Weird Yu-Gi-Oh Rules Players Say.

The rules of playing Yu-Gi-Oh can be really complicated, especially when you're reading the cards.
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#YuGiOh #Skit #Complicated

[@LCFM537]

How can YuGiOh be hard? its a kids game right?.....

[@aiwenchew6269]

But Yugi made it look so simple *Pointing to the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh*

[@chrisgonzalez5883]

@@aiwenchew6269 yes back in the first generation. Now it's a whole headache 😔

[@jaredcassidy7635]

Well, it was until the Battle City Saga

[@88Vrus88]

Because konami is Terrible at wording and making actual rules. i played like 10+ Trading card games and none was so bad like yugioh in that mather.

[@emperorofscelnar8443]

Actually Yugioh was meant for teens and young adults, 4kids TV just turned it into a kids show because they assumed only kids play card games.

[@johnwalker1058]

With each passing day, I gain more respect for Dr. Crowler for having a PhD in dueling.

[@Nopulu]

I'd have a PHD in dueling too if the requirements were understanding how Ring of Destruction worked lol

[@wiewio8035]

First you get PHD in dueling, and then you dress up like this. Im sure there is a bigger picture that we just don't see

[@phantomkrieger2744]

To be fair he probably got his phd during dm era Yu-Gi-Oh! Or his research would’ve been based off of dm era. If you had shown crowler an Albaz, tearlaments, or even a numeron deck he’d probably have no idea what was going on. I mean he couldn’t even beat what was basically a glorified version of the first vampire structure deck.

[@lacus4896]

How the hell do you get w dueling phd

[@Muuony]

@@phantomkrieger2744 to be fair he was running pre legacy support ancient gear that deck has 18 seprate bricks in it

[@depressedkermit5337]

Duel Academy seemed like a dumb idea when I was younger but it's starting to be a lot more believable to me as a concept.

[@patrickzalatoris3206]

With all this expanding bullshit to the game, makes magic the gathering look like a preschool game

[@arclight3213]

Jaden sees pendulums and links and handtraps and be like "Back in class, they never taught us this."

[@lord_wyran]

@@patrickzalatoris3206 magic is like chess, it has defined rules and interactions, easy to pick up but hard to master. yugioh is calvinball and since you didnt speak backwords while hopping in a circle on one foot i get to destroy your monster and draw a card from your deck

[@patrickzalatoris3206]

@@lord_wyran no idea what calvinball is, but from the sound of it, it's basically a game you make up rules as you play

[@tapewormrage]

This made me physically ill. Not just because the game is absurd, but that I understood it because I play it.

[@BradBrowncoatBrony]

Same. Except I felt guilty for some reason instead.

[@davidavila2082]

😭😭😭

[@CamKoudo]

As someone who studies law, I think yugioh players would make great lawyers xD They have already nailed the art of overanalysing every single word xD

[@michaelstephens4992]

But it's a well known fact that Yu-Gi-Oh players can't read!

[@MoonMoverGaming]

A lawyer might even make enough money to build a competitive deck, too!

[@King_of_Blue-Eyes]

Wise words

[@DG_Raizen]

@@michaelstephens4992 To be fair, do all Lawyers read evidence?

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

We feel the text in cards just like we feel the testimony from witnesses do you feel me?

[@TeamAPS]

Before anyone gets too upset, don't worry: we were obviously exaggerating some things in this video for effect! That said... Yu-Gi-Oh can still be pretty complicated sometimes! 😅 Hope you all enjoyed this skit! Drop a like and share it with a friend!

[@SleepLessThan3]

Why is my opponent explaining my own cards to me 😭😭

[@Thatoneguy48147]

Exaggerating some things in this video is not an effect. Its a condition. There is a difference

[@Bottleorum]

Small World is not an exaggeration.

[@captvalstrax]

Where's the lie, though? As a Fire Kind and Sacred Phoenix player, how those archetypes can "destroy" cards in hand or in deck.

[@Scooby2120]

Yugioh TcG being over exaggerated since when I just thought that's how it's supposed to be played

[@SleepLessThan3]

You know, I've been playing this game on and off for a couple years and I still end up with my opponent explaining my own cards to me 😂😂

[@dark_knight_3304]

Lmao same or if they explain it to me and it sounds right I’m like 👍 sounds good 😅

[@BladetheFox141]

As if they know how your own deck works.

[@SleepLessThan3]

@@BladetheFox141 and I don't 😭😭

[@King_of_Blue-Eyes]

It’s normal

[@ASavageEye]

I have been playing in tournaments since 2006 and I still get that. Lets not forget there are over 11K cards in this game. Nobody can be expected to know all the rulings. I often add in cards thinking they work one way, only to discover they dont do what I think they do. My worst experience with this was when I tried to play a card and destroy my opponents monster to do burn dmg only to discover it would destroy my own card and deal dmg to both of us.....instantly killing me in the process. Sometimes I just read things wrong 🤣🤣

[@AznYunHou]

I faced a kid who joined the locals for first time. When he used Small World, he thought it was just pitch from hand and grab from deck. I still explained the concept of Small World to him since Virtual world was pretty complicated in terms of what to pitch since most have same level or type or stats etc. At the end, he chose not to use it, as they had only one card that can be bridged but didn't want to use it as it's a combo piece. At the end of the game, I just gave him a Gadarla Kaiju cause it's a wind monster that can be used as the bridge piece but will still be useful for actually countering towers decks.

[@endymallorn]

That was kind of you.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Good on ya.

[@emissaryofcharybdis105]

Aw, that was sweet of you. The community needs patient and generous people in it to ensure new players can feel welcome to join in on the admittedly super complicated fun haha

[@baileydombroskie3046]

Such a nice fella. Happy to hear it.

[@kevinlarson9964]

What 😀

[@glitchmakerygo]

"Activate Pole Position?" "What does it do?" *Judges begin preparing for a 30 ruling Knightmare

[@bl00by_]

Nothing because the rulings on infinite loops got changed :)

[@christopherb501]

Do people sidle up to a table at Locals when it happens, like a "30"-car pileup; you just can't look away?

[@TheEmperorHyperion]

"Prepare to qualify!"

[@VaderTheWhite]

Yeah, a lot of old players just had their assholes tighten hearing those three words

[@alex_fields]

Ever have somebody tell you a card effect and you needed to have them repeat it but slower? No? Um, me neither. 😅

[@ILuvMoogles]

I'll always ask my opponents what their card does then give up halfway through their description and ask to read their card instead. It drives my best friend insane.

[@chrisshorten4406]

Too often

[@MikeMozzaro]

But what's it do? Weeellll....

[@vileluca]

@@ILuvMoogles Difference between being an audio and visual learner

[@HFoxy]

once or twice.

[@randomperson5579]

Pole position is actually really easy to explain, It just magically brings a judge over to your table. then most of the time pole position just goes to the GY. it also has another effect where the player who didn't play pole position becomes slightly annoyed because it was a waste of time.

[@Nerobyrne]

"No, I'm not targeting your card, I'm choosing it." When I first read an effect like that, I thought it was a mistake. Then I was actually mad. Now it's my favourite card 🤣

[@blankazure217]

I had to try to explain that to a few players at an ARG event years ago (pre-link era) when I topped with ghostricks. Flipping dark destroyer and forerunner, opponent says they can't be targeted, explain I'm not, then they have to read scare or go-around. You can see the anger sometimes

[@baileydombroskie3046]

And this is probably why cyber angel dakini is 1 of my fav ritual monsters.

[@xCorvus7x]

Does this still happen, if you go through the different stages of chain building? If you don't declare targets on activation but immediately ask for a response, then it should be clear what's going on.

[@Nerobyrne]

@@xCorvus7x I only ever played digitally, because keeping up with this many rules in real time is too much for me. However, I'm perfectly fine playing MtG live. I suppose there's just something about how the rules work there that works better for me.

[@blankazure217]

@@xCorvus7x yes and no. It's a 'selection' more than a targeted effect, so in the chain you can respond to the selection with other effects, but you can't respond if you use a 'if this card is targeted' or 'when this card is targeted'.

[@jacobmonks3722]

Love how some of them were literally just taking shots at some individual cards with ridiculous effects.

[@ajkcool]

When I first started Yu-Gi-Oh I was like "Why do these cards sound like they went through a legal team?" Then I realized with how jank some of the wording is and the chance of loopholes, it probably WAS sent through a legal team.

[@emissaryofcharybdis105]

A lawyer's mindset is the only way to explain Fortune Lady Every's OP banish effect haha

[@blastmole299]

I think that's the reason, to prevent any loophole that can be abused by players

[@SSNNPBCC]

@@blastmole299 meanwhile we still find new loopholes to exploit because we can

[@monkfishy6348]

It's primarily because there's so many cards in the game and there's so much power creep. It used to be "cannot be destroyed by battle" was almost unbeatable. Then "cannot be targeted or destroyed" was unbeatable. So to power creep further they had cards non-target banish, send, return or otherwise remove cards.

[@ChouRaiyuki]

I'm not that familiar with YGO as a card game but I do remember casually thinking for years that "This card can only be special summoned by" was meant literally. I'd imagine that I wasn't the only one and from as far back as then they updated wording to be as extra specific as possible to avoid that kind of thing

[@HakureiIllusion]

Batman: "This is where I watched my parents die, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder." Zeus: "Bro they were sent, it's different"

[@dragonberrymead9525]

I remember when magic cards where changed to spell cards, my friend trying to argue that they were different things lol. "No, it specifically says destroy spell cards, my card is a magic card."

[@nathanielbass771]

in modern yugioh, unless there was a ruling or rule change to say so, they would be considered different XD

[@LancelotAlex91210]

The execution of this was fantastic, just the casual attitude like all this makes complete sense kills me. Also love bit for Linear Equation cannon, card is just so ridiculous and it’s great.

[@christopherbouska6779]

As a teacher trying to teach students at his school who've never played Yu-Gi-Oh before, this video feels way too real! Thank you for making this

[@Scooby2120]

Larry's unconcerned looks in these skits is great

[@vonv7784]

"I TRIBUTE YOUR MONSTER FOR A KAIJU, TOO LATE YOU CANT RESPOND " I WAS SO TRIGGERED

[@stayflyxx]

Learning that MirrorJade doesn't get its effect after detaching from Purrley made me finally say, "These rules are stupid"

[@monkey_blu]

Sangan had that ruling for almost 10 years. When cards are treated as Xyz materials they don't count as "being live" on the field.

[@Medbread]

Me as a Purrely player: :)

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Half of Yugioh is semantics.

[@mudlio706]

@@chazzitz-wh4ly Like “if this happens” vs “when this happens”

[@SakuraAvalon]

@@monkey_blu Technically they did at release. Then it got changed/updated. So even Konami was confused on how this shit works.

[@coolbrotherf127]

"Your monster's effect has a colon after it, mine has a semicolon. They are too completely different things."

[@silversalamence10]

The smash cuts when Alex was about to explain what his cards do was top notch ngl.

[@jaimereupert4247]

But inquiring people want to know the card effects! 😢

[@insertusername9755]

Kaiba was right at setting up that dueling school. I am very happy for Master Duel, makes playing a lot easier!

[@erickchristensen746]

A children's card game should never have needed such insane explanations lol.

[@wiewio8035]

Imagine going to an tournament and your opponent plays Lineal Equation Cannon

[@yukureimu8403]

D i g i t. J a m m i n g.

[@TheLordFader]

As someone who recently tried to get into Yu-Gi-Oh outside of collecting the old nostalgia cards from my youth, this is so relatable. I can't play with friends and family because we don't have a cipher for these card effects and new summon types.

[@Akari-br7ci]

GX first came out, me and my friends would joke about how ridiculous it was that they made an entire school just to teach kids to play a card game. Now. . . not so much.

[@iPhantasm]

3:00 THEY DID IT! THEY SAID THE MAGIC THE GATHERING THING! Gotta love the skits coming back to the channel!

[@Zetact_]

...How can MtG players say "reading the card explains the card" when that game uses keywords constantly?

[@WangerZ3291]

​@@Zetact_ on lower rarities, cards with keywords have a reminder text stating what the keyword is.

[@wigglytuffgaming]

@@Zetact_ A wise friend of mine once told me: "Yu-Gi-Oh is more about learning the cards, Magic is about learning the game." That always stuck with me, ive played almost every card game ive ever heard of and it always holds up when showing other ppl.

[@christopherb501]

@@Zetact_ It's assumed that you can learn the keywords. This is mixed; some, like flying or its counter-mechanic reach, are intuitive and are ubiquitous enough to be picked up quickly; some, like bushido or epic, are clunky and near-nonexistent enough to be easily forgotten, and others, like mutate, "the monarch", stickers, "the Ring tempts you", etc., are so bafflingly wordy and needlessly convoluted you question why the designers ever bothered.

[@HakureiIllusion]

@@Zetact_ Because most keywords are intuitive enough for instant recognition and base-level understanding. Even if some things in MTG have gotten a bit more complex and less clear-cut in recent years, you practically never run into a Branded Lost vs. Ash Blossom situation where semantics make a card behave/interact totally differently.

[@lordbored7006]

2:45 ...and red reboot. ...and feather storm. ...and typhoon. ...and phantasm spiral traps. ...and some marincess traps. ...and some jank black wing traps. ...and magical musketeer traps. ...and tachyon transmigration. ...and zefra war. ...and NEXT. ...and while opabina is on field. Or atrax. Or ebon high magician. Or jetroid. ...and with makyura setup. ...and after resolving *bubble illusion*

[@Infamouscritter]

The skits are getting way better ! This one was clean🔥

[@capitalg6]

Amazing skit! And I understood most of it! 😅 Glad to see a lot of the other members of Team APS! Love y’all!

[@geoffreyhall7370]

This video was simply beautiful in a multifaceted way. It humorous for those that understand while also being reasonably educating for people like me that are learning but don’t know how to read cards yet

[@darnellreyes571]

You guys broke it down better than the 20 pages of rules thanks guys ❤ plz bring more

[@thezamber0123456789]

“When it is destroyed” and “If it is destroyed” are completely different English speaker: How does that even work?. Duelist: Welcome to Yu-Gi-Oh

[@nathanielbass771]

apparently the distinction is that "if" always applies once the condition is met but "when" only applies at that exact "when" . These conditions can then be worded similarly to mean almost exactly the same thing as well. For example, "when/if this card is in the graveyard" is identical. I don't know how they would rule on a card like that. so, for example, "if this card is sent to the graveyard", the condition lasts forever unless it states otherwise. "when this card is sent to the graveyard" is only there and then.

[@mbclove1]

Man ive missed these sketches. Always 🔥🔥🔥

[@anotheremail7118]

Yugioh can be complicated with the way effects are read. If you're a new player, I strongly suggest trying out duelingbook. The community is very nice and will be more than happy to help you understand how your cards work.

[@Deviacon]

These kinds of overly convoluted semantics tied to game play are the biggest thing I hate about this game, and I really thought after 20+ years they would have sorted it out, but it only gets worse every year. This skit nailed those feelings perfectly!

[@raykirushiroyshi2752]

Nah my brother, the semantics aren't too convoluted,they are too convoluted for you ,big difference

[@JumbaJumby]

Been playing this game for 20 years...they're too convoluted lol People get so focused on learning how it is that they lose sight of whether it's actually good design.

[@nathanielbass771]

@@raykirushiroyshi2752 really? almost all of current decks revolve around "either your opponent has a hand trap, a monster that sacrifices your monsters, a card that sacrifices your cards... or you win" I faced a deck that could banish half of my deck before my turn even began...

[@TheFatalcrest]

XD NGL three of these examples would make me call a judge ruling because I'd think they were trying to BS me on something

[@ruyman90]

I had this recent argue: "You can't use defusion on starving venom dragon, you see I used superpoly to summon starving venom dragon that requires 2 dark monsters in the field. But because the materials that were used were "2 monsters on the field" you can't summon it as those materials become are now 2 monsters on the GY, so it doesn't work"

[@bridgeseller7004]

Well, technically you can use de-fusion, you just can't summon the materials. Fun interaction though.

[@ivanbluecool]

I honestly feel more worry when playing with an easy win in master duel. Makes me second guess myself especially when they have one card in hand as it could be ash or nabiru

[@bushidokori]

I've missed these shorts. They make me smile every time because it's legit

[@CompressionPolice]

Why do I feel like Alex is the type of person to run those cards and not think they're very complicated 😂

[@darklewd9844]

Lubellion summoning from the GY (or hand) because it's his Summoning Condition not effect. Yes he is in the "Special Summon Only Monster" type in OCG.

[@buddyzilla4557]

The title has two meanings when you recognize "Yugioh" is also what the Pharoah says he goes by in the English dub. Considering how deep his voice gets from regular Yugi despite sharing the same body..I'd say this is 100% accurate. With the dropped balls of steel he brings to the dueling table, I'd say he is in a constant state of hardness.

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

It really makes you wonder if Pegasus truly wanted Yugi's millennium puzzle

[@sloppyjoe5263]

​@@Honest_Mids_Masher he definitely wasn't satisfied with just his millenium eyeball, he needed new balls😂

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

@@sloppyjoe5263 He wanted to show Yugi his millennium rod

[@willowforeverrose]

I was doing a casual duel with a friend the other day and it got a little crazy at one point. I'm using a fun counter generating deck using Magical Citadel of Endymion. I have Royal Magical Library and Power of the Guardians. I kept generating counters, I was able to pop my Library multiple times a turn, and I was able to survive destruction multiple times. In the end I had lost the duel, but it was one of the more fun duels I have had because of all the interacting back and forth.

[@bleachmaniac18]

Suddenly the idea of a school to learn about a card game doesn't seem so far fetched anymore

[@Mage_Nichlas_]

Zombie World + Rivalry of the Warlords *IS* a ruling that was made by the one kid who cheated on the playground, never learned any better, and got a job at Konami to make sure his stupid combo works like he wants.

[@TheChar45]

I know that this is a skit and all but lately I've been very disinterested in playing Yugioh through Master Duel. The current meta of Ghoti, Tearlaments, and other crazy stuff that locks you out of playing the game kills all the fun for me. I was playing a sacred beasts deck for a while to counter the meta because it has its own version of skill drain but the duels aint fun anymore. Haven't touched the game for a few weeks now, I probably won't for the foreseeable future either. Ghoti especially is the most frustrating for me.

[@Mikel_1573]

I understand you but maybe it's time to find a new deck to play ? Don't get me wrong, I too love playing with unexpected non meta decks (especially Plunder Patroll after they added the new ship but really, FA Metalfoes and Ursarctic are the ones I always come back despite how trash they are compared to every other decks) and playing against meta is so hard and frustrating sometimes. So I've decided to try a new deck that could compete and that I liked so I choosed Springans because they are fun to play and have a decent board and Spright when really I had enough with losing too much. What I mean is, playing with your favourite deck can be very frustrating against meta but it's not entirely a reason to stop playing the game entirely since we are dealing with Komoney. So sometimes, try new archetypes that you might like and test the play style. It doesn't have to be a meta deck but at least something that can compete. If you don't like it, try another decks until you find the one most fitting to your taste and you could keep your sacred beast deck to fun duels against your friend or even on casual mode. And if none I that work, there's other format as well like Duel Links if you like the anime. So yeah, don't give up on YGO yet cause they're still other ways to still have fun, even if it's not on MD.

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Nothing drives apathy and disinterest more than not being able to play the game. I have some minor fun playing control decks or OTK decks because I did the thing, but they are oppressive and not fun. Nobody wants to sit for five minutes watching someone else play or have every card countered or removed for 30 turns.

[@TheChar45]

​@@Mikel_1573Thank you for your comment! I understand what your saying but I think one of the major issues contributing to this is that you don't get rewards for playing on casual ( at least not major rewards I think, I'm a f2p player. I don't spend money on the game ). If I were to play something I like, let's say a Yusei stardust deck it would get destroyed by cards like skill drain, ash blossom, Ghoti, etc. If you could earn rewards to get more cards on casual I really wouldn't play ranked at all. I'm also wary of playing those types of negate decks because it's not as fun to me as playing decks based off of the characters I like. Again, thanks for the suggestion m8!

[@TheChar45]

​@@chazzitz-wh4lyYou summed up my thoughts perfectly! It'd certainly be fun to play the deck archetypes that I like but they get destroyed by Meta. Plus, as a f2p player I need the rewards from ranked in order to get the cards that I need. Casual, at least to me, doesn't have much of an incentive to play

[@Mikel_1573]

@@TheChar45 Yeah, until now I still don't understand why we can't receive reward playing on casual, it would have been way better that way for those who don't like playing against meta while waiting for more event duels. Hope you'll find a way to enjoy playing ygo soon tho !

[@phantomfang1927]

Literally me and my friend last night. Trying to get back into playing yugioh in person with physical cards. I realaised how much I realied on the programmed system to guide me on how certain card effects worked.

[@brianluyckx4221]

Love this guy's so much !!! They make everyday just so much better!!

[@SteamingPerson]

Having gotten into Duel Links again recently and finally having a good time with a cheap F2P Triamid deck, I'm finally understanding a lot of these things now, including having experienced my first Trap played from the hand by my opponent!

[@nathanielbass771]

I recently decided to try pendulum stuff. I created a deck that had 3 different ways to otk XD newer cards are just cheap and make no sense. As an example, the recent "odd eyes" promotion card. it's an EXTRA DECK CARD that can only be summoned via pendulum summon or another card's effect, BUT, in order to use any of its effects, you have to get it onto the field, have it return to the extra deck by any means other than "return to hand" or similar effects that undo card effects, so that it will then be face up in your extra deck. And then you have to have 2 level 7 DRAGON monsters on the field in order to Xyz summon it from the extra deck to have its effects activate. In Duel links, this is crazy hard to accomplish without the character's ability but in exchange, you can destroy all of your opponent's cards once per turn for free or some other powerful effect that I don't remember what it was.

[@emporer15]

Another great video with a lot of laughs! That last one is the Professor during their crossover duel. Thank you for reminding me of that one XD

[@highsol222]

That equation card made me want to unalive myself. It's probably not that complicated but I couldn't be bothered to read it. But hey, at least now I know it exists lol.

[@lamrethal695]

It's really not that complicated, just lengthy to use in a real duel

[@Aurakid]

This perfectly sums up Yugioh today and I both love and hate it. Awesome video!

[@RetroRetriever]

MAN, this video is TRUTH!! 🤣🤣 The one about “targeting vs picking” is undeniable - we all know Konami was just trying to get around powerful cards by splitting logical hairs on that one 😂

[@robertdaniels-lane7321]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been hit with Larry’s “Too late! You can’t respond!” during a duel. 😅🤣

[@talleyman2744]

That bit cracks me up every time 😂

[@S1L3NTDr460n]

My friends and I that used to play ygo from '05 to 2012 got back into it (a little) and were making fun decks to play, and after playing a few rounds where we spent 90% of the game reading and re-reading each others paragraph text boxes, we decided to play a few rounds of Goat and Edison, and were like "....bro why in satan's green earth were we playing modern ygo." and then continued to play goat and edison matches for the entire rest of the night lol

[@lelenny3302]

What is goat and edison?

[@S1L3NTDr460n]

@@lelenny3302 alternative yugioh formats. GOAT is the format from April 2005, uses the banlist from that time and only cards printed from that point in time and earlier. Edison is the same thing but in April 2010. Basically you pretend it's that point in history and your deck is a deck that would have existed and been legal at that time. "Time Wizard" format, officially. For YugiBoomers like me who loved yugioh back then but kinda hate what it is now lol

[@hank01000]

“I’m not targeting, I’m Picking!” 😂 lord knows how many times rules like these have confused me, honestly it’s almost becomes part of the charm of this game with friends haha, learn something new everyday with Yugioh

[@rosariocrimson]

I few weeks back I played a Melffy deck with a friend who hadn't played much in years, so I had to explain that whenever my monster's returned to my hand after he targeted them for an attack, his attack wasn't negated, he just had to pick new targets, was a real fun time. XP

[@X23SSaviourGundam]

I have a friend who I met when YuGiOh started, a while ago we where talking about our experiences trying to get back into the game with Master Duel and he quipped "I feel like YuGiOh now is harder to understand than the rules during the Duelist Kingdom arc"

[@VaderTheWhite]

Yesterday marked the 21st anniversary of my very first duel. I still get so goddamn confused by the long list of technicalities.

[@Jake-ln6zk]

I like to think that each segment Alex was in was just cut from one duel where he spent 45 minutes just explaining what each of his cards does... And then he wins on an FTK.

[@expic3954]

Necrovalley part is so true. You can still summon Block Dragon from the GY if you banish 3 monsters from hand because summoning Block Dragon is not part of its effect 😂

[@Sir0fficerNasty]

I create a tower of cards, dealing damage equal to the hypotenuse. This effect can only happen square root of -1 per turn.

[@theoryofeeveelution]

Yep, this is YuGiOh in a nutshell. Long gone are the days when having Blue-Eyes White Dragon made you the best. I swear, anyone picking up this game for the first time now is utterly screwed.

[@akmalfakhruddin7285]

if youre playing blue eyes back then (unless you’re playing playground), you just risk of monster removal and you waste 3 monsters if Blue eyes is destroyed

[@Paragon13]

“I’m not making you lose the duel, I’m just winning. Those are two completely different things.”

[@stevejohnson6593]

Winning is great because you don't lose!

[@themantyf1116]

With all the power-creep issues, I have to say I kind of respect how Yu-Gi-Oh keeps working toward workarounds and finding workarounds to workarounds.

[@norabellerose8560]

Duel academy is definitely needed, and I know they have a discord server for just that that you can pay for which I am honestly considering

[@nharviala]

The "send from hand" and "discard from hand" hurts me as a Dark World player.

[@middlemist809]

I am a bit new to this game and not only have I not heared of most of these, I would have never imagined this is how these cards actually worked.

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

Some of them nobody uses don't worry. Linear equation cannon and mystical refpanel are some of them.

[@Kingofredeyes]

You know, I used to think Giant Soldier of Stone attacking the moon to expose water monsters was ridiculous, but the actual designers clearly asked them to hold their beers.

[@oler777]

Because I was dyslexic when I was a kid I had a friend that played the three judgment of Anubis trap cards in this deck, and I thought the effect was whenever he activated one. He sacrificed one card from your end and destroyed everything on your opponents side of the field, I know I’m an idiot, but I finally read the card once I was 17… yaaa

[@donnietidwell965]

3:00 wow your friendship with prof is really showing off

[@Numbers_Game]

0:21 Libromancer Fireburst, 0:39 pre-prep of rites I see you Larry. Respect for giving some love to the ritual gang. Now if we could only get generic ritual spells for fire, wind and water ritual monsters ;_;

[@xhancexd]

This is why I only play Master Duel so that I'm only much less confused. I'm still confuse

[@KeonVioletWilkins]

Honestly feel like at this point they need a gane wide errata that cleans this up a bit... but I feel that could also lead to a lot of problems in and of itself.

[@GSOF_Reagan]

Yugioh is the ultimate course on the study of semantics

[@TheR0m0]

My opponent: "Can't you read" Me an astrophysicist: "one does not simply read yugioh cards to understand them..."

[@imrancassim1439]

Random Yugioh player raise eyebrow "You guys read your cards?"

[@SiNKarnage]

This is why I only play online, IRL is just entire headache you'll waste more time explaining rules than taking your turn. Online ruling is absolute nothing can change your mind.

[@Mavuika_Gyaru]

Facts. I'm not gonna be able to keep track of which cards already activated. Master duel does it for me

[@brakromlord5197]

Another weird complicated thing on cards, some have one effect that is a hard once per turn, and another that’s not, favorite example: dragonmaid changeover, it has a hard once per turn to add itself to hand from gy, but no restrictions on its fusion summoning effect, and every time I use said effect twice in one turn after adding it back, my opponent has to read it to make sure, even if I’ve played the deck against them before

[@hiffwelaflare]

This is the first time in my entire Yugioh playing career that I realized the rules state that using a card as XYZ material means it has not left the field but it is no longer “a card on the field” and I am actually cackling because this game makes us speak in tongues. This skit is absolutely phenomenal guys

[@ZhyperCR1T]

Opponent: "It negates all summons. Simple" Me: "Ok. Summon Ra Sphere Mode."

[@nathanielbass771]

which is annoying because a tribute is technically not a summon(but a tribute summon is...) and because its conditions are met, it is then special summoned regardless of effects on the field.

[@ZhyperCR1T]

@@nathanielbass771 That's the beauty of the game. You can't really prepare for everything that happens.

[@nathanielbass771]

@@ZhyperCR1T well, if the game was consistent, it would be blocked because it is a summon and by most rulings, when a card can not resolve after being played, it would then go to the graveyard. There are so many obscure rules in yugioh, like that you can use a higher spell speed to remove the original requirements for a card and then because those aren't met, that card can not activate in the chain and is wasted

[@ZhyperCR1T]

@@nathanielbass771 Don't forget about cards like 'when' and 'if'

[@brakromlord5197]

1:45 played fabled during the synchro fest, did this to myself a few times because ONE fabled monster says send and not discard

[@robertmcginty4146]

I used to duel with students at the school i worked at around 2010. I heard all of these. I always tried to follow the rule book. After 2 or 3 of these in one game I would just cover my deck and say "Ok, you win." Response was always "No, no, no, ok I wont do it like that." "It's fine, I surrender."

[@CAULDERLISA-eg8no]

When/if kills me on a spiritual level. My poor "Hand" monsters. X(

[@flipdiesel9652]

Dude I remember back when I used to go to locals a few years back and this MF busted out Inspector Boarder on me and I asked “what dat do?” I was never the same again after that duel.

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

No one ever comes out the same after inspector boarder.

[@internetcontrolunit1]

the stupid part is a 0 turn exodia victory only counts when its a top tier player but when a low tier player pulls out a 0 turn exodia everyone tags up and makes it not count

[@JungleCrook]

i cant imagine playing black garden in person trying to keep track of attack, used to run that with mecha phantoms on devpro man that was nasty

[@zombiemanjosh]

That hyper-specific wording actually has helped me in other games. Especially in making homebrew content.

[@silenthillfan01234]

Getting back into it, the main thing that confuses me and probably will for a while is what to hit with ashblossom. That and what stuff of mine can be hit by it

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

What to hit? As for what ash can hit well it says so on the card. Anything that adds a card from deck to the hand Anything that special summons from the deck And anything that sends from the deck to the graveyard Basically anything that interact with the deck ash can negate

[@nathanielbass771]

with how modern yugioh works, I can only wonder how players stop their opponents from just rattling off card name after card name while they're trying to decide whether to interrupt with a card effect or not, which reveals that they have a card that might be able to interrupt...

[@nathanielbass771]

@@Honest_Mids_Masher but what about the extra deck?

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

@@nathanielbass771 not extra deck only main deck

[@1337Pookie]

i still love that konami went back and updated old cards that didnt say target to say target to help understand the cards. While simultaneously printing new cards that intentionally don't say target.

[@nathanielbass771]

yep, as far as I know, there are now: target, select and choose to all mean the same thing but be considered different.

[@mythplatypuspwned]

3:00 "Reading the card explains the card." That Tolarian Community College Professor reference. 🤣

[@carding-mg4jg]

Didn't knew you needed to be a lawyer to play a childrens card game at this point.

[@darkknight5541]

The sad thing is the explanation of Pendulum monsters was the easiest to follow.

[@Altilt]

The "place the continuous spell on the field" gave me flashbacks to one of the earlier cards with this issue, Aerial Recharge. When tinkering with Mecha Phantom Beasts when they first came out, I had a lot of games where I activated it, they chained MST, then I changed Aerial Recharge's effect. It led to a lot of confused looks because basically nothing before that point could do that, and eventually led to people meticulously waiting for me to declare the activation of the card's effect. Good times.

[@bridgeseller7004]

Isn't the current ruling "You can't activate a continuous trap card AND use its effect as separate chain links in the same chain"? I.e. CL1 AR activation (no effect), CL2 MST, CL3 AR effect is not legal.

[@c4_murloc782]

God As an OG player, that "picking isn't targeting" thing is far and away the most insane ruling I've ever heard XD

[@darthixion957]

Remember when you only needed an ace monster and a few staples to win this game? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[@luduscorvus9684]

I still don’t know how to properly use Small World… and I played Mathmech for a few months with 2 in main… I only used it once and found out I played it wrong and they never really called it out…

[@Badbufon]

i might be a big nerd, but i love problem solving card text, there is something satisfying in finding the out to a problem by paying attention to the wording of cards

[@jamessullivan9048]

Skit Suggestion: If your day was a Yu-Gi-Oh deck. Chain burn/Trickstars: Minor inconviences all day. You wake up and step on legos, accidentally drop your breakfast. Every pen you use is out of ink. Exodia/Otk: You hear a crash, a tree fell on your car/tree offscreen. Final Countdown: You get a cancer diagnosis and have 20 days to live.

[@Hassanicus]

Bro this is the perfect interpretation of a irl duel

[@Hassanicus]

Can you guys make a new series like the rare hunters but it has cards from gx