Joshua Schmidt, 12 Years Of Dominance - YCS Bologna 

Honestly the greatest yugioh content rn

Every other player: I've been grinding this deck for months, even grinding it before it came out in the TCG! Joshua Schmidt 4 days before the YCS: Hey chat, this deck seems kinda cool, let's just have some fun. Don't think I'll win, but making day 2 is the main goal, top cut would be nice too.

You continue to put out fantastic content piece after fantastic content piece. I love the feature match reviews, they're just so well put together.

Anthony is such a based guy. He played no time card in his deck and still managed to go straight to the final. I will definitely root for him in the future.

Fantastic story telling ❤

the druiswurm nibiru combo was so good when i saw that live i was banged my knee so hard on my desk because i stood up so fast in excitement lmao

Bro these videos are so good and so well put together bro If you do different content on a different channel I’d totally watch I see people do video game documentaries and players who play smash and other games competitively this reminds me of that bro keep it up it’s so engaging

great video, i love this coverage!!

Your channel has amazing content ever since I found it in my recommendation feed amazing story telling and explanations

Another great video, Garret! It was an interesting game already, your analysis makes it even more processable. Thank you, sir!

This was so good, keep it up!

THANK YOU FOR THIS POINTING OUT THE MISS PLSY GAME1! So many people misses it. Another great vid👍🏻

Bro, with your background music, the way you speak and the atmosphere, you give me Summoning Salt Vibes!❤

Amazing content my man keep it up love the vids

Your explanation is so clear and easy to digest for casual players ❤

Awesome recap of the final!

Very descriptive and succinct match reviews without it being incomprehensible. Good stuff 👍 Edit: Also, love the Home songs in the background. Man of culture.

Great video, never a moment that I was not entertained.

Great Video as always🙏

This is very informative. Nice job :3

Funny thing, I looked at Joshua’s most recent MD bystial runick list and added the copies of duality and allvain. The deck feels very different than anything meta in MD and is so fun to play. Phenomenal video btw. I feel like it’s only a matter of time before this channel gets big. I encourage you to continue if you enjoy making this stuff.

Awesome content. I really enjoy your videos, I’m so shook rn I remember I watched your how to beat unchained video like 5 times over as it was loaded with good info, and it really helped me and others to learn the match up, I was your round 10 opponent in La. it was really nice to meet you. Keep up the great work 👍

This was a great Video!

really like your video, i really struggle keeping track missplay and good play on TCG

I was the lab player at Seattle. Really enjoy these videos man. Thank you for the content.

That Dante 1 Cir 2 line went crazy Ima need a Phy mixtape soon bro.

Great video! As someone who is somewhat proficient in rescue-ace I was talking with my friend about a different line that I saw. If my only way to turbulence is emergency (like it was for Anthony), I would opt to search for turbulence with hydrant over preventer, granting me 2 ways to turbulence. This would have let Anthony make s:p little knight before summoning turbulence from hand. At this point, Josh is forced to use nibiru which s:p will chain to, banishing s:p and turbulence. Now emergency can be used summon and tribute preventer, bringing back turbulence.

You make amazing videos

Best Yu-Gi-Oh channel by far to make progress

Great video 👍

Bro your content is godlike, i hope your channel grows more and more, we weed someone like you as one of the top content creators, not Farfa or MBT

I see many comment across multiple video asking why Anthony so dump play into Nib knowing Josh play HT.. Here you explained that Anthony is actually smart and thinking about play around Nib not into Nib.. It just Josh outsmart him with Nib+Druiswurm. Thx for that

Someone said they liked your content and shared your channel. I clicked on it. I like what I clicked on. And for that reason, I have subscribed.

The runick combo variants are so interesting and reward skill so highly. It’s the complete antithesis of your classic 1-card combo deck - you’re frequently punished for going for the “usual combo” you saw on RU-vid, since a talented pilot can usually find a line capable of achieving the same endboard whilst playing around handtraps, using fewer finite resources and generating more card advantage in the process. It’s just such a shame the engine that facilitates this was designed as a mill/deckout strategy, and can often be frustrating to play against due to combo pieces getting banished from deck. It’s a weird dynamic, since without the battle phase the decks do often need to threaten the alt-wincon - but games can become uninteractive when you’re already falling behind in resources and then lose to the RNG gods banishing the cards you need off-top. His match vs Lab in top 8 was hugely influenced by both copies of Welcome and the one-of Lovely just happening to be in the top few cards of the deck - it’s one thing bricking, but another thing entirely to manage your gameplan and stay in the game only to have the rug pulled from underneath you. Imagine if we had a runick-style engine that was designed from the ground-up to be used alongside other decks to create these sort of midrange strategies - a similar sort of engine that puts bodies on field and draws cards, but that restricts something like your summons per turn or cards on field. I like the direction Konami has been going with turn-0 engine cards and a shift towards more midrange-y decks in general, but I’d love to see more non-linear decks like this where every game is filled with high-impact decisions rather than pre-memorised combo lines.

Thanks for explaining everything. It really helps newbie like me to figure wtf is happen

Comment for the algorithm, great videos

Great play-by-play commentary! Do you have other vids like this?

Amazing quality, I am interested for advance swordsoul plays and game states discussion

This dude makes good content

Bro this is wht ygo comunity and especialy for the new players need to improve Love this type of content man

Good shit. I was the guy that called you the RU-vid guy at LA

Yeaaaaa!

No matter how Runick Bystial performs moving forward Josh has cemented himself in the YGO HOF

the sad part is, had anthony done the standard air lifter + wanted combo (link off both air lifter and hydrant immediately for SP), nib would've been a complete non-issue. main stage + time nerves will do that.

YUGIOH AND CS CROSSOVER CHANNEL FUCK YEAHHHH

No more accounting class, joshua analysis time

Finally someone making competitive Yugioh interesting

You're really isn't enough content on the best yu gi oh players. I've been playing this game since I was a child and it wasn't until very recently when I found out who the best players of all time were because it's just simply not advertised.

good video and was a nice watch, altho a few things I noticed coming from other games and watching a chinese commentary of the same match on bili bili. It's always nice to have more educational yugioh video (after all there aren't that many good ones and you're one of the few), but I feel like the video prioritizes story telling over education and learning. Now this is just my opinion and I absolutely understand why someone would make this trade off. After all, a more compelling video drives views and you're under no obligation to change anything. For example g1: 1. "starts off with a strong combo." What starter and extenders did anthony have (retroactively looking back after the combo is done)? what types of combos should he be able to get uninterrupted/against a potential ash that josh runs? How does the different packages rescue-ace can run change things (another point that is related but i will touch on later). 2. You show the rescue-ace end board but not the known set s/t, why? Maybe he had to one of the s/t before hand and thus doesn't have it on josh's turn? Both players know the sets and it's quite important in how the turn would play out. Yes, this way does set up for the "twist" in g1, but for educational purpose it's kind of a cheap shot. 3. "strongest board against runick bystial." Why is this the case (this combo hasn't been compared and contrasted with any other)? Touching on (1), how does the different packages fair in this matchup? Even if the combos are the same, the match can drastically change which combo is "best". What are some of the key interactions that make this board so strong (runick quickplay > ip >> fountain eff > sp. preventer flips runicks face down so josh can only use the utility effect of runicks)? You did touch on some of the key interactions in this matchup, but it was through white text that you later explained anyways after "we will so why" (like saying preventer is a silver bullet before explaining why, which messes with order) and wasn't (imo) as thorough as my version. Explaining key interactions first, then building off of that to why the end board is strong against bystial runick (imo) is a much more logical flow and allows you to "reward the viewer" through phrases like "as we have seen before, x interaction is amazing so anthony build the board in y way". g2: 1. you showed josh's starting hand in g1, why not in g2? I understand that josh drew a bunch of cards, but you made an educated guess that he had lubellion in hand already so I don't see why it couldn't be shown at the start. it could be important context for players to know under what hand can you play around ash and why the magnamhut dump. 2. "ash on point is going to be the last good point to use that card." Again, why? What interactions does runick have to chain block ash on fountain (fountain eff > huggin. fountain eff > geri. as examples), and how not ashing tip is basically betting how josh not having a 2nd runick in hand. g3: not much to say here Anyways, still enjoyed the video and ofc your priorities/style might not align with what I wrote here. I know implementing literally every single point here is quite unreasonable, but I just want to share my experience from other games and give something where you can maybe pick a few points that you like. Thanks for the video

Josh definitely another breed

2 goats on my screen pog

tbh that Nib plus druis was like a custom hand for that moment

#FreeTheTree

Whats the music playing around 8:45. I looked up the songs mentioned in the info, but none of them sound correct.

Quick question! Were you at LA regionals Garrett??

If he didn't link for the linkuriboh he wouldn't have been nibbed. He walked right into it. Hopefully he learnt from that for his future tournaments. Congrats to Josh once again.

After joshua,s win ....everyone from my hometown playerbase, want to explain me that they all consider this deck to play weeks or even month,s before 😂. I dont believe that people. No one build the deck like joshua and no one tells this idea to play runick bysted before the win from joshua😅.

I feel like Anthony wins that game 3 if he just adds turbulence and makes sp right away, holding his emergency. That line doesn’t allow him to end on an I:p but would’ve played around the nib + druiswurm

4:26 can someone explain what he means here by “flipping EMZ face down” ?

Massive respect to Joschua for winning with a deck that isn’t even Tier 1 against the best deck in the format, but also huge respect to Anthony for not playing crutch cards in time. Unfortunately, that was in retrospect a mistake that probably cost him the event

12 yeahrs off using BANABLE cards what a hero

maybe i missed the joke or have played it wrong for a decade lol.... i have NEVER done dante 1, cir 2.

Poor Anthony, came so close so many times and yet never edge it out. I guess Anthony *L.* isn't a great name to have in a competitive scene.

One thing though, this matchup is horrible for joshua Bystial runick is NOT good against rescue ace, and he won because of nib

First ❤

Preventer cannot summon turbulence

I really wish you could play any deck and do well. But Konami has beaten down tier two decks and lower to the point that they can’t even hope to compete. The only decks that can do well are those who are tier one, have been meta, and or can also have space to incorporate a powerful engine or two.

love these videos dude great work! I was wondering if you ever considered doing this for ocg matches :P i understand if it's too much hassle

This was so fukcing good

Why do finals even have a timer to begin with? It's not like they have more matches to get to afterwards. It would've been nice to see both players playing to the best of their ability rather than having them fumble around to either survive or cheese.