The Story of Yu-Gi-Oh's Most Hated Card
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.พ. 2024
- Just draw one of your non-searchable outs.
Jeff Leonard Edit courtesy of @Yataloked ;)
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All tournament footage is via Konami North America, Europe
Thank you to those I interviewed:
@jessekottonygo
@MBTYuGiOh
@JojosASMR
@BladeYGO
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Miscellaneous Footage:
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Why are you reading down here, if you do see this you need to subscribe.
So amazed how this came out, and so happy to be a part of it!
Ty Joseph, thank you for taking the time to tag along for this video
Video would be better without you
It's my favorite C-word yugituber!
The evolution was surprising! Has anyone tried A Closed Forest against Mystic Mine??? I tried in the past to work within the set I has available to me (Duel Links) to strategize for that card and beyond staples that is what I have seen as a bit of a barrier.
@@PhyYuGiOhthis Kind of Yu-Gi-Oh Content is amazing keep going :)! I love it
Legend has it, Mystic Mine was created by a Monkey's Paw of "I wished Yugioh would go longer than 2 turns again"
And hand traps were the monkey's paw of "i wish i could get around these unbreakable boards
@@undeadinside3571And handtraps are totally fine
This 2 turn or 1 turn yugioh is trash makes the game not worth playing
@@senny- mostly, but then we get hand traps like nibiru, which have next to no counter play
Mystic Mine. A toxic, stupid card that can be countered with 20+ cards where no card costs more than $2.
Fun story about Mystic Mine:
Myself and my little sister used to play yugioh casually and one day decided to try out a locals.
She was playing Crystal Beasts a few years before the structure deck came out (her boss monster was Scrap Dragon), so wasn't expecting to win, but wanted to see what it was like to play against someone who wasn't her brother.
Her first game was against Mine Burn. While shuffling her opponent asked if she had spell/trap removal, she said no, so he gave her 3 Twin Twisters to add into her deck.
Safe to say, Mine was her least favourite card from then on.
Great Opponent :)
Yeah the fact that you have to use very specific S/T removal to even have a chance against Mine is ridiculous
Wow if people had played the terrible trap card that shuffles your hand and field into the deck you couldn't get mystic mined
yeah if you didn't want to fight meta, meta and sometimes cancer it used too be percy or bust and nowadays I guess ignis or bust. Playing irl yugioh is just its own special hell.
@@pkkiller_apathy4568 Localized tornado right? Well, sure, you get rid of your field for free, then when you want to play chain Terraforming, and 2nd Terra after getting Ash'd... and if by winning by deckout due to Tornado... well, doubt Solemns would allow it
Conclave (For the scenario of Crystal beast) is a solid out for it thou
Also Jeff Leonard showed why he is so beloved/respected among the community by rolling up with fucking Exodia after Mystic Mine got banned
The equivalent of "im racist but at least im being honest"
>plays yugioh to hang out with his son
>only plays stun decks
😂
Funny how because of Jeff Jones I came to realization that if I faced a old player, he would be probably playing stun decks, because apparently old ppl cant combo.
@@ketsura3618combo is just as lame as stun.
One more piece! One more piece! One more piece!
And now that Mystic Mine is banned, Jeff Leonard is now running... Exodia FTK :D
Absolute chad
Bro casualy drop the hardest jeff leonard edit ever
shoutout yataloked, he's the 🐐
Thank you so very much for having me on! You did an incredible job with putting this video together and this turned out so well!
This was your idea ;)
Jojo the GOAT
I am so glad to see you interacting with the yugioh creators, as a fan of both asmr and yugioh
well that was a big surprise to see you pop up here. But a welcome one~
so good to get to see ausies on a main youtube channel, and that's typical Poe with a last minute Visa situation 🤣
we all may hate mystic mine, but we can all agree that Jeff Lenard is the GOAT
We may hate mystic mine, but we love jeff
They would even each other out, but jeff is just superior
@@XTempestBuster perfectly balance as all things should be
@@SLICKone-zm1kv there are other animals?
@@SLICKone-zm1kvIt's the result of you older folk never giving another animal a name that is an acronym for a version of 'The Best Ever'. Own up to that.
lol, i like how jeff is just someone's dad in this tournament and proceeded to cheese everyone out in the running and he hates combo decks, which is such an on-brand yugi boomer move
Idk the fact it can take 4 minutes for a turn on master duel where shuffling searching is streamlined turns me off. Like it doesn't feel like a back and forth game it's more of a 100m dash race to your combo or infinite negates
never a fan of combo deck, but also not a stun decks lover, i like midrange/beat control type decks alot
@@SabGamingWoodyard-if7dpcan we only do something these days if a turn doesn't take 12 seconds to complete? Sheesh it's a card game.
@@user-iu5ib8bj6l i like whichever deck i have fun with, currently since mine was banned, i've been playing speedroid, d/d/d, and traptrix... unfortunately nothing is as fun as mystic mine was, the sheer anger towards 1 card because a bunch of man babies refuse to put backrow in their main deck because "this game doesn't have spell/trap cards, we run monsters here!" was so funny. whenever i went mystic mine pass and then it passed for 20 turns, forcing my opponent to sit there in agony was the best thing ever, i didn't play burn that was too boring, i liked watching my opponent play to deck out.
@@matthewrock4725 it's so fun watching your opponent go 10 minutes setting up their combo that end in a field of omni negates before you get to draw a card. and fun fact yugioh in the only card game that does crap like that on turn 1.
João (Ycs Rio Winner) said in one of his deck profile videos that he played Mystic Mine Burn just to make Konami ban the card. Worked like a charm
Fucking chad move
Came for the content, stayed for the Jeff Leonard montage
Why christian defend israel attrocities can be traced from how yugioh player simp for jeff
@@eavyeavy2864 what
@@eavyeavy2864huh?
@@eavyeavy2864jesse what the fuck are you talking about
@@eavyeavy2864 least schizo yugioh player
I actually played against Jeff in that PPG Orlando tournament. Incredibly nice guy. Glad his deck is gone but thankful he’s still around the game.
Come on man, the price discourse was completely warranted. $1000 just to compete? For only 10 cards? This is ridiculous and the communities complacency towards justifies my quitting even more. In before people say “just play masterduel/dueling book” because yeah that’s TOTALLY what real Yugioh is. I don’t think it’s fair to call people casuals because they literally can’t afford to play better decks. What you want them to do? Pull money out their ass?
Youve had 20+ years to discover how expensive this particular game can be.
The problem I had with Mystic Mine was the not being able to declare an attack.
It could have locked down Card Effects, Spell and Trap Effects and Special Summoning and it would have been perfectly fine. Very, very slow. Still would have been the best control card in the entire game, but it would have let players counter it by effectively playing old-school Yugioh again. Gemini Elf Sisters and La Djiin would have actually seen use again outside materials for some sort of summon.
mystic mine does not need a buff being a skill drain field spell was already good. the main thing it needed was requiring the controler control a monster.
@@randomprotag9329Yeah, like Kaiser Coliseum. Wonder if it'd ever return with an errata (or a similar nerfed card gets printed)
@@GatsbyCioffi Its funny the Kaiser Coliseum is way weaker than Mystic mines and harder to search yet it was banned while Mines stuck around for a good while.
@@randomprotag9329TBH, if Mine only had its Skill Drain effect, I think that would inherently encourage its controller to control at least one monster. Under Skill Drain, your opponent can still summon monsters and apply pressure; you can’t just sit there and do nothing. So, the Mine player would either need to lock out attacks with another unsearchable floodgate or present pressure of their own, most likely in the form of a big monster your opponent can’t just run over. But now that the Mine player controls a monster, their opponent can just match monster counts and turn off mine. Really, it was the combination of Skill Drain plus Wall of Revealing Light on Mystic Mine that allowed you to just sit on it with no monsters until you could win.
@@Brawler_1337 it would encourage mirror force more than monsters. attack stopping back row would be much more likely to go though when its important an it removes the option to equal on monsters.
I still remember how in the peak of Mine format, I threw together a Beat Cop cosplay for the Oceania championships because this was when everyone was protecting Mine with Beat Cop.
Ended up on the official livestream holding up one of the prize mats lmao. That was where I officially peaked
I do like that collectively the community not only gives jeff a pass for playing stun, but actually get hyped to see him play it 😅
It's actually kinda toxic. Jeff is a nice guy and I am glad this dad figure is embraced, but people being assh*les to others for playing these decks is socially awkward behavior.
@spicymemes7458 nah if you like playing floodgates your gonna get told they're unfun to play against that's just the nature of stun vs combo, if you take that to heart that's on you, because as we've seen the community is also capable of being wholesome
Everyone should play stun. Go play solitaire if you want to play combo. Prep well, and draw the out
@bruhmoment1835 flipping a floodgate is just as unskilled than a memorised combo
@@AstralLaVista It doesn't matter what you play, what you look like, where you are from, etc. We all play the same game using the same tools given by the same company, and picking and choosing who gets shit and who doesn't only makes us look childish and sets a bad tone for others coming in, especially when we converse mostly online.
Jeff Leonard is the perfect anti-hero for yugioh
I’m instantly reminded of Lantern Control from MtG. Force the opponent to discard any answers then the lock prevents them from drawing into any… Eventually the opponent gets tired of passing turn and and concedes
as someone who has no idea how yu-gi-oh works, it reminds me of ensnaring bridge for sure. although infinitely more broken from the sound of it😆
Fans: "we want a slower game!"
Konami: releases Mystic Mine
Fans: "No, not like that"
well, aby speed doesn't make an automatically good game, so this isn't necessarily hypocritical
When you think about it, Jeff Leonard is the best duelist of our generation and his generation
Shifter cannot fill those shoes no matter how hard he tries.
If it rent free it already does
@@eavyeavy2864 Speak human, please.
I am a shifter enjoyer myself.
@@hyde5213 "if Shifter leaves rent free in your mind, it has already filled those shoes"
I assume they mean something like that.
The fun part is that I actually enjoyed Mystic Mine (the card, not the deck) because it gave me a valid reason to play junk like Vivid Tail and High Rate Draw.
Then it's even more ironic because I'm planning to sell my FKSE and join the Shifter gang since I really want to play Yubel and can't wait for the LeDe support.
@@babrad I said speak human, not 4channel.
"Oh my deck is broken now" is sucha funny quote
This video doesn't capture how groundbreaking Jeff Leonard's first Mystic Mine list was. It was like people were playing Yugioh and he was playing Bakugan.
Pro tip. Cuts should happen around 5 seconds to give people time to observe and epically read those text. They where out in about 3s which is to little for most to read it accurately. Also, using that with other translational and b roll clips keeps them around 5 seconds for the best result. This is what pro editors do in movies and documentaries. This is not hate. This is just a way to up your production quality. You already have great quality. The audio is great! Keep up.the good work. Sometime you hit it perfect! Just keep it in mind!
I came back into yigioh a year after this and couldn't believe music mind was a card lol.
FUCK THIS CARD. Jeff Leonard is the only reason I didn’t quit the game back then.
Also the video was awesome, thx for the content.
Is it because he is an affable older guy, and that's a rare demo in yugioh?
Love these ygo retrospective documentary style videos and this channel does them better than pretty much everyone else
I just experienced the biggest joy and the worst sorrow in YGO in quick succession.
On one side, a new Phy video dropped.
On the other, I saw Mystic Mine on the field
Phenomenal vid as always Garret, it’s been wild seeing the channel blow up over the past few months, and very well deserved at that!
Glad I’ve been able to help in any way I can ;)
Well maybe you should help your audience and release a video
I remember the day I saw Mystic Mine revealed. It wasnt even given an official reveal, it was with the other pack filler cards we dont learn about until the OCG starts opening. I was speechless when I read it asking myself why konami would print such a thing
I'm not even a YGO player, I'm a Magic player, but even for me, the first time i ever saw this card i could tell this was absurd. Like "how could they let this go to print" sort of absurd.
@@JackgarPrime yu gi oh players when they can't just vomit out monsters and win
Yeah, it literally reads like some angry yugiboomer's custom card because monster effect = bad.
@@youtube-kit9450 considering literally the entire game is in an unhealthy state due to monster effects being so abused, getting rid of the one deck able to put them in their place is kind of stupid... especially when it never dominated the meta
for how much people hate on mystic mine... it's funny how they act like it was a tier 0 deck or some shit... :p i always find it funny how mystic mine out of all cards in the game, is the card that got by far the most hate... "the opponent can't activate monster effects or attack". "oh my god broken... i was gonna setup a full board of negates alongside 2 hand traps... it was gonna be so sick" - some unfortunate combo player
as a Master Duel andy and i am glad it came pre banned, at the release of MD i felt in love with altergeist and i remember in the facebook groups people posting they topped with the mine so in my mind i thought the geist were a legit meta treat but now watching this video with no mention at all of them i came to the realization that it was just another sub par stun deck.
also watching all the MD meta decks throught the lens of the TCG was a trippy trip through memory lane lol, great video.
yup mystic mine being banned in the OCG For years paid off
I still remember playing a PPG online event with a friend who also played mine, and we had about half the participants all in the same lobby watching a mystic mine mirror as everyone else had already finished their matches. It was a strangely fun experience to witness it (Jeff won obviously)
The Jeff Leonard edit tho😂
Jeff is the only player allowed to play stun. Everyone else is as an a**hole
I can confirm that since I played the mystic mine burn deck and am indeed an asshole
The double standard
Jeff would do Palestina babies and you would still simp him
@@eavyeavy2864 more like the only exception
i never have a problem with people playing stun decks in competitive settings. people who do it in fun settings (like MD) have issues. who fires up a game where you can just build whatever you want for practically free and goes "Im gonna play Inspector Boarder Beatdown"
If anything it's just modern swords of revealing light.
If it had a turn timer before it nuked itself it would have been fine.
First video I've seen by you, man. Instant sub. Quality stuff.
this documentary talking heads style video is incredibly compelling and interesting to watch, thank you for this video!
That Jeff edit 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿
Mystic Mine is nothing compared to Kashtira. I have been completely locked out of all of my zones, and it is *not* fun.
But Mystic Mine can stop Kashtira from doing that
This was so excellent! You know, we're really blessed to have some of the content creators we have in YuGiOh, and i'm so glad you were able to include some of them here. YuGiOh, even though it's nothing like what our child selves know of it, is extremely interesting and compelling! Videos like this about certain cards and formats are more than justified and seeing one put together in such a watchable and enjoyable way is pure bliss.
What an amazing video. The interviews were really well done.
I love how you gave Jeff Leonard the alpha chad music.
As a last point of mine coming from an exclusive MtG standpoint, I know our games are VERY different. That said... Mystic Mine remind me of Red Prison or Lantern Control, both are widely hated or loved depending on who you ask. There is nothing quite like looking your opponent in the eye and telling them they cannot play the game, especially when they have blown hundreds or thousands of dollars to play a big meta list, only to lose to a deck that costs a fraction of the price that is equipped to just... prevent their pricey cards from doing anything. Its truly a heroic thing to do, keeps people honest, as at least in Magic, the way you beat these decks is usually through understanding and using cheap sideboard options that arent always super common to the metagame. Anyways, just a magic players outside perspective on a card that seems like something we have had in magic for literal decades (see ensaring bridge, blood moon, and counterbalance+sensei's divining top). Now with it gone, the fee other MtG players i almsot convinced to start playing YgO with me now also have noninterest in the game lol
Bro fuck yeah, I love me some Red/Blue Control/Burn! It's actually amusing to me how much this card resembles some type of powercrept White card though, considering it acts like a permanent unlike most "negate" type cards in MTG.
Seeing effect damage referred to as "cheesy" in the beginning of this video was sad to me.
moat or solitary confinement remind me a lot of mystic mine
Any deck that lets you play with meme unplayable cards in your extra deck is a winner in my book
You aren't really "playing" with the cards. They are just there off to the side and occasionally banished face down. You might as well just put them in your binder, that way people might actually SEE your cards.
@@e-tan3911 You may not play them, but you are playing with them in your deck, and that's good enough for me. I want the meme cards in my deck, not in my binder :P
Dude, the way the announcers saying "Ohhhhhh" at the EXACT same time was funny AF,lol. 15:41
it mid 2022 every single person at my 40 person locals played 2 mines (and a terraforming if they had other field spells in their deck). it was a miserable time and im happy its finally gone
When you win by boring people to death
Wow! Incredible video as always, sir! Amazing! It was exciting to remember all those formats ago and the solutions we had to come up with to play with or against mine.
Got yourself a new subscriber - so glad I found your channel, such a great video and I'm far from finished 👏
How does 37 minutes of fully researched edited documentary content with narration, interviews and footage only have 7k subs?
I'm new here
The fact that the guy running Mystic Mine in the clip at 6:40 has that specific shirt on is hilarious.
Bless you for including the names of the background music tracks.
This type of yugioh content is something I didn't know I needed. Great stuff
Mystic Mine is fair because its not fair. Yugioh stopped being fair a decade ago. Appolusa is not fair. Being able to negate four cards in one turn isn't fair but combo is how konami wants us to play. Konami wants is to just negate everything our opponent does. Mystic Mine and its actually fair little brother Skill Drain is just combo but less bs to get there.
I would like to blame Round 12 of YCS Dortmund. Such an interesting and astonishing match full of such high level play that would have you on the edge of your seat waiting to see the next player's movement and execution on how to overcome such a powerful and interesting challenge that this card proposed.
I laughed
@@PhyYuGiOh Mystic Mine Is The Folder Back Of Yu-Gi-Oh!Have You Played Mega Man Battle Network 3 Blue?!There Is A Reason They Nerfed It In The Legacy Collection,To Only Work Once And Not Bring Itself Back In PvP!Most BROKEN CARD IN BATTLE NETWORK AND STAR FORCE!!!!!!!!
Its like that ocg final that finally made konami kill stormwinds
I got into competitive about the time in person events came back. I played 3 of the Branded Structure and a Dogmatika package when I got into competitive from that. I got to see the modern Mystic Mine debacle live without having to face it.
Amazing! More videos like this would be awesome
Mystic mine was based.
I don't play yigioh but what i gather is that this is basically your equivalent of a stax mill deck in magic. the salt is understandable
I really want a whole video on Jeff Leonard now, or at least his Exodia deck that did well at YCS Indy
out of topic question, but what are you using for your hair care?
The competitive side of yugioh deserved mystic mine. Jeff knew this.
Mf acting like it’s the player’s fault for using the cards Konami printed.
I think partially that these sorts of control decks need to exist to change thr meta. Taking away mainboard space from decks that otherwise dont play s/t destruction. Making them less all in on their own gameplan. I understand Mine was a toxic card, but im coping a little since most decks get away with phoenix in ed and maybe 3 s/t removal in the side.
stun is not needed to force S/T removal. control is releasing a good backrow deck at low rarity + SD means its more important as a common deck is S/T based.
This video was very well made good job buddy
great video, I don't know much about Yu-Gi-Oh but this was really interesting
Mystic mine might have been a problem, but at least some good came of it. We got memes and the extremely wholesome Jeff Leonard. Everyone loves that guy.
Glad the card was banned, but it's always good to stay positive
Still to this day incredible... HOW ABSOLUTELY CORRECT THAT TWEET IS!!! Bunch a losers running around with no spell/trap removal and whining about how their trashpile decks were getting beat by one field spell!
Sure, tell everybody your secret consistent and generic spell/trap removal that's not on monsters. Or are you also one of those casual players thinking you only need a playset of mst in your deck to beat mine?
the best part of this video for me was learning that JojoASMR plays yugioh.
your videos are fantastic, dont stop
You forgot the time in which joshua schmidt made the tech with the Cop from the Underworld link-2 to protect mystic mine.
Making it even harder to out.
Babe wake up, new Phy Vid dropped
god that jeff leonard edit went hard
Never played a single round of this game and when this video was recommended to me, I clicked on it so fast!!!! Great video!
I feel Mine would have been vastly more fair and tolerable of a card if it only stopped effects. Still an amazing floodgate, but this way the game actually progresses, like under Skill Drain!
I thought Yata-Garasu was the most hated Yugioh card.
That's what I was thinking lol
It was no surprise how strong mystic mine was. Its value was soo clear, especially in older decks that sought drawing cards, like exodia. I liked it in my cubics.
I played an older style of stun with Mystic Mine when Inspector Boarder came around, it got me to a top 15 regional over 7 rounds I was able to finish the tourney at 5 - 2. It was super fun because no one expected it!
I don't follow Yu-Gi-Oh at all, was still accessible. I enjoyed the video good job
I’m the one who milled out the @Ignister player 😂 Apologized after the game for winning in that manner
ahhahahahaha it's all good, most people should realize that its the card not the player 🤣
@@PhyYuGiOhyeah but u still feel dirty inside (and outside) 😂 Good riddance
My favorite mystic mine moment was going undefeated at my locals with mystic mine exodia and resolving exodia in the final match
4:16 Bro just described every blue MTG deck ever. I still remember when someone played a miracle deck against me for the lols, taught me a lot about how tcgs are more than just attack and defense stats.
I was a mystic mine player and i will continue to play strategies to slow the game down
The reason those kinds of people hate floodgates isn't because of the difficulty, it's because they interrupt their combos. It's like they don't realize that nobody cares about tv eir combo.
Except that mine stops pretty much any deck that doesn't have in archetype backrow removal and it was actually used in those exact combo decks.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 Sounds like the combo decks are the problem TBH.
@@ChaosSwissroIl both are the problem. Mine is broken in any deck that plays it and stops most decks that don't have in archetype backrow removal.
Stay ez
Thanks for the video. That card sounds absolutely terrifying. Even more than Kashtira Ariseheart
Do you have the music tracks listed anywhere? That song at around the 13:10 mark is awesome and I was curious of the title.
Yu-Gi-Oh community reacts to having to worry about a different card type.
I remember when some Yugi tubers first talked about Mystic Mine right before it's release back in 2019 and I thought ehhh they'll just MST(what i call most back row removal) it. Boy was I wrong, never expected MM to warp the meta game.
and it's all because one guy wanted to make it a floodgate wincon as much as possible
@@luigifan4585 Honestly I admire people who go against the wave and do everything withing their power to make the thing they want to use work.
These people know what they want.
I love Mystic Mine, because for years my favorite cards to use were Raging Flame Sprite and Solar Flare Dragon, and Mine let me use them properly :)
Amazing video.
Now I kinda want to see your take on Halq.
I remember going into locals against a mine player I didn't even bother playing I just sat there for my full 3 minute turn giving him a pure look of defeat before surrendering (don't know where the judges were)
I was a mystic mine player. I won just about every tourney i played solely because I enjoyed how angry people would get with their 500 dollar decks. I miss mystic mine. I stopped playing in 2023 and just came back to play again finding out it was banned. It def needed to be banned but now i am mad i cant make sweats rage
In memorium lies the miner inconvenience to all Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments
great video garret! liked and subbed :)
I see Mystic Mine as a gatekeeper vs. Combo happy player. Nothing wrong with it at all. Love this card and the sodium faces that I made at my local. LOL
Makes sense that Mystic Mine players wouldn’t cover their nose with a face mask.
As a Mystic Mine player that Got myl ocals Judge Dread seeing me..i love This Video. Great Job Garret!
19:50 I had a similar experience as well. I started playing in local tournaments shortly before links, after not playing since GX. I was in college and couldn't afford all the expensive meta and extra deck stuff, so I went anti-meta and eventually ended up with a paleo-frog deck (I got tired of always placing second to meta decks with my frog-narchs). That deck got me my first locals win, and I pulled a Droll &Lock Bird from the tournament pack. Good times.
A shame Ronintoadin was banned in the last few years, since I'm getting back into the game again and now need to make something else.
Bring back Mystic Mine. It did nothing wrong. #Justice for Jeff
Yugioh sucks ass. Game lost its shine years ago. The game at this point has become "who had the better starting hand?" Cause at this point its all just otks or lockdown archetypes.
L take
@@Joker-yq4mn you sound like someone who likes the otk meta lmfao. Idk i think its more fun when theres strategy and thought involved in the game play
@@dantehensley6799 What otk meta? Is there any go second otk strategy in this format or what, well I hate to break it to you but uh, there is none. Also I don't know what year you were referring to as "years ago"(The DM/GX era I guess, idfk).
There are strategies in the modern era, tech cards choices, learning game states, learning different lines of your combo, not just mindlessly normal summon ash add poplar etc. You can just pick up a meta deck, look up some guides and play in tournaments yes but you wouldn't do well. You need to put time and effort into learning the deck, even if it's the MONKE deck like stun, you still need to know what the opponent's decks is doing so you can find choke points.
Also, deck building is a key thing throughout the entire history of yugioh and it still is to this day. Having the skill to deck build better than the other players is substantial.
But I can see why the older formats is more well received than the current one, they are not fully into building archetype decks, you can just play different generic cards and put em together.
Generally I don't think the game sucks ass(also do you want to talk about old decks that are as broken as todays' deck? Like magical scientist ftk, exodia ftk, airblade etc. yugioh was broken back in the day and it still is today), admittedly it is much more fast pace than the before but that's just how games evolve without a rotation (I also play magic, pokmon tcg and other tcgs. So without a rotation you can't really balance the game without printing more powerful cards/straight up murder every deck and also, we don't have mana bases so it's more harder to balancing)
This was very funny and exciting to watch, and I don't know anything about Yu-Gi-Oh. Great storytelling.
Yugioh used to be a game of strategy and building your forces during the course of a Duel. Now it’s a lottery of who drew the best hand.