The MYSTERY Of Early Yu-Gi-Oh! | Critikal reacts

[@mrcasinoo556]

The funniest thing to ever happen in Yu Gi Oh that never got a follow up was Bakura sending Bones and his friends to the Shadow Realm during Battle City and they have never been seen again

[@DutchThriceman]

I heard in the Japan version the shadow realm is literally just dying so the fact they were never heard from again was cause they got murked.

[@WisteriaBerlitz]

@@DutchThriceman The "Shadow Realm" is made up by 4Kids to get around whatever censorship laws the US had when it aired back then Pretty smart idea to get YGO aired on TV tbh

[@robroy373]

They were banished to hell in the Japanese version (stated by Bakura), while still alive. So either they died to something in there at some point, are just constantly hiding and surviving on scraps, or are making themself useful by carrying out deeds for a wicked being in there. I'm assuming regardless they were released (and revived if they did die in there) and came back when Bakura lost to Yami Marik in their Shadow Game game, since it seems all the penalties you inflicted are revoked if you lose in a Shadow Game. That or they were brought back when Zork died with Yami Bakura fully.

[@Supertoddy96]

well their souls were sent away for eternity, but thats basically dying so

[@lpfan4491]

In the manga, they are just dead, there did not need to be a follow up to that. The anime physically sending them to hell probably did tho, but hell as a place and concept did not come back until 5DS.

[@ProfessorDubs]

As someone who played most Yugioh video games for gameboy and gba, Sangan is most definitely an iconic card.

[@natechods]

Sangan is still meta relevant

[@marcovidal9782]

@@natechods Not really but he was for a very long time.

[@Izzo942]

Prevent Rat and Muka Muka were the MVPs on GB

[@butterspike680]

@@marcovidal9782 I wouldn't say it's really meta relevant right now, but it has seen modern play here and there by decks that can benefit from it. It was a one-card Halqfibrax when the Auroradon combo was legal.

[@hectorlumbagoCringe]

What games did you play ?

[@Yatezylad]

One big problem with yugioh is cards like Dragoon are 'noob stompers'. A good player with a decent deck will beat a new/bad player 99/100 games. It feels bad to start playing, even though it is worth playing

[@Bluejay575]

1:07 Gather around children, uncle Charlie has one of his legendary stories to tell.

[@ChichiNaka]

I’m so sad we can never go back to the first 10 years of yugioh I quit irl when jewelled beats came out, loved Monarchs, loved Chaos, loved Cyber Dragons Playing the games now it feels like the game plays itself, like nine creatures get played and fused on turn 1 and it’s all over

[@lochness3]

Lol just get good and play a meta deck.

[@ChichiNaka]

@@lochness3 ygo decks play themselves now I got into both games on steam, grabbed a top 5 netdeck and the 27 card turn 1's just happen on their own

[@acetrainer6541]

@@ChichiNaka bro just got this opinion from the video 💀💀💀

[@ChichiNaka]

@@acetrainer6541 Yes what a completely unique and original thought that nobody has been saying for thelast 15 years

[@Freshomania]

the first few years were ass too

[@Aaron__Parker]

He brought up Scythe and Mine and everything started to make sense, this is an old old stream. I was wondering why we he was noting things that haven't been relevant to the game for some time.

[@bobbydavis4786]

Took me a year to get competitive again after 15 year break. Was hours and hours of homework to be able to play again.

[@BernsteinRugal]

I got back into the Yugioh through Master Duel like a 2 years ago and, man do I hate Labrynth, Eldlich Snake-Eyes and Prime Tearlament. Easily some of the most broken Deck ever

[@MagiRemmie]

@@BernsteinRugal Eldlich? That deck doesn't do anything unless you're meaning when it was playable.

[@pashkodreshaj2558]

@@BernsteinRugalTearlament IS the most broken deck/build of all time according to a lot of the veterans I’ve talked to

[@DrKek1]

Watching Yugioh is like watching Jojos it's a series of "aha gatcha" moments, every stand/deck is modeled after the persons personality, and every fight is a god damn 3 parter 💀

[@dwaynejackson551]

Dude one of the waely video games I used defense 0 monsters and fairy meteor crush tagged to an opponents monster to cheese the game.

[@Curiomerc]

A yugioh episode that is so funny to me that it lives rent free in my head is actually a yugioh gx episode. Jaden Literally loses his mind and thinks he's dueling people while bastion tries to talk him out of it. The words "You're having a psychotic episode jaden" is not something i expected to hear.

[@starklord25]

I like how charlie was right about Yubel, both Neos and Yubel were sent in separate pods from Kaiba Corp

[@Emet.V]

48:33 Gustav, is based on an actual gun that exists during world war2 , it’s one of my favorite rank 10’s😊

[@JPJonesBSc]

Oh, the game has changed now. there was always loops, 1tks ect, But far less and far less optimal. yes magical scientist was annoying but at least it was obvious. Now turns are 15 mins long and the game is crazy. Mechanical chaser being OP at one point, points towards the obvious, the game has power crept into a state of which 1tk will win.

[@MagiRemmie]

That's literally not how the current format is.

[@VincePolevault]

Blood blaster would actually slap, and he thought of it with very little effort

[@DavisMultiverse]

I summon the old man with rocket gun hands... ~He was a peaceful old man who had his hands replaced with rocket launchers by military scientists. Now he's a monster. He can often be found blasting ducks at the park~

[@TallicaMan1986]

I don't know the rules, but back in the day. Everyone agreed on One thing. You can attack a Monster and if it was struck in attack position 2500 would go down to like 1800, but the attacking monster dies. So if you turned it into defense mode it would have life points like that. So drawing a super strong monster wasn't ideal. You'd want to chain up a move.

[@SlashMayhem]

50:24 If they dont mention the name of the card and only say you can use this effect once per turn. It changes the whole effect. Since it mentions the name of the card that means only one effect of a card with that name can be used per turn. But if its name is not mentioned and it says you can only use this cards effect once per turn; you could possibly use another copy of the same card again in that same turn. There is a reason for all the madness.

[@teakay1412]

I appreciate Act Man making this video on such a childhood gem. From casual to competitive, each of these youtubers contributed in bringing me back into the competition.

[@TheMEjoao]

iconic yugioh cards: Trap-Hole Fissure Man-Eater Bug Blue Eyes White Dragon Dark Magician Exodia (and his parts) Change of Hearts Monster Reborn Celtic Guardian Beaver Warrior Time-Wizard Baby Dragon Thousand Years Dragon Polymetrization Mystic Elf Slifer, Obelis and Ra

[@4cyl]

No pot of greed?

[@ViRo02Cas]

More Iconic Cards Monsters: Black Luster Soldier (Including EotB) Buster Blader Breaker the Magical Warrior Catapult Turtle Chaos Emperor Dragon: Envoy of the End Dark Armed Dragon Dark Magician of Chaos Gadgets Goblin Attack Force Jars (Morphing, Fiber, Cyber, etc.) Jowgen the Spiritualist Kuriboh Krebons Magical Scientist Magician of Faith Monarchs Mystic Tomato Red-Eyes Black Dragon Sangan Summoned Skull Thousand-Eyes Restrict Treeborn Frog Witch of the Black Forest Yata-Garasu Spell: Book of Moon Card Destruction Card of Demise Cold Wave Cosmic Cyclone Delinquent Duo Dimension Fusion Emergency Teleport Graceful Charity Giant Trunade Harpie's Feather Duster Heavy Storm Megamorph Metamorphosi Mystical Space Typhoon Necrovalley Painful Choice Raigeki Reasoning Smashing Ground Swords of Revealing Light The Seal of Orichalcos The Claw of Hermos The Eye of Timaeus The Fang of Critias Twin Twister Traps: Compulsory Evacuation Device Crush Card Virus Dark Bribe Drop Off Dimensional Prison Gravity Bind Imperial Order Interdimensional Matter Transporter Judgement of Anubis Last Turn Magic Cylinder Mind Crush Mirror Force Negate Attack Return from Different Dimension Ring of Destruction Royal Decree Royal Oppression Sakaretsu Armor Seven Tools of the Bandit Skill Drain Solemn Judgement Time Seal Torrential Tribute Trap Dustshoot Ultimate Offering Waboku Wall of Revealing Light

[@DraZtheProbleM]

I think the better question here is where did you get that Millenium puzzle necklace?

[@Emet.V]

44:14 they are a good rank four xyz engine, I enjoy them too❤. Mix them with utopia and any decent rank 4 monster and it’s a great time

[@Phylant]

My cousin made a deck using red eyes dragoon where he banished it then special summoned on the first turn and I literally paid him $120 (as a kid $20 was huge) for it, then I found out it wasn't allowed at my locals after HE USED IT.

[@38achref26]

xyz is my fav summon

[@JustGaming117]

Lmao I still use that Crooked Cook/Buzzsaw Shark combo in a Marincess deck. Frog engine in there too with Dupe, Flip Flop, Treeborn and Toadally Awesome just for chuckles. Meta? No. Fun? Yeah kinda

[@EgoChip]

You shouldn't be letting any of those expensive cards touch your hands for any longer than required to put them in a sleeve.

[@ImmersiveReactions]

Maybe making playing a card any card at all cost you 100 LP. Or just capping card activation per turn to 5

[@joanjorge566]

Gustav Max’s name is awesome I dunno what Act-man was going about there. He’s right on most other stuff though.

[@ragenaros4475]

6:02 Snake Eyes happened.

[@southpawoutlaw]

there is a archetype of stuffed animals... Fluffals

[@BoostKingEVO10]

I absolutely love the OG yu-gi-oh as most of us do. battle city was my childhood. Yami Marik was my favorite character especially in the Japanese anime. Even synchro and XYZ wasn’t bad. After that, I stopped paying attention.

[@dennisgarcia1179]

I like floodgates in best of one 😂 I don’t wanna see 8 special summons on their turn and then 5 in my main phase

[@Pit-d5u]

Show respect for Joey

[@MosEisleyCantinaStories]

Using the Gunkan in duel links. That shit goes hard against these new prog decks

[@MZX4206969]

Ragnaraika evil seed & fiendsmith engraver have awesome card art

[@derekwst3-YGO]

I like yugioh myself, so much i do cpu vs cpu tournaments on my channel. My main series is following story arcs and doing tournaments based on those, now on my twitch and vods i started my Reduel series. I take characters from all over the anime, manga, video games to attempt to create a unique story.

[@acepalomino4718]

Ya know, i thought i couldnt play the same deck from 10+ years ago, but my vanitys fiend still plays great today 😂

[@douglasswain3450]

"Power creep" made this game what it is now.

[@dawgatemybrain]

Those card names sound like AliExpress/Wish/Temu descriptions.

[@Drop6ify]

Og yugioh introduced fusion but gx expanded upon the mechanic

[@pavma7]

I miss my first ed Jinzo

[@Clownschool1212]

red eyes dark dragoon loses to so many things, i can think of like 5+ ways to beat it, i run ghoti and it cant stop me from banishing it because its not a targeted effect and it says "destroyed" that doesnt stop banishing effects also i can just tribute it for a kaiju also a summon is not an effect just a tribute

[@MagiRemmie]

There is a reason no one plays Dragoon but Branded players. and even then it's a sideboard card.

[@JPo.404]

Just my 2 cents... but duel links should be the new competitive modern format, it's really well done. Simple to learn but can be as complex and competitive as you want it to be. And have Master duel as some crazy format to really see the potential of the cards. Yu-Gi-Oh just needs organization. It could potentially be a really dialed in game if someone just took the reins

[@MagiRemmie]

Yes we love yellow button simulator.

[@Test-mq8ih]

Do you actually pretend that duel links didn't had some messy tier zero meta for decent amount of time? And as far I see, tier zero in Duel Links was worse than tier zero in Master Duel, OCG and TCG

[@McDankEntertainment]

Magic The Gathering Has Alot Of The Same Issues...

[@MagiRemmie]

All card games has the same issues. That's literally what a meta is and when a card game last as old as we are something is gonna get complex.

[@requiem6465]

Sangan was tier 0 and is still meta relevant.

[@atomikg]

I had to learn the new mechanics from the video games, I'll stick to just collecting.

[@azurekaiser123]

actually archetypes made it easier for me to jump on duel links and master duel

[@AlcorSolaire]

GOAT format = best format

[@JessePeckham-r7h]

Yugioh got turned into a complex chess game I feel like but I still love yugioh 😂

[@DatSkateFace]

I summon Baby Dragon in Defense Mode, Your Move

[@deancrimsongaming2971]

Ready for the shadow realm!?

[@N9ne99-z3r]

lol y’all dumb

[@kenanking8058]

Ends the video with “Be right back” but never came back 😔

[@mehdielasri6091]

47:47 stop hating on my amazing fluffal deck, they are the best stuffed animal deck there ever was

[@ben_sisko2149]

5D's is by far the best series, though

[@runeking6242]

I’m assuming this was a old live stream because Mystic mine, and scyth are banned in the tcg, and have been for awhile

[@kopeschka6748]

Yugioh has to much text on the cards hurts my brain with all those super small letters

[@davidh5297]

i listened to this for 20 minutes in the background before i alt tabbed and saw this guy had on yugioh hair, i laughed very loud

[@lalorodriguez3716]

Last time i played yugioh i lost before i got a chance to even play a card.

[@mysticstrikeforce5957]

not gonna lie we all want those yugioh jackets specially kiba's

[@dany1050]

Haha yeah the TARGET stuff was really stupid. Like a legal void

[@lalorodriguez3716]

Sad they didnt bring up gaia

[@HiroZebra]

charizard would wipe out blue eyes

[@zanephair5684]

I want Dragoon out of gay baby jail in Master Duel.

[@kinsy3840]

I came back too yugioh after a 15 year break 3 years ago... god was it it a pain in the ass too learn all the new mechanics but it is not impossible 😂

[@timewizardking]

Rush and speed are peak

[@chanofrom69th]

Joey Wheeler is the reason I’m still a gambling addict (current Yu-Gi-Oh player that flips a coin to decide who wins) all the way to this day

[@Jose.Roberto.]

Time Wizard 😂

[@cheshirecats6974]

New anime per master rule

[@MrMMitchell]

I kinda wish i could get back into yugioh but its just so complicated now i stopped shortly after the mechlords came out

[@temper1337]

edison and goat format are popular

[@Wuunderboy]

@19:49 actually thats WRONG! the rules absolutely made sense, it's just because Duelist Kingdom story was written before the card game came out. Duelist Kingdom was made based off the 1998 Yugioh video game released only in Japan at the time where the video game rules break down the "duelist kingdom" rules very well. And when it came to the USA , we got the official card game soon after and it didn't translate at all. Edit: What killed Yu-Gi-oh is the fact that the anime stopped focusing on the ancient past-modern connection and mysticism-mythology themes and instead went full steam ahead purely into the soulless technology Ai aspect of the cards themselves.. while at the same time irl instead of making more and more "vanilla" monsters with more unique spell/ trap effects, instead they made more and more effect monsters to the point they ran out of effect monster ideas and needed to make new types of monsters all together. Synchro-xyz etc. If we want to fix the real life card game alone today we'd have to Essentially reboot the game and make 90% of the effect monsters into normal monsters and turn their effects into spell or trap cards, where majority of your deck is now non effect monsters something like mystic mine way less dramatic.

[@FLopesVieira]

Sushi ships are cool, but.... all the loli art is concerning

[@PlasmaDragon7]

Does the audio cut out for anyone else between 1:54 - 3:00 ??

[@eventuelleon748]

yes

[@4cyl]

I summon pot of greed +2

[@Samaelx.]

Yugioh > Pokemon. and I'm talking about the card GAME itself not the shows.

[@Conor-cm3kv]

Best card seal of orichalcos

[@Farfetch_]

I grew up and play magic the gathering

[@McDankEntertainment]

Pokemon, Magic The Gathering, and Yugioh. The Big 3 For TCG.

[@theshinobigamer5737]

Shit so real😮‍💨

[@vivanmaurya]

i think there pokemon shouldn't count as big 3, it was the big 2 and the later kid that grew up

[@Error50505]

I dont blame charlie for not playing yugioh anymore, game is just negates, hand traps, and unbeatable boards.

[@YaZeYne143]

nice nice egg scramble

[@stonedbardock8529]

The sushi ships are not fuckin cool... lmao what is Charlie Smoking?! 💀

[@EmbracedDestiny]

Best yugioh card name was lord of D.

[@xXbaker115Xx]

The most annoying thing about his video is hes saying modern yugioh is bad because its not like how it was in the "early days" What he means is Modern yugioh is bad because its not school yard yugioh The games always been toxic Look at cimos history of tcg and ocg Just because you never played it seriously doesnt mean it hasnt always been the same

[@MagiRemmie]

Just watch MBT's reaction of the video. lol, the "old early days Yugioh" never existed.

[@xXbaker115Xx]

@MagiRemmie yeah seen it, anyone that actually played back then knows that at even at a semi competitive level the meta was toxic. Look at cimos videos on the early ocg around exodia times there was literally riots over cards lmao

[@askinnakklevaar98]

Wish I still had my cards mom lost storage unit and never told us so they’re gone forever had some bangers

[@charleswable3339]

bro dark magician girl....

[@incription]

and then I attack and I win, right?

[@werewolftheforsaken]

fix for modern yugioh: limit special summoning to 3 times per turn.

[@LouiseDonald-rw9ox]

3046 Mauricio Lights

[@seebold5711]

Monster egg

[@driftingobsidian8792]

So lame, you muted the music of Act Man's intro

[@mategido]

Archive? I'm pretty sure I watched this video on his channel couple weeks ago

[@tsunderehusbando3668]

what does pot of greed do again?

[@38achref26]

it lets you win the duel

[@orion-9368]

What deck do you main Moist.

[@michaelfellner9822]

52:15 well nowadays the game is just about starters, extenders and handtraps .. and also really important, maybe the most important, the extra deck because those are the cards you actually want to spam out. if ygo didnt have that and the game would just rely on your main deck and you just throw cards at each other trying to beat each other up if would actually be still kinda ygo just faster. i started playing ygo day 1 it hit the shelves in europe and i loved it but during dragon ruler era i stopped.. i still follow the game a bit, some years ago even played some again, but its just no the same anymore and not at all in a positive sense. its a clown fiesta where you can compare starting hands between players and dependent on whoever goes first can tell whos gonna win. theres almost no skill involved anymore, basically everyone can win nowadays ( lowered / widened skillgap ) and that is on one hand the games "downfall" but also its upside. downfall because a lot of good players have left the game yet its more appealing for casuals / friendly for bad players.. and as in every game thats by far the biggest part of a community. so yea, ygo is still doing well for the wrong reasons.

[@cerberos1]

The skillgap is definitely higher now since the game is more fast paced a single tiny mistake can cost you the entire game Back in the day if you made a mistake you had time to come back it was way more casual and more based on luck And it's pretty obvious when you look at the comments and see everyone complaining about the game becoming too complicated

[@michaelfellner9822]

@@cerberos1 a "single tinz mistake" couldve always cost you the game, back then and nowadays too. im still watching ygo content, im watching euros rn and there quite some misplays on the feature matches yet theyre unpunished if it goes by your logic. also i didnt say between worse players. between worse players it matters for no game.. but if you compare start hands between good players you basically always know who wins.

[@ChichiNaka]

Why doesn’t magic and Pokémon have this issue? My boyfriend hasn’t played mtg since 2006 and looking at Bloomburrow cards now it all makes sense it’s all the same speed it’s all the same general vibe, yugioh has to have ban lists on their own shit and somehow the player base is way dirtier and degen than every other card game

[@ricardopizarro3511]

Yesssir!!! NGL MTG is fun but YGO is where it’s at. (Not really)

[@alleyesan8352]

Joey god

[@biawakstruus]

glad there's no yugiohdle

[@Woodykush]

Yugioh is awesome idc I love it

[@nowisee1000]

Yooooo the redtube video I rememeber

[@BlackRaveBow]

Yugioh is unplayable now. Not an entry level game anymore

[@vivanmaurya]

How old is this video? I could swear mystic mine is banned in all formats

[@johnnyclawson9129]

Over a year old.

[@vivanmaurya]

@@johnnyclawson9129 I see, cause the video was a few hours old i got confused

[@misminjirplays8910]

Kinda right kinda wrong? Lmao. Nah. You will NEVER see another randomly built deck that doesn't run it's engine around an Archetype in a tournament. If that is the point of the competitive scene for this game now to even enjoy Locals anymore then Formats are the last hope for casual enjoyment. I will never play high end YuGiOh, but even low comp. Tournies are Archetype heavy. And MTG chains function better with more common sense. Just adding that last part. Lol.

[@JPJonesBSc]

Are the old cards worth anything? played from day 1 but stopped at link summons. all my old cards have un edited effects though so not sure their playable. CED's effect is very different now.

[@TheAwesomeCouch]

If they are first edition yeah

[@JPJonesBSc]

@@TheAwesomeCouch First Ed CED, first Ed Yata, for sure the rest I'd have to check, is there a site you would recommend?

[@MagiRemmie]

Depends. Goat format and Edison are popular formats. Pack filler cards are obviously worthless but if you have cards that are playable then they can go for quite a bit.