True. I miss old Yugioh so much. The game felt like it had so much more soul in it back then. The cards printed during the Battle City/Pyramid of Light Era were peak. Plenty of archetypes to choose from, games weren't about setting up the perfect field turn one, the decks didn't play themselves, the game was fluid and ever changing. There was back and forth in the play. Strategies would clash and have to be rethought on the fly. Now, when you build a deck, it feels like you have a preset series of actions you always take for the best chance of winning. Maybe it's just me, but the soul of the game feels like it left a long time ago. The last time I liked Yugioh at all was during the synchro era. After that, it just felt like watching a relative you love dearly wasting away on life support even though brain death has already occurred. The lights are on, but no one is home. It's so hard to find anyone to play old school yugioh with, too. Sometimes, I play the old games to get some of that feeling again. I'm not gonna hate on anyone that likes new yugioh; if it makes them happy, then more power to em. It's just not for me. It feels dead and soulless to me.
We had bluffing folks. Remember those days lol? Traps. You had to know when to swing and when to make a read. If you overextend you payed a price that couldn’t be top decked out of. There were no +5 plays of one card. Unless you heavied or mirrored or torrentialed. Then that’s on you. I played from day one till insectorz. It’s hard to pinpoint when things went to shit. Lightsworn was fun. Sabers too. Sams. We could top deck out of scary situations for a while. Now you’re just locked. God I miss “set, set, go” I also remember a faaar cooler time during the games infancy. Those first 3-5 years were like nothing anyone can understand. I had cool adults playing this with 15 yo me. It’s not like how it is now where you gotta hose down those rooms after a match.
@@CrunchyPudding101 I'm keeping "Old Yugioh" alive by cutting out Synchros, XYZ, Pendulum, and Links completely, and limiting Hands Traps to one per deck. Also limiting to only ONE copy of a single card in a deck - similar to MTG's EDH format. You'd be surprised to find that there are A LOT of modern cards that complement such a play style. It's really fun.
The hardest truth I had to learn was that some people were so obsessed with having the top most expensive decks, that they were willing to use the money meant to pay their water bill to buy the newer cards. Or at least, that's the impression I had, cause holy! The stench was disgusting.
Oh sure don't play with whales. I'm glad there's duel links so I don't need to suffer master duel and real life's bs, though I have no idea how to compete with tag duel tournament anna kaboom 6000 atk train skill summon lol.
That’s honestly just common sense, and I don’t know why people thought 2+2=Rainbow Fish. Ya’ll really should’ve read the instruction manual that came with the starter decks. 🙄
Reprinting cards that are necessary is actually good though. I don't really care about the value cards or if they are a stable investment I just want to play the game.
Reprinting cards is good for anyone coming in later, and really bad for the guy who literally just bought his. Ultimately I agree, just sucks for those few who got the bad timing. Same in many markets, people think HOA are good because they protect home value, until you realize you get in, get taxed hard for many years, then the market falls out and is suddenly still worth less than your initial pay in. That's big suck, but while nobody currently has to worry about that if they let blackrock succeed in monopolizing homeownership, they also can look forward to everything being degenerate and empty houses being price gouged while a gradually growing percent of the population becomes homeless. I'll take the prior, in fact just axe the HOA to start and buy low like any other sensible "actually free" market.
The hardest truth for all of us to swallow is that Yu-Gi-Oh just isn't the same game we came to love. Now it's just competitive solitare that new players couldn't even try to play against with any kind of strategy, and if we want to have ANY hope in hell of keeping Yu-Gi-Oh alive and be able to play the game we actually love, we need to branch off and create a seperate official league that bans all cards from synchro's onwards.
If only newer cards had heavier restrictions. More specific summoning requirements, less ways to cheat things out, heavier costs on strong effects, and a banlist that makes sense. I like a lot of new cards and mechanics, but the game was allowed to power creep way too far to be fun
I would dearly love a competitive scene for the battle city/pyramid of light era cards. The game had so much life then. Games were fun. The back and forth in a game was what made it. Drawing one card could turn the tables without instantly ending the game. Playing a Mirror Force at just the right moment was like drinking cold water after hours spent outside with nothing to drink.
“What do you mean my cards are fake” (10 yr old me playing at my local card shop for the first time I was given a starter deck and a couple of packs for free)
@@averagechannelname9969either it's sweaty tournament nerds getting up in arms, or it may be a flea market starter deck or an Upper Deck starter deck (Upper Deck commissioned fake cards)
The hardest truth is that you can play the game however you want and build a deck around what you like. If you don’t care for tournaments and just want to have fun with family and friends, go for it!
I swear man.... I hated going against "Tournament players" My friends and i would play, go back and forth on winning ,and losing, and we actually had to think in order to win. Play a tournament player, and they're essentially spamming the exact same type of plays OVER AND OVER. Just be playing like "Of thats cool, i cant use any cards" or "Ya know, ive always wanted to play someone who can one shot me within 1 to 3 turns..." Or the classic "That card is banned", me just casually playing (non tournament match) "THEN WHY MAKE IT, OR HAVE THE CARD!!!"
@@darthfader3122i have confused and beaten tournament players by simply playing a deck designed around almost never having the same plays. Apparently people can't fathom decks having more than one win condition than a single combo.
I'm not here hating and shit but some of you all are just getting skill issued I've topped a locals before with a rikka traptrix deck that is very cheap, in a tournament full of ycs toppers Most modern decks can compete and will see success if they're given to a player that knows what they're doing and know how to pick good ratios of utility cards to engine pieces Casual is great and all but don't just talk shit if you get pummelled by a good player because you're bad at adapting to the gameplay of modern yugioh Fortunately, edison and goat format exists Also, "we had to think to actually win", bullshit. Modern yugioh is about capitalising when to hit your opponent's where it would hurt the most, also stuff like how to bait negations, and how would you make a board after being stopped mid-combo Set 3 pass is not fucking skillful lol. Also even back in the goat format, the first one to loop pot of greed usually wins the game
@@gamingdragonofmordor3770 I liked playing against decks that actually enter battle phase without blasting all my back row or monsters with there affects
If you go second you will spend 5+ minutes watching your opponent play solitaire, special summoning their entire deck twice over. There really ought to be a rule against special summoning more than twice a turn
Limiting special summoning will prob ruin the game. I get it may be annoying, but limiting summoning to that degree will make the game stale; way more strategic, yes, but also stale
Tbh, while I agree that I hate watching players summon their entire deck, limiting special summons like that would completely destroy my Infernoid deck, like it would be completely useless
@@pollux7961 That's cool. I've been a "true fan" since the manga was out. What I won't do is spend rent on a deck I can see in Master duel for free much less win a tournament for next to nothing. Oh and the "true fans" still love Yu-Gi-Oh but go play magic and other games cause they pay actual money.
@@alexanderrobins7497 that's not the way it works, monsters can only be summoned in face up attack position, or face down defense position.. unless you have a card such as special schedule, where you have a level 10 machine monster in your graveyard, you can special summon a monster in face up defense position. You can also use cards such as book of Life in order to flip your monster to face up defense position. Or if there is a effect that allows you to do that specifically. Besides that, if I'm going to play defense.. what card I played immediately. It kind of gives away the strategy. The whole idea is the element of surprise.
The toughest truth for me was learning I had to tribute monsters to summon Dark magician. This was back when the anime was still at the duelist kingdom arc and I took that for the rules and didnt read the rule book that came with the starter decks. I went to a local yugioh event at the toysrus and the opposing kid got mad I tried to summon dark magician without tribute.
The hardest truth for me was that some people are willing to steal an entire backpack of cards... I lost all my traders and all my decks still collecting cards but i don't go to many locals anymore
I was in the 6th grade and had all my exodia pieces and all my rares in a deck box , I remember it was green with green sleeves and I left them in my locker with a lock and some guy came while I was in pe and said he forgot the combo to his lock so they cut it and he stole my cards. Growing up I had to hide my cards because my stepmother thought they were witchcraft , around 8th grade I started collecting seriously up until I was about 25-26 in white binders , I left them at my fathers house and my step mother was cleaning my old room and found them and burned them thinking I didn’t want them anymore , had soooo many psa10 of everything , probably would have been worth half a million dollars today. Saddd collected all my life while trying to hide them and then poof up in flames … I won’t ever forget my grandmother used to take me to Books-A-Million on Saturdays to trade and duel people because she knew I loved it and she didn’t like my step mother .
Early on playing yugioh I made a buddy of mine learn a hard truth (~2002), Summoned Skull at that time was better than Dark Magician and Blue Eyes White Dragon because it has the same attack as Dark Magician, but only needs a single tribute, instead of 2, and having a higher attack than any other card we had available to us at the time's defense as well, so all I had to do was was focus on Giant Soldier of Stone and other monsters with 2k def, and as soon as I got a summoned skull, bring it onto the field with an axe of dispare in back-up just in case he was able to get his blue eyes on the field or dark magican.
The hardest thing for me was the fact that things that would've been considered effects back in the old days like shuffling cards from GY into the deck was now a 'cost'
The toughest truth for you should probably know: Realizing that it really doesn't take $1000 for a competitive deck. No, go on, hop on Yugioh Top Decks. Even Tier 0 decks like Kashtira aren't even $500. If you want ALL of the cards in their rarest print, maybe, but for playing, you don't need the rarest print. Just the card. Most of the time you can get away with $250-$350 budget. Compare that to MTG, which competitive, especially CEDH may very well run you about $1k. Handtraps are also fine, but you'll learn when to bait them out. Have a good poker face. I've gotten high Diamond on Master Duel literally entirely off of Ancient Gears, which at the time I was playing was basically the highest rank, and Ancient Gears aren't even a rogue archetype and have never been competitive. Have them waste it on trash by psyching the play out. Skill > Cards almost every time. Any idiot can learn how to play solitaire with a deck by watching a TH-cam decklist video. As Zane Truesdale said, "A real Duelist knows WHEN to play their cards".
Was looking at cedh decks and one was 20k with the rarest prints for the lands. Which is crazy, but I don’t play anything but draft outside of a casual sense.
#8 Current meta has games last a few turns, but those turns typically last around 5 to 10 minutes and play about half to more than half of the players' decks.
I used 3 a decade ago: veiler, battle fader, and honest (because my deck is heavy maha vailo). Damn it was sweet memories with no snake eyes, baron, boreload, and link bs.
@HalalKaibaLegacy yeah the old mechanic is better. Something like time travel event in master duel to play old format is lovely. It's good that dueling book, ygo omega, and ygopro provide those goat format and edison format. Also, I love watching meta-slave confused until time limit and can't understand how to play without their snake eyes or ongoing meta bs. Then they usually netdecking for crud cheap deck to use, which is easy to counter.
Pulling labyrinth wall from a pack when I was a kid and learning it doesn’t have an effect like the whole paradox brothers episode in the anime. It shattered my view on reality.
The Crystal Beast cards were my favorite, my first structure deck, and I liked Jesse as a character in Gx. Broke my heart to find out they aren't good competitively Edit: but they're still fun to use against friends
When i entered in the learning realm of Yu gi oh Tcg i already know that i gonna be fucked só hard in a match that i want do give up in the first match because my opponent have 5 hand traps
@@4lifemusic78 oh, sure, like going first isn't strong enough already, now those tools intended to give the going second player an edge can only be used on turn 2 and beyond Sometimes I'm very glad Konami doesn't listen to player feedback
The hardest truth I had to swallow is that Konami is either incompetent with game balance or they just don't care because money. The problem with the game is multifactorial in that no one likes Hand Traps, but they're forced to play them because of other things in the game that doesn't let them play. There aren't really any new players playing the game because the game doesn't let them play.
I think the only time we saw a non-battle related handtrap in the anime was when Yusei used Effect Veiler to stop a FTK. (Imperm wasn't used as a handtrap but as a board breaker)
I like handtraps. Without them the combo decks everyone bloviates about would literally be unstoppable. Also, if you're playing a deck with more substance, it's easy to play around most hand traps if you think for more than 5 seconds. Bait your opponent, it's really not that hard.
it absolutely isnt about competence and is all about maliciousness, konami is genuinely a dogshit company that treats the tcg of yugioh like a golden piggy bank
The hardest truths were that if I found a card or archetype I liked, unless I used the same copy/paste deck as everyone else, it wouldn't be viable. So I just play for fun. My Dark World has Dark Necrofear in it because she looks like she fits the vibe. Along with Darkness Neosphere and Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu.
Most modern cards/archetypes (key word: most) aren’t bad, it’s the fact that every competitive player needs to be playing the same bs hand traps and meta cards to be competitively viable. If players would stop doing this and played their archetypes more pure and how they’re intended to be played, this wouldn’t be as big as an issue
@@natedog8281I feel this so much with my Galaxy-Eyes deck, it’s purely built photon and galaxy cards with a lil cipher sprinkled in but because I don’t have any hand traps in it, I can’t do shit despite the fact that I can xyz summon 4k murder monsters consistently
@@natedog8281 this is honestly the only real way to enjoy the game anymore, I do the same thing and it’s great being able to have some actual back and forth with someone without having to worry about Ash Blossom constantly. Only reason I even tried Master Duel is because a friend recommended it tbh
@@gamingdragonofmordor3770 you should check out Domain format, it’s a fan made format that’s been getting a decent amount of attention lately and what I’ve mainly been playing with my friends. It’s a fun casual format for the game and it’s way more balanced than the current modern format
I'm currently an OJ player and I played the game before synchro summon was popular, so I didn't know what a synchro and tuner monsters are. I've seen opponents saying tuner and i hummed as if I understood what that is, I've always questioned why the counted and cared about the level of monsters lol, until later I've managed to discover what that is and unfortunately XYZ summon took place right after
The harshest truth for me was that the Deck I put my favourite cards in was absolute Dogshit. And there were support cards to make it "Meta", but I'd have to sell my Kidney for those.
@@dudono1744 Blue eyes. I think it was briefly Meta back then when the alternative Dragon came out, but getting that one, Ash Blossom and all of the other cards was way too expensive for me.
The hardest truths for me was: - god cards are weak - link cards exist - Xyz cards exist - Synchro cards exist - all cards in the anime were ether banned and or not printed - trying to find a new cool deck - buying the actual cards and the most hardest thing for me to try find out - WHAT THE F#$K POT OF GREED DOES (I still don't know what it does, please help )
@blackbird7781 I hope you're joking; Pot of Greed is a spell card that lets you draw 2 cards from your deck, without any limitations, restrictions, or any conditions for that matter. That's why it is banned.
God cards might be bad, doesn’t stop me from using them tough because 1 in 100 games I will draw that perfect hand and that snake eyes player will get his face melted off by the god of the sun
Hardest truth was that the game had changed so much that my deck of choice at the time (dark magician) was just getting hammered constantly had too learn the hard way aswell
Learning that Number cards can be destroyed by literally anything (except No. 9, that one is still virtually invincible) unless you have a specific field spell, making my favourite card, No. 39 Utopia, only anywhere near as good as it is in the anime under extremely specific circumstances
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The truth I learned is that the toughest opponents are the parents at locals who have their own banned lists. In the old days when there were only a few sets I went to a tournament at a walmart and cleared the first couple opponents easily, but this Karen came up and told me I couldn't use Exodia because it wasn't about who spent the most money when I was facing her kid. I opened my jacket to reveal two more decks like some pre-GX Bastion and was like "So would you rather I use my Blue-Eyes or my warriors I got from buying a ton of tins?"
@@pabloelloco5240 I ended up taking second in the tournament, top three got a picture in the local paper. My other decks weren't nearly as consistent as my Exodia deck. No, Karen's kid didn't place.
Zeus is very well designed. Isn't summoned during the battle phase and requires damage to your opponwnt first with an xyz, and, finally, their effect isn't negation and can destroy its own player's cards
A generic board wipe that needs to meet a condition, and could only be put at mp2 is good card design. Meaning that it gives going second players a play if they get disrupted Especially since lots of modern decks do lock them to specific types of monsters to SS
Most hard truth I faced was that building a scratch deck was hard but I did it anyway and still win because I made my deck from one card I chose at random and you'll have to guess😊
@@natedog8281 the ra's deciple aren't really good support because they use that normal summon you need for slifer meaning you need another way to tribute summon slifer and revived sky god needs monster reborn to be in grave and slifer to be in grave and the only way to make sliders attack higher is to have more cards in the hand which you'll need to discard at end phase and the fact that revived sky god is a trap already sets it back!And ra's deciple is more ra support than slifer and the royal straight cards aren't even a good way to summon slifer because relay again you very specific cards for that to work.
@@Cieloacestriker you don’t need monster reborn to be in the GY for Revived Sky God, it searches Monster Reborn from deck or GY, go back and re-read the card. And I’m not talking about Ra’s Disciple, you’re missing Thunderforce Attack which is a Raigeki for Slifer and lets you draw. You’ve clearly haven’t played with the Poker Knight cards cuz you have Jokers Straight that puts all three knights on the board for free, and then you have Thunderspeed Summon that literally searches Slifer and cheats out Slifer in 1 turn. On top of that you have Jokers Wild to help you get better access to those cards for combos and those cards get recycled back into your hand so your Slifer’s stats are always high
The first one… came back to Yugioh 1-2 yrs ago through Master Duel after not playing since I was a kid at the beginning of the GX era only to realize the extreme power creep. I watched 5Ds and Zexal but just chalked much of it up as anime stuff acknowledging synchros as a thing though. I did always like Stardust and intended it to be my main deck only to see how much the old Yugioh was gone and realizing synchros was the beginning of the end
Thats why me and my friends made our own formats where we play only with anime cards and honestly games are much better and slower. Nothing can beat moment when you beat someone with your favorite anime card
So Z-One was right all this time! Synchro *is* cancer to this world! But you can play goat format or edison format for older cards. Currently only dueling book, ygo omega, and ygopro provide those formats permanently.
@@ryumiOfficial I could see myself playing Edison. Goat format is going to be too slow for me. Funny enough tho, I would probably play heroes regardless of Edison or Goat. But also pick up stardust dragon assault mode and vayo turbo playing Edison depending on my mood
@@EliteHoopster2018 also bro. Yugioh is one thing that connect me with the childhood the most. I was frowing up in nice neighborhood and there are been a lot of kids there and literally everyone played yugioh so you could play with anyone anytime for years
Knowing that nearly 85% of your deck you had as a kid owning banned cards and that Axe of Despair didn't do jack against a whole army of link summoning. 😂😂
Hardest truth for me was learning that I couldn’t just build a deck of dragons and not add spells and traps and good lord did I learn that the hard way
I only started actually learning to play a couple weeks ago. And coming from playing MTG it took me forever to get the Attack and Defense things through my head.
Hand traps, being able to summon 10 monsters in a turn, nerfed Egyptian, other summoning methods (syncro, xyz, pendulum, link) gods all were a challenge for me to accept.
The hardest truth i had to learn when I came back to the game, was nearly every game ends on turn one by the going first player setting up negates and sitting on hand traps.
I think the toughest truth is that back then moves were simply, "I set two cards and summon vorse raider in attack position.' But now, you just don't get to play the game anymore.
I've been out of the game for ages but a card that is anti hand trap would be interesting. Something to the effect of, "during your turn, your opponent can't activate card effects from the hand."
A couple of those cards already exist. Mind Drain (continuous Trap): Activate this card by paying 1000 LP, Effects of monsters in hte hand cannot vbe activated. Debunk (counter trap): When a monster is activated in the hand or GY, negate the activation, and if you do, banish it.
The toughest truth is learning MST doesn’t negate.
It can stop that field spells effect though
It kinda can if you target and chain it to continuous spell and traps activating their effects.
wdym, it totally negates. I used MST to negate an Evenly Matched the other day and it went really well!
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😂. For some reason this shit made me laugh
@@pharaohavalon8566continuous too
A single turn takes more time than a whole match back in the days
True. I miss old Yugioh so much. The game felt like it had so much more soul in it back then. The cards printed during the Battle City/Pyramid of Light Era were peak. Plenty of archetypes to choose from, games weren't about setting up the perfect field turn one, the decks didn't play themselves, the game was fluid and ever changing. There was back and forth in the play. Strategies would clash and have to be rethought on the fly. Now, when you build a deck, it feels like you have a preset series of actions you always take for the best chance of winning. Maybe it's just me, but the soul of the game feels like it left a long time ago. The last time I liked Yugioh at all was during the synchro era. After that, it just felt like watching a relative you love dearly wasting away on life support even though brain death has already occurred. The lights are on, but no one is home. It's so hard to find anyone to play old school yugioh with, too. Sometimes, I play the old games to get some of that feeling again. I'm not gonna hate on anyone that likes new yugioh; if it makes them happy, then more power to em. It's just not for me. It feels dead and soulless to me.
Yh people are now using one turn to win and new players aren't enjoying the game
It also now has many bugs@CrunchyPudding101
@@CrunchyPudding101some players still had certain preset moves depending on their cards but nowhere near to the extent it is today
We had bluffing folks. Remember those days lol? Traps. You had to know when to swing and when to make a read. If you overextend you payed a price that couldn’t be top decked out of. There were no +5 plays of one card. Unless you heavied or mirrored or torrentialed. Then that’s on you.
I played from day one till insectorz. It’s hard to pinpoint when things went to shit. Lightsworn was fun. Sabers too. Sams. We could top deck out of scary situations for a while. Now you’re just locked. God I miss “set, set, go” I also remember a faaar cooler time during the games infancy. Those first 3-5 years were like nothing anyone can understand. I had cool adults playing this with 15 yo me. It’s not like how it is now where you gotta hose down those rooms after a match.
@@CrunchyPudding101 I'm keeping "Old Yugioh" alive by cutting out Synchros, XYZ, Pendulum, and Links completely, and limiting Hands Traps to one per deck.
Also limiting to only ONE copy of a single card in a deck - similar to MTG's EDH format.
You'd be surprised to find that there are A LOT of modern cards that complement such a play style.
It's really fun.
The hardest truth I had to learn was that some people were so obsessed with having the top most expensive decks, that they were willing to use the money meant to pay their water bill to buy the newer cards. Or at least, that's the impression I had, cause holy! The stench was disgusting.
Lord help us when a Yu-Gi-Oh event is happening in the same building as a smash tournament.
@@ShinimagisFTW There is a rule in many smash tournaments that hygiene is important if you smell too much you can be kicked out.
Oh sure don't play with whales. I'm glad there's duel links so I don't need to suffer master duel and real life's bs, though I have no idea how to compete with tag duel tournament anna kaboom 6000 atk train skill summon lol.
“Sometimes we don’t pay rent.”
- watching one guy gacha his way through one copy of a very expensive thing
@@dracophoenixttv yeah no, ygo tournaments have significantly better hygene standards than smash tournaments
That blue eyes white dragon was not virtually indestructible
It was *virtually* indestructible.
The hardest lesson for me to realize when I first learned the game was that destroying a card and negating a card were two very different things.
Most cards has that effects now sadly 😢 mxther fxcker can negate and destroy my cards not 1 per fxcker turn but every time i fxckin use an effect
Most cards has that effects now sadly 😢 mxther fxcker can negate and destroy my cards not 1 per fxcker turn but every time i fxckin use an effect
That’s honestly just common sense, and I don’t know why people thought 2+2=Rainbow Fish. Ya’ll really should’ve read the instruction manual that came with the starter decks.
🙄
@@SomaCruz500 there's a good reason you don't have friends
@@ilovedogs2642lmao
The real prizes in Yu-Gi-Oh are the friends we made along the way. Cuz there's no money. Not a single dollar. Nada.
Reprinting cards that are necessary is actually good though. I don't really care about the value cards or if they are a stable investment I just want to play the game.
They could reprint them in _lower_ rarities.
Tell that to KoA.
Reprinting cards is good for anyone coming in later, and really bad for the guy who literally just bought his. Ultimately I agree, just sucks for those few who got the bad timing.
Same in many markets, people think HOA are good because they protect home value, until you realize you get in, get taxed hard for many years, then the market falls out and is suddenly still worth less than your initial pay in. That's big suck, but while nobody currently has to worry about that if they let blackrock succeed in monopolizing homeownership, they also can look forward to everything being degenerate and empty houses being price gouged while a gradually growing percent of the population becomes homeless. I'll take the prior, in fact just axe the HOA to start and buy low like any other sensible "actually free" market.
@@RoundShades nobody but naive old people think HOAs are good. If I wanted a Nazi to tell me what I can do with my property id move to North korea
I agree👍
The hardest truth for all of us to swallow is that Yu-Gi-Oh just isn't the same game we came to love. Now it's just competitive solitare that new players couldn't even try to play against with any kind of strategy, and if we want to have ANY hope in hell of keeping Yu-Gi-Oh alive and be able to play the game we actually love, we need to branch off and create a seperate official league that bans all cards from synchro's onwards.
If only newer cards had heavier restrictions. More specific summoning requirements, less ways to cheat things out, heavier costs on strong effects, and a banlist that makes sense. I like a lot of new cards and mechanics, but the game was allowed to power creep way too far to be fun
So true
I honestly don't think we need to go that far. I honestly believe we just need a scorched earth banlist to decimate all the top performers
I would dearly love a competitive scene for the battle city/pyramid of light era cards. The game had so much life then. Games were fun. The back and forth in a game was what made it. Drawing one card could turn the tables without instantly ending the game. Playing a Mirror Force at just the right moment was like drinking cold water after hours spent outside with nothing to drink.
Yugioh 2005 Goat Format is life!! Tons of irl tournaments and tons of players on DuelingBook
“What do you mean my cards are fake” (10 yr old me playing at my local card shop for the first time I was given a starter deck and a couple of packs for free)
I SWEAR!!!! The first time I heard "that's a starter deck, those cards are fake, and you can't use them."
Drove me nuts lol
Wait am I missing some lore or something haha? They're fake?
@@averagechannelname9969bootlegs were common back then since YGO was the new Pokemon
@@averagechannelname9969either it's sweaty tournament nerds getting up in arms, or it may be a flea market starter deck or an Upper Deck starter deck (Upper Deck commissioned fake cards)
@gluttonousgoddess I was about to say, back when the game started the amount of fakes out there was insane. Especially the really bad fakes
You can’t bank on the Heart of the Cards to help you but you can definitely bet that Heart of the Cards will help your opponent
The hardest truth is that you can play the game however you want and build a deck around what you like. If you don’t care for tournaments and just want to have fun with family and friends, go for it!
I swear man.... I hated going against "Tournament players"
My friends and i would play, go back and forth on winning ,and losing, and we actually had to think in order to win.
Play a tournament player, and they're essentially spamming the exact same type of plays OVER AND OVER.
Just be playing like "Of thats cool, i cant use any cards" or "Ya know, ive always wanted to play someone who can one shot me within 1 to 3 turns..." Or the classic "That card is banned", me just casually playing (non tournament match) "THEN WHY MAKE IT, OR HAVE THE CARD!!!"
This. Too many people focus on the tournament aspects and not the casual aspects. Yugioh thrives on casual play
@@darthfader3122i have confused and beaten tournament players by simply playing a deck designed around almost never having the same plays. Apparently people can't fathom decks having more than one win condition than a single combo.
I'm not here hating and shit but some of you all are just getting skill issued
I've topped a locals before with a rikka traptrix deck that is very cheap, in a tournament full of ycs toppers
Most modern decks can compete and will see success if they're given to a player that knows what they're doing and know how to pick good ratios of utility cards to engine pieces
Casual is great and all but don't just talk shit if you get pummelled by a good player because you're bad at adapting to the gameplay of modern yugioh
Fortunately, edison and goat format exists
Also, "we had to think to actually win", bullshit. Modern yugioh is about capitalising when to hit your opponent's where it would hurt the most, also stuff like how to bait negations, and how would you make a board after being stopped mid-combo
Set 3 pass is not fucking skillful lol. Also even back in the goat format, the first one to loop pot of greed usually wins the game
@@YuiraKunthis is the hard truth that most casuals can’t take. And I’m a casual myself. It’s just a part of the game and you have to adapt.
Hardest truth is that Number cards only being destroyed by other Number cards was an anime only rule
Hardest thing is i can't play cards i love because i can't play what i love and win at the same time
This hurts because it’s true. RIP my Galaxy-Eyes…
@@gamingdragonofmordor3770 I liked playing against decks that actually enter battle phase without blasting all my back row or monsters with there affects
Casual play exists for a reason
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@@blackbird7781yeah until even the casual players do that shit.
If you go second you will spend 5+ minutes watching your opponent play solitaire, special summoning their entire deck twice over. There really ought to be a rule against special summoning more than twice a turn
Limiting special summoning will prob ruin the game. I get it may be annoying, but limiting summoning to that degree will make the game stale; way more strategic, yes, but also stale
Tbh, while I agree that I hate watching players summon their entire deck, limiting special summons like that would completely destroy my Infernoid deck, like it would be completely useless
I literally did that in my last match and the guy just got to get his cards negated and otk the next turn lol
The no cash one makes me feel bad for people who spent there lives on decks
Their*
@@matteomigliore1477looks like you spend yo life suxing cox
@@matteomigliore1477Their.*
This is Takahashi-san’s decision and true fans will honor that
@@pollux7961 That's cool. I've been a "true fan" since the manga was out. What I won't do is spend rent on a deck I can see in Master duel for free much less win a tournament for next to nothing. Oh and the "true fans" still love Yu-Gi-Oh but go play magic and other games cause they pay actual money.
back when i started, we didn't know what Fusion Summoning was, so i always had Dragon Master Knight in my Deck (which was the first Card i ever got)
I can't normal summon a monster in defence
We should be allowed to do that though.
@@alexanderrobins7497 🤝
@@alexanderrobins7497 I agree
Agreed.
@@alexanderrobins7497 that's not the way it works, monsters can only be summoned in face up attack position, or face down defense position.. unless you have a card such as special schedule, where you have a level 10 machine monster in your graveyard, you can special summon a monster in face up defense position. You can also use cards such as book of Life in order to flip your monster to face up defense position. Or if there is a effect that allows you to do that specifically. Besides that, if I'm going to play defense.. what card I played immediately. It kind of gives away the strategy. The whole idea is the element of surprise.
The toughest truth for me was learning I had to tribute monsters to summon Dark magician. This was back when the anime was still at the duelist kingdom arc and I took that for the rules and didnt read the rule book that came with the starter decks. I went to a local yugioh event at the toysrus and the opposing kid got mad I tried to summon dark magician without tribute.
I love that xD
The hardest truth for me was that some people are willing to steal an entire backpack of cards... I lost all my traders and all my decks still collecting cards but i don't go to many locals anymore
I had a college friend steal My spell caster deck I work hard on getting the cards for.
Yeeeah there are a lot of weirdo creeps in the community. Like any card game community sadly...
it was me get fked
it was me get fked
I was in the 6th grade and had all my exodia pieces and all my rares in a deck box , I remember it was green with green sleeves and I left them in my locker with a lock and some guy came while I was in pe and said he forgot the combo to his lock so they cut it and he stole my cards. Growing up I had to hide my cards because my stepmother thought they were witchcraft , around 8th grade I started collecting seriously up until I was about 25-26 in white binders , I left them at my fathers house and my step mother was cleaning my old room and found them and burned them thinking I didn’t want them anymore , had soooo many psa10 of everything , probably would have been worth half a million dollars today. Saddd collected all my life while trying to hide them and then poof up in flames … I won’t ever forget my grandmother used to take me to Books-A-Million on Saturdays to trade and duel people because she knew I loved it and she didn’t like my step mother .
Early on playing yugioh I made a buddy of mine learn a hard truth (~2002), Summoned Skull at that time was better than Dark Magician and Blue Eyes White Dragon because it has the same attack as Dark Magician, but only needs a single tribute, instead of 2, and having a higher attack than any other card we had available to us at the time's defense as well, so all I had to do was was focus on Giant Soldier of Stone and other monsters with 2k def, and as soon as I got a summoned skull, bring it onto the field with an axe of dispare in back-up just in case he was able to get his blue eyes on the field or dark magican.
The hardest truth at locals was the lack of hygiene from other players
OMFG I always hated that! Like deoderant doesnt even cost that much
@@blackbird7781 it was one of the reasons I stopped going at locals. How much does it cost to take a shower?
Slifer the Sky Dragon is a nightmare for link combo decks
I am your opponent. I draw nibiru whenever you're planning salamangreat. It was me Barry.
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💀💀
Nooooo 😢
Lmao salamangreat doesn't care about nib anymore.
I made a deck that turns using Nibiru against you.
The hardest thing for me was the fact that things that would've been considered effects back in the old days like shuffling cards from GY into the deck was now a 'cost'
The toughest truth for you should probably know: Realizing that it really doesn't take $1000 for a competitive deck. No, go on, hop on Yugioh Top Decks. Even Tier 0 decks like Kashtira aren't even $500. If you want ALL of the cards in their rarest print, maybe, but for playing, you don't need the rarest print. Just the card. Most of the time you can get away with $250-$350 budget. Compare that to MTG, which competitive, especially CEDH may very well run you about $1k.
Handtraps are also fine, but you'll learn when to bait them out. Have a good poker face. I've gotten high Diamond on Master Duel literally entirely off of Ancient Gears, which at the time I was playing was basically the highest rank, and Ancient Gears aren't even a rogue archetype and have never been competitive. Have them waste it on trash by psyching the play out. Skill > Cards almost every time. Any idiot can learn how to play solitaire with a deck by watching a TH-cam decklist video. As Zane Truesdale said, "A real Duelist knows WHEN to play their cards".
My most memorable loss involved a Dimensional Barrier that wasn't shotgunned, so gotta agree with Zane.
for cedh its cut in cost by the fact that proxies are accepted
Was looking at cedh decks and one was 20k with the rarest prints for the lands. Which is crazy, but I don’t play anything but draft outside of a casual sense.
You can certainly have budget commander decks too though with a good strategy.
#8 Current meta has games last a few turns, but those turns typically last around 5 to 10 minutes and play about half to more than half of the players' decks.
Hardest truth for me when I started playing yugioh is that buying starter deck exodia isn’t really a good choice
not to mention that rules in the anime do not carry over in the TCG!
specially when it comes to tributes!
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The hardest truth I learned was that u can loose before u even get a turn
Back in my day when Battle Fader was like the only relevant hand trap 😂
Battle Fader is a goat imo I still use it to this day
I used 3 a decade ago: veiler, battle fader, and honest (because my deck is heavy maha vailo).
Damn it was sweet memories with no snake eyes, baron, boreload, and link bs.
@@ryumiOfficial that's why I tend to play more Legacy Duels than competitive.
@HalalKaibaLegacy yeah the old mechanic is better. Something like time travel event in master duel to play old format is lovely. It's good that dueling book, ygo omega, and ygopro provide those goat format and edison format.
Also, I love watching meta-slave confused until time limit and can't understand how to play without their snake eyes or ongoing meta bs. Then they usually netdecking for crud cheap deck to use, which is easy to counter.
@@ryumiOfficial I can't imagine the horror of playimg Master Duel so I only play Duel Links and rarely Duel Nexus
YuGiOh: "No Cash Rewards"
Also YuGiOh: "Spend $5000 on a Tier 1 deck."
That most decks can win as long as they have proper hand traps and backrow
The hardest thing I had to learn was that just cuz it says its my turn doesn't mean I'll be playing the most cards this turn.
5, 4, and 3 are exclusively TCG problems, too. Engineered by Konami and presalers on online marketplaces like TCGPlayer and Cardmarket.
The hardest thing I had to learn was what Pot of Greed does
Numbers can be destroyed by non numbers (Grew up with zexal)
Me too 🫶. It's even more disappointing to realize that and read the last line of Utopia's text (self destruct)
Pulling labyrinth wall from a pack when I was a kid and learning it doesn’t have an effect like the whole paradox brothers episode in the anime. It shattered my view on reality.
Duelist Kingdom isn't like the card game at all, even _within_ the anime's rules.
The hardest truth is that I'm not as good as I thought I was 😅😢
The Crystal Beast cards were my favorite, my first structure deck, and I liked Jesse as a character in Gx. Broke my heart to find out they aren't good competitively
Edit: but they're still fun to use against friends
When i entered in the learning realm of Yu gi oh Tcg i already know that i gonna be fucked só hard in a match that i want do give up in the first match because my opponent have 5 hand traps
We should have a law not only to limit homany monsters can summon, but also no handtraps can be use for the first turn😂😂😂
Yeah they include 20 of them solely to not allow other to play and hope to win by surrender. That fkn mustards.
@@4lifemusic78 oh, sure, like going first isn't strong enough already, now those tools intended to give the going second player an edge can only be used on turn 2 and beyond
Sometimes I'm very glad Konami doesn't listen to player feedback
Playing photon warrior.. enemy be like nah uh, ash blossom stop this guy.. all the fricking time
The hardest truth I had to swallow is that Konami is either incompetent with game balance or they just don't care because money.
The problem with the game is multifactorial in that no one likes Hand Traps, but they're forced to play them because of other things in the game that doesn't let them play.
There aren't really any new players playing the game because the game doesn't let them play.
I think the only time we saw a non-battle related handtrap in the anime was when Yusei used Effect Veiler to stop a FTK. (Imperm wasn't used as a handtrap but as a board breaker)
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Don't forget Z-ONE in 5D's. He was OP because he uses LITERAL Hand Traps.
@@darkglass3011 oh true.
I like handtraps. Without them the combo decks everyone bloviates about would literally be unstoppable. Also, if you're playing a deck with more substance, it's easy to play around most hand traps if you think for more than 5 seconds. Bait your opponent, it's really not that hard.
it absolutely isnt about competence and is all about maliciousness, konami is genuinely a dogshit company that treats the tcg of yugioh like a golden piggy bank
I learned some people play with archetypes not because they like the concept or the art or the playing style. They only use it because it competitive.
Lightning Vortex not triggering Dark Worlds effects
No because it's lightning vortex is a cost not an effect that why it doesn't work, dude
@@chrislabedzski9076that was the point 😂
Learning that evenly match was a handtrap and BANISHED cards was definitely an experience.
The hardest truths were that if I found a card or archetype I liked, unless I used the same copy/paste deck as everyone else, it wouldn't be viable.
So I just play for fun. My Dark World has Dark Necrofear in it because she looks like she fits the vibe. Along with Darkness Neosphere and Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu.
Most modern cards/archetypes (key word: most) aren’t bad, it’s the fact that every competitive player needs to be playing the same bs hand traps and meta cards to be competitively viable. If players would stop doing this and played their archetypes more pure and how they’re intended to be played, this wouldn’t be as big as an issue
@@natedog8281I feel this so much with my Galaxy-Eyes deck, it’s purely built photon and galaxy cards with a lil cipher sprinkled in but because I don’t have any hand traps in it, I can’t do shit despite the fact that I can xyz summon 4k murder monsters consistently
@@gamingdragonofmordor3770 yep! And this is why I’m a casual player and only play with my small group of friends
@@natedog8281 this is honestly the only real way to enjoy the game anymore, I do the same thing and it’s great being able to have some actual back and forth with someone without having to worry about Ash Blossom constantly. Only reason I even tried Master Duel is because a friend recommended it tbh
@@gamingdragonofmordor3770 you should check out Domain format, it’s a fan made format that’s been getting a decent amount of attention lately and what I’ve mainly been playing with my friends. It’s a fun casual format for the game and it’s way more balanced than the current modern format
Mine was that no one actually uses duel disks
Mystic mine Is too powerful to be unbanned 😢
I disagree. It should be at 6. Set my mine free. #freethemine
#freethemine (I don't wanna spend 1k on a deck so stun will have to do lol)
If Master Duel bans Maxx C then Mystic Mine enters!
I'm currently an OJ player and I played the game before synchro summon was popular, so I didn't know what a synchro and tuner monsters are. I've seen opponents saying tuner and i hummed as if I understood what that is, I've always questioned why the counted and cared about the level of monsters lol, until later I've managed to discover what that is and unfortunately XYZ summon took place right after
Its a business first, and unlike the OCG, the TCG will milk players long before the game gets a good banlist.
OCG is notorious for bad banlists
We actually have a pretty good banlist. Maxx C is banned for example
The hardest lesson for me was to realize that the game isn't about playing your combo but preventing the opponent from playing its combo.
Promise me I don't care about all of those but the most hardest thing I had to hear is I couldn't draw on the first turn and pot of greed I can't play
The top tier deck price is a TCG issue only. That does not exists in the OCG because of the significantly better printing practices.
The difference between activated effect and conditional effects
And number 1B:You will draw every hand trap you don't need.
The harshest truth for me was that the Deck I put my favourite cards in was absolute Dogshit. And there were support cards to make it "Meta", but I'd have to sell my Kidney for those.
What kind of deck is it ?
@@dudono1744 Blue eyes. I think it was briefly Meta back then when the alternative Dragon came out, but getting that one, Ash Blossom and all of the other cards was way too expensive for me.
@@zdani5941 Oh, yeah Alternative was a promo I think.
And oh god, now look at what the new Blue-Eyes support costs.
At least the new structure will be cheap
“There’s always Edison” shows a card that wasn’t in Edison
Too be fair handtraps were a thing way before ash
Veiler was literally used in the anime
Kuriboh
The hardest truth is that red eyes are treated as a unwanted child
The hardest truths for me was:
- god cards are weak
- link cards exist
- Xyz cards exist
- Synchro cards exist
- all cards in the anime were ether banned and or not printed
- trying to find a new cool deck
- buying the actual cards
and the most hardest thing for me to try find out
- WHAT THE F#$K
POT OF GREED DOES
(I still don't know what it does, please help )
Pot of greed has a rainvow colored fish that swallowed a ton of rare golden coins swimming in it. It just is. a jar of water for the fish
@blackbird7781 I hope you're joking; Pot of Greed is a spell card that lets you draw 2 cards from your deck, without any limitations, restrictions, or any conditions for that matter. That's why it is banned.
@@robertdelgadocapetillo8684 well it is banned, so we will never know
@@blackbird7781 WOW 🤩
really? thanks 👍
*5 minutes later *
What does pot of greed do?
@@robertdelgadocapetillo8684 no im serious. Im talking about the lore.
God cards might be bad, doesn’t stop me from using them tough because 1 in 100 games I will draw that perfect hand and that snake eyes player will get his face melted off by the god of the sun
Hardest truth was that the game had changed so much that my deck of choice at the time (dark magician) was just getting hammered constantly had too learn the hard way aswell
Yep and even though they new black luster soldier fusion is coming it’s only helping blue eyes and black luster more.
Bro so true for the first 2😭
I'm pretty sure simoon is not an edison card hahahaha
Yeah I think I made a whoopsie xD. Idk if it's clear but I'm just getting into Edison so I know very little about the card pool lol
Simoon would single-handedly destroy the Edison format xD
Learning that Number cards can be destroyed by literally anything (except No. 9, that one is still virtually invincible) unless you have a specific field spell, making my favourite card, No. 39 Utopia, only anywhere near as good as it is in the anime under extremely specific circumstances
play gamma = driver in opening hand
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Hardest truth is no one can tell what Pot of Greed effect
It let's you draw 2 cards.
Which is really just a one card bonus.
The truth I learned is that the toughest opponents are the parents at locals who have their own banned lists. In the old days when there were only a few sets I went to a tournament at a walmart and cleared the first couple opponents easily, but this Karen came up and told me I couldn't use Exodia because it wasn't about who spent the most money when I was facing her kid. I opened my jacket to reveal two more decks like some pre-GX Bastion and was like "So would you rather I use my Blue-Eyes or my warriors I got from buying a ton of tins?"
What happened next?
@@pabloelloco5240 I ended up taking second in the tournament, top three got a picture in the local paper. My other decks weren't nearly as consistent as my Exodia deck. No, Karen's kid didn't place.
The toughest truth I swallowed was that Konami thought Zeus was good card design.
Devine Arsenal AA Zeus Sky Thunder is a good designed card
Remember, it's only bad card design if it doesn't benefit us specifically. For me Zeus is great card design
Zeus is very well designed. Isn't summoned during the battle phase and requires damage to your opponwnt first with an xyz, and, finally, their effect isn't negation and can destroy its own player's cards
A generic board wipe that needs to meet a condition, and could only be put at mp2 is good card design. Meaning that it gives going second players a play if they get disrupted
Especially since lots of modern decks do lock them to specific types of monsters to SS
Harsh truth is knowing your fun deck will almost never be consistent enough to win you a tournament.
Edison is amazing
Most hard truth I faced was that building a scratch deck was hard but I did it anyway and still win because I made my deck from one card I chose at random and you'll have to guess😊
Slifer wasn't and is never getting support
Slifer will never get a good support card because it a good floodgates card
@@bkshrekmrass6669 I'll just hope my favorite god card gets support one day
Slifer literally has 2 support cards and an entire archetype dedicated to it
@@natedog8281 the ra's deciple aren't really good support because they use that normal summon you need for slifer meaning you need another way to tribute summon slifer and revived sky god needs monster reborn to be in grave and slifer to be in grave and the only way to make sliders attack higher is to have more cards in the hand which you'll need to discard at end phase and the fact that revived sky god is a trap already sets it back!And ra's deciple is more ra support than slifer and the royal straight cards aren't even a good way to summon slifer because relay again you very specific cards for that to work.
@@Cieloacestriker you don’t need monster reborn to be in the GY for Revived Sky God, it searches Monster Reborn from deck or GY, go back and re-read the card. And I’m not talking about Ra’s Disciple, you’re missing Thunderforce Attack which is a Raigeki for Slifer and lets you draw. You’ve clearly haven’t played with the Poker Knight cards cuz you have Jokers Straight that puts all three knights on the board for free, and then you have Thunderspeed Summon that literally searches Slifer and cheats out Slifer in 1 turn. On top of that you have Jokers Wild to help you get better access to those cards for combos and those cards get recycled back into your hand so your Slifer’s stats are always high
Not me, I looked up to Pegasus💯🤘🏽
The first one… came back to Yugioh 1-2 yrs ago through Master Duel after not playing since I was a kid at the beginning of the GX era only to realize the extreme power creep. I watched 5Ds and Zexal but just chalked much of it up as anime stuff acknowledging synchros as a thing though. I did always like Stardust and intended it to be my main deck only to see how much the old Yugioh was gone and realizing synchros was the beginning of the end
Thats why me and my friends made our own formats where we play only with anime cards and honestly games are much better and slower. Nothing can beat moment when you beat someone with your favorite anime card
So Z-One was right all this time! Synchro *is* cancer to this world!
But you can play goat format or edison format for older cards. Currently only dueling book, ygo omega, and ygopro provide those formats permanently.
@@jakovstojkovic8851 happy to hear tht, I miss playing yugioh with family and friends as a kid
@@ryumiOfficial I could see myself playing Edison. Goat format is going to be too slow for me. Funny enough tho, I would probably play heroes regardless of Edison or Goat. But also pick up stardust dragon assault mode and vayo turbo playing Edison depending on my mood
@@EliteHoopster2018 also bro. Yugioh is one thing that connect me with the childhood the most. I was frowing up in nice neighborhood and there are been a lot of kids there and literally everyone played yugioh so you could play with anyone anytime for years
hardest truth was watching this game slowly evolve into what it is today
Knowing that nearly 85% of your deck you had as a kid owning banned cards and that Axe of Despair didn't do jack against a whole army of link summoning. 😂😂
Hardest truth for me was learning that I couldn’t just build a deck of dragons and not add spells and traps and good lord did I learn that the hard way
Yugi teaches that to Joe in episode one of the anime. Its the first thing he teahes him.
As someone who only duels with his brother, the hardest truth Ive come to learn is every card can be useful when applied correctly
I think the toughest one to hear is the one about the anime
I only started actually learning to play a couple weeks ago. And coming from playing MTG it took me forever to get the Attack and Defense things through my head.
The whole ‘you have sacrifice monsters’ thing was in the tcg since square one. The anime just omits that rule during the Pegasus arc.
They need to limit hand traps to one and Ban evenly match.
Hand traps, being able to summon 10 monsters in a turn, nerfed Egyptian, other summoning methods (syncro, xyz, pendulum, link) gods all were a challenge for me to accept.
The hardest truth i had to learn when I came back to the game, was nearly every game ends on turn one by the going first player setting up negates and sitting on hand traps.
I think the toughest truth is that back then moves were simply, "I set two cards and summon vorse raider in attack position.'
But now, you just don't get to play the game anymore.
The hardest truth was that even when it’s your turn.. it’s still the opponents turn
Yugioh was so fun back then. The god cards are so cool. The old stuff is so good.
Danno being laggy the whole time was so funny to me 😂
Obelisk is actually pretty good in older formats. The targeting and summon protection could be very relevant
I've been out of the game for ages but a card that is anti hand trap would be interesting. Something to the effect of, "during your turn, your opponent can't activate card effects from the hand."
A couple of those cards already exist.
Mind Drain (continuous Trap): Activate this card by paying 1000 LP, Effects of monsters in hte hand cannot vbe activated.
Debunk (counter trap): When a monster is activated in the hand or GY, negate the activation, and if you do, banish it.
That is why I like just collecting cool, expensive, and rare yugioh cards (I just also don’t know how to play the game, to confusing to me 😅)
Hardest truth for me.. "The game will be over turn 3.. Your slow gimmick deck will not work."
Been running raidraptor Blackwing for about 5 years been chilling
The hardest truth came from duel links and it’s that Kaibas blue eyes decks is a force to be reckoned with, especially with that damn egg
I still can't seem to get myself actually interested in the game, but the lore of the cards or fact videos really interest me.
As long as there are these crazy 30 minute turns and op decks....... LONG LIVE HAND TRAPS!!!!!!
I started playing back in 2002😅 quit playing around 2012. Then trying to come back after 12-13 years is wild. The game has drastically changed
I got into yugioh when it first came out in the US, and the hardest thing to accept is how expensive it's gotten!
I think that GOAT is the best format for fans of the original show that want to play competitive