I watched this video then went straight in blind to some games with a friend. I really enjoyed the game! I played with Machina & Fur Hire just because these appealed to me most from the suggestions. As a Magic player, my language might be wrong but these are my thoughts... Machina is a solid beginner deck. Having plenty of creatures on board and ways to get them gives a good buffer for beginners. A 'tribal' mechanic is easy to comprehend and a creature + an effect in one gives good value. 4 games, 4 wins. Fur Hire is cool but I'm not sure it's beginner friendly. Where are my creatures and blockers? 🫤 As a Magic player, I grasped that it was like a blue 'control' style deck but didn't initially know my win condition. I also didn't understand how links worked and they're a big part of the deck. Most of all, the amount of text on the cards was a challenge to process and slowed the game down. 10 mins per turn limit and a patient friend helped. Also, I was using a client which prompts you to chain or react and this could've been harder to juggle in paper. If i didn't play Magic and RPGs then I think I'd have been put off by this one. It's fun to play but just not simple enough IMHO. Anyway, I worked it out slowly, started recycling and using the fountain card, got out the card that turns everything sideways and I milled the opponent's dragon deck out with 300 life remaining! 2 games, 1 win. I had a good time playing and your suggestions made it easier to jump in. Thanks for the help!

That’s how I got back into it too

Chad, here's what I'd recommend how i play it and what not many do. Cyber Deck focused around Cyber Dragon Infinity. Here's the list.

I decided once that my deck is going to be a cyber dragon deck because of the support it gets

Same

same, got the Cyber Strike deck and was my returning to Yugioh deck

I was just thinking that. Back in the day I picked up Dark worlds after chaos dragons got neutered. Haven't played in a decade but I'm happy to see Dark Worlds still chugging along!

You could say that about a lot of decks at the start of links, given 2018 was essentially a bad year for casuals (And one of the worst years for Yugioh as a whole cause of MR4 and a certain former protagonist ace card before it was phased out for Decode Talker in the spot...), though it feels like the structure decks are gearing towards giving old decks new life as of late which I have no issue with whatsoever.

I have been playing at school with some kids the past few days, and they use a dark world. Really good with it

Was shadoll the best deck a couple years ago

I highly recommend trying Blackwings, they're fast and have a lot of support

No way when I first started I did the same by accident( I saw big dragon on the front and went ooooo that looks cool )

Perfect timing because structure deck :)

I just started using branded predaplant on MD. The comeback potential for the deck is insane, especially with lair of darkness and super poly

I know this is kind of old but I want to add they are also one of the types that will 100% always get new support almost every year as well

The deck being based on aromatics means it's also the best smelling deck too (very rare for yugioh players)

I'm a huge fan of aromages too, just finished polishing my personal deck, and wish there was more support for this archetype.

MM is so deceiving, the skill floor is ridiculously high, because the cards are so weak you have to know exactly how your opponent deck works or you’ll lose very easily. You might as well play sky striker since it has the same principles and is more consistent.

A little late, but I'd say the same for Amazement, It's simplistic yet fun and can do some pretty interesting things. And as you become more experienced you can even tech them as an engine in other decks if you really enjoyed them.

Machinas are fun. Master Duel is how I found out about the newer cards.

Mathmech is actually hard for beginners because it has a lot of restrictions like Circular, Cyberse Wickid and also very expensive. It also has Sigma which can be recycled with an XYZ if it's attached which really confuses new players. Cards like Superfactorial are also a bit complicated to explain to new players who just learn XYZ summoning. The Diameter interaction as XYZ material is not intuitive for new players.

Kiyo said so.

I was about to comment crusadia. As my pet deck I really recommend it because the core of the deck can cost as low as like 7 dollars and I can get a couple of wins at locals and it’s really cheap

It plays itself? Those are some boring decks…

@@MessiahKnight yeah, let's play Vaylantz, it's much more easy to understand. They are talking about beginner friendly decks. And even so, Crusadia, Plunder Patroll and Fur Hire are decks which I think are fun to play, even if they are easy to use. It's the same for Swordsoul, Springans, Tri-Brigade. All of those are easy to play, but they are not boring to use.

@@Chikayuki My favorite harder to play deck is Springans (pre PHHY) because of all the cool unique interactions and it takes skill

Tbh sky striker isn't THAT easy,you have to learn a lot of tricks and interactions and also you need to know what you're doing but for that reason it's a good deck to start playing Yu-Gi-Oh if you don't mind the complexity, that's how I learned ygo while playing master duel