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Yeah Masala did misplay twice once which you noticed was with the paidra to quick synchro the 2nd time and the second was with the transcendent dragon on summon effect to switch all defense monsters to attack mode, he could have attacked into saurvais with bident and with fadra on the field it wouldn't die. Then used transcendent to attack into lo hitting you for 2950 then trident to finish the game lol, I don't know what classifies as being a pro these days if your last name ain't Brake, Kotton, Neven or Yu. Also the other misplays were destroying the transcendent and field spell it should have been paidra that way you still have transcendent dragon's negation still active, and he never activated sangen summoning effect to double a synchro monster on his fields attack which is a permanent double he just sent it and went attack, attack, attack lmfao😊
@@TeamAPS To be honest I'm not going to win but I never had an experience in those events and the only time I've seen Yu-Gi-Oh Battles is in my Locals GXgamers and I want to participate in one or two battles even if I don't win but I never completed it and I just returned to Yu-Gi-Oh after two years and I'm trying to finish my Dark Magician deck but the cards I need are too expensive I'm not giving up but I will have to save up my money
My favorite YUGIOH experience is when I introduced my blind roommate to the game. He would listen to us duel and showed a huge interest in the game but being blind, it was a concern. I helped build him a theme deck by reading every card we had available that could help him, he loved running Armored Dragon, and once we had the deck built, we typed up every card description in braille sort of like a strategy guide, typed abbreviated braille labels and put them on the card sleeves, and he would play using his guide until he memorized his deck. After that we built more and lore decks for him to use and he started buying card lots with us. Sadly he passed away some years back but I held onto his card books and decks and we remember how happy it made him to be a part of our dueling group. It's a system I wish I had talked to UPPER DECK about it. We then taught other blind ki ds to play with us too. Best years of dueling ever.
Fantastic friend i cannot understate how blessed that blind roomate is to have you work hard to help them, genuinely wholesome and i am not super religioua but your an angel small acts still can be big 🙏
My favorite was when I met a Florida panthers (NHL) player back in 2006 at a yugioh event, then got to duel him, and he threw me a puck at the next game I saw him at when I held up a homemade sign that said “Florida Panthers it’s time to D-D-D-D-DUEL!”
my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh memory was in high school when my friends and I would sit in my friend’s grandpa’s car garage late at night and play until early morning. Classic rock playing from a decrepit old radio, cold mountain dew from the garage fridge, and hours of games between Heroes, Blue-Eyes and Six Samurai. Looking back, it reminds me of the Satellite from 5Ds. We didn’t have all the best cards, but we had each other. Oh how the time flies
My favorite moment was my first locals where I was very nervous and everyone was so nice and helpful and not stressing me at all for not knowing how "competitive" YGO works (e.g. calling phases, explaining me all the effects of unknown cards, ...)
Favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! Experience: When I was a kid, the Egyptian God Cards only had the non-playable versions (Blue, Red, Yellow). While clearly not legal for play, one of the duelists at my locals decided to put The Winged Dragon of Ra (unsleeved) in his deck. He then shuffled it to the top of his deck, so that he could draw it in his opening hand. We were young, maybe 10 years old. I tried to inform the duelist that he couldn't play with that card, but he was adamant. Instead, I decided to turn the situation to my advantage. So I said: "Well, what does The Winged Dragon of Ra do?", since it didn't have a real effect. The duelist - impressively - recited all of the extremely broken Ra effects from the show. We agreed upon exactly what the god card would be capable of doing in play. The duel progressed, and I hit the ace-card in my mish-mash 10 year-old deck: EXCHANGE! I then proceeded to summon his Winged Dragon of Ra, and win in an epic fashion. With all of the abilities that the duelist had proclaimed Ra to possess. This was a sanctioned tournament. The judges didn't notice the glaring yellow card at any point. The good old days!
If it was a local tournament, most LGS owners didn't care that much back in the day. I remember that they'd let me use a deck with more than one type of sleeves or with more than 60 cards. They would only enforce tournament policies if your opponent complained, but the people at the locals I used to go to were chill.
My favorite memory has to be when I was a kid waiting for my mom's foot surgery? I was weirdly confident that if I brought my yugioh cards to the waiting room, I would meet a fellow Duelist, like in the anime. Lo and behold, a fellow kid was there with his Yugi deck and we got to duel a few times in the waiting room.
My favorite Yugioh experience was the friend group I made at college. I stopped playing tcgs around high-school and when I went to college from a small school to a bigger college I didn't really know anyone. Yugioh was the reason I made so many friends and look back fondly on my time while there. Right around 2012-2016 some great decks around that time. Fun video! Glad to see all the cool events and upcoming sets (Speed Duels 👀 👀 👀).
My favorite YGO experience has to be playground YGO making up rules as we went along, scraping our raw cards against the blacktop while we played. Great memories!
14:33 Unfortunately I never had a favorite Yu-Gi-Oh experience nor have I had one in general. I've always wanted to play at locals or bigger events but I've never had all the equipment. Getting a play mat will bring me one step closer to actually having a Yu-Gi-Oh experience.
Favorite Yu-Gi-Oh experience that immediately comes to mind because it fits the theme of the mat: I was in high school and played Yu-Gi-Oh with my best friend at lunch everyday. I remember going to play Yugioh Day 2014 at my locals with my freshly built Destiny Hero Zombie Synchro deck. I remember thinking that I might not do too badly, until I showed up and saw a massive turnout of close to 40 players, with a LOT of them being meta players. I was sure that I was hosed, but I fought my hardest and ended up placing somewhere in the top 8! For my efforts, I won a Zane token, which I cherish to this day. It was the first thing I ever won by placing in a tournament
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! Experience was when I was just getting back into the dueling scene, around the time Rage of Ra was released. I remember getting out of work and driving to my locals and getting a few packs of the new set. As I was opening the packs, not expecting anything, my world slowed to a crawl, as my heart rate noticeably quickened when I noticed an unexpected foiled card. Yes, I had pulled Ghost Rare Ra, and I was literally shaking! That was one of the best days of Yu-Gi-Oh!
My favorite Yugioh memory was when my dad took me to a tournament at the Ramada hotel. I was 9 playing cyber dragons and got cussed out by a mid 20 something year old. First round too
My favorite YGO experience was meeting my now best friend during a tournament at my local game store. We had never met before this tournament and were set to face each other. We both had casual decks as I had a Utopia deck and he had an Elemental Hero deck (this was back in the XYZ era of Yugioh) and I complimented his deck choice as I also love EHeroes from watching GX. Throughout the rest of the game we were nerding out about yugioh, video games, and anime. I ended up winning the round and we became friends and eventually best friends!
That booth looked like so much fun, so jealous of you guys! My favorite Yugioh memory so far was going to my first tournament this year at TCG Con in Houston and dueling not only fellow first-time tournament players, but YOU Paul! It was so cool not just to meet one of the people that helped me get into the game in the first place, but actually duel them! Sure, I got completely swept by Vanquish Soul, but being able to rep my favorite deck (Cyber Dragon!) and meet all the cool people at the tournament was honestly such a fantastic experience. It encouraged me to go to my first locals and I hope to make to many more cool memories with this hobby. With how many people i've met through the game, I never would have expected Yugioh to have this much impact in my life when I got into it 4 years ago
My favorite Yugioh experience was going to watch the og Pyramid of Light movie with my dad as a kid. He pulled the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon and I got the Sorcerer. He gave me the dragon and I keep it framed to this day. 🙏🏻 Not worth much USD, but priceless to me.
My favorite Yugioh moment would be being at the height of Edison Format by being in Edison, NJ during that Shonen Jump tournament. Had a great time there and still treasure the Trag mat you got for just entering the last Shonen Jump tournament.
Winning my first tournament will always be one of my favorite experiences in this game, but that was nearly two decades ago. Defeating two players who where both cheating was another great memory, using a mirror to see my hand, setting there decks with cut cards, and flat out lying about card effects. All of that and I still outplayed them so much that they still lost super hard. The best experience was setting up the very old Mystical knight of Jackal lock, with enraged battle ox on one side of him and Chiron the mage on the other side of him. There was a group of friends that played with there own rules. All decks had to have only one type of monster and all cards limited to one(aside from MST) and all cards limited to two where locked to a type of monster. Beast-warriors where only allowed book of moon, but could have 3 copies of it because they all thought it wasn't a good card. All of them already built there decks and never thought a beast-warrior deck could defeat any of theres. (Spellcasters, warriors, fairies, fiends, machines, and a zombie deck) I defeated them all and they limited book of moon to one alongside threating roar and banned Mystical knight of jackal after words. The spellcaster deck was the hardest one due to magical dimension and being allowed exclusive access to magic cylinder and wave-motion cannon for whatever reason. They gave beast-warriors two copies of rush recklessly and removed it from all of decks to replace the two book of moons and even under all of those restriction I was able to defeat them all again. They didn't ask me to come back, but I had a great time and book of moon was allowed to showcase why it was limited at that time.
My favorite moment is a coupleweeks ago getting back into the TCG now that I am 25. I started collecting the cards in elementary school alongside pokemon and digimon. Thanks for all the content this channel is apart of my daily videos I watch on TH-cam ❤ from 🇨🇦 I pulled a wake your elemental hero from my first purchased pack from the 25th anniversary tin and my friend could not believe it and is trying to convince me to trade the card to him hahah. The tin was $35 and that card alone is worth $31. My most expensive cards all total to $57 so thats cool! But I just want to find people to play them with!!
10:48 The paidra play wasn’t illegal. It’s a soft once per turn, so because he bought it back from the graveyard with bident dragion, the effect reset, and he could synchro again. It’s the same with all of the main deck tenpai dragons except genroku.
I'm aware of that, but I mention it because he used that same face-up copy of Paidra in a chain block. It didn't actually get to Synchro Summon, but did activate. Watch it again just to confirm!
@@TeamAPS That’s irregular, as the effect of paidra resets, as it left the field and came back through bident. As he never applied its effect to synchro, it just fizzles. It’s like some of the ritual beast main deck monsters. If you imperm or veiler one of them; if they can bring it back to the field from the graveyard or banishment after using it for a fusion or link, they can activate it again, as its ‘once per turn’ not ‘you can only use this effect of … once per turn’. Thats just my understanding of it.
My favorite yugioh experience has to be from when I was a kid. My older brother taught me yugioh back in the mid-2000s. From the limited cards he had he put together two decks for us to play. He had his beloved blue-eyes and I had some neat cards like chaos sorcer. We would stay up for hours some nights playing but my most fond memories were during hurricane Katrina. I remember feeling a bit scared at first but then forgetting all about it once my brother challenged me to a duel (which turned into several throughout the night). Something I think that's kinda cool is that, while my brother's favorite archetype has always been the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, once I grew older, my favorite archetype ended up being the Cyber Dragon, the spiritual successor to the Blue-Eyes!
My best YGO experience was more of an era. There were a few great months during summer-fall 2022 where I was going to locals every week. I did fine but the best part was afterwards, when myself and a crew of a few guys would hang out into the night because we had nowhere else to be and just wanted to play more yugioh. It was a great way to play all the decks we didn't get to play at locals or regionals too. I really miss that.
My favorite experience is broken down to three points in time. The first was a decade ago when xyz was still new. All my friends got into it with modern mechanics. Everyday we would play yugioh at lunch and classes if we had the chance. The next was when Master Duel was out for about 9 months or so and scareclaw was released. I still hadn't figured out the link mechanics and it wasnt until a couple months later when I saw a video showcasing scareclaw being a one card combo deck that I instantly fell in love with the archetype. It's what got me hooked on understanding the game to be more competitive. The next was earlier this year when I went to locals for the first time with my childhood friend. It was the first time either of us went to a card shop or a tournament. Lots of great people who were excited about my friend and I coming back to the game after 10 years and Master Duel was the gateway back into the game along with youtube channels talking about yugioh!
My favorite experience is between watching my son finish seventh in dragon duels at nationals or him winning a dragon duel in Memphis. Watching him excel at something and be so happy really is a core memory for me as a father.
My fav experience was actually this year during the NA master duel online tournies. It was my first time in a tournament and a lot of kind folks helped me out and made me look forward to new tournaments in the future. Cant wait for more CYDra support
My best experience was playing my first locals with the Bujin deck and being taught and helped by others on how to play the game better!! I’ve been in love with the game ever since and when I found your channel it finally made me feel better about being ok without playing meta!
It's hard to pin down a single favorite Yugioh experience, but the one coming to mind right now is when Link Summoning finally clicked for me. I've dabbled a bit in Xyz and Link summoning on Master Duel, but when I stopped playing due to life getting in the way it was still back when the Extra Deck was the Fusion Deck so even just learning Synchros was a hurdle for me. But with the current Duel Triangle event, I started using the Ragnaraika loaner deck on Team Link. My first game I spent floundering about, but my second? I started to see the lines. I nearly lost to a time-out with how long my turn took, but the satisfaction of successfully Link Climbing from an empty board to a Link-5 and a Link-4 on board with protection and negates is a feeling I don't think I'll forget for a while.
Loved the video! I went to a locals last year when I got back into the game, all the people were super cool & taught me all the newer mechanics. I’m trying to play more at locals & hopefully get into a YCS in 2025.
This seems like blast. Hope you guys had fun. As for my favorite yugioh experience was probably when I was little. My dad actually bought me the Red eyes darkness structure deck and he learned how to play to teach me and my younger brother and all we all had a blast playing with each other that night.
My favorite memory would probably be about a month ago. I only started playing the TCG back in April and I’ve only ever gone to my locals. I usually don’t do too well because I’m playing decks that I like, instead of some that are good. When the Gimmick Puppet support came out I was super excited to see that it was actually a good deck. By the time I got my hands on it and was confident in playing it the banlist came out and nearly killed the deck. The day that it came out was when my locals was happening, so it was my one last and final hurrah with the deck before moving on to something else while I try to afford the Horus engine. I ended up going undefeated that day, even beating one of the best players there who I’ve never won against in my final round. I was super excited to have experienced that right before the deck was hit, and I’m happy that it was my first time going undefeated.
Favorite Yugioh Story/Experience: Going to my first locals/tournament in 2013 playing Battling Boxers and getting completely destroyed but despite being devastated, a player I challenged came up to me, introduced themselves, and gave me a bunch of free cards to help bolster up my deck. This was unexpectedly nice and I was so grateful, that I now do this for new people who join in our Yugioh community as well to share the positivity. 😊
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh experience was tournaments at booksamillion back in high school, they were less overly competitive than other locals in the area, plus we played the game in so many different formats like tag duels, turbo duels, or one big free for all. It made it feel like we were all there just because we wanted to have fun, make friends and play the game. I still hold those times close to my heart
Oh nice I saw you’d posted the pic with Kaiba was hoping there’d be a video on y’all’s comic con trip. Tough luck on the duel, I thought you’d survive a bit longer at least with the negates you had at the start, what was your facedown card? I think my favorite yugioh experience is still just when I was getting into it, never really pulled anything good from the booster packs but I remember getting the Joey wheeler starter deck, cutting it in half and playing with my little sister haha.
My favorite Yugioh experience is getting my two older cousins and out friend to show up every Friday night and trade and work shop each others decks and practice duel before “dueling forreal” as we proceed to put on background music like we were in AMVs and having “fatal four ways”. We can’t do that any longer because of life but y’all help me relive those times with your banter during retro duels and slifer slackers so thank you for helping keep the kid in me alive
Favorite Yugioh experience was in middle school. I remember me and my friends would always bring our structure decks down with us whether we had lunch or recess to play. One time specifically our teacher who used to play asked us to fill him in on the newer decks and rules.
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh experience was just recently. I've been trying to get my friend into it, I had picked up the Slifer and Obeliek decks. After some warm up with Speed Duel, he took Slifer, in took Obelisk, and we had a duel that, while it still had some teaching in it, took about an hour. The back and forth was so tight, we both got our God Cards out, lost them, and got them back, more then once, and I don't even remember who won, I think maybe it was me, but the tension as we were both down under 1,000 LP to the very end.
When you were playing that Rush Duel in the Duel Links demo, you should have set your spell cards. That way you would have drawn more cards on your upcoming draw. Setting unused spell cards is a standard tactic in Rush Duels.
My favorite Yugioh experience is with Zane lol. I had just gotten money stuff settled having my first job in High school and my friends were way too strong to play against with their decks (Cubics, galaxy eyes, pendulum eyes and blue eyes) So I just couldn't keep up. But I used money from my first paycheck to slowly get my cyber dragon deck list and make the deck since I always loved him in the anime. I kept standing more and more of a chance until finally My nova and infinity came in, in the span of our lunch period and the period after we all shared together I managed to beat them one by one. even hitting a sweet turn 2 powerbond into end with limiter removal and they had no response and had to take it. While me and them don't play much anymore since the high school day are gone, We did randomly run into each other recently after drifting apart. And yes their will be a blue eyes vs cyber dragon rematch soon. I'd love to show up with a cyberdragon playmat and do my best to kick his but in the run back after all these years.
2 favorite Yugioh memories! 1: Simply the people I may not have talked to and really got to know if it weren't for Yugioh. 2: Growing up, my family was pretty poor and winning local tournaments was the only way to afford extra stuff like video games and such. Bonus: Our local book store couldn't sell all the first Issues of Shonen Jumps so they threw a giant box of magazines with all the Blue Eyes cards out back. Got to load up on em!
Favorite Yugioh memory: I just got into the game in college after discovering Dueling Network. My college's ygo club drove us to a regional event to compete. I washed out after 2 losses, so I traded cards with attendees later to build up my Agents and Harpy deck. I participated in a win-a-mat mini tournament where I was given 5 packs. I pulled a ghost rare Star Eater, so at the time I didn't know what rarities were but my opponent did. I didn't feel comfortable selling it, so he found a player at the event that has been looking for that card. The guy thankfully had a binder full of Harpy stuff I was looking for, even threw in extra deck items too. I didn't win cool prizes at the event, but once I got home I felt like a winner from that experience. Saved me a lot in shipping fees since I ordered most of my singles online.
Hard to pick a single favorite Yugioh experience, but will never forget the first time I went to locals as a kid. I had only ever played playground yugioh, so the guy i played against was walking me through all of the rules as we played. He was really nice and patient with me. Thoroughly beat my pile of random cards I liked, but I'll never forget that day.
Man, my first local was so wild, I bought a cydra deck built to max and added some staples I got from opening 5 tins and I was so excited to go in, too bad it was peak tear ishizu format, I rememeber learning about accesscode talker and "why I cant negate the effects using my cyber dragon infinity" against the mathmech player, got naturia'ed so my fusion spells and machine dupe was negated "not once per turn btw" and the afromentioned tear game. Nevertheless it was a very fun exeperience that pushed me to build a competative deck and play some more! Recently took a x-2 at a regional here so there is a clear improvment curve:)
My fave experience is just having fun with friends on the floor or kitchen table or even at school and then inderectly telling each other what we had because we could
Favourite experience was winning my first OTS championship this year as a result for all the time spent practicing and testing! Love these kind of blog videos, wish you’d do more of them!
My favourite yugioh experience was 3-4 years ago when i started to play again with some friends, i will never forget my return duel, it was sunday evening at like 9:30 p.m. and i was playing Galaxy eyes and won against utopia. So good
Love the channel! My favorite experience isn't from an event it's getting my Blue eyes back from my 5th grade bus driver in my junior year of high school.. she kept it in the glove box of the bus all those years because we weren't supposed to have the cards at school or on this bus at the time. It was creased into a square.. I still have it somewhere.
My Yugioh Story is again like other who started with the anime, i got VERY big into Six Samurai and have been gushing over the new support. My fav momen now is me and my friends each opened a yugioh mystery box together and are starting from scratch has some awesome pulls!
favorite yugioh memory i have is when i was growing up and just playing outside on the sidewalk with friends, 2 of us would duel and wager some of our cards to the winner, sometimes trash cards sometimes our 'flagship' card. the other 2 would commentate and add the "WHOA NO WAYYYY" while also shielding our duel from the winds.
My favorite yugioh experience isnt based on the tcg itself. It dates back to the anime, that i watched when i was a kid. I dont know how this happend, but everytime i went to my gramdmas house, i ended up watching yugioh and honestly, i dont remember watching it at home. All my early memories date back to either playing it with my friends with the worst deck and ruling ever or watching it at my grandmas. I remember how stoked i was the first time watching it, seeing exodia and the god monsters, but cyber end dragon always stood out to me. Especially when combined with defusion, it seemed like the most powerful card introduced to the game. When i first picked up yugioh as the tcg in 2018, i also stumbled across a cyber dragon deck. Somehow it always connected to me and I still play it to this day. It became a symbol of my childhood and remembers me of my grandma and the time i spent at hers
Sooo funny thing, he said he chain blocked to stop Sauravis but that doesnt really matter because Sauravis only prevents inherent summons - Sauravis does almost nothing against the Tenpai matchup bc they synchro summon using effects 🙃 This coming from someone who played a lot of VV.
My favourite yu gi oh experience was playing with my cosuin as a kid. We played crazy 20k LP games for some reason and had like 200 cards decks. There wasn't any great tactics or combos, but the most fun I have ever had in duel with crazy ups and downs because of how ramshackle the decks were and the massive LP count.
Best experience was the last real duel as a kid with my friends before we got into high school, we’ve all gone different paths but those memories were some of the best times , love your videos hope you never stop
One of my favorite experiences was playing with my friends in middle school. I was getting a lot of them into the game for the first time and we would have tag duels or free-for-alls (it was almost always 4 of us) pretty much every lunch period. Also because it was a more casual level of competitiveness, I had a lot of fun trying a different deck every week or so.
My favorite was when I was little girl at my locals a few years ago. It was a pretty casual place but everyone there was like a tight family. The building was shutting down so we decided to play a special tag team match as a last Farwell. I played madolche and my brother used sky striker oddly enough its an awesome comb. Every match had so much back and forth and suspense it felt like yugioh in the old days. Our group was always one of the last one to be dueling and everyone was gathering around and chanting like we were dueling in the anime. It was a great experience
My favorite experience in the last couple of years was coming back to the game and re-learning. Met a great group of players at a local shop who re-taught me how to play (since I hadn't played since 2009). Now I go play weekly with my son and, I even have some of them over for dinner once in a while (my wife and I love to entertain). We have good food and play, work on our decks and see how we can improve.
I live really close to Javits Center, I always know it's Comic Con when there's a sudden influx of cosplayers in my neighborhood 😂 Maybe one of these years I'll eventually check it out.
My favorite Yugioh moment in my life was when I had basically a grudge match with an old friend/rival in high school. Some smack was talked on both sides, so we had a best of 2 to settle the score. All our friends and other players in the school were talking about it for almost a week, like it was this big event. Usually I played HEROes, but I surprised him by switching up my deck to an Exodia deck. We went to a game 3, but in the end, Exodia OBLITERATED him, and I won this gigantic spectacle. So basically stupid high school drama mixed with Yugioh 🤙🏻
The duel against a pro player reminders me of the mall tour way back when Yu-Gi-Oh was just getting started and if you won you got to write your name in the book of champions. I beat a "pro" who was just one of the staff members with a beatdown deck. I remember I ran my Sangan into his Goblin Attack Force to get my last piece of Exodia, haha. This event looked fun. I'm glad they're still cooking up cool things like this all these years later.
I’ve been playing Yugioh since sdk/y. Yugioh has helped me make friends whenever I’ve relocated, has given me reasons to travel, and has just been a big part of my life overall.
For one of my favorite experiences: My brother lives across country, so we don't see each other often. We are both kind of Yugioh boomers and have embraced links/xyzs more recently through master duel. He has obtained newer and faster TCG cards to mimic his OCG decks. I still only have my original decks with a new card here and there. He usually destroys me. However, our most recent time seeing one another in person about 7 months ago, I was able to beat him on turn 2 with my illegal exodia deck (3 copies each). He took the quote direct from Episode 1 Kaiba, "Exodia, it's not possible" I switched to my legal but rather slow Koala/Beast deck which has my favorite card ever, Master of Oz (was my best monster I ever got from a pack in terms if attack for back in the day). I was playing against one of his fast paced ritual decks. I got the perfect combination of cards and I was able to counter and win with a 2x attack Master of Oz. We had a lot of fun and always bring up Yugioh nostalgia when we can. Looking forward to the next time I can see him in person.
Have you tried branded master of Oz? It's a really funny combo deck to turbo out multiple Master of Oz monsters and uses Aluber plus the Despia field spell to keep bringing master of Oz back from the grave
My favorite yugioh experience was in a local yugioh tournament and my brother got crushed first turn by me pulling all five pieces of exodia first turn
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! experience at locals was during my first big local tournament, a monthly event we have every last week of the month. It was my first time playing with a whopping 17 people (I live in a really small town in Brazil). I made so many friends, and I was so happy when I went 4-1 in Swiss with my Dino deck, even though I got paired down. The fact that I won so many matches made my day!
Favorite YGO experience is watching Team APS! But definitely a tossup between playing the original Yugi vs. Kaiba starter decks with my brother on the kitchen counter, or watching the entire Duelist Kingdom arc with my best friends for my bachelor party. Thanks for making great content yall! And if I win that playmat, I wouldn’t be upset if you threw in the second Blue Eyes pin…. 👀🤣
My favorite thing was actually recent my brother and I went to an event at MoMi. We had a chance to watch Yugioh The Dark Side of Dimensions with an amazing group of people and sitting in on amazing Q&A’s with various voice actors Dan Green, Eric Stuart, Wayne Grayson, Ted Lewis, Amy Birnbaum, Jonathan Todd Ross, and Jennifer Silverman.
I got into ygo way back in the anime (as you probably surmised) I actually stopped and started frequently through my childhood finally coming back permanently w/arc v and because of that pendulum became my favorite mechanic, even w/the nerfs it got. I don't have many ppl to play irl nowadays but currently in master duel I am playing vaalmonica. I'm not into the competitive aspect of the game at the moment. But when maliss comes out it definitely looks like something I'd enjoy. I love non competitive fun decks to the point that if I build a deck they are the max 60 card decks [I know it's not necessarily a good thing] and have very little non engine in there. Though in md I did find a nice mix between vaalmonica and aroma
I still just watch this channel cause it’s nice to see someone enjoy what they do as much as you guys do. Would have been cool to win the steam deck though lol.
My favorite Yugioh experience was growing up playing on the playground and trading beyblade parts to make my first yugioh deck full of random cards i liked and traded for. Truly the best experience for starting out and watching the show. Been hooked ever since.
The best experience I had with yugioh is when my friends and I all bought random structure decks for each other and we had duel with those decks for the title king of games at our shop. It was so much fun and a great memory I will always have to look back on.
My favourite Yugioh experience: discovering that the game is still a thing, after it left my peripheral view for at least a decade and a half. I‘m binging everything on your channel right now 😅
My favorite YuGiOh experience is actually a 2 parter. The night that Duelist Revolution came out, I was hunting for Fabled Raven for my Dark World deck. Bought 1 box, opened a Pot of Duality. At the time, it was worth almost 200$, so a vendor asked to trade it to me for 2 boxes, so I did the trade. I PULLED 2 MORE POTS!!! The next tournament I went to, I ran Six Samurai, and I had added both Pot of Duality in the deck. A lot of people gave me crap for because Grandmaster was not playable the turn I used it. But I was able to grab Gateway with it. Took 1st place in a 20 person tournament. People offered me hundreds of dollars for that deck. Was pretty proud of it.
Really wish I could attend this sometime in the future! My favorite YGO experience is of going to locals for the first time with my best friends back when we were very little, about 10, and getting to meet lots of other kids that also loved the game, dueling against them, trading with them and winning some free packs for participating! I often think about reliving those memories if I could travel back in time...
My favourite Yu-Gi-Oh moment, is probably all the summer days I spent as a kid, just playing with my friends and our trash decks. I think that was probably the most simple time period in my life.
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh moment isn't anything too big but. A few years ago I moved to a new state and found a group of friends to play with. We got together one night and essentially recreated the legendary Battle City 4-Way duel - plus an extra person since there was five of us. It was absolutely chaotic and ridiculous and I ended up coming in 3rd, but it was the best game of Yu-Gi-Oh I've ever played
One of my favorite yugioh moments was getting to relive some nostalgic times with a friend of mine ever since we were little, we got the 25th anniversary booster boxes for legend of blue eyes and used those boxes to draft duel each other like we were dueling on the playground again, we also had the yugioh movie going on in the background while we dueled
I think my favorite yu-gi-oh experience was my first YCS in 2012 and not really realizing how many people played at a high level. I was so excited, and the first person I played against had a mat from the previous years world championship. The guy never really chatted with me and talked with his friends about something else, while he kicked my butt. It sucked to lose, but man is it a cool memory!
My very favorite moment playing yugioh is when I met one of my now best friends, just a casual friday evening at locals and some new guys stumble in that made for an encounter for a lifetime! It's been like 8 years since ^^
My favorite yu-gi-oh experience was learning at brother's grim card shop in long island NY and the players were non toxic and awesome taught me how to play so many decks and thats where i fell in love with cyber dragons and it makes me so happy to see all the grim workers working the konami booth missed them so much since i left NY this video made my day!
My fav YGO memory is back in 2000s playing Yata Control and winning a couple tournaments that summer at my LGS at the time. It was a great experience to beat out the Chaos decks at the time.
My favourite yugioh memory is the first time I brought my cards to school. A small group of people got infected by the game and for the next couple days we all played together. This also helped one of my friends who really struggled with anger issues. When he got angry the teacher would take me and him outside the class and we would go and play some games. His favourite card was horn of the unicorn.
My favorite experience is going to Team YCS is Vegas with my friends. It’s become a yearly thing now. It’s my only outing without my wife and kids all year so it’s pretty important
You should have asked him if a friend let him borrow the Trident Dragon. My favorite moment was finally winning locals last week. I've been back playing for a year and a half after not playing since 2007. It's been a long road of losing and learning.
My favorite yugioh experience was the Toys R Us tournament that my friend and his mom took me to when we were in 1st grade. The kids completely ran that tournament and the Toys R Us employees just trusted us. We were betting cards, ignoring tribute summoning, using anime effects, it was wild. Easily the best time I ever had with Yu-Gi-Oh! and have been chasing that high ever since
My favorite yugioh experience is probably winning against my older brother for the first time. I begged him to duel against me as a kid, and he almost never wanted to, but when he did, I would get wiped. But years and years later, I finally put together a competent deck, and managed to take him down. It felt like such an accomplishment back then, then I remember that he had probably a 100+ card deck full of mostly tribute monsters, and I wonder why I didn’t beat him sooner. But still, I’ll never forget that moment.
My favourite Yugioh experience wasn’t when i went to a tournament or an event, but it was when my brother first taught me how to play and we used to play everyday (i got beat every time) after he got home from school. I used to sit waiting with my random card deck at the door for him to come home
My favorite Yugioh experience was being able to compete in the Master Duel Challenger Cup series and won a featured match with Tombox as the commentator.
My favorite yugioh experience was teaching my nephew how to play earlier this year, and helping him pick his very first structure deck. He chose the cyber dragon structure deck.
YuGiOh brought together friends that in recent years drifted apart. It was our love of the game that brought us together and we continue to duel every couple weeks at one of our houses.
Hi. My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! experience are those days of playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament(s) with some duelists would eat food with me after, in-between, and before the tournaments. -J.T
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That's me at the beginning of the video and the last interview 😊 it was so awesome meeting you guys, thank you so much for your time.
Yeah Masala did misplay twice once which you noticed was with the paidra to quick synchro the 2nd time and the second was with the transcendent dragon on summon effect to switch all defense monsters to attack mode, he could have attacked into saurvais with bident and with fadra on the field it wouldn't die. Then used transcendent to attack into lo hitting you for 2950 then trident to finish the game lol, I don't know what classifies as being a pro these days if your last name ain't Brake, Kotton, Neven or Yu. Also the other misplays were destroying the transcendent and field spell it should have been paidra that way you still have transcendent dragon's negation still active, and he never activated sangen summoning effect to double a synchro monster on his fields attack which is a permanent double he just sent it and went attack, attack, attack lmfao😊
@@TeamAPS To be honest I'm not going to win but I never had an experience in those events and the only time I've seen Yu-Gi-Oh Battles is in my Locals GXgamers and I want to participate in one or two battles even if I don't win but I never completed it and I just returned to Yu-Gi-Oh after two years and I'm trying to finish my Dark Magician deck but the cards I need are too expensive I'm not giving up but I will have to save up my money
My favorite YUGIOH experience is when I introduced my blind roommate to the game. He would listen to us duel and showed a huge interest in the game but being blind, it was a concern.
I helped build him a theme deck by reading every card we had available that could help him, he loved running Armored Dragon, and once we had the deck built, we typed up every card description in braille sort of like a strategy guide, typed abbreviated braille labels and put them on the card sleeves, and he would play using his guide until he memorized his deck. After that we built more and lore decks for him to use and he started buying card lots with us. Sadly he passed away some years back but I held onto his card books and decks and we remember how happy it made him to be a part of our dueling group. It's a system I wish I had talked to UPPER DECK about it. We then taught other blind ki ds to play with us too. Best years of dueling ever.
@@zombiejlt1 🤍
You're a saint!
You’re a great friend
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Fantastic friend i cannot understate how blessed that blind roomate is to have you work hard to help them, genuinely wholesome and i am not super religioua but your an angel small acts still can be big 🙏
My favorite was when I met a Florida panthers (NHL) player back in 2006 at a yugioh event, then got to duel him, and he threw me a puck at the next game I saw him at when I held up a homemade sign that said “Florida Panthers it’s time to D-D-D-D-DUEL!”
Wow! Do you remember who it was?
Guessing Olli jokinen
@@seanmcmanus393I’ll pick Nathan Horton
my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh memory was in high school when my friends and I would sit in my friend’s grandpa’s car garage late at night and play until early morning. Classic rock playing from a decrepit old radio, cold mountain dew from the garage fridge, and hours of games between Heroes, Blue-Eyes and Six Samurai. Looking back, it reminds me of the Satellite from 5Ds. We didn’t have all the best cards, but we had each other. Oh how the time flies
My favorite moment was my first locals where I was very nervous and everyone was so nice and helpful and not stressing me at all for not knowing how "competitive" YGO works (e.g. calling phases, explaining me all the effects of unknown cards, ...)
0.24 - hey thats me!
I hope it was a fun match!
The funny hat guy? 😂
Ok?
That is the most accurate Kaiba I’ve ever seen
Favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! Experience:
When I was a kid, the Egyptian God Cards only had the non-playable versions (Blue, Red, Yellow).
While clearly not legal for play, one of the duelists at my locals decided to put The Winged Dragon of Ra (unsleeved) in his deck. He then shuffled it to the top of his deck, so that he could draw it in his opening hand.
We were young, maybe 10 years old. I tried to inform the duelist that he couldn't play with that card, but he was adamant. Instead, I decided to turn the situation to my advantage.
So I said: "Well, what does The Winged Dragon of Ra do?", since it didn't have a real effect. The duelist - impressively - recited all of the extremely broken Ra effects from the show. We agreed upon exactly what the god card would be capable of doing in play.
The duel progressed, and I hit the ace-card in my mish-mash 10 year-old deck: EXCHANGE!
I then proceeded to summon his Winged Dragon of Ra, and win in an epic fashion. With all of the abilities that the duelist had proclaimed Ra to possess.
This was a sanctioned tournament. The judges didn't notice the glaring yellow card at any point. The good old days!
If it was a local tournament, most LGS owners didn't care that much back in the day.
I remember that they'd let me use a deck with more than one type of sleeves or with more than 60 cards.
They would only enforce tournament policies if your opponent complained, but the people at the locals I used to go to were chill.
@@KaoruMzkI also had a deck with 2 different type sleeves when I was a kid. Only had to have an equal amount of each 😅
My favorite memory has to be when I was a kid waiting for my mom's foot surgery? I was weirdly confident that if I brought my yugioh cards to the waiting room, I would meet a fellow Duelist, like in the anime. Lo and behold, a fellow kid was there with his Yugi deck and we got to duel a few times in the waiting room.
Funny. I had a similar experience haha. Wonder if it was you?
@gamerpeck8517 Did you try to set Summoned Skull in face down attack mode
@@georgekantelis i don't remember but i did have one and it's not entirely impossible
@@georgekantelis were you in the States?
@@gamerpeck8517 GA
My favorite Yugioh experience was the friend group I made at college. I stopped playing tcgs around high-school and when I went to college from a small school to a bigger college I didn't really know anyone. Yugioh was the reason I made so many friends and look back fondly on my time while there. Right around 2012-2016 some great decks around that time.
Fun video! Glad to see all the cool events and upcoming sets (Speed Duels 👀 👀 👀).
My favorite YGO experience has to be playground YGO making up rules as we went along, scraping our raw cards against the blacktop while we played. Great memories!
14:33 Unfortunately I never had a favorite Yu-Gi-Oh experience nor have I had one in general. I've always wanted to play at locals or bigger events but I've never had all the equipment. Getting a play mat will bring me one step closer to actually having a Yu-Gi-Oh experience.
Favorite Yu-Gi-Oh experience that immediately comes to mind because it fits the theme of the mat: I was in high school and played Yu-Gi-Oh with my best friend at lunch everyday. I remember going to play Yugioh Day 2014 at my locals with my freshly built Destiny Hero Zombie Synchro deck. I remember thinking that I might not do too badly, until I showed up and saw a massive turnout of close to 40 players, with a LOT of them being meta players. I was sure that I was hosed, but I fought my hardest and ended up placing somewhere in the top 8! For my efforts, I won a Zane token, which I cherish to this day. It was the first thing I ever won by placing in a tournament
10:48 The tenpai monsters’ effects to quick sync are not hard once per turns
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! Experience was when I was just getting back into the dueling scene, around the time Rage of Ra was released. I remember getting out of work and driving to my locals and getting a few packs of the new set. As I was opening the packs, not expecting anything, my world slowed to a crawl, as my heart rate noticeably quickened when I noticed an unexpected foiled card. Yes, I had pulled Ghost Rare Ra, and I was literally shaking! That was one of the best days of Yu-Gi-Oh!
My favorite Yugioh memory was when my dad took me to a tournament at the Ramada hotel. I was 9 playing cyber dragons and got cussed out by a mid 20 something year old. First round too
My favorite YGO experience was meeting my now best friend during a tournament at my local game store. We had never met before this tournament and were set to face each other. We both had casual decks as I had a Utopia deck and he had an Elemental Hero deck (this was back in the XYZ era of Yugioh) and I complimented his deck choice as I also love EHeroes from watching GX. Throughout the rest of the game we were nerding out about yugioh, video games, and anime. I ended up winning the round and we became friends and eventually best friends!
That booth looked like so much fun, so jealous of you guys!
My favorite Yugioh memory so far was going to my first tournament this year at TCG Con in Houston and dueling not only fellow first-time tournament players, but YOU Paul! It was so cool not just to meet one of the people that helped me get into the game in the first place, but actually duel them! Sure, I got completely swept by Vanquish Soul, but being able to rep my favorite deck (Cyber Dragon!) and meet all the cool people at the tournament was honestly such a fantastic experience. It encouraged me to go to my first locals and I hope to make to many more cool memories with this hobby. With how many people i've met through the game, I never would have expected Yugioh to have this much impact in my life when I got into it 4 years ago
My favorite Yugioh experience was going to watch the og Pyramid of Light movie with my dad as a kid. He pulled the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon and I got the Sorcerer. He gave me the dragon and I keep it framed to this day. 🙏🏻 Not worth much USD, but priceless to me.
My favorite Yugioh moment would be being at the height of Edison Format by being in Edison, NJ during that Shonen Jump tournament. Had a great time there and still treasure the Trag mat you got for just entering the last Shonen Jump tournament.
Winning my first tournament will always be one of my favorite experiences in this game, but that was nearly two decades ago. Defeating two players who where both cheating was another great memory, using a mirror to see my hand, setting there decks with cut cards, and flat out lying about card effects. All of that and I still outplayed them so much that they still lost super hard. The best experience was setting up the very old Mystical knight of Jackal lock, with enraged battle ox on one side of him and Chiron the mage on the other side of him. There was a group of friends that played with there own rules. All decks had to have only one type of monster and all cards limited to one(aside from MST) and all cards limited to two where locked to a type of monster. Beast-warriors where only allowed book of moon, but could have 3 copies of it because they all thought it wasn't a good card. All of them already built there decks and never thought a beast-warrior deck could defeat any of theres. (Spellcasters, warriors, fairies, fiends, machines, and a zombie deck) I defeated them all and they limited book of moon to one alongside threating roar and banned Mystical knight of jackal after words. The spellcaster deck was the hardest one due to magical dimension and being allowed exclusive access to magic cylinder and wave-motion cannon for whatever reason. They gave beast-warriors two copies of rush recklessly and removed it from all of decks to replace the two book of moons and even under all of those restriction I was able to defeat them all again. They didn't ask me to come back, but I had a great time and book of moon was allowed to showcase why it was limited at that time.
My favorite moment is a coupleweeks ago getting back into the TCG now that I am 25. I started collecting the cards in elementary school alongside pokemon and digimon. Thanks for all the content this channel is apart of my daily videos I watch on TH-cam ❤ from 🇨🇦 I pulled a wake your elemental hero from my first purchased pack from the 25th anniversary tin and my friend could not believe it and is trying to convince me to trade the card to him hahah. The tin was $35 and that card alone is worth $31. My most expensive cards all total to $57 so thats cool! But I just want to find people to play them with!!
10:48 The paidra play wasn’t illegal. It’s a soft once per turn, so because he bought it back from the graveyard with bident dragion, the effect reset, and he could synchro again. It’s the same with all of the main deck tenpai dragons except genroku.
I'm aware of that, but I mention it because he used that same face-up copy of Paidra in a chain block. It didn't actually get to Synchro Summon, but did activate. Watch it again just to confirm!
@@TeamAPS That’s irregular, as the effect of paidra resets, as it left the field and came back through bident. As he never applied its effect to synchro, it just fizzles. It’s like some of the ritual beast main deck monsters. If you imperm or veiler one of them; if they can bring it back to the field from the graveyard or banishment after using it for a fusion or link, they can activate it again, as its ‘once per turn’ not ‘you can only use this effect of … once per turn’. Thats just my understanding of it.
@@Mzzzzz786 you are Right! Nothing illegal happened.
Favorite Yu-Gi-Oh Experience - Playing yugioh with my two sons and having them beat me badly with Tenpai and Centurion, ah good times!
wow so recent
My favorite yugioh experience has to be from when I was a kid. My older brother taught me yugioh back in the mid-2000s. From the limited cards he had he put together two decks for us to play. He had his beloved blue-eyes and I had some neat cards like chaos sorcer.
We would stay up for hours some nights playing but my most fond memories were during hurricane Katrina. I remember feeling a bit scared at first but then forgetting all about it once my brother challenged me to a duel (which turned into several throughout the night).
Something I think that's kinda cool is that, while my brother's favorite archetype has always been the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, once I grew older, my favorite archetype ended up being the Cyber Dragon, the spiritual successor to the Blue-Eyes!
My best YGO experience was more of an era. There were a few great months during summer-fall 2022 where I was going to locals every week. I did fine but the best part was afterwards, when myself and a crew of a few guys would hang out into the night because we had nowhere else to be and just wanted to play more yugioh. It was a great way to play all the decks we didn't get to play at locals or regionals too. I really miss that.
My favorite experience is broken down to three points in time. The first was a decade ago when xyz was still new. All my friends got into it with modern mechanics. Everyday we would play yugioh at lunch and classes if we had the chance.
The next was when Master Duel was out for about 9 months or so and scareclaw was released. I still hadn't figured out the link mechanics and it wasnt until a couple months later when I saw a video showcasing scareclaw being a one card combo deck that I instantly fell in love with the archetype. It's what got me hooked on understanding the game to be more competitive.
The next was earlier this year when I went to locals for the first time with my childhood friend. It was the first time either of us went to a card shop or a tournament. Lots of great people who were excited about my friend and I coming back to the game after 10 years and Master Duel was the gateway back into the game along with youtube channels talking about yugioh!
My favorite experience is between watching my son finish seventh in dragon duels at nationals or him winning a dragon duel in Memphis.
Watching him excel at something and be so happy really is a core memory for me as a father.
My fav experience was actually this year during the NA master duel online tournies. It was my first time in a tournament and a lot of kind folks helped me out and made me look forward to new tournaments in the future. Cant wait for more CYDra support
My best experience was playing my first locals with the Bujin deck and being taught and helped by others on how to play the game better!! I’ve been in love with the game ever since and when I found your channel it finally made me feel better about being ok without playing meta!
It's hard to pin down a single favorite Yugioh experience, but the one coming to mind right now is when Link Summoning finally clicked for me. I've dabbled a bit in Xyz and Link summoning on Master Duel, but when I stopped playing due to life getting in the way it was still back when the Extra Deck was the Fusion Deck so even just learning Synchros was a hurdle for me. But with the current Duel Triangle event, I started using the Ragnaraika loaner deck on Team Link. My first game I spent floundering about, but my second? I started to see the lines. I nearly lost to a time-out with how long my turn took, but the satisfaction of successfully Link Climbing from an empty board to a Link-5 and a Link-4 on board with protection and negates is a feeling I don't think I'll forget for a while.
Loved the video! I went to a locals last year when I got back into the game, all the people were super cool & taught me all the newer mechanics. I’m trying to play more at locals & hopefully get into a YCS in 2025.
This seems like blast. Hope you guys had fun.
As for my favorite yugioh experience was probably when I was little. My dad actually bought me the Red eyes darkness structure deck and he learned how to play to teach me and my younger brother and all we all had a blast playing with each other that night.
My favorite memory would probably be about a month ago. I only started playing the TCG back in April and I’ve only ever gone to my locals. I usually don’t do too well because I’m playing decks that I like, instead of some that are good. When the Gimmick Puppet support came out I was super excited to see that it was actually a good deck. By the time I got my hands on it and was confident in playing it the banlist came out and nearly killed the deck. The day that it came out was when my locals was happening, so it was my one last and final hurrah with the deck before moving on to something else while I try to afford the Horus engine. I ended up going undefeated that day, even beating one of the best players there who I’ve never won against in my final round. I was super excited to have experienced that right before the deck was hit, and I’m happy that it was my first time going undefeated.
Favorite Yugioh Story/Experience:
Going to my first locals/tournament in 2013 playing Battling Boxers and getting completely destroyed but despite being devastated, a player I challenged came up to me, introduced themselves, and gave me a bunch of free cards to help bolster up my deck. This was unexpectedly nice and I was so grateful, that I now do this for new people who join in our Yugioh community as well to share the positivity. 😊
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh experience was tournaments at booksamillion back in high school, they were less overly competitive than other locals in the area, plus we played the game in so many different formats like tag duels, turbo duels, or one big free for all. It made it feel like we were all there just because we wanted to have fun, make friends and play the game. I still hold those times close to my heart
Oh nice I saw you’d posted the pic with Kaiba was hoping there’d be a video on y’all’s comic con trip. Tough luck on the duel, I thought you’d survive a bit longer at least with the negates you had at the start, what was your facedown card?
I think my favorite yugioh experience is still just when I was getting into it, never really pulled anything good from the booster packs but I remember getting the Joey wheeler starter deck, cutting it in half and playing with my little sister haha.
My favorite Yugioh experience is getting my two older cousins and out friend to show up every Friday night and trade and work shop each others decks and practice duel before “dueling forreal” as we proceed to put on background music like we were in AMVs and having “fatal four ways”. We can’t do that any longer because of life but y’all help me relive those times with your banter during retro duels and slifer slackers so thank you for helping keep the kid in me alive
Favorite Yugioh experience was in middle school. I remember me and my friends would always bring our structure decks down with us whether we had lunch or recess to play. One time specifically our teacher who used to play asked us to fill him in on the newer decks and rules.
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh experience was just recently. I've been trying to get my friend into it, I had picked up the Slifer and Obeliek decks. After some warm up with Speed Duel, he took Slifer, in took Obelisk, and we had a duel that, while it still had some teaching in it, took about an hour. The back and forth was so tight, we both got our God Cards out, lost them, and got them back, more then once, and I don't even remember who won, I think maybe it was me, but the tension as we were both down under 1,000 LP to the very end.
When you were playing that Rush Duel in the Duel Links demo, you should have set your spell cards. That way you would have drawn more cards on your upcoming draw.
Setting unused spell cards is a standard tactic in Rush Duels.
My favorite Yugioh experience is with Zane lol. I had just gotten money stuff settled having my first job in High school and my friends were way too strong to play against with their decks (Cubics, galaxy eyes, pendulum eyes and blue eyes) So I just couldn't keep up. But I used money from my first paycheck to slowly get my cyber dragon deck list and make the deck since I always loved him in the anime. I kept standing more and more of a chance until finally My nova and infinity came in, in the span of our lunch period and the period after we all shared together I managed to beat them one by one. even hitting a sweet turn 2 powerbond into end with limiter removal and they had no response and had to take it. While me and them don't play much anymore since the high school day are gone, We did randomly run into each other recently after drifting apart. And yes their will be a blue eyes vs cyber dragon rematch soon. I'd love to show up with a cyberdragon playmat and do my best to kick his but in the run back after all these years.
2 favorite Yugioh memories! 1: Simply the people I may not have talked to and really got to know if it weren't for Yugioh. 2: Growing up, my family was pretty poor and winning local tournaments was the only way to afford extra stuff like video games and such. Bonus: Our local book store couldn't sell all the first Issues of Shonen Jumps so they threw a giant box of magazines with all the Blue Eyes cards out back. Got to load up on em!
Favorite Yugioh memory: I just got into the game in college after discovering Dueling Network. My college's ygo club drove us to a regional event to compete. I washed out after 2 losses, so I traded cards with attendees later to build up my Agents and Harpy deck. I participated in a win-a-mat mini tournament where I was given 5 packs. I pulled a ghost rare Star Eater, so at the time I didn't know what rarities were but my opponent did. I didn't feel comfortable selling it, so he found a player at the event that has been looking for that card. The guy thankfully had a binder full of Harpy stuff I was looking for, even threw in extra deck items too. I didn't win cool prizes at the event, but once I got home I felt like a winner from that experience. Saved me a lot in shipping fees since I ordered most of my singles online.
Hard to pick a single favorite Yugioh experience, but will never forget the first time I went to locals as a kid. I had only ever played playground yugioh, so the guy i played against was walking me through all of the rules as we played. He was really nice and patient with me. Thoroughly beat my pile of random cards I liked, but I'll never forget that day.
Man, my first local was so wild, I bought a cydra deck built to max and added some staples I got from opening 5 tins and I was so excited to go in, too bad it was peak tear ishizu format, I rememeber learning about accesscode talker and "why I cant negate the effects using my cyber dragon infinity" against the mathmech player, got naturia'ed so my fusion spells and machine dupe was negated "not once per turn btw" and the afromentioned tear game. Nevertheless it was a very fun exeperience that pushed me to build a competative deck and play some more! Recently took a x-2 at a regional here so there is a clear improvment curve:)
My fave experience is just having fun with friends on the floor or kitchen table or even at school and then inderectly telling each other what we had because we could
Favourite experience was winning my first OTS championship this year as a result for all the time spent practicing and testing! Love these kind of blog videos, wish you’d do more of them!
My favourite yugioh experience was 3-4 years ago when i started to play again with some friends, i will never forget my return duel, it was sunday evening at like 9:30 p.m. and i was playing Galaxy eyes and won against utopia. So good
Love the channel!
My favorite experience isn't from an event it's getting my Blue eyes back from my 5th grade bus driver in my junior year of high school.. she kept it in the glove box of the bus all those years because we weren't supposed to have the cards at school or on this bus at the time. It was creased into a square.. I still have it somewhere.
My Yugioh Story is again like other who started with the anime, i got VERY big into Six Samurai and have been gushing over the new support. My fav momen now is me and my friends each opened a yugioh mystery box together and are starting from scratch has some awesome pulls!
favorite yugioh memory i have is when i was growing up and just playing outside on the sidewalk with friends, 2 of us would duel and wager some of our cards to the winner, sometimes trash cards sometimes our 'flagship' card. the other 2 would commentate and add the "WHOA NO WAYYYY" while also shielding our duel from the winds.
My favorite yugioh experience isnt based on the tcg itself. It dates back to the anime, that i watched when i was a kid. I dont know how this happend, but everytime i went to my gramdmas house, i ended up watching yugioh and honestly, i dont remember watching it at home. All my early memories date back to either playing it with my friends with the worst deck and ruling ever or watching it at my grandmas. I remember how stoked i was the first time watching it, seeing exodia and the god monsters, but cyber end dragon always stood out to me. Especially when combined with defusion, it seemed like the most powerful card introduced to the game. When i first picked up yugioh as the tcg in 2018, i also stumbled across a cyber dragon deck. Somehow it always connected to me and I still play it to this day. It became a symbol of my childhood and remembers me of my grandma and the time i spent at hers
Sooo funny thing, he said he chain blocked to stop Sauravis but that doesnt really matter because Sauravis only prevents inherent summons - Sauravis does almost nothing against the Tenpai matchup bc they synchro summon using effects 🙃 This coming from someone who played a lot of VV.
My favourite yu gi oh experience was playing with my cosuin as a kid. We played crazy 20k LP games for some reason and had like 200 cards decks. There wasn't any great tactics or combos, but the most fun I have ever had in duel with crazy ups and downs because of how ramshackle the decks were and the massive LP count.
Best experience was the last real duel as a kid with my friends before we got into high school, we’ve all gone different paths but those memories were some of the best times , love your videos hope you never stop
One of my favorite experiences was playing with my friends in middle school. I was getting a lot of them into the game for the first time and we would have tag duels or free-for-alls (it was almost always 4 of us) pretty much every lunch period. Also because it was a more casual level of competitiveness, I had a lot of fun trying a different deck every week or so.
My favorite was when I was little girl at my locals a few years ago. It was a pretty casual place but everyone there was like a tight family. The building was shutting down so we decided to play a special tag team match as a last Farwell. I played madolche and my brother used sky striker oddly enough its an awesome comb. Every match had so much back and forth and suspense it felt like yugioh in the old days. Our group was always one of the last one to be dueling and everyone was gathering around and chanting like we were dueling in the anime. It was a great experience
My favorite experience in the last couple of years was coming back to the game and re-learning. Met a great group of players at a local shop who re-taught me how to play (since I hadn't played since 2009). Now I go play weekly with my son and, I even have some of them over for dinner once in a while (my wife and I love to entertain). We have good food and play, work on our decks and see how we can improve.
My favorite yu-gi-oh moment was winning the sneak peak mat givaway for duelist nexus. As a Stardust player, it's the perfect mat for me.
I live really close to Javits Center, I always know it's Comic Con when there's a sudden influx of cosplayers in my neighborhood 😂 Maybe one of these years I'll eventually check it out.
My favorite Yugioh moment in my life was when I had basically a grudge match with an old friend/rival in high school. Some smack was talked on both sides, so we had a best of 2 to settle the score. All our friends and other players in the school were talking about it for almost a week, like it was this big event. Usually I played HEROes, but I surprised him by switching up my deck to an Exodia deck. We went to a game 3, but in the end, Exodia OBLITERATED him, and I won this gigantic spectacle. So basically stupid high school drama mixed with Yugioh 🤙🏻
The duel against a pro player reminders me of the mall tour way back when Yu-Gi-Oh was just getting started and if you won you got to write your name in the book of champions. I beat a "pro" who was just one of the staff members with a beatdown deck. I remember I ran my Sangan into his Goblin Attack Force to get my last piece of Exodia, haha. This event looked fun. I'm glad they're still cooking up cool things like this all these years later.
I’ve been playing Yugioh since sdk/y. Yugioh has helped me make friends whenever I’ve relocated, has given me reasons to travel, and has just been a big part of my life overall.
For one of my favorite experiences:
My brother lives across country, so we don't see each other often. We are both kind of Yugioh boomers and have embraced links/xyzs more recently through master duel. He has obtained newer and faster TCG cards to mimic his OCG decks. I still only have my original decks with a new card here and there. He usually destroys me.
However, our most recent time seeing one another in person about 7 months ago, I was able to beat him on turn 2 with my illegal exodia deck (3 copies each). He took the quote direct from Episode 1 Kaiba, "Exodia, it's not possible" I switched to my legal but rather slow Koala/Beast deck which has my favorite card ever, Master of Oz (was my best monster I ever got from a pack in terms if attack for back in the day). I was playing against one of his fast paced ritual decks. I got the perfect combination of cards and I was able to counter and win with a 2x attack Master of Oz.
We had a lot of fun and always bring up Yugioh nostalgia when we can. Looking forward to the next time I can see him in person.
Have you tried branded master of Oz? It's a really funny combo deck to turbo out multiple Master of Oz monsters and uses Aluber plus the Despia field spell to keep bringing master of Oz back from the grave
My favorite yugioh experience was in a local yugioh tournament and my brother got crushed first turn by me pulling all five pieces of exodia first turn
Just hanging at the library playing everyday after school is my favorite moments
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! experience at locals was during my first big local tournament, a monthly event we have every last week of the month. It was my first time playing with a whopping 17 people (I live in a really small town in Brazil). I made so many friends, and I was so happy when I went 4-1 in Swiss with my Dino deck, even though I got paired down. The fact that I won so many matches made my day!
Favorite YGO experience is watching Team APS! But definitely a tossup between playing the original Yugi vs. Kaiba starter decks with my brother on the kitchen counter, or watching the entire Duelist Kingdom arc with my best friends for my bachelor party.
Thanks for making great content yall! And if I win that playmat, I wouldn’t be upset if you threw in the second Blue Eyes pin…. 👀🤣
My favorite thing was actually recent my brother and I went to an event at MoMi. We had a chance to watch Yugioh The Dark Side of Dimensions with an amazing group of people and sitting in on amazing Q&A’s with various voice actors Dan Green, Eric Stuart, Wayne Grayson, Ted Lewis, Amy Birnbaum, Jonathan Todd Ross, and Jennifer Silverman.
I got into ygo way back in the anime (as you probably surmised) I actually stopped and started frequently through my childhood finally coming back permanently w/arc v and because of that pendulum became my favorite mechanic, even w/the nerfs it got. I don't have many ppl to play irl nowadays but currently in master duel I am playing vaalmonica. I'm not into the competitive aspect of the game at the moment. But when maliss comes out it definitely looks like something I'd enjoy. I love non competitive fun decks to the point that if I build a deck they are the max 60 card decks [I know it's not necessarily a good thing] and have very little non engine in there. Though in md I did find a nice mix between vaalmonica and aroma
I still just watch this channel cause it’s nice to see someone enjoy what they do as much as you guys do.
Would have been cool to win the steam deck though lol.
My favorite Yugioh experience was growing up playing on the playground and trading beyblade parts to make my first yugioh deck full of random cards i liked and traded for. Truly the best experience for starting out and watching the show. Been hooked ever since.
The best experience I had with yugioh is when my friends and I all bought random structure decks for each other and we had duel with those decks for the title king of games at our shop. It was so much fun and a great memory I will always have to look back on.
My favourite Yugioh experience: discovering that the game is still a thing, after it left my peripheral view for at least a decade and a half. I‘m binging everything on your channel right now 😅
My favorite YuGiOh experience is actually a 2 parter. The night that Duelist Revolution came out, I was hunting for Fabled Raven for my Dark World deck. Bought 1 box, opened a Pot of Duality. At the time, it was worth almost 200$, so a vendor asked to trade it to me for 2 boxes, so I did the trade. I PULLED 2 MORE POTS!!!
The next tournament I went to, I ran Six Samurai, and I had added both Pot of Duality in the deck. A lot of people gave me crap for because Grandmaster was not playable the turn I used it. But I was able to grab Gateway with it. Took 1st place in a 20 person tournament. People offered me hundreds of dollars for that deck. Was pretty proud of it.
Honestly i would take the fusion machine any day of the week testing it in cyber dragons
Really wish I could attend this sometime in the future!
My favorite YGO experience is of going to locals for the first time with my best friends back when we were very little, about 10, and getting to meet lots of other kids that also loved the game, dueling against them, trading with them and winning some free packs for participating! I often think about reliving those memories if I could travel back in time...
My favourite Yu-Gi-Oh moment, is probably all the summer days I spent as a kid, just playing with my friends and our trash decks. I think that was probably the most simple time period in my life.
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh moment isn't anything too big but. A few years ago I moved to a new state and found a group of friends to play with. We got together one night and essentially recreated the legendary Battle City 4-Way duel - plus an extra person since there was five of us. It was absolutely chaotic and ridiculous and I ended up coming in 3rd, but it was the best game of Yu-Gi-Oh I've ever played
One of my favorite yugioh moments was getting to relive some nostalgic times with a friend of mine ever since we were little, we got the 25th anniversary booster boxes for legend of blue eyes and used those boxes to draft duel each other like we were dueling on the playground again, we also had the yugioh movie going on in the background while we dueled
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh experience was traveling to Lenexa Kansas for a regional and winning a win a mat tournament.
I think my favorite yu-gi-oh experience was my first YCS in 2012 and not really realizing how many people played at a high level. I was so excited, and the first person I played against had a mat from the previous years world championship. The guy never really chatted with me and talked with his friends about something else, while he kicked my butt. It sucked to lose, but man is it a cool memory!
My very favorite moment playing yugioh is when I met one of my now best friends, just a casual friday evening at locals and some new guys stumble in that made for an encounter for a lifetime! It's been like 8 years since ^^
My favorite yu-gi-oh experience was learning at brother's grim card shop in long island NY and the players were non toxic and awesome taught me how to play so many decks and thats where i fell in love with cyber dragons and it makes me so happy to see all the grim workers working the konami booth missed them so much since i left NY this video made my day!
My fav YGO memory is back in 2000s playing Yata Control and winning a couple tournaments that summer at my LGS at the time. It was a great experience to beat out the Chaos decks at the time.
My favourite yugioh memory is the first time I brought my cards to school. A small group of people got infected by the game and for the next couple days we all played together. This also helped one of my friends who really struggled with anger issues. When he got angry the teacher would take me and him outside the class and we would go and play some games. His favourite card was horn of the unicorn.
Favorite experience is seeing a yugituber at a regional and playing him. Just as cool as he is on camera.
My favorite experience is going to Team YCS is Vegas with my friends. It’s become a yearly thing now. It’s my only outing without my wife and kids all year so it’s pretty important
You should have asked him if a friend let him borrow the Trident Dragon.
My favorite moment was finally winning locals last week. I've been back playing for a year and a half after not playing since 2007. It's been a long road of losing and learning.
My favorite yugioh experience was the Toys R Us tournament that my friend and his mom took me to when we were in 1st grade. The kids completely ran that tournament and the Toys R Us employees just trusted us. We were betting cards, ignoring tribute summoning, using anime effects, it was wild. Easily the best time I ever had with Yu-Gi-Oh! and have been chasing that high ever since
My favorite yugioh experience is probably winning against my older brother for the first time. I begged him to duel against me as a kid, and he almost never wanted to, but when he did, I would get wiped. But years and years later, I finally put together a competent deck, and managed to take him down. It felt like such an accomplishment back then, then I remember that he had probably a 100+ card deck full of mostly tribute monsters, and I wonder why I didn’t beat him sooner. But still, I’ll never forget that moment.
My favourite Yugioh experience wasn’t when i went to a tournament or an event, but it was when my brother first taught me how to play and we used to play everyday (i got beat every time) after he got home from school. I used to sit waiting with my random card deck at the door for him to come home
Wow, my first time seeing Rush Duel. It looks cool.
I've been liking Yu-Gi-Oh since I was 12 years old and I enjoy the game.
I was able to use Exchange to win a game at my locals recently. That's probably my favorite IRL moment so far in my dueling career
My favorite Yugioh experience was being able to compete in the Master Duel Challenger Cup series and won a featured match with Tombox as the commentator.
My favorite yugioh experience was teaching my nephew how to play earlier this year, and helping him pick his very first structure deck. He chose the cyber dragon structure deck.
YuGiOh brought together friends that in recent years drifted apart. It was our love of the game that brought us together and we continue to duel every couple weeks at one of our houses.
Hi. My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! experience are those days of playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament(s) with some duelists would eat food with me after, in-between, and before the tournaments. -J.T