DuelLogs talking to me while I fall asleep got me back into Yu-Gi-Oh

Believe it or not: Cyberse cards got me back into yugioh because i work in Cyber Security: I collected cards as a kid and stopped around the 5Ds era like alot of people, then had a brief stint at the beginning of Uni with the Cyber Dragon Structure and was put off by how OP Pendulums were. After spending a year in industry and going on holiday to the states, i went into a book shop and found some packs of Code of the Duelist and the Link Strike Structure Deck. After going through the card names i realized they were all references to Cyber Security and computing concepts: HoneyBot is a Honey Pot, Decode Talker with a sword is decryption while Encode with a shield is Encryption. Topologic Bomber dragon is a logic bomb and it's effect functions like one. Pre-errata Firewall dragon also makes sense in the context of comparing it how an actual Firewall functions: allow the constant flow of traffic and block (or bounce) unwanted traffic. At that point i realized i NEEDED to collect all these cards and find a way to make the deck work. I could LITERALLY do these comparisons for nearly every Cyberse card, and have had the idea of documenting all of these in video.

The Albaz Structure deck got me back in because for about 30 dollars, I went from having no cards to being able to have a decent enough deck to casual play with friends. Like that shit had Branded Fusion and Mirrorjade.....easily one of the best structure decks that's ever been created.

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I never really quit, but Master Duel helped me re-enter the competitive scene after being away since 2015. It made the cost of competitive decks more accessible and I don't have to spend more time fighting with people over rulings. I'm still not interested in buying into paper, but this is a nice way to try stuff out at my leisure.

You never really fall off completely from yugioh, just sometimes take an extended break from content drough, being priced out, going through a bad format, or having a burnout, but eventually you inevitably come back. It's like letting your dog taste blood, once you've been thoroughly hooked there's nothing that can scratch that particular itch quite like yugioh.

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Dzeef did it for me, I was out of the game around 2011 and hadn't thought about it for years. Then I stumbled upon Dzeef's "Why nobody plays" series that happened to feature lots of cards I tried jamming in every deck, and it flipped my understand of the game I had played for over a decade. After re-assessing all my old cards and catching up with the current releases (up to 2019 at that time), I started getting hyped for new possibilities again

It was Rata. It was entirely stumbling onto Rata in his early years and I started digging.

I stopped playing Yugioh in early 2004, well before IOC. My friends and I were aging out of the target demographic of the anime, so we gravitated away from it as a whole. I got back in during the pandemic when I was bored out of my mind and decided to start binging old shows, and Yugioh DM came up again. Poked around KZfaq (which didn't exist back when I was still playing), found TGS Anime, and from there the algorithm led me straight to all the TCG Yugitubers. I casually followed the competitive game because I didn't want to commit money to the game, and then when Master Duel launched I was immediately in.

I started Yu-Gi-Oh in grade school, never had a cohesive deck and actually had several cards of mine stolen or lost via games against kids with more time and money than I did. A friend of mine introduced me back into cardboard about a year and a half ago by suggesting I watch your content; I've been subbed for a year and started playing at a locals about 8 months ago, and recently got a nationals invite at my second ever event at the ripe old age of 31! You've been integral to my newfound enjoyment of the game and I hope to keep that enthusiasm despite recently having a kidney stone blasted out of me (yes that was me Wednesday with that wonderful visual) Thank you Joseph, Jillian, and MBT friends/community!

For me it had to be Roobindale's history of the yugioh meta video that got me back into the game

I got out when my childhood friend group moved onto magic the gathering. A lack of people to consistently play with just, couldn't hold my interest. I was in off and on for ten years, but was known as "the yugioh person" at the game store that I started working at a few years ago, and got tasked with starting up events for the store again. It took like multiple months of work but I did manage to do it, and we've had a scene for like a year and some change, and I've been playing around the same time. I love this game and games as a whole because of the communities they create, the connections they forge, and the times and memories they create, and it feels just. so amazingly good to be able to play paper with people who love the game similarly to myself again.

Rank10ygo videos got my interest back in 2017... what a year for it.

You know what brought me back? My crippling gambling addiction! 😊

Genuinely, Rata rank10ygo and you. I played as a 10 year old around synchro era a little, but fell off and didn't come back for a while until around 2016 when I happened to catch Archetype Archive - Cloudian and getting sucked in. I didn't jump right back in (played a bit of duel links) until I stumbled across your channel, and by then, Master Duel released and I was back in love all over again.

First. You brought me back to YGO MBT, thanks for all your videos!

For me I've had it happen twice - I played on the playground as a kid with random sets of cards, my "aces" were Gren Maju Da Eiza and Black-Winged Dragon. I stopped playing in the late synchro era, just before Xyz's existed. Around mid to late 2019, I started feeling nostalgic, and that plus some KZfaq videos made me begin relearning the game. I discovered DuelingBook and got really into it, but stopped as the pandemic ended and the one person I played with in person moved away. Then Master Duel came out and I've been on that grind. Maybe one day I'll pick up my paper Plunder Patroll deck again though.

Rata. The deadpan Montenegrin has the exact style of humor and comedic timing that I cannot get enough of. Also I binged LotW and Archetype Archive until I found a strategy that called out to me (Madolche my beloved)

Came back to playing Yu-Gi-Oh! cause of the Yusei theme decks in my YT suggestions, watching them play Junk Speeder then just fully combo-ing into these like 5 Stardust-like Dragons made me so hype and made me build the deck.

I quit playing Yu-Gi-Oh around late 2017, early 2018, right about when the Link mechanic really started to take off. I was a big Synchron player at the time, and just didn't really jive with the whole MR4 changes heavily neutering that style of play in order to push Link summoning as a mechanic. I kept up with the metagame up until around 2020, and heavily considered getting back into the game around the MR5 announcement, but my life became a lot busier in 2020. The thing that actually finally pulled me back into the game was discovering this channel, about a month or two ago! And more importantly, being able to share it with my girlfriend and introduce her to the game that I loved. (Also, EDOPRO just being really good, and teetering on trying out Master Duel now)

The progression series and to a lesser extent History of Yugioh brought me back (also how I found MBT). I saw a random Cimo video of him comparing magic cards to yugioh cards (I switched to MTG around the XYZ era), and that's how I found progression. Getting a chance to go over all the sets I had missed made it easier for me to understand the current metagame and how the game played today.

I used to play casually in highschool with some of my friends during the early xyz era, but it was actually when I saw your TMT for Gravekeepers that brought me back into the game and I've been hooked ever since.

It really is crazy that good structure decks are the norm now that i can generally feel pretty comfortable pointing at one of them when someone asks me how they can back into the game the only SD in the past couple years that I would maybe consider a flop is the Jack Atlas one, but I know that several of those cards see play in Bystial brews, so I wouldn't even say that

Played very casually on and off for years, but really got into the game competitively for the first time playing Fortune Ladies in Duel Links. Incredibly fun deck, enabled by a simple skill that increased a fortune lady's level by 3, with a combo that made FL Every + draw 2, and a bunch of other fun cards like FL Wind and Bending Destiny. It was the first time I'd climbed to the top of the ladder, and was a really fun experience and felt like a victory against the triangle meta of darklords, blackwings, and invoked-elementsaber and tier 2 pure shiranui (before grass, stun, or combo shiranui versions), all stronger decks but beatable. One of the best yugioh experiences I've ever had, and the reason I kept playing DL (despite the bad gacha), MD, and even a little TCG.

Master Duel during COVID. Starry Night, Starry Dragon and Hope Harbinger Dragon were early favorites that made me realize the insanity in concept didn't exactly change too much 😂

You CAN'T just hit me with the Waverly Place opening like that Dire.

I want to say the Zombie Horde deck in late 2018 is what started to bring me back. And then with my first job in 2019 I was able to just start buying lots of packs of Dark Neostorm. As well as 2 more of the DDD structure decks. Desperate for another zombie deck, or a retrain Bones' old cards from the duellist kingdom arc of DM.

I was interested in Yu-Gi-Oh at various points in my life from GX onwards but what got me properly invested in playing Yu-Gi-Oh was your content and master duel.

Sad I missed this prompt. I quit twice, returned twice. First quit during Inzektor format. Face it FIVE TIMES in a regional and had enough. I just picked up my cards and walked away. Came back when The Dark Illusion came out. I like Dark Magician :) Quit again during Zoo format. COVID had me fall into old hobbies, and I learned of Magician' Souls. 8/10/20, I bought a box of Magical Hero to get Souls and decided to stream it. Then I opened PHRA and pulled Starlight Zeus in my first box, this was before I even knew what starlights were. I then bought TWO CASES of BLVO for more Starlights and pulled none :) But here I am, sitting through Snake-Eye combos.

I fell off around early Xyz era, but what got me back into the game was going to a new high school and meeting friends at the lunch table who all played at the local card shop. Around that time, Spirit Warriors came out and I picked up Magical Muskets for the first time. That deck is what brought me back in, made a lot of memories with em just because High School me thought that an archtype based around Cowboys is cool as hell

The last good standalone console game “Link Revolution” got me the motivation to learn pendulum and link cards so I could keep up with the game. Life and work won’t let me play or attend locals anymore so I’m grateful master duel is still available for me when I have time to play.

I stopped playing around the end of the DM era because I was a kid who moved on to new hobbies. And probably because the anime stopped airing on Kids WB. I somehow heard the news of MR4 being announced, and that led to me looking into what Yugioh had been up to, which led to me following several yugitubers for years. Master Duel got me actually playing regularly for the first time. A new locals opening up in my town (the closest before that was 1.5 hours away) got me to play in paper.

Out of nowhere my parents got me some bargain barrel pulls alongside a few packs and fell in love with Madolche and somehow convinced my dad to get in with Noble Knights box from god knows when. I played just about whatever we ended up pulling that I could make cohesive for the laughs such as Melodius, Aromage, Raidraptor and Lunalight. With my main decks being Madolche and Cubic until the link era where my father played Kozmo and Super Quant. We have both stopped now but I liked the concept of the masochist challenge and have been doing that on occasion while learning links on the way

I stoped playing before the intro of synchro summoning, maybe 2006ish, what brought me back were the random chaos of Davinator1212’s duel links videos. I don’t know why, but watching him activate infernal tempest against blue eyes players is just infectious.

the thing that got me back honestly was duel links, i saw a yugioh game that just started and joined day 1 and literally the one thing that spiraled down into going back

My friend bought the legendary yugi's decks and it was the beginning of my new journey into the game !

I took a break back in tear format for a couple months, and what brought me back was the Pendulum Zarc support from Agov

randomly decided to watch yugioh again for the first time since i was a kid, started playing monarchs on omega around 2019, made some friends from there and still play all forms of yugioh with them to this day

I stopped playing back when I was super young, but barely knew how to play even then. Largely playing playground and went to a locals as "That kid who doesn't really know how to play" I wasn't playing banned cards, but didn't understand how the game WORKED so I was on the Equip Spell Warrior structure from like 06 with all my favourite cards. Eventually sold my GameCube (with almost all its games) and whole collection at a garage sale for 30 bucks (lived to regret both now that I have reestablished most of those collections) But finding Duel Links got me interested, and then finding DuelingBook got me RIGHT back in. I was in isolation with my partner during lockdown #1, and we fell in love with the game, learning to play (for them) and learning how to play anything released from 2007-2020 (for me) It brought me back into paper play (for real this time) and introduced me to some of the coolest and most wonderful people I know. Then my locals fell apart so now I play Commander as my only in paper game

honestly what brought me back after leaving at the end of the synchro era was a want to connect with other duelists again, our love for the anime has always been a connecting force for my siblings and i and just being able to share that was something that i always loved the yugioh simulators are what brought me back at the tail end of master rule 4 learning how to use XYZ pendulums and links was so fun and now i enjoy locals way more with the dream of going to a YCS and stirring people up as much as the famous exodia ftk did

Yu-Gi-Oh at this point has become the revolving door of my adult life. In, then out, back in, back out, in again, out again, it never truly leaves my life, but my interest in specific areas of the YGO media empire has waxed and waned, but there's usually something about it I keep in tabs with. My original in was the anime, watching GX in something like 2014-2015 and becoming interested in the game. It'd take some time for me to get a playing partner, but that didn't stop me from buying cards and emulating GBA and PSP simulators was good enough for the time. Then, after a long war of attrition, I got a friend to play with me, starting our "Rummaging through trunks-trash" era. We'd eventually begin the arms race of playing actual decks, where I picked up my unjustifiable love for Vampires (This was like pre-Saviors vampires, mind you) and life was good. This early, innocent time was some of my best times playing the game. My first roadblock with YGO came in 2017 with the release of Master Rule 4. I wasn't a big fan of Links starting off, I wasn't a fan of how forced the push to change the game I'd been enjoying was, while it wasn't an immediate death, the amount of time sitting at the kitchen table playing YGO did start to dwindle as we started prioritising doing other things. 2017 would also spark my equally on/off relationship with Magic in Amonkhet, so that also didn't really help matter for YGO. It's around this time-period, when KZfaq content about YGO became more important to maintaining my grip in the game. Interest with the game at that point would spike here and there with releases like Dark Saviors 2018 or Maximum Gold El Dorado in 2021, but especially with another friend with whom the two of us started palling around as a group, it was harder and harder to find the time to duel. Master Duel is basically the reason I never truly left YGO behind. It not only let me have a convenient online component for playing and forcing me to get over myself with links and hand-traps, but it also introduced the game to that aformentioned other friend to YGO, which was a shot in the arm the series needed to really get going again. We did some drafts, I started collecting cards again, MD gave me a couple of ideas on projects to work on, it was smooth sailing all the way up to 2023. With a short-lived LGS opening around town, I was finally introduced to a larger community of players playing MTG locally and that pretty much sealed the deal. It became a question of whether I'd invest in a card game I'm playing with like 2 other people once every month or so or investing in a card game that I got to play weekly with sometimes up to a dozen people. So, while I never properly abandoned YGO ever again, my focus nonetheless shifted. Over the course of the year though, hype for YGO had started creeping up on me more and more. It started with a youtuber called Jon-Oh getting me hooked on his continuing efforts to play through Forbidden Memories in every limited deckbuilding challenge imaginable, which ended me up on Rata's, Hardleg's and your channel again and now, I've been giving a few side-glances towards my Deck Devastator box that holds all my decks again as I've been sleeving some of them again. It's only a matter of time until I crack and I feel an itch to play again, whereupon I'll shrivel up and die as I have to figure out how I rebuild Zombies again with all the banlist updates since I last played.

I got back into Yugioh (but not actually playing) around when Progression first started, and thanks to Joseph I will be stuck in this hole for a while.

What brought me back to Yu-Gi-Oh was when my older brother showed me an ots store near me in 2013 and I started picking up my first original yugioh cards because before that, I had tons of counterfeit ones. Plus rewatching the anime at the time add a lot to it.

Can't wait to see what you do for Perfect Draw. Got hyped as all get out when I saw you were working with the game.

Oddly enough, mbt's channel brought me back to yugioh because i was looking up mono blue tron deck lists for mtg modern

I never played the game competitively, but I hadn’t looked at it much in a long time. Then I saw Rata’s videos, and that got me really interested in the game’s history and progression of archetypes. And then master duel happened.

Last time I was in touch with the meta was back in the synchro era when I was playing on Dueling Network. I still remember the precise moment I quit, I played against a deck that made a long combo involving Armory Arm and Level Eater that ended on Shooting Quasar Dragon, it was too complex for my brain to comprehend. I don't know how I found out, but I just found out randomly that Master Duel just released and that's how I got back into playing Yugioh. Just online though, not paper.

Before getting deeper into Yugioh my experience of playing the game was through GX Tag Force in 2010s decade. Even back then i only played Tag Force 1 (that had 2005/06 format). Sometime around 2022, i noticed my brother began playing Tag Force game. But this time he played Tag Force 3. Curiosity started filling my mind as i began watching Tag Force 3 gameplay videos on KZfaq. During that time i learned of Tele-Dad deck which was super cool to watch. I then decided to play Tag Force 2, 3, and 4 respectively, learning more of past decks like Crystal Beast, Monarch, Glad Beast, Lightsworn, and also learning synchro summoning in Tag Force 3-4. It was very entertaining and made me think "I want to know more of Yugioh". Around May 2023 i got into Master Duel and learned more summoning mechanics and how the game has evolved over years.

I came back to yugioh because I randomly searched if there were a game on the App Store and say Duel Links. I later got into TCG/MD because I saw Milano/Team APS make shorts/vids about hand traps which I had no idea what they were, but I ironically learned through the shorts. So through watching Milanos shorts I kind of understood the state of modern yugioh at a high level, so it felt less intimidating to dive into. Like I loaded up MD already knowing what Maxx C/Ash/Called by were without ever having played them

Left the game around 2007 to focus on Magic since realistically I had to choose one or the other, I couldn't afford to continue both in high school. Dipped my toes back in a couple of times in college but strictly using my old deck. Around 2019 I looked up videos on Yu-Gi-Oh to properly understand how it had grown because for years I had just heard the classic "it's a powercrept mess" line and that was all I had to go off of and found Cimooo's stuff. Finally, in 2021 the Cyber Strike structure deck got me back into playing the paper games as I'd always loved Cyber Dragon and it was a starting point for a CyDra deck.

Synchrons/Stardust support is what got me back into yugioh, I had played Nexus for a while but never got a deck that got me into the irl game until I could build a Majestic Star deck I liked

Secret slayers brought me back. I love the archetype designs during that era, and Rikka + Adamancipator in particular interested me.

Wow, it’s almost like lowering the barrier to entry through competent out-of-the-box decks and keeping card prices low via consistent reprints and/or printing cards at multiple rarities leads to more people picking the game up.

I’ve been on and off with the game since HAT, but two major things brought me back. Master Duel, and MBT videos. I don’t have any locals here, so finding a community I jell with, being both entertained and informed in equal measure, and having a few new decks over the years that I enjoy has really helped. Master Duel was the icing on top to all of this, because for all of its problems, a broke boy like me can enjoy the card game of my childhood again.

Shoutout to LittleKuriboh's Abridged Series as that was the start of a chain of events that made me want to get back into the game after dropping it when Legacy of Darkness came out (2003) due to the hype around it in my area dying out, there being no local scene and the few people interested in growing the game being bullied by the MtG community we had. Watching TAS made me go and binge watch DM and later 5Ds just as it was getting to the Crash Town Arc which got me interested in the game again as I thought the concept of Synchro Summons was really cool since this was in 2009. So a 6 year break more or less. That's right. I'm a Yugiboomer who *actually enjoys the newer summoning mechanics and modern gameplay.* A rarity, I know.

I left Yugioh during early XYZ format. Came back after buying random packs of Code of the Duelist at a Toys R Us waiting for friends to arrive in the parking lot of a near by Applebees. Loved the World Chalice art and lore and never stopped since.

It was master duel for me as well. Then learning if the existence of lab and generaider got me back into paper play with the help of finally having an OTS shop nearby

I was vaguely keeping up with Yugioh via Duellogs. Master duel got me into the game. And content creators like MBT got me to stay invested. Like, I was really looking forward to swordsoul based on how mbt described the deck. I remember, around the first week of master duel, pulling up edopro, reading the swordsoul and tenyi cards and feeling absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of text. I remember playing a lot of MD’s solo modes at launch as ways to learn how to read the cards/see the modern game. Monarchs was the best mode for that. Really appreciated the Lightsworn story for putting a lot of powerful cards in that last duel for players to experience.

For me, it was some sort of combination of Duel Links and seeing reprint packs on shelves in and around 2017/2018. I saw the reprinted DM era sets and also plenty of Yugi's World repacks at Walmarts. I started out slow, sticking only to basic yugioh (which early duel links fostered) and eventually, I slowly climbed my way back in. Add in that opening packs is like a crack-like addiction, it was just my destiny. I would like to add in that, over the years, I've owned 3 seperate DBZ CCG collections (You could buy them for SUPER cheap a few years after the game died) and 2 seperate yugioh collections. I quit in high school because well...I was trying to attract girls and back in 2005, being a card game nerd wasnt exactly uh..."cool". So I sold off all my cards(yugioh and DBZ CCG) and learned how to play guitar. Now, as a married man in his 30s, I dont have to be a closet nerd anymore. I have it all. A wife. My cards. a LOCALS. And yes, I have a guitar still. Part of the 'return to nerd' journey also included diving back into gaming, something else of which I took a long hiatus from. Now I own a top of the line game PC. Embrace the nerdom.

Diabellastarr brought me back. I mean the art in modern Yu-Gi-Oh cards are chef's kiss.

Cerveza Cristal is what got me back into Yugioh

Dzeeff is easily the reason I got into yugioh in the first place. His videos were very watchable even though I had no prior yugioh knowledge and were essential for me learning that bad cards are bad cards

It took Cimo being recommended to me randomly with yugioh memes. Then i tried the prog series that helped me understand the rules from literally day 1 to now. Now im deep into master duel.

Duel logs, you, and dzeef making high quality videos, and master duel, helped get me back into the game (played DM and GX). The crystal beast structure deck being good is getting me back into paper though

I actually really enjoyed this video, hearing a lot of players talking about their experiences on getting back into the game kinda reinvigorates me to continue playing in this snake-eyes format (I call it that because its all I see atm, gotta love T-0). I especially loved that last post, heartwarming !!

Master duel started me back into playing the card game, as I had been watching the anime as they came out since near the end of Zexal. I hadn’t played the card game since the 2008(?) DS game that had the speed duels in it. I really turned the corner into coming back however when I discovered the history of yugioh series along with theduellogs videos about a couple month before Tears hit the TCG

Dzeeff discussion videos got me back in around 2018 to 2019.

The fire king structure deck was it for me. And oh boy... i had no idea how much money I would end up spending on making it into a snake-eyes fire king deck in the future lmfao

I stopped playing around 2009 and restarted again 2015ish, right after that Nekroz, Shaddoll, Qliphort format. What got me back in? Yugioh Abridged! Such a fun parody, that reminded me of how fun the actual game was!

Well...there were a number of reasons. Yugitubers (mostly Rata and later TheDuelLogs, Dzeeff and MBT), generally interesting archetypes,...If I had to narrow it down to something, I'd say Fire Kings. They made Yubel one of the strongest cards in Duel Links' meta (while even being a somewhat reliable counter against Fur Hire) and their support cards are awesome. When Yubel was meta, we basically just had Yaksha and Island...and Barong, I guess, but that card didn't really matter yet. Here's a list of archetypes that I played a lot: - (honorable mention) my first PvP-deck in DL ever: Daedalus-control - Dragunity - Six Samurai - Shiranui (my only King Of Games, while "The Grass Is Greener" was still legal, but I didn't even use it.) - Mayakashi (sometimes with Shiranui combined) - Fire Kings (including and excluding Yubel, later with Nephthys) - Fire Fist (It took a while for them to be interesting because they were always under-supported. They were a decent deck once they got their XYZs, but shit really hit the fan with Panda. That card is nuts!) - Lunalight, I guess, but they barely had any cards (just "Judgement Force"). - D/D/D (This was actually a decent deck even when it barely had any cards.) - Subterror (Guru isn't even in the game yet. It's just Umastryx-control.) - Superheavy Samurai - Cyber Dragon - Dinosaur-Paleozoic (Survival's End) - Rikka (basically Fire Kings for Plant-type) - U.A. - Agents with Tethys, Magical Mallet and Reload - Cyber Angels - Fossil Fusion (Why did it take so long to get released? Jim is the best character in GX!) - Metaphys Looking back on it, that's actually quite a lot, even excluding the decks that I've barely played at all, like Dark World, Gladiator Beast, T.G. and others.

Found a group of friends in college that played, this was around Secret Forces. Found Shaddolls and thought their looks were so cool, glad they got me back into it.

Honestly, what got me back into Yu-gi-oh was both History Of Yu-Gi-Oh and Master Duel. History found me at my lowest near the end of 2020 and it became tradition for me to cook a nice meal and watch it every Friday. Master Duel coming out over a year later gave me exactly what I've always wanted, a official simulator to play the game. Like many of us, I was in a really bad spot during the worst of the Covid pandemic so I natural turned to my childhood for comfort. It was just the right thing at the right time to pull me back in.

I remember playing Forbidden Memories, and around that time in my country counterfeit cards became extremely popular, lots kids in my school had complete decks of fake cards, this was around the goat era. I didn't play a lot again, except for some Duelist of the Roses, but around 2010 I got a PSP and played Tag Force a lot of, this was pretty much during the Edison era. I stopped playing for a while but in 2015 I got Legacy of the Duelist for PS4 and got the platinum trophy, I loved the game but didn't even once looked up what a deck of that time looked like. In 2020, during certain pandemic, I got the Link Evolution update of that game and again got the platinum trophy. This was the first time I looked up decklists online and it was cool to see how good and bad I was a building decks, some made sense but others were incredibly bad. 2 years later MD was released and this was the time I really started playing the game against human opponents, I learned a lot in a short time and getting to Platinum 1 when it was the highest rank felt really rewarding. I'm still playing this game, completely F2P but haven't really had the time to climb to the highest rank again. It is definitely doable but in Diamond it becomes way too time consuming. I still enjoy the game anyways, is perfect for someone like me who doesn't have access to the paper game.

I got back into the game because I stumbled across Rata's Guardian video. Binge-watched the whole series, bought a box of Eternity Code to crack on a whim, and I was hooked again.

Watching back the anime recently and also trying out Master Duel not too long ago got me caught up with Modern Yugioh.

I have several answers to this question, it's been a long 21 years. I started in 2003, but quit in 2005. I came back to Yugioh in late 2005 when GX premiered. I liked the start of that anime and it got me back into the card game after a 6 month hiatus. I quit AGAIN in early 2007 out of sheer boredom, but came back in 2010 when I saw the Gusto archetype in Duel Terminal (OCG). It's still one of my favorite archetypes ever, alongside the Charmers. I quit again in early 2015 due to not having as much time to dedicate to playing, but I returned in 2020 (playing pure Shaddols from the structure deck) during lockdown and I've been back ever since. I saw the Shaddoll archetype on release years earlier and I just didn't have the time and money to get back into yugioh at the time, so that cheap Structure Deck reeled me back in.

I quit a little before PePe format. Being a single dad priced me out of anything playable and didn't have the time to play even if I could afford it. Got back in late '21. By then, I could afford shiny cardboard again. My child got into collecting and playing Pokemon. Went to a pre release, for Evolving Skies I think, and she saw some other customers playing Yugi and she wanted to learn. Bought her the Charmer structure and started to get the itch as I was teaching her. Fast forward a few months, there was a play group at our local library and they helped me get back into it. Started with Tri-Brigade and eventually started building more decks since then either for myself or newcomers trying to get into it themselves

Yugioh legacy of the duelist is criminally underrated, I found it in 2018 and it got me back in when I last had interest in 2004…I finally tried to play IRL when the “link evolution” version came out, using sky striker (later invoked dogma, branded, and sprite). Tried for 3-ish years but ended up never having fun, dropping out when kashtira came out…about 9 months later my locals finally began Edison and I’ve been having a blast the past 5 months! Retro is the way to go, I respect anyone who can have fun but modern YGO I dont think will ever be enjoyable anymore

The lightsworn and fairy sturcture decks for School-yard tier fun in HS, and the launch of Secrets of Eternity had me fully into the meta with the release of Infernoid. Still play it today

I went to a new friends house and he happened to be sorting through his cards (didn't know he played) back in 2019. I saw the cards and instantly bought zombie structure decks and the rest is history

Started playing since 2004. Pendulum made me took a break for some years. Unironically Sky Striker and Trickstar made me come back, omg I love Raye.

What got me back was one of my dormmates in my freshman year in university with either the Upgraded/Updated Yugi and Kaiba Structure Decks or the Ancient Gear/Dino Structure Decks that brought the best Tyranno that book of moon'd all the monsters on the opponent's field. and then we moved on to both Duel Links for a bit and just buying packs kinda regularly after New Challengers (which got me my Ghost Rare Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon)

Cerveza crystal edit at the beginning got a genuinely belly laugh out of me

I built Lightsworn way back when the deck was expensive, wheeled and dealed my way into finally getting my hands on copies of the premier stuff that culminated into Judgment Dragon (a card that was completely out of my price range as a broke ass high schooler) and had the deck stolen from me. Got completely discouraged and decided I was done. A friend of mine bought me three copies of the Gemini structure deck of all things, and I loved it so much that it got me back into the game full stop. Haven’t put it down since. Rob, I know you’re watching this video. Thanks for picking me up when I was down.

I had tow decks that brought me back into Yugioh after missing both 5Ds and Vrains: The first one was Chaos Dragons (3 of Structure yay) and 2nd one was Thunder Dragons.

My experience might be different from others. First break I took was due to college taking more of my life and I didn’t have much time for practicing or deck building, which led to me selling my cards. This was also around the pendulum introduction. Then, I had been picking up value sets off and on but never made decks or anything but I would play on duelingbook before it was called dueling book, up until the website went down. Fast forward to 2022 I think (when battle of chaos came out), and I saw Spright in the OCG (I’m a sucker for decks out of the box). There is started building the deck and began competing at locals. I am actually on a break right now because I’m not a huge fan of tier 0 formats and don’t really care for the current fire decks despite their prices. I am loving the tempo dragons deck because it’s a nice fresh of air (and it’s power of course), so I’m making the deck right now. 😄🙌

I got back in with the Traptrix structure deck. My friends were getting back in at the time because of the 25th rarity collection and I decided to join them because of the structure deck. I picked it because I loved playing Myrmello and setting dark hole (I can’t read), but ultimately the strategy was fun to play. I don’t really play them anymore because I fell there’s a weird stigma around them, but because of that I was able to build my favorite deck of all time. Zombie punk with eldlich

I have this obnoxious habit of swinging back and forth between this and Magic. I peaked in 2011 or so, around Edison format, and I recall fondly my college years playing a nearly unbeaten Agent Gallis deck. I then fell hard into Commander specifically in 2016, basically leaving Yu-Gi-Oh behind, being too stupid to keep up with both games. Then the Charmer deck came out, and I meandered back somewhat, but it really wasn't until I stumbled upon you and Alex's History of Yu-Gi-Oh that I genuinely came back with any Gusto. I didn't think the game had any love for older formats, but now I'm comfortable playing Edison to Tengu Plant formats, and a very slow process of modernizing my beloved Agent Gallis deck.

I originally played from US release until early GX when my friends ended up stopping playing as well. About 5.5 yrs ago, I got back into MTG, which led to getting into Vanguard. Late 2019- early 2020, I was traveling to other stores to play Vanguard because me and a few friends were planning on going to Springfest in April. One of the stores we regularly went to had a fairly big Yugioh scene as well and there was some cross-over between groups. After the Shaddoll structure came out, there was a few people playing doll mirrors after the Vanguard tournament. I decided to watch to see how much the game had changed in 15 years. Got interested enough to download Duel Links, which got me interested enough to try paper again. Ended up picking up Trap Shaddoll's after Pak's Balling on a Budget series started.

The Rainbow Neos vaporwave part of Legacy of the Worthless Neo Spacians

Duel Links in 2017. It also convinced me to finally watch all the yugioh anime shows too. Have been neck-deep in yugioh since.

for me somehow it was when charlie started opening a shit ton of yugioh product on stream, always been relatively familiar with yugioh, but that just opened the floodgates when farfa interviewed him and i just started consuming more and more yugioh content without even playing it yet, and then master duel came out, and then i started playing tcg some time after

Came back in BASH format with synchron structure

Just reading about the Abyss storyline and the fact that Albaz is a walking Super Poly got me back into Yugioh.

When the Six Samurai I loved since encountering them got a Structure Deck with the new LSS in it, was the first time I was pulled back into the game. The second time I was pulled back into the game (even if just for collecting physical cards again) was when I started playing "Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution"

masterduel brought me back, and i regret it every day .

I'm only a Magic player, but seeing all the talk about structure decks really makes me long for the days of Event/Challenger decks. They didn't always hit the mark, but the premise is so good for helping players wiggle their way into a new format, as that can be extremely daunting.

Never completely quit. But slowed down how much I played because of college. Weirdly Covid was actually a big part of what got me back in deeper. KZfaq series like Prog, History, Prog Playoffs, etc as well. And of course master duel.

I always fall out and get back in. Normally it’s a random Rata video, a desire to play old games, or having a friend talk to me. It just takes a little for me to get that itch