Yu-Gi-Oh Cards are Getting Hard to Find

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[@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

[@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

[@retru9642]

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

[@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

[@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

[@__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

[@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

[@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🤣

[@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.

[@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

[@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)

[@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!!!

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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 😄😄

[@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.

[@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 💀💀💀💀

[@seankelly6620]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@frogthejamygo6379]

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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@eeeeja2160]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Otacon3603]

2:23 Those damn rare Hunters.

[@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

[@abneysnova1178]

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

[@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

[@GaryOaksEgo]

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

[@thee_rarest7201]

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

[@jamalgumbs7518]

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

[@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....

[@TheMadMadman]

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

[@KikiCatMeow]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@-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.

[@-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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@ruhidmohamad]

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

[@MarLonLon_]

It’s not just KZbinrs, there are actual discords where scalpers target specific products.

[@emperorhadrian6011]

Sounds like it would be fun to raid

[@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.

[@personpersonal5756]

Target pulled everything except magic the gathering

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@monkeyman12981]

I’ve been collecting since I was a kid. Now I can’t get my kids into it because scalpers buy everything at my local stores and resell for massive mark ups. It ruins the hobby for everyone just because scalpers want to make a quick buck. I hate em.

[@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.

[@apost8266]

This is why we buy cards online ladies and gentlemen. Unfortunate for the kids though, now they have to watch the anime to get invested instead of just walking in the store and being like "Oh cool a dragon I want this."

[@LogisticalYedti]

Then we have to cut the second head, the yugioh marketplace screw waifu and staple tax

[@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%.

[@drago939393]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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..

[@justinkassel4281]

Getting rid of special edition was bad and dumb

[@coldsteelbosh4389]

Yea it's been a real bummer not being able to buy packs especially since watching you guys has made me want to play again 😒.

[@yoastertoaster8306]

I would buy singles online, its way cheaper than buying sealed. TCG Player is a good site for this and card shops that have online stores.

[@coldsteelbosh4389]

@@yoastertoaster8306 Yea that's an option I've just always had a weakness for opening packs lol.

[@yoastertoaster8306]

@@coldsteelbosh4389 same lol

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@melvinbrookins6313]

i dont feel as bad because the game is sooooo freaking expensive for no reason. i love the game, but i cant justify buying the cards anymore.

[@JJSquirtle]

Literally had to sift through 5 pages of websites to find affordable shops, and tbh I'm scared to share the links in case prices go up on them as well

[@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 )

[@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 🤦

[@headstrong29]

You know, for someone that loves Battle City and would love an actual Battle City style tournament IRL, this isn't what I had in mind. A group of hunters going after rare and valuable cards, doing anything and everything in their power to get them, even if it's a "duel" to the death? That's the one part I would've omitted but it's the only aspect of Battle City we have so far

[@scottbailey5899]

There needs to be more cards shops. Anyone that opens one in a town or city without one should be given tax credits.

[@sethrichardson8644]

@Scott Bailey As someone who's hoping to actually open one in the next two years, I strongly agree with this. I would've loved one near me as a kid.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@finnianfanning3136]

In Ireland super markets like Dunnes and Tesco don’t sell TCGs period. We have to buy our stuff from GameStop, comic stores, some toy stores and locals. So this doesn’t effect us.

[@chrisshorten4406]

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

[@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.

[@DontEatSmurfs]

Everyday i remember talking to my nephew "what if we bought more of these decks from yugi and kaiba?" Ver 1 right after the anime release, i feel dumb everyday i remember that

[@TheWorldPart6]

The only place near me who sell them is Walmart. The Target doesn’t sell them nor the 5 gaming shops near me. But they sell Magic and Pokémon cards everywhere. The Walmart I worked at only sold the Blue eyes and crystal beast structure decks. Nobody plays the game anymore. They don’t play it at my local college either.

[@soupcitybudgetcollecting6146]

It's a sad state of affairs. I live in a major city with several LGS around me, but people in more rural areas only have access to stores like Target and Walmart. I'm more of a collector, so I've been mostly buying singles on the cheap from my LGS, but the price of a lot of classic cards I want have skyrocketed. They have had plenty of the new sets though, and I think they're reasonably priced.

[@Alex-ws8ic]

Literally the reason I got into Yugioh was because I saw a structure deck at my store and remembered rhat my friends played it at a table at my college, I can't do that anymore. I can't go to a store and find cards anymore. I can't keep up with the them. The rarity of the cards does suck, put simply.