I hope it leads to Komoney being FORCED to change, either their America side or overall, or even sell off the rights for the TCG to someone more caring.
Even though I didn’t start playing until 2012, I absolutely love this era of the game. The early 5DS design of monsters and slower pace of the game just makes me so happy
Konami is missing out on having Edison and Goat format available in Master Duel. I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to spend money to play those formats in a nice looking simulator, even if they never implement the rulings and erratas from that time (but if they implemented those it would obviously be even better).
I know this comment is a year old, and I'm sure you're aware of the limited time events, but the reason those weren't permanent is because at the end of the day, Master duel is supposed to make money. Having those events last forever means that a portion of the people who play the game won't ever even think about spending money, because when you play a format that will never change, you can just craft all the cards and never buy gems.
Edison format is awesome. Early 5d's era synchros with GX archetypes like heroes and zombies making waves, along with other diverse decks and people still inventing new ones. It's super nostalgic yet competitive and fun. Hopefully it gets more and more popular and we have more irl Edison events!
I absolutely adore this format. I've been having a lot of fun with Dragons, Gemini, and Diva Hero Beat, plus a personal favorite in Gladiator Beasts (despite them being just worse Hero Beat). Just hope one day I can score one of those giant card Black Rose Dragons!
I went to Edison! My first SJC/YCS. (Vids on my channel too!) It's funny cuz I dueled Jeff Jones in YCS Miami years later in round 3! I couldn't believe it! My 2nd HUGE tourney and I had to duel Jeff. Lol It was a Mermail mirror match, btw. We were too ahead of the game. Cuz Wind Ups won Miami, but after that huge ban, Mermails took off!
Love the rise of retro formats coming to the forefront, stopped playing modern yugioh a while back but just starting playing Edison a year ago and it pulled me right back in.
Dude this is nuts, I have my zombie deck that is essentially locked in time from when I was in highschool (graduated 2011) and it’s almost beat for beat what you’re showing here! I wasn’t able to play competitively back then due to living in a rural town, but seeing this crop up and the fact I never netdecked is kinda awesome to see.
Please dear lord keep putting out videos like this! Your input on the game is so interesting and you always keep us so engaged. Only issue is that whenever you talk ab a card rarity/format I immediately want to spend more money than I should on cardboard. Keep being great!
I played competitively with some success (big regionals Tops, winter and summer cups finals wins, store championship wins, always top4 player of my local for 3 years, etc) from 2006 to 2012. I think that short period between March 2010 and the release of The Shining Darkness was one of the least fun times I had playing Yu-Gi-Oh in my entire career. I started playing edison online in 2021 because I was bored of playing Goat and at first it seemed fun but after 1 year it became a really obscene format. I started playing IRL edison competitively this year, winning an almost 50 player regional, making top8 at 3 other regionals and coming 11th at two other regionals, still out of 50/60 player. In the Italian national ranking I was in the top 10 of the best Edison players in terms of scores between matches won and lost. All in 4 months of IRL play. Despite all this good results, I can say that Edison format is the ugliest retro format I've ever played in which the inconsistency of the decks is the true king of the format, where a Brain Control + Caius is enough to change the game, where Trap Dustshoot in turn 1 is often GG and a opponent summoning DAD in late game often put you in a unrecoverable position. Initially I didn't understand why so many people were passionate about such a bad format but then I think I understood, it's a format where even a bad player with a little luck can win, where you can build very junk decks but just throw 3 caius into them, Ryko and Hamster to make it run a minimum, where floodgates are often a death sentence and games almost won are lost by randomly topdecked Brain control. On the other hand, I remember with much more sympathy Edison's handsome brother, namely the Lightsworn format, September 2009 banlist, same card pool as Edison but differently banned which makes all decks as consistent as possible. I say this as a person who played rogue decks and not lightsworn or twilight in that format and in which I won a lot despite not playing T1. Honestly, there are many other beautiful retro formats, such as September 2007 pre-release of LADD (and without prize cards), September 2009 or September 2011 (Tengu plant) that for a year of online gaming experience, hasn't frustrated me as much as playing edison, it always gives me a idea of relax in the game and I never feel the impending inconsistency on the decks (perhaps because engines are not nerfed? Or maybe handtraps like max c or veiler reward skillful players and not the sacky ones). I remain of the idea that if it was necessary to choose a retro format from the 5Ds era, to be resurrected after Goat, September 2009 it would be been a thousand times better than edison. Okay i'm basically a combo player and edison has become a format with an average of 11/12 backrows per deck where have some interactive fun is nowadays pretty impossible but I still think that Lightsworn format is better than edison. Not judge it from its cover, if you havent play it historically cant understand. My 2 cents
Here's another one. Did you play that format competitively at the time? It wasn't simply "I summon JD, gg", if you analyze the tops of the time (5 SJCS occurred in these 6 months, so the players had more time to test and optimize the decks, not like in the original SJCS Edison where there was essentially no a defined meta and everyone played whatever they liked), it can be noted that different strategies were playable and could easily perform well in a tournament with hundreds of participants. Blackwings, Vayu Turbo, Chaos Control, Zombie Tele Dad, Diva Zombie, Norleras turbo even Gladiator Beasts and Spaceships could top a tournament, not to mention all the hybridizations between zombie and lightsworn or, in a more modern key, Diva hero. Between Edison and Lightsworn format the only difference is the banlist, the card pool is practically the same. But closed-minded people think that Lightsworn would be mono meta, when in fact it was a much more varied format than it might seem and very distant from situations like those of Tele Dad (tier 0 format) or the format before where there were Bw- Synchro Cat- Lightsworn - Blacksalvo - GBs (rogue) and no other playable strategies. Lightsworn format is Edison but with extreme consistency, edison is rubbish in comparison, in Edison even blackwing or other T1s could brick in a really bad way. However, stay close-minded and continue to promote a toxic, sack-based format. It seems obvious but in Lightsworn format you have 3 Necro Gardna, 3 Tragoedia and 1 Gorz, and even maindecking Threathering Roar is not such an uncommon choice. The problem is Edison, in its entirety, rather than Judgment Dragon in Lightsworn format. I remember well that Lightsworn full power often risked losing to auto crush precisely because the decks were designed to counter it. And in any case if a deck like that of Ryan Spicer (Destiny-Chaos) made the top 8 in SJCS Austin, also making the whole Swiss undefeated, in a lightsworn centric format I don't see why we should worry about losing Judgment Dragon, simply edison is a additive format where I can lose even against a bad noob who doesn't know how to play, while in Lightsworn format the consistency of the decks and their design statistically prevents you from losing because you brick. This is the only truth. Edison is the worst retro format of the 5Ds era.@@JustinMadrid-z7e
If feel like your perspective is correct ...for you from a very subjective point of view. Finding attraction and later satisfaction in a given format depends on so many variables that you just cannot objectively define the best format. This being applicable to today´s modern formats and to older ones. Ofc, major problems being determined by most people is a common factor to share and discuss about. But reading your extremely elaborated paragraphs, I can clearly see that these comments of yours are showing something else as well. Cant really tell what it is. But it is something very personal. Maybe your positive memories about that time. Maybe the importance of the hobby for you at that time. Maybe the achievments you gathered back then, which are maybe missing now. I read this comment of yours and it felt like trying to convince people that the format you chose for you to be the better one would also be the better one for everyone else. This just won´t work. You won´t find the large acceptance you are looking for on the internet. Better work to build sth in your local area for fans of that format yourself. Invest your energy into such things. @@goldeneramanagement.official
You're right, I appreciate you taking the time to respond equally as articulately to my comment. Between 2007 and the end of 2009 I had all my greatest successes as a Yugioh player. In general I think that 2009 was my peak as a player because in that year I won the Store Championship, Winter and Summer Cup, practically the best player of the year in my local (which was, in terms of level at the time, one of the best and most difficult in Italy, we have had 3 national champions in our store), as well as several placements in important tournaments and in general a high degree of personal satisfaction with the game. I never felt like I was in a situation like I do in Edison, with my hands completely thrown away, I was always relaxed and never stressed about playing. I won the Summer Cup playing Volcanic Teledad, a deck of my own invention, defeating a meta made up of zombies, lightsworn and GBs. I have always been a born deckbuilder, in the Edison regionals that I topped/won I never played meta but always particular decks rich in tech and imaginative interactions. This, however, is no longer possible. Nowadays, as soon as you pick up an old format you try to make everything super control and based on the floodgate a bit like the current advanced format. While in the past there was more of a tendency not to play like this, it's normal, you're no longer a teenager and the approach to the game of an almost 30 year old is different than what a teenager might have had 13/14 years ago. I probably have distorted memories of the time also due to the fact that many cards were expensive and out of budget for many players and therefore since I could afford them I was stronger than those who didn't have them. In the summer of 2009 I won almost 12 locals in a row...but I was also the only one with CCV in the deck. Unfortunately in my Edison local (in which there are practically only pro players, and they are all my friends/team mates) we already struggle to organize Tengu Plant tournaments with poor participation, either because perhaps money has already been spent on Edison or because there isn't a circuit with qualifications and prizes up for grabs... it's difficult to convince people to play lightsworn format. Furthermore, seeing how people are online, I'm sure they would manage to ruin that format too. I like to play formats not by modernizing or optimizing them, but in their original quintessence, a bit like in Joe Giorlando's videos on the history of the game. Luckily now I have some friends to play old retro formats with but I remain of the opinion that edison is objectively a format with the worst banlist ever. Today I’ve done 3-3 on a Edison Regional with another deck of my invention, and guess what? I haven’t loose because my opponents were more skillful than me, neither because i’ve misplayed, but for bricks. Damn If I hate this format, I could do better? Maybe, is always like gambling, you do bad but you wanna another chance to win. @@lifequality
@@goldeneramanagement.official Don't forget that the internet is a lot more mainstream now than it was in 2009 - 2011. The average sub-human mongrel can simply TH-cam a deck getting first place and copy it card for card and do well. There's no room for innovation anymore because everything is handed to the average player without having to put in any work.
i stopped playing yugioh when the leviathan xyz tin came out. picked the game back up when MACR came out. love that edison has been picking up steam again. very nostalgic format for me
We started doing edison once a month at my locals and I being a HERO fiend was so excited to be able to Crack out some of the old ultis I haven't been able to play with for a long time.
I was there and 13 years later I see this video and I’m already shopping on TCG Player to relive the best YuGiOh era in history. You just had to be there. YuGiOh was something else growing up with all of those great memories.
Still the best Yu-Gi-Oh content creator when it comes to vlog type and deck profile videos imo! Gage you need to give us more content like this! Thanks
Setting Heavy Storm, and then you see your opponent commit to their backrow by setting 3-5 cards and then flipping Heavy Storm on your turn… That’s we call “Pro Set Heavy” back in the day. 😎
Love seeing Konami show some love to more legacy formats at official events. Kind of makes me feel like getting back in to irl yugioh. We'll have to see though. I was never really all that good and giving people more time to study a set in stone format likely doesn't breed an edge in my favor. Great video tho. Always a fan of your content!
I know some people say that set rotations might fix the issue... but honestly it's more than that as the flavors of each era of yugioh were different and it especially shows in some of their attempts to reprint or retrain some of the decks. I would say 2010 yugioh had a good share of what people liked with the older formats as some effects were more manageable to keep track of than others... but not as slow as some of the early versions of yugioh. Personally I think Yugioh needs more Era format events. They are fun and help breath new life into the game as Magic the Gathering has three different versions running about... Rotation, Commander, and All Eras. Yugioh just has... well... main format... and then the games. Oh sure Speed Duels are a thing, but they don't really host or announce most of them and even buying those cards online has them get mixed up with main line yugioh. Yugioh just needs more formats and spices as not everyone is a fan of modern Yugioh... or as the bad joke goes... not getting a hand trap on your first draw and waiting ten minutes for your opponent to finish their play.
Saw this opening YT. Haven’t played the game since 5D era, nice to see older decks I played way back seeing play! Makes me want to dust off the binder and build Zombies, Six Sams and Plants for nostalgia even though I’m not likely to get back in the game.
It's a really popular misconception that some of these decks didn't exist in 2010. They did! Diva zombie had several tops in the format right before edison. Diva hero, vayu turbo, etc. all existed back then too. What HAS changed a lot is that the meta is much more refined, and these decks are better in the edison cardpool than we thought previously
Yeah Gage is often really confidently wrong about stuff lol But I would have been shocked if no one had figured out making Brionac to search Mezuki lol
My advanced zombie deck from back then teched a couple of terraformings with mainboard 2 zombie world + 2 geartown, along with a single crossout for those pesky lightsworn doggies.
I love the Edison and goat formats, games dont go too quick, not 5+ omninegate boards to encounter your first turn, actually some back and forth, and this is the way I like my YGO experience :)
I'm waiting for the duelist alliance Era to become popular. So much diversity. So many cool strategies. Anyone could win if they could pilot their deck
Edison is a good gateway to retro formats. It is missing something though that allows more counterplay and more possibilities in deck building since some few cards and strats can gatekeep a lot of decks in edison format - frogs, absolute zero, ryko caius are difficult to deal with. I think tengu format (the format following edison) allows more diversity since it has more generic staples that allow more counterplay + deck consistency - effect veiler, solemn warning, pot of duality to name a few as well as a much wider synchro pool that allow you to get rid of cards without having to wait to draw the out - scrap dragon, trish for example
It’s can honestly be a little scary to get into a new format. I finally decided to jump into it though, been playing Yugioh Tag Force 5 on the PSP. It’s great building deck lists being created today and learn how to play them. So much fun easier to learn now.
For people looking for popular side deck cards and not quite sure where to start: Cyber Dragon: sided against any machine deck so you can suck up their machines for Fortress Dragon D. D. Crow: sided against Vayu Turbo, Zombie, and anything else that has plentiful graveyard interactions Pulling the Rug: any deck that runs the two prevalent monarchs (Caius and Raiza). Shadow imprisoning mirror: mostly good against Zombie and Blackwings Light imprisoning mirror: fantastic against fairies and lightsworn Thunder King Rai-Oh: good against synchro heavy decks Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo: same as thunder king, good against special heavy decks Snowman eater: bulky monster that can pop face up monsters Nobleman of Crossout: really good against lightsworn or any deck that mains Ryko Ryko, lightsworn hunter: good generic field removal, synergizes well with graveyard heavy decks Dust Tornado: good to side against heavy back row decks Royal oppression: extremely good tech to slow down the game, hurts a lot of special heavy decks. Skill drain: similar to oppression, helps slow down the game and deal with problematic boards. These are just a few of the many popular side deck cards in the format. Find out what others in your area play and side against them!
what do you guys think of zombie world in this deck? obviously you cant go into caius anymore but it seems to be broken combined with book of life and mezuki
Ran into your video by chance. Brings back a lot of memories. I guess you can put me among the boomers as this format was the one I enjoyed the most. Ever since YuGiOh became the who goes first, does a billion things on the first turn, played half of his deck, lock you out kind of thing... I literally lost interest and moved on. If this becomes a thing again, maybe I may pick up the game again. But enough of me, Great Video btw. Cheers mate!
That was a really good overview by Gage and awesome to see that Edison is getting more and more popular as the time goes by. Goat format is cool but this one seems like the better option.
What about Emergency Teleport and Destiny Hero Malicious? Emergency Teleport was immediately one of the most popular card among Stardust Dragon, Charge of the light brigade and Thought Ruler.
Recently, I just decided to play only edison and tengu but continue collecting modern cards. I'll wait for the prices to drop in order to collect it. And this way, I can save because this is not a cheap hobby lol
Havent played anything yugioh in a hot minute, but Synchros and 5Ds were and ARE my obssession. Definitely gonna make an Edison deck to keep as I decide what to do with my years of collecting (bulk lol)
I’ve made a total of 15 decks with current cards and the ones my friends use the most are Six samurai Gravekeeper Blackwing Because they’re all from 2011 and are easy and fun to play
Okay, dumb question: do you need the printings of the cards from back in that era to play them legally in Edison format? For example, if I wanted to play Stardust Dragon, would I need to get a printing that was available back during that time?
No you can play with any printing. Just keep in mind older printings of some cards are un-erratad. So cards like Brionac and Goyo still play with their old text
Hat in my opinion is the best past format but damn maxx c at three and it's $15 a copy so you have to keep switching them out and it's more expensive than Edison.
Interested in getting back into yugioh but I’m turned off by the modern game. I’m sure I speak for many in my position… does this Edison format seem to have legs for longterm or do you think it is a good gateway into the modern format?
It's amazing to see how popular Edison is getting. I hope it leads to even more exploration of others, like Plant Tengu and HAT
Yes! Agree so much. HAT in particular is so rich and diverse
I hope it leads to Komoney being FORCED to change, either their America side or overall, or even sell off the rights for the TCG to someone more caring.
I've been a meta sheep since I started and I never would've thought I'd way this, but I think Edison is the wave modern formats really are trash
@@TrianglePantsThey need to make more official formats like Magic
Same! I built decks from my favorite formats, including Edison. Truly glad they have Edison Format tournaments at my local card shop.
Even though I didn’t start playing until 2012, I absolutely love this era of the game. The early 5DS design of monsters and slower pace of the game just makes me so happy
Konami is missing out on having Edison and Goat format available in Master Duel. I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to spend money to play those formats in a nice looking simulator, even if they never implement the rulings and erratas from that time (but if they implemented those it would obviously be even better).
I know this comment is a year old, and I'm sure you're aware of the limited time events, but the reason those weren't permanent is because at the end of the day, Master duel is supposed to make money. Having those events last forever means that a portion of the people who play the game won't ever even think about spending money, because when you play a format that will never change, you can just craft all the cards and never buy gems.
Edison format is awesome. Early 5d's era synchros with GX archetypes like heroes and zombies making waves, along with other diverse decks and people still inventing new ones. It's super nostalgic yet competitive and fun.
Hopefully it gets more and more popular and we have more irl Edison events!
Dayman! I love your content!!!
@@Jowahotz90 Ayy thanks dawg
I absolutely adore this format. I've been having a lot of fun with Dragons, Gemini, and Diva Hero Beat, plus a personal favorite in Gladiator Beasts (despite them being just worse Hero Beat). Just hope one day I can score one of those giant card Black Rose Dragons!
Is Gemini decent in Edison? Please tell me it is 😅
I went to Edison!
My first SJC/YCS.
(Vids on my channel too!)
It's funny cuz I dueled Jeff Jones in YCS Miami years later in round 3!
I couldn't believe it!
My 2nd HUGE tourney and I had to duel Jeff. Lol
It was a Mermail mirror match, btw.
We were too ahead of the game.
Cuz Wind Ups won Miami, but after that huge ban, Mermails took off!
Hey there! Thanks for sharing my AsianWithCards video!
Love me some edison content. Btw @ 20:19 skill drain is at 2 😅
Love the rise of retro formats coming to the forefront, stopped playing modern yugioh a while back but just starting playing Edison a year ago and it pulled me right back in.
Dude this is nuts, I have my zombie deck that is essentially locked in time from when I was in highschool (graduated 2011) and it’s almost beat for beat what you’re showing here! I wasn’t able to play competitively back then due to living in a rural town, but seeing this crop up and the fact I never netdecked is kinda awesome to see.
Yeah if Gage thinks that this deck didn't exist back then he's just wrong.
Please dear lord keep putting out videos like this! Your input on the game is so interesting and you always keep us so engaged. Only issue is that whenever you talk ab a card rarity/format I immediately want to spend more money than I should on cardboard. Keep being great!
i love when this man does deck profiles
I kept my Lightsworn and Blackwing Stun decks for the very reason. I definitely love to play old formats to take a break from the current meta.
I played competitively with some success (big regionals Tops, winter and summer cups finals wins, store championship wins, always top4 player of my local for 3 years, etc) from 2006 to 2012. I think that short period between March 2010 and the release of The Shining Darkness was one of the least fun times I had playing Yu-Gi-Oh in my entire career. I started playing edison online in 2021 because I was bored of playing Goat and at first it seemed fun but after 1 year it became a really obscene format. I started playing IRL edison competitively this year, winning an almost 50 player regional, making top8 at 3 other regionals and coming 11th at two other regionals, still out of 50/60 player. In the Italian national ranking I was in the top 10 of the best Edison players in terms of scores between matches won and lost. All in 4 months of IRL play.
Despite all this good results, I can say that Edison format is the ugliest retro format I've ever played in which the inconsistency of the decks is the true king of the format, where a Brain Control + Caius is enough to change the game, where Trap Dustshoot in turn 1 is often GG and a opponent summoning DAD in late game often put you in a unrecoverable position.
Initially I didn't understand why so many people were passionate about such a bad format but then I think I understood, it's a format where even a bad player with a little luck can win, where you can build very junk decks but just throw 3 caius into them, Ryko and Hamster to make it run a minimum, where floodgates are often a death sentence and games almost won are lost by randomly topdecked Brain control.
On the other hand, I remember with much more sympathy Edison's handsome brother, namely the Lightsworn format, September 2009 banlist, same card pool as Edison but differently banned which makes all decks as consistent as possible. I say this as a person who played rogue decks and not lightsworn or twilight in that format and in which I won a lot despite not playing T1.
Honestly, there are many other beautiful retro formats, such as September 2007 pre-release of LADD (and without prize cards), September 2009 or September 2011 (Tengu plant) that for a year of online gaming experience, hasn't frustrated me as much as playing edison, it always gives me a idea of relax in the game and I never feel the impending inconsistency on the decks (perhaps because engines are not nerfed? Or maybe handtraps like max c or veiler reward skillful players and not the sacky ones). I remain of the idea that if it was necessary to choose a retro format from the 5Ds era, to be resurrected after Goat, September 2009 it would be been a thousand times better than edison.
Okay i'm basically a combo player and edison has become a format with an average of 11/12 backrows per deck where have some interactive fun is nowadays pretty impossible but I still think that Lightsworn format is better than edison. Not judge it from its cover, if you havent play it historically cant understand.
My 2 cents
How can you complain about DAD and Brain control stealing games, then promote the Judgment Dragon format?
Here's another one.
Did you play that format competitively at the time?
It wasn't simply "I summon JD, gg", if you analyze the tops of the time (5 SJCS occurred in these 6 months, so the players had more time to test and optimize the decks, not like in the original SJCS Edison where there was essentially no a defined meta and everyone played whatever they liked), it can be noted that different strategies were playable and could easily perform well in a tournament with hundreds of participants. Blackwings, Vayu Turbo, Chaos Control, Zombie Tele Dad, Diva Zombie, Norleras turbo even Gladiator Beasts and Spaceships could top a tournament, not to mention all the hybridizations between zombie and lightsworn or, in a more modern key, Diva hero.
Between Edison and Lightsworn format the only difference is the banlist, the card pool is practically the same. But closed-minded people think that Lightsworn would be mono meta, when in fact it was a much more varied format than it might seem and very distant from situations like those of Tele Dad (tier 0 format) or the format before where there were Bw- Synchro Cat- Lightsworn - Blacksalvo - GBs (rogue) and no other playable strategies. Lightsworn format is Edison but with extreme consistency, edison is rubbish in comparison, in Edison even blackwing or other T1s could brick in a really bad way. However, stay close-minded and continue to promote a toxic, sack-based format.
It seems obvious but in Lightsworn format you have 3 Necro Gardna, 3 Tragoedia and 1 Gorz, and even maindecking Threathering Roar is not such an uncommon choice. The problem is Edison, in its entirety, rather than Judgment Dragon in Lightsworn format. I remember well that Lightsworn full power often risked losing to auto crush precisely because the decks were designed to counter it. And in any case if a deck like that of Ryan Spicer (Destiny-Chaos) made the top 8 in SJCS Austin, also making the whole Swiss undefeated, in a lightsworn centric format I don't see why we should worry about losing Judgment Dragon, simply edison is a additive format where I can lose even against a bad noob who doesn't know how to play, while in Lightsworn format the consistency of the decks and their design statistically prevents you from losing because you brick. This is the only truth. Edison is the worst retro format of the 5Ds era.@@JustinMadrid-z7e
If feel like your perspective is correct ...for you from a very subjective point of view. Finding attraction and later satisfaction in a given format depends on so many variables that you just cannot objectively define the best format. This being applicable to today´s modern formats and to older ones. Ofc, major problems being determined by most people is a common factor to share and discuss about.
But reading your extremely elaborated paragraphs, I can clearly see that these comments of yours are showing something else as well. Cant really tell what it is. But it is something very personal. Maybe your positive memories about that time. Maybe the importance of the hobby for you at that time. Maybe the achievments you gathered back then, which are maybe missing now. I read this comment of yours and it felt like trying to convince people that the format you chose for you to be the better one would also be the better one for everyone else. This just won´t work. You won´t find the large acceptance you are looking for on the internet. Better work to build sth in your local area for fans of that format yourself. Invest your energy into such things. @@goldeneramanagement.official
You're right, I appreciate you taking the time to respond equally as articulately to my comment. Between 2007 and the end of 2009 I had all my greatest successes as a Yugioh player. In general I think that 2009 was my peak as a player because in that year I won the Store Championship, Winter and Summer Cup, practically the best player of the year in my local (which was, in terms of level at the time, one of the best and most difficult in Italy, we have had 3 national champions in our store), as well as several placements in important tournaments and in general a high degree of personal satisfaction with the game.
I never felt like I was in a situation like I do in Edison, with my hands completely thrown away, I was always relaxed and never stressed about playing. I won the Summer Cup playing Volcanic Teledad, a deck of my own invention, defeating a meta made up of zombies, lightsworn and GBs. I have always been a born deckbuilder, in the Edison regionals that I topped/won I never played meta but always particular decks rich in tech and imaginative interactions. This, however, is no longer possible.
Nowadays, as soon as you pick up an old format you try to make everything super control and based on the floodgate a bit like the current advanced format. While in the past there was more of a tendency not to play like this, it's normal, you're no longer a teenager and the approach to the game of an almost 30 year old is different than what a teenager might have had 13/14 years ago.
I probably have distorted memories of the time also due to the fact that many cards were expensive and out of budget for many players and therefore since I could afford them I was stronger than those who didn't have them. In the summer of 2009 I won almost 12 locals in a row...but I was also the only one with CCV in the deck.
Unfortunately in my Edison local (in which there are practically only pro players, and they are all my friends/team mates) we already struggle to organize Tengu Plant tournaments with poor participation, either because perhaps money has already been spent on Edison or because there isn't a circuit with qualifications and prizes up for grabs... it's difficult to convince people to play lightsworn format. Furthermore, seeing how people are online, I'm sure they would manage to ruin that format too. I like to play formats not by modernizing or optimizing them, but in their original quintessence, a bit like in Joe Giorlando's videos on the history of the game. Luckily now I have some friends to play old retro formats with but I remain of the opinion that edison is objectively a format with the worst banlist ever.
Today I’ve done 3-3 on a Edison Regional with another deck of my invention, and guess what?
I haven’t loose because my opponents were more skillful than me, neither because i’ve misplayed, but for bricks.
Damn If I hate this format, I could do better? Maybe, is always like gambling, you do bad but you wanna another chance to win.
@@lifequality
@@goldeneramanagement.official
Don't forget that the internet is a lot more mainstream now than it was in 2009 - 2011. The average sub-human mongrel can simply TH-cam a deck getting first place and copy it card for card and do well. There's no room for innovation anymore because everything is handed to the average player without having to put in any work.
i stopped playing yugioh when the leviathan xyz tin came out. picked the game back up when MACR came out. love that edison has been picking up steam again. very nostalgic format for me
We started doing edison once a month at my locals and I being a HERO fiend was so excited to be able to Crack out some of the old ultis I haven't been able to play with for a long time.
Yo did I see 3 skill drain in the side? It’s only at 2 in Edison.
I took it for granted during this period, but max rarity zombie is GORGEOUS 😍
NEW JERSEY GANG RISE UP
I was there and 13 years later I see this video and I’m already shopping on TCG Player to relive the best YuGiOh era in history. You just had to be there. YuGiOh was something else growing up with all of those great memories.
Edison easily some of the best formats of all time
When describing the Brio, the way he said powerful just ooozed Pittsburgh and it fires me up😂
Gorgeous deck, cut the third Skill Drain though, it's semi-limited!
My Friends Keep Telling Me, Mike Play Edison Format, and I’m Like Ahhh I Might As we’ll Play and Join in on the Fun
Gage Edison era is an insane thing to witness
man I miss seeing that old layout. It brings back feelings of the simpler old days
I stopped playing Yu-Gi-Oh! back in 2006. So, I never knew the Edison format. Thank you for making a video about it!
Still the best Yu-Gi-Oh content creator when it comes to vlog type and deck profile videos imo! Gage you need to give us more content like this! Thanks
This is like a really good intro into why Edison os so beloved. Keep it up Mr. Gage
I think this is the last format where the battle recruiters were relevant.
Setting Heavy Storm, and then you see your opponent commit to their backrow by setting 3-5 cards and then flipping Heavy Storm on your turn… That’s we call “Pro Set Heavy” back in the day. 😎
Thanks a bunch for the high quality deck profile! Been in love with Edison for months and I don't see it stopping anytime soon.
Love seeing Konami show some love to more legacy formats at official events. Kind of makes me feel like getting back in to irl yugioh. We'll have to see though. I was never really all that good and giving people more time to study a set in stone format likely doesn't breed an edge in my favor. Great video tho. Always a fan of your content!
I grew up in edison new jersey it's so wild to hear your hometown has it's own format.
Gage pronouncing Tragoedia with the e is a pronunciation I've never heard before.
Everyone pronounces with a silent e.
And he's the only one to pronounce it correctly!
Is it cause He’s a Goetic demon? A tragic one perhaps?
One of my favorite formats. Edison and GOAT are really fun, diverse and standout formats!
I know some people say that set rotations might fix the issue... but honestly it's more than that as the flavors of each era of yugioh were different and it especially shows in some of their attempts to reprint or retrain some of the decks.
I would say 2010 yugioh had a good share of what people liked with the older formats as some effects were more manageable to keep track of than others... but not as slow as some of the early versions of yugioh.
Personally I think Yugioh needs more Era format events. They are fun and help breath new life into the game as Magic the Gathering has three different versions running about... Rotation, Commander, and All Eras. Yugioh just has... well... main format... and then the games. Oh sure Speed Duels are a thing, but they don't really host or announce most of them and even buying those cards online has them get mixed up with main line yugioh.
Yugioh just needs more formats and spices as not everyone is a fan of modern Yugioh... or as the bad joke goes... not getting a hand trap on your first draw and waiting ten minutes for your opponent to finish their play.
Saw this opening YT. Haven’t played the game since 5D era, nice to see older decks I played way back seeing play! Makes me want to dust off the binder and build Zombies, Six Sams and Plants for nostalgia even though I’m not likely to get back in the game.
I don't think I would've had the amount of excitement I had finding 2 common Goblin Zombies in the bulk at my locals without Edison being so popular
It's a really popular misconception that some of these decks didn't exist in 2010. They did! Diva zombie had several tops in the format right before edison. Diva hero, vayu turbo, etc. all existed back then too. What HAS changed a lot is that the meta is much more refined, and these decks are better in the edison cardpool than we thought previously
Yeah Gage is often really confidently wrong about stuff lol
But I would have been shocked if no one had figured out making Brionac to search Mezuki lol
Is really cool that edison is so popular but i think tengu is also an interesting format i hope get more attention
Love Edison format
I love this!!! You’ve inspired me to build a deck.
Imma play 96(?) OCG format where it’s just 3 of each Exodia piece. Oh and Witch and Sangan trigger when discarded.
My advanced zombie deck from back then teched a couple of terraformings with mainboard 2 zombie world + 2 geartown, along with a single crossout for those pesky lightsworn doggies.
hard to pay attention to the video when the person in it is so gosh darn attractive
I love the Edison and goat formats, games dont go too quick, not 5+ omninegate boards to encounter your first turn, actually some back and forth, and this is the way I like my YGO experience :)
That deck looks so clean! I hope you can make some more Edison content. Maybe Edison local tourney videos at least!
Man now I really need to see you play some matches in Edison
I'm waiting for the duelist alliance Era to become popular. So much diversity. So many cool strategies. Anyone could win if they could pilot their deck
Man, some of those trap cards take me back! Thanks Gage!
2010 is when I got back into Yugioh in Highschool. Peak Edison format and it was the most fun time playing all sorts of decks.
Edison is a good gateway to retro formats. It is missing something though that allows more counterplay and more possibilities in deck building since some few cards and strats can gatekeep a lot of decks in edison format - frogs, absolute zero, ryko caius are difficult to deal with. I think tengu format (the format following edison) allows more diversity since it has more generic staples that allow more counterplay + deck consistency - effect veiler, solemn warning, pot of duality to name a few as well as a much wider synchro pool that allow you to get rid of cards without having to wait to draw the out - scrap dragon, trish for example
Such good quality editing and commentary. I enjoy your videos very much
It’s can honestly be a little scary to get into a new format. I finally decided to jump into it though, been playing Yugioh Tag Force 5 on the PSP. It’s great building deck lists being created today and learn how to play them. So much fun easier to learn now.
For people looking for popular side deck cards and not quite sure where to start:
Cyber Dragon: sided against any machine deck so you can suck up their machines for Fortress Dragon
D. D. Crow: sided against Vayu Turbo, Zombie, and anything else that has plentiful graveyard interactions
Pulling the Rug: any deck that runs the two prevalent monarchs (Caius and Raiza).
Shadow imprisoning mirror: mostly good against Zombie and Blackwings
Light imprisoning mirror: fantastic against fairies and lightsworn
Thunder King Rai-Oh: good against synchro heavy decks
Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo: same as thunder king, good against special heavy decks
Snowman eater: bulky monster that can pop face up monsters
Nobleman of Crossout: really good against lightsworn or any deck that mains Ryko
Ryko, lightsworn hunter: good generic field removal, synergizes well with graveyard heavy decks
Dust Tornado: good to side against heavy back row decks
Royal oppression: extremely good tech to slow down the game, hurts a lot of special heavy decks.
Skill drain: similar to oppression, helps slow down the game and deal with problematic boards.
These are just a few of the many popular side deck cards in the format. Find out what others in your area play and side against them!
what do you guys think of zombie world in this deck? obviously you cant go into caius anymore but it seems to be broken combined with book of life and mezuki
Ran into your video by chance. Brings back a lot of memories. I guess you can put me among the boomers as this format was the one I enjoyed the most. Ever since YuGiOh became the who goes first, does a billion things on the first turn, played half of his deck, lock you out kind of thing... I literally lost interest and moved on. If this becomes a thing again, maybe I may pick up the game again. But enough of me, Great Video btw. Cheers mate!
Looking back at all these beautiful high rarities I used to have makes me both nostalgic and sad I don't have them anymore.
My personal Edison format deck:
Monsters:
40x Blackwing - Kalut the Moonshadow
cant win any match up
I really want Nekroz format tl be popular. It had its issues, but loved the deck selection available for the format.
@@silentbandit1291 Could player the later version of the format, where Djinn got banned. Only issue then would be towers.
Love this kind of videos
beautiful deck!! well made and informative video
Be honest, this was just a reason to show off your high rarity edison deck, and i love it.
Lol i remember snowmageddon, when atlanta received 1.5 inches of snow and was shut down for a week.
"i summon Gorz"
- PTSD Flashback.
Love the format and I love this video, great deck profile man
Good to see you playing the correct versions of Stardust and Black Rose. :)
Ghost Rare is nicer. Trust me, have a ghost rare black rose
Edison format so popular, they named a whole city in New Jersey after it
People always talking about synchros being new during Edison but they were out for like 2 years (Ocg) and like a year and half (tcg)
You said armory arm does piercing which is untrue it does effect damage equal to the destroyed monsters attack
That Trap Dustshoot looks like one of your emblems right there (if Prog is anything to go by)
Is it me or is there only 39 cards on the main? 20 mons, 9 spells, 10 traps?
My exact count
That was a really good overview by Gage and awesome to see that Edison is getting more and more popular as the time goes by. Goat format is cool but this one seems like the better option.
What about Emergency Teleport and Destiny Hero Malicious?
Emergency Teleport was immediately one of the most popular card among Stardust Dragon, Charge of the light brigade and Thought Ruler.
still playing thought ruler archfiend these days lol, my favourite card of all time
Fun fact since I counted wayyyyy to many times and in fact re created it in master duel twice:there is only 39 cards in the main deck
I’d love to play Edison in person unfortunately haven’t found anything near Pittsburgh
I used to play Lightsworns in Edison nowadays I play Dragons decks
This brings back yugioh tag force era days
I brought my own zombie deck to the YCS Philly Edison side events. I wish I got to play Gage in the mirror
Recently, I just decided to play only edison and tengu but continue collecting modern cards. I'll wait for the prices to drop in order to collect it. And this way, I can save because this is not a cheap hobby lol
I'm still going strong with Lightsworn, it's hella fun.
Havent played anything yugioh in a hot minute, but Synchros and 5Ds were and ARE my obssession. Definitely gonna make an Edison deck to keep as I decide what to do with my years of collecting (bulk lol)
2010… good times. Used to save up my allowance to buy cards!
Unfortunately, I started playing ygo 2 months ago but I think I would have liked to play in this old format
The whole point of the video is that you still can
God this brings me back, staying up all night copying the deck profiles into dueling network (book) Edison will always will be my favorite format 🥲
Edison gang
I’ve made a total of 15 decks with current cards and the ones my friends use the most are
Six samurai
Gravekeeper
Blackwing
Because they’re all from 2011 and are easy and fun to play
thanks Gage for driving prices even higher :'D
What's your 40th card? This deck profile only has 39 cards in your main deck.
As someone who plays the 5ds tag force games i agree
Okay, dumb question: do you need the printings of the cards from back in that era to play them legally in Edison format? For example, if I wanted to play Stardust Dragon, would I need to get a printing that was available back during that time?
No you can play with any printing. Just keep in mind older printings of some cards are un-erratad. So cards like Brionac and Goyo still play with their old text
@@Nyhmnim Awesome. Thank you, sir!
Edison best format
Jo hot deck.. but please doublesleeve these gems!! ^^
HAT needs love next!
I need to play some max rarity Mermails again man.
HAT format is insanely fun
Hat in my opinion is the best past format but damn maxx c at three and it's $15 a copy so you have to keep switching them out and it's more expensive than Edison.
I remember HAT format, was a good time, especially with Nhymnim's video on soul charge x)
HAT was crap
you cannot make me play 1 torrential tribute in every deck if you held me at gunpoint
Please could you make more videos following this format 👊🏼
Interested in getting back into yugioh but I’m turned off by the modern game. I’m sure I speak for many in my position… does this Edison format seem to have legs for longterm or do you think it is a good gateway into the modern format?
My guy you have 3 Skill Drain in the side. Is it really that hard to just take a look at the banlist and see it’s at 2?