So, fun fact, this card was supposed to be named Cyber VARI (as in variation), but because of how similar L and R sounds in Japanese, was mistranslated (like Buster Rancher)
Not sure what a Buster Rancher is, but I remember they changed Buster Blader because the original name was Bastard Blader. It had nothing to do with Ls and Rs, this isn't Gojira....
I still hate how Cyber Valley was mistranslated so badly (I believe it was originally 'Cyber Vary', which makes a lot of sense considering it has *various* effects to choose from).
I always say the Valley as more of a grim representation, like something cemetery related. Idk, whenever I hear valley I think that because if Undertaker. So it kinda makes sense to me since he looks like a dead cyber dragon.
I fondly remember how the AI in the DS titles was completely unable to ignore Cyber Vally or use destruction effects on it because those 0 Attack Points just looked too good to be true.
Spirit Reaper was never Meta, but it was Anti-Meta. People would use it for Stall/Mill decks. A Marshmallon, Needleworm or Jar deck will use Spirit Reaper in order to have protection from direct attacks. Karibou was never meta, even though it had received some support cards, but they never finished him - along with the Lvl cards.
@Somerset Belenof It's crazy because DAD-Return was an already expensive deck. Those 2 cards alone ended up costing just as much as the remainder of the entire deck. Even when CCV was reprinted in GLD1, it only managed to cut it's price in half (As it's pull rate was about 1 per 50). Needless to say, it felt damn good shutting down a several thousand dollar deck with budget trash.
@Somerset Belenof At the time, I was playing Six Samurai (As well as Sack Samurai), and Gladiator Beasts. Of course, this was GBs before winning SJC Minneapolis (Which ended up skyrocketing the deck's value). Funny enough, I had all the cards to run DAD return (I think actually twice over) but much rather preferred playing with budget/rouge decks (Or wherever Six Samurai were at that point in the game). Honestly, I've enjoyed Yu-gi-oh throughout all of it's formats. Well, at least until Links were introduced.
@Somerset Belenof I honestly didn't mind synchro format. Heck, I remember playing GB's because I could main Legendary Jujitsu Master, Book of Moon and Compulsory without much of a downside. As the format progressed, I ended up falling in love with Scraps and Six Samurai became insanely busted.
Dimension Fusion made this card overpowered, especially with Machine Dupe. I remember that a few stall decks tried utilizing the combo because what would happen is that you could literally banish it during your opponent's Battle Phase, stop them from attacking you and draw some free extra cards in helping you stall out. There was not really much you could do back then to get around something like that, and you was basically screwed. But there was some other cheeky things you could do to abuse Cyber Valley, but the whole stalling tactic was one of the most common ways Cyber Valley got abused from what I remember.
damn those old decklists got me feeling so nostalgic...feels like a lifetime ago that people were winning SJCs with crush card virus and dimension fusion
I played in Macro Monarch,in combination with D.D Suvivor and D.D Scout Plane you drew 2 cards and your monsters return in the end phase + it was abuseable with D.D.R and Return from D.D.(it was at 1 at the time)
Dear Cap, This is awesome content. You don’t need click bait to get views. Keep up the great views. PS: Do continue to do meta analysis/ what happened series. Even for online events.
Hey I appreciate the love for Cyber Valley, I personally used it in my Cyber Dragon deck it was great as draw power and a shield. Using it with machine duplication is +2 in card economy, summoning the first Valley, dup it, then get two more on the field, and banish 2 for two more cards. Very simple not that flashy, but it did get 4 cards out of your deck and they were good targets for a power bonded Pair Cycroid back then.
Machine Duplication is a very nuts cards. Its a plus 1 and gets the monsters onto the field. its very very fast, even for modern day standards and some decks, like Cyber Dragons, rely on it, for alot of their plays.
Cyber Valley is essentially a Battle Fader that takes up a normal summon but allows you to go hand neutral. Just in that context alone makes it seem good, even by modern standards it could probably be played in a Mystic Mine deck.
Dimension Fusion made this card very powerful, you could also banish it to stop a battle phase and draw 1 card meaning it had some utility on stall decks at the time. The last effect of placing cards from your GY to the top of the deck was there for even more utility despite not being used often due to it's steep cost.
I had no idea you could use Cyber Valley this way... crazy. On top of the history in competitive play puts this card into perspective of how much depth all players put this card to the test time and time again. Wow!
It's Ree-yo Ma-roo-foo-jee. Well, actually I'm not American or person from country who uses English as a main language. I just want to help you to pronounce.
RftDD has been a staple card for me since release, before I had meta deck money I ran a super casual FGD-Return deck that was actually rather consistent and only became better as Dragons with better effects got released. It became Hopeless Dragon and then later Chaos Dragons in the 5ds era.
This content really suits you Cap. You've been around the game long enough that it shows just how first hand the knowledge is. The hard work is appreciated
Man these videos are bringing back so much nostalgia. You should do a video on the top Yugioh Teams of the golden age, I was on Team Untouchable and remember having some dominant performances as well as Team Nexus and some of the other nationally recognized teams
Used this card in my salvo chaos deck back when cold wave was out. Just stall until you have cold wave and salvo and boom you nuke with black rose. Than just beat your opponent down. It was great deck and worked amazingly.
early on it was used primarily for it's first effect. Later on at the end of it's life it was used more as tech for it's second effect with floating monsters or tokens as kind of a dekoichi.
Any video that talks about the accolades of Jerry Wang is a good video. Dude was an underrated deck builder and you can see Valley in a ton of his lists.
Brother Mega capital G can you please bring back the replay videos I miss your commentary on those I really really would enjoy then coming back please please I mean really really please lol??
Its one of my favourite cards of all time! I still play some fun decks with it. Main problem is that it eats up your normal summon and if the opponent can negateit or the card you wanna combo it with, you're just majorly fucked
@@ibrahimraa2248 idk, haven't heard anything on it, but I'm pretty sure it came second in the structure deck voting (they were gonna make first and second into structure decks)
Great video Cap, except I saw your mouse cursor at 3:44 so it's actually trash
I like to imagine that the edit wasn’t the correction of a spelling mistake, but instead the addition of the second half of the sentence.
CapG should embrace and wield the title of Yu-gi-oh Historian. He's so good at it.
More like MegaCapitalGistorian
Totally agree dude.
Chairman of the Yugioh TCG/OCG Museum?
I'm curious. How old is he?
@@mikhielbluemon4213 33 or 34 I think?
So, fun fact, this card was supposed to be named Cyber VARI (as in variation), but because of how similar L and R sounds in Japanese, was mistranslated (like Buster Rancher)
In Italian it's translated as "Cyber Naga", I don't know why... XD
I noticed Zane/Kaiser pronounced it as "Vari" in the sub, but I wasn't sure if it was just that Japanese Engrish.
It's not that L and R sound similar, there just isn't a difference between how they're pronounced. It's the same with B and V.
Not sure what a Buster Rancher is, but I remember they changed Buster Blader because the original name was Bastard Blader. It had nothing to do with Ls and Rs, this isn't Gojira....
@@cinemacynic980 he's saying Buster Rancher is supposed to be Buster Launcher. look at the artwork
I mean, yes. Cyber valley was an amazing card, especially in combination with dimension fusion. Machine dupe cyber valley, win the game.
Ah yes! I loved using in my Cyber decks in the Yugioh DS games.
I still hate how Cyber Valley was mistranslated so badly (I believe it was originally 'Cyber Vary', which makes a lot of sense considering it has *various* effects to choose from).
True
Whhaaaat.
@@yunleung2631 it just makes more sense, that it is mistranslated, since it has NOTHING TO DO WITH A VALLEY
I always say the Valley as more of a grim representation, like something cemetery related. Idk, whenever I hear valley I think that because if Undertaker. So it kinda makes sense to me since he looks like a dead cyber dragon.
@@faizadazene1894 you're right it really looks like a dead cyber dragon
I fondly remember how the AI in the DS titles was completely unable to ignore Cyber Vally or use destruction effects on it because those 0 Attack Points just looked too good to be true.
Yes, the AI was so great. Tribute summon Zaborg with no other monster on the field. Zaborg: *guess I have to die*
Lol that AI made us all feel like champions
normal summoning maiden with eyes of blue was the ultamate power play
@@tubegerm6732
She wasnt out during the DS titles.
On the 3DS you could play her, yes.
But that 3DS game was awful garbage.
@@nophiontrollbringer661 wait that card wasn't released at the same time as white stone of legend?
This was Actually Meta? The story of Spirit Reaper
Spirit Reaper was never Meta, but it was Anti-Meta. People would use it for Stall/Mill decks. A Marshmallon, Needleworm or Jar deck will use Spirit Reaper in order to have protection from direct attacks.
Karibou was never meta, even though it had received some support cards, but they never finished him - along with the Lvl cards.
Video Suggestion: This was meta the story of bull blader
i have like 80 Bull Blader sitting around incase he ever shoots up to like $1.50 like that one format haha
Oh nekroz days lolol
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Newer players will never know the struggle of playing in a tournament and getting paired up against someone with an SJC CCV and Sarc in their deck.
@Somerset Belenof It's crazy because DAD-Return was an already expensive deck. Those 2 cards alone ended up costing just as much as the remainder of the entire deck.
Even when CCV was reprinted in GLD1, it only managed to cut it's price in half (As it's pull rate was about 1 per 50).
Needless to say, it felt damn good shutting down a several thousand dollar deck with budget trash.
@Somerset Belenof At the time, I was playing Six Samurai (As well as Sack Samurai), and Gladiator Beasts. Of course, this was GBs before winning SJC Minneapolis (Which ended up skyrocketing the deck's value).
Funny enough, I had all the cards to run DAD return (I think actually twice over) but much rather preferred playing with budget/rouge decks (Or wherever Six Samurai were at that point in the game).
Honestly, I've enjoyed Yu-gi-oh throughout all of it's formats. Well, at least until Links were introduced.
@Somerset Belenof Yah, Europe also didn't have access to Prisma so it wasn't as powerful as the North American version.
@Somerset Belenof I honestly didn't mind synchro format. Heck, I remember playing GB's because I could main Legendary Jujitsu Master, Book of Moon and Compulsory without much of a downside. As the format progressed, I ended up falling in love with Scraps and Six Samurai became insanely busted.
Phantom Darkness was a busted set back in the day 😂
It’s still busted today. Many of its cards are still being played.
Was that busted i stopped playing YGO cuz of that :)
Dimension Fusion made this card overpowered, especially with Machine Dupe. I remember that a few stall decks tried utilizing the combo because what would happen is that you could literally banish it during your opponent's Battle Phase, stop them from attacking you and draw some free extra cards in helping you stall out. There was not really much you could do back then to get around something like that, and you was basically screwed. But there was some other cheeky things you could do to abuse Cyber Valley, but the whole stalling tactic was one of the most common ways Cyber Valley got abused from what I remember.
damn those old decklists got me feeling so nostalgic...feels like a lifetime ago that people were winning SJCs with crush card virus and dimension fusion
Those decks were very creative and unique.
I played in Macro Monarch,in combination with D.D Suvivor and D.D Scout Plane you drew 2 cards and your monsters return in the end phase + it was abuseable with D.D.R and Return from D.D.(it was at 1 at the time)
Dear Cap,
This is awesome content. You don’t need click bait to get views. Keep up the great views.
PS: Do continue to do meta analysis/ what happened series. Even for online events.
Hey I appreciate the love for Cyber Valley, I personally used it in my Cyber Dragon deck it was great as draw power and a shield. Using it with machine duplication is +2 in card economy, summoning the first Valley, dup it, then get two more on the field, and banish 2 for two more cards. Very simple not that flashy, but it did get 4 cards out of your deck and they were good targets for a power bonded Pair Cycroid back then.
I came back into the game when Cyber Valley was still around, but I believe that it was fading off of the map.
God, that “magical explosion” segment brought back repressed memories 😒
Machine Duplication is a very nuts cards. Its a plus 1 and gets the monsters onto the field. its very very fast, even for modern day standards and some decks, like Cyber Dragons, rely on it, for alot of their plays.
Spyral's abused the card most since there searcher is non HOPT and can revive itself.
That was such a fun prerelease. I ended up with two D.A.D
I recall this era.. some kid would run valley with blowback dragon, dd scout plane and strike ninjas 😪
Seeing Cyber Valley is like seeing Gorz or Trago
Loved, missed, but evoking long buried, forgotten trauma
You’d think if he talks about a single card to that extent he’d at least read out the effect for you.
Unlike Pot of Greed, everyone already knows what Cyber Valley can do 😉
Fck off
@@jimguy8754 no u
Cyber Valley is essentially a Battle Fader that takes up a normal summon but allows you to go hand neutral. Just in that context alone makes it seem good, even by modern standards it could probably be played in a Mystic Mine deck.
A product of its own time. Nothing more, nothing less.
Will it get a retrain?
It’s debatable.
Oh boy takes me back to the macro monarch days
Man i have mny fond memories of cyber valley. Thanks MCG for the nostalgia trip
Dimension Fusion made this card very powerful, you could also banish it to stop a battle phase and draw 1 card meaning it had some utility on stall decks at the time. The last effect of placing cards from your GY to the top of the deck was there for even more utility despite not being used often due to it's steep cost.
Put the playlist to all your capital G shows and all your Yu-Gi-Oh Sunday stories so they can binge watch him
them shining angel crash plays into cyber valley
I had no idea you could use Cyber Valley this way... crazy. On top of the history in competitive play puts this card into perspective of how much depth all players put this card to the test time and time again. Wow!
Zane's Japanese name is pronounced Ree-Oh, not Rai-Oh, he doesn't use Thunders
Yu ree oh
It's Ree-yo Ma-roo-foo-jee. Well, actually I'm not American or person from country who uses English as a main language. I just want to help you to pronounce.
I remember Cyber Valley with RFTDD, that meta was pretty cool
Cyber valley has proved versatility is part of the strategy
It amazes me that Return from the Different Dimension was ever at 3 in Tella-DAD format
RftDD has been a staple card for me since release, before I had meta deck money I ran a super casual FGD-Return deck that was actually rather consistent and only became better as Dragons with better effects got released. It became Hopeless Dragon and then later Chaos Dragons in the 5ds era.
Imma need the source on that Shadow Priestess x Dark Valkariya art
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I forgot about this and i uses to try to squeze 3 in every deck o tried
Amazing video. Can you make this type of video for xx-saber architype
I thought this was gonna be about disk commander
This content really suits you Cap. You've been around the game long enough that it shows just how first hand the knowledge is. The hard work is appreciated
I miss yugioh from 2008
Man these videos are bringing back so much nostalgia. You should do a video on the top Yugioh Teams of the golden age, I was on Team Untouchable and remember having some dominant performances as well as Team Nexus and some of the other nationally recognized teams
Some wild ass builds back in our day cap.
Ah. I remember netdecking Strike Ninja return with DMOC off of Pojo. Fun times.
Easily one of the coolest looking dragons in yugioh gx
Not as cool looking as you
@@CurvyKirby2.- awwww thx bb
i remember bringing this up as a potential video topic on your stream, awesome to see it turn out so well :D
I definitely remember using this card.
Omg i stopped playing around 2009 and i remember all of these formats. Oh man. The feels...
I never forgot Cyber Valley. I always run it in my Cyber Dragons deck.
Man I loved Cyber Valley. Would be cool to get some summon from deck light machine link monster just play with this guy again
I remember playing cyber valley/eatos deck with 3 macro and fissure. A really fun deck
I miss return dad and the days of pcm
As soon as phantom darkness showed up I knew this would be good
Used this card in my salvo chaos deck back when cold wave was out. Just stall until you have cold wave and salvo and boom you nuke with black rose. Than just beat your opponent down. It was great deck and worked amazingly.
early on it was used primarily for it's first effect. Later on at the end of it's life it was used more as tech for it's second effect with floating monsters or tokens as kind of a dekoichi.
the old days 👴
This is quality content 🔥👍🔥
Any Machine Dupe target can never truly be terrible.
OG Orbital 7 & Lillybot: Are we not jokes to you?
Man when cyber dragons had barely any support (talking oh cyber dragon, zwei, proto era) this was my favourite card and I ran 3!
It’s been so long I can’t even remember what stall deck I ran Cyber Valley in but it’s such a good card.
Yo these videos are so well done. Do you have any for goat format?
What is the background music you have going on while talking? Sounds dope. Heard it in a couple of your vids now so I have to know🙏
how ironic is it that i watched this video and 2 hrs later i found this exact card not even looking for it?!
Power Bond + Limiter Removal + Chimeratech OverDragon.
Cyber Valley was extremely Meta.
I remember when I started going back to locals in 2013 if we had leftover space in our decks we’d just stick two or three Cyber Valleys in
I liked valley because it’s either going to put cards into my hand or put a light monster into my yard for bls and eat removal in the process
I used back in the day a set of Cyber Valley in my Laval Quasar deck.
Any video that talks about the accolades of Jerry Wang is a good video. Dude was an underrated deck builder and you can see Valley in a ton of his lists.
Future Videos:
Story of plant synchro
Story reborn tengu
Cap G. Yugioh's chronicler.
Great stuff man !! This definitely took me back.
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I loved Cyber Valley. I knew it had potential
Oh man cyber valley machine dup was my jam back in the day
Hard to imagine. Even the Cydra decks in Duel Links don’t use it.
9:19 Rescue Cat? What's a card from Paradox-Billiards-Vostroyan-Roulette-Fourth Dimensional-Hypercube-Chess-Strip Poker doing here?
We need a fire wall dragon yugioh history story the first yugioh main Protagonist monster that was banned
As someone who played the shit version of Heroes back then,
Cyber Valley was indeed a powerful sleeper.
Fun fact:Cyber Valley was nerfed from its anime version.
Now i know why alot of people wanted my Cyber Valley when i got it from booster, i was starting playing YGO those days 😂
Request on next video of This Was Actually Meta? Overdrive Teleporter
Man these are damn good. Love kicking back reliving the history of the game.
I'd still love to figure out the best ways to use this card in an online for fun Nemeses deck.
I remmeber using hopeless dragon in 2010 against a friend with cyber dragon... cyber valley got him the win everytime
Damn this brings back the memories. Yugioh in its prime
You can draw so many cards and protect yourself. 5/5 GX good
Poyed a lot of Dimond Dude Turbo oder CyberVally Turbo with DMoC 🔥❤️
I played it in macro monarch and I remember It being use in NET. It was a very good card back then.
Loving all these new videos Cap, keep it up
Cyber Valley was extremely meta, and those who didn't know that, were too young to even know about Twilight decks.
DAD was at 160€ on ebay. Crazy shit
I use a Cyber Valley in my Banifish deck.
Brother Mega capital G can you please bring back the replay videos I miss your commentary on those I really really would enjoy then coming back please please I mean really really please lol??
You should make about story of aqua dolphin story. From trash to hero.
The 20 dislikes are from people salty that valley is too slow for today's format.
Remember when getting a 5 star or higher monster out on turn 1 was a big deal?
It was also played in Salvo Dad
thanks ye i knew about this card but imma test it out in galaxy eyes to see if it works with photon sanctuary
Its one of my favourite cards of all time! I still play some fun decks with it.
Main problem is that it eats up your normal summon and if the opponent can negateit or the card you wanna combo it with, you're just majorly fucked
imagine we get a Cyber valley retrain in the cyber style structure deck!!!!!! KONAMI MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!
When is the cyber style structure deck going to come out ?
@@ibrahimraa2248 idk, haven't heard anything on it, but I'm pretty sure it came second in the structure deck voting (they were gonna make first and second into structure decks)
cyber valley is an awesome card !! literally a perfect utility
Before it appear in a structure deck it was a secret rare correct