Cr1tikal Reacts To Why Was Yugioh SO AWESOME?! And... What Happened to it? | Moist Reacts

[@Novellous210]

Fun Fact: the Yu-Gi-Oh manga was only going to feature the card game for one chapter, but the readers asked where they could get the cards to play, so the entire series was shifted revolve around it because of the support of the fans

[@Brogan_Balfour_Crescent]

Yeah the author created the Manga to get kids into tabletop games (he always played them as child) and when readers wrote in to ask how to play the game and where they can find it he took the opportunity and created the bestest selling card game

[@ragenaros4475]

@@Brogan_Balfour_Crescent bruh manga is def not created for kids LOL, Bakura forcefully taking out Pegasus Eye which kills him and bakura licks the eye, and that is just one tiny part of yugioh

[@luffybrook]

@@ragenaros4475 It's created for japanese kids. Look at Dragon Ball it has Bulma's breasts fully exposed. Yu Yu Hakusho has demons eating people, Bobobo would swear all the time, and Bleach had limbs graphically removed. All of wihich were featured in Shounen Jump a collection of comics made for young men.

[@merccc1]

@@ragenaros4475 Oh please, kids read this stuff all the time. Maybe particularly sheltered/younger kids maybe won't.

[@admiralmu4353]

If I remember correctly Atem was not the king of Duel Monsters, but the King of Games specifically.

[@WakeUpToReality...]

The "Shadow Realm" is the best thing to ever come from 4Kids censorship wave

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

honestly kinda MORE fucked up than letting someone die. Don't worry kids, they didn't die. they went directly to hell :)

[@AlwaysEquals50]

The Shadow Realm saw disc will send you to the Shadow Realm, they should have left the saw. 😂

[@jmurray1110]

Plus it definitely helped explain the resurrections better

[@trancandy1]

it's worse. if you die, you stand to your deity's judgment. a shadow game could send mother teresa straight to hell

[@michaelmellor3383]

Scarier than death and honestly makes more sense than just resurrection all th time

[@kuntakintae6984]

When he was naming cards with ridiculous names he missed out on interplanetarypurplythorny dragon

[@Snack-Sized-Femboy]

And the longest card name in the game: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Juggernaut Liebe

[@kuntakintae6984]

@@Snack-Sized-Femboy he mentioned liebe

[@blahdouchegaming]

dont forget about gogigagagagigo

[@jesuscortez6047]

Is that real ? Lol

[@kuntakintae6984]

@@jesuscortez6047 yeah

[@vaulthunterfromterra4053]

The part about sending cards to space, it was actually both. E-HERO Neos & the Neo Spacian archetype were in a separate capsule than Yubel, sent at different times, for different reasons. Neos and the Neo Spacians for the promo thing Kaiba was doing. Yubel because she was a detrimental threat to basically everyone in Jaden’s life as Yubel was basically a soul-bound yandere.

[@vaulthunterfromterra4053]

I think that if Yubel had been sent in the same capsule as Neos & the Neo Spacians, Jaden would have ended up using Neos Kluger & Neos Wiseman as they’re both the combination of E-HERO Neos & Yubel.

[@yuusatakehito7579]

@@vaulthunterfromterra4053 he does use Wiseman in the JP anime, just not in the dub. And it's the correct type too, Fusion Monster

[@grammysworld5449]

"what we got in America was the PUSSY version of Yu-Gi-Oh" So true man😂😂

[@HeartBeatCollide]

I love mashing two archetypes together with a shitty link between them

[@TheButTickler]

My favorite was Gaia The Dragonmaid Champion deck I made lol

[@tues2455]

@@TheButTickler A God upgrade for Gaia.

[@jofx4051]

Phoenix Unicorn Accesscode half the time

[@aaronluisdelacruz4212]

Utopia, Gunkans and ABC cyber dragons.

[@jonathanmartinez2687]

Virtual world, swordsoul, tenyi deck

[@mon573r6]

Sad to hear about the creator of Yugioh, he died an absolute hero tho. Actual legend.

[@codegiver60]

My favorite thing about yugioh was how the Egyptian god monsters can literally be destroyed by something as simple as fucking fissure... "These archetype cards can't be used in your current deck they need their own deck" *despia has entered the chat*

[@australianemily]

Yeah I was gonna say. The biggest thing about recent sets is that they've explicitly designed it so that theres a ton of crossover archetypes, and even these days deckbuilding is varied and interesting. And saying shit like 'archetypes are dumb' is total bullshit, theres a ton of variety and different decks to main and innovate on.

[@emissaryofcharybdis105]

One of my all time favorite moments was stopping a Winged Dragon of Ra with 8000+ attack from one-shotting me with nothing but a Witchcrafter Golem Aruru effect of sending a card back to the hand. Ra went right back to the hand and I soon won the duel. One more god rejected haha

[@fortnitesexman]

yeah it's really just a shame that they felt the need to nuke their viability when translating them from series to card

[@ginkowave5829]

​@@emissaryofcharybdis105Holy shit is that a fucking shin megami tensei reference

[@emissaryofcharybdis105]

@@ginkowave5829 😉

[@Orthane]

Superrail Dreadnaught Gustav Max goes hard because it's literally just a card version of a giant Railway Gun the Germans had in WW1. That thing could shell Britain with how stupidly large it was, it took a couple dozen men to man it too. Please look it up if you've never seen it.

[@roberthansen5727]

WWII.

[@SCHMALLZZZ]

You are thinking of the Paris Gun. Gustav was WW2.

[@phthechef84]

I took a break from 2005-2022 The learning curve was rough but master duel helped a lot. Far from an expert but I can keep up competitively now 😂

[@coco864]

I suggest take a break again before you got ptsd

[@Gamer_2003x]

What deck are you playing?

[@miceatah9359]

pretty much the same timewise master duel made me rly interested in ygo for a couple months then i realized every single deck is the exact same deck with the same cards doing the same thing just with different artwork ive never seen a game lack any depth but ygo somehow did it

[@shef3878]

@@miceatah9359 lol youre just garbage

[@Emma_pan]

I think archetypes are one of the best things that have happened to Yugioh, because they allow you to explore many themes and combinations that you wouldn't otherwise explore. In addition to the existence of archetypes, it does not prevent mixing or trying combinations, it is not for nothing that there are cards with interesting synergies such as the Dogmatika-Invoked-Shaddoll deck that literally combines 3 different archetypes in a single deck. Also, I want to mention that the archetypes have allowed for amazing narratives to be told using the cards, just take a look at things like the "World Chalice" or the whole "Branded/Albaz" lore, which on their own could be their own anime.

[@emissaryofcharybdis105]

World Chalice always struck me as someone in the Yu-Gi-Oh team who really wanted to make an RPG, but Konami told them no. It smacks of RPG tropes.

[@strangevol5264]

Also, don’t forget Trick or Treat (Ghostrick Madolche), which has has been found to be decent in older formats. That has a funny name.

[@maniacalmurderer4123]

There are many fun combinations you can do with certain archetypes. However, many players chose to use those other archetypes as engines for their better staples rather then as a fun combo deck. You will more often then not see a deck running multiple archetypes to get the best features from each (typically negate cards, hand traps, or free summons). Using archtypes such as adventure or spright as an engine rather then playing them as a deck, in my opinion, defeats the purpose of the archetypes in general.

[@kodosquea1994]

@@maniacalmurderer4123 Given enough time players will engineer the fun out of any game. This is unavoidable and should not stop a creator from making archetypes.

[@ShyRanger]

I will literally spend an hour reading up on a new archetype despite having no plans to ever play it.

[@Ragnarok540]

The Act Man of one of these duelists that when the opponent summons a Time Lord, thinks that the opponent is an idiot for summoning a 0 atk monster. Then proceed to attack it, wonder why they lost half their LP, and finally activate Raigeki just to find it can't be destroyed by card effects either.

[@datzfatz2368]

is that what they call #FUCKINGREAD, right?^^

[@findout-YGO]

on master duel I unironically had people try multiple card effects on my gouki powerload ogre before they realized it can't be affected by anything (they usually try to destroy it with raigeki or something, then try to spin it with knightmare unicorn)

[@Momosexual]

That's what you would call an "idiot"

[@theofficialhankhill3280]

yeah honestly that act man video is so dogshit, its terribly researched with a boomer mindset on top of it

[@ByeByeAlan]

and you’re the kind of duelist that thinks anyone with valid criticism must mean that they’re bad. keep coping to justify your $600 deck just to lose at locals first turn cuz the game is shit now.

[@theswarmsquad3606]

Iconic cards: Blue-eyes Dark magician Red-eyes Exodia Monster reborn Pot of greed Mirror force Call of the haunted (?) that one may just be me, since I have the second episode of gx where Chazz uses it and a guitar riff plays burned into my brain

[@seansmith877]

Kuriboh and the Egyptian gods. I love my kuriboh pop vinyl a friend got me for Christmas he has glow in the dark eyes

[@lemonstealinghorse]

I have a stack of really old Yu-Gi-Oh cards I pulled out of my shoebox, and Call of the Haunted was literally the top card staring at me as I'm reading your comment. Call of the Haunted is absolutely memorable.

[@silv3r7ongue97]

I came back competitively in 2016 and I still have yet to win a locals but I’m finally decent enough to consider going weekly again. Master duel definitely revamped my love of the card game

[@Chaotic818]

any tips on current budget meta decks? i have some basic staples like one ash etc but dont wanna blow the bank to play

[@silv3r7ongue97]

@@Chaotic818 Branded is really cheap because they reprinted 90% of the cards you need in a started deck last year, they were about $15 a box so with 3 boxes you have enough to start going to locals and it even comes with staples like ash blossom in it as well as a common. branded is a top 5 deck with all the bells and whistles which were expensive but most of them are already reprinted since the starter deck came out so a local winning branded deck should cost you less than $100, it’s just up to you to learn the interactions, most games are won but one mistake so just tighten your game and you’ll do fine brother!

[@elajolote5627]

​@@Chaotic818 buy the traptrix strucure deck

[@purplewolfranger22]

@@Chaotic818 branded or traptrix

[@deden_gaming_sunda]

masterduel sure do pump our love back, until they release tearlament

[@SageTigerStar]

had a dude back when I started the game, he would literally pay for the whole room's tournament entries if they would just give him their Tournament Pack (TP1, with potential Mechanical Chaser), he ended up getting 3 of them in a few months, and would go on to win a big tourney where he got a giant Millennium Puzzle trophy. Kinda interesting to look back at on it now, lol

[@Masssshysteria]

holy crap i think i remember reading an article about him back in like 2003 in one of those YGO Beckett unofficial magazines. A picture of The millenium puzzle trophy is ringing some bells for me

[@SageTigerStar]

@@Masssshysteria yeah, after looking into it, I think it must have been an old Regional tournament that he won, since the puzzle trophy was one that hung from the case it was held in. Pretty cool to see in person.

[@Masssshysteria]

@@SageTigerStar yup I remember it was in a big cube clear case. He’s a legend for sure

[@VNeto94]

And his name was Yugi Muto.

[@HoseB932]

Oh my god, How did I only realize after watching. Charlie looks like the guy on Artifact Scythe

[@yoshinpixels9924]

Pffft just looked it up ya totally right

[@Crim-kun]

Articfact moist

[@sephikong8323]

Moist Scythe Vs Artifact Cr1tikal Place your bets

[@atomic2515]

@@sephikong8323Artifact, bro needs to be searchable

[@sentinelxcix2526]

You *can* mix archetypes sometimes, I’m a crystal beast enjoyer and the (arguably) strongest deck we have usually uses cards from other archetypes to help get the endboard

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

Someone hasn't heard of Overdrive Turbo

[@sentinelxcix2526]

@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 it wasn’t the most reliable combo deck but Golden Rule is out in like 3 days which is massive for overdrive

[@strangevol5264]

Also, Dragon Link! It’s probably one of the most impressive decks, just with how it uses anything they can. Branded also uses like four decks in one, even just as one ofs.

[@ShyRanger]

Zombies are all about mixing and matching. Even when you play mostly Shiranui or Mayakashi, you want to put in a little of th other for banish moves or all-out power respectively. Then you have cards like Uni-Zombie and Gozuki/Mezuki that are basically staples despite not really being in any archetype.

[@WolfPackAlpha-sn2sw]

Crystal beast basically doesn't work if you run pure these days lol. You NEED the boost to throw down your endboard or you're dead before you can resolve literally 75% of your cards it's crazy

[@BigBoy-bq6yx]

I still love that Syrus has the speed duel skill “The Roids Are Alright!”

[@RealBullbear]

Lmao 🤣

[@DSPGamingR.E.A.L]

In Tag Force 2, his first deck's name is, "Me and my Roids" XD

[@OmegaChase1002]

In the manga he has a card that gives himself blue-eyes white dragon armor and he turns into a kamen rider

[@darkside7802]

Yugioh is not a kids card game at all. It’s so insanely in-depth and unlike any other card game. It’s insane. So many rulings and things that have to be done before this other thing and if this happens then this might, so on and so forth. It’s crazy.

[@Zargex]

Thats why they make waifu cards with bs effects to draw out all of young adults’s money

[@bloodyzayne]

You're not talking about OG yugioh. It definitely was a kids card game. There was SOME depth but not to this level of OTK/57 synchro summons in one turn bullshit. As soon as the synchro bullshit happened it pretty much ruined the game. It became who can summon a 4k/4k untargetable monster first

[@Anon_571]

And yet the anime, art style and names of the cards couldn't be more childish and nonsensical

[@Freshomania]

@@bloodyzayne og yugioh was just who can summon big normal monster first tbh

[@ViRo02Cas]

Looking back, before I played Yu-Gi-Oh, Magical Scientist and Cyber Stein Cyber Dragon was some of the worst and it was so early in the game's life. Then there are combos like Hand Control and the infamous Chaos Emperor Dragon Yata-Lock that also made the game not fun at all. Then after that is TELE-DAD, Emergency TELEport Dark Armed Dragon, then whatever thing got cooked up after.

[@darkdave1998]

JOE WHEELER IS OUR BOY Red-Eyes B. Dragon wasn't as strong, but he was the cooler dragon

[@OmegaChase1002]

Out of dark magician, blue-eyes white dragon, and red-eyes black dragon, red-eyes is the one that got actually good support in the modern day.

[@feren9984]

​@OmegaChase1002 red eyes never won worlds lol.

[@OmegaChase1002]

@@feren9984 blue-eyes didnt win either. Not without a lot of string pulling anyway

[@coffeebean_tamer]

Dark Magician Girl and Blue Eyes White Dragon summoning still stick in my memory to this day. go my Blue Eyes!

[@The_Juggla]

Not only was mech chaser a tournament pack card, which were 3 card packs lol, it was the rarest in the set being UR when the packs didn't even guarantee silver rares.

[@connormanable]

I played yugioh in a local card shop like a few hours ago I had to call over our resident official judge to clarify some unique situations that no one in the room had encountered before specifically around card wording and how literal we take the wording

[@UKAndrewL]

Im so glad yugioh is still mainstream, i still have loved it since 1998

[@RandomPerson-uw1oo]

Joey is my favorite being the 3. Not because of his card, but rather because of his personality. He is a underdog that became good enough to be in the top 3. He got hit by a literal god but was still standing with just his will power alone and almost defeated the main villain of that arc as a result. Joey and Yugi has more respect toward each other like a true best friend than Kaiba. He went toward the flames to rescue Yugi. He literary dived off the ship all just to rescue Yugi precious grandpa cards. He lost on purpose and lost his soul all just to make his girl happy. He is the most loyal friend you could ask for in the original Yugioh. And he also has the most cheerful personality between the 3 too. That's why his my favorite. Lol XD

[@misterbeauregard220]

22:52 Dragoon is a beast of a card. But it's not neccesarily game breaking. Kaijius exist in YGO, and they're one of the greatest balancing mechanics Konami has ever created.

[@dragonhearted7761]

That or ra sphere mode or my beloved nibiru

[@justsomeguy2825]

There are also several cards that negate or non destruction remove, or can even beat over it as long as you can play through its negate (not that hard with most decks.) Draw Dark ruler or forbidden droplet, and it's game over if they just have dragoon.

[@ramaroy2408]

Dragoon never become problem card in TCG as far as I can remember. The only reason that thing broken in OCG because control deck have better floodgates (vanity, 3 skill drain when we only have 1, etc) not to mention Maxx C.

[@Heyhowsitgoin999]

@@ramaroy2408 Yeah Dragoon is an amazingly strong card in a vaccum, but it was overshadowed hard by DPE.

[@thedog7494]

​@@ramaroy2408 other way around. skill drain is at 3 in the TCG. OCG just put it to 1 very recently. Vanity's Emptiness is banned in all formats as well. Dragoon was originally banned because of Anaconda. Although now that it's banned it could return.

[@TheJcjonesacp]

The cards sent to space were the neos cards but yubel was also sent to space so she could become safe to use (every time Jaden dueled with yubel the opponent was injured because Jaden lost and Yubel overreacted to his sadness at loosing), while the neos cards absorbed cosmic energy and became stronger, yubel was tortured, Jaden sensed this pain and suffered nightmares because of this and was forced to get brainwashed to repress his abilities and memories of yubel…they say original Yugioh was dark, GX is just trauma.

[@Dratspider]

I was gonna say last I checked the final big bad of GX could be dumbed down into depression personified.

[@TheJcjonesacp]

@@Dratspider yeah Nightmare/nightshroud (forget his name) which is just…dang if you only watched the dub you’d have no idea this throwaway part of Atticus who was defeated twice was actually the final villain

[@Dori_Dorifto]

me who combined war machines with gigant trains and ww2 nazi cannons with little fairys from the forest because THEY ACTUALLY HAVE SINERGY:

[@Dori_Dorifto]

btw im talking about machina/trains and vernusylph and the nazi canons are the gustav, dora and liebe that he showed on the video

[@strangevol5264]

They were WW1 tho?

[@skyblue6092]

joey's duel is always fun, sometimes even more entertaining than yugi's

[@ShyRanger]

Joey is easily the best character in the first Yugioh series. It oddly feels like only his voice actor was able (or allowed to) put more improv or tone into his lines. In one duel when he's so exhausted and can't make a move, he just goes "Ugh, I' done" when everyone else has to say "I end my turn." Also, the fact that in Season 4 he literally thought of and was about to throw a duel and lose his soul hoping Mai would snap out of her bad decision is amazing. If Yugi didn't talk him out of it, he was literally ready to banish himself.

[@AlwaysEquals50]

Not really, his wins through chance cards pull more BS than Yugi ever did. His cards rarely ever backfire, like whenever he plays one of those kinds of cards you know it'll always benefit him.

[@skyblue6092]

@@AlwaysEquals50 remember when he delet all his monsters by using time wizard?

[@fortnitesexman]

idk, i feel like his duels are some of if not the least entertaining duels he only ever has a chance of winning because his luck is fucking absurd he doesn't showcase the fun of gamble decks AT ALL, that being the swing like momentum you get, at any moment you could be absolutely demolishing the opponent, and the next you're sucking dick and balls wondering how everything went to shit so quickly

[@crowthewicked8344]

​@@AlwaysEquals50The funny thing is, Joey was the first character to ever start with a brick hand in the anime which also ended up being his last duel.

[@christiansmalley4977]

“Traps are useless now” me laughing in 3 copies of Evenly Matched

[@harrymillar4193]

Yeah but how often do you use Evenly Matched as a Trap and not a Hand Trap?

[@KaneLivesInDeath]

He's talking about how the power creep prevents newcomers from enjoying the game because they have to know all effects each card has so they can use their deck in the best way they can. The problem isn't the mass amount of text a single card has, the problem is that 99% of modern cards have a mass amount of text... Why do you think Konami may be wanting to do a hard reboot with Master Duel by returning to its roots. There is just far too much stuff that happens in modern duels that anyone who want to get into the game (either after stopping for years or a complete newcomer) they will get overwhelmed very easily, even in casual dueling.

[@andrescifuentes7089]

1:39 I know you'll tell me that I live under a rock, but I've actually never seen anything from penguinz0, other than the memes, this is one of the first impressions I get from him, and somehow, I love it.

[@chronovac]

Reminder that the "Vehicroid" archetype that Actman complains about came out in 2005.

[@fromtheday9461]

he also acts like archetypes haven’t been a thing since 2003 with gravekeepers lol

[@Efgand0894]

Heroes, ojama, Lvl (armerd, Horus), gadget, dark Scorpions, silent magician and swordman. Those are the early "archetypes" I can remember

[@flaming_water8603]

@@Efgand0894don’t forget cydra/cydark

[@Anon_571]

Yes 2005, a literal DX invention, right after Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters was over. Proving that everything became imediate nonsensical crap after the original was done with.

[@CormanoPoncho]

Yugioh is great because it feels like the only card game where you can win by drawing a single card. Heart of the Cards isn’t marketing, that shit was real life

[@seanr.6498]

It's amazing how poor that man's taste in card art is.

[@og_kush2165]

Yours is probably traptrix wierdo

[@verticalstance]

whos?

[@tuskactu4820]

​@@verticalstanceact man, I agree with all of his video except the card art. The art slaps

[@kingofgrim4761]

@@tuskactu4820sorry you agree with such a silly video except for the card art

[@MrMatheus195]

Im not even joking, the 'gagaga' deck is cool

[@strangevol5264]

Gagaga pure sucks, but using it and the other Onomatopoeia card to facilitate the Utopia series can be pretty sick.

[@Emet.V]

36:23 harbinger is one of the best rank eight XYZ monsters.

[@codyjacobs6899]

Honestly, ygo today is better than when it started. When it first started the only thing that mattered was attack and it was inherently just a non-functional game. Around GX i think they started realizing that the only way to fix that problem was to build cards around their effects and let stats/levels be a way to categorize them.

[@insane992]

yaya garazu has entered the chat

[@franklinbinga2153]

Remember playing 'Wind Up' and actually discarding someone's entire hand before they got to even draw their first card. Or magic library and goblin merchant one turn KO

[@AlwaysEquals50]

8:50 I still use traps, I mean they're Phantom Knights traps that can still be used in the GY, but still.

[@ominousmist960]

I definitely wanted to play as joey wheeler. Im definitely in the minority, but that baby dragon time wizard combo just hits different. Especially that bandit keith fight. I miss watching that on my vhs tape.

[@RawrItsJuul]

His take on madolche is actually hilarious, given how popular the deck still is. Although I personally also prefer the more demonic style. The term waifu tax exists for a reason, they're very popular. And from the names I do think Gustav max is the least offender since it's based on an actual weapon.

[@Emet.V]

32:21 suships is actually fun, it’s good XYZ engine. Run a utopia package and have fun.

[@scoutscoodles]

Cr1tikal being a Yugioh fan is the most wholesome thing ever.

[@welp_dang]

wholesome? is it because he isn't like the rest only liking magic and pokemon? There's been a lot of people coming back into yugioh so idk how it's wholesome

[@ahmedalmusawah8928]

Your a fresh of breath hair with you actually editing this thank you

[@DoesRocksFloat]

I had a choice of yugi’s starter deck or kaiba’s. Stupid young me thinking that since yugi’s the main character his deck is gonna be stronger. Nope. Dark Magician couldn’t beat Blue eyes straight up so it’s a disadvantage already. Still salty about it to this day cuz i got my ass beat by blue eyes from friends

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

Funnily enough, the Yugi starter deck was still better, because Summoned Skull - you'd still want to get both though because of La Jinn in the Kaiba deck as well

[@TheFizio]

6:24 "You there, sir! Your Jordans are fake!"

[@The-Real-Skinny-Bob]

I was raised Pentecostal, I was told the characters all had sex with each other and I couldn't have any cards lol.

[@happysaucey]

I only left the game for like 3 or so years, and ive been playing again for a few months, and i STILL dont fully understand how to effectively play a pendelum deck

[@gggooodddyyy]

Pendulums are a decade old at this point

[@happysaucey]

@@gggooodddyyy no, don't say that, I'll wither away

[@alitmahendra891]

Pendulum make me quit YGO, i came back after Master Duel released. Still

[@projectvayne39]

1:02 new era. Each new show represents a new yugioh era.

[@katama4843]

38:56 Theres also cards like card guard. He just give another card an "extra life" or grand itself 300ATK with its tokens aslong as the card exists on the field There are card that are without archetype that stll find ways to be relevant

[@deaj8450]

I'm so glad I got out of Yugioh right before 5Ds when they added all the crazy stuff. I came back years later thoroughly confused and absolutely hated all the new summoning mechanics. Never got back into it becaue of that, but I'll still play some of the old games. Tag Force is a lot of fun still. All the Synchro Pendulum bs just put a bad taste in my mouth, I don't find it fun anymore. I don't have a problem with people who love the games still, though they often give me shit for my opinion. It just isn't for me anymore. I enjoyed the slower and simpler pace in the old days. Even the broken stuff was fun, Yata was hilarious. A little bird that just slowly pecks your opponent to death, depriving them of resources. I never should have sold my old cards. So many pieces of cardboard worth hundreds now.

[@YoBravo0]

I completely understand where you coming from & for me it was at GX, i stopped playing/collecting afterwards. Now watching all this current meta stuff doesn’t look interesting to me anymore lol but YuGiOh will forever be the best childhood cards game for me

[@ViRo02Cas]

You should try to Magical Scientist FTK your opponent in an online format, its fun if you get to play with someone while using the restricted list (I think) that had the pieces, un-errata-ed and unrestricted.

[@Isaacreeper]

Its funny that Act Man brings up Yu-Gi-Oh's rules being so complicated it takes up 31 pages when Magic: The Gathering's is over 160 pages long and grows every set wuth each new mechanic. Edit: 260 pages, my bad.

[@tobluetoblack]

Hardcore E-Hero user cuz for me, they are the most diverse archetype cause I have been using them for years now and I've won more often than I've lost cause they're so applicable and can counter most archetypes if you just understand how

[@TURBO1000YuGiOh]

27:19 Endymion, the Mighty Master of Magic

[@01234567891011121338]

A full video of "back in my day."

[@nerfnstrike1212]

Bro said ewww to a secret rare jinzo that isn’t 1st edition. I’d SHIT if I pulled one of those

[@brandondavis9991]

1 year later and still hearing Charlie think that dragoon is anything but a noob trap.

[@WolfofES]

ygo pro play is basically the first turn you or your opponet builds a Fortress and in your or his 2nd turn your goal is to invade that fortress

[@MrAweeze]

I've been into yugioh since it made it in the US in like 2000 and I had no idea season 0 was a thing til this year.

[@ChrisPC1]

5:15 The shadow realm is so much cooler than them just dying imo 😂

[@Emet.V]

34:58 speedroids🏎️ are their successor and are fun to play.😎

[@NobleWinters15]

the fact that there is a synchro pendulum is kinda crazy

[@dustinmosley5965]

Mystic Mine is probably necessary. Theres cards like this in magic that are legal in certain formats because the power of comboing is just so crazy. In YGO it feels like you mostly combo with monsters.

[@Devontae7894]

Who didn’t want to be Joey?!? Red eyes, baby dragon, time wizard, jinzo dude is iconic and I like him more than kaiba only because he’s the underdog amd to win with his deck is a real challenge

[@theboywonder4302]

Jinzo and red eyes were good but the rest of his deck idk how he won half the time

[@zzxp1]

@@theboywonder4302 Red Eyes is actually terrible if we are honest, that thing has lv5 stats and has the balls to ask for two tributes. They needed op cards like red eyes fusion to make that poor thing not dead on arrival.

[@theboywonder4302]

@@zzxp1 I used it mostly for red eyes slash dragon

[@ImJustMovin]

Joey was the only one in the anime who played game by the rules

[@fortnitesexman]

not a challenge, just bashing your head against the brick wall that is rng until you get the equivalent of like 5 shiny pokemon in a row

[@Populon993]

Getting into this game or returning after ages can be hard, but it's certainly not impossible. Just needs some patience and time to learn how to properly read the cards. I only ever watched the OG anime and played a couple Gameboy games, probably never even touched an IRL card as a kid. A few years ago I "got back" into Yugioh thanks to Duel Links. Nowadays Master Duel is among the only games I play in my rather limited freetime....All because I somehow stumbled upon certain top10 and lore channels and got hooked on those artworks and archetypes.

[@WolfPackAlpha-sn2sw]

I found that introducing mechanics by playing/making them use a deck built around a given mechanic works pretty well. Especially if you play it against them a few times first. That's how I finally taught myself pendulums lol.

[@CoreyAReeves]

I just started playing/collecting again and I can confirm that they newer cards have me confused as hell. My first complete deck is going to be Crystal Beast, I just need two more structure decks which are being shipped to me. I think Relinquished was my favorite card I ever had. The effect was really cool and the illustration was BA in my opinion.

[@ronnycastaneda9888]

10:18 icon cards in the game ? “ I think the monarch cards comes to mind” bro what 😂

[@CormanoPoncho]

Joey was a real one. The only one brave enough to run an all monster deck!

[@caracaluwu8626]

1:35 Charlie has a wild memory

[@999redpower]

nice edit on the magic ruler

[@timetotalk2023]

been a long time since i watched GX so i could be wrong but i think its was both neos and yubel and possibly the neo spaceins that kabia sent to space they were desgined by jaden for a competion held by kabia and the winner of the competion there designs would be made into cards and sent into space i cant remember the reason he wanted to send them into space could have been to duel aliens

[@Syrus_Priest]

it was neos and the neospacians alongside yubel were sent into space where neos and the neospacians were affected by the gentle darkness and yubel was effected by the light of destruction making yubel a sociopath

[@mooncalf_4534]

Neospacians were designed by Jaden and sent into space yeah. Yubel was a card he owned before then that was "cursed" so he sent that to space too hoping to cure it, but it just like tortured Yubel or whatever and made her ultra sado-masochistic

[@Dangerous-Doug]

36:03 the Qli part was funny although sadly the qli deck is actually so bad, it doesn't work with any other deck other then itself and it basically locks you into summoning only Qliphort monsters, best card in that deck is the Qliphort Genius link monster since its a negate and an earth machine which is my fav deck type also don't crap on Gustav and Liebe, Liebe my favorite yugioh card.

[@Nimble.ninja910]

So glad he mentioned gunkan suship, it’s a very powerful deck and i usually main it during tournaments/ ranked matches

[@Whoohoonutty2020]

That's my fake card in the thumbnail. That's cool, and completely unexpected

[@DrakesPlaylistChannel]

in about 2012 when gladiator beasts were popular and brionic wasn't banned I usually played zombies in highschool. i liked il blud and zombies eyes. afterwards my tastes developed to simochi burns, I liked lock down decks like darkness simorg and last warrior from another planet. I had a satlite cannon deck. I had a self destruct button deck that uses a exodia engine. but what I really liked was my darkness neosphere beast king machine barbaros deck. which still fortunately is till playable today. nowadays I usually play machine reinforce in a FTK reasoning mill using goldilocks. or like a normal train deck. 10 years ago I would have valued rank 7 xyz for big eye using fusalier dragon a lvl 7 machine that can be normal summoned and eventually tribute with great maju giving it allot of attack and if someone attacked a battle fader or the maju I could summon darkness neosphere... unfortunately neosphere isn't as viable anymore... and THAT sucks. I think most can be remedied by filling in old forgotten types like sphynx monsters. its been about a month but I just picked up magic arena. and put down master duel.

[@mcoomlie8478]

can confirm this is how yu-gi-oh feels now, used to play around 2000-2005 ish or smth before synchro came out, gf and me bought some job lot cards to play for fun only to find encyclopedia Britannica card texts and all sorts of insane effects on cards, we decided to just play with old cards or we deem not silly, we might think about adding synchro soon if it isn't too much xD collecting the cards is fun anyway because the art is still so cool even if i dont understand them :P

[@harrymillar4193]

I like Archetypes - it makes you feel like you can get truly invested in one. You can even make a small identity for yourself, “Oh that’s Aythia, he plays Sky Strikers”. My friend plays Mathmechs, so there is that polite ‘I won’t collect Mathmechs if you don’t collect Sky Strikers’ XD

[@Yubl10]

It's funny to me people in the comments talking about other people comparing Yu-Gi-Oh and mtg. What some people ether don't know or forgot is that Yu-Gi-Oh spawned from mtg. In the manga the game was originally called magic and wizards like I don't know how much more blatant it could be. Yu-Gi-Oh exists because the creator was a fan of mtg.

[@Blackjack-2028]

Magic the gathering is boring

[@Emet.V]

37:18 yes they are awesome

[@johnnydepp7045]

The editing is great man keep it up❗️❗️

[@monkfishy6348]

27:10 And today a year later. THREE TIMES in the finals. All illegal plays missed by the half dozen judges there. They were really basic ass rule breaks too. Once they normal summoned twice in one long turn, without an effect that allowed it. Once used an effect that allows him to summon a monster except another copy of itself (guess which monster he summoned) and another was a bit of a more complex ruling around a simple conjunction, but not one 99% of Judges wouldn't have known (had they spotted it). The game is just too long and complex to keep up with, even for a half dozen expert Judges.

[@LosoaII]

I honestly wonder how much of a shakeup it'd bring if for like Master Rule 6 Traps were all able to be activated from hand.

[@Yharic]

7:05 to be fair i feel like Yami Yugi being more cruel would make sense as he was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt in a time where all ruler were just brutal

[@NitroNEXT]

From what I recall he was portrayed as a mostly benevolent pharaoh but something about the circumstance of his revival (or just the magic) corrupted his soul in the beginning. Either that or he was retconned as the manga progressed.

[@Yepmyaccount]

The idea was that he was great in almost every aspect, but he lacked compassion and the ability to rely on others, which is what he gained from his time with Yugi to become more complete and strong enough to beat Zorc. Hence why in the beginning of the series he was willing to blast Kaiba of the edge of the castle and Yugi had to stop him.

[@flowerbloom5782]

Didn't the pharaoh kinda lost all his memories and go insane for a bit since he was trapped for thousand of years in the puzzle which is like a huge labyrinth.

[@quadsnipershot]

Magic the gathering has formats and it’s still an issue. Although for legacy only the old cards a good modern is a bit better but still has issues and standard I don’t know how I would feel about having to constantly change so often

[@0Asterite0]

New cards warp legacy more than the old ones lol

[@combatwarz]

That Al Kharid soundtrack playing in the background as well.

[@LunarPhoenix139]

I have the exact leather jacket hes wearing during the intto ar 2:44 💀

[@qualivia]

Moist Jesus needs a Ritual card to summon it and its only effect is to summon a monster from the graveyard?

[@Whoohoonutty2020]

I have no idea what I was thinking when I made that a few years ago. I've made plenty of fake card before but not too many for KZbinrs. Then again it was a meme card

[@paleozoic]

34:29 Madolches are based and super popular. They're still playable even after 12 years old at this point, but Tiaramisu non-targeting is still so good. And it apparently got a new version which is literally just the same thing, but on your opponents turn.

[@pntbller14]

Remember when the barrier to entry was you go to Walmart and spend 35$ on 3 copies of the same structure deck and you could put them together and have a playable deck to bring to your local card shop and even win with if you knew how to play and took some time learning the decks in rotation at your shop (most of which ran a lot of the same staple cards) Yeah, now try investing 500-1000$ on a bunch of cards you need to buy individually and remember they could be banned or reprinted meaning their value could fall off a cliff overnight. Having fun yet? Good because the next step is gain universal hatred by all your opponents by reading every single card they play each containing an essay, and continue to do this till you can recognize each card by its name/picture which just when you have it all down expect a new ban list/set to cause you to restart this process and also you will likely end up in that privileged percentage who’s deck is no longer viable meaning it’s time to go spend more money! Hooray!

[@perunakeitto_.3203]

I recently started playing master duel, I’m running a winged dragon of Rah deck and today made a new synchro summon deck, I just spend the whole match reading cards of enemies and now my own aswell😂

[@bluehero-96]

The Suship monsters are really cool as they are. I think what drags them down is the lack of spell/trap support. I think adding more normal monsters like Luster Dragon #2 or Firewing Pegasus and support for those cards, like what Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes have been getting, would have been great for game balancing and collecting.

[@YukiFubuki.]

suships dont need more spell/traps, they're focus on swarming the field using shari and other gunkan monsters so having too much spell/traps will clog them up alongside with making it harder to splash in various tech and engines considering they dont apply any restriction not everything needs to be competitively or meta viable

[@zed60k47]

I think what holds them back is they suck tbh lol, I do love them though, I flexed my ships during the XYZ festival, that was a fun time.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

As the guy above said: not every archetype needs to compete We NEED garbage archtypes in the game And Suships main problem is relying on a vanilla, of which they only have 3 copies

[@strangevol5264]

@@totalwartimelapses6359Six due to Shari Red!

[@Llnstead]

There is a 4chan post outlining all the crazy shit Kaiba ended up creating in the Yu-Gi-Oh universe, whether by complete accident or on purpose. The cards he sent up into space I believe was what created the Neo Spacians or found the Neo Spacians at least? And there ends up being galactic wars later on all because of the cards that he sent into space.

[@josephbroseph3003]

Today people of any age probably play whatever card game they want but for me it went Pokemon to digimon as a kid, yu-gi-oh in my tweens and then Magic the gathering in my teen to young adult years. A lot of people i was friends with and played had that same path of trading card games.

[@HeartBeatCollide]

The art comment offended me, AS A TRAIN PLAYER

[@iPharaoh54]

I love alot of the Classic artwork with YuGiOh. But i have to agree. The new art slaps hard. One of my favorite archetypes are the Lyrilusk archetype

[@benvalenz1888]

Recognized Johnny Silver Hand , Benny From Fallout New Vegas , & Leon from Resident Evil? LMAO WAT

[@ianfhtagn1349]

in hearthstone we rage if otk'd turn 6-7 yugioh player: hold my beer you think you get a turn? pokemon player: shiny charizard!!!! magic player coudn't comment, lost his house buying the next meta deck

[@KreuzDrache]

Oh man...there were some Pokemon decks that are just as mean as some Yugioh decks. What made it worst is that there was no sideboarding at the time.

[@easiestcc6451]

@@KreuzDrache I still remember the horrors that were ADP. Seriously who the fuck decided making that card was a good idea in ANY TCG?

[@KreuzDrache]

@@easiestcc6451 Oh that's gnarly. Perma +30 damage AND if you had water energy you gain an additional prize card per knock out? I'm glad got out before that came to online lol.

[@pheonyxgunnels2092]

Charlie is came up in the prime of the yugioh anime (5ds) and not in the hight of summoned skull beat down playground meta. I will say I like the amount of options for deck building today is hype

[@iBe2quick]

Easy way to fix modern Yu-Gi-Oh is a summon limit. Limit it to 5 summons per turn and boom. Boards can't be so oppressive.

[@marchembernnadlor4460]

Yubel was part of the cards sent to space iirc? Thats why when it came back e hero neos along with the neospacians ended up as actual cards Yubel was already a card before it was sent to space iirc (?)