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And at 2:34 you know why I just play the simulators...

Power Creep is normal, but yes if the increase of power creep shortens/outpaces the longevity of a given archetype, that becomes a issue. Banlist should be about game balancing, and it still feels unbalanced- its typically designed in Konami's favor to push sales of "certain sets or archetypes". I don't think yu-gi-oh is too complex, but also play other tcgs, but what yugioh does need are Effect indicators or a Effect icons on the monster cards, to give the timing and effect activation window- for instance lets say we add a little lightning bolt on monster effects that can be used on either players turn, just like a quick play spells (same spell speed). And do the same for continuous effects with a little infinity symbol next to the text, and a star icon for ignition effects, a little tombstone symbol on graveyard effects etc.

Hey this is honestly crazy, I am also a yugi-vtuber and I was just about to start making speed duel content because the tcg banlist disapointed me! Guess thats not really a viable option anymore especially since I am in Europe 😢

Konami is never going to change 90% of the large problems with this games. Konami does not care about anyone outside of Japan so they are not even listening to problems.

Another option is to play w/e you want with a buddy of yours and just have fun seeing who can make the most fun jank possible

Though I still like playing Yu-Gi-Oh! from time to time, I figured making my own card game would be something more fun to do and use Yu-Gi-Oh! as a learning tool. Both for what not to do or to do something similar with tweaks.

Whats the song that starts playing @19:55 :o

Wish they got to do stuff with the orichalcos arc or hell a yugioh R themed set wouldve been cool. I really liked these sets, since they helped me make character decks

The trouble is 30 minute turns. Makes me not want to play. I can only imagine how this looks IRL. Yeah, it's lame af.

FELLOW DRAGON LINK ENJOYERS: We must band together and REVOLT against big Komoney! I also play(ed) mathmechs. DO THEY LOVE SCREWING ME OVER??? BAN CIRCULAR WHILE FALMEBERGE IS COMPLETELY LEGAL????

Stop calculating the price using the max rarity versions of cards and acting like you need to buy staple cards for every new deck and the price is the same as it always was.

I think that powercreep is inevitable. First, having the same deck be meta for 5-6 years would be boring. And banning a deck just because it's old is annoying. Second, when exploring new design space, it is natural that OP cards will emerge. For example, how do you predict how big of a drawback Lightsworn's self mill is ? It's easy to get that wrong. The third reason is simply money.

If I were to describe yugioh is one sentence, it would be this: A children's card game that is not for children.

Frankly I think the rules of the game are too confusing. If <CONDITION>: You can Special Summon this card from your hand. If <CONDITION>, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand.) Now tell me, which one can Solemn Judgment negate?

idk if that footage of cards is of you and your apparently shark based deck but if it is you, I want to nerd out over the fact that I see buzzsaw sharks. I play mostly master duuel and recently I have been enjoying a shark filled build. It has 3 buzzsaw sharks, 2 electric jellyfish, 3 silent sea nettles, 2 abyss sharks, 2 right hand and 1 left hand sharks, 3 beautunaful princesses, 2 Minairuka 1 xyz ramora 1 kashtira ogre 1 barrier statue of torrent 1 mermail abyssslung 2 kaiju gamaceil 1 swift scarecrow 2 astral kuriboh utilizes 1 sea stealth II, 1 Whitefish salvage, 1 arbitration of white and, 2 Magellanica, the Deep Sea City to support the main deck fish and sea creatures Extra dexk: 3 stealth kragen and 2 stealth kragen spawn 1 abyss dweller 1 silent honor arc 1 tornado dragon 2 dvine arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder 1 crooked cook 1 blackship of corn 1 white auraa whale 1 diamond crab king 1 dreadnought dreadnoid miscellaneous cards 1 draco utopian aura 1 number wall 1 one day of peace 1 snake eyes subversion 1 heat wave 1 monster reborn 1 lightning storm This build is hyper consistent and can play through hand traps like ash blossom. Stealth kragen have a 1pt quick effect to blow up a targeted monster of your opponents and thus control the field. If destroyed, stealth kragen becomes two kragen that can do the same quick effect once each per turn. Mermail abysslung can be summoned to increase the attack of other monsters you control and help protect the other monsters by assuming atack target priority Electric jellyfish is versatile and can help summon any of the xyz monsters in deck similarly to buzzsaw shark. Silent sea nettle can be special summoned if there are any other water monsters on the field like abyss shark can Minairuka can special summon itself if any water monster activates their effect. Arbitration of white allows me to turn my fish into tuners and subsequently synchro summon white aura whale OR in most cases ust get my fish back from the gy after using them. Whitefish salvage also is there for graveyard shenanigans. It is so consistent that it will be rare to ever have an opening hand that will disappoint me. Almost all the monsters help summon each other in synergy so that almost every turn a stealth kragen or other xyz threat could be summoned and usually with support buffs like from astral kuriboh or number wall. The xyz toolbox can help deal with almost any situation and turn the duel in my favor It feels fun to run this deck and turns dont take forever to play out as its not focused on long tedious combos to do it's thing: control the board via primarily destruction of monsters before said monsters can do stuff and subsequently parry and attack over a few turns to win

Speed duels was the only way I was able to get anyone into this game. How you gonna teach someone modern TCG?

My kamioshi card jumpscare at 1:59

Mathmech igniter free circular

The SS Mechanics with no SS Cap, Cards be played on your turn, Full Negation boards, Adding cards from deck to hand, 1 Card Combo with FTK, OTK 1st, 2nd turn wins. You can't play YuGiOh. No interaction with playing with opponents. That's why I do not play YuGiOh in Tournaments anymore. Starting to realize if your not playing with the new cards. Then just lose. I been saying this for a long time. I think it's time to start changing rules. People can disagree with all you want, but KoMoney has change the Game a couple times. They Got rid of Priority, They have errata cards, the nerfed Pendulums, The changed the ruling on Extra Monster Zone twice, and the Extra Deck rules that your only allowed 15 Extra deck Monsters. (Though you can exceed over the 15 card limit with pendulum monsters) KoMoney needs to look at the game as a whole and decide what need to be done in order to keep YuGiOh in check of its self. I don't see this happening the near future. I don't see myself playing this game very much longer.

Problems: They've reduced the game to trying to locking your opponent out of playing the game and no interaction. The ban list keeps hitting new decks after 4 months because they're so oppressively broken and contain 1 card full combos. Powercreep has removed the usefulness of traps (1/3 the game) , tributing, and attacking monsters. Goat and Edison formats are popular because the base mechanics of the game are still intact but are not present in current meta. The game could benefit greatly from having horizontal expansion. Raise everything up not make more and more decks that are “5 hand trap it , top deck a 1 card full combo or die” Also no deck should be $1k

My biggest worries for the game are the introduction of new cards with no direct counter. The trend towards "placing" cards to get around ash, putting your monsters in the spell/trap zones as removal, cards that work no matter where they are so there's no way to stop them doing their thing etc. It just feels like shit to run into this type of thing. I really think they have to stop letting the banish pile become a third hand too. It should mean that those cards are gone, but right now there's plenty of ways to fish cards back out of the banish pile and reuse them.

Any summon that's not fusion is for pu$$!3$

Pendulums may not have ruined the game, but it certainly isn't nice that the way they're designed make them not play nice with anything outside of themselves. Konami hasn't done anything innovative with the fact that they're both monsters _and_ continuous traps, instead they only work within their own limited pool most of the time, and just play like any other deck but with an extra mechanic tacked on.

No way are you implying Chaos Angel power creeped Chaos Ruler

Power Creep used to be understandable, but after Tear showed us the ceiling of Yu-Gi-Oh, it feels like Konami are seeing how far they can push. I really noticed it when building new decks that solid monsters were no longer cutting it for whatever deck I was building. Now every monster needs to either be a starter or justifiable combo piece. Take my Ancient Gears, when I started Master Duel I was able to build a great deck with the best AG cards plus some good earth machines like Regulus and Citadel. Now however that deck just isn’t cutting it. I remember when we got new Ancient Gear cards announced I thought it was odd since I felt the deck was in a good place, but with all this crazy power spiking I’m now clamoring for them to be released in MD. It’s a bit sad too because AG Statue is a one card combo into AG Chaos Giant. Don’t get me wrong, before I used to be able to make Chaos Giant in one turn if I had the right cards, but in order to do so I needed to pull of a perfect combo and interact with my opponent’s interrupts while doing so. Now there are 2 one card combos within the deck, and it’s still basically rogue. I enjoy the complexity of the game quite a bit. However, we clearly need something for other players. With Speed Duels gone the western fanbase needs something to help make a more simplified casual game state. MTG is just as complex as Yu-Gi-Oh, but they made Commander as a lower stakes version for normies to enjoy. Does Commander have problems? Yes, too many to list and it’s caused so much damage to itself and even competitive Magic. Still, it’s an effort, something to give players a more low stakes environment to just fool around with game mechanics. With no more Speed Duels we’re in need of a way to address the fact that unlike Japan where most people grew up with every version of the show and got to see it evolve, a lot of people just come in either knowing nothing or only remembering the DM era. Time Wizard helps, but playing the same format with the same cards all the time gets old fast, so it’s not super sustainable. At the very least if competitive modern advanced format is all there is (which to be fair I do believe that should be the main format) then we at least need a better on boarding product. The two player starter set was interesting, but failed to hit its mark. If they can improve on that and make something better it will be a big step in the right direction. Cost, I don’t have much to say. Unless they finally unite the TCG and OCG, that’s never going to change. Western card games are now governed by the speculator market and hooking whales. Reprints are nice, but the fundamentals are suffocating. Japan has many different card games popular at one time so they need competitive pricing. My strategy for playing on a budget is picking second tier staples. Usually they’re just as good about 80% of the time as top tier cards. Same thing I do in master Duel. Nothing to say about prizing, everyone has said it already. Frankly we don’t even need it to be cash, just make it feel more worth it if you manage to top an event. Heck use those platinum cards you can’t seem to sell Konami. As for the root of these problems, I think it comes down to this. Yu-Gi-Oh is not doing good in Japan… it’s doing amazing. Currently the game saw some of its biggest growth in years, even surpassing Duel Masters in popularization. Just this quarter we saw a 125% profit margin, the biggest out of any major legacy card game. THat’s just Japan too, factor in the rest of Asia and the OCG is making Konami dummy amounts of money. Us here in the TCG barely account for a fraction of that profit. In that regard Konami Japan has no incentive to make changes for us. All that work for the lower profit margin makes no business sense. Any changes will have to come directly from Konami TCG, and it’s going to need to be something that can be down within their own domain with whatever power they have. Do they care? Hard to say. All I know is unless we become like other Japanese TCGs and see the OCG take control of our territories, we likely won’t see much change since our problems come from the TCG (not all of them but a lot of them) and Japan just has no reason to invest in us right now. One thing I do believe we can change is the community. The TCG does not control that, we do, because we are the community. I think some of the problems come from content creators up top just coasting by with low effort low IQ memes. Unless you are a super competitive focused channel you’re probably communicating with the larger audience through memes and low effort humor. Again, we are not like the OCG who grew up with the show and wider media, so we need a common language that spreads across multiple regions. As it goes, that’s the same language that we use to communicate with Konami, hence us well….horsing around. Don’t get me wrong OCG players love memes, they love to joke, they’re just like the rest of us, but they clearly have more reverence. For them, this is a life style. I watched team Hero’s Future stream before leaving for America, and in the intro each on of them read off a deep speech regarding their feelings as wanting to be strong representatives of the game they love (one of them even used one of the intros from one of the anime). So they have a strong balance between miming and treating this as a serious life style game. Heck the reason I seek out and support channels like yours is because I like content like this, where it’s either a fun video highlighting some of the great things about this game and the community, or a video like this which is a deep dive and a serious introspective look at things. Plus for all the problems I still find so much to love (frankly I’m on top of the world just thinking about tomorrow’s worlds finals!) so while I obviously have a lot of critical thought like everything above, I still try to never loose sight of the fact that I have the time of my life playing this game and meeting some super cool people. (Sorry for the long comment, just like you I’m quite passionate).

Such an good video in a such small channel... Congrats man, I wish you success! :D

I've learned to just roll with the banlist and update decks according to the reason I don't do reginals or ycs anymore. It's not worth it, also locals for the win

i was hoping they would push through to 5Ds and eventually be paper duel links .... wishful thinkin i guess

Can you imagine this card link summon using 4 link monster with link-4

you gotta run three calls

I’m surprised they never made a Vrains tie in given how closely this format was tied to that anime. Yu-Gi-Oh has been booming in Japan, and while the numbers are technically going up here in the west, it’s clear players have many issues. Speed Duels being a western only product was such a smart way to address all the issues western players have. The death of Speed Duels feels two fold. One part on fans for not embracing it more (it’s everything boomers have asked for) and then also on Konami for not only failing to advertise more, but making almost every product a DM nostalgia set. The idea to transition to a box set was a genius move, but in the end it seems the writing is on the wall. Good news is even if it’s gone, there’s nothing to stop us fans from continuing the product. This isn’t a digital game, so being snapped away won’t erase all the. Cards we own. As long as us fans exist, so too does the format. My hope is they release Rush Duels but keep the box format. I can’t see Rush Duels surviving as a standard TCG here in the west, but as a box product where you get the full set(s) in just one box to either play with friends or competitively? Hell yeah! P.S. Glad to see you happy with the content, this is one of my favorite YugiTube channels by a mile, keep making fun content!

i think the biggest thing is the cards arnt worth anything. so no incentive for people to buy

Are we SURE it’s not just a hiatus? Speed Duels went on a 2-year break just a couple of uears ago.

I liked speed duel, mainly because I started yugioh in the Arc v era and my favourite series is GX, so it was an easy way get the old cards GX characters. But I like Rush Duel too, it's a better side format and the card arts of the new and old cards are beautiful. So I'm sad because speed duel ending, but happy because there's a change we finally get rush duel in the tcg, but I'm saw what konami did in tcg I'm not sure they will not screw it too. I'm afraid they made short prints, worse sets and after Dragon Master Magia it seems really likely.

"Pausing for a rest". So not all hope is lost.

MANN R.I.P Speeds duels, Great Video <3 G

Great video, very informative!

Amazoness is one of the best archetypes in the game, only thing these beautiful muscle mommies are lacking in is banishment defense, which is why I added Yubel cards because Mature Chronical can bring back banished cards.

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Speed Duels best format. I'll hold onto the hope that Konami picks it back up in the future. Great video covering the place Speed Duels is at right now. Load up the videos! Always fun to see new deck profiles.

Access intergrate b**** 😂😂😂

Finally! the CXYZ Barian build I want to play!

Bit late as viewing today as i said on the stream but one tip is to steal opponents monster with GE Cipher Dragon then go into X Cipher to stop opponent getting their monster back at the end of the turn. Not sure if it works with Neo Cipher though. An up to date version would be good at some point.

my boy! he lives!

I'm a Cyberse duelist, but Accesscode is better than the Arrival.

The jumpscare didn't work 😂😂😂 but maybe one day, this card could also get power crept