So, the Konami share price is currently about $61. I’m pretty sure it’s cheaper to buy enough shares to attend their AGM and complain straight to the CEO’s face, than it is to buy the top deck.

Imagine no one goes to the event to prove a point.

I said it once and I'll say it again. Give us multiple rarities of the same card with a chase card at an exclusive rarity like OP.

Its amazing vendors act like making the game accessible will make the game unprofitable. Konami can make the game cheap for players while still making it profitable for collectors the same way every other card game does it. With exclusive alt arts, rarities, and full-arts that are extremely rare specifically FOR collectors, while the base versions of such cards are available as commons and supers.

Hard disagree on the price point aspect. If you make the game more accesible to players, then more people will play, and that can increase revenue. As for how to keep high value cards still in the set, focus on the rare nostalgia bait cards. Those will always hold value for both players and stores.

My competitive motivation will come back when Rescue Hamster officially gets their senior citizen parking pass

"Europe? What kind of made-up fantasy land dump is that?" ~ Konami

I feel 1-card combos are logically the conclusion of a game without resource cards, but it's the power level of them that makes it wild.

"We want to see your creativity" Every player who wants to win events, jamming in their deck the same ratio of fiendsmith: "huh?"

Yugioh is never going to beat the Solitaire Allegations. Thanks Fiendsmith.

They delayed the needed banlist, snake eye format needed a hit. Rarity system should be turned to OCG or pokemon model. Both still make profit and are player friendly. Give us all cards in all raritys but shortprint even harder on the highest rarity for collectors. But everyone can play commons. The current price point is absurd.

Yep. Time to normal summon Fossil Dyna.

the reason stores drop the game is because packs don't sell. packs don't sell because pulling what you want from a pack is so price inefficient that secondary market one of's provide better value. the inflated rarities are the reason this issue exists to begin with. do you think inflating rarities further would make boxes more valuable? and this whole thing can be sidestepped if you just print cards with low rarity and make alt arts with high rarity anyway. this game is more cooked than the yugitubers that still play it e.e

I don't agree with the argument 'cards must be expensive so stores will sell the game!' after all the OCG completely disproves this all on it's own.

Konami has listened a little too much to people that love Tier 0 formats. We've had (arguably) three in a row now. Couple this with the facts that the TCG print model is ATROCIOUS if you want to attract new players, and prize support for this game will not even help you recoup a fraction of your investment into the egregious short printed secrets you needed to top an event. The business model for TCG needs an insane overhaul.

I know I'm beating a dead horse, but Konami really needs to support lower-powered formats. Variety and accessibility are very important.

6:05 "Provided that budget players are willing to rob a bank." If your definition of budget requires robbing a bank, then either the term budget has lost any meaning, or Bill Gates might want to consider investing in Yugioh cards.

No other successful card game has the same price entry issue that Yu-Gi-Oh has and still manages to survive and provide product stores want to sell. Let's not make up bullshit to defend this shit

If you use Maxx C 2.0 (forgot its actual name) and your opp responds with ash blossom, you can chain another copy of Maxx C 2.0 again, just saying. Did not wanted to throw sth against the wall when I experienced this funny interaction 10 times in less than 4 hours btw :)

Yugioh has hit critical mass, people waiting on a banlist to solve the issue are about to be let down. Konami do banlist based on profit not game health. This game not having rotation has now become a detriment instead of a feature. The game now base power levels on if a deck has a one card combo. That’s a terrible place to be for a TCG. Lastly why Konami refuses to print cards in multiple rarities In a set like most other card games is insane. It would solve so much

Time to go play more Elestrals I guess, I haven't touched modern in almost a year just because of how expensive everything has been, and I'm more than happy playing Elestrals and Edison.

Pokemon does it right with pricing and rarity. Can build a deck for 30 bucks, and packs are still valuable for the bling

Fiendsmith not locking into fiends is still hilarious. W card design🤣☠️

Set within a set just makes me think of Master Duel where half the packs you open are the main cards you're after and the other half are random cards from everywhere else

Imagine constantly making cards that constantly one-up each other and waiting months to ban them because you don't give a fuck about the health of your formats. No wonder new players cannot get into modern yugioh, they're either priced out by the meta or don't want to spend literal weeks learning how to play through these new cards, only for MORE BROKEN SHIT TO COME OUT AND MAKE THINGS WORSE. And that's not getting into how few of these broken cards you can get PER FEW BOXES. Meanwhile, in OCG land, these cards are usually leagues more accessible and CHEAP.

The issue is we keep getting new cards that on their own could warrent an emergency banlist yet nothing happens instead they just add more cards.

This is the kind of content the community needs more of and less of the usual stuff.

On the price point of the game, originally and as far as I remember up until Phantom Darkness as a high schooler with very bare minimum money at my exposal I was not barred from playing anything in the game like I am now when I have other important things money needs to go towards. Literally stores will not tank if they print everything in a obtainable rarity and then have higher rarity for those that want to bling their deck out to get from the set as well. Printing something as an Ultra or Super and then making a Secret Rare print for in the set for example will still make sets fly off the shelf. This is only a TCG problem because they want to juice your wallets. Wake up. There are other TCGs out there that don't do this to you and actually respect you as a customer.

#3 Price: Just copy the OCG rarity distribution.

I genuinely cannot return to Yugioh because of the price of a viable deck. I have a family/kids and I cannot justify dropping £400-£500 for a deck that will probably fall behind in like 4 months.

I think people are finally hitting burnout and they are tired of how atrocious meta decks are. Also random cards getting support that are just made for pack filler is also in bad taste (ancient gear dragon)

"Communication with Konami has been sporadic" More Spasmatic really.

It's interesting as I don't play TCG mainly just master duel but Ive been enjoying master duel a lot honestly playing rogue decks in master is very enjoyable

How much crazier does power creep get?

Yeah, the whole "All Cards are Cheap" thing is what killed Force of Will, a TCG often affectionately referred to as "Magic for Poor People". Vendors refused to carry it because the boxes and cards were next to worthless.

Time to only play commander with the pals for 2 months!

I don't understand why Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't have other officially supported formats. Its what makes magic so resilient. Even if one, two formats suck, there are other good ones

It’s almost like Yu-Gi-Oh was badly designed from the start and it’s just been years and years of patches

They'll hit Snake Eye without a doubt and Beatrice. Don't think they'll touch the actual Fiendsmith cards as they'll be too new. Then again, they could emergency ban them later, I suppose.

I think a bit differently about the Display and rarity Situation. Because if i know all the cards i want out of the display are secret rares (e.g. Fiendsmith and White Woods) i have little incent to buy a display, as I most likwly will not draw enough of them to get my moneys worth especially as therw are only two secrets per display. Did this when i started YuGiOh and mostly ended up buying like 2 to 4 displays and still had to buy the secret rares i wanted ro pull. If the cards I want would be lower rarity and I could actually draw them, this would feel way cooler

I mean, anyone that can't see that Yu-Gi-Oh is headed off a cliff is completely delusional. The power creep has gotten completely out of hand and so has Konami's greed. Especially here in the west. In Japan, and especially Korea, YGO is way more affordable at least, so at least people can keep up a little better with the constant barrage of new overpowered sets.

As much as we crap on the ocg ban list at least the hit the problem somewhere where as the tcg is letting the problem go untouched in the slightest

Compettive Yugioh was not in shambles one time, and it was The Eternal Format of March 2019-January 2020.

its not really different in terms of new archtypes being locked behind secret rares, the prices of those secret rares have just gone through the roof because of the power scale

What do you mean again? It’s never stopped

BUT BUT BUT banning Barone and Savage dragon fixed the game 😢😢😢😢

It is, in both fields, physical cards and digital versions - which is why I’ve Retired

When it comes to rarity I like how Pokemon does it. Multiple rarity printings but still the same card. Can make your deck cheap or get all the expensive full arts to make it look pretty. People still going to buy boxes and cards trying to max rarity their deck but still will have option to play with cheaper versions.

To be able to say "again" we would of had to not been in shambles at some point in our history.

It just sucks that because of card game monetization the Vendors and the Players will just never agree on how products should be priced.

Every single time someone says Yugioh needs to be expensive to be profitable and that it’s a uniquely ”Yugioh issue”, they all conveniently ignore that *A)* it’s not a ”Yugioh issue” it’s a TCG issue & *B)* the OCG proves you wrong on all fronts.

Don’t worry people a new solitaire style deck will come out once the banlist hits

I gave up on Yu-Gi-Oh around two years ago due to the insane power creep and how expensive it got, and i do not regret that decision in the slightest lmao. Unfun and expensive metas along with Konami's inability to listen was just so mentally fatiguing and it feels so great to just not care about it anymore. Not sure why this popped in my recommended, glad to see Farfa is still going strong though

Inb4 the banlist is so huge they catapult us back into Edison. I know i know, but let me have the dream of an awesomely balanced tournament ^^

i felt my heart cry with that block dragon joke in the beginning. you got me Farfa cause i got so excited

Next thing you know, “special summon from my opponents extra deck, response?”

Yea wake me up when Yugioh is fun again. My motivation to play this game got nuked within the last month.

rikka queen jess W

I guess this is why Konami TCG made that announcement about delaying the banlist. They knew Fiendsmith could create a huge problem and wanted to see how it shook out. I expect them to come down on Snake-Eyes hard, but Fiendsmith limits are also likely. Also, on the price point issue for Engraver. It perfectly highlights why sites like TCGplayer need to stop doing presales. only a select few retail shops can list presales during that window and it allows them to set the price to whatever they want without normal vendors being able drive the price down during that period. In Engraver's case it was MUCH worse as it and Mulchummy Purulia were up on TCGplayers WEEKS before any of the other cards got listed. I watched as listings for Engraver went UP in price instead of down as more retailers made new listings during that period. Highest I saw it get was around $150.

The answer to the high rarity tier deck cores is simple: just print every secret and ultra card into EVERY rarity like they do in OCG. That way there's easy access for gameplay, and vendors/shops can retain box value because of max rarity value. Why TCG wont adopt this product set up like OCG is beyond me, while MTG and Pokemon TCG have done that for YEARS. Just look at the alt art cards

It's not hard for Konami to design sets that retain value while not gatekeeping competitive play. How does Konami benefit from little timmy pulling a fiendsmith at Walmart then training it for a 20$ dmagician core at locals?

I'm casual player. I've dropped the game no locals sold my decks and I have no plans to return any time soon.

Wow the 35th video this year about how competitive yugioh is threatened by itself. How exciting, how fresh. Great content guys keep it up.

you know the situation is dire when competitive yugioh players are dropping out of the tournaments

Yeah, I will just dick around in locals for now. My store is running some side event for new and returning players were old and/or successful players coach others. Gonna help out with that.

New blue eyes support coming soon ....so thats nice

The one thing I disagree with is your final part, every runick stun mirror match I've played has actually been some of the most fun yugioh I've played XD.

Reminder that MTG boxes sell because they are draftable, i.e. not only do you get cards but you get to play a fun game

This format of bringing news is a good Format of vídeo I hope more videos in this format

Tearlaments Kashtira Snake-Eyes Fiendsmith and so on and so forth… 😭

Think the main problem is that they keep making these archetypes that can be splashed into other decks like Kashtira, Snake Eye and Horus.

Something I have noticed from watching people open old boxed like LOB and IOC, compared to new sets, a lot of their generic powerful cards like compulsory evacuation device, pot of greed, and trap hole etc were commens and rares. A lot of the chase cards that were secrets and ultimates could also be pulled as supers and rares too. Newer sets exclusively lock the best cards behing ultra and secrets, making them harder to acess as a pack pull or a singles buy, thus making the game overall more expensive to play. A lot of the modern commons and rares are not as good as they used to be, those that are, are those that belong to an archetype (which are usually no good to a new player unless they choose to invest into the one archetype). Older yugioh usually punished you for choosing one archetype because the support was lacking or low power compared to the generic staples during the time period. But you could still have a decent time playing either way because the best cards were not so cost prohibitive. Older reprint sets would reprint good/staple cards that were previously ultras and secrets before as commons, rares, and supers [dark beginning comes to mind]. Now, even the reprint sets tend to, but not always, lock reprint behind high rarity. Its gotten to the point where Structure decks are the most reliable way to get high power reprints, yet SDs have come at a snails pace if they come out at all. Cause they are likely to get chopped up and turned into garbage sets were once .10 cent cards and 1 note cards are turned to 40 note cards (EX, Pheonix Gearfreed and its supports in Toon chaos, Astrograph Magician in Pendulum Evolution, Overlay universe, the original Diabolos dragon, etc.). And if they manage to release in the TCG without being butchered into a tcg only set, there is no garuntee that they will be good (Crystal beasts, Cyberdarks, etc), where at one point, 3x SDs decks were viable not only as a kitchen table deck but at times meta contenders (both monarch decks, Dinosmashers, Endymion, Felgrand Dragons, etc).These are multiple reasons, but not the only ones, as to why the game has gotten cost prohibitive to everyone, but especially new/budget players.

Damnnnnn this video is crazy, anyways normal summon Paidra

Create Broken Card. Make Card Expensive. Ban that Card Months Later. Create Broken Card....

Jess is just mad she can't 3peat with plants

Multiple rarities. Thats literally it. They USED TO do it all the time in the earlier sets especially GX. Konami JAPAN even does it themselves.

yugioh is kept alive though the brand more than the actual game. the actual game would fail if any new game launched in this state. my recomendation for yugioh players is to switch to pokemon it still allows no mana system popping of but its not as turn 1 reliant when games reliabily go past turn 3.

I have to wonder what the perspective on the game is for people who started playing post-POTE.

Game has been devolving into this kind of state for ages but people have still played it for all of these years, it'll probably be fine In my opinion, the last time the game was fun was before links dropped

6:03 ok this took me by surprise

Why would chummy affect your feelings about the current format? It’s like three months away

0:34 so pop the baby

11:00 wait secret Mudora - lets gooo

I just hate this logic..."you can't touch a new deck because it's brand new". We didn't made the problem cards, it's konami's fault and should make the change... And he did it in the past! Like that time they limited Gorz before it's release

me playing gimmick puppets enjoying my broken fieldspell: interesting... anyway grinder for game?

Well, as far as I remember, Jess was 16-0 before losing at the very end in her last tournament. Anyone would've felt in shambles after that.

1. Top prizes dont cover trip cost. 2. 1 card combos and playing on your opponents turn gets hella old. 3. The game isnt fun anymore at locals anymore which is why people are switching.

Really enjoyed this video. I always like it when he has more serious types of videos with tiny sprinkles of jokes

you also forgot that infinite forbidden boxes don't have a set rate for ultras and secrets. usually it's 2 secrets 5 ultras per box since forever. but this time some info boxes have 0 secrets and most have 1. gl pulliing fiendsmiths lol they will be even more expensive after some time. this is not factory error btw I heard lots of stores that is not my friends also had same problem

6:55 what kind of non argument is this 😂

The thing is people will play and go to the events. People say they don’t like cards being gatekept as core secret rares yet those same sets sell out immediately. When we have good cards in reasonable rarities like in DUNE and LEDE those sets are considered mid.

Snake eyes cannot take on full power tearlaments 😂😂

Tier 0 formats are actually good for the price of the game since it depresses the value of all cards not in the tier 0 deck.

Something something maxx c

TCG players finally getting the Master Duel experience.

Dark Beckoning Beast literally just looks like a certain Gen 5 Pokemon but with Wings ( name escapes me ). Edit: Haxorus

Honestly just collect the cards as a hobby at this point. There's zero point in playing competitive Yu-Gi-Oh unless you're a serial killer, I find it more fun to just play with friends or family or collect them in general.

no way fiendsmith snake eyes can stand up to tearlements

Block dragon can’t come back without a hard errata

I cant believe how much easier it was to break an uninterrupted ishizu tearlament board at full power than it is to break a fiendsmith board after several handtraps.