Memes Only New Yu-Gi-Oh! Players Will Understand!

[@_catsy]

I’ll be honest, when I came back to Yugioh after 10 years I was like “They built a whole gameplay mechanic around XYZ Dragon Cannon...??”

[@DerVasto]

I mean, ...they did too, yes... ABC and Unions are there, kinda.

[@windinthewillow1871]

Poor buddy

[@gengarvenom1180]

Yeah, they did. It was literally the first contact fusion monster. Is this news to you?

[@Jack-The-Gamer-]

@@gengarvenom1180 congrats, you were a smartass, and still managed to be dumb enough to miss the point.

[@LuluNoLimit]

LMAOOO fair point

[@murphmuffin9069]

I had a friend who used to play, I asked him when was the last time he played, Synchro, XYZ, or even Pendulum era, and he said he had an xyz deck and I'm like "well most decks from 2012-15 were comprised primarily of xyz monsters, so what deck Specifically?" And he goes, "idk it said xyz" and I go, "were the cards black?" And he said "no, purple" And that's when I realized he was referring to his XYZ Dragon Cannon deck 😂😂😂

[@anasbessafi6146]

he should play ABC lol

[@murphmuffin9069]

@@anasbessafi6146 out of all the decks I have, to get older players into the game again, I usually have them play ABC

[@blastodermis]

About to ruin the joke, but did your friend pronounce X Y Z, or xyz?

[@murphmuffin9069]

@@blastodermis it was through a messenger text, so no pronunciation

[@iconuchiha16]

Little did we all know xyz dragon cannon was the first ever X Y Z monster to exist before Zexal was even thought of 😂

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

If i remember correctly, there was an episode of Spongebob where him & Patrick went to a shop to buy Trading Cards based on Merman and Barnacle Boy. SpongeBob bought all but one pack and got and got every pull except the rarest card which he didn't have. Patrick bought the last one and pulled five copies of said rarest card.

[@bonkchonkxb310]

Yes, and then Patrick trashed it. A clear reference to not using sleeves, I never really realized how relatable that episode was.

[@thedootlord]

I remember that

[@joshuawenninger6439]

You're not remembering correctly, because it was *Mermaidman* and Barnacle Boy

[@dinodude8899]

@@bonkchonkxb310 not to mention a reference to how most people who don’t have a single solitary IOTA of a clue about the games view incredibly rare and powerful cards...

[@dorky2958]

Oh if this scene is not featured in the next meme imma head out

[@lennyface8195]

Person: "Any ideas for a budget deck?" Me, a Skull Servant player: *"BONES!"*

[@leeboyles4480]

Spooky scary, skeletons

[@jeremycocciolone9223]

Buy the legendary collection warriors deckcthing and just use the destiny heroes from it.

[@skimshady8458]

I can see you're only interested in the exceptionally rare.

[@hellkaiser1366]

Jajajaja..so true

[@misterleguan4272]

do you win with the deck?

[@aaronkellett9014]

0:36 Can we appreciate the fact that my man got Yata-locked at his first locals

[@duelistalliance1071]

I felt bad doing this to people back in the day lol. I wouldnt to kids though unless they understood the game well enough to actually be good. If it was a new player id take it easy on them. I enjoy teaching people how to play this game. Always have.

[@MonosEx]

I got Benkei OTK'd at my first locals

[@orangegalen]

Yep. I was that naive kid that came in with the random card built deck and then got stomped and went home crying.

[@kennygallagher4700]

I didnt go to locals until cloudians. I wanted to stab a cloud.

[@badvoodoo2097]

That’s fierce I’m a magic player and I ruined a few locals I follow yugioh as I used to play until 2013 and I almost came back but monarch and the other main deck was tooo meta

[@alexc.5304]

"some people think that the GOAT format is the greatest of all time" like I mean yeah its in the name

[@keeganlafferty1395]

yeah, none of this combo bullcrap, if a card chain or string of moves involves more than 2-3 cards then it's too long

[@tylerperez8560]

I mean all formats have an up and down. Have you ever played against fiber jar? Destroy 2, summon 5, destroy 5, summon 3, destroy 3, summon 5, flip morphing jar. We could also talk about three reasoning and three monster gates. Not to mention priority. I'll never miss that BS.

[@undercoverweeb]

It's also because scapegoat card introduced in that format that shifted the entire paradime.

[@anasbessafi6146]

it's called goat format bc of scapegoat dumbass a format with a 50-card pool can't be "the greatest of all time"

[@tickledeggz]

its because the deck everyone was playing was Goat Control. I honestly don't miss old Yugioh, there were so few cards in the game that there was basically an optimal 40 that literally everyone (competitive) played, which is, in effect, a Tier Zero format(s). For fun times get into any GOAT format group and start a debate about Exarion Universe.

[@LabMatt]

Anime watcher playing the game: "Why can't I summon a face up monster in defense position?!"

[@glitch1785]

That's happened in a game I played once

[@herbcruz4697]

You can Special Summon a Monster in face-up Defense Position, but you can't Normal Summon a Monster, that way.

[@mrheehaa3103]

HahAhA

[@friendleefailee]

That was my first reaction when I play Yugi the Destiny on PC

[@riroufudo]

Superheavies be like:

[@ttom67]

That Dragoon meme hit hard. The last tournament I went to almost every player I went against had it in their deck even though it had nothing to do with their archetype. It made the tournament almost unenjoyable

[@mectainea5575]

That meme at 7: 19 is literally me (except I’m not a new player) where I have a friend who wanted to build a thunder dragon deck and got loads of packs to get them, barely gets anything and then theres me who somehow someway always pulls thunder dragon cards, its not just thunder dragons but every deck that friend of mine wanted to make, I always get the cards for it though I always give them to him anyway in exchange for covering my trade debts with my other friend so it works out in the end.

[@RikoJAmado]

That arms race meme is exactly what those “ live” duels with the original voice actors are!

[@_stealth_313]

2:45 This is 110% true, I went to a Maximum Crisis preview, pulled and Ash Blossom and sold it for $80 because I didn’t have three copies and knew I’d never get three copies lol

[@ShizuDelta2128]

That £80 is three copies

[@Yugiohdeckmaster41]

@@ShizuDelta2128 back when the card first came out it was like 80 for 1 copie

[@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046]

@@Yugiohdeckmaster41 Copy not Copie get spelling

[@ShizuDelta2128]

@@Yugiohdeckmaster41 dam that’s tough . Wel now it’s cheaper tho

[@mokeyman9803]

@@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 i no rite he spelin suck

[@daltona.k.aogxcorndog397]

You should do a “Memes only duel links players will understand”

[@mgz282]

Joke: 5 main monster zone

[@rixku3358]

Lol

[@theonlypx0868]

Bro cimooooooo doesnt know nothing about dl

[@Dwood777]

Backrowunai

[@salamzander]

Yes!

[@darklombax2580]

I’d say for returning players first have them learn the mechanics of fusion, Scyro, Xyz, pen, Link in that order. Then after that give them the basic understanding of card effects and once per turn

[@bonkchonkxb310]

Link should be learned before pen since they are much more prevalent and I’d say simpler

[@aaa1e2r3]

@@bonkchonkxb310 agreed, plus with MR5 it makes more sense to explain links before pendulums

[@mohammedhussain6749]

It should be link, fusion, synchro, XYZ and pendulums but pendulums are optional

[@aaa1e2r3]

@@mohammedhussain6749 I would argue fusion synchro and xyz before link namely because those 3 methods are not restricted by Extra monster zone. Link requires you to go into specifics about that zone, which would be necessary to then move into pendulums

[@joshuawenninger6439]

I don't know what this new Scyro mechanic is you're referring to, but you forgot about Synchro summoning.

[@dspace4514]

Me in the beginning of 2017: *Spends all of his money on D/D/D* *A few weeks later* Link Monsters and new Rulings: Hello there.

[@mrevilducky]

Lol I could've been you

[@ruansasa289]

Me with my mobarch deck: T R I B U T E Anykind of deck: 3 monsters summon on The same turn

[@lancerguy3667]

To be fair, t’was Zoo who murdered D/D/D. Link era was just the box they buried it in

[@ensemble3647]

Wait, links are 3 years old now? Fuck... Now I feel old

[@DerVasto]

Well, Link-era is dead. Good riddance, I won't miss you.

[@kazemizu]

My current deck revolves around summoning, “The last warrior of another world.” It somehow evolved into stealing my opponents monsters with super poly to fusion summon a ton of different monsters.

[@DerVasto]

So basically Predaplant? I play that one, and it does the same thing, but prefers DARK monsters.

[@bishop_breloom]

When the youngsters complain that current decks are broken, so I pull out my pre errata Chaos Emperor Dragon deck with Yata Garasu: *Knuckle Crack* Oh I’ll show you broken.

[@leoornstein3963]

But then the youngster normal summon neo-spacian connectors to speacial summon Aqua Dolphin, then start ripping cards out of your hand.

[@daenor7807]

Lol when they complain about broken cards so I play my pot of greed

[@Ahloveyafuhso]

@@leoornstein3963 that's not gonna happen first and foremost aqua dolphin can't do anything without strong enough monster on the owner's side of the field. Second the opponent they are facing won't allow such a monster effect to go through easily.

[@leoornstein3963]

@@Ahloveyafuhso you know, you only need to pay life point to look at op hand and rip 1 low attack monster out of their hand. Even if the effect doesn't go through or Dolphin is removed, the deck will keep extend onward and countinue to RIP cards, well unless you gamma or Nibiru at the right time.

[@Ahloveyafuhso]

@@leoornstein3963 ofc i do i'm just saying it will only work on low level if aqua is by itself.

[@conorfrost6866]

This is a true story: I'm a high school kid who enjoys his Yu-Gi-Oh and last year I was obsessed with D/Ds (I still think they're awesome and need more love) and I have a few friends that I played with. One day my friend turns to me and looks me in the eye and says "I'm gonna make a Rocket deck". Now this guy was the one who always had the top tier meta deck and considering how I was the only kid who could deal with his Trickstar BULL***T I said "Hey sounds cool". So he then proceeded to buy three of the rocket revolt structure deck and makes a surprisingly decent deck from it along with a few handtraps he had. It was an enjoyable period of time. Now I should mention that not long after this, people started realising the trauma that was guardragon. Fortunately they were too pricy for him so we were safe. UNTIL he discovered a freshman who had the playset of all 3 and he conned the poor kid into trading them. It was a traumatic week. The reason I say week is because the next week, the gods smiled on me and nerfed the sh*t out of them in the ban list and I bullied my friend's ass into the floor for putting me through that.

[@lordvaust5830]

Yugioh players: “Hey, Spend hundreds of dollars on Yugioh!” Me who plays both Y-Go and Magic: “...”

[@ScorpioneOrzion]

Yea I play both for free... online...

[@Animusfortemorty]

At one point i was playing Mtg commander snakes Weiss swars abyssal float Yugioh traptrix and other 3 decks And not forget about collection....

[@ianaldridge7136]

Throw in 40k and you got a nice ol bankruptcy

[@jamesreveley5998]

I only play Magic now with the penny dreadful community and I am enjoying it so much since 1 dollar can make almost 2 decks.

[@loganshaw9198]

@@ScorpioneOrzion where is magic free?

[@captainsamwell4316]

True story: my friend only bought 1 savage strike booster pack and he pulled borreload savage dragon from it.

[@josephfrance3223]

Oh hey, i did that!

[@justsmile5809]

I've never heard if a better reason to end a friendship

[@UchihaItachi1986]

I once bought 12 packs of Dark Neostorm and pulled a full playset of Cynet mining.

[@Ramsey276one]

My first packs got me FIREWALL Under 10 minutes and I had 4Link monsters I could actually play and a few more cards XD Having lost my old Extra Deck after moving, that helped A LOT to get back in gear!

[@slashkamei]

True story: I went to a sneak peak, I forget which one, and this dude got the whole pack full of Black Rose Dragon cards

[@WillRennar]

10:28 - That one was based on a guide I wrote for returning players a few years back. The section on Xyz Monsters starts with a picture of XYZ - Dragon Cannon crossed out and going "NO, NO, NOT _THOSE_ MONSTERS!" Nice to see that joke aged well. XD

[@bl00by_]

4:22 Imagine being a new player and reading inspector boarder for the first time...

[@ivanpaijolin9128]

Ive seen this card countless time so... What does it do :")

[@bl00by_]

@@ivanpaijolin9128 You can activate monster effects equal to the number of different summoning mechanics. For example you control 1 link and 1 xyz monster that means you can activate 2 monster effects, but if you control lets say 2 synchro monsters you can only activate 1 monster effect. Also the total number of monster effects you can activate under boarder per turn is 6.(If you control 1,ritual,1 fusion, 1 syncro,1 xyz, 1 pendelum,1 link). So the most decks can only activate 1-2 monster effects per turn (Link and xyz/synchro).

[@ivanpaijolin9128]

@@bl00by_ thank you sir, your are a legend.

[@SuperRedNovaDragon]

7:34 is the reason I quit playing physical yugioh. 2 times this happened. D/D/D when master rule 4 hit and Dark Warrior I had all the PK, Destiny heroes ready and the day before my locals was holding a tournament for me to test out for a regional they slaughtered Dark warrior on the F&L list.

[@insanemakaioshin]

me: *sees the squares & thinks for a few minutes* Exodia! It's not possible!"

[@DarthUmbris626]

LMAO Yep!!!

[@baileydombroskie3046]

Wait is that wat it is? I spent over an hour trying to figure it out but cudnt.

[@insanemakaioshin]

@@baileydombroskie3046 yup! That’s what it is!

[@baileydombroskie3046]

@@insanemakaioshin i guess then i shudnt hate myself bcuz i cudnt figure it out on my own.

[@insanemakaioshin]

@@baileydombroskie3046 No, your grammar & spelling is enough reason on its own!

[@joshuawenninger6439]

2:44 Nowadays it's more like "When you want to play budget but then you have to pay for the 'pot' cards"

[@heavymetal8679]

Yeah, pot is so expensive

[@joshuawenninger6439]

@@heavymetal8679 I guess it's only extravagance right now, but still none of them should really be expensive in the first place!! And now the new one coming will probably follow suit. 🔥💀

[@Avatar56773]

@@joshuawenninger6439 Absolutely right. Like pot of desires is seriously a piece of shit and is totally unplayable in any combo deck. Also Cardcar D is essentially a pot of greed with the additional effect that you can't normal summon on the turn you play it and is not anywhere on the banlist and can be played at 3 copies. So actually it's you can't normal summon, special summon or attack on the turn you play this card but it's still better than desires if you have good trap support.

[@DerVasto]

@@Avatar56773 So basically 3 Cardcar-D in Eldlich?

[@michaelgunnels9694]

That ban list one actually happened to me when my tournament at my college this was when card of safe return was legal and dark worlds were still using it I believe in the middle of the synchro era

[@RizzAustralianHistory]

That duel monsters school becomes less stupid every time they bring a new special summon

[@knightmarecx2069]

I remember building Super Quants with a brilliant fusion plant engine back when brilliant was at 1, only for brilliant to get banned literally the next day after I finished the deck...

[@TEXfrowg]

I hqve a similer story, before my first day of going to locals i ordered 3 salamangreat structure decks, i had a full deck but 3 days befire i went the 2019 july banlist hit which limited circle and gazelle, and i had neither cynet mining or lafy debug..

[@NintendoFreakLan]

I refuse to hate myself for getting that image. It led to my current friendships!

[@liamreade]

what does it mean? Help!

[@NintendoFreakLan]

@@liamreade Original series, season 1 episode 1. Final move.

[@infernious5491]

3:53, this meme was exactly how I felt when I returned to Yu-Gi-Oh after 6 years. I stopped playing after the end of the Zexal era.

[@white-eyesbluedragon1767]

Same here but near pendulum era beginning

[@zeoalexo]

I stopped after GX....mainly because my stepdad toss all my yugioh card, but kept my baseball cards. Im not even into baseball, yet i had baseball cards

[@KindredDoomBot]

I remember I got one of my friends in highschool into Yugioh and we bought some cards from a shop then went to play with some people at the library. I bought like several packs and he only bought one. Legit just one. I am sitting there pulling absolute garbage. He hits me with the, "Is this good¿" shows me what it is and it was a fucking card car d secret rare back when it first came out. I went from being tight he pulled that to being his bodyguard because everyone was trying to trade with him for that and they were trying to rip him off since he was new to the game. One of my favorite Yugioh memories of all time.

[@Knightor679]

8:24 I don't catch the reference, somebody help please

[@blitzcam]

Assuming from left to right is Kaiba, 3 bewd, exodia, and Yugi/Yami(Atem).

[@jon_with_no_n3065]

pretty sure its the scene when yugi plays exodia from episode 1, the red and the blue being the lifts they were in. Idk why he and us should hate ourselves for knowing though.

[@realitant]

Yami Yugi summons Exodia against Kaiba and his 3 Blue-Eyes

[@Stinkoman87]

I think maybe it's Yugi summoning Exodia to obliterate the Blue-Eyes, but I;m not totally sure.

[@traplover6357]

If it was gold, then it would be better imo

[@RawwkinGrimmie64]

6:02 Whoever made this meme did a great job with sticking to the original context of the show. Every time I see this meme, people make it look like things are progressively worse, but this fits the scene perfectly!

[@Matthew_Murray]

Me a guy who stopped playing right around Xyz: You know the Pokémon TCG looks really good right about now

[@alexzanderroberts995]

I am getting into the bakugan tcg

[@theonlypx0868]

Yugioh ZEXAL made me play yugioh lol

[@nixx7912]

I’m gonna start pronouncing XYZ Dragon Cannon incorrectly just to piss people off

[@DerVasto]

They need to do a "Xyz Dragon Cannon" Xyz-monster. Just for people to confuse the two cards.

[@kevinmooney9361]

Yes.

[@Shadow-rz5pb]

That last meme was me when I turned up to locals with a Gravekeeper's Endymion deck. I got trashed, mostly because I barely had any cards that were effective, the rest because I was a bumbling buffoon

[@mukuro8033]

1:05 I remember when I was playing with a friend who was able to Special Summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon using a Cyber-Stein then equipping it with his Megamorph on second turn. He completely went smug on me forgetting about my Mirror Force just standing by at my deck and he went completely nuts when I activated it lol...

[@jokerlover300]

Ngl the chain burn one got me. I remember playing chain burn during zoo & monarch days and having a fun time, but I always felt bad for the opponents. It didn’t matter if I won or lost.

[@malexthegreat]

I literally started like 5 months ago my friend taught me the basics in 2 days I found the good yugitubers (obviously including Cimoooooooo) and found about all the hidden rulings and well play it well but I prefer two rouge decks atm they are fun but don't always win

[@derpbderp3426]

Kinda curious what are those decks?

[@KindredDoomBot]

Also curious, how much money have you spent¿

[@malexthegreat]

@@derpbderp3426 skull servants and galaxy-eyes

[@derpbderp3426]

Those decks are fun i use cyber dragons and traptrix.

[@KindredDoomBot]

@@derpbderp3426 Traptrix is hella fun.

[@darknight94ful]

When i started, tele-DAD was there waiting for me with open arms....good times.

[@Bolget25]

Me: n00b with decent decks on dueling book Also me: time to play unlimited format

[@theodorevickeryiii5122]

7:12 my first regionals, pulled a thunder dragon colossus when it was still a hundred dollar card. from 1 pack.

[@TailsDoll2537]

10:29 Well the problem is simple, originally the XYZ Monsters in Japan are "Exceed" Monsters, since Konami TCG changed the name of the summon itself

[@codyrahm6979]

1:15 I have been banned before for that. But not for stopping their plays but for beating them with a 1900 atk vinala

[@FromTheSky0]

My first locals experience was insanely embarrassing. I took all my best high level monsters and built a deck I thought would be really powerful. I entered the tournament and started dueling and tried to summon a high level monster without tributing... oh boy. My opponent was like you cant do that... then he explained to me how the game works and recommended I buy starter deck Joey because it had 7 colored fish, the strongest level 4 monster. This was a loongggg time ago and how ironic that I get Joey's deck when I was deck building just like Joey XD

[@tanner1061]

Cimo has the best mix of content between the history and progression and memes than most other creators on yt imo. Good stuff man keep it up

[@Todengel1313]

7:34 almost had this happen once. Was when pantheism of the monarchs was new and not limited yet. Bought 2 of the structure deck, looked at it an went "YEA THATS GETTING NERFED" and traded the second one off to a dude who was thrilled to get his 3rd one. Not even two weeks later it was cut to one.

[@UnrealGamer6]

I wanna see this series return! It's what introduced me to your channel!

[@Rahnonymous]

7:06 no joke, this is how one of my friends stopped playing yugioh and switched to magic. There was a set that had a ghost rare he wanted so he bought an entire box and didn't get it, only for our mutual friend to pull it in a single pack.

[@mayuri4184]

Yugioh is like war: Ever evolving. For example, trap cards are like fortifications, but as time goes on, trap cards are rarely used, just as how fortifications are rarely used nowadays.

[@hapi7726]

8:01 me with trickstar. I fell in love with the deck when some guy beat me at locals with it back in gouki format so i bought the trickstar core and scapegoats and things. Then scapegoat and light stage got limited.

[@sairen472]

8:30 EXODIA, ObLiTeRaTe

[@runningoncylinders3829]

Wow, I'd never have guessed that, but I think you're right. I was trying to think of specific cards like a blue warrior with a shield and a big rock meteor thing on the right. Yugi being a red square isn't a great depiction.

[@emanuelmartinez7267]

@@runningoncylinders3829 think its the color of exodias blast attack

[@renatoramos8834]

The colors are way off. Yugi should be purple, exodia a much lighter brown, the dragons are fine and kaiba could be white or dark brown.

[@MoreShovel]

I thought brown was wall of kuriboh

[@filfil5585]

Why I should hate myself for that?

[@lexsnowball505]

I think when it comes to teaching new players that vrains era did a pretty decent job with trying to dull the learning curve with the way they released mechanics in their sets. So they gave us links first in the first booster which gave players a chance to adjust and learn how to play with links. Then they released the next set months later with the addition of rituals then set after with fusions and so on. So new players had a chance to learn each summoning mechanic with a window of grace before the next one came out. Sure the new players weren't gunna get a competitive edge and the structure did mostly stick them to just vrains era stuff but it made learning mechanics slower and more bitesized for a second. Though if you missed a set or jumped in later to vrains you were once again behind and had to catch up to the modern players and the previous wave of new players.

[@phantomthunderclap975]

7:34 This happened to me three times in a row in 2012. It's partly why I no longer play competitively.

[@yusheitslv100]

I felt the "have to pay for hand traps" sad agumon one deeply. I'm trying to get back into Yu-Gi-Oh by learning about meylta strategies and had to settle for Effect Veiler for my irl deck over ghost ogre and impermanence just because of price.

[@darthzayexeet3653]

2:30 I thought he is gonna say: „Yeah, well my monster can’t be tributed!“

[@DerVasto]

*Laughs in Darkest Diabolos*

[@dragonman1003]

Shot in the dark the color cubes was Kaiba and his three BEWD vs Yami Yugi and his Exodia

[@Arko777777]

9:01 Gage and MBT to Cimoooo after every episode of their respective series.

[@SuperShadowKin]

10:28 LMAO. I feel that one. When I was getting back into the game 2 years ago. I didn't know what Xyz monsters were. I got a random card lot on amazon and got a Barrage Blast. Read that card from the perspective of someone who thought it was talking about XYZ-Dragon Cannon.

[@Zirpfel95]

10:28 I remember one of my last moments with Yu-gi.oh. I started with the first structure decks Kaiba and Yugi an loved the game. One day after some years I walk into a shop an see Generation Force with :"The rise of the XYZ-Monsters" on it. I was like WTF?! We already have that. New support. Stoped playing shortly after I found out, what that meant. ^^

[@borttolati]

Somebody: Kaiju Me: Santa Claws

[@kish45]

Honestly the players that get so mad over their opponent stopping their play that they would try and physically assault their opponent those players should get banned for 1 or 2 years from playing the game at any locals and tournaments.

[@the24thcolossusjustchillin39]

The funniest part about the hidden rulings to me is that They hardly ever come up for me, so I’ve never had to learn them

[@shadowspector3611]

2:19 "Yeah, well I can still destroy you with an effect!" "Yeah, well I can't be destroyed by your effect!" "Yeah, well my effect doesn't destroy!" *visible confusion*

[@dj-troost528]

It banishes them or sends it to the deck/hand

[@shadowspector3611]

DJ- Troost: but he just said it destroyed.

[@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046]

Mayb it sends it to the gy

[@shadowspector3611]

@@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 but he just said it destroyed.

[@maxddf1049]

as a new player (almost 2 months ago I started playing) i found that its quite easy to get into, and I have taught my younger brother how to play too. My friends that got me into yugioh always complain about link summons and I personally think its fine. its not hard to understand once you get the hang of it

[@golden_lexi_ar6786]

Me when I see my meme get featured: “I am the one who decides my fate!” 9:30 Yeah I’m Null.

[@violethound6818]

This is proof, sup guys!

[@tratanlightbreaker6029]

My meme was in the first meme review... but i didn't send it to him ;_;

[@iakan6937]

Big tip for people recommending budget decks, 5 dollars is the MOST expensive a single card in the deck should be and there should only be a max of 3 that cost that much. Saying a 100 dollar deck is budget and going with "Well you should see some of the $500+ decks" is like recommending a 400 dollar pair of shoes to someone as budget because there are shoes that cost thousands of dollars

[@borttolati]

Me, first time in a card shop: buys one vallhala shadows pack: gets alister Someone: changes me it for the armored dragons Me: I also wanna that lair of darkess =D

[@TEXfrowg]

I, a budget player, traded my common ash blossom which i had 3 of for common garbage cuz i was obly playing 2 back then, if that guy knew what he was doing i want to fuckign srangle him so badly

[@Xardion55]

5:04 - Honestly, I have two experiences when it comes to this. The one is when the opponent asks what I'm playing before play, at which I would never answer because that would spoil the surprise. The second is after they beat me without me have a single way to counter (second turn OTK). They ask, and in a slight rise of sodium, I respond that it doesn't matter since you've already beaten me.

[@ufukcangencoglu2279]

8:25 Is this the iconic "Exodia, Obliterate!" scene?

[@20-starstrategy95]

That's what I was thinking, with 3 Blue-Eyes

[@hwoarangthedoorbell]

“Have any of you played against an opponent that started breaking down and crying or wanting to get physically violent as a result of you stopping their plays?” Bro, there’s no need to put Gage and Joseph on blast like that!

[@burlyfoil1022]

this is purely hearsay, but it seems magic's problem is actually getting pretty rough for at least standard, The idea of a 50 card banlist especially containing cards that haven't even seen play seems like a bad sign for power creep

[@VegettoBlack]

I play magic also and in the last year or so they have come out with half of all the bannings ever in magics history. Honestly it seems like their company stopped caring and is destroying the standard format just to make a quick buck. Its really sad which is why i took a break from magic and am strictly playing yugioh atm. At least yugioh and konami have always been upfront about their blatant power creep lolol

[@TrueGamer22887]

That’s why standard is trash viva la commander

[@Bubben246]

And that's just the mechanical side of things!

[@luckysevens6852]

Evert mtg player I know only plays commander. When I ask them about standard they say they'd rather play a fun format.

[@RealKingChief]

@@VegettoBlack Have you seen a "new" TCG that's been gaining traction recently called Flesh and Blood? It comes from New Zealand and it's looking to be a pretty good game.

[@UnrealGamer6]

1:33 I only started really learning the game itself within the last few years. Played a little bit when Yugioh first came out, dropped out for a while, then picked it back up when XYZ came into play. Millennium Duels on PS3 & Legacy of the Duelist on PS4 helped out A TON when learning the game!

[@S1lv3r1]

Hey Cimo! Have you seen Death Note? Completely unrelated to the video but I'm getting a Death Note playmat for playing YuGiOh and it looks super cool and I'm just super excited about it and wanted to share.

[@theonlypx0868]

Cool

[@zanpakutoman4225]

1:10 yeah, I use to be on the opposite end, of those. I was kind of an emotionally unbalanced brat, back when I was a kid that played at locals. I got along with most of the others, especially since my dad would come along too to play and socialize. Luckily my scene had a lot of older players, so they were either understanding or put me in my place and I don't remember getting too out of control. I cried in the bathroom a few times, but I hate thinking back on what a toxic kid I was so maybe there's more I repressed.

[@timgross6883]

I want to play yu-gi-oh but I think I’ll just play cardfight vanguard

[@FranktheTank319]

The best place to start learning yugioh is by playing Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution. I just picked it up after not playing since Xyz and I was impressed at the tutorial levels that are in each of the chapters. Very easy to pick up and learn.

[@starliege8010]

iam not first PS: Raidraptor deck is a non meta that kills meta decks

[@brianchavez2829]

I'm cool with that. Also, any tips on how to strengthen it (aside from Phantom Rage)?

[@deathrbx9942]

Try adding allure of darkness if your starting hand is bad.

[@Hydroxoid]

I recently got back into yugioh after quitting before gx came out, it’s crazy to see how much it changed since I was a kid. My god, each card effect now is a whole novel, you need a magnifying glass to read it all

[@12061988]

THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE! It was around 2004 when my classmate, who didn't even play Yu-Gi-Oh! bought three MRD packs and pulled 2x Gate Guardian and 1x Summoned Skull.......fml.

[@kyuubinaruto17]

FML over what? Gate Guardian sucks.

[@thedoctorisin5141]

My first locals... it was the height of Blackwings. I played MTG, but it was YGO night and so I was just hanging out. One of my friends talked me into playing with his spare Blackwing deck, and walked me through the basics of how to do the big winning combo. So I sit down for my first match, and I go first. I pull off this ridiculous combo she taught me flawlessly, and swung for game. And then my opponent confusedly reminded me that you can’t attack if you go first. I don’t exactly remember what happened after that, but I had used every asset I had and left myself super vulnerable to some removal and then a quick curbstomp, so I believe it could be summed up as ‘Understandable. Game two?’

[@GhostmareXD_]

I agree with all of these lol

[@DarkFabled14731]

OK, the pulling the money card thing has literally happened to me twice in my life. The first time was when the Duel Terminal was still a thing and Trishula was the one everyone was after. I had some free time because my round ended early and I decided to test my luck. I put $2 dollars into that Duel Terminal, the first card that popped out was some Naturia monster I don't remember and the second card was Trishula. And everyone freaking swarmed me and the younger that was in middle school me felt very uncomfortable having that many people invading my personal space The second time was weirdly a few months later after the Trishula thing; my locals tournament had just ended and we all got our Astral packs and I pulled the $40 Sangan. The dumb thing was when I had traded it, I didn't realize that I got scammed. Thankfully, the store owner helped me out and we worked out a deal that made it a more than fair trade.

[@freakphoenix1025]

To be fair about the Magic-Analogy: we have cards that allow us (recalculated for Yugioh) to Look at out opponents hand at any time we want to for 800 Life From turn one onward look at their hand and make them discard any 1 card Counter any one summon by banishing one card and pay 400 life With a slight setup look at the top 7 and pick two of them without revealing any of them (those we do not choose get put back under library) In combination with mentioned discard-card we can pay 800 life at any time to make them banish not only a card in their graveyard, but search their hand and libraries for the same named card and banish them as well (sude note: once cards are banished in magic, it is close to impossible to bring them back in any form, we have about 3 cards we can use to get cards back opponents banished for us) So given that power level, I think saying 'whenever we get a card that warps a format' it isn't any less of a problem to the meta, but it is a different league. I like those memes though. Wouldn't get back into the game because screw synchro and anything following that, but I appreciate the memes and the effort put into those videos Maybe if you want to, someone like the Professor from Tolarian Community College (who once collabed with the guys from Team asp) can tell you a thing or two about the game. Or if any of you want to I would be glad to answer a question or two about the game.

[@makokx7063]

When I was a kid I used to play Yugioh, Pokemon and MTG as a teenager ,before the internet was a huge thing and it was great. We would all get a structure deck and a few boosters, swap some cards out and just work on 1 or 2 decks over the year with our couple booster pack a week allowances. Every game was fun and competitive. Now everyone, without thinking or experimenting, just googles the current meta, and buys the cards needed for that specific deck online, then they play 3 rounds of a game in 60 seconds because that's all you need to know which deck is going to win. It is about as fun as flipping a coin.

[@TheDakotaCruiser]

That Mr. Incredible one...had that happen at a local once; no cards in my hand or on the field with only 250 LP remaining and my opponent summoned a lvl 4 monster then proceeded to activate optional effects because “I’ve never been able to get this effect off and summon these monsters”. He ended up with 3 fusions and a synchro totaling close to 9k atk ....I almost rage quit on the spot

[@thealolanturtwig5670]

This all just reminds me the first time I happened to bring my quickly made dragon deck to a card shop since i was in the Pokemon TCG, but we ended early, so someone who played yugioh was like "Hey, do you wanna play a match?" and I said sure. Given, I didn't know of the existence of Link or Pendulum monsters, and the guy filled up his field on turn 1 and ended the game turn 2. He quickly realized he wasn't playing a good player by any means, and then decided to play me again with his casual blue-eyes deck. That one lasted longer, but I still lost. Apparently, he wanted my deck to progress, since before i left, he just up and gave me 2 more BEWDs, having a total of 3 then, along with maiden with eyes of blue and some other BEWD support. I won't ever forget that time, for multiple reasons.

[@Ahturos]

Me - Wanna just play Metal Raiders cards? Opponent - No we are playing Yugioh!

[@draconicmeta846]

8:12 that was me when I first started but I loved the game so much that I decided to keep playing no matter what

[@funkybunch6108]

My first time at locals was in Spring 2018, I brought my 3 structure deck counter fairies. First game is against the guy who had just won dragon duels in the most recent YCS. Pretty humbling experience

[@texaspistolmassacre8845]

I could almost see XYZ Dragon Cannon be remade as a xyz monster with specific materials, level 4 machine monsta

[@TheeSethCage]

My one and only time I went to a local, it was in 2014, and I was destroyed by 3 One Turn Kill decks. I was so bored, just listening to them waffle on, that I gave up playing, made a cup of coffee at 11pm, because I was ready to fall asleep, but had to drive home.

[@vacantsix1586]

7:34 That was me playing overwatch when I started to enjoy playing Brigitte a few months ago The overwatch devs: takes away armor from repair pack and makes her hp 150 regular with 50 armor, when it was 200 regular with with 50 armor

[@giannispapakrivopoulos5455]

7:18 reminded me of a time during may when we had selection boxes in duel links, a friend of mine had to spend 150$ to get fiendish chain (chase card) and a guy he played with got it for free with gems and he didn't even know what the card did🤣🤣🤣.

[@theonlypx0868]

Bruh i got it after 10 packs in shining hope or infinite ray

[@Pegasix21]

Structure decks don't actually come with rulebooks anymore. I just got Freezing Chains, and it came with, INSTEAD OF A RULEBOOK, three custom cards that advertised Duel links, other structure decks, and online pricey emulators for Duel Monsters

[@vohoangnamp4670]

0:25 my first time was when I just bought the LEDD box and then use that Odd-Eyes deck with out putting anything else in and duel with a Cyberse deck, and thats the first time I know about Extra Monster Zone lmao 😂😂😂

[@chenstormstout9456]

Regarding that first meme, MTG has been around longer, but was always more fair, if you don’t count the Power Nine. YuGiOh was always like that from the beginning.

[@PedroShadow2011]

There was a day that an uncle of mine got 2 decks, one for me, one for my cousin. Mine was the kaiba structure deck with XYZ and ABC. My cousin's was the starter yuya deck. We knew almost nothing of yugioh so he never understood how to pendulum summon and I was stupid and was kinda "Wait there is no polymerization for me to fuse.." Years later I got the decks and tried to understand wtf there was that XYZ cards and I was like "It's another type of summon?" Because of reading that little book that comes with the deck. Let me tell you, it took me a while to understand things and when I did, I realized how much slow I was.

[@sebr4492]

7:13 one time when me and my friend went to a tournament, we had no clue what we were doing and he pulled an ultimate rare Galatea...

[@Randerson2409]

It wasn't in Yu-gi-oh, but I got to live through that "Random new player who only bought 2 packs" moment. My bf at the time was getting me into MTG, and I bought a Commander deck, and it comes with a mini booster with 2 cards in it, and one of the cards I pulled was worth more than the entire Commander Deck lol

[@akim1909]

6:53 me when I'm out of my main DDD extra deck monsters so I have to make combos with "just in case" monsters