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I remember saving up my allowance, cleaning the house, and cutting the grass for my dad to take me to the store and hunt for Exodia. I ended up only getting both arms and a leg

I liked ZEXAL because of how the main character, Yuma, reminded me of Joey Wheeler with him constantly learning how to be a better duelist and how even though there were supernatural works at play, he stayed true to himself. I also liked the XYZ summoning mechanic and it's simplicity of just stacking monsters of the same level on top of each other to summon a extra deck monster and the rank up cards that came after.

5ds era was really when a lot of friends I knew were getting packs. We even tried to get all the signer dragons. I got most of them wish I went to get the french ancient fairy dragon my friend had.

5ds is my personal favorite. And not just because of the meme of "CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!" In a way, it reminded me of DM, and if you turn your brain off for why the card games are on motorcycles, it wasn't that bad of a story. Also, synchros.

My fave era is 5D’s, no question! Synchros changed my life when I was re-introduced to YGO

I need a full discussion video about Tag Duels and how we can make that a separate format

I will say this but early zexal was peak era simply because it was EVERYTHING could use them to a degree. It was the first time generic toolboxes actually happened. Fusions and synchros were always specific at the end of the day either needing a synchron or just a tuner in general. Xyz just needed matching levels so any deck even ones without poly and tuners could use

GX was definitely the most enjoyable for me, I was definitely the perfect target age range for it when it came out. always loved the elemental hero decks. 5DS was a close second

I grew up watching DM and up to 5D’s. Those 3 series made my childhood

5ds easily. Introduced the first of many new mechanics to really give Yu-Gi-Oh it's image. Best anime by far since I got major problems with the ones before and after while 5ds the filler of building the world makes the final duels even more impactful Arc v probably the weakest era in my opinion as pendulum was very broken as a system and same with link era where they forced you to use the new mechanics which is never a good idea for people to make them buy the new stuff rather than just make that stuff good Og had to be good enough to get the series to continue. Gx I'd say probably when the series was making better structure decks that still see can see play with the latest packs. Zexal probably fhe best system that climbs up itself with ease and did an og Yu-Gi-Oh revamp honestly better even if I don't like a lot of the cast

5Ds was truly peak Yugioh, I loved the DS games as well during that era. Thanks for the insight into what Yugioh turned into after 5Ds as I had fallen off once that had reached its sunset!

I've said it before I'll say it again, Link monsters did what we all thought Pendelums would do to the game.

OG yugioh it’s what I grew up on lmao

For me it's ArcV/Pen. Whatever summoning style you like fusion, synchro, xyz or pen, there're decks for it.

I loved this trip down memory lane. It sucks that I can’t play some of my favorite cards or be creative like OG game/anime. When playing Master Duel, I see people playing Rescue Ace, Albion, Traptrix, Labrynth, Dragonmaids, or some deck that lets them bring out Barron de Fleur and/or Destiny Hero-Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer in their first turn. Where’s the fun in doing what everyone else is doing? It gets boring playing against Rescue Ace, then Dragonmaids three times in a row.

5Ds was the most excited I ever was for YGO. DM is classic but I didn’t really “get” the rules as a kid. GX was where I drifted away from YGO a bit, but 5Ds was when I was in my biggest YGO phase. Duelist Genesis is still probably one of my favorite packs. Red Dragon Archfiend is my favorite monster. Every Saturday morning it was time to watch 5Ds on 4kids. Zexal is when I drifted away again, and Arc-V and VRains pushed me out of YGO to this very day.

Gx, came out when I was pretty much in middle school give or take, and the thought of being able to go to a school where you just focus on card games was bad ass to me. Not to mention it was the english version so it was just non-stop weird wall breaking jokes and jaden being a smart ass. After that 5ds came out and I became to old/interested in other things so I fell off like a lot of people.

I think zexal was technically the healthiest in the sense, you can still intercept xyz summons and use traps

The answer is obviously ZEXAL. A main character who starts out at the bottom and goes on a journal of struggle, trust and personal and professional development, who loses plenty, has no OP powers or back ups, who actually rebels against those who are better than him and try to help him, to learning how to trust, grow and develop as a friend and duelist: Easily the best.

GX for me, whenever me and my friends would have game nights we are always using decks from the GX Era

Is that an ace attorney reference in the thumbnail?!

Arc V EASY! We had oppressive decks, but it felt like you could play EVERYTHING!

OG Yugioh is the best for drafting and cubes. And Cube draft is the best and most fun to play Yugioh

Great video! Would love to see an explanation of the current meta and/or duel videos with modern decks. I'm really curious what the game looks like now and what these different summoning types are like

People dislike the Pendulums Era. But for me its the best one, Litterally mix 5 decks together and its still work! What an era

This was a really great video!!! I enjoyed this a lot!!! Thank you! ❤

I miss HAT format

Best time for the anime will always be the OG Duel Monsters. But the best time to play for me was Pendulum era. Especially right at the beginning, when Duelist Alliance first came out. The sheer variety of decks you could play, and still have fun with, was amazing. Shaddolls, Tellar, and BA ruled the meta for the longest time, but rouge decks could still pick up wins. The speed for the game then was just right too. Complex enough to let your skill shine through, but so much that it was overwhelming. I'd say early pendulum era was the last time that you could get away with setting a monster facedown and passing, and still expect to see a second turn lol.

I love Yu-Gi-Oh GX so much

I love this video you guys are amazing 😊 I’m a old head in Yugioh and wanting to get back into it, but I do not know the new terminology in Yugioh now a days. For example meta, trap hand or even the basic chaining. I see we can 6 or 8 times in a turn 😳 I think that maybe a good video for us old school Yugioh people to see. Keep up the great work ❤ Also what are the difference with TGG etc….?

DM era - GOAT format GX era - Perfect Circle format 5D era - Edison format Zexal era - HAT format Pendulum era - Clown format Link Era - TOSS format MR5 Era - Post-Ariseheart ban format Contenders for 2nd best of each era: DM: Warrior Format GX: Reaper Format 5D: Tengu Format Zexal: Fire/Water Format Pendulum: Post-PePe E-Banlist format Link: None really after TOSS MR5: Phoenix Enforcer Piles format

I would like to say arc-v as that was the first yugioh series i saw and i had a performapal structure or starter deck that i loved and learned pendulums some what easily. i know it got hectic later on but i just loved the amount of monster you could get on the field at once

Cool analysis and commentary.

Respect. Honestly I'm a similar opinion with APS with 5D's & Zexal at the Top 2. The former because it was a time I *FINALLY* was allowed to watch Yu-Gi-Oh! (It's complicated) and I started to really wanna get into the card game. Synchros is also a really cool summoning technique IMO. Summoning powerful monsters a with Tuner, non-tuner monster(s), and the power of math with your levels! The latter mainly because even though it technically came from GX 1st, it was the era that really made the structure deck for my 1st ever Archetype and deck in general, Dark World. I also found XYZ monsters another really cool summoning technique/monster type that's easy to pull off. Just need a certain amount of same level monster to summon strong monsters with nice abilities for a limited small price to use said abilities. With my favorite XYZ archetype being Battlin Boxers (Shout-outs to VRAINS for giving this deck some much needed support!).

I remember saying 5Ds was peak yugioh during one of your streams, when i was awake on japan time. So ill be taking credit for this tier outcome lol love the videos keep it up.

5D's era/anime is my personal favourite and was how I got into this franchise, with Synchro Summoning being my go to Summoning mechanic. Edit: VRAINS era was definitely the weakest era in my opinion as the induction of Master Rule 4 and Link monsters, were so bad with how broken their mechanics were, that they became a requirement to use your extra deck.

I Feel like alot of ppl mock OG Yugioh or when ppl call the start to me OG / Yugioh was like the first 2 Anime Era that was where Yugioh was taking place / starting up and such, it wasnt till after that we get new shit summoning types or what knock, so to me when i say OG I include Duel Academy all Duel Academy do was improve on already excisting game mechanics

Gx Era was my personal favorite. It was a time I was transitioning schools, and the idea of a duel school was captivating. The story and episodes were so fun to watch. The story I felt was really well put together. Gx was also the Era I started getting more, competitive into yugioh and discovered, still to today, my favorite archetype: Gladiator Beast. I loved the contact fusion idea from neo spacions, and seeing that being implemented in a different archetype was so cool. Plus, a lot of the yugioh video games at the time was Gx era and I loved em (especially the tag force games)

I only play goat and i'm rewatching DM, and i'm having lots of fun! I have plans to try Edison some time, but not yet. I still want some cards of goat before moving to the next format, and in Brazil, some old cards are kinda rare (im looking at you, metamorphosis)

5Ds is peak for me

I loved GX. Get your Game on!!!!

5Ds and Zexal

Interesting to see that ace attorney styled thumbnail

Talking about gameplay, I think I'd "rank" Zexal at the top, personally. Xyz Monsters weren't really for me, but I liked that they offered an alternative to Synchro. 5D's is probably next - not to say that 5D's is "bad," but I think it's become pretty overrated, personally. I think I'd put Arc-V next, then GX, then DM - although I didn't play much of these eras, so I don't many details. VRAINS was my favorite anime, and I love several of the VRAINS archetypes, but it was a huge change in how the game was played, and there were some extremely pushed cards (although that applies to every era). OTOH, I think there's a ton to love about "Post-VRAINS." There's still some crazy power creep, but there's also dynamic gameplay, interesting decks, lots of variety, and some great legacy support. I'd put "Post-VRAINS" at least in my top 3 (but possibly higher). Maybe at some point we'll further divide that era, like "up to POTE" or something.

My exact list and thoughts down to the last minute detail lmao

I picked it up during Zexal all the way till vrains. Links, kind of intimidated me at first for 1.25ish so vrains certainly wasnt it.(where is light ignis's Armatos Legio deck konami). Arc v felt like there was so much variety and it the pace wasnt emerald turtle paced. I feel like a game gets better when there are more ways to enjoy it and with the variety of decks that were around at that time it had cards shown in your video it also updated some of the older strategies like blackwings and the lightsworn synchro and Diablosis the awesome(sure he wasnt an update but i loved him so i slapped him with dragon ruler tempest and mechaphantombeasts anyway). The end of zexal was pretty fun too though with dracosack and dragon rulers. By anime i enjoyed 5ds end of zexal first 100 episodes of arc v and all of vrains. TLDR: i just enjoyed yugioh from when i picked it up to when links shooed me away till i decided to learn what it did and now i love links too. besides Arcv zexal and vrains i wasnt around long enough to rate the others besides anime enjoyment but i think zexal wins with vrains getting 2nd and 5ds getting 3rd for anime.

That manon street fighter 6 shirt is fire

It's funny, I remember back in the day when 5ds was airing I hated it so much. Brought a weird summoning mechanic and everyone was riding motorcycles.. to this day though it's my second favorite of the animes and the best format I ever played lol. 5ds aged like a fine wine. Anime rating to me (not format rating): DM 5Ds GX Zexal Vrains Arc-V

I watched the anime a lot as a kid, and really got into the card game around the tail end of GX. I remember going to a sneak peek for the set with Black Rose Dragon, and someone pulled a ghost rare - the whole place was oohing and aaahing. I miss the gameplay from that era something terrible - Blackwings and Lightsworn were some of my favourite decks, and I even cooked a bit with a Lightsworn/Snake deck that used stuff like Gogiga GagaGigo to pitch to trade in to power up Vennominon. Daily games on YVD, shootin the shit on YugiohForums and Pojo, it really was a great time.

As someone who hasn't followed Yu-Gi-Oh throughout its entire lifespan, this was actually a pretty neat video in terms of the game's history! I grew up with DM and fell off early GX, but got back into it with the DS World Championship games (2007, 2009, 2010), which brought me into the 5Ds era. Then I disappeared for a long time until the Legacy of the Duelist game. I was around when it got the Link Evolution update and got to experience a bit of Master Rule 4 before it switched over to 5. As for my personal ranking, I'd probably say 5Ds>DM=GX>Zexal=Arc-V>VRAINS.

I almost completely agree. I put vrains, and gx more at the bottom and arc v higher because gx was in a very Grey area coasting off of a lot of the best of dm with occasional power creep until phantom darkness and light of destruction until the end and vrains really monopolized the summoning method which did some lasting damage to the games reputation. Arc v I put over that because it was one of the first formats to incorporate all summoning methods and establish future trends while also leaving room for pendulums as an additional option which I think is a bot healthier than a hard ceiling in the form of master rule 4. Og is after that then zexal and 5ds at the top. The biggest thing I would like to see return is a combination of some non archetype based staples that are decently accessible that help combat and invalidate more handtraps so playing the game isn't either break my board or play through 5 handtraps. I think cards like tactics and thrust are a good starting point for that but we need more and they shouldn't all break the bank. 5ds had cards like royal oppression, thunder king raioh, and floodgates like macro at 3 as well as maxx c towards the end which all together I believe despite being abused by toxic decks did serve as ways for slower strategies to play like gravekeepers which is a nice option for players to have. It's a complicated issue but some checks for 20 handtrap 1 card combo decks is sorely needed and a variety of strategies be it hand, graveyard, field, or floodgates based do have their purposes to the game that make yugioh unique.

Duel monsters the greatest & the best ever iconic.

So I have been building Yugioh Era Cubes for a few years now, from DM to Vrains, I am currently working on Arc V, and man, this is a wonderful video to see! Building these cubes has given me a wonderful look back into the games history and its greatest strengths and weaknesses. So I would like to give my honest ranking here: (Long response below, I'm sorry for the misspelling and errors, this was all off the cusp for some good fun and discussion! So check it out for fun!) 1. Arc V - (This era was a double-edged sword, in my opinion the first half of this era was perfect but began to get too fast come the middle and end of the era. This is where Yugioh got fast! With everything from Duelist Alliance to Nekroz at a good speed in the game, but once Pepe stepped into the ring, there was a shift in the game. After Pepe, deck building, deck design and deck's ability to push enough damage to end the game truly started to take precedent. Deck's gameplan went from "a quick back and forth to build a decent size board to beat the opponent with some trap cards for counter play, and one or two hand traps to disrupt my opponent" started to change towards decks wanting to OTK with their first or second turns much more. However the diversity of decks was amazing, this era re-inevented the game in Duelist Alliance and it was an amazing time to be a part of. Plus people in the earlier half of the era still ran generic cards like MTS, Book of Moon and actual trap cards like Wiretap and Breakthrough skill. This era is where things started to get off the rails but it's earlier half gave us something truly special. This era had the biggest flaws of any other, putting the game into a pace it has never recovered from but for a small moment we got the "perfect" speed of the game. A fast game, but not too fast, and still having enough creativity to use beloved cards of old and having it be a viable option as well. It was crazy but sometimes the right kind of crazy!) 2. 5d's - (This Era introduced our first new mechanic to the game and brought out a whole host of beloved decks, the real thing about this era is that it fundamentally still kept what Yugioh was about, a back-and-forth strategy game where you able to tic for tat your opponent, and you used smaller monsters and resources to build up to amazing boss monsters that helped you further your game plan, the synchro era got deck archetypes right and showed us what archetypes could do if properly built, giving you in house synergy for building a Black wing deck, as opposed to "All good stuff Chaos". This era kept what we liked about Yugioh and added something new and enjoyable to it with Synchro's, Tuners and stronger deck identity and synergy) 3. Zexal - (This era is hard to pinpoint exactly, but here we go. Not only do we see a new mechanic in the game giving synchros a run for their money but 5d's showed us, what decks "could be" but Zexal perfected that and truly made all decks "would be" moving forward" This era is where Konami really got deck building down in terms of "how" decks play their own strategies quite well. These new XYZ monsters were powerful once to twice-used cards that really gave you a good swing in the duel, but these effects could only be used as many times as you had material, so each monster had a limit to its usefulness and this is great for a game and keeping things back and forth. In my eyes, Zexal is where Konami perfected the art of making an archetype for the first time, and sometimes they went too far with Dragon Rulers and Spellbook of Judgement or Shock Master, but they were testing how far things could go. This era gave us a powerful new toolbox of easy-to-summon, powerful monsters with much more refined decks.) 4. DM - (Where it all started! This era is iconic and wonderful in its own right, being #4 is not bad at all, in my opinion, it shows how many times they were able to make something great and better than the original, in certain aspects. DM is the most resource-intensive version of the game we have had, and it constantly pushed the boundaries of what could be done, we started this era with beefy normal monsters and ended it with Chaos summoned effect monsters that could obliterate a duel. There's so much that can be said here but the fundamentals of this game was that it was a back-and-forth one-upping each other at the final moment that was all so fun. When you were in DM you felt like you could try and build anything, it usually didn't work but it was still fun trying, this era is where your hodgepodge of cards would go up against your opponent's hodgepodge of cards and a true duel was underway. It was the beginning but my my my, what a way to start, this is where I personally think the last of the "good" eras end for me. For many yugi-boomers this was the era you started playing with your friends, and nothing can take back those great times, so go revisit this era, it is still very fun and very rewarding in its slower more tic for tat playstyle) 5. Vrains - (All good things must come to an end and this was a surpise to say the least. Vrains was an era with a whole new summoning mechanic and for a short time many decks did slow down because they could not swarm the board with their extra deck monsters, but this quickly became ancient history as Link monsters made the turns and combos take longer and the game got faster in its overall speed. Handtraps became much more prevalent in this era to help combat the speed of decks, board breakers got more powerful to handle the huge boards of omni negate monsters, and Omni negate boss monsters became the premier card to summon off of your long combo of extenders and special summons, with floodgates being left round to try and give some slower decks counter plays against crazy combo decks. This era is where the game truly shifted into a "Going first" and "Going second" type of game, decks were even called this in this era and by the end of the era, if you didn't build your deck in one of these 2 modes, you wouldn't last long. I am personally not a fan of this style of play, but if you are, congrats, this is how the game is for the most part, open up your engine cards or starters, play through hand traps, set up omni-negates or disruptions and either break that board if you are going second or lose to the crack-back of getting most of your cards negated or hand trapped. However, this era had a lot of cool and interesting deck ideas for how decks played, but generally the style of play was so fast that if you didn't leave from getting all your decks handicapped at the start of the era, you might have left for how fast everything got at the end of the era. 6. GX - (To give some credit this isn't a "bad" era, but significantly underpowered. This era did a lot of the crawling so that other eras could run. This was there era were Konami tested the waters for what a deck based around a single premise, an archetype could do, and how strong should it be and how synergistic should it be. They started to get things right with the tail end of the Era, like Gladiator Beasts and Lightsworns, and powerhouse cards like Dark Armed Dragon, but most of the era was underpowered and mostly ignored. Fun was definitely had, but it was a post goat era format that just did not have much truly going for it. Gx was the next generation but they had a lot of kinks to work out before they truly got going, but this era finally got them on the right track and by the end of it, they hit their stride, not a bad format but just not "that" interesting when you look back at it.) Sorry for the off the cusp rambling, I do love this game and favor certain parts more than others and this is just my long winded opinion.

Synchro always be the turning timeline for me, the first alternative summons mechanism after ritual and fusion

To this day I only play up to xyzs. pendulums and links I feel changed the field too much. Like both play mats and the feel of the game.

Arc V came out with insane negates (in quantity) and a significant speed boost halfway through for me and marked the decline of traps

My favorite is Xyz monsters I like all the different mechanics but I want it to slow down now please put a ceiling to this

Am i crazy i couldve sworn when links came out the rule was you can only special summon extra deck monsters to zones a link monster points to which i think pissed people off

Zexal is the best, no contest. Also, y'all name-dropped Slifer Slackers, been 6 months, bois. I miss it

My personal favorite was 5D's. I think the complexity was in a sweet spot, synchro summoning was a perfect mechanic, and there were so many cool archetypes and boss monsters. Also the anime was GOAT.

Love the Thumbnail, and a good video too!

Gx is my personal favourite, I love the series And the cards

*1-2.* Zexal and 5D's (interchangeable entries) *3.* DM *4.* Arc-V *5.* GX *6.* Vrains I'm only ranking Arc-V a bit higher because it's a guilty pleasure era and all summon mechanic up to date got form of support. Vrains being this low exemplifies how my passion to Yugioh starts to waver.

5ds was when I started yugioh as a kid, loved the anime and my favorite card was stardust dragon. I would always throw in a way to make it in my deck

2009-2011 was a great time to be a teen

Around like Edison. 5DS was still going strong. Wide pool of decks to pull from. A few anime decks actually popped off. Or 2019 in general. So many anime decks where atleast rogue status in that format from actually vrains but also fan favourite legacy decks from shows like GX and Arc-V

I'd like to see you rank and talk about the ygo anime impacts and what those anime ment to you over the cards available at the time

Duel monsters was the best and always will be

Fantastic vid guys. I agree, we really don't need to consider the Rush Duel anime for anything. Make no mistake, I'm always rooting for Rush duels, but the anime is a different game, different continuity, even a different studio and creative team. It's certainly not the Yu-Gi-Oh we know. It's funny, ZeXal really made me upset with how Rank-4 spam watered the game down, but outside that the archetypes were some of the best in the history of the game in terms of gameplay and flavor. Didn't hurt that ZeXal was also my favorite anime. 5D's through ZeXal really was peak for mein terms of fandom. Don't get me wrong, my favorite way to play Yu-Gi-Oh is still modern, but it feels like that era's power level/pacing is something to strive toward in future card design. Great points about the GX era too, that was my favorite talking point. I also never thought of it, but you're right, in the Vrains era all the anime decks were meta and that gave packs such fantastic value. Heck the guy who created Dragon Link was just flat out a big fan of Revolver, so that's pretty cool. Excellent video as usual. P.S. Alec's earthworm joke cracked me up so hard, 10/10!

Just in terms of my experience growing with the game, I have to say probably link era is my favorite (specifically during TOSS format) followed very closely by 5ds. I really did like what the game was going for during zexal but if my deck wasn't stolen during that time, 2012, I would've been actually experiencing all that zexal had to offer

When the show and game came out I was on it. I love the show so much when the cards came out I was stealing them from Walmart lmaoo. Not a thief at all now but I was so into yugioh I couldn’t afford it and when I could afford it I was goin to dragons den watched to get cards. I saw my my first match their before I actually played and when I did play it was great and I was good! Never forgot when I brought packs and trades to get all 5 pieces of exodia! I only used exodia in school matches because it was easier 😂 then I remember school dueling but their rules was out of pocket then I stopped dueling in school😂 I still remember getting the duel disc and dueling not giving a shit! I met a kid when the gx series came out and we would duel at dragons den school and at home! Role playing duelist was so fun especially with the duel disc! I also remember when magic cards came out, I was never interested in them but I saw more of magic cards being played at the den then yugioh. I was young and this grown man told someone at dragons den that. Yugioh is a kids game and that grown men shouldn’t be playing it. Well I still brought cards and dueled. I only stopped because I got into skateboarding! I’ll tell you what tho getting back into the game earlier last month. I fell in love with the show first and second show again and it was difficult to catch on to combos with links and pendulum! Imo First series and gx was the best shows!

what happened to the slipher slackers series?

Battle City, no contest 😂

If we don't talk about the original trilogy zexal was probably the best try for an original setting. If you think about it the duel gazer is the most realistic way to bring olograms in the real game and the number hunter gimmic was a nice way to gather new fans for the show. Competively speaking we talk about an era full of loops and unhealty floodgate like colosseum or ophion. But the structures were fun and the rank 4 toolbox was really easy to access for a kid compared to tuners and synchro from the previous generation. Zexal anime story sustained itself while its successor arc-v used too much nostalgia without really respecting the source material and lost the point of the original story when wrapping up. And we can't forget al the people who quit because of pendulums.

Master Rule 4 Link monsters occupied a very parasitic design space where Link monsters were all of a sudden required if you wanted more than one extra deck monster on field. I love Salamangreat, Code talker and Marincess, but there is no doubt Master Rule 4 really marked a shift in speed for yugioh. I honestly like the yugioh’s speed and how that makes it different from other card games, but I get why people don’t like that. 5Ds probably is my favorite era because that was the Yugioh I grew up with.

I, personally, have 2 opinions. "Eddison Format" [[appears]] to be the series that we were playing in high school. Right when I was starting to understand what an "engine" actually was, and how to actually WIN, and not just Playground Brute Force it. Due to nostalgia, and the "medium" play speed, (kids back then would swear these (synchros and their support) cards were too strong, haha, if only they knew what would come,) would make it the "best" format. If I wanted to bring a friend into the game who hasn't played since Playground days, I feel as though I COULD slowly get them playing Eddison. ...now for my hot take. Master Rule 4, aka "Link Lock" era. The entire point of Link monsters was to slow the extra deck down, and then "help" you find a way to utilize them again. As soon as the extra deck was re-unlocked, the entire Link Monster ERA was made pointless, and every piece of Link Support that came out after that proves it. So many Link decks were left behind, and the only ones who survived, did so by honestly nefarious means. For this reason, if I were to try and take the person from Opinion 1, and bring them up to Link monsters, xyz, and pendulum, I would want to do it with MR4 entirely in place, and without the support that followed it's revision. Until this format exists, I'm gonna call it Nikola Format.

Why are we not differentiating from DM and battle city. DM era was just getting it's footing, but the battle city era with jinzo, solomn, yatta, ced, bls... Was my favorite era

Yugioh OCG Structures is the era of yugioh we’re in

I'm glad this isn't ranking the anime themselves because otherwise there would be some angry folks (probably including me! Zexal is peak! 5Ds sucks!).

I was just think about when you guys were gonna drop a new vid thank you so much

The original or GX, they obviously didn’t have the strongest cards or the most complicated version of the game but it wasn’t watered down and they didn’t write a full term paper for a card effect

For me it’s the original YuGiOh (anime) cuz that’s my era and it’s what popularized YuGiOh. Also the ancient Egyptian theme was great. Obv the game play was very basic but in terms of the anime is the best

my favorite era was GX

not shocked by the choice on best.

I think both early anime and TCG yugioh GX is what killed the OG fans interest and why the OG is so popular. A disaster transition will do that.

Yeah, I think I’m in a crowd that argues for 5D’s irl, but none of us play competitively. I’m gonna go with Arc-V personally, which I felt had a fantastic anime (tho rushed after the Synchro arc) and it had some fun archetypes. GX or 5Ds would be 2nd place for me

Besides the original,I havent seen the other versions . What you recommend? Which has the best storyline?

5Ds nuts. Synchros are when I quit. Arc-V got me back into it.

Grew up watching duel monsters, but gx def became my favorite

They really don't want to acknowledge Sevens as a Yugioh anime, even though it was the era of them getting really focused on supporting the nostalgia decks.

I'll just say this HANGING OUT WITH YOUR FRIENDS IN THE SCHOOLYARD

Top to bottom for me is 5Ds, zexal, GX, DM, arc V, vrains. Syncro is Top teir and along with fusion makes my favorite summoning types, xyz hit weird at first but grew on me, GX and DM hit the nostalgia real good, pendulum is where I started to fall off but I still liked a lot of the anime archetypes and i could see myself playing a deck centered around Odd Eyes and cool achetypes utilizing pendulum. And last and certainly least for me was Vrains, link monsters are something I never see myself playing in a deck and it didn't add anything to the game for me. The mechanic was broken at the beginning and still now I don't see it as a fun card type to add to my deck but as another BS thing opponents in master duel use to get a broken 7K atk monster on the field turn 2 along with 2 other high atk monsters (taking the whole 5 minutes to do so via special summon, mill, effect in grave repeat BS) and all I have on field is a 2k atk/Def monster I set up for maybe getting my 3k syncro out turn 3. Mechanics alone don't make yugioh fun for me it's a combination of cool monsters, drawing a card that let's me get out another cool monster, dueling and seeing mechanics work like the anime, and seeing what my favorite archetype combos can do as well as my opponents. It's why I like seeing your videos, playing with the classic decks, the random decks, the decks you would see at the store and pick up a few boosters with to play against your friends, that is what makes yugioh fun and what we should see at tournaments.

I wish Dragunity was a little more viable With that being said, Synchro/5Ds is definitely the best era! They need to fix the issue they caused with the unnecessary card text length with the Pendulum/ARC-V era

Gx is my fave purely because we had the tag force games and they were honestly the best games. Wish they would remake or port them to switch

I had a similar convo with friends about YGO, which one was more leveled out, somewhat of a good balance, if that makes any sense but it's YGO ofc lol. And my answer, no bias whatsoever, 5Ds era. Synchros was not that hard to understand, and in order to Synchro summon you needed to add monsters that had 'Tuner', into your deck. They also agreed. We also agreed that after that, it became full bullshittery but hey we still played it, no meta, just casually 👌 Now with bias, 5Ds is PEAK YGO, hands down. Its what brought me back to YGO let alone watching YGO in Japanese w/ subs for the first time. I had many friends during HS who still played and some still do. Still primarily use Synchros, I don't mind using others except Pendulums, unless it's for my D/D/D deck. Also that thumbnail, I knew Yusei was ripped but damn, they made my man Yusaku/Playmaker ripped af. Or they grabbed the wrong one and brought in the cosplayer instead from the anime 😂

Personally, I think I would switch somethings around. I would have it be Vrains, GX, DM, Arc V, Zexal, and 5Ds.

I liked the 2013 format after the windup and dinorabbit imzektor hits

OG and GX are still my favorite yugioh 🔝

We play the game on and off and mostly use old cards so Shyncro and XyZ cards were great to add to our old decks when they came out ; pendulum and links tho never rally fit our decks and they will probably never will .