*_Drop a Like for these 4 CLASSIC Yu-Gi-Oh duels! Do you guys think they should remake these classic character Starter Decks for the modern day? If they did, what strategy should each character use? And which is your favorite?_*

The first duel is a better spectacle than most competitive duels now

Still would love to see the whole APS crew recreate all of the Duelist Kingdom duels to see who would have really won the tournament. That or somehow do all the Battle City duels as well, that'd be dope.

Back when games lasted longer than 2 turns. Great times.

The Yugi vs Kaiba duel pretty much captured how I felt about both decks. Yugi's was always the deeper and better deck so it usually had the advantage but just like in the first duel, Kaiba's had the ability to completely control a duel with just Blue Eyes. If you didn't draw the right set of cards with Yugi's deck while Blue Eyes was wreaking havoc, you're done. But of course it's moot cause Yugi's deck won lol.

Looking at the price on a sealed Kaiba deck alone and... God you really went all out. My heart wouldn't even allow me to open those without having a heart attack lmao

Super nostalgic episode. I remember getting my first Kaiba deck from a local gas station. Still have the 1st edition Blue Eyes from it, although heavily played

Oh my god right in the childhood feels. My brother and I had YuGi, Kaiba, and Joey!

Paul going -2 to summon an 1800 ATK vanilla monster, and somehow it's stronger than the tribute-summoned monster on Alec's board. Just as Kazuki Takahashi intended

Always fun to see duels with these old-school decks :) First deck I got as a teen was the Joey deck, because I liked the look of the Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Also picked it up from an outdoor market (That's a rarity in itself nowadays, finding genuine TCG products at an outdoor market or boot sale - went to an indoor one recently and they had a whole bunch of Pokémon cards, but with the exception of the commons, every single card there was fake).

In the second duel at 24:50 when he soul exchanged he shouldn’t be able to attack that would lead to him ending his turn. If Paul then summoned anything he could of activated two pronged attack to kill two for one destroying dark magician. Then ending his turn. Afterwards Paul could have trapped hole the very next monster leading it to being his turn and having a monster advantage changing the rest of the outcome possibly. Edit- Paul still won that duel lol that was a crazy comeback.

I remember asking for the Starter Deck Pegasus as a present a long, long time ago. I remember thinking how interesting of a deck Pegasus had, with the one part being about silly toons, and the other part being these eldritch nightmare creatures, like Relinquished. It was a fun, deranged duality that really hooked me as a kid, and that I still appreciate 20 years later. I still think Relinquished is one of my favorite cards ever printed. Really was back in the day when, if you're opponent had to use an extra card to special summon a level 1, 0/0 monster, you were _concerned_

So, I don't know if anyone has mentioned it or if anyone really cares about how it works, but, when referring to effects that multiply or divide ATK/DEF (such as with Karate Man), Reverse Trap actually doesn't affect it because it's not considered as adding

my friends and were among the first wave of children to figure out the "buy 3 and make a pretty good deck" trick. its a shame how much extra deck money you need nowadays. the og set was perfectly paced and very fun

The Pegasus deck was my first deck. Got it on Christmas 2004. looked it up today & it’s now $300 for the English edition 🙃

I miss these erra of Yu-Gi-Oh. Modern has become so hard to keep up with. Love these vids. Keep it up 😊

I love the supercut of these. Has em together in chronological order and the yugi vs kaiba was the vid that got me to this channel in the first place! Cheers! Also I appreciate the supercut for the rare hunters! SO good!

Just want to say, I really appreciate the videos you guys make! I am a blind Yu-Gi-Oh player trying to get back into the swing of things, and the videos on your channel have been immensely helpful! They’re also very engaging and I cannot say enough how much I appreciate the detail you guys going to. It provides great audio description for someone like myself who cannot see the cards you’re playing, opening, or are playing with, so just wanted to say thank you.U

A long time ago, back on Dueling Network, I had made the Yugi starter deck and played it in traditional format. My opponent was using disaster dragon, and I ended up winning. I opened with dragon capture jar, and they had no backrow removal in their deck at all. I won by deck out because the deck had 50 cards to my opponent's 40.

What a throwback! Thanks for blessing us with your content guys! I've fallen out of collecting Yugioh cards but I still have my old ones. I live vicariously through your videos. My first ever deck was the Starter Deck Joey Long box.

This is Yugioh.

Great work guys. Loved this 100%. Thanks for your efforts. Huge respect from London 👍🇬🇧🇺🇲

Amazing! Thank you so much for going through the trouble of tracking these down for us to watch you play with. Takes me straight back to my childhood, the Kaiba structure was also my first deck.

Team APS knows what their audience want! But would also be cool to introduce how to play modern yugioh to all of us old heads too

I had started Yugioh with 5 packs of LOB, one of which had a Blue-eyes White Dragon (the other rares I had gotten were final flame, reaper of the cards, flower wolf, and armed ninja). I had decided to then get the Yugi starter deck because I already had a Blue-eyes and wanted to get a Dark Magician.

Man, I miss this kind of playing. Where it was more how you reacted based on the cards you drew than one set strategy that you built around a combination of 3 cards.

Man, im so happy i bought 4 of each when they came out, so i can play with one of each and seal away the rest. I still look at these to remind myself of simple times. Plus my brother before he passed, was a huge Pegasus fan so we dueled and switched decks to keep it interesting.

These were great! Thank you gentlemen for doing this, put a huge smile on my face, the nostalgia hit real hard. Keep on doing great things, hope you guys have a wonderful year!

The true essence of the game. Outstanding card artwork, simple mechanics, player interaction / momentum swings, just a fun time overall.

In the first duel because of how Alec dealt the top 5 cards out from his deck for the telescope effect, his castle walls card was actually the last card, but he put it on top. So Paul put the cards back in reverse order from how Alec dealt them. Alec should of gotten Beaver Warrior, then Dark Magician & so on so forth.

Thank u guys for always keeping classic yugi alive!

I love that you guys committed to getting the OG decks. Mad respect. Now, I should tell you that I live about an hour from y'alls area and could have loaned you all of these cards with the original rule books. 😅😅

I am grateful you guys made a new video based on a marathon of nostalgic structure decks!

You guys are fun and genuinely happy to be playing with classic cards. Thanks for an amazing blast from the past

On a whim, I DLd "Master Duel" very recently, and needed a refresher on gameplay and YT recommended your channel. YT gets some things right sometimes! Thanks for the GGs, guys! Cheers!

You can tell it brought such nostalgic joy to Alec when flame swordsman was summoned. OG Yugioh will always be the best.

These are so nostalgic. Growing up in the early/mid-2000s Yugioh hype was on another level. One of my fondest Christmas memories was getting the Kaiba starter deck (and dueling a friend who got the Yugi starter deck) and a Legend of Blue Eyes tin and getting two BEWDs and Exodia left leg.

I love this channel! Actually kind of inspired me and my girlfriend to build 6 additional decks for our friends (GF ain’t at synchro, xyz, pendulum or link yet) and everyone else is new to it. So… built some themed decks and introduced a little bit of ritual and fusion summoning to some of them. Should be a fun Christmas party amongst friends and partners!

This brought back memories!! My cousin and I getting our favorite decks, then learning to play. Luckily, the show was close enough to the real thing, so we learned quickly. Very well done, loved this video. I don't even play yugioh anymore lol

Absolutely love your content! Best yu-go-oh community on KZfaq!

Top notch content 💯 more classic decks duels like this 👏🏻

Wow, incredible to see the original decks. Awesome video.

Love this compilations, pretty chill and fun

Such an awesome video! Reminds me of playing back in 2002! Keep up the great work.

classic yugioh decks are honestly fun, the battles can be so swingy

Oh yeah !! I love this old school duel with you 2 ! Great !!

I really enjoyed this vid. a blast from the past! thank you so much!

oh man this is going to be awesome!! i remember cracking starter deck kaiba back in the day- i kinda want to collect all 4 of these and display them xD

Just discovered the channel and i love it, great work boys, nostalgia overload

This was a lot of fun and brought back a lot of good memories. Gotta love the classics.

Oh thats so nice guys ! Next time lets try with my 4 japanese structure decks with awesome cards (mirror force in yugi, ccv in kaiba, raigeki in pegasus, jinzo in joey, etc)

Omg finally!! I've been asking for this since you bought them!

I don't recall my first yugioh product. I know it was just a single booster pack, and my dad and I would "split" the cards and duel. I remember coming home one day and my dad had bought starter deck yugi, kaiba, and joey. Been playing old school yugioh ever since.

This is highly entertaining!

I found your channel guys and I am in love, love this starter decks video. Greetings from a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan from Argentina!

Watching these get opened hurt, but seeing all these decks again and watching you guys duel with them made me feel so much nostalgia.1:54:02 :)

match 3 ending with just desserts was perfect

I'm not sure if anyone else shared this experience, but shortly after these starter decks came out in the US, I learned about the original Japanese OCG Yugi and Kaiba Structure decks. I was blown away by the powerful cards in those deck lists as compared to the starter decks we got (especially Kaiba's). I think it would be really cool to play those original OCG structure decks against each other in a duel. And to avoid paying a lot of money for the originals (and to avoid playing cards in Japanese) you might be able to simply build those decks lists with TCG cards in English. 12 year-old me would have really appreciated seeing those decks in action.

I just subscribed to you guys! I LOVE your videos!!! Great video! Im getting into yu gi oh and watching people duel is helping me learn. (Along with watching tutorials)

Wow this is such a throwback!!!! I remember being obsessed with yu gi oh. My favorite was the Pegasus deck

The first Yu-Gi-Oh Deck I ever got was the Pegasus Starter deck on Christmas in 2003. That same day my brother got the Joey Starter Deck. Times were great back then...

I wish grandpa muto had a starter deck

1:21:30 That's the most Joey victory that anyone could imagine.

Man i grew up with yugioh had all these Decks, now trying to get back into the game and wow has it changed synchro, xyz, link, and pendulum all crazy hope it’s simple to get back in really enjoyed the vid

I personally think Joey's is the most balanced deck, yeah it doesn't have something that swings over blue-eyes but the amount of utility through eternal rest- huge relinquish stopper, and has a decent amount of warrior monsters that boast over 1500, it's pretty nice.

the editing is really good in this video :D

Ordering that pizza was a good idea. Here goes 2 hours of my life. lol

This has been so good to watch! I recently found all my yugioh cards from when I was a kid and my brother and I definitely had all these starter decks! I wish I never threw away most of the cards instead of keeping only one customised deck tho smh 🤦🏽‍♂️ I also had a Dark Paladin from a Shonen Jump magazine a good friend gave me for my birthday. First edition too! And some dumb kid from my grade 4 class randomly came over, dueled me, I went to the washroom, and he stole my Dark Paladin! I didn't even notice until he went home 😭 man so many memories from such a great card game!

God this takes me back! I remember spending all one Saturday afternoon with my dad and brother trying to find the og starters.

Not sure what happened with Yugi vs Pegasus but the editing was super fun on that one :D

These videos are awesome!

Love to see it guys!

Yoooo the absolute throwbacks!

Lovely stuff fellas

This channel is fire way to go guys

Ugh even I can feel it seeing those boxes open it’s An amazing video just looking at these being opened though is painful and I bet it was even worse for you guys who had to open the box’s stay strong! (An amazing video definitely needs more likes for such a historical yet painful opening)

I had all 4 when they were dropped back in the day, awesome memories

I need more of these........ This was awesome

Great duels that was awesome

Team APS is by far the most ambitious Yugioh channel on youtube, no other channel is willing to go as far as buying older sets in order to recreate the anime

I’m so glad I still have my yugioh cards after all these years. Made great memories playing with my cousins during thanksgiving and Christmas

Yugi and Kaiba decks was me first yugioh product to I was the first guy to buy sttarter deck Joey and Pegasus 1st edition in my town import shop

Everyones talking about ultimate offering this, ultimate offering that but you cant tribute blue eyes off of soul exchange because it targets a monster and lord of d says you cant target dragons in general

Another CLASSIC 🔥🔥

I enjoy this content so much!

Man these classic decks are so easy to understand i love it

That game 3 was so clutch! Was wondering why you would go all in at such a risky position

Love this kind of content

I wish i could have had a friend like this to play these decks back in the day. You guys are the best

Man, I remember being 8 years old and seeing these exact starter decks on the shelves in lots of stores. My parents were too poor at the time to ever buy me one unfortunately (although very cutely they did eventually buy me a single booster pack, thinking it was enough for me to play with). Kinda funny to think that a couple decades later they're worth a fortune. Nobody at the time could have guessed! I was always drawn to that Pegasus one in particular with its crisp packaging and that big creepy Relinquished showing through the front.

The nostalgia is real!!!! The first ever yugioh cards i ever had as a kid was the starter deck yugi. Watching these duels, these cards wouldnt stand a chance in todays world. 😢

Thank you for doing this and sorry you gave me the nostalgic shot back Love you guys Do commander shit with proxies😂

The game had such a good interaction between the players in the past, and the game looks so much more fun to play with no control or combo decks there to take all the fun away... I miss GOAT era

the starter deck pegasus were my first yugioh cards ever and i still have a handfull of them even tho in terrible conditions - its truely a blast from the past

Why did they keep attacking the turns Soul Exchange was played?!👀 I kept researching if the original version allowed attacks, but apparently it’s never allowed them.

Best duel ever I lost it at the end fam 😂😂😂

The fade on the BEWD is insane

Good Play Seto Kaiba, nice Play. Thanks guys

I can smell that new deck smell. I owned the Yugi, Joey and Pegasus deck.

Had all 4 as a kid. My favorite is the Joey one since I got Princess of Tsurugi (as a kid I loved the Toon monsters though, so Pegasus was my favorite)