Yu-Gi-Oh History w/Joe Giorlando: Big City E-Hero (2007)

[@MBTYuGiOh]

Beautiful deck. This was the start of HERO for me, great video.

[@YGOHistory]

Thanks! I totally agree.

[@Giostix]

I remember when I was child, finding thid decklist in a Yu-Gi-Oh magazine that was coming aout at the time, in my country. I decided to build it and it was amazing, no friend could beat me and I I began to understand and enter the competitive world of Card Games. Ygo, Mtg, Pokemon...but it all start here, with this Hero deck 💚

[@ConanEdogawa415]

Loveeeee this deck. One of my favorite decks ever. I remember seeing it when Jeff ran it and loved the concept. Jeff has always been one of the best deck builders in the history of the game.

[@MFMegaZeroX7]

Man, I love elemental heroes and I'm glad to finally see the first ever competitive deck profiled.

[@NostalgicDuelist]

Loved this deck back in the day. Made me buy into little city/ light beat during teledad format

[@YGOHistory]

Well, TeleDAD > Everything. But yes, Hero was an anti-meta deck during Tele-DAD.

[@jinseongs10hobbies]

One question, why do you think this deck didn’t main deck any cyber dragons? Pretty sure cd was staple during this time and I thought it would have good synergy considering low number of monsters in this deck.

[@covershopkid]

Gotta play this in Edison. Such a good deck.

[@YGOHistory]

I've seen that list. Looks sweet.

[@Spawny]

This is playable in Edison? What's that list look like? I am interested

[@covershopkid]

@@Spawny similar monster line up but an added focus of alius and miracle fusion Stratos 3 ocean 2 wild heart 3 alius 1 captain gold 3 diva 1 gilman 1 skyscraper 3 Gemini spark 3 miracle fusions 1-2 riteous justice 3 hero blast Staples

[@YGOHistory]

Thanks for doing that!

[@Sonichellsfire]

🐐

[@HoopFacts24]

how would you modify this deck for edison format?

[@tylerhildebrand1268]

Great as always!

[@lounowell4171]

This is one of the first vaguely competitive decks I built, though I remember using E-Hero Woodsman and Polymerization My friends and I played with OCG cards so having access to Absolute Zero may have affected my build? Can't remember too clearly, but curious if anyone else has messed around with Woodsman?

[@HasherBrown]

tell em to bring out the whole elemental hero ocean

[@SRR9000]

one of my fav decks

[@spoonflaps12]

I heard there was another deck called Little City. What was the difference between the 2 decks?

[@YGOHistory]

That is the Gemini Spark based version.

[@og8885]

when are you going to do remote duels again?

[@YGOHistory]

I played some last night! I plan to break those down in the near future.

[@ste9482]

Hi this deck is good for edison format?

[@m1das11]

Skyscraper 2 hasn't seen much play in Edison. The use of Ocean, Neos Alius and a skyscraper (original) is common in hero beat, but other heroes like wildheart have been powercrept.

[@Spawny]

Brb I'm gonna go order this deck on tcgplayer real quick

[@YGOHistory]

It would be cheap.

[@Spawny]

@@YGOHistory I think the only thing I am missing is 3 wildheart, 2 skyscraper 2 and 2 R righteous justice. I've already purchased a ton of 2007 cards in the past from your videos and gotten a few of my friends into the format.

[@YGOHistory]

Awesome. I actually recently bought the foreign secret R's off there for less than $2 each.

[@keshersygo]

Why do you say "pseudo"-staple? Whats the difference between a pseudo staple and a real staple

[@YGOHistory]

Premature Burial was once a staple. Now people often cut it when playing older formats. There are also some cards (ex. MST) that would likely be found in 85%+ of decks that I think reach that level - even without hindsight. A true staple is Snatch Steal that is run in DDT, Demise, Big City AND the typical Machine/Hero/Monarch decks.

[@Apocralyph]

Pulling the Rug is super powerful, but I would be too afraid of T-Hero (particularly going second) and Machines to main it. Having a dead defensive card against these decks just feels like you're going to get OTK'd a lot. It would still be in my side though.

[@YGOHistory]

Both of those decks really took off after Philly. T-Hero was still underplayed and Machine was about a month off from seeing a spike in popularity.

[@Apocralyph]

It was definitely a solid choice at the time when Cyber Phoenix decks were not really popular yet. But if I were to play Troop Dupe today I would look for alternatives, although it is really hard to find good cards against Machines.

[@YGOHistory]

@@Apocralyph Agreed. Widespread Ruin was considered by some