Things Yu-Gi-Oh Should Steal From Other Games

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Yu-Gi-Oh is fun, but it's not perfect. Here are some cues I think it could take from other popular trading card games like Magic the Gathering, One Piece, Pokemon TCG, Digimon, Vanguard, and Lorcana to improve the experience for new and veteran players.
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[@Lizardgreininja47449]

A mulligan feels like cheating though I think it’s unfair for an opponent to get a redraw and then they win agansist you

[@iceyone7137]

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[@brucwayn6403]

CG was a mech series that combined the mmf of evangelion and the political insanity of gundam wing/ seed it was alot of fun

[@EthanKironus8067]

Nice, you got a sponsorship from Code Geass! You really should have COMMANDED us to download it though, even if I wouldn't need convincing. P.S. I don't know your guys' names yet, but to the one doing the sponsor promo: Grade 9 or 10 (I'm 21 now) was when I encountered Code Geass for the first time too, I literally decided to watch it after seeing the first OP on a top 10 list (it placed #6). I've never actually finished watching the main series though, due to a combination of spoilers and it being so depressing I had to tap out at Episode 17 of R1, but I love the animation, music, concepts, etc. Have you watched Akito the Exile(d)? It takes the Knightmare Frame designs to the next level. P.P.S. You forgot to mention Lloyd and "ORANGE!" as your other favourite characters, I'm disappointed :(

[@andimjustalex]

I just want a dedicated sealed draft product, man. Either bring back Battle Packs or copy something like Pokémon’s Build & Battle Boxes or Magic’s Jumpstart Boosters.

[@drago939393]

Aside from/after changing certain game rule and design elements, I 100% agree with you that providing a good sealed format would drastically help improve community while offering a less degenerate format.

[@SNDurgon]

Having an actual draft/sealed product/format again would be amazing. I miss battle packs

[@stephencrawley2862]

Streets of Battle City is the closest thing they've released to that, and it works for sealed draft super well!

[@det06f006]

We only got 2 player duel structure deck now......konami slow af thinking they making more money than other tcg

[@chaserseven2886]

i think Pokémon has very good products, id love for a elite duelist box with sleeves packs tokens and any other gear needed to play yugioh

[@Billchu13]

They would probably need to partner with another company who does accessories.

[@SimonBlueBerry]

Except the main games, those are in the gutter lol

[@arkvoodle38]

Except the sleeves are garbage. Frosted front means u cant tel ur high rarity cards apart from common stuff 😔

[@Mighty-Eight]

At one point they did for a while. When they made the Deluxe Editions in the Zexal Era.

[@yes8362]

@@Billchu13 i mean the pokemon accessories that come in the ETBs or the toolkits are bad just like the Konami accessories so

[@true_joker2621]

That card rarity idea is really good! One reason why I tend to shy away from starting yugioh is that I don't want to spend tons of money on high end cards.

[@peteryanes3413]

Ocg has it I know because i watch a KZbin who opens ocg set where he pull ash super & Secret

[@danlay638]

we've been asking for this for decades. sadly, we will probably never see it coming to core sets.

[@RenegadeGamer89]

Oh don't worry they will make reprints.....about 2 years later when the cards you couldn't afford are power crept. Honestly if you're worried about the cost I would just play on Dueling Book or other online formats. If you want to play in person I would recommend looking into legacy formats. I started playing a lot of Goat, Tele Dad, Edison and Critter Format with some guys at my locals because I just couldn't keep up with current Yu-Gi-Oh. Older formats are extremely cheap for the most part, plus you get to use cards that are never going to be legal again.

[@Xfighter22]

I think instead of a Mulligan, it would be nice if at the start of the duel each player draws 6 cards then returns 1 card to the deck so that they have 5. That way you're opening hand gets a bit consistent, and you can put back one ofs without mulligans completely changing your hand and the outcome.

[@j0j0dartiste21]

Maybe bring back the "first player can draw" rule

[@quasar_catfish]

In regards to Full Art cards, I'd love to see something like Rush Duel's Overrush Rares, where the art extends past the border, but doesn't interfere with the card text most of the time.

[@neko791]

the real thing killing yugioh is that i watched this whole video waiting for the other guy to finish his turn, he's still going.

[@kegananderson3588]

My biggest problem with yugioh is the way people play. Look, I get it, people are there to win. But as someone who learned about the game from growing up on the show and sticking with it series after series, you grow attached to enjoying the game and not just making a deck that will fill up your entire field and give your opponent nothing to do next turn, or an ftk deck that won't even give your opponent a chance to defend themselves. And the fact that it feels like players can get away with boasting so much. It's the reason I stopped playing Yu-Gi-Oh in actual tournaments and now I just stick to master duel.

[@djbaconbitzinc]

I don't blame ya, I stopped playing tourneys because of judges making false rulings and bad calls...also it's the same winners every time and there is often judges playing favorites with certain players. Plus there's also players that often cheat and allowed to get away with it. Although this is what I have experienced, others may have different ones and that's why I just play casually with friends.

[@Elfking94]

I agree. Iv been back for nearly 10 months now and today is the first time iv actually wanted to uninstall Master Duels. I am sick of kashtira and hearing how every yugituber already thinks theyre out dated 🙄 like holy shit no way and my deck is completely unplayable past plat 4 in this format. I may as well go back to Pokemon. And dont even get me started on Maxx c.

[@amara7734]

​@@djbaconbitzincDid you ever consider that the same players top events regularly because they are the most skilled. Look at Jesse Kotton for example, he tops like every event he's in not because he's the judges favorite but because he's just that good. Its like asking why Messi and ronaldo are always getting player of the year, it's cause they're the best

[@djbaconbitzinc]

First off, I don't even know Jesse Kotton, this is the first time I ever heard that name, second, when I used to play in tourney's my teenage years, there wasn't always the same winner...it wasn't till I moved back home is when I encountered dirty players and rigged tourneys, not at my locals mind you but in the next town over. Sorry if I sound rude, it wasn't intended.

[@LeoGuitarize]

@@amara7734 she*

[@JohnnyCProduction]

Konami makes you buy 3 structure decks to make a playable deck while other games you just need to buy one pre build deck.

[@UncalibratedAimbot]

Pokemon has multiple products. They have $10 super low power intro decks that are mostly one or two of each card. They have $15 to $20 medium power decks that have 2 of almost every card (unless you can only have one in a deck like Radiant Pokemon). Then they have the $30 to $35 higher power decks that have 2 to 3 of each card and are usually the basis of a high caliber deck. You still need to spend another $15 to $30 to power them up, but it's generally worth it for the cost. The annoying thing is that they seem to have moved away from the high power starter decks and the medium level decks aren't exactly meta relevant strategies. It's really too bad that companies take these great ideas and make them worse out of greed.

[@JohnnyCProduction]

@@UncalibratedAimbot yeah though it’s still just 1 product you have to buy instead of 3. Sometimes you can go into a card shop or store and they will have one structure deck left though you need 2 more to make your deck. If they just would make one structure deck product that is 30 dollars that would be better on the customer.

[@vileluca]

you dont actually need to buy 3 structures. people just do that.

[@AuthenticMusicalInsight]

And un yugioh top tier cards are from booster. On the other hand; a lot of good and top cards are from premade deck. Example; palkia; chien pao; mew v and v max…

[@UncalibratedAimbot]

@@AuthenticMusicalInsight those cards are also from packs. They just appear in starter decks to make competitive easier/ cheaper to get into.

[@derekfreiley7980]

I like the multiple rarity idea. In DBS CCG, Commons, Uncommons and Rares also have a silver foil version with a full art. It’s an awesome way to bling out a deck that you love. The Super Rares also have Special Rare versions that are exclusive to the booster set. So you can go a budget route or you can go Max Rarity. I’m hoping the Rarity collection is a step in this direction

[@PKSparkxxDH]

Tournament specific rarity would be AWESOME. This game has so many high rarity types now that they don't feel like they mean anything. Having one exclusive to tournament winners / top cut would be incredible. But THEN you have to bank on Konami not wanting to exploit that rarity type for profit...

[@anatoli1234567890]

But THEN you have to bank on Konami not wanting to exploit that rarity type for profit...................LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

While I agree with the need to support alternative formats, you have to be careful with that; Magic has gotten to a point where Commander has taken over the design process in a huge way, and they're now trying to scale back that support because of how much content in non-Commander products is designed primarily for Commander.

[@alexbrangan2885]

Yup. Wizards followed the money. When they saw Commander (and to a lesser extent, Draft) was making them tons of money and Standard and Modern weren't, they started designing most sets to be focused entirely around Commander and limited formats, while also printing Horizons sets to power-creep Modern to hell and force the otherwise-thrifty Modern playerbase to buy them.

[@soogymoogi]

As a longtime Commander player, Magic focusing on making cards for the format has ironically made the format less fun.

[@rtwoxd1355]

@@soogymoogi yes

[@wigglytuffgaming]

​@@soogymoogi The format is basically ruined. All these broken ass cards they print for edh has made the format braindead and unfun. I'm literally selling my 12 year long collection because I'm done with this shit game. Nobody respects rule 0 and the game is filled with garbage.

[@soogymoogi]

@@wigglytuffgaming yeah the amount of people who treat commander like it's inherently a competitive format (at least in playgroups around me, though considering I live in the same city as tcgplayer's hq that might just be a local issue) is also a huge issue. Not sure if that's entirely wotc's fault but it's definitely made the format a loy less fun. I'm playing Digimon now, though I still have my commander decks. I've put too much of myself into them to sell.

[@Alden-]

Pokémon is surprisingly extremely supportive of their competitive scene. They have those theme decks that are honestly god-awful, but they make up for it big time with their other products. You have your yearly world champ decks they release, but they also have actual legit meta decks in their league battle decks. Though, the league battle decks are often released a little bit later than their departure from the meta. They also have the trainer toolkits that don’t have any staple Pokémon, but they have a ton of extremely relevant staple trainers and even meta-deck specific trainers.

[@Laevant]

Slowing down the game might be the best help it can get imo. The fact that you can just special summon up to your strongest monster and more in one turn is the problem. Limiting special summons would be a good way to do this, just trash Nib and make it a maximum of 5 special summons per turn. Heck, just make the maximum summon count 5 per turn.😂

[@anatoli1234567890]

ye this is a problem . second problem is this strongest monster's are so op now that its a 95% win of you get them out.

[@alfredosaint-jean9660]

Have summoning sickness, so traps matter again.

[@anatoli1234567890]

@@alfredosaint-jean9660 its a thing as well. problems this op monsters are most of the time omni negate or have some crazy protections and both. so this in no way fix the " i build a bored on my first turn you can do nothing to" problem

[@user-hw1jd9xc4l]

The number of special summons a deck does is not a good measure of its strength. Purrely summons twice on their turn and once on yours to sit on Noir, Kashtira made Ariseheart in 5. Meanwhile, Synchron doesn't start their turn until they make junk speeder

[@Laevant]

@@user-hw1jd9xc4l True, but that's where the banlist comes in to play right? Arise-Heart is banned already and they can always limit Purrely's spells.

[@king_dm_keyvideoarchive6341]

About the first point you made, I remember a loooooong time ago, back when I was a little kid and yugioh was just becoming a thing, the local toys r us had its own local yugioh community and dueling league. But also, like every week, they had a little pamphlet of different goals people could attempt and get stamps for completing, things like, win with only 2000 life points left, or trade with someone, and other stuff like that. And once you get everything stamped, you get a rare card. It was really cool, and I'd love for them to bring something like that back into locals.

[@personalgamedevyt9830]

Agreed. I still have a few pins I received from the "Duelist League" from my local Hastings when I was a small kid.

[@Dead-Pool3_II_Sij6]

I think how the art is handled for Rush Duel cards would be the way to go for the bigger artwork or at least work from. otherwise I agree with everything you've mentioned like it be cool if Konami announce that their going to do Junior Rule bracket along with the main tournement

[@xCorvus7x]

Absolutely not, Rush Duel cards look awful. They also look a lot like Digimon or Pokémon cards and not like YGO cards. YGO has its own style and should stick to that.

[@Dead-Pool3_II_Sij6]

@@xCorvus7x hey I was in beat with the video and said would be the way to go or something to work from if they wanted to expand the card art size. also rude XD

[@xCorvus7x]

@@Dead-Pool3_II_Sij6 Sorry, didn't mean to be ^^' Should have kept my personal opinion to myself, but I stand by the rest. I'm not sure what it is but the colours themselves look different on Rush Duel cards than on (normal?) YGO cards, which males them look more like cards from other games. I also find that YGO's traditional card design is kind of iconic.

[@Dead-Pool3_II_Sij6]

@@xCorvus7x well in fairness the design difference is intentional as Konami(as least the JP branch) doesn't want Rush Duel cards to be mixed into the prominent duel line of cards while having it stand out in some way. I personally like the overall sleekness the layout for them are as I get to see bigger card art and the condense of info makes it nicer to look at to some cards in YGO as to get some that are a block of text but I do still enjoy the idenity of the cards we've grown with in the past 25+ years

[@ilhammaulana2690]

Then I will be the one who say that Rush Duel card is so good. I like ordinary Yu-Gi-Oh card because it's one of things that make me into the game. But I think Rush Duel card is better in design and functionality. The full image card is cool, the level is easy to check, the effect is more clearer to understand, and I definitely still can see it as Yu-Gi-Oh card.

[@uncensored777]

Persibally I think they should creat a new catagory on the Ban lust where u can only run one of the cards on the list in your deck, to prevent more errattas...exsample Chaos Dragon and Yata on that list so u cant play both in the same deck but u can run 1 or either

[@UncalibratedAimbot]

That's often known as a "complex ban" because the limitations on cards are related to other ones. The Pokemon fan site Smogon has used them in the past but it is generally considered a last resort because it is harder for casual players to learn and keep track of. New players on average will have a harder time understanding why a certain complex ban makes sense, as they just know less about the game. I believe Weiss Shwarz uses a complex ban system.

[@TheLarch]

I played in a weekly Yu-Gi-Oh league about 20 years ago. We got stamps for various actions like wins and types of summons, and completing a stamp section earned you promo cards. I'm pretty sure it was organized by Upper Deck.

[@jamesstone404]

Yes!!! Full arts would be great! Even if they are more collectible or novelty oriented rather than playable. It would be really cool. & I’d love league play. The idea of “collecting star chips” or “getting locator cards” each time you come to an event at locals & getting pins, keychains, or cards would be fantastic!

[@hannamori8955]

I love that you brought up the "full art", "multiple rarities", "exclusive card", because as you shown with the charizard examples, these things are tied and help each other, it can works wonder. Also, For full art you can put it on flex rarity, so that the one that use is more likely veteran player where they won't be bothered by harder to read text, as they most likely already know, or if new player gets it, they will still be happy they have a standout cool looking cards, all in all these are great ideas. As for mulligan, as much as I wish I can agree, the card design state is too late for this lol

[@therockdolphin]

Or half arts. Something Pokémon also did

[@Delcatty16]

They could easily do full art cards on Normal Monsters that don't have effects. The only thing I can think of as to why they don't already have full art cards is Neuron's camera search function might be looking specifically for the borders to check where the art is. Though I'm sure they could find a way around it.

[@redcastlefan]

I think ygo could also benefit from actually facing up to the fact that theres way too many adults playing the game barring entry for kids like everyone has mentioned already. And if they do then they can actually act accordingly and try and fix the bleeding fanbase.

[@austinhall6002]

You know how ARC V has different leagues/tiers they should do something like that at all OTS locations. Different brackets one for kids, one for teens and one for adults or something similar.

[@proxydoesitwrong6331]

Pokemon has a Junior League that makes the game accessible and friendly for kids, Magic from what I seen has a rookie Planeswalker "program" some card shops implemented to get newcomers to try the game. YuGiOh does not have anything like that. I would be excited to see something like a Duel Academy "program" where new Duelists get select prizes and collectibles that appeals to both demographics. Nothing too insane like a tricked out $350 Kashtira card Lol

[@anatoli1234567890]

how you do this? the problem for kids is the game is WAY TO EXPANSIVE .

[@anatoli1234567890]

@@austinhall6002 they did in the past . was a fail sadly as this players you want to do this for just not existing, lots of people get out of this game after they finds out how much cash they need to invest to even have a tier 4 deck.

[@TheNateRule]

Rush Duel.

[@LilyApus]

I think yugioh needs to focus on having a back and forth more than anything, all these archetypes that are designed to lock out your opponent or play on their turn isn't enjoyable for the larger playerbase, at least that's how it seems to me, nothing bores me more than trying to do literally anything and the other person having 10 things they can activate before my turn is over...don't get me wrong i have nothing against meta decks or trying to win but its just so damn BORING.

[@Rain593]

On the multiple rarities thing: The OCG does this already.

[@ninjawxyz1260]

the trainer’s tool box would be an amazing product for Yugioh to have as it is like Duel Devastator where it reprints staple cards but unlike Duel Devastator, it is done every year and comes with the additional accessories that you point out. also the first thing I noticed and loved when I started playing magic that I want yugioh to have is those alt art cards, it allows for more printings of cards sometimes lowering the price and gives opportunities for blinging out your deck.

[@silenthillfan01234]

I’m pretty much finished with my first deck back since 2015. Personally I think more keywords would help, Yugioh cards have famously long text. That and somehow balance it where there’s less things happening per turn. As someone freshly back into it it’s very annoying to have to read a couple paragraphs in order to counter a board, then if you miss an interaction you lose.

[@silenthillfan01234]

FYI it’s Madolche, having orange light at 3 is really nice.

[@thewitchcoven]

It needs a QA team focused on balance. Also maybe it should ban the 3 to 5 cards that have been in just about every deck since their inception in 2017 *cough*

[@thejdrshow2350]

I don’t know about how y’all feel but I feel like we need an open world yugioh game. Now I know that sounds crazy but hear me out yugioh would be a lot more enjoyable to new players if they created a new story game where you can make your own character and go back in the different arcs and duel people and not like the card format but with like the actual holograms and getting in the stadiums etc just to make it more visual and enjoyable. They can create a whole story to go with it but if they created something like that I would buy it

[@mynameisethan182]

On your first point. Konami does something like that....in Japan. Shocker. As you buy from Japanese OTS you show them your Cossy ID card, they scan it, it gives you Konami points you can redeem for sleeves, mats, and other things. Like I have a literal coffee mug from OCG that I got from that. So they're very much aware of this idea.

[@TheMaarten04]

My local Gameshop had a crimson King tourny this Sunday. This was a tourny for the new structure deck. If you brought a friend that didn't join a tourny before he received a free deck. This was with thé intention of getting new or old duelists in the game.

[@amosbird1988]

Back in the early 2000's Yu-Gi-Oh did try a promotional thing at a mall somewhere in Texas.

[@Liam-qr1tc]

I think it says a lot about the game when there’s a lad at locals un ironically using a magnifying glass to read card effects….

[@simonteesdale9752]

While it's less exciting than a lot of these suggestions, there's also some templating and formatting things Konami could adopt to make the cards clearer. Firstly, keywords. Not just stuff like Piercing, but lots of Archetypes have mechanics shared across multiple cards. If you keyword those (and put reminder text on simple commons without much text), you can drastically cut down the amount of text, and make cards easier to read once you understand the keyword. (An example of this would be the Madolche shuffle effect.) Secondly, ability words Ability words are similar to this, but are used to group together stuff where a keyword doesn't fit. An example of this would be an archetype that gives lingering effects when used as a material. Compare the following: "When [CARD] is used as fusion material, that fusion monster gains 800 ATK" Vs " _Inherit_ - When CARD is used as fusion material, that fusion monster gains 800 ATK" The second has more words, but when discussing or explaining the card, players can shortcut to saying that it Inherits 800 attack.

[@lawrencetyrpa]

When you mention full arts, Rush Duel cards come to my mind. The aren't really full arts but you can see how they removed some dead space that there is on the sides of the artwork on the regular YGO cards. Also, the whole level stars section got replaced with one number placed over the illustration. The text box could be partly transparent with some artwork showing through. So there's definitely some room for design choices if they'd be looking for special versions of the cards. Great video, thank you!

[@excalindwurm2511]

funny thing is that OCG already did that multiple rarity thing. Usually a SR in the Booster Packs have Secret Rare version of it in the same booster. Heck even Common can have Secret ver in the same pack (just Like Centurion Emet VI in OCG)

[@ThePurpleRants]

I could see a full print working for a blue eyes or dark magician. Basically anything that doesn't have an effect. Beyond that, I don't think a full print would work.

[@randomprotag9329]

it should be able to work. pokemon has full arts where the text is on the card art

[@hazelafif29]

For Full Arts, Rush Duel card already nailed it. I love Overrush rarity so much, especially the Maximum overush

[@olddeon9863]

With the full art, I think they could do wide frame instead. Like instead of expanding down into the text box, just remove the frame and sides of the art box.

[@triple_gem_shining]

You get 1.4cm of extra art! 😂😂 Idk why ppl even want stuff like that. There's too many rarities to begin with.

[@dsouth7754]

Card text size is a huuugee issue. I've often imagined how much a full art card could actually give text a lot more flexibility with wider margins, partial text box transparency but with a bit of blur for the underlying card art. If the text were just a _little_ bit bigger, man, that would be super duper.

[@randomprotag9329]

yugioh just needs condensed text in general. evergreen stuff which add bloat to effect could easily be keyworded and only very new players would need to ask more thana single time.

[@dragonlofdeath]

Duel devastator was a thing, but the community did not like it or (like always) complained about it. The only thing I agreed with was that you were forced to buy multiples of the product to get a playset of the hand traps. It also didn't help that Dual devastator was Price extremely high By the secondary market if you couldn't find it in big retailer stores.

[@MirehManuh]

on the note of full arts, battle spirits ocg (japanese ver) is ygo sized and has full arts as a staple for high tier cards

[@GTArajgaming]

The card rarity one is pretty good. Here's an idea I'd like to pitch, alt formats using the erata cards from that era (and potentially rulings from upper deck)... would anyone be down for that?

[@KvOverlordgaming]

For the full art, the best way to introduce that is in Speed Duel as prizes but only give normal monsters with no effects the full art treatment.

[@michaelbrown7245]

the center card could also have effects from speed duel and they could make center cards with there own effects aswell for the decks you play

[@Capamike]

Yeah I agree with you on all the things you mentioned. Special cards from event, full art card, difficulty range of the product, a "trainer box" like pokemon, etc. All great ideas

[@mezzorexianoid]

shot through the heart, and you're to blame Yu-Gi-Oh, the card game

[@Mr_Ozone]

I've been wanting Konami to do full arts and alternate rarities for YEARS! I've seen what independent artists can do with making Yugioh full arts and they look amazing, seeing an artist make a full art Bahamut Shark really opened my eyes to the missed opportunity of Konami not embracing full arts like Pokemon and Magic do

[@sinnohan2225]

I agree 100% that Yugioh needs multiple rarities available for some cards. Cards like TT Thrust are completely inaccessible because Konami makes them high rarity even though it’s a necessary 2-3 of in most competitive decks.

[@IGiochiDiTomz]

At the price of a single Pot of Prosperity you could buy ALL Tindangle cards ever printed in 15 copies each

[@lordofninjas1]

These all seem like pretty solid points. I don't get to card shops or game shops enough to really benefit from the league play thing, but I can definitely see how that could be fun and beneficial for others. Printing in multiple rarities would be awesome. I don't really have much else to say beyond that. I don't really go to events or tournaments, but I can see how event exclusive versions of cards and such would be fun. Support for alternate formats would be awesome. I very much enjoy playing our own formats and such with friends and I like coming up with my own format ideas and such. For your mulligan idea, my friends and I played with mulligan rule when we played back in the day. We had our own rules for it though where we only allowed 1 mulligan per player per duel (so in a best of 3 one mulligan per player was available before each duel in that best of 3), it was only able to be used before the starting player took their first turn (in other words you couldn't just randomly mulligan in the middle of a duel), and on the odd occasion we did allow more than 1 mulligan we had it so every extra mulligan you took you drew 1 less card for your starting hand, so normal draw is 5 cards and 1 mulligan would be 5 cards, then if you mulligan again you would only be able to draw 4 cards to start then if you mulligan again you started with 3 cards and so on. As far as full arts go, while I agree it would be difficult to do them on the standard style of card, the Rush Duels card formatting and style seem a bit more built for a full art, so if they were to release full arts I think they would look similar to Rush Duel Cards. I've seen Pokemon, Magic, and Digimon all change card design formatting and such during their lifetimes and have them still be legal playable cards, and I believe all of them do full arts to some degree. If they implemented more keywords that might help with the walls of text issue. the play level system could be interesting. I could see them scale a bit, like if it's a pack that is just like vanillas, basic effects, spells, and traps that would be a level 1, fusions would also count towards level 1, then the more extra deck stuff you add in the higher the level goes, also the more complex effects and such in the product also raises the level. In other words, it would be based on a product by product basis, the more complicated and such the cards contained in the product are to understand and play with and such the higher the level, with the opposite also being true, the easier the cards in the product are to understand and play with the lower the level would be. For example, if it's a box of Legend of the Blue-Eyes that's an easy level 1 because there aren't really any complicated or difficult to understand cards in that set, something that plays archetypes or a specific type or attribute (like the older Structure Decks and such like Dragon's Roar and Zombie's Madness) could be level 1 or 2 depending on complexity, then something that isn't necessarily tournament ready but includes "walls of text" cards and more than 1 extra deck mechanic and archetypes and all that different sort of stuff could be a 2 or 3 depending on complexity and number of extra deck mechanics and stuff like that. Basically, the more you have to read and the longer combos take and how many things those combos do and such would be the determining factors.

[@mmgoso8590]

Full art in some art cards and a QR for the information and where you can change the language.

[@minibakerlad6528]

I would love to see some drafts events in MD. Starting from the LoB to ...... era. So new players can learn how the game works. A week later, another draft event starting from where it left off till another era of packs. This is how new players can learn the game on their own pace, and progressively get better at understanding the game

[@MaxxCTCG]

I love the idea of product labels to for level of play! I think that would be great for new players. I think the trainer tool kit sounds cool too. I think it would be nice if they had competitive deck starter set. You get a version of a starter deck where its all three decks built with a competitive setup with all the cards neeed to get goin out of the box. Cloth playmat, sleeves, deck box. Something someone could pickup and realtively keep at a locals with

[@rdubtheislander238]

A lot of good suggestions in this video. I would love the return of Battle Packs and some type of a draft format. Can you imagine cards like a common or rare Pot of Prosperity that you could pull in a draft format, use in the tournament, then after you've done you get to keep it? The unique printing of a YCS rewarded Ash Blossom or equivalent could create amazing one of a kind collectibles. They would definitively be a flex, but that's exactly the kind of things the game needs to be interesting. It could be printed in a special "Champion Rare".

[@ChizFri]

2 player starter sets would be a great addition too. Something simple but with 2 distinct deck themes so that a new player can get a taste for different strategies while also learning the ropes.

[@ynnaD2413]

I wonder how most yugioh players would feel if the ban list was like duel Links ban list. Personally I think that ban list is overall a better system and makes the game more fun by burdening decks more on the list.

[@phorchybug3286]

The cards some times get a couple of other different rarities. I got both a secret and a common Z-ARC.

[@Netherwolf6100]

I would love to see rotating formats and banlists as well as themed decks for specific tournaments. Meaning, you're only allowed a small number of splashable cards while your entire deck has to be centered purely around 1 specific archetype. As cheesy as it sounds, it would kinda make things more like the anime where people can't mull together multiple different engines together to create overpowered decks

[@thecalieffect]

I need help. I see team aps vids I click.

[@garnersgames8145]

We are working on an Anime Format idea but, not doing the limited version that doesn't allow Link or Pendulum cards. Going with the Single only cards unless a card states you have to use multiple copies (Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon or Hero Kid). Also any card that list cards (searches for x, y, or z) all of the listed cards must be in your deck. Polymerization is the only 3 of card allowed on it's own. Pot of Greed is allowed at 1. Everything else follows the current Limited and Forbidden list. Did our first event last week. Started off pretty good

[@abelw.6033]

Would you guys at Team APS be open to trying a fanmade format? I have developed a handful of board games and have a pretty fun casual Yugioh format, but I dont know if you guys are even open to that idea.

[@Gebirges]

I remember the point system you mentioned from early GX. You got points for multiple objectives. From playing games, trading cards, summoning certain cards by tribute, ritual or fusion, or buying cards. It was insanely fun in Germany back then. Spend all day playing the game We got packs and other Merchandising from the shop. Perhaps I can find these old stuff and send it to you on Twitter. 😊 EDIT: I sadly can't find anything for it online, must've been prior to the internet archiving everything. We basically got a small booklet with multiple tasks that had space for stamps and each time you did finish a duel or something happened within that duel, you went to your judge/shop keeper and you got a stamp for it. Once you got enough tasks done, you got a price. (Tournament packs aswell) Been a great time, tell you that much.

[@duelistsyncjd]

All are good ideas tbh oh trainer tool box thing ygo had was those big special ed boxes like in 2014 ish if anyone remembers zexal or 5ds sleeves back then I know like 09-14 ish some tins or box’s had them

[@Rook_RX]

Hopefully someone else has already mentioned it but in the early days of Yu-Gi-Oh!, there was a Duelist League hosted through places like Toys R Us! There was a book you filled with stamps. There's where Hobby League promo cards are from!

[@user-it2vq4xk3l]

i honestly agree on the 2nd rarity one because as of being a 13 year old in high school who has been playing yugioh since 2017 it's been hard to get good meta cards for me a perfect example of this i have almost 20 slifer the sky dragons and 1 evenly matched the only best way for me is if i go on a holiday to a big city and i did last week but didn't get any yugioh cards because i was mainly focusing on going to the university of sydney but at least yesterday i got the crimson king structure deck plus one of the last ones i've been doing with my friends since we were 11 we call it rigged hands so you look at your deck get five cards any but theres a limit you can't have all five exodia cards but you can have one card of exodia

[@tonelesspanda2636]

A cool idea for the "advanced" player purchasable product could be like the second hand party power cubes but official Konami product with garenteed meta staples such as ash blossom infinite impertenance or like maybe a boss monster like (just examples) AA Zues or access code maybe. Just good all around staples.

[@tonelesspanda2636]

That with maybe a few packs with maybe a higher rarity chance. Or packs made specifically with guaranteed rarity

[@alexandersavage305]

I feel that if the TCG takes notes from the OCG, a lot of the product-related issues will be gone. Also, it makes me so happy to see you guys get sponsored.

[@r3zaful]

You guys don't have ranking tournament like ocg?

[@robometabee]

Honestly one of the biggest things that bugged me was how yugioh went about rarity was depending on how they want to foil the cards. I would've loved to see them make symbols with different colors for rarity, different shapes for the rarity like pokemon did. If they rarity in a way like that, they could probably make some good or great looking foil cards. I feel like like some of yugioh cards regardless of rarity would look awesome with foil done right.

[@georgewashington63]

Maybe they could make the font on xards bigger or make it where there's less words

[@pyunker11]

Other interesting product ideas, 1) rivalry of warlords deck kits. 8 decks, like speed duels, with a full strategy in them. Can also mimic the SD secret rares for chase cards. 2) an "elite" structure deck. With a higher price tag you may only need to buy 2 of these to complete play sets. Include stronger, more relevant reprints of the lower rarities. For if an unchained deck came out today with 2 thrust, 2 tactics, and 2 pots and most of the specific extra seck. sold at $45-60 I think they'd fly off the shelf

[@Um34]

To add onto the trainer tool kit, in pokemon it ton of trainer and item cards that are staples. When I first saw it I always thought that yugioh players could benefit from it, a single box that has the majority of the most common staples. I think that could bring the cost down for a new player since they could get most of the staples they need, then they could buy structure decks, singles, or entire engines that they can experiment with.

[@Rossco1010]

As a person playing both Pokemon tcg and Yugioh what I would really love is Yugioh having a lot of the product and card rarity variety pokemon has. Make those special boxes with the high rarity card people want instead of just structure decks, I love that in Pokemon I can get the cool Tyranitar ex card guaranteed with a box set that still gives me other packs. Also make cards with different rarities in the same set, the fact that I can get those high value cards in 2-3 rarities, a playable common/uncommon one, a full art one, a alt art one, or a rainbow rare one those all massively increase the cards playability by having cheap regualr versions while also making those alternate rare cards feel so special. My full art Dawn Piplup plays the exact same as a regular common Piplup, but its so much nicer to have. Yugioh definitely needs to do this to both lower the cost of the game overall for players who are just trying to play, and it makes those rare hunters have more unique cards to hunt for by pulling packs. Like Id absolutely pay extra for a full/alt art version of my favourite cards, while also making the normal versions of those cards 1/4 the price they currently are.

[@SwagMaster824]

They do side events for all kinds of formats at bigger events like regionals and YCS. Not saying you don’t have much experience going to YCS as of late but what you mentioned around the 7 min mark about alternate format support is already a thing. At the 250th YCS in LA, which I attended, there was a lot of side events that you were able to sign up for. I signed up for about 3 besides the main event YCS, and had a lot of fun. There was Edison and other stuff going on in those side tournaments, as well as YGO Day, Pegasus and other things. It wasn’t perfect but they’re working on it. They won’t do a YCS for Edison format in 2023 which is what I’m sure that you’re thinking about but they do support the alt formats in bigger events for sure.

[@humanoid251]

“Yugioh could stand to experiment with [mulligans]” they actually have. If you look up the rules for Sealed Pack tournaments (Structure Deck or Sneak Preview events) they have a rule where if the players don’t like their opening hand they’re allowed to shuffle them back into the deck and then redraw. It’s an optional rule so you gotta double check that your event organizers are cool with it

[@derrickhaggard]

Shadowverse and it's real-life counterpart Shadowverse: Evolve handles the concept of Mulligan really well as once you draw your first 3 cards at the start if you suspect you have cards that you can't play/use or a crappy hand in general you can put either 1, 2, or all 3 cards back into your deck, reshuffle the deck and draw either 1, or 2 new cards or a new starting hand but the catch is you can only do this before the very first turn of the entire game. So if you have to Mulligan at least with Shadowverse/Shadowverse: Evolve you have to be sure it's necessary as there is a good chance you can screw yourself over big time by drawing new cards that you can't play/use or a even worse hand then your starting one and you're stuck with said cards you can't play/use or even worse hand for the rest of the opening turns of the game.

[@makaveliandcheese]

Great video!

[@ZyxWhitewind]

I play in Japan and funny enough a lot of these ideas are already things I see in the ocg. I like the mulligan idea though. Maybe only the going second player gets a mulligan? Or you have to mulligan your whole hand and draw one less card for balance? Could be a cool new master rule though.

[@r3zaful]

Duel links have all hand shuffling before, nerfed thrice to the point that you can't special summon if you use it. Sure dude put restart in master rule, this is yugioh where a single card means winning and losing a game in one turn. Double deck format like master duel back then is a lot better.

[@jamesk5510]

The Rarity idea would make alot of IRL kaibas lol

[@fatal_263]

I think if you mulligan you should only draw 4 instead of 5, or the opponent draws an extra card

[@j.a.g816]

the dragon ball card game does it reaaly well with the rareity. we got sr's and sr's have a really rare version called a spr, which is the same card but really cool looking

[@makotost8425]

Having full-art vanilla monsters would be great for casual players running classic archetypes as well as collector's who dont play anymore

[@greenbeetless]

My store has what they call league play, but it’s just a monthly tournament with points. Every Wednesday we have our OTS tournament and you get points based on placement. On the last Wednesday we get additional prizing based on performance. It’s cool, but my locals has every meta deck and loads of Floo. Here I am playing Libromancer and trying not to get drolled.

[@Terry.M.I.]

with the formats the thing i think is most important is the accessibility of formats master duel is the biggest yugioh game arguably and they don't even have them on there as an OTCG player because its cheaper and accessible i never play irl. ive suggested mana before and every yugioh player shuts that down instantly maybe adding colors? such as making attributes an acutal rule like only lights in your deck ect? adding restrictions make the game more fun imo.

[@historyking9984]

The league thing would definitely make the community aspect better.

[@anatoli1234567890]

not really.

[@skullsquad900]

Mulligan would be the worst thing to ever happen to YuGiOh. It is a mechanic created to patch inherent flaws with a game system's deck building rules. *as some games force you to include Bricks that you need to Mulligan to get out of...

[@numberoneappgames]

Konami is willfully lazy. :( I hope they learn something from this video.

[@timyoung3629]

I wish Yugioh would do there text like MTG sometimes. Like how they have flying which means you can attack directly. Sometimes I get confused on the wording of some cards.

[@Sentientscarecrow]

As someone who grew up playing Yu-Gi-Oh and loved it. I still play solo content on master duel. The power creep pushed me away from the game. Having moved across to commander in MTG, I'm having so much more fun. Sad to say goodbye to playing physical Yu-Gi-Oh, but mtg is just so much better for me

[@craigjefferies1096]

rush duels have full art cards which I wish would get a release world wide also maybe reboot capsule and dungeon dice monsters

[@vanitywashere5985]

For the mulligan idea, i think players could experiment with the selection mulligan but in this case they only get to swtich out 1 or 2 cards. Im not sure if this would truly work as ofc most decks just need that one card to start the combo but only drawing 1 or 2 card can balance it a bit. Im not too sure but this is what i think yugioh can implement mulligan

[@randomprotag9329]

yugioh is generally fine with out a muligan as there are no land or energy which is completely useless with out other cards

[@maxiom7476]

I play exclusively MTG. The way our mulligan system works is we draw a hand of seven cards, and if we dont like it, we shuffle it back into the library, draw another 7, and if we like that hand, we choose one card and put it on the bottom of our library, starting the game with six cards. We can repeat this process as many times as we like, however each time we have to put an additional card on the bottom of our library. This current mulligan rule is called the London Mulligan. In Yu-Gi-Oh, if you were allowed to mulligan, I think the ruling wouls have to be much more strict than in MTG if there are decks that can regularly win on the first turn. Maybe something like, to mulligan, you redraw your hand and your opponent randomly selects a card for you to put on the bottom of your library?

[@pyunker11]

Speed duel already has "main events" but they're only on remote. The prizing is amazing and there is no reason why they can't do it at a normal ycs.

[@therockdolphin]

They do kind of do the different rarities being with starlight, collecters, and ghost rares. I get that it's a small portion of cards that get that treatment, but it should be stated as a starting point as opposed to the non-existent starting point people think we have.

[@X23SSaviourGundam]

"Pokemon, Magic, Lorcana and One Piece" **Cries from his Digimon corner**

[@ohnoowo]

-cries in zatch bell-

[@shadowboy2417]

2 of my locals shut down this summer. Now the closest "locals" is like 3hrs away

[@Runhurd]

the card rare in all rares I think that a good idea, I would raver use all common cards for my decks than shiny, cause I can see the card are more clearly. shiny cards are nice but people put high prices on them and it hard to get the cards you want, even if the card a theme card that only work for a theme. other game formates I say that to but also need a formate where the field has all the formate set, like the pendulum zones in the outer sides back, like a field showing all and it your choice how you play the formate. like a rule book showing which formate you play in which zones are off limits or so on. so people can play back with out the extra monster zone. also why not a deck type ruling, like mass destory and negate cards limited to mainly 1 per card. like if you put in a spell. trap or monster that nuke the field you cannot add anymore cards with effects like that in. basic limit the use of cards so people can have fun and not win in one turn and ruin the game for others. I want to play the game, but if I can't play can't do a turn, then what the point, its no longer fun

[@chappy9245]

I don’t care about flexing card rarities. I just want the price of necessary cards I need to build a deck to be lower so I can actually PLAY the game 😅 this can apply to many other people & decks as well. A lot of Extra deck cards are too expensive

[@otterfire4712]

OCG Yu-Gi-Oh still does multiple rarities. Any card printed as a Super or Ultra will have a Secret Rarity and some will have rarity beyond that. TCG has gone through several changes, removing Rare rarity from core sets, shifting Super rare to the bulk rare. TCG Secret Rare aren't alternate rarities for Super or Ultra rare cards. Card Text Formatting could use an overhaul though it'd likely require a reboot to implement such a change, unless they format the text like OCG, which if you aren't familiar with that just take a look at some cards even if you can't read the text, the formatting is still understandable in that you can determine breaks between effects.

[@WaterNinjaFrog]

I played yugioh before magic but when I first got into magic they had a deck building tool kit and it was awesome Gave you a huge selection of cards you needed plenty of lands to make more than one deck plus boosters it was great! Yugioh should have something similar as a Yugioh Boomer it’d help me get back into it

[@Mosiak1897]

The training kit box is a brilliant idea for newcomers.