Same only time I play yugioh anymore is my locals do an Edison format tourney. (For those that don't know what Edison format is the legal cardlist and banned list during a tourney in Edison Texas during earl synchro era.)
I don't understand how people play a game that you can't even play. With vanguard you have to build up to strong plays and that's why I like the game so much!
I'm happy that Vanguard is still doing well in Japan. Hopefully, that's the case in the US as well cause I'm still salty that Tcgplayer booted Vanguard off the main page tabs.
Honestly out of everything, im glad Rush Duel is doing grest enough to be in top 10 tcgs, having the data after years of people saying its a desd game from something no one wanted in en fandon. Its the Yugioh reboot people say they wanted while never killing the original game, its so cool. Studio Bridge being made up of Ex Sunrise staff really gets to show through the animes too. Very mechapilled. Its great.
Rush's Animes not only have references to other Animes (due to the Staff), but they also like to take ideas/concepts/plots that have already been seen in Yu-Gi-Oh and create something new using those same bases (at the same time that it makes you remember that, despite everything, Rush's Animes are still Yu-Gi-Oh)
Not surprised to see Weiss taking a dip. BSR has been really curbing the power level of new sets, so the meta-only players likely felt little need to buy new sets. Personally I hope they continue this course, because the power creep was getting completely out of control for a while. Flattening the curve works well for this game, because most older decks do not get any updates, and one of its main selling points was that older decks are still competitive for years instead of months as with most other TCGs.
The Rush Duel shows are great, SEVENS especially is full of great developments and character moments, the tone is light compared to the darker tones of the master rule seasons but it has some of the highest emotional highs out of the entire franchise Go Rush had a terrible low for like the first half of Year 2 but the rest is either fine to great, the tone is also darker compared to SEVENS, especially the newer arcs (but still keeps the silliness present throughout all of the Rush Duel shows)
Currently, SEVENS is that Yu-Gi-Oh series that is being most appreciated for its good and unique things that it offered in its time (which were hated or rejected when it first came out). However, it does not leave the feeling that SEVENS was an experimental series to see what things stayed or what things went in future Rush's Animes (despite being an experiment, it ended on a good note) About GO RUSH, ironically, the Arc where things get exciting is just the Arc where it confirms a Theory that everyone had since GO RUSH was announced: the continuity between SEVENS and GO RUSH (which continues to be an important topic until the current Season 3) Interestingly, in the Japanese public, they like GO RUSH more than SEVENS in general.
Vanguard maintaining even without the absolute money farming glitch that is dzbt01 fated clash is solid proof that the game is growing, and I couldn’t be happier! Great video as always boss
One thing that I always question is I wonder why TCGS dont appeal to the western child market anymore…like the reason why games such as Yugioh, beyblade, Pokemon, Bakugan (during its prime) was so popular because they had commercials and always appeared on Saturday morning tv…wonder why a lot of tcgs don’t follow this previously successful formula.
i have a feeling its probably due to the fall of cable in homes and more kids watching tv on their ipads or parents putting on something random on the tv
God do I wish they would do that again. Make a cool series then have a tcg based on that. Marketing at kids. Like yugioh. Mature looking game aimed at kids, long live the tcg. But now they just make tcgs for boomers and scalpers/investor who tread tcgs as a stock market. .. gosh imagine witnessing the birth of yugioh but having actual money and can buy the stuff instead of just one starter deck. Grrr
Who do i have to appeal to for Rush Duels to come to English? It's so cool just to look at those cards compared to regular yugioh, I'd go broke getting into that format.
@@nmr7203 that's a shame. If only Konami could look at those of us who would totally play Rush Duels even if we don't play the current game the same way Bushiroad saw baseball fans as an untapped market.
@@730Flare Same thing for Duel Masters itself during 2000s. At that time, MTG fans called Duel Masters "a childish game". Some memes like "no instants = childish game" also appeared during those years, too, if I'm not mistaken.
Is it that time of the year already? There are so many card games now, some anime have their own cardgame. Seems amazing that there are so many cardgame is getting a plus. It just mean more and more players joining. Definitely huge W to the card game industry.
I can't wait to see how Union Arena does later, like most notable in obtaining Kinnikuman. Like woah, Kinnikuman in a tcg in present day? That should def go hard, especially since theyre dabbling in making original illustrations starting with Kaiju No 8, I believe. Also 2.5 Dimensional Seduction, which ive heard has just been doing crazy at Comiket this year. Weiss does not have original illustrations, I 100% believe on top of these more mainstream titles, the original illustrations is going to take Union Arena higher
Love this type of content!! Especially because you learn what actually sells in TCG-topia (Japan), I've recently learned about Grand Archive and I saw someone in Twitch chat asking about it, I don't think it has a JP version, but I'd love to hear your perspective on it, have you heard of the game? Is it in Japan at all?
Yeah I met with the people that work on Grand Archive while they were visiting! I love the art, but it doesn't exist in Japan yet outside of just English imports.
Duel Masters is Super Kusoge in a very good way, can't argue with this. They have some hand trap too beside Shield Trigger and also in the new set later they implemented a new hand trap mechanic called "Counter Attack" if you play MTG you will notice it is very similar to "Pact Cycle spells"
@@r3zaful I suppose that’s where I disagree. Duel Master’s mechanics are so good that the rest of the industry decided to take them. Shield trigger RNG is also a feature not a bug.
its fun when youre not on the receiving end of the shield rng at some extends is also vanguard, for casual scene i kind of agree you need a chaotic mechanic like that, but in competitive scene imagine played everything perfectly from decklist ratio ends in random trigger on last attack and lose it all. I only play direful doll casually in vanguard, and on duema play's, its super fun if you play those two with your friend i can agree with this but my local hobby shop barely have consistent champion while other game like yugioh and pokemon i could expect one guy will reach final consistenly, the Best player almost likely to win.
It's a shame that things look really bad for shadowverse evolve. Definitely not looking forward to a bunch of tier zero decks. I wonder if they will even recover.
Well, during the V era, I gave up vanguard after 10 or 11 years. The stock wasn’t there and the cards Didn’t excite me as much as they did in the G era. Then the pandemic hit and, after Buddyfight’s plug was pulled, I found the Digimon tcg. Great game but a shame it’s at the bottom of the list.
I used to love Vanguard but started not having fun with it at all at the beginning of this year, even when I was winning. I switched to One Piece back in April and haven't looked back. It is the absolute most fun I've ever had playing a tcg! Even low tier decks can stand a chance to win, and the game is really more about the choices you make in the game rather than dumb luck or building the decks right. Luck and deck building do affect things, but not nearly as extensive as every other game, especially Vanguard.
I imagine new sets for digimon aren't doing insanely well because the meta has been more or less the same for a bit, and ex07 and bt18 didn't introduce any decks that shake up the meta. It introduced some good decks but none of them are in contention for THE best deck so I imagine some amount of competitively minded players are sticking with nume, magna x, etc.
Still a bit sad, that the Zillions of Enemy X TCG is not so popular, the cards look amazing 😊 but I am happy to see the success of the Conan TCG, I hope it stays for a long time ☺️
Funny enought, Blue-Eyes was already turned in to a waifu in the last arc of Duel Monsters, Konami is just loosing money by not making a Blue-Eyes dragon maid.
Yeah, the OCG Is so much better that it might as well be a different game now. I will gladly tollerate Maxx c than the dumpster fire that is the TCG market.
About Duema, the appearance of Hyper Mode and so many good cards for building both new decks and old ones really make Duema become more and more popular. However, about competitive environment, Its gameplay currently focuses on ending the game after the 3rd or 4th mana (or sometimes, 5th or 6th mana) is charged. It's not really as fun as you guys always think of anymore, but in my opinion, it's still better than YGO OCG. About DB Fusion World, just like Rush Duel, it made so many DBSCG fans feel dissapointed. However, it gradually made people believe in it because of its good, not too fast-paced and not too slow-paced gameplay, and also proved that DBSCG fans were wrong. It also brought me back to DBSCG after trying it. About Rush Duel, in case some people don't know, Dark Magician Girl's ORR version was not the only thing that brought RD to top 9. Shiny Shady (a popular staple in Over Rush Pack 2), "Love" series, "Magnet Warrior" series, which has been one of the meta decks in the game, came out as well. However, that wasn't all. In Burst Rex of Awakening, the next main set of Rush Duel, Konami released so many good cards that have changed the whole gameplay of Rush Duel. One of the biggest staples are Jest, which has been the strongest and most expensive staple that anyone playing Rush Duel loves it a lot and use at least 2-3 copies of it in every deck. This set also brought a deck that has been too popular in so many Rush Duel competitive tournaments, Beidai - Ryozai. Together with Gaia and CAN-Melo:D, it has become the most popular deck, and it also won the biggest tournament in Rush Duel, which was Galaxy Cup 2024. If you guys are looking for Jest, its price is currently about 3000 yen, if I'm not mistaken.
hey Kris I'd like to ask you this, seeing as how many TCGs are these years and some people play multiple of them makes me wonder how isn't there a large scale tournament event that could host these TCGs and unites them for this collaborative effort similar to how the FGC does EVO, could the TCG community come together and make this happen? If there is such one as big of a scale as EVO or DreamHack that I am unaware of then I'd like to know cuz I am more of a casual in most TCGs I play and would love to see an organized large tournament event for multiple TCGs of different companies and get to make new connections with people and learn their games than being stuck to local scene or the tournament events each game they do on their own.
I think one of the big issues is tcg games just take longer so if you had a bit multi tcg event most people could only be in one at a time, while for fgc since matches are usually pretty quick someone can play their streetfighter match then wait around until they play their strive match. Considering most tcgs tournaments give like 30-50 minutes around you can't really be in multiple tcg tournaments at once
So .... Shadowverse was doing great previous fiscal quarter and as soon as it gers involved with Vanguard it dips dramatically....bro Vanguard not only is stuck at the bottom, it also drags anything near it down with it Lol😅
I'm glad Union Arena is starting to slide down the list and was seemingly carried by major releases like Demon Slayer from last year. We really don't need more companies getting the idea that they should just slap some anime screenshots onto cardboard and send it out the door. Also poor WIXOSS. They seemed to be really banking on OG nostalgia, but didn't have any associated media to put out alongside the sets other than that CM for what I think is just some web novel chapters?
I agree I feel like IP tcgs are slowly destroying the tcg space because none of them are balance very few have orginal art and all of them are easily sclaped give me back orginial tcg IPs I beg
union arena was carried by nikke, go look at the nikke booster in your country online store, very likely sold out or twice as expensive as regular boosters
uuuuh, the idea was already present. Look at almost every Bandai tcg during the last boom in the 2000s. Hell Universus is basically that for NA. That's inescapable
I used to play yugioh before switching to Vanguard. Personally I’m more happy playing Vanguard
Same
Same
Same only time I play yugioh anymore is my locals do an Edison format tourney. (For those that don't know what Edison format is the legal cardlist and banned list during a tourney in Edison Texas during earl synchro era.)
Same experience here 👋🏻
I don't understand how people play a game that you can't even play. With vanguard you have to build up to strong plays and that's why I like the game so much!
I'm happy that Vanguard is still doing well in Japan. Hopefully, that's the case in the US as well cause I'm still salty that Tcgplayer booted Vanguard off the main page tabs.
Honestly out of everything, im glad Rush Duel is doing grest enough to be in top 10 tcgs, having the data after years of people saying its a desd game from something no one wanted in en fandon.
Its the Yugioh reboot people say they wanted while never killing the original game, its so cool. Studio Bridge being made up of Ex Sunrise staff really gets to show through the animes too. Very mechapilled.
Its great.
Rush's Animes not only have references to other Animes (due to the Staff), but they also like to take ideas/concepts/plots that have already been seen in Yu-Gi-Oh and create something new using those same bases (at the same time that it makes you remember that, despite everything, Rush's Animes are still Yu-Gi-Oh)
Not surprised to see Weiss taking a dip. BSR has been really curbing the power level of new sets, so the meta-only players likely felt little need to buy new sets.
Personally I hope they continue this course, because the power creep was getting completely out of control for a while. Flattening the curve works well for this game, because most older decks do not get any updates, and one of its main selling points was that older decks are still competitive for years instead of months as with most other TCGs.
The Rush Duel shows are great, SEVENS especially is full of great developments and character moments, the tone is light compared to the darker tones of the master rule seasons but it has some of the highest emotional highs out of the entire franchise
Go Rush had a terrible low for like the first half of Year 2 but the rest is either fine to great, the tone is also darker compared to SEVENS, especially the newer arcs (but still keeps the silliness present throughout all of the Rush Duel shows)
Currently, SEVENS is that Yu-Gi-Oh series that is being most appreciated for its good and unique things that it offered in its time (which were hated or rejected when it first came out). However, it does not leave the feeling that SEVENS was an experimental series to see what things stayed or what things went in future Rush's Animes (despite being an experiment, it ended on a good note)
About GO RUSH, ironically, the Arc where things get exciting is just the Arc where it confirms a Theory that everyone had since GO RUSH was announced: the continuity between SEVENS and GO RUSH (which continues to be an important topic until the current Season 3)
Interestingly, in the Japanese public, they like GO RUSH more than SEVENS in general.
Vanguard maintaining even without the absolute money farming glitch that is dzbt01 fated clash is solid proof that the game is growing, and I couldn’t be happier! Great video as always boss
Gigachad Tactical Try Decks VS Virgin Divinez Starter Decks
Wait till you see what the TCG structure decks are
Divinez have more structure decks
One thing that I always question is I wonder why TCGS dont appeal to the western child market anymore…like the reason why games such as Yugioh, beyblade, Pokemon, Bakugan (during its prime) was so popular because they had commercials and always appeared on Saturday morning tv…wonder why a lot of tcgs don’t follow this previously successful formula.
i have a feeling its probably due to the fall of cable in homes and more kids watching tv on their ipads or parents putting on something random on the tv
God do I wish they would do that again. Make a cool series then have a tcg based on that. Marketing at kids. Like yugioh. Mature looking game aimed at kids, long live the tcg. But now they just make tcgs for boomers and scalpers/investor who tread tcgs as a stock market. .. gosh imagine witnessing the birth of yugioh but having actual money and can buy the stuff instead of just one starter deck. Grrr
So early thought I was watching back in time cause I swear I remember this stream exactly
bro got that tiktok intro😂
Gotta make sure these aging bones can stay on top of the trends 👴
Who do i have to appeal to for Rush Duels to come to English? It's so cool just to look at those cards compared to regular yugioh, I'd go broke getting into that format.
Most YGO players in the West don't want anything other than the one format, regardless of how crappy it is.
@@nmr7203 that's a shame. If only Konami could look at those of us who would totally play Rush Duels even if we don't play the current game the same way Bushiroad saw baseball fans as an untapped market.
@@nmr7203 Most Western YGO fans also have a massive hard-on for DM nostalgia and hate that the Rush Duel animes look so "childish".
@@730Flare Same thing for Duel Masters itself during 2000s. At that time, MTG fans called Duel Masters "a childish game". Some memes like "no instants = childish game" also appeared during those years, too, if I'm not mistaken.
Is it that time of the year already? There are so many card games now, some anime have their own cardgame.
Seems amazing that there are so many cardgame is getting a plus. It just mean more and more players joining. Definitely huge W to the card game industry.
Too bad we don’t have something like this over in NA because it would be nice to see what the logistics look like
Dragon ball TCG finally on top 10
"youknowhowlongI'vebeenwaitingfodis" "wooimabouttamakeanameformyselfere"😂😂😂
I'd be curious to see if Ultraman Card Game could make it into the list in the future
I can't wait to see how Union Arena does later, like most notable in obtaining Kinnikuman. Like woah, Kinnikuman in a tcg in present day? That should def go hard, especially since theyre dabbling in making original illustrations starting with Kaiju No 8, I believe. Also 2.5 Dimensional Seduction, which ive heard has just been doing crazy at Comiket this year.
Weiss does not have original illustrations, I 100% believe on top of these more mainstream titles, the original illustrations is going to take Union Arena higher
Bring Duel Masters back to the states! 😭 i can only look at my Kaijudo cards for so long.
Love this type of content!! Especially because you learn what actually sells in TCG-topia (Japan), I've recently learned about Grand Archive and I saw someone in Twitch chat asking about it, I don't think it has a JP version, but I'd love to hear your perspective on it, have you heard of the game? Is it in Japan at all?
Yeah I met with the people that work on Grand Archive while they were visiting! I love the art, but it doesn't exist in Japan yet outside of just English imports.
Duel Masters is Super Kusoge in a very good way, can't argue with this.
They have some hand trap too beside Shield Trigger and also in the new set later they implemented a new hand trap mechanic called "Counter Attack" if you play MTG you will notice it is very similar to "Pact Cycle spells"
Can you help me understand the language behind saying the game is “kusoge” but in a good way? It just seems like an oxymoron.
@@MidnightReala literally shitty game, the game that fundamentally broken but its fun nevertheless.
@@r3zaful I suppose that’s where I disagree. Duel Master’s mechanics are so good that the rest of the industry decided to take them. Shield trigger RNG is also a feature not a bug.
its fun when youre not on the receiving end of the shield rng at some extends is also vanguard, for casual scene i kind of agree you need a chaotic mechanic like that, but in competitive scene imagine played everything perfectly from decklist ratio ends in random trigger on last attack and lose it all.
I only play direful doll casually in vanguard, and on duema play's, its super fun if you play those two with your friend i can agree with this but my local hobby shop barely have consistent champion while other game like yugioh and pokemon i could expect one guy will reach final consistenly, the Best player almost likely to win.
It's a shame that things look really bad for shadowverse evolve. Definitely not looking forward to a bunch of tier zero decks. I wonder if they will even recover.
Well, during the V era, I gave up vanguard after 10 or 11 years. The stock wasn’t there and the cards
Didn’t excite me as much as they did in the G era.
Then the pandemic hit and, after Buddyfight’s plug was pulled, I found the Digimon tcg. Great game but a shame it’s at the bottom of the list.
Who's excited for Nightrose cause i am gushing for her
Not surprised for these smaller tcgs ie rebirth, z/x, wixoss, and grand archive not being top 15. But next quarter we will see.
I used to love Vanguard but started not having fun with it at all at the beginning of this year, even when I was winning. I switched to One Piece back in April and haven't looked back. It is the absolute most fun I've ever had playing a tcg! Even low tier decks can stand a chance to win, and the game is really more about the choices you make in the game rather than dumb luck or building the decks right. Luck and deck building do affect things, but not nearly as extensive as every other game, especially Vanguard.
I imagine new sets for digimon aren't doing insanely well because the meta has been more or less the same for a bit, and ex07 and bt18 didn't introduce any decks that shake up the meta. It introduced some good decks but none of them are in contention for THE best deck so I imagine some amount of competitively minded players are sticking with nume, magna x, etc.
What there is detective conan tcg
Yugioh go rush is a prequel of sevens and both are goofy and fun like duel masters
Love. These. Videos!
Keep em up my man
Excellent breakdown my dude!
Appreciate it homie
Still a bit sad, that the Zillions of Enemy X TCG is not so popular, the cards look amazing 😊 but I am happy to see the success of the Conan TCG, I hope it stays for a long time ☺️
Dragon Ball at 6 is pretty surprising.
Really cool video. Very interesting. The only tcgs I play is pokemon, battle spirits saga and yugioh speed duels.
Funny enought, Blue-Eyes was already turned in to a waifu in the last arc of Duel Monsters, Konami is just loosing money by not making a Blue-Eyes dragon maid.
I did NOT know that was how zexal was pronounced 😂
I wish shadowverse was higher on the list.
Yeah, yugioh is pretty cheap in ocg right now thanks to healthy competition. The TCG on the other hand is a burning dumpster fire...
Yeah, the OCG Is so much better that it might as well be a different game now. I will gladly tollerate Maxx c than the dumpster fire that is the TCG market.
About Duema, the appearance of Hyper Mode and so many good cards for building both new decks and old ones really make Duema become more and more popular. However, about competitive environment, Its gameplay currently focuses on ending the game after the 3rd or 4th mana (or sometimes, 5th or 6th mana) is charged. It's not really as fun as you guys always think of anymore, but in my opinion, it's still better than YGO OCG.
About DB Fusion World, just like Rush Duel, it made so many DBSCG fans feel dissapointed. However, it gradually made people believe in it because of its good, not too fast-paced and not too slow-paced gameplay, and also proved that DBSCG fans were wrong. It also brought me back to DBSCG after trying it.
About Rush Duel, in case some people don't know, Dark Magician Girl's ORR version was not the only thing that brought RD to top 9. Shiny Shady (a popular staple in Over Rush Pack 2), "Love" series, "Magnet Warrior" series, which has been one of the meta decks in the game, came out as well. However, that wasn't all. In Burst Rex of Awakening, the next main set of Rush Duel, Konami released so many good cards that have changed the whole gameplay of Rush Duel. One of the biggest staples are Jest, which has been the strongest and most expensive staple that anyone playing Rush Duel loves it a lot and use at least 2-3 copies of it in every deck. This set also brought a deck that has been too popular in so many Rush Duel competitive tournaments, Beidai - Ryozai. Together with Gaia and CAN-Melo:D, it has become the most popular deck, and it also won the biggest tournament in Rush Duel, which was Galaxy Cup 2024. If you guys are looking for Jest, its price is currently about 3000 yen, if I'm not mistaken.
Thanks for all the added context - really helps!
I miss duel masters so much
Out of all these games which do you think is the most affordable to get into?
Do you plan to make hololive tcg content?
hey Kris I'd like to ask you this, seeing as how many TCGs are these years and some people play multiple of them makes me wonder how isn't there a large scale tournament event that could host these TCGs and unites them for this collaborative effort similar to how the FGC does EVO, could the TCG community come together and make this happen? If there is such one as big of a scale as EVO or DreamHack that I am unaware of then I'd like to know cuz I am more of a casual in most TCGs I play and would love to see an organized large tournament event for multiple TCGs of different companies and get to make new connections with people and learn their games than being stuck to local scene or the tournament events each game they do on their own.
The questions is ...why?
I think one of the big issues is tcg games just take longer so if you had a bit multi tcg event most people could only be in one at a time, while for fgc since matches are usually pretty quick someone can play their streetfighter match then wait around until they play their strive match. Considering most tcgs tournaments give like 30-50 minutes around you can't really be in multiple tcg tournaments at once
It's time to DUEL!
*ocg only
11:51 rip SEA
Wait wait wait, isn’t duel masters like kaijudo, they still making product for duel masters , wow
Kaijudo is an western 2nd take on being Duema to The overseas market
@@duelmastershideout278 gotcha
Another banger?
Pokemon is Top, Yu-Gi-Oh OCG is holding one piece is killing it and Vanguard trucks along
Yu-Gi-Oh tcg and ocg are seperated similar to Pokemon tcg only it's more decks released than Pokemon
aren't you already cover this topic before? am I mistaking something or there some new info we haven't heard about 😅
That was last year’s!
I hate that duel masters is only in Japan, please bring it back to US 😊
They already did...twice in fact.
But mtg players are too stubborn to acknowledge there is a superior version of their game
Damm, shadowverse evolve falling off hard 🥲🥲🥲🥲
23:30 today's supper issu fishu, you like a fish?
TRUE
What qualifies as playing a tcg?
Let’s be honest… no game will ever knock off MTG 😢
when is Kris getting into FaB?
So .... Shadowverse was doing great previous fiscal quarter and as soon as it gers involved with Vanguard it dips dramatically....bro Vanguard not only is stuck at the bottom, it also drags anything near it down with it Lol😅
The comparison is with the Spring quarter of 2023, which was during the peak of the game's popularity in Japan too.
I'm glad Union Arena is starting to slide down the list and was seemingly carried by major releases like Demon Slayer from last year. We really don't need more companies getting the idea that they should just slap some anime screenshots onto cardboard and send it out the door.
Also poor WIXOSS. They seemed to be really banking on OG nostalgia, but didn't have any associated media to put out alongside the sets other than that CM for what I think is just some web novel chapters?
I agree I feel like IP tcgs are slowly destroying the tcg space because none of them are balance very few have orginal art and all of them are easily sclaped give me back orginial tcg IPs I beg
Typical VG player judging something without knowing anything
union arena was carried by nikke, go look at the nikke booster in your country online store, very likely sold out or twice as expensive as regular boosters
uuuuh, the idea was already present. Look at almost every Bandai tcg during the last boom in the 2000s. Hell Universus is basically that for NA. That's inescapable
Duel master reboot would be nice
good starting products? VG could never
Sad part is that they HAD good starting products back when D began, with the 333 yet Start Decks. Then it just got gradually worse.
@@730Flare yeh, it's sad that we know they could do it but choose not to. All the QSD supporr till now can easily be in the QSD but nooooooooo