My nostalgia days in Yu-Gi-Oh! was middle school. We always had double duels (which worked out well) and I always had a partner who had Obelisk and I had Ra (before the legal prints came out) and we always chanted Ra's incantation when I summoned Ra
Lol i miss them day my big brother leng me his last turn deck after i lost my dark magician to a 7th grader then came to school and dominated back then ra and obelisk were the meta and i shut em down i went home with x6 obelisk x8 ra x4 slifers and got my dark magician bacķ but the downside was that by the end no one wanted to duel me
I'm very nostalgic towards the Chaos/Yata Lock format. Not because it was a great format, and I surely don't want it back, but because there weren't really any archetypes yet. I have this misplaced nostalgic feeling that it requires more thought to put a deck together (even though I know everyone played the same 25 cards + 15 of their own choice). I just enjoy it more. Probably also the reason I mostly play hybrid decks. That way I feel some form of accomplishment when I get two archetypes to work together.
The middle of the synchro era was pretty good. Synchros were strong, but it still felt like there was a good pace to everything. It wasn't as boom or bust at first.
Those days when you summoned Chaos Emperor Dragon, blew up each others field and hands, destroying your black witch of the forrest who searched Yata garasu. Normal Summon Yata, attack directly. Win the game.
I can remember getting back into the game just before Gateway of the Six was banned, i've played Sams for over 2 years now, alongside Darkworld, which i've played for roughly the same amount of time. Now i'm actually building Triamids, as i've had quite a lot of fun with the Archetype. What i like about looking back is just how good darkworlds once were when they were devastating the game.
Ruby Rose t-Shirt! Awesome, GalacticGod :) I don't have a personal favorite format, but I'd say I liked the game better in the old days, where most deck were very creative and had ti play almost like a game of chess. Today, I still old onto my old cards, especially my Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl. I have a couple decks of Dark Magician with all the new stuff and same for Blue-Eyes. But old school deck are nostalgia to me and I liked that time :)
Nice RWBY shirt GG! Props man! Vol. 4 HYPE!!! Anyway, format that I liked was I believe the beginning of the Synchro era. I just remember pulling a Trishula out of an HA4 pack. Should've kept it though...
It is fun to look back. I think the biggest change is that the tier 1.5-2.0 decks are substantially better now. This seems to have been the trend for the past two years. TBH, it makes the present more fun.
I've played this game for a long time now, but to me, the best "format" was when me and my friends were starting ygo. We had no idea about the banlist and we didn't need to. We only played with a limited ammount of cards we could find and every card was important. We tried to make the best out of every card we had and learned to use anything at our disposal to the best of our abilities. It payed great dividence to when I started playing at a shop against people who were just used to the standard things. I still managed to consistently win against the early synchro era decks even with older decks that were considered outdated. And I knew that it was from when we had to pull everything we had to make our decks work to win against opponents who poured just as much hard thought and passion into their cards. I felt I've lost a lot of that and rarely find it still in others. I have managed to regains some passion for the game efterwards, however, when I discovered the Touhou duelist circle, back when the members were bursting with ideas and I suppose at their peak. It gave me the same feeling that I had before, where someone would put a lot of thought into their cards to come up with the cratiest combos and deck designs that could surprise opponents and sometmes win on sheer surprise factor causing opponents to lose any idea what to do and at the same time pull amazing strategies against equally matched opponents. After that came the dragon ruler format, or as I like to call it, "The era of YGO4realmen". Even though, he only later became famous in the ygo community. He reminded me of the same thing, but he added an extra layer. He clearly made himself an "enemy" of the current and overused meta decks. Back then, decks we mostly "op" becouse of a few combinations thet people figured out with newer cards (see "super rejuvenation")(unlike today, when konami makes things op out of the box) and as long as you had the knowledge of the game and the will to go against it, you could stand up to those meta decks and win against them wuth underrated cards and decks people didn't even imagine could exist. CONCLUSION: I don't think it's that important which era you have in the best memory. I think it's more important what in thaat era it was that made the game fun and engaging for you personally. That way, you can still have fun later on. For me, however, that feeling is fading and I find it difficult to find inspiration. It feels like those few left to fight the uphill battle of staying true to themselves in deck design and playstyle are slowly leaving the game as well, as it seems the game doesn't have much left to offer in konami's struggle to take control over the game itself with its releases and deisgn.
Painful Choice is still my most favorite magic/spell card in Yu-Gi-Oh! back in the days, and it is still ban for good reason; it is a great card to send monster cards from the deck to the graveyard. This spell card really helps me in big combos especially for Synchro monsters. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's is my favorite YGO series. I prefer Synchro monsters in my extra deck, but with the Pendulum & XyZ it really does help make the game more exciting.
Jan '14 was my favourite format. When the Dragon Rulers went to 1 but we still had the first turn draws 6 rule. I had this busted Assault Mode Dragon Ruler deck with Skill Drain at 3. Good times man.
I like how things are now more than anytime before. The variety of decks taking regionals is amazing, covering such a wide spectrum of play styles. I don't miss getting constantly schooled by Dragon rulers, or listening to people demote Bujin players, only to play it online anyways.
My favorite time period was around when Photon Shockwave came out and everyone was playing evolsaurs. I know that format was dumb, but it was when I started, so I'm cool with it
I loved to play X-sabers back in the day. That was after Rescue Cat got banned mind you. I think I played it for three or four years, and it just couldn't keep up anymore, so I switched to Yang Zings. That was quite fun but then metalfoes ruined everything with their stunboards. So now I play Lunalights which are really competetive, can nearly always handle 2-3 negations/counters per turn and deal massive damage.
I remember back when all those was 2 starter decks and a single booster series. back then you loved seeing a monster with 2000 attack points. I mean I love that they are producing all the anime cards now but I wish we could go back to almost battle city style. Where all you had were some monsters that may work well together, possibly a few fusion. but no real archetypes, xyz, or pendulums. I mean I loved the 5ds story arc, but for play I miss when it was simpler.
what I really wish is they would have like in mtg is different leagues some that use vintage, and in vintage would be both your original, and gx style since they are pretty compatible. then a legacy which would be like 5d arc, then a modern for zexal, and a standard for like arc-v. and when you went to play you played in your league
My favorite time was before archetypes took over, when you could have a deck revolve around a certain strategy instead of archetype, so you could go against a deck with your same strategy, but that utilized different cards, as opposed to today's mirror matches where most of the differences are how many of the same card you run.
I have nostalgia for the Qli, BA, and shadoll format Way back when you and I would play against each other on our lunch breaks! (And sneak in an extra 15 so often) >:D
Synchro Format for me as well, I just miss when there is only 1 Heavy Storm, Mystical Space Typhoon, Mirror Force and Raigeki and Darkhole is Forbidden..
The days right before Envoy of the End was released. These were the days...sighh In this days cards stayed on the field longer. Graveyard actually felt like a grave.
and sorry it keeps making me break this comment into different ones, but can someone explain how pendulums slipped into a standard format where things like monster reborn and premature burial are deemed too powerful of cards for a tournament game?
I quit yugioh when Links occurred. I loved to play burning Abyss and Minerva Turbo.. When it comes to way older formats I think at September 2007 till late 2008. I loved Perfect Circle, DDT, DAD in the variety of versions, Lightsworn, Zombie Lightsworn Cat Synchro and Edison of course!
I do wonder what is up with people who want goat control, teledad, or spellbooks back. Goat control was one of the most boring and frustrating formats ever. Personally, my favorite format so far was the end of the Duel Terminal era. Just as pendulums were released and Nekroz were hit with a couple of limits/forbiddens, we entered into a format that was beautiful. Though Nekros was "top" the fact was that everything seemed like it could compete. You had tellarknights, igknights, burning abyss (pre-beatrice), shaddolls, infernoids, ritual beasts, mermails, evilswarm, qliphorts, the beginnings of kozmo, and plenty of rogue decks that would pop up now and again. Then the November 2015 list hit basically everything, and followed that up with full power PePe, a deck so strong they had to enact an emergency banlist just to stop everyone from running only PePe. Seriously: Plushfire, Damage Juggler, Skullcrobat, Monkeyboard, and Luster all had to be hit just so other decks could play.
In my opinion most funny one is Synchron Extreme, but it can't stand against top tier decks, and you get only 4 extra deck cards. You must find Shooting Quasar Dragon, T.G. Hyper Librarian and Formula Synchron. Emperor of Darkness is powerful but it's gameplay is very simple. You get all cards you need except Mega Monarchs and Kuraz. Upcoming Yugi Muto Structure Deck and Pendulum Domination looks awesome.
I honestly don't have a favorite time period for Yugioh. Mostly because I really enjoyed all of them. But, because I run a Cyber Dragon, mostly because of the anime, I will say that the GX time period holds a special place in my hearts.
I miss the 2014 Artifact/Madolche/Hand format so bad... all the top tier decks were so bad ! Fire kings, Artifacts, nerfed Dragon Rulers, nerfed Spellbooks, these were all tier 1, and tier 2 decks such as Gravekeepers or Dark World could beat them >35% of the time !
U should c yugioh now in 2020 how it became so trash that it is not the Yu-Gi-Oh we og’s know. I really miss your content your duels and deck builds u r my favorite yugituber of all time, i wish u decide to open this channel someday 😔 . Have a nice time wherever u r. This is Zed, out.
personally i always enjoyed the glad/blackwing Era's but i dont rate it much higher as i remeber it being kinda annoying sometimes ( i still long for the day i remake my main at that time bi-corn mill yes i know i was a noob back then)
My nostalgia days in Yu-Gi-Oh! was middle school. We always had double duels (which worked out well) and I always had a partner who had Obelisk and I had Ra (before the legal prints came out) and we always chanted Ra's incantation when I summoned Ra
Lol i miss them day my big brother leng me his last turn deck after i lost my dark magician to a 7th grader then came to school and dominated back then ra and obelisk were the meta and i shut em down i went home with x6 obelisk x8 ra x4 slifers and got my dark magician bacķ but the downside was that by the end no one wanted to duel me
Mine is the 2006-2008 days when Phantom Darkness was a thing and duelist packs of certain character came out regularly so you could build their decks.
Ah the good old days when having 3 Solar Flare Dragons and Ultimate Baseball Kid on the field was a guaranteed win :,)
lol, got to love them old school decks, :)
I'm very nostalgic towards the Chaos/Yata Lock format. Not because it was a great format, and I surely don't want it back, but because there weren't really any archetypes yet. I have this misplaced nostalgic feeling that it requires more thought to put a deck together (even though I know everyone played the same 25 cards + 15 of their own choice). I just enjoy it more. Probably also the reason I mostly play hybrid decks. That way I feel some form of accomplishment when I get two archetypes to work together.
My favorite nostalgia days was when I played during highschool. (2003-2006). Best years of my life. lol
I just liked the time in yugioh where syncros where the best and before pendulums and xyz's
Who doesn't love some 5D's era action!
5D's will always have a special place in my heart and that era is when I started playing
It was pretty kickass, I'll admit.
The middle of the synchro era was pretty good. Synchros were strong, but it still felt like there was a good pace to everything. It wasn't as boom or bust at first.
yeah fair point; I felt like pendulums just came out of nowhere and no one saw it coming
Well. Arc-V is currently my favourite because of literally ALL method summons are having a chance to be competitive.
I agree
Thats another thing, they are revamping game mechanics. 5 yrs ago, one would never dream about ritual decks topping. Heck, even a union deck is meta!
Those days when you summoned Chaos Emperor Dragon, blew up each others field and hands, destroying your black witch of the forrest who searched Yata garasu. Normal Summon Yata, attack directly. Win the game.
techincally you could still lose by time
HAT was my favorite format. So diverse, and no pendulums were around.
Toadally Awesome video
Thanks man, :)
the first yugioh series kept me alive
Dino rabbit format is my fav. I had so much fun playing that deck, and so many friends playing yugioh with me at that time
I can remember getting back into the game just before Gateway of the Six was banned, i've played Sams for over 2 years now, alongside Darkworld, which i've played for roughly the same amount of time. Now i'm actually building Triamids, as i've had quite a lot of fun with the Archetype. What i like about looking back is just how good darkworlds once were when they were devastating the game.
Love your RWBY shirt! If I said I had to pick a nostalgic Format, I would say Goat Format.
tributing three monsters to summon a God and going for game
Ruby Rose t-Shirt! Awesome, GalacticGod :)
I don't have a personal favorite format, but I'd say I liked the game better in the old days, where most deck were very creative and had ti play almost like a game of chess. Today, I still old onto my old cards, especially my Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl. I have a couple decks of Dark Magician with all the new stuff and same for Blue-Eyes.
But old school deck are nostalgia to me and I liked that time :)
Nice RWBY shirt GG! Props man! Vol. 4 HYPE!!!
Anyway, format that I liked was I believe the beginning of the Synchro era. I just remember pulling a Trishula out of an HA4 pack. Should've kept it though...
It is fun to look back. I think the biggest change is that the tier 1.5-2.0 decks are substantially better now. This seems to have been the trend for the past two years. TBH, it makes the present more fun.
Summoned skull and mirror force are very nostalgia for me,I just remember loving those cards as a kid
I've played this game for a long time now, but to me, the best "format" was when me and my friends were starting ygo. We had no idea about the banlist and we didn't need to. We only played with a limited ammount of cards we could find and every card was important. We tried to make the best out of every card we had and learned to use anything at our disposal to the best of our abilities. It payed great dividence to when I started playing at a shop against people who were just used to the standard things. I still managed to consistently win against the early synchro era decks even with older decks that were considered outdated. And I knew that it was from when we had to pull everything we had to make our decks work to win against opponents who poured just as much hard thought and passion into their cards.
I felt I've lost a lot of that and rarely find it still in others. I have managed to regains some passion for the game efterwards, however, when I discovered the Touhou duelist circle, back when the members were bursting with ideas and I suppose at their peak. It gave me the same feeling that I had before, where someone would put a lot of thought into their cards to come up with the cratiest combos and deck designs that could surprise opponents and sometmes win on sheer surprise factor causing opponents to lose any idea what to do and at the same time pull amazing strategies against equally matched opponents.
After that came the dragon ruler format, or as I like to call it, "The era of YGO4realmen". Even though, he only later became famous in the ygo community. He reminded me of the same thing, but he added an extra layer. He clearly made himself an "enemy" of the current and overused meta decks. Back then, decks we mostly "op" becouse of a few combinations thet people figured out with newer cards (see "super rejuvenation")(unlike today, when konami makes things op out of the box) and as long as you had the knowledge of the game and the will to go against it, you could stand up to those meta decks and win against them wuth underrated cards and decks people didn't even imagine could exist.
CONCLUSION: I don't think it's that important which era you have in the best memory. I think it's more important what in thaat era it was that made the game fun and engaging for you personally. That way, you can still have fun later on.
For me, however, that feeling is fading and I find it difficult to find inspiration. It feels like those few left to fight the uphill battle of staying true to themselves in deck design and playstyle are slowly leaving the game as well, as it seems the game doesn't have much left to offer in konami's struggle to take control over the game itself with its releases and deisgn.
Painful Choice is still my most favorite magic/spell card in Yu-Gi-Oh! back in the days, and it is still ban for good reason; it is a great card to send monster cards from the deck to the graveyard. This spell card really helps me in big combos especially for Synchro monsters. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's is my favorite YGO series. I prefer Synchro monsters in my extra deck, but with the Pendulum & XyZ it really does help make the game more exciting.
I wish I could play in the first few formats. I was way too young to know how to play. I missed out on a lot of yugioh
awesome shirt
Thanks, Got to love me some RWBY!
Jan '14 was my favourite format. When the Dragon Rulers went to 1 but we still had the first turn draws 6 rule. I had this busted Assault Mode Dragon Ruler deck with Skill Drain at 3. Good times man.
Goat format is amazing. Sure there is some broken cards like Duo but it all around is fantastic.
Dragon Rulers was my favorite format because I was a try hard scrub who played Lightsworn Rulers and I hardly ever lost games with that deck.
For a future konami tournament for yugioh, they should have a traditional format vs advanced format, i think that'd be pretty cool
Dude, I don't even think traditional would stand a chance without cards like CED and fiber jar.
'Member Dark Magician? 'Member Blue Eyes White Dragon? 'Member Exodia? Oh I 'member!!!!
I like how things are now more than anytime before. The variety of decks taking regionals is amazing, covering such a wide spectrum of play styles. I don't miss getting constantly schooled by Dragon rulers, or listening to people demote Bujin players, only to play it online anyways.
My favorite time period was around when Photon Shockwave came out and everyone was playing evolsaurs. I know that format was dumb, but it was when I started, so I'm cool with it
I loved to play X-sabers back in the day. That was after Rescue Cat got banned mind you. I think I played it for three or four years, and it just couldn't keep up anymore, so I switched to Yang Zings. That was quite fun but then metalfoes ruined everything with their stunboards. So now I play Lunalights which are really competetive, can nearly always handle 2-3 negations/counters per turn and deal massive damage.
Carsten Svendsen Lunalights are so fun
I remember back when all those was 2 starter decks and a single booster series. back then you loved seeing a monster with 2000 attack points. I mean I love that they are producing all the anime cards now but I wish we could go back to almost battle city style. Where all you had were some monsters that may work well together, possibly a few fusion. but no real archetypes, xyz, or pendulums. I mean I loved the 5ds story arc, but for play I miss when it was simpler.
what I really wish is they would have like in mtg is different leagues some that use vintage, and in vintage would be both your original, and gx style since they are pretty compatible. then a legacy which would be like 5d arc, then a modern for zexal, and a standard for like arc-v. and when you went to play you played in your league
RWBY!! how many of you are looking forward to volume 4?
I hope there are a couple of us looking forward to it. About 10 days already to wait :)
My favorite time was before archetypes took over, when you could have a deck revolve around a certain strategy instead of archetype, so you could go against a deck with your same strategy, but that utilized different cards, as opposed to today's mirror matches where most of the differences are how many of the same card you run.
I have nostalgia for the Qli, BA, and shadoll format
Way back when you and I would play against each other on our lunch breaks!
(And sneak in an extra 15 so often) >:D
My favorite was the 5D's I love using majestic red dragon
Finally someone said it! Great vid GG :)
Synchro Format for me as well, I just miss when there is only 1 Heavy Storm, Mystical Space Typhoon, Mirror Force and Raigeki and Darkhole is Forbidden..
I liked doll format!
Also nice RWBY shirt. Season 4 HYPE
The days right before Envoy of the End was released. These were the days...sighh
In this days cards stayed on the field longer. Graveyard actually felt like a grave.
love the shirt
2002 Format raging from the 1st ever tcg competetiv format to Pharaoh's Servant
GalacticGod ready for volume 4 of rwby?
and sorry it keeps making me break this comment into different ones, but can someone explain how pendulums slipped into a standard format where things like monster reborn and premature burial are deemed too powerful of cards for a tournament game?
Gateway Sam's format!!!
what format was around when you got in. I Started at between the end of Synchros and when xyz where a new thing.
Woot! RWBY!!!! Also... maybe first?!?
Nope. Just missed it.
I miss running my Neckroz deck 😍😍😍
I quit yugioh when Links occurred. I loved to play burning Abyss and Minerva Turbo..
When it comes to way older formats I think at September 2007 till late 2008. I loved Perfect Circle, DDT, DAD in the variety of versions, Lightsworn, Zombie Lightsworn Cat Synchro and Edison of course!
Nice shirt man
wow RWBY :)
I'm not really sure which time period I would like to experience again though.
RWBY is great!!!!
i love the og og the original is the best for me i will always love it
I miss the gravekeeper format.
digging that rwby shirt XD
:)
I miss nekroz format. I main deck triple rivalry in blackwings and shook their hand gg.
Majestic Silver hair :P
what happened to your big huge case opening!?
I do wonder what is up with people who want goat control, teledad, or spellbooks back. Goat control was one of the most boring and frustrating formats ever.
Personally, my favorite format so far was the end of the Duel Terminal era. Just as pendulums were released and Nekroz were hit with a couple of limits/forbiddens, we entered into a format that was beautiful. Though Nekros was "top" the fact was that everything seemed like it could compete. You had tellarknights, igknights, burning abyss (pre-beatrice), shaddolls, infernoids, ritual beasts, mermails, evilswarm, qliphorts, the beginnings of kozmo, and plenty of rogue decks that would pop up now and again.
Then the November 2015 list hit basically everything, and followed that up with full power PePe, a deck so strong they had to enact an emergency banlist just to stop everyone from running only PePe. Seriously: Plushfire, Damage Juggler, Skullcrobat, Monkeyboard, and Luster all had to be hit just so other decks could play.
Penguins, it was a much simpler time.
Hi Galactic God! :) you don't Buy The legendary deck 2?
+GalacticGod
Those 20 years of ygo are forever :)
Btw what's wrong with your hair?
I miss the beggining of the xyz era
It was a fun time.
Hey galactic god I just watch your video and I like the evolution of game grows higher up.
There from the future 🥲
I miss the chaos sworn format :(
the Nekroz era was lit
or the one right before that
Pls help
What are the top 3
Structure decks to buy
You guys would recommend buying the most ?
In my opinion most funny one is Synchron Extreme, but it can't stand against top tier decks, and you get only 4 extra deck cards. You must find Shooting Quasar Dragon, T.G. Hyper Librarian and Formula Synchron.
Emperor of Darkness is powerful but it's gameplay is very simple. You get all cards you need except Mega Monarchs and Kuraz.
Upcoming Yugi Muto Structure Deck and Pendulum Domination looks awesome.
Y Demirag im very thankful and got 1 more question whats your nationality? Turkish?
Yes, I'm Turkish.
Y Demirag ah tmm tesekkür ederim:) nerelisin ?
Antalya'lıyım, Antalya'da oturuyorum.
can I buy a shooting star dragon tin from you
I miss Pepe format lmao the cancer was awesome.
I honestly don't have a favorite time period for Yugioh. Mostly because I really enjoyed all of them. But, because I run a Cyber Dragon, mostly because of the anime, I will say that the GX time period holds a special place in my hearts.
I miss the 2014 Artifact/Madolche/Hand format so bad... all the top tier decks were so bad ! Fire kings, Artifacts, nerfed Dragon Rulers, nerfed Spellbooks, these were all tier 1, and tier 2 decks such as Gravekeepers or Dark World could beat them >35% of the time !
when level eater didn't exist oh the days 😁
Ruby shirt all the way
I miss wind up format even if it was busted
I did enjoy the format that featured: Wind-Up/Inzector/Dino-Rabbit/E-Hero and others. Very diverse.
Yata lock ! i miss Chaos Emperor Dragon
lol, I loved to Yata Lock someone but hated life when it happened to me, lol
GalacticGod Haha yes XD.
U should c yugioh now in 2020 how it became so trash that it is not the Yu-Gi-Oh we og’s know. I really miss your content your duels and deck builds u r my favorite yugituber of all time, i wish u decide to open this channel someday 😔 . Have a nice time wherever u r.
This is Zed, out.
March 2013 format was so bad I quit the game for a year you played spellbooks or edragons or you lose
2005-2002 erra is the best
Galticgod my local game shop sells original with magic not spell cards labyrinth of nightmare for 3$
nice rwby shirt
shadow specters
In your next vid can you say my name.
first gen toon world
The current format is great so far, but ABC Gnarly Tablesh*tter will probably ruin it
d rulers
First
I am enjoying this format until abc comes out
Nekroz Format
RWBY!!!
honestly man you'd be a much more enjoyable you tuber in you tried to talk with you hands less or eliminate it completely
pepe
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personally i always enjoyed the glad/blackwing Era's but i dont rate it much higher as i remeber it being kinda annoying sometimes ( i still long for the day i remake my main at that time bi-corn mill yes i know i was a noob back then)