@@dsdssdsddssdsdsd5094 Not quite. It means "using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive." Basically muscle memory.
I’ve tried jumping into yugioh at my local LGS last year. I’ve stuck with it for about 2 months. The player base (in my experience) was very rude to me and my new friends. Not saying everyone is like that, but that’s my experience and why I won’t play
It varies from store to store, but sadly lots of stores are like that. We are aiming to change the culture in my country, don't give up, try out a few more stores, hopefully there is a good one.
Believe me, I get it. Yugioh basically conditions anyone who participates in this hobby today to become an expert if they want to have any sort of enjoyment. The reason for that is because there really _ISN'T_ much of a casual scene anymore aside from locals, and your mileage will vary if you play at an LGS. Konami has made zero effort to either lower the power ceiling of the game or introduce new ways to play with the current card pool. There's only the standard format, and powercreep alongside reckless design ethos has pigeon holed this game into a very specific type of experience that appeals to only a very narrow scope of people: sweats and try hards. As such, it isn't a surprise that people almost exclusively play this game in a card shop environment if they're playing in person, because its where the majority of this type of player will be found. For as much as "playground Yugioh" gets shunned in this community, it was once the lifeblood of this game. You need both the kitchen table and the competitive scene for a game like this to survive. Locals isn't a replacement for kitchen table Yugioh, its still debatably part of the competitive sphere. I get people are busy with their lives, but that hardly stops people in the MTG community from organizing game nights because Magic is fun. I can't really attest for this myself since I only started playing in 2021 and I personally find this game incredibly fun despite its problems. I would form my own game nights if I could find enough people in my area who actually play this game. However, I do have IRL friends who used to play this game growing up and they've all quit for one reason or another, and they both seemed shocked to discover that I had developed a hyper-fixation for this game. I have to wonder why that is. This is something that the homebrew format scene is going to have to rectify eventually if this game wants to draw in new blood. Its just incredibly fortunate that the Chronicles anime is coming out soon. That provides me a window to get my project out the door and get new eyes on Domain Format, Junior Format, and my own Ruleslayer Format.
I agree on new players' experience, the game is quite hardcore, it's more enjoyable in a Rush Format and Time Wizard or online with a friend that knows stuffs to pass the rough introduction stage.
@@four-en-tee I personally love Yugioh, to me the only real complaint for the game is that tier 1 decks are just way too expensive. I've tried other card games and for me the pace feels way too slow it literally puts me to sleep. The only other card games I even mildly look at is one piece not cuz of the gameplay because I simply like the IP but I know one thing I am never giving a dime to WOTC for personal reasons.
I played yugioh master duel and used a starter deck and absolutely got destroyed on my first match. My opponent was using a spyral deck and i stood there for 3 minutes as my opponent was special summoning cards left and right. Turns out i have to relearn everything for a week to actually have fun
I never liked how Konami handled structure decks especially for the online clients because they make the deck so unoptimized for the sake of making it cheap and accessible when it should be optimized to help players start with something decent
No thank you. I tried so many times, i love yugioh cards artstyles and archetypes but a tcg where the main goal is to dissrupt your opponent to oblivion is... not fun. I don't really care about winning but i care about being able to use my cards. Yes, i learned how to play around handtraps but it absolutely feels terrible to be limited to few decks to have a chance to just "play"your cards. I play a lot of tcg, i want to love yugioh but it ended up being the tcg i hate the most... Also i still have a decent chance to win even if my decks is bad or rogue when i'm playing i don't know Vanguard, digimon or shadowverse for example. I can't really do that in yugioh.
I love this! I recently got back into Yu-Gi-Oh after taking a hiatus for the last few years - I was in the crowd that got into the game out of nostalgia but got deterred by the complexity... Then I got into Magic, and after seeing you guys recently in some Tolarian videos I got encouraged to give Yu-Gi-Oh another shot. I'm now proud to say I've overhauled my Rokkets deck and am currently tooling some Traptrix and Crystal Beasts precons to get back into things. Keep inspiring people guys, you're great!
My fun fact for yugioh is every "Book of" spell card in the art work shows you the book itself face down. Because thats what the card does (you can confirm this by looking at the spine position of the books)
I definitely agree with your point about deck building. I was able to get my friend who plays Mahjong interested in the game because of Tenpai Dragons. Yugioh really has an archetype for everyone, flavor-wise.
@@allanjaybondoc6234 that's why I said "flavor-wise" 😂 I feel your pain though, I've loved Archfiends since back in 2005. They were WAY too cool to be that ass 🤣
That’s why I’m interested in getting different decks, but gameplay-wise I’m absolutely not interested in playing modern format so I’m not actually going to be playing with the decks.
I love the creativity in yugioh, ive been playing a rank 4 turtles deck for a few months now and its really fun and different. I know im never gonna run into one like it
Great video, love it. A lot of people don't understand the benefits in real life when you play Yu-Gi-Oh. It's like when older people say they play saduko, crosswords or play chess to keep their mind sharp. The problem solving and ability to adapt and overcome problems in Yu-Gi-Oh is very good and not fast past either to where things can be overwhelming like other games. Even if you prefer digital learning for things, Yu-Gi-Oh masterduel has the solo mode to teach about Yu-Gi-Oh even if you have never played it.
I haven't played in at least 15 years but all of a sudden I got the itch again. I have no idea where to start tho. All my cards are as old as the pyramids 🤣 🤣
I recommend tenyi swordsoul it's about to get some support soon and it's combo lines are very simple. Plus it's cheap. Tho if you want to be more competitive for cheap I recommend goblin biker, fire king, or blue eyes when the structure deck releases.
@@spicymemes7458 Agreed, Duelist Alliance was in some ways both the best & the worst thing to happen to the game, cuz they did support every other prior summoning method instead of just the hot new thing, but then that hot new thing pendulums whent too far in their design, if they never made the sepparate pendulum zones & just let pendulums go in the GY instead of this face up extradeck lunacy, pendulums would have been better as a whole & the game would have never experienced the ripple effect of its arrival
Is there a way of playing older styles of yugioh with new card pools? With a complexity similar to GOAT / Edison etc but with new cards? If not, do you think Konami would support older 'eras' more if they printed new cards for them?
Well there is "speed duel", its a mini format that includes DM & GX cards + some modern support splashed in, its honestly pretty fun & i recomend getting one of the boxes that contain 8 decks to try it out, theres 3 DM & 4 GX boxes. sadly they stopped suporting it at the end of last year, but its still fun
I came back playing Yu-Gi-Oh just recently. Because my favorite Xyz (Number C101: Silent Honor DARK) got amazing brand new support by the "Shark" archetype and 2 Xyz summon card's who legit makes you not needing rank up cards anymore to just summon this beast. So I'm VERY excited to enjoy the brand new boost this deck got 🤩
The longevity is what probably has kept me in the game for so long. Regardless of whether it's good or not, you *can* play your childhood deck or some modern spin on it if you really want to. You can play the meta threat of 2015 today, or some weird combination that hasn't quite ever seen any play
Retrains of old cards and legacy support is probably my fav thing about this game that keeps me playing. It is such a thrill to relive iconic anime moments when Konami bothers to grace us with updated old decks like Blue-eyes and Cyber Dragon.
I may have only been half listening since I'm working, but I heard it'll split the cost of gas if I pick up this game. Time to invest in this deck that looks pretty simple called fiendsmith ryzeal
I would honestly love yugioh way more if i could do more tag duels with my buddy on a game similar to master duel. But your videos help keep the love strong with the great content
All 25 reasons are negated by price of meta staples :P Also, this is just me, but I much prefer the art style of the DM era over modern yugioh card artwork.
I remember as a kid seeing RUclipsrs open booster boxes and cases of them was mind blowing, I’ve just got back in to collecting them, I’ve opened like 5+ booster boxes this week… My goal for the game is to just keep up with the meta by watching videos, and collecting cards that I think look cool in my binder regardless of their meta,banned, or trash.
Anyone else have a deck they always update when new support comes out or when new staples are released? I’m always updating my Hero deck but I never play at locals. 💀💀💀
People also say that modern yugioh Is bad and just to hard but also most cars shops I’ve been to have goat formate some days modern some days and a lot of more formates
Yeah it’s just not the same game now with pendulums and links though, pendulums fundamentally changed the game and then they had to make links to counter all the madness. I was never a fan of either em’. I remember playing against pendulums and if you were using a normal deck you’d just get blown out of the water.
All I've ever wanted since the first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! dropped on Kids WB 20 years ago is Yugi's purple Dark Magician. Three copies of them. That's ALL I want tbh
The biggest hinderance has to be card knowledge. My opponent is not having fun when i ask for every cards effects and to learn the amount of decks people might be playing at locals is just insane. I was about to start again, bought ev erything, got my voiceless deck ready to go and then I figured, no I am not going to learn what 250 different decks do that are being played right now.
Well, i one day wanted to start to collect yugioh cards, but in South america the pack cost like, 7 - 10 dolars, and in usa its 2 yo 4 dolars each one... and there isn't like an oficial place to buy them, most of the time are resellers, get very expensive only have 1 deck of random stuff , soo, that's why y only play the Yugioh duel links version (i don't like PVE so i don't play the Master duel version).
If people look down on you or make fun of you for trying to learn anything whether that be yugioh or anything else that's on them if you want to learn the game pick a deck with cards you like that is at least decent and watch a combo tutorial for it that's how I learned.
yea locals can be a bit hit or miss. there's a lot of friendly people at locals but there are also a few of those giga nerds that really don't know how to be polite. just try to sus out the general attitude of your locals by going there and talking to a few people. you don't even have to play
I would play it IF more old school game where available. I can’t stand the current game… 10000 summons.. link link link… synchro synchro.. every monster has an effect. Negate negate… plus waiting 30 min for the opponents turn. It is no fun. :/
2021: 25th Anniversary of the manga 2024: 25th Anniversary of the card game 2025: 25th Anniversary of the Duel Monsters anime Wouldn’t be surprised if they decide to keep the Quarter Century promotion going for the anime’s anniversary
I’ve play Yugioh for years and I can say I have enjoyed Edison more than almost every other format I’ve played. It’s a perfect power level with a little bit of sackiness. I would die if you did some Edison game play
So, as a kid, my favorite monster was always Metalzoa. Don't ask me why, I don't know. Even back then I understood it was total garbage, and I just recently learned that it got a re-train in the OCG. I'm really excited for it (along with the new metalmorph cards) to come to Master Duel, I think I'll try it out then! Hope it's soon!
Honestly if the Yu-Gi-Oh community was less concerned about playing the very best deck at all times and actually played lower power decks, it would be a lot more accessible
Can you make a longer video explaining/teaching us how to read and understand modern card disruption? I'm used to a couple sentences, not the current paragraphs
Hope konami makes some other country that buying both tcg and ocg can be mix and use it together on official tournament bcoz they are both original cards. Okay just make a rules that what kind of ruling will be use like ocg rules but the cards can be mix up like ocg and tcg cards.
As he said in February the blue eyes structure deck is gonna come out. This will make the deck pretty good even at like regional and ycs level tournaments but as of right now no, also I think cyber dragon is also going to get support in an upcoming pack that will make it pretty decent.
I couldn’t imagine a harder thing to learn than being a complete newbie to Yu-gi-oh and trying to understand why I can’t summon a level 5 card with 1800 attack and 2000 defence on turn 1 but my opponent could synchro-summon 6,000 Sliffer’s and 3,000 blue eyes white dragons and fused blah blah you get where I’m going, to mechanics are too developed and confusing, if you didn’t grow up playing it, it’s unlikely you’ll gain mastery now. A new game needs to take its place, yugioh took Pokémon’s place for novice card playing kids and now something new that hasn’t had a decade of power creep and ridiculous mechanics added in needs to come for the next generation of TCG players. IMO.
I want to play so bad but I’m scared to get back into it because I feel like I’m so far behind. Been begging my Wife to to learn how to duel with me so we can play but she doesn’t want to play 😅 I dont even know where to start.
I feel like an outsider much of the time these days. I don't bother playing at a shop with randoms and now only really play with my bf. I have never been interested in competitive playing, so I guess its the reason I don't understand some of the things people say, mainly whatever formats are. I just thought it mean't the different ways of playing the game as shown in the show or something. Many of my decks are inspired by the show too, and I usually don't use more than one copy of a card because I personally think its boring and lazy. Though some of my more recent decks felt like it was kind of necessary, but its still uncommon. I honestly can't stand to watch games sometimes because of the way decks are made with the amount of duplicates. I end up really bored pretty quickly because all I see is one tactic being repeated over and over, or its worse and its otk decks which are probably one of the worst things people can make, as you as well just play on your own. Generally speaking, I really don't know where I stand in the community anymore.
is it a problem if i come with a full op deck of knock off cards from aliexpress but they only look funky but actually function the same as original cards
I mean, if they find out they're fake, they'd disqualify you from any official tournament you try to enter those in, but just for unofficial stuff, that's up to you.
In casual non-tournament games is ok I don't know who would actually care. I sometimes use fake cards or proxys for trying new strategies and never had a problem
Those are all valid points and I endorse every last one of them. Also : go read the original manga, it's a guenine, still very solid, incredibly soulfull battle shonen and while not an accurate depiction of how the modern game play, the true and tested beginning point for the whole franchise, easing you into it with the added benefit of really getting you in the mood for passionate games. Sadly, as much as I believe in everything said in this video, I find myself in a position where my locals are very meta-oriented and competitive. None of the decks that interest me have any (worthy) structure deck (yet). while I crave to go physical, I each time face the choice of going for a pet deck for a reasonnable price but zero chance of winning (I'm not that bothered by losing but I'd like to put up *some* fight), or a cardmarket shopping cart that could buy a VR headset (just for the base list, without even thinking of changing/optimizing it after that). So, for now... waiting is the name of the game
I’m lucky enough to have a OTS where the players aren’t mega sheep. Not all of them anyways, when they do pull out they’re meta decks I pull out my anti meta deck. Otherwise I mostly go with Tri-Brigade fire king
It's fun, when casual. Never cared that much about competitive scene, I prefer to encounter unique decks in casual duels. Yu-Gi-Oh is WAY too vast just to be restricted to competitive format.
1. Sure getting started might be cheap, but keeping up isn’t. 2. I disagree, it is not an intuitive game. 3. There are many decks yes, but there’s only like 5 really good ones which your deck can’t compete against. 4. I don’t know if the competitive scene is thriving atm. I would say it’s kind of slowing down. 5. Older cards are playable, yes. But don’t play them unless you want to get stomped or just messing around with your friends.
It's a "No" from me. I'm an old-school Yu-Gi-Oh player (played when Dark World weren't even an archetype), got into some nationals in the "good ol' " Invoked days. Even then, I somewhat thought the game got to a point where it was too much with the handtraps, but HOLY HELL, it's a nightmare nowadays. The game is way too fast paced for its own good. The hand trap nightmare train keeps on rolling. The meta creep has literally never been stronger, you play a tier 2/3 deck at locals - you get trashed. Not to mention the meta changes far too frequently to even make a difference. Tier 0 gets hit much more frequently, new things keep coming up every two weeks, it's a nightmare for your wallet. The game is just not fun anymore, and NOT worth the investment.
February 18, 2023: Rarity Collection Quarter Century Edition introduces Quarter Century Secret rare in the OCG April 21, 2023: Quarter Century Secret Rare is previewed in the TCG as promo cards in Legendary Collection: 25th Anniversary Edition April 22, 2023: duelist nexus, the first core set of series 12, the quarter century era, is released in the OCG June 23, 2023: Battles of Legend: Monstrous Revenge introduces Quarter century secret rares in the TCG February 4, 2024: the 25th anniversary of the card game January 25, 2025: alliance insight, the last core set of series 12, the quarter century era, is released in the OCG February 6, 2025: the 26th anniversary of the card game
After the 2 Rariry collections and 2 Quarter-Century sets people need to stop complaining about reprints? What card is left you can’t get for dirt cheap other than a handful of cards from the current mainline set.
*The year is 2036. Yu-Gi-Oh is celebrating the 13th year of its 25th anniversary.*
No, I don't want that! Konami celebrating another anniversary...! I want Konami to celebrate the 25th anniversary for 10 years at least!
I mean "QCR" just rolls off the tongue
😂
I’m coming from the year 3000 we have QCR specials and we have had it for 10 years
HUH!🤔👀
"Yu-gi-oh is a very intuitive Game."
I play Yu-gi-oh since 20 Years and i am still learning new Things.
Isn't intuitive meaning the you don't need learn things and comes natural?
Trueee
that is irrelevant. skill floor vs skill ceiling.
@@dsdssdsddssdsdsd5094 Not quite. It means "using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive." Basically muscle memory.
The way paul said "blue eyes white dragon structure deck" was like dangling keys
The comments are 🔥 today
Everybody loves jiggle keys
and it's working
Why you should try Yugioh --
So I have more duelists to play neo spacians against.
I’ve tried jumping into yugioh at my local LGS last year. I’ve stuck with it for about 2 months. The player base (in my experience) was very rude to me and my new friends. Not saying everyone is like that, but that’s my experience and why I won’t play
It varies from store to store, but sadly lots of stores are like that. We are aiming to change the culture in my country, don't give up, try out a few more stores, hopefully there is a good one.
my local game shop is pretty chill. we banter a lot and play other card games/video games
Believe me, I get it.
Yugioh basically conditions anyone who participates in this hobby today to become an expert if they want to have any sort of enjoyment. The reason for that is because there really _ISN'T_ much of a casual scene anymore aside from locals, and your mileage will vary if you play at an LGS. Konami has made zero effort to either lower the power ceiling of the game or introduce new ways to play with the current card pool. There's only the standard format, and powercreep alongside reckless design ethos has pigeon holed this game into a very specific type of experience that appeals to only a very narrow scope of people: sweats and try hards. As such, it isn't a surprise that people almost exclusively play this game in a card shop environment if they're playing in person, because its where the majority of this type of player will be found.
For as much as "playground Yugioh" gets shunned in this community, it was once the lifeblood of this game. You need both the kitchen table and the competitive scene for a game like this to survive. Locals isn't a replacement for kitchen table Yugioh, its still debatably part of the competitive sphere.
I get people are busy with their lives, but that hardly stops people in the MTG community from organizing game nights because Magic is fun. I can't really attest for this myself since I only started playing in 2021 and I personally find this game incredibly fun despite its problems. I would form my own game nights if I could find enough people in my area who actually play this game. However, I do have IRL friends who used to play this game growing up and they've all quit for one reason or another, and they both seemed shocked to discover that I had developed a hyper-fixation for this game. I have to wonder why that is.
This is something that the homebrew format scene is going to have to rectify eventually if this game wants to draw in new blood. Its just incredibly fortunate that the Chronicles anime is coming out soon. That provides me a window to get my project out the door and get new eyes on Domain Format, Junior Format, and my own Ruleslayer Format.
I agree on new players' experience, the game is quite hardcore, it's more enjoyable in a Rush Format and Time Wizard or online with a friend that knows stuffs to pass the rough introduction stage.
@@four-en-tee I personally love Yugioh, to me the only real complaint for the game is that tier 1 decks are just way too expensive. I've tried other card games and for me the pace feels way too slow it literally puts me to sleep. The only other card games I even mildly look at is one piece not cuz of the gameplay because I simply like the IP but I know one thing I am never giving a dime to WOTC for personal reasons.
You know what, fine. If you insist, I’ll get extremely addicted to yugioh again
Same. lol
@@Bodhi.78 not without your HAND TRAPS PLEASE USE HANDTRAPS
@@OfficialRUclipsOfKFC don’t worry, got it covered ;)
I played yugioh master duel and used a starter deck and absolutely got destroyed on my first match. My opponent was using a spyral deck and i stood there for 3 minutes as my opponent was special summoning cards left and right. Turns out i have to relearn everything for a week to actually have fun
I never liked how Konami handled structure decks especially for the online clients because they make the deck so unoptimized for the sake of making it cheap and accessible when it should be optimized to help players start with something decent
if you want tips I recommend buying the dragonmaid deck. it's the starter deck with the simplest gameplay but also puts up good boards
No thank you.
I tried so many times, i love yugioh cards artstyles and archetypes but a tcg where the main goal is to dissrupt your opponent to oblivion is... not fun.
I don't really care about winning but i care about being able to use my cards.
Yes, i learned how to play around handtraps but it absolutely feels terrible to be limited to few decks to have a chance to just "play"your cards.
I play a lot of tcg, i want to love yugioh but it ended up being the tcg i hate the most...
Also i still have a decent chance to win even if my decks is bad or rogue when i'm playing i don't know Vanguard, digimon or shadowverse for example. I can't really do that in yugioh.
I love this! I recently got back into Yu-Gi-Oh after taking a hiatus for the last few years - I was in the crowd that got into the game out of nostalgia but got deterred by the complexity... Then I got into Magic, and after seeing you guys recently in some Tolarian videos I got encouraged to give Yu-Gi-Oh another shot. I'm now proud to say I've overhauled my Rokkets deck and am currently tooling some Traptrix and Crystal Beasts precons to get back into things. Keep inspiring people guys, you're great!
Even though i don’t play as much anymore i’ll never stop loving the game
Reason 26.
You hate having spare money and want to spend it.
"oh no my money is falling out of my pocket? What do I do with this disposable income??" 😅
I play very casual Yu-Gi-Oh. Often when some people can't make it to a D&D/game night, we pull our decks out and play.
Great way to play
My fun fact for yugioh is every "Book of" spell card in the art work shows you the book itself face down. Because thats what the card does (you can confirm this by looking at the spine position of the books)
Isn't that how Japanese books are bound and printed, though, since it's a TB-RL language?
@@lugiae yep
@@lugiae why are other books printed on cards shown the other way?
I definitely agree with your point about deck building. I was able to get my friend who plays Mahjong interested in the game because of Tenpai Dragons. Yugioh really has an archetype for everyone, flavor-wise.
i like chess but the archfiend / pandemonium deck was cheeks. lol. but i do love this game non the less
@@allanjaybondoc6234 that's why I said "flavor-wise" 😂
I feel your pain though, I've loved Archfiends since back in 2005. They were WAY too cool to be that ass 🤣
@@DarkAuraLord yah..i mean we got darkworld so it is almost the same thing lol
That’s why I’m interested in getting different decks, but gameplay-wise I’m absolutely not interested in playing modern format so I’m not actually going to be playing with the decks.
Still waiting on that Dragon Master Magia reprint lol
I love the creativity in yugioh, ive been playing a rank 4 turtles deck for a few months now and its really fun and different. I know im never gonna run into one like it
Great video, love it. A lot of people don't understand the benefits in real life when you play Yu-Gi-Oh. It's like when older people say they play saduko, crosswords or play chess to keep their mind sharp. The problem solving and ability to adapt and overcome problems in Yu-Gi-Oh is very good and not fast past either to where things can be overwhelming like other games. Even if you prefer digital learning for things, Yu-Gi-Oh masterduel has the solo mode to teach about Yu-Gi-Oh even if you have never played it.
Made me better at math
Speaking of cheap decks, I picked up the appliancer cards for very little money. Yugioh definitely has a lot of cool archetypes.
I haven't played in at least 15 years but all of a sudden I got the itch again. I have no idea where to start tho. All my cards are as old as the pyramids 🤣 🤣
I recommend tenyi swordsoul it's about to get some support soon and it's combo lines are very simple. Plus it's cheap. Tho if you want to be more competitive for cheap I recommend goblin biker, fire king, or blue eyes when the structure deck releases.
1 reasons why i cant
I have no friends 😭
Make some at your local card shop! There's also other options like master duel where you can play against randoms online
@@turtletoyl i dont think i have any local card shops tbh
@@ChargedJolteon2 I know I don't. Thankfully MD saves me a 4 hour drive to the nearest one.
Hey bro if you’re here you’re among friends keep your head up
Master dule
I'd love to play Yugioh.
Specifically only using cards released before 2014.
Then play at old format call eddy's
@@peteryanes3413 Edison is a bit too old, there's cards between 2010 and 2013 that are solid without being broken.
Here's a take. Duelist Alliance actually caused irreparable harm to game design
@@spicymemes7458 Agreed, Duelist Alliance was in some ways both the best & the worst thing to happen to the game, cuz they did support every other prior summoning method instead of just the hot new thing,
but then that hot new thing pendulums whent too far in their design, if they never made the sepparate pendulum zones & just let pendulums go in the GY instead of this face up extradeck lunacy, pendulums would have been better as a whole & the game would have never experienced the ripple effect of its arrival
@@vilelucaI believe you wanna play hat format then
Yugioh Zeal got me into the game in 2020 and I made deck around utopia support.
Is there a way of playing older styles of yugioh with new card pools? With a complexity similar to GOAT / Edison etc but with new cards?
If not, do you think Konami would support older 'eras' more if they printed new cards for them?
Well there is "speed duel", its a mini format that includes DM & GX cards + some modern support splashed in, its honestly pretty fun & i recomend getting one of the boxes that contain 8 decks to try it out, theres 3 DM & 4 GX boxes.
sadly they stopped suporting it at the end of last year, but its still fun
@advisingassable yeah its a shame they aren't supporting it any more
@@advisingassablethey could be making rush duels. Hopefully
Can I build a thematic deck based around Injection Fairy Lily?
I came back playing Yu-Gi-Oh just recently. Because my favorite Xyz (Number C101: Silent Honor DARK) got amazing brand new support by the "Shark" archetype and 2 Xyz summon card's who legit makes you not needing rank up cards anymore to just summon this beast. So I'm VERY excited to enjoy the brand new boost this deck got 🤩
The longevity is what probably has kept me in the game for so long. Regardless of whether it's good or not, you *can* play your childhood deck or some modern spin on it if you really want to. You can play the meta threat of 2015 today, or some weird combination that hasn't quite ever seen any play
Retrains of old cards and legacy support is probably my fav thing about this game that keeps me playing. It is such a thrill to relive iconic anime moments when Konami bothers to grace us with updated old decks like Blue-eyes and Cyber Dragon.
I may have only been half listening since I'm working, but I heard it'll split the cost of gas if I pick up this game. Time to invest in this deck that looks pretty simple called fiendsmith ryzeal
40:43 yugioh has been a really awesome game that helped me make and keep friendships
Is that the tag force 4 ost in the background?
Definitely one of the Tag Force games
I would honestly love yugioh way more if i could do more tag duels with my buddy on a game similar to master duel. But your videos help keep the love strong with the great content
Every turn I feel a shaking in my hole body I know my opponent has a card that can beat my board and I just pray that my opponent dose not draw it
7:44 I feel the same way about what you said about problem solving
All 25 reasons are negated by price of meta staples :P Also, this is just me, but I much prefer the art style of the DM era over modern yugioh card artwork.
You can play Masterduel instead for free. Which was one of the 25.
Unfortunately, for older and more casual players like me, there are 2025 reasons why you should not play Yugioh.
I feel like no card store near me even has yugioh anymore lol
I remember as a kid seeing RUclipsrs open booster boxes and cases of them was mind blowing, I’ve just got back in to collecting them, I’ve opened like 5+ booster boxes this week…
My goal for the game is to just keep up with the meta by watching videos, and collecting cards that I think look cool in my binder regardless of their meta,banned, or trash.
I saw many decks for a lot and am now like wow I have many decks worth under 30$ and thay are kinda playable
Anyone else have a deck they always update when new support comes out or when new staples are released? I’m always updating my Hero deck but I never play at locals. 💀💀💀
Number 26: Ryzeal Detonator 😎
People also say that modern yugioh Is bad and just to hard but also most cars shops I’ve been to have goat formate some days modern some days and a lot of more formates
Yeah it’s just not the same game now with pendulums and links though, pendulums fundamentally changed the game and then they had to make links to counter all the madness. I was never a fan of either em’. I remember playing against pendulums and if you were using a normal deck you’d just get blown out of the water.
I hated pends the only pend deck I really ever liked was Aybss actors
All I've ever wanted since the first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! dropped on Kids WB 20 years ago is Yugi's purple Dark Magician. Three copies of them. That's ALL I want tbh
The biggest hinderance has to be card knowledge. My opponent is not having fun when i ask for every cards effects and to learn the amount of decks people might be playing at locals is just insane. I was about to start again, bought ev erything, got my voiceless deck ready to go and then I figured, no I am not going to learn what 250 different decks do that are being played right now.
Well, i one day wanted to start to collect yugioh cards, but in South america the pack cost like, 7 - 10 dolars, and in usa its 2 yo 4 dolars each one... and there isn't like an oficial place to buy them, most of the time are resellers, get very expensive only have 1 deck of random stuff , soo, that's why y only play the Yugioh duel links version (i don't like PVE so i don't play the Master duel version).
What are some good decks that are coming out in master duel that I can save my gems for?
My favorite deck is dark world because it dose not have a strategy so I get to make up what I do to win
I would like to play against other people but i feel they will look down on me for being a noob like they do in the anime 😂
You’d be surprised:)
If people look down on you or make fun of you for trying to learn anything whether that be yugioh or anything else that's on them if you want to learn the game pick a deck with cards you like that is at least decent and watch a combo tutorial for it that's how I learned.
yea locals can be a bit hit or miss. there's a lot of friendly people at locals but there are also a few of those giga nerds that really don't know how to be polite. just try to sus out the general attitude of your locals by going there and talking to a few people. you don't even have to play
Team APS inspired me to get back into Yugioh a couple of years ago. Haven't looked back.
I would play it IF more old school game where available. I can’t stand the current game… 10000 summons.. link link link… synchro synchro.. every monster has an effect. Negate negate… plus waiting 30 min for the opponents turn. It is no fun. :/
2021: 25th Anniversary of the manga
2024: 25th Anniversary of the card game
2025: 25th Anniversary of the Duel Monsters anime
Wouldn’t be surprised if they decide to keep the Quarter Century promotion going for the anime’s anniversary
They are for at least three sets.
Dang Konami must not have been happy with your midcore video😂😅
I’ve play Yugioh for years and I can say I have enjoyed Edison more than almost every other format I’ve played. It’s a perfect power level with a little bit of sackiness. I would die if you did some Edison game play
So, as a kid, my favorite monster was always Metalzoa. Don't ask me why, I don't know. Even back then I understood it was total garbage, and I just recently learned that it got a re-train in the OCG. I'm really excited for it (along with the new metalmorph cards) to come to Master Duel, I think I'll try it out then! Hope it's soon!
Come here in OCG we have 10 dollar decks with a complete core with competitive staples
Edison and tengu got me back in the game. I have a full maliss deck but I don't play modern
Honestly if the Yu-Gi-Oh community was less concerned about playing the very best deck at all times and actually played lower power decks, it would be a lot more accessible
I love Yu-Gi-Oh! so much
Can you make a longer video explaining/teaching us how to read and understand modern card disruption? I'm used to a couple sentences, not the current paragraphs
Nah bro, the game is not the same BUT people can play SPEED DUELS 😭☝️
Hope konami makes some other country that buying both tcg and ocg can be mix and use it together on official tournament bcoz they are both original cards. Okay just make a rules that what kind of ruling will be use like ocg rules but the cards can be mix up like ocg and tcg cards.
Are there currently any viable blue eyes or cyber dragon decks? I have a lot of these support cards.
As he said in February the blue eyes structure deck is gonna come out. This will make the deck pretty good even at like regional and ycs level tournaments but as of right now no, also I think cyber dragon is also going to get support in an upcoming pack that will make it pretty decent.
I couldn’t imagine a harder thing to learn than being a complete newbie to Yu-gi-oh and trying to understand why I can’t summon a level 5 card with 1800 attack and 2000 defence on turn 1 but my opponent could synchro-summon 6,000 Sliffer’s and 3,000 blue eyes white dragons and fused blah blah you get where I’m going, to mechanics are too developed and confusing, if you didn’t grow up playing it, it’s unlikely you’ll gain mastery now. A new game needs to take its place, yugioh took Pokémon’s place for novice card playing kids and now something new that hasn’t had a decade of power creep and ridiculous mechanics added in needs to come for the next generation of TCG players. IMO.
wish i could play the physical game somewhere
I want to play so bad but I’m scared to get back into it because I feel like I’m so far behind. Been begging my Wife to to learn how to duel with me so we can play but she doesn’t want to play 😅 I dont even know where to start.
I feel like an outsider much of the time these days. I don't bother playing at a shop with randoms and now only really play with my bf.
I have never been interested in competitive playing, so I guess its the reason I don't understand some of the things people say, mainly whatever formats are. I just thought it mean't the different ways of playing the game as shown in the show or something.
Many of my decks are inspired by the show too, and I usually don't use more than one copy of a card because I personally think its boring and lazy. Though some of my more recent decks felt like it was kind of necessary, but its still uncommon.
I honestly can't stand to watch games sometimes because of the way decks are made with the amount of duplicates. I end up really bored pretty quickly because all I see is one tactic being repeated over and over, or its worse and its otk decks which are probably one of the worst things people can make, as you as well just play on your own.
Generally speaking, I really don't know where I stand in the community anymore.
No other game like it. If there was, I might play that.
is it a problem if i come with a full op deck of knock off cards from aliexpress but they only look funky but actually function the same as original cards
I mean, if they find out they're fake, they'd disqualify you from any official tournament you try to enter those in, but just for unofficial stuff, that's up to you.
In casual non-tournament games is ok I don't know who would actually care. I sometimes use fake cards or proxys for trying new strategies and never had a problem
Those are all valid points and I endorse every last one of them. Also : go read the original manga, it's a guenine, still very solid, incredibly soulfull battle shonen and while not an accurate depiction of how the modern game play, the true and tested beginning point for the whole franchise, easing you into it with the added benefit of really getting you in the mood for passionate games.
Sadly, as much as I believe in everything said in this video, I find myself in a position where my locals are very meta-oriented and competitive. None of the decks that interest me have any (worthy) structure deck (yet). while I crave to go physical, I each time face the choice of going for a pet deck for a reasonnable price but zero chance of winning (I'm not that bothered by losing but I'd like to put up *some* fight), or a cardmarket shopping cart that could buy a VR headset (just for the base list, without even thinking of changing/optimizing it after that). So, for now... waiting is the name of the game
I’m lucky enough to have a OTS where the players aren’t mega sheep. Not all of them anyways, when they do pull out they’re meta decks I pull out my anti meta deck. Otherwise I mostly go with Tri-Brigade fire king
It's fun, when casual.
Never cared that much about competitive scene, I prefer to encounter unique decks in casual duels. Yu-Gi-Oh is WAY too vast just to be restricted to competitive format.
1. Sure getting started might be cheap, but keeping up isn’t.
2. I disagree, it is not an intuitive game.
3. There are many decks yes, but there’s only like 5 really good ones which your deck can’t compete against.
4. I don’t know if the competitive scene is thriving atm. I would say it’s kind of slowing down.
5. Older cards are playable, yes. But don’t play them unless you want to get stomped or just messing around with your friends.
1th reason its yugioh!!
-Yeaa I’m in!!
I learned how to play through duel links then master duel and Im still learning its kinda fun
Pretty much same
I love yugioh the anime & game but if team APS especially Paul gets into another TCG I’ll consider it I’m in DBZ Fusion World & Union Arena 💪🏽
It's a "No" from me.
I'm an old-school Yu-Gi-Oh player (played when Dark World weren't even an archetype), got into some nationals in the "good ol' " Invoked days. Even then, I somewhat thought the game got to a point where it was too much with the handtraps, but HOLY HELL, it's a nightmare nowadays.
The game is way too fast paced for its own good.
The hand trap nightmare train keeps on rolling.
The meta creep has literally never been stronger, you play a tier 2/3 deck at locals - you get trashed. Not to mention the meta changes far too frequently to even make a difference. Tier 0 gets hit much more frequently, new things keep coming up every two weeks, it's a nightmare for your wallet.
The game is just not fun anymore, and NOT worth the investment.
Now do 2025 reasons
2:29 meanwhile meta every year 5-10 specific decks every few months
Have been thinking about owning a paper deck, just in case line of reasoning lately. I wish I knew why. Heart of the cards or some shit? lol
The game is cool and the cool rare cards are way more affordable than pokemon
The text on the cards is way too small and they really screwed themselves over with that design choice.
What about my favorite series, sevens? Where is my physical tcg seven cards?!
There’s absolutely no reason that will convince me to return to this wreck in 2025. Sorry, not sorry.
This is how I find out Paul has ADHD. After watching for 8 years
Unlike Other Card Games in which cards rise in prices, you can burn thousands of €/£\$ every 2 months for yu gi oh!
Male a format that gets rid of syncro/tuner/link/xyz but allows newer cards. That would be the best format
based
that sounds awful
? So like. Labrynth would still be a top deck? Not every deck uses Synchro/Link/XYZ...
Bro is a true Yugiboomer except he forgot to complain about pendulum
yeah yu gi oh has so much customization and personality
now we just need the 250 reasons why you shouldn't
Maybe this is the year I come back, since MTG is in such a lame situation.
I wonder what the next Master Duel rookie and returner structure deck will be. Power creep has already shot up so high in just the last year.
It’s really affordable😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
litterly everything you said (minus the anime aspect) you can appley to mtg too
I can think of 50 reasons to not play Yu-Gi-Oh.
February 18, 2023: Rarity Collection Quarter Century Edition introduces Quarter Century Secret rare in the OCG
April 21, 2023: Quarter Century Secret Rare is previewed in the TCG as promo cards in Legendary Collection: 25th Anniversary Edition
April 22, 2023: duelist nexus, the first core set of series 12, the quarter century era, is released in the OCG
June 23, 2023: Battles of Legend: Monstrous Revenge introduces Quarter century secret rares in the TCG
February 4, 2024: the 25th anniversary of the card game
January 25, 2025: alliance insight, the last core set of series 12, the quarter century era, is released in the OCG
February 6, 2025: the 26th anniversary of the card game
Play Yugioh if you wanna drop $150-$300 bucks on a deck that isn't even tier 1 and will get hit on the banlist as soon as new cards come out.
What is this Star Wars Themed Deck you speak of??
Kozmo! It’s a mix of Star Wars and Wizard of Oz: with a gameplay gimmick of swapping between big ships and their pilots! >:D
In 3 months: 25 reasons NOT to play Yu-Gi-Oh 😜 (for April fools)
After the 2 Rariry collections and 2 Quarter-Century sets people need to stop complaining about reprints? What card is left you can’t get for dirt cheap other than a handful of cards from the current mainline set.
Hello there again :D
Yugioh is the second least intuitive card game. 1st is weiss schwarz