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What I miss from old school Yugioh?
1. No Atk/Def position, only 1 position
2. No ban list
3. Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection
4. Gorgon
5. Vanilla monsters
6. no life points
7. Wicked Chain
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Uhhh is it weird that i only remember the old way of playing yu gi oh? i have no idea what archetypes/pendulum/link cards are i just heard of them. are they good?
If they are good what are some good spellcaster link cards? im interested in them as i have a spell caster deck.
Sorry for the long questions.
I don´t understand new Yu-Gi-Oh anymore......
For me a big change with modern yugioh was that more than 1 field spell can be on the field. I thought it was an interesting feature.
Yeah it really is. Imagine being able to out Mystic Mine just by activating your decks Field Spell lol...
That's due to a major change in design philosophy, with fields going from literal fields (most of the early ones were just... places that gave some stat boosts) to basically extra continuous spells that often function as the cornerstone of the entire deck.
It's disappointing flavour-wise, but it did make them a lot more useful.
With the power of fields these days i personally think people would still play them if the 1 field rule was still in place
Yeah that change trips me up sometimes when playing old yu-gi-oh games. When we're both using field spells I often get confused for a sec when one gets destroyed lol
Imagine being able to out mine with any field spell
That'd be great
I definitely remember when Spell Card were once known as Magic Card. Those were the day.
good old school days , how come you have 6 copies of monster reborn?
bruhhhh one if magic and one is spell, so they are different cards :U duhhhhhh
I remember I used a mystic space typhoons and this guy dead it can't destroy his magic card cause my card sead destroys trap and spell card not magic card. Seemed pretty obvious to me they just changed the card name not add
a new card type.
When there was no card limit on the Extra Deck (sorry, FUSION deck). Imagine if that were the case today...
The good old days where you have every fusion you had in there, for no damn reason, just because why not
Gagaga cowboy for game of borrelsword cheese would be a lot more common haha.
If there were no extra deck limit today someone would just run every single extra deck card at three
Oh god, Eater of Millions with an unlimited Extra
You know every extra deck card in the game and call it when needed.
Proceeds to look for it for 10mins until your opponent says: Dude, you can borrow mine for now.
Man, I remember I had one of those unofficial collector's guides that had a complete set list for Legend of Blue Eyes. The only thing is there was a typo on the list. According to the guide, there was an ultra rare "Blues Eyes Black Dragon" in the set and me and my friend thought that meant there was a super secret fusion of Red Eyes and Blue Eyes that we never heard about. So while everyone else was looking for Chaos Emperor Dragon, our dumbasses were buying LoB packs so we could pull a fusion monster that didn't even exist.
Doh! That sucks.
I remember I had one of those that reviewed every card from every set on a 1 to 5 star rating, though I don't remember how many sets there were. It even covered stuff like the cards from the McDonalds set.
That really should exist by now to be honest. Shocked konami hasn't done it yet.
You and your friends must have been really fun to hang out with bro, that's sounds iconic as hell ✊
I remember when the fusion zone was done in a rich, purple color, it looked really nice against the dark yellow-ish starter deck mats.
I loved those old starter deck mats! They were clearly labelled out too unlike the new ones which are bogged down by the boss monster(s)' artwork. Less is more I say.
I still have mine
❤❤❤.
I remember when “Magic Rulers” introduced Ritual Monsters.
Relinquish was a nightmare for judges.
I had two Relinquished cards, never had a black illusion ritual. Edit: I apparently had starter deck Pegasus based on my cards, just lost it apparently.
Makkura I could never find that Pegasus deck, but the Joey deck had a bunch of broken cards too. Scapegoat was another card that caused confusion when it was released.
Was my favoutite card:)
Remember when there was no such thing as cards changing effects over time to nerf them? RIP Goyo.
Also Priority.
Well, there were mistranslations, like with Skull Lair (continuous trap that banish cards in GY to destroy a monster of equal level) and Bazoo the Soul Eater (lv 4 that banish 3 cards in GY to become 2500). They were changed to banish monsters in GY, not cards, early on.
But yeah, Konami screwed up with Erratas big time. The idea is to balance banned cards to make them more fair and legal, but they overbalanced them and then took thngs to another level and hyper overload balanced them. Sinister Serpent really did nothing wrong...Crush Card laughably adapted a nerfed portion of it's Anime effect, not sure if Konami was trolling me specifically..
@@Goblin_Hands Stopped playing during the GX era but still enjoy things like these videos. What happened with Sinister Serpent? Did they give it a once per duel clause?
@@Goblin_Hands Skull Layer and Kycoo got changed because everyone would lose their Magician of Faith effect and mad at Skull Layer truly was OP for OG yugioh
Fuck priority xD
@@kyuubinaruto17 once per turn and banish a sinister serpent from grave
I guess the three other things that I Remember about the Old School Yu Gi Oh is after thing about it is that...
1= Back Then Cards Are Much Easier to read and Understand Back Then or At least Try to Understand, and the Normal Monster Cards have such Cool Flavor Text like "This Monster Grants Any Wish To Anyone That is Wise Enough To Catch It" or "It Is Said That In Ancient Times This Monster Rains Supreme" or whatever
2= Back Then The Blue Eyes White Dragon was that Monster and Deck To Play Because of its Seer Power and Brut Force of it.
3= Back Then Starter Decks Don't really Come with any sort of Theme or Archetype Deck, just Random Cards that the Characters in the Anime Used, and they simply weren't that much Support Cards for Boss Monster Such as Red Eyes and Blue Eyes and Dark Magician and so at least Not Like how we have today
Remember when cards were referred to as being "removed from play" instead of banished? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I remember that i was really confused the first time i saw the word banish on a card. I slowed down on buying cards big time after 2008 so i probably have as many cards that say remove from play as cards that say banish.
That old school smell of the cards when you opened the packs.
I remember mine either used to smell like fresh print or GameStop smell not gonna lie here lol.
This is a feel that cannoy be replicated.
@@voidlayern9368 The smell of busting open a fresh pack of Metal Raiders hit different.
THANK YOU for mentioning the old art
And contrasting all those creepy cards, the fairies and cards like saint joan really stood out
Polymerization
"Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, sometimes Pendulum, and Link Deck, using monsters from your hand or field as Fusion Material."
Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, sometimes Pendulum (Fusion, Synchro and Xyz hybrids included. Not Links, Konami hasn't implemented that yet), Link Deck
I live in a border city in Mexico and there was a Toys R Us on the city north of the border. When I was a teenager, around the time Invasion of Chaos or Dark Crisis released I remember crossing the border and taking the bus to that store and playing in tournaments. It was so much fun, I still have some pins they gave to everyone who assisted.
"EVERY day BEFORE school"? Man, I'm the same age and from the same area as you and I don't know a single channel that had Yu-Gi-Oh on at any time except once a week, Saturday mornings.
I remember it being on AFTER school on Kids WB or whatever it was called. Or like cartoon network occasionally.
Yeah I certainly could be misremembering it, but I swear I'd watch it before school on Cartoon Network really early in the morning
@@Dzeeff Wow, I got the short end of the stick then. One duel took a month to complete.
@@Dzeeff Pokemon aired in the early weekday mornings when it first began airing, but I don't remember Yugioh running on weekdays
Kids WB used to have them during the weekdays
Ahh yes, back in the day before cards could 'miss the timing'.
Could cards not miss, or did the average player just not know that they could? ("I chain MST to destroy your Raigeki!") This one goes as far back as preventing an easy burn loop that Woodland Sprite + Archfiend of Gilfer would otherwise be capable of, by way of Gilfer's "when" being interrupted by the Sprite dealing 500 after the sacrifice.
Cards could miss timing but no one knew the rulings. Also, I miss being able to negate cards with MST, lol.
"The deck is then shuffled"
"Regardless of Position"
"his/her deck"
@@neverendinchaos4800 Funny how Konami/Upper Deck thought that girls would actually play the game. 😂
"Inflict Direct Damage"
"No matter the situation"
The artwork point gave me a shot of nostalgia. Back in middle school, I do remember teachers and parents pointing to some of the artwork as a point that the game was too grim and had too much implied violence to be allowed on school grounds.
I remember way back I didn't believe my friend about forbidden cards. I thought he just didn't want me playing certain cards.
My oh-so-clever argument was: "If they didn't want the card played the wouldn't have made it!"
Oh man, the memories and nostalgia from playing in my HS years... I didn't go to many tournaments, even back then I knew my deck wasn't good but I still competed at a few tourneys this local card shop put on from time to time.
Met a few people and bonded and became really good friends with some of them for years over playing Yu-Gi-Oh, don't talk to them much anymore.
Then there were these times where one of my teachers opened up the lunchroom after school for a bunch of us to duel, one time there was a 10-man battle royal I was in, I don't remember how well I did but I know I wasn't the last one standing.
So yeah, a lot of fond memories.
I remember going to an EB Games store and seeing an advertisement for the coming release of The Legend of Blue-Eyes pack, and then returning there a week later and buying my first ever pack. I also remember buying my first ever Starter Deck, Joey's. I still own that box and that original Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Ah, memories.
The best thing about the no turn 1 draw is that, when going first, it’ll take one more turn for you to deck out
Dude, I remember just about everything because I've played every single format since the game has begun. xD lol
That's awesome my fellow duelist
Same. The game has become a long lasting part of my life. I feel like Grandpa Muto these days.
The same here... and let me say, only now do i see how flawed this game was from its management by Konami... which is sad tbh
What I did really love was, that every shop, even those that didn't sell toys, had a booster display placed on their counter.
We used to have ice cream trucks that sold and traded cards....my dad would never let me trade, though...
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't know that they stopped the first turn draw. I mean, I still do it with the people I play the game with. Note: I don't play professionally, it's just for fun
Because the first player always win
Yeah having that extra card going first in today's meta makes Yu-Gi-Oh just unfair in most cases.
When I was a kid, my dad took me to a similar tournament. When I arrived, I was confident that I could win due to me beating everyone at my elementary school. However when I saw that nearly everyone was over 20 years old, I turned around and left. I love the game and have played since starter deck Yugi, but that memory has always stuck with me
I play since 2003 and think the game has evolved brutally and honestly i enjoy it more now....back in the day you could play for hours but at the end it would get old.....i didnt play after synchros and xyz and was stupid enough to be one of those old yugioh purist but naaa i gave it a chance and i think the game is now how it shouldve been from the beggining...i play with friends and online for hours and it never gets old its super funn!
It isn't Yugioh, but you mentioning the Beckett unofficial magazines REALLY brought me back. When I would ask my mom to let me stay in the magazine section of the local supermarket for the entire shopping trip to read that month's issue of Beckett's unofficial Pokémon magazine. Spending the hour-or-so pouring over the pages, absorbing whatever information they had. It's thanks to them that I learned that the Lucky Egg held item was a thing (and how to minimize the pain of getting one in the Sinnoh games) as well as how UTTERLY BROKEN Skitty was a starter in the Mystery Dungeon spin-off games.
I can't be the only one who would love a "retro art" pack where they had a lot of alt art cards in the more simplistic, hand drawn style of old school yugioh
I like / hate how we can use old cards but old cards are expensive especially when the card only had 1 printing or 1 printing of a rarity
It’s so bizarre seeing this. I played yugioh with my brother and friends when I was a kid back in the Duel Monster and GX era but then grew out of it by middle of synchro era. After getting back into the game this past year it’s kind of wild seeing how much I missed lol going from old school to jumping back in now was a trip and a half
i know how you feel since i only ever saw the first three generations up to 5ds and got lost off with it after that since there wasn't any more at the time. now i'm trying to work out how it's all done again which is very confusing.
Last time I was this early, Mechanical Chaser is still the strongest card in the meta
And when Gemeni Elf was a Secret Rare for a reason.
I remember in my old school days I played Yu-Gi-Oh in my class against nearly everyone.......our teacher always beat us down with his blue eyes I had fire kings during that time
You, duelist from 3 years ago, how do you feel about Fire King's presence in the game now?
@@its_heeho without Snake-eyes and the deck remaining pure it's fun and a good addition with Snake-eyes SCREW THAT DECK WITH A PASSION
Come on, don’t list the “First turn draw” rule as an old school thing. Makes me feel old
I'm a day one player and I like both old and new school Yugioh as well. I'm just happy the game is still going on tbh.
Day1 gang. I might not still play ygo anymore but I still watch ygo content.
I love the old card effects, not just the text of them but just how strange some cards, they can't make them now because of how broken they can end up being but cards like last turn, is just a really strange effect, time seal another one
My earliest Yugioh memories: first pack I opened a Darkfire Soldier #2 and was convinced he was my signature card. I thought you played by sending in 9 cards in a 3x3 grid vs your opponents 9 and flipped them one by one, role playing the battles between the cards. On my birthday my dad got me a Kaiba tin with my first Blue eyes white dragon, however the card was too valuable for me to touch according to him and he held onto it for safekeeping (no, he did not play the game ever, and I have no idea where it went- never saw it after that day). After getting a large collection, my Floridian cousin(s) stole my favorite cards, including Zoa, which I thought was a devolved Obelisk the Tormentor so I was heartbroken. I never had anyone to play with so I would build theme decks in my room after figuring out the rules from Yugioh: 7 Trials of Glory. My sister would come into my room intermittently to kick over my decks. I had a birthday party where I invited all my friends to watch the first Yugioh movie in theaters. My mom and two sisters gave me their promotional cards from the movie so I was ecstatic to have 4 super rare and strong cards of my own. Fast forward to this year and I’m amassing a collection again and getting really into deckbuilding!
Nice!
"devolved Obelisk" lol
Neo the Magic Swordsman was always the coolest 1700 vanilla, though, I always liked the fire themes PSV introduced with Mr. Volcano and Twin-Headed Dragon...which is pretty knarly how deformed it was, having only one limb back when Konami was more creative with artwork than effects.
So your dad *bought you* a birthday *gift* , but decided to keep *your* gift because its too valuable. That a dick move from someone who doesnt even play the damn game.
Have you ever considered getting a new family?
Fais Faizal yeah I mean it was 16 years ago so I’ve moved on but I don’t have a real relationship with him anyways so no big deal :P I agree it was a dick move.
The old text on card effects was definitely wildin. On another hand I always feel like the older normal monsters (in addition to their 'flavor text') needed the bonkers art so that you really felt their mood or "personality", whereas more recent cards get said personality from their relationship to other cards in their archetype and their specific mechanics, as well as the lore from the master guides. Keep up the vids man, best wishes🙏
Fusion deck is the best and you can’t change my mind about that.
Here in Colombia people said Yugioh was Satanic hhhahahah i cant blame them those oldschool designs were nightmare fuel
I started playing at first month too when the game came out in my country. Played for a few months then stopped. After a few years I played the games on DS and man I was in love again. But then I stopped again for a few years. I recently bought the newest game on Switch which has like 11.000 cards and damn it man. After a few years seeing and trying so many archetypes? I am like a kid in the candy store! I played the game for around 500 hours and I still don't have all the cards! And I played like 1/5 of the archetypes that exist in the game. Seriously just buy the game on Switch if you can.
I went to a tournament in Dallas in 2004. My first opponent played 4 Gemini Elf in their deck. Nobody listened to me when I tried to complain. I never went back to an event.
Showering wasn’t on this list I’m surprised
I remember making my own Shadow Realm duel with my friends and cousines back in around 05-06. I would duel with a small room heater full blast and we would attack each other depending on how we thought our monster would attack and how much life points the opponent would lose. If the monster had swords you would get stabbed, punch, burned, ice burned, you get the idea.
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I loved both, but i needed a break from the game, it took me 6 years to come back and a lot changed, all tho i new about pendulum, link was a big changer for me so i couldnt got back to the game , now with the MR5 or MR4.5 i am able to play my old decks again lol
using a rubberband to hold my cards together, and also face down attack position. ugh, my cousins and i were dumb as fuck
What if Konami introduced an Old School Traditional Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament, where players can only play and use cards that are from the Yu-Gi-Oh! (Yami Yugi and Kaiba era) and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX??? So that means NO Synchro summon, NO Link Summon, NO Pendulum...
Doug awesome video. I also have played and loved the entire series of Yu-Gi-Oh as a whole. My parents never got me any cards so I played the video games. It wasn't until 06-07 that I got to actually get into the game. My 1st few good decks was Evil Heros, Crystal Beasts, Gladiator Beasts. I learned the hard way how powerful Dark Worlds were. I got to face 3 golld and 2 Silva and I had the spellcasters judgement structure. I ended up being the top 5 player of our group of about 20-30. I also loved the Becket magazines as well. I remember going on a plane trip from Texas to Idaho and I got my 1st one. I was 15 at the time.
Yo 2002 and 2003 were great times to be a kid. My friends and I would collect and play ygo cards at skool tourneys etc. So many great series exploded during that time like the og Beyblades, Medabots, Pokemon, Sonic, and many more
Konami should release some effect monsters with a vanilla design, maybe as a new type of rarity. It's still one of the most recognizable card designs of all time even for non fans but sadly don't see that much play anymore.
Old school is better than new school in my opinion,but new school is amazing as it's own way,the link summoning is awesome of its own and just everything about it is awesome. But old school is better than new school in my opinion
I played yugioh up to till around the end of the 5d lifespan, personally I felt like the game was fine with only fusion and synchro summons. I revisited the game recently after 10 years or so and the current game feels so complicated to me with link summoning etc. I understand why it was implemented as the game couldn't just stay the same forever but I feel like its become too complex
I remember playing at school, the constancy was so awful that you would go 6 turns before anything happened
I remember running a deck full of level 4 vanillas back in 2006 because I though attack points were the most important thing and effect monsters back then didn’t normally have high attack points like they do now
I remember when decks used to be 80 card limit now its lowered to 60
Old enough to remember when I first heard the English dub Egyptian god monster theme. And also I was ok with synchro summoning but for whatever reason I never could get the whole “pendulum” effect cards
I remember watching commercials from before the first show came out.
Ah yeah, the good old days when they banned half my deck with the first ban list. Also, I still remember those 70 cards fusion decks that some people played "just in case".
something i've noticed about old school artwork is that most of the backgrounds of the monsters are weird colors and abstract shapes
Dzeef : Can you remember the time where there was no forbidden card ?
Exodia the forbidden one : Am I a joke to you ?
The monster cards from the first few sets had so much personality. Like half of them could be characters in a non-Yu-Gi-Oh! cartoon/anime. I love it when they bring back the old vanillas like Great White in the artwork of Squirt Squid and the bugs on Giant Ball Park.
I was just thinking the other day how nostalgic a lot of the old cards are just because of the artwork
For me it was a book land store that was my first time playing against anyone other than my brother and someone stole my deck...it was a shadow ghoul deck I was so proud of...yeah shadow ghoul was a terrible card to build a deck around but it looked so cool and sounded so powerful.
I remember when negating effects started and that was huge game changer. Everyone feared Jinzo, Skill Drain and Gravity Bind and Black Luster Soldier Envoy back then. Special Summoning was still no where near as fast-paced or broken like today. Fusion monsters were really weird and random. Rituals were barley a thing back then too.
The old artwork style really set yugioh apart from other card games. Back then it really felt like you were playing the shadow games.
I’ve been saying for a while now. Yugioh, Pokémon, duel masters heck even Harry Potter TCG. I remember each of the releases of those games, easily some of the best memories I have!
Glad to see someone remembers Harry Potter TCG. My Fluffy Turbo deck was never able to beat my father Charm/Transfiguation deck but I kept trying.
When I was a kid I got my first set of yugioh. My sister and I had no idea how to play it back, because I couldn't find the manual that was included back then. So we imitated everything in the anime, instead.
Until I play the PC game version, and I fully understand the mechanics of the game.
I started playing at the time when LOB, MRD and MRL/SRL were the only packs, and they had just come out with the Kaiba and Yugi Starters. My friend and I wanted to start something together, and we had seen a little bit of the Yugioh anime. So we figured, why not. Many many many years later, I'm still at it and loving it. Mostly I love that the art had been getting better for some archetypes and it does a lot more now than it used to. Sure, it can get quite confusing when it gets combo heavy or when multiple effects start chaining, but I still love it and will probably play it till it dies. And if it does, I'll just start collecting playsets of everything and then pass it down to my daughter.
Remember when no one knew how to play the game and you just competed on who had the bigger monster with the highest numbers
Dzeeff your not wrong yu-gi-oh did come on in the mornings before school for us. Me and my family would sit in front of our TV eating lucky charms cereal while playing the game on the side but it mainly showed around Friday and the weekends the most when it aired.
Remember when toys r us was a thing lol havent seen one in so long
Legend has it, if you travel far north, there is a haven that still exists...lucky sons of guns...
Didn't toys r us go bankrupt?
@@TheOneAndOnlyP6 they did, though in France they got replaced by another company called Picwic Toys
Toys r us went bankrupt. But now they are making a comeback. They are now smaller stores that will be in shopping malls. There's one in Garden State Plaza in northern NJ.
I'm kinda glad they're gone it was always cool to go to them seeing all the toys, but everything was overpriced compared to other stores
"I sacrifice my 2 monsters to summon Red Eyes B. Dragon"
I really appreciate this video because many of these old things were the norm for me as a Yu-Gi-Oh player. I played from LoB clear up to some of the elemental hero & cyber dragon sets. Then I quit the game for over 10 years and came back to something that looked nothing like the game I had played for years lol
Imagine playing Yu-Gi-Oh with no master rules, no link/synchro/tuner/XYZ, no relabeling major deck elements such as the fusion to extra deck thing and then coming back to the game. Even the concept of using a card errata to completely change what a card did, just so you could weaken the card and unban it was something that also was not a thing in the earlier years of the game. I didn't even know why Chaos Emperor Dragon was unbanned for the longest time until I found out the card was nerfed considerably.
Walking around with any old deck with 3 monster reborn 3 pot of greed. So great
one honorific mention is when you go to the internet to download a bunch of card codes and imput those in your game boy advance games in order to create the ultimate deck withouth actually own the cards
I'm till this day absolutely love the art work of Feral Imp and Summoned Skull! Damn I wish I could use them in some competitive deck... Specially Imp! As a ki I just loved how it looked in anime
Definitely the art! As a kid I loved yugioh style, it was cool and dark and just more interesting to look at than other games.
I was never a Magic The Gathering collector but they have the best art ever. If they made a tv show about it, i probably play Magic over Yugioh.
I’ve got so many of those Yu-Gi-Oh magazines. Every so often I would pick one out and just flip through it to see the art or check old school prices. Ah, the less complicated days.
I remember when all the trash players in school would run X3 Dark Hole and X3 Man Eater Bug just to slow down the inevitable 😂
Man back in the day... I used to go to local Hobbytown tournaments where they said you could trap hole on Mobius the Frost Monarch before Mobius could use his effect.
playing without sleeves and not giving a crap about card state. yes we were disgusting, me and my friends
One thing i like to make these days is imagining how the playstyle represent a archetype art theme and i have fun thinking on how much effort they gave to make some archetypes represent the "group" printed on the card (Just something i really enjoy on yugioh card design)
I like the old school affects. Simpler. I liked it where you didn't have to stop and read the card with a magnifying glass.
I played a lot as a kid, I stopped for a few years but picked the game back up around when the XYZs came out, around I think 2012, then fell off again until late last year when I picked up Legacy of the Duelist. I really did not remember at all that there used to be first turn draws. I didn't realize that was such a recent change, and now my world is upside down. I think it might have been because I played through the whole campaign of Legacy and playing those early duels with the new rules made me just forget what the old rules used to be.
"...or is named "Amazon Archer"
I just miss that everyone was was the same level in skill and combos it was extremely fun
That was just between kids though. We grow up and learn to actually play properly.
Lol miss the old school way where all decks mostly stuck to a simple build of 10 spells and traps and 20 monsters. Not that i don't mind the new way.
Only things we remember turns being under 5 mins
I remember there were structure decks thay include BIG cards that weren't playable but still was pretty cool to have big cards. The only one I ever obtained was a Dragunity Arma Leyvaten but I still have is lying around somewhere.
I remember all of them especially buying cards at the “crash games” store when buying my PSP and Nintendo DS
Right off the bat, number 1 resonates with me. First tourney I ever played it was at toys r us, probably in 2005. I was like 8 and brought a duel disk with me lmao
OMG Toy's R Us tournaments... Those were the best days of my life, sharing the good old times with my mates, playing crazy and really useless strategies only for fun.
Back then in middle school, Yu-Gi-Oh was not allowed in school because dueling meant "fighting" so me amd a friend of mine would once try to play the game with our imagination and made up our own archetype.
I had Duel Monsters deck back in the original days (this was a feat in Brazil where TCG is absurdly expensive), circa. 2003, 2004. Had much of the well known cards, but I also had some very obscure cards, at least for that time and age range.
I lost my cards a little time after 2004 (don't ask why, but they were burned) and since then I never had a deck anymore.
Now I live in Canada I finally started to build a deck again. I'm trying to rebuild that old deck precisely because the old artworks are much more appealing to me. Seriously, I just compare the old card's artwork and I simply love em compared to the recent ones. When I see a more recent card I feel that there is too much in there, kind like a noise or a blurry image.
One of the cards from the other video that states this is Convulsion of Nature. Although the effect is crazy, that artwork is so well done, so on point (it makes even more sense with the name of the card) that you stop some minutes to appreciate it.
Man... I'm an old guy talking too much.
I loved how classic cards could just “be”, up until Union monsters we had cards like “Flip” and Fusion cards where their effects and summoning conditions were just part of the rules. You just needed to know you needed Polymerization and Flip Effects activates as they do... I guess Toons and Rituals were still a bit wordy, but it would be nice if Geminis were vanilla colored, had “Gemini” in the description and stated their effect in the box like normal... In fact; Geminis are even more confusing having a description lol... I don’t know just seemed like better card design... It’s not like Pendulum Monster needed an explanation in their text of what they are and how they worked... It seems my argument is more about inconsistency than Old School vs. New School 😅 I enjoy both too.
I don't remember the Toy'r'us tournament.
I do remember the first turn draw, Fusion deck, magazines, old tins, and strange card texts.
I also enjoy both old school and new school Yugioh. Been a player since the first season of the original series. Back when we said "Its time to Duel!".
Summoned Skull (6Star)
2500 Attack
Highest Atk monster that require 1 Tribute
7 Colored Fish/La Djin (4Star)
1800 Attack
Back then when all my friend think Dark Magician & Blue Eyes is the best, and always use it
But Im different, I build Summoned Skull deck even without guide, I didn't even know what best deck
but 1 Thing for sure, I realize Summoned Skull is badass monster
I mean, 6 Star with 2500 attack
That was awesome
i remember goung to my first yu-gi-oh tournement at toys r us circa 2002/3. i was only 7 or 8 but i knew how to play the game. my opponent was my age and the first thing he did was NORMAL SUMMON BLACK SKULL DRAGON (the level 9 fusion). i tried to call him on his violation but he didn’t understand because his whole main deck was fusion monsters. I thought tournaments were a joke for years after this, and only recently went to my first couple regionals.
I actually have the joey tin I bought during high school (between 2017-2019). And I also bought an old Yugioh magazine that had the exodia poster.
I figured you would have mentioned priority effects. Summoning chaos sorcerer and using their effect before a response was crazy back then
Hobby Box Secret Rares vs Retail Box Secret Rares.
Back in the day each set had only two secret rares, the first card in the set was the Hobby Box Secret Rare (meaning that you could only pull it from packs bought at a card store) and the last card in the set was the Retail Secret Rare (you could only pull it from packs bought at a major retailer like Walmart).