Modern Yu-Gi-Oh! Sucks

[@gingervitus1227]

Remember when you could only get maybe 3 cards on the field per turn, now it's boom boom boom 50 effects in the first turn

[@ML1399TheyStoleMyName]

Honestly my biggest gripe with modern Yugioh is just how rigid and dogmatic the tier list is. I just wanna have fun playing with this neat Dinosaur deck, and I will immediately lose because I run into one of the 10,000,000 million people who run the same deck that just says that you're opponent isn't allowed to play. I could run that deck. I could go to Google and find out what deck specifically counters that one and run it. But that's not fun. Its boring and I would rather just not play

[@MiyaoMeow588]

This was the same back in like 04 and 05 when everyone and their mother was playing Chaos and if you brought anything else you were getting smoked Or the dozen FTKs running around with stuff like Magical Scientist or Substitoad

[@AntiSoraXVI]

When did this description not apply to yugioh? Specifically when you played in elementary school?

[@1KilledKenny1]

Lol exactly! I just love when I'm matched with someone who don't use the hentai god OP deck and it's like everybody uses it, these days I just rank up to a decent rank and play casual, much more fun seeing all the different archetype decks people can play

[@AndresD.deLeon]

This exact comment. Like damn, sorry I want to play my Ghostricks because I'm a Goth guy that really likes his spooky-themed everything.

[@lastigesoma6126]

Not even true people played way more diverse decks back then and more creative. And u had more chance. Chaos wasnt a guaranteed win that didnt allow ur opponent to play. You still had to play the game

[@super_gogeta2795]

This is why I prefer old school Yu-gi-oh just sitting there because you won the coin toss is stupid

[@alchemysolgod]

The Dark Magician stuck with me as my favorite card. Then when we got to the last season and we saw it was actually based off of Atem’s best friend Mahad was just incredible. Then we see Dark Magician Girl was Mana. Truely incredible story telling ❤

[@mikeyderrick387]

Yes, Mahad was so dope!

[@MrRiseagainst1000]

Same for me why I am a Dark Magician Fan to this day Even though seeing that blue eyes was Kisara also blew my mind

[@888Pungy]

Lol yugioh doesn't have good story telling, the sopranos does, breaking bad does, yugioh...... eh not so much

[@TheKing25069]

This shows me exactly what I hate about modern yugioh. Instead of making a strong board that can battle anything, the endgoal became to interrupt and not allow the opponent to play as much as possible. Like you would be fine to play 100 Atk monster if you block every single card you opponent plays. This also forces one card combos to have to become more broken so you can play through all the negates, instead of trying to make the best out of your hand and invent strategies in the moment. Really making it hard for my love for the game to stay alive😢

[@gambitgambles]

and now the graveyard becomes your second hand. You can activate more effects in the graveyard now!

[@SomeRandomJackAss]

Seriously. It's like each new strategy that comes out boils down to just "Make your opponent rage quit" to win.

[@the_anarchi2t717]

If I see anyone interupting me every single card I use I surrender im not gonna give them the satisfaction cause “it’s lonely at the top” never fealt so applicable

[@timothyavendt677]

​@gambitgambles This. "Just got done summoning 4 monsters and went through 14 cards to do it. Now I can banish them in the graveyard and use them twice"

[@the0nejoyboy]

I remember when yugioh was so simple now you now you need a bachelors to keep up with all the possible moves

[@sentientnpc0]

That's why kaiba created the duel academy. Makes more sense by the day P. S he also sent a capsule with duel cards into space in hopes aliens might find them and want to play.... Maybe that will also make sense later on 😅

[@dominicott5939]

For me, it's gotta be kuriboh. It's awesome that there's almost always one in each series and some of them (mostly linkuriboh) are competitively viable. There's gotta be a fond spot in every yugioh fans heart for the little furball

[@thatoneguy978]

Galaxy kuriboh is so godlike for the galaxy eyes deck it’s the funniest thing to just jump scare galaxy eyes people and then have extra protection

[@DoobieFlex]

This would be my number one if we were talking about most versatile, most useful monster, but I think in terms of iconic, it’s still beaten by dark magician blue eyes (if you’re around my age)

[@1KilledKenny1]

Sangan! =D

[@lawDjunior]

I never understood why theres no limit on special summons.

[@jaih5529]

The last duel is a perfect encapsulation of how unfun modern Yu-Gi-Oh can be. Lost coin toss --> didn't open any interruptions --> have every play negated or bounced --> Surrender

[@shadowrunner1568]

And people still claim this is fun, watching your opponent play solitaire and then they don't let you do ANYTHING. Like bro are you afraid of an actual back and forth?

[@iconica9516]

you either go first and get lucky to stand your own ground or instantly lose to some guy named 艾 艾杰诶儿 哦伊诶艾杰诶开伊艾哦娜

[@shadowrunner1568]

@@Honest_Mids_Masher Did your friends hate you enough to pull those off?

[@JoseDorda]

That is why I like mikanko even if its isnt the most meta game, it is the only deck that wins by going second and can deal with on board negates because it is the only deck that can main deck multiple Kaijus. But the deck can still bricknif you do t get the kaijus and/or the combo pieces nesecessary for the clean board otk. Of all tcg I have played (magic, pokemon, LoR and yugi) yu gioh is easiely the most luck base of them, the opening hand pretty much decides the whole game. The game needs to change its core rules to stop certain action to happen unlimeted amount of times per turn ( like limiting negates to only 2 per game) and to create more deck that are actually strong going second.

[@Chiezky]

@@shadowrunner1568 Thats why magic will always be superior. Duel links on the phone or steam just got a legacy mode tho!

[@jimmymht01]

Master Duel needs an era/gen separated game mode. I say this as someone who runs a Utopia/XYZ deck which is a negate-fest, 3 minute long turns, and setting up for the OTK. Games I play are lucky to go to 4 turns, whether I win or lose since the victor is determined almost immediately with sometimes as much as a single Ash Blossom. I wish I didn't have to play this way. I recently came back to Yugioh after probably around 7 years. Pendulums were the most broken cards, but people rarely played them. XYZ and Synchro were reasonably strong with decent balance. Games were actually games, lasting a good amount of time, with lots of unpredictability, and solidifying a strong foothold took a lot of work and some luck. You could play most styles and decks and you could expect a good fight. I just hate modern Yugioh, I still have fun, but I would love to have the experiences I had back then. The power creep is just insane now. On a lighter note, I want true team play in Master Duel. YGoPro had it back then, and it was lots of fun trying to work around a partner with a deck completely foreign to you.

[@888Pungy]

Play Commander in magic the gathering, it truly better than anything modern yugioh can offer

[@dakotagage7991]

Honestly, Joey saying Baby dwagen and Time Wizaad all the time makes them iconic

[@alejandrovallejo4330]

For me modern yugioh sucks ass. I've seen the arguments of modern players of how "before traps and magic cards where the focus and strategies were generic, now monsters are also the focus and there is actual strategy". The problem however is that it doesn't really matter, because the game is not fun or special and there are no concequences on the game (I'll explain this later) anymore. For the fun part, turns take ages, wow, so fun to watch the oponent take 20 minutes to play 1 freaking turn. It's also SOOOO MUCH fun having to do freaking homework to play, because now it seems every freaking card that comes out has a whole bible written on it, where the effects almost specify what effect applies for every week of every month of the year and what weather. For the special part. People can just play their entire decks in 1 or 3 turns, which has made the game lose that feeling when you got a big combo in the classic game, because now you can put together a deck that combos half of your deck every turn! UUUGHHHHH! Finally the concequence part. Of course this could not apply to the higher levels of play where every decision matters, but I've been playing in YUGIOH Master duel lately and it just seems that there are so many decks where it doesn't matter what you do, you just can't get ridd of an anoying card, because now the banish zone is not removed from the game, no no no, it's just a glorified graveyard that can be accesed so easily by so many cards, so it almost doesn't really matter how many cards you banish from a reckless oponent, oh no, they can just bring them right back to their hands or field with every other card in their deck. Now, maybe the game is better competitively, but I honestly don't give a shit about that. If you enjoy the game that's fine, but I just wanted to rant a little and see how many agree.

[@bitterthenu7278]

The title is objectively accurate. That last duel was exactly why. The game is built around not letting your opponent play and any game ever designed that way is plain and simply garbage.

[@darkwolf9637]

I think some of the main issue with getting new players and returning players to actually stay is The game is very different from what it used to be ( or atleast how most people used to play it with friends) It's very easy and quick to see how a game will go. Most of the time, when one player gets into a losing situation for even 1 turn its probably game over with almost no hope of recovery if they even live past that turn. It makes it feel like alot of the time their isn't much you can do for resons outside your control.

[@erickchristensen746]

The game is not casual at all even to its core anymore

[@CSRT123]

that's just terrible game design and it just isn't fun.

[@HaHaHaHolowence]

*there isn't much...

[@biomistflorist658]

so thats not even a card game anymore but some hybrid of a real time action game but using cards. like how can this game even work?

[@CharlemagneYGO]

Like you mentioned, it definitely depends on what era you came into the game, but I feel it also depends a lot on your scene and whether you're a competitive player , a more casual, or just a fan of the anime. Bar none Dark Magician and Blue Eyes are the most iconic monsters in the game. For me personally, Breaker the Magical Warrior has and will always be my favorite card and seeing him in the original series and growing up watching that is just perfection. I do play very competitively as well though and have came across many players who have not seen a single episode of the Anime and to them I feel their most iconic cards may be cards relevant to their competitive era or cards they see often.

[@chipskylark5582]

Idk why but Exodia and Slifer the sky dragon has always stuck with me even though they made limited appearances in the anime compared to other memorable monsters🤷🏾‍♂️😂

[@DigitalGamerPixel]

My personal favorite card was Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon, I loved Pegasus in the anime. Honestly, I couldn't get into Yu-Gi-Oh after GX. I hated that they constantly kept adding new card types and the effects became so damn absurd. Would LOVE a classic rerelease with the original rules. Call it "Duel Monsters" in reference to the cartoon. I've recently been playing Duel Academy on the Gameboy Advanced. If I want to play by original rules, GBA and DS games are where I have to go now unfortunately.

[@elhajjmalikel6266]

Yeah. The effects have gotten insane. The game is mostly negating and destroying. I miss when you needed special Magic and/or Trap cards for that. On top of that, the amount of summoning per turn is outrageous. I miss when you could bring any type of deck and have a decent-to-competitive duel. A lot of these cards now would be limited and/or banned a few years ago because of how unbalanced the effects are.

[@alexellis8163]

The problem with GX was it started this whole archetypes necessity, I really like GX but after that the archetype started taking over as the preferred deck build. Also Pegasus is the best Yu-Gi-Oh antagonist, it's not even close.

[@gamercentral2417]

As someone who runs a toon kingdom deck I can confirm I love suffering.

[@TMOBILE43]

That first duelist was so bad. Reminds me of a duel vs a Spright player I had last night. Homeboy had a whole field and had me cooked but instead went into a 3200 Apollousa and lost because of that

[@nation0724]

Everyone knows it's Baby Dwagon. Seriously though: Kaiba bullied Grandpa into a duel to win his Blue Eyes just to tear it to pieces so he can have the only 3 Blue Eyes'. Atem schooled Arcana about how the Dark Magician chose him, while shuffling his deck, and proceeds to draw the top card, which was Dark Magician.

[@Zetaforce-uv8el]

As much as Blue Eyes and Black/Dark Magician are iconic I have to go with option 3 Stardust Dragon.The card and it’s evolutions are good due to negating and in the anime every time Stardust shows up you know something awesome is about to happen especially when Yusei’s Theme is playing.

[@Zetaforce-uv8el]

@Iliterallydonotcare Red Demons Dragon is awesome too especially the chant when summoned.

[@Blaze_Voltia]

I feel like Dark Magician and Winged Kuribouh, considering that I watched Gx in my early years and dark magician is just iconic so yeah

[@gustavomarcondes3908]

I feel the man who SR'd after Ass Blossom. "Your turn? Don't you mean...our turn?"

[@SenAkari]

Man, that last duel is exactly the reason why I can't take modern Yugioh. I have an infinite skill issue and at this point I'll accept and cherish that as a fact

[@supersaiyantayt]

you basically have to make a deck you don't wanna play to stop your opponenet from actually playing............and people are ok with that.....

[@nagatouzumaki4047]

Its like try harding in fortnite or smash bros. Nobody enjoys it but it wins so who cares.

[@OG-ColorfulAbyss.]

For me it's gotta be Exodia. I honestly feel like he needs new support so he's actually playable outside of the win-cons. Make some Extra Deck Exodia's like an XYZ that needs all 5 pieces attached or a Link that can only be summoned with Exodius, Incarnate and Exxod, or at the very least make Exodia Necros a Ritual monster; or make him a Tuner so we can get a Synchro Exodia.

[@davidosakwe350]

I feel like we need more exodia support too. But the thing is that it might end up being too strong cuz the individual pieces have been on the limited list for the longest time for a reason.

[@Der-Jockler]

@@davidosakwe350 the reason why the exodia pieces are limited is funnily enough completely lore related. Because if you would play every Piece at 3 guess what you would brick the ever living shit out of not only your starting hand but also pretty much any other draw just to ose in turn 2 with 3 left legs in hand and an empty board

[@OG-ColorfulAbyss.]

​@@Der-Jockler eh I wouldn't say that's lore related, that Dark Hunter in Battle City would have won if Atem hadn't pulled his bullshit draw exactly what I need at the very last second move and got Lightforce Sword. That's kind of how 60% of Yugi's duels went.

[@OG-ColorfulAbyss.]

@@davidosakwe350 Nah cuz they wouldn't have auto win-cons, or maybe at least one will. That's what I meant by "actually playable". Like Unchained Abomination. You could build a whole deck around him without using a single other Unchained card. Modern day has a lot of extra deck cards that seem specific at first but work in a lot decks like how almost everything nowadays runs an Abyss Dweller or Barrone

[@1KilledKenny1]

Still play an exodia deck to this day. Most of the time is like playing solitaire with yourself but i just love the card from the first time i saw it on the anime

[@JexChronx]

As far as iconic, I'd say THE GOD CARDS, AND KURIBOH OF COURSE!!!!! CANT FORGET THE GOAT!!!!😤😤😤

[@dkthedj_]

The most Iconic monster in Yu-Gi-Oh! to me will always be Stardust Dragon. It was one of the first ever ghost rare cards I pulled in the TCG and remains a personal staple in my collection.

[@tonymastro42]

I got a Buster Blader promo card from my dad (he worked at toys r us and got cards from the Saturday morning tournament giveaways) and having a card that shut down all the blue eyes white dragons at the after school card club was just amazing. My crappy beat down deck was dangerous because of that card. Will always be my favorite

[@Grizzle_tvx]

"Call your mom to pick you up from the tournament cause you lost" I remember that scenario to well a few times

[@nicholaspatton3797]

I had an extremely interesting thought. How would the decks of old Yu-Gi-Oh characters, such as Bonz or Rex Raptor, look if they were upgraded to modern-day Yu-Gi-Oh?

[@TheBeastAwakens44]

Exodia in my opinion was the most iconic. Although blue Eyes was one of the top three, the scene where Exodia appeared has to be the most Iconic monster even though he wasn't shown as much as Blue Eyes.

[@mustabindawind]

Magician of Black Chaos...I was always hyped to see him summoned in the show

[@daviddecker1631]

I can’t play this fucking game, I put two cards down and my opponent does a 50 card combo and I lose.

[@WolfJarl]

Yu-Gi-Oh is not a game anymore. It's a form of torture.

[@milkbottle4u]

That last duel is why I don’t play Yugioh anymore 💀

[@shawn1749]

When they can summon 5 monsters on their 2nd turn with all the Link cards and beat you in one tune with all the combos in doing so.

[@PKSparkxxDH]

The second duel triggered me far too many times.

[@Galavantworks]

I’d say Exodia. Even though many other cards got further support and relevance in both the anime and in the card game. Many people would still believe it to be the most iconic card simply because of their first experience to the anime

[@TheJamieellis]

Most iconic is Dark Magician imo, being the mascot monster of the first protag. I would've said Exodia but technically he's not a monster, he's a win con.

[@royrooi100]

I grew up with vanilla and GX but it has to be Elemental HERO Flame-Wingman.

[@Dragonmatic]

Well damn, probably Exodia. Nothing short of iconic. That said newer monsters are also incredibly well known for one reason or another, sometimes positive, sometimes negative like Playmaker's aces being universally known by everyone who plays the game as either enablers of a broken FTK (pre-errata Firewall) or easy OTK access (Accesscode)

[@Sickmonkey3]

I gotta go with either Blue Eyes or Dark Magician. Or maybe Exodia for the meme, but definitely one of the the first 2

[@Mochi_Madness87]

I've played this game for 21 years. It's sad to see what a mess its become and how non interactive it can be with people comboing for what feels like hours on end and you sitting there, holding your cards, praying you can atleast play. Only to have your opponent set up a board with so many negates that you can't even summon a monster. It doesn't feel like a 2 player game, just a game of wait and see who locks out who and then you or your opponent scoops.

[@damaged804]

I think BEWD and Dark Magician are automatically the most iconic for anyone who grew up with OG Yugioh. While being one of the few who absolutely loved GX, watching Jaden summon E Hero Flame Wingman always hyped me up!

[@dragkigamer7944]

Most iconic would have to be stardust dragon from 5D for me personally

[@tyrellmcnary1703]

Black Skull Dragon is my favorite card. Was my main go to back in the day

[@vinceryder8]

Exodia: You see it once in the anime, so broken that it got banned through the ocean 😂

[@DeeFox59]

Surely Blue eyes is the most iconic card next to Dark Magician Hell, it's the first card I ever heard of and the first deck I played in MD Also, normal albaz is my favourite play especially after opponent draw phase maxx C

[@DaBossMn]

I remember watching OG Yu-Gi-Oh again a while back to remember what I forgot as a kid, and I’ll never forget something that happened near the end. My mind was like, “Ok so we have monsters that are the equivalent of Pokémon cute and monsters that people will call ‘breedable’ ( *cough cough* DMG *cough cough* ). How can they top this?” My brain was fried throughout the entire episode of when they revealed Blue Eyes was a waifu.

[@dragondrakage2402]

Blue eyes white dragon is definitely most iconic. The art style and the fact it's a dragon imo makes it more distinguishable to yugioh

[@austinidkneededtomakeanewa6303]

Bystials, sprights, tearlaments, and the swords one is so annoying to play against. If you don’t get first that just have a unbreakable board first turn. When that happens I just leave. I just started playing 4 days ago and I’ve gotten to diamond tho 😁.

[@pringleman6932]

I grew up with the 5D’s era so imma say Yusei’s best card SPEED WARRIOR

[@isaiahlewis1815]

For me it’s gotta be the winged dragon of Ra especially in the English subbed version when Marik did the ancient chant to summon him I was just like yepppp Mai is absolutely fucked here 😂😂

[@PhanomX]

3:55 Rank 8 spam (sometimes) will play Iris with Ecclesia because it's access to another level 8. Also, they usually play Sage with it so it'll still summon from deck, even if Ecclesia isn't on the field after being targeted for Sage's effect.

[@kaiju9645]

I'll throw my hat in the ring and say the one, the only, Elemental HERO Neos. The main man in another deck that's very usable nowadays, provided you know what you're doing. HEROES have never not been my favorite archetype, and thankfully I'm glad it's Konami's favorite deck too. Once I got my hands on my gaming PC and started getting Yugioh simulators like Omega and Edopro, I fell in love with all of the hundreds of HERO cards and modern support I got access to, especially coming out of being a Duel Links player. I unironically play Pit Boss because I've deluded myself into thinking it's a HERO, that's how much I love this archetype.

[@Cassiorro]

The most iconic will always be Blue-Eyes, objectively speaking. It was my favorite card for a very long time and I even built a irl Blue-Eyes deck around the time it won Worlds, I loved playing it and was just getting back into Yu-Gi-Oh! But after playing Dark Magician in games, including Master Duel, I fell in love with the mechanics, playstyle and, of course, the card and archetype itself.

[@VantaJay]

Blue Eyes, Dark Magician, and Exodia are the most iconic imo. Never forget Kaiba getting obliterated by Exodia Modern Yu-Gi-Oh is wack but I still need to hit Master 😭

[@Backslashed]

I know DM and BEWD, is iconic but I was more familar with Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon. Since I started in Zexal era and so it is iconic with me with how cool it looked and not because of bias.

[@nazato1307]

Most iconic is Blue-Eyes I remember seeing a photo of Yugi, Kaiba and Joey with Blue-Eyes behind them stuck w me ever since.

[@randomguy1706]

Duel links will always be the BEST yugioh game because not only can you fight against other players but you can ALSO just fight against the ai if you just wanna have fun

[@timothyavendt677]

On steam they hace a few other yugiohs

[@domdude491]

Most iconic has to be Dark Magician. No shot he isn't when he's in most advertising 😂(ik its because most fans grew up with DM)

[@akichan4168]

For me, It's either Blue-eyes or Dark Magician Girl. As someone who only got into Yu-Gi-Oh with the released of Master Duel, I've always seen or heard of the two cards either in memes, passing mentioned of other Anime stuff, fan arts, and of course, cosplay. And then I've got to play the game, and boy, was there are so much more than that.

[@TheVivi13]

Most iconic definitely have to be Blue Eyes or Dark Magician. Stuff like the god cards, kuriboh, dark magician girl and exodia are close seconds.

[@mastereduimusic]

The Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl are prolly most iconic, I didn't even know about Blue eyes (Before gettin into yugioh) But I knew about the magicians. Although I also knew about kuriboh...

[@ZedtheRedRaven]

Alba los is pretty nice but... I wouldn't use it in general. Its like the one bystial that everyone won't use. Overall, the bystials really changed how certain decks play now. For me, it changed how I do lair of darkenss

[@Personarose]

Yesss lair of darkness and super polymerization is great

[@jmctrd]

Day 105 of convincing Rhyme that Nino is best girl

[@DaBossMn]

Today, and today only, I shall convince you that Blue Eyes is a waifu

[@DarkSymphony777]

​@@DaBossMnblue eyes is kaibas lover

[@eldavidox.4059]

Yotsuba or bust

[@swiftstrike4044]

This man is dedicated

[@WeirdoZ413]

Let's Go Day 105 !!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@MindOverThisMatrix]

For some reason, whenever I think of old YuGiOh, Big Eye comes to mind. I have no idea why

[@BIGMOMO_2003]

Rhyne I bought a blue eyes white dragon model kit and it came in yesterday can’t wait to build her tomorrow

[@khalilmason]

For the longest time: I’ve loved and been fascinated by Dragunity cards. Dragunity has never been meta; That doesn’t stop me from playing them. I don’t love Yugi-Oh anymore because a guy can special summon 8 monsters and destroy your hand before you’ve even gotten play a turn. I’ll forever use Dragunity though; To hell with the meta. If not playing the game is fun for people: That’s fine, but for me, using my little dragons is the most fun.

[@thiefthearcher9907]

Gonna say Blue eyes White Dragon and Dark Magician. Side note- I’m trying to make my own theme decks for ranked, and keep getting stomped by pendulums and synchro summons. Turn 1 and I’m still waiting 30 min. to play while they keep sacrificing, tributing, and bringing out multiple 3-4,000 fusion monsters who can banish and negate anything I try to summon. Still in silver, by the way.😂

[@ShizuoHeiwa]

Hero’s were my favorite for iconic monster it was cool seeing them fuse to make new monsters

[@leanbow0001]

Blue Eyes White Dragon and Black Luster Soldier were always my favorite cards even today I build my deck around those 2 cards haha

[@hollowjack3007]

Ngl I want to say kuriboh that card gets a new version in every iteration of the anime and i gets put in so many archetypes (even ones that have nothing to do with yugis deck) that sort of treatment doesn’t really exist with other monsters like blue eyes or dark magician

[@ninjabiohazard5]

i lost to a gimmick puppet deck and didn't even get a turn. modern yugioh is literally a battle to see who can summon the most and the intense battle isn't from dueling it's from playing rock paper scissors to see who goes first because if you do not go first, you literally will not get a turn. if you do you won't be able to play anything after the other guy is done playing solitary for 10 minutes. doesn't help that they ban any card that isnt op and helps with a deck and try to replace it with garbage support. yugioh is only fun if you play with a group of friends at this point.

[@koreyj1987]

Exodia for sure Edit: Can you do a poll about which mc had the best deck out of all the seasons?

[@stk2322]

Most iconic? Has to be Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Blue-Eyes was used a bunch in the first anime and every time it came out, it was treated as a HUGE deal.

[@tempest0118]

At 12 seconds into the video my answer is red eyes black dragon. Something about it feels different and the look is just great. Mind you it’s probably in the minority but for me its just iconic on how it was used for storytelling. Honestly the battle between joey and little yugi when joey was mind controlled by Marik it was great story telling concerning friendship and that card was at the heart of it. Now, Dark magician, blue eyes and all the OG gods are on a different level and hit different. And id be lying if they weren’t more popular. But iconic is a personalized aspect of things.

[@mikeyderrick387]

Red eyes is mine too, it deserves more support it's crazy been waiting for 1 of the ocg cards forever

[@xrowplays]

Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Chunin Exam stage OST going hard in the background, I see you Rhyme👀

[@jamison9325]

For me the most iconic is stardust dragon, best summoning mechanic, sick card art AND actually has a decent effect unlike alot of other anime protag boss monsters

[@Lightstream49]

For me it’s my boy red eyes because of its association with Joey the underdog and it’s simple but cool design I love it

[@kataphrut7740]

After I hit Diamond with Abyss Actors last month, I decided I’d earned the right to make an actual meta deck. So I made Spright. Of all the meta strategies atm it’s the one I find least objectionable.

[@danielsitkei8404]

Sooo random question Dino! Do you play off camera too or you only play when recording? Sorry for the wierd question 😅😅

[@TeamAPS]

That last duel was hell sheesh

[@vonvillada7662]

Kuriboh for me. Every generation, every series ; Kuriboh adapts to every generation and helps the protagonist overcome new obstacles, while still keeping some nostalgic traits. That or Dark Magician. 🎉

[@Arc115YT]

MOST iconic card is tough. Yu-Gi-Oh! has a ton of super iconic monsters. For me, no card stuck out in my mind as a kid more than Exodia. He's massive, had a dope-ass design, and he just wins the duel for you when you assemble all of his pieces. I really wish we had more support for his archetype, but it's difficult to do that effectively when the archetype's "boss monster" is a win con in and of itself. (Literally since 3.0 of the rulebook Exodia's effect was listed as a win con in the rulebook by name, adding to its claim as the most iconic card imo). Maybe someday we'll see tier 0 Exodia. Maybe someday.

[@snaxxplays]

Dark Magician will always be my most iconic monster but Kuriboh and Blue Eyes are probably close 2nd and 3rd

[@Graf_Zeppelin_]

I liked the Red-Eyes Black dragon most and find him most iconic since that card was always the little underdog no one took really seriously at all.

[@curtisporter1949]

Most iconic card has to be the third leg of the forbidden one

[@Askld]

Lmao

[@oderflafrredy2790]

Dark Magician and Blue eyes white dragon.

[@astralhusky3615]

Dark Magician and Blue Eyes White Dragon hadbeen with me ever since when I was little.

[@kamalfarhat987ch3]

I have tip when ur losing coin toss a lot, if ur in the 5th rank(diamond 5, Plat 5, ) just keep surrendering until u win the coin toss, the game will finally realize that ur gonna keep surrendering until u win coin toss,it is like saying to the game : not playing unless i'm going 1st

[@RavenCrauss]

Id have to say for me the most iconic card is Dark Magician of Black Chaos. It was the first card I ever had won in a tournament back in Gen 1 Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@neojay528]

I’m Ngl, it’s kinda hard to choose between Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician as the most iconic. When you think of Duel Monsters, you think of Yugi and Kaiba, and with Blue-Eyes being a popular, big-ass dragon, DM belongs to the MC, but me personally, I think DM is more iconic because it was the deck I used dueling my friends at the green transformer box growing up

[@Leonidas1210vc]

0:11 generally speaking Blue-eyes white dragon, since well the amount of times its been reference compared to other monsters in other media.

[@blastchaos4286]

Iconic is a relatively objective thing. The answer is obviously Dark Magician or Blue-Eyes White Dragon. They are the most popular monsters, hence iconic. If you were to ask what our favorite monster was, you'd be likely to get a lot more varied responses. For example, my favorite monster is Beyond the Pendulum. Not only because I play a lot of Pendulum decks in which she is a staple, but also because she is based on Ray. If you don't know her, she is the character in Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V who originally defeated Z-ARC. She split his soul into 4 pieces and scattered them across 4 different dimensions, but also split her own soul into 4 pieces to act as protectors of those 4 fragments of Z-ARC's soul, making sure they never come together again. Her and her Link 3 version Exceed the Pendulum being staples in Pendulum decks is very thematic because Z-ARC himself was the creator of Pendulum Monsters, so it's like she is there to watch over them. I'm in my late 20's and grew up watching Yu-Gi-Oh from Season 1 onward, so you would think my favorite would be something from my childhood but it's not. I kept up with Yu-Gi-Oh all these years, and I have experiences from throughout it's lifespan. I feel like a lot of people fell off of Yu-Gi-Oh for some time and come back due to nostalgia. But that very same nostalgia is causing them to stay stuck in the past, preventing them from growing with the game and enjoying it for what it is, not what it was.

[@RhymestyleClips]

Dark magician Judging by that thumbnail hand traps is the bane of our existence

[@LotteLattes]

Arcana knights have stuck with me ever since the original yugioh movie i love them more than i probably should they are far from my favorite deck but i still love them. Jokers knight still has my favorite card art in the entire game and something about losing to the knights pisses people off in the most hilarious way.

[@andredayton1424]

For the most iconic, in my opinion its between 3. Blue-eyes, dark magician, and Exodia.

[@darchaos]

blue eyes white dragon is the only right answer

[@milesskeeters7671]

In my opinion it’s any Egyptian God, and Exodia. Seeing yugi summon exodia was one of my top three favorite moments in the whole show. And I just love the Egyptian Gods, especially obelisk