I'm forever grateful for Cimo bringing out prog during covid. Watching it and then starting a session with a friend are huge parts of what helped me keep my sanity during that time 😅
There is no way link and Rargh's youtube content is what inspired the progression series. thats almost surreal considering how relatively small all these channels are.
Its so cool hearing other people past it feels nice a breath of fresh air from the game and getting to know the creator background its kinda nice and talking about the experiences with yugioh in general
Id say my issue with dragon rulers at the time along with shaddoll was that it felt so hard to punish them even if they committed a lot of resources. Their cards would just allow them to get things back from the graveyard for free while whatever i was playing (clearly not as good) would just have only whats in my hand/set on field.
oh cool i just finished the blindfold video when this got uploaded. i really like cimo series. history was amazing early on when the wheel was still a thing and im planning on setting up a prog with friends and maybe start a md masochist account.
Nadir makes a good point about prize support. I've been playing since LoD/PGD and as a little kid looking at the goats of game playing in the SJCs, I fantasized about playing a final and winning a Stein, Gold Sarc or CCV. And then the idea that only those players had access to this rare card that had an obvious advantage, was just cool. Those cards were cost neutral to make but they created their own value. They were hugely expensive. YGO teams were created so people could maximize the chances of getting copies to play in events. These people had unfair advantage but then again old SJC were top 8 or top 16 and so to consistently top during the SJC time was much harder than it is today. It was your reward for being super good. If they bring this back somehow in a form that works for modern YGO they never need to do money prizes.
Speaking as someone who need to travel half the country for a LOCAL! Price support and such matters little to me as a consumer who can't engage much with the community outside of MD, what matters more for me and my very, very small group of friends that play is that we can't justify buying Accesscode until a week ago, when it was released before/at the start of Covid.
The main issue with remote dueling is that you lose the hand gestures interaction between your board and your opponents, in a feature match you can see duelists pointing at which things they're targeting and stuff.
One of the things I like about a diverse format is it makes it harder for people to fill their side deck with blowouts and instead makes you play cards you can side in that are better in that matchplay instead of just going oh I'm going first side in anti spell tcboo and d barrier
Yes, it's bad for turbo autists who want to reduce all aspects of the game to spreadsheets, however it's better for the audience as it allows more upsets, less set in stone results.
I do miss Cimo's competive content. As someone who never played the competive side of the game, it helped me learn the game and apply it to Master Duel. Also felt his banlist reactions had more energy to them when he actually played versus just keeping up with the game from the outside. I do wish he'd use an auto sim for Prog though.
Oddly enough, his inspiration and story for Progressions Series felt inevitable for the things that interested him. When I was younger, I was really into the Dragonball Z CCG by Score. It was huge at the time around 2001-2003. I basically used to do a "progression" series with my decks and cards for the sets. I found it fun to kind re-move through the releases chronologically, so when I saw Prog was a thing, I got super engrossed in it.
Its funny, for the longest time, there was this thing that everyone was convinced that Cimo and Farfa didn't get along or something. Now, they've done 2 things together recently. It's funny, the Euro boys don't have blister packs? We have them Target and Walmart big time here. I think in Japan, they did the blister hanger packs with the little cutout built into the top of the pack, maybe?
I'm from Germany and have seen blister packs in electronic stores. But they were in reusable cases, they would remove them for you after paying and then they could put another pack inside. Grocery stores, if they sold cards at all, always sold stuff in solid packaging, like structure decks or special editions, never individual booster packs. Places that sold them either had them locked and you had to ask staff to open it for you, or they have them directly at the register where you couldn't just open them without being seen
In the OCG, packaging for individual packs for all sets are larger compared to TCGs, so they can just open the set and hang the packs on a display rack directly without having to resort to blister packs. packaging for packs in every set is larger
But on the other hand if prices were better there would be even more players, I think the return on their investement here would be huge for the company
The price support model is what's always been lacking in ygo. I do like the idea of the stamped cards like everyone in top 32 gets one, then everyone in top 16 gets another copy of the same card with a top 16 stamp and so on with it stacking as you progress further. Also with the anime having iconic cards it would be cool to see them give a ycs winner something like a dark magician with a champion stamp and it's own flavor text as opposed to another vanilla with no real collectors value.
Personally I'm just so glad Edison and Time Wizard formats became a thing and actually got fairly popular because without that I wouldn't be playing Yugioh most of the time. I typically enjoy playing rogue decks and past a certain point a number of years ago it became nearly impossible and less fun trying to get the decks I enjoy to be viable. I still play advanced some here and there but not nearly as much as used to and not as much as Edison. I hope they continue to support Edison and other formats and eventually have actual full scale regionals and YCS for them not just side events.
alex doing anything with his existence other than producing content, let alone producing content for a channel other than his own, is fucking surreal to see. every single time. guy's a fucking cryptid
@@JohnnyVasquez8 yeah, e.g. history of tcg meta + history of tcg jank when both series were so deep into modern that research took longer than filming iirc
I think Yu-Gi-Oh! is at a point where it can't "die" fully. Look at another competitive gaming environment like Smash, besides Nintendo obviously creating and providing the game initially, the scene has been driven completely from grassroots platforms of enthusiasts. So even if Konami stopped supporting their game completely tomorrow and never made another product for it again people would keep playing it and hosting tournaments, exploring all the past formats that remain unsolved, creating custom banlist/cardpool formats etc. Over time we may even see some sort of agreed upon way to print proxies. Those who hosted tournaments, or other people prolific in driving the competitive scene could choose to design new cards to release and allow in their tournaments.
holy shit youtube is unbearable with the ADs lately. 10mins into the Podcast and i already had 2 ADs inbetween and 2 before the video even started. Opera AdBlock do your thing please ffs
Yeah the anime and merch just really push it over the edge. The card game is just a small (relatively) facet of the franchise and because of its widespread approach and nostalgia, its just beyond popular.
1:14:03 i actually started playing Pokémon and right now the meta feels so nice. Its like edison atm in vibes and just so inexpensive. It feels nice not seeing a buyer wall that gate keeps players. Love the game and i its let me just... not spend so much on yugioh or at all and its a game that is a lot better for my time commitment. This is also excluding the nice prize support which is only a plus. All in all Pokemon is nice and i wish yugioh was a lot similar to how its structured but eh
the the love of fucking god please tell people to turn crisp off in discord. its so cancer trying to hear people when they get loud or something and all you hear is garbled CB radio nonsense
He really does. He’ll ask them a question and 1. He cuts them off immediately as they were about to answer or 2. They’re in the middle of their answer and he cuts them off to crack a joke or take over the conversation. 🤦🏾♂️
Tbh alot of formats that tend to have a wide amount of decks utilize back row more and because of that alot of high competitive players whine about it cause their side choices are just ment to stop monsters/extra deck not back row...my casual deck has managed to last alot longer than it should due to 75 percent of players not having any real removal exept duster (i still lose but the fact it gets into turn 3 and 4 makes to so funny to me) and if they had said cards it for back row removal it bricks their decks... May skill drain remain so that mystic mine stays banned
Thanks for having me on! Had a great time chatting!
Thanks for joining them! Your series are interesting, but hearing from you outside of those is interesting too!
Chilling with the guys here is always fun.
Another fellow runescape enjoyer!! ☺️
Cimo and gage group hard core when?
Farfa, im begging you, please start telling guests how youre going to hand off introductions to them 😭
Are you asking Fartfa to be a professional???
Farfa and Cimooo together is so nice, I hope they keep making content together.
Im just glad that it destroys the weird rumors around the 2 of them, nice to see the yugioh community being wholesome 😅
Progression Season 3
The suckoff series (ft. Gage)
@@NAAAAAIL where is mbt?
@@Lich_V. having his reaction to the series stolen by the progrussys channel
Josh is like I don't have a favorite format but I may still play 58 card paleo regularly on master duel in the year 2024 xd.
I remember I met Cimoooooooo way back like when he was not even known
He did the "cimoooooooo" thing and he yelled it so loud it jump scared me xD
He definitely played into the meme fully.
Cimooo is what made me learn english
I'm forever grateful for Cimo bringing out prog during covid. Watching it and then starting a session with a friend are huge parts of what helped me keep my sanity during that time 😅
It's so nice to hear Cimo at a regular volume because you guys know how to balance your audio
For real, I love Cimo but his audio is loud and he’s centimeters away from his mic 💀💀
@@JohnnyVasquez8 I honestly don't know how he's gotten away with it for so long, it'd be such a simple change
Great episode. Since he brought up APS, I want to see Cimo on Pod of Greed now
Cimo just want to say thanks for the intro to zoodiac. Also thanks for hosting the tournament at the beginning of 2020.
I like that this podcast is not just about competitive Yu-Gi-Oh.
What is competitive ygo
The things that is dying right now @@alexandergeorgiev74
@@alexandergeorgiev74 tournament play(mostly tcg/ocg but also masterduel worlds)
@@alexandergeorgiev74 tournament play(mostly tcg/ocg but also masterduel worlds)
@@erikklouda570 just saying if they don't have cash prizes it's not a competitive ygo it's for fun
5:40 Damn, so lucky to have John Konami the man in your teenage team.
Cimo's Blazing Vortex box opening is what got me back into the game after I stopped playing in 2012.
There is no way link and Rargh's youtube content is what inspired the progression series. thats almost surreal considering how relatively small all these channels are.
Omg my favorite oldschool runescpae creator cimo
Whattttttt!???!?
Where
Its so cool hearing other people past it feels nice a breath of fresh air from the game and getting to know the creator background its kinda nice and talking about the experiences with yugioh in general
Farfa fanboying so hard
heart of the cast emote woth cimoo nodding with the logo on top
Cimo is such a great guy and a pleasure to listen to
Id say my issue with dragon rulers at the time along with shaddoll was that it felt so hard to punish them even if they committed a lot of resources. Their cards would just allow them to get things back from the graveyard for free while whatever i was playing (clearly not as good) would just have only whats in my hand/set on field.
So excited to watch this one! My three fave yugitubers!!
oh cool i just finished the blindfold video when this got uploaded. i really like cimo series. history was amazing early on when the wheel was still a thing and im planning on setting up a prog with friends and maybe start a md masochist account.
Nadir makes a good point about prize support. I've been playing since LoD/PGD and as a little kid looking at the goats of game playing in the SJCs, I fantasized about playing a final and winning a Stein, Gold Sarc or CCV. And then the idea that only those players had access to this rare card that had an obvious advantage, was just cool. Those cards were cost neutral to make but they created their own value. They were hugely expensive. YGO teams were created so people could maximize the chances of getting copies to play in events. These people had unfair advantage but then again old SJC were top 8 or top 16 and so to consistently top during the SJC time was much harder than it is today. It was your reward for being super good. If they bring this back somehow in a form that works for modern YGO they never need to do money prizes.
Speaking as someone who need to travel half the country for a LOCAL!
Price support and such matters little to me as a consumer who can't engage much with the community outside of MD, what matters more for me and my very, very small group of friends that play is that we can't justify buying Accesscode until a week ago, when it was released before/at the start of Covid.
The main issue with remote dueling is that you lose the hand gestures interaction between your board and your opponents, in a feature match you can see duelists pointing at which things they're targeting and stuff.
One of the things I like about a diverse format is it makes it harder for people to fill their side deck with blowouts and instead makes you play cards you can side in that are better in that matchplay instead of just going oh I'm going first side in anti spell tcboo and d barrier
Yes, it's bad for turbo autists who want to reduce all aspects of the game to spreadsheets, however it's better for the audience as it allows more upsets, less set in stone results.
I do miss Cimo's competive content. As someone who never played the competive side of the game, it helped me learn the game and apply it to Master Duel.
Also felt his banlist reactions had more energy to them when he actually played versus just keeping up with the game from the outside.
I do wish he'd use an auto sim for Prog though.
I still want the old cimoooooooooooo intro back at least once for nostalgia
“What’s going on guys!? It’s Cimo!” That’s what I miss haha
Sir Emanon was my first yugituber lol.
The first deck I came back to the game and played was a version of his Lunalight Time thief psy-frame match up.
Structure deck for Edison for the post-upgrade between the starter decks and the modern SD.. quoted from a great yugi-tuber
Oddly enough, his inspiration and story for Progressions Series felt inevitable for the things that interested him.
When I was younger, I was really into the Dragonball Z CCG by Score. It was huge at the time around 2001-2003. I basically used to do a "progression" series with my decks and cards for the sets. I found it fun to kind re-move through the releases chronologically, so when I saw Prog was a thing, I got super engrossed in it.
That lithium2300 outro is chef's kiss
dang homies forehead is more shiny than my LODT secret rare JD
Dude lives in Vegas, it’s hot AF out there 😂
we complain about yugioh related stuff because WE CARE ABOUT THE GAME
Cant wait for Ishizu Tear be finally be released in a format where it can trive full power with decks of its same level. Just imagine.
I watched Cimoos Fire King deck profile back in the day. It was one of the first decks I tried to make.
We need a tsx1 in this cast the topic for him should be table talk
Lorcana CAN possibly be abandonded. I see it having the same fate as Disney Infinity.
It's made by disney and therefore not worth touching with a 10ft pole.
It can, but that isn't a reason for Konami to change nothing.
Mr Cimoooooooo plz bring back Throwback Thursday thx
I'd say Master Duel is all the growth Konami needs from the game, I imagine it prints money with all that platforms it's on.
I only play it F2P, but seeing how people whale for royal rares, Konami is definitely doing well financially.
@@Ragnarok540 number 66 sales on steam, top 5 in japan
Its funny, for the longest time, there was this thing that everyone was convinced that Cimo and Farfa didn't get along or something.
Now, they've done 2 things together recently.
It's funny, the Euro boys don't have blister packs?
We have them Target and Walmart big time here.
I think in Japan, they did the blister hanger packs with the little cutout built into the top of the pack, maybe?
I'm from Germany and have seen blister packs in electronic stores. But they were in reusable cases, they would remove them for you after paying and then they could put another pack inside.
Grocery stores, if they sold cards at all, always sold stuff in solid packaging, like structure decks or special editions, never individual booster packs.
Places that sold them either had them locked and you had to ask staff to open it for you, or they have them directly at the register where you couldn't just open them without being seen
In the OCG, packaging for individual packs for all sets are larger compared to TCGs, so they can just open the set and hang the packs on a display rack directly without having to resort to blister packs. packaging for packs in every set is larger
But on the other hand if prices were better there would be even more players, I think the return on their investement here would be huge for the company
I feel like Cimo would've been better in the last episode when they were talking about the history of Yu-Gi-Oh
The price support model is what's always been lacking in ygo. I do like the idea of the stamped cards like everyone in top 32 gets one, then everyone in top 16 gets another copy of the same card with a top 16 stamp and so on with it stacking as you progress further. Also with the anime having iconic cards it would be cool to see them give a ycs winner something like a dark magician with a champion stamp and it's own flavor text as opposed to another vanilla with no real collectors value.
It does have 8 o's btw
my chest is batting so hard rn
Personally I'm just so glad Edison and Time Wizard formats became a thing and actually got fairly popular because without that I wouldn't be playing Yugioh most of the time. I typically enjoy playing rogue decks and past a certain point a number of years ago it became nearly impossible and less fun trying to get the decks I enjoy to be viable. I still play advanced some here and there but not nearly as much as used to and not as much as Edison. I hope they continue to support Edison and other formats and eventually have actual full scale regionals and YCS for them not just side events.
Cimooo is really shiny
He's QCR.
Imagine living in Vegas during the summer.
Farfa: "It's definitely not dying"
Proceeds to describe that it's stagnating and not replacing the players it's losing.
Dude, that's dying.
thats a nice conclusion. you complain bc you care! :)
alex doing anything with his existence other than producing content, let alone producing content for a channel other than his own, is fucking surreal to see. every single time. guy's a fucking cryptid
He’s dedicated, well balanced and consistent. What I respect his he’ll stop or pause a series if he puts too much on his plate.
@@JohnnyVasquez8 yeah, e.g. history of tcg meta + history of tcg jank when both series were so deep into modern that research took longer than filming iirc
The Triumvir of YGO-Tube!
Did you TCG guys know that there was (is?) a Bleach TCG
that was an awesome episode!
I think Yu-Gi-Oh! is at a point where it can't "die" fully. Look at another competitive gaming environment like Smash, besides Nintendo obviously creating and providing the game initially, the scene has been driven completely from grassroots platforms of enthusiasts. So even if Konami stopped supporting their game completely tomorrow and never made another product for it again people would keep playing it and hosting tournaments, exploring all the past formats that remain unsolved, creating custom banlist/cardpool formats etc. Over time we may even see some sort of agreed upon way to print proxies. Those who hosted tournaments, or other people prolific in driving the competitive scene could choose to design new cards to release and allow in their tournaments.
holy shit youtube is unbearable with the ADs lately. 10mins into the Podcast and i already had 2 ADs inbetween and 2 before the video even started. Opera AdBlock do your thing please ffs
Blisters around me have two packs usually
Nice episode 😎🎉
"YuGiOh is a lot like an abusive relationship"
Yeah pokemon is the top grossing media franchise of all time barring none and it is not even close. It is crazy.
Yeah, but that includes a ton of merchandise that has nothing to do with card games, including the best selling video game franchise of all time.
Yeah, but that includes a ton of merchandise that has nothing to do with card games, including the best selling video game franchise of all time.
Yeah the anime and merch just really push it over the edge. The card game is just a small (relatively) facet of the franchise and because of its widespread approach and nostalgia, its just beyond popular.
Now this is Content!!!
HOWEVER
Really hope paul from team aps comes on here
Cim 8 o's
Is there a lag or why is everyone talking over each other
1:14:03 i actually started playing Pokémon and right now the meta feels so nice. Its like edison atm in vibes and just so inexpensive. It feels nice not seeing a buyer wall that gate keeps players. Love the game and i its let me just... not spend so much on yugioh or at all and its a game that is a lot better for my time commitment. This is also excluding the nice prize support which is only a plus.
All in all
Pokemon is nice and i wish yugioh was a lot similar to how its structured but eh
YOOOOOOOOO!!!! CIMOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Cimooooooooooo
Holy shitt its reallll
Kalut for game
HOLY FUUUUCK
I watch a lot of videos about yugioh but I never see them promoting anything except products
I prefers farfas take, the more competitive decks the better.
We need teamsam on here
the the love of fucking god please tell people to turn crisp off in discord. its so cancer trying to hear people when they get loud or something and all you hear is garbled CB radio nonsense
These formats would be a lot more fun if everyone could play them and not price out a lot of people.
Episode 21 and farfa still Interrupts His guests regularly, like a lot while they are in a flow of words its so annoying ...
He really does. He’ll ask them a question and 1. He cuts them off immediately as they were about to answer or 2. They’re in the middle of their answer and he cuts them off to crack a joke or take over the conversation. 🤦🏾♂️
Tbh alot of formats that tend to have a wide amount of decks utilize back row more and because of that alot of high competitive players whine about it cause their side choices are just ment to stop monsters/extra deck not back row...my casual deck has managed to last alot longer than it should due to 75 percent of players not having any real removal exept duster (i still lose but the fact it gets into turn 3 and 4 makes to so funny to me) and if they had said cards it for back row removal it bricks their decks...
May skill drain remain so that mystic mine stays banned
I have huge respect for Takahashi for making YGO tournaments without have cash prizes.
Konami should give way better prizes though
Start giving out some diamond studded or solid gold mellenium items or something
Do you guys think that Farfa and Cimo ever explored each other bodies?
LMFAOAOOAOSOSOSOA
Next: Yascine please
Yeah, ask him about the NFTs.
How about nah?
we don't need 2 platform more transphobes 🎉
yeah thats what we need toxic masculinity nft bro, he will harmonize very well with josh and farfa
I’d rather not… 💀
i hate yugioh but i hate everything else more
Screw Pokémon Yugioh Any Day!
Please go back to focusing on the game. I couldn't care less about these non competitive personalities
Damn someone hates Cimo 😂😂😂😂 How many tops and YCS’s have you won??
That's funny that guy thought they all seen or remembered his first video clam down dude your videos aren't even good. Worst scripts. cimoo sucks
He’s literally the best Yugioh RUclipsr and it’s not even close. He’s not even in my top 3 but I know his content, production, is top tier. 👌🏾🔥