What's it like, being Alex Cimo? Opening the brickiest opening hand of all time and then OTKing off the back of the greatest Ryko mills in the history of the game?
Just want to say it is SO COOL to see Alex finally joining one of the post-reaction calls! We so rarely get to see or even hear that man live, it's a real treat. Choo Choo indeed.
Cimo feels like a bit of a cryptid in the ygo community these days. He's just a series machine, and it's easy to forget sometimes that he's a real person and these he's friends with these people. When he does stuff like the call at the end, it reminds me that he isn't just some character in the prog lore, he is a real person, who bullies gage every week lol
You can theoritically play Bystial Dragon link with chaos stuff (Levi, Chaos Emp pend and what not) against Tear and call it chaos I suppose, eventhough there is no way you can build D-link in Prog
Never thought i'd say this but thank god for blackwing in season one. If not for those birds we probably would have seen chaos mirrors for four months.
@38:30 MBT, just wait until you start studying for the bar. You'll need to film all of July's episodes like 6 weeks in advance. The bar will dominate your life in July.
@@GreedyGoblinzZ I can't be mad at chaos too much. People forget this man has played Scientist FTK, Final Countdown, and Reversal Quiz OTK, in addition to other random things like burn this season.
@@cax1175 and then he proceeded to play the same 2 decks (flamwell/zombie) for 20 episodes only to change it up for CHAOS, the one deck everyone's been tired of for like 2 years, I think we can be mad
I Have no clue why people did not expect chaos to come back. He gains 3 light monsters with the unbanning of cyber dragon. And that makes chaos so much more powerful.
16:24 was literally my exact reaction. Setting up a plot in my mind where each has a different side of the coin, and then immediately having to abandon it in favor of Gage just getting everything.
i want Gage to run this deck back The Salvo deck was good and it’s the first time Chaos was good in this series since GX and DaD was brought into the format. Just sucks that we’re all so bored of “im going to banish a light and a dark”
Gage admitted to rerolling his pulls last season in the pack that Reborn Tengu came out in until he pulled multiple copies, but claims he never done it before or since
You see, on one hand I hate to see chaos again but on the other I love to see the light fade in MBT's eyes everytime he realizes Gage will lose. It never ceases to entertain me.
Cimo painted the tunnel in front of gage and he still walked into it. Its the first match with judjgment at 1 and its alex cimo how do you not 100% assume he would judge a judge the first opportunity it would come up
I’m sorry but I get so mad at Joseph and his chat like. You spent weeks begging for cydra, knowing cydra just makes monarch and or chaos stronger. Then even with a chaos deck, we got a kind of cool machine focused one, and we act like it’s the same zombie dog shit as a few weeks ago. Not to mention, you goblins were so blinded by “ooh cool card” that everyone acted like gage’s deck wasn’t doo doo farts. Pretty much 15 or less playable monsters and nothing sticky like the recruiters, reaper, etc so if you don’t draw well you just die
I still don't see why people hate on Cimo honestly. The name of the game is to bring something that might win and then it's all rng so why does he get shit on when we've seen gage do the same thing. I seem to recall seeing dad and ced like 15 episodes in a row last season and no one complained then.
Well no… there are no real stakes, it’s just a series for fun and entertainment so winning or losing at the end doesn’t really matter, it’s just the yugioh mentality that tells him to bring the most viable/successful strategy (in his opinion) even though it’s the same every time Also the name of the game is “progression”, so you know, people would like them to change decks every now and then
What's the point of a progression series if you're just going to play the same thing constantly? Going for new strategies based on the packs that they open is way more interesting. If you're not actually going to progress, then just play constructed.
Do we not have ancient fairy dragon? Back then you could go into AFD, pop Divine wind for another divine wind, play new divine wind, special blast fan, repeat for an insane field
I'm just going to say it there are exactly three kinds of decks that I will never tire of watching or playing no matter what the build as long as it's at least tangentially playable. Heros, Chaos, and Level 12 Synchro Boss monster Spam go! (Preferably Quasar, ever get of a triple quasar in one turn? It feels like cheating. It never happens but when the stars align...)
Joseph's reaction to the Dekoichi beats was truly hilarious, and Alex joining in a call was the cherry on top xD To everyone complaining about Chaos: This might be the last time we see a dedicated Chaos pile. Reminder that Inzektor, Dino Rabbit, and Wind-Up Loop are on the corner, as well as generic xyz spam with Scientist, that is still legal for some reason, Ninjas or even a janky Hero Beat. With good pulls or redoers, there'll be little room for Chaos to run amok when far more competent cards are on the table, especially if Gage starts flexing the good early XYZs he got with whatever else he can grab. Hornet, Zenmaity and Hunter, if pulled, will end up getting the ban, same for the Rescue Bnnuy if either gets the Evolzars, and by then Mermails and Madolches will be a thing too. That is, if Cimo doesn't remember he has Mind Master and Earth Psychics at his disposal too.
Spoilers for the Episode Cimo in the winner's wheel - "Oh, wow! Who knew that you could win by not playing chaos?" Cimo 15 minutes later - "Chaos time bby :)"
Why did gage ban firedog an not BLS. Gage gasnt touch his choas deck in over a month just ban borh sorc and bls so we can finally move past chaos. Dont get me wrong i love chaos, i play it myself in older formats and Chaos-Sworn sometimes in master duel. But at some point they need to start inovating.
I could understand it if this was a bad chaos deck, but that build seemed good enough. Also Cimo said that this variant was played during 2011 and I looked it up and he's right, so no hate from me on a good chaos build. Also he wanted to play CyDra, but where else could he do that? So I'm with Cimo on this for this time. I just hope that next ep will change things and go with something different as to not make chaos repetitive again, since I feel that's why people hate this deck.
Maybe by Progression Series 3 they'll have learned to just ban all the chaos shit. It's fine for a few games sure but my GOD IT'S SO BORING FOR 65 EPISODES TO JUST BE CHAOS VARIANTS
Every take control spell needs to go. It feels like that's so many wins, just take control and deal a shit ton of damage. Im honestly just so tired of OP OG spell cards
anyone who watches Edison content will know how unbelievably sacky Brain Con can be. its even more absurd in the Xyz era. they should join the chopping block for sure
Couldn't they have banned Sorc and BLS just to force deck variety? Season 3 better have Chaos banned from the start. What percent of decks from Season 1 and 2 were some Chaos variant? It's insane.
@@Kaleidophoenix I mean they still will play Chaos. Like Cimos deck was only playing 1 BLS and one Sarc. If you take them out the deck doesn’t actually change much
You'd have to ban Sorc, BLS, DAD, and Monarchs to prevent them from playing those exact decks... but it won't prevent them from running back cards they're likely to continue playing. They'll still find a slightly different flavor of deck to stun/combo with.
It’s crazy how they had a judgment to make a number of changes so we can be able to see all these new strategies, and play a bunch of different decks, however. Why don’t we play chaos because that’s something that we haven’t seen yet in this series.
That’s more of a problem of Chaos being generally the most powerful easily accessible deck for over a decade than it is the series. Can’t exactly change that without banning DAD, BLS, CS, etc, and at that point they may as well ban every boss monster for every archetype to be consistent.
@@joemarais7683 Gage needs to ban BLS and DAD. Once those 2 cards go, Cimo's cringe ass will finally be forced off Chaos for good. Chaos Sorcerer can't do shit by itself....
What's it like, being Alex Cimo? Opening the brickiest opening hand of all time and then OTKing off the back of the greatest Ryko mills in the history of the game?
Reminds me of the comment about opening a bad hand and making the best of it hoping it'll win you the game he gave during the MCS
That seems like pretty standard Ryko fair to me. Why are you shocked that in a monster heavy list that Ryko's able to put in the work?
Don't forget the Reaper that hits the one of Magical Scientist in a full hand.
@@dylanwight5764Ryko turned both DAD *and* BLS live at the exact same time. That's more than just standard, that's stupid.
@@MiyaoMeow588 AND the Black Salvo
Just want to say it is SO COOL to see Alex finally joining one of the post-reaction calls! We so rarely get to see or even hear that man live, it's a real treat. Choo Choo indeed.
Skimming through Cimo doing his card-by-card and watching Joseph lose sanity over the course of it is comedy
My first thought seeing Gage’s pulls was “It’s gonna be funny when Alex 2-0s him”
Cimo feels like a bit of a cryptid in the ygo community these days. He's just a series machine, and it's easy to forget sometimes that he's a real person and these he's friends with these people. When he does stuff like the call at the end, it reminds me that he isn't just some character in the prog lore, he is a real person, who bullies gage every week lol
I kinda miss the meta breakdown videos
@@idkdontask7142 his how to play ishizu tear video was nice
somewhere in 2024 :
Gageh : Our Tear deck is looking great!
Cimo : This Chaos deck...
And somehow, Gage still loses.
And to think it was the other way around during DM and GX. Gageh on chaos every week and Cimo being the ultra based one.
Cimo 10 minutes laters still in the Deck Build section: So the Tearlaments help us mill cards to our graveyard to fuel our Dad and Chaos plays.
Cimo will always open DShifter DiFi Macro with some chaos cards vs Gage's Tear and 2-0'd Gage
You can theoritically play Bystial Dragon link with chaos stuff (Levi, Chaos Emp pend and what not) against Tear and call it chaos I suppose, eventhough there is no way you can build D-link in Prog
"Alex is normal" only for MBT to call him and for Cimo to peak his audio, screaming "CHOO CHOO!!!". Classic
The problem with Alex is that he's normal.
Alex: CHOO CHOO
Never thought i'd say this but thank god for blackwing in season one. If not for those birds we probably would have seen chaos mirrors for four months.
At least Blackwing is entertaining due to Kalut the Best Friend of Cimo....
CHOO CHOO BABY. DEKOICHI BEATDOWN WOOOOOO! Gustav Max would be so proud of his little cousin.
The Fact that MBT was as mad as I was when I saw chaos again is fantastic
Banning Firedog is literally a Cimo buff
@38:30 MBT, just wait until you start studying for the bar. You'll need to film all of July's episodes like 6 weeks in advance. The bar will dominate your life in July.
Gage and Cimo: everything changes this week!
Also Gage and Cimo: bad deck vs Chaos; Chaos goes 2-0
Cimo: we’ve heard your complaints
Also Cimo: and we’ve ignored them
18:37 40 minutes?! I gotchu homies
18:38 Gage’s FTK
21:17 Cimo’s Chaos Deck
25:39 Game 1
32:45 Game 2
35:49 Game 3 who is going to win?!
Chaos is getting a bit old but I wasn't expecting Alex to actually join a call afterwards. That was cool.
Alex def got that stand energy
@@GreedyGoblinzZ I can't be mad at chaos too much. People forget this man has played Scientist FTK, Final Countdown, and Reversal Quiz OTK, in addition to other random things like burn this season.
@@cax1175 and then he proceeded to play the same 2 decks (flamwell/zombie) for 20 episodes only to change it up for CHAOS, the one deck everyone's been tired of for like 2 years, I think we can be mad
@@SerechII still winning though 🤑
@@propanesquid5234 We don't care about winning. We care about content. The only content here is that the game is the equivalent to a greek tragedy.
Truly a choo choo moment for the ages
Those mills Cimo got with Ryko are some of the sackiest mills I've seen on any match.
Ok, that epilogue of this react episode was great. Really glad to also have the man himself in the call. I was smiling the whole time
39:21 had me in tears 😂
“You are…You’re the devil-“
Love how haters in chat got quiet when cimo was called lol
I Have no clue why people did not expect chaos to come back. He gains 3 light monsters with the unbanning of cyber dragon.
And that makes chaos so much more powerful.
Then BLS, DAD, and Sorc needed to be permabanned.
@@cameraredeye3115 I agree with banning Sorc and BLS but there's still plenty of fun weird DARK heavy decks to splash it into.
Everyone ready for the darkest timeline? Gage getting domed by chaos then going back to it and trying to force it for the next 20 weeks?
Cimo is a terrorist, but shout outs to him making up for this episode by coming on call
There is also the worst time line, Gage goes back to chaos
It was Trains FTK; Trains five-turn-kill
16:24 was literally my exact reaction. Setting up a plot in my mind where each has a different side of the coin, and then immediately having to abandon it in favor of Gage just getting everything.
i want Gage to run this deck back
The Salvo deck was good and it’s the first time Chaos was good in this series since GX and DaD was brought into the format. Just sucks that we’re all so bored of “im going to banish a light and a dark”
Ah a certified Cimo moment, playing constructed in prog
Chad chaos vs beta birds
Thank you for not cutting out the call!
24:10 "Anything is possible." Including running a deck from 2008
After the Tengu incident, it’s quite hard to believe some pulls…
Tengu incident?
Gage admitted to rerolling his pulls last season in the pack that Reborn Tengu came out in until he pulled multiple copies, but claims he never done it before or since
I believe him he's never done it again, it was one time in prog 1, and here they have redoers, the last redoers have been trash
Cimo played well, but it was kinda sad to see Gage building Mist Valley, which is extremely cool to lose to dekoichi beatdown
You see, on one hand I hate to see chaos again but on the other I love to see the light fade in MBT's eyes everytime he realizes Gage will lose. It never ceases to entertain me.
34:12 Is a certified tunnel moment
Cimo painted the tunnel in front of gage and he still walked into it. Its the first match with judjgment at 1 and its alex cimo how do you not 100% assume he would judge a judge the first opportunity it would come up
25:52, did anyone else hear that
The most upsetting thing is that because Cimo won 2-0 with Chaos, they are going to keep playing chaos after this...
Chooo Chooo!
1:29 anyone else get reminded of that song of the same name.
CIMOO IS JUST TOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOD
does Alex have Genex Ally Crusher, i love that card in salvo, a dark vs wind Genex mirror would slap
Gage has insanely cool deck. Hopefully he will run it back!
More Chaos we all Crying inside😭
Nooooooo heat him out!
Choo Choo
I really wish gage will give a second try to this deck it's so cool
TEAMOOOOO MAY CHAOS NEVER DIE!!!
Looks like it's Cimooo's turn to banish a LIGHT and a DARK just to steamroll Gahgeh.......
I’m sorry but I get so mad at Joseph and his chat like. You spent weeks begging for cydra, knowing cydra just makes monarch and or chaos stronger. Then even with a chaos deck, we got a kind of cool machine focused one, and we act like it’s the same zombie dog shit as a few weeks ago. Not to mention, you goblins were so blinded by “ooh cool card” that everyone acted like gage’s deck wasn’t doo doo farts. Pretty much 15 or less playable monsters and nothing sticky like the recruiters, reaper, etc so if you don’t draw well you just die
I HECKIN LOVE CHAOS! THOUSAND YEARS OF CHAOS! MILLION YEARS OF CHAOS! CHAOS FOREVER BABY!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I still don't see why people hate on Cimo honestly. The name of the game is to bring something that might win and then it's all rng so why does he get shit on when we've seen gage do the same thing. I seem to recall seeing dad and ced like 15 episodes in a row last season and no one complained then.
Well no… there are no real stakes, it’s just a series for fun and entertainment so winning or losing at the end doesn’t really matter, it’s just the yugioh mentality that tells him to bring the most viable/successful strategy (in his opinion) even though it’s the same every time
Also the name of the game is “progression”, so you know, people would like them to change decks every now and then
People last season complained about CED and sorc wdym. The complaints about dinomist and chaos were just overshadowed by complaints about blackwings
What's the point of a progression series if you're just going to play the same thing constantly? Going for new strategies based on the packs that they open is way more interesting. If you're not actually going to progress, then just play constructed.
What’s the song he plays around 4:00 when the banned cards are revealed
nvm I found it.
"and then his stream died lol" made me chucke
Not sure if pac-Man Hell or Chaos Hell is worse...Gage's deck looked so promising and it lost to dumb luck, which...God it's frustrating.
The rare and terrifying Cimo call, who knows what dark energies it has
good to know i'm not the only one addicted to bistro huddy
Great prediction by MBT at 20:22.
Do we not have ancient fairy dragon? Back then you could go into AFD, pop Divine wind for another divine wind, play new divine wind, special blast fan, repeat for an insane field
I think Cimo has one, I don’t think Gage does
CHOO CHOO BEAT DOWN MF
CHAOS 💀
I'm just going to say it there are exactly three kinds of decks that I will never tire of watching or playing no matter what the build as long as it's at least tangentially playable. Heros, Chaos, and Level 12 Synchro Boss monster Spam go! (Preferably Quasar, ever get of a triple quasar in one turn? It feels like cheating. It never happens but when the stars align...)
Joseph's reaction to the Dekoichi beats was truly hilarious, and Alex joining in a call was the cherry on top xD
To everyone complaining about Chaos: This might be the last time we see a dedicated Chaos pile. Reminder that Inzektor, Dino Rabbit, and Wind-Up Loop are on the corner, as well as generic xyz spam with Scientist, that is still legal for some reason, Ninjas or even a janky Hero Beat. With good pulls or redoers, there'll be little room for Chaos to run amok when far more competent cards are on the table, especially if Gage starts flexing the good early XYZs he got with whatever else he can grab.
Hornet, Zenmaity and Hunter, if pulled, will end up getting the ban, same for the Rescue Bnnuy if either gets the Evolzars, and by then Mermails and Madolches will be a thing too. That is, if Cimo doesn't remember he has Mind Master and Earth Psychics at his disposal too.
the progeneter to rank 10 earth machine trains, dark machine trains
Best episode yet
what was that banger at the start need to add it to my list
also pure gold whatching the card by card
I'm glad I waited to watch it here today so that it wasn't a complete waste of time
Spoilers for the Episode
Cimo in the winner's wheel - "Oh, wow! Who knew that you could win by not playing chaos?"
Cimo 15 minutes later - "Chaos time bby :)"
A Light and A Dark BABY
In all honesty, Chaos just seems like the Branded archetype. It keeps coming back
I figure it's more like DLink. It lives on a knife's edge of being unplayable or being crazy
What are you talking about? Branded has been a playable deck for a single year.
I’d like to see gage try six samurai next week since grandmaster is a common
Why did gage ban firedog an not BLS. Gage gasnt touch his choas deck in over a month just ban borh sorc and bls so we can finally move past chaos.
Dont get me wrong i love chaos, i play it myself in older formats and Chaos-Sworn sometimes in master duel. But at some point they need to start inovating.
MBT will learn to acknowledge Tribal Chief Cimooo
Sometimes it do be choo choo
6:41
Seriously,.they need to go to an emergency judgment next episode and BAN THE CHAOS BOSS CARDS.
Fuck. Those. Cards.
I'm so fucking sick of chaos
I could understand it if this was a bad chaos deck, but that build seemed good enough. Also Cimo said that this variant was played during 2011 and I looked it up and he's right, so no hate from me on a good chaos build. Also he wanted to play CyDra, but where else could he do that? So I'm with Cimo on this for this time. I just hope that next ep will change things and go with something different as to not make chaos repetitive again, since I feel that's why people hate this deck.
Relationship with Prog ended. The History series are now my new best friends.
Choo choo mf 😂
They ban 6 and release 4 and I’m still seeing trap and spell slots taken up by DM staples….
It’s time for a new stapler
Ngl. If they banned the Chaos idiots, I would be more invested in season 2.
Ain’t no way gage is going to play chaos
I would be pissed off if I lost to the TRAIN! Just ban it. Ban it. What's the big deal? Man I don't even know how to describe this.
Maybe by Progression Series 3 they'll have learned to just ban all the chaos shit. It's fine for a few games sure but my GOD IT'S SO BORING FOR 65 EPISODES TO JUST BE CHAOS VARIANTS
Do they have a card outside of Dark Hole or Black Rose Dragon that can out Obelisk, because....
Every take control spell needs to go. It feels like that's so many wins, just take control and deal a shit ton of damage. Im honestly just so tired of OP OG spell cards
anyone who watches Edison content will know how unbelievably sacky Brain Con can be. its even more absurd in the Xyz era. they should join the chopping block for sure
I'm tired of Chaos every other week on average. FFS Cimo, PLAY SOMETHING DIFFERENT!
Sorry this episode was hilarious
gage brought fire. And the yugioh gods said no.
Gage: Losing for being based.
Cimo: Winning for being cringe.
Indeed I miss Playoffs, such a better version. Even Master Saga, for christ sake.
NICE DECK GAGE
At this point Iwishiwasdead is the star of this series.
I thought this would be a good episode based on the Judgment. Chaos ruins the day again
still don't ban chaos lol
Couldn't they have banned Sorc and BLS just to force deck variety? Season 3 better have Chaos banned from the start. What percent of decks from Season 1 and 2 were some Chaos variant? It's insane.
If you ban those cards it won’t change nearly as much as you think
@@geiseric222 If you ban Chaos Sorc and BLS, they won't appear again. I don't want to see them.
@@Kaleidophoenix I mean they still will play Chaos. Like Cimos deck was only playing 1 BLS and one Sarc. If you take them out the deck doesn’t actually change much
You'd have to ban Sorc, BLS, DAD, and Monarchs to prevent them from playing those exact decks... but it won't prevent them from running back cards they're likely to continue playing. They'll still find a slightly different flavor of deck to stun/combo with.
Don't forget DAD as well
good thing this was a filler non-canon episode :)
Gage got railed haha 😂
They should never have brought back Solemn Judgment.
should have banned bls instead of the silly dog.
It’s crazy how they had a judgment to make a number of changes so we can be able to see all these new strategies, and play a bunch of different decks, however. Why don’t we play chaos because that’s something that we haven’t seen yet in this series.
That’s more of a problem of Chaos being generally the most powerful easily accessible deck for over a decade than it is the series. Can’t exactly change that without banning DAD, BLS, CS, etc, and at that point they may as well ban every boss monster for every archetype to be consistent.
@@joemarais7683 Gage needs to ban BLS and DAD. Once those 2 cards go, Cimo's cringe ass will finally be forced off Chaos for good. Chaos Sorcerer can't do shit by itself....
If anyone's listening I think his problem is that he is playing very few monsters and is relying too much on being spelled and trap dependent