the game was always broken, raigeki was the original DRNM, one of the first meta decks was centered around the idea of handripping the shit out of your opponent before they even get to do anything. schoolyard yugi-oh was never real yugi-oh.

A better Yugioh would need more specialized situation cards to generate interaction that isn't always the same, the problem with doing that is that with the current card economy (just number of cards) that'll lead to more bricking in the first turn. To fix that problem just increase the starting hand size, you can also improve the kinds of draw power an individual card can supply when each individual card is less likely to be immediately game breaking and used right away for immediate benefit the way that current yugioh plays. You can't do one or the other IMO, it has to be both and neither would be healthy or beneficial to the current game. To do a better yugioh it would have to be built with these concepts in mind from the outset. In current yugioh a card is bad if it isn't used right away at any time of the game while brushing your teeth and wiping your ass and winning the game in 1 card and then letting you draw too. So you can't introduce a suite of trap cards without giving them the power to do things outside of regular trap card effect rules to superscede their slowness by getting around the waiting 1 turn policy. You can't introduce cards that are only useful when your opponent does something specific they might not always do, they'll be completely useless 90% of the time and thus never be put in a deck. Not in the current game where every card can be used right away no matter what or it's considered useless.

I rlly liked this video! Good explanation for someone like me who doesn’t know half the cards in this video. But I could still understand everything rlly well!

Why cant they limit special summons so you can special summon twice for a total of 3 possible summons per turn

The bright side is that the current state of yugioh might push more people to try other less known TCGs like Shadowverse and Cardfight: Vanguard

They keep distracting us by keeping the game essentially as it is and occasionally releasing a new card that shifts the meta and is unbelievably powerful, just to ban that card eventually and thus make the player shift their focus on the other cards that have come out during that time. In rare cases, players find new uses in older cards but those are the rare parts where the game can get slightly exciting again....

New master rule: You're only allowed 1 negate per duel! 😅🤷‍♂️

Where's my Celtic Guardian support?

Based on what you said thoughout this video makes me feel that Yu-Gi-Oh is little different than a coin flip.

Yugioh will never get any better because its at final form of power creep. Anyone that genuinely believe the game is good rn really needs to quit. This is a complete waste of time

1:33 "Rollblack"

Was peak back when you are you friend got two different starter decks and some boosters and just played. Back then you had to go to a card shop or trade to build a broken deck and even then you had to think up the deck build. You could order every card from a broken deck you found online

The last time I played the physical card game was when GX was in circulation. Deck building was more about suiting individual play styles, not copying someone else's strategies move for move. It seems like now you need a magnifying glass to read the text on the cards because they have so many summoning conditions, discard effects, etc. It's not fun to sit there for 10 minutes because your opponents keep cycling through their entire decks in a single turn because you don't have anything in hand or on the field to stop the madness. Remember when chains were like tug-of-war between two people, not watching someone else play solitaire? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Tried to get into Duel Links, but there is so much bloat with the dozen different summoning types that I immediately got burnt out. Like, you are really just special summoning with extra steps. A LOT of, no... TOO MANY EXTRA STEPS BRO.

Bro complains about modern YGO being a problem when it's been the same with negates, loops, unbreakable boards, etc. since the games inception. Lol

I miss when I could put Giant Soldier of Stone face down in defense position and be like heh ain't no way he's getting thu this one

DisasterDave is a cheater.

If you’re not barf half your deck onto the table turn one are you even playing modern Yugioh?

Speaking of power creep. If you look at some of the most powerful spell and trap cards in the game.. they do not come from later Yu Gi Oh in most cases they come from the earliest era of the game. Harpy's, Raigeki, Royal Oppression, Ultimate Offering, Deliquent Duo, Skill Drain, Rivalary of Warlords. I could go on. The idea that somehow Konami had lost the plot in a balancing standpoint is hilarious to begin with when you consider some of the most broken cards released year after year. Or at the genesis of the game. Also let's not forget how many old cards had to be errata'd to be re-balanced due to the fact they're BETTER than new cards, especially starter or combo pieces. I regret to inform my fellow old heads you're lost with your rose-tinted glasses.

This is what happens when you try to make a card game based on a random throw away card game that was created as a plot device for a single anime episode. it was never intended to be an actual functional fun card game. In fact one of the things from that episode was the card game was very much a pay to win. You either bought the best cards or you lost... Wait a minute... Never mind Konami clearly has done an amazing job capturing the spirit of the original game. It is us that have foolishly not learned our lesson and not play it.

Bro is gonna get roasted but he's objectively right. I love a lot of the modern mechanics, but its how they all interact with each other that makes the game really toxic and unfun. It's got so little actual interaction.

I liked the game until gx/ds era, before pendulum/link convoluted mess. Specially links, it was purposely changing traditional game mechanics to "stop flooding the field with special summons" only so you have to buy the new links so you flood the field even worse than before.

Something that would've helped this absurd power creep would've been if the game had set rotation. But introducing it now just means that it'll be stuck at the current power level

Combo devils is gonna take its slot and no... we can't have both.