Small correction that Brionac's bounce effect was an ignition effect, so a little worse into BA's trap lineup but rarely came up anyways. Great video. Loved this format!

I still think the mathematician variant was the most underrated, it solved so many problems the deck had and was really really versatile, I remember doing so many wild things with this deck that nobody else was doing. Also fun thing with the warrior djinn outs they all lose to something, like when the opponent sees armageddon knight they can search trishula, when the opponent sees dd warrior lady which beats trish and gungnir they search valk etc. So it means if you play a small retro format tournament you probably have to play a second warrior djinn out in your side deck, or people would do that at locals so opponent's can't just scout your djinn out in early rounds.

Hey joe, don’t forget ritual beasts 😊

Just finished dinner, and then a video from Joe, can't get much better then that

Joe this is my favorite format of all time. This was when I got my first top 8 at a regional when I was 14 and holds a special place in my heart. Thank you so much Joe I always remembered you as a big name when I played as an early teen. I always wanted to meet you at an event and I would love to have you on my card game podcast in the future if possible. Much love❤️

Blue men army!! Best content in the entire platform. It would be awesome to see some games

It's probably worth noting that the 3 situations you would do that djinn combo are 1 - you drew lance/scolding to protect it, 2 - the rest of your hand does absolutely nothing (even then its debatable) or 3 - you recognise that your opponent in the mirror is a better player than you and you'll probably lose a back and forth game. Any other time I'd argue that it's not worth going all in on a combo that people are playing up to about 8 outs for in the main deck and you lose if they deal with it and have follow up.

Can we get a Shaddoll list from this format please?

One of my favourite archtypes for a contained format. Nekroz had a brionac and inzektor combo that put shooting star dragon on the field that wasn't optimal but cool. All decks had a weird impact on how you played turn one. Nekroz trishula and shaddoll fusion typically made decks hesitant to go combo centic on turn one. Satellarknights had triver to bounce your field. BA would just float in the graveyard nomatter what you did to them. Towers turbo changes how decks would be built. The ability to play around certain cards like mind crush is important. I do prefer the format after djinn lock with the performage clowns. Also ritual beast being secretly good against nekroz is always funny.

I really hope you do more nats 2012 decks, that format had a plethora of viable decks

You can also use a gentlemen’s agreement to get Djinn out of your opponent’s deck.

I absolutely despised the nekroz in nekroz format but at the same time ritual beast were one of the most fun decks I’ve ever played

I was wondering when nekroz would show :)

any card named Unicor- is always broken

CLAUSOLAS not COLOSSUS

Am I wrong in saying that Droll was legal then? If not, why wasn’t it played?