The History of Yu-Gi-Oh! Jank! #39

[@genm4827]

Oh boy I love the Magical Hats in the thumbnail, surely it will be activated at least once this episode

[@MeanderingSlacker]

Alex "Catfishin'" Cimo

[@Gpz0]

The sarcasm is strong with you, young duelist. Lol

[@BlancTangerine]

Magical Hats is a card all about misdirection, so it's on theme.

[@pablorosada9788]

Joseph had it ALL 3 GAMES

[@rotex03]

@@pablorosada9788 and managed to play it in 0.

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

Gorz: "Who are you?" Tengu: "I'm the best Fabled monster" Gorz: "I'm the best Alien monster, nice to meet you."

[@half_blood]

"True unadulterated jank" says Cimo playing a coherent synchro spam deck that topped a YCS against Joseph who is playing a literal pile of unrelated garbage.

[@truegamerking]

Cimo playing a tengu plant deck vs Joseph playing edison

[@ojamagerrits]

Uhhhhh its tengu format fabled vs edison ojamas smh bro.

[@half_blood]

@@truegamerking Are you trying to imply that whatever abomination Joseph was playing was somehow better than an actual proper deck Cimo was playing?

[@truegamerking]

@@half_blood uhhhh Yeah Play an edison format deck against a pilot that knows what he's doing and that ojama deck will do fine Get Ethan Gerrits in there against Cimo in an edison game and we'll see how it does

[@half_blood]

@@truegamerking whatever you say, genius ^^

[@afeathereddinosaur]

Peak comedy: you can use Fabled Krus to revive Fabled Unicore, amazing

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

I never understood why Magical Hats shuffled 1 Monster with 2 Spells/Traps, when it always had 4 hats in the anime. There are also 4 hats on the card art, yet it shuffles 3 hats around. It could have at least set itself as the fourth hat, for the effect.

[@vxicepickxv]

Card of Safe Return had 3 cards on it. At least it matched in the anime.

[@elijahpadilla5083]

@@vxicepickxv "Draw 3 cards" with no discard downside was egregious even by DM era standards, I suppose.

[@donaldbagwell7202]

Truuuue

[@wademccormick254]

I like how Magical Hats has four hats on the card, even though the effect only involves three “hats”

[@Barracius]

Probably a tribute to the anime version.

[@gluttonousgoddess]

In the anime, one hat represents a missed attack.

[@suisui5930]

MBT wearing the other one on fhe deck discussion and he put it on the sleeve

[@AshBlossomWorshiper]

I love that the way to get Cimo out of the shirt is for MBT to just... not play🤣

[@RexMixTrix]

reminds me of the situation where mbt played watts and cimo arcana the world. like cmon at least a little balance should exist

[@thatquietkid3660]

@RexMixTrix You do know mbt won with Watts right?

[@mekklord]

All it took for Cimo to get out of the shirt was stretching the definition of jank to include "decks that actually topped"

[@therranolleo468]

they have played topping decks in the past, topping with a jank deck isn't that rare throughout YGO's history it might like win once in like a whole season of tournament but a top is a top

[@christinastephesn1548]

They’ve said before (I believe in regard to the psychic episode) that jank does not necessarily mean bad, just unconventional and kitchen sink

[@heyguysdavehere2609]

Can’t believe no fabled Tunnelgage in this list. All star of the time.

[@tehcharliebonanza]

My friend played Fabled competitively during this time. He had a brilliant side board that would smokescreen into Skill Drain, Barbaros, and Horn of the Phantom Beast. He'd side out some of the little guys but like Ganashia was still a 1600 (1800 if Skill Drain wasn't up) beat stick that could special and was a Horn target. It was so effective because becoming a stun deck game 2 was a total 180 from the combo deck it was game 1 and people often sided into completely dead cards thinking they were still playing combo. Also, why is there no Fabled Raven in this list? It was a secret in DREV so it should definitely have been out by this time.

[@metalmario1231]

I was wondering about that...raven would have beem an amazing discard outlet

[@zeppelincraft1443]

People playing fabled back then were absolutely crazy. They refill their hand like magic, spamming 3 material synchros like nothing and locking you with Unicorn. There was this one person who only played fabled in our local shop and he turbos out crazy monsters.

[@rotex03]

Today's blunders: 18:16 - Cimo wasn't supposed to draw because of Reckless Greed, but it didn't matter. He also had better plays, but I get it. 21:15 - He could have summoned Sangan and activate Chawa effect. And then either go to Ragin, draw and add or go Unicore and activate Dark Hole.

[@tallesmanhaes]

one more: Geartown only active it's effect when it's destroyed, placing another field on it does not destroy, only send to the graveyard Edit: my coment is wrong, in old rules placing another field Destroy de first field

[@somethingdifferentprobably]

@@tallesmanhaes In the 2010 days, when they're playing, it does destroy the field spells.

[@ectoOLDACC]

@@tallesmanhaes they're playing with old rules

[@firstrateduelist4377]

Summoned Krus off of Krus in the first duel

[@rotex03]

@@firstrateduelist4377 that is a legal play. Krus cannot summon itself but it can summon another copy.

[@saiyoice]

Fabled was the archetype that I played with when I first started trying to build combo decks.

[@tnuhenaj3752]

not making waking the dragon work with magical hats was the worst decision they ever made.

[@Justifythepie]

Magical hats was the spice in my crystal beast deck, if I use 2 crystal release you'll get 2 more crystal beasts as continous spells

[@jeremyadkins9665]

I would love to see some of my favorite jank decks of this era represented, like Wanghu Stun, Moja Beastdown, and Barbaros/Malefic Skill Drain Beatdown. No thoughts, only big numbers.

[@Weissolation]

MBT played Barbaros/Malefic Skill Drain Beatdown on History of Yu-Gi-Oh!, It was the T.G. Stun episode.

[@jeremyadkins9665]

@@Weissolation Thanks for letting me know. After watching it, I'm realizing that it's a rather bad deck, even now. Going to have to thoroughly rethink my Barbaros deck strategy, based on that.

[@fallengaara88]

Fun fact: I believe MBT misread magical hats. Iirc the errata during this time said “during your opponent’s battle phase” allowing you to both protect your life points and trigger geartown.

[@frankwest5388]

Fabled are some of the most high roll decks in this games history. You think Lightsworn mill Wulf can explode? Fabled could make triple Quazar in one turn, right when Quazar was released.

[@draketheduelist]

FA-BLED! FA-BLED! FA-BLED! WOOOOOOOO! I have been waiting for this episode for months. Pity you didn't use the plant engine, T.G. Hyper Librarian, or even Phantom Skyblaster, which are all *insane* in Fabled. My variant of choice was Chaos Fabled (which is basically just Fabled + BLS) mostly because Snipe Hunter and Skyblaster make such a great case for dark splashing anyway, and that's not even counting instant fusion targets. There are a TON of quick potent Fabled combos when you know what you're doing. If you have Kushano and Grimro in the graveyard, Krus becomes a one-card board wipe. (Discard krus for kush, special summon grim, summon kush, kush into grim for black rose, nuke.) And if you have Skyblaster, Chawa and Cerburrel, you have a three-card Trishula + Brio if you sequence right. (Discard Cerb for Chawa, summon Skyblaster, summon 2 Skyblaster tokens, Cerb into Skyblaster for Brio, Chawa into tokens for Trish.) There are even some Fabled sequences that end on Quasar, but they're considerably less reliable. It all comes down to knowing what synchro you need and knowing how to get there with what you've got. The thing about Fabled is that you need to run monster heavy. 25 at least because most of your monsters are basically spells with legs, so syncing up will usually produce small frys like Ragin and Catastor.

[@wumpmas2]

fableds are one of my favorite archetypes ever because (almost) every hand is a puzzle with near infinite branching paths that frequently rely both on probability as well as deck knowledge, and a few hands just do stone nothing and you can go straight to game 2, truly the ikea gun of decks. kudos for taking on the challenge, any and all misplays are completely reasonable.

[@wumpmas2]

also ill take any opportunity to play brionac

[@ColgateVT]

So very true, as a casual long-time fabled player, what keeps me coming back is that truly, no two games are ever the same with my lil bois

[@zeroboros934]

I swear every time Gadjitron dragon makes an appearance Joseph tries his hardest to mispronounce it in some new way

[@meteormedia7021]

Says the guy who misspelled the name of that card...

[@yosup8603]

Man, I used to really look forward to these episodes after coming out of school early. Now I'll just really look forward to them normally. Hopefully Cimo can graduate from getting into the Jank Tank so much like how I graduated school.

[@robvakarian2330]

Had us in the first half ngl

[@reggiekurt93]

0:56 Ah yes...a deck that the progenitor of that Morbius tweet meme, RANK10YUGIOH/Rata, would "love."

[@Aaronrules380]

After failing to throw last week MBT manages to successfully throw this time

[@mustafamrouweh7873]

To Mr MBT Over the past few months you have become my all time favorite yugituber Mainly because of your amazing content And most importantly because you are kicking Alex's butt on a weekly basis After our former her Gage fell into a pit of Nyhmcidents you were there to show us while there might be a tunnel there is also a light at the end

[@Charmander_R27]

So nostalgic. I used love to play fabled as a fun deck and my brother loves magical hats as a fun deck as well. We've had this matchup many-a-time over the years.

[@Caesim9]

Wow, this is finally the day. I love Fableds. They were MY deck back in the day. For the first time I stuck to any archetype and had like combos. When I finally got Unicore, I finally had some outs for my friends and their machine and Naturia decks lol

[@magicguy1988]

Veilering Ragin is one of the meanest things you can ever do to your opponent

[@TheLetterJ0]

MBT is really scraping the bottom of the barrel to find something that Cimo can beat.

[@ojamagerrits]

yeah picking a list from edison too

[@khalilhughes1481]

One of yall should play the deck “Subversion Mill” in an upcoming episode. You can find it on Pojo. The way it was perfectly crafted to troll the mechanics of yugioh is literally a work of Art.

[@theponystark]

Imagine if Guarded Treasure was out at this time. Imagine the jank.

[@xLohengrinx1]

Tried it back in the day in Fabled, was too slow and I played chaos with Gorz main decked

[@metalmario1231]

Im still trying to figure out a deck i can put that card in

[@TengoSuenho]

Fabled is my favorite archetype ever, so I'm always very happy to see it... but also it hurts so much... I cannot blame Cimo for not knowing how to play because Fabled are hard af to play optimaley, but still

[@drewclouse7600]

pretty sure fabled was like tier 1 in the ocg around this time or maybe the format before because it was also high tier on the 2010 ds world championship game

[@WhoIsSirChasm]

When Fabled Grumblo and Fabled Scrunglo are released, MBT will probably still be right in how to best use them.

[@batrook2142]

Please bring back auction series

[@gorilawwe5461979]

Yoooo! Probably the best episode of all the Jank History, all that magical hats plays were over 200 IQ, I'm sure after this episode, people would realize how broken and understimated this card is, looking for Konami limited it at least or ban it better. Thank both of u so much for giving the community the best magical hats duels of all time.

[@ItsKaraBowdit]

So happy to see Magical Hats getting used! I started using this as a joke back when Gem-Knight Fusion was hard to search, but wound up feeling like it's actually just kind of a good card

[@SepherOfFire]

21:09 trunade, normal sangan, set the dark hole, Pitch Cerb for Chawa, Summon Chawa + Cerb, Sync Sangan with Chawa for Unicore, grab Krus or Cerb with Sangan, Pitch Krus/Cerb with remaining Chawa in hand for a Field of Unicore, Chawa, and Cerb/WhateverKrusBringsBack, and set Dark Hole [NOW WITH AN EMPTY HAND]: Sync Unicore with Chawa for Ragin, Draw 2 Cards, Sync Ragin off with whatever (really doesn't matter at this point just continue shenanigans as long as possible)

[@StriiderEclipse]

I do love my Fableds, pretty excited for this episode EDIT: oh my god Krus is pronounced like CRUISE, not KRUS(t)

[@kevplescia4397]

Should of grabbed Snipe Hunter off of Sangan. Remember that you can't chain Stardust to Snipe

[@maskofthedragon]

A rogue deck vs actual jank

[@ojamagerrits]

THATS MY OJAMA LIST

[@Darklava144]

Tengu is to Fabled as Gorz is to Aliens

[@ojamagerrits]

Also you're using an Edison format Ojama Deck vs a tengu plant format deck. Regardless if it's jank or not, fabled with tengu is going to be infinitely better then edison cards.... I wouldn't necessarily be playing hats in that format. Tengu Format had a lot better strategies for ojamas

[@herbertcharlesbrown1949]

12:44 the optimal play was to discard Kushano, then discard Krus, reborn Kushano. Discard Krus to search Cerburrel. Use Tengu+Kushano to synchro summon Sacred Ancient Wyvern. Tengu summons another Tengu from the deck. Discard Cerburrel to pop a 3rd card. If you fail to pop with snipe Hunter, then use Cerburrel+Tengu to synchro into Brionac.Brionac to bounce any remaining backrow. Attack with 1700+2200+huge Ancient Wyvern for lethal damage.

[@137shadowX]

my favorite build of fabled has always been a hybrid of it and dark world. honestly not sure why the build you piloted wasn't at least playing dealings, it's the perfect draw card for the strategy

[@chimmyinfernape9189]

This was one of the first decks I wanted when I got back into the game in 2011. I got some fake cards for my friends when I visited china and a lot were duel terminal ones and the fables were the ones I just love the designs of the most

[@cascada5200]

0:50 Deck List / Breakdown 8:00 Duels

[@TheShatteredskys]

I listened to this like a podcast, hearing Cimo saying the names of the fableds without any context in my brain was absolutely hilarious

[@dragonqueenniisan4122]

'I have no way to Synchro summon.' Peak Cimo reading. Activate trunade incase of back row. Chawa discard Cerb and summons both. NS Sangan, set Dark Hole. Synchro for a draw 1 on the Fabled, then go Bryo

[@gigalodon14]

Fabled may seem difficult, but its actually quite easy, you just have to work with what you draw

[@charlottesfunandfreechannel]

I think Honest Abe is turning in his g/y after that bad joke by MBT I'm sure he'd say that tall man's hat isn't a cap

[@tyranitararmaldo]

"If you have never seen a fabled card before" Oh Cimo...I certainly have seen many a Fabled card before.

[@sinbadddx]

Been waiting for this all week, thanks cimo!!

[@matthewsouden6998]

There’s jank then there’s garbage worst than jank and then there this deck that was created in the dang underworld

[@joseftheerazor]

As a former Fable player i have some knowledge of how the deck works. With Cimooo playing this for the first time i could understand. But I truely miss Yugioh Auction Series and the Yugioh Seald Saturday. I hope one day they can continue them again in the near future.

[@gashbleach]

I think search snipe hunter off of sangan 2nd game gave Cimo the best chance, since stardust can't negate a conditional destruction, and it turns on the fabled cards in his hand. But otherwise well played I think

[@aBomeynation]

It's funny that Cimo mentioned the Magical Hats interaction with Harpies cuz I used to do that way back when too kekw

[@midnightoceans]

As someone who built fableds in Master Duel (and plays it still occasionally), that game 1 opening felt very familiar.

[@insanemakaioshin]

1. We need a history of Tier 0. Can you do a video covering the tier 0 formats? ex. Tele-dad vs Zoodiac 2. Can you do a game of modern Yu-Gi-Oh with everything at 3? I don't think some cards are as busted as people think!

[@alessandrocozzolino5304]

belive it or not, fabled, piloted by Fabio Minicozzi, won Italian National championship in 2011, when the meta was six sams , tengu plant, xsaber and so on.

[@joshwheeler9700]

I won a couple of locals with Geartown Turbo. Double Cyclone was a huge push for the deck as well was Future Fusion for a Chineratech engine.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

0:54 MBT's deck: Magical Hats Ojama 3:20 cimoooo's deck: Fabled 8:18 Game 1 18:18 Game 2 23:07 Game 3

[@lobbynotlob]

I love Fabled, but unless you open a grip of all monsters you end up like Cimo's first hand.

[@IlpalaGaming]

"Now it's time to start cheating" I mean yea, that's definitely cheating.

[@1RnSghT]

fabled is one of my fave decks, its so fast and you spam the field soo much. then you summon regin and get more cards

[@22Vnnami]

“I have literally no plays” Starts with Kushano and Krus.

[@heyitspedro]

Would love to see as pure a coin flip deck against as pure a dice roll deck y’all can do!

[@ninjadrfred]

Airbellum summoned by rescue cat resolving its effect, gotta love History of Jank

[@zurajanaisephirothda3886]

At some point you could add in a clip of MBT at the YCS with his Libromancers to the intro

[@baxmark_3749]

Mans activates double reckless greed and just proceeds to draw anyway

[@Shinde425]

I always loved fabled artwork, it was a deck I thought was really cool until avarice got limited

[@moodywater9096]

Fables always make me play more seriously in WC 2010, they somehow always get around my field

[@somesquirrelguy4707]

8:55 oh MBT this is the greatest pun of all time

[@sinbadddx]

Honestly this sort of yugioh was the peak. Creativity and flair.

[@impossibleeatable501]

Cimo: yea i wish this card just said draw 2 I agree, cimo, pot of greed on legs would be pretty good

[@blahmaster6k]

I'm really enjoying the lore implications of history of jank. Now we know that Gorz is the best Alien monster, and also that Tengu is the best Fabled card!

[@theauberman]

Surely the hats will be magical in this episode of Jank

[@DemonFox369]

21:10 ??? Cimo: No way to synchro summon You have Sangan and a level 2 tuner you can special summon. Ragin?

[@Carlitonsp1]

They probably should have clarified that an outdated ruling meant that at the time, replacing a Field Spell counted as "Destroying" the field spell.

[@Konamiagent]

Why is Cimo acting like fabled was dogshit... It definetely was playable at the time

[@Reluxthelegend]

Maybe he think fabled was played the way he played this episode lol

[@thenightstalker6165]

You never heard of fabled raven? The one let's you discard your hand it's played in dark worlds

[@CameronGamingTCG]

One of my favorite decks of all time. Played a different build then this back in the day but still such a fun deck to play. But I still play fableds to this day but obviously different build to make it compete with the meta

[@vernonrwalter8425]

As someone that played Fabled around the time they're in, and had a list that looked almost exactly like this: I'm offended it's considered Jank.

[@Fubga]

Looking at Joseph's Deck, I can't wait until card destruction resolves! Looking at Cimo's Deck, I can't wait until card destruction resolves!!!

[@cheer90099]

magical hats in the thumbnail? this is gonna be a good one

[@mugeca]

damn how could alex not have seen the line you're supposed to discard scrumblo for grumblo, then activate grumblo add ginglar and discard for pinglar what the hell it's so easy

[@YuGiOhandChill]

You played Ethan Gerrits decklist for Edison and then put it against a deck from 2011 with tengu? noooooo

[@Spellshot693]

18:08 How did Cimo forget the ONE rule of Reckless Greed? I mean it didn't matter in the slightest, but bruuuuh

[@Jason0binladen]

Yeah the Bs erata on hats is nuts on the show it was a quick play spell card you can activate whenever

[@SandroCartoons]

When the Hats are not so Magical.

[@RedDragonForce2]

Finally!! Out of the Jank Tank!! Congrats Cimo!!

[@ToastyMuppet]

I feel like there should be a Jank vs history series where the winners of each respective episode play against one another

[@Trixbeat]

I cannot fathom a fabled deck that doesn't run monster reincarnation. Also tricky + cerburrel is amazing, on top of black rose and wyvern you can even go into arcanite magician

[@samwill7259]

What's better than a sick lid? Four magically sick lids!

[@axllopez337]

Cimo complaining about his kinda good hands in first duel had me questioning his reading abilities (well... the whole series)

[@sonicyellow]

The forfeit second game was unfortunate, basically didn't see MBT's deck at all due to that

[@TheTrickeyShuckle]

the fact that cimo didn't have fabled nozoochee in his deck to literally turn on the deck more frequently makes me extremely sad, but still glad fableds won this game :D

[@DQMaster777]

I still have my old Fabled deck. :)

[@esrohm6460]

i totaly forgot that magical hats is battle phase only. thats why no one ver tried to use it in modern times as a trap version of foolish goods.

[@Omnicrom]

They botched the reference on fabled Ragin, it was supposed to be a misspelling of"Legion" since a lot of the fabled monsters are mythological beings with names that are very slightly misspelled. It probably should have been something like "Lagion".