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The nord VPN ad was awesome
This is way better than "5% off" at least.
Best nord VPN ad ever
Seriously what's the point of confronting a history of jank deck with a full power infernity archfiend deck?????????
thats new ad cimooo XD
Honestly the best thing about the series is the way MBT sets the stage for both the deckbuilding philosophy of the era along with the trends of the time.
I love their commitment to cataloging whatever time period their in and going into the context for each deck. This and History of Jank feel like the biggest passion projects of all the series.
And he and cimos back and forth is unmatched
Honestly Alex I always skip when you explain your deck, but I never skip Joseph explaining
I think it's weird he didnt go with patrick's list when this list decides to just neuter the skill ceiling of the deck for a SLIGHT buff to consistency
@@falnica cool story bro
"Second Infernity Barrier" has to be one of the funniest highlights from this series so far 😂
wdym it was the first one :)
The "Barrier number two" slip up is surprising to me because, considering how much MBT has to narrate his plays while still keeping it a secret, it's crazy how this doesn't happen MORE
To be fair, it would be obvious from the search, but it was hilarious
3:42 "A card that can negate, as long as you are Hellbent"
For those wondering, Hellbent is an MTG keyword meaning have no cards in hand from one of the Ravnica blocks for the Rakdos (Red + Black) Guild
I play MTG too and i didn't know that. The more you know
I think just saying "handless" would've gotten the point across to the more casual audience too.
MBT uses a myriad of MTG lingo. He often calls the standby phase "upkeep", usually calls the battle phase "combat", hell, even his channel name is a Magic reference, Mono-Blue means an MTG deck that only contains Blue cards and/or Artifacts, and Tron is a strategy in MTG that involves getting 3 specific lands (Urza's Mine, Urza's Powerplant, and Urza's Tower) in play to make a bunch of mana.
@@Carlet_S hellbent sounds cooler lol
@@burningsoul3969 same
That was legit the best Nord VPN ad I’ve ever seen. Like a Super Bowl commercial without the Super Bowl budget
0:35 Cimoooooooo banishes Master Duel to the shadow realm for money (Curse you Cimoooooooo)
2:00 Deck List / Breakdown
12:20 Duels
History of Yu-Gi-Oh! episode wins
Cimoooooooo: 41
MBT: 40
Oh boy. Dragon Ruler format is next. Can't wait to see this deck for the next however many episodes.
Damn, thats WAY closer than I thought.
Probably they will do 2 episodes.
Ruler vs spellbook before September 2013 and ruler ravine post September 2013
Is that for history only or jank too?
IDK, I didn't keep track. Though I'm guessing it's history only
@@edoardovattaioni2508 I don't think that's nearly enough to properly convey what the format was like. Dragon Ruler mirror first, to establish how most games go, then Rulers vs Spell books, and then Rulers vs Evilswarm. Then at least 1 game featuring Ravine Rulers.
For all their talk about "avoiding" this format for as long as possible, I want them to spend at least a month stuck in the dragon trenches, suffering for our enjoyment.
Wild that Infernities literally won Worlds and people are still trashtalking the deck because someone at their locals ages ago set a monster in the backrow zone and scooped when it got MST'd once. The deck's bonkers, there's no denying it.
Just gotta cheat sometimes, you know?
This isn't even full power xyz infernity they are supposed to have multiple soul charges I think they had 3
I mean, it's a meme. Infernities is hell of a scary Deck for sure, cheating or not.
Worlds is a meme event in general because of the banlist.
@@thenightstalker6165 oh definitely full power activating archfiend like 6+ times per turn made it a truly modern style of deck in essence
Love the new promo at the beginning it cracked me up for VPN
Man, Lord of the Tachyon Galaxy sure has been "Right Around The Corner" for a long time now
I wonder how many more times we'll have to listen to that line
Zero
I wish we saw this duel from MBT’s hands to know what kind of hands he drew. If any episode were to change perspectives, this would have been the one to do it. Plus, top deck Archfiend!
props to cimoo for not having a video sponsor for well over a year of these series. could have been runnin em the whole time brotha
He's had quite a few of them actually, this is just the first one that isn't Yu-Gi-Oh related 🤔
The cooking cimoooo was the best one
i don't remember or seen any of em while watching all his series
@@manjoume5178 "If you want 5% off....."
Honestly I remember loving the cooking one mentioned above too, but I couldn't tell you what video it was on. probably like a few months ago though.
Cimoooooo and Mbt you two are just in another level, since you to are just like on the intro two archaeologists showing us viewers how Yu-Gi-Oh! was back from Go´ol LOB to soon the Infamous Era of the Dragon Rulers, like i just love to start the video and hear Joseph say "Let me set the stage for you" i just love History of Yu-Gi-Oh!
That ad was fucking hilarious.
Also, happy birthday. Can't believe we actually have the same one.
If you know your opponent is running Night Beam, you should preemptively activate Abyss Sphere before they have a chance to use Night Beam.
But if they drew mst instead of night beam they can just mst the sphere and stop it. So either way you’re gambling on them having one backrow removal and not the other
I'm kinda looking forward to seeing the dragon ruler video(s) bc while it was a tyrannical year in real time, History is structured in such a way where they can spin their wheels for like 5 episodes in an interesting format like this one or Edison, and then Dragon Ruler format could just be two episodes.
Testament to the galaxy brain structuring
God this episode was so good. This is easily my favorite Cimo series. I love learning about what worked, what didn't, and seeing the decks of the past in action, with context provided by both you and MBT. Great stuff as always!
First off, Happy birthday Alex!!
Second, Nord VPN skit is one of the best ones I've seen you do!
Now... WHERE ARE MY EVILSWARMS???!!!!
They'll probably show up on History of Jank
14:03 cimos face went from 😆 to 😐
To be honest, Infernity is one of my favorite strategies. You can't underestimate the handless combo.
Wtf. The last thing I expected was a Sam Riegel level Nord VPN skit. I'm just delightfully surprised. Well played cimo.
Yoooo when did Cimo hit 300k subscribers!? Congrats! Well earned!
Welcome to this week's episode of:
"Delaying the Inevitable"
Might be some of the most well-made and incorporated ads I've seen on the entirety of RUclips.
This is the best series ! Thank you Cimooo and MBT you guys are awesome and do a great job bringing us all back. This is much appreciated
Mermail pops again when Soul Charge comes out. Hoban tops a YCS and an ARGCS with it and it had a decent showing at Euros 2014.
The January 2014 format is called FireWater because Mermails and Fire Fists were the best decks of the format
They were top tier before soul charge, actually. Fire vs Water format, mermail vs fire fist between the second DRuler format and soul charge release. After soul charge gets released, there's a ton of viable decks: Mythic rulers, Sylvans, H.A.T, Geargia, Lightsworn, Infernity, and yes, Mermails still. They didn't do "decent" at EU nats 2014, they won the event lol.
Not sure what Cimo is talking about, he probably doesn't remember that era. But I'm assuming once he does some research he will realise that if this series is to be accurate, we'll be seeing a lot of mermail still
I wasn't prepared for a full skit for the Nord VPN ad but i have to say, I'm a big fan
"Strap yourselves in, anything is possible! Welcome, to the History of -YuGiOh- Dragon Rulers!"
This was a phenomenal episode and I cant wait for next week where we finally get to see the Lord of The Tachyon Galaxy come into play. Plus Dragon Rulers are one of my favourite archetypes in YuGiOh along side Dragunity, Mekk-Knights just to name o few. So I'm looking forward to them taking the stage.
Brave opinion
Personally I'm looking forward to Spell books. Mostly because I've never actually seen Judgement played in a game. Since I've seen what the Rulers can do I want to, at least once, see the card that could match the power of that whole arktype on its own.
As much as I hated DRuler, I am still excited to see it in here.
Maybe they could Jank Chain Beat later (my deck during that time)
I love just how much you've avoided playing dragon rulers, despite you not doing near the same level of desperation for any of the past ridiculous formats. (Looking at you, Tele-DAD).
As much as they meme on about wanting to delay dragon rulers I'm pretty sure they're just trying to showcase a genuinely interesting format with a varied bunch of competent archetypes with fairly modern designs and cool play styles. There wasn't as much to miss from whatever cringe GX formats preceded DAD.
Oh, definitely. And I'm honestly loving this format, it feels like the Xyz Edison format. The presentation of it as "We're doing everything we can to avoid dragon rulers" is hilarious, though.
That was an amazing sponser intro 🤣
Anyway I'm so happy Infernity made an appearence. I used to play the absolute hell out of that deck even after Lavaval Chain got hit, though mine was synchro
Infernity is so much worse when you can't set monsters in the s/t zones
Yeah, not till Artifacts anyway. I still wonder how many people got away with it at Tournaments...
Say what lol
@@ShadowReignhart ppl was cheating like that? Lol wtf
It was more common in the Synchro version because that one played way too many monsters.
@@robertoguzman7619 yeah it’s a whole thing actually. I had one person who scooped the game when I popped one of his 3 back row on like turn 3 so I figure he had monsters set
Continuing the saga of "We should be doing Dragon Rulers but we're looking for any excuse not to do Dragon Rulers" I see. Ah well, I'm still all in regardless~
Turn 1 for Infernity should have done archfiend and greph for laval dump styian special arch search arch stygian for arch search nexromanxer make another laval dump stygian and that’s full combo plus otk with what you get from there as you have full set up
So I used to play infernity since it came out until it got ban hammered to hell after that bogus world's where they just combined the tcg and ocg ban lists, leaving literally only infernity at such a high power level. It was my favorite deck and I can honestly tell you that assuming you didn't brick, you could either ok that turn or completely lock out your opponents next turn. It's actually a surprising hard deck to pilot at that time because mermaid was everywhere and a good player would know how to stack the chain to get around barrier with ease, meaning as the infernity player you would have to make weird plays like leaving necromancer in attack just to not lose the ability to activate barrier. That third game was infernity to win a long as he didn't forget that lavalval into stygian dump after search was a common way to extend plays over and over
So satisfying to play it properly though :D
@@evilleprachaun8cake it really was. When I would lend my deck to people, they would end up with one or 2 searches less or leave themselves in a situation where normal summoning something to get over archfiend was enough to break the board state
Cimo forgetting about Breakthrough Skill's gy effect, who would've thought?
Yoooooooo these are my kinda decks. I actually rotated through both of these and attempting to force Brofist at this time period.
18:22 - "go ahead and rail me" 😳😳😳😳
The only reason I'm excited for Dragon Rulers, is to see number 96. What a glorious 2 hours that was.
with lord of the tachyon galaxy and the all mighty dragon ruler right around the corner the 2013format lasted weirdly never ended and we kept playing it till today.
Should play a hypothetical format, Dragon Rulers but all the rulers and babies are banned.
Very enjoyable episode! But oh boy now it is time to watch the literally history of YGO change forever with no turning back
Pretty sure January 2014 format was known as Fire vs. Water format because Fire Fist and Mermail were the best decks
I was worried the sponsor skit would make me cringe a bit, but it was actually quite nicely done.
This was the best NordVPN ad I've ever seen
love the comercial best intro in a while
I don't believe Infantry triggers off of a discard from a monster who's effect activation was negated because the gamestate doesn't recognize that it was sent by the activation of water monster effect because the effect was never officially activated
What was with that product placement lol. This might be the first time ever I didn’t skip a product placement in a video haha
Normally MBT has some meme sleeves. But you can tell the kid gloves are off as he rolls up with some stylish Kalin sleeves. *chef's kiss*
3:43 "Hellbent"? What kind of Magic: The Gathering lingo is this, next you'll tell me MBT's name is some kinda M:TG term.
0:36 wait what?! what is this? a sponsorship sketch?
1:55 MBT's Deck: Infernity Xyz 7:06 Cimooo's Deck: Mermail
11:07 Game 1
17:19 Game 2
25:00 Game 3
*YESSSSS* my favourite deck ever
my phone is dying and the power is going out so I better watch while I can
at 4:35 MBT mentions "modern deck building philosophy". I'd love to heard more about that in the future - what exactly is "modern deckbuilding philosophy"? How have decks changed? (Could be a good video idea if others are interested?)
Decks today aren't focused on tech choices and max out on consistency cards, the 28 monster mermail list is an example of that as well as this infernity list which isn't bloated on unnecessary monsters like the synchro one so it can actually make plays
Decks used to run a lot more staple cards back in the day, even when that stopped being necessary, for example tour guide + sangan even after sangan wouldn't trigger by being detached from an xyz monster, because you could occasionally get value by leaving him on the field
0:37 damn, that 1 second tune made me remember BunsGlazing.
I ran monster gate in this deck. Using lavalval chain to place infernity archfiend on the top of the deck, i dont need to wait the next turn to draw it.
Monster gate would tribute lavalval chain and reveal archfiend and summon it, starting the combo.
0:37 The sponsorship bits are godlike.
F***, gotta give credits to your commercial about NordVPN 😂😂😂 hilarious! hahahaha those matrix vibes are real 🥹
love the md segment. aged like a fine wine with the new ishizu cards.
I think maybe Cimo should have chosen to go 2nd with that deck, going first he wasn't able to do anything but get out Gachi, and doing so pretty much wasted Diva. If he had gone 2nd he may have been able to attack things if he got through the negates.
But then he would have to deal with barriers
To this day infernities and cloudians are in my most favourite decks
That ad had Internet Historian At Home energy, and I love it
At 29:05 @cimoooooooo this is where you summon turge, send gunde ass back linde. Gunde special pike and pike discard marksman and then search gunde and now you have an extra 4 on board
"why is your name in the link?"
you've activated my trap card!
That Archfiend draw is peak infernity experience.
Hoping to see Evilswarms come up soon. They where a good contender against Prophecy, Mermail, infernity, and Dragon Rulers back then. There was a time where Evilswarms did top YCS events between 2013-2014.
Abyssmegalo brings back some good memories, I pulled one when it was selling for around $100 and I traded it for 3 red eyes wyverns, $20, and a pack of cigarettes (I was 17)
Times like these are I’m glad I live in a world where twin twister has been out for years
That ad had me crying. Throwing some mad shade at Konami.
Oh man. I can't wait to break out My playsets of Drag Rulers next week❤️
If I didn’t have already a vpn That ad would have got me! One of the best ads Ive ever seen
The ad was genius!!
Got me laughing so much!!!!
As an infernity user...I love the Kalin sleeves lmao
Game 2 and 3 exemplify why Undine was important to Mermail, if he'd opened it that would've been immediate access to Megalo and a discard outlet for a hand full of atlanteans. Allows you to cut down on megalo and the atlanteans themselves, allowing more functionality your deck
The VPN commercial was A1. 🤣👌
If only I can give an extra thumbs up for that sponsor segment
Now that we’re apparently on the verge of a tier 0 format with splight come August, I’m feeling this “delaying the inevitable destruction of the format” even more than before
What's worse:
Living in a Tier 0 format, but you play the deck that is Tier 0 because you genuinely like it, so everyone hates you for it
Or
Be sacked out of a tournament in a Tier 0 format for not playing the tier 0 deck or its hard counters
Definitely the second one. Getting crushed by tier zero is awful ESPECIALLY if the only reason you aren't playing it is because you actually can't afford it.
It still baffles me that the Dragon Ruler format isn't a tier 0 format only because technically Spellbooks was just as oppressive and represented in the tournaments of the time (which is bogus because that should just mean both were tier 0 decks, either one would have absolutely dominated the meta without the other...)
@@homerman76 the term is "Tier 0.5". It refers to 2-deck formats.
Also, didn't the Dragon Rulers stay at the top after Judgment got banned?
@@yusheitslv100 yeah for like 10 minutes.
Really not sure why the hate for dragon rulers. Both the formats they were in were really skillful and fun imo
They have said exactly the same thing. They wanted to portrait the variety of the format pre LTGY tho. Of course LTGY introduced some other good stuff besides Rulers, but I understand their feeling.
mermail is still v good in ruler format (esp post the first banlist), r7 focus initially and also the rank 4 version focussed on looping pike and turge with gunde (and doing so during the dmg step was so so good)
Very happy to see Infernity in this series again.
"Alright buddy, go ahead and rail me" - Cimo
yay im going to medowlands this weekend for an anime convention
The day that Chain, or the timeline that it does, XYZ Infernity just comes back in full swing.
at first i was very confused, but that nord ad was pretty dope
Def got me dying with the nord ad lol
Happy birthday Alex
Xyz Infernity represent! That deck was stupidly consistent, even a hand of four monsters could end on full combo board. 'Twas my deck at the time! Almost held my own after taking the Maxx "C" challenge against Dragon Rulers.
that was such a sick sponsorship segment
I appreciate MBT's hellbent reference. Shout to all my fellow MTG players! It is truly the superior game!
I forget how legendary Patrick Hoban was back in the days. He's like the Pegasus of the scene.
I only remember him for not siding out djinn. Not cool, dude.
that intro tho great job as always
Lol. "Curse you Cimooooo". Is the new character Dark Cimooooo? Maybe Dimooooo?
I'm kind of mixed on dragging out the time period before dragon rulers. Part of me is thinking, "Just do it already", but then again I'm down for any excuse that gets us more games.
I cant look at Lavalval Chain the same way after those Puppet Show shorts (rip).
A shame he is stuck in ban camp forever barring an errata.
A better first turn diva play would be to get an infantry, which grants a second normal summon and then summon pike to improve the hand. Then either make a level 8 synchro or dewloren to bounce the diva for next turn.
For the mermail mirror you could even make armory arm with diva and infantry, and then dweller with pike. Wouldn't even be bad against infernity, as dweller would be 2200 thanks to pike and would stop street patrol.
Funny enough, Mermail is actually one of those decks that I hate even more than Dragon Ruler (which honestly I don't hate that much, dislike Spellbooks more,) mostly because I had one person I'd duel at school who always had everything he needed to obliterate my entire field every single time 😑. My experiences with deck is what makes watching Mermail brick and get owned both satisfying and confusing 😂
I personally look forward to Infernity Randomizer.
I mean with Summoner Monk upstart is amazing naturally lol
Let me translate the title for everyone:
YOU CAN'T FORCE US TO PLAY ELEMENTAL DRAGONS!!!!!!
Until next week
@@DeviousHands Nah, it'll be another filler ;)
Ah I remember this deck. Made me get the ultimate night beams 😄