I Had a Weird Yu-Gi-Oh Experience...

The Yugioh community is more diverse than you'd think. I recently got reminded that we are not a monolith at Dream Con 2022 and I want to share my thoughts.
TEAM APS MERCH! ▸ bit.ly/TeamAPSMerch
MAIN CHANNEL ▸ / teamaps
▼ FOLLOW TEAM APS ▼
Facebook ▸ / teamaps
Twitter ▸ / teamaps
Instagram ▸ / teamxaps
Discord ▸ / discord
TikTok ▸ / teamxaps
▼ PRODUCT AFFILIATES ▼
TCGplayer ▸ bit.ly/TeamAPSTCGPlayer
Ultra Pro ▸ shop.ultrapro.com/TeamAPS (use code APS5 for 5% off)
Dragon Shield ▸ www.dragonshield.com/webshop/...
Imperium Duelist ▸ www.imperiumduelist.com/ (use code aps10 for 10% off)
Inked Gaming ▸ bit.ly/InkedandAPS

[@THEEND4444]

Most interesting Yugioh experience I had was I activated the field spell, The Seal of Orichalcos, and after I won the other guy keeled over and died. It was weird.

[@alexanderabrashev1366]

I'd totally do that if i lost against orichalcos. I love those casual anime decks. That's how you have fun in yugioh

[@IHeart16Bit]

That last story is an important one that I hope sticks with people. $50 is quite a lot to most people to just make one set of cards. The fact so many accept Konami's artificial scarcity as normal is really sad and disappointing.

[@viralmasquerade]

Dude I was shocked that people would pay 12 dollars for a card when I started

[@derrickscott1630]

It's still actually nuts to me people play tournaments with $1000 decks?!?

[@viralmasquerade]

@@derrickscott1630 That's exactly right, I thought its nuts because it is. But alas, I'm in too deep 😂

[@OG-512]

Same here, I’m just playing my Old cards(some new ones obviously) then seeing people buying cards for actual money instead of just trading. It’s mad😂

[@calallen8786]

I remember back in the day. When Yu-Gi-Oh first came out highest chase card were like $25 at the top even like black luster and chaos emperor. Now these card first edition are easily $140ish. Even back in the day most expensive card were like $80 top that would be Tournament pack card like mechanical chaser, needleworm and morphing jar

[@yusheitslv100]

I wasn't as shocked as you. If you're only playing 1 copy. Like okay, but it's a stretch. But $12 per copy, and you need THREE? That's where I stop. (R.I.P. Chaos Space.)

[@CommanderWar64]

That Ten Thousand Dragon story made me die inside.

[@joaquinduverne6259]

You made me remember of how I was invited by local players to learn Magic one day, so I went there and there were some people actually learning Yugioh on the table beside me, so I was trying to listen and peek at them too. One of the dudes playing, was roleplaying like, so freaking hard; he was playing a vanilla beatstick Deck and calling his monster by name when announcing their summon. He also said things like "My monster! I won't forgive you for this!" when their Normal Monsters got destroyed. The person he was playing agaisnt was a newbie too and was like "Woah woah slow down how does this work?". Overall it was bizarre but pretty wholesome, I guess.

[@DaminRSW]

that guy was playing the game right that rules

[@wabbajocky8235]

dude probably normal summoned blue eyes without tributing lol

[@PaladinfffLeeroy]

Ugh... I honestly really dislike it when people do that roleplaying thing. It is cringy. It is weird. It drives a lot of potential players away from the game and think that we are all like these weirdo's or whatever. One time I was doing a very casual tag team duel. We had two experienced players and two noobs. one of each on both sides to make it more fair. Suddenly my team mate starts doing that roleplay shit and draws a card like they do in the anime. We were sitting in a small space in our local comic book store, right next to the door. When he draw that card he accidentally folded it against the doorpost because he was doing the anime draw... I legit facedesked right there. The other experienced player died of laughter.

[@wabbajocky8235]

@@PaladinfffLeeroy just sounds like some innocent fun, what's wrong with that? it's not like they actually think they're an anime character or anything

[@joaquinduverne6259]

@@wabbajocky8235 Ye but I understand the thing about dragging potential players away. Because it does.

[@8history8]

I had a similar experience in locals. A new guy came with a really badly built Adamancipator deck, I quickly 2:0 him, and asked him to show his deck. I saw how bad it is, and asked if he had more cards, to try to make his deck better. He takes out his bulk. I check it, and he has Prosperity just lying in his bulk. I was shocked. He said he pulled it ages ago, did not know it's worth anything, becauce it looked bad to him to banish Extra deck cards.

[@grixloth]

And then you traded him a Blue eyes for it

[@WinWin-oo4uk]

@Daniel Kammerer Why is it irritating? Are you not happy when you beat him in a duel?

[@erhiueQWEF]

@@WinWin-oo4uk beating incompetent players isn't fun.

[@WinWin-oo4uk]

@@erhiueQWEF Try taking out your 10 best cards from your deck and see if you can still beat them.

[@th3randomn3rd74]

@@WinWin-oo4uk taking ten cards out of your deck won't make it harder to beat a pile of cards that unfortunately don't do anything. if anything, bumping consistency like that makes it easier. it's not fun to win against someone who just can't do anything because their deck is obselete.

[@Steve-0071]

I recently had some of this happen to me. I was teaching a friend modern yugioh with structure decks. I realized that speed duels would be a better base for him to relearn with a more simplified game state. He enjoyed it a lot more and felt a lot less pressure of trying to learn what all the cards do and trying to figure out the best path for him to go. It’s easy to get caught up and not realize that the “easier” or “simpler” decks in modern yugioh still have a pretty high skill requirement that can lead to people not wanting to try to learn everything going on in these decks

[@Meat_Skraps]

That's basically me. Master Duel is the closest I'll come to modern Yugioh, and even then I stick with decks like Ra (got to platinum in season 1), Blue-Eyes, or Skull Servants. The modern archetypes drive me nuts, and hold no appeal to me. I don't have the patience for it. Speed Duel however, reminds me a lot more of the straight forward Yugioh of yesteryear that I loved so much. No xyz, no synchro, pendulum, no links (barf)... just good ol' fusions and reductionist decks that don't take 100 actions per tern. I still enjoy collecting the OG archetypes' supports like BEWD, DM, or Egyptian gods (not spending $50/card just for cards like Ancient Chant or EG Slime), but I'll mainly only buy Speed Duel stuff. I have a playset of almost everything (no emphasis on rarity) printed. Still missing some stuff from the 1st two starter deck sets and boosters, but not much. Speeds just seems to me to be a more official and cleaner version of what GOATS is.

[@aiRCoft]

@@Meat_Skraps If you're looking for an old-school _Yu-Gi-Oh_ experience, I'd recommend looking into the most popular fan-created format, called "Goat Format", in which there are less than 1700 legal cards (compared to over 11,000 in the official format), and the ban-list from April 2005 is implemented. It's pretty slow, and there's usually a lot of back and forth, as opposed to the outcome of the game being decided in the first turn or two.

[@Meat_Skraps]

@@aiRCoftThank you. I'm aware of it (mentioned it towards the end of my comment). There's some appeal to it, but I'm still partial to SD. Is it a gimmick? Perhaps, but I think it does a decent job of mixing older with newer cards in a semi balanced way. Non official games can always use TCG cards to supplement what you don't have. But, then again, if it's a private match with me, you can just build from my stash (all cards are sleeved). SD also currently only has about 800 cards available, which makes it even simpler. Part of my motivation (or rationalization.. lol) for grabbing most everything available is to perhaps get my niece and nephew to play without requiring my brother to spend even a dime (unless they get him to). I'd actually be down with a hybrid of the 2 formats as well, but that's getting more into "house rules" formatting (like allowing Change of Heart, Swords of Revealing Light, Exodia, and Pot of Greed).

[@guestguest9051]

I love that casual/hardcore player interaction a lot. Personally, I'm in pretty deep into fighting games and yugioh but casual in moba and fps, I've had experience at both sides of the fence. Showing people what weird meta stuff you can do to casual players and being schooled by hardcore players have a different experience but both of them are really fun.

[@Ben-no1cg]

Master Duel is what got me back in to Yugioh as well, i still remember taking some 1900 beaters into a ranked match on day 1 and getting destroyed, this made me try and learn more about modern Yugioh which led me to your chanel

[@ilikeanime6894]

SAME! master duel was my first experience, learned the hard way how to make a good deck coming from 60 card red eyes + blue eyes deck i thought would be a cool theme deck LOL

[@Karamuto]

I am also an old school schoolyard Yu Gi Oh player who found back to the game through master duel so I can totally relate. That game really makes a good job in teaching all the new summoning mechanics and a majority of the special arch types. Me myself has gone with a non meta Red Eyes deck with a little Rakket support to bring out cards faster. It may lose to many decks but I am enjoying it.

[@NewtBannner]

I tried re-teaching yugioh to a friend … they got mad at me and hasn’t touched their cards since

[@banop7794]

Its all in the way you explain it. I taught a friend how to play and now he is really good with dinos. UTC is pretty good still nowadays

[@deathpyre42]

See that's why you don't play mine against people you know.

[@RoyalBlue93]

I just started playing the Digimon tcg at my locals and the amount of help they all gave me was amazing. It's the first physical TCG I've played in years and how much they helped me build my deck was insane.

[@hyperjukencardgameofficial]

I tried to get back into YGO when the Shaddoll deck came out, I hadn't really touched the game since early 5Ds. Yeah, modern YGO is a different game to classic YGO, but I think it has a lot to offer. I just didn't find the local community particularly friendly, so didn't pursue it more than that. People were more interested in get in, play, get out than anything else, which is fair enough, just not the experience I wanted.

[@Speshls]

I had a similar experience a few months ago, it felt like everyone had their own little friend clubs in the community and were ok with playing with new players, but not really being friends with them

[@PoopinaBucket]

The ten thousand dragon story blows my mind that people don’t look up prices for cards. I’m sure people have always heard of baseball cards being worth something back in the 80’s, so I can’t wrap my mind around googling cards you pulled to see how much they’re worth. And after y’all told him the price he still puts it in his pocket lol

[@maxthebear7765]

I feel like card prices are the way that they are, because of purely the fact that people are like, “yeah that’s just how it is, I personally don’t care, I want to win so I paid $2000 for my deck”

[@maxthebear7765]

I pulled an ultimate rare majestic star dragon when I was a kid, and had no idea what an ultimate rare was until 11 years later after I got back into Yugioh, and was like “Man, I really wish I still had that box of old Yugioh cards” (misplaced it during a move between houses and never found it since)

[@ValunarTonix]

I once lost a dual pages filled binder of Pokémon cards, not the rarest or strongest but some were, with a rough binder value of 200 to 800 bucks. Same way, in a move. It was the moment I decided to quit pokemon and casually pick up Yu-Gi-Oh

[@augustgremaud2738]

I still remember being 11 and pulling Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier. Discovering that my little piece of cardboard was worth $40 made my day and made me treasure and value my cards so much more than I ever had before.

[@MTGUnpacked]

Never played Yugioh up until Master Duel, and it finally started to demystify the game for me. I still don't have much idea what I'm doing, but it's fun!

[@JadeJonny]

Back in 2021 I was working at a gas station. One of our regulars would play Yu-Gi-Oh! with his roommate and hearing his stories was literally the most wholesome thing on the planet. Well one day he asked me to go over to his place to humble his roommate since all my friends would tell them that I played competitively (which I don't in terms of Yu-Gi-Oh! but do other games, though I do understand rulings for Yu-Gi-Oh! and overall the basic idea of how to play against meta). I told him I'd try but couldn't make any promises on humbling anyone. I took my pure Shaddolls (with hand traps and Dragoon package at the time) and my Paleofrogs (both Rogue at the time) and I kinda just won using Shaddolls. When I summoned Dragoon though he was super energetic and ecstatic and I knew he was having fun, even though for me or anyone else, at the time this would've been groan worthy. It was kinda weird seeing someone getting excited over Dragoon just cause it was a Dark Magician and Red-Eyes fusion when everyone I knew hated Dragoon. Well I switched to Paleo and he ended up summoning Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Fun fact: Toadally Awesome 2200 atk < BWD 3000 atk. He got so excited that I couldn't attack over his Blue-Eyes and we were all laughing at how dumb the circumstance was. But it also made for a funny moment when I summoned 2 Mistars and attacked over it. Moral of the story: There is no right or wrong way to play and sometimes, crossing streams of more dedicated players with more casual players can lead to some good memories and events. They've gotten a lot more into the game last I heard and were playing MD a lot. I think I ended up being their gateway into MD meta and for that I am truly sorry, but I'm also happy that I got to play them and would do it all over again if I could. :)

[@corydiehl764]

I think yugioh would benefit a lot from having some more casually focused alternative game variants. Like I imagine that modern yugioh would get that old school feel again if you were limited to 1 normal summon and 1 special summon per turn. I quit playing yugioh back in tele-dad format, and got back into recently only to quit again, because I felt like there was no such thing as casual just pure competitive play. Also, since I play magic I think it would be neat if yugioh had it's own version of EDH

[@AlistairZands]

I'd love an alternative format for Yugioh that's more casual (and I don't mean Speed Duels or Rush Duels). I lean more competitive playing rogue decks, but I have a lot of decks I love that are very casual. Unfortunately, my locals is more competitive (we have a few players that legitimately go to a different locals every day they can no matter the distance to get points for an invite to Nats), so if I took those decks they'd be crushed before they could make plays. Plus, the burnout from constantly playing competitively if I want to play is what pushed me to get into Magic and EDH to the point that Magic is now my casual go to. I really agree that a more widespread casual format would be great for Yugioh

[@CruzPro]

Master Duel brought me back into YGO, it was kind of crazy that I forgot my love for the game and the series. Even though I was taken off guard by anything post 5Ds I got the hang of it and now just ordered boxes of Power of the Elements something I couldn’t do as a kid lol. Even though I know it would be better to just buy individual cards online getting those packs is just part of the experience for those who can afford it. That being said, budget deck tutorials are a god send for anyone trying to get back in. Side note: waiting on air neos reprint bruh

[@OG-512]

I’m waiting until we get Neos reprints. Just normal Neos cards. I want to have a real fun deck with them, so this new set is gonna get me some of those I need hopefully!

[@Aftokraftor]

LMAO this is literally me rn I just ordered 4 boxes of power of the elements I used to be a judge a few years back but I quit when pendulums came out cuz I didnt like them ended up getting into master duel and hit diamond and got back into it hardcore and remembered why I loved this game and used to be a judge for it im glad I found yugioh again and good luck to us both for some sick POTE pulls man I wanna build either sprights or tearalaments

[@Be4rstr1ker]

Pretty sure we won‘t get an air neos reprint ever again because of some copyright issue caused by the name

[@Dansu18]

A very zen video :) I returned to Yugioh about three years ago, my previous experience being ending on the GX era. It was actually a combination of Duel Links and you guy's videos that got me playing again! I love so much about this game! It was amazing seeing how much it had grown and finding new things to love about it.

[@HaezeusYT]

Same here ! Except for me I ended after 5Ds

[@aire4747]

Just described my exact same experience

[@SirFailsalot91]

The juxtaposition between super casual and super dedicated card game players is just unbelievable sometimes, not in a bad way but just how each person sees value in every card and deck, and it's actually kinda wholesome seeing someone wanting to pull a specific card just to complete a deck or collection rather than for personal profit to sell off. Personal story time: when the 20th Anniversary celebration event occurred in 2018, my local store actually took part and they had a couple of special prizes for the tournament winners, including envelopes with a special anniversary Japanese Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician, limited to just 9500 items; while I didn't get too many wins to place, they actually raffled off the second envelope they'd received and my name was picked - I still have the envelope, and the cards have not left their sealed packets in order to try and preserve them, they're probably the most important or special cards I've ever received and I doubt I'll ever give them up since I've never been so lucky as that day.

[@TheJediMaster462]

I remember the time when I went to a convention in my country before covid and took my E-Hero deck with me incase I wanted to duel again (I hadn't watched or bought any Yu-Gi-Oh stuff in AGES, maybe 2006-2007 was the last booster I bought when I was 10 or 11). While playing, I activated my 'Get your game on' card to boost my monsters' attack and people flipped how I managed to get this card and how valuable it was. It was just in a oversized orange sleeve. That was the moment I realised that some cards could get expensive with the years and could maybe worth more than 20€ 🤣

[@darkjammin79]

I remember one experience that I went into with a mindset of "Hahaha, silly casuals!" in a small town tourney my friend was invited to. Natural trash talk of playing traditional in 2008(good lord I feel old) compared to our Advanced format. I mained a niche control deck(D.D. Designator/Amazons) but swapped to my gemini deck and added a faster engine like COSR and Graceful. My friend asked me to five them a reason to never challenge us to traditional, so I built classic Chaos deck as I did collect banned cards. Him, his brother and I took the top three spots out of 22 entrants. Looking back, I am floored that such a turnout was HUGE to them. Having two players go undefeated until the finals where combined they took 800 damage(I got Ookasi'ed in the T8, spectators were hyped!) made it an experience. Inviting us to come on down for another tourney next year while they worked on taking games from the three of us(between the trio we were, bro 0-2, me 1-1, friend 2-0). To see such joy in a dominant squad curbing them to take as a learning experience. Asking us about deck ideas and how advanced worked without reborn or raigeki. Felt bad about the way I went in and got humbled by that which actually had me appreciate my wins more than the frustration by losses against meta or just bad draws. It really was a different world and reminded me of back when it all began. We didn't play right in that school, the kid with Gate Guardian was king until Maneater bug was in a starter deck. Just put ALL monsters in and summon ignoring conditions(or tributes). Except Rituals which I can't recall why, but THAT we played right.

[@happygenerously6008]

I mean high end cards are starting to be come accessible so that's a plus in my book reprints really helps with the Yu-Gi-Oh Economy especially for budget players like me.

[@K87jk]

Reprints should be removed so that card prices stay as high as possible.

[@bakublader1999]

If we follow OCG then we wouldn't even have such ludicrous prices in the first place.

[@heinokunzelmann8967]

@@K87jk just go play MTG lol

[@K87jk]

@@heinokunzelmann8967 no bro thats geh 😔

[@sirspookybones1118]

@@K87jk gotta be ironic

[@Watusao1]

As someone who taught in the pokemon tcg scene for abit, the amount of people who open packs and have ZERO idea what a card is worth is actually astonishingly high. When I would run demo days I would always bring a few boxes of sleeves from the store to hand out to kids who showed up wanting to learn how to play and with the stores help we tried to teach both parent and child how to take card of cards.

[@jorg3023]

I came back to the game because of Master Duel I haven't played since 2003, now I have a Stardust Deck, cost me about $120 😅 I don't even want to play against people, it's more like a personal collection

[@adong1]

Same! I updated my cyber dragon deck after MD taught me how to properly use it

[@memorablebaig]

I'll be honest I had a similar experience myself on two separate occasions just getting into buying Yu-Gi-Oh booster boxes. The first time was I bought a box of synchro storm looking to build lyralisc and pulled a barronne de Fleur and completely overlooked it thinking it was just another ultra. It took a couple weeks later did I realise what it was worth. The other occasion was battles of chaos and I pulled the 25th anniversary dark magician, just glossed over it. As I finished opening the box I remembered seeing that it was a chase card and immediately sleeved and put it in a top loader

[@antondolhain369]

I really love showing people the game. Most people are pretty excited to see all the different colours of the cards but they also wonder how we can remember all those rules

[@321omoi]

I feel like they should implement tournament formats: Vanilla Era Tourny Gx + Vanilla 5ds+ GX + Vanilla etc... that way you have something for everyone's favorite era.

[@aiRCoft]

I can completely relate to a lot of the points/examples you brought up, and it's kind of refreshing to hear. Like you mentioned about the guy who thought a $50 deck was a lot, when you have no income (or work for minimum wage or something like that), things that cost money can seem completely out of reach, but once/if you start earning a more significant income, you sort of get used to that new standard, until the entire game just feels free, and you don't even think twice about buying all of the cards you want, in any rarity you want, as soon as you want them, and that sort of thing... In addition to having the potential to be inspiring, it can be cool to experience different views and opinions from people in different situations like that, for sure, which can definitely make you appreciate things you otherwise never think about and completely take for granted on a daily basis. Nice video; I enjoyed the stories.

[@netimarneto6473]

I got into it Yu-Gi-Oh again maybe... 3-4 weeks ago? I knew the game would be hella different so I tried my best to study up. I got 3 different structure decks and thought I'd be ready to slay... 1 Barronne De Fleur later, I realised there's no better way to start then baptism by fire and a community of people to help guide you in the right direction.

[@xNecroNvRDiesx]

I actually had kind of a similar experience this weekend at my very first locals! I’m pretty new to the game in general and haven’t really gotten to play yet, so I told my opponents this as we started each match. My first opponent was super nice and helpful, and although he did stomp me, afterwards he asked to look at my deck and showed me some combos I had been misplaying and how to play them better, told me about some card effects I didn’t even know were in my deck, and walked me through a lot of simple things I’d been missing. My second opponent locked me completely out of playing at all with mystic mine, beat me twice in about 8 minutes total and then apologized after LOL. Then my third opponent took out his deck, a completely unsleeved, single structure deck, and laughed hysterically throughout the game as I would take like minutes long turns bringing out my strongest boards, and then he would just set a monster and pass. It was a really interesting and fun mix of play styles and personalities and I’m really glad that we all get to play together regardless of any of it, I guess. I had a really good time

[@Andys_Auto]

The 10000 dragon story was crazy. I bet that guy was hyped to know how valuable it was

[@adav838]

The only real-life ygo experience that I had in my life was back in 2006-7 when I was a teenager and I would play very casual duels with a cousin. We had like 10 duels in total but it was really cool.

[@Nomorehero07]

It's funny that master duel got me back into Yu-Gi-Oh thanks to dragonmaids. I even bought the OCG cards for dragonmaids since in the Philippines we play under the OCG. The only thing I'm missing is tidyings and hospitality.

[@tulobrotherstcg]

hoping also in the Philippines TCG will be a meta until now.

[@yourturn5059]

This was a great story thanks for sharing, kinda reminds me of the first time I came back into the game back in 2019, going to locals with my 2002 Kaiba starter deck, and I had no idea of any mechanic other than fusion. The people were so friendly, and even though I didn't win any game(or even round) everyone took their time to explain the new rules, mechanics and cards. years later I'm one of those experienced guys teaching the new people, giving them cards they've been searching for just so they can finish their deck/collection, and being as welcoming as others were to me.

[@this0ldsoul]

I just started playing yugioh after 15 years of not even thinking about it since I was young. And I love how it has evolved. It's so much more intense and interactive but you have to keep up with it almost weekly or daily to stay in the loop.

[@OG-512]

Same here, but it just feels sad from my point to see my opponents legit use all of Their cards in 1 turn whilst I drew one, set 1 & 2 faces downs😂

[@JustinoTCG]

My locals has recently started being like this. We'll have new people show up from time to time with decks from 2004. Or a nearby shop will finally start doing yugioh tournaments and it's been a lot of fun seeing people revisit the game and it's exactly as you say. Most people I've seen aren't frustrated at how fast they lose or how slow their deck is. I've seen most of them enjoy the variety of decks and they just look excited to pick the game back up.

[@TheBearThatReads]

Master Duel is what's gotten me playing again as someone who put the game down back around 05. It has been an enlightening experience to see everything and yeah sometimes I feel it's frustrating but also it's just neat to see some guy combo off a board with 1 card or do a one turn kill with some ignite deck. If there's one thing I wish I could find is like "these decks are popular, here's what they do so you can know what to expect" information a bit easier than just me using a search engine to try and figure out what the heck a prank kid is and what are some good ways to handle it.

[@BuggysNose]

Man I really want to get into yugioh. I have some online friends who are really good at yugioh(they were both invited to nats) and they’re always talking about it, which made me want to start so I can talk about it too. I just don’t know where to start. There’s so many cards, so much text on those cards. I see all these decks that people are using in tourneys that seem really cool but I can’t build it unless I want to commit a pretty big amount of money when I don’t even know how long I’m gonna play. It’s just so hard. I’ve been told best way to start is just learning a structure deck, but even then I don’t know what the best structure decks are. I hope I can eventually get to the point where I can compete in my local tournaments. Even then I don’t know if there are any good lgs around me in Minneapolis😂

[@overratedstarlordgaming5106]

I think a good way for you to start is by using dueling simulators like dueling book, edopro, and others they give you access to all the cards in the game while having a solo testing mode and being able to play vs people.

[@vasvsilva]

Love to hear you talking, Paul! Really interesting points you've got here. As a new player, I feel overwhelmed trying to understand all of these mechanics... I like the idea of you making a series explaining it, it would be really helpful!

[@yusheitslv100]

When you started rounding your Ten Thousand Dragon story, I legit had to take a step back because I own a JMPS-EN002 Ultra Rare Blue-Eyes White Dragon that a friend gave me a few years ago. (We were in middle school.) About a year ago, I look it up and find out it's $100 (because I played dit in my deck before I started sleeving my cards).

[@LiBear8]

On that idea, Spright is a very friendly to newcomer deck. Consistent play and standard combos with good recovery Tearlaments is for the more advanced players that can problem solve and be creative turn by turn- acting and reacting to the opponents plays. I think this duality of play styles is great for future sets. Something strong and consistent pair alongside with something with more advance interactions and a higher ceiling. IMPO

[@VHBEngines]

I'm just comin back after leaving in 2008. The first thing I noticed was how much text are on all the monster cards and thr fact that support traps just sent a thing. I was blown away watching a duel that didn't go into a battle phase for 25 mins of gameplay. So much is happening and so little at the same time. I still don't have the full grasp of everything, and it's so much I considered just dropping it, but from the money I've spent coming back into the game I've alreadyade back most of it. I plan to babystep for a few months flipping cards until I get a good feel of what's going on before trying to play competitively again

[@OniValxntinx666]

The very first card I got when I was a kid was an ultimate rare Thought Ruler Archfiend from the Duelist Genesis box in 2008 and it was my favorite thing ever (my dog at the time ripped it to shreds a year later) and it’s remembering that experience from when I was a kid of getting a card and falling in love with it that got me back into Yu-Gi-Oh! And the game allowed me to make some new friends and learn that I can use dragon waifus to ruin someone’s day

[@gothicfemboy428]

When I started i had a casual deck and for 12 years haven't played competitive because no one would teach me. And at that time I had no tech to use. To this day I still play casual

[@BosSoxFan15]

I have experienced similar things at my lgs but with Magic especially the range in prices people spend on cards. Some friends at my lgs only own a precon deck while others have collections in the thousands probably tens of thousands.

[@narfd.8837]

In my area we have a "casual locals" a specific locals where every archetype that made 2 or more spots in the top 64 of the last big tournament of our country is forbidden, additionally Scythe and Mystic Mine are banned. I was there just testing a deck, when the owner declared the round 1 pairings, including me, even though I didn't even plan to participate, but I just got counted in lol. Anyway I just took the deck I had at hand in that moment, Lair of Darkness and went at it, no side deck, nothing. But every turn took like 3 extra minutes as I had to explain every card I played as no one knew the deck. That lead to me going into time every round, loosing 2 of my 4 matches that way. Moral of the story: Unless your deck is widely known, even the most simple modern decks will take a lot of time to play just because modern cards have an assload of text and interactions.

[@oggrym2304]

i’m just as clueless as the ten thousand dragon guy lol. opened some ghosts from the past, the 2nd haunting a few days ago and pulled a ghost rare dark magician girl. i didn’t even realize it was special, just that it looked different from the rest of the cards. i sent a screenshot to my friend and he confirmed i pulled something really rare. my initial reaction was “oh wow look at this, looks really cool” and afterwards it was “omg i pulled a ghost rare dark magician girl!!!” lol. happy with the experience. ps, it’s sleeved haha

[@lesan001]

I will say, as a complete noob to the game your vids really opened my eye to the wider yu gi oh community, I started playing duel links while watching your clips now moved onto master duel, I really enjoy this game, hope to build a physical deck one day and attend a local card shop where this game is played live.

[@TheAbesX]

Yugioh was my childhood but I remember when Zexal and XYZ summoning became a thing I kind of zoned out of it and throughout high school I try to get back in but every time I see a game my mind just melt. I gave up and moved on, making pot of greed or Exodia jokes but that was kind of it for a long time, cut to February of 2022, I found my old Yugioh cards, memories of being a kid rush in my head as I got out of 4th grade to see my mom and dad giving me a Pegasus and Yugi starter deck, playing with out broken school ground rules or being home and pretending I was Yugi as I summon Dark Magician. I just stared at my bent a busted Dark Magician card for awhile and remembered how much I love Yugioh, downloaded Duel Links and started playing again, now I am playing some Master Duel and looking to building a real deck again and going to locals.

[@AstralXMidnight]

I got into a locals game maybe late last year, funnily enough it was the first time i ever went undefeated in an official setting. I did come across a player in one of my matches who was using a very classic mid-2000s deck with his normal monsters, setting his traps and passing. Bear in mind i was using modern Phantom Knights and it has been my best performing comp deck that i have ever built. In this match with this guy, I couldve made so many complicated plays and destroy, but i couldnt have it in me to do that. At the time i was using the Dark Dragoon package, and i bricked with Red-Eyes in the hand. I tributed off my break sword to tribute summon the Red-Eyes and get to his level of skill and gameplay. I just loved seeing those classic game moves with tribute summoning and attacking that it made me miss it after so many years playing competitive and understanding meta plays. This was possibly the first time in a long time that i genuinely ENJOYED a game. haha.

[@moonmoon4537]

All I’m hearing is that playing against an old player is like the anime where you have to explain every card effect in immaculate detail

[@BaldurtheImpious]

I've been playing can collecting MTG for the past decade, meeting casual players is both a treat and a super eye opening experience. I can relate with this video so much as well as I've just jumped into yugioh and I've been having alot of fun learning all the rules and stuff, and your right, I'm bot used to the walls of text on some of the cards LOL. 😆😆

[@professorivas]

Many of my students in my club start off knowing little to nothing about the game. As they all grow and learn, it’s always so interesting to see which students stay in the casual realm and which take the competitive route. Yet, they can coexist with one another and still have fun. It’s a nice reminder that you can enjoy Yugioh no matter which side of the spectrum you’re on.

[@byronzacarias2822]

I just returned to yugioh 2 weeks ago and had loads of fun. First deck I made when I came back was suships. I went to a local tournament on Saturday(sadly didn't win a game) and was cool to see the variation of decks there was. After each loss the other person would recommend cards or would just said take them. Coming back I felt welcomed and hope that other people that come back also feel welcomed too. P.S. got a skill drain from my first OTS pack 😄😄

[@aerowalker3]

I got back into about a year ago, and even then it was off and on. I’m glad I picked up Legacy of the Duelist, because it was a nice slow pace for learning and practicing all the new mechanics against computers (this coming from a guy who was out of the game partway through the battle city arc). As I researched more and more into new support for archetypes, I realized newer cards were only in Master Duel, so I started that a couple weeks ago. I’ve had fun making a Ra deck, then a Blue Eyes deck, and I’m slowly building up stuff for cyber dragons and then stardust. I’m hesitant to go physical because of the price tag and nobody near me plays, which is why I’m a big fan of LotD and MD. But finding you guys on KZbin was also very fun and makes me want to try physical again at some point! Maybe when I have a solid deck that I have fun with on MD, haha!

[@smstext-402]

☝️Thanks for watching and commenting. You have been selected randomly for our giveaway package. Quickly contact the WhatsAppText above....

[@Slothptimal]

I think the part that's understated is just how much text cards have now. Personal belief for Pot of Greed being banned is that it doesn't meet a minimum word limit.

[@smstext-402]

☝️Thanks for watching and commenting. You have been selected randomly for our giveaway package. Quickly contact the WhatsAppText above....

[@StealthxAssassin117]

I was a fan of yugioh about 15 years ago and barely started getting into it a few weeks ago. Great content, keep up the good work

[@joaquin5541]

You guys are HUGE part as to why I started playing again. Don't be modest!

[@eduardomoraes9835]

This is awesome! This is what Yu-Gi-Oh! should be about, people specifically other youtubers out there try to raise the card prices, which is good for them as they use it as a business and have access to dozens of cases/boxes, but I think that is not how it should be, use a product to entertain people and gain money from that is awesome, that’s why I’m here, but trying in some way to make cards more expensive, with their influence can be quite simple, is just wrong. People should not think about the prices, they should just have fun, if you want to put your card in your pocked just put it, is about having fun and not resell value. Cards should never reach a value of 1.5k, if it was a prize card from a tournament maybe, or maybe a gradable card from 2002 that is super hard to find. Although for me is just sad having multiple and multiple cards of 300, 500, 800, 1000 dollars. This is just insane. People should just have fun, other that want to collect, just collect without the need to spend absurd amounts of money.

[@KikiCatMeow]

To be fair, the 1.5k dollar cards are typically just collector items. They’re usually really rare chase cards that aren’t very good or are outright unplayable The most expensive a competitive card gets is like 100-150$. Still very expensive and overpriced, but not nearly as bad

[@NewtBannner]

Why would you push them towards Blue Eyes?!?! The Yugioh community is horrible towards the Blue Eyes community, you just sent them to get bullied!

[@nedved1198]

😂

[@simon6157]

I think it's just the Duel Links community that hates blue eyes.

[@NewtBannner]

@@simon6157 TCG and MD players demoralize Blue Eyes players too … it’s painful to see comments sometimes

[@simon6157]

@@NewtBannner really? But why? Blue eyes isn't even that powerfull.

[@NewtBannner]

@@simon6157 i feel it got really bad when MD started up and everyone was playing Blue Eyes and the Blue Eyes enthusiasm leaked into the TCG, so naturally the competitive players had to put the Blue Eyes players back into their place. It was rough for a while

[@thatdrummeroz654]

Thanks for reminding me why I still love the game. I love the latest additions Konami has given players. I'm still trying to make the ultimate Cyberdark deck with more original Cyberdark engine for no reason other than the fun of potential competitive game-play. Hopefully we can get some trap variant on Pendulums someday and they can be Cyberdark Trap monsters that can be trap equip monsters that are also treated as traps to tag out or enhance Horn, Edge, and Keel since Konami keeps those 3 relevant to Cyberdark Engine.

[@The_ZinKy]

Back in my middle school days, I just played it with my friends from my old apt. Fun times, we all had dumb decks with Six Sams mixed with Time Wizard, Utopia, Relinquished. It's crazy that we played the game incorrectly. Never did the main phase 2, end phases. Just main phase 1 and battle phase. MSTs would negate spells, traps. Now, Master Duel came a long a revived some crazy memories. It was huge learning curve! Hard but fun! Now I open packs, boosters on YT and it's so addicting! Shout out, to the community for making it what is. R.I.P. Kazuki Takahashi! Saved some kids/friends I knew from trouble! YEEEEET

[@speedduelbro]

Good topic, Paul. Yeah, its always nice to connect with new players because it reminds us of how we were back in the day. Some nostalgia for sure.

[@andreelmatacoronavirusquin1322]

Tbf to the dude that didn’t react to pulling a dawn of majesty aluber they are 5 bucks now

[@FromTheSky0]

the secret is a little under 20 but the ultra is cheap, still i get what you mean it used to be the most wanted card now its whatever haha

[@nicholassinnett2958]

@@FromTheSky0 Yeah, the new Ghosts from the Past really devalued it. I sold one for $40 AUD a while back, and a week later, the market price had completely crashed.

[@andreelmatacoronavirusquin1322]

@@nicholassinnett2958 i feel bad for the people that bought it at 100+ dollars

[@gayjebus4079]

I picked you to go back up when I first started playing Legacy the Duelist and it made me realize that I was very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bad at the game and deck building. Legitimately I had tried to do the link story mode and I immediately got my back kicked because I didn't know what link summoning was. One of the decks I now play is Mekk-Knights which is the thing that made me realize link summoning isn't annoying it's actually really fun. Also world legacy scars turn one goes brrrr

[@ilikeanime6894]

i would love a series for teaching people yugioh from new to master ngl, i have a couple friends that id love to start playing yugioh with who never played but are always interested when they see me playing it and id LOVE if i could show them your videos to learn

[@GHOST_REAPER1989]

My first decks were the yugi and kaiba decks, I stopped after highschool but held on to one deck, my son got me back into it when he bought the albaz strike structure deck. He brought up master duel and I started playing it, even recreated my deck, minus graceful charity and the shallow grave, got to silver 2 but started to realize that I couldn't keep up with modern Yu-Gi-Oh. After looking into some videos and coming across yours and some others I got interested in dragonmaid and started building that deck, then after the release of duels from the deep got into those. Now I have five decks that are almost done lol, marincess,dragonmaid, legendary fisherman,sharks,and of course my old dragon deck with some slight updates

[@DekuranDX]

Yeah those are completely synonymous experiences with yugioh everywhere, it seems everyone you talk to about it will be on a wildly different level than the last guy. I'm right in that weird middleground of casual/comp too and channels like this are an absolutely perfect way to keep yugioh fun and current and interesting, feels like such a community!

[@Reluxthelegend]

0:50 "They know when the next banlist is coming out" How can one acquire such power?

[@filthyfish436]

Cool video! Can totally relate. I wish to visit more events like that and also be apart of the learning/teaching!

[@AmateurHEROduelist]

Lol, I remember back in the day mum bought us couple of booster packs, my bro pulled a 1st Ed Ultimate rare Cyber End Dragon. He never had 3 cyber dragons so kept it in good condition. He sold it recently for £600.

[@jvasq6444]

Sounds like a great event! I got back into the game in early 2020, my little brother came home with a hero strike structure deck for me to play, now I have a “slight” addiction and 9 decks. 🤣

[@blackwolfgaming676]

I love this video i am kinda up to date on modern competive yugioh i find it hard cause i have a classic feel were i want certain cards to be great so it's definitely made me think how to make classic into todays competitive modern but i do like the not knowing what something is worth i think thats been a hard part about being a returning player i wish duel devastor would go back down in price i think thats a great purchase for anyone coming back to yugioh

[@04lraffaini]

Fantastic introspective video - thoroughly enjoyed. I would say I am in the middle of the two casual and competitive communities. I have a few decks, spend some decent money but not top money on decks and sealed here and there, and also stay up to date on what is out there, competitive, expensive etc, but wouldn’t say I am in that minority that is super fixated. Great video man, really interesting

[@EvieEduWorld]

I like this video. It reminds me of playing with my son. I’d go over the rules and he’d say I was cheating and make his own rules lol. Eventually it just became a free for all make sure the kid wins lol. Seal of Orichalcos his fav card so I really had to overact lol. 👍🏾

[@backlashD]

I had that exact same, "allot to explain" experience with a friend a while ago. I thought I could show him how to play YGO since he likes card games. But when I tried to explain the cards, there was so much to explain on every single card. He found it tedious and so we stopped. This isn't an issue for any other card game I've played.

[@masongrae5010]

I recently got back into yugioh and I just did the whole pull the chase card and not react thing with the tournament 19 & 18 packs back to back last weekend

[@e1ijah]

Reminds me of my first time in a card shop a few weeks ago tryna build paleotoads had no idea cards were that expensive

[@crayyonnyadrav4055]

okay a really funny story was in my LGS a MtG player who had played YGO for a time just went and bought a pack of the Set where you can pull the Starlight Rare Stardust Dragon. And before opening it, he just cut the pack in half with a scissors and finds a cut in half Starlight rare Stardust. Just out of spite.

[@UriskOfTheFae]

That non-reaction to a good pack pull was me when I get my Collector's Rare Reinforcement of the Army from King's Court back when. I only found out what it was a few days ago

[@setokaiba200x]

I do kinda fall under both those types of players. I am very old school but knew how to try to take care of my cards. Now getting back into it after all these years, I feel the like being a new player. Just found out about this card show happening this weekend and they have Yu-Gi-Oh! tournaments and hoping to paly with some casual players. I think I saw that story you talked about that thousand year old dragon card on your instagram. Pretty wild! Please do post more tips and tricks on the game up on instagram!

[@TuetchenR]

9:45 Man wanted to play cool tough guy cards when he said dragons & warriors & you told him to play a waifu deck😭

[@shiindaisuke3159]

Sometimes I've noticed it overwhelms those old fans so much it turns em off from coming back. It really has changed greatly over the years.

[@blakebrown9903]

Played the tcg from 02'-08' fell out of it then played some ocg here and there over the past years very casually and just recently got back into tcg when i discovered your channel. I pulled a "guardin chimera" from a random blister at walmart and i remember thinking "ooh pretty ... but its a beast fusion that needs 3 material, probably trash" and threw it aside all the mean while i was buliding a branded despia deck from the SD and some of my GFTP2 pulls until i saw your video and understood how good it was... felt like my 8 year old self again for a minute and went out to buy sleeves which also prompted me to make my first purchase on tcgplayer ever (super poly x2). So thank you for that feeling! Yugioh is dead where i currenly live so i have noone to play with but there be a day where my casual ass goes to a tournament in my hometown just to get effortlessly thrashed. Ill enjoy every second of it!

[@crazywhofan6676]

Sounds like you left because of DAD reasons. Very relatable.

[@blakebrown9903]

@@crazywhofan6676 What a time to be alive lol . Everyone thought their deck is good until DAD hit the field

[@Danielupri]

Thanks to Master Duel I started again with YuGiOh after aprox 10 years and I was surprise how much evolved and changed. I am now taking the grasp of the new meta but i am still building the no-competitive decks to have fun

[@griffingower1883]

I really want a copy of Shooting Majestic Star Dragon but then i discovered the majesty of Chaos Ruler, The Chaotic Magical Dragon and i really want a copy of Chaos Ruler, so i put Chaos Ruler on my birthday list since my birthday is in two months and 58 days. I also enjoyed the video.

[@silvercrow9323]

I personally got back into yugioh after playing master duel and ye, lot of stuff changes (stopped playing at 5d's) and it was so overwhelming for me at first, but now i enjoy watching tournaments ect so Im happy that I got back into it. One thing for sure is..Yugioh is expensive to play with friends. If a person wants to have a somewhat decent deck(maybe few of them to switch it up) needs to spend a lot. But still lots of fun

[@nzardoin]

Great video Paul! I love videos like these. They are so down to earth and genuine. This is what makes yugioh amazing ❤️

[@ashfuller3480]

I have commented on a previous video that you should be making tutorial videos for new or returning players like me who aren't sure how some of the new rules work, maybe make a "history of" series about how things have changed, or do a "card/deck of the week" segment on cards or deck builds.

[@GeneralNickles]

I had a similar experience with a dude that came in and was playing a DDS blue eyes. I told him it was stupid expensive and he was just like "oh. Cool." Like 6 weeks later I bought it from him to go get it autographed.

[@LiLNinja008]

You guys are legit awesome! Wish I could meet y'all! Wish more players were like you guys. Also, this just reminds me how inexperienced I am and how I can't afford a lot of things Yugioh for some reason..

[@jackbordar2727]

When I was a kid I drew a starlight Rainbow Dragon. I wish I had my current knoweledge at that younger age.

[@evanbutler9173]

You saying the story about the guy with the 1500 dollar card made me think about the sad reality of how many super rare cards are probably destroyed by random people or kids who buy packs

[@AwkwardGMCorbin]

Suggestion: Friendly tournaments where the prize support is given out via raffle instead of 1st 2nd 3rd. Plus you could give extra raffle tickets for playing non-competitive archetypes.

[@PaladinfffLeeroy]

I am going to be honest here, because I value honesty very highly. I really hate it when these hyper casuals just happen to have really expensive cards laying around, unsleeved, rotting away. I just cannot stand it. It tells me that they have no intend to take something seriously without the interference of another human being. If nobody tells them that some of their cards are worth a lot they would never have known, never felt the need to look things up, never look back at it again. Reminds me of that episode where Daryll and Brandon Sheets found a binder full of MTG cards, among which, the Power 9. The full Power 9. Maybe not in great condition, but still. Daryll dismissed it but Brandon was like: Hey... I actually think this might make us the biggest bank out of this entire locker. He had the intuition to check things for prices even if it may just seem to silly cardboard children games to some. It REALLY bugs me that some people can have such disregard for things. Such laziness. All you have to do is a couple of google searches of the card name. You will find stuff on ebay, amazon, and maybe stumble upon TCGplayer or Cardmarket. I will excuse them for not looking at the set name that the card came out of. But not checking it regardless? That is just lazy and ignorant. Not having sleeves and putting the cards in your pocket or heck, even your wallet should be punishable by law (hyperbolics, whoooo). It is just painful. If I see it I would legit tell them they just destroyed a €100 bill if it was a prosperity. If they still do not care or show disregard I will rip them off for the cards because it is better to get those cards to safety than having them rot. I must sound like such a horrible person for saying this but we all know most people would rip others off if the opportunity was presented to them on a silver platter. If these slackers show that level of disregard then I think ripping them off is justified. HOWEVER, if they are really friendly and actually take to heart what experienced players are telling them I would not rip them off. I would inform them about the value that some cards can have and I would recommend them to look on Cardmarket (Being in the EU and all) to check if any of their other cards have a good pricetag. I would help them with their deck to the best of my abilities and taking into account what their goals and ambitions for the game are. If all they want to do is play casual kitchtable I would try to recommend them stuff like Magic Cylinder, bottomless trap hole, mystical space typhoon, some floating monsters, you know, the decks from back in the old days. It really depends on the situation and the person. I have met casual collectors too who really only cared about having 1 of every card. They told me they did not care about the price of their own cards so our community often looked through his bulk and binders and ripped him off. He was okay with it as long as he kept 1 of each card. I have also had people that got really upset when they lost with their hyper casual pile of cards to any modern deck. Not even competitive decks. Something we would consider fun decks. tl:dr for long text wall: I dislike people mistreating the products of Yugioh or any TCG/nerd hobby. Check your shit, don't treat it like shit. New players and kitchentable casuals are cool if they show clear interest in or passion for the game. If they mistreat their cards and disregard our advice I will rip them off so the cards don't suffer and crumble to dust in a moldy drawer.

[@OG-512]

Personally, I’m just a player who just wants to have fun. I don’t have all these combo decks or predaplant decks. I just like to play with the archetype I like. I live in an area where there aren’t a lot of people playing Yugioh. There is a card shop where people can play and all that, but it’s fairly far away from me. It takes like 20-30min. Sad thing is I don’t have anyone to go with or just play in my free time. None of my friends plays it and it would be embarrassing to ask around if They Play a ”child game”, but it’s what it’s🥲 I want to play with other people with my actual ”fun” deck(which is trash compared to what I’m seeing online people playing in America/UK). I was just thinking like man this game has evolved since I left it some years ago. When I got back into Yugioh(late 2020) I haven’t really been trying to get into the card game, but rather watching it. So when I’m seeing all these people online getting their whole deck used in 1 turn whilst I’m normal summoning a Hero Blazeman, It’s pretty funny😂 It’s however sad to see people being so toxic towards the ”new” & ”returning” Players. There are obviously plenty who are amazing humans and helping those. Shoutout to those People!