Returning to Yu-Gi-Oh after 20 years be like…

[@andrewfreeland4858]

As someone who really did stop playing around 2005 and recently went to pick it back up, this is exactly how it went.

[@Merilirem]

I stopped when they banned my Chaos cards and came back for Master Duel. Chaos deck did fine though half the cards were still banned or got Errata'd to death. Still a little elbow grease and Chaos is as good as ever.

[@malumnexus7919]

Same, back in 2008 when I graduated right before the crash. I want to get back in eventually, but I have so much to catch up on and collect first. Ironically, this modern style is what I attempted back in my day, but it has been seriously ramped up. Now I think my old aggro-control style may just have become much more powerful with the rapid improvement, and that now everyone is playing the same way I used to, I will actually face a real challenge. Back then, I used to play in 4+ free-for-all's regularly and never lost, now I think I will be getting by rear trumped regularly, lol!

[@camerongreco2146]

Same. I started playing again few weeks ago after not playing for like 17 years and I'm still extremely lost. I've been studying for weeks and I don't have a clue how to build a deck anymore. Even when I'm playing online a game takes me forever because I have to read each card like 3 times each lol.

[@CloneTrooperCrow]

Same played duel links was ok felt it was nerfed to old school cause of the 3 cards on field but i still enjoyed it. Now on master duel started like that have fix a deck a bit can win at least now but still feeling lost on a lot of the new cards and rules for each summoning

[@bdeamon1]

You know you can look for formats that utilize older cards and rules if you preferer the older style of play, or you can set up those kinds of meet ups your self

[@joshmyers867]

“You know what? I quit.” As a returning player myself, I felt that.

[@rrinterieur6842]

i started 15 min ago, and i already quit

[@andrewlikesmetal1095]

I returned after not playing since 2016 and when I was building a deck I'm like YOOOO I CAN USE HARPIES FEATHER DUSTER RAIGEKI AND MONSTER REBORN??? BLS ENVOY IS AT 3??? My first game dude summons a full negate board of link monsters. I'm like huh, these new ritual monsters look weird. Why are they in the middle of the board, and where are the defense points?

[@Tj-556]

@@rrinterieur6842 its kinda discouraging when you get Otk'd in the first 45 seconds

[@Jules279]

​@@andrewlikesmetal1095Luckily my Red Dragon Archfiend deck still works with some modifications to make it viable.

[@eldrenbriansamson6148]

same here.

[@TehMeowNetwork]

Accurate as hell - when I tried to come back, I had no idea what new cards did and all the opponents would say was like a single word from the card name and just stare. It was fun making them explain what every card did before I never played ever again, lmao

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Newer Yu-Gi-Oh meta players who just assume you know what they're doing because they have like 4 basic strategies is hilarious to me. Especially when my ancient deck that I've been modifying for 15 years is able to get a leg up on them, because I'm not using one of those 4 strategies.

[@nextgenstatus]

such a power move 🤣

[@abdhady6553]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio stupid game yu,,, the game only 2 move turn and is done

[@theorycrafters7281]

That's why you find classic players who play for fun. Just saying

[@dualia-s74m]

"eff"

[@wolvesblaze582]

Back then you had to wait 2-3 turns before summoning a single blue eyes white dragon

[@lizard8659]

This is the reality of playing yugioh yet I can’t stop playing😂

[@yubeluchiha]

Kinda but the old school players catch up quickly once they play more and catch up to they deck support

[@jacobschreiber856]

The best part is Sam just goes in he doesn't like bother explaining how broken the whole game is now he just goes in LOL

[@HiLightPHILm]

​@@yubeluchiha foreal. I grew up on yu-gi-oh up until 5ds. Synchro was the last thing I remembered. When master duel came out on XBOX I was confused AF🤣...I'm sending fools to the shadow realm now tho! I caught up quick. Spyral and DDD are my favorite decks to play with.

[@King_of_Blue-Eyes]

You can’t stop because the duelist in you want to defeat combos with 1 card by relying on the heart of the cards.

[@deadzone8798]

I’m in the same boat man, I just play with friends now

[@umrnavy8282]

stopped playing 2006 and got back again this year. I was like "Bro it just began, why are there so many summons already"

[@christopherb501]

Seriously; the "Normal" Summon is by FAR the most "Special" Summon you're ever afforded.

[@BurningFyre]

Pendulum summons broke my brain

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@BurningFyre I'm legitimately glad they nerfed it by moving the Pendulum Zones to the Spell Trap/Zones and requiring a Link Monster to Pendulum Summon more than one at a time. I am not happy they did this initially by nerfing _literally everything except Normal Summons._

[@josediazasmr6014]

WTF IS PENDELUM SUMMON

[@BurningFyre]

@@josediazasmr6014 long story short its a way to special summon multiple creatures from your hand or extra deck between levels based on the pendulum cards you have in play. So if you had a level 8 and level 4 pendulum creature, you could fill your field with monsters between those levels all at once, for free. Its completely broken.

[@RedPandaMafia]

Ngl for an old school deck my mans hand did slap pretty hard 😂

[@XxJoyBoy14xX]

I used to pray for hands like that and celtic guardian was my fav card

[@marcelluscunningham9071]

Easy plays

[@mupetmower7807]

​@@XxJoyBoy14xXit was the one and only time the game was fun. Then... It sucked.

[@killzone_GG]

Facts don't even bother playing the games they made on steam. A mf will turn a 15 second turn into a 2 minute summoning cycle that ends in you losing in turn 3. 😂😭

[@Purpetratorz]

the nostalgia factor with the artwork of those cards!

[@Ravenoussss]

I miss the old days where you just set a card face down and set two spell/trap cards then ending the turn.

[@53Spawn]

"What happened to Lord of D?" I felt that....I felt all of that

[@joshuacress5174]

He transitioned it’s Lady of the D now. 😂

[@RuhRohRonster]

Bruh

[@beardedchamp_ygo6515]

Yeah I bet you did feel the Lord of D alright 😂

[@dony1716]

And that’s why I act as if i brick when I dule a opponent like that and allow them to play the game against me

[@Ima_meangirl]

@@joshuacress5174wow you’re so edgy

[@AoCabo]

"Did you just summon a bunch of Blue Eyes White Dragons in one turn???" "Yes."

[@klassikerreview4170]

That's against the rules, isn't it?

[@linksstruepower7443]

​@@klassikerreview4170Not anymore!!

[@VictryIsNvrYors]

"That's illegal."

[@klassikerreview4170]

@@linksstruepower7443 In the good ol days of yu gi oh abridged it was^^

[@neowolf09]

​@@klassikerreview4170 screw the rules I have money

[@ajregalia1334]

Remember when Summoned Skull was one of the best cards in the game cause it had 2500 ATK and only needed one tribute? Good times

[@walkergilmer3122]

Or having Gemini Elfs in your deck. 1900 attack points with no tributes.

[@ajregalia1334]

@@walkergilmer3122 Good times...then chaos changed everything I find that somewhat prophetic

[@walkergilmer3122]

@@ajregalia1334 my last deck was a chaos deck. That was when I stopped playing. I went from a beat down deck, to exodia, to a yatalock deck (lol!), to chaos. The good old days.

[@hitsurei]

I stopped playing during the synchro era, and i thought the game couldn't get more annoying and sillier. Boy, I was wrong, it's not yugioh anymore nowadays, 90% of the mechanics are too different, might as well regard it as a different card game. No other TGC went this obnoxious.

[@MichaelSalmons-h8m]

You can play goat format

[@bankoetsu879]

The "is my turn? or? did i lose?"

[@purplemaui4456]

Now, I want to watch any Yugioh protagonist interrupting the villain with "I know what it does"

[@Xiari.15]

Damn would be cool

[@BboySquidfoot]

Yugioh abridged

[@leonardowickman57]

Kaiba did with Pegasus in the pyramid of light movie.

[@purplemaui4456]

@@leonardowickman57 It's kinda given, considering how chad kaiba is

[@D4rkbl4d3]

Random ass secondary character: "Now I use polymerization. If you don't know what it does, it fus-" Jayden: "I know what it does!"

[@CDK_Angelus_Mortis]

Dude this is me. I haven't played or watched yugioh since GX, and I can't even begin to comprehend today's strategies and decks

[@TheRecklessMetalhead]

Master Deal killed me like some kind of a blowout in a sports game and I still couldn't get into a modern Yugioh anyhow.

[@7empestTv]

GX isn’t yugioh

[@KS-ck3bp]

@@7empestTv yes it is. Maybe the weakest yugioh 😂 but definitely is a yugioh

[@AbrahamSanchez-fe4rc]

I feel you after gx it was all crazy

[@cameronalexander9404]

Come to the Pokemon side brotha

[@deathknightrevan]

New Yu-Gi-Oh rules: if you don't win on the first turn you probably aren't going to.

[@undeadinside3571]

Basically

[@DIONCrullex]

Floowandereeze is quite different. Basically makes your opponent think they'll win, and then deletes their field and kills them. At least, mine does. Floowandereze/Raiza/Apex/Shifter/Earthbound Immortal.

[@thatoneguy2870]

Literally.

[@flameshu2]

Yu-Gi-Oh is kinda trash now who wants to play a card game that ends in a maximum of 4 turns.

[@cloudmindead5560]

Welll... not really... tearlaments players want to go second always... and tearlaments is the tier 0 deck... So... no.

[@dylanbaker7090]

The amount of nostalgia thats just hit me almost makes me want to go down to the store and pick up some cards...

[@ЛентяйЁпта]

Yup

[@Jazz12211]

“Welcome back” *proceeds to scare him away from the game*

[@silentcartographer5490]

He’s doing him a favor. Game’s moved too far to ever go back to the version he was playing. By showing him what the game is actually like now, you let him decide for himself whether the game is still for him before he potentially wastes his money buying into a game he no longer enjoys.

[@addenanda]

good.

[@MercenaryOrangeTV]

and then people wonder why not many people want to play yugioh and just play other TCG's instead

[@purpleey]

@@MercenaryOrangeTV Like which other TCGs? Yugioh still one of the most popular and constantly attracts new players

[@theWIIISEguy]

​​@@MercenaryOrangeTV YGO has been better than its ever been these last few years. The claim the people are leaving to other TCG's is overstated and not actually a huge problem. Also imagine not playing a game in 20 years. Doing 0 zero research, but taking the time to find a local and showing up with 20 year old cards. Who's to blame? Exactly.

[@hiiambarney4489]

Then he returns to Magic The Gathering and finds out his deck from 20 years ago is OP now.

[@someweirddog868]

And worth a house.

[@46993-r]

I love watching pauper MTG matches. Each player draws their hand and you decide who won off the 7 draw.

[@shade5348]

yes, but not legal in standard since that is how Wizards balances the game so the power creep doesn't reach YGO levels

[@ChickenMcThiccken]

exactly opposite. bring in a 20 year old deck and you will get your @ss handed to you.

[@francislopez6932]

Or casually has a 200 dollar card in his deck.

[@T3tt.]

2005 Yugioh RIP, i'll never forget you❤️

[@SpencerMiller574]

Back when you could play for more than one turn 😢

[@overstreet1322]

Rip

[@7empestTv]

@@SpencerMiller574Foreal they needa make a game with just og cards lol

[@WilderKing]

RIP Caveman Yu gi oh 😢

[@Zathren]

When I created my King of the Skull Servant deck back in 2012, it had only 6 Skull Servants! Now it's like 30 or something and they make the deck nuts.

[@ianwallace3192]

I walked into a shop with my Five headed dragon/dragons mirror summon deck. Saw a childhood friend who still played there. Asked if he wanted to duel. This man showed me no mercy.

[@gary-xh1nl]

Tell me you played in Canada in a card shop?

[@ZelenoJabko]

The power creep over the years has been unreal

[@ianwallace3192]

@@ZelenoJabko I mean when I look at pendulum monsters... I think about learning magic instead

[@thescatterpiratesquarepant7935]

​@@ianwallace3192 there's some official MTG apps which let play magic for cheap or free.. and you unlock cards by Playing, the combos aare unreal. But balance seems better than in yugioh imp

[@Zero-s7k]

If I need a yugioh fix I play Yugioh Troubour of Nightmare for the NDS on emulator lmao lol

[@Inkult3]

The "I know what it does" is just perfect !

[@archeryan8404]

It's what it do yugi

[@lancewilson1253]

Was looking for this comment.lol😂

[@cristhianflores674]

What does poes pot of Greed do? 😂

[@CsCollector45]

I wish master duel had an old school playlist so I could play how the gods intendedq

[@joibasta4397]

There was an event a while ago that banned a lot of newer cards and hand traps. You basically could only respond with cards already on the field. It felt so good to play during that event.

[@samifranco5541]

Over here we have what is called classic encounters for those than doesnt enjoy this kind of play

[@SlawBunnies909]

I don’t know why. It would just be ruled by Dark Magician. DM still has relevancy even in MD now. The only thing that can carry Blue Eyes is Jet Dragon.

[@Pen_Slinger]

Legacy of the Duelist has this game mode where you're given random cards from certain booster packs and you have build a deck with those cards. They should add it to Master Duel as a permanent game mode where you can face the AI or other players.

[@allthingsgeek8472]

Duel links still satisfying my dueling kinks💯

[@User817kajdhdk]

Bro was so confident it came with background music

[@WavyFlash803]

When he said “we don’t draw on the first turn anymore” I knew I was old😭😭

[@annonion2612]

I JUST learned this 🥲🥲🥲🥲

[@maximilian2843]

@@annonion2612 me too

[@dekubean2198]

That’s me on masterduel after watching my opponent combo for 2 minutes straight.

[@p3talsdotpng]

Lmfao

[@Dr.pikachuu]

I just run the timer and quit for retaliation

[@antonequan2635]

Bro this game is quiet rage !! Im surprise there no YY tournament shooters

[@johnalexander6858]

And that's why i made a whole deck with gaia black luster soldier combined with a bunch of effective warriors and raigeki mirror force black hole and a bunch of cards that will destroy all of their's XYZ and special summoned monsters 😅😂and i make them mad with a simple old cards 😂

[@albertlamaire5860]

And after that, he is playing during my turn. I didn’t understand

[@emannuelsepulveda7259]

Man’s really opened a goddamn yugi moto hand 😂. If yugi opens that hand in the anime he doesn’t lose

[@comradecat1922]

Some how yugi would find some bullshit way to win the match with that same shitty hand or it might be the power of friendship they always talk about throughout the match

[@Jay9966]

Bro Yugi can discard his entire opening hand on the first turn and win next turn by believing in the heart of the cards...

[@coolyeh1017]

​@@Jay9966 the anime confirms that Yami Yugi has the magical power of Destiny Draw aka he can manipulate his top deck.

[@xenothekami888]

@@comradecat1922 ahh yes another victim of the heart of the cards

[@cooperblackwell1392]

@@comradecat1922”swords of revealing light disable special summons and stab every blue eyes summoned, sending them to the graveyard. Additionally for each blue eyes white dragon destroyed by this card inflict its atk damage value back onto the owners life points”

[@rRagnaBR]

Raigeki is at 3 and Harpie's Feather Duster is at 1. That's how much power creep the game got.

[@ChunkyWaterisReal]

and i still lose

[@Laantin]

We need more official formats for yugioh, magic the gathering has like a dozen, I would love to play old cards like a classic duel, not watching my opponent spend 15 minutes playing cards and I die

[@feareatsyouieatfear]

I use a toon deck and give them a run for thier money like 3 out of 5 times but to many players who are up to date on battling. Sooner or later ill make one like thiers😂

[@apoptosisduellinks109]

Goat format is supported in side events called 'Time wizard tournaments'

[@ultronsigma2737]

Goat format.....

[@jimbeam7636]

Honestly a Yu-Gi-Oh version of commander sounds dope

[@AlexZanderMuro]

fr it would be sick to have them have different classes based on the different versions of the rulebooks that were included with the tins and starter decks back in the day, and limit cards to anything released from launch up til that rulebook revision, making stuff like dark hole or monster reborn tourney viable again.

[@JordKriger]

I miss 2005 Yu-Gi-Oh. It made sense to me and people had fun. Nowadays its a completely different game.

[@vonakakkola]

goat format

[@zaleww5824]

Go play goat

[@andresrz10]

I'm old school, I don't like how you can play today hahah

[@Ikuzuno]

It's basically display current modern people. Everything needs to be fast to stimulate the brain for short period. Wether it's Tik Tok, a very fast MOBA game or Yu-Gi-Oh. People are even addicted to very fast chess games which are on a very low time.

[@citrusmillie296]

Its a different game because playing 1 normal monster a turn got boring fast. No other tcg is nearly as complex and for a lot of modern players that's the entire appeal! There's so much intracacy and interaction haha. You could maybe play Magic or Goat Format or something if you want that old slow paced action?

[@Unknown-Dysphoria]

"link summon... what is that?" thats so goddamn relatable

[@jellaldragneel5983]

its like yugi when he fought alongside yusei in bonds over time yusei : synchro summon yugi : synchro what?

[@johnheuslerjr9623]

Synchro what?!

[@beefdurki833]

Which is crazy because link is about the easiest way to summon nowadays 😅

[@terrafair3248]

I stopped at synchro summon and come back to all this weird crap and noped out so fast

[@quinnbeasley94]

I still don't fully understand link summons

[@ЛентяйЁпта]

I remember spending like 30€ on Mirror Force in 2002 or so. Been saving up for two months, felt like an utter oligarch flashing this with my school mates. This and pulling Spellbinding Circle from a booster

[@thomashost272]

This is literally me. I'm used to playing Old-school Yu-Gi-Oh and get swept constantly.

[@Ghost011]

Old school is more enjoyable, it's the long game so to speak, not this first turn that takes 10 fuckin minutes 🙄

[@thomashost272]

@@Ghost011 exactly. That's why I stopped playing. The game goes too fast and no one plays old-school competitively.

[@tevin1633]

I could kinda hop back in and still manage I used to play old cyber dragons so shouldn’t be too hard to get back in since I hear they are still relevant to this day

[@jojo713usda]

@@Ghost011 10 minutes more like 2 mins

[@therealbrewskii3418]

​@@tevin1633 cyber dragons are still Definitely a thing and very strong deck, in duel links and master duel, also in-person competitions,,, you should also try the superheavy samurai's,, that's a tuner deck ,,, anyways have fun dueling 👍

[@TheHysteriaMan]

"I haven't played Yu-Gi-Oh since 2005" Bro has no idea what's about to hit him.

[@kaitosama3766]

If he dosen't have chaos emperor dragon he even more older player

[@GMWCHARLES]

My master duel experience in one video

[@anonymous05067]

I know. Sometimes, the other dude takes forever to finish his turn. I just want to surrender

[@mixasuspa4921]

​@@anonymous05067 so true

[@f0zzy0zzy]

This is the comment.

[@jonahdza]

@@anonymous05067that was me, until I got fed up and made an exodia deck. Now they all either lose in one turn, or surrender once they realize what I’m doing.

[@kurogane0304]

probably why i want to take the 1st turn all the time. thinking i may not be able to have another HAHAHAHA

[@professional.commentator]

I stopped playing around the mid-2000s too and it's crazy how much the game has changed. Seems like whoever goes first basically wins the duel.

[@A.R.H..]

That's why I was a huge fan of Duel Links when it came out. Brought back the straight forward game. Now even that game is too much to care about learning.

[@shadowcbell]

Agreed they started adding the new decks and stuff

[@GatherYeRosebudsWhileYeMay]

Literally I wish they would just segregate the worlds. So cards can play against their eras counterparts

[@Orjahlian]

I got on for a short time and after spending an hour in tutorials I went and did something else and haven't gone back. Talk about an info dump.

[@SheppardOfNumenor]

That “I know what it does” got me

[@veg0machine]

I had not played Yu-Gi-Oh since 2004(8th grade)then in 2010 I had a baby I waited till she was 5 to teach her and her younger brother to play while we watched the anime. I didn't know they even made GX. Shocked at the amount of additions and summoning mechanics . But in recent times I made it to diamond once and consistently make it to platinum using fusion based decks the best way to play.

[@Maxx-Oblivion]

Yes, I see branded every day in MD and I know Tear is coming. Fusion decks are literally meta rn

[@veg0machine]

@@Maxx-Oblivion I actually made diamond the first month it was out using buster blader, well before branded had all the support

[@veg0machine]

@@Maxx-Oblivion lol back when 13 card extra deck was a must to avoid the OTK.

[@breaderbrawler7894]

Then you see an eight year old summon goku and vegeta monster cards using a spell card. The same kid plays the field card Namek. The kid then lays two faced down cards in spell/trap card zone. One to swap monsters with each other and other to sacrifice any vegata monsters to replace the switched monster into krillin but is faced down. Krillin's effect is when destroyed, sacrifice Goku and place Super Saiyan Goku on the field

[@Hatim.13]

What's scary is that 2005 was almost 20 years ago...Damn I am getting old

[@professional.commentator]

Ikr!!! We got young adults now who don't even know what Yu-Gi-Oh is.

[@StrangeSunset7]

this is accurate to my first yugioh match against a random person. i put down an attack card, then my opponent places down 17 cards at once, says a bunch of stuff, and says “i win”. then i walked away and cried. keep in mind i was 8 years old.

[@DeepThinker193]

lmao

[@greatleader4841]

the "how are you summoning so many cards" hits home. I remember when you could only summon 1 card per turn.

[@alvinvelez1641]

Technically you’ve always been able to special summon unlimited times there just weren’t that many ways to do it back then

[@kingsleyekechukwu8229]

I had a game master duel when homie summon six card two xyz and two link then discarded all my hand and banded 4 of my monster zone while banning about 28 cards from my deck and 4of my extra deck I surrendered and deleted the game not as fun anymore

[@greatleader4841]

@@alvinvelez1641 when yugioh was still a new game the rule was 1 monster card down and you can put down as many spell/trap cards down. hell when it first came out it was 1 card down period. so you could choose between a spell/trap card or a monster.

[@ZVPieGuy]

You have always only been able to normal summon once per turn, but special summoming is unlimited, so all those extra monsters were special summons.

[@darren871]

@@alvinvelez1641 Pretty sure 20 years ago, there was no such thing as a "special summon". Only Special Effect cards.

[@KnightlyBrosGaming]

LMAO!!! "How are you summoning so many monsters?"

[@captainhook8138]

No you can’t draw a extra card but I can do all of this.

[@amithabraham2224]

Synchro, 3-5 card Xyzs monsters, and pendulum decks laugh in field swarm

[@cyndercosmosTTV]

@@amithabraham2224 if they saw my Shirakashi OverDrive deck then they would cry in the corner.

[@vincthyoru]

That "special" summon no longer special might as well call it extra summon

[@cyndercosmosTTV]

@@vincthyoru might as well say ‘I start a summon loop.’

[@athenovae]

This is why I have categories if I play. Like OG only, fusion and prior only synchros and prior only, and so forth so it sets the expectations for my friends who have a deck of a certain era. Haha

[@JustinPR612]

This is exactly my problem. I've spent hours watching videos on the new meta and I still wouldn't beat a single person. Old yugioh is where I'll stay 😊

[@Hiosanryu]

Me too

[@itspeanutt]

me three

[@slimekinslippa]

Me four

[@Pimpmedown]

so you watched a few hours of videos and expect that to make you better than someone who actually played? Wtf?

[@LinkZeraus]

me five

[@seanpariser7300]

I love the draw explanation. “No you can’t. New rules” 😂

[@XWeedhunterX]

Also don't know xyz 🤣👍

[@tommymoodie2157]

Also happened to me too. Friend had to explain to me that you don't draw on the first turn. I was confused beyond belief. Worst part was whe I picked up back the game, it was the link meta. So I fucked myself over when I was xyz summoning into the extra monster zone and being told I cant summon anymore cuz I don't have a link.

[@peaj4812]

​@@tommymoodie2157 Wait that's real? I thought he was just picking on him for being new.

[@tommymoodie2157]

@@peaj4812 yea it's real. Because yugioh evolved so much. They adjusted the rules to make it fair. Cuz now a days. You can basically win the match in like 2 turns because a lot of decks can make unbreakable boards or just super annoying boards with like 4-7 negates(not including traps or handtraps if have them). So to make it more fair they just say, if get the option to go first and you'll probably make an disgusting board where the opponent can't even play anyway. So no draw on the first turn for you. Person who goes second gets to draw on their first turn cuz that will give an actual shot at breaking the cuz they have one extra card to work with. If you play any of the dueling simulators(duelingnexus, ygopro, edopro, master duel) you'll see this as well.

[@Chaos-Clips]

​@@peaj4812 bruh

[@mikesawicki5204]

Staring at your 1st edition Jinzo in despair, because you knew if you played it in a duel today, it would be instantly gone

[@juliosantiago7182]

Not me boyyy i got a dope ass jinzo deck

[@1stCallipostle]

Jinzo actually still kinda useful... Especially if you have a friend who likes Traptrick. It does have ways around him but still Does make them suffer

[@ColdTiger]

Jinzo's pretty nice to play against Traptrix or Labrynths

[@neonabsent1105]

I just seen a WotC store driving the other day and was going to stop and check out some magic cards but this short is the nervous I have to overcome. I'd love to play again though...

[@tengrex]

Bro this just happened to me last weekend. Played Yu Gi Oh for the first time years. I have a precon deck from the early 2000s mixed with a couple Schoolastic magazine Yu-Gi-oh promo cards. I played against my older brother whos recently been playing Yu-Gi-Oh this past year. I recently bought him underworld goddess and other cards for his birthday. I dont understand the cards but they looked cool. I finally gave in and played a match with him. He linked summoned/searched/played all this crazy stuff. I told him "okay imma scoop. Dont ask me to play anymore."

[@swolestylist9812]

This is exactly how it was for me…. Especially the “draw for turn” part.

[@PlatinumO]

Even if you let an old player draw 10 cards for turn 1. The sad fact is the new player will probably still win every 9/10 times

[@Fweaka]

I stopped in 2014 ish, this is for real you can’t draw for turn as first player?

[@swolestylist9812]

@@PlatinumO so true

[@dszxnavtiisx6384]

@@Fweaka not anymore, new rules

[@MetalVII]

I came back in 2018 from 2004(ish) and sold my collection 2 months later.

[@notthebeastinus2786]

I just came back and started to play the Master Duel game recently. I'd recommend any returners to go do so. The duel training/strategy practice games are very intuitive so you can learn what things like pendulum and links are

[@TheRecklessMetalhead]

@@notthebeastinus2786 That's what I did yesterday a day after I bought a Legendary Decks II from Best Buy and got addicted to collecting Yugioh cards once again.

[@supervegito8340]

If there is one thing I learned when I got back into playing paper yugioh it’s that the part that’s cut off is them sitting down and the returning player getting a bunch of modern DM cards and a breakdown of new mechanics. My first time I played returning to paper I had a scrapped together deck made up of random bulk I found at the OTS. I took 3rd that night out of 11 people and it’s how I got the nickname junkman. I legit just didn’t have my mannadium deck done yet hence the scrap deck. The one thing that stopped me from placing higher that night is I didn’t understand some of the mechanics and others helped me understand it quick and simple after the local.

[@vishmaster09]

for an old school deck that hand was very good. brain control for your opponents monster and reborn your own to tribute both for dark magician.

[@opssoldier3316]

Now I can summon my burning abyss monsters to do the same thing for two cards. Yugioh changes so drastically

[@loghead1015]

This is how I feel right now. On a whim I downloaded Master Duel to see if I still got it since GX. When my first opponent spent 3 minutes to Link and Synchro summon a full row of monsters with 3 in the back row and a dragon beat stick over 4000 attack; I dropped it and picked up Legacy of the Duelist to start from the beginning. Having a blast and I now know how to do the summons. Will see if I stick around.

[@tehweez]

Get a GBA emulator and Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel rom for that sweet sweet nostalgia fix. Or even better a refurbished gba and a cart if it's not super expensive.

[@ianbraun271]

Legacy of the Duelist is great. Just isn't updated anymore. I love that there is no banlist for story duels.

[@alrecalde1676]

This literally happened to me at anime expo LA. I brought my old troll deck that had lava golem, solar flare dragons, and the self destruct button and I played just 3 cards. Bother summoned 4 monsters over 2500 attack in the first turn using special summons, synchro summons, fusions, and even 1 ritual card. It was insane. He cleared my field and did 10k first turn. I refuse to play with anyone now that uses cards printed past 2010 😂

[@jmurray1110]

So stick to Edison that’s your choice

[@MyDaily808Life]

I don’t even play and I’m dying laughing 😂😂

[@frankhall9483]

We are almost same i loved my lava golem and my stall and burn deck it placed me in 11th at one of regional tournament with 2000 people now a day i would be at bottom last lol

[@Antronix33]

syncro what now?

[@jmurray1110]

@@Antronix33 synchros are genuinely one of the more balance ED summoning mechanics

[@HebrewGuy]

You nailed my return perfectly lol. 60 card deck… what was I thinking…

[@chrissloan7799]

"KNOW WHAT IT DOES!"

[@nzephier]

The overlap with that in mtg is insane. You'll go to read a card and someone shouts, "I KNOW!"

[@IanDavid01]

The current Yu-Gi-Oh : 1. your opponent goes first > spend half of his deck > now he have field full of high attack monster with absurd effects 2. Your opponent goes second > chain his entire deck > he win

[@darthjandlightj]

me.. pachy normal moon mirrorshield and maybe one or two set end phase gg

[@thebelmont1995]

​@@darthjandlightj Why not just play uno if you wanna turn your brain off and not think at all?

[@darthjandlightj]

@@thebelmont1995 well better than spending idk 15 min to get a field.... like no way dude XD it just sucks how the game is today... I do had some fun matches against some players in masterduel, but still too many boring meta stuff.. Im glad I took a break for now ^^

[@darthjandlightj]

@@thebelmont1995 @IanDavid01 is telling the bitter reality of yugi right now, its just sad

[@thebelmont1995]

@@darthjandlightj I know what yugiboomer said. And it's not. Not at all lol. It's evolved into a much more complex and much more skill based game then it ever has been. It's just people who are bad and people who are just not smart enough to adapt that complain. They don't like the complexity of new YGO. So they would prefer a game that is simple and easy and takes less skill and less thinking because it's preferable to them. Which is fine. But to say the state of the game is bad is sad. Admittedly Kashtira format is pretty dreadful atm. But modern YGO is isn't. But the current state of YGO is actually infinitely better than old school. Old school took no skill, was slow, simple and boring. It was also very 1 dimensional. Hence why I said if he wanted to turn his brain off just go play uno.

[@hoseamatthews5302]

Remember when we actually played with them cards instead of keeping them in a cold safe storage to sell them after some years? Miss my childhood so bad rn

[@Tadoshii]

When Sam said “I know what it does” hade me laughing hard 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Maulwurm1]

After 20 years I visited my LGS. They said: "show me your starting hand". I didn't know what happened and he was like: "you lost, round two?" xD

[@LumiLunar]

Next time show them all five pieces of Exodia.

[@anapia5051]

Konami killed yugioh with powercreep, most players are playing out of copium because of the money they've sunk.

[@norrad9978]

These new Yugioh cards be making me read a whole ass essay

[@stevee2639]

Broooo bring back the one sentence cards 😂

[@eyelessjack_]

I miss the good ol days where we actually explain every effect, spell cards and trap cards to our opponents because it's more fun just like the anime 😂

[@watcher2624]

You can still do that… but it would take 20 years😂

[@jmurray1110]

Blame the time times and Konami’s text vomit It’s not common and an extreme just normal people take about 1min 18 secs to read through Endymion Regardless I f it being an outlier no card should take that long

[@timbrandon8474]

I stopped playing on 2006. I am back again at it last year. Cannot lie, lots of crazy changes to adapt. Also, it is always player with the 2nd turn that almost considered having higher win chances 😂

[@kavky]

To every old school player returning: the current meta is to stop your opponent from doing anything. If you pull a knife when he starts his turn you technically win.

[@AntoKyuuketsuki]

Literally, you've got to fart and waft that shitty smelling air in their direction... Awarding you the win on their technical forfeit, unless they just want to sit there and breathe it in.

[@pinchman2946]

Yu gu oh is a beautiful example of how letting power creep run rampant will absolutely destroy game balance.

[@TgarMask]

Problem is it's been going for like 15 years. They can't stop it

[@_the_Omega]

They can. Simply bann all link,xyz and pendel cards. Done. Balance restored

[@dumatrising2421]

​@michaelm8529 idk about that. In some ways powercreep is inevitable as there's only so many combonation of letters you can write on cards, but at the same time magic the gathering has been going for longer and has suffered less from it so its certainly possible to mitigate. Heck in mtg the vintage format is way more powerful than the modern format and most of that difference power level comes from older cards. Technically speaking outside of some edge cases most card types have gotten weaker in more recent sets, except creatures which were trash in the first sets XD.

[@TgarMask]

@@dumatrising2421 difference being that other card games have energy at their core so there's a universal limit. Pot of greed can exist in other games because of the limitations to the systems in the game. In Yu-Gi-Oh it's broken. I think rush duels are actually quite interesting because it makes the powerful speed of high tier Yu-Gi-Oh more universal. I'd also be interested in seeing an experimental Yu-Gi-Oh format that only allows 1 negate or removal per either players turn. Not sure what people would come up with in it's place but it'd be interesting to see

[@dumatrising2421]

@@TgarMask sure but also the old cards suffered the same constraints, and were talking relative power creep not the comparative power of separate card games. We can still view cards as how good are current cards vs old card. A magic card being twice as good might mean something different than a yugioh card being twice as good, but since we're measuring the change from old to new it doesn't matter the power of magic to yugioh. you might like that one format that plays with older cards then. I don't play much yugioh but I hear it's getting pretty popular with folks that prefer yugioh back when exodia was the only ftk you could do.

[@BlackMartialArtsSociety]

I actually did stop play around 2005 and trying to pick it back up now lmao

[@JROSSYY]

The fun thing about yugioh is that when it’s your turn it’s still their turn 😂

[@knockout8157]

And when it’s their turn, it’s still your turn :)

[@ShitYourself7]

Yes... "fun." Lmao More like not fun at all

[@gre8000]

Most broken tcg ever. In 10 years most battle will probably be finished in 1 turn or 2 given the possibilites of how much you can do with card effects and all kinds of different special summons now.

[@GxOOxG]

​@@ShitYourself7it's so irritatingly bruh... Fr

[@MrRiseagainst1000]

That's me waiting 10 mins for my turn in master duel, just to get negated on every card I play So much fun :)

[@tonylollollol]

Word same wttfffff. 10 mins of me just watching hella cards play

[@CleymanYT]

Same I came back after stopping after GX abd it feels like they have massively overdone it with trying to keep the game fresh. Wayyyy to many special summons and negates. I mean what's the fun, when everyone summons 3 top monsters in their first 1-3 turns and matches are so often over within the first turns, doesn't feel like duelling anymore :/

[@ΠερίανδροςΜεσολωράς]

This is not a worthy game any more. Winner or loser, it's sad game for both participants. I wonder how Konami could let it get so bad. Really not worth coming back to it and spending the slightest amount of money. Any other known card game and it's corresponding online platform is a much better experience.

[@michaelq4965]

Then I play a deck and get a time-out because I guess my three minutes are shorter than his 10 minutes???

[@ΠερίανδροςΜεσολωράς]

@@michaelq4965 depends if you spent time thinking or actually making moves. Basically every small move amimation stops the timer, so you can see a person play everything almost instantly and may have even a 20 minute turn depending on their deck and combos and your timer could be ending constantly because you pause to think your moves. As I said, toxic faulty game anymore, not worth the time at all. So many good card games out there, I've had more fun playing even the Pokemon TCG online lately which I've been dismissing my whole life than I ever did in Master Duel for chrissakes.

[@nathantustin3270]

I stopped playing in locals around 2012.. came back to the game like a few months ago. Yeeeesh it's been a task to learn all the new cards and strategies.

[@katakuna185]

Next video should be him making a comeback after learning up to date rules, summons etc. Total protagonist arc potential.

[@pedrojose9135]

Hey... No spoilers

[@zenith5048]

Nah the next video is him selling his old cards for Pennies and never playing the game again. You know, like in real life.

[@hombojimbo]

@@zenith5048 yep. If there's one thing people hate doing, it's learning.

[@zenith5048]

@@hombojimbo That and Yu-Gi-Oh isn’t what it used to be so the yugi boomers don’t like what it’s become lol

[@Merilirem]

@@zenith5048 Eh its basically the same game. Just has more going on.

[@quentinclark7591]

This is quite literally the experience I’m having on YuGiOh Master Duel… Stopped playing in middle school and now we got XYZ, Synchros, Links, and the God cards don’t matter anymore?!

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

It’s crazy isn’t it?

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Xyz and Synchros can be fun, but Link Monsters were literally added to nerf Pendulum Monsters. You don't even need to use them if you don't want to, now that they fixed the Link mechanic.

[@mattisixx1699]

​@@OtakuUnitedStudio xyz cards made me quit the game originally. Synchros were fine because you needed a tuner, which was like having to have polymerization, but xyzs just need 2 of the same level monsters and would have the most broken effects I ever seen. I hate pendulum and links, but they stopped people from running nothing but xyzs. I miss the game being slower, but at least now every type of extra deck monster is viable again

[@luckygallagladi]

God cards never mattered. They were always worthless gimmick cards. Three tibutes for a mediocre beatstick is way too much.

[@lanesmith1465]

​@@mattisixx1699 Ikr? In the best case scenario, you could draw into a tuber and use one more creature to get one strong card. A -1 card advantage. But usually you needed at least 2 weaker monsters and a tuner to get your stronger cards out. A -2 card advantage like poly.

[@JackFM06]

These are the MOST entertaining shorts to come across. Nail it everytime and have me dying. Your a legend Sam.

[@DarkSoulx7]

This is so true. I play every now and then and I feel like when I restarted I spent more time reading the effects of all of these cards then making a move.

[@5stargrim]

“I attack for game!” “…we started playing?”

[@saltyfish7626]

🗿

[@Shanex250]

This was a lot of peoples reaction when they started playing master duel when it released and they were riding on the nostalgia of old yugioh.

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

As a OG yugioh player yes absolutely

[@TheRecklessMetalhead]

@@nashambenyisrael7689 Same here.

[@JohnnyBoygame]

Yeah i did, played one game, their turn lasted 5 minutes with about a dozen cards played, somehow i got a turn i retired and uninstalled the game.

[@skwezeg4155]

"This hand is perfect"💀

[@williamlindsey2744]

While hilarious, this is actually EXTREMELY accurate.

[@acaseofbeers7910]

I attest as a returning player of a 15+ year hiatus I approve the accuracy of this video. I was literally in a duel like "when is it my turn?" "How is he summoning so many monsters?" "How can he make moves during my turn?!?" Good times. Now I'm God Tier Blackwing

[@Onibyron]

Now you can make many moves during yours and their turn.

[@zerekgilson6901]

"OH cute, you're just coming back?" *plays aroma garden deck and gains 200000000000 life*

[@thegx5693]

Cards in 2040: If your opponent breathes, you win the game

[@asdf2098]

I played in highschool over a decade ago. I ran a zombie deck and I still remember a time when Call of the Mummy or Pyramid Turtle summoning a never ending line of Ryu Kokkis, Vampire Lords, and Despair from the Dark was absolutely dominating against a lot of decks from that time. Then Chaos monsters came out and everyone's deck suddenly became Chaos Emperor Dragon + Yata decks and that was around the time I found the game to be less and less fun every year. I still miss the old days when it was a struggle to get past a Millenium Shield without equip spellcards... oh god, do you guys remember when equip spell cards were a still a thing!?

[@johnsmith-rg1di]

They still are a thing. Just much better now

[@jmurray1110]

Unless it’s infernobel knights equips died very early it generally wasn’t a good idea to stack power even in early formats a man eater bug could destroy half your field if you were running them Still though zombies are still playable particularly like decks it’s midrange so you combo turn 3 but it’s fun and still focuses on there graveyard effect

[@KevinLikesRTS]

I did the same man. Plaguespreader kept my deck alive with synchros. Now it’s a thing of the past and new yugioh is dogshit.

[@bryanincredible4550]

Same situation here. Never thought how everything change, like everything is new and alot of things happening in just one turn, the last thing i know was synchro summon and today there are a lot of kinds of summoning a monster.

[@GalacticTengu]

Facts. I have the cards to do all these and it's just not fun for me personally. I miss old school battles. But im glad the hobby is alive and thriving. Been alot of fun collecting again now that I can afford it.

[@lurzblake42]

Modern Yugioh be like: Hand summon> deck summon> discard > summon> sincro> graveyard summon > banish > banished summon> xyz> graveyard> link > deck > sincro > link> graveyard> xyz > xyz NV.2 > negate rival draw, negate summon > negate effects> negate magics > negate traps> negate surrender > negate leaving > negate living > negate Fun and only then finish the duel.

[@exevity906]

i use fire kings, they're pretty fun

[@lagartijafachera5083]

@@exevity906 y too , Garunix is the best

[@exevity906]

@@lagartijafachera5083 i also use orcusts and blackwings

[@elgringo1893]

Ironically the duels are now shorter in turns by about 5x what they used to be but are longer in time consumption by at least 5x because a single opening turn can be about 15 minutes nowadays.

[@DizzyRabbitGaming]

Seriously. I quit straight up if they take more than 2-3 min. I don’t have time for that, I’m just here to play dark magician and chill

[@LuLu-uz3lg]

literally solitaire if I wanna play a singleplayer game, I got other options

[@devilos250]

"round shorter" Exodia OTK , let me introduce myself 🤣

[@endmysuffering3317]

This was honestly me when i played master duel recently. Last time i played was against some friends while in school in like 2012-14

[@Abz_Qasim]

Broooo that’s exactly like me when you haven’t played Yu Gi Oh in ages and then your opponent does all kind of stuff just to summon 2/3 monsters on his side 🤷🏻‍♂️💀

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

It used to be WORSE. For a while, a lot of decks were built around a 0 turn kill - you choose to go second, then activate the effects of cards in your hand to do a bunch of stuff to beat your opponent during _their_ turn. And if it wasn't that, it was all Lockdown decks that would prevent the opponent from playing Spells and Traps, using Monster Effects. attacking, summoning, or literally doing anything other than forfeiting the game.

[@JustJustin.]

​@@OtakuUnitedStudiowhat format are you talking about?

[@kyleguajardo]

​@@OtakuUnitedStudio What do you mean, that's basically still the META. I really don't like it. At least let there be a GAME involved.

[@dracoblizzard7944]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio There's no possible way to ZTK and you never have been able to. I'm guessing you're talking about Firewall format, the year and a half time period after SPYRAL format and before TOSS where various ways to FTK with Firewall dragon was the only thing anyone was doing. But it's impossible to ZTK other than opening Exodia, as almost all burn and draw cards can only be activated on your turn. Even if you hypothetically summoned 3 Blaze Phoenix on your opponent's first turn using the Tear cards you wouldn't be able to activate their effects so you still would lose.

[@AngelCopout]

*Draws Celtic Guardian* Aight, we're gonna need an ambulance because a murder is a bout to happen.

[@doug9358]

This was me trying to learn how to play during the lockdowns. I ended up buying 2 older decks and had way more fun. I play for the nostalgia.

[@raveneff]

I've played the new way and old way recently. By far enjoy the original way more.

[@yellowspike3344]

Goat format is fun

[@KazumaKS]

i love when he aggressively said "i know what it does" lmao

[@fran13r]

That's exactly what I did. I saw the novel length descriptions and peaced out of the scene again lmfao.

[@terrafair3248]

I will always remember my bunilla but ygo is trash now

[@Marzetty23]

This is exactly how I feel lol. People be clapping me in one turn and I just feel like I got off a roller coaster

[@ad2142]

Shits unreal how complex it got

[@mrpuddingfinger9226]

I was big into Yugioh back in like 2002-2005. I tried getting back into it about a year ago, dumped probably $300 into some cards and was just completely overwhelmed by the changes to the game.

[@LongLiveG]

I gave up trying to learn. I literally cussed my friend out that was trying to teach me when he start talking about link summons

[@the_swoletariat1621]

I got suuuuper heated on Master Duel AT FIRST since I’m also one of those people who left in the DM/GX era lol, but once I got a feel for most of the new mechanics and built me some cool decks (Cyber Dragon/ABC and an Aesir) I can’t stop playing

[@real_Schrooten]

i wish we could play with tcg rules to do some play testing

[@clarkkent8286]

That's why I stick to the old school Yu-Gi-Oh

[@sherrymorash8710]

The old ways are the best ways

[@Trillone]

Yes these new rules synchro summoning and etc what hell

[@MasterTLP]

This is the way

[@lawd.8354]

I agree with you. Yugioh was interesting until the synchro era. After that... I just didn't get the game anymore.

[@TrixyTrixter]

@@lawd.8354 Synchro era was definitely my favorite. I was not to bad with the link either, but beyond that just no for me.

[@tophcookie7033]

The dramatic card hold next to your face asking “RESPONSE!?!?” Gets me every time. Total “uh-oh” moment when I saw it 🤣

[@LuisEduardoGalarzaCervantes]

There was a missed oportunity there for the newcomer to say "respond with what?" as playing cards from your hand to negate (ash blossom) is another shocker.

[@ZombieTumors]

This is why I’m a collector and seller now. The game is off the wall for me nowadays but I still enjoy watching and helping people get the cards they want.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

I played almost continuously since the game came out, and every new Master Rule was like a culture shock. The "First player skips Draw Phase first turn" was a big one, but one I support - it prevents that first turn advantage from being too big. And thank goodness they reworked the revisions to nerf Pendulum Summoning. I don't even understand how nerfing Fusions and Synchros was even on their mind, considering they barely get attention anymore.

[@KidJV]

"your turn" has become the saddest thing a player could say in yugioh