You know those episodes in the Yugioh anime where for one reason or another, the protagonists end up dueling with just the most rediculous deck imaginable. Like, they're not allowed to play spell cards, or all their monsters have to have zero attack, things like that. That's how Jeff Jones plays Yugioh
@@xCorvus7x in 5Ds Yusei had to duel with an old man's deck made purely by cards the old man liked to collect. Most cards had crazy self-restrictions and self-burn. Fun episode.
That 60 card 3-axis dragon link deck from Utrecht was actually really sick. It’s endboard was Apollosa, Gryphon, IO, Savage, and Hope Harbringer. It still maintained the ability to play through multiple handtraps including Nibiru as well as had the ability to go second rather well. Game 3 of the finals really just came down to the salad player drawing the perfect hand and making the correct 50/50 choice in execution.
Jeff Jones is the OG GIGACHAD of yugioh. Played against him for fun at a regionals, and played masked hero six samurai vs him on nekroz. he beat me 1-2. He said my list was really cool tho, since I made naturia beast an dark law easily, and I'll never forget that haha
Even if its a lot smaller of an event, I remember playing dragon duel during dinorabbit format, facing worms in the final with hieratics. That worm deck won and therefore won a trip to italy+hotel+qualification to a bigger tournament, a display etc. I still have flashbacks at night thinking about the +17 worm trapcard beating my meta-playing ass
Lord of the Tachyon Galaxy wasn't legal yet for German nats 2013, so the format was Mermail and Dino Fist, with both Chain Burn and Infernity being very real decks. Fun fact: In the finals Lava Golem was summoned by tributing Summoner Monk.
The two that came to my mind immediatly weren't in the video. Both in Zoo Format. First Paleozoic somehow wins against i believe against a 34/36 Zoo Top cut. Then someone somehow gets something like Top 16 with DINOMIST. I have no idea how. Also the Chain Burn Dagon Duel win, but Chain Burn has an insane matchup against Zoo. And the World Chalice YCS win was one of the most hype wins i have ever witnessed.
paleozoic had crazy good zoo match up. between every single one being fully immune to drident and whiptail, along with being just trap cards that also had access to grass, its not surprising how well the deck managed to do in zoo format
I got bubbled out of a regional during full power zoo with crystal beast metalfoes. One more win and I would've topped with the one of the jankiest decks ever conceived.
@@bennygroysman4205 Toad and Anomalocaris are also hell of a pair of boss monsters, Anomalocaris dunked on every relevant monster in the format that wasn't Master Peace and Toad was tearing up the meta and gave the deck a crazy grind game and win-con.
This is a reason to love yugioh. Random, non-meta, and from any time period deck can simply show up and steal wins out of complete nowhere just because it is so absurd and different from the meta.
Jeff Jones’ fire fist list is super nostalgic to me because while nekroz is my favorite archetype, that’s partially due to me accidentally finding out nekroz was a thing after not playing yugioh since 2007 I was like rituals are good that’s awesome, until I realized I couldn’t come close to affording it to get back into the game, then I saw this list and was like now this looks affordable I can do that instead lol.
Man, Nekroz were kind of insane. I recall trying to get back into the game with EdoPro some time after 2011, building a Blackwing deck the way I knew (from 2009/10) and being absolutely stomped by some one on Nekroz the first time I entered multiplayer.
to this day I still have no idea how Gadgets were meant to be played the way they got representation back in like 2010, it's something I regularly think about even when I stopped playing YGO for 5 years
you'd generally play then with the Machina cards that were out at the time. Also being an endless conga-line of dudes was very resource efficient in 2010.
Ultimate Offering was legal until 2013. You could just summon guys and make a trillion rank 4s or just get insane advantage for other cards. My favorite was with 1 Ultimate Offering people still played Gadget because Shock Master came out, so you could make triple Shock Master and call all 3 types, and then kill the opponent the next turn. Offering got banned the next list, in the same list Shock Master was (along with Rulers and Spellbooks lmao)
I get the Ultimate Offering and Machina plays because that's exactly what I was doing when I played the deck in the DS games but I'm looking at the exact decklist referenced in the video and I absolutely cannot comprehend how this was competent, let alone top 2 material lol
@@stardustspark5682 this was the deck i took to the only national i’ve ever played, machina gadget with UO in ruler format. GGX was a card and rank 4 was at its peak with stuff like diamond dire wolf being a $40+ card iirc?
5:29 I played this list for a while after it won and circulated online. To set the stage, my locals was pretty tough. Guy comes back from winning a YCS in Spain and faces me with this round one, 2-0 to Grandsoil Psychics. I proceeded to do fantastically with the deck for a long time until the format finally moved far enough along that it didn't work anymore. Because while it may look like a pile of garbage...it was quite literally...mental.
I netdecked Jeff Jones' fire fist build for that 2015 nekroz format. Took it to a 300+ person regional and went X-3. My only losses were 2 technicalities, and one legit loss. (The legit loss also wasn't nekroz. It was against qliphort of all things.) Fire fist was shockingly good during full power nekroz. If there's ever a time wizard tournament for the list immediately before lavalval chain got banned, I'm definitely bringing fire fist to it. One of my favorite decks of all time.
Shocked by the lack of an appearance of Sam Pedigo's Karakuri Geargia list that he won YCS Turin with during the tail end of Sixth Sense Ravine Ruler format. The deck would become a legitimate meta threat several months later, but at the time was pretty much rogue garbage and was channeling the thought of "well they can't beat EVERY anti-Ruler floodgate in one deck"
The hat format des frog otk deck was real. I worked with Pasquale to get that list figured out, and while I personally scrubbed (after a bs appeal ruled that susanowo can attack my gorz after attacking directly), I was so happy one of us topped with it.
2013 at german nats the set that had dragon ruler in it was not legal. it came out 2 days before and konami said yes to side Events no to main Events. side Events where full of dragon ruler and spellbooks (and me with dragunity) and the Main Event was a sh.t Show. DES Frog Came top 4 ok ?
There was also that Top 8 Ghostrick player, a Kozmo player, etc. Ngl, this YCS was fun to watch with with half of the decks ive seen were meta and the other jank decks that i never would have thought to see in a YCS even if most of them did not make it to the Top.
I think some of these decks are truly amazing, because they are not a part of the new a archetype Konami puts out every year, but creatively combined cards from older deck themes, that abuse an exploit in the meta. And as Konami puts out more cards the possible card combinations and exploits become greater and greater, which is amazing.
I netdecked that Gold Castle Maju deck almost immediately after it topped and got my invite at a Chicago regional with it. That deck ruled and it's still a fun derivative of Luna Kaiju.
I love tech genus. I'm trying to add helios monsters into infernoble knights. I added a few into my heroes way back when. Dark law synergy. I'm still working on them though.
5:29 Played a varient of Psoil back then--the deck's 'edge' was that it could turbo out Naturia synchros while plussing to out-resource most other decks at the time
The moment that YCS Ottawa was said I thought wait a moment I'm pretty confident Ottawa doesn't have any YCS. Heck I think I checked once and there was like 3 OTS in the whole city.
Ayyy glad you included my jeff jones fire fist rec. I literally remember being at the main ARG store during that time and everyone was just flabbergasted by his results with that list.
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In MTG, at Pro Tour Tokyo 2001, Zvi Mowshowitz won with a deck called “The Solution”. The format (Invasion block constructed) was completely dominated by Flametongue Kavu aggro decks. The Kavu was so good there was no reason not to be playing red… unless, as it turns out, you’ve got a blue-white control deck with four Crimson Acolyte and four Galina’s Knight. In the main deck.
I don't know who "Jeff Jones" is but something I learned from this video is he's either the most insane player in the game, or the most creative deck builder with a appreciation for the underrated.
It’s awful going first, the deck is very inconsistent and current format boards don’t fold as easily to blind second staples as they did a few years back
Because people can't stand unga bunga beats that can also prevent them from using the grave. Also consistency issues on reaching the finishers I think.
It's powerful but it's not really skill expressive to pilot and it's a bit of a known quantity. People are familiar with it and a lot of people could play it to its best potential.
It had a surprise element at the one YCS. The pilot also had a ton of Striker matchups at a time when it couldn't OTK and would just hold things like Hey Trunade until he could OTK. It was a unique time where the deck could shine. Now there just tends to be too many forms of interruption that just screw over the otk potential.
During the times of the random tops for Gren Maju back in 2018-2019. A friend of mine topped in 2 regionals and 1 national with a "control" variant of the deck in my country (All of them top 4 because he allways had to go by the time the semi-finals had to start), no one understood what he did, people tried to copy his recipe, but no one got success with it, he had so much luck to allways not ban Gren Maju and be left with like 3-4 cards so he could just summon a humongous one and attack freely. That got to a point that in the last regional, they assigned a permanent Judge just to make sure he wasn't cheating, and when he was back at the tops when people asked the Judge how did that happen, the judge couldn't answer either and just said that all of his win were actually legal and that my friend had some pact with Gren Maju or something...
Not gonna lie the Grandsoil Psychics deck is the only deck I actually recognize from all the ones you mentioned. I remember thinking to myself that it looked cool and I wanted to build it back then.
The thing with TG Stun is that it did not come out of nowhere. It was more the player that came out of nowhere. Marquis was a 16-year old who had never topped any event before during a format in which every YCS was being won by huge names in the game. This was just a couple YCS event removed from Billy Brake winning 2 in a row. Here are some of the names from that top 32: Aaron Furman, George Machado, Anthony Pascariello, Joe Giorlando, Nizar Sarhan, Alistar Albans, Thomas Vo, Tyree Tinsley, and Hansel Aguerro (who won NAWCQ with TG Stun just the last year). Edit: Looking at the tournament reports from the event. Marquis was not the only player in top 32 with TG Stun. Brandon Buck also made Top 32 of the event. You want a surprise deck that made top 32? Evols run by Michael Smith-Grant.
I plaued BA at YCS in 2016 , BA had a decent matchup into Strikers going second and summon sorc was legal so the other main deck available was gouki gumblar ftk which either killed you before you play or left themselves open for an OTK which BA could do pretty well through interruption. Geist was essentially donezo at that point and also couldnt stop BA pile when you had the yazi into borrelsword combo. If cherubini was around at the time I have no doubt it would have been at least #2 to striker maybe even better since any 2 level 3s are full combo.
you are really underrating the t.g control deck, it was pure cancer. At that time nobody thought, how did this deck gets a win? but "this fucking deck again"
Maybe too recent but surprised nobody mentioned a guy got Day 2 at YCS Utrecht 2022 with Conclave Control (Crystal beast) Turns out maindecking shifter and having an easy search for mine or necrovalley combined with a consistent control strat with Sapphire Pegasus, Crystal Conclave, Rainbow Bridge of the Heart and Crystal Miracle let you slow down and stop even Tearalment enough to OTK at best and kill over a few turns at worst.
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Did you know that Cezar Gonzales, the King of Games and winner of the North American Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Remote Duel Invitational has said that it’s not the deck, its the pilot, so as long as you believe in yourself and as long as you believe in every card that you have in your deck, all cards will have a synergy as long as you can find a way to mash them together.
See, this just gives me hope that I can one day actually win with my REBDS, The Shining, and Super Quant decks... all I need to do is figure out how to make them either _much_ faster, or make them tanky enough to stall for time. Right now, I usually need at least 4-5 turns to win with any of them, if I can survive that long (assuming I didn't go second with an absolutely perfect hand while player 1 got absolutely hosed... in those games, which happen maybe 5-10% of the time, I can win turn 2). Unfortunately, all three decks' boss monsters lack solid protection, so if I don't win on my first turn, I might as well forfeit, and while both the Red-Eyes and Elemental HERO decks can get out some absolutely absurd beatsticks by abusing their main mechanic (having lots of dragons for Red-Eyes Sword's pseudo-Buster Blader effect that would actually be _way_ better than the actual Buster archetype, if it wasn't attached to an equip card that has no protection; and banishing lots of E HERO cards for The Shining, plus Favorite Hero, since it's an extra 2k basically for free; both decks can get out 10k+ beaters within a few turns, but "a few turns" is still _really_ slow), the only _reliable_ way to get Super Quantal Mech King Great Magnus out is cheating it out with Dreadnought Dreadnoid, and that takes at least two turns to pull off, _if_ you're lucky enough to be hitting something with lower stats than Dreadnoid's 2200 ATK, since the special summon takes place during the End Phase. Using the field spell takes _way_ too long, since, even if you magically drew the Red, Blue, _and_ Green Layers in your first hand, you can only get, at most, two of their mechs out on your first turn, and there isn't a lot of good support for the archetype to even make sure you can draw them out. The later support cards help, but not enough to make the archetype viable in the current meta, and said support cards plain don't exist in Duel Links, where you literally only have the field spell and an equip trap. But goddammit, I want my fucking Power Rangers deck, and I'm not willing to accept that the archetype just sucks. I just wish that using the cards and summoning mechanics that I _like_ didn't mean that my decks seemingly _can't_ be competitively viable.
I was a judge for the event where Jeff Jones played that psychic deck. Considering how often he tried to make Naturia Beast (earth non-tuner required) with Tragodea, I'm pretty sure even he wasn't sure how that deck actually worked. It wasn't a bad deck though, idk why you'd say it is lol.
Back in March of this year there was a U.A. good stuff pile that managed to top 8 a YCS regional in Australia. Mans got scythe locked enough to where he just piled anything he could think of that could run without without much extra deck use which translated to U.A., Eldlich, Adventure.
Oh, TG could win easily back in those days. It was a major Synchro Toolbox deck. Had one that was TG-Plant-Junk turbo and my whole plan was basically similar to Tele-DAD, just spam synchros and try to hit turn one Shooting Quasar Dragon.
I've been in 1 tournament, it was a teamaps edo pro one back in like 2019, and my Shark Swarm deck got curb stomped. To be fair I wasn't even playing Toadally Awesome, didn't know it was a good card to play for Sharks at the time.
I remember when the lavaval top happened. I was at my locals and some dude who never heard of water except for his mermail deck(no shower joke for the ones in the back) started RANSACKING the bulk boxes for lavaval cards, saying how "ITS THE NEW META" and single handedly had 10 other dudes frantically scouring the bulk soon after...
I think Jeff Jones's Grandsoil Psychics won because he could gain life, the opponents had to take time to read the cards, and he would win in Time bc he had higher LP
I forget exactly when but somewhere from around 2013-15 there was a top in chili with a mausoleum of the emperor deck using all the vanity monsters and like a dozen of the forbidden quick plays
At the german nats in 2013 dragon ruler was not yet legal to be played. It was still mermail meta but half the top players were disqualified as far as I remember
I like how a format where a new pile strat won every YCS is "cursed" if anything Random Piles winning is the soul of GOOD ygo. I mean that all the anime is, 60 card random pile.
I feel like 2022 sky striker winning hartford without dpe and all their existing hits after a bunch of people were crying about no branded hits could also kinda qualify, it was at least unexpected, and ofc that was the event that made the mine mystical After that we mostly had lower tiered decks winning almost everything and following those tournament was pretty fun
The 100th YCS at Long Beach, Wind-ups, inzektors, and rabbit galore. Someone from my locals got top 64 there with X-Sabers of all things because he played against 1 Wind-up, and 0 Inzkektor in swiss.
You off the goop saying Jeff Jones' Grandsoil Psychics wasn't a good list. It's fuckin flames. Make Nat Beast say go is already a good consistent turn one, then you can just fuckin make advantage plays from there and if they do a big turnaround with a synchro the deck is able to pretty consistently just take control of it.
It wasn’t a WINNING Deck, but I wanna take a moment to shoutout Alexander Thomas for being the first person to ever top an event with Madolche, back in 2012....... and he did it by playing the deck as the most asinine, confusing, and simultaneously, most galaxy brained grind deck you’ve ever seen, instead of the usual combo deck everyone is used to seeing it be. Dude was playing 2 SILVER SENTINEL in the main deck and said it was the 3rd best card in his deck! He also had a LOT of super wild random 1-ofs. Cyber Dragon, Nobleman Of Crossout, Scrap Iron Scarecrow, Needle Ceiling, and Drastic Drop Off (which he also said he won a game with off of their opponent shuffling their hand too fast)... and managed to get top 4 at a regional... with a Deck nobody else had yet topped with.
I won a convention locals in 2011 with a Gravekeeper Control deck 😅 Beat Wind up and Inzektors twice in that tourney. Crazy how such jank can win over the meta.
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i grew up dueling jeff jones and can confirm, he can just make random cards work for him that don't seem to work for anyone else. he has an eye for how to leverage/exploit card interactions
The D/D/D top 32 in LCS Hartford april 2020 by elijah green which he did nuts with D/D/D pre support mid adamancepator format .. even him didnt know how he managed to pull it off
The madolche player at 2016 worlds was actually the only one to take a match from the then world champion, who would also go on to the world champion that year
In 2013 Dragonruler and Spellbook were`nt legal during German Nats. It was legal during the sunday side events. i made the Coverage for the event. Still a impressive Chain Burn win.
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I've actually been to locals with the guy who played that Doomcaliber Gadget list, I'm not saying he cheated in that event but he's been known to be kinda sus at locals for sure
The canon story of the 2022 rio mystic mine is "I always plays local with this deck, and now my locals will host a YCS so I will play my locals deck".
Based mindset
You know those episodes in the Yugioh anime where for one reason or another, the protagonists end up dueling with just the most rediculous deck imaginable. Like, they're not allowed to play spell cards, or all their monsters have to have zero attack, things like that.
That's how Jeff Jones plays Yugioh
Most Based ygo player to ever duel
So that one duel in GX where Chazz beat his brother with a deck of monsters with 0 original atk?
@@lilsunny7399 That's the main one I'm thinking of, but it's such a useful story aid that I'm sure it shows up more than once
I don't think this happened ever in the original story, nor in 5D's.
It is a neat idea, though (and fits the academy setting very well).
@@xCorvus7x in 5Ds Yusei had to duel with an old man's deck made purely by cards the old man liked to collect. Most cards had crazy self-restrictions and self-burn. Fun episode.
That 60 card 3-axis dragon link deck from Utrecht was actually really sick. It’s endboard was Apollosa, Gryphon, IO, Savage, and Hope Harbringer. It still maintained the ability to play through multiple handtraps including Nibiru as well as had the ability to go second rather well. Game 3 of the finals really just came down to the salad player drawing the perfect hand and making the correct 50/50 choice in execution.
Still one of my favorite competitive decks
So solitaire? Gotcha
@@bloodarcher7841 cry about it
One of the strangest and most fascinating offshoots of Dragon Link.
@@BreadBoyWeeb …why
Jeff Jones is the OG GIGACHAD of yugioh. Played against him for fun at a regionals, and played masked hero six samurai vs him on nekroz. he beat me 1-2. He said my list was really cool tho, since I made naturia beast an dark law easily, and I'll never forget that haha
Now that's a list. I remember playing shaddoll dark law when I first started playing. That shit was fun.
Jeff Jones' Grandsoil Psychics is one of my favorite decks of all time. When Redox came out, it made the deck absolutely amazing to play.
So proud of Redox. Good for him.
@@SquibbyJ **her
Grandsoil (Redox) Banish Psychics was like THE deck for me for a long time, too. Such a chad deck.
Hey we found the next Prog list for gage
In cross Banlist cups they’ve been terrible.
Sam winning the remote duel invitational with Dinosaur in the middle of Secret Slayers format was pretty hype.
have you read misc?
undefeated too i believe. it was at that moment he got upgraded to teamsamuraiX0
It's meh. Not that impressive.
@@CSCH69we play yugioh do you think we read anything but other peoples decklists?
Even if its a lot smaller of an event, I remember playing dragon duel during dinorabbit format, facing worms in the final with hieratics. That worm deck won and therefore won a trip to italy+hotel+qualification to a bigger tournament, a display etc. I still have flashbacks at night thinking about the +17 worm trapcard beating my meta-playing ass
w meteor is fucking cracked tho, if it was in a better archetype, it would be banned
Lord of the Tachyon Galaxy wasn't legal yet for German nats 2013, so the format was Mermail and Dino Fist, with both Chain Burn and Infernity being very real decks. Fun fact: In the finals Lava Golem was summoned by tributing Summoner Monk.
If anything, this just proves how much of a 🐐 jeff jones is.
The two that came to my mind immediatly weren't in the video. Both in Zoo Format. First Paleozoic somehow wins against i believe against a 34/36 Zoo Top cut. Then someone somehow gets something like Top 16 with DINOMIST. I have no idea how. Also the Chain Burn Dagon Duel win, but Chain Burn has an insane matchup against Zoo. And the World Chalice YCS win was one of the most hype wins i have ever witnessed.
Zoo wasnt played in that dragon duel worlds
paleozoic had crazy good zoo match up. between every single one being fully immune to drident and whiptail, along with being just trap cards that also had access to grass, its not surprising how well the deck managed to do in zoo format
I got bubbled out of a regional during full power zoo with crystal beast metalfoes.
One more win and I would've topped with the one of the jankiest decks ever conceived.
@@bennygroysman4205 Toad and Anomalocaris are also hell of a pair of boss monsters, Anomalocaris dunked on every relevant monster in the format that wasn't Master Peace and Toad was tearing up the meta and gave the deck a crazy grind game and win-con.
@@toadallynoodle5414 Man. I remember when Toadally Awesome was released. Paleozoic Frogs were literally EVERYWHERE.
This is a reason to love yugioh. Random, non-meta, and from any time period deck can simply show up and steal wins out of complete nowhere just because it is so absurd and different from the meta.
Jeff Jones’ fire fist list is super nostalgic to me because while nekroz is my favorite archetype, that’s partially due to me accidentally finding out nekroz was a thing after not playing yugioh since 2007 I was like rituals are good that’s awesome, until I realized I couldn’t come close to affording it to get back into the game, then I saw this list and was like now this looks affordable I can do that instead lol.
Man, Nekroz were kind of insane.
I recall trying to get back into the game with EdoPro some time after 2011, building a Blackwing deck the way I knew (from 2009/10) and being absolutely stomped by some one on Nekroz the first time I entered multiplayer.
to this day I still have no idea how Gadgets were meant to be played the way they got representation back in like 2010, it's something I regularly think about even when I stopped playing YGO for 5 years
you'd generally play then with the Machina cards that were out at the time. Also being an endless conga-line of dudes was very resource efficient in 2010.
@@ShortandWide Imagine if Goukis existed in 2010 lol
Ultimate Offering was legal until 2013. You could just summon guys and make a trillion rank 4s or just get insane advantage for other cards.
My favorite was with 1 Ultimate Offering people still played Gadget because Shock Master came out, so you could make triple Shock Master and call all 3 types, and then kill the opponent the next turn.
Offering got banned the next list, in the same list Shock Master was (along with Rulers and Spellbooks lmao)
I get the Ultimate Offering and Machina plays because that's exactly what I was doing when I played the deck in the DS games but I'm looking at the exact decklist referenced in the video and I absolutely cannot comprehend how this was competent, let alone top 2 material lol
@@stardustspark5682 this was the deck i took to the only national i’ve ever played, machina gadget with UO in ruler format. GGX was a card and rank 4 was at its peak with stuff like diamond dire wolf being a $40+ card iirc?
At 4:22, you can hear MBT's pent up rage at Sky Strikers spontaneously transform his voice into that of an angry duck's honking.
thank you for validating that was part of the video, I thought my headphones were fucking broken
Hey thats's me! I can't wait for the history of yugioh jank episode that covers gren maju 😂
No love for us Gren maju players lol
About that...
5:29 I played this list for a while after it won and circulated online. To set the stage, my locals was pretty tough. Guy comes back from winning a YCS in Spain and faces me with this round one, 2-0 to Grandsoil Psychics. I proceeded to do fantastically with the deck for a long time until the format finally moved far enough along that it didn't work anymore. Because while it may look like a pile of garbage...it was quite literally...mental.
I netdecked Jeff Jones' fire fist build for that 2015 nekroz format. Took it to a 300+ person regional and went X-3. My only losses were 2 technicalities, and one legit loss. (The legit loss also wasn't nekroz. It was against qliphort of all things.)
Fire fist was shockingly good during full power nekroz. If there's ever a time wizard tournament for the list immediately before lavalval chain got banned, I'm definitely bringing fire fist to it. One of my favorite decks of all time.
Shocked by the lack of an appearance of Sam Pedigo's Karakuri Geargia list that he won YCS Turin with during the tail end of Sixth Sense Ravine Ruler format. The deck would become a legitimate meta threat several months later, but at the time was pretty much rogue garbage and was channeling the thought of "well they can't beat EVERY anti-Ruler floodgate in one deck"
Karakuri AND Geargia in one deck is soo much based Earth Machines for one to handle. I love it.
@@colossaldonut5190 The only way it could be more based is if it somehow also had Ancient Gears
Huh, I thought Sixth Sense was banned on release.
@@gabudaichamuda2545 Limited, actually. It wasn't fun.
I was at Niagara 2019, where the winner was Gren Danger
I appreciate Dire's choice of gen 3 pokemon music
The hat format des frog otk deck was real. I worked with Pasquale to get that list figured out, and while I personally scrubbed (after a bs appeal ruled that susanowo can attack my gorz after attacking directly), I was so happy one of us topped with it.
2013 at german nats the set that had dragon ruler in it was not legal. it came out 2 days before and konami said yes to side Events no to main Events. side Events where full of dragon ruler and spellbooks (and me with dragunity) and the Main Event was a sh.t Show. DES Frog Came top 4 ok ?
There was also that Top 8 Ghostrick player, a Kozmo player, etc.
Ngl, this YCS was fun to watch with with half of the decks ive seen were meta and the other jank decks that i never would have thought to see in a YCS even if most of them did not make it to the Top.
The guy that won the YCS Atlanta with Kozmo in the middle of the 2 weeks full power PePe was legal.
I think some of these decks are truly amazing, because they are not a part of the new a archetype Konami puts out every year, but creatively combined cards from older deck themes, that abuse an exploit in the meta. And as Konami puts out more cards the possible card combinations and exploits become greater and greater, which is amazing.
I netdecked that Gold Castle Maju deck almost immediately after it topped and got my invite at a Chicago regional with it. That deck ruled and it's still a fun derivative of Luna Kaiju.
I love tech genus. I'm trying to add helios monsters into infernoble knights. I added a few into my heroes way back when. Dark law synergy. I'm still working on them though.
5:29 Played a varient of Psoil back then--the deck's 'edge' was that it could turbo out Naturia synchros while plussing to out-resource most other decks at the time
I need to channel the creative and constructive power of Jeff Jones, it seems; he can take any random jank deck and top if not win a YCS with it.
Wait, how did nobody mention that one time Pure Mecha Phantom Beast made top 8 at a YCS right in the middle of FULL POWER NEKROZ FORMAT
Alternate video title: the adventures of Jeff Jones Jank
The moment that YCS Ottawa was said I thought wait a moment I'm pretty confident Ottawa doesn't have any YCS. Heck I think I checked once and there was like 3 OTS in the whole city.
Y'all have 3? We only have 1 over here. Ghetto gamers represent
Fun story from that regional! We lost power halfway through the last round and finished it under the emergency lights of the venue.
@@FakeHeroFang There's 2 in Ottawa, and 3 in the quebec city across the river.
Jeff also topped a YCS with Ghostrick Spirits I believe
Jeff and Loukas played that deck to a couple regionals and Jeff won one of them. It never saw much success at major events though.
Ayyy glad you included my jeff jones fire fist rec. I literally remember being at the main ARG store during that time and everyone was just flabbergasted by his results with that list.
Jeff Jones is like real life Yusei Fudo
Using jank pack filler he found to win tournaments
Schnitzel from Chowder be like: 7:45
Some of these peoples in the final rounds:
“Well, what now?”
“Dunno. Never thought I’d get this far.”
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The Thumbnail has Summoned Me. And after watching. I am Triggered.
No love for the Gren gods!
In MTG, at Pro Tour Tokyo 2001, Zvi Mowshowitz won with a deck called “The Solution”.
The format (Invasion block constructed) was completely dominated by Flametongue Kavu aggro decks. The Kavu was so good there was no reason not to be playing red… unless, as it turns out, you’ve got a blue-white control deck with four Crimson Acolyte and four Galina’s Knight. In the main deck.
Remember when Volcanics randomly topped a YCS in a format full of Tellar, Shaddoll, BA, and Qli, only to never find competitive success ever again?
Jeff Jones is literally an anime character, he plays with training weights.
7:06 watching masik333 play frogs on db with lancer was SUCH an experience
I think it's criminal how no one mentioned the regional that was topped by War Rock
I don't know who "Jeff Jones" is but something I learned from this video is he's either the most insane player in the game, or the most creative deck builder with a appreciation for the underrated.
Why is Gren Maju considered bad, like it's a bit iffy, but like it's power is there and has always been a solid cheap option since like Gizmech Orochi
It’s awful going first, the deck is very inconsistent and current format boards don’t fold as easily to blind second staples as they did a few years back
Because people can't stand unga bunga beats that can also prevent them from using the grave. Also consistency issues on reaching the finishers I think.
It's powerful but it's not really skill expressive to pilot and it's a bit of a known quantity. People are familiar with it and a lot of people could play it to its best potential.
It had a surprise element at the one YCS. The pilot also had a ton of Striker matchups at a time when it couldn't OTK and would just hold things like Hey Trunade until he could OTK. It was a unique time where the deck could shine. Now there just tends to be too many forms of interruption that just screw over the otk potential.
You should do a twitter thread about the worst times to play yugioh. I think i have had this moment every single year, atleast once thinking this.
During the times of the random tops for Gren Maju back in 2018-2019. A friend of mine topped in 2 regionals and 1 national with a "control" variant of the deck in my country (All of them top 4 because he allways had to go by the time the semi-finals had to start), no one understood what he did, people tried to copy his recipe, but no one got success with it, he had so much luck to allways not ban Gren Maju and be left with like 3-4 cards so he could just summon a humongous one and attack freely. That got to a point that in the last regional, they assigned a permanent Judge just to make sure he wasn't cheating, and when he was back at the tops when people asked the Judge how did that happen, the judge couldn't answer either and just said that all of his win were actually legal and that my friend had some pact with Gren Maju or something...
Not gonna lie the Grandsoil Psychics deck is the only deck I actually recognize from all the ones you mentioned. I remember thinking to myself that it looked cool and I wanted to build it back then.
A Low Tier Salt refference?
What Marincedd Blue Tang wanted to say was...
Mentally Un(stable)touchable
The thing with TG Stun is that it did not come out of nowhere. It was more the player that came out of nowhere. Marquis was a 16-year old who had never topped any event before during a format in which every YCS was being won by huge names in the game. This was just a couple YCS event removed from Billy Brake winning 2 in a row. Here are some of the names from that top 32: Aaron Furman, George Machado, Anthony Pascariello, Joe Giorlando, Nizar Sarhan, Alistar Albans, Thomas Vo, Tyree Tinsley, and Hansel Aguerro (who won NAWCQ with TG Stun just the last year).
Edit: Looking at the tournament reports from the event. Marquis was not the only player in top 32 with TG Stun. Brandon Buck also made Top 32 of the event. You want a surprise deck that made top 32? Evols run by Michael Smith-Grant.
I plaued BA at YCS in 2016 , BA had a decent matchup into Strikers going second and summon sorc was legal so the other main deck available was gouki gumblar ftk which either killed you before you play or left themselves open for an OTK which BA could do pretty well through interruption. Geist was essentially donezo at that point and also couldnt stop BA pile when you had the yazi into borrelsword combo. If cherubini was around at the time I have no doubt it would have been at least #2 to striker maybe even better since any 2 level 3s are full combo.
you are really underrating the t.g control deck, it was pure cancer. At that time nobody thought, how did this deck gets a win? but "this fucking deck again"
Maybe too recent but surprised nobody mentioned a guy got Day 2 at YCS Utrecht 2022 with Conclave Control (Crystal beast)
Turns out maindecking shifter and having an easy search for mine or necrovalley combined with a consistent control strat with Sapphire Pegasus, Crystal Conclave, Rainbow Bridge of the Heart and Crystal Miracle let you slow down and stop even Tearalment enough to OTK at best and kill over a few turns at worst.
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Did you know that Cezar Gonzales, the King of Games and winner of the North American Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Remote Duel Invitational has said that it’s not the deck, its the pilot, so as long as you believe in yourself and as long as you believe in every card that you have in your deck, all cards will have a synergy as long as you can find a way to mash them together.
If you know you know
See, this just gives me hope that I can one day actually win with my REBDS, The Shining, and Super Quant decks... all I need to do is figure out how to make them either _much_ faster, or make them tanky enough to stall for time. Right now, I usually need at least 4-5 turns to win with any of them, if I can survive that long (assuming I didn't go second with an absolutely perfect hand while player 1 got absolutely hosed... in those games, which happen maybe 5-10% of the time, I can win turn 2). Unfortunately, all three decks' boss monsters lack solid protection, so if I don't win on my first turn, I might as well forfeit, and while both the Red-Eyes and Elemental HERO decks can get out some absolutely absurd beatsticks by abusing their main mechanic (having lots of dragons for Red-Eyes Sword's pseudo-Buster Blader effect that would actually be _way_ better than the actual Buster archetype, if it wasn't attached to an equip card that has no protection; and banishing lots of E HERO cards for The Shining, plus Favorite Hero, since it's an extra 2k basically for free; both decks can get out 10k+ beaters within a few turns, but "a few turns" is still _really_ slow), the only _reliable_ way to get Super Quantal Mech King Great Magnus out is cheating it out with Dreadnought Dreadnoid, and that takes at least two turns to pull off, _if_ you're lucky enough to be hitting something with lower stats than Dreadnoid's 2200 ATK, since the special summon takes place during the End Phase. Using the field spell takes _way_ too long, since, even if you magically drew the Red, Blue, _and_ Green Layers in your first hand, you can only get, at most, two of their mechs out on your first turn, and there isn't a lot of good support for the archetype to even make sure you can draw them out. The later support cards help, but not enough to make the archetype viable in the current meta, and said support cards plain don't exist in Duel Links, where you literally only have the field spell and an equip trap. But goddammit, I want my fucking Power Rangers deck, and I'm not willing to accept that the archetype just sucks. I just wish that using the cards and summoning mechanics that I _like_ didn't mean that my decks seemingly _can't_ be competitively viable.
4:05 oh hey it’s the decklist from this week‘s History Of Jank! 😂
At the YCS won by Six Sam, wasn't it ruled that Naturia Beast can negate Inzektors' equip effects?
I was a judge for the event where Jeff Jones played that psychic deck. Considering how often he tried to make Naturia Beast (earth non-tuner required) with Tragodea, I'm pretty sure even he wasn't sure how that deck actually worked.
It wasn't a bad deck though, idk why you'd say it is lol.
Last time I was this early to an MBT video Cimoooo was still single I guess it's too late now
Damn, 3 years ago?
@@andresraffler technically still single until married 🤣 it's only official after you put a magnetic ring on it
I love these especially because it’s not just a fluke and these guys got one match, they won an entire fucking tournament with these jank piles
I remember in 2019 at a YCS in France, a Harpie deck of all things managed to win. Not sure which format, but I saw it on Cimooo's channel.
Back in March of this year there was a U.A. good stuff pile that managed to top 8 a YCS regional in Australia. Mans got scythe locked enough to where he just piled anything he could think of that could run without without much extra deck use which translated to U.A., Eldlich, Adventure.
Oh, TG could win easily back in those days. It was a major Synchro Toolbox deck. Had one that was TG-Plant-Junk turbo and my whole plan was basically similar to Tele-DAD, just spam synchros and try to hit turn one Shooting Quasar Dragon.
I've been in 1 tournament, it was a teamaps edo pro one back in like 2019, and my Shark Swarm deck got curb stomped. To be fair I wasn't even playing Toadally Awesome, didn't know it was a good card to play for Sharks at the time.
I remember when the lavaval top happened. I was at my locals and some dude who never heard of water except for his mermail deck(no shower joke for the ones in the back) started RANSACKING the bulk boxes for lavaval cards, saying how "ITS THE NEW META" and single handedly had 10 other dudes frantically scouring the bulk soon after...
I think Jeff Jones's Grandsoil Psychics won because he could gain life, the opponents had to take time to read the cards, and he would win in Time bc he had higher LP
I still remember the cubic deck that got top 16 in the first remote duel YCS
I forget exactly when but somewhere from around 2013-15 there was a top in chili with a mausoleum of the emperor deck using all the vanity monsters and like a dozen of the forbidden quick plays
The takeaway I got from this is Jeff Jones and Vlad are so fucking cool
At the german nats in 2013 dragon ruler was not yet legal to be played. It was still mermail meta but half the top players were disqualified as far as I remember
I like how a format where a new pile strat won every YCS is "cursed" if anything Random Piles winning is the soul of GOOD ygo. I mean that all the anime is, 60 card random pile.
I feel like 2022 sky striker winning hartford without dpe and all their existing hits after a bunch of people were crying about no branded hits could also kinda qualify, it was at least unexpected, and ofc that was the event that made the mine mystical
After that we mostly had lower tiered decks winning almost everything and following those tournament was pretty fun
is there a full version of this on twitch or somewhere?
The 100th YCS at Long Beach, Wind-ups, inzektors, and rabbit galore. Someone from my locals got top 64 there with X-Sabers of all things because he played against 1 Wind-up, and 0 Inzkektor in swiss.
I don't know if this counts but i won a local with Hydroggedon Umiiruka Beatdown once.
Mans highschool photo looks like the "stop it... get some help"
I got top 32 at the 2013 NAWCQ with Madolche's during the height of full power rulers and Spellbooks.
You off the goop saying Jeff Jones' Grandsoil Psychics wasn't a good list. It's fuckin flames. Make Nat Beast say go is already a good consistent turn one, then you can just fuckin make advantage plays from there and if they do a big turnaround with a synchro the deck is able to pretty consistently just take control of it.
Lmao jeff jones 2012 psychic deck is still my greatest deck profile memory
It wasn’t a WINNING Deck, but I wanna take a moment to shoutout Alexander Thomas for being the first person to ever top an event with Madolche, back in 2012....... and he did it by playing the deck as the most asinine, confusing, and simultaneously, most galaxy brained grind deck you’ve ever seen, instead of the usual combo deck everyone is used to seeing it be.
Dude was playing 2 SILVER SENTINEL in the main deck and said it was the 3rd best card in his deck! He also had a LOT of super wild random 1-ofs. Cyber Dragon, Nobleman Of Crossout, Scrap Iron Scarecrow, Needle Ceiling, and Drastic Drop Off (which he also said he won a game with off of their opponent shuffling their hand too fast)... and managed to get top 4 at a regional... with a Deck nobody else had yet topped with.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned YCS 100 in Long Beach... being won by Dark Worlds
the title for the "history of Jeff Jones" is not what I expected
I won a convention locals in 2011 with a Gravekeeper Control deck 😅 Beat Wind up and Inzektors twice in that tourney. Crazy how such jank can win over the meta.
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i grew up dueling jeff jones and can confirm, he can just make random cards work for him that don't seem to work for anyone else. he has an eye for how to leverage/exploit card interactions
Jeff Jones highlight reel
Gren Maju going second is always a threat. Best deck let’s go!!
TG will always hold a special place in my heart for being my first deck
I played constellar in the dragon rulers format and it was an amazing matchup. Tons of fun.
The D/D/D top 32 in LCS Hartford april 2020 by elijah green which he did nuts with D/D/D pre support mid adamancepator format .. even him didnt know how he managed to pull it off
The madolche player at 2016 worlds was actually the only one to take a match from the then world champion, who would also go on to the world champion that year
1 that didn't get mentioned was (I believe, in 2013) was a win from an Agent deck
Jeff Jones is the Yugioh equivalent of "Let him cook" meme
In 2013 Dragonruler and Spellbook were`nt legal during German Nats. It was legal during the sunday side events. i made the Coverage for the event. Still a impressive Chain Burn win.
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It's always nice to see Dire get a W.
I've actually been to locals with the guy who played that Doomcaliber Gadget list, I'm not saying he cheated in that event but he's been known to be kinda sus at locals for sure
it's almost like Yugioh has unaccountable deck matchup variance so these weird builds can just slip by in what was previous thought of stable metas
Dang, no mention of the Flower Cardian top?
T.G. Isn’t Turbo Genesis? I swear that’s what it was called and that makes more sense to me since it’s accel synchro the archetype.
Anyone got any idea if the Sacred Beast list is anywhere? I knew the new support was good, but don't know what he did to do that.
Wait... 0:55 isnt this the exact deck Alex played for today's episode of jank?
every third deck shown: "Vlad won with what??"