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I have no idea how Paul convinced me to do this video... Anyway let me know if you want to see anymore of this style of content. We can get the rest of the guys involved too!

My advice: If you make a deck, make a second one that is similar in strength and if a friend comes over you have a deck ready for both of you

As a returning player to the game I’d love more content like this, maybe even going in depth on deck types/lists.

It's great to see you guys having FUN! That's a downside of MD, even the casual lobbies are sweaty, makes deck building a PAIN sometimes haha.

Playing with the cards you like is so important. It's the main reason I run spellcaster or Dark Magician decks. Like yeah, I'm never gonna get to Diamond rank in Master Duel with it, but I love those kinds of cards and they play at a more low/mid-tier level that I just enjoy playing. Combos are shorter, I can have some fun/powerful cards without it feeling too overpowered, it's just fun! I really should try some older formats too. Watching Rare Hunters & Slifer Slackers makes me so nostalgic for how I played the game with friends back in the day.

The points explained in this video may be used to any hobby and I really appreaciate the passion put in making this. Thanks, may seems a little but it means a lot!

I really enjoyed this video, i think it encapsulates why i also enjoyed rare hunters and the current slifer slackers series so much. Your simply playing with what you've got and its interesting to see what strats you create. Me and my twin bro play casually with customized rules. I usually play elemental heroes and he usually goes for cyber dragon but has been branching out to crysal beasts and ancient gears. He also bought me a harpie structure deck for my birthday so i can make a harpie style deck now. Casual is truly so much fun with the right people.

Shoutout to the few casuals (like myself) who enjoy a little Legacy of the Duelist. That game alone as made me aware of many different cards that I either ended up pulling IRL at a later date and being happy about it (like blue eyes twin burst), or ended up buying singles of (like malefics, red eyes darkness metal dragon, some relinquished archetype cards) that look real neat. Probs not the best game to play against real people, but I don't have to take the duels very seriously and I can go against the decks the anime characters use.

If you enjoy Yu-Gi-Oh enjoy it to the best of your abilities... Love it. Putting it simply it's not always about winning. It's about having fun.

Thank you team aps, for trying to bring light to the darkness within the yugioh community. Us long time players love the game and idea of newcomers but don't know how to let lesser skilled or new players enjoy it. This video is perfect and I hope people who have seen yugioh propaganda videos from other creators see this video and click it. Amazing content as always!

The problem is when your fun casual decks ends up becoming tier 1 by coincidence. It happened to me with Madolche, suddenly everyone hated me for playing "meta".

I only play with old Structure Decks I like but sometimes I mix in 1-5 different/new cards to see how it changes and I love it. Every card that is in the structure deck is 100 % allowed, we never cared about banlists.

Casual is how i feel YuGiOh was intended to be played, just a group of friends playing with what they've got. My most fond memories of YuGiOh was when i first started getting back into it a few years ago with an old Rise of the Sea Emperor structure deck i had since 2013. Teaching my friends at work how to play with Atlanteans vs. Blue-Eyes (which had just released the structure deck at the time). MAN those days were fun, back before we knew what tf Link monsters worked or how quick-play spells should be used. Almost all of my decks are mid-powered, stuff like Gaia, Gate Guardians, Dinosaurs, Cyber Dragons, things that aren't meta but still have enough power to pull off some cool stuff. I even have two decks of generic Dragons and Warriors that i like to use to teach people how to play. I just wished i had a big group to play with these days.

As a casual player, this is a really refreshing video 👍🔥

Alec summed it up perfectly for Speed Duels. Finding your niche is always worth it. Really enjoyed this style of video. 👍

completely agree with tips number 2 , i personally only play decks that caught my interest, i don't care if it's meta or not

Really nice to have a bit of positive content for once... Things have been so negative as of late. If "We all hate this game!" then why do we shame people for playing it in their own way they find fun..? My locals started $15 & $25 tourneys. Theyve been incredible. We have a few cards we have banned (floodgates mostly), but I've been loving Plunder Patroll. Its basically become a way to play our pet decks pure and without meta staples/hand traps/floodgates etc. Very slow paced and back-and-forth.

This is a great video! Definitely enjoyed it. I find a majority of Yugioh content across the platform is always competitive focused and it's always nice to have more content for the casual side of Yugioh because it's a lot of fun and videos like this will help out a lot of people who are looking for that kind of Yugioh. Finding a group of people who want to play at that lower power levels is huge for having a true experience. I primarily spend all my time playing Yugioh with my duel group and we all love casual decks and play. We follow a lot of the same principles you guys do when playing against each other on the day to day.

This is a super valuable video you guys made. Shout out to Alec for representing the real core of this game in my eyes. I've never wanted to play meta really, I'd pick up a meta relevant engine and then quickly pawn it off to a more competitive friend bc I just straight up don't have the same amount of fun as say my favorite archetype Ancient Gears. With friends playing the same power level, you get more interesting interaction and memorable duels all around. Love you guys for doing this for the community at this time and era.

Great video. I've always enjoyed the casual side to yugioh. I have a lot of fun playing decks I grew up playing such as blue eyes and heroes then the modern decks of today

I've built a yugioh cube out of an old collection two months ago. It includes everything for everyone such as Dragon Rulers, Lightsworn, Chaos, Equipment-beatdown and Synchros/XYZs. Also you play with 3-6 people at the same time, 1v1v1v1(...) This experience completely changed Yugioh and its casual fun for me! I'd highly recommend it! In total I've played with 11 people so far - most of those were tryhards from my locals. And they all loved it! Just Summoning a huge boss monster and deciding if you want to attack the guy with a backrow - they could have Mirror Force/Sakuretsu Armor.

This video is awesome. With all the talk of how difficult it is for Yugioh to be accessible to new players a video that highlights the importance of having fun without being participating in the yugioh meta is perfect for new player’s interested in yugioh. Love your content APS!

Playing a deck you enjoy is definitely the one I always go by. Meta be darned I'll always have a soft spot for Mekk Knight/Crusadia where my floodgates are hoping the enemy forgets Indigo Eclipse can swap rows.

This is some good advice. I've pretty much been out of the game for a year now, and have been on the fence about returning. The unfortunate thing is that at the game shop I play at, our Thursday "casual day" has turned into a tournament day. Granted, it's alternate format, but I have zero desire to play in any sort of tournament setting because I know exactly how it's going to go

I can relate to #3 extremely hard. After just getting back into (advanced) Yugioh after a very long time, I felt myself either not enjoying the current meta decks aesthetically or their playstyle. After months of trying to find a "meta" deck I could remotely find fun, I just dropped and almost quit trying to get back. Until, at one point, I just decided to just try out one of my favorite decks for fun, and realized it's not actually that bad right now. It not only saved me a lot of time, but it saved me a lot of money and I'm enjoying the games I do play a lot more!

love your videos litrally havent played in decades but still enjoy the lore and game and you guys keep me right in the loop thx team aps...

Thank you for this video. I'm a yu-gi-oh player who'se been playing the game casually for a long time and I tried a shop tournament that was not fun at all and brought the worst in me. Your video gave me hope in a game that's dear to me. Great work.

I think you hit the nail on the head. That first tip is the most important. I only play Yu-Gi-Oh with some other friends of mine and we just play our favorite decks with whatever modern staples we can get our hands on. It's helped me enjoy playing the game when I'm in the mood for it. I also really enjoy Pokemon so it's fun to play the decks with monsters that look like Pokemon lol.

I really loved this content, everybody is free to play the way they like the most so I've seen in this channel how funny it is to gather all kind of cards, make your own rules of how strong a deck can be. I'd love to see more videos about some challenges of even made up rules you guys think about and try them with friends, at the end the point of playing is to have fun!

ive been using the same archetype for about 8 years now...somehow it still gets support every couple years so i always get excited to try out the new cards. i picked up a few structure decks to mess around with friends as well. can be a decent way to get them started

Master Duel got me back to buying an actual casual(?) deck, namely a Traptrix deck(3 structure decks) even though I don't have any nearby place to play for just in case of random encounters or something unexpected. Trickstar and Labrynth are next on the list.

I love this I’m new to Yu-Gi-Oh and it’s been really overwhelming trying to learn the advanced meta-decks so I usually just play older structure decks and it’s so fun in my opinion

This makes me feel better about not being a try hard and stuff. Amazing video !!

First off, great video. Would love to see more content like this in the future. Secondly, a few locals have been using the price point formats, which are amazing. Basically, you are not allowed to run a deck that would cost over a certain amount to buy singles for. So, like if the price is 20$, your entire deck (Main, extra, side) cannot be over 20$ total from TCGplayer. It and Edison format are formats I have found the best of luck dragging new players into. Also, shout out to Alec for being another zombie player.

God, I feel this so much. For the longest time ever it feels like, I've been putting off on starting up Master Duel. But then a friend I played with and I decided to play card games the following weekend (we were playing something else with some others), and we settled on Master Duel. I finally had a reason to actually boot it up and learn some basics and get a few decks to use when I would play with my friend. Then came the day and time we agreed on for playing and... We had a blast! We were both beginners so neither of us had anything crazy, nor did we have a grasp of everything. We basically decided we would play together somewhat regularly going forward~ We're both now working on decks to take each other on with next time we play. One deck I'm working on is Dinomorphia as the aesthetic and to some extent the playstyle drew me in (maybe because I play Bloodcraft in Shadowverse, which revolves around damaging yourself for payoffs), while my friend is working on a deck of magicians. Oh, and I'm optimising a Ninja deck because that's what I used for most of the duels we had on our first session (not to mention he found Rust Mist a pain because he was using a deck that really likes special summoning during one duel XD And he went "That's so disgusting" when I shared with him that multiples of it on board stack as that was something we were both wondering about while playing)

I absolutely agree, the most important thing is to have fun. Loved this video, gonna show it to some friends!

I never thought I needed to watch a video like this. Thank you so much for those 5 points! I'm really looking forward for my Magia order (OCG secret rare) to come in soon and use it in my Kaiba Blue-Eyes deck just because it's a fun concept 😆

i think my big piece of advice for playing casually at locals or in those more competitive environments is to set goals and personal "win conditions". this can be like disrupting plays or sneaking in your own big plays against the top decks, it can be resolving a specific card that you really like (for me its time wizard of tomorrow), or even just surviving a certain number of turns. you won't necessarily win the round, but you will have accomplished something, and had fun. and in my experience, everyone around also has fun seeing the "little guy" get one over on the "big menace" meta deck. play towards fun and create memories. everyone will remember something like roulette spider turning accesscode back around on your opponent, and when the whole shop gets to have a laugh about "what just happened", everyone wins

Great video. My favorite way to play casual is to get depreciated decks that I could never afford when they were top tier, and have gotten new support since then. Inzektors are a great example.

These are the kind of videos why I love Team APS so much. Most other YugiTubers out there, while they do have some fun contents too, are still META and competitive tier centric in terms of their attitude and perspective (especially with complaining about Maxx-C like it’s the worst card to be ever made out there. As Paul has mentioned in one of the previous videos, Maxx-C is not the most broken card, it is just gets more broken as the deck you’re playing it in gets more stronger/broken) Also, Point #5 is something I learned to practice even in Master Duel. These days, I don’t even bother with opening selection packs anymore. I only go with structure decks and secret packs, and just live with the lower-powered cards by playing in the lower ranks

Me and my friends have always played like this! They are the ones who introduced me to the game in the first place (and did a terrible job at teaching me how to play or build decks lmao). One small issue I've identified in this "casual format" is that sometimes, due to the difference in the power levels of the decks, some duels aren't as interesting, because maybe some decks haven't recieved any support in ages. But it's still pretty fun, especially if you play some low power staples that help your deck (cosmic cyclone to out Zombie World for example)

This video is fantastic, and part of why I liked Magic for so long. My old yugioh play group liked to play the meta decks, and over time it was getting difficult to enjoy the game because the decks I liked (Burning Abyss, Lightsworn, etc) got power crept and couldn't keep up over the years. I really enjoy the formats where people can play what they like without being questioned "why are you playing that deck when X is better?". I'm starting to get into Edison format, and at least right now I can see myself playing it a lot lol.

I'm the definition of casual, and even tho I enjoy when you guys explain the meta, your fun fake or casual games resonate best with me.

I recently started using the format they use in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens anime show. I played Yugioh since GX and 5D's, and I also tasted the meta and some tournaments that burned me out of this game for several years. But since I use this fast-format of "draw until 5 cards each turn", "play with 3 zones per monsters and 3 magic/traps" and "you are no longer limited on 1 normal summon per turn" then I started get fun again, and I LOVE IT. I also tried some homebrew rules that I felt I needed, like "once per duel you can discard all cards you want from your hand and draw the same number" or "the duels can't last longer than 5-6 turns". Also "set cards go to GY in your 2nd next Standby Phase". This can sound weirs, but I promise it just works. Works better on classic decks without Links and Pendulum specially, but it can be fixed if you make a homebrew for that. Hope this can inspire someone to have fun again 💛

This is such a good video. I'm an old school duelist for sure and I worry about dueling people, not just at my skill level, but in my era. lol.

Thank you guys loving the new content!

I never really played, only a few times 20 years ago with the first starter decks. With this 25th anniversary I'd like to play some again, but just like you guys did in the Rare Hunters series. (only old cards)

Great video, Alec. Daily Duel Links player who runs only themed decks, no meta. For me, that's fun whereas modern meta decks just aren't. Appreciate Team APS!

Loved this video. Super important tips for enjoying the game casually with friends! Game on!

Right now I'm not sure if yugioh will be the tcg I'll settle on, but damm, so much good advice here, thanks!

I haven't played since yugioh first came out basically battle city in the original cartoons, so much has changed and I feel like I just cant stomach trying the new blue, black, white and pendulum cards, I saw a video of a guy getting the first turn and draws every card from his deck and winning with some magic card that did 16k damage... his turn also took over 5 minutes, It definitely put me off the new cards. I brought 3 boxes of the speed duels decks to make normal size decks and am loving it so far and the nostalgia is flying back to me I'm definitely staying in my own little happy bubble :)

You touched on a great point, I feel like a lot of players aren’t enjoying the game because they’re playing decks they don’t particularly enjoy. Like yes play them to win tournaments and open packs but everyone has a favorite play style / deck and it’s always rarely viable / competent enough to play making yugioh tournaments kinda stale and lacking a lot of enjoyment in the matchups. Imo that’s what makes broad spec metas so good

if you’re burnt out on regular ygo, PLEASE try rush duels. They’re digital only in the west (unless you and your group of friends know Japanese and are willing to import cards) but they’re so so fun. I personally recommend ygo omega for rush duel because they have basically every rush duel card in English.

An underrated advice I was never told when I first started was watch test hand videos and live duels of your favorite decks! My love for Heroes and Branded was some laughable end boards with like a absolute zero and sunrise and pass with what I thought was the best hand when now I can create even larger boards, scope out what HERO was better ATM and could land on a better end board and it made playing Heroes that much better

We need more videos like these. Love this. Amazing guys. DON'T SLOW DOWN GET BETTER

I always play what i like and enjoy. Gladiator beasts, black luster rituals, monarchs, knights of face, etc. None of them are truly competitive (maybe monarchs if you stretch it a bit) but they are very much fun.

On the topic of video games, maybe consider Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution! The card pool is a few years out of date, but you've got access to more than 10000 cards, the "main story" has you reliving major duels from the first 6 anime series (which you can also play using your own decks), and the challenge mode has you going up against some pretty powerful decks at times!

Love playing Monarchs (tournament or casual) Lair of Darkness, Raid Raptor, Cyber Dragon/Cyber Dark, even up to date Blue Eyes and Dark Magician. I made up to date character decks of Yugi and Kaiba so me and the GF can play together and she can learn. She loves it and rocks spellcasters 🙌

I agree 100% with Allec. There are so many ways to enjoy the game and not just playing but also collecting cards that you like. 👍

Great video. Myself started to playing with my son who is more anime fan then competitive so i start recollecting cards to build anime type decks and play with him and it is more fun and less frustrating for both of us.

Good video. I enjoy playing custom GOAT format with my sibling. Only cards released 2006 and earlier, you can only play 1 copy of any card, some banned cards like Change of Heart that are OP etc. Having no duplicates makes it more fun to flesh out decks with other non-optimal options.

Just getting back into Yu-Gi-Oh after like 20 years on Master Duel, trying to get my lil bro into it. Like he said in the video, just play cards you like and have fun. I play blue-eyes rn because it's pretty straightforward. Working on building a hybrid Obelisk, red-eyes, summoned skull deck atm

Great video, i really love playing blackwings even though there casual. There was such a demand for casual play my local shop does a competitive tournament and a casual tournament with a way stricter custom banlist. Would highly recommend seeing if your local shop would do something similar.

My friends and I have a house banlist and play with decks of all power levels. yugioh has some crazy unseen variety that gets really overshadowed by the meta. I enjoy both styles of play but would love to see more casual styles of play

Awesome video, guys!! That's the kind of video that is always welcome. Keep up!! 🤘😆

I really enjoy Speed Duels. The lnly downside, some cards are only available by completing certain in-game events. I'm very busy and managed to complete some, but no worries because the events do eventually come back, just couple of months later.

I totally agree with these tips. Although im somewhat reluctant to play against other players, i do love to play. My favorite deck is the adamancipator deck. It feels fun and fluid for me to use! No deck is perfect, and it is frustrating to be completely stalled and unable to play when someone uses the "solitaire" combo and just beats you outright. I still love yugioh regardless. I hope the next casual yugioh video game will have more updated card pools.

I loved this video! I've played Yu-Gi-Oh on and off since it came out and I've always had the most fun playing casually with my friends. I'm happy with all the bug support now I can play with my perfectly ultimate great moth my friend got me 20 years ago lol 😂

I love to play my Performapal/Odd-Eyes hybrid deck, with Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon as my ace monster. Even though I’m just playing with my brother my experience is just nothing but good memories

Im a big fan of speed duels. The card pool and variety makes it fun the power creep hasnt gotten to crazy

I very much appreciate and enjoy your videos Team APS. Yes I’m just a casual player. I don’t like playing with the new metta decks. I played it back in 2002 to 2007. And I very much enjoyed that format. I have enjoyed some of the new support cards. But I enjoy playing anime style decks of my favorite characters from the anime. It’s been fun the last few months getting together with all my old friends and us pulling out the old duel cards. I hope to see you guys in Austin Texas. When the Yu-Gi-Oh regional qualifiers in town. I’ll just be going as a spectator. I hope it’s OK for me to come up to you guys say hello and maybe get a picture.

I enjoyed trying to play competitively for a while, but ever since I moved away from my locals, started my masters degree, I thought playing yugioh with anyone was out of reach. But master duel has been really cool. I still get frustrated and struggle in ranked, but the casual mode can be a fun place to test out decks and have fun, where I don’t have to physically by cards. Honestly, I’m more of a collector now, but I like to play with causal/mid range builds of things like Dark Magician, HEROes, Poker Knights, Silent Magician/Swordsman, etc. and have a blast when I meet up with old friends and we play with these types of decks.

Just play magic. The mental gymnastics I had to do to justify paying to play this game was stressing me and my friends out . We grew up playing and decided to get back into it about a year ago. We finally made the switch and it’s immediately fun and affordable for everyone in the friend group and we even got our girlfriends into it. We don’t have to make up all these weird conditions like “ no hand traps” we can all customize our decks the way we want and play them the way the want. It’s honestly everything I wanted yu-gi-oh oh to be growing up. I emplore you , just try it. It doesn’t hurt to try. We also never have a problem finding other people to play with at local shops.

I so agree, Im a casual duelist I mostly play Rogue and under, and its really great that we have these alternitive formats for Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, I enjoy Master Duel alot cuz its hard to find people around my area who wants to play me casually.

As someone who is barely coming back into this game, from the 90s. I find this channel, and these videos very interesting/fun to watch. Here in Vegas idk where to look for locals. Would like to try to duel, I'm not a top tier duelist. I consider myself a 3rd rate duelist with a 4th rate deck. Anyways, this channel is great. Thank you.

my locals runs underdog format pretty regularly, which looks pretty fun. Probably gonna try my suship/utopia deck there sometime.

So glad youmentioned Cube in this video. Draft is such a great way to enjoy TCGs and it's such a shame that Yugioh doesn't support it out of the box.

You have spoken from the bottom of my heart. Blessings to you from Hungary!

I gotta say the biggest tip I can offer is be patient to and get ready to be confused! 😂 Like the English language sometimes some things mean the same thing, or have their own interpretation when it comes to the spoken and unspoken rules and regulations of the game, and when it comes to the thousands of types of decks their are out there get ready to be patient and learn. Specially at some place like locals the better you know your opponents deck the more comfortable you’d feel playing this format 🔥 great video though guys?

This is good advice. Enjoying the game really is made or broken by who & what you're playing with, "more fun with friends" and "communication is important" very much apply, and playing "The Strongest Deck™" won't necessarily net strong results if you don't get along with it. Part of that is getting used to the deck and it's lines, but it's harder to spot new lines of play on the spot when you're working with something that doesn't click for you, so it's easier to play better using cards you like and have some amount of interest/ enthusiasm towards (even though "playing better" doesn't necessarily mean "performing better depending on the power disparity). It's nice how calm and relaxed the tone was in this video. It wasn't particularly fast or slow paced and it wasn't that high energy, just a chill "here's some advice" which fits the subject and feels very approachable.

I play casually with my friends, I'm the only one using hand traps, but it's even true that most of them have much better built decks that can recover easily such as D/D/D while I'm with the 3x crystal beasts structure (I could win more easily with conclave control but I don't like the play style of it, I built my rogue), so it's oddly more balanced. We still have lots of fun together and we bring cards everywhere we go when together, usually to the countless nights at the pub where one of us works. Thank you for the video, it made me feel like sharing. Guys don't ever feel wrong or stupid for playing in public with friends, you're probably having the best time and if people have to judge they probably are not.

I needed to see something like this. I started going to locals recently, but the power and skill level still basically feels like bigger tournaments while I play a structure deck with a few upgrades that I didn't feel too bad about getting. So I was wondering if I should even bother with paper play, since it's just more frustrating than fun and I hate feeling upset over people just playing the game. My first ever game in paper was against Kashtira. Yeah. A warm welcome. I think after my next visit, I might just stick with Master Duel. At least there I don't need to fork out for fun decks that I know won't win, and it's easy to play, I dunno, Starry Knights with friends there!

As a casual player, I couldn't agree more with Alec! I have this one friend who still has his old Ancient Gear deck from when we went to high school. Whenever we meet I bring along my Blue-Eyes deck from back then and we a play a game or two. 👌

Set Rotation Format is my favorite

Totally agree with this! Always enjoy using cards that i love like black luster soldier than using a meta. Plus if you lose with a meta it’ll make you mad cause you lost with a high tier deck and then no one will ever let you hear the end of it 😂

Very wise and helpful video, seems perfect to create a good time to play the game

I recently got back to Yugioh. I am currently building a Face Knights Deck. Because I love the concept of Knights based in actual Playing Cards. I enjoy playing it. Especially with Cards like Joker's Knight and Triumph Joker.

I like to play just like you, mid power decks. Aloso love to try create good decks with "bad" cards

My friends and I like to do Archetype duels. We have a wheel with many of the different Yu-Gi-Oh! archetypes on them (Cyber dragons, deskbots, etc.) We then spin it and whatever it lands on, we have to quickly build a deck with that archetype. Has helped expose us to new cards and make decks that we never would have made otherwise.

Thank you this realy help me and ilove star wars to. but idont now alot of casual playrs to play with what shold i do

I like Duel Links unlocking characters, opening packs, and building decks like Dark Magician, Red Eyes Exodia, Heroes, Cyber Dragons, Cyber Angels, and plenty more decks. I still don’t play pvp much , my confidence level isn’t high enough yet but I still have fun with loaner deck duels.

This video inspires me to keep hoping for infernity support in the future

Advice 2 is the best. I love witchcrafter since I enjoy that archetype a lot. I more or less got every single spellcaster support and have liken 4 different witchcrafter decks but I always will like " Normalsummon Witchcrafter Schmietta".

A sort of sub tip I would add, have multiple ready decks, if you have the cards for it, structure decks are pretty great for this. I have friends who like the game but get kind of bored using or going against the same deck over and over, so having extra decks you can switch to or loan out for a duel or two (just be sure to get it back, only loan to people who you KNOW will return it) gives that little extra variety. Also if you're making the decks, you can keep them relatively balanced to make sure it's not just a one-sided bore when they go head to head.

Me personally, I keep up with all the news of Yu-Gi-Oh, like new cards, rules, staples and things of that nature. But I can't afford to buy that much stuff to keep in competitive territory. What I love to do is get me and my cousin together and have a tournament with the decks I have built (40). When each duel is over we discussed the pros and cons of each deck and give/take suggestions on how to make each deck better. We've been doing this casually for 10 years now and it's just so much fun, in my opinion, to sit down and discuss how a deck can get better

As a returning player to the game (yeah, I know I’m a yugiboomer) this content is my favorite. And 100% correct on losing with a deck you enjoy being just fine. I don’t care if I lose with my umi deck, I’m just having fun playing umi in 2024

I used to enjoy Yugioh when I first redescovered it back in 2019 (yes, I knew yugioh back in 2013 but don’t know the rules. I just found it again through the exodia meme). But when I got into playing online, I either lose to a great deck or win to a weak deck and had a hard time returning to the game. I really want to return and have fun the way I want and this video gave me hope on returning into the game.

This was an awesome video! Great work everyone!

My dream deck is destiny board/necrofear and I already know it's gonna be casual but that's the most fun imo is building a deck and making it to your preference