@@timbusfahrer3172 mbt replayed it over and over and over on stream because someone said that they missed the beginning of an episode, making it into a bit
Being a yugizoomer myself, I never knew how much history Burning abyss actually holds. People do talk about Nekroz being a tier 0 deck, or Qli having the first relevant Towers monster, while Shaddolls were quite popular and some of the monsters even relevant today. But turns out BA was quite the menace at its peak as well. Thank you Farfa for history lessons
Guys wanna know the best part? There are 2 more poems, they can still make BA support but do it like modern archtypes with purgatorio and paradiso being like tearlaments and kash for visas.
2015 was when i rediscovered Yugioh and fell in love with it. Burning Abyss was the 1st competitive deck that I bought and put together, and nearly 10 years later is still the best purchase ive made in paper ever! BA best deck, always been best deck!
Try my decklist: Main Deck: 1x Orbital Hydralander 1x Barbar, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x Cir, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 1x Cagna, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 1x Calcab, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x Libic, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 1x Alich, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 1x Draghig, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x Farfa, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x Graff, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 3x Tour Guide From the Underworld 1x The Phantom Knights of Ragged Gloves 2x Scarm, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x The Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak 3x The Phantom Knights of Silent Boots 1x Rubic, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 1x Reinforcement of the Army 1x Pot of Avarice 1x Card Destruction 1x The Beginning of the End 1x Foolish Burial 1x Monster Reborn 1x The Phantom Knights' Rank-Up-Magic Launch 1x Forbidden Droplet 1x Mask Change II 3x Phantom Knights' Fog Blade --------- Extra Deck: 1x Dante, Pilgrim of the Burning Abyss 1x Masked HERO Dark Law 1x Virgil, Rock Star of the Burning Abyss 1x D/D/D Deviser King Deus Machinex 1x Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal 1x Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon 1x Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon 1x The Phantom Knights of Break Sword 1x D/D/D Stone King Darius 1x Leviair the Sea Dragon 3x Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss 2x Cherubini, Ebon Angel of the Burning Abyss
The best BA deck: Main Deck: 1x Orbital Hydralander 1x Barbar, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x Cir, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 1x Cagna, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 1x Calcab, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x Libic, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 1x Alich, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 1x Draghig, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x Farfa, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x Graff, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 3x Tour Guide From the Underworld 1x The Phantom Knights of Ragged Gloves 2x Scarm, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x The Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak 3x The Phantom Knights of Silent Boots 1x Rubic, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss 2x Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 1x Reinforcement of the Army 1x Pot of Avarice 1x Card Destruction 1x The Beginning of the End 1x Foolish Burial 1x Monster Reborn 1x The Phantom Knights' Rank-Up-Magic Launch 1x Forbidden Droplet 1x Mask Change II 3x Phantom Knights' Fog Blade --------- Extra Deck: 1x Dante, Pilgrim of the Burning Abyss 1x Masked HERO Dark Law 1x Virgil, Rock Star of the Burning Abyss 1x D/D/D Deviser King Deus Machinex 1x Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal 1x Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon 1x Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon 1x The Phantom Knights of Break Sword 1x D/D/D Stone King Darius 1x Leviair the Sea Dragon 3x Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss 2x Cherubini, Ebon Angel of the Burning Abyss Try it and let me know!!!
I enjoyed this video thoroughly! Didnt expect this quality from you. You should consider doing these type of storytelling videos from time to time. Really hit the mark on this one!
As a shaddoll main, I respect our demonic literary sibling a lot, being part of the reason why DA was so defining for the game and each archetype from it still finding relevance from time to time.
Secrets of Eternity was released in January 2015. This set introduced the Infernoids, a series of monsters that can Special Summon themselves to the field by banishing other Infernoids from either the hand or graveyard. Notable cards in the set include Farfa, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss, Qliphort Monolith, Uni-Zombie, Nephe Shaddoll Fusion, and a card that would bolster Satellarknight to combat the Burning Abyss Shaddoll meta, Stellarknight Constellar Diamond.
This archetype always seemed like such an anomaly to me. "Destroyed when a non-BA is on the field", "Can special summon itself if you control no spell/traps" on a card... but it was played a lot with other archetypes AND played a lot as a control deck with floodgates? I remember playing against PK Fire in 2016 at my locals and the entire concept of combining B.A with PK was just baffling. In retrospect, the pseudo-xenolock destruction effect was a boon shaped as a restriction, since it sometimes allowed the BA to get from the field to the GY without the need for a specific effect or without even summoning an Xyz. And not being able to special summon the Malebranches from the hand was just... unsignificant a large majority of the time, because you would summon them in the early game, and later, you would rather activate their GY effect when given the choice. Those were fake issues. So in the end it's not surprising the deck ended up OK even in the Link era, it just obtained easier ways to send the B.As from the field to the GY. I think that's the most incredible aspect of Burning Abyss during the course of its lifespan: everything that should have hurt the cards or the deck, ended up either as another boon, or it was just not hurting the deck enough to matter. I can't think of another archetype who did it. Dante is an absurdly lucky guy.
Burning Abyss was the first deck I picked up when I started playing yugioh again in 2014. I won 2 tournaments with the deck and topped locals all the time. Favorite deck of all time for me! Love the artwork, Love the mechanics, Love the graveyard/mill strategy, Love the versatility. Farfa i'm right there with you. BA best deck
14:48 This set introduced the Infernoids, a series of monsters that can Special Summon themselves to the field by banishing other Infernoids from either the hand or graveyard. Notable cards in set include Farfa, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss, Qliphort Monolith, Uni-Zombie, Nephe Shaddoll Fusion, and a card that would bolster Satellarknight to combat the Burning Abyss Shaddoll meta, Stellarknight Constellar Diamond. In this series, both Nyhmnim and myself will be opening 24 booster packs or 1 box of a core Yu-Gi-Oh! booster set. We will build a deck and play a best 2 out of 3, and the winner will receive a small prize to upgrade their deck. HOWEVER! Each episode, we will open another box of the next set that was released moving in chronological order, constantly upgrading our decks before dueling each other at the end of each episode. This is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Progression Series
One of the last decks I played was Tellarknights, which debuted in the TCG at the same time as Burning Abyss. I played for a couple more years up until shortly after the PePe deck was nerfed by an emergency banlist. I have fond memories of having played it with friends at college, and I still keep tabs on the game despite not playing anymore. Crazy how fast time flies.
BA is still such a cool archetype to me. It actually got me interested in literature a bit and I started to read Dante's Inferno. I didn't finish it because it was awful to read but I love that the game got me into actively educating myself on the inspiration for archetypes and topics outside of Yugi.
Burning Abyss is my favourite deck exactly because of his capacity to be spalashable and adapt to the circumstances. I've seen the clip with Michael Forner at 53:00 and I have a BA story about us ahha. I remember we both topped a regional (respectively, 3th and 4th place) in Italy in january 2017, right before the release of Zodiac (I feel like the D/D/D structure deck was going to release the week after). The meta at the time was, in fact, Majespecter/Pendulum mash-ups, Paleozoic and ABC. I ran BA Infernoid (that deck carried me undefeated in locals at the time since october 2016 till the release of Zodiac) and the deck was surprisingly good. You would go very often into F0 if you needed to take out some hard to beat monsters, steal opponent's monsters, and then tribute them off via Seitsemas/Attondel before giving them back to the opponent. Seitsemas was also a non-target banish, and you could use any Infernoid to tribute a Dante (with materials under) or a rhino warrior to trigger more effects. In that event (fairly alright in terms of dimensions, it was 7 turns) Forner instead was playing literal Pure BA. With DAD, BLS...it was incredible overall to see BA thriving even there inn such different forms
outside of Beatrice not long for this world I think one of the main reasons why BA didn't get killed is largely because the deck is well fair it's not overly oppressive and isn't something everyone will want to play but just enough people will like to play it that it isn't a Tier 0 deck but a GOOD deck that can top with a good player behind it.
Oh, is this a remake of the "Legacy of the Burning Abyss" video? Great stuff. Can't wait to watch. Looking it up, I can't believe it's already been 7 years. Makes me feel ancient.
i remember someone telling me in like 2016 when i wanted to play dark world that they wouldnt while "decks like burning abyss are around". so i still very much remember BA as a relevant deck in my early yugioh days
This is unironically the best video you've ever made (imo that I've seen). I'm sure it'd be super hard to do a similar video like this without the same passion for the subject, but it'd be super cool to see more retrospective stuff from you.
True, but I don't see a video like this doing well in terms of views. From a content creators perspective, this video seems more like a passion project than a good successful video.
So, a theme with unique and interesting art and design, good balancing and reasonable restrictions, combined with great generic support and synergy with other themes released at the time make a balanced and long term viable competitive deck?! Huh... who would have thought. Guess Konami really can design good cards if they want to... or they just forget how to I guess. Thanks Farfa, for one of the best possible tributes to one of Yu-Gi-Oh's most iconic decks ever printed! You and your team did an outstanding job, truly, thank you for this amazing video.
Burning Abyss last topped a 250 person UK remote duel extravaganza in 2021, before that it's previous two tops were 2019's 455 person YCS Sao Paolo, and before that, it was semi-consistently topping in 2016 and previous, with a single top in 2017 (all of tier 2 competitive events, sourced from ygoprodeck)
BAs really were hella versatile. A friend of mine got me into yugioh in 2014 and he got me my first deck which was Dark World. That deck if I’m remembering correctly ran 2 Scarm to search out either Tour Guide or Broww. Ah good times
PK fire has to be one of my favourite decks I’ve played. That second triangle format of kozmo, monarch and PK Fire was so fun and I haven’t seen a format that diverse until AGOV with YCS Bolognia.
For those of you who lack the understanding of how to use the fabled field spell. You can loop fabled grimro + the new lvl 2 tuner+ field spell to loop grimro 2-3 times to extend your combo. At the expense of 2 random cards in hand. One grimro in rotation is the equivalent of a plus 3. At the least plus 2.
It's funny though. As a Qliphort player, I rarely had issues beating Burning Abyss despite Qliphort traditionally having a bad matchup against the deck
It will be the excuse to give us the useless well-balanced summon locking support that's usually held back until it can ruin the second wave of TCG decks.
@@markburns2621 except BA was a TCG Exclusive archetype, which means that after it gets its OCG support, that's it. It got Cherubini later, sure. But TCG Exclusive archetypes almost never get additional support after their second TCG wave and 1 OCG Band-Aid.
I’m going to make a bold statement and say BA is just good spell/trap support away for it to be great again. You don’t power creep Scarm, Graff, Cir, and Dante. Those are legendary effects that are rare to be found in one archetype.
I'm really hoping the deck gets support sometime in the future, I loved it back in 2016 when I was heavily playing, and it helped me get back in in 2024 In fact I'm pretty sure I played BA at the 2016 YCS in Minneapolis lol
This is an amazing video and I know it was done because it’s your fav deck so it’s more of a special ocassion, but I wouldn’t mind if you revisited other decks in this type of format.
Zeus: YOU HAVE NO HOPE!!!!! **board wipes** Dodge th--Dante!!!! Dante: ALRIGHT!!!!! **targets Cir** That’s a MAHVEL reference for you BA players. GOAT reference for another GOAT
Watching all the matches where people do that weird “card shuffling thing in hand” with like 2-3 cards always irks me, like calm down buddy it’s still YOUR turn 😭😭😭😭
I rember at locals time was called, so I activated twin twister targeting my opponents activated pot of desires by discarding barbar. Ah the good old days
A small nitpick: Cir is supposed to be pronounced as "cheer" and not "seer", since it has an Italian etymology, derived from the word for "pig" or "hog".
2021-2022 ba was an engine for phantom knights. Oh how the tables turned. Ba used to be my most hated deck in 2014 because I loved shaddolls and yang zing but 2016 with pk fire I enjoyed the deck for the first time and metalfoes,pk fire where my two decks for 2016 and it was probably the most amount of fun I had playing Yu-Gi-Oh.
I've got no jokes for the haha BA man, this is just one of the greatest documentaries in Yugioh's history. A phenomenal view into truly one of the greatest competitive decks in this game's history. Congratulations on releasing this one Farfa, it's a work of art.
True, but I don't see a video like this doing well in terms of views. From a content creators perspective, this video seems more like a passion project than a good successful video.
Ngl, BA has always been that "that yugituber's 1 trick" to me. It felt like it never did anything other than sit on Dante and pray to RNG-sus, even after they tech'ed in PK
when Gabe Vargus played that remote duel list he practiced during remote duel weeklies i entered, and i played him in the finals of one, let me tell you, the Earth Machine vs Burning Abyss matchup is as abyssmal as you think it is! him and i drew and his whole chat was like "wtf is an infinitrack monster"
The time BA came out was right around the time I got back into Yugioh, and even though I didnt really keep up with the metagame or play BA, this was a great trip down memory lane.
Thank you for this trip down memory lane. As a yugi…boomer? (I really started playing in Duelist Alliance) the ARC-V era feels like the golden age of yugioh, and not many decks exemplify the design philosophy of the era like BA. Strong, consistent, adaptable, resilient, but with clearly defined weaknesses that encouraged clever deckbuilding. Here’s to another 10 years of Dante!
I played shaddolls back in the day and I can confirm everyone overlooked ba. At first everyone glanced at the archetype and said “how does it even win”. Bro it crushes your spirit by grinding your soul from your body. Fortune tune wasn’t mentioned but between it and astral force it was literally impossible to remove it all if they pulled you into the late game. That being said I probably had the most fun in that meta before the support came for all of the tier 1 decks and the triangle formed
cir target dante dante target cir
-we all say in unity
TrollDespair
Been saying that for 10 years now lol
True..
cl3 TrollDespair
“Sure grandpa we can play some GOAT format after we wheel you back to the retirement home…”
“I’m 31 for god’s sake! I play burning abyss!”
Peak video
I hope that this saying becomes a common phrase
OG joke from the @RedMufflerMan Joey vs Weevil Modern Video, go watch it viewers!
And to think this all started because a card designer thought Card Trooper and Italian poetry were really cool.
Don't forget lightsworn being one of the designs. One of the first mill archetypes
I wish GlasgowYGO be alive to see this
I heard the dude still around, he spotted comment on master duel meta meme of the week a while ago, maybe he became casual and only play Master Duel
You know Farfa took this video seriously when he didn't say the Secrets of Eternity copy pasta when it came up.
Why is that specific opening of the progression series a meme? Just because he says Farfa?
@timbusfahrer3172 honestly I have no clue.
@@timbusfahrer3172 mbt replayed it over and over and over on stream because someone said that they missed the beginning of an episode, making it into a bit
@@timbusfahrer3172 the white man replayed that opening 30+ times in his reaction stream when it got released, that's why
@@timbusfahrer3172it was Joseph repeating too many times because he bored or something
Being a yugizoomer myself, I never knew how much history Burning abyss actually holds. People do talk about Nekroz being a tier 0 deck, or Qli having the first relevant Towers monster, while Shaddolls were quite popular and some of the monsters even relevant today. But turns out BA was quite the menace at its peak as well. Thank you Farfa for history lessons
"First relevant Towers monster" It birthed the term Towers with Apoqliphort Towers 😭. We need a retro format for this era like TOSS format
@@traplover6357 Reading the full name again brings me shivers, pure nightmare fuel
WHAT!!!!!! THE MOST IMPORTANT BA CARD IN TDIL IS SNOW!!!!!!! WE CANT BE FRIENDS ANYMORE
18 likes and no comments? let me fix that
JESSEE
The most important BA card is clearly Unchained Sharvara :)
4:23 gage jumpscare holy shit
Literally screamed GAGEEE when I heard him
To quote Dzeef: "Why BA no die?!"
there is burning abyss support in the making
I can feel it.
Is one of the most popular TCG Exclusive Decks I hope so too,
When Beatrice gets banned they need a new Bossmonster
Beatrice Lady of the Burning Abyss. Exact same effect as OG, but you can only use her effect if she has a Dante monster attached to her as material.
@@liloldman5998 improve her if she's getting BA locked imo
Would making Beatrice require 3 materials fix her at all?
It would make it a lot harder to hard make her
@@Dingg00se The best fix would be a retrain that restricts her to dumping BA cards exclusively. Lavalval Chains should not be in the game
In these 10 years, you went from a Malebranch of the Burning Abyss to a Father of the Burning Abyss. Congrats Nadhir!
Guys wanna know the best part? There are 2 more poems, they can still make BA support but do it like modern archtypes with purgatorio and paradiso being like tearlaments and kash for visas.
They Could Also Make A Field Spell Of The 10 Malebolge
The Siren from Purgatorio in Canto 19 was always memorable for me…so much more lore to tap into 👍
Bleak Expanse?
Bright Empyrean?
Got em to start with B , can't figure out A words for the second...
XD
@@Ramsey276one Bleak Absence Bright Anavrin (nirvana backwards)
@@Ramsey276oneBeautiful Atonement works perfect for Purgatory.
I cant wait for the quarter century documentary
The fact this entire video can be summarized with the quote "How are you not dead?" "I have no idea!"
“Why the BA no die?”
2015 was when i rediscovered Yugioh and fell in love with it. Burning Abyss was the 1st competitive deck that I bought and put together, and nearly 10 years later is still the best purchase ive made in paper ever!
BA best deck, always been best deck!
31:28 take a shot every time the player on the left checks his 2 backrow
Dear god I just counted and this mf checks the same back row 13 times! 4 of those were back-to-back. Man’s got shorter term memory than Goldfish
its like checking the fridge if something new magically spawned in it
I counted 24 times, once the card description was in the way it was hard to see if he checked more than that. LMAO. Bro in schizo mode.
I was expecting him to just read the Divine Comedy with funny voices and shitposts. I'm disappointed
I recently fell in love with BA. The artwork is insane.
Try my decklist:
Main Deck:
1x Orbital Hydralander
1x Barbar, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x Cir, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
1x Cagna, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
1x Calcab, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x Libic, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
1x Alich, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
1x Draghig, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x Farfa, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x Graff, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
3x Tour Guide From the Underworld
1x The Phantom Knights of Ragged Gloves
2x Scarm, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x The Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak
3x The Phantom Knights of Silent Boots
1x Rubic, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
1x Reinforcement of the Army
1x Pot of Avarice
1x Card Destruction
1x The Beginning of the End
1x Foolish Burial
1x Monster Reborn
1x The Phantom Knights' Rank-Up-Magic Launch
1x Forbidden Droplet
1x Mask Change II
3x Phantom Knights' Fog Blade
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Extra Deck:
1x Dante, Pilgrim of the Burning Abyss
1x Masked HERO Dark Law
1x Virgil, Rock Star of the Burning Abyss
1x D/D/D Deviser King Deus Machinex
1x Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal
1x Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon
1x Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon
1x The Phantom Knights of Break Sword
1x D/D/D Stone King Darius
1x Leviair the Sea Dragon
3x Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss
2x Cherubini, Ebon Angel of the Burning Abyss
The best BA deck:
Main Deck:
1x Orbital Hydralander
1x Barbar, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x Cir, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
1x Cagna, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
1x Calcab, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x Libic, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
1x Alich, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
1x Draghig, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x Farfa, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x Graff, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
3x Tour Guide From the Underworld
1x The Phantom Knights of Ragged Gloves
2x Scarm, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x The Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak
3x The Phantom Knights of Silent Boots
1x Rubic, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss
2x Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
1x Reinforcement of the Army
1x Pot of Avarice
1x Card Destruction
1x The Beginning of the End
1x Foolish Burial
1x Monster Reborn
1x The Phantom Knights' Rank-Up-Magic Launch
1x Forbidden Droplet
1x Mask Change II
3x Phantom Knights' Fog Blade
---------
Extra Deck:
1x Dante, Pilgrim of the Burning Abyss
1x Masked HERO Dark Law
1x Virgil, Rock Star of the Burning Abyss
1x D/D/D Deviser King Deus Machinex
1x Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal
1x Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon
1x Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon
1x The Phantom Knights of Break Sword
1x D/D/D Stone King Darius
1x Leviair the Sea Dragon
3x Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss
2x Cherubini, Ebon Angel of the Burning Abyss
Try it and let me know!!!
Nice tribute Farfa. It's cool that you made this, it shows your passion for the game which every player should have in one form or another.
Old man talk about old deck for an hour
Well done Farfa, the original video is by far my favorite video you have ever made and I'm so happy that its been given its worthy sequel.
I enjoyed this video thoroughly! Didnt expect this quality from you. You should consider doing
these type of storytelling videos from time to time. Really hit the mark on this one!
As a shaddoll main, I respect our demonic literary sibling a lot, being part of the reason why DA was so defining for the game and each archetype from it still finding relevance from time to time.
Secrets of Eternity was released in January 2015. This set introduced the Infernoids, a series of monsters that can Special Summon themselves to the field by banishing other Infernoids from either the hand or graveyard. Notable cards in the set include Farfa, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss, Qliphort Monolith, Uni-Zombie, Nephe Shaddoll Fusion, and a card that would bolster Satellarknight to combat the Burning Abyss Shaddoll meta, Stellarknight Constellar Diamond.
This archetype always seemed like such an anomaly to me. "Destroyed when a non-BA is on the field", "Can special summon itself if you control no spell/traps" on a card... but it was played a lot with other archetypes AND played a lot as a control deck with floodgates? I remember playing against PK Fire in 2016 at my locals and the entire concept of combining B.A with PK was just baffling.
In retrospect, the pseudo-xenolock destruction effect was a boon shaped as a restriction, since it sometimes allowed the BA to get from the field to the GY without the need for a specific effect or without even summoning an Xyz. And not being able to special summon the Malebranches from the hand was just... unsignificant a large majority of the time, because you would summon them in the early game, and later, you would rather activate their GY effect when given the choice. Those were fake issues. So in the end it's not surprising the deck ended up OK even in the Link era, it just obtained easier ways to send the B.As from the field to the GY.
I think that's the most incredible aspect of Burning Abyss during the course of its lifespan: everything that should have hurt the cards or the deck, ended up either as another boon, or it was just not hurting the deck enough to matter. I can't think of another archetype who did it. Dante is an absurdly lucky guy.
Burning Abyss was the first deck I picked up when I started playing yugioh again in 2014. I won 2 tournaments with the deck and topped locals all the time. Favorite deck of all time for me! Love the artwork, Love the mechanics, Love the graveyard/mill strategy, Love the versatility. Farfa i'm right there with you. BA best deck
Farfa printed Burning Abyss in his garage on pieces of cardboard. Konami merely adapted the cards into yugioh
14:48
This set introduced the Infernoids, a series of monsters that can Special Summon themselves to the field by banishing other Infernoids from either the hand or graveyard. Notable cards in set include Farfa, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss, Qliphort Monolith, Uni-Zombie, Nephe Shaddoll Fusion, and a card that would bolster Satellarknight to combat the Burning Abyss Shaddoll meta, Stellarknight Constellar Diamond. In this series, both Nyhmnim and myself will be opening 24 booster packs or 1 box of a core Yu-Gi-Oh! booster set. We will build a deck and play a best 2 out of 3, and the winner will receive a small prize to upgrade their deck. HOWEVER! Each episode, we will open another box of the next set that was released moving in chronological order, constantly upgrading our decks before dueling each other at the end of each episode. This is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Progression Series
One of the last decks I played was Tellarknights, which debuted in the TCG at the same time as Burning Abyss. I played for a couple more years up until shortly after the PePe deck was nerfed by an emergency banlist. I have fond memories of having played it with friends at college, and I still keep tabs on the game despite not playing anymore. Crazy how fast time flies.
Bro wasn't joking when he said this was in the works😂
BA is still such a cool archetype to me. It actually got me interested in literature a bit and I started to read Dante's Inferno.
I didn't finish it because it was awful to read but I love that the game got me into actively educating myself on the inspiration for archetypes and topics outside of Yugi.
Burning Abyss is my favourite deck exactly because of his capacity to be spalashable and adapt to the circumstances.
I've seen the clip with Michael Forner at 53:00 and I have a BA story about us ahha. I remember we both topped a regional (respectively, 3th and 4th place) in Italy in january 2017, right before the release of Zodiac (I feel like the D/D/D structure deck was going to release the week after).
The meta at the time was, in fact, Majespecter/Pendulum mash-ups, Paleozoic and ABC. I ran BA Infernoid (that deck carried me undefeated in locals at the time since october 2016 till the release of Zodiac) and the deck was surprisingly good. You would go very often into F0 if you needed to take out some hard to beat monsters, steal opponent's monsters, and then tribute them off via Seitsemas/Attondel before giving them back to the opponent. Seitsemas was also a non-target banish, and you could use any Infernoid to tribute a Dante (with materials under) or a rhino warrior to trigger more effects.
In that event (fairly alright in terms of dimensions, it was 7 turns) Forner instead was playing literal Pure BA. With DAD, BLS...it was incredible overall to see BA thriving even there inn such different forms
45:04 rare footage of 2016 josh
Its like it fused whith elon musk
there was some earlier he was on shaddoll
@@darkionizergameplays8809true😂
zombies and BA have been the two decks I've played consistently over the past seven years, nothing else ever really stuck with me
dante never dies
outside of Beatrice not long for this world
I think one of the main reasons why BA didn't get killed is largely because the deck is well fair it's not overly oppressive and isn't something everyone will want to play but just enough people will like to play it that it isn't a Tier 0 deck but a GOOD deck that can top with a good player behind it.
Ah Burning Abyss, two words that most people only ever see in the bit of Beatrice's text that you only ever read once
Oh, is this a remake of the "Legacy of the Burning Abyss" video? Great stuff. Can't wait to watch.
Looking it up, I can't believe it's already been 7 years. Makes me feel ancient.
the yugioh capsule monsters coliseum ost in the background goes SO hard
i remember someone telling me in like 2016 when i wanted to play dark world that they wouldnt while "decks like burning abyss are around". so i still very much remember BA as a relevant deck in my early yugioh days
This is unironically the best video you've ever made (imo that I've seen). I'm sure it'd be super hard to do a similar video like this without the same passion for the subject, but it'd be super cool to see more retrospective stuff from you.
True, but I don't see a video like this doing well in terms of views. From a content creators perspective, this video seems more like a passion project than a good successful video.
So, a theme with unique and interesting art and design, good balancing and reasonable restrictions, combined with great generic support and synergy with other themes released at the time make a balanced and long term viable competitive deck?!
Huh... who would have thought. Guess Konami really can design good cards if they want to... or they just forget how to I guess.
Thanks Farfa, for one of the best possible tributes to one of Yu-Gi-Oh's most iconic decks ever printed! You and your team did an outstanding job, truly, thank you for this amazing video.
i still remember dante being a $25-$30 card and then (it felt like overnight) becoming a $100 secret
Missed opportunity to bring back the endphase outro😭
Jesus Christ SOUL CHARGE era. What an incredible time. 🧙♂️
he actually made it. The absolute mad lad
Burning Abyss last topped a 250 person UK remote duel extravaganza in 2021, before that it's previous two tops were 2019's 455 person YCS Sao Paolo, and before that, it was semi-consistently topping in 2016 and previous, with a single top in 2017 (all of tier 2 competitive events, sourced from ygoprodeck)
Really respect the amount of love you showed your pet deck in this massive video
BAs really were hella versatile. A friend of mine got me into yugioh in 2014 and he got me my first deck which was Dark World. That deck if I’m remembering correctly ran 2 Scarm to search out either Tour Guide or Broww. Ah good times
This video should serve as undeniable proof that floodgates are good for the game.
PK fire has to be one of my favourite decks I’ve played. That second triangle format of kozmo, monarch and PK Fire was so fun and I haven’t seen a format that diverse until AGOV with YCS Bolognia.
For those of you who lack the understanding of how to use the fabled field spell. You can loop fabled grimro + the new lvl 2 tuner+ field spell to loop grimro 2-3 times to extend your combo. At the expense of 2 random cards in hand. One grimro in rotation is the equivalent of a plus 3. At the least plus 2.
aint hearing 54 years old man yapping about his 69 years old petdeck for an hour
Good old days of glasgowYGO
I didn’t realize how much lore Josh had with the paleos… no wonder he got that special spot at Konami
It's funny though. As a Qliphort player, I rarely had issues beating Burning Abyss despite Qliphort traditionally having a bad matchup against the deck
Just u wait until Beatrice gets banned
It will be the excuse to give us the useless well-balanced summon locking support that's usually held back until it can ruin the second wave of TCG decks.
You suck
@@markburns2621 except BA was a TCG Exclusive archetype, which means that after it gets its OCG support, that's it. It got Cherubini later, sure. But TCG Exclusive archetypes almost never get additional support after their second TCG wave and 1 OCG Band-Aid.
@@ThatOneWeirdFlex i mean spyrals did
Excellent video, brother. You can tell lots of research and work went into it. Well done 👏
People are having a conniption seeing Maxx C in the side deck at 3.
I’m going to make a bold statement and say BA is just good spell/trap support away for it to be great again. You don’t power creep Scarm, Graff, Cir, and Dante. Those are legendary effects that are rare to be found in one archetype.
I wasn't expecting to get so emotional by the end! Really well researched and edited video.
Loved this video Farfa. I enjoy when you do content outside of masterduel. Especially when it's about something you're so passionate about
I play this game for 4 years, bro says I just started playing recently
I remember seeing dinh-kha's list. It's actually what got me back into yu-gi-oh back then. Crazy deck.
I love burning abyss i want more support to bring it in line with modern standards. I miss 2014-2017
I needed this.
Thank you Farfa. Really. This bit of nostalgia is what I needed
I'm really hoping the deck gets support sometime in the future, I loved it back in 2016 when I was heavily playing, and it helped me get back in in 2024
In fact I'm pretty sure I played BA at the 2016 YCS in Minneapolis lol
Ah duelist alliance my entry into competitive Yugioh, piloting my still main deck of 10 years Noble Knights
This is an amazing video and I know it was done because it’s your fav deck so it’s more of a special ocassion, but I wouldn’t mind if you revisited other decks in this type of format.
Great content! Love this documentary format, allows me to know the history that I didn't get to live. Keep it up, proud of you.
Zeus: YOU HAVE NO HOPE!!!!! **board wipes** Dodge th--Dante!!!!
Dante: ALRIGHT!!!!! **targets Cir**
That’s a MAHVEL reference for you BA players. GOAT reference for another GOAT
Watching all the matches where people do that weird “card shuffling thing in hand” with like 2-3 cards always irks me, like calm down buddy it’s still YOUR turn 😭😭😭😭
I rember at locals time was called, so I activated twin twister targeting my opponents activated pot of desires by discarding barbar. Ah the good old days
A small nitpick: Cir is supposed to be pronounced as "cheer" and not "seer", since it has an Italian etymology, derived from the word for "pig" or "hog".
Ok, this is Farfa's main deck, I think he knows how to pronounce the cards better then you /s
Wow good to know I've been pronouncing this word incorrectly for 10 years. Good stuff
That was a well done presentation farfa. I appreciate the work you and your team did for this video... I admit I'd like to see this as a series
I feel like we're going to find farfa in the bathroom snorting torn copies of Dante yelling I don't have a problem I don't have a problem
This facility has gone [ 0 ] days without mentioning BA
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2021-2022 ba was an engine for phantom knights. Oh how the tables turned. Ba used to be my most hated deck in 2014 because I loved shaddolls and yang zing but 2016 with pk fire I enjoyed the deck for the first time and metalfoes,pk fire where my two decks for 2016 and it was probably the most amount of fun I had playing Yu-Gi-Oh.
I've got no jokes for the haha BA man, this is just one of the greatest documentaries in Yugioh's history. A phenomenal view into truly one of the greatest competitive decks in this game's history. Congratulations on releasing this one Farfa, it's a work of art.
True, but I don't see a video like this doing well in terms of views. From a content creators perspective, this video seems more like a passion project than a good successful video.
*Me:* "Flying C. Response? Scoop? Ahh, GG."
*Opponent:* "Who tf maindecks 2 Flying C."
And watch this become outdated quickly as burning abyss receives new support
I would love to see burning abyss get support to bring it back into the 2024 meta.
Ngl, BA has always been that "that yugituber's 1 trick" to me. It felt like it never did anything other than sit on Dante and pray to RNG-sus, even after they tech'ed in PK
when Gabe Vargus played that remote duel list he practiced during remote duel weeklies i entered, and i played him in the finals of one, let me tell you, the Earth Machine vs Burning Abyss matchup is as abyssmal as you think it is! him and i drew and his whole chat was like "wtf is an infinitrack monster"
Burning abyss was the deck I played the longest but I'd give a kidney for metalfoes to be playable again
The time BA came out was right around the time I got back into Yugioh, and even though I didnt really keep up with the metagame or play BA, this was a great trip down memory lane.
Thank you for this trip down memory lane. As a yugi…boomer? (I really started playing in Duelist Alliance) the ARC-V era feels like the golden age of yugioh, and not many decks exemplify the design philosophy of the era like BA. Strong, consistent, adaptable, resilient, but with clearly defined weaknesses that encouraged clever deckbuilding.
Here’s to another 10 years of Dante!
The Story of Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Greatest Ever Deck - Oh boy, a monarchs video, cant wait!
I did not realize how long it was topping. Makes that video of Dante dodging the ban list look like an understatement.
BA was just a whole different beast.
We all have a pet deck which we can talk about for 1 hour, that's why I love this game lol
It's nice when you can pinpoint the exact moment in time a game you used to love started going to shit. Thanks for keeping track
9:54 Does anyone know what the misinformation leaks were?
Someone photoshopped Rubic to have a graveyard effect that let you draw 1 card. The irony was that Rubic had no effect whatsoever.
Excited to watch this one. Probably won't get the views it deserves for the length, but i love seeing a passion project. Ty farfa
BA reads like an archetype that shouldn't have been released that early
Very emotional given that Beatrice will be banned in 2 weeks, through no fault of her own other than being generic/ no restriction💔
I think you hit the nail on the head for Golden Age. I still love the game where it's at today but I think that there was something special that era.
As a die hard shaddoll fan, much respect to BA
I played shaddolls back in the day and I can confirm everyone overlooked ba. At first everyone glanced at the archetype and said “how does it even win”. Bro it crushes your spirit by grinding your soul from your body. Fortune tune wasn’t mentioned but between it and astral force it was literally impossible to remove it all if they pulled you into the late game. That being said I probably had the most fun in that meta before the support came for all of the tier 1 decks and the triangle formed
From 7 years ago to 7 hours ago. This will be great.