Yu-Gi-Oh! Synchro Monsters: 9 Years Later 

The good old days when extra deck mosnters were bosses not just commodities

Lolz, stardust transcends time, no wonder Yusei was op during 5Ds

"I'm sure there's a Nitro Warrior fan out there" ... *Raises Hand :(*

Technically Xyz-Dragon Cannon was the OG Contact Fusion.

The only reason why Nitro Warrior didn't see play along with the others is because it had a crappy Synchon corresponding to it. Quickdraw Synchon took care of all that.

I loved this Mechanic when they came out, Stardust dragon was so OP! :) Ah... The times Krebons was played lol

Extra Deck wasn't even called that before.

I love Synchro monsters! Alongside Fusions, they're my favorite category of monsters. They're easy to play, have awesome effects and designs, and you can swarm the field with them (Or at least you could before the Link Dimension invaded the Synchro Dimension). I especially love using Red Dragon Archfiends because of their badass designs, destructive capabilities, and they can easily swarm the fields with Tuners and gain field presence.

The point i find interesting is that if you ask most players what their favorite extra deck mechanic, most will probably say synchro

To be honest, Synchro Summoning was the mechanic that brought me back to play Yugioh again, I brought the first starter deck of the Synchro Era and I pretty much build up everything I had for it. Till this day it is still my deck I overly use no matter what (because I'm someone with no money and I can't afford a lot of cards). I pretty much loved the mechanics who evolved to it, the Accel Synchro. Since it's genius yet simple at the same time. Before the xyz Era , I think it was when the game was like "Hey that move was very good, you got me there !", now the game during and after the xyz era became a hellfest of bullshit after bullshit with nothing you can do ... and it makes me sad that game evolved into the "Get this deck before anyone else and you are invincible". *Siigh* ...

I swear Gladiator Beast won worlds Once Upon a Time.

#KEEPSYNCHROALIVE

Synchro best extra deck mechanic such good times

Synchros were the best things to ever happen to yugioh, IMO. Saddening that links kinda ruin the pressure and easy summoning ability of them.

Whoa, there are white-background cards other than Omega and Crystal Wing? Weird.

"Number 39: Utopia" is the flagship of the XYZ mechanic, not Leviathan.

Denglong and Needlefiber don't fuck around. Some of the best Synchro support cards.

When you misread the title and think he's going to talk about level 9 synchros :( #TrishulaMasterRace

I'm beginning to fall in love with Synchro. I've loved Crystron ever since they released, but never picked them up because money issues and then MR4 rolled around. But now with Needlefiber, I'm excited.

Fusion - the original ,can't bash too much Synchro- best thing to happen, need more (non-archetype specific)monsters and support XYZ- decent and gives some life to whatever cant use synchro's well Pendulum- broken , could/should have been used as support for other summon types Links- the true breaker and destroyer of all fun and logic ( still served a purpose) but hatem

0:21 anyone else see Yusei just flipping us off?

So far, I think that Synchro is the best mechanic that Konami added into the game (After the first 3 basic summoning methods - Tribute, Fusion, and Ritual). I see their basic concepts to be like this: 1. Tribute Summon Monsters to tribute (already on the field) + Using your Normal Summon. - Monsters intended to summon needs to be on hand, but tribute material monsters don't have to be specific. - Overall, it's slower. 2a. Fusion Material Monsters + Polymerization (or card effects, usually spells) + Fusion monster in the Extra Deck - Faster than Tribute Summon but needs more specific cards to be done and spend many resources at once. - The monsters intended to be summoned are easier to access than Ritual, but needs more specific materials. 2b. Ritual Ritual Spell and Monster + Material monsters (with a certain total levels) - A little bit like Fusion, but the intended monster to summon is in the main deck instead (harder to access). - Need specific ritual spells and monsters, both of them are needed on your hand. But the material monsters are less specific than Fusions, it just needs a certain total levels instead. 3. (And then here comes) Synchro Needs Tuner and non-Tuner (on the field) + Needs to do math (Total levels) + Intended monster to summon (In the Extra Deck) - Pretty much faster than tribute summon and easier (in terms of conditions) to do than Fusions and Ritual. Then we get Xyz... whatever it means. 2 or more cards with the same level, Rank instead of Level. Sigh.

I do love Synchros. I feel like they were the perfect balance of having some little bit of restriction while having big bodies with powerful effects.

Trishula , Crystal wing and friends are definitely my favorite extra deck type of monster, even though I started playing ygo seriously this year. I still have my first (real) yugioh card from 2009 a secret rare power tool dragon from the tin. I used to carry him around everywhere (sleeved) in my pocket. It used to be my signature card back at 5th-6th grade (even though my fringe machine deck was a joke by competitive standards) and everyone wanted to trade something for him even the guy who had stardust assault mode deck (with ultimate rare stardusts and actually knew how to play the game right and taught us all). I still have him and even though he is worthless it has a big sentimental value for me. My first yugioh card and my first step in the world of TCGs (I play both MTG and YGO) Ahhh childhood nostalgia.

Junk Warrior to this day is my favourite Synchro. I know it's not the strongest or with the best effect but I always had the most fun playing him. There was always something appealing to me in the anime and TCG about the fact that it gains its strength from weaker low level monsters. Showing off their use and value of each card. Even if i lost, whenever I played my Synchro/Yusei deck, I always had the most fun

Linkro summon

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My favorite older Tuner was Deep sea diva. I miss my water destiny hero deck back when future fusion still had it's old errata. Use FF, dump a malicious and another water monster in deck to get a Absolute zero, summon 2 deep sea divas for 2 lvl 8 synchro monsters and a Absolute zero in future turns. Good times. I miss yugioh from back then, way more creative decks opposed to mainly only archetypes being so strong as they are today

Stardust Dragon will always be a part of my decks

Thought Ruler was my boy. I know most liked Stardust, but I preferred getting around those fiendish chains and D-prisons. Also, all the extra LP is always nice.

Konami hasn't learned their lesson. Syncros still had levels so their attack was relative to the level. They still required especially in the early days a level 5 or higher monster in the board. XYZ n links are far more generic n require smaller monsters to make. Syncros is the most balanced extra deck type. They require two different types with different levels. XYZ ppl just ran all level 3 or 4 or 2. You can always XYZ with those. Ranks use any and everything to be made and already have broken effects. Pendulums get spell n monster effects on top of extra summons n vomiting a field every turn.

Synchros are my favorite for many reasons. I always thought Ritual Monsters were too inconsistent, Fusion monsters never really impressed me. Synchro monsters required preparation, planning, and many of them are IMO some of the most beautiful cards to look at.

Stardust Dragon was and still is my favorite all time monster

In The Duelist Genesis, Avenging Knight Parshath was a tcg exclusive synchro monster that went unmentioned in your video.

"Sync for nine" - me "Is ok?" - opponent

A little late here but Nitro Warrior did actually see competitive play, just a couple years after it came out. In 2010 the Quickdraw Dandywarrior deck used Nitro Warrior.

It's almost 2020 and I still playing Stardust Dragon

ah yes back then when the entire game wasnt decided by who got their fucking lockdown on the board first and when you actually had to manage your fucking resources instead of shitting everything on the board and still going plus.....

I thought xyz dragon cannon was before neos and gladiator beasts, but i could be wrong.

This video is very bittersweet. It one, makes me reminisce about when I first started playing and the childlike wonder I had over 5Ds. However, it also makes me think of the current state of the game(and my life lol) and whether we're in a good place right now.

Geez the nostalgia i played every Saturday from 06-10 and these videos bring back memories 😢

5:46 "not completely overpowered" that's a weird way of saying that every new mechanic since has started out being complete ass lol

Sometimes i wish I could time travel back in time to when synchros first came out💔

9 years? damn i feel old

I grew up watching Synchros/5DS... This video is a must watch for me. Thank you!

I remember opening up a Raging Battle SE and pulling my ultra rare Power Tool Dragon. I love that card. The design, the effect, the archetype (morphtronics) and to this day, the best deck I own is morphtronic Power Tool equip beatdown. I may have quit the game years ago (around the time 5ds ended and the xyz era started) and I decided to try and get back into the game by building a Nekroz deck. I liked the designs, alternate ritual versions of powerful synchros, and apparently they were pretty good. After I playtested a bunch, my Power Tool deck was able to pretty evenly compete with Nekroz, even coming out on top of multiple best of 3s. Point I'm trying to make, I miss the days of when you build a deck around your favourite cards and pour your heart and soul into fine tuning your deck into the best possible version and it being a part of yourself, rather than the overly complicated "keep your opponent from doing anything by shitting out several huge invincible monsters and 5 negation backrow turn 1" type of game yugioh is now. Honestly can't remember the point of this comment, Power Tool Dragon no.1 yo

I remember not having real access to the internet and Yu-Gi-Oh community back in 2008, so I had no idea about the Starter Deck and Synchros. I feel like I liked them once I saw them, and I loved the 2008 tins, they are probably some of my favorite tins of all time.

Well I play Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend

Number 39 Utopia still see's play. :(

I miss when the extra deck monsters were the main goal for your plays not just catalysts for fields of 5 links

My favorite summoning mechanic. The white cards where so badass, and they had such great design. I mean look at cards like Crystron Quariongondrax, majestic.

Extra deck card types pro's and con's -generic fusion: good effects and staying power but you need a spell -contact fusion: good effects but need two+ specific monsters -synchro: need two+ generic cards to equal the level of the summoned monster decent effects usually based around staying power -xyz: need two+ generic monsters of the same level these are to some extent the opposite of synchro as they are usually based off negation or rushing the effects out -Link: needing two+ generic monsters of which attribute, type, or archetype are written on the card they are used to further plays increase extra monster zone size and protect monsters linked to the card

Stardust Dragon's effect is just godly...

While ik they aren't the main thing anymore synchros are still my favorite summoning type, which is why I'm glad adamancipators came out because it reminds me so much of the old days where synchros were king, I'm not complaining about the old days by any means but it is nice to have that reminder

Decode talker isn't the main character's ace monster from Vrains, it's fire wall dragon

It still insane to know that the og Stardust Dragon has seen competitive play ever since he was made to this day he sees some form of competitive play to this day

i think the main thing that sets synchros apart from other extra deck monsters is they are more boss monsters than say XYZ or links. for instance you summon crystal wing as a card that your opponent will have to pour reasources into to get rid of where as most XYZs are either utility monsters (abyss dweller, castel, utopia lighting) or combo makers/deck support (dante, gear gigant, king of the feral imps) and while XYZs have boss monsters like toad, ultimate falcon, and VFD. synchros do it better because they tend to be far more generic and easier to summon with longer lasting impact on the field.

Synchros are kinda what contact fusion was trying to be. you have one special monster (neos in contact or any tuner in synchros) and that special monster kinda has polymerisation built into it.

Synchros will always be my favorite

I stopped playing around 2007, so when I heard about synchro, tuners, and the plethora of special summoning that was going on, I figured the game had just seen a whole lot of power creep. I remember when you could make an aggro deck just from level 4's with high attack (gagagigo, slate warrior, goblin attack force, spear dragon) as well as a few tributes with great effects like Jinzo.

1- fusion summoning(FS) via polymorization made sense. like special summoning, it wasnt something you could do easily so it felt actually special whrn it happened. 2- FS followed a common trend in anime/manga so it was easy to understand. Monsters having very specific requirements also made sense. if you think of dragonball Z`s fusions, you can only get Vegito if Goku and Vegeta are around 3- you say back in the day there wasnt good card draw or searching??? 4- The main problem with FS was that the mentality of the game around then was more about doing cool stuff so most fusion monsters were not very strong. 5- when strong Fusion mosters came about they were balanced by you having to work a bit in order to summon them 6-the generic thing that is mention several times in the video is a problem. it made things easier on player as they could do the cool things they wanted. At the same time the game became increasingly more complex (aka harder to learn and master).

Synchro monsters are the best, most fun to play with. I actually quite like Link Monsters because they remind me of old synchro strategies, co-link spamming

I had a ghostrare stardust and it got stolen in 5th grade

Synchro are still; my favorite extra deck mechanic in YGO. Syncrho summon grew strong to me for a Psychic deck I made yeaars ago, I had a blast with them!

The next extra deck mechanic will just be monsters you can summon with various cards as material (trap, spell, monster) and can have different properties depending on the types of cards. Like Master Peace but not broken

I remember when it was quite common to see decks with no extra decks. Easier times.

StarDust Dragon is my favorite ace monster ever!!! #5ds is awesome.

Generally speaking, a well thought out Synchro deck would always break even in card advantage. So many Synchro-related effects revolved around the three strongest words in the game: DRAW A CARD. Hyper Librarian, Formula, Tuningware... These were all staples of Synchro decks for this very reason and helped recoup the card loss involved with Synchro Summoning. Moreover, Synchros would often come packaged with a certain level of survival which earlier Fusions and later Xyz monsters often lacked. This made Synchro decks resilient, able to keep pace or set the tempo themselves, and strong enough to seemingly pull a win out of nowhere. This is all due to how easy it is to maintain card advantage with Synchros. First, you often play them in recursive builds like Machines, Warriors and Zombies, which have a habit of returning to play easily and you _at worst_ only require the equivalent of a Contact Fusion to summon them. The major weakness compared to Fusions, though a formula later ED monsters would follow, was that such summons required a field presence. This could be hard to set up without a proper build. However, _with_ such a build, not only was it easy to achieve, but it was easy to maintain this presence, allowing you to recycle many of your material monsters for a second or third summon the very same turn, if not more (looking at you, Quasar FTK...)

Now I'm not a ''Nitro Warrior fan'' in the comments complaining about what you said, but Nitro Warrior did see competitive play in March 2010's format, also known as ''Edison''. It was played in quickdraw plant decks

9 years? What?! Holy crap I'm old. I enjoyed the hell out of the Synchro format, yeah it was a bit slower but it was still faster than what we had before and it felt amazing when you pulled out a nice combo that placed a strong boss monnster in the field in one turn. Then the format advanced and we got the Blackwings the Quasar Dragons and all of that and things got faster and faster, but believe it or not there was a time in Yugioh where a duel wasn't two dudes throwing 30 cards to the field in a turn and duels actually lasted a good amount of turns, that was fun.

Before contact fusion, there was the XYZ deck where you banish the materials so they kinda helped it out earlier than cf

I've been a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh! since my childhood and I remember buying the first starter deck with Synchro Monsters after been playing with Dragon's Roar since I was a child (Junk Warrior will always have a special place in my heart) and I remember myself DESTROYING my brother's classic Deck, summoning Junk Warrior when i had a lot of level 2 monsters on the field or Colossal Fighter to simply just destroy his Blue Eyes White Dragon thanks to his effect. I loved Synchro Monsters, a built my deck for almost 5 years around Synchro Monsters and dragons and i loved that deck. I quit playing Yu-Gi-Oh! until a year and a half when I decided to look at the game and discovered Link Monsters. I looked at the rules to discover what happened to the extra Deck summons and I was quite sad. My Synchro Deck would not be so good because of the new rules so I decided to give a try to Link Monsters. Now, My Deck is a full Link Summoning Cyberse based on the Code Talker archetype, and it's quite more effective than my old deck, but it's not the same feel. I really miss that days, I like Links but that nerf to Fusions, Synchros and Xyz monsters with their relaese... Idk, feels bad man, feels bad.

Do a where rituals went wrong video too!

Synschro summon is my favorite extra deck summon method. It requires commitment but is not as rare as fusion but not as non-commital as XYZ. Also because you need them on the field it's a matter of combo's instead of just searching. Synchro monsters are high risk high reward which is just much more exciting.

God... It has been 9 years already... I feel old

The whole point of synchros was to give all deck an actual way for decks to use the extra deck. The only decks that never used synchros were exclusively from the Hero archtype( Evil Heroes and Omni Heroes). They needed the extra deck to simply function. Even glad-beasts used tuners and they were one of the good decks. Only Lightsworns really did not run tuners originally because they lack a lightsworn tuner which hurt the consistency around Judgement Dragon but their design at least allowed them to compete they just went from tier 1 to the format which was pretty much a uniform format where there where at least 50 major types(not 50 slight variations but entirely different styles(no combo decks abusing skill drain)) of decks being used at any given time(until the blackwings and back when they were weakened by the banlist).

Plaguespreader Zombie? You totally forgot how zombies were rolling crazy with 3 DD burial and 3 Mezukis.

2020 LEOH, DARK HIGHLANDER, STARDUST DRAGON, *BLACKROSE* and CRIMSON BLADER are still 3 great not outclassed cards to use though... With Master Rule 5, YUSEI themed decks will be beast again

Crazy to think we going towards 15 years now

What's interesting is that if we don't get a new summoning mechanic next year, Link monsters will beat Fusions as the longest amount of time spent as "the newest" extra deck mechanic

I never been into yu gi oh, with the covid-19 and nothing to watch I decided to check the show.. I thought it was okay then with a couple episodes I decided to download duel links from the app store (more or less a week ago). Boy this is fun! My deck looks a lot like Joey! With the first few casual matches I noticed the shyncro summoning was a really important mechanic, I'm still learning this tho. I cant believe I missed this for so long...

I don't think it's too out there to see Synchro monsters still being played. I think it's a true testament to see the Fusion mechanic itself still being played.

Wow 2008? I was in 8th grade! I thought I had played Yugioh for longer, but apparently I quit before i was 14 because I don't know anything about synchros, xyz, etc lol. Interesting video though!

Its 12 years already!

I think konami should stop at link monsters and just keep the mechanics to how they are now, there's a good balance on making extra deck monsters (arguably the strongest kind of monsters) slower to summon. Adding too many summoning mechanics make the game fresh for older players yes, but when I want to teach my cousin to play they get overwhelmed with ritual (main deck I know, but still another summoning type to remember) fusion, contact fusion, synchro, xyz, pendulum, and now link, the game is beginning to have too many special summoning mechanics, and when it's too much the newer players get turned off at the idea of learning how to play when uno is another card game just as fun but easier to play. Konami is a company and the won't really care about what I say, and I know they'll make 27 new summoning mechanics if they want to, and as a fan I'll still learn each one, but it still somewhat annoys me. Another thing that has me concerned is that if they continue to make a new mechanic ever few years, then shouldn't the 15 card limit be increased? Even without duplicate cards blue eyes, red eyes, dark magician, cyber dragons, and any other fan favorite or competitive deck can almost reach that limit now that any deck with an extra deck needs link monsters if they want more than one extra deck monster on the field at a time. But that's just my opinion

I love synchros then and I love them now.

Synchro monsters are the best for me. 😍

actually an early Xyz Monster that was really good (one of the first non-number ones as well) The EVILSWARM deck monsters. specifically Bahamut and Ophion.

Gale was so good when it was first released. It was a one card out to Stardust. Not as prevalent now, but still a worthy Tuner today for the archetype in which it was released.

As someone who stopped playing around the first season of GX airing on Toonami, watching these vids of new mechanics makes me happy that I got out when I did

Just got a link deck, really loving these link monsters.

Its a 9 YEARS OLD MECHANIC?! Holly FUCK, guess ive been away for a looooong time, i mean last time i played ,GX was on his prime debuting the Neo spacians and Elemental Hero mac comebacks chosen of the matrix “Neos”

ARMOUR MASTER IS MY FAVOURITE CARD OMFG

I love and still love what I call the yusi syncros, the warrior/syncrons and stardust arch combined, that is my best deck, fuck link monsters. I only with they made a pendulum syncron and pendulum warrior. Oh and I would have loved a QuickDraw warrior

I remember my older brother having a monopoly on good yugioh cards at our home. I was finally able to beat him when the Duelist Genesis came out and I built a deck using the cards in it.

I love the Synchro mechanic, and I wish my deck had some tuners.

You mentioned odd eyes pendulum dragon no longer gets played which is true but that thing was a boss monster used up until pendulum evolution

Would love to see an updated take this series now that master rule five is in effect

It’s been 10 years... I feel so old...

At 1:19-1:41 you seem to have forgotten about Gladiator Beasts as a deck that was Tier 0 at the time and was based on the Fusion mechanic.