Regarding playing like it's anime, a kid (like maybe 12) showed up to locals one day with your typical "deck in a Ziploc baggie," so all of us experienced meta players all agreed to use our casual/fun decks against him (no hand traps or negates and shit), and he just started going off like Yami Yugi with his 2011 starter deck, and we all got caught up in it. One game (I was playing Ghostricks), I got a full field out, activated Ghostrick Ghoul's effect, declaring "I activate Ghostrick Ghoul's effect! It allows one of my Ghostrick monsters to gain attack power equal to the combined original attack of all the Ghostrick monsters I control! Then, I activate Ghostrick Dullahan's effect to reduce the attack power of one of YOUR monsters by half!" Then the little shit hit me with a Magic Cylinder for 6k because I didn't have Mansion out.
@bruhmanofyear2 "Warrior plagued by corruption of the ancients, surpass the roots of evil ad cast judgment! Xyz Summon! Rank 7! The warrior bound to the madness of war! Kashtira Arise-Heart!"
The biggest redflag for me is people taking the game too seriously. If they won't goof around a little bit, that usually means a boring match. Seeing people nerd out with anime rp during yugioh matches is the most charming thing to me.
Had a female friend of mine who was thinking about getting into the game come with me to locals. After winning my 2nd game of the day my opponent accused me of "bringing a girl to detract my opponents from the game" I'm not sure if that counts but WFT thinks like this.
There's a reason my friend, who is a girl and is one of most tryhard card players ever, refuses to talk to ANYONE during tournaments unless it is directly about the game she is playing with her opponent alone. Too many people being assholes to her, or hitting on her, or both.
I once had a match where I had won the die roll, the guy looks at his hand, says “Yea I didn’t draw any interaction, combo off” and then left the table. He came back like 5 minutes later. I wasn’t playing a combo deck. I was playing Monarchs.
I feel like that's more a sign of the times than them being a dick tho. The combo off is the norm. If you told them before hand it was monarchs tho... then they got no excuse.
See, I really hate this kind of attitude, because yes, I get that over-the-top combo decks in Yugioh are as common as they are annoying, but you're at locals dude. You've socially committed yourself to spending time with these other players, whether they be perfect strangers or old friends. The least you could give them is your time. And I fully respect, at a casual, local setting just saying "I didn't draw any interaction, I'll stop you if I need to know what you're doing, or need something clarified." It makes things more efficient. But don't leave the table, man, come on.
@Duncan Van Ooyen sorry if doing nothing but watching someone playing with themselves for 5 to 10 minutes is your idea of fun. It's perfectly acceptable to grab a soda or go to the bathroom or something while you wait. After all. You have the time. You leaving mid combo when you have 0 ability to interact whatsoever doesnt affect the game or change what theyre doing. Just be polite and let them know youre going with no interaction and youll be right back.
@@RaineAshe It's not my idea of fun, but it is my idea of just basic social etiquette. If it's really as bad as that, why not just wait until its over, play it out for all the 10 minutes it'll cost you, then, win or lose, shake hands and go get your soda/bathroom break after? Like, leaving in the middle of the game that you KNOW is not going to take you very long, considering how hard your opponent is popping off, is so much more of a directed message than just waiting. I feel like there's an entire world of people who don't understand the implications of these simple choices, that I'm just incapable of understanding. It's literally just not even a thing I would consider doing, unless I was literally in my own house playing with a friend or my sister or something.
@Duncan Van Ooyen ah yes cool 10 min combo. Welp i scoop since i am not allowed to play the game now since you locked all my zones and have 3 to 4 omni negates. Gg guess i shouldve drawn the out.
@@frankyquilavafireblast895 and don't forget the time dire used five nights at freddys' intro. if videogame intros are go, dire will never run out of references.
I keep a buff ojama playmat, full bulge, on-hand in case they slap down some lewd accessories. It makes them uncomfortable, yet they never seem to be able to put 2 and 2 together
Reminds me of the time I showed off Tokyo Afterschool Summoners at a locals once. They then acted like I was from another planet lol. It was to illustrate this exact point (For those curious: it’s a game where there’s a lot of males in lewd outfits, complete with bulges. Out on mobile!)
@@MrZer093 Relatable. Mans at a One Piece local were talking about their favourite "waifus". I chimed in saying that the character King was husbando material. Conversation stopped on a DIME, felt very awkward.
@@darksteelhero1 Legit. I know Mihawk is the popular pick, but he's a little too generic for me, mans looks like he stepped off a Harlequin Romance cover. King's got a lil flair to him
5:52 Dire really needs a raise for putting up with MBT. But also I imagine their relationship is like the 90yo couple who live in a nursing home together and got married at 18.
To explain the magic short cuts, we short cut when we fetch a land by saying, “I’ll get something that taps for red to play this Goblin.” It saves some time because otherwise the game would drag on. The other shortcut is when at the combo, we only show the infinite combo one go around. That way we don’t have to do it for each instance
Important to note that you can only shortcut a loop if you can prove that its a loop that changes the game-state and doesn't involve luck, so you can only say "I do this 1,000,000 times and deal 1,000,000 damage to your face" if you have already assembled the combo
gonna use this chance to talk about one of my happiest memories, which is when i played a few matches with a kid that came to the store and he said he normally hates losing games but playing with me was fun regardless this sort of interaction is what kept me a rogue decker now that i watched the video i want to add the worst memory which was dueling a guy that did every summon chant and attack name in broken japanese and i kept the hardest poker face the whole game to see which of us broke first and at some point he went "do you watch the anime?" to confirm i was getting the references
@@ashikjaman1940 i cant remember the deck actually, the only things i can remember are that he drew RUM the seventh one and did the barian draw talk, the summon chant for masquerade and then later he got control of an utopia of mine and did the nanbaazu sanjuukyuu kibouou hoopu moon bariaa hoopu ken surashu
I was told at an event like 12 years ago now that I couldn't use my custom sleeves...which were literally just a close-up picture of me smirking and giving finger guns. They said that the sleeves were "too distracting".
I'll be the first to admit that I'm a casual player at heart and find(at least at my locals)the atmosphere to be generally cold and unwelcoming, but one thing that bugged me to no end when I'd go to locals was the complete lack of respect the competitive players had for the game itself. They'd audibly groan at the prospect of playing more than 3 rounds, and one time two of them started heckling our store employees because it was taking them awhile to tally up points(mind you these employees were not judges or even players). Ironically enough, one of those two guys was a high tier official judge who is now banned from our store because he was caught cheating twice in the same night. His ban was met with celebration from most of the players; a reaction he himself said would happen when he was trying to weasel his way out of it. Yugioh is a game and is meant for fun. If you aren't enjoying the game, then don't play it. If you want to make money, then invest in the stock market instead of ruining the atmosphere of the community in the hopes of pulling expensive cards from OTS packs
Some people might give you shit for this by projecting "You're casual elitist" but no, you're absolutely right! The sheer number of times I've had people rip on me for playing a sub-optimal deck because "It doesn't help me get better at the current format!" Like bruh, you're at a Locals, OR you're playing UNRANKED online of course you're going to run into people who are more interested with the fun of the match than the end result. All the while they're also complaining about the state of the format and annoying prices like...Bruh if you're not having fun then you don't HAVE to play-
@Hunter Lees My locals are competitive, but they aren't dicks about it. Even when I am getting utterly destroyed, it's fun. They give me tips on what to do better and sometimes give me cards to help. Also, we run low tier days the 1st weekend per month where the really good stuff goes out the window. Most notably, no handtraps or omni negates (the latter being iffy based on if the omni is in archetype). It just makes the duels more fun and interesting. I have a dice rolling deck that I bring out on those days on the off chance I can deal 6k damage on a die roll.
We got a couple of those dickheads where I live. Sounds like your locals is just unfortunately full of shitty people. I find that the Yu-Gi-Oh community as a whole is pretty welcoming and pretty nice.
Biggest red flag for me is whenever an adult starts getting upset at a child. One time someone at my locals was demanding an anwser after the game HE WON if the single structure deck cheated because he hadn't develop the muscle strength to hold cards and had accidenrlt place his monsters in the S/T
One of my proudest moments as a Judge: Kicking a mid-20s douche nozzle out of a tournament for screaming at a 7-year old (when the older dude was wrong, even, not that it would be okay if he was right). Swiped the kid's cards off the table while the kid is sobbing.
The 'lose die roll and immediately lose interest' is such a hard thing not to do. I really try to keep engaged but once my 1 or 2 hand trap is done and they continue i immediately checks out
As an extension to the "your opp gets frustrated" thing, there was this one dude I played against on several occasions who would win most of his matches, and usually started out each match being friendly, but as soon as ONE THING went wrong for him, he'd be pissy the entire rest of the match even if that one wrong thing was insignificant and he won anyway
@Dhar_C makes it even worst when it's A a new card that came out a week ago or B a tech card in a very off-meta deck that you didn't even know existed.
I am gonna be honest here, I sometimes get annoyed when people have to read my cards. It's not that I am actually getting mad or anything, but I went to a tournament during peak tearishizu format playing ishizutear and not a single opponent knew my cards... Obviously I am not getting upset when someone doesn't know my fluffal cards lol.
Honestly Im that guy but only when they ask me what card is/does and then I explain it to them and then they take my card anyway to read it. Like, establish trust or don't but dont be a fucking weirdo.
The people at locals that bug me are the people that sit down and don’t/refuse to move. When a locals I went to started enforcing tables and seating, one of those guys just kinda looked upset for a while.
Most of the people I know that are like that are in the MTG community. "Why do we have to move? Have the YGO players move to the back tables!" "Because they paid for the seating and tables... you're here for the sake of being here..."
I definitely get this but also some of us will go to the first table we're assigned and prefer not to move not because I'm trying to be an asshole but because I have severe chronic pain and it's an accessibility thing. Some people have no excuse and are just being lazy though
@@Practitioner_of_Diogenes Commander games last an eternity and involve a lot of cards. If they didn't wanna move, they shoulda played on the back tables to begin with.
I can emphasize with the pend player, I brought Sunvine Predaplant to a local, and the moment I used Ambulo to search Bufo, my opponent went into a near LowTierGod style rant at me about how pend ruined the game...he was playing Floo. And I didn't even use Bufo to pend xD
My personal red flag, is that guy who rant and raves about his best deck, saying he'll win any and all matches, but crumbles against a single copy of Ash Blossom, also the guy who shames you for not playing the "best deck". Sorry, I'm poor, I can't afford Kash, I got a mortgage. 😢
In Digimon to annoy my brother during casuals whenever I play an armor rush deck I will always say the full title of every armor form. IE “I digivolve Veemon to Flamedramon, the fire of courage.”
I need to start doing that to my friends when we play. "Agumon digivolve to Greymon!" and stuff as much as possible, see how long it takes for one of them to smack me.
My favourite summon chant is "ladies and gents, the Toon Summoned Skull!" But yes, I agree that one per duel is the limit. I was so annoying when I used to do voice impressions more often 😂
Not from games or anything. But one time i went to a shop to buy a mega tin. And before even opening, another guy asked if i was willing to trade it. And then i replied with "i haven't even opened yet, relax" and then the very second after i opened my last pack, he just sat right next to me, slammed his binder down and moved in to grab my cards to look which one he wanted to trade. We ended up not trading because he was only down to trade my foils for his aromages, and then he walked "ok your loss"
I literally stopped going to one of my locals bc of a guy like this. SUPER handsy with everyone's binders and acting like it was a personal attack whenever someone told him to stop mandhandling their stuff. Unfortunately this guy worked for the shop and the owner didn't give a fuck when several of us complained so we were like fuck it, bye bitches
Imagine calling Fleurdelis, the actual fucking Chuck Norris (one taps boss monsters for breakfast every time she appears) of the Albaz lore, who is one of the most wholesome and pure characters of the lore aside from Ecclesia herself "degen".
For playmats, as long as it's not super lewd/outright nude, it doesn't matter. There's tons of custom art that people want as playmats (even if it's stolen art), but I can't see the bother as long as it's not super sexual.
Honestly I respect designs that are good, maybe sexy but not in your face about it. Like a mat can be beautiful and with a good looking character, but if it's just tiddies in your face, it's just boring.
One of my most unpleasant matches I've ever had, through no real fault of anyone's own, was at a local tournament against a dude who had walked in with a cold compress on his face from having gone to the dentist right before, and he couldn't talk because of that. Meanwhile, I was a complete beginner and I barely had any idea what _my_ cards did, let alone his. We struggled for minutes on end to do the most basic stuff between him pointing at cards, me reading every single one of his cards to figure out which paragraph was relevant to the situation at hand, and him painfully squeezing out single words like "pop" or "negate" to clue me in. And I _still_ got my ass beat.
I play Traptrix since they were introduced in the TCG, the amount of stupid shit people have said to me is enough to make a book out of it. Some people need to learn the difference between red flags and projecting.
So I feel like this is the right place to say it since it didn't get talked about directly in this video, but a thing I personally experience a lot is just people who are complete assholes, or just give off a vibe and act like theyre better than you. For a long while I've been someone who doesn't play meta, I've been playing things like plunder, krawlers, and other archetypes I enjoy an think are thematic and fun, but a lot of times there are certain people who like as soon as they sit down to play me they just kinda look at me like "oh fuck i have to play this guy again" and are completely uninterested in the match despite the fact that a lot of the times the matches are very close and interesting, and then afterwards I dont even get a gg or a fist bump or anything. Idk if my locals are just full of a bunch of assholes but the people who do this with me aren't generally even that good, versus most of the best players there with regional tops and YCS tops being some of the nicest people to me and having an absolute blast playing even if i get demolished.
If you were playing against me I would not care what deck you are playing. I might say gg but likely would not fist bump unless you put your fist out. You are 100% guaranteed to never see me at any tournament because this community is just too toxic. I have been playing off and on since Magic Ruler and never went to a single tournament even a local one for Yugioh.
@@lanceknightmare Don't say "this community is so toxic" if you haven't even interacted with it _at all_ for an extended period of time. It's the same thing with every community ever: "This community is trash because everyone is so toxic lol, glad I didn't give it a chance" and then you realize that the opposite is true. This, for me, is a red flag in both Yu-Gi-Oh and irl interactions.
4:10 So I'm on YGO playing Labrynth with VERY few floodgates (Just D. Barrier and at the time I was only running one in the deck, Everything else is removal and then the monster for it) and I was playing against Dogmiticka. After they banished half my Extra Deck and was sitting on the 2 Rituals... I was able to Bounce and Lady them (I THINK that is how i got rid of them) IMMEDIANTLY after they are like "Konami getting rid of Red Reboot was the worst thing ever, Labrynth and other Trapdecks are cancer" And then just DC'd and I'm over here looking like "MY BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER! YOU JUST SPAT OUT A 4K BEAT STICK THAT DEMOLISHED MY EXTRA DECK! IF I WAS ON MOST OTHER DECKS YOU WOULD HAVE JUST CRIPPLED ME! I'M SORRY WHAT?!"
you and me both have run into people like this now granted i too play labyrnth and am was main 3 d barrier and i think 2 gozen in the main with 2 rivalry in the side so little more floody but still i didnt have any of those cards at the time so ya their that lol
>"*banished* my extra deck" Bro out here thinks he's against Kash Side note though, as a dogmatika player, the deck... shouldn't really lose to Lab. Omega looping N'tss and just popping everything constantly on both turns - Malong helps otherwise - should just destroy Labrynth's ability to win in the grind game, so the ED ripping shouldn't even matter. Also, Alba Zoa loses to literally anything that isn't an extra deck monster - even man-eater bug beats it - it's less obnoxious than people think. and thank you for running D-Barrier (which we can still play under) instead of Eradicator and calling spell :)
@polemeisterseven2443 No problem! Nah, even with as much as it's been showing its ability, I was never FULLY convinced on Eradicating at the time. A decent tech to me at the time but not fully oh yea this is a 100% stay!. But on the shouldn't lose nah I kinda agree. I actually have a hard time against Dogmatika, so I kinda agree. It's not the most favorable match up, and he DEFINITELY could have won the match. But he was pissy and quit before round 2 even started
Red Flags, Red Flags.. welp, there was this moment where I played Ghostricks in a N/R Tournament, we had this guy that was a literal sore loser that would brag about his wins and flexes on you but literally call you a bunch of slurs in the Tournament Chat if you ever do something they don't like. He got suspended from the community - eventually banned - when they faced another Toxic player with a Control deck and they cursed every single entity that was playing a Control Deck of some sort. I looked back at my Ghostrick deck, went 1 - 4 or 2 - 3.. and decided to dismantle my whole deck and any other Control Deck I had at that current timeline, because I didn't wanted to get that type of backfire ever again. Months after we had the Ghostrick Solo Mode in Master Duel, I played it.. and celebrated my 10th year of playing Ghostricks right there.
Back in like 2015 I was attending a Magic Grand Prix. On my way to get some food, I somehow managed to get trapped into a conversation with a guy who was ranting about the event staff. Basically: 1) Dude shows up using card sleeves showing a naked anime girl, with her privates and nipples covered by tentacles. 2) After round 1, someone had complained to the judges that that had made them uncomfortable. 3) The judges found the guy, and basically told him to get different sleeves. 4) He demands they show him in the rules where he can't have sleeves like that. 5) They show him. 6) He starts throwing a tantrum, and gets disqualified from the event. 7) Convention hall security has to escort him out. 8) He spends the rest of the morning out in front of the convention hall, telling everyone about the great injustice they had suffered.
"so what do you think of pedophiles?" i shit you not is a legit question i was asked. i immediatly called the judge and this was his 3rd strike THAT DAY and they banned him from the store
I get that, though as someone that's been on the handing and receiving end of that, it does sorta put some social pressure on you. It puts the pressure on the opponent to feel like they need to win, because it always does prompt the question - What if they lose? It's sorta hard to find a way to bounce back if you just lost "The easiest win of your life" as advertised, y'know? Especially if they've been on a losing streak of their own, that can really just rub salt on the wound. Again though, I get the notion, but I had to sorta start considering these things, when I noticed people got really quiet around me when I said that and proceeded to beat them.
was at a local playing spright, and when my opponent found out screamed "ALL IVE BEEN PLAYING TODAY IS FUCKING SPRIGHT. IS ANYBODY HERE NOT ON SPRIGHT" this was round 2.
I had a guy round 2 at a Magic GP (Magic Celebrations now or something? I don't know I'm old) sit down once and refuse to tell me how his game went after asking me how mine went and me talking to him about it because "it might give away the deck he's on." It was sealed.
I'm not a YGO player, but I've played several other card games. It's hard for me to put my red flag into words without providing this anecdote. When I played Vanguard, set releases were staggered worldwide, and most of the regulars at my local shop would spend their free time between matches discussing overseas tournaments and which archetypes were top-tier in each upcoming set. I didn't have a lot of winning days, but I had fun. Then, one of my favorite archetypes was getting a really unique new win-con, and I knew I wanted to build that deck more than anything. Without getting too into the mechanics of the game, it was a high-risk, high-reward deck that sacrificed defensive options to get one explosive turn in the late game, and it was off-meta. It probably took me two or three months of trading with other players at the shop, and buying singles online to get all the cards I wanted for the deck. It was by far the most time and care I'd ever put into deckbuilding, and by the time I was ready to bring it to the shop to play, I had a rare winning day, to which my friends said "you got so lucky," "That's such a luck based deck," and "f*cking luck deck!" That burned. I didn't play card games for a long time after that.
Look vanguard is game that while I love it to death can bring out the salt in more hyper comp guys cause top decks can just shift the game on a dime so the salty luck deck thing is a lot more common the usual answer is that's the game my dude
I played against drytron at locals he was playing with the lock out. I was playing live twin. He asked as soon as I sat down for the judge to check my sleeves it was round one and the were brand new sleeves. My friend was the local judge and was like wtf
This guy sounds the same person I dueled at locals who called a group of friends to the table, judge included, to show off his Clockwork Night Cyber Angel loop with the Drytron Ritual Spell. He was an ass too.
I keep thinking about the time a guy at locals saw me pend summon 4 monsters and started complaining about how broken pendulums are, why they should all be on the banlist, and how yugioh just isnt fair anymore when someone can pendulum summon 4 monsters at once. I was playing Gadgets. In 2022.
With the field centre thing, if my opponent puts one down first, I just accept it and don’t use mine. I thought that was how it was done since that’s how it’s done at my locals.
When the opponent asks me if I watched a specific Yu-Gi-Tuber's video that was uploaded recently. Had an opponent at locals today ask me if I watched the MBT video for YCS London who then proceeded to misgender me like 15 times despite me constantly correcting him.
People getting overly frustrated is a very annoying problem. I play Machina and three times someone flipped their shit cause I used Ruinforce for game. The first guy stood up and tried to fist fight me, the second guy claimed I didn’t explain Ruinforce to him and tried to give me a game loss by running to the judge. Third guy spent the rest of locals telling everyone I only won cause Triple Tac and wouldn’t trade with me for the rest of the day.
look if i only get ONE summoning chant i am going to use it for black rose dragon every single time. i WILL make you sit there and listen to me chant "a cold flame envelopes the entire world! black flower, bloom! arrive, black rose dragon!"
There's a guy who came to my locals exactly once whose deck box is literally shaped like a foot. Dude was basically like a cryptid. He wasn't even on any kind of waifu archetype or anything he was playing kashtira. Just rolled up, rinsed everybody, took his OTS packs, and fucking left. Never to be seen again.
3:59 Yeah, but there's also just a lotta people out there in the TCG hobby who barely contain their salt and go full murderface mode. Like I did, by the end of a team tournament where I went 1-X.
Genuienely, this video is the locals experience for me. 100% of the time I have had an awful experience when I go alone. I just stick to collecting the cards, playing with friends casually, and Master Duel for playing randos.
I went to tabletop club in college which had a regular trio of yugioh players. One of them replied to everything with a terse "Sure." It's so anxious feeling like you're being hurried along by someone's exasperation
I always find it weird when people start swearing incessantly. There’s this guy at my locals that uses “fuck” like a 13 year old who just learned the word and still thinks it’s cool. I cuss like a sailor in my everyday life, but when we’re all just trying to some fun rounds I’d rather not have some dude spewing about how he “completely fucked my board” and whatnot.
I honestly don't mind people that play the game like they're in the anime or something so long as they are clearly doing it for fun and not because they really think they're an ancient pharaoh or some shit. Like, I've had duels where I had Golem Sentry face down and A Feint Plan on the field. They set up and enter their Battle Phase and I activate A Feint Plan and they just go "Guh! What a cunning strategy! I cannot do anything now! I end my turn!" Like, I'll absolutely match that energy because it's fun.
When you play your first card and your opponent either A) begins speechifying about how terrible your deck is (typically throwing in a few slurs that tend to be directed at people who are neurodivergent/on the autism spectrum) and how both it and you need to be banned, or 2] gets huffy and either fumes about how they're sick of seeing the deck or (and this happened to me at a Magic tournament once) straight-up quits the entire event because you dared to play a deck you enjoy without asking them specifically if they were okay with it.
The guy who thinks locals is more strict than regionals or something. Anything you do hes trying to find a way to DQ you. For example, if he catches you getting a glimpse of your cards before time is called to start, he will call judge and try a DQ, im not kidding, this guy plays every single meta deck and rage quits if he gets owned. No one likes to play against him because it feels like playing on eggshells. And the saddest part? Hes actually super nice friendly and outgoing, until he duels, its like a switch is flipped Or the guy who doesn't understand rulings and tries to tell you what your cards do despite playing them for years and he doesn't know the archtype (he had two white stones of ancients from a previous turn sent to gy, send the third on a new turn, and activated all 3 to special from deck because "this card" applies to all stones, and the fucking judge allowed it. Also said you can only summon lord if hes revealed, which is also false since the reveal is needed to set from deck, or said how citadel cant resolve a board wipe if it cant destroy the targeted machine, which ive played EM religiously)
There's a guy in my locals who literally wants to play against the new/unexperienced players o those who only have a "Fun" deck because he sees them as a "free win". He used to do that with me back in 2018 when I was a returning player, until I started to win against him consistently, he almost never wanted to play against me after. The guy also just built a Dark Magician deck (with souls, illusion, soul servant) just to make the other dark magician player at my local jealous since he's missing copies of those cards. The funny thing is that other DM player doesn't give a sh*t about that.
The only time I went to locals since my Work Schedule doesn't line up nicely with it, I brought Ojamas and a guy on Predaplant said that it was just Tri-brigade Literally Keras was the only Main Deck Tri, since he was a LV2 Beast Extender with plus side of doing the Tri thing, and I played 1 of Shuraig, Rugal, and Ferrijit Also Zone Locking with Ojama Knight and the A/D Swap with Ojama Country, helped me win a game against Floowandereeze
biggest red flag for me: when someone goes: 'that doesnt sound right' and call a judge on a card effect that is blatant and obvious beyond the sky being blue, just because they are losing. i had someone who went to my locals who would repeatedly do this, and had actually gaslit some people into doubting themselves on a regular basis because cards and effects they have come to know off by heart were continuously challenged and judge called in 0.001 seconds just because the card is strong, a key example of this is: one time when using "lubellion the searing dragon" to shuffle back "the light - hex sealed", from the graveyard to make "red-eyes dark dragoon", and having 8 minutes of the game wasted by him trying to convince the judge he was right and that it's an illegal move, directly after we had just played 6 months of tearlament format. he knew that king of the swamp with a tear worked because he played tear before the deck got hit, but he conveniently wouldn't 'understand' the ruling when it wasn't in his favour because he can't out dragoon. the judge only game us a 3 minute extension after the 8 minutes lost. TL,DR: people who will do anything they can, in any way regardless of the risk/frustration/arguments it causes, to cheese a win using a judge, just because they dont like losing. c'mon dawg. its a game, if you can't out the cards thats noone else's fault but yours and accept the loss.
Why did the judge even argue with him for 8 minutes. A judge should state his ruling, maybe hear him once, and if they keep up, give them a warning for wasting time. Especially if it's a person notorious for doing so.
4:26 one time at locals got Archfiend King Calamaty locked and was like "..annoying, but to be fair if I went first I would have Drytron skipper your turn 😇"
I love cyberse decks and Vrains but when my opponent sits down with their cyberse deck and starts saying Link Shoukan after every play it gets cringe quick
The red flag is ppl who suddenly think they have better moral standing (especially about playmat) when it's not even in a sanctioned tournament, or even any tournament at all. God am I glad my community has none of these assholes
Locals are usually ots sanctioned tournaments. If you are playing with your friends you can put whatever you want there, so long as your friends are OK with it. It's just a bit weird to show off your wank material unprompted to strangers.
@@hannessteffenhagen61 I dunno man, if someone puts his "wank material", as you put it, in my community, we'd just joke a bit about it and move on. Of course we'll still not recommend him use it in a big tournament cuz konami's rules
Assuming it is indeed the one I saw when I googled it the worst part is that it's not even good art. Which seems to be the case in a lot of foot stuff where it looks like a 10 year old drew it. Feet are gross anyway but somehow they make it look even more disgusting and see nothing wrong with it.
So i play mtg irl and had one dude ask for me to put my Alucard from hellsing mat away because it offended his religious beliefs but at an event with children pulled out a completely naked anime girl mat. 😂😂
honestly the one about the " I thought he was mute " ... ngl that would probably be me on like our furst 2 duels beacuse I'm a bit introverted so I can't talk right away .. I kinda need to stay in the sane area with a person for like 5 minutes before I gain enough confidence to say a word, I'm working on improving but my God it's difficult being a introvert with hobbies that require socializing xD
Yeah, hard agree. I kind of push back against the ones that are like "not talking or being sociable is a red flag." Like, for people with crippling social anxiety like me, just the idea going to a local alone can be dread-inducing, let alone the interaction that comes with it. I think it's important to encourage people to break out of their shells, and even helping them do so however you can, but a little bit of understanding goes a long way!
@@sallas09 It's not even just social anxiety, I just hate random small talk. We're here to play a game, I don't know you or your deck, let me warm up to you.
Dragonball TCG is pretty chill, I've never run into any red flags like this. Hell I have never seen any degenerate playmats/sleeves outside of vendors at conventions.
I am a Dark World player. I get it, long turns that may not go anywhere, questionable wordings, lots of durp. For me, its the players that rush me when I am already playing so fast that I am skipping the middle man (putting Lucent on field instead of grave, then field) or they immediately start card sharking and calli the judge with every new card I play. But as annoying as those 2 things are, the worst are players that do that, scoop in the middle of my turn, then side deck for the next 10 minutes. At that point I am thinking "ok, they didn't come prepared for decks like mine and are all about winning. I HAVE to win game 2 because 1 way or another, game 3 WILL be a shit show that will go to time with them stalling it out for a draw. The only out is to do enough damage that they can't burn me enough to at least break even and the scoop after basically insulting your choice in skin color
noob question, what is field center and what its usage? i only play master duel so i dont know about these stuff, also the iris swordsoul art is awesome
If a player or both players don't have have zones on their mats, a field center is designated to show where the extra monsters zones are (on the sides of the field center). This also makes it easier to designate the rest of the zones of the field (monster zones are on the bottom of the field center, spell/trap zones are on the bottom of that, etc.).
it designates the center of the board. That is to say, between the two extra monster zones. this allows you and the opponent to line up your columns semi-neatly without needing to have yugioh specific playmats
One thing i wonder about is if im a red flag for anyone at locals. Part of it is just the fact that im naturally self conscious but also like, i work nights and so i have a naturally fucked up sleep schedule, so either im forcing myself to get up super early to be there or my sleep schedule got messed up and i've been up since like 4 in the morning and im forcing myself awake to be there. Either way I tend to look completely exhausted and I know for a fact im not playing to the best of my ability because i just dont have the mental capacity to interrupt your combos even though I probably could have stopped it. Or, like often times I probably could have had a better response had i have just read your card but I just didnt have the energy for that lol.
I started having this thought like halfway through the video seeing so many lewd accessory things that i gotta wonder if the solfachord mat i got off of trif's website falls under that category for a lotta people. especially after the dude complaining about that iris swordsoul field center
I did not know about the Sea Dragon combo holy hell, genuinely might pick Marincess back up. Always thought the deck was cute but it was never particularly great.
It’s quite a bit of fun to play, although it’s tough in the current meta with main deck Nibs or Kaijus running around. Zealantis is a great boss for cleaning up games on turn 3
I’m at the point where I don’t know if everything MBT says is part of a larger bit or none of it is, so if I ever play him I’m just gonna sit on my hands and stammer out nervous mumbled greetings until I’m eventually ejected from the venue.
I agree with the explicit mat problem, with friends why not but at a game center or tournament with young peoples no, just no. I do not want any parent thinking this game is pervers or just stupid because his kid see some weird products in a shop. But for the other argument about non official mat, Konami only make a very small amount of archetype ones, like me, fur hire, DDD, Dragonmaid, melffy and 20 others, no one have official mat. Or at least in the TCG, if you know OCG sleeves, you understand why I precise this point.
Regarding playing like it's anime, a kid (like maybe 12) showed up to locals one day with your typical "deck in a Ziploc baggie," so all of us experienced meta players all agreed to use our casual/fun decks against him (no hand traps or negates and shit), and he just started going off like Yami Yugi with his 2011 starter deck, and we all got caught up in it. One game (I was playing Ghostricks), I got a full field out, activated Ghostrick Ghoul's effect, declaring "I activate Ghostrick Ghoul's effect! It allows one of my Ghostrick monsters to gain attack power equal to the combined original attack of all the Ghostrick monsters I control! Then, I activate Ghostrick Dullahan's effect to reduce the attack power of one of YOUR monsters by half!" Then the little shit hit me with a Magic Cylinder for 6k because I didn't have Mansion out.
This is what we call a big oof
@bruhmanofyear2 "Warrior plagued by corruption of the ancients, surpass the roots of evil ad cast judgment! Xyz Summon! Rank 7! The warrior bound to the madness of war! Kashtira Arise-Heart!"
The biggest redflag for me is people taking the game too seriously. If they won't goof around a little bit, that usually means a boring match. Seeing people nerd out with anime rp during yugioh matches is the most charming thing to me.
@@justacrittic1578 Yea, I can understand that. It makes sense to be serious in a YCS, but in locals, I'd say "dude, just relax"
Dam duelist kingdom that ass
So relatable. I hate when my opponents ask me if I'm MBT.
Been there before
Had a female friend of mine who was thinking about getting into the game come with me to locals. After winning my 2nd game of the day my opponent accused me of "bringing a girl to detract my opponents from the game" I'm not sure if that counts but WFT thinks like this.
Smash players, lol
Guy got mad his opponent's gf was cheering him on once
There's a reason my friend, who is a girl and is one of most tryhard card players ever, refuses to talk to ANYONE during tournaments unless it is directly about the game she is playing with her opponent alone. Too many people being assholes to her, or hitting on her, or both.
That definitely counts a WTF moment, lol
Thats stupid, He did only search for excuses x)
I would be distracted too because I'm sure women don't exist.
Dire taking a W for that edit. Who knew MBT had that much interest in North Korea's leader
I once had a match where I had won the die roll, the guy looks at his hand, says “Yea I didn’t draw any interaction, combo off” and then left the table. He came back like 5 minutes later.
I wasn’t playing a combo deck. I was playing Monarchs.
I feel like that's more a sign of the times than them being a dick tho. The combo off is the norm. If you told them before hand it was monarchs tho... then they got no excuse.
See, I really hate this kind of attitude, because yes, I get that over-the-top combo decks in Yugioh are as common as they are annoying, but you're at locals dude. You've socially committed yourself to spending time with these other players, whether they be perfect strangers or old friends. The least you could give them is your time.
And I fully respect, at a casual, local setting just saying "I didn't draw any interaction, I'll stop you if I need to know what you're doing, or need something clarified." It makes things more efficient. But don't leave the table, man, come on.
@Duncan Van Ooyen sorry if doing nothing but watching someone playing with themselves for 5 to 10 minutes is your idea of fun. It's perfectly acceptable to grab a soda or go to the bathroom or something while you wait. After all. You have the time. You leaving mid combo when you have 0 ability to interact whatsoever doesnt affect the game or change what theyre doing. Just be polite and let them know youre going with no interaction and youll be right back.
@@RaineAshe It's not my idea of fun, but it is my idea of just basic social etiquette. If it's really as bad as that, why not just wait until its over, play it out for all the 10 minutes it'll cost you, then, win or lose, shake hands and go get your soda/bathroom break after?
Like, leaving in the middle of the game that you KNOW is not going to take you very long, considering how hard your opponent is popping off, is so much more of a directed message than just waiting. I feel like there's an entire world of people who don't understand the implications of these simple choices, that I'm just incapable of understanding. It's literally just not even a thing I would consider doing, unless I was literally in my own house playing with a friend or my sister or something.
@Duncan Van Ooyen ah yes cool 10 min combo. Welp i scoop since i am not allowed to play the game now since you locked all my zones and have 3 to 4 omni negates. Gg guess i shouldve drawn the out.
POV: neck beard guy sits across from you and pulls out his Striker mat/sleeves summons a Traptrick and sets 4.
If he sets 4 and summons only one traptrix he not only is a creep, he sucks at deckbuilding.
@@spagoongus140 Actually they're just playing HAT.
This happened to me at my first locals yesterday what are the odds
@@spagoongus140 I mean, there are actual trap builds for Traptrix.
@@CocTheElf bro you at least have to make Sera tho
Eventually Dire is going to run out of title screen intros to use for these
I said the same thing, two months ago and they’re still going
@@frankyquilavafireblast895 and don't forget the time dire used five nights at freddys' intro.
if videogame intros are go, dire will never run out of references.
I cant fucking wait for the murder she wrote one
I’m waiting for the Invincible title screen
@@babyrath8621 god you're so wise and correct
I keep a buff ojama playmat, full bulge, on-hand in case they slap down some lewd accessories. It makes them uncomfortable, yet they never seem to be able to put 2 and 2 together
Reminds me of the time I showed off Tokyo Afterschool Summoners at a locals once. They then acted like I was from another planet lol. It was to illustrate this exact point
(For those curious: it’s a game where there’s a lot of males in lewd outfits, complete with bulges. Out on mobile!)
@@MrZer093 Relatable. Mans at a One Piece local were talking about their favourite "waifus". I chimed in saying that the character King was husbando material. Conversation stopped on a DIME, felt very awkward.
Would make me feel extra comfortable 😏
@@BigPigEnergy You're not wrong about King though
@@darksteelhero1 Legit. I know Mihawk is the popular pick, but he's a little too generic for me, mans looks like he stepped off a Harlequin Romance cover. King's got a lil flair to him
I had the "Oh nice, easy start" pulled on me once at my locals. That was the most satisfying 2-0 of my life.
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Dire really needs a raise for putting up with MBT. But also I imagine their relationship is like the 90yo couple who live in a nursing home together and got married at 18.
what a fucking description
😒
Littlekuriboh showing up in this vid means that Yugitubing has officially come full circle...
@Dhar_C That's the filler arc, a la the Orichalcos shenanigans
The next stop is to have MBT voice a character on Yu-Gi-Oh!: the Abridged Series...
@@MrDanno You mean the Orichalcamalos?
To explain the magic short cuts, we short cut when we fetch a land by saying, “I’ll get something that taps for red to play this Goblin.” It saves some time because otherwise the game would drag on. The other shortcut is when at the combo, we only show the infinite combo one go around. That way we don’t have to do it for each instance
Important to note that you can only shortcut a loop if you can prove that its a loop that changes the game-state and doesn't involve luck, so you can only say "I do this 1,000,000 times and deal 1,000,000 damage to your face" if you have already assembled the combo
gonna use this chance to talk about one of my happiest memories, which is when i played a few matches with a kid that came to the store and he said he normally hates losing games but playing with me was fun regardless
this sort of interaction is what kept me a rogue decker
now that i watched the video i want to add the worst memory which was dueling a guy that did every summon chant and attack name in broken japanese and i kept the hardest poker face the whole game to see which of us broke first and at some point he went "do you watch the anime?" to confirm i was getting the references
Oh sweet Jesus what was he playing
So since he asked if you watched, that means you won I don't make the rules 😂😂😂
@@ashikjaman1940 i cant remember the deck actually, the only things i can remember are that he drew RUM the seventh one and did the barian draw talk, the summon chant for masquerade and then later he got control of an utopia of mine and did the nanbaazu sanjuukyuu kibouou hoopu moon bariaa hoopu ken surashu
No no no the last guy is a legend
@@PhantomThiefXI Christ it wasn't even DM Yugioh, but he was quoting Zexal?!
I was told at an event like 12 years ago now that I couldn't use my custom sleeves...which were literally just a close-up picture of me smirking and giving finger guns. They said that the sleeves were "too distracting".
They provided an insurmountable psychological advantage
You are simply too powerful
Imao
I'll be the first to admit that I'm a casual player at heart and find(at least at my locals)the atmosphere to be generally cold and unwelcoming, but one thing that bugged me to no end when I'd go to locals was the complete lack of respect the competitive players had for the game itself. They'd audibly groan at the prospect of playing more than 3 rounds, and one time two of them started heckling our store employees because it was taking them awhile to tally up points(mind you these employees were not judges or even players).
Ironically enough, one of those two guys was a high tier official judge who is now banned from our store because he was caught cheating twice in the same night. His ban was met with celebration from most of the players; a reaction he himself said would happen when he was trying to weasel his way out of it.
Yugioh is a game and is meant for fun. If you aren't enjoying the game, then don't play it. If you want to make money, then invest in the stock market instead of ruining the atmosphere of the community in the hopes of pulling expensive cards from OTS packs
Competitive players as a whole (not just yugioh) generally do hate whatever game they are playing. They like winning, not playing.
Some people might give you shit for this by projecting "You're casual elitist" but no, you're absolutely right! The sheer number of times I've had people rip on me for playing a sub-optimal deck because "It doesn't help me get better at the current format!" Like bruh, you're at a Locals, OR you're playing UNRANKED online of course you're going to run into people who are more interested with the fun of the match than the end result. All the while they're also complaining about the state of the format and annoying prices like...Bruh if you're not having fun then you don't HAVE to play-
@Hunter Lees My locals are competitive, but they aren't dicks about it. Even when I am getting utterly destroyed, it's fun. They give me tips on what to do better and sometimes give me cards to help. Also, we run low tier days the 1st weekend per month where the really good stuff goes out the window. Most notably, no handtraps or omni negates (the latter being iffy based on if the omni is in archetype). It just makes the duels more fun and interesting. I have a dice rolling deck that I bring out on those days on the off chance I can deal 6k damage on a die roll.
@@ProtoHelio1 "It doesn't help me get better at the current format!"
"I missed the part where that's my problem."
We got a couple of those dickheads where I live.
Sounds like your locals is just unfortunately full of shitty people.
I find that the Yu-Gi-Oh community as a whole is pretty welcoming and pretty nice.
Biggest red flag for me is whenever an adult starts getting upset at a child. One time someone at my locals was demanding an anwser after the game HE WON if the single structure deck cheated because he hadn't develop the muscle strength to hold cards and had accidenrlt place his monsters in the S/T
One of my proudest moments as a Judge: Kicking a mid-20s douche nozzle out of a tournament for screaming at a 7-year old (when the older dude was wrong, even, not that it would be okay if he was right). Swiped the kid's cards off the table while the kid is sobbing.
How young was that kid to not even be able to hold cards?
Bro, who the fuck gets so tilted over this stuff, at _locals_ no less?
ain't no way a child too young to "develop the muscle strength to hold cards" was at a shop playing against other people.
? Why everyone here was taking the insult literally?
"use a suggestive playmat to distract your opponent from your crazy combos" Sun Tzu
To be fair everyone gets distracted by a cute girl
The 'lose die roll and immediately lose interest' is such a hard thing not to do. I really try to keep engaged but once my 1 or 2 hand trap is done and they continue i immediately checks out
even better when you draw no interaction.
A strength of Master Duel is that you can't tell when someone's going 'fuck this' and watching something during your turn.
@@ertawanderer1062 even better when you play like 9 handtraps
Playing against super heavy in ocg be like
@@nachtaron i play 11 and i still draw blank hands more then i would like
As an extension to the "your opp gets frustrated" thing, there was this one dude I played against on several occasions who would win most of his matches, and usually started out each match being friendly, but as soon as ONE THING went wrong for him, he'd be pissy the entire rest of the match even if that one wrong thing was insignificant and he won anyway
Reminder to self: never say to MBT, "oh hey are you MBT?" 🤦
reminder to self: if I see MBT, point at him and say "white"
@@drewbabe When he comes around the corner, you're obligated to point at him and say "White Man Jumpscare"
I would say “oh hey are you MBT?” Then talk about how much he hates hearing that
@@Oscar-b5b4x HE Would love that
imma ask if hes dzeef
Nothing better than a 1 am MBT vid to ensure I never have a proper sleep schedule.
East coast gang rise up
@@skruntfanatic You already know it 😤
Try watching it at 3am, it'll do you wonders.
When they get mad that you're reading their cards.
@Dhar_C makes it even worst when it's A a new card that came out a week ago or B a tech card in a very off-meta deck that you didn't even know existed.
I am gonna be honest here, I sometimes get annoyed when people have to read my cards. It's not that I am actually getting mad or anything, but I went to a tournament during peak tearishizu format playing ishizutear and not a single opponent knew my cards...
Obviously I am not getting upset when someone doesn't know my fluffal cards lol.
Honestly Im that guy but only when they ask me what card is/does and then I explain it to them and then they take my card anyway to read it. Like, establish trust or don't but dont be a fucking weirdo.
The people at locals that bug me are the people that sit down and don’t/refuse to move. When a locals I went to started enforcing tables and seating, one of those guys just kinda looked upset for a while.
Most of the people I know that are like that are in the MTG community.
"Why do we have to move? Have the YGO players move to the back tables!"
"Because they paid for the seating and tables... you're here for the sake of being here..."
I definitely get this but also some of us will go to the first table we're assigned and prefer not to move not because I'm trying to be an asshole but because I have severe chronic pain and it's an accessibility thing. Some people have no excuse and are just being lazy though
@@Practitioner_of_Diogenes Commander games last an eternity and involve a lot of cards. If they didn't wanna move, they shoulda played on the back tables to begin with.
I can emphasize with the pend player, I brought Sunvine Predaplant to a local, and the moment I used Ambulo to search Bufo, my opponent went into a near LowTierGod style rant at me about how pend ruined the game...he was playing Floo. And I didn't even use Bufo to pend xD
My personal red flag, is that guy who rant and raves about his best deck, saying he'll win any and all matches, but crumbles against a single copy of Ash Blossom, also the guy who shames you for not playing the "best deck". Sorry, I'm poor, I can't afford Kash, I got a mortgage. 😢
In Digimon to annoy my brother during casuals whenever I play an armor rush deck I will always say the full title of every armor form. IE “I digivolve Veemon to Flamedramon, the fire of courage.”
I need to start doing that to my friends when we play. "Agumon digivolve to Greymon!" and stuff as much as possible, see how long it takes for one of them to smack me.
Play the full evolution theme every time. Wait out the cutscene
My favourite summon chant is "ladies and gents, the Toon Summoned Skull!" But yes, I agree that one per duel is the limit. I was so annoying when I used to do voice impressions more often 😂
Not from games or anything. But one time i went to a shop to buy a mega tin. And before even opening, another guy asked if i was willing to trade it. And then i replied with "i haven't even opened yet, relax" and then the very second after i opened my last pack, he just sat right next to me, slammed his binder down and moved in to grab my cards to look which one he wanted to trade.
We ended up not trading because he was only down to trade my foils for his aromages, and then he walked "ok your loss"
OK so I literally never participated in this one locals because of that exact experience
I literally stopped going to one of my locals bc of a guy like this. SUPER handsy with everyone's binders and acting like it was a personal attack whenever someone told him to stop mandhandling their stuff. Unfortunately this guy worked for the shop and the owner didn't give a fuck when several of us complained so we were like fuck it, bye bitches
Now I know if I ever see mbt to say "Wait a sec I know you... Farfa, right?"
Just call him Ruxin and ask questions about card scalping.
He'll love it.
"OMG! your...
Dzzeef"
2AM and I'm watching MBT twitter threads. I wonder where it all went wrong.
Bruh same
It went wrong in January 2015
It’s 1 AM for me. You’re not alone.
It didn't go wrong lol jk
Imagine calling Fleurdelis, the actual fucking Chuck Norris (one taps boss monsters for breakfast every time she appears) of the Albaz lore, who is one of the most wholesome and pure characters of the lore aside from Ecclesia herself "degen".
Don't blame her for all the lewd artwork she got
For playmats, as long as it's not super lewd/outright nude, it doesn't matter. There's tons of custom art that people want as playmats (even if it's stolen art), but I can't see the bother as long as it's not super sexual.
Honestly I respect designs that are good, maybe sexy but not in your face about it. Like a mat can be beautiful and with a good looking character, but if it's just tiddies in your face, it's just boring.
I am horny on main on the internet at all times, but please don't be horny on main in real life.
I can't believe my experience with a Tim Pool playmat didn't make it into the video
@@NixDolores i hope the beanie was in the field center zone
@@anonymous71207 Same
One of my most unpleasant matches I've ever had, through no real fault of anyone's own, was at a local tournament against a dude who had walked in with a cold compress on his face from having gone to the dentist right before, and he couldn't talk because of that. Meanwhile, I was a complete beginner and I barely had any idea what _my_ cards did, let alone his. We struggled for minutes on end to do the most basic stuff between him pointing at cards, me reading every single one of his cards to figure out which paragraph was relevant to the situation at hand, and him painfully squeezing out single words like "pop" or "negate" to clue me in. And I _still_ got my ass beat.
Good on you though for being patient lmao
I play Traptrix since they were introduced in the TCG, the amount of stupid shit people have said to me is enough to make a book out of it. Some people need to learn the difference between red flags and projecting.
The more vocal about something, the more they're projecting about it
So I feel like this is the right place to say it since it didn't get talked about directly in this video, but a thing I personally experience a lot is just people who are complete assholes, or just give off a vibe and act like theyre better than you. For a long while I've been someone who doesn't play meta, I've been playing things like plunder, krawlers, and other archetypes I enjoy an think are thematic and fun, but a lot of times there are certain people who like as soon as they sit down to play me they just kinda look at me like "oh fuck i have to play this guy again" and are completely uninterested in the match despite the fact that a lot of the times the matches are very close and interesting, and then afterwards I dont even get a gg or a fist bump or anything. Idk if my locals are just full of a bunch of assholes but the people who do this with me aren't generally even that good, versus most of the best players there with regional tops and YCS tops being some of the nicest people to me and having an absolute blast playing even if i get demolished.
I would understand if someone doesn't wanna play Vs krawlers lol
If you were playing against me I would not care what deck you are playing. I might say gg but likely would not fist bump unless you put your fist out. You are 100% guaranteed to never see me at any tournament because this community is just too toxic. I have been playing off and on since Magic Ruler and never went to a single tournament even a local one for Yugioh.
@@lanceknightmare How do you know people are going to be toxic without ever being to a tournament?
@@lanceknightmare Don't say "this community is so toxic" if you haven't even interacted with it _at all_ for an extended period of time.
It's the same thing with every community ever: "This community is trash because everyone is so toxic lol, glad I didn't give it a chance" and then you realize that the opposite is true. This, for me, is a red flag in both Yu-Gi-Oh and irl interactions.
@@Mimagito probably from people telling them or reading twitter threads
Good to know I get one summon chant per game, I will definitely unironically use that on Nibiru. 🤣
Does singing the Lavos theme count as a summon chant for Nibiru? Asking for a friend.
nibiru means fire big
7:50 The motherfucking legend Littlekuriboh gets a feature!
3:38 tbf, might just be crippling social anxiety
4:10 So I'm on YGO playing Labrynth with VERY few floodgates (Just D. Barrier and at the time I was only running one in the deck, Everything else is removal and then the monster for it) and I was playing against Dogmiticka. After they banished half my Extra Deck and was sitting on the 2 Rituals... I was able to Bounce and Lady them (I THINK that is how i got rid of them) IMMEDIANTLY after they are like "Konami getting rid of Red Reboot was the worst thing ever, Labrynth and other Trapdecks are cancer" And then just DC'd and I'm over here looking like "MY BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER! YOU JUST SPAT OUT A 4K BEAT STICK THAT DEMOLISHED MY EXTRA DECK! IF I WAS ON MOST OTHER DECKS YOU WOULD HAVE JUST CRIPPLED ME! I'M SORRY WHAT?!"
Genuinely a mood. Nothing is more frustrating to play than a deck that just rips stuff from the extra deck (Looking at you Kash).
you and me both have run into people like this now granted i too play labyrnth and am was main 3 d barrier and i think 2 gozen in the main with 2 rivalry in the side
so little more floody but still i didnt have any of those cards at the time so ya their that lol
Jokes on him for thinking we Laby players needed that extra deck.
>"*banished* my extra deck"
Bro out here thinks he's against Kash
Side note though, as a dogmatika player, the deck... shouldn't really lose to Lab. Omega looping N'tss and just popping everything constantly on both turns - Malong helps otherwise - should just destroy Labrynth's ability to win in the grind game, so the ED ripping shouldn't even matter. Also, Alba Zoa loses to literally anything that isn't an extra deck monster - even man-eater bug beats it - it's less obnoxious than people think.
and thank you for running D-Barrier (which we can still play under) instead of Eradicator and calling spell :)
@polemeisterseven2443 No problem! Nah, even with as much as it's been showing its ability, I was never FULLY convinced on Eradicating at the time. A decent tech to me at the time but not fully oh yea this is a 100% stay!. But on the shouldn't lose nah I kinda agree. I actually have a hard time against Dogmatika, so I kinda agree. It's not the most favorable match up, and he DEFINITELY could have won the match. But he was pissy and quit before round 2 even started
Red Flags, Red Flags.. welp, there was this moment where I played Ghostricks in a N/R Tournament, we had this guy that was a literal sore loser that would brag about his wins and flexes on you but literally call you a bunch of slurs in the Tournament Chat if you ever do something they don't like. He got suspended from the community - eventually banned - when they faced another Toxic player with a Control deck and they cursed every single entity that was playing a Control Deck of some sort. I looked back at my Ghostrick deck, went 1 - 4 or 2 - 3.. and decided to dismantle my whole deck and any other Control Deck I had at that current timeline, because I didn't wanted to get that type of backfire ever again.
Months after we had the Ghostrick Solo Mode in Master Duel, I played it.. and celebrated my 10th year of playing Ghostricks right there.
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Joseph, Ishizu Tear was not that long ago, SHE'S THE ONE YOU SHOULD BE MOST SCARED OF
unless you are on a blimp if someone is coming up to you wearing a millennium necklace in 2023 you /will/ have a bad time.
Just sacrifice god, gg ez
Can only imagine the Kim jung un guy desperately trying to explain to a judge why it was vital for his game plan
The dear leader must be inspiring lol
The excessive hand shuffler drives me crazy.
Back in like 2015 I was attending a Magic Grand Prix. On my way to get some food, I somehow managed to get trapped into a conversation with a guy who was ranting about the event staff. Basically:
1) Dude shows up using card sleeves showing a naked anime girl, with her privates and nipples covered by tentacles.
2) After round 1, someone had complained to the judges that that had made them uncomfortable.
3) The judges found the guy, and basically told him to get different sleeves.
4) He demands they show him in the rules where he can't have sleeves like that.
5) They show him.
6) He starts throwing a tantrum, and gets disqualified from the event.
7) Convention hall security has to escort him out.
8) He spends the rest of the morning out in front of the convention hall, telling everyone about the great injustice they had suffered.
"so what do you think of pedophiles?"
i shit you not is a legit question i was asked. i immediatly called the judge and this was his 3rd strike THAT DAY and they banned him from the store
I’ll be honest, I don’t mind the anime chanting. It can make stuff lively over having people barely talk
Dunno if it's a red flag but I'll often sit down across my opponent and just tell them they're in for the easiest win of their life
I get that, though as someone that's been on the handing and receiving end of that, it does sorta put some social pressure on you. It puts the pressure on the opponent to feel like they need to win, because it always does prompt the question - What if they lose? It's sorta hard to find a way to bounce back if you just lost "The easiest win of your life" as advertised, y'know? Especially if they've been on a losing streak of their own, that can really just rub salt on the wound. Again though, I get the notion, but I had to sorta start considering these things, when I noticed people got really quiet around me when I said that and proceeded to beat them.
@@AlluMan96 that is a very good point that I hadn't really considered. Gonna keep that in mind going forward
This is precisely why I only play Master Duels. I don't want to see, and more importantly, hear and smell my opponent.
was at a local playing spright, and when my opponent found out screamed "ALL IVE BEEN PLAYING TODAY IS FUCKING SPRIGHT. IS ANYBODY HERE NOT ON SPRIGHT" this was round 2.
I had a guy round 2 at a Magic GP (Magic Celebrations now or something? I don't know I'm old) sit down once and refuse to tell me how his game went after asking me how mine went and me talking to him about it because "it might give away the deck he's on."
It was sealed.
I'm not a YGO player, but I've played several other card games. It's hard for me to put my red flag into words without providing this anecdote. When I played Vanguard, set releases were staggered worldwide, and most of the regulars at my local shop would spend their free time between matches discussing overseas tournaments and which archetypes were top-tier in each upcoming set. I didn't have a lot of winning days, but I had fun. Then, one of my favorite archetypes was getting a really unique new win-con, and I knew I wanted to build that deck more than anything. Without getting too into the mechanics of the game, it was a high-risk, high-reward deck that sacrificed defensive options to get one explosive turn in the late game, and it was off-meta. It probably took me two or three months of trading with other players at the shop, and buying singles online to get all the cards I wanted for the deck. It was by far the most time and care I'd ever put into deckbuilding, and by the time I was ready to bring it to the shop to play, I had a rare winning day, to which my friends said "you got so lucky," "That's such a luck based deck," and "f*cking luck deck!"
That burned. I didn't play card games for a long time after that.
Look vanguard is game that while I love it to death can bring out the salt in more hyper comp guys cause top decks can just shift the game on a dime so the salty luck deck thing is a lot more common the usual answer is that's the game my dude
I played against drytron at locals he was playing with the lock out. I was playing live twin. He asked as soon as I sat down for the judge to check my sleeves it was round one and the were brand new sleeves. My friend was the local judge and was like wtf
Huh? Why, any idea what he was trying to catch you on?
This guy sounds the same person I dueled at locals who called a group of friends to the table, judge included, to show off his Clockwork Night Cyber Angel loop with the Drytron Ritual Spell. He was an ass too.
I keep thinking about the time a guy at locals saw me pend summon 4 monsters and started complaining about how broken pendulums are, why they should all be on the banlist, and how yugioh just isnt fair anymore when someone can pendulum summon 4 monsters at once. I was playing Gadgets. In 2022.
‘Chants to summon an E Hero’
Dire does not use Judai OST
With the field centre thing, if my opponent puts one down first, I just accept it and don’t use mine. I thought that was how it was done since that’s how it’s done at my locals.
biggest red flag: they're a Yugioh player
When the opponent asks me if I watched a specific Yu-Gi-Tuber's video that was uploaded recently.
Had an opponent at locals today ask me if I watched the MBT video for YCS London who then proceeded to misgender me like 15 times despite me constantly correcting him.
That's weird, according to the Internet that should mean you're now a ycs champion.
@@hannessteffenhagen61 I was just kinda surprised a guy who watches MBT of all people would be so transphobic
People getting overly frustrated is a very annoying problem. I play Machina and three times someone flipped their shit cause I used Ruinforce for game. The first guy stood up and tried to fist fight me, the second guy claimed I didn’t explain Ruinforce to him and tried to give me a game loss by running to the judge. Third guy spent the rest of locals telling everyone I only won cause Triple Tac and wouldn’t trade with me for the rest of the day.
funniest thing about the ahegao hoodie thing is that the middle one is actually a guy, not a girl doing ahegao
When my opponent deliberately checks the bottom card of my deck when we're cut/shuffling.
look if i only get ONE summoning chant i am going to use it for black rose dragon every single time. i WILL make you sit there and listen to me chant "a cold flame envelopes the entire world! black flower, bloom! arrive, black rose dragon!"
There's a guy who came to my locals exactly once whose deck box is literally shaped like a foot.
Dude was basically like a cryptid. He wasn't even on any kind of waifu archetype or anything he was playing kashtira.
Just rolled up, rinsed everybody, took his OTS packs, and fucking left. Never to be seen again.
3:59 Yeah, but there's also just a lotta people out there in the TCG hobby who barely contain their salt and go full murderface mode. Like I did, by the end of a team tournament where I went 1-X.
Had a dude sit down and immediately brag about how they topped a YCS, the dude was an asshole.
Genuienely, this video is the locals experience for me. 100% of the time I have had an awful experience when I go alone. I just stick to collecting the cards, playing with friends casually, and Master Duel for playing randos.
Sounds like you need to go to a different shop. Sounds like your locals sucks.
Damn now that I know that I'm allowed one Anime chant per match I need to come up with one for King of the Skull Servants
If they're a skeleton with a blue hoodie, you know you're gonna have a bad time.
I went to tabletop club in college which had a regular trio of yugioh players. One of them replied to everything with a terse "Sure." It's so anxious feeling like you're being hurried along by someone's exasperation
I always find it weird when people start swearing incessantly. There’s this guy at my locals that uses “fuck” like a 13 year old who just learned the word and still thinks it’s cool. I cuss like a sailor in my everyday life, but when we’re all just trying to some fun rounds I’d rather not have some dude spewing about how he “completely fucked my board” and whatnot.
I honestly don't mind people that play the game like they're in the anime or something so long as they are clearly doing it for fun and not because they really think they're an ancient pharaoh or some shit.
Like, I've had duels where I had Golem Sentry face down and A Feint Plan on the field. They set up and enter their Battle Phase and I activate A Feint Plan and they just go "Guh! What a cunning strategy! I cannot do anything now! I end my turn!"
Like, I'll absolutely match that energy because it's fun.
When you play your first card and your opponent either A) begins speechifying about how terrible your deck is (typically throwing in a few slurs that tend to be directed at people who are neurodivergent/on the autism spectrum) and how both it and you need to be banned, or 2] gets huffy and either fumes about how they're sick of seeing the deck or (and this happened to me at a Magic tournament once) straight-up quits the entire event because you dared to play a deck you enjoy without asking them specifically if they were okay with it.
The guy who thinks locals is more strict than regionals or something. Anything you do hes trying to find a way to DQ you. For example, if he catches you getting a glimpse of your cards before time is called to start, he will call judge and try a DQ, im not kidding, this guy plays every single meta deck and rage quits if he gets owned. No one likes to play against him because it feels like playing on eggshells. And the saddest part? Hes actually super nice friendly and outgoing, until he duels, its like a switch is flipped
Or the guy who doesn't understand rulings and tries to tell you what your cards do despite playing them for years and he doesn't know the archtype (he had two white stones of ancients from a previous turn sent to gy, send the third on a new turn, and activated all 3 to special from deck because "this card" applies to all stones, and the fucking judge allowed it. Also said you can only summon lord if hes revealed, which is also false since the reveal is needed to set from deck, or said how citadel cant resolve a board wipe if it cant destroy the targeted machine, which ive played EM religiously)
There's a guy in my locals who literally wants to play against the new/unexperienced players o those who only have a "Fun" deck because he sees them as a "free win". He used to do that with me back in 2018 when I was a returning player, until I started to win against him consistently, he almost never wanted to play against me after.
The guy also just built a Dark Magician deck (with souls, illusion, soul servant) just to make the other dark magician player at my local jealous since he's missing copies of those cards. The funny thing is that other DM player doesn't give a sh*t about that.
The only time I went to locals since my Work Schedule doesn't line up nicely with it, I brought Ojamas and a guy on Predaplant said that it was just Tri-brigade
Literally Keras was the only Main Deck Tri, since he was a LV2 Beast Extender with plus side of doing the Tri thing, and I played 1 of Shuraig, Rugal, and Ferrijit
Also Zone Locking with Ojama Knight and the A/D Swap with Ojama Country, helped me win a game against Floowandereeze
Thanks, just saw the tour guide feet mat. Inspiring. I envy Sangan
When your opponent asks you "how many cards are in your deck?" Dosn't happen often after the Mystic Mine ban anymore. Thank god!
Isn't Grass at 1? Maybe they're asking for Grass reasons.
@@elijahpadilla5083 Grass is 100% gone. Thank god.
@@elijahpadilla5083 is it? thought it is forbidden.
biggest red flag for me:
when someone goes: 'that doesnt sound right' and call a judge on a card effect that is blatant and obvious beyond the sky being blue, just because they are losing.
i had someone who went to my locals who would repeatedly do this, and had actually gaslit some people into doubting themselves on a regular basis because cards and effects they have come to know off by heart were continuously challenged and judge called in 0.001 seconds just because the card is strong, a key example of this is: one time when using "lubellion the searing dragon" to shuffle back "the light - hex sealed", from the graveyard to make "red-eyes dark dragoon", and having 8 minutes of the game wasted by him trying to convince the judge he was right and that it's an illegal move, directly after we had just played 6 months of tearlament format. he knew that king of the swamp with a tear worked because he played tear before the deck got hit, but he conveniently wouldn't 'understand' the ruling when it wasn't in his favour because he can't out dragoon. the judge only game us a 3 minute extension after the 8 minutes lost.
TL,DR: people who will do anything they can, in any way regardless of the risk/frustration/arguments it causes, to cheese a win using a judge, just because they dont like losing.
c'mon dawg. its a game, if you can't out the cards thats noone else's fault but yours and accept the loss.
Why did the judge even argue with him for 8 minutes. A judge should state his ruling, maybe hear him once, and if they keep up, give them a warning for wasting time. Especially if it's a person notorious for doing so.
4:26 one time at locals got Archfiend King Calamaty locked and was like "..annoying, but to be fair if I went first I would have Drytron skipper your turn 😇"
The last one was actually Littlekuriboh.
I love cyberse decks and Vrains but when my opponent sits down with their cyberse deck and starts saying Link Shoukan after every play it gets cringe quick
The red flag is ppl who suddenly think they have better moral standing (especially about playmat) when it's not even in a sanctioned tournament, or even any tournament at all. God am I glad my community has none of these assholes
Locals are usually ots sanctioned tournaments. If you are playing with your friends you can put whatever you want there, so long as your friends are OK with it. It's just a bit weird to show off your wank material unprompted to strangers.
@@hannessteffenhagen61 Oh please, even people complain about the OFFICIAL KONAMI SKY STRIKER SLEEVES because it's apparently sexualized.
@@ryuuohdeltaplus7936 what's your point?
@@hannessteffenhagen61 I dunno man, if someone puts his "wank material", as you put it, in my community, we'd just joke a bit about it and move on. Of course we'll still not recommend him use it in a big tournament cuz konami's rules
@@ryuuohdeltaplus7936 Bruh these ppl complain about traptrix's official tcg art, what did you expect?
1:58 ...yep, I should’ve lived in bliss
Assuming it is indeed the one I saw when I googled it the worst part is that it's not even good art.
Which seems to be the case in a lot of foot stuff where it looks like a 10 year old drew it.
Feet are gross anyway but somehow they make it look even more disgusting and see nothing wrong with it.
So i play mtg irl and had one dude ask for me to put my Alucard from hellsing mat away because it offended his religious beliefs but at an event with children pulled out a completely naked anime girl mat. 😂😂
honestly the one about the " I thought he was mute " ... ngl that would probably be me on like our furst 2 duels beacuse I'm a bit introverted so I can't talk right away .. I kinda need to stay in the sane area with a person for like 5 minutes before I gain enough confidence to say a word,
I'm working on improving but my God it's difficult being a introvert with hobbies that require socializing xD
Yeah, hard agree. I kind of push back against the ones that are like "not talking or being sociable is a red flag." Like, for people with crippling social anxiety like me, just the idea going to a local alone can be dread-inducing, let alone the interaction that comes with it. I think it's important to encourage people to break out of their shells, and even helping them do so however you can, but a little bit of understanding goes a long way!
@@sallas09 It's not even just social anxiety, I just hate random small talk. We're here to play a game, I don't know you or your deck, let me warm up to you.
Ngl i always throught that AD's tan hat was his head all along... my life is now in utter turmoil
Dragonball TCG is pretty chill, I've never run into any red flags like this. Hell I have never seen any degenerate playmats/sleeves outside of vendors at conventions.
I am a Dark World player. I get it, long turns that may not go anywhere, questionable wordings, lots of durp. For me, its the players that rush me when I am already playing so fast that I am skipping the middle man (putting Lucent on field instead of grave, then field) or they immediately start card sharking and calli the judge with every new card I play. But as annoying as those 2 things are, the worst are players that do that, scoop in the middle of my turn, then side deck for the next 10 minutes. At that point I am thinking "ok, they didn't come prepared for decks like mine and are all about winning. I HAVE to win game 2 because 1 way or another, game 3 WILL be a shit show that will go to time with them stalling it out for a draw. The only out is to do enough damage that they can't burn me enough to at least break even and the scoop after basically insulting your choice in skin color
noob question, what is field center and what its usage? i only play master duel so i dont know about these stuff, also the iris swordsoul art is awesome
If a player or both players don't have have zones on their mats, a field center is designated to show where the extra monsters zones are (on the sides of the field center). This also makes it easier to designate the rest of the zones of the field (monster zones are on the bottom of the field center, spell/trap zones are on the bottom of that, etc.).
it designates the center of the board. That is to say, between the two extra monster zones. this allows you and the opponent to line up your columns semi-neatly without needing to have yugioh specific playmats
@@jeremycarromero5302 ah i see... thanks for the explanation
@@nathansmith5738 so that how people play with borderless zone in their mats, thanks for the explanation
One thing i wonder about is if im a red flag for anyone at locals. Part of it is just the fact that im naturally self conscious but also like, i work nights and so i have a naturally fucked up sleep schedule, so either im forcing myself to get up super early to be there or my sleep schedule got messed up and i've been up since like 4 in the morning and im forcing myself awake to be there. Either way I tend to look completely exhausted and I know for a fact im not playing to the best of my ability because i just dont have the mental capacity to interrupt your combos even though I probably could have stopped it. Or, like often times I probably could have had a better response had i have just read your card but I just didnt have the energy for that lol.
I started having this thought like halfway through the video seeing so many lewd accessory things that i gotta wonder if the solfachord mat i got off of trif's website falls under that category for a lotta people. especially after the dude complaining about that iris swordsoul field center
I did not know about the Sea Dragon combo holy hell, genuinely might pick Marincess back up. Always thought the deck was cute but it was never particularly great.
It’s quite a bit of fun to play, although it’s tough in the current meta with main deck Nibs or Kaijus running around. Zealantis is a great boss for cleaning up games on turn 3
Pick up Mermail instead.
Way better deck, and you can still play coral anemone to lock you into water before summoning zealantis.
I’m at the point where I don’t know if everything MBT says is part of a larger bit or none of it is, so if I ever play him I’m just gonna sit on my hands and stammer out nervous mumbled greetings until I’m eventually ejected from the venue.
I agree with the explicit mat problem, with friends why not but at a game center or tournament with young peoples no, just no.
I do not want any parent thinking this game is pervers or just stupid because his kid see some weird products in a shop.
But for the other argument about non official mat, Konami only make a very small amount of archetype ones, like me, fur hire, DDD, Dragonmaid, melffy and 20 others, no one have official mat.
Or at least in the TCG, if you know OCG sleeves, you understand why I precise this point.
There's a Fur Hire mat?
@@wakkaseta8351 I bought mine online but it is not official. I would prefer Konami selling ones.
2:00 bro I just witnessed Neos Dolphin feet pic abomination on this or that MBT channel and now I'm not seeing one? 😭
"Are you MBT?"
"Uh... no, I'm TBM..."
Reasons why I only play the game causally with my friends so I don’t have to deal with this shit from man children
I like that LittleKuriboh’s post made it in, but not the post saying that referencing LittleKuriboh is a red flag
6:37
Zodiac Duelist members: [immediately all think of the same person]
The Ghostrick community will never forgive you Joseph.
DIdnt know about the Tour Guide play mats ... Thanks MBT I cant unsee that . Buying 2 of them
I had to Google the tour guide feet mat amd I'm crying. That is hilarious
I once summoned utopia the lightning in an Albaz deck, the turn after I kaiju'd their board with IKS (kaiju slumber)