Well, everyone a riot later managed to get their hands on Exodia... and that's where the OCG entered a Exodia FTK year not helped by Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest's original texts.
I love old-school Yu-Gi-Oh! - I followed it up to the 5Ds/early XYZ era. I lost interest after the XYZ era. The game got too complex, cards became too powerful, combos became too long. I'd love to get back into it, but I feel the damage is already done - and you can't 'reverse' the game to a more enjoyable state.
Yooooo that Bandai burn at the beginning XD (just for that I’ll find an extra person to share this with. Anyways, what can I say, this is yet another banger. I think you guys have really been hitting your stride, and I’m glad to see the algorithm is favoring smart content. Here’s a potential topic for a future essay, and it’s one of my favorites in Yu-Gi-Oh (I’m shocked nobody talks about it). All Yu-Gi-Oh fans know the term “Towers” it’s such a well known term that even other card gamers use it. It all originated from Qliforth Towers, a three tribute effect monster that was immune to most card effects, and could shut down almost all effect monsters. If your opponent could tribute 3 to summon this card, it was over, and it was over in a very slow and painful way. The only two cards that could beat it were the Big Saturn, which most players would not run since it has a special summon restriction (it can go boom in a big way) and the Rank 4 monster Number 52: Daimond Crab King. The card debuted in the ZeXal manga, which followed the majority of ZeXal's story, but with it's own twist and eventually it's own plot. Diamond Crab had an ability to switch it's stats and gain 3000 atk on the fly, which was a good way to slay the towers. As one of the Numbers featured in the manga, it naturally debuted as a promo in the manga. Kinda hard to get, but no big deal right? Wrong!The card was initially released as a promotional card in the United States, but it wasn't officially distributed in Europe for a good chunk of time. Naturally, this created some chaos amongst European players. You either had to import this promo card as the perfect tech kryptonite for the first ever Towers, or just loose if they can summon it. There's some interesting history to it, and if you use an AI assistant you can dig up some cool stuff from a decade ago about playing in that time when that was a thing. Could potentially make for a good 10 minutes of content given the history of the early Pendulumn era and the ZeXal manga both being such big talking points. Directly quoting my research bot here as the selling point: "So, the saga of Diamond Crab King and Qliphort Towers is a testament to how a single card can shape the dynamics of a game and the importance of equitable access to game-changing cards. It's a fascinating chapter in the history of Yu-Gi-Oh! that underscores the intricate interplay between card design, distribution, and competitive strategy." P.S. Have you considered doing a podcast with one of the MTG guys to do a weekly cardgame discussion? could be a great place to dump extra content too.
I have a FTK Blue-Eyes Exodia deck. It uses Blue-Eyes cards as resources for a draw engine. I don't play Yu-Gi-Oh anymore but whenever I'm sitting around doing nothing, I'll wipe it out and basically play Solitaire with myself. I use a lot of the original Exodia and Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards from the Bandai. It runs the 5 pieces of Exodia, 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon, 1 Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon, 3 White Stone of Legend, 3 Cards of Consonance, 3 Toon Tables of Contents, 1 Royal Magical Library, 3 Trade-In.
you didnt mention their redemtion last year with anniversary tokyo dome which held in the exact same date when this happen, and the 39k players ycsj tournament
Man, I played this game as a kid growing up, competitively from 2009 to 2014, even professionally commentated for the ARG Circuit Series and I NEVER once heard about this. Honestly astounding to continue learning new things about this batshit crazy children's card game (sometimes played on Motorcycles)
Oh, I get to be a turbo-nerd now! "If at any point during the game you have these 5 cards in your hand you automatically win the duel" This is technically incorrect, as exodia is only checked between chainlinks and applied effects. During a single effects resolution it is possible to have all 5 pieces of exodia in your hand and not win the game. For example, if you draw cards with Graceful Charity and have all 5 pieces in your hand, you don't win the duel until after you discard 2 cards. Regardless, awesome video, guys, keep it up!
@DavidsFeverDream Not quite. If the effect on Chain Llink 3 draws you exodia then does something else you win as soon as that something else resolves. The open game state occurs when the whole chain resolves and then both players pass on activating any effects in response to the chain.
@TwistedBOLT Okay I think I get it. If I have 4 pieces of Exodia and my opponent activates Talents to shuffle back 1 of the pieces, I can chain Jar of Greed, and if I draw the 5th piece of exodia, I win as soon as Jar of Greed resolves and Talents doesn't get to resolve. Is that right?
@@yogi_gs konami has always call it official card game to differrentiate their yugioh to other manufacturer like bandai's and even tomy's, other can print whatever but the official that approved by takahashi was always the konami's ocg.
Great story. Well made and informative video. Played the game for many years, but did not know this. I was skeptical at first, thinking this might just be a clickbait'ey title, but this has surpassed everything I wanted and could have expected. Great stuff! :) Shoutout to the authors.
There is no game. Exodia is the only card that can make you win before the game starts, it's known as a turn 0 kill. This happens during game prep when you draw your hand.
@@resphantomThere is also a way with 7 completed to achieve a ZTK. But the only way to do it without anyone playing anything at all is through Exodia.
@@resphantom A turn 0 kill is to win on the opponent's turn during turn one. This can be done with Exodia. I'm not sure if it's possible in other ways in yugioh.
I knew Heart of the Blue-Eyes was a reference to season 0. Everyone said I was wrong but I freaking called it man. The new Blue-Eyes card's effect was basically what happened in season 0 and they trashed on me lmao.
During the brief half-year to a year of popularity that YGO held in my school back in the day during the first seasons of the anime, not a single player ever managed to collect every single piece of Exodia. I believe I had 2 parts of it at most back in the day, before trading them away shortly before everyone kinda collectively lost interest in the card game. Me and the other nerds still into TCGs in concept instead got into MtG.
LOL: I just read an article about Lorcana where people talk about banning Diablo, and Zach Bivens says: " I referred to my opening hands with diablo1, diablo3, action, and Cove as ‘Exodia’"
shouldve also explain the origins of exodia being based off of the egyptian god osiris who was also separated into multiple pieces that had to be reassembled
This does remind me of what happened to me at a tournament once. I somehow drew all five Exodia parts on my first turn and the other kids accused me of cheating. I didn't cheat, but they refused to believe me and treated me like I was a worse man than Hitler. However, I took the Exodia pieces out of my deck the next week to help prove I was not a cheater. All of the other kids except for one believed me. That one guy still accused me of being a cheater and unfortunately, he took it to the extreme. He would tell every single person in the store that I was a cheater, even if they weren't there for the Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments, refused to let me shuffle my own deck when we got paired in a tournament round, and refused to listen to the concrete evidence that proved to everyone I was not a cheater. It was as if he was in full denial. He even staked on his very life that this theory of me being a cheater was 250% true even though it was not and it lasted for two years. I had to move to a different gaming store to play Yu-Gi-Oh just to get away from the jerk! I did return to that store six months later and it did seem like he was gone, but that guy was one nasty piece of work.
We'd enjoy more Yu-Gi-Oh content on both the metagame history as well as the franchise history in general. 'Tis always exciting to (re)watch these sort of videos~
I had a shower thought the other day Since to my knowledge, there isn't a fleshed out canon source for Exodia lore and his place in the pantheon when compared to the other Egyptian gods, I came to the conclusion that what if Exodia is like the Kratos of Yugioh's Egyptian lore? He is arguably as strong as the gods--I'd argue perhaps even stronger given his win condition even if hypothetically the opponent has all 3 gods on their field Also given the fact he isn't divine beast type, he's simply a spellcaster, kinda like how Kratos was just a normal mortal man who climbed to the rank of God, and was a God slayer. I remember there was some appearance and mention of Exodia in the original yugioh's dawn of the duel season, but I don't remember to what extent Exodia's presence or aura was
@@user-nl5re1th8p the game is literally still the same in terms of art direction, early year you got toon monster vs gravekeeper now you have an entire choir vs a bunch of birds on vacation.
If you haven't already would you do a video on how the 1st Ed dark paladin came with the wrong art? Favorite gem in my collection. However I really would love to get my hands on a copy of the revised 1st Ed copies they sent out if you sent in yours.
Attacking or Negating is Futile , Blocking or Stunning Begone, 5 Seals of the pieces Undone. Nowhere to Hide and Run, Behold the Forbidden One, Your Doom has Begun. 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
I don’t what you’d call it. Millennium? Bossodia? Ankh Exodia?? But that’s my shit, normal alt win con Exodia is fun and all. But I love just beating ass with that Exodia boss mon, makes me feel truly powerful🖤🗣️🔥
ok so I clicked on this video to learn about the card that caused riots, and I'm hearing about the history of season 0 for the 700th time. can we get to the point?
Exodia's parts has been limited at one since around or slightly before Goat format originally began. He's just that good, even if his respective deck is heavily powercrept.
Check out Exodia’s power in Oliver Bilodeau’s Decklist from Top 32 of YCS Niagara Falls! bit.ly/3Ua86b8
Well, everyone a riot later managed to get their hands on Exodia... and that's where the OCG entered a Exodia FTK year not helped by Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest's original texts.
It’d be nice if the exodia retrains were covered at some point as well
Please make more of these yugioh history/documentary type videos. Its a good way for people like me who fell out of the hobby to get back in!
Yugioh has a lot of cool history that would make for great videos! I would love to do more if people like them :)
-Taylor
millenium exodia is easy enough to pilot as it probably only summon once if you want to play exodia in modern settings
I love old-school Yu-Gi-Oh! - I followed it up to the 5Ds/early XYZ era.
I lost interest after the XYZ era. The game got too complex, cards became too powerful, combos became too long.
I'd love to get back into it, but I feel the damage is already done - and you can't 'reverse' the game to a more enjoyable state.
The host has such a soothing voice though. I would totally watch a video of him just reading all YGO cards
Wait a minute... THIS IS GENIUS!
-Taylor
Yeah BrutalMoose does speak nicely
i need this as an april fools video so i can listen to it and the magic channel's 10h shuffling video at the same time
ASMRMarketYGO
The outro with the end of the first duel, chills! Thank you Taylor and Cardmarket team for an informative dive into the history! Learned a lot!
Yooooo that Bandai burn at the beginning XD (just for that I’ll find an extra person to share this with.
Anyways, what can I say, this is yet another banger. I think you guys have really been hitting your stride, and I’m glad to see the algorithm is favoring smart content. Here’s a potential topic for a future essay, and it’s one of my favorites in Yu-Gi-Oh (I’m shocked nobody talks about it). All Yu-Gi-Oh fans know the term “Towers” it’s such a well known term that even other card gamers use it. It all originated from Qliforth Towers, a three tribute effect monster that was immune to most card effects, and could shut down almost all effect monsters. If your opponent could tribute 3 to summon this card, it was over, and it was over in a very slow and painful way. The only two cards that could beat it were the Big Saturn, which most players would not run since it has a special summon restriction (it can go boom in a big way) and the Rank 4 monster Number 52: Daimond Crab King. The card debuted in the ZeXal manga, which followed the majority of ZeXal's story, but with it's own twist and eventually it's own plot. Diamond Crab had an ability to switch it's stats and gain 3000 atk on the fly, which was a good way to slay the towers. As one of the Numbers featured in the manga, it naturally debuted as a promo in the manga. Kinda hard to get, but no big deal right? Wrong!The card was initially released as a promotional card in the United States, but it wasn't officially distributed in Europe for a good chunk of time. Naturally, this created some chaos amongst European players. You either had to import this promo card as the perfect tech kryptonite for the first ever Towers, or just loose if they can summon it. There's some interesting history to it, and if you use an AI assistant you can dig up some cool stuff from a decade ago about playing in that time when that was a thing. Could potentially make for a good 10 minutes of content given the history of the early Pendulumn era and the ZeXal manga both being such big talking points.
Directly quoting my research bot here as the selling point:
"So, the saga of Diamond Crab King and Qliphort Towers is a testament to how a single card can shape the dynamics of a game and the importance of equitable access to game-changing cards. It's a fascinating chapter in the history of Yu-Gi-Oh! that underscores the intricate interplay between card design, distribution, and competitive strategy."
P.S. Have you considered doing a podcast with one of the MTG guys to do a weekly cardgame discussion? could be a great place to dump extra content too.
I have a FTK Blue-Eyes Exodia deck. It uses Blue-Eyes cards as resources for a draw engine. I don't play Yu-Gi-Oh anymore but whenever I'm sitting around doing nothing, I'll wipe it out and basically play Solitaire with myself. I use a lot of the original Exodia and Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards from the Bandai.
It runs the 5 pieces of Exodia, 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon, 1 Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon, 3 White Stone of Legend, 3 Cards of Consonance, 3 Toon Tables of Contents, 1 Royal Magical Library, 3 Trade-In.
you didnt mention their redemtion last year with anniversary tokyo dome which held in the exact same date when this happen, and the 39k players ycsj tournament
Man, I played this game as a kid growing up, competitively from 2009 to 2014, even professionally commentated for the ARG Circuit Series and I NEVER once heard about this. Honestly astounding to continue learning new things about this batshit crazy children's card game (sometimes played on Motorcycles)
This story time was awesome. Really enjoyed the backstory of the manga in particular! Thanks!
I've been out of YGO for the last 20 years until the past month. I bought a LOB original exodia set on Ebay last week. My inner child is screaming.
Nice 👍
Oh, I get to be a turbo-nerd now!
"If at any point during the game you have these 5 cards in your hand you automatically win the duel"
This is technically incorrect, as exodia is only checked between chainlinks and applied effects.
During a single effects resolution it is possible to have all 5 pieces of exodia in your hand and not win the game.
For example, if you draw cards with Graceful Charity and have all 5 pieces in your hand, you don't win the duel until after you discard 2 cards.
Regardless, awesome video, guys, keep it up!
So basically, you'll win at the start of the next open game state
@DavidsFeverDream Not quite. If the effect on Chain Llink 3 draws you exodia then does something else you win as soon as that something else resolves. The open game state occurs when the whole chain resolves and then both players pass on activating any effects in response to the chain.
@TwistedBOLT Okay I think I get it. If I have 4 pieces of Exodia and my opponent activates Talents to shuffle back 1 of the pieces, I can chain Jar of Greed, and if I draw the 5th piece of exodia, I win as soon as Jar of Greed resolves and Talents doesn't get to resolve. Is that right?
@DavidsFeverDream Absolutely correct. The duel ends before the talents resolves.
OCG history is always such an interesting topic
Its not OCG history.
because their is no OCG back then 😅
@@yogi_gs konami has always call it official card game to differrentiate their yugioh to other manufacturer like bandai's and even tomy's, other can print whatever but the official that approved by takahashi was always the konami's ocg.
1:05 - 1:27 I thought I was having a stroke when the same part played twice
You ARE having a stroke
Fixed! Thanks for letting us know!
-Taylor
Great story. Well made and informative video. Played the game for many years, but did not know this.
I was skeptical at first, thinking this might just be a clickbait'ey title, but this has surpassed everything I wanted and could have expected. Great stuff! :) Shoutout to the authors.
I wish i was around or lived there, i wish i could have competed.
In Magic terms, Exodia doesn't use the stack!
Exactly! Exodia is the greatest for a reason!!
-Taylor
There is no game. Exodia is the only card that can make you win before the game starts, it's known as a turn 0 kill. This happens during game prep when you draw your hand.
@@resphantomThere is also a way with 7 completed to achieve a ZTK. But the only way to do it without anyone playing anything at all is through Exodia.
@@resphantom A turn 0 kill is to win on the opponent's turn during turn one. This can be done with Exodia. I'm not sure if it's possible in other ways in yugioh.
@@Kalenz1234 your opponent playing mill deck and accidentally hit jackpot 7
Can’t believe getting into yugioh would lead me here!
This video was really stabilized!
Always glad to see viewers come to CM from my personal channel. Thanks for the many years of support! Wouldn’t be here without you :)
-Taylor
I knew Heart of the Blue-Eyes was a reference to season 0. Everyone said I was wrong but I freaking called it man. The new Blue-Eyes card's effect was basically what happened in season 0 and they trashed on me lmao.
Had those idiots even read the chapters?! It's kinda obvious.
thanks for the history review! exodia is truly one of the most iconic monsters in yugioh! and one of my favorites of yugioh, still, to this day.
During the brief half-year to a year of popularity that YGO held in my school back in the day during the first seasons of the anime, not a single player ever managed to collect every single piece of Exodia. I believe I had 2 parts of it at most back in the day, before trading them away shortly before everyone kinda collectively lost interest in the card game. Me and the other nerds still into TCGs in concept instead got into MtG.
Great video, when I was a kid, I didn’t know about this 😅
I wish I had the exodia cards
LOL: I just read an article about Lorcana where people talk about banning Diablo, and Zach Bivens says: " I referred to my opening hands with diablo1, diablo3, action, and Cove as ‘Exodia’"
If you collect cards, at least you'll have something to play with when the EMP's fry all the electronics.
shouldve also explain the origins of exodia being based off of the egyptian god osiris who was also separated into multiple pieces that had to be reassembled
This does remind me of what happened to me at a tournament once. I somehow drew all five Exodia parts on my first turn and the other kids accused me of cheating. I didn't cheat, but they refused to believe me and treated me like I was a worse man than Hitler. However, I took the Exodia pieces out of my deck the next week to help prove I was not a cheater. All of the other kids except for one believed me. That one guy still accused me of being a cheater and unfortunately, he took it to the extreme. He would tell every single person in the store that I was a cheater, even if they weren't there for the Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments, refused to let me shuffle my own deck when we got paired in a tournament round, and refused to listen to the concrete evidence that proved to everyone I was not a cheater. It was as if he was in full denial. He even staked on his very life that this theory of me being a cheater was 250% true even though it was not and it lasted for two years. I had to move to a different gaming store to play Yu-Gi-Oh just to get away from the jerk! I did return to that store six months later and it did seem like he was gone, but that guy was one nasty piece of work.
We'd enjoy more Yu-Gi-Oh content on both the metagame history as well as the franchise history in general. 'Tis always exciting to (re)watch these sort of videos~
I was in elementary school, and there was one boy who had all the exodia cards. He almost always won, and we all hated him.
I'd ❤ 2 know how Exodia is doing @ tourneys in '24!
I had a shower thought the other day
Since to my knowledge, there isn't a fleshed out canon source for Exodia lore and his place in the pantheon when compared to the other Egyptian gods, I came to the conclusion that what if Exodia is like the Kratos of Yugioh's Egyptian lore?
He is arguably as strong as the gods--I'd argue perhaps even stronger given his win condition even if hypothetically the opponent has all 3 gods on their field
Also given the fact he isn't divine beast type, he's simply a spellcaster, kinda like how Kratos was just a normal mortal man who climbed to the rank of God, and was a God slayer.
I remember there was some appearance and mention of Exodia in the original yugioh's dawn of the duel season, but I don't remember to what extent Exodia's presence or aura was
Exodia is based on the Egyptian god Osiris (I know its confusing because Slifer is called Osiris in the series) but look it up and it matchhes.
@makenaiyomi1083 ah okay that's interesting I'll have to do some research
You gotta love how, decades later, Konami will bring Yu-Gi-Oh! back to the Tokyo Dome for last year's worlds
Would be very poetic if the game didnt devolve into a terrible cash grab with mediocre art
@@user-nl5re1th8p the game is literally still the same in terms of art direction, early year you got toon monster vs gravekeeper now you have an entire choir vs a bunch of birds on vacation.
@@user-nl5re1th8plmao tell me that when konami creates a reserve list to inflate prices and sells crappy proxies at $999
Oh and dont forget the “set rotation” scam that idiots have stockholm syndrome for
You're really giving cop in a BBC show in the thumbnail
If you haven't already would you do a video on how the 1st Ed dark paladin came with the wrong art? Favorite gem in my collection. However I really would love to get my hands on a copy of the revised 1st Ed copies they sent out if you sent in yours.
it was so brave of konami to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the tokyo dome riots they caused. i bet everyone stood up and clapped
Ok great but when do we get the domain duels?
Attacking or Negating is Futile , Blocking or Stunning Begone, 5 Seals of the pieces Undone. Nowhere to Hide and Run, Behold the Forbidden One, Your Doom has Begun. 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
The manga was fire, js. If you haven’t read it, I 1000% recommend it. Both of them.
The real thing to riot for is how limited the OCG series 1 Exodia head is to get.... like WTF
I'm invested and want to know how exodia could be competitive
Season zero of the anime is pre-first duel woth kaiba. It's on youtube.
I don’t what you’d call it. Millennium? Bossodia? Ankh Exodia?? But that’s my shit, normal alt win con Exodia is fun and all. But I love just beating ass with that Exodia boss mon, makes me feel truly powerful🖤🗣️🔥
ok so I clicked on this video to learn about the card that caused riots, and I'm hearing about the history of season 0 for the 700th time. can we get to the point?
15:00 id like to know
i like this sytle of vidoes
Style. Video.
God forgive you
Damn Brother Konami selling out the Tokyo Dome like when Kenny Omega returns to NJPW
Omega is a child groomer and hangs with ped0s. It's sad people are his fans
I see you’re a person of culture.
@@Hot_Dog_Jones Omega is a groomer
@alysonmcmanus2005 another suppoter of a diddler
I believe that you should allowed to place 1 of each Exodia Part in the deck for any TCG, and drawing all 5 will insta-win.
Exodia's parts has been limited at one since around or slightly before Goat format originally began. He's just that good, even if his respective deck is heavily powercrept.
I miss the old host. This guy isn't a good replacement
that's not what your mom said last night