The History of Yu-Gi-Oh! Jank! #20

[@Alessandro-rn8tp]

I love how the single time Cimo read his cards he understands it all wrong. Face-down monsters get flipped face-up before getting destroyed...

[@konstantink7310]

But MBT didn’t understand it too?

[@jasonjanisewski78]

I loved him setting Crystal Blessing as a backrow bluff against a deck with S/T removal and then having a hand of bricks the following turns because he no longer had ways to return CB's from the graveyard back to the S/T zone.

[@PapiCito]

Lol right? That's just a basic yugioh mechanic and they still got it wrong after 20 years of playing lol. I love this series

[@banditkade]

They've gone from not reading the cards to not reading the rules. They're becoming more degenerate with every episode!

[@U1TR4F0RCE]

@@konstantink7310 did he or did he just decide to let cimoo have a lower chance of a comeback though I could see him forgetting from when he played against Leigh in progression playoffs

[@nearn8517]

15:48 - If "Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle" is destroyed by battle, you can place it in your Spell & Trap Zone. You apply the effect at the same time that "Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle" would be sent to the Graveyard, and you do not send it to the Graveyard It flips face up during the Damage Step

[@Lightmaster677]

Indeed. Carbuncle would've in fact become a continuous spell there. If it had been a destruction *effect* it would've gone to grave.

[@Lightmaster677]

That said, Acid Cloud does kind of render the whole point moot.

[@Boringpenguin]

After all the Kalut in prog and Cimo still doesn't know how DAMAGE STEP works

[@zdelrod829]

@@Boringpenguin He understands how BLACKWING Damage Steps work.

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

Being fair to Cimo here, there's a lot of cards that do really dumb things with "Destroyed while face up". There are several who don't count being flipped up by battle. Its very stupid.

[@azerlox]

I feel so bad when Cimo has 4 crystal beasts in the spell/trap zones and doesn't use Rainbow Ruins' 4th effect in the 2nd main.

[@thepotato513]

I remember forgetting to do that a lot back when I played Crystal Beasts in the DS games

[@badcaseofthebajabada]

He would have drawn into Rare Value too, then gotten another two draws and Jinzo would have won him the game.

[@Mariyan6006]

@@badcaseofthebajabada MBT had solemn, Jinzo would not even be on the field anyway

[@nikotursic4589]

He could've actually used the fifth effect as well right? To special pegasus?

[@drakeshadow7728]

@@nikotursic4589 could’ve also specialed dragon queen in g2 to force removal, which joseph then couldn’t use to out the reaper that was already set

[@DeltaShinyZeta]

Here are today’s illegal actions/clarifications: 15:55 Ruby Carbuncle can actually be placed in the spell and trap zone here. Set monsters that are attacked will be face-up in the damage step when attacked, and so can trigger things that say “if this face-up card is destroyed…”. This is why cards that are the exception to this rule have to say something like “unless it was attacked while face-down and destroyed by battle” (Poison Draw Frog is a good example of this). 19:13 Same situation as before NOTE: These aren’t technically “illegal actions” that led to a broken game state because Crystal Beast’s crystallization effect is always optional. They were more so clarifications.

[@kikellanosdelagarza]

If only yugioh had keywords for an archetype or a mechanic for cards, like "crystallization".

[@UltimateCrusherJoe]

Cimoo really did a disservice to crystal beasts with the way he played them

[@zukusenryu]

His build sucked

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

An outright crime. The entire Crystal Beast Discord unanymously condemned his entire channel for this.

[@Bill2bearockstar]

Even in the Anime, that guy plays Ruby like he is supposed to. Special summon and get all the buddies chilling in the back, back to the field.

[@jasonjanisewski78]

CImoooo missed so many things. For example at 30:30 he did not activate the Field Spell to cut the battle damage in half. In M2, he could have activated the Field Spell's Effect to draw a card since at that point he had 4 in the S/T zone. Even at 31:30 you don't beacon for Carbuncle. Instead you beacon for Pegasus and place your 3rd Pegasus as the 5th CB in the S/t zone. The you use Field Effect #5 to summon the Ruby from your backrow which them summons the rest. If he did that he ends up with a board full of CB's + 3 remaining in his S/T Zone. If he did that he could have used Field Effect #3 to negate the Spirit Barrier and Win that turn.

[@elciocossettifilho318]

CB is jank, can't contend with DAD. but if you play a nicer build, it would do wonders here. I even built a CB build on Master Duel and got to platinum with it 24 W 17 L. it has nice combos and board wipe...

[@iunnor]

Yes, that was the line i was thinking in my head as soon as he beaconed for Carbuncle. Who the hell would want 2 Carbundles on the field?But he seemed like he was playing unenthusiastic and just wanted to lose/ get it over with.

[@Realblack_m0nster]

@@elciocossettifilho318 cool comment but you didnt really respond to op lol

[@theblackx9429]

Also terraforming where the hell is that.

[@kassygo1375]

Exactlyyyy

[@AsheGreyLane]

I love that dragon queen of tragic endings came out in 2010, cuz it means he was playing a card that wasn’t in existence at this point, and it isn’t even good 😂

[@nunocarvalho6671]

It's a 5ds card, it was even played in the anime

[@Dunker401]

It was in absolute power force but I don’t remember if DAD was still relevant during absolute power force days

[@frankwest5388]

@@Dunker401 DAD was relevant until Nekroz format. It was just heavily nerfed because it was limited in 2009.

[@marciamakesmusic]

@@frankwest5388 People forget this. TeleDAD is a very playable deck for a long time even with only one DAD and one E Tele.

[@Dunker401]

@@frankwest5388 when I said relevant I meant like it was still DAD format not like if it was used in whatever dark deck

[@omi-kuro4323]

How humiliating for Cimo that he never knew Crystal Beast rulings 😂 On Game 2(edited): Shame that Cimo forgot to draw from Rainbow Ruins.

[@theman226]

Not even rulings just game play knowledge he doesnt know cards flip whe. Attacked

[@konstantink7310]

But MBT thought the same

[@DigitalxGamer]

There are lots of things he did terribly. In that second game especially xD As a CB nerd, I am personally offended~ xP

[@mystikx2205]

Twice, even!

[@elrompecabezasdelmilenio6210]

Yeah, I was like he crashed his monster to draw with the field, but he did it cause he was thinking if he'd set the monster was going to go to the gy lol

[@jacqueslebreuilly6547]

Misplay Cimo, Ruby flips faceup before its destroyed as a result of battle, so it would go to your spell/trap zone, only if it was destroyed by a card effect while set it wouldnt use its effect.

[@domnik908]

How did cimo score so good on coders quiz but then fucks this easy thing up

[@joshRbeast]

My brain had to do a double take when I saw this

[@konstantink7310]

But MBT thought the same ?

[@stevenashley27]

Love how some of the bigger yugioh tubers don’t understand the basics of the game.

[@delta3244]

@@konstantink7310 To be fair, MBT probably just assumed that Cimoooooooo had a clue what he was talking about and didn't read the card himself (or if he did, he probably didn't think too hard about it). That's what I would do if my opponent realized that an effect of theirs didn't work the way they believed it did, unless I had read the card in question recently.

[@eloanpedraza4603]

The Damage Step is made up of a series of events that are used to process an attack. There are seven of these; players often refer to them as “Sub-Steps”, which is fine, but it is not the official term for these events. 1. Start of the Damage Step 2. *Flipping the Face-Down Monster Face-Up* If the attack involves a face-down monster, *you flip it face-up here.* Continuous effects of monsters that were face-down and are now face-up immediately begin applying (like Jinzo, or the attack-boosting effect of Command Knight). FLIP effects do not activate here, unless they specify otherwise.

[@kassygo1375]

Cimo missed a LOT of rainbows ruins activations and I thought at the end of the last game he was going to special summon the monsters back or get a draw but he legit just ended his turn

[@DigitalxGamer]

As a huge Crystal Beast fan (and one who wholly acknowledges that they've never really been good, to my dismay), it is painful for them to think Ruby goes to the grave when attacked while set. Also that he keeps sending the good CB's to the ST zone instead of the ones you don't want to draw into, like Amethyst and Ruby. Or not drawing off of RAINBOW RUINS IN MP2 when he first got 4 ARGH OR NOT SS'ING THE PEGASUS WHEN YOU GOT EVERYTHING BACK IN THE ST ZONE OML MAN Love the content guys, I'm just a CB nerd xD

[@Lord_Phoenix95]

Yeah. Cimo definitely doesn't know how to play Crystal Beasts. I was an avid CB player and yes they're not great but I definitely knew the simple combos.

[@homerman76]

I don't know about "never been good," they've never been meta relevant true, but they were pretty good during the XYZ generation since they could make rank 3's and 4's pretty often and the field spell combos pretty well with Scrap Dragon when there's a CB in the backrow (since it can be targeted but not destroyed by the effect qhile the opponent's card still will be,) especially if you use Vylon Prism as your tuner to make Scrap Dragon essentially a 3800 atk monster.

[@michaelle4031]

He is pretty bad but tbf cat might be good against cloudians

[@WarpedByTheNHK]

A good version of this deck shouldn't even be playing the bad Crystal Beasts or Hamon. You should usually be getting Pegasus with Pegasus so a Carbuncle special summon later actually has value. Getting 3 Pegasus in rotation is usually a top priority.

[@ShrankTheFirst]

Back when I was playing CBs it was my deck with the most 4K beatsticks. Since the field protects itself, I felt confortable playing Malefics in there. Hamon, Malefic Rainbow Dragon, Malefic Cyber End... Oo oo ah ah, big bungus after big bungus. It was pretty oppressive, especially when it came to the point when I had 1 S/T negate per turn.

[@matthewmcmillan1337]

Cimoo actually reads the cards but forgets the process of the attack phase Ruby gets flipped up for the attack then destroyed

[@Turbo3032]

I love that when Rainbow Ruin was in play, MBT setting back row covered the rainbow with clouds!

[@Elec7rify]

"The fans have been demanding Crystal Beasts, so we're gonna give them to the player who hasn't read CBs before, didn't read CBs while playing them, and couldn't even be bothered to watch a 10 minute video on how to play them. That'll keep the fans happy!"

[@meteormedia7021]

GX would have been such a cool and fun and creative format, if DAD wouldn't have existed. I'd really like to play a GX format tournament, but with DAD and all the DAD engines on the banlist.

[@UshiUshiKakuThe2nd]

The inclusion of Dragon Queen of Tragic Endings is a bit anachronistic here; this is meant to be during DAD format (as stated in episode), but Dragon Queen did not come out until 5Ds in Absolute Powerforce.

[@ArmageddonEvil]

It didn't even matter to the game state since Cimo lost. lol

[@UshiUshiKakuThe2nd]

@@ArmageddonEvilIt's just a little weird is all I'm saying, given how often they refer to 2008 and Phantom Darkness DAD format.

[@CallieBlader]

dragon queen of tragic endings was a 5ds monster used by one of the antagonists who used anime only cards to tell her back story this is why we watch the anime

[@zyxaplayssomething]

Me a Crystal Beast enthusiast: "oh boy Crystal Beasts are in this week's Jank!" Me watching Cimoo pilot the deck: "okay I guess today's the day we unsub"

[@jasonjanisewski78]

Cimoooo clearly has 0 idea about Crystal Beasts which really killed the episode. Not knowing that even face down ones go to the s/t zone when destroyed by battle, 0 terraforming to get the necessary field spell to hand, etc. Also playing for Hamon and Rainbow Dragon is just bad. I understand it is Jank but with CB's you play to their Field Spell. You don't remove 3 to summon a Sacred Beast, you load up the backrow since 3 gives you s/t negation, 4 gives you an extra draw, 5 lets you summon a ruby that you have in your backrow to summon/swarm with the rest.

[@konstantink7310]

But MBT didn’t know that too?

[@0Gregster]

I really love this series but Cimo could've played a lot better with the Crystal Beasts this episode -No Crystal Raigeki in his deck -Not realizing that Ruby can be set in the S/T after being attacked facedown which many people pointed out -Not drawing using rainbow ruins eff many times during main phase 2 when he a 4 crystal spells -He could've easily won Game 2 if it weren't for his misplays (ex. 31:25, instead of getting ruby with Crystal Beacon, he could've gotten sapphire pegasus, use its eff to set a another sapphire pegasus as a cont spell, then use Rainbow Ruins 5th eff to summon ruby from s/t, then use ruby to get the two pegasus and tiger, getting him a full board of monsters plus 2 extra crystal beast in the s/t zone with the other 2 pegasus he summoned with ruby (3 total) allowing him to negate the spirit barrier with ruins 3rd eff) -Having a bunch of other similar misplay throughout the entire match I don't usually complain about this type of stuff because I know this series is just for fun but I just really love Crystal Beast as an archetype and it kind of irks me that it wasn't played much better, no hate to Cimo tho.

[@iunnor]

Yeah I don’t know where they find their deck lists from but they find the clunkiest versions of your favorite decks and then complain. Love the series though.

[@Tagperson]

You talking about your childhood unlocked a memory when I went over my friend’s friend house and he was “rich” had boxes and boxes of Yugioh cards he said I could just take anything. Got so many of my staples that’s day :)

[@magicgamegx]

I have never screamed so hard at a player. Cimooo you really hate Crystal Beasts don't you?

[@vice7784]

It gets flipped up when attacked doesn't it

[@DemonFox369]

I can’t “like” this video with how badly Cimo played this.

[@Glurakaiser]

So fucking bad

[@kassygo1375]

I’m convinced Cimooo has a grudge against Crystal Beasts

[@insanemoto4259]

44:38 A misplay not even the rest of the comments noticed. Hamon still inflicts 1000 damage with his effect.

[@Reluxthelegend]

16:15 it gets flipped face-up during the damage calculation...

[@stevenashley27]

How could Cimo not know that monsters get flipped up in battle, before they’re destroyed?

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

Leave it to Cimoo to demonstrate that he is, in fact, the absolute worst Yugioh player of all time, worse than even first timers

[@hazzardalsohazzard2624]

I guess it doesn't come up that often now?

[@ThatOneWeirdFlex]

​@@hazzardalsohazzard2624Guru and Lab do it occasionally

[@herovill9629]

Cimo really made Crystal Beasts look WAY worse than they actually are lmao

[@cascada5200]

0:55 Deck List / Breakdown 13:15 Duels

[@zalebee9556]

Lol MBT saying "ooh ooh ah ah" and HOWEVER in nearly the same sentence.

[@dedrogian]

As a Crystal Beast player since CB was released, it was very evident that Cimo had no idea how to play CBs. Crystal Blessing is never played in more than one, because it requires set up, and you can use pegasus to pick up crystals from the grave. Promise is usually played over blessing. NO ONE ever plays Hamon unless you wanted to lose since its loses you card advantage and set-up. The fact that Crystal Release was not played means you get walled by a single Cydra. And that's not even counting the number of times he forgot to draw off Ruin's effect. Tbf, crystal beasts was crap until Xyz summoning, but from 2008 standpoint, it wasnt't that bad if you were able to set up under Ruins, with the ability to swarm, negate, halve battle damage and get free draws every turn. The fact that Cimo had zero payoff in the deck is just that the deckbuild was shit, not that the deck was shit.

[@jasonjanisewski78]

Blessing was definitely played well at more than 1, especially depending on your build. Having Blessings was quite important in swinging a game back after a heavy storm, a judgement on your abundance, etc. It also makes a lot more cards live that otherwise might not be that turn.

[@kerryannegarnick1846]

“Cobalt Eagle is the worst Crystal Beast” Cimo says immediately after reading Amethyst Cat. Also he very clearly doesn’t understand that Crystal Beast back row zones get clogged so quickly that it is mandatory to play in the modern Crystal Beast advantage deck.

[@kerryannegarnick1846]

Also Eagle let’s you reuse Sapphire Pegasus which is not bad.

[@lucaslennan3356]

Crystal Beasts is a weirdly not easy deck to play. Lot's of weird stuff that no other deck worries about.

[@bashavinga8554]

Because its shit?

[@dominiks.9954]

It hurts my very heart and soul seeing Cimo not understanding Crystal Beasts. To be honest I was kinda hyped at first but this episode was really painful to watch 🥲 As a lifelong Crystal Beast player I really acknowledge that they're clearly not the best deck out there but they're also not as terrible as depicted, maybe he could have prepared a little better to play the deck to it's potential...

[@doubl2480]

By the way, Crystal Beasts technically got more support recently... in the Valiants reveal. You can use one of their field spells to summon any monster directly from the Spell/Trap Zone. Just activate the other field spell to put the one you want on the opponent's field, and replace your own with Rainbow Ruins, and you can kind of activate the 5+ effect of Rainbow Ruins every turn.

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

That's just the tip of the iceberg, the new trap makes Rainbow Ruins (and the Valiant field spell as well) searchable in the deck much more easily, AND makes enabling every effect of Rainbow Ruins piss easy. BUT AFTER SEEING THIS, I HOPE TO GOD THEY NEVER EVER EVER PLAY CRYSTAL BEASTS AGAIN.

[@raizen4597]

If a crystal beast was destroyed the flip happen during the damage step but the destruction from battle happen after the damage calculation. That said the flip apply before the monster was destroyed.

[@afeathereddinosaur]

MBT being a great duelist as ever, drawing remarkable hands every duel this episode

[@HKWWrestling]

@Cimooooooo As a Crystal Beast player this HURT to watch. You sit there and complain about a deck that dont take the time to learn how to play. Crystal Release was available at this time, gives extra attack points and can add CBs to back row. Instead you're using 2 Rare Value, a card that while adding cards to hand detracts from core of Crystal Beasts play style at this time. I also think Summoner Monk was available by this period but I could be mistaken on that. Regardless Crystal Beasts at this time were BEST used with Crystal Abundance OTK. Lastly you didnt evem bother to build a side deck. Even if you added Crystal Beast Spell/Traps not in main you would be in a better position after leaning some of how the deck plays in game one. The truth is with a lot of decks in the jank series they are WORSE in your hands because you dont respect them enough to even understand how the deck is played and only focus on your limited meta knowledge. Almost unsubbed because of this episode.

[@jasonjanisewski78]

Rare value is fine and actually pretty good if you understand the deck since Blessing/Pegasus can return them from the grave and it speeds you towards an Abundance Win Condition, although Cimooo only playing 1 and instead playing monsters that remove his CB's from the S/T zone was absurd.

[@rubberwoody]

Do you think these decks were built by them? they pull the lists from archives. Bitch to them about the ratios.

[@infiniteshay8660]

Yeah so Cimo Ruby Carbuncle would be face up when it's attacked while set. Because it always flips up in damage step and is not considered destroyed until flipped up.

[@doubl2480]

I'm sure Cimoooooooo perfectly knows that a monster is flipped face-up when battling. This isn't even an issue of not reading the cards this time, it's an issue of hating the archetype so much you're just searching for more reasons to trash it at this point. Also Dragon Queen of Tragic Endings, released in Absolute Powerforce. Somewhere in the middle of 5Ds.

[@divemissile8928]

this episode was pretty frustrating to watch. it felt like cimo half the time just decided to make bad plays and then complain the deck sucked (which it does tbf). it was really fun to watch cloudians pop off though

[@derStaz]

I used to play Crystal Beast in School, but I didn’t have Rainbow Dragon. I played good stuff Crystal Beast + Gravi-Crush and Magna-Slash Dragon and loved it!

[@Efflee]

Cimo forgetting the basic rules of the game, as everyone else pointed out, monsters are flipped face Up when attacked xD

[@Cyber_Elf_Elpizo]

ah yes, another history of Cimo's jank card reading skills

[@chavosaur2221]

>Nearly an hour long Blood was spilled this episode.

[@MyOwn1990]

Not that it mattered, but at 44:42 Hamon destroyed Sangan and sent it to the graveyard, so Joseph would take the 1000 hit.

[@lamiaprincess6371]

Oh no not the Dragon Queen...to be fair I don't think anyone remembers that card but its from Absolute Powerforce. Wait is that MBT's Cloudian build? That would be pretty sick.

[@tyranitararmaldo]

I managed to terrorise a locals with Cloudians during the tail-end of XYZ format. Deck was actually good at keeping monsters on-board for rank-4 plays, they have their own version of Aqua Spirit, which was amazing with Salvage and Masked Chameleon was pretty much built for the deck. It may have been only a locals, but you get a good feeling when people are muttering the word Cloudian in fear when the next round sheet is going up.

[@insanemakaioshin]

43:42 - Mammoth: Aiigh now you finally summon me & I can show you what the beast with the Arnold voice can do. Fun fact: all the crystal beasts have voices that reference actors in the anime & Mammoth is Arnie.

[@moh.syafrianabie8899]

No MBT&Cimo, crystal beast monster can be placed on S/T even if they're face down because when they get attacked they turn face-up at damage step (or calculation? Idk)

[@showtvbest]

This episode made me cry in flip effects

[@bradysfire]

This was jank the most jank I feel dead inside

[@homerman76]

As a Crystal Beast player, watching Cimmo use C. Beasts and understand nothing is rather cringe xD

[@mekklord]

NESHY must be losing his mind watching this episode

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

Yes he did, and so did the entire rest of the Crystal Beast Discord. And we were all coming into this expecting him to fuck up the deck and to a "hate watch" collective reaction about it. But we did not expect just not THAT much awfulness.

[@absoluteunit8334]

This entire episode is Cimooo not understanding how his deck works isn't it?

[@nemesis-t3ddi]

Fun fact: Dragon Queen of Tragic Endings was used as a boss monster by Misty during her duel against Akiza in the Drak Signers Arch of Yu-Gi-Oh 5ds.

[@digitaltailsmon4096]

Wait she used a GX card in her duel? Huh didn't realize that.

[@ArmageddonEvil]

@@digitaltailsmon4096 The Dragon Queen of Tragic Endings came out in Absolute Powerforce.

[@UnrealGamer6]

YOOOO! I got back into playing Yugioh around 2014.. playing Legacy of the Duelist when that came out in 2016, Crystal Beasts & Cloudians were two of the decks I discovered and they became two of my favorite decks! Glad to see them played here!

[@INFERN0FIRE]

I like playing NImbusman in my Lakitu deck (Legandary Fisherman III x Cloudian), since Nimbusman is a 5 star which means you can normal summon him if you have legendary ocean on the field. It relies on the fog counter continous spell card surviving a turn though.

[@BenediktWernicke]

cimo the crystal beast card says send as many cards to the graveyard. that's why it was playable in xyz era since it could get around startdust and zenmaines

[@kylenguyen7371]

You talking about Crystal Abundance? Because that card was one of the best spells in the game for that exact reason.

[@BenediktWernicke]

@@kylenguyen7371 yes

[@garethm9523]

Joseph says the word cloudian Me: ah, a man of culture

[@maxoball]

as a crystal beast fan, this was pretty hard to watch.

[@elbardelagrieta2820]

Now I kinda want to make a discord server called “dad went to buy cigarettes” that’s just dad format without dad

[@cragl3yman343]

They should redo this week and have someone who actually knows how to play Crystal Beasts play this deck. Cimo was probably the worst deck Pilot I've EVER seen play this

[@skittezraine]

Hopefully Crystal Beasts returns in the future, really deserves at least some justice.

[@Cjbrehh]

the first in jank that im not gonna finish watching sadly. cimo just so blatantly wanted to get this episode over with or something. a shame. 2 fun decks.

[@PapiCito]

I feel like this should be re-recorded. The game would have been way different if they knew what they probably know now about monsters being flipped up when attacked.

[@jujubeanz009]

It should be but they never re-record when they fuck up. It’s a hectic schedule to plan out 6 videos for the week and rearrange that schedule when they goof. So just take it with a HUGE lump of salt.

[@BlaiseArath]

Crystal Beasts? My Jank time has come.

[@sinbadddx]

30:20 when cimo didn’t draw that card and took full damage I cried

[@UltimateCrusherJoe]

Cimoo u flip the monster before it's destroyed ruby would go to spell trap zone

[@terrahoy6615]

Look, I'm not saying Cimo would have had a chance of actually beating the Cloudians, I'm just saying that a more optimized deck and strategy would have made CBs look kinda cool while they were slowly losing

[@RomanceJones]

16:00 the monster flips on start of damage step...

[@rotex03]

I beg Cimo to practice and learn about archetypes before playing them here for real. The misplays were plenty here. It kills the replay value for me once I know that duel didn't go as it could have been if both of you played the best you could. Maybe MBT also misplayed, but we don't see that.

[@maxantonio9312]

I feel bad for cristal beast players because cimo did not play well with this deck

[@oflgn6929]

A funny thing you can do with crystal beasts is playing shining angel to special carbuncle. I also like how Cimo didn't even bother to play a side deck. I'm so mad.

[@starforce6751]

I really wanna see Neo spacians in History of jank

[@yugijak]

I like how they manage to fail to read despite actually reading the crystal beast cards. Such as the whole rule that you must flip face up for damage step.

[@MrHochoi92]

History of jank is recommended with a whole lotta dank: this has been a public service announcement

[@iscream4761]

somebody tell cimo the field spell works on main phase 2 too lmao

[@Perondini]

Every episode you come up with something even worse than the last... and i love it, keep up the good work!

[@slanax97]

Dragon Queen of Tragic Endings actually featured in the 5Ds anime as the payoff for a series of three anime-only Continuous spells. They force the opponent to shuffle back monsters, spells and traps respectively when they draw them during the Draw Phase, yata-locking the entire game down while the Dragon Queen rips out what little resources are left in the hand. The plot of the duel was all about feeling helpless and stuck after losing a loved one, making it a pretty neat parallel with the actual mechanics of the duel.

[@Firehawk376]

So what I'm getting from this is that Crystal Beast isn't *that* bad, it's just that Cimo can't use them properly.

[@johanyugigx7008]

OMG!!! 🤩🤩🤩 This has got to be one of my favorite YGO videos !!! you guys are replicating the exact match up that we used to play with my best friend in middle school, him running cloudians and me being a crystal beast hardcore fan ofc 😍😍😍 and the deck Alex is running looks so similar to what i was running with the Hamon, the queens etc 😁😁 so many fun memories and so much nostalgia !!! thanks guys for making me rewatch my childhood janky deck in action 👍🤣 one hot tech in crystal beasts though : you should run snipe hunter, it is "powerful " and you don't care about the discard as it unclogs your hand 😜

[@acduck2813]

So cimos has never played crystal beast before...

[@jasonjanisewski78]

He threw by playing the worst I have probably ever seen. I am a fan of the series but clearly there was 0 research done on this deck.

[@frankwest5388]

What I got from this video, is that I must tech “by the order if the Emporer” to hard counter the “Flowandereeze” deck in 2022. Not so fun when you get floodgated, isn’t it you feathered follies

[@needahobby6830]

now we know cimo never played cristal beasts😂😂

[@jasonjanisewski78]

He would have won if he played them correctly.

[@needahobby6830]

@@jasonjanisewski78 I don't know if he would have won but it would have been a more equally duel

[@Venorpion]

9:47 I'm already calling it. He actually managed to summon Rainbow Dragon and activates the effect ON THE TURN IT WAS SPECIAL SUMMONED. Edit: Well, I'm dissapointed.

[@Ironpecker]

I love that for this episode the jank duelist is Joseph itself, I hope he's very proud for having made it on history of jank

[@davidhobbs5679]

Watching Cimo try and play CB hurts, rule 1, fuck spells that stay in you S/T zone, use that space for your CB cards, 2 CB does really well when you can get them on field quickly, the less none CBs you run the better than become (to a point). All in all he should be running less spells more CBs (tribute fodder) and more single use spells. Can't contend with DAD but still better than he makes them look.

[@VihnNem]

"Your rainbow ruins can't be destroyed by battle or card effect"

[@FakeHeroFang]

It needs bois in the backrow for the protection to be live, that's why MBT popped them before the field spell.

[@SupremeQUEEN668]

Honestly these make me feel so nostalgic cus back in the day imo yugioh was way more chill and more fun to play (unlike now where everyone is focused on playing meta and playing all their extra deck in one turn) and cards from GX are def the most memorable and remind me of childhood.

[@SquibbyJ]

Really want a cloudian link. With the attack position thing and all. Also Ruby Carbuncle is nuts! It gets all your guys it’s sick as hell.

[@christopherb501]

I predict a sub-archetype called "Data Cloudian".

[@EeveeReturn]

Of note, walking Sangan into Hamon still deals 1000 damage via Hamon's effect

[@brandoncastellano1858]

Cimo misplayed so hard last game. After he nukes his board, , draw a card, summon dragon queen, draw a card, rare value to draw Jinzo, proceed to the route. Could’ve controlled the game.

[@tyranitararmaldo]

I mean, having Dragon Queen of Tragic Endings in a deck 2 years before it was released is also a big misplay.

[@LightswornMagician]

Hey! ItsYaBoiTreebornFrog is me!! Thanks for the shoutout, what a fantastic episode!! :D

[@Symptomofsynesthesy]

You from America can't understand this, but here in Italy the music festival di Sanremo has begun and I want to thank you Cimo for giving me something ELSE to watch ♥️

[@danielknapp159]

When i first opened packs with crystal beast cards, i thought the monsters in the spell and trap zone keep their monster effects. I just did not understand how the deck could be competitive otherwise.

[@clayxros576]

Honestly if the cards had a "While this is a Spell, [effect]" the deck would be way better. Imagine Mammoth gave an extra Normal while in the S/T zone, Turtle gave an Atk/Def boost(equal to its Def), or Eagle let you summon from backrow once per turn. All they need is SOMETHING to do while a Spell and the deck could have had real legs.

[@mesiagamer5217]

@@clayxros576 the anoying thing is carbuncle did in the anime with the ability to special summon itself from the spell and trap zone.

[@clayxros576]

@@mesiagamer5217 I legit thought I imagined that. Was the one thing from GX I remember besides that Electrum OTK

[@jasonjanisewski78]

The deck played well is kind of like Zombies with an OTK option (Abundance). With the field spell and a little setup, they can endlessly swarm/revive each turn and also have s/t negation, extra card draw, etc

[@Kleemoor]

Oh man I remember this deck. Crystal beast was one of the first decks I competed with in actual tournaments. Such memories. Crystal aboundance was my win con. Played it at 3 haha. So i didnt have to play Hammond or the bad crystal beasts as you said.

[@lilhoss4reals]

I like how the intro was basically them saying these decks were so bad that they had to fix them just to be playable.