*_Drop a Like for these 4 CLASSIC Yu-Gi-Oh duels! Do you guys think they should remake these classic character Starter Decks for the modern day? If they did, what strategy should each character use? And which is your favorite?_*
Still would love to see the whole APS crew recreate all of the Duelist Kingdom duels to see who would have really won the tournament. That or somehow do all the Battle City duels as well, that'd be dope.
@@TeamAPS yeah I'd imagine making the decks could be challenging, especially finding all the old cards. Keep up the good work though, I love taking the trips down memory lane with you guys!
@@TeamAPS Tough as in the decklist because some cards don't exist or tough as in "We cant legally shoot Gaia the dragon champ into Castle of dark Illusions and do 3200 damage in one turn"
Except if you have the cards to counter your opponent insane board or decent board, the game becomes a 15 or longer turn duel. Duels are still long, it just depends on your deck build and skill level. I get long duels still because my opponent can keep up with me.
Replying one year later the trade off is that most of those turns are set and pass. I do enjoy how top decky it gets, it feels like any card could turn it all around If you want to play yugioh that is a balance of these more classic slower games and still have some bigger combos and synergy, Edison format is awesome.
my friends and were among the first wave of children to figure out the "buy 3 and make a pretty good deck" trick. its a shame how much extra deck money you need nowadays. the og set was perfectly paced and very fun
Man, I wish I had understood that back then. Instead of the mix of random cards / starter decks that I put together. Lol Behold! The mighty Crab Turtle!!! 😂😂
The Yugi vs Kaiba duel pretty much captured how I felt about both decks. Yugi's was always the deeper and better deck so it usually had the advantage but just like in the first duel, Kaiba's had the ability to completely control a duel with just Blue Eyes. If you didn't draw the right set of cards with Yugi's deck while Blue Eyes was wreaking havoc, you're done. But of course it's moot cause Yugi's deck won lol.
On paper, I thought Kaiba's deck was better, but it definitely seems like Yugi's deck flows more smoothly from weak to strong monsters. Curse of Dragon and Summoned Skull put in A LOT of work when they're Tribute Summoned, and Kaiba can't always get out Blue-Eyes easily.
@@TeamAPS Yeah that's what it is. Yugi's deck has a lot more high powered non-Dark Magician cards. Between Gaia, Summoned Skull & Curse of Dragon, you have a couple of cards that hold the fort until you get Dark Magician out. After Blue eyes, I think the next strongest cards are Judge Man and Swordstalker? I could be wrong on that lol.
Looking at the price on a sealed Kaiba deck alone and... God you really went all out. My heart wouldn't even allow me to open those without having a heart attack lmao
Super nostalgic episode. I remember getting my first Kaiba deck from a local gas station. Still have the 1st edition Blue Eyes from it, although heavily played
I remember asking for the Starter Deck Pegasus as a present a long, long time ago. I remember thinking how interesting of a deck Pegasus had, with the one part being about silly toons, and the other part being these eldritch nightmare creatures, like Relinquished. It was a fun, deranged duality that really hooked me as a kid, and that I still appreciate 20 years later. I still think Relinquished is one of my favorite cards ever printed. Really was back in the day when, if you're opponent had to use an extra card to special summon a level 1, 0/0 monster, you were _concerned_
Always fun to see duels with these old-school decks :) First deck I got as a teen was the Joey deck, because I liked the look of the Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Also picked it up from an outdoor market (That's a rarity in itself nowadays, finding genuine TCG products at an outdoor market or boot sale - went to an indoor one recently and they had a whole bunch of Pokémon cards, but with the exception of the commons, every single card there was fake).
Just want to say, I really appreciate the videos you guys make! I am a blind Yu-Gi-Oh player trying to get back into the swing of things, and the videos on your channel have been immensely helpful! They’re also very engaging and I cannot say enough how much I appreciate the detail you guys going to. It provides great audio description for someone like myself who cannot see the cards you’re playing, opening, or are playing with, so just wanted to say thank you.U
Paul going -2 to summon an 1800 ATK vanilla monster, and somehow it's stronger than the tribute-summoned monster on Alec's board. Just as Kazuki Takahashi intended
@@HakureiIllusion I absolutely hate this current format. I wasn't around for it, but I miss the old cards, playing style, and strategies. It's so much more fun to get a vanilla boss monster out than to link 6 times just to get to the same end board every game. At least in my opinion.
A long time ago, back on Dueling Network, I had made the Yugi starter deck and played it in traditional format. My opponent was using disaster dragon, and I ended up winning. I opened with dragon capture jar, and they had no backrow removal in their deck at all. I won by deck out because the deck had 50 cards to my opponent's 40.
So, I don't know if anyone has mentioned it or if anyone really cares about how it works, but, when referring to effects that multiply or divide ATK/DEF (such as with Karate Man), Reverse Trap actually doesn't affect it because it's not considered as adding
You miss the endless turn passing due to inconsistent decks and the inability to get over big numbers? Personally, the game is way more enjoyable for me now than back then, so long as both players have roughly equal decks.
Man, im so happy i bought 4 of each when they came out, so i can play with one of each and seal away the rest. I still look at these to remind myself of simple times. Plus my brother before he passed, was a huge Pegasus fan so we dueled and switched decks to keep it interesting.
@@redroachofficial7388 the funnest matches are always using some outdated decklist that just runs circles around a meta deck that doesnt have a way of triggering its engine. cats ear tribe, united we stand, and the staunch defender has ruined a few days at locals as side deck cards in my skull servant beatdown deck
What a throwback! Thanks for blessing us with your content guys! I've fallen out of collecting Yugioh cards but I still have my old ones. I live vicariously through your videos. My first ever deck was the Starter Deck Joey Long box.
@voltrya6844 that opinion is heavily biased, and even meta players agree that yugioh formats are currently broken due to the way Konami has decided to release sets.
In the second duel at 24:50 when he soul exchanged he shouldn’t be able to attack that would lead to him ending his turn. If Paul then summoned anything he could of activated two pronged attack to kill two for one destroying dark magician. Then ending his turn. Afterwards Paul could have trapped hole the very next monster leading it to being his turn and having a monster advantage changing the rest of the outcome possibly. Edit- Paul still won that duel lol that was a crazy comeback.
Team APS is by far the most ambitious Yugioh channel on youtube, no other channel is willing to go as far as buying older sets in order to recreate the anime
I love this channel! Actually kind of inspired me and my girlfriend to build 6 additional decks for our friends (GF ain’t at synchro, xyz, pendulum or link yet) and everyone else is new to it. So… built some themed decks and introduced a little bit of ritual and fusion summoning to some of them. Should be a fun Christmas party amongst friends and partners!
I had started Yugioh with 5 packs of LOB, one of which had a Blue-eyes White Dragon (the other rares I had gotten were final flame, reaper of the cards, flower wolf, and armed ninja). I had decided to then get the Yugi starter deck because I already had a Blue-eyes and wanted to get a Dark Magician.
This brought back memories!! My cousin and I getting our favorite decks, then learning to play. Luckily, the show was close enough to the real thing, so we learned quickly. Very well done, loved this video. I don't even play yugioh anymore lol
Friends, I'm from Brazil and I really like the duels you guys do. When I see a duel in the meta, I already know which move and which monster the duelist is going to summon. Your duels are fun and always a surprise, full of twists and turns. You guys rock!
I love that you guys committed to getting the OG decks. Mad respect. Now, I should tell you that I live about an hour from y'alls area and could have loaned you all of these cards with the original rule books. 😅😅
Man, I miss this kind of playing. Where it was more how you reacted based on the cards you drew than one set strategy that you built around a combination of 3 cards.
These are so nostalgic. Growing up in the early/mid-2000s Yugioh hype was on another level. One of my fondest Christmas memories was getting the Kaiba starter deck (and dueling a friend who got the Yugi starter deck) and a Legend of Blue Eyes tin and getting two BEWDs and Exodia left leg.
Facts! While I do enjoy how fast pace and complex the new style of the game is and how far it’s come there’s something enjoyable about how simple it used to be and it’s fun to ride the nostalgia of the old days by playing decks like this
I don't recall my first yugioh product. I know it was just a single booster pack, and my dad and I would "split" the cards and duel. I remember coming home one day and my dad had bought starter deck yugi, kaiba, and joey. Been playing old school yugioh ever since.
On a whim, I DLd "Master Duel" very recently, and needed a refresher on gameplay and YT recommended your channel. YT gets some things right sometimes! Thanks for the GGs, guys! Cheers!
In the first duel because of how Alec dealt the top 5 cards out from his deck for the telescope effect, his castle walls card was actually the last card, but he put it on top. So Paul put the cards back in reverse order from how Alec dealt them. Alec should of gotten Beaver Warrior, then Dark Magician & so on so forth.
@@TheGraphicalHarmonicist wrong, the cards were put back in the wrong order and a card was drawn. if you think that changes the outcome of the game or not is a matter of opinion, but it was done wrong anyway telescope doesn't shuffle. it look at the top 5, then puts them back in the *same" order, something that did not happen here
as slow as this era of yugioh was, it was the greatest before they started modifying mechanics. I hate sitting in a turn for 5 min waiting for the other guy to burn through half their deck to pull out their boss monster on the first turn. My first deck was SDY and my brothers was SDK. Bought them at EB games in the Silverdale, Washington Kitsap mall.
GETTING BACK INTO YUGIOH AND MAN YOU GUYS HAVE THE BEST DARN VIDEOS ! LOVE IT ... STILL ONLY PLAY RETRO , COMING BACK INTO IT ITS NUTS HOW MUCH THE GAME HAS CHANGED .
oh man this is going to be awesome!! i remember cracking starter deck kaiba back in the day- i kinda want to collect all 4 of these and display them xD
These were great! Thank you gentlemen for doing this, put a huge smile on my face, the nostalgia hit real hard. Keep on doing great things, hope you guys have a wonderful year!
I'm not sure if anyone else shared this experience, but shortly after these starter decks came out in the US, I learned about the original Japanese OCG Yugi and Kaiba Structure decks. I was blown away by the powerful cards in those deck lists as compared to the starter decks we got (especially Kaiba's). I think it would be really cool to play those original OCG structure decks against each other in a duel. And to avoid paying a lot of money for the originals (and to avoid playing cards in Japanese) you might be able to simply build those decks lists with TCG cards in English. 12 year-old me would have really appreciated seeing those decks in action.
I have the old japanese starter decks of all 4 that I got 20 years ago they are definitely different than English like Pegasus has toon kingdom and toon world and many other toon cards that English didn't get until later
@@dakonblackrose I recently completed all 5 ocg structure decks including Marik with random, mixed english reprints from TCGplayer. I made sure to get pre-errata versions of things like crush card, etc. i opted not to build the “vol 2” versions. I have a lot of fun playing these against each other with friends.
Oh thats so nice guys ! Next time lets try with my 4 japanese structure decks with awesome cards (mirror force in yugi, ccv in kaiba, raigeki in pegasus, jinzo in joey, etc)
at 24:51 "Soul Exchange" was played. It says "Target 1 monster your opponent controls...." But this effect shouldn´t work on Blue eyes white Dragon because of Lord of D. or am I missing something?
Thanks, for confirming both of those, I thought that I was also missing something. Paul said "unfortunatelly it doesn't target", but it does - the very first word of this card's description. Also even if we go with it you can't attack that turn. For "ultimate offering" even if we allow both players to use it (I googled it and it seems that was the thing at first), Alec used it during his battle and main phases I think, so it's better to use one of the interpretations, that you either are "You" (on the card), so use it during your main or enemy's battle, or as a opponent do it other way around use it during you battle not in your main, which seems weird for me.
Amazing! Thank you so much for going through the trouble of tracking these down for us to watch you play with. Takes me straight back to my childhood, the Kaiba structure was also my first deck.
The first Yu-Gi-Oh Deck I ever got was the Pegasus Starter deck on Christmas in 2003. That same day my brother got the Joey Starter Deck. Times were great back then...
Ugh even I can feel it seeing those boxes open it’s An amazing video just looking at these being opened though is painful and I bet it was even worse for you guys who had to open the box’s stay strong! (An amazing video definitely needs more likes for such a historical yet painful opening)
Why did they keep attacking the turns Soul Exchange was played?!👀 I kept researching if the original version allowed attacks, but apparently it’s never allowed them.
Nostalgia hit me hard with the Joey starter deck. That was the very first deck I ever bought as a kid back in the day. Mainly because the red eyes black dragon is my all time favorite card. ❤ I kick myself in the ass for not taking better care of my Joey starter deck. I can’t believe I would see those decks EVERYWHERE IN EVERY SINGLE HOBBY STORE and now it’s a piece of history. Those decks are crazy expensive on eBay. 🥲 I can’t afford it at the moment, but if possible I would re-purchase Joey’s deck. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
Man i grew up with yugioh had all these Decks, now trying to get back into the game and wow has it changed synchro, xyz, link, and pendulum all crazy hope it’s simple to get back in really enjoyed the vid
There are old Yu-Gi-Oh video games still out there from back in the day :) They can either be bought ultra cheap second (or third, fourth) hand online, most can be got for free online! :D And all these old IRL physical cards are out there too. There are websites which make it as easy and cheap as possible to buy whatever cards you want. You can put together oldschool decks for you and your friends to play :) There is also goat format tournaments which only use old cards, so you can even play oldschool competetive nowadays!!!!!!! :D
Man, I remember being 8 years old and seeing these exact starter decks on the shelves in lots of stores. My parents were too poor at the time to ever buy me one unfortunately (although very cutely they did eventually buy me a single booster pack, thinking it was enough for me to play with). Kinda funny to think that a couple decades later they're worth a fortune. Nobody at the time could have guessed! I was always drawn to that Pegasus one in particular with its crisp packaging and that big creepy Relinquished showing through the front.
The game had such a good interaction between the players in the past, and the game looks so much more fun to play with no control or combo decks there to take all the fun away... I miss GOAT era
I just subscribed to you guys! I LOVE your videos!!! Great video! Im getting into yu gi oh and watching people duel is helping me learn. (Along with watching tutorials)
That soul exchange misplay mattered. DM couldn't attack, could have normal summoned next turn and cleared m with two prong attack. Though I likely would have two pronged at the soul exchange and cleared giant soldier of stone.
This has been so good to watch! I recently found all my yugioh cards from when I was a kid and my brother and I definitely had all these starter decks! I wish I never threw away most of the cards instead of keeping only one customised deck tho smh 🤦🏽♂️ I also had a Dark Paladin from a Shonen Jump magazine a good friend gave me for my birthday. First edition too! And some dumb kid from my grade 4 class randomly came over, dueled me, I went to the washroom, and he stole my Dark Paladin! I didn't even notice until he went home 😭 man so many memories from such a great card game!
The nostalgia is real!!!! The first ever yugioh cards i ever had as a kid was the starter deck yugi. Watching these duels, these cards wouldnt stand a chance in todays world. 😢
the starter deck pegasus were my first yugioh cards ever and i still have a handfull of them even tho in terrible conditions - its truely a blast from the past
I personally think Joey's is the most balanced deck, yeah it doesn't have something that swings over blue-eyes but the amount of utility through eternal rest- huge relinquish stopper, and has a decent amount of warrior monsters that boast over 1500, it's pretty nice.
@@TeamAPS Yeah. I can get behind that! I hope at some point you guys can try taking the deck themes to the highest extent they can go. Get like a Yugi Deck running Dark Magician support or Exodia. Run a triple blue eyes, with ultimate and have some of the blue-eyes support in there in Kaiba's case. Things like that.
*_Drop a Like for these 4 CLASSIC Yu-Gi-Oh duels! Do you guys think they should remake these classic character Starter Decks for the modern day? If they did, what strategy should each character use? And which is your favorite?_*
Btw in Yugi vs Kaiba Ultimate Offering was used Illegally only the player who controls it can use it
@@icecreamgoooood Okay.
What are the odds that you guys could come up with a way to play a game where the field is the paradox bros. maze/labyrinth???
@@TeamAPS Fire videos though 🔥
none
give some attention to the other eras, no more any of this DM era pandering BS
Still would love to see the whole APS crew recreate all of the Duelist Kingdom duels to see who would have really won the tournament. That or somehow do all the Battle City duels as well, that'd be dope.
We're trying to set up something like this, but it's definitely tough!
@@TeamAPS yeah I'd imagine making the decks could be challenging, especially finding all the old cards.
Keep up the good work though, I love taking the trips down memory lane with you guys!
@@TeamAPSif you guys need help, count me in I be your rare hunter I don’t mind taking a beating
@@TeamAPS Tough as in the decklist because some cards don't exist or tough as in "We cant legally shoot Gaia the dragon champ into Castle of dark Illusions and do 3200 damage in one turn"
Well I have a feeling Joey’s deck will not do so well 😂
The first duel is a better spectacle than most competitive duels now
Indeed. 🔥
XYZ, Sychro, etc. summoning has ruined the game. Each card has an essay worth of game text now. I hate it.
@@garrettrains3916 I was alright with XYZ’s and Synchros. But once the Pendulum monsters dropped, I was out.
@@garrettrains3916 aye aye aye dont diss synchro its xyz and links that ruined the game pendulums no one uses cause they make no sense
Back when games lasted longer than 2 turns. Great times.
Except if you have the cards to counter your opponent insane board or decent board, the game becomes a 15 or longer turn duel. Duels are still long, it just depends on your deck build and skill level. I get long duels still because my opponent can keep up with me.
This goes for anyone :) Hand traps however, aren't needed
I have the joy of playing legacy of the duelist for the first time :,)
Replying one year later
the trade off is that most of those turns are set and pass. I do enjoy how top decky it gets, it feels like any card could turn it all around
If you want to play yugioh that is a balance of these more classic slower games and still have some bigger combos and synergy, Edison format is awesome.
@@fruitybluieblue098 I discard Kuriboh from my hand to negate your comment!
my friends and were among the first wave of children to figure out the "buy 3 and make a pretty good deck" trick. its a shame how much extra deck money you need nowadays. the og set was perfectly paced and very fun
Man, I wish I had understood that back then. Instead of the mix of random cards / starter decks that I put together. Lol Behold! The mighty Crab Turtle!!! 😂😂
The Yugi vs Kaiba duel pretty much captured how I felt about both decks. Yugi's was always the deeper and better deck so it usually had the advantage but just like in the first duel, Kaiba's had the ability to completely control a duel with just Blue Eyes. If you didn't draw the right set of cards with Yugi's deck while Blue Eyes was wreaking havoc, you're done. But of course it's moot cause Yugi's deck won lol.
On paper, I thought Kaiba's deck was better, but it definitely seems like Yugi's deck flows more smoothly from weak to strong monsters. Curse of Dragon and Summoned Skull put in A LOT of work when they're Tribute Summoned, and Kaiba can't always get out Blue-Eyes easily.
@@TeamAPS Yeah that's what it is. Yugi's deck has a lot more high powered non-Dark Magician cards. Between Gaia, Summoned Skull & Curse of Dragon, you have a couple of cards that hold the fort until you get Dark Magician out. After Blue eyes, I think the next strongest cards are Judge Man and Swordstalker? I could be wrong on that lol.
@@BJgrand La jinn also
1:17:45 ..... epic
Looking at the price on a sealed Kaiba deck alone and... God you really went all out. My heart wouldn't even allow me to open those without having a heart attack lmao
Super nostalgic episode. I remember getting my first Kaiba deck from a local gas station. Still have the 1st edition Blue Eyes from it, although heavily played
I lost my BEWD but I remember seeing it at 7-11 and deciding to buy it. I was hooked
Crazy that you used to be able to buy starter decks out of a gas station
I remember asking for the Starter Deck Pegasus as a present a long, long time ago. I remember thinking how interesting of a deck Pegasus had, with the one part being about silly toons, and the other part being these eldritch nightmare creatures, like Relinquished. It was a fun, deranged duality that really hooked me as a kid, and that I still appreciate 20 years later. I still think Relinquished is one of my favorite cards ever printed.
Really was back in the day when, if you're opponent had to use an extra card to special summon a level 1, 0/0 monster, you were _concerned_
Relinquished was so sick
The Duality of Man, compressed into a single deck of cards.
Pegasus deck was the one I asked my dad for as well. So sick how it was based on a monster with zero damage, and ridiculous effects.
Oh my god right in the childhood feels. My brother and I had YuGi, Kaiba, and Joey!
Always fun to see duels with these old-school decks :)
First deck I got as a teen was the Joey deck, because I liked the look of the Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Also picked it up from an outdoor market (That's a rarity in itself nowadays, finding genuine TCG products at an outdoor market or boot sale - went to an indoor one recently and they had a whole bunch of Pokémon cards, but with the exception of the commons, every single card there was fake).
Just want to say, I really appreciate the videos you guys make! I am a blind Yu-Gi-Oh player trying to get back into the swing of things, and the videos on your channel have been immensely helpful! They’re also very engaging and I cannot say enough how much I appreciate the detail you guys going to. It provides great audio description for someone like myself who cannot see the cards you’re playing, opening, or are playing with, so just wanted to say thank you.U
Nice! I'm also a visually impaired player! I've been getting back into it over the past month or so!
The Pegasus deck was my first deck. Got it on Christmas 2004. looked it up today & it’s now $300 for the English edition 🙃
Paul going -2 to summon an 1800 ATK vanilla monster, and somehow it's stronger than the tribute-summoned monster on Alec's board. Just as Kazuki Takahashi intended
@@HakureiIllusion I absolutely hate this current format. I wasn't around for it, but I miss the old cards, playing style, and strategies. It's so much more fun to get a vanilla boss monster out than to link 6 times just to get to the same end board every game. At least in my opinion.
A long time ago, back on Dueling Network, I had made the Yugi starter deck and played it in traditional format. My opponent was using disaster dragon, and I ended up winning. I opened with dragon capture jar, and they had no backrow removal in their deck at all. I won by deck out because the deck had 50 cards to my opponent's 40.
So, I don't know if anyone has mentioned it or if anyone really cares about how it works, but, when referring to effects that multiply or divide ATK/DEF (such as with Karate Man), Reverse Trap actually doesn't affect it because it's not considered as adding
That's right. But misinterpreting an effect to suit himself by breaking the rules is something Yugi would definitely do. Points for realism.
The true essence of the game. Outstanding card artwork, simple mechanics, player interaction / momentum swings, just a fun time overall.
I miss these erra of Yu-Gi-Oh. Modern has become so hard to keep up with. Love these vids. Keep it up 😊
Master duel teaches you how to get in modern way of yugioh tho try it
@@Gogeta2501 i play it.i don't like the meta or rouge decks tbh
You miss the endless turn passing due to inconsistent decks and the inability to get over big numbers?
Personally, the game is way more enjoyable for me now than back then, so long as both players have roughly equal decks.
@@realpatriot1769 Keyword "so long as"
Man, im so happy i bought 4 of each when they came out, so i can play with one of each and seal away the rest. I still look at these to remind myself of simple times. Plus my brother before he passed, was a huge Pegasus fan so we dueled and switched decks to keep it interesting.
You should frame his favorite card
@@redroachofficial7388 oh I did actually and got it graded. His favorite was Relinquished.
@@flarexero2161 that's good. Also. Absolutely based of him. Next time I style on a meta player with my relinquished deck it'll be in his name
@@flarexero2161 also sorry for my message sending twice. Lag isn't very fun
@@redroachofficial7388 the funnest matches are always using some outdated decklist that just runs circles around a meta deck that doesnt have a way of triggering its engine. cats ear tribe, united we stand, and the staunch defender has ruined a few days at locals as side deck cards in my skull servant beatdown deck
What a throwback! Thanks for blessing us with your content guys! I've fallen out of collecting Yugioh cards but I still have my old ones. I live vicariously through your videos. My first ever deck was the Starter Deck Joey Long box.
Team APS knows what their audience want! But would also be cool to introduce how to play modern yugioh to all of us old heads too
Modern Yugioh is a joke, trust me.
@@zerro6903 if you dislike fast games play edison my guy, modern yugioh really isn't a joke and the game is in a very healthy state
its a joke. dont get anecdotal here.
@voltrya6844 that opinion is heavily biased, and even meta players agree that yugioh formats are currently broken due to the way Konami has decided to release sets.
yeah let me "play" a game where my opponent activates like 20 different effects turn one. no thanks.
In the second duel at 24:50 when he soul exchanged he shouldn’t be able to attack that would lead to him ending his turn. If Paul then summoned anything he could of activated two pronged attack to kill two for one destroying dark magician. Then ending his turn. Afterwards Paul could have trapped hole the very next monster leading it to being his turn and having a monster advantage changing the rest of the outcome possibly.
Edit- Paul still won that duel lol that was a crazy comeback.
Team APS is by far the most ambitious Yugioh channel on youtube, no other channel is willing to go as far as buying older sets in order to recreate the anime
I love this channel!
Actually kind of inspired me and my girlfriend to build 6 additional decks for our friends (GF ain’t at synchro, xyz, pendulum or link yet) and everyone else is new to it. So… built some themed decks and introduced a little bit of ritual and fusion summoning to some of them. Should be a fun Christmas party amongst friends and partners!
I had started Yugioh with 5 packs of LOB, one of which had a Blue-eyes White Dragon (the other rares I had gotten were final flame, reaper of the cards, flower wolf, and armed ninja). I had decided to then get the Yugi starter deck because I already had a Blue-eyes and wanted to get a Dark Magician.
Thank u guys for always keeping classic yugi alive!
Great work guys. Loved this 100%. Thanks for your efforts. Huge respect from London 👍🇬🇧🇺🇲
You can tell it brought such nostalgic joy to Alec when flame swordsman was summoned. OG Yugioh will always be the best.
This brought back memories!! My cousin and I getting our favorite decks, then learning to play. Luckily, the show was close enough to the real thing, so we learned quickly. Very well done, loved this video. I don't even play yugioh anymore lol
Glad you enjoyed it! 💖
Friends, I'm from Brazil and I really like the duels you guys do. When I see a duel in the meta, I already know which move and which monster the duelist is going to summon. Your duels are fun and always a surprise, full of twists and turns. You guys rock!
I love that you guys committed to getting the OG decks. Mad respect.
Now, I should tell you that I live about an hour from y'alls area and could have loaned you all of these cards with the original rule books. 😅😅
Man, I miss this kind of playing. Where it was more how you reacted based on the cards you drew than one set strategy that you built around a combination of 3 cards.
These are so nostalgic. Growing up in the early/mid-2000s Yugioh hype was on another level. One of my fondest Christmas memories was getting the Kaiba starter deck (and dueling a friend who got the Yugi starter deck) and a Legend of Blue Eyes tin and getting two BEWDs and Exodia left leg.
This is Yugioh.
Facts! While I do enjoy how fast pace and complex the new style of the game is and how far it’s come there’s something enjoyable about how simple it used to be and it’s fun to ride the nostalgia of the old days by playing decks like this
I don't recall my first yugioh product. I know it was just a single booster pack, and my dad and I would "split" the cards and duel.
I remember coming home one day and my dad had bought starter deck yugi, kaiba, and joey.
Been playing old school yugioh ever since.
You guys are fun and genuinely happy to be playing with classic cards. Thanks for an amazing blast from the past
On a whim, I DLd "Master Duel" very recently, and needed a refresher on gameplay and YT recommended your channel. YT gets some things right sometimes! Thanks for the GGs, guys! Cheers!
In the first duel because of how Alec dealt the top 5 cards out from his deck for the telescope effect, his castle walls card was actually the last card, but he put it on top. So Paul put the cards back in reverse order from how Alec dealt them. Alec should of gotten Beaver Warrior, then Dark Magician & so on so forth.
I noticed this too!
The first Duel had so many misplays lol
If the deck was shuffled properly then it would be random and wouldn't matter anyways.
yugi moto moment
@@TheGraphicalHarmonicist wrong, the cards were put back in the wrong order and a card was drawn. if you think that changes the outcome of the game or not is a matter of opinion, but it was done wrong anyway
telescope doesn't shuffle. it look at the top 5, then puts them back in the *same" order, something that did not happen here
Absolutely love your content! Best yu-go-oh community on TH-cam!
as slow as this era of yugioh was, it was the greatest before they started modifying mechanics. I hate sitting in a turn for 5 min waiting for the other guy to burn through half their deck to pull out their boss monster on the first turn. My first deck was SDY and my brothers was SDK. Bought them at EB games in the Silverdale, Washington Kitsap mall.
classic yugioh decks are honestly fun, the battles can be so swingy
These duels are more entertaining than any “meta” duels today!! I love old format.
GETTING BACK INTO YUGIOH AND MAN YOU GUYS HAVE THE BEST DARN VIDEOS ! LOVE IT ... STILL ONLY PLAY RETRO , COMING BACK INTO IT ITS NUTS HOW MUCH THE GAME HAS CHANGED .
oh man this is going to be awesome!!
i remember cracking starter deck kaiba back in the day- i kinda want to collect all 4 of these and display them xD
These were great! Thank you gentlemen for doing this, put a huge smile on my face, the nostalgia hit real hard. Keep on doing great things, hope you guys have a wonderful year!
I'm not sure if anyone else shared this experience, but shortly after these starter decks came out in the US, I learned about the original Japanese OCG Yugi and Kaiba Structure decks. I was blown away by the powerful cards in those deck lists as compared to the starter decks we got (especially Kaiba's). I think it would be really cool to play those original OCG structure decks against each other in a duel. And to avoid paying a lot of money for the originals (and to avoid playing cards in Japanese) you might be able to simply build those decks lists with TCG cards in English. 12 year-old me would have really appreciated seeing those decks in action.
yeah, we have that experience all the time. look at any OCG structure deck imported to the TCG
I have the old japanese starter decks of all 4 that I got 20 years ago they are definitely different than English like Pegasus has toon kingdom and toon world and many other toon cards that English didn't get until later
@@dakonblackrose I recently completed all 5 ocg structure decks including Marik with random, mixed english reprints from TCGplayer. I made sure to get pre-errata versions of things like crush card, etc. i opted not to build the “vol 2” versions. I have a lot of fun playing these against each other with friends.
@monsterxc2670 epic I agree older card dueling is so nice
Oh thats so nice guys ! Next time lets try with my 4 japanese structure decks with awesome cards (mirror force in yugi, ccv in kaiba, raigeki in pegasus, jinzo in joey, etc)
at 24:51 "Soul Exchange" was played. It says "Target 1 monster your opponent controls...." But this effect shouldn´t work on Blue eyes white Dragon because of Lord of D. or am I missing something?
U are correct. Also, only the card owner of ultimate offering can use its effect
Thanks, for confirming both of those, I thought that I was also missing something. Paul said "unfortunatelly it doesn't target", but it does - the very first word of this card's description. Also even if we go with it you can't attack that turn.
For "ultimate offering" even if we allow both players to use it (I googled it and it seems that was the thing at first), Alec used it during his battle and main phases I think, so it's better to use one of the interpretations, that you either are "You" (on the card), so use it during your main or enemy's battle, or as a opponent do it other way around use it during you battle not in your main, which seems weird for me.
so glad im not the only one that noticed that
Amazing! Thank you so much for going through the trouble of tracking these down for us to watch you play with. Takes me straight back to my childhood, the Kaiba structure was also my first deck.
The first Yu-Gi-Oh Deck I ever got was the Pegasus Starter deck on Christmas in 2003. That same day my brother got the Joey Starter Deck. Times were great back then...
I found your channel guys and I am in love, love this starter decks video. Greetings from a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan from Argentina!
This is so much more fun than new Yu-Gi-Oh.
Man these classic decks are so easy to understand i love it
Just discovered the channel and i love it, great work boys, nostalgia overload
I am grateful you guys made a new video based on a marathon of nostalgic structure decks!
Ugh even I can feel it seeing those boxes open it’s An amazing video just looking at these being opened though is painful and I bet it was even worse for you guys who had to open the box’s stay strong! (An amazing video definitely needs more likes for such a historical yet painful opening)
God I miss this vibe in Yu-Gi-Oh!
I can't even get back into newer Yu-Gi-Oh! Its just no fun for me.
Why did they keep attacking the turns Soul Exchange was played?!👀 I kept researching if the original version allowed attacks, but apparently it’s never allowed them.
It’s crazy hearing these being called “pieces of history” when I remember as a kid seeing these fully stocked at Toys R Us and Target all the time 😢
Same life
Wow, incredible to see the original decks. Awesome video.
This was a lot of fun and brought back a lot of good memories. Gotta love the classics.
Nostalgia hit me hard with the Joey starter deck. That was the very first deck I ever bought as a kid back in the day. Mainly because the red eyes black dragon is my all time favorite card. ❤
I kick myself in the ass for not taking better care of my Joey starter deck. I can’t believe I would see those decks EVERYWHERE IN EVERY SINGLE HOBBY STORE and now it’s a piece of history. Those decks are crazy expensive on eBay. 🥲
I can’t afford it at the moment, but if possible I would re-purchase Joey’s deck. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
Man i grew up with yugioh had all these Decks, now trying to get back into the game and wow has it changed synchro, xyz, link, and pendulum all crazy hope it’s simple to get back in really enjoyed the vid
Not sure what happened with Yugi vs Pegasus but the editing was super fun on that one :D
Such an awesome video! Reminds me of playing back in 2002! Keep up the great work.
match 3 ending with just desserts was perfect
Top notch content 💯 more classic decks duels like this 👏🏻
So much nostalgia.
Wish we could play like this in a game with these cards not all the new stuff going on.
Thank you for nostalgic memories
There are old Yu-Gi-Oh video games still out there from back in the day :)
They can either be bought ultra cheap second (or third, fourth) hand online, most can be got for free online! :D
And all these old IRL physical cards are out there too. There are websites which make it as easy and cheap as possible to buy whatever cards you want.
You can put together oldschool decks for you and your friends to play :)
There is also goat format tournaments which only use old cards, so you can even play oldschool competetive nowadays!!!!!!! :D
I’m so glad I still have my yugioh cards after all these years. Made great memories playing with my cousins during thanksgiving and Christmas
Omg finally!! I've been asking for this since you bought them!
Wow this is such a throwback!!!! I remember being obsessed with yu gi oh. My favorite was the Pegasus deck
God this takes me back! I remember spending all one Saturday afternoon with my dad and brother trying to find the og starters.
I wish i could have had a friend like this to play these decks back in the day. You guys are the best
Oh yeah !! I love this old school duel with you 2 ! Great !!
That "Dragon Treasure equip to Blue eyes Toon - Eternal rest" Combo was SICK!
1:21:30 That's the most Joey victory that anyone could imagine.
I wish grandpa muto had a starter deck
They actually did make a prototype, but it never released.
Watching these get opened hurt, but seeing all these decks again and watching you guys duel with them made me feel so much nostalgia.1:54:02 :)
I really enjoyed this vid. a blast from the past! thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Man, I remember being 8 years old and seeing these exact starter decks on the shelves in lots of stores. My parents were too poor at the time to ever buy me one unfortunately (although very cutely they did eventually buy me a single booster pack, thinking it was enough for me to play with). Kinda funny to think that a couple decades later they're worth a fortune. Nobody at the time could have guessed! I was always drawn to that Pegasus one in particular with its crisp packaging and that big creepy Relinquished showing through the front.
I can't beieve how I was glued to the screen during this duels
Love this compilations, pretty chill and fun
The game had such a good interaction between the players in the past, and the game looks so much more fun to play with no control or combo decks there to take all the fun away... I miss GOAT era
I had all 4 when they were dropped back in the day, awesome memories
I just subscribed to you guys! I LOVE your videos!!! Great video! Im getting into yu gi oh and watching people duel is helping me learn. (Along with watching tutorials)
That soul exchange misplay mattered. DM couldn't attack, could have normal summoned next turn and cleared m with two prong attack. Though I likely would have two pronged at the soul exchange and cleared giant soldier of stone.
@@rexusthevaliant6311 I caught that too 💀 lol
Yugi and Kaiba decks was me first yugioh product to I was the first guy to buy sttarter deck Joey and Pegasus 1st edition in my town import shop
Love this old school yu gi oh Videos from you guys!
Greetings from germany (:
This has been so good to watch! I recently found all my yugioh cards from when I was a kid and my brother and I definitely had all these starter decks! I wish I never threw away most of the cards instead of keeping only one customised deck tho smh 🤦🏽♂️ I also had a Dark Paladin from a Shonen Jump magazine a good friend gave me for my birthday. First edition too! And some dumb kid from my grade 4 class randomly came over, dueled me, I went to the washroom, and he stole my Dark Paladin! I didn't even notice until he went home 😭 man so many memories from such a great card game!
the editing is really good in this video :D
I can smell that new deck smell. I owned the Yugi, Joey and Pegasus deck.
Always nice to rewatch these videos. 😄
If it's possible, how about calling the other APSs to make a battle royal with these 4 decks? Or a 2x2. ✌
Yeah, it's just tough to get everyone together for an extended period of time, but it's something we'd love to try!
@@TeamAPS Totally understandable.
Time is a tough entity to deal with, sometimes. XDD
Hope you guys can do it and have some fun together. ✌
Enjoy the smell of those OG decks for me please.
That game 3 was so clutch! Was wondering why you would go all in at such a risky position
Ordering that pizza was a good idea. Here goes 2 hours of my life. lol
The nostalgia is real!!!! The first ever yugioh cards i ever had as a kid was the starter deck yugi. Watching these duels, these cards wouldnt stand a chance in todays world. 😢
there is beauty in the simplicity of this era of yugioh.
the starter deck pegasus were my first yugioh cards ever and i still have a handfull of them even tho in terrible conditions - its truely a blast from the past
I love the old starter deck battles Kaiba was my first and who I’m choosing
I personally think Joey's is the most balanced deck, yeah it doesn't have something that swings over blue-eyes but the amount of utility through eternal rest- huge relinquish stopper, and has a decent amount of warrior monsters that boast over 1500, it's pretty nice.
Overall I think it goes Joey > Yugi > Kaiba > Pegasus
@@TeamAPS
Yeah. I can get behind that!
I hope at some point you guys can try taking the deck themes to the highest extent they can go. Get like a Yugi Deck running Dark Magician support or Exodia. Run a triple blue eyes, with ultimate and have some of the blue-eyes support in there in Kaiba's case. Things like that.