History of Duel Links - The DSoD Era - Part 1 

This video pleases me

The DSOD era was wild. Decks like Invoked, Shiranui, Darklords and Blackwings had some insane power that we don’t see in Duel links nowadays.

The fact that the first HALF of the DSOD got an hour long video really shows how absurdly powerful this meta was. Still get flashbacks every time I see 3 set cards or a normal summoned aleister.

Ah yes! Here we are! My start to Duel Links. I'm gonna go back in time and kick my own ass for building Spell Counters when Invoked, Magician Girls, Gravekeepers, Ritual Beasts, and Blackwings were on the table. ...I used a Dream Ticket on Breaker, the Magical Warrior...

I still cant believe Scud got released instead of literally anyone else

Fun drinking game: every time Aleister the Invoker (or Invoked monsters in general) is mentioned, take a shot

As someone who is only recently getting into duel links, this series has been incredibly informative. It really helps understanding when and how all the content, which feels so overwhelming at first glance, came out and how it comes together. I didn't even realize DSoD came out that late in the game's life! This has increased my enjoyment of the game significantly. And the videos themselves all well paced, and plenty engaging enough. You're doing a great job, and thanks for putting in all the effort to make these!

This was a good time in the game. Banger after banger new archetypes. I feel like the last 6 months of boxes currently haven't gave us nearly as much

To people who didn't start playing until after October 2019 you are blessed for not experiencing Darklords with Beatdown every turn, god what a nightmare that was

Cyber Dragons, Black Wings, Lunalight, Blue-eyes and Shiranui: *Ripping the meta* Me: Building a shark deck one card at the time because sharks are neat

It's like they just couldn't miss during this era! I remember stuff like Shira, Despa, Cydra, Invoked lasting a while and being tough as nails. Early Arc-V stuff this soon like SHS and LL were very fun. I love how ambitious they were in this era.

The most insane era of duel links history with bordeline broken decks like invoked and shiranui

Played since the release, tried a lot of decks and ended up being KoG a couple of times… Never felt as invincible as I did while playing invoked, that deck was instant destruction. My all time favorite!

Heads up, this is a Duel Links story of mine experimental deck builders might find interesting. (text wall warning) 58:45 "HERE IT IS, HERE IT IS" I thought, *"it"* was the final piece I needed to take Thunder Dragons (TD) to the next level and re-invent the deck. Glow Up Bulb released here and made the cut for the final UR tuner that can *SS itself from the GY* in my 30 card Spell Specialist Grass Thunder Dragon (TD) deck. This was an idea I literally saw NO ONE play (for good reason too because the deck had as many Box URs as a full Dark World Deck) It focused on 2 spells being Gold Sarcophagus and That Grass Looks Greener to far surpass the consistency of every other TD deck at the time. *2x Glow Up Bulb,* *3x Jet Synchron,* and *3x Plague Spreader Zombie* made up the roster of tuners that made the multiple Synchro spam plays happen. Now wait your wondering, how the heck are you going draw the spells Sarc or Grass Consistently in a 30 card deck? Well you see there was a busted skill that practically guaranteed a spell in your opening hand called Spell Specialist. It requires you to play 5 different spells to activate, but if you played 3x of a spell you wanted (3Grass and 3Sarc) you would be practically guaranteed to open at least 1 of them with another random spell on average.(I played 1x(Mallet,IntoThe Void,Card Of Sanctity) This skill got nerfed as to take down the probability of you opening up your busted spells sometime later, but for a while you could abuse it to open god hands like a goldmine. The plays would involve either drawing any tuner + Sarc(Combo1) or drawing Grass + TD Hawk(Combo2). What this would do is give you 2 VERY possible hands where you could make anything from double Blackrose, Brionic, Scrap Dragon, basically any 2 Synchros with both combos, but there was a difference between them. The difference: Now If you had another extender like maybe you already drew TD Hawk specifically for combo1 OR you drew TD Duo specifically for combo2, you could also make a Vermilion Dragon Mech in the same turn as your 2 other Synchros (much easier to do with combo 2) Grass on average would mill me 2-3 tuners and at least 1 TD Dark or TD Roar, with the rest of the card in my hand being fodder for the tuners to SS themselves or combo extenders, there is no loss here. I ran 2 Aloof Lupine to fill in the rest of the necessary consistency LIGHTSWORN WAS NOT OPTIMAL. To give you the time period, this was before we got Levianeer but after TD Duo. This deck, this deck was awesome and I was the only one playing it while the rest of the TD players relied on RNG to draw what they wanted. Just goes to show the players out there who also hate mirror matches, knowing what cards the other is playing, and the idea that they have an equal chance of winning as does their opponent will not be so vocal about the actual good decks they unearth through experimentation. Edit: Grammar Fix, if you got this far you deserve a trophy for patience+reading lol

I started in this era and nothing of the Decks we have today in Duellinks is half so strong like these decks… so much power these decks had….

And here is where I started playing. So many powerful decks and cards in this era. So much PTSD as well...

Ahh. Such good memories. Man I love that spellcaster. He was so loyal and he's such a kind king. His reign is truly an era that will be remembered forever in history.

This was when I was King of Games. Silent Invoked / berry and chocolate magician girls, lava golemn, and jinzo. Destiny draw and 2-3 Solemn Scold to trigger it more easily by lowering life. Loved that deck was so sad when I couldnt play it anymore

I personally hated this era so much, the power creep level was insane, most higher than some old TCG decks. All the time facing the same 3 decks, over a year.....

Invoked Magician Girls and Darklords are probably my favorite DL decks of all time

Was waiting on this awesome work on these videos

Awesome work on these videos was waiting on this one

DSOD era is boarderline the best year of all without a daubt nower days the meta decks are so weak that its not really fun anymore

Great video! Thanks for uploading!

As much as I hated invoked, this era has a soft spot for me since Dec 2019 was the first and so far only time i grinded out a KoG. most of the time i'm happy hitting legend and idc about a couple hundred gems for hours of torment. The deck i used was ironically, one of the ones he brushed off. Yosenju. Kama 2 + 3 paired well to chip away and search, tsujik was a nice boost, izna could draw through your deck faster, sword sting was insane, oyam (not sure if that was this pack and he didnt mention it, or later) was basically unkillable by battle and not a lot of decks besides invoked had a consistent way to remove a lava golem from their board.

Absolutely nobody: Konami: "Let's add Aliester to Duel Links, it definitely wont break the game no matter how hard we try to nerf it"

thanks to aleister I kept playing spellbook silent for three years. this era was nasty as hell because Al was dominating DL , OCG and TCG AT THE SAME TIME

This is the time were i started playing. I remember when i knew nothing about the metagame and just wanted to make roleplay decks for fun.

i played DL actively from the start till somewhere in the middle of GX era, and returned for a very short time at the release of 5ds, so it's really nice to see these, as it's been quite some time since i've played

YES! So happy! Thank you Law!

57:39 "There can only be one winner, and you're looking at him. Lets go This era is the most impactful of the gens for me, it's also nostalgic since it covers the pre pandemic and pos pandemic year in duel links.

I started playing around this time. Its nice to look back and see how broken the decks were

Man I love that Library theme at the beggining, so damn good

I first got into Duel Links on the 1st anniversary of the game in the middle of the GX era, and I had not played a single game of Yu-Gi-Oh, I only found the game after watching the anime on Netflix but now I am pretty good at the game (The only problem l have is that I keep on building outdated decks) so these videos are really interesting to watch for me so keep up the good work!

It feels nice to check how people played the decks back in the day, I remember joining DL day 1 when it launched and play naturian strawberry beatdown all day. I left during the middle of the DM era, then comeback at the start of the GX era. I love that I was there for every type of meta besides the DM meta

The 2019 November KC Cup was so crazy. The average DP for each player was much higher than most KC Cups. I remember my friend got 75000DP and that wasn't even enough to get top 100 global, but if you got that result now you could get top 10 global. I personally managed to get 61000DP and top 500 global with Ancient Gears which I was really proud of. It's actually the Duelist I decklist shown in the KC report too!

Great vid, I remember how rampant Shiranui was back in the day.

Love your series, keep it going! I took a break sometime after the start of the DSOD era so this is new stuff to know for sure. Then I refused to return for Zexal because not too fond of that era though when you cover it I'll check that out. I still have my Zexal locked I refuse that era. Returned for a while during the pendulum era start.

This brings me much joy

thx for u work here, really good.

My best friend started playing Duel Links about a year ago. His first deck was Super-Sams, and it destroyed the game. At the time he played it (not when the deck released), it was a monster of a deck because no meta decks at the time had proper outs to their monsters and Sams were extremely consistent. He still plays the deck, even in Master Duel and it’s still serving him well. Never underestimate the big-booty-boys. They will sit on you when you least expect it.

That starting music is definitely from an old yugioh game, brings back crazy memories

The return of my favorite series

Your duel links series is amazing, Law! Well done!

I downloaded Duel Links in March of 2019, basically around the 5D's era. The most recent Box during that time was Warriors Unite. I remember whenever I got 50 gems I'd spend it immediately, even making a makeshift Synchro deck, with cards like Dark Magician, Red-Eyes, Shi-En, and Stardust Charge Warrior being my deck's aces.

My favorite decks are from DSoD Era

I can’t wait for more video and see more Negative1 reaction to the video to the history of duel link

Wow! I'm amazed, and also waiting for the next one..

I miss Element sabers, it worked so well and was so fun to play.

i hate the fact duel links also had to suffer normal summon aleister.

ahhh lunalights.. memories. i hope they bring back bird and marten one day 😔 or introduce panther and leo dancer with arc-v, that would shake the meta so hard

To this day,magician girls with quintet magician is my fav deck in duel links.Its just so much fun and it's not OP

DSoD era is so crazy!! So many great and power house decks battle for supremacy Cant wait for Tea DSoD and Witchcrafter to come!

*normal summons Aleister*

Yeah this era had probably the highest power level the game has ever seen. Full power darklord, invoked elementsaber and shiranui are stronger than onomats could ever hope to be and far stronger than anything we have right now

This is gonna have a combined length of a feature film, my lord

I got into duel links right as the blue eyes structure came out. Climbing the ladder with karma cut blue eyes was fun

HONEY WAKE UP THE LAW POSTED A NEW DUEL LINKS VID!

*insert picture of Michael Scott holding a jar of sand saying, "I was there"*

Invoked Elementsaber gave me PTSD, but I still love Invoked Magician Girls. One of my favorites of this era. Next is my favorite mini box, Fortress of Gears! Vision Hero Vyon gets released...only to go right back on the banlist after that KC Cup.

lets go! my boy superheavy samurai

this was around the time i first started playing duel links. judgement force was the first box i bought from

I saw Kiteroid show up, and a shiver ran down my spine.

The best era in duel links history without a competition. I've been waiting for this one 😍

I miss old shiranui, the new one is just so lame running only like 6 monsters and a ton of traps. Instead of doing sick combos it's just stall and wait to draw monsters in order to facilitate GY synchros

Blair coming in for DSoD to support the DARKsworns was about as random as seeing Ritual Beasts doing well...I played irl and the games that weren't Duel Links so this is definitely not what I expected

A bit surprised you didn't mention a key piece of support for future resonator decks from soul of resurrection with red resonator.

Love the duelist of the roses 🌹 music 🎶

Thank you for reminding me how much i hated having to deal with invoked lol

37:37 Death. Despair. Sorrow. Everything bad you could think of, somehow was in that box

Its crazy to think this was just last year.

this was around the time i started playing the game with shiranui being my first deck

flip summon aliester

We are still not at the point where I joined. All these historic moments I missed sound exciting.

I remember running grave keepers in this era whilst trying to pull elementsabers

Miss the relinquished, dinos and harpies times

I have a question. The UR and SR drem tickets are to my understanding able to get you any card from any deck or box as long as they're not from the 2 more recent boxes (with the exception of the selection boxes). If that's right why I'm unable to select Ebon Illusion Magician with either SR dream ticket, from the 4th anniversary event from like a week ago, or the one from the arc V world intrudction, even when the box in which that magician comes in is from all the way in sept., and many boxes have been released.

Our favourite Normal Summon

A year later, and I’m still disappointed that the script didn’t have you say “the Netherworld Cometh and went” at 36:19 …

I remember the collective sigh of relief when Shirnaui got nerfed, only for BEWD and Cyber Dragon to jump back on top lol

god I miss being able to play synchro shiranui and that grass looks greener. it was an inevitable ban, but still

I cry every time i look at my invoked saber deck..

Everyone: Listens to paper crinkling for ASMR Me: Listens to the meta game of Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links

Bizzare era yet so fun to play

This is about where I left the game for a while. Lets see what holds in the rest of DSoD and Zexal

dark cavalry aint once per turn right? as long as u have discard fodder

Guys, do you think that duel links is ready for Elemental Hero Absolute Zero or Elemental Hero Sunrise?

Is there a Part 2 ?

Not watched yet but I know this shit will be just as good as the others

God I loved this Era

Curious why it is you say the world's name as a phoentic sound instead of just saying "D-S-O-D". Also, a minor correction for the opening bit. The movie was based on the continuity of the original manga, not the anime.

Personally I love just rolling up with a U.A deck in Duel Links. They're so scuffed and your opening hand REALLY decides the outcome of the duel...but ohmygod they're so fun to use! ...If not a U.A deck, Dragunity has my vote---

When u end this can u do a tcg and ocg meta list like this video' ? I love ur contect man

3:56 Dark Cavalry is not a once per turn negate as long as you have cards in hand to discard just a trivial detail thats all.

Is that your twitch in the description? I clicked the link and it went to a dead link, might wanna update it. I wanna shout you out on twitch but I'd need a working link

This is where I entered DL and like everyone else I wasted my free couple thousand gems. It’s so nuts and sad we will probably never see power levels like this in duel links again.

Finally 😎

You forgot to mention that shiranui was tier 0 with grass. It was almost unbeatable if it resolved grass.

I wonder if the melodious section involved a last minute change seeing as melodious was still shit when the last video came out.

Cries in not seeing dragunity despite how Good they are (in my opinion)