My friend had the card Snatch and Steal, and he actually took the kids card

Remember when somebody fusion summoning was like the second coming of Jesus ?!

“-and if you have no cards in your hand.” *Puts cards on the table*

“The middle-school meta” is a fantastic concept

My most OP card was a japanese black magician of chaos that i convinced everyone had a secret effect that made it immune to everything

I dominated my school because i negated everything with my MST, those noobs never saw it coming Wait what do you mean MST doesn't negate?

interesting thing about Tornado Wall is my buddy had a misprint version which said something like, "any damage to your life points is reduced to 0." So there was LITERALLY no way to do damage while that card was up. That shit was a nightmare. Also DNA Surgery and Insect Barrier, we used that a lot

Kid-yu-gi-oh was amazing, it was just 1800/1900 atk with buff cards hahaha

I remember using la jinn to wish to win the duel

mystic clown was OP, he was the first armades in the game because his flavour text said "nothing can stop the attack of this powerful creature"

We had the illegal god cards. Since there was no effect, we assumed they were immune to all effects. We also thought slifer had 10K ATK bc it was X000.

You forgot fake exodia and god cards, those things were everywhere.

I remember Dark Hole was a must have card back then. The kids usually didn't care about banned cards and Dark Hole was an easy way to destroy your friend's most powerful monster in one turn. And then the follow up card to use was Monster Reborn. XD

He had Tornado Wall, but I had the almighty Jinzo. I love Jinzo.

My Labyrinth Wall has the anime effect where the enemy had to walk through a maze Id draw lmao

The rich kid from number one was Kaiba, no doubt.

The worst card ? Deck destruction virus. In english. In a french school. Nobody could read the card, but we all watched the anime, so we used (our understanding of) the anime effect : you use it, your opponent send every single 1500+ monster from their deck to their graveyard. Oh, and Blue-eyes of course, when everybody thought "summon big guy, win", it was seen as the biggest beast, one kid had four of them, everybody tried to be his friend to get one.

I played at school during GX era with a complete Elemental Hero deck. That was amazing. Man, can I be a kid again?

We always thought destroying negates

For me, Summon Skull was OP. Only required 1 tribute to summon a 2500 beater while Dark Magician and Blue Eyes White Dragon required 2 tributes. De-Spell was also good. In those days, you could play spell cards straight from the hand during any players turn and De-Spell would negate it. I knew this one kid who had all 5 pieces of Exodia, so that was pretty dope.

I'm old so my "synergy" and "meta" was simple. Axe of despair x3 + any 1800atk monster. with hyabusa knight and jinzo to back it up... gg

Lol, Ultimate Obedient Fiend. That takes me back.

Probably my weirdest/dumbest experiences when playing Yugioh was with 2 cards. The Wicked Dreadroot and "Share the Pain" spell card. We thought it be a cool idea to play a "shadow game" like they did in the anime and what this meant was when someone took battle damage, someone next to us would punch us in the arm and intensity depended on how much damage we took. Using this logic, when my friend played "Share the Pain" he actually physically punched us really hard in the arm and he told us to punch him really hard too on his arm and then he'd use the effect like normal. The next is the Wicked Dreadroot and what happened here is that we didn't understand the diff between "Halve" and "Have". We thought it was a printing mistake. The person with this card would then take all the attack and def of a card and do *whatever he wanted with it*. He would either use it to increase Dreadroot's attack and def points, gain life points equal to the total, or some other obscured thing. This, of course, more times than not lead to a instant victory when dreadroot was summoned. Good times.

you should run at least 3 man eater bugs

Kids weren't allowed to just run wild on the internet and look up decks and combos back in the early 2000s like they do today. We had to read the off brand yugioh magazines while our parents were in the checkout line to get our yugioh news and strategies lol also everyone used to just switch goblin attack force to atk mode at the end of their next turn lol

MST used to negate...

Played Blue Eyes White Dragon, and when it came to my friend's turn, he played kuriboh in attack position. He then executed an EPIC PLAY, swapping my BLWD for his Kuriboh using SOUL EXCHANGE, and then attacked. Well, joke was on HIM, because I used Kuriboh's effect to nullify that attack, which - amusingly - resulted in him complimenting my good play. epic playground yugioh moments

My impenetrable defence was always Labyrinth Wall

Ekibyo drakmord was seriously so broken. It would just kill every monster and seemed so powerful.

I SUMMON BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON, GOOOOO WHITE LIGHTNING ATTACK Aaaaaand the whole room is staring at you

I remember when I was in school there was a time when all my friends and I interpreted 0 defence points as "infinite", and thus using Dragon Zombie with Ring of Magnetism was an unkillable combo. We were not clever.

Sometimes people would draw another card because they felt “the heart of the cards”

Mirror force was such a pain card back then.

Gravity Bind or Level Limit Area B... oh god lol

Were we the only ones who used Sakuretsu armor becaused we thought it negates the attack? Man, everyone of us had like 3 of them in their decks... it was so annoying

Boosters suck now. Random cards was WAY more fun.

I remember summoning all ojamas and convincing my friend that I won 😂😂😂

3 words...Scrap Iron Scarecrow!

Fondest memories, Kids using those fake cards with no Yu-Gi-Oh trademark, Man Eater bug spam, 100 card + decks, Playing fusion monsters for free, No tribute summing, Not paying 2000lp for mirror wall because Mai didn't do that, People either hated Kaiba or loved him there was no in between, Red Eyes Black dragon was only used just because it was a cooler blue eyes, Jar of greed spam with graceful Charity's, Mirror force was king, Solorflare dragon+ solorflare dragon+ solorflare dragon+solorflare dragon+solorflare dragon, Toon World was actually shit, Everyone had relinqushed, What the hell is Obnoxious Celtic guardian, God cards were shit, Wtf I gotta tribute summon my blue eyes now, Monster reborn was so over used that nobody realized how broken it was until it was banned years after I stopped playing, Mai was fap material, We all wanted Joey to win, Battle City arc was mind-blowing when first aired, Did miss anything?

Trending in middle school rn is weed and alcohol.

In middle school, my biggest problem I had was my friend having gravity bind. My deck had lvl 4 monsters with tributes and equip and very little to get rid of it His deck had monsters lvl 3 or lower and monsters that were able to attack me directly I remembered I had to buy strong lvl 3 monster to beat him and that's when I learned that having a variety of cards is useful lol

boi, penguin soldier

I remember me and my brother used to play with these decks made mostly from cards that our uncle gave us when he stopped playing and for some reason a lot of the cards he gave us were just normal monsters, front row removal, and counter traps. Most duels went like this: Brother: *Summons Koumori Dragon and sets card in back row.* Me: *Summons Harpy Lady and sets card in back row.* Brother: *Attacks harpie with dragon.* Me: *Activates Mirror Force.* Brother: *Glares at me angrily and ends his turn* Me: *Tributes harpie to summon Amphibian Beast and attacks directly.* Brother: *Activates Negate Attack.* Me: *Ends turn but feels totally fine because at least he didn't destroy it.* Brother: *Activates Hammer shot.* Duels usually ended whenever somebody's Blue Eyes White Dragon got nuked and they got mad and quit because it took them so long to get it onto the field. I'm glad we eventually got our own structure decks so we could actually play the game.

Man, this video made me so nostalgic. I'm a little older. I was in high school when yugioh first came out. I don't play anymore. I grabbed a video game a few years back and learned about all the new summoning mechanics and put together some fun new decks that had a measure of success online but this made me miss my oldschool beat down deck....

this is nothing, we made up our own rules based on the art.

This is a video that goes above and beyond

"That kid" from everyone's schoolyard YGO days must have grown up to be a lawyer.

I hoodwinked my whole Middle school yugioh group into thinking reverse traps reverse everything.

the problem was not "Space Tyhpoon was at one" ... MST was a ULTRA RARE when i started playing... and even getting a SUPER rare was hard xD so you hyped every reprint which was made. When MST FINALLY was a common most kids could finally use a backrow removal. So you basically had 3 Trap hole (where in starter), Dark Hole (Starter), Monster Reborn (Starter), Waboku (Starter) and Pot of Greed (just a rare) that where the cards everyone used and where considered good :D for a llooooong time btw: i started with LOB (i was 17 at that time) so we "older" players had constant discussions with kids watching the anime "no you have to tribute summon your Dark Magician"... "No you can't use Monster Reborn in my turn" ... "no your Dark magician does not instant kill Blue Eyes".....

Back when people used Infinite Cards and Wave Motion Cannon. I remember my friends and I loved Revival Jam in the anime and were all so disappointed with the Revival Jam we got when it came out.

I remember one guy who convinced the others that all effects on monsters are optional, even drawbacks. So yeah.

Ultimate Obedient Fiend looks pretty cool. Pity the restrictions make it almost unusable.

What about Ordeal of a traveler? FUCK THAT CARD. A friend of mine used to play a Rock deck back when we were kids and he had Neo-spacian grandmole, guardian sphinx, multiple copies of ordeal of a traveler and compulsory evacuation device AND the fucking ekybio drakmord in his deck. He bounced back in the hand everything you got

Back when a 3000 atk normal monster on the field was almost impossible to defeat... both on the show and i.r.l !! Now... "sigh"

Goblin Attack Force, Jinzo and Imperial Order

My classmate summons "Darkly Big Rabbi" on the first turn: _I summon Exodia. You just lost._ Me: _How could you draw him so fast?_ My classmate: _Sorry, but you are too weak..._

When everyone kept tributing from the hand... Oh boy did I have a headache

in highschool i had to convince a friend that mst doesnt negate, and this took longer then you might think

When I got three Ancient Gear Golems I felt like when I walked through school I was invincible

I wish I had stories like these about playing Yu-Gi-Oh with my friends... Wait, strike that. I wish I had friends to play Yu-Gi-Oh with.

we used to think in elementary school, that the number of turns you´ve played equals the number of normal summons you could do per turn ... ohh and we used to instantly draw 5 new cards when we had no cards in hand loved our rules :D

i remember back in the early early GX era i got a starter deck and a few booster packs for my birthday, and inside was armed dragon 3, 5 and 7, and god damn did i ruin some days with that deck, it was just filled with a bunch of flying kamakiri #1, some really random ass dragons, and the armed dragons, with some random spells dropped in, i owned a single copy of "level up!", which usually got me to armed dragon 5, which in turn let me go into 7 rather easily, and then equip a dragon shield (only one in the entire deck of that as well), and i was unbeatable, armed dragon Lv7 will always have a place in my heart because of that

When I was in elementary school, wave motion cannon was so good for me that I won duels instantly with it. 1 card otk.

I had Seal of Orichalcos and when I drew it, it was an insta lose for opponent.

When me and my brother got REALLY into yugioh and we started buying cards, our first time we bought a WHOLE LOT of packs. We got the Legendary Binder or whatever it was with the three god cards on the front and the main protaganists ace monsters inside along with a bunch of older packs in it and for our first duel, we decided to make a deck using all of the cards from these packs without looking at any of them beforehand. Our decks must have been somewhere between 100-200 cards. But we were each half way into our decks and I was in a tight spot. My brother just got rid of my Great Maju Gazaret with 6000ATK I got for tributing my Blue-eyes, which was wrecking his field just a few turns ago. Now I had nothing. I was looking down I believe my Brother's Blue-eyes and Red-Eyes + 1 other big beater monster that I believed was a beast of some sort. I was about to lose the next turn. I needed the greatest top-deck of my pre-puberty life. I draw, ... and got a weird high level card with a long name and amazing attack points. However, after reading it's effect, I thought I was still screwed b/c of his "expensive" summoning conditions. But I searched my graveyard anyway, just hoping that I had what I needed. But the only Dark Attribute I remember playing is Maju Gazaret and my only light so far was blue-e ... "OMG I CAN DO IT!" I top-decked the redicuously rare and powerful Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning. You know, the guy who was banned at tournaments for years for just being him. I mean I didn't know that at the time, but Black Luster easily won me that game afterwards. Didn't help though we read his second effect wrong. We just assumed that as long as he attacked a monster he could attack again immedeately, not just twice! This allowed for some amazingly cheaty board-wipes. Black Luster instantly became my favorite card ever and was the sole reason I only ran Darks and Lights in my deck.

When I started playing the most broken card was ritual raven.

Thanks for taking me back bro. I feel you were actually right about ALOT of these.. it's so funny how we all did this stuff back then. I particularly remember how no one tribute summoned.. and people summoned in face up defense. And we used to just Mulligan out hands for no reason. Haha!

I remember back when I was in elementary school and YGO came to Brazil, we would only find cards in english and had to make our parents translate them for us. It was extremely common for my friends to just make up the effects of cards, since no one could read them. There were a bunch of cards that had the effect "If you play this card, you win the game". Because of the language barrier, I ended up just collecting the cards, rather than playing the game.

Two solar flare dragons on board

5 ookazi's😂😂( everybody played with 4000LP, and didn't know about the 3 card limit)

Oh man. This video was a throwback. My first "startegy" deck was based around Summoning "Wicked avatar". I had a Marshmallon from my first tournament, and Jinzo, then the rest of my cards were stuff like Dark Resonator, Scrap Iron Scarecrow, Destiny Hero Defender, Gemini Elf, etc. I built up unbreakable defense until I could draw Wicked Avatar, then got him on the field. It struck terror in everyone in our group because it was the first time we saw a monster that could not be destroyed by battle. I ended up adding Wicked Dreadroot and Wicked Eraser to the deck over time (I got these all from Shonen Jump mags at the bookfair) and when I went to the aforementioned tournament I went in all confident. Got my ass absolutely handed to me. It was the first time I ever knew that a ban list existed, First time seeing archetypes, and while I did beat one kid to win a pack, I definitely was bummed. Anyway, my friend ended up moving away and he gave me his blackwing deck, and I that was my first "real" deck. Played it all the way until 2016.

I remember back then I first dominated with a Toon deck, and moved onto using Demise: King of Armageddon. Nobody was ever able to handle my Demise back then.

I miss the simpler days when you could just buy a bunch of packs and start playing, now you can only do that if you're fine with half your deck doing LITERALLY FUCKING NOTHING

Middle School deck profile?

Yu-gi-Oh! Has so much mystique and mysterious back in the day... playing was real dueling... My first original deck was Joey’s Starter

My all time favorite card, mainly because in any deck I played as a kid was my boss monster, Relinquished. I convinced everyone I played with/against that the equip effect was a quick effect and I could always get rid of my current equipped monster to equip the card he just summoned during his Main Phase :D

In my middle school Yu-Gi-Oh is still alive. And everyone loves it. Almost everyone at least

I drew Chaos Emperor Dragon back in the day.... after 3 weeks or something with the Dragon and tribe infecting virus we started to play with ban list....

oh Tornado Wall... ohhh that explains why I had 12 copies of final flame in my old deck box

I haven't played Yu-Gi-Oh since the first lightsworn set came out, leaving for Magic the Gathering when Burning Abyss started dominating, and I've been binging your videos now and because of the nostalgia kick I'm wanting to get back into and game :D

More nostalgic videos like this!!! This brings me back to my Synchro-Hero mismash deck :)

Patrician of darkness best cheating card ever

I fell for that stupid Patrician of Darkness trope so many times...

Medusa Worm. I thought the “When this card is flip summoned” was equivalent to “When this card is flipped face-up” which made it way more powerful for those casual duels.

My card was Five-Headed Dragon. He came in the special edition Dinosaur Structure (the old one)and my Dragon Deck with Dragon's Mirror and got sacky wins all the time. Until others started copying me.

I remember this one time where my friend predicted I was about to summon my ancient gear golem because I was setting monsters even though he had nothing on his field, then he got really paranoid then used heavy storm (casual match) destroying his face down kunai with chain and his time and stargazer magician so he could get rid of my swords of revealing light because he hated golem so he just really wanted to attack and then next turn he drew pot of greed (again CASUAL) and then in addition to the polymerisation he had in his hand, he drew a performapal silver claw and odd eyes pendulum dragon and he had a beast eyes which is the luckiest thing I’ve ever seen but then I summoned golem and used rush recklessly and just murdered his beast eyes 😂

That's fun story: One day (5 Months ago I guess) I scrollt thru Netflix and started to watch the original anime. I watched it for like 3 days and bought my self a structure deck, went to school, halfed my deck and played with my friends. That's 5 months ago and since then me and my friends are taking controll over the school with your cards. It all started with 6 episodes of the original anime and me playin with my unsleeved cyberdragon structure deck

When I was in school, the best yugioh kid had a goku card and claimed it was legit (and for some reason we believed him.)

I remember using infinite cards and then drawing as many cards as I wanted.

Dude your content is so refreshing. By far the most interesting Yugioh channel and I follow every single one. No homo but even your voice is great to listen. Stay lit

Perfect example for me, when i was a kid playing this card game. I got home to see a giant tub but didn't know how atk and def stats are used. So in a battle i used the def when attacking a atk position monster. So, yea. Also, in the tub i had the fake god cards with red, yellow and blue boarders.

Neo-spacian Grandmole was clapping everyone in the neighborhood.

Haha I can't believe how much I relate to you right now. We used to do the exact same thing, if we didnt know what an effect exactly does we just created them, and sometimes we based them off the artwork of the card lmao. I also relate so much with tornado wall, card was such a pain in the ass. I srsly enjoyed this video

Still remember one guy who always cheat shuffled to draw volcanic doomfire, blaze accelerator and triblaze excellerator... Back then it was a stupidly strong start

I hated school rules days. People would get mad that they lose and then invent a new rule so they don't lose again and people would just accept it. I had a few good fusion monsters, and a few cards that could be used as a substitute for one of the fusion monsters making it fairly easy for me to get a fusion monster on the board - one guy who I beat like 5 times with fusion cards got mad, then told everyone that his dad called up "Yu-Gi-Oh" (not Konami) and that they told him that it is in the rules you must summon the monsters you want to fuse before fusing them, and said you couldn't do what I had been doing which was having them in my hand, playing the spell card to summon the fusion. I found out after a couple years that he had just made it all up because he didn't want to have to deal with my fusion cards or get his own, but it was already too late to do anything about it, we had already had this stupid fusion card rule for over 2 years meaning nobody put any effort into being able to counter a good summoned fusion monster requiring them to all get new cards if the rules changed or at least change their decks which they would rather not do.

Great video, I remember Man Eater bug, Cats Ear Tribe, and morphing jars, to make a few. I played in high school and the cat was my favorite card. Scapegoat, Time Wizard, Goblin attack force, Kuriboh, Jinzo, Change of Heart, Monster Reborn to name some.

Ekibyo Drakmord screwed over so many of my friends. My entire deck was(and still is) based around trolling everyone. 3 Man Eater Bugs Ekibyo Drakmord DD Borderline So on and so forth

Destiny hero defender sounds hella good actually, when you know the rule that if the opponent has no cards left in the deck you win

I once used to have legendary fisherman, legendary ocean, tornado wall and needle wall. Good luck attacking my life points And for some reason his spear was censored so it looked like a toilet brush

Yugioh was very popular in my middle school. It was around the zexal era so everyone had a bunch of xyz monsters. But this one kid played a galaxy photon “deck” and destroyed everyone. He was the Yugioh king pin.