Joshua Schmidt Reacts to The 2011 Yugioh TCG Recap 

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TheLaw works so fast to make these videos it's insane. The amount of detail and effort he puts into researching the different formats is crazy, I used to watch his Duel Links History videos even though I didn't really play the game just because they were so well made

In case some people are not aware, the reason the nordic archetype is divided into 3 separate sub archetypes is because of the 5ds anime, in which 3 different characters had decks based around 1 of the 3 nordic gods, they were a pro team of duelists (team ragnarok) which Yusei, Jack and Crow had to defeat 1 by 1 as a team in the WRGP tournament arc of the story.

These videos are soooooo good , thanks Josh! Your reaction is appreciated every time because you give a lot of great contemporary insight about your own experience that makes an already good video 100x better

Nothing can beat 2010 and 2011. I love those years

maxx c wasnt good against sams for dallas because sams could special infinite with red and blue and deck you out if you maxx c

YCS Columbus was the event where Billy Brake opened all 3 Tengu and STILL won

another banger content from thelawYGO and josh perspective as pro player cant wait to see for HAT format video, it was my first experience of playing yugioh, some people seems to hate it but some people not

Finally, was waiting for this.

Smoke grenade is another card that sat there for many years being useless, until it wasn't and then it was completely broken

I use to play piper chaos and it’s still probably one of my favorite decks. I use to use creature swap to give my opp the kinka byo and b/c it’s a sprit monster it would go back to my hand. Also, tragodiea was great because you would have so much hand advantage

my best friend topped YCS Providence with the Macro list we cooked up, losing in top 8 to a top decked reborn for game

50:56 very cool format with a lot of diversity. I think this is when tengu plant time wizard format pick as it's base?

To this day, I maintain this was peak Yugioh

Bro fireeall dragon was ftking people with dinoes on first release, then the next set dropped spyrals and it was already over

Between this year and the previous was when I went from playground Yugioh to locals. My first competent deck was Infernity. My only issues with this era was Six Sams and the Sangan ruling for Xyz. Everything else is super nostalgic. With Wattcobra at the end, I went on to play Watts almost exclusively for a while. That deck was so fun and basically unbeatable if I had Starlight Road or Veiler/Fiendish Chain for the odd JD, Black Rose, or Torrential.

had so much fun when i came back into the game at the time photon shockwave was released.

Well, guess it’s time for that back to back session with BKC and Josh 1+ hour long videos

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!

I’m so excited for 2013, 2014, 2015 recpa

piper chaos was fun AF.

I remember zephyros in Lunalights even before the new support. I actually named my second dnd character (and the only one who survived his full campaign) Zephyros actually

Ima try hard to break tengu now. Because I agree with you, and with the crazy synchros we have now, and the fact that you can link climb with it it has to be able to do something... centur-ion or revolution synchron combos maybe?

I left this video paused for an hour and when I came back, the first thing Josh said was “Sex”

17:10 speaking the truth here old era Yugioh truly ended after 2014 when you stopped having back up plans, multiple strats, and couldn't set traps and skip turn without praying to god to not get otk'd Now almost everything is speedrun into win condition and if failed, try same strat again

This is the best yugioh era

1:05:00 a real "missing the lore" moment. I get that not everyone is going to look up what a mechanic represents, but its been over a decade man. Josh, its like matter condensing into a Black Hole. It stayed where it was in Space. It never left, was never destroyed. But now it is something else.

Maxx C was like $10 on release, it was INSANE

Ah yes, the Trish terror.

Six Samurai is love

When USA nationals ruled for the event that tour guide into sangan overlay would trigger sangan if detached, they were $200 a pop for the event minimum. If memory serves me correct, people were scrambling.

DINORABBIT SWEEP LETS GOOOOO

Fabled Unicore Runick is so much fun

1:30:50 is amazing. Thankfully Konami's coverqge is top notch now

I understood the xyz ruling from day one. I think it's because of the anime.

Damn it would have been so much fun playing in this format but i was too busy being a 9 year old

Can’t wait for 2017 zoodiac format❤

55:08 What if Zephyros only had a hard once-per-turn clause? The card reads as if you should play it together with the few Blackwings that Special themselves from the hand for free to just get free summons.

1:23:17 The Extra Deck contained Nekroz of Decisive Armour?

Happy face

Man i miss tg plant and zombie plant and tenguzombieplant.

As a child was into Yugioh at the time I was aware of these 2011/2012 era of cards but I never played any of these decks.

Schrödinger's Sangan

every now and then a secret rare pops up that players have no clue how good it will be. more recent example was accesscode, being $40-50 on release before it became a $150 card. Maxx C was another - came out at start of 2011 and was like $10 and then by the end of the year was $100. I also remember Dante being $20-30 when DUEA came out because people underestimated the BA archetype and then it became an $80+ card after people realized the deck was tier 1 and dante was the only money card in the archetype

50:40 T.G. can use it, funny enough. They constantly spam Tuners to the field and need a consistent non-tuner for synch material.

55:53 ok as an agent deck main, shine balls is both bad and good. bad because it’s a normal monster who’s name isn’t Sunseed Genius Loci, but good cuz I can say “I summon my shiny balls”

Tgu was $25 on release,it didnt hit $100 a copy until the 1st xyz set generation's force. I know cuz i bought a playset for 75

Cab I please clip the sangan bit bit for tik tok?

An xyz material being sent to GY by detaching makes sense to not be considered being sent from field to GY. Let me put it this way: XYZ material are the organs to your XYZ monster's body, meaning they are "inside" the body of the XYZ. Now lets think of the graveyard as an IRL graveyard (DUH) and the "field" as the ground we stand on. Is my heart on the groundby virtue of me being on it? I dont think so, because the heart itself is not touching the ground in any meaningful way by itself. So if we think of Sangan as the "heart" of this analogy, it makes sense that him leaving the "body" (XYZ) is not equal to him leaving the "ground" (field) because he wasn't actually there just by virtue of being in THE "body" (XYZ) I'm talking in reference to around the 1:04:50 minute mark, which is about where the topic of XYZ rulings come up and Sangan's featured.

"Tame. Now here's your Shock Master dude." 😂 I'm dying. That's so funny and true. 1:13:02

1:15:10 Pray, tell: why, again, have you always hated Blackwings?

I remember I used to think Effect Veiler was so much better than Maxx C haha

25:20 yagamiken, un-erratad Future Fusion wouldn't Foolish for 5 anymore, now we have Alba-Lenatus, it would Foolish for everything.

7:52 this is just not true, Naturia had a spell negate and a trap negate in the previous year both of which were NOT once per turn and were basically generic, unlike Shi En. i never understood the six sam hate, yeah it was good and it was oppresive, but the argument that the deck was strong ONLY because shi en had a negate is just silly to me, Joshua is right in saying that gateway was way too good for the time tho, it was bad card design for sure. Personally i remember the deck fondly because it was the first archetype deck that i remember building and playing competitively in 2011, i loved how cohesive and how strong it was, it was IMO a step in the right direction for the design of future combo decks as long as you take 3 gateway out of the equation, 1 gateway six sam was fine.

Wait, 19k thumbs up but only 1100 views…I’m lose😳

Tengu in genex maybe

1:06:43 so zoodiac ?

12:32 like 2 to 4 euros

A couple? Lasted till 2012 fall until mermail came.

If yugioh was only in the ocg, they would still be in edison format All the broken cards TCG exclusive 😅😂

23:17 I enjoy Edison and neighbouring formats (plus/minus a year or two) as much as the next guy and am open to undo Goyo Guardian's erratum (especially now that it only really matters for historical formats anyway) but let's be real here: Goyo Guardian should never have been printed the way he originally was. It's kind of a custom that if there are non-Effect monsters among the monsters of a given „size“ (Level, Rank, Link-Rating) than these non-Effect monsters have the highest stats in exchange for doing nothing else, as is the case with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Gem-Knight Pearl, or the Berserker of the Tenyi who superseded Gaia Saber, the Lightning Shadow. Goyo Guardian, however, had significantly higher ATK (and DEF) than Gaia Knight, the Force of the Earth. Moreover, the effect he had wasn't just not a downside (analogous to Level 4 monsters with more than 2000 ATK, or Number 85: Crazy Box) but game-winningly strong, turning every won battle from a +1 into a +2 and putting you either _firmly_ back into the game or even further ahead than you already were. Even the ATK stat on its own was ludicrous: it eclipsed not just every other Level 6 Synchro (as well as every Level 6 main deck monster) but could also beat over every Level 7 Synchro and maybe half of the Level 8 Synchros of the time. Goyo Guardian was insane. One could argue that this was only fine for as long as it was because Goyo Guardian stealing a monster still triggered floating effects and because upon release Synchros and other monsters with which you'd make your combos didn't provide as _much_ of a toolbox to handle the largely backrow-based monster removal of the time.

Tengu is so much better than Edison I hope tengu catches on more mainstream

Please promote Tengu plant format, its waaay better than fucking edison and funnier

I hate Six Samurai too lol

I honestly hate the xyz mechanic. "Two monsters with the same level turn into 1 monster" is cool, but overlaying and detaching is dumb. Nothing else in yugioh stacks cards like that, not even equip cards. And "ranks" not being levels is pointlessly confusing. They should have just started printing contact fusion monsters with generic "two level 4 monsters" requirements instead.

Just like the act of main decking both Shifter & Droll shows a bad format. the act of maindecking Maxx "C" shows a bad master rule era.

Naw hes crying about six sams😂, bring six samurais back!

Talks about how toxic rescue rabbit was, but played wind-ups legit loop cringe discard your hand you didn’t get to play yugioh.