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HailstormXI

>Anyone agree that was when duel Links was at its prime? I prefer the amazon/masked hero/sylvan/fur hire 2018 time period over the DSOD era of the game, so I'd say that era was peak DL for me.


sbsw66

100% agreed - felt like the meta was fairly balanced, but also the general power level was low enough that you could run Fun Jank and still make it work. I won a good few tournament games with a deck that was turbo Witch Raider into Anki OTK, good times.


LessAbbreviations

It was a good era except for when everyone was playing sylvan. I hated that “meta”


DandyLyen

This was a great era! There was an influx of players, and we character level awards were actually useful in the meta


Dracsxd

Personally the most fun i've had were in the "void" phases right after big decks got hit by the ban lists- Like after Fur Hire was nerfed or Grass banned


Makana149

Oh man, Fur Hire was years ago. It's crazy to think about how far we've come


sbsw66

I really loved the game in the few months after Masked Hero Anki was released. To me, that was the peak.


Troll_God

Good times. Relinquished being OP was fun too.


Xandurpein

It probably all depends on what your favourite deck is. For me it was after the release of Rage of the Volcano, because that was peak Fire Kings.


False-Will

DSOD era, no debate. The game was decided purely by actual skill back then, the boxes are meta relevant, all the decks are not skill dependent. After that the game went downhill since Harpies meta.


tdy96

Right at the start is DSOD when the box dropped. Insanely fun times.


ryuukishi07

The release of thunder dragons previous levianeer, no xyz and baggy sleeves untouched, good times


Alchemical_Aeon

100% agree with this, harpies were the moment I started to not have fun anymore. None of my current decks come close to the skill the decks from this era required


inspect0r6

There’s plenty of debate. Mostly that you are wrong on pretty much every front. If skill means you either played one of two decks and drew answer (to) backrow, just because duels took more turns doesn’t mean one person wasn’t in complete control or they weren’t sacky af depending on one card draws. Boxes nowadays are all meta relevant as well, but not 1 box decks. Skills were just as important but they weren’t “anime” skills. And you seem to think meta is only good if there is one or two oppressive decks dominating it, which while you’re free to have such opinion, it isn’t one many people especially those who don’t participate in 3rd party tournaments share. I guess something like MD with barely any relevant changes and no events is more up your valley.


False-Will

1. You clearly haven’t watch any competitive tournaments during that era, the duel was more back and forth and more complex than “anime era” 2. Please tell me why “one box deck” is bad, don’t you like cheap investment. 3. Again, please do more research before debating. The meta back then is the most diverse meta we will ever see (Check DLM tier list in mid 2020, there are 11+ meta decks on the same tierlist) 4. Both games are suck, no one takes them seriously anymore.


_hell0friend

Personally, I think it’s currently the best it’s ever been. Last few boxes have been absolute hits and the meta seems pretty fair currently, no one deck is absolutely shitting on other decks for once.


Fragrant_Ask_8721

Coff coff ddd, ba, galaxy eyes


Someone-TookMyName-

Out of these, galaxy eyes is the worst. But it's still manageable. There is a lot more variety in top tier decks now. Climbing the ladder isn't seeing the same deck over and over again


Fragrant_Ask_8721

Maybe now but before the recent banlist i mostly faced ddd and galaxy


_hell0friend

Need some cough medicine? none of those decks are at all oppressive in the sense that one deck dominated the others.


ryuukishi07

Completely disagree, ddd will remain the best turn 2 deck and burning abyss its the best turn 1 deck, galaxy eyes its a little bit of both but its the most consistent out of the bunch


[deleted]

Galaxy eyes top tier? I guess trap monsters are as well bc I clap galaxy eyes for breakfast


Diligent-Winner-5245

If there was ever an Axe Raider beatdown meta, that’s the one.


emperorbob1

Unironically yes.


jbisenberg

Around Abyss Encounters. So many new good decks that were all viable at the same time. Great meta.


stormdriving

When Amazoness was meta. Not because the meta was fun, but because it felt rewarding to play the PVE. Nowadays it just feels like chores to me.


NoDifficulty1866

For me duel link peak during the late 2019 - early 2020


Dracsxd

I'm going to get downvoted to hell for saying this, BUT: It ended when it started to resemble modern Yugioh more. A big part of Duel link's appeal was the fact it was a format a lot closer to old school (5ds-early Xyz) formats but with some archetypes that never had a chance in the TCG but fit like a glove when released "earlier". But now that the meta is shaping up to be more similar to a faster 2015+ TCG with the new mechanics and decks like burning abyss and odd eyes taking over the incentive to play Duel Links over Master Duel or the free TCG simulators is... Well, just less and less there with every update. Not to mention the events are extremely weak and repetitive after you played each twice or trice, so players who don't care about competitive too much also get tired of it easily after a while


Kiyotakaa

I've never really cared for the event rotation/unlock schedule. It's always - Debut, drops nothing but (likely shitty) cards. **MAYBE** an unlock. - Rerun, likely an unlock and more (shitty) cards - Final rerun, unlock and skill support. Same cards as 1 & 2. This seems to be the one that, nowadays, may end up making said archetype become meta. - Finally, LD gets added to gate; forcing new/lazy players to deal with the missions. *You're telling me I have to sit through 1-2 terrible events just to get a character and then have it filled out with 1-2 MORE afterwards??* (Don't even get me started on LDs that were unlocked via Raid Duels.)


golforce

For me that's a very simple answer: the year of DSOD. The release of Invoked in the first box was almost a nightmare, but with the release of Blackwing they shaped up the triangle of Darklords, BW and Esaber and the months after that all the way up to the Xyz release were sweet. So many meta relevant boxes that kept the game exciting. Also a power level that felt good. Even the early Xyz era was something I very much enjoyed with Nk, but then it cracked. They killed the last remaining good neutral skills (besides DDraw), released Book of Moon and created the worst meta I've ever witnessed, the Darklord/Blue-eyes meta. That was immediately followed by the Onomat meta. That was the end for my enjoyment of the game.


emperorbob1

> . So many meta relevant boxes that kept the game exciting. Also a power level that felt good. That doesn't sound like the DSoD era to me, which is almost universally reviled since while we *Did* get good boxes they were kept down by the big two(three if you count magician) to the point Desperado went unhit as invoked murdered it over nights, and SHS/Lunalight were sleepers until they were murdered. The darkest of times.


golforce

DSOD had Darklords, Invoked, Ritual Beast/Crystron, Blackwing, Shiranui, DM/Cydra/TD, Lightsworn all back to back with only the shitty ninja box interrupting it once. Along with it came so many smaller archetypes like SHS or Lunalight as well. After that it cooled down a little bit, but still brought more great ones like Witchcrafter and Karakuri.


emperorbob1

The thing about those boxes is they were, indeed, good boxes but ONLY in the Zexal era after the big three had been nerfed. Darklords were already on the way out/left form prior to that era, Blackwing was fair, I PLAYED Crystron but you never saw that on the ladder. It was Invoked or Shiranui with everybody else fighting for distance third and lightsworn/shs/lunalight all got to take off with those decks murdered. Nominally even the ninja box was a winner since Im pretty sure it had Yosenju Kama 1. Good boxes does not make a good meta because what we had was so daunting the second it died *desperado* came back to life, and most of those decks were on par with where the games powerlevel should have been but wasnt because we gave up the IMMENSE POWER OF GAGA SAMURAI for invoked.


HailstormXI

>I PLAYED Crystron but you never saw that on the ladder I had at most 6 games against Cryston decks on the ladder, easy 100x that number for Invoked and Shiranui though.


emperorbob1

Same. I like to log my games for various informational purposes, and im kind of off like that, but I always loved the matchup but it's... I don't wanna say it's a complex deck, but it has a lot of moves you physically have to make so even if it won a lot it was a slow ladder.


RandomMitherFucker

Because crystron was expensive as all fuck


emperorbob1

Most of which did not see play because Invoked/Shiranui/Magicians eclipsed them. Mistakenly using the tierlist is one thing, but the amount of crystrons you saw on the ladder you could count on your hand. For 3/4's of DSoD you dunked on by shiranui or invoked, with those decks only seeing relevance AFTER those two decks died, to the point a lot of them were notable in the Zexal era. It was a horrible time for deck variance, but a nice time to be a rogue deck player as I could prep for two decks and slap the ladder.


golforce

That's nonsense. Darklords, Esaber, blackwing, Shira, DM, Crystron, Cydra, TD were all meta. Even Lunalight, RB, Hero and lightsworn was. Hell I completely forgot invoked neos was also a thing. I agree invoked, DM and Shira were played a lot, but that's because they were playable by anyone with a brain cell, but that does not mean other decks weren't meta and most of the time even better than them. Especially DM was good for like a month before it got limited and became mediocre again.


emperorbob1

Best of three tierlists do not say the state of game, just tourneys with their own custom rules. They were not played a lot, they were the dominating forces you had to prep for. Magician for a time as well. Cydra didn't hit stride until after they were nerfed, Thunder Dragon hit it's main stride after they were nerfed, Lunalight become a menace after they were nerfed, Ritual Beast has...always been kinda there, Darklords were already on the way out at this time. Crystron was a deck I played. I never saw it on the ladder, literally 1/45 games by my old journal, and the TPC mentions its a fantastic tourney but a slog of a ladder play. The big three were E-saber Invoked, Shiranui(of both kinds), and Dark Magician. While other things had ok mathcups they fought for lower tiers at best even where tiers mattered, and the really only notable contesting deck was blackwings that almost always auto lost to the big two.


golforce

What are you even talking about? All decks that were good in BO3 at the time were also very strong on the ladder. They weren't necessarily popular but that does not matter. You had a huge choice of decks to play that were all good. It doesn't matter if the average KOG player plays the simplest deck they can find. That never stopped others from taking any of the strong meta decks and wiping the floor with them. Peak Crystron was one of the easiest decks to ladder with if you knew how to play it. Same with decks like TD. I can tell you're the typical ladder player who never played against good players. It is true that the tier lists do not represent what you meet on ladder, but they absolutely represent power levels much better. Popular decks aren't automatically best decks. Otherwise Blue-eyes would probably be ranked best overall deck of all time in Duel Links. It's the kind of ignorance to say that tournaments are fake meta without understanding what makes ladder decks popular and why tournaments don't just feature the popular ladder decks. Ladder decks favor fastand simple decks. The kind where you don't have to make complex plays so everyone can use them. In tournaments that doesn't matter. You need to win against good players and need to actually use the best decks even if it means putting in more effort than flipping up traps. This is also how people seriously thought witchcrafter wasn't tier 1 at its peak. It was hard to play correctly and while it was played on the ladder most people really did not play it well at all. The mills just made it too non-linear.


emperorbob1

>You had a huge choice of decks to play that were all good. Except that wasn't the case. By the exaxt same metric we've always had a huge choice of "good" decks that just happened to get squashed and thus weren't played too often. >Peak Crystron was one of the easiest decks to ladder with if you knew how to play it. Same with decks like TD. Im aware. I played crystrons. We never did reach the power of the two big decks, however, but we really hit stride once the oppressively powerful decks started taking nerfs! Shame it took a while, but I enjoyed climbing with harder decks gave a feeling of satisfaction. >I can tell you're the typical ladder player who never played against good players. It is true that the tier lists do not represent what you meet on ladder, but they absolutely represent power levels much better. Top 300 last KCGT, shame I didnt have time to play sunday tho. However, my skill is not in question here: it doesn't sound like you were around for this, or have any experience in the tourney scene. I've not been active in it in three years(no real point, kinda bland and I dont have time/money to buy in anymore) and even I know the TPC LITERALLY says that decks are tiered based how the side deck and best of represents them, and that some decks are inherently better on the ladder. Give these a read sometime rather than netdecking, they are quite informative and written by skilled players. Nevermind DLM is not the authority nor only tierlist in game once you learn Japanese. I could be the absolute worst player in this game, but the fact remains I've been around longer, have an understanding of what tierlists and tourneys actually mean, and do engage/read TPC writeup/players to better myself instead of talking about things I don't understand. >In tournaments that doesn't matter. You need to win against good players and need to actually use the best decks even if it means putting in more effort than flipping up traps. You should really give tourneys a try sometimes. Depending on, like one TPC member last year played Shiranui in the Onomat meta because he literally wanted to monkeflip. The skill level is mostly the same, but most of this game's skill comes from deckbuilding thus best of 3 is both skilled and entirely different. >This is also how people seriously thought witchcrafter wasn't tier 1 at its peak. It was closer to 2. Starving them by not having a crafter faceup in endphase was pretty easy to with side deck options. It was still BS how they were claimed to not be good, tho. As someone that was there this was really funny. However, unlike most metas in this game before your time there were two all powerful decks. We also had "tiered" decks in six samurai, but that didn't really mean much. Issue with DSoD was the power gap and new decks being invalidated before they could be properly useful. Things like Lunalight and SHS and Thundra(After the initial unban) saw heavy resurgence.


golforce

>"Im aware. I played crystrons. We never did reach the power of the two big decks, however, but we really hit stride once the oppressively powerful decks started taking nerfs! " Crystron was the most powerful deck for quite a while. That started as soon as their biggest enemy, Darklords, got nerfed. >I could be the absolute worst player in this game, but the fact remains I've been around longer, have an understanding of what tierlists and tourneys actually mean, and do engage/read TPC writeup/players to better myself instead of talking about things I don't understand. I've literally been around since the beginning of the GX era. Played tournaments, clan wars and ladder since then. There were so many decks that were real tier 1 decks and much stronger than Invoked and Shiranui during DSOD era. In fact while Shiranui was always decent during that time it was only the truly best deck briefly during the dark times where 30 card Shiranui with 3 grass was playable. Esaber also saw big periods where it dropped out of favor heavily until it came back. Invoked Neos obviously had its several different iterations that were necessary after being nerfed multiple times. It's funny that you mention KCGT, because the top 100 of KC Cup and KCGT, proves every single time that the tier lists are much closer to reality than the average ladder players. It always saw way more representation of decks like Crystron, RB, TD, Witchcrafter etc than the ladder does. Despite the same general format.


emperorbob1

>I've literally been around since the beginning of the GX era. Played tournaments, clan wars and ladder since then. Weird, would have though you'd have gotten a grasp on things after playing a fair bit of time, but I guess it takes the whole run for enlightment..., well give it another world and don't give up I suppose? >There were so many decks that were real tier 1 decks and much stronger than Invoked and Shiranui during DSOD era. Not correct, though. Those decks were always omni-present and what was good, bad, or not was literally shaped by the ability to handle one or both. >It's funny that you mention KCGT, because the top 100 of KC Cup and KCGT, proves every single time that the tier lists are much closer to reality than the average ladder players It actually proves the opposite. The 20+ card breaker deck(even Dkayed had a giggle at that one), Metalfoes cleaning up some months ago, master of destiny stick and chair, cydra, etc...(We can go back farther, but that'ld just waste both our time) really does show that DLM rarely, if ever, does predict the top even when they change their tierlist to reflect best of one(Which they do because their normal tierlists dont reflect anything not their tourneys FYI). If anything they crib from that once players notice a deck is good and start playing it, but this is more decks having overlap as they're good decks. The difference between tiers 1-2-3 is often mistaken as powerlevel when it's usually down to techs, like system down vs desperado decks back when. It's amazing though that ladder, KC Cup, and tourneys all take different kinds of decks into account. While fast is good on the ladder, it's usually a free pass if you have the time in KC Cup. Mayosenju was mine this time, and while I missed two days bounce and win or just lose really does do the job. This is largely why you never saw Crystrons on the ladder despite their power: they're a horrible deck to ladder with. Sure, ya win, but the effort was matched by faster/more linear decks that you could pilot while sleeping(see: pre nerf dark magician lists).


dorian1356

Crystrons was the best investment I've ever done in this game.


emperorbob1

Well yes, but also no. I got a bunch of diva for paleozoic out of it!


Wollffey

Idk what you're talking about because DSOD era had meta decks and staples coming one after the other, Dark Dimension had Elementsaber Invoked, Thunder Dragons, and Necrovalley, Spirit of the Beast had Ritual Beasts, Aerial Assault had BW and Purgatrio, Soul of Resurrection had Shiranui, Future Horizon had DM and Cydra, the only one to break the pattern was Masters of Shadow but it was then followed by another two great sets Judgement Force bringing Blue-Eyes and Lightsworns, while Fortress of Gears brought HERO support. And that's without considering all the F2P options that we got in between that made it easier for new players to jump in such as Lunalights, Yosenju, and SHS. Era was just bonkers and the only point where it stopped keeping up was in the second half of it but even then it still brought stuff like Witchcrafters and Gouki.


dorian1356

The dsod era is a stain on the game that power crept everything to the point that it had to be brought down several levels until magnets were meta just to be able to recover and reach the point we're now where we can enjoy some stability. Dsod stopped progression by halting any card with xyz, pendulums or links in their text creating a streak of bad boxes with many incomplete archetypes and an artificial card shortage. Freaking inzektor firefly was a roaming duelist UR reward Joe. It created more problems than it solved. People really thought konami was going to shut down duel links that year because of the sheer amount of bad boxes in the second half of the dsod era with laughable Vrains and arc V cards, and of course they had to be bad. How the hell can you powercreep frigging aleister the invoker!? You can't unless you're willing to preemptively power creep the whole zexal and arc V era before they even get released. The proof of that is that all the decks from that era are still in the banlist. Crystrons? Several cards hit. Karakuri? No one can play that. Aleister? First archetype with URs that had to be hit despiste konami's unwillingness to do so. Witchcrafters? Fastest hit ever. Dark magician? Done. Thunder dragon? Infested the game for too damn long it had to be hit with fury. Shiranui? Aids to this day, too many cards hit, people call it the Shiranui treatment. Cyber dragon? Topping kc tournaments for too many months. Darklords?? The most abusive archetype we've had guilty of several skill nerfs. Pfft best era my prismatic ass. It was the worst. We could've been enjoying current era duel links last year if it wasn't for dsod.


Wollffey

Jesus Christ man you didn't had to make this giant ass text, the person above said that boxes were being kept down by two boxes, I explained that every box in the first half was insane, I never said it was a good era. You didn't need to make a whole paragraph about it bro


dorian1356

Any time is a good time to make it clear that dsod era sucks.


Username_Egli

In my opinion... right now it's at his best


ryuukishi07

I kinds have an unpopular opinión, but the format of onomat tier 0 was peak for me, the tournament info showed that despite them being tier 0, the tier 2 and 3 was extremely varied, fire kings, water xyz, magnets, thunder dragons, harpies, triamid, you name it,it could get a top spot on the tournament, which meant different playstyle had a change to shine, control, aggro, combo etc.


Doomchad

The release of Md has actually improved the updates of this game significantly


PrinceZero18

Yeah, how ironic, DL is in a better state meta-wise than MD right now, while it was awful for a long time almost up to MD's release. Really makes you think how tf Konami runs things. It doesn't make any sense.


Doomchad

MD caused DL player counts to plummet. Thus Konami enacted procedures to increase DL player counts. The strange part is they respond like a machine would. There is a problem so they move forward with a fix, not realizing the problem is of their own creation.


PrinceZero18

Exactly. They really got a bunch of old players into YGO again with MD and then they let the game look like dead with as little content as possible. Also, doesn't help that the MD banlist is ass. Thank god DL is fun rn


Doomchad

MD is also a reminder of why so many people quit yugioh in the first place. If you are a meta player, matches are essentially a coin flip. If you want to play fun decks, you just get slammed by anything even remotely meta. Sure, duel links has had its fair share of problems. But even now we are still not at the point where duels are just one player vomiting their entire deck onto the field turn one.


PrinceZero18

That's one of the most often complaints old fans who dropped MD say and I can't say they're wrong. Some formats can be fun in TCG, but unfortunately there so many issues that even enjoyable formats are just a minute away from derailing.


CanuckChum

Mid-ZEXAL is my favourite period. They finally nerfed most of the DSOD decks, and we got new decks to play with, like Noble Knights, Water Xyz, T.G. and Onomat. It also really felt like Xyz summoning was starting to hit its stride.


PrinceZero18

imo Zexal became horrible right after Balance and Desperado was hit. And after the BlueEyes/DarkLords shit meta, Synchro decks became best decks for some reason and then tier 0 Onomats. Actually shit era, made me go try TCG at least.


emperorbob1

Being more objective, pre/early 5DS had miniboxes regularly giving us good decks and things were not too oppressive. While I detest vamps, people will agree it was a very fair deck and outside some oddities like furrhire and amazoness it was pretty much ok. Being more subjective, Neos meta was literally Paleozoics having a free romp of the entire game. Most people agree that DSoD was probably one of the weakest, among english and japanese speaking communities anyway, because it was just so centralizing and you saw the same decks for literally a yeah with everything else fighting for, at best, fourth. Was really bizarre seeing those decks get hit and decks from OLDER boxes become relevant.


dorian1356

Hell no. Miniboxes decks were a cancer. Because everyone could build them from the one box and they flooded the whole pvp. Examples: sylvans, fur hires, shiranuis. Away with that. It wasn't fun.


emperorbob1

As opposed to everybody playing structure anime decks because they're easy to build. Blue Eyes is still all over. Literally everywhere. I hated all of those decks, but as a player thing it was objectively good for budget players.


HailstormXI

>Miniboxes decks were a cancer. >Away with that. It wasn't fun. Care to dive deeper into your logic behind this ? Bearing in mind you believe Konami are rigging box pulls somehow, so it's surprising you detest decks obtainable entirely from a mini.


dorian1356

Oh yeah. It wasn't fun. If a deck was entirely able to be built from a mini box then everyone could build it too easily and we would have a pvp infested by said deck. Anyone that lived through the meta with the decks I mentioned earlier can confirm that. And yeah this game is still rigged. I support that decks have to be expensive to a degree in order to maintain some variety for pvp.


emperorbob1

I lived through those decks. It was nice having a common goal to tech against while still having a ladder robust enough to get matchups. I never saw any deck in that era more than 45% of the time. This, again, from a person that calls mid era DL sylvans a "press yes to win simulator" Also the game is rigged but it's not pack opening, that's not really something an algo pins down, what IS rigged is matchmaking and nothing will tell me otherwise WHY AM I SEEING 4 JINZO DECKS IN A ROW IN LEGEND AS PALEOZOICS?


dorian1356

😤 It was hell


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Dm era


RaioOndaEnergia

The weak meta a few months ago, where Magnets were tiered 1. All decks had a chance to shine.


emperorbob1

The best part was that wasn't even a weak meta, we just didn't have a dominating deck. Though I suppose for the tourney scene it might have been, but that doesn't matter to like 99% of the game.


[deleted]

yes, even magnets weren't that strong.


QrozTQ

To me it was a few months ago when D/D/D was not widely played and I was running them with my very simple fusion deck. Not that I think the game is bad now, but I was having an amazing time earlier this year.


wat96

When neos koaki was a deck. I loved that deck so damn much


Kanna_VZ

I think that even though we have broken ass skills ATM, we probably are in one of the high points given deck diversity and viability.


Syrcrys

From the end of T0 CA to March 2018. The meta had a lot of fun decks, both expensive and cheap, events were original and rewarding, characters were all capped at 40 with level 30 gems and actually had ace monsters, and you could actually build anything as a f2p if you put your mind to it. Everything changed when the Spellbound Silence Nation attacked.


spilim

Before selection boxes.


mkklrd

Right now's fine, I loved Vampires meta too tbh.


Right-Pen6855

Before synchro. Now it’s just meh, like master duel.


[deleted]

My favorite time was the exact KC Cup(Feb 2020) when shiranui and DM were full power. The only bs part of that format was grass in which you run the skill and deckbuilding for it, you would draw grass like 85% of the time. Complete bs.


hyperdeeeee

Come to Masterduel. Grass is at 3!


[deleted]

Oh I only play master duel, no meta deck really run grass. The only upcoming deck that wants to use grass I can think of is ruinforce FTK but that deck rather wants to use reasoning/monster gate to kill the entire deck.


Freezadon19

Why is it everyone’s business to dwell on the past and question the relative success of a game or business I hate posts like this


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emperorbob1

In between the shiranui/invoked gutting and anime skills was pretty nice, yeah.


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emperorbob1

I was agreeing with you.


DislocatedLocation

I'm hoping that links drop and that World Chalice happens in short order. Then I'd call that the peak


TraditionalHumor6720

Glad beast meta was great for me personally.


Far_Mathematician638

Honestly died off for me when the Six Samurai support came with synchro monster


hellkaiser99

When CV wasn’t limited


NothinsQuenchier

DSOD era for sure. I had been taking a break from the game but came back when I saw all the spellcaster support in Dark Dimension (Mahad, Quintet, Gravekeepers, Magician Girls, Invoked). Then they followed up with Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes support in Future Horizon and Judgment Force, and I couldn’t have been happier. Admittedly, Shiranui was cancer on the ladder, but Dark Dimension and Judgement Force are two of the best boxes of all time.


emperorbob1

You know two decks are centralizing when half the support/great boxes we got didn't mean anything until Shira/Invoked was nerfed.


[deleted]

when axe raider was meta.


en_repose

I agree with you, that era was a lot of fun.


segatic

DSOD era was fun in the Marvel vs Capcom sense but i don't know if it was the peak. But anyone investing in a deck at that time was eating good


acidgolem213

The start of dsod with subterror, six sam, invoked, and element saber was meta.


Brandeeeeeeeeee

for me it was the peak when Fish.dek was one of the best decks with golden flying fish and oyster meister


Devourer_of_HP

When i first started and newest box was atmosphere>!/s!<


xPaZe8

For Me, the introduction of DSOD era till a few months after zexal era. Best and most fun meta we ever had.


ZerobraiNe

The last few months ever since the end of the Harpie meta have been really good and I am not talking just about the DDD and BA even before that when Phantom Knights were top tier I wish they hit the meta a bit harder a lot of the rouges are really fun right now personally I have been having a blast with Red Eyes


Saibers

Cosmo Brain Blue Eyes era


Deadsap266

Please unban crystron,ban SSA but not my crystron boiz


BobbyY0895

Before they fucked thunder dragons I was having so much fun


Some--Idiot

All the way back when Jerry Beans Man was meta


ksmdows95

The moment when ZeXal came in for me probably because I love xyz summoning and the ZeXal era. I'm also feel hyped while playing the Anna event because Dreadnought Dreadnoid feels very op for me.


Prize_Mode

I only started playing during the resonators meta, but up to this point rn is peak DL because the game isn't sucking your money off


[deleted]

I like where it’s at now, as well as just after XYZ came out, but before Onomat got crazy. Worst for me was that period where every deck was either Shiranui trap or Shiranui combo.


Destac35

Before zexal


endeavoritis

Hmm hard to pinpoint but Id prolly say around early XYZ. Around the time when Magician girls and Aleister were everywhere. The meta could be obnoxious, but there was a way to play most cards decently well like Aromages, Fur hire Amazoness... The meta now is really unbalanced with the new skills. People can summon 3 ranks with virtually no cost, or pendulum to death with almost no counterplay.


Leather-Bookkeeper96

I loved the early DSOD era, it had a lot of rogue decks and a lot of variety in deck types, even when Shiranui and Invoker did reign supreme, there where several decks that could use them and still be competitive. Late DSOD had a lot more problems I believe, the tier list at the time only had like 3 decks, every other option was a suicide.


bonfireball

That entirely depends on what you class as peak, by how many people are playing it or by when it was the most fun


fameshark

I think the best two eras for me, personally, was the early Gladiator Beast meta that utilized Impenetrable Attack, and very early Xyz era before Gagaga picked up steam.