I think the History of Ygo and progression series are doing wonders for ppl who just either never played old formats or simply forgot and just shows how fun they can be.
Swagkage's Yugioh meta documentary is what got me into Yugioh a few months ago. After that, I jumped into Duel Links and have been playing a lot of Magician of Chaos, which fueled me to start building physical decks. I've currently got a few structure decks (my favorite so far being a somewhat modified Shaddoll Showdown structure deck) and a hand-made Magician of Chaos budget deck that's based off of a deck-list i found online.
Both those Cimo series really have done it for me. Made me realize how much I vastly prefer old YuGiOh before we hit this "stop or break my board" meta where games are often decided within the first couple turns. I do like Modern YuGiOh for what it is but the power creep has really made the game less fun for me.
@@oromain I have to agree. Even if I feel like I’m about to go off, my opponents usually have some ridiculous card to drop out of their hand and win the game
well thats cause modern yugioh isnt fun. its just flashy like a casino. you get roped in by the lights and the short attention span, (hence the special summons out the ass) older yugioh makes you think about what you're doing every turn, instead of just how to get the best first turn.
Its funny cause one of the things that "drew" me to Yu-gi-oh is the art style. I used to draw the characters on the cards all day. I remember, at one point, we were really poor and couldnt afford Yu-Gi-Oh cards but me and my little brother loved playing so I took the time to cut out and draw 2 decks for me and my brother to use. I was a really big Yu-Gi-Oh fan and knew most the card effects by heart so I wrote out all the text as well. Then, I built a homemade battle arena out of beds and boxes for us and it was time to d-d d-d d-duel!
Honestly, I was pretty spoiled when it came to Yu-Gi-Oh! so I have a ton of cards that were worth a lot previously but reason 1 is a bummer. I’d much rather people be able to get the thing from their childhood at a reasonable price.
@@SasukeJR its about demand, back in the days finding a chaos emperor or yata to play was expensive, cause there was limited amount, now its even worse, cause everyone has more money to spend on the same number of 1st ed cards which is the collectible edition, and lot more cards are worn due to play, time, lack of care, wet, etc, each person that comes to yugioh for nostalgia raises the prices when keeps one to himself and is one less on market, thats why some 20usd ultras and secret rares are 50-100 now in less than a year, ghost and ultimates are even worse cause those were even rarer to pull
Pretty much. I used to play yu gi oh video games and the card game when i was in my teens in the early 2000's. I bought legacy of the duelist to play the OG card game. I don't give a crap about links, synchro, or any of that other garbage added with later seasons.
What I really liked is the journey through yugioh, begin at the start and just slowly go through the years. It made me appreciate modern yugioh a lot more.
Ghosts From the Past like "What should be the cover card for the box?" "There's a Blue-Eyes in the set." 'There's literally ONE Blue-Eyes in the set." "Which means there's a Blue-Eyes."
I haven't played yugioh in about 10 years and just recently got back into because of y'alls channel. I bought my wife the rokkets structure deck and I bought dinosmashers for myself and now we duel at night.
@@SeethingSimp based off people who were into it as a child now being old enough to have jobs and expendable income to purchase the cards they always wanted as a kid. It's been observed in lots of other franchises. At around 20 years, they explode in popularity again.
I think the reason the og anime is so ingrained in people's memory is the method through which we all saw it. Saturday morning cartoons and weekday reruns. Ask any educator, the best way to embed information into someone's head is repetition. We watched the same episodes of the old show constantly. Its why duelist Kingdom is so ingrained in our memories because we watched it the first time. Then we watched It again while waiting for battle city episodes. Then we watched it and battle city again while waiting for new episodes of Waking the Dragons. The Kaibacorp Grand Prix and Pharoah's memory arc don't stick as well because we didn't get that repetition. Nowadays, we binge through an entire season of anime in a day, and forget about it until the next season comes to crunchyroll or netflix. It doesn't stick. Its not the writing being better or worse. Its not nostalgia goggles. Its the lack of repetition.
For me, I played from the very start, through 2009 when I left home for college. It was around that time when synchro strategies were all the rage, with TeleDAD having just left its mark a few months prior. In school, I haven’t really thought about the game at all until I was at Walmart one day and saw the Marik structure deck, and was completely floored by the decklist! Lava Golem? Mirror Force? Allure of Darkness? Gravekeepers? Magical Stone Excavation? I immediately bought three copies of it. But even then, I never had anyone to play with in school, so I never did much with it. It was in senior year when I started dabbling in online dueling through Dueling Network. I think XYZ monsters were just coming out around this time. But ultimately I’d stop playing that too, and I haven’t thought about the game much since, completely bypassing pendulums and links. Fast forward to 2021, and I stumble across one of my old trade binders, and got incredibly nostalgic about all the cards I was finding. So I then set out on a quest to dig through my attic and my basement to find all my old cards, and started going through them. I couldn’t believe what I had forgotten I had. Including a really strong Extra deck, a fully-functioning Gravekeepers deck, and an Ultimate Rare 1st edition Solemn Warning! It’s also around this time that I started researching Goat format, a way to seriously scratch that yugioh itch that’s being bubbling up while also keeping the rules and games both simple and familiar. And here I am now, considering investing in several Goat format cards!
To join the conversation on this channel, while I like the main channel, I really appreciate these kinds of discussions. Matches and deck profiles are nice, but the broader shifts in the game are tougher to understand as a casual observer. Plus, you treat every subject respectfully! Just wanted to echo the positive vibes here and say that we really appreciate what you do!
It’s time to finish dubbing the entire yugioh duel monsters series using the original Japanese dialogue with the original soundtrack everything uncensored
I think another great example of Konami targeting old school players is that set of Egyptian God decks they are about to release. I'm really excited for it even if it won't be super competitive and playing it with friends is going to be so much fun. I only wish Ra would have received a deck as well because paying for single copies of ancient chant is...rough.
Paul: "I don't really think as much about like an Odd-Eyes Monster..." Me: *Sitting here in my 30's cosplaying Yuya listening to this video* N..no not my Odd-eyes
And its also causing the prices on everything to go up. A lot of non YGO youtubers got into collecting and it introduced a lot more people into the hobby that now its almost impossible to find cards anywhere. The pandemic also affected it, but as someone that has been playing/collecting since the early days, I've never seen the demand this high.
A lot of that is this rise of follow the leader culture popularized by ruxin, critikal, etc. As well as scalpers trying to mass buyout yugioh, just like what happened with pokemon.
@@jaybird3405 to be fair, the rising costs of staple cards isnt really related. That has more to do with last year when konami changed their policies for vendors at official tournaments. They removed the upper limit on how much vendors could charge for singles, which was previously $100 max per card.
I don't think it's really about playing the cards. Most people in the card communities are getting the cards graded to make money off of them, which is leading to scalpers inflating the prices, making things harder for casual players to get cards
@@DisasterLord It's _almost_ like unrestricted investment capitalism inevitably causes markets to spiral out of control, leaving economic devastation for thousands if not millions of ordinary people in its wake. _Almost..._
I remember opening my first two packs as a random Christmas gift when I was younger (going back to Metal Raiders) and opening an Ultra Rare copy of Magic Jammer was such a surprise, if only I'd known about card sleeves and keeping them all in a better condition...
When the pandemic started, I didn’t quite know what to do with yugioh since all of my local tournaments and other events were cancelled. But as the months went by, my brother and I started to play a lot of Goat format and Edison format and we love playing these classic formats even more than the modern format.
One thing tgat got me and my brother excited again in buying cards after 4 years was the legendary duelist sets. Just the anime nostalgia and being able to upgrade our old favorite decks. It's really fun.
I've been "collecting" for the past 5 years buying random sets and decks, last year started watching this guy strictlysealed and that got me on a old school yugioh hunt
I have been collecting strictly old school Yugioh sets, including series 1 and 2 OCG + Bandai/Toei era, since it's US release in 2002 until the 5Ds era, took a break in 2011 around the time XZs came out, and got back into collecting in late 2015 and i have noticed that almost every year there was at least 1 product alluding or marketed towards fans of the old school era such as the legendary collections, legendary decks, 2019/2020 tins, reloaded Yugi & Kaiba decks, and the many reprints of BEWD and DM but just like with every other popular TCG prices of old school Yugioh cards and sealed products skyrocketed last year around the beginning of the pandemic. I'm glad more people are getting back into Yugioh especially if it's for nostalgia purposes or being able to own cards/products now as adults that we couldn't have when we were younger when the TCG 1st released.
I wish this trend didn't exist for kinda selfish reasons. I never had the money to buy the classic stuff when it was on shelves with very few exceptions. Now I have the money to some extent, but some cards / classic products have 3-5x in price. 😂
Hey same here, I just get reprints, or I buy damaged cards, their cheaper and I only really care about the dueling aspect of the game. I only play old school and I never go to tournaments, I just play duels with friends. Hell, I’ve even played with some fake cards bc one of my friends got duped buying cards online so he gave me the fakes and I put some in my deck. Playing with the homies, they don’t care. I guess I’m just a filthy casual.
@@Pixiesfairiedust Same. Also why I'm satisfied with commons. Some nostalgic cards are still dirt cheap if you go after the common versions instead of pursuing secret rare, ultra rare, or especially prismatic rare versions.
It's makes sense why some ppl would prefer old school YGO. It was such a big pop culture thing back in the day. The Duelist Kingdom era manga is just amazing and the anime has a place in my heart despite the flaws. The current game has gotten so complicated that some ppl prefer going back to the simpler basic gameplay.
@@erbz god people have no idea how modern yugioh works its kinda hilarious lmao Format is pretty damn good, the only big combo decks are Dragon Link and Prank Kids but everything else is control based and slower.
I’ll tell you that Covid caused me to fall back in love with yu-gi-oh. I dropped off the whole series after the first season of 5D’s and just recently picked it back up. Bought legacy of the duelist. Started rewatching the anime. Saw GX season 4 for the first time. And it really all happened because a lot of the other activities I was into just closed down. So to entertain myself another way. I dove into one of my favorite card games ever and the nostalgia has been so sweet
I held on to my old cards from back in the day . I still pull the binders out every now and then . Got to love that Cyberdark Dragon 1st edition ultimate rare. Along with soooo many others .
I got back into modern Yugioh a few years ago, but I played for only about a year or so. I hadn't played since 2002 and had to learn everything (Synchro, XYZ, Pendulum, Links, etc) all over again, and it was pretty fun. But my heart was still in the Duelist Kingdom era, and playing modern yugioh just made me miss the OG stuff more. So i love to see this personally, id love to make a duelist kingdom deck and slug it out with normal monsters and simple magic and traps again
I’ve come back to yugioh after 15 years. I’m collecting and playing again. A lot to learn cause I’m behind lol. But this channel, Ruxin, team samurai, cyber knight and simply unlucky have done a great job helping me get caught up and informed. Plus, the pack openings are awesome as always! I’m hooked again. Thank you all.
You can also see it with what archetypes and themes they release as of late. Dawn of Majesty finally gives us a decent Stardust engine with Majestic Dragon and such. A set previewed recently called Synchro Storm focusing on other Synchro users, the War Rock archetype would be amazing is the old days of the game.
I am just getting back into Yugioh, I'd stopped dueling about 6 years ago or so just before pendulum monsters were a thing but watching a bunch of the duels on the main channel got me back into it
Duuuude! If Konami did reboot Duelist Kingdom, they could reboot it with the characters actually playing the rules and using all the support cards that exist now to really make the duels more accurate, interesting and exciting! Like Yugi's Spellcasters versus Mako's souped up water deck. Joey's warriors against Rex's Dinos. Ah man, it'd be so good!
I've gotten back into Yu-Gi-Oh! in the past couple months and its been amazing. Now I'm an adult and can actually afford to buy cards and merch. I've bought a few of the statues Kotobukiya rereleased in 2020 and have preordered the First4Figures Blue Eyes. Playing the game again with my brother has been great, though learning the new mechanics and catching up on the meta has been a bit more time consuming. I'm currently collecting and reading the manga for the first time as well as rewatching the show subbed.
@@seanMmaguire1 Worst case scenario, idiots of which many don´t even play or know the game buy out all products, raise the prices artificially and hoard cards like they´re literal gold. Which they are not, case in point Pokemon cards.
What I want most out of yugioh is more format support. My favorite time of Yugioh was the beginning of the synchro era. The decks weren't as insanely fast as they are now (where you see first turns taking 10 or so minutes and people spilling out 3/4ths of their deck and extra deck in a single turn to make unbeatable boards), but it also wasn't super slow/bricky/topdecky like early yugioh. I feel it was such a nice middle ground and I really want to be able to play in that sort of format again, but outside of playing with some weird ass ruleset me and my 1 friend made up every now and then, I don't even play yugioh at all anymore and it's sad. I miss this game. I miss the memories I made in 2008 to 2011. I miss the decks and the pacing from that era. But it's now lost to time. Even now in 2021 we really only have Standard, GOAT, and Duel Links (the latter two barely being supported at all). So my only option to play the decks I like in the format I like is just playing my one friend, with the same decks, over and over again (and we both feel like it would be a waste to spend a bunch of money on these cards just to play with each other every now and again).
I think one thing thats undermentioned is that the older monsters just generally look cooler than newer monsters. 5ds was about the cut off for like "memorable" monsters. Stardust Dragon, Blue Eyes, Dark Magician, the God Cards, Yubel, etc. all look much more sleek and cool than modern cards
I got back into Yugioh because of quarantine and duel links making it easy to start back up. I stopped 7 or 8 months after picking it up but I still watch content from it because it's cool
I was born 2002 but I actually grew up watching the original series with my brother and I completely forgot about it until last year and rewatched it all I had remembered from my childhood was a few monsters the pyramid in the intro and there being two yugi’s but I remember vividly watching 5d’s so very nostalgic for these 2 eras of Yu-Gi-Oh! But I digress I’m just excited to see my childhood again in a way
The pandemic did actually get me back into it. I haven't played since yugioh first started so I was overwhelmed with all these new mechanics. Right before I got furloughed from my job my co worker mentioned going to an event for yugioh and told him I didn't think people still played. So it was a bit of my co worker and covid that got me back into the game!
The GX era was where it was at. The power creep wasn't absurd yet. Decks still had plenty of room for personality instead of just exclusively being what the current meta was.
I just got back into it recently after a 15 year hiatus. After watching your videos I decided to drag my brother with me on this journey of cardboard crack lol. It’s been great, it’s brought us together like when we were kids!
As a collector my self I do enjoy collecting both new and old cards and I find it awesome that people are getting into it. My main issue is getting products at a decent price. Shadows of infinity and Cyberdark impact is just absurdly priced. It's rough and new lotto cards are nice like Armed Dragon Thunder lv10 as a starlight. It's pretty rad.
i pre-ordered one of those sick gold blue-eyes card things. it got delayed until june for whatever reason (was SUPPOSED to come this month) but i'm gonna get to have one of them so that's pretty neat.
@@NewtBannner Yeah I'm sure Paul has recuperated from being blasted in the a** with the a** blaster! Actually, have Chris and Calvin done duels like that?
For me, I grew up on classic Yugioh, before the full rules were available and playing with cards I bought at a flea market (probably counterfeit) with my friend, using the rules from the show...ooh boy that was rough..and then playing with the ACTUAL rules and it being a big thing among certain groups in my high school..you had the MTG players and the Yugioh players, trading for cards..all that. My memory though sticks most heavy with E-Heroes from the GX series..it's the one I invested THE most time into, even using the manga cards once they started releasing Judai/Jaden's cards he used in the manga instead of just the anime stuff. One of my friends in high school had a hellacious Relinquished deck cause he combined it with Ground Collapse and Gravity Bind..if he got set up right with that before you could stop him, you might as well give up back in the day..2 Ground Collapses to leave you with 1 SINGLE monster zone, and a Gravity Bind to stop you from attacking except with weak monsters and then just taking your monster over and over again for his Relinquished..I'm having horror flashbacks of that set up...I actually prefer the simpler times of how duels went then..now I need a magnifying glass to read a list of effects...
this is the first time anyone has mentioned the $1000 blue eyes. I read the article that they were releasing it in march. I legit checked the Konami site everyday since the first day of spring, to no avail. It kind of rekindled my love of yugioh and yes after looking up the prices of the current cards and learning about grading I've spent atleast $2000 buying the newest blue eyes and dark magician cards upon discovering them. When the Blue eyes does become available for pre-order please make a video and let us know!!!!
these discussions are good because its a talking head video, meaning you can listen to the things you enjoy in the background while doing something you enjoy
I think the Adults now who were once Yuigioh kids just remembered one day. Just a few months ago i happened across my old deck while cleaning my room and I said "Hey wow, i havent seen this in 20 years" and at the time i think Ruxin only had 3k subs? He was real low when i started looking into again. I then got a job at a board game distributor(imagine that) and we see all the new sets of Yugioh, Pokemon, MTG, Digimon, etc. The timing here is insane. An awakening has occurred and caused a chain reaction lol. Ive been collecting old packs and grabbing what i can while its available. I just wish there was a way to stop people from hoarding/scalping because thats a big killer right now.
@Raphie Mate how am I a hypocrite? If youre referring to the hoarding remark I made, you couldnt be anymore wrong. Ive been buying packs online at increased prices because you cant get them from retail stores. Buying a few packs here and there is not the same as going to target and buying out the entire section to resell online for double the price.
There's probably a combination of different things feeding into this wave of Yugioh Collectors. For starters, many players resent the current state of the game - the power creep, the expensive cards, the oppressive effects that dominate the meta, the new card art style... it all adds up, and a lot of people don't like any of these things. So, seeing a familiar card like a Dark Magician or a Blue-Eyes White Dragon might remind them of a time where they enjoyed the art style and were probably blissfully unaware of the game's balance issues that were always present. Many children grew up watching the Duelist Kingdom and Battle City arcs of the anime, and as a result Yugi and Kaiba are incredibly popular characters. Even Joey and Pegasus have their fans. A second factor is the age of people who grew up watching the anime. It was quite popular, and those people are probably in their mid-20's and early-30's by now, which is generally when you get your career going and have enough disposable income to really dump into hobbies like collecting old movies, or restoring cars, or, indeed, collecting classic trading cards and the associated memorabilia. There was also the Pokemon card boom - they were often seen in the 90's as dueling TCG's for roughly the same demographic and shared a lot of similarities; they both had prominent anime running at the same time featuring very iconic characters and various 4Kids-dub-related memes, as well as having popular games, and less popular manga adaptations. Essentially, they were both huge multimedia projects that were related to a trading card game. So, it's likely that even if you only had Yugioh Cards, you'd probably be well aware that Pokemon cards existed, so the news that Pokemon cards are worth something now would probably remind you of your days playing Yugioh, even if you've moved on to a different game like Magic or found a new hobby altogether. EDIT: Also, let's not forget that 2020 and the beginning of 2021 has been a time where scalping has been a hugely popular practice, as unscrupulous as it is. Things that are scarce tend to be more coveted than the same item with the same nostalgic attachments, but when there's a relative abundance of that thing. So, the scalpers buying all the sealed product they can get their grubby hands on probably also is a contributing factor.
TPCi releases a "shiny set" (basically purely a collector set) every so often that is almost identical to GFTP. It's 90% reprints just with alternate artwork that rotates when the original card rotates. Shining Legends, Hidden Fates and Shining Fates were all made like this. As a player, they rarely have new cards that make sense in the meta so we don't care too much other than having more shit for max rarity. It sounds like GFTP is basically a shiny Pokemon set for YGO.
I can definitely see a reboot of Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist Kingdom with the various summoning methods since than. The Digimon Reboot is giving a lot of hope this could actually occur.
Me & my brother just started re-watching the OG series and we've always kept the classic nearby. I still have my Dragon deck with masked dragons from way back in 2004 and recently took it to a local tourney. I obviously didn't win LMAO
This content is great. It's not click baity or over hyped. Like it's great. Reminds me a lot of the guy from Tolerian or MTG. A lore video of your favorite cards please
I wish Yu-Gi-Oh would return to my country, it died out fast and only way to buy stuff is online way, yugiohs childhood and contains many many memories
Well everyone was into Pokémon cards and I started buying that and I found these sweet sets that were retro ish konomi was putting out and got more into yugioh then actual Pokémon. It was also easier to buy since most people don’t buy up all the yugioh cards
i hope they do a giant set of old reprints of cards and kind of make it exist in its own format ( sort of like speed duels without all the rarity restrictions) I would start buying paper YGO again in a heart beat
I honestly think channels like Team APS are the reason there's a boom in nostalgia but also partially because Sevens is lukewarm to some/not Yugioh enough on the surface so they don't even bother to look under the hood. There's also some people who I believe are just fed up with the power creep in general ruining what used to be at least a fun time with friends.
My number 1 want is an anime adaptation of the original manga that remains faithful to the intent of the first story, by focusing on other games as well as the TCG. But when they eventually animate the TCG around Death-T and Duelist Kingdom, they rework all the duels to be accurate to real world rules. Maybe by giving some characters their retrain cards. Its a long shot, but I love the original manga so much I can't help but dream.
I was huge into Yugioh as a kid, so that older stuff appeals to me! I watch yugioh videos here and there from time to time, and when I watch them they will generally be centered around classic
No lie the main channel kicked my nostalgia hard, now a few years ago I learned the game changed extremely and I can't keep up with how it is but like I like watching your videos with the challenges it's still pretty cool!
Nostalgia beats everything. In every ascpect of human's lives, not just card games. Nothing beats those old feelings of excitement and Konami knows this well. The many reprints of those glorious cards of the past is a very good thing since many people now (like myself) can get their hands to beautiful looking cards --even if they aren't necessarily 1st edition they still look gorgeous. Some very steep/crazy prices exist and will always exist, since it's a game heavily focused on collection and that's fine, even if i can't afford them. Konami will be making a huge bang with the past cards, I'm having this gut feeling.
I think the reason it is becoming more relevant is because of scalpers and what I call the "seeker hype train." Where people don't really care about collecting or playing, they are in it just for the money and what not. Which sucks because it takes away from people who have always been a fan or new people trying to get into it legitimately. I get business is business, but there was a huge wave of this in Pokemon and now it is making its way to Yugioh and other TCGs. It is what it is.
THIS IS YUGIOH!! I love yugioh from before all the wonky art and archetypes from the last 10 years (imo only). I have been getting back into the game for the first time in 16 years. At the end of 2020 I began buying a lot of old starter and structure decks from 2002-2007. Nostalgia. I played a janky Crab Turtle/Relinquished ritual deck (look at the art they look very similar XD) back in the day, played 2002-2005ish but im back now! I like the hip hop group HIEROGLYPHICS (souls of Mischief) and when I saw there was a budget cyber dragon in HIERATIC DRAGON OF TEFNUIT - I was sold. I built an Horus Black Flame Dragon/ Hieratic Dragons deck, to get back into the game. With Ultimaya Tzolkin extra deck
I would just like if Konami would release a full-fledged YuGiOh card game with online support, similar to Duel Links, but more also refined to support the standard TSG format. And that it supports card openings and releaes in similar fashion how they historically happened, something similar what the History of YuGiOh and Progressions series of Cimo is currently doing.
i would love yugioh going back to the old era. Up to 5Ds Max my friends and i quit few years ago. like we were still keeping up to current decks, but we just stopped feelin it and played less and less, til we eventually just stopped, then stopped talking about it entirely its sad really
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, the original series needs a remake or some kind of stylish way to return to it but make it so that it’s updated and possibly in completely separate timeline that allows for all the new card types (Synchro and Xyz etc) to be incorporated into it. It would make for a fantastic series and Digimon is kind of pulling out all the stops with their remake of the old show so YuGiOh could definitely learn a few things from it, hopefully in the sense that it doesn’t necessarily HAVE to be western family friendly to really feel a stronger connection with the characters in both the sub AND the dub.
Ive had my yu gi oh cards since i was 6 years old and now im 23 and i even got my girl hooked to the game/show now and i realize how good times were back then and simple to play 😅
I'm one of those people that hates seeing yet another Blue-eyes and yet another Dark Magician in new sets. I don't have that nostalgia for those old times but I do have that for 5Ds
yugioh was the 4th biggest trading card game behind Pokémon, MTG, and sports cards back when we were kids. now that people are seeing how big Pokémon TCG is, Yugioh is definitely going to follow. it will be slower though cause even Pokémon games and things were more popular.
@@DisasterLord With the recent lack of quality control, the woeful lack of game balance, the predatory side products, the steady weakening of the story, and the poisoning of the franchise's creative integrity with poorly tacking on other IPs, I can't say I'm surprised.
Me and my brothers have been preferring using our oldschool decks (Cards from legacy packs ONLY), and we have been having more fun with them than using our synchros, blue eyes, etc. (meta stuff). It much more classic, slower paced, and isnt a race to see who wins. Sometimes; less, can truly be more. More times than not. Everything somehow reverts to the past.
I love the classic re-emergence. I've kept all my cards since I started playing in 2004. It's crazy to see the stuff I have sitting in binders going up in price so much.
I think Legacy of the Duellist/Link Evolution has played a part of bringing back pre-gimmick Yu-Gi-Oh. Being able to play the way I remember from when I played the card game was a huge draw for me.
I found your channel while getting into the pokemon tcg, and figured I'd look into yugioh gameplay too. I grew up on the shows so it's always fun to see merch coming out. But after trying to get pokemon cards because I wanted to celebrate the 25th anniversary, there is a downside. When it turns into investment instead of play or collecting the community is less passionate about the ip itself imo. Where I'm at people have been lining up outside target daily for pokemon cards for the last month and that sucks.
The Pokemon craze has really pushed Yu Gi Oh as well. It sucks because just as I was starting to collect sealed decks they have now sky rocketed in price.
Konami should rerelease those old Yu-Gi-Oh! booster boxes legend of blue eyes, Spell Ruler, Invasion of Chaos,Pharoah's Servant etc I miss playing Yugioh I stop playing after GX series ended long time ago.
As a grown adult, old school not only brings nostalgia, but it seems more worth my time to invest in bc as an old format, we know that the rules and gameplay are gonna be consistent. The cards stay at the same value in terms of strength of play. So long as you play in the old format, you don't have to worry about power creep and BS rule changes. I can take a break and come back to it and I know things haven't changed drastically while I've been busy with work and life. The current meta is just a bloated, constantly power crept mess. it doesn't seem worth it to invest in a good deck that becomes worthless in just 3 months due to power creep/banlist bc for most adults, 3 months can go by in a blink of an eye.
i made a semi-return after 14 years. i only have retro cards lol, but i spent like 250€ on sealed products and let me tell you: my bad luck hasnt changed since back then. but as painful as it is, its part of the fun. on the other hand its interesting to see what some of my old cards are worth now. i never cared about a huge collection and never had luck getting good condition cards, but some of them are still decent which is nice. also due to my rising interest in yugioh i have been binging your videos for a while, but new yugioh is so confusing for an "old man" like me lol
I think the History of Ygo and progression series are doing wonders for ppl who just either never played old formats or simply forgot and just shows how fun they can be.
Swagkage's Yugioh meta documentary is what got me into Yugioh a few months ago. After that, I jumped into Duel Links and have been playing a lot of Magician of Chaos, which fueled me to start building physical decks. I've currently got a few structure decks (my favorite so far being a somewhat modified Shaddoll Showdown structure deck) and a hand-made Magician of Chaos budget deck that's based off of a deck-list i found online.
@@four-en-tee make sure to continue to play!
Both those Cimo series really have done it for me. Made me realize how much I vastly prefer old YuGiOh before we hit this
"stop or break my board" meta where games are often decided within the first couple turns.
I do like Modern YuGiOh for what it is but the power creep has really made the game less fun for me.
@@oromain I have to agree. Even if I feel like I’m about to go off, my opponents usually have some ridiculous card to drop out of their hand and win the game
well thats cause modern yugioh isnt fun. its just flashy like a casino. you get roped in by the lights and the short attention span, (hence the special summons out the ass)
older yugioh makes you think about what you're doing every turn, instead of just how to get the best first turn.
I didnt even know this channel existed. Please mention it more on the main channel. I love these discussions
Neh it would be a nuance on the main channel
I subbed to this thinking it was the main channel lol still enjoy it tho
It used to be called Team APS Deck Check :)
Me neither!
Facts
Its funny cause one of the things that "drew" me to Yu-gi-oh is the art style. I used to draw the characters on the cards all day. I remember, at one point, we were really poor and couldnt afford Yu-Gi-Oh cards but me and my little brother loved playing so I took the time to cut out and draw 2 decks for me and my brother to use. I was a really big Yu-Gi-Oh fan and knew most the card effects by heart so I wrote out all the text as well. Then, I built a homemade battle arena out of beds and boxes for us and it was time to d-d d-d d-duel!
That's awesome 👌
You remind me of me and my brother
Love the show
2 reasons:
1. Investors coming in due to skyrocketing prices
2. Nostalgic adults reliving their childhood.
Exactly... Facts
Honestly, I was pretty spoiled when it came to Yu-Gi-Oh! so I have a ton of cards that were worth a lot previously but reason 1 is a bummer. I’d much rather people be able to get the thing from their childhood at a reasonable price.
@@SasukeJR its about demand, back in the days finding a chaos emperor or yata to play was expensive, cause there was limited amount, now its even worse, cause everyone has more money to spend on the same number of 1st ed cards which is the collectible edition, and lot more cards are worn due to play, time, lack of care, wet, etc, each person that comes to yugioh for nostalgia raises the prices when keeps one to himself and is one less on market, thats why some 20usd ultras and secret rares are 50-100 now in less than a year, ghost and ultimates are even worse cause those were even rarer to pull
I’ve been re-living my childhood nostalgically since I was actually a child lmao
Pretty much. I used to play yu gi oh video games and the card game when i was in my teens in the early 2000's. I bought legacy of the duelist to play the OG card game. I don't give a crap about links, synchro, or any of that other garbage added with later seasons.
Old school yugioh is all I've bothered to pay any attention to over the years.
same.
What I really liked is the journey through yugioh, begin at the start and just slowly go through the years. It made me appreciate modern yugioh a lot more.
@@MsMiDC nope
@@snakeoo7ca what a constructive answer! And it's true, even if you don't want to believe it :)
Same
The time for a Blu-Ray remaster of the original anime is now.
YES!
Rewatching the anime now. Didn’t realize how great the show is! Being 27 now, I definitely love it.
*4k
@@davidreiser9663 The power of friendship! 😁
Faaaaacts
Ghosts From the Past like
"What should be the cover card for the box?"
"There's a Blue-Eyes in the set."
'There's literally ONE Blue-Eyes in the set."
"Which means there's a Blue-Eyes."
The Box was designed by Seto Kaiba.
To be fair, that IS a ghost
@@goodguyshuckle9270 Kaiba: The souls of my dragons guided a new one to me!
This was literally me but with Dark Magician! And I actually got one out of my first display ^-^
@@Luxorcist nice
I haven't played yugioh in about 10 years and just recently got back into because of y'alls channel. I bought my wife the rokkets structure deck and I bought dinosmashers for myself and now we duel at night.
Is that some expression for sex?
@@slimehermit immature
@@alio6051 "Bought my wife the Rokkets Structure deck"
Come on!! The pun there!
@@slimehermit no its cringy and immature.bye
@@alio6051 Grow up. Normal functioning adults like jokes. You're the immature one if you can't take a joke 100% of the time.
it has been 20 years since the TCG started and nostalgia operates on 20 year cycles
Based on what? Nothing?
@@SeethingSimp based off people who were into it as a child now being old enough to have jobs and expendable income to purchase the cards they always wanted as a kid. It's been observed in lots of other franchises. At around 20 years, they explode in popularity again.
I think the reason the og anime is so ingrained in people's memory is the method through which we all saw it.
Saturday morning cartoons and weekday reruns. Ask any educator, the best way to embed information into someone's head is repetition. We watched the same episodes of the old show constantly. Its why duelist Kingdom is so ingrained in our memories because we watched it the first time. Then we watched It again while waiting for battle city episodes. Then we watched it and battle city again while waiting for new episodes of Waking the Dragons. The Kaibacorp Grand Prix and Pharoah's memory arc don't stick as well because we didn't get that repetition.
Nowadays, we binge through an entire season of anime in a day, and forget about it until the next season comes to crunchyroll or netflix. It doesn't stick.
Its not the writing being better or worse. Its not nostalgia goggles. Its the lack of repetition.
This is actually incredibly correct we don’t have that level of repotition
It’s the same thing with anime that was on toonami as well
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I’ve bought like 4 decks in the past 2 weeks. Getting old friends into playing it again. Old school Yu Gi Oh is such a fun game.
For me, I played from the very start, through 2009 when I left home for college. It was around that time when synchro strategies were all the rage, with TeleDAD having just left its mark a few months prior. In school, I haven’t really thought about the game at all until I was at Walmart one day and saw the Marik structure deck, and was completely floored by the decklist! Lava Golem? Mirror Force? Allure of Darkness? Gravekeepers? Magical Stone Excavation? I immediately bought three copies of it. But even then, I never had anyone to play with in school, so I never did much with it. It was in senior year when I started dabbling in online dueling through Dueling Network. I think XYZ monsters were just coming out around this time. But ultimately I’d stop playing that too, and I haven’t thought about the game much since, completely bypassing pendulums and links.
Fast forward to 2021, and I stumble across one of my old trade binders, and got incredibly nostalgic about all the cards I was finding. So I then set out on a quest to dig through my attic and my basement to find all my old cards, and started going through them. I couldn’t believe what I had forgotten I had. Including a really strong Extra deck, a fully-functioning Gravekeepers deck, and an Ultimate Rare 1st edition Solemn Warning! It’s also around this time that I started researching Goat format, a way to seriously scratch that yugioh itch that’s being bubbling up while also keeping the rules and games both simple and familiar. And here I am now, considering investing in several Goat format cards!
To join the conversation on this channel, while I like the main channel, I really appreciate these kinds of discussions. Matches and deck profiles are nice, but the broader shifts in the game are tougher to understand as a casual observer. Plus, you treat every subject respectfully! Just wanted to echo the positive vibes here and say that we really appreciate what you do!
It’s time to finish dubbing the entire yugioh duel monsters series using the original Japanese dialogue with the original soundtrack everything uncensored
I think another great example of Konami targeting old school players is that set of Egyptian God decks they are about to release. I'm really excited for it even if it won't be super competitive and playing it with friends is going to be so much fun. I only wish Ra would have received a deck as well because paying for single copies of ancient chant is...rough.
Paul: "I don't really think as much about like an Odd-Eyes Monster..."
Me: *Sitting here in my 30's cosplaying Yuya listening to this video* N..no not my Odd-eyes
Bruh, Rebellion and Raging Dragons are the bombs.
@@spectral5939 Not an Odd-Eyes fan, but Raging OTK is top kek
I haven't touch Yugioh for more than a decade. This recent collection boom got me collecting cards again I couldn't get when I was a kid.
That pot of greed is scary af
In the TCG and the anime Pot of Greed allows you to draw two cards from your deck.
@@yamimarik XD
OG stuff is when I got into the TCG. Once it moved into nothing but effect and special summoning 3 monsters in the first turn i stopped playing.
The good days when I ticked off my friend by playing Jinzo or Mirror Force
Never forget those days lol 😂
And its also causing the prices on everything to go up. A lot of non YGO youtubers got into collecting and it introduced a lot more people into the hobby that now its almost impossible to find cards anywhere. The pandemic also affected it, but as someone that has been playing/collecting since the early days, I've never seen the demand this high.
A lot of that is this rise of follow the leader culture popularized by ruxin, critikal, etc. As well as scalpers trying to mass buyout yugioh, just like what happened with pokemon.
100% agree. Sucks for someone who wants to get into the game seeing a bunch of these "must have" staple cards sell for $100+
@@jaybird3405 to be fair, the rising costs of staple cards isnt really related. That has more to do with last year when konami changed their policies for vendors at official tournaments. They removed the upper limit on how much vendors could charge for singles, which was previously $100 max per card.
It blows because as a person who actually wants cards for their functionality I get fucked.
I don't think it's really about playing the cards. Most people in the card communities are getting the cards graded to make money off of them, which is leading to scalpers inflating the prices, making things harder for casual players to get cards
@@DisasterLord It's _almost_ like unrestricted investment capitalism inevitably causes markets to spiral out of control, leaving economic devastation for thousands if not millions of ordinary people in its wake. _Almost..._
@@DisasterLord those are called unlimited runs and those are much cheaper then 1st eds.
I remember opening my first two packs as a random Christmas gift when I was younger (going back to Metal Raiders) and opening an Ultra Rare copy of Magic Jammer was such a surprise, if only I'd known about card sleeves and keeping them all in a better condition...
When the pandemic started, I didn’t quite know what to do with yugioh since all of my local tournaments and other events were cancelled. But as the months went by, my brother and I started to play a lot of Goat format and Edison format and we love playing these classic formats even more than the modern format.
One thing tgat got me and my brother excited again in buying cards after 4 years was the legendary duelist sets. Just the anime nostalgia and being able to upgrade our old favorite decks. It's really fun.
I've been "collecting" for the past 5 years buying random sets and decks, last year started watching this guy strictlysealed and that got me on a old school yugioh hunt
I have been collecting strictly old school Yugioh sets, including series 1 and 2 OCG + Bandai/Toei era, since it's US release in 2002 until the 5Ds era, took a break in 2011 around the time XZs came out, and got back into collecting in late 2015 and i have noticed that almost every year there was at least 1 product alluding or marketed towards fans of the old school era such as the legendary collections, legendary decks, 2019/2020 tins, reloaded Yugi & Kaiba decks, and the many reprints of BEWD and DM but just like with every other popular TCG prices of old school Yugioh cards and sealed products skyrocketed last year around the beginning of the pandemic. I'm glad more people are getting back into Yugioh especially if it's for nostalgia purposes or being able to own cards/products now as adults that we couldn't have when we were younger when the TCG 1st released.
I wish this trend didn't exist for kinda selfish reasons. I never had the money to buy the classic stuff when it was on shelves with very few exceptions. Now I have the money to some extent, but some cards / classic products have 3-5x in price. 😂
Perhaps unfortunately someone has tried to make a profit off of literally everything good there ever was.
Well the rare hunters are out and collecting 😂😂
Hey same here, I just get reprints, or I buy damaged cards, their cheaper and I only really care about the dueling aspect of the game. I only play old school and I never go to tournaments, I just play duels with friends. Hell, I’ve even played with some fake cards bc one of my friends got duped buying cards online so he gave me the fakes and I put some in my deck. Playing with the homies, they don’t care. I guess I’m just a filthy casual.
@@Pixiesfairiedust
Same. Also why I'm satisfied with commons. Some nostalgic cards are still dirt cheap if you go after the common versions instead of pursuing secret rare, ultra rare, or especially prismatic rare versions.
It's makes sense why some ppl would prefer old school YGO. It was such a big pop culture thing back in the day. The Duelist Kingdom era manga is just amazing and the anime has a place in my heart despite the flaws. The current game has gotten so complicated that some ppl prefer going back to the simpler basic gameplay.
@@erbz god people have no idea how modern yugioh works its kinda hilarious lmao Format is pretty damn good, the only big combo decks are Dragon Link and Prank Kids but everything else is control based and slower.
@@yoastertoaster8306 People have been complaining that 'modern Yugioh' is '30 combos in one move', for like 10 years. It's hilarious.
Any new decks in the meta? Same shit every format.
@@Kai-jn7pn its not though every format decks change, decklist never stay the same... get more educated please
@@erbz being outdated and uneducated does nothing but hurt you and make you look foolish, do some research and come back
I’ll tell you that Covid caused me to fall back in love with yu-gi-oh. I dropped off the whole series after the first season of 5D’s and just recently picked it back up. Bought legacy of the duelist. Started rewatching the anime. Saw GX season 4 for the first time. And it really all happened because a lot of the other activities I was into just closed down. So to entertain myself another way. I dove into one of my favorite card games ever and the nostalgia has been so sweet
I held on to my old cards from back in the day . I still pull the binders out every now and then . Got to love that Cyberdark Dragon 1st edition ultimate rare. Along with soooo many others .
I got back into modern Yugioh a few years ago, but I played for only about a year or so. I hadn't played since 2002 and had to learn everything (Synchro, XYZ, Pendulum, Links, etc) all over again, and it was pretty fun. But my heart was still in the Duelist Kingdom era, and playing modern yugioh just made me miss the OG stuff more. So i love to see this personally, id love to make a duelist kingdom deck and slug it out with normal monsters and simple magic and traps again
I’ve come back to yugioh after 15 years. I’m collecting and playing again. A lot to learn cause I’m behind lol. But this channel, Ruxin, team samurai, cyber knight and simply unlucky have done a great job helping me get caught up and informed. Plus, the pack openings are awesome as always! I’m hooked again. Thank you all.
It's a big learning curve, we still dont have our heads wrapped around all of it
You can also see it with what archetypes and themes they release as of late. Dawn of Majesty finally gives us a decent Stardust engine with Majestic Dragon and such. A set previewed recently called Synchro Storm focusing on other Synchro users, the War Rock archetype would be amazing is the old days of the game.
I am just getting back into Yugioh, I'd stopped dueling about 6 years ago or so just before pendulum monsters were a thing but watching a bunch of the duels on the main channel got me back into it
We love making classic decks with the new support, its a ton of fun!
Duuuude! If Konami did reboot Duelist Kingdom, they could reboot it with the characters actually playing the rules and using all the support cards that exist now to really make the duels more accurate, interesting and exciting!
Like Yugi's Spellcasters versus Mako's souped up water deck. Joey's warriors against Rex's Dinos. Ah man, it'd be so good!
I've gotten back into Yu-Gi-Oh! in the past couple months and its been amazing. Now I'm an adult and can actually afford to buy cards and merch. I've bought a few of the statues Kotobukiya rereleased in 2020 and have preordered the First4Figures Blue Eyes. Playing the game again with my brother has been great, though learning the new mechanics and catching up on the meta has been a bit more time consuming. I'm currently collecting and reading the manga for the first time as well as rewatching the show subbed.
I've always been a sucker for Ritual monsters. The Classic
Opening old yugioh boxes is becoming trendy?
*Logan Paul has entered the chat*
Ban him, don't let him ruin Yugioh.
@@seanMmaguire1 Worst case scenario, idiots of which many don´t even play or know the game buy out all products, raise the prices artificially and hoard cards like they´re literal gold. Which they are not, case in point Pokemon cards.
@@DerVasto Yeah and considering how expensive Yugioh cards can get, it would be a disaster.
Imagine logan paul sending someone to the shadow realm
What I want most out of yugioh is more format support. My favorite time of Yugioh was the beginning of the synchro era. The decks weren't as insanely fast as they are now (where you see first turns taking 10 or so minutes and people spilling out 3/4ths of their deck and extra deck in a single turn to make unbeatable boards), but it also wasn't super slow/bricky/topdecky like early yugioh. I feel it was such a nice middle ground and I really want to be able to play in that sort of format again, but outside of playing with some weird ass ruleset me and my 1 friend made up every now and then, I don't even play yugioh at all anymore and it's sad. I miss this game. I miss the memories I made in 2008 to 2011. I miss the decks and the pacing from that era. But it's now lost to time. Even now in 2021 we really only have Standard, GOAT, and Duel Links (the latter two barely being supported at all). So my only option to play the decks I like in the format I like is just playing my one friend, with the same decks, over and over again (and we both feel like it would be a waste to spend a bunch of money on these cards just to play with each other every now and again).
I think one thing thats undermentioned is that the older monsters just generally look cooler than newer monsters. 5ds was about the cut off for like "memorable" monsters. Stardust Dragon, Blue Eyes, Dark Magician, the God Cards, Yubel, etc. all look much more sleek and cool than modern cards
I got back into Yugioh because of quarantine and duel links making it easy to start back up. I stopped 7 or 8 months after picking it up but I still watch content from it because it's cool
It’s all about the old school Yu-Gi-Oh!
They should do old school style at tournaments. That will be fun
I was born 2002 but I actually grew up watching the original series with my brother and I completely forgot about it until last year and rewatched it all I had remembered from my childhood was a few monsters the pyramid in the intro and there being two yugi’s but I remember vividly watching 5d’s so very nostalgic for these 2 eras of Yu-Gi-Oh! But I digress I’m just excited to see my childhood again in a way
My friends and I have been house ruling gx Era decks. Its been fun to run things like battery men and OG heroes
The pandemic did actually get me back into it. I haven't played since yugioh first started so I was overwhelmed with all these new mechanics. Right before I got furloughed from my job my co worker mentioned going to an event for yugioh and told him I didn't think people still played. So it was a bit of my co worker and covid that got me back into the game!
Ruxin34! I love that guy!
I heard he’s a douche
The GX era was where it was at. The power creep wasn't absurd yet. Decks still had plenty of room for personality instead of just exclusively being what the current meta was.
No cap bro GX is my favorite I stopped watching after 5ds!!! Quick question what website can I catch yugioh gx season 4 and 5ds season 5??
I just got back into it recently after a 15 year hiatus. After watching your videos I decided to drag my brother with me on this journey of cardboard crack lol. It’s been great, it’s brought us together like when we were kids!
As a collector my self I do enjoy collecting both new and old cards and I find it awesome that people are getting into it. My main issue is getting products at a decent price. Shadows of infinity and Cyberdark impact is just absurdly priced. It's rough and new lotto cards are nice like Armed Dragon Thunder lv10 as a starlight. It's pretty rad.
Now if only the other LV monsters could get that kinda treatment. At least do Horus and Allure Queen; those ones at least made it into the anime!
"Im surprised this is as popular as it is" when this is literally my favorite type of yugioh content and im subbed to it over their main channel >.>
i pre-ordered one of those sick gold blue-eyes card things. it got delayed until june for whatever reason (was SUPPOSED to come this month) but i'm gonna get to have one of them so that's pretty neat.
I fully agree, im busy getting rid of my modern cards and im busy collecting exodia pieces, god cards, old E hero fusions and all the number monsters
Can we do another hot sauce challenge? I’ve never laughed so much in my life
yes!!
Question: which Team APS members?
@@thetruedaoster8863 Alex vs Paul would be the most dramatic and hilarious haha
@@NewtBannner Yeah I'm sure Paul has recuperated from being blasted in the a** with the a** blaster! Actually, have Chris and Calvin done duels like that?
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I love the content on this channel more than the main channel most of the time. I love how you just be yourself ❤️
For me, I grew up on classic Yugioh, before the full rules were available and playing with cards I bought at a flea market (probably counterfeit) with my friend, using the rules from the show...ooh boy that was rough..and then playing with the ACTUAL rules and it being a big thing among certain groups in my high school..you had the MTG players and the Yugioh players, trading for cards..all that. My memory though sticks most heavy with E-Heroes from the GX series..it's the one I invested THE most time into, even using the manga cards once they started releasing Judai/Jaden's cards he used in the manga instead of just the anime stuff. One of my friends in high school had a hellacious Relinquished deck cause he combined it with Ground Collapse and Gravity Bind..if he got set up right with that before you could stop him, you might as well give up back in the day..2 Ground Collapses to leave you with 1 SINGLE monster zone, and a Gravity Bind to stop you from attacking except with weak monsters and then just taking your monster over and over again for his Relinquished..I'm having horror flashbacks of that set up...I actually prefer the simpler times of how duels went then..now I need a magnifying glass to read a list of effects...
this is the first time anyone has mentioned the $1000 blue eyes. I read the article that they were releasing it in march. I legit checked the Konami site everyday since the first day of spring, to no avail. It kind of rekindled my love of yugioh and yes after looking up the prices of the current cards and learning about grading I've spent atleast $2000 buying the newest blue eyes and dark magician cards upon discovering them. When the Blue eyes does become available for pre-order please make a video and let us know!!!!
these discussions are good because its a talking head video, meaning you can listen to the things you enjoy in the background while doing something you enjoy
I think the Adults now who were once Yuigioh kids just remembered one day. Just a few months ago i happened across my old deck while cleaning my room and I said "Hey wow, i havent seen this in 20 years" and at the time i think Ruxin only had 3k subs? He was real low when i started looking into again. I then got a job at a board game distributor(imagine that) and we see all the new sets of Yugioh, Pokemon, MTG, Digimon, etc. The timing here is insane. An awakening has occurred and caused a chain reaction lol. Ive been collecting old packs and grabbing what i can while its available. I just wish there was a way to stop people from hoarding/scalping because thats a big killer right now.
@Raphie Mate how am I a hypocrite? If youre referring to the hoarding remark I made, you couldnt be anymore wrong. Ive been buying packs online at increased prices because you cant get them from retail stores. Buying a few packs here and there is not the same as going to target and buying out the entire section to resell online for double the price.
There's probably a combination of different things feeding into this wave of Yugioh Collectors. For starters, many players resent the current state of the game - the power creep, the expensive cards, the oppressive effects that dominate the meta, the new card art style... it all adds up, and a lot of people don't like any of these things. So, seeing a familiar card like a Dark Magician or a Blue-Eyes White Dragon might remind them of a time where they enjoyed the art style and were probably blissfully unaware of the game's balance issues that were always present. Many children grew up watching the Duelist Kingdom and Battle City arcs of the anime, and as a result Yugi and Kaiba are incredibly popular characters. Even Joey and Pegasus have their fans.
A second factor is the age of people who grew up watching the anime. It was quite popular, and those people are probably in their mid-20's and early-30's by now, which is generally when you get your career going and have enough disposable income to really dump into hobbies like collecting old movies, or restoring cars, or, indeed, collecting classic trading cards and the associated memorabilia.
There was also the Pokemon card boom - they were often seen in the 90's as dueling TCG's for roughly the same demographic and shared a lot of similarities; they both had prominent anime running at the same time featuring very iconic characters and various 4Kids-dub-related memes, as well as having popular games, and less popular manga adaptations. Essentially, they were both huge multimedia projects that were related to a trading card game. So, it's likely that even if you only had Yugioh Cards, you'd probably be well aware that Pokemon cards existed, so the news that Pokemon cards are worth something now would probably remind you of your days playing Yugioh, even if you've moved on to a different game like Magic or found a new hobby altogether.
EDIT: Also, let's not forget that 2020 and the beginning of 2021 has been a time where scalping has been a hugely popular practice, as unscrupulous as it is. Things that are scarce tend to be more coveted than the same item with the same nostalgic attachments, but when there's a relative abundance of that thing. So, the scalpers buying all the sealed product they can get their grubby hands on probably also is a contributing factor.
TPCi releases a "shiny set" (basically purely a collector set) every so often that is almost identical to GFTP. It's 90% reprints just with alternate artwork that rotates when the original card rotates. Shining Legends, Hidden Fates and Shining Fates were all made like this. As a player, they rarely have new cards that make sense in the meta so we don't care too much other than having more shit for max rarity. It sounds like GFTP is basically a shiny Pokemon set for YGO.
I'm not surprised. Older yugioh is very nostalgic and yugioh is definitely more fun to play casually than competitively espically in the modern era.
Don't turn your back on that pot of greed. You never know when a goblin of greed might show up to steel it.
I can definitely see a reboot of Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist Kingdom with the various summoning methods since than. The Digimon Reboot is giving a lot of hope this could actually occur.
A la Story Mode in Legacy of the Duelist (where you could choose your own deck instead of the deck that the story character uses)?
Me & my brother just started re-watching the OG series and we've always kept the classic nearby. I still have my Dragon deck with masked dragons from way back in 2004 and recently took it to a local tourney. I obviously didn't win LMAO
This content is great. It's not click baity or over hyped. Like it's great. Reminds me a lot of the guy from Tolerian or MTG.
A lore video of your favorite cards please
I wish Yu-Gi-Oh would return to my country, it died out fast and only way to buy stuff is online way, yugiohs childhood and contains many many memories
Well everyone was into Pokémon cards and I started buying that and I found these sweet sets that were retro ish konomi was putting out and got more into yugioh then actual Pokémon. It was also easier to buy since most people don’t buy up all the yugioh cards
i hope they do a giant set of old reprints of cards and kind of make it exist in its own format ( sort of like speed duels without all the rarity restrictions) I would start buying paper YGO again in a heart beat
I honestly think channels like Team APS are the reason there's a boom in nostalgia but also partially because Sevens is lukewarm to some/not Yugioh enough on the surface so they don't even bother to look under the hood. There's also some people who I believe are just fed up with the power creep in general ruining what used to be at least a fun time with friends.
My number 1 want is an anime adaptation of the original manga that remains faithful to the intent of the first story, by focusing on other games as well as the TCG. But when they eventually animate the TCG around Death-T and Duelist Kingdom, they rework all the duels to be accurate to real world rules. Maybe by giving some characters their retrain cards. Its a long shot, but I love the original manga so much I can't help but dream.
I was huge into Yugioh as a kid, so that older stuff appeals to me! I watch yugioh videos here and there from time to time, and when I watch them they will generally be centered around classic
No lie the main channel kicked my nostalgia hard, now a few years ago I learned the game changed extremely and I can't keep up with how it is but like I like watching your videos with the challenges it's still pretty cool!
Nostalgia beats everything. In every ascpect of human's lives, not just card games. Nothing beats those old feelings of excitement and Konami knows this well. The many reprints of those glorious cards of the past is a very good thing since many people now (like myself) can get their hands to beautiful looking cards --even if they aren't necessarily 1st edition they still look gorgeous. Some very steep/crazy prices exist and will always exist, since it's a game heavily focused on collection and that's fine, even if i can't afford them. Konami will be making a huge bang with the past cards, I'm having this gut feeling.
I would love for them to make a "Yugioh Classic " format Tournament that has its own card and limited list.
YES! The new stuff is cool, it's just so fast and some turns go on forever =/
I think the reason it is becoming more relevant is because of scalpers and what I call the "seeker hype train." Where people don't really care about collecting or playing, they are in it just for the money and what not. Which sucks because it takes away from people who have always been a fan or new people trying to get into it legitimately. I get business is business, but there was a huge wave of this in Pokemon and now it is making its way to Yugioh and other TCGs. It is what it is.
I was typing this as Paul was talking and he literally said exactly what I thought lol
THIS IS YUGIOH!! I love yugioh from before all the wonky art and archetypes from the last 10 years (imo only). I have been getting back into the game for the first time in 16 years. At the end of 2020 I began buying a lot of old starter and structure decks from 2002-2007. Nostalgia. I played a janky Crab Turtle/Relinquished ritual deck (look at the art they look very similar XD) back in the day, played 2002-2005ish but im back now! I like the hip hop group HIEROGLYPHICS (souls of Mischief) and when I saw there was a budget cyber dragon in HIERATIC DRAGON OF TEFNUIT - I was sold. I built an Horus Black Flame Dragon/ Hieratic Dragons deck, to get back into the game. With Ultimaya Tzolkin extra deck
I would just like if Konami would release a full-fledged YuGiOh card game with online support, similar to Duel Links, but more also refined to support the standard TSG format. And that it supports card openings and releaes in similar fashion how they historically happened, something similar what the History of YuGiOh and Progressions series of Cimo is currently doing.
i would love yugioh going back to the old era. Up to 5Ds Max
my friends and i quit few years ago. like we were still keeping up to current decks, but we just stopped feelin it and played less and less, til we eventually just stopped, then stopped talking about it entirely
its sad really
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, the original series needs a remake or some kind of stylish way to return to it but make it so that it’s updated and possibly in completely separate timeline that allows for all the new card types (Synchro and Xyz etc) to be incorporated into it.
It would make for a fantastic series and Digimon is kind of pulling out all the stops with their remake of the old show so YuGiOh could definitely learn a few things from it, hopefully in the sense that it doesn’t necessarily HAVE to be western family friendly to really feel a stronger connection with the characters in both the sub AND the dub.
Ive had my yu gi oh cards since i was 6 years old and now im 23 and i even got my girl hooked to the game/show now and i realize how good times were back then and simple to play 😅
I've made a few decks based around older cards within the last few days
I'm one of those people that hates seeing yet another Blue-eyes and yet another Dark Magician in new sets. I don't have that nostalgia for those old times but I do have that for 5Ds
yugioh was the 4th biggest trading card game behind Pokémon, MTG, and sports cards back when we were kids. now that people are seeing how big Pokémon TCG is, Yugioh is definitely going to follow. it will be slower though cause even Pokémon games and things were more popular.
@@DisasterLord With the recent lack of quality control, the woeful lack of game balance, the predatory side products, the steady weakening of the story, and the poisoning of the franchise's creative integrity with poorly tacking on other IPs, I can't say I'm surprised.
Me and my brothers have been preferring using our oldschool decks (Cards from legacy packs ONLY), and we have been having more fun with them than using our synchros, blue eyes, etc. (meta stuff). It much more classic, slower paced, and isnt a race to see who wins. Sometimes; less, can truly be more. More times than not. Everything somehow reverts to the past.
I love the classic re-emergence. I've kept all my cards since I started playing in 2004. It's crazy to see the stuff I have sitting in binders going up in price so much.
Also, I'm totally going to try to order that Platinum Blue Eyes.
I think Legacy of the Duellist/Link Evolution has played a part of bringing back pre-gimmick Yu-Gi-Oh. Being able to play the way I remember from when I played the card game was a huge draw for me.
This type of videos are what i like about team aps and i like this more than Main channel
I found your channel while getting into the pokemon tcg, and figured I'd look into yugioh gameplay too. I grew up on the shows so it's always fun to see merch coming out. But after trying to get pokemon cards because I wanted to celebrate the 25th anniversary, there is a downside. When it turns into investment instead of play or collecting the community is less passionate about the ip itself imo. Where I'm at people have been lining up outside target daily for pokemon cards for the last month and that sucks.
The Pokemon craze has really pushed Yu Gi Oh as well. It sucks because just as I was starting to collect sealed decks they have now sky rocketed in price.
I am so down for the nostalgic!! I would instantly buy some amazing merch with elemental hero Neos
pulled my binder out from more than 10 years ago from when i stopped from duel monsters and gx and im glad old yugioh is coming back!
Konami should rerelease those old Yu-Gi-Oh! booster boxes legend of blue eyes, Spell Ruler, Invasion of Chaos,Pharoah's Servant etc I miss playing Yugioh I stop playing after GX series ended long time ago.
As a grown adult, old school not only brings nostalgia, but it seems more worth my time to invest in bc as an old format, we know that the rules and gameplay are gonna be consistent. The cards stay at the same value in terms of strength of play. So long as you play in the old format, you don't have to worry about power creep and BS rule changes. I can take a break and come back to it and I know things haven't changed drastically while I've been busy with work and life. The current meta is just a bloated, constantly power crept mess. it doesn't seem worth it to invest in a good deck that becomes worthless in just 3 months due to power creep/banlist bc for most adults, 3 months can go by in a blink of an eye.
I still have 2 unopened starter decks for Kaiba and Yugi. NO idea what to do with em XD. Prolly gonna just keep em that way forever!
i made a semi-return after 14 years. i only have retro cards lol, but i spent like 250€ on sealed products and let me tell you: my bad luck hasnt changed since back then. but as painful as it is, its part of the fun. on the other hand its interesting to see what some of my old cards are worth now. i never cared about a huge collection and never had luck getting good condition cards, but some of them are still decent which is nice.
also due to my rising interest in yugioh i have been binging your videos for a while, but new yugioh is so confusing for an "old man" like me lol
I've been working on getting all the metal raiders and pharoh servant. LOBs are hard to find.
I mainly like opening the reprints of the classic packs. Also anything that is kinda retro that is in new prints
hey where did you buy that Pot of Green at your back...??? i love that hahaha