Yu-Gi-Oh History w/Joe Giorlando: T.G. Stun (2011)

[@aBigSip]

This was one of the decks that were running around when I first got into the game. Great memories. Thanks for sharing!

[@popcrnshower]

Best Yu-Gi-Oh channel in the game. 🙏

[@starshkr46]

This is a nostalgic one for me, as it is a deck I actually played! It was so fun, Horn of the Phantom Beast is still one of my favorite cards in the game, beating down with a strong monster and plussing off it is one of the most childlike joyful things to do in the game. And also double nostalgic because I remember your articles on the deck, which inspired me to try it out in the first place!

[@foxyhooligans]

Played this deck alot, Agent variant as well.

[@jaedoncrawford216]

I played this deck for YCS Kansas City in 2011 cause I couldn’t afford Tour Guides at the time. I played against Jerry Williams in round 4. I opened rhino and 5 traps. Jerry proceeds to blind MST my straight road, heavy storm my other 4 traps, and then trishula’d my rush rhino.

[@covershopkid]

Now this is a deck! I love how tg had such few support and was no way planned to be the “top” deck. I always enjoy when an all common rare deck pulls to the top ranks and even wins nats. Insane.

[@MermDaddy]

Horn of the phantom beast is such a cool card. Love watching these historical deck profiles and seeing cards that are “bad” in todays yugioh being so impactful. Wish i had played during this era

[@TheRyanNeighbor]

This deck is one of my all time favorites, skill drain moving to 3 in TCG made me reminisce on the last time that happened in HAT format and I played something very similar.

[@WhoNeedsMeta]

It's weird seeing no T King in the main. Card slaps most of the format and is still good under Skill Drain.

[@trynet123]

There are a lot of things that make Thunder King awkward in the deck. He can't take a Horn, or be a target for EM1, and it was risky extending your board with TGs with a Thunder King on the board, since your opponent can lock you under your own Thunder King.

[@WhoNeedsMeta]

@@trynet123 I guess it makes a little more sense for me since I don't play 3 Horn and only 2 striker so I'm less likely to get stuck in that situation.

[@WhoNeedsMeta]

@@nut_bust3r I think T King works well in most stun decks. I think a worse part of this era was trying to cram random lights and darks so you could try and cheese out BLS.

[@Lundrity]

Another great video

[@synchron9855]

Great vid!

[@trynet123]

Few things in Yugioh bring more joy than saying, "Damage step, Horn." I always drew the distinction between TG Stun and TG Beatdown not by Skill Drains, but by the stun monsters. I'd have called Robbie's list the Stun list because of Thunder Kings.

[@YGOHistory]

The plant killer! And fair. I feel like Drain was more “stunning” than TKR but I understand that distinction.

[@GodWorksOut]

I love it when players take something that isn’t meta and make it able to defeat the meta.

[@Sfmmcell]

Sweet deck, brings back alotta memories. Got my first top with this deck at the NA wcq 2011 and lost in top 64. I used a build with 3 firedog and 1 magician/king tigers without drains. Definitely worse in hindsight to the pure/stun builds but still was very solid vs plants, i remmeber not dropping a match vs them.

[@oldformatguru]

I JUST REALIZED IT WOULD BE BAD ASS TO HAVE JOE G AS A TEACHER.

[@RetroYGO]

i luv your content the side deck for dark world from my experience imps just doesn't work as soon as they get access to one grapha i prefer d.d. crow since it can banish the grapha , overall love your content

[@WingedKuribros]

the best card I liked from Tyler's toronto side deck was liberty at last, it was capable to out gachi + venus in one card so I'd also consider that if there's large field of agents

[@Sonichellsfire]

🐐

[@skull666388]

I remember getting my invite for nats that year with TGs, and day 2ing YCS Toronto, though my list was very budget looking back at it. I'm surprised only 2 skill drain, but thats just me.

[@Tylernaut]

Is the hero stun variant in this format close to the one you played to success in 2012?

[@premejon8300]

One of my coolest friends ever won that US nationals with TG stun 😁. We are very proud of having a National Champ from the BX 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

[@tvbrat13]

I miss Tyler 😢

[@Nothing-sn9nc]

Hey Joe, I've been wracking my brain trying to remember a particular old school KZbin channel and I think you might be able to remember since I think it was maybe you who mentioned it as a very valuable resource in some forum somewhere. Basically it was a guy making videos about how to think when dueling, yugioh "theory" he presented interesting reasoning behind what the right play is etc. I know this isn't a lot to go on, hope it rings a bell. Maybe he had a Hispanic name?

[@YGOHistory]

I honestly cannot recall what you're referencing. I will keep it in the back of my mind and maybe it will come to me.

[@Nothing-sn9nc]

Evan Vargas !!!!! It seems he deleted all those videos sadly. Grateful you're still doing this.

[@YGOHistory]

@@Nothing-sn9nc Evan was on a podcast recently and it was amazing. Give his name a KZbin search. Shouldn’t be hard to find.

[@Nothing-sn9nc]

@@YGOHistory There's some videos of him around yea he rocks, he used to have s series where he presented scenarios and went through his thinking but he seems to have made those video private for some reason

[@GurukageTV]

I WOULD LIKE TO PLAY THIS DECK IN MASTER DUEL. CAN ANYONE HELP ME?

[@spitfire6309]

Hi😀