OMG I THOUGH I WAS THE ONLY ONE Mr. Logs kept my interest in YGO but i couldn't play cuz haha not a single store sells ygo products here and i don't want to travel 4hs by bus to a store that """supposedly""" they sell ygo stuff (one time i went there, they had old product only, and magic)
Believe it or not: Cyberse cards got me back into yugioh because i work in Cyber Security: I collected cards as a kid and stopped around the 5Ds era like alot of people, then had a brief stint at the beginning of Uni with the Cyber Dragon Structure and was put off by how OP Pendulums were. After spending a year in industry and going on holiday to the states, i went into a book shop and found some packs of Code of the Duelist and the Link Strike Structure Deck. After going through the card names i realized they were all references to Cyber Security and computing concepts: HoneyBot is a Honey Pot, Decode Talker with a sword is decryption while Encode with a shield is Encryption. Topologic Bomber dragon is a logic bomb and it's effect functions like one. Pre-errata Firewall dragon also makes sense in the context of comparing it how an actual Firewall functions: allow the constant flow of traffic and block (or bounce) unwanted traffic. At that point i realized i NEEDED to collect all these cards and find a way to make the deck work. I could LITERALLY do these comparisons for nearly every Cyberse card, and have had the idea of documenting all of these in video.
My favorite was Topologic "Gumblar" Dragon because of personal experience (having to clean our lab's pcs because of a girl bringing an infected PDF from a bookstore she went to print it out) About Pendulums, they got me back in the game, I always blamed the Xyz toolbox (rank4) for being the actual culprit of their success.
These little hidden gems are always fun. I think this is super cool. I was always into the "ancient Egyptian" theme of DM era but I've found things I've come across like this that make the game a little more fun. I went to school for Meteorology and The Weather archetype is my "collectible deck".
The Albaz Structure deck got me back in because for about 30 dollars, I went from having no cards to being able to have a decent enough deck to casual play with friends. Like that shit had Branded Fusion and Mirrorjade.....easily one of the best structure decks that's ever been created.
to this day Im absolutely baffled that koMONEY made structure deck that good, ITS STILL PLAYABLE and has been for almost 2 years but then, they made it insanely expensive in master duel so I guess they still got their moneys worth in the end
To be fair Aluber was still 30$ at that point and a good amount of "mandatory" upgrade werent really cheap either (good amount of 3-5 bucks) so building a REAL deck wasn't as cheap as it sound.
@@claire6452 just the structure was good enough on it's own at least on the local level, and just Albaz, and Predaplant was a cheaper alternative that was still good
You never really fall off completely from yugioh, just sometimes take an extended break from content drough, being priced out, going through a bad format, or having a burnout, but eventually you inevitably come back. It's like letting your dog taste blood, once you've been thoroughly hooked there's nothing that can scratch that particular itch quite like yugioh.
Eh... Nah, I'm pretty sure I'm done. I can't follow it, I can't read the cards any more. And there's so many I don't even know about now. I follow MBT for MBT, that's it.
Well how great that you're still checking out videos and read specific comments to respond to. If you're sure about quitting for good, then fuck off and stop watching content @@manjackson2772
I never really quit, but Master Duel helped me re-enter the competitive scene after being away since 2015. It made the cost of competitive decks more accessible and I don't have to spend more time fighting with people over rulings. I'm still not interested in buying into paper, but this is a nice way to try stuff out at my leisure.
@@galaxyvulture6649 tbh i don't think that's the worst thing in the world. The problem for me was the amount of sharking and cheating and inconsistent rule enforcement in paper that happened.
Me neither, i was still a fan Thought, never *actually* played the game in tournament level, or on even proper "for the lol" level,i just played in elementary with "anything goes" types of rules ( which is how i thought for the longest time that COUNTER TRAPS were also magic cylinder) but during the quarantine, my bro kept pushing me to try "for real" , and now.....i have become the only earth machine enthusiast in my locals that has been playing the deck since, and gotta say..... that's a decision i will *NEVER* regret
Paper is a challenge, BUT, it is nice to connect with people over a common interest. Personally, I was missing that with my MD experience. I still like MD and play it sometimes, but it is several months behind still (minus Snake-Eye). If you have a locals, there will always be a judge there. Judges can iron things out and make a determinant ruling so that you can advance the game state.
@@galaxyvulture6649I think it really depends on the other player. I dont mind letting people read my cards multiple times. I need to read cards as well. I usually ask my opponent what their cards do. If they have any relevant effects, or effects when sent to GY etc. I also have no problem explaining what my cards do and will even remind them of relevant effects. The biggest challenge of in-person yugioh is the time limit in tournaments. It is close to impossible to play a full 3-game match in the allotted time if both players aren't completely efficient with each others decks. Even then, game-states obviously get very convoluted in general and take time to navigate.
Dzeef did it for me, I was out of the game around 2011 and hadn't thought about it for years. Then I stumbled upon Dzeef's "Why nobody plays" series that happened to feature lots of cards I tried jamming in every deck, and it flipped my understand of the game I had played for over a decade. After re-assessing all my old cards and catching up with the current releases (up to 2019 at that time), I started getting hyped for new possibilities again
I stopped playing Yugioh in early 2004, well before IOC. My friends and I were aging out of the target demographic of the anime, so we gravitated away from it as a whole. I got back in during the pandemic when I was bored out of my mind and decided to start binging old shows, and Yugioh DM came up again. Poked around RUclips (which didn't exist back when I was still playing), found TGS Anime, and from there the algorithm led me straight to all the TCG Yugitubers. I casually followed the competitive game because I didn't want to commit money to the game, and then when Master Duel launched I was immediately in.
If you want you could play project ignis, dueling nexus, or project omega bc they actually have a chat so you can joke with your opponet. Only thing I don't recommend is going against brazillians players bc they are all lowtiergod levels of toxic.
TGS Anime is who got me back in lol, got recommended his videos of who was statistically the best duellist and after having not watched any Yu-Gi-Oh or looked at the game since GX, ended up getting into it and properly learning the game at uni
I got out when my childhood friend group moved onto magic the gathering. A lack of people to consistently play with just, couldn't hold my interest. I was in off and on for ten years, but was known as "the yugioh person" at the game store that I started working at a few years ago, and got tasked with starting up events for the store again. It took like multiple months of work but I did manage to do it, and we've had a scene for like a year and some change, and I've been playing around the same time. I love this game and games as a whole because of the communities they create, the connections they forge, and the times and memories they create, and it feels just. so amazingly good to be able to play paper with people who love the game similarly to myself again.
Genuinely, Rata rank10ygo and you. I played as a 10 year old around synchro era a little, but fell off and didn't come back for a while until around 2016 when I happened to catch Archetype Archive - Cloudian and getting sucked in. I didn't jump right back in (played a bit of duel links) until I stumbled across your channel, and by then, Master Duel released and I was back in love all over again.
For me I've had it happen twice - I played on the playground as a kid with random sets of cards, my "aces" were Gren Maju Da Eiza and Black-Winged Dragon. I stopped playing in the late synchro era, just before Xyz's existed. Around mid to late 2019, I started feeling nostalgic, and that plus some RUclips videos made me begin relearning the game. I discovered DuelingBook and got really into it, but stopped as the pandemic ended and the one person I played with in person moved away. Then Master Duel came out and I've been on that grind. Maybe one day I'll pick up my paper Plunder Patroll deck again though.
I quit playing Yu-Gi-Oh around late 2017, early 2018, right about when the Link mechanic really started to take off. I was a big Synchron player at the time, and just didn't really jive with the whole MR4 changes heavily neutering that style of play in order to push Link summoning as a mechanic. I kept up with the metagame up until around 2020, and heavily considered getting back into the game around the MR5 announcement, but my life became a lot busier in 2020. The thing that actually finally pulled me back into the game was discovering this channel, about a month or two ago! And more importantly, being able to share it with my girlfriend and introduce her to the game that I loved. (Also, EDOPRO just being really good, and teetering on trying out Master Duel now)
The progression series and to a lesser extent History of Yugioh brought me back (also how I found MBT). I saw a random Cimo video of him comparing magic cards to yugioh cards (I switched to MTG around the XYZ era), and that's how I found progression. Getting a chance to go over all the sets I had missed made it easier for me to understand the current metagame and how the game played today.
Came back to playing Yu-Gi-Oh! cause of the Yusei theme decks in my YT suggestions, watching them play Junk Speeder then just fully combo-ing into these like 5 Stardust-like Dragons made me so hype and made me build the deck.
Rata. The deadpan Montenegrin has the exact style of humor and comedic timing that I cannot get enough of. Also I binged LotW and Archetype Archive until I found a strategy that called out to me (Madolche my beloved)
It really is crazy that good structure decks are the norm now that i can generally feel pretty comfortable pointing at one of them when someone asks me how they can back into the game the only SD in the past couple years that I would maybe consider a flop is the Jack Atlas one, but I know that several of those cards see play in Bystial brews, so I wouldn't even say that
I used to play casually in highschool with some of my friends during the early xyz era, but it was actually when I saw your TMT for Gravekeepers that brought me back into the game and I've been hooked ever since.
Sad I missed this prompt. I quit twice, returned twice. First quit during Inzektor format. Face it FIVE TIMES in a regional and had enough. I just picked up my cards and walked away. Came back when The Dark Illusion came out. I like Dark Magician :) Quit again during Zoo format. COVID had me fall into old hobbies, and I learned of Magician' Souls. 8/10/20, I bought a box of Magical Hero to get Souls and decided to stream it. Then I opened PHRA and pulled Starlight Zeus in my first box, this was before I even knew what starlights were. I then bought TWO CASES of BLVO for more Starlights and pulled none :) But here I am, sitting through Snake-Eye combos.
Played very casually on and off for years, but really got into the game competitively for the first time playing Fortune Ladies in Duel Links. Incredibly fun deck, enabled by a simple skill that increased a fortune lady's level by 3, with a combo that made FL Every + draw 2, and a bunch of other fun cards like FL Wind and Bending Destiny. It was the first time I'd climbed to the top of the ladder, and was a really fun experience and felt like a victory against the triangle meta of darklords, blackwings, and invoked-elementsaber and tier 2 pure shiranui (before grass, stun, or combo shiranui versions), all stronger decks but beatable. One of the best yugioh experiences I've ever had, and the reason I kept playing DL (despite the bad gacha), MD, and even a little TCG.
Master Duel during COVID. Starry Night, Starry Dragon and Hope Harbinger Dragon were early favorites that made me realize the insanity in concept didn't exactly change too much 😂
I want to say the Zombie Horde deck in late 2018 is what started to bring me back. And then with my first job in 2019 I was able to just start buying lots of packs of Dark Neostorm. As well as 2 more of the DDD structure decks. Desperate for another zombie deck, or a retrain Bones' old cards from the duellist kingdom arc of DM.
The last good standalone console game “Link Revolution” got me the motivation to learn pendulum and link cards so I could keep up with the game. Life and work won’t let me play or attend locals anymore so I’m grateful master duel is still available for me when I have time to play.
I stopped playing around the end of the DM era because I was a kid who moved on to new hobbies. And probably because the anime stopped airing on Kids WB. I somehow heard the news of MR4 being announced, and that led to me looking into what Yugioh had been up to, which led to me following several yugitubers for years. Master Duel got me actually playing regularly for the first time. A new locals opening up in my town (the closest before that was 1.5 hours away) got me to play in paper.
Dang, I thought I was the only one that got lured in by MR4. The idea of a much more limited format with more focused combo strategies was really appealing. Didn't really pan out until TOSS, but I still really enjoy MR 4 for at least half its run. Especially since most of the formats afterwards were dominated by mostly combo decks
@@munchrai6396 To be fair, the actual contents of MR4 didn't really matter to me, since I had been out of the game for so long. It was just the thing that I somehow heard about that reminded me about the game. Though it probably did help that I also didn't have any pet decks since I had been gone, so MR4 didn't ruin anything for me. I do remember playing around with YGOPro a bit at the time, and I quickly decided that Pendulums were OP, so that probably also made me predisposed to like MR4.
I’ve been on and off with the game since HAT, but two major things brought me back. Master Duel, and MBT videos. I don’t have any locals here, so finding a community I jell with, being both entertained and informed in equal measure, and having a few new decks over the years that I enjoy has really helped. Master Duel was the icing on top to all of this, because for all of its problems, a broke boy like me can enjoy the card game of my childhood again.
I built Lightsworn way back when the deck was expensive, wheeled and dealed my way into finally getting my hands on copies of the premier stuff that culminated into Judgment Dragon (a card that was completely out of my price range as a broke ass high schooler) and had the deck stolen from me. Got completely discouraged and decided I was done. A friend of mine bought me three copies of the Gemini structure deck of all things, and I loved it so much that it got me back into the game full stop. Haven’t put it down since. Rob, I know you’re watching this video. Thanks for picking me up when I was down.
I got back into Yugioh (but not actually playing) around when Progression first started, and thanks to Joseph I will be stuck in this hole for a while.
Honestly, what got me back into Yu-gi-oh was both History Of Yu-Gi-Oh and Master Duel. History found me at my lowest near the end of 2020 and it became tradition for me to cook a nice meal and watch it every Friday. Master Duel coming out over a year later gave me exactly what I've always wanted, a official simulator to play the game. Like many of us, I was in a really bad spot during the worst of the Covid pandemic so I natural turned to my childhood for comfort. It was just the right thing at the right time to pull me back in.
I started playing when Spell cards were still called Magic cards and I quit when Synchro's were announced. Funny enough the Facebook Yugioh Bam got me back into the game.
I actually really enjoyed this video, hearing a lot of players talking about their experiences on getting back into the game kinda reinvigorates me to continue playing in this snake-eyes format (I call it that because its all I see atm, gotta love T-0). I especially loved that last post, heartwarming !!
I left Yugioh during early XYZ format. Came back after buying random packs of Code of the Duelist at a Toys R Us waiting for friends to arrive in the parking lot of a near by Applebees. Loved the World Chalice art and lore and never stopped since.
Wow, it’s almost like lowering the barrier to entry through competent out-of-the-box decks and keeping card prices low via consistent reprints and/or printing cards at multiple rarities leads to more people picking the game up.
I fell off around early Xyz era, but what got me back into the game was going to a new high school and meeting friends at the lunch table who all played at the local card shop. Around that time, Spirit Warriors came out and I picked up Magical Muskets for the first time. That deck is what brought me back in, made a lot of memories with em just because High School me thought that an archtype based around Cowboys is cool as hell
honestly what brought me back after leaving at the end of the synchro era was a want to connect with other duelists again, our love for the anime has always been a connecting force for my siblings and i and just being able to share that was something that i always loved the yugioh simulators are what brought me back at the tail end of master rule 4 learning how to use XYZ pendulums and links was so fun and now i enjoy locals way more with the dream of going to a YCS and stirring people up as much as the famous exodia ftk did
I ended up falling out of YuGiOh as soon as Pendulums came out at Duelist alliance. Was pretty bad timing starting college, ended up playing other card games such as Magic, Digimon, Force of Will etc... What brought me back was the release of the worst set of all time Ancient Guardians in 2021. I always have been a long time Reptile/Vennominaga fan and seeing the archetype was awesome. Glad to see nothing has changed, Reptiles still suck, but I love them no less.
Before getting deeper into Yugioh my experience of playing the game was through GX Tag Force in 2010s decade. Even back then i only played Tag Force 1 (that had 2005/06 format). Sometime around 2022, i noticed my brother began playing Tag Force game. But this time he played Tag Force 3. Curiosity started filling my mind as i began watching Tag Force 3 gameplay videos on RUclips. During that time i learned of Tele-Dad deck which was super cool to watch. I then decided to play Tag Force 2, 3, and 4 respectively, learning more of past decks like Crystal Beast, Monarch, Glad Beast, Lightsworn, and also learning synchro summoning in Tag Force 3-4. It was very entertaining and made me think "I want to know more of Yugioh". Around May 2023 i got into Master Duel and learned more summoning mechanics and how the game has evolved over years.
I'm only a Magic player, but seeing all the talk about structure decks really makes me long for the days of Event/Challenger decks. They didn't always hit the mark, but the premise is so good for helping players wiggle their way into a new format, as that can be extremely daunting.
That subterror D&D story is something I always wanted to try, either base a campaign in some archetype lore, or have a lich start to summon, destroy, loop and juggle a colorful cast of skeletons for five minutes, and become the king of the skull servants
What brought me back to Yu-Gi-Oh was when my older brother showed me an ots store near me in 2013 and I started picking up my first original yugioh cards because before that, I had tons of counterfeit ones. Plus rewatching the anime at the time add a lot to it.
Unironically Arc-V. I love the show, decks, characters, etc. It made me happy due to its themes of happiness through some rough parts of life. Always be my favorite part of this Franchise.
I have every deck from that series imo the hatred it gets makes it the most underrated series of them all. Last time i was as hyped as with Zarc (ruined by Yuzu, ep89 iirc) was during some episodes of Zexal Second, the Galaxy Eyes battle on the Moon / Vector vs Nash.
I came back because 2 words made a deck i wanted to make (Appropriate Exodia) possible: Mystic Mine. I wish they just nerfed the card so that only dedicated decks could run it, but they just decided to kill it while it was at it's least viable because idk
I stoped playing before the intro of synchro summoning, maybe 2006ish, what brought me back were the random chaos of Davinator1212’s duel links videos. I don’t know why, but watching him activate infernal tempest against blue eyes players is just infectious.
I never played the game competitively, but I hadn’t looked at it much in a long time. Then I saw Rata’s videos, and that got me really interested in the game’s history and progression of archetypes. And then master duel happened.
I can't say I'm back in YGO because I have an on again off again relationship with the game but Doug's videos were something that caught my eye during the pandemic and started the interest in the game back up after like 8 years away from the game.
I was vaguely keeping up with Yugioh via Duellogs. Master duel got me into the game. And content creators like MBT got me to stay invested. Like, I was really looking forward to swordsoul based on how mbt described the deck. I remember, around the first week of master duel, pulling up edopro, reading the swordsoul and tenyi cards and feeling absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of text. I remember playing a lot of MD’s solo modes at launch as ways to learn how to read the cards/see the modern game. Monarchs was the best mode for that. Really appreciated the Lightsworn story for putting a lot of powerful cards in that last duel for players to experience.
I have a similar story to the other folks on the that thread, but it was the beginning of my journey rather than a re-continuation. When I was around 13-14, my mom bought me a random bulk of yugioh cards off of eBay for my birthday. I had been getting interested at the time and decided this would be a fun start. In that bulk was admittedly a lot of random garbage, but one series of cards stuck out amongst them. The Rokkets. Seeing as all I had before them were shitty cards from the zexal era and a random promo DM, I thought those dark dragons were some of the most overpowered cards in the game. Over time, I slowly built up that deck. Years of pulling packs, buying individual cards, trading at locals, and innovating online lead me to the list I have today. I couldn’t be more proud of owning a deck that I worked so hard to create. Thank you yugioh for being an awesome game.
Master rule 5 . When link monsters came out and they told us all other summoning methods are useless i lost interest. They realized how stupid of an idea it was and tweaked it so you could summon fusion/synchro/xyz in the main monster zones without the need for link arrows. Thank GOD!
Out of nowhere my parents got me some bargain barrel pulls alongside a few packs and fell in love with Madolche and somehow convinced my dad to get in with Noble Knights box from god knows when. I played just about whatever we ended up pulling that I could make cohesive for the laughs such as Melodius, Aromage, Raidraptor and Lunalight. With my main decks being Madolche and Cubic until the link era where my father played Kozmo and Super Quant. We have both stopped now but I liked the concept of the masochist challenge and have been doing that on occasion while learning links on the way
I was very much a massive Magic player my entire life, but also played ygo from the start towards the end of Synchro Era. After eons away, I met my buddy Bill who had never touched a Magic card in his life, but was having a ton of fun with Spyral Format and we got one another to try each other's games. Now I play way more ygo than he does, and he plays way more Magic than I do.
I feel like Yugioh and Magic are both incredibly fun in now incredibly different ways, with Yugioh being very fast and Magic being quite slow in comparison, so when you are fed up with one, the other is a great change in pace.
Yugioh legacy of the duelist is criminally underrated, I found it in 2018 and it got me back in when I last had interest in 2004…I finally tried to play IRL when the “link evolution” version came out, using sky striker (later invoked dogma, branded, and sprite). Tried for 3-ish years but ended up never having fun, dropping out when kashtira came out…about 9 months later my locals finally began Edison and I’ve been having a blast the past 5 months! Retro is the way to go, I respect anyone who can have fun but modern YGO I dont think will ever be enjoyable anymore
Left the game around 2007 to focus on Magic since realistically I had to choose one or the other, I couldn't afford to continue both in high school. Dipped my toes back in a couple of times in college but strictly using my old deck. Around 2019 I looked up videos on Yu-Gi-Oh to properly understand how it had grown because for years I had just heard the classic "it's a powercrept mess" line and that was all I had to go off of and found Cimooo's stuff. Finally, in 2021 the Cyber Strike structure deck got me back into playing the paper games as I'd always loved Cyber Dragon and it was a starting point for a CyDra deck.
The Duel Links > Master Duel pipeline was big for a lot of people. I’m someone who barely followed the game and had a passing interest in the show when I was younger, and Duel Links drew me in with the anime stuff, taught me about the later shows and summoning mechanics once they got added, then Master Duel was there when I was ready to take the plunge into the full game.
I fell off in middle school because I didn't know anybody but my brother who still played, I had aged out of being all that interested in the anime, and my parents were too busy to ever take me to the local card shop. I still had a lot of fond memories of it and casually followed the game's development, and I came back about a month after Master Duel launched because I heard you didn't need to spend money to build a good deck.
In high school gym class, there were two kids who would just play in the corner, I always wanted to go up to them and watch but I never did. I regret that and this was probably the catalyst that allowed me to somewhat get into actually going to a card shop and playing irl. Also my friend playing branded back it when it was still just despia helped a lot.
randomly decided to watch yugioh again for the first time since i was a kid, started playing monarchs on omega around 2019, made some friends from there and still play all forms of yugioh with them to this day
Dzeeff is easily the reason I got into yugioh in the first place. His videos were very watchable even though I had no prior yugioh knowledge and were essential for me learning that bad cards are bad cards
Duel logs, you, and dzeef making high quality videos, and master duel, helped get me back into the game (played DM and GX). The crystal beast structure deck being good is getting me back into paper though
I have this obnoxious habit of swinging back and forth between this and Magic. I peaked in 2011 or so, around Edison format, and I recall fondly my college years playing a nearly unbeaten Agent Gallis deck. I then fell hard into Commander specifically in 2016, basically leaving Yu-Gi-Oh behind, being too stupid to keep up with both games. Then the Charmer deck came out, and I meandered back somewhat, but it really wasn't until I stumbled upon you and Alex's History of Yu-Gi-Oh that I genuinely came back with any Gusto. I didn't think the game had any love for older formats, but now I'm comfortable playing Edison to Tengu Plant formats, and a very slow process of modernizing my beloved Agent Gallis deck.
I originally played from US release until early GX when my friends ended up stopping playing as well. About 5.5 yrs ago, I got back into MTG, which led to getting into Vanguard. Late 2019- early 2020, I was traveling to other stores to play Vanguard because me and a few friends were planning on going to Springfest in April. One of the stores we regularly went to had a fairly big Yugioh scene as well and there was some cross-over between groups. After the Shaddoll structure came out, there was a few people playing doll mirrors after the Vanguard tournament. I decided to watch to see how much the game had changed in 15 years. Got interested enough to download Duel Links, which got me interested enough to try paper again. Ended up picking up Trap Shaddoll's after Pak's Balling on a Budget series started.
It took Cimo being recommended to me randomly with yugioh memes. Then i tried the prog series that helped me understand the rules from literally day 1 to now. Now im deep into master duel.
I got back into the game because I stumbled across Rata's Guardian video. Binge-watched the whole series, bought a box of Eternity Code to crack on a whim, and I was hooked again.
My friend got me into the game through YGOpro around 2018 and taught me how to play Skull Servants, Zombie World Control, and Ojama ABCVWXYZ. Then moved to play Duel Links with another friend then we both got bored because we couldn't feasibly build more than 1 deck, I built Sylvans because World Carrotweight Champion fucking rocks and my friend built Slifer because he was just given garbage. Then masterduel showed up and I've been playing Ojama ABCVWXYZ ever since :)
I have several answers to this question, it's been a long 21 years. I started in 2003, but quit in 2005. I came back to Yugioh in late 2005 when GX premiered. I liked the start of that anime and it got me back into the card game after a 6 month hiatus. I quit AGAIN in early 2007 out of sheer boredom, but came back in 2010 when I saw the Gusto archetype in Duel Terminal (OCG). It's still one of my favorite archetypes ever, alongside the Charmers. I quit again in early 2015 due to not having as much time to dedicate to playing, but I returned in 2020 (playing pure Shaddols from the structure deck) during lockdown and I've been back ever since. I saw the Shaddoll archetype on release years earlier and I just didn't have the time and money to get back into yugioh at the time, so that cheap Structure Deck reeled me back in.
Synchrons/Stardust support is what got me back into yugioh, I had played Nexus for a while but never got a deck that got me into the irl game until I could build a Majestic Star deck I liked
Last time I was in touch with the meta was back in the synchro era when I was playing on Dueling Network. I still remember the precise moment I quit, I played against a deck that made a long combo involving Armory Arm and Level Eater that ended on Shooting Quasar Dragon, it was too complex for my brain to comprehend. I don't know how I found out, but I just found out randomly that Master Duel just released and that's how I got back into playing Yugioh. Just online though, not paper.
I fell out again, but before this it was Tri-brigade. I loved the art, and lore. And watching the deck get more popular/strong overtime it was so much fun. Tri-brigade lyrulisc was such a strong deck at the time and loving wind/wong beast monsters it was so fun. It's probably my favorite meta relevant deck next to infernoble.
Yu-Gi-Oh at this point has become the revolving door of my adult life. In, then out, back in, back out, in again, out again, it never truly leaves my life, but my interest in specific areas of the YGO media empire has waxed and waned, but there's usually something about it I keep in tabs with. My original in was the anime, watching GX in something like 2014-2015 and becoming interested in the game. It'd take some time for me to get a playing partner, but that didn't stop me from buying cards and emulating GBA and PSP simulators was good enough for the time. Then, after a long war of attrition, I got a friend to play with me, starting our "Rummaging through trunks-trash" era. We'd eventually begin the arms race of playing actual decks, where I picked up my unjustifiable love for Vampires (This was like pre-Saviors vampires, mind you) and life was good. This early, innocent time was some of my best times playing the game. My first roadblock with YGO came in 2017 with the release of Master Rule 4. I wasn't a big fan of Links starting off, I wasn't a fan of how forced the push to change the game I'd been enjoying was, while it wasn't an immediate death, the amount of time sitting at the kitchen table playing YGO did start to dwindle as we started prioritising doing other things. 2017 would also spark my equally on/off relationship with Magic in Amonkhet, so that also didn't really help matter for YGO. It's around this time-period, when RUclips content about YGO became more important to maintaining my grip in the game. Interest with the game at that point would spike here and there with releases like Dark Saviors 2018 or Maximum Gold El Dorado in 2021, but especially with another friend with whom the two of us started palling around as a group, it was harder and harder to find the time to duel. Master Duel is basically the reason I never truly left YGO behind. It not only let me have a convenient online component for playing and forcing me to get over myself with links and hand-traps, but it also introduced the game to that aformentioned other friend to YGO, which was a shot in the arm the series needed to really get going again. We did some drafts, I started collecting cards again, MD gave me a couple of ideas on projects to work on, it was smooth sailing all the way up to 2023. With a short-lived LGS opening around town, I was finally introduced to a larger community of players playing MTG locally and that pretty much sealed the deal. It became a question of whether I'd invest in a card game I'm playing with like 2 other people once every month or so or investing in a card game that I got to play weekly with sometimes up to a dozen people. So, while I never properly abandoned YGO ever again, my focus nonetheless shifted. Over the course of the year though, hype for YGO had started creeping up on me more and more. It started with a youtuber called Jon-Oh getting me hooked on his continuing efforts to play through Forbidden Memories in every limited deckbuilding challenge imaginable, which ended me up on Rata's, Hardleg's and your channel again and now, I've been giving a few side-glances towards my Deck Devastator box that holds all my decks again as I've been sleeving some of them again. It's only a matter of time until I crack and I feel an itch to play again, whereupon I'll shrivel up and die as I have to figure out how I rebuild Zombies again with all the banlist updates since I last played.
I mean prog and history of yugioh. The latter made it way easier for me to learn the game seeing how the game has changed and getting me familiar with enough concepts i wasn't scared when i sat down and learned myself.
the thing that got me back honestly was duel links, i saw a yugioh game that just started and joined day 1 and literally the one thing that spiraled down into going back
I stopped playing back when I was super young, but barely knew how to play even then. Largely playing playground and went to a locals as "That kid who doesn't really know how to play" I wasn't playing banned cards, but didn't understand how the game WORKED so I was on the Equip Spell Warrior structure from like 06 with all my favourite cards. Eventually sold my GameCube (with almost all its games) and whole collection at a garage sale for 30 bucks (lived to regret both now that I have reestablished most of those collections) But finding Duel Links got me interested, and then finding DuelingBook got me RIGHT back in. I was in isolation with my partner during lockdown #1, and we fell in love with the game, learning to play (for them) and learning how to play anything released from 2007-2020 (for me) It brought me back into paper play (for real this time) and introduced me to some of the coolest and most wonderful people I know. Then my locals fell apart so now I play Commander as my only in paper game
What got me back was one of my dormmates in my freshman year in university with either the Upgraded/Updated Yugi and Kaiba Structure Decks or the Ancient Gear/Dino Structure Decks that brought the best Tyranno that book of moon'd all the monsters on the opponent's field. and then we moved on to both Duel Links for a bit and just buying packs kinda regularly after New Challengers (which got me my Ghost Rare Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon)
Well...there were a number of reasons. Yugitubers (mostly Rata and later TheDuelLogs, Dzeeff and MBT), generally interesting archetypes,...If I had to narrow it down to something, I'd say Fire Kings. They made Yubel one of the strongest cards in Duel Links' meta (while even being a somewhat reliable counter against Fur Hire) and their support cards are awesome. When Yubel was meta, we basically just had Yaksha and Island...and Barong, I guess, but that card didn't really matter yet. Here's a list of archetypes that I played a lot: - (honorable mention) my first PvP-deck in DL ever: Daedalus-control - Dragunity - Six Samurai - Shiranui (my only King Of Games, while "The Grass Is Greener" was still legal, but I didn't even use it.) - Mayakashi (sometimes with Shiranui combined) - Fire Kings (including and excluding Yubel, later with Nephthys) - Fire Fist (It took a while for them to be interesting because they were always under-supported. They were a decent deck once they got their XYZs, but shit really hit the fan with Panda. That card is nuts!) - Lunalight, I guess, but they barely had any cards (just "Judgement Force"). - D/D/D (This was actually a decent deck even when it barely had any cards.) - Subterror (Guru isn't even in the game yet. It's just Umastryx-control.) - Superheavy Samurai - Cyber Dragon - Dinosaur-Paleozoic (Survival's End) - Rikka (basically Fire Kings for Plant-type) - U.A. - Agents with Tethys, Magical Mallet and Reload - Cyber Angels - Fossil Fusion (Why did it take so long to get released? Jim is the best character in GX!) - Metaphys Looking back on it, that's actually quite a lot, even excluding the decks that I've barely played at all, like Dark World, Gladiator Beast, T.G. and others.
I started playing Yugioh in 2020 and quit just about 4 months after that after I realized how much time had the grind game of Yugioh Duel Links taken out of me, then MD came out and I was willing to give it a try. Can't go back to DL after that, despite the occasional dogwater metas and maxx C at 3, it is still significantly better than the experience I had in DL.
I stopped playing around 2009 and restarted again 2015ish, right after that Nekroz, Shaddoll, Qliphort format. What got me back in? Yugioh Abridged! Such a fun parody, that reminded me of how fun the actual game was!
Shoutout to LittleKuriboh's Abridged Series as that was the start of a chain of events that made me want to get back into the game after dropping it when Legacy of Darkness came out (2003) due to the hype around it in my area dying out, there being no local scene and the few people interested in growing the game being bullied by the MtG community we had. Watching TAS made me go and binge watch DM and later 5Ds just as it was getting to the Crash Town Arc which got me interested in the game again as I thought the concept of Synchro Summons was really cool since this was in 2009. So a 6 year break more or less. That's right. I'm a Yugiboomer who *actually enjoys the newer summoning mechanics and modern gameplay.* A rarity, I know.
Found a group of friends in college that played, this was around Secret Forces. Found Shaddolls and thought their looks were so cool, glad they got me back into it.
I've played YuGiOh virtually from 2017, but on paper just from last year. One day a friend of mine texted me and said "hey, there's a group of people that wants to revive the yugioh community here in the city. Want to come and play?" and oh god now I have most of the important staples, a sunavalon rikka aroma pile, sky striker, traptrix and naturia runick deck.
RAIDRAPTOR! I was convinced for the longest time that I would never truly be able to get back into any form of competitive YGO, doomed to toil with Dark World at locals forever, and then PHNI happened and gave me a chance to use the raidraptor core i got for less than 5 dollars that got exponentially more expensive since the newfound popularity of the deck. The Rebellion Rises, brothers.
Stopped playing back in 2010 when most of my friends had stopped and others had picked up Magic and moved to that. When Master Duel came out I messed around with it for a bit, but fell off again. A few months back Team APS put out a video with the new Lightsworn cards and the new stuff seemed cool and I love Lightsworn, so I picked up Master Duel again looking to try them out. They weren't in the game, but I figured they'd be added soon and that I'll mess around with solo mode until then (seriously, solo mode in Master Duel is amazing). I think what kept me around is Master Duel is just a great game to play casually and cool RUclipsrs letting me learn about the game since I left. Also helps that a bunch of the structure decks the shop in Master Duel has looked really cool plus the mutual follower campaign giving a solid Swordsoul deck meant I had a bunch of decent decks to mess around with which is all I want in a CCG. Still waiting for the new Lightsworn cards though. Any day now.
I left when xzy just released (for unrelated reasons) and forgot about the game because I knew it was expensive-ish and I had so much to catch up on. Until Doug's content showed up on my feed (all those "why nobody plays" and what not). They brought the game back to my mind. And then Master Duel came out and gave me the opportunity I needed. Looked up something along the lines of "most fun Master duel deck" or something. Played Prank-kids. They were pretty cool and helped me quickly grasp Link climbing. I then got back into the TCG because I wanted to play my MD decks in paper.
I played from the beginning until the beginning of the synchro era. I didnt have anybody around to play the game with anymore and when master duel came out i was finally able to play with friends again. I bought into Nephtys and have enjoyed my time with the game ever since
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DuelLogs talking to me while I fall asleep got me back into Yu-Gi-Oh
best moon spider mommy tbh
tbh same
OMG I THOUGH I WAS THE ONLY ONE
Mr. Logs kept my interest in YGO but i couldn't play cuz haha not a single store sells ygo products here and i don't want to travel 4hs by bus to a store that """supposedly""" they sell ygo stuff (one time i went there, they had old product only, and magic)
I thought i was alone…
Same. Too bad I had to stop watching him because his stream commentary was making me uncomfortable.
Believe it or not: Cyberse cards got me back into yugioh because i work in Cyber Security:
I collected cards as a kid and stopped around the 5Ds era like alot of people, then had a brief stint at the beginning of Uni with the Cyber Dragon Structure and was put off by how OP Pendulums were. After spending a year in industry and going on holiday to the states, i went into a book shop and found some packs of Code of the Duelist and the Link Strike Structure Deck.
After going through the card names i realized they were all references to Cyber Security and computing concepts: HoneyBot is a Honey Pot, Decode Talker with a sword is decryption while Encode with a shield is Encryption. Topologic Bomber dragon is a logic bomb and it's effect functions like one. Pre-errata Firewall dragon also makes sense in the context of comparing it how an actual Firewall functions: allow the constant flow of traffic and block (or bounce) unwanted traffic.
At that point i realized i NEEDED to collect all these cards and find a way to make the deck work. I could LITERALLY do these comparisons for nearly every Cyberse card, and have had the idea of documenting all of these in video.
My favorite was Topologic "Gumblar" Dragon because of personal experience (having to clean our lab's pcs because of a girl bringing an infected PDF from a bookstore she went to print it out)
About Pendulums, they got me back in the game, I always blamed the Xyz toolbox (rank4) for being the actual culprit of their success.
By any chance do you play Altergeist? The monsters are spellcasters but the names and the theme are all about computer systems.
Topologic Bomber Dragon + pendulum fodder = fun times
These little hidden gems are always fun. I think this is super cool.
I was always into the "ancient Egyptian" theme of DM era but I've found things I've come across like this that make the game a little more fun.
I went to school for Meteorology and The Weather archetype is my "collectible deck".
Please do that because that sounds so cool
The Albaz Structure deck got me back in because for about 30 dollars, I went from having no cards to being able to have a decent enough deck to casual play with friends. Like that shit had Branded Fusion and Mirrorjade.....easily one of the best structure decks that's ever been created.
I won one of Tellarvision's $8 Speed Duel Tournament with just cards from the Albaz structure
to this day Im absolutely baffled that koMONEY made structure deck that good, ITS STILL PLAYABLE and has been for almost 2 years
but then, they made it insanely expensive in master duel so I guess they still got their moneys worth in the end
To be fair Aluber was still 30$ at that point and a good amount of "mandatory" upgrade werent really cheap either (good amount of 3-5 bucks) so building a REAL deck wasn't as cheap as it sound.
@@claire6452 just the structure was good enough on it's own at least on the local level, and just Albaz, and Predaplant was a cheaper alternative that was still good
LET'S FUCKING GO CERVEZA CRISTAL BECOMING THE PREMIERE CHILE REFERENCE
It helps that the jingle goes hard for no reason. Very catchy tune.
i awe when i found about the meme, so funny growing up with that ad and now seeing it get international
You never really fall off completely from yugioh, just sometimes take an extended break from content drough, being priced out, going through a bad format, or having a burnout, but eventually you inevitably come back. It's like letting your dog taste blood, once you've been thoroughly hooked there's nothing that can scratch that particular itch quite like yugioh.
Eh... Nah, I'm pretty sure I'm done. I can't follow it, I can't read the cards any more. And there's so many I don't even know about now. I follow MBT for MBT, that's it.
"It's like letting your dog taste blood" pal CHILL 😭
@@krabbekage2124 am I right or am I right tho?
Well how great that you're still checking out videos and read specific comments to respond to.
If you're sure about quitting for good, then fuck off and stop watching content @@manjackson2772
What do you mean you "can't read the cards" @@manjackson2772
I never really quit, but Master Duel helped me re-enter the competitive scene after being away since 2015. It made the cost of competitive decks more accessible and I don't have to spend more time fighting with people over rulings. I'm still not interested in buying into paper, but this is a nice way to try stuff out at my leisure.
Paper sounds so ass with how convuluted it is. Also I constantly need to read over cards and I know my opponent would hate me doing that constantly.
@@galaxyvulture6649 tbh i don't think that's the worst thing in the world. The problem for me was the amount of sharking and cheating and inconsistent rule enforcement in paper that happened.
Me neither, i was still a fan
Thought, never *actually* played the game in tournament level, or on even proper "for the lol" level,i just played in elementary with "anything goes" types of rules ( which is how i thought for the longest time that COUNTER TRAPS were also magic cylinder) but during the quarantine, my bro kept pushing me to try "for real" , and now.....i have become the only earth machine enthusiast in my locals that has been playing the deck since, and gotta say..... that's a decision i will *NEVER* regret
Paper is a challenge, BUT, it is nice to connect with people over a common interest. Personally, I was missing that with my MD experience. I still like MD and play it sometimes, but it is several months behind still (minus Snake-Eye).
If you have a locals, there will always be a judge there. Judges can iron things out and make a determinant ruling so that you can advance the game state.
@@galaxyvulture6649I think it really depends on the other player. I dont mind letting people read my cards multiple times. I need to read cards as well. I usually ask my opponent what their cards do. If they have any relevant effects, or effects when sent to GY etc. I also have no problem explaining what my cards do and will even remind them of relevant effects.
The biggest challenge of in-person yugioh is the time limit in tournaments. It is close to impossible to play a full 3-game match in the allotted time if both players aren't completely efficient with each others decks. Even then, game-states obviously get very convoluted in general and take time to navigate.
Dzeef did it for me, I was out of the game around 2011 and hadn't thought about it for years. Then I stumbled upon Dzeef's "Why nobody plays" series that happened to feature lots of cards I tried jamming in every deck, and it flipped my understand of the game I had played for over a decade. After re-assessing all my old cards and catching up with the current releases (up to 2019 at that time), I started getting hyped for new possibilities again
Same. Plus at the time he was doing duel links streams which got me to play duel links too
I stopped playing Yugioh in early 2004, well before IOC. My friends and I were aging out of the target demographic of the anime, so we gravitated away from it as a whole. I got back in during the pandemic when I was bored out of my mind and decided to start binging old shows, and Yugioh DM came up again. Poked around RUclips (which didn't exist back when I was still playing), found TGS Anime, and from there the algorithm led me straight to all the TCG Yugitubers. I casually followed the competitive game because I didn't want to commit money to the game, and then when Master Duel launched I was immediately in.
If you want you could play project ignis, dueling nexus, or project omega bc they actually have a chat so you can joke with your opponet. Only thing I don't recommend is going against brazillians players bc they are all lowtiergod levels of toxic.
A fellow 04 bro who got back in because of Master Duel!
TGS Anime is who got me back in lol, got recommended his videos of who was statistically the best duellist and after having not watched any Yu-Gi-Oh or looked at the game since GX, ended up getting into it and properly learning the game at uni
I got out when my childhood friend group moved onto magic the gathering. A lack of people to consistently play with just, couldn't hold my interest.
I was in off and on for ten years, but was known as "the yugioh person" at the game store that I started working at a few years ago, and got tasked with starting up events for the store again.
It took like multiple months of work but I did manage to do it, and we've had a scene for like a year and some change, and I've been playing around the same time.
I love this game and games as a whole because of the communities they create, the connections they forge, and the times and memories they create, and it feels just. so amazingly good to be able to play paper with people who love the game similarly to myself again.
It was Rata. It was entirely stumbling onto Rata in his early years and I started digging.
For me it had to be Roobindale's history of the yugioh meta video that got me back into the game
Rank10ygo videos got my interest back in 2017... what a year for it.
Genuinely, Rata rank10ygo and you. I played as a 10 year old around synchro era a little, but fell off and didn't come back for a while until around 2016 when I happened to catch Archetype Archive - Cloudian and getting sucked in. I didn't jump right back in (played a bit of duel links) until I stumbled across your channel, and by then, Master Duel released and I was back in love all over again.
CERVEZA CRISTAL
that part got me ahaha
I really feel like he had the perfect opportunity to splice it into an old TMT skit
No me lo puedo creeeer
worst forced meme in a long time
@jeffe2267 let people have fun for now you negative nancy
For me I've had it happen twice - I played on the playground as a kid with random sets of cards, my "aces" were Gren Maju Da Eiza and Black-Winged Dragon. I stopped playing in the late synchro era, just before Xyz's existed.
Around mid to late 2019, I started feeling nostalgic, and that plus some RUclips videos made me begin relearning the game. I discovered DuelingBook and got really into it, but stopped as the pandemic ended and the one person I played with in person moved away.
Then Master Duel came out and I've been on that grind. Maybe one day I'll pick up my paper Plunder Patroll deck again though.
I quit playing Yu-Gi-Oh around late 2017, early 2018, right about when the Link mechanic really started to take off. I was a big Synchron player at the time, and just didn't really jive with the whole MR4 changes heavily neutering that style of play in order to push Link summoning as a mechanic. I kept up with the metagame up until around 2020, and heavily considered getting back into the game around the MR5 announcement, but my life became a lot busier in 2020. The thing that actually finally pulled me back into the game was discovering this channel, about a month or two ago! And more importantly, being able to share it with my girlfriend and introduce her to the game that I loved. (Also, EDOPRO just being really good, and teetering on trying out Master Duel now)
First. You brought me back to YGO MBT, thanks for all your videos!
Kiss ass
You know what brought me back? My crippling gambling addiction! 😊
Gamba
tear format huh?
The progression series and to a lesser extent History of Yugioh brought me back (also how I found MBT). I saw a random Cimo video of him comparing magic cards to yugioh cards (I switched to MTG around the XYZ era), and that's how I found progression. Getting a chance to go over all the sets I had missed made it easier for me to understand the current metagame and how the game played today.
Came back to playing Yu-Gi-Oh! cause of the Yusei theme decks in my YT suggestions, watching them play Junk Speeder then just fully combo-ing into these like 5 Stardust-like Dragons made me so hype and made me build the deck.
Rata. The deadpan Montenegrin has the exact style of humor and comedic timing that I cannot get enough of.
Also I binged LotW and Archetype Archive until I found a strategy that called out to me (Madolche my beloved)
It really is crazy that good structure decks are the norm now that i can generally feel pretty comfortable pointing at one of them when someone asks me how they can back into the game
the only SD in the past couple years that I would maybe consider a flop is the Jack Atlas one, but I know that several of those cards see play in Bystial brews, so I wouldn't even say that
I used to play casually in highschool with some of my friends during the early xyz era, but it was actually when I saw your TMT for Gravekeepers that brought me back into the game and I've been hooked ever since.
They dropped support for my old favourites so now I'm crawling back into it like that caveman that was defrosted in Dexter's Lab
Sad I missed this prompt.
I quit twice, returned twice. First quit during Inzektor format. Face it FIVE TIMES in a regional and had enough. I just picked up my cards and walked away.
Came back when The Dark Illusion came out. I like Dark Magician :)
Quit again during Zoo format. COVID had me fall into old hobbies, and I learned of Magician' Souls.
8/10/20, I bought a box of Magical Hero to get Souls and decided to stream it. Then I opened PHRA and pulled Starlight Zeus in my first box, this was before I even knew what starlights were.
I then bought TWO CASES of BLVO for more Starlights and pulled none :) But here I am, sitting through Snake-Eye combos.
Honestly, Rata might've been the reason my interest in yugioh was reignited. Man has a talent to get you to care about cardboard
Played very casually on and off for years, but really got into the game competitively for the first time playing Fortune Ladies in Duel Links.
Incredibly fun deck, enabled by a simple skill that increased a fortune lady's level by 3, with a combo that made FL Every + draw 2, and a bunch of other fun cards like FL Wind and Bending Destiny. It was the first time I'd climbed to the top of the ladder, and was a really fun experience and felt like a victory against the triangle meta of darklords, blackwings, and invoked-elementsaber and tier 2 pure shiranui (before grass, stun, or combo shiranui versions), all stronger decks but beatable.
One of the best yugioh experiences I've ever had, and the reason I kept playing DL (despite the bad gacha), MD, and even a little TCG.
Master Duel during COVID.
Starry Night, Starry Dragon and Hope Harbinger Dragon were early favorites that made me realize the insanity in concept didn't exactly change too much 😂
Congrats, Dire!
You CAN'T just hit me with the Waverly Place opening like that Dire.
I want to say the Zombie Horde deck in late 2018 is what started to bring me back. And then with my first job in 2019 I was able to just start buying lots of packs of Dark Neostorm. As well as 2 more of the DDD structure decks. Desperate for another zombie deck, or a retrain Bones' old cards from the duellist kingdom arc of DM.
The last good standalone console game “Link Revolution” got me the motivation to learn pendulum and link cards so I could keep up with the game. Life and work won’t let me play or attend locals anymore so I’m grateful master duel is still available for me when I have time to play.
I stopped playing around the end of the DM era because I was a kid who moved on to new hobbies. And probably because the anime stopped airing on Kids WB.
I somehow heard the news of MR4 being announced, and that led to me looking into what Yugioh had been up to, which led to me following several yugitubers for years.
Master Duel got me actually playing regularly for the first time.
A new locals opening up in my town (the closest before that was 1.5 hours away) got me to play in paper.
Dang, I thought I was the only one that got lured in by MR4. The idea of a much more limited format with more focused combo strategies was really appealing. Didn't really pan out until TOSS, but I still really enjoy MR 4 for at least half its run. Especially since most of the formats afterwards were dominated by mostly combo decks
@@munchrai6396 To be fair, the actual contents of MR4 didn't really matter to me, since I had been out of the game for so long. It was just the thing that I somehow heard about that reminded me about the game. Though it probably did help that I also didn't have any pet decks since I had been gone, so MR4 didn't ruin anything for me.
I do remember playing around with YGOPro a bit at the time, and I quickly decided that Pendulums were OP, so that probably also made me predisposed to like MR4.
I’ve been on and off with the game since HAT, but two major things brought me back. Master Duel, and MBT videos. I don’t have any locals here, so finding a community I jell with, being both entertained and informed in equal measure, and having a few new decks over the years that I enjoy has really helped. Master Duel was the icing on top to all of this, because for all of its problems, a broke boy like me can enjoy the card game of my childhood again.
I built Lightsworn way back when the deck was expensive, wheeled and dealed my way into finally getting my hands on copies of the premier stuff that culminated into Judgment Dragon (a card that was completely out of my price range as a broke ass high schooler) and had the deck stolen from me. Got completely discouraged and decided I was done. A friend of mine bought me three copies of the Gemini structure deck of all things, and I loved it so much that it got me back into the game full stop. Haven’t put it down since.
Rob, I know you’re watching this video. Thanks for picking me up when I was down.
Playing Duel Links led me to master duel. DL was definitely a gateway drug. Been thinking about playing paper.
so glad dire passed her classes!!!!
I got back into Yugioh (but not actually playing) around when Progression first started, and thanks to Joseph I will be stuck in this hole for a while.
Honestly, what got me back into Yu-gi-oh was both History Of Yu-Gi-Oh and Master Duel.
History found me at my lowest near the end of 2020 and it became tradition for me to cook a nice meal and watch it every Friday.
Master Duel coming out over a year later gave me exactly what I've always wanted, a official simulator to play the game.
Like many of us, I was in a really bad spot during the worst of the Covid pandemic so I natural turned to my childhood for comfort. It was just the right thing at the right time to pull me back in.
I started playing when Spell cards were still called Magic cards and I quit when Synchro's were announced. Funny enough the Facebook Yugioh Bam got me back into the game.
I actually really enjoyed this video, hearing a lot of players talking about their experiences on getting back into the game kinda reinvigorates me to continue playing in this snake-eyes format (I call it that because its all I see atm, gotta love T-0). I especially loved that last post, heartwarming !!
I left Yugioh during early XYZ format. Came back after buying random packs of Code of the Duelist at a Toys R Us waiting for friends to arrive in the parking lot of a near by Applebees. Loved the World Chalice art and lore and never stopped since.
Wow, it’s almost like lowering the barrier to entry through competent out-of-the-box decks and keeping card prices low via consistent reprints and/or printing cards at multiple rarities leads to more people picking the game up.
I fell off around early Xyz era, but what got me back into the game was going to a new high school and meeting friends at the lunch table who all played at the local card shop. Around that time, Spirit Warriors came out and I picked up Magical Muskets for the first time. That deck is what brought me back in, made a lot of memories with em just because High School me thought that an archtype based around Cowboys is cool as hell
honestly what brought me back after leaving at the end of the synchro era was a want to connect with other duelists again, our love for the anime has always been a connecting force for my siblings and i and just being able to share that was something that i always loved the yugioh simulators are what brought me back at the tail end of master rule 4 learning how to use XYZ pendulums and links was so fun and now i enjoy locals way more with the dream of going to a YCS and stirring people up as much as the famous exodia ftk did
I ended up falling out of YuGiOh as soon as Pendulums came out at Duelist alliance. Was pretty bad timing starting college, ended up playing other card games such as Magic, Digimon, Force of Will etc... What brought me back was the release of the worst set of all time Ancient Guardians in 2021. I always have been a long time Reptile/Vennominaga fan and seeing the archetype was awesome. Glad to see nothing has changed, Reptiles still suck, but I love them no less.
Before getting deeper into Yugioh my experience of playing the game was through GX Tag Force in 2010s decade. Even back then i only played Tag Force 1 (that had 2005/06 format).
Sometime around 2022, i noticed my brother began playing Tag Force game. But this time he played Tag Force 3.
Curiosity started filling my mind as i began watching Tag Force 3 gameplay videos on RUclips. During that time i learned of Tele-Dad deck which was super cool to watch. I then decided to play Tag Force 2, 3, and 4 respectively, learning more of past decks like Crystal Beast, Monarch, Glad Beast, Lightsworn, and also learning synchro summoning in Tag Force 3-4. It was very entertaining and made me think "I want to know more of Yugioh".
Around May 2023 i got into Master Duel and learned more summoning mechanics and how the game has evolved over years.
I'm only a Magic player, but seeing all the talk about structure decks really makes me long for the days of Event/Challenger decks. They didn't always hit the mark, but the premise is so good for helping players wiggle their way into a new format, as that can be extremely daunting.
That subterror D&D story is something I always wanted to try, either base a campaign in some archetype lore, or have a lich start to summon, destroy, loop and juggle a colorful cast of skeletons for five minutes, and become the king of the skull servants
Started playing since 2004. Pendulum made me took a break for some years. Unironically Sky Striker and Trickstar made me come back, omg I love Raye.
What brought me back to Yu-Gi-Oh was when my older brother showed me an ots store near me in 2013 and I started picking up my first original yugioh cards because before that, I had tons of counterfeit ones. Plus rewatching the anime at the time add a lot to it.
Unironically Arc-V. I love the show, decks, characters, etc. It made me happy due to its themes of happiness through some rough parts of life. Always be my favorite part of this Franchise.
I have every deck from that series imo the hatred it gets makes it the most underrated series of them all. Last time i was as hyped as with Zarc (ruined by Yuzu, ep89 iirc) was during some episodes of Zexal Second, the Galaxy Eyes battle on the Moon / Vector vs Nash.
I came back because 2 words made a deck i wanted to make (Appropriate Exodia) possible: Mystic Mine. I wish they just nerfed the card so that only dedicated decks could run it, but they just decided to kill it while it was at it's least viable because idk
I stoped playing before the intro of synchro summoning, maybe 2006ish, what brought me back were the random chaos of Davinator1212’s duel links videos. I don’t know why, but watching him activate infernal tempest against blue eyes players is just infectious.
I never played the game competitively, but I hadn’t looked at it much in a long time. Then I saw Rata’s videos, and that got me really interested in the game’s history and progression of archetypes. And then master duel happened.
My friend bought the legendary yugi's decks and it was the beginning of my new journey into the game !
I can't say I'm back in YGO because I have an on again off again relationship with the game but Doug's videos were something that caught my eye during the pandemic and started the interest in the game back up after like 8 years away from the game.
I was vaguely keeping up with Yugioh via Duellogs. Master duel got me into the game. And content creators like MBT got me to stay invested. Like, I was really looking forward to swordsoul based on how mbt described the deck.
I remember, around the first week of master duel, pulling up edopro, reading the swordsoul and tenyi cards and feeling absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of text.
I remember playing a lot of MD’s solo modes at launch as ways to learn how to read the cards/see the modern game. Monarchs was the best mode for that. Really appreciated the Lightsworn story for putting a lot of powerful cards in that last duel for players to experience.
I have a similar story to the other folks on the that thread, but it was the beginning of my journey rather than a re-continuation. When I was around 13-14, my mom bought me a random bulk of yugioh cards off of eBay for my birthday. I had been getting interested at the time and decided this would be a fun start. In that bulk was admittedly a lot of random garbage, but one series of cards stuck out amongst them.
The Rokkets. Seeing as all I had before them were shitty cards from the zexal era and a random promo DM, I thought those dark dragons were some of the most overpowered cards in the game. Over time, I slowly built up that deck. Years of pulling packs, buying individual cards, trading at locals, and innovating online lead me to the list I have today. I couldn’t be more proud of owning a deck that I worked so hard to create.
Thank you yugioh for being an awesome game.
Master rule 5 . When link monsters came out and they told us all other summoning methods are useless i lost interest. They realized how stupid of an idea it was and tweaked it so you could summon fusion/synchro/xyz in the main monster zones without the need for link arrows. Thank GOD!
Out of nowhere my parents got me some bargain barrel pulls alongside a few packs and fell in love with Madolche and somehow convinced my dad to get in with Noble Knights box from god knows when.
I played just about whatever we ended up pulling that I could make cohesive for the laughs such as Melodius, Aromage, Raidraptor and Lunalight. With my main decks being Madolche and Cubic until the link era where my father played Kozmo and Super Quant. We have both stopped now but I liked the concept of the masochist challenge and have been doing that on occasion while learning links on the way
I was very much a massive Magic player my entire life, but also played ygo from the start towards the end of Synchro Era. After eons away, I met my buddy Bill who had never touched a Magic card in his life, but was having a ton of fun with Spyral Format and we got one another to try each other's games. Now I play way more ygo than he does, and he plays way more Magic than I do.
I feel like Yugioh and Magic are both incredibly fun in now incredibly different ways, with Yugioh being very fast and Magic being quite slow in comparison, so when you are fed up with one, the other is a great change in pace.
Yugioh legacy of the duelist is criminally underrated, I found it in 2018 and it got me back in when I last had interest in 2004…I finally tried to play IRL when the “link evolution” version came out, using sky striker (later invoked dogma, branded, and sprite). Tried for 3-ish years but ended up never having fun, dropping out when kashtira came out…about 9 months later my locals finally began Edison and I’ve been having a blast the past 5 months! Retro is the way to go, I respect anyone who can have fun but modern YGO I dont think will ever be enjoyable anymore
Left the game around 2007 to focus on Magic since realistically I had to choose one or the other, I couldn't afford to continue both in high school. Dipped my toes back in a couple of times in college but strictly using my old deck. Around 2019 I looked up videos on Yu-Gi-Oh to properly understand how it had grown because for years I had just heard the classic "it's a powercrept mess" line and that was all I had to go off of and found Cimooo's stuff. Finally, in 2021 the Cyber Strike structure deck got me back into playing the paper games as I'd always loved Cyber Dragon and it was a starting point for a CyDra deck.
The Duel Links > Master Duel pipeline was big for a lot of people. I’m someone who barely followed the game and had a passing interest in the show when I was younger, and Duel Links drew me in with the anime stuff, taught me about the later shows and summoning mechanics once they got added, then Master Duel was there when I was ready to take the plunge into the full game.
I fell off in middle school because I didn't know anybody but my brother who still played, I had aged out of being all that interested in the anime, and my parents were too busy to ever take me to the local card shop. I still had a lot of fond memories of it and casually followed the game's development, and I came back about a month after Master Duel launched because I heard you didn't need to spend money to build a good deck.
In high school gym class, there were two kids who would just play in the corner, I always wanted to go up to them and watch but I never did. I regret that and this was probably the catalyst that allowed me to somewhat get into actually going to a card shop and playing irl. Also my friend playing branded back it when it was still just despia helped a lot.
randomly decided to watch yugioh again for the first time since i was a kid, started playing monarchs on omega around 2019, made some friends from there and still play all forms of yugioh with them to this day
Dzeeff is easily the reason I got into yugioh in the first place. His videos were very watchable even though I had no prior yugioh knowledge and were essential for me learning that bad cards are bad cards
Very happy that Dire passed
Duel logs, you, and dzeef making high quality videos, and master duel, helped get me back into the game (played DM and GX). The crystal beast structure deck being good is getting me back into paper though
I have this obnoxious habit of swinging back and forth between this and Magic. I peaked in 2011 or so, around Edison format, and I recall fondly my college years playing a nearly unbeaten Agent Gallis deck. I then fell hard into Commander specifically in 2016, basically leaving Yu-Gi-Oh behind, being too stupid to keep up with both games. Then the Charmer deck came out, and I meandered back somewhat, but it really wasn't until I stumbled upon you and Alex's History of Yu-Gi-Oh that I genuinely came back with any Gusto. I didn't think the game had any love for older formats, but now I'm comfortable playing Edison to Tengu Plant formats, and a very slow process of modernizing my beloved Agent Gallis deck.
I originally played from US release until early GX when my friends ended up stopping playing as well. About 5.5 yrs ago, I got back into MTG, which led to getting into Vanguard. Late 2019- early 2020, I was traveling to other stores to play Vanguard because me and a few friends were planning on going to Springfest in April. One of the stores we regularly went to had a fairly big Yugioh scene as well and there was some cross-over between groups. After the Shaddoll structure came out, there was a few people playing doll mirrors after the Vanguard tournament. I decided to watch to see how much the game had changed in 15 years. Got interested enough to download Duel Links, which got me interested enough to try paper again. Ended up picking up Trap Shaddoll's after Pak's Balling on a Budget series started.
It took Cimo being recommended to me randomly with yugioh memes. Then i tried the prog series that helped me understand the rules from literally day 1 to now. Now im deep into master duel.
I got back into the game because I stumbled across Rata's Guardian video. Binge-watched the whole series, bought a box of Eternity Code to crack on a whim, and I was hooked again.
My friend got me into the game through YGOpro around 2018 and taught me how to play Skull Servants, Zombie World Control, and Ojama ABCVWXYZ. Then moved to play Duel Links with another friend then we both got bored because we couldn't feasibly build more than 1 deck, I built Sylvans because World Carrotweight Champion fucking rocks and my friend built Slifer because he was just given garbage. Then masterduel showed up and I've been playing Ojama ABCVWXYZ ever since :)
I have several answers to this question, it's been a long 21 years.
I started in 2003, but quit in 2005. I came back to Yugioh in late 2005 when GX premiered. I liked the start of that anime and it got me back into the card game after a 6 month hiatus.
I quit AGAIN in early 2007 out of sheer boredom, but came back in 2010 when I saw the Gusto archetype in Duel Terminal (OCG). It's still one of my favorite archetypes ever, alongside the Charmers.
I quit again in early 2015 due to not having as much time to dedicate to playing, but I returned in 2020 (playing pure Shaddols from the structure deck) during lockdown and I've been back ever since. I saw the Shaddoll archetype on release years earlier and I just didn't have the time and money to get back into yugioh at the time, so that cheap Structure Deck reeled me back in.
Synchrons/Stardust support is what got me back into yugioh, I had played Nexus for a while but never got a deck that got me into the irl game until I could build a Majestic Star deck I liked
Duel Links in 2017. It also convinced me to finally watch all the yugioh anime shows too. Have been neck-deep in yugioh since.
Last time I was in touch with the meta was back in the synchro era when I was playing on Dueling Network. I still remember the precise moment I quit, I played against a deck that made a long combo involving Armory Arm and Level Eater that ended on Shooting Quasar Dragon, it was too complex for my brain to comprehend.
I don't know how I found out, but I just found out randomly that Master Duel just released and that's how I got back into playing Yugioh. Just online though, not paper.
I fell out again, but before this it was Tri-brigade. I loved the art, and lore. And watching the deck get more popular/strong overtime it was so much fun. Tri-brigade lyrulisc was such a strong deck at the time and loving wind/wong beast monsters it was so fun. It's probably my favorite meta relevant deck next to infernoble.
Yu-Gi-Oh at this point has become the revolving door of my adult life. In, then out, back in, back out, in again, out again, it never truly leaves my life, but my interest in specific areas of the YGO media empire has waxed and waned, but there's usually something about it I keep in tabs with. My original in was the anime, watching GX in something like 2014-2015 and becoming interested in the game. It'd take some time for me to get a playing partner, but that didn't stop me from buying cards and emulating GBA and PSP simulators was good enough for the time. Then, after a long war of attrition, I got a friend to play with me, starting our "Rummaging through trunks-trash" era. We'd eventually begin the arms race of playing actual decks, where I picked up my unjustifiable love for Vampires (This was like pre-Saviors vampires, mind you) and life was good. This early, innocent time was some of my best times playing the game.
My first roadblock with YGO came in 2017 with the release of Master Rule 4. I wasn't a big fan of Links starting off, I wasn't a fan of how forced the push to change the game I'd been enjoying was, while it wasn't an immediate death, the amount of time sitting at the kitchen table playing YGO did start to dwindle as we started prioritising doing other things. 2017 would also spark my equally on/off relationship with Magic in Amonkhet, so that also didn't really help matter for YGO. It's around this time-period, when RUclips content about YGO became more important to maintaining my grip in the game. Interest with the game at that point would spike here and there with releases like Dark Saviors 2018 or Maximum Gold El Dorado in 2021, but especially with another friend with whom the two of us started palling around as a group, it was harder and harder to find the time to duel.
Master Duel is basically the reason I never truly left YGO behind. It not only let me have a convenient online component for playing and forcing me to get over myself with links and hand-traps, but it also introduced the game to that aformentioned other friend to YGO, which was a shot in the arm the series needed to really get going again. We did some drafts, I started collecting cards again, MD gave me a couple of ideas on projects to work on, it was smooth sailing all the way up to 2023. With a short-lived LGS opening around town, I was finally introduced to a larger community of players playing MTG locally and that pretty much sealed the deal. It became a question of whether I'd invest in a card game I'm playing with like 2 other people once every month or so or investing in a card game that I got to play weekly with sometimes up to a dozen people. So, while I never properly abandoned YGO ever again, my focus nonetheless shifted.
Over the course of the year though, hype for YGO had started creeping up on me more and more. It started with a youtuber called Jon-Oh getting me hooked on his continuing efforts to play through Forbidden Memories in every limited deckbuilding challenge imaginable, which ended me up on Rata's, Hardleg's and your channel again and now, I've been giving a few side-glances towards my Deck Devastator box that holds all my decks again as I've been sleeving some of them again. It's only a matter of time until I crack and I feel an itch to play again, whereupon I'll shrivel up and die as I have to figure out how I rebuild Zombies again with all the banlist updates since I last played.
I mean prog and history of yugioh. The latter made it way easier for me to learn the game seeing how the game has changed and getting me familiar with enough concepts i wasn't scared when i sat down and learned myself.
the thing that got me back honestly was duel links, i saw a yugioh game that just started and joined day 1 and literally the one thing that spiraled down into going back
I stopped playing back when I was super young, but barely knew how to play even then.
Largely playing playground and went to a locals as "That kid who doesn't really know how to play"
I wasn't playing banned cards, but didn't understand how the game WORKED so I was on the Equip Spell Warrior structure from like 06 with all my favourite cards.
Eventually sold my GameCube (with almost all its games) and whole collection at a garage sale for 30 bucks (lived to regret both now that I have reestablished most of those collections)
But finding Duel Links got me interested, and then finding DuelingBook got me RIGHT back in.
I was in isolation with my partner during lockdown #1, and we fell in love with the game, learning to play (for them) and learning how to play anything released from 2007-2020 (for me)
It brought me back into paper play (for real this time) and introduced me to some of the coolest and most wonderful people I know.
Then my locals fell apart so now I play Commander as my only in paper game
What got me back was one of my dormmates in my freshman year in university with either the Upgraded/Updated Yugi and Kaiba Structure Decks or the Ancient Gear/Dino Structure Decks that brought the best Tyranno that book of moon'd all the monsters on the opponent's field.
and then we moved on to both Duel Links for a bit and just buying packs kinda regularly after New Challengers (which got me my Ghost Rare Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon)
Well...there were a number of reasons. Yugitubers (mostly Rata and later TheDuelLogs, Dzeeff and MBT), generally interesting archetypes,...If I had to narrow it down to something, I'd say Fire Kings. They made Yubel one of the strongest cards in Duel Links' meta (while even being a somewhat reliable counter against Fur Hire) and their support cards are awesome. When Yubel was meta, we basically just had Yaksha and Island...and Barong, I guess, but that card didn't really matter yet.
Here's a list of archetypes that I played a lot:
- (honorable mention) my first PvP-deck in DL ever: Daedalus-control
- Dragunity
- Six Samurai
- Shiranui (my only King Of Games, while "The Grass Is Greener" was still legal, but I didn't even use it.)
- Mayakashi (sometimes with Shiranui combined)
- Fire Kings (including and excluding Yubel, later with Nephthys)
- Fire Fist (It took a while for them to be interesting because they were always under-supported. They were a decent deck once they got their XYZs, but shit really hit the fan with Panda. That card is nuts!)
- Lunalight, I guess, but they barely had any cards (just "Judgement Force").
- D/D/D (This was actually a decent deck even when it barely had any cards.)
- Subterror (Guru isn't even in the game yet. It's just Umastryx-control.)
- Superheavy Samurai
- Cyber Dragon
- Dinosaur-Paleozoic (Survival's End)
- Rikka (basically Fire Kings for Plant-type)
- U.A.
- Agents with Tethys, Magical Mallet and Reload
- Cyber Angels
- Fossil Fusion (Why did it take so long to get released? Jim is the best character in GX!)
- Metaphys
Looking back on it, that's actually quite a lot, even excluding the decks that I've barely played at all, like Dark World, Gladiator Beast, T.G. and others.
I started playing Yugioh in 2020 and quit just about 4 months after that after I realized how much time had the grind game of Yugioh Duel Links taken out of me, then MD came out and I was willing to give it a try.
Can't go back to DL after that, despite the occasional dogwater metas and maxx C at 3, it is still significantly better than the experience I had in DL.
The way Vaylantz worked brought me back, which is crazy because labyrinth is in the same set and I didn’t bat an eye at it
I stopped playing around 2009 and restarted again 2015ish, right after that Nekroz, Shaddoll, Qliphort format. What got me back in? Yugioh Abridged! Such a fun parody, that reminded me of how fun the actual game was!
Shoutout to LittleKuriboh's Abridged Series as that was the start of a chain of events that made me want to get back into the game after dropping it when Legacy of Darkness came out (2003) due to the hype around it in my area dying out, there being no local scene and the few people interested in growing the game being bullied by the MtG community we had. Watching TAS made me go and binge watch DM and later 5Ds just as it was getting to the Crash Town Arc which got me interested in the game again as I thought the concept of Synchro Summons was really cool since this was in 2009. So a 6 year break more or less.
That's right. I'm a Yugiboomer who *actually enjoys the newer summoning mechanics and modern gameplay.* A rarity, I know.
Secret slayers brought me back. I love the archetype designs during that era, and Rikka + Adamancipator in particular interested me.
Found a group of friends in college that played, this was around Secret Forces. Found Shaddolls and thought their looks were so cool, glad they got me back into it.
Diabellastarr brought me back. I mean the art in modern Yu-Gi-Oh cards are chef's kiss.
Proud of be part of the spanish community and watch the best English youtuber of yugioh
I've played YuGiOh virtually from 2017, but on paper just from last year. One day a friend of mine texted me and said "hey, there's a group of people that wants to revive the yugioh community here in the city. Want to come and play?" and oh god now I have most of the important staples, a sunavalon rikka aroma pile, sky striker, traptrix and naturia runick deck.
RAIDRAPTOR! I was convinced for the longest time that I would never truly be able to get back into any form of competitive YGO, doomed to toil with Dark World at locals forever, and then PHNI happened and gave me a chance to use the raidraptor core i got for less than 5 dollars that got exponentially more expensive since the newfound popularity of the deck. The Rebellion Rises, brothers.
Stopped playing back in 2010 when most of my friends had stopped and others had picked up Magic and moved to that. When Master Duel came out I messed around with it for a bit, but fell off again. A few months back Team APS put out a video with the new Lightsworn cards and the new stuff seemed cool and I love Lightsworn, so I picked up Master Duel again looking to try them out. They weren't in the game, but I figured they'd be added soon and that I'll mess around with solo mode until then (seriously, solo mode in Master Duel is amazing). I think what kept me around is Master Duel is just a great game to play casually and cool RUclipsrs letting me learn about the game since I left. Also helps that a bunch of the structure decks the shop in Master Duel has looked really cool plus the mutual follower campaign giving a solid Swordsoul deck meant I had a bunch of decent decks to mess around with which is all I want in a CCG. Still waiting for the new Lightsworn cards though. Any day now.
I left when xzy just released (for unrelated reasons) and forgot about the game because I knew it was expensive-ish and I had so much to catch up on. Until Doug's content showed up on my feed (all those "why nobody plays" and what not). They brought the game back to my mind. And then Master Duel came out and gave me the opportunity I needed. Looked up something along the lines of "most fun Master duel deck" or something. Played Prank-kids. They were pretty cool and helped me quickly grasp Link climbing. I then got back into the TCG because I wanted to play my MD decks in paper.
I played from the beginning until the beginning of the synchro era. I didnt have anybody around to play the game with anymore and when master duel came out i was finally able to play with friends again. I bought into Nephtys and have enjoyed my time with the game ever since