Small correction that Brionac's bounce effect was an ignition effect, so a little worse into BA's trap lineup but rarely came up anyways. Great video. Loved this format!
I still think the mathematician variant was the most underrated, it solved so many problems the deck had and was really really versatile, I remember doing so many wild things with this deck that nobody else was doing. Also fun thing with the warrior djinn outs they all lose to something, like when the opponent sees armageddon knight they can search trishula, when the opponent sees dd warrior lady which beats trish and gungnir they search valk etc. So it means if you play a small retro format tournament you probably have to play a second warrior djinn out in your side deck, or people would do that at locals so opponent's can't just scout your djinn out in early rounds.
Joe this is my favorite format of all time. This was when I got my first top 8 at a regional when I was 14 and holds a special place in my heart. Thank you so much Joe I always remembered you as a big name when I played as an early teen. I always wanted to meet you at an event and I would love to have you on my card game podcast in the future if possible. Much love❤️
Then side in the second one? I remember doing a funny thing at a point where everyone had cut decisive armour and before mistake was popular, where I asked opponents to side out emptiness sided in skill drain and set up decisive armour + skill drain and they couldn't deal with it.
It's probably worth noting that the 3 situations you would do that djinn combo are 1 - you drew lance/scolding to protect it, 2 - the rest of your hand does absolutely nothing (even then its debatable) or 3 - you recognise that your opponent in the mirror is a better player than you and you'll probably lose a back and forth game. Any other time I'd argue that it's not worth going all in on a combo that people are playing up to about 8 outs for in the main deck and you lose if they deal with it and have follow up.
Yeah definitely, I just remember back when I was watching live streams of events back then all of the commentators had this obsession about djinn locking all the time no matter what else is going on 😂
One of my favourite archtypes for a contained format. Nekroz had a brionac and inzektor combo that put shooting star dragon on the field that wasn't optimal but cool. All decks had a weird impact on how you played turn one. Nekroz trishula and shaddoll fusion typically made decks hesitant to go combo centic on turn one. Satellarknights had triver to bounce your field. BA would just float in the graveyard nomatter what you did to them. Towers turbo changes how decks would be built. The ability to play around certain cards like mind crush is important. I do prefer the format after djinn lock with the performage clowns. Also ritual beast being secretly good against nekroz is always funny.
It was legal, but the games went longer than now, so u can stop ur opp just for a turn without otk him. Another reason was that, a part from nekroz, the card was useless against every other mu
It briefly saw play when people were making ptolemaeus with droll in hand, the opponent would search with brionac you chain to rank-up into durendal, and then on resolution you go chain link 1 durendal to shuffle, chain link 2 droll. It leaves your opponent with nothing and you with the cards you set/kept on the field. It was good for about a week and then everyone half decent at the game would know that when your opponent makes a board + ptolemaeus in the nekroz mirror you set all your stuff before giving them an opportunity to droll you.
