Quick reminder: If you think the product is terrible: don't buy it. The consumer is the one that is deciding how future product design is going to be. There is no reason for konami to change anything, if you keep throwing money their way, no matter what.
Personally I want more sets like Duel Devastator where its like the top 20 or something most played generic cards from the last year or so. All reprinted and guaranteed. DD is such an amazing product as it made it so many powerful expensive cards can get into a more casual or budget players hands. Like Ash Blossom use to be stupidly expensive back then, especially for a mandatory staple as for years it was the best handtrap. Most people were excited for Duel Devastator because of its reprint and whats even better that reprinted pretty much halved Ash Blossoms price as well! Its seriously such a good product idea that I hope they revisit in future.
The problem with duel Devastator was on top of having good cards in it there was a lot of shovelware cards and that product sat on shelves for months and months and nobody bought it cuz let's be realistic they put cards that didn't matter anymore and and I felt like an insult the only cards that were worth getting out of that were the ghost girls and there can only be one everything else was too out of touch with the meta at the time
Fucking thank you. How the hell were yugioh tins from 2005 somehow way better than tins now. Dunno about yall but the tins I buy have the promo card and 5 packs. Not this 3 pack randomizer crap
Yeah, leaving the packs as they were last year and then adding a promo pack consisting of something like -5 tokens (they've got 40 in just 1 set they haven't printed yet that they've been trying to get out recently via the retail boxes), 1 of which is guaranteed to be the Yugi or Kaiba secret -2 of the new alt arts -3 of the QCSR reprints would've been much better.
These reprint sets should never be more than like, 200 cards at absolute max, ideally somewhere around the 100 mark. The entire point of making a sealed product explicitly for the purposes of reprinting is to actually make the cards in the set accessible, you've completely defeated the purpose of reprinting by bloating the set so badly with shit that we don't want or need or with cards that simply could've been reprinted elsewhere.
I would almost agree except for the fact that it doesn’t matter. The way these cards get cheaper is by being reprinted in the first place. After a reprint set comes out, regardless of the card count, prices will come down. The cards in the set become “accessible” by being cheaper, not “being easy to pull”. Card packs, in any trading card game ever in the history of all man kind, have never been the “accessible” way to obtain cards lmao
@Huge_Penguin the problem is the prices don't go down if no one opens the set, which ppl won't do as much if they don't think they will get anything. More importantly, if ppl have this attitude towards opening packs, it's not good for the gamebecause opening packs and trading cards in your trading card game is kind of a huge part of the culture of the game.
@ChaddyFantome let's be honest here, NOBODY trades cards post TCGplayer era. Either the cards are too cheap and you buy singles or the cards are too expensive and you buy packs or sell cards to the store to get what you want. Most people don't want to trade unless THEY are the ones who are getting the better perceived deal. That's just how people are.
@@ChaddyFantome yeahhh I think this romanticized view of opening packs needs to be shed from this community before people stop complaining. I have always been poor, grew up poor but am less so now, and I have ALWAYS seen buying packs as “the expensive way” to get cards that I want. It has always been cheaper to buy singles, and this idea that “well no one will buy the set then!” as being an issue is also ridiculous. You know what happens to unsold Yugioh product? It gets CHEAPER. We’ve seen this happen with unpopular set after unpopular set. The tins will be opened, the cards will be pulled, and the prices will drop. Remind me to come back to this thread in about 2 months when Diabel is under $10 thanks to the dueling mirrors tin, and I’ll accept my “I was wrong, I apologize” from you
@@lordxmugen literally yes. the majority of people that PLAY Yugioh in the modern era are adults with a source of disposable income to varying degrees. Literally all of us are buying singles lmao, only person I ever “trade” anymore with is my girlfriend and I would barely count that. Although I will say that “buying packs for expensive cards” really isn’t that common. A more common experience if a card is too expensive is players will wait for reprints, and then (here’s a shocker) buy it as a single.
Everyone would be happy if they just made little knight an ultra rare. Budget players could afford it and people who already had it from AGOV would still have the max rarity so it wouldn't feel like a wasted purchase
I was thinking like this until I finally biting the bullet and getting expensive cards. You know what sucks more than having to buy 20€ playsets for 60€ or 60-100€ cards? Watching them go to zero as your collection is devalued as time progresses. This is the damned worst way to operate a TCG. The cards should be more reasonably priced to begin with, that way you wouldn't need constant reprints to devalue peoples collections. You are basically playing part-time vendor or hot potato with your cards to not just burn your money. This way of doing things is the worst for the people who can afford expensive cards, and it's also bad for people on a budget because by the time you can afford the good cards reprinted they are obsolete basically.
@@TemporalDelusion for me they only get obsolet when they get banned I payed 20 for soul of rage a week before they announce his reprint. What i thought was damm i should had waited I buy figures and video games, yugioh is a hobby i got after. Watching the stuff "losing value" is something i got used to Im not thinking about selling the stuff so it doesnt Weight for me
@@TemporalDelusion I understand your frustrations but I think it is a problem on Konami, if cards had different rarity prints in the same set, we all could get our cheap little knight and the people who like the expensive version can get their QCR or something like that, we all would be happy
Reprints should do their job and let people get reprints. Cards shouldn't be hard to get in the first place. Just copy the OCG model like Rarity Collection 1. I don't understand why this is so difficult. I also agree with the take about reprint sets tanking "investments". Screw scalpers. Reprint sets SHOULD tank prices.
Reprints have experienced a pattern. It is basically a cashgrab before the key cards get removed. Example: Baronne. Printed only in high rarities, used to sell packs, despite being overpowered was never even limited, left that way for a while, reprinted in the rarity collection 1, banned shortly afterwards. Apo. Printed only in high rarities, used to sell packs, despite being overpowered was never even limited, left that way for a while, reprinted in the rarity collection 2, banned shortly afterwards. Notice a theme?
They've been doing that for a long time. First printed Crush Card as a short print in a Gold Rare set, as it was previously a trophy card. Banned after the set was done selling.
Having to ban a card that you JUST made is the highest form of "we don't know what we're doing" a tcg maker can show. Konami has had way too many of these recently. Just making ridiculous cards, making them secret rares, and then quickly realizing they broke the game and emergency banning something that's only a month old.
@@wardy4903 That isn't even new. It's honestly impressive what this game has survived, if you go back and look at all the cards that got banned for warping the meta.
Its almost like Konami isnt confident at all in pulling a lot of new people into their game or something, so they have to milk the current player base for all their worth.
To be fair, how is anyone getting into a game which needs: -A couple hours of reading before your first game -At least 100$ for a playable deck (you ain't winning son) -'''Suscription'' to sleeves if you dont want your cards ruined in two months -Patience to wait for 10 minutes while your opponent gets the board to a state where you're not going to play
@@RublasSama Casual pet deck players are a huge demographic in the OCG. Most of the hurdles can be overcame, the problem in the TCG is that we just don't have good starting points or products like the Tactical Try Decks 🤷♀️
@RublasSama You need to read up in any tcg. You need sleeves in any tcg to even play locals. Decks in other games can do the same stuff and having patience is something you need to accept in a two player turn based game
I can understand that Konami is a business, but they don't have to be so aggressive and anti-consumer with the monetization. We don't need cards that cost $100 or more that don't benefit us and in the end only benefit people with luck, vendors, and obviously Konami. We need multiple rarities to allow people to play good cards relatively cheaply, the game doesn't need to gatekeep good cards only to people with money. If you compare a main set booster box the people in the OCG get more love such as cards with multiple rarities, lower prices, and rarities that we don't have anymore like the Ultimate. I don't think that the problem relies on these reprint sets, the problem is from the main sets, if we had more affordable cards within the main sets we shouldn't carve for these reprints and hope that they give us good cards.
100% agree!!! I’ve been playing since the game started and I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for this game. The cards in this card game should be about PLAYING THE GAME, not about the money. 10/10 respect! 🤘🏽
Konami will always be a garbage company who does not care about its customers as long as we have the OCG to look at. At this point there is no excuse as to why we get a shittier version of the game just because they feel like it. It is disrespectful.
The set is definitely too big, 100 cards would've been great. and make each pack have like, 3 QCR, 2 Secrets, 2 Ultras and like, 3 commons, maybe, since a lot of their marketing seemed to be around "we're giving you more of the rarities you crave!" Good, freaking actually give us them though. I don't want to dig through potentially hundreds of packs just to maybe get one of the cards I'm looking for. And I don't think anyone was looking for QCR Gadgets in 2024. And promos. I don't mind tokens being included, but make them promos, don't take a slot up in my packs for a token
How is this so hard. You reprint the chase past secrets as rarity upgrades or downgrades. You reprint niche but usable cards and deck engines that were in lower rarity and give them a higher rarity. Give the tokens and the old/anime cards as promos.
Idk if I'd put Rarity Collection in this. Even the second one has better value, smaller focused sets, than the Mega Packs. SP and Thrust would get 7-8 different printings in RC. That's good for collectors and players alike. If you want an investment, buy real estate.
Konami designs products exclusively for vendors and whales, no responsible adult/average consumer can pull a playset of ANY secret rare by just opening packs/boxes
I love the tins. Having all 5 pieces of Exodia in QCSR is awesome. My Blue-eyes deck has never looked so good with the OG QCSR. Having the older Anime cards as QCSR is awesome for people who like to collect. I even bought the Red Gadget and Seal of Orichalcos that I didn't pull. In my personal opinion, people need to stop expecting Konami to give them everything they want. You will never get a product from them that will make you happy. Instead, I try to appreciate what we do get, which were a lot of good reprints. I know a few cards are still a good amount of money, but they are cheaper than before, which is better than them not being reprinted at all 🤷
In my opinion, Rarity collections should focus on Rarity Bumps and Mega Tins should focus on making cheap versions of highly used cards and re-printing short printed cards *Cough* Dragon Master Magia *Cough*. Also, having a 400 card set that is 3 packs for $22 is insane and should be mocked continuously.
Also, support your local game store, but *DO NOT BUY* bad Yu-gi-oh products. Get your sleeves and what not, but the only way Konami is going to seriously change is if vendors refuse to sell their stuff because no one will buy their garbage sets.
MTG is still more expensive at that price point and most sets are nearly that size where this is the first time they've ever exceeded MTG sets so it's kind of funny to hear that not being someone who only buys the one thing.
No Paul don't let Konami trick you. This is actually the first mega tins to have no supers or rares. Don't blame you for forgetting about rares sense core sets haven't had them for a long time, and basically just a common at this point thanks to side sets.
The best tin back in the day was the pot of duality tins that had 2 variations of tins with several reprints of exclusives. But most importantly, you got pot of duality in each tin.
On the topic of anime cards being in the tin, I like them as that’s part of the reason I buy the tins. I bought at least 15 of the previous anniversary tin for the promos. That being said, they should have done the same here. Each tin should have one card that’s pictured on the tin AND a token. Ot
A big issue is that the new tins don’t have enough promos old tins would have a least a promo pack with like 5-8 cards with cool creatures tokens that teamed well with people from the show you could like a yugi or kiba tin with there own respective card promos making it worth buying and now it’s just a couple mega pack with mostly random stuff and a chance to get classic reprints in new rarities
I don't understand why Konami changed the tins from the old way they did things. If I recall correctly, they would make pack secret rares into tin ultras, and pack ultras into tin secrets. Then you would see super rares get upgraded and downgraded, commons or rares see similar changes. I liked when they did this, and I don't see why that changed?
Konami should have proxys of every card available for cents for the people who just wanna play in tournaments Let the collectors worry about the actual cards
Not even proxies. Just have a common or even rare for some if Konami feels stingy about having a common for everything. Problem solved. Collectors and re-sellers keep their high rarity short print chase cards and we get to be able to actually acquire stuff we need without needing to burn a hole in our wallets.
@@consoleunkn3152 They already do that. At least this way, there is some actual value in buying sets. The OCG proves that you can have multiple rarity printings and still sell massively.
@@NvrPhazed dont think they can do it for every set unless they want to make less money. U need to realise that tcg has low playerbase count (there is not over 200 000 active players) in ocg there are millions of them and they can make money from it coz of high player count. Also in general card games, anime is popular in asia same as here sports.
@@consoleunkn3152 Don't care about the player count. I am not going to buy cards if the value proposition is not there and no one else should either. If they can't figure out a method to sell trading cards at a profit while also not shafting their players, they should quit and leave the Western Space so we can move on to other games that can.
They might as well not even release reprints anymore if they are gonna make them worse and worse to the point where Thrust is still 40 bucks a year and a half after being released as an almost staple.
So as someone who enjoyed old school yugioh and literally cant get anything modern yugioh I like the retro packs and when I saw the 25th anniversary tins covered in all the art of the anime characters I got excited for that too, only to see people opening them and all the cards being all these modern day cards I couldnt care less about and immediately stopped caring about the tins.
The way konami does it couldn't be worse. You know what sucks more than having to buy 20€ playsets for 60€ or 60-100€ cards? Watching them go to zero as your collection is devalued as time progresses. This is the damned worst way to operate a TCG. The cards should be more reasonably priced to begin with, that way you wouldn't need constant reprints to devalue peoples collections. You are basically playing part-time vendor or hot potato with your cards to not just burn your money. This way of doing things is the worst for the people who can afford expensive cards, and it's also bad for people on a budget because by the time you can afford the good cards reprinted they are obsolete basically.
Let's be frank, issue isn't being a "reprint set" Mega Tins always give a card roundup of the yr. The ISSUE is Ko-money has gotten lazy, the manager in charge of products is un-inspired, would it be nice to have alt-art high raritys? common S:P? MIX ALL Rarities w/ All Cards Etc Etc. people love to Max rarity all the time. Issue is Konami has fallen off, you got a +55 yr old japanese business man in charge who doesn't know how to make a good product, Period.
Printing everything in Japan and exporting it day and date would actually make everything better. Or at least doing everything in Europe. The North American branch are the ones making dogshit quality cards and making sure everything is as high rarity and impossible to get. Shouldn't talk about things you're demonstrably ignorant about.
pokemon does it perfectly. the entire set is common, all playable cards are cheap and common. the rare collectible cards with high value are full art illustration versions of common-rare cards. no exclusive cards are in the secret/illustration rare tier. from playing and looking at pokemon, the most expensive playable cards I have seen were $10-$15
The most important part is absolutely the multiple rarities on release. Players shouldn't be stuck waiting months and months to stop being gatekept from game pieces, that shouldn't be a thing at all. The tcg set model simply needs to die, plus it creates yet another huge barrier to getting new players. Until the tcg stops being treated like shit and we get set distributions on par with the ocg's I'm not buying a single product or card again and neither should you.
I miss the old mega tins, you got a set of fixed promo cards and the 3 megatins. Like the 2016 tins were really good, some really cool promos that were pretty expensive, a token, and the 3 packs. The jaden and yusei tins were really cool. Shame they changed it. Can they bring back duelist packs? They were great, there were about 30 cards in the set so it meant you could more easily pull some really cool cards.
reprint sets would be super interesting if the previous common cards were ultra rare and the previous rare/expensive cards were now common. rarity bump on those that used to be common and rarity drop on previous rares. also if some of them got alternate new art!
@@Fencer_Nowa who told you that lie? Players buy cases if they say otherwise they are lying cause they also buy singles. Either way Yu-Gi-Oh players complain but can't stop complaining.
@SELG88 vendors buy cases not the average player. Especially when you're not even breaking even on a case most times Singles don't impact Konami at all. They literally don't earn anything off those sales.
Personally I dont mind the set size, my only true problem is that most cards is being printed in the same rarity. Secrets should have been been ultra rares, utras could secrets, Super rares should be common and commons should be super. I know its a lot but that would make the tins so exciting, either an easier way to get the cards that was hard to grab before or rarity upgrades.
The set size in these tins was not necessarily a bad thing. The bad thing was that ALL the commons here are just common bulk from recent sets, meaning 8/13 slots of each pack are absolutely worthless. It means the chase pulls are the ONLY pulls worth considering, even for more casual players. You're buying a tin for 15 cards, and realistically only 6 cards since the ultras are mostly just rarity bumps for cheap and common cards people already have. So when your 6-card tin has a massive pool of things you don't want, that becomes a much bigger problem than having a 39-card tin with a big pool of things you want and don't want
I almost got no problem with reprint sets at all. The only problem I have is that sometimes Konami reprint cards nobody cares about. They're probably only doing it to fill out the set
Hopefully the new retro TCG twitter means they will release some new rarity bump kind of retro sets with just goat, Edison, tenguish era and earlier give or take that is about the only product I would buy
Literally watching The Professor but for Yugioh. Makes my heart happy. While you have plenty of things to dislike about the game, you always approach it with some optimism first. And your feedback is because you want Konami to succeed, because you do love the game.
I want to get into the TCG from master duel and duel links but seeing SP Little Knight going for 60 euros, triple thrust tactics going for 60 euros, and some archetype cards going for 20 euros per copy really makes me not want to. Guess I have to only play floowandereeze and purrely?
Card games need to have a happy medium of people who like to collect and people who like to play competitive or it will start to fail. Case and point yugioh
My local Walmart has last year's mega tins for 15.00 dollars. So I've been buying those instead. Much better value from what I've seen. But I agree that cards should be accessible, its not a sudo stock market.
Personally I like getting bulk cards, but this year's tin just feels bad to me, 100 commons and only 4 cards were moved down to common. Compared to the last tin where all the Libromancer stuff was made common from supers and Ultras, it just feels bad. And feels bad in the sense that it's not every rarity upgrades, 96 of those cards were all ready commons, so why print them again?
I dont get why after 2019 we dropped promos as we saw the heavy generic hitters of the past year always get a promo slot alongside one or two new cards put across 2 tins. It still gets ppl to buy more than 1 but also guarantees the fact players hage something theyll want no rng
Someone correct me if I'm wrong since I don't really play that much ygo, mostly done master duel with that free swordsoul deck they gave out. But to me it seems like rarities are basically pointless when pretty much any cars you'd wanna put in your deck is an ultra rare+? Like, in magic your deck might actually have a bunch of commons, because commons are not just pack filler, some of them are very strong, doesn't seem to be the case with ygo?
Would have been better this way: 25 QCSR three per tin as promos. 2 Secret 2 Ultra 1 Super rest commons. That way we would got less Ultras and Secrets because let's be honest, many of the secrets and ultras could haven been commons that nobody care for.
Protecting card value is such a stupid and completely selfish/greedy argument. This is a trading card GAME!!! Not a trading card investment simulator. If you want to invest/gamble your money, go do it on the stock market, that was literally made for that. Leave tcgs for those who actually want to play/collect the cards.
I'm old and want reprints of old classic cards. Modern sets don't do it for me. I don't play competitively. The recent retro pack reprint was exactly what I want.
At the end of the day, it's a sales issue. The community is shrinking, there's less volume of cards being moved and vendors need to make a profit to stay afload and stock the game. So key cards are short printed, to keep their value up and sell packs we honestly wouldn't buy unless those cards were chaser cards in the set, meaning the remaining players have to buy more to make for the deficit.
@@redhalfdragon Which is a negative feedback loop that ends with the death of the game. This is why the tcg model is horrible, just make good cards easier to get so product is appealing and you keep a thriving community that's also easier to get in without a huge paywall. But no, I'm sure the mega geniuses at Konami of America know better.
It's shrinking so much they're setting event records. And not just YGO ones, but ALL TIME CARD TOURNAMENT ATTENDANCE RECORDS. No other card game in the world has had more people show up to a tournament than some of the recent YGO ones and you think it's somehow shrinking.
@RunicSigils the OGC is indeed very popular and getting sky high numbers. They also have a much better products availability than the TCG, do not suffer from most of our rarity bump that are causing us so many issues I highlighted and have access to the meta as it comes out instead of 2-6 months later. While I admit I did not specify I meant the TCG is currently bleeding players, what I said apply to the TCG and it's plain to see as many locals across NA and EU have stopped hosting events since last summer, EU had stopped receiving certain products for Speed Duels entirely (a product aimed as an entry-level) and most of the latest NA and EU tournaments have had lower and lower attendance as well as less coverage overall as the year went on.
@RunicSigils yes in the ocg. A different entity to the tcg with vastly different product to us. The tcg is quite literally bleeding. Nats that used to pull 1k people are pulling 30% of that. Locals that used to be 4-5 rounds consistently are now maybe 3 at a push.
Komoney adding older cards in the new tins, was a terrible idea. They are obviously trying to attract the older ex yugioh player's, into purchasing the tins. It's a sad and desperate business move.
If someones argues that they loose their investment if s:p is to easy to get, thats their problem they know how yugi handles reprints and they should know that someday the card will be easy accesable it always comes with that. Sry for all people that this happened to but not for those playing the game for years
All i can say is that there is no way these tins are worse than the 2 player starter deck, just because that one wasn't a complete enough system to introduce players to yugioh, like only synchro and xyz? where is the start decks for fusions and links, or rituals and pendulums , nor are they competitive enough, like a structure deck can be.
I NEVER buy sealed product. It's just not worth it. Unless there's a lot of cards you need in that product, so you have a high chance of getting something you need, so fair enough. I always buy singles. So i don't have to gamble money to get a one of in a 400 card pool. And if something still costs too much like S:P right now, i just wait until the price drops. I play casual anyways so i don't care about anything besides having fun with my friends.
To play meta in the tcg in the USA is way too expensive. Let's say I have every card printed up until INFO and I just need cards from INFO and ROTA I need to spend somewhere near 800 dollars to have the meta deck and that is kind of lowballing it. They need to change the printing system of the original sets!!
Since the 25th century sets could be considered a celebration of Yugioh, I don't mind the amount of cards being printed. What I do mind though is what got reprinted. A lot of cards feel out of place or even completely unneccessary. Like the Gem Knight cards. Gem-Knight Quartz, Gem-Knight Lady Rose Diamond and Scatterfusion already got 25th century prints. Don't get me wrong, I like Gem Knights. However, I don't see any reason to reprint those cards over others. Another problem are the QCR cards. The design philosophy was supposed to be "iconic" cards. What the heck is iconic about Coach King Giantrainer, Gilti-Gearfried the Magical Steel Knight or Predaplant Ophrys Scorpio? The QCR prints could have provided accessability to some of the older, far more iconic and cool cards but no...
Scorpio is iconic in the sense that it bridged decks into brilliant fusion and is for the retro formats that exist post MACR as a cool boost. Giant trainer was basically for eons the best rank 8 for deep draw decks like dark world
@@Fencer_Nowa Well, the term iconic surely is extremely vaguely defined. What does make a card iconic? Is is it's design? It's apperance and usage in the anime? It's usage and/or impact on the competative scene? Blue Eyes White Dragon oviously is a perfect example for an iconic card. It's basically fits every possible definition for an iconic card. Also the Gadgets fit quite nicely. Since I don't know as much about the competative history and only recently returned, I am not as familiar with the impact of more recent cards. However, Predaplant Ophrys Scorpio in my opinion doesn't realy fit the definition of an iconic card. If it bridged the gap for Brilliant Fusion, shouldn't Brilliant Fusion be a far more iconic card, since it also has been used in many other decks and has seen far more competative play? I don't know if the stats of Yugiohtopdecks isn't a representation of the competative scene but from the stats shwon Coach King Giantrainer also isn't realy used. Even Link Spider has seen far more use. Other cards that are far more iconic is stuff like Dark Armed Dragon, Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End, Yata Garasu, Witch of the Black Forest, Pot of Greed, Elemental Heores, etc. Sure, those are older cards but the more cards there are the lower the chance for them of becoming iconic. What about Gem Knight Garnet? It coined an entire term after itself. For more recent examples: What about True Draco? Kaijus? Dangers? Nekroz? Number S39: Utopia the Lightning? Relinquished? Don't get me wrong, these cards may have had their impact on Yugioh. However, when it comes to their importance they aren't realy something people will associate with Yugioh. These cards would have been more fitting for the next 25th anniversary set.
@GermanGlitchhunter the tins are the competitive reprint staple set of the year and as they lean more into time wizard you're going to want to give them the actual competitive core engines of decks that shaped the game while being usable in advanced and cards like brilliant fusion already have a chase rarity on ultimate rare for people who care. dad also has a chase rairty in being a ghost multiple times already. Ced would be more wasted because it's unplayable now because it's effect got gutted and anyone who cares about its legacy is going to be after IOC 1STs
@@Fencer_Nowa Again, the issue is the presentation. "Showcasing iconic monsters and imagery from decades of Dueling". Du you think peoples first, second, third or even fiftieth association with the competative scene of Yugioh will be any of the cards I was talking about? It would be perfectly fine to meinly focus on cards from the competative scene. But then the question arises, why not reprint far more iconic cards, like all the stuff I already mentioned? Also, it can't be about cards already having chase rarities. Else, what about Blue Eyes White Dragon? It already has Many different chase rarities. It already has a QCR print. Also Ghost Rare. Secret Rare. Secret Rare. Also it has many different artworks and some rare promos. Same goes for Dark Magician Girl. Neither can it be solely about competative cards. You could remove Blue Eyes White Dragon, which again has a a few dozens of prints, if you include eastern prints it's more then 100. He doesn't need a reprint. Neither does Dark Magician Girl, since she already has a couple dozen reprints and isn't realy used in competative. Neither can it be about playability, since the Gadgets aren't realy played anymore. Neither are the forbidden cards despite their new Millenium archetype. Some of these cards would be much better off in a different reprint set. Like maybe the upcoming Bonanza set. Also It feels weird to have a single card from an entire archetype getting a chase reprint.
My issue with the tins is that they didn’t do full reprints for archetypes that were waiting for them. I’ve been waiting a year for vanquish soul reprints only for half of the archetype to get reprinted. This then creates another issue because key pieces that weren’t reprinted like Mad Love and Caesar Valius are getting scalped to make the reprints seemingly not matter for the decks price. It’s a shame because last year we got full reprints for ninjas and runick. I just wish Konami was consistent in their reprint strategy
I don't care anymore. Let them just do whatever they want with their products at this point. My question is this. Why must they always make their products worse and worse and worse? Rarity Collection - great! Rarity Collection 2 - worse Mega tins - great! Current tins - far worse maze sets - great! Last one - not as good And I don't to hear about Japan. OCG is nothing like this. Why is Konami of America consistently making the products we buy worse? Which product have they made better over the years? Which product was better in the TCG compared to the OCG?
Because Japan is literally thier primary audience. They bend over backwards to keep those players Because of how competitive it is to hold players. In the west for the past 20 years only 2 games survived as long as yugioh being magic and pokemon and at this point it's just tcg death spiral as they refuse to adapt or change to acknowledge the fact the other tcgs have presence in the east and West.
_Please reprint my happiness and love in my life next, Konami. I lost my old copies._
I'm hoping they do a reprint of Dragon Master Magia just because I'm looking to acquire it for my Blue-Eyes deck.
sure but theyre QCR exclusive
@georged-vy7mn Only? Are you meaning for right now or for now on?
Quick reminder:
If you think the product is terrible: don't buy it.
The consumer is the one that is deciding how future product design is going to be.
There is no reason for konami to change anything, if you keep throwing money their way, no matter what.
Chances to get SP in the tin is lower than the original how does this make sense?
Life changes, bro.
Greed.
@@SakuraAvalon pot of greed
Personally I want more sets like Duel Devastator where its like the top 20 or something most played generic cards from the last year or so. All reprinted and guaranteed. DD is such an amazing product as it made it so many powerful expensive cards can get into a more casual or budget players hands. Like Ash Blossom use to be stupidly expensive back then, especially for a mandatory staple as for years it was the best handtrap. Most people were excited for Duel Devastator because of its reprint and whats even better that reprinted pretty much halved Ash Blossoms price as well! Its seriously such a good product idea that I hope they revisit in future.
The problem with duel Devastator was on top of having good cards in it there was a lot of shovelware cards and that product sat on shelves for months and months and nobody bought it cuz let's be realistic they put cards that didn't matter anymore and and I felt like an insult the only cards that were worth getting out of that were the ghost girls and there can only be one everything else was too out of touch with the meta at the time
Trainers toolkit for Yu-Gi-Oh should replace the tins
If Konami wants me to buy a tin, they have to bring back guaranteed promos.
Fucking thank you. How the hell were yugioh tins from 2005 somehow way better than tins now. Dunno about yall but the tins I buy have the promo card and 5 packs. Not this 3 pack randomizer crap
Yeah, leaving the packs as they were last year and then adding a promo pack consisting of something like
-5 tokens (they've got 40 in just 1 set they haven't printed yet that they've been trying to get out recently via the retail boxes), 1 of which is guaranteed to be the Yugi or Kaiba secret
-2 of the new alt arts
-3 of the QCSR reprints
would've been much better.
These reprint sets should never be more than like, 200 cards at absolute max, ideally somewhere around the 100 mark. The entire point of making a sealed product explicitly for the purposes of reprinting is to actually make the cards in the set accessible, you've completely defeated the purpose of reprinting by bloating the set so badly with shit that we don't want or need or with cards that simply could've been reprinted elsewhere.
I would almost agree except for the fact that it doesn’t matter. The way these cards get cheaper is by being reprinted in the first place. After a reprint set comes out, regardless of the card count, prices will come down. The cards in the set become “accessible” by being cheaper, not “being easy to pull”. Card packs, in any trading card game ever in the history of all man kind, have never been the “accessible” way to obtain cards lmao
@Huge_Penguin the problem is the prices don't go down if no one opens the set, which ppl won't do as much if they don't think they will get anything.
More importantly, if ppl have this attitude towards opening packs, it's not good for the gamebecause opening packs and trading cards in your trading card game is kind of a huge part of the culture of the game.
@ChaddyFantome let's be honest here, NOBODY trades cards post TCGplayer era. Either the cards are too cheap and you buy singles or the cards are too expensive and you buy packs or sell cards to the store to get what you want. Most people don't want to trade unless THEY are the ones who are getting the better perceived deal. That's just how people are.
@@ChaddyFantome yeahhh I think this romanticized view of opening packs needs to be shed from this community before people stop complaining. I have always been poor, grew up poor but am less so now, and I have ALWAYS seen buying packs as “the expensive way” to get cards that I want. It has always been cheaper to buy singles, and this idea that “well no one will buy the set then!” as being an issue is also ridiculous. You know what happens to unsold Yugioh product? It gets CHEAPER. We’ve seen this happen with unpopular set after unpopular set. The tins will be opened, the cards will be pulled, and the prices will drop. Remind me to come back to this thread in about 2 months when Diabel is under $10 thanks to the dueling mirrors tin, and I’ll accept my “I was wrong, I apologize” from you
@@lordxmugen literally yes. the majority of people that PLAY Yugioh in the modern era are adults with a source of disposable income to varying degrees. Literally all of us are buying singles lmao, only person I ever “trade” anymore with is my girlfriend and I would barely count that. Although I will say that “buying packs for expensive cards” really isn’t that common. A more common experience if a card is too expensive is players will wait for reprints, and then (here’s a shocker) buy it as a single.
Everyone would be happy if they just made little knight an ultra rare. Budget players could afford it and people who already had it from AGOV would still have the max rarity so it wouldn't feel like a wasted purchase
People that agree with "protecting" the card value are just dumb
I was thinking like this until I finally biting the bullet and getting expensive cards. You know what sucks more than having to buy 20€ playsets for 60€ or 60-100€ cards? Watching them go to zero as your collection is devalued as time progresses. This is the damned worst way to operate a TCG.
The cards should be more reasonably priced to begin with, that way you wouldn't need constant reprints to devalue peoples collections.
You are basically playing part-time vendor or hot potato with your cards to not just burn your money.
This way of doing things is the worst for the people who can afford expensive cards, and it's also bad for people on a budget because by the time you can afford the good cards reprinted they are obsolete basically.
@@TemporalDelusion for me they only get obsolet when they get banned
I payed 20 for soul of rage a week before they announce his reprint. What i thought was damm i should had waited
I buy figures and video games, yugioh is a hobby i got after. Watching the stuff "losing value" is something i got used to
Im not thinking about selling the stuff so it doesnt Weight for me
@@TemporalDelusion I understand your frustrations but I think it is a problem on Konami, if cards had different rarity prints in the same set, we all could get our cheap little knight and the people who like the expensive version can get their QCR or something like that, we all would be happy
These are the same people probably that support the reserved list in MTG
@@Dave_Haro Exactly my point. That way everyone would win. The current setup is horrid.
400 cards in the set is insane. such a low chance to get anything you want. the old tins where the featured card was guaranteed where better.
You want something out of a yugioh product buy the singles lol, this is a casino 😂😂
I've never seen a better example of buying singles.
The Walmart i bought my dueling mirrors tin were fully stocked with the 2022 and 2023 and the newly released 2024 tins
People wised up and just bought singles 😅
Reprints should do their job and let people get reprints. Cards shouldn't be hard to get in the first place. Just copy the OCG model like Rarity Collection 1. I don't understand why this is so difficult. I also agree with the take about reprint sets tanking "investments". Screw scalpers. Reprint sets SHOULD tank prices.
Reprints have experienced a pattern. It is basically a cashgrab before the key cards get removed.
Example: Baronne. Printed only in high rarities, used to sell packs, despite being overpowered was never even limited, left that way for a while, reprinted in the rarity collection 1, banned shortly afterwards.
Apo. Printed only in high rarities, used to sell packs, despite being overpowered was never even limited, left that way for a while, reprinted in the rarity collection 2, banned shortly afterwards.
Notice a theme?
They've been doing that for a long time.
First printed Crush Card as a short print in a Gold Rare set, as it was previously a trophy card.
Banned after the set was done selling.
Having to ban a card that you JUST made is the highest form of "we don't know what we're doing" a tcg maker can show. Konami has had way too many of these recently. Just making ridiculous cards, making them secret rares, and then quickly realizing they broke the game and emergency banning something that's only a month old.
@@wardy4903 That isn't even new. It's honestly impressive what this game has survived, if you go back and look at all the cards that got banned for warping the meta.
I bought one & enjoyed it until my conscience couldn't ignore the fact that i just spent over $20 to get a metal box & undesired cardboard
Its almost like Konami isnt confident at all in pulling a lot of new people into their game or something, so they have to milk the current player base for all their worth.
Lol yep, Yugioh is horrible in attracting new players. Gotta squeeze more milk out of the drying cow.
To be fair, how is anyone getting into a game which needs:
-A couple hours of reading before your first game
-At least 100$ for a playable deck (you ain't winning son)
-'''Suscription'' to sleeves if you dont want your cards ruined in two months
-Patience to wait for 10 minutes while your opponent gets the board to a state where you're not going to play
@@RublasSama Casual pet deck players are a huge demographic in the OCG. Most of the hurdles can be overcame, the problem in the TCG is that we just don't have good starting points or products like the Tactical Try Decks 🤷♀️
@RublasSama
You need to read up in any tcg.
You need sleeves in any tcg to even play locals.
Decks in other games can do the same stuff and having patience is something you need to accept in a two player turn based game
@@RublasSama and more like 300-400€ when you wanna have a chance, and can choose out of 4 archtypes.
Agreed, Paul, this is a GAME. Accessibility of the game should be the top priority, not to pad out whales' wallets.
konami made the best reprint set which is 1st 25th Anniversary rarity collectors set, and then it went downhill from there
I can understand that Konami is a business, but they don't have to be so aggressive and anti-consumer with the monetization.
We don't need cards that cost $100 or more that don't benefit us and in the end only benefit people with luck, vendors, and obviously Konami.
We need multiple rarities to allow people to play good cards relatively cheaply, the game doesn't need to gatekeep good cards only to people with money.
If you compare a main set booster box the people in the OCG get more love such as cards with multiple rarities, lower prices, and rarities that we don't have anymore like the Ultimate.
I don't think that the problem relies on these reprint sets, the problem is from the main sets, if we had more affordable cards within the main sets we shouldn't carve for these reprints and hope that they give us good cards.
I see larry has his own channel now, can we get some insight on why we dont see the full crew much these days on team aps?
100% agree!!! I’ve been playing since the game started and I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for this game. The cards in this card game should be about PLAYING THE GAME, not about the money. 10/10 respect! 🤘🏽
Konami will always be a garbage company who does not care about its customers as long as we have the OCG to look at. At this point there is no excuse as to why we get a shittier version of the game just because they feel like it. It is disrespectful.
Enjoyed your stream with Nova. Hope for more in the future.
Glad you did! We'll try to do more in the future, I had a blast at the sleepover.
The set is definitely too big, 100 cards would've been great. and make each pack have like, 3 QCR, 2 Secrets, 2 Ultras and like, 3 commons, maybe, since a lot of their marketing seemed to be around "we're giving you more of the rarities you crave!" Good, freaking actually give us them though. I don't want to dig through potentially hundreds of packs just to maybe get one of the cards I'm looking for. And I don't think anyone was looking for QCR Gadgets in 2024. And promos. I don't mind tokens being included, but make them promos, don't take a slot up in my packs for a token
How is this so hard. You reprint the chase past secrets as rarity upgrades or downgrades. You reprint niche but usable cards and deck engines that were in lower rarity and give them a higher rarity. Give the tokens and the old/anime cards as promos.
I'm old school so literally the only card I wanted was an Alternate art Raigeki but I got a quarter century DMG so really can't complain lol
Everyone thought magnificent mavens was insane until rarity collection took its place
Idk if I'd put Rarity Collection in this. Even the second one has better value, smaller focused sets, than the Mega Packs. SP and Thrust would get 7-8 different printings in RC. That's good for collectors and players alike. If you want an investment, buy real estate.
Konami designs products exclusively for vendors and whales, no responsible adult/average consumer can pull a playset of ANY secret rare by just opening packs/boxes
400 potential cards in a $20 tin that only has 3 packs. Komoney is laughing at yall on the daily now.
I love the tins. Having all 5 pieces of Exodia in QCSR is awesome. My Blue-eyes deck has never looked so good with the OG QCSR. Having the older Anime cards as QCSR is awesome for people who like to collect. I even bought the Red Gadget and Seal of Orichalcos that I didn't pull.
In my personal opinion, people need to stop expecting Konami to give them everything they want. You will never get a product from them that will make you happy. Instead, I try to appreciate what we do get, which were a lot of good reprints. I know a few cards are still a good amount of money, but they are cheaper than before, which is better than them not being reprinted at all 🤷
In my opinion, Rarity collections should focus on Rarity Bumps and Mega Tins should focus on making cheap versions of highly used cards and re-printing short printed cards *Cough* Dragon Master Magia *Cough*. Also, having a 400 card set that is 3 packs for $22 is insane and should be mocked continuously.
Also, support your local game store, but *DO NOT BUY* bad Yu-gi-oh products. Get your sleeves and what not, but the only way Konami is going to seriously change is if vendors refuse to sell their stuff because no one will buy their garbage sets.
MTG is still more expensive at that price point and most sets are nearly that size where this is the first time they've ever exceeded MTG sets so it's kind of funny to hear that not being someone who only buys the one thing.
Cang wait for them to experience "the nostalgia pool" in bonanza @RunicSigils
No Paul don't let Konami trick you. This is actually the first mega tins to have no supers or rares. Don't blame you for forgetting about rares sense core sets haven't had them for a long time, and basically just a common at this point thanks to side sets.
If you're treating cards as investments, you should be ready for the reality that there's no such thing as a guaranteed return.
The best tin back in the day was the pot of duality tins that had 2 variations of tins with several reprints of exclusives. But most importantly, you got pot of duality in each tin.
Nothing will ever top the hanzo tin back in early 2010s. Back then konami actually threw in staples that everyone needed.
On the topic of anime cards being in the tin, I like them as that’s part of the reason I buy the tins. I bought at least 15 of the previous anniversary tin for the promos. That being said, they should have done the same here. Each tin should have one card that’s pictured on the tin AND a token. Ot
A big issue is that the new tins don’t have enough promos old tins would have a least a promo pack with like 5-8 cards with cool creatures tokens that teamed well with people from the show you could like a yugi or kiba tin with there own respective card promos making it worth buying and now it’s just a couple mega pack with mostly random stuff and a chance to get classic reprints in new rarities
Make structure decks great again
I don't understand why Konami changed the tins from the old way they did things. If I recall correctly, they would make pack secret rares into tin ultras, and pack ultras into tin secrets. Then you would see super rares get upgraded and downgraded, commons or rares see similar changes. I liked when they did this, and I don't see why that changed?
Konami should have proxys of every card available for cents for the people who just wanna play in tournaments
Let the collectors worry about the actual cards
Not even proxies. Just have a common or even rare for some if Konami feels stingy about having a common for everything. Problem solved. Collectors and re-sellers keep their high rarity short print chase cards and we get to be able to actually acquire stuff we need without needing to burn a hole in our wallets.
@@NvrPhazed they would lose money on sets. Not many people would buy it, most would then buy singles online
@@consoleunkn3152 They already do that. At least this way, there is some actual value in buying sets. The OCG proves that you can have multiple rarity printings and still sell massively.
@@NvrPhazed dont think they can do it for every set unless they want to make less money. U need to realise that tcg has low playerbase count (there is not over 200 000 active players) in ocg there are millions of them and they can make money from it coz of high player count.
Also in general card games, anime is popular in asia same as here sports.
@@consoleunkn3152 Don't care about the player count. I am not going to buy cards if the value proposition is not there and no one else should either. If they can't figure out a method to sell trading cards at a profit while also not shafting their players, they should quit and leave the Western Space so we can move on to other games that can.
They might as well not even release reprints anymore if they are gonna make them worse and worse to the point where Thrust is still 40 bucks a year and a half after being released as an almost staple.
So as someone who enjoyed old school yugioh and literally cant get anything modern yugioh I like the retro packs and when I saw the 25th anniversary tins covered in all the art of the anime characters I got excited for that too, only to see people opening them and all the cards being all these modern day cards I couldnt care less about and immediately stopped caring about the tins.
The way konami does it couldn't be worse.
You know what sucks more than having to buy 20€ playsets for 60€ or 60-100€ cards? Watching them go to zero as your collection is devalued as time progresses. This is the damned worst way to operate a TCG.
The cards should be more reasonably priced to begin with, that way you wouldn't need constant reprints to devalue peoples collections.
You are basically playing part-time vendor or hot potato with your cards to not just burn your money.
This way of doing things is the worst for the people who can afford expensive cards, and it's also bad for people on a budget because by the time you can afford the good cards reprinted they are obsolete basically.
Let's be frank, issue isn't being a "reprint set" Mega Tins always give a card roundup of the yr. The ISSUE is Ko-money has gotten lazy, the manager in charge of products is un-inspired, would it be nice to have alt-art high raritys? common S:P? MIX ALL Rarities w/ All Cards Etc Etc. people love to Max rarity all the time. Issue is Konami has fallen off, you got a +55 yr old japanese business man in charge who doesn't know how to make a good product, Period.
Our products are not designed by Japanese but by the TGC part of Konami
Printing everything in Japan and exporting it day and date would actually make everything better. Or at least doing everything in Europe.
The North American branch are the ones making dogshit quality cards and making sure everything is as high rarity and impossible to get.
Shouldn't talk about things you're demonstrably ignorant about.
9:07 I could careless about rarity. Accessibility > Rarity
pokemon does it perfectly. the entire set is common, all playable cards are cheap and common. the rare collectible cards with high value are full art illustration versions of common-rare cards. no exclusive cards are in the secret/illustration rare tier. from playing and looking at pokemon, the most expensive playable cards I have seen were $10-$15
The most important part is absolutely the multiple rarities on release. Players shouldn't be stuck waiting months and months to stop being gatekept from game pieces, that shouldn't be a thing at all. The tcg set model simply needs to die, plus it creates yet another huge barrier to getting new players.
Until the tcg stops being treated like shit and we get set distributions on par with the ocg's I'm not buying a single product or card again and neither should you.
I miss the old mega tins, you got a set of fixed promo cards and the 3 megatins. Like the 2016 tins were really good, some really cool promos that were pretty expensive, a token, and the 3 packs. The jaden and yusei tins were really cool. Shame they changed it. Can they bring back duelist packs? They were great, there were about 30 cards in the set so it meant you could more easily pull some really cool cards.
reprint sets would be super interesting if the previous common cards were ultra rare and the previous rare/expensive cards were now common. rarity bump on those that used to be common and rarity drop on previous rares.
also if some of them got alternate new art!
the problem are the players, they complain and complain yet they dont stop spending so much money in konamis products.
People who are only players basically don't touch product.
The vast majority of players don't buy sealed product unless it's a structure deck for the core.
It's collectors and vendors that are buying sets out
@@Fencer_Nowa who told you that lie? Players buy cases if they say otherwise they are lying cause they also buy singles. Either way Yu-Gi-Oh players complain but can't stop complaining.
@SELG88 vendors buy cases not the average player. Especially when you're not even breaking even on a case most times
Singles don't impact Konami at all. They literally don't earn anything off those sales.
@@Fencer_Nowa talk to an ots store owner then we talk brother. It's crazy the things you'll find out about running a tcg store.
Personally I dont mind the set size, my only true problem is that most cards is being printed in the same rarity.
Secrets should have been been ultra rares, utras could secrets,
Super rares should be common and commons should be super.
I know its a lot but that would make the tins so exciting, either an easier way to get the cards that was hard to grab before or rarity upgrades.
The set size in these tins was not necessarily a bad thing. The bad thing was that ALL the commons here are just common bulk from recent sets, meaning 8/13 slots of each pack are absolutely worthless. It means the chase pulls are the ONLY pulls worth considering, even for more casual players. You're buying a tin for 15 cards, and realistically only 6 cards since the ultras are mostly just rarity bumps for cheap and common cards people already have. So when your 6-card tin has a massive pool of things you don't want, that becomes a much bigger problem than having a 39-card tin with a big pool of things you want and don't want
I almost got no problem with reprint sets at all. The only problem I have is that sometimes Konami reprint cards nobody cares about. They're probably only doing it to fill out the set
Had no problem with this set,I don't buy Tins though I buy singles
Those alt art feather duster and limiter removal really should have been promo cards.
It’s the first Yu-Gi-Oh! product I bought since my childhood
Hopefully the new retro TCG twitter means they will release some new rarity bump kind of retro sets with just goat, Edison, tenguish era and earlier give or take that is about the only product I would buy
SP Little Knight was supposed to be prismatic secret rare but my SP is a secret rare misprint.
If we got the fair and inexpensive market that is the OCG, I would be big happy.
Wish they would’ve gave blue-eyes a secret rare print in the tin so at least it would’ve been easier to pull
You do know it more easy to pull the QCsR Blue-Eyes then having it in the 100 secret rare slot right?
Qcsrs are easier to pull.
The secret slot is about 100 cards wide
Qcsrs are half that
Literally watching The Professor but for Yugioh. Makes my heart happy.
While you have plenty of things to dislike about the game, you always approach it with some optimism first.
And your feedback is because you want Konami to succeed, because you do love the game.
I'm hoping they do a reprint of Dragon Master Magia just because I'm looking to acquire it for my Blue-Eyes deck.
I want to get into the TCG from master duel and duel links but seeing SP Little Knight going for 60 euros, triple thrust tactics going for 60 euros, and some archetype cards going for 20 euros per copy really makes me not want to. Guess I have to only play floowandereeze and purrely?
Card games need to have a happy medium of people who like to collect and people who like to play competitive or it will start to fail. Case and point yugioh
My local Walmart has last year's mega tins for 15.00 dollars. So I've been buying those instead. Much better value from what I've seen. But I agree that cards should be accessible, its not a sudo stock market.
Personally I like getting bulk cards, but this year's tin just feels bad to me, 100 commons and only 4 cards were moved down to common. Compared to the last tin where all the Libromancer stuff was made common from supers and Ultras, it just feels bad. And feels bad in the sense that it's not every rarity upgrades, 96 of those cards were all ready commons, so why print them again?
I dont get why after 2019 we dropped promos as we saw the heavy generic hitters of the past year always get a promo slot alongside one or two new cards put across 2 tins.
It still gets ppl to buy more than 1 but also guarantees the fact players hage something theyll want no rng
There will STILL no repeat of Rarity Collection I. One of best Yu-Gi-Oh products in the franchise.
Pulled a draco utopic future, guiding quem, and qcr DMG. I havent bought another cause I don't think i could do much better
Someone correct me if I'm wrong since I don't really play that much ygo, mostly done master duel with that free swordsoul deck they gave out. But to me it seems like rarities are basically pointless when pretty much any cars you'd wanna put in your deck is an ultra rare+? Like, in magic your deck might actually have a bunch of commons, because commons are not just pack filler, some of them are very strong, doesn't seem to be the case with ygo?
They sort of do multi rarity prints in sets
It's just standard rarity and much harder to pull rarity QCR
Heart broken I literally can’t afford thrust for nationals 😭
Where reprint sets ever good? I feel like now people are just bigger complainers then before
Yea. Alot where smaller and tins for years had promos that where the hitters of the past year and a few nice bumps for niche or popular cards
I have no way of pulling any of the secrets or qcrs I want from the tin and it's a little frustrating won't lie
Would have been better this way:
25 QCSR three per tin as promos.
2 Secret
2 Ultra
1 Super
rest commons.
That way we would got less Ultras and Secrets because let's be honest, many of the secrets and ultras could haven been commons that nobody care for.
Bought 1 tin for collectors purpose, the rest is singles
Probably been said but they are literally taking cards from the previous sets
Crossing out CYAC/PTNI etc
Scribbling in MP24
Protecting card value is such a stupid and completely selfish/greedy argument.
This is a trading card GAME!!! Not a trading card investment simulator. If you want to invest/gamble your money, go do it on the stock market, that was literally made for that.
Leave tcgs for those who actually want to play/collect the cards.
Cut the set size by half. Bring back promos! Pulling a token in pack is a slap in the face.
Idk if they are going to change the card rairty structure after the dragon master magia.
I'm old and want reprints of old classic cards. Modern sets don't do it for me. I don't play competitively. The recent retro pack reprint was exactly what I want.
they should bring back ultimate rares in normal sets
They are releasing another set in January where there will be a card only available as qcr again...
At the end of the day, it's a sales issue. The community is shrinking, there's less volume of cards being moved and vendors need to make a profit to stay afload and stock the game. So key cards are short printed, to keep their value up and sell packs we honestly wouldn't buy unless those cards were chaser cards in the set, meaning the remaining players have to buy more to make for the deficit.
@@redhalfdragon Which is a negative feedback loop that ends with the death of the game. This is why the tcg model is horrible, just make good cards easier to get so product is appealing and you keep a thriving community that's also easier to get in without a huge paywall.
But no, I'm sure the mega geniuses at Konami of America know better.
It's shrinking so much they're setting event records. And not just YGO ones, but ALL TIME CARD TOURNAMENT ATTENDANCE RECORDS.
No other card game in the world has had more people show up to a tournament than some of the recent YGO ones and you think it's somehow shrinking.
@RunicSigils the OGC is indeed very popular and getting sky high numbers. They also have a much better products availability than the TCG, do not suffer from most of our rarity bump that are causing us so many issues I highlighted and have access to the meta as it comes out instead of 2-6 months later.
While I admit I did not specify I meant the TCG is currently bleeding players, what I said apply to the TCG and it's plain to see as many locals across NA and EU have stopped hosting events since last summer, EU had stopped receiving certain products for Speed Duels entirely (a product aimed as an entry-level) and most of the latest NA and EU tournaments have had lower and lower attendance as well as less coverage overall as the year went on.
@RunicSigils yes in the ocg. A different entity to the tcg with vastly different product to us.
The tcg is quite literally bleeding. Nats that used to pull 1k people are pulling 30% of that.
Locals that used to be 4-5 rounds consistently are now maybe 3 at a push.
I'll buy a tin when it's like Legendary collection Joey/Yugi, I only play GOAT
Komoney adding older cards in the new tins, was a terrible idea. They are obviously trying to attract the older ex yugioh player's, into purchasing the tins. It's a sad and desperate business move.
imagen a reprint set where the rare cards are common and the commons are rare.
If someones argues that they loose their investment if s:p is to easy to get, thats their problem they know how yugi handles reprints and they should know that someday the card will be easy accesable it always comes with that. Sry for all people that this happened to but not for those playing the game for years
All i can say is that there is no way these tins are worse than the 2 player starter deck, just because that one wasn't a complete enough system to introduce players to yugioh, like only synchro and xyz? where is the start decks for fusions and links, or rituals and pendulums , nor are they competitive enough, like a structure deck can be.
I NEVER buy sealed product. It's just not worth it. Unless there's a lot of cards you need in that product, so you have a high chance of getting something you need, so fair enough. I always buy singles. So i don't have to gamble money to get a one of in a 400 card pool. And if something still costs too much like S:P right now, i just wait until the price drops. I play casual anyways so i don't care about anything besides having fun with my friends.
Well have to wait till next year for sp to be accessible then it will get banned like baron and apo
WE ARE GOING TO PULL THE BEST CARDS IN THE SET! And KONAMI IS GOING TO PAY FOR IT! - Yugi Tuber
To play meta in the tcg in the USA is way too expensive. Let's say I have every card printed up until INFO and I just need cards from INFO and ROTA I need to spend somewhere near 800 dollars to have the meta deck and that is kind of lowballing it. They need to change the printing system of the original sets!!
Since the 25th century sets could be considered a celebration of Yugioh, I don't mind the amount of cards being printed. What I do mind though is what got reprinted. A lot of cards feel out of place or even completely unneccessary. Like the Gem Knight cards. Gem-Knight Quartz, Gem-Knight Lady Rose Diamond and Scatterfusion already got 25th century prints. Don't get me wrong, I like Gem Knights. However, I don't see any reason to reprint those cards over others.
Another problem are the QCR cards. The design philosophy was supposed to be "iconic" cards. What the heck is iconic about Coach King Giantrainer, Gilti-Gearfried the Magical Steel Knight or Predaplant Ophrys Scorpio? The QCR prints could have provided accessability to some of the older, far more iconic and cool cards but no...
Scorpio is iconic in the sense that it bridged decks into brilliant fusion and is for the retro formats that exist post MACR as a cool boost.
Giant trainer was basically for eons the best rank 8 for deep draw decks like dark world
@@Fencer_Nowa Well, the term iconic surely is extremely vaguely defined. What does make a card iconic?
Is is it's design? It's apperance and usage in the anime? It's usage and/or impact on the competative scene?
Blue Eyes White Dragon oviously is a perfect example for an iconic card. It's basically fits every possible definition for an iconic card. Also the Gadgets fit quite nicely.
Since I don't know as much about the competative history and only recently returned, I am not as familiar with the impact of more recent cards. However, Predaplant Ophrys Scorpio in my opinion doesn't realy fit the definition of an iconic card. If it bridged the gap for Brilliant Fusion, shouldn't Brilliant Fusion be a far more iconic card, since it also has been used in many other decks and has seen far more competative play?
I don't know if the stats of Yugiohtopdecks isn't a representation of the competative scene but from the stats shwon Coach King Giantrainer also isn't realy used. Even Link Spider has seen far more use.
Other cards that are far more iconic is stuff like Dark Armed Dragon, Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End, Yata Garasu, Witch of the Black Forest, Pot of Greed, Elemental Heores, etc. Sure, those are older cards but the more cards there are the lower the chance for them of becoming iconic.
What about Gem Knight Garnet? It coined an entire term after itself.
For more recent examples: What about True Draco? Kaijus? Dangers? Nekroz? Number S39: Utopia the Lightning? Relinquished?
Don't get me wrong, these cards may have had their impact on Yugioh. However, when it comes to their importance they aren't realy something people will associate with Yugioh. These cards would have been more fitting for the next 25th anniversary set.
@GermanGlitchhunter the tins are the competitive reprint staple set of the year and as they lean more into time wizard you're going to want to give them the actual competitive core engines of decks that shaped the game while being usable in advanced and cards like brilliant fusion already have a chase rarity on ultimate rare for people who care.
dad also has a chase rairty in being a ghost multiple times already.
Ced would be more wasted because it's unplayable now because it's effect got gutted and anyone who cares about its legacy is going to be after IOC 1STs
@@Fencer_Nowa Again, the issue is the presentation. "Showcasing iconic monsters and imagery from decades of Dueling". Du you think peoples first, second, third or even fiftieth association with the competative scene of Yugioh will be any of the cards I was talking about?
It would be perfectly fine to meinly focus on cards from the competative scene. But then the question arises, why not reprint far more iconic cards, like all the stuff I already mentioned?
Also, it can't be about cards already having chase rarities. Else, what about Blue Eyes White Dragon? It already has Many different chase rarities. It already has a QCR print. Also Ghost Rare. Secret Rare. Secret Rare. Also it has many different artworks and some rare promos.
Same goes for Dark Magician Girl.
Neither can it be solely about competative cards. You could remove Blue Eyes White Dragon, which again has a a few dozens of prints, if you include eastern prints it's more then 100. He doesn't need a reprint. Neither does Dark Magician Girl, since she already has a couple dozen reprints and isn't realy used in competative.
Neither can it be about playability, since the Gadgets aren't realy played anymore. Neither are the forbidden cards despite their new Millenium archetype.
Some of these cards would be much better off in a different reprint set. Like maybe the upcoming Bonanza set. Also It feels weird to have a single card from an entire archetype getting a chase reprint.
get rid of that Quarter Century Rarity, please...or only do it for the top rare (UR and/or Secret) of the set only and for cards with actual value...
Bring back the promo packs
My issue with the tins is that they didn’t do full reprints for archetypes that were waiting for them. I’ve been waiting a year for vanquish soul reprints only for half of the archetype to get reprinted. This then creates another issue because key pieces that weren’t reprinted like Mad Love and Caesar Valius are getting scalped to make the reprints seemingly not matter for the decks price. It’s a shame because last year we got full reprints for ninjas and runick. I just wish Konami was consistent in their reprint strategy
Yes! I just want to be able to play!
Bonfire is that card
I don't care anymore. Let them just do whatever they want with their products at this point.
My question is this. Why must they always make their products worse and worse and worse?
Rarity Collection - great! Rarity Collection 2 - worse
Mega tins - great! Current tins - far worse
maze sets - great! Last one - not as good
And I don't to hear about Japan. OCG is nothing like this. Why is Konami of America consistently making the products we buy worse? Which product have they made better over the years? Which product was better in the TCG compared to the OCG?
Because Japan is literally thier primary audience.
They bend over backwards to keep those players Because of how competitive it is to hold players.
In the west for the past 20 years only 2 games survived as long as yugioh being magic and pokemon and at this point it's just tcg death spiral as they refuse to adapt or change to acknowledge the fact the other tcgs have presence in the east and West.
Smaller pool or make it cheaper
Good Video Bro!
I said I hated them so people would stay away from em 😈😈😈😈