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Jirai Gumo has no downside if you believe in the heart of the cards.
It's not so bad late game either. Sure Dark Elf is less costly most of the time, but after your life points drop to 2000 or bellow then Jirai Gumo actually becomes the better option even on a failed flip.
Jirai Gumo can always attack. You can't divide all the way to zero.
I could hear Joey's voice when I read that
Jirai Gumo was godlike in lategame play. I think there was a HoC vid where they were doing Critter Format and the player with Gumo got down to 395 LP left and still won the game.
Dark Elf in contrast was considered stronger early on.
That's where you're wrong, because I activate MAGIC BOX! Watch as my Dark Magician disappears into the magic box...and swords impale it! But did I skewer my Dark Magician? No it was your spider and my Dark Magician emerges unharmed!
We need more Bistro Butcher because we need to make the Hungry Burger Archetype
Haha imagine a retrain, he could definitely be the decks searcher
@@aaronfulton4826 Super Bistro Butcher. Level 4, 2400. When this card attacks, your opponent draws 2 cards, then add Hamburger Ultimate Recipe to your hand.
@@justinmadrid8712 That would be cool having a burger archetype... like a one card that has burger in its card name :)
@@CardMasterBrian We could add fries too and a big soda.
@@Slayerthecrow A whole fast food theme :D
People used to creature swap Bistro Butcher to their opponent and run into it with recruiters like mystic tomato. Not the most practical interaction but it was an interesting interaction.
Mystic Tomato into Mystic Tomato into Mystic Tomato into Witch is huge, that's draw 8 with a search, spicy old-school exodia tech
TheDuelLogs did a Exodia turbo deck using that exact strategy lol
I actually was about to comment this. Playing back in the day, I actually did this in a few decks xD
I remember doing this. It was a great time.
You could run just 3 Butcher, tons of Nova Summoners, Shining Angels, 1 or 2 UFORoid, 3 of the fire turtle floater, 3 Creature Swap and 3 Shien's Spy and hope for the flashy sacc combo, drawing literally your whole deck. Was trash tier but fun in 1-of duels.
Dezeff: I can't pronounce this card.
Also Dezeff: *Pronounces it perfectly*
Also Dzeef: Zombraya
Continues calling it "the spider"
Also that card is based on a Japanese Youkai of the same name just spelled differently. Basically a spider monster that has a 50-50 chance to eat you or be your loyal spouse. The card is kinda dumb but is also pretty flavorful somehow.
@@clayxros576 spouse you day? Interesting
@@clayxros576 I like those odds.
I loved that manga chapter where a kid was cosplaying as Zombyra to be a hero.
Zombyra's effect is also a clever adaptation of his lore in the manga. In the manga Zombire's lore says that his body rots over time the more he fights evil.
And here I thought zombrya was a summoned skull cosplay
If you played Reshef of Destruction for gba, he will make an appearance when the neo ghouls run over domino city
@@TheDendran Thats true i saw the kid in that game for sure on the gba
@@Chill_Vibes186 Also on a side note: What Sacred Cards had been too easy, Reshef had been to hard.
If they switched the Money and Capacity Gain from both games, they'd both be completely fine
Ahh I remember when “Spell Ruler” was called “Magic Ruler” 😂
💯💯💯💯
Boomer
I feel ya I still have cards with magic card printed on them lol
(regardless of position)
So many of the cards in this video gave me flashbacks to my childhood, when I'd get all excited after seeing 4 stars, high atk on the card... then read the effect...
The worst part of Unfriendly Amazon? That "effect" is a maintenance cost, so Skill Drain, which is useful for many of the other cards on this list, doesn't negate the effect, because it's a cost.
Not to mention, he probably doesn't have any friends. :-(
Also, it's mandatory.
@@MetaKaios Not if you run Solomon's Lawbook :P
Is this for real? I thought Skill Drain basically removes the text entirely, making it a normal monster.
@@kotzpenner Conditions/restrictions and maintenance cost aren't negated by Skill Drain. There are also effects that Skill Drain cannot negate (i.e.: effects that activate in GY like Sangan, or in the hand like Ash Blossoms & Joyous Springs).
If only Doug released this before Cimo and MBT faced off in their recent duel... :3
Joseph said "I don't need Exodia to obliterate you" 😂
The heart of the cards was with him in that duel
Appreciate cimo's read with that though!
It was so hilarious.
Exactly
Fun fact, Goddess of whim's effect is kinda interesting because it doubles it's current attack, not it's original attack. I think the duel logs did a video on it.
She can probably otk
Duel logs Pog
That sounds like the kind of thing that would get abused for an otk in Duel Links
Edit: Nevermind just got to that part of the video, coin flip effect ruins that entirely. Even if it would work for an otk, a deck that performs an otk
@@prismglider5922 um . . there's kind of a duel links skill that gives you 3 heads the first 3 times you flip a coin, though that's mainly used with Desperado Barrel Dragon, duel links has like, shiranui geargia & noble knights now though, & no mechaba invoked , & negateless d/d/d , the game's like, progressed a long way past that kind of classic otk combo with unsearchable cards
Duel Logs did talk about a good sum of these cards more in detail, taking a look in todays world, duel links, and possible gimmick decks it can do. He is pretty good with the information he provides.
I actually used boar soldier in my first deck that I brought to locals. I used it to normal summon, it destroys itself, and then it triggers the effect of one of my meklord emperors in my hand. Definitely one of the smartest plays 9-year-old me ever did.
Now that's how you play yugioh
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Unironic yes tbh. That's a synergy that should be used more often. Except in Dragon Link. Dragon Link can go die
Cute. 😄
Can you remember how many Nuvias were in your deck then?
No Nuvias, just a one off boar soldier to summon my two meklords, my whole deck was one ofs because I didn't have 2 of any good cards
One thing to consider is some of the first sets for the TCG it was mixed from 2 or more OCG sets. I believe if I am correct Bistro Butcher came out while lv 4 or lower monsters max attack was around 1550.
metal riders was a mess of a set
Sounds cool that you better option at the beggining of the game was La Jinn and you other options was 1700 atk monsters like Battle ox or the Mágical Swordman (and Powered Ryu Kishin with 1600 atk)
@@sangan3202 I heard that the strongest lvl 4 in MR was Hitotsu-Me Giant which had 1200 ATK.
@@Imitationistthat was only true for about a couple of months. The first set of cards included monsters with more attack points almost immediately
8:10 Karate Man had a niche use that didn't really come up often in that it can run over wall of illusion, gets bounced by the wall and thus not get destroyed. So if you wanted an out specifically against wall of illusion, this card fit the bill.
And being niche didn't suck so hard with his Warrior-type and RotA being at 3 back then. 😎
"I can't pronounce Jirai Gumo"
"ZOMBRAYA THE DARK"
Most of these monsters: Hey, look at how much ATK I have! There's a cost, though.
Gene-Warped Warwolf: Imagine having a cost lmao. Couldn't be me.
Those 2000 atk normal monsters all have a place in my heart man. I still remember how nice that super rare gene warped looked too
Not an effect monster. Wouldn’t expect a cost but I see your point
Dark Elf w/ Megamorph: Cost? I think you mean combo.
@@clayxros576 I kinda feel dumb for not having noticed this combo in all these 18 years...
2000 atk and no drawback is Alexandria dragon
Speaking of Dark Elf... GAME 3 LOL
You would have to have monster reborn megamorph a monster you can normal and a way to deal with swords
wym by game 3?
@@Westblader The most recent video of cimoooooos series with mbt in that history of yugioh series
Only to top deck the MST. Wow
@@Westblader Cimoo and MBT were both playing old school beatdown, with MBT playing monsters to lower his life points like Dark Elf and Jirai Gumo to fuel megamorph to double his monsters attack points. Cimoo guessed MBT's entire 3 card hand while thinking out loud about how he immediately dies, and despite playing Swords MBT topdecked an MST for a one turn kill. It was absolutely hysterical.
Wow Doug you're going to look really foolish when Flash Assailant Infernities sweep Worlds next year
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it exist?
Poor Dzeeff. This is going to end his career.
They already make it. Its called reverse trap.
I played Flash assailant in infernity back then... i feel stupid now
Give me a monster called "Darker Elf" that has 2000 attack but gives your opponent 1000LP as a cost to attack. Then let me Bad Reaction to Simochi and equip something that gives me extra attacks to OTK
Sounds like Muscle Medic except he packs 2200 ATK.
That would've been way too op in old school yugioh.
I guess in Soul of the Duelist there was a card released called Spell Economics, with the effect to get rid of activation costs for Spell Cards. Would have been nice to have equivalent cards for Monsters and Traps
@@SWAATSFan Ariadne is basically the version for traps, given most of the traps with LP costs are counter traps.
@@SWAATSFan closest thing for traps is for counter traps a monster called Guiding Ariadne removes life point and discard costs for counter trap cards pairs well with the Solom cards and cursed seal of the forbidden spell
Slate Warrior and Spear Dragon: true OGs
I miss my LOD Spear Dragon that got stolen :( Slate Warrior was also quite ahead of its time if you think about it. 1900 ATK and actually reasonably decent effects for the time.
Slate Warrior was a thing of beauty back in the day, finally a 1900 lv 4 with an actually good effect
Skilled Dark Magician was also a 1900 beatstick with a decent effect. You don't have to run DM to play it so it's basically a vanilla.
@@ShiningJudgment666if it got stolen u shoulda called the cops. When a single one of my cards got stolen got that sucker put in jail.
Rare Metal Dragon was one of those cards that were meant to work with another. In this case, Familiar Knight that when it is destroyed both players can summon a level 4 monster from their hand. You were meant to crash Familiar Knight into something and then summon RMD.
Like in the movie
It could also work with flute of summoning dragons.
People like panther warrior because it was used in the manga.
However, in the manga, panther warrior was just a 2000 atk vanilla with no drawbacks, so....
I believe people were willing to take the downside for a 2000 atk monster because overall it took longer to get big monsters on the board making early game damage more essential
Edit: also if you kept beating over your opponents monsters early game they could find it hard to get a good monster out since most high attack cards required a tribute so unless they had removal they could be caught in a bind
And removal wasn't as plentiful. Dark Hole and Raigeki were límited, and other options had significant costs and limitations. That's why cards like Jirai Gumo and Karate Man were really playable, if not the best options: the best way to renove a Big monster was usually a bigger monster.
Agreed. Not only were dark hole and raigaki limited, raigaki was expensive for a long time. The most removal in the early days were man-eater bug, fissure, earth shaker, the above cards, trap hole, mirror force, and tribute to the doomed. Removal was either expensive to the wallet, high cost, or situational.
I used Bistro Butcher in my Mill deck in one of the the GX era DS games. Good times
Title: "These Weren't Balanced At All"
Thumbnail: Dark Elf
Dark Elf in the video: "This is probably one of the most balanced of all of these cards in today's video"
Not to mention occasions where it's "penalty" is actually a feature that makes the card worth playing.
You know as well as I do that Gate Guardian was the perfect beatstick in oldschool YuGiOh.
Maybe, but ultimate blue eyes and senketsu armor and even b.trap hole would destroy it
If you really want to straw man Ultimate Obedient Fiend also best beat stick but with Skill Drain as that card does nothing cause of its effect
Tbf, Gate Guardian is arguably better than Boar Soldier lmfao
@@Sad-Lesbian Probably true. And Gate Guardian was pretty much unplayable and not worth the effort to get out since it requires so much work to get out and for a 3750 ATK beatstick with no effect once summoned.
@@ShiningJudgment666 Really shows you how insane some of these drawbacks are.
Yeah sure, Gate Guardian is absolutely awful but at least you get a big number out of it.
Meanwhile, having 2000 attack means you have to blow yourself up or something
Oh man this brings me back. Like 6 of these cards I used to run in my yugioh deck in middle school. It was warrior tribal and the goal with the deck was to kill enough of my opponents monsters to where I could cheat out a blue eyes to finish them.
I remember one time I saw some kids using zombira the dark,they were convinced that the word "decrease" means "increase" so they kept increasing his attack.
they didn't believe me when I told them the truth.(This happened in greece by the way, the cards are not dubbed at greek).
I'm a little sad that tardy Orc didn't make the list, but we know he missed the bus.
Basically Boar Soldier with fewer downsides and more attack.
Jirai Gumo is legit terrifying in Duelists of the Roses. They also made Panther Warrior and Bistro Butcher useable.
Back in the day, some of my friends were really into just running tons of Goblin Attack Forces, Giant Orcs, and Karate Mans. We were a straightforward bunch
An early Earth aggro deck! Very nice
Dzeef: "You'd have to play without cards in your hand for this card to be competitive"
Kalin: *Laughs in Infernity Inferno*
There's no such thing as a "too long video" from you. I always enjoy listening to your analysis on cards and your videos are perfect to watch while doing work that doesn't require much attention. You're saving my days from boredom!
7:29 As far as I could see, this card came out arround the time another card called Reverse Trap was there. It basically makes every effect that substracts/adds attack/defense do the opposite until the end of the turn, meaning that, with Megamorph, 5 cards in your hand and activating that, you can get the monster to 6k attack, wich is nothing to laugh at.
And yes, I know, the combo is really specific and not really consistant enough to depend on that, but it'd be funny if your opponent is about to win and you summon that monster and do that combo and just attack with a 6k beatstick lmao
I remember that deck in duel links. It was pretty annoying how you would be winning and then the ai just kills you for no reason with reverse trap.
@@kingv-raptor840 Yeah, that's exactly where I got the idea from, but I think that even in the early days of Duel Links we had more resources than the TCG in 2003, so I guess it'd work better there but it would be really hard to successfully pull it off, as you'd need at least two specific cards in the field and five cards in your hand.
I remember playing chainsaw insect and wondering why I lost all the time lol
When I started watching the video I thought, he can't end this series without talking about boar soldier
I got it in my first yugioh set ever, it and a similar card called "nuvia the wicked" once I understood what the effects ment I thought it was a card ment to wait in your hand to be used for ritual summons, it being a 4 star and all, great video man
I recall there being a somewhat interesting type of deck back in the day that featured Dark Elf, Jirai Gumo, Megamorph, and Solemn Judgment (alongside a lot of the usual staples and semi-staples). It was called suicide beatdown, and Megamorph was the glue that held it together. Since Dark Elf, Jirai Gumo, and Solemn Judgment all reduced your own LP, it was relatively easy to manipulate which mode Megamorph would be in, allowing you to get in some really big single hits. I have no idea whether it saw any kind of competitive success, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't, but by the standards of the time, it was a pretty interesting deck idea.
I am playing Tag Force 1 and this is the deck I currently use.
U can just play Dinomorphia
As a kid I felt ripped off when Nuvia the Wicked was in my rare slot.
Ah, Chainsaw insect... Bring back memories of my Ultimate Insect Princess Deck.
The main takeaway for me from this series so far is how much more i like the aesthetic of the older artwork from the first decade of the game. It's not as polished but it just looks better to me, I can't really explain why though.
One of them is background. The bg is simpler, giving us cleaner look to the card, compared to modern card which goes bling-bling
@@archiebellega956 It took me 2 hours to figure out what I was looking at when I saw Doomking Balerdroch
Ah, Jirai Gumo. I actually thought this thing was insane back in that day in age. To be fair, when you're running a high-damage beat-down that's aggressive enough, I found losing 4k life to hit with a 2200 beatstick was actually worth it at that point. The tempo advantage was pretty strong, and I'd often win within a turn or two because of having a solid amount of attack points on the field for no effort, and it's effect didn't nerf it as it went, like the goblin's bending over to take another one, or Zombyra lowering itself down to no longer killing the standard 2k walls. He was a good card.
... At recess. >>; But still. I shall defend this beefy bungas for nostalgia's sake. Probably one of the better over-nerfed big-bois of the set.
It was okay, not straight garbage but would screw you if your opponent had a trap or removal, but if he didn t you could cockblock them even at the cost of lp
5:43
I used to play with this card when I was a kid. The text was in English and I didn't know how to speak or translate English that time, so, used to just normal summon him without applying any effect.
"I know it was a little bit longer, I apologise for that"
(Looks at the Reading Every Normal Monster Video)
Spear dragon was one of my favorites for these kind of cards. 1900 attack and piercing damage but it went to defense mode after attacking and had zero defense. It was fun to use in like 2004
I had a crush on dark elf when I was like 11.
7:00 AH YES THE INFERNITY TECH THAT WILL BRING THEM BACK TO TIER 0
In duel links 2017 the guy who got 1st in the world in a KC cup ran 3 Flash Assailant with a handless balance deck
@@heartman6314 Glad that a ran into another man of culture. DLM is the GOAT
Where is Giant Kozaky ? He is literally the level 4 monster with biggest attack points... and a funny drawback.
So funny, in fact, that back in the day, some people experimented with decks whose entire gimmick was to give monsters like Giant Kozaky and Ameba to the opponent. It was called Swap Burn, because the primary method was to use Creature Swap or Mystic Box. In the case of Giant Kozaky, you would have to Set it so it wouldn't blow up prematurely. I don't think Swap Burn ever saw any notable competitive success, but it was a lot of fun as a casual deck.
@@djkates1916 Swapping The Bistro Butcher was also fun... after you swap him over you attack into it with a Mystic Tomato to draw 2 cards and search out a second tomato and do it again and again and finally pull out Sanagn :)
@@CardMasterBrian why not just get sangan off the first attack?
@@lamarpray5324 more draws.
@@mattcurnell2545 ohhhhhhhhhh I get it cuz you creature swapped it....you attack in to it...ok makes sense now im a dumbass 😭😭😭🤣🤦♂️
Karate Man saw play when he came out. Yeah, there was some good removal, but in equipment decks, you could boost his base ATK to something much better, making him a clear threat and the ability was a nice bonus when the beatdown needed to finish the job.
I remember running a Rare Metal Dragon/Marauding Captain combo back on the playground days. Not really practical in the grand scheme but man it always felt so great to pull off.
Do you have a playlist for these videos? I couldn’t find it
Does anyone remember arsenal bug? I used to play that when I first started lol
I do. My first ever and only real Yu-Gi-Oh-decks are an old dinosaur-deck and an insect-deck which is similarly old.
Good card in battle pack 3
My janky Insect stall/burn deck with Arsenal Bug, Prickle Fairy, Man-Eater Bug, and Atomic Firefly. And...I think those were all the actual Insects for the deck.
Hi, old school player here. Started when the only set was Legend of Blue Eyes and the Yugi/Kaiba starter decks. My first official tournament was the Metal Raiders release, and I stopped not long playing after the great ban hammer of 2003, so old school yugioh is all I've ever really known.
Goblin Attack Force was my absolute jam when it came out. It's power was just too high to deal with for most single cards, so it was actually a good wall in addition to a great monster breaker. When the Envoys introduced the chaos deck, I switched to Giant Orcs, so I'd sacrifice 100 Atk for the sake of using its dark type to fuel the special summon on the envoys. It was very comoetitive for its time, and even earned me a spot in regionals. Unfortunately, my parents weren't supportive, so they wouldn't let me travel to compete in the big tournaments, but I definitely could've done well. Oh well
This was a super cool topic! Keep up the clever ideas dzeeff!!
I don't mind longer videos Doug, so no apology necessary!
Heh both assailant and karate man were meta in duel links at the start 😆
Many of these cards are what I would call "placeholder cards": ards you do not want to play, but have to play, because you don't have anything better, you really need to fill in these last spots in your deck, you already spent your week's allowance on boosters, and you have to duel the king of the playground in 10 minutes.
I actually had Boar Soldier in a deck when i was a kid. I managed to fake out pretending that i put down a 2000 defense face down monster a whopping total of once, and never again. And when i successfully flip summoned it, it still sucked.
Jirai Gumo however was funnily kind of a weird, pseudo defense tool where i used it as a 2200 wall and never attacked with it, making it a surprisingly good defensive tribute fodder in the old days.
I thought Dzeeff would talk about the only Level 4 with the highest ATK: Giant Kozaky
I wish kiddy me had a big brain on Dark Elf and Big-Spider
Flash Assailant was one of the best cards in early Duel Links days. It beat over Jerry Beans man and was just as hard to get over in DEF, since Enemy Controller changing positions was one of the best ways to out high ATK monsters.
The Bistro Butcher that draws your opponent 2 cards with 1800 ATK vs the Chainsaw Insect that draws your opponent 1 card with 2400 ATK.
And then there was Giant Orc, the playground budget version of Goblin Attack Force.
The bistro butcher might be tbe best legal "pot of" card lmao
Great vid! Very nostalgic
I found a binder of Yu-Gi-Oh cards from high school while looking through my old things while visiting my mom today and it turns out several of the cards featured in this video were in this binder. Kinda a fun coincidence.
So basically every monster that went into the Skill Drain deck
Unfriendly Amazon was one of my card crushes when I started the game at 11. I never used it, but it was one of my favourite artworks.
And just to make things more cringe, I shipped her with my Harpie's Brother card.
I remember Dark Elf from when I was a kid. She is so beautiful. I don’t know much about the game, but I loved the art of that card so much.
The best part about Zombyra the Dark is that it's a fusion material of a really nice fusion monster too (Last Warrior from Another Dimension), so after a few attacks you could just tribute him or even fuse him
penguin knight has the best psct of all time
dzeeff do you know the db grinder?
In Duelists of the Roses, you lose 50 LP every time your Dark Elf battles. 1/80th of your starting life points!
Though there are a lot better things you could be doing in DotR
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@@ClovissenpaiDotR ....too real? 😬
I love that Konami made these kinds of cards, they were always the most interesting to me, I feel like you could have added several defensive monsters in this list as well like big shield guardna and destiny hero guardna/defender whatever it's name was, yugioh also experimented with various 4 star high defense monsters with set backs, would like to see you cover some of those
Jesus, I had most of those cards when I was a kid xD
Gumo still seems good. It’s a stall card and even tribute fodder.
This is a really great video. Loving the variety of videos
Fun Fact: Bistro Butcher was actually the first monster card I ever owned.
Great
17:32 how did one of Entoma's weapons get a Yu-Gi-Oh card?
There's also Armor Exe, which was also pretty unplayable.
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Jirai Gumo was an absolute monster in early YGO. The wrong coin flip simply didnt matter if you got tempo back in the day, and could easily be sac'd off for Summoned Skull.
Had a kid at my LGS run a play set and everyone VERY QUICKLY ( next week ) were running sets. Matches became who got JG out first and established their board quicker.
goddess of whim does not say original attack so if you equip axe of despair or megamorph, her attack can be almost 4000, not a good card but better than said in the video
As long as you are trying to be OG... MAGIC Ruler, please. ;)
A weird thing that im getting recommended these videos. But something worth noting about cards that were power crept by another card(s) *in the same set* is that the early TCG sets were actually up to 4, maybe more entire OCG sets because the TCG had to do a LOT of catching up to the OCG's card pool.
At its first printing Goddess of Whim was not once per turn. That was added after some players would declare that they were using the effect constantly until either its ATK was high enough to one-shot the opponent or time ran out
Flash Assailant was a viable rogue deck in the earlier days of Duel Links.
Poor Rhyhorn, can't even be set
Chainsaw insect and destiny hero defender were real mvps back in the day, in my appropriate exodia deck. A pretty great continuous trap card that lets you draw two cards every time your opponent draws a card outside of their draw step.
Waaaaaaay back when, I ran Jirai Gumo and Goblin Attack Force pretty regularly. On a weak or empty board they tended to prompt either removal or setting something in defense mode, especially if it was before the opponent could get their Trap Holes up. Goblin Attack Force, for me at least, was in the same vein as Exiled Force: It was removal in monster form. If these kinds of things survived the next turn they made good tributes for something better, for me it was often Summoned Skull or something like Total Defense Shogun. They didn't have to fit the deck archetype, they just had to be a threat that couldn't be dealt with easily.
I too have been watching Cimo's history of yugioh series
I remember Flash Assailant and Dark Elf, Flash Assailant wasn't that great, unless you wanted to use Infernity's Phantom Hand
There is one interesting thing that no one really mentioned in the comment section: look at almost every monster's Attribute.
Many of them are EARTH monsters.
This had the potential to be used in not just Skill Drain strategies, but also EARTH-related synergies where Gaia Power and other cards have been used to boost attacks even further. This worked both well for the "wall-like" creatures BUT also the reason why Goddess of Whim and Zombyra-like cards were not released in this Attribute: they buff'd the ATK to the point their gimmicks benefitted too much from it.
2005 while CyDra was super dominant already, Gaia + Terraforming was already available ways to set up your own monsters, and with the likes of Rota and Beast/BW support you could utilize some proto-engine within the deck too.
The best part? This could be used ALONGSIDE of some vanilla creatures too + Skill Drain. Gemini Elf was a key card here, but so was Gigantes which worked well with or even without Skill Drain being drawn.
Far from being the best deck, but aside from maybe Gemini Elf, it was super cheap, super accessible, and still was a very fun way to play the game. 90% of the deck can even be run in GOAT format too.
The thing with some of these odd effect monsters, or at least dark elf, jurai gumo, flash assailant you played them as a budget option to tournament pack options, or just to survive till the following turn to tribute for summon skull.
@Dzeeff - You pronounced Jirai Gumo correctly :)
love it when he leaves the bloopers in xD
Great video. Just to add to the discussion, I have to say that:
1. Jirai Gummo might not have been played much, but players who go back to the Metal Raiders (Critter) or Magic Ruler format use this card and have certain success with it, in decks that play 3 Solemn Judgements. Because if you play 3 Solemn Judgements, you are playing a game where Life Points don't matter. And Jirai Gummo can run over any Normal Summoned/Set monster. And not only is the drawback a 50%, but paying half LPs is more important than just paying 1000 LPs as with Dark Elf, if you play 3 Solemn Judgements. But this kind of deck that pays a lot of LPs is the reason why people are playing Cannon Soldier in Critter or MRL format (at least in side).
2. Flash Assailant saw competitive play on Duel Links with skills like pre-nerfed Balance (very early Duel Links formats). Also it has a neat combo with Reverse Trap (boosts ATK instead of decreasing ATK).
3. Chainsaw Insect had a different errata. When it was released, the drawback of drawing one card only triggered when battling a monster. But if it attacked directly, there was no drawback.
I used that spider in a progression series with a friend. It attacks over all the early 2000 def monsters and it can just sit there with 2200 attack defending ur lifepoints too. Really decent card
i remember that my friends and i used most of the cards shown in the video during the breaks at school. so the viedo was a great nostalgia-trip for me. out of the featured monsters my favorite monster was zombyra :). go on with the cool video ideas. no other yugituber i watch makes creative videos like this
Jirai Gumo is decent at stalling until you use it as tribute fodder. Also it's decent later in the game when you have lower life points and paying half isnt as much of a cost
Old Yugioh: You gotta pay the price for power.
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Modern Yugioh: LMAO Lemme just summon a super powerful monster in one turn that is invunerable to most spells.
dont you mean play 50 different cards in the first turn to just win the game.
This is also the reason why i stopped buying new yu gi oh cards it's not fun anymore
Why I don't play against other people, even in duel links. I kind of hate it how OP some decks can be. I made a deck that is Fur Hire and it can kill the other player on the first round if I go second... If not then than the next turn with their special summons and popping effects.
Control decks exist ya know. So do handtraps
@@RinaShinomiyaVal I only duel links. We dont have too many good handtraps right now. I only use kiteroid but its semi limited so yeah.
My brother played a Flash Assailant bomb with Infinate Cards and Reverse Trap. That -400 per card turned into +400 per card, typically on an opponent's attack.
I remember Bistro Butcher giving me trouble in a Yu-Gi-Oh! videogame, strangely enough. I think it was a GBA title. They enemy A.I. would attack me with Bistro Butcher and my hand would get filled rather quickly, forcing me to discard cards rather oftenly... Hey, I didn't day I was good at playing Yu-Gi-Oh! back when I played that game.
Must have been The Eternal Duelist Soul. My favorite yugioh game all time
3:58 Yes, life points don't matter, you could be at zero and still win the duel, surely!
Only if you have Infernity Zero or combine Relay Soul with *THE HEART OF THE CARDS!*
Yu-Gi-Oh is the most unbalanced game ever and anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you an extremely OP card