Deckbuilding: Then VS Now - (Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG)

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[@alejandrom.]

The strategy was to use the Field spell Yami to give all the spellcasters 200 ATK/DEF.

[@carlosschnaider769]

Yami beatdown

[@klijentela3085]

Good old days

[@smb-c3po]

Those were dark days for the trading card game.

[@anthonyrabon5369]

And fiends as well right?

[@alejandrom.]

@@anthonyrabon5369 Exactly

[@WillRennar]

Deckbuilding as a kid: I have _no_ idea what I'm doing. Deckbuilding now: I have _no_ idea what I'm doing.

[@SnowChillChopperCheeze]

Duel links is like that but we're too lazy to read the cards effect

[@skhiozier3038]

As a person who only partakes in yu gi oh through TheDeulLogs, this sounds about right.

[@readlater8962]

Me Playing Yugioh as a Kid: I don't want to read all that text. Me as an Adult: I don't want to read all that text.

[@kagelenakuma5475]

​@@SnowChillChopperCheeze Wait... we're suppose to read? 👀

[@RoninWeeb_187]

😂😂😂

[@HybridAngelZero]

"What's your deck's strategy" "I get my opponent's life points to zero...?"

[@kmc19xx59]

Question are you going to send them to the shadow realm oblivion or use the seal

[@BYERE]

Ha… your strategy is pitiful. I go the extra mile and force the opponent to run out of cards and lose by default!

[@simonrief1013]

That will work

[@MrLinkkid]

​@@kmc19xx59if you duel in America yes... If you duel in Japan they just die.

[@kmc19xx59]

@@MrLinkkid sweet

[@ineffable_lesbian]

“What’s the strategy?” “The art looks cool!!”

[@bayar_]

still me today

[@AlexandreAtkinson]

Me with Ghoti

[@ThunderflySc2]

tbf thats mi with all the branded deck lol

[@mainaime2566]

This is the main reason I play Evil Eye 😹😹

[@ClairisHolm95]

yea pretty much

[@yourturn5059]

Ah those sweet innocent days when the only decklists you had were the 1 or 2 starter decks your local toy store sold and sometimes, if you were really lucky, you could find a single booster pack to add more "uniqueness" to your deck than your friends at school, even if those cards were unusable in your deck. My strategy was to put out a Blue-Eyes and pray not to attack into man eater bug which my friend played 6 off in his 100 card pile deck😂

[@ygodecktestertube]

×6 and ×100. YGO as kids in a nutshell.

[@Y0G0FU]

i activate Mirror Force! Oh and you take Lifepoint Damage equal your destroyed Monsters attack Points! - Plaxground Yugioh :D

[@Mernom]

​@@ygodecktestertube back in the day, there was no upper deck size limit. It changed after someone brought a deck to a tournament that was over a meter tall.

[@kfarbarata]

imagine a deck that has only man eaters, trap holes, dark holes and dark magicians copies. With no tribute rules. It was fun.

[@masterdoge7219]

That reminds me of me as a kid playing with a friend and he had "Infinite Cards". He thought that the effect was that we could get as many cards as we wanted in our hands (We were unaware of handsize limit rules anyway), so we both pulled our decks and kept playing cards. Good times. Simpler times.

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

*Explaining how your deck works then:* "I attack with strong monsters and use spell and traps to protect/buff them." *Explaining how your deck works now:* "Let me get my flowchart. This is going to take a hot minute."

[@thebitsanpiecesman4423]

To true

[@hombojimbo]

"I make XYZ monsters that lock your zones."

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

​@@hombojimbo "i discard this card which allows me to summon this card, which I then sacrifice to summon this card, which has an ability to that allows me to discard three cards in order to draw three cards and put three tokens on it, which then allows me to sacrifice it to summon this card, which I then sacrifice to summon this other card, which I then use to link summon this card, which allows me to play this card that allows me to sacrifice both those cards to summon this card, which then..." *three hours of nonstop special summoning later* "...which allows me to summon this card, which means I win!"

[@supremelettuce2069]

​@@hombojimboI summon rox rose activate effect then I spscila sommon white rose activate white rose effect. Send a carrot to grave then activate basal rose shoot to special summon rox rose and then synchro summon ruddy rose and then fucking obliterate everything your opponent has

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

I activate evil eye domain paredolia to add Serziel watcher of the evil eye and I normal summon it to add evil eye of enchantment which sends an evil eye monster and spell/trap to add an evil eye equip spell I add evil eye of selene after sending Catoblepas and Evil eye of gorgeano. I use gorgeanos graveyard effect to send an evil eye card which is evil eye of selene to grave to search an evil eye spell/trap I add evil eye retribution then I use Selene's graveyard effect to banish enchantment from grave to set it on my field and I now equip it to Serziel then I activate Catoblepas in grave to special summon it and then I use it's effect to protect evil eye if selene until the end of your turn and I set one and pass. This endboard is to destroy a monster and negate a spell or trap. Serziel is immune to battle and destruction effects and can't be targeted.

[@tylercoon1791]

‘What is the strategy?’ ‘I will play the monsters!’

[@dudono1744]

SHS be like

[@tylercoon1791]

@@dudono1744 it’s how I play Ancient Gears. And it usually works too. AG is the quintessential ‘hit hard, go home’ deck.

[@dudono1744]

@@tylercoon1791 Well I play Infernity so I basically get only 1 turn then no more fuel. Same energy.

[@MisaelMatute76]

"This are the cards I have... So I guess this is my deck..." Talk about relatable 🤣

[@wild4934]

As a kid I just used cards I liked and that seemed to work well. Celtic guardian was my favorite because I liked the art the most.

[@Off-with-a-bang]

Mine was Summon Skull since it looked like a buff demon of some sort lol

[@jamaaldagreatest2748]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Celtic Guardian,Mystical Elf and Feral Imp were some of my favorite cards for some reason

[@Falx415]

I always liked Obnoxious Celtic Guardian. I always cracked up whenever he was summoned, "I summon Obnoxious Celtic Guardian in Attack Mode!" was just too funny. Here you got all these other cards with some weird or badass name, but nah, this dude is just the "Obnoxious" version of the regular card if the same name.

[@roxiwisse7995]

I really liked Beaver Warrior as a kid cause he was a cute little guy.... that in retrospect I'm realizing was really just a rat.

[@bsdecoder]

Why did you feel the need to wake up and attack me this badly

[@aaronloiselle3651]

Cause you're bad

[@N3cr0S0ulja]

​@@aaronloiselle3651 I know you're a bad human. You sad it it your self.

[@itachiuchiha-ce9rv]

@@N3cr0S0ulja anybody copying decklists are bad . Make your own deck for goodness sake.

[@alessandroscarrone]

Deckbuilding then: "I'll get my opponent's life points to zero" Deckbuilding now: "I'll get my opponent's patience and my time to zero"

[@Shank40]

One of many reasons why I stopped

[@yummydragon8533]

@@Shank40specific control decks dony have long combos and are fun to run. they add an element og strategy and having to think how to use yiur resources to thwart the opponent’s moves. i play branded despia without branded fusion for that reason

[@jaredbowers9503]

Both are me after discovering Edison format

[@mattladuke3992]

Perfect 😂

[@gabrielcastejon7914]

Tengu-Plant format for life

[@jaredbowers9503]

@@gabrielcastejon7914 it seems quite fun, Tengu Plant was right around the time I was getting into Yugioh as a kid. I’ve yet to try it

[@InvokedAlbaz]

Wtf is that?

[@jaredbowers9503]

@@InvokedAlbaz Edison format is the format played in the March 2010 SJC Edison tournament. There was only one tournament with that specific ban list and cardpool, as The Shining Darkness was released shortly after the tournament, and sped the game up a lot in a (widely regarded) negative way. A lot of players agree that the format between the banlist and the release of TSHD was very balanced, with lots of decks being able to shine in different ways. Plus, there are a lot of tech choices, engines, and even entire decks, that weren’t explored, thus deeming the format as “unsolved.” The deck that won the tournament was Quickdraw DandyWarrior, though some of the notable decks people use now are: Blackwing, Fairy, TeleDad, Zombie, Lightsworn, X-Saber, Hero, Frog, Dragon, and Glad Beasts. Each with a ton of variations

[@yharnamiyhill787]

Man.. I remember 1st gen and 2nd gen yu gi oh... we just built a deck based on our personality. Princess Tsuugi was always in my deck order.

[@tanakakiri1059]

Of Tsurugi*

[@smb-c3po]

I built a deck with powerful cards they go together.

[@straypaper]

My personality revolves around 2000 DEF monsters

[@yharnamiyhill787]

@@straypaper I always have mystical Elf in my deck build.

[@luanshala1433]

​@@straypaperi got that Millenium shield with 3k DEF from my grandma back then, u already know I screamed when I pulled it. Still got it to this day, but Granny not around No more so that Card ist extra Special! You guys sure know what I mean.

[@andrewvela4920]

My deck building is “hmm how can I piss off my opponent the worst”

[@konaqua122]

The effing creature swap deck.

[@ignaciocambero9314]

ah yesss, i usually use the great blue eyes with some card that give them more attack with raigeki and mirror force in the trap zone

[@simonvogel2801]

Burndeck

[@adrianrenteria4229]

Bro same🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Even know my my deck building is the same

[@bloodx_xhunter7141]

Monarchs 😈😈😈

[@Kno_Buddy]

Deck building for me as a kid was more so limited because I had no money and my father wouldn’t let me get them so I’d save up every dime I had and bought cards. I was forced to use what I could afford meaning I had dead cards in the deck just to fill it out to get to the minimum, but at the time that was most of the kids around and I actually put way more thought into it than “I don’t know”.

[@Off-with-a-bang]

True story but the only reason I got into Yugioh was because back when I was around 13 I was hanging out at a Kmart back when they were around,in the gaming section where one can play all the video game demos. Well long story short,there was this kid who bought three starter deck Kaiba's and cluelessly forgot about them. I saw the cards and tried to do the right thing by returning them,but the kid was long gone. So I kept them and that's how I got into the game. And this was when decks costed a pretty penny. That kid must've spent an entire summer's allowance on three decks and simply forgot about them 😅

[@Kno_Buddy]

@@Off-with-a-bang I never got an allowance as a kid. I’d just occasionally get a little bit of money for my birthday or Christmas because my father couldn’t be bothered to actually put any thought into his children ever. My brother and I got into the game when the show premiered when I was nine. My brother and I made our own cards and our own rules based on the show until we could afford to buy our first packs. By then we learned the rules, but we only had about 15 to 20 cards each so we modified the rules to play until we could get more. We finally got enough cards to build a little 40 card deck each with absolutely no synergy at all and some cards with effects that couldn’t resolve at all in the decks they were in just to get the deck up to 40 cards. We had fun for a while until on a construction job with my father I had to put my jacket down to go help run some wires and I forgot the jacket on the back of the truck. We drove away and it blew off the back of the truck and I never saw it again. Fast forward two 2010 and we are juniors and seniors in high school clearing out my grandmother’s house after she died and looking in the living room closet we found the deck my brother built in a ziplock bag stuffed in the pocket of an old jacket that was way too small to fit either of us now. Today I have almost 5,000 cards and with the exception of a few singles I purchased over the years all of it is from starter decks, legendary decks, packs, tins, collectors edition boxes, and about 20 of those Dark Side of Dimensions gold edition movie boxes so there still isn’t a lot of synergy there, but I just get what I can get when I can afford to get it. The competitive scene just really doesn’t spark that same joy and wonder I had with the game as a kid. That’s why I refuse to play competitive, I only play casually with friends.

[@neowolf09]

same. and it hasn't really change for me. still use structure decks for most of my decks' base.

[@neowolf09]

​@@Off-with-a-bang I'm pretty sure the decks have always been 10 bucks. but that being said, you definitely lucked out. 3 BEWD for free? and you tried to do the right thing? didn't you learn anything from kaiba??? jk, but fr tho that's quite a strange way to get into the game. just glad you could enjoy it. I knew some kids that would just throw the cards away cause they're "lame"

[@BartEmbregts]

I tend to create a deck by looking at a deck profile on youtube for inspiration, then personalise it.

[@neowolf09]

I go off the anime. so upsetting when you find a card doesn't do what it did in the anime, or just isn't really a card in general..

[@ultraguardiansev465]

My strategy when I was younger and that I still use. “Okay, so everybody is fine with me summoning blue eyes white dragon turn one of the game? Great, round two coming right up.”

[@N3cr0S0ulja]

think like seto kaiba?...

[@dudono1744]

The old blue eyes turbo

[@peytonmaughan347]

You forgot to put at the end “Or it becomes irrelevant by the time it gets here”

[@kyaksachan502]

I just want Casual Yugioh without single turn set decks. It's hard to play the game for fun when everybody using the same five decks. Q_Q I just wanna do a cool themed deck and try out new mechanics but fuck the grinding and whatnot makes that so unbearable unsastifying because you gotta win thus you stuck in an endless loop of doing what everbody else is doing.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

​@@kyaksachan502 Stop trying to play competitively then If you played competitive Yu-Gi-Oh back then then you'd also run into the same TWO decks, not even 5 If you play modern Yu-Gi-Oh on a casual level, then you run into a crazy amount of varied decks (one way of playing casual is playing Master Duel in Gold rank)

[@dudono1744]

I think the only unexplored gimmick at this point is playing with an empty deck and playing only on your opponent's turn.

[@jsunn315]

I remember at elemmentarry school to many kids played YuGiOh and most of them played hundreds of cards in a deck, like that guy who caused decks to be limited to 20 or 40 cards. I was the only one who played exaactly 40 cards. Everybody was laughing at me calling me "tiny deck".

[@1stCallipostle]

Not the size of your deck, it's how you use it

[@johnwalker1058]

The first one is me when building decks. Although I do have a strategy when building decks, I'm not a very sophisticated player, so the strategies I use are quite simple. (Most of my decks are simple beatdown decks. Bring out low level monsters to be used as tribute. Try to keep them protected while on the field until I can get out my large ATK beatstick that requires those lower monsters as tribute or for special summoning conditions. Maybe also try to clear my opponent's field. Then go for the attack. Yeah, I basically play like it's still the mid-2000s.)

[@BreakingBlake1]

The best way to play

[@dudono1744]

My strategies are : -Not build a big board, but build it each turn -Build a big board and pray

[@kratkartan1486]

both are me with all my decks. I either build a deck with what I have and no idea how to use them, or I Buy the deck, and don't know how to use it.

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

Deck building in 5Ds: "Oh, I like the way these cards work, I'm going to try this strategy! (Spends the next few hours tinkering and optimizing and having fun playing other people regardless.) Deck building in Millenium Duels: "Oh, I like the way these cards wor- Konami "YOU PAY NOW!" Me: "What? I... thought it was like the other game where you play the game and get the car-" Konami: "YOU NO HAVE ALL CARDS! IF YOU WANT _ALL_ CARDS YOU HAVE TO *PAY!"* Deck building Master Duel: "Okay... load my deck with the latest broken archetype from the meta website because it's fucking impossible to make progress without it... put in the requisite 30 UR hand traps and/or staples... maybe an engine or two... PERFECT! Now my deck looks just like everyone else's and I can do away with that whole 'thinking', 'creativity', and 'fun' bullshit and get to what Yugioh's *REALLY* about: Watching and performing insufferably long combos that are repeated at nausium and an almost complete lack of interactivity!

[@LilPGKing]

Who hurt you homie?

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

@@LilPGKing Konami and modern meta players did, who do you think?

[@theonethathungers5552]

@@TheTaintedWisdom so players who are better than you? Because I’m climbing master duel with krawler ghosttrick, using the variant I play IRL, and I’m doing just fine. Seems more like a skill issue than “game bad”

[@theonethathungers5552]

Oh and you should actually play the game and not watch people posting their singles online. I can tell you don’t play because you still think the combos are long when it’s either the simulator, a player actually thinking about their combo, or someone flexing their inconsistent ftk that dies to any handtrap, including wattkinetic puppeteer

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

@@theonethathungers5552 I literally just played 3 fucking games. *In a row.* *SECONDS* ago, that *all* played 20+ cards turn 1, and in one case while setting up an omni-negate, DPE, *AND* looked at my hand and ripped a card out while still having FIVE CARDS IN HAND you presumptive, judgemental, oblivious, condescending, (insert the most vile insults possible here). (Because KZbin will get its proverbial panties in a fucking twist if you insult someone no matter how *massive* of an absolute (see above) they're are/are being.)

[@aidenburton4982]

I would 100% make decks using their types. my best decks were Spellcaster, Dragon, and Warrior. I loved normal summoning Blue-Eyes after trapping my opponent's cards with spellbinding circle.

[@thojmuas5744]

As a kid: this card is shiny, this card has a cool effect, this card works with this card, this card looks cool, i like this card, and i saw this card in the show so i want to try it too.

[@arcadius3257]

The Strategy was to use ridiculous defense monsters and piss people off by using final countdown and ways to block attacks, end battle phases and make monsters unable to attack. And yes Final Countdown specifically because it takes forever.

[@BYERE]

And use Pyro Clock of Destiny to move the turn count forward, so their demise appears even faster ;)

[@Jaggerto]

I usually start with a pre-built and believe in the heart of the cards. Works most of the time.

[@quaza2001]

You gotta make your own deck for the heart of the cards to work

[@shinra6913]

deckbuilding as kids was so accurate XD i remember my magnet warrior/relinquished deck

[@King-gv4lg]

Deck building then: cool monsters Deck buildinh now: HAND TRAPS

[@Jr-Forastiere]

As a kid: "I someone Stardust dragon. I win" Now: "Can I summon Stardust? No? You have Solemn? Ok..."

[@tomfoolery7797]

Negates have become way to prevalent, that being said solemn was around before stardust dragon.

[@dudono1744]

That one time i bricked into monster negate + omni negate is hilarous (I normal summoned set 4 pass)

[@whitesage922]

As a kid: "ahah you fell into my trap, i activate mirror force, bye bye all your monsters" As an adult: "ahah you fell into...wait, you said negate? And you also xyz summoned during the battle phase? And you also negated all the other cards effects? And your monster has 6000 atk and can attack directly?...oh..allright.."

[@DARKEYE654]

I did this with Marincess, took me prolly a week to learn the combos n timing and now I can even beat my friend’s Branded Despia ❤

[@dakeyress]

I'm proud to say that the old me is still the current me. Sad part for a long time is that there was no place to find people playing the same way. I'm glad master duel brought the opportunity (irl shops are comp people, not play for fun)

[@kfarbarata]

master duel aint OP asf? I always see ppl making videos of 1st turn exodia and stuff like that x)

[@dakeyress]

@@kfarbarata it depends how you play the game : i personnaly go up the ranking to get the rewards, then drop and play the decks i like

[@ScammertronVGC]

Me who uses my childhood deck with newly informed strategies

[@TreFKennedy]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂 the fact that YuGiOh and Pokémon for examples are with us in adulthood and we aren’t shamed for it 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@vicentegarcia6400]

I am proud to be a yugioh duelist. I still have my gravekeeper, synchro, cyber/cyberdark, and lightsworn decks; just in case someone cocky comes along

[@TreFKennedy]

@@vicentegarcia6400 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@redwardranger7034]

Casual player here. I mostly build my deck in a way where I can do something with whatever cards I have in my hand like in the anime. It kinda helped me memorize my decks, and it's kinda fun pulling some cool stunts like destiny drawing the one card I need

[@EvOLvEDT3RROR]

Funny enough, if I didn't see the caption, this would be a perfect loop 😂😂😂

[@glutebrute1259]

I like the tribal decks of the original few pack releases. Warrior decks, dragon decks, spellcaster decks, etc. All of that was miles more fun to me than what we have now.

[@xan7292]

Me, buying VW and PUNK because I like the aesthetics and they don't require me to learn that stinky new Link mechanic (two weeks later half my PUNK extra deck is Links because they're too useful)

[@HackNSlacker]

I remember that I just watch the Anime and will copy Jaden's deck. Everytime he uses a new card, I will find a copy of it and put it right away even if it's bad. LOL

[@Magikey]

Zeke Yeager looking ahh

[@spinalspiral9901]

Say it like it's a bad thing

[@Magikey]

@@spinalspiral9901 no shade

[@vlon3lyboiii666]

@@spinalspiral9901 I’m saying bro Lowkey sexy

[@revivedsoul1099]

😂😂😂 nga u funny

[@mysticmongrel1289]

My deck revolves around my opponent trying to double lap me & I hold a metal bar at neck height turning the race into a leisurely jog

[@moh.syafrianabie8899]

Funny story is back when I was a kid my friends and I love to play playground yugioh each other and then there's this one friend that is actually play competitively but we just make fun of them because for us his plays were just so weird for us and when one of us beat him (by using stall burn, yes we're toxic as hell) we ridicule his deck. Now I feel bad about him, I wonder what happen to him. I hope he always safe and sound.

[@jsunn315]

What is stall burn?

[@moh.syafrianabie8899]

@@jsunn315 Not letting your opponent attack at all while deal effect damage to the opponent. For example: Stealth Bird + Gravity Bind

[@jsunn315]

@@moh.syafrianabie8899 Oh thank you.

[@alexbiersner3350]

That adult scene really hit home for me. Not just with Yugioh...but with the rest of the other card games I play lol

[@GiaHan_Tran]

Even now, when no store in my area sells yugioh cards and nobody talks about it, I just can play master duel, I still build my deck with all the cards that look cool and cards that appeared in the anime, without any structure. But I enjoy it so much ❤❤❤

[@lefragrance777]

Now is: ChatGPT generate a competitive Yu-Gi-Oh! deck that focuses on control and decking out my opponent.

[@vincere4591]

When I was new, I only added cards that directly supported the archetype, or some cool tech. The concept of staples never crossed my mind.

[@JuanRodriguez-lf5ki]

I just got back into the game after playing as a kid and this is exactly how it was and how it is now

[@jeremylindemann3933]

This applies equally as well to both Magic: the Gathering and Pokemon TCG. Actually, it also works with Pokemon VGC teams as well.

[@Mudkip971]

The way I do it now is that I test cards out using stuff like YGO Pro and if I find them useful enough I make a list of cards I wanna buy. In some cases they aren't a priority so I just wait until a big batch of new important cards comes out and only then do I buy them to save on shipping cost.

[@adenridesdragons1321]

It's very fun to use my cobbled mess of a deck full of childhood nostalgia and somehow win occasionally against proper decks. It is rare but glorious.

[@themischievousteddybear7681]

The good ol Unstable Evolution + Speed Warrior combo was the Goat for a while for me.

[@nvfury13]

Same with MtG in the beginning, and then came the “strategy” players, who were really people playing hoping a certain combo will pop up. They called a deck with a theme and used an actual strategy as “gimmick” decks.

[@mrdolphin549]

The strategy is to summon your strongest beatstick and hit your opponent really hard.

[@WolfAngelRS]

My knowledge of the game is that spell blocking, revive spells, traps, and fusion was the way to play back in my day lol

[@A7XAsylum]

True that’s why I like master duel, you can build something close to or similar so you can learn the core mechanics down side is Max C is not banned which they should ban it along with the TCG ban list as well so it can be more similar

[@SoggyWetCheese]

As a kid, I didn't have any Yugioh cards, so my friends gave me a couple of their extras, and I had the most messy deck ever.

[@archiesmthgifk2859]

Me as a kid: high attack goes brrrrrr

[@gilgamesh255]

Me, who runs a Danger! Kaiju deck in Master Duel: I see nothing wrong with this statement.

[@Doner-oh4mf]

I've never done that before lol. Always testing the new deck i wanna play before i buy the core

[@jovenc4508]

My deck building strategy is "hey, that card looks cute. What kind of support does it have?"

[@megatonhammer9478]

It's so weird. When I was younger I would plan the idea of a deck out but never play the deck that way. Now I plan out the main idea of the deck, and either find a way to make it work or adjust the main idea.

[@bmxriderforlife1234]

Deckbuilding as an adult. Piecing together fringe top tier stuff or making heavy modifications or fusions or popular decks with additional longer game combos or developing more short term ways to get them out. Plus throwing in a few low card count bangers. Ie big monster or random unrelated lower level monster that just works well anywhere.

[@WolfSpectre1993]

For me, back in the day I wanted to have fun. Today, I still want to have fun but I also have a strategy and a theme. Made my Elemental Hero deck yesterday and I can't wait to play with it!

[@sterlingcox4502]

literally everyone in my school carried a binder with yugioh cards in them and a box with their current deck or a rubber band wrapped around it if you were poor. my first deck was given to me by my best friend which had mostly throwaway cards that weren't good except dark magician and some of yugi's 1st season deck. my friend on the other side hade blue eyes B) i was just the loser all the time hahaha man....simpler life back then brings me joy now... :)

[@sterlingcox4502]

also.... now as i play Master Duels, I enjoy using the Skill Drain card because it becomes old school yugioh all over again..of course only after i get my blue eyes on the field mwuahahaha

[@CodGaming855]

NOTHING HURTS MORE WHEN YOU’RE JUST GETTING BACK INTO YUGIOH, YOU FINALLY MADE YOUR OP TOP TIER DECK AND FIND OUT A WEEK LATER YOUR BEST CARDS ARE EITHER LIMITED OR BANNED

[@N3cr0S0ulja]

exactly!!!

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

It deserved it completely, should have been hit even more severely. And correct me if I'm wrong you a returning player and you immediately run to the newest top deck right? That speaks volumes lol I can still beat some of the top tier meta with my goat deck. And I run an anti-meta deck for ranked but sometimes I will play my own unique blue eyes deck it can contend with the meta depending who goes 1st board setup ect.

[@CodGaming855]

@@Citizen_Nappa23 nah bruv. I learned top decks now. Scrap dinos all the way.

[@Druggy-Doggo]

“What’s your deck strategy” “Once I pull relinquished, I summon it”

[@timzyt63]

I loved that at one point in my childhood, we did a team up tournament with me, my brother and a bunch of our friends. And most of them were a few years older and had somewhat better decks that me. And the guy i teamed up with was like: "Let me check out your deck before the duels" he looks through it a bit then turns to me and says "Ok, i think i get your strategy" Me in my head after i heard that: "Strategy, i have one of those ?:

[@ryukrocks8843]

I still remember how in my first ever deck I had like 2 extra deck and one main deck card that I literally couldn’t play because I was missing other specific cards, but those were the only ones I had and needed to get to 40

[@punklingyt]

The days of the convoluted, 4 card combo, 3 turn execution win-cons. "Okay so if I draw into this exact hand, which is about as likely as drawing Exodia, then my opponent makes multiple bad decisions, I'll win every time"

[@deletedTestimony]

The strategy was Trap Hole, so you had to make sure going against it you had enough monsters after they all died to Trap Hole.

[@xlr8jaeger]

Back in the day (2003) we had a local competition at the game store where you get 5 packs and make a 20 card Deck from that. Good times.

[@hannessteffenhagen61]

This still exists, that's the official format for sneaks. It's just not super popular because sets frequently contain cards that just straight up don't work at all outside their archetype. PotE sneak was pretty nice, but it's not a format you'd want to play a lot of.

[@sleepinthemorningcalm]

Deck building then: combine cards in a unique way Deck building now: buy every card in your archetype

[@GG_Nowa]

Deck building then at a competitive level was the same 25 staples at one point. Then 15 cards that may or may not have cross-over with another vague theme

[@spore_gun8743]

As someone who prefers deck building over dueling, I can not understand why people are like this

[@dubbyplays]

*How I built a deck when I was a kid:* _* the best staples (Spells/Traps), monsters that helped me summon better monsters (beatsticks). *_ *How I build decks now:* _* compare several deck lists, get an idea of which main cards to have at all costs and average quantities, study the basic strategy and how to best support it. *_ *How I build a deck online:* _* x3 of all main cards & 20 hand-traps *_

[@dudono1744]

your method as a kid is quite good

[@dubbyplays]

@@dudono1744 Thanks, if I will manage to time travel I will tell this to my kid self and make him feel proud of himself

[@cosmickirby580]

Then there's me; looking up all card that has the word "dragon" in its card text, and all lvl 7 dragons, only to find 8 cards worth expeimenting with. Btw there a lot more than 8 cards that fit both criteria above.

[@sea_dog172]

Getting a Yugioh game like duel links or Master kinda helps visualize what play style you like. It's practically free and events like anniversary or special holidays practically give you currency to spend on cards

[@Celula002]

I used to come up with all types of themed decks and would duel my friends at the school library every morning before school started. That was back in 04 when I was a sophomore in highschool. Ahh...Those were the good old days days. I made so many friends playing yugioh. These days I only collect speed duel cards but it doesn't feel the same. I'm just glad I got to play the game when it began. Lol I remember going through my neighborhood looking for anyone to duel and win their cards from them. I used to think of myself as a rare hunter because I would take the cards I'd won back to my friends so they could boost their decks.

[@PurpSalm]

I’ve never been so personally attacked by a video until this

[@RaceAgnstTme]

My deck strategy as a kid was to have like monsters with like spells and traps to give them a boost or edge and to try to get the fusions out as quickly. Nowadays as an adult too many decks require same name cards with some ash blossoms, veiler and all other sorts of hand traps in the mix.

[@leftysheppey]

This is the reason I've not picked up any MTG combo decks in a while

[@brometheusthefirstbro4302]

I found tcg player which i didnt know existed until today which lets you select cards build a deck and order the deck when you’re done and gives you a one time purchase price for all the cards

[@jw550w0r9pw]

I think having random cards and making the best out of it is way more exciting

[@MilkyMonstrosity]

This is why for card games I like rogulike deckbuilding games and not ccgs, physical or virtual. This is exactly what hearthstone was for me, went from using whatever I had to spending money on packs and dusting it all for whatever deck was the most broken that season, just didn't feel good.

[@Rictormans]

My plan as a kid was to get either SLIFER or Black Skull Dragon out

[@Zhortac]

Yugioh as a kid: my strategy is to use powerful monsters to smash my opponent! Yugioh as an adult: my strategy is to build my deck so it becomes a game of solitaire!

[@lightningfarronxp8899]

My strategy in 2009: "big monster with face axe smash little monsters until I win" My strategy in 2023: "anime girls say no graveyard for you"

[@wiewio8035]

The strategy... so you know the Graceful dice and Swordsman of Landstar? What? What is an anime effect?

[@ArcNine9Angel]

"So what's your strategy?" "...hit them 'till they die?"

[@critcalchomp5987]

i remember when my friends and I would go to Spencer's and buy the variety pack of random cards and just play with those.

[@ujustgotpwnd3454]

"What's the strategy?" Lord of D summons the brrrrrrrrrrr

[@konaqua122]

I remember getting scolded as a kid because I kept deck building from dusk till dawn. make 2 decks, let them fight and then make another adjustment. Everything for that community duel every sunday.

[@researchinbreeder]

My thing was: "well, these are the cards I have. Oh, these are some big boys. Darklord Asmodeus, Darklord Zerato? And when I have my field spell out, they run over my friend's Blue Eyes deck! I wonder if there are more of these?" This was when the new support was still OGC. I still call the negate by it's translation sometimes, because "Darklord Divinity" sounds a lot cooler and more fitting for a Trap than _squints at card_ "The Sanctified Darklord". I then learned later that apparently they bubble most major events lol

[@rejeanthomas0324]

Tbh, deck building had always been fun for me like sure there was aaa list but I'd sprinkle in a Few cards to add my own flair to it, or find cards way out of anyone's minds that words so well with the deck

[@dudono1744]

I plan to use Limiter Removal as an extender in Drytron

[@gecgoodpasi1654]

Honestly i got back into yugioh a few years ago when the pendulum stuff was new and it was pretty nice to start building a deck that gets stronger and stronger as u understand all the mechanics and limits of the new system. On the other hand im that kinda guy that theorycrafts for 3 days a build in PoE and then plays it for 2 xD

[@apiranha1]

Building decks is the best part, you all are missing out.

[@blastmole299]

My deckbuilding plan since 2014, if it's an archetype, build it as pure as possible, fill it with any staples you have if you don't have enough

[@Laughing_Dragon]

Strategy in things like magic thegathering, casual friend rules not tournament rules, I'd never remember those, is: "How can I possibly fit as many creatures on the field, with out having too many land cards, and without too many of them dying too soon? Cards that summon other cards, gotcha"

[@leakypeach6250]

Me when I built Rikka only for me to get curbstomped at locals and am now looking at Kashtira to get a lick of victory.

[@squigglybusiness7131]

I imagine the first one is how deck building functions in the Yu-Gi-Oh anime

[@stormerbuzz352]

How does the deck work? Its a beatdown deck. It works by reducing your life to zero.

[@lovemym16]

I played Feind Control for the longest time. To the point where I new exactly what to hit/steal to beat the meta all the way up until I want to say Infernity came out. Then I switched to Infernity and have been playing combo decks ever since.

[@ArchaeaChasma]

"This card looks cool, in it goes"