THESE RETRO YU-GI-OH FORMATS COULD BE THE NEXT BIG THING!

I can't believe my shitpost about June 2018 FTK formats actually made it into the mid credits, I'm fucking dying

HAT not mentioned despite being the most diverse meta I have ever played in.

I can’t believe no one is talking about this, but Yuginono discovered a 4 day format from 2015 where dimension of chaos is legal, along side all the due list alliance decks. It’s called finish line and i recommend checking it out!

Can't believe no one picked the true best retro format, the first one! Who doesn't love normal summoning dark magician and gaia, only to get dark holed into oblivion. Pure grind game as both players wail on each other with silver fang, such incredible diversity too.

HAT might be it. Large number of decks, plays very different from modern, and is very much unexplored.

My group has been talking alot about "Dallas Format" which is mid to late 2015 with Hi-Speed Riders being the last set release. It's the last format in which Nekroz and Shaddoll are playable before getting culled on the next banlist, the Clowns are legal and so is Gamma. That's an interesting one to go back to since it took years for players to use Gamma as a HT and not part of Psy-Frames.dek.

Some people from my locals were trying to have a rotation of tengu edison HAT and goat but only edison is getting much attendance

I'd definitely be overjoyed if post AGOV became a retro format later on. Definitely one of the best and most memorable formats we've had in a while that almost everyone enjoyed.

I think the thing I like most about the twitter threads are Dires intros

Water-Fire (Jan 2014 - Post LVAL) and September 2012 are some of my absolute favorites. Huge amounts of diversity and really enjoyable gameplay for people who enjoy slower formats.

Power of the elements format was really exciting in my opinion. End boards were insane but known and decks that like tearlament and spright could and did play into them well/well enough. And 2014 Vegas format is like HAT format but without soul charge. A very fair format. The end of dragon ruler’s dynasty and post water and fire format the format is truly the “Edison of the xyz era” since it occurred within a week before the release of soul charge.

YCS San Jose 2015 , it was a time when Dimension Force was released but before the next banlist came into Effect , its like a 4 days Window but all the DUEA Decks were all still playable at that specific Event.

When you consider a lot of the old retro formats, the 'Heart of the Underdog' formats where you can basically create your own custom banlist, Rivalry of the Warlords formats where you use pre-assigned decks (of any of your customisation), Sealed formats for set releases (it doesn't always work but its worth trying to see if we get a banger), Common Charity, some of the weird unexplored old side formats like Double Deck, 'Air, Earth, Fire and Water', Mega-Banned, and Beta formats. And that's just the tip of the iceberg... (and that's also not to mention stuff like Speed Duels or Rush Duels or the Video Game formats). The problem is Konami doesn't really support most of them. And that just leaves us in a situation where we only really have a handful of recognised formats.

I think perfect circle format is a format that should be played more.

Maxx C in Tengu is actually pretty balanced because so many of the decks can play around it

I loved TOSS format. Played Zombie World control the whole time and would 100% play it again

I thought HAT format would be mentioned, as it is a well balanced format as well. Duelist Alliance/ New Challengers is good as well.

HAT is the single old format I'd go back to if play for it started picking up. I've seen that's there's a few tourneys and stuff but there's not enough attention to form a ladder somewhere yet.

NAWCQ 2015 and 15 respectively are the most fun I’ve ever had in Yugioh. HAT format has one of the widest deck libraries you can pick from and while Nekroz is the best deck in 2015 that format was very under-explored and who doesn’t love DUEA decks?

I loved 2011/2012. Right before Inzektors and Wind-Ups. XYZ was new but not needed in every deck. Synchro Decks had plenty of varied support and had a lot of mix/match. Boss monsters were still fun. Masked Heroes I think were new. I was playing Heros or Flamvell Synchro with Chaos Support, and that latter sounds terrible but it was consistent and worked. Flamvells playing with cards like TK Rai-o and Summoner Monk. I could still expect to get Flamvell Firedog's effect in most games and not die for relying on battle-phase and not winning that turn.