Why Everybody Is Suddenly Playing Dark Hole 

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I know it's probably not as popular as your series stuff, but glad you're still doing card discussion videos from time to time.

Wait, a card discussion? It's been 3000 years... Really though I hope you go back to doing these more often, like the good old days.

It's really funny to me that Dark hole was almost entirely powercrept in the same set it was introduced by Raigeki

Please do more of these again and your old series like why nobody plays and weird card effects. And more OCG reveals. That’s the best content!

Love seeing card discussions again! The kind of content that got me hooked into modern ygo in the first place

PLEASE make more discussions! They're very chill and I love hearing your insights since you're a pretty good player!

I missed videos like this. These types of videos on your channel are why I even started playing yugioh in the first place.

One of the reasons I use Dark Hole in my Super Quant deck because most opponents don't realize that Great Magnus is unaffected by other card effects besides other Super Quant cards, so they often don't think about negating it when they could because they think it will destroy Great Magnus. It's just a funny way to clear the board while keeping my overpowered beatstick on there.

It's so nice to hear you talking about the TCG again after so long. I hope we get more of these. I personally prefer these discussions over your Master Duel videos.

Dark hole is also really good for Raidraptor players that use a small Rokket engine, if the striker dragon is imperm'd you would normally have to skyp wise strix to go for rusty bardiche which is a really bad spot as wise strix is the most op combo tool RR has. So being able to clear the striker is a really important restart button. I know it's a niche Deck but I still wanted to note it^^ Have a nice day everyone

The master duel content is great but I really enjoy your discussion videos because they help me think about the game in a smarter way. Hope there's more to come!

Personally I love the card discussion videos. They really help highlight targeted aspects of the game in ways that larger videos have to normally skip over.

4 years ago I got back into yugioh thanks in no small part to your card discussion videos. I would love to see more content like this again! I also love the series but stuff like this is why I'm subscribed

First real Dzeeff video after months

please bring back discussion videos like this

I love the discussion videos, they make it much easy for me to understand whats going on with the meta

I like the discussion videos cause they’re like little podcasts I can listen to while walking my dog and u have a very smooth voice to listen to

Wow, the changes in presentation! I mean, before it was pretty much slideshow and basic moving effects; fine for card discussions but seeing the extra effort makes it really pop.

Happy to see the card discussion back

Also for when Ksatri-La is gonna enter the format, i can definitely see Dark Hole being used even more than ever before. A newfound way to shut down the Ksatrila deck is to give a monster to opponent's field, either with Silent Wobby or Mushroom #2 . That means they can't summon their Ksatri-La monsters, because there is a monster on their field, and they also can't use Lightning Storm or Evenly Matched. So a card to not only get rid of opponent's board but also wipe your board clean to summon Ksatri-La monsters more freely is definitely way better now.

Well, this is a welcome surprise! Always nice to see Doug "always read yours and your opponents' cards" Zeeff talk about competitive play! (...seriously, how in the world are your personas for competitive play/your series so different on that point? I'm impressed.) Just an idle thought, an interesting discussion to have would be one on how one should learn from one's past games, especially when one has a recording available. Being able to go back through one's games, find what one should've done differently, and incorporate that into one's play is an invaluable skill, but it's not one that is often taught. Even over in the FGC, where I'm from, we don't really have any discussions on this that I've encountered. We're the group that normally has all the theory for our games worked out and recorded for everyone to access freely, and not even we talk about how to review one's own play! I think it would be worthwhile for (more, if some already do) videos on the topic to exist, so if you think you can do that well... I'd suggest you consider it.

I was screaming at people a month ago to play Dark Hole as an out to Mystic Mine, that doubled as a board breaker against combo decks, and an extender for certain decks like Tearlament. I'm surprised it's sticking around after the demise of Mystic Mine.

I have been missing your discussion videos! Happy to see a new one!

Yooo new Dzeeff vid let’s goooo! Also classic under 314+ club if y’all remember.

I like your discussions way more than your series (master saga slaps tho, make that 50 episodes instead of 20 please), it was your discussions alone that got me into "competitive" yugioh in the first place so I'm glad you're running them back

Very happy to see this kind of video from you again. Videos like these from you helped me get back into the game a couple years ago.

Your discussion videos are so interesting! I would love for them to be more frequent

Huh, coming back to Yu-Gi-Oh after a year and I see Dzeeff now has music in his videos. Neat. Also Dark Hole being played so much. What the heck did I miss after a year? time to watch.

Yours is a word I can often get behind whenever I see one of your discussion videos. I always know going in that I'm going to get clear and valuable information about a card, tech or deck choice, and I am also likely going to get incredibly good and open minded viewpoints to back it up. That's why I always enjoy a good old Dzeeff discussion vid! While I would like to see more discussion videos, you keep creating what you want dude. It's all entertaining to me nonetheless :)

Yo doug i have an interesting concept for a thing like roulette, pretty much it would be the same way spinning a wheel to pick a specific archetype and you’d have to build a deck around that specific archetype cards only rather than rng pulling them can also play in unlimited because soke cards may be banned or limited for competitive i feel like forcing you to play only that specific type of card makes them not as broken, this would go around until each person has played all of the archetypes, this way going to certain pulls doesn’t hinder the player but rather the skill is in the deck building

I love love LOVE this kind of content. I've missed it so much. It would be a good thursday upload, since there really aren't many other big uploads on thursday to look out for...at least for me anyways.

I built Toons and run 3x dark hole. It's amazing how easy it is to smash face when you can effectively play 5 Raigeki

Dark hole is goated in my dino deck. I don't even have to try to force dark hole-ing my baby dinos, it really does come up a lot this format regardless of the situation.

I really missed these discussion videos so much, your opinion much appreciated

The presentation for this video is a lot better than past card discussion videos. You cut out a lot of the padding that plagued a lot of your older videos and jammed a lot of information, removing a lot of the filler. I understand why you did it in the past but this is certainly a lot better as your audience has become a lot more acquainted with the game. The historical niche uses you went through also helped give a bit of retrospect for when we should look out for this card being playable. All in all, it’s nice to see your content improve for discussion videos like this. Keep up the grind.

Hey Doug! I hope you see this. My name is Henry and we met once in person at Fun 4 All in Ypsilanti, Michigan. I recently saw a clip of MBT reacting to viewers shitting on you in the Master Roulette. I wanted to swing by and share some love. The community definitely has some assholes. Myself and many others really think you're an incredible player and content creator. I hope these guys aren't bringing you down too bad. Keep your head up as best you can. Everyone who is reasonable knows you aren't bad at the game. I'm looking forward to your next video!

2:36 bro really talked about Ra lock and confidentially put the wrong branded trap to represent the combo 💀💀💀

Very informative and pleasant sounding. As a new sub I would absolutely value any discussion videos you decide to create. Thanks so much for this one!

Boils down to modern Yu-gi-oh having monsters unaffected by card effects and using the graveyard as a resource more than ever before. The 'downside' of Dark Hole over Raigeki in that it destroys and sends your monsters to the graveyard isn't applicable if your monsters want to be there and you're not losing tempo as a result (e.g. floaters). Great case use for Dark Hole would be the Advanced Crystal Beasts deck archetype. Dark Hole can be used to 'free' your Crystal Beasts being used as XYZ materials, bringing Rainbow Dragon online and clearing the opponents monster zones for a potential OTK. Raigeki would only destroy your opponent's monsters. This is also why we're seeing Necrovalley being ran either in the main deck or being side decked now. Locking an opponent out of their graveyard with an archetype that relies on it more than you, without an answer in hand, can lead to an instant forfeit. It also being a field spell protects it from some removal beyond a generic Harpies' Feather Duster.

Playing in the classroom back in the 200X days, Dark Hole is heavily related to my favourite (sadly now mostly unplayable) card: My Body As a Shield. Dark Hole was so powerful, and I thought it was pretty bad ass you could pay 1500 life points to essentially tank a black hole for your monsters. It could still be used against Trap Holes and a few other destruction effects like Fissure. Even in Master Duel where I was playing one copy just for posterity it came in clutch a few times protecting plays from Gear Gamma. I guess technically you could use it to protect your monsters or to stop Gamma whilst also protecting the Iblee you've given your opponent but its probably not enough to justify even the side. Anyway just pouring one out for my favourite Dark Hole counter and favourite card of all time.

Are we not going to talk about Doug slipping in Fabled cards at the end of his Ridge ad?

Its good for the eventual kashtira mirrors where we will be trying to get mushroom man 2 off of the board. And its what ive been using it for. Kashtira mirror matches are one of the mirror matches of all time.

I just realized that I haven’t seen one of your videos pop up in my feed for a while. Glad to see another one of your videos, your card discussion videos are my favourite.

Man i miss this kind of vids from you as well as the pack openings! Glad to see em back

Just wanna say I think you rock Doug. Thanks for putting out consistently entertaining content every week.

I used to play this card when it was legal in early YGO. At the time, I thought it was a slightly inferior version of raigeki everyone could get and I liked it that way. Nowaday, returning with common charity and master duel, it's one of the best board breaker of the first format, and a very potent way to value floating or GY's effects monsters in the second. At the time it was a nice card, nowadays, it's a good card ! Anyway, thanks for the discussion Dzeeff ! ^^

A few years ago I was just playing Yugioh on an app to kill some time. I was using Kozmo against a com of Yugi's grandpa. By some bad luck he managed to pull out Obelisk the Tormentor. I had no idea how to get past it. Nothing to get over it, it couldn't be selected for destruction, and couldn't be beaten by battle. I thought I was gonna have to forfeit and start again. Then I see the little Dark Hole in my hand and realize, "It's only a problem if I select it. If I don't..." Nuke the field, got Obelisk out of there, and because it was Kozmo, replaced everything I lost. Probably meant nothing in the grand scheme, but special in my heart.

A discussion video upload is a W and you know we need to see more of those. All joking aside. I do enjoy these even if I basically never comment. Sorry about that.

Dark hole always had my favorite art out of the boardwipes. Just imagine a fucking huge black hole that just destroys everything

I'd already put it in my deck a decade ago and it's been there ever since, now I know there's something else I can do with this card.

The Branded combo for those that don't know uses Branded expulsion. When activated you tribute a fusion monster to special summon 2 non fusions to the field. One on each side. As Ra is a light you usually have this set up when making Albion

Thx for pointing out the Martha thing, this obnoxius guy at locals always goes for a ojama trio rivalry side and the dark hole makes so much sense I feel stupid for not realizing earlier

No sleight to you, but I really miss these discussion videos. I wish you released like 1 every week or even every 2 weeks. I love your break downs and the topics are always unique and good.

Mister Doug Zeeff, thanks for the card discussion videos, I really missed these. I love everything you do though, so keep up the good work!

Please make these. They are what I love your channel for

Just want to say Dark Hole is also a good option for decks like Dinomorphia or Earth Machines so they have a heavier first turn presence :)

Discussion videos are what always bring me back into your channel. Cheers!

omg!!! I've been missing your competitive analysis sooo much, definitely one of the best Yugitubers in that regard. And did you get a new mic? Audio sounds crisp!

Oh hey, classic Dzeeff content, I miss this a lot sometimes

Ironic you mention the branded expulsion into Ra combo because Konami just added that FTK to Master Duel. Forbidden Drop and Dark Hole are the only outs

I've been extra evil lately and have been running Uninterrupted Kaiju Slumber. Same effect but we both get monsters in the end, plus they may guess more Kaiju's are coming lmao

I like the discussion videos and you’ve come a long way in terms of visuals and audio.

I don't know if if anyone has noticed but certain cards are a countermeasure agent such for example ddd super doom king dark Armageddon cannot be destroyed by such card effect not to mention giving added protection to pendulum monsters in your monster zone every in's and out's like analyse in a unique finger print not to mention the calculat every X factor of a posable outcome

Baiting negates is one of my favorite uses of Raigeki as well. Opponent has Baronne and I drop Raigeki, of course the negate comes out, and then I begin playing the cards I actually need.

This card normally became pointless after Reigeki left the limited list but I saw the potential. If your deck has cards that need you have no monsters and you have a greater than 25% chance of seeing Knightmare Corruptor Iblee (seriously... who designed that? Being floodgated out of special summoning from the extra deck hurts, but this thing allows you to lock your opponent out of their main deck), then I'd say Dark Hole is awesome. The fact that it was an out to Mystic Mine is kind of a hilarious bonus.

Dark Hole parallel to the banned backrow removal card, Heavy Storm. Both of them have their supposedly powercrept version of them but turn out they are more useful in high-level play than their powercrept counterpart. You can destroy your own Tearlament with Dark Hole, that’s more useful than its powercrept version which is Raigeki.

1:50 I love that Fabled cards are in the wallet.

Thanks for been one of the best Yugioh "notice" channel

Please keep making discussion videos it's the content is subbed for

I miss these videos, please bring em back! ^-^

Oh you have no idea how much I fucking missed these type of videos

Legitimately considering it in my md decks, to combat the branded bs. Works particularly well with my icejade as they have a lot of destruction protection.

1:49 Ragin Jumpscare

I had kind of dipped away from the channel because I don't know enough Yugioh to enjoy watching a full duel, so I'm glad to see more of these "explainer" type videos that brought me to the channel in the first place.

What’s so interesting for me … I started playing yugioh at age 5 and I always, and to this day, see Dark Hole as an eye - the center hole is the pupil and the outside area is the skin / eyebrow etc. I cannot unsee it to this day! Anyone else??

Man I love all the new Master content but I miss these for sure, hope to see more eventually

Great video, man! Can't wait for more single card analyses!

The reason I know your channel is because of your “Why ____” videos. Of course I want more!

1:57 I see my man is always prepared

Oh man it's been a while since I've seen any discussion like videos on cards ans I really love those typed of videos on this channel, would love to see more of these videos made

I have Dark hole irl it was my only Yugioh card back in the day until now and I found it between my thosuands of pokemon cards randomly

I'm so glad to see TCG stuff and not Master Duel. I like the master Duel stuff, especial Roulette, but I started watching this channel for the discussions

If the Ridge Wallet came with those Fabled Cards I'd have to pick one up

Hey Doug! I am a causal master duel player... I mean, playing yu-gi-oh back in my country was a little bit difficult. I would love a series or streams on how to create good, cheap, fun master duel decks. Or also about the cards... :)

A great combo I've been using is darkhole to ancient gear factory for the level 5 and 6 gear monsters while wiping opponents field.

Also nice against Branded Ido lockdown, which will result in Ido summoning back to your opponent's side of the field

There’s a tech tear played before Ishizu where you would summon Destrudo using a tear and use the synchro 7 to go into Black Rose and lemme tell ya wiping ur monsters on turn 3 is pretty good when it gets rid of your opponent’ board and go cl3

I think you got mixed up when you talked about Ra’s disciple and branded retribution. The card you’re referring to is branded expulsion and it puts ra’s disciple on the opponents field which is a good thing.

I missed this type of video, I hope you have more in the vault

I always love when old cards, OG cards suddenly have current meta applications.

Dark hole finally joined it's brother Heavy Storm. Cards original meant to be "restrictive" since it can remove your spells and traps from the field now can be played on advantage of removing your own specific cards to better plays.

Need more discussion video on anything, really. Made at least 10 min long but no longer than 20 minutes. Only reason I sub because you were doing that.

Classic format Doug video 😩 Viewers don't understand Danger Thunderbird in Master Duel when?

I’ve been using Dark hole for a long time. I once used it to wipe my brother’s field and then summoned my king of the skull servants who gains 1000 attack times the number to skull servants and king of the skull servants in the graveyard. I had 3 copies of each of those plus whitemare, lady in white, etc. So my king of the skull servants had over 10,000 attack.

Yeeeee card discussion video! I love these, please keep doing It!!!

I liked using dark hole during mystic mime format

This is my dad favorite card. it used to be one of the ways he would beat me when we played together back in the day.

I’ll always watch card discussions, especially from you. I really like the graphics as well.😊

I don’t know what it is about dark hole. However it is probably one of the most beautiful artworks out there.