Yu-Gi-Oh! Is Better In Person, Give It A Try

#yugioh #anime #yugiohtcg #yugiohcommunity #latvia
I have gotten a lot of comments recently from people who have said they don't feel comfortable playing Yu-Gi-Oh! in person, and I wanted to try and reassure those people, it's okay, come play!
This is the website to find OTS stores near you, OTS stores HAVE to run locals to keep their OTS status so be sure to check!
yugiohblog.konami.com/locator/

[@TeamAPS]

Wholly agreed.

[@QuestLogFaker]

🫡 God bless the work you guys do, been loving your stuff for years.

[@Mg-jq9hu]

Hi, I'm one of the judges on staff for YCS Indy and I got recommended this video by KZbin, if you've got any questions about what the YCS experience might be like for you since it's your first one, please ask! I can answer most any questions except things like "How will X interaction be ruled at this event" as those types of questions can only be answered by the head judge(s) on the weekend of the event.

[@QuestLogFaker]

I'll pin this as this is basically what I wanted from the vid lmao.

[@TheMismatcher]

I’ve had this question for a while since my first YCS this time last year - how come we don’t use neuron for deck registrations?

[@Mg-jq9hu]

@@TheMismatcher This isn't a question I can answer as it's more of a general "Why has Konami made X decision" and I'm not a Konami employee. There is an Organized Play support email that you can reach out to that I cannot post in youtube comments as it flags it as a URL that's the place to ask those kinds of questions. What I can answer is going to fall more in the lines of "What kind of activities can I expect at YCS Indy", "Is there stuff for me to do if I don't do well in/don't want to play in the main event or don't enjoy modern yugioh/playing meta decks", "How much of a time commitment are these tournaments", etc. Thanks for asking!

[@PyckledNyk]

How hard is it to become a judge? I like learning about rulings and how cards work

[@Mg-jq9hu]

@@PyckledNyk It's not too bad at all, if you're in North America, you can take the judge program Ruling Comprehension Level 1 exam on Konami's public website (google konami judge program yugioh). Passing this test allows you to register for the judge program and once you're a registered judge, you can judge local tournaments and ask tournament officials that run regionals in your area if you can be on staff at those as well. Much more information about the judge program is available on Konami's website than I can provide in a youtube comment.

[@spicymemes7458]

Competitive decks are cheaper in Master Duel, but janky fun decks are cheaper irl. Unfortunately, not all things are considered equal, but this is how I get the most out of my yugioh experience. That way, I can try everything I want to play without going into debt.

[@phorchybug3286]

Yeah. Hyper casual play is under rated stuff.

[@ericsoloconc]

Use proxies!!! They're the perfect solution for expensive casual cards that haven't been reprinted. :D

[@wickederebus]

proxies, or using manual sims like Dueling Book, or the various EDO Pro auto sims and their offshoots like YGO Omega. These auto sims are like Master Duel with less animation, better reminder/text modifications for reading comprehension, and are free to have literally any card in the game.

[@JumbaJumby]

Can't get cheaper than free! I have around 10 competitive/free decks with many URs in MasterDuel and never spent a dime.

[@wickederebus]

@@JumbaJumby I can do you one better. infinite free decks, and I can move the deck lists in a ydk file into other Auto Sims. YGO Omega/EDO Pro are great.

[@TriToneTiefling]

I've been lucky to never have any horror stories when I DID go to a local scene. For the most part people have been at the worst, just kinda anti-social, or awkward. I had one guy who very clearly was neural divergent got kinda angry I had an upside-down cross pin on my jacket (I was very into SKullgirls and Parasoul has that as her character logo). But I will say this, the lack of hygiene was a MASSIVE reason I stopped going to locals. It wasn't just people smelling bad, it was 20+ people who all have not taken showers in the same small shop, hotbox-ing the entire store in BO. This was about a year before they enacted that cleanliness rule, but I don't know how well enforced that rule is in the local scene. Right now I'm getting back into collecting physical cards again, since Yubel got support and I have always wanted them to get support. I'm slowly and surely building up a functional deck, and maybe once I'm done I'll think about attending a locals again. Maybe.

[@pacer2310]

I was about to say, this is a store problem. I've been at stores that keep little baskets of travel size deodorants with signs reminding people to not come in disgusting. It can be offputting and challenging, but not nearly as much as someone who smells like rotten onions.

[@GliteUwU]

all that musk🤤

[@themoonlitduelist7395]

RIP SKullgirls i loved peacock

[@Squidtoken]

I will never, ever, ever buy cards for irl play unless there is a drastic and overwhelming shift in prices (which will never happen). When tenpai is being touted as a "budget" deck despite requiring the ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR Trident Dragion, anyone outside the card game sphere just laughs. $100 dollars for a cardboard rectangle is absurd and I will not accept that. I will continue playing Master Duel for the low price of free instead. (Not to be antagonistic towards you, I just hate Konami)

[@hatefulgaming1800]

Tenpai is being touted as a budget meta deck, you can buy it and play competitively. I play dogmatika fire kings at my locals and do perfectly fine.

[@Squidtoken]

It's all well and good as long as whatever deck interests you happens to be affordable, but that's ultimately up to Konami, whos decisions regularly make even rogue strategies prohibitively expensive.

[@strike123456789]

Card games have always been a expensive hobby 🤷‍♂️

[@traplover6357]

​​@@strike123456789Pokemon have meta viable decks that are infinitely cheaper than Yugioh. Yugioh OCG is infinitely cheaper than TCG due to their rarity distribution

[@Lusk1993]

​@strike123456789 you understand $100 can get you Elden Ring and its DLC which is subjectively way more fun than 1 tiny card

[@ImNotChineseX3]

My locals is pretty sweaty... When pure snake-eyes was at it's peak. There was about 7 snake-eyes or some sort of variation of it amongst 30 people.

[@celloplayer4422]

I think we just need more reward incentive to bring people into paper play: loser gives up their soul? (Aka you owe me lunch if you drop the match)

[@vincentsissom4180]

I used to play at Locals before Covid. My locals had a meta player that would defeat most people, with me being the only person who ever got a match win against him, with a Solidarity Deck. And I only got one match win against him. But, when I got the match win, he stood up and said "...This is my first match loss at a local since 5ds." Then he stretched out his hand and says "You need to play at the higher tournaments." I shook his hand and said "I'll consider it." Then Covid hit, and I stopped playing Yugioh in person.

[@dawgmagician]

“You need to play at the higher tournaments” *uplifting trumpets in the background* “I’ll consider it” *Daydreams of being a duelist champ* Covid: nah ama do my own thing But damn man thats anticlimactic lmao

[@ayylmao8031]

What stopped me from playing for the longest time were my fellow students back in my school days. There was a Yu-Gi-Oh club in my middle school and anyone who joined was ridiculed just for playing by being made fun of or even having their cards stolen or ripped apart. I didn't want to have my cards ruined/stolen or have my social life plummet down but I felt really sad deep down because I wanted to enjoy the TCG. Recently, I started rewatching duel monsters out of nostalgia and I dug out my old cards and wanted to get my hands on some more cards from the anime. I went to a card store and bought a few packs, and the store clerk told me they held tournaments every week. I laughed it off thinking I absolutely do not want to go thinking the stereotype of Yu-Gi-Oh players having poor hygiene was 100% factually correct, but something clicked in me and now I'm thinking of actually going. Funny how this video popped up for me the moment I started debating on whether or not I should go.

[@nofilterneito]

As someone who went to locals a few times, it's a bit rough depending on your local game store's meta but it's a lot of fun; had a buddy bring an old school Chaos (light and dark) deck and a lot of people got a good laugh out of it, with one person even donating a Magic Cylinders to make the deck more effective. I want to go more but haven't had the time recently, it was a good bit of fun.

[@sunset7424]

Honestly Irl yugioh is not as social as people make it out to be in fact depending on the locals its very "in groupy" at times and a lot of time no ones there to be "friends".

[@Pazifist526]

True

[@Pighway]

Sounds like you're going to the wrong locals

[@i_i8924]

Maybe during a tournament but usually most locals we would chill over at a fastfood place next door and shoot the shit, gamble for cards etc. Esp once you got to know the local. Before tourney, majority of ppl are looking for cards tho so understandable.

[@ConnMann1999]

This is so true! I’ve started attending locals with my friends recently and it’s genuinely been a blast! I’ve been to two different OTS’s and they’ve both been really chill and supportive. Also Tenpai came out recently, it’s really cheap and is great against the current meta.

[@QuestLogFaker]

Man that makes me so glad to hear, as much as Tenpai annoys a lot of people, as a budget, easy to learn deck that's so good for new players, I'm down. I'm glad it's been a good experience 🫡🤙

[@LV1mage]

A good locals can really keep you interested in the game even if only to meet with friends or make some

[@ChuuniKaede]

i've played yugioh since the begining, including frequenting locals since 2002, regionals since 2006, and sjc/ycs since 2007, and, no. online play is genuinely just a better experience. locals is exhausting, nearly never ran well, rulings are inconsistent from judge to judge, from event to event, people lie, cheat, steal, and tcg is just far too expensive in modern day yugioh. back in my day a minor could reasonably amass a collection with an allowance and tournament wins. you can't do that anymore, and i got bills and shit to pay. i quit the physical tcg in 2011 because i couldn't keep up with the rising cost of the game, and all of my friends retired. i play master duel because it's accessible, free, rulings are correct, and i don't have to interact with people across the table.

[@Lucario1121]

Another point to bring up here that might be a hinderence is if your local card shop doesn't really focus on Yu-Gi-Oh! as much as other card games. Sure, every card shop sells Yu-Gi-Oh! and may have a tourney weekly, but I been to a few card shops here in NYC where I noticed one game is more popular than it would be at another card shop. For example, at NYC there's a comic store call Montasy, which has a healthy outlet for Magic and Pokemon players, meanwhile Gamer's Choice, a cardshop also at NYC where most of the top tier Yu-Gi-Oh! players in the city play at, stop selling Magic cards all together last year due to low sales.

[@wickederebus]

Capitalism in action. Unless you get a large number of players at both stores to support both stores, each group is going to funnel its money into the place they like the best.

[@the_nerd_showtv5562]

I remember attening at a local and seeing an exoerienced player litterally offering to give Zeus to a friend of mine for the entireity of the local. That's how good a part of this community can be

[@harrylynch4224]

Just wanna say that you're one of the best Yugioh youtubers I've seen in a long time! Keep up the good stuff!

[@TardustheToasty]

Tournaments are essential for a competitve game yo stay alive, but just playing a game just for the sake of it, may be the reason we even start playing. Enabling others to play can be just fun. I played many card games and shared and gifted gamepieces to others, even if I was harshly limited by my financial situation. The way we can express ourselves when playing for fun instead of playing to win is so enjoyable to watch. You made YGO sound attractive again. I will take may old cards to my friends and maybe we will have another nice interest to share in the future. Thanks for the video!

[@irvinaquereburu-pc1it]

Play the Megaman battle network games they are action card games a really unique combination that i think holds well and that you will enjoy 😊

[@Ahloveyafuhso]

But you cannot force people to play competitively to enjoy the standard of the game... the reason being is some formats may not be for everyone... yes I agree that you get the most out of playing in person.. I'm atm mostly a casual but Morden type of game play player not competitive in the slightest but still learning on to better format decks and combos to at least play in a way that I can have a back and forth with my opponent for a few turns at least. Been playing this game for 22 years this year and I get more out of playing with my friends and other players of different variety than I do online... I like master duel but I hate the pressure of playing competitively which is why I play there at times but not often cuz it's so easy to feel burnt out. Good luck at your first YCS I hope you do enjoy yourself you worked hard to get to that point.

[@QuestLogFaker]

Like I said I'm just encouraging people who are on the fence, don't want to force anybody to do anything 🫡🤙 I appreciate the luck, I'll need it lol

[@Ahloveyafuhso]

@@QuestLogFaker I was mainly speaking from my personal feelings its just sometimes it felt like the progress of the game's evolution just felt like it pushes the player to evolve with it. Which it has done to me.. but being able to think out of the box and think creativity to make things work kept me wanting to keep trying to find that balance of having that but a morden day feel to it. Playing different players recently helped me learn and grow from them too. ^ ^ Also sure it's an exciting event make the most of it, make some good memories and duel your heart out.

[@kiteamakusa]

i started playing cardboard last year and gotta say its been great, met a lot of people, hanged out and also helped when i was feeling stressed out at work

[@MrOrichalcos]

How fitting that this showed up on my timeline on the day I was ready to go to my first locals in nearly a decade. Thanks for making this.

[@QuestLogFaker]

Absolutely, I have gotten mixed responses on it but I just wanted to reassure people who are on the fence, I hope locals goes well

[@TemporalDelusion]

Insane amount of money for my country, 1.5 hour public transport there and then another back. Difficulties with in-town travel on Sunday night from the station to the other side of town once I get back... Sometimes I spend 4 hours on travel just to play 4-5 matches at locals 2-3 times a month. (Only locals are once a week, and I sometimes work Sundays.) Yet I LOVE IT. A lot more than any online play. People tolerated a lot of my mistakes, and still help out whenever something gets too hard to grasp. I'm willing to go even if I work 6 days before and after even if it's my only rest day. I often think it's not worth it, whenever I take a look at the cost, both monetary and the time investment, but then I realize it's basically my only social avenue, and it was the first step I took out of my room in a long time as I'm getting close to 30 now. I don't think I will regret it a couple years from now. Just hope to make more friends and get closer to people too, not just during the duels. It's a process and I cherish the opportunity my childhood hobby has given me now as an adult.

[@Sam-gx7id]

I love playing in person but I think it REALLY depends on the local. Altough I live in a Metropolis; almost every card shop there only plays magic and pokemon which gave me very low options. The only local who consistently hosts OTS is absolutely dreadfull to play at. Most of the players seem more interested in the trading and business part of card collecting and I would get insulted because of the deck I was playing or my skill level no matter what I would bring (mind you its not like I play Eldlich stun or anything I was mostly playing Salad). The announcement of Tenpai and how cheap it is made me hopeful that I could play yugioh in paper again but considering its already getting hated online it doesnt make me want to play locals again.

[@Dread24]

Never went to a locals because the only one really available to me at the time was one where the manager was a MTG snob who would talk shit about every other card game (especially Yugioh). It got annoying going in trying to shop for cards and every time I’d check out he’d just make some snarky comment about what I was buying. Yugioh’s alotted time slot was one day a week on a fucking Tuesday, so I never had time to go anyways. Luckily I have a friend group where we get together once or twice a month at least.

[@Pighway]

This is also true for Magic the Gathering. I love this channel and subbed. Looking forward to hearing how the YCS goes. (My favorite hobby is sending D/D/D even when it's not meta)

[@QuestLogFaker]

I appreciate that and you 🫡🤙 hopefully you enjoy the things I put out going forward, and D/D/D is always a full send, when your deck has a card like Gilgamesh there's always a chance.

[@hatefulgaming1800]

Nothing will be more fun going back and forth with my opponent playing mind games.

[@SoggyHellcat]

another big one is remote dueling once you get more into irl dueling. I currently do a ton of remote to practice my builds for tournaments to avoid having to travel to places whenever there's no locals. you also simply learn more in person as you said in the video. cards that don't magically light up will make you learn more, not to mention being able to take back plays to explore other play lines (in testing environments)

[@michaelkeha]

If I didn't watch every locals in my city die 4 times over after helping rebuild them twice because of how toxic, drama filled and destructive the competitive community is I would agree with you

[@pacer2310]

I refuse to believe that. There's so much going on in this game I couldn't keep up with it in person without the trigger reminders from a program. Hard pass for me, my man.

[@redmirrow8913]

I started playing yugioh through Master Duel on its release and this year i got into paper play with a deck i enjoyed there - Lavals I enjoy the aspect of puzzle solving of making boards with whatever gas i have on hand. For my first locals i was gifted some backrow removal baronne and some other synchros i needed for lavals which was neat. Now i mostly get 2-Xs with lavals and enjoy crafting deck brews. Currently crafting laval runick (without floodgates, i synchro summon instead)

[@Mage_Nichlas_]

I've been playing with this group of guys for about 5 years now and they're really cool. I already had my main learning of Yugioh through Duel Links from almost when it released after never knowing what Yugioh is. I really wish that I could consolidate my Duel Links experience into a quick course to take home and learn. I'm quite unique as a player. I usually play pure Decks with 3 Ash in my tournament Deck or no Handtraps at all and only 3 Solemn Strike because I just don't enjoy those kinds of cards. My best Deck is actually my currently 58 card Pure Skull Servant Deck with a whole lot of one-off Spells like Raigeki and Change of Heart because I really like them. Heck, the best Monsters in my Extra Deck are Relinquished Anima, Link Dharc, Black Rose Dragon, and Knightmare Unicorn. And yet, I'm one of the most important players for my friends to play when they're actually testing their Decks for tournament preparation because of how competent my Deck and my play are. I just wish that I could instill my ideas into the new players(both of my locals group and new players reading this) as well as some veteran players(including some of my friends sometimes). 1: Learn what makes a card good to you. You're own experiences can go against "regular" Deckbuilding strategy and what works for you can be figured out by testing your cards. Learning what makes a card good to you will help you far more understanding the game as opposed to asking/getting told by the veteran players what tech cards they would play every time you think about changing your Decks. And yes, running Trap Cards you find cool is a fine idea. 2: You can go over 40 cards. I've been saying this well before recent Deckbuilding Theory but as long as every card you put into your Deck serves a good enough purpose to run and it works enough times to satisfy you, run as many cards as you want. 3: Build your Deck how you want. You can accept some feedback but you don't have to play Ringus Dingus the Non-Themed Magician, Unrelated Dragons A, B, and C, Ronald's Spell of Disagreeing With You, or whatever in your Dark Magician Deck. A new player at my shop is learning about the game and has a pure Speedroid Deck and my friend keeps suggesting that he should add the WIND Kashtira and I don't agree even if it read "If Monsters on the field are WIND Attribute: you win.". 4: You don't have to play high power tournament contender Decks. If you wanna build Toons or Elemental HERO's or 7-Colored Fish Beatdown, you can find players that wanna play that power level of Yugioh or something similar to it. Sorry for the long ramble but it was 30 minutes ago when I wanted to respond and I am unbelievably long winded.

[@idkdontask7142]

Thank you for a video like this. Personally i think toxicity of the yugioh community is barely present irl and mainly on twitter and youtube. Funny enough when i tried to intorduce a friend into the game and take him to locals a very big "anti toxic, casual" yugioh youtube channel who does lots of hate farming gave my friend an impression that Yugioh is super competative, you have to play the best deck, you have to play at a YCS level and there is no "casual" locals and that everyone in the yugioh community is toxic caused him to not want to even give the game a try. The idea youtubers push that there is no "casual" way to play yugioh and the idea they propagate of "game is over in 1 turn" just turns new players off from wanting to try the game, all while they claim those criticisms are there to help the new players. More people should go to locals if they can and they will realise its way more fun than they can imagine

[@QuestLogFaker]

Couldn't agree more, it's one of the things that frustrates me the most. We've got an overall good community and it feels like we're just too embarrassed to recognize it. I'm glad you enjoyed 🤙

[@MaskedPlayer514]

So much this!

[@duderino6171]

My experience on MD is what you described in your comment. I dont want to buy cards but maybe it's the next step.

[@Exoskel2]

That's almost like the problem with social media in general

[@talenstout8324]

But social media platforms are real to.

[@PyckledNyk]

I’m gonna go to locals the first time this month. I read you get an OTS pack just for entering, and that’s cool shit.

[@QuestLogFaker]

You do, different locals have different prizing but I think that's the minimum, it's a lot of fun, I hope it goes well for you 🫡🤙

[@Spixxxx]

What deck r u running?

[@QuestLogFaker]

@@Spixxxx me? For Locals I usually bring Gold Pride Punk or Striker Orcust, for the YCS I'm thinking Lab or Horus Orcust.

[@Spixxxx]

@@QuestLogFaker I don’t really play irl but on YGOpro I’m running predaplant orcust and it synergises pretty well.

[@dylanpayne6040]

As a locals attendee basically exclusively and a judge for the store I work at, i can't recommend locals enough. The sense of community and experiences gained from playing with other players is so much fun (usually). It's always nice to see new players come in and get better over time

[@chrisshorten4406]

I miss having locals nearby. These days, if I want to play in person, I need to get an expensive Uber to take me to the next county over.

[@depressedkermit5337]

Your season 0 experience with Yugioh is very wholesome and cute.

[@QuestLogFaker]

That's one of my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! memories, I appreciate that. Trying to figure out how long my intros should be.

[@SmileAndMissile]

Honestly the main thing stopping me at this point is that while I'd genuinely love to play in person, it's not even that staples are expensive or anxiety, Konami presumably(????) doesn't print enough structure decks for me to even buy a 3-of and get into playing with a bad deck. I cannot find boxes of Beware of Traptrix anywhere that aren't 2x MSRP and it really sucks

[@kiwi_arms]

as a guy who played yugioh as a kid, has never been to so much as a local, still doesn't get what pendulum summoning is, but got recced this video randomly: as much as i want to give in person yugioh a try (i still buy physical cards from time to time just cuz i like em), the horror stories about the incomprehensible stench has caused me much trepidation oh and also i refuse to play any deck except Worms so if that's not meta i'm not goin!

[@samuelllakaj5439]

My deck irl is this mash of Blue-Eyes Saga (less than half the cards and excluding Azure) and that Cyberse starter deck featuring Transcode who's extra deck I can almost only get into through Scapegoat. And I run one Blue-Eyes 'cause that's all I have, along with a kaiju and some other mediocre generics I could get my hands on. It's understandably weak as I don't usually buy cards, but I've put my heart and soul into making it the best deck I could. I love the feeling of knowing the deck in and out and the satisfaction I get when pulling anime-level combos (yes, those are a thing in any deck). Could I get better results using pure Cyberse starter deck? Yes. But I don't care. I attack your face-down monster with my Blue-Eyes equipped with Rider of the Storm Winds for game. gg

[@mujigant]

Unfortunately I can't warrant spending as much money as Yugioh asks of you when there are so many other fantastic TCGs out. Especially with how Konami runs the game. New (Edit: new to me, as in recently purchased) Yugioh decks always feel like wasted money to me after a month or so of owning them, and the locals experience is just as good in other games.

[@wickederebus]

hear me out, just buy the cheap decks. either after a major event is over and older meta decks fall off, or when the new pack comes out and the filler/chaff is at its max availability.

[@mujigant]

@@wickederebus No. There are many other TCGs I can play without coping.

[@TohTomajohs]

Yugioh inspired me to make my own tcg but i never followed through. Id still like too so i might start on it

[@twentypandora96]

For me, the only reason why I go to my locals is to just hang out and have fun. I don't do tournaments since I tend to panic way to much. Plus I love teaching and playing against brand new players who still have yet to buy a deck box or even get a set of sleeves. Thats why I rebuilt my old Personal Favorite deck Mecha Phantom Beasts just to give those players a fun yet very interesting duel.

[@PolishTamales]

Locals is a nightmare, especially in California. Theft is out of control and multiple car break-ins occur often in larger cities. We just had a guy lose his entire 40K collection parked outside of In-N-Out (which is also next to the LGS) from a break-in. Once you get past that inconvenience, the types of players on a certain spectrum, aren't exactly the most welcoming unless you agree with their politics and world view. It's 2024, yet these same people demand to see your vax card + proof of booster(s) before playing with them. It's worst in the MTG community, but I digress. I also have to disagree about learning to play YuGiOh via Master Duels vs. Paper. At least with Master Duels, there isn't someone that could miss a chain (Tearlaments) and gingerly try to "take it back" or stall for a judge call. With Master Duel, either you mis-click or you don't. Everything is neatly chained the way they are suppose to be, which is a good first step learning how your deck would function under multiple negates/chains/interaction; without the other player rules lawyering you, or worst "accidentally" double normal summon after spending nearly 10 minutes to resolve effects during milling. I also learned to play Swordsoul, exclusively on Master Duel and it's a much better tool to practice the deck, considering how much time is wasted searching and shuffling. Same goes with Traptrix and Branded. You save so much time from the constant deck shuffling, compared to an in-person event. It's so easy to hit up discord and see if anyone wants to play a gauntlet match, so you can learn your good and bad match-ups. You can't do that in IRL/LGS sometimes, because that one Snake-Eyes player has a completely different schedule than yours. Even when you do schedule out a week in advance, you'll still be spending half the time interrupted by other people walking in and out asking for Commander games or asking you to move for a random 40k campaign. If you're a full grown adult, with family and kids; maybe the LGS/YCS life isn't practical and the sheer convenience of Master Duel just fixes it, like it did for me.

[@wickederebus]

If you have kids, but cheap deck cores and start teaching them to play. If nothing else it lets you play some simple/dumb yugioh and they might want to learn more as they grow up. I am surprised to see someone from Cali who seems to be politically right in a KZbin comment.

[@Tangerinian]

I have wanted to play at locals for a long time off and on now, and can't really bring myself to do it. I've bought cards and even an entire raidraptor deck telling myself im going to go, and then don't go, and the cards just slowly lose any relevancy they had. To me going into a locals where I don't know anyone is the same as going into a restaurant, seeing a table of family friends all sitting together talking, and then you just sit down with them like you're part of it. Sucks man Also slightly afraid id lose once and start crying

[@QuestLogFaker]

Strangers are only strangers once, maybe that's an extrovert thing though 😅 idk that's a tough situation, but making irl friends that enjoy the same thing you do is such a good feeling... I hope for the best for ya 🫡

[@TangoMichealXD]

My nearest locals is an hout away and lately it has turned into mega sweat and its pretty toxic now, Unfortunate tho cause it used to be pretty chill. Nowadays just playinh yugioh with a group of friends is nore than enough for me

[@juliokestler6591]

YCS Indy will be my second YCS. I definitely wanna get to duel you if we get the chance.

[@4evertyranitar]

I know there's an OTS near me but honestly as a yellow prompt enjoyer in master duel I'd just make constant mistakes. I also play on edopro with some friends but that too kinda does most of the work for me.

[@randombadchannel8700]

I am in the first 3 min kind of person. Live in a remote place with no card shop near by, and while I like playing 60 card full of one offs "good stuff" dark tribute with a lair of darkness SD while my brother does a similar thing with utopia is fun, it's not really the same and lair isn't exactly a fun deck to go against (also i am not financially independent yet, but that's a different matter all together). Tho I really like this video and it's messageI sometimes wish I could find someone to occasionally do something like a draft mode or some stipulation to implement.

[@QuestLogFaker]

Noted 🫡 I appreciate ya lol, my favorite part of my locals community is the love for draft, I've got a few cubes and so do others, and occasionally we'll just do battle pack three or Dino cube or something, it's so fun

[@sonorix2248]

For the longest time i thought there wasn’t a locals scene where I lived and found about this one place at the mall but YGO was banned by the new owner and I found another nerd type store and it’s alright but god damn the smell can be so bad when there’s a lot of people, aside from that it’s really fun to play in person despite me slurring my speech and getting shaky from being nervous but the players are really nice

[@Pazifist526]

I dont know. Getring to talk to people at my locals is really hard. I can joke and drink when playing with my friends at home. Thats insanely fun. But at locals most of the people just play to win. No fun talk in between.

[@Civman-yr8lb]

I can't even get into paper because the cards I want for my deck are out of stock in the entire country and overseas.

[@Mr.WarwickBot]

Yugioh is the best card game I’ve played… at this time tho I’m enacting a boycott. The game is really unnecessarily expensive. The price to pay the most competitive decks is inexcusable.

[@literallygrass1328]

Idk man... I love playing in paper but its like £8 a locals, then more for lunch, and getting a morbillion floodgates flipped on me is just annoying. Master duel is free and I can leave at any time.

[@STEPHxCA]

My first locals wasn’t too good. A couple players were clearly “playing with their food” when they had lethal on board because they were mad that I brought a Gren maju deck. I’ve been going to a different OTS store and my experience has been much better. Except the time my opponent top decked summon limit game 1 and lightning storm game 2. Glad the former is banned

[@jorgeeey8121081311]

love the advice on the start low and build high thing, I did that when I first got into the game. Went to the local shop and got me 3 Albaz Strike structure decks, and just added cards as time went by. Turned that 30-dollar deck into a 600-dollar combo machine over the span of like 2 years.

[@OverlyCriticalAnime]

All locals are not always like this since mine was bad. I dont go any more since the N word would be used a lot and there was no point in telling the manager since they used it also. It was a terrible experience.

[@phantomviper211]

I would love to but all we have at my Locals is Magic, and Disney Magic

[@TeaRektum]

I went to locals a few times and i swear people spent 70% time trading snd looking at binders. It felt like a waste of time

[@Weiner_johnson]

The first time i tried locals i was very inexperienced and was doing it for the experience. my opponent saw i was new and immediately refused to play and forfeited to then immediately try to play me for ante in an attempt to scam me some of my best cards. Also, proceeded to bully me when i refused. Never participated in one since.

[@Evan20000]

I love the irony of you talking about how cool The World is while showing a card that makes the game exceedingly unfun any time it resolves.

[@asdion]

Without proxies it will never be better in person

[@lefteron6804]

Playing in locals got me into the game much more than master duel did.

[@GG_Nowa]

You can build a decent deck for like 50 bucks now

[@lefteron6804]

@@GG_Nowa I actually built Labrynth as my first paper deck.

[@JakeTheJay]

I would get back into paper yugioh, but as someone who wants to play salad, a card that you need two of for the deck to even function costs 40$ a copy thanks to it seeing play in Snake Eye. I pray we get a Raging Phoenix Reprint soon. I know it's "Too early" but I wanna play the physical game so badly and that one card is pricing me out of playing the deck even at a suboptimal level!

[@QuestLogFaker]

I respect that, but Salamangreat in particular is one of the most budget friendly decks in Yu-Gi-Oh's history right now, nearly every main deck salad card is pennies, and so many of the extra deck staples the deck relies on (Accesscode, Heatsoul, etc) have been price dropped recently due to reprints; even Salamangreat of Fire is like $5 now. Two expensive extra deck cards that are only needed to play "optimally" shouldn't stop you from trying. Salad is dope and worth building.

[@JakeTheJay]

@QuestLogFaker it's 80$ to get two. That's pretty absurd for my budget. It'd cost as much as a whole new deck and I don't have money to spare for that. If we add the "Of Fire"s in and Promethian Princess, it goes over 100$ just to get a handful of cards

[@StudioUAC]

I can't play paper because I don't have a thousand dollars for a tier meta deck!

[@QuestLogFaker]

I do mention that in the vid 🤙 but I feel you

[@ehschargers6510]

Swordsoul or Floowandreeze are the 2 best budget decks to exsist! You can play at a competitive level for $50. I've topped many events with budget Floow. Best deck investment I have ever made.

[@wickederebus]

If you had a Trident Dragion in your old yugioh collection, I would recommend Tenpai/Sangen as the archetype for you. Swordsoul with Tenyi monsters, and Floowandereeze are also good budget decks. Barrier Statue Stun or Control are good decks that focus on making the game as slow and difficult to play into as possible. the "One Bad Day" is a Stun deck that is pretty cheap and has a few tops now. It is comprised of spellcasters who say "no one can special Summon now" and a resource loop designed to always trade blow for blow while getting a +1 here or there for game.

[@cosmosspacecentertelevision]

it's not because I don't like to shuffle cards

[@QuestLogFaker]

But Yu-Gi-Oh cards are like the smallest cards and the smallest deck size lol

[@cosmosspacecentertelevision]

@@QuestLogFaker im good

[@talenstout8324]

Well online is free and social less. Yeah people just keep saying, ban x card. Well being rude is not innately evil, people have a natural right to have individuality. The store part, that’s rights infringement. Monitoring emotions is bad, you’re denying your innate wisdom. Well the movie thing is because it’s early. 1 last thing, what if I can’t win.

[@QuestLogFaker]

Based

[@Lusk1993]

I tried to stop by but I only got glares and side eye... no thanks!

[@ehschargers6510]

I love TCG but the local scene is drying up fast. My personal local scene is long gone. Its actually easier to go to regionals than find a place that still has locals. I would play the game A LOT more if there was a community left. Edit: If you still have a locals scene take advantage of it!

[@tylerferguson3193]

Hope you're having a good day

[@jobadehut5547]

It sure doesn’t smell better in person

[@Angels-Haven]

no

[@Hornetog9vp]

YGO on person is peak fun. Using meme deck online just isn't half as fun.

[@QuestLogFaker]

Couldn't agree more, getting the cards delivered can be a bit of a pain but it's so worth it

[@MaskedPlayer514]

Over the years I have played across many locals I have never felt unwelcomed, everyone always seems to be excited to share even if you play a janky pet deck, people usually laugh when it goes off because doing stupid bullshit to the opponent is what yugioh is all about

[@QuestLogFaker]

100% I've had some great experiences too and I just feel like a lot of people worry about getting shamed out of the building for not being a pro

[@polocatfan]

they're right to worry. ​@@QuestLogFaker

[@Joy_inc]

my area doesnt have any local scene becuase the yugiuoh players were too stinky and got banned from all the shops

[@reality6442]

Why does everyone call it "on paper" or "in paper" or "paper"? It makes no sense, and it also sounds dumb. It should be "on tabletop" because that's the medium the game is played upon. Paper is what the cards are made of.

[@jellosoda7203]

As the most toxic stun player on the planet Im banned from touching cards irl ever again:(

[@lightningwaitforitakash]

I am from India and I would kill to have a local yu gi oh scene. We do not have any TCG here but surprisingly there are a lot of interests. Sadly due to having no access to the cards, we have to play it through online simulators. Master duel release made it really convenient for me and now I play MD exclusively. But would love to play the game in person some day. 🥲