 Yu-Gi-Oh! A franchise that's been around for more than 25 years now. Of course, any card game that sticks around this long is bound to face its issues with Power Creep and a healthy changeup of metas. Unfortunately for Yu-Gi-Oh, that means a lot of the old fan-favorite metas and strategies are, well, they're old. Crusty. Obsolete. But they never stop being fun. That's why in today's video, me and my friend RhymeStyle have agreed to both play meta decks from 2005 and face off in Yu-Gi-Oh master duel. So, what could go wrong? Well, you'd be surprised. Rhyme, get your cards out. I'm trying to do it right now. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. I'm ready, I'm ready. I got a little baseball avatar too. Now, the better question is, what do people like better between modern and old? Are you trying to get people fighting in the comments? Modern and old? Absolutely! Hold on, Rhyme, hold on. I'm going to let the clock decide who's going first and who's going second. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You always like to go outside first. All right, go ahead and give me first. Now, let me ask you this. Do you remember that up until 2014, if you went first, you still drew a card? Do you remember that? I didn't change that. I don't remember anything. Yeah, no, they changed that soy because Yu-Gi evolved so much. So, what an opening hand. Are you going to 2005? I'm about to, I'm about to... No, no, no, no, no, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch. I'm going to discard Thunder Dragon. Know what that does? Oh my god. Oh, brother, this guy's got Thunder Dragon. Bro, you sit down at the Yu-Gi-Oh table 2005, the guy plays Thunder Dragon, you just know you in for a bad time. Yes. Anyways, now that I've done that, I'm going to discard Thunder Dragon. You know what that does? That's going to have Thunder Dragon in my hand. You are just stacking your graveyard with light monsters. One card and end my turn. Go ahead. Okay, so my turn one going to be a little bit different than yours. I'm going to do what you did in a different way. First, I'll draw. Pretty good card, pretty good card, but I just know you got dust tornado set face down. So, I'm going to activate Pot of Greed. Bro! Yeah, you stopped your laughing real quick. That activates my anti-greed that lets me actually draw two cards when you activate Pot of Greed. You know I added it on my deck. You do not have anti-greed. Yeah, it's not a real card. I wish it was. Oh my goodness. Well, guess what I drew with Pot of Greed? It's my Thunder Dragon. What's that do? I'm going to discard it to get another Thunder Dragon. My deck is being a little bit milled right now. But with that said, that's pretty much my entire turn. So, I'm also going to set one and play actually... I'm going to end my turn. Here's a better question for you. Why did you not activate Thunder Dragon again? You caught me, didn't you? Hey! No, no, no, please, please. Now I have to discard a card because you overloaded my hand. Yes, exactly. You are awful. Right. Okay, so here's what we're going to do. That better not be Spear Reaper. I'm going to set and I'm going to sell Spear Reaper that's always in my opening hand regardless of what I do. Drop one. Please, please, please don't drop a good one. Yes, yes, yes. No, it's okay. That card is what you do before. Now I'm going to set. I'm going to set. Thoughts. This is bad. He knows everything about dual monsters. I'll draw. You're going to love what I have face down. You're going to love what I have face down. I'll set one card face down and I'll set another card face down. I'm going to go to battle phase. I'm going to go to main phase two. I think I'm evenly matched. That's cute. And I'm going to set. I'm going to have my turn. Okay, perfect, perfect, perfect. All right, check this out. Check this out. Check this out. What do you got? Do you want to know why I'm just better than you in this game? What do you have? I'm going to cross out that face on card. You are ruining my entire life. Yes, yes, I am. No, bro. Childish. Childish. I wanted to get my pot. Why did you do that? Why did you do that? For pot of greed. Okay. I got greedy. All right. Okay. Well, that's, you know what? No, no, no, no. Would you drop? That's a lot of cards. I did drop a lot of cards. A lot of good cards, man. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Now we're going to do, oh, that's excellent. I'm going to go ahead and attribute my, is that smart? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. What are you doing? Who's that vampire lord? I ain't going to lie. I thought you were going to play Jinzo's or something. I'm going to attack now because I'm not scared of anything. First, I'll activate dust tornado to pop the new face down card you just played. Dammit. There is nothing funnier than dust tornado hitting dust tornado. You know what I love about this is you think you can activate that card. I know I can't, but I wanted to see if I could. No, Shining Angel. Perfect. Also, go ahead and drop a trap card. Bro, I don't care about my trap cards. You know I don't run much. I'm just going to river dust tornado. Now I'm going to go into main phase two. And then activate dust tornado. And then my turn. Okay. I thought there was going to be a little dust tornado for me there. I draw. Okay. Well, now I have to unfortunately do some unfortunate news. So all I can really do here, man, this is just the worst. Now this is the best. What do you mean? No, this is definitely the worst. No, this is the best because think about it. You cook me in my video. I got to cook yours. I'm not losing in my video though. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to change you to face down defense. Okay. And I did that simply because I'm going to be playing heavy storm. Okay. Oh, okay. I was like, now I'm going to know what I'm going to cross out because I changed your face down defense and banish you. So you can't come back. That is incredible. That's a good play. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now I'm going to activate premature burial. What are you bringing back? Happen to my graveyard here a little bit. And it looks like I really only have one choice in Kaikou. That sucks because that means you're going to do damage to me. And unfortunately that means I'm going to melt. Yes, you are going to melt. And I'm also your resources. I did. I lost a lot of resources for this play, but I'm going to start by getting back at you and taking rid of, hmm, I'm going to try to get rid of your lightning. Now I have a question. How scared are you of MST? I'm not. I don't fear MST. Are you sure? Yeah. Not even a little bit. Okay. Okay. Okay. I mean, you could try it just simply want to happen. Perfect. Perfect card, actually. I'm scared. All right. What if- First, I want to go ahead and borrow our monster. Please stop, bro. Because if I remember correctly, you beat me in my video by using my- I did. I did. But it was for fun and games. That's all it was for. Is this for fun and games? What do you mean? No, it's not, bro. It was just- I'm going to summon this. Damn, my graveyard. Please. Your graveyard is about to get devastated. Tengen, defend me with your life. Oh, you know the worst part about Sengen? You know where this is going, right? I do know where this is going. Do you know where this is going? Yeah, yeah, I know where this is going. Going into the graveyard. Oh. Yeah, this is not looking good for you right now. You're going to have to just play out your mind. You're going to have to like literally- I'm going to have to activate my- No, Spirit Reaper, please. You're going to have to activate the craziest luck stat. Pharaoh, Pharaoh, guide me. Pharaoh, guide me. You know what card I need. The only card in old school that you can save me from this. This is how confident I am that you're not going to draw that card. So I'm going to go ahead and just banish just two lights. You're making a mistake. You just made the worst mistake of your whole life. Trust me. I know what's about to happen. You're not going to draw the card. And next turn, you explode. I draw. Yeah, exactly. Hey, give me my- Oh, it doesn't work. Yes, I can't activate this card. No, unless you attack, that is. You think I'm scared? You are scared, I can tell. That's a great card, too. So what I'm going to do instead is I'm going to just attack you once. You're doing homie drops. You're making mistakes. I'm not making any mistakes. I'm going to banish more light types. Let's see. So you got a light type here, a light type there. And then one time, just a teacher lesson. Spirit reader. You're making mistakes. You're making a lot, a lot of mistakes here. Next turn, unfortunately, Dotto, you explode and lose. I've got an out. Surely in my deck, there's an out somewhere. Well, if this doesn't help me reach my out, I don't know what will. Stop it. Stop it. You play too much. It's not pot of greed. There's no way. It's better. It's graceful charity. Ooh. Ooh. Sounds like you didn't get your boss monster. Kaiku. Oh, man. OK. All right. All right. Well, you got nothing. You got me. Lucky for you, we can just take this on to game two. Because now I'll attack with my Kaiku first. All right. Let's get on to game two. After I'm done with you, this duel is not over just yet. What do you have? I was compulsive on Kaiku. No, that's compulsive mine. No. I will actually hold on. I probably should. You know what? Let's get my Kaiku back. My field. Yes. Yes. OK. I will set and I will set thoughts. Now it doesn't matter what I draw, because I have my eyes on a prize. OK. I think you explode. How do I explode? Easy. I'm going to activate exchange. Stop. No, not that. Yes. What do you have here? No. Actually, I can't really even bring anything too good back. So I'm just going to go ahead and bring my Kaiku back. Stop. You can have magical merchant if you want. I don't want that. Let's go. Oh. You're going to draw a card next turn. Oh, man. You gave me. You threw away my magic. Actually, you're going to draw that card next turn. See, that's how you lose cards on the playground, man. Exchange is probably responsible for 90% of accidental theft. It is so over. I lose so bad. I forgot. Damn. I'm going to need a fucking slow-mo action replay for people to understand what even happened. But Kaiku still beats your ass. On the game two. But what you don't know, Rhyme, is while I was just playing a really meta deck right now and still lost, I'm going to take it back to the drawing board. Same, actually. And you know what? Actually, Rhyme, both of us are going to mute on Discord, and that way we don't know what we're talking about, but the audience can still hear us changing our stuff. All right. So let's open up the deck here. What Rhyme doesn't know. Just know how to play the game. I'm going to win easily. Hey. You're on Discord. Oh. Oh, right, right. Let me read again. Luckily, this loser can't hear me, and he won't know what I'm going to play. I can still hear him. All right. I'm going to edit the deck. What Rhyme doesn't know is that I'm going to cheat. I'm going to cheat so hard, but he doesn't know is that I'm going to take three cards out of this deck. I'll start with, I want it to be useful though, right? So I'll get rid of one dust tornado, one book of moon, one chaos sorcerer, I'll get rid of one breaker, and then I'll get rid of... All right. So now the question is, do I take it back all the way to my playground deck? I kind of want to do that. This is my deck for my childhood. It's awful. I'm going to do that. I want to do that. I have to do that. I have to do it. I have to do it. Exchange is a real, real pain to go up against here. But we just have to hope it doesn't happen. And I'll get rid of one... I guess I'll get rid of one no-man to cross out. All right. Then we'll add one piece of every Exodian. All right. Now we're running Exodian here. This is our best bet. I am ready. All right. I'm also ready. Made a few changes. Did you build a brand new deck or are you building something different? I just added... I added a few cards. I changed out a few cards. Okay. Okay. Now, what I ended up doing is I brought my playground deck for when I was 12. Oh, you just changed decks entirely. Yes. Okay. Well, who went first when God decided? I don't remember. I'm going to rebel. Actually, no, God. Go ahead. Take it. It was me. I went second. Damn it. I should have picked first. Yes. Thank you, God. I don't plan on losing again. You want to go second in old Yu-Gi-Oh. Maybe. But here's the thing, right? I'm better. Notice the playback. Oh, brother, this hand. I'm going to set one card face down and then another in the back row. It's over. This is my perfect play. I will draw a great card. Yes. Yes. Yes. I will set one card and I will end my turn. Okay. That's a strong opener for you. That's a strong opener for you. I'll also draw a beautiful card, man. Beautiful. All right. First, I'm going to just magical merchant. That was my set face down. I know you probably knew. Yu-Gi-Oh meet trash. Thunder Dragon, I kind of wish I drew that. Mystical Spade, the worst card I could have gotten. But I'll go ahead and activate Graceful Charity. This is going to allow me to draw another three cards and then discard two. I'll discard. Oh, this is where it gets hard. I'll discard. No. This is so wack. I'm going to get rid of Spear Reaper and I'm also going to get rid of Mystic Ace Dive Moon. Okay, sure. And then I'll get rid of Spear Reaper. Or am I crazy? No, I'm not crazy. I was at confidence. Yeah, it is. It definitely is. And then I'm going to play Shining Angel. Right. And then I'm going to... You know what? I'm just playing old school Yu-Gi-Oh. I'll get rid of this monster and Tsukiyomi. The special summon Chaos Sorcerer. Yeah. Oh my God. Uh-huh. All right. So what are we doing here? That's your attorney. Tell me. All right. So I'm going to hit you with this. Back in your hand. Wall of Illusion. Back in your hand. Okay. You're not going to attack with the other cards. No. I'm going to banish you. That's exactly why... Stop, stop, stop. You play too much. You play too much. That's exactly why I didn't attack with Chaos Sorcerer, bro. Because I knew you'd be up to your no good tricks. Much, man. I knew you would do some old school 2005 tricks, man. Change your heart. Oh. All right. I'm going to do that. That's not good. But this helps me. Look at Chaos Sorcerer. Step one card. He's different. He's him. I don't want to play. I got to hit my turn. Oh. So you're trying to run from me. No, I need this. This is my only card, man. Yeah. Thought so. I won't even set it, Speller Trap, because I'm scared. What if you play Pot of Greed now? Yeah, that's true. Nope. Oh, but that's even better. I'll set one card face down. And then, honestly, me and Magical Merchant, we're going to have a little talk with you, because we don't... Yeah. And it takes some more. Oh. Yeah, you thought it was over, huh? Now watch me draw it out. The crazy... Out of existence. Don't do that. If you draw it out, I am pissed. Dark Hole. Aye. Don't dark hole me. How are you going to get over Chaos Sorcerer? I played him so early. I don't like you having life points. Huh? We're throwing a thousand off that. Why? Mine too. Bro, you don't want to see me with my recess deck, mostly because mine's a little later in the game, bro. I had Solar Flare Dragons in there. I will set here. What do we have here? What do we have here, huh? A curious little contraption. I draw. Oh, and this is where the... The duel's about again. Sometimes you just have to play certain cards. The duel's going to get a little rampant here. I'm not going to lie. Magician of Faith will allow me to get one spell card back from my graveyard. And this deck is crazy. 2005 standards? This deck go a little too nuts. All right, after this card too, I'm going to go ahead and get rid of my other Thunder Dragon, and I'll even throw away a Shining Angel for now. Now here's the thing. You want to challenge your Dotto. What? I'll confine you in your deck. Pretty confident. You're going to not attack my Facetime card. How why would I do not attack? Not attack. Damn. Well, he challenged me. I'll not attack. You got to take the charge. You are an asshole for doing that. You know I'm going to listen to you. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I need to stack my field a little bit before I can do what I want to do. What am I doing? What do you want me to do here? What I need you to do once again is not attack. Okay. What do I have? That's only if you're confident, of course. I'm pretty confident. I am going to draw one card. Don't like that. And I am going to go ahead and I guess set another card. And if you have me waiting on you, bro, then I'm going to defense bug. Okay, okay, okay, okay. You are. So I just need to build the troops just a little bit, bro. How many troops do you need? That's not good. That's not good. Okay, I still need like two turks. What troops are you at there? Bro, is there something in the U.S. army? Just trust me on this one. Bro, I got no field. You have a field. You have massive field. What do you mean? Bro, when do I get to attack? You know what? Well, it depends. Again, I have a fun challenge that I feel like will be hilarious for your deck. Let's see if your deck can stay up to this. Or why did you do that? I'm banishing magical merchants to move them off my field. Oh, so you get this. Bro got me. Bro got me doing fucking mathematics to play my game. Just trust me on this, okay? That all. God. What are you looking for? I'm not getting it. I'm not getting it. So here's it. All right. All right. Here's what I'm going to do. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to go with option A because it's not going to be too hard. But instead what I'll do is I'll play MST. That was the worst thing you could have ever done to me. Perfect. That was the worst thing you've ever done to me. I'm going to flip magician of faith. Okay. What do you have in your graveyard? MST? Or tremendous fire. Now I'm going to summon my boss car for when I was a kid. Buster Blader. Okay. But we're not there. I'm just done with that yet. We also have by banishing these two, I got to bring out my other boss. Oh no. Yes. Yes. Who is this? What? But wait, there's more. I'm thirsty for power. So I'm going to make sure to get a lot of boosts to your mage power set. Damn. Dotto, I told you. If you give me a chance, your deck will explode. Bro, I gave you 17 chance. I can see how I made this mistake. This wasn't even option A. And I will attack this one. Shining Angel. Not what I wanted to see. Just going to go ahead and summon something here. Probably just a magical merchant at this point. Okay. Well, you've put me in quite the predicament by playing your game for that long. I'm not going to lie. Again, I want you to understand, this isn't even the main card I was trying to play. I'll play Pot of Greed to draw two. God damn it, bro. Bro's going to deck out at this point. I have 34 cards. You have 16. Okay. So the thing is, I know what you did. You don't have good exchange still? I don't. Oh, wait. Maybe I do. You don't know. Then I'll set two. I could do something, but I'm going to set two. And then I'll play one card face down. Actually, I won't set two. No, wait. I have to. Great. Hold on. Where's my graveyard? Surely you don't have exchange. Actually, bro, I'm going to do one better. I'm going to banish your monster. Yes. No. Yes. Here we go. Premature of aerial. No. It should be just good enough. You know that I set MST. I do. So why would I do this? I don't know. Exactly. You don't know. I'm adding the mind games. You go. I don't think you know why you did that either. I think you forgot. You don't exchange. I'm not on me. No. I will say if you had exchange, it will be quite the hilarious play. Anyways, I'm going to just simply attack. Damn. Magical merchant. Why? What do you have? Hello. The card I didn't want you to MST. Armor. I couldn't afford to have you MST that. I would just attack this. Okay. I mean, I don't like that, but that's fine too. Damn. Your field. It was incredible. I draw. I'll set one card face down. How am I going to triumph over this? You know the best part about- This card is useless. You know the best part about dead cards? Oh, brother. This guy stings. Oh, it gets better, bro. You died his turn. Very immediate crush. Activate. What? I'm going to- I need you not to. You need me not to? Yes. Damn. You get one turn. You're going to banish this in the meantime. How about this one? I need life points, man. This can't be the end. This can't be the end. This is the end. You better draw the craziest out. No way. No way. No way. It isn't out. It isn't out. It isn't out. No way. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. And I honestly didn't even think about calling the haunted. I was just hoping it would destroy a fairy meteor crush. That card is crazy. I forgot that it existed too. Okay. Fairy meteor crush was scary. That doesn't out in the game, but- We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. Damn. I had to fucking- I had to cash in one of my homie drops. All right. Now you're going to see the card I was going to play in the very beginning. Uh-huh. Hard destruction. No! Exodia! No! You're not playing Exodia! I added five pieces of Exodia and I almost had him. Oh no! You are about to run into my saiyan! Oh my God! Wait. Do you see my card? Oh, wait, wait, wait. I made a mistake. Oh, uh, I may have accidentally ran two left arms to the forbidden one. It's a good thing you stopped me. I would have just been pissed. Yo, that's deep! Bro, I would have been pissed. Oh, that! Damn, I would have been pissed. No, no, no, no, no. This is the most armed brave thing I've ever seen in my life. That shit is embarrassing. How did I put in two left arms in Exodia? Yeah! Damn, that shit would have pissed me off. I'll activate Nobleman of Crossout. Bro, that's no, that's no. Really? Vanish, your monster. Forstar Ladybug. Forstar Ladybug. Dave, you got a lot of annoying face-downs. Dave, yep, there's the two left arms. Damn, those are my embarrassings. Oh my God. Then I'll activate Snatch Deal. It's bro! It's over. The duel's over. Give my, give my card back. It's all over now. Let's flip something. So you're just going to go with the attack? Yeah. I understand. It's just, I mean, are we doing a game three? It's your video, you tell me. Maybe at 15,000 likes? Yeah, maybe 15,000 likes will come back for game three because this is embarrassing. I don't want to do another video. Can I also point out this is now the third time today where you killed me with my own card? I'm like, you play good cards. I built a deck with two left arms of Exodia. You can end this video with some embarrassing. Wait, before we end, did you just see the card that I dropped? No, what was it? Slyfer. That's why I was waiting at third card. Oh, damn. Third monster. Oh my God. Yes. Damn, I would have been paced if I got to Exodia and I had two left arms.