I miss the Blue eyes vs Dark Magician days. Life was simple.

Doesn't matter what starter deck you get, you still get all 3 start decks through completing unlimited missions leveling up and doing solo gate

Thanks for this tutorial. I started at around 2003-isj and quit 2007 or so and seeing all these huge changes, new systems and new cards is damn overwhelming.

Great tutorials, definitely earned a sub. Returning OG player, got out around 2011ish before swapping to mtg. Getting back into this has been kinda overwhelming with the new mechanics and the insane level of power creep compared to a decade ago, but nevertheless I was able to build virtual world F2P thanks to this. It's definitely a crazy deck - tough to pilot, I'm still trying to wrap my head around it's intricacies and combos but I'm learning and it is showing results. Also built some common staples for future decks, and have Cyber Dragons and Drytron in the works. So far so good :)

World Chalice and World Legacy having such a big presence in the Solo mode (especially having World Chalice cards in your STARTER deck) brings me so much joy.

Veteran Magic: the Gathering player here. I just downloaded YuGiOh and I think this video got me on the right track! Thank you

Watched this entire video as a veteran and I had done most of this, but damn what a great guide. Good work!

Best tutorial out there. Exactly what I was looking for. Subscribed. Thanks.

Amazing video...! I'm super new when it comes to Yu-gi-oh (Never played anything and I only ever had any sort of contact through the Anime), so it'd be really helpful if you could perhaps make a sorta "Newbies guide to Yu-gi-oh" going over the basics so people like me don't feel overwhelmed when reading through the card descriptions and all that, that would be dope Other than that, can't wait to see more content from you...!

Last time a really played a Yugioh anything was on my GBA. I remember being able to input a code on the real life cards in the game in order to get one. I also remember the realization that the show and the way we played in Elementary was deadass wrong lol. Good video!

I appreciate this so much I was extremely hesitant from building a deck because I wasn’t sure if I was gonna make a galaxy eyes deck or my irl cyber dragons, so i haven’t spent a dime on packs yet

I think the thing is to play your way. I played as a kid and picked this up for nostalgia and I'm loving it. I've gone with a blue eyes deck despite the flack around it. I hopped off the yugioh train way before pendulums, synchros, basically just as fusion was a thing (from what I remember), so a dumbed down deck that chases the childhood nostalgia works for me. I've made it to Gold 2, and am looking for other deck archtypes to try, or modify the blue eyes archtype to incorporate some different wrinkles to the deck

I am so glad that I listened to you and I played it Smart. I was struggling with my terrible colossus deck, and now I just bought 10 Prank Panic! Packs, along with whatever free packs that I've gained, and now I roughly have a Completed Prank Kids/Thunder Dragon Colluesus Deck. I've heard that this deck specifically will train me to not only play smarter but I've also heard that Thunde Dragon Collesus specifically is one of THE most powerful cards period. And Yes I'm New. I remembered old Yugioh, but that's about it. I even joke on how you even need a PhD in Yugioh just to understand specific tier-0 Cards.

Solid tutorial, well done I am sure this will help many players out there.

Solemn: don't waste gems Me: I'm saving them so I can afford a berserk gorilla duel mate

Thanks for making this tutorial I wanted to try out master duel because I was kinda bored of duel links so this will help me a lot. Also I wanted to wish every yugioh duelist a very pleasant day and or evening

Kinda wish people would focus more on having fun rather than rushing to tear others apart 😔

Nice video, will be using this as a reference point for my friends that wanna get into the game so they don't waste gems :)

Quick tip: you can get the duel pass later if you want. You will get all prizes for your level (good to get at lvl 50)

I hope one day we can use the duel rooms to play specific older formats or something. Id hate to use old decks I love and just play vs new updated decks and just get blown out every duel

Tip if you play the solo mode there are 2 rewards per duel one from doing it with the loan deck and one with your own and the big part is if you do the last duel after the gate you normally get an icon but if you do it with your deck you get 200 gems

This was very helpful, especially for someone coming over from DL and not having played the TCG since the gx era 😅😅. Still not a fan konami sets a time limit on the packs to get cards you want or makes the pack openings rather confusing

Without a doubt, good advice, because of its value. Yet due to the fact format from 2004 to 2022 changed extremely, needs an explanation on a lot of concepts of the current meta.

Definitely do the daily missions above practically everything else as they refresh every day after you complete them after the day's rollover, but will carry over if you've only done part of it. You can also mix up some decks to focus on different types of cards to get the usage requirements for missions, but don't count on getting really high ranking, or fast duels from it (unless you're using a self-burn deck). I also think that the structure decks that you can buy, at the very least, have good value for the cards included as there are at least 3 Ultra Rare cards in each one - Re-Contract currently has 4 - and they contain 45 cards for just 500 gems a deck - packs costing that same amount would have only 40 cards and maybe an Ultra Rare or 2 (the odds are at least 2.5% for each card, for about 1 per 40 cards). You can also buy 3 each for a lot of duplicates to disassemble (some can't, though), and some decent cards to mix and match as you please for more emphasis on certain synergies until you can build your own deck from packs. Personally, I edited the Cipher deck so that I could more easily summon the XYZ Galaxy Eyes dragons and it did a decent job in both the (previous event) XYZ exhibition and even Ranked a little bit (I'm only in Bronze atm). Also, some of the special card packs will be the only ones with access to certain cards, and some of them are good for practically any deck. In particular, Harpie's Feather Duster is a part of the, well, Harpie's archetype themed secret pack called "Glory on Wings", although it might be a rarer Ultra Rare than the other cards in the secret pack and the archetype is generally weaker than others.

This is a great guide for starting out as I personally never played any YGO games before

I’ve been out of yugioh for like 3 years now. Nice that ash blossom and solem cards are still on top 😂

It's so hard to know what to do, when you haven't played Yugioh in like 10 years. I have no idea about any cards, decks, strategies and I dont even really know any of the summoning shit other than synchro xD

Good job Solemn. This was a very thorough and effective tutorial. -Not directly related to the video but something I realized from watching it: The duel pass looks like the Master Duel version of the battle pass so theoretically one will come out every "season" (I don't think MD will really do seasons but I'll still use the term to help explain my point) so we have this pass this season and another one for another 600 gems when this one ends in less than 74 days. If thats the case, personally, that seems way too much time. 74 days (assuming this footage was taken day 1) equals 2 months and some change of time. I got a little over halfway through it in 2 days just from enjoying the game. So if I wanted to I could clear it in a week. Meaning I would then have to wait another ~7 weeks before getting any kind of meaningful rewards outside of dailys and lifetime missions (and secret missions but the ones I've unlocked are dumb and require things like gain 100000 lp in rank duel or do 50000 damage to your opponent while they're attacking.) It makes me think MD is going to turn into Duel Links very quickly or at least during these between passes phases. But that's all assuming we're even getting more passes like this (it is probable but not garunteed). I think this would be best fixed by cutting the seasons in half and making it 37 days. You still have plenty of time to get your stuff and there'll be a dry spell at the end of the month encouraging people to spend money but there won't be a content drought every other month for people to get bored over. IDK man, this just turned into a rant about the near future

7:21 good idea mentioning to craft a super rare first. Ultras are much harder to craft/get. I also recommend using your deck in solo first to get a feel of how it plays without getting negated, as well as take your time reading your opponent's cards (which you don't have that much online to idle, though 8 mins for a duel is fine). I can't believe 2:33 lol bronze had duelists that bad as I got owned until I quit in silver given fusion destiny go brr is boring to get 5 effects in 1 card with aqua dolphin/neo space connector to bait ash. Dinowrestler Pankratops kinda fits in any deck as well; RIP mystical space typhoon lol.

thank you so much for this. With gacha games, it's really easy to get lost on what to do and what the most optimal way to progress is. But this video cleared up alot of things for me. You're a fucking legend man 👍

Never played Yu GI Oh in my entire life, just seen some friends playing it but I had no cards to play either way. Now my friends are playing it on steam with this game and I decided to give it a try, thanks so much for the heads ups and tips.

I can't remember if you mentioned that some of the challenges in solo has two things you can do. Using the loaner deck gives you the reward listed if you click over then you can get 200 gems using your own deck. 💪

i already got my D/D/D deck. Im happy. not a dime spent

Man this game is awesome. I stopped playing tcg around the end of xyz monsters. So learning about pendulum and link has been alil weird but I know I'll get it. Can't wait to build some of my favorite decks.

followed this advice. didn't know what deck i wanted at first and im a new and f2p player. This start set me up for a pretty good f2p tri-zoo deck. still have a good bit of crafting materials left over, and a lot of gems i havent used yet. Any new player should definitely watch this! very helpful.

Thank you. I played duel links for 3 years but then stopped for 5. This has helped to remember all of the years I have forgotten.

Thanks for this! The only archetype I love nowerdays is Cyber Dragons, so if I get into this game I’m hoping I can get what I need to build a decent Cyber Dragon deck

This Video is exactly what I looked for ! Perfect ♥ thanks and subbed :3

I love the fact that I'm watching guides that shows what decks is best to use, but i proceed to make the most dysfunctional decks that i possible could

Why don't you buy the 3 bundles packs just at the start? is it matter if you do the solo mode 1st? I have 5k gems without doing anything

I just downloaded this game yesterday and i thought i built a pretty solid Blue-Eyes deck for starting out and i went to online duels and theres so many people with super crazy Link and Pendulum decks going absolutely crazy with summons at the bottom tiers. I dont understand how decks can be this strong right out the gate

Thankfully, the early game is flexible enough that Im able to just craft a lot of what i need. Currently grinding for Crossout Designator. Granted, i did toss Konami 13 bucks for that limited offer deal, but i didnt feel too guilty about that since the game is as good as it is.

Finally a Yugioh Online Game worth playing. I've missed this since Yugioh Online Duel Evolution. Yeah I'm an older player that remembers the "Duel Passes" & online trade & when you walked around as a character in Yugioh World. Hope this comes close to what that game was.

Craft an SR card of the deck you want to build. Then unlock the key and run that secret pack.

i think the revival of legends pack is supposed to help with the starter decks you could get at the beggining via giving stuff for blue eyes synchron and cyberse which are the themes of the beggining starter decks

Thank you for the tutorial, haven’t played since I was a kid but now I have a friend group who play this. This will be a big help for sure

I have a friend thats been playing Yu-Gi-Oh for 15 years and he helped me through the starting phase. (The free swordsoul deck also helped) He basically had me do everything you say in this video though and told me what cards to keep.

I don't know what happened for me but stalwart force wasn't a option for me

Wow just 2 minutes in this video incredible well done so much helpful ❤❤❤

>Me, who immediately wasted them. Hmm interesting

If you aren't sure what you like and you don't mind losing a bunch, just go play matches online. If you like what your opponent is doing, save the replay and find out what archetype(s) they used.

I’m currently downloading this game on the Xbox and decide to look it up and your video was the first thing to pop up

I'm really glad this game came out since it's perfect for me to get into the tcg without spending bucks irl XD and I can play and learn online

Thank you so much for telling me about the Sr crafting. I really want to build aroma but didn't luck into the secret pack. I'm pretty low on gems but now I've got a viable way to get the set ^^ Edit: I got home, did the solo stuff.. Got a full aroma deck, have been making players sad and surrendering all day

As someone who only ever got an atlantean deck and Junk Destroyer starter deck, this guide is soooo helpful thank you! Annoyingly the servers are on maintenance as soon as I downloaded the game, but I am so gonna use this later! I really hope I can get some cool archetypes like Prophecy, Evil Twin, Sky Striker and Mayakashi soon- and those secret packs should help immensely! Thank you so much! (I'm a control deck player in other games and my more knowledgeable friends recommended those. I am still gonna get a World Legacy deck too, I swear to....I dunno, Slyther? I dunno what yugioh players swear too...

I just started playing the other day. It took me a couple of hours, but I managed to build my IRL Madolche deck, and it's been working pretty damn good for me so far.

meanwhile me in bronze: duel 1 gets kaiju'd,otk'd by mekknights+crusadia duel2 vs full combo drytron

I can testify that this video's advice, of using a rank 3 engine with Requiem Dragon as a wincon for ranking up in Season 1, is very solid: yesterday I installed this game, and a few minutes ago, right before YT recommended this video to me, I hit platinum by using a very similar build to the one shown here. Although, In my version I use BA alongside the PK, out of nostalgia for the good old PK Fire days. And honestly? I don't think the optimization of gems is as strict as you're making it sound. In one day of gameplay I "wasted" gems on stuff like getting the little 3D model of Ash Blossom as a mate (and frankly if you think getting yourself a cute mascot is a "waste" then we can't be friends), and I was still able to procure all the cards I needed for this PK Fire deck, plus I was able to put together an Altergeist deck which I'm currently in the process of refining, PLUS I have assembled the Dogmatika-Invoked-Shaddoll engine, which I'm currently in the process of building a deck around. All this without spending one singular penny of real money. I do admit that I got very lucky with the secret packs system (which in general is very generous and a seriously cool design idea, kudos to whomever thought of that), as when I bought the bundle that has Ash Blossom (the card), I pulled stuff from the packs in that one that unlocked exactly the secret packs I needed.

This starter guide saved me from wasting gems on stuff i don't need or pointless packs. Thank you.

another nice tip is looking around youtube for which competitive decks are more budget friendly then others, some decks got a bit shafted in having a whole ton of staples be UR while a fair number of decks have hardly any

Thanks for the info, master.

You may not see this, but thanks for this video. The last time I played yugioh was in my highschool backyard nearly two decades ago. I want to play it now and absolutely know nothing. Thanks for this starter guide.

Wow thank you so much for this video!!

I really apreciate the way you spell words by words. Easy to listing. Thx

Actually, the 1st 2 starter decks are actually useful, 1st one uses 2 blue eyes white dragons, essential for blue eyes decks so it saves time and you only need to craft one and the rest through packs and crafting. The synchros has at least some good staples like mst for most decks, then warrior returning alive for the warriors

Imagine how old yugioh player which came back now must feel when they hear: "yeah! later on you're not going to run raigeki anymore..." 😂 I find this hilarious how yugioh changed

Great video almost played whole solo

Amazing video I wish I watch this in the beginning but I did a lot of your tips naturally, I really suggest cyber dragon as you're starting deck it's not too hard to make you get the cards pretty easily and you can go up to platinum!

I’ve already built a BLS Chaos deck, getting URs is so easy. The BLS link is over 70$ in real life here it took me like an hour of grinding to get 3 of it. Levianeer was piss easy to get as well.

That bronze filled with normal monster deck is a lie, many people running decent deck there.

Great video. my only quarrel with it is that Yu-Gi-Oh is not "almost" two decades old. It's OVER two decades old! The manga was first published September of 1996. Konami then released the official card game in 1999 in Japan; the show on April 18th, 2000; and the card game, again, in 2002, but for North America. All in all, Yu-Gi-Oh is actually 23 years old!

Thanks for this I haven't started this yet but you've definitely given me an edge

Is Axe Raider beatdown deck meta in this game?

So for the dual pass do you have to actually win in order to progress

I wasted a lot of gems, and this video helped me get on track as I still didn't get the early ranked rewards

Oh, I cant wait to start playing again! Thank you for the tips.

Is Yu-Gi-Oh really in such unplayable garbage state right now that Monster Reborn and Raigeki are considered bad? Yeah maybe i shouldn't get back into this.

AMAZING VIDEO,unlike other people and tutorials turning away new player because they say "this game is not for ne w players" but you motivated me to play this game

"You can't wait to craft your favorite Elemental Heroes or something" Dude how you read through me this easily!!! I just downloaded the game just so I could play with them 😩😩 xD

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. Earned a new sub

I watched this video late, however this is exactly what I did to make my Gravekeeper. I am gonna send this video to my friends who have yet to start

Im an odd-eyes player and my friend is an utopia player. You can imagine the joy when the first structure decks to be added in the game were utopia and odd eyes one

Thank you so much. I feel less overwhelm than before.

i love that i find this video AFTER about 3000 gems into summoning on secret packs

THANK YOU used this and crafted my own deck fairly quickly without spending any money

Also if anyone ends up reading this. Just craft an SR or UR that would be from a secret pack and it'll be there saving you a lot of gems.

I am going to give an advice as well that i gave to my friend who wanted to start playing master duel after 10 years of not playing yugioh. Your 1st deck that you should build is a simple version of Crooked Cook with Final Countdown. BEFORE EVERYONE JUMPS ON ME please hear me out. Crooked cook is an easy yet effective deck to play with but the actual reason is that you give your opponent time to "flex" their decks. So i told him the 1st month of playing just do the side quests and observe your opponents, once you find a deck that you really like then start building it. In the end he choose to go with a cyberdark dragon deck.

since i live somewhere else to get to know how a job basically works (especially the one i target) i could not yet install it cuz neither i have a computer there to play it, nor any nintendo switch could connect to the internet there due to someone did sth wrong and any switch wont be given access still, that gave me the advantage to have some first few views of that and in that case i must thank you for making a start guide video so early. this will allow me to invest the gems more effective and get a huge advantage (besides that it would mean i would play less duel links but that doesnt matter). tbh i just found your channel with that video and its worth giving you a sub and a like for this video 😁

Awesome tutorial, I already used up some of my gems but I still have plenty saved up so I can still do everything you talked about

Thank you man this helped a lot and love your content I'm subscribed 👍

thankyou for this ! coming bacc from the game last time i played was 2009

Thank you sooooo much i am a returning player and this helped out more than you can imagine

By watching this, i was able to save up around 9k gems and go ham on some card packs, of course while getting the ones you recommended and then some. Day 1: I was able to open Exodia's 4 limbs, and craft his head! I know it probably wasn't necessary to "git gud" but it's one i've always wanted to have in my collection.

Awesome video! Currently contemplating how I'm gonna use my first gems

I'm a new player in Yu-Gi-Oh, I've watched the anime the GX series but I have no knowledge in the actual game. And in my first ranked mode experience I encountered a player that made one of his monster reach 10k attack points, so yeah I wanna be like that guy so I'll continue playing

new player...there's no stalwart force pack in the current shop...what now?

I got a solid virtual world deck on my 1st day of play. The guide works

I main ancient gears I'm not sure if this line of cards are in the game or if it's even a popular deck type lol I just really like the ancient gears

...should I just restart? CAN we even restart?

Very and I mean VERY helpful info this to me is an automatic sub. Keep up the good work👍