It's scary how fast this deck fell off. I remember the Arc-V format where Dark Destroyer was not only expensive, but Limited as well. The Battle Phase tagout was what I liked the most about the deck, similar to Mask Change in BP. Floating on destruction and Targeting immunity are also some nice features. E-Tele worked for these and GOSR. CDI from Sliprider is enjoyable. And if all else should fail you get Skill Drain. Occasionally I still forget that you can't Imperm when that's up.
I remember clearly it’s was some time after I got back into Yugioh and started following Joe and a bunch of others. Saw it all the time online lucky to never see it in my high school meta but it always was so tricky to deal with especially with my Poot deck building skills at the time
I remember playing Yosenju the first time I faced Kozmo, and drew into 2 dark holes and raigeki back to back at ycs dallas, back when they only had like 4 monsters
It's kind of crazy how desperate this month got to get any kind of progress, it felt like we were watching Joe tirelessly push this boulder a top a hill where it would just roll down again... Great watch though!!
Evidence that Konami needs to give us new ships. Dark Planet at bare minimum needs a retrain, We're also missing a yoda/Oz character at minimum and a new pilot would be really good
Yoda is actually included already with Goodwitch who combines Glenda the Good Witch and Yoda (evident by the green skin/lightsaber and Yoda like ears). Definitely agree on an Oz related monster though. It could even be mixed together with Obi Wan.
One thing i especially love about this series is seeing how the deck evolves over time. The wacky combo version halfway through was really interesting to see despite it being too luck based.
I remember when Dimensions of Chaos came out. I was a newb, and thought between the targeting immunity of Kozmo and Majispector, that power creep couldn’t get any stronger. Boy how the mighty have fallen. It is a bit of a shame that Kozmos struggling so much. If the deck did get new support, what would it be? Maybe Kozmo Toto, he’s in Farm Girl art? Munchkin Ewoks? Palpatine as the Wizard?
@@afeathereddinosaur They did just get a new Dracopal. But still doesn't help it much unfortunately. Sucks cause i love the deck. The Klonoa Archtype of Yugioh i call it.
I don't really enjoy these types of videos. They usually bore me but I just found this channel and it's extremely watchable for some reason. Definitely subscribing.
What’s sad is that Kozmo isn’t “bad” but outdated. It says something about power creep in Yugioh that a once top meta deck is seen as bad now pretty much because a given combo require TWO cards to start.
can't wait for the 0 card combo meta where you win solely based on what cards you didn't draw because of a new archetype that special summons itself from the deck
@@somethingusername2538 Clockwork Night turns the entire deck into Fortress Super Poly Turbo since it makes everything on field a Machine like Zombie World does for Zombies.
It's not needing 2 cards to start a combo. It's the fact that you have very little in terms of searchers, a large engine, and needing 2 cards in a specific subset(A pilot and a ship)
Thanks for showing off all the Kozmo variants, I had my fun with it when MD first came out but that lack of support really shows when you're trying to make consistent plays, and Tincan is your only other searcher.
Weird coincidence, I found my old YuGiOh deck that my cousin gave me, and it had some Kozmo cards. Got interested and found this video. Cool video, helped me learn how to use my few Kozmo cards in my old, shitty deck.
the fact that I'm having the same experience of you playing kozmo playing SwoSo either says a lot about the format or says a lot about my skill at the game, and I'm not sure which but at least one of them is terrible
I would just like you to know I was sleeping and woke up to the sound of this video and to my sleeping ears you sounded like the dad from Jimmy neutron and when you were talking about the burn deck I heard bird deck and you talking to chat sounded like you were coaching like a team of kids in the show I chimed in at 12:34 and it sounded like you were encouraging like the losing team thank you this made my morning great
@@HardlegGaming There were so many people playing it at my locals back when everything was limited. But now that they have their full potential back, everybody dropped it.
Always look forward to the ladder climb series, and this was no exception. Sucks that Kozmo didn't do so hot, I remember when they were one of the biggest scourges in the TCG other than running into Towers Turbo. If I may suggest a deck concept, Plant Stun. It's probably not going to do so good, but it can be a pretty nasty way to just tell your opponent *_NO_* as they slowly realize they've lost 3 turns ago.
So what I got from this, is that Konami hit Skill Drain, the DPE engine and Pot of Prosperity because Joe used them in Kozmos and showed the world how broken Kozmo's are with them. So what I'm trying to say is: After D/D/D would you mind running a Maxx C Turbo Deck with Halqdon and a Floo Engine? Please? That was a pretty cool video, you really can't be faulted for not trying, with all these variations you gave a shot. I really liked the Kozmofoes deck, the interactions were just really neat! Too bad, it didn't work out fantastic but at least we all got a good video out of it. Better luck this month! Just today, I also built a D/D/D deck, so I'll be cheering you on!
I got diamond V with monarchs, it was fun, but sometimes RNG would fuck with me up hard, worst example was me losing 9 games in a row due to bricks or not drawing an out to an opponent board
Kozmos are funny enough a deck I hadn't been playing a whole lot until Master Duel. One of my friends used to have a dedicated Kozmo deck and even before that when we were still making scrappy decks from random trunk-trash, Dark Destroyer was a good game-ender, so I always knew it had a bit of kick back in the day, but then I decided to throw a decklist together for a laugh in MD and ended up liking it so much that I flat out bought my friend's Kozmo deck. It's such a weird concept both thematically and mechanically, but ends up being a really fun way to play. The way I've tried to combat the power-creep of modern YGO with this deck is trying to use banish-floods and try to abuse their relatively strong banish-recursion. Pack the deck with Macro Cosmos' and Dimensional Fissures, while using Strawmen as well as Kozmotowns to loop bodies from banish to try and stay ahead of the curve. It feels counter-intuitive to shut down your own floating effects and that's because it absolutely is. However, this is a choice of evils and between that and just trying to play Kozmos raw, disrupting the GY resources of my opponent hurts them more than I could possibly hurt them with output that tends to cap at like a fistful of 3000 bodies and a Limiter Removal. Overall though, they just desperately need some new cards. A new pilot as a more modernised setup tool, maybe a more for utility or horsepower, an end-game that actually packs a punch and of course the token Link 2 that spackles over everything the deck was previously doing. Of all the former titans of past formats, this has been one of the ones that's been kinda left to kick up dust. I can understand the hesitation early on, but I can't see any real risk of breaking the game by supporting the Kozmo playstyle.
I been running Subterrors since the 1st season it's surprising how many people don't know how to play VS them....... I would add in Imperial Iron wall...... It shuts down a lot of the meta Decks and keeps your cards in rotation.
That Fire King Kozmo build is the most based bricky deck I've ever seen before. Shame our current meta is extremely unbalanced and is slowly getting worse though.
I love Kozmo, i even got Dark Destroyer incorporated into my space tattoo sleeve. The thing that makes me so sad about MD is not having Card of Demise work like it does in TCG. I'd love to play some grindy demise tincan but you can't resolve demise then use tincan, it forces you to tincan then discard everything. It's the worst feeling.
I’m loving the long vids I’m not much for streams but love long TH-cam vids. I don’t know how I go with requesting archetypes for these but could you do any of these there some of my favourites. -ancient gears -super heavy samurai -armed dragons(kinda already done with ojamas)
Great vid, was very entertaining to watch Hardleg!!. Im so mald that I couldn't catch up a stream live to recommend x3 Savage Colosseum's to the control/otk variant (In case the otk fail) that's what I use in mine and it autowins vs a lot of decks and doesn't hurt you a lot since playing Kozmo you can do all right with 1 3K big idiot on board and push to 2 or 3 monsters just when the OTK is ready. Anyways im ready for next month watching your 50.000 IQ plays on DDD(eez nuts). Good Luck on the next climb!
Actually not just Wizard of Oz, the Landwalker is based on the AT-AT and the giant mechanical Spider from Wild Wild West, and Forernunner is based on the Starship Enterprise and Millennium Falchion. Though the clever one is Wickedwitch, being The Wickedwitch of the East who got a barn dropped on her, combined with Darth Maul who was cut in half. It's why her legs are covered in bandages.
kozmo is a great deck being able to do so much during the battte face wins a lot of games. The deck struggles hard vs the meta though when they go first
next week, im gonna drive those cargo trains in germany. Choo choo, to big yootoobe vid producer joe. I will try to find my time watching your weeklies, but i cant promise.
Honestly, I wish they would just make a retrain for some of these broken cards already. For example, Skill Drain and Max C. Why not make the effect "The first time"? Something like; Great C: Discard, draw a card the first time your opponent special summons. Or; Skill Wall: The first monster effect on the field is negated every turn. This means that the cards can just stay banned and we don't need to argue about why a card that is so clearly broken should be back at 3. Btw, great vid. Love your stuff Hardleg. Keep it up!
Awesome videos dude! I really enjoy watching this series. Can I recommend you use either ‘Cubics’, ‘Sacred Beasts’ or even ‘Fire Kings + Yubel’ for the Deck next month? You can destroy Yubel from your hand with the effects of Fire Kings to bring the other forms out from the deck. You can throw ‘Mound of the Bound Creator’ in there too.
You were doing things all wrong, man. What you needed to do was close your eyes, tap your heels together 3 times, and think to yourself "there's no place like plat. 1."
Wished for new Kozmo support for a while - Synchro monsters that treat the pilots as tuners, with art of the classic Star Wars cockpit shot, for example. Also more characters previously left out - one that especially seemed fun, Jack Pumpkinhead as Lando Calrissian, and Han and Leia as Tip/Ozma.
"Let me tell you how much I've come to hate..." "Oh, this is going to be *that* reference, isn't it?" "... circuits in wafer thin layers that..." "Yes. Yes it is."
I was playing full power tearlaments in diamond 3 and got absolutely rolled by the fire king kozmo deck. For a hot sec i actually was thinking they were onto something until i looked at the decklsit 😂
Huh, no vulgar Japanese names this time. I'm surprised Konami hasn't printed any legacy support for the deck. They could give it a quick play that banishes a card, specials a Kozmo from the deck and foolish's a kozmo. Then you can banish that card to avoid a card effect. Also they don't seem to have any extra deck monsters to speak of, I think the strategy could do with an XYZ or a Link monster that isn't generic. It might not push them to tier 0, but it'd give them a better chance if they had some more protection. I haven't been able to do most of my daily missions because people keep scooping. The only loss I've had recently was against Master Duel dot Deck, the pile that makes Barrone, some Yang Zings, Halq -> Aurora -> Borreload end with at least 5 negates "Tenyi Swordsoul" deck, and I opened zero interruptions. I had a Kaiju and that was it. Unless I have a few interruptions I should probably just scoop against those decks. Especially with Nine Pillars the only hope is Super Poly. Games against that pile deck are just pure misery. The combos put you to sleep, then when they have their end board, you have to pray you can out it. Outing it requires several cards, since Nine Pillars can negate anything else that threatens the board, they had two Yang Zing monsters and the Borreload and Baronne can handle most everything else. You basically need exactly Lava Golem and Dark Ruler to hope to break their board, and that's assuming they don't have another way to bring Pillars back online after you do that. Every time I face the Halq -> Auroradon combo I'm just like "I'm so glad Konami nerfed this deck" then there's VFD at home, Protos... *sigh* I know the new Branded/Albaz stuff is good, no questions asked. I had an opponent summon Lubellion with Verte and then he sat there for a few seconds wondering "why can I no summon anything?" not realizing Verte has text. In any case, I have more than a few decks which is surprising considering I'm F2P, but I really don't want to play Sword Soul pile, despite having all the cards for it technically. I have a more fair version of Floo (I don't run Shifter, I'm usually the one scooping against my opponent, deck literally dies to Ash, can't reliably have an answer to Veiler/Imperm other than Book of Moon at this point. Ash is still the best answer to the deck, and if you don't have your called by in hand/set and available to use... I understand why people hate the deck, especially in Master Duel specifically, I don't know why Konami thinks best of 1 is the best format for Yugioh outside of official tournaments). I have most of the cards for Sky Striker, Evil Twin, and Salad. The thing is, outside of Sky Striker and Salad, most of the decks I have, the core are in selection packs. That's why Floo is so popular. It's relatively cheap, don't need any archetypal URs. I only really hate Floo when I play the mirror, I call the Floo mirror the "you haven't died until you've played the Floo mirror, it is even more miserable than just playing against Floo normally" it's funny, because, most decks run Gadarla to play against Floo. A lot of decks have plenty of other answers. Bagooska kills the deck, Skill Drain mostly kills the deck provided no Book (even with Book you'd need ideally all 3 in hand to get all of your effects that you'd want, and probably the Map) I can say, in a Best of 1 format, I'm not sure any Floodgates should have ever been legal. I'd side in Twin Twister/Cosmic Cyclone/other backrow hate, but we don't have side decks... in any case, I've never gotten out of Platinum up until now, and my highest rank ever was Plat 2. I also have a Bird Up deck and a Lunalight deck which was the deck I inadvertently built because the Lyrilusc cards avoided me when opening packs. It's kind of hilarious how when I play that deck I get destroyed by my opponent having all the answers, but when they play it, they never get stopped by anything I do. I really wish Konami would add best of three support in some fashion, and have festivals going all the time, maybe even rerun some older ones with newer ban lists. Even if they kept the gem rewards the same, I don't think it would harm their bottom line. In any case, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. Can I offer you an Ash Blossom in these trying times? Perhaps a Maxx C? (frankly with how the OCG has limited Crossout Designator and still have Called By at 2, it's safe to say they probably aren't going to ban Maxx C in Master Duel. If anything, I swore when they announced the game, they mentioned having a TCG format?... trade Maxx C for Mystic Mine... not sure if good trade off...) Also, why can't you make decks with Forbidden cards that haven't been available in game yet? Add those cards to the legacy packs. They're already pretty worthless as is.
I run basically your first deck version, but I've tossed in the Adventure engine as well. It's well over 40 cards that way, but it packs a good amount of punch. I've gotten to Platinum fairly easily, haven't tried getting to Diamond though, since I largely stopped playing before they added it. Might go back and try the climb again sometime.
I always look forward to this series and seeing you try to take a "bad" or outdated deck as far as you could go. Any chance you'd do Crystal Beasts in the future if/when the new support comes to MD?
I enjoyed it good to see a cool archtype used i like its theme like the quantums and i would love to see a lv archtype ladder climb but.... Im not sure thats a good idea lmao
I know how you feel on the Maxx C I held off on making them because like a fool I thought they would Ban it...... After seeing them buff it in the last ban list I had no choice but to make 3.
Yeah this video is honestly reminding me how glad I am I stopped playing Master Duel after Floo and Adventure dropped. More power to you if you enjoy Pile metas, but it's not for me, seeing how many generic negates and floodgates you can spam in the frozen time. Also Maxx C.
Amazing to see all the different ways you can play kozmo which made this a very varied grind at least. Still I think the problem is not so much that Kozmo is outdated, and more that people are a lot more prepared for banish heavy decks in the current meta. With Floo and Swordsoul still prominent a lot of decks are running outs. Hopefully in a banlist or two we can run it back and see Kozmos blast their way to Diamond.
Funny story: I brought a Kozmo deck to my Locals for a Pegasus Challenge Day. (The rules would change every 10 minutes based off slips of paper that the host would draw from a hat.) I had just acquired the exceptionally hard to summon Kozmo Dark Planet, (the actual final boss of the deck, but because of the crazy summoning conditions no one plays it) and I actually was able to get it onto the field. At 4000 attack points, indestructible by card effects, and the ability to negate spell cards, my opponent was sweating because he had no out for it... until the new rule kicked in. "Fiber Jar is activated. All cards in hand, on the field, graveyard, and banished zone are put back into the deck and you each draw five new cards!" I was stunned as I had to put the Dark Planet back into my deck, and I didn't get anything good with my new opening hand, so my opponent kicked my ass. He said after he won the match that the new rule hitting us like that was the greatest stroke of luck he ever had playing the game.
Speaking of DBC, have you actually done Gradius vs B.E.S yet? I'd be surprised if you haven't but given that B.E.S have gotten decent support relatively recently, I kinda doubt the Gradius line stands any kind of chance. Not likely to make for a good DBC now.
Joe, "Most Effective Tactic Available" is a backronym; it's a cool coincidence, but it's not where the term came from. Meta is the root of metagaming and means ~"about itself". The metagame is the game of how to effectively play the game. XKCD has good stuff for demonstrating proper META.
Watching this makes me understand where angry orc Joe ranting at a ban list at 3 am came from. This deck broke you. Please take some time to lie down and play a nice simple deck, like D/D/D. I know you like reading so the deck is perfect (also a lot of fun).
45:33 I wonder how many assessment points he got. probably relatively high, with an LP on the brink bonus. 46:35 technically 50% more, not 30%. Math is hard. I often fail it, so I have no right to be pointing this out.
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"We didn't want any boss rush. Now I've got three"
The story of my master duel life in a nutshell
It's scary how fast this deck fell off. I remember the Arc-V format where Dark Destroyer was not only expensive, but Limited as well. The Battle Phase tagout was what I liked the most about the deck, similar to Mask Change in BP. Floating on destruction and Targeting immunity are also some nice features. E-Tele worked for these and GOSR. CDI from Sliprider is enjoyable. And if all else should fail you get Skill Drain. Occasionally I still forget that you can't Imperm when that's up.
Destroyer was never expensive AND limited, by the time it was limited it already had the gold print and was no higher than $10
@@Effrenatus Ok, not simultaneously, but sequentially.
I remember clearly it’s was some time after I got back into Yugioh and started following Joe and a bunch of others. Saw it all the time online lucky to never see it in my high school meta but it always was so tricky to deal with especially with my Poot deck building skills at the time
I remember playing Yosenju the first time I faced Kozmo, and drew into 2 dark holes and raigeki back to back at ycs dallas, back when they only had like 4 monsters
@@Effrenatus it absolutely was. It peaked at 120 a pop
It's kind of crazy how desperate this month got to get any kind of progress, it felt like we were watching Joe tirelessly push this boulder a top a hill where it would just roll down again... Great watch though!!
One must imagine Sisyphus being happy.
No mirror match in the second duel. Curse lifted, congrats man
Speaking of which…. I’m seeing too many mirrors now. Everyone picked up branded bc they got their support.
@@LoneSkag i mean, it's a new deck and also THE best deck in the format
lol about that...
Wait until next episode.
Evidence that Konami needs to give us new ships. Dark Planet at bare minimum needs a retrain, We're also missing a yoda/Oz character at minimum and a new pilot would be really good
There are quite a few cool Oz and Star Wars characters they could inspire/use.
The Wizard of Oz IS public domain after all
Yoda is actually included already with Goodwitch who combines Glenda the Good Witch and Yoda (evident by the green skin/lightsaber and Yoda like ears). Definitely agree on an Oz related monster though. It could even be mixed together with Obi Wan.
We also need new B.E.S. and Gradius ships, too.
@@krystallinekris this. ^^^
One thing i especially love about this series is seeing how the deck evolves over time. The wacky combo version halfway through was really interesting to see despite it being too luck based.
I remember when Dimensions of Chaos came out. I was a newb, and thought between the targeting immunity of Kozmo and Majispector, that power creep couldn’t get any stronger. Boy how the mighty have fallen. It is a bit of a shame that Kozmos struggling so much. If the deck did get new support, what would it be? Maybe Kozmo Toto, he’s in Farm Girl art? Munchkin Ewoks? Palpatine as the Wizard?
And majespecters too! They're completely neutered without their boss monster but that boss monster is simply too much
@@afeathereddinosaur They did just get a new Dracopal.
But still doesn't help it much unfortunately.
Sucks cause i love the deck. The Klonoa Archtype of Yugioh i call it.
I don't really enjoy these types of videos. They usually bore me but I just found this channel and it's extremely watchable for some reason. Definitely subscribing.
I appreciate that you used Maxx C as it is intended to be used, a counter to combo by normal summoning for game
This was the first one I watched live, and I'm still excited to watch the edited video too. Keep up the good work!
What’s sad is that Kozmo isn’t “bad” but outdated.
It says something about power creep in Yugioh that a once top meta deck is seen as bad now pretty much because a given combo require TWO cards to start.
can't wait for the 0 card combo meta where you win solely based on what cards you didn't draw because of a new archetype that special summons itself from the deck
@@MorningStar012 0 cards combo already exists if your opponent is playing cyber dragons and you have chimeratech package in your extra deck
@@mellomafia98
The only thing required now is for Cydra to get exactly 1 card of support that breaks them, the meta and even the game in half.
@@somethingusername2538 Clockwork Night turns the entire deck into Fortress Super Poly Turbo since it makes everything on field a Machine like Zombie World does for Zombies.
It's not needing 2 cards to start a combo. It's the fact that you have very little in terms of searchers, a large engine, and needing 2 cards in a specific subset(A pilot and a ship)
Thanks for showing off all the Kozmo variants, I had my fun with it when MD first came out but that lack of support really shows when you're trying to make consistent plays, and Tincan is your only other searcher.
I'm always glad to hear a I Have No Mouth and I must Scream reference
seeing kozmo made me remember that im still not seeing kazoo girl fan art and it made me sad
Weird coincidence, I found my old YuGiOh deck that my cousin gave me, and it had some Kozmo cards. Got interested and found this video. Cool video, helped me learn how to use my few Kozmo cards in my old, shitty deck.
the fact that I'm having the same experience of you playing kozmo playing SwoSo either says a lot about the format or says a lot about my skill at the game, and I'm not sure which but at least one of them is terrible
I would just like you to know I was sleeping and woke up to the sound of this video and to my sleeping ears you sounded like the dad from Jimmy neutron and when you were talking about the burn deck I heard bird deck and you talking to chat sounded like you were coaching like a team of kids in the show I chimed in at 12:34 and it sounded like you were encouraging like the losing team thank you this made my morning great
38:06 This was like Yami playing The Seal of Orichalcos back in the day. I was half expecting you to go "WHAT HAVE I DONE"
Excited to see what Kozmo has in store, I always thought the Deck was cool, but surprisingly didn't see it since its cards got unbanned lol
There is a reason for that lol.
@@HardlegGaming There were so many people playing it at my locals back when everything was limited. But now that they have their full potential back, everybody dropped it.
@@YashokuArt Because a 2 card combo that pops a card if you specifically have a pilot + dark destroyer is so awful.
@@HardlegGaming there's some weird nasty kozmo-rokket-chaos shit
Dude this was the first vid I saw from you and this rocks! Seriously was the most fun yugioh gameplay I’ve ever seen. Keep it up
Always look forward to the ladder climb series, and this was no exception.
Sucks that Kozmo didn't do so hot, I remember when they were one of the biggest scourges in the TCG other than running into Towers Turbo.
If I may suggest a deck concept, Plant Stun. It's probably not going to do so good, but it can be a pretty nasty way to just tell your opponent *_NO_* as they slowly realize they've lost 3 turns ago.
So what I got from this, is that Konami hit Skill Drain, the DPE engine and Pot of Prosperity because Joe used them in Kozmos and showed the world how broken Kozmo's are with them. So what I'm trying to say is: After D/D/D would you mind running a Maxx C Turbo Deck with Halqdon and a Floo Engine? Please?
That was a pretty cool video, you really can't be faulted for not trying, with all these variations you gave a shot. I really liked the Kozmofoes deck, the interactions were just really neat! Too bad, it didn't work out fantastic but at least we all got a good video out of it. Better luck this month! Just today, I also built a D/D/D deck, so I'll be cheering you on!
I need to get on this mans patreon. And I need to get him to play Gizmek.
I can say its worth being a patron. At least for the Discord if nothing else. Good place and friendly peeps.
I'd be happy to have you join :)
Although I'm not playing Gizmek for this series. I tried making them last year and they do not work very well.
Not gona lie, the animation at 1:09:25 caught me offguard
Hahhahahah
Kozmo=max C beatdown 🤣im laughing my ass off joe
for the skill drain animation it should just be the yugioh uno reverse meme picture of kaiba but replaced with the guy on skill drain
im very excited for this one because my only royal rare in MD is a Tincan
Game 3 you could have chain link 1 strawman target the banished destroyer, chain link 2 tag out for eclipser for the OTK
I got diamond V with monarchs, it was fun, but sometimes RNG would fuck with me up hard, worst example was me losing 9 games in a row due to bricks or not drawing an out to an opponent board
Love all the Lego Star Wars references
Same lol
Thank Cvit for that. He's the editing mastermind.
Lol this is actually funny since I only saw kozmo used once in master duel and I dueled in on ranked using tindangles and won
Kozmos are funny enough a deck I hadn't been playing a whole lot until Master Duel. One of my friends used to have a dedicated Kozmo deck and even before that when we were still making scrappy decks from random trunk-trash, Dark Destroyer was a good game-ender, so I always knew it had a bit of kick back in the day, but then I decided to throw a decklist together for a laugh in MD and ended up liking it so much that I flat out bought my friend's Kozmo deck. It's such a weird concept both thematically and mechanically, but ends up being a really fun way to play.
The way I've tried to combat the power-creep of modern YGO with this deck is trying to use banish-floods and try to abuse their relatively strong banish-recursion. Pack the deck with Macro Cosmos' and Dimensional Fissures, while using Strawmen as well as Kozmotowns to loop bodies from banish to try and stay ahead of the curve. It feels counter-intuitive to shut down your own floating effects and that's because it absolutely is. However, this is a choice of evils and between that and just trying to play Kozmos raw, disrupting the GY resources of my opponent hurts them more than I could possibly hurt them with output that tends to cap at like a fistful of 3000 bodies and a Limiter Removal.
Overall though, they just desperately need some new cards. A new pilot as a more modernised setup tool, maybe a more for utility or horsepower, an end-game that actually packs a punch and of course the token Link 2 that spackles over everything the deck was previously doing. Of all the former titans of past formats, this has been one of the ones that's been kinda left to kick up dust. I can understand the hesitation early on, but I can't see any real risk of breaking the game by supporting the Kozmo playstyle.
I'm currently grinding with Ogdo and I'm building subterror for next season I'd love to see either of these decks here
Good luck.
I been running Subterrors since the 1st season it's surprising how many people don't know how to play VS them....... I would add in Imperial Iron wall...... It shuts down a lot of the meta Decks and keeps your cards in rotation.
@@DrAiPatch thanks
Like, actual Subterror or Floodgate Turbo?
@@ashikjaman1940 pure subrerrors they are bricky so you need a lot of draw power...... Which is hard with Pot of P at one...... Thanks Flunder
I would love for this for this deck to have legacy support. There still more source material for references, specially Star Wars
Out of all the decks you have done this with, I would have never expected this to be the one to perform this badly
Me either. I didn't think it would be easy, but I didn't expect it to be this difficult.
That Fire King Kozmo build is the most based bricky deck I've ever seen before. Shame our current meta is extremely unbalanced and is slowly getting worse though.
I love Kozmo, i even got Dark Destroyer incorporated into my space tattoo sleeve. The thing that makes me so sad about MD is not having Card of Demise work like it does in TCG. I'd love to play some grindy demise tincan but you can't resolve demise then use tincan, it forces you to tincan then discard everything. It's the worst feeling.
I’m loving the long vids I’m not much for streams but love long TH-cam vids. I don’t know how I go with requesting archetypes for these but could you do any of these there some of my favourites.
-ancient gears
-super heavy samurai
-armed dragons(kinda already done with ojamas)
The $10 Patrons are the ones who request and vote on archetypes. So you either gotta join them, or find a way to influence them.
Gj breaking that swordsoul board I sometimes even struggle unless I open the right cards lol
Great vid, was very entertaining to watch Hardleg!!. Im so mald that I couldn't catch up a stream live to recommend x3 Savage Colosseum's to the control/otk variant (In case the otk fail) that's what I use in mine and it autowins vs a lot of decks and doesn't hurt you a lot since playing Kozmo you can do all right with 1 3K big idiot on board and push to 2 or 3 monsters just when the OTK is ready.
Anyways im ready for next month watching your 50.000 IQ plays on DDD(eez nuts). Good Luck on the next climb!
I’m glad mbt’s “pride packs” caught on lmao
Actually not just Wizard of Oz, the Landwalker is based on the AT-AT and the giant mechanical Spider from Wild Wild West, and Forernunner is based on the Starship Enterprise and Millennium Falchion.
Though the clever one is Wickedwitch, being The Wickedwitch of the East who got a barn dropped on her, combined with Darth Maul who was cut in half. It's why her legs are covered in bandages.
kozmo is a great deck being able to do so much during the battte face wins a lot of games. The deck struggles hard vs the meta though when they go first
Till this day me ,and bros call Dark Destroyer. *Dank Destroyer*
Finally!! im here for the ladder grinds haha. Lets go!
next week, im gonna drive those cargo trains in germany. Choo choo, to big yootoobe vid producer joe. I will try to find my time watching your weeklies, but i cant promise.
Whatever you can watch, I'll appreciate it :)
Honestly, I wish they would just make a retrain for some of these broken cards already. For example, Skill Drain and Max C. Why not make the effect "The first time"? Something like; Great C: Discard, draw a card the first time your opponent special summons. Or; Skill Wall: The first monster effect on the field is negated every turn.
This means that the cards can just stay banned and we don't need to argue about why a card that is so clearly broken should be back at 3.
Btw, great vid. Love your stuff Hardleg. Keep it up!
Watching Prank-Kids get slapped in the face with a Maxx-C is profoundly cathartic
Awesome videos dude! I really enjoy watching this series. Can I recommend you use either ‘Cubics’, ‘Sacred Beasts’ or even ‘Fire Kings + Yubel’ for the Deck next month?
You can destroy Yubel from your hand with the effects of Fire Kings to bring the other forms out from the deck. You can throw ‘Mound of the Bound Creator’ in there too.
You were doing things all wrong, man. What you needed to do was close your eyes, tap your heels together 3 times, and think to yourself "there's no place like plat. 1."
Only saw Kozmo in PvP once, it was a replay during the Synchro Festival and the Kozmo player was beating a Virtual World player
"...this skill drain built"
Me: *immediately pukes*
I ran Kozmo for so long and I always believe with abit more support it could run strong again.
the edits here are amazing
Thanks to Civit. He does a good job.
Wished for new Kozmo support for a while - Synchro monsters that treat the pilots as tuners, with art of the classic Star Wars cockpit shot, for example. Also more characters previously left out - one that especially seemed fun, Jack Pumpkinhead as Lando Calrissian, and Han and Leia as Tip/Ozma.
"Let me tell you how much I've come to hate..."
"Oh, this is going to be *that* reference, isn't it?"
"... circuits in wafer thin layers that..."
"Yes. Yes it is."
Glad someone recognizes it.
Que Hulk Hogan: “
Oooooh Broottthhhheerrr it’s THE
H-A-R-D L-E-G…..JOEEEEEE!!!!! 🙌🔥💪”
Of this archetype the level 1-5 monsters r so-so, and the level 6-10 monsters r very fucking filthy.
Yay been excited for this one
Love this series
This video was great but the Arby's rant elevated this to top tier
When the skill is drained
The siegnfeild or however it's spelled was hilarious 🤣
That kozmoking board is pretty neat.
Kozmofoes had me grinning for its entire run time, you bet your ass I'm gonna try to pilot (heh) it for fun.
I was playing full power tearlaments in diamond 3 and got absolutely rolled by the fire king kozmo deck. For a hot sec i actually was thinking they were onto something until i looked at the decklsit 😂
TH-cam recommended this video to me when I searched for "Psycho."
Makes sense.
Do fortune ladies so I can steal a competent list
You could try Fortune Lady Exodia.
I don't think I could make a competent Fortune Lady deck. That archetype is pretty underpowered.
Huh, no vulgar Japanese names this time.
I'm surprised Konami hasn't printed any legacy support for the deck. They could give it a quick play that banishes a card, specials a Kozmo from the deck and foolish's a kozmo. Then you can banish that card to avoid a card effect. Also they don't seem to have any extra deck monsters to speak of, I think the strategy could do with an XYZ or a Link monster that isn't generic. It might not push them to tier 0, but it'd give them a better chance if they had some more protection.
I haven't been able to do most of my daily missions because people keep scooping. The only loss I've had recently was against Master Duel dot Deck, the pile that makes Barrone, some Yang Zings, Halq -> Aurora -> Borreload end with at least 5 negates "Tenyi Swordsoul" deck, and I opened zero interruptions. I had a Kaiju and that was it. Unless I have a few interruptions I should probably just scoop against those decks. Especially with Nine Pillars the only hope is Super Poly. Games against that pile deck are just pure misery. The combos put you to sleep, then when they have their end board, you have to pray you can out it. Outing it requires several cards, since Nine Pillars can negate anything else that threatens the board, they had two Yang Zing monsters and the Borreload and Baronne can handle most everything else. You basically need exactly Lava Golem and Dark Ruler to hope to break their board, and that's assuming they don't have another way to bring Pillars back online after you do that. Every time I face the Halq -> Auroradon combo I'm just like "I'm so glad Konami nerfed this deck" then there's VFD at home, Protos... *sigh*
I know the new Branded/Albaz stuff is good, no questions asked. I had an opponent summon Lubellion with Verte and then he sat there for a few seconds wondering "why can I no summon anything?" not realizing Verte has text.
In any case, I have more than a few decks which is surprising considering I'm F2P, but I really don't want to play Sword Soul pile, despite having all the cards for it technically. I have a more fair version of Floo (I don't run Shifter, I'm usually the one scooping against my opponent, deck literally dies to Ash, can't reliably have an answer to Veiler/Imperm other than Book of Moon at this point. Ash is still the best answer to the deck, and if you don't have your called by in hand/set and available to use... I understand why people hate the deck, especially in Master Duel specifically, I don't know why Konami thinks best of 1 is the best format for Yugioh outside of official tournaments). I have most of the cards for Sky Striker, Evil Twin, and Salad. The thing is, outside of Sky Striker and Salad, most of the decks I have, the core are in selection packs. That's why Floo is so popular. It's relatively cheap, don't need any archetypal URs. I only really hate Floo when I play the mirror, I call the Floo mirror the "you haven't died until you've played the Floo mirror, it is even more miserable than just playing against Floo normally" it's funny, because, most decks run Gadarla to play against Floo. A lot of decks have plenty of other answers. Bagooska kills the deck, Skill Drain mostly kills the deck provided no Book (even with Book you'd need ideally all 3 in hand to get all of your effects that you'd want, and probably the Map)
I can say, in a Best of 1 format, I'm not sure any Floodgates should have ever been legal. I'd side in Twin Twister/Cosmic Cyclone/other backrow hate, but we don't have side decks... in any case, I've never gotten out of Platinum up until now, and my highest rank ever was Plat 2. I also have a Bird Up deck and a Lunalight deck which was the deck I inadvertently built because the Lyrilusc cards avoided me when opening packs. It's kind of hilarious how when I play that deck I get destroyed by my opponent having all the answers, but when they play it, they never get stopped by anything I do.
I really wish Konami would add best of three support in some fashion, and have festivals going all the time, maybe even rerun some older ones with newer ban lists. Even if they kept the gem rewards the same, I don't think it would harm their bottom line.
In any case, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. Can I offer you an Ash Blossom in these trying times? Perhaps a Maxx C? (frankly with how the OCG has limited Crossout Designator and still have Called By at 2, it's safe to say they probably aren't going to ban Maxx C in Master Duel. If anything, I swore when they announced the game, they mentioned having a TCG format?... trade Maxx C for Mystic Mine... not sure if good trade off...) Also, why can't you make decks with Forbidden cards that haven't been available in game yet? Add those cards to the legacy packs. They're already pretty worthless as is.
love these type of videos maybe the next one could be how far could u go with Destiney board
Next one has already started and it's D/D/D
I've always known about FK Kozmo but never knew the combo, pretty neat
Love the Lego Star Wars sounds!
You can thank editor Cvit for that. All his idea.
1:40:13 Next time remember that the thing you click to set a card as a pendulum scale looks special.
I too start to feel maybe A.M. was right after getting sacked by Floo for the nth time.
Let's go another one of these vids love them
Would love to see your take on a mermail build. They're the most fun deck in the game imo.
I played them a couple years ago on What a Deck. They were decent then, but haven't gotten much support in the meantime.
I hope Vampire or Gimmick Puppet will have a chance to shine. Shark deck would be interesting to see as well.
1:52:03 Vanisher really lives up to their name.
37:57 I’m on the same crafting Maxx C for Crossout Designater target and I get Royal Finish out of that
I run basically your first deck version, but I've tossed in the Adventure engine as well. It's well over 40 cards that way, but it packs a good amount of punch. I've gotten to Platinum fairly easily, haven't tried getting to Diamond though, since I largely stopped playing before they added it. Might go back and try the climb again sometime.
How have I never noticed that Joe hasn't been using Maxx C lol
Finally,, Kozmo in masterduel ladder o yeahh 🤜👌
I tried Kozmofoes in the new event and I really like it.
On my new MD Account I've built Kozmo for the Events and it's usually quite good.
4:06 Vic Viper, secret Numeron tech.
I always look forward to this series and seeing you try to take a "bad" or outdated deck as far as you could go. Any chance you'd do Crystal Beasts in the future if/when the new support comes to MD?
Maybe. It's up to the Patrons to decide what deck I play.
I remember hating playing against cosmo before I stopped playing
Ive been waiting for this one XD
Hopefully it was worth the wait :)
I enjoyed it good to see a cool archtype used i like its theme like the quantums and i would love to see a lv archtype ladder climb but.... Im not sure thats a good idea lmao
I know how you feel on the Maxx C I held off on making them because like a fool I thought they would Ban it...... After seeing them buff it in the last ban list I had no choice but to make 3.
A sad state of affairs to be certain.
Never underestimate Ancient Warriors :D
Yeah this video is honestly reminding me how glad I am I stopped playing Master Duel after Floo and Adventure dropped. More power to you if you enjoy Pile metas, but it's not for me, seeing how many generic negates and floodgates you can spam in the frozen time. Also Maxx C.
Amazing to see all the different ways you can play kozmo which made this a very varied grind at least. Still I think the problem is not so much that Kozmo is outdated, and more that people are a lot more prepared for banish heavy decks in the current meta. With Floo and Swordsoul still prominent a lot of decks are running outs. Hopefully in a banlist or two we can run it back and see Kozmos blast their way to Diamond.
ive been playing Kozmo since N/R Festival, and i do love the deck, but ive never gotten higher than plat 5... Good Luck Joe
after watching: oh look joe was stuck in the same rank! funny how that works
Funny story: I brought a Kozmo deck to my Locals for a Pegasus Challenge Day. (The rules would change every 10 minutes based off slips of paper that the host would draw from a hat.) I had just acquired the exceptionally hard to summon Kozmo Dark Planet, (the actual final boss of the deck, but because of the crazy summoning conditions no one plays it) and I actually was able to get it onto the field. At 4000 attack points, indestructible by card effects, and the ability to negate spell cards, my opponent was sweating because he had no out for it... until the new rule kicked in. "Fiber Jar is activated. All cards in hand, on the field, graveyard, and banished zone are put back into the deck and you each draw five new cards!" I was stunned as I had to put the Dark Planet back into my deck, and I didn't get anything good with my new opening hand, so my opponent kicked my ass. He said after he won the match that the new rule hitting us like that was the greatest stroke of luck he ever had playing the game.
Speaking of DBC, have you actually done Gradius vs B.E.S yet? I'd be surprised if you haven't but given that B.E.S have gotten decent support relatively recently, I kinda doubt the Gradius line stands any kind of chance. Not likely to make for a good DBC now.
Joe, "Most Effective Tactic Available" is a backronym; it's a cool coincidence, but it's not where the term came from. Meta is the root of metagaming and means ~"about itself". The metagame is the game of how to effectively play the game.
XKCD has good stuff for demonstrating proper META.
Watching this makes me understand where angry orc Joe ranting at a ban list at 3 am came from. This deck broke you. Please take some time to lie down and play a nice simple deck, like D/D/D. I know you like reading so the deck is perfect (also a lot of fun).
Wake up babe, new Hardleg
Every time you say “kozmojo” I keep thinking watch mojo
I’m so hyped for ddd
45:33 I wonder how many assessment points he got. probably relatively high, with an LP on the brink bonus.
46:35 technically 50% more, not 30%. Math is hard. I often fail it, so I have no right to be pointing this out.