The BEST Gyarados of all time was meta in 2010

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[@slugger4073]

As someone who grew up with Pokémon cards but never started playing competitively until this past year, it's super awesome to watch videos like these that showcase how the cards I knew and loved were used in competitive play. Plus, I'm always stoked to see more tabletop content!

[@lilchiefer0308]

Same here

[@dudley90]

This Gyarados deck was one of the last ones I ran before I retired from the game in 2012 (I had been playing since Base Set). Thanks for showing it some love!

[@jordanwilliams9967]

Great video, I love how descriptive each player was with their turns as I didn't know a lot of the cards or what your guys' gameplan was. Editor did a great job at making the game easy to follow by allowing us to read the cards as they became relevant!

[@Kalazt]

I was so nostalgic of this video. Gyarados was the deck I won my nationals with and still consider that meta back then to be the best ever. Thank you for making this video, was nice trip down to the memory lane

[@kirjoittajajoni]

2010 was when I played TCG competitively. Me, my little brother and a childhood friend who moved to a next town over would all travel to a next city where they had local tournaments. This deck was the only actually meta deck I ever owned and played. Such a fun deck to play!

[@PolskiSuzeren]

I could watch these old formats all day. Great production quality, great content.

[@ItsJust_KC]

Old format gameplay has got to be my favorite content you put out. Would love to see more!

[@Blairrows]

DPPT/HGSS was the era of PTCG that I played the most of. It's so nostalgic to think back at cards I played countless times like expert belt, broken timespace, sableye, claydol, uxie, and spiritomb. I remember crushing people with VileGar and my Lanturn Prime rogue list. Thanks for the great video.

[@arnon.ym0us]

I think this was when I first started playing around 2010-2012! I remember using an Yanmega Prime, Magnezone Prime, and a ReshiPhlosion deck back then!

[@hoothoot7122]

This era reminds me of the flygon mill decks that were popular

[@jamjam7116]

Lets GOOO 2010 format is my fav! Have both these decks as well Gyarados is def my favorite to play!!!

[@jaceee4154]

I love retro videos like this because as a kid all I ever cared about were the holo cards. Its really cool to see so many uncommons and rares that I used to dismiss actually being used for tournament play

[@FreeLander5280]

Dude this is better card play video than worlds or anything else out there. You're blazing a whole new path for this! Epic work!!!

[@unsaidrumble1790]

Retro formats are so cool to see as someone who never got the chance to play during these times

[@spotsthecat7913]

Me and some friends love to play the hell out of 2006 and 2010 format! Not only the meta decks, but some janky decks are pretty fun and can be unpredictably good, too

[@nickfanzo]

Order some decks and play it, good times

[@bigmanFUBAR]

DUDE, I remembered playing 2010 format decks with my friend, and of all the decks I tried out, Gyarados was my favorite one by far. I wanna play that deck again so badly.

[@michaelb1082]

I got into the game watching a Jwittz video about this Gyarados deck lol. This is so nostalgic.

[@kylejudy218]

As someone who started to get into the game during Covid, great time I know, the tabletop play was the reason I was so interested in playing. Had cards in middle school but played other games instead. Watching that stream made me go out and buy a Kingdra prime/donphan deck from that year. It’s a blast to play and this format was awesome! Keep up the great tabletop content.

[@ZachPowers1996]

I took a Gyarados deck to the top 8 of Midwest regionals senior division. Very fun deck with big damage (for the time). I remember playing against plenty of Machamp+Gengar... The deck of nightmares that likely could go toe-to-toe with decks even today thanks to fainting spell.

[@spotsthecat7913]

Machamp in today's game will be very annoying to play against as well. It could KO V pokemon and draw 2

[@CJ-Wolf]

I love these matches where you explain everything going on, it's nice to listen to while I'm working

[@phillipabeita824]

Diamond and pearl thru platinum Arceus is the only format our crew plays! This was the format when the tcg peaked

[@umiforce8152]

My first packs ever as a kid were from Stormfront didnt know there were so many strong cards from it!

[@PeterParkerInc25]

That Gallade attack was crazy, getting to see what prize cards you had and it did extra damage for doing that, it’s crazy

[@spotsthecat7913]

One of most absurdly good cards back then imo. The only catch is sometimes you have to know how many prize you should open, since if you open all, the next damage will be lacklustre

[@Basketj05]

It's crazy seeing how far this channel has come, I remember when this was Deriums Competitive Pokemon. Love you Mahone! keep up the great work!

[@NostalgicDuelist]

Finished my box of 2010 decks recently. Sadly you gotta find ppl who can play them as well or else it isn’t very fun. Too one sided. Love gengar and gyarados. Luxray mirrors are fun too! Don’t forget Dialga!

[@heavenlydogg]

Dawg these cards are insane. I juat started playing the TCG like three months ago so this format is NUTS to me.

[@heavenlydogg]

k so I kept watching and you payed cyclone energy and I got offended in real life. Like I almost turned off my computer. WHAT IS THIS FORMAT OMG

[@Escoran]

Love this, great video. Hoping to see more retro content.

[@pegwin7743]

This Gyarados deck was my favorite deck of all time.

[@kylesparrow9996]

SAME!!! This was THE deck that got me into playing Pokemon competitively

[@jack0lantrn]

Love these older format videos. So sick!! I had cards from this era but didn't play the game at the time

[@MiguelGarcia-fu5yz]

Best woman in the world Yasmin Kiss piloted Gyarados at world championship 2010 to a top 8 placement.She lost to runner up Michael Pramawat.Psychic Lock and disruption was too strong. I finished 4th with my Luxchomp Deck with Entei Raikou Legend and I also lost to Yasmin in swiss Round.Gyarados was so incredible.

[@thomasculshaw8843]

Great game. It was really good to see some of theses older decks in action

[@PrinngerXo2]

Love this format, though can't find people who have decks from this era. Great video!

[@julz93100]

This is the era I got into Pokémon tcg

[@mattabrams3841]

As a senior at the time, I loved playing my tyranitar (SF) deck against G-Dos and just donking with sableye

[@samuelstannard730]

That was great fun to watch. I love tabletop content and retro formats!

[@wackapotamus]

I made a great expanded deck with the gyrados that does 50 times each magicarp in the discard Pile. I'd use battle compressor, and achries ace in the hole. Insane deck

[@viniciusvilaca4616]

What a amazing video, the atention to details is amazing

[@KarlBast]

Loving the tabletop vibe and the retro format. The fact that there wasn’t a Marnie to remove those Magikarp from your opening hand was beyond refreshing.

[@ShinkuDragon]

oh but there kinda was, Judge was legal during this format.

[@benellis8844]

Thanks for reminding me I'm old XD I played a lot of competitive back then. I played shuppet which completely shut down Gyarados and many other decks. When judge was first printed everyone ran 4 of them to shut down setup decks like shuppet so I was very sad.

[@IIKingfisher]

Fantastic video. This is my favorite kind of content you put out. More please!

[@Zaverick32]

Definitely would like to see more old formats being played. It's fun to see the history of the game

[@ARDIZsq]

Forget Gyarados, I'm here for the Gardevoir deck! Seriously though, it's really interesting to see these older decks. I didn't start playing the TCG until 2013 or so, so I was only in around the BW+ era going into the XY era.

[@ghoztmazta1]

My favorite era when i played the most unique donphan prime deck ever, but me missunderstanding a rule made me loose my first nationals and chance to probably win worlds that year by invite. Hope new ex era coming up will give me some nostalgia back :D

[@Time2Warp]

At 19:34 when he used darkness grace to evolve nidorina, wasn’t that illegal? Spiritomb’s text reads that it counts as evolving the Pokemon, but he had evolved from nidoran already that turn. Am I missing a ruling from this era?

[@TrickyGym]

You’re allowed to evolve even if you evolved already with darkness grace, it just also counts as evolving

[@Time2Warp]

@@TrickyGym Interesting. I only got back into the TCG in 2012 and got my professor status a little later, but never came across this ruling. What in this format would have been effected by it specifically stating it as an evolution? Were there attacks or abilities based on a Pokemon having just evolved the previous turn?

[@MIsenhour412]

Did you know 2010 has been 14 years ago?

[@Victini0510]

Celio's Network covered this format quite a lot a little while back. Super fascinating! Sableye is so busted, haha

[@christophermatthews5775]

As someone that has purchased from Full grip have to say yall are killing it and stuff arrives fast!!

[@tomrath357]

The best during that format is actually Kingdra with Crobat g, seeker and Uxie :) I would love to see you build that deck!

[@nahidshaiket9921]

Getting Nostalgic. Thank you for making this. 🙏

[@kirakat_xo]

Dang such a cool format. Loved the fun facts!

[@lakessbm]

I love my tail revenge deck. I use mew and relecanth to do 120 damage for no energy with basic mew

[@savjy6727]

Love watching some tabletop retro formats!

[@ResidentKlinton]

"Do you know that 2010 was 13 years ago?", he asks, sipping San Pellegrino.

[@justaadhdgamerwesley6244]

Gen 4 era good times

[@adamherrera7793]

Love these tabletop classic deck videos 👌

[@jesusvargas7074]

Love the old school table top videos!

[@oatmealduck7937]

Amazing editing best way I’ve seen table top gameplay presented

[@nachogames6562]

Stop making me feel ancient please.

[@neckbeardcat6777]

Wear it with grace

[@jsyatica5558]

Andrew just had it like that on the final turn! Completely pulled the nuts 😂

[@domokun3142]

23:22 made me lol harder than I expected

[@proteanmon]

You could attack on the first turn?? 😱😱

[@TrickyGym]

Yep!

[@nickfanzo]

Love this format. I have four of the decks

[@qnz469]

I like how much slower these games go. No turn two 200+ damage attacks

[@benjamingrove47]

If Garde LvX goes in with Bring Down on Magikarp on the second to last turn instead of Nidoqueen, would that affect the outcome of the game?

[@ididgood5775]

No it wouldnt have :/ mahone would be able to call energy* whatever he promoted to retreat and used combees item to recover the karp *cyclone

[@benjamingrove47]

@@ididgood5775 but he didn't have a combee in hand - if he knocks out the karp with Bring Down, he only has 1 Pokemon Rescue in hand and can't recover both Karp and Gyarados.

[@TrickyGym]

It’s a tough call, because I can just win by attacking gardevoir with uxie since it is weak to psychic

[@ididgood5775]

@@benjamingrove47 ah i see didnt realise combee was on play not once per turn!

[@zacharystreitenberger5996]

I’m loving the tabletop gameplay!

[@jeanpablo1031]

This era is so nostalgic

[@seanmaximilian6707]

Do more of this please!

[@mahiiin-tm1gt]

I hope we can one day play these decks in ptcg live

[@Kdoms]

What is the ruling when both players open with that sableye? Just curious

[@Tyvan5]

In this format could you attack on the first turn or was this only possible because sabeleye's ability was active?

[@dixel2047]

This was great would love to see more

[@exeledusprince9165]

The gen 4 reverse holos are so nice. Clean, glossy foiling, none of those ugly gimmicks that modern reverse holos have. Problem is though if you didnt sleeve them immediately upon opening, they'd get noticeable scratches on them if you so much as look at them wrong lol

[@thetravelingmongo]

Video idea, most broken V deck vs most broken GX deck🧍🏻‍♂️

[@ChingonJason]

Loved this deck. I see you're playing with the updated rules, but back then you could attack and use supporters 1st turn. Why sableye was so good

[@OscarHowe-dm9mx]

I was born in 2010😂

[@TFan9001]

Why you gotta destroy me like that in the intro man? Lol

[@jumpcutfilms1958]

Telepass Gardy has got to be one of the most broken cards ever printed

[@spotsthecat7913]

The only time Gyarados can really devastates opponent. I really disappointed that most Gyarados cards costs LOTS of specific energy just to use mediocre attack. But Stormfront one just absurdly good

[@rirodoodles986]

Anyone know what the music is in this video??

[@fpuleio1]

If for some reason, you asked me what to call this video, I would have said "All karped up with nowhere to go"

[@chancehulan123]

I miss when they would give each pokemon a Lv. on the card

[@Zeetef]

This era was the best!

[@ntlvr]

Why does Sableye get so many broken cards?

[@austinhanna9662]

Great video, but It’s a complete crime to not have Luxray in Gyrados

[@bannedsocks]

We’re y’all playing more than one supporter per turn? 😳 ohh Sableye

[@flipsiescoobydoo6083]

It was my favorite time to play Pokemon :D

[@isaacunderhill9120]

I miss these days where multiple evolutions were in viable decks

[@andrewp6738]

Did you know that TrickyGym is the GOAT???

[@andrewp6738]

I did

[@MattSaiyan]

excelente video!

[@yugimuto5290]

This is so good

[@cristiannunez1613]

Nice intro

[@benjaminnativi7396]

"Did you know that 2010 was 13 years ago?" Shut up and take my like.

[@trevorbills1950]

The real best Gyarados of all time was ancient trait Gyarados with Full Retaliation

[@CeliosNetwork]

YES 🙌

[@xbluedreamx]

Gyarados gangg

[@lilchiefer0308]

Tricky gym w

[@takenname8053]

NICE