History of Duel Links - The DSoD Era - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- A deep look into the History of the releases of Duel Links, their impact on the game, and the overall meta over the course of the DSoD Era.
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Thank you all for watching, this has been a labor of love over the past few months and I'm just so happy that it came together in the end.
Playlist of Music in Order Played: • History of Duel Links ...
Resources Used for Research:
www.duellinksmeta.com/
duellinks.gamea.co/
yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-...
yugipedia.com/wiki/Yugipedia
A special thanks to all of my friends who helped me with all the different stages of development, it truly means the world.
Recap and Intro: 0:00
DSoD Launch: 0:38
Dark Dimension: 4:45
Spirit of the Beast: 12:49
October 2019 Balance Update: 17:57
Transcend Game Part 2: 20:44
Aerial Assault: 21:39
KC Cup - November 2019: 25:58
November 2019 Balance Update: 33:02
King's Resonance: 34:21
The Netherworld Cometh: 35:45
December 2019 Balance Update: 36:28
Soul of Resurrection: 37:37
Future Horizons: 41:11
Dragunity Overdrive: 45:49
Selection Box Volume 3: 47:11
Memories of a Friend: 48:55
Masters of Shadow: 50:06
KC Cup - February 2020: 52:23
Gladiator's Storm: 56:41
Maiden in Love: 57:38
Judgment Force: 58:38
March 2020 Balance Update: 1:03:06 - Ігри
This video pleases me
Oh hey long time no see Whirlwynnd Lmao
The man himself!
The DSOD era was wild. Decks like Invoked, Shiranui, Darklords and Blackwings had some insane power that we don’t see in Duel links nowadays.
Normal aleister?
I mean... ddd and melodious are quite good atm
@@lucapangrazi9217 they are nowhere near prime power level of the decks he mentioned.
@@lucapangrazi9217 i played ddd at tournament, they left behind if u say it on power ranking if u compare it on DSOD era, man i miss that good old days
whats nuts is how a xyz's engine brought back darklords after they gutted it.
I still cant believe Scud got released instead of literally anyone else
Haha moment
Fricking Scud is in the game but not Rebecca,Valon,Rafeal,leon Atticus,banner,sherry
@@MrCheetoMan1917 Clearly you haven't watched season 4
The fact that the first HALF of the DSOD got an hour long video really shows how absurdly powerful this meta was. Still get flashbacks every time I see 3 set cards or a normal summoned aleister.
I hate invoked so much lol
You know whats funny?
Invoked cocytus is an R rarity card
Ah yes! Here we are! My start to Duel Links.
I'm gonna go back in time and kick my own ass for building Spell Counters when Invoked, Magician Girls, Gravekeepers, Ritual Beasts, and Blackwings were on the table.
...I used a Dream Ticket on Breaker, the Magical Warrior...
I dont blame you, breaker was a popular choice. When spending on Dream Tickets you should just also take into consideration the future
Oof
Kind of the same for me, I started in July, before dsod released, during the synchro era.
I was building literally trash decks back then (Scraps & Morphtronic... They have "Junk box") and used Dreams for 2nd Kuriboh & Nobleman of extermination...
Spell counter might be useful on Pendulum thou
LOL
Fun drinking game: every time Aleister the Invoker (or Invoked monsters in general) is mentioned, take a shot
Five minutes later:*dies in alcohol*
I did this.......... Now I'm a ghost thanks a lot.
Take a sip, and you'll still be drunk in 5 minutes.
Alcohol Posioning the musical
No matter if it’s Duel Links or the TCG…
Aleister is omnipresent 😓
As someone who is only recently getting into duel links, this series has been incredibly informative. It really helps understanding when and how all the content, which feels so overwhelming at first glance, came out and how it comes together.
I didn't even realize DSoD came out that late in the game's life! This has increased my enjoyment of the game significantly. And the videos themselves all well paced, and plenty engaging enough.
You're doing a great job, and thanks for putting in all the effort to make these!
👁
The most insane era of duel links history with bordeline broken decks like invoked and shiranui
I love this Era that was so fun.
@@skream2018 more like powercreep every other deck to the point u only met the same ass deck for most of the time. yep really 'fun'.
Not borderline, just busted
@@-Yu_Tsugami definitely more fun to play broken ass deck than really weak tier 1 deck right now.
Cyber Dragons, Black Wings, Lunalight, Blue-eyes and Shiranui: *Ripping the meta*
Me: Building a shark deck one card at the time because sharks are neat
I personally hated this era so much, the power creep level was insane, most higher than some old TCG decks.
All the time facing the same 3 decks, over a year.....
the same 3 decks? i do not remember ladder being as vanilla as harpies, gaia and clock tower. that era had cydras, invoked, shiranui, crystrons, darklords, ritual beasts, blackwings, dm and some rogue decks like blue eyes, shs, luna lights. You are crazy if u think only 3 decks were playable this era.
@@eleonarcrimson858 you mean: shiranui > blackwing > all invoked variants
@@Ramon____OC so rogue decks have no name now gotcha.
ah yes i prefer when the meta was just darklord and other darklord
@@eleonarcrimson858 if you were playing anything but invoked, bw or shiranui you were stupid and probably losing
To people who didn't start playing until after October 2019 you are blessed for not experiencing Darklords with Beatdown every turn, god what a nightmare that was
This was a good time in the game. Banger after banger new archetypes. I feel like the last 6 months of boxes currently haven't gave us nearly as much
No cap, the only thing I can remember in the past few months were DDD’s, Harpies and pendulums LOL
Yeah this was a good time in the game. Was a fun challenging game that had plenty of different overpowered decks to chose from. Been disappointed lately by the releases konami has had. Feels kind of stale now.
DSOD era is boarderline the best year of all without a daubt nower days the meta decks are so weak that its not really fun anymore
It's like they just couldn't miss during this era!
I remember stuff like Shira, Despa, Cydra, Invoked lasting a while and being tough as nails.
Early Arc-V stuff this soon like SHS and LL were very fun. I love how ambitious they were in this era.
Heads up, this is a Duel Links story of mine experimental deck builders might find interesting. (text wall warning)
58:45 "HERE IT IS, HERE IT IS" I thought, *"it"* was the final piece I needed to take Thunder Dragons (TD) to the next level and re-invent the deck. Glow Up Bulb released here and made the cut for the final UR tuner that can *SS itself from the GY* in my 30 card Spell Specialist Grass Thunder Dragon (TD) deck. This was an idea I literally saw NO ONE play (for good reason too because the deck had as many Box URs as a full Dark World Deck) It focused on 2 spells being Gold Sarcophagus and That Grass Looks Greener to far surpass the consistency of every other TD deck at the time. *2x Glow Up Bulb,* *3x Jet Synchron,* and *3x Plague Spreader Zombie* made up the roster of tuners that made the multiple Synchro spam plays happen.
Now wait your wondering, how the heck are you going draw the spells Sarc or Grass Consistently in a 30 card deck?
Well you see there was a busted skill that practically guaranteed a spell in your opening hand called Spell Specialist. It requires you to play 5 different spells to activate, but if you played 3x of a spell you wanted (3Grass and 3Sarc) you would be practically guaranteed to open at least 1 of them with another random spell on average.(I played 1x(Mallet,IntoThe Void,Card Of Sanctity)
This skill got nerfed as to take down the probability of you opening up your busted spells sometime later, but for a while you could abuse it to open god hands like a goldmine.
The plays would involve either drawing any tuner + Sarc(Combo1) or drawing Grass + TD Hawk(Combo2). What this would do is give you 2 VERY possible hands where you could make anything from double Blackrose, Brionic, Scrap Dragon, basically any 2 Synchros with both combos, but there was a difference between them.
The difference: Now If you had another extender like maybe you already drew TD Hawk specifically for combo1 OR you drew TD Duo specifically for combo2, you could also make a Vermilion Dragon Mech in the same turn as your 2 other Synchros (much easier to do with combo 2)
Grass on average would mill me 2-3 tuners and at least 1 TD Dark or TD Roar, with the rest of the card in my hand being fodder for the tuners to SS themselves or combo extenders, there is no loss here. I ran 2 Aloof Lupine to fill in the rest of the necessary consistency LIGHTSWORN WAS NOT OPTIMAL. To give you the time period, this was before we got Levianeer but after TD Duo.
This deck, this deck was awesome and I was the only one playing it while the rest of the TD players relied on RNG to draw what they wanted. Just goes to show the players out there who also hate mirror matches, knowing what cards the other is playing, and the idea that they have an equal chance of winning as does their opponent will not be so vocal about the actual good decks they unearth through experimentation.
Edit: Grammar Fix, if you got this far you deserve a trophy for patience+reading lol
Some people might ask how I dealt with backrow, I ran 2 Nine-Tailed Fox (the fire one) because it helped facilitate Synchro plays and it tributes the monsters affected by the backrow. I had a game plan vs SuperHeavy Samurai too, I would throw in a copy of Hyper Psychic Riser because its effect prevents all SuperHeavies from attacking and the game would go to deck out in my favor all the time.
And here is where I started playing. So many powerful decks and cards in this era. So much PTSD as well...
That was fun Era i miss this Time.
Was waiting on this awesome work on these videos
Invoked Magician Girls and Darklords are probably my favorite DL decks of all time
Awesome work on these videos was waiting on this one
Ahh. Such good memories. Man I love that spellcaster. He was so loyal and he's such a kind king. His reign is truly an era that will be remembered forever in history.
This was when I was King of Games. Silent Invoked / berry and chocolate magician girls, lava golemn, and jinzo. Destiny draw and 2-3 Solemn Scold to trigger it more easily by lowering life.
Loved that deck was so sad when I couldnt play it anymore
I started in this era and nothing of the Decks we have today in Duellinks is half so strong like these decks… so much power these decks had….
Great video! Thanks for uploading!
YES! So happy! Thank you Law!
As much as I hated invoked, this era has a soft spot for me since Dec 2019 was the first and so far only time i grinded out a KoG. most of the time i'm happy hitting legend and idc about a couple hundred gems for hours of torment. The deck i used was ironically, one of the ones he brushed off. Yosenju. Kama 2 + 3 paired well to chip away and search, tsujik was a nice boost, izna could draw through your deck faster, sword sting was insane, oyam (not sure if that was this pack and he didnt mention it, or later) was basically unkillable by battle and not a lot of decks besides invoked had a consistent way to remove a lava golem from their board.
Yes, me too. I toped some tournaments with Yosenjus killikng decks like Invoked, DM, RB, Shira. Yosenjus + shadow game + Lava Golem was too powerfull
This is the time were i started playing. I remember when i knew nothing about the metagame and just wanted to make roleplay decks for fun.
Played since the release, tried a lot of decks and ended up being KoG a couple of times… Never felt as invincible as I did while playing invoked, that deck was instant destruction. My all time favorite!
i hate the fact duel links also had to suffer normal summon aleister.
My favorite decks are from DSoD Era
thanks to aleister I kept playing spellbook silent for three years. this era was nasty as hell because Al was dominating DL , OCG and TCG AT THE SAME TIME
The return of my favorite series
This brings me much joy
i played DL actively from the start till somewhere in the middle of GX era, and returned for a very short time at the release of 5ds, so it's really nice to see these, as it's been quite some time since i've played
I first got into Duel Links on the 1st anniversary of the game in the middle of the GX era, and I had not played a single game of Yu-Gi-Oh, I only found the game after watching the anime on Netflix but now I am pretty good at the game (The only problem l have is that I keep on building outdated decks) so these videos are really interesting to watch for me so keep up the good work!
Man I love that Library theme at the beggining, so damn good
I started playing around this time. Its nice to look back and see how broken the decks were
Great vid, I remember how rampant Shiranui was back in the day.
thx for u work here, really good.
Love your series, keep it going! I took a break sometime after the start of the DSOD era so this is new stuff to know for sure. Then I refused to return for Zexal because not too fond of that era though when you cover it I'll check that out. I still have my Zexal locked I refuse that era. Returned for a while during the pendulum era start.
*normal summons Aleister*
Wow! I'm amazed, and also waiting for the next one..
I can’t wait for more video and see more Negative1 reaction to the video to the history of duel link
That starting music is definitely from an old yugioh game, brings back crazy memories
HONEY WAKE UP THE LAW POSTED A NEW DUEL LINKS VID!
Yeah this era had probably the highest power level the game has ever seen. Full power darklord, invoked elementsaber and shiranui are stronger than onomats could ever hope to be and far stronger than anything we have right now
I have a question. The UR and SR drem tickets are to my understanding able to get you any card from any deck or box as long as they're not from the 2 more recent boxes (with the exception of the selection boxes). If that's right why I'm unable to select Ebon Illusion Magician with either SR dream ticket, from the 4th anniversary event from like a week ago, or the one from the arc V world intrudction, even when the box in which that magician comes in is from all the way in sept., and many boxes have been released.
57:39 "There can only be one winner, and you're looking at him. Lets go
This era is the most impactful of the gens for me, it's also nostalgic since it covers the pre pandemic and pos pandemic year in duel links.
Your duel links series is amazing, Law! Well done!
This is gonna have a combined length of a feature film, my lord
I miss Element sabers, it worked so well and was so fun to play.
To this day,magician girls with quintet magician is my fav deck in duel links.Its just so much fun and it's not OP
lets go! my boy superheavy samurai
I miss old shiranui, the new one is just so lame running only like 6 monsters and a ton of traps. Instead of doing sick combos it's just stall and wait to draw monsters in order to facilitate GY synchros
My best friend started playing Duel Links about a year ago. His first deck was Super-Sams, and it destroyed the game. At the time he played it (not when the deck released), it was a monster of a deck because no meta decks at the time had proper outs to their monsters and Sams were extremely consistent. He still plays the deck, even in Master Duel and it’s still serving him well. Never underestimate the big-booty-boys. They will sit on you when you least expect it.
*insert picture of Michael Scott holding a jar of sand saying, "I was there"*
ahhh lunalights.. memories. i hope they bring back bird and marten one day 😔 or introduce panther and leo dancer with arc-v, that would shake the meta so hard
DSoD era is so crazy!!
So many great and power house decks battle for supremacy
Cant wait for Tea DSoD and Witchcrafter to come!
dark cavalry aint once per turn right? as long as u have discard fodder
Guys, do you think that duel links is ready for Elemental Hero Absolute Zero or Elemental Hero Sunrise?
flip summon aliester
The 2019 November KC Cup was so crazy. The average DP for each player was much higher than most KC Cups. I remember my friend got 75000DP and that wasn't even enough to get top 100 global, but if you got that result now you could get top 10 global. I personally managed to get 61000DP and top 500 global with Ancient Gears which I was really proud of. It's actually the Duelist I decklist shown in the KC report too!
It feels nice to check how people played the decks back in the day, I remember joining DL day 1 when it launched and play naturian strawberry beatdown all day. I left during the middle of the DM era, then comeback at the start of the GX era. I love that I was there for every type of meta besides the DM meta
Absolutely nobody:
Konami: "Let's add Aliester to Duel Links, it definitely wont break the game no matter how hard we try to nerf it"
That didn’t last time well
i mean they just needed to hit invocation to 3 and aliester to 3. They just didn't want to since it was a ur.
@@eleonarcrimson858 Eh it went from broken to unplayable, wouldnt say they fixed it. And its a big fuck you to people that spent money to get 3 copies of 2 sets of ultras in a 200 box set -_-
Is there a Part 2 ?
I downloaded Duel Links in March of 2019, basically around the 5D's era. The most recent Box during that time was Warriors Unite. I remember whenever I got 50 gems I'd spend it immediately, even making a makeshift Synchro deck, with cards like Dark Magician, Red-Eyes, Shi-En, and Stardust Charge Warrior being my deck's aces.
Our favourite Normal Summon
I saw Kiteroid show up, and a shiver ran down my spine.
Miss the relinquished, dinos and harpies times
A bit surprised you didn't mention a key piece of support for future resonator decks from soul of resurrection with red resonator.
Is that your twitch in the description? I clicked the link and it went to a dead link, might wanna update it. I wanna shout you out on twitch but I'd need a working link
Thank you for reminding me how much i hated having to deal with invoked lol
We are still not at the point where I joined. All these historic moments I missed sound exciting.
Its crazy to think this was just last year.
Curious why it is you say the world's name as a phoentic sound instead of just saying "D-S-O-D". Also, a minor correction for the opening bit. The movie was based on the continuity of the original manga, not the anime.
I got into duel links right as the blue eyes structure came out. Climbing the ladder with karma cut blue eyes was fun
I remember running grave keepers in this era whilst trying to pull elementsabers
Bizzare era yet so fun to play
Love the duelist of the roses 🌹 music 🎶
Blair coming in for DSoD to support the DARKsworns was about as random as seeing Ritual Beasts doing well...I played irl and the games that weren't Duel Links so this is definitely not what I expected
A year later, and I’m still disappointed that the script didn’t have you say “the Netherworld Cometh and went” at 36:19 …
When u end this can u do a tcg and ocg meta list like this video' ? I love ur contect man
I remember the collective sigh of relief when Shirnaui got nerfed, only for BEWD and Cyber Dragon to jump back on top lol
this was around the time i started playing the game with shiranui being my first deck
Everyone: Listens to paper crinkling for ASMR
Me: Listens to the meta game of Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links
I cry every time i look at my invoked saber deck..
this was around the time i first started playing duel links. judgement force was the first box i bought from
This is about where I left the game for a while. Lets see what holds in the rest of DSoD and Zexal
God I loved this Era
Invoked Elementsaber gave me PTSD, but I still love Invoked Magician Girls. One of my favorites of this era. Next is my favorite mini box, Fortress of Gears! Vision Hero Vyon gets released...only to go right back on the banlist after that KC Cup.
E saber invoked was a nice deck.
Not watched yet but I know this shit will be just as good as the others
god I miss being able to play synchro shiranui and that grass looks greener. it was an inevitable ban, but still
Finally 😎
Did you add 6 mins and 10 secs ? Or am I overthinking
37:37
Death. Despair. Sorrow. Everything bad you could think of, somehow was in that box
Ah yes, the part where Blue Eyes became a consistent meta game threat almost from day one.
Normal aleister best deck
I wonder if the melodious section involved a last minute change seeing as melodious was still shit when the last video came out.
Everyone keep saying about invoke shiranui. Do you guys forgot crystron in that era?
This is where I entered DL and like everyone else I wasted my free couple thousand gems. It’s so nuts and sad we will probably never see power levels like this in duel links again.
Cries in not seeing dragunity despite how Good they are (in my opinion)