After 25 years of the game, with it nowadays having so many cards, most of them being involved into archetypes instead of the "random dungeon crawling" monsters from the OG days; and some of the archetypes being part of a big branching storyline with the oldest example being Duel Terminal, it's wild to think Konami only pays attention to the anime aspect and keeps pumping stuff related to the first anime, like supports, action figures of Yugi, Kaiba, Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, Blue Eyes; even millennium items' based toys... but rarely anything related to the rest of the game. The only small difference is OCG stories which is a manga covering the Sky Striker storyline; and even at that, that's only released in the OCG, not TCG. They could create so much more from the archetypes, like standalone games based on them, action figures (who says Dark Magician Girl has to be the only YGO waifu?); anime or movies; hell, some small shorts or OVAs would be fine. Then again, I guess they don't exploit their archetypes in this sense because that would imply they're hyping them for the potential buyers. And if they hyped the archetypes, it's because they plan on releasing new support for them that could make them either meta or more playable like how OCG stories is currently doing with Sky Stryker by implementing new support. And while I do understand why they don't do it, at the same time I find it dumb not to make their products more appealing beyond being a TCG game. Like, at least the older YGO video games tried to make the franchise slightly different from just a card game with Duelist of the Roses, Capsule Monsters, Falsebound Kingdome and Dungeon Dice Monsters. Konami is currently in enough of a good position with YGO to try their hands on more spin offs of the franchise... as long as they don't try to capitalize on the gacha format (Cross Duel) and fail miserably like anyone else using a popular IP like Jojo or Blazblue.

Summon blue eyes without tribute. Set and pass turn.

Just use legend anthology banlist and hit dd.

How would you handle things like zombies and Dinosaurs that are and are not anime

Would support it

I would draw the line at types and boss monsters/support because that's what I consider pure. Ideally they would all be one type but at the very least they should be related to the archetypes being used. In my favorite fun deck, Dark Magistus, there are only 5 cards in the core deck that are not Spellcaster and those 5 are related to (and basically necessary for) the two primary archetypes. My side deck would need fixing since it's meant to smokescreen into basically pure DM Fusion with a bunch of handtraps etc. but beyond that it would be fine. Probably the simplest rule to put in place to make that happen would be to specifically require those be true of the ED. No running Zeus unless you're slapping down a Jinzo deck or something, in other words. Could also require the main deck to not use cards from more than two archetypes unless they are the same type as the anime archetype if you really want to keep it relatively pure. Essentially, cards that the deck would feasibly use in a modern anime good, cards that they wouldn't bad. Yugi's deck may have been a bit of a mess, but if it were happening with the more modern series in mind, Atem isn't likely to plop Zeus on his Ebon Illusion. He probably would summon a Gagaga Magician to modify it's level to 7 and then XYZ into that Ebon Illusion with his Dark Magician to begin with though.

Uh... Yugioh OCG stories? Yugioh jp division has been releasing a group of Manga where you can read the story of specific archetypes. The current one that is ongoing is sentouki/sky striker story The next one probably dragonmaid or evil twins It is not officially in English or what?

@@r3zaful I haven't heard of it until this video and comment, and I've stayed relatively interested in YGO for a long time. I imagine there isn't an official translation or release

​@@Bergsen_Bun-sense there are severe disconnect between Asian and English players atm. But as right now Malaysia, sg and Indonesia who can speak English are now officially part of the Ocg sphere of distribution. I felt you guys needs to check Ocg jp/tw products first, then compare them to the tcg department, because majority of the fan service products came from the asian division.

I agree too many people just "deal" with it because it nets them wins yet they don't get that ironically stagnates the game. Which is what older players are trying to tell them. No game should be over an turn, the overreliance on staple cards especially the extra deck. Hand traps you MUST draw on the first turn.

Extra deck cards definitely made it overly complicated and 1-card-win esque type of card game

my favorite deck is Mecha Phantom Beasts and it ends on Barrone :l

Another thing, the reason blue eyes and the DM stuff is still the most popular in the TCG is that they haven’t actually made anything to eclipse it. Sevens and Go are certainly not going to. They have to invest in something new here and the don’t seem willing to

Trailers would be an AMAZING idea! I'd never thought of that before but it sounds very cool. Get people hyped about these new lore stories!

I def have more fun in Duel Links that I do with the TCG or Master Duels. Its not fun at all watching your opponent set up for like 20 mins with multiple crap. Duel Links is fast paced enough that you can still enjoy complex chained plays while not making you want to just quit instantly out of annoyance. The skills also add another dimension of play as the decks themselves are not the end all be all. A well timed skill can completely turn the match around. Honestly wish they marketed Duel Links more instead of Master Duel.

@@sr7olsniper so true... glad to know theirs people out there who feel as I do and want to compete and have fun

I'm 36, I understand. DL got me back up to speed. Its fun playing the new charters and skills. Trying new cards and just building decks. I like the tutorials. At first I didn't like links or synchro but learning how to use them is fun. I don't use them a lot but its still fun. God bless

Its not even about knowing what your deck does though. You have to know what everyone else's deck can do as well. Or else you'll be reading for the next half hour.

@@BlessedVet Yes I definitely brush up on the tutorials when I want to add a different card to a character that can benefit their deck...glad you are enjoying learning new ways to play brother.. Hope it stays fun for you

A lot of archetypes just aren't finished they made an experiment then went lets make 4 more archetypes. So now there's so many cards that aren't good, banned, or will may never get revamped support.

We don't need more DM archetype support to make them meta viable, that's the worst way to tackle the problem. Quick example, if Konami releases a good Blue Eyes support card, that by any means supports dragons in a way, it would just became a new staple for dragon link and probably boost their power level again, it's a balancing problem where if you give new tools to one deck in order to compete you incidentally give that power bump to the rest of the decks. What could fix the problems it's creating a really closed space where those decks are the top and the support is balanced around them specifically and just for them. Something like a 3 way format where Blue eyes, Red eyes and Dark Magician are the only decks allowed to be played withe their own style perfectly focused (big immune beatsticks, burning DMG and recursion and spell/trap control).

Yes! I find myself thinking this a lot. More in-theme summon locks could do wonders.

I don't agree. They would have to make a separate manga for structures to reflect the TCG state of things if they want newer players into the game.

Doesn't help, either, when nostalgic casuals try to enter the space and get assaulted by the more hardcore Spikes for missing the things the game marketed but doesn't provide.

Probably was the kashtiras build with triple prosperity

@@eduardowhiteknight6110 check out Dkayed he played the deck today

I’m saying man. There’s so many cool archetypes if they just made short series about the lores it would be more than just for ygo players

World Legacy would be great to have as a manga as well. Konami's sleeping on the marketing potential that an anime would have.

people been wanting a duel terminal show for the longest time. we saw what happened with Arcane, idk why konami wouldnt want to also have an animated adaption. DOTA, Dragon Age, Cyberpunk, Castelvania and others all joined in on having their own show too.

@@saviorofs0ng we do have sentouki aka sky striker Manga here, region lock is a thing.

People forget that Konami tried the anime format thing in the past and no one showed up for it, it’s just not feasible because the people that want these formats are just all talk and don’t show up for it

@@NewtBannner I think attendance would definitely be an issue

The ban list is the rotation list. It’s literally impossible to do a set based rotation because of the yugioh is designed. You’d have some decks lose all but like 3 cards and some decks would be at full power. How’s that fair?

The could have rotated based on the anime. As soon as the GX set came out then the DM would be rotated and so on. But they didn’t so the format rotates after each set is dropped and a ban list

@@nmr7203 It's not really the same thing. The difference is card bloat and power creep. When you have thousands to 10's of thousands of cards, you'd have to ban large segments of them to get to the same level as set rotation. At which point, incorporating set rotations is easier for new/casual people to understand. With 1000's to 10000's cards to choose from, people experience either choice paralysis, too many cards to remember/learn, and either unseen broken combos (which will only exponentially increase in frequency as more cards get added) or... in YGO's specific case... extreme power creep. YGO makes most older cards completely worthless, which is effectively a set rotation, by making new card sets vastly stronger. But power creep only helps Spike oriented players because only Spikes are competitive enough to invest that amount of time to play with the expanded mechanics/rules that comes with power creep. Set rotation allows card games to reset the power level softly each set and minimize power creep. Even allowing you to creep backwards. You can't do that without set rotation. " they just need to learn to design cards better." - It will never happen. If they designed cards better (better balanced), people won't be as incentivized to buy new cards. Once they make a Tier 1 or Tier 0 deck, why would they buy entire new sets? Maybe they'll purchase a new deck if the idea appeals to them, but the amount of cards being bought would drop substantially. Konami incentivizes players to buy into new cards by making them stronger. They'll never be better designed.

@@Pravanul you don’t think they’ve released weaker sets on purpose for the exact reasons you mentioned. Shadow Specters was one of the weakest sets of all time and they used a ban list to force us to play cards from it. That’s exactly what rotation is. Set rotation is not the only way to do rotation. As someone else mentioned they could’ve done an era based rotation when the GX anime hit they could have banned the DMs cards from the DM would only become legal once released in a gx era product in that case but they chose the overall ban list route. The point is yugioh does have rotation in it’s own form. The format they use works much better for the way yugioh is designed by the way. Johnny and Timmy should get jobs so they can have disposable income like spike does then they can play yugioh. There are plenty of budget options. Traptrix costs $30 In it’s most basic form and can win you local tournaments you can sell your winnings( cards from from packs) for cash or use them to improve your collection as a new player. You are making an argument about something that will literally never change.

I was just at the 250th YCS and every deck I played against had 2-3 backrow. And it wasn't just trap decks.

Konami keeps trying to do this with Speed Duels and the audience is incredibly small for that.

Yugioh was my first and only TCG and I stopped in 2005. I started playing FaB a couple months ago and have been having a lot of fun.

@@LCDigital92 Nice, what kinda deck are you running?

@@XSaberUruz Katsu blitz, but I really want to try Maxx when he comes out.

Konami realizes that there are people that will buy old school themed cards like dark magician or blue eyes regardless of if they’re meta or not and then there are people who will dump hundreds of dollars just to build the meta decks. So they no actual reason to make the legacy stuff even close to meta, which I agree is really sad as someone who has a dark magician deck smh

OCG structures is the Manga you're looking for.

@@darkstriker00 I've looked into that and it's really neat. However, I was thinking of a manga or comic that explores the lore of the current archetypes.

The Japanese just have a culture of complaining behind your back. If you're not seeing it it just means you're not looking in the right place. Ever heard of 4Chan? It was modelled after Japanese imageboards where people act much the same.

They could easily make a high production value lore anime. But they are just to scared xD

@@crostyla51 The only lore I'd be really interested in is The World Challice stuff because that involves various archetypes.