This frickin' game eh? It's why I thought Duel Links would be fun since it could avoid this kind of degeneracy... but nope! And we still haven't gotten to bloody Invasion of Chaos...
We might get another Exodia next time. We already had Gearfried for a while, Magician's Force gave us Royal Magical Library and Dark Crisis will come with Elma for that sweet whole deck draw.
@@nyr_Ea Not counting ABCs, ABCs were genuinely good. I'm talking about the early Union Monsters which were just terrible and wordy as hell. Not to mention most of them made it so only one monster can have a Union equipment at a time.
To be honest, Machine Beatdown with 3 Limiter Removal would have been a viable choice in my opinion. But what we've got was way better! Very accurate portrayal of the former Meta
@@SirGrimLockSmithVIII I liked what they were trying to do too, it made sense and I've always liked Dark Blade's design. But goddamn, if the early Unions weren't a wall of text
@@Cimoooooooo What happened to Mill & Control on the Wheel? Jank was added last video & has disappeared. Where did it go? Can you do History of Yugioh twice a week, please? The only other series you do is "Progression", so that's 5 days you could do History on! Can you do a game of modern yugioh with everything at 3? I don't thing some cards are as busted as people think!
@@insanemakaioshin everything at 3 leads to either floodgate lockdown, or a format loaded with ftks. Also jank is replaced by scientist and burn, as they're the jank in the format.
I wanna agree with you lol but Gage definitely summoned Ryu Senshi earlier on the Progression Series using Metamorphosis and Jinzo/Mobius/Raiza (I don’t remember I just knew it was one of them and it had to be a level 6 anyway lol)
@@banako420 Yes, I am one of the people who like to learn how to play these decks since I had skipped the meta game for the most part until I returned in 2016
@@pandaman1331 Same here. I only played playground Yu-gi-oh until Ancient Sanctuary and after that barely played Yu-gi-oh. Only past year I decided to look up the game again but I can't bring myself to play it.
@@SirGrimLockSmithVIII nah, I have them nicely protected with triple sleeves inside top loaders, inside a dark magician girl tin(which is where one of them came from).
I had my tag team variation that didn't get banned for a long time. Ultimate Offering, Cannon Soldier and Black Ptera. Tag team because Offering and Cannon were part of my brother's structure deck, and Ptera was part of mine. Needless to say it was not fun for the receiving end if we teamed up and drew into those cards.
So you're probably wondering why I'm playing pot of greed. See, it is a spell card that allows me draw two cards from my deck. And it doesn't even have a cost! That's just insane! It allows us to dig deeper into our deck and get the cards we need. Since we need some specific card combinations for the FTK to work, this is a really valuable effect. We could get a Monster Reborn and a Magical Scientist, use the Reborn to get catapult Turtle from the Graveyard, normal summon the Magical Scientist and start our shenanigans. We could even do this if we didn't have any card in our hands before drawing Pot of Greed. Unfortunately, it's limited, so we can only play one copy, but if we could, I'd play it at 3. It's just that good. Getting extra cards is always valuable, especially since we want to win before our life points become too low to do the FTK.
@@Cimoooooooo What happened to Mill & Control on the Wheel? Jank was added last video & has disappeared. Where did it go? Can you do History of Yugioh twice a week, please? The only other series you do is "Progression", so that's 5 days you could do History on! Can you do a game of modern yugioh with everything at 3? I don't thing some cards are as busted as people think!
It’s weird. I love rooting for Cimo in the progression series, but here there’s nothing I love more than MBT winning! Maybe it’s because I prefer Cimo’s enthusiasm to Gage’s smugness but Joseph and his quiet charisma win me over
the progression series is becoming more and more unwatchable cause at this rate, its going to be the same overpowered cards for the forseeable future with Cimo could duel the perfect duel only for CED go brrrrr and end the game
Yeah huge difficulty with progression series is that Cimo has much better technical play, but Gage keeps opening all of the boss monsters which continually ruins Cimo now. Cimo plays really well, but his deck is just much weaker due to pulls
I wanted to come in and say, when I first discovered this series I knew literally nothing about this game, I had no idea what the rules even were, but I've been binging this entire series and have been loving it. You're both really entertaining to watch and it's so interesting watching how this game has developed. Also as an avid MTG player, shoutouts to Blue Tron. You rock man.
Yu-Gi-Oh is for players who enjoy playing around core mechanics and go at full force since there are almost no restrictions due to the lack of resources. If you enjoy rather fast paced games and a lot of freedom and choices in deckbuilding you should defenitely pick it up. It at times is just pure creativity!
Its a really good series and Yugioh was a really, really good game up until 2012-2013 when the game died (for me at least) due to very serious powercreep and combo otks and ftks fiesta all matches, but until then its was a really REALLY good game to play with a lot of back and forth and strategy. Good luck for you bro they are in 2003 right now so we have a loooooong time until they reach that moment! :D :D :D P.S. I also play mtg, great card game
If you want to learn how to play yu-gi-oh from the beginning you can duel me sometimes on EdoPro. I am currently on a nostalgia trip anyway. discord.gg/MWM4Q2Zbck Here is the link to find players. We are currently at Dark Crisis, so you haven't missed out on much
Wow - for a minute it really looked like Cimooo was about to pull of the unthinkable, double one turn kill for the shortest episode in History or Progression's life. Imperial Order gonna imperial I guess. It's fantastic even today with monsters dominating the meta. But in a format where spells are 90% of your power plays, it's a single card game winner.
@@pandaman1331 That is accurate. First 15-20 minutes is always the introduction and deck breakdown. Last 5-10 minutes is the post-game analysis. So if you subtract 30 minutes from the run time it gives you a good idea of it's going to be a 2 or 3 game episode, though the first 2 games were over super quick it felt like it was only going to be 2.
I like that this episode went in-depth and showed off why Magical Scientist is good in multiple ways beyond just as an FTK/OTK card. In addition to the effect Fusion monsters, there's one more card that Magical Scientist can abuse, and that's United We Stand. United We Stand is an equip card that adds 800 ATK/DEF for every faceup monster on the field, for a max of 4000 with 5 monsters. With all 5 monsters, Magical Scientist can turn into a 4300 attack monster (and beater/direct attacker) for a turn, making an OTK possible even if you're down a couple thousand lifepoints below your opponent. Even if you don't summon 5 monsters, it's still a nice way to beat over something like Jinzo.
Will we be seeing MBT‘s dog next time? 😁 Love MBT‘s look when the barking starts at 41:16. 😃 Besides that: another great episode! Love that we actually get to see the different possible playstyles (Exodia, Last Turn, Magical Scientist, you name it). Would be a shame to see Beatdown vs. Beatdown every week. Thanks guys! :)
Yeah! The wheel was something we really wanted to implement early on, to give you a good selection of decks that represented any given slice of the timeline! The best part is, MBT and I are always flying blind, and never know how the episode is going to turn out! 😂
@@Cimoooooooo What happened to Mill & Control on the Wheel? Jank was added last video & has disappeared. Where did it go? Can you do History of Yugioh twice a week, please? The only other series you do is "Progression", so that's 5 days you could do History on! Can you do a game of modern yugioh with everything at 3? I don't thing some cards are as busted as people think!
@@insanemakaioshin | They each already have a Progression series going _(MBT's is the Progression Playoffs.)_ so I imagine they're not going to be squeezing time for biweekly History episodes. Sorry.
33:25 This is, why I love Yugioh. That moment, where literally everything depends on both a decision, and what card comes next. One player plays his Reasoning, so the other can start their reasoning.
I believe you forgot one of the best (or worst depending on what end you’re on) of the Magical Scientist interactions. They used to play a 1 of Reaper on the Nightmare, for exactly a game 3 scenario. You could’ve summoned Ryu Senshi with priority to negate any future traps, and then summoned the nightmare and creature swapped his breaker for your reaper in attack mode, then you could have summoned 3 more monsters for a bunch of damage. It was one of the ways to pseudo OTK when your opponent dealt damage to you. It could’ve been prevented by chaining ring immediately on summon, but that’s no intuitive unless you actually been hit with this FTK a few times.
Isn't it interesting how the yugiboomers have remained silent since the last episode xD They'll just pretend the following episodes didn't happen until we reach GOAT format just for them to proceed ignoring the subsequent OTK format xD
@@pandaman1331 You are really comparing an inconsistent deck like Scientist FTK, one you can play around in this format by not attacking into floaters, to toolbox.dek version 43 which ends on 6 negates where you have to hope you draw a hand trap? My goodness, not sure you understand what "context" is if you think they are comparable.
@@PathBeyondTheDark Just ignore the troll, who has coincidentally not said a word in the progression series since Gage started dominating. That said, imagine how busted Magical Scientist would be if it were legal today. CED gets all of the hype but Scientist just gets more ridiculous as time goes on.
Catapult Turtle is my favorite card of all time, and I loved him even before Scientist came out. I opened him from a pack, and thought I was going to trade or sell it. I playtested him one weekend with my cousin, and his synergy with Last Will and especially Change of Heart made me fall in love with the card and it even inspired me to run Water decks for the my entirety of my competitive playing days. Scientist was but a backup strat in a deck that was otherwise Water-centric. Great to see!
Ok so the first match will clearly have to go into the "best of 2021 history of Yugioh" video that will be made for this year. And naturally the most important phrase - "don't you dare hit that concede button"
I think the thing I enjoy most about this series aside from nostalgia, is the explanation of all the possible outcomes when coming down to the final turns. Hope this series goes on for awhile maybe with some more guests once the pack lists are complete!
Would you be intrested to play in the same style as Cimo and Gage with me? I am currently playing alongside them, upgrading my deck every week. If we play on EdoPro we can use the pre-errata cards
I do not know whether anyone will read this as I understand this series is to be one for fun, but I feel like some people may want to see some stats for it; so here is what I have for overall averaged stats in some categories that I would definitely want to highlight: Cimo is in the lead in this series with 10 Game Wins while MBT has 5 Game Wins. Cimo is in the lead in this series with 9 Rock-Paper-Scissor Wins while MBT has 6 Rock-Paper-Scissor Wins. Cimo has taken the first turn in Game 1 10 times while MBT has taken the turn 5 times. It seems for right now, who ever takes the first turn for Game 1 will win the game. So good luck MBT!! MBT has received the first damage in Game 1 9 times while Cimo has only received the first damage 4 times. Episode 6's Game 1 and episode 15's Game 1 had neither player take any damage. Game 1's overall average time is only 9 minutes and 20 seconds. Game's 1's overall average turn count is only 16 turns. Cimo is in the lead in this series with 10 Game 1 Wins while MBT has 5 Game 1 Wins. It seems that for right now, who ever takes the Game 1Win will be the one who goes first in Game 1 and be the one to win the game. So good luck MBT!! MBT has taken the first turn in Game 2 9 times while Cimo has taken the turn 6 times. In episode 1, MBT gave Game 2's first turn to Cimo when it was his turn to pick. MBT has received the first damage in Game 2 9 times while Cimo has only received the first damage 5 times. Episode 14's Game 2 had neither player take any damage. Game 2's overall average time is only 9 minutes and 35 seconds. Game's 2's overall average turn count is only 16 turns. MBT is in the lead in this series with 9 Game 2 Wins while Cimo has 6 Game 2 Wins. It seems for right now, who ever takes the first turn for Game 2 will win Game 2. So good luck Cimo!! Cimo has taken the first turn in Game 3 7 times while MBT has taken the turn 3 times. Episode 1, 2, 5, 8, and 13 did not have a Game 3 in them. MBT has received the first damage in Game 3 7 times while Cimo has only received the first damage 3 times. It seems for right now, the inverse of who goes first for Game 3 will be the results for who receives the first damage in Game 3. Game 3's overall average time is only 8 minutes and 21 seconds. Game's 3's overall average turn count is only 16 turns. I understand that this seems very weird for all Games to have the same overall average for turns however, I checked my math three times, and it is correct. Cimo is in the lead in this series with 7 Game 3 Wins while MBT has 3 Game 3 Wins. It seems for right now, who ever takes the first turn for Game 3 will win Game 3. So good luck MBT!! Overall average for the amount of monsters, spells, and traps that both Cimo and MBT play in their Main and Side Deck are as followed. I will not be including the Extra Deck because all we have right now are fusions. Cimo's Deck: 40 Cards in the Main Deck and 14 cards in the Side Deck. Rounding threw this number off by one, my apologies. 17 monsters in the Main Deck, 17 spells in the Main Deck, and 6 traps in the Main Deck. 4 Monsters in the Side Deck, 6 spells in the Side Deck, and 4 traps in the Side Deck. MBT's Deck: 40 Cards in the Main Deck and 14 cards in the Side Deck. Rounding threw this number off by one, my apologies. 18 monsters in the Main Deck, 16 spells in the Main Deck, and 6 traps in the Main Deck. 3 Monsters in the Side Deck, 6 spells in the Side Deck, and 5 traps in the Side Deck. Two fun facts: The fastest game ever played in this series time wise is Game 2 from episode 2 with only 1 minute and 34 seconds as the Game time. The fastest game ever played in this series turn wise is Game 1 from Episode 15 with only 1 turn as the Game count. I hope this information was useful for somebody, have a great weekend!
I absolutely love the series. I think one really nice thing for the viewers might be, if you showcase a decklist for each possible deck of the format at the beginning or end of the video.
Would be nice but actual deck lists for the formats between 2003 and 2004 are very rare. They could at best make an educated quess about what was played but we can't really know for sure. We only know that Hand Control was the dominating deck since it won all tournaments at that time. yugiohtopdecks.com/decklists?page_number=163 roadoftheking.com/yu-gi-oh-world-championship-2003/ These are the best references we have for those times. Espacially the second link demonstrates very well how monotonous the format actually was, despite pouplar believe. For more recent times we have websites like these: ygoprodeck.com/deck-search/?post_date=01012016+31122016&sort_order=date+asc ygorganization.com/category/decklists/ocg-decklist/ On these sites you can find a lot of roque and casual decks at well but they unfortunately don't go back any futher than 2016. To conclude my long post, if you only want a representation for the actual meta than the wheel is unecessary because only hand control and it's subsequent version Chaos Control were viable. If you want to include roque and casual decks than you have no choice but to make a wild guess
@@maxfragel8777 You're welcome. I am somewhat wondering about this problem as well because at many points in this series they will have access to many viable decks. And this makes wonder what they are going to do with the decks they aren't going to roll on the wheel. Are they not going to demonstrate these decks at all then? I hope they will find a satisfying solution for this
Hey I was recognized by them go me! I'm youtube comment famous xD! Anyways here is the scoreboard, ill add the win streaks next week like I do in the progression! Cimo: Matches: 10-5 Games: 24-17 RPS: 8 MBT: Matches: 5-10 Games: 17-23 RPS: 7
Cimoo talking about his cereal: "This is a beautiful bowl of natural whole fat milk which is more than enough to quench my morning hunger. I eat those beautiful pouches of chocolate, which have a certain crunch to them when you bite into them. I ate those exact cereals on a sunday morning in July 1999, and I've loved them ever since."
I can't wait to see an Empty Jar OTK. Kinda like Cimo getting schooled by Magical Scientist FTK at locals, my first time playing at a card shop I got destroyed by an Empty Jar OTK mill deck, the version that finished with Card Destruction into Serial Spell, forcing me to draw like 40 cards. Honestly, it was just amazing to watch it work. I was proud that I was able to side into Royal Command and get a win from it in game 2.
My first experience with Yugioh was a GBA game called The Sacred Cards, and in that game, provided you can somehow get both Catapult Turtle and either Ra or Slifer on the field (easier if you cheat so you get every card available to you, since you only get Ra when you've already beaten the game and there's no NG+), you can pull off a one-monster OTK right then and there regardless of the backrow, since Catapult in the game uses the full ATK.
Nah it was super obvius i would have done exactly the same thing otherwise you lose board control and card advantage too and with low card numbers in hand/field that can win the game.
I have to agree with the other commentors. It was not just the obvious choice but the only one. Magical Scientist was often used that way in Chaos Control decks to clear the field of problematic monsters
I'll summon magical scientist, WITH PRIORITY!!!!! God i forgot how much I hated priority. Can only imagine what the game would be like now with it lmao
I've been Dueling since the beginning of Yu-Gi-Oh, I've faced MANY a crazy or unbeatable deck, but if you're still dueling of being FTK'd by Magical Scientist, you've earned the title Duelist. One of my friends I still know today and is vending now played it. Such fun memories. Yu-Gi-Oh is great.
This series is really well executed. I was skeptical of the wheel and if it would be as interesting as the progression series but it actually works so well at showing off fun and crazy decks
Ah yes, Union monsters and spell counters - I still remember all the fantastic and viable as well as widely beloved and popular decks that used those mechanics in fun, inventive, and most of all very functional ways. Good times.
Ah, Magical Scientist - I drew this card from a Dark Revelations Volume 1 booster on the day it was banned. Wonderful video, wonderful series so far. Really enjoying this little travel though time. Looking forward to further videos and how you will deal once you reach the sets that will allow you to play theme decks.
Mother Grizzly was run in some earlier builds of Fire/Ice hand decks. Mother Grizzly being a Beast Warrior made it searchable with Tenki and the Fire Fist engine had nice synergy with the Hands. Grizzly could summon Ice Hand from the deck.
8:00 my first and only tournament was against, in order: A synchron deck, a Relinquished deck, and a Lightsworn deck. I was running a dragon deck with a strong focus on five headed dragon and future fusion, with support from Darkness Metal Dragon and Red Eyes Wyvern + Red Eyes Eclipse to get the Darkness Metal Dragon on the field so i can summon resources from the future fusion that I didn't use for a dragon mirror. By turn 3 my field would be looking like: 1 blue eyes, 1 darkness metal dragon, 2 five headed dragons, 1 Lord of D if things turned out right.
Cimo: "if you see gilasaurus it is for degenerate reasons" me who has been using it for normal play reasons because I'm bad at the game: "I take offense to that"
MBT: "Yeah, Magical Scientist is innocuous without this combo" Cimooooo: "Exactly, this card is completely unbalanced and even without this combo it's incredible and overpowered utility that can OTK with all other toolset fusion monsters" Uh
It's bizzare that they printed Magical scientist thinking it'd be fine, since I remember in the OCG you had Cyber-Stein, Blue Eyes Ultimate, Megamorph shenanigans for years so it's not like this was the first time they made the mistake. Maybe they thought the restrictions would fix it?
Congratulations Cimo! you finally faced your childhood trauma... By inflicting the same thing to your friend...? Not sure if that's the right why to go about it 🤔. Hey, at least you got a W lol
Ooh, I have a lot of nostalgia for this set. The gas station by the corner store in the town I grew up in used to carry specifically this set, for some reason.
Slightly disappointed cimo didn't bring a 150 card extra deck like the old days - you never know when that fusionist comes in handy! Hope to see this when metamorphisis comes into the series
My first local was at comic cult. I got first playing hand control beat down. Match I remember from that time was against chaos. Top decked a fiber. Opponent passed and I flipped fiber drew yata, duo, and confiscation. Ended up yata locking him for the win. Great times lol
I'd bet people crying out for "Old YuGiOh" are people crying out for a time before they understood/played Meta and just remember the days of School-Yard playing lol. Those are the glory days.
The first time I went to a locals, I went against Pendulums when Electromite was legal in 2019. It was my first time playing Yugioh and I didn’t know all the rulings at the time. My first deck was Rokkets and I didn’t know about anything about Dragon Link at the time so the pendulum player absolutely destroyed me and not even letting do my combos. Since then, I studied the game and now I’ve gotten to the point where I can go up against the meta.
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I knew that English degree was useless. I should've majored in Magical Science.
lol
As a fellow English major, I understand your lament.
You would have ended up working with Kozaki so that would have been a bad idea
As someone who is currently doing a medical science degree, it's about as fun as getting magical scientist FTK'd.
lol
So you're telling me that canonically limiter removal was the first card to have it's limit removed?
I hope this gem doesn't get buried
I was here before heart
You win the internet sir.
Brilliant
Well played, good sir, well played.
Cimo getting magical scientist FTK'd for his first tournament duel counts as villain backstory
It is dr.doofenshmirtz yugioh backstory
This is what turned him into Yami Cimoooooooo
*one of his first tournaments
Definitely explains why he's a sore loser some times
When the most interaction you get is calling the number for Reasoning
So far we've had Exodia, Magical Scientist FTK, a Last Turn that lead to a draw and 2 Yata Locks. Truly the Yugioh that Kazuki Takahashi envisioned.
This is why this series is bettter than the progression one.
"A last turn that lead to a draw" i think is my fain this
This frickin' game eh? It's why I thought Duel Links would be fun since it could avoid this kind of degeneracy... but nope!
And we still haven't gotten to bloody Invasion of Chaos...
We might get another Exodia next time. We already had Gearfried for a while, Magician's Force gave us Royal Magical Library and Dark Crisis will come with Elma for that sweet whole deck draw.
@@amatheuslc OH SNAP! I hope they do that because that would be hilarious!
"This set introduced-
What did this set introduce again?
"-Union Monsters"
Oh that's right, that's why I don't remember
@@nyr_Ea Not counting ABCs, ABCs were genuinely good. I'm talking about the early Union Monsters which were just terrible and wordy as hell. Not to mention most of them made it so only one monster can have a Union equipment at a time.
A moment of silence for union monsters everywhere
To be honest, Machine Beatdown with 3 Limiter Removal would have been a viable choice in my opinion. But what we've got was way better! Very accurate portrayal of the former Meta
@@SirGrimLockSmithVIII Weren't they wordy as all hell though? I wonder how hard it was for you to read the small text
@@SirGrimLockSmithVIII I liked what they were trying to do too, it made sense and I've always liked Dark Blade's design. But goddamn, if the early Unions weren't a wall of text
Retired chemistry teacher and his RC turtle obliterate everything in their path
So Walter White on a Tuesday?
THIS
So is Breaking Bad a yugioh reference??🤔
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself play Magical Scientist FTK.
Or yata lock.
@@nabkill0134 I mean, what other viable strategy was there to play?
A moment of silence for young Cimo for having to face Magical Scientist FTK at locals all those years ago...
Mother Grizzly still haunts my dreams to this day; that was the worst attack I have ever made in my Yu-Gi-Oh! career.
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@@Cimoooooooo What happened to Mill & Control on the Wheel? Jank was added last video & has disappeared. Where did it go?
Can you do History of Yugioh twice a week, please? The only other series you do is "Progression", so that's 5 days you could do History on!
Can you do a game of modern yugioh with everything at 3? I don't thing some cards are as busted as people think!
p;
@@insanemakaioshin everything at 3 leads to either floodgate lockdown, or a format loaded with ftks. Also jank is replaced by scientist and burn, as they're the jank in the format.
The first fusion monster summoned between both The History of Yu-Gi-Oh! and The Progression Series, and it's for this monstrosity. Poetry in motion.
MBT summoned Twin Headed Thunder Dragon in Metal Raiders format in his own progression playoffs thing too. That was pretty epic
I think gage used metamorphisis a few times in the progression series
No he didn't
I think Gage summoned Ryu Senshi with metamorphosis in one episode.
I wanna agree with you lol but Gage definitely summoned Ryu Senshi earlier on the Progression Series using Metamorphosis and Jinzo/Mobius/Raiza (I don’t remember I just knew it was one of them and it had to be a level 6 anyway lol)
MBT worried about ad revenue, but Cimo already had that covered with the 10 minute deck profile.
Yeah that's getting really annoying
skip it
@@alonsoarana5307 tbh some people wanna hear the explanation for his deck choices to also get some history on old decks. You can just skip it
@@banako420 Yes, I am one of the people who like to learn how to play these decks since I had skipped the meta game for the most part until I returned in 2016
@@pandaman1331 Same here. I only played playground Yu-gi-oh until Ancient Sanctuary and after that barely played Yu-gi-oh. Only past year I decided to look up the game again but I can't bring myself to play it.
Cimooo: "Magician's Force introduced Union monsters."
Me: "And Dark Magician Girl."
I see you're a duelist of culture as well.
If you know what I mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@SirGrimLockSmithVIII I've... 5 different edition of her. Just got a play set of the lost art version a couple month back.
@@SirGrimLockSmithVIII nah, I have them nicely protected with triple sleeves inside top loaders, inside a dark magician girl tin(which is where one of them came from).
Cimo: "Magician's Force introduced Union monsters."
Very literally everyone: "And no one cared, cares, or will ever care."
You either quit Yugioh after being Magical Scientist FTK'd or live long enough to do it to someone else
I did it to someone else once. And I only ever owned 1 copy of Catapult Turtle in my life. That was just how life was back in the day.
I had my tag team variation that didn't get banned for a long time. Ultimate Offering, Cannon Soldier and Black Ptera. Tag team because Offering and Cannon were part of my brother's structure deck, and Ptera was part of mine. Needless to say it was not fun for the receiving end if we teamed up and drew into those cards.
MBT: Talks for 3 minutes about his deck
Cimo: Talks for 3 hours about his deck
So you're probably wondering why I'm playing pot of greed. See, it is a spell card that allows me draw two cards from my deck. And it doesn't even have a cost! That's just insane! It allows us to dig deeper into our deck and get the cards we need. Since we need some specific card combinations for the FTK to work, this is a really valuable effect. We could get a Monster Reborn and a Magical Scientist, use the Reborn to get catapult Turtle from the Graveyard, normal summon the Magical Scientist and start our shenanigans. We could even do this if we didn't have any card in our hands before drawing Pot of Greed. Unfortunately, it's limited, so we can only play one copy, but if we could, I'd play it at 3. It's just that good. Getting extra cards is always valuable, especially since we want to win before our life points become too low to do the FTK.
@@GeargianoXG That was a horrible impression of Cimo. But not inaccurate
Bruh I heard that in his voice
a.k.a the reason why I watch at x1,5 speed 😂
Technically Magical Scientist FTK is a burn deck.
Technically most ftk decks are burn decks
There's no technicality involved, it kills the opponent was burn damage, it is a burn deck
What the man wants to say is cimo rolled burn, so he could have played MC anyways, I think
Ah, i see. The floor is made of floor.
Technically each time your monster inflicts battle damage, that is burning your opponent, so all deck other than mill decks are burn decks
1:53
"But most importantly..."
Me: "Oh yeah, Royal Magical Library, baby!"
I'm sure Joseph is already brewing some Library Exodia FTK for a future episode.
@@Cimoooooooo What happened to Mill & Control on the Wheel? Jank was added last video & has disappeared. Where did it go?
Can you do History of Yugioh twice a week, please? The only other series you do is "Progression", so that's 5 days you could do History on!
Can you do a game of modern yugioh with everything at 3? I don't thing some cards are as busted as people think!
@@insanemakaioshin Control is now hand destruction and there is no good mill deck currently
*When you get” Magical scientist FTK”*
Me: Im a head out...
@@laytonjr6601 or ever for that matter. Unless you count Makyura plus Exchange of the Spirit since it technically wins by deck out.
"And that is exactly 8000 damage, and will be more than enough to win the game." Isn't this the definition of NOT more than enough? :P
Lol fr. I guess if you get to 7200+ your chance of winning is still almost guaranteed so 8000 on the first turn is the thing that seals the deal
"Hello, 911? I just witnessed a fucking murder!"
lmao
Hoping for a Jank vs jank in a future episode in this series.
Chaos will insue and we will revile in it.
"MBT: I'm not very good at yu-gi-oh, and I'm not very smart."
Same, brother.
It’s weird. I love rooting for Cimo in the progression series, but here there’s nothing I love more than MBT winning! Maybe it’s because I prefer Cimo’s enthusiasm to Gage’s smugness but Joseph and his quiet charisma win me over
Cimo: Ftk, I win.
MBT: Yata, I win.
Game 3: fair game (top deck war)
Same, I actually am going to be honest and say that's why I stopped watching Progression Series
the progression series is becoming more and more unwatchable cause at this rate, its going to be the same overpowered cards for the forseeable future with Cimo could duel the perfect duel only for CED go brrrrr and end the game
Yeah huge difficulty with progression series is that Cimo has much better technical play, but Gage keeps opening all of the boss monsters which continually ruins Cimo now. Cimo plays really well, but his deck is just much weaker due to pulls
Lmao why would anyone ever root for Cimo?
At this point the “strap yourselves in because anything can happen” line in the intro should have a visual with Exodia and Last Turn
I wanted to come in and say, when I first discovered this series I knew literally nothing about this game, I had no idea what the rules even were, but I've been binging this entire series and have been loving it. You're both really entertaining to watch and it's so interesting watching how this game has developed. Also as an avid MTG player, shoutouts to Blue Tron. You rock man.
Yu-Gi-Oh is for players who enjoy playing around core mechanics and go at full force since there are almost no restrictions due to the lack of resources. If you enjoy rather fast paced games and a lot of freedom and choices in deckbuilding you should defenitely pick it up. It at times is just pure creativity!
Its a really good series and Yugioh was a really, really good game up until 2012-2013 when the game died (for me at least) due to very serious powercreep and combo otks and ftks fiesta all matches, but until then its was a really REALLY good game to play with a lot of back and forth and strategy.
Good luck for you bro they are in 2003 right now so we have a loooooong time until they reach that moment! :D :D :D
P.S. I also play mtg, great card game
@@crisalidx5881 39:00 39:16 let's just ignore the last two episodes and claim that yugioh wasn't degenerate xD
If you want to learn how to play yu-gi-oh from the beginning you can duel me sometimes on EdoPro. I am currently on a nostalgia trip anyway.
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Here is the link to find players. We are currently at Dark Crisis, so you haven't missed out on much
Wow - for a minute it really looked like Cimooo was about to pull of the unthinkable, double one turn kill for the shortest episode in History or Progression's life. Imperial Order gonna imperial I guess. It's fantastic even today with monsters dominating the meta. But in a format where spells are 90% of your power plays, it's a single card game winner.
Except you shoulda known it wouldn't happen cuz the length of the video acts as a Spoiler to say that the match isn't that short.
@@korsaiyajinkami3766 Cimo's explanation took away most of the time
@@pandaman1331 That is accurate. First 15-20 minutes is always the introduction and deck breakdown. Last 5-10 minutes is the post-game analysis. So if you subtract 30 minutes from the run time it gives you a good idea of it's going to be a 2 or 3 game episode, though the first 2 games were over super quick it felt like it was only going to be 2.
Magical Scientist: Viktor Frankenstein
Cyberstein: Frankenstein's monster
Loved the book!
WdYM fRaNKenStEIn isN'T tHE mOnStER?
obvious /s.
I like that this episode went in-depth and showed off why Magical Scientist is good in multiple ways beyond just as an FTK/OTK card. In addition to the effect Fusion monsters, there's one more card that Magical Scientist can abuse, and that's United We Stand. United We Stand is an equip card that adds 800 ATK/DEF for every faceup monster on the field, for a max of 4000 with 5 monsters. With all 5 monsters, Magical Scientist can turn into a 4300 attack monster (and beater/direct attacker) for a turn, making an OTK possible even if you're down a couple thousand lifepoints below your opponent. Even if you don't summon 5 monsters, it's still a nice way to beat over something like Jinzo.
Sometimes you just look at old cards and wonder "who thought this would be healthy for the game?"
Will we be seeing MBT‘s dog next time? 😁 Love MBT‘s look when the barking starts at 41:16. 😃
Besides that: another great episode! Love that we actually get to see the different possible playstyles (Exodia, Last Turn, Magical Scientist, you name it). Would be a shame to see Beatdown vs. Beatdown every week. Thanks guys! :)
Yeah! The wheel was something we really wanted to implement early on, to give you a good selection of decks that represented any given slice of the timeline!
The best part is, MBT and I are always flying blind, and never know how the episode is going to turn out! 😂
@@Cimoooooooo What happened to Mill & Control on the Wheel? Jank was added last video & has disappeared. Where did it go?
Can you do History of Yugioh twice a week, please? The only other series you do is "Progression", so that's 5 days you could do History on!
Can you do a game of modern yugioh with everything at 3? I don't thing some cards are as busted as people think!
@@insanemakaioshin | They each already have a Progression series going _(MBT's is the Progression Playoffs.)_ so I imagine they're not going to be squeezing time for biweekly History episodes. Sorry.
33:25
This is, why I love Yugioh. That moment, where literally everything depends on both a decision, and what card comes next. One player plays his Reasoning, so the other can start their reasoning.
I believe you forgot one of the best (or worst depending on what end you’re on) of the Magical Scientist interactions.
They used to play a 1 of Reaper on the Nightmare, for exactly a game 3 scenario. You could’ve summoned Ryu Senshi with priority to negate any future traps, and then summoned the nightmare and creature swapped his breaker for your reaper in attack mode, then you could have summoned 3 more monsters for a bunch of damage. It was one of the ways to pseudo OTK when your opponent dealt damage to you.
It could’ve been prevented by chaining ring immediately on summon, but that’s no intuitive unless you actually been hit with this FTK a few times.
I remember one of my Yugioh Collection books in which Yami defeats Marik using Magical Scientist OTK. So that's my introduction to that OTK.
"Old yugioh was so good, gold time when we didn't lost a duel to the dice"
That irony
Isn't it interesting how the yugiboomers have remained silent since the last episode xD They'll just pretend the following episodes didn't happen until we reach GOAT format just for them to proceed ignoring the subsequent OTK format xD
@@pandaman1331 " yugiboomers" This term made me laugh so hard for no reason at all.
@@pandaman1331 You are really comparing an inconsistent deck like Scientist FTK, one you can play around in this format by not attacking into floaters, to toolbox.dek version 43 which ends on 6 negates where you have to hope you draw a hand trap? My goodness, not sure you understand what "context" is if you think they are comparable.
@@PathBeyondTheDark Just ignore the troll, who has coincidentally not said a word in the progression series since Gage started dominating.
That said, imagine how busted Magical Scientist would be if it were legal today. CED gets all of the hype but Scientist just gets more ridiculous as time goes on.
That odd eyes into jinzo to grave combo in game 3 was beautifully done.
Catapult Turtle is my favorite card of all time, and I loved him even before Scientist came out. I opened him from a pack, and thought I was going to trade or sell it. I playtested him one weekend with my cousin, and his synergy with Last Will and especially Change of Heart made me fall in love with the card and it even inspired me to run Water decks for the my entirety of my competitive playing days. Scientist was but a backup strat in a deck that was otherwise Water-centric. Great to see!
Ok so the first match will clearly have to go into the "best of 2021 history of Yugioh" video that will be made for this year. And naturally the most important phrase - "don't you dare hit that concede button"
I think the thing I enjoy most about this series aside from nostalgia, is the explanation of all the possible outcomes when coming down to the final turns. Hope this series goes on for awhile maybe with some more guests once the pack lists are complete!
Would you be intrested to play in the same style as Cimo and Gage with me? I am currently playing alongside them, upgrading my deck every week. If we play on EdoPro we can use the pre-errata cards
I do not know whether anyone will read this as I understand this series is to be one for fun, but I feel like some people may want to see some stats for it; so here is what I have for overall averaged stats in some categories that I would definitely want to highlight:
Cimo is in the lead in this series with 10 Game Wins while MBT has 5 Game Wins.
Cimo is in the lead in this series with 9 Rock-Paper-Scissor Wins while MBT has 6 Rock-Paper-Scissor Wins.
Cimo has taken the first turn in Game 1 10 times while MBT has taken the turn 5 times. It seems for right now, who ever takes the first turn for Game 1 will win the game. So good luck MBT!!
MBT has received the first damage in Game 1 9 times while Cimo has only received the first damage 4 times. Episode 6's Game 1 and episode 15's Game 1 had neither player take any damage.
Game 1's overall average time is only 9 minutes and 20 seconds.
Game's 1's overall average turn count is only 16 turns.
Cimo is in the lead in this series with 10 Game 1 Wins while MBT has 5 Game 1 Wins. It seems that for right now, who ever takes the Game 1Win will be the one who goes first in Game 1 and be the one to win the game. So good luck MBT!!
MBT has taken the first turn in Game 2 9 times while Cimo has taken the turn 6 times. In episode 1, MBT gave Game 2's first turn to Cimo when it was his turn to pick.
MBT has received the first damage in Game 2 9 times while Cimo has only received the first damage 5 times. Episode 14's Game 2 had neither player take any damage.
Game 2's overall average time is only 9 minutes and 35 seconds.
Game's 2's overall average turn count is only 16 turns.
MBT is in the lead in this series with 9 Game 2 Wins while Cimo has 6 Game 2 Wins. It seems for right now, who ever takes the first turn for Game 2 will win Game 2. So good luck Cimo!!
Cimo has taken the first turn in Game 3 7 times while MBT has taken the turn 3 times. Episode 1, 2, 5, 8, and 13 did not have a Game 3 in them.
MBT has received the first damage in Game 3 7 times while Cimo has only received the first damage 3 times. It seems for right now, the inverse of who goes first for Game 3 will be the results for who receives the first damage in Game 3.
Game 3's overall average time is only 8 minutes and 21 seconds.
Game's 3's overall average turn count is only 16 turns. I understand that this seems very weird for all Games to have the same overall average for turns however, I checked my math three times, and it is correct.
Cimo is in the lead in this series with 7 Game 3 Wins while MBT has 3 Game 3 Wins. It seems for right now, who ever takes the first turn for Game 3 will win Game 3. So good luck MBT!!
Overall average for the amount of monsters, spells, and traps that both Cimo and MBT play in their Main and Side Deck are as followed. I will not be including the Extra Deck because all we have right now are fusions.
Cimo's Deck:
40 Cards in the Main Deck and 14 cards in the Side Deck. Rounding threw this number off by one, my apologies.
17 monsters in the Main Deck, 17 spells in the Main Deck, and 6 traps in the Main Deck.
4 Monsters in the Side Deck, 6 spells in the Side Deck, and 4 traps in the Side Deck.
MBT's Deck:
40 Cards in the Main Deck and 14 cards in the Side Deck. Rounding threw this number off by one, my apologies.
18 monsters in the Main Deck, 16 spells in the Main Deck, and 6 traps in the Main Deck.
3 Monsters in the Side Deck, 6 spells in the Side Deck, and 5 traps in the Side Deck.
Two fun facts:
The fastest game ever played in this series time wise is Game 2 from episode 2 with only 1 minute and 34 seconds as the Game time.
The fastest game ever played in this series turn wise is Game 1 from Episode 15 with only 1 turn as the Game count.
I hope this information was useful for somebody, have a great weekend!
Seeing Scientist FTK is like the old villain returning again, the og cancer.
I absolutely love the series. I think one really nice thing for the viewers might be, if you showcase a decklist for each possible deck of the format at the beginning or end of the video.
Would be nice but actual deck lists for the formats between 2003 and 2004 are very rare. They could at best make an educated quess about what was played but we can't really know for sure. We only know that Hand Control was the dominating deck since it won all tournaments at that time.
yugiohtopdecks.com/decklists?page_number=163
roadoftheking.com/yu-gi-oh-world-championship-2003/
These are the best references we have for those times. Espacially the second link demonstrates very well how monotonous the format actually was, despite pouplar believe.
For more recent times we have websites like these:
ygoprodeck.com/deck-search/?post_date=01012016+31122016&sort_order=date+asc
ygorganization.com/category/decklists/ocg-decklist/
On these sites you can find a lot of roque and casual decks at well but they unfortunately don't go back any futher than 2016. To conclude my long post, if you only want a representation for the actual meta than the wheel is unecessary because only hand control and it's subsequent version Chaos Control were viable. If you want to include roque and casual decks than you have no choice but to make a wild guess
@@pandaman1331 Thanks a lot for your long answer🔥😊
@@maxfragel8777 You're welcome. I am somewhat wondering about this problem as well because at many points in this series they will have access to many viable decks. And this makes wonder what they are going to do with the decks they aren't going to roll on the wheel. Are they not going to demonstrate these decks at all then? I hope they will find a satisfying solution for this
@@maxfragel8777 I am currently looking for some people to play the history of yugioh game online with. Would you be interested?
@@pandaman1331 Yeah, would be🔥 Where can I contact you?
Hey I was recognized by them go me! I'm youtube comment famous xD! Anyways here is the scoreboard, ill add the win streaks next week like I do in the progression!
Cimo:
Matches: 10-5
Games: 24-17
RPS: 8
MBT:
Matches: 5-10
Games: 17-23
RPS: 7
It's so weird seeing that amount of banned cards in a single deck
Cimoo talking about his cereal: "This is a beautiful bowl of natural whole fat milk which is more than enough to quench my morning hunger. I eat those beautiful pouches of chocolate, which have a certain crunch to them when you bite into them. I ate those exact cereals on a sunday morning in July 1999, and I've loved them ever since."
I can't wait to see an Empty Jar OTK. Kinda like Cimo getting schooled by Magical Scientist FTK at locals, my first time playing at a card shop I got destroyed by an Empty Jar OTK mill deck, the version that finished with Card Destruction into Serial Spell, forcing me to draw like 40 cards. Honestly, it was just amazing to watch it work. I was proud that I was able to side into Royal Command and get a win from it in game 2.
20:37 For anyone wondering why Magical Scientist was a big pain in the day before its banning.
Cimoooo: you can do the ftk on the first turn.
Me: isnt that what ftk means?
Everyone was all over this set when it first came out at my highschool back in the day. My spellcaster deck was badass.
My first experience with Yugioh was a GBA game called The Sacred Cards, and in that game, provided you can somehow get both Catapult Turtle and either Ra or Slifer on the field (easier if you cheat so you get every card available to you, since you only get Ra when you've already beaten the game and there's no NG+), you can pull off a one-monster OTK right then and there regardless of the backrow, since Catapult in the game uses the full ATK.
That Thousand Eyes Restrict play was big brain
No
Nah it was super obvius i would have done exactly the same thing otherwise you lose board control and card advantage too and with low card numbers in hand/field that can win the game.
I have to agree with the other commentors. It was not just the obvious choice but the only one. Magical Scientist was often used that way in Chaos Control decks to clear the field of problematic monsters
I'll summon magical scientist, WITH PRIORITY!!!!! God i forgot how much I hated priority. Can only imagine what the game would be like now with it lmao
Why did he even bother saying that lol
Priority in today's game? Now that's fucked up 😂
I've been Dueling since the beginning of Yu-Gi-Oh, I've faced MANY a crazy or unbeatable deck, but if you're still dueling of being FTK'd by Magical Scientist, you've earned the title Duelist. One of my friends I still know today and is vending now played it. Such fun memories. Yu-Gi-Oh is great.
Been having a bad day so far, so im glad to have an hour of fun to brighten my day up. Thank you
See people this is why you ban cards.
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I can't belive how hyped I got when Joseph Drop off'd Cimooooo
This series is really well executed. I was skeptical of the wheel and if it would be as interesting as the progression series but it actually works so well at showing off fun and crazy decks
Yugioh in 2004: lets see who doesnt let the other one play yugioh first.
Ah yes, Union monsters and spell counters - I still remember all the fantastic and viable as well as widely beloved and popular decks that used those mechanics in fun, inventive, and most of all very functional ways. Good times.
Ah, Magical Scientist - I drew this card from a Dark Revelations Volume 1 booster on the day it was banned.
Wonderful video, wonderful series so far. Really enjoying this little travel though time. Looking forward to further videos and how you will deal once you reach the sets that will allow you to play theme decks.
This series got me back on playing every episode is really enjoyable.
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I am doing the same here. We can play together if you want to. If you click on the link you can find more people to play with
"I'll normal summon said scientist"
I loved this line lmao
I love how Cimoo open turtle and scientist every game
Game one is a Magical-Scientist-FTK, Game two a Yata-Lock. Man, Yu-Gi-Oh! is a great game.
Remember that time in the Yugituber Championship where Cimo got 2003 and didn't play Magical Scientist.
Why did he let that game 2 so easily, he could've just summoned magical scienceist and go for beater to attack over breaker and company
Thanks for bringing back some COD I had from 2003. One match where I never even played because he did magical scientist two times in a row
Mother Grizzly was run in some earlier builds of Fire/Ice hand decks. Mother Grizzly being a Beast Warrior made it searchable with Tenki and the Fire Fist engine had nice synergy with the Hands. Grizzly could summon Ice Hand from the deck.
26:36
"quoth the raven:"
- "Eat my shorts"
XD The Simpsons reference!
MBT's face and reaction when he sow Cimo's hand was hilarious
8:00 my first and only tournament was against, in order: A synchron deck, a Relinquished deck, and a Lightsworn deck. I was running a dragon deck with a strong focus on five headed dragon and future fusion, with support from Darkness Metal Dragon and Red Eyes Wyvern + Red Eyes Eclipse to get the Darkness Metal Dragon on the field so i can summon resources from the future fusion that I didn't use for a dragon mirror. By turn 3 my field would be looking like: 1 blue eyes, 1 darkness metal dragon, 2 five headed dragons, 1 Lord of D if things turned out right.
Why didnt Cimo in Game 2 just summoned Magical Scientist and make a whole lot of Monsters and punched
Cimo: "if you see gilasaurus it is for degenerate reasons"
me who has been using it for normal play reasons because I'm bad at the game: "I take offense to that"
Bruh this is obviously not what we mean when we say we miss old school Yugioh
MBT: "Yeah, Magical Scientist is innocuous without this combo"
Cimooooo: "Exactly, this card is completely unbalanced and even without this combo it's incredible and overpowered utility that can OTK with all other toolset fusion monsters"
Uh
This match was a lot closer than I expected.
It's bizzare that they printed Magical scientist thinking it'd be fine, since I remember in the OCG you had Cyber-Stein, Blue Eyes Ultimate, Megamorph shenanigans for years so it's not like this was the first time they made the mistake. Maybe they thought the restrictions would fix it?
Reasoning is actually working for Cimo. Gage must be punching his monitor rn
My first local experience was facing multiple C.E.D. yata lock and not realizing what yata did
In game to cimo could use magical scientist to summon Eyes Restrict or other cards. He just gave up to quickly for not having the exact combo.
Congratulations Cimo! you finally faced your childhood trauma... By inflicting the same thing to your friend...? Not sure if that's the right why to go about it 🤔. Hey, at least you got a W lol
I like how we get Magical smScientist FTK first game and then Yata second game!
Ooh, I have a lot of nostalgia for this set. The gas station by the corner store in the town I grew up in used to carry specifically this set, for some reason.
41:20 I lol'd at the dog going crazy in the background audio. XD
Slightly disappointed cimo didn't bring a 150 card extra deck like the old days - you never know when that fusionist comes in handy!
Hope to see this when metamorphisis comes into the series
Can you do it on dueling book?
My first locals had me reading every card my Hero opponent played, then blowing them out with Nibiru.
I always enjoy the eerie music during this series
My first local was at comic cult. I got first playing hand control beat down. Match I remember from that time was against chaos. Top decked a fiber. Opponent passed and I flipped fiber drew yata, duo, and confiscation. Ended up yata locking him for the win. Great times lol
Yeah this era of YuGiOh was why it took my friend a year to convince me to play again.
Jesus, and I thought the game 1 from the hand destruction format was disgusting.
Magical scientist is bane from Batman, he wanted to know what would break first, player will to continue, or the the game.
I absolutely love that Limiter Removal was the first card to be removed from the limited list. That's just perfect.
This is the best series on yt rn
I'd bet people crying out for "Old YuGiOh" are people crying out for a time before they understood/played Meta and just remember the days of School-Yard playing lol. Those are the glory days.
I remember using magical scientist ftk at my locals
Damn those was short tournaments why because everybody was play magical scientist ftk
Never clicked on a Cimo vid this fast
The first time I went to a locals, I went against Pendulums when Electromite was legal in 2019. It was my first time playing Yugioh and I didn’t know all the rulings at the time. My first deck was Rokkets and I didn’t know about anything about Dragon Link at the time so the pendulum player absolutely destroyed me and not even letting do my combos. Since then, I studied the game and now I’ve gotten to the point where I can go up against the meta.
This was an awesome idea for a series, really enjoying the nostalgia!
Way back in the day, I used to get Cyber Stein & Magical Scientist mixed-up. Haha 😄
Damn that must be some bad history reliving losing
As a player that started a year ago. I love learning about all the old cards. Didn’t know Union cards existed
MBT mispronouncing Aleister the invoker and Don Zaloog had me stunned
That otk was nasty cimoo you thought magic ruler episode was bad this says hold my beer or formula given that it's a scientist