If you grew up in the early-mid 2000’s (or even beyond) and ended up getting into fighting games, there’s a pretty strong chance you followed Yu-Gi-Oh at some point too.
Two of the biggest names in fighting games with multi-game Evo champion Justin Wong and top commentator Jeremy ‘Vicious’ Lopez were recently featured on the official Yu-Gi-Oh channel to compete against each other in a new Master Duel Deck Flexing series with the help of Yugitubers Team APS.
Before getting to the deck profiles, both players reveal they were fans of the original Yu-Gi-Oh anime with JWong saying he even used to take his Elemental Hero deck to locals back in the day.
Appropriately, they’re taking the themes back to those early sets with Vicious busting out the Dark Magician and Dark Elf as his big beaters with Justin going full Seto Kaiba with his three Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
As someone who’s followed online and competitive communities for both (though mostly the FGC), it’s interesting to see a crossover like this going down, but this also isn’t the first collaboration between the scenes.
You can check out the full episode of Deck Flexing below featuring Justin and Jeremy, and let us know in the comments what your favorite Yu-Gi-Oh decks and cards were growing up (or now if you’re still playing).