The 2011 Yugioh TCG Recap 

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Trishula is so much used in Infernity loops that it became Duel Links canon where Kalin Kessler has lines when summoning it.

Shout out to anyone at YCS Indy 2011 who got to detach sangan as material and get his search

As a brief aside, the early XYZ era was tons of fun for young/rookie players. Xyz were super easy to obtain and understand, so everyone had them. For a precious few years, you could get into yugioh with a "good stuff" deck using xyz for some much-needed power. When 2012 rolls around, Konami will release a budget friendly product that fans love to this day. Stay tuned!!

Ah Trishula, the best Infernity support ever made

I had six samurai when they got all their new support. It was the only time in the game I had the best deck at the time. I miss this era. Right before xyz and changing the game forever

This is when I really started understanding how the game worked beyond the playground, and we're coming up on my favorite period of the game. My first regional happened this year! I did terrible with Solidarity Six Sam.

always happy to see a new lawygo video on my feed!

Unironically one of my favorite series on yt, keep droppin them champ

Literally the best channel on YT right now for yugioh content. I look forward to every video

1:03:18 I've been patiently waiting for these very 12 seconds of info

As a new player, understanding how it all began, reasoning why some things got hit with banlist throught years, deck archetypes from oldest to nowadays ones, this is INCREDIBLY HELPFUL. I wish you don't stop making these, and we can enjoy every year of yu gi oh. Thank you!

Anxiously waiting for the 2012 - 2013 combo, the years I started to play at Dueling Network, and became quite relevant over the ygo Brazilian online scene :D

Cant wait for the Joshua Schmidt reaction :3

Thank you for this awesome series. I can't imagine how much work gies into each episode, but every one is made with time and care. Your hard work will not go unnoticed bro

This is probably my all time favorite era of Yu-Gi-Oh. I miss it so much

Found these videos from watching Joshua Schmidt, but have also watched again on my own to reflect on these times when I played. Thank you for providing these and doing such a good job on them!

Your videos are actually just straight top tier. Keep it up!

Omg how i love these videos. Always hyped up for new ones and rewatching them throughout the day.

2:08 How would you pronounce that? 35:56 we are starting the ZEXAL era already?!

Always excited for another episode.

Law I love these vids man, keep it up!

Perfect video to watch trying to pass time before going out on a lit Friday night thank you law !!!!!

These are sweet, keep them going!

Another amazing video! Thank you!

I started yugioh in this era and this video brings so many good memories!

Another GREAT VIDEO!!! 10/10

Now this era of yugioh from 2011-duelist alliance will alway be my favorite time I played yugioh. In 2010 I graduate highs school and I didn’t play once through high school as my locals was an hour away and I didn’t have a car. But a few month after I was in a terrible accident that took my mom and nearly took my life. Well during my recovery my little brother friends came over and started playing yugioh and that got me so excited I found all my old cards and played with them and it was off to the races after that my passion for the game was reignited. I used some of my settlement money to buy some cards to take to my old locals. I didn’t even know what a synchro monster was and my first day I went was actually the release of the first xyz structure deck and I was so blown away by both the new monster types that even though I got my butt kick playing and old 2006 deck I was hooked and began to learn how to play the new way. Well over the next few years I made some of the best life long friends I have, me and my brother got extremely close playing together and you know what I don’t think there’s a format I don’t love playing during this time I look bad I go yup love to ya able to play any of them again. I miss playing agents, dinorabbit, windups, geargia, dragunity ruler, mermail, Madolche. I still love playing the modern game I’m really not that hard to please I can find something to like in any format but those year will alway hold a special place in my heart

Got PTSD when I saw Maxx C

These are fantastic. That dragunity structure deck was the basis for the deck I ran through high school and my friends just could not deal with it.

I still main play Dino Rabbit to this day love that deck

Early 2012 in YGO is a doozy of a period. We're on the cusp of a format that many players, some even to this day, found extremely frustrating, and it includes what a lot of people still consider to be the single worst banlist update of all time.

At long last, life got tough and it took 3 different attempts, but I finally got to watch this recap! These recaps are perfect for me as from 2008 to 2019, Yugioh was not in my life anymore.

2010 tins also brought promos right? There was DAD, Vayu, Stratos in some of them

2011 was such an insane year in Yugioh. I often regret not playing during that time :(

Tengu Format baby 🎉

Thanks for the great vid, i can't wait till you get to Mermail 2014 that was honestly peak yugioh before it went to complete garbo I still remember everyone loved the meta Rogue decks were fully viable you had anywhere from 15 to 20 decks/archetypes making tops It truly felt like every deck was viable And then it turned to modern day yugioh, gotta have an answer every single turn, no more set backrow and wait for next draw. Because you will get otk'd 100%

Wow, that was quick

My first competitive deck was six sam... good old times

In my opinion this was the peak year for yugioh, I was a kid at the time so it could just be nostalgia talking😂

It would be very interesting to know some of the prices if the staples of that time. Maybe you could include some in your next recap if there is information about the prices out there.

I don’t know if anyone else find this a bit inconsistent or annoying, but the names of the karukuris, are just not the same, the main deck monsters are being called by their name after “Karakuri” but the synchros being called by their names in quotation marks, and would like to see them at least be consistent throughout, I know a small gripe but great series! Been listening to them all and need more lol, you’re making me relive my childhood through these videos, I get vivid memories of when the cards actually came out, the decks I was playing or where I was with friends! Thanks!

Rescue Rabbit era let's gooooooo

We could have put mirror force at 2 in this format looking back at it.

Keep up the good works , love from Viet nam ❤❤

Trishula was a terrifying force.

Thats why he’s the GOAT! 👏 THE GOAT!

Whats the music that plays during the Generation Force segment?

Oh, you QUICK with this now lfg

Tengu Plant format > All

16:58 IS REEEEEEAAAAAAAL!

Enjoyed the video. Does anyone know the soundtrack for the Lost Sanctuary?

Whered yall get that gallis list i never posted it anywher 😭

@14:01 the sixsam deck actually won ycs charlotte 2011 the picture used for 14:20 is the winner, fish got 2nd place

I fear the week we catch up to date 😭

I'm so mad about Tour Guide still. I was desperately searching for her for the first two weeks after Extreme Victory, knowing how good she'd be for the upcoming mechanic. She was such a cheap secret, that no one even bothered picking them up, and because I was a broke high-schooler, I had no money to outright buy her. After that, she shot up to 200 a copy, immediately rendering her out of reach.

I always remember MBT's "endless conga line of assholes" everytime I see TG

Me sees the roach: *absolute PTSD* Also seeing the synchron deck slowly getting the cards it has in the modern version of the synchron deck, just leaves me clasping my head lol.

NICE

Song during the GENF section?

16:39 - Whoa now. Sir. How can you say that with the best Lv1 Wind Dragon Tuner to search off Tempest in 2013 on the middle of the screen? Also shoutout to Dragunity Knight - Barcha who was released in this set. It was awful during this time but BOY HOWDY did that ever change once we got to Link Summoning.

hard to beleive that Gorz was actually limited at one time

Lost Sanctuary was my first competitive deck, I wanted to play T.G. but Librarian was a promo and I could not get it, so I ended up playing TG Agents. I still have some cards but don't play anymore. I miss these times.

Pog Ivern's theme at 16:00

Wow this one was fast.

oh we are so fucking back

Why havent we seen a blood mifist reprint? I think that card would be a decent tech for winning in time

28:36 I am VERY confused by the 2 Fossil Digs in the side deck

What music was used during the generation force segment as it’s a bop?

Hi Josh!

That’s what’s up

i edge to your recaps

If I had a nickle for every time a Dark World structure deck was overhyped into oblivion, I'd have two nickels... Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Outside of Maxx "C" and a few others, I actually hated Storm of Ragnarok overall. Me and my group still bring up that set from time to time just to speak on it. Extreme Victory also had dogwater ratios. I barely pulled T.G. Rush Rhino, A RARE. All the cards weren't terrible, it was the ratios from pulls that felt so goofy. When you are a high schooler with limited funds and trades, you want pulls worth something. My friend did have a godly box though.

39:40 i can´t be the only one thinking it is on purpose

Bruh during that time, Fuck Shi En and Rabbit and friends 😭😭😭

The Year I really came back into Yugi and Boy what a year so busted but so good at the same time. Also Dark Worlds Flopping now but coming Back in the future to Rob the 100th YCS 😂😂😂

Me waiting for when he gets to dragon ruler😀

Crazy how good the extra deck got

Wasn't wind up hunter a tcg exclusive too?

Maxx C Mentioned

I can't believe Maxx "C" has been legal in the OCG for 12 years. #BanMaxxC

first

Imma just say it Early Xyz era > edison

Stinky bug card spotted

Tengu plant format is not diverse