Spyral was only good because zoo and true draco were out of the picture. Zoo was everything it was a deck, an engine, splashable with anything you can think of, and most importantly a one card combo. No one played spyral until the absence of zoo and draco just saying. If anything spyral is most represented
Oh yeah, it's time for this timeless classic: All I know what to do anymore is summon drident, it's been so long. I don't know what yugioh is anymore. The other day, I summoned a monster and tried to put cowboy on it. With one material. Everything has become zoodiac to me. There are no other monsters, no spells other than barrage. The only trap i know how to activate is dimensional barrier. Occasionally I send combo to grave, and I cry a little. I attack for game but wish I was being gamed instead. It's become a joke of sorts, or maybe it's just my life. I can't go anywhere without seeing zoo. I went to feed my dog the other night, but instead of eating she summoned a goat from the graveyard with it's effects negated. I had to put her down. I sit in the corner now counting down the days, the days where we shall see sweet release from this torment, the day when xyz summoning was about 2 monsters having a special bond and creating something beautiful. Those days are long gone. I have seen God, and I have seen the devil, but they are one and the same. I stared into the abyss and screamed, and it screamed back: "summon rat effect” Keep it up with the content! These are great :D
@Zero Bullet's There will always be a meta, meaning a few select decks will outperform most other decks, leading to them becoming more popular, this happens in not only all trading card games, but all games with different characters or whatever. But yeah Zoodiac at its height was "everywhere-everywhere", definitely not okay, like half the decks you'd be playing against was that particular deck.
I can't relate because I mained Pendulum Magicians who generally had a good matchup against Zoos. Though not many peopl actually played Zoos online back then. I understan that people hated playing against this deck. And to honest, I find Zoodiacs very boring too.
the issue is. that year there was no banned list for like 6+ months so we dealt with the same deck for so long it got so boring. i actually quit the game during that time and came back in 2022
I think the scariest thing about Zoodiac was the precedent it set for the decks that came after it. It shifted the deck building strategy from "make a big board using a combo deck with multiple good openings" to "make a decent board that costs you very little resources, and let the other cards in your hand do the rest of the work". Sky Striker embodied that premise with its 1-card Extra Deck plays and several draws per turn (sound familiar?). After that came Salamangreat, one of the reigning decks of the Eternal Format, which sought to get to its in-theme Armageddon Knight as soon as possible, summon a Rank 3 that summons another monster from the deck (again, does this sound familiar?), and set up an engine that wins you the game. The scariest of the bunch was Orcust when both Mermaid and Bardiche were legal. Forget 2 Level 3 monsters, all you needed was two monsters with different names, making it more splashable and powerful than Zoodiac ever was. Now, I think Konami is starting to be more careful with their card design, but they're having a lot of difficulty without following the trend of 1 card engines.
We weren’t around for this format, and we are so grateful for that! 😅 keep it up homie! Killer video, helps players like us appreciate where the game is at now! 💪🏼
These videos are amazing. However, I think you would be able to take them to the 'next level' by adding key moments from duels to supplement the statements you are making. For example, when you mentioned that td zoo won the nawcq, you could have added a clip of a key turning point in that duel, or the instance when the winner swung for game, from that duel, if it was filmed, which im not sure it was but regardless. I understand this would be more of a nightmare from an editing standpoint but its something to think about.
BladeYGO I think bringing up some of the unique tech cards for the Zoo mirror like My Body as a Shield and Monster Rebone would be great for those who didn’t keep up with the weird meta
Damn hearing these combos makes me feel like this old man on the porch say "well back in my day, we had combos with this these called invoker and diagusto fellers"
I remember playing around this time, when they transformed PEVO to a box instead of a structure deck. ZOO was every where and the core of the decks was around 200$ or so. I went for my pendulum boys when zoo died. I still see him in my dreams, the day "he" will comeback. Day 1 of copying Payne and waiting for "Him" to comeback.
zoo was a really strange deck. when i looked at first at the cards i thought: thats a good deck, but drident pass doesnt sound as oppressive as metalfose boards with infinity, kirin and alkahest. And stil to this day i think it is insane how dominant zoo was, despite its weak end boards and loosing to a trap on their normal summon.
I really like the style of video your doing now, it reminds me of rhystic studios, hope you continue to make these style of videos even better in the future, keep it up man 🙌🏻
I just wanted to point out that the Lightsworn Zombie deck from Seattle WAS playing a Zoo engine, he was an aquaintance of mine at the time and I was watching his matches day 2, and even in his Round 9 Feature Match on the konami blog you can see he's playing a zoo engine.
This video was well WORTH the wait! Thanks BladeYGO for summing up the Zoo formats (though maybe some gameplay of the skill-intensive Zoo mirrors with no Fusion Sub combo would help)
I'm still traumatized by Zoodiac/Draco format, since I joined YuGiOh on that mess. But still, nothing is will ever be as oppressive as 'Firewall with floaters' aka Gouki Extra Link. You have 2 cards and one of them WILL be negated, good luck.
@@TopG_KnightofOne spyrals were broken because they got to look at your opponent's top card on their deck so it was a serious play disrupter as well as the search ability was broken too
For those who don't know what the fusion substitute combo was, it was a super long ass combo in which resulted in a +4 card advantage by looping emeral and norden. Heck, even some people ran multiple copies of fusion substitue as for each one in the loop you got 2 more draws, so by playing 3 fusion substitutes you could reach a whooping +8 cards advantage with a ONE CARD COMBO. (but they were bricky so many just went with 1 copy) If you think that spyral combo is long and boring is because you didn't saw that 25+min combo of norden and emerald looping and drawing 2 each iteration... Oh and btw, for that era, the only real handtraps were veiler, ghost ogre , droll and maxx c, only ogre and maxx being really good against zoo, and ghost ogre was recently printed as secret in a main pack, so either you had the money for the playset of ghost ogre or prayed hard to draw your only copy of maxx c
ash was out by the time chakanine made fusion sub at it's strongest but it just wasn't very good vs zoo & mostly hurt pure draco & grass decks reducing the viability of decks that were not zoo , d.d. crow & droll & lock saw play too, d.d. crow in the paleo/zoo/infernoid format hit all 3 top decks & droll killed the fusion sub combo & was used as well as Ash Blossom in the Invoked handtrap deck which bopped full power fusion sub Zoo for 1st place in europe.
As someone who played Infernoid Zoo during that format, over a 1/3 of the cards in the deck were 1 card playmakers thanks to 2 Rat, 3 Terrortop, 3 Barrage, 3 Tenki, 3 Grass, 3 Lullaby of Obedience, 3 Imagination and 3 Vanishments. Deck was underrated during the format and it was able to make better use of the Zoo engine by using Buijin xyzs to mill 15ish cards and draw a few cards at the same time.
lets see xyzs are balanced by the fact that you need 2 monsters to bring them out, they suddenly change that so you only need 1 monster and it instantly becomes the best deck, what a surprise 😱
Full power zoo was an aggro-control deck meaning it had both the positive aspects of combo decks and the positive aspect of a control deck. When an aggro-control is in the meta it usually create a tier 0 format.
I love how, after years of releasing cards that break the game involuntarily, Konami has yet to learn its lesson that you should never ever be unspecific when it comes to search effects
shout outs to Marcelo's EU WCQ undefeated streak & all the OCG worlds qualifiers who stomped through with Draco Zoo without Drident ^.^ also to Ash Blossom helping kill 60 card decks like Master Peace murdered Paleo , nice video thanks ^.^
Wow so, I knew Zoo was Tier 0, and knew a small amount as to why, because I only started properly playing in SPYRAL Format, but this video really helped! Was formatted well and laid out the points easily
Amazing video I applaud you sir!!! Seeing videos like this really brings me back and shows you how far the game really has come. Tell everyone that played during this format we really did witness history
The level of this video is HIGH! However, as someone who didnt actively play at zoodiac format and doesnt know the deck well, i dont really understand why it was such a powerhouse
The editing and visuals here are excellent. Definitely subscribing. If I had any feedback though, the first part if that your character insert isn't needed. It actually clashes with the very warm, smooth, almost pastel visual style you're going for, and it feels cleaner when he wasn't on the screen. The other part would be perhaps giving a quick demonstration of the combos you mention. You talk about the combos that were back breaking (such as the fusion substitute norden combo), but for someone who is unfamiliar with how these cards can interact, it doesn't help without having to look up more stuff afterwards. Spending 20-30 seconds doing a quick hypothetical generic play through would fix that. But as I said, fantastic content, absolutely looking forward to seeing more. Going to check out your masterpeace video next.
Thank you for the feedback and I’m so happy to hear you liked the content! I agree that the character stills can throw off the flow of the vid, so I probs will take them out of my next video, also I’ll definitely add combos next time. So happy you enjoyed! ;)
TrueDraco-Zoo was the ultimate form of unfair gameplay of all times in ygo. Just remember: the most consistent strategy of all times and the most opressiv boss monster ever printed. Such a cool deck to play against, thanks Konami for this unforgetable era :) P.D: really cool video, I like it so much
Ill give it to you blade i don't all ways pay attention to your videos i normally listen to them while I'm doing stuff this one had me actually watching so job well done blade
Great video. I started playing yugioh right in the zoodiac era and never truly understood how it worked, and you video really helped me get a good feel of the archetype. Please make more videos like this. (Also make a video on SPYRAL please)
They were. Just weren't for long. I played from Pepe to now and remember when the DDD structure came out. It dropped like a few weeks before Zoo. It tried to rise but with Zoo coming out it people would rather play that. Not to mention Zoo just beat DDD. I do remember the weeks locals were full of DDD. The structure just took way too long to come out and at the worst time.
This video inspired me to play Zoodiac Lunalights on Dueling Nexus no banlist. Making an Apollousa with 4 negates and a Shockmaster turn 1 minimum consistently is fun, and Broadbull lets you add any Lunalight monster to your hand.
This is beautiful. I am picking this deck up and I'm really excited. Might not be in the top tiers anymore, but I am really excited to see if it can compete as a rogue option!
I love this deck so much, I just came back to yugioh from nekroz format got a raging tempest box and opened drident and barrage, I used to play fire king and madolche so I had the tenkis and the m-x- saber invoker , and finished myself a core, but couldn't pay the ash blossom, the strikes, and the d-barrier, but the amount of fun I had with this deck is what keeps me up every no "sooner than" date, hoping to see: monster/xyz | zoodiac drident | limited | limited | was forbidden
Marco Muto well as long as busted cards like Norden are banned it should be fine. Hope to see brosdbull back as long as there are no degenerate combos in sight with it...
woah.. puberty much? also, am I the only missed seeing these as a good deck and not a joke of their previous selves? c'mon, konami. give us 3 drident and that's all we need. (don't ever give us broadbull though.. that card was a mistake)
Dawg I'm from this era but i couldn't afford zoo at the time & i was more interested in another deck which was paleozoic frogs, 1st deck i got tops with! Because of the meta mainly being zoo i had advantage! But they had techs waiting for me but i had my barrier statue toadally plus dupe frog waiting for them. But kaijus helped them specifically gamciel! It was enjoyable for me cause of the grindy games of out playing each other but then true draco came & made things hard, from an already tough match up against grass infernoids! I enjoyed your vid & brought back great & frustrating memories but all great still, thanks.
Great history video really detailed with history, I quit for a number of years so I really enjoy these type of videos along with the detail! Keep it up bro you’ll be doing this full time in no time
As someone who had taken a long break till like mid 2019 this was very informative. It would be great to see this for other tier 0 full power decks too.
Note: NS: Normal Summon SS: Special Summon Combo (Raptier + Instant Fusion) 1. NS Raptier, send Throughblade to GY 2. Xyz Boarbow then Xyz Broadbull with 1 card material 3. Broadbull detachs, SS Raptier from deck then search Black Sheep then search Fusion Substitute 5. Activate Instant Fusion, SS Norden then SS Throughblade from GY then Xyz Daigusto, detach Norden then shuffle Norden, Black Sheep and Raptier to Deck, draw 1 *(+1)* 7. Fusion Daigusto and Broadbull to Norden with Fusion Substitute then Norden SS Throughblade 8. Xyz Broadbull by using Raptier and Norden, Broadbull detachs, SS Raptier and then search Black Sheep and Fusion Substitute 9. Banish Fusion Substitute, return Norden to ED then draw 1 *(+1)* 10. Xyz Raptier and Throughblade to Daigusto, shuffle Raptier, Daigusto and Broadbull, draw 1 *(+1)* 11. Fusion Broadbull and Emerald to Norden, SS Raptier 12. SS Raptier to Tigermortar then SS Raptier 13 Xyz Raptier and Norden into Daigusto (Again), detach Norden then you can shuffle any 3 monster (except Norden; Recommend to Shuffle Raptier, Broadbull and Daigusto) to draw 1 card *(+1)* 14. Banish Fusion Substitute, return Norden the draw 1 *( +1)* 15. Xyz summon Zoodiac Dirdent for problem :V Now you get +5 with 2 cards; if you have 1 other Fusion substitute, you can have +2 (from Daigusto and Fusion Substitute) [Source: Cimo's video] Just how, if you have only Raptier? 1. Normal summon Raptier send Ram-Ram to GY 2. Xyz Boarbow then Xyz Broadbull then use the eff to SS Raptier and search for Fusion Substitute via Black Sheep 3. Xyz Kong then Xyz Chakanine then Chakanine SS Xyz Zoodiac by detach an Xyz Zoodiac 4. You now have 2 Xyz, fusion summon it (don't use Chakanine) then SS Norden then SS Ram Ram 5. Xyz Daigusto, detach Norden, Shuffle Raptier, Black Sheep and Boarbow, draw 1 *(+1)* 6. Fusion substitue eff, Norden back to ED, draw 1 *(+1)* 7. You can SS Raptier by detach Raptier from Chakanine 8. Hmm... I think if you cannot longer summon any 1 material to continue with Broadbull then you will just ended this with summoning Drident Just CMIIW, thanks
They didn't give Zoo long enough. Zoo was completely banned after 7 months, in comparison Strikers were tier 1 for 18 months and Thunder for 14 months. In the September 2017 banlist they shoulda just put Drident and Broadbull to 1 to see what would happen.
I'll still believe out of all the tier 0 decks from past or present this deck is the most lack luster, has the one card engine has consistent boards, but setting five passing seems like a lot of work because any other tier 0 deck just gives this deck the (phallic object here) I told my friends I still find this the most lack luster tier 0 deck it isn't the most broken tier 0 we've seen or the best. Discussion is always between Pepe or Dragon rulers which Tier 0 deck was the strongest
So, here’s something to discuss, if either Drident or Broadbull were to come back to 1, which would be better? Would it actually allow for anything right now?
Thinking about "now" in comparison with back around when *Foolish Burial* first came out, it's uncanny how the games evolved such that it and cards with comparable effects/ foolish on summon monsters like rat tend to be staples in their respective decks, acting as setup and engine triggers
Who is ready for Zoo to be tier 0 again? AA-Zues is a hell of a card lol. Plus Zoo has multiple variations again. Eldlich Zoo Dogmatika Zoo Pure Zoo I really enjoyed this video. I was not a part of the 2017 era of yugioh i last left in 2010-2011 and just recently got back into the game mid to late 2019. Awesome video sir.
I am actually content with thsi video. You didnt do repetative points like you did with master peace. You are pretty straghtforword and onto the point. This is great on competative history of arguably the best deck of all time.
Nice sync intros 😁 it really changes from that classic piano style and really gives a new breath (idk how to say it but u got the point) BTW infernoid best deck. draw sjette
I would have to personally disagree with Draco zoo having the highest ceiling during that time. True king dinos had a much higher ceiling, they just had a lot of consistency issues at the time compared to zoo decks. The end board of conductor, dolkka (or laggia), calamities and a live nine pillars and the ability to go into a Herald of arc light on opponents turn after banishing 3 cards from the opponents ED and also a card from their hand was a crazy strong play (usually an auto win), with the conductor chanbara otk being an easy 2 card combo as well has having a searchable kaiju at that time when going second. Like I said, I think dinos had the highest ceiling in this format, they just weren't anywhere near as consistent as zoo or draco zoo was.
TBH you're probs accurate on that point, I didn't think to touch on True King Dino for some reason. I should've mentioned the deck, and stated that True Draco Zoo was the highest ceiling deck with the most consistency (that would've probs been a better way of putting it on my end).
Imagine you could consistently multiply your net worth by doing the most basic task in terms of work. Would you do saud thing or work your ass off 40-60 hours a week for doubling your net worth once in a while. Normal summon/special summon off that one permanent spell = +5 (That being very very consistent as 9/39 cards in your deck do exactly that)
Zoodaic will always be the beat deck at full power unless we get a toer zero that better than it but that probably won't happen for a long time or anytime soon.
In hindsight, I wish I would have experimented with Zoo more, especially since I collected so many of the cards from buying RATE packs, back in the day. Still... I just couldn't forgive Zoo for rendering D/D obsolete after just two weeks at full power in the TCG... in hindsight, I should have blamed Konami. I'm sorry for keeping you in my binder, Broadbull.
I still think spellbooks were a scarier and more consistent deck. This was a deck which can easily +6 or more and ends on a monster which doesn't allow you to special summon. It also has easily summoned boss monster and a non targeting banishing reccuring card. Also, Pepe is another deck which is kinda scary due to how many pluses you can get and how many counter traps you can easily end with. Was also due to how broken the pendulum mechanic were but my point still stands. There's a reason why they lasted only 1 format(back then formats were just 3 months apart too)
Funny how the reason Norden got banned wasnt because of instant fusion cheating him out, but was because Zoos fusion summoned him properly
1:22 "It would SPYral out of control" Speaking of Tier 0
If spyral was tier 0, it wouldn't be so bad at winning YCS
Spyral was tier 0 in 2017
@@Lucy5456b Thank you, that's what I was gonna say I was referring too.
Spyral + zoo perhaps? The two were tier 0 in the same year once.
Spyral was only good because zoo and true draco were out of the picture. Zoo was everything it was a deck, an engine, splashable with anything you can think of, and most importantly a one card combo. No one played spyral until the absence of zoo and draco just saying. If anything spyral is most represented
Oh yeah, it's time for this timeless classic:
All I know what to do anymore is summon drident, it's been so long. I don't know what yugioh is anymore. The other day, I summoned a monster and tried to put cowboy on it. With one material. Everything has become zoodiac to me. There are no other monsters, no spells other than barrage. The only trap i know how to activate is dimensional barrier. Occasionally I send combo to grave, and I cry a little. I attack for game but wish I was being gamed instead. It's become a joke of sorts, or maybe it's just my life. I can't go anywhere without seeing zoo. I went to feed my dog the other night, but instead of eating she summoned a goat from the graveyard with it's effects negated. I had to put her down. I sit in the corner now counting down the days, the days where we shall see sweet release from this torment, the day when xyz summoning was about 2 monsters having a special bond and creating something beautiful. Those days are long gone. I have seen God, and I have seen the devil, but they are one and the same. I stared into the abyss and screamed, and it screamed back: "summon rat effect”
Keep it up with the content! These are great :D
I guess you love yuigoh isn’t it ;D? (Same). I’m seeing you under every yuigoh-video xD
this...is art.
That’s Deep Bro
@@SoulDeSol Y-yeah? Idk.
bro you're everywhere... XD
I still remember when Zoodiac was released. One of my friends quit the game completely because he was so sick of dueling against it.
I fell in love with the format the good life it was
@Zero Bullet's There will always be a meta, meaning a few select decks will outperform most other decks, leading to them becoming more popular, this happens in not only all trading card games, but all games with different characters or whatever. But yeah Zoodiac at its height was "everywhere-everywhere", definitely not okay, like half the decks you'd be playing against was that particular deck.
I can't relate because I mained Pendulum Magicians who generally had a good matchup against Zoos. Though not many peopl actually played Zoos online back then. I understan that people hated playing against this deck. And to honest, I find Zoodiacs very boring too.
Ur frined is playing now?
the issue is. that year there was no banned list for like 6+ months so we dealt with the same deck for so long it got so boring. i actually quit the game during that time and came back in 2022
I think the scariest thing about Zoodiac was the precedent it set for the decks that came after it. It shifted the deck building strategy from "make a big board using a combo deck with multiple good openings" to "make a decent board that costs you very little resources, and let the other cards in your hand do the rest of the work". Sky Striker embodied that premise with its 1-card Extra Deck plays and several draws per turn (sound familiar?). After that came Salamangreat, one of the reigning decks of the Eternal Format, which sought to get to its in-theme Armageddon Knight as soon as possible, summon a Rank 3 that summons another monster from the deck (again, does this sound familiar?), and set up an engine that wins you the game. The scariest of the bunch was Orcust when both Mermaid and Bardiche were legal. Forget 2 Level 3 monsters, all you needed was two monsters with different names, making it more splashable and powerful than Zoodiac ever was. Now, I think Konami is starting to be more careful with their card design, but they're having a lot of difficulty without following the trend of 1 card engines.
Speaking of one card engines, there's invoked, too bad it's so power crept
Oh boy, here we go being tier 0 again :)
Day 369 of waiting for New Volcanic Support to arrive
What a nice count
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I'm wondering are you counting for fun or do you really like volcanics?
Payne wont be forget for a long time
I wonder what your idea for volcanic support would be
We weren’t around for this format, and we are so grateful for that! 😅 keep it up homie! Killer video, helps players like us appreciate where the game is at now! 💪🏼
These videos are amazing. However, I think you would be able to take them to the 'next level' by adding key moments from duels to supplement the statements you are making. For example, when you mentioned that td zoo won the nawcq, you could have added a clip of a key turning point in that duel, or the instance when the winner swung for game, from that duel, if it was filmed, which im not sure it was but regardless. I understand this would be more of a nightmare from an editing standpoint but its something to think about.
That’s actually a really good suggestion! I’ll probably do it ;)
BladeYGO I think bringing up some of the unique tech cards for the Zoo mirror like My Body as a Shield and Monster Rebone would be great for those who didn’t keep up with the weird meta
@@BladeYGO Or maybe show someone performing the "Fusion Sub combo" while you talk about how great the combo was.
Damn hearing these combos makes me feel like this old man on the porch say "well back in my day, we had combos with this these called invoker and diagusto fellers"
How do you think I feel? I'm from back in the Chaos format. Back in my day a good first turn board was set D.D. Warrior Lady, pass.
@@williamcronshaw5262 hahah oh man been so long
I remember playing around this time, when they transformed PEVO to a box instead of a structure deck. ZOO was every where and the core of the decks was around 200$ or so. I went for my pendulum boys when zoo died. I still see him in my dreams, the day "he" will comeback.
Day 1 of copying Payne and waiting for "Him" to comeback.
Zarc?
1:03 That aged well
Zeus turbo XD
zoo was a really strange deck. when i looked at first at the cards i thought: thats a good deck, but drident pass doesnt sound as oppressive as metalfose boards with infinity, kirin and alkahest.
And stil to this day i think it is insane how dominant zoo was, despite its weak end boards and loosing to a trap on their normal summon.
Because you have 6 non-normal summon exterder with terrortop and barrage.
Look at salad their end board was weak too but the consitency was insane and it has a great grind game
Peredur XIV it’s board was composed of solemns and d barriers.
Loosing to trap on normal summon? Hahahaha they dont normal summon, they normal when they "brick"
@Oof oh duuuude of course they normal summon but they had 3 terrortop and 3 barrage so the dont NEED IT (do u now know what i was going to said? )
I really like the style of video your doing now, it reminds me of rhystic studios, hope you continue to make these style of videos even better in the future, keep it up man 🙌🏻
I just wanted to point out that the Lightsworn Zombie deck from Seattle WAS playing a Zoo engine, he was an aquaintance of mine at the time and I was watching his matches day 2, and even in his Round 9 Feature Match on the konami blog you can see he's playing a zoo engine.
This video was well WORTH the wait! Thanks BladeYGO for summing up the Zoo formats (though maybe some gameplay of the skill-intensive Zoo mirrors with no Fusion Sub combo would help)
I'm still traumatized by Zoodiac/Draco format, since I joined YuGiOh on that mess.
But still, nothing is will ever be as oppressive as 'Firewall with floaters' aka Gouki Extra Link. You have 2 cards and one of them WILL be negated, good luck.
I joined around the Dragon Rulers format. Oh the horrors I've seen..
i joined around true dracos masterpeace i hate them so much i bought myself a birthday cake when they got nerfed
@ً floodgate.dek is not cool.
@@zad_rasera
Yeah, I especially hated that Format too. Dragons were always a prime Choice in yugioh.
and then SPYRAL came along with Double Helix
We trade one villain for another...
You either die a hero or live long enough to turn into a villain
Need a example video on why spyrals were broken
of course SPYral's have taken a hit as they lost Master Plan as she was recently banned to get drone back to 3
@@TopG_KnightofOne spyrals were broken because they got to look at your opponent's top card on their deck so it was a serious play disrupter as well as the search ability was broken too
3:05 you missed the perfect opportunity to include the “oh sh*t a rat” meme.
The cycle repeats itself with ishizu tearlaments now
For those who don't know what the fusion substitute combo was, it was a super long ass combo in which resulted in a +4 card advantage by looping emeral and norden. Heck, even some people ran multiple copies of fusion substitue as for each one in the loop you got 2 more draws, so by playing 3 fusion substitutes you could reach a whooping +8 cards advantage with a ONE CARD COMBO. (but they were bricky so many just went with 1 copy)
If you think that spyral combo is long and boring is because you didn't saw that 25+min combo of norden and emerald looping and drawing 2 each iteration...
Oh and btw, for that era, the only real handtraps were veiler, ghost ogre , droll and maxx c, only ogre and maxx being really good against zoo, and ghost ogre was recently printed as secret in a main pack, so either you had the money for the playset of ghost ogre or prayed hard to draw your only copy of maxx c
ash was out by the time chakanine made fusion sub at it's strongest but it just wasn't very good vs zoo & mostly hurt pure draco & grass decks reducing the viability of decks that were not zoo , d.d. crow & droll & lock saw play too, d.d. crow in the paleo/zoo/infernoid format hit all 3 top decks & droll killed the fusion sub combo & was used as well as Ash Blossom in the Invoked handtrap deck which bopped full power fusion sub Zoo for 1st place in europe.
As someone who played Infernoid Zoo during that format, over a 1/3 of the cards in the deck were 1 card playmakers thanks to 2 Rat, 3 Terrortop, 3 Barrage, 3 Tenki, 3 Grass, 3 Lullaby of Obedience, 3 Imagination and 3 Vanishments.
Deck was underrated during the format and it was able to make better use of the Zoo engine by using Buijin xyzs to mill 15ish cards and draw a few cards at the same time.
definitely think that deck was the best pre ash blossom/master peace/chakanine
lets see xyzs are balanced by the fact that you need 2 monsters to bring them out, they suddenly change that so you only need 1 monster and it instantly becomes the best deck, what a surprise 😱
Here's a quick breakdown of the Zoodiac life line
Zoodiac gets released
Zoodiac Ratpier, Broadbull and Drident: Exist
Zoodiac gets banned
End.
Full power zoo was an aggro-control deck meaning it had both the positive aspects of combo decks and the positive aspect of a control deck. When an aggro-control is in the meta it usually create a tier 0 format.
salad didn't but that meta was full of crazy cards with dragonlink & orcust & striker all in play
Would love to see a true king Dino yang zing video as well. That deck was bonkers
Now with Tribrigade, and Drident Limited, Zoo cam pop off again. Arguably even better then when Rat and Bull were at 3.
I’m loving this rhytic studies styled format - keep it up, I can’t wait to see more videos such as this one 👍
Infernoid Zoo is probably the most fun I ever had playing Yu-Gi-Oh. I really miss that deck.
Great video man!
Nice throwback to when I first started playing
Raging Tempest - The Zoodiac Menace
Phantom Rage - Revenge of The Zoodiacs
I love how, after years of releasing cards that break the game involuntarily, Konami has yet to learn its lesson that you should never ever be unspecific when it comes to search effects
spright make toad 😂
really loved the video, please more on the history of dominating decks like this one
Great video, man. Love this style.
Zoo is up there with synchro cat as my favorite deck of all time.
You're slowly becoming the Rhystic Studies of YGO, noice!
shout outs to Marcelo's EU WCQ undefeated streak & all the OCG worlds qualifiers who stomped through with Draco Zoo without Drident ^.^ also to Ash Blossom helping kill 60 card decks like Master Peace murdered Paleo , nice video thanks ^.^
I just noticed...
Drident is a female.
OH
"Greatest deck of all time"
You can hear OCG PePe laughing in the distance
Sergio Gonzales guess he is talking about that next
sky striker next
Interesting, I could do that tbh. Let me think about it ;)
it was never tier zero, orcust striker came closest
Wow so, I knew Zoo was Tier 0, and knew a small amount as to why, because I only started properly playing in SPYRAL Format, but this video really helped! Was formatted well and laid out the points easily
Amazing video I applaud you sir!!! Seeing videos like this really brings me back and shows you how far the game really has come. Tell everyone that played during this format we really did witness history
The level of this video is HIGH!
However, as someone who didnt actively play at zoodiac format and doesnt know the deck well, i dont really understand why it was such a powerhouse
Watch the cross banlist cup of lithium2300. There you can watch full power zoodiac
Rat, Barrage will be known throughout Yu-Gi-Oh! History as a curse upon the houses of your enemies.
The editing and visuals here are excellent. Definitely subscribing. If I had any feedback though, the first part if that your character insert isn't needed. It actually clashes with the very warm, smooth, almost pastel visual style you're going for, and it feels cleaner when he wasn't on the screen. The other part would be perhaps giving a quick demonstration of the combos you mention. You talk about the combos that were back breaking (such as the fusion substitute norden combo), but for someone who is unfamiliar with how these cards can interact, it doesn't help without having to look up more stuff afterwards. Spending 20-30 seconds doing a quick hypothetical generic play through would fix that.
But as I said, fantastic content, absolutely looking forward to seeing more. Going to check out your masterpeace video next.
Thank you for the feedback and I’m so happy to hear you liked the content! I agree that the character stills can throw off the flow of the vid, so I probs will take them out of my next video, also I’ll definitely add combos next time. So happy you enjoyed! ;)
@@BladeYGO Glad to hear it. I look forward to the next one.
TrueDraco-Zoo was the ultimate form of unfair gameplay of all times in ygo. Just remember: the most consistent strategy of all times and the most opressiv boss monster ever printed. Such a cool deck to play against, thanks Konami for this unforgetable era :)
P.D: really cool video, I like it so much
Ill give it to you blade i don't all ways pay attention to your videos i normally listen to them while I'm doing stuff this one had me actually watching so job well done blade
Great video. I started playing yugioh right in the zoodiac era and never truly understood how it worked, and you video really helped me get a good feel of the archetype. Please make more videos like this.
(Also make a video on SPYRAL please)
Awesome, was waiting for this vid to drop.
Love the format, and definitely wouldn't mind seeing more stuff like this.
Yugioh lore ftw
Man ddd should’ve been meta before zoo
They were. Just weren't for long. I played from Pepe to now and remember when the DDD structure came out. It dropped like a few weeks before Zoo. It tried to rise but with Zoo coming out it people would rather play that. Not to mention Zoo just beat DDD. I do remember the weeks locals were full of DDD. The structure just took way too long to come out and at the worst time.
This video inspired me to play Zoodiac Lunalights on Dueling Nexus no banlist. Making an Apollousa with 4 negates and a Shockmaster turn 1 minimum consistently is fun, and Broadbull lets you add any Lunalight monster to your hand.
Zoodiac drident is such a thicc card
This is beautiful. I am picking this deck up and I'm really excited. Might not be in the top tiers anymore, but I am really excited to see if it can compete as a rogue option!
Great content, explained perfectly, loved the video.
Keep it up man!
I remember playing against zoo through out it's entire time as tier 0-1. fun seeing history as I experienced how strong the deck was.
I love this deck so much, I just came back to yugioh from nekroz format got a raging tempest box and opened drident and barrage, I used to play fire king and madolche so I had the tenkis and the m-x- saber invoker , and finished myself a core, but couldn't pay the ash blossom, the strikes, and the d-barrier, but the amount of fun I had with this deck is what keeps me up every no "sooner than" date, hoping to see: monster/xyz | zoodiac drident | limited | limited | was forbidden
You didn't get tired of the 10 minute zoo combos every duel?
Marco Muto well as long as busted cards like Norden are banned it should be fine. Hope to see brosdbull back as long as there are no degenerate combos in sight with it...
woah.. puberty much?
also, am I the only missed seeing these as a good deck and not a joke of their previous selves? c'mon, konami. give us 3 drident and that's all we need. (don't ever give us broadbull though.. that card was a mistake)
Yeah i think drident will make the deck playable ( it s limited in ocg )
I think they should give us Denglong back.
@@scymension XD dude that's a 1 card calamities
If u want zoodiac to be good again we need one more ratpier and one drident or broadbull
Drident was literally the only threat in the deck. Even if broadbull was at 3 now zoodiac would still be trash
Let’s not forget my very own lunalight zoodiac! Yeah I played it back then,......... I miss broadbull 😢
Dawg I'm from this era but i couldn't afford zoo at the time & i was more interested in another deck which was paleozoic frogs, 1st deck i got tops with! Because of the meta mainly being zoo i had advantage! But they had techs waiting for me but i had my barrier statue toadally plus dupe frog waiting for them. But kaijus helped them specifically gamciel! It was enjoyable for me cause of the grindy games of out playing each other but then true draco came & made things hard, from an already tough match up against grass infernoids! I enjoyed your vid & brought back great & frustrating memories but all great still, thanks.
Great history video really detailed with history, I quit for a number of years so I really enjoy these type of videos along with the detail! Keep it up bro you’ll be doing this full time in no time
As someone who had taken a long break till like mid 2019 this was very informative. It would be great to see this for other tier 0 full power decks too.
YES! The video is finally out thank you blade
Wow, this video was actually amazing I'd get behind more of this!
Zoo is my fav deck. I really enjoyed this video. I felt like I was back in 2017, thank you!
Note:
NS: Normal Summon
SS: Special Summon
Combo (Raptier + Instant Fusion)
1. NS Raptier, send Throughblade to GY
2. Xyz Boarbow then Xyz Broadbull with 1 card material
3. Broadbull detachs, SS Raptier from deck then search Black Sheep then search Fusion Substitute
5. Activate Instant Fusion, SS Norden then SS Throughblade from GY then Xyz Daigusto, detach Norden then shuffle Norden, Black Sheep and Raptier to Deck, draw 1 *(+1)*
7. Fusion Daigusto and Broadbull to Norden with Fusion Substitute then Norden SS Throughblade
8. Xyz Broadbull by using Raptier and Norden, Broadbull detachs, SS Raptier and then search Black Sheep and Fusion Substitute
9. Banish Fusion Substitute, return Norden to ED then draw 1 *(+1)*
10. Xyz Raptier and Throughblade to Daigusto, shuffle Raptier, Daigusto and Broadbull, draw 1 *(+1)*
11. Fusion Broadbull and Emerald to Norden, SS Raptier
12. SS Raptier to Tigermortar then SS Raptier
13 Xyz Raptier and Norden into Daigusto (Again), detach Norden then you can shuffle any 3 monster (except Norden; Recommend to Shuffle Raptier, Broadbull and Daigusto) to draw 1 card *(+1)*
14. Banish Fusion Substitute, return Norden the draw 1 *( +1)*
15. Xyz summon Zoodiac Dirdent for problem :V
Now you get +5 with 2 cards; if you have 1 other Fusion substitute, you can have +2 (from Daigusto and Fusion Substitute)
[Source: Cimo's video]
Just how, if you have only Raptier?
1. Normal summon Raptier send Ram-Ram to GY
2. Xyz Boarbow then Xyz Broadbull then use the eff to SS Raptier and search for Fusion Substitute via Black Sheep
3. Xyz Kong then Xyz Chakanine then Chakanine SS Xyz Zoodiac by detach an Xyz Zoodiac
4. You now have 2 Xyz, fusion summon it (don't use Chakanine) then SS Norden then SS Ram Ram
5. Xyz Daigusto, detach Norden, Shuffle Raptier, Black Sheep and Boarbow, draw 1 *(+1)*
6. Fusion substitue eff, Norden back to ED, draw 1 *(+1)*
7. You can SS Raptier by detach Raptier from Chakanine
8. Hmm... I think if you cannot longer summon any 1 material to continue with Broadbull then you will just ended this with summoning Drident
Just CMIIW, thanks
They didn't give Zoo long enough. Zoo was completely banned after 7 months, in comparison Strikers were tier 1 for 18 months and Thunder for 14 months. In the September 2017 banlist they shoulda just put Drident and Broadbull to 1 to see what would happen.
I mean, Zoo was tier 0 while striker and thunder were parts of a diverse meta, I too wish Zoo had stayed for longer but it wasn't unwarranted
zoo was one of the craziest formats i ever lived thru. everything was playing it. i think it was a skillful time.
Still remember that European Championship, where Marcello Barbieri earned the title Jaggernaut going 15:0
“boarbow does nothing”
And then they printed Zeus which turned every direct attacker Xyz into a harbinger of your imminent demise.
I'll still believe out of all the tier 0 decks from past or present this deck is the most lack luster, has the one card engine has consistent boards, but setting five passing seems like a lot of work because any other tier 0 deck just gives this deck the (phallic object here) I told my friends I still find this the most lack luster tier 0 deck it isn't the most broken tier 0 we've seen or the best. Discussion is always between Pepe or Dragon rulers which Tier 0 deck was the strongest
Yah may most lack luster but it most hated for a reason not deck shouldn't go plus 7 off one fucking card
really wanna see a follow up bc zoodiac has now climbed its way back into the meta
Man zoodiacs was great I still have my deck full power. Waiting for the day zoodiacs return
Never, the day Norden comes back is the day this game dies
Bacon Sir Norden is not a zoodiac monster Lmao
Thanks for the vid hommy, I asked myself the question when I heard that they were Tier 0 at one point as well.
Man.. this made me nostalgic for those days.. damn.
Performapal made me have 1 foot out the door, zoodiac made me slam the door behind me
So, here’s something to discuss, if either Drident or Broadbull were to come back to 1, which would be better? Would it actually allow for anything right now?
Fusion Sub Zoo is basically a more consistent version of Engage into Engage into Engage.
Ah, Zoodiac. I still have the nightmares.
i almost cried at the end holyyyyyy
I think it says a lot that in Traditional Format, just having Drident and Broadbull at 1 copy brings Zoodiac back as the best deck in the format.
Thinking about "now" in comparison with back around when *Foolish Burial* first came out, it's uncanny how the games evolved such that it and cards with comparable effects/ foolish on summon monsters like rat tend to be staples in their respective decks, acting as setup and engine triggers
Who is ready for Zoo to be tier 0 again?
AA-Zues is a hell of a card lol.
Plus Zoo has multiple variations again.
Eldlich Zoo
Dogmatika Zoo
Pure Zoo
I really enjoyed this video.
I was not a part of the 2017 era of yugioh i last left in 2010-2011 and just recently got back into the game mid to late 2019. Awesome video sir.
I am actually content with thsi video. You didnt do repetative points like you did with master peace. You are pretty straghtforword and onto the point. This is great on competative history of arguably the best deck of all time.
"zoodiac most broken deck of all time"
>full power pepe getting emergency banned in less than 30 after release
"am i a joke to you?"
Plz make more tier 0 deck explanations
Great video, i think you should have mentioned shuffle reborn zoo, but other than that, great video!
Nice sync intros 😁 it really changes from that classic piano style and really gives a new breath (idk how to say it but u got the point)
BTW infernoid best deck.
draw sjette
Also Idk if removing your character is a good idea it must have been a difficult choice but the result is still good
I still have my character in there ;)
@@BladeYGO yeah I meant he is not there through the whole video
Oh that’s what you mean, yeah true
I would have to personally disagree with Draco zoo having the highest ceiling during that time. True king dinos had a much higher ceiling, they just had a lot of consistency issues at the time compared to zoo decks. The end board of conductor, dolkka (or laggia), calamities and a live nine pillars and the ability to go into a Herald of arc light on opponents turn after banishing 3 cards from the opponents ED and also a card from their hand was a crazy strong play (usually an auto win), with the conductor chanbara otk being an easy 2 card combo as well has having a searchable kaiju at that time when going second. Like I said, I think dinos had the highest ceiling in this format, they just weren't anywhere near as consistent as zoo or draco zoo was.
TBH you're probs accurate on that point, I didn't think to touch on True King Dino for some reason. I should've mentioned the deck, and stated that True Draco Zoo was the highest ceiling deck with the most consistency (that would've probs been a better way of putting it on my end).
& they could play zoo too '.' & the mr4 version just straight up ftkd
Imagine you could consistently multiply your net worth by doing the most basic task in terms of work.
Would you do saud thing or work your ass off 40-60 hours a week for doubling your net worth once in a while.
Normal summon/special summon off that one permanent spell = +5
(That being very very consistent as 9/39 cards in your deck do exactly that)
The ratatatata
Dude, 10/10, great video.
I can still remember opening my box of RaTe my 2 secret rates were drident and grass. Best box I've ever opened
yugioh rhystic studies is my favorite channel
I never faced zoodiac at my locals in 2017 but i think yata-garasu lock would be harder to counter at this due to the lack of negates
“Resilient” laughs in literally any form of destruction.
More videos like this please!
Really enjoyed it
Mermail deck? I remember during that time, there was a 60 card mermail deck combo.
i literally only became a channel member because you offered me the time to skip so i wouldnt have to hear you talk about it thank you
Zoodaic will always be the beat deck at full power unless we get a toer zero that better than it but that probably won't happen for a long time or anytime soon.
Fair fair
In hindsight, I wish I would have experimented with Zoo more, especially since I collected so many of the cards from buying RATE packs, back in the day.
Still... I just couldn't forgive Zoo for rendering D/D obsolete after just two weeks at full power in the TCG... in hindsight, I should have blamed Konami. I'm sorry for keeping you in my binder, Broadbull.
This is nice. It reminds me of rhystic studies style.
I still think spellbooks were a scarier and more consistent deck.
This was a deck which can easily +6 or more and ends on a monster which doesn't allow you to special summon. It also has easily summoned boss monster and a non targeting banishing reccuring card.
Also, Pepe is another deck which is kinda scary due to how many pluses you can get and how many counter traps you can easily end with. Was also due to how broken the pendulum mechanic were but my point still stands.
There's a reason why they lasted only 1 format(back then formats were just 3 months apart too)