Immoralities of American culture part 1/87 (Boxing, Martial Arts, UfC is evil) In the eyes of The Lord Jesus Christ, breaking someone’s nose or jaw (especially for money), is extremely wrong! Such a thing is NOT loving or kind at all. And even more so, cheering for another human being to be kicked in the face, or given a bloody nose, or a black eye, beaten up, or “knocked out unconscious ”- Is extremely wrong in His eyes as well. When we see two people fighting we should be appalled or displeased at the sight of it, Not be happy or excited…. He feels that it is extremely wrong to take excitement or pleasure in seeing someone’s son or daughter be being injured or beat up. In the eyes of the Lord that’s immoral and wrong! For these reasons, amongst all of the sports, MMA And Boxing are the sports that the HOLY Father despises the most as He considers them as especially wicked or evil. And I am sorry to say it, but He is right. (Psalm 11:5)- “The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.”
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 In the words of the Lord, RUclips is full of violent and malicious content. You being on RUclips is your one-way ticket to hell.
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 based on that definition God would have to hate every contact sport there is as they all can be pretty violent which I don’t think is the case. Also your verse has to do with loving violence for the sake of violence while MMA and the like are professional settings and purely competition. There’s nothing inherently evil. Do you have any other proof or perhaps more than 1 verse. Also this a video about cardboard not MMA so I think you’re a little lost my friend.
Yeah I remember when this deck came out the hype for pendulum was real and it has no win condition, I'm glad they learned from this mistake moving forward
Production value has definitely been improved throughout these duels. The quick cuts, the camera quality, the card sample presentation, it's a lot of little things, but it adds up to so much. I SEE YOU TEAM APS
I'm loving all the extra effort put into editing recently! I know its probably a pain putting in a pic of all the cards being used but as a new player it honestly makes these so much more enjoyable to watch. Appreciate you guys!
thats like, almost shady marketing. Writing "pendulum deck" on the box only to give 2 our of 40 cards. This is like selling "chocolate chips" and including like 10 chocolate and 90 shit-flavored xD
Paul's abolsute despair at Alec just happening to have drawn Poison of the Old Man was priceless and so, so relateable to anyone who's gotten paired up with mid range burn decks that lock you out and kill you with that old, but shockingly dangerous old common. XD His "NoooooooooooOOOOOoooo!" is comparable to Luke Skywalker finding out his father was Darth Vader all along.
18:47 Paul normal summoned Draconet and Marauding Captain in the same turn, if he didn’t attack with the Captain Alec would have have enough life to use Seven Tools on the Bottomless.
Dark Hole was my dad's favorite card. He was the one that would have 3 in his deck. It was almost the only way he'd beat me when we played when I was young.
Gawd, this is great Yu-Gi-Oh on RUclips. One deck can't pendulum summon, the cyberse deck can't sustain a board. The interplay between Alec & Paul is what I love about this game.
Immoralities of American culture part 1/87 (Boxing, Martial Arts, UfC is evil) In the eyes of The Lord Jesus Christ, breaking someone’s nose or jaw (especially for money), is extremely wrong! Such a thing is NOT loving or kind at all. And even more so, cheering for another human being to be kicked in the face, or given a bloody nose, or a black eye, beaten up, or “knocked out unconscious ”- Is extremely wrong in His eyes as well. When we see two people fighting we should be appalled or displeased at the sight of it, Not be happy or excited…. He feels that it is extremely wrong to take excitement or pleasure in seeing someone’s son or daughter be being injured or beat up. In the eyes of the Lord that’s immoral and wrong! For these reasons, amongst all of the sports, MMA And Boxing are the sports that the HOLY Father despises the most as He considers them as especially wicked or evil. And I am sorry to say it, but He is right. (Psalm 11:5)- “The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.”
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 how is it wrong for 2 willing people who agree to a fight to well fight thats not bad violence thats called sport same like running or biking
I like how you separately went through all the cards one pack at time instead of alternating like the last time. It makes it way less confusing. I like how you guys are constantly improving the presentation of this series. Love to see more of these videos.
@@cameronwilkson2982 agreed it did change the outcome. He would have more life points. Who knows about after that card but yeh. It happens a lot I've noticed with Paul misplaying and no one noticing xd
Man, I felt Paul's pain when he was doing his best to not lose on the final duel, but in the end he lost on the burning effect, Damn, that's awful. LOL. Amazing duel guys.
Yo! I got banned from events, and here's how it went down. I did nothing wrong, man! I did nothing wrong whatsoever! I got banned! I didn't even KNOW I got banned! I didn't get no email, I didn't get no explanation, I didn't get no chance to explain myself. I just got banned. I got a message from Doug Zeeff, that I got banned from Konami. Konami doesn't even message me and tell me I'm banned. So I got banned from my old video I made, Where I jokingly made a video- I jokingly, JOKINGLY, told, the world, that, I stalled for time. I DIDN'T STALL FOR TIME! Anyone with a BRAIN, would realize it was a JOKE! It was a joke, that was- it was a good joke at the time! The new time rules were going on, "Oh, Ha Ha Cowboy for Game". It's a JOKE! It's just like Firewall Pass. It's a JOKE!
33:05 - 33:13 Tbh I still do that, and add a Raigeki to the mix for good measure. Thank you Modern Yugioh for allowing this and the possibility of triple solemn judgement again.
Not only was this duel a lot of fun to watch, you guys take your time to explain everything very clearly and make matches understandable. Trying to find any info on link monsters outside of how they are summoned is impossible. Best YGO channel on YT by miles!
Your channel has gone from skits and convo vids to so many series and duels that it’s become the most entertaining Yugitube channel in my opinion. Your content is great, and I’m genuinely impressed how far you’ve all come! Keep going kings.
*EDIT for spelling* Ok a bit of a rant on each decks, so TL;DR, Pendulum Deck was outright the worst starter deck, and failed its main job, while the Link Starter Deck did it perfectly. Personally, I think the Pendulum Starter Deck is as flawed as the Elemental HERO starter deck. In that it only gives you 2 Pendulum cards, both of which can only use their effects when you have other pendulum cards on the field...which you don't have. Add in that their effects are concurrent with Odd-Eyes PUNDULUM Dragon, but give you every other dragon plus normal Odd-Eyes Dragon thinking it would be fine, making them effectively worthless. PLUS, those packs they give players don't even give you a chance to pull additional Pendulum cards to help even SUPPORT and teach players how to use the damn deck, let alone any reliable backrow support to help new players keep them same in friendly matches like this. It effectively fails its primary job as well in teaching players how to Pendulum Summon, and imo was probably the worst starter deck made, and the eventual start of the downfall for the mechanic overall in Konami's eyes, which is a shame. If anything, Paul's Link starter deck was the real winner in the end as it did what a Starter Deck should do. It included the core card of the series protagonist (Decode Talker), with cards to help support it (Cyberse type monsters, 2 additional LINK monsters, plus splash-able cards like Cyber Dragon and Photon Thrasher to get Decode Talker out faster). Add in to the fact you got incredible backrow support cards for s starter deck, and the ability to make probably a decent entry level deck for around 20-30 dollars, and this deck bar none successfully succeeds at its job of both teaching a new mechanic, as well as introducing a new monster type, and even giving players a chance to make a deck for casual fun that is decently and favorably strong. Overall, an interesting video, and look at how far Konami has come in the creation of starter decks. However, it also doesn't help make one think that Konami really had no hope for the Pendulum arc-type from the very beginning, which is disappointing in all honesty as its quite an interesting and fun mechanic. But in the end, Konami wanted to push what is more popular, and LINK Summoning did just that to a degree for many that Pendulum Summoning didn't.
Maybe they didn’t want all the pendulum monsters being summonable from the extra deck for a starter deck. Reviving your monsters every single turn seems broken so they might have limited the number of pendulum monsters. The non-pendulum monsters are not abusable. If the starter deck had 5 pendulum monsters in it, you can SS 3 pendulum monsters every turn. They should have probably included at least 3 pendulum monsters though, so the pendulum mechanic (from extra deck, not hand) could be used.
@@DemonFox369 But thats the point of the deck? Why tout a starter deck to teach a new summon method, and not include more cards of the summon method. 5 Pendulum cards would have been fine, it meant people can learn to use them. Here, you got 2, which from what we saw with Alec, barely can be drawn, and used unless he had met its requirements. He had have more, he would have done the goal of the starter deck. By limiting it, you defeat the purpose. This isn't for the uber comeptitve, this is to teach a new mechanic, which this deck failed to do.
@@hjonk9858 i looked through the 15 cards you could get in the power up packs no Pendulum monsters "Odd-Eyes Dragon" Ultra Rare Effect Monster "Des Volstgalph" Common Effect Monster "Kuraz the Light Monarch" Common Effect Monster "D.D. Warrior Lady" Common Effect Monster "Sacred Crane" Common Effect Monster "Amazoness Sage" Common Effect Monster "Injection Fairy Lily" Common Effect Monster "The A. Forces" Common Continuous Spell Card "Reinforcement of the Army" Common Normal Spell Card "Dark Hole" Ultra Rare Normal Spell Card "Swords of Revealing Light" Common Normal Spell Card "Mirror Force" Common Normal Trap Card "Call of the Haunted" Common Continuous Trap Card "Magic Cylinder" Common Normal Trap Card "Divine Wrath" Common Counter Trap Card
I use to play yugioh before my mom burned all of my cards because she thought they were “evil”. I cried for months on in lol. The game has changed so much since then (2004). Im watching you guys duel and it’s bringing back so many memories. I’m gonna go buy some yugioh cards and hop right back in the game lol. Hopefully I can get up to speed.
You guys are amazing. Love all the content. Hands down some of the most underrated content creators out there. Something I would love to see: you guys doing some more house tournaments. Either draft or not. Love seeing all you guys together. Instead of needing to buy more stuff, just find some way to “make packs” with all those bulk commons you got in them crates!
I hereby present my official apology to poison of the old man, which was able to secure a victory despite my mockery when it was seen in the pre-duel showcase
I used to collect Yu-Gi-Oh but never had friends to duel. You guys bring interesting ideas for deck theory, and really share the good vibes of the game.
That sak armor then compulsory combo brought back soooooo much memories fro high school 😩 We used to do that almost every game lmao. Seeing a game with so much chains brings back memories of the good yugioh days :')
I always enjoy these structure and starter deck duels. Keep going. There are so many out there. Might be worth also going back to try older the structure decks against different opponents. You did fire vs water, but how about the fire vs zombie or some other combination.
29:44 reminds me of one duel where I was so bent on getting an otk field with d/ds (budget/rookie build cause I was real young) that I summoned ash blossom to extend the plays
Ya gotta love how Alec summons out blue dragon summon off of red sparrow summoner's effect when red sparrow summoner specifically states it needs to be a warrior type monster, which blue dragon summoner is not. Also gotta love how he even says it needs to be a warrior XD. Nonetheless still a fantastic video. Edit: I think I just heard wrong and it was actually Arnis that went off and nor RSS, so I'm just deaf and dumb :D
this was soooo fun to watch for some reason i think the simpler the cards you have make the games so much more fun that's why structure deck duels are my favorites
Alec said a mistake there, I'm sure he figured it out, but you can't Pendulum summon the levels that are shown on the pendulum scales, you can only summon monsters who's levels are in-between those numbers, so for a pendulum scale of 1 and 8, he can only pendulum summon monsters who's levels are between 2-7. I never thought someone would lose a duel because someone played Poison of the Old Man, that ending was great. LOL :D
Here's a series idea, kinda just ripping off Lithium, but each week have two duelists play with a different historical deck. Such as Dino-Rabbit vs Tengu-Plants or GOAT Format. This way y'all can showcase some of your favorite decks and talk about the history of the game
We need a tournament where you use tournament made decks that ye would use at reginals to see who is the best player: this was commented by someone else on the tournament video yesterday and like the concept so I commented again hoping for another chance for them to see it
That sounds kinda boring tbh. Plus, I think it shows more skill to deal with decks that absolutely WILL brick and still managing to scrape out a win. This kind of video we're watching here is exactly what I wanted to do with a friend of mine in High School because we couldn't financially keep up with the ones who would run Regionals decks at our Locals. It was frustrating then and that's why I'm here now
@@SomeKindaHero117 I understand what you mean but i think would give a good insight into the meta decks and how they all play in tournaments and who is really the best player and seeing someone do a 8 combo to win just get hand trapped at the end would b very funny
@@johnhughes8797 I think the difference between our opinions on this matter boil down to me not really caring about the newer stuff past Arc-V (which I didn't end up finishing) in the TCG/OCG. I'm not gonna say that what you're suggesting is boring again because that would be rude. I for one, with my outlined bias towards the card game, would find it not appealing since there are other RUclipsrs for that and I'm not watching them. You and others like you, however, I believe fully would enjoy videos like that. So instead of hating on your idea anymore, I'm gonna keep quiet since I'm still getting the content I want anyways and you're just asking for some more variety. My apologies and thank you for your patience
Its impressive how the first pendulum summoning deck only had like two pendulum cards in it. I opened that deck and was disappointed with the sheer lack of pendulums in there and the annoyance of the empowered warriors restrictive effect conditions.
T'was pretty fun to see the Yuzaku deck in action, since I bought it back when Vrains only had a few episodes released and I attempted to get back into the TCG
On 32:26, is that kuribandit can only be special summoned by tributing Kuriboh, Kuribee, Kuribeh, Kiribah and Kuriboo, from using Five Star Twilight. On 34:54, is call of the haunted makes it special summoned any monster in face-up Attack position, not face-down Defense position?
This kinda hits home for me because I started off with the Space-time showdown. My first time playing pendulums (imagine jumping from gx to arc v with synchros, XYZ and pendulums now a thing and I had to learn all that as I started buying sealed products like a sealed only challenge losing time and again at locals until I bought the master of pendulum structure deck (X2) and built a deck using that...
Loved the duel but I think you should've used the Yuya starter deck. It has way more pendulum monsters and the deck is actually pretty consistent lol pick that one for another video. Is a decent deck honestly
Hey I dont wanna be nitpicking but at 20:39 when he pendulum summons he says one through 8 but it's meant to be 2 through 7, I dont know if this is important or not but I thought I should at least let you know
Man I loved the SpaceTime structure. The Empowered/dragon summoner archetype is GENUINLY really cool, and I feel like they would have been solid at the locals level if we'd got their pendulums in New Challengers like the OCG did.
I honestly love you guys. You create cool fun ways of playing YuGiOh without needed to drop hundreds of dollars. Everyone on Team APS is awesome, keep it up guys!
its funny how this is literally how konami advertises these products, yet people think they "created a cool and fun way to play" xD The product is designed to do exactly that xD Thats like saying kicking a ball around with your foot is " a cool and fun way to play soccer"
*Video sponsored by Dislyte, a sick upcoming pop fantasy RPG you can pre-register for right now!* ▶ bit.ly/3yvENCe
Immoralities of American culture part 1/87
(Boxing, Martial Arts, UfC is evil)
In the eyes of The Lord Jesus Christ, breaking someone’s nose or jaw (especially for money), is extremely wrong! Such a thing is NOT loving or kind at all.
And even more so, cheering for another human being to be kicked in the face, or given a bloody nose, or a black eye, beaten up, or “knocked out unconscious ”- Is extremely wrong in His eyes as well. When we see two people fighting we should be appalled or displeased at the sight of it, Not be happy or excited….
He feels that it is extremely wrong to take excitement or pleasure in seeing someone’s son or daughter be being injured or beat up. In the eyes of the Lord that’s immoral and wrong!
For these reasons, amongst all of the sports, MMA And Boxing are the sports that the HOLY Father despises the most as He considers them as especially wicked or evil. And I am sorry to say it, but He is right.
(Psalm 11:5)- “The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.”
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 In the words of the Lord, RUclips is full of violent and malicious content. You being on RUclips is your one-way ticket to hell.
how about salamangreat vs icebarrier?
Can you consider doing yuya starter deck (magician) vs playmaker starter deck (orange black)
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 based on that definition God would have to hate every contact sport there is as they all can be pretty violent which I don’t think is the case. Also your verse has to do with loving violence for the sake of violence while MMA and the like are professional settings and purely competition. There’s nothing inherently evil. Do you have any other proof or perhaps more than 1 verse. Also this a video about cardboard not MMA so I think you’re a little lost my friend.
love how it’s a pendulum deck with only two pendulum cards
Yeah I remember when this deck came out the hype for pendulum was real and it has no win condition, I'm glad they learned from this mistake moving forward
It's not even a good Yuya structure deck too.
Should of been odd eyes
I could've sworn this deck had like the original Odd-eyes and the Odd-eyes pendulum dragon or am I tripping on how awful this starter deck was?
@@IrrelevantOaf there was a different one for the odd eyes cards
Production value has definitely been improved throughout these duels. The quick cuts, the camera quality, the card sample presentation, it's a lot of little things, but it adds up to so much.
I SEE YOU TEAM APS
I'm loving all the extra effort put into editing recently! I know its probably a pain putting in a pic of all the cards being used but as a new player it honestly makes these so much more enjoyable to watch. Appreciate you guys!
Came to comment the same thing! This video was easy to follow, but also really kept up the pace.
Ikr? They've come a long way from having lp on a calculator or a phone app.
I have to agree. The extra effort goes a long way for the longevity and quality of your content.
I definitely appreciate it so I can pause and read everything for myself
Agreed it makes it easier to fallow along and see if you have or want a certain card
“Pendulum summoning is hard without pendulum monsters.”
“Are those the only two pendulum monsters in there?”
“Yeah.”
That hurt my soul
thats like, almost shady marketing. Writing "pendulum deck" on the box only to give 2 our of 40 cards. This is like selling "chocolate chips" and including like 10 chocolate and 90 shit-flavored xD
Nah it’s like ordering a tripod with 2 legs
This is the first time since 2003 someone actually died form Poison of the Old Man
Paul's abolsute despair at Alec just happening to have drawn Poison of the Old Man was priceless and so, so relateable to anyone who's gotten paired up with mid range burn decks that lock you out and kill you with that old, but shockingly dangerous old common. XD His "NoooooooooooOOOOOoooo!" is comparable to Luke Skywalker finding out his father was Darth Vader all along.
Vader was Luke's father? Spoilers! Haha
I love vaders Nooooooooooooooooo. I say it almost every time a over dramatic no is needed
18:47 Paul normal summoned Draconet and Marauding Captain in the same turn, if he didn’t attack with the Captain Alec would have have enough life to use Seven Tools on the Bottomless.
I swear Paul unintentionally and accidentally cheats in every single duel I've seen on this channel.
@@Llnstead Maybe they do it on purpose to get more comments.
he also can't go into decode talker decode talker is 2+ effect monster's bitron is a normal monster
@@Llnstead He always seemed to me as the weaker and less experiencied duelist of the group.
He's still cool tho
Maybe he just _forgot,_ you guys ever considered that possibility hmm?
Dark Hole was my dad's favorite card. He was the one that would have 3 in his deck.
It was almost the only way he'd beat me when we played when I was young.
Gawd, this is great Yu-Gi-Oh on RUclips. One deck can't pendulum summon, the cyberse deck can't sustain a board. The interplay between Alec & Paul is what I love about this game.
This would be a cool new series starter deck duels
Immoralities of American culture part 1/87
(Boxing, Martial Arts, UfC is evil)
In the eyes of The Lord Jesus Christ, breaking someone’s nose or jaw (especially for money), is extremely wrong! Such a thing is NOT loving or kind at all.
And even more so, cheering for another human being to be kicked in the face, or given a bloody nose, or a black eye, beaten up, or “knocked out unconscious ”- Is extremely wrong in His eyes as well. When we see two people fighting we should be appalled or displeased at the sight of it, Not be happy or excited….
He feels that it is extremely wrong to take excitement or pleasure in seeing someone’s son or daughter be being injured or beat up. In the eyes of the Lord that’s immoral and wrong!
For these reasons, amongst all of the sports, MMA And Boxing are the sports that the HOLY Father despises the most as He considers them as especially wicked or evil. And I am sorry to say it, but He is right.
(Psalm 11:5)- “The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.”
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 Uh sir this is a yugioh
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 how is it wrong for 2 willing people who agree to a fight to well fight thats not bad violence thats called sport same like running or biking
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 sir this is a mcdonalds
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 uh sir this a Wendy's
I like how you separately went through all the cards one pack at time instead of alternating like the last time.
It makes it way less confusing. I like how you guys are constantly improving the presentation of this series.
Love to see more of these videos.
18:39 He already normal summon draconnet, he can’t summon marauding captain.
Sure It didn't change the out come of the Duel in the end
@@dalemurphy3172 it made him unable to pay cost for 7 tools of the bandit. It really did cost him the game
@@cameronwilkson2982 agreed it did change the outcome. He would have more life points. Who knows about after that card but yeh. It happens a lot I've noticed with Paul misplaying and no one noticing xd
@@cdcazares91 yes you noticed that too
I thought that he misplayed a lot to be honest
Man, I felt Paul's pain when he was doing his best to not lose on the final duel, but in the end he lost on the burning effect, Damn, that's awful. LOL. Amazing duel guys.
Long ahh name
I love playing this kind of yugioh! 2 preconstructed decks and 1 winner! What other decks should we look for?
Im having trouble thinking of two decks I'd like to see that you guys haven't played. Maybe do some the legendary decks against one another?
Realm of the sea emperor vs onslaught of the fire kings, those two I played back alot back then
@@masterace9543 water vs fire. Interesting
I kind of want to see you guys playing your main decks since I’ve never seen it. If there a link to a video you did, please send it
“He’s got 2000 DEF, I don’t want to hear it!” The funniest thing I’ve heard today! Great video as always!
Spoiler Alert:
Of course the Pendulum deck wins by "JOKINGLY" burning for that last 800 LP.
💪😎
Yo! I got banned from events, and here's how it went down. I did nothing wrong, man! I did nothing wrong whatsoever! I got banned! I didn't even KNOW I got banned! I didn't get no email, I didn't get no explanation, I didn't get no chance to explain myself. I just got banned. I got a message from Doug Zeeff, that I got banned from Konami. Konami doesn't even message me and tell me I'm banned. So I got banned from my old video I made, Where I jokingly made a video- I jokingly, JOKINGLY, told, the world, that, I stalled for time. I DIDN'T STALL FOR TIME! Anyone with a BRAIN, would realize it was a JOKE! It was a joke, that was- it was a good joke at the time! The new time rules were going on, "Oh, Ha Ha Cowboy for Game". It's a JOKE! It's just like Firewall Pass. It's a JOKE!
"Oh, Ha Ha Poison of the Old Man for Game". It's a JOKE!
33:05 - 33:13 Tbh I still do that, and add a Raigeki to the mix for good measure. Thank you Modern Yugioh for allowing this and the possibility of triple solemn judgement again.
That was the best battle i've ever seen on this channel, such a rollercoaster
This is one of the most enjoyable duels I’ve seen in a while. I really laughed a lot at round 3, you guys are really funny 😆
Not only was this duel a lot of fun to watch, you guys take your time to explain everything very clearly and make matches understandable. Trying to find any info on link monsters outside of how they are summoned is impossible. Best YGO channel on YT by miles!
11:12
Alec before drawing: "I must have faith in my cards...I have faith in my cards!"
After drawing: "I have cards..."
Your channel has gone from skits and convo vids to so many series and duels that it’s become the most entertaining Yugitube channel in my opinion. Your content is great, and I’m genuinely impressed how far you’ve all come! Keep going kings.
*EDIT for spelling* Ok a bit of a rant on each decks, so TL;DR, Pendulum Deck was outright the worst starter deck, and failed its main job, while the Link Starter Deck did it perfectly.
Personally, I think the Pendulum Starter Deck is as flawed as the Elemental HERO starter deck. In that it only gives you 2 Pendulum cards, both of which can only use their effects when you have other pendulum cards on the field...which you don't have. Add in that their effects are concurrent with Odd-Eyes PUNDULUM Dragon, but give you every other dragon plus normal Odd-Eyes Dragon thinking it would be fine, making them effectively worthless. PLUS, those packs they give players don't even give you a chance to pull additional Pendulum cards to help even SUPPORT and teach players how to use the damn deck, let alone any reliable backrow support to help new players keep them same in friendly matches like this. It effectively fails its primary job as well in teaching players how to Pendulum Summon, and imo was probably the worst starter deck made, and the eventual start of the downfall for the mechanic overall in Konami's eyes, which is a shame.
If anything, Paul's Link starter deck was the real winner in the end as it did what a Starter Deck should do. It included the core card of the series protagonist (Decode Talker), with cards to help support it (Cyberse type monsters, 2 additional LINK monsters, plus splash-able cards like Cyber Dragon and Photon Thrasher to get Decode Talker out faster). Add in to the fact you got incredible backrow support cards for s starter deck, and the ability to make probably a decent entry level deck for around 20-30 dollars, and this deck bar none successfully succeeds at its job of both teaching a new mechanic, as well as introducing a new monster type, and even giving players a chance to make a deck for casual fun that is decently and favorably strong.
Overall, an interesting video, and look at how far Konami has come in the creation of starter decks. However, it also doesn't help make one think that Konami really had no hope for the Pendulum arc-type from the very beginning, which is disappointing in all honesty as its quite an interesting and fun mechanic. But in the end, Konami wanted to push what is more popular, and LINK Summoning did just that to a degree for many that Pendulum Summoning didn't.
I’d like to think there might have been a few more pendulums in the booster packs that were in the box, but on its own the pendulum deck is pretty bad
Maybe they didn’t want all the pendulum monsters being summonable from the extra deck for a starter deck. Reviving your monsters every single turn seems broken so they might have limited the number of pendulum monsters. The non-pendulum monsters are not abusable. If the starter deck had 5 pendulum monsters in it, you can SS 3 pendulum monsters every turn. They should have probably included at least 3 pendulum monsters though, so the pendulum mechanic (from extra deck, not hand) could be used.
@@DemonFox369 But thats the point of the deck? Why tout a starter deck to teach a new summon method, and not include more cards of the summon method. 5 Pendulum cards would have been fine, it meant people can learn to use them. Here, you got 2, which from what we saw with Alec, barely can be drawn, and used unless he had met its requirements. He had have more, he would have done the goal of the starter deck. By limiting it, you defeat the purpose. This isn't for the uber comeptitve, this is to teach a new mechanic, which this deck failed to do.
@@hjonk9858 i looked through the 15 cards you could get in the power up packs no Pendulum monsters "Odd-Eyes Dragon" Ultra Rare Effect Monster
"Des Volstgalph" Common Effect Monster
"Kuraz the Light Monarch" Common Effect Monster
"D.D. Warrior Lady" Common Effect Monster
"Sacred Crane" Common Effect Monster
"Amazoness Sage" Common Effect Monster
"Injection Fairy Lily" Common Effect Monster
"The A. Forces" Common Continuous Spell Card
"Reinforcement of the Army" Common Normal Spell Card
"Dark Hole" Ultra Rare Normal Spell Card
"Swords of Revealing Light" Common Normal Spell Card
"Mirror Force" Common Normal Trap Card
"Call of the Haunted" Common Continuous Trap Card
"Magic Cylinder" Common Normal Trap Card
"Divine Wrath" Common Counter Trap Card
I use to play yugioh before my mom burned all of my cards because she thought they were “evil”. I cried for months on in lol. The game has changed so much since then (2004). Im watching you guys duel and it’s bringing back so many memories. I’m gonna go buy some yugioh cards and hop right back in the game lol. Hopefully I can get up to speed.
@@J_J_44 hopefully you got back to it lol how did it go ?!
That's awful. I hope you're doing well.
As an MTG player who wandered over here... I have no idea what happened in this video but it looked fun!
You guys are amazing. Love all the content. Hands down some of the most underrated content creators out there. Something I would love to see: you guys doing some more house tournaments. Either draft or not. Love seeing all you guys together. Instead of needing to buy more stuff, just find some way to “make packs” with all those bulk commons you got in them crates!
I hereby present my official apology to poison of the old man, which was able to secure a victory despite my mockery when it was seen in the pre-duel showcase
Ya'll make these weird summoning effects look genuinely fun! I might even pick up the pendulum starter deck (and that's coming from a yugi-boomer)
“I’ve never seen a recycling bin, only seen ‘em on tv.” Best quote of the first duel.
Thanks man I randomly got a pack one day and found around 6 link monsters in there but I didn’t know how to use them this video helped a ton
I used to collect Yu-Gi-Oh but never had friends to duel. You guys bring interesting ideas for deck theory, and really share the good vibes of the game.
Try Duel Links or Master Duel when it comes out.
The production quality has improved drastically, and it finally matches the high quality of Team APS. Good work as always guys!
That sak armor then compulsory combo brought back soooooo much memories fro high school 😩 We used to do that almost every game lmao. Seeing a game with so much chains brings back memories of the good yugioh days :')
Honestly duels with simple starter decks like this are so charming, they remind me of duelling as a kid before I knew how to do big combos.
16:47 Red Sparrow Summoner's effect was to Special Summon 1 Warrior with 1500 or less ATK but he summoned Blue Dragon Summoner, a spellcaster.
I always enjoy these structure and starter deck duels. Keep going. There are so many out there. Might be worth also going back to try older the structure decks against different opponents. You did fire vs water, but how about the fire vs zombie or some other combination.
29:44 reminds me of one duel where I was so bent on getting an otk field with d/ds (budget/rookie build cause I was real young) that I summoned ash blossom to extend the plays
As an old school yugioh person this was interesting to see. Two thumbs up
Ya gotta love how Alec summons out blue dragon summon off of red sparrow summoner's effect when red sparrow summoner specifically states it needs to be a warrior type monster, which blue dragon summoner is not. Also gotta love how he even says it needs to be a warrior XD. Nonetheless still a fantastic video.
Edit: I think I just heard wrong and it was actually Arnis that went off and nor RSS, so I'm just deaf and dumb :D
That "NOOOOOO" needs to be clipped for some future video as some random clip LOL so good. Gg's guys, love these starter/structure deck vids
Alec: *Activates Poison of the Old Man*
Paul: Ugh, Cheap shot!
this was soooo fun to watch for some reason i think the simpler the cards you have make the games so much more fun that's why structure deck duels are my favorites
Alec said a mistake there, I'm sure he figured it out, but you can't Pendulum summon the levels that are shown on the pendulum scales, you can only summon monsters who's levels are in-between those numbers, so for a pendulum scale of 1 and 8, he can only pendulum summon monsters who's levels are between 2-7. I never thought someone would lose a duel because someone played Poison of the Old Man, that ending was great. LOL :D
Killer duel and love the increased editing quality, it really shows.
24:48 Decode Talker is 3100 because of Cynet Universe. 2300+500+300.
Please keep doing the starters and structures! These are honestly my favorite videos!
18:47 nice double summon you got there 👀
These duels have more production value than any duel should have. Keep it up y'all
Here's a series idea, kinda just ripping off Lithium, but each week have two duelists play with a different historical deck. Such as Dino-Rabbit vs Tengu-Plants or GOAT Format. This way y'all can showcase some of your favorite decks and talk about the history of the game
I swear you two were both on one today lol love the commentary for this one
We need a tournament where you use tournament made decks that ye would use at reginals to see who is the best player: this was commented by someone else on the tournament video yesterday and like the concept so I commented again hoping for another chance for them to see it
i think they did they have done so many special tournaments duels
@@mysticstrikeforce5957 Yeah but players didn't like it.
That sounds kinda boring tbh. Plus, I think it shows more skill to deal with decks that absolutely WILL brick and still managing to scrape out a win. This kind of video we're watching here is exactly what I wanted to do with a friend of mine in High School because we couldn't financially keep up with the ones who would run Regionals decks at our Locals. It was frustrating then and that's why I'm here now
@@SomeKindaHero117 I understand what you mean but i think would give a good insight into the meta decks and how they all play in tournaments and who is really the best player and seeing someone do a 8 combo to win just get hand trapped at the end would b very funny
@@johnhughes8797 I think the difference between our opinions on this matter boil down to me not really caring about the newer stuff past Arc-V (which I didn't end up finishing) in the TCG/OCG. I'm not gonna say that what you're suggesting is boring again because that would be rude. I for one, with my outlined bias towards the card game, would find it not appealing since there are other RUclipsrs for that and I'm not watching them. You and others like you, however, I believe fully would enjoy videos like that. So instead of hating on your idea anymore, I'm gonna keep quiet since I'm still getting the content I want anyways and you're just asking for some more variety. My apologies and thank you for your patience
Thank you for the extra effort by showing the card as it is played. It allows me to pause the video to read instead of me having to google it.
This was so entertaining! Love it! Though I do wish you would get 3 of each deck and build a slightly more powerful/optimized version of each deck.
Ahh, poison of the old man... ruining dreams still to this day
Love the “I will not be doing that” on axe, followed by immediately having to use it lol
I really enjoyed every bit of this battle. Those kind of plays is why I love the game so much.
Thank you guys for the Entertaining Structure/Starter deck duels
I really appreciate it
11:12
Alec: Oh yeah, CARDS
Paul: Cards?
Alec: That's what i have
Paul: Cards exists
Best line ever
I love how professional this channel has become. Keep up the great work team APS!
18:39
paul has a special ability to summon again XD
paul, did you just normal summon twice on the same turn?
I love the new style for these dueling vids. It pleases my ADD for sure lol. Real talk I like these videos much more now than previously
Poison of the old man for game is not a sentence I'd ever thought I'd say nor hear. But here we are.
Its impressive how the first pendulum summoning deck only had like two pendulum cards in it. I opened that deck and was disappointed with the sheer lack of pendulums in there and the annoyance of the empowered warriors restrictive effect conditions.
I wanna see you guys duel against each other with your best decks. Full out meta stuff
T'was pretty fun to see the Yuzaku deck in action, since I bought it back when Vrains only had a few episodes released and I attempted to get back into the TCG
That link deck actually looks like a lot of fun to play!
On 32:26, is that kuribandit can only be special summoned by tributing Kuriboh, Kuribee, Kuribeh, Kiribah and Kuriboo, from using Five Star Twilight. On 34:54, is call of the haunted makes it special summoned any monster in face-up Attack position, not face-down Defense position?
This was a great duel, a lot of smart plays and back and forth. It's what others duelists love to watch!
This kinda hits home for me because I started off with the Space-time showdown.
My first time playing pendulums (imagine jumping from gx to arc v with synchros, XYZ and pendulums now a thing and I had to learn all that as I started buying sealed products like a sealed only challenge losing time and again at locals until I bought the master of pendulum structure deck (X2) and built a deck using that...
Ah nostalgia
If you’re going for a name for each series, you could call this one “Structure Stand-Offs”.
Loved the duel but I think you should've used the Yuya starter deck. It has way more pendulum monsters and the deck is actually pretty consistent lol pick that one for another video. Is a decent deck honestly
nice last game, the infamous Pendulum Burn deck XD
Activate your ability Paul storm access when you have 1k or less life points you get to draw a random card outta the data storm
19:35 poor Alec has waited so long for this moment only for this to happen
Link Strike was my first ever sealed yugioh purchase back in 2017, brings back good memories
Whoo! Wonderful match! Was interesting because of how Pendulum and Link contrast each other so much.
This is a cool mini series and im happy that paul is in this one
No one:
Alec: "Hey Paul guess what."
Paul: "What?"
Alec: "Poison of the old man." Agresivly shoves Poison down Paul's throat.
I loved that confident, "I don't have one!"
Hey I dont wanna be nitpicking but at 20:39 when he pendulum summons he says one through 8 but it's meant to be 2 through 7, I dont know if this is important or not but I thought I should at least let you know
That poison of the old man finish tho!!!😂
Link Strike is the deck I bought when I got back into Yu-Gi-Oh in 2019 so it has a special place in my heart. Let's go Decode Talker!
That Poison of The Old Man for the win, ouch.
Man I loved the SpaceTime structure. The Empowered/dragon summoner archetype is GENUINLY really cool, and I feel like they would have been solid at the locals level if we'd got their pendulums in New Challengers like the OCG did.
The way he opened the first box made it seem like he's never opened a structure box before
I hope what's next is a fusion deck vs a ritual deck the two first summoning mechanics in Yu-Gi-Oh
Who would have thought you would lose a duel in 2021 from poison of the old man
3:33, now we're into the empowered archetype, a series of monsters who get nuked by ryu kokki
man that warrior that red summoner got at 16:40 sure is looking pretty sus haha. Mistakes happen though, it was a fun episode to watch for sure
WELP @5:00 looks like another gacha will pull me in with my one true weakness...Booba
That was a lot of fun to watch. Great video as always guys take care.
The power up packs were game changers when I got the structure deck. I think I pulled an odd-eyes dragon and an odd-eyes pendulum dragon off of them
Awesome games guys! Totally hooked by your personalities and good vibes. Keep up the great content!
That was great I knew Alec drew poison of the old man
I love how the Pendulum Deck was the Victor! It cements my decision to stop at pendulum for fun!
Fantastic video! Also a big applaude to the editing that was really good.
Wanna see more vrain prebuilt deck duels. This is the only one i found so far
I honestly love you guys. You create cool fun ways of playing YuGiOh without needed to drop hundreds of dollars. Everyone on Team APS is awesome, keep it up guys!
its funny how this is literally how konami advertises these products, yet people think they "created a cool and fun way to play" xD The product is designed to do exactly that xD Thats like saying kicking a ball around with your foot is " a cool and fun way to play soccer"
@@ich3730 but that is a cool fun way to play soccer