MTG’s time rule does not look at life in swiss. This is incorrect. MTG gives you 5 extra turns and if the game isnt over, it’s a draw. The rule you said is only for top cut where draws are not possible
I feel like most of the issues you bring up here are valid, but they really only affect tournament players (and more importantly tournament winners). What I'm seeing in my local community is that average players who don't really go to anything but locals and enjoy playing with friends are also dropping the game because it's just not fun anymore (stale meta, card availability/pricing, etc). Fixing things for high-level tournament players definitely matters, but unless big changes are made on the level of 'normal' players, more and more people are going to switch to other games.
And I HOPE, I really HOPE that there is a massive EXODUS from yugioh all together so Konami NEEDS to change something. They need to be changing sth so it gets better and i not only mean 3 months of ok-ish format better. They need to be caught with the back to the wall so we could even have a chance at yugioh becoming a good game again.
For time rules I would just straight up not count LP, if the game is not finished then it is a tie. In that case you could even give the turn player the full turn to try to win the duel. This would remove all the slowplay into burn/heal shenanigans that currently happens. It would generate more ties, that's true, but I feel it's a fair price to pay to remove the toxicity of burn/heal into slow play. As for prizing, I have no idea why we don't have an OTS-like pack for YCS top cuts. A special pack with 3 random cards from a small pool of meta relevant cards in a special rarity similar to quarter century but instead of the 25th stamp it's the ycs logo. The higher the top you finish the more packs you get. One could sell the packs or open them and sell the cards individually, and it would cost almost nothing to konami to create those prize ots.
Some things I'd like to see done or improved upon (Not all of these are practical) 1.) Alternate Formats like legacy formats (Goat, Edison, etc), rule-bending formats (Trinity, Domain, etc), and other versions of the game (Rush) 2.) A good onboarding system/process for newer people to get into the game (Online Duel Academy) 3.) Having more and more legacy support and cutting down on pack filler and newer archetypes, save for lore decks. 4.) Card design 5.) Prizing 6.) Pricing 7.) Community relations/communication 8.) No excellent encyclopedia of rulings that the TCG and OCG share (That I know of) 9.) Product/set design Oh in speaking of imagine if they made Action and Turbo dueling real?
Your “time rules” section was incredibly inaccurate, MTG does not end by life in time, Pokémon only ends as you said if there is a gentleman’s’ agreement, other wise it’s decided by 3 turns. Lorcana is a bo2 in competitive environments, so everything there is wrong also. I’d recommend doing research before posting nonsense.
@@kombatkitty4 Don't worry, most of these people talk out their a** bro, they don't really know what they're talking about.They're just doing it for the money in the attention, and we give it to them cause we're just as dumb!!!
vro said, 'strongest pokemon on the field wins, if not its who has more cards in play, if not it's # of cards in deck' . 1000% inaccurate sir 👍 honestly sounds like he read the ai Google search summary
Very well thought out statement on all of these. I’m almost ready to say if Konami is going to keep making minimalistic engines then there should be an addiction to the limited list saying you can only have so many handtraps total and only 1 copy of each, similar to duel links where you can only have so many cards in your deck that are mark limited. Sadly to do that Konami would have to acknowledge the term hand trap which I’m not sure why they are so hesitant to do, it’s what they are.
Konami didn’t change the time rules to make it more fair. They specifically said they changed time rules so events didn’t take as long. So the only negative being events will take longer is the reason they changed it in the first place?
Here are my opinions: - Prizing: I think prizing should never be the reason to play a tournament. It's a problem for a select few pro players that try to earn money/their livelyhood with the tournament play. I do agree with your points on prizing though. Make cool prize cards that actually get played and not only for YCS's, Nats, WCQ's or even World's. Make reprint of meta or staple cards. Ideally with exclusive alternative artworks or an exclusive rarity for the premiere event (aka YCS rarity). Getting a playset of Ash in an exclusive artwork or rarity you can't get otherwise? Sounds like the ultimate bragging right. The same could even go for smaler events like regionals with an e.g. Ultimate Rare of a strong card from the current main set (e.g. currently Mulcharmy Perullia). I could even see this to a lesser extent for big release events. I've topped a bigger release event and got prize packs, the exodia info mat (very cool) and the limited promo Millenium Anch ... a card NOBODY plays or even wants. Sure I can have it in my binder but it's not a cool card to have. Pick a relevant card, it doesn't need to be engraver. Even the mini-goddess as a high rare would've been a good pick. - Card design: I wonder what the stances are on this in the OCG (aka do they like crazy 1-card starters like SE-Ash). If yes the TCG is kinda cooked and depends on fast and regular banlists. A scheduled release of the banlist (like every 3 months at the end of the month) would be a huge help. People already knew how to handle the current format and tournaments better because they knew when the list will drop. I do really hope the list hits SE hard, but that won't solve the current power creep longterm, that is a question of card design and I hope they tone it down and make new archetypes like White Forest which isn't nearly as crazy as SE, Yubel, Fiendsmith, Tenpai, ... - Communication: We saw how pleased players were with knowing when the next banlist drops. Keep stuff like this up. It's a relatively easy task and will do much for players. Maybe release statements on prevelant feedbacks and how you might aim to adress this in the short or longterm future. I have only returned to the game last winter but the complaints since then have been exactly the same. Adress those, explain why or why not you will change things. Easy as that.
Imagine if top cuts get awesome alternate arts from current sets, Snash, Engraver or Diabellstar and then down the line like Minverva XYZ reprint in Battles set, so they keep value but its playable and is very unique
Regarding the time rule: What if...we dont have 20 minute combos? If I watch my opponent playing with himself for 20 minutes, then I have no regrets to burn him and win the game. The time rule could be the real hard counter to overcomplicated super long combos which nobody enjoys watching (the 482th time).
I agree. If people wanna play for 15 min and summom quasar Dragon, Borrelload, Boronne and Apollousa, I might as well burn them for game. Not my ptoblem.
With how long turns are nowadays, getting additional turns at the end of time would probably be the worst for swiss but probably fair for top cut. There wont be judges at every table, people will just think longer since the game is on the line and there would be no time pressure. You would end up with minimum 30+ minutes on top for each round. If you are playing 9 rounds, thats atleast 4,5 hours on top. Doesnt work out for tournament organizers since they have rental contracts, nor would i personally want that as a player. Longer waiting time especially when you do finish your round quickly and longer days overall.
If the prizing was better i feel like people wouldn't also complain as much about the price of cards.I mean you pay 500+ dollars for a deck and barely get your money back if you top especially since the prize cards nowadays are unsellable
So instead of 2000 players criticizing the price of the cards you reduce it to 1992 players criticizing the price of the cards? The majority of players doesn't top events
For the time rules: just make that if the time ends during a duel, the players get to have the same number of turns. So for example if game 3 ends on turn 2, give the other player to go through turn 3 and so on.
@markopejatovic256 I think that is cool and fair, more than turns I would count the battle phases, so turn one became not the new turn 2 in the 3rd game
The problem with that is turns can take so long nowadays that adding another whole turn to the game could make the game take like another half hour to finish
The hand trap war is quite fatiguing. I love yugioh, I just wish it was more about making your favorite cards work rather than racing to tcgplayer for the new best deck. The anime was cool because it didn’t seem like it was plot armor winning our characters games. It was Joey using the time wizard for a clutch play, or Chazz making the level mechanic work in his favor. Big monsters and turn around upsets. The goat
nice video, only thing i would add to further help the health of this game is if we adopted a similar rarity format when it came to core sets so budget players can play the best engines too and wealthier players can opt to have shinier decks should they choose to do so
You know what they need to bring back. Cloth playmats. Like why did they stop that? Custom prize cards that are meta relevant or staples. Maybe a new rarity of some sort for ash blossoms veiler nib etc?
If Konami decides to do deck count for time rules then they'd have to change the 40min-60max deck build rule to a solid state 50 for all players. Deck count punishes players that streamline their deck at 40c and rewards the players that play 41+c.
Prizing is an issue that literally only effects the top end of the game. The more pressing concern for many of us in the community is the lack of new players coming in because of the learning curve.
I agree with most of your points I'm not a big fan of these all doing 1-card-starters either and it feels way more rewarding to open a display pulling the good cards than getting a good tournament result (besides the fun of playing ofc). But I don't agree with your idea to time rules. It's there to end a round that's too long and Yu-Gi-Oh has too long turns to fit in an acceptable overtime. I don't have a solution for this but to add additional 30 mins to let both players play isn't an option for me
Mr. Galzo, the one card engines aren’t really the new direction of Konami in terms of mechanical innovation. They are - imo - doing this stuff because they themselves want to spend as little time and money on game testing and balancing as possible on yugioh. One card combos are so much easier to design for them, they are easier to hit, they wrap the game around them so they are easier to build new product around them. Is it better tho? Hell no. It’s probably one of the most problematic things they are doing to the game but it makes their job easier for them. That’s why I believe that we will be seeing a lot, and i mean A LOT of one card combo decks in the future. This problem isn’t just one deck that got a little bit too much power. It’s their way of giving the game a direction and an easy way to maintain it with little effort. This is not possible when you have a format with 10 viable tier 1 decks where you never be able to predict which deck survives banlists and comes out on top again even after newer decks have become a thing. That would be dope to see as a player, but as the corporation, Konami clearly prefers tier 0 or almost tier 0 formats. They are much nicer and easier to manipulate for them.
1. Time rules are unlikely to change. They were designed for TOs and venues to end events on time. You don't pay the judges, the TO/Konami do. It sucks for the players, but it wasn't really designed for the players to begin with. You are completely underestimating how long into time extra turns goes in this game. Stop comparing other games to yugioh. almost all of them are MTG clones and for those games turns can work. It has been proven for over a decade that turns do not work for yugioh. 2. Prizing sucks and should be reworked. No one is contesting that point and have been complaining for decades now. We would need the reprint policies of other games to make your new rarity exclusive copies as prizes to actually hold those massive price tags. 3. Card design and konami's lack of communication and failures with the F/L list have been brought to the light numerous times. They do not care because there hasn't been the threat of a mass exodus that was ever real. YGO players tolerate the most abuse from the designers of their game.
When the time ends, the current duel is a draw, and the winner of the match is determined by the number of duels won by each player during the match. The matches will end super fast. It's just that Konami doesn't want some matches ending in a draw. XD
That's not how time rules work in pokemon. You count turns starting with the current turn as turn 0 and go to turn 3. If nobody has won by then, the game is a draw.
For prizing, just give out rare cards top players can use (even if it's a bit earlier than the release). Give everyone who makes the top 32 or even 64 2-3 Fiendsmith Engravers or something like that. It's not that complicated. Just give them rare cards that are really good.
I think suggesting that prizes should be meta cards is a mistake. They'd be much more valuable and motivating if they were collector's pieces with nostalgic connotations like anime cards. Stamped and numbered Dark Magicians, blue eyes heros etc. because nostalgia value doesn't depreciate and meta value does
Imagine they did full artwork cards as starlight rarities for winning ycs and etc. And they could do cards that are very well known banned or not. For example imagine a full artwork starlight rare pot of greed. Imagine the memes, "what does that card do?"
Fantastic video Galzo! Yeah the Circular design has to end. On the prizing side i think has lefting some things; first lorcana is not cheap, but you have cheaper options to play, no obligation to buy one engine (now Fiendsmith, was Kashtira, Brave), it's has varience, every deck in yugioh looks almost the same, with a feel exepctions that you named, Despia, Runick combo, Tear, every deck should look like those ones. In yugioh we need to do a research, cause i feeling this is the most expensive ever yugioh, just like you i have been playing for a long time with breaks in between (since 2014), in my experience i never felt price out of meta like the SE and Fiendsmith ones, i will not play a Stun (Ritual beast and Tenpai are fancies stuns to be honest) or a ftk deck! And don't want every deck to be 150-250 USD but, 700 to 1k USD is wayyy out of hand. So if the game is more expensive (and btw life is more expensive in every corner of the world since the pandemic) the prize needs to follow. Just my thoughts. Btw the one piece idea is really good! Love it! PS: KeyYGO has a fantastic video about the "casual" yugioh experience, i think people should watch and comment in that. This is a huge problem that's gonna hurt yugioh more and more. Just a spoiler there's is difference between a for fun player and casual player. 👍🏽
Regarding the topic of prizes, I couldn't agree more; cash prizes would only highlight the "pay to win" mentality that everyone complains about. However, I think they should give out reprints, or directly increase the card prizes for the top placements (giving booster boxes/displays from the top 128/64 would make many people feel that their entry fee was worth it and that reaching the top yielded a "profit"). They could even highlight exclusive sleeves, mats, or alternative artworks to differentiate the top cut. On the subject of time, I disagree. It’s not the fault of the cards that gain you life points when time is running out. If your game relies on using an absurd number of cards, a card like the little nun helps balance that. Additionally, you could use infinite combos to burn time.
Man I have an idea for time. Pretty much when time is called. The game ends at the end of the next player battel phase. Just think it's going to make a player want time to be called on the opponents turn. And I think it's going to speed up the game and make the game get tense when it's close to time
Today 3 of my 5 friends in the comunity quit yugioh because several of this reasons. But mainly due to most meta players are so uncofortable to play with with because of actitud or behaviour
Why don't we make time rules similar to Legends of Runeterra? 7:30 base time for each player per Duel, with additional 7:30 reserve time to use across all Duels. The first player to have their timer go to 0 loses. No need to then worry about LP, because time is then the more pressing matter. But also. Why y'all playing physical YuGiOh in 2024 with the heinous cost of playing instead of simulators or Master Duel?
i think that kinda like how you can have 3 of the same type of card in your deck i think you should only be able to have 6 cards of the samer arch type in your deck
Would be nice if the winner can chose his prize card & get the card in a new rarity exclusive to prize cards only which would shoot up the price of the price cards
i was kinda disapointed when clicking this video. I was looking for a way to fix the game for the majority players not the vocal minority aka the tourney players. A lot of players come from watching the animes, so they wanna live out the duel dream. But we get on master duel and just fight meta dog decks. We need an accepted format where you are playing a pure deck not a mix and mash of the best stuff. Like the meta decks can even be ran here as long as they stick to only their cards alone and then we can go with bans from there. I just feel the biggest breakthrough for yugioh would be to fix the formats rather than the competitive tourney scene.
Cash prizes won't solve anything. All it will do is increase the amount of horrible buyouts that make the game so unaffordable. Most of the people complaining about cash prizes can't even make day 2 of a ycs, so IDK why you're so concerned
ah yes thanks you for saying it. game design. major issue to me. most of other card game (magic, hearthstone, pokémon) have the ressource issue (fields, mana and energy) that makes game take time. on the other hand ygo now is such a fast game, most of the games i see on master duel takes 3 turns but it used to be slow too back in the days when we had most of non effect monsters only. i know it refers more to the anime than the tcg but still. improving the game and making it faster, especially after synchro monsters appeard, are ok, things may change and why not? but the hand traps negate and anti-play cards ? ah cmon. branded vs tearlaments were probably my favorite era tbh, not only bc i love fusion monsters but THIS were duels, without a lot of generic monsters but true engine as you explain in the vid. F*ck handtrap and negates, balance the game by deleting and semi-limiting overpowered engine and let the game be a playable game.
My counter argument to games taking to long is if someone knows their deck inside and out it shouldn't take them more than a minute and a half to go through 10-20 cards when I play those decks and my opponent doesn't quit I have it done in less than 2 minutes. If your taking that long to play a deck you shouldn't be in a tournament yet because you're not done practicing your combos. To play at a high level thats what it takes. When I play I expect Droll, Nibiru, Ash Blossom, and if I lose to Shifter because of my deck choice I just lose. My deck choices generally don't lose to any 1 single hand trap. If I choose rouge deck I choose a deck like Vanquish Soul or Red D. Archfiend or any deck that used to be a meta deck. I'll play decks like Dark Magician but my bottom line when I play in ranked matches on Dueling Nexus is rouge decks I know I can beat any deck with.
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Try changing the time rule to the player with less life points win. If you burn too much you might be susceptible to your opponent popping out some burn card. IDK.
Konami is not listening if you dont like yugioh rn just go play another game, i was playing ygo for 4 years and this conversation never stops, the only people gaining from this is konami and galzo (no offense)
Implementing a chess clock would solve consuming time intentionally. 20 mins each for a full round. Also. Run out of time is an automatic loss. Even if you were 1-0 winning. The set. Run out of time, lose the set
Lorcana is not cheap? I got TWO fully competitive meta decks for 350 bucks. How much can you get with that in yugioh? 5 cards. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
We need money to compete stop the cap broski meta decks are not cheap travel isn’t cheap and players should be compensated for there time when they are the best of the best
Naw we definitely need better prizes and money prizes would definitely improved the game! Especially when u spending $900-$1,200 on cards to win and when u win! You win pretty much nothing! So yes prizing definitely matters
Please, I, i'm literally the one that started saying competitive integrity, and you go, you know that word because of me, I coined that term. And trust me, y'all don't want to talk about competitive integrity. Especially with the adderall usage and the intimidation, and how some people will force misplays.On other people, you guys have no competitive integrity.That's the one biggest problem with you.Gail in my opinion. That's all the ridiculous you know. Way the game works that you guys have issues with that's how the game works. Get over it, either, adapter, you don't.These pros are mad because they can't adapt. fast.Enough
MTG’s time rule does not look at life in swiss. This is incorrect. MTG gives you 5 extra turns and if the game isnt over, it’s a draw. The rule you said is only for top cut where draws are not possible
I can confirm. I played a lot of Caw Gates so a lot of my games ended up in time
I feel like most of the issues you bring up here are valid, but they really only affect tournament players (and more importantly tournament winners). What I'm seeing in my local community is that average players who don't really go to anything but locals and enjoy playing with friends are also dropping the game because it's just not fun anymore (stale meta, card availability/pricing, etc). Fixing things for high-level tournament players definitely matters, but unless big changes are made on the level of 'normal' players, more and more people are going to switch to other games.
And I HOPE, I really HOPE that there is a massive EXODUS from yugioh all together so Konami NEEDS to change something. They need to be changing sth so it gets better and i not only mean 3 months of ok-ish format better. They need to be caught with the back to the wall so we could even have a chance at yugioh becoming a good game again.
For time rules I would just straight up not count LP, if the game is not finished then it is a tie. In that case you could even give the turn player the full turn to try to win the duel. This would remove all the slowplay into burn/heal shenanigans that currently happens. It would generate more ties, that's true, but I feel it's a fair price to pay to remove the toxicity of burn/heal into slow play.
As for prizing, I have no idea why we don't have an OTS-like pack for YCS top cuts. A special pack with 3 random cards from a small pool of meta relevant cards in a special rarity similar to quarter century but instead of the 25th stamp it's the ycs logo. The higher the top you finish the more packs you get. One could sell the packs or open them and sell the cards individually, and it would cost almost nothing to konami to create those prize ots.
Creating a “champions rare” that’s given to top cut could be super dope
Some things I'd like to see done or improved upon (Not all of these are practical)
1.) Alternate Formats like legacy formats (Goat, Edison, etc), rule-bending formats (Trinity, Domain, etc), and other versions of the game (Rush)
2.) A good onboarding system/process for newer people to get into the game (Online Duel Academy)
3.) Having more and more legacy support and cutting down on pack filler and newer archetypes, save for lore decks.
4.) Card design
5.) Prizing
6.) Pricing
7.) Community relations/communication
8.) No excellent encyclopedia of rulings that the TCG and OCG share (That I know of)
9.) Product/set design
Oh in speaking of imagine if they made Action and Turbo dueling real?
Your “time rules” section was incredibly inaccurate, MTG does not end by life in time, Pokémon only ends as you said if there is a gentleman’s’ agreement, other wise it’s decided by 3 turns. Lorcana is a bo2 in competitive environments, so everything there is wrong also. I’d recommend doing research before posting nonsense.
@@kombatkitty4 Don't worry, most of these people talk out their a** bro, they don't really know what they're talking about.They're just doing it for the money in the attention, and we give it to them cause we're just as dumb!!!
@@kombatkitty4 u so mad 🤣
vro said, 'strongest pokemon on the field wins, if not its who has more cards in play, if not it's # of cards in deck' .
1000% inaccurate sir 👍
honestly sounds like he read the ai Google search summary
@@kombatkitty4 are you mad? Chill bro
@JamFlexx again they half as everything they are just followers they are not even thinking lol
Very well thought out statement on all of these. I’m almost ready to say if Konami is going to keep making minimalistic engines then there should be an addiction to the limited list saying you can only have so many handtraps total and only 1 copy of each, similar to duel links where you can only have so many cards in your deck that are mark limited. Sadly to do that Konami would have to acknowledge the term hand trap which I’m not sure why they are so hesitant to do, it’s what they are.
Konami didn’t change the time rules to make it more fair. They specifically said they changed time rules so events didn’t take as long. So the only negative being events will take longer is the reason they changed it in the first place?
Here are my opinions:
- Prizing: I think prizing should never be the reason to play a tournament. It's a problem for a select few pro players that try to earn money/their livelyhood with the tournament play. I do agree with your points on prizing though. Make cool prize cards that actually get played and not only for YCS's, Nats, WCQ's or even World's. Make reprint of meta or staple cards. Ideally with exclusive alternative artworks or an exclusive rarity for the premiere event (aka YCS rarity). Getting a playset of Ash in an exclusive artwork or rarity you can't get otherwise? Sounds like the ultimate bragging right. The same could even go for smaler events like regionals with an e.g. Ultimate Rare of a strong card from the current main set (e.g. currently Mulcharmy Perullia). I could even see this to a lesser extent for big release events. I've topped a bigger release event and got prize packs, the exodia info mat (very cool) and the limited promo Millenium Anch ... a card NOBODY plays or even wants. Sure I can have it in my binder but it's not a cool card to have. Pick a relevant card, it doesn't need to be engraver. Even the mini-goddess as a high rare would've been a good pick.
- Card design: I wonder what the stances are on this in the OCG (aka do they like crazy 1-card starters like SE-Ash). If yes the TCG is kinda cooked and depends on fast and regular banlists. A scheduled release of the banlist (like every 3 months at the end of the month) would be a huge help. People already knew how to handle the current format and tournaments better because they knew when the list will drop. I do really hope the list hits SE hard, but that won't solve the current power creep longterm, that is a question of card design and I hope they tone it down and make new archetypes like White Forest which isn't nearly as crazy as SE, Yubel, Fiendsmith, Tenpai, ...
- Communication: We saw how pleased players were with knowing when the next banlist drops. Keep stuff like this up. It's a relatively easy task and will do much for players. Maybe release statements on prevelant feedbacks and how you might aim to adress this in the short or longterm future. I have only returned to the game last winter but the complaints since then have been exactly the same. Adress those, explain why or why not you will change things. Easy as that.
Imagine if top cuts get awesome alternate arts from current sets, Snash, Engraver or Diabellstar and then down the line like Minverva XYZ reprint in Battles set, so they keep value but its playable and is very unique
Regarding the time rule: What if...we dont have 20 minute combos? If I watch my opponent playing with himself for 20 minutes, then I have no regrets to burn him and win the game. The time rule could be the real hard counter to overcomplicated super long combos which nobody enjoys watching (the 482th time).
Play pokemkn. No game ends t3, no turn takes more than a couple minutes usually
I agree. If people wanna play for 15 min and summom quasar Dragon, Borrelload, Boronne and Apollousa, I might as well burn them for game. Not my ptoblem.
@@JamFlexx That's not always true. Some games can take up to an hour depending on the matchup and some turns can definitely take up to 10 minutes
With how long turns are nowadays, getting additional turns at the end of time would probably be the worst for swiss but probably fair for top cut. There wont be judges at every table, people will just think longer since the game is on the line and there would be no time pressure. You would end up with minimum 30+ minutes on top for each round. If you are playing 9 rounds, thats atleast 4,5 hours on top. Doesnt work out for tournament organizers since they have rental contracts, nor would i personally want that as a player. Longer waiting time especially when you do finish your round quickly and longer days overall.
If the prizing was better i feel like people wouldn't also complain as much about the price of cards.I mean you pay 500+ dollars for a deck and barely get your money back if you top especially since the prize cards nowadays are unsellable
@@yugimutooooo4569 yes we will, accessibility matters the most in making a gaming community
So instead of 2000 players criticizing the price of the cards you reduce it to 1992 players criticizing the price of the cards? The majority of players doesn't top events
For the time rules: just make that if the time ends during a duel, the players get to have the same number of turns. So for example if game 3 ends on turn 2, give the other player to go through turn 3 and so on.
@markopejatovic256 I think that is cool and fair, more than turns I would count the battle phases, so turn one became not the new turn 2 in the 3rd game
The problem with that is turns can take so long nowadays that adding another whole turn to the game could make the game take like another half hour to finish
The hand trap war is quite fatiguing.
I love yugioh, I just wish it was more about making your favorite cards work rather than racing to tcgplayer for the new best deck.
The anime was cool because it didn’t seem like it was plot armor winning our characters games. It was Joey using the time wizard for a clutch play, or Chazz making the level mechanic work in his favor.
Big monsters and turn around upsets. The goat
nice video, only thing i would add to further help the health of this game is if we adopted a similar rarity format when it came to core sets so budget players can play the best engines too and wealthier players can opt to have shinier decks should they choose to do so
You know what they need to bring back.
Cloth playmats. Like why did they stop that?
Custom prize cards that are meta relevant or staples. Maybe a new rarity of some sort for ash blossoms veiler nib etc?
If Konami decides to do deck count for time rules then they'd have to change the 40min-60max deck build rule to a solid state 50 for all players. Deck count punishes players that streamline their deck at 40c and rewards the players that play 41+c.
Prizing is an issue that literally only effects the top end of the game. The more pressing concern for many of us in the community is the lack of new players coming in because of the learning curve.
@@willajer not only learning curve but price as well. No new player wants to drop 1k on a deck
Lorcana Timerules are like you said
If Time is called , there are 5 turns to play and you can only win of you reach 20 Lore
I agree with most of your points I'm not a big fan of these all doing 1-card-starters either and it feels way more rewarding to open a display pulling the good cards than getting a good tournament result (besides the fun of playing ofc).
But I don't agree with your idea to time rules. It's there to end a round that's too long and Yu-Gi-Oh has too long turns to fit in an acceptable overtime. I don't have a solution for this but to add additional 30 mins to let both players play isn't an option for me
Mr. Galzo, the one card engines aren’t really the new direction of Konami in terms of mechanical innovation. They are - imo - doing this stuff because they themselves want to spend as little time and money on game testing and balancing as possible on yugioh. One card combos are so much easier to design for them, they are easier to hit, they wrap the game around them so they are easier to build new product around them. Is it better tho? Hell no. It’s probably one of the most problematic things they are doing to the game but it makes their job easier for them. That’s why I believe that we will be seeing a lot, and i mean A LOT of one card combo decks in the future. This problem isn’t just one deck that got a little bit too much power. It’s their way of giving the game a direction and an easy way to maintain it with little effort. This is not possible when you have a format with 10 viable tier 1 decks where you never be able to predict which deck survives banlists and comes out on top again even after newer decks have become a thing. That would be dope to see as a player, but as the corporation, Konami clearly prefers tier 0 or almost tier 0 formats. They are much nicer and easier to manipulate for them.
1. Time rules are unlikely to change. They were designed for TOs and venues to end events on time. You don't pay the judges, the TO/Konami do. It sucks for the players, but it wasn't really designed for the players to begin with. You are completely underestimating how long into time extra turns goes in this game. Stop comparing other games to yugioh. almost all of them are MTG clones and for those games turns can work. It has been proven for over a decade that turns do not work for yugioh.
2. Prizing sucks and should be reworked. No one is contesting that point and have been complaining for decades now. We would need the reprint policies of other games to make your new rarity exclusive copies as prizes to actually hold those massive price tags.
3. Card design and konami's lack of communication and failures with the F/L list have been brought to the light numerous times. They do not care because there hasn't been the threat of a mass exodus that was ever real. YGO players tolerate the most abuse from the designers of their game.
When the time ends, the current duel is a draw, and the winner of the match is determined by the number of duels won by each player during the match. The matches will end super fast. It's just that Konami doesn't want some matches ending in a draw. XD
That's not how time rules work in pokemon. You count turns starting with the current turn as turn 0 and go to turn 3. If nobody has won by then, the game is a draw.
For prizing, just give out rare cards top players can use (even if it's a bit earlier than the release). Give everyone who makes the top 32 or even 64 2-3 Fiendsmith Engravers or something like that. It's not that complicated. Just give them rare cards that are really good.
I think suggesting that prizes should be meta cards is a mistake. They'd be much more valuable and motivating if they were collector's pieces with nostalgic connotations like anime cards. Stamped and numbered Dark Magicians, blue eyes heros etc. because nostalgia value doesn't depreciate and meta value does
Imagine they did full artwork cards as starlight rarities for winning ycs and etc. And they could do cards that are very well known banned or not. For example imagine a full artwork starlight rare pot of greed. Imagine the memes, "what does that card do?"
Fantastic video Galzo! Yeah the Circular design has to end.
On the prizing side i think has lefting some things; first lorcana is not cheap, but you have cheaper options to play, no obligation to buy one engine (now Fiendsmith, was Kashtira, Brave), it's has varience, every deck in yugioh looks almost the same, with a feel exepctions that you named, Despia, Runick combo, Tear, every deck should look like those ones. In yugioh we need to do a research, cause i feeling this is the most expensive ever yugioh, just like you i have been playing for a long time with breaks in between (since 2014), in my experience i never felt price out of meta like the SE and Fiendsmith ones, i will not play a Stun (Ritual beast and Tenpai are fancies stuns to be honest) or a ftk deck! And don't want every deck to be 150-250 USD but, 700 to 1k USD is wayyy out of hand. So if the game is more expensive (and btw life is more expensive in every corner of the world since the pandemic) the prize needs to follow. Just my thoughts.
Btw the one piece idea is really good! Love it!
PS: KeyYGO has a fantastic video about the "casual" yugioh experience, i think people should watch and comment in that. This is a huge problem that's gonna hurt yugioh more and more. Just a spoiler there's is difference between a for fun player and casual player. 👍🏽
"Cards in deck" - way to make pot of desires never see play.
Regarding the topic of prizes, I couldn't agree more; cash prizes would only highlight the "pay to win" mentality that everyone complains about. However, I think they should give out reprints, or directly increase the card prizes for the top placements (giving booster boxes/displays from the top 128/64 would make many people feel that their entry fee was worth it and that reaching the top yielded a "profit"). They could even highlight exclusive sleeves, mats, or alternative artworks to differentiate the top cut.
On the subject of time, I disagree. It’s not the fault of the cards that gain you life points when time is running out. If your game relies on using an absurd number of cards, a card like the little nun helps balance that. Additionally, you could use infinite combos to burn time.
I think if they at least started paying for the top 8 (for example) stay at the hotel, travel expanses and food... That would already be ideal
Ocg time rules are just ok enough to work. You finish your turn and your opponent gets one more turn
Man I have an idea for time.
Pretty much when time is called. The game ends at the end of the next player battel phase. Just think it's going to make a player want time to be called on the opponents turn. And I think it's going to speed up the game and make the game get tense when it's close to time
Today 3 of my 5 friends in the comunity quit yugioh because several of this reasons. But mainly due to most meta players are so uncofortable to play with with because of actitud or behaviour
We can take meta staples like S:P and create cool extended art versions for high placements
The biggest problem right now is that Yugioh is too fast and there is no retractions!!!
There should never be the ability to retract legal moves.
@@scott898586 agree, the game needs to slow down!!!
Its not prizing, its the game.
Fix the mechanics
Why don't we make time rules similar to Legends of Runeterra? 7:30 base time for each player per Duel, with additional 7:30 reserve time to use across all Duels. The first player to have their timer go to 0 loses. No need to then worry about LP, because time is then the more pressing matter.
But also. Why y'all playing physical YuGiOh in 2024 with the heinous cost of playing instead of simulators or Master Duel?
Yugioh needs more promotional items besides ots packs. Magic and Pokemon have fun promos that rotate out every month or so. It would be tons of fun.
i think that kinda like how you can have 3 of the same type of card in your deck i think you should only be able to have 6 cards of the samer arch type in your deck
Would be nice if the winner can chose his prize card & get the card in a new rarity exclusive to prize cards only which would shoot up the price of the price cards
The fact that we don’t win product like boxes is kinda sad
The prizing got worse and the cards got more expensive.
i was kinda disapointed when clicking this video. I was looking for a way to fix the game for the majority players not the vocal minority aka the tourney players. A lot of players come from watching the animes, so they wanna live out the duel dream. But we get on master duel and just fight meta dog decks. We need an accepted format where you are playing a pure deck not a mix and mash of the best stuff. Like the meta decks can even be ran here as long as they stick to only their cards alone and then we can go with bans from there. I just feel the biggest breakthrough for yugioh would be to fix the formats rather than the competitive tourney scene.
Swordsoul is fair, it has no one card combos, that's why it has been unplayable for more than a year
The baronne de fleur ban plus the powercreep pretty much killed the deck. Swordsoul was a fun deck to play/play against
The time rule should have followed the way how master duel does it instead
I agree wholeheartedly, go play poker if you’re playing for money.
It can be toxin.
Ban all hand traps. 7 years of Hand Trap meta they are overly common done to death stables.
Wasn't aware that Jess is no longer European 🤣
Cash prizes won't solve anything. All it will do is increase the amount of horrible buyouts that make the game so unaffordable.
Most of the people complaining about cash prizes can't even make day 2 of a ycs, so IDK why you're so concerned
ah yes thanks you for saying it. game design. major issue to me. most of other card game (magic, hearthstone, pokémon) have the ressource issue (fields, mana and energy) that makes game take time. on the other hand ygo now is such a fast game, most of the games i see on master duel takes 3 turns but it used to be slow too back in the days when we had most of non effect monsters only. i know it refers more to the anime than the tcg but still. improving the game and making it faster, especially after synchro monsters appeard, are ok, things may change and why not? but the hand traps negate and anti-play cards ? ah cmon. branded vs tearlaments were probably my favorite era tbh, not only bc i love fusion monsters but THIS were duels, without a lot of generic monsters but true engine as you explain in the vid. F*ck handtrap and negates, balance the game by deleting and semi-limiting overpowered engine and let the game be a playable game.
Better pro and prize support
3 min turns no more 5..
Errata the text style simplfy to look more like magic
My counter argument to games taking to long is if someone knows their deck inside and out it shouldn't take them more than a minute and a half to go through 10-20 cards when I play those decks and my opponent doesn't quit I have it done in less than 2 minutes. If your taking that long to play a deck you shouldn't be in a tournament yet because you're not done practicing your combos. To play at a high level thats what it takes. When I play I expect Droll, Nibiru, Ash Blossom, and if I lose to Shifter because of my deck choice I just lose. My deck choices generally don't lose to any 1 single hand trap. If I choose rouge deck I choose a deck like Vanquish Soul or Red D. Archfiend or any deck that used to be a meta deck. I'll play decks like Dark Magician but my bottom line when I play in ranked matches on Dueling Nexus is rouge decks I know I can beat any deck with.
Swiss rounds new rules
Top cut 3 turn 15 min
Good PR and Enter items
Is Cardfight Vanguard
Deck, playmate, sleeve add one tote bag
Top 8 playmate and one full card old ver
Top cut card, Top 8 playmate and ? Full card update 2024 oct
(Quick play) ED
Made the meta is good and free more defense
Try changing the time rule to the player with less life points win. If you burn too much you might be susceptible to your opponent popping out some burn card. IDK.
Konami is not listening if you dont like yugioh rn just go play another game, i was playing ygo for 4 years and this conversation never stops, the only people gaining from this is konami and galzo (no offense)
Your pokémon time rules where SO off hahahahahaha
Saying you have a playset of Champions rare Branded Fusion goes hard. I like this idea.
release the "maxx C"
Implementing a chess clock would solve consuming time intentionally. 20 mins each for a full round. Also. Run out of time is an automatic loss. Even if you were 1-0 winning. The set. Run out of time, lose the set
Lorcana is not cheap? I got TWO fully competitive meta decks for 350 bucks. How much can you get with that in yugioh? 5 cards. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
That's not cheap
@@galzo in comparison, it is.
We need money to compete stop the cap broski meta decks are not cheap travel isn’t cheap and players should be compensated for there time when they are the best of the best
ban all hand trap
Delete ocg and make rush the premiere format
Bro please do research before making a video
Naw we definitely need better prizes and money prizes would definitely improved the game! Especially when u spending $900-$1,200 on cards to win and when u win! You win pretty much nothing! So yes prizing definitely matters
Please, I, i'm literally the one that started saying competitive integrity, and you go, you know that word because of me, I coined that term. And trust me, y'all don't want to talk about competitive integrity. Especially with the adderall usage and the intimidation, and how some people will force misplays.On other people, you guys have no competitive integrity.That's the one biggest problem with you.Gail in my opinion. That's all the ridiculous you know. Way the game works that you guys have issues with that's how the game works. Get over it, either, adapter, you don't.These pros are mad because they can't adapt. fast.Enough
Who are you?