THE BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON: A COMPLETE COMPETITIVE HISTORY

New type of video - hope you like it.
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[@TrevorAllenMD]

Conspiracy: TCG isn’t allowed to make good archetypes anymore bc when they made Kozmo the OCG had to delay it to try and push BEWD into a world championship win.

[@GatsbyCioffi]

Idk about that, since the TCG came up with Spyral after Kozmo, lol

[@applejacks3925]

Which wasn't good until after an ocg card

[@illdoittomorrow2368]

Not because spyral turned into a tier 0 superthreat?

[@galaxyvulture6649]

​@@illdoittomorrow2368Considering we had two tier 0 decks in the span of a few years it can't get any worst.

[@daedalus5253]

@@galaxyvulture66493 Tier 0 decks would be worse

[@grantplunkett8410]

Hey they could make a series out of this

[@jeditwin6582]

Maybe Gage should make a “History of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game” series

[@MiyaoMeow588]

that will last 8 episodes

[@aure0521]

Stevie blunder did make something like this with Zoo, BA, and Heroes Not sure why he stopped tbh

[@arashel6884]

@@aure0521too expensive to make relative to what the return was

[@EduardoTorres-hl3jb]

I'd really like to see more of this video, so I'm pushing the algorithm

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

False Swipe Gaming-esque history videos for Yugioh with the patented MBT personality is perfect. Keep these up bud!

[@KingVekk]

Was literally thinking of False Swipe the entire time watching this vid. I think Pokemon is an easier game to make this type of video but you can get a lot of mileage for doing it for decks that have been meta game main stays in a similar fashion to how the first FSG vids were. I'd kill for a vid like this one Dragon Link, Tearlaments, Phantom Knight, Fluffal, etc.

[@assumingfrog7944]

The MBT personality was turned down a lot in this video and I think that's for the better

[@verbalengine95]

In modern Edison Blue-Eyes and White Stone are played in Dragon lists as a draw engine with Trade-in and Cards of Consonance

[@mojo873]

This was also the case historically. Back then the deck was called Hopeless Blue-Eyes.

[@MiyaoMeow588]

A video series where you discuss the unexpected competitive history of iconic anime cards would be really neat Or maybe Blue Eyes being the first topic was a coincidence

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

We sort of already have this with MegaCapitalG though right? Gearfried, Jinzo, etc.

[@pissingspeedrun]

It is heckin blue eyes after all

[@Kerim9991]

MBT has been holding off getting the easy YGO boomer normie views for a while. Get that bag king, and have a good synchro morning!

[@lordeng1ish]

In 2014 I was playing Dragon Rulers with Soul Charge, 3 Cards of Consonance, 3 Trade-In and a full set of White Stone and Blue-Eyes. I loved this deck. I roll up to locals and one of my opponents hits me with Mausoleum of the Emperor plus Archlord Kristya. I'm using all of my cards to dig through my deck to find Book of Moon. I never find it, but then I see a Blue-Eyes staring back at me. I pay 2000 LP, normal summon it and attack over Kristya to unlock the rest of my hand and graveyard full of dragons.

[@oliverperez1419]

I played that exact deck, Dragon Ruler with a Blue Eyes engine, including White Stone, very fun and strong deck, I stopped playing in 2014 because some dude stole my deck 😭

[@ElusiveMirror]

While historically it may not be the case, the increased interest and exploration of retro formats has shown that Blue-Eyes in formats prior to 2013 is meta relevant. The best example is probably Dragon Turbo in Edison that uses both White Stone of Legend and the og Blue-Eyes, by many considered one of the top tier decks, with tournament results to back it up.

[@DarkyMcSadSad]

Yeah this was the only real oversight of the video but it's weird to include the modern exploration of retro formats in a historical video

[@pablomadrid6962]

​@DarkyMcSadSad I mean, you could argue it's still relevant. It's a modern development in a format that took off after its passing. It can be argued it's part of Edison's history.

[@DarkyMcSadSad]

@@pablomadrid6962 you're totally right cause it is an oversight

[@VanessaVersus]

As an addendum to the duel links bit: Blue Eyes is currently tier 2 and anyone who gets referred to the game via a friend code gets a free Blue Eyes Structure which has almost everything you need so yeah, konami will never stop pushing that big white boy (and I don't mean Joseph)

[@TheAnthonyMarlowe]

I just came back to the franchise and started duel links getting blue eyes and support for it and it’s been great. I can actually summon it without tribute with the skill I have to. I still get wrecked by xyz link and all that stuff but I’m having fun.

[@TheAnthonyMarlowe]

And blue eyes twin burst is OP. Not effected by effects, cannot be destroyed by battle. Its been like living my Kaiba fantasy lol

[@VanessaVersus]

@@TheAnthonyMarlowe good for you man =]

[@badkat5536]

Every so often I get the joy of remembering the feature duel of madolche beating blue eyes at a YCS solely because tiramisu non target shuffles chaos max. Makes my day every time

[@KingEdward27]

I’d love more discussion videos like this. Please make more!!

[@EduardoTorres-hl3jb]

I'd really like to see more of this video, so I'm pushing the algorithm

[@sushiroll3795]

I really wish that they'd stuck with the Synchro theme for Blue-Eyes and the Xyz theme for DM. It was a really cool way to modernize the two decks and even worked thematically (Synchro monsters having white borders, and Xyz monsters having black ones).

[@galaxyvulture6649]

True, but at the same time yami mainly was known for fusions and synchros with white dragons kinda copies yusei

[@__-be1gk]

Don't worry they continued to drop the ball in the exact same way by refusing to make Red-Eyes an Xyz strategy despite one of its only good cards being an xyz from the first wave of support.

[@sushiroll3795]

@@__-be1gk I honestly thought that Red-Eyes had a pretty neat gimmick relating to equip cards for a bit (Black Metal Dragon, Red-Eyes Gearfried, Fang With Chain, and Slash Dragon). Sad to see that they just abandoned that for some reason.

[@timtam2400]

​@@__-be1gk Konami just refuses to give Red-Eyes a solid gameplan. If it's because of trying to push the whole potential thing or just hating the poor thing (Geminis? Seriously?), safe to say Konami will keep masturbating to Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician while my boy barely gets thrown anything resembling a bone.

[@godcloakburmy1480]

I REALLY think it was a disservice not mentioning Dragon Turbo in Edison and times around it. It forms the backbone of an exceptionally powerful draw engine that sees lots of representation, in a similar way to how Dragon Ruler used it.

[@nonifuji1566]

You're expecting too much out of MBT cashing in on normies clicking videos about DM era cards

[@SnackMuay]

Yeah I came down to the comments to mention this. Dragon turbo is probably a top 5 deck in Edison and people actually use the BEWD itself as a beater.

[@geiseric222]

Why would he include time wizard format shit? That stuff isn’t relevant to anything

[@angelovertim2360]

@@geiseric222 Well it is. Edison is a very real metagame played right now, and as such, its developments are worth considering.

[@desreploid3353]

@@angelovertim2360 Well, in fairness, if he wanted to make a video about the competitive relevancy of BEWD in the actual history of how YuGiOh happened, including Edison and Dragon Turbo wouldn't be right, because Edison was everything but the format we have now when it was played historically.

[@ErosIRL]

MBT using the Konami method of “just make content with BEWD on it, it’ll do numbers”

[@fpslordderp2030]

Mono Bussy Tron

[@SaintoftheHonest]

Ngl, not even 3 minutes in and you've missed a huge part of history. Everyone knows Yugi/Kaiba format as the time when Summoned Skull was Tier 0, but the fact of the matter is that it's called Yugi/KAIBA for a reason. There are a handful of other decks worth playing at this time, with the second most prevalent deck being a combo deck that focused on using Lord of D. to summon multiple Dragons from hand - most notably, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

[@BandannaBread]

I caught a glimpse of MBT's shirt at 1:24 right before the transition came up, and I legit thought it said "Broke-Eyes White Boy"

[@MasterShadicTH]

Fun fact about Duel Links: Blue-Eyes were 1 of the META decks that were against the GAGAGA format.

[@GameMiestro]

Blue Eyes is one of the top two meta Duel Links decks right now due to good card support and a very powerful targeted skill that lets you consistently cheat out powerful Blue Eyes fusions and casually ignore that whole rule about having to tribute monsters to bring out your high level normal monsters.

[@Kerim9991]

play with my sister

[@TheLawYGO]

I have literally been kicking a similar idea to this around for the better part of 2 months using HERO, was not ready for MBT to not only beat me to the punch, but also absolutely knock it out of the park. Amazing work, Joseph. Can’t wait to see more like it.

[@RoseTheGuy]

Hey, I absolutely love this type of content! The fact you've played so many different types of decks put you in a very fun unique position to give really great detailed takes when it comes to the competitive history of them. As a casual player, I would love to see more of these!

[@EduardoTorres-hl3jb]

I'd really like to see more of this video, so I'm pushing the algorithm

[@bioniclelegend7]

Loved this going over the history because I never heard that some people tried Chaos max against Zoo. Really do wish konami stopped making blue eyes cards to counter formats and just made some blue eyes cards that are good by themselves so that least they can be considered rogue instead of a breaky mess.

[@awildsylveon9896]

Omg I love this history/video essay style videos! Love love love

[@EduardoTorres-hl3jb]

I'd really like to see more of this video, so I'm pushing the algorithm

[@lioneart19]

Great content! Love this new type of video. Always wanted something like this, can't wait for more like it!

[@EduardoTorres-hl3jb]

I'd really like to see more of this video, so I'm pushing the algorithm

[@WBKmarty]

Thanks Joseph. I have been kinda of feeling bored with KZbin recently and I was hesitant when this video came up on my suggested. Happily within 1 minute of the video you hooked me. Plz more bless you

[@rainbowdash215]

I 👏 FUCKING 👏 LOVE 👏 MBT 👏 VIDEO 👏 ESSAYS 👏

[@kevbun753]

Hey MBT always cool to see new stuff from you. Hope this one does well!

[@alainozonvolt]

This is one of the best yugioh videos ever put on KZbin, i hope we get more of this type of content

[@ryanmullins8836]

Oh this is super cool! MBT has a extremely strong understanding of the history of YGO, so this would be cool to see more of.

[@misslaylafortune9276]

Love this style of video! Hoping it does well so we see more history videos.

[@EduardoTorres-hl3jb]

I'd really like to see more of this video, so I'm pushing the algorithm

[@drewcummings2453]

Would love to see more videos like this from you, part of why I follow the Twitter threads so closely is I love hearing about the history of the game

[@EduardoTorres-hl3jb]

I'd really like to see more of this video, so I'm pushing the algorithm

[@mjsteelewasabipunk6091]

This was awesome. Thank you.

[@RoseZ7323]

I'd love to see this series continue honestly ❤

[@Risingdoom1]

Always loved you disscussion on decks and the formats in which they appeared in History of yugioh so if there will be more of this im all for it. Also want to mention that the blue eyes structure deck sells so well that to this day you can still find stores getting restocked with reprintings of it over 10 years later.

[@zylo4029]

Ok this video is amazing. I don’t know how viable this would be for you to make into a series, but I would watch a million of these

[@user-iv7zp4br4s]

This was an awesome video! Any chance we could see more like it? It'd be cool to take a look at various archetypes and see how they've changed over time.

[@humanoid251]

I love Yugioh and I love watching video essays. So I fucken love all the Yugioh video essays that have been coming out lately

[@wesgannon4621]

This is really cool! One thing that I think would really increase my enjoyment of the series, if this is to be continued at all, would be to highlight the best individual decklists where the titular monster appears at different points in their competitive lifespan. Like I don't just want to hear about lists running Chaos Max turbo to counter Drident, I want to see them on screen! With maybe a breakdown that highlights how they were optimally played.

[@matchameek]

do more of these joseph, loved it

[@EncinoDude]

I'm glad yugitubers are starting to make more essay esque videos and not just boring game play videos of the same stuff we've seen a million times

[@zariygo]

it's funny this is close to a ten minutes testing than a proper ten minutes testing.

[@SkywardSpork]

Blue-Eyes is so iconic my partner who knows nothing about YGO can name that, and only that card, and maybe pot of greed

[@CzaDevian]

I really want to see where this line takes you MBT.. A new quick take on history is a great idea

[@elliej.3438]

we absolutely NEED more videos like these, and I'm not just talking blue eyes I wanna see this shit with all sorts of archetypes that have been kicking around for a while.

[@ParmMannREBORN]

Ok I already love this new series

[@starving_princess]

love this type of content

[@deluezian_helix]

Can't express how much I love this content. As a MTG player exploring the game casually, I love the history and mythos around decks. Super cool content and much love from rival nerd faction lol

[@masterofchaos7282]

Well, this is new. Hope this continues with other decks. Most interested in what you would say for heroes given how enthusiastic you get about it on history and jank. Also, any rush duel players able to tell us about how Blue-eyes does in Rush?

[@Erathiatw]

Until the most recent set, they were Tier 1.

[@stefanomilanesio5346]

Please, make this a serie with every archetype 😮

[@silfarion10]

I do think you are missing one other time it was briefly good. Early 2019 saw a Danger Blue-Eyes deck that was basically Dark Matter Dragon turbo. The deck had a few regional tops, but Dark Matter Dragon was banned soon after, so there was not much time for it to shine.

[@BassAndTrebleBR]

Loved this format

[@Rossco1010]

Great video, I think maybe an extra minute could have been spent talking about the 2016 worlds and how the event was setup with a banlist in such a way that blue eyes would be a great deck, and not just how spirit dragon was designed around the other top decks.

[@blastfire21]

You make more of these for archetypes that are pretty good at a few different points

[@Y0G0FU]

lets not ignore the fact that Konami put out a Banlist just before the 2016 Victory of Blue Eyes that conviently nerfed all the popular strategies in some ways but CONVIENTLY ignored all Blue Eyes Cards :P

[@dudeguy8686]

I don't know when the thumbnail changed, but it's glorious.

[@ODDiSEE_]

When mbt makes actually content, its always so good.

[@ccjl9160]

It's actually called the Blue-Eyes Joseph Dragon

[@brunovelazquez4052]

I love this idea, hope you do this for the most relevant anime protas, and maybe some non anime decks that have been tier 1 more than once, like monarchs

[@22t45]

Please keep this series going, not just for BAAAAAAAAAT Dark Magician and friends but other good decks aswell

[@aaronvillanueva3592]

Thank you Dire for using the sub music

[@TengoSuenho]

How GOOD was Blue-Eyes actually? Alternativelly Why Legacy Support is not everything - The Blue-Eyes Theorem

[@empresscarrie6230]

what does this even mean besides you ganking fsg titles with no understanding of them that legacy cards shouldn’t get support? that no legacy cards can be good? should be good? that you shouldn’t play it whatsoever? that you shouldn’t play it alone? just stop

[@Kerim9991]

@@empresscarrie6230 it's provocative it gets the people going

[@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.]

​@@empresscarrie6230Malding at some throwaway joke OP likely didn't spend more than 30 seconds thinking about it, lmao

[@YeahSureLetsGoSeeYamcha]

A nirvana high paladin jump scare animation and a rewind with funny sound effect 9/11 joke? Idk how this series can get any better

[@Eddiegames9]

The competitive history of Jinzo could potentially be super interesting as a follow up to this

[@Billy-ot8mk]

Great Video.

[@user-of8gd2ix5i]

nice new series

[@PiePie453]

Woooo, content, good content even! Woooo!

[@clutchedbyanangel]

I'd love to see a video like this about the history of Dragon Link

[@an_jb]

omg a good mbt video 😍

[@kroffen7]

Duel Links taught me how badly people wanna play Blue-Eyes, Dark Magician and Red-Eyes. So it's mind blowing that they're stuck getting mediocre support time after time! This game would bring in so many players if you told them those 3 are top 5 decks.

[@animeknight99]

Good video 👍

[@Rairiky]

Awesome video! Should be mentioned danger blue eyes around toss format was a deck,don't remember how successful but it definitely was around

[@DrPhilIV]

I would like to add that blue eyes (especially jet dragon) is a master duel masochist’s worst nightmare

[@killiantruegames3670]

This would be an amazing series.

[@Chimerayuri3]

I love all the nostalgia videos we’ve been getting about old-school Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@J3P2010]

Surprised Dragon Turbo in Edison didn’t get mentioned. It’s not a great deck by any means, but it has the consistency to play multiple blue-eyes in one turn in a low powered environment.

[@thechoki]

Can’t wait for the Starry Knight episode!

[@poopyfartboi]

Loving the posting schedule bro, its a great feeling seeing you posted a new video. Thanks for the awesome content!

[@ThatGirlYouForgot]

I'll be 103 and probably still won't forget the time when I was like 10, I left my deck in my mom's van. The window was cracked a little, and it rained. She threw away 3 Blue Eyes White Dragons, at least one being holographic and one with the old art style. I learned to take much better care of things I care about after that.

[@EduardoTorres-hl3jb]

I'd really like to see more of this video, so I'm pushing the algorithm

[@SlugKiss]

finally, the return of Reading Series

[@skyknighteman7022]

9:08 Obligatory "Stop saying Chaos Max he's not playing it!"

[@diogomontesso6970]

Finally, a cool series.

[@aofie5151]

Damn, this video really traversed the sands of yugioh’s history

[@syaefullrizcky]

Its nice that you included other format, Blue Eyes is tier 1 in Duel Links right know

[@marioguy5443]

This feels like a Yugioh version of a FalseSwipeGaming video, I love it

[@TiresAreForCars]

how is everything this theatre boy does gold

[@skeletingking]

We FalseSwipeGaming Yu-Gi-Oh now? I'm in, cannot wait for RAIGEKI: THE MOVIE

[@tastyndylicious]

Okay, fun idea and always love your content But what are those font choices

[@macbran6086]

we're making it onto the algorithm with this one

[@PIetroPortugal]

this is nice

[@iainhansen1047]

Cool video

[@mollestoff6516]

Lets go my girl ❤

[@Sweetlesishere]

I pulled a royal rare abyss dragon from the event that I can't dust makes me wanna self delete

[@villeneuvesamuel7088]

It must be added that blue eyes is quite good now in edison format with the rise of dragon turbo (most hated deck of the format with stun, gravekeeper, chain burn and for some reason I disagree with gladiator beast) in which he is a key piece (discard target for trade-in, high level, high attack dragon monster able to be revived by redmd, searchable with white stone).

[@XYGamingRemedyG]

"a complete competitive history" Damn and it's longer than 3 minutes?! Nice!!

[@nella544]

Nirvana High Paladin will always be the yugioh icon

[@Gale42]

Honorable mention to the edison fellows who figured out dragon turbo drawing 10+ cards at end phase was a thing, which heavily relies in discarding white stone for blue eyes, then trade in blue eyes

[@painxYGO]

MBT has started his "MegaCapitalG Arc".

[@TheRecklessMetalhead]

Love me Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Please do a Red-Eyes Black Dragon; that monster doesn't deserve the love it deserves.

[@AllBeganwithBBS]

Not gonna lie, after seeing the title I was expecting a 25-second video.

[@Xenonfuji]

Impossible, it was good when Konami pushed it

[@firefliesowlcity12]

Oh, I like this series.

[@iaanhenrr5883]

Forgot to mention how Kozmo took Blue Eyes Out back and put it out of its misery, then after 1 YCS Konami decided that wasnt ok and banned the big ship (forgetting the name but its the one that pops a monster)