The Greatest Structure Deck In Yugioh History - Structure Deck Seto Kaiba (2002)

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[@MegaCapitalG]

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[@LowellLucasJr.]

Appreciate you reading the comments. Really means a lot and shows you care. Also enjoy your vids and trips down memory lane. Always fun to share your coverage with fellow duelists, and discuss what some of those past formats/ eras were truly like!

[@vader148]

Thank you very much for making these videos!!!

[@bayar_]

thanks for putting in the original cards (artwork/layout/text) and not just random google searches. great vid.

[@ZeroSanNG]

I remember looking at Structure decks in the OCG a few months back out of curiosity and my jaw hit the floor when I read the card list for this deck. I 100% agree that this is the greatest structure deck of all time.

[@MegaCapitalG]

Yeah OCG structure decks (especially in DM) were absolutely insane. 15 cards in this beast end up on the F/L list

[@DadBodtoGodBod]

I have one sealed if you want to see one IRL 😂

[@Fakedoja]

Spirit charmers we’re fun just don’t play someone running 3 ash

[@nzt29]

@@DadBodtoGodBodI have both vol 1 and vol 2 japanese kaiba structure decks unopened 😊

[@DadBodtoGodBod]

@@nzt29 amazing! Which card have you got on the front?

[@Darien2016]

The attention to detail is kinda crazy too because the blue eyes are in different languages. We know kiaba had to travel the world to get 3 blue-eyes dragons so that's pretty cool too.

[@breakfaith3031]

Not only that but IIRC even the specific languages chosen represent where Kaiba got his dragons. One in Japan, one in China and one in the states

[@babysinclairfan]

When I was a 9-year old in 2003, the Japanese structure decks, particularly Kaiba, were the stuff of legend. Our starter deck contained one blue eyes, but this contained three and their fused form!

[@relicdad88]

Prolly jus cooperate greed 2 get us 2 ask our parents 4 more money 2 buy another 1 lol can't believe that deck came with all that at the time dang good stuff but I enjoy the long long duels me and brothers or friends wud have with our starter decks I barely remember playing on the floor good times

[@babysinclairfan]

@@relicdad88 the original starter deck Yugi and Kaiba were bizarre since they came with random filler cards that never got released in the ocg.

[@davidbacolini589]

@@babysinclairfan i loved those! as a kid i was always super into the lv 1-3 normal goons that showed up all over LoB and MR

[@SakuraAvalon]

I remember seeing these products shown off in a magazine. I was so jealous that the OCG decks were almost 1:1 recreations of the characters decks in the show, where our Starter decks were just a hodgepodge, with some of the cards they used tossed in. To this day, the only one of those Japanese SD we ever got, was the Marik one.

[@EHeroClayman]

This takes me back. I recall reading the deck list for the structure deck and asked myself why couldn't we have this product or cards that good. It wasn't until years later when I stopped playing that Konami upped the quality of these decks.

[@Kameratyp]

Our local game shop had this thing for some reason. Needless to say I was the king of the playground after buying it. It also helped that I could make up effects cause it was all japanese

[@bayar_]

all those cards and still lying to win. gotcha.

[@GardevoirTrainer1]

It’s a shame we never got this deck

[@stevenboucher433]

Blue-Eyes is in top 5 favorite decks

[@reflera603]

Now 25 years later, you too can be Kaiba for the low price of $475. Oh and there's a briefcase as well. The deck within still pales in comparison to this Structure Deck.

[@darksoulsss2618]

Yeah us in the states kinda got the shit end of the stick. Still the 2002 kaiba starter deck Tcg is pure nostalgia. remember my 10 year old self thinking I was the king of the block with my blue eyes white dragon. the days man!

[@Aeon1989]

I remember owning these structure decks. A card shop around me as a kid had OCG product and i had this structure deck along with the Yugi, Jonouchi and Pegasus decks. I also remember being disappointed when we got the Yugi and Kaiba structure decks (not the starter decks) over here in the TCG and them not being as good as the OCG ones. Sadly me being a kid opened them and later got rid of them and or lost them

[@babysinclairfan]

Yeah I remember that! Upper deck promised Yugi and Kaiba "structure decks" but they just turned out to be the evolution starter decks.

[@Trekkie46]

Back in the day when Konami hadn't figured out how to force players to buy 3x of the same product.

[@SakuraAvalon]

No, not really. In fact, they made it so you needed to buy multiples of a GameBoy game to get a playset of the current meta defining cards.

[@Zetact_]

So it's basically like if the Soulburner Structure Deck included a Sunlight Wolf in the actual Structure Deck as well as replaced some of the filler cards with an Imperm, a Called By, and a Pot of Desires.

[@alexG106]

Holy crap I think I remember going crazy when I learned about this deck back in the deck. SO UNFAIR. The OCG Kaiba structure deck was absurdly OP compared to both the starter deck AND the Kaiba structure deck put together.

[@Bashamo257]

I remember hearing rumors about this deck! I knew you could get Blue-eyes Ultimate Dragon in the "kaiba structure deck", but nobody knew where to buy it!

[@babysinclairfan]

The first 8 Japanese structure decks were absolutely groundbreaking. Aside from excellent reprints, they also came with side decks, something later decks never did. My personal favorite of the original 4 was Pegasus. Since toons were the closest thing we had to an archetype back then, it felt much more cohesive. The other theme of playing cards that looked at your opponent's hand alongside cards that could put that information to use was also a great idea.

[@gregorysloan8361]

I luv this series! Structure decks are a portal in time showing people the history of yugioh!

[@sonicdueler]

they got cyberstine is a structure deck? i know komoney has been dicking TCG players for a while but dam they have been Dicking them since DAY ONE

[@easymacyo]

I remember being so disappointed as a kid when I found out my starter deck Kaiba only had one Blue-Eyes in it. I was like how is this Kaiba’s deck? He has THREE!

[@PokeMills]

Pre-Errata Ring of Destruction and Crush Card Virus... Good Times, or Horrible times depending who you ask😂😂😂

[@DWillyEfect]

I dont really play Yugioh anymore and I haven't in several years now but I do enjoy watching your videos for these nostalgia trips. I used to play online in 2002 before Yugioh virtual dueling on a program called "Apprentice" which was for Magic The Gathering, but I guess the core mechanics worked for yugioh as long as you downloaded the card packs. I made so many friends there and with the exception of 2-3 people, I've lost touch with all of them. We we're all teenagers/ young adults back then, I wonder what kind of people they grew into?

[@michaelwilburn5582]

This deck is so crazy! Kaiba at full power.

[@roy12121]

One could write a book about the early tcg and manga/anime. -The TCG Kaiba/Yugi starter decks were based off the original two player ocg starter deck EX that released in 1999 -The three bewds in the structure deck were different languages - a reference to the manga where kaiba has 3 bewds from different regions -Cyber Stein is a reference to the GBA games where kaiba would drop a stein/BEUD/megamorph OTK on unsuspecting players -The yugi/kaiba/joey ocg character structure decks feature cards from early battle city until virtual world (many of the holos debuted in the virtual arc) -cards like needle worm are not quite random. kaibas deck in battle city had a "deck destruction" theme, and this played into that theme when certain cards (virus cannon) had not been released yet

[@Digi-Navi]

I picked one of these up in Japan about 8 years ago! It was a dream come true for younger me. I opened it of course but it’s still together even now. It’s a really amazing collector item

[@speedduelbro]

I never knew this was a thing! It would have been great to have all the powerful staples instantly. Thank you CapG for the insightful video!

[@nightingaleseraph]

my first encounter with structure decks was in an ad in a Beckett magazine back in 2002. I contacted the seller and bought one of each via phone using my dad's credit card. it's wild how much better the OCG has been about reprints.

[@DylanWolfram14]

I remember making my dad get me a Kaiba deck 3 straight trips to the grocery store so I have 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragons just like Kaiba had

[@Mystic-Aidan]

While at first it makes no sense for a random group of expensive tournament cards to all be chucked into the one deck, keep in mind it’s rich boy Kaiba’s deck. Of course he’d throw in some money cards just to flex.

[@MirageUchiha]

Always wit the 🐐 level vids, brodie!

[@skittezraine]

Back in the day, my old cardshop used to stock these OCG structure decks. My friends and I loved these fir easy copies of amazing cards. Unfortunately, this is also how we learned OCG cards cannot be used for TCG tournaments (which is still a thing for some reason smh)

[@wheelchair21]

So, I remember back in the early 2000s seeing these decks for sale on some sites, and I was eagerly waiting for the TCG releases. Around that time Kaiba Deck 2 was also in listings featuring Kaiser Sea Horse, so I assumed that was its name for the TCG. Picked up that deck, and was heavily disappointed, samething happened with Joey and Pegasus. I hated how the TCG kept making bad decks, while the OCG was running wild.

[@neroneroren6788]

tbh OCG has always been quite budget friendly most of the time, with the expensive cards being those with an alternative superfoil version (e.g. Starlight rare)

[@MegaCapitalG]

Dark Armed Dragon was a rare in the ocg, then when Phantom Darkness came to the Tcg UDE made it a secret 😂. It was $250 a copy

[@joshuaguste6883]

@@MegaCapitalGwhy did they do that, was it because of the potential they saw in its value?

[@MegaCapitalG]

@@joshuaguste6883 cause MONEY, they saw how successful the card was in the OCG and probably figured Tcg players would buy boxes upon boxes to pull it

[@joshuaguste6883]

@@MegaCapitalG so OCG Konami was mad they didn’t think of it first.

[@SakuraAvalon]

@@joshuaguste6883 OCG Konami is TCG Konami. Also, Konami tends to use the OCG as a testing market, to see what cards are gone to be desirable. And then make them hard to pull when bringing them to the TCG. Though, this has the side effect of them thinking Crossout Designator would be a lot better than it actually was, cause of how different the OCG meta is.

[@crnocommentary]

I had this structure deck along with the 2002 yugi pegasus and joey decks I ordered them out the back of a magazine in prob 2003 from Japan still have the joey and pegasus decks in box

[@vollied4865]

OCG; lets make our gave fun and playable for all wallet levels Tcg: shut up give us money

[@alexgreentea771]

I remember seeing ads for those decks in those old becket magazines back in the day for 19.99 usd. Oh to go back

[@jdmj707]

20 years later and I’m still mad that we didn’t get the good stuff over here

[@sofaking9404]

5:48 Do you have a playlist with your videos surrounding DM era OCG? Super interested.

[@MegaCapitalG]

I don’t but I’m going to make one

[@sofaking9404]

@@MegaCapitalG great 👍👍

[@frankchau]

Yoooo! I bought this deck when I was a kid. Was at a chinatown plaza and bought this from some hole in the wall random shop that had OCG decks. I had no idea what most of the cards did though all I wanted was Blue-Eyes!

[@joshrobinson2409]

I had the structure deck kaiba when i was younger i remember finding it in a store i went to.

[@fortant691]

Fun fact: That yugioh character in the opening clip is holding the ancient gear structure deck that was released irl around the same time.

[@polar820]

I remember these I bought them all from a card store in my local mall back in 2002-2004 Yugi, Joey, Kaiba, Pegasus and Marek

[@Nightly97]

3 copies of ABC structure deck was enough to top most locals with basic staples you had lying around (or for 50$) you could be competitive. Turns out Kaiba structure decks are just busted. lol

[@amodsr]

A buddy of mine found some ocg decks in our mall way back when malls were a thing and yugioh was just starting. He bought it and got tons of fucking great cards. Sadly he couldnt use them in tournaments cause even though they were out they were in japanese.

[@crnocommentary]

Yeah bro I remember there used to be stands in the mall that sold ocg cards and packs good times

[@dualcaster]

where do u live that malls don't exist anymore?

[@amodsr]

@@dualcaster malls are dying and i meant "were a thing" the same way that dance dance was a thing. It's a product of its time. My mall no longer flourishes the way it did since the place i live isnt big enough to support a mall to such a degree they took part of it and turned it into a walk in clinic.

[@crnocommentary]

@@amodsr I agree I live in New Jersey what used to be a packed to the brim mall on a Friday night now on a Friday night you got maybe 20 people tops shopping around

[@xozzy830x]

Awesome! I remember using my $20 that my grandma gave me in the early 2000s to get into yu gi oh to duel. I bought structure Deck Kaiba and didn't regret it. A year or 2 before, my brother got starter deck joey.

[@itsloxin]

Dude this deck was cracked. I had no idea this was a thing!

[@kleemosukiyaki]

My Japanese grandma sent me the Yugi, Kaiba, and Pegasus decks when I was little. I couldn’t read Japanese at all but I had fun pretending I knew what the cards did.

[@Nyhmnim]

Great video, cap!!

[@Numbuh_]

I thought it was a greta video too!

[@JulioLenin88]

This was my dream product back in the day. There used to be an unofficial magazine that showed Japanese card lost and my jaw dropped when I saw the card list pf this deck. I constantly pestered my LGS if they could ever bring this deck (they did it for Yugi, Junoichi and Kaina vol. 2 JP structure decks), but they mentioned it would be far too expensive. This video awakened this childhood desire once again. I may be looking for a copy (even if used).

[@MasterWalrus]

I grabbed one of these at a flee market back in the day. I still have the full deck and the coin it came with. And I have it built with English cards to play against some friends when we play retro games. Best product for the price they have ever released!

[@PkmnTrainerEmerald]

crazy how so many good cards came from that structure deck and some are still banned to this day lol. Great video man glad to see you back too

[@cal8338]

When I was a kid : The Legend of Blue Eyes When I was a teenager : Dark World Structure Deck When I’m an adult: Strike of Albaz

[@jaykettavong4109]

Kudos to the artist drawing a Omni man style pic of kaiba and Joey

[@918_xDx]

SDDE -Dark Emperor will always hold a special place for me. Dimensional Alchemist only getting love years later when it was pretty nice from the drop always seemed crazy. Of course DDR & Caius overshadowed it but a rfp mill and ability to put back in hand monsters from a previously hard to interact with area was great. I liked siding out of a macro monarch/anti-meta strat to a DAD monarch variant that could abuse scout plane & alchemist. Wasn't SJC level competitive but three structure decks and (outside DAD) a few songles if you didnt already have them and you could end up in the top 8 of most locals pretty consistently. If you had kept a playset of solemns you seemed like a genius when it went from rarely used and limited to unlimited

[@kaiser371]

The fact we never got anything close to this level of good is proof Konami is biased and doesn't deserve our money or that Konami should get a massive lawsuit for thier predatory practices towards the TCG customers

[@MegaCapitalG]

Well Upperdeck ran the TCG at that time, so they're more to blame for this specifically

[@kaiser371]

@@MegaCapitalG That is very true, but it doesn't mean they've treated the TCG side any better. As a matter of fact, it may be worse since the card quality itself has gone down and they seem to make it a personal mission to nerf TCG structure decks from tbier OGC counter parts like the Charmer Structure deck. What was that about? P.S I've been following your channel for 3 years and I appreciate the reply. I also miss the MegaCaptialG show intro you used to have.

[@SaberWolf94]

Loved the vid, before you even mentioned the card list I knew that Crush Card and Ring would be included after how you hyped the deck :) It's too bad they didn't make products like this for us too back in the day.

[@saltygrump]

Man, so many of us had these decks and didn't even know what they'd be worth someday.

[@Funlu]

Wow, I didn't know the ring of destruction wrapped around monsters necks before it blew up.

[@tomcurl8034]

Wish this was available in America

[@janithernest3929]

sadly we in the TCG dont get nice things

[@Xhalonick]

Maybe that will change with the rarity collection

[@shinox7892]

​@@XhalonickOnly time will tell

[@Fallen_Blade]

I was 12 in 2002 when I first gazed upon these structure decks at the flea market, didn’t have money ready so the following week I snagged Kaiba but Yugi was sold out. with some ware and a few cat paw prints, I still have that deck, all cards in purple sleeves and in the 4 pocket Kaiba mini binder

[@vincentzombi3916]

I remember getting vol1 and 2 of both kaiba and yugi back in the day as a kid for my 5th grade graduation gift, although in Japanese it was some impressive stuff!! I literally felt powerful lol

[@aliastheabnormal]

Sadly for Kaiba where i live. The standard is you're going to accept mediocrity and you're going to like it.

[@joshcruzat3112]

Cool so the trend of Konami being xenophobic with how shit in comparison the TCG products has always been there. Got it.

[@h3llg3ar]

Back when Kaiba was gangsta... how unfortunate his fall was for the ultimate beatdown deck of the DM era

[@DadBodtoGodBod]

I literally have this sealed on my shelf! Quick note the one you pictured is the one in the EX Box set, the one on the shelves had vampire lord on the front

[@Alekazam_tv]

Man I wish we got something like this when the new blue eyes deck came out in 2022. 10 bucks for every staple beats the hell out of needing at least another 200 bucks just to really have a viable deck imo.

[@Darien2016]

This structure deck really was the best one i agree. Its too bad we never got it in English.

[@wingedswordslayer]

I'm getting flashbacks of the Cyber-Stein - BEUD - Megamorph bull I had to deal with when one of my friends had this imported and then proceeded to get really silly about it.

[@thatonezeldaguy250]

Id love to play again but id want to play classic Yu-Gi-Oh

[@IncandescentCrowvus]

I played gadgets with 3 Machina fortress, 3 gear frame, and 1 peacemaker for 3 core years of my yugioh life. Best $30 I ever got to spend on yugioh Topped a bunch, learned it inside out, effin hated chimeratech

[@buddasogudda]

I have all the cards from this original set especially the holo battle ox, do you need this deck in picture form?

[@MrTylertherockstar]

I’ll never forget how disappointing the Pegasus deck was. Hoping to get this awesome Toon deck with Relinquished, just to find out that the deck had almost no synergy

[@ReinLie]

I think a lot of these comments don’t understand how ridiculous having prize cards were at the time. I played since the starter decks and even getting a single copy of Needle Worm was INSANELY HARD. Not to even start on Stein and Crush Card. Don’t compare this to shit like Soulburner. Y’all don’t even begin to understand.

[@hrg818]

interesting listen. thanks

[@CaptainMarvel4Ever]

Yo this power level is insane. Must have been a crazy (yet affordable) at the time. I’m surprised how many win conditions it could achieve.

[@tylerjohnson2331]

Interesting when I was in elemetry school my pen pal gifted me a dark magical girl. Think I know where it came from. One of those strucute decks cool.

[@matheusbalbino5108]

Video suggestion: Artifact Chronomaly, the deck that was meta in the OCG, but not in the TCG

[@animeknight99]

Great video 👍

[@rampart5631]

"As a 16 year old" Cap G is 100 years old

[@mpoops2936]

4:29 I was so disappointed that the japanese bewd card was the alternate art... I mean, make the three the alternete art or none

[@lindyxmjh4589]

Morphing Jar #2 was just a rare in PSV and the cheap one, so it's inclusion was no big deal. The OCG did have access to Morphing Jar as a common card in a booster from the beginning, though.

[@adambraun1990]

I have both the Japanese Kaiba structure decks (as well as both Yugi and Joey decks, and their Pegasus and Marik decks). I still play with them from time to time (I speak Japanese and have a few friends who also speak the language and we’ll bust em out)

[@TheGoldengoats]

I love your videos MegaCapitalG, please keep making videos ❤

[@tubbymontana7090]

That thumbnail should be a future card 😂 for blue eyes

[@brandonscott5544]

GREAT MEGACAPITALG YU-GI-OH SETO KAIBA DECKS 🔥🔥🔥🔥💙🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Sickmonkey3]

Whenever I returned to the states after living in Japan, I would bring those decks and some other cards back with me to show to friends what they had over in Japan. People wouldn't believe me about Konamai doing shady Japanese business practices until I busted out 2 of the these structure decks to show them what they were doing.

[@uginthespiritdragon]

I thought spirit charmers was pretty good for what it was, a voted in deck that gave some degree of support for an objectively bad archetype. I’ve been a fan of charmers since they were released when I was 7, I was very happy to see the love. As a fan of the archetype, I will he the first to admit there is NO making that archetype good.

[@Ragnamune]

4:34 - My Forbidden Memories bias is showing, dear lord that is a beauty... And speaking of Blue-Eyes, here's one for you. During 2013, we got that Saga of Blue-Eyes Structure. Guess what OCG's version had inside? ...the one and only... Maxx "C"! Yes, the most meta relevant card EASILY ACCESSIBLE!!! And the TCG with no hesitation kept it out to keep its price high. OCG > TCG every time.

[@nightmare674]

OCG being more friendly to their players and having a better banlist just makes me thing that we should just play it instead

[@Jgon-92]

Those were the days when juggernaut starter decks were a thing

[@arjuntao]

Hoping to see this deck in English with the new seto kaiba briefcase

[@BCC-cc8lz]

All this was missing was an original Japanese obelisk the tormentor and you have the actual anime deck right there.

[@kappadarwin9476]

Can someone explain the cards with the arrows pointing to them image? They look like some kind of flow chart.

[@teensillustrated6057]

I'm low key happy this didn't come out when I started back then. I would have been stamped out the game before I had a chance

[@nicks1050]

The blue eyes came in 3 languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Chuck E. Cheese

[@TBKOTOROB]

These structure decks sound like fire

[@MegaCapitalG]

Video coming for each one !!

[@vader148]

MegaCapitalG I absolutely love your videos and I would recommend you someday to use a better microphone. At the smartphones I can't hear so well! Keep the hard!!!!

[@bubblemaximus6500]

Ill need to hear about this Vampire Lord meta, I cant fathom a world where it's better than Jinzo!

[@tobigrantlbart]

Doesn't Konami in general have the problem that we in the TCG don't get worse versions of the decks compared to the OCG? I remember hearing about them taking them cards out of recent structure decks. I love Yu-Gi-Oh but rarely play it physically nowadays and stuff like this is why I don't want to start at the moment. If someone wants to correct me, or explain to me why and how I am wrong (because I probably am) please do.

[@Shrizzy7]

I had this lol we had to just pretend we know what the Japanese text was saying…we went off the anime 😂😂😂

[@isy111]

Keeba

[@alfonsopayan09]

They should release theses for the 25th anniversary as an homage to the DM early era and it’s not they would be meta defining or extremely expensive cards for degenerate second hand market Just reprints and nostalgia for the cover board collection