THE WORST YU-GI-OH FORMATS OF ALL TIME! 

That was your fault for making that goofy face

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Yeah, THAT’S how you sprained your tongue, sure, we’ll go with that.

Legit this is basically my “thirteen reasons why” I’m personally not playing Yugioh anymore and play Digimon card game instead is actually got decent back and forth it’s not prohibitively expensive just to get a decent starting deck to get your foot in the door and the “meta” cards alot of the time end up being the monsters you think should be good and the fan favorites like Greymon and Garurumon unlike Yugioh where Blue eyes and Dark Magician are condemned so suffer in eternal mediocrity. Even rouge decks feel more fun because because most of the time they’re still putting up a decent fight against a “meta” deck you don’t have to draw a perfect opening hand or win the die roll just to have a chance.

why ur toing out???

the community will truly tolerate anything

I swear striker was the only thing holding this game together during that time.

@@MBTYuGiOh I took a break after Spyral was hit days before YCS Atlanta went and played Artifact and had a blast... if only valve didn't take it out back behind the shed

@@Cvit It took me a moment to decipher that the Artifact you were talking about was Valves CCG attempt and not the Yugioh deck.

@@luminous3558 I mean can you blame Cvit? Artifact decks like HAT are pretty damn fun, as long as it isn't that shitty Dadga Scythe crap.

tear format is literally flawless. a format where you're FORCED to play an interactive deck with many branching decision points is a PERFECT format. fight me

@@tsukamesuccess7332 ok, how much is that deck again?

@@tsukamesuccess7332 I enjoy being able to play more than one deck lol

@@DerKaizer you can only bring one deck to a tournament

This'll be a fun alt format to explore in the future once the cards are all banned/reprinted. Nekroz mirrors are pretty neat

The crazy part is that isn't even the only Exodia format in the OCG. In 2001 they had another one that spammed Card of Safe Return draws thanks to Premature Burial and Giant Trunade both being at 3

@@InvaderWeezle To be fair, we are talking about the Land of C.

​@@trulymrword the format mentioned was 1999-2001.

@@ryuuohdeltaplus7936 I was talking about Japan, were they still haven't banned Maxx C, so having formats in the past that are about hyper card draw wouldn't be surprising.

@@trulymrwordMaxx “C” didn’t exist in 1999.

My wallet Hurts just looking at the old prices

@@turtlesfan44 Mine hurts looking at the CURRENT prices.

@@steeveedragoon More importantly, there needs to not be short prints of any kind in any set. That's what keeps most single prices high in an arbitrary way. It doesn't matter if you reprint it 10 times a year if you're giving what looks like any other rarity, like 1/8th the chance to appear. It should outright be illegal for cards of the same rarity to have different chances. Use a different rarity. As for OCG like stuff, the most important one they could do, if they stopped the pointless short printing, is to drop the pointless editions. 1st versus unlimited is a TCG only concept and only serves to help inflate singles prices. They should also just reprint the EXACT SAME SETS as long as they see demand to do so. That's part of the reason Korean stuff is so cheap even beyond other OCG stuff. They don't need a new set to reprint anything like they pretend to. It just panders to the glorified scalpers. But no one who wants to play the game cares if singles scalpers make money off their scalped goods when they could buy the boxes themselves because the cost of the primary product hasn't been driven up by them. Granted, MAMA is 100% a step in the right direction. One slot with a guaranteed competitive reprint and one slot with a guaranteed new card or the stuff it supports was a very good decision but the problem still remains they were all just URs and shouldn't have different rates to begin with.

@@steeveedragoon POTE is getting an Unlimited print run so Tear 0 (mainly PPP) will actually be affordable soon

Not the OG, that's Venominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes, but the first good one, yes.

@@iamthepkmmaster The OG should be the original one that actually saw play. How gangster can a card be, if no one plays it?

We had kaijus back the …

Not too loud.. mr rothchild is about to have a meltdown

Surge of Power is SUCH a banger

BIG FACTS THIS WAS A W

Probably Dire, big W if so

100% did not see this coming. I have bias with BN 6 being my fav game cause it was my first.

Also hyped for the upcoming legacy collection

that format was dbarrier turbo LMAO. people were MAINING dbarrier and siding into triple trap trick. Awful. Bode format was similar though, birdup ran feather storm (as if they needed it, they made like 8 interuptions) and I saw Swordsoul on... Gravity Collapse. Yeah.

@@OsirusHandle yeah floods were in every side deck. Funny enough salad dodged like all of them that people played. There can be only one saw a bit of play but wasn't nearly as prevalent as antispell, warlords or d barrier. Was a good format to play salad.

I honestly preferred playing against fusion sub zoo, just because maxx c felt more impactful against them than usual. Holding the maxx c for the first fusion sub meant that they either traded 1 for 1 with no drident, used another another resource and gave you 2 draws to get to drident, or gave you three draws to just end on drident off of one card.

Man I miss wind up as well

@@dragonMaster24921 Get your hand loop garbage out of here.

i miss chaos dragon. 11 year old me got 2nd at a locals winning some shitty green zexal tin with a bunch of cheap ultis with my schoolyard deck that was basically chaos dragons with whatever cards i could get my hands on thrown in there too (3 card trooper, only 1 solar recharge because it was impossible to find in my school's trading ecosystem, 3 forbidden lance which might be my favorite card of all time, 1 veiler i was lucky enough to pull out of an ORCS special edition...good times man)

@@rexhasta I actually didn't play the loop I'd use wind up in a toolbox style deck. Hunter had his uses but I liked the sheer versatility the deck gave for xyz monsters. I also like phantom knight cuz of this

@@rexhasta yo what happened. I miss playground yugioh

I guess it is becase of 3 reasons. 1) Nostalgia this was the last year of yugioh before the pandemic and some people look at that time fondly 2) It is sandiched between 2018 and 2020 and those formats were a shitshow for the reasons established in this video making it look better by comparison 3) TOSS as a format is actually "balanced" kinda. If i remember correclty the latter half of it after a banlist the 4 decks were pretty even in powerlevel. Not only that but the playstyles, strengths and weakenesses of each deck are distinctive from eachother as well making it feel very diverse even if they were the same 4 decks over and over

@@narutokiubissj2 agreed

The reason why is because the format didn't felt unfair, it was one of the most "balanced" formats from modern Yugioh, a format of 4 archetypes that had the upper hand, but neither of them felt they were the best deck when put against each other, that said, living 1 year of the same thing regardless of what product came or what the banlist did was going to tire everyone no matter how balanced said format is, everything needs to come to an end. Reason why the January 2020 banlist was one of the bloodiest banlists to be released. And why MR5 was born.

@@narutokiubissj2 Wasn’t the latter half dominated hard by Orcust Striker, which nearly achieved Tier 0 status?

​@@cephalosjr.1835 Only by the very very end of TOSS. Before that, it was all 4 decks being pretty even before Orcust Striker got figured out

I personally think that Link's should have shuffled the Link Material into the deck rather than sending them to the grave. We've been using the graveyard as a second hand for so long already, we don't need more ways to fuel it.

@@dolphinsniper such a cool take I'm almost certain you stole it

Or what if the arrows actually mattered? Lol

Not if we ban all the tuners!

@@dolphinsniper save it for the next mechanic or the next archetype

Yea a lot of the E deck monster that are on the list are because they could be abused in unintended ways but 80% of the link monster that are their are there because they just have broken effects on their own

I agree with this

Powerful generic links were a mistake. Why does every single combo deck need multiple negates and a way to OTK

Also worth mentioning is just how many people quit YGO during Chaos Format before "forbidden"/Advanced became a thing in the TCG. I personally knew three different people who permanently quit the game the first time they saw CED summoned.

@@HaydenX I quit when it was banned. Came back though thanks to Master Duel. Did some Duel Links but it wasn't the same and didn't really go anywhere.

Should woodland be unlimited after the effect dmg was nerfed?

@@megamegasamx1014 Oh. I thought they nerfed all effect damage in the game. odd they didnt do that. Havent played the game for a long time. Is cocytus still even a problem card?

@@azure1094 Cocytus is one of the four cards that are currently banned. Some people think it could be unbanned because the format has grown past it being an issue plus Aleister and Invocation both being limit 3 means he's not nearly as disposable as before.

And then the Overdress era happened, getting rid of all the clans (and the fun)

Almost no one that plays today played competitive during those times

Every format has crap in it.

And people actually "miss" this format? Do they have fun when their hard earned summoned skull being stolen and then used as tribute fodder for their jinzo? Board building was atrociously slow but it breaks with one card making each game became who can sack harder.

@@CrnaStrela thats so true. This same logic applies to goat format. Imagine being sacked with the one ofs delliquent duo :)

I wouldn't call it the worst format, but GOAT is legitimately ass cheeks. Boring as hell to both watch and play, but propped up by nostalgia goggles.

Hey there’s a reason why those are the most popular formats

Nekroz was made annoying by the djinn bs, iirc it wasn't annoying for a meta deck (still annoying of course cuz it was meta) after that

@@dhanyl2725 i've played a few retro format duels against nekroz, the annoying part about it is a lot of games just feel like non games, since its hard for most decks to keep up with what nekroz does at the time. Power plays plus floating and you're just trying to whether the storm and run them through their 5 to 6 ritual spells feels pretty weird. I was playing teller against nekroz but there was a game where I felt I was getting destroyed the entire time only to win because I was able to stick a dark rebellion on field and the guy had went through all of his mirrros and couldn't out it.

D link probably was the best deck of the format.

Lunalight wasn’t good. It played well on dueling book but in actual gameplay you lost in time a lot because of zephyros.

I think they tend to be better then people give credit to. Except the one you named I think is the worst rps one I played.

One of those decks weren't like the others lol. Kozmos only did anything due to floods, the deck had a lot of good options but ba and monarchs just did way too much. Monarchs just removed the ships without triggering them and stopped otks with prime, while ba would just float endlessly against kozmos. I vividly remember a guy uaing F0 to take the opponent's ship and just kept crashing them until there was none left in tbe deck. This was triple terror top triple tourguide bapk, the deci was nuts.

Legit loved the Monarch/Kozmo/BA format. Some of the most fun games 2 and 3 I've had were in that format. Also don't forget Pend was a thing too then. DracoPals was no slouch. Only downside was that you were hard gatekept out of the format if you didn't play any of the meta relevant decks and their variants.

Best format ive played outside duelist alliance (and the few following formats) ngl. Also was the time my favorite deck (monarchs) was actually playable because ash blossom wasn't inherently forcing every deck in the game to have a higher ceiling and play through multiple disruptions (as a baseline and not a combo deck trait) and also have the consistency not to need draw cards or searchers to still play the game 🙃🙃🙃. The worst part is I don't even like domain monarchs I preferred "yoink two thirds of your extra deck while I +8 off mega zaborg" type of stuff. The real wombo combo extra deck monarch builds were so fun. Maybe if they released pantheism idk like 3-4 years before they did the deck would have actually functioned as a rogue or low tier option instead of being endlessly stuck in jank.

@@RH_54321 That's why it was pretty awful for me because it was the first format in about 4 years where I didn't consider 99% Rouge viable while in most other rps formats there was enough side decking and main deck anti meta fear that rough was somewhat viable. That and I didn't like any of the rps options. Which was a shame because I was interested in monarch and kozmo, but later card design and playing them more made me not interested in them.

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I quit until 2019

@@Becquiel goddamn, welcome back though 🙌

@@DarkArmedDad_Official Thanks fam, just learned to play jank and avoid meta for my mental health

Gumblar approves!

Tbf you could have played salad. Well after heatsoul came out anyways. Assuming you had accesscode.

This game is not for kids, no mater what the advertising and anime says.

Incorrect. Link summoning brought in more players than ever before. MR3 is what chased away a significant portion of the player base because Pendulum Summoning is absolutely, singlehandedly the worst mistake in Yugioh history.

@@orga7777 This is an extreme yugiboomer take. Pendulums have been, and always were, a terrible mechanic that is BAD for obvious reasons. You commit 2 resources that are easily removed before you get to use them to the board for a summon that is also incredibly susceptible to disruption. They also (for the most part) hard lose to many different floodgates. Note how many pendulum decks were meta and WHY they were meta. PePe? was the only top deck to ever be pendulum and didn't even need to be pendulum to have been good. make any deck be half searchers and the targets for those searchers and you'll likely have a very consistent deck. Back that up with reasonably powerful boss monsters and maybe an omni negate or disruption or two you have a good deck (see Swordsoul, Nekroz, Tri-brigade, SPYral, etc.). What other pendulum decks were actually majorly meta relevant? Qli? Was powercrept incredibly early on and only stood against the other decks in the format because of their ability to maindeck floodgates that they were unaffected by or benefitted from. D/D/D? Was meta for like a week tops and fell off from MR4 but even if it didn't nobody is going to claim D/D/D was going to out perform decks like SPYral that came soon after the change to MR4. Pendulum was best deck in 1 and a half formats and that was it. Pendulum is ass and people need to quit complaining about it and pretending like it is inherently busted when it is the most fragile and pitiful mechanic to date and has the least amount of meta relevant decks out of any of the summoning mechanics.

I think the person that designed MR4 got fired from Konami and instead got hired by WoTC and came up with th eidea for th elegacy packs.

Link format/MR4 is when almost all my friends stopped playing for good. They understandably had no want or intention on wanting to play them. Usually we'd just play like they didn't exist for a bit

Striker orcust was pretty much the spright runick of its time. Deck was pretty fun to play but man the mirror was bullshit. Plus it was the deck to beat for almost 3 months. The last toss ban list was probably the worst of the toss formats. The format got solved more or less immediately, and it was just orcust mirrors for 3 months.

D/D/D

A pile deck toping is so cool, But in the end Based is such an Unbased deck, Needlefiber Dpe Scythe Adventure.

I love how PK is always the best deck until someone actually touches the cards and finds out its actually the most mid way to abuse a new card.

@@luminous3558 It was first Pk then Based,And it was actually Pk Adventure Dpe Scythe,Real Pk players Summon Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon

@@luminous3558 With the exception of that one time in 2018 when Rhongo Bongo was Tier 1.

One-card E deck monsters are always a mistake ..... I can't think of a single one that made the game more fun.

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't Dracoverlord/Dracopal with new support topping a little bit? Nothing tier 1, but it has some tops here and there.

@@arobnugzo6818 Dracoslayer topped 16 at ycs dortmund last week and the deck has only recently come out

@@arobnugzo6818 think it’s been making bigger waves over in the OCG

@@arobnugzo6818 It’s technically playable, but because of how oppressing tearalaments are, and how pendulum has always had fewer and fewer people playing over the years, I’m hesitant until tear comes down a peg

@@KingLeaps while tear is obv the better pick, Pends have a few things going for them. Most tear hate is useless against you (Bystials, Crow, Meister). Dracover thing is new, so many ppl don't know your combo or how to counter it and have bad side cards against it (advantages of not being the deck to beat)and you can make Dweller/Satellar Diamond easily...and you get to flex: "PEND BEST DECK!" after every victory...

There 3 types of pen magician decks combo into full negation boards, control into otk(avian and pre electrumite release) and ftk. The control list we're fun to play and not degenerate in any way. Eithier pen magician toolbox is just to big they can make rank3,4,6 and 7 and synchro plays in adition to link climbing