Back then our banlist was a copy paste of the OCG one, and lightsworn was a TCG exclusive archetype during synchro cat format. Thats the reason it dodged September 2009 bans.
I'll never forget my first duel against a full-on Lightsworn deck... "Why the hell are you milling?" "Wait, you do that every turn!? For each moster!?" "Charge of the what? Oh, you are milling again? 3 for one? That seems busted" "Judgement Dragon? That's why so many went to the GY?" "Oh...!" "Wait it can do that every turn!? "OH!"
JD can nuke multiple times in the same turn too. The deck loves to burn through every resource you have, mill your deck, pay your LP, summon out your hand, and possibly discard it for a Brionac effect. short of a method of Prosperity/Extrav-ing the extra deck, it has a means, and a reason to, exhaust every single resource it has available.
I remember playing against a lightsworn in the finals at my locals vs my blackwing deck. Everyone told me I was going to lose using blackwings, I beat lightsworn with 1 card. That card was Brain Golem and everyone was shocked because nobody knew what that card was because nobody ever seen it being played before.
I've never been lucky with Lightsworn, but this era was insane. I tend to not use the engine but I loved Chaos so it shows up anyway. And I love the broken Bionic.
@@JanjoZone being the go to lights steered me in the direction, but I wish x saber got some love. Karakuri had more longevity but I think that x saber was too overlooked
Lightsworn format is my favorite one. This is the time period where Lightsworn was a viable deck. Cause many now associate Lightsworn as a mill engine. This was the format where Lightsworn was at its prime apart from JD being semi-limited
Lightsworn was the active deck back when I first gained a real awareness of competitive metagame Yu-Gi-Oh. I was playing a dinky Six Samurai deck at the time, Gateway was a huge boon and I hope it goes to 2 instead of remaining limited forever.
Gateway literally broken, You basically had 1-3 of the samurai synchro negater guaranteed and basically a full board with every starting hand, which was not normal at all. To this day there are crazy loops only possible with portal
Great content as always! This format, for me, as concerned deck building consistence and limited list ratio, is far way better than edison, where we have a endless 1x limited sacky cards than could change (or end) the game in random ways. As someone that has played competitive from 2006 to 2012 I could say that this one (LL format) was much more fun and less frustrating than playing modern edison format (imho neither the historically short period of edison wasn't so fun), not talking about how in edison d-heros and chaos are so nerfed compared to this format, making their engine almost unplayable without support strategies. In conclusion, this format wasn't so oppressive and even if LL were dominant at major events I could remember as was yesterday winning a lot of big tournaments (here in Italy) with somehow Destiny-TeleDad-Volcanic Monarch against tons of LL, with heavy anti lightsworn cards in side deck. This format has the right variety but not the extremely wide variety that edison has. Is not possible having only 15 slot in sidedecking in edison, too much strategies and unpredictable sacky decks that could steal wins out of nowhere because you have cards only against BW, monarchs, machines, dragons, etc.. I mean not always too many strategies viable are synthom of healthy formats. The funny thing is that I am qualified to Italian Edison National Championship (earned some weeks ago topping in a pretty big regional) but I would rather play this format (LL) and losing than winning through playing decks that all have that "missing something" feeling that I constantly have from trying to build something different in edison than the "usual suspects". greetings from Italy!
Really the only thing that held Lightsworn back from the beginning in LODT is it didn't have Charge of the Light Brigade. But unfortunately when that card came out there was Tele-DAD and nothing could consistently beat that. It was a good deck during Synchro Cat format but it was also by far and away the most expensive deck, so it just didn't see as much play and success as the stronger and cheaper Synchro Cat.
@@JanjoZone But Tragoedia is latin therefore the g is not pronounced like j also the oe is pronounced differently. It is pronounced like the german Umlaut ö if anybody knows that language ^^ Just set Google Translator to latin xD
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This was one of the best formats, 5ds was truly the golden era.
Certainly was fun! And we got plenty more to go through!
Back then our banlist was a copy paste of the OCG one, and lightsworn was a TCG exclusive archetype during synchro cat format. Thats the reason it dodged September 2009 bans.
And don't forget they kept getting TCG-exclusive cards like the Ryko-searching, Caius enabling Hamster.
I really love your usage of Forbidden Memories sountracks for your background tracks. xD
Thanks! Great ost!
This guy really took the time to very deliberately grab the original printing of every card he showed on screen. That’s thorough.
I'll never forget my first duel against a full-on Lightsworn deck...
"Why the hell are you milling?"
"Wait, you do that every turn!? For each moster!?"
"Charge of the what? Oh, you are milling again? 3 for one? That seems busted"
"Judgement Dragon? That's why so many went to the GY?"
"Oh...!"
"Wait it can do that every turn!?
"OH!"
Aaaand rip
JD can nuke multiple times in the same turn too.
The deck loves to burn through every resource you have, mill your deck, pay your LP, summon out your hand, and possibly discard it for a Brionac effect.
short of a method of Prosperity/Extrav-ing the extra deck, it has a means, and a reason to, exhaust every single resource it has available.
I remember playing against a lightsworn in the finals at my locals vs my blackwing deck. Everyone told me I was going to lose using blackwings, I beat lightsworn with 1 card. That card was Brain Golem and everyone was shocked because nobody knew what that card was because nobody ever seen it being played before.
Damn. That is peak yugioh in mh opinion.
I've never been lucky with Lightsworn, but this era was insane. I tend to not use the engine but I loved Chaos so it shows up anyway. And I love the broken Bionic.
You had options other than Lightsworn thankfully!
@@JanjoZone being the go to lights steered me in the direction, but I wish x saber got some love. Karakuri had more longevity but I think that x saber was too overlooked
@@michaelwilburn5582 agreed!
Lightsworn format is my favorite one.
This is the time period where Lightsworn was a viable deck. Cause many now associate Lightsworn as a mill engine.
This was the format where Lightsworn was at its prime apart from JD being semi-limited
Yep! If you love Lightsworn then it doesn't get better than this!
Lightsworn was the active deck back when I first gained a real awareness of competitive metagame Yu-Gi-Oh. I was playing a dinky Six Samurai deck at the time, Gateway was a huge boon and I hope it goes to 2 instead of remaining limited forever.
Itll probably get semi'd at some point
Gateway literally broken, You basically had 1-3 of the samurai synchro negater guaranteed and basically a full board with every starting hand, which was not normal at all. To this day there are crazy loops only possible with portal
Ready to see it, after this format there is maybe the best of all time: the Edison.
We're close to it! But Lightsworn Format is pretty fun too!
10:00 Swap Frog PTSD from Master Duel activated
Great content as always!
This format, for me, as concerned deck building consistence and limited list ratio, is far way better than edison, where we have a endless 1x limited sacky cards than could change (or end) the game in random ways.
As someone that has played competitive from 2006 to 2012 I could say that this one (LL format) was much more fun and less frustrating than playing modern edison format (imho neither the historically short period of edison wasn't so fun), not talking about how in edison d-heros and chaos are so nerfed compared to this format, making their engine almost unplayable without support strategies.
In conclusion, this format wasn't so oppressive and even if LL were dominant at major events I could remember as was yesterday winning a lot of big tournaments (here in Italy) with somehow Destiny-TeleDad-Volcanic Monarch against tons of LL, with heavy anti lightsworn cards in side deck.
This format has the right variety but not the extremely wide variety that edison has. Is not possible having only 15 slot in sidedecking in edison, too much strategies and unpredictable sacky decks that could steal wins out of nowhere because you have cards only against BW, monarchs, machines, dragons, etc.. I mean not always too many strategies viable are synthom of healthy formats.
The funny thing is that I am qualified to Italian Edison National Championship (earned some weeks ago topping in a pretty big regional) but I would rather play this format (LL) and losing than winning through playing decks that all have that "missing something" feeling that I constantly have from trying to build something different in edison than the "usual suspects".
greetings from Italy!
Bonjour! Yeah there is certainly a difference between Lightsworn & Edison formats that I would totally understand preferring one over the other!
Can't wait to hear about Edison format six samurais decks
Really the only thing that held Lightsworn back from the beginning in LODT is it didn't have Charge of the Light Brigade. But unfortunately when that card came out there was Tele-DAD and nothing could consistently beat that. It was a good deck during Synchro Cat format but it was also by far and away the most expensive deck, so it just didn't see as much play and success as the stronger and cheaper Synchro Cat.
the best format, no question
We got new support
Great content as usual 🙏🏼
Thank you!! Glad you liked it!
Edison Let's Go!!
Soon!
Tra Joe dia?
Is the "g" in Tragoedia really pronounced like a "j"? I've never heard anyone say it that way before
Well I figured its name stems from Tragedy so it makes sense to me!
Trah - Goe - Eddy - Ah
is how I have always heard it and said it.
@@JanjoZone But Tragoedia is latin therefore the g is not pronounced like j also the oe is pronounced differently. It is pronounced like the german Umlaut ö if anybody knows that language ^^ Just set Google Translator to latin xD