The Truth About Expensive Yu-Gi-Oh Cards

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[@barbaryn7899]

When I was a kid, at the ToysRus tournaments, there was the one kids dad. I remember asking him how he got all these good cards and he told me when you're older you have a job you can just buy them

[@habo249]

I think the larger issue isn't the staples, but also main cards for the strategy. Stuff like magician's souls and guardian chimera are not mandatory but they are irreplacable, unlike staples

[@TomkoChannel]

Yeah im happy to sit on my pot of desires for the next couple of months but if one of the core engine cards I need is $80 each im kind of forced into buying it or not running the deck

[@SparkShadow212]

I feel like expensive staples being replaceable is even worse than expensive main cards for the strategy. A staple card's viability is as fluid as the ever-changing format. This means that every format, you need to switch staples, which means more money being spent.

[@shyguy13100]

I think for the purpose of this topic it’s best to put the topic in terms of cost and benefit. Cost: you pay x (Premium $) now for expensive cards that may decrease in value. Benefit you gain access to these cards for Y (duration/time). It ultimately comes down to you paying to get stuff ahead of others who wait for reprints, whether or not you should or not comes down to your needs as a player.

[@cyberswarm9227]

Idk why but the thumbnail made me burst out laughing

[@tmoney1487]

No offense to paul but his head looks kinda big in this thimbnail, i think its the way his hands are up on the side 😂😂

[@aj4president480]

I think he’s just really close to the camera than usual🤣

[@Lunatic89097]

Does it remind you of Sakurai?

[@96Assassine]

Because the card price was _this_ big ✋ 🤚

[@arrownoir]

Reminds me of a children PSA. “Hey Heyyy kids, remember to wash your hands and don’t take candy from strangers.”

[@JakeTheJay]

There is also the fact it dictates what decks you can try playing in the first place. When Regulus came out, I stopped playing earth machine for a long time because I could no longer keep up and learn since every play required the card. Luckily I am going to be able to get it soon so I have been getting back to playing the deck so I can actually play it properly. But important cards being expensive is REALLY an issue with the game. Most expensive in archetype cards are the searchers so if you try playing a deck, you have to play it less consistently unless you have the money for it. Though in the case of earth machine, it's the boss monster I'm lacking.

[@RagingWolffe]

I took a very long hiatus from Yu-Gi-Oh. Last time I played was probably 2010. Recently I wanted to play again. But I told myself I’m gonna play what I want. Cyber Dragon was always my favorite card so despite me winning or losing I’m sticking with Cyber Dragon. I get to play again and just enjoy getting my butt kicked lol.

[@lemlem35]

There are competitive cyber dragons too, even if they aren't like meta meta

[@kalani2016]

Yeah, I was in the same situation as you, I came back mained cyber dragons, but I’ve been using the runick version and have enjoyed it. Little pricey though.

[@drstrangelove77]

Don't forget about the recently released field spell Clockwork Night. I'm no Cyber Dragon player but the community went kinda nuts about its implementation in the deck.

[@TrianglePants]

Winning mustn't be very fun either, when you're using the same deck as thousands of other players.

[@RagingWolffe]

@@drstrangelove77 yea I saw that. I already bought 3 copies. That card looks awesome.

[@ShyGuyPal102]

another angle is that usually those cards get reprinted so they are chaper/easier to obtain, or the meta changes so they are less useful and therefore cheaper to obtain. eventually there will be a better card that is more expensive, and then those prices will drop once an even better card is printed. this isn't always true, but it usually holds true. you can get Infinite Imperidence in a $10 structure deck now for example

[@romkin1197]

Then on the flip side, you get old cards that are "bad" in the competitive scene, but a deck drops that can utilize it super well and it becomes really strong. (Mushroom Man #2 comes to mind as well as Ido, the Supreme Magical Being).

[@PricefieldPunk]

I'm confused to why Egyptian God Slime still costs $40. Nobody plays that card and it's not a super high rarity card.

[@ss2100100]

Its yugiboomer bait. The casual/collector market is always insane when it comes to anything from the Duel Monsters or GX era of cards. It also doesnt help that 1. The card came from a set that wasnt opened up much and has been out of print. 2. It was one of the few ultra rares in the set. 3. Master Duel bringing in new players that want to play their Master Duel anime character decks IRL and have the money to spend on these cards. 4. The card doesnt have a reprint.

[@andreamorigi7546]

In one word: scarcity in this case

[@borrelsupremacy]

I always play Borrelsword over Accesscode cuz I'm poor, but when your new deck can put up over 8000 damage easily and you need a cheap and easy way to break boards in your extra, you realize how much better Accesscode is in more situations. I still can't afford one, and I'm not lucky enough to pull one. I bought Worldsea Dragon cuz that's a board wipe I can go into way too easily that I could pick up. Will probably be able to afford Accesscode soon, unless it goes up in price.

[@chrisgroves8891]

I’m pretty budget but I just got mine the other day for like 24$ it’s not to bad now. Even if you pretty budget still worth it to get the 1 of splashable extra deck cards like Accesscode and Zeus since you will use them in different decks.

[@Tyler-Wiley]

That's your biggest problem, you keep wasting money trying to pull one. The one from Crystal's revenge is $25. You can easily afford it if you stopped buying packs.

[@TrianglePants]

That's why free simulators (NOT Master Duel) are so good for the game. Even if you can't afford to play IRL, especially optimally, there's always the digital version, which sometimes also has tournies.

[@borrelsupremacy]

@@Tyler-Wiley I didn't say I opened any packs, I just said I'm not lucky enough to pull one, so I didn't even try that. Plus, if I had like $30 to blow on one card I would have done it. My luck has always been a problem, either I pull the one $80 card in a set, or I open 10 packs and get 10 crappy supers, so, I buy singles now unless the card I need is a common.

[@FacelessVixen]

Though my way of getting back in is mainly as a casual/nostalgia collector, thank goodness The Dark Magicians got a reprint. I would have hated paying over $100 for an old box of Magical Hero just to not get it, so $10 for the Legendary Duelists: Season 3 version was worth it.

[@supervega6477]

The Thumbnail looks like a yugioh card. Call it The Judgement of Team APS

[@JumboBog320]

If there is one thing I have learned while playing Yugioh for my short time (started in 2019) it is: Staples are key. If a staple gets a decent priced reprint you buy a playset. If a structure deck comes out with a very needed reprint you buy a playset or even 3x of the entire deck. Do not wait when buying staples. The best example is Ash. I got my playset for around 7-8€ a peice in 2019. They kept raising and it took 3 reprints, with one of them being a structure deck reprint, to bring it down to the prices I paid. This have been the year to round off your staple binder with the insane amount of reprints. Even if you skip the more expensive ones. And once you got a healthy amount of staples all other decks you make will become cheaper. And the more staples you have the more flexibility you have. Oh and all of this is coming from a budget player. My limits are around 10-20€ per card if I REALLY want the card. Any good staple at 5€ or less is an instant buy. (Just got ordered my playset of DD crow for 1€ each)

[@chrisshorten4406]

I am the guy who can't afford things, which is annoying, but oddly, I've only had a couple matches where my opponents had meta cards available to them.

[@wonthangsoop]

Best feeling! When you have a locals with cool people who don't take themselves too seriously when playing yugioh.

[@chrisb.2028]

Another benefit from infinite impermanence over veiler is, it can't be negated with called by the grave. Funny enough, the only things veiler has over imperm is, that it is a tuner, so in a pinch, it could save you if you normal summon it, or that it is a spellcaster, so you can use it to climb with selene. Also, I think the main problem with borrelsword and accesscode comparation is, one has an easier summoning condition, and get huge benefits from being summoned the "easy way" the other needs at least 3 bodies in the field no matter what with no benefit from it, and in the end, the payoff is not always enough, sure, you also need resources in the graveyard to use all it's capabilities, but that's never a problem since you put it on a deck that can provide such benefits. The problem is, staples are staples because no other card can do the same thing, budget options either has downsides or restrictions that the best cards doesn't, the only way staples become more accessible is if konami reprint the staples a lot more often (basically at normal rarity) so the prices go down.

[@deruneldembal5048]

Idk if you noticed a extreme big part is if u go first u dont need to set it. Makes kt way better against removal. You hear that reason all the time why people prefer veiler. It also can be used from hand while there is stuff on board. That matters when u draw in ur opponents turn. Ofcourse there are flipsodes to it like triple tactis talent. Hurts when u use veiler.

[@NexusVFD]

Sadly, Sweaty Try Hard is the name of the game in my local TCG scene. Everyone plays like theyre prepping for the next worlds. Being a casual just isnt a thing hence why I only play with friends that arent big into tcgs but at least like the franchises theyre tied to.

[@highsol222]

I never believed in replacements personally. I just build the deck differently and accept that I'm gonna lose a lot lol. Currently I'm playing Synchron and the difference between kashtira bystial synchron and my budget IRL synchron deck is night and day. The expensive not optimized version does so much because the new cards are so good, while my best most optimized budget version doesn't do crap. It's like an ordinary little kid trying to fight 4 gods of destruction at the same time. The gap in power levels is just too inconceivably enormous. Big ballers just have the advantage anyway you slice it. TLDR: Yugioh is PAY TO WIN..

[@romkin1197]

I can't agree with Yugioh being Pay to Win. Since you (typically) have to buy cards, it's more of Buy to Play

[@highsol222]

@@romkin1197 Weird "logic." It's always the currently good cards that are more expensive. It's never the "good cards" that have been power crept to kingdom come. There's no such thing as a top deck that is under $100. If you want to win you have to pay up for the meta staples. Thats the whole reason why the super rare bystial monsters are not like 50 cents. And lastly, Ofc the physical product isn't free, thats common sense.

[@romkin1197]

@@highsol222 You also forget that to go to regionals you have to pay an entrance fee of $20. I never went to a locals, so I don't know if they also charge for tournament entrance fee.

[@ghostsnipertrue]

@@romkin1197 Your logic is piss poor at best my friend lol

[@jocapoc]

Synchron got kinda power crept into the root of it. Like my old Scraps, you have an updated combo, but they are kind of 1 track-combo only. If the oponnent interrupts you, you-re basically done. Replacement works where the core combo is still up to date with the meta. But this things change with the format, it could invert sometime soon.

[@andrewgood7586]

I spent $30 on my 3 dark world structure decks, and then spent $50 completely rebuilding my extra deck(I hadnt been playing since around 2012). There are other cards I would like to put in my side deck, maybe a couple fir my main, but I think $100 got me a pretty solid deck.

[@sinmethodical1837]

When exciton was a thing pretty much every deck that could rank 4 had him and if you couldn't afford one your best bet was to add lv 3 tuners to rose dragon. That wasnt even that much of a cheaper option either.

[@apsamplifier]

*Another really good example I thought of after I finished recording was Lightning Storm (back when it was $100+). You could run Raigeki/Dark Hole OR run Harpie's Feather Duster, but you never quite got to have both in one card. However, those two cards still had their own small advantages, but often times the flexibility of Lightning Storm pushed it ahead in overall use and value. Anyway, what are other examples like this that you've experienced in Yu-Gi-Oh?*

[@Entei9000]

This is kinda irrelevant but I just remembered when I was in middle/high school and the first Warrior structure deck had come out. I went to this super casual tournament at a toy store near where I lived and some older kid scoffed at me for using the structure deck copy of ROTA.I was like, joke's on you, my copy does the same thing and didn't cost like $50.

[@wakkaseta8351]

1:28 We've seriously reached the point where Raigeki is considered the budget alternative for another card.

[@franchottwoodjr6181]

I love all of your KZbin videos. They are very funny and interesting. Your videos taught me how to play Yugioh. I am a big fan of Team APS. I have been watching y'all for a lot of years.

[@JumboFe1337]

I just started playing yugioh and in my first pack pulled a lightning storm from madens pack something with that name came in a box with sleeves.

[@CrymeScene]

magnificent mavens set. good set really good support :)

[@melvinbrookins6313]

The only grip i have with this argument is that you dont really want cards to do the same thing. Also, different decks can utilize/mitigate card deficiencies better than others. Im also not saying cards should cost that much money, but all cards should be different, even if its a negligible difference.

[@yubeluchiha]

I learn yugioh from yusei fudo because no card is useless if I was fighting thunder dragon titan and I draw effect veiler and win making relinquish anima and attacking for game

[@kappamaster7179]

Actually a favorable comparison would be borreload savage dragon vs baronne de fleur, baronne is easier to make in most decks but borreload has upsides to it that baronne doesn't while being 10x cheaper.

[@Juanissleepy]

paul really said "pass turn" to end the video, I'm inlove

[@tmoney1487]

Budget in the TCG has always been the biggest obstacle for me to overcome personally. That combined with having to take time out of my schedule just to play a game that does nothing but make me frustrated sometimes is the reason i prefer the simulators. Theyre free to play completely and can be picked up and put down at any time and matches only last a couple of minutes most of the time so im not digging into my schedule any. Not to mention the accessibility on mobile with stuff like master duel and duel links just makes me feel like theres no reason to invest my time, money, and mental health on the TCG.

[@kappamaster7179]

minor correction, borrelsword dragon effects actually can't be responded to either. Both actually have the same weakness of getting negated in an open gamestate to quick effect. Also accesscode talker isn't enough to close out game vs full LP without update jammer, which many decks don't have access to, while borrelsword can, but ultimately your point stands that accesscode talker is much more flexible thus seeing much more play nowadays.

[@marcograhamdevilliers3744]

Interesting enough, I have seen player/s that have expensive cards playing in regionals and locals but don’t even know how to use or play them properly. Not disrespecting them. I have always been on the side of not being able to afford expensive cards but extremely great as a duellist. I guess there can be an upside if you know how to win tournaments I get good product then spend too much and don’t get what you want. One time I entered a $4 entry locals and didn’t do that great. But I walk away with an Ultimate rare fallen of Albaz. Didn’t need it but it was good for trades and knowing this I got 3 inperms and a 2 lighting Stoms for it. Point to me is 1 card can get you a ton of resources if you know who where and how to get them.

[@Tyler-Wiley]

You can't really rely on getting lucky and getting packs to fund your experience.

[@Zenbon111]

Glad youre feeling better paul, clean shirt too my boi.

[@sylvestervela6777]

Im a casual for a reason

[@AllBeganwithBBS]

Baronne is a very big culprit of this obviously, but to be fair it's not the only card. Most going second staples are expensive, so much so that whenever I consider getting a playset of one of them, I just decide to build a new budget deck I'm interested in instead. I know I should just grab the staples at some point, but it makes me want to puke just considering how expensive those pieces or cardboard are.

[@latindragon1988]

That's one of the many things I hate about this game I literally have over 700 plus in value just in my toon deck and it's not even a meta deck I didn't pay that much to make the deck but at the same time that's still ridiculous

[@romkin1197]

I think Tele DAD was like $1200 back in the day @.@ and Nekroz being $1000. I remember looking to see what a max rarity Dark World deck would cost (around it was doing FTKs), it was around $850. Cards are expensive @.@

[@TheKatalystQueen]

Usually my max is $20 per copy of any given card I want, unless it's super important or has other value to me outside of just playing the game. I've only gone over that cap a handful of times in the last like 5 years. I don't play competitive so not having stuff like Accesscode isn't an issue for me personally, but I understand the need for these powerful cards. Better believe I grabbed a set of Lightning Storm and Impermanence when Magnificent Mavens dropped though, unbelievable seeing them that cheap.

[@DonMarzzoni]

I hate what Konami does. They should print commons. The people should be able to play on the same level as everyone else. If you want to pay for higher rarity then that's on you. There shouldn't be prohibitively expensive.

[@shawnhawes7545]

The value comes from the exclusivity.

[@DonMarzzoni]

@@shawnhawes7545 that's the problem. A game shouldn't exclude players that don't have the same financial freedom others do.

[@ItsTimeToKool]

I duel with only normal monsters from the first 3 packs ever. I get owned by every 12 year old at locals. I don't play this game. That's a lie I do.

[@BreakerOvTheBlackWinds]

As a budget player myself, budget play can really ruin formats for players. You have budget replacements but for example, when I play dino, I'd like to play droplet going second so I can OTK but can't afford the card. So I have to use dark hole or dark ruler. I use dark hole. My opponents a tear player. I just lost. I use dark ruler. I can't OTK, now I'm forced to give another turn to the teir 0 deck cause I didn't draw ghost belle

[@VinegarPotato]

The great part of this game is there are so many thousand cards that you don't have to play all the new cards. Maybe it makes your deck weaker especially in certain matchups but you can have the element of surprise more than other games

[@autumnrosewood2001]

I have never thought about this before. As a player who has been constantly ridiculed for being unable to afford the best cards, I have always looked at a lot of matches more negatively. After having watched this video, I now see that instead of being worried about what I cannot get, I should be more focused on what I can get. Sure, not ever card has a perfect replacement, but maybe I can instead look for the cards that best serve what I need. For example, Lightning Storm. If my deck struggles against backrow heavy decks, I can run Twin Twisters, Cosmic Cyclone, Mystical Space Typhoon, and various others. If I struggle against monster heavy decks, I can instead bring Raigeki or Dark Hole. All-in-all, this video has provided quite a bit of insight.

[@S0liD4CE]

nice vid. I don't mind you explaining the card effects, it is really appreciated as a new player. This game is really hard to get into and I can't find many well spoken youtubers like yourself.

[@cadasshada9732]

Tbh Konami has control over the secondary market...why else would they short print certain cards? Most brick stores are still gonna buy in massive bulk....and most of those short print only hurt one thing.....that's the buyers in the secondary market....only good thing atm is the tier 0 deck isn't that expensive like other former tier 0 decks....but that could mean another massive banlist with new set coming out

[@epicness877]

I loved watching stuff become staples or crucial main decks of a certain archetype, move a lot, make a reprint kinda late or right before said card gets banned, print new ones, and see the cycle repeat :]

[@alexmcbroom1828]

If you have to budget very cautiously in yugioh, no offence but you probably shouldn’t play the game for the sake of financial importances.

[@danielthorpe5539]

It shouldn't cost you an arm and a leg to play against your friends. Budgeting is a smart approach.

[@alexmcbroom1828]

@@danielthorpe5539 you missed the part where I said “very cautiously”

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

Pretty sure the overwhelming majority of Yugioh players try to budget their disposable carefully with the game. It is just unreasonable for so many relevant cards to be $30+ a copy, just 2 of those cards is the cost of the latest AAA game, or one of those is two trips to [Insert Fast Food Place], and it can run up against the price of some whole "ss rollerblades for a playset.

[@tmoney1487]

Im pretty sure most people have a budget on yugioh. And besides its not about the money you spend on the deck if youre having a fun time with your friends or at locals then you dont need to nessecarily need to budget yourself as much because you dont need your deck to be that powerful. If you dont care about having the most expensive staples and floodgates and extra deck monsters then yugioh is a suprisingly cheap game to play. Especially if you can find a cheap archetype that is just good on its own without having to need a bunch of staples in the deck, MBTs broke boys videos display pretty well that you can build a cheap deck and make it work.

[@geasskira28]

My locals environment is very high power. Of the 28 seats filled every week 16 are occupied by regional ycs tops so I know how impactful not having ash was before the reprints.

[@bleack8701]

This is why I have no intention of building the types of decks you'd expect to find at a regional. Going to locals and having fun with a budget deck is what I'm working towards right now so I don't see the need for running the most meta deck with the expensive cards. And if anyone comes at me with those cards I can just tell them I'm not running those cards. Maybe this way it'd be more encouraging for people to just have fun and not worry if they're running the most optimal decks.

[@FabledSorcerer]

Sure it's easy to play something else instead of an expense staple card if you can't afford it but what about the issues of not being able to afford one or two specific cards that belongs to an archetype that you're trying to build? Especially when the card spikes up to around double the price out of nowhere and you need three of them.

[@TsubasaVotora]

I just made a tweet about this, but i think Master Duel should reevaluate some UR staples. I understand MD has a different meta then TCG, but you (the reader) need to be real with me. Imperm and Effect veiler are both UR. You’d seriously craft Veiler over Imperm? Look at the ghost girls, they’re all UR. Who’s crafting Snow rabbit over ash blossom? It’s a bummer cuz i tried jumping back into the game, but couldnt craft budget variants of the decks i wanted because almost every staple is UR even when there’s clear Budget comparisons.

[@timothyleonard2869]

I purpose a new game mode that uses real or proxy cards that match their tcg or ocg counterpart

[@zenithstudio6819]

In the wise words of me, if you can't ash blossom, then ghost ogre

[@Lordofhorses777]

The problem is that some staples cannot be replaced and are really expensive. For example, the so called best synchro monster atm, baronne de fluer is a staple in the extra deck. But this card is still setting close to $100 and there no good cards to replace this walking omni negate. There is no reason in the world that i should be paying triple digit prices for a piece of card board that cost way less to make just so i can play a card game.

[@Billy_Wyatt]

The thumbnail is really hilarious! But yeah, Paul made valid points.

[@Lucarivyle]

I'm one of those players with a lower budget, my rule is, I don't buy cards over €20, at playsets not over €15 per copy. Also, if I know about upcoming cheaper reprints, I even wait for them. Though I play mostly for fun.

[@izulxeno8063]

I’m 14 so I deal with it a lot but I usually can play decks that are relatively good for a low price like prank kids before it got hit. When ash was at $30 I only had 1 copy but thankfully prices of almost every card other than baronne de fluer have decreased a lot.

[@CPerezFLA239]

That crispy edge thooooo👌😉

[@darkpaladin18]

to be able to afford a card is a wrong term, most of the time i just dont want to spend that much money on a card

[@swegsheephead7621]

2:32 wrong way buddy

[@stephenlawton3295]

I was 15 and got money for my birthday it was around 2009 teledad format and got myself a ccv. There was no budget alternative. Buying the cards/having them is like 90 percent maybe more of the winning side of this game. Same format mirror match you would always run into things like them not having a ccv. X2 Dad x3 solemn. Oddly enough even like 2 d draw. They were 80 each at the time. It's almost everything tbh. Prize cards that are competitive are nasty for the game. Creates a power creep that isn't fair. Having broken cards is fair but having broken cards that are literally limited to 10 copies ever printed gets tricky. I'm not assuming they have a stein, giant hand etc. That's unfair but as far as regular cards it is what it is. Regular supers like bystial are 5$/20$ solely based off of people playing them.

[@186Soup]

I just spend big dollars on old original print 1st Ed cards from goat and older. That way it's unlikely that they will decrease in value. Mostly for the nostalgia is why I buy em.

[@yololivesonce]

the imperm/colossus actually happened to me, he went first and set up a colossus and i drew into imperm for turn and was able to negate and actually be able to play. was able to win the game because of that. if i had drawn into veiler odds are i wouldn't have been able to even play that turn.

[@NightShade701]

I legit have always had a problem with pricier cards. I've always had the luck of right after I buy the deck the cards get a reprint and go down to about 2 dollars when I buy em for 50. Faris and increase, accesscode, borreload savage, swordsoul stuff, and so much more.

[@seekertosecrets]

0:58 And the price is equivalent to 1 month of rent! 10:24 It's called being lucky and fortunate.

[@DustDaRapper]

THANKS PAUL!!! My head is STILL spinning with this game. I for overwhelmed. Yet very excited. It's been fun opening stuff. Smelling fresh prints. Sleeving n ordering my collection cards. Ready for my first duel back 😅 -Hiyruko

[@tiptaphooves]

Paul looks like a dramatic uncle who's about to spill serious tea

[@apsamplifier]

That feels alarmingly close to home 😅

[@martinnielsen2470]

I just can't justify purchasing Baronne De Fleur and I'm certain I could put it in at least 3 decks I play. Chengying isn't bad for a generic lv10 Synchro, I stand by that and am happy to run it, but it does come up. Also, an example of budget cards being potentially better than your meta staples is Raigeki vs Lightning Storm. Lightning Storms restrictions mean your opponent may nor expect a board-wipe if you control a face-up card, or if they control defence position monsters. Raigeki isn't a once per turn which means if you somehow get 2, you can deal with monsters that float by just going again. You can take the budget vs meta idea further. Crossout Designator (while not overly used) is normally going to be used for the best cards, because that's what you expect or need to counter. It will rarely be relevant against people playing budget versions of meta staples. Anyway, my opinion. Konami plz reprint Baronne.

[@erikfigueroa6390]

I can assert that expensive cards do have some edge. I remember i used to run dragoon/village back when dropplet was 100$. The only reason i lost that match was because dragoon got dropplet because i had metaverse instead of terraforming. And dropplet did a chain on metaverse 😂

[@diegomorales7290]

i love your sweater

[@danielmora6776]

In ocg anyone can have a budget top tier meta deck, the expensive model exist only on tcg.

[@mamonzote]

Cards can alsp cost a week in jail ... Worth it

[@amelia9846]

Back when Accesscode was the craze, midrange did a lot better at locals since you knew 3/4 of the people at locals couldn't just accesscode otk you.

[@thezestylime0989]

aside from obvious stuff I've had to buy, a lot of the new cards ive picked up from my nearly 10 year hiatus have been trades. I pulled 2 evenly matched from mavens tournament reward packs, and I traded those for a fair bit of good stuff, borrelload, Beatrice, small worlds, etc.

[@waterenjoyer01]

I'm so lucky with my pulls. I have gotten most staples from random pack openings, and when looking at the prices for some, there's no way I could afford just buying them straight out.

[@gmjjjones]

Okay but I love that sweater!

[@The1GuyOverThere]

I was wondering if you could answer a question that kind of goes along with the mental 'fear' of not being able to afford cards, for a competitive setting? Every Yu-gi Tuber talks about OTKs & FTKs. This is found in all types of videos too; list videos, unsealing packs videos, and staple deck breakdown videos. The sheer idea of getting FTK'd is enough to turn someone like me off of even thinking of trying to compete cause my wallet can't compete... So my question is: How realistic and how often DO competitive games get decided in the first 1~3 turns?

[@jeremycarromero5302]

FTK's aren't that common right now in competitive Yugioh, no meta deck can really pull off a consistent FTK so you don't really have to worry about that. OTK can be more common though, it can depend on the deck but OTK's are much easier to pull off nowadays but that's just unfortunately powercreep. A duel will usually last between 3-5 turns but it's pretty common for it to be just 2-3 turns only. Time is also a factor in tournaments, so it's better to just scoop and go to a next game if the duel looks lost, since time can decide if you lose on time or not.

[@PhobicGamingNerd]

How many turns in a duel really depends on the deck your using and the deck your playing against. If a duel involves a control base deck you more than likely will have a good amount of duels go past three turns. If both decks are otk decks then on average it could be three turns simply because both decks are design to break boards. Another factor to consider is the amount of turns doesn't necessarily equal how long a duel is. You can have ten turns and finish a duel in 10 minutes. Whereas another duel could have only three turns but been 25 mins long simply because the amount of interaction both players are doing on each other turn. Their is no consistent ftk right now in the game. The closest I can think of is using the morphtronic ftk but that deck isn't a competitive deck. It's just a fun casual deck where you hope you can pull it off. If turn count is your biggest concern then you might want to look into control base decks like Sky Strikers, Eldlich, labyrinth, Flowonderezze, Altergeist, maybe even Traptrix since they're getting a structure deck early next year.

[@makidiaz3894]

Idk what sorcery you used for that thumbnail, but the position of your dome caught my attention and made me want to click. Insta subbed for excellent thumbnail tactics ❤

[@chrisbc2117]

I remember when tour guide was going for $120+ finally pull her just for her to get hit and reprinted 😤

[@lordshmee13]

I dont think i have a complete deck like staple wise, even my blue eyes which i love is hindered because cards like the jet were made secret in a mainline set, im a buy a box and buy some online, despite i should just buy singles but i like to support friend who puts cards into his business for my group to buy

[@TammyBoy]

that Thumbnail though LOL! Anyways, Solid points

[@dormagio]

Completely off topic but the image quality is so crisp.

[@walkondefender4759]

This is another reason why master duel is just such an incredible way to play the game. The cards you want to play are so accessible!

[@zero5374]

I think this is a good point. BUT... context of your purchase is important. I live in the woods in Maine with my fiance. Yugioh is a not electronic entertainment, do I need to dump 400 on a card that is meta? No. Ok so I have a friend that has been attending locals, and other tournaments and is really hitting it hard. He would be the one going for that 400$ Meta card, and could justify the expense. Point is yugioh has a vast array of players leading different lives and different levels of investment in the game. And in my opinion no one of them is any worse or better than the other. . . . Until I get OTK-ed over a box of chocolates, than it's on. Lmao

[@ModoTronic666]

What you're saying isn't wrong at all, but you're pretty much stating the obvious. People that want the expensive car that can't afford it, know why they want it and need it. And unless you see the same guy at locals every weekend using the same deck, you never know what new card someone is going to get for their deck. So you can't necessarily play into someone's board with no fears all the time. Even if you play game one and you don't see certain staples doesn't mean he doesn't have them. Maybe he just didn't pull them.

[@NTG360]

I need a playset of Ultimate Slayer but I play Dogmatika Punishment instead. I also want Pot of Prosperity but i run Extravagance instead

[@double8261]

There’s no such things as budget cards only budget decks the only budget “card’s” are side deck cards like 3 pot of prosperity 3 evenly matched 3 ash blossom (cheap now which is a step in the right direction)

[@shendelzarescathach1674]

A lot of rambling here, i dont understand what your trying to say here. Yeah its a no brainer if you cant afford lightning storm & you have to use a budget version like raigeki or feather duster. Theres a reason why those cards expensive, it just gives you more OPTIONS and Flexibility depending on what your going against. Having to use a budget replacement is not ideal but it helps with deck building and makes you a better duelist because your working with what you have. If your not willing to spend money on expensive cards, there is always simulators. I would have killed for a YGO simulator growing up

[@masterflamewing234]

Bro tried his hardest to not say “Pay to win”

[@Luna-Starfrost]

I think budget is a very bad problem in this game. Accesscode Talker for example is still a stupidly expensive card and honestly, you can play almost non of all these "Cyberse Link" decks without him. So yeah, wanna play Salamangreat? Better get ready to pay 40-60 bucks at minimum for a single card (That literally makes 80% of the price for it) or your deck is at like maybe only 60% of the strength it could be, cause you miss a complete (and probably the best) win condition. Same goes for Ignisters, Codetalkers of course and many more. Same thing honestly applies to Baroness. It's a 60-100 bucks card and should be played in ANY synchro deck. If not, the deck is simply a way worse version of what it could be. And those really are just 2 examples of many. Long story short, so many decks are literally locked behind a paywall that is just a single card and it's absolutely understandable that people aren't ready to spend that redicolously much for just a single card.

[@guardme9749]

You look like master splinter and beersus fused together 😂🤣🤣

[@jayr9662]

I appreciate your knowledge 🙏🏽loving all your videos . New here

[@pooolish334]

High prices of Yugioh cards are just a hype train, if you can't top at locals you are wasting your money in meta decks. Once those cards are not relevant or are reprinted they tank in price and a $300 playset can go as low as $60. Just wait for them to drop unless you play a lot in tournaments

[@Chillyvanilly]

duh... first 1 min didnt fit the title, but if you didnt mention it, maybe you get into how the valuation of the cards actually not reflecting the real price of the cards

[@plainbagel9192]

I did a 20$ vanity fiend no fun police deck ended up with a good result ....

[@wonthangsoop]

These days versatility is king. If you're playing a card that only does one thing, you're at a disadvantage. You're always better off playing lightning storm over raigeki any day of the week.

[@BenediktWernicke]

Yeah i can't afford the bystials. Also Back in toss Format we Had to Deal with stuff Like azathot and imperm was Like 100€ so I played veiler instead and then lost 😂

[@redeyesdovah3014]

Believe me i know a thing or 2 about expensive cards lol

[@Phantom-vo8jy]

Yugioh financially has gone out the window... I dont mind because I can sub for cheaper but some of these numbers realistically make no sense no judgement on whose willing to shell out the money.

[@Little_Beggar]

Paul looks 70 in that thumbnail.

[@apsamplifier]

Shiiiddd I feel 70 too

[@masterjedi1980]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Has always been a pay to win game. Yes there has been formats in the past that didn’t break the bank for wins but in 20 years they have been only a few. I’ve learned over the years to play the market and buy early or hold until a reprint is made as long as I didn’t need the card.

[@EMPERORAFRO]

imperm comes in the cyber strike structure deck dat how i got my 3

[@christophkiekhofer5734]

II was in a structure Deck so everyone hast it or can get it