LOL. In all seriousness this video was helpful because I don't play competitively anymore, but I keep up with all the new stuff coming out and it would be good to have a strategy for if I ever come back to the scene.
Pay attention to their combo. Many decks, even if they dont do the exact same thing every time will try to do something similar games 2 and 3 as they did game 1. Even if you didnt draw any interuptions on the first game and their board is already too big for you to break, still watch their turn carefully and pick out potential choke points or weaknesses. This will run down the clock and give you less time to win the 2nd and 3rd games, but the information you gain about this deck you dont know at all will be invaluable to both side decking and playing both of those games.
I’m not a competitive yugioh player as I’ve never competed against other people in tournaments so this helps me if I ever compete in tournaments and the advice is really useful. Thank you for making this helpful video
Cool advice! One of the things I suggest when playing against new decks is to actually take notes or - if you play on a simulator - save the replay. Once you go back to the duel and replay it in your mind with knowledge you acquired about the deck later, you can think of what you could have done better and learn.
step 1 - interrupt constantly to read what their cards do step 2 - start caring less each time until you trust what your opponent says is the effect step 3 - look out for effects that seem too good to be true.
hey, very good job, this is one of the most informative videos I have ever hear im not too good with english to congratulate you, but I hope you keep making this kind of "unspoken but needed to know topics of yugioh" videos so again, thanks for this excelent video
Another thing I would advise is just watching DB Grinder. He shows Duel replays of high rated players usually playing meta decks and gives great commentary on the field. I’ve learned a lot about the different decks in the format from this channel.
Very nice advise. While I don't play competitively, I do play with custom cards, so basically every duel is this for me. One thing I would like to add is that whenever you read a new card, *always* make note of each and every restriction that card places on the user. Especially pay attention to cards that only let you use one of their effects per turn (sometimes a player uses one of those early in a turn, then forgets the restriction and tries to use a different effect later) or things that can't be used immediately (basically watch for the line "except during the turn this card was sent to the GY"). Cards with more restrictions should have more scrutiny to make sure you remember them all (for example it's a known fact that you cannot play Card of Demise without forgetting at least one of its draw backs). I have won more then a few duels by just copy/pasting an effect of an opponent's card verbatim, then pointing out that they cannot do whatever play they just did. (For example, Upstart Goblin into Pot of Extravagance into "At the start of your Main Phase 1".)
If you know thy enemy and know thyself, you needn't fear the outcomes of 100 battles. If you know thyself but do not know thy enemy, then for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat. If you neither know thyself nor the enemy, you will always suffer defeat in every battle - Sun Tzu, Art of War
From someone that has left formats to come back later several times this is pretty accurate, I usually see matches of the meta decks and learn some of them as well
Also important: play a modern deck. Getting back into yugioh in 2010 after dropping the game in 2005, I had no idea what all the new cards did but more importantly it didn't matter because my old deck just couldn't stop them anyway. If you want to get back into the game, you can't expect to bring an outdated deck and keep up. A lot of returning players need to understand that, I think. I refused to swallow my pride and accept that in 2010, so I dropped the game again in a salty ragequit and didn't start again until just last year. Now I'm still learning all these unfamiliar cards, but at least I'm playing a deck that can do something about them.
a good rule of thumb for playing decks you’ve never seen, that doesn’t always apply, but often does, is to interrupt the first link 1, the link 2, or the normal summon combo starter.
@@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 i just said it doesn’t always apply. i’m just saying if you already have no clue and it’s all blind guesswork, this will often be the route to go. pretty sure hitting the romulus isn’t bad though right ?
I always seem to struggle with generic removal/drawing choices for my spells/traps and sideboard. Like picking up the one Raigeki is simple but should I do all 3 twin twisters or is that overkill? 2 twin twisters and an MST perhaps? Monster and back row removal is always something I've found hard. Just a ton of selection. How much is too much?
I was really impress with how Pak played. He knew exactly how his opponents cards worked and countered played them. Wonder if that is what inspired you to make this video. XD
Maybe a good thing to mention Would've been investment vs payoff. How normal summoned monsters are in a way more valuable than special summoned monsters, Or how negating a negate on a card you are loosing regardless might not be worth it.
Lol I like playing decks that people have probably never seen before. There's that chance they may make mistakes and misplay against you if they have no knowledge on what your cards do since they never seen it before. Nowadays hardly anyone knows or remembers anything about Dark Worlds.
Playing against decks you've never played before happens even for currently playing veterans. Round 1 is a wild place, you never know when you'll be ambushed by Flower Cardians or something.
Can you talk about pendulum summoning? Is it still strong? Or it has died because of the new master rule revisions, pendulum zones are now shared with spell and trap zones and the metalfoes link monster being banned. And if they are in a bad place what do you think that can help them become a little better but not too broken.
It's not strong, and it hasn't died either. It is just not as good anymore due to power creep - And some specific bans. So the reason why they're not good doesn't have much to do with the new master rules.
Sadly, pendulums do not have many of their strongest cards since most of them are banned, so that makes the deck a lot worse, it's not really the master rule itself since pendulums were pretty good in mr4, it's the fact that they have few good cards that are not on the list. Though I would love to see electrumite back, I sadly think pendulums are gonna be in a bad spot for a long time...
Thanks for the insite guys. I've always wondered if a full powered pepe deck will be stomp the competition in the current format because it was once the a tier 0 deck that caused konami to make an emergency ban list to try to rain the combo or just a great meta contender. If you could get me some insights as well, it would be much appreciated.
This is good, but you forgot the all important part of Rogue tier or lower. Decks people don't actually know about. More people have a basic meta understanding than they do general knowledge about various decks. Anyway, good video on the meta side.
"this card puts X card in the GY" "Yeah well what does X card do?" "Oh, it special summons Y card" "Cool what does Y card do?" "Brings out Z card" "Ooookay but what does Z card d-" "I LINK INTO PREDAPLANT VERTE ANACONDA AND FUSION INTO DRAGOON MWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!" (Bonus part, this is about my deckbuilding style specifically) "okay so I negate card X" "Well good thing I still have cards A, B, and C that can all be activated and resolve effects independently of each other, hope you brought more negations"
all Decks are decks i haven't seen and monster with ridiculous abilities. Last time i played YuGiOh before i started back up again was probably around 2009?
@@trashboat6436 Well even though its doesn't say Yubels effect forces monsters to attack her Well OK maybe not but that's not how high school Yugioh works Also respect that guy Physically impossible to build a Yubel cards only deck Such a shame
@@nicoofthenight8403 yeah he was my dueling rival, it was high school after all and I was good back then but far from the best, I can't remember what exactly he was using to get yubel out but once he brought out yubels final form I knew I was screwed. He taught me a lot making me looking like a big chump. He made me reevaluate all my strategies and even then it wasn't enough. God do I miss those days
I feel like this wasn't helpful at all all you said basicly was practice and play against these decks until you learn how they work you didn't say like ash their searcher card or try to negate their first extra deck monster they summon or try to negate the first monster they normal summon in general to try and stop them from starting their combo
Me, “Huh.....? What does that card do? Ok. Can I read the card?” Opponent’s main phase 1. Me: “And that does what? Can I read it? No? Ok.” Opponent’s battle phase. Me. “Huh?.... Can I read the card?”
“Yugioh takes practice.” Modern yugioh: build a huge board with a million negates to stop your opponent from posting or use hand traps to stop your opponent from playing. Yeah. You sure can practice these days when the goal of the game is to stop your opponent from playing the game XD. No hate Dzeef but that’s just how it is.
Cool that you are starting to make beginner/tips videos again, they helped me a lot when i was starting out
Lol so how long u been playing n how old are you
How To Play Against Decks You've Never Seen Before
Step 1: See them.
LOL. In all seriousness this video was helpful because I don't play competitively anymore, but I keep up with all the new stuff coming out and it would be good to have a strategy for if I ever come back to the scene.
It really do be that simple
step 2: BRICK
Step 3: Panic and scoop
Step 0: Read the cards
Vids like this are awesome, they help me get better at the game. More like this please!!
Yo if if someone is playing mokey mokey you gotta let em win
Never
A eldish player let me win because I disrupt his play and put a decent Field with roids! 2 mobile bases and a stealth Union!
Pay attention to their combo.
Many decks, even if they dont do the exact same thing every time will try to do something similar games 2 and 3 as they did game 1.
Even if you didnt draw any interuptions on the first game and their board is already too big for you to break, still watch their turn carefully and pick out potential choke points or weaknesses. This will run down the clock and give you less time to win the 2nd and 3rd games, but the information you gain about this deck you dont know at all will be invaluable to both side decking and playing both of those games.
Absolutely. Play it out and see the combo lines or tech cards the r playing before u scoop
I’m not a competitive yugioh player as I’ve never competed against other people in tournaments so this helps me if I ever compete in tournaments and the advice is really useful. Thank you for making this helpful video
1v 1 me right now
Then you new to the game really well welcome to compete yugioh. Man watch cimo videos too he has a lot of videos n decks u can play In events
@@peteryanes9339 Ok
Just summon Dark Magician with no monsters on the field.
Gg bro
Dark magic curtain?
Sometimes I just wait until they've made their end board, then i look at their grave, read the effects of the cards on field and just work from there
But If some of these decks get their best board out uninterrupted you already lose lol
Dude thanks so much
I havent played since 2018 and this is really helping get back into it without being nervous
Cool advice! One of the things I suggest when playing against new decks is to actually take notes or - if you play on a simulator - save the replay. Once you go back to the duel and replay it in your mind with knowledge you acquired about the deck later, you can think of what you could have done better and learn.
step 1 - interrupt constantly to read what their cards do
step 2 - start caring less each time until you trust what your opponent says is the effect
step 3 - look out for effects that seem too good to be true.
I'm a player came back to play yu-gi-oh once again and everything you wrote describes me 😂😂😂
I was that dude the first time I competed in Locals.
hey, very good job, this is one of the most informative videos I have ever hear
im not too good with english to congratulate you, but I hope you keep making this kind of "unspoken but needed to know topics of yugioh" videos
so again, thanks for this excelent video
Going to play geminis. Everybody will be caught off guard as I get tilted in one turn from someone's control deck.
Another thing I would advise is just watching DB Grinder. He shows Duel replays of high rated players usually playing meta decks and gives great commentary on the field. I’ve learned a lot about the different decks in the format from this channel.
Definitely - He puts out a lot of good content and has a discord server where you can talk to him
I absolutely love this video cause it came at a perfect time I’m trying to get back into comp yugioh. Please do more of these:)
Very nice advise. While I don't play competitively, I do play with custom cards, so basically every duel is this for me.
One thing I would like to add is that whenever you read a new card, *always* make note of each and every restriction that card places on the user. Especially pay attention to cards that only let you use one of their effects per turn (sometimes a player uses one of those early in a turn, then forgets the restriction and tries to use a different effect later) or things that can't be used immediately (basically watch for the line "except during the turn this card was sent to the GY"). Cards with more restrictions should have more scrutiny to make sure you remember them all (for example it's a known fact that you cannot play Card of Demise without forgetting at least one of its draw backs).
I have won more then a few duels by just copy/pasting an effect of an opponent's card verbatim, then pointing out that they cannot do whatever play they just did. (For example, Upstart Goblin into Pot of Extravagance into "At the start of your Main Phase 1".)
If you know thy enemy and know thyself, you needn't fear the outcomes of 100 battles. If you know thyself but do not know thy enemy, then for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat. If you neither know thyself nor the enemy, you will always suffer defeat in every battle - Sun Tzu, Art of War
Unless you still run Mushroom Man
Sun Tzu probably sat at table 500 in tournaments
@@mergedpotato I guess Sun Tzu didn't take his own advice of knowing thy enemy
this is a genius video idea i really hope it works out for you dzeeff, also id like to see some streams soon
I think a lot of people needed this video (me included)
Lol 🤣😆 it call read the cards
@@peteryanes9339 Just because you read a card doesn't mean you know the combo very well
@@peteryanes9339 Reading cards doesn't equal jnderstanding a decks strategy for inexperienced players. What a shit advice.
"What does that card do?"
"I can sear-"
"Ash?"
One of the most common comments in your comment section has to be "commenters don't understand blank."
Would also appreciate a mention of how/where to find past tournament info of what cards and decks were successful
Tactical dot.
From someone that has left formats to come back later several times this is pretty accurate, I usually see matches of the meta decks and learn some of them as well
The anime already taught me how. Heart of the Cards all the way baby!
And by that I mean constantly cheating
Short answer: read
Long answer: R E A D and understand
Also important: play a modern deck.
Getting back into yugioh in 2010 after dropping the game in 2005, I had no idea what all the new cards did but more importantly it didn't matter because my old deck just couldn't stop them anyway.
If you want to get back into the game, you can't expect to bring an outdated deck and keep up. A lot of returning players need to understand that, I think.
I refused to swallow my pride and accept that in 2010, so I dropped the game again in a salty ragequit and didn't start again until just last year. Now I'm still learning all these unfamiliar cards, but at least I'm playing a deck that can do something about them.
I miss the old days!
Not just the OG (Duelist Kingdom/Battle City), but these multi Archetype decks are such a headache.
This is very helpful
a good rule of thumb for playing decks you’ve never seen, that doesn’t always apply, but often does, is to interrupt the first link 1, the link 2, or the normal summon combo starter.
Main Exception: Dragonlink
Srsly - If you are facing a deck with a bunch of geneic dragon support with a rokket engine - DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ADVICE
@@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 i just said it doesn’t always apply. i’m just saying if you already have no clue and it’s all blind guesswork, this will often be the route to go. pretty sure hitting the romulus isn’t bad though right ?
I always seem to struggle with generic removal/drawing choices for my spells/traps and sideboard.
Like picking up the one Raigeki is simple but should I do all 3 twin twisters or is that overkill? 2 twin twisters and an MST perhaps? Monster and back row removal is always something I've found hard. Just a ton of selection. How much is too much?
I was really impress with how Pak played. He knew exactly how his opponents cards worked and countered played them. Wonder if that is what inspired you to make this video. XD
Maybe a good thing to mention
Would've been investment vs payoff.
How normal summoned monsters are in a way more valuable than special summoned monsters,
Or how negating a negate on a card you are loosing regardless might not be worth it.
A separate video on "who wins the interaction" could be a good one
@@___i3ambi126 yeah,
It took me so long to get a somewhat intuitive feel for it.
This is it keep doing this start from the beginning Ill start I set man eater bug
Lol I like playing decks that people have probably never seen before. There's that chance they may make mistakes and misplay against you if they have no knowledge on what your cards do since they never seen it before. Nowadays hardly anyone knows or remembers anything about Dark Worlds.
Me: *playing flower cardian*
Clueless opponent: *ashes the first card they see*
Me: "ooooook.... anyway... "
@@francescogirardello9250 Bonus tip... actually read your opponent's cards
This is actually an excellent video topic.
Playing against decks you've never played before happens even for currently playing veterans. Round 1 is a wild place, you never know when you'll be ambushed by Flower Cardians or something.
Twelve years ago, I could’ve named every card in the game. Not so much these days
Can you talk about pendulum summoning? Is it still strong? Or it has died because of the new master rule revisions, pendulum zones are now shared with spell and trap zones and the metalfoes link monster being banned. And if they are in a bad place what do you think that can help them become a little better but not too broken.
It's not strong, and it hasn't died either. It is just not as good anymore due to power creep - And some specific bans. So the reason why they're not good doesn't have much to do with the new master rules.
Sadly, pendulums do not have many of their strongest cards since most of them are banned, so that makes the deck a lot worse, it's not really the master rule itself since pendulums were pretty good in mr4, it's the fact that they have few good cards that are not on the list. Though I would love to see electrumite back, I sadly think pendulums are gonna be in a bad spot for a long time...
Thanks for the insite guys. I've always wondered if a full powered pepe deck will be stomp the competition in the current format because it was once the a tier 0 deck that caused konami to make an emergency ban list to try to rain the combo or just a great meta contender. If you could get me some insights as well, it would be much appreciated.
@@hideyoshi2097 I think Pepe would be less good but still in the meta, definitely around tier 1
@@rodrigoandrade256 Tier 1 so the other decks in the current meta can handle the deck?
Actually the tips that been given is apply to all card game not only Yugioh. Pokemon TCG, Magic and etc should used this tips to improve your play
Holly hell I'm early. And thank you.
I have to prepare to go against mokey mokey ftk
Step 1, go second. Step 2, build your deck after watching your opponent's turn 1.
This is good, but you forgot the all important part of Rogue tier or lower. Decks people don't actually know about. More people have a basic meta understanding than they do general knowledge about various decks. Anyway, good video on the meta side.
Believe in the heart of the cards
Throwback to the time you lost to weather painters :P
1. Read your opponent's cards if u don't know
2. Play lots of generically good cards that will do well vs a variety of matchups
Step 1: RTFC
Read
The
Fucking
Cards
"this card puts X card in the GY"
"Yeah well what does X card do?"
"Oh, it special summons Y card"
"Cool what does Y card do?"
"Brings out Z card"
"Ooookay but what does Z card d-"
"I LINK INTO PREDAPLANT VERTE ANACONDA AND FUSION INTO DRAGOON MWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!"
(Bonus part, this is about my deckbuilding style specifically)
"okay so I negate card X"
"Well good thing I still have cards A, B, and C that can all be activated and resolve effects independently of each other, hope you brought more negations"
This is also good for other card games I think
all Decks are decks i haven't seen and monster with ridiculous abilities. Last time i played YuGiOh before i started back up again was probably around 2009?
Oh I thought it was about how to play with people that wasn't trying to play the meta stuff. Gotta find that guy to play the Cloudian mirror match (?)
Simple believe in the heart of the cards
What do you do against flower cardians lol?
want to know what dinosaurs do? have you read misc?
Why should you quit because of Pendulum its the best deck
THHINK THAT IM INVINCIBLE :)
T pose for dominance! If you don't know what they're playing, than neither should your opponent.
A lot of the time if your opponent normal summons a monster with 1700-1900 it’s a stratos lol
Read the cards
You expect me, a yugioh player to read??? It offends me that you think that I, a yugioh player, have those abilities
I agree with @@default9314 after all...we all know yu gi oh players don't read
You should make more videos about Goat format.
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Do best/worst/weirdest card artworks
I play ocg. So we play japanese cards without knowing how to read japanese. Usually all i do is ask, "does this negate?"
Good video for YuGiOh anime characters
How to play against decks you haven't seen before:
Tip 1: go see the decks
3 ash blossoms
3 nibiru
3 dark ruler no more
Main deck twin twisters just in case of mine
I like this videos
Dont tease me with a moke moke thumbnail and not tell they are getting suppory
Mokey Mokey support when?
Bet you'll never go against a Yubel deck
Having no support for 13 years will do that
A kid back in my high school was crazy enough to build one, he was able to win every game because I had no idea to play around it!
@@trashboat6436 Well even though its doesn't say Yubels effect forces monsters to attack her
Well
OK maybe not but that's not how high school Yugioh works
Also respect that guy
Physically impossible to build a Yubel cards only deck
Such a shame
@@nicoofthenight8403 yeah he was my dueling rival, it was high school after all and I was good back then but far from the best, I can't remember what exactly he was using to get yubel out but once he brought out yubels final form I knew I was screwed. He taught me a lot making me looking like a big chump. He made me reevaluate all my strategies and even then it wasn't enough. God do I miss those days
You are assuming that any player that wants to return quitted 4 years ago
Yeah. I quit playing before synchro monsters even came out.
No one expects petit dragon guardian
Step 0: train your reading comprehension by reading cards
How can I play online?
What if I've never seen Tearlament before...
Cool kind of content.
Yugioh is turning into sekiro shadows die twice
I hope y’all like getting punched for 8500 damage with Goblin King ;)
please do not ash my house duston one ash i scoop
I just handle it the same way as every other deck, normal summon aleister.
I got a tip: read cards
Table 500
Step 1: Read cards
I feel like this wasn't helpful at all all you said basicly was practice and play against these decks until you learn how they work you didn't say like ash their searcher card or try to negate their first extra deck monster they summon or try to negate the first monster they normal summon in general to try and stop them from starting their combo
As a cubic player, I find this laughable
Read
Do home work oh heck no this man is not a yugioh player
My answer to everything is: pressure Konami to make Egyptian gods meta
Me, “Huh.....? What does that card do? Ok. Can I read the card?”
Opponent’s main phase 1.
Me: “And that does what? Can I read it? No? Ok.”
Opponent’s battle phase.
Me. “Huh?.... Can I read the card?”
Havent played yugioh since 2017 ... hahahaha, try 2005
“Yugioh takes practice.”
Modern yugioh: build a huge board with a million negates to stop your opponent from posting or use hand traps to stop your opponent from playing.
Yeah. You sure can practice these days when the goal of the game is to stop your opponent from playing the game XD. No hate Dzeef but that’s just how it is.
I just came back so ive never seen decks since 2014
Welcome back - Hope you have fun