Random person - “Hey uhh… Konami… Do you think having a generic link 2 that searches any turner a bad idea? And a link 1 that makes tokens too based on that link?” Konami - “Lol, no.” Worst format - happens. Konami - “How could we ever see this happen?!?!”
The format after Synchro Eldlich was immensely fun. You just got to pick your own flavor of unapologetically broken Yugioh and roll with it. Dragon Link, the clear best deck that forced players to make the distinction between high impact and low impact hand traps Dinosaur, the deck disgusting enough to want to blind second in this ridiculously high power format Infernoble, the deck whose going first gimmick was the only one disgusting enough to make Dinosaur want to go first. This is peak Yugioh.
I actually did like the format following, which is why I made the distinction that the pre block dragon hit format is what I’m deeming so bad. Still think Infernoble was a stain on that format but there wasn’t too much else to complain about; dragon link was terribly fun.
I remember quitting the game during this period. I think it really showed me that I don't want to keep playing the game with this frustration. I've never really returned to competitive since and I think it's better for me this way. So I guess I'm grateful it happened but not on the way you'd expect.
I quit on the eve of Duelist Alliance. I’m only back for Time Wizard, now. I do find watching modern content fascinating, but I don’t think I’d have much fun actually playing the game with how dumb every deck is.
Sorry for the late watch, but once again an amazing vid. It's amazing to see how far you've come in not only video quality, but also just general content creation. Keep up the amazing work. This is easily the closest video you've made to your history of the eternal format and I am absolutely here for it! Amazing job, keep being one of the best, you'll blow up eventually, no one this good goes unnoticed for long.
This was when I got back into yugioh. I remember playing Sky Striker Eldlich and Dogmatika Invoked Eldich. Sky Striker Eldlich was my favorite deck of that format. I used to play dinosaurs and got completely destroyed by a sky striker eldlich player.
Even though this format was very toxic, I enjoyed the creative aspect of it. The crazy combo lines and payoffs felt like a real teaching point for me in terms of my own skill with the game. I definitely think at higher levels of play, it was probably excruciating for duels to be decided by a die roll. At lower levels, it was a way to explore beyond the limits of decks prior. Great video as always 👍
This was the format that got me into yugioh properly, because everyone played on db there were so many large online tournaments for cash, and so many lesser known players broke out because of those. People had time to grind db for hours on end, and even though the frontrunner decks were obnoxiously strong the matches were usually interesting.
One piece of this puzzle that wasn't mentioned here was that this format arrived after 3 or 4 months of hype around Master Rule 5, a great liberation of the constraints that had made many older fan favourite decks unplayable. Not only was this hype curbed by the march banlist, but the release of SESL holding two of yugioh's strongest contemporary decks completely blew all of those older stategies out of the water. That is, with one exception... DINO DNA. The one viable going second option that could actually make use of those board breakers to beat the massive combo boards and OTK to beat the inevitability of Eldlich. Truly a mess of a format, but one that had a strange charm to it if you could play the best decks of the time. That is, until your opponent drops a Mystic Mine, but that's a different video essay
I remember people swearing that Halq wasn’t broken. Which is insane It is undoubtedly the single best thing you could do for two years straight. I still don’t get why people refused to play it. I think people got just so burned out from Adamant-Eldlich format, that they just decided not to play it because they didn’t want to admit it was the best thing
Indirectly, Covid is what pushed me to get back into Yu-Gi-Oh and follow the current format. Started in September/October 2020, but I wouldn't really get good until January 2021. I remember people complaining about the Buster Lock and Halqross combos, lol.
@Sleepy YGO thank you! Over time, I came to the conclusion that the reason why I didn't quit the game outright was (and I'd like to heavily emphasize this) that I found competitively viable decks that I genuinely enjoyed for competitively irrelevant reasons. I enjoyed the time from LIOV until Grand Creators because of Dragunity and Dinos. I enjoyed Albaz format because of Adventure Dragons. *I enjoyed Tear format because of Dracoslayer.* (The only format I didn't like was POTE format, though.)
Yup super frustrating format. After etco dropped I just played salad since it was budget, could fit enough handtraps for rock/infernoble and you had an easy otk line going second.
This was one of two times where the yugiboomers were right Dice roll format with infinite negates, long combos and uninteresting decks all just being halqross turbo
This was the time period that got me focused on retro formats and stop trying to keep up with the pace of the current game because the release of Adamancipator and Infernoble Knights were just too much. Ironically Tear 0 is just as strong but feels more grindy rather than spit out a mostly unbreakable board in COVID period.
Yeah Tear was certainly a warping deck but the way it played was not nearly as oppressive in terms of game mechanics, and the mirror is a hell of a lot better than an adam mirror.
I stopped playing yugioh right after the release of master rule 4 cuz it was frustrating to change the playstyle of every deck just for the new type of cards
I loved this format for all the flavors of bullshit that the top dogs could get up to from the 60 card SyncronLich pile to the desperate anti-Halq techs like Gizmek Uka. I'm sure I would've gotten tired of it if there were IRL events, but high power formats like SeSl are a blast. #BlockDidNothingWrong
I loved playing adamancipator even if it's no longer one of the top deck to play I still think it's fun, but I will agree looking back this format was pretty annoying and boring to play/watch
god i wish i could give you a different opinion but the only time period that comes close is early 2018 firewall stuff, and even then at least if you both opened badly you had fun gamestates with back-and-forth, bricking on eld/adam just meant you died and the fornat felt like it lasted even longer
Needlefiber format was undeniably the worst one we've ever had, the fact that some people were defending this one is unbelivable. It basically made Yu-Gi-Oh into solitaire, although I do understand Konami's decision not to hit the newest cards on the banlist before people even got a chace to play them in a real event.
Lets go over all the nonsense regarding DUOV, got kinda ranty at the end but, yeah this format sucked. pendulum, despite no electrumite, was still capable of doing the infiniteee negate combo involving Thunderbird and Apex Avian, or realistically any deck that could normal summon steam the cloak, could, this would be addressed in said april list. halq and auroradon, strong, halq and auroradon WITH linkross, stupid, okay you negated "insert link", linkross time, how broken was linkross? Vylon Cube was a metagame staple in combo. they killed anything that could've competed with adamancipator, eldlich and infernoble in jan, then furthermore in april with the death of spyral and lunalight, which are all decks to this day awaiting unhits on the banlist (except striker and salamangreat who are, effectively powercrept from the game and can be fully released without issue *opinion*). they neglected to add these link monsters in their actual master rule, which is partially why we had such a problem, yes halqifibrax is stupid, but halqifibrax it was a card designed for MR4 in mind and low and behold got even more powerful in MR5. i sure loved when infernoble figured out they could make vfd and put you under black garden, see your imperm you were holding as "the out" to vfd, and go "I'ma keep these tokens on the field" oh and, when am I getting my phoenix blade ban konami? I've been waiting a VERY long time. ROTD was it's own problem, the best "draw the outs" cards were printed as secret rares, in a short run product in ROTD in the highest rarity slot, leading to them being multiple hundreds of dollars for a format, you could not even play physically, those cards to this day end up as 30 aud+ cards even with multiple reprints, nearly 4 years after their release. furthermore in ROTD, while nowhere near the power of other decks, we had Dogmatika Invoked, Nadir Servant is stupidly broken capable of making, Mechaba (draw the out) Fluerdelis in hand/punishment and Shaddoll Schism, which read "make winda", game health was not a concern for konami tcg as the 100 aud price tag on the boxes was well worth their players suffering. The worst era of yugioh.
good times
It was worth it for the friends we made along the way 🥰
Random person - “Hey uhh… Konami… Do you think having a generic link 2 that searches any turner a bad idea? And a link 1 that makes tokens too based on that link?”
Konami - “Lol, no.”
Worst format - happens.
Konami - “How could we ever see this happen?!?!”
The format after Synchro Eldlich was immensely fun. You just got to pick your own flavor of unapologetically broken Yugioh and roll with it.
Dragon Link, the clear best deck that forced players to make the distinction between high impact and low impact hand traps
Dinosaur, the deck disgusting enough to want to blind second in this ridiculously high power format
Infernoble, the deck whose going first gimmick was the only one disgusting enough to make Dinosaur want to go first.
This is peak Yugioh.
I actually did like the format following, which is why I made the distinction that the pre block dragon hit format is what I’m deeming so bad. Still think Infernoble was a stain on that format but there wasn’t too much else to complain about; dragon link was terribly fun.
I actually loved this format I felt it was explosive but going second decks still existed
I remember quitting the game during this period. I think it really showed me that I don't want to keep playing the game with this frustration. I've never really returned to competitive since and I think it's better for me this way. So I guess I'm grateful it happened but not on the way you'd expect.
I quit as soon as Spyral came back.
Absolute cancer deck and somehow the format only got worse.
I quit on the eve of Duelist Alliance. I’m only back for Time Wizard, now. I do find watching modern content fascinating, but I don’t think I’d have much fun actually playing the game with how dumb every deck is.
Sorry for the late watch, but once again an amazing vid. It's amazing to see how far you've come in not only video quality, but also just general content creation. Keep up the amazing work. This is easily the closest video you've made to your history of the eternal format and I am absolutely here for it! Amazing job, keep being one of the best, you'll blow up eventually, no one this good goes unnoticed for long.
Always appreciate the support
Didn't mention the master rule change right before this but god this was a good video.
Can't wait for Duel Overload 2.
💕 (i forgot about that)
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This was when I got back into yugioh. I remember playing Sky Striker Eldlich and Dogmatika Invoked Eldich. Sky Striker Eldlich was my favorite deck of that format. I used to play dinosaurs and got completely destroyed by a sky striker eldlich player.
Even though this format was very toxic, I enjoyed the creative aspect of it. The crazy combo lines and payoffs felt like a real teaching point for me in terms of my own skill with the game. I definitely think at higher levels of play, it was probably excruciating for duels to be decided by a die roll. At lower levels, it was a way to explore beyond the limits of decks prior. Great video as always 👍
This was the format that got me into yugioh properly, because everyone played on db there were so many large online tournaments for cash, and so many lesser known players broke out because of those. People had time to grind db for hours on end, and even though the frontrunner decks were obnoxiously strong the matches were usually interesting.
The lack of paywall for what would otherwise be a terribly expensive format was the silver lining for this format without a doubt
One piece of this puzzle that wasn't mentioned here was that this format arrived after 3 or 4 months of hype around Master Rule 5, a great liberation of the constraints that had made many older fan favourite decks unplayable. Not only was this hype curbed by the march banlist, but the release of SESL holding two of yugioh's strongest contemporary decks completely blew all of those older stategies out of the water.
That is, with one exception... DINO DNA. The one viable going second option that could actually make use of those board breakers to beat the massive combo boards and OTK to beat the inevitability of Eldlich.
Truly a mess of a format, but one that had a strange charm to it if you could play the best decks of the time. That is, until your opponent drops a Mystic Mine, but that's a different video essay
I remember people swearing that Halq wasn’t broken. Which is insane
It is undoubtedly the single best thing you could do for two years straight.
I still don’t get why people refused to play it.
I think people got just so burned out from Adamant-Eldlich format, that they just decided not to play it because they didn’t want to admit it was the best thing
Indirectly, Covid is what pushed me to get back into Yu-Gi-Oh and follow the current format.
Started in September/October 2020, but I wouldn't really get good until January 2021.
I remember people complaining about the Buster Lock and Halqross combos, lol.
Glad to have you :) but yeah that format was crazy hard to digest esp getting into it, glad it didnt ruin it for you
@Sleepy YGO thank you!
Over time, I came to the conclusion that the reason why I didn't quit the game outright was (and I'd like to heavily emphasize this) that I found competitively viable decks that I genuinely enjoyed for competitively irrelevant reasons. I enjoyed the time from LIOV until Grand Creators because of Dragunity and Dinos. I enjoyed Albaz format because of Adventure Dragons. *I enjoyed Tear format because of Dracoslayer.* (The only format I didn't like was POTE format, though.)
Yup super frustrating format. After etco dropped I just played salad since it was budget, could fit enough handtraps for rock/infernoble and you had an easy otk line going second.
Lesson of the day: generic Link monsters that search are fucking insane
This was one of two times where the yugiboomers were right
Dice roll format with infinite negates, long combos and uninteresting decks all just being halqross turbo
Me and my buddies tried this format without half and aurora was super good.
Luckily I got back into ygo a bit after phantom rage was out, some remainders were still there but linkross was out soon and eternal right around
This was the time period that got me focused on retro formats and stop trying to keep up with the pace of the current game because the release of Adamancipator and Infernoble Knights were just too much. Ironically Tear 0 is just as strong but feels more grindy rather than spit out a mostly unbreakable board in COVID period.
Yeah Tear was certainly a warping deck but the way it played was not nearly as oppressive in terms of game mechanics, and the mirror is a hell of a lot better than an adam mirror.
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I stopped playing yugioh right after the release of master rule 4 cuz it was frustrating to change the playstyle of every deck just for the new type of cards
I loved this format for all the flavors of bullshit that the top dogs could get up to from the 60 card SyncronLich pile to the desperate anti-Halq techs like Gizmek Uka. I'm sure I would've gotten tired of it if there were IRL events, but high power formats like SeSl are a blast. #BlockDidNothingWrong
Funny enough this is not the worst format in ygo history that title goes to wind-up format
I loved playing adamancipator even if it's no longer one of the top deck to play I still think it's fun, but I will agree looking back this format was pretty annoying and boring to play/watch
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Yeah, I remember this. Fucking awful.
god i wish i could give you a different opinion but the only time period that comes close is early 2018 firewall stuff, and even then at least if you both opened badly you had fun gamestates with back-and-forth, bricking on eld/adam just meant you died and the fornat felt like it lasted even longer
Firewall was definitely close, but at least the format was in person so there was a social element to the game.
Needlefiber format was undeniably the worst one we've ever had, the fact that some people were defending this one is unbelivable. It basically made Yu-Gi-Oh into solitaire, although I do understand Konami's decision not to hit the newest cards on the banlist before people even got a chace to play them in a real event.
i just didnt play lul
So valid for that
Spyral format with máster rule 4 was the worst
Suggesting that it was bearable during MR5.
Halq, and Auroradon were mistakes.
Lets go over all the nonsense regarding DUOV, got kinda ranty at the end but, yeah this format sucked.
pendulum, despite no electrumite, was still capable of doing the infiniteee negate combo involving Thunderbird and Apex Avian, or realistically any deck that could normal summon steam the cloak, could, this would be addressed in said april list.
halq and auroradon, strong, halq and auroradon WITH linkross, stupid, okay you negated "insert link", linkross time, how broken was linkross? Vylon Cube was a metagame staple in combo.
they killed anything that could've competed with adamancipator, eldlich and infernoble in jan, then furthermore in april with the death of spyral and lunalight, which are all decks to this day awaiting unhits on the banlist (except striker and salamangreat who are, effectively powercrept from the game and can be fully released without issue *opinion*).
they neglected to add these link monsters in their actual master rule, which is partially why we had such a problem, yes halqifibrax is stupid, but halqifibrax it was a card designed for MR4 in mind and low and behold got even more powerful in MR5.
i sure loved when infernoble figured out they could make vfd and put you under black garden, see your imperm you were holding as "the out" to vfd, and go "I'ma keep these tokens on the field" oh and, when am I getting my phoenix blade ban konami? I've been waiting a VERY long time.
ROTD was it's own problem, the best "draw the outs" cards were printed as secret rares, in a short run product in ROTD in the highest rarity slot, leading to them being multiple hundreds of dollars for a format, you could not even play physically, those cards to this day end up as 30 aud+ cards even with multiple reprints, nearly 4 years after their release.
furthermore in ROTD, while nowhere near the power of other decks, we had Dogmatika Invoked, Nadir Servant is stupidly broken capable of making, Mechaba (draw the out) Fluerdelis in hand/punishment and Shaddoll Schism, which read "make winda", game health was not a concern for konami tcg as the 100 aud price tag on the boxes was well worth their players suffering.
The worst era of yugioh.
I remember this format, its awful
Nice Remy pfp. Hope he comes out in sf6
@@yugimumoto1 same man