The Problem With Yu-Gi-Oh! For New Players!
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Thats why I prefer to play Hearthstone myself and I love it. It has lots of simple to understand mechanics and each expansion they add a new one without been overwhelming.
Base mechanics:
1. Battlecry: triggers when it enters the field.
2. Deathrattle: triggers when it dies
3. Immune: immune to any damage.
4. Charge: it can attack the turn it's summoned
Etc
Class Mechanics:
1. Overload: X mana will be locked next turn
2. Combo: triggers if another card was played this turn.
Etc
Expansion mechanics:
1. Rush: it can attack minions the turn it was summoned.
2. Magnetize: it can be fused to another mech miniom.
3. Overkill: triggers if any excess damage is done.
4. Echo: it can be used/summoned as many times as you can this turn.
A lot of mechanics but stilll very simple.
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Synchros aka lvl- fusion xyz aka dragon ball z fusion dace pen and link its a mash fest
honestly... to me the real problem of yugioh today is not even how many things we have now, like all the new summoning options but... honestly we are in a era so focused on not letting your opponent do anything (just look at firewall dragon combo as an good example) but it doesnt matter if cards like this one got forbid, the game is always around the same idea, locking your opponent, making decks around that cant be stopped easily by the many options like hand traps for example (to be fair i wish those cards didnt exist)...and there´s little space from different and interesting ways of playing, i personally loves the one boss card gamestyle, using your researches to put a powerfull monster on the field that is gonna be difficult to overcome to your opponent and will be responsible for your victory....this simple doesnt exist anymore, just look at Supreme king z-arc for example, does anyone uses him? no...its because he is bad? no, but because the game works around in a way that even if you make a card that cannot be tributed by kaiju, its immune to everything, people are not gonna this card at all if he needs most of your resorces at only him
9:20
The concept of syncho summoning is that every living being has a frequency measured wavelength. A monster like sangan for example has frequency of 3, and a tuner like debris dragon has a frequency of 4. Debris dragon is a tuner because it can tune the frequency of sangan and itself to match the wavelengths of black rose dragon which has a frequency wavelength of 7. When the wavelength of 7 is reached, black rose dragon COMES OUTTA NOWHERE!
Konami uses levels to represent their wavelengths, which is why in the anime there is a dark tuner which subtracts levels instead of adding, because those monsters frequency is at a lower wavelength than black rose dragon.
9:55
XYZ monsters innately more balanced than synchro monsters. XYZ monster is the "gun" and overlay units are the "bullets". XYZ monsters can only use their effects depending on how many "bullets" they carry. If they run out, they are typically useless. That is, until Konami gave them BS effects that are continuous or lets the monster resupply (cyber dragon infinity). Synchro monsters retain their effects even if they leave the field and get reborn...XYZ decks trade power for consistency.
Literally Nowadays:
Special summons are normal.
Normal summons are Special.
Exactly! Its even rare to see someone perform a normal summon. lol
@@EneSacarification During your turn they can be played from hand but during opponent's you need to set it.
@@EneSacarification yeah I love when new people get into the game or even if you're not new.
@@EneSacarification Generally you can only play spell cards on your turn, the exception being quick play spell cards (the ones with the lightning symbol like "Mystical Space Typthoon"). Quick play spells can be used either during your turn or during your opponents turn if you set it. If you do set them, they will behave more like traps and you will have to wait a turn before you can use them.
Additionally, quick play spells can also be activated from your hand during the "battle phase", so most people set them during "main phase 2" so that they can be used during the "battle phase" if needed.
even in Duelist Kingdom they were normal... Monster Reborn is old af.
*Opponent plays card with a block of text*
"Can I read that card?"
*Puts on reading glasses, open a bottle of wine and get a good read.*
*Hands card back*
"What?"
Whenever my opponent asks what a card does, I just explain it to them. *inb4 what a virgin niceguy kek*
@@Dakesz So it's like explaining Pot of Greed to them 😂
I just came back and this comment is my life right now lol
And then they introduce you into reading PSCT which makes blocks of text extremely easier to read. Also, there are man-made terms that make them easier as well. Cimoooooooo has a whole video about such terms
I play Magic and it's nice how much effort they have gone through to clean up text blocks on cards.
This my friend, is why there is an entire school dedicated to dueling in the anime.
Makes sense. And we all thought crowler was funny because he always said he had a PhD in dueling. Looking back at it. I think the school or duel classes should actually be a thing
And to think, there weren't even Synchro's when that school was first made :'O
pspppe because people are dumb
I wish we could have seen how they tackled teaching Synchro/Link/XYZ in Duel Academy
Dayum...
we're gonna need scroll bars if they put any more text on these cards.
God, it's like Konami doesn't know how to use keywords or something. A lot of cards have similar effects, so it shouldn't be too difficult (if only Konami hadn't printed so many damn cards with specific wording, then they could've improved the text of these cards.).
there ARE Scroll Bars... also nah, the text is not as long as the Dragon Rulers
- get your facts straight -
Honestly though they should have just made up a bunch of keywords to make things easier to understand.
Space Pirate they already do 😆
I'm imagining card effects box where you have to unfold it open to read the effects 😆
I started playing again last month after putting the game on hiatus for 16 years. I remember the simple times when all I had to worry about was which of my opponent's two face down monsters should I attack without triggering a devastating effect like Man Eater Bug or Cyber Jar.
Now, I come back, buy the latest Zombie Horde Structure deck and enter a local tournament to meet people I could regularly play with and find that the other guy started his first turn and by his Main Phase 2 already had 12 cards in the graveyard, 1 Link monster, two XYZ monsters, a field card that prevents any monsters from being destroyed by battle, two face down cards in the spell/trap zone. And here I am, sitting with my strongest Saitama "Ok" face, saying the following "I set a monster face down and end my turn."
**dramatically points to this comment**
My spirit animal in comment form!
*WE HAVE LITERALLY MADE THE ABRIDGED SERIES COME TRUE!!!*
"Wait, did you just summon a bunch of monsters in one turn?"
"Yeah so?"
"That's against the rules isn't it?"
*"SCREW THE RULES! I have money!"*
I’m hilariously reading this while putting together some decks I just dusted off from 09 😅😂
@@izzynextdoor1 I had my old dragon deck and got told to quit the game
I thought i was the only one lol. Just got back into it since about 15 years... things have definitely changed.
Lol that choice between the bug or the jar was serious business. Hahaha.
Back in my day *Special Summons*
......were special..
it all ended after the 5D'S generation in my opinion
The wolf of FPL street Synchros were good.
Now a days its I summon my entire deck! On the first turn.
Oh shuuuut up. Get good or get over it.
yeah it really sucks the link monsters feel like math really i mean the synchro isreally amazing add to the game but the now everything is broken
You know, we made fun of Duel Academy but I feel like Kaiba was looking ahead into the future.
I need duel academy now 😂 Synchro and XYZ are easy to pick up I'm getting the hang of Link summoning but Pendulum has me stumped haha
@@SonoftheKing316 pendulum isn't that hard. You got two scales, the one that's lower can summon monsters that are a level higher(ex. Scale 3 can summon level 4) while the higher get lower (scale 8 can summon level 7).
@@Luchux177 Not Quite right :D You can Summon Monsters whose Level is between those Scales. Not Just 1 above and below. For example: You have 2 Cards in Your Pendel Zone With the Scales 3 and 8 , that would Allow You to Summon Monsters from Level 4, 5 and 6 :)
I think the part that trips people up the most when it comes to pendulum monsters is that they have two, possibly very different effects of which only one can be used depending on where it was placed. Add in the sheer length of most effect text and one can easily get lost with having to remember which effects get activated and which ones don't, and it get's worse the more of these you try to run.
And they even have effects that let's them Swap from Monster to Pendel Zone or the Other way around :D and let's Not forget Cards Like Odd-Eyes Synchron which is a PENDEL Monster that has the MONSTER Effect to tune With one of Your PENDEL Monsters to Summon Cards Like Odd-Eyes Wing Dragon which is a Synchro/Pendel Monster :D Easy.
as an old school Yugioh player, I tried playing with again with a deck of old cards against an opponent with newer cards. It went like
ME: Summon, set a couple Magic/Trap, End
OPPONENT: Summon, Effect, Effect, Effect, Set, Effect, Effect, Summon, Effect, End
Me: Summon, Attack, Set, End
OPPONENT: Effect, Effect, Summon, Effect, Effect, Effect, Effect, Effect, Effect
OPPONENT WINS
Me: Surprised Pikachu Face
@@EneSacarification no.
I think there straight up should be a hard cap on the number of effects or special summons that can be conducted during a single turn.
@@EneSacarification
You sound like a commie.
@@EneSacarification its just greed same thing with pokemon make new cards / monsters to make ppl keep buying its dumb dont try to justify that shit.
@Burner Fire did the 9yr old have a period cause if yes thats nature saying itss time.
THE GOD DAMN SMALL LETTERS HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO READ THAT ESSAY UNDER YOUR MONSTER
Loli Hentai get glasses duh
If my heavily dyslexic friend can read these cards and still be good at the game, I believe anyone can.
SamTheKnight wow good scientific analysis and data point fetching
@@nickdecesare6051 no bullying, "anegdotal evidence" has "evidence" in the title!
Get your opponet to make a summary of it
Ah, yes, the hot mess that Yu-Gi-Oh! has become for new or returning players. I remember playing on dueling network during the synchro era, and understanding it. Then returning a few years later for XYZ's and understanding that too. And then returning a few years after that to pendulums, queueing up with my old Crystal Beast /w some Syncro and XYZ synergy, going second.
First turn the other guy sets a pendulum scale, and I sort of get it's the new mechanic, I play as usual, and then on his turn 2, he puts down the second scale, and shit goes to hell. 5 minutes later when he FINALLY ends his turn with 4 cards in hand, 3 set traps and 4 monsters on the field with 2000-3000 ATK and 8-10 lines of effect text each, I'm there thinking "WHAT IN THE FLYING FUCK HAPPENED JUST NOW?!?!"
Hahaha sounds like my first experience against syncro. I was playing an older ehero vs blackwings. When special summons were still special lol. Anyways the guy spammed the field I was like wtf just happened!
Pendulum has made the game go to shit... Link summoning is nutty too
@@Justcallme_Jeb Pendulum honestly isn't that good as people pretend it is, only reason it seems like it made the game go to shit was cus of PePe and Pend Magicians
Pendulum introduced the paragraphs of text and multiple ways to play each card. Things got complicated from their on.
@@cjtrules1 Pendulum itself isn't complicated, that and the game already had wordy cards and confusing interactions since the 5Ds era. Pendulums didn't make things more complicated than they already were
every new player relates to joey before learning the game.
lol this wasn't true of the game at the time of the show's run, but it is now. They literally foretold the future.
Lmfao xD
I honestly based my deck around luck mechanics and had the same luck as Joey, pulling out wins just by being lucky.
And season 1 yuma
"You're saying theres more than just monsta ca-ds?!"
In university, some of us started playing again due to spikes of nostalgia. The thing we found so annoying was that a duel always involved a minimum of 3 people. The 2 people dueling, then a 3rd person on a laptop to tell you the ACTUAL rulings because the text in the cards were wrong.
Haha very relatable, love your comment.
Nostalgia duels are actually harder than modern dueling imo. When schoolyard players don't accept the new rules or at least the better defined mechanics today at least, (formats aside). Like people who don't accept that MST does not negate single turn cards. Its hard to get nostalgia duelers to accept it, or what card speed is. They think you're just bullshiting them or trying to be too competitive, they go by the bad old school anime rulings.
Rogue Decks these days might as well be go fish. :(
@@GeteMachine MST sucks
Every single summoning mechanic could be its own standalone game. Think about that.
Every 3 years or whatever, Yugioh is a new game with the new mechanics but they never pushed out the old shit.
At this point if they never released a new mechanic but removed two of the larger ones from the special summon mechanics you could have a really unique format. What would link-fusion only meta look like or xyz-pendulum only?
@@TheLawOverwatch it would be pretty messed up
@@TheLawOverwatch Yu-Gi-Oh needs something like set rotation; Konami should ban thousands of cards outright, essentially creating five different formats every two years. Fusion only (stops the elder entities), Synchro only (no pendulum summoning into trishula, you degenerates), XYZ only (again, no entities as they would be fucked by something like this regardless), Pendulum only, and LINKS ONLY (I still can't fucking fathom why Konami had to butcher the extra deck instead of the egregious unlimited special summoning.)
- that statement is so baity i kinda gotta challenge it -
YGO is like the soocerof card games - flexibility -...not cause every region in the world has it's own style does that mean we should think on soccer as a different game everytime, you just kick a ball anyways, any style has a weakness anyways, and any style can beat any other anyways.
Your statement fits more with US Football, Baseball, Basketball.... POKEMON Tcg and MAGIC TG
@@VixXstazosJOB comparing sports to coin flip simulators LMFAO
My summon reaction
Normal : ok that's super easy...
Tribute : oh ok more star more tribute
Flip : oh...it need to be face down...
Special : ok that effect let me summon this
Ritual : star...oh...ok
Fusion : so i use this card. Throw this card and summon this card? Easy enough
Synchro : tuner...lv...ok seems easy enough...
Xyz : ah! Same lv combined but the card is under another card...seems legit
Pendulum : Dafuk? Spell and monster? Ok...in spell zone...
Link : Dafuk! With this stone and this thing and that thing...wait what!?
honestly links are not that hard. most of the time it's just any 2 monster you control form a new one. way easier than xyz and synchros.
@@FrancisYorkMorganFBI lol yeah but i just got back from the game like 2 month ago and i got really confused about pendulum and link summons 😂😅
@@Warriorhasappeared lol that's my first ever reaction 😂
@@zordxros Exactly how I saw Yu-gi-oh 4 months ago when I returned to it. But now I'm a sucker for Xyz and I wanna try Pendulums, so I'll get the Pendulum Domination SD, for the D/D/D cards. Links still kinda confuse me as for their exact ruling.
, couldn't have said it better myself
Yugioh now is - watching your opponent play for 30min in their first turn and set up a board that doesnt let you play. You'll also lose a lot because the new 40min time limit will screw you over.
Put 2-3 kaijus in your deck boom problem solved
"I came to play Yu-Gi-Oh, not professional solitaire"
Yep, that's the current state in a nutshell. I hate what the game has become. It used to be fun.
@@Flora_Pinky "Boo hoo I miss Metamorphosis into Thousand Eyes Restrict"
"Boo hoo I miss Yata Lock"
"Boo hoo I miss Frog OTK"
Fuck off, the meta was always busted. Playing with 80 card decks filled with random starter deck cards isn't old Yugioh. You obviously don't know shit about the meta and just watched the anime. Shut the fuck up if you don't actually play the game.
@@bane2988
When was anything about meta mentioned?
Old yugioh was a game, now it is a calculated obsession.
I think there is this era of "classic" Yugioh that ends with 5DS and "modern" Yugioh that starts with XYZ. Those are two entirely different franchises with two completely different fanbases that almost never interact with each other, and that's the problem.
Xyz is quite similar to synchro but xyz has "x times per duel" like limits
@@dudono1744 But it's still different in the fact that you have something different than levels and there is stacking and stuff. It makes the game different. Synchro was basically fusion with the tuner monsters basically having polymerization as a part of them.
@@TheDeathmail I mean that you still lose monsters to summon a xyz monster and it's still based on monster level. The stacking thing allows to have effects that can only be used a fixed amount of time. It's true that the tuner thing makes a big difference between synchro and xyz though.
Modern Yugioh is pendulums forward cause XYZ is basically contact fusion
I felt that. it makes sense, but it's too cruel... so it's like the legacy of Yugi Moto/Atem doesn't exists in the modern age... which kinda f ed up! coz that's just like spiting on the classic that started everything.
Honestly I just miss drawing and summoning blue eyes on the first turn with an epic theme in the background and destroying the moon to wipe out all sea based monsters. Anything beyond that is too confusing.
top kek
Love how they made attack the moon into a card. :)
you win today
GG
when yugi cheating attacking field card 🤣
@James Barton-Johns The thing is that a lot of people don't even know how to properly play the card game, the very basics.
"I believe in the heart of the cards"
*Draws pot of Greed*
Gets disqualified for using a banned card.
Hahaha so true
The heart of the cards wanted your misery to end 😅
🤯
But what does it do?
@@Chonyman woooosh
2002 Yu-Gi-Oh: I summon a monster in attack position, and I set two cards face down.
2020 Yu-Gi-Oh: So you have chosen death
Ah the Rush moves to win 🤣
Unless your playing sub terrors
If you miss the old days you can play subterror or eldlich. Goat format was my favorite era so eldlich feels familiar and the deck is very fun to play if you like slowing the game down
Yea... Lets ignore degenerate DM era cards. Delinquent Duo, Confiscation, Forceful Sentry, Magical Scientist, etc.
Yugioh has had dumb bullshit since day one. At least now, thanks to hand traps, you can ACTUALLY, interact with your opponent, whilst he tries to establish a board.
@@leviathan5207 I think your mama is calling you, go there, instead of irrelevantly rambling about something that isn't even the subject.
Back in my day polymerization... was a thing.
Rare as fuck also!
Now people fusion summon cards from the deck and graveyard.
i still wish polymerization was a thing im a new player but i play alot of older yugioh styles needing polymerization but its to slow to get out usually so =/
TitanK1234 polymerization was never a real thing. Think about it, you need 3 specific cards that have to be in your opening hand or second turn at least, you throw them all into the grave (-3) to summon a big guy who even can get crushed by cards like bottomless traphole
I still use polly with my lunalights.
As Little Kuriboh once said
"Synchro What!?"
Actually that is the line said by Yami Yugi in the official Bonds Beyond Time. Yeah. XD
@@mauken-dyn6685 Wait it was also in the official movie? Didn't know that actually
@@sparrowfox6943 Yes. He is so confused.
@@mauken-dyn6685 I gotta say synchro and xyz are pretty easy to understand though... they are in monster zone they have clear requirement... not like those freaks with no defence and those who are placed in magic and trap zone...
I thought it was a just R efference to the team 4 star kaioken joke.
I feel like one major issue with Yu-Gi-Oh, is that over the years instead of taking the basic rules and expanding on them (like Pokemon), it just added in completely new rules. If you were part of the community during this, you would've had time to understand the new rule before another new rule was added. If you're a new or returning player, you see loads of new rules and exceptions to the rules that just make everything hard to understand.
Also pokemon's card game is a side thing; meanwhile pokemon has loads of varied merchandise, spin offs, and not 100+pokemon being released practically every couple of months
yes so true totally agree!
Sorry for the long comment, but I had to share these experiences. So, I have tried to teach Yu-gi-oh! with two people. One is my 9 year-old nephew and the other is my 23 year-old friend.
Starting off with my nephew, he had no clue about Yu-gi-oh! and was curious. So, I bought him a Link Strike starter deck and told him I'd be glad to teach him. Knowing that, he had no idea how to play, I tried to explain how to summon and how the zones worked. I've explained to him how the Field and Turns/Phases worked. I get that he doesn't understand it, since he is a 9 year-old, and some cards have problem-solving text on it, I gave up trying to explain a paragraph on cards. There is a lot of stuff to read, memorize and understand on most, if not all, and I haven't even gone through the Extra Deck Monsters and Chains. Teaching Yu-gi-oh! to my 9 year-old nephew was rough.
And finally my 23 year-old friend, so he came to me and asked if I could teach him how to play. I was glad that he asked because I wanted to play with some friends on YGOpro. He told me he wanted to play a cool deck with a cool boss monster, so I suggested him Ultimate Conductor Tyranno, and he liked that I suggested him that card for him as a boss monster. I help make his deck on YGOpro and as soon as the deck was made. He just wanted to get right into it. I told him that he has to read the card and understand the effects, but he wanted to start duel. So I thought sure, it'll be fine, some zones will be indicated on the screen, I'm sure he understands. But sure enough, he had Ultimate Conductor Tyranno and another effect monster and the funniest/worst part was. He Link Summoned it for an Underclock Taker! He could have used Tyranno's effect and win the game. I laughed so hard that he did that and I won the game afterwards. So even YGOpro can't help solve the problem. I told him to watch one of your videos to understand all the summons; other videos understanding Turns and Phases and some Deck Profiles to understand the cards better. And then the next day comes and says that he understands how to summon and maybe some effects. So then we dueled again that next day, I'm playing Lair of Darkness and it was my turn two move, I start using Lilith effect with Lair of Darkness to tribute his Tyranno and he was baffled at what even happened, due to having long paragraph effects and so many monsters/spells/traps with them. Just comes to show, even a 23 year-old man could barely understand how the game works today.
TL;DR - Tried to teach Yu-gi-oh! to two people that don't know the game; my nephew (9 years-old) and my friend (23 years-old), both had a hard time understanding it.
is that comment a pendulum monster effect?
Paintsniffer dude... playing Lair of darkness against a new player is simply... sad. That deck is soo new player unfriendly. Destroy all card in hand by tributing one of their monsters... you monster
was about 30 mins of my time 😂
that was the only deck i had at the time. other than the dino deck that id made for my friend, but i didnt want to bother playing it because i didn't know how the chains worked
also i went with a non-virus approach with it to not make the game as toxic. 🤣
Fun fact about synchro: they actually sorta resemble nuclear fission reactions, at least when you take the anime context into consideration.
Synchro summons were able to produce power for the city. Tuner monsters acted as that initial energy input, the summoning was the nuclear reaction, energy is output, and the synchro monster itself is the resulting byproduct.
guess yusei really did live up to his father's legacy
my biggest problem with the card game nowadays isn't so much as the long texts, but the opponents you will play that expect you to play super fast and to understand everything instantly as if you have your entire archetype and how it deals with other archetypes under your belt.
i find these people incredibly obnoxious celtic guardians.
I mean you should atleast know your entire archetype and its interactions with others if you go to ANY event.
@@garyoak8014 I guess that means you're one of them. I used to go to tournaments for the aim of having fun, not necessarily looking to win, and to learn to play the game better without automation. Some of us aren't "super thinkers" like you. I went in with as much knowledge as I could and I still ended up having to take my time and read my opponents card and deduce new strategies based on what I read. A lot of it was mainly because people would bring out random archetypes I've barely heard of or were new. Then I had the impatient douche in front of me every now and then try to con me into doing something stupid that benefitted them.
The thing about tournaments is that there are time rules. If you're going to a competitive tournament and playing slow for not even understanding your own deck, of course it's going to pickoff your opponent. More so if they lose in time because you were slow playing because you didn't understand your own effects.
@@ShiaSpirit I understand this. But I'm talking about opponents who grill you for checking an effect every 2 or so turns. Not only that. But sometimes you just HAVE to remind yourself what's going on if your opponent has 5 different long effects out at the same time and how this combination can be overcome.
And regardless of whether I'm personally doing it to myself or not. The fact that I end up doing it in the first place with timed tournament rules says something. Back in 2011, or so, I barely ever had this problem!
Yugioh , the game where it's 55 percent reading and 40 actual game play and 5 percent is sam's misplays
And some gameplay leads to one person playing solitare by themselves for several minutes to create an near unbreakable board on the first turn
No the other 5 % is what does POT OF GREED do god help me : (
Ps
I
Actually
Know
What
It
Does
: )
Or changing the core rules every few years.
In Tournament, it also 5% is Judge interuption :P
Fucking extra deck pendulums like the xyz pendulums or syncrho pendulums HOW IN THE HELL DO I USE THEM
Oh how I miss the Jinzo vanilla monster days
If you had Jinzo as a kid you basically could beat your entire school lmao
I mean, jinzo was pretty strong in the meta back then in 2002 or something
I enjoyed playing the TCG a long time ago. Tried getting into the online games getting frustrated with OTK with 6 special summons in one turn, with monsters with OP effects. And that was happening in the rookie ranks, can't even imagine higher ranks. Takes the fun out of it for me.
same
The cards after 5D are so strange to me ive never seen them before. Doesn't even look like Yu Gi Oh cards.
Azwan R. Facts
yeah, have a hard time to understand current meta deck. A lot of cards that i don't know to play it
Xyz are ok
True, I actually loved 5ds so much, guess I will play the psp game that I used to play once
so true, reminds me of any new pokemon they all look like digimon now lol
That's why old school yugioh was amazing because it was easy to understand and fun, now it's like reading an essay for one card. No thanks I want to have fun not read a book for a card game
I will play DUEL MASTERS INSTEAD
@MrRpspartan dude I came back to yugioh after three years and I can't even complete 5 turns
MrRpspartan xyz And synchros Are fine links and pendulums are bullshit
STFUMAN123 How?
@Oenji Tamari Reading is the easy part, understanding what the card does, how it works and the timing of the card is what makes modern yu gi oh so hard to get into nowadays.
Today Yugioh is more like solitaire, in which the first turn player mostly spams his whole deck and extradeck onto the field and into the graveyard 😂
Don't hate the player, hate the game :)
@@maxcmilan Or rather the suddenly op effects of certain archetypes xD
Максим Т. Lmfao
You should try goat format, you can look it up online, but basically it's a format where you only use cards from 2005 and before. It's a lot more fun in my opinion and has a small following that is growing.
Jason Hansen Dude why have you commented the same comment on so many different comments?
Duel links is probably the best beginner friendly way to get into yugioh
But that's just because it has not advanced to the parts where yugioh went downhill. All it has right now is Synchro as the latest method of summoning. If XYZ, Pendulum and Link Monsters get added, hell breaks loose. Everything after Synchro monsters was just a mistake..
Duel Links is where I started which was in 2018. I didn’t even know other Extra Deck Summons other than Fusion existed until the Synchro update. After that I went online and learned all the rest. At that point, (since i already knew about the original 2016 format) I could easily understand Xyz and Pendulum but I was confused by Link, until I learned about the current set-up. Then all summoning mechanics made sense. (Also Link monsters can be face-down and can’t attack while face-down but they cannot be in defense position because there exists a card called “Darkness Approaches”. (look it up))
@@setendarah9439 link monsters can't be face down, cause to be face down you have to be in defence and links can't be in defence
I’m here from Duel Links trying to understand how to play
@@setendarah9439 the summoning mechanics don't make sense even to Konami wtf lol they retrofit rules and mechanic changes almost on a yearly basis
I really liked the old Yu-Gi-Oh game than the Yu-Gi-Oh today
100%, the game now is just not fun, plus it's too easy to get good cards on the field compared to old YGO. The new cards just aren't cool either like the old ones used to feel like.
I started playing old PsP and DS Yu-gi-oh games so I can have fun with the game again. I just get frustrated playing the game as it is now. I haven't bought any card packs in the last few years now the only new cards I got are the fur Hire cards and that's because I play links and when I saw these cards I really liked them.
@@kingra2650 It has the same feel as old yugioh, it's just faster. I remember old yugioh having insanely stupid strong cards, which made the game not look too much different than today's meta.
@@Dakesz by mean faster, turn 1 with 6 monster than can negate total of 4 card,
better play minesweeper lol
@@aoikishi99 locking down the opponent or killing them quickly is nothing new in ygo.
So physics is easier then this game. got it bro.
Fuck physics, I'd rather get FTK'd.
@@Dakesz Fuck your intellectuel ignorance boy.
That's not even hyperbole. Physics really was easier for me than learning to play yu-gi-oh.
TrappedInFloor really? I learned Yu-Gi-Oh! In then link era we’re currently in and it took me one night along with the help of some TH-cam videos
Leo Robinson you know how to play but probably not win or understand wtf your opponent can do
For me what got me into yugioh, and what is getting me back in the present, was the anime. I know that the rules between the real card game and the rules in the anime are not totally the same but it still helps you understanding the basics of the game and also helps you familiarize with the cards. Also if you like the anime there is a higher chance of someone to be interested in learning how to play the game
skr97 same! I started watching Arc V at the beginning of the year & fell back in love with the anime & card game.
Same...also funny he mentions Legacy of the duelist cause its THAT Game that taught me how to Pendulum Summon
My friend grew up watching every Yugioh anime other than the two most recent but they didn't know the cards existed until their parents said they were too old for them. Well now they have a job and time to kill so I am teaching them. The background of the anime really helped for Synchro and Xyz as well as phases and how summoning works.
As bad as the anime used to get the rules it still helps give some level of background for the game.
this is a slight edit on my comment: I really never watched the animes XD simply because I knew how they ended...so why watch it? DM: Atem Leaves GX: Jaden defeats nightshroud 5Ds: Yusei defeats Z-one(or Goodwin...cant remember who was last) Zexal: Who the fu*k cares Arc-V Zarc is defeated...it was always either playing the manual card game or playing a game of it...like Legacy of the duelist or ygopro
As someone who has played Yu-Gi-Oh throughout the years, a lot has changed in the scope of casual play. It used to be much easier to come across a wide array of decks. Now, everyone seems to be running what I'd expect at YCS since it's super easy to download and import decks that were used in tournaments. The strategies that people use are roughly the same, which, can be annoying and also easy to counter at times if you know what to expect. But trying to expect beginners to pick up this game casually when there aren't people who play as casually becomes a frustrating part. It becomes frustrating to people so they pick up meta techniques, which in then makes it difficult to people that want to play away from meta that don't want to pick up newer cards.
I wish Konami cared more about balancing the current archetypes that are out and allow for decks to have more viability. People only play annoying strategies because the support to countering this is pretty low and hard to do if you don't have a lot of prior knowledge about the game. If Konami had almost all archetypes become viable, these annoying strategies would die down since there would be easier ways to countering what is played, so people would have to play their decks in a more broad way and not rely on strategies that could get shutdown if the right counters existed
There should be tournament brackets for different generations of card types. Like: of card types, of card types+ synchro, og card types+ synchro and/or xyz etc...
East Coast Toasty Boy I mean there is Goat format
@@marcelmuller3807 It should be seperated into before synchro and after synchro.
What is you even talking about. A format isn't defined by which summoning mechanic is available. Remember contact fusions? Fusing without polymerization. Its the exact same shit for every summoning mechanic:ritual,fusion,synchro,xyz, pend,link.
Only difference is the rulings and color of the card.
Or you could learn the new rules or just play with friends 4head.
@@westhescrub The rules are a fucking mess, dude. Konami realized soon enough that Yu-Gi-Oh has really nothing special going for it, and then Konami saw that they did not limit special summoning (even though it was rare back in the day, Konami could've limited it during the Synchro summon era), so they abuse the fuck out of it with Synchros. Not to mention, when Konami made XYZ, the fuckers have to specifically elaborate the whole XYZ material and XYZ chaos changing gimmick, along with specifically stating "detach," because this game has the depth of a puddle.
I think the game is easy enough until you get to pendulums. Pendulums was where I started to lose interest in the game and thankfully I stopped playing before Link monsters came out. Now when me and my friends play we generally just act like pendulums and Link dont exist.
So master rule 3 then?
I stopped playing when Pendulums came. It took me a lot of time and a lot of money to build a good deck that was original and nobody had. And those pendulums appeared and were too hard to even understand. I honestly don´t know how the game is played now, but honestly, I don´t care. I watch these videos out of nostalgia because I and my friends sometimes play with our old cards and have a blast. To us is like Yugi oh stopped in time years ago. And is really cool because the other day one of my friends bought a card that was really expensive back then and we play. We have been talking about start playing again but only with cards that existed back then and buy those vintage cards.
Remys Alberto Carvajal Link Monsters are the new mechanic.
Pendulums aren't whats difficult. Its the plethora of other minor details in rulings. None of the summon mechanics are broken, just effects thats follow them.
Link monsters are actually much simpler than Pendulums, imo. They're not too dissimilar to Synchros in terms of how they are summoned, and personally I think that needing to manage your extra monster zones and even sometimes needing to carefully consider which zone you summon to adds a bit of extra depth. Plus, their introduction also nerfed Pendulum monsters, which I agree were a bit too complicated. All in all I think Links were well designed and a good inclusion.
I'd recommend considering giving Links a try. I was skeptical at first but I ended up liking them quite a bit.
Biggest turn downs: over complicated rules , bastard biblical wall of text in every cards effects, exponential forms of summoning, the absolutely need for handtraps that use to be the most expensive cards, no other formats beyond advanced, you can't play casual tournaments because everyone wants to play broken combos. Fat smelly guys in every event that will make your nose bleed. So yeah it's really hard to get into.
wow u nailed it
@@marioarcadia3611 it's just the sad true.
"Boo hoo i don't wanna read"
@@B0K0691 Pokémon and Magic are nowhere near as biblical or bs with the text. I shouldn't have to read a chapter of a harry potter novel just to know how to use this one card.
Yeah, that's the biggest problem. Every turn ( unless you study these decks and cards aka sets plus the combos ) you have to look and read and re-read shit multiple times in order to know what's going on and if that's even how the interaction works and then the chain linking between them.....you can't even play what you wanna play anymore unless it's busted af and new. Or else you're stuck losing, or having to read someones board 3 times over to understand everything that's going on.
The recent Yugioh movie “The Dark Side of Dimensions” sparked my interest for Yugioh back. I was around when it all started so I do love the game, but after seeing all these weird looking cards and just all the overwhelming newly added complications I just can’t bring myself to invest into anything new, I couldn’t be bothered to study and get up to speed on it all. I wonder if there are people who still like to roll old school or maybe I’m getting too old lol
I loved that movie. Brought so much nostalgia. I don’t play the game much anymore, but I will always love Yu-Gi-Oh.
That movie seemed like modern yugioh. Turn 1 do lots of shit win on turn 2
I'm an og duelist lol I prime collect the classics, but I would duel with a fellow og too if... I had a good local shop XD I'm 25, and I do feel a bit old after all this
Konami: We're making links to stop extra deck monster spamming
also Konami: *thunder dragons lol*
everybody: *visible confusion*
Kaelpie Ha, they failed with that. Somehow, Links just created even MORE extra deck spamming.
"We're making links to stop extra deck monster spamming"
that was never their intention and they never tried to state that
@@VictorFC It was their intention. Otherwise Master Rule 4 wouldn't exist.
You should try goat format, you can look it up online, but basically it's a format where you only use cards from 2005 and before. It's a lot more fun in my opinion and has a small following that is growing.
Konami: we make more extra deck monsters so people use less extra deck monsters
Playing yugioh years ago:Alright this game is cool with fusion and Ritual cards Syncrho!good stuff this is a good game!
Playing Yugioh:THE FU#$ HAPPENED TO THE BOARD!WHAT'S A PENDULUM?WHAT XYZ?LINK?WHAT?WHY?
I mean XYZ are fine and not so hard to understand but I hate pendelums and especially LINKS. Limiting your extra monsters to only one/two and link summoning a monster with more arrows really takes a lot and you can only pray your opponent won't destroy your monsters before you're able to have enough for link summoning.
I think the biggest problem with new players is that they are expecting an actual game instead of a glorified and expensive version of rock paper scissors
Nah, every board has a weakness... learn to search every weakness in meta.
@Dark Shadow Storm nah, every field has an exit...
also you're starting to get annoying countering me every time - or at least trying - it would be good to just settle points with a duel lol. If there's one thing i hate more than broken YGO cards, and quickrage quitters - maaan there's a NatBeast in the field, i'll just quit with my hand filled with spells eventhought i have a ManEaterBug or Penguin Soldier in t as well - are new gens talking their oppinions as truths as if they're in this since 2005. Experience is a thing and i'd like to show it though
@Dark Shadow Storm that's honestly why I stopped even trying to play. Every time I played, it was basically me sitting there watching my opponent do a whole ton of summoning and effect triggering (imagine how long it took when you had to read EVERY SINGLE CARD), and finally whenever I could do something... I couldn't because it'd either get destroyed or negated and I'm left with a pathetic board (if any at all) -_-
@@VixXstazosJOB "nah, every field has an exit... "
This isn't even remotely close to being true. Unless you're counting alt+f4 or a well timed table flip or something.
The fact is that there will always be game states where it's impossible for you to win. It's a staple of every card game. Sometimes your opponent just drew the nuts and all your answers are at the bottom of the deck. The problem with yugioh is that power creep has led to those answer-or-lose board states coming out of absolutely nowhere. It's become a game where every deck has to be consistent, fast and controlling or it's irrelevant.
Also, speaking of irrelevant... Man Eater Bug? Penguin Soldier? Next thing you know, you're gonna be telling me to believe in the heart of the cards.
@@MrSplintercat Allector, Sovereign of Birds - i spotted that card in the 5D's days, it helped a lot against Shien and Shogun lockdown -,
RA SPHERE MODE,
Good Counter Hands,
Floodgates,
Marshemellow - unless you give me at least 3 non Kaiju, Raigeky, DarkHole, Mind Control easy ass ways to get rid of it -
Kaijus,
LavaGolem - which you got cheap cause "" it's not meta "" eventhought you can just still tribute your opps field -....
that's all i have to say right now for that, knowing a lot of cards helps, that's my source of point for this argument.
Also about the last part, next time learn to read a sarcastic written example the same way you may hear a phrase like that from a person irl. My point was that most YGO players in this community are mostly weak and bitchy and that's kind of sad - imo -, they would cry in videos and flood Konami with posts to ban Nat Beast, than simply setting the PenguinSoldier, or Man Eater Bug - or if you play Prophecies, setting the spellcater's ManEaterBug old wizard guy - to get rid of NatBeast. This is so a thing now in YGO is not even funny.
The cards are just too compilcated. There was a time were yugioh had that perfect balance between beeing complex and having a lot of ways that you could use your card effects while still having fun..but now its just a joke. I actually think its impossible for a new or returning player to really have fun with YuGiOh. Reading the whole Harry Potter Book series is quicker and easier to do, than reading while somewhat remembering the never ending card effects of a new meta or even offmeta deck. I remember back in the days when XYZ-Cards were around for quite some time, that we used to joke about how some turns just take forever to complete..boy oh boy..now these jokes actually became real. I played a duel on Ygopro couple of weeks ago and this one guy just made a turn that lasted forever where he used more than half of his deck. Then he oneshotted me. yey.
The card game seems to be unplayable for people who have a somewhat normal conception of what fun actually means right now.
Rip Yugioh 1996 - ~2016/2017
This was the comment i was looking for. Well put.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan let me tell you sumn, I made the mistake of trying to get back into it now so that I could have some fun during the quarantine and tbh I'd rather have Coronavirus than try and learn this game now. I used to love the combos you could do with decks such as Six Sam's and Inzektors (that was when I was playing regularly 2012-14) and I look at the combos now...and...let's just say I thought I liked combos lol.
I left at the Yu-Gi-Oh GX era and now wanted to return just to see people wrecking me with 10 special summons and thousand effects being played in one single turn just to completely empty my field immediately and kill me in one turn. And nope it wasn't fun at all lol
I dislike the idea of having to use synchro/xyz/pendulum/link cards myself to get into the game again.
Im trying to curve it by finding monster effects or spell cards that can counter those 😅 pretty hard tho without entering the new territory
Yeah, I thought it was perfect when it was just xyz and synchro
@@TheFeThrone Try a card like Summon Limit :) This is a trap that stops your opponent from spamming the field, or even try a trap card called Artifact Sanctum, play 3 of these in your deck and 1 Artifact Scythe, this stops your opponent from using the extra deck for a turn. Another card you could consider if you are going first is Nibiru, this destroys all your opponent's monsters on their turn if they have summoned at least 5 times. If you want an easy to understand deck that is decent and is friendly for beginners, google Golden Castle Gren Maju. This is a deck that banishes lots and lots of cards so that their boss monster Gren Maju gets very high attack and beats over your opponent, hope this was helpful!
I think it would be good if Konami released like a video game that teaches players how to play step by step. Players could jump into whatever
they have trouble with. Also, if Konami is going to continue with the huge blocks of text, they should include a free magnifying glass in each
new starter deck.
Duel Generation for mobile was good with that. That's how I learned the game
duel links is perfect
Duel generations does literally that. It's a mobile game, but if you wanna play on PC, download an app called Bluestacks, which basically emulates an android (it doesn't include links yet from my knowledge)
Legacy of the Duelist
Legacy of the Duelist does that.
Honestly I stopped giving a shit about the progression of Yu-Gi-Oh when pendulum monsters were introduced.
Me too.
I quit the physical TCG halfway through the xyz but continued to play DN for a while. They also lost me at pendulums, and link summoning just made things worse.
I since learned to play MTG and everything is much clearer.
@@GenericAsianPerson I actually liked xyz, only played one deck based on them though. Heraldic beasts, was my 2nd best deck. Links ruined it.
word
me too, changed the field and added yet another new type and i was done lol
I've recently got into the series and decided to try the game, and I honestly don't have the patience to read the college thesis length monster effects, but I'm having fun, so I'm going to keep trying, even though these effects get more and more confusing.
If youre new you might not know about it:
There is a GOAT format, which is exclusively old cards.
Try staying casual
If you're having difficulty getting the hang of how the Summoning methods work in the modern era, here's some decks I recommend to help you learn:
Fusion: Elemental Heros, Invoked
Synchro: Dragunity
Xyz: Umi Sharks
Pendulum: Pend Magicians/Performapals
Links: Cyberse
All the best, and remember, its just a game. Don't let the tryhards get you down or insult you. They aren't making a living off of this, so their just laughingstocks to everyone but themselves.
For me yugioh 5ds was the last version of yugioh
Yeah, Konami really started experimenting with XYZ, as they were a fucking BANE when it comes to ruling issues. Especially with their weird "overlaying" bullshit. At that time, I quit because I thought it was a stupid fucking mechanic.
@@anayos6726 Honestly XYZ is fine. But what came after...
@@GordieKat yeah xyz was simple and easy, not to mention fun to use and doesn't give you a headache learning it like links
I've just got into it when LINK is a thing lol
id definitely say synchro's were harder to understand than XYZ or Pendulum. I think the links seem like they could be good for the game. I come back periodically and there's always so much new stuff.
this is why duel links is awesome, it's basically a legacy format, I retired back in 2013 around the time pendulum came out, I ran a elemental hero deck, it just simply got too complex and hard to keep up in the meta
Xyz came out at that time,not pendulum but I see what you mean. I think pendulum is broken while link does sound interesting,it ruins some decks. Xyz are great though and easy to understand
So speaking about teaching people have never played Yu-Gi-Oh. I am a president of Yu-Gi-Oh Club so I have to teach people and thanks to all the new mechanics it is extremely hard. In my opinion Yu-Gi-Oh is just getting more complicated every year and pushing away new players every year as well.
I also heard they gain more every year and im interested to see numbers because i dont really wanna lose the game after links
ike every for 4 years i hope the anime to be popular for advertise purposes and gaining newer players but i think they really cant introduce a new extradeck monster every 4 years
Even the YGO veterans get pissed because of new rules! Konami needs to consider how wrong the rules are
@@ricardohoang8452 they should just add new archetypes with each anime series
@@shermk7955 New architypes won't solve the difficulties much! The rules are the cores of the problem! Like the current link rules - you have to try to summon a Link monster just to call most of your ace extra cards
The eay i play with friends is nothing after gx. Synchro and everything after it breaks the fucking meta. Yu-Gi-Oh is supposed to be about strategy and skill,not having broken cards that take no fucking talent whatsoever. You don't add new pieces to chess that makes you take out the entire front row
Kaiba: no monster alive compares to this card, I summon the all powerful blue eyes white dragon!
Yugi wannabe: I summon hip hip hippo.
Kaiba: wtf is that?! Is that even a real monster? Did my company create that? Omg I need to go fire someone.
Pegasus made the cards
You omit the part where Kaiba quits as CEO after getting his ass kicked by a full-power, pre-banlist PePe deck.
Cards were made by industrial illusions aka Pegasus company. KaibaCorps made virtual dueling system and duel disk
Yuya wannabe*
Random kid: "I ritual summon Hungry Burger!"
Nowadays there are decks which strategy is to be first or second( at the beginning) and when there are first or second they spit out half of their deck on filed and have created an impossible to break defense. That's why I prefer speed duel now because you can do something instead of just watching how your opponent is summoning monster after monster.
In 2008 having polymerization made you feel like a boss.
This isn't the game I played years ago. At this stage I might as well pick up a different game that more friends play.
Pokemon is a lot more friendly. In 20 years the most advanced thing they've added are pokemon with a special attack that you can only use 1 of per game :/
It might be a bit hard but I highly suggest grabbing an old yugioh game like power of chaos for the pc. Gives us back the glory days
@@metamaster646 *cough* The Tag Force games
@@TheNerving never played thouse myself. Not much of a PSP player
@@metamaster646 I absolutely loved them back in the days when I had "nothing better" to play, and even now I sometimes find myself enjoying replaying some of the titles again on emulators ^^
My opinions of the eras goes a bit like this
Fusion/Ritual: pretty standard understandable and enjoyable
Synchro: probably my favourite mechanic
XYZ: makes sense and i like it
Pendulum: after a short time its not that hard to understand and while its a bit confusing im not forced to play it
Link: literally ruined the game
Ruben Celiceo links brought MR4 upon us. You’re forced to play them if you want to summon a few extra deck monsters.
Uh... You can summon only1 extradeck monster if you dont have links, so you forced to use link if you wanna use more extra monster, in fact it's just simply shit every deck that spamming monster from extradeck because you need to link your field with the extra monster zone so... To do that... You need to use link monsters and... Well it's quite difficult to summon a bunch of xyz, synchron or fusion monsters. And remember the pendulum zone is now merged with spell/trap card zone so.. If you use pendulum, you now only have 2 slots for continuous spell or trap cards to set and 1 slot to activate normal/quick play spell, and it just made a tons of pendulum deck became shit... Like my favorite armorphage
@@dice4866 Exactly. Synchro and Xyz were simply new extra deck monsters that have their own summoning requirement. Pendulums have their own mechanics and they made additions to the field for those mechanics to work, but they didn't change what was already established. Links however changed the game not just with new additions, but also alterations and restrictions. Say what you want about Pendulums, but they didn't force you to use them.
My opinions are:
Fusion/Ritual: cool, I love specially rituals
Synchro: not a huge fan but ok, just contact fusions with glitters
XYZ: I don't like them that much either but they have cooler design at least
Pendulum: total garbage
Link: omg I love these
I re-started playing recently just after I learned about Links! Best extra deck update since ever, imho.
Mine is similar to urs except i hate pendulum because of the essays and i like links for 1 reason , the lock the game from getting out of hand , before links u could have 3 Xyz monsters and 2 synchros on ur first turn
After links , u have to think carefully which xyz or synchro u wanna summon , which is way better than flooding the place with big monsters with bigger texts
So when i play against someone all i have to read is the 1 or maybe 2 extra deck monsters they summon and figure a way out to stop them , not stop a fucking army
I remember when you had to tribute summon and sometimes special summon, not this stuff that you can get like 4 monster en turn 1 lol.
The only monster you tributed back in the day were Jinzo if any.
@@shakeweller airknight parshath? a somewhat defining card of goat format
I loved Yugioh until I didn't.
I miss the pre xyz era. I was still good with synchros and tried to still be into the game once xyz came out, but pendulums were the breaking point for me. I feel the core of the game is broken now.
The cards are just too good and it makes the game very dull at a competetive level.
saaaame
But even 5Ds kind of made you ha e to throw out any deck you had before, had to track down good syncros of the right type and buy leagues of packs to find the right tuners that are also the appropriate level ugh it's just a annoying
Haha my exact process. Accepted synchros. XYZ finally got to a point where they were cool. But once they introduced pendulum I just quit altogether
Totally agree with you. You should try goat format, you can look it up online, but basically it's a format where you only use cards from 2005 and before. It's a lot more fun in my opinion and has a small following that is growing.
Do you remember what competitive pendulum deck where used when they first came out? I’ll tell you, non of them. No who played competitively used pendulums when they first came out because they where all crap. Konami had to scramble to make pendulums that where even a little bit good and as a result we got that fucking broken pendulum monkey that was made pendulums amazing but it was banned almost immediately, so no pendulums have never been great and after links their by far the worst summoning method.
So a friend once asked me how the game worked, and I tried to explain it as simply as I could: Like comparing monsters with soldiers you can call and spells with support (Traps are quite self-explanatory), but when he asked: "Does each card do a different thing? DO I HAVE TO REMEMBER EACH THING?" I said, "Well you can always read the description". He never asked me about the game again, and I felt sad :( (plays a tiny violin)
Every card game is like that
Your friend is just a lazy guy
10ish of cards I have are on German, and I don't know German. To make matters worse, because of lots of this my only combo utilisies 4 of them and they all have a small book describing effects. Playing it few times a year really makes it a PITA to read those effects since I go and guesstimate the effect on memory and words that sound similar to English or French. It's doable, but it's a process because of my lack of playing it.
But when I saw pendelum amounts of texts, as well as link addition, nah. Just nah. Fuck me. Not comming back to game if I don't need to.
@@airbornefilip9139 you can search the effects of the cards in english if you are interested
If you aren't then don't play
You won't be missed
@@noahmartinez38 Yeah, I didn't think of searching it in English. :D
Easy to say now, didn't have internet access back then so German dictionary it was.
In any case, neither will you be missed if you ever decide not to play the game anymore. Stuff goes that way. :]
What I wanted to write/explain about is that, even though I had to read few paragraphs of effects in language I don't know, seeing new mechanics did stall me. Imagine if someone who never played the game, like extorchic's friend, were to stumble upon the game. It's a lot of data and it makes starting up with the game harder than it is. It makes game inaccessible for beginners. Especially compared to when it came out.
@@noahmartinez38 wow that was kinda edgy
I had to buy a microscope to read some of these effects
I have no trouble reading shit, even in the dark, but I legit need glasses for most Pendulums
I just think it's a dumb idea to add a new mechanic every time there's a new series. What made GX fun was that it was still core Yu-Gi-Oh! But with fun new monsters.
Now literally every card is part of an Archetype, & their effects are specifically beneficial to said archetype. Long gone are the days where you could make a deck from 10 random booster packs & still have a chance of winning a duel or 2.
There's absolutely no way a Vanilla/Effect Deck can win anymore, and adding fusions would require you to add an Archetype anyway.
Call me bias, but I'd be ecstatic if Tournaments had a 'Nothing past XYZ' rule. I don't hate Links, but fuck Pendulum cards. I'd rather buy a Dungeon Dice set.
I like sneakpeaks its essenially yugioh just like back in the days I attended Soul fusion and i got decent combos out of cards like discarding my dangers or discarding my thunderdragons to recycke a trap or spell and then special summonig the discarded monster with my trap card and things like
If you can try to attend one
you get 5booster from the new set and then build a deck out of at least 20 cards and do a tournamnet the winner gets a playmat from the new set and all atytanding players that stay until the end get a chance to 1 playmat per 8starting participants
i hear you i feel the same
Yeah they should stop adding new mechanics. I konami is about the money so they should just add new archetypes instead
@@shermk7955 i mean they could atleast take a 4year mechanic break or make pendulum links a thing with arrows poijting from the pendulun zone towards the zones
Well, the brand is a business. In order to incentive people to buy the new cards they have to make the next set of cards stronger than the previous set. The shows are just there to promote the card game. Like pokemon, the cartoon is just there to sell games, toys, other types of merchandise.
tbh i really like synchro summoning. it makes specific card star values matter more. bc before synchro i just thought of the number of stars as 'normal' '1 tribute' '2 tribute'.
synchro isnt the problem the problem is ridiculous op card for no reason like dude turn one the oponnent hasa 13K monster on the field along as 15 others 5000K and even before it my turn the guy deal 13K burn dommage and the game is over we end it the match before i even start
Yugioh has the opposite problem that Magic has.Yugioh over explains while Magic doesn’t explain anything.
yeah my friends play magic and everytime i see the cards im like these cards are very vauge compared to yugioh ones
@@ianokan9120 Magic is a very open-ended sort of game though, so I think it works. For example, Yugioh has what are called "chains," and Magic has "the stack." The stack has way more loose rules than chaining, meaning cards can't "miss timing," effects can basically be played at any time so long as it applies to the situation, and cards can be added to the stack even while it's resolving, giving players way more opportunity to respond.
Magic does have a glossary though, you could basically just have it handy and be fine. In yugioh we have some fan-made terms which themselves aren’t used overly consistently.
So I'm a competitive magic and yugioh problem so my view is a little different. I gain a complete understand of almost all competitive cards so if it has a long text I'll still know what it does I don't really ever read the card. I can tell how it can be over complicated. I just look up the rules of the cards and what they can do and can't do.
google "mtg comprehensive rules".
Honestly, they explain the crap out of every tiny thing.
There is a small booklet just on the damage step alone, the comp. rules go into every possible detail about every interaction between all possible card effects during every single step and phase.
A friend of mine back in the day thought he could beat me in a dual with Pokemon cards..... legend says he's in the shadow realm
I played when I was a kid. My son got into and wanted to play with me, of course I considered myself a pro so why not right. I had to pause the game and study the whole damn rule book lol
As an old casual jumping back in, i've come to find;
Theme decks really have taken over everything like i thought they would. (just not to this degree)
Or more so the "everything effect" Effect monsters. Gives me flashbacks to the fan made cards that were just broken.
Synchros and Xyz are pretty simple and fun to grasp the basics of.
Links seems like good idea, and i can follow it well enough.
Pendulums have a nice concept, but seem like a complete hot mess.
1 turn wins seem to plague the game now. (nick named "You lose, cause you showed up/breath")
Lastly; I feel like the spell speed and etc, it ends up making dozens of cards unplayable.
Nerfing is one thing, and a good thing; but it like turned the cards into actual sludge.
New sub here! Your videos are really starting to get me back into it. Haven’t played since synchro though haha.
Last time i play yugioh card,there were no synchro monster😂.only fusion and ritual monster
Me too lol
Welcome to the game and I wish you the best of luck understanding it
Someone asked me what my favorite summoning mechanic was and I said Ritual because it's the only one which hasn't been obliterated by text walls... he just looked at me sadly
Yugioh @ its core has become "win by 1st turn". This means all cards work to fulfill this agenda. That's why this game is so difficult for new ppl. You do not have monsters in yugioh, u have 'monster sets' so when u buy a pack and get a card like a light sworn monster. It sucks on it's own and it has a confusing effect so in order to really understand that one card u need like 8 more cards to make it clear. And when ur playing and ur opponent pulls a 10 chain monster combo with 3 books of text for all the effects they are pulling, u just sit there like wtf? Is my opponent making this all up or are all these effects real? It's not only a mess it has become an addiction for young ppl with power complexes. Yes! I used these intentional set that the pack already made with these connections to kill u bad in one turn, I'm awesome. That's not a strategy. Its pandering to a consumer base to sell packs. Instead of quality. Ppl will buy the packs because they need the new set that kills everything.
Most ppl buy singles not packs to build decks, there are also structure decks it makes sense for cards to have to work together because then you have cookie cutter decks like in the old school Yugioh days where most decks where like 99% staple cards
You have no idea what you're talking about. Watch a sky striker replay and could the turns. Watch allergist, guru, salamangreat. Don't spew nonsense without knowing anything about it. Games go into time extremely often. You can't do that in 1 turn
For me (just getting back into the game) the hardest part is building a synergystic deck. When I was younger I would just mash together cards I liked back before synchros were a thing and I could win on a pretty reasonable basis... now, I've heard people can special summon 4-5 in a single storm and... I just don't know how and I'm trying to learn that.
On the plus side, I've found a few friends who are just getting back into the game too and we're learning together.
If you want a working deck just pick an archetype first. This is the easiest way to get something that works. After you understand what makes your deck work, you can start building good non-archetypal decks like earth machines.
100% agree. I'll never forget when my dyslexic ass was dueling a kid in 5th grade and he played relinquished on me.... Like should I have brought my magnifying glass to school today?? Am I a failure?? Is penguine soldier still a +1??
I when through a similar experience playing Relinquished and needing to get me mum to read the card and tell me exactly what it actually did. Then when I found it played the same way the the Anime I took it as a licence to use every other effect card the same way as well, based on what powers I through where most convenient at the time...
Bit of story here, but I really feel this video! I played yu gi oh as young kiddo when summed skull and dark magician were the bee's knees and stopped playing shortly after the sacred beasts came out. (Raviel was my OG) The closing point was when my mum accidentally threw out my fiend (raviel) deck and I had long stopped buying new cards and only ever played for fun with my cousin anyway. 6 months ago my cousin and I were chilling and bathing in our nostalgia growing up and yu gi oh came up, and what did he have in his cupboard but a shoe box FULL of cards from the beginning to the end of our era of yu gi oh! It was a huge trip and we immediately tried to dive back in both having stopped at around the same time with ZERO knowledge of the games development, changes, new anime etc. His best deck was elemental heros but he had some other old school deck types like; earth decks, 'dragon' decks, six samurai (original cards), the games were slow, his elemental heros always won with the special summon conditions, I couldn't tribute out monsters fast enough and he could easily swamp his board while I had to play a card a turn. We fought over rulings every game but we had such a great time that I swore I'd start collecting again once I finished college in June. Here I am...
WTF HAPPENED WHILE I WAS GONE. And tbh, I mean that in a good way!... Mainly anyway... My first purchase was a link strike starter deck. I've got a trickstar deck and Bujin deck now and am active on Duel Links (where I first discovered the bujin cards). BUT. I have spent the past 5 months or so literally relearning the game. I have spent hours researching timings, spell speeds, chain rulings, summoning rules, listening to youtubers breakdown deck profiles, effect rulings and every time I go to play with my cousin he thinks I'm making the game up as I go, it's actually hillarious how much we have to adjust the way we play everytime I try to pitch my new butchered rendition of a tournament rule to him. But the big thing is, we still love it. More so in fact! It's so exciting to find out this huge untapped world of depth behind this game we played so naively and innocently as children. Every time we meet with a problem solving card or complicated chain it's really fun to debate what ruling on it makes the most sense, and the most fun to play.
This way of playing a casual card game probably isn't for everybody and I've yet to head to locals but I'm sure some stranger whipping my ass in the duel while telling me I'm playing the game wrong is going to rub me the wrong way, but the depth and detail make it worth investing in.
Admittedly, I totally agree with you on the pendulums though, every extra deck edition seems bad ass and straight forward EXCEPT for pendulum. Wtf is that? It's like this whole new card type that doesn't quite sit in right in the meta. It feels okay if I think of it as an Archaetype but it just doesn't play well as a whole new card type. It's like they got an idea from the crystal beast cards and while trying to create card support they got carried away and just went way too far. LINKS on the other hand, are genius. The extra deck limitations makes duels far more strategic, rewarding and interesting. Having to consider board placement make the game require more hindsight to play well. Like chess, it uses physical, visual and mental strategy now. The difference is that the pieces look like badass monsters and demons. Which I think is just genius from the game designers.
A big difference in game play from the old days to now, and the innitial reason I started writing this is really to say the game has become so much faster despite all the card text reading... It seems like a few years ago the game got way too fast paced with the extra deck, but with the link concept it feels like it just works now, it's the most fun I've ever thought the game has been.
If you want to teach someone to play, start them off with a starter deck, plain and simple, there's a reason every starter deck this year is riddled with common prints of cards from 2002. They're straightforward one liner cards! There's normal monsters! You can't really utilise the link cards since there's no xyz or fusion cards which is a shame but you can still get a child/novice adult to engage in the game. I've relearnt how to play modern yu gi oh I think (probably, to some extent), in 5 months on my own, but if there wasn't a youtube community guiding me, I would have given up/never got it by now and had I access to more experienced players to duel in person, I'd have got this far way earlier on. Learn to play by playing, problem solve as you go! That's the game! Konami revamp the game mechanic every new anime season seemingly, I'd say that's why it's so complicated now (over 15yrs later), but there's so many itterations of these mechanics that as long as you know what about the game play makes the game fun for you, and you have someone to guide you through the fundamental rules, the details are negotiable between you and the opponent as you try to both win, fill in the rule book fairly and most of all, have fun doing it!
Big shoutout to all the youtubers like TGS and SimplyUnlucky, that bring these debates to the table, discuss individual cards and rulings in a way that beginners like me can join the discussion and leave with an ever better, more fun way to approach and play the phenomenal card game that is, Yu Gi Oh.
TL;DR yeah soz this one was for me, don't even bother trying to read this xD
Actually read it all. I'm trying to get into it again but it kinda scares me. I think I'll just buy an older structure deck, conince one of my friends to do the same and then try to build up from there.
I recently just got back in to Yu-Gi-Oh as a whole and wanted to start playing the game again. My friend got wind of that and we got together at a local game shop to play a few games to get me back in to it. But I haven't played it some 2005 and that's as before I lost all my cards in Hurricane Katrina.
Long story short, i play solely on Duel Links and Yu-Gi-Oh is basically chess in card game form.
That's a weird way of spelling Weevil Underwood.
You should try goat format, you can look it up online, but basically it's a format where you only use cards from 2005 and before. It's a lot more fun in my opinion and has a small following that is growing.
As somebody who stopped playing in 2016 or so, around the time when pendulum's were first making their appearance, i gotta say that this is somewhat melencholy.
Anymore watching a duel feels like seeing a deck play on autopilot while the players simply sit there and wait for it to get done. 10-20 cards activating in a turn, 15-20 cards in the graveyard and nearly a full field of caeds by turn one, and already having a damned army full of monsters that in era's before could have been boss monsters that you would build an entire deck arpund maybe one or two of. Otk's and ftk's are stale now instead of impressive as thats usually the strategy almost every meta deck tries to go for.
Any card that takes more than a turn to do something massive is slow, having cards in the graveyard is a good thing now when it used to be one of the worst things next to banished cards, tribute summons are almost worthless and special summons are no longer deserving of that name as they have replaced normal summons in how frequently they happen.
The entire game has changed from a nice casual-yet-complex card game where it took actual wit to win even with pretty good cards into "my entire deck summoned itself out on turn one and has stopped you from doing the same therefore i win by turn 3." If your deck isnt meta it is immediately trashed by whatever it comes across and its gotten so complex that rebuilding an old deck to work with new mechanics feels like you have to gut 90% of it to even have a chance at building something fun yet successful.
But you know the worst part? The fact that i know that i, as a player, have no way of changing this. I cant simply roll up to a tournament and change the meta with a deck i pulled from my ass because the meta has become so tight and efficient that if your opponent goes first theres eveery chance you'll lose before your turn is even over.
There isnt any way to go back to how the game once was without hoping that konami will change something to fix it or abandoning 50-80% of the community to find some niche group that only plays a slower format.
Its nice to see that the game i loved playing with my friends at the start of highschool is still kicking around and getting love from its creators but to see how much it has changed (imo, for the worse) kind of breaks my heart. But hey, at least i'll always have those memories of half-hour long duels with my friends.
I was playing Duelingbook (already a bad idea) against some fucking sweat, and after just 20 seconds of thinking, the guy went: "Oh my god, learn your deck!" as if me taking a bit to think meant I didn't know how my deck worked, and then he proceeded to quit on me.
Dude quit after I took 20 seconds to think.
More casual strategies do go past turn 3.
This is the very reason I collect the TCG cards. Synchro was ok but afterwards I get lost. Classic Yu-Gi-Oh from Duel Monsters and GX were easier to play with anyone as a child. At least online and physical video games don't force you to use the duel methods.
Xyz monsters ain't so bad, and once you figure out Pendulum summoning they can be cool too (I guess). Point is, don't deliberatly avoid following the progression of the game, it just makes it harder if you if you wanna get back into it in the future. Besides, the reason the original stuff from Duel Monsters and GX feels easier in retrospect is because you probably didn't follow the rules 100%. Like you probably didn't factor in activation timing, spell speed, priority, etc.
These mechanics aren't as hard as your mind is tricking you into thinking.
Synchro's are super simple. Take a Tuner, take a Non-Tuner(s) and do basic math.
I want a Level 8. So just add the Tuner's level and the non-Tuner(s) level(s) until you have 8.
Xyz are even more simplistic. The Xyz tells you how many and what type you need
But it all boils down too 'take x Monsters with the same level, place them on top of each other, place the Xyz on top of them and wah-lah. Then you just take the cards underneath and send them to the Graveyard when using an effect that asks for that.
yeah, I never tried synchro summoning but just after a few tests now I like it even more than traditional fusion, it is very simple, is basically regular fusion with more flexibility.
I played at the london ycs recently, earlier this year. first of all as someone who didnt have all their hand traps ready in time for the event, if it was my opponent won the dice roll, they won the game since I didn't have many hand traps to stop them.
my matchups were gouki, (summoning fields of 7 link monsters), darkworld firewall dragon ftk (using cannon soldier with firewall dragon for infinite burn damage before I have a turn), true draco stun (summoning monsters totally unaffected by certain card types while also stopping me from any kind of special summon), and also a kind of mekk knight invoked knightmare sky striker deck...
after 4 rounds going 0-2 every round I dropped because I wasnt really enjoying myself and went to comiccon instead :)
New player: "Is that the rule book?"
Me: "It's my deck. But yeah it a part of the real rule book too"
Troll: "Hey noob, the rule and tip cards aren't supposed to be in your deck!"
Me: summons blue eyes white dragon
Opponent: Summons pendulum monster.
Me: Wait a min, that looks like a banned card
me in dueling nexus i faught a blue eyes deck and the bot used a banned xyz monster and i lost
@@evandeland6867 the nexus bot loved banned cards
You should try goat format, you can look it up online, but basically it's a format where you only use cards from 2005 and before. It's a lot more fun in my opinion and has a small following that is growing.
"I loved Yu-Gi-Oh! Until I didn't."
XD
Explains why the anime characters don't bother reading the effects, THEY ARE WAY TOO LONG.
I haven't watched after 5ds and I have no idea about the new cards #feelingold
Zokix11 MC I'd better check it out then :D
@@adimikimkoydu yeah vrains is awesome
@Zokix11 MC As someone who never really got used to Duel Runners in 5Ds, I find the clothes the guys wear and the whole VR thing to be unappealing. I'm not really into the Tron aesthetic outside actual Tron.
Would you still recommend it?
VRAINS is great. #EmaIsBestGirlSheAndBlueGirlNeedMoreLove!!
@@adimikimkoydu Vrains is the good anime
And then the Link cards are the mess
Dude, I completely agree with you. Honestly, anything past xyz confuses the hell out of me and really kills my vibe for getting back into the game...because that is what I want to do, but all the systems I understand seem to be getting down played by new mechanics.
Play around with a cyberse starter deck
Link summoning is just a simpler synchro summon how is it that hard I can't
I just want to see the reaction of Yugi ,kaiba and jaden when they see xyz pendulum and link
At this point, Duel Academy is probably something we actually need at this point
Not gonna happen since there’s no monetary prizes given at tournaments. All you get is essentially bragging rights.
@@brianaguilar8283 was a joke. I'm just saying with all these complicated rules, Duel Academy may actually be useful to sort this stuff straight
I use to play yu-gi-oh years ago and enjoyed it. I recently thought about getting back into it, but saw all these new rules and just decided not to bother.
You can still play the original way if you know someone who still plays that way
To be honest, if it is too hard for you you can just play the true Dracos to start
jacob schweitzer true, but I don't know anyone who plays at all.
I miss the days where I would put together a deck from random boosters and structure decks and beat the pants off of this guy in my class that would buy expensive import cards.
Chris Wong it's not that it's too difficult, I just don't want to spend time learning a ton of new rules. It's.been well over a decade since I played. Plus it seems you need to spend a lot of money to play a decent deck.
@@WiGgYof09
Well, that is true
But there are always competitive budget decks you can pick up
I'm part of the scrub side of the community if you will; I play Duel Links and that's it. I enjoy Yugioh but as someone who only had real, physical cards back when I was a child and GX was the brand new thing, I have to say that you're right, the sheer amount of mechanics is pretty overwhelming when looking at Yugioh as a whole right now. I didn't even know pendulum monsters went to the extra deck of all places when you destroyed them!
I voted on how I don't get timing at all. The best example I can give is how, when using a Naturia deck with no boss monsters, I had Eggplant on the field face down. Its effect does sth when it is sent from the field to the graveyard, I just can't recall what exactly, and when I tributed it for a Stag Beetle, I just got a message saying "you missed your timing" and I had no idea what that meant. I looked it up and still have no idea what it means; I can only assume it means Eggplant only triggers if its sent to my graveyard from my field on my opponent's turn, but the card doesn't say that so it just bugs me a little.
Naturia eggplant misses timing because its effect starts with when, litterally thats pretty much all to it, effects that start with when can lose timing. The reason is that for when effects to activate their trigger needs to be the last action to happen. so in your case when you tributed eggplant, the first that happened was eggplant got tributed and sent to grave, then stag was played and successfully summoned. Problem solving card text is pretty much the unwritten rules of yugioh that often get left out from the rulebooks.
@@HaloTekkenFan55 oh well now THAT does explain it. So when effects must be the last to happen. Jeez, Idk if this is more or less annoying than the Targeting confusion.
the fact that yugioh is still going pretty strong is actually quite amazing
I completely understand. I played when it first came out, my first deck was THE YUGI STARTED DECK. I used to go to Toys R Us for the Saturday Tournaments. Did it for a few years, quit among the end of GX era. So synchro, xyz, pendulum, and link were like foreign concepts to me. My friends and I got together again a few years back and to reminisce we started to play again, we learned Synchro and Xyz, I gave up after that, it became confusing when the speed spells and other effects that (you’re right, had about 3 paragraphs to just say destroy monster or draw a card. To many pieces moving and too many conditions for the cards to be actually good. So I gave up, they still play and one of my buddies has a great channel and Duel links TH-cam channel and Ig, so I guess one of us got it and some just gave up on it.
And I understand why ban cards but damn, why release them in the first place. Some are already banned prior to their release which makes them obsolete and a waste of money because they just stay in your card binder or box.
Konami doesn't really have the same mindset as players, so they print a card, players find a way to make it extremely broken, Konami goes "oh shit" and bans it.
The game is way too fast paced, and reading entire paragraphs on cards caused the game to go downhill.
My friend Luis has no idea what Main Phase 2 is because of Yugioh! Duel Links. We were playing with physical cards and he stopped me from using Monster Reborn in my Main Phase 2. I hate this about Konami, confusing players via Manga, anime, and video games.
Duel links doesn’t even have a main phase 2 so it’s not his fault. It’s konamis.
That being said I prefer duel links now. Fast fun duels. 4000 LP so it’s more like the show. A lot of bs cards like pot of greed and mirror force that were on banlists forever aren’t even in the game. At best you can get watered down versions of them making them much more reasonable (aka shard of greed)
However it still has its problems. Pay to win is seriously not cool for lots of people, and let’s hope syncros don’t ruin this game like they did the real yugioh.
It's just the new one. The VRAINS one. You know, the Speed Duel thing. THAT's what DL is based on.
_arawarero, mirai o michibiku circuit!_ - Playmaker
@@saiyan_princestudios9790 from my exerience, Duel Links isn't completely Pay to win . They are pretty generous with their give-aways as a matter of fact.
@@saiyan_princestudios9790 I wouldn't say links is pay to win at all. I have countless decks and cards, including starter decks, and I havent spent a dime
Tell your friend to play Duel generations. It's also on phone, and follows the actual game's rules.
I just got back into this game after a very long period. Technically I started playing in the Synchro era, but I only used fusion and ritual monsters. I got back into the game a couple months ago and I tried to use polymerization to summon a Synchro monster. It was insane to me how much the game has changed and I’m intimidated to try to play competitively.
The problem with the long card texts is that YGO doesn't actually have any mechanics, it's an exceptionally shallow game.
All of the card interactions are only present on the cards themselves. Instead of pulling from a massive library of mechanics that are simple in isolation but interesting and ultimately complex in conjunction with each other like a game such as Magic does, Yugioh realizes that it has no base to stand on and instead needs to supplement the game by simply ignoring it with the effects of new monsters.
Pendulums were the best examples, but it goes as far back as synchro monsters. Konami realized that there was nothing to go off of for the game and started to print monsters that abused special summoning, that could be used in the extra deck without polymerization, now they've basically completely removed the backrow and 'setting' "mechanics" from the game in favor of a fucking obnoxious king-of-the-hill Link style and it's just terrible.
The mass exodus from the game with Pendulum monsters killed the game at my local shop, nobody around me hosts events for it and I quit around then too. It's going to happen with their next ridiculous gimmick, even if I sort of liked Links in theory, they didn't save the game.
Yeah it seems like Yugioh has to deviate from the card game it was originally based on and go into other spin off media to sort of make better use of its designs and ideas. It always had the potential for it simply cause ANYTHING could be a Yugioh card. Cause it's like you said there's no base.
Like anime wise the card game is a "Gimmick" it's used to illustrate battling opposed to traditional fighting. So it can be argued that "Dueling" could retain some form without it necessarily involving the card game aspect. Most would probably love an RPG style game featuring these monsters and those have happened in some shapes and forms.
Funny, the game is bigger than ever.
The biggest things at my local comic shop is Final Fantasy and Card Fight Vanguard, I actually was there along with a friend for the latest FF release and they had a tourny for the release as ya do. I was just gonna pick up the starter and be done with it but me and my bud put in our cash and joined the tourny to get our promo stuff..nicest cardbox I own now, and low and behold..in a best of five tourny we each won a match. He had to have more help figuring it out but both of us had only heard of the FF TCG just two weeks before the event and joined the tourny on a whim. The fact I've been playing Yugioh since the only cards I could get were import packs from Japan cause the US cards hadn't come out yet kinda hurts me now cause while I've been there for all the mechanics..the Link one just kills all the fun for me, I had more fun with FF and am trying to learn Vanguard cause they just seem more fun..hell I'm an old MTG player too and even just picking it up now it's STILL easier to figure out than Yugioh now.
@@ShinKyuubi maybe git gud
@Jacob Jimenez this is a 3 month old post lmfao
cost: banish 1
effect: discard 1 draw 1
Actually it’s a dark world card. Dark world cards are based around discarding cards to activate effects, so it is pretty good.
dark world lighting
Unfortunately, the game is over complicated. I really don't think Yu-Gi-Oh will survive much longer in its current form because everything is overcomplicated. If the game gets a reboot it needs maybe a mechanic where instead of wording out immunities, display a symbol. Make "Speical" Summons less OP by either limiting the number full stop or giving them Summoning Sickness where they can't attack or use effects on their first turn out. I am sure there are other things but anything to avoid leaving a word pile on the card. And for Pete's sake, simplify battle!
Redpoppy Yeah, that’s what this game needs. I can’t seem to attack one monster without fifteen different effects going off.
The game has actually been doing better than ever. Mostly because the people that actually play the game like the direction it's going.
@Dark Shadow Storm Don't kid yourself. Competitive Yu-Gi-Oh! from its birth in 2002 has utilized countless strategies and combos you would consider "shady". There's no option to pretend you're an anime character and win through honesty and friendship, because not even Yami Yugi himself, with the ability to draw any card he wants at the perfect time, would ever win a match against SPYRAL with his shitty deck. I hope these "honest" players have fun at the bottom of the bracket playing caveman Yu-Gi-Oh!.
I hate that all the YugiBoomers tend to forget that by the first few tournaments there were already super degenerate and NOT FUN strategies, like Yata-lock, and magical scientist FTK. Konami has always made shady and bad cards, and it's no the fault of the players for using them. The game is complicated, but it's also an old game that's going on 15 years. And games always have "back and forth", and to me and those who play modern formats, it's very interesting to watch championship duels between good competitive decks. The only modern thing that I dislike are Link restrictions (which are already going away partially with MR5)
@Dark Shadow Storm The coin toss and opening draw does not always decide the winner, hence why Konami has printed so many hand traps and floodgates. It's not the player's faults for choosing decks, and it is entirely Konami's fault if they make broken cards. Old school Yu-Gi-Oh was arguably less exciting because the variation in decks was far smaller. For the past few years, with a few moments of newly released decks as an exception, the meta has been more diverse than ever before. And that's a good thing.
New Duelist 🤨: Yo, let me use the Pot of Greed. I want to duel like Yugi Muto.
I got into yugioh because of the anime, YuGiOh-GX was classic and it really hit me.
Man I feel old I can remember buying my first Yu-Gi-Oh decks which of course where the Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes deck and then sometime later the Pegasus and Joey decks. luckily still have some of those cards as well as the blue eyes and dark magician and relinquished in very good condition. But I absolutely agree I have no idea how kids these days can jump into Yu-Gi-Oh now with all the different crazy archetypes and ways of playing this link summoning and now the speed dueling. I'm mostly a collector but I've been with Yu-Gi-Oh since the beginning so 18 or 19 years I've always known the rules. I think the link summoning thing that's definitely ruined many strategies and archetypes and I really just don't like the mechanics of it. Took me a very long time to warm up to pendulum by the time I did links were coming out. What happened to the good old days when the Egyptian god cards were all the rage with their three sacrifices being the most interesting twist to the game? I still have my Yu-Gi-Oh tag Force 3 4 and 5 on PSP as well as TF 2 on Xbox which I wasted many many many days My Life playing.
I know some the feeling though I didn't hang on as long as you. My first decks were Kiaba and Pegasus and my brothers was Joey's and Yugi's. Kept playing the game during yugioh GX. We had 4 pieces of Exodia, Chaos Emperor Dragon, 2 Black Luster Soldier Envoys, and while we never had great decks we had fun. Then we got the championship game for DS and had a blast. He built a powerful high attack and defense deck and I built a brutal remove from play macro deck. We stopped watching when 5ds came out because we thought the concept of yugioh battles on a bike was dumb and power creep was already becoming a thing by the end of GX. Genewarped wolf, Chainsaw insect, and destiny hero defender anyone? Finally got around to getting new cards because a stardust dragon tin looked cool and then I discovered synchro and was like what the hell?...and that was kind of the end of yugioh for the both of us. We love original yugioh and just don't really want the new tactics. Sure synchro didn't change all that much but things just went off the rails after that to me. If synchro exists, why fusion? Rather than complement the original cards, they seemed to replace the old mechanics which I feel is exactly what has happened. Recently I picked the DS game up again and watched some youtube videos for card ideas and watched them saying how practically none of our strategies or traps work in modern yugioh because of xyz and links. No one uses traps for the most part, and my incredible burn plays with microcosmos and reasoning/monster gate/card destruction/morphing jar among others combined with things like soul absorption and necroface are now an absolute joke compared to what people can do now.
It's just sad to see that the game has changed so much that our entire generation of yugioh seems to have been fazed out completely. People even say a lot of cards can come off the ban list now because no one would use them anyway. I still proudly place 2 face downs and place one monster and end my turn, and that's how I plan to keep it. The nostalgia has yet to get old.
Hey Red Eyes, Dark Magician and Blue Eyes deck still are played.
Ex- pro and shitty ex yugituber here, i loved yugioh, i had tens of thousands of cards, i was playing competitively on and off straight from the start of the game. For me pendulums ruined the game to the point where it was unplayable, but it was a pretty shitty slope heading up to that so i think i would have to agree with every one of your points, but i would say the huge power creep is the problem, creating cards that made everything before it useless, the tier 0 decks. Pendulums allowed the ability to summon 5 monsters every single turn and if they died they went straight back to the extra deck so you could do it again next turn, which made almost all traps useless. It had such a ripple effect to where the game had become like solitaire, it became, get your unkillable monsters out first turn, then win. But as i said it was a slippery slope, just before pendulums you had one of the most broken cards in the game "Spellbook of judgement" which allowed you to go +15 in your hand and put a big monster on the field if you wanted to which in a game where having more cards then your opponent is amazing made it really broken. You also had shadolls and nekroz as archtype which didn't let your opponent play the game, Elemental dragons which are fine on their own at 1, but with the babies, or at 3, became unbelievably broken. You had super strong XYZ monsters like "silent honers ark" and "exciton knight", which became pot of greed like staples for every single deck that had level 4 monsters. Even slightly before all this shit that went down, you had the wind up loop which ruined you and inzektors that destroyed your entire field to swarm the field. Even before this you had plant synchro decks, goat control and even glad beasts when they came out were all tier 0 decks. So shitty card design and shitty mechanics has always been around, but when it ruins everything before it, then thats a problem and its some thing that just keeps happening in modern yugioh. nobody complained when bujins, or gravekeepers, or black wings, or masked/e-heros, or madolche, or fire-fists, or lighsworns, or six-sams or even something arguably broken like evilswarns came out, these are all fun and unique ways to play the game with awesome mechanics. But when you can't even play the game, when you can't even use your mechanics, then that's the true problem with yugioh. Let me put it to you this way, if your a yugioh player and you were playing a guy who ran an exodia deck and every single turn they drew exodia in their opening hand, would that be fun?
Theres no such thing as Yugioh Pro players, the best players don't even make enough to live off it.
@@champdude17 i won allot of cards and tech to make it worth it, selling prize cards and play mats as well as boxes and tins that i won almost made my hobby self sustaining, the most money i ever spent on my hobby was in travel, so i have to disagree with you there.
@@klokar21 Self sustaining, you didn't make a living off it, like I said. The best you can hope for is to break even as a Yugioh player cause there's no money in it, it's not an interesting spectator game.
Your comment has almost as much text as the typical Monster card nowadays...
@@zachgilbert3815 sorry man, just relating my story to allot of other here, ex pro players that have left the game because it became shit.
Can't konami have tournaments that are specific types only like fusion only, synchro, xyz, and pendulum so players (new comers mostly) only have to learn link summoning and a certain type of specail summoning
@1 0 since the new master rule we can whatever we like again , so my new opinion is have tournaments with one type of special summoning mechanic then a grand tournament where the winners face each other and the number 1 special summon mechanic could get like a boss card
playing some of the video games really helps you learn the rules and stuff. I remember back then I played yugioh 2006 on gba and I learned a ton from it.
I also think it's funny how duel links is basically repeating yugioh's meta history like at the start for example, it was mostly just beat down decks lol
I'm open to learning pendulum and link summoning, I just never feel like unpacking all of that lol. That, and I don't like the idea of people special summoning all these monsters with a paragraph of different text on each at the same time lol. It's exhausting to read every card and remember all of the effects during a duel compared to cards from Yugi era to Yusei
You should try goat format, you can look it up online, but basically it's a format where you only use cards from 2005 and before. It's a lot more fun in my opinion and has a small following that is growing.
I feel like links were only created to fix the mess that was pendulum. The pendulum mechanics turned the game into a dumpster fire imo
captain t bag You see, Konami tried to fix the Pendulum problem with Links, but now Links are the new dumpster fire. Trust me when I say they shut down A LOT of decks. And even then, Pendulums still happen to be prevalent in the game.
Pendulums were amazing, and not hard to use. Links ruined the game.
Links were created to punish pendulums but in the process, everyone got screwed over.
agreed, as a man who uses a PEPE deck and a fusion deck with a friend who uses link-cyberse, they both can be super overpowered
like, mine isnt even used with big plays, mine is just random bs and its debatibly better than my fusion deck
@@elvinmendoza5617 Not really. It's MR5 now it's not MR4 anymore.
Basic Spell Speeds:
1: Spell Cards
2: Quick-Play Spell cards and Trap Cards
3: Counter-Traps
I will also state that power-creep is what is keeping older players out because you have to buy a new deck every time one comes out due to how new decks are more powerful than older decks on a general basis.