THE YEAR OF EDISON

[@JoshuaSchmidtPlus]

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[@TheLawYGO]

❤❤❤ here’s to hoping I can finish the 2011 Recap this week ❤❤❤

[@MrGshinobi]

Josh's comment about how a lot of topping decks from edison era were not "good" but were played because people didn't want to let their old decks go is a very real thing even to this day in modern yugioh, and in my opinion it's one of the most fun ways to play the game, i love the fact that legacy support exists and that if i like an older deck like pendulum or unchained i can just make use of the new support from the last few sets and make good deck out of that and bring it to an event. I mean look at tearlament, it's been more than a year and people are still breaking their minds trying to figure out how to make the deck work even with all the bans, deck attachment is a very real thing ingrained into the origins of this game and i personally love that about yugioh.

[@Laid2Sleep]

They aren't trying to make Tear good, its still good and never fail off. You sound smart to stupid people.

[@MrGshinobi]

@@Laid2Sleep thank you for completely misinterpreting what i wrote and fully missing the point, next time try reading a bit slower.

[@AzureTears]

@@Laid2Sleep absolute cope, even in master duel tear has been hit extremely hard. On paper it's still broken, but the consistency is worse than kashtira's. You have to legit pray to hit a name on mills.

[@julianharvey1738]

46:40 if anyone wants to see that Peter Cheng guy get caught cheating - look up Frazier Smith vs Peter Chang and there’s an old ARG where he gets a double game loss on stream and then starts crying to the judges

[@Pleia_Ds]

Oh this man about to become a meme

[@julianharvey1738]

@@Pleia_Ds if u ever have A LOT of time in ur hands. Going through old ARG replays is very entertaining. First of all, its sweet to get some yugioh history lessons. Secondly, it’s the only coverage of competitive yugioh from back then and there are tons of hilarious moments or player meltdowns and stuff like that. Another good one is Nizar Sarhan round four at the ARG 20K where he decrees his opponent and the dude starts crying about how Nizar should have started popping his backrow for some reason

[@safeandsound712]

I really like the watch along streams. Josh has really good input on these and I love the lawygo videos already on their own

[@salvadorcardenas9317]

12:45 i love playing Fiendish chain in a deck like Koaki meiru where ill play the broken cont spells like oppression, skill drain, and itself, and then play magic planeter as a draw engine when either i want more cards or i just want to remove it in order for my koaki Meiru effects to resolve.

[@Shura143]

Just documenting, ive been watching this series in the background while I've been Shiney hunting and I finally caught a slightly darker green scyther while this video was playing. Thank you to Joshua Schmidt and lawygo ❤

[@pptemplar5840]

People really dogging on Feindish chain, like they can't imagine the game being in a state that allows for a generic monster negate with somewhat specific downsides to be good. It's like looking at mirror force and saying it's ass because of it's obvious flaws, and just conveniently ignoring all the success it saw.

[@angramainyu1813]

Shining darkness OMG i am such a boomer. Thats where i started. I got BULLIED by infernity every local. Wasnt fun at first but this game changed and saved my life over the course of these 10+ years, gave me my closest friends and i will forever be grateful for it

[@JakeLT64]

Obviously Edison is dope but I have a soft spot for the window after duelist rev and the banlist but before starstrike blast. There are cool cards to build with like the scraps, horn of phantom beast, genex neutron, Koaki mieru bergzak and more that historically got ignored bc infernity/frog/x saber were so strong. Duality despite the price tag really helped less powerful decks compete and is still the most balanced draw spell

[@MrGshinobi]

PREACH! Edison felt like the beginning of the true 5ds era that left the corpses of GX decks like glads, DaD, lightsworns, monarch, etc behind and would see brand new and innovative decks come into their own, but it was just the beginning and lacked a lot of the more interesting stuff from the rest of the future 5ds sets.

[@iizukuta8521]

I am currently playing tengu plant format, and it is for all the synchro Fans way more enjoyable

[@stormfrontDP]

im looking so much forward to swagkages history video of the gx era, if you havent watch part 1 that covers the DM era and you like laws history videos, youre gonna like that too

[@rodrigod.p.serrano6046]

Rodrigo Togores is also an amazing mtg player and won one of the best games of mtg i ever saw. He's also known for playing mostly pure combo decks

[@dianatheascian8701]

53:57 I never noticed archfiend had a mouth

[@xerospades]

I was waiting forever for this damn video 😂😭

[@xCorvus7x]

45:24 Disrespecting REDMD, are we, chat? That card is the origin and backbone of all Dragon good stuff decks until the erratum.

[@Pleia_Ds]

Infernity Inferno was kinda busted for the deck tbh--dump everything to setup and just 1 Archfiend SS will let you end on 3 barriers + break + doom dragon 3x Hundred Eyes loop combo was INSANE

[@Sleamo_Infernity]

💪💪💪

[@floflo1645]

from what I have heard you could also set infernity monsters in your backrow to set up your combo, it was a legal ruling at the time

[@manuuu9458]

​@@floflo1645no it wasnt, people just did that xD

[@ChrisSaur]

​@@floflo1645No, it was not. That's why a single good places MST was an OTK against Fabian Renner at that time. 😂

[@floflo1645]

I wonder how many guys got caught cheating at a YCS like that @@ChrisSaur

[@Powerman293]

Surprised that Infernity Set cheating wasn't mentioned in the entire video.

[@david21216]

59:02 I do wanna say that I looked into Rodrigo as much as I could and he got a DCL ban in 2018 but theres no info on it, just people talking shit because he's a magician and suspected of cheating in YGO. No proof anywhere and Rodrigo posts daily/weekly on his youtube channel playing Magic online. (that doesn't absolve him, honestly don't see much on his channel around the 2018-2019 period so could be sus but only that still) Also as an incentive for anyone else to go check it out if you see this comment, he has videos on YCS london 2013 where Josh does a deck profile playing dragon rulers 😉.

[@sporkmclork]

On the Doomcalibur Gadget list, I remember even at the time that nobody understood how that deck won anything. I distinctly recall old Robbie Kohl videos where he talks about how he had no clue how that deck won.

[@ДимитърПоптолев]

I believe during the History Episode (Cimo) they indeed mentioned that the community that still plays the format says the deck was just a fluke and it shouldn't even be considered when tiering the decks from back then.

[@ducky36F]

That deck is like, a bad version of a bad deck haha.

[@HonestGBJones]

You could always ask the player that topped with the gladiator beast deck

[@beanie5983]

Herald of Perfection my beloved

[@pptemplar5840]

Machine decks had the best generic support, they did need to be balanced, but they probably did overbalance them, Limiter removal and Machine dupe are insane back in the day, and the machines themselves are usually very good with powerful effects while usually being stand alone threats on board just by virtue of having fat bodies. No other type can OTK as effectively while maintaining as much utility.

[@TeamGoppo]

the year of edison - the year of love

[@astral_08]

I remember playing Heroes with Future Fusion, Miracle Fusion, Parallel World Fusion n De-Fusion for OTK, it was awesome... The Shining, Shining Flare Wingman, Electrum, Absolute Zero, Great Tornado...man what a memory...

[@kirbyale7948]

Wish he kept the volume of the original video a bit lower, sometimes is hard to hear what Josh is saying when the video is going

[@Shinde425]

I’m still that guy who just wants to stick with the one deck and adapt it to every format. I liked that about yugioh. You knew the guys at your locals by the decks they played, and to me that was really cool.

[@andy522g]

Crazy how the original video has less views than this

[@kril859]

Thumbs up for crediting the original video 👍

[@ChrisSaur]

The video audio is kinda high on this one. Its hard to understand josh when i tries to talk over the video. Lets hope he will turn the video down a bit next time.

[@KixMusaid]

It makes sense that this year had so much stuff because of Edison and Konami taking over from Upper Deck Entertainment

[@Guhleezy]

For some reason all the notorious cheaters were on xsabers during this time. Even outside of the events when I was there all the banned players who couldn’t enter the facility all were using xsaber while playing for $ or cards then.

[@rangeless]

Thunder king rai oh ⚡ gives me pstd. Inspector boarder at home lol.

[@TheJiminatorHS]

raioh was way more based than Boarder ever was.

[@liloldman5998]

Is a rock really that much better to a big stone?@@TheJiminatorHS

[@kwamegunn1012]

glad beast didnt stop getting played becuase sabers frogs and infernity had a lot of trouble beating a war chariot

[@DazeJokerz]

finally!

[@Sleamo_Infernity]

Infernity best deck!! :D

[@idkdontask7142]

On the topic of protessional card magicians getting caught, remember when Janah Singer (Jojo ASMR) who is also a card magician got caught cheating during a feature match?

[@TnPGmbH]

Calm down old man, these Kids don’t know what a Priority is

[@Elex127]

I believe there are exactly 2 reasons why infernity isnt still good. 1. Launcher is limited. 2. Prevalence of Hand traps.

[@itc62202]

Cool beans

[@TheStreetScientist]

Modern infernity if it had 3 launcher is putting up 9-11 negates. The combos today are 1-2 card combos. Launcher can’t come to more than 1.

[@geek593]

I really hope it never comes back without an errata. Infernity combos are a special breed of time wasting pseudo FTK.

[@TheStreetScientist]

@@geek593 it won’t get an errata. If they change it here, it has to change in the OCG. To be frank, it has a draw back of not having cards in hand. No hand traps. It’s kill or bust

[@geek593]

Why were people playing Blackwing? Because it was still good. What kind of question is that?

[@SmashCentralOfficial]

I find it so interesting how YuGiOh has just adopted this pie chart Meta display as the norm with no percentages. Very informative.

[@Waver2268]

prewatched

[@brianlauria]

Hoping people move on to TENGU format. It is a much cleaner format with a better banlist and a bigger variation of strategies whilst the stuff in Edison is still playable

[@johnnywilson3071]

Machina? or 中国吗

[@LuisRodriguez-tc9fm]

Who’s going to tell him we all do that with our AirPods? 👀

[@moar1716]

Tbh the Edison BW is maybe the more powerful build having two oppression and whirlwinds but PoD gave the deck much needed consistency. So BW was quite okay despite being hit on the oct10 list. Kalut just carried the birds a long way...at least till konami decides to murder it in march2011

[@davecatss6652]

yoo the cookie meru (Kappa)

[@EMPCraft]

starlight road was my favorite card foro a solid 1-2 years till i learned the stardust summoned cant reborn itself...stupid design decision

[@Otzkar]

why is josh pronouncing german words like bochum with an american pronounciation. don't get me wrong I think its fine in cases like munich where the entire word is different but it makes no sense to use the wrong pronounciation.

[@peanutbuttereggdirt1]

Because he’s talking in English, and in English, Bochum is pronounced the way he said it. You may as well ask why he’s pronouncing “legal” “statue” and “name” in the English pronunciation. Because he’s speaking English.

[@xCorvus7x]

If you speak English (more or less) without an accent, i. e. you pronounce everything according to some English vernacular, switching to German pronunciation for singular words can be somewhat of an effort. It's conceivable that this is just vocal flow to him and not a conscious decision.

[@pptemplar5840]

Why do so many YuGiOh players just have the shittiest opinions and comprehension skills? The amount of times I hear a YuGiOh player who isn't a public figure say something intelligent out in the wild is so rare.