You never know when you're living in the good old days, so it's important to cherish every moment. This game, and each one of you, has been a source of inspiration for me throughout my journey. To be a part of this community of Legendary Duelists is one of the greatest honors of my life. And I truly believe that right now, more than ever, is the greatest time to be a Duelist.
When skills are about boosting LP, adding cards in your hand, balancing your card draw rate,adding bonus cards in your deck and Ex deck. Now the skills are about summoning monsters outside your deck....
The fact you could play around it or hit him for 2k because you were that confident about winning, made it such a good skill for the game. Now it’s just press a button and let my skill play the game for me
The best part is that while it was a crazy powerful skill there was still a chance it wouldn't save you because we didnt have 1 card board wipes outside of "The Creator skill". The opponent could outplay you, the game runs long and the skill didnt trigger so your resources was long spent. But when you got it off? It felt like an anime moment EVERY TIME. And that was the best thing about DL. So many people complained about how it was "baby yugioh" but it did what it did best - emulate the anime. Now we wishing for it to go back to how it was. Smh
Adding a permanent legacy duel format/game mode would be so awesome. (Way better than rush) Could also have different events based on GX, 5Ds, zexal on a rotation. Or just rotate the format between the cardlists from each year of duel links.
Old duel links offered THE perfect gateway into yugioh at the time. I got to play with simple dumb cards in a learning environment and build goofy decks that popped up in my head and take them to rank and squeeze a couple wins. Now duel links is, in my honest opinion, vegan Master Duel, just infinitely harder to build decks in because have fun pulling 3 of that mainbox UR buddy.
My greatest achievement in duel links was creating a flower cardian deck I labbed with for so many countless hours until I perfected the decklist. I hit KOG with it and even got playmaker to make a video about it. I’ll probably never have this feeling again but I’m glad the fruits of my labor will live on in playmaker’s channel
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I remember when I finally got to play Cyber Dragons in the DSOD era. It was my deck, and I put a lot of gems into it. I played it for 4 KC cups because it was so damn reliable as a rank up method. The duels were quick, simple, and I could get my four wins in no time. Zane was also my favorite duelist back then. I remember back when I first played the game, when Six Samurai was still meta, Shi En and all. I remember back then when a spell negate was the most infuriating thing ever. Good times. There was also the Zexal Era, with Onomatopoeia as the dominant skill. Ditch 2 of your worst cards, and literally get any 2 of your other cards (of your choice I might add) for free. And you could do that twice. It was enough to be tier 0. It was such an absurd archetypal skill back then.
meet powercreep, it was inventible to screw up the game just as it has to the real card game and MD. The formats they give MD and DL are inexcusable, its a **ONLINE GAME** where you can literally make a gamemode for insert set/year down or tag duels. instead: Nope lets be a p2w simulator gacha!
Yeah now it's those friking skills that are broken, I want to have fun with Ra but with so many disruptions now it's almost impossible. The thing I liked is that I could go to master duel to shoot myself in the head, and duel links to chill. Not anymore
@@minibullusa Yeah, the skills are just too much. They completely dictate the pace of the game, the meta, and what cards are strong or weak. It's not fun to use, it's not fun to fight against. Skills back in the day usually just gave you a minor buff or made some kind of rogue stuff useful, like guaranteeing coin flips or something. Not guaranteeing your entire combo if you draw a single piece.
YTDan, Wat007, Bakura, Dkayed and THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND: *Gunsblazing!* Man those were the days... But of course, modern duel links wouldn't be what it is without you Team 6k!
I stopped playing duel links very early after the Zexal expansion was dropped. I always enjoyed the fact that you get to play as the characters from the original animes and even build decks around them, but over time certain characters would either be stuck behind events or never be brought again, making it impossible to get them under your belt unless you’re quick enough. Not only that, it was hard to keep up with everybody else when the power creep meta started to become more relevant, to the point where it started to suffer with the same problem the original card game had: “build your field and beat your opponent in one turn”. Nowadays I much preferred to play the old console games in order to go back to that similar retro experience.
Dkayed transitioned to Master Duel format. Dkayed said people preferred that content compared to Duel Links. Shady has a family now so Pokemon became his main (consistent) form of content and Duel Links is expensive to keep up with the meta and new archetype releases. Many others swapped to other games completely due to a change in interests. Still love duel links and still play today except now I use gems solely to obtain cards.
YESSSIIIIRRR underrated UA-camr back at it again. The opening montage was goosebumps my guy. This is exactly what I was talking about with my comment on your last video too. We don't need skills that read like an essay with requirements that your deck "ONLY CONTAINS " we need generic skills that only slightly balances the deck out. The fact that we were using strats and cards that the TCG meta circuit never even touched was amazing. Battle centric duels that you win by the skin of your teeth, a few hundred points difference in attack or life points. Top decking your win con or out. This was what made the game feel great and put you in the spot of the anime protags. But when you have to go and make Archetypal skills just for these decks that were underpowered in the TCG to be good in Duel Links means that you failed because you messed up the Card Pool Ecosystem so badly that, where they would of thrived in Duel Links with generic skills, they stay underpowered in a game thats already low power level is CRAZY. And unfortunately no matter how much we wish it, the skill system wont get a reboot because they literally just redid a ton of them a few weeks ago and threw them in the Card Trader for pennies. Real bruh moment.
Man that sonic boom intro brings a lot of nostalgia in me, my favorite format and fun memories in this game are Ancient gear meta, Microwave links, six samurai meta, desperado meta, Amazoness meta, bamboo otk, mill and burn deck, dkayed and gunsblazing rivalry, cyberstein meta, grass decks
theres actually an insane amount of diversity in duel links these days and its been that way for a couple years, except for a couple formats here and there -undead
In franse there was a duel link tournament. The final was a joey player. He had 400 lp, no card in hand or field while opponent had 3 monsters and everybody thought it was over. Then he drew his last card, time wizzard, won the roll and won the duel. It was so insane the twitch chat lost their mind
I quit the game a few months ago, best decision of my life. Not only im learning actual yugioh more closely with MD, all the time i used to spend on dailies and grinding im learning photoshop and modding, playing older games, watching more anime. I recommend everyone who feels frustrated with DL, just quit.
I gave up on YGO, way back in 09. I've got everything I wanted from the TCG and anime. Duel links revived my interest around COVID (2020 kinda). Seeing all the new stuff that has been going on in the game was mind blowing (the mechanics, new cards, anime, etc.) When duel links is gone forever, it might also be my last YGO journey
I always liked the idea of a legacy duel format or no skill format alongside pvp and casual duels. But for some reason people get super triggered at the suggestion and tell you to either quit or play md. Like no, some of these skills are way out of hand and yall in denial.
@@randomname9723 It was still fun even after fur hire, but less fun compare to before as we started to special summoning more often, overwhelming opponent, and make the duels one sided. Basically it happened when we started to play real archetypes with real strategy lol.
Oh man, this hits differently. I have been playing DL since 2018 and I'm still playing it today. I remember hitting KOG every season with various decks, because most of them were so simple and easy to learn. But, after the Vrains expansion and addition of link monsters, I struggled to hit KOG and then I wasn't able to get there at all and I haven't been there for more than 1.5 years now. All of the new cards with tons of text, all sorts of graveyard effects, long combos, hand traps and all of that... I just couldn't keep up anymore. So I gave up. Nowadays I'm happy if I can get to Legend 1. That's also the main reason why I don't play the TCG anymore. Rush Duel saved the game for me, I have been playing it since it was added and I have been able to get KOG there every season so far and I'm having fun with it.
I starter playing when they had just added the zexal world and it was so fun. I never hit kog but I always got close like around leg 4-5, which kept me going but after vrains i have trouble already at leg 1. Links ruined the game for me
You basically just summed up all my thoughts over the years. From the power creep part, to how skills are carrying decks, and much more. Like, I couldn't find a good way to explain my thoughts and you just did it perfectly!
The days when you actually had to be creative with deck building and really bringing the full potential with skills out. Now the skills play the game for you
In the recent PVP duels, I dueled a lot of people, and I prepared some really good trap cards to counter their strategies, all the sudden they activate broken "Skills" in order to make my strategies meaningless, completely souring my experiences and brought me a lot of frustrattions, it immediately became cancerous to the point where I had to take a break from the PVP duels all together.
Slap your biggest beater for free like its duelist kingdom, pop skill to put a toxic card in your hand for free, unbrick your hand with character skill and unbanned consistency cards (Melody). Character skills are getting incredibly nasty.
we aint gonna pretend the skill system was ever gonna lead to good things, right? It was manageable back then though and didnt break the fun of the already short-duels that were already more abusable to older strats in yugioh. Some not even breakable via the smaller board size and lesser deck capacity and list.
Bro you forgot James Warai in the Intro Edit: My favorite era is Amazoness Era that's when I hit the King of Games for the first time, I'm really proud that I am one of the player that play this game since the beginning and watch the game evolve through the years and until now I'm still playing even though I have a love/hate relationship in this game, I'm still enthusiastic in playing this game and now I'm still patiently waiting for ultimate conductor tyranno and other Dino supports to be released in this game
@@GothamGon i still have a few of the decks he made saved on my acc. and the gem knight/ battery man deck he made gets me like a win % of 78. but i miss them good old days.
What happened? Master duel happened. I still remember how the biggest youtuber transitioned to the "better yu-gi-oh format", duel links just got left behind. From there it went downhill
LMAO NO WAY YOU BLAMING MD, NAHHHH. You should blame the series, games age, and get more added. Just as yugioh did, and just has MD has. MD is in many ways a direct improvement and is far closer to the TCG/OCG of yugioh, ykw, the REAL yugioh card game. Duel links has issues far from anything related to MD, stop pointing fingers bro. Power creep, aged mechanics and ofc, they moved on to the far more successful product.
@@John-ii6hethe more duel links catches up to master duel the less fun I have. Precisely because I dislike modern Yugioh that's all about disrupting rather than overcoming the other guy's board.
@@Nomorehats Pendulum didnt even do anything super relevant in Duel Links till Raging Pendulum and Command of the Doom King took off as skills months later with a very short lifespan. The closest other thing was Solfachords being very briefly tiered before being quickly powercrept, and no Pend deck's been relevant since
Its all connected to be honest. Master duel= modern yugioh. And modern yugioh is pendulums,links etc. All trash and broken, it may as well not even be yugioh but another card game all together.@Nomorehats
I miss those old days, i remember having some of the best duels back then, playing exodia, burn stall, ftks... My first deck, a plant synchro deck, mostly made out of naturia and some yusei/aki cards, and playing as akiza because of what grows in the gy, literally a tool box extra deck, a synchro for every situation, with a surprise otk in the form of making a turn 1 mist wurm using verge, nat rose and wt rose dragon, then milling carrot weight champion to revive it for the otk. Nowadays this deck not only doesnt work because of the power level, but also because of the weird hit to what grows in the gy. Seriously, i miss dl before the gaia structure, thats when these "fix hand/auto play" skills started popping up...
damnnnnnnn man, I guess my favorite memories was starting to stream and DL being my main focus, hosting tourneys and meeting new people through the discord communities or in chat, DL has given me a lot of good memories, even though I don’t play as often as I used to, I still subscribe to creators and watch their videos to scratch that itch, you guys being one of them, keep up the good work 👍
Team 6k , Paepp, Mekklord and Playmaker, itzbrader, Loom are the best Duel links youtubers they make this game alive and atill interesting after all these years.
@@rayapasa8773 He's a leaker or has info from third party for leaking cards.It's helpful sometimes but konami doesn't like it. Look what he has done now leaking MD worlds participant decklist
My fondest memory was when I first did really well in PvP with Weather Painters. I wasn't all that good at the start. A Red-Eyes Slash Dragon with POTG was a death sentence for me. So I looked up guides, found the DuelLinks F2P channel. I built a Weather Painter Deck and holy crap I shot to Gold Rank in a day! Bouncing is OP as all get out.
Its really important to remember all those things we find good. You dont know if things are going to change quickly but you know it wont be permanent. Thanks for video like that. Undead, Weatherman, whoever else creates team 6k, we are all very grateful for your awesome job which is this channel, its content, guides for new decks, updates for old ones so we can still have fun. I hope we can play with you once or at least you will host some tournaments like those legacy ones. My suggestion: since its wcs right now what do you think about commenting/guiding series where we can learn strategies of champions?
I had a sick nasty dragon OTK deck in old duel links using element dragon and gray wing's ability to attack twice combined with dragon treasures, black pendant, and banner of command. element dragon needed wind monsters to attack twice so i also had 4-star lady bug and twin-headed behemoth to guarantee u get a wind body for element next turn as turn 1 plays. a spicy tech was inter-dimensional matter transporter dodging removal to keep the pressure on. was a really fun time to play duel links for sure.
Charmer is kind of a gimmick, but it can be very creative due to how it works. There's Free-Range Monsters > Blizzard Princess on the opponent's turn, turning off spells. You can play successor soul and shuffle any bricks out of your starting play. I've even teched in Fortune Fairies because the level 4 can special itself and remove a monster. And now the more coherant wind synchro varient is getting some buffs.
@@showstopperexe The Duel Links Meta website is where I got the wind synchro stuff. Speedroid Charmers is fairly easy to build. Terrortop is a 1-card combo to Crystal Wing, and the Charmer stuff helps you draw into your other resources and stun the opponent. The rest is up to your imagination mostly.
I feel the same way, I really miss the UA-camrs who switched to Master Duel or moved on. Dkayed was especially fun to watch. I get why he plays Master Duel now, but I wish he’d play Duel Links occasionally 🙂
Ended on such a happy note, my favorite thing ever about duel links was being able to play burn and either last gamble my way into 6 more cards to win or fail and get a 1 and cry 😭
I purposely avoided DL until Links were introduced because I felt Yugioh as "incomplete" without all summoning mechanics in, now I see I did a mistake. I don't wish an "old" yugioh simulator, I want a "fun" yugioh simulator. I wouldn't mind a Yugioh simulator that has all newer summoning mechanics BUT starts really balanced and simple. Are you really going to tell me people will have a hard time understanding how Gaia Saber, the Lightning Shadow works, or Gem-Knight Pearl? People often say newer summoning mechanics ruined the game and made it too complex, but (maybe besides Pendulums) summoning mechanics are not complex, the card effects and newer card design are what's complex and super specific and restrictive. I'd love a DL restart that has Synchros, Xyz, Links BUT it's just a pile of goodstuff and the skills are super specific and restrictive.
What you just said. Thats a problem!!! And you don't even realize it... "BUT starts balanced".... It can't just "start" balanced and then later introduce all the newer broken shit after.. it's doomed to fail yet again that way. We've been repeating that same shit numerous times now and it fails every god damn time! What yugioh needs is to get rid of about 90% of it's effect monsters and turn them into normal or as people say "vanilla" monsters. And convert those effects into spells/traps/skills. OR Just don't add any new content past GX/5ds at all!! It doesn't matter how much people may like the newer shit, if you add it.. it ALWAYS changes the game yugioh into another card game all together. So just Don't add it. Period.
@@Wuunderboy i doesnt need to powercreep into the mess we have now. Again, the newer summon mechanics are nor broken on their own, the game just needs heavy balancing and a philosophy going forward that is not "topping the previous set's power level" each time
i left TCG when GX came out and when i tried duel links after all this years it was on the released of six samurais, it was mind blowing all the mechanics and combos i had to learn and after that subterror came to the game and it was back to the lab for me, but definetly that was the best memories i had of this game
GX Legacy duel in aug 2023 was such a good format . Gave you the feeling of old duel links . Its not like it was a tier 0 format there were a few decks that ppl were playing in the leaderboards .
The game is nothing compared to how it was back in the old days. It's just sad, how poorly Konami has handled the game and failed us. This video shows a glimpse of how much bigger, popular, different/unique and more fun it used to be. IMHO, the game now has basically become like modern Yu-Gi-Oh! A coin flip simulator Solitaire type game, and it just sucks tbh, it's just so sad 😔. If it continues like this, IMO the game will eventually die in a few years! 😞
It was never going to stay caveman ygo forever.let alone be about anime garbage. The eople that keep saying this are a hunch of ygo boomers coping hard that ygo can not remain simple
@@soukenmarufwt5224anime stuff is fundamental part of duel links with the voice lines, the cutscenes, the characters, it's the main difference from master duel or tcg. I agree it cannot remain simple and play with old cards. But the balancing should avoid becoming like modern Yugioh negate-meta
@@soukenmarufwt5224 why is it wrong that you give us "boomers" a mode we can play? is it wrong that we don't like new yugioh? Duel links was that and then it got ruined just like the tcg and master duel
shoutout to RYU 実況チャンネル who used to make alot of great and funny duel links videos, but sadly ever since master duel came out, he moved over to that game and stopped doing DL videos
I remember having a save dual on dual links sucks that It got deleted even though I locked it. During the end of that duel during the DSOD era I intentionally crash my Krystal dragon into my opponent blue eyes. Thankfully on his next turn he didn't have any backroll removal for the trap that I set for him after he attacked I activated my trap monster crystal avatar to win the duel.
I think my favorite yugioh moment in general was when I playing a insect deck based around meta insect queen and I discovered a very funny interaction des mosqiuto combined with mirror mail it would not only copy the monsters atk vaule but Des's counter mean it would always have more attack then the monster so it destroys the attacker. so imagine the joy of watching boss monsters like blue eyes ultimate and obelisk get destroyed by a pack filler bug with some shiny armor and then swinging for game with it
I miss the old destiny and vision hero eras: after destiny rulers and after fortress of gears. Especially with the masked hero anki forbidden chalice OTK. It was awesome because it was more about generic skills, and then eventually they just hopped on the big character skill train with Aster until he was reduced to a zombie hybrid deck with one of them and then forgotten completely and they only care boring Neos and Yubel now. And I miss Amazoness back when every character was using it. I used to mess with people by using Aster and just throwing trinity, dangerous, and some anki into my extra deck to make it look like I was playing heroes.
@musiyevonchilla6769 Oh, okay. The only thing that sucks is there is no way to get more copies of vyon unless you use a credit card since it is nowhere else and there are no R dream tickets. So it wouldn't even matter if someone had a separate account exclusively for the vision hero hybrid deck because you are out of luck if you either don't have a credit card or your country outlaws it for certain uses. It wasn't an issue back when it was all new and still good with just one vyon. But I get why people don't like it. At least the Destiny Effect deck is more f2p friendly.
I do appreciate them adding the Rush format though. It's a lot more simple, and doesn't have the archetype problem. Though they did add the Maximum Summoning cards some time ago... So the power creep is getting there
I started playing back in March, 2017 because of my friends. I played nearly consecutively for two years and then some the following years. When the first Toon event dropped and the exclusive was a prismatic dark magician girl my focus was to Lv. Max Pegasus for as much support as possible. Another toon event happened, which released another copy of toon DMG, then I believe a 3rd even happened. I was stoked about that, but disappointed in the game making something feel exclusive no longer locked because eventually you could use tickets to just get toon dmg. The events way back felt good to complete like there was going to be some cards that only a few unlocked through dedication. I haven’t finished an event in a few years now, but I still play with everything that I previously made, even if it’s not meta.
So many memories. Just one of them was when shirnauri came out in a mini box. And no one invest it even me if I recall. Then realized it was top tier deck. So many versions of that deck. Still use the term sometimes they need to give that deck the shirninar treatment
My friends who got me into the game in 2016 stopped playing around 2017 but I kept at it just because I wanted to know how the mechanics of Yugioh worked and I didn't want to play the physical card game. All these years later, I'm still not sure if I should've stopped like my friends did, but at least I can say I was there to live through like every version of a Tea skill causing havoc on the ranked meta.
Not only that, back then I actually had friends to play DL and we made tournaments before it was a feature in the game. Lost my friends, my old account (Konami decided to ban it after 3 months of no activity despite me spending more than 1k euros in the game) and my life.
I used to have a tea mill deck. Nowadays you barely see any 'other' win condition decks, like burn or mill. Its pretty much flood the board, negate everything, and beat you down.
That was one of the good things about Duel links. It wasn't full on negate boards. It was more beatdown boards than anything else. One of my concerns with Duel links was as soon as Links were added, it'd be game over. Yes, the game sped up before links, but link decks have so much combo potential easily. Like right now, my Sunavalon deck. One normal monster with 0 atk points ends in a board of Links from 1 unexpected Dai being played.
@@soukenmarufwt5224 Board making is fine, it's just that the negates make it more tedious, and you'll need Maxx C, the most toxic card in the history of the game to even get through all those negates a lot of the time
The last tiem I tried to make a fun deck with a gimmick in mind was a Signal Warrior deck, the moment I saw Mizar's skill that activates a field spell on both sides of the field I thought "this is the moment to use SW and try to use it to it's full potential", sadly there was already enough removals or cards like book of moon to prevent it from being useful. It feels crazy that an skill like that needs you to be on your second turn or + and can only be used once while other broken skills work like once per turn or twice per duel and do much more
I started duel links because of nostalgia going back to my high school days when Synchros didn’t exist and only had the original series with Yugi, Joey, Kaiba etc. But it was inevitable that it would eventually turn into modern yu-gi-oh 2.0 The funniest thing in DL was woodland sprite and the bamboo cards being the most broken cards in the game for like 2 weeks until it got emergency banned
I started playing duel links from the first Pegasus up until pendulums came out. Throughout that time i had a blast with Yugioh. Loved all the decks you could use and i definitely didn’t mine paying 2.5k thought out my play through. I tried getting back into it but all the mechanics and cards seem aliittle to much for me. I wish they made a new duel links tbh and start from scratch lol. I remember my first kog was with Dino man what a time.
I started playing Duel lInks in earnest in late 2017 (i downloaded the game after seeing DSOD but dropped it pretty quickly). I started PVP soon after, and quickly fell in love with Hazy Flame, as messy and inconsistent as it was. I played the deck almost exclusively for nearly 7 years, getting monthly KoGs with it around the end of 2019. I stopped the monthly grind this June, and with it, I've probably dropped out of the game for the foreseeable future. There's a lot of fun in having a pet deck that changes with the times. I can still vividly picture facing off against both Amazoness from 2018 and Tenyi from 2023. I can't really fault a game for moving past it, but Hazy Flame was always synonymous with Duel Links for me. I know it was for a lot of folks.
there are plenty of good anti backrow options, despite that most decks can actually play through backrow so theres no need to run it for most decks -undead
Loved dkayeds DL tournaments and getting to kog with non meta decks, i kept playing red eyes even when it was bad and in t0 formats and got to kog with it in many seasons.
I wish konami would see this and ban all the crazy skills and make duel links like the anime or "animewise* which is the purpose of it afterall and only gave skills 2 the characters that had powers in the anime...for example atems destiny draw and pegasus' millenium eye...those make sense...i also remember the old days where or the voice of the charcaters got me hype...its a shame the power creep keeps climbing...sometimes i wish everyone sends konami a long a** email saying ayo make the game the same way it was when it was first released...
Cope hard YGO boomer I hate pretending to play like anime fantasy land. I still haven't forgiven Konami for refusing to make Blair the lightsworn user over her garbage anime trash deck no one sane plays
Man, i remember like it was yesterday, when ancient gear structure deck got in, something change in my perception, i guess it was more of a slow change, but it was the first time we recieved a full strategy in the same place, only buy 3 copies, done, congrads, you have a meta deck, just use weevil and parasite paracide and it is very unlikely for you to lose to 4fun decks. I Remember that for that moment foward the boxes started to have sort of an strategy, it would have an meta deck, but the next box would have a strategy to counter that meta deck, then the next box would be the new meta deck, and so on. It had a few exceptions like Invoker but i think it does not dismiss the point, powercreep was getting into the game, and nothing could stop it. I dropped the game somewere around photon galaxy, didnt regret a bit, but damm it was fun in the early years, i remember my dino deck with dark brachio, just too much fun man. Ps: just gone to search the boxes to see were i stopped and realized that the last 15 structure decks were EX decks... I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!! I knew this was going to happen, konami's greed is limitless!!!
I remember taking Aromage all the way to Platinum and beyond, thanks to Akiza's what grows in the graveyard skill that just puts a level 2 Dark Verger in the graveyard on turn 0. I had the Naturia Rosewhip. A level 3 plant tuner, that could summon back the Dark Verger and create Aromaseraphy Rosemary on turn 1, or other level 5 synchros. Then right when I was about to hit KOG... they nerfed the skill into the ground. Now you needed to be on like 2000 or less L.P., to even activate the skill in the first place. This nerf basically skilled the skill, and the one chance that I would ever have, of getting KOG with Aromages. :(
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You never know when you're living in the good old days, so it's important to cherish every moment. This game, and each one of you, has been a source of inspiration for me throughout my journey. To be a part of this community of Legendary Duelists is one of the greatest honors of my life. And I truly believe that right now, more than ever, is the greatest time to be a Duelist.
Duelists never miss! -Undead
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@@YTDan we nva miss
what's so good about being a duelist right now? the game's a glorified solitaire on master duel and its heading that way on duel links
When skills are about boosting LP, adding cards in your hand, balancing your card draw rate,adding bonus cards in your deck and Ex deck. Now the skills are about summoning monsters outside your deck....
Skills might as well read "get full combo every game" now adays
Man tell me about it if you can’t run the engine without a skill where’s the competency of your deck
Damn those days where D Draw used to be broken
Yeah when drawing the right card is more important than your skill guaranteeing your plays for you
@@steveshin820 thats for sure 😁
God i miss running kiteroid and battleboxers just to trigger D draw lol
The fact you could play around it or hit him for 2k because you were that confident about winning, made it such a good skill for the game. Now it’s just press a button and let my skill play the game for me
The best part is that while it was a crazy powerful skill there was still a chance it wouldn't save you because we didnt have 1 card board wipes outside of "The Creator skill". The opponent could outplay you, the game runs long and the skill didnt trigger so your resources was long spent.
But when you got it off? It felt like an anime moment EVERY TIME. And that was the best thing about DL. So many people complained about how it was "baby yugioh" but it did what it did best - emulate the anime. Now we wishing for it to go back to how it was. Smh
Still remember the sonic boom when watching gunsblazing
Me too
That was peak duel links.
It took me so long to figure out where the song was from😂
I immediately read "Sonic Bird" lol
I too miss Buns glazing
I wish they would make the legacy duel format a permanent thing. It’s so hard to get into it now I still play but it’s nothing like it used to be.
Adding a permanent legacy duel format/game mode would be so awesome. (Way better than rush) Could also have different events based on GX, 5Ds, zexal on a rotation. Or just rotate the format between the cardlists from each year of duel links.
@@Aurelynit's gonna be end end situation too. Players would be hunting for old cards from each era too if they rotate
Legacy also have problem , konami really don't think at balancing this format when they throw at you modern toon or ra deck at your face.
Legacy with no skills would be cool
20-30 main & extra 9
Shady Penguin, Dkayed, YT Dan and Guns were my favorites to watch during the early era of duel links. I miss those days 😔
Shady was my favorite of them all. His videos were just so fun
still remember when he pulled prismatic DMoC, what a moment
NO WATT007?!
@@frankaxe6700 might come back if Misty Tredwell ever get introduced into duel links as an unlockable character.
@frankaxe6700 he's cool it's just I didn't watch him that much back then
I remember when Blue-Eyes players were using The White Stone of Ancients and Cards of Consonance, and how deck was balanced back then.
Old duel links offered THE perfect gateway into yugioh at the time. I got to play with simple dumb cards in a learning environment and build goofy decks that popped up in my head and take them to rank and squeeze a couple wins. Now duel links is, in my honest opinion, vegan Master Duel, just infinitely harder to build decks in because have fun pulling 3 of that mainbox UR buddy.
My greatest achievement in duel links was creating a flower cardian deck I labbed with for so many countless hours until I perfected the decklist. I hit KOG with it and even got playmaker to make a video about it. I’ll probably never have this feeling again but I’m glad the fruits of my labor will live on in playmaker’s channel
Ooo which vid is it can you send the link or title please
So did I
That starting montage gave me goosebumps
tears in my eyes
im really happy to hear it man -undead
Who would've guessed that having a low power creep and a more simple environment makes the game fun? Certainly not Konami
This shows how little you understand about how the meta game works.
I hate old ygo because it's so slow
@@soukenmarufwt5224 konami dev detected opinion rejected 😎
@@sanzyboy3952 Yugi boomer opinions matter less then shit casuals included
@@soukenmarufwt5224 look everyone a CLOWN just here, disgusting being, the real card game is dying as shop don't make anymore benefit thanks to people like you , congrat
@@soukenmarufwt5224 You talk like an angry teenager.
I remember when I finally got to play Cyber Dragons in the DSOD era. It was my deck, and I put a lot of gems into it. I played it for 4 KC cups because it was so damn reliable as a rank up method. The duels were quick, simple, and I could get my four wins in no time. Zane was also my favorite duelist back then.
I remember back when I first played the game, when Six Samurai was still meta, Shi En and all. I remember back then when a spell negate was the most infuriating thing ever. Good times.
There was also the Zexal Era, with Onomatopoeia as the dominant skill. Ditch 2 of your worst cards, and literally get any 2 of your other cards (of your choice I might add) for free. And you could do that twice. It was enough to be tier 0. It was such an absurd archetypal skill back then.
Yeah current duel links is fucking terrible. There's a reason I was drawn to duel links, it reminded me of the old game.
meet powercreep, it was inventible to screw up the game just as it has to the real card game and MD.
The formats they give MD and DL are inexcusable, its a **ONLINE GAME** where you can literally make a gamemode for insert set/year down or tag duels. instead: Nope lets be a p2w simulator gacha!
Yeah now it's those friking skills that are broken, I want to have fun with Ra but with so many disruptions now it's almost impossible. The thing I liked is that I could go to master duel to shoot myself in the head, and duel links to chill. Not anymore
@@minibullusa Yeah, the skills are just too much. They completely dictate the pace of the game, the meta, and what cards are strong or weak. It's not fun to use, it's not fun to fight against. Skills back in the day usually just gave you a minor buff or made some kind of rogue stuff useful, like guaranteeing coin flips or something. Not guaranteeing your entire combo if you draw a single piece.
YTDan, Wat007, Bakura, Dkayed and THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND: *Gunsblazing!*
Man those were the days...
But of course, modern duel links wouldn't be what it is without you Team 6k!
We appreciate that bro!!! -undead
I stopped playing duel links very early after the Zexal expansion was dropped. I always enjoyed the fact that you get to play as the characters from the original animes and even build decks around them, but over time certain characters would either be stuck behind events or never be brought again, making it impossible to get them under your belt unless you’re quick enough.
Not only that, it was hard to keep up with everybody else when the power creep meta started to become more relevant, to the point where it started to suffer with the same problem the original card game had: “build your field and beat your opponent in one turn”.
Nowadays I much preferred to play the old console games in order to go back to that similar retro experience.
its always been that all characters have 2 events and then they are permanently added to the gate -undead
Dkayed transitioned to Master Duel format. Dkayed said people preferred that content compared to Duel Links. Shady has a family now so Pokemon became his main (consistent) form of content and Duel Links is expensive to keep up with the meta and new archetype releases. Many others swapped to other games completely due to a change in interests. Still love duel links and still play today except now I use gems solely to obtain cards.
YESSSIIIIRRR underrated UA-camr back at it again. The opening montage was goosebumps my guy.
This is exactly what I was talking about with my comment on your last video too.
We don't need skills that read like an essay with requirements that your deck "ONLY CONTAINS " we need generic skills that only slightly balances the deck out.
The fact that we were using strats and cards that the TCG meta circuit never even touched was amazing. Battle centric duels that you win by the skin of your teeth, a few hundred points difference in attack or life points. Top decking your win con or out. This was what made the game feel great and put you in the spot of the anime protags.
But when you have to go and make Archetypal skills just for these decks that were underpowered in the TCG to be good in Duel Links means that you failed because you messed up the Card Pool Ecosystem so badly that, where they would of thrived in Duel Links with generic skills, they stay underpowered in a game thats already low power level is CRAZY.
And unfortunately no matter how much we wish it, the skill system wont get a reboot because they literally just redid a ton of them a few weeks ago and threw them in the Card Trader for pennies. Real bruh moment.
Man that sonic boom intro brings a lot of nostalgia in me, my favorite format and fun memories in this game are Ancient gear meta, Microwave links, six samurai meta, desperado meta, Amazoness meta, bamboo otk, mill and burn deck, dkayed and gunsblazing rivalry, cyberstein meta, grass decks
theres actually an insane amount of diversity in duel links these days and its been that way for a couple years, except for a couple formats here and there -undead
In franse there was a duel link tournament. The final was a joey player. He had 400 lp, no card in hand or field while opponent had 3 monsters and everybody thought it was over.
Then he drew his last card, time wizzard, won the roll and won the duel. It was so insane the twitch chat lost their mind
The old duel links 😮💨 I was a sophomore in highschool
I quit the game a few months ago, best decision of my life. Not only im learning actual yugioh more closely with MD, all the time i used to spend on dailies and grinding im learning photoshop and modding, playing older games, watching more anime.
I recommend everyone who feels frustrated with DL, just quit.
I quit for the same reason. The grind is never worth it, just a waste of life and time tbh
I wish I played duel links when it was released tbh so I could have played ritual format lol xD
I gave up on YGO, way back in 09. I've got everything I wanted from the TCG and anime. Duel links revived my interest around COVID (2020 kinda).
Seeing all the new stuff that has been going on in the game was mind blowing (the mechanics, new cards, anime, etc.)
When duel links is gone forever, it might also be my last YGO journey
Tbh, I only play duel links for rush duels now. It is such a fun format.
I always liked the idea of a legacy duel format or no skill format alongside pvp and casual duels. But for some reason people get super triggered at the suggestion and tell you to either quit or play md. Like no, some of these skills are way out of hand and yall in denial.
Things started to change at sylvans and absolutely changed with fur hire
Before that, it was heaven
I would argue it was fun (excluding tier 0 formats) until the absolute c*nt that is Cocytus got released and the game never recovered.
@@randomname9723 It was still fun even after fur hire, but less fun compare to before as we started to special summoning more often, overwhelming opponent, and make the duels one sided.
Basically it happened when we started to play real archetypes with real strategy lol.
Oh man, this hits differently. I have been playing DL since 2018 and I'm still playing it today. I remember hitting KOG every season with various decks, because most of them were so simple and easy to learn. But, after the Vrains expansion and addition of link monsters, I struggled to hit KOG and then I wasn't able to get there at all and I haven't been there for more than 1.5 years now. All of the new cards with tons of text, all sorts of graveyard effects, long combos, hand traps and all of that... I just couldn't keep up anymore. So I gave up. Nowadays I'm happy if I can get to Legend 1. That's also the main reason why I don't play the TCG anymore.
Rush Duel saved the game for me, I have been playing it since it was added and I have been able to get KOG there every season so far and I'm having fun with it.
I starter playing when they had just added the zexal world and it was so fun. I never hit kog but I always got close like around leg 4-5, which kept me going but after vrains i have trouble already at leg 1. Links ruined the game for me
@@capo_6Zexal was soooo fireee
You basically just summed up all my thoughts over the years. From the power creep part, to how skills are carrying decks, and much more. Like, I couldn't find a good way to explain my thoughts and you just did it perfectly!
I strangely remember a time when events had these weird gimmick challenges. I kinda miss those now.
The days when you actually had to be creative with deck building and really bringing the full potential with skills out. Now the skills play the game for you
Creative? Dino beatdon? "Skills didnt matter? Kaiba corp bling. This era you talk abouy never happened
@@ubadman1 🧢 you didn’t watch the video then. He showcased about 30 different decks
In the recent PVP duels, I dueled a lot of people, and I prepared some really good trap cards to counter their strategies, all the sudden they activate broken "Skills" in order to make my strategies meaningless, completely souring my experiences and brought me a lot of frustrattions, it immediately became cancerous to the point where I had to take a break from the PVP duels all together.
Slap your biggest beater for free like its duelist kingdom, pop skill to put a toxic card in your hand for free, unbrick your hand with character skill and unbanned consistency cards (Melody). Character skills are getting incredibly nasty.
we aint gonna pretend the skill system was ever gonna lead to good things, right? It was manageable back then though and didnt break the fun of the already short-duels that were already more abusable to older strats in yugioh. Some not even breakable via the smaller board size and lesser deck capacity and list.
Yeah I hate skill that allowed to free summon monster at field and suddenly add specific card at the hand
Ooof nostalgia hits hard on that intro
im glad you liked it bro -undead
I do miss Dkayed 😢. Does any remember duel links entertainment, I’d love the it detailed long discussions of the current meta
Mixed feelings, i dotn miss playing against invoked 10 games in a row, but i miss joey last gamble skill
Bro you forgot James Warai in the Intro
Edit: My favorite era is Amazoness Era that's when I hit the King of Games for the first time, I'm really proud that I am one of the player that play this game since the beginning and watch the game evolve through the years and until now I'm still playing even though I have a love/hate relationship in this game, I'm still enthusiastic in playing this game and now I'm still patiently waiting for ultimate conductor tyranno and other Dino supports to be released in this game
That’s the guy that only put on white tee shirts right?
@@Kidice00 yeah exactly, one of my favorite duel links tuber that time he's a funny guy and also good at dueling 👌
@@GothamGon i still have a few of the decks he made saved on my acc. and the gem knight/ battery man deck he made gets me like a win % of 78. but i miss them good old days.
@GothamGon you're right that's my bad James warai deserves his flowers too -undead
2016-2018 Duel Links was Goated
What happened? Master duel happened. I still remember how the biggest youtuber transitioned to the "better yu-gi-oh format", duel links just got left behind. From there it went downhill
LMAO NO WAY YOU BLAMING MD, NAHHHH. You should blame the series, games age, and get more added. Just as yugioh did, and just has MD has. MD is in many ways a direct improvement and is far closer to the TCG/OCG of yugioh, ykw, the REAL yugioh card game. Duel links has issues far from anything related to MD, stop pointing fingers bro.
Power creep, aged mechanics and ofc, they moved on to the far more successful product.
@@John-ii6hethe more duel links catches up to master duel the less fun I have.
Precisely because I dislike modern Yugioh that's all about disrupting rather than overcoming the other guy's board.
Nah, pendulums ruined DL. It was around the same time as Master duel, but it was definitely pends
@@Nomorehats Pendulum didnt even do anything super relevant in Duel Links till Raging Pendulum and Command of the Doom King took off as skills months later with a very short lifespan. The closest other thing was Solfachords being very briefly tiered before being quickly powercrept, and no Pend deck's been relevant since
Its all connected to be honest. Master duel= modern yugioh.
And modern yugioh is pendulums,links etc. All trash and broken, it may as well not even be yugioh but another card game all together.@Nomorehats
I miss those old days, i remember having some of the best duels back then, playing exodia, burn stall, ftks...
My first deck, a plant synchro deck, mostly made out of naturia and some yusei/aki cards, and playing as akiza because of what grows in the gy, literally a tool box extra deck, a synchro for every situation, with a surprise otk in the form of making a turn 1 mist wurm using verge, nat rose and wt rose dragon, then milling carrot weight champion to revive it for the otk.
Nowadays this deck not only doesnt work because of the power level, but also because of the weird hit to what grows in the gy.
Seriously, i miss dl before the gaia structure, thats when these "fix hand/auto play" skills started popping up...
damnnnnnnn man, I guess my favorite memories was starting to stream and DL being my main focus, hosting tourneys and meeting new people through the discord communities or in chat, DL has given me a lot of good memories, even though I don’t play as often as I used to, I still subscribe to creators and watch their videos to scratch that itch, you guys being one of them, keep up the good work 👍
thanks bro! -undead
Team 6k , Paepp, Mekklord and Playmaker, itzbrader, Loom are the best Duel links youtubers they make this game alive and atill interesting after all these years.
Yup. If only Dkayed didn't completely abandon the game
@@boaowov8779 true, but back in the days it was kinda understandable why he left DL for good
@@musiyevonchilla6769what happened to him?
@@rayapasa8773 He's a leaker or has info from third party for leaking cards.It's helpful sometimes but konami doesn't like it. Look what he has done now leaking MD worlds participant decklist
@@rayapasa8773 Master Duel came out. Now every video he pumps out is just Master Duel content and nothing else. Shame.
My fondest memory was when I first did really well in PvP with Weather Painters. I wasn't all that good at the start. A Red-Eyes Slash Dragon with POTG was a death sentence for me. So I looked up guides, found the DuelLinks F2P channel. I built a Weather Painter Deck and holy crap I shot to Gold Rank in a day! Bouncing is OP as all get out.
Its really important to remember all those things we find good. You dont know if things are going to change quickly but you know it wont be permanent. Thanks for video like that.
Undead, Weatherman, whoever else creates team 6k, we are all very grateful for your awesome job which is this channel, its content, guides for new decks, updates for old ones so we can still have fun.
I hope we can play with you once or at least you will host some tournaments like those legacy ones. My suggestion: since its wcs right now what do you think about commenting/guiding series where we can learn strategies of champions?
I had a sick nasty dragon OTK deck in old duel links using element dragon and gray wing's ability to attack twice combined with dragon treasures, black pendant, and banner of command. element dragon needed wind monsters to attack twice so i also had 4-star lady bug and twin-headed behemoth to guarantee u get a wind body for element next turn as turn 1 plays. a spicy tech was inter-dimensional matter transporter dodging removal to keep the pressure on. was a really fun time to play duel links for sure.
Charmer is kind of a gimmick, but it can be very creative due to how it works. There's Free-Range Monsters > Blizzard Princess on the opponent's turn, turning off spells. You can play successor soul and shuffle any bricks out of your starting play. I've even teched in Fortune Fairies because the level 4 can special itself and remove a monster.
And now the more coherant wind synchro varient is getting some buffs.
Ooooh dats sound nice we could duel against my ice barriers
Mind sharing a list for examples?
@@showstopperexe The Duel Links Meta website is where I got the wind synchro stuff. Speedroid Charmers is fairly easy to build. Terrortop is a 1-card combo to Crystal Wing, and the Charmer stuff helps you draw into your other resources and stun the opponent. The rest is up to your imagination mostly.
8:12
God dang Joe Hendry lol
Say his name and he appears -undead
I feel the same way, I really miss the UA-camrs who switched to Master Duel or moved on. Dkayed was especially fun to watch. I get why he plays Master Duel now, but I wish he’d play Duel Links occasionally 🙂
Damnnn why am i so nostalgic for naturia, dinos, and umi decks godamnnn i forgot alot of these old decks
Ended on such a happy note, my favorite thing ever about duel links was being able to play burn and either last gamble my way into 6 more cards to win or fail and get a 1 and cry 😭
I purposely avoided DL until Links were introduced because I felt Yugioh as "incomplete" without all summoning mechanics in, now I see I did a mistake.
I don't wish an "old" yugioh simulator, I want a "fun" yugioh simulator. I wouldn't mind a Yugioh simulator that has all newer summoning mechanics BUT starts really balanced and simple. Are you really going to tell me people will have a hard time understanding how Gaia Saber, the Lightning Shadow works, or Gem-Knight Pearl? People often say newer summoning mechanics ruined the game and made it too complex, but (maybe besides Pendulums) summoning mechanics are not complex, the card effects and newer card design are what's complex and super specific and restrictive. I'd love a DL restart that has Synchros, Xyz, Links BUT it's just a pile of goodstuff and the skills are super specific and restrictive.
What you just said. Thats a problem!!! And you don't even realize it... "BUT starts balanced"....
It can't just "start" balanced and then later introduce all the newer broken shit after.. it's doomed to fail yet again that way.
We've been repeating that same shit numerous times now and it fails every god damn time!
What yugioh needs is to get rid of about 90% of it's effect monsters and turn them into normal or as people say "vanilla" monsters. And convert those effects into spells/traps/skills.
OR
Just don't add any new content past GX/5ds at all!!
It doesn't matter how much people may like the newer shit, if you add it.. it ALWAYS changes the game yugioh into another card game all together. So just Don't add it. Period.
@@Wuunderboy i doesnt need to powercreep into the mess we have now. Again, the newer summon mechanics are nor broken on their own, the game just needs heavy balancing and a philosophy going forward that is not "topping the previous set's power level" each time
@@LookingForTheTop it doesn't need to but it will! That's what you're not understanding
damn, this is a huge throwback man
i left TCG when GX came out and when i tried duel links after all this years it was on the released of six samurais, it was mind blowing all the mechanics and combos i had to learn and after that subterror came to the game and it was back to the lab for me, but definetly that was the best memories i had of this game
GX Legacy duel in aug 2023 was such a good format . Gave you the feeling of old duel links . Its not like it was a tier 0 format there were a few decks that ppl were playing in the leaderboards .
Still miss James Warai duel links era 😢
I have tried to keep the meme decks alive for years but in the end i gave up and deleted the game. Loved the gunsblazing Era
Yo I remember when Some skills needed -1000 Life Points to activate which was abused by Cosmic Cyclone
The game is nothing compared to how it was back in the old days. It's just sad, how poorly Konami has handled the game and failed us. This video shows a glimpse of how much bigger, popular, different/unique and more fun it used to be. IMHO, the game now has basically become like modern Yu-Gi-Oh! A coin flip simulator Solitaire type game, and it just sucks tbh, it's just so sad 😔. If it continues like this, IMO the game will eventually die in a few years! 😞
It was never going to stay caveman ygo forever.let alone be about anime garbage.
The eople that keep saying this are a hunch of ygo boomers coping hard that ygo can not remain simple
@@soukenmarufwt5224anime stuff is fundamental part of duel links with the voice lines, the cutscenes, the characters, it's the main difference from master duel or tcg.
I agree it cannot remain simple and play with old cards. But the balancing should avoid becoming like modern Yugioh negate-meta
@@soukenmarufwt5224 why is it wrong that you give us "boomers" a mode we can play? is it wrong that we don't like new yugioh? Duel links was that and then it got ruined just like the tcg and master duel
Damn I really was with duel links from the jump nostalgia hitting hard rn
I miss BunsGlazing
shoutout to RYU 実況チャンネル
who used to make alot of great and funny duel links videos, but sadly ever since master duel came out, he moved over to that game and stopped doing DL videos
I remember having a save dual on dual links sucks that It got deleted even though I locked it. During the end of that duel during the DSOD era I intentionally crash my Krystal dragon into my opponent blue eyes. Thankfully on his next turn he didn't have any backroll removal for the trap that I set for him after he attacked I activated my trap monster crystal avatar to win the duel.
I almost cry when I hear sonic boom
me too i made the video just cuz of that song -undead
There will never be another UA-camr quite like gunsblazing man was unique and funny on his own way
I suddenly remembered that Skystarray + Temple of the Minds' Eye meme deck. Simpler times, man :(
I will never forget topping an MCS with YTDan’s Ancient Gear Nephthys deck. Now I’m an Ancient Gear *cries in old man*
Thre intro song is dope as hell
And i loved classic lava golem/Shadow Game
I think my favorite yugioh moment in general was when I playing a insect deck based around meta insect queen and I discovered a very funny interaction des mosqiuto combined with mirror mail it would not only copy the monsters atk vaule but Des's counter mean it would always have more attack then the monster so it destroys the attacker. so imagine the joy of watching boss monsters like blue eyes ultimate and obelisk get destroyed by a pack filler bug with some shiny armor and then swinging for game with it
miss cyber angel era.
I miss the old destiny and vision hero eras: after destiny rulers and after fortress of gears. Especially with the masked hero anki forbidden chalice OTK. It was awesome because it was more about generic skills, and then eventually they just hopped on the big character skill train with Aster until he was reduced to a zombie hybrid deck with one of them and then forgotten completely and they only care boring Neos and Yubel now. And I miss Amazoness back when every character was using it. I used to mess with people by using Aster and just throwing trinity, dangerous, and some anki into my extra deck to make it look like I was playing heroes.
@@raina1848 u mean the Hero format with 3x E Hero P2W man aka Stratos with Miracle P2W Fusion - hell no
@musiyevonchilla6769 What is Wonder fusion?
bro missed playing in probably one of the most p2w era of Duel Link lmao
@@raina1848 I fixed it. I meant Miracle P2W Fusion
@musiyevonchilla6769 Oh, okay. The only thing that sucks is there is no way to get more copies of vyon unless you use a credit card since it is nowhere else and there are no R dream tickets. So it wouldn't even matter if someone had a separate account exclusively for the vision hero hybrid deck because you are out of luck if you either don't have a credit card or your country outlaws it for certain uses. It wasn't an issue back when it was all new and still good with just one vyon. But I get why people don't like it. At least the Destiny Effect deck is more f2p friendly.
I do appreciate them adding the Rush format though. It's a lot more simple, and doesn't have the archetype problem. Though they did add the Maximum Summoning cards some time ago... So the power creep is getting there
Shadypenguin got me into duel links and his videos were entertaining
I started playing back in March, 2017 because of my friends. I played nearly consecutively for two years and then some the following years. When the first Toon event dropped and the exclusive was a prismatic dark magician girl my focus was to Lv. Max Pegasus for as much support as possible. Another toon event happened, which released another copy of toon DMG, then I believe a 3rd even happened. I was stoked about that, but disappointed in the game making something feel exclusive no longer locked because eventually you could use tickets to just get toon dmg. The events way back felt good to complete like there was going to be some cards that only a few unlocked through dedication. I haven’t finished an event in a few years now, but I still play with everything that I previously made, even if it’s not meta.
So many memories. Just one of them was when shirnauri came out in a mini box. And no one invest it even me if I recall. Then realized it was top tier deck. So many versions of that deck. Still use the term sometimes they need to give that deck the shirninar treatment
Shady penguin was the best UA-camr and most entertaining for me, I miss when he used to play duel links really
I miss forbidden Cyber Style so much
My friends who got me into the game in 2016 stopped playing around 2017 but I kept at it just because I wanted to know how the mechanics of Yugioh worked and I didn't want to play the physical card game. All these years later, I'm still not sure if I should've stopped like my friends did, but at least I can say I was there to live through like every version of a Tea skill causing havoc on the ranked meta.
1:21 @ShadyPenguin yugioh was my ENTIRE UNIVERSITY lunch time break. Peak. Good times.
Not only that, back then I actually had friends to play DL and we made tournaments before it was a feature in the game. Lost my friends, my old account (Konami decided to ban it after 3 months of no activity despite me spending more than 1k euros in the game) and my life.
Back in the days where me and neph conquered the meta... RIP
your testimony is invaluable 🙏 👍
I used to have a tea mill deck. Nowadays you barely see any 'other' win condition decks, like burn or mill. Its pretty much flood the board, negate everything, and beat you down.
That was one of the good things about Duel links. It wasn't full on negate boards. It was more beatdown boards than anything else. One of my concerns with Duel links was as soon as Links were added, it'd be game over. Yes, the game sped up before links, but link decks have so much combo potential easily. Like right now, my Sunavalon deck. One normal monster with 0 atk points ends in a board of Links from 1 unexpected Dai being played.
You need to play sunseed shadow too @@w1nther930
Burn and mill are extremely toxic decks bro... It's a good thing such things don't work out
Old ygo bores the crap out of me.
I love the insane board making. Also negates cause hate when I get disrupted.
@@soukenmarufwt5224 Board making is fine, it's just that the negates make it more tedious, and you'll need Maxx C, the most toxic card in the history of the game to even get through all those negates a lot of the time
I always remember the first time I got KOG it was with an ancient gear deck that wouldn’t get you past gold now but itll always be cool to me
The last tiem I tried to make a fun deck with a gimmick in mind was a Signal Warrior deck, the moment I saw Mizar's skill that activates a field spell on both sides of the field I thought "this is the moment to use SW and try to use it to it's full potential", sadly there was already enough removals or cards like book of moon to prevent it from being useful.
It feels crazy that an skill like that needs you to be on your second turn or + and can only be used once while other broken skills work like once per turn or twice per duel and do much more
I started duel links because of nostalgia going back to my high school days when Synchros didn’t exist and only had the original series with Yugi, Joey, Kaiba etc.
But it was inevitable that it would eventually turn into modern yu-gi-oh 2.0
The funniest thing in DL was woodland sprite and the bamboo cards being the most broken cards in the game for like 2 weeks until it got emergency banned
I started playing duel links from the first Pegasus up until pendulums came out. Throughout that time i had a blast with Yugioh. Loved all the decks you could use and i definitely didn’t mine paying 2.5k thought out my play through. I tried getting back into it but all the mechanics and cards seem aliittle to much for me. I wish they made a new duel links tbh and start from scratch lol. I remember my first kog was with Dino man what a time.
I started playing Duel lInks in earnest in late 2017 (i downloaded the game after seeing DSOD but dropped it pretty quickly). I started PVP soon after, and quickly fell in love with Hazy Flame, as messy and inconsistent as it was. I played the deck almost exclusively for nearly 7 years, getting monthly KoGs with it around the end of 2019. I stopped the monthly grind this June, and with it, I've probably dropped out of the game for the foreseeable future. There's a lot of fun in having a pet deck that changes with the times. I can still vividly picture facing off against both Amazoness from 2018 and Tenyi from 2023. I can't really fault a game for moving past it, but Hazy Flame was always synonymous with Duel Links for me.
I know it was for a lot of folks.
Those old naturia beat-down days
I still watch gunsblazing videos for the nostalgia. Nothing beats chilling to sonic boom and Deja vu
Duel Links would be a much better game without the excessive dependence on backrows (despite the lack of good anti-backrow options).
there are plenty of good anti backrow options, despite that most decks can actually play through backrow so theres no need to run it for most decks -undead
3:25 ahh yes, the Unga Bunga days
BEATODOWN. I miss guns taking every opportunity to play Star Boy decks just so he could play The Weeknd song on repeat
i miss the 5ds era the most, six samurai was the very first good deck i built and it was so much fun, even arcv era was goated
Nostalgic Intro with Guns theme song 😎 definitely missed those days as well.
Loved dkayeds DL tournaments and getting to kog with non meta decks, i kept playing red eyes even when it was bad and in t0 formats and got to kog with it in many seasons.
I miss Dkayed on DL😢
Gunzblazer last gamble moments❤
Oh, the old good days ...✨
I wish konami would see this and ban all the crazy skills and make duel links like the anime or "animewise* which is the purpose of it afterall and only gave skills 2 the characters that had powers in the anime...for example atems destiny draw and pegasus' millenium eye...those make sense...i also remember the old days where or the voice of the charcaters got me hype...its a shame the power creep keeps climbing...sometimes i wish everyone sends konami a long a** email saying ayo make the game the same way it was when it was first released...
Cope hard YGO boomer
I hate pretending to play like anime fantasy land.
I still haven't forgiven Konami for refusing to make Blair the lightsworn user over her garbage anime trash deck no one sane plays
Man, i remember like it was yesterday, when ancient gear structure deck got in, something change in my perception, i guess it was more of a slow change, but it was the first time we recieved a full strategy in the same place, only buy 3 copies, done, congrads, you have a meta deck, just use weevil and parasite paracide and it is very unlikely for you to lose to 4fun decks.
I Remember that for that moment foward the boxes started to have sort of an strategy, it would have an meta deck, but the next box would have a strategy to counter that meta deck, then the next box would be the new meta deck, and so on. It had a few exceptions like Invoker but i think it does not dismiss the point, powercreep was getting into the game, and nothing could stop it.
I dropped the game somewere around photon galaxy, didnt regret a bit, but damm it was fun in the early years, i remember my dino deck with dark brachio, just too much fun man.
Ps: just gone to search the boxes to see were i stopped and realized that the last 15 structure decks were EX decks... I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!! I knew this was going to happen, konami's greed is limitless!!!
I remember taking Aromage all the way to Platinum and beyond, thanks to Akiza's what grows in the graveyard skill that just puts a level 2 Dark Verger in the graveyard on turn 0. I had the Naturia Rosewhip. A level 3 plant tuner, that could summon back the Dark Verger and create Aromaseraphy Rosemary on turn 1, or other level 5 synchros. Then right when I was about to hit KOG... they nerfed the skill into the ground. Now you needed to be on like 2000 or less L.P., to even activate the skill in the first place. This nerf basically skilled the skill, and the one chance that I would ever have, of getting KOG with Aromages. :(
Who remembers yamiblood?