@@Tomy_Lightning that's how my friend was about Thunder Dragon Colossus being basically unkillable but then I pointed out he could just Bottomless Trap Hole it to banish it. He started banging his head on the nearest wall for a good 5 minutes afterwards for not thinking of that.
That’s how one guy at my locals is he insists his swordsouls (Sweatsouls) can negate ANYTHING and refuses to let anyone read his cards but doesn’t even read them himself
"Just wait for a reprint set" *Waits 2 years* "Damn this isn't getting reprinted maybe I should buy it now" *Reprint gets announced* Every time I swear
Whenever I introduce someone to Yu-Gi-Oh I start off by saying "Yu-Gi-Oh is the most unfair and unbalanced game there is, but it's really fun. You'll eventually understand."
Yeah I joined a Yu-Gi-Oh discord and when I asked a couple questions about blue eyes white dragons I was instantly hit with "your wasting your time has no links just get link and pendulum dragons instead."
I feel the community has gotten worse over lockdowns and rona canceling events. The super serious players come to locals and act like they are playing in YCS. Im just out here trying to play with fun jank, not get mega wiped by whatever meta deck some big brained player published. Leave my Penguin jank alone. Lol
Well I think spirit is more like how tuner and Flip are in the type spot but not typings. Also poor spirit, the best support they got were ritual cards. So sad ;-;
0:33 I laughed right there haha. "Easy to get." yet Konami short prints the card in the new set too and because of that, the card is just as expensive as the original print version XD (Looking at you Magicians' Souls and Forbidden Droplet...)
@@brycethomas4290 Out of my 2 boxes I was able to pull the Starlight Astral Leviathan Dragon and a Forbidden Droplet. Yes very awesome but I still was saying to myself, “Geez 2 boxes and not ONE Souls???” Konami definitely does that on purpose like come on.
@@ElPsyKongroo Will it actually be easy to get and with that, prices for the card will be fair or is Konami planning on making that version another short printed Ultimate/Ghost/Starlight rare version that will then be idk like $500-$1000+ per copy?
I walked away for like 6 years and never looked back. Then came Master Duel and I'm dragged back in kinda wishing I wasn't because a big reason I quit was I couldn't keep up financially and didn't wanna run the same 20 cards used in every deck.
These range from silly interpretations of the game as a player and consumer. To counter-arguments to attitudes and preconceived notions players will carry about themselves and the game. As simple as this video may seem? I think it deserves to be acknowledged as a wonderful set of examples of bs that players at any level or Era can relate to and or learn from. In short, brilliant video as well as entertaining.
Lmao. “Yu-gi-oh is a fair and balanced game” got me. My older brother made a skull servant OTK deck on his own back in the early 2000s before either of us used the computer really. He managed to summon king of the skull servants and get its attack all the way up to 9000 and because he went second, he was allowed to attack on his first turn.
i literally told some dude i knew what all my cards do then ended up throwing the game when i had a otk chance because i cant read. Then lost on turn 3
I remembered coming back to Yugioh in Senior Year High School and my deck was a mess but my friend promised to go easy only to fill the board with 4 negate boss monsters
I think the funniest thing i have ever said while playing with a friend is saying "damn i bricked" then proceeded too otk with heroes then said "huh i guess i didn't brick" he still reminds me of that day and we laugh everytime we mentions it very much helps the fact he didn't play a very competitive deck and with no handtraps but it's still a funny moment too me and my friend
Commons vs max rarity is one place I'll definitely disagree. I've always genuinely preferred Common rarity just because you get the card artwork completely unaltered. On the other extreme, I absolutely hate Ghost Rare because it ruins the artwork so completely I can't even tell what the card is by picture alone.
Old cards are better on commons because of the "painting" quality of the images but modern cards are basically computer rendered now so that makes rarities stand out more than the common. I agree with the ghosts tho, I don't see the point of it from a viewing perspective. I guess it's just for bragging rights anyway.
@@s_ame1135 i do love the old ones because the way the card is printed looks different compared to the new ones. This makes it so that old cards have style in a certain way. And regarding the ghost rares: I dont like using them in a deck because in a duel you only look at a card for a short amount of time which makes it so that you only see a white picture. Ghost rares need to be inspected from different angles in order for them to truly shine. If you hold them inside the light and turn them into different angles you may find an angle where it looks like the monster is 3D. Its awesome for collecting purposes.
I actually really prefer playing with common cards when I can, the foil just makes it harder to see the artwork, especially secrets, ghosts, and ultimate rares (seriously idk why it's such a trend of the rarer the card the less you get to see of it)
luck for you the Common Charity format exists if you ever plan on continuing or getting into competitive play, basically you can only play common rarity cards. Just thought I might as well mention it
@@EBlade3529 oh I've kept up with competitive play for years my dude XD I am really glad they're gonna be officially supporting an all common format now though
@@christopherb501 I mean I will take Yusaku getting extra linked by an actual good deck like rokkets over Characters like III, IV and V being considered top tier duelists while playing decks that die to any instance of disruption/removal😕
The $600 deck one reminds me of that time that I beat $600 X-Saber deck with my burn deck way back in the day during a really small tournament at the swapmeet. My opponent was so salty about how he lost that match. It was hilarious.
"It's not that complicated" is definitely the biggest lie. I have no idea what is happening during the opponent's turn. In fact I have to narrate what I'm doing just so I can keep track of what is happening. 12 special summons, my monsters are banished, their life points doubled, and all I saw was a bunch of cards being placed then moved around.......
I do miss the days when Yugioh didn't require a working knowledge of German Tax law to resolve an effect. Doubly so when the effect can't be activated despite meeting said conditions for the activation on paper, but not by the rules. Like Mind Crush.
Could you explain it a little for me? I’m more of a casual player. I understand that cards can be negated. But I don’t understand the term you’re referencing (nor when it was said it in the video)
Basically making 3 negates means setting up 3 cards that negate your opponent's cards effects or their activation/summon. The best meta decks can build more than 3 negates on their first turn, but usually 3 (or even 1 for that matter) are enough to stop fun decks dead in their tracks. So while setting up 3 negates might be "going easy" for them, it doesn't actually let the opponent play the game, so saying that really just adds insult to injury.
@@samueledionisi6803 ah I see thank you. I think the best I can understand that is by having ash, Belle and some solemn card set on my first turn 😂. Which yes as a more casual player is just downright terrifying to face.
To be fair, In comparison to some of the other card games Yu-Gi-Oh isn't too bad price wise. Like the collectors stuff is more expensive, and the newer high competitive cards cost a pretty penny but usually about $100 give or take. I'm just saying a $700 Yu-Gi-Oh deck is way crazier than a $700 magic deck, at least from personal experience
@@PAGameRoom Oh nope. NOPE AT ALL. OK it depends on the format you're playing in Magic, but trust me, depending on the format, 700$ isn't even a quarter of a SINGLE Card in a competitive deck in some cases.
I was fairly lucky the most rarest cards I got was 3 imperial orders two magic cylinders one Gemini elf Buster bladder red eyes black dragon . No jinzo though I gave up on him until I got joeys tin
First scene made me snort, "Fair & Balanced". There's a reason I only collect the cards now as opposed to actually playing the game. I have far more fun playing MTG.
To be fair MTG is actually fair and balanced for two reasons 1 it actually has a resource before you can play most cards and 2 it actually has different formats otherwise it would just be like Yu-Gi-Oh with everyone being degenerate and not taking the other person's fun into consideration as in not playing decks that are nearly balanced to each other. Like in any card game the most fun are when two decks are near the same power level and does not completely lock the other one out even in competitive play which is why in Magic the only place you would see Codie decks are in tournaments as those are not fun to play or play against yet there was a time to where it was the best deck hands down. Even stax players wants some form of interaction before locking everyone else out in a game that usually ends on turn 4-5 (Which can last between 15min-1hour) as they don't want to just curb stomp anyone as again that's just no fun.
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena Essentially, yes. When I play MTG with friends, even if I get curb stomped I still manage to have fun especially if it's a 4-player Commander game. With Yu-gi-oh, depending on who plays what, I usually just wanna scoop before even really doing anything because it's always the same crap, and everybody runs rhe same decks & it's all about winning and then a ton of excuses if you somehow manage to beat your opponents rediculously expensive deck they likely copied from the world regionals... Like.. I love yugioh, I love the o.g anime, the card art & stuff, but actually playing the game..? It's just.. Not fun anymore. It's not fair, certainly isn't balanced, and no matter how many times they introduce new rules or mechanics, I feel the card game has just run it's course.
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena MTG isn't much better. It's only saving grace is that it has different formats particularly commander/brawl to prevent it from becoming too expensive and homogenous. If it weren't for that one format it'd be complete garbage in terms of balance and diversity. Alrund's Epiphany and Esika's Chariot by themelves suck all the fun out of standard.
@@stoiccrane4259 honestly you are right one of the only saving graces is different formats another one is actually rating a deck on a scale of 1-10 1 being jank and 10 being prime competitive for that format. To build a Jank deck one has to intentionally make it and or play it bad in magic otherwise it could never get below a 2 or 3 though there are some jank decks that could beat competitive decks if they are actually played seriously. Like people in magic tries to play similar power levels to their opponents like +1 or -1 as it is usually not exactly equal as no one wants to curb stomp and those that do want to do that are usually not played with again as they are not fun to play against. If magic did not have the gentleman's agreement of the 1-10 power scale for decks and playing a near equal in power deck then even if it had multiple formats it would be just like Yu-Gi-Oh just slightly more balanced because of the resource system magic has And lets not forget that in Magic you could double sleeve and not worry about people cheating while in Yu-Gi-Oh the cheating was the reason why you could not double sleeve for so long, so another saving grace is there are a lot of less stupid rules as there are less cheaters because magic players are actually more mature ........unless it comes to proxies for some reason then you have a lot of collectors moaning and complaining and elitists saying that you need to buy the cards first in order to play them/the deck you are running....but those are just a vocal minority especially in the cEDH sphere as you actually need to proxy in that one and it is a proxy friendly format meaning less skilled players can get into it and it is actually easy to get into as there are many discords that are willing to help and the fact that it is proxy friendly which again makes it not expensive at all unless you actually wanted to go to tournaments with those decks
As someone who was retired from the game for over a decade and only picked it back up b/c Master Duel, this took me ALLLLL THE WAY OUT as this video would have been accurate back then! Fucking hell, I wheezed so hard I almost choked. Keep making these!
I like how he points to spirit Charmers, the most useless deck I’ve ever encountered. But seriously, the rokket structure deck did win me a few games (win to lose ratio 1:3)
0:48 depends on the context, but yeah more often than not there really will be nothing people can do because meta players devolve the game to the point where the opponent literally can't play. They're cheaters in all but name.
1:33 The sheer amount of COPIUM in this statement is an overdose on its own. This is the equivalent to "Just wait for the patch" in Legends of Runeterra. Great vid
A majority of the base has devolved into toxicity. It used to be comparable to Magic the Gathering back in the day where a bunch of nerdy types could come together and socialize but those days are long gone. Competiton takes precedence to comraderie now.
Ok that Imperial Order one I was in an argument about how modern decks can't really do anything about it bcus most of the deck is spell card based and I gave simple solutions to destroy it. 1) Trap Master 2) Crimson Ninja 3) Breaker the Magical Warrior 4) Seven Tools of the Bandit 5) Malevolent Catastrophe 6) Full House (if you can get it off) 7) Wiretap 8) Dark Armed Dragon Most of the card's listed are easy to prepare and destroy Imperial. And there are more then these
The only good and worth card to play is a trap called "Unending Nightmare" and you didn't even mention it haha. You can pay 1000LP, target and destroy 1 face up trap or spell(out to Mystic Mine aswell, YAY). You can only use this effect once per chain.
@@Cetra29 Aye it works. I can understand these new kid's not knowing about it but if your an OG with Yugioh you have no excuse for not remembering this card 😂
@@PsychoKern I actually didn't know about that card. It's literally Seven Tools of the Bandit but better. Same effect, same 1k LP, but it's a continuous trap that can be once per turn
Yet another way that players in the anime/manga are a mismatch with real life. In real life, nobody ever reads the cards. In the fiction, nobody ever STOPS reading their cards.
All experiences I've had with the fan base has been good, I started playing at tournaments at my local card shop with a blue eyes starter deck before blue eyes support came out, sure I got shit stomped every game but after every player would help me out with my deck to make it better, when blue eyes support came out everyone was super hyped for me because I could actually play a deck, I won first place the week it came out
All yugioh players should even if it's at least to fight the stereotype of tcg players being fat neckbeards Note: i use TCG just to mean trading card games because MTG is also stereotyped as Fat geeks or Fat neckbeards Addendum: obviously getting healty should be a motivating goal for an individual anyway
@@pappazmurf tbf you don't need to act like a neckbeard to be seen as one that's why people commonly think stereotyping is bad Because it paints an entire group of people with a broad brush justifiably or not and I'm actually going to go to the gym myself
At my locals, everyone is for the most part nice, but most are sweats (lol). (Clearly I’m not then). And about a month ago, these kids (2) showed up to play Yu-Gi-Oh!! For me, I couldn’t be happier. Nearly every kid that comes in buys Pokémon, so seeing fresh blood in a game where mainly adults play was a huge deal. Along those lines, I’ll say despite others understanding, they destroyed those kids in duels and one was quite vulgar and almost got kicked out of the shop. (My guess is he was trying to act and think how adults would act, which is fine - were we all not scared going in for the first time to duel at a locals? I was very much). It wasn’t until one of them faced me. I noticed him playing an Egyptian God deck, this made me so happy to see. As a kid, I wanted to do the same. I did win, as it was an official tournament, but I struggled and bluffed on purpose to help build their confidence. (I threw one game for him). After the duel, I’ve been running Monarch cards and so I gave him a few cards in my binders and such to help him improve his deck for tribute summoning. I gave him maybe 20 dollars worth of cards for a Sinister Necrom (love that card), and as we finished up, some guy said to me: “did you just trade all that for one card worth nothing?” “Yes.” “Bro, you lost money on that trade.” “And? What is it worth to be nice and help out?” So seeing the joke of everyone is nice, made me ponder about how I try to aspire to be a nice player, because being kind keeps the game alive and from what I gather, it wasn’t until 2 weeks when they showed back - which surprised everyone else, (the previous week I overheard them bragging about how they have cards to give to them because they need it to stand a chance; not out of the heart or decency, and of course other adult talk laughing about the kids >.>), which of course did shock them. I guess the point of my tangent is: being nice to one of those kids and helping him out was one of the best things I’ve done in a long time. It was a true honor to help, duel and chat without meta crap and values and having FUN. Seeing this makes me only want to break that convention more!
"Konami always has the players' best interest at heart." That's not just a Yu-Gi-Oh lie, that's a lie if ANYONE tells you that. Konami's a yakuza front company. Ask the Metal Gear fandom what they think of Konami.
"Yu-Gi-Oh is a fair and balanced card game" *Then everything changed when Synchro, XYZ, Pendulums, and Link summoning attacked* [Insert Stardust dragon, Utopia, Odd eyes, and whatever the main character of Vrains has]
Some contradictions here Its not the deck its the player (which is actually true) made out to be a lie There was nothing i could do (implying it is in fact the player) meaning the first statement is actually true Theres no skill in yugioh (implying its not the player again) We yugioh players really cant decide whats what can we? ☺
The deck does matter when you're comparing a deck with the most high win rate Vs any other deck. The proven deck will win 98% of the time. Basically at the highest level the deck matters more than the player.
“It’s not the deck it’s the player” a complete lie because yes the player piloting it matters, but the deck, and the hands you draw are what actually determine if you win or not by a much more considerable margin. “There was nothing I could do” You could’ve deck built in such a way that you could deal with the current board state. “There’s no skill in yugioh” being false doesn’t contradict the first statement being false because yes: There is skill associated with the game, but saying that you could play any deck and win is just wrong. There are decks that just are objectively worse than other decks.
Hey, I've legit lost a round due solely to time before. The match was 1/1, the duel was in a very simplified gamestate, my opponent had a Mo Ye on field and no cards in hand, I had Beetrooper Scale Bomber and Retaliating "C" in hand. (AKA full accesscode combo) My LP were at 3600, and my opponent's were at 4200. I hit time as soon as I summoned Seraphim Papillion. I was not happy.
As a stay at home hermit shut in. I don’t shower all that often. But I did shower that one time I went to locals, and it seemed like not many of the people there followed suit. I won’t complain about peoples smell though. I had to drive for 3 hours to get to that locals as locals don’t happen very locally around here. So I can only imagine how long other people had to drive. It’s not their fault how long they have to sit in a car. And of course their next reaction is to just spray some Deo and call it good. Which of course is the opposite of what people want.
Whoops! He’s playing Hieratic Dragons and just drew his that last 6 star one he needed to pull the OTK he’s been saving. Hieratic Dragons is one of my favorite archetypes. They can shift the game in an instant quite easily.
if i ever duel someone in person and they start pulling those minute to hour long combos, their face is going to meet the table, HARD, multiple times with me repeating "having fun yet"
Back in the late 90s, we used to play Magic while waiting for everyone to show up for D&D. We had a precon deck for everyone. We stopped doing that when people started spending time going out to their cars for their tourney decks. It just wasn't any fun at that point. For the record, the people that went to their cars usually ended up losing. The precon Megrim deck was always brutal to them for some reason.
I think that’s why some people think Maxx C should come back, We have a fair few counters to it these days, so why not? I believe it was Farfa who hosted a tournament of max maxx c decks. It was pretty fun, I don’t remember most of the outcomes though.
I genuinely do play almost exclusively lowest rarity, only reasons I don't use the lowest rarity are if I can't find a place to buy the lowest rarity, or if a higher rarity than what I use is in a set I buy and I just so happen to get the card, like with Metalcruncher in MP21.
The quitting yugioh part is relatable. When I want to quit, I just take a long break from yugioh then return either after a few weeks, or months. Maybe even return just a few hours. 😂
You guys play yugioh? Like in the show? Irl? Thats lame. Go play league of runeterra or something
Lol
Yeah, no thank you. Not having fun losing to Ahri Kennen
@@asn1226 😂
Straight broken.
bruh master duel is fun stuff
“Yu-gi-oh is a fair and balanced card game” I started off laughing mad hard bruh.🤣😂🤣
Lol
I heard Seto Kaiba yelling within my mind: "THAT'S BULLCRAP!" lol
Even the dude in the video had to chuckle at the absurd words he just spat out. So funny 😂😂😂
It kinda is fair and balanced, but is also pay to win
@@darkpaladin18 No.
The rest, yes
"I already know what all my cards do, I don't have to read them" that hits deep
I though I knew what some of my cards do than I read the whole effect and learn I missed something
@@Tomy_Lightning that's how my friend was about Thunder Dragon Colossus being basically unkillable but then I pointed out he could just Bottomless Trap Hole it to banish it. He started banging his head on the nearest wall for a good 5 minutes afterwards for not thinking of that.
That’s how one guy at my locals is he insists his swordsouls (Sweatsouls) can negate ANYTHING and refuses to let anyone read his cards but doesn’t even read them himself
A pendulum player's biggest lie.
@@cyberdance4578 the wording matters in some cases tbf. I think time limits are counterproductive.
"I'll go easy on you, I promise... What? I only made 3 negates" killed me.
Fair point! *plays Ra, Sphere Mode*
On the other side of spectrum: "Why your face like that? I just played Mystic Mine"
Its going wasy cuz he could have pulled 2 more omni-negates, either way though its still bullshit
“I’ll go easy on you!” Runs 3 ash 3 droll 4 nibs and 6 effect veilers :)
@@KyeGuard That could be considered another lie: "bro, outing 3 negates is really easy, just play Ra Sphere Mode"
"Just wait for a reprint set"
*Waits 2 years*
"Damn this isn't getting reprinted maybe I should buy it now"
*Reprint gets announced*
Every time I swear
Urgent schedule and superdreadnough liebe for me.
Lol tru!!
And you wait for reprints while a bunch of new crap comes out.
And then next time:
Okay now I just imediatly get this super expensive card I dont wait 2 Years again.
1 moth later: Reprint
GG
@@dominik452221 i think banned is more realistically
My personal lie: Red-Eyes will become a cohesive deck this year!
i mean to be fair all it needs is cohesiveness. it has power and recursion out the ass.
😭
A man can dream... please, Konami, give us actual red-eyes support and not more dark magician support (Dragoon) or... alternative
Do you have to hurt me in this way?
@@1_Hades_3 they get a new card this year
*“Just be patient. You’ll take your turn. I’ve been waiting…. two days now…”* .
That killed me because there’s not gonna be another turn
I love how even in these skits it's Larry who is spending a ton on sealed products. He keeps digging himself deeper into the Hole😂
1:20 The way Paul says this line sent chills down my spine. This was such a good skit!
This man was speaking facts
Truer words have never been spoken 👏🏽
They do better than pokemon at least...
Whenever I introduce someone to Yu-Gi-Oh I start off by saying "Yu-Gi-Oh is the most unfair and unbalanced game there is, but it's really fun. You'll eventually understand."
I wouldn't say it's unbalanced, more like it's a battlefield that changes with every new set and banlist that prevents anyone getting too comfortable.
I always look at it as: "Yu-Gi-Oh! Is great fun to play casually. Avoid the meta at all costs."
It is fun
@@Roboshi2007 bruh tri-brigades zodiacs eldlich skystrikers etc are running around everywhere
@@izunasenpai8477 today and tomorrow gem knights make a return
"This community is nice and supportive" line got me....
Yeah I joined a Yu-Gi-Oh discord and when I asked a couple questions about blue eyes white dragons I was instantly hit with "your wasting your time has no links just get link and pendulum dragons instead."
When I was 11 years old on a local a 30 year old stole my bls while „looking at my deck“
The community got even more toxic since master duel came out.
I feel the community has gotten worse over lockdowns and rona canceling events. The super serious players come to locals and act like they are playing in YCS. Im just out here trying to play with fun jank, not get mega wiped by whatever meta deck some big brained player published. Leave my Penguin jank alone. Lol
@@LucasDaffern no creativity anymore now people just xyz spam and link spam.
I've never felt so attacked by something that's absolutely correct lmfao.
agreed... sadly
The biggest lie is when someone says 'i will not buy another booster box on payday'.
I feel attacked
I like it how he said, "fun deck" *proceeds to hold the deck with schism at the bottom of the deck*
"Pyro is a bit special" I had to pause the video untill I stopped laughing thinking of the spirit monsters that konami locked in the basement
Well I think spirit is more like how tuner and Flip are in the type spot but not typings.
Also poor spirit, the best support they got were ritual cards. So sad ;-;
*cries in Payne*
Gate Guardian has been banished into the dark corners time, and the its need for support, forever forgotten...
I think Konami are scared of Spirits. Last time they got a good card they needed to invent the banlist.
*Que the volcanic player screaming about how they've been waiting for support since 1999*
0:33 I laughed right there haha. "Easy to get." yet Konami short prints the card in the new set too and because of that, the card is just as expensive as the original print version XD (Looking at you Magicians' Souls and Forbidden Droplet...)
I got so lucky with pulling magicians souls from brothers of legend. 2 pulls out of 3 boxs
@@brycethomas4290 Out of my 2 boxes I was able to pull the Starlight Astral Leviathan Dragon and a Forbidden Droplet. Yes very awesome but I still was saying to myself, “Geez 2 boxes and not ONE Souls???” Konami definitely does that on purpose like come on.
@@brycethomas4290 souls will be in legendary duelist season 3
@@MisterResistance101 I was hoping more for the evil heros since I didn't get any adjuster gold or the fusion but didn't get any sadly
@@ElPsyKongroo Will it actually be easy to get and with that, prices for the card will be fair or is Konami planning on making that version another short printed Ultimate/Ghost/Starlight rare version that will then be idk like $500-$1000+ per copy?
"This time for real, I'm really quitting YuGiOh" I felt that on an extremely personal level lol.
I walked away for like 6 years and never looked back. Then came Master Duel and I'm dragged back in kinda wishing I wasn't because a big reason I quit was I couldn't keep up financially and didn't wanna run the same 20 cards used in every deck.
Not even gonna front, I wish I had a circle of friends like yall.
*Alright, be honest: how many of these lines have you said?* 👀
Almost everything
Lots almost all, except a few
Almost all of them
The first one
1
I love that Paul couldn't keep a straight face when saying the game was balanced.
Top decks feel pretty balanced rn
you show me a balanced card game and I'll point out it died in 2 years.
@@ElPsyKongroo Imagine still thinking this
"Max C is coming to 3"
Not a lie considering the OCG and Master duel...
masterduel the ygo power fantasy game XD
These range from silly interpretations of the game as a player and consumer. To counter-arguments to attitudes and preconceived notions players will carry about themselves and the game. As simple as this video may seem? I think it deserves to be acknowledged as a wonderful set of examples of bs that players at any level or Era can relate to and or learn from. In short, brilliant video as well as entertaining.
Lmao. “Yu-gi-oh is a fair and balanced game” got me. My older brother made a skull servant OTK deck on his own back in the early 2000s before either of us used the computer really. He managed to summon king of the skull servants and get its attack all the way up to 9000 and because he went second, he was allowed to attack on his first turn.
This really makes me want to both laughing and crying at the same time... Thanks for the skit, anyways!
i literally told some dude i knew what all my cards do then ended up throwing the game when i had a otk chance because i cant read. Then lost on turn 3
ill have to post the opening hand in the discord lol
"no such thing as short prints"
I felt that one oof
The one about yugioh having such a supportive and nice community hit me right in the oof.
"Rent can wait till next month"💀
I've heard that twice at locals
"Yu-Gi-Oh isn't expensive"
"Yu-Gi-Oh isn't expensive lulz"
"Yu-Gi-Oh honestly isn't expensive"
"lulz Yu-Gi-Oh isn't expensive at all lulz"
-team aps
YuGiOh isn’t all that expensive. But having the good cards most definitely is.
Legos aren't expensive but if you want the nice sets...
hahaha at least team aps knows it's a joke
Its not expensive if you play very casually.
Its bankrupting competitively.
I like how Paul starts laughing after saying the game is fair 😂😂
I remembered coming back to Yugioh in Senior Year High School and my deck was a mess but my friend promised to go easy only to fill the board with 4 negate boss monsters
Having Larry talk about buying Boosters is low-key genius, and low-key the obvious choice.
I think the funniest thing i have ever said while playing with a friend is saying "damn i bricked" then proceeded too otk with heroes then said "huh i guess i didn't brick" he still reminds me of that day and we laugh everytime we mentions it very much helps the fact he didn't play a very competitive deck and with no handtraps but it's still a funny moment too me and my friend
“Not pay to win”
Commons vs max rarity is one place I'll definitely disagree. I've always genuinely preferred Common rarity just because you get the card artwork completely unaltered. On the other extreme, I absolutely hate Ghost Rare because it ruins the artwork so completely I can't even tell what the card is by picture alone.
Old cards are better on commons because of the "painting" quality of the images but modern cards are basically computer rendered now so that makes rarities stand out more than the common. I agree with the ghosts tho, I don't see the point of it from a viewing perspective. I guess it's just for bragging rights anyway.
@@s_ame1135 i do love the old ones because the way the card is printed looks different compared to the new ones. This makes it so that old cards have style in a certain way.
And regarding the ghost rares: I dont like using them in a deck because in a duel you only look at a card for a short amount of time which makes it so that you only see a white picture. Ghost rares need to be inspected from different angles in order for them to truly shine. If you hold them inside the light and turn them into different angles you may find an angle where it looks like the monster is 3D. Its awesome for collecting purposes.
I actually really prefer playing with common cards when I can, the foil just makes it harder to see the artwork, especially secrets, ghosts, and ultimate rares (seriously idk why it's such a trend of the rarer the card the less you get to see of it)
luck for you the Common Charity format exists if you ever plan on continuing or getting into competitive play, basically you can only play common rarity cards. Just thought I might as well mention it
@@EBlade3529 oh I've kept up with competitive play for years my dude XD I am really glad they're gonna be officially supporting an all common format now though
That last one hits home. Seriously, two hour turns are what make modern yugioh frustrating... among other things.
And to think, Vrains gets praised for being "realistic" with the meta.
@@christopherb501 I mean I will take Yusaku getting extra linked by an actual good deck like rokkets over Characters like III, IV and V being considered top tier duelists while playing decks that die to any instance of disruption/removal😕
I was waiting for "You just need to believe in the heart of the cards".
"Maxx C is definitely going to 3" master duel heard you
2.11. Let’s just hope Imperial Order comes to 3 so we can play around it better.
The $600 deck one reminds me of that time that I beat $600 X-Saber deck with my burn deck way back in the day during a really small tournament at the swapmeet. My opponent was so salty about how he lost that match. It was hilarious.
Mhm we love beating expensive decks
You guys got me back into Yu-Gi-Oh and love your videos
Pyro and Sea Serpent: *(exist)*
Konami: "I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that"
I spit out my water that I hadn’t even drank when he said Yugioh was not that expensive
„Hey, how does that game work?“
„Have you got an hour or two?“
Master Duel actually have Maxx "C" at 3. Konami does pay attention, who would know
True lol
"It's not that complicated" is definitely the biggest lie. I have no idea what is happening during the opponent's turn. In fact I have to narrate what I'm doing just so I can keep track of what is happening. 12 special summons, my monsters are banished, their life points doubled, and all I saw was a bunch of cards being placed then moved around.......
I do miss the days when Yugioh didn't require a working knowledge of German Tax law to resolve an effect. Doubly so when the effect can't be activated despite meeting said conditions for the activation on paper, but not by the rules. Like Mind Crush.
"I only made 3 negates" i felt that one lol
Could you explain it a little for me? I’m more of a casual player. I understand that cards can be negated. But I don’t understand the term you’re referencing (nor when it was said it in the video)
Basically making 3 negates means setting up 3 cards that negate your opponent's cards effects or their activation/summon.
The best meta decks can build more than 3 negates on their first turn, but usually 3 (or even 1 for that matter) are enough to stop fun decks dead in their tracks.
So while setting up 3 negates might be "going easy" for them, it doesn't actually let the opponent play the game, so saying that really just adds insult to injury.
@@samueledionisi6803 ah I see thank you. I think the best I can understand that is by having ash, Belle and some solemn card set on my first turn 😂. Which yes as a more casual player is just downright terrifying to face.
@@samueledionisi6803 with the exceptipn of drytron no deck rn is putting up more than 3 negates
“Back in the day I was the best player at books a million” 💀😭😭 that shit took me all the way back 😂
“Any deck can win”
Any deck CAN win, it just depends on the deck it’s facing.
I think you have an error in your title Paul... these are YUGIOH FACTS! especially the part where rent can wait til next month.
To be fair, In comparison to some of the other card games Yu-Gi-Oh isn't too bad price wise. Like the collectors stuff is more expensive, and the newer high competitive cards cost a pretty penny but usually about $100 give or take. I'm just saying a $700 Yu-Gi-Oh deck is way crazier than a $700 magic deck, at least from personal experience
I dont believe that's fair, if you were to take similarly competitive decks magic would be far cheaper.
@@PAGameRoom Oh nope. NOPE AT ALL.
OK it depends on the format you're playing in Magic, but trust me, depending on the format, 700$ isn't even a quarter of a SINGLE Card in a competitive deck in some cases.
Modern for sure, but you can make a pretty competitive commander deck for like sub $400-$500. Standard even less.
Now compare it to Pokemon.
a standard top tier is currently 300, but for standard format it really depends
This is why I only play Yugioh casually with friends using a nothing past Syncro rule
I was fairly lucky the most rarest cards I got was 3 imperial orders two magic cylinders one Gemini elf
Buster bladder red eyes black dragon . No jinzo though I gave up on him until I got joeys tin
Man if your bladder is getting busted you should see a doctor, that can't be healthy
@@dcbooster 🤣
“Pyro will finally get support” is what I think about lies
1:25 Not gonna lie, I prefer common over every other rarity.
I'm a sucker for gold rares. They're the commons of rares.
Gold rares are also great!
“Don’t worry these new rules are actually very simple”
“Don’t worry my black wing deck isn’t OP”
First scene made me snort, "Fair & Balanced". There's a reason I only collect the cards now as opposed to actually playing the game. I have far more fun playing MTG.
To be fair MTG is actually fair and balanced for two reasons 1 it actually has a resource before you can play most cards and 2 it actually has different formats otherwise it would just be like Yu-Gi-Oh with everyone being degenerate and not taking the other person's fun into consideration as in not playing decks that are nearly balanced to each other. Like in any card game the most fun are when two decks are near the same power level and does not completely lock the other one out even in competitive play which is why in Magic the only place you would see Codie decks are in tournaments as those are not fun to play or play against yet there was a time to where it was the best deck hands down.
Even stax players wants some form of interaction before locking everyone else out in a game that usually ends on turn 4-5 (Which can last between 15min-1hour) as they don't want to just curb stomp anyone as again that's just no fun.
With magic thare are multiple ways to play and still be viable -looks at yugio- unlike some games
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena Essentially, yes. When I play MTG with friends, even if I get curb stomped I still manage to have fun especially if it's a 4-player Commander game. With Yu-gi-oh, depending on who plays what, I usually just wanna scoop before even really doing anything because it's always the same crap, and everybody runs rhe same decks & it's all about winning and then a ton of excuses if you somehow manage to beat your opponents rediculously expensive deck they likely copied from the world regionals... Like.. I love yugioh, I love the o.g anime, the card art & stuff, but actually playing the game..? It's just.. Not fun anymore. It's not fair, certainly isn't balanced, and no matter how many times they introduce new rules or mechanics, I feel the card game has just run it's course.
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena MTG isn't much better. It's only saving grace is that it has different formats particularly commander/brawl to prevent it from becoming too expensive and homogenous. If it weren't for that one format it'd be complete garbage in terms of balance and diversity. Alrund's Epiphany and Esika's Chariot by themelves suck all the fun out of standard.
@@stoiccrane4259 honestly you are right one of the only saving graces is different formats another one is actually rating a deck on a scale of 1-10 1 being jank and 10 being prime competitive for that format. To build a Jank deck one has to intentionally make it and or play it bad in magic otherwise it could never get below a 2 or 3 though there are some jank decks that could beat competitive decks if they are actually played seriously. Like people in magic tries to play similar power levels to their opponents like +1 or -1 as it is usually not exactly equal as no one wants to curb stomp and those that do want to do that are usually not played with again as they are not fun to play against.
If magic did not have the gentleman's agreement of the 1-10 power scale for decks and playing a near equal in power deck then even if it had multiple formats it would be just like Yu-Gi-Oh just slightly more balanced because of the resource system magic has
And lets not forget that in Magic you could double sleeve and not worry about people cheating while in Yu-Gi-Oh the cheating was the reason why you could not double sleeve for so long, so another saving grace is there are a lot of less stupid rules as there are less cheaters because magic players are actually more mature ........unless it comes to proxies for some reason then you have a lot of collectors moaning and complaining and elitists saying that you need to buy the cards first in order to play them/the deck you are running....but those are just a vocal minority especially in the cEDH sphere as you actually need to proxy in that one and it is a proxy friendly format meaning less skilled players can get into it and it is actually easy to get into as there are many discords that are willing to help and the fact that it is proxy friendly which again makes it not expensive at all unless you actually wanted to go to tournaments with those decks
I just found your channel and been a judge since 2003. Love these!
"Yugioh's really not that expensive."
I know that's a lie, cuz I've never heard ANYONE say that before in my 18 years of playing..lol
“Back in the day i was the best player in books a million” too accurate
Ngl just hearing the opening I expected the video to end lol
As someone who was retired from the game for over a decade and only picked it back up b/c Master Duel, this took me ALLLLL THE WAY OUT as this video would have been accurate back then!
Fucking hell, I wheezed so hard I almost choked. Keep making these!
I like how he points to spirit Charmers, the most useless deck I’ve ever encountered.
But seriously, the rokket structure deck did win me a few games (win to lose ratio 1:3)
Monarchs structure deck were busted when it came out in OCG. I don't play TCG so I don't know about TCG side
@@DTDplays probably about the same level
The opening line was so convincing that I decided to start playing again.
0:48 depends on the context, but yeah more often than not there really will be nothing people can do because meta players devolve the game to the point where the opponent literally can't play. They're cheaters in all but name.
1:33 The sheer amount of COPIUM in this statement is an overdose on its own. This is the equivalent to "Just wait for the patch" in Legends of Runeterra. Great vid
I actually disagree with the community being toxic. I started at locals recently along with my friend and lots of people have been really helpful
This is a huge world, and you should consider yourself lucky.
A majority of the base has devolved into toxicity. It used to be comparable to Magic the Gathering back in the day where a bunch of nerdy types could come together and socialize but those days are long gone. Competiton takes precedence to comraderie now.
It feels funny when you guys talk about toxic communities. You clearly never played League of Legends. lol
“All you have to do is Believe in the heart of the cards.”
The Greatest lie in history
Where'd did you get those framed posters? They look awesome!
me too. Looking at cool yugioh merch. Like that millennium puzzle pillow! I'm thinking me wants it!
A few different places. Some are from Gallery1988, others are from Moneco Arts, and some Displate.
@@TeamAPS Thanks, appreciate the answer!
Woah a Shaddoll schism I saw it I love that right there bring more of that and man that would be so awesome
Ok that Imperial Order one I was in an argument about how modern decks can't really do anything about it bcus most of the deck is spell card based and I gave simple solutions to destroy it.
1) Trap Master
2) Crimson Ninja
3) Breaker the Magical Warrior
4) Seven Tools of the Bandit
5) Malevolent Catastrophe
6) Full House (if you can get it off)
7) Wiretap
8) Dark Armed Dragon
Most of the card's listed are easy to prepare and destroy Imperial. And there are more then these
Lol Trap Master.
The only good and worth card to play is a trap called "Unending Nightmare" and you didn't even mention it haha. You can pay 1000LP, target and destroy 1 face up trap or spell(out to Mystic Mine aswell, YAY). You can only use this effect once per chain.
@@Cetra29 Aye it works. I can understand these new kid's not knowing about it but if your an OG with Yugioh you have no excuse for not remembering this card 😂
@@PsychoKern I actually didn't know about that card. It's literally Seven Tools of the Bandit but better. Same effect, same 1k LP, but it's a continuous trap that can be once per turn
Don't forget generic link 2 nightmare Phoenix lol
"I already know what all my card do. I don't need to read them" Is like the biggest advice I can give. Just reread the cards. 🤣
Yet another way that players in the anime/manga are a mismatch with real life. In real life, nobody ever reads the cards. In the fiction, nobody ever STOPS reading their cards.
I've seen players use Field Barrier before their own Mystic Mine.
Another lie would be saying Farfa is a good person who doesnt steal other people's content
All experiences I've had with the fan base has been good, I started playing at tournaments at my local card shop with a blue eyes starter deck before blue eyes support came out, sure I got shit stomped every game but after every player would help me out with my deck to make it better, when blue eyes support came out everyone was super hyped for me because I could actually play a deck, I won first place the week it came out
Toxic ones usually hang out on like reddit and Facebook groups.
Try joining reddit or edo pro. Master Duel groups are even toxic to blue-eyes lol. Ignorance is bliss.
I'm actually really glad to see the big guys losing weight! 💪💪 stay healthy my yugioh bros!!
All yugioh players should even if it's at least to fight the stereotype of tcg players being fat neckbeards
Note: i use TCG just to mean trading card games because MTG is also stereotyped as Fat geeks or Fat neckbeards
Addendum: obviously getting healty should be a motivating goal for an individual anyway
@@simonpetrikov3992 I agree I'm not the nevkbeard type but I am pretty fat lol I gotta change that
@@pappazmurf tbf you don't need to act like a neckbeard to be seen as one that's why people commonly think stereotyping is bad
Because it paints an entire group of people with a broad brush justifiably or not and I'm actually going to go to the gym myself
@@simonpetrikov3992 and, What is a neck beard? Other than a beard that grows on your neck obviously.
@@aHumanBeing97 the neck beard stigma is pretty much the type of Yu-Gi-Oh player that doesn't care about his own hygiene. The smelly type of players
It was the “this community is very kind and supportive” for me.
At my locals, everyone is for the most part nice, but most are sweats (lol). (Clearly I’m not then).
And about a month ago, these kids (2) showed up to play Yu-Gi-Oh!! For me, I couldn’t be happier. Nearly every kid that comes in buys Pokémon, so seeing fresh blood in a game where mainly adults play was a huge deal. Along those lines, I’ll say despite others understanding, they destroyed those kids in duels and one was quite vulgar and almost got kicked out of the shop. (My guess is he was trying to act and think how adults would act, which is fine - were we all not scared going in for the first time to duel at a locals? I was very much). It wasn’t until one of them faced me. I noticed him playing an Egyptian God deck, this made me so happy to see. As a kid, I wanted to do the same. I did win, as it was an official tournament, but I struggled and bluffed on purpose to help build their confidence. (I threw one game for him). After the duel, I’ve been running Monarch cards and so I gave him a few cards in my binders and such to help him improve his deck for tribute summoning. I gave him maybe 20 dollars worth of cards for a Sinister Necrom (love that card), and as we finished up, some guy said to me: “did you just trade all that for one card worth nothing?”
“Yes.”
“Bro, you lost money on that trade.”
“And? What is it worth to be nice and help out?”
So seeing the joke of everyone is nice, made me ponder about how I try to aspire to be a nice player, because being kind keeps the game alive and from what I gather, it wasn’t until 2 weeks when they showed back - which surprised everyone else, (the previous week I overheard them bragging about how they have cards to give to them because they need it to stand a chance; not out of the heart or decency, and of course other adult talk laughing about the kids >.>), which of course did shock them.
I guess the point of my tangent is: being nice to one of those kids and helping him out was one of the best things I’ve done in a long time. It was a true honor to help, duel and chat without meta crap and values and having FUN. Seeing this makes me only want to break that convention more!
"Konami always has the players' best interest at heart."
That's not just a Yu-Gi-Oh lie, that's a lie if ANYONE tells you that. Konami's a yakuza front company. Ask the Metal Gear fandom what they think of Konami.
Nice vid guys! Alot of these lies Ive heard before or close to them! Where did you get that millennium puzzle pillow from?
"Yu-Gi-Oh is a fair and balanced card game"
*Then everything changed when Synchro, XYZ, Pendulums, and Link summoning attacked* [Insert Stardust dragon, Utopia, Odd eyes, and whatever the main character of Vrains has]
Nah, it was pretty unbalanced before that point too. Especially if you look at the early 2000s, almost every deck was exactly the same.
Yugioh was never balanced, its fair in some formats, if you have the money or use an online simulator, but not balanced, like ever
...Decode Talker or Firewall Dragon he has two signature cards
"Don't worry, your favorite deck from 2010 is still viable."
*Cries in Lightsworn*
"Any deck can win it's about the player" that's true not a lie
Its mostly true, but its also true that its literally impossible for some decks to win depending on how jank you go, i.e. Graydle
@@slipperysalamander7717 that and some decks are just designed to straight up murder other decks. I.e. buster blader against nearly any dragon deck.
Then win with a deck that only has 500 or lower ATK normal monsters and nothing else.
OK win with a deck with full normal monsters, no extra deck
You're not beating Swordsoul Tenyi with Battlin Boxers or Amazoness. Sorry. It's just not going to happen.
Paul: "Short prints don't exist"
Lifeless leaffish: "and I took that personally"
Some contradictions here
Its not the deck its the player (which is actually true) made out to be a lie
There was nothing i could do (implying it is in fact the player) meaning the first statement is actually true
Theres no skill in yugioh (implying its not the player again)
We yugioh players really cant decide whats what can we? ☺
The deck does matter when you're comparing a deck with the most high win rate Vs any other deck.
The proven deck will win 98% of the time.
Basically at the highest level the deck matters more than the player.
“It’s not the deck it’s the player” a complete lie because yes the player piloting it matters, but the deck, and the hands you draw are what actually determine if you win or not by a much more considerable margin.
“There was nothing I could do” You could’ve deck built in such a way that you could deal with the current board state.
“There’s no skill in yugioh” being false doesn’t contradict the first statement being false because yes: There is skill associated with the game, but saying that you could play any deck and win is just wrong. There are decks that just are objectively worse than other decks.
Hey, I've legit lost a round due solely to time before. The match was 1/1, the duel was in a very simplified gamestate, my opponent had a Mo Ye on field and no cards in hand, I had Beetrooper Scale Bomber and Retaliating "C" in hand. (AKA full accesscode combo) My LP were at 3600, and my opponent's were at 4200. I hit time as soon as I summoned Seraphim Papillion. I was not happy.
Not your opponent's fault, you're slow and low on LP. You'll be happy if it's the other way around anyway.
Sees thumbnail: Oh boy I love Team APS skits, this'll be funny
Sees video: what have I been doing with my life for all these years?
"What do you think? Of course everyone showers before they go to a tournament."
As a stay at home hermit shut in. I don’t shower all that often. But I did shower that one time I went to locals, and it seemed like not many of the people there followed suit. I won’t complain about peoples smell though. I had to drive for 3 hours to get to that locals as locals don’t happen very locally around here. So I can only imagine how long other people had to drive. It’s not their fault how long they have to sit in a car. And of course their next reaction is to just spray some Deo and call it good. Which of course is the opposite of what people want.
It’s your opponent’s turn, but they are at 100 life points. You got this duel in the bag. There’s nothing he can do to come back.
Whoops! He’s playing Hieratic Dragons and just drew his that last 6 star one he needed to pull the OTK he’s been saving. Hieratic Dragons is one of my favorite archetypes. They can shift the game in an instant quite easily.
I absolutely love that the one dudes personality is always the “buyer” duelist in these skits. Repeat consistent comedy is my favorite lol
"Yeah, your favorite deck from 2010 is definitely still good enough to compete today :)" That hurted.
"Yu-gi-oh is a fair and balanced game" *Master dual players laugh in Maxx "C"*
The dude who was like “just one more case, rent can wait” lol so funny awesome video
if i ever duel someone in person and they start pulling those minute to hour long combos, their face is going to meet the table, HARD, multiple times with me repeating "having fun yet"
Back in the late 90s, we used to play Magic while waiting for everyone to show up for D&D. We had a precon deck for everyone. We stopped doing that when people started spending time going out to their cars for their tourney decks. It just wasn't any fun at that point. For the record, the people that went to their cars usually ended up losing. The precon Megrim deck was always brutal to them for some reason.
1:15 *Mark My Words MAXX "C" will come off the banlist*
Me: Uh Chain Ash
I think that’s why some people think Maxx C should come back, We have a fair few counters to it these days, so why not?
I believe it was Farfa who hosted a tournament of max maxx c decks. It was pretty fun, I don’t remember most of the outcomes though.
I genuinely do play almost exclusively lowest rarity, only reasons I don't use the lowest rarity are if I can't find a place to buy the lowest rarity, or if a higher rarity than what I use is in a set I buy and I just so happen to get the card, like with Metalcruncher in MP21.
The quitting yugioh part is relatable. When I want to quit, I just take a long break from yugioh then return either after a few weeks, or months. Maybe even return just a few hours. 😂
"I'm going to buy just one booster!" That lie goes for other card games too.
Yugioh is a welcoming community. As welcoming as a lioness with her cub