*Erik Christensen mentioned* *Nostalgia Activated* Just when I was first getting into competitive Yugioh as a kid was just before Erik lost worlds with Blue Eyes, I then proceeded to play only Blue Eyes for a year and a half more while telling myself "I coulda' done better than THAT guy" meanwhile the man's deck simply did him dirty in Finals worse than his opponent's
I don't have the deep competitive insight of Josh on the matter but man... DRulers felt at the time as some degenerate anime archtype. Special summon BEWD-Like monster just by getting rid of jank in the gy or by discarding a baby and a dragon. Having an insane grind game was just the cherry on the top. 2 Rulers end up into an ED snatch steal (maybe better) or into an undying advantage generator.. Also the synchro lines were absurdly strong, in perception they could rival the feeling of having safe access into Baronne or Savage.
Definitely was 13 years old at the time playing a Yusei style synchro pile and shit was it hard to play against DR‘s with a stardust and nitro warrior as your strongest monsters😭
@@maniachd324 I love commenters making random assumptions to then fail lmao. For the records I was 16 and I had been playing competitively since the end of 2009. Not that it concerns you, although it's so interesting to exploit your thought process. So basically, since I humbly said I was not even closely invested in the game as Josh and since I expected my retrospective analysis to not be so accurate as Josh's because he is Josh... You assumed I wasn't playing seriously at the time and worse that I do not have an understanding of the game rn to produce my own take over the matter. Again: interesting, wild, brave, silly, funny.
Yeah in 2013 just being able to summon big dumb guys over and over again and being able to make an indestructible monster in Dracossack was strong. Not every deck had free access to easy removal like we do now.
Not sure if you guys are allowed to do this because of Konami affiliations and such, but I'd love to see an interview with Dkayed. He does so much with masterduel and seems to know a lot about the game in general, I think it would be interesting to hear his thoughts on a lot of things. But I understand if that can't happen
@@JohnnyVasquez8 They don't like that he leaks the master duel packs before they officially release so I don't know if that would be a problem for Josh or Farfa if they wanted to work with Konami.
@@pokerdoke14 gotcha. I’m familiar with Dkayed from Duel links and I remember him doing the same with duel links. I wanna say he uses coding bots to get the leaks.
Oh man, I liked Bujin format. I was still rocking geargia karakuri, and the trade off from armor was so favorable. It could eat their honest/crane, and then they really didn’t get anywhere cuz I was just gonna search another way to get armor back on the field
As someone who came back to yu gi oh after growing up on the anime's and playing a pile of cards as a kid and somebody who's plays masterduel I feel like my frustrations with the game was having to watch somebody spend 30 minutes (exaggeration) special summoning/ poping off setting up multiple negates and then by the time it's my turn and I draw a card they get to play again for (x) amount of time and I'm just cooked because I'm trying to play cards the aren't meta that I grew up on lol. The only time I play it anymore is if I'm dueling with a friend or there's a really fun event on it.
Pure zoo format was very fun. I was playing crystrons at that time and it had a really good zoo match up. Unfortunately master peace completely killed off that deck (same as it did for paleo) Edit: mid 2019 was peak orcust format imo. The best deck at the time was my creation, cyber dragon orcust (i had been building that deck since start of 2019 when ocg got dingirsu, i just had no events at the time to show it off, so others got to popularise it). It put out better boards than other orcust variants and had such an easy match up into every meta deck except thunder thanks to chimeratech fortress/megafleet being underworld goddess but for the entire board. That deck still remains the only undefeated deck I've made.
When it comes to the ages of the game I would say that all the way until Dark Armed Return format I would call it the yugioh antiquity era. From Dad to the end of xyz era is the middle ages. Modern would start at Pendulum and end before master rule 4 20. Once we got around links again I would call it post modern.
if you think about it dragon ruler ist just tearlament but it sucks which is unbeatable crazy at its time. both are just advantage machines that win of the fact that they just have better cards than anyone else got
Fun listening to the stuff I missed out on. Think my first tournament was as a 12 year old and I brought... Sand Moth and Arsenal Bug and thought that was the sickest shit in 2006ish. Then years later putting together BEWD with Game Charge/Black Matter/TKoAC...
In the anime the current rules of the field spell is how it worked not the old way where you can only have one. Do you not remember the fact that in Yugi's literal first duel that his side was different from weevils? As well as Joey versus mai.
To be fair the Duelist Kingdom field effect rules are a bit all over the place and its forcefully applied instead of activating a field spell so I won't fault anyone for completely disregarding those as far as rules go lol
@@sammydray5919 I'm not saying they were disregarded, I'm saying he is wrong that the og rules of the worked is how it was done in the anime which is just wrong
