Yep, the future of Yu-Gi-Oh is digital.
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_Mulcharmy Fuwalos will cost 30 UR and that's all I'll ever pay for it._
EDIT: Upon rewatching the video, I realized something I didn't make clear was that I don't see the physical card game DYING outright. I just think that, over time, Master Duel will become the preferred way to play. The paper game isn't going anywhere any time soon, but I do believe there will be newcomers who begin their Yu-Gi-Oh journey from Master Duel and that's okay.
**laughs in ~1,200 UR CP**
@@apsamplifier lol
Still too much if you don't have enough gems to get packs for a chance at 10 ur.
90 u need 3
SCREAM IT LOUDER FOR THE WHALES IN THE BACK
People who overprice cards should be forced to walk on Lego bricks bare footed for basically gatekeeping literal pieces of cardboard that SHOULD be getting more printings. Konami disgusts me sometimes with their tcg practices ugh
I already quit physical card game, duel master is the way
that's impossible, they would pick up the Lego bricks and sell them!
@@TheDragonfridayDuel Masters is pretty fun, yeah, I also play the digital version in Duel Masters Play's and am having a ton of fun.
The problem isn't them. The problem is Konami not making the cards more available. Literally all they have to do is make it more common and the price plummets to reasonable prices.
+$450 USD for 3 Fuwalos on TCG? or just 90 UR points in MD?
MD.
90 UR points = 9 UR cards you have to dismantle which you aren't guaranteed to get 😂 even after multiple gems which you have to pay for or earn extremely slowly.
TCG pay $ and get the card certainly or MD pay $ and go through a gacha game to get the card randomly
TCG
@heretopissyouoff8439 you'll get those 9 URs to dismantle within like 6000 gems, which is below 80 bucks. Delusional
@@heretopissyouoff8439 pay 80€ for one Copy of a Card or Play the game thats your Hobby online for a month and get 3 copies and more lol
You are delusional if you think tcg is more accessable and cheaper to play than master duel lmao.
Sure If you exhaust Tutorial Missions it will Take you like a month to build new decks, but thats without spending any money and the rate which Hobby intensive players will get new decks anyways in tcg ( you cant Tell me you spend more than 600-900 every month for a Deck lol)... And as you get more cards it will be easier to build Decks because at some Point only Archetype specific URs are left and you can share cards you own across Decks without switching all the time
@@heretopissyouoff8439 Tell me you dont play MD. You are actually guaranteed to get UR card(s) with 10 packs depending on your previous polls.
I play master duel for adanced format. The turns take so long, I can tab out or watch a show during the combos.
I play in my Edison locals every week. Some weeks I play in 2 or invite friends over to play.
everyone who comments rn did so without watching the whole vid
I watched the video, but the jist still stands. Don’t mean to brag, but as a landlord of 4 investment properties and someone who is debt free, I can clearly afford a play set of Furawoss, but that doesn’t mean I want to. I’d find it appropriate to: (a) invest the $600 or (b) donate the money to charity instead.
No matter how you spin it, the game is slowly losing touch with its identity.
A landlord who plays yugioh... Pretty gangsta. @@cbgg1585
@@cbgg1585 good on you man, I’m glad you’re successful! But I think after the creator Kazuki Takahashi’s passing, Yugioh’s Identity is gone and all we have are the memories and adventures he’s given us
Great informative, very video
The price of cardboard is too dam high!
I'd love to see more animation added to master duel. Special moves from the anime used in the game would make replays awesome
Tournament wise. If you have the deck and they let you register it to duel would be fine. It would be more epic to watch online
Which is unfortunate because I personally don't have the same connection with digital like I do with the TCG physical card game. Don't get me wrong, I think it's good for players that aren't in a good space with the paper game and its budget is much better.
It’s like any form of media or product. I take great satisfaction in utilizing tangible assets that I own. This is why I ceased PC gaming long ago. The lack of physical media is why i will never build a PC ever again.
Master Duel is great for long commutes to work, uni etc, but if given the choice, I’m opting for physical all the way- even if I’m severely handicapped utilizing inferior rogue decks just because I refuse to spend more than $300 on a Yugioh deck.
I can afford the TCG, but money is still money. Better off using it to donate to charity or invest it instead.
Master duel is limited what to play with it. They could've done more like goat formats etc
I love being able to actually communicate with my opponent, can't do that in digital.
Master Duel is the only way I can actually play Yu-Gi-Oh. The game is dead near me, closest local being about 2 hours away. Being a newcomer (or rather old comer, coming back after a long time) , I don't have friends in the community yet, so really all I can do to play in a fun way as a beginner is Master Duel. But if I were to pick between the two if both were available, I would prefer in person every day of the week.
I dont think it's the future. It's just a digital alternative. Master duel has not shown any ability to grow its player population past the average number it settled at toward the end of its launch window when the "new game" player boost wore off. It sits at the same general player count that it was at in mid 2022.
Switch to Japan steam and look at revenue that should explain a lot why the steam numbers does not reflect the actual player counts because the Japanese is not exactly into pc or ps game but even then this game also won golden joystick on Playstation Asia Japan in 2021.
this game is mostly played by "Tanaka on the way home" on mobile, the game does introduce a lot of players to the game, you just can't see it through the English media.
That has been changing. It's not making new players, but existing players fed up with TCG that toggle back and forth. You will see a surge in Master Duel usage when Fuwaros is released. The new players that do come in will be exposed to the digital version first because paper was an entry point for those who were familiar with the anime.
Keep in mind that this game always in the top 50 steam charts revenue even when most players are playing on mobile, that sky striker alt banner is the most insane sales in the history of master racking up 25m usd in a single month alone on mobile.
Most yugioh streamers and youtubers just show master duel stuff now I noticed. Team aps is one the few that still really does actual paper content.
I'd be scared to play modern Yugioh in person. Thats so much reading that the opponent could make up some effect and i'd just trust them cause i dont get what their cards do. Masterduel makes everything way easier, it actually tells you which cards you can use at what time if you want
That’s not a good excuse. Part of being good at a card game is having knowledge of what cards do (ie. Studying and researching)
This reads like you not wanting to PLAY the game though. If reading your opponent's cards when you're not familiar with them is an issue why are you playing a tcg?
Seems lot ppl here missed that YGO can be more complicated vs lot other games. In other games like digimon, VG, pokemon etc. the effects and combos are much simpler that u can actually read reliably.
Good luck doing that in YGO lol, u need to mostly remember of tons of cards effect else if u read it in person, the duel will take hours. Not to mention where to negate etc.
So OP kinda make sense thinking like that. Sure u can remember all of that by playing the game for a while. But that's part of reason why YGO barely gaining new players, game bit too daunting for newbie.
Master duel actually fixed this part of problem a bit by automated duel, so no one can cheat on u or have some illegal activation that u dunno and u jus let it pass by coz u dunno what the card does.
@@PricefieldPunk Exactly there's no way I could play this in IRL. Half the time I have no clue what's happening and the games doesn't say even in the log.
@@invertbrid Yugioh’s combo lines are LONGER not necessarily more complicated, though some decks most certainly are. The situation you describe is just part of learning a card game with mid-turn counter play. You’re not gonna know how to beat every deck or what every card does. That’s fine, it’s part of the game. I’d strongly argue that, generally, yugioh is no more complicated than the other two major TCGs (Magic and Pokemon). HOWEVER, I will stand by that while it may not be more complex, it is INFINITELY more punishing for simply not knowing which is WHY the learning curve feels steeper than it actually is.
Imo that’s fine though. Reading your opponent’s cards in any tcg won’t immediately tell you what their game plan/strategy if you’re just starting out. That’s not unique to yugioh. The only thing that can really put people off in practice is being thrown into the deep end (which isn’t good for ANY tcg, let alone one as hard on beginners as yugioh). It can absolutely be confusing to read a modern meta staple with 7 lines of text and not know what you’re doing or what exactly the card does. However, the same thing can be said for Magic. Keywords can be hard to learn, especially when they change based on the block. Yugioh circumvents key words by using simple phrases that are very explicit. The complexity of yugioh is the PSCT (Problem Solving Card Text, in case anyone doesn’t know) not the actual words. It can be annoying to read a card and confuse a colon and a semi-colon sure, but yugioh at its core is a game about fine details to begin with, so I think that’s fine honestly.
Idk, I’ve brought several people into the game and the hardest part for them has never been reading the cards, it’s always been the more nuanced things like the difference between “when” and “if” effects, or how the chain resolves to allowing you to dodge cards like infip. Not once have I seen (in practice) a complaint about the reading part of yugioh, it’s always what a given card DOES in a more “big picture” sense to progress the game state, and that was solved by simply seeing more cards and building that knowledge pool to pull from.
That's sad in its own right considering how poorly they maintain Master Duel.
For me in the digital age card games are a social event in which you can interact with people in real life
My only complaint of master duel is the coin toss. Because I have been losing the coin toss more times than winning and it is annoying 😒
It honestly should be using the traditional rock paper scissors. At least you get a choice and it feels less bad to lose.
@AoyagiMei very true 👍 rock, paper and scissors would be a better decider.
The only thing i wish master duel had that the tcg does is best of 3. Maybe not always because the games being quick is one of master duels benefits, but having best of 3 in the more competitive modes would be nice
We need both, utlimately card games will need physical print and digital options. More variety ans accessibility= long term success
I said this too. I like playing online because games like master duel I can invest literally nothing money wise (If I choose)
I thought this since I got back into masterduel until we have real life duel fields masterduel so SO MUCH FUNNER
I love the accessibility and affordability, and I don't have to deal with judge calls, ruling fights, vendors, or adults acting like children when they lose. I like getting my dust back when something is banned. I like how it looks. I like the feel. It's just a better product.
The wait for the new cards in Master Duel is ROUGH. I got back into it a few months ago when I saw one of your videos with the new Lightsworn support and since they're a personal favorite archetype I wanted to try them out. The cards only just came out on the client and it took almost 5 months to go from TCG to digital which is rough. Still I actually had a ton of fun with solo mode and I was able to try out a bunch of new decks thanks to how incredibly good the game's free to play, and critically structure deck system, is. Certainly one of the best of the free to play TCGs I play.
I haven't paid a single dime to master duel and I have both Yubel and Snake-eyes
I wouldn't have gotten into yugioh without the f2p freedom of masterduel.
I am sad about having to accept wait years for cards though.
It's really not that big of a leap for TCG, but it is for OCG. We just got Lightsworn, Ragnaraika, and Ancient Gear, and the Legacy of Destruction was April? It's lessened if you are Master Duel only because you don't have any comparison point.
@@spicymemes7458I think the fact that you know they exist is enough to annoy some people. I'm a Rikka main in MD, and I've never played paper, however, I know of the Ragnaraika and Aroma cards in the OCG/TCG through RUclipsrs who do play Rikka IRL, like Sunseed Jess, so I was super excited for when those cards would come. And every pack that would be announced/leaked that didn't have those cards mentioned made me go "urgh", and when they finally came I was ecstatic and immediately updated my deck.
it's not really 3v3, it's 3 separate 1v1s. i would love if some sort of tag duel came to master duel...i put it in every survey they do...deaf ears man.
Master duel is for the people, the physical card game is for the rich.
to a certain extent... its not exactly cheap to build top tier decks in master duel either
Not even decks now require too much UR to craft, I quit because of that. Wont waste my time to make a deck just to lose 24/7
tbh master duel is very cheap if compared to many other virtual tcg options, including duel links, mtg arena, and heartstone, the only one i know is cheaper is LorT, playng for a season(3 months) should be enough to make a top tier deck though it's also true that new decks are pretty UR heavy
@@booglog thats why you make multiple accounts on MD lol free gems for days just saying 🤷🏻♂️ my buddy got 20 accounts
I'd rather just buy the card then be forced to grind a bad deck for it in MD.
The future of Yugioh is alternative formats
Rush deul
In Master Duel
This
Domain is a good example.
Reject infinite forbidden, return to substitoad DAD
I got so sick of TCG players sneering at Master Duel either because of Maxx C or the monthly consistency hit banlists.
Turns out those aren’t huge issues when we’re talking about a free simulator where every card is craftable.
Not every card is craftable. They are missing a huge portfolio of cards.
"free". A real free simulator is EDOpro, where every card is already in your inventory at 3 copies. MD is a digital casino that will plunder your money or your time grinding the money. The choice, they leave to up to you.
I mean maxx c ruins a lot of games but the saving grace is that if you don't feel like playing into or around maxx c you can just surrender and go next
@@captainwarlock264 Here’s the thing- we know Maxx C is getting banned eventually, the OCG has signalled it. Every format will have the Mulcharmies instead. If you hate that kind of effect on principle, there’s nowhere to avoid it.
But in the meantime, as Paul said, Fuwaross is $400 in the TCG and will only be 90 UR CP in Master Duel.
It is for anyone who doesn't want to play a bo1 maxx c minigame
Master Duel will only get better with more quality of life updates
For me I don’t get that much satisfaction from Master Duel as even though I don’t have many chances to duel in person, I value the live interaction so much that I pretty much remember each encounter. In comparison to online play where even when I know it is a real person on the other side it feels like playing an advance form of A.I. to the point I can only recall a few duels despite the smoother gameplay and reduced barrier to playing decks.
Considering Master Duel’s current player average and the lack of game modes outside of ranked and insert temporary alternative formats I don’t see it being the future (now anyway) but just an alternative for anyone who has difficulty playing in IRL.
Or play OCG, its like 1/5 cheaper than TCG. I can see OCG plsyers would still play physical easily coz their cards are so accessible most of the time.
Good luck to TCG players tho keep getting scammed by konami.
I think digital might be better for competetive, but for me the most fun i have when talking about casual play is my locals. Theres very few expensive decks and playing with rewl people irl is great
Master Duel is defs way more fair than tcg when it comes to the monetary aspect.
My problem is i wouldnt want to be in a situation where players are overly reliant on master duel. I feel like Konami can excercise alot more control over things in Master duel such as changing their reward/currency system whenever they want.
I also think Master Duel hasnt improved enough over the years to really warrant a transition to it being the 'main game'. Stuff like some post game, or match analytics and a less clunkier UI would be great. I just dont want it to be what everyone uses and then Konami can just do or not do whatever they want and by that time everyones already invested in the digital game more than the paper one.
Ppl want the socialization. I remembered mtg was ‘dying off’ before but it’s the cardboard crack
Another plus point from Master Duel is when a UR card gets banned, you don't lose anything because of their refund system.
Ygo was in such a fine spot 2 years ago, then we had some shaky meta times, but hey there was a light of hope with the Rarity Collection making the game more affordable for more players.
But with Konami banning the now affordable cards, first concerns were being raised; not only banning what people just finaly were able to afford but do so instead of hitting THE meta deck at the time; then we get the FS cards... with 3 Secret Rares. Then we get a banlist... on the last day of August, that again bans affordable reprints and buts SE on ice for a month or two.
Then the Tins which sounded great but they fk it up to make the key cards not affordable / accessible for most.
And then they print the next set of meta defining cards in secret Rare again.
This year was just kick in the balls after kick in the balls from the YGO TCG side - just such poor behavior towards the player base. A new low for Konami standards even.
I see no reason why Konami won’t keep both (unless the physical product market tanks and is no longer profitable). As you pointed out, there’s benefits to both and, for Konami, it’s a way of “double dipping.”
The thing that’s nice about master duel is being able to see how rulings play out with having to guess or misinterpret cards. The downside is they are so behind on cards and ban lists.
Also, if the tcg disappears then Konami will likely charge more for master duel… imo the video game is a supplement to the cards
I agree with you 100%. That's how I learned to play modern YGO, by play testing in Master duels and watching youtubers play IRL. If I didn't have these 2 tools, I would have never had the courage to to sign up for a tournament in my locals.
Because of the slow releases of new cards and weird banlist(MD vs TCG), I have accidentally cheated out Dragoon using branded fusion with my branded despia deck. The reason being, dragoon being banned at that time and watching people play in dueling book out of order confused me. At the same time, some people might have cheated too since I don't know how the new TCG cards work without testing in MD.
So far, I have only entered 4 tournaments. Most of the time I go 3W and 2L or vice versa. I have only won 1st place one time.
“How many inches of MasterDuel” is diabolical
Hot take: Yugioh as a social activity is not worth it these days. The yugioh tcg attracts too many scumbags who want to make a quick buck and/or are only looking out for themselves at the expense of everyone else involved. And it's partly komoney's fault for not making cheaper versions of the same card in the same set.
Pokemon TCG supremacy! I don't even play but I know it's way better than yugioh at least in that sense.
It NEVER was. What YU-GI-OH ‼️ does, is god awful gatcha-practices in their digital games to this day, it's their biggest problem, I think MasterDuel should have zero players. Let them drop all the cards, we can't even learn the card game without the nonsense
Idk man. I have yet to see another tcg community as ready and willing to not only fight to keep you in the game, but also share knowledge to help EVERYONE improve, and even lending cardboard on a whim. You can genuinely look around in person/on social pages and borrow entire meta decks for events. I saw one dude ask around at one of my two LGS spots and that guy borrowed some $400+ in cards for that tournament. Every time I personally have tried to pick up another card game the hardest shift is always how closed off the communities are. Just my experience though. Plus, watching pokemon trades especially it's unnerving how serious and hardball a LOT of players are about value.
So yugioh is dead? Got it.
I don’t know what to do with the almost 900 UR’s I have.
I don't feel comfortable about Konami owning more of the game then I do. I miss Physical games and how you don't have to rely on the Servers
You can play one of the fanmade digital simulators. With that you don't have to worry about getting the card you want, or your money spent being rendered useless in the event the servers shut down.
The huge problem with master duel is that 3 days non stop grind. Konami needs to do something about it.
The huge problem with TCG yugioh are the prices of cards.
Both have problems but Master Duel has less problems than TCG Yugioh
Problem is that Japanese seems to enjoy the grind, they are still trying on competition who can get 100kdp in a duelist cup for the first time in history, hate it as you want but what else you can do if the other side prefer the current system.
I think they need to start utilizing MD more for testing new cards. Then if a card is broken in MD they can fix it before it goes to print
Maxx "C" among a LOT of other cards need to get banned before that's possible lol
It's like killing real basketball in exchange for NBA2K.
Not quite it takes no more training or physical exertion for the physical card game than it does for the Digital one. Unless you count showering as Training LoL
Mtg Rules Committee just disbanded. Now it's time for Paul & Sam & J.Kotten to make YGO's Rule Committee, Advance Format 2.0 you guys can FIX this game!!
No.
Context on the MTG Rules Committee thing, please?
I don't know what's going on over there.
I will never play master duel when EDO pro exists 😂
@@musvijajuzagrilariocara8583 that's all I play is Edo pro
Master Duel is so f2p that it honestly feels like Konami didn't have much hand in making it. Been playing since day one and I honestly think I've spent like maybe $10 on the game total.
Thats because its likely handled by the OCG. you know, the ones who print cards i multiple rarities tl make them accessible
Yeah, as a Nikke and Clash Royale player since their respective launches, I didn’t feel compelled to pay, but rather wanted to spend money just to thank the devs for pulling back on the greed. Of course there is a ceiling and only so far you can go, but to have achieved 8000 trophies in Clash Royale as a F2P player was pretty fun.
I spent maybe $50 AUD in Master Duel just because I wanted to show appreciation for the generous F2P model
The caveat is if you have multiple accounts, which isn't a long-term solution.
I love master duel
I would play master duel more if it weren’t for the Awful Gem prices if I’m paying 90$ bucks
(I would Never) more than a full price game! I better get half the cards in the whole Friggin Game.
The game isn’t really F2P friendly it’s just pay to win unfriendly unless you make Bank.
Hey! Great video. I agree with you a lot. Specially because of my experience. As a kid I played yugioh almost 20 years ago, I stopped playing because of my religious family, and then 10 years ago when I was 18 I had some friends that played Yugioh, but I felt it was a totally different game and it seemed impossible for me to understand the new rules and ways to plays and to be able to play in a way that was enjoyable for me. Duel links seemed interesting but I felt it was not the actual game as it had less spaces on the field to play. Master duel for me was the app and game that allowed me to understand how yugioh is played now, I've playing since release and playing master duel made me do the jump to TCG. I'm now playing at my local shop and can say I'm grateful to master duel and love the game so much and I will keep playing TCG and master duel
I wish Konami did yearly rarity updates during the anniversary season. They could lower cards that are either not used or generally weak and give players credits for the dump.
This would make the anniversary feel more meaningful and encourage players to try new decks and stay in the community without changing the cost of cards people actually want.
Hey while the point is true about cool team rivalries such as US vs Europe, I must point out that our champs Jesse Kotton and Ryan Yu are from CANADA 🇨🇦😃
It’s scary that everything is turning digital now, from movies being mostly on subscription based platforms to games not having physical copies anymore and now we have tcgs getting turned into collection apps like pokemon pocket and even master duel. there will come a point where we won’t own anything we purchase sadly.
OCG master duel parity um last i check Kitkallos spright elf and both Arise-Heart/Fenrir isnt running around stealing games from people but i get what the point your going with would like them to take more inspiration form the TCG like removing all the easy generic omni negates
being behind on the paper formats is a mix bag not a pure negative due a joke term that i got form a similar situation like this in a different game "clairvoyance EX" learing form the failures of the past and Lessing the problems for the new version like master duel never needing to deal with full power tear or kash via pre hits before they come out
When I got back into Yu Gi oh about a year ago. My friend told me to play branded despia which I bought the albaz strike as my starter. Later I got into master duel and started building my paper deck on master duel. Long story short, MD helped me learn combos with branded despia that I wouldn’t learn from playing the game physically. Even now, when I build new decks on paper, I build them on MD as well to help me learn my cards and combos.
I felt like its been the case for a while now. Love the fact we still have free sims to play because i dont really dig Master Duel. I know hot take not liking MD but whatever.
The F2P model in MD is actually generous but its still got gatcha mechanics. I rather just type card names and build decks in minutes vs the hours of crafting and dismantling in MD.
MD is definitely more accessible but it's still very expensive compared to other games. I can by the world champion pokemon deck for 66 usd. You can make free decks in MD, but it's probably costing you 200-300 dollars worth of gems, OR you're destroying cards to get ur dust to make new cards, and just hoping those cards you destroyed never become meta relevant.
As far as MD cards go, they'll never be up to date. Because you play so many more games of MD than OCG or TCG, it's by design that you get new cards every month, and by design that those packs have a lot of reprints as well. They never want to be caught up because the way they retain their playbase is by having new cards coming out every month, which is not sustainable if they're fully caught up on card releases.
This is also why they get way more banlists. Speaking of banlists, when a card goes onto the banlist you can get rid of excess copies of the card for a fully dust refund of the card. As a result they tend to bend over backwards to try and avoid giving you UR dust. Once in a while they have no choice, but if they can do weird hits to R's or C's or SR's they'll always prioritize those hits over URs, even if the UR hit is the much healthier hit for the game.
There's also the fact that as a Bo1 you can often end up in a situation where you just don't have an out to the opponents style and just have to scoop. At least in Bo3 you have a side deck to counter bad match ups, leading to a lot more situations in MD where you just get mad / frustrated when someone randomly decides to play a floodgate deck and you don't have a bunch of backrow removal in your deck, or you're a monster effect heavy deck and they have a way to negate those effects etc.
I have been loving Master Duel. I realized this weekend that I've basically been playing it daily for over a year now. I didnt realize it was happening, but its my most played game on the Switch. Its so easy to hop into a game or two while watching TV with family.
Now TCG yugioh is harder to get to since its sort of a commitment. Its basically sacrificing an entire evening to play.
It does suck that Master Duel sort of forces booster packs on us though. As a player that loves buying singles, I hate that getting UR dust to craft is done through RNG packs. I hate the feeling of gacha mechanics in games I play.
I like Master Duel because it's a lot cheaper to make decks than in the TCG. My issue, though, is that the game is only singles.
Even if the game is competitive singles, the option to make a side deck and play best two of three in casual would improve my experience.
Master duel is pretty much the only reasonable way to play the game now without ruining yourself financially unless youre loaded and somehow have nothing else you actually NEED to buy. 😂
yknow what would be really cool and good for master duel is a Master Duel ORIGINAL deck archetype!! honestly a lil surprising they haven’t done it yet. konami has already done Promethean Princess which was lunch same day as OCG.
Unfortunately, as fun as master duel may be, I can’t bring myself to play it more than a few games a season. Maybe when traveling I’ll grind a rank tier or two, but it never really sticks. As of the last 3 months or so I’ve gotten a group of friends together to meet once every other week to play physical TCG at a casual level and it’s infinitely more fun (maybe I’ll make a video one day?) but nothing beats the feeling of playing the physical game with friends for me
Sadly, the future of all card games are digital. MTG has had a huge rift due to proxying. Can’t proxy online. Can’t borrow cards online. You’ll make more money online overall, it’s only a matter of time. Truly sad.
Yep, only digital, I won't ever buy real cards again. It simply is not worth it. It's substantially cheaper to produce, which maybe will bring digital costs down too? If so though, we need more yugioh games with normal formats like MD.
I still buy packs just for the fun of collecting, but the nearest OTS to me is nearly a 2 hour drive away. Thats why i play Master Duel
Sad to say. Coming from my personal experience this past weekend, I went to 3 card shops and they had barely anything. Might just be my area but it seems MTG, F&B, Pokemon is what they say is all that sells well.
My only problem is my connection issues. I’ve played 4 hours of destiny 2 then me and my friends jumped over to master duel. Then bam 💥 connection issues
I really like MD because the paper game is really expensive in my country (just $100 is expensive to play a card game) and we lack ots in most of the cities.
As someone who has limited time, a family with 2 under 2, limited funds, no one to actually play with and no LGS' near by, I only consume Yugioh via anime rewatches and Duel Links for the last 2.5 years
it’s not even just about the price of the cards, but also it’s yugioh card design in general. i’m playing yugioh irl OR online while cards like the melcharmys exist. they are literally turn ending cards with little to no counter play.
We'll probably get to a point where everything is digital except special "Collector products" that they sell for a huge premium. Same with all TCG's. I doubt they'll leave paper altogether because there's too much money on the table but it's definitely going to evolve.
I spent on Phantom bcuz Yubel is my fave deck and Engraver because I wanted to push to be more competitive
But I had the idea that I may have to main Droll and use it on MY TURN
Digital Yu-Gi-Oh is easier to manipulate and control when it comes to probability and seeing certain cards. Of course they would move to a digital format.
I mean when rescue rabbit and dad were at 3 they were like 150 a pop and that was 10-15 years ago the game has always been like this
The future of Yu-Gi-Oh is proxies. Stop giving them money for their terrible products and decisions.
I have said this several times. Konami wants out of the cardboard business and make it all digital. Or at least make its main format digital. The payoff for ¢.09 cards is very low.
nah digital is far away still, Masterduel is still not THAT game, Its close but no real tournament play or best of 3 matches with real upto date cards and an engine that looks graphically 10 years old.
If Master Duel was made to play with friends a bit better (and if Maxx C wasn't at 3 in the game), I would most likely not ever play paper.
I skipped the entirety of the digital yu gi oh at worlds. It’s so boring to watch that interaction. Duel links, master duel, etc. I only care for the live stream matches. We are not the same. Lmao.
Im a person thats screentime sensitive and very much enjoys the charm to the physical things to hold in such a tcg. I probs wont leave tcg to go strictly master duel but understand the price part of tcg being a huge reason to stick to masterduel. At the end of the day i respect either choice
Master duel is the only way I can really enjoy this game anymore tbh, memes aside I can't really enjoy sitting down and handling all the crazy card effects with physical cards anymore like back in the day and all my cards are easily accessible in one place. Trying new decks is easier and playing other a wider variety of decks could be in theory easier. My only big negative is that its sort of lacking the social/friendly element that can make you focus in less on how degenerate the mechanics side of the game can be
Yugioh isn’t that popular in my community so I barely have anyone to play with irl. So simple as it is, 99% of my YGO experience is Duel Links, with like .8% being any other digital Yugioh game. Automatic matchmaking, free decks, and no problems with rules or remembering what plays to make. Online is just simply made better, but physical will always be the original, authentic experience.
I think this game going digital will just drive up card prices honestly. Itll be a smaller niche but thats the whole point of high equity collecting tbh
This argument is justified in that I have 2 majias in MD pulled from packs but ain't no way in hell I'm paying for an irl one
I would play MD more if the card pool/F&L list combo wasn't so fucking insufferable imo
Love the TCG but between none of my in-town friends playing, locals dying off, and $300+ mulcharmies idk if it's worth it which is really depressing. I finally started really playing master duel (I hated playing a months old format and just wanted to test tcg) for the DC cup this weekend and that was pretty fun. Still doesn't compare to playing the physical tcg but I'll work with what I've got
I’d play the heck out of masterduel if they had goat format. There’s no shops near me that do goat nights and duelingbook is not great.
I like physical but yeah I know how it is with card stores, there is only board game store nearby however they don't seem to sell cards anymore, everything else is like hours away.
The only others that sell cards are game stop and smyth toy store, which are also quite a drive but not as much as card shops
It is the future. Without a shadow of a doubt. Saves a lot of physical space, chess timer mechanics (to f*ck those burn/lp gain cheese). Crafting..
I don't like playing TCG I own cards just as a personal collection, only play on Master duel.
Also prefer to watch Yugitubers playing on Master Duel than with the actual cards.
Physical yugioh to me is just not worth it. The local scene is super competitive now and most players are degenerates that im forced to listen to and play with
Master Duel needs a goat format and different modes to experience the game differently, casual is full of Meta slaves too.
Yeah, we need legit proxies. I am not spending $100 on cardboard. Def not $100 per a 3 of.
still dont know why they didnt start printing cards first on masterduel as a playtest field and then it makes errata's and bans much more feasible
honestly master duel did just replace yugioh for me but i do still buy cards and structure decks that i have a favoritisim for like the jack atlas deck
Once in a while master duel will get cards early they just choose when and when not to drop it’s still annoying also a draft mode would be amazing
I feel you that the game is going to go digital one day, but that will be the day I stop playing because I like the physical cards too much.
yeah paper tcg is too difficult nowadays because of combo decks and all the reading.
I've been struggling to find time and money to invest into this game for over a decade. I want to, I just have other priorities. Being able to at the very least get my fix online is a great alternative. However, I'll concur that it'll never match the experience of actually attending an in-person event.