it's not really a competition if not everyone is on equal ground people without the best cards will be at a disadvantage and i'd argue it ruins the game for everyone involved it's high time we stop purchasing product or quit for a while to see change it's not healthy to be paying 200 euro for a card, 2 copies of this garbage is what people pay for rent in my country, it cost konami less than a euro to print 20 of these it's not worth it guys don't let FOMO potentially financially ruin you or derail your lives
Making irl decks that are meta enough to compete is too expensive. Ive used proxies since the synchro days, i would rather do that than give anything to komoney. I play master duel and i have bought gems before but now i just wait for events and free methods. There is no point in rushing, its a gatcha game intentionally designed to exploit our tendencies for profit which bothers me to keep feeding. They are making the paper game inaccessible through printing artificial rarity. But also, if modern games are decided in 1-2 turns, i cant imagine wanting to build a physical deck for a very expensive price to try to do that irl. Id rather matchmake through master duel for free
My biggest gripe with the TCG is the cost of cards. But the actual meta of the TCG is leagues better than Master Duel with all the generic negates and Maxx C mini game.
I only play Master Duel after transitioning from TCG and irl play. It's just MASSIVELY cheaper and more fun, with less misplays and bad judge calls at locals and stuff. Master Duel is just the best way to play IMO
That said, the format is absolute garbage rn. Snake Eyes, Yubel, and Stun is all that's being played rn and it's just demoralizing to queue a ladder match and see these cards...AGAIN
We don't have locals in our country nor any store that actually sells YGO cards , so Master Duel is a blessing for people like us who love the game and we don't have to buy cards that are way too expensive :)
I got back into ygo through master duel and bought some structure decks to play locals and some other cheap decks. Then snake eyes took over the meta which I didn't want to buy into. I'm out of playing tcg competitively because even with a rogue deck I was still missing sp:little knight which was like 150 Canadian at one point, mire than the rest of my decks combined cost. Mulcharmy is basically the same situation, and sp:little knight is still worth a lot despite the reprint.
Ever since Master Duel came out, I haven't had the urge to go to any TCG event even though I used to be a rather competitive TCG player. I prefer the Master Duel banlist, it is way more comfy to stay at home and not as socially challenging as going to in person events. The prices to buy cards most certainly don't help either and the OCG system of having the same cards in different rarities would be not only such an easy solution to this problem, it would also make it less of a commitment for new players to join the community. I think it is crazy that Konami refuses to adopt that clearly better system especially since the rarity collection was such a hit.
Almost got back into the card game, bought three of the Albaz branded boxes, and I could not read the text on the card. I checked the price of a card I was interested in at the time and it was 30 dollars. I thought, wtf, and gave the albaz starter packs to my kids. They try to trade them away at school and their friends just say the cards are garbage. I play masterduel currently, and have no interest in playing tcg. Now if they try to pull some masterduel bs and try to extract hundreds for cards, I’ll leave it too. I hate gacha mechanics and have no interest in playing some bs pay to win bs
I stopped playing tournaments a long time ago and Im just enjoying the tcg with my friends with our pet decks. Would be nice if sp and some key cards were more affordable but for now is enough of what we have right now with our current deck's power level.
I stopped going to my locals, because even though it is supposed to be casual there were three full power Fiendsmith Snake Eyes, and two Runnick Stun players out of 8. That was enough for me.
In paper format i only play edison format with friends because I know it is ohterwise very expensive 😊 as for master duel I just got to master 4 in 4 days playing only dinosaurs 🦕 ! Thats the good part of MD, you can get to master with almost any deck if you train a bit
Now that I have Spright, I don’t feel a need to get new cards. It’s fallen out of favor in the meta so it’s a good rogue pick, and it’s still plenty OP in both Paper and MD. There is really no need to pick up anything else for me, even despite owning Fiendsmith and throwing it into Spright as well.
Its tough. I remember my friend and I back in college during the nekroz days....oh boy! I went with Yosenju of all things and got my invite he also got his with rit beasts. i'd say Tim set a budget for your deck. If cards go over that budget, then they are probably not worth it. Also consider how many events you will use the new cards in. I love irl ygo cause I could playtest with my buddies, for practicing combos, and I just enjoy physically touching my cards. However MD has changed a lot for me Its not that expensive and has the latest cards. Only complain is no old formats but that ok.
I have a locals in my city and one or two 45+ mins away. Problem is my current work schedule has me on Swing shift starting Sundays (old schedule from a different job/program in the same company had me on mornings). Though i got stomped due to inexperience, anxiety, and the locals lean towards meta couple years ago (Remeber BASED and Verte? Thats how long ago lol) Sealed product is shit but this community continues to use insane justification after insane justification to keep buying into the RNG scam (proceed to complain and then buy sealed again. Lol] Singles for life but god damn this game is expensive.
I’m gonna finish the last couple decks I’m working on. Then I’m done playing the TCG. It’s not worth it at this point. Konami isn’t going to fix the problems with the game. They just keep making them worse.
I'm glad I stumbled upon this video because I feel the same way. I haven’t played seriously because I got priced out. Like I get having to have to pay to play your hobbies, but this is excessive and I just simply can’t keep up (esp with this economic environment here in the States, it’s the struggle bus). I also feel the same about wanting to play rouge and do well with skill, sucks that the tools needed to do it you might as well just play meta, but then again what are you even playing for but bragging rights so it brings me right back to not wanting to spend the egregious amount of money.
I currently play Master Duel on my PS4. And good god is playing really agonizing right now. The Only Decks I currently run into these days are YUBEL, Snake-eyes, Diabellestar, Runick Variants, Tear, Kash, Branded Variants, Voiceless Voice, DRYTRONS , or the New and Improved Sky Striker Decks. And with the recent release of Tenpai. I can seriously say that Any Rogue Tier Deck is basically Dead. Unless you’re somehow playing Fossils and managing to Screw over the Graveyard. But That’s sadly Not happening, especially Not when EVERY DAMN DECK HAS A CARD THaT KEEPS YOU FROM PLAYING YUGIOH! 😤😤🤬🤬 So it’s no wonder why a lot of the Player Base is up and Quiting. There’s no Reason to Play Crystal Beasts when All you cards are getting straight up Snatched These days. And I play D/D/Ds! A Combo Heavy deck that can’t manuver through these new Archetypes or avoid them Accessing VERY GENERIC Boss Cards! Hell, I didn’t even know Naturia Beast was still being played! But it makes Sense Regarding how super Easy it is to Play now! It’s that same for Baronne. Which I’m glad it got banned In the TCG along with Savage and now Goddess Bow! But consider “Azamina” is now accessible in the TCG physical game along with “White Forest”. I Cannot be Bothered to play this game anymore. It is a complete Sh*tshow, and I don’t want to Bother playing this game Anymore! It’s just THAT BAD.
Ive been thinking about giving advanced format a break and just play retro formats until that mulcharmy card gets a reprint or 2 since we know it's going to be a secret rare thats going to be 100+
konami seriously needs to make fuwa a super rare or lower so they could assess if a maxx c esque card is necessarily good for the game and if it will affect player numbers. just that card existing alone is enough to make me want to quit playing paper altogether or live in alt formats, and i'm sure i cant be alone with this sentiment
Yeah, i totally agree. I used to play Floo at locals. Now that they limited Prosperity, the format feels stale and they are releasing basically a new maxx c... it's just not fun anymore. I rather play half an hour of master duel and call it a day.
@@ru-gi-ohduelist2827 i think the issue is that the game is too expensive. I can't afford to move to a new deck everytime mine gets destroyed by the banlist or new releases. It's too much for a card game.
Dude you can just keep playing floo it’s immune to Fuwalos, benefits from other people nerfing themselves to deal with a potential Fuwalos whether you play it or not and shifter is still insane
Games usually end in 2 turns as you have to surrender in your first turn 'cause you didn't draw any hand trap or board breakers. It's crazy spending 500 USD/EUR in 4-5 cards with a chance of not drawing them in your initial hand,
Master Duel is cheaper and less time-consuming than paper. The animations look better than tapping the table, you get the full value of a card back when it's limited or banned, monthly events are consistent, don't have to deal with bad judge calls, rulings, end of phase BS. I think it's about time we admit that this was never meant to be the vehicle to drive people to paper. It's the inevitable replacement.
Stop spending money on Komoney products. Predatory marketing practices, art and text localization censorship, the lack of a unified banlist and the prior problem causing the time it takes for OCG-exclusive cards to reach the TCG to be extremely slow, and a lack of TCG-exclusive card releases. Don't spend money on Master Duel either because that's also an official product of Komoney, and the censorship nonsense is a factor in why it takes so long for cards to reach Master Duel.
Yeah I pretty much quit buying and playing yu gi oh. Not worth it to be stuck playing sub optimal trash because Konami wants a credit card to be the strongest yu gi oh card. Konami is a scum bag company. Very shady and very evil business tactics.
I never played the real card game, I grew up on anime and video games so I play master duel only and I would be caught dead playing the actual physical card game anyways 😅
All the value reprints all got price cut of at least half their original value which is good. Anybody who thought the tins will make the game massively cheaper to play in the meta were delusional. The tins did its job to price cut the singles which it did. Players don't realize how lucky Konami reprinted SP littleknight really early, we didnt have to wait like 9 more months for a possible reprint. You can complain about the tin being terrible, but it massively made a lot of the super expensive cards a lot cheaper as a single. Imsety, Trident Dragion, Dis Pater, Bonfire, Wanted, Diabellestar, all of Centurion, Accel Stardust Synchro dragon, Transaction Rollback, etc. Which ranged 40-80 dollar cards are slashed greatly. If you dont like the tin, the singles are the other option as the overpriced meta cards are more affordable if you want them thanks to the tin existing.
Konami is financially killing themselves I don't know how people put up with the terrible products for so long but I can't even get a competitive for cheap in Canada to top very well except for Runick stun really sad this game state is going downhill right now and the new sets don't make it anymore enticing in fact it just accelerates the game far too fast and quickly
what is the difference between maxx c and fuwaross for you? Bc fuwaross is a worse card than maxx c, yet you will continue playing master duel but not tcg ?
Both cards introduce game states i rather not play under. Maxx C is far worse (though i wonder if its returning because its getting a Secret Rare printing in the final Speed Duel set). Im priced out either way. Those who run these type of cards are at a significant advantage to those who dont (budget players).
Playing any TCG in paper is such a waste of money. Even the cheapest TCG Pokemon has 150€ on average decks which is still crazy considering it's cardboard that has a shelflife unlike card games like UNO or Poker... Just play Hearthstone and Master Duel as f2p online. That way you have a combo heavy fast one and resource heavy slow game and you can go back and forth if you dislike a certain format.
I played paper only as a child. After that I only played digital yugioh and now Master duel. I spend a little amont of money on MD, but only what i eould have paid for 2 PC games in 2 years which i think is fine
I stopped playing the game and my financial status got better
You can try out Fruit Monsters TCG if you want to make it worse again...
@@FruitMonstersTCGlolol
I only play master duel and duel links for rush format. Paper is to expensive plus I don't have a locals to go to
it's not really a competition if not everyone is on equal ground
people without the best cards will be at a disadvantage and i'd argue it ruins the game for everyone involved
it's high time we stop purchasing product or quit for a while to see change
it's not healthy to be paying 200 euro for a card, 2 copies of this garbage is what people pay for rent in my country, it cost konami less than a euro to print 20 of these
it's not worth it guys don't let FOMO potentially financially ruin you or derail your lives
Making irl decks that are meta enough to compete is too expensive. Ive used proxies since the synchro days, i would rather do that than give anything to komoney. I play master duel and i have bought gems before but now i just wait for events and free methods. There is no point in rushing, its a gatcha game intentionally designed to exploit our tendencies for profit which bothers me to keep feeding. They are making the paper game inaccessible through printing artificial rarity. But also, if modern games are decided in 1-2 turns, i cant imagine wanting to build a physical deck for a very expensive price to try to do that irl. Id rather matchmake through master duel for free
My biggest gripe with the TCG is the cost of cards. But the actual meta of the TCG is leagues better than Master Duel with all the generic negates and Maxx C mini game.
I only play Master Duel after transitioning from TCG and irl play.
It's just MASSIVELY cheaper and more fun, with less misplays and bad judge calls at locals and stuff. Master Duel is just the best way to play IMO
That said, the format is absolute garbage rn. Snake Eyes, Yubel, and Stun is all that's being played rn and it's just demoralizing to queue a ladder match and see these cards...AGAIN
plus animations haha
@@toetoe8196Zeus detach 2 never been so banger.
Thats the same reasons why I switched over
We don't have locals in our country nor any store that actually sells YGO cards , so Master Duel is a blessing for people like us who love the game and we don't have to buy cards that are way too expensive :)
I got back into ygo through master duel and bought some structure decks to play locals and some other cheap decks. Then snake eyes took over the meta which I didn't want to buy into. I'm out of playing tcg competitively because even with a rogue deck I was still missing sp:little knight which was like 150 Canadian at one point, mire than the rest of my decks combined cost. Mulcharmy is basically the same situation, and sp:little knight is still worth a lot despite the reprint.
Ever since Master Duel came out, I haven't had the urge to go to any TCG event even though I used to be a rather competitive TCG player. I prefer the Master Duel banlist, it is way more comfy to stay at home and not as socially challenging as going to in person events. The prices to buy cards most certainly don't help either and the OCG system of having the same cards in different rarities would be not only such an easy solution to this problem, it would also make it less of a commitment for new players to join the community. I think it is crazy that Konami refuses to adopt that clearly better system especially since the rarity collection was such a hit.
I hope that fuwaross gets printed on low rarity and then the tcg just bans it. Basically giving it the super heavy samurai treatment
I think you miss the point of its existence
Don’t worry, I won’t go over decklists 💀
Try Master Duel so we can have fun while keeping our wallet healthy...? trade-offs for slower release
Almost got back into the card game, bought three of the Albaz branded boxes, and I could not read the text on the card.
I checked the price of a card I was interested in at the time and it was 30 dollars.
I thought, wtf, and gave the albaz starter packs to my kids. They try to trade them away at school and their friends just say the cards are garbage.
I play masterduel currently, and have no interest in playing tcg. Now if they try to pull some masterduel bs and try to extract hundreds for cards, I’ll leave it too. I hate gacha mechanics and have no interest in playing some bs pay to win bs
I stopped playing tournaments a long time ago and Im just enjoying the tcg with my friends with our pet decks. Would be nice if sp and some key cards were more affordable but for now is enough of what we have right now with our current deck's power level.
I stopped going to my locals, because even though it is supposed to be casual there were three full power Fiendsmith Snake Eyes, and two Runnick Stun players out of 8. That was enough for me.
i only play masterduel because u can play any game modes anytime plus its Free to play plus i can test my decks
But take forever to build 1 deck....
In paper format i only play edison format with friends because I know it is ohterwise very expensive 😊 as for master duel I just got to master 4 in 4 days playing only dinosaurs 🦕 ! Thats the good part of MD, you can get to master with almost any deck if you train a bit
Now that I have Spright, I don’t feel a need to get new cards. It’s fallen out of favor in the meta so it’s a good rogue pick, and it’s still plenty OP in both Paper and MD. There is really no need to pick up anything else for me, even despite owning Fiendsmith and throwing it into Spright as well.
Its tough. I remember my friend and I back in college during the nekroz days....oh boy! I went with Yosenju of all things and got my invite he also got his with rit beasts. i'd say Tim set a budget for your deck. If cards go over that budget, then they are probably not worth it. Also consider how many events you will use the new cards in. I love irl ygo cause I could playtest with my buddies, for practicing combos, and I just enjoy physically touching my cards. However MD has changed a lot for me Its not that expensive and has the latest cards. Only complain is no old formats but that ok.
I have a locals in my city and one or two 45+ mins away. Problem is my current work schedule has me on Swing shift starting Sundays (old schedule from a different job/program in the same company had me on mornings).
Though i got stomped due to inexperience, anxiety, and the locals lean towards meta couple years ago (Remeber BASED and Verte? Thats how long ago lol)
Sealed product is shit but this community continues to use insane justification after insane justification to keep buying into the RNG scam (proceed to complain and then buy sealed again. Lol]
Singles for life but god damn this game is expensive.
I’m gonna finish the last couple decks I’m working on. Then I’m done playing the TCG. It’s not worth it at this point. Konami isn’t going to fix the problems with the game. They just keep making them worse.
I'm glad I stumbled upon this video because I feel the same way. I haven’t played seriously because I got priced out. Like I get having to have to pay to play your hobbies, but this is excessive and I just simply can’t keep up (esp with this economic environment here in the States, it’s the struggle bus). I also feel the same about wanting to play rouge and do well with skill, sucks that the tools needed to do it you might as well just play meta, but then again what are you even playing for but bragging rights so it brings me right back to not wanting to spend the egregious amount of money.
There no good reward for even winning the whole thing even the championship other card games does it. Yugioh is just too greedy
@@TheDragonfriday it’s beyond disappointing
I currently play Master Duel on my PS4. And good god is playing really agonizing right now.
The Only Decks I currently run into these days are YUBEL, Snake-eyes, Diabellestar, Runick Variants, Tear, Kash, Branded Variants, Voiceless Voice, DRYTRONS , or the New and Improved Sky Striker Decks. And with the recent release of Tenpai. I can seriously say that Any Rogue Tier Deck is basically Dead.
Unless you’re somehow playing Fossils and managing to Screw over the Graveyard.
But That’s sadly Not happening, especially Not when EVERY DAMN DECK HAS A CARD THaT KEEPS YOU FROM PLAYING YUGIOH! 😤😤🤬🤬
So it’s no wonder why a lot of the Player Base is up and Quiting.
There’s no Reason to Play Crystal Beasts when All you cards are getting straight up Snatched These days.
And I play D/D/Ds! A Combo Heavy deck that can’t manuver through these new Archetypes or avoid them Accessing VERY GENERIC Boss Cards!
Hell, I didn’t even know Naturia Beast was still being played! But it makes Sense Regarding how super Easy it is to Play now!
It’s that same for Baronne. Which I’m glad it got banned In the TCG along with Savage and now Goddess Bow! But consider “Azamina” is now accessible in the TCG physical game along with “White Forest”.
I Cannot be Bothered to play this game anymore. It is a complete Sh*tshow, and I don’t want to Bother playing this game Anymore! It’s just THAT BAD.
Ive been thinking about giving advanced format a break and just play retro formats until that mulcharmy card gets a reprint or 2 since we know it's going to be a secret rare thats going to be 100+
konami seriously needs to make fuwa a super rare or lower so they could assess if a maxx c esque card is necessarily good for the game and if it will affect player numbers. just that card existing alone is enough to make me want to quit playing paper altogether or live in alt formats, and i'm sure i cant be alone with this sentiment
Master duel is better honestly it cheaper then real card game
Yeah, i totally agree. I used to play Floo at locals. Now that they limited Prosperity, the format feels stale and they are releasing basically a new maxx c... it's just not fun anymore. I rather play half an hour of master duel and call it a day.
Like you I play Floowandereeze In my case I max out on the pots 3x Duality, 3x Extravagance and the 1x Prosperity
@@ru-gi-ohduelist2827 i think the issue is that the game is too expensive. I can't afford to move to a new deck everytime mine gets destroyed by the banlist or new releases. It's too much for a card game.
Dude you can just keep playing floo it’s immune to Fuwalos, benefits from other people nerfing themselves to deal with a potential Fuwalos whether you play it or not and shifter is still insane
Games usually end in 2 turns as you have to surrender in your first turn 'cause you didn't draw any hand trap or board breakers.
It's crazy spending 500 USD/EUR in 4-5 cards with a chance of not drawing them in your initial hand,
I only play md cause I live in iran and don't have access to the tcg since it's not supported here.
They need to just bring back mystic mine back at this fucking point
Master Duel is cheaper and less time-consuming than paper. The animations look better than tapping the table, you get the full value of a card back when it's limited or banned, monthly events are consistent, don't have to deal with bad judge calls, rulings, end of phase BS. I think it's about time we admit that this was never meant to be the vehicle to drive people to paper. It's the inevitable replacement.
I switched to 40k and save money compared to trying to buy meta decks constantly.
Thats why OCG and MD are way better. At least they care about the players with good and cheaper products, not like TCG
I just want to play against character ai with no banlist. Old style
Me too
Stop spending money on Komoney products. Predatory marketing practices, art and text localization censorship, the lack of a unified banlist and the prior problem causing the time it takes for OCG-exclusive cards to reach the TCG to be extremely slow, and a lack of TCG-exclusive card releases. Don't spend money on Master Duel either because that's also an official product of Komoney, and the censorship nonsense is a factor in why it takes so long for cards to reach Master Duel.
Yeah I pretty much quit buying and playing yu gi oh.
Not worth it to be stuck playing sub optimal trash because Konami wants a credit card to be the strongest yu gi oh card.
Konami is a scum bag company. Very shady and very evil business tactics.
If it’s because of product that you have a choice to not buy, you’re just full of excuses
i play only master duel now
Skill issue look at Ryan Yu
A lot of ppl are playing decks that don’t lose to Fuwalos so not having Fuwalos is not a dealbreaker
I never played the real card game, I grew up on anime and video games so I play master duel only and I would be caught dead playing the actual physical card game anyways 😅
Try Fruit Monsters TCG if you want a new game!
All the value reprints all got price cut of at least half their original value which is good.
Anybody who thought the tins will make the game massively cheaper to play in the meta were delusional. The tins did its job to price cut the singles which it did.
Players don't realize how lucky Konami reprinted SP littleknight really early, we didnt have to wait like 9 more months for a possible reprint.
You can complain about the tin being terrible, but it massively made a lot of the super expensive cards a lot cheaper as a single.
Imsety, Trident Dragion, Dis Pater, Bonfire, Wanted, Diabellestar, all of Centurion, Accel Stardust Synchro dragon, Transaction Rollback, etc. Which ranged 40-80 dollar cards are slashed greatly. If you dont like the tin, the singles are the other option as the overpriced meta cards are more affordable if you want them thanks to the tin existing.
Thank you Komoney 😂
i only play ocg and master duel
Konami is financially killing themselves I don't know how people put up with the terrible products for so long but I can't even get a competitive for cheap in Canada to top very well except for Runick stun really sad this game state is going downhill right now and the new sets don't make it anymore enticing in fact it just accelerates the game far too fast and quickly
meh see you next year just like everyone else
what is the difference between maxx c and fuwaross for you? Bc fuwaross is a worse card than maxx c, yet you will continue playing master duel but not tcg ?
The problem is not the card itself is the cost and the big impact will have in the next format
Both cards introduce game states i rather not play under. Maxx C is far worse (though i wonder if its returning because its getting a Secret Rare printing in the final Speed Duel set).
Im priced out either way. Those who run these type of cards are at a significant advantage to those who dont (budget players).
Playing any TCG in paper is such a waste of money. Even the cheapest TCG Pokemon has 150€ on average decks which is still crazy considering it's cardboard that has a shelflife unlike card games like UNO or Poker...
Just play Hearthstone and Master Duel as f2p online. That way you have a combo heavy fast one and resource heavy slow game and you can go back and forth if you dislike a certain format.
So should we unsub sense you want to quit?
He won't quit ygo entirely just the tcg
Subs aren't just for new content.
The game is not for broke ppl,go play masterduel or duelinks
I played paper only as a child. After that I only played digital yugioh and now Master duel. I spend a little amont of money on MD, but only what i eould have paid for 2 PC games in 2 years which i think is fine
The absurd price of paper Yugioh is just not worth it these days.
I think I had the same strategy when MD came out, Ive 1800 UR atm 😂
The game is not for broke ppl,go play masterduel or duelinks
Have u played duel links because it is definitely p2w too