The video didn’t come out the best, with the amount of audio mistakes it had, and on hindsight I do have a problem with the overall way I analyzed the decks, but I couldn't manage to rerecord the audio without it sounding totally off, but hopefully it still came out all right! But if you still enjoyed the content, this video is the second part, so make sure to go watch that one after this. Part 1: th-cam.com/video/pr4b7LAwiaQ/w-d-xo.html
A creator is going to notice all of their errors and a good 1/4th of average consumers (atleast in the States) suffers from childhood lead poisoning. You're all good, no one minded.
Technically, that is his legit power. Seriously. The millennium Items have unique powers that come into play. And the Millennium Puzzle's power is fate manipulation. If there is an aspect that relies on random chance, the puzzle will guarantee the desired outcome. Yugi doesn't cheat most of the time, but in a shadow game (Where many of the high stakes games are) the Millennium Items are legal to use. This is why the duels that AREN'T shadow games are the ones that Yugi has a harder time in.
@ It's explicitly stated in the end of the original manga and show that he has this power and it's shown throughout the entire run. It how he won a shadow game by having his opponent roll a 7 on a single 6 sided die. Or how he managed to get a massive chain thanks to Berserker Soul despite his deck having a healthy amount of spell and trap cards. (MONSTA CARDO) He LITERALLY, cannot brick. And will always get the preferred outcome from ANY random event, be it, RNG, coin flips, dice, drawing cards.
Judai’s deck compliment each other, I think you mean Manjoume, three archetypes that don’t have anything to do with each other is crazy (xyz, ojama, armed drag)
@@kuyaboben5300 true true, Manjoume had an even jankier deck. I just wanted an excuse to have him talk about all of Jaden’s deck variations bc HEROs are so cool😅
@@Tron-pg4jcas he should have. Because by that time yu gi oh was an established franchise/card game. In the first yu gi oh season, the card game didnt even exist. And after that it was more about a few small effects and powerfull spells without real synergy. The actual synergy literally came with the gx era
@@Tron-pg4jc Have you tried to build and play Jaden's deck like it's built in the anime? It's awful. Just look at all those useless support cards specific to monsters like Avian and Bubbleman. That alone brings his deck down a lot. And don't get me started on the Neo Spacians.
The anime world is pretty crazy. Not only is card scarcity a thing, but people can literally train themselves to draw cards better. And that’s ignoring the ability to taint/purify cards and mental energy. GX Yugi put his deck on world tour, and Judai beat that in the hands of a random. But Judai calls DM Yugi unpredictable, one step ahead, and his strongest opponent yet with Yugi giving similar respect to Judai and his deck seeming to respond to his will. Then we got Atem getting shook by Yugi’s miraculous draws, and then showcases such faith in his cards his will inadvertently affects his next draw and their duel transcends the comprehension of the bystanders that he blatantly knows his next draw. Something the series hints at during Battle City with Seto even after all of Season 1 (where Yugi also tells Joey he didn’t beat Bonz due to luck and has Mai double down on the ideal it wasn’t a fluke she lost to him) and his work to understand the Heart of the Cards which transcended standard calculations. This isn’t even accounting for how True Duelists went from being implied to acquire archetypal support for plot and has YGO Seven straight up say True Duelists attract new cards to them to power themselves up. Between that and how Duel Spirits, The Crimson Dragon, and Shining Draw operate as well and Yuya/Zarc & Ray straight up creating a new phenomenon in Pendulum Summoning (ignoring Yuzu & Yuma just getting new extra deck monsters that weren’t pre-made) and how Aigami just pulls up with Dimension Summoning. Or how Revolver somehow got new Borrel monsters when Storm Access only gave him (randomly generated) Topologics before… Pegasus really wasn’t kidding about Duels being soul battles and the power of imagination being the potential of duelists. Lmao.
Oof. I forgot that Custom Decks (not just Pegasus with Toons, and Judai winning the KaibaCorp challenge) was an official thing in GX, and illegal monsters that do real damage were a thing in 5D’s during the WRGP.
There is also the fact to be considered, that cards in the anime and manga "evolve". Like, we often shit on things like Dark Sage, because in the real life game it is a card that takes up a slot in the deck. But, in the anime, it is simply what happens to Dark Magician when he is affected by Time Wizard. Or how Dark Flare Knight turns into Mirage Knight.
@@stoobie94 Timaeus also transforms monsters, but I felt like it already fell under shenanigans but in the NAWCQ script duels we see Burning Abyss tank Time Magic because eternity
There's one you missed. In an episode of GX, Yugi's deck (minus the God Cards) is stolen from a museum and Jaden duels the thief (who has gone a little crazy and thinks he's Yugi, and uses Yugi's deck during their duel) to get it back.
In the Manga, Yugi stated that he believes a deck is only 15 cards that you will never change. All of the rest of the cards are purely for experimentation. So it's a small wonder that there will be quite a bit of contradictions with his overall deck.
This was an excellent pair of videos to watch through! I'm also glad that you mention the rule of cool in your conclusion. The anime, manga, and movies are marketing mechanisms first and foremost, so they show us really cool cards regardless of how situational they actually are IRL.
If you were tasked to make a functional deck only using cards respective protags owned including anime cards/effects, we all know Playmaker takes it, but Yuma/Astral, Yusei & Yugi/Atem really can go from 0 to 100 outta nowhere. Meanwhile we hope extra hard not to brick as Judai & Yuya from a purely pragmatic perspective despite how explosive they can be too. I didn’t include Yuga & Yudias simply because their cards would likely be tweaked if moved to the Master Duel format akin to how YGO Cross Duel gave us flavor text for things like Winged Kuriboh.
If I remember correctly from the manga, Valkhrion, the Magnet Warrior was either a fusion monster or didn't begin in the main deck. Regardless, it's still bad.
people forget that the only reason this deck worked was because it was yugi. so what if he had 10 cards that were useless under most conditions. the guy could draw any card he needed at any time. he would never draw a dead card
In fairness, Yugi’s cards are not special one of a kind for the most part. And a company retraining cards people like is not a surprise. Yugi just likes a majority of cards everyone elsecdoes.
We cannot forget that even though Yu-GiOh! was an anime with a story to follow, its main objetive was to sell real life cards, so it was necessary for Yugi/Atem's deck to feature as many cool cards as possible, and they weren't wrong: Most of Yugi's card are loved to this day.
6:17 Because of deck thinning and consistency. Running 2 Buster Bladers would mean once you've used one for Dark Paladin, or however you might use him, it's most likely the other one will become a brick. By running emblem, if you draw it, you search Blader from the deck, leaving you to draw better cards afterwards.
His deck is basically entire database, and he draws the right card at the right narrative point. In other words, his deck makes no sense because the narration makes no sense.
This video was amazing and incredibly fun to watch. I'd love to see a video where you try to fix Yugi's decks for all of their weaknesses and see how much more viable it would be then.
You should have reviewed Atem’s deck in the last arc as it continues your main complaints with all his other decks and it is strange to switch to a character whose deck building strat is so completely different
I have enjoyed this series hope to see it for Jaden too I say this as ive used a Yugi charather deck as my actual deck for over a decade and i still love it. THANKS ❤
Yeah I don't even know how he wins with that hodgepog mess of a deck. But this is coming from a second-generation player who jumped in during GX when archetypes began to take over the game. His "Silent and LV" deck was really good.
I think he'd probably have a lot of the same issues. I'm rewatching season one now and Judai runs a ton of cards that are support for only one specific elemental hero
To me its ass og elemental heros suck even if they are my favorite you need specific acards to summon at best mediocre monsters only good cards are eshricel and shining flare wingman he unfortunately uses specific equip spells like spark blaster a card that only works on sparkman that changes battle position while battle controler exists and its quick effect
@@SerbianSpark19 To be fair, you gotta compare it to the power level at the time + remember there wasn't a limit on how many cards you could run in the extra deck at the time. The og elemental heroes were pretty decent at the time
@@wafflespersonal4911 i forgot that but yea if you want elemental heros you play omni and jaden has super poly a card he cant realy use exept to fuse on his side since elemental heroes need specific fusion materials while omni has elemental hero + atteibute monster And don't get me started on neos
@SerbianSpark19 I mean he only has super poly after a ton of his friends "died" and he did his evil arc, but yeah he didn't really have much use for that other than Dark Gaia. Still, playing Omni heroes back then was trash. Destiny heroes were awful and we didn't have any of the good masked hero support irl until the series was almost over. I guess you could count manga Jaden's deck, but that's a totally different thing
To all who say Pharaoh Magic: rig all you want, you can't force a winning hand if your cards are really bad as Yugi's, heck he probably rewrote the card effects too. And let's assume that Yugi puts every card he plays in the show on the same deck.
34 minutes in, I had a realisation. Talking about niche cards that come up in weird scenarios makes the duel more varied. If Yugi were to perfectly optimize his deck into a consistent strategy then each duel would play out nearly the same which isn't that interesting over time. That being said, I wonder how his deck from the voice actor duels they sometimes do at yugioh tournaments would stack up. Konami would use this to promote new cards such as Yugi having pot of desires and pot of greed in his deck.
Yugi's in-built advantage isn't just plot armour - The Millennium Puzzle grants him a massive luck boost when he needs it most - Commonly called the Heart of the Cards in the anime.
there is actually a way to play yugis trap combo, its a yubel deck, using the spell card her deck has you can force the initial attack and make use of yubels effect to keep you from taking damage, as by pairing up her ability to send damage back to your opponenet, the spell cards ability to do the same, and the dimension combo doing the same as well, they are taking triple the effect damage and at less cost from you
The emergency provisions can be used with a ferry type.So th but are level 5 and you can put them in the small trap zone.So when you pop it it's special summons itself and you get life points
The irony of yugi beating the pharaoh and sending him to the afterlife is supposed to mean he can stand on his own but he loses without him and needed him to win in dark side of dimensions
And the reason is simple, he uses a worse deck. His own deck without Dark Magician was much better. Heck, the re-train of his deck is actually competitive.
To be honest, the only reason Yami Yugi wins duels is because of his probability manipulation magic. His deck holds no real consistency. There are a lot of situational cards such as Sage’s Stone, which requires Dark Magician Girl on the field and Dark Magician in deck. Or Valkyrion, despite it being a powerful card, it’s summoning condition requires 3 specific cards that Yugi only has one copy of each. If Yugi ran more than one copy of certain cards, then things would make more sense. Heck, even his Fusions aren’t consistent. He only has one copy of Polymerization, and his heaviest hitter, being Dark Paladin, requires two specific monsters, meaning 3 specific cards that he only has one copy of, and even then, it’s a situational use card itself, seeing as its effect only matters when Dragons are involved, and Yugi barely runs dragons. How many Dragons does Yami Yugi even play? I know Curse of Dragon is a constant, and he has used Des Voltsgaf in the virtual world. Oh, speaking of his Fusions: Gaia the Dragon Champion. 3 specific cards yet again, and it doesn’t even have an effect, it’s only 100 atk higher than his ace.
Yami Yugi or Atem has too many tribute summons in his deck which can cause problems in a game, can hinder your gameplay especially if they fill your entire hand thus causing you to lose. Also your not going to have Luster Solder with Dark Magician in an actual deck, also your not going to have magnet warriors in a deck especially if it focuses on Spellcasters.
Ironically, Kuriboo would be great in Labrynth. Sets up Lovely Labrynth Of The Silver Castle's GY trap recursion effect with the trap discard and the Cutting an opponent's monster down by 1500 atk lets Lovely and Lady Labrynth walk over anything by battle.
I like to think Yugis cards are blank and he draws specifically what he needs. You telling me he had Black Skull Dragon in his deck when he tag duel the Paradox brothers? Joey didn't have Red Eyes until the island so why would he have that card??
You know I could see some actual use with a dimension card on an exo sister build... It would be extremely niche though And you Would need to make sure that you have enough sister pairs that you can keep healing. An interesting albeit risky gambit to finish off a low health opponent
It's somewhat redundant to say it makes no sense when the Millennium item grants him a Destiny Draw ability in times of crisis. It's why (in combination with his talent for games and strategy) he can pull out a win. That said, I do agree the DSOD deck composition made no sense and hurt the movie somewhat, but I get that they were trying to shill new cards rather than reprints. Yu-Gi-Oh being a merchandise commercial is why these decks suffer in the real world but they can strike a balance and create story reasons behind card additions (like Exodia being stolen), it's a pity it wasn't used more.
Yugi praticly has Destiny Draw power. He draws what he needs when he is in truble. But also when he was in a duel vs Wivil he draw only monsters so his Breaker could attack multipl of times! So he praticly whis for a card and if he believe it will come it will become card that he wanted.
I will say that me and my friends play anime duels in master duel all the time. I play a yugi inspired deck, all cards are 1 of's in the decks and even if it's "bad" it does work. Its about a 50% win rate tbh. Playing anime or og yugioh is a lot of fun for me considering im a yugi-boomer at this point 😅
Got to love how the only reason why Yugi's deck has ever worked was because Atem canonically cheats in every single game with the canon power to draw whatever card in the deck he wants or needs. Considering how their deck has also canonically become a special display, imagine someone stealing said deck, looking at the cards, and wondering: "Wtf is this garbage? How did he win all those games with this?"
@@demetriusshuler1391 It's more referring to how he, via literal magic, cheats to get perfect consistency in a deck with absolutely no consistency whatsoever. Come to think of it, Kaiba's deck is even worse due to being filled to the brim with bricks yet he never bricks a hand.
@@joshuakim5240duelists canonically get a bonus from drawing technique. Clearly they are great at drawing. Atem’s ability (the puzzle) mainly is influenced by how dangerous the situation is
3:12 has the wrong effect text on five star?? also may be an errata to the card but pretty sure five star allows to summon the kuribros from hand, deck *and or* graveyard, as long as they're not banished or untargettable by other effects for whatever reason you're fine using em
You realize that Atem had the power to draw any card he needed in a given situation so he'll never brick. Look at the duel with Bakura during the battle city finals, he needed to draw Slifer to win and what happened? He drew it
Well at the time of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime these cards were perfect and very rare and as the seasons went, Yami Yugi was perfecting his deck. Kaiba of course and every anime character. But polymerizing the arrow and the mammoth to contaminate the blue eyes ultimate dragon, this was not just plot armor, this was broken but anyway the normal outcome sold well. Kaiba had a stronger deck during the first season.
Your wrong its playable if you go by archetype instead of what he played when, put all the gaget and silent together amazing same with dark magician and gia, its just meant to be focused on one and not a mesh of em all
Yugi's deck wasn't filled with every single card that appeared over the course of the series, that would make his deck around 90 cards which wasn't the case.
Just like the last video I feel that you are mistaken on some points. I do enjoy the idea that you do point out that some of the cards being one offs is a problem both in this video as well as the last one except this is kinda hard to take too seriously when there are modern DM decks that only run one dark magician and dark magician girl. The Kuriboh brothers are ok for setting up god card summons that not the best at doing so it is something they can do. The concept of running two buster bladers instead of the spell is worse as the deck actually can brick even worse as the spell can at least be used for Emergency provisions or skilled dark magician. Also chain destruction is not the worst card to have as this was around the time a lot of people used multiple copies of cards like man eater bug, han han, as well as penguin solider. For the atem and yugi duel, one that was swift gaia not just normal gaia as this was the introduction of its retrain and while you mention this being a retrain in a later part with the pyramid of light segment it makes if seem like you think it is the og one here, two Dark magician is probably at its best in this deck as its much easier to work with than the other decks of atem. That said I will agree that yugi's deck here is really good even if the anime only effects really carry some of the game lol. Lastly the reason some of the decks did not brick was due to the discard effects. Card destruction, the tricky, and many others set up the graveyard just like they do now just with older cards with a lot less power and revival effects. I will say not mentioning gemini elf as a spellcaster I feel is an oversight but that is fine for the most part. I am not really sure what to say about the final deck as it does seem more put together but at the same time more split than what it should be.
32:35 yugi didnt "ditch" the broken cards. As shown in yugioh gx when fake yugi summons BLS Envoy and Jaden mentions the card is supposed to be banned, They share a banlist with the ocg. Meaning that pog and graceful is banned during DSOD.
@Monoanalysis in gx pog was still at one. It stayed at one after the goat format banlist, which was the same one that banned bls. Also, they're not in different worlds. Jaden met yugis grandpa while they were searching for sartorious' sister.
Even if we were to ignore how they are in a different time line, you are making a connection between the anime not wanting to advertise banned cards translating to in universe the anime has a ban list that follows the ocg. It’s also the same reason why firewall dragon never showed up in vrains after being banned irl. Just because we know the existence of two banned cards doesn’t confirm that the anime follows the OCG ban list.
Well to be fair, yugioh wasn’t meant for people to be making decks with only 10 different cards & using 3 of the same cards to fill out the rest of the deck 😂
@ three blue eyes to to summon a monster. That doesn’t explain why people use 3 of the same spells and traps and monsters who don’t even have a fusion card. The game is broken lol
That is the nature of card games in general. The reason most historical decks from around the time of the og anime played 1 ofs...is because 3 of that card was so broken it needed to be limited. Card games are all about consistency to mitigate randomness. I would much rather play 3 marshmallow then 1 marshmallow and 1 dark magician and 1 gaia.
Yes he has the ability but he can only use it dire situations”heart of the cards” moments .. also its never explained if its the card that he actually wants or the card the puzzle thinks he needs most
Yami is a liar. He told Arkana, that his Dark Magic Curtain also counts for Yami but in the Card Text it doesn't say that it applies for the opponent as well.
The video didn’t come out the best, with the amount of audio mistakes it had, and on hindsight I do have a problem with the overall way I analyzed the decks, but I couldn't manage to rerecord the audio without it sounding totally off, but hopefully it still came out all right!
But if you still enjoyed the content, this video is the second part, so make sure to go watch that one after this.
Part 1: th-cam.com/video/pr4b7LAwiaQ/w-d-xo.html
A creator is going to notice all of their errors and a good 1/4th of average consumers (atleast in the States) suffers from childhood lead poisoning. You're all good, no one minded.
DSoD is placed in the manga continuity via Kishimoto himself. So Pegasus is long dead here.
@@aliastheabnormal kishimoto did not write yugioh, but naruto
It’s a great video but there’s literally an add every 3 minutes
@ No, that's just modern TH-cam.
His deck is perfect. You didnt take into consideration plot armor. He never bricks
Technically, that is his legit power. Seriously.
The millennium Items have unique powers that come into play. And the Millennium Puzzle's power is fate manipulation. If there is an aspect that relies on random chance, the puzzle will guarantee the desired outcome. Yugi doesn't cheat most of the time, but in a shadow game (Where many of the high stakes games are) the Millennium Items are legal to use.
This is why the duels that AREN'T shadow games are the ones that Yugi has a harder time in.
Tell me you didn't watch the video all the way without telling me you didn't watch the video all the way.
@@NotSpecialDudeno any skilled duelist has this power
@ It's explicitly stated in the end of the original manga and show that he has this power and it's shown throughout the entire run. It how he won a shadow game by having his opponent roll a 7 on a single 6 sided die. Or how he managed to get a massive chain thanks to Berserker Soul despite his deck having a healthy amount of spell and trap cards. (MONSTA CARDO) He LITERALLY, cannot brick. And will always get the preferred outcome from ANY random event, be it, RNG, coin flips, dice, drawing cards.
@pn2294 a powerful duelist can change the outcome of any duel he may even generate the very card he needs to win
Who needs consistency when you have the heart of the cards? Lol.
That actually doesn't exist in the sub only the dub.
PLEASE do this for Jaden too, his deck is all types of janky but fun!
Tbf, Jaden deck have more synergy than yugi though
Judai’s deck compliment each other, I think you mean Manjoume, three archetypes that don’t have anything to do with each other is crazy (xyz, ojama, armed drag)
@@kuyaboben5300 true true, Manjoume had an even jankier deck. I just wanted an excuse to have him talk about all of Jaden’s deck variations bc HEROs are so cool😅
@@Tron-pg4jcas he should have. Because by that time yu gi oh was an established franchise/card game. In the first yu gi oh season, the card game didnt even exist. And after that it was more about a few small effects and powerfull spells without real synergy. The actual synergy literally came with the gx era
@@Tron-pg4jc Have you tried to build and play Jaden's deck like it's built in the anime? It's awful. Just look at all those useless support cards specific to monsters like Avian and Bubbleman. That alone brings his deck down a lot. And don't get me started on the Neo Spacians.
The anime world is pretty crazy.
Not only is card scarcity a thing, but people can literally train themselves to draw cards better. And that’s ignoring the ability to taint/purify cards and mental energy.
GX Yugi put his deck on world tour, and Judai beat that in the hands of a random. But Judai calls DM Yugi unpredictable, one step ahead, and his strongest opponent yet with Yugi giving similar respect to Judai and his deck seeming to respond to his will.
Then we got Atem getting shook by Yugi’s miraculous draws, and then showcases such faith in his cards his will inadvertently affects his next draw and their duel transcends the comprehension of the bystanders that he blatantly knows his next draw. Something the series hints at during Battle City with Seto even after all of Season 1 (where Yugi also tells Joey he didn’t beat Bonz due to luck and has Mai double down on the ideal it wasn’t a fluke she lost to him) and his work to understand the Heart of the Cards which transcended standard calculations.
This isn’t even accounting for how True Duelists went from being implied to acquire archetypal support for plot and has YGO Seven straight up say True Duelists attract new cards to them to power themselves up. Between that and how Duel Spirits, The Crimson Dragon, and Shining Draw operate as well and Yuya/Zarc & Ray straight up creating a new phenomenon in Pendulum Summoning (ignoring Yuzu & Yuma just getting new extra deck monsters that weren’t pre-made) and how Aigami just pulls up with Dimension Summoning. Or how Revolver somehow got new Borrel monsters when Storm Access only gave him (randomly generated) Topologics before…
Pegasus really wasn’t kidding about Duels being soul battles and the power of imagination being the potential of duelists. Lmao.
Oof. I forgot that Custom Decks (not just Pegasus with Toons, and Judai winning the KaibaCorp challenge) was an official thing in GX, and illegal monsters that do real damage were a thing in 5D’s during the WRGP.
There is also the fact to be considered, that cards in the anime and manga "evolve". Like, we often shit on things like Dark Sage, because in the real life game it is a card that takes up a slot in the deck. But, in the anime, it is simply what happens to Dark Magician when he is affected by Time Wizard. Or how Dark Flare Knight turns into Mirage Knight.
@@stoobie94 Timaeus also transforms monsters, but I felt like it already fell under shenanigans but in the NAWCQ script duels we see Burning Abyss tank Time Magic because eternity
Revolver didn't get Borrels at Storm Access, what are you talking about??? The Borrels are in his ED already.
Card scarcity is crazy. Imagine a big competitive game around dice, and you end up with a dice scarcity. Sounds ridiculous.
There's one you missed.
In an episode of GX, Yugi's deck (minus the God Cards) is stolen from a museum and Jaden duels the thief (who has gone a little crazy and thinks he's Yugi, and uses Yugi's deck during their duel) to get it back.
I find it so funny how the anime replaced monster reborn with monster reincarnation since the former was currently banned
an analysis of that would be great, would say bonds beyond time too but, yugi doesnt even go through 10 cards i think so, not worth it
In the Manga, Yugi stated that he believes a deck is only 15 cards that you will never change. All of the rest of the cards are purely for experimentation.
So it's a small wonder that there will be quite a bit of contradictions with his overall deck.
wait when does he say this lol
I've read it a few times and I don't recall that ever being said.
This was an excellent pair of videos to watch through! I'm also glad that you mention the rule of cool in your conclusion. The anime, manga, and movies are marketing mechanisms first and foremost, so they show us really cool cards regardless of how situational they actually are IRL.
If you were tasked to make a functional deck only using cards respective protags owned including anime cards/effects, we all know Playmaker takes it, but Yuma/Astral, Yusei & Yugi/Atem really can go from 0 to 100 outta nowhere.
Meanwhile we hope extra hard not to brick as Judai & Yuya from a purely pragmatic perspective despite how explosive they can be too.
I didn’t include Yuga & Yudias simply because their cards would likely be tweaked if moved to the Master Duel format akin to how YGO Cross Duel gave us flavor text for things like Winged Kuriboh.
You should do a video on a hypothetical Yugi deck that is as strong as possible based on only cards he has used before.
Spell commander does something similar. It's not as strong as it can be but it's a modern version.
If I remember correctly from the manga, Valkhrion, the Magnet Warrior was either a fusion monster or didn't begin in the main deck. Regardless, it's still bad.
Yes. Along with all fusions and rituals
people forget that the only reason this deck worked was because it was yugi. so what if he had 10 cards that were useless under most conditions. the guy could draw any card he needed at any time. he would never draw a dead card
In fairness, Yugi’s cards are not special one of a kind for the most part. And a company retraining cards people like is not a surprise. Yugi just likes a majority of cards everyone elsecdoes.
His deck doesn't need consistency when he's got heart of the cards.
We cannot forget that even though Yu-GiOh! was an anime with a story to follow, its main objetive was to sell real life cards, so it was necessary for Yugi/Atem's deck to feature as many cool cards as possible, and they weren't wrong: Most of Yugi's card are loved to this day.
Something that I think
On DSOD, Yugi uses two different decks.
One to deal with Diva
One to deal with Kaiba.
My man is like Batman
Disagree. He uses the same deck to deal with both.
6:17 Because of deck thinning and consistency. Running 2 Buster Bladers would mean once you've used one for Dark Paladin, or however you might use him, it's most likely the other one will become a brick. By running emblem, if you draw it, you search Blader from the deck, leaving you to draw better cards afterwards.
To this day, people want to deny that Yami has literal top deck powers
His deck is basically entire database, and he draws the right card at the right narrative point. In other words, his deck makes no sense because the narration makes no sense.
This video was amazing and incredibly fun to watch. I'd love to see a video where you try to fix Yugi's decks for all of their weaknesses and see how much more viable it would be then.
Yes he should!!
You should have reviewed Atem’s deck in the last arc as it continues your main complaints with all his other decks and it is strange to switch to a character whose deck building strat is so completely different
Your right actually, it would have made more sense to do atem's deck aswell.
I have enjoyed this series hope to see it for Jaden too I say this as ive used a Yugi charather deck as my actual deck for over a decade and i still love it. THANKS ❤
"Yugi has dropped cards like Pot of Greed and Graceful Charity..." Well, no duh, both of those cards are banned lol
The heart of the cards is the consistency buff he has
Yeah I don't even know how he wins with that hodgepog mess of a deck. But this is coming from a second-generation player who jumped in during GX when archetypes began to take over the game. His "Silent and LV" deck was really good.
By all means, please tell us what you think of Judai's deck building. For me it was pretty great until it wasn't.
I think he'd probably have a lot of the same issues. I'm rewatching season one now and Judai runs a ton of cards that are support for only one specific elemental hero
To me its ass og elemental heros suck even if they are my favorite you need specific acards to summon at best mediocre monsters only good cards are eshricel and shining flare wingman he unfortunately uses specific equip spells like spark blaster a card that only works on sparkman that changes battle position while battle controler exists and its quick effect
@@SerbianSpark19 To be fair, you gotta compare it to the power level at the time + remember there wasn't a limit on how many cards you could run in the extra deck at the time. The og elemental heroes were pretty decent at the time
@@wafflespersonal4911 i forgot that but yea if you want elemental heros you play omni and jaden has super poly a card he cant realy use exept to fuse on his side since elemental heroes need specific fusion materials while omni has elemental hero + atteibute monster
And don't get me started on neos
@SerbianSpark19 I mean he only has super poly after a ton of his friends "died" and he did his evil arc, but yeah he didn't really have much use for that other than Dark Gaia.
Still, playing Omni heroes back then was trash. Destiny heroes were awful and we didn't have any of the good masked hero support irl until the series was almost over. I guess you could count manga Jaden's deck, but that's a totally different thing
To all who say Pharaoh Magic: rig all you want, you can't force a winning hand if your cards are really bad as Yugi's, heck he probably rewrote the card effects too.
And let's assume that Yugi puts every card he plays in the show on the same deck.
34 minutes in, I had a realisation. Talking about niche cards that come up in weird scenarios makes the duel more varied. If Yugi were to perfectly optimize his deck into a consistent strategy then each duel would play out nearly the same which isn't that interesting over time.
That being said, I wonder how his deck from the voice actor duels they sometimes do at yugioh tournaments would stack up. Konami would use this to promote new cards such as Yugi having pot of desires and pot of greed in his deck.
21:14 - Clearly Exchange is a failed fusion attempt...
From my understanding Yugi's deck is the embodiment of because I f****** said so
Yugi's in-built advantage isn't just plot armour - The Millennium Puzzle grants him a massive luck boost when he needs it most - Commonly called the Heart of the Cards in the anime.
there is actually a way to play yugis trap combo, its a yubel deck, using the spell card her deck has you can force the initial attack and make use of yubels effect to keep you from taking damage, as by pairing up her ability to send damage back to your opponenet, the spell cards ability to do the same, and the dimension combo doing the same as well, they are taking triple the effect damage and at less cost from you
respect the culture the cards inspo comes from. unless ur talking about the american sports teams it’s Kel-tic with a hard K sound
Sorcerer of dark magic should have been a fusion monster
The emergency provisions can be used with a ferry type.So th but are level 5 and you can put them in the small trap zone.So when you pop it it's special summons itself and you get life points
The irony of yugi beating the pharaoh and sending him to the afterlife is supposed to mean he can stand on his own but he loses without him and needed him to win in dark side of dimensions
And the reason is simple, he uses a worse deck. His own deck without Dark Magician was much better. Heck, the re-train of his deck is actually competitive.
To be honest, the only reason Yami Yugi wins duels is because of his probability manipulation magic. His deck holds no real consistency. There are a lot of situational cards such as Sage’s Stone, which requires Dark Magician Girl on the field and Dark Magician in deck. Or Valkyrion, despite it being a powerful card, it’s summoning condition requires 3 specific cards that Yugi only has one copy of each.
If Yugi ran more than one copy of certain cards, then things would make more sense. Heck, even his Fusions aren’t consistent. He only has one copy of Polymerization, and his heaviest hitter, being Dark Paladin, requires two specific monsters, meaning 3 specific cards that he only has one copy of, and even then, it’s a situational use card itself, seeing as its effect only matters when Dragons are involved, and Yugi barely runs dragons. How many Dragons does Yami Yugi even play? I know Curse of Dragon is a constant, and he has used Des Voltsgaf in the virtual world.
Oh, speaking of his Fusions: Gaia the Dragon Champion. 3 specific cards yet again, and it doesn’t even have an effect, it’s only 100 atk higher than his ace.
Also Yami's millennium puzzle is a bit cheating as he can get whatever card he desire.
I waited for thiss, looked it up and there it is lol
Little yugis deck is oddly and SURPRISINGLY consistent.
Yugi decks make no sense because it represents as a puzzle that needs to be assembled for it to have some kind of form.....(let me glaze him a bit 😂)
Celtic is pronounced Keltic not Seltic
Would love to see GX decks or some of the most egregious side character decks
You forgot to include his appearance in GX.
Also Bonds Beyond Time
Yami Yugi or Atem has too many tribute summons in his deck which can cause problems in a game, can hinder your gameplay especially if they fill your entire hand thus causing you to lose. Also your not going to have Luster Solder with Dark Magician in an actual deck, also your not going to have magnet warriors in a deck especially if it focuses on Spellcasters.
The Magician Girls only work in a deck that is dedicated to Spellcasters and only Spellcasters, any other creature type would hinder their abilities.
If have Spellcasters that have abilities that work with other Spellcasters then you’d want to have all your other creatures be 100% all Spellcasters.
If you where to build Yugi deck in a video game it would actually lose 100% of the time which means he wins through plot armour not skill at all.
Sure Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl are iconic but in real life they only work in a deck that is dedicated to all Spellcasters.
Ironically, Kuriboo would be great in Labrynth. Sets up Lovely Labrynth Of The Silver Castle's GY trap recursion effect with the trap discard and the Cutting an opponent's monster down by 1500 atk lets Lovely and Lady Labrynth walk over anything by battle.
I like to think Yugis cards are blank and he draws specifically what he needs. You telling me he had Black Skull Dragon in his deck when he tag duel the Paradox brothers? Joey didn't have Red Eyes until the island so why would he have that card??
You know I could see some actual use with a dimension card on an exo sister build... It would be extremely niche though And you Would need to make sure that you have enough sister pairs that you can keep healing.
An interesting albeit risky gambit to finish off a low health opponent
Every deck makes sense as long as you have the luck to pull it off 😂
It's somewhat redundant to say it makes no sense when the Millennium item grants him a Destiny Draw ability in times of crisis. It's why (in combination with his talent for games and strategy) he can pull out a win. That said, I do agree the DSOD deck composition made no sense and hurt the movie somewhat, but I get that they were trying to shill new cards rather than reprints. Yu-Gi-Oh being a merchandise commercial is why these decks suffer in the real world but they can strike a balance and create story reasons behind card additions (like Exodia being stolen), it's a pity it wasn't used more.
Yugi praticly has Destiny Draw power. He draws what he needs when he is in truble. But also when he was in a duel vs Wivil he draw only monsters so his Breaker could attack multipl of times! So he praticly whis for a card and if he believe it will come it will become card that he wanted.
Playing the default decks in legacy of the duelist link evolution was hell for waking the dragon XD
I will say that me and my friends play anime duels in master duel all the time. I play a yugi inspired deck, all cards are 1 of's in the decks and even if it's "bad" it does work. Its about a 50% win rate tbh.
Playing anime or og yugioh is a lot of fun for me considering im a yugi-boomer at this point 😅
what about his final deck which was used in the first season of GX?
Got to love how the only reason why Yugi's deck has ever worked was because Atem canonically cheats in every single game with the canon power to draw whatever card in the deck he wants or needs. Considering how their deck has also canonically become a special display, imagine someone stealing said deck, looking at the cards, and wondering: "Wtf is this garbage? How did he win all those games with this?"
You have to be careful saying atem cheats every single game without acknowledgement of cards in the anime have different effects than tcg.
@@demetriusshuler1391
It's more referring to how he, via literal magic, cheats to get perfect consistency in a deck with absolutely no consistency whatsoever. Come to think of it, Kaiba's deck is even worse due to being filled to the brim with bricks yet he never bricks a hand.
@@joshuakim5240 Poly+3 Blue Eyes on turn one consistently
@@joshuakim5240duelists canonically get a bonus from drawing technique. Clearly they are great at drawing.
Atem’s ability (the puzzle) mainly is influenced by how dangerous the situation is
3:12 has the wrong effect text on five star?? also may be an errata to the card but pretty sure five star allows to summon the kuribros from hand, deck *and or* graveyard, as long as they're not banished or untargettable by other effects for whatever reason you're fine using em
Yes that was a mistake, the effect listed on five star twilight here is actually one of the kuriboh monsters effects that I forgot to swap.
figured as much, but ye pretty sure they might have errata'd it since the series if back then it didn't summon from grave which is silly
Everyone who critizes yugi's forgets his destiny draw ability
It was a classic deck but with updates he became stronger
16:35 Protecting Sevens Road Magician, actually, from the gamma burst breath of the alien High-Dragons.
i tried atem’s anime deck its trash even worst in duel links
yugi has better one i agree with ya
so are you going to do jaden/judai next?
You realize that Atem had the power to draw any card he needed in a given situation so he'll never brick.
Look at the duel with Bakura during the battle city finals, he needed to draw Slifer to win and what happened? He drew it
Well at the time of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime these cards were perfect and very rare and as the seasons went, Yami Yugi was perfecting his deck. Kaiba of course and every anime character. But polymerizing the arrow and the mammoth to contaminate the blue eyes ultimate dragon, this was not just plot armor, this was broken but anyway the normal outcome sold well. Kaiba had a stronger deck during the first season.
Wasn't it because royal was so useless that the poker knights just got used as fodder for for sky dragon after that.
The Celtic pronunciation is weird because even the anime uses correct Celtic vs Cell-tic
Yugis deck has whatever cards he needs in whatever scenario he finds himself in. It doesnt need to make sense as a whole
will you analyze yugi's GX decks?
Your wrong its playable if you go by archetype instead of what he played when, put all the gaget and silent together amazing same with dark magician and gia, its just meant to be focused on one and not a mesh of em all
What about his duel with Jaden, Season 0, the video games, the novel, R, or Bonds Beyond Time?
He can draw whatever card he would like.
If i have an ability like that, I would build deck from some random cards too just for challenge
Aqua chorus would be perfect for them
no analysis of his Bonds Beyond Time deck?
I would, but the only new card he added was neos knight, so there wasn't enough to make a whole new section over.
@@Monoanalysis that's fair.
Yugi's deck wasn't filled with every single card that appeared over the course of the series, that would make his deck around 90 cards which wasn't the case.
His deck makes sense.
would love to see a manga version
Seto kaiba decks?
He is the King of Games He doesnt need Logic.
Just like the last video I feel that you are mistaken on some points. I do enjoy the idea that you do point out that some of the cards being one offs is a problem both in this video as well as the last one except this is kinda hard to take too seriously when there are modern DM decks that only run one dark magician and dark magician girl. The Kuriboh brothers are ok for setting up god card summons that not the best at doing so it is something they can do. The concept of running two buster bladers instead of the spell is worse as the deck actually can brick even worse as the spell can at least be used for Emergency provisions or skilled dark magician. Also chain destruction is not the worst card to have as this was around the time a lot of people used multiple copies of cards like man eater bug, han han, as well as penguin solider. For the atem and yugi duel, one that was swift gaia not just normal gaia as this was the introduction of its retrain and while you mention this being a retrain in a later part with the pyramid of light segment it makes if seem like you think it is the og one here, two Dark magician is probably at its best in this deck as its much easier to work with than the other decks of atem. That said I will agree that yugi's deck here is really good even if the anime only effects really carry some of the game lol. Lastly the reason some of the decks did not brick was due to the discard effects. Card destruction, the tricky, and many others set up the graveyard just like they do now just with older cards with a lot less power and revival effects. I will say not mentioning gemini elf as a spellcaster I feel is an oversight but that is fine for the most part. I am not really sure what to say about the final deck as it does seem more put together but at the same time more split than what it should be.
I hope you do this for Kaiba
You just don’t understand. He has the perfect deck when you have the heart of cards on your side!
Just put all your fav cards in a deck and close your eyes before you draw so you never brick
You should do joey or kaiba next
32:35 yugi didnt "ditch" the broken cards. As shown in yugioh gx when fake yugi summons BLS Envoy and Jaden mentions the card is supposed to be banned, They share a banlist with the ocg. Meaning that pog and graceful is banned during DSOD.
In GX they frequently use pog, so I don't think it's strictly true that they share a banlist. Also GX is a different timeline from DSOD.
@Monoanalysis in gx pog was still at one. It stayed at one after the goat format banlist, which was the same one that banned bls. Also, they're not in different worlds. Jaden met yugis grandpa while they were searching for sartorious' sister.
@@yugi.boomer DSOD follows the manga, so events in the GX anime are pretty irrelevant
Even if we were to ignore how they are in a different time line, you are making a connection between the anime not wanting to advertise banned cards translating to in universe the anime has a ban list that follows the ocg.
It’s also the same reason why firewall dragon never showed up in vrains after being banned irl. Just because we know the existence of two banned cards doesn’t confirm that the anime follows the OCG ban list.
I feel like zexal out of all the series, has the most hyper specific only useful in this exact situation cards
21:15 omg. NOW I GET IT!!!!!
Keep up the hard work, cant wait for gx
Well to be fair, yugioh wasn’t meant for people to be making decks with only 10 different cards & using 3 of the same cards to fill out the rest of the deck 😂
It was based off Magic The Gathering where people actually played this way
Also, didn't stop Seto from running 3 Blue Eyes lol
@ three blue eyes to to summon a monster. That doesn’t explain why people use 3 of the same spells and traps and monsters who don’t even have a fusion card. The game is broken lol
@@RashFaustinho kaiba playing 3 blue eyes is not the same as using 10 different cards for deck and filling the rest out with handtraps
That is the nature of card games in general. The reason most historical decks from around the time of the og anime played 1 ofs...is because 3 of that card was so broken it needed to be limited. Card games are all about consistency to mitigate randomness. I would much rather play 3 marshmallow then 1 marshmallow and 1 dark magician and 1 gaia.
Fact! Yugi has the Ability to top deck every card he needs, so it doesnt matter if his deck is a bunch of dead cards. :D
Yes he has the ability but he can only use it dire situations”heart of the cards” moments .. also its never explained if its the card that he actually wants or the card the puzzle thinks he needs most
You just don't believe in the heart of the cards, great decks if you believe!
Don’t the god cards count as dragons or did that only apply against strings
That's only in the manga stop cross cannoning
Oh no not the Kuriboh bruvvers!….. I can’t watch this with a straight face😂😂
This video was legit ❤
Its not plot armor its his innate power to defy odds and draw any card he needs at any time in reality he has no cards in his deck
i love yugioh haha i made a song called dark magician 🤣🤣
And we care why?
@@docjkk5939 based yugioh fans will appreciate it !
@@docjkk5939 and you cared enough to look through the comments and respond why?
It simple
Yu gi deck will never brick when he was the one playing, but if you give his deck to a random player it will brick the first turn 😂
Isn't Pegasus long dead in DSOD?
I kind of forgot that pegasus was dead in the DSOD version until I finished the video 😅
Yami is a liar. He told Arkana, that his Dark Magic Curtain also counts for Yami but in the Card Text it doesn't say that it applies for the opponent as well.
@@CobaltShyGuy battle city rules
it's based on the effect text that card had in the manga
Also not every card in irl is gonna have the same effect from the anime/manga 😂😂
Invalid. Most of the cards never came out during air fresh back in the day until later in time finally printed. A true fan knows that. :P
Aren’t anime decks vastly different?
If you can cheat by making up your own rules you can win with ANY cards ❤️
It’s a plot deck. It’s the strongest deck you can have.
Lost my balls creating yugi's deck😢
Now do for jaden his deck is brick city bs equip spells for specific cards bloted extra deck