Yu-Gi-Oh Cards are Getting Hard to Find

[@Strongishspore]

Damn people getting jumped for cards?! Real life is finally becoming like the anime

[@LilPGKing]

@MrChrisMDong lmao rare hunters.

[@Pepperknight341]

@MrChrisMDong Unless you're Joey.

[@herrenturnen]

time to learn karate and become a dueling martial artist

[@Pepperknight341]

@MrChrisMDong He also revealed the Exodia parts to be bootlegs, and when Joey disagreed to give him his Red-Eyes, they beat the crap out him.

[@cinnamonwaffle1932]

Better duel disks would be nice

[@micah6015]

The whole reason I got back in to Yugioh is from seeing cards at Target. My little brother was with me and he said "isnt that the card game you played when I was really little?", so I bought us both a structure deck and he's been hooked ever since. Moments like that wont happen, which is terrible for card games as a whole.

[@ergoth154]

Same, i bought my younger cousins and me structure decks from Walmart (purely out of nostalgia), and we play once a week now and they have a good collection of cards. It's pretty lame going to Walmart for some new cards and all that's left is like 3 booster packs of Blazing Vortex

[@nemo0036]

You could also check Walmart online. Thing with Structure Decks is that they shouldn't be treated like Starter Decks. You should buy 3 of the same Structure Decks each to REALLY get the most out of them.

[@ratatosk2628]

@@nemo0036 I've got into Yu-Gi-Oh a few months ago and I play almost only with friends who don't have their own cards, since now I've bought 7 structure decks all only one time and I'm having a lot of fun being able to play different archetypes without investing all my money

[@LuisCastillo-or1sl]

If it wasn’t for me going on vacation soon I’d have made makeshift decks, packs and lots for sale alongside loose cards I don’t use and sold them all at a flea market to kids and just refuse any person wanting to buy everything I have. But I figure while at the moment nothing comes to mind, there’s something that would be in the way of this.

[@LuisCastillo-or1sl]

Also I would’ve just sold them as if I don’t know the value when I’m fact I just want to make a kids day or something, ya know? 25 cents - like 10 bucks or something.

[@thedragonlady5044]

When you think about it, this situation has become a non-anime version of the Rare Hunters.

[@jessevazquez8984]

Yeah that's exactly what it is. Holy cow I didn't even see it that way

[@IN-tm8mw]

i always though the Rare Hunters were a cool concept equal and more to that of Team Rocket.

[@bepisthescienceman4202]

Sorry bud but I really need that pole position so it's time to duel

[@retru9642]

for those who watched the anime - Suddenly military escort for trading cards make sense

[@icemonger123]

Man GX was before its time. First, we need schools to teach us how to duel, now we'll need the government to send the military to guard card shipments. What's next, sending cards into space?

[@christopherb501]

Just so long as 5D's or Sevens don't start coming true. REALLY don't need wealth inequality to get THAT stark, or for there to be _that_ level of facial recognition software, predictive behavioral software, and omnipresent drones. And don't get me _started_ on the possible terrors an Arc-V-future would wreak...

[@christopherb501]

@@nmr7203 The less _that_ guy gets involved with anything other than maintaining an interest of space in the zeitgeist, the better.

[@emperorhadrian6011]

@@christopherb501 ... say sike right now

[@emperorhadrian6011]

@@grimsongreen3217 or they'll be outlawed as gambling...

[@tiagotavares5131]

Imagine if people start buying all the old banned cards because of History of Yugioh series loll

[@hola6647]

The bit when he said about the guy getting jumped, sounded like something straight out of the anime

[@sparkeytwo239]

I lost some hope for my fellow duelists after hearing that

[@hola6647]

@@sparkeytwo239 me too kid, me too

[@furynotes]

There needs to be a 5 part series of Larry in the hole. Just trying find cards.

[@AndiVx]

Larry in the hole in the hole

[@jedaye47]

@@AndiVx Larry in the hole in the hole in the hole in the hole in the hole

[@danaltamirano2546]

"Finding the hole"

[@roxashenry8315]

The spin off: Larry finding the hole

[@roxashenry8315]

@@danaltamirano2546 lol great minds and all that

[@__cornflake__4252]

The truck chasing crap is anime level. Remember when Crowder took all of Duel Academy's rare cards and gave them to Chazz?

[@JJSquirtle]

Yeah, he was really confident that those union monsters would chazz it up

[@miguel0828]

I miss Deluxe Editions, for $30 you get 9 packs, promo cards, 50 card sleeves, plus you can use the box as storage too!

[@emperorhadrian6011]

( • - •) I must Have missed those.

[@miguel0828]

@@emperorhadrian6011 it was in the year 2013-2014, they went back to the old special edition box by 2015 😔

[@emperorhadrian6011]

@Altema Ripperoni

[@erysecret]

I actually really enjoy these Paul Talks type videos, very informative and chill and nice to listen to on my way to work. You'd make a great YuGioh podcaster :)

[@LilPGKing]

Ikr? He gives off this chill cool vibe. There aren’t a whole lot of Paul talk vids. Wish he made more cause I would definitely watch them.

[@joselira7779]

Another big thing that you over looked is the buying culture in TCGs. I'll use ygo as an example. Booster boxes weren't intended to be bought by consumers. It was intended for vendors. Then buying cases was also the same way, meant to stock vendors. The moment whales and other big spenders started buying full boxes and cases with the intention of treating it as a way to flip costs(been a thing before pandemic), it made the strain that is quarantine, scalpers etc. even worse, because it makes demand for huge amounts of product even higher, and supply even lower. The packs were meant for individual sale. The retail of 3.99 ($4 for simplifying) with 24 packs per boxes is 24*4 or $96 and that is without taxes. You can buy boxes for $65 on release. that's money that local shops miss out on. People have obsessive habits that lead to mass buying. Competitive is also a big factor. If a new card is releasing that will be a staple, a competitive player might buy large amounts of product in hopes of pulling said new staples and selling the rest of the fodder to recoup losses. This will make scalpers more money since the demand for these staples isn't only high, but in their hands. They aren't keeping the high priced staples like a competitive player would. The mass buy-in culture really messed up a whole lot. Even budget decks aren't a thing anymore unless you can get a hold of a structure deck at retail price. With Freezing Chains being the only exception to this these days, but even those are few and far between especially with no cards being stocked.

[@danielarchuletta7073]

"You four want my Blue Eyes? No way! I summon Desert Eagle! " 😄

[@stingeraudiobooks8586]

Fun fact if you try me you better be strapped or you get clapped

[@discoveryhaelth]

Feels like we are in the anime especially sub version

[@annedrieck7316]

How much value is desert eagle?

[@danielarchuletta7073]

@MrChrisMDong Just the one that sounded most like a card at that moment.

[@danielarchuletta7073]

Now that I think about it....alot of shitty guns would make good card names. "Now I summon Number. 45 Taurus!" See? Lmao🤣

[@skullsquad900]

Dude, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I went into Walmart a week ago and the entire card section was completly gone!

[@cuzinterry]

Me too pal. I went to Walmart,GameStop and Meijer and found Nothing

[@danielarchuletta7073]

Been that way here for months. Haven't found so much as a booster since about September or before.

[@danielarchuletta7073]

Update*- I found 6 boosters yesterday!!!! 3 at a Walmart and the rest at a gamestop. 🥳

[@cuzinterry]

@@danielarchuletta7073 good find man

[@Kritya]

8:39 these super rarities helped MtG see one of it's most affordable standards in years back in Kaladesh -> Hour of Devastation thanks to masterpieces and invocations. The idea of them is great for affordability (assuming the supply can meet the demand) but you're right about the rest of the set needing to be decent as well or it's just a lottery.

[@davilasvas6178]

I guess I won't complain about Duel Links where cards that I need are deep in the box.

[@heartlessnobody1143]

Ye

[@gamerwolffang2722]

Hate how dl is so driven on you spending all your money

[@theloosecannon135]

@@gamerwolffang2722 i haven't spent a penny on duel links and have had every meta deck its not hard if you don't waste gems and do every event

[@SynIMPFML666]

Just built a harpie deck, and after 3 months of grinding f2p, and 100 plus packs later

[@roxashenry8315]

@@theloosecannon135 playing perfect and playing for fun are the big difference hu? Don't want to wait 2 years just to get a meta deck, then next month they release a better box full of better cards.

[@poe942tech]

My locals sells any boxes at $85, I love those guys and want to support them, but at a $25 markup per box, I just can’t justify it.

[@lilartay]

Same reason why I can’t support my locals, they doubled the price of GFTP, most boxes are up to around $80 too. I stopped going after Toon Chaos where they were selling packs for $10 each

[@Lelouch_Asirpa]

85$ rip off, I get my box for 65 or less on tcg

[@jorgecortes9926]

Lol damn, my friend bought digimon ccg for 170 they’re like 70 bucks...

[@themooanator8701]

@@Lelouch_Asirpa where can you find them at tcg for that price?

[@Pakg27]

wow $85 is outlandish...a box is $70 usually...(depends on the box)

[@archy8822]

To be honest, to problems in yu-gi-oh go much deeper than just lack of stock. I ve been playing yu-gi-oh since the very beginning (yugi and kaiba starter decks) and I have never had a problem with getting the cards I wanted for booster packs. Nowadays u need to buy 20 booster boxes just to get every rarity of the cards u are looking for because Konami decided that there can only be 1 ultimate card per 50 boxes. This change came about during the pendulum era and its getting worse with the introduction of collectors and starlight rare cards. I used to buy 1 to 2 booster boxes before this. Now because 1 collectors rare is easily 100$ and a prismatic is 500$ or more scalpers are having a filday. Just add better ratios to the packs to destroy the secondary market.

[@scythermantis]

Yeah I agree... they viewing this like a casino

[@ripleycastle5668]

Konami doesn’t care, it makes them more money.

[@3v068]

FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT! THANK YOU!

[@3v068]

@@ripleycastle5668 "it makes Konami money" if they keep it up, it won't make them money for long. That's the problem with big businesses like these. It's always about the short term gains and never the long term customers.

[@SharkTooth57]

That Pot of Greed statue in the back looks badass!

[@IN-tm8mw]

Pot of Greed?! what's that do again?! LOL JK

[@bilbocrosby15]

These people fighting over cards need to solve them with duels.

[@幽霊船-o4h]

For real Yugioh anime just got real this is justthe beginning. The next rich kaiba guy will come along and make yugioh a global sport.

[@deafsquid6978]

Yeah well they're probobly end up dueling old West style

[@IN-tm8mw]

The very second you can combine your phone with a digital display Portable graphics system, i can see this happening, challenging dudes to duals over anything.

[@NiallByrne]

Yes!!!

[@nitrusxd8951]

I have been seeing this problem for a long time like the walmart and target near me barely or never have yugioh cards in stock

[@rexdavis12]

Same with me. I haven’t seen yugioh cards at Walmart in well over a year

[@nemo0036]

You basically have to buy them on Walmart's online store. Safer too. It's how I got my Zombies back when the Structure Deck was 15 CAD each.

[@izaiahsundquist6877]

I went to a Target a couple weeks ago because my local card shop didn't have the mtg packs I was looking for and the Target didn't have any card games other than Pokemon. So this video has been quite helpful and eye-opening for me.

[@ghostanbu1099]

This happened with Pokemon. Also MtG(Magic) seems to be moving away from paper and moving towards their digital platform. Hopefully the demand is high enough that more cards will be printed.

[@cmoney163]

That’s funny, because where I live all other cards are gone, except for Magic the Gathering. Shelf’s are full of them lol.

[@LuisCastillo-or1sl]

@@cmoney163 yeah here in South Carolina it’s been like that. My group of friends and I decided to just try the game out since that’s what’s left and it’s actually pretty fun. But I’m still just waiting this one out

[@mulldrifterz6469]

They are moving back to paper. Arena is failing way more than they expected. They released an article on the future being more about in person events.

[@simonpetrikov3992]

@@LuisCastillo-or1sl cool "brothers"

[@Abluemoon9112]

@@mulldrifterz6469 it is not failing. Arena is their most profitable division. They are focusing on paper because of the pandemic. May 28 was when people can play event again.

[@ryanbush6118]

Amazing how crazy people act over a bit of cardboard

[@Kris_King]

Have you seen the Pokemon TCG crazyness?

[@kingstonwong8444]

@@Kris_King I don’t think anyone wants to

[@Kris_King]

@@kingstonwong8444 Kinda my point. Compared to that yugioh is tame

[@fruwuitloop]

Kinda?... They're also game pieces, which is where a lot of their value comes from, kinda like a miniature in Warhammer

[@kingstonwong8444]

@@fruwuitloop I don’t think people are focusing on that though. Just the cards

[@straightMKchamp]

Thank you for these thoughtful videos. I recently decided to get back into yugioh since around 2007, when cyber dragon changed all of meta. I had no idea that this was like, THE worst time to get back into the game lol. At the very least though, I picked up 3 duel devastators at the store and been buying singles off of the web to build decks.

[@nemo0036]

Duel Devastators is great for certain staples. I suggest also going for Structure Decks depending on what you wanna play.

[@hectorjr96]

I miss Special Editions with reprints as the promo cards. For example one of the reprints that was in Special Editions was Elemental Hero Absolute Zero. At the time Absolute Zero was only a Manga Promo

[@homelessperson5455]

Wal-Mart was how I got into Yugioh. Grabbing one as a reward for being good in the store as a kid and opening them on the ride back with my siblings. I find it sad that there's kids out there that might not be able to experience that because some scalper ruined it.

[@seankelly6620]

It's gotten to the point it's like they are rationing them and scalpers are generating too much bad PR for retailers.

[@WizelBalan]

I think one incident was a guy going in buying packs that were limited per customer. Then going back in, claiming to be a different person and buying more so he got jumped in the parking lot.

[@quentin52]

Where did you get these details from?

[@ygodsunknowndarkness7373]

Damn 💀💀💀💀

[@ragingyuzu1891]

So, greed has taken over Yu-Gi-Oh!, ooh boy! I'm smelling a Meklord genocide right at the corner 😰

[@LogisticalYedti]

Also pokemon, and digimon.

[@wbrodie55]

We need the Avatar to bring balance back to card games

[@animeking1357]

Will Meklords actually become good?

[@ragingyuzu1891]

@@animeking1357 Well about that, I'm planning on making a fanfic, where Meklord might some relevance, and with that some good support and retrains.

[@ExeErdna]

Yeah people scalping to "get the bag" yet they screwing their own market

[@Something_NullVods]

first it was graphics cards, now its yu gi oh cards damn

[@KaskDaxxe]

EVERYTHING IVE TRIED TO GET INTO THIS YEAR

[@thomasbitmail7937]

Dont forget the consoles and your shoes 😄😄

[@yankeeygo5247]

Thank you Paul for mentioning the special editions! They were such a great way to keep card prices from inflating and gave some good reprints, solemn strike, sphere mode, called by the grave, etc.

[@ScannedBobblehead]

Konami isn't doing enough to stop the scalping imo, they have too much trash mixed in with 1 or 2 good cards or collectors/ghost rare that people want, someone will buy 4 or 5 cases to pull one playset of certain which i mean if you have the money there's nothing inheritly wrong with, but scalpers hear about this and sell the same 4 or 5 cases at 3 times the price, konami needs better sets with less pack filler and more useful cards then they'll sell better and they'll have more supply because more people want them, its quite sad as I just got back into Yu-Gi-Oh in March of last year after being laid off due to covid, hopefully this all gets sorted when the world goes back to normal.

[@TTPMMA]

I feel like what’s also hurt is the people who have been promoting first edition only, and treating unlimited as absolute garbage. While yes, that’s true for collectors it is not true for players. Konami took it to the extreme though and have cut them all out.

[@eeeeja2160]

So basically this is the real life, year round version of Jingle All the Way.

[@AshZy33]

I am new to the tcg yugioh and I just got my first cards a few months ago and the fact that people are buying them all up at once makes me so mad.

[@plantseason290]

None of this would be an issue if only retail stores and OTS Stores were allowed to sell cards. Obviously not realistic, but flipping cards has been a nightmare for every existing TCG.

[@jamalgumbs7518]

I definitely miss Special Edition sets. We do need these back or unlimited printing of some sets.

[@Otacon3603]

2:23 Those damn rare Hunters.

[@abneysnova1178]

This feels like a round table talk that could go on for hours between creators

[@Efc22724]

Here in PA, I haven’t been able to find anything but dark magician girl sleeves for about 2 months lol. The same situation goes for action figures as well.

[@TKDragon75]

Over west we still got blister packs but that's about it.

[@tagelkagis]

Those rare hunters went after joey again... This time Joey had the GAT, no Red-Eyes for you! Only Dead-Eyes

[@flarexero2161]

If they got too close, Joey would pull out his Red Eyes Black Dragon Sword.

[@emperorhadrian6011]

Nah they went after Keith

[@gamerwolffang2722]

Yeah I can't find any cards at any supermarkets where I go to, theirs only Magic, which is starting to look tempting at the moment rn

[@PeterKarunratne]

I don't think that trading cards will be a problem in the near future once people have to go back to work and their time commitments are filled up they will be too tired to have these hobbies.

[@emperorhadrian6011]

I found a scalper...

[@johnwalker1058]

-> [Once the pandemic is over, we'll be too overworked and tired from our regular jobs to have the time or energy to enjoy hobbies like TCGs anyway.] - Ah yes, how comforting of a thought.

[@PeterKarunratne]

There is nothing you can really do with scalpers in any environment which causes demand people will get as much money as they can. In the UK for example the puppy farming issues is exploding where people are willing to pay more than £6000 just to jump the queue to prioritise getting a puppy whilst people are having their dogs stolen from their hand or garden to make a quick buck.

[@MrJuan_Vzla]

Wtf 😂

[@theplug4981]

Lmfao

[@SirusEinzla]

Actually had to warn the merchandiser at my store to get her personal car checked for any bugs on it. Reason being another merchandiser for the next town over, found his vehicle bugged and noticed he was being followed on the road to his stores every morning by the same people, even when he made small pit stops.

[@eleanordawes8634]

In England they bearly sell yugioh cards at all I've only ever seen them in game shops but I haven't seen them in game in years now so this is basically nothing different for me

[@aziddude2127]

Its weird that all forms of entertainment are out of stock such as consoles,video games,graphic cards in this case freaking yu gi oh cards.

[@tcgmike8989]

I just went to my local Walmart a few days ago and by my surprise. They brought in stock of the newest Booster pack set for Yugioh. I don't get to spend alot of money so I mainly buy x3 structure decks. So I'm hoping that's a sign that my Walmart will still at least keep bringing in the newest structure deck like they mainly have been doing for the past year.

[@lockhart7813]

It's sad because me and a few of my close friends who used to play Yu-Gi-Oh have gotten back into it recently and we had no idea about any of this, we are just playing for fun and it's been an absolute struggle trying to get cards outside of our local shop that has marked up prices and TCGPlayer and it really sucks.

[@Lonaticus]

Someone LARPed as Kaiba and overdid it. Come on, not even Seto would pull a gun to her the 4th Blue Eyes... or would he....

[@michaelknasel1641]

The drought of Digimon packs and decks hurts me

[@LuisCastillo-or1sl]

I was just getting into that and haven’t seen anything around since January.

[@michaelknasel1641]

@@LuisCastillo-or1sl i was lucky and got 2 booster boxes of the first set. After that they went from 70 to 180 at my locals cause they didnt wanna get scalped on product

[@LuisCastillo-or1sl]

@@michaelknasel1641 oof I bought the displays the day of release just out of luck from a then closing comic shop. Should’ve gone back the next day.

[@LogisticalYedti]

Bandi is fumbling this on there end. English online game was set for jan 2021 after that no news at all for english release, DMCA all the english simulators. And trying to promote virtual tourments via webcam. Have you seen pokemon online tcg?, Digimon would have scooped up the market for online card games.

[@michaelknasel1641]

@@LogisticalYedti tbf if were comparing tcgs to pokemons online sim, the fact that it took magic like 10 yrs after pkmm to put one out is insane. Yugioh basically doesnt have one besides duel links which is just a virtual reboot of yugioh imo. Cardfight vanguard had one but it was entirely fanmade, i think originally in russian. Im really hoping other tcg companies get with it and make proper online play a thing

[@marcrisdale4179]

In Ontario right now, Walmart isn't allowed to sell "non-essential" items so the toy section is roped off. I snuck by the other day and all they had in the card section was a bit of MTG and about 6 blisters of Blazing Vortex. That's it. So weird.

[@TheMadMadman]

Speaking from 2022, I haven't seen a SINGLE tcg product at all in my local Walmart for almost 3 years.

[@COMMANDandConquer199]

It's been this way in my area for months. No stores have anything, locals have them, but at exorbitant prices, higher than TCGplayer by at least 10%.

[@NumeroBruno]

What is the tcg player article mentioned at 12:40? I'm interested in the stats

[@oz_9454]

It really sucks because I don't have a card shop anywhere near me and all the stores quit selling all TCG products so I'm stuck buying them online only at marked-up prices

[@GaryOaksEgo]

People have been dying for years over Jordan’s and we are gonna cancel cards over a few stupid people. Nice

[@jbird999cg]

scalpers move on to something else um yeah it's almost in every industry now. Food, collectiables, cars, computer hardware ALL of it, some crafting supplies. Lumber. Even some cleaning supplies. I even heard of shortages on FLOWERS lately it's so insane right now.

[@KikiCatMeow]

I used to get discounted packs at walmart all the time, sucks I can’t now because people wanna buyout the cardboard lmao

[@dpham8907]

Most of the OTS stores I've been to price out boxes and pack for the most recent sets (GFTP excluded) at MSRP or lower. However, when they restock older boxes, the prices seem to jump to $90 and beyond.

[@SynIMPFML666]

I have asperger's, and I hate going to the store, it really messed with my social anxiety. Buying cards helped me cope, ever since I was a kid. And even when I'm down, it was like a coping mechanism. It sucks, one of the things that made life brighter, I can't do.

[@ruhidmohamad]

Walmart over here was stockless for weeks then suddenly Ancient Guardians, Ghosts From The Past, and Pokémon show up on fri/sat

[@duelingbub]

Heres my opinion on the matter in terms of cards just keep them behind the cases behind the desk in the electronic sections at stores, and is it scalping if say I get a ps1 game at a 2nd hand store like goodwill?

[@-Down-D-Stairs-]

First it was Pokémon then it was Yu-Gi-Oh! And yet Magic rots away on store shelves.

[@Stargate-over-starwars]

Magic is played by a much older crowd I feel and tends not to attract that type of person, especially when only one or two formats require the newest format.

[@HypoRex]

4:55 simply unlucky

[@-Pulsar-]

I think that the Walmart/ Target stuff is more of an American/ Australian thing rather than Global. I feel bad for my American friends for not being able to get there cards, but here in most I believe EU countries we exclusively get our cards from LGSs and Vendors. We don't really have that many big chain stores that sell Yu-Gi-Oh!. If you have a LGSs I would recommend in all honesty to exclusively buy from them. After the pandemic is over you will still need these type of shops to actually play the game anyway. You can try to play Yu-Gi-Oh tours is a big chain store, but most likely they will just through you out. :p

[@naser3000x]

it really sucks when i want to play a new deck archetype but there is always that 1 or 2 core cards from the deck that are usually very hard to find

[@poeskey]

The rare hunters are running rampant. Also there are a lot of people selling empty tins to people on amazon too. If you look at a lot of box products like duel devastators, different tins, even stuff like the speed duel battle boxes are either missing the rare cards (the promos they add in) are missing or some people are str8 up not getting cards in the tins/boxes.

[@drago939393]

The thought of stores having to ration a *children's card game* is hilarious.

[@r0bnotr0bert]

I didnt know about this. I went to walmart the other day to try and find sleeves and the shelves were completely empty for cards

[@Dokkalvar37]

Went to Target with a friend of mine a few weeks ago who had just got into collecting cards. I had NO IDEA people waited in lines at Target/WalMart/etc at the crack of dawn just to be the first people to get their restocks of cards. It was insane.

[@thee_rarest7201]

They literally buy out structure decks and don’t even know how to play

[@Ronniecjr14]

The “pass turn” ending is great 😂

[@jimmynguyen3682]

I think hardest to find to me is Digimon and yugioh I can’t seem to find any of the old legacy target packs, ghost from the past, and digimon 1.0-1.5. I’m so close to giving up and waiting til all this covid collector era is over.

[@stw9495]

I recently started rewatching the dub because it popped up and it was nostalgic for me. So then I decided I wanted to play again - I was like cool, unlike my other expensive hobbies this should be cake, walk in to Walmart and pick up some decks, let's go. 3 Walmarts and 1 Target later, I'm on ebay spending way more than I wanted to for some speed duel sets. Wtf.

[@chrisshorten4406]

Here in Utah, I've had to travel to the next county over to find any sealed product. It's really annoying.

[@TCRblueKING]

I live in the U.K. and you can’t find them anywhere. Used to be able to walk into almost any retailer and get them, now you have to really look hard to find anywhere that sells them.

[@Hotshotfrontier]

Thanks for talking about this topic, I think ghost from the past is equivalent to champion's path from Pokémon when products started to get harder and harder to find. It sucks that these large retailers have to stop selling certain cards, but scalpers need to chill out.

[@cassshields5106]

So I don’t know if it’s still this way but for Walmart and target the trading cards are actually or where done by vendors the cards are pay by scan or where which means they didn’t pay a single cent for them until they are scanned at the register so what’s more than likely happened is the vendors can’t get product or with all the craziness it’s just not worth Walmart’s and targets time to deal with it right now. At least that’s how it was a few years ago when I was a manager at Walmart.

[@ThatoneGuy-kh5ud]

When I went to my target I found one of those card packs where it's just a random lot and this week there was only magic the gathering stuff

[@dankcaillou]

Which legendary duelist set had joey in it with that hard field mat?

[@danielcurtis7566]

I haven't seen anything but structure decks here in Orlando for almost 2 months and it is a super big bummer. I think the last thing I managed to get in store was a maximum gold in like March.

[@seekertosecrets]

2:50 Right! It's fanatics like that that make the rest of us look bad! What do you get if you strip the seas of its fish and you exhaust the supply? One jagged, lifeless, waterlogged earthen bath tub! 12:16 I pulled an Alpha, but I wanted Zeus. Will try my luck again in the future.

[@jameshuneycutt3328]

I started to collect cards again about two years ago and started getting pokemon, yu-gi-oh, and vanguard. But now there is way to many scalpers and I can't find pokemon anywhere. Yu-gi-oh I can't find in stores but can still get online or on TCGplayer, Vanguard though has always been elusive and I always kinda been over charged for it. I miss the good ol' day's.

[@j-beaumusic3128]

This is why I buy all my Yugioh and MTG cards at my local comic shop. For 1, they’re cheaper there than at Walmart, and 2, they’re always fully stocked

[@alt_lost_art]

I wish there was a Ten Thousand Dragon ultra rare. I hate being priced out of cards like that before they even come out. I could careless about starlights.

[@TheBeef89]

I was talking about this on a stream last night, but one thing I think has done same harm too has been the lack of special editions/non first edition printings of core sets.

[@freddyironworks]

Here in canada in Ontario for a good while like 2 month been a stay at home order and you can not get yugioh card expect by online from OTS places. So here hoping that walmart canada dose not stop fully. notice they not restocked it for a while

[@personpersonal5756]

Target pulled everything except magic the gathering

[@sirdunn5810]

I live in an area where its already hard to find cards and now I haven't seen any TC products in any store, even the only card shops that are 45 mins to an hour away are out of yugioh products smh 🤦

[@Cybertech134]

With local game stores starting to open up again, they'll be getting a lot more support with all this TCG fiasco going on

[@StardustAura]

I have to agree with the local card shop argument, I'm not in America (insert Bandit Keith reference here) so not only are my local card shops upping the price to match America's increase, they're adding more for import costs too. I may love this game, but it's scary to think that cards shops will get away with selling product the equivalent of a grocery run for a week. It's even scarier that people are avoiding essentials just to get the product... At lease I can still get my Fix from Duel Links and Dueling book

[@kevinthibodeau6813]

I just wanna thank you guys for finding my passion again for yu gi oh found my old cards from a long time ago ( side note my local shop wanted 125 for a box of ghosts from the past )

[@JumboBog320]

All this happening made me and my buddy order a case of the 2021 megatins. The price is already starting to rise. Startede around 13.5€ per tin. Now its 14.5€ and the pre orders havent been avalible for long. I could see the tins rise to like 17-20€ on release. Oh and if anyone was wondering we got the case for 160€. Ends up being 13.3€ per tin and 14.5€ per tin including shipping.

[@thaddeusrussell8919]

We got Ancient Guardian packs in. It appeared we got another Ghosts of the Past box. But when we do get it, it still sells quick

[@cuzinterry]

Bro I went to Three Different stores and I couldn’t find no yugioh cards. Now they having them at separate times and a limit to buy stuff

[@bob513993]

As someone who has been hella disappointed in my local shops being picked through 75% of the time I go by, I never even imagined sucker punching someone over them grabbing the last Magnificent Mavens box or something lmao.

[@discoveryhaelth]

Walmart and Target especially been very hard to Yugioh or even Pokémon cards. I been trying find any for weeks now. There is a local card shop and online but Walmart and Target as been my go to

[@LouisTheRavenheart]

We're doing that at Barnes and Noble too (2 items per person). Pokemon and Sports - no Yugioh to be seen...there's a lot of Magic, though. They're reselling en masse at the mall..

[@kinger_jay]

I’m glad someone in another card game community is talking about this issue. Pokémon has suffered and I hope Yugioh doesn’t fall for it as well.