"mystrune is terrible" aged like milk in the sahara

the sea monster of theseus "best monster of 2017" meme is so great. like, it would have been a stupid card to hype up THAT dramatically no matter what year it was, but 2017 specifically is just like... like let's just go through a list of some other monsters that came out that year. •Aleister the Invoker •Ash Blossom •Astrograph Sorcerer •Bagooska •Borreload Dragon •Darkwurm •Destrudo •Firewall Dragon •Masterpeace •Predaplant Ophrys Scorpio •SPYRAL Double Helix •SPYRAL Sleeper •Starving Venom (the banned one / the FTK one) •VFD •the ENTIRE ZOODIAC ARCHETYPE and, also, a bunch of cards that aged well like •all the lyriluscs (including the bird up ones AND the ftk fusion one) •all the Gouki monsters •a bunch of lunalight monsters (kaleido chick etc.) (and i guess trickstars were okay too) this was one of the most insane years in the history of the game in terms of its card catalog and konami decided "hmmmmmmmm... this vanilla instant fusion target......... this is the peak power level of the game. because it's a tuner. after all, needlefiber's gonna come out in the ocg this year. also we will not be releasing needlefiber for 3 more years"

The title describes most Ten minute Testing. First you see the intro and you laugh than you see the Decklist and you cry.

hilarious how you laughed at the guy talking about albaz and then proceeded to call runick bad

BA and PK just will never die. They will be tier 2 until the end of time I swear. The last Beatrice pass will occur on the heat death of the universe

4:19 "This card is mid at best" Didn't stop you from shoehorning that cancer into every deck you could think of. Yes, I'm still mad at the Kuriboh Ten Minute Testing, how could you tell?

To be fair to Scrap Raptor, it actually did break Dinosaur. It had a ton of representation and top finishes at remote duel events over the time period that it was legal and only stopped being playable because Misc went to 1. Definitely not the generic powerhouse card that people expected though, didn't do anything for Orcust builds or for pure Scrap because of how fragile it is.

I just remembered a good one, remember when people bough Engraver of the Mark to main deck against Crossout Designator? Then both cards crashed and burned.

I want to see the reverse of this, looking back on cards or archetypes that people thought would be terrible that turned out to be good. Remember when the Adventurer cards were first revealed?

Girsu was just a victim of the ban list It banned the best targets and he was just kind of left to twiddle his thumbs as people tried and fail to make a new combo with him out of copium

Crazy how there was a time where Girsu was far and beyond the most expensive card out of ETCO while Accesscode was like....a super cheap card until people pointed out that it was actually bonkers. I had to wait months for Girsu to go down to a more reasonable price point so I could go lose to infernoble players with mekk-knight.

To be fair to Lamia D/D was absolutely the best deck for the two weeks before Zoo came out and nobody sensible ever thought that the structure deck support was going to help the deck stay relevant past that. (Also in the OCG where the deck was released at a reasonable time it dominated an entire nationals format).

Dragoon was the best thing a lot of decks could reliably do, and it could be done _very_ reliably. He felt like a gatekeeper on the format, locking out a bunch of rogue decks, and being so obviously the best play in others that it just made things less fun for both players. He sure didn’t substantially shake up the meta… but I do feel like the only reason he’s not still seeing play as at least a backup option is because DPE stole his place.

@13:54 That take aged like damn milk. Thanks Albaz Strike Structure Deck.

Magic muskets gives the great dopamine hit when your able to interact at the perfect time to stop whatever big play your opponent is working toward with your hard once a turns but also made you want to crawl in a hole whenever you opened up with all spells and traps and no monster or way to tutor up one

I remember when people kept saying "If we ever get ROTA at 2, Noble Knights will be playable" so Konami gave us ROTA at 2, and the deck was still penis bad, so people started saying "If we ever get ROTA at 3, Noble Knights will be playable" so Konami, once again listened and gave us ROTA at 3, and once again, the deck was still penis... ROTA ended up being abused by Satellarknights and Nekroz untill Konami realized Noble Knights would never be playable and fixed the mistake putting ROTA back at 1, where it belongs

Myserune/Runic topping everywhere... you love to see it😁

Here's another video idea: "Cards that define META but somehow never get banned" And yes, this is just another time for me to complain about Halqifiberax. Seriously, Halq was tier 0 during 2020 for like half a year and still a center piece in like 1/3 of tournament toppers and still has 4 cards on the list, just so that it wouldn't be tier 0 again. Only reason why people don't call it a tier 0 strategy, was because they called Adamancipator and Eldlitch the deck, despite both being mostly Halq turbo. Fu''k this card

Unchained was heavily hyped up with people saying that with true draco it will become a tier meta thread. When it finally released people noticed that it wasn't good enough.

Golden Apples was used in Duel Links because it gained you back LP to trigger skills (destiny draw) as well as you get the token that essentially would wave away the battle phase until they got something bigger if they attacked with their strongest monster first, but eventually just phased out from play because it was an SR in a box that became increasingly more garbage even with the card still being as good as it has ever been cause the battle phase still matters to some decks. Scrap raptor also did break at least dinosaurs open even if they only became middling, and anyone that's played against them in Master Duel where they can end on a few enough negates and the conductor by the time their turn ends can attest to it.

"This tweet is from the future. [Runik] is still bad" lol. lmao.

>Albaz = doesn't see play oh no no no. What's funny is that even before the SD came out a lot of people shat on the Albaz cards and Despia in extension for how "bad" they are, but people were splashing Albaz and a Fusion target for him on Dragon Link, or any deck that utilizes Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres as a target for an additional interruption.

Dragoon is a very interesting case Just use non targeting non destruction removal to out it while dealing with the negate and doing your plays... not hard for basically any meta deck. But a lot of off meta decks seriously struggle with that, and because it's so much easier to put on the board in every deck than it is to get rid of, it destroys people in casual play.

Remember when for any reason, people thought that Mermail was about to be the best MR5 deck and the prices skyrocketed?

The sad bit about D/D/D is it got screwed over by the production disaster or ARC-V where Reiji had to sit on the sidelines for months at a time. He really was done dirty.

Oh sweet summerchild. these takes on runics aged like fine wine

I would say regarding Red eyes dark dragoon that it is half correct if you also include the OCG format because to put it lightly Dragoon warped the OCG format so hard that despite it being nostalgia bait it got banned after 2 banlists.

Hey, Wattkinetic was a solid Hand Trap pick for early Mekk Knights and it had it's uses in U Link Meta during Master Rule 4, just move some monsters around and you could technically interrupt combos and set yourself up with Mekk Knight, then we got better at deck building, got a Link 2 and MR5 came around and we just dropped it for better hand traps.

The Harpie Lady batch from 2013. I remember when people said this is End Phase. Hysteric Sign is amazing putting the End Phase effect aside.

It still saddens me how "okay" Magical Muskets is(when a LInk 1 that can plus enough to match an established board with a set of in-archetype cards of your choice is not enough to be broken you know you're in trouble), though it's also hilarious that it looks to be the type of thing that could potentially sit really well in most of the Tactical Masters archetypes, probably by sheer coincidence.

Ogdoadic is one of my favorite decks. I missed the “hype” period around them so I found the deck when it was just good. I learned how to play them very quickly and they’ve been my number 1 casual deck ever since.

RIP Dire the editor. She has no time to touch grass even if she wanted to. Homegirl just wants to play generaider in peace

remember the 17 seconds where Black Luster Soldier Soldier of Chaos was the cool boss for Eldlich

And now Dinos are starting to go hard in the paint and Scrap Raptor is a pretty good alternate combo line to the normal Oviraptor and Xeno plays.

"Ogdoadics will be sleeper good for a decade" I'm sure some people said the same thing about Reptilianne, and look where we are now.

Layer of darkness looked super strong when it was revealed, same for gnomaterial, one of the craziest card I have ever read.

Supply Squad was a card that people claimed to be "the end of yugioh as we know" when it was first revealed. It the proceeded to get basically zero tops and see zero play, except for some Fire King decks, that were already pretty unplayable to begin with

You’re wrong. Golden Apple wasn’t played in Duel Links because of “memory”. We all dripped it as soon as we gained enough life points to unlock Weevil Underwood.

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14:45 JOKES ON YOU

I came from 2023 to say that Konami has decided to release an archetype that can best be described as "magical musketeer but elemental"

Naturia Pineapple was released in the prefect storm of Treeborn still being good and Plants getting ready to dominate. Package that hype in a world premiere secret rare and ood

Mysterune can work with the upcoming Splights as any of the spells can summon a level 2 monster. Mysterunes also work very well with Muskets. Generally you just play defensive until your opponent decks out. It can have potential. Drawing into more usable spell/traps/handtraps with the field spell is kind of hot.

“Let’s bookmark this and come back in a month” so uh, Albaz amirite

I just played against a rune player on edopro, Saying how amazing the deck is. Then i flipped up anti-spell because fuck adventure, and they rage quite

So...Soldier of Chaos is in an interesting place. It's pretty easy to get out there, and has its utility...mainly in being Accesscode food that can actually do stuff...including outing some difficult floaters. It sort of fulfills a similar role to Powercode Talker...only it's a bit less generic, but a bit more powerful for the effort in most situations. It's biggest issues are: 1. Not having slightly better protection or having its protection without messing around with levels; 2. It's an Earth-type, so doesn't actually fit all that well into chaos...(why isn't it either Dark or Light).

I’m surprised Alpha, the Master of Beasts wasn’t in the twitter thread. People were hyping it up as Pankratops 2-4. It was also as expensive as Zeus on release or close to it.

I actually use the link BLS in thunder dragon in Master Duel because it's easy to get the target protection. I have summoned it a few times with success, but it's mostly a tool piece for when I know my opponent only has targeted removal. But most of my extra deck is a toolbox because thunder dragon only needs the two fusions, so you got lots of room.

My favorite example has to be the Fist of the Gadgets wave of Fire Fist support. They got a searchable counter trap, ways to loop Dragon and Tiger, and a Link-2 that isn't bad and none of it was good. I remember people pointing to the Jerome combo talking about how it's the next Salamangreat. As it turns out, the strategy is still inconsistent at best.

Evilswarm was my first experience with overhyped cards. I played constellars at the time because it had okay matchups against rulers and not completely dogwater matchups against prophecy, but it’d body rogue decks like evilswarm

Yeah, Ogdoadic needs work. I'm anticipating the release of DIFO with the card Noh-P.U.N.K Dia Note specifically will make PUNKs a strong splashable engine inside the deck, but that only proves the point that PUNKs are versatile enough to propel most decks it's splashed in from pnis to decent; which kinda just downplays Ogdoadic when I put it like that... I'mma keep coping that it'll get better in the future.

Waiting for the drones to come in "AcKtUaLy MyStErUnE tOpPeD iN OcG". Ignoring the fact all those lists ran triple reasoning triple monster gate to mill like 10+ spells which last I checked, yep, we don't have over here.

I'd like to make the argument that Lair of Darkness isn't terrible, there just aren't any cards that use it to it's fullest potential YET.

one thing to note, ancient leaf saw/sees play in pranks as a free draw two for the deck as a tech

lol I like how most meta/competitive players would look at my decks, then at me like I just killed their dog and say "GET OUT, YOU HIDEOUS MISTAKE." Best way to play is casually bro. Branded of Ra and Felgrand Ra for days. I just like Ra.

8:59 I realized now, Ursarctic doesn't have a normal summon, so Cardcar D was retroactively put as an actual support for Ursarctic strategy, despite not sharing the name with the archetype. What a cool demonstration of long-term card design

I still remember people on YOUR OWN VIDEO getting on me for saying Flunder was no were close to tier 0 potential.

Never forget Blackeyes, the Plunder Patroll Raven who was supposed to make Plunder tier 1

Ancient leaf in prank-kids/adamancipators seems kind of hilarious. It’ll probably just be a brick 90% of the time, but that 10% seems almost tempting.

Love how the that was wrong alert happened while he was talking about how bad Runic was gonna be

Do you know what actually plays Soldier of Chaos? It's like, one of your best link-3's..... in Cardians. A deck where you maybe one in every 10 games go into a non-cardian not named herald of the arc light.

CardCar D was crazy strong when it was released most decks were putting it in their deck as long as you didnt need to combo first turn you used it ( also 99% of the decks ran like 10 trap cards ) it was ridiculously strong but it fell off for obvious reasons. The only thing iit didnt do was shape the meta around it. In fact for what I can remember people thought it was week until it appeared in every deck.

8:15 The hype around lair in that time xD I remember inmediatly pre ordering 3 structures xD

We just need some good reptile boss monsters for ogdoadic imo. The fact that it's a strong chaos rank 4 and 8 engine with only a single rank 4 reptile and no rank 8s at all is just silly imo. Poor snakes... nowhere near as done dirty as pyros, but still done so wrong.

Wasn't Majespector really hyped at a point? People lost their minds at a pendulum archetype that searched quick removal that it itself was immune to, only for Unicorn and the card that searches Unicorn to be worthwhile.

I remember people freaking out over the Danger Graceful Charity trap card when it was announced. I have never seen anyone use it. Also Trickstar Reincarnation, but it probably lived up to the hype while Trickstars were at full power.

I actually do use Black Luster Soldier Soldier of Chaos in my Dark Magician Deck in Master Duel and while it doesn't see a lot of play it does work fairly well when my monsters can't use their affects or I'm trying to get to Accescode Talker

Evilswarm technically did have a gameplan against Spellbooks since EEV was in the format and, being a Dark deck, pretty much any board they had was an EEV target. But the same issues of brickiness and overall limpness stopped them being any more effective against Spellbooks than literally any other Rank 4 deck slamming down Crazy Box.

Fascinating video,shows how timing can kill cards or even decks. E.g. dragoon and girsu were honest to God meta warping in the ocg Oh mysterune topped day one just to spite the... Dubious build of mbt lol

Wolfrayet was one of the worst cards I experimented with in vw, I have tried so much copium and even Beatrice mill destrudo and snow on your opponents turn is better than it. I remember being confused at the hype it was getting and I'm happy to be right.

5:12 Master Duel players from the future would like to have a word

Scrap raptor was actually strong on release, it allowed Dino, which was already tier 1 at the time, to become even stronger, it was only due to the July 2021 list, which was released a month after scrap raptor, where they limited misc and killed dino

"sleeper good for a decade" sent me

Great content as usual Joseph. I personally love magical musketeers as a board breaking going second deck but yeah their own boss monster Zakiel looks amazing but the investment to get his effect off isn’t worth it, though the link 1… Ny favorite one

14:37 doesnt aged well it seems

I mean, Flunder these nuts just came too late to be really strong

So, maybe I'm just not that good at this game, but why is Dragoon considered mid? - You can summon it super easily via Verte (though not anymore seeing as Verte is banned) - Has good base stats - Omni-Negates - Grows in attack power as it negates I know red eyes fusion locks you out of summoning for the rest of the turn which is really bad, but still

I’ve only played in a few formats over the past 5 years, but you are so entertaining you could make videos about a topic I’m completely unfamiliar with and i’d watch. Thanks for the great entertainment 👍🏻

Wolfrayet is putting in a bit of work in my Magistus Familiar-possessed deck since boosting it to 4000 ATK is incredibly easy with even the slightest setup. Although even then it is a niche option.

I remember playing with the golden apple on ygopro around 2013-2014 and it was pretty broken in casual games.

Oooh Elementsabers got cut? Surprising, MBT spoke a lot about them.

The Runick part is so fucking funny now LOL

barely a minute in and we see "Caspar" on screen explicitly shown for an extended amount of time, and then pronounced "Pascar"

Evilswarm was a trap in that format. Theoretically it was fine, Pandemic prevented s/t outs, Forbidden Dress and Safe Zone could save you from blaster. But when Dragon Ruler could side things like Electric Virus it didn’t amount to much.

How about the opposite, cards or decks that ppl ignored on that eventually finds its way to the top table, I will give you one: Drytron.

Naturia pineapple is sad. Imagine making an insane play with a cute pineapple I would love it.

MBT: Calls Scrap Raptor an awful card. Me, whose favorite deck is Scraps: "Uh...uh... At least he's good in... Pure Scraps? Dinos? Eheheh..."

The Ophion one. Went X-0 swiss at my regionals top 8 cut went to finals. I played the E dragons and lost to the Evilswarm player 2 games in a row to key beetle vanities pass... Crushing ugh

Well, the Mystyrune thing didn't age well xD

Ogdoadic is fun but not competitive. I do pretty well with it at my locals when mixed with the new reptillianne support in burst of destiny. I really like them with lair of darkness too

I remember the evilswarm hype...my entire locals ran it for a week...I topped with frog obelisk

So idk if this will be seen but, what's the song playing in the background? It's kinda a jam c':

"Mystrune/Runick is terrible" aged fucking horribly

Oh, Ancient Leaf. I love it, since I ACTUALLY FAVOR my LP.

About Floowandereeze, in the OCG which is a format dominated by maxx c AKA every ocg player and their grandma ran 3 maxx c Floo is tier 1 because the damn birds are immune to Maxx c and board breaking option was a bit limited. In the TCG however maxx c is banned and board breaking options are plenty so of course it's not tier 0. I still remember the price fucking spiked but then the map dropped significantly, and the only expensive cards were Empen, Mega Raiza, Advent to this very day. The rest quite cheap.

I remember Primathmech Alambertain was being heralded as the next broken generic rank 4 because it could theoretically be used to search any spell/trap. I never believed it because YOU NEED TO DETACH 4 MATERIALS TO SEARCH ANY SPELL/TRAP.

One person in your chat had the jist of it with Girsu: Stupidly good looking card that immediately got fucked over by a Banlist a couple weeks before it came out (January 2020 Banlist, which banned Harp Horror and Synchro Ib)

i love how mbt talks about the ten minute testing video of mysterune that has been out for some time now and he made a dogwater build of the deck.

Does anyone remember when Lulleby of obedience was thought to be a card that was so strong that printing it was a mistake. It then did nothing

If you are curious as to why BLS - Soldier of Chaos is so expensive despite being in probably only shit BLS decks because BLS, just *look at it!!!* It's like the only non-rush duel Yu-Gi-Oh card with *Full Card Artwork* aside from the blue border that has the monster name(the card description is kinda hard to read because the full card artwork though)! If that border wasn't there and the artwork was visible over the card name, *It be worth more!*