Refreshing to hear somebody so eloquently describe a lot of the Yu-Gi-Oh product improvements I've been thinking on for a long time. I hope this video finds its way onto Konami's radar.

My LGS recently stopped selling yugioh. Low attendance, bad ROI, pull rates, no longer justify ordering cases. This was a shop started BY yugioh players, and they are now pivoting to Lorcana, Pokémon, and MTG. The other shop in my area has yugioh products, but they are charging almost double MSRP because they know the sets with one or two chase cards don't move as much as Rarity Collection, thus pricing more people out and creating this doom loop. Products don't move, meta is expensive, prize support sucks, cost of living is on the rise, and people on both sides of the transaction are finding this hobby to be less justifiable than ever. Despite having some of the most passionate fans of all TCGs, it's not being translated into sales, and people are max coping if they think this is nothing to worry about.

lets be real, its less "can we fix Yugioh Products?" and more "Will Konami fix Yugioh Products?"

The pull rate is simply absurd. Two secrets in an entire box is ridiculous, why would you even bother buying one?

"Make pack opening fun and more incenteviced", exactly this. Across the board, ideally you want for every pack to feel like a treat for any player, and of course that isn't easy to make happen, but when you actively work against that it's impossible. I appreciate these in depth videos, it's nice to see tangible suggestions and analysis that actually reaches at the core aspects that could fix yugioh on a more holistic sense.

Hot take: End the TCG branch of Konami, convert the staff to be solely for translations and promotion. The pack construction doesn't need to change from OCG sets' layout, nor do we need TCG exclusives when they haven't had any significant relevance in the meta game in years, nor should they be taking up higher rarity spots.

I cannot wait to see that study done on if creator boxes are rigged.

A study of pull rate differences in box openings from content creators and the regular public would be a great task but an absolute needed one. It’s an amazing idea.

I was an OCG player. I started playing yugioh since 2008. I moved to UK this year and now I have to play tcg. In the end, I drop the game. The box opening experience in tcg is so bad compared to in ocg. And I just cannot afford the cards here. Like sp little knight, it is at least £90 here while in ocg, the lowest rarity is just £4.(the 25th edition in ocg is £80) This is ridiculous. Funny thing is the first time I played in a local event, I was still using Japanese cards. In that time I don’t know JP cards can’t be used in tcg events and tournaments. Most player were nice to me and allowed me to use JP cards. But in the third round, my opponent just mad at me because we are both playing rescues ace, using almost the same build, but his deck prices is much higher than mine. He thinks this is unfair and drop that game. After I dig into tcg, I now understand his feeling. I really love this game but unfortunately I have to drop it.

Nothing wrong with calling out Konami! I love that you presented improvements to each complaint! You’re absolutely right though. Each product seems to get worse and worse…

80 dollars per box is an absurd price for what you get, and as someone with low income I would personally never buy a box at that price, its just too high. and it hurts stores too, because who in their right mind is going to buy the boxes from stores at full value when they can get them at cardmarket for 2/3rds of the price even including shipping. i havent watched the deck build packs portion of the video yet, but i recently opened a valiant smashers box for 40€, so like half of the original price, and *just* about made my money back (because i got lucky and pulled 2 "good" ultras).

This is the real death of Yugioh. When buying singles is more valuable than buying products, locals will eventually quit selling them and drop the game.

Thank you for making all these videos on how Konami is killing their game, monkeyfight. It gives me hope that at least one yugituber isn’t sucking Konami off just so they can stay on their good side. I really appreciate how you not only validly criticize Konami’s decisions, but also provide actual ideas they could use in practice. I’m priced out of the game right now, but I have hope that maybe, just maybe, yugioh will be as affordable as it is in the ocg.

You've basiaclly highlighted every problem I have with playing the TCG right now. I used to buy tons of product back in 2018-2020 but I haven't bought a single box or pack since. Konami are insane for thinking, in the age of the internet, that we cannot just look over at how much better they're treating their Japanese/OCG market compared to us. It feels borderline xenophobic how much we get consistently screwed over and price gouged over shiny cardboard. They deserve a godamn lawsuit with how bad short prints have gotten sometimes. Unfortunately, they have shown year after year that they do not listen to their consumers. As long as resellers are buying the product for the secret rare chase cards to sell to competetive players at exorberate prices, they're happy.

Yeah the last card/gaming shop in my area just dropped Yu-Gi-Oh the other day so good work Konami I hope all that profiteering was worth it.

What Konami should be making is more advanced deck sets like Pokemon been doing and other card games because the structure decks are not enough for a new player.

I recently came back into the game after quitting when Links came out and even though i'd love to buy real cards, I can't rly justify some of the prices

I always thought it was ridiculous that you buy a yugioh pack and get cards that are so unrelated and then you must buy 30+ singles online to make a somewhat usable deck. It’s why I never got into it

Bald Lara Jumpscare!!!!

I'm happy players are walking away tbh. Konami's practices for the TCG are so abusive, disgusting and stupid when they have no need to be as seen in the ocg. I love the game, but I'd rather risk having it die and see if that will force Konami's hand than have it keep going as it is.

As a player that really returning to TCG at the begining of 2023, realizing how low quality of Yugioh products was is something that really baffle me and I somehow don't fully understand how the game manage to be still alive today with that kind of product. There is just no reason to buy box or other product An example : my brothers bought a box of the last Battle of Legend because he wanted to have the new Ice barrier support, not only he pulled 0 Ice barrier card, but he also only pulled cards that are worth less than 1€, nothing valuable, for a box bought 85€ in my country. A total loss for him that could have been avoid if he a bought the cards has single even with pre sale price.

We don't get any vanilla OCG imports any more, it's such a shame Terminal revenge just reprinted Barox, sengenjin and Skelgon 🤦

My dissapiontment in the shrot printing of Dragon Master Magia is one that makes me evaluate the purpose of the 25th year celebration. What purpose does celebrating a game nearly 2 years after the creator's death do other than to rub in our faces how much Konami hates the TCG playerbase? The OCG doesn’t have nearly the amount of problems our Banlist, second market value, and product distribution has like the TCG. This set makes me understand one thing: Konami does not care. They don’t care for the game's worldwide success, not care for the image and legacy of Takahashi, and especially do not care about the game's exclusivity being it's detramemt for new players. You have to drop 100 dollars in the second market to even play tier 3 or tier 4 decks. 30 dollars for the correct ratios of certain archetypes and core cards from the structure decks and 80 dollars from a booster set or box to enhance said decks. This game is my comfort hobby, but more and more I am seeing Konami's monitary incentive to destroy it. I can’t even play casually without dropping heavy cash for support. Fuck man, I don’t think the TCG will reach 50 years

I love yugioh but god damn the pull rates suck ass. Better off just buy them not worth opening product.

YuGiOh is dying locally, there's nobody to play with and fewer and fewer places to play. The writings on the wall imo

Now I understand why I still can't find the other 2 copies of spright Blue I need. 💀

Here in my Country. Bandai literally kick the ass of konami to the sky in the TCG radar, yugioh became the casual option and One Piece, Dragon Ball even Digimon (my place) the competitive standard. Eventhough One Piece is Expensive like yugioh people are more than happy to open Bandai boxes that give them value, good cards and ratios and zero literally ZERO filler, this can be controversial but the "bad" cards are only that just card that u can replace when new support came out and not Cards that are unplayable cuz they sole purpose is to make bulk and nothing more. The greater point about all Bandai's TCG is Set after set of new decks, they are not pushing other decks aside, they are improving decks w cards that maybe were not intended to them or making them have another breeze of air. Konami has a long way to go and people still cope that is the best TCG but the reality is that the simplicity and more fun and interactive Modern TCG's are pushing them slowly to the edge and they anti-consumer products make other tcg's more and more alluring to the casual players.

My friend recently bought the deck core for Ritual beasts for me from some dude. I thought it was overpriced, turns out he got me a DEAL because Lara costs an ARM AND A LEG NOW!

This is why older formats like Edison are popular. 98% of the decks have multiple reprints and you can play a viable deck for a low price

That's why i love structure decks I know what cards I'm getting

I got back into yugioh after over ten years because of master duel. It reminded me of how much I loved this game. And I started buying a few products because of the 25th anniversary and after just a year of the terrible pull rates from boxes, I am completely burnt out. I’m still going to play duel links and master duel without spending a cent on them but I can’t bring myself to buy any more TCG products until changes are made. For me to have a ton of nostalgia for this game and to be reinvigorated by the 25th anniversary and master duel and to be put off this quickly from physical product, is a giant sign of how badly the current TCG model is.

To had something about the Battle of Legend box : In OCG, for the 4 Dual Terminal archetype, they got a box named "Terminal World" that ix a box fully dedicated to those 4 archetype, with a reprint of every card related to those archetype. The weaker one are only available in common and rare, and the best one + the new one are available in every rarity, from Common to QCR. And us we've got that bullshit box that is Battle of Legend, ... Like, Lara that is one of the most short print card of this set that currently cost around 20€ on cardmarket ? In OCG she was available in common ... They shortprinted a card that should be available as a common, I doubt they're is a lot of hope lmao.

With archetype specific cards, opening boxes means you can’t really build anything

As a Ritual Beast player Im upset at the fact that because Elder is at a high price up, no one will pick up the deck to try it out, especially when Lara is already going for $24 each. I already have all the cards long, before this ridiculous price change, and the new supports so im happy i didnt have to spend that much but it still doesn't take away the pain for those new to the archetype that want to play them but can't

I think 60-65 booster boxes is def the way. Basically if a curious new player could spend right about $100 for three structure decks, one box of the new set released afterwards and a pack of sleeves, it’s perfect. Make the pull rates meaningful in the box and your set, for example, cracking a box should yield you roughly 15-20 cards of varying rarities that can be slotted right into that structure deck. Konami loves to advertise your new structure “gets an upgrade!” With the new booster box but you usually not only get hosed on ripping some packs, you don’t even pull COMMONs that have synergy in your new deck.

I buy a decent amount of digimon boxes due to my love of digimon. I also love yugioh to a very similar degree, and even then I very rarely ever buy Yugioh product. The last time I pulled a box, it was Wild Survivors, which was a similarly terrible set, hoping to pull the Dinosaur support. Instead, I pulled 2 ceaser valius, and 1 rock. I was excited for terminal revenge, since I am a massive fan of duel terminal. Once I saw the box openings however, I decided to not buy the 3 boxes I was planning on and decided to instead buy singles. Very unfortunate how bad opening yugioh sets are

Deck Build Packs wouldn't be as bad if they followed the OCG's rarity distributions: 3 Ultras, 1 for each archetype (Usually being the "icon" of said archetypes). Instead of the TCG's 10 Ultras distributed around the featured archetypes, with the most viable one getting a larger portion of said 10 Ultras ( Vanquish Soul had SEVEN out of the TEN ultras in Wild Survivors)

One point that really stood out to me was the aspect of getting to play right ouf one display. Digimon has been my main TCG for over a year now. When a new set relases and you get one or two boxes, you are almost guaraneted to be able to play the deck. You might have to stock on some SR's or older support cards, but mostly you are good to go! Esspecially with box toppers that come with every box, its just nice to open a box of Digimon. And this great video made me realize that even further! Pls keep going! I also cant wait on the next beginners video for the One Piece TCG

I wonder had anyone taken Walmart product to customer service, asked "you guys do price matching right?" Then pulled up tcgplayer?

I extremely like the video, man. Very helpful and informative. Thank you very much. It is presented so well too. Great, positive work.

I didn't realize it at the time, but I actually subconsciously stopped buying packs of cards because of Short Prints. Konami, your strategy to get people to spend more money on boxes...made me stop spending money on your boxes. The last good pulls I had was around Christmas, when my wife got me a box that had 1 copy of S:P Little Night and a QCR Ty-Phon in it. Clearly, a box meant to be sent to a streamer and not me. However, even with how exciting those pulls were, those were the first "Wow!" pulls I've gotten in 5 years. Last "Wow" pull I had was early 2018, then after a few sets of boring openings with $0.60 cent Secret Rares while a new deck staple Ultra Rare is 10$, I just gave up on buying packs. So yeah...please stop the short printings, Konami? I cannot fathom a business strategy that revolves around; Make a desirable item, mix it with undesirable items...then watch someone pay someone else who bought your expensive to produce and ship undesirable items for the one desirable item. You'd think they'd really look and realize "Hmm...what if we...made it so that person buying the desirable items...just got a box full of desirable items...then they keep coming to us for that instead of buying one item from that other guy...huh"

I think this is your best video yet. Hope you keep making videos and continue to call Konami out.

Pretty good analysis...but I think at this point, its clear (at least to me) that the two main problems of YGO TCG, come from two things that truly are beyond our reach: 1) The TCG administration itself and 2) the OCG administration....I can't tell how much one affects the other, but its clear that the two are responsible for this mess, because: the first one its literally the one legally responsible for all the bad decisions of this game (with all of its consequences)...and the second one, while not legally responsible, its still to blame because either: are well aware of the decisions the TCG does, and agrees with them or don't give a shit about the west (don't know which one is the worst).....Ultimately, its up to the players and community to decide how much shit are they gonna tolerate...but as for me, I truly stopped caring about the outcome and just play MasterDuel a few minutes per day...Not because I don't like this game (I still like it despite all the crap), but because the ones pulling the strings ABSOLUTELY deserve the slap...

To me, I think the best way to solve this issue is to stop forcing out chase cards, include full archetypal groups, make necessary cards common, and maybe include more cards per pack. At least MtG having more cards per pack means you need less packs to make a playable constructed deck.

Yeah, I'd Proxy

Man, I just want a new GOOD structure deck for TCG

Deck builder sets in the TCG just feel like a scam version of Structure Decks. I spent more than I ever should have on them. And never got a complete deck of any of the three archetypes. Had to buy singles to complete the deck. Upon realizing just how much I wasted, I felt like a massive idiot for buying packs.

"promos have a shallow pool of two or 3" this is so key. I think there were like 25 different promos in the 2023 tins, and when you only get one per tin, and only about a 3rd of them having any interest to myself, and there being an almost zero chance of getting the one or two i actually wanted, there was zero chance the promo was going to convince me to buy a set, nor am i gonna pay 20 dollarydoos for them as singles. Guess I'll miss out and be salty and then leave the game. Maybe if they had 3 promos per tin i would have considered buying a couple to play the odds

I love Yugioh, but I kinda wanna see the game going down even further so that Konami actually does something. It's become so frustrating to me that I've completely switched to edison after playing for almost 9 years.

Honestly great video and hits the nail on the head As a fan who got back during Arc V I’ve seen how we’ve went from having a good variety of sets that were affordable to everything being extremely hard to pull or too expensive in singles I think they also choose the wrong cards to give secret rare slots in the BOL sets and stuff like the deck building sets were better when it was a all foil set with decks built from the packs themselves like prank kids, darklords, or Eldlich It sucks to see Konami being blind to their consumers and LGS Also what’s the editing software used here?

I feel like having something similar to Magic the Gathering's focus on a setting that all cards in a Main Set belong to would help build up hype and make these sets feel more memorable. And make them draftable aswell, it's hard getting excited for a set these days if there's no archetypes that interest you so atleast drafting the set would help a bit.

At this rate we are going to lose walmart and target

the saddest thing, is that it's not even remotely difficult to fix yugioh. while this is definitely one of the best videos on the topic, there have been ample videos already, for years, discussion how tcg product could be improved. There is 0 reason to think konami tcg doesn't pay attention to the game as a whole, as if they didn't, they wouldn't know what cards to short, or what cards to "rarity bump". it's with that particular though in mind that leads me to believe there is only 1 way to fix yugioh proper: *Let it fall off.* period. last year, yugioh hit arguably the largest slump it has ever seen as far as how much product was actually moving off shelves, and for the first time, in a LONG time, konami actually took a step to resolve the issue of their dumpster fire sales, by almost 1-1 importing the greatest set of all time (rc1). unfortuunately, konami didn't learn the correct lesson, as we saw with rc2 that they almost immediately went and erased everything that made rc1 such a good product, by hiking the price, altering the set structure, and filling the set with far lower value than what they could have made. no matter how many intelligent solutions you, or anyone else provides, the only thing that will solve the problem, is for players to embrace _not_ buying new product, and instead understand that, same as players who do time wizard formats, it is possible to play the game with only the cards you already own. keep *_playing_* yugioh sure, but stop *_buying_* yugioh. let konami tcg eat loss after loss, until they are so desperate to reclaim their players that they never even think to pull the same tricks they currently employ so freely right now. sure, you don't get the new $500-1k staples or meta decks, but if given the choice between that, or making the game healthier for good, i would rather not (and i really haven't) put money into supporting konamis terrible practices.

I think we can finally come full circle when kuriboh gets a waifu alt art “Kuriboh Girl”

I love this game but man these boxes are awful to open, i gave Digimon a chance and now i feel more ripped off from Konami (even if Bandai is'nt the Best) over there we got announce a box with full sets of cards of two japanese box and reprints of the two 50/60 dollar cards for 40 dollars

every yugioh product complain i always see comes from the TCG side and less of OCG side... im glad my locals plays OCG and not TCG

A) changing mains sets to feel more like deck build sets feels so much better. B) using Scott the woz as the ygo target audience is honestly wonderful.

Dog phantom of yubel has no reason being so expensive. Its mostly the whole reason people want terminal of revenge.

Fix Yugioh TCG products is easy just copy and paste Yugioh OCG products

Konami tcg needs to go down in order to realize they aren't going up anytime

It's a minor point, but it wouldn't hurt if the sets didn't have terrible names. If a casual goes to a shop and sees boosters labelled "legacy of destruction", "phantom nightmare", "age of overlord" and "cyberstorm access", each with an over-designed dragon on the pack it kind of blends together into a meaningless mush. I imagine there's some market research that says that players like dragons and things that sound cataclysmicly epic, but maybe not do it for every set.

These videos usually inspire me to write an essay in here... but all there is to add is "Yeah, facts!"

Its crazy how there is such a vocal majority on this issue from players, sellers, and resellers and yet the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG still wants to run its business into the ground and kill its community

Also the cards need to add more thickness like one piece and other games even the ots pack ultimate rares can easily bending and wrapped witch I noticed

I could be wrong about the cost of the product but while lowering the price would increase demand that might not completely offset the losses because the shipping costs would scale with the increase in demand.

There is another product strategy in place, in practice, in the global economy, across half the world. What I'm saying: What is so fundamentally wrong with the OCG model that we couldn't even try it out for the TCG?

Only way to fix products: - they have to retain value on the long run WITHOUT that value being stapled to must play meta cards -> solution is adding high rarity chase cards (starlights are good, but also including ultimates and ghosts would be even better). I would do something like 1 ulti every 2 boxes / 2 every 3 boxes? Damn even 1 per box. 1 Starlight per case. 1 Ghost every 10 cases? (since the ghost is only 1 it should be rarer than each individual starlight). Players would pay enormous amount of money tohave the meta card at those very cool chase rarities (see for example pokemon, where each deck is 50 EUR and top tables only play with maxed out rarities which cost 10-100x original value of cards) - reduce standardisation, now after pulling the 2 secrets you can almost throw away the box. The number of secrets per box should be variable, like 2.5 on average (minimum of 2 guaranteed, possibility for going to even 3 and sometimes to 4) - introduce similarly to pokemon a "reverse system" where all the card in the set can be found as "reverse" (i was thinking of reintroducing the old mosaic foil), good for keeping super viable staple prices more controlled, possible to bling out some of lower rarity cards (or replace a super you may not like as super). Whatever you do PLEASE not as starfoils, that would suck - cut the crap. 9 cards per pack are too many when opening core sets, too many commons. Packs should go down to 7 cards, like 4 commons, 1 super or above, 1 of the reverse and one extra spot for a common which may become the ultimate/ghost/starlight - something like the list in magic for sometimes taking an old meta card reprinted for retro formats? (it may take once every 8 packs the slot of the 5th common?)

I bought Duel Devastator because I knew what to expect and the box offered secondary value as storage box (beside the point). Rarity collection could have been like the Duel Devestator box all cards from the set in it but in different rarities and boom you have a product that can be a 1 time buy for casual players and a x time buy for collectors or people who open more than that to get high rarity and the secondary market would profit of cheaper singles.... Trading too would be easier... I only bought 6 boosters of Ra02 traded for 7 cards and bought 3-6 card singles to get all cards I wanted from the set 1 collectors rare Ghost Belle got me the 7 cards I needed.... value difference

This is great and all but who but us is going to see this. In the end stores and players are hurting but Konami in the tcg doesn’t seem to care. Also something weird I’ve noticed is how much cheaper it is to play in ocg, does Konami think that people in the tcg region are richer because that’s not entirely true especially in South America where it is even worse than the other places. You have made great points backed up with research but in order for us to play this game well we need to boycott them which will either stop yugioh entirely or actually fix something

The damage has already been done in the midwest. There isn't a single store within an hour drive that sells ygo products and no locals within a 2hr drive. everyone's switched to mtg in my area

Whilst we are having this conversation: WHERE ARE THE STRUCTURE DECKS, KONAMI?! A REALM OF LIGHT REPRINT AND A STARTER SET IN HALF A YEAR AIN'T GONNA CUT IT!

THIS VIDEO IS GREAT. I think the product is one of the biggest issues with this game here in the TCG. Maybe it was always destined to end up this way since TAEV in 2007. We no longer matched the OCG in rarities. The infamous DAD was an rare in the OCG, sercet rare in the TCG. Sets went from 60 to 80, 100 in the TCG with 10 new TCG exclusives every set. I think something that would help would be to do away with the deck building sets and put them into main sets as more playable. This has always been a problem going way back. This may sound off topic, but I think better card design would help, too. Everything doesn't have to be game breaking, but worth Maybe looking at.

Good points, but I am sure the community and creators already gave plenty of feedback, Konami just refuses to act again and again.

Would be great if duds are completely gone and every buyer gets something valuable out of their boxes, even if its not what they are looking for, they would still sell or trade it incentivizing the market and maintaining the value of the cards.

Thank you for this awesome Video!

On a separate note as someone who quit to play Vanguard: Game is better here by a mile when it comes to product. Price is lower (50-60ish a box) and buying a case gets you AT LEAST a playset of every RR and RRR card in the set,plus several luxury rares and full arts. Premium Precons for the Eternal Format are occasionally released, Precon Stride Decksets for Standard add budget out of the box playable decks for 40ish. All of Vanguard's starter decks generally come with full playsets of cards. However there are duds and bad moves. Like the fuckery with the new Start Decks and DZ Set 1. If Bushiroad wasn't allergic to reprints, it would be near perfect. Konami needs to look at Bushiroad and Pokemon and take notes on how to better make product.

Great video 👍

Dragon Master Magia is such a fucking meme card. How dare they heavily advertise this card, then make it near impossible to pull. And the problem that we have here in the TCG community is made even more obvious by the AE OCG. They don't have to deal with bullshit rarity bumps, and even when they do, the singles can be bought for basically pennies on the dollar.

One thing that pissed me off is that product providers should not be allowed to sell to privates: they recive a case for 600 more or less sell it on their site/CM for 690€ and sell them at higher prices (after taxes) to local stores, making it impossible to compete at all, add the fact that as said in this video 9/10 products tends to plummet in price on release and you have a nice formula for disaster

Thank you 🙏🏻

Yugioh is doing fine in OCG, of course we can fix TCG products. That was never the issue.

No

I swear, man, you need to get a job with Konami because all of these ideas and suggestions are what can definitely save the game. And definitely ensure the future of the game

I literally never feel incentivized to buy a booster pack/box because I know I have a better chance of winning the lottery than pulling a good card.

Every box I’ve bought since Eternety code has been unusable due to the changes. The removal of Rares was supposed to fix short printings but it seems to have only made things worse. I remember I had to stop playing TK Dino after Lythosagym was unbanned because I couldn’t afford a single copy animadorned. I had to watch as a deck I had played for my entire competitive career was finally able to compete, and then watch it get killed just in time for the reprints. Since then every deck I have wanted to build has been completely out of my price range not even including the new staples that are not worth getting. I can’t get excited for any new product because I know that every new deck is just a trap. I had really been looking forward to playing the new Yubel cards and had bought a box for the first time in years to try and get a head start on the deck for when the second wave of support came out, but I guess that was a mistake.

F this TCG, sad to say but if I ever come back to playing TCG I might as well learn Pokemon rather than the game I love and played for a long time. Honestly with the existence of Master duel I feel good not coming back ; when simulator is more appealing than actual TCG things are in precarious state

i brought two boxes so far. pulled 1 Yubel, blue and Diviner in one box. 2nd box i pulled a QCR Repair Controller 1 Blue, don't think i got a Diviner. Brought like 6 random packs i think i pulled a blue in one?

i dont get it man, i really cant see any logic that konami might be using. yugioh is still big and SURELY they have a marketing office full of people more qualified than you or me so how the fuck do they not realize they could sell soo many more boxes if they just built them differently? if terminal revenge was 65 euros and it included all old cards instead of random branded and vanilla reprints i would have bought 2 as I want to try both ritual beast and infernoid. and I haven't bought sealed in more than 5 years for the exact reasons you've listed. konami is a private company so i get it, fuck the customer, but they are mostly fucking themselves and probably whoever makes these decisions is getting fat bonuses at the end of the year anyway

This last month I've been playing Dungeon Duel Monsters, a program made for PvP campaigns where you slowly draft a competent deck to face an opponent. One of the best parts of it is basically picking packs of curated cards and building something who resembles playability at some point, while also trying to be aware of the opponent's strategy. Sadly I know that kind of experience on the TCG would be just burning money.

Konami Hire this guy

The last sealed product I bought was rc01, before that 1 tin from 2018. I can’t believe this is the only tcg I do not buy sealed product from

Only way to play yugioh imo is the historic formats bc in what world am I spending rent to get a meta deck when a Chaos Turbo goat format deck is $120 and never changes?

About halfway through the video you mentioned going to graduate school. What’s your field of study?

The Terminal Revenge set is crazy, it took one guy 10 cases to find a Yubel. And he only found 1. Didn't even get close to finding Magia. That's a huge loss.and a lot of trash cards left over.

As I've aged, I've begun to settle down on the decks I've previously collected and to be more selective on what upcoming cards I'll be skipping or buying. I've already spent enough this year. These issues aren't long-term sustainable. It's becoming worse and worse as the cracks widen and the R&D philosophy is acceleration of the game and powercountering the cards meant for interactions and to power balance. I understand they print counters for these counters, but... Even some counters are also a combo piece. 🤦

how about just bringing the ocg sets to the tcg without changing rarities, short printing chase cards and removing some of it to release in random collectors editions?

This is the first set in a bit ive wanted to open and actually have money for them, so i bought 2 boxes to try to get the ritual beast stuff. Honestly, not a bad set, but could improve a good bit.

This is a great video and I just wanted to apologize for watching it at 1.5x speed - as this causes YT to say I watched for 20 minutes rather than the full 30 for some reason - due to only having about 20 minutes to finish it. Again, sorry and fantastic video as always!

i dont see the main problem for small vendors here, which is THAT we dont get enough of the good sets like AGOV or DABL. Always shortened orders, while other product orders get fulfilled. there was not a single vendor on earth that got shortened at a Soulburning Volcano Order lmao.

I agree with sets having new archetypes that seem unplayable at release. Why do that konami? I would've said they do it better in core sets, but it doesn't seem like that's safe. Goblin bikers did not feel complete on release, and they didn't even give it a third wave of support, which is what usually happens for brand new archetypes in core sets. Hell, even snake eyes felt more complete in AGOV.