Huge Change Leaves Casuals Feeling Left Out of Yu-Gi-Oh!

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[@freelancegaming4582]

Biggest controversy being Rescue Hamster not having it's offical senior citizen placard yet

[@TheKing9172]

Delver of secrets :)

[@freelancegaming4582]

@@TheKing9172 grixis delver & mono blue tron were the first ever modern decks i built and played with back in 2016. He's a special boi

[@TheKing9172]

@@freelancegaming4582 I played kiki chord in 2016 so i feel the same way about cards from that deck, delver just reminds me of getting to 8 for an invitational invite good memories for me too

[@jacqli9315]

Daaaa zaZzwaAzx 1:03 1:03 cc,c v😅 ,,,😊😅😅😊😅😅😊😊😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊😅😅😅😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😅😊😊😊​@@TheKing9172

[@thestylemage2092]

3:18 An even better example imo is Dead by Daylight, a game with an INVISIBLE mmr system that is completely removed from the visible grades and ranks, that people for some reason grind.

[@kenpatchiramasama1076]

Unfortunately hackers now can get non hackers banned for hacking in that game so it's ironic you mentioned it lol

[@yamiangelous]

funny enough people have kinda figured out how the MMR system for DBD works....and they hate it because it isn't skill based at all its "did you survive the match go up in MMR" or "how many survivors didn't escape go up in MMR" not how long you ran them how many gens you did..nope its just based on weather or not you survive.

[@michaelknasel1641]

"Not everything is made and designed for you." is truely one of the best things ive ever heard a yugioh player say

[@neonoah3353]

Nothing is designed for you, its all for komoney.

[@Cardlimits]

@@neonoah3353 he's absolutely right and you're response is salt

[@Shinochaos]

I just read this as soon as he said it. He is correct and im tired of people thinking otherwise

[@brockfg]

​@Cardlimits your response is analogous to bending over and taking konamis piping hot rod up your ass. If you think Konami's set design isn't horrible, you are honestly a bot

[@JackBlack-qn7us]

I mean That just sounds like an excuse for the inadequacy in balancing a game of your own design. Could at least making non meta archtypes contender, def not asking for tier 1 treatment, maybe tear 3 or even 4.

[@VioletVivianite]

Not the Mikanko ladies getting hit with femboy allegations 💀

[@dhanyl2725]

Also isn't veiler a girl? Like actual girl?

[@thema1622]

Veiled is a girl or not depending on your localization, for me he's a Male but I think in France is a she

[@VioletVivianite]

I’d say Effect Veiler definitely has an androgynous presentation, regardless of which gender each localization portrays them as!

[@emred4653]

its 2024 cant have a cockless woman anymore

[@alexc3337]

​@@VioletVivianitewe stan our genderfluid monarch

[@nella544]

I would love a rogue-like mode such as Path of Champions from Legends of Runeterra. Start with a starter deck and duel against waves of AI bots. With each win, you get to pick 1 of 3 random cards to add to your deck and empower it. Perhaps you can have themes like D/D/D, Tenyi, or Sharks as a starter deck, and the cards you get are slightly based on those so that you dont get utterly useless cards.

[@starjadiancloneinvestigato1772]

you just described master duel from rookie to gold

[@jesushentaichrist5362]

sounds like the old "yugioh power of chaos" games

[@heyarnold2006]

...is this not literally every YGO video game before Legacy of the Duelist?

[@dragonqueenniisan4122]

@@heyarnold2006 The issue is, we want to use modern cards. Not an old banlist, that can be ignored, against the same actually trash decks. I dont find it fun fighting 'lore accurate kaiba' with full power Frog FTK. I want something a little more story driven, start with a crap deck, build up a collection of cards and try to deck down bots playing meta viable decks. Something I can duel with on my own team, when I want, having fun.

[@dylan9124]

Hearthstone Solo Mode / Duels runs wants to know your location… Bad humour aside, it’s a cool idea and I’d engage with it in MD for sure. Particularly if they gave you a retry or two. The thing with HS is you can mulligan away opening hand bricks, which is necessary as the mode is roguelite and forces a full reset upon loss. I reckon YGO needs to give solo content that requires substantial time investment a post-loss retry (or just build the mode with check points so that you don’t have to start from scratch after a helpless loss).

[@DuMmTm]

video about Casuals feeling gatekept and yt recommends a deckprofile of the new overpriced Secret Rare Blue-Eyes fusion, very cool

[@claytoncroft6445]

I WISH it was a secret rare😢

[@theshockmaster3781]

IS THAT A FUCKING BREAKING BENJAMIN CD BOX IN THE BACKGROUND???

[@spicymemes7458]

I think it's Phobia. Loved that album in high school.

[@KikiCatMeow]

@@spicymemes7458sure is, goated album

[@ericbreese3071]

@@spicymemes7458yep it’s Phobia. My first Breaking Benjamin album I listened to. Personal favorites from it include Dance with the Devil and Unknown Soldier

[@WavemasterAshi]

I'm about to say the forbidden word... Here's what you get in Hearthstone for making Legend (the top ladder position, after reaching it for the month it switches from showing ladder position to showing rank relative to other Legend players) - the very first time you reach Legend, you get a random Legendary card (the highest rarity) of the most recent set and a cardback, and each time it adds an additional pack to your end-of-month chest. I've never heard any complaints about "It's not worth it to reach Legend." And I still love doing my Tavern Brawl. Each week is a twist on the game (e.g. one week, the twist was that your start-of-turn draw is guaranteed to be a card you can afford to play that turn) and you get a Standard pack for your first win each week.

[@YGOMadness]

Imagine climb master 1++ just to duel against same deck everytime lmao

[@itzYonko]

Completive yugioh is only fun at the highest level because of side decking and all the counterplay possible. This is going to be garbage soley because this will be best of one still. Yugioh is always significantly more fun with more variety and different modes anyways. This mode effectively does nothing for either the pro or "casual" playerbase, which is a common theme for konami nowadays.

[@zawarudogaming3961]

That's just regular YGO tho

[@jadenalbinupdated8114]

Ban flamberge and society recovers

[@notboy_]

idk if you know this but this is basically what real competitive yugioh is like

[@hamsandwich6685]

Thats exactly like kaiba. Except he turns down duel offers for every deck except one, so a bit different but same outcome.

[@MineteInc]

One small correction, the casual match matchmaking actually does match you according to your rank. When i tried it in a new account i was being matched vs rookie, bronze, etc. but when i play casual match on my main its always diamond/master players

[@lycidaes4752]

Yea it does but the range is much wider and it makes sense Throwing a rookie vs a master doesnt seem fair no matter if there are rewards

[@DaShikuXI]

Master duel is the biggest waste of potential in the history of YGO. It's just so featureless for no justifiable reason. It could have been such an amazing way to play YGO, but they just don't expand it at any sort of reasonable pace.

[@blazikeaton7478]

thats because the point of MD is to advertise the physical card game if it was "too good", people wouldnt play the tabletop/buy the cards, or at least thats the logic anyway stupid bullshit, let us have a good digital version komoney😡

[@johndexterzarate6663]

....Yeah, also missed the opportunity to have a customizable matches in duel rooms.

[@danielhertz1984]

​​@@johndexterzarate6663 this point is so strong because it's the only reason why ygo sims still exist, if they even create somewhat of a good lobby with customizable formats and best of 3 there would be no competition to master duel, but they made so bad that edo pro is still leagues better than a entire billionare company

[@falscher2]

@@blazikeaton7478but you cannot trade in MD, so metasheep have to give konami all their money instead of trading between them.

[@Drowzzzzz]

@@blazikeaton7478which is hilarious since I will absolutely never pay the insane bs that is paper play right now and I’m even starting to dislike md with the absurd ur escalation. VW currently has maybe 2 relevant URs - snake-eye diabelstar has like 6+ CARDS some of which are played at 3 in the main deck alone. It is the most blatant and covetous change I’ve seen in pvp resources. At least in DL the absurdity was front loaded

[@dhanyl2725]

Hopefully it reduces meta decks in gold or plat

[@colmecolwag]

You'll always have mid duelists trying out meta stuff alas.

[@dhanyl2725]

@@colmecolwag Yea that's rough, meeting meta decks (and former meta sometimes) I always think "Tf u doin' in this rank? Rank up and get out of here!"

[@colmecolwag]

@@dhanyl2725 and then you beat them with your dark magician deck and it's like, "oh, that's why you're here "

[@kimjung-un8204]

Get your non meta sheep deck outa my diamond and masters 😂

[@dhanyl2725]

​@@kimjung-un8204 Well idk about others but I'm comfortable in gold (sometimes I'm daring enough to go all the way to plat 5 or 4)

[@Doombacon]

Something that magic the gathering arena does that I hope master duel will emulate at some point is unranked modes have 2 different mmr values they combine together to find matches. The first is just a standard mmr value that goes up when you win games and down when you lose games nothing too special, but the second is quite interesting. Every card in the game has it's own mmr for casual game modes as well and the total mmr of the cards in your deck is combined with that standard mmr. What this means is that players with powerful decks are much more likely to run into other players with powerful decks and players with incomplete collections or are playing weaker strategies are more likely to run into each other.

[@elemomnialpha]

If Konami wants to make a more casual mode, make an "anime" bracket No handtraps, no toolbox, no engine, you register with a specific archetype/series and can only use a deck based around it an cards that support it or are linked to it in type/attribute

[@zero1343]

Could be interesting, throw in some generic stuff like monster reborn and that as options as well to continue that anime feel, but otherwise sticking to an archetype

[@queenofrodents]

This is going to be OTK or obnoxious floodgates on steroids Unrestrained Synchrons, Utopia FTK, Spellcaster DM, etc. Games would be even more decided by 1 turn or 30 turn games And this comes from a Synchron player. If Pure Synchron is uninterrupted it'd be a shitfest for anyone going second

[@MiguelMartinon]

Lol, Yubel and Melodius best deck.

[@MiguelMartinon]

Altergeist, Salamangreat, Thunder Dragon, Dragon Link, Blackwing, Volcanic FTK, and with no handtraps, you’re doomed going second

[@MiguelMartinon]

If you want Manga and anime decks: Eldlitch, Invoked, Branded, Mathmech, Sunavalon (Sunvine), VW, Maxx C would be legal as many use it in the manga, Swordsoul, and many more decks

[@bl00by_]

Tbf Master Duel was always targeted for competitve players. They literally said this when they announched it a few years ago.

[@danielhertz1984]

yeah but they can't win since it's not made for casuals and is still shit for competitive players because Bo1 doesn't correlate to the actual competitive scene

[@SanguineQuest]

Just give the casual players a Format mode. The temporary Format events have all been big hits, at least going by social media and content creation responses, AND it solves the problem of Casual just being Test My Ladder Deck mode. Make them a single player pool that rotates the format monthly if you're worried about dividing the playerbase rather than keeping them all up all the time. Give it a separate ladder or don't, that can be up to Konami, but I want to play around with old decks damnit! Also Draft Events like MTGA.

[@Zetact_]

I think what could be done with casual mode to help with matchmaking could be tied to Master Duel having usage and win rate statistics of cards, where it weights your matchmaking to make it so that in casual mode you are more likely to be matched with decks where something like the "average win rate %" of cards is roughly equal. Not guaranteed but just that it's more likely that Dark Magician Andy is matched against someone running Vehicroids than people playtesting meta decks. If there were a database with stats I could probably crunch numbers to see if this sort of matchmaking would be practical.

[@bladearmorginga6582]

I mean truthfully a mode thats made to be more competitive gets the hyper competitive players out of the same queue as the casuals, so the people practicing dont have to face a blue eyes free win, and the blue eyes players dont have to have their world shattered. Overall, it's a win even if it's not a "casual focused" mode.

[@CrowbornChaos]

actually it doesn't. We just go back to the casual queue to unwind and beat the small fry as they are.

[@rafi...___]

no, this couldnt work. because competitive player feels good when theyre winning. they want to keep hitting that dopamine high. which is why systems that filters the lobby by skill/gameplay time are hated.

[@maggiethechattyhound9580]

@@rafi...___Which is why casual mode should have a hard ban on every card that has made it to master rank.

[@rafi...___]

@@maggiethechattyhound9580 that is just a bad solution. because rogue decks or better can go to master. a lot of casuals plays rogue decks. see the correlation? what it does is limits the casual by a lot while casual want to play whatever they want.

[@spicymemes7458]

4:01 There are those who do. People with youtube channels, too. I don't treat it with any sort of significance, but yes, there are more competitive-minded people who dislike solo or festivals specifically because they think it is unserious BS.

[@RyanAtlus]

"It's okay to not be the target audience of something" should be like Yugioh's motto, with so many people angrily forcing themselves to do things within the game they don't want to do.

[@SSCJCASE]

A good reward for ranked would be a ticket or points that lets you turn a card off your choice into a royal finish etc depending on where you place at the end of the season

[@TrevorAllenMD]

Maybe it’s just the constant Twitter personalities complaining, but YGO really does feel “closer to the end” than it has ever felt before. But also y’all remember 2015 when like 30 decks topped YCSs bc the gap between meta and rogue was that narrow?? Anyways NS Snake-Eyes Ash?

[@dhanyl2725]

Meta players hate diverse meta tho 😭😭😭 Tier 0s are probably their wet dream or something

[@Lich_V.]

@@dhanyl2725 source: I made it the f up!

[@N12015]

@@Lich_V. ... Actually, THEY DO HATE diverse metas and praise silver bullets in side decks. Source: "Does This Format Suck Because There's Too Many Good Decks ? Pro's Say Yes !" and "The Dumbest Yugioh Argument of 2023 Is Back -" tHe mEtAgAmE iS tOo dIvErSe"", both from MegaCapitalG when talking about Rescue-ACE/Diabellstar format (late 2023).

[@thecomradewarda]

@@N12015yeah if there’s like 4 powerful then it’s good but if there is 16 then you can’t probably have side decks against every deck and you have to know EVERY Single deck .

[@babrad]

​@@Lich_V.It's true because in tier 0 the player who practiced the mirror more, wins. They also get an overwhelming advantage due to high quality playtesting thanks to testing groups, not only solving deck building and tech cards, but also interactions to the point of being able to predict an entire duel based on the initial actions. Meanwhile fundamental game knowledge and identifying favorable interactions (or choke points) on the fly, as well as innovation in deck building become pretty much nonexistent. Both are skillful, they just have a different skill expression

[@rdh_gaming]

It would be nice to get rewarded with UR dust for Rate Duel even though I probably will never reach Master 1

[@Damini368]

One thing I would have liked to see is being able to complete daily challenges in unranked/casual matches. Especially for non-meta players, having another mode where you can face off against other decks without having to face three meta decks every four-to-five duels would be nice.

[@VladimirDT]

Farfa saying "I do be breeding" is true, he has a child

[@vampirelord72]

Love the Phobia album on the shelf

[@Kaimax61]

when I was still playing Master Duel, I told people many times "casual matches" are useless, because no one is gonna stop a pro practicing their meta decks on casuals... real casual matches is go to a forum with a dedicated casual group, and make custom matches. The right idea is how to make the pros not care about the casual rooms/matches.

[@michel0dy]

As someone who likes to play non-meta stuff and never got past gold: the casual mode is meaningless. You play against the exact same decks in ranked and in casual, but rewards in ranked are better. The fact that Konami doesn't have a line to trace "this is a casual format" hurts both master duel and the irl card game.

[@generalistvibe3279]

Magic Arena uses its top percentage of Mythic players (their Master 1 rank) to be the baseline qualification for a larger tournament that does have real rewards, like earning an invite to a Master Duel only YCS.

[@fredd_g5880]

Will they add a feature to allow spectators?

[@hecatrice2064]

3:18 League does give skins/boarders/icons based on ranking as well as items and recall animations for Challenger players.

[@NathenTiger]

They can still give the top 10 players something. Like what if they got an automatic invitation to the next tournament? Or they automatically get a higher placement when MD does their qualifiers.

[@theunluckyone1602]

I think the issue is in ranked, you wont see a lot of casual /low tier decks like blue eyes, dark magician and heros, But in casual, you'll come across a lot of snake eyes, tearlament, floos and other meta / mid meta decks. There isnt really a safe space for people to play their favorite decks without having to go against a 1 card board omni negate flood gate combo. Obvs you could ban these meta decks and let the nostalgic / old decks work, but then the old decks that were "meta" back in those days would then become an issue.

[@marcoluciani4790]

I will say LoL is a bad example of a game that gives you nothing for rank because it actually does give high rank plyers exclusive skins at the end of the year, which are much more of a sign of prestige than a screenshot of you doing a wojak face pointing at the screen that reads Diamond 1

[@otterfire4712]

Someone else who gets how bad of a comparison LoL was.

[@vinhnhu9381]

No one ever uses these skin lol. People dont really care about them that much

[@koray3774]

That's exactly what he said though. The highest ranks should reward players with cosmetics

[@lazydj]

That's literally a new thing for years the only thing you got was a skin at gold and a border showing your rank and people still wasted their lives doing it.

[@dragonqueenniisan4122]

You also get the Boarders, Icons, and other swag to show off. Its all cosmetic, but its nice to have SOME reward. HS gives out cards for climbing and a cardback. But, this is Konami. If their prize support for IRL is as bad as it is, you will be lucky if they keep a record of the seasonal leaderboard. Maybe they give you 50 gems!

[@traplover6357]

This is the same thing that will happen if Konami increases the value of their prize pool. Casuals still wont get shit

[@DreYeon]

I would love an arena mode like hearhstone has,i didnt play hearhstone for years but i always thought arena mode was fun. Picking a card out of 3 untill you get a full deck and hope it works against other people is kinda cool,they could even do the same thing pay 100 gems to get in and try to get x amount of wins to get more gems out of it. The only problem i see with that would be bots spamming this to farm gems but you could put a weekly cap on it to earn gems.

[@L1nk2002]

That's something I hate in general about online games. They could always add something more, something that would make millions of players stick their asses to their chairs and never stand up again, something that would not even be too much of an effort and that could easily make the companies a shit ton of money. Wtf would it cost Konami to implement an actual solo mode in which you can test your decks against multiple different foes, maybe from the anime or the movies (something like the campaign of the other single player yu gi oh games)? Nothing. It would add a big amount of content, that could attract new players, but instead they choose to keep the solo mode as the absolute shit hole that is right now. How much would it cost them to make more events, maybe some that are a bit more f2p friendly? How much would it cost them to keep the retro formats as game modes? Of course something like this would be hard to keep free to play, but there's still a lot they could do. They could add more cosmetics. Do you know how much would something like a lady lab/Promethean princess mate would sell? But no, instead the game is still basically the same after more than 2 years. The laziness is unreal.

[@__-be1gk]

I pity those who aren't brain poisoned enough to think that seeing the little number going up telling me I'm better or worse than everyone else isn't the reward in itself

[@ghostreaper8295]

How is the top 1 spot not named king of games

[@user-uc5xo7yu7n]

Fun fact: A blue-eyes structure deck is coming up in a couple of months

[@spicymemes7458]

*in the OCG Nothing announced for TCG yet

[@janithernest3929]

@@spicymemes7458 knowing the TCG they'll import it

[@user-uc5xo7yu7n]

@@spicymemes7458 Eventually it will come to the TCG

[@spicymemes7458]

@@janithernest3929 I hope you are right. They don't always.

[@danlay638]

@@spicymemes7458 Bewd structure comes out in OCG first week of September, same as fire kings last year. We can therefore presume it’ll come out in the tcg in December 2024. It’s still 5 months away, plenty of time to announce it

[@adamxue6096]

I wonder whether casual players would appreciate having the create lobby system expanded to be a more public gigantic list so you can advertise what you want to play against/what you are playing against the big pool of players.

[@hokusai99]

Its hilarious how so many players who play a competitive game don’t know/realize that a lot of players reach the highest rank not because of rewards but for prestige and pride. COD, Dota, LoL, CSGO, hearthstone etc have super competitive ladders that MOST of the time, reward nothing except a cool badge and a rank number. Just like what Farfa said, these games modes are not tailored to everyone

[@AndrozYGO]

What this game really needs is a weekly rotating time wizard format mode. Where it has Goat, DDT, Edison, Etc. on rotation every week between 4 formats that Konami choses. My biggest complaint with Master Duel is the best of 1 system and old Yugioh while it does matter if you go first... It's not a total uphill battle to win like it is nowadays. I'd play again if something like that was a thing.

[@colmecolwag]

How do you sell new card packs to people who only want to play old cards, though

[@KiiroSagi]

This is basically ELO rating from chess but I do agree with the criticism that getting to master is TIME consuming. Remember that if matchmaking is fair, you should only win 50% of duels you run into, unless you play an anti-meta deck or stun deck. Speaking of which, this new rating system is abusable by stun decks although I say this as someone who doesn't know their winrates, they simply feel unbeatable when I run into them. Other than going first of course.

[@user-wx6ms9rv2m]

Just wait till tenpai releases, it will be soooo easy to exploit bo1 with that Also, you're saying stun decks feel unbeatable.. except 50% of the time when you win the flip? That seems not unbeatable

[@KiiroSagi]

@@user-wx6ms9rv2m I play a going 2nd deck cause it gives me coin advantage as opponent usually gives me what I want if I lose the flip anyway.

[@user-wx6ms9rv2m]

@@KiiroSagi Well yeah, stun is going to feel unbeatable if you play a deck that lets them go first everytime.

[@maxthebear7765]

Thank you for coming to this BA player’s TED Talk

[@sonicbreaker6991]

"how is my blue eyes anime deck gonna make it i totally cant try other strategies and definitely have to continue to play only this deck" this is a very good change and welcomed. And for people who think this isnt good because ah meta sheep bs you dont have to play meta decks to get to master 1 or higher and its dumb that people only think of master duel as casual only.

[@mitchellslaughter2963]

TBH they should make the rated mode accessible by EVERYONE, not just people with Master rank. Also, they should implement a password machine that let's you imput the 8-digit passwords on your irl cards to get them in the game (like all the old yugioh video games had).

[@friendmaker9210]

If you wanna play a game casually you have to make friends, it's literally the only way Gotta join a community that plays casually or make irl friends who are on your level/will lower themselves to your level

[@CaPtNcApS1]

I personally think, as someone that does not reach master 1 at all, that ranking is generally a good thing, BUT I don't quite understand why there should be different queues... A Magic: Arena or League of Legends approach "reach rank X, after that you're climbing a numbered ladder and if you lose too often, you de-rank back into Master rank without a number" is in my opinion better, because you don't split the player base, while simultaneously giving the high-end players a reason to continue grinding.

[@Eric_Nomad]

Casuals might enjoy a crossover alternative format like Heart of the Underdog or Common Charity, with a unique ban list that is effectively “casual decks only”

[@AshBelmont]

I get pretty high up the ladder most seasons. But I think they should really bring in a more casual format like time wizard edison. I know some rulings are different but I think most people just wanna play against something that isn't snake eye

[@serikazero128]

what makes "ranked" interesting in a lot of other pvp games is the fact that beyond competition, games aren't the same. While in YGO, when you will get to Master and you will face a meta deck. That's a 1 card start combo that can play thou hand traps and end up on the same board. Which will end up making everyone feel like they are playing the same game over and over again forever. And most people don't like that. There's a reason I stay Silver-Gold every season. The rewards are the same when I "climb" from Silver 5 to Gold 1 or if I were to go from Plat 5 to Dia 1. The only difference is, well, the second is much more difficult as most people will play meta decks. And my SkyStriker or Mikankos will have a hard time winning against 6 negates turn one. Also, events are much more easy to complete when you are "lower ranked". Do I think this is a good addition to the game? yes Do I think this doesn't change anything for me? yes Do I think that each season they should reward players with gems for all the ranks they "climbed". So getting bronze, silver and gold rewards even if after reset you are plat. Instead of getting only rewards for new climbs? - yes So, its a good step forward, but not one that would make me and a large portion of the playerbase want to play "more" ranked at high level. 1) not punishing players for getting high ranks 2) allow some sort of draft mode where you can ban cards or something to avoid having the same game every game at high ranks Adios :)

[@stevennguyen1586]

Drafting is an interesting concept tbh, not sure if masterduel has the capability because you would need side decking to be MUCH bigger to accommodate (unless each players only gets less than 5 unique bans total). Honestly wouldve liked BO3 to be implemented because side decking is kinda a huge portion of the game, if you lose game 1 you can side for 2 and 3 and be much better off (plus the game wont feel stale since now you can counter their plays if you have the correct side)

[@serikazero128]

@@stevennguyen1586 yeh, they could do drafting using side decking. Something like: both players can ban 2 cards and limit to 1 copy 2 cards. Then both players have 30-60 seconds to setup a deck using their main deck + 20 side cards they set before entering the duel. And then keep it as Best of 1. Edit: The computer program can automatically removed the banned and extra copies of cards from your deck to the side deck. To make the process of making the new deck faster. Edit done Why Best of 1 instead of Best of 3? Mainly time reasons. But yes, it would be very very interesting to have this draft rule + Bo3, as you could try different bans and limits to hit your opponent's strategy without actually knowing their decks. And this would allow for A LOT more variety in the Meta. Well, until Konami release something that power breaks everything, where a deck has 20 different versions of a starter card.

[@matthewdalida7170]

Draft is really nice but they wint di it because its going to ve free fun. Haha

[@stevennguyen1586]

@@serikazero128 Agree, I usually prefer B03 because it reduces random cheese plays. Once you figure out your opponents deck after game 1, game 2 and 3 is more "fair". They can have a BO1 mode (for those who prefer short games) and a BO3 mode, mtg does this online.

[@alfiobonanno5100]

I think the master ladder should give out "royal coins", by which I mean, a resource that turns any normal sr\ur you have into a royal, that's it.

[@gorz_eod4267]

Rocket league has 4 casual game mods which are constantly there and then a random one which changes every week/event. Might be nice to have Goat, Edison, Skill Drain & something else as permanent and then phase in another. I think yugioh could also benefit from themed events. These events could add new missions, packs, mates and also a Duel event. For example, we could have a summer, fire event, a zombie/vampire/fiend Halloween event, a fairy/light Christmas event, a wind st. patricks day event etc. etc ...

[@paranidherc]

Can we fucking finally have sealed / draft mode? Like, fml, how hard is it to implement one.

[@babrad]

Master 2 felt like the most competitive rank by far, since i even find myself trolling with random decks once i reach master 1. It's been a while I've been in Gold or Plat, but i remember the same feeling (albeit with better players... on average) Having no rewards is the right way i believe so that more casual players (judging from myself) that only grind up to master 1 for gems won't feel pressured because of missing rewards, so it only leaves the player who truly want to grind the ranks. It's exciting to the point i want to find time in a season so that i can grind as well. This should replace the Duelist Cup Hell and instead every season award spots so that we can have a tournament between those winners to decide teams for Worlds. It works even with Challenger Cups and would make ygo into an eSports if managed accordingly

[@YTDan]

3:34 I thought what you said as you were saying it lol. Duelist with fight for clout and prestige, however money for skills eludes the Modern Duelist 😅

[@eskyzaslavski9837]

As a casual weather painter, gladiator beast, and ancient gear mains, additional solo modes are welcomed. Especially those who has awesome lore like world chalice and albaz. Would be better if they were harder tho

[@JakeTheJay]

I honestly wish there could be special modes for Casual rooms, like custom banlists or hell, even a way to play older formats that isn't the god forsaken hell hole known as dueling book. I've been wanting to seriously delve into HAT format for a few years now, but the insistence on only using Dueling Book irritates me to hell and back and prevents me from getting into the format

[@BigBuckies]

visual rewards would probably be the best reward for top ranks, although there could be like a minor dust and/or gem awards

[@user-wx6ms9rv2m]

nah nobody cares about the gems, you can get that with an afk bot

[@SknowingWolf]

I still don't understand how we don't have alternate formats in MD yet. Literally just take the festivals and make ladders for them. Like how loud do people have to be about how popular N/R fest was before they just GIVE IT to us? You could even make it a rotating thing. Like maybe this season there's xyz ladder and n/r ladder, next season it's synchros and highlander, links and legends, xyz synchro and fusion, etc etc. like we already have these formats and banlists IN THE GAME. we just don't have an actual ladder for them.

[@skyrimlover777]

This is cool this is pretty cool but some community reactions do feel like people think casual players shouldn't exist and *should* be excluded from everything because.... ???

[@Rukarin-]

I just wish we could get a cool number on our account that goes further than top 10

[@lunarshadow5584]

A cosmetic that tells people "You are facing a top 10" would be a good reward for this system. But I do think casual content is something they should look to expand on outside of limited time events. As of right now, I just climb through gold and up to plat 1 every month before getting sent back to repeat as I don't want to go through the headache of deranking from master and diamond for an extra 300-700 gems. (My mental sanity isn't worth 7 bucks) And as the game is now, new players have a high bar for entry and require a high bar for staying. I want to be able to play with my best friend who loves card games, but master duel is too much considering 90% of the cards are useless, remaining 9 of the 10% is categorized as Rogue Deck, and the Meta cards have a minimum of 5 separate URs (not counting the three of)

[@kindlingking]

My only complaint is how it's not like chess elo. Maybe guess the rate could still work, but it's not gonna be less about skill and more about grind.

[@nabeelwantza5484]

I think they mean by casual players as in people who don’t spend 10s of hours a week

[@buddasogudda]

How could casuals have anything else to complain about when rarity collection exists and cards are cheaper than ever.

[@pinky90454]

I’ve been playing master duel since April and one thing I’ve noticed, is that there is little for mid-higher end players to receive a gem bonus compared to beginner players. I don’t like drawing comparisons in discussion of games but back when I played dragon ball legends, I would remember scrounging challenges, pve missions, and co op missions to get 10k chrono crystals in hopes for the new LF/ultra unit that’s going to be meta for a month. The issue with master duel is simply from the fact that it’s much more Efficient to just make a new account get the free 4k gems from solo and stomp on the players until platinum/diamond with a half finished meta deck and finish it once you get the ranked rewards. With the fact that there is nothing for higher end players to rebuild their deck with, especially noting that they are the target for banlist hits. They defiantly need more/better rewards for “good players”

[@olyviermonteau4300]

inb4 the game activities of master duel that ISN'T ranked or an event: gives you no gems. so yeah. not even tag duels.

[@rokmare]

Master duel doesnt even have a side deck and konami expect people to play it anymore than casual

[@ZafranGG]

I honestly dont have an issue with this new rated mode. I do have a problem with it being reset every month. I am not grinding from diamond 5 to master 1 every season just to play rated games.

[@TURBO1000YuGiOh]

I think there should be a participation reward for reaching and dueling in rated.

[@adamdekuyper788]

PVP is inherently not casual... To enhance the experience of actual casual players, I think Solo mode needs a major overhaul

[@TreWillz]

Add alternative formats and tag duels.

[@ChoomOfDoom]

I love the shitshow that is Yugioh Trading Card Game©️

[@JaceOKami]

On the topic of casual matches: One way to make it actually more casual is to just ban on any card from being used that are above a certain % usage rate. Let's start with 10% and see how things go from here. They track these numbers already, just put them to use finally.

[@user-wx6ms9rv2m]

This makes casual mode worthless for anyone looking to learn the game in any capacity. Not that it was useful to begin with

[@GG_Nowa]

That's not a good way to learn the game or fun for casuals as so many terrible unfun decks exist in those dregs people would play to be annoying

[@yunfanji]

While adding this new ladder doesn't take away from players, it is a reminder that the best Yu-Gi-Oh simulator is not developed at a desirable pace. Some people are ok with just a functioning simulator that's pretty but others still remember the launch date promises that were never accomplished. Needless to say some would expect further than that because MD legitimately has so much potential. But hey, at least we are getting mmr that sucks in comparison to other popular PvP games, a title nobody will look at and... AI I guess. To be fair, it might not be that bad but we are playing Yu-Gi-Oh, not an actual good game.

[@illdoittomorrow2368]

Look, I just want to go on ladder with my masochist deck. It's gonna suck and I want it.

[@TovarishDima]

They should make a masochist format. You get 5 packs to start then +1 pack per victory.

[@zero1343]

I do think the casual duels could benefit from some sort of system like you see with smogon and their tiers. Obviously it wouldnt quite work on a card by card basis, but perhaps archetypes?

[@emred4653]

adding rewards to ranked is a terrible idea that will frustrate many people

[@aidenharris5296]

What people being encentivised to play the game oh no the horror

[@emred4653]

@@aidenharris5296 jingle keys in front of me

[@bej4987]

Yu-Gi-Oh still has casuals?

[@N12015]

Yes, mostly in the OCG, because they don't want to hurt pet deckers because THEY KNOW it's a big part of their audience. Complain about Maxx C all you want but at least they don't force you to buy 1000 USD decks to remain competent.

[@spicymemes7458]

​@@N12015I mean, they use 💴 instead of 💵 so idk what the equivalent price point is there, but I imagine it's cheaper

[@Geo-ok1nw]

@@N12015found the casual lol

[@babrad]

​@@N12015OCG? Before Trickstar Sky Striker, Burning Abyss was the most successful deck of all time, plants aren't considered even tier 2 yet they win events. Casual is the lifeblood of the game as well as the biggest player pool, and you can easily identify this by comparing subs between casual and competitive yugitubers. Competitive yugitubing just became a lot better during the last years but it still pales in comparison to the volume of casual content.

[@KleptoSaber]

The cards in OCG are cheaper by a very large margin while also having quite good reprints for example in recent structure decks which contain a bunch of metaviable cards. Besides their banlist decisions I would argue that everything else (for example very cheap prices for meta cards in much more diff rarities instead of only printing it in SCR or higher) is just better than whatever is happening in TCG besides some TCG only cards. TCG (short)printing certain cards so players have to spend absurd amounts of money to keep competing is such a weird model to look at when you have the much more appealing OCG model coexist at the same time.

[@blitzaqua2907]

FARFINGLE NEW VID! WOW!

[@flary18]

love the breaking benjamin album in the background

[@SonicChannel4]

It was today, on this video about competitive play and the new Master Duel update that I learned, Farfa is a breaking Benjamin fan. Good album it's what got me into them

[@AuratticStride]

As someone who is never going to be master 1, I really don't care about the changes 😂. I'm still Mad about the lack of continuity of other formats / festivals. I think having ongoing draft / limit 1 / goat / edison would be good for casuals and for new players

[@mario5769]

Master duel really needs to add a dedicated edison ladder, a lot of less competitive players and even people who wouldn't play current yugioh really enjoy edison.

[@minhajfahim7361]

Games like LOL don't require you to spend gems to build decks whose meta changes like every 2 months or so

[@godkingzan9114]

I have absolutely seen competitive players complain when nee Solo Modes get added. I think this is a dumb update, but only because I think this should have already been part of the game.

[@runningoncylinders3829]

Been left out of Paper and don’t follow formats. Simulator style DL/MD suits me, and it keeps the hobby alive in me. It’s one of the better vehicles for play the media has held onto.

[@GG_Nowa]

Master duel was always marketed to the competitive audience from day 1. A game for everyone is a game for no one and you don't want that. Instead of changing master duel why don't they return and make WC games or tag force again. Very much games for casuals but would be able to have that focus on them

[@fmasxd5691]

It'd be cool if like top 5 on the ladder got world's invites or something, as well as the cosmetic stuff mentioned. Maybe like a medal that goes on your profile saying you finished at X ranking during season Y.

[@robintschumperlin8169]

Bro you got me for a sec😂😂

[@kgamer142]

It’s a great change. Won’t be bothered to participate. Been playing since the release and I can’t be bothered to climb to master every season. Lucky to play enough to buy packs every month these days

[@BrotherHood-xh9sg]

Anytime a game makes balances and focuses on the competitive scene, it goes to crap. Halo and League being some of the biggest examples for it.

[@seanxi]

the system is fine, its just that this is like league but there's only 5 champs...

[@AnotherVessel]

Don't really feel any way towards either side, I just play YuGiOh because I like synchro decks, but to be a contrarian: The issue comes with forcing players to use matchmaking. Ranked gives an incentive for both players to try, whether to just progress or obtain gems, while not necessarily having to use the best cards, and casual is, well, casual. There's no incentive for anything, nothing to lose or gain. With matchmaking implemented, it necessitates either the creation of multiple accounts, otherwise you must always play your best decks, or lose out on gems, and be forced to purchase them. This might make the botting problem more common now that I've thought on it a bit. People that want to play casually, generally just want access to cards they think are interesting, and without the free gems offered by ranked, and not wanting to use meta decks, they may turn to botting. I know I've considered it in the past, just because grinding is awful, but this makes it harder to grind.

[@babrad]

I loved that educated guess about Yubel. Your reaction to dkayed showing surprising you (every content creator) with leaks during the ban announcement is top 3 moments for me (after n3sh teaching DDD)

[@neckdotjpeg]

7:16 gage catching the most absurd stray

[@tableytable7108]

Konami should make a sexy farfa field center and reward that as prizing

[@philbuttler3427]

Referring to yourself as a non meta sheep just makes it sound like you're calling yourself a sheep.