Man, from the generic 4 or 5 normal fusions to branded, tearlaments, thunder dragons, etc. It's awesome to look back at how much the game has progressed..
Yeah and I'm happy that branded didn't need any bans to be held back and faded away with the upcoming sets , I don't like it when Konami is forced to kill an archetype with the banlist we have seen it many times happen in the past and it's sad
Just finished this video, as someone who left the game around the release of Shaddolls in 2015 to coming back into the game to build a Tearlament Deck for YCS Pasadena 2022 it’s been one hell of a shock to see how far fusion summoning has come. Thank you for your amazing work!
@@giannispapakrivopoulos5455 I don’t think that’s self-evident at all in DIFO format (not Albaz Strike format, in which BD was absolutely dominant). In terms of placement at national championships alone, Branded Despia Predaplant and Branded Eldlich both took 1st and 2nd place at several large events, particularly Germany in the case of BDP.
Something that very few people remember is how late we got frightfur patchwork. If it was released at fusion enforcers, fluffal had potential as a top deck (since it had the sheep as a drident+whiptail counter) if ocg results are considered valid. Still patchwork got its time to shine in the previous format
While I do think the game is kind of fundamentally broken and too fast as a result: Fusion is a really great concept and definitely deserved the glow up
I feel like you forgot the biggest innovation that Shaddolls made to fusion summoning. Having its materials let you get benefits from using them as fusion material. Because they all floated if used as fusion fodder, you would actually gain something, beyond whatever the boss monster brought to the table. As such, this was the first time you effectively had good fusion materials. Up to that point, Konami only ever improved the fusion spell and fusion monster, neglecting the material part of the equation.
That is very true indeed. One of the main reasons I loved Shaddolls is how the made the most minus out of all summoning methods by far suddently seem like the biggest plus ever. Back in the day Fusion summoning would mean you spent 3 cards (2 monsters, 1 spell) to get 1 card on the field which is very bad no matter how you see it. However, Shaddoll Fusion did not only make it better by using materials from the deck but also making the materials themselves have effects that you can plus from which literally turned the whole thing around. Not to mention Construct sending an extra card on summon and all the fusion monsters being able to recover cards after being sent to the grave. You can see such strategies being used even today with the Branded Despia cards getting effects when sent to the GY as fusion materials or in the case of tragedy it is a more general sort of search effect and Aluber having good usage in the GY. This is also why Shaddoll cards have stayed relevant to this day by being splashed into other good fusion decks such as Invoked, the Despia Branded strategy and now the Tearalement strategy.
@@ether2275 before Shaddoll, if you didn’t need specific names, you would only ever fusion summon unsung the least awful possible materials or the ones that were good anyways. Like Neos Alius and Bubbleman in Hero.
Awesome video! I always love a look through the timeline and how things have changed. Some small corrections tho: 23:20 DPE requires a Destiny HERO and a Level 6 or higher of *any* HERO 24:50 Mirrorjade only banishes monsters (but I guess "cards" in this context is kind of correct anyway)
It's hard to say where will the mechanic go from here, honestly, considering how developed it has gotten throughout a couple decades by this point. Maybe a Fusion rework could be a possibility, if only to open new venues for the mechanic in future years? That, or a Fusion that uses monsters and equip spells, that actually sounds pretty cool, too.
Branded Despia is still a tier 1 deck though, still placing and topping events. Also, MegaCapitalG has a great video about the impact of Dragoon in the OCG and why it never repeated that in the TCG.
I watches this and your other Historys a few Times by now, and together with other Content i consumed, it got me thinking. It ws popular for some Time for Wrestling Channels, to either re-imagine or full Imagine Matches, and even full Tournaments. And i also saw that Idea applied to Movies, in particular for Marvel & DC. Just, you know, what someone with Hindsight, or a dedicated Fan, could have done to improve on what has originally been done. And well, that is my Idea; a Series about what you would have done, if Konami for some Reason would ask you to "repair" their Timeline for the Yugioh OCG/TCG.
Fusions went from like the worst extra deck summoning mechanic to the best in just a couple of months with the new branded support and tearlaments, although the latter is also a heavy link deck
Branded is peak fusion , it can fusion from anywhere but extra deck , also has contact fusion, maybe in the future they will make a card like branded fusion but it will use materials from the extra deck only
The best extra deck summoning mechanic is a bit of a stretch. Xyz and especially Links have it beat. They are both too generic and splashable compared to fusions and synchros although both Fusions and Synchros have made some sinificant leaps in terms of splashability in the recent years. Crystron Halq and Verte both helped the mechanics and of course stuff like the punk engine as well. Of course Fusions have gotten a significant boost overtime but it's clear to me that Links will forever be the best summoning method as it is the easiest and most generic, closely followed by Xyz.
no, my favorite mechanic is also fusion but link and probably xyz have much higher potential. it's just that fusion mechanic has lost almost all of its restraints (hand&field and 3 card requirement it had in the beginning). we saw how powerful zoodiacs are because of their 1 card requirement and link 1 is still heavily restricted to 2-3 specific monsters. they are just buffing fusion enough to compete with other already op mechanics
In the future, would it be possible for you to include a list of pieces you used in the description? Ideally with timestamps, but that work may not be worth it. I wasn't paying much attention to it (and I was watching at 2x speed), but some of what I noticed sounded interesting/possibly worth studying EDIT: Since I've already commented on this video, I may as well mention that it is very well scripted. The visual presentation is nothing special, of course, but it's exactly as good as it needs to be, and is just about as well-constructed as it could be without being swapped out for a different style of visuals altogether. You are good at making these!
So two things regarding both Lunalight and Frightfur in the TCG, Multiple cards supporting these decks were Jump promo's in the OCG and NA regions, leading to them being completely unplayable during their original master rule. (Just like Lyrilusc but, that deck until led8 was always just nightingale ftk) The notable missing cards were Frightfur Patchwork and Lunalight Kaleido-Chick (who essentially facilitated the entire deck, there was also Crimson Fox). However it is very safe to say that MR3 was Fusion at it's peak with numerous strategies that are still playable to this day.
Shout outs to Gladiator Beast Tamer Editor (and Andabata) which can special summon any glad beast fusion card (for andabata, lv 7 below on summon) and its not a hard once per turn too.
I don't know much about Shaddolls, but I feel like the deck is not playable without Superpolymerisation. I'm trying to build a Shaddoll-deck in Master Duel and...it's fine? I definitely need better extra-deck monsters to go into. Maybe I'll try a synchro-build with Falco. After all...It IS a tuner! I currently don't even use that card.
@@r4nd0mguy99 shaddoll are a bunch of extender with out a solid boss monster to go into, other than Winda. That mean you need to use it with other extender like Aleister or Mekknight, which can lend to inconsistent board setup.
@@Koscacio I thought as much. I definitely won't play Aleister. Invoked is a mistake. Mekknights might be fun, because they're pretty much the only deck that actually cares about card positions, although they tried to make it relevant with link monsters.
Much sadge, my boy Gaia the Dragon Champion got overlooked with as much as he was spammed in the Rise of the duelist. Wasn't even good enough to be mentioned that he died out before he even had a almost fast enough decent otk strategy lol
Drytrons are still an op ritual engine, they just don't have rituals to summon that breaks them again like they did with the fairy/herald of ultimateness
Next up on broken fusions us konami released (probably in 2024): so this is a generic blue eyes + 1 dragon that doesnt let opponent play card effects and banishes the opponents hand on summon and for each banished card your opponent takes 70k lp of damage also we added blue eyes fusion which is red eyes fusion exept u can only normal and special summon dragon monsters... oh and did we mention it yet? WE RELEASED ANACONDA *entire playerbase leaves* And then konami will think "what did we do wrong?"
At least you can rest easy knowing that Anaconda is _never_ coming back. Konami might be incredibly incompetent at times, but they don't usually make the same mistake twice. That's not to say they cannot find another way to break the game, temporarily, in the meantime.
Man, from the generic 4 or 5 normal fusions to branded, tearlaments, thunder dragons, etc. It's awesome to look back at how much the game has progressed..
Yeah and I'm happy that branded didn't need any bans to be held back and faded away with the upcoming sets , I don't like it when Konami is forced to kill an archetype with the banlist we have seen it many times happen in the past and it's sad
thunder dragons are basically legacy support done right imo
You mean “degraded”, right?
@@pn2294 maybe for you but not as a whole.
@H1k1 it's not banned in master duel if you wanna play it there (it's at 1)
Just finished this video, as someone who left the game around the release of Shaddolls in 2015 to coming back into the game to build a Tearlament Deck for YCS Pasadena 2022 it’s been one hell of a shock to see how far fusion summoning has come. Thank you for your amazing work!
The oldest extra deck method, and it’s imo one of the strongest
Great video! One notable omission is the groundbreaking Predaplant support released in DIFO, which saw competitive success in Branded Despia.
I mean pure despia was way better
@@giannispapakrivopoulos5455 I don’t think that’s self-evident at all in DIFO format (not Albaz Strike format, in which BD was absolutely dominant). In terms of placement at national championships alone, Branded Despia Predaplant and Branded Eldlich both took 1st and 2nd place at several large events, particularly Germany in the case of BDP.
Branded predaplants unironically gets ftk’d by ash blossom on branded fusion
@@thatgreendino6697 insanely wrong lmao BDP even plays better into blowouts like D Barrier.
Something that very few people remember is how late we got frightfur patchwork.
If it was released at fusion enforcers, fluffal had potential as a top deck (since it had the sheep as a drident+whiptail counter) if ocg results are considered valid.
Still patchwork got its time to shine in the previous format
Can we talk about how Norden didn't get banned when it was Instant Fusioned but Fusioned normally? Like that's wild
While I do think the game is kind of fundamentally broken and too fast as a result:
Fusion is a really great concept and definitely deserved the glow up
I feel like you forgot the biggest innovation that Shaddolls made to fusion summoning.
Having its materials let you get benefits from using them as fusion material.
Because they all floated if used as fusion fodder, you would actually gain something, beyond whatever the boss monster brought to the table. As such, this was the first time you effectively had good fusion materials.
Up to that point, Konami only ever improved the fusion spell and fusion monster, neglecting the material part of the equation.
That is very true indeed. One of the main reasons I loved Shaddolls is how the made the most minus out of all summoning methods by far suddently seem like the biggest plus ever. Back in the day Fusion summoning would mean you spent 3 cards (2 monsters, 1 spell) to get 1 card on the field which is very bad no matter how you see it. However, Shaddoll Fusion did not only make it better by using materials from the deck but also making the materials themselves have effects that you can plus from which literally turned the whole thing around. Not to mention Construct sending an extra card on summon and all the fusion monsters being able to recover cards after being sent to the grave. You can see such strategies being used even today with the Branded Despia cards getting effects when sent to the GY as fusion materials or in the case of tragedy it is a more general sort of search effect and Aluber having good usage in the GY. This is also why Shaddoll cards have stayed relevant to this day by being splashed into other good fusion decks such as Invoked, the Despia Branded strategy and now the Tearalement strategy.
@@ether2275 before Shaddoll, if you didn’t need specific names, you would only ever fusion summon unsung the least awful possible materials or the ones that were good anyways. Like Neos Alius and Bubbleman in Hero.
Love the classical music quietly playing!
Awesome video! I always love a look through the timeline and how things have changed.
Some small corrections tho:
23:20 DPE requires a Destiny HERO and a Level 6 or higher of *any* HERO
24:50 Mirrorjade only banishes monsters (but I guess "cards" in this context is kind of correct anyway)
It's hard to say where will the mechanic go from here, honestly, considering how developed it has gotten throughout a couple decades by this point.
Maybe a Fusion rework could be a possibility, if only to open new venues for the mechanic in future years? That, or a Fusion that uses monsters and equip spells, that actually sounds pretty cool, too.
It’s amazing how much fusions evolved. From useless to oppressively OP.
I love these history videos so much.
Great video! I love the editing as well as the way you presented it. It would be awesome, if you could do the same for synchro monsters.
Just watched the first part, and the 2nd one drops!
ritual beasts are just so fun
I am commenting to increase engagement, you desreve the algorithm boost!
Always good learn about it’s history
Branded Despia is still a tier 1 deck though, still placing and topping events.
Also, MegaCapitalG has a great video about the impact of Dragoon in the OCG and why it never repeated that in the TCG.
Thanks for the videos! I'm curious why you didn't mention the new Hero and Neo Spacian support when you talked about Power of the Elements
This is a funny look duel links progression episode :P
Konami gave what made hero’s special to everyone and then gave them BETTER mechanics on top of that. 😤😤
I watches this and your other Historys a few Times by now, and together with other Content i
consumed, it got me thinking. It ws popular for some Time for Wrestling Channels, to either
re-imagine or full Imagine Matches, and even full Tournaments. And i also saw that Idea applied
to Movies, in particular for Marvel & DC. Just, you know, what someone with Hindsight, or a
dedicated Fan, could have done to improve on what has originally been done. And well, that is my Idea;
a Series about what you would have done, if Konami for some Reason would ask you to "repair" their Timeline for the Yugioh OCG/TCG.
Fusions went from like the worst extra deck summoning mechanic to the best in just a couple of months with the new branded support and tearlaments, although the latter is also a heavy link deck
Branded is peak fusion , it can fusion from anywhere but extra deck , also has contact fusion, maybe in the future they will make a card like branded fusion but it will use materials from the extra deck only
@@YohananYGO contact fusion with branded??
@@Gato-be2jr check alba-lenatus
The best extra deck summoning mechanic is a bit of a stretch. Xyz and especially Links have it beat. They are both too generic and splashable compared to fusions and synchros although both Fusions and Synchros have made some sinificant leaps in terms of splashability in the recent years. Crystron Halq and Verte both helped the mechanics and of course stuff like the punk engine as well. Of course Fusions have gotten a significant boost overtime but it's clear to me that Links will forever be the best summoning method as it is the easiest and most generic, closely followed by Xyz.
no, my favorite mechanic is also fusion but link and probably xyz have much higher potential. it's just that fusion mechanic has lost almost all of its restraints (hand&field and 3 card requirement it had in the beginning). we saw how powerful zoodiacs are because of their 1 card requirement and link 1 is still heavily restricted to 2-3 specific monsters. they are just buffing fusion enough to compete with other already op mechanics
Men i live this content, i have fallen in love pendulum extra deck monsters for some reason, i really want them to pop, and I will :-D
keep up man!
i love your documents so much!
Good video, keep up the good job
In the future, would it be possible for you to include a list of pieces you used in the description? Ideally with timestamps, but that work may not be worth it. I wasn't paying much attention to it (and I was watching at 2x speed), but some of what I noticed sounded interesting/possibly worth studying
EDIT: Since I've already commented on this video, I may as well mention that it is very well scripted. The visual presentation is nothing special, of course, but it's exactly as good as it needs to be, and is just about as well-constructed as it could be without being swapped out for a different style of visuals altogether. You are good at making these!
So two things regarding both Lunalight and Frightfur in the TCG, Multiple cards supporting these decks were Jump promo's in the OCG and NA regions, leading to them being completely unplayable during their original master rule. (Just like Lyrilusc but, that deck until led8 was always just nightingale ftk)
The notable missing cards were Frightfur Patchwork and Lunalight Kaleido-Chick (who essentially facilitated the entire deck, there was also Crimson Fox).
However it is very safe to say that MR3 was Fusion at it's peak with numerous strategies that are still playable to this day.
TCG got it right with banning Verte, every single deck getting a free DPE in master duel is pretty annoying
This was a really cool followup from the last video, but I did have a pondering question.
Where did Cyberse Lizard/Clock Dragon and Dream Mirror go?
Weren't noteworthy enough forthe video
So exited
We will see from the dark world upcoming structure deck their fusion spell discards for the fusion , maybe if you make another video will mention it
"How fusions became the strongest summoning mechanic "
The documentary
Nice vid!
Shout outs to Gladiator Beast Tamer Editor (and Andabata) which can special summon any glad beast fusion card (for andabata, lv 7 below on summon) and its not a hard once per turn too.
I’m curious. The law what is your opinion about pendulums Currently.
(Everyone else feel free to share your opinions too)
pend best deck
Imo, unban Electrumite is fine for TCG, since there is no Supreme King Straving Venom unlike OCG or MD.
Pend best deck
It's shocking to see it fade so much and odd eyes fusion is a good tool for going second
Anti spell and dimensional barrier are meta relevant cards
Can you do the history of Synchro Summoning and Xyz Summoning?
Will you be making any new duel links era vids soon? I love those videos
Really wish they give Shaddoll it own Aleister. Shaddoll really need a few close game monster of it own.
I don't know much about Shaddolls, but I feel like the deck is not playable without Superpolymerisation. I'm trying to build a Shaddoll-deck in Master Duel and...it's fine? I definitely need better extra-deck monsters to go into. Maybe I'll try a synchro-build with Falco. After all...It IS a tuner! I currently don't even use that card.
@@r4nd0mguy99 shaddoll are a bunch of extender with out a solid boss monster to go into, other than Winda. That mean you need to use it with other extender like Aleister or Mekknight, which can lend to inconsistent board setup.
@@Koscacio I thought as much. I definitely won't play Aleister. Invoked is a mistake. Mekknights might be fun, because they're pretty much the only deck that actually cares about card positions, although they tried to make it relevant with link monsters.
Much sadge, my boy Gaia the Dragon Champion got overlooked with as much as he was spammed in the Rise of the duelist. Wasn't even good enough to be mentioned that he died out before he even had a almost fast enough decent otk strategy lol
I really like thunder dragon, thankfully colossus is at 1 in MD, which is serviceable.
You forgot ultimate fusion for Blue-Eyes White Dragon
Ursatron uses Big Dipper, not Radiation.
spright take trap to limit 1 and spright goes right back to tier 1
maybe some day we can fuse from trades folder
Why does everyone neglect to talk about the new predap support? There were 4 new cards added with BoD.. the cards arent awful either for the archetype
23:22 "Was a fusion of a Destiny HERO and level 6 of Higher "Destiny" HERO"
aloober the boober of doober
Summoing
What the name of the music played on 0:31
lessgoo
What about blue eyes fusion spell card
how could i search instant "fusion" but not super "poly"???
What’s the music being used in this?
If only they did with Rituals just as they did with Fusions.
Nekroz? Drytron?
Drytrons are still an op ritual engine, they just don't have rituals to summon that breaks them again like they did with the fairy/herald of ultimateness
Err... Mirror force dragon?
song?
11:30 invoked
add then we got runick'sm a fusion monster arctype that is always cheated from teh extra deck
First
Why are you pronouncing essentially wrong? 'Excentionally' isn't a word bro
Ugh. Fluffal. The type of player who gets all up in your face acting like you're offending them when you don't want to play with them.
Next up on broken fusions us konami released (probably in 2024): so this is a generic blue eyes + 1 dragon that doesnt let opponent play card effects and banishes the opponents hand on summon and for each banished card your opponent takes 70k lp of damage also we added blue eyes fusion which is red eyes fusion exept u can only normal and special summon dragon monsters... oh and did we mention it yet? WE RELEASED ANACONDA
*entire playerbase leaves*
And then konami will think "what did we do wrong?"
At least you can rest easy knowing that Anaconda is _never_ coming back. Konami might be incredibly incompetent at times, but they don't usually make the same mistake twice.
That's not to say they cannot find another way to break the game, temporarily, in the meantime.
Learn to read. They aren't exceeds
I’m here for ABC DRAGON BUSTER 🫡❤️