Rarran card ratings are like: "Arm and a Leg. Spell card. Look at your opponent's hand, and then tickle their toes. Would I play this in Hearthstone? That's tough. See, Hearthstone is a completely digital client, so we don't have any cards that let you touch your opponent. We do have a class called Demon Hunter which makes me physically retch every time I play against it. I guess you could tickle their toes to make them knock over their own decks and disqualify themselves. No, no. That's a Disneyland scenario. I think looking at your opponent's hand is probably just irrelevant. This card is unplayable, no?"
To be fair i feel like theres a lot of missing context w xyz cause rank up cards and some general fodder like the photon cards should be shown since it shows how ez tokens were to use asw as getting high rank xyz without the materials
I'm still not entirely sure Rarran got how XYZs worked. The entire time he was just like "But how hard is it to get two Level 4s?" while having played YGO himself. I couldn't get rid of the feeling he assumed you need some special monsters (or he assumed level is something special that only certain monsters have) to XYZ instead of literally ANY monster of the specified level
Rarran is the kinda student who comes back after break and makes class twice as slow cause he can't remember anything from before the break and asks too many questions
I think its important to note that while Emeral drawing a card is good, the main reason the card is so good is the recycling. The card not being once per turn and being able to recycle other copies of itself has created many infinite loops where you use Emeral to repeatedly recycle the same 2 cards plus itself to keep fueling the loop. Or you can have a deck like Blue-Blooded Oni Ftk that specifically abused a loop like this for the draw, basically using Emeral’s ability to fuel these loops to loop the Emeral itself, drawing its entire deck
Emeral being able to recycle cards that may not be legal at 3 copies (and not being hard-once per turn) is why its stuck at 1 copy. So you can't loop recycle Emeral with a second copy of itself, especially since you can now easily get the first copy into the graveyard by linking it off.
@@yasharthpandey6317 The issue with Emeral is there is absolutely no reason to play more than 1 copy of Emeral unless you are doing a stupid ftk with it, so why bring it back to 3?
cimo saying 3 times over to assume that the monsters are relatively easy to summon But rarran JUST KEEPS going off on how difficult the monster is to summon.
To be fair, depending on archetype, 1 level 10 monster can be easy to bring out. But can you do it twice? Tri-Wight is a one card XYZ because its a spell card that lets you special summon 3 low level monsters. Nothing like that exists for higher level monsters, so getting the resources for a high rank XYZ can still be tricky even if the archetype can bring out that level of monster easier than others.
I mean you say that but one of the cards was Rhongomyniad, and the difficulty fully summoning it at max power was a major factor in its analysis and the lifespan of the card. We also did almost nothing above Rank 4. It was largely irrelevant but not for all the cards, so just chill out a bit. :)
Blindly evaluating Emeral as an MtG player with some decent Yugioh knowledge, I knew it was good. I put it on a like Mind Sculptor level of power. I didn’t even think of it recycling itself though, that’s nasty.
@ naturally. I know Yugioh has a very high waifu count and such. I’m personally a big sky striker fan in terms of cards I’ve seen. I am a big fan of pseudo mechas
@@semperignotus to be fair its unconfirmed whose under the armor but just the most likely culprit is Caam, Serenity of Gusto the gusto archetype is part of the terminal world lore during the 2nd generation of its plot and during this time all the conflict between the various fraction within the story was put on hold for an alliance against the verz invasion so all of the archetypes that were a part of the lore during this time had some like 1-3 monsters that were essentially a collaboration between 2 different fractions and you could sus out who was who base on either the card art and/or the parameters such as the stats or effects for example so daigusto emeral is basically caam wearing Gem-Knight Emerald as armor the logic is that they both share the same lvl of 4 which makes them valid materials to form emeral and both of emeral's effect is essentially just upgraded versions of caam and emerald, caam shuffles back 2 gusto monster from your grave to deck to draw 1 while emerald can banish himself and another normal monsters to resurrect a gem-knight fusion monster from the grave so as emeral the shuffle back increases to 3 from 2 and isnt restricted to gustos anymore while emerald's effect gets its steep cost removed but also nerfing the effect a bit since it no longers revives any gem-knight fusion and only non-effect monsters which is something that gem-knight is centered around though aged badly
Daigusto Emeral, was effin disgusting as a card, I think my friend at one point when I was playing against him, summoned Emeral 5 times on his first turn... and I mean, I too had degenerate BS in my deck, but when you go through 20 cards on your turn 1, with 40 cards in your deck... My friend had Degen decks for days... Nurse Burn, Heroic Challenger, Quasar OTK, Red Nova OTK, Ghostrick, Firefist, Dragon Ruler, etc... Meanwhile the most degen BS I ever had was Qliphort... okay that's not true, I did have the Gallis the Star Beast FTK.
Thanks to the ""soft once per turn"" mechanic Emeral can loop and draw basically your entire deck by shuffling back itself, remaking it, getting rid of the old one, shuffle it back again, repeat
You should probably prepare a short video demonstration on how the summoning mechanic works for them so they don’t get so hung up on the potential difficulty of getting these cards out. Just explaining it with word salad makes it a little hard to grasp for people with little yugioh experience.
holy shit is the right answer for shock master evaluation who tf thought its a good idea to just ban a third of the game and it’s not once per turn so you can make 3 and ban the fkn game wtf
@mjdragonmaster6559 not hard once per turn though. Wind-up was more than capable of making 2. Yeah bro please play the game where I call monster+spell on turn 1 so you literally can't do anything and then on turn 3 I call monster+trap so I can just push for game. Very fun and interactive card.
When it was first released, it didn't see much play, because A) 3 materials meant you went at least -1 to play it, sometimes -2 B) It doesn't get you card advantage, it stops your opponent from playing cards but it doesn't destroy/negate their cards or remove them from their hand, so it doesn't help make back the cards you lost to summon it, and C) the game was slow enough that you could survive a turn or two with being locked out by Shock Master most of the time, plus most decks ran removal in the form of Monsters, Spells, and Traps, so you could deal with Shock Master most of the time as well. All in all, it was "too fast" of a card to be viable in slower Yugioh. The meta sped up really quickly shortly after it was released though, and in about a year it was starting to see some niche play, and shortly after that became the best thing in the game and got banned.
Great video as always. I hope in future videos Cimo does a better job explaining the mechanic. Going over it by word of mouth is a bit nebulous to a newcomer. Would like to see him demonstrate overlaying and detaching via a graphic or gameplay footage before showcasing the cards
@@andreicecold4379 While that is true, Ranran does say in the video he doesnt remember the mechanic (Cimo even makes a joke at it, saying he cant believe he got to that rank without knowing what the card type is). The visualization will help Ranran, and other guests, conceptualize things that might not be apparent right away, like how they exist in the Extra Deck and arent played immediately from hand (Ranran says he forgot about this in this same video) and how they can easily be made by having matching Levels just by going through your combo and doing an Xyz Monster as a “bonus” / something you dont always have to do. He did a good job in a previous video, showcasing how to conduct a Synchro 8 with Cyber Dragon and Dark Resonator. Would love to see him do things like “Here is Goblindbergh and Coach Soldier Wolfbark (*explains effects*). As you can see, these cards can put you in situations where you can easily find yourself with 2 Level 4 monsters on the field (*explains Xyz Mechanic*). You can also find yourself in these situations by playing cards like Monster Reborn” etc Like, I feel like one thing that outsiders miss when it comes to these mechanics is the natural flow of how Yugioh cards often work towards creating these monsters. Between that, and expressing how there are many options in the Extra Deck one can go into, I think it would better inform or illustrate why people use the mechanic in the first place.
Emeral drawing a card was a bonus effect. It was the fact it enabled so many degenerate loops that got it shot. There is a reason the card sees LITERALLY ZERO play at 1 copy and why it is going to stay there.
@@T30BO55 it's XYZ pronounced ehcks-eeze not exceed. I only brought up that he should have written it because people like both of you are butchering the pronunciation. It's literally the letters x y and z put together and pronounced as a word it's not an entirely different word.
Misunderstanding Emeral is so wild to me. Like, shuffling three back isn't hurting the consistency of your deck. You already saw those cards, used them, and were happy to see them, and now you can search or draw them again your next turn to do it all over again. You're not shuffling back trash, you're shuffling back important resources you need in your deck.
Having resources in your deck is almost always worse than having them in your graveyard. There’s a reason why nobody plays avarice anymore. It’s only good because of the loops
@@MegaMetal96People don't play avarice because it sits in your hand when you don't have 5 monsters in grave. If you could consistently resolve avarice every time you see it, it would be played in every deck
@@MegaMetal96 Decks that can appreciate Avarice are decks that like to really grind. No one plays Avarice because a lot of those types of decks already have this kind of recycling built in and/or have enough of a punch to kill the opponent before you need to utilize a card like it.
@MegaMetal96 So many modern combos rely on having search targets in deck, and if your lines allow you to play less copies of those targets by recycling them, it's a giant upside. Shuffling them back is in no way a downside if you build smart.
Emeral is a card that hasn't aged as well as many others. Part of what made Emeral so nuts was how efficiently some decks could loop itself, and when you would face grindier matchups you had an option to just extend the game out and win that way. That playstyle doesn't hold up as well as it does, and 2 monsters for an 1800 draw a card is nothing special these days. It also hurts that it's partner in crime Lavalval Chain is still axed, and the two could easily pivot between each other in the same engine quite well. Avarice can't be recycled, but Emeral is a monster, and that matters a LOT. It's even an extra deck to grab it on command, but it's not perfect.
Yesss, the mechanic that i was first introduced to and still my favorite mechanic in the game to this day. Been waiting for this. Edit: Awww no Rank-Up spells or CXYZ/C Numbers, well ig maybe that would've been a bit too much at once for Rarran. Also in the unlikely case Rarran may read this. The "Number" in the name of some monsters is for anime reasons. In the Yu-Gi-Oh show that introduced XYZ monsters there's this dude from another dimension who's memories were shattered once he came to earth, those memories took physical form as 100 "Number" Cards. The very first one Cimooo showed you, Number 39, is actually the Ace monster of the protag. The irl reason is very likely that they just wanted an additional reason for people to go buy these cards, collecting all of those special Number Monsters.
I also really am shocked that how little Rarran knows. Like bro you would think he at least knows what an Xyz monster is considering he played the game and ranked up to Diamond
Card games are among the least skill based games. Specially yu gi oh. Literally copy paste strong deck and it plays itself all the way up to the highest rank with minimal interaction with the opponent.
So let's see. We've gone over effect monsters, fusion monsters, synchro monsters, and now xyz monsters. Next is... Oh. Oh no. Uhh, glad you got your reading comprehension up, Rarran...because you're going to need it for the upcoming Pendulums. Good luck.
Hit him with fusion, synchro, links, and the ONLY other summoning mechanic that is almost relevant... Ritual! This was alot of fun. Edit: I think you should've explained that cards like lavalval chain basically says search any card you want. Only then the realization of how powerful it is can settle in. Such an effect will break any card game.
I'm like 99.9% positive that Rarran would have seen a Zeus... if not multiple Zeus' in master duel if he made it to diamond on sword soul. I mean, even decks that don't commonly make xyz monster will still run an xyz monster of some kind just because Zeus exists. Sure, maybe he never read the card entirely, but to not recognize it? I am shocked. He's an exceptionally recognizable card just as much as Baron or Appo/Access.
@@theghostcreator776hell some people play every day and cant be bothered to read the cards the oponent is playing, rarran not remembering anything is understandable, he is too busy hating on demon hunters every time he gets the chance 😂
I realized that when I came back to the game last year. I tried to summon a rank 4 monster using a lvl 4 and a tank 4 monster and was told I couldn't because rank and level are not the same.
@@ThetrueKidGoku Stuff like that was a plot point in the anime. A monster affected attacks of lower leveled monsters, the protagonist had to explain ranks were not levels and the effect didn’t work.
apparently lorewise xyz monsters were originally conceived as beings from another dimension materialized with bodies of anti-matter and they basically traverse through dimension to the field from the other side of a black hole which is why the stars representing their ranks is on the left instead of the right representing how they're very much an inverse abnormality they are and even their summoning animation in all media involves a black hole or more specifically the materials turning into streams of energy being sucked into a black hole colliding within and then an xyz monster emerging from the resulting explosion like some particle collider experiment gone wrong they have moved away from this idea pretty quickly so it doesnt pertain to all xyz monster but its still interesting to see how this influenced the card template design for xyz monster
@@YukiFubuki. It's also very smart from a design decision. It gets around a lot of the issues with Synchros and balancing they ran into. Stops you from chaining them into themselves, except in very specific lines they wanted.
I think the best way to look at card draw in YGO is to see drawing a card outside of the normal draw phase as having the additional text of "Draw 1 card. Refresh half your mana crystals". By that I mean, it's not just drawing a card, it's also giving you "mana" because like Cimo keeps saying, "The cards ARE the resource."
I was kind of Happy to see Zeus at the end. Loved that card, especially since it looks like something out of Gundam. And it was fun to have in the Zoodiac deck that I played (I Think it was Something + Zoodiac at the time.)
It was a delight to see Zeus show up at the end, easily one of my favorite xyz monsters of all time... mainly because I use him with my Melffy deck, and the idea this massive gundam is being operated by cute woodland critters from some PBS show is hilarious to me.
Crew in MTG: Artifacts with the subtype Vehicle that become powerful over statted creatures until end of turn by tapping a creature with power greater or equal to the Crew cost. I.E. Smuggler's Copter: 2 Mana Artifact - Vehicle, Crew 1, becomes a flying 3/3 with the effect of whenever it attacks or blocks you may draw a card, but you then have to discard a card if you did.
best part about redoer is it's not detaching material in the traditional way so effects of monster that trigger when sent to the graveyard so you can use something like tearlaments scheiren to make redoer to get a guaranteed fusion effect on the opponents turn.
As an additional cost to cast CARDNAME, exile two creatures you control with mana value 4. Put a card exiled with CARDNAME into its owners graveyard: Regenerate CARDNAME. Activate only if CARDNAME is blocked or blocking. If CARDNAME would block or be blocked, and there are no cards exiled with its ability, instead destroy CARDNAME.
Rarran explained crew in a bit of a misleading way. You do not attach crewed creatures to the vehicle. You tap the creatures required, and the vehicle becomes a creature. The creatures that crewed can be untapped, and if the vehicle is destroyed, the creatures that crewed are not effected. What rarran is describing is closer to a card like mimeoplasm, or modular cards
Just wanted to say something. First of all, I'm glad these whole cross TCG universe exist. Secondly, I'm glad Cimo*8 does this series in a somewhat progressive manner. I have a limited understanding in TCG apart from MTG. I knew very little about yugioh and never played it for real, similar to pokemon. My understanding comes from the chaos destiny game series which I love i.e. early days of ygo similar to pokemon tcg for gb (which I prefer to the actual pokemon game itself). Suffice to say ygo has evolved quite a lot from the early days. I wasnt particularly interested to go back playing ygo and all the different special summon mechanics was a huge headache to me. I could at any time go browse and learn them one by one but tbh I'm too lazy and cant be bothered to do that. So this series and Cimo*8's in particular is perfect for me. Syntax is still a huge issues when it comes to ygo wording but thats just a _me_ problem. Thanks Cimo*8!!
Rarran: "Will you show me the materials for these cards?" Cimo: "Let's say all of these cards are playable regardless of the material" Rarran, minutes later: "...but I don't know how easy it is to play these cards"
I know not enough about YuGiOh - but from what I've learnt in these videos is that the game is over on turn 1-2. Either someone won or locked their opponent in almost every single game. More like a game of solitaire honestly, who had the best draw with exact number of answers and threats to win instantly :D
The time that I played Yu-Gi-Oh was right before pendulums came out. I don't think Rhongomyniad was in the game yet but I remember a mate telling me about it and I legit thought he was making stuff up. It didn't sound like a real card.
With CGB or LSV, you gotta show them Azothot and see their reaction to the wonderful world of "Activated Non-Activated effects", effects that have essentially activated effects, but dont activate, so your opponent simply cannot respond or do anything since they "Just Happen" lol
One of the other less talked about things for daigusto emeral is that, lets say shockmaster for example is put to 1 or trishula or some insanely powerful extra deck card is limited to reduce how much you can loop it since looping it is broken. Daigusto effectively just acts as another copy of that card letting you go into more of them. Essentially the more consistent and spammy your deck is, the less the limited/semi limited list matters to you with daigusto emeral. With multiple copies of the Emeral you also go infinite and with prio existing you couldnt really respond easily to its effect.
For the purpose of the video it might been best to say they just easy to summon. Cimo said high level cards might not be so easy, but there several 8-10 level monsters that special summons themselves with the only downsides that their stats are super low and the effects might say they can more or less only be used to XYZ summon... many many just take one card, they tend to go like this "If you have no monster, special summon this and add another monster card to your hand" -> The monster you added:"If you have a monster on the board with the same level as this one, special summon this one"... In short you can pretty much one-card combo to any XYZ monster that only need two monsters.
21:51 That's actually how note taking works for a lot of people. Writing it down allows you to more easily remember it even without reading the notes again.
I wish Cimooooo had brought up the fact that Foolish Burial is at one copy to this day to hammer home how nuts the idea of an extra-deck-accessible version of it is. 48:34 - ...In the TCG and nowhere else. (Flashes back to Rhongo and the equally insufferable Phantom Knights playing this for the better part of 2 goddamn *YEARS* in Master Duel because the OGC is deathly allergic to banning the most obviously broken sh!t in the universe.) Cimooooo: 1:03:12 Rarran for the first time in 40 minutes: 49:08 Rarran for the rest of the video: "I have learned nothing from that experience."
Big fan of Beatrice, but being reminded that Lavalval Chain was still banned while people were wondering if Konami would ban Beatrice this year is so funny.
Idk why people thought Beatrice should be allowed to stay. If anything Beatrice being legal for so long would rather indicate Chain could come back since it is objectively a worse card since Beatrice is "basically" guaranteed to bin 2 (which is necessary to do a lot of the rollback shenanigans).
I think Beatrice was supposed to be harder to summon than lavalval, and it was for a time. But then it stopped being the case and the situation got silly
Beatrice is another victim of Konami not slapping requirements on extra deck monsters Shoulda been "2 level 6 monsters, including a Burning Abyss monster"
There was a card called Card Car D that really exemplifies how good drawing cards was in Yugioh. It basically read "If you normal summoned this card you can tribute it and skip your turn to draw 2 cards and skip your turn." Getting +1 card advantage was so strong that skipping your entire turn (with the exception of maybe clearing some opponent cards with spells, or setting some traps) was worth it. That card fell out of meta eventually as the game became faster, but drawing even 1 extra card used to be good enough that skipping your whole turn was worth it.
@theghostcreator776 It definitely was, it just fell off over time. It got 1st place in 2 separate YCSs shortly after it was released, and saw play in hundreds of top YCS decks from 2012 to 2015, even winning 1st in a handful of Nationals in decks like Chain Burn and Traptrix.
Finally XYZ cards, I've been waiting for these. On a side note, I still think it's hilarious how in the anime only Number cards could destroy Number cards, which would make them absolutely busted.
XYZ are reverse pokemon cards, and materials are energies. Pokemon come into play without energies and get stronger as you attach more. XYZs come into the field with "energies", and they run out of juice as you detach those "energies."" I think that's a good way to explain them.
Again. I think it would be easier if Cimo pulled out YGO Pro and just showed how these summons are done instead of trying to explain it. Seems much easier than having to explain.
Rarran talking about 2 level 7 monsters during Big Eye: "I don't know man, seems tough to get out." Me, a Harpie player with Big Eye in my Rank 7 package: "Nah! You just Channeler; discard Harpest; special out Pet Dragon FFB; if you have Oracle, you special her from hand; and boom you can have a rank 7 off of ~1.5 cards."
There is a loophole against the XYZ Number monster 86 Heroic champion, even though its effect says your opponent cannot normal summon or special summon, the card never said you can set summon or flip summon against number 86.
The best deck which could use emeral was zoo. Like drawing a card is nice, but when you have a deck like zoo the recycle eff becomes VERY important. Putting back 2 zoo XYZ's like a used Drident + Emeral or 2 Ratpiers + Emeral was INSANE.
It's funny, because originally, Shock Master was considered really bad, and Daigusto Emeral was in fact better than Lavalval Chain. Shock Master was bad because it was a -2 (You have to use 3 level 4 monsters to get 1 card, and even though it prevents your opponent from playing things, it doesn't actually remove those cards from your opponent's hand, so the effect didn't net card advantage). The game was slow enough that going -2 (-1 if you had more efficient ways to summon it) to lock your opponent out of a third of their cards wasn't good enough. Daigusto Emeral was also better than Lavalval Chain in a lot of decks because the game was slow enough that having more cards in deck were relevant for some decks, and drawing a card was better than tutoring for a card to put it on top of your deck and not drawing it. The self-mill effect of Lavalval chain was strong, but not egregious enough yet for it to be better than drawing a card. EDIT: With similar logic, in old school yugioh, Felgrand would've been better than Shock Master because it would've gotten rid of your opponent's threat instead of just delaying it for a turn. Luckily, Felgrand didn't exist in 2011-2012.
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Rarran card ratings are like:
"Arm and a Leg. Spell card. Look at your opponent's hand, and then tickle their toes. Would I play this in Hearthstone? That's tough. See, Hearthstone is a completely digital client, so we don't have any cards that let you touch your opponent. We do have a class called Demon Hunter which makes me physically retch every time I play against it. I guess you could tickle their toes to make them knock over their own decks and disqualify themselves. No, no. That's a Disneyland scenario. I think looking at your opponent's hand is probably just irrelevant. This card is unplayable, no?"
I'm dying brother what is this LMAOO
How is this not the top comment?
The demon hunter rant is on point 😂
He's doing his best
I love him
Rarran constantly saying "De-attach", instead of detach, reminds me of when he kept calling the power nine, "the powerful nine"
it hurt... every. single. time.
40 minutes later... 49:08
Immediately afterward: Rarran: "I have learned nothing from this experience."
Ironic considering the first two times he read it, he said it right.
He is a joy of making the same mistake over and over again until he plays the game and actually understanding the mechanics.
Not the "the strong nine", "the above average three times three", "[third funny name]"
The day Rarran has to review pendulums is the day he stops answering Cimo's calls
Endymion will make his eyes glaze
The day I'm waiting for
2121, not worth livin' in...
I’m looking forward to it
@@DracoChalybeiusScientists got stumped by Nirvana High Paladin
Cimo saying "ignore the summoning mechanic" and Rarran constantly being like "but what if summoning is difficult" is honestly comedy
I think he should have showed off some cards like Rescue Rabbit and Tour Guide to give him an idea of how easy certain ranks are to summon
That's literally me when I first saw Chaos angel
@@pokefreakplays or Goblindbergh
To be fair i feel like theres a lot of missing context w xyz cause rank up cards and some general fodder like the photon cards should be shown since it shows how ez tokens were to use asw as getting high rank xyz without the materials
I'm still not entirely sure Rarran got how XYZs worked. The entire time he was just like "But how hard is it to get two Level 4s?" while having played YGO himself. I couldn't get rid of the feeling he assumed you need some special monsters (or he assumed level is something special that only certain monsters have) to XYZ instead of literally ANY monster of the specified level
Rarran is the kinda student who comes back after break and makes class twice as slow cause he can't remember anything from before the break and asks too many questions
I think its important to note that while Emeral drawing a card is good, the main reason the card is so good is the recycling. The card not being once per turn and being able to recycle other copies of itself has created many infinite loops where you use Emeral to repeatedly recycle the same 2 cards plus itself to keep fueling the loop. Or you can have a deck like Blue-Blooded Oni Ftk that specifically abused a loop like this for the draw, basically using Emeral’s ability to fuel these loops to loop the Emeral itself, drawing its entire deck
Yeah idk why he was focusing so much on the draw. The draw is great but you were playing this replenish your extra deck
Emeral being able to recycle cards that may not be legal at 3 copies (and not being hard-once per turn) is why its stuck at 1 copy. So you can't loop recycle Emeral with a second copy of itself, especially since you can now easily get the first copy into the graveyard by linking it off.
@@Technizor No the reason Emeral is hard stuck at 1 is it can recycle itself.
Emerald could easily be Unlimited. It's not really that good at 3, the OCG and Master Duel have had it at 3 for a long time without issues.
@@yasharthpandey6317 The issue with Emeral is there is absolutely no reason to play more than 1 copy of Emeral unless you are doing a stupid ftk with it, so why bring it back to 3?
cimo saying 3 times over to assume that the monsters are relatively easy to summon
But rarran JUST KEEPS going off on how difficult the monster is to summon.
Rarran has brain rot it’s not his fault.
it was so annoying couldnt watch the whole video
To be fair, depending on archetype, 1 level 10 monster can be easy to bring out.
But can you do it twice? Tri-Wight is a one card XYZ because its a spell card that lets you special summon 3 low level monsters. Nothing like that exists for higher level monsters, so getting the resources for a high rank XYZ can still be tricky even if the archetype can bring out that level of monster easier than others.
I mean you say that but one of the cards was Rhongomyniad, and the difficulty fully summoning it at max power was a major factor in its analysis and the lifespan of the card.
We also did almost nothing above Rank 4.
It was largely irrelevant but not for all the cards, so just chill out a bit. :)
You see, these would be tough to summon in Swordsoul, so obviously that's how it is for every deck.
That “what” at 30:49 was so visceral and real, it sounds like he just got scammed for all his money by his friend and just looked at his bank account
Blindly evaluating Emeral as an MtG player with some decent Yugioh knowledge, I knew it was good. I put it on a like Mind Sculptor level of power. I didn’t even think of it recycling itself though, that’s nasty.
would you believe me if i told you that underneath the the robotic green armor and helmet of daigusto emeral is actually a cute girl
@ naturally. I know Yugioh has a very high waifu count and such. I’m personally a big sky striker fan in terms of cards I’ve seen. I am a big fan of pseudo mechas
@@semperignotus to be fair its unconfirmed whose under the armor but just the most likely culprit is Caam, Serenity of Gusto
the gusto archetype is part of the terminal world lore during the 2nd generation of its plot and during this time all the conflict between the various fraction within the story was put on hold for an alliance against the verz invasion so all of the archetypes that were a part of the lore during this time had some like 1-3 monsters that were essentially a collaboration between 2 different fractions and you could sus out who was who base on either the card art and/or the parameters such as the stats or effects for example so daigusto emeral is basically caam wearing Gem-Knight Emerald as armor
the logic is that they both share the same lvl of 4 which makes them valid materials to form emeral and both of emeral's effect is essentially just upgraded versions of caam and emerald, caam shuffles back 2 gusto monster from your grave to deck to draw 1 while emerald can banish himself and another normal monsters to resurrect a gem-knight fusion monster from the grave so as emeral the shuffle back increases to 3 from 2 and isnt restricted to gustos anymore while emerald's effect gets its steep cost removed but also nerfing the effect a bit since it no longers revives any gem-knight fusion and only non-effect monsters which is something that gem-knight is centered around though aged badly
Daigusto Emeral, was effin disgusting as a card, I think my friend at one point when I was playing against him, summoned Emeral 5 times on his first turn... and I mean, I too had degenerate BS in my deck, but when you go through 20 cards on your turn 1, with 40 cards in your deck...
My friend had Degen decks for days...
Nurse Burn, Heroic Challenger, Quasar OTK, Red Nova OTK, Ghostrick, Firefist, Dragon Ruler, etc...
Meanwhile the most degen BS I ever had was Qliphort... okay that's not true, I did have the Gallis the Star Beast FTK.
Thanks to the ""soft once per turn"" mechanic Emeral can loop and draw basically your entire deck by shuffling back itself, remaking it, getting rid of the old one, shuffle it back again, repeat
Best part of redoer was the fact that the effect was weird so the detach isn't a cost which makes it interact with scheiren
Yeh, kinda, but that was relevant even before Tear. :D
Wait hang on
Wouldn't the next Extra Deck video be Pendulums?
Hoo boy
Gooood I hope he shows him Endymion. Or maybe one of the Mythical Beasts.
I need him to show Z-Arc.
DDDD
Show him the nuke and give him PePe
Imagine he shows him a pendulum XYZ, that would break his brain haha
a little sad rarran didn't get to meet an awesome toad lol
You should probably prepare a short video demonstration on how the summoning mechanic works for them so they don’t get so hung up on the potential difficulty of getting these cards out. Just explaining it with word salad makes it a little hard to grasp for people with little yugioh experience.
holy shit is the right answer for shock master evaluation
who tf thought its a good idea to just ban a third of the game and it’s not once per turn so you can make 3 and ban the fkn game wtf
It does say once per turn
@mjdragonmaster6559 not hard once per turn though. Wind-up was more than capable of making 2. Yeah bro please play the game where I call monster+spell on turn 1 so you literally can't do anything and then on turn 3 I call monster+trap so I can just push for game. Very fun and interactive card.
When it was first released, it didn't see much play, because A) 3 materials meant you went at least -1 to play it, sometimes -2 B) It doesn't get you card advantage, it stops your opponent from playing cards but it doesn't destroy/negate their cards or remove them from their hand, so it doesn't help make back the cards you lost to summon it, and C) the game was slow enough that you could survive a turn or two with being locked out by Shock Master most of the time, plus most decks ran removal in the form of Monsters, Spells, and Traps, so you could deal with Shock Master most of the time as well.
All in all, it was "too fast" of a card to be viable in slower Yugioh. The meta sped up really quickly shortly after it was released though, and in about a year it was starting to see some niche play, and shortly after that became the best thing in the game and got banned.
Me last video: Someday he will give him XYZ cards
I certainly did not think my wish be fulfilled this quickly but i am so glad it did
Pendulums! Pendulums! Pendulums!
@@Ceece20 pendulum will fry his mind 😂
@@wall6587 They fry my mind 10 years later
he kept misunderstanding the "assume these cards are easy to get into when evaluating"
Great video as always. I hope in future videos Cimo does a better job explaining the mechanic. Going over it by word of mouth is a bit nebulous to a newcomer. Would like to see him demonstrate overlaying and detaching via a graphic or gameplay footage before showcasing the cards
I hope cimo see the comment
Great idea
I don't see why, it makes sense to me and Ive never even seen Yugioh gameplay. Also, remember that rarren isn't a newcomer, he is Diamond rank.
@@andreicecold4379 While that is true, Ranran does say in the video he doesnt remember the mechanic (Cimo even makes a joke at it, saying he cant believe he got to that rank without knowing what the card type is).
The visualization will help Ranran, and other guests, conceptualize things that might not be apparent right away, like how they exist in the Extra Deck and arent played immediately from hand (Ranran says he forgot about this in this same video) and how they can easily be made by having matching Levels just by going through your combo and doing an Xyz Monster as a “bonus” / something you dont always have to do.
He did a good job in a previous video, showcasing how to conduct a Synchro 8 with Cyber Dragon and Dark Resonator. Would love to see him do things like “Here is Goblindbergh and Coach Soldier Wolfbark (*explains effects*). As you can see, these cards can put you in situations where you can easily find yourself with 2 Level 4 monsters on the field (*explains Xyz Mechanic*). You can also find yourself in these situations by playing cards like Monster Reborn” etc
Like, I feel like one thing that outsiders miss when it comes to these mechanics is the natural flow of how Yugioh cards often work towards creating these monsters. Between that, and expressing how there are many options in the Extra Deck one can go into, I think it would better inform or illustrate why people use the mechanic in the first place.
That was exactly what i was thinking, just play a video of someone on master duel performing an Xyz summon and detaching the material, ez
22:05
"Wow rarry, you read so good!"
"de-attach"
Emeral drawing a card was a bonus effect. It was the fact it enabled so many degenerate loops that got it shot. There is a reason the card sees LITERALLY ZERO play at 1 copy and why it is going to stay there.
I wonder if these cards will...exceed Rarran's expectations?
The pun would be to say will the XYZ his expectations...
He'll give them a high rank for sure!
@@thedizzytuna dude.. that's literally what exceed summoning is. he made the joke well
@@T30BO55 it's XYZ pronounced ehcks-eeze not exceed. I only brought up that he should have written it because people like both of you are butchering the pronunciation. It's literally the letters x y and z put together and pronounced as a word it's not an entirely different word.
@@thedizzytunaWe made it past the grammar police... but nobody expects... THE PRONUNCIATION INQUISITION
Crooked Cook could've been a funny one especially since you did technically mention a monster giving an xyz battle protection while it is material
Man, the Pend episode is gonna be funny. Can't wait to see his mind break with stuff like the Doom King Armageddons.
Misunderstanding Emeral is so wild to me. Like, shuffling three back isn't hurting the consistency of your deck. You already saw those cards, used them, and were happy to see them, and now you can search or draw them again your next turn to do it all over again. You're not shuffling back trash, you're shuffling back important resources you need in your deck.
Having resources in your deck is almost always worse than having them in your graveyard. There’s a reason why nobody plays avarice anymore. It’s only good because of the loops
@@MegaMetal96People don't play avarice because it sits in your hand when you don't have 5 monsters in grave. If you could consistently resolve avarice every time you see it, it would be played in every deck
@@MegaMetal96 Decks that can appreciate Avarice are decks that like to really grind. No one plays Avarice because a lot of those types of decks already have this kind of recycling built in and/or have enough of a punch to kill the opponent before you need to utilize a card like it.
@MegaMetal96 So many modern combos rely on having search targets in deck, and if your lines allow you to play less copies of those targets by recycling them, it's a giant upside. Shuffling them back is in no way a downside if you build smart.
Emeral is a card that hasn't aged as well as many others. Part of what made Emeral so nuts was how efficiently some decks could loop itself, and when you would face grindier matchups you had an option to just extend the game out and win that way. That playstyle doesn't hold up as well as it does, and 2 monsters for an 1800 draw a card is nothing special these days. It also hurts that it's partner in crime Lavalval Chain is still axed, and the two could easily pivot between each other in the same engine quite well.
Avarice can't be recycled, but Emeral is a monster, and that matters a LOT. It's even an extra deck to grab it on command, but it's not perfect.
Yesss, the mechanic that i was first introduced to and still my favorite mechanic in the game to this day.
Been waiting for this.
Edit: Awww no Rank-Up spells or CXYZ/C Numbers, well ig maybe that would've been a bit too much at once for Rarran.
Also in the unlikely case Rarran may read this. The "Number" in the name of some monsters is for anime reasons. In the Yu-Gi-Oh show that introduced XYZ monsters there's this dude from another dimension who's memories were shattered once he came to earth, those memories took physical form as 100 "Number" Cards. The very first one Cimooo showed you, Number 39, is actually the Ace monster of the protag.
The irl reason is very likely that they just wanted an additional reason for people to go buy these cards, collecting all of those special Number Monsters.
I also really am shocked that how little Rarran knows. Like bro you would think he at least knows what an Xyz monster is considering he played the game and ranked up to Diamond
Click yellow button
Not really based on previous videos on this channel and others.
He got to diamond only playing tenyi swordsoul, he didn't focus on anything the opponent did for the most part
Card games are among the least skill based games. Specially yu gi oh. Literally copy paste strong deck and it plays itself all the way up to the highest rank with minimal interaction with the opponent.
I love tearlaments, zoodiac, nekroz, macro monarchs..... I couldn't play a pendulum deck if you payed me 😂😂
For someone who apparently never saw an Xyz before (how?), Rarran had very good analysis here.
It is finally here! I've been waiting for this. I still want to see CGB tortured by these. :3
So let's see. We've gone over effect monsters, fusion monsters, synchro monsters, and now xyz monsters. Next is...
Oh.
Oh no.
Uhh, glad you got your reading comprehension up, Rarran...because you're going to need it for the upcoming Pendulums. Good luck.
Rituals
“MoYe into…” LET HIM COOK
Set MoYe pass😍
"if MY girl👸🥰😍 and Mo Ye 🤑🤩 are both drowning..."
He tried cookig but forgot the recipe 😂
Man, Cimo sure loves talking about simplified gamestates. 😂
27:10 welcome to the thumbnail, damn rarran was quick with it lmao
It's cool to see that we're slowly seeing more and more modern relevant cards
Hit him with fusion, synchro, links, and the ONLY other summoning mechanic that is almost relevant... Ritual! This was alot of fun.
Edit: I think you should've explained that cards like lavalval chain basically says search any card you want. Only then the realization of how powerful it is can settle in. Such an effect will break any card game.
I love that you have a patreon cLled Main Phase Tuah
I'm like 99.9% positive that Rarran would have seen a Zeus... if not multiple Zeus' in master duel if he made it to diamond on sword soul. I mean, even decks that don't commonly make xyz monster will still run an xyz monster of some kind just because Zeus exists. Sure, maybe he never read the card entirely, but to not recognize it? I am shocked. He's an exceptionally recognizable card just as much as Baron or Appo/Access.
I'm like 99% sure Farfa used it against him lol.
@@kaikawasumiI'm 100% sure he played Dante in zeus
He probably just forgot, unless you're consistently playing MD or Yu-Gi-Oh in general you're not remembering what you're playing against
@@theghostcreator776 Yeah this was before the animation was added, I'm sure he'd remember the jumpscare otherwise.
@@theghostcreator776hell some people play every day and cant be bothered to read the cards the oponent is playing, rarran not remembering anything is understandable, he is too busy hating on demon hunters every time he gets the chance 😂
As a non-player, it took me far to long to realize that Rank is left-justified and Level is right-justified.
Even as a player I only realized this recently
I realized that when I came back to the game last year. I tried to summon a rank 4 monster using a lvl 4 and a tank 4 monster and was told I couldn't because rank and level are not the same.
@@ThetrueKidGoku
Stuff like that was a plot point in the anime. A monster affected attacks of lower leveled monsters, the protagonist had to explain ranks were not levels and the effect didn’t work.
apparently lorewise xyz monsters were originally conceived as beings from another dimension materialized with bodies of anti-matter and they basically traverse through dimension to the field from the other side of a black hole which is why the stars representing their ranks is on the left instead of the right representing how they're very much an inverse abnormality they are and even their summoning animation in all media involves a black hole or more specifically the materials turning into streams of energy being sucked into a black hole colliding within and then an xyz monster emerging from the resulting explosion like some particle collider experiment gone wrong
they have moved away from this idea pretty quickly so it doesnt pertain to all xyz monster but its still interesting to see how this influenced the card template design for xyz monster
@@YukiFubuki. It's also very smart from a design decision. It gets around a lot of the issues with Synchros and balancing they ran into. Stops you from chaining them into themselves, except in very specific lines they wanted.
I think the best way to look at card draw in YGO is to see drawing a card outside of the normal draw phase as having the additional text of "Draw 1 card. Refresh half your mana crystals". By that I mean, it's not just drawing a card, it's also giving you "mana" because like Cimo keeps saying, "The cards ARE the resource."
I was kind of Happy to see Zeus at the end. Loved that card, especially since it looks like something out of Gundam. And it was fun to have in the Zoodiac deck that I played (I Think it was Something + Zoodiac at the time.)
30:47 "this card sucks". i reacted with Rarran out of confusion and indignation
It was a delight to see Zeus show up at the end, easily one of my favorite xyz monsters of all time... mainly because I use him with my Melffy deck, and the idea this massive gundam is being operated by cute woodland critters from some PBS show is hilarious to me.
i honestly was waiting for vfd or rhongo to show up. Im glad rhongo showed up. VFD would also have been a fun one to show as well.
I mean, Shock Master call monster is basically just VFD anyways
Crew in MTG: Artifacts with the subtype Vehicle that become powerful over statted creatures until end of turn by tapping a creature with power greater or equal to the Crew cost.
I.E. Smuggler's Copter: 2 Mana Artifact - Vehicle, Crew 1, becomes a flying 3/3 with the effect of whenever it attacks or blocks you may draw a card, but you then have to discard a card if you did.
Redoer was the first ur I had gotten on my masochist account and it carried me so hard for so long.
Masochist enjoyer, big W
best part about redoer is it's not detaching material in the traditional way so effects of monster that trigger when sent to the graveyard so you can use something like tearlaments scheiren to make redoer to get a guaranteed fusion effect on the opponents turn.
MTG translation.
1st card: Regenerate, destroy 1 card.
As an additional cost to cast CARDNAME, exile two creatures you control with mana value 4.
Put a card exiled with CARDNAME into its owners graveyard: Regenerate CARDNAME. Activate only if CARDNAME is blocked or blocking.
If CARDNAME would block or be blocked, and there are no cards exiled with its ability, instead destroy CARDNAME.
Rarran: my reading is on point today
also Rarran: de-attach
I dont think Ramranch understands that cards in the extra deck are always available and accessible
Rarran mentioning T1 Zeus made my day
Rarran explained crew in a bit of a misleading way. You do not attach crewed creatures to the vehicle. You tap the creatures required, and the vehicle becomes a creature. The creatures that crewed can be untapped, and if the vehicle is destroyed, the creatures that crewed are not effected. What rarran is describing is closer to a card like mimeoplasm, or modular cards
Just wanted to say something. First of all, I'm glad these whole cross TCG universe exist. Secondly, I'm glad Cimo*8 does this series in a somewhat progressive manner. I have a limited understanding in TCG apart from MTG. I knew very little about yugioh and never played it for real, similar to pokemon. My understanding comes from the chaos destiny game series which I love i.e. early days of ygo similar to pokemon tcg for gb (which I prefer to the actual pokemon game itself). Suffice to say ygo has evolved quite a lot from the early days. I wasnt particularly interested to go back playing ygo and all the different special summon mechanics was a huge headache to me. I could at any time go browse and learn them one by one but tbh I'm too lazy and cant be bothered to do that. So this series and Cimo*8's in particular is perfect for me. Syntax is still a huge issues when it comes to ygo wording but thats just a _me_ problem. Thanks Cimo*8!!
Rarran: "Will you show me the materials for these cards?"
Cimo: "Let's say all of these cards are playable regardless of the material"
Rarran, minutes later: "...but I don't know how easy it is to play these cards"
Cimoo has to show ram ranch his own Zodiac combo video from 2017 to prove how good emerald is
This episode makes me excited for LSV's turn to evaluate Xyz monsters
45:04 You can HEAR the Salt/Dissapointment. It is amazing! 🤣
"this is a villain from power rangers" funny you say that, THAT'S THE INSPIRATION
I feel like it’d be really funny to show Rarran some pendulum monsters. It would probably break them.
Please show him number IC 1000 numeronius numeronia 🙏🙏🙏 he needs to know
Yes, i also want to see his reaction to...that .
@ I have a numeron deck
Exciton sees current meta play in the OCG in their best deck Ryzeal
"My reading level has gone up"
"de - attach" 🤣
57:42 This just in: Molten Giant's effect only works after it's been summoned in Hearthstone
45:03 Cimo's war flashbacks of getting Rhongo Bongo'd as he replies is literally the funniest part of this 😭😭😭
One of my favorite things about yugioh is that for a game with no resource system, so much of it is based on the resource economy
When you have so many options you really need to know what's worth doing and what's just gonna be walked over by your opponent
I know not enough about YuGiOh - but from what I've learnt in these videos is that the game is over on turn 1-2. Either someone won or locked their opponent in almost every single game. More like a game of solitaire honestly, who had the best draw with exact number of answers and threats to win instantly :D
The time that I played Yu-Gi-Oh was right before pendulums came out. I don't think Rhongomyniad was in the game yet but I remember a mate telling me about it and I legit thought he was making stuff up. It didn't sound like a real card.
With CGB or LSV, you gotta show them Azothot and see their reaction to the wonderful world of "Activated Non-Activated effects", effects that have essentially activated effects, but dont activate, so your opponent simply cannot respond or do anything since they "Just Happen" lol
We need a new History of Yugioh season where Cimo coaches Rarran and CGB through the History of Yugioh
(I know this is not feasible, but I can dream)
One of the other less talked about things for daigusto emeral is that, lets say shockmaster for example is put to 1 or trishula or some insanely powerful extra deck card is limited to reduce how much you can loop it since looping it is broken. Daigusto effectively just acts as another copy of that card letting you go into more of them. Essentially the more consistent and spammy your deck is, the less the limited/semi limited list matters to you with daigusto emeral. With multiple copies of the Emeral you also go infinite and with prio existing you couldnt really respond easily to its effect.
As I grew up with Zexal I mainly thought about "Who played this number card"
Magic the gathering player here, no XYZ is nothing like crew
For the purpose of the video it might been best to say they just easy to summon. Cimo said high level cards might not be so easy, but there several 8-10 level monsters that special summons themselves with the only downsides that their stats are super low and the effects might say they can more or less only be used to XYZ summon... many many just take one card, they tend to go like this "If you have no monster, special summon this and add another monster card to your hand" -> The monster you added:"If you have a monster on the board with the same level as this one, special summon this one"... In short you can pretty much one-card combo to any XYZ monster that only need two monsters.
21:51 That's actually how note taking works for a lot of people. Writing it down allows you to more easily remember it even without reading the notes again.
I wish Cimooooo had brought up the fact that Foolish Burial is at one copy to this day to hammer home how nuts the idea of an extra-deck-accessible version of it is.
48:34 - ...In the TCG and nowhere else. (Flashes back to Rhongo and the equally insufferable Phantom Knights playing this for the better part of 2 goddamn *YEARS* in Master Duel because the OGC is deathly allergic to banning the most obviously broken sh!t in the universe.)
Cimooooo: 1:03:12
Rarran for the first time in 40 minutes: 49:08
Rarran for the rest of the video: "I have learned nothing from that experience."
Pendulum Monsters: We want to see their reaction evaluating me (Pendulum and combination of other extra deck monsters, like fusion pendulum as well)
Big fan of Beatrice, but being reminded that Lavalval Chain was still banned while people were wondering if Konami would ban Beatrice this year is so funny.
Idk why people thought Beatrice should be allowed to stay. If anything Beatrice being legal for so long would rather indicate Chain could come back since it is objectively a worse card since Beatrice is "basically" guaranteed to bin 2 (which is necessary to do a lot of the rollback shenanigans).
I think Beatrice was supposed to be harder to summon than lavalval, and it was for a time. But then it stopped being the case and the situation got silly
Beatrice is another victim of Konami not slapping requirements on extra deck monsters
Shoulda been "2 level 6 monsters, including a Burning Abyss monster"
@@ILikePi31415926535 Playing Virgil in 2024 so I can summon Beatrice on turn 1
Hot take: Lavalval Chain can come back to 1.
30:48 yo i was listening to this without looking n when u said this card sucks, I was like NANIIII
Aww man, you didn't show him the raid birbs. I would've loved to see his reaction in learning how easy it is to summon them xD
YES! *FINALLY!!* 🤤
Honestly, your community posts make me regret not being a patron more and more everyt time... 😅
There was a card called Card Car D that really exemplifies how good drawing cards was in Yugioh. It basically read "If you normal summoned this card you can tribute it and skip your turn to draw 2 cards and skip your turn." Getting +1 card advantage was so strong that skipping your entire turn (with the exception of maybe clearing some opponent cards with spells, or setting some traps) was worth it. That card fell out of meta eventually as the game became faster, but drawing even 1 extra card used to be good enough that skipping your whole turn was worth it.
Iirc cardcar D was actually a little disappointing and wasn't played all that much competitively
@theghostcreator776 It definitely was, it just fell off over time. It got 1st place in 2 separate YCSs shortly after it was released, and saw play in hundreds of top YCS decks from 2012 to 2015, even winning 1st in a handful of Nationals in decks like Chain Burn and Traptrix.
"it's easier to play rank 3s and 4s generally" I can't help but feel a Dracossack will come up later lol
Finally XYZ cards, I've been waiting for these.
On a side note, I still think it's hilarious how in the anime only Number cards could destroy Number cards, which would make them absolutely busted.
Should have shown Assembled Nightingale
Got to get some train cards in these videos, Big stats, fun abilities, might be difficult to gauge.
XYZ are reverse pokemon cards, and materials are energies. Pokemon come into play without energies and get stronger as you attach more. XYZs come into the field with "energies", and they run out of juice as you detach those "energies."" I think that's a good way to explain them.
We all knew when he talked about xyz,what the final card was gonna be
AA to the Zeus
I would’ve loved for cimooo to explain how zoodiac drident is one of the most terrifying xyz of all time with 0 ATK and DEF
Again. I think it would be easier if Cimo pulled out YGO Pro and just showed how these summons are done instead of trying to explain it. Seems much easier than having to explain.
I was waiting for Numeronius Numeronia
Id think time theif was banned too based off the other cards shown. If TT came out earlier it would have been a menace
Well next summoning mechanic Pendulums, that ll be fun
God, I want to see their reaction to Supreme dragon Zarc
Rarran talking about 2 level 7 monsters during Big Eye: "I don't know man, seems tough to get out."
Me, a Harpie player with Big Eye in my Rank 7 package: "Nah! You just Channeler; discard Harpest; special out Pet Dragon FFB; if you have Oracle, you special her from hand; and boom you can have a rank 7 off of ~1.5 cards."
Id love cimoo to test his wife using cards in own colletiion for abit of fun
Time Thief Redoer is not banned in Advanced TCG. But in almost every limited format this card gets axed very quickly lol
There is a loophole against the XYZ Number monster 86 Heroic champion, even though its effect says your opponent cannot normal summon or special summon, the card never said you can set summon or flip summon against number 86.
not really a loophole, more like a blind spot
50:39 do do
The best deck which could use emeral was zoo. Like drawing a card is nice, but when you have a deck like zoo the recycle eff becomes VERY important. Putting back 2 zoo XYZ's like a used Drident + Emeral or 2 Ratpiers + Emeral was INSANE.
You also put back Norden to keep unironically hard summoning him
I was honestly expecting cimo to show off dark matter dragon after chain or big eye
Whenever you eventually show Xyz monsters to CGB, make sure to include Numeronious Numeronia, the Timmiest of Timmy cards :p
Nobody:
Rarran: *De-Attach*
It's funny, because originally, Shock Master was considered really bad, and Daigusto Emeral was in fact better than Lavalval Chain. Shock Master was bad because it was a -2 (You have to use 3 level 4 monsters to get 1 card, and even though it prevents your opponent from playing things, it doesn't actually remove those cards from your opponent's hand, so the effect didn't net card advantage). The game was slow enough that going -2 (-1 if you had more efficient ways to summon it) to lock your opponent out of a third of their cards wasn't good enough. Daigusto Emeral was also better than Lavalval Chain in a lot of decks because the game was slow enough that having more cards in deck were relevant for some decks, and drawing a card was better than tutoring for a card to put it on top of your deck and not drawing it. The self-mill effect of Lavalval chain was strong, but not egregious enough yet for it to be better than drawing a card.
EDIT: With similar logic, in old school yugioh, Felgrand would've been better than Shock Master because it would've gotten rid of your opponent's threat instead of just delaying it for a turn. Luckily, Felgrand didn't exist in 2011-2012.