00:23 Oceania Championshop (WCQ for Australia + New Zealand) 1:00:48 WCQ North America 1:10:15 World Championships 1:17:55 YCS Vancouver 1:19:48 YCS Cancun 1:23:26 YCS Dortmund 1:34:24 YCS Indianapolis 1:37:36 YCS Santa Cruz 1:40:26 YCS Richmond 1:50:53 YCS Bologna

[@chuferoni]

The past two years of YuGiOh, in spite of Tear 0 and Kashtira, has been some of the most fun I've experienced as someone who started playing during the first Covid year. The new design philosophy of the cards is fantastic and while I don't like how expensive staples are, I'm still having incredible amounts of fun on sims with the newer cards from this period. It's been wonderful to experience

[@hightidekraken]

Ive played since 2013 but didnt start competitive till 2020 as well and yeah while some of the formats have sucked I’ve had a great time getting better and making more and more decks. The staple reprints this year were excellent and made the game much more affordable besides a few cards like Thrust, Diabellstar, and S:P. I was able to attend way more events than in the past and made great memories with friends.

[@Sehon13Ultd]

What’s the new design philosophy?

[@NeverBeBored08]

Started YGO back in February after not playing since 2015-2016. It was definitely a lot to take in but it’s been fun so far. Missed playing with friends

[@edgardiaz690]

Same story for me!!!

[@jksanrio]

Even since your 2022 recap, I’ve been looking forward to the 2023 one! Thank you!!

[@gcS_Gt]

2023 was a memorable year to be sure and, true to konami's word, became THE year of everything Fire related, despite the underwhelming set that Soulburning Vocano was. Also, shoutout to the new banlist that came 5 days ago which couldn't be on the video with how it came out of nowhere and will literally shook up the meta coming into 2024.

[@D_Winds]

Thank you for making these videos. I don't pay attention to the meta in depth these days, so to see summaries and reminders of what transpired over the past year, is very entertaining.

[@Scrafting]

Not having to r&d a new summoning method every other year has really helped with the game design. 2023 was a fantastic year and was one of the most fun i’ve had playing YGO. Here’s to another 25 years of yugioh! 🎉🎉🎉

[@Petsinwinter2]

I'm hoping the xyz era and beyond recaps have cool thumbnails like this one. the old ones were pretty good, but this is a work of art. thank you Nutuk for your hard work.

[@jtalkalot19]

This has been some of the best yugioh ive ever played in the past three years. This is saying a lot for me because ive been playing since 2007.

[@lenninho5113]

I know the guy who topped with sky striker at 250th LA. unfortunately i haven’t seen him since the YCS

[@ragnaroktriesgames9263]

The amount of work & effort you put into these videos deserves way more than your current sub count. Another fantastic video bro. Can’t wait to see what 2024 brings you. Cheers mate

[@tristanmoehl5544]

I never thought I needed to see a cute Arise-Heart toasting at the end of the year, but here we are.

[@StarWagi]

Been a wild year. Went from playing exclusively earth machine to picking up my first tier 1 deck and getting my first nawcq invite. I'll never forget this year.

[@mirkobagnarol6714]

Great video, I am a huge fan of the series! The memes are also insanely good, the Spright Blue while presenting Mannadium Trisukta appearance made me genuinely laugh! If I may, here are the mistakes I found, for eventual confused viewers and for future improvement (of, let me state it again, an already MASSIVELY high quality video): - Mementotlan did not have 0 ultras but 3, the total amount of ultras in the f***in' deck building sets are 10, 5 to Centur-Ion, 2 to Vaalmonica and 3 to Mementotlan. Therefore, the imbalance of Ultra distribution was less marked than in the disastrous Valiant Smashers - S:P is not a RANK 2 monster lol - For some reason you convinced yourself that Gerunix Eternity and the new Sacred Garunix and Avatar Kirin are rank and level 7 respectively, while they are 8s - Sometimes you show on screen the cards translated in prerelease, that have different names. This was particularly evident when you treated Mementotlan, because you mentioned continuously "Combined Creation" (their ass boss monster) and in most of the cards you showed it was called "Netherskull Dragon", which was its YGOorganization name before the official release. It is a slight detail, irrelevant for who knows, but might confuse some less experienced viewers.

[@evanferrell7779]

Some of the best contemporary historical analysis of the competitive side of Yu-Gi-Oh! in this video as well as your other history videos! Always look forward to these and learning more in-depth about the meta-game developments and reflections!

[@hypnotist1200]

youre quickly becoming one of my favorites. the recaps of the older years got me hooked! shout out to the michigan TCG as well!

[@somethingorother474]

Cant wait to come back for the 2024 recap

[@Weebfox]

I always love these looks back on the year Edit: To make this a drinking game, take a shot every time you hear "taking the event on Kashtira" or some variation of it

[@hightidekraken]

Ive played since 2013 but didnt start competitive till 2020 as well and yeah while some of the formats have sucked I’ve had a great time getting better and making more and more decks. The staple reprints this year were excellent and made the game much more affordable besides a few cards like Thrust, Diabellstar, and S:P. I was able to attend way more events than in the past and made great memories with friends. Overall loved it and I’m so glad Salad got new support!

[@TheShinyFeraligatr]

The new Labyrinth pieces may not have been meta, but they are fun, and it's nice to finally see Gate Guardian get a proper Fusion retrain with an appropriately beefy effect. (also old yugioh video games had the Illusion type because it was a thing in the manga - Pegasus used several monsters of the type, most notably Illusionist Faceless Mage)

[@neogalactic1195]

I will say Ariseheart legal in kashtira was the most cookie cutter example of a gate keeper deck in yugioh history. The over centralizing card that is kashtira ariseheart made it so so many decks with even a hint of reliability on the graveyard just could not exist in a competitive state against it. Once ariseheart got banned, the format opened up due to the gate keeper card ariseheart being gone and strategies like unchained, infernoble, and nerfed tearalments were able to rise to prominence

[@e-tan3911]

Unchained wasn't really affected by Kash, in fact the deck thrived in the format. So much Kash hate didn't affect Unchained at all, which is why Unchained won 2 ycs events mid Kash format.

[@delgande]

Colossus did the same thing back in TOSS

[@bladearmorginga6582]

2023 is my splash back into yugioh after a long hiatus. Jumping back in playing Rikka Sylvan Therion, as sylvan was what I played last. Surprisingly after a lot of tweaking the deck feels really good and dodged the banlist hits by only playing 1 dryas just to get a plant into grave through link 1. Got my first local win, and while not topping, hitting top 100/450 at a regional still learning the format the game as a whole again felt really good.

[@Trekkie46]

I now know about the rarity collection and understand why when the second one was announced why it mattered so much. I wish I'd known it came out cause I would have definitely dropped money on it.

[@Cavernasu]

Always love your recap videos.

[@YarnLalms711]

Ah, Amazing Defenders, the birth of my favorite deck. #RACEWar

[@MVVibes-tr7hd]

New sub! This video was absolutely amazing and helped me to catch up on the second half of the year 2023 where I fell off. Thank you!

[@josh-kickk3539]

Cool recap video! I really enjoyed watching it

[@MettatexYT]

Knowing the bar minimum about modern Yugioh, and having my video running in the background, you can imagine how much mental whiplash I had when Law namedropped "Visas". Or, what I'd imagined they'd said, 'Vsauce".

[@ericpontarelli1690]

2023 was the year i started considering and understanding that i was capable of playing at a higher level and played super hard and grinded with one strategy and have gotten rewarded with it handsomely, a memorable year for sure. The beginning of the year started rough for me but once march came around i started thinking more competitively, and the later end of the year was a wonderful experience for me despite the start and despite many not enjoying some of the formats

[@sala38pkt70]

Awesome recap ! These long story types of content are great to sit and relax and enjoy

[@cherrycreamsoda4253]

2023 YGO was a banger. Despite how degen it was, full power kash was so fun to play. The pendulum support and synchro support from AGOV and DUNE respectively was also great. Tons of great staples, and in a post kashtira world I love playing diabellestar. Hopefully 2024 will be even better. And of course… one. more. piece.

[@maxthememe]

I love your work keep up the amazing work

[@lastmexicano]

This was a great year for me: as a fire king and ancient gear player it makes me so happy that they got new support (especially ancient gear)

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

AG just need the hound fusions and fusion spells from arc v.

[@divivilanui3864]

It seems that no one has noticed or mentioned that at 17:20 you say the trap "add one to hand" even though it actually special summons which is a much stronger effect A very minor mistake admittedly and all your Recap videos are amazing, thank you!

[@Off_Screen]

cyberstorm access also intoduced us to time-tearing morganite which not only works extremely well in decks like runick. but from what i've researched, has the potential to make chain/stall burn a bit more consistant.

[@OGBG_II]

What a banger video. Love it so much

[@yuseifudo6075]

2023 was so good, the only bad thing is that they didn't inban electrumite. TEARLEMENTS STRONGEST!!

[@johnnywilson3071]

2023 was hectic particularly in the 2nd half of the year with perhaps the one of if not the most diverse line up of tiered decks seen. Also obligatory Hello from youtube to Josh when he reacts to this on stream.

[@nazgul4220]

I love how the original Z-Arc set had Ash Blossom and the new Z-Arc set has once again game changing cards. Though I dion't like how the core strategies of Age of Overlord didn't even include Z-Arc T.T

[@Allias_TheToon]

Fans: "pandemic (2020-2021) yugioh kinda sucked and everything was so weak" Konami: "Bet"

[@residentgrey]

Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes can still be your bag. I got wrecked by both TODAY.

[@shawnli4746]

you know what would be a great idea for a video? Top 10 Cards of 2023! that one channel that used to do it no longer plays paper yugioh so there's a demand for that kind of video from someone who has local/regional tournament experience

[@scourgeeater]

chaos angel actually banishes on special summon not just synchro, its more broken than that lol

[@traplover6357]

We need a time format name for post Sept 2023 banlist ASAP due to its diversity of decks!!!

[@masonyopp2236]

Definitely an interesting year for me. I enjoyed Tear format because it was incredibly skill intensive, especially because I didn’t have Tear at the time. But I did manage to pick up the core when everything was cheap, and then the banlist dropped three days later. I HATED Kashtira format and genuinely did not enjoy the game, so I took most of the summer off until Nexus dropped and the new Chimera and Illusion cards came out. I’ve been playing that deck since it came out and I LOVE it and it reignited my love for the game

[@ApaulloYGO]

Easily my favorite types of ygo videos, great job

[@andresl2596]

Honestly, I don't have anything to say about the game. I just want to say: what an amazing coverage you do with these recaps. Keep them coming!

[@Dsi303]

I remember playing master duel and everyone all of a sudden playing Bystial Runick after Schmidt’s YCS win. Good thing most of them had no idea how to play it.

[@_yamiberserker8819]

Was really looking for this

[@YuiraKun]

I came back to playing this game 2 weeks before DUNE, but holy shit what a year this was

[@hathucquan5350]

I haven't chimed in the channel for quite some time but i want to ask was the Duel links's History series cancelled?

[@nabroleonswolenaparte2348]

As someone getting back into the game right after rarity collection dropped I see this as an absolute win

[@Lovemylifenah]

2023 was a Great YGO year imo. It had really fun formats and my beloved Deck Salamamgreat got support. I went the first time in my life 4:0 and found good friends. THANKS Yugioh

[@dustinbutcher2281]

Literally every impact screen, I really had no clue what the impact was

[@nael_luna]

Forgot that Visas' lore archetypes were born here.. with kashtira and tearlaments proof that Konami is not able to think with more than half a braincell when balancing a game

[@cybersaurusismeta847]

Love these great vid keep it up

[@WGProductionsREUBEI]

Babe wake up, TheLawYGO uploaded another Yugioh recap

[@lloydbagby8355]

on sp i tested with exdioa for the hell of it and sp plus firwall can help get exdioa to hands

[@tendo3526]

Great video 😊

[@TheNman_Val]

Ty for making more Joshua content

[@arbitrary5226]

2023 was the year i came back to comp yugioh after quitting back in perfect circle format started with salamangreats and ended on P.U.N.K gold pride i also started playing time wizard edison and the last regional i went to i won the side event and the LADD mat

[@timg5226]

Amazing video

[@Kesch610]

Take a shot everytime he says Little Knight 🤣

[@beatsbyash]

2023 is the year I was required to leave the game for 2nd time due to the insane increase in price to continue being competitive since joining in 2012. It’s so sad how most people who have little money they should be spending on cardboard somehow don’t see a problem with SP Little Knight and Sinful Spoils being over 100$ and both being heavily incentivized to purchase if you want to stay competitive.

[@kloklojul]

so many nice looking links and pendulums that i can't use for regionals because links and pendulums are banned :(

[@e-tan3911]

Umm... regionals cannot have links and pends banned... what? An official konami event has to follow the official konami banlist...

[@kloklojul]

@@e-tan3911 it's not an official konami tournament It's a regional tournament hosted by 2 firms with some additional funding from fans with post XYZ mechanics banned an their own ban list. It's a small gathering of around 50 people and a small winning pool 5k€ for 1st. 3k for 2nd and 1k for third. It's not much but its still fun to hang around and play a few matches. And if you get to top 3 you get some nice cash for cards till next years tournament.

[@lucarioknightb7685]

Not calling out actively skipping POTE in the mega tin is a weird call. The best set within the reprint window getting skipped, holding sprite to become budget friendly as it slid to rouge drove me nuts at the time.

[@blastthechaos6083]

Skydive Scorcher is already a card and TBF, It's meant to be the name of Flame Wingman's attack in the dub (that's rarely used) It makes more sense with it's Japanese name:Elemental HERO Flame Wingman-Flame Shoot which Judai said everytime Flame Wingman Attacked

[@dylanrobertson9026]

I’m surprised no mention of the remote duel ycs in June that was won by exosister

[@vite489]

55:10 did i hear ash blosh-shom?

[@ladyilex]

Amazing video and excellent taste using LoL's soundtrack

[@Twinterfang]

This is exactly what I needed right now

[@hellkaiser7108]

thanks for the ealry chrismas gift happy holidays to all

[@johntheamazing9337]

I can tell how many attempts it took him to pronounce "agathakakological voice" by how angry he was saying it

[@TheLawYGO]

At least 5 times

[@PKSparkxxDH]

This video being almost TWICE as long as the 2022 Recap shows just how wild the power creep was in 2023. Hope this game slows down soon.

[@andrejv.2834]

It was just a way more diverse year I'd say the game even slowed down significantly after the diablosis ban which meant no more 5 zone lock, and after pure shs was killed Unchained, purrely, lab, bystial dlink etc are probably weaker than basically most, if not all 2021-22 tier 1 decks

[@quickdraw5252]

Awesome video but I can def tell kashtira hurt you because you called the fire king monsters “level 7’s” 😂

[@bAd12cheZ]

This is fun!

[@ShogunPlasma]

You forgot the Link-3 that Traptrix also got.

[@FrankToasty]

Dear Lil' Knight my beloved.

[@roguewarrior8187]

there is a difference between link and rank. singularity is a link 6, not rank 6 for example

[@FatePokemon]

What’s the difference between a core set and a deck building set? Is a deck building set just a smaller set that’s more focused on a few archetypes, where as a core set is more broad?

[@e-tan3911]

A Core Set is a 100 card set that features a ton of new cards, including support for older archetypes, new archetypes, and new generic cards. A Deck Building Set is a 60 card set that is centered around 3 new archetypes, with all the non-archetype cards being old cards that synergize with one of the new archetypes.

[@MiyaoMeow588]

Seeing the inexcusably poor coverage of events like Santiago is upsetting. There's no justification for that anymore How do over two-thirds of the decks at any major event get lost?

[@colinbrown74]

1:48:00 This is wrong. The set had 10 UR slots, with 5 going to Centur-Ion, 3 going to Memento, and 2 going to Vaalmonica. Considering the normal UR break down is 4/3/3, the 5/3/2 breakdown, while still disappointing, is absolutely no where near as extreme as said here.

[@hoangnguyen0721]

Cant help but notice that most Links are read as Rank

[@ShyRanger]

Question: What's the difference between a Core Set and a Deckbuilding Set? I understand all the other release types, but not sure what separates these two.

[@johnathanlemus5584]

Core set is every 3-4 months with 1-2 new archetypes and new support cards; generally 100 cards for Tcg since 20 of them are Tcg exclusive cards, archetypes and OCG imports and 80 for OCG. Deck building sets are 3 new archetypes to enter the game and has 60 cards per set. Core sets has common, super, ultra, secret and currently rn QSCR. Deck building sets has Rare, super, ultra, collectors rare, and currently QSCR.

[@TheLhering]

Very based video. Appreciate all the work u put in

[@Acre00]

I started playing when the card game first came out in the US, but started losing interest around the time of Synchro monsters were introduced and dropped out entirely around the time of Pendulum summons. I started paying attention again this year. The modern game is almost unrecognizable as the game I played years ago. I don't think I'm going to pick it back up again, but I'm having fun watching from a distance. Would totally play a retro format, though.

[@danielcodoceo722]

No way you mentioned Leblanc by name but not HERO player 🔥💀🔥

[@joshelderkin9592]

Mannnn i just want purrely in a single player game 😢we're overdue

[@whendelgabriel6772]

i think you skipped ycs sao paulo, it twas the first ycs of the new season

[@axmang0]

Thank you for you

[@strike429]

banger video incoming

[@xCorvus7x]

3:13 Is she saying #racewar?

[@fatjontredhaku388]

Gravekeepers inscription is a downgraded version of Silent Grevyard which Silent Grevyard is 1st a quick effect 2nd without dmg you most of the time

[@ogbg2002]

Let’s goooooooo

[@vibeow129]

Im glad you can pronounce qebehsenuef. What a name

[@DimeThrow]

Why is this not in the playlist?

[@TheLawYGO]

Idk why, fixed now

[@ourlordandsaviorramen9546]

Song list?