Ranting About Yugioh Cards

[@OLDean]

But what does Pot of Greed do though?

[@thynErro]

Get banned in tourneys.

[@isayyheadontgethit2803]

Draw 2 cards, or plus 1 cuz you use 1 card to get 2 cards.

[@elia8112]

Causes an asteroid from the orbit of proxima centauri to head for your opponent at the speed of light. its why it was banned

[@nimisisblademedia866]

No what does dangerous do? ..... Everything...

[@christopheralbert4375]

nice rata reference

[@heinzguderian8521]

Commenters don't understand digibro's immense yugioh skill and knowledge

[@bezzaboyo]

Not a rant-opening channel

[@mysticmarbles]

This perfectly captured my feelings on Yu Gi Oh and why I finally quit card games forever. The game just got too bloated and every card was needlessly complex. One more thing; they kept banning cards and releasing cards that made the old ones obsolete. Meaning you had to keep buying new cards all the time to be competitive. It just became a waste of time and money to me.

[@seqka711]

My Dad was a YGO judge back in 2003-2006 and ran a Control deck (feat. Yata Garasu) which was one of the most popular archetypes at the time. I currently run a Madolche deck that I first built in 2015 and have continued to update over time. A while ago we dueled just for fun. To see what was better, new archetypes or old banned cards. It was pretty even. He won some, I won some. Then we started trying other decks. My dad had an old beat down deck and I had a pendulum dragon starter that I improved. We started to mix and match a little. The idea of pilfering another player’s hand and deck until they can’t play anything and then playing Yata to lock them into surrendering is an old archetype but it plays very similarly to the way YGO plays today and is not any more or less complicated. At tournament level this game has not gotten any more complex. The only people it’s confusing are the ones that played YGO in the schoolyard and came back expecting everything to be the same.

[@seqka711]

Austin's Games An archetype is a base for a deck type in Yu-Gi-Oh. Examples include archfiend, blue eyes, elemental heroes, etc. But you’re correct, I don’t know what an “archtype” is.

[@slifer875]

i have to disagree, the powercreep ruined this game, too many FTK's in recent times.

[@Ruceyod]

Your rant is surprisingly less ignorant than most yugioh youtubers.

[@monkeylemur]

Is it? I mean card text actually went down recently because Konami phased Pendulums out of the game. And ppl don't take forever to read cards cuz effects are similarly worded to one another due to problem solving card texts

[@Awsomeisimo]

They are called yugitubers

[@Awsomeisimo]

@Austin's Games all prank kids monsters and thunder dragons have similar types of effects for all monsters

[@Alejandro-te2nt]

in 2nd grade all the boys in class had to give a report on why yugioh was educational and we should be allowed to play it in school. we justified it cause of the math and then the teacher threw us a curveball and was like, "are the girl cards usually less powerful than the male cards?" and I was like "uhh well here you see I have mawevowent nuzzwer and thats a pretty good card thats a girl" good times in old early 2000's VA. I brought yugioh to that school.

[@anthonymarchetta8796]

Best game I ever played: My older brother was way better at the game than me, but somehow he managed to convince me to bet my Sapphire version against his Red version (pokemon). It was pretty unfair of him to do this and I don't remember how he got me to agree. He clearly agreed because he knew he'd win. Joke was on him. It was one of the only games I ever won - and via comeback too. The argument afterward was epic.

[@mirageowl]

"Solve the riddle of your deck" couldn't have explained it better

[@soulforge3468]

Magic is reverse Yu-Gi-Oh. The older you go the more busted the cards are. It’s a different game. You need formats to prevent everyone from wining turn 1 with their couple thousand dollar decks, you play with a sideboard so you can tech against your opponent games 2 and 3 out of three, it’s much more about synergies and deck strategies (at least more than Yu-Gi-Oh used to be).

[@Julius064]

Yugioh used to be kinda similar, where some old cards were the most powerful. Things like card crush virus, reigeki, and dark hole were super op because they could instantly wipe your monster zone. Now powercreep is so bad they are off the forbidden list. I remember when I first came back to yugioh a few months before pendulums monsters were released and I was in shock to see dark hole at 2 and raigeki at 1.

[@tentaisensui8552]

This is literally what yugioh is like LOL

[@Julius064]

I hate when they errata things to be shit. Just leave them on the banlist and make a new similar one. You wanna errata something look at necrovalley yea its been errata'd 8 times but each time it allows it to stay somewhat relevant in the meta.

[@tentaisensui8552]

@Austin's Games yeah they fucked Crush Card Virus. Collected all of them but the SJC and now they're useless LOL

[@soulforge3468]

Sure, but they are a different kind of broken. The old broken Yu-Gi-Oh cards tended to just do singular overpowered things, like wipe your enemies field or just refuse to die because of some effect. Old magic cards tend to not only be broken like that, but create beyond busted synergies that literally end the game without interaction. The “I gain a million mana, then play this card that copies itself a million times and attacks. GG.” Kind of busted. Granted that’s the REALLY old stuff, but to my knowledge even old Yu-Gi-Oh didn’t have much of that beyond Exodia. You just had a set of cards that were blantantly more efficient than anything else, so it made no sense for each player to play anything but those cards.

[@SwungCookie]

Bruh 5d's was the Pinnacle of yugioh

[@sakuraanime122]

agreed!

[@GhostlyNomad130]

MY HEARTBEATS IN HYPERDRIVE!!

[@sakuraanime122]

@@GhostlyNomad130 do you think you can win? Only if I lose! Just let destiny Choose!

[@SwungCookie]

@@sakuraanime122 man, I wish I could go back

[@sakuraanime122]

@@SwungCookie yeah.

[@sakuraanime122]

As a person who plays competitive Yu-Gi-OH. I can agree. Yugioh is a terrible game to play competitively. Power Creep has caused the game to become incredibly unbalanced. Though as a person who played Pokemon competitively in the 2016 format, I can say for certain that you do not need a deck full of EX cards to win. The EX cards determine rarity, not power. The two biggest decks at the time were Trevenant Break, and Night March. Trevenant used its ability to stop the opponent from playing item cards (which slowed the your opponent down massively,) in hopes of getting to your break, and finishing the game off by doing spread damage. It had fair weaknesses. Lysandre, a card that was used as a 2-of in every deck, could turn of the item lock for the turn. Night march was a deck that focused on sending night march pokemon to the discard pile, which would allow your Joltik to hit for a consistent 180 damage. Both decks only used one ex, Shaymin EX, and only used its ability which would allow you to draw extra cards.

[@Sun_Downer]

Yugiohs equivalent to haymakers were "beat sticks"

[@KingOfDarknessAndEvil]

Yu-Gi-Oh reaches it's peak of fun when both players have played for a while and now what every card there opponent has does of the bat, so it reaches a mutual understanding of each others crazy shit, and it becomes crazy shit vs crazy shit. I still remember the greatest Yu-Gi-Oh duel I ever had. I was playing RaidRaptors, he was playing Zarc Magicians, it was some full on anime shit.

[@erickblaw6708]

I just started playing a year ago and just for a cople of monts, but that was so much fun to play with my high school friends, I bought a Cyber Dragon deck and them an Odd Eyes, ABC and a modern Dark magician deck also a bunch of mixed cards

[@HxH2011DRA]

Those were the peak moments were you had to believe in the heart of the cards XD

[@bigbone_99]

Raid Raptors are the best, especially when you top deck a rank up magic you need

[@AshitanoJonas]

Oh come on Digi, GX and 5D's are not terrible. Just make sure to watch the subbed version and you're good.

[@slifer875]

GX is awful in general, 5D's was great for the first two seasons then becomes mediocre.

[@Gixwing]

Thats why I like Magic, because the baseline of what cards do makes more sense (it flies, its fast, its big and gets through, it has a long weapon and strikes first) and usually when it gets really complex its not as absurd as trying to explain what a pendulum special summon even is

[@Darkpyromaniac16]

Modern day yugioh is about not letting your opponent play. Some of the best decks right now literally drop a monster during the opponent's turn that prevents the opponent from activating ANY effects for the rest of their turn. Also, good luck getting anywhere if you don't have at least 2 or 3 disruption/protection cards available. As busted as modern-day yugioh is, I still enjoy it.

[@Julius064]

One thing I love about new yugioh is that as powercreep gets more and more absurd is that my favorite card, lava golem, just gets better.

[@divinehero7331]

@@Julius064 who the fuck uses lava golem over kaijus?

[@ravaniphoenix5431]

That's a lie my sir Rhongo Bongo just got banned Also, this format is looking pretty diverse and decent

[@Darkpyromaniac16]

@@ravaniphoenix5431 One Word. Azathot

[@ravaniphoenix5431]

@@Darkpyromaniac16 Azathot is also not that viable

[@uberdueler2990]

As a guy who still plays Yugioh, i’ll just say that my favorite deck is Deskbots and the strongest monster in it has 7 lines of text.

[@kuiperkineticliterature7586]

"Haymaker" (a term which you would only hear from a Pokemon player) comes from the Pokemon deck from the Base Set/Jungle era of the Pokemon TCG which was heavily built around basic Pokemon like Electabuzz and Hitmonchan that could start attacking immediately with no setup required ("haymaker" is a boxing term, and Hitmonchan is a boxing Pokemon, and the goal of the deck is to quickly "punch out" your opponent before they have time to set up). In more general TCG terms, this would be referred to as an "aggro" deck.

[@zelskzerker2815]

5:25 so basically it just transforms into the anime in real life

[@CORF.]

Pretty much word for word how I feel about YuGiOh. Loved the old cards and still enjoy collecting them but gave up on playing the game quite a while ago once all the OG cards that held sentimental value to me became useless or banned

[@Markedspain]

I d guess that the term haymaker comes from "throwing a haymaker" which is an all or nothing punch.

[@Elfos64]

I hate how the game is pretty much about utterly abusing your opponent in as few turns as possible and giving opponent as little chance of doing anything about it as possible. The object of the game should not be to keep your opponent from playing. You have to do combos like 8 chains long to be worthwhile, and monsters don't even stay on the field for more than 1 turn anymore. Completely agree that the game has been power crept the fun away. I only run joke decks now (by which I mean decks that run an obscure strategy for the LOLs, like making my opponent draw cards or spawning strong monsters on my opponent's side of t he field) and request that my opponent use a non-competitive deck to try to maintain some fun.

[@bigbone_99]

Well yugioh is a card game for high IQ individuals. Jokes aside the game is pretty balanced right now since they've been printing cards that counter broken strategies. The appeal for me is the complexity of the game. If magic is like street fighter then yu gi oh is like Marvel vs Capcom

[@bigbone_99]

@Austin's Games I will admit danger was a mistake

[@VarionusNW]

Yugioh isn't balanced. They always release counters for old stuff before printing new broken stuff. It's an infinite cycle of power creep.

[@kotetsujeeg7999]

holy shit, Digi has the best take of any youtube regarding this game. Pre Storm of Ragnarok was the only time Yugioh was playable.

[@TheLejonell]

I played it alot with my classmates when I was 10, but we never got anywhere because the discussion on how the effects works took up majority of the playing time since we were not native english speakers. We would ask parents or teachers to translate it, but to ask someone who doesn't know anything about the game to translate words like "counter" or "tribute" is bound to fail. I specifically remember once asking my mother to translate the effects of Miracle Jurassic Egg, but the fucking game chose to call it "tribute" instead of "sacrifice" so her translation just confused me even further.

[@HOV2131]

Around the Battle City / GX era, we called that a "beater" deck in my circle. I feel that the game peaked at 5Ds and nowadays my favorite card game is the G era of Cardfight Vanguard.

[@KingCreepa]

I noticed you mention magic and as someone who plays the old cards are worth a fuck ton. A highly rated black lotus card just sold for over 100k from the original set. That card is also still busted to this day lol So yea magic is different from Yugioh and i think honestly its more fun as power creep has been kept to a minimum. I also highly recommend mtg arena its free if you just wanna see what magic is about

[@SoldierLuka]

I always go back and forth with yugioh. I love my Six Samurai deck

[@Naygen]

Oh, you KNOW I can, I LOVE Yugioh!

[@rubengonzalez-rr3mz]

The old yugioh format is too slow but it’s still fun. I really like speed duels have become my favorite part in yugioh and duel links

[@zujaayy799]

Which format?

[@rubengonzalez-rr3mz]

Zuja Ayy Traditional tribute summons. now we have synchros , xyz and links summons And how u can literally Spam the field with monsters unlike with the format with tribute summons

[@rubengonzalez-rr3mz]

Austin's Games Well they just started releasing the cards for speed duels and one the best decks u can make is blue eyes right now. But in duel links I see more vampires deck than blue eyes but what can you do blue eyes is a popular archetype.

[@kurovisuals4272]

Me and friends like to play each other with the exact same deck which makes the game of yugioh more like chess since in chess you have the same number of pieces as your opponent does I personally think it makes the game funnier and more creative

[@LazyLee]

Yugioh is pretty cool

[@AppericateGamer]

Duel masters, bakugan

[@Awsomeisimo]

Kaijudo

[@VarionusNW]

@@Awsomeisimo Kaijudo, aka literally just Duel Masters. It was an underappreciated card game both times they tried to release it in the west. It's a simpler card game, but with better balance and more dynamic gameplay than something like pokemon. Double RIP.

[@Awsomeisimo]

@@VarionusNW but it was called kaijudo and had different card backs

[@VarionusNW]

@@Awsomeisimo but was the same game with the same mechanics otherwise.

[@20xd6]

the old mtg cards are freaking op and worth $$$

[@icarue993]

My first and last Yugioh tournament was in 2012(ish). I had a way better deck than my friends (Elemental heroes), which I thought had a good mechanic and good synergy. But Oh boy. The guys at the tournament where playing cards that I have never heard of, playing up to like half their deck with effects and shit. And take into account, this was right before XYZ, synchro summoning and whatever the hell is pendulum summoning.

[@Longlius]

Magic avoids a lot of the "knowledge creep" Yugioh suffers from by limiting play to current blocks and sets. This lets them keep a rotation of foundational cards in play while introducing new mechanics that will only linger for a specific set. You still have to keep up-to-date (as, by definition, only cards from the current block are legal), but you don't have to worry about understanding every weird mechanic ever introduced into Magic to be a good player. This also has the nice side-effect of gracefully removing certain broken cards from play once strategies are discovered to exploit them.

[@gutsmcgordan4184]

I've been into the yugioh game/anime for around 5 years, always was in it for the game compared to pokemon tcg, where i just like to collect cards

[@obits3]

Haymaker comes from Hitmonchan. He was a single non evolving Pokémon with a decent attack.

[@romulusnuma116]

The Yugioh dark side of dimensions movie was the best thing to come out of Yugioh

[@KingOfDarknessAndEvil]

It was great but no. Best Yu-Gi-Oh movie

[@divinehero7331]

Not really, as a nostalgia-trip its mediocre at best but as a yugioh movie it suck so bad, the most borings characters and duel so far

[@romulusnuma116]

@@divinehero7331 Not enough Hero cards for you?

[@slifer875]

nah, the porn was the best thing.

[@Japanimepop]

dude. I was taught how to play yugioh by learning to use a Monarch deck. Steep learning curve, playing against some high level players. Still have a lot to learn about using that deck properly

[@HaydenTheHistorian]

Make a Yu-Gi-Oh channel

[@SocksworthRiffs]

Digi should play Mono-Red burn in MtG nowadays.

[@Awsomeisimo]

Beatdown digi we call it beatdown

[@dennislief4044]

Pretty sure in ygo you would call that a beatdown deck.

[@Flugmorph]

old magic cards are worthless you say? well a lot of them are cause they were figuring out balancing at that early stage, you know, because it was the first card game of its kind. but there are also tons upon tons of expensive and good cards in past editions and everyone knows the power nine from alpha and beta which fetch up to 100k € prices in mind condition.

[@TheCreepypro]

only watched the first show never played the card game but it sounds interesting

[@Eiji475]

Yugioh is so dumb nowadays. 15 minute turns in which they end with like 5 monsters and you just lose first turn. I recommend you try goat format which is the April 2005 format. A lot of players consider it the golden age of yugioh where there was strategies and tactics and some amount of special summoning but not so over the top as it got after that.

[@VaatiEmblem2]

Nah you just suck, most pro games last more then 1 turn.

[@Eiji475]

@@VaatiEmblem2 damn you must be one of those players that thinks they're good because they spent a grand on their deck and opened 2 hand traps going second. Try playing other games that actually take skill that aren't just whaling gotcha games.

[@VaatiEmblem2]

@@Eiji475 I play pendulum magicians, you can get a decent pendulum magician deck for $50. It doesn't even use handtraps, it would just hurt the consistency of the deck lol.

[@vhagar2903]

@@Eiji475 what the fuck, u can say that yugioh has gotten better or worse and ok, that's subjective, but u just can't argue that is dumb. The game is objectively way more complex and harder to play with all the new rules, mechanincs and cards that have been introduced over the years. If ur not smart enough to understand what's going on anymore and u only lose, u can't blame it on the game.

[@slifer875]

Yugioh and dragon ball are the two franchises that i have wasted more time and money, still love yugioh, is just a shame about the powercreep and the declining quality of the anime spin-offs...

[@rekhyt656]

Dont forget the 80€ cards you need to be meta and you dont even play them once

[@slifer875]

@@rekhyt656 remember how the card game was suppose to be for children and young teenagers? and not for rich adults?

[@AbsoluteXandy]

Well, goat format still a thing and it's a pretty popular format even to this day. It's just Yu-Gi-Oh! from 2005. But I can see how sad can be lose to a deck like SPYRAL or some shit like this using a beatdown from DM era.

[@EatHoneyBeeHappy]

Oh boy the nostalgia, it's too stronk

[@Heatranoveryou]

Beatdown deck

[@dojee8993]

Yeah nowadays Yugioh is really absurd. But it's still fun to play with older cards with your friends or just to build total fucking troll decks.

[@JustBenUnofficial]

So you were playing around the goat format era?

[@LordLiquidBaconII]

Sweet

[@httm241]

Yugioh hasn’t been a children’s card game for nearly a decade now

[@Theyungcity23]

That sucks

[@goos4711]

The issue with yugioh is, the free resources, MTG on the other hand has more of a steady build for the most part.

[@lounowell4171]

which means you have to fill half your deck with lands

[@Creamouz]

I fucking love yugioh I just don't have anyone to play with

[@Javetts]

Magic is quite the opposite. The most powerful cards are from the first set ever. MTG uses standard and rotation to incentivize buying new cards, not power creep.

[@dragonbrown1494]

If you can read, you can win

[@dreamcaster100]

Shut the fuck up Yusei Fudo. What he is saying is legit.

[@VarionusNW]

Yea, there's a massive learning curve to modern yugioh, mostly due to confusing rules being built on confusing rules, with no thought being put into making the game easy to grok. I think it's a problem with japanese game design in general, they all tend to be cluttered in both visual design and effect descriptions. MTG is more complicated than Yugioh, but is easier to understand because it doesn't obfuscate the rulings, and simplifies how effects are written because they trust the players can understand certain phrases and shorthand. If you formatted yugioh cards with MTG's text writing sensibilities, you'd have a much more enjoyable game, even though it'd still have all the balance problems from Konami being a bag of dicks that just wants more money.

[@SilvarusLupus]

Yu-gi-oh is the most confusing card game I've ever seen. I don't even understand 80% of the cards now....I still kinda dig the older TCG. also I play non-EX/GX in pokemon all the time and they work out lol Lost March is a top deck and it runs very, very little GX cards if any

[@Tenfey]

Yu Gi Oh no you didn't!

[@sanyrual45]

Rant about Magic: the gathering next

[@BrenoRanyere]

He already did

[@sanyrual45]

@@BrenoRanyere WHAT?! How'd I miss that?!

[@ashutan2130]

Play Goat Format DigiBrah.

[@MrCmon113]

When you are playing a TCG of course you should know what the cards do. Anyways the first YGO cards displayed atrocious game design. Kind of like the first Magic cards, but even dumber in a way. Pot of Greed has to be the most mindnumbingly retarded design of a card, I've ever seen. There is no situation in which you wouldn't play as many as possible.

[@89ji76]

Wow you were awful at YGO lolol but I agree with every opinion you have here.

[@ravaniphoenix5431]

My man, you are mainly complaining that you need to know what the cards does... But I'll let you know that even if your Deck is the best around, you need to think and strategize. You also say that your Deck needs counter measure, but that is also part of a strategy. If you played against Altergeists (a new deck that consisted in negating stuff and returning monsters to the hand), you had to know the cards you were playing to make the opponent waste their cards. It's like a mind game, just like the original anime To me, you sound like you just want to play cards like "whatever" and just beat your opponent without thinking. Card games are strategy games from start to finish

[@Dio_kazuhira]

Watch Arc V. It's pretty decent. Better than most of the yugioh series.

[@ShrekNoScpe_NoOnions]

GX dub is the best

[@reiconsidera193]

Dude, don't know shit about Yu-Gi-Oh Still love you, tho

[@HxH2011DRA]

Hey you played yugioh the same way I did!!

[@nathanbraun2067]

fuck anything past og yugioh

[@nimisisblademedia866]

The card design is trash from ark v on up.