The game went from trying to outplay your opponent to preventing your opponent from playing. It's toxic.

I do love a duel with back and forth action. Being able to find the out from your opponent strategy. Where it was harder to predict your opponent's play.

I would argue its not the Archetypes themselves that are the problem, but the BALANCE of their effects is what's killing the game. Too many cards do a million things with very little to no drawbacks. And what's worse, not every archetype is allowed to have the same amount of power as the newer cards. As a die-hard HERO player, we'll never get a Fusion monster that can floodgate my opponent, nor be able to Fusion-climb during my OPPONENT'S turn like Tearelement.

Because they keep digging their grave with power creep for quick bucks, instead of fixing the game for true success.

My friend got me to download Yugioh Master Duel on steam. After I learned the basics i went into a random duel. I placed 2 cards total, then this guy proceeded to take literally 10 minutes spamming card effects and summoning more and more things untill he has enough attack to 1 shot me. (this was the first turn)

The problem with Modern YGO is that it is too easy to summon multiple boss type monsters with little to no effort. There is essentially no cost or risk when summoning a 3-4k atk monster with effects that negate your opponents existence. I played 3 games on Master Duel and in all 3 games I lost after 30 minutes (3 or less turns total) due to my opponent summoning a full field of +3k atk/def monsters within 2 or less turns. Modern Day YuGiOh Be like: 1. Special summon into effect, effect triggers second special summon, 2. second special summon being triggered by effect triggers third special summon, 3. 3 cards on the field now becomes link summon, 4. because X monster moved to the graveyard (due to link summon) it triggers 5th special summon from the extra deck, 5. because Extra deck card was special summoned by card effect it triggers 6th special summon, 6. and all this would only be half of the fkn turn, meanwhile, a Normal Summon hasnt even been made yet. Fast forward 10 minutes from this point and its either finally your turn, or you've lost. YuGiOh: Hurry the fuck up and end your turn the card game!

I hate that the community is so hostile to people with these very reasonable sentiments. I've seen many people complaining about OTKs and 3-turn games, only to get blasted with people unironically saying "Sounds like you want the whole game to be normal monsters" or "just play better cards" (i.e. the same two tier zero decks everybody else is using) and a shocking amount of "just win the coin toss bro" like seriously? This isn't ever going to get better, or even accessible to people that don't want to sit for a half hour as their opponent special summons half their deck on the first turn. So hard to wrap my head around how people could enjoy something so ridiculous and flat out anti-game. Even more insane there seems to be no plans on even a rules toggle for matchmaking in Master Duel to remedy people's concerns despite the popularity it had before the average former player saw what the game has become and dipped out. Seriously, it would just be a checkbox for certain monster types, and everybody would be happy. Very likely takes little development strain, as most multiplayer games have had something like this since "No Oddjob"

The power creep is crazy. I play a lot of duel links and this is brought up constantly by new and returning players.

Duels end in 2-3 turns nowadays, i wonder what kind of nonsense comes next lol

yugioh nowadays most of its winning condition is based on whoever goes first wins...

I like how the Ishizu Tearlament is basically the antithesis to this video. Half the deck are retrains of anime cards from a character that lost to Kaiba. It doesn't archetype lock itself so it can run pretty much every tech under the sun. You can't anticipate the play because the play depends entirely on your mill luck. It's highly interactive to the point that a commentator couldn't keep up with the game state in an official tournament. Each game took so long that players were having issue with the time limit. It even hard lose to anti-graveyard strategies, which gravekeeper is pretty much the poster boy of. Yes, I'm talking about THE strongest deck in the game's history.

Yu-gi-oh was my childhood. I used to play with my friends, there even was a town tournament. It was fun and kinda balanced. Out of nostalgia I tried playing Yu-gi-oh a couple of days ago. 3 games, 3 OTK on turn 2. No, thank you, I'm fine with my untainted memories...

As long we have obese people that got mobbed their whole life and need Yugioh to relieve their god complex it will keep going, Yugioh the only game where you try to force your opponent to not play the game.

Yesh the power creep in yugioh is too high they literally just add broken cards, broken archetypes and new summoning methods. They need to improve the set of monsters they hsve and the support needed

Could be an issue with instant gratification. Kids play Fortnite and the like and everything is so fast paced. Look at shows for kids now vs back in the 90’s everything is so much faster these days. Attention spans are diminishing and things need to be quicker to hold engagement.

play yugioh do your chores or work comeback then close the game because your opponent still doing his turn

Another thing that sucks that yugioh does is when they release archetypes they don’t release a full balanced deck all at once so you have to use cards that either aren’t apart of the deck or multiple copies (both of which I personally hate especially for an archetype deck) then release newer cards later on after you’ve already built a deck so now you have to redo it the only real archetype I like that seems balanced to me is the Fabled series but even Fabled Leviathan (a card which I do like) I feel is underpowered for a level 10 synchro

Things that used to matter in yugioh : - defense points - trap cards - back and forth interaction - skill - fun

Or it’s even worse, someone spends 5-10 minutes summoning monsters/activating spells then they swing for ALL YOUR LIFE POINTS ON TURN ONE! Even I play modern YGO but even admit that out of hand…

I really want to love Yugioh, But... All I end up doing is watch people play solitaire before I get bored and surrender.

Hot Take, I like duels that are a constant back and forth. Not a "Set up an entire board and prevent the opponent from playing the game" type of duel.

Yep this game and Pokemon used to actually be fun. They encouraged CREATIVITY. Everyone in my neighborhood had a unique deck. Now on master duel every duel is the same 3 decks that negate everything and take 40 minutes a turn. I like to just play with friends but ive been trying to give master duel a chance. Probably gonna just get back on ygo pro though :|

I agree, it's only getting worse

Yeah, the game is just miserable in higher levels of play. Most of the time it's usually an auto concede if your opponent starts going into his meta chain and you have no hand traps. Like what game do you play where you have to concede instantly on turn 1 from being completely overpowered 50% of the time(perhaps more)? And then another 25% is just decks that kill you in 2 turns rather than 1 turn. You don't even get to play with the deck you've made. There is no back and forth. I miss the suspense of face down defense cards, face down traps or spells that will turn the tide in an instant, turns where you are losing but you flip the table with your winning card,etc.

The game has changed so much, it’s almost not even worth playing anymore. Konami really shot themselves in the foot.

Today in MD, I set up a nice Dark Magician board. Didn’t stand a chance, I lost the next turn. At least I had fun summoning Dark Magician! What a cool looking card.

Every game in yugioh is decided within the first 2 or 3 sometimes even first turn its actually dumb...I want a game to last longer than 2 turns

The thing about modern yugioh what killed it for me are that the games are too 'fast' to the point where several card types and mechanics are unviable. Here are things that are barely useful in modern yugioh: - flip monsters - defense mode - trap cards: For a trap card to be useful it has to have such powerful effects that if it were a spell card, it would be too much for the format OR it has to have a instant activation condition like activating from hand - tribute summoning - non-Effect monsters with few exceptions - destruction and targeting effects

Xyz’s and Synchros are fine, and pendulums are better because they were nerfed . Links are the main issue aside from hand traps and 1 card combos

*What was the last time you mounted an deck that was more FUN to play instead of the most EFFECTIVE?* I loved playing traptrix, madolche, and discard with needle worm and bringing him back over and over... but nope, let me just prevent you from doing that... ON THE FIRST TURN WITH AN HAND TRAP!LIKE WTF????

Was just playing MD and there are cards that can’t be destroyed by battle or effects… WHY??!! There was nothing I could do and he had like 5 cards at least 3000 power like the fuck man… AND his their cards had the ability to steal my cards and/or just send them to my graveyard for no reason!!! I read the cards and there was nothing stating they had those abilities. I really want to play but it’s impossible

I just watched “top tier” gameplay, dude literally took 9 minutes on his first turn just summoning over and over again and by turn two it was like “I win.” And this is all top tier gameplay.. no more than 5 turns.. EVER..a game ending in 3 turns is normal, but everyone is aiming to win on turn 1.

Also Goat format has a bunch of FTK decks with legit 50% chance to win. To the point where a lot of competitive players have just agreed not to play it.

I honestly disliked synchro and XYZ at first when I got back into the game around 2012 from 2006 but I realized it wasn’t so bad cause cards weren’t crazy, simple effects for situations and the risk to get them out was still great for they weren’t devastating quick effects that could maintain their presence on either turn. Also better the effect, lower the attack/defense so often could get ran over, it was balanced. Now it’s just big attack, big immunity, big nonsense and that’s where balance was thrown out the window

Things needed to stop with XYZ summoning. Pendulum and Link are just too much. It's saturated with too many ways to summon monsters, too many broken monsters with excessive effects, We need some more vanilla monsters you can just summon and attack/defend with without effects we need to analyze and keep track of. Plus if you have an opponent who refuses to let you do anything at all its pretty much as fun as watching paint dry. The Uber amount of Negation is also an important factor too. Why should I waste my time playing a game where my opponent won't let me even hit his life once cause all my moves are negated but nothing I do stops him. No at that point, I am done this isn't even a game at this point anymore.

"Modern" Yu-gi-oh sucks. I agree with you bro.

Man that line where you said "you choose death after your first turn," had me cracking up. That is so true because it is indicative of the modern game. You also hit the nail on the head when you mentioned that vintage Yugioh had more tension. That is because you had to be so careful about how you used your resources.

I totally agree. Modern ygo is annoying af. If your opponent goes first, he is able to combo 5 negates onto the field, end his turn and that's it. You lose. If you go first, your opponent negates everything, even your own surrender, with some stupid hand traps. I played Master Duel for over a year now and it's SO fucking frustrating. You don't even get enough free gems to compensate for all the hate you feel. Sorry for bad english, I am from Germany. Have a good day.

I think Yugioh is a fundamentally broken game and always has been broken, it's just now because of the internet, EVERYBODY is playing meta decks

Some more ammo for you. *This shit literally got so bad, even the anime team got sick of it.* Yeah, when Vrains came out and introduced Links, the writing team thought it was so brokenly bad, they ultimately decided to just *Get rid of the entire Extra Deck mechanic* for the next series and just go back to basics. Because it was becoming too hard for them to write realistic duels that didn't end with someone getting stomped after a few turns. *You heard me.* The game had spiraled so far out of control, the producers had to do a soft reboot for the next series just to make things believable again. That should tell you something.

Personally it's the infinite negates people can get that sucks.

The entire game is toxic. But it's Konami that's the problem, because they made it that way. The modern decks take a literal dump on any older deck, so those older cards. Half of the 10,000+ cards are complete garbage and it's disappointing. In a good game all cards have a purpose. Think of games like Uno. I love Uno.

Link and Pendulum killed it for me.

they gotta get rid of those big wall of texts. im having heart attacks

Bro, sync aren't a problem, nor they were never a problem. The power kreep honestly didn't become a problem pass 5ds.

Anyone feel like the game just plays itself?

This guy is 200% correct heroes were last good cards they came out

Xyz era was peak. Many people returned to the game around 2013 when they came out (at least at my locals). Pendulums are indifferent and Links were a mistake that serve no purpose.

I don't think you know what you're talking about. Competitive yugioh was always like this. Old yugioh meta is arguably more toxic and uninteractive. Ftks and handloops were everywhere and you have no way of interrupting them on the first turn. If you're talking about casual yugioh then it hasn't changed. You can still play the game casually with friends with old school decks, but you can't expect to beat the modern meta with power crept cards. I would say today's meta is way more skill intensive than the past. There's more cards and effects to keep track of, and choosing when to use your interruptions can completely change the duel.

so true, new yu-gi-oh is not even fun anymore...

I will never understand how people find a 5 minute game where they win by their second turn fun. What made games like Tag Force fun for me was the constant back and forth. Sure a curbstomp here and there is fun but I never went for meta decks because that just sucks the fun out of the game in the long run for me. With that said, no meta deck back in the day came close to a regular competitive modern deck today when it comes to being anti-fun.

This aged well to this day.

Well the game is dead as of 2022 no one wants to pay hundreds of thousands to just play a deck with a good win rate. Its essentially pay to win. Depending on how old you are. You will not want to touch this game. Its too complicated for anyone to get into. Konami took an IP and made it a cash cow. You cant milk a cow for 20 years. The people who were born after 2002 are already out of the market for Konami because they dont want to touch this pos game.

I'm that guy who took a break for 10 years, dealt with a couple 10 minute first round games and I was done.

I feel like Duel Links was their best way of "fixing" modern YGO. Being restricted to 3 main monster slots and 1 extra zone will stop a lot of negation spam once the game gets the most recent cards. It just sucks that DL doesn't have the MD gacha system, which is less predatory.

The problem isn’t all archetypes or card types after gx. The problem is the strategies they use most to stop their opponent from playing. Take two xyz archetyps Kashtira and ghostrick, one just stops you from playing the other turns your cards facedown for one turn to do direct attacks but none of their monsters go above 2000 atl

I miss the combos of old ... Me: "I activate my Tribute to the doomed to destroy your Monster by discarding my Summoned Skull. Next, I'll activate my Premature Burial magic card. Now by paying 800 Life points and I bring back my mighty servant. But that's not all ... " Opponent: 0.O! Me: "I activate Megamorph .. giving my monster 2500 more attack for a total of 5,000. Summoned Skull... Lightning Strike!!! / Now I set a card and end my turn"

Modern yugioh is legit ass, it's so convoluted and you literally sit there for 8 minutes while your opponent does a combo and you lose the game basically on first turn. I would take duel monsters over pendulum garbage any day.

I agree with this video about Yu-Gi-Oh sucks now. I left playing Yu-Gi-Oh years ago around 2005. I started a few months ago trying to get back into playing Yu-Gi-Oh because it was my favorite game during my teenager years. Yu-Gi-Oh became so complicated with losing without even being able to play a single card in my hand or deck. I honestly felt overwhelmed and helpless. I don't mind losing, but at least let me play out my deck before I lose. There are cards now that lock out your zones and your deck from being able to be used. I ended up just getting a headache now when I play Yu-Gi-Oh because I felt so confused on what the heck was happening on all of these crazy condos with endless special summoning from my opponents hand and deck. I miss Yu-Gi-Oh for what it used to be when it was fair, simple, and fun. It's not enjoyable playing Yu-Gi-Oh anymore like it was in the past.

Here’s my theory. It’s all about money. You see, there was once a time where they try to make the games simple and fun again. You might’ve heard of these guys? The elements heroes? When they first came out they really sucked and only kids play them because of the anime. Unfortunately that wasn’t making them any money. So they started printing super busted cards again and now all of a sudden Whales got back into the game started spending like crazy. The game has gotten to the point where if a card sucks we won’t play it, and that’s not gonna make them any money. So they create these super powerful cards and ban the old ones to force you into buying them. This cycle repeats endlessly, and this is why I quit playing this fucking game.

I'm only here because I found out about master duel and I went to play it. Man, I was so excited! Edited my starter deck a little bit and started dueling. BRO, WTF?? 1 turn, ppl making a play that would take forever, fusioning a monster on top of the other, and pulling a monster with 3000 ATK, with so many effects... like what the actual fuck? I'm back playing TAG Force on PSP emulator.

i think synchros and XYZs were fine. when they added shit that changed the field they started fucking up big time. then just constant power creep of course.

I know exactly what you mean. I miss the days where you would set 1 or 2 spells/1 monster and end your turn. Now, I see local tourneys on youtube take 5-10 minutes for 1 turn. I feel old.

Bro said "my deck is fair, I just floodgate ppl out the game if they don't have the spell trap removal to remove Necrovalley, which they probably won't cause there decks are teched for 6-7 negate boards"

7 months late but I grew up with the original series & the old school cards. My brother taught me when I was 6. I returned to the game through Master Duel, and oh god, it’s ridiculous. People have no attention spans, they can’t handle an OG duel that takes time & skill. I’m not even trying to talk crap but WOW you can take 10 minutes during your OPPONENTS turn and summon tons of cards. You can negate every effect. You can just not allow your opponents to do anything. It’s changed so much. The power creep is stupid. You just can’t use old cards anymore.

Konami needs to restart. They need to restart with set rotation in mind. I'm not saying start at LOB, I'm saying figure out what yugiohs game design philosophy is these days, and print a set that supports that. Have the cards exit out every three or so years and boom. A balancable game. Konami could even provide prizes for topping events to encourage people swap to this new spin off. Swap the name from yugioh trading Card game, to yugioh competitive card game.

It went from “I have a 2500 beater >:)” To “I have 15 negates you can’t summon your turn you can’t activate spells and you have no cards in your hand thanks to my effects” Or also (1st turn) “I use the effect of my I now assemble all five pieces of exodia”

I'm like 50 50 on the whole thing. I'm cool with combo's and all that but some combo's can take what feels like an eternity. When your opponent sets up a dozen negates you may as well just quit unless you've got Ra Sphere mode or a kaiju and something to get past those negates.

I got literally first turn game locked by someone...they went first and summoned they're most op card that made it so I can't destroy it (unaffected by card affects) and it had 5300 attack and he had cards in hand that prevented me from summoning anything or playing anything...I may as well not even been there

The problem is once synchros and tuners came in. Its just mass summon the whole field in one turn. If your not meta your toast. Forget everything you used to know..

I'm soon turning 36 years old and grew up with Yu-Gi-Oh! I collected and loved the manga and owned some of the classic starter decks. Back then, I didn't have anyone to play with, so Yu-Gi-Oh! faded away for me. It wasn't until 2017 that I got back into the game and was surprised by the expanded rules... and even more surprised that most of the starter packs sold by Konami were mostly rubbish, and you had to spend a fortune on deck-building. I then built a Dark Magician deck, which never went beyond the casual level. A friend of mine advised me to at least include Synchro monsters so that I could participate and keep up with others... but I thought it was all nonsense. I have to admit, though, I kinda like the Wind Witches

Youre so right man damn! I once had a 67 turn duel in Nexus back in 2021 were my opponent and i had like a weird oldschool ygo and modern ygo deck and it was insanely fun! Ill always remember duels like those the tension!!!

you know what's just as bad as FTK sweats? sweats who surrender just because they didn't get their perfect FTK hand

Playing yugioh from 2002 to 2007 was so fun and even late 2007 to end of 2011 was still fun enough but around 2013...game went to sht.

You're objectively right. people will hate on this video because it just shows the truth. modern yugioh isn't fun and it's completely void of soul.

The amount of time wasting with special summoning is so toxic

Yugioh died years ago this game has evolved to a point to where it’s untolerable I’m glad I quit I’d rather collect Pokémon cards and I don’t even play that game rest in pain Yu-Gi-Oh

The problem with the new cards is they treat the GRAVEYARD like there hand

As a old school player coming back from 17 years of hiatus, the only way i can compete was to have bunch of cards in my deck like lava golemn, sphere mode, gameciel, skill drain, gravity bind, messenger of peace...etc to stand a chance.

honestly the core problem began a little past dragon ruler era, each season had its problems, its tier zeros, but you always felt like you could interact with your opponent, you felt if you found a clevor way to dig something out of your deck you could create an out. Each archetype, and each element even had their own themes and gimics. Zombie decks exploited the graveyard dark/light monsters often became chaos decks which involved removing cards from the game to bring out big monsters like black luster soldier Archfiends liked to bring out big monsters each deck had a piece of the game that uniquely them exploited very well. Some decks were experts at manipulating the grave, others were master manipulators over the field with traps, some had great deck searchers with a way to pull things out onto the field easily. Some decks exploited the extra deck with ease BUT THE KEY THING, is no deck was able to exploit all of these mechanics to the fullest. If you were to say there was five core mechanics in yu gi oh, from 2002-2013 the ten glory years of yu gi oh, every deck from those years, was only able to properly exploit 1-3 of those mechanics at a time, but never all five. NOW to be a meta deck you must be able to abuse every single mechanic that exists in the game to the fullest. And ironically that makes modern decks genuinely feel less special. Because if every tier 1 deck does literally everything, than their is zero point in chosing one deck over the other, you simply chose whats the strongest. There is no more "Controll" There is no more "tempo" There is no more "Stun", there is no more "graveyard focused" there is no more "hand control". It's simply "your deck MUST BE ABLE TO DO LTIERALLY EVERYTHING" or it sucks. Sadly we were able to see decks still able to keep some identity during the early link years, but fast forward to today, and dek identity is literally gone.

My opponent just spent 5 minutes ""ending their turn"" by stacking a crazy number of effects... For a game that's really fussy about it's wording you'd think the end of their turn would actually be THE END OF THEIR TURN! God damn it Yugioh...

They should take a note from the OG anime where they needed Ka to summon monsters and apply it to the game. Each player has 8000 Ka and it goes down as you summon monsters depending on their original ATK and DEF and what position you summon them in. If your Ka falls too low you can't summon anymore monsters that turn until your next standby phase where your Ka goes back up.

finally, someone said what I have been saying for year `s man, I said this in the Yugioh Duel links discord server and they were crying like the world was going to end and I got banned lol no one likes honesty anymore like the comments on this video lol

I tried to get back in during the XYZ phase and adapted pretty well, and I think everything after just destroyed the game. Links and pendulums have power crept the entire meta with their possibilities, my kinda meta dark magician deck does NOTHING now. Solution is to slow down the game, the question is how. I suggest some kind of required resource for summoning to slow the game down, maybe throw some erratas around

The problem with YGO is Konami never balanced the game and still hasn't, yet they continuously power creep and have let it grown out of control. The only thing keeping YGO is the cost-sunk fallacy of older players and churning through new players buying into the meta before they drop out. This applies to all card games but it's more prominent in YGO because again, the game is broken. It wasn't balanced when they made it and Konami never fixed it.

So I took a look into this to see if it would be a healthy critique of the modern playstyle but was quite disappointed by what I watched. Look man, I get it. Yugioh is not how it used to be with summoning Celtic Guardian, Setting One and Pass. I also agree with the others on here as well that it was probably a pretty bad choice bringing up Gravekeeper seeing it was at one point a busted deck that stopped the opponent from playing GY specific decks (which again, is very much a viable and acceptable strategy in this game if you can successfully swing it). I came back to the game about a year ago and I too was very confused and a little irritated with the new type of monsters that came out (pendulum, XYZ, synchro, link) thinking that all these different types of monster effects and summoning conditions were completely busted. But once I started playing more and interacting with the other players, I saw what Yugioh transformed into. Not only has the anticipation gone up; it has become a game of strategic adaptability. The goal of the game is to reach your win condition first. If you cannot do so, then interrupt your opponent as much as you are able to do so as they attempt to get to their win condition. The archetype(s) you play will depend on the strategy you are going for and this is where the creative part of deck building comes into play as multiple archetypes are known to synergize really well with each other to make a more reliable and consistent deck. For example Tearlaments Ishizu or Branded Bystial. This is where my frustration started to dim and my interest started growing again. Yes; I admit there are definitely power creep problems in this game that need to be addressed. But we also need to acknowledge this game has created a lot more diversity in its strategies by introducing these new monster types throughout the years and that in of itself is always a positive.

Youre so right man everything you said is correct... In my opinion Synchros and Xyz and Even some Links are nice with some interesting ideas... But pendulums and those 40 min turns where everything is just negate... Naa... I had fun with Yugioh from 2002 to 2021

Modernity sucks.

Yugioh needs more alternative formats where older less powerful cards can shine again

I love how people keep trying to defend modern Yugioh like it's good. I know the game from the original anime. That's it. When I was a kid, I loved watching it but never understood how to play it. When Master Duel came out, I saw it as a free game. I remember liking Yugioh. So, I gave it a shot. I still play it to this day. But I agree with you 100% the older formats are way better. People can disagree all they want to they're wrong. They like it because they're just as toxic themselves just like the game is. Toxic is attracted to toxic. Ive had to force myself to use Kashtira lately. Just so I can win duels. I don't enjoy it one bit. They mostly just quit mid duel or as soon as I play my first card. That doesn't make me feel good at all. Not in the slightest. I came to Master Duel to learn how to play the game just to learn that I almost wish I never even downloaded the game because of how the game itself is. I don't want to unlock cards. I just want to be given cards so I can build decks because I find genuine enjoyment building random decks to play with. I play not for enjoyment anymore because I feel that I have to play this chore of a game to unlock cards I do want to play with. In order to progress and unlock cards and get gems for packs, I have to win duels.... I want to know when and how I can just play it for fun because I'm probably going to stop playing one of these days because the game is only going to get a lot worse. There really should have been a power cap. This video speaks pretty much what I can't stand about modern Yugioh. All I like to play is Dark Magician,Blue-Eyes and Gaia. I want a Summoned Skull,Buster Blader,Red Eyes,Toon World,Harpie Lady,Dinosaur,insect,and so on. Based off the original format because that all sounds so fun to me. Maybe a Jinzo deck, something that involves Flame Swordsman,maybe magnet warriors and Egyptian Gods. Those are cards I want and don't have because I refuse to spend money on a game I feel is downright broken. That's my opinion.

have you heard about Yata lock in your beloved goat format? Or have you heard about strategies which just shut down whole mechanic like Necrovalley? Oh you just play Gravekeepers in your video by the way, very interactive and healthy strategy from goat format very unlike modern yugioh

Hot take perhaps: but Yu Gi Oh was good until like 2010ish (including 5D's). Synchro's were perfectly fine, it was basically ritual summoning that didn't suck balls. Edison format (2010) is the best format in my opinion. Goat format has it's merits, but it has stuff that should be banned immediately: (Delinquent Duo, Pot of Greed etc). I agree that everything afterwards has been absolute cancer. Ps. MtG isn't the be all end all either. Wizards of the Coasts is hard at work killing that game. Product overload and price gauging galore. I played until Amonkhet and basically only play Commander now.

Its crazy now that if someone puts a card in face down defense these days you can assume they're a noob or have a bad hand but not assume its a part of their strategy. Also the use of traps are " too slow". So it's just a game of offense and interruptions lol.

I already commented a while ago, but megacapitalg saw your video and you popped back into my mind again. Just checking that people are still angry about their playground yugioh decks from nearly a quarter century ago aren't playable. I recommend to you lot a series called "History of Yugioh" by a yugituber called cimooooooooo, it was a total nostalgia blast for me, and might be educational in telling why you guys are wrong about old school COMPETITIVE yugioh.

I get what you're saying, the modern combo oriented strategies may not be for everyone, but I wouldnt say its a bad game at all at the point we are now, the archetypal decks brought a lot of variety into the scene, which only has expanded with the years. In casual enviroments pretty much anything can be viable with smart deckbuilding and the use of powerful staples and tech cards. That variety is what hooked me about modern yugioh. I see the appeal of older, slower formats, I don't think there's anything wrong if you prefer those type of experiences, but saying "Everything past GX blows" because it doesn't resonate with you isn't fair at all. And it's very stange too, because even past GX the game still was considerably slow paced, you just had more options to special summon powerful monsters, and it became more frequent, but a lot of turns still ended in normal summon, set 2 and pass. I don't know, man. I can see the valid critizisms, but it feels to me that you are very biased and it made your take end up shitty.

I stopped playing this shit game since people start normal summoning 5 monsters with +3000000000000 atk in the same turn

Nah 5D's was fine Fusions, Syncros and Xyz's are fine The problem is the meta cards

Someone should create a group or tournament that doesn’t allow cards that involves those link, xyz and synchro summons.

I tried getting back into the game (once again). I grew up with original Yu-Gi-Oh, but I've made myself familiar with modern Yu-Gi-Oh. I don't think anyone can make a realistic argument that Yugioh is a game welcoming to new players. Trying to play Master Duel, I bought the Dragonmaid starter deck. I had a few cards to upgrade it with, and went to ranked (I was in the BRONZE tier). My second match in, it was turn 0 and my opponent had a full field of XYZ and link monsters. I knew I couldn't win, but I decided to still attempt my first turn of the game and my opponent negated my first card. I just surrendered. This experience is not an anomaly. It's an absurd atmosphere for someone trying to just learn their own cards. It's not conducive to player retention and it's extremely unfun. I don't mean to say insta winning doesn't have a place in Yu-Gi-Oh, but it cannot be the entire game or eventually you'll be playing solitaire because you don't have an opponent. I imagine the stereotype that Yugioh players don't read their cards only becomes more of a reality as this issue of power prevails. Players don't even have a chance to learn what their cards are capable of because of not only playtime being consumed by the combo fueled opponents but also from being locked out of your deck constantly. Each card is a novel being chained to another novel and so on. If you're unfamiliar with most of the cards, it's a tall order to not only stop your opponent's flow, but to also attempt to understand the combo on the fly all while you try to retain what your own cards are capable of. A match of 2-3 turns composed almost entirely by your opponents play in disparity to your own isn't going to allow for a learning experience nor a desire to return for more. I want to enjoy Yu-Gi-Oh more, but I feel like that's an impossible task at this point, and I don't think there's an efficient and fun means of entering into the game.

The fact that vanilla monsters aren't even a thing just literally tells you it’s not the same game anymore. I have said it 1 million times today’s Yugioh is a completely different game. it’s literally like comparing Dragon Ball Z to Dragon Ball super they should just literally call it a different name at that point they’re basically throwing away the history of it and just using the name for marketing