The Old School Card that almost RUINED YUGIOH!

Back in 2002, the release of one card almost ruined Yugioh forever, and that one card is Mechanicalchaser. Tournament Packs were a brand new concept back in 2002, and they came in with a bang that shook the entire metagame to its very core... The only question is, how did Yugioh manage to survive?

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[ItsAWaffelz]

This would make a great series, going through the history of meta progression

[WillM]

I think the worst contender for almost killing the game was definitely Crush Card. Tournament prize only, then short printed in one set and immediately banned afterwards. Actual evil business practices

[huyphan]

Always funny to look back and realize Power Creep was woven into Yugioh’s very invention

[mrpinguimninja]

I never realized how the starter decks mirrored each other, that's a very nice little detail

[saito]

5:25 I totally thought you're gonna plug a cardmarket ad in here lmao

[RMM]

Back in middle school in 2002/2003 I would go to a local tournament nearly every Saturday. I only recall one person ever pulling the mechanical chaser.

[coreydopson]

My step brother was a yugioh fiend back in the day and tricked a kid into trading his mechanical chaser at a barnes and nobel tournament for a starter deck yugi dark magician. To be fair. He wasnt an adult being malicious. He was a kid who was way too smart and had no morals.

[resphantom]

I remember as a kid I traded 20 of my recently opened packs of "Duel master" cards with 60 somewhat new and used random yugioh cards in a rubberband. One of those cards was the Mechanical chaser, but I didn't know the significance of that card. I just remember wiping the playing field, playing cardboard on a cardboard mat on asphalt, to stop the asphalt from scratching my cards.


At first the guy offered an equal trade. 20 cards for 20 cards. Honestly, I didn't want to trade those "Duel Master" cards, since I just bought them, but for some reason he really wanted them. Not sure if I had something rare or if it was just the new fun card game at the time.

[gearhead]

Funnily enough the only time I EVER saw Mechanical Chaser back in the day was when my opponent ran it into my Wall of Illusion and lost two turns later. Don't get me wrong, it was a strong card at the time but it wasn't a guarantee to get you at the top of the bracket like some people make it out to have been. An extra 50ATK wasn't as explosive as you think when generic spells and traps were absolutely bananas out of the gate.

[Sabasses]

I only played against this card once as a kid, who was very proud of acquiring it. The other guy went first and summoned it right away. I set Wall of Illusion and he attacked it on his next turn, sending it back to his hand. He summoned it again and I brought out Summoned Skull the next turn and blew it up. Don't remember how the duel ended but will never forget the crestfallen look on his face.

[voce]

That actually a really well put documentary about that stupid 1850

[TheVictor]

thankfully konami learned their lessons and stopped giving ultra powerful meta warping cards in tournaments, giving people who have said cards a monopoly on getting more copies... 2003? no, they learned their lesson in like 2016

[kitsunewarlock]

Great video. Only thing I think this is missing is how important the DARK attribute was in the first few sets of the game. Sword of Dark Destruction and Yami were the only equipment that saw play until Metal Raiders gave us Sword of Deep Seated. While the equip meta would die off by the third set, the inclusion of enough kids at locals playing Yami made La Jinn much more valuable an asset than Seven Colored Fish. The fact that Chaser could also combo with Jinzo and Limiter Removal was also quite nuts.

[TechtonixZi]

I remember so much of this era, suffering under each of those 1800+ beatsticks just suuuucked when you were poor and couldn't buy cards OR packs

[EflowNivek]

I think a lot of people forget how early yugioh was played (up until AST). It was about outlasting your opponent's resources. You traded 1-1 and occasionally got a 1-2 generally speaking nothing really lasted a turn without some protection if you played a Jurai Gumo and lost you'd likely be dead in two turns. This is also why Solemn Judgment wasn't played because it was a fantastic endgame card, but a brick in early game.

For example Magical Scientist was an auto include despite costing about the same just because of the versatility at any stage of the game.

[TheShapingSickness]

Oh man, this sent me on a nostalgia trip. Bazoo is possibly my favorite monster ever, and I still have my deck with three copies of it.

[xKarmadillo]

My first tournament, I played a pile of my favorite cards that usually won games on the playground... I lost round 1 to a grown man with Mechanicalchaser and Yata Garasu.

[TheZombieSlayerWave]

A crazy rule that we had at my school was that if you had no cards in your hand, you could draw 2 cards (not once per turn). Basically, if you had a spell / trap card as your only card in hard you could set it and then draw two cards for free. It wasn't until I actually went to a tournament that I learned that that wasn't actually the rules.

[ursulcx]

Mechanicalchaser is kinda what i hate the most about tcg in a nutshell, constant new release, sales pushed by powercreep, high prices, and then more pwoercreep killing previous investments.

[MFChanical]

It's a little interesting how Jirai Gumo didn't really see play, despite being the only normal summon at the time that could beat over a card like Mystical Elf