good ep

Just an FYI to Josh if he's listening. Enjoying professional wrestling is about appreciating the storyline, drama, athleticism, corny promos, trash talk, etc. Professional wrestling is nothing like real fighting, it's disrespectful to insult the viewers that way. Your insult to the viewers is equivalent to somebody calling yugioh is just like pokemon or magic lol.

For me, the best way Yugioh can be made easier is to have either keywords or clarifcations. I think the thing most non competitive players struggle with are things like imperm targetting, but droplet not targetting and what that implies. Or stuff like Sauravis, where it just says on the card its only in response to CL1, or a keyword that explains that. There are too many extra things to know with "problem solving card text" which I remember them implementing, but then still needing outside knowledge to know the actual rulings. Simplifying isnt just about a less complicated game, but a way to know most rulings by reading the card, over needing outside knowledge.

Whether its my opponent jacking off with cardboard, or setting a bunch of lock pieces in five seconds and smugly picking their hand up and saying go, I’m not playing the game and having fun. It’s this entire game.

well in OCG; 1 silvy + 1 s/t random = baronne, rhea silvera, jowgen, bao, temple SE w/ flamberge + I:P in s/t zone. Oh also prome in gy :))

48:20 What the playerbase calls „missing the timing“ is all about activation windows (specifically, activation windows that are narrower than others). These reactive effects - be they summon or effect negates such as Baronne or Ash Blossom - even use the same keyword, „when“.

If it is a wrestler I am a wrestling fan who plays yugioh

Of course Josh likes fuwalos he can afford it

bao a quu seems pretty solid: pop>lil-la>pop+draw>returns to field and it's not as dumb as summoning sunny twice.

I also hated when they released the Illusion monster without their unique effect, which btw are all Diabellstar related, so maybe it's that? I'm still waiting for a cool pure Illusion archetype, Chimera is cool but it's also not 100% Illusion monsters. Something related to Nightmare Magician could be cool

As a fellow uk regional-goer, the tendency I've seen is for judges to convince the TO's to not have a lunch break or for there to not be one regardless. And honestly i personally prefer it, leaves my brain less space to wander between rounds

I really like these kinds of episodes, it doesn't really matter what the subject is it's just nice to listen to you two yapping. I saw you guys at ycs lille but I forgot to tell you this, but these podcasts help me alot making my commute to work less boring! So I guess I would like to say thank you for that. And I hope you guys will continue yapping for our listening pleasure :)

A wrestler that plays the guitar? Its Elias obviously

Thank goodness Piri Reis Map is an SR

For marketing, TCG actually has a potential under their nose, RUSH DUEL. It baffle me TCG doesn’t want to promote rush duel when this format is pretty popular in OCG. Not to mention you get “cheap” anime

As someone who did quit yugioh, I don't regret doing so mainly because of my current gripes with the way Konami is handling both the card design and rarity structure. I do remember this game fondly and it's why I still watch content despite not playing. This game is what made me and an already existing friend get so much closer to where now I'm considered an uncle to his son. It's just unfortunately a game that has become so overly complex and feels like it's always so one sided. That said, again the content is always fun and I appreciate you guys good making it

There a generic rank 6 that revive any level 5 or lower card from gy as a quick effect

Bao Bao is the single best piece of support that Spright Twins has gotten since Runick. I finally have a reason to play a Yama package.

My biggest worry with the new link 4 is that you could use it to do things like revive SP and IP which can get very dumb very quickly

EEE L OH

What creator is banned for 3 years?

Something mtg does with keywords that I wish yugioh would do is higher rarity versions will only have the keyword while the cheapest copies usually have the reminder text of what the keyword means. It helps newer players get into the game since the commons are cheap and Grace what the ability is on the card but the more experienced players who are invested and will dish the money out on the nice copies don’t have the bloated text box

Farfa: gets tilted that maxx minigame is pervasive in all masterduel game modes Also Farfa: "Maxx c is whatever"

Bro is scared of called off the hunted

Imo the new link 4 is alright. Pretty good even. No where near as broken as people think. To compare it to PP, because everyone is, lets look at 2 effects; the pop and the revive. PPs revive is free while the new link 4 requires a discard and a banish of itself. This is important because PP allows for further extension using itself while the new link 4 is something you have to extend into. PPs pop requires your opp to special summon and a body on your board to pop as well, while the new card requires a discard and a banish of itself. PPs pop is a little better because you usually have monsters with effects that proq in the grave and allows you to keep possible interaction in the hand, while the new link 4 is a little riskier because you lose a body and possible handtraps to the discard, which leads to my next point; the mulligan effect. In order for you to get any value off it, you need to have multiple types in the grave AND cards in your hand already, which might be difficult because you mightve used them if theyre handtraps OR you used them to discard for cost. The card seems fun for sure, but people have to look at it in a practical sense. Most of the time, for most decks that can use it, your probably better off ending on your normal board. For Yubel for example, I probably have to give up an omni negate to end with the new link 4 on my board. To me thats not worth it and I think players have to look at their normal board and ask themselves, is it worth possibly removing a piece to end on this card?

A deck doctor type of podcast episode could be interesting to discuss deck building tips. Would be interesting to find out how you guys approach it.

Konami is trying to make dueltaining a thing by asking artists, wrestlers, and models to do campaigns to promote the game.

32:56 Lisan al Gaib!

Im ready to blow my money Friday at locals at the bonanza release party🎉

I'm incredibly excited to cook with A Bao A Qu in Lightsworn. Very easy to climb into thanks to convenient access to Weiss / the Fiendsmith engine, and because we're already milling out our entire decks, every floodgate we'll want to turbo out will be very accessible.

I don't see the new link 4 being good tbh. In what situations will you be draw 2 bricks you want to discard while also having enough power to make a link 4? Maybe good in fabled or dark world but otherwise not seeing the vision.

Mechanicalchaser was the absolute best normal summon back in the days. It was dark for chaos monsters, and 1850 was the highest atk on a level4 Monster. That 50 atk is what made it hella expensive.

Wooooooo🎉🎉🎉

Nothing wrong with stun decks I quite like stun , let people play what they want without being personal to the other player , can play anything you want as Konami printed it and they are more than enough cards to easily get by stun don’t see the issue at all

Farfa has bad takes on cards as always LMAO

I would play the ocg format in a heartbeat not even a question

People will complain no matter what, also, people in "x" or youtube talking how much they hate yugioh while they are invested in content for the game are acting ch ild ish. If you don't like something, you really stop liking it, you are not orbiting it. They are just making a tan trum because the game isn't affordable to them and complain endlessly in hopes konami tanks sales to cater the game to them 😂

The most common monster types are Warrior, Machine, Fiend, Spellcaster, and Dragon in that order.

Dwarfa and Sailor Moon

if we out here keep making types at what point we just say screw it to archetypes and do it like mtg where the creature type is the archetype. like we already have that with cyberse and illusion and wyrm, all of cause being the new types and then dragon as the on old type that slowly morphed to that

The Jarfa & Fosh show

Tbh I think the Shadow Duelists being outside of the gaming and TCG space is a good marketing move. From what I’ve seen/experienced, TCGs still have the negative super nerdy no showers basement dweller connotation to most regular people. So I think Konami is putting these people that are completely disconnected from the space to establish Yugioh as separate from that connotation. Now I still think there needs to be some general audience culture crossover to be effective, which made Zayn a bit of a weird choice. Mostly because Pop Music fans probably aren’t going to break through the nerd wall that is TCGs. But, if the guesses are right, Wrestling fans are insanely nerdy. They’re basically just pumped up theatre kids with steel chairs. I think this Shadow Duelist will be a hit if all goes well.

Farfa calling the link 4 insane is so off base i think. I could be wrong but i think Josh is spot on his analysis

Unchained with ddd requiem, link 4 to give it to your oponent, maybe

We need some timestamps

Ritual beast being this good is telling me all you really needs is 1-2 pop/spin and a negate and you’re deck is good going first

Isn't the shadow duelist just the masked singer for yugioh?

1:13:19 I've never heard someone who clearly doesn't have crippling social anxiety describe it SO succinctly lmao 😂

On speculation of the next Shadow Duelist: There is a good amount of crossover between wrestling fans and YGO players (speaking as one myself) and a bunch of the current generation of Wrestlers are also outspoken massive nerds like Kenny Omega or Xavier Woods. That being said, the clues being "taken multiple titles" and "plays the guitar" immediately made my brain go "Chris Jericho" and PLEASE NO FOR THE LOVE (the Egyptian) GOD (cards) ANYONE BUT HIM.

Josh and Farfa should look into Infinity Wars. If you think Runaterra is good, Infinity Wars did it more than a decade ago. It's a lot more strategic than Runaterra, too, with regards to deckbuilding and play sequencing. The entry barrier is nonexistant, you get every card (but not every cosmetic for the cards) on account creation. It also is significantly smaller and could use the exposure.