i recently taught my friend how to play yugioh, keep in mind ive been playing since 2001-2002 minus the 4-5 years pendulum era. And i did a test where i told him if i had a nibiru or veiler or ash or imperm and he would play accordingly and win. he won 5 games in a row of me doing that then i told him now he understands how to play with those things in mind and we played 5 more duels without me saying a word and he lost all 5. He would summon more than 5 times or wouldnt try to ash bait me. But when he knew i had the cards he always played correctly. Then i noticed him starting to try and bait me and said good job i see what youre trying to do but i know if i let the dark hole effect resolve it will actually hurt you more than me in the long run which is why i wont negate or respond to it. He's learning quick tbh im proud of him. he beats me alot now and he's only been playing a few months.
@@michaelmorales1602 I am not the original comment writer, but I still have a tip I could recommend, since it worked for a friend of mine. When I teach someone the game I mosttly use Decks with only one extra deck mechanic and which are based on there core gameplan interactive. (dumb e.g. Sky Striker). For the first few games I would also not introduce handtraps just the basic spells, traps and monster mechanics so the new plaer can get a hold of the basic rules and concepts. after a while add some handtraps, not alle but the most known. Then after some more games add an Extra Deck Mechanic and so on ...
@@michaelmorales1602 I covered the basics, showed him the play matt, monsters spells and traps then turn phases, spell speeds, conditions, terminology (send, destroy, banish, shuffle) and he did the rest. I also explained how fusions rituals xyzs and links worked and he ended up learning supreme king pendulum all on his own and taught me how pendulums function. I also set him up on YGO Omega to practice against bots. Few months later he has mastered several decks and learned to play against all 20 of my decks. The best advice is go easy on him so he wants to learn. Throw games if you have to if you see him get frustrated. I've thrown a few games and I'm pretty sure that made him happy enough to continue playing and learning without me. Now he's equally as good as I am it just comes down to the decks we play.
@@michaelmorales1602 dang i typed an entire paragraph and it didnt post. i showed him the basics, play matt layout, card types, turns and phases, spell speeds and timing, conditions, yugioh terms like destroy, send, banish, shuffle ect. taught him tribute summoning and only 1 normal summon per turn which is why we want to special alot. Oh the big thing was getting him on a simulator to practice against bots and me. EDOPRO and YGO Omega. He caught on from there. Even learned Supreme King as his first deck and taught me all about pendulums lol. Yup he summoned every type of extra deck monster in one turn and i knew he was good to go. Most importantly, try and teach him as you play, its just a game at the end of the day it doesn't need to be so serious we dont always need to win.😅 Patience, Encouragement and letting them feel good when they break your board. Always acknowledge when they make a good play and offer helpful tips on how they could play generic scenarios differently in the future.
@@michaelmorales1602start him off with old Yu-Gi-Oh Normal summons Know when and how to play spells and traps, I'm teaching a friend too and after a few duels I made him play sword soul and it's very easy for him to combo now
Reminds me of the game you had vs Cam at the UUDD where you opted not to search Sanctuary and went straight to island and set Imperm. You held the Imperm for a Millenia and when it flipped up it changed the whole game
One of my favorites was during a big 100 man tournament at my locals. It was my first big tournament and it was a format where Dino rabbit just came out in the tins and mermail just came out in abyss rising. I made it all the way to the finals 2-0ing every Dino rabbit player and I played watts. No one saw the deck coming and no one knew what the cards did or how they interacted. Notably my watt dragonfly getting solemn warninged not know I'd still get the summon off. I ended up losing in the finals to mermail 1-2 but its a moment I'll never forget as a young player.
One of my favourite mental games ever was during tearishizu format, vs Floondereeze. In that format I was reluctant to play tear so, I went the fun route of playing crystal beast. I know, just good old Necrovalley-shifter.dek. Anyways, in the match against floo, I always tried to make them known that I also played shifter on main, either by activating it or revealing him with prosperity. After that, basically all floo players side them out so I can put Droll and lock bird in, giving me safe access to the most broken handtrap vs that deck
I am glad and thankful that Jesse made a video about me misplaying in the finals, I truly learned a lot! Thx. It is true that I could win this finals but I definitely doesn't deserves it because of mistakes that I've made.
Bluffing on Master Duel with your toggles is so silly. In a good way I mean, for example toggling on your furnitures on the 5th summon is funny and is inconsistent, but sometimes u can get your opponent to change their line.
i had a game recently where my friend set cards to bluff me but after he didn't imperm me after the obvious targets, it became clear he had nothing since i knew his last card in hand. if he had set one less card, I would've actually been worried about Nib, the one card that could do a lot in that board state. It was interesting to reflect on the way you can also mix your bluffs together by setting cards and also not setting cards.
Really love these videos, Jesse. I don’t think there’s enough content out right now That actually teaches you how to be good at the game. 🔥🔥 Would love to see stuff on how to read cards to know how certain interactions will play out. How do you choose cards that enhance your specific deck or help cover up its weaknesses
That's one aspect i love about this game. You could brick and pass over to your opponent with nothing, and they're just left to wonder for their whole turn if you habe the out(s).
One time i ss Gladiator Beast Secutor in Attack position when i have very low LP, set a useless spell and end turn. I would've just died if opponet attack into it but he thought i was luring him to attack into it and flip waboku so he leave secutor alone, i proceed to win afterward because of that bluff.
Old school player here. I was once bamboozled by the old way of game losses due to time rulings. If you'd like to read about it there is an article, before games were streamed, on metagame site it's David Bustillos vs Jerry Wang. Jerry beat me by stalling and was able to get away with it. It was pretty messed up at the time. He was a cool dude and we got along afterwards but dang at the time I was so upset with him for stalling and the judges not giving him a loss. Oh and this was a SJC Championship, before YCS was a thing. I've always wanted to tell someone my story.
awesome video, definitely one of my favorite parts of yugioh. I am lower ranked on master duel so sometimes I can play through 7 interruptions because people don't read and I can bluff out their negates.
Lilith Lady Of Lament is a really funny one to mind game with. It's less relevant now but when the deck was more relevant, you could grab 2 of a single name trap and a stray trap, you can have them add the advantageous trap instead. Especially with more rouge traps like Ballista Squad being added next to say Imperm and some players just see scary trap and just choose the other one thinking it'll either benefit you less or that you're working at a loss versus you wanting them to choose the "Bad Card".
This a great concept that is not really spoken about, it can apply to so many things not just trap card, in my own personal experience I know I’ve had opponents misplay into stopping a purrely effect to xyz just because of the potential threat of beauty.
Even when I'm focused on using Board Breakers, I STILL run Infinite Impermanence to throw people off guard, who might think after deleting their monsters with board wipes I'm just setting something like a Forbidden Droplet, Contain or Widow Anchor to hit a monster with, and then get their backrow negated simultaneously unexpectedly. Not to mention running Imperm to snipe their going first plays might make people think I'm on other hand traps and encourage them to play around those, leaving openings in other directions. It's basically like how Grapplers in Fighting games have to try to lead their opponents into a habit of "respecting" their Strikes with excessive blocking in order to ever pull off a Command Grab(though I'm more a fan of Zoning despite the huge stigma towards "Keep Away" in those games rivaled ONLY by Command Grab spamming, though good Zoning requires mastery of the Midrange as WELL as those edging pokes).
I play my decks as if they are pure then I drop surprises. I don't have any pure decks and never plan on changing that. Playing with expectations successfully can be as much fun as the overall gameplay as a whole!
Bluffing works a lot if you can make people play with caution and aren’t as easily readable. However some players play with no fear lol and make the play anyways and put you on better have it.
You should because if they have it and make right play it didn't matter regardless. At high level playing this should be happening. If the player is bad bluffing in ygo is pointless because unless they open "have it" you are more likely to out play them
@@tristianmeganblagoueakajay9174 yeah but you will play with “no fear” and now you will get stopped and lose completely instead of being smart, playing a little more conservative, and if they do “have it” you will still have a chance to win becuase you didn’t over commit.
I remember in Nationals French 2023 , i was playing Earth Machine , first round against spright , the guy goes steal my sargas , use it for zeus then after a few turns , he go zeus eff ( while under skill drain btw ) , no response , chain enemy controller.. I was totally bamboozled.. Cause while thiking i had the game due to simply having skill drain and also a continous trap specifically to stop the spright , i got nuked by that combo alone.
I think a lot of players fall into a “Locals” paradigm where their mindset towards playing is usually based around games with familiar, friendly faces. So when a bigger competition comes up, even with a mentality of wanting to win, players look across the table and see someone they don’t think they have to play other than straightforwardly.
Would the Labrynth player use Big Welcome before Back Jack if he had a valuable trap though? If Cameron thinks back to that moment in his head he probably lets the Back Jack go through. Still, it was pretty much the only way for Zhou to win the duel, he has to hope that Cam forgets or doesn't think about that, so cool observation.
I guess my favourite example of mindgames are smokescreen strategies, totally changing how you approach the game and capitalising on your opponent now mis-siding
"He may have it, but maybe not..." That feeling when you set five and pass while being a Dinomorphia player is priceless. Judgement, Strike, Intact, Sonic, Thunder... "He has 100 lifepoints left and still has one trap card left on board. No, it might be... 🥶"
@cyberjake2020 , because if you have to negate your opponent's monster effect from anywhere before having a Dinomorphia card face-up on the field, so the Dinomorphia Intact can activate for the same purpose, that's the best card available. Also, it depletes your life points faster, which is convenient in that strategy. Lastly, in case you have your life points lower than 1,500, you can summon Dinomorphia Stealthbergia to avoid paying life points for the effects that require them.
Made accesscode with a single fire on field. Opponent thought I forgot about prayer (I did not). Needed princess for the 8K to win or I’d lose on the crack back. Accesscode pop. He triggers prayer summons another guardian princess target guardian and my fire. Access pop the lo. Exact game for 8K for top 8 in regional. Wassssss cooking
The fact that Jack tried to use Big Welcome AFTER he activated Backjack should tell Cam that he whiffed on Backjack since he obviously shuffles after res. And chaining Backjack to get another Big Welcome doesnt make much sense there either imo (even tho bluffing it probably was his only chance)
This is why I play the jirai gumo trap in gate guardian. I play it in the right column people assume it’s imperm and waste a pop which gets me a search 9 times out of 10
I have story from me playing in ladder in master duel. I remember opening triple bonfire and double wanted. Absolutely terrible hand. My bonfire goes through and I add ash of course. I can’t remember what board I was facing but ik there was an omni negate plus I:P. I’m not winning this game, but I thought let me bait the I:P by going into battle phase, also bluffing evenly. I have no idea why, but my opponent scooped. I just sat there laughin, I should not have won and my opponent was an idiot for scooping.
I keep winning matches vs YCS-topping competitors by using Nibiru as a bluff. I go into each game with a growth mentality. Win or lose, I'm going to gain something out of this. One thing that I've been practicing is recognizing where best to Nibiru my opponents, even if it's not currently in my deck. I do this to know for the future where the optimal choke points would be in a given line had I opened with Nib. This oftentimes makes people think I have Nibiru, when in fact I'm just theorycrafting in the middle of a match lmao. In one event, I resolved Nibiru in game 2 of the first round against one of the best players in my state, with a lot of people watching. That Nibiru ended his turn and I went on to throw because I didn't realize we were out of time, so the match ended in a draw (I could've just gone to BP at any time to swing in for enough damage to take back the lead). A few rounds later, I go against another good player and take game 1 easily bc he bricked and I was able to push through all his hand traps. In game 2, he opens with both Bonfire and WANTED, so he basically has full gas. I don't open Nib, but I stop him a few times to consider if I should drop it at a certain spot if I did open with Nib. My opponent sees this as a sign that I DID open Nib, so he promptly makes a 4-material Apollousa and ends on that. This catches me off guard and I try my best to hold back a smile, because I had the Change of Heart that I sided in hand, so that game was a complete wash bc of Schrodinger's Nibiru giving me a free Apo to work with xD In the last round of swiss (this was a $250 prize card tourney with a cut to top 4), I'm still undefeated, and the only other undefeated is probably the 2nd best player in the state, and a guy I've been wanting to beat for awhile. Game 3 starts and I go first, opening an unplayable hand. I didn't side in the Nibs bc I like to have full gas when going first, and Crystal Beasts are very prone to bricks. I set Bridge of Salvation and pass. My opponent plays cautiously because I still have 4 unknowns in hand after he Knightmare Phoenixs away my Salvation, so he ends on Apo and hits me for half my LP, which means I survive. And since he sent Salvation to the grave for me, I used it in EP to search for a Pegasus, guaranteeing that I'd have plays going into turn 3. For turn, I draw Golden Rule. I get Drolled after my first search, so I'm able to Triple Talents Take Apo without having to use up one of her negates. Since I drew the Golden Rule, I was able to OTK under Droll without worrying about any hand traps. So essentially, I resolved ONE Nibiru in the first match, and that helped me go undefeated for 6 rounds because everyone was scared of my Nibs (that I don't main deck) xD
it's not what you have, it's what your opponent thinks you do. we do this all the time to bait handtraps turn 1, we just gotta take it one step further and realize the game goes on from there..
This isn’t really a bluff but I enjoy indirectly reminding people of effects they haven’t used when I have an out for it. Example: I was playing against floo at locals and he is on 4 summons with a normal summon remaining, an empen and little bird on the field. I have one card in hand and it’s nib. I ask if that is all 4 little bird effects and we look together and count that he has only used 3/4. So I say with a frown, oh, so you haven’t used eglen and you have a normal summon left? He smiles and says normal summon eglen. Then I smile and reveal nib. 😎
I think the one possible problem with this logic is that he was willing to shuffle his deck when he activated big welcome, so in my head I would think he either feel safe because he has nibiru in hand to shuffle away the karma cannon or he has nothing on top of his deck and let the back jack resolve. Because if he has no more interaction in hand why would he be willing to shuffle it away
I literally said this on stream. I'm paraphrasing but something like "Why would he use Nib there? The Snake-Eye player has game on board through that. I'm pretty sure you just hold it and hope they negate Back Jack". Shoutout to certified yapper Jesse Kotton for making a 10 minute video on a 10 second misplay
This is how I lost to a set gold sarc on DL yesterday. Zombies have an in-archetype continuous waboku that I played around instead of going for lethal and I lost because of it
Ugh, Schrodinger's whole point with the thought experiment is that it is completely ridiculous to believe that something could be in mutually exclusive states at the same time. The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics (the prevailing view that takes the thought experiment seriously) has gotten us basically nowhere in the last 100 years. Thank you, Yugioh players, for coming to my TED Talk.
My opponent thinking nothing of my set backrow then I chain 1 grave of super ancients, chain 2 grave of super ancients and watch them go, how tf do I beat this.
My story would be that once at locals, I was against this one girl playing Marincess and I was on Tearlaments. We were going into time in game 3 and she normal summoned a monster and time was called. She asked if we just tied then. I asked if she was going to use her monster's effect before she ended the main phase. She said she didn't see any point because we had the same life points. And I asked her again to clarify if she wanted to end the phase or activate any effects. I got in her head and she pondered, thinking I maybe had something if she left an open field. So she proceeded to do some searches and try to add disruption to her board...I then chained Tearlaments Havnis and proceeded to mill my copy of Agido, which lead to milling Volcanic Scattershot which burned her for damage in time and I won the match! I made sure not to lead her into activating an effect, but I put it in her head to do so. That was a next level play I had thought!
Do you really play around everything though? Don't you guess which cards hurt you the most and just play around them and hope for the best with the others?
It's rare because yugioh is more math and variance than skill. Technically, everything is, even chess, but it is much harder to simplify this. Chess is all math and it is a lot of match but you can never know all math matical situations for which scenario will matter. At least, realistically, as with Yugioh, you actually can. I think playing around have it is most probable. However, if your deck can afford to not do so, then your deck (much like full power D link) actually can afford to play around everything. No deck ever has this ability. Even tier 0 ones. Only one I can think of is D link. It could play around everything except Lancea. Which given whatever hand beats lancea would also beat droll + nibiru 78 percent of the time. The math on that in a game three may as well be 90 percent. Basically, these moments are rare and luck based. You played around nothing and were already completely winning or you played around the right card an won. I can not award anything to myself here as by doing so I played in to something else I should also loose to. The only way to have pride in this scenario is to create a deck that plays around everything and no mid range or control deck could ever do this, only a combo deck can.
So because a good player playing a better deck will always play around you better have it 94 percent of the time you will loose anyways. Also I agree had he held imperm maybe his value is greater later and it makes your opponent wonder what is set. However in this scenario we allow the snake eyes ash to play out meaning my opponent uses less resources to do the same thing and can also make Phoenix to call my bluff. If it a torrential. If it a book of eclipse. If it a warning. I will always take my one card combo as far as I can to force you to reveal the card if you do not I now know you are protecting the card then I remove it or force it and still deal with the board the same because you allowed me to run my one card combo down to oak
Also your theory on is the cat alive or dead does work however not when you have 2 traps and a normal summon this works best with floodgates decks. And older yugioh. As now a days floodgates just win regardless and generally are flipped on simple summons and not a skillful scenario
I bluff a lot, a lot of players are bots and quick to use all they’re hand traps so I’ll use the things I don’t care if they get stopped first and than for example I brought heroes to Toronto regional recently I didn’t do phenomenal by any means but against one kash snake eyes player I did hero lives got stopped summoned stratos it got stopped than I went fusion destiny and popped off I ultimately went 4-4 and dropped before the last round
This is wrong. Bluffing is 100% part of the game. Not lying, not trying to persuade your opponent “did you summon 5 yet?” That’s cheating. Bluffing tho is 100% valid
@@Geo-ok1nw If you are just setting a card or something to bluff then fine, but when you almost fully set a card then pick it up then do the same thing before finally and a lot of the "Bluffs" i see are just excuses to burn time, like you dont need to check my graveyard 4 times when i only have 2 cards in it, you shouldnt be asking me life points on the 2nd turn of the duel when no LP cards have been played "Bluffing operates specifically through misrepresentation" misrepresenting the game is a penalty. If you dont have nibiru and after i make my 5th summon you say "Thinking" but dont have a legal action but pretend you do, thats a misrepresentation. Just play the game, i hate when people have to resort to using outside tactics like bluffing and stuff like that to me its just being a scummy player. if you have a card then activate it, if you dont then dont pretend you do Now instead of making plays you are now trying to read your opponent and figure out if they are bluffing or not meanwhile the clock is burning, if tournaments had no round time limit then sure bluff all you want, but this isnt poker
My issue about calling it "Schrödinger’s Trap" is that the cat thing is a CRITIQUE, not a mindset. He used it to illustrate how irrational and impossible is that a cat can be both dead and alive at the same time. Schrödinger’ came up with that example to expose a flaw in quantum physics that exists to this day, and that they need to use statistics to predict things instead of assuming stuff. The most acceptable view on this, is that the cat is already dead, or already alive long before you open the box. But you can't predict it based on a single case. In the context of Yu-Gi-Oh this means you need to thinks that there 1 of those 3 trap cards based on the experience you had before and how your opponent plays. It is impossible that that trap card is all 3 at the same time. You need to choose one, but only based on previous knowledge and not in that single context.
I mean Jesse literally said at the beginning of the video that he goes deeper into it in another video and was just re explaining the BASIS(yes I'm using all caps like you ;) ) of the thought experiment for people who hadn't seen that video. But pop off king 🙄
@@madhatter33 I saw that video long ago, that is why I'm saying this. In that video Jesse makes the same mistake when describing the Cat in Box experiment. But stay petty instead of paying attention, prince🤡
We are talking about ycs. Cards are not a problem to these guys. Also not having cards make you solve problems you face by not having them and help you becoming good when you can afford them but still think outside of the box
A lot of playing.
A lot of testing.
A lot of researching meta developments and competitors.
A lot of playing into the Imperm column.
i recently taught my friend how to play yugioh, keep in mind ive been playing since 2001-2002 minus the 4-5 years pendulum era. And i did a test where i told him if i had a nibiru or veiler or ash or imperm and he would play accordingly and win. he won 5 games in a row of me doing that then i told him now he understands how to play with those things in mind and we played 5 more duels without me saying a word and he lost all 5. He would summon more than 5 times or wouldnt try to ash bait me. But when he knew i had the cards he always played correctly. Then i noticed him starting to try and bait me and said good job i see what youre trying to do but i know if i let the dark hole effect resolve it will actually hurt you more than me in the long run which is why i wont negate or respond to it. He's learning quick tbh im proud of him. he beats me alot now and he's only been playing a few months.
I'm currently teaching a friend how to play! He's completely new, never even watched the show. Any tips you can share for teaching effectively?
@@michaelmorales1602 I am not the original comment writer, but I still have a tip I could recommend, since it worked for a friend of mine.
When I teach someone the game I mosttly use Decks with only one extra deck mechanic and which are based on there core gameplan interactive. (dumb e.g. Sky Striker). For the first few games I would also not introduce handtraps just the basic spells, traps and monster mechanics so the new plaer can get a hold of the basic rules and concepts. after a while add some handtraps, not alle but the most known.
Then after some more games add an Extra Deck Mechanic and so on ...
@@michaelmorales1602 I covered the basics, showed him the play matt, monsters spells and traps then turn phases, spell speeds, conditions, terminology (send, destroy, banish, shuffle) and he did the rest. I also explained how fusions rituals xyzs and links worked and he ended up learning supreme king pendulum all on his own and taught me how pendulums function. I also set him up on YGO Omega to practice against bots. Few months later he has mastered several decks and learned to play against all 20 of my decks. The best advice is go easy on him so he wants to learn. Throw games if you have to if you see him get frustrated. I've thrown a few games and I'm pretty sure that made him happy enough to continue playing and learning without me. Now he's equally as good as I am it just comes down to the decks we play.
@@michaelmorales1602 dang i typed an entire paragraph and it didnt post. i showed him the basics, play matt layout, card types, turns and phases, spell speeds and timing, conditions, yugioh terms like destroy, send, banish, shuffle ect. taught him tribute summoning and only 1 normal summon per turn which is why we want to special alot. Oh the big thing was getting him on a simulator to practice against bots and me. EDOPRO and YGO Omega. He caught on from there. Even learned Supreme King as his first deck and taught me all about pendulums lol. Yup he summoned every type of extra deck monster in one turn and i knew he was good to go. Most importantly, try and teach him as you play, its just a game at the end of the day it doesn't need to be so serious we dont always need to win.😅 Patience, Encouragement and letting them feel good when they break your board. Always acknowledge when they make a good play and offer helpful tips on how they could play generic scenarios differently in the future.
@@michaelmorales1602start him off with old Yu-Gi-Oh
Normal summons
Know when and how to play spells and traps, I'm teaching a friend too and after a few duels I made him play sword soul and it's very easy for him to combo now
Its insane how complicated even simple boardstates are in yugioh when you consider all the handtraps/traps your opponent could have
Reminds me of the game you had vs Cam at the UUDD where you opted not to search Sanctuary and went straight to island and set Imperm. You held the Imperm for a Millenia and when it flipped up it changed the whole game
That is the best imperm I had seen in my life
The editing here is insane.
One of my favorites was during a big 100 man tournament at my locals. It was my first big tournament and it was a format where Dino rabbit just came out in the tins and mermail just came out in abyss rising. I made it all the way to the finals 2-0ing every Dino rabbit player and I played watts. No one saw the deck coming and no one knew what the cards did or how they interacted. Notably my watt dragonfly getting solemn warninged not know I'd still get the summon off. I ended up losing in the finals to mermail 1-2 but its a moment I'll never forget as a young player.
One of my favourite mental games ever was during tearishizu format, vs Floondereeze. In that format I was reluctant to play tear so, I went the fun route of playing crystal beast. I know, just good old Necrovalley-shifter.dek. Anyways, in the match against floo, I always tried to make them known that I also played shifter on main, either by activating it or revealing him with prosperity. After that, basically all floo players side them out so I can put Droll and lock bird in, giving me safe access to the most broken handtrap vs that deck
I am glad and thankful that Jesse made a video about me misplaying in the finals, I truly learned a lot! Thx.
It is true that I could win this finals but I definitely doesn't deserves it because of mistakes that I've made.
I loved watching your matches. Lab is based
Bro you were the strongest lab warrior and almost won, gj!
Hey man you did great! Good luck on your next one!
Bluffing on Master Duel with your toggles is so silly. In a good way I mean, for example toggling on your furnitures on the 5th summon is funny and is inconsistent, but sometimes u can get your opponent to change their line.
Nice video! This content is part of what separates your channel from other Yugitubers 👍🏽 Duel theory is something you should definitely keep bringing!
When playing Yu-Gi-Oh you just have to pretend that your opponent doesn’t have anything and Nibiru just doesn’t exist.
Thats what i do all the time.
That’s what all bad players do. Bluffing only works on good players
If you believe hard enough, they don't have handtraps.
i had a game recently where my friend set cards to bluff me but after he didn't imperm me after the obvious targets, it became clear he had nothing since i knew his last card in hand. if he had set one less card, I would've actually been worried about Nib, the one card that could do a lot in that board state. It was interesting to reflect on the way you can also mix your bluffs together by setting cards and also not setting cards.
Really love these videos, Jesse. I don’t think there’s enough content out right now That actually teaches you how to be good at the game. 🔥🔥
Would love to see stuff on how to read cards to know how certain interactions will play out.
How do you choose cards that enhance your specific deck or help cover up its weaknesses
That's one aspect i love about this game. You could brick and pass over to your opponent with nothing, and they're just left to wonder for their whole turn if you habe the out(s).
One time i ss Gladiator Beast Secutor in Attack position when i have very low LP, set a useless spell and end turn. I would've just died if opponet attack into it but he thought i was luring him to attack into it and flip waboku so he leave secutor alone, i proceed to win afterward because of that bluff.
Old school player here. I was once bamboozled by the old way of game losses due to time rulings. If you'd like to read about it there is an article, before games were streamed, on metagame site it's David Bustillos vs Jerry Wang. Jerry beat me by stalling and was able to get away with it. It was pretty messed up at the time. He was a cool dude and we got along afterwards but dang at the time I was so upset with him for stalling and the judges not giving him a loss. Oh and this was a SJC Championship, before YCS was a thing. I've always wanted to tell someone my story.
awesome video, definitely one of my favorite parts of yugioh. I am lower ranked on master duel so sometimes I can play through 7 interruptions because people don't read and I can bluff out their negates.
Lilith Lady Of Lament is a really funny one to mind game with. It's less relevant now but when the deck was more relevant, you could grab 2 of a single name trap and a stray trap, you can have them add the advantageous trap instead. Especially with more rouge traps like Ballista Squad being added next to say Imperm and some players just see scary trap and just choose the other one thinking it'll either benefit you less or that you're working at a loss versus you wanting them to choose the "Bad Card".
But is the Cat ok?
Never kno 😂
Yesn't
My man asking the important questions
Depends 🤔
Yes and no
This a great concept that is not really spoken about, it can apply to so many things not just trap card, in my own personal experience I know I’ve had opponents misplay into stopping a purrely effect to xyz just because of the potential threat of beauty.
Even when I'm focused on using Board Breakers, I STILL run Infinite Impermanence to throw people off guard, who might think after deleting their monsters with board wipes I'm just setting something like a Forbidden Droplet, Contain or Widow Anchor to hit a monster with, and then get their backrow negated simultaneously unexpectedly. Not to mention running Imperm to snipe their going first plays might make people think I'm on other hand traps and encourage them to play around those, leaving openings in other directions.
It's basically like how Grapplers in Fighting games have to try to lead their opponents into a habit of "respecting" their Strikes with excessive blocking in order to ever pull off a Command Grab(though I'm more a fan of Zoning despite the huge stigma towards "Keep Away" in those games rivaled ONLY by Command Grab spamming, though good Zoning requires mastery of the Midrange as WELL as those edging pokes).
I play my decks as if they are pure then I drop surprises. I don't have any pure decks and never plan on changing that. Playing with expectations successfully can be as much fun as the overall gameplay as a whole!
Always happy to revisit this topic
Bluffing works a lot if you can make people play with caution and aren’t as easily readable. However some players play with no fear lol and make the play anyways and put you on better have it.
You should because if they have it and make right play it didn't matter regardless. At high level playing this should be happening. If the player is bad bluffing in ygo is pointless because unless they open "have it" you are more likely to out play them
@@tristianmeganblagoueakajay9174 yeah but you will play with “no fear” and now you will get stopped and lose completely instead of being smart, playing a little more conservative, and if they do “have it” you will still have a chance to win becuase you didn’t over commit.
I remember in Nationals French 2023 , i was playing Earth Machine , first round against spright , the guy goes steal my sargas , use it for zeus then after a few turns , he go zeus eff ( while under skill drain btw ) , no response , chain enemy controller.. I was totally bamboozled.. Cause while thiking i had the game due to simply having skill drain and also a continous trap specifically to stop the spright , i got nuked by that combo alone.
I'm definitely interested in seeing more content like this. Awesome work! 😊
I think a lot of players fall into a “Locals” paradigm where their mindset towards playing is usually based around games with familiar, friendly faces. So when a bigger competition comes up, even with a mentality of wanting to win, players look across the table and see someone they don’t think they have to play other than straightforwardly.
Would the Labrynth player use Big Welcome before Back Jack if he had a valuable trap though? If Cameron thinks back to that moment in his head he probably lets the Back Jack go through.
Still, it was pretty much the only way for Zhou to win the duel, he has to hope that Cam forgets or doesn't think about that, so cool observation.
I guess my favourite example of mindgames are smokescreen strategies, totally changing how you approach the game and capitalising on your opponent now mis-siding
"He may have it, but maybe not..."
That feeling when you set five and pass while being a Dinomorphia player is priceless. Judgement, Strike, Intact, Sonic, Thunder...
"He has 100 lifepoints left and still has one trap card left on board. No, it might be... 🥶"
why the living hell would you play solemn strike in dinomorphia?
@cyberjake2020 , because if you have to negate your opponent's monster effect from anywhere before having a Dinomorphia card face-up on the field, so the Dinomorphia Intact can activate for the same purpose, that's the best card available. Also, it depletes your life points faster, which is convenient in that strategy. Lastly, in case you have your life points lower than 1,500, you can summon Dinomorphia Stealthbergia to avoid paying life points for the effects that require them.
great video, more like this please!
super good video, keep doing what you do I love this content
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Oh yeah, bluffing. I kinda took that one for granted.
6:45 Eminem's got his work cut out for him
Made accesscode with a single fire on field. Opponent thought I forgot about prayer (I did not). Needed princess for the 8K to win or I’d lose on the crack back. Accesscode pop. He triggers prayer summons another guardian princess target guardian and my fire. Access pop the lo. Exact game for 8K for top 8 in regional. Wassssss cooking
The fact that Jack tried to use Big Welcome AFTER he activated Backjack should tell Cam that he whiffed on Backjack since he obviously shuffles after res. And chaining Backjack to get another Big Welcome doesnt make much sense there either imo (even tho bluffing it probably was his only chance)
Amazing video!! Love the mind games in yugioh and card games
i really like these kinds of videos good job jesse and good job mr editor
Another awesome video, nice work Jesse
Adding that the amount of time looking at the cards matters. You can bluff with body language
This is why I play the jirai gumo trap in gate guardian. I play it in the right column people assume it’s imperm and waste a pop which gets me a search 9 times out of 10
I have story from me playing in ladder in master duel. I remember opening triple bonfire and double wanted. Absolutely terrible hand. My bonfire goes through and I add ash of course. I can’t remember what board I was facing but ik there was an omni negate plus I:P.
I’m not winning this game, but I thought let me bait the I:P by going into battle phase, also bluffing evenly. I have no idea why, but my opponent scooped. I just sat there laughin, I should not have won and my opponent was an idiot for scooping.
I keep winning matches vs YCS-topping competitors by using Nibiru as a bluff.
I go into each game with a growth mentality. Win or lose, I'm going to gain something out of this. One thing that I've been practicing is recognizing where best to Nibiru my opponents, even if it's not currently in my deck. I do this to know for the future where the optimal choke points would be in a given line had I opened with Nib. This oftentimes makes people think I have Nibiru, when in fact I'm just theorycrafting in the middle of a match lmao. In one event, I resolved Nibiru in game 2 of the first round against one of the best players in my state, with a lot of people watching. That Nibiru ended his turn and I went on to throw because I didn't realize we were out of time, so the match ended in a draw (I could've just gone to BP at any time to swing in for enough damage to take back the lead).
A few rounds later, I go against another good player and take game 1 easily bc he bricked and I was able to push through all his hand traps. In game 2, he opens with both Bonfire and WANTED, so he basically has full gas. I don't open Nib, but I stop him a few times to consider if I should drop it at a certain spot if I did open with Nib. My opponent sees this as a sign that I DID open Nib, so he promptly makes a 4-material Apollousa and ends on that. This catches me off guard and I try my best to hold back a smile, because I had the Change of Heart that I sided in hand, so that game was a complete wash bc of Schrodinger's Nibiru giving me a free Apo to work with xD
In the last round of swiss (this was a $250 prize card tourney with a cut to top 4), I'm still undefeated, and the only other undefeated is probably the 2nd best player in the state, and a guy I've been wanting to beat for awhile. Game 3 starts and I go first, opening an unplayable hand. I didn't side in the Nibs bc I like to have full gas when going first, and Crystal Beasts are very prone to bricks. I set Bridge of Salvation and pass. My opponent plays cautiously because I still have 4 unknowns in hand after he Knightmare Phoenixs away my Salvation, so he ends on Apo and hits me for half my LP, which means I survive. And since he sent Salvation to the grave for me, I used it in EP to search for a Pegasus, guaranteeing that I'd have plays going into turn 3. For turn, I draw Golden Rule. I get Drolled after my first search, so I'm able to Triple Talents Take Apo without having to use up one of her negates. Since I drew the Golden Rule, I was able to OTK under Droll without worrying about any hand traps.
So essentially, I resolved ONE Nibiru in the first match, and that helped me go undefeated for 6 rounds because everyone was scared of my Nibs (that I don't main deck) xD
The HandTrap of Schrodinger
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it's not what you have, it's what your opponent thinks you do.
we do this all the time to bait handtraps turn 1, we just gotta take it one step further and realize the game goes on from there..
Great insights 👀
Why isn't the original schrodingers trap video link in the description? ☹️
great video! please make more
This is another one of those things that says it only works if your opponent is playing optimally
This isn’t really a bluff but I enjoy indirectly reminding people of effects they haven’t used when I have an out for it.
Example: I was playing against floo at locals and he is on 4 summons with a normal summon remaining, an empen and little bird on the field. I have one card in hand and it’s nib. I ask if that is all 4 little bird effects and we look together and count that he has only used 3/4. So I say with a frown, oh, so you haven’t used eglen and you have a normal summon left? He smiles and says normal summon eglen. Then I smile and reveal nib. 😎
Bluff evenly match to book of eclipse, by killing off my xyz monster by battle instead, and make a zues
I think the one possible problem with this logic is that he was willing to shuffle his deck when he activated big welcome, so in my head I would think he either feel safe because he has nibiru in hand to shuffle away the karma cannon or he has nothing on top of his deck and let the back jack resolve. Because if he has no more interaction in hand why would he be willing to shuffle it away
Not necessarily. If big welcome wasn’t hit by ash, they might’ve chained backjack to big welcome
@@spacecoyote6101 that makes sense yeah good point
Great video!
I literally said this on stream. I'm paraphrasing but something like "Why would he use Nib there? The Snake-Eye player has game on board through that. I'm pretty sure you just hold it and hope they negate Back Jack".
Shoutout to certified yapper Jesse Kotton for making a 10 minute video on a 10 second misplay
This is how I lost to a set gold sarc on DL yesterday. Zombies have an in-archetype continuous waboku that I played around instead of going for lethal and I lost because of it
Hey man, out of curiosity, which in-archetype Waboku do Zombies have?
It’s shiranui samsara
@@lokpiju9554 thanks for the tip!
Can you link the said video, please?
"big win judgerynth"
A1 Content man.
Great video
Very interesting video
Ugh, Schrodinger's whole point with the thought experiment is that it is completely ridiculous to believe that something could be in mutually exclusive states at the same time. The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics (the prevailing view that takes the thought experiment seriously) has gotten us basically nowhere in the last 100 years.
Thank you, Yugioh players, for coming to my TED Talk.
More advanced competitive content please!
My opponent thinking nothing of my set backrow then I chain 1 grave of super ancients, chain 2 grave of super ancients and watch them go, how tf do I beat this.
nice vid, commenting to boost the algorithem
Interesting video. 🎉
I pretend my opponent has nothing and pray. Eventually I get lucky and win
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wonderful content creator, just a bit of an eyesore to look at. gotta take the good with the bad I guess
My story would be that once at locals, I was against this one girl playing Marincess and I was on Tearlaments. We were going into time in game 3 and she normal summoned a monster and time was called. She asked if we just tied then. I asked if she was going to use her monster's effect before she ended the main phase. She said she didn't see any point because we had the same life points. And I asked her again to clarify if she wanted to end the phase or activate any effects. I got in her head and she pondered, thinking I maybe had something if she left an open field. So she proceeded to do some searches and try to add disruption to her board...I then chained Tearlaments Havnis and proceeded to mill my copy of Agido, which lead to milling Volcanic Scattershot which burned her for damage in time and I won the match!
I made sure not to lead her into activating an effect, but I put it in her head to do so. That was a next level play I had thought!
Surprisingly, no self reports in the comments
Do you really play around everything though? Don't you guess which cards hurt you the most and just play around them and hope for the best with the others?
It's rare because yugioh is more math and variance than skill. Technically, everything is, even chess, but it is much harder to simplify this. Chess is all math and it is a lot of match but you can never know all math matical situations for which scenario will matter. At least, realistically, as with Yugioh, you actually can. I think playing around have it is most probable. However, if your deck can afford to not do so, then your deck (much like full power D link) actually can afford to play around everything. No deck ever has this ability. Even tier 0 ones. Only one I can think of is D link. It could play around everything except Lancea. Which given whatever hand beats lancea would also beat droll + nibiru 78 percent of the time. The math on that in a game three may as well be 90 percent. Basically, these moments are rare and luck based. You played around nothing and were already completely winning or you played around the right card an won. I can not award anything to myself here as by doing so I played in to something else I should also loose to. The only way to have pride in this scenario is to create a deck that plays around everything and no mid range or control deck could ever do this, only a combo deck can.
So because a good player playing a better deck will always play around you better have it 94 percent of the time you will loose anyways. Also I agree had he held imperm maybe his value is greater later and it makes your opponent wonder what is set. However in this scenario we allow the snake eyes ash to play out meaning my opponent uses less resources to do the same thing and can also make Phoenix to call my bluff. If it a torrential. If it a book of eclipse. If it a warning. I will always take my one card combo as far as I can to force you to reveal the card if you do not I now know you are protecting the card then I remove it or force it and still deal with the board the same because you allowed me to run my one card combo down to oak
Also your theory on is the cat alive or dead does work however not when you have 2 traps and a normal summon this works best with floodgates decks. And older yugioh. As now a days floodgates just win regardless and generally are flipped on simple summons and not a skillful scenario
I bluff a lot, a lot of players are bots and quick to use all they’re hand traps so I’ll use the things I don’t care if they get stopped first and than for example I brought heroes to Toronto regional recently I didn’t do phenomenal by any means but against one kash snake eyes player I did hero lives got stopped summoned stratos it got stopped than I went fusion destiny and popped off I ultimately went 4-4 and dropped before the last round
Feel bad for Jack as Jesse is just saying your could have won here buddy should have played better.
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I activated 3 D Barriers in one game c:
Zero skill, all funny
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"Bluffing is forgotten" not forgotten but this is suppose to be about plays, if you want to bluff go play poker.
This is wrong. Bluffing is 100% part of the game. Not lying, not trying to persuade your opponent “did you summon 5 yet?” That’s cheating.
Bluffing tho is 100% valid
@@Geo-ok1nw If you are just setting a card or something to bluff then fine, but when you almost fully set a card then pick it up then do the same thing before finally and a lot of the "Bluffs" i see are just excuses to burn time, like you dont need to check my graveyard 4 times when i only have 2 cards in it, you shouldnt be asking me life points on the 2nd turn of the duel when no LP cards have been played
"Bluffing operates specifically through misrepresentation" misrepresenting the game is a penalty.
If you dont have nibiru and after i make my 5th summon you say "Thinking" but dont have a legal action but pretend you do, thats a misrepresentation.
Just play the game, i hate when people have to resort to using outside tactics like bluffing and stuff like that to me its just being a scummy player. if you have a card then activate it, if you dont then dont pretend you do
Now instead of making plays you are now trying to read your opponent and figure out if they are bluffing or not meanwhile the clock is burning, if tournaments had no round time limit then sure bluff all you want, but this isnt poker
My issue about calling it "Schrödinger’s Trap" is that the cat thing is a CRITIQUE, not a mindset. He used it to illustrate how irrational and impossible is that a cat can be both dead and alive at the same time. Schrödinger’ came up with that example to expose a flaw in quantum physics that exists to this day, and that they need to use statistics to predict things instead of assuming stuff.
The most acceptable view on this, is that the cat is already dead, or already alive long before you open the box. But you can't predict it based on a single case. In the context of Yu-Gi-Oh this means you need to thinks that there 1 of those 3 trap cards based on the experience you had before and how your opponent plays. It is impossible that that trap card is all 3 at the same time. You need to choose one, but only based on previous knowledge and not in that single context.
I mean Jesse literally said at the beginning of the video that he goes deeper into it in another video and was just re explaining the BASIS(yes I'm using all caps like you ;) ) of the thought experiment for people who hadn't seen that video. But pop off king 🙄
@@madhatter33 I saw that video long ago, that is why I'm saying this. In that video Jesse makes the same mistake when describing the Cat in Box experiment. But stay petty instead of paying attention, prince🤡
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not a "D/D ghost" reference, bad video
Facts my brother
How to get better at yugioh, money lol all the skill and knowledge doesn’t matter if you can’t afford a good deck.
We are talking about ycs. Cards are not a problem to these guys. Also not having cards make you solve problems you face by not having them and help you becoming good when you can afford them but still think outside of the box
Great video!
Great video