The Yugioh Zexal Era Recap

[@jonandreyuao-suni4313]

This was a great format I learned Synchro and Xyz in this format. Mermail, Inzektor, and Dragon Rulers are some of the decks I played here. Fire Fist was tier 1 here too. So great you covered this Era. Thank you.

[@pspsora]

jeff said in an interview that people didn't know what his cards did, they spent a lot of time reading them and would like torrential, bottomless, warning stuff at the wrong times. probably after this people rad the stuff and figured out to save warning or bottomless for grandsoil. sometimes he would summon and activate a card then get warninged then have the exact right amount for grand soil and just push in huge damage. That could be a Huge swing like 2k from warning 2k from the revived card and 2.8k from grandsoil. He said beast, and barkion locked up games, the fusion was broken and made him gain a ton of life, and he only ever dropped grandsoil when he knew he could go for game after backrow was cleared to end games quickly and he could black rose then drop grandsoil and do huge pushes or summon barkion then drop grandsoil. he said his build was bad and would side out a bunch of the lesser cards like the miricle synchro fusion.

[@worstspytf2824]

I've missed the past few of these so cheers for giving me a reason to rewatch the whole history again. I wish I played back in past era's as modern Yugioh just isn't for me and searching for people to play through random legacy formats consistently to really try to learn and enjoy them isn't really feasible. Id love to do a progression playoffs thing but I don't have many friends, let alone ones into Yugioh :/

[@WoopPrime]

Im so glad you mentioned Lancer Frogs! One of my favorite decks of all time, went undefeated at a tourney once with it!

[@lujinn4544]

i started to play the game in pendulum area, and looking back to this area, i think it would have been so much more fun than current ygo

[@traplover6357]

Grass is always greener they say

[@wobbieadam]

It was all great up until Soul Charge

[@MegaMachiOnline]

@@wobbieadamzoodiac didn’t even need it with twin twister bombing traps and other archetypes summon spamming harder than before

[@ShadowFox10587O]

it had it's ups and downs but yeah it was better overall

[@truckercowboyed2638]

Its era not area

[@fernandosalazar4385]

This is helping me get thru my midterm study thanks so much

[@ItsRancio]

47:56 “i’ll send you my homework but change it up a bit so the teacher doenst find out”

[@Umahdibro]

This was peak YGO. I feel bad for the new gen.

[@elvenatheart982]

Have u given History of Duel Links any thought? I would love to watch the next iteration

[@rafaelbrites3607]

so that´s why number 103 is presented in many decks in legacy of the duelist.

[@arrownoir]

These videos are my go to when I’m on a road trip, at work or waiting at an office for something.

[@UTgohan]

I feel like after this format that’s when the game started to go down hill, I miss older formats like the Gx era aka trooper and perfect circle as well as Edison. Miss the old days

[@CommanderSal]

I love listening to these while I'm at work, trying to sleep, or just killing time. Thank you for all your hard work and research. 🤌

[@carloslugo6161]

Same here, currently while at work lol

[@CommanderSal]

@carloslugo6161 He puts so much work into these, it's nuts.

[@SlLv3RXP]

⁠mmmm oooo😂

[@SlLv3RXP]

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[@jasonzimmerman4007]

Surprised didn’t go over the arg circuit series as at this time they were big

[@jorgearana8549]

I listen to this every time I’m at work, makes my day faster and I feel I work even more efficiently

[@tensedart3470]

I would love to know If you are considering doing anymore duel link videos recappimg stuff?

[@runningoncylinders3829]

Basically why Sixth Sense, Soul Charge, and Vanity’s Emptiness should be available at 3 copies. Gotcha.

[@LeyMurphyYGO]

Dark World suffered not only from side board hate, also from really bad decklists

[@nukey5641]

The reason HA07 had no impact in YCS Lille is because it wasnt legal for the Event

[@W0r1dzSHIVfT]

I remember when yugioh was engaging

[@markuswe2134]

There is Memento Support too 😂😂

[@radicalsprites]

W video

[@zacf7414]

Dang you must really love league of legends music

[@chifuee226]

Its only downhill from here bois

[@Nocturnturn]

"Where it went wrong" basically. Zexal era was really bad - 2nd worst era (worst one would be Vrains). Introduction of gatekeeping archetypes to weed out older decks, paired with powercreep in favor of just the new summoning mechanic, thereby dictating what to play. This was the first time interest in the game dwindled for me.

[@josepharmstrong6852]

I want to make 1 critical comment about this video and others you have made please stop reading the effect of everything. It's kinda annoying and you don't even read it all. You forgot to mention rank 3 xyz sea dragon can only summon lv 4 or lower monsters. So it your going to read them all out explaining in simple words what they do with and xyz extender from banished of lower level monsters or a pop on your turn for other cards.

[@LabMatt]

This is a comprehensive breakdown of what the game itself was like at the era, if he stops to read every single card effect the video will not only get unnecessarily long but it will deviate from the topic at hand. If you really want to know what each and every card does down to the smallest details, you clearly have internet access, you can do it in your own time

[@josepharmstrong6852]

@@joeshmoe9204 Yea but he could summarise without reading it word for word. It's dry and hard to listen to. Yu-Gi-Oh! effect text is written in a specific way such that it tells the players everything the card does. Cost or does it target is it an activated effect I could go on. This is not all relevant when explaining why a card was good or bad in the specific period of time we are looking at. Calling evilswarm exciton knight a board wipe is clear enough you do not need to read it word for word. This is my only point love the rest of the video and the content is class, but I always find myself skipping the cards just because it's so dry.

[@MegaMachiOnline]

I like it, since errata exists. Saves me time from looking it up. But considering how long the videos typically are, it’s not like a few minutes in an hours long video will kill ya.

[@josepharmstrong6852]

@@MegaMachiOnline No it's just a masive time suck to a video which is very long 3hours. Count the number of sets its about 12 ish a few structure decks 5-6 minutes for each and hey presto it's just over a 3rd of the video. So an hour NOT a few minutes. It just make me want to skip to the actual good bit the discussion of the format at the time.

[@MegaMachiOnline]

@@josepharmstrong6852 i don't agree it's a recap video about an entire era of a card battle game, where just saying "this was meta at the time" without setting the perspective nor elaborating on why key cards and themes were good would make it a true waste everybody knew the recap was 3 hours long before clicking on the video, so to call it a time suck is pretty harsh when you made the time to watch it, presumably to learn in the first place notably, each era lasts about 3 to 4 years on average, so his *"Yugioh Yearly Recaps"* would probably be more digestible. although the playlist is missing some videos that can be found by using the channel's search bar, like 2012 and the *"Retro Retrospective"* ones, which are shorter by comparison. they're there.