The winner isn't whoever gets the opponent's life to 0, it's the person who successfully understands what their turn even did.

...So Judge's Tower?

Hopefully a ultra rare pole position

Time to bring mekk knights!

@@idosarts_and_kraftsvaylantz mekk knight D/D

So you can’t mr it ?

@@HakAIanNope.

​@@HakAIanyou can't, but not because it's not a synchro summon, but because the condition says you _must_ summon it that way. If it said "must *first* be" or something along those lines you could use MR if you summoned it once via its builtin summoning condition.

And considering the travesty that was Gouki locks, it should be read that way at all times

I don't get how people are confused by Voltester. Destroy Link monster, destroy everything it points to, repeat until the Link ends. How is that confusing?

@@Zetact_ it isn't all that confusing, it's just worded very weirdly. They never printed another card like it and it's super situational in its use because of how it works.

@@Zetact_ It's not that confusing; it's just needlessly wordy and dramatic. But that makes it funnier.

I think my only question is whether or not the cards are considered destroyed at the same time, since they separated the phrases with "and then". If so it could make floating effects resolve in an annoying way, but not necessarily confusing

Don't forget OCG 1999 mirror in MR5 so you can't just normal summon Dark Magician

@@Greg501- That's just worse Monarchs

@@AllThingsEntertaining That's the best part

Whoever goes second also gets solemn judgment.

Don't you mean Maxx C, Maxx C, Maxx C, Ash Blossom, Ash Blossom?

Draw Phase Spright Starter

You forgot gamma.

I love normal summon Clayman

Returning to the game and facing D/D/D in MD was a disaster, it took me a long while to learn that deck choke points. I totally agree D/D/D is the best AND worst deck for Yugiboomers. Hey grandpa, ever seen a XYZ Pendulum Monster?

​@@gustavrider5561 Meanwhile, me waiting for Link Pendulum monsters since 2017 😔

TBF D/D would be a complete package for all game mechanics except Rituals. Missing timing with Orthros, identifying "summon conditions" like CyDra VS "summon effects" that Ceasar negates, understanding that even a Special Set is still a special summon (Caesar negating Toad when activating against a monster), damage step interactions, difference between detaching monster for effect/cost, all extra deck mechanics, the pendulum mechanic, trap activation VS trap effect, lingering effects (patent), control change (headhunt). I made a person take the bait being a historian and loving the LOOOOORE of the archetype, then evolved into a wombo-combo pile lover from Dragunity/Dragon Link to every Runick variant known to man to now salivating over Snake Eyes.

I unironically taught myself to play with pure d/d/d two months ago. Staring at a game that is known for its ridiculous combos combined with the infamy of pendulums, I thought "The best way to get a feel for how things really work is to learn a difficult combo deck that uses most of the games mechanics and forces you to combine them". First week was awkward as hell but glad I did it.

whoever designed that card must be the mf who designed Inspector Boarder after playing with Electro Dragons in Clash Of Clans

It was

Sounded like MBT was communicating with me through a tin can on a string 😂😂

@@halyoalex8942no no, across an empty room

*_-REAL-_*

I still don’t fully understand it and I’ve been playing for years now.

​@@TheGuyWhoIsSittingif a card effect is both "when..." and "you can..." then the effect has to be the last thing to happen. So if what you wanted to use was supposed to trigger while a chain was still resolving, then it won't. A summon also counts as being the last thing to happen, which is why you can't just link off Dupe Frog.

@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting Basically its chain blocking without the chain blocking

In my case, it was Gadget

​@@matchanaviwhich doesn't make sense since all of Magics effects are Whens and why the when, you can misses is so stupid

i'm so confused i looked up Snoww's effect just to be sure, and it seems to me that both conditions fufill the exact same effect, so why not just make it an "or" effect?

@@MorningStar012 it be less confusing to structure if as a 1) and 2) effect with 1 being general discard and 2 being the op card discard. it be a bit longer but it might actually be easier to underand + seperate card text from an essay with out puragraphs

​​@@MorningStar012If it was discarded by any effect, you add a dark world. If it was discarded by an opponent's effect, you can add a dark world, PLUS target and special summon 1 monster in your opponent's GY. It's not split up because it's all 1 effect

@@Medbread ok, so if i understood correctly, the SS from Gy only happens on opp discard, right? 'cause if that's the case then there's better ways to write that. and even if it isn't, there's still better ways to write that!

@MorningStar012 How would you write it? I think it makes sense when you understand PSCT. If this card is discarded to the GY by card effect: [This is a condition required for activation.] If it was discarded from your hand to your GY by an opponent's card effect, you can target 1 monster in your opponent's GY; [This is an action that you perform during activation, because it is before a semicolon. Text denoted before semicolons can include costs and targeting, and in this case, it's a targeting action that you only perform when a specific condition is met.] add 1 "Dark World" card from your Deck to your hand, then Special Summon that target (if any) in Defense Position. [This is the effect, and the "if any" in parentheses means that the effect naturally includes a Special Summon, (meaning it can be negated by Ghost Belle) but will whiff if there is no target, usually because you didn't meet the requirement for the targeting action.]

Inspector Boarder writing is the result of Konami never giving us a classification that groups all the monster cards with different border colors. Let's say the name for that was multicolored, then the card could read: Each player can only activate monster effects up to the number of different multicolored cards they control (Negated effects still count to the total).

Maybe ritual beasts would deserve a mention too?

Yugioh players when mild adversity

I think that just falls more under "archetype gimmick that you would never be prepared for without knowing about it ahead of time", and the premise here is more like individual cards that are really wonky to deal with

The other deck is Kaijus! "Sure let me just tribute summon your boss monster to perform a special summon to your side of the field".

5. JUST KIDDING

they don't mention "counter". only cards with like spell counters you can use a die for

@@rickerturgen8526 That's ridiculous. What are you supposed to use to keep track?

@@12thLevelSithLord Develop a mobile app specifically for F.A. in your phone that keeps track of it. Sounds ridiculous right? Well there is an app for Small World.

@@12thLevelSithLordhope you brought pocket change

He's been watching too much Futurama

Nah he's been saying that shit for ages lol

Those equation cards could be cool if they could not be responded to similar to MTG Split Second mechanic since the effects are just board wipes. The fact your opponent can throw off the math by activating just about any card is so sad.

You are laughing now but It outs Kashtira Fenrir.

I mean it would be good for getting people to pick up the set but yeah bad for teaching If you really wanted a good teaching deck though your probably best just giving like 6 decks that cover all summoning mechanics and something weird and just let them break Also change the “comic” to something easier like a video and give them a bloody playmate

@@jmurray1110 why would you support a product that would overwhelm every brand new player. And playmat? Why are you so entitled

@@Cardlimits I’m not I’m more lamenting on how difficult it is to explain the mechanics And I meant a paper one currently your just supposed to put cards down on the table it’s not like Konami doesn’t make them

@@jmurray1110 in starter and structure decks yes, this product isn't either of those

@@Cardlimits still it is essential a starting tool to try and learn the game and that’s going to be harder without a proper mat Also the tokens are a joke

Had a similar issue when I wanted to make a trap that activates from the Deck (too lazy to make 5+ searchers), but somehow making a monster that SS itself from deck and activates the trap on summon was fine.

The better way to put it is "because Suanni being destroyed wasn't the last thing to happen in the chain"

@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 yeah, but why does that matter? Because Konami said so. Literally no other reason. It's the single stupidest fucking mechanic in the entire game. There is no reason for it to exist.

@@GeneralNickles Adding to the tally of "This person obviously is playing Yang Zing"

@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 there are a ton of cards that miss timing. And making them _not_ miss timing doesn't even come close to making them overpowered, not even in the time-frames that they were released. So why does this mechanic even exist? It serves absolutely no purpose aside from arbitrarily limiting the power of cards that wouldn't even be very powerful if they didn't miss timing. It's a stupid mechanic, and they need to get rid of it.

Yup all it does is be a worse version of a structure deck without a script, they could have saved costs by just taking an already existing structure deck that exemplifies one of the 2 summoning mechanics chosen and just write a script for them.

You need to walk before you can run. The product is for people starting from literally nothing, not people who have basic knowledge already wanting to play in more competitive environments, which is what structure decks are mainly aimed at. If you give someone that doesn't know the basic rules a structure deck they're going to be confused and overwhelmed by a lot of the cards, whereas this product teaches you in a guided order about various things, building up from the most basic of basics (normal monsters, normal and tribute summons, attacking), to the different kinds of spell and trap cards, various kinds of effects and such, working up to stuff like summoning a few synchro and Xyz monsters, including real bosses like Prime-Heart and ZEUS. It's a good way of building foundational knowledge without just dumping a ton of mixed information on people at once. Look at the starter kits that Magic does, for example. Those are just a bunch of pack filler with like 1 or two actually powerful cards in them, and they're cheap and great for brand new players as well. It's possible they could make an Advanced Starter Kit featuring more in-depth stuff as a follow-up.

​​@@AcroxShadow Okay, so these are all the issues i have with this product. Even just putting aside my want for the archetypes like Swordsoul and Spright (they could be Blue Eyes and Dark Magician for all i care, BEWD has synchros and DM has Ebon Illusion Magician), the problem is that these decks aren't built like real decks. And what this does is give players an awful first impression of how deck building works in modern Yugioh (and no, i don't mean "there isn't any 3-ofs of cards"). We'll use Starter Deck Codebreaker as an example of what a good starter deck looks like in this game. That deck only had 2 normal monsters and 1 flip monster. That would've been more than enough for an onboarding product like this 2 player deck, the only area Konami needed to improve in was the manual booklet. And for context: that deck was really simple in its strategies because Konami had the task of introducing a brand new extra deck summoning mechanic to EVERYONE (not just beginners). But even a starter deck like SD Yuya was full of Performapals and Magician monsters. It could afford being more cohesive with its main deck monsters because the new mechanic was related to the main deck. By comparison, there is fucking 8 NORMAL MONSTERS in the synchro deck, and 7 in the XYZ deck. Thankfully, both those decks still only have very little flip monsters in there (its obviously important that they're included, but you don't need to bloat the deck with it if you aren't shuffling the deck to begin with). And i do want to stipulate (since i've had some time to cool off) that I don't think its a deal breaker for this on boarding product to have these many trap cards. I _wish_ the decks had less traps, but it for sure needed more hand traps than just D.D. Crow since they can be fairly common even in casual play nowadays. It is a fair critique to make that new players need to learn what continuous and counter traps are, and that was an oversight in my original comment. Ultimately though, my biggest gripes have to do with the normal monster bloat, the lack of cohesive and believable win cons in these decks (this is basically an onboarding for something like GOAT format, which is over 20 years late), the de-emphasis on archetypes (i at least appreciate that there's the mannadium package in the synchro deck to show how searching works, but you could've done that with a more cohesive deck), and the small amount of hand traps in the deck (there should be probably 3 in each one for an onboarding tutorial like this just to convey how important they are in this game). Because you gotta keep in mind "what is the next logical thing that someone is gonna do with this product after the scripted duel?" They're gonna shuffle the deck and play against their friend in a real match. And THAT is gonna be their first real impression of what its like to play Yugioh after learning the rules, which sets them up for failure. This is literally just the Master Duel tutorial but in paper YGO, and we all know how well that went with Rarran. It sets expectations for a game that basically disappeared years ago and was replaced by a game that ends on turn 5-6 if we're being generous. Like, all Konami has to really do for a product like this is ensure that the top 5 cards of your deck are the same every time you play. Its not like you're going to ever shuffle the deck in this tutorial, and they could've given the stipulation in the hand guide that you won't be shuffling after searching cards in this tutorial duel for simplicity's sake. You could've just included 1-2 normal monsters in each deck, had one or both of them in the starting hand to teach you how to tribute summon, and you could've built the decks each around a single archetype while still including all sorts of different spells and traps for the purpose of this sealed product environment. Like, when you really sit down and look at these decks objectively, they're just lazily put together. Even casual players build decks themed around an archetype (hell, most of them build pure lists to emulate their favorite anime duelists). I mean, god knows when i first got into Yugioh for the first time 3 years ago, I just built a Dark Magician XYZ deck with a Magician of Chaos package because it was my favorite ritual monster in Duel Links (which i played for maybe 2 months before getting into the TCG). And it had plenty of traps like Drowning Mirror Force and what have you because i was still pretty casual at the time. That's the sort of deck design philosophy Konami should've leaned into with this product. They basically over-corrected when designing this thing. What Konami should do is just reintroduce the Legendary Hero Deck sets and include manuals like the one in this 2 player set. Not only could you use it to teach new players the game (and its a repeatable template that you can use to reel in newcomers every year with annual product releases), but you could also print new cards, overhaul legacy archetypes, and give a more accurate depiction of what real Yugioh looks like while still adhering to this scripted duel schtick that Konami wants to try out for newcomers. Everybody wins. Anyways i'll take my W now.