my strengths: Understanding card text and how that leads to various interactions. Being able to change my plays on the fly. Weaknesses: I enter scoop phase way too early sometimes. I don't memorize combos for decks I play, so I don't always end on the most optimal board, even if uninterrupted.

Reading/Understanding words is not one of the abilities lol

I love playing and baiting certain things and seeing if I can make players use their resources in a way that doesn’t actually benefit them in any way. I love watching the cards in your hand drop. I also love seeing what I can end board through different hand traps. Resolving dark ruler no more and super poly is also a guilty pleasure of mine lol

Paul, I love your description of how you play “being greedy with your pluses”. That’s not me but it made me realize that I prefer to get over obstacles as quickly as possible. I will typically default (game 1) to feather duster(ing) even if there’s only one face down. I will make sure my first played card is a bait (if possible). I’ll purposefully set a weak field just for my opponent to over play, thinking they have nothing to worry about, and I can hit them with an evenly matched, clear their field and then go for the kill. Basically I think that typically I want my opponent to do as much as they can turn 1, and then I can come in, clear obstacles / pick their board apart and then gg. Obviously that line of thinking might have to change game 2 or 3 but that’s what I love about this game. There’s always that small mental chess game your playing with your opponent not just with what’s on your field but also with your hand, graveyard, or even banished zone.

Paul these past few videos have shown me that we view the game very similarly. I love decks that have choices in their plays and do different things just in case, I hate going first cause usually you should put a negate/disruption. I play "weird" cards from my decks for outs and can even use them in unique other ways.

My two biggest weaknesses as a Yu-Gi-Oh player: 1. I don't like running "engines". I like to play decks as fully "one thing" as they can be. I never used the terrortop engine back in the day. I refuse to use the adventure engine now. I like to play the decks I play because I like those decks. But if you're watering down those decks with engines, then you aren't play _that deck_ you're playing a bunch of engines and the "main" archetype is just a vehicle for it. I want to play mermail/atlantean. Not _halq/nimble/adventure with some mermails._ 2. I don't like playing conventional builds of the decks I play. I like to play really weird builds. Back in metalfoes format, I didn't play regular metalfoes. I played metalfoes/yang zings, and later metalfoes/crystal beasts. Both of which were objectively worse than pure metalfoes, but they were a hell of a lot more fun to play.

One of my weaknesses is that I struggle to get my head around mixing archetypes in a deck. The first example that comes to mind is galaxy solider being a staple in cyber Dragon decks. I understand why it makes sense but I like to try and keep my decks close to using only archetype specific cards as possible.

See, I love grinding games. It's why I like to play cards that let me recover from big hits by my opponent. I like going second as well. Picking apart a board is fun. Some of my favorite decks are Machina, Arcana Knights and Skull Warrior. All three have a fantastic grind game that most people cannot deal with because their Board got whipped by my first move

I get what you mean about getting max value vs. going for game. Sometimes the right move is using Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage without three spells in grave, even though it feels so bad!

I feel like Pegasus sometimes. I find my biggest strength is prediction and reading how my opponent plays their board. This has the benefit of me being more adaptable as the set goes on. Game 1 me is always less scary than game 2 and 3 me. I absorb my opponents options like a sponge. If we play enough, I read patterns well and if i had to guess I have a pretty decent success rate at predicting what's on you field, what your backrow might be and in rare cases, I can tell you've been holding on to card in your hand. Depending on what I've gotten away with so far and where your boards are headed. I'll guess whether or not you've got a habdtrap, a boss or a dead card. Sure hand shuffling makes this tougher. But I'm watching still and I'm more so counting. Not worried about the placement in your hand. You put out battle trap bait? I'll answer it with my own bait or hold off just to see what i like to call "how-many-turns-comfortable" you are with that bait sitting there. If your hand is sizable and your back row is increasing, but you're not getting rid of that low atk, atk position monster. I know you're waiting on me. Etc etc. My weakness? Being reckless. I often think critically and that can work against me and it some cases be used against me. I have a tendency to overthink and run into an option I swore was there initially, but I thought I saw something else and changed my mind. Because I'm pattern driven. Sometimes, especially after an opponent side decks? I'll fall for a situation that was a smoke screen of sorts. My other weakness has more to do with deck building. I struggle at combining my archetype with other cores and engines. Mainly because growing up as a fan of the anime, I believe in playing pure decks. Nowadays pure is never really pure. But stronger decks typically mix and match archetypes. I find that unappealing, although necessary. That's my primary issue. But I also lack a lot of archetypal knowledge. So I struggle to even think if what I'd combine unless I've played it for myself already.

I hope your having a good day

For me i love picking boards apart while also controlling my opponent. Not winning directly but slowly gain an advantage every turn is my play style. Because of that I tend to lose when my opponent plays a lot of boss monsters in one turn while I don't have the cards to stop him or keep him at bay.

Yooooooooo, happy Monday Paul I agree, I think our minds are built to like specific play styles and I also think it might translate to real life or underlying personality traits about us, which is pretty deep, thinking about it , it really makes Yu-Gi-Oh a quite 'personalized game in that way....deeeeep

i love back and forth games. something you could see in the yugioh anime and feel like it belongs. best if it goes for quite a few turns i absolutely love decks that can spam, and end with a huge monster. the downfall of that is if i get hit with scythe, im not going to have a fun time.

My playstyle is fairly similar to yours, which is why I like playing sky strikers. Just last night I was playing against a friend and spent a lot of time planning out the order I used my spells so I could get enough spells in the graveyard to proc the secondary effects for better efficiency

I'm a dedicated rogue player, so I feel what I struggle the most with is recognizing strong meta engines and whether they could benefit my strategies. This usually just leads me to outright refusing to run those cards even if they could be budget friendly mostly out of wanting to be unique. For example the adventurer engine would work great in my Ancients Warriors deck which tends to exceed 5 summons in their main combo, but I simply can't bring myself to use them knowing that *everyone else* is using them. Another engine would be verte dpe back when it was legal. Although that was more because dpe was just a little above my budget ha ha

Man, I feel you. I can't quit cyber dragons for exactly the same reason: I just love playing through minefields to get my nova/infinity out and OTK or interrupt until they rage quit.

Mad respect for being a branded despia player. Love that deck and the Albaz lore.

To be honest with my self, I think I'm pretty good playing Salamangreat and punishing card interactions and baiting interruptions. My weakness would probably be playing any other deck lol 3 years strong

One of the strengths I have as a player is adaptability. I never look up combos for whatever deck I'm playing, and just make them up on the fly. As I play, I find the optimal combos, the subpar, the awful, but I also find the routes that are incredibly suboptimal, but are also the out to certain boards simply because I end up -2, but I've broken the board and swung for game. The weakness of this is that it'll take a while to get to that level with each new deck. A weakness of mine is similar to yours, in that I sometimes hold back "just in case". A lot of this mindset comes from playing in the old formats. "What if my combo is stopped?" "What if one of the attacks is negated?" Those thoughts are in my head constantly. "I have the ability to run them over right now. But if I don't?" Gorz still informs my attack order, even if I haven't seen him played in years. A lot of it is unwillingness to open fire because of "What if?"

My weakness is playing decks that revolve around a combo, I'd rather build something that picks apart boards and simplifies the boardstate. I love gren maju, Floowandereeze, Giant Ballpark and recently Umi control. I've tried Salamangreats and Code Talkers and just couldn't get to grips with them. I love deck building too. Trying to make stuff outside the box and non combo based.

Based. My favorite deck to play is heroes, because they're a lot of fun and very flexible. You almost always have outs to opponents, and their ability to make boards is fantastical.

I think one of my most useful habilities is my speed reading, I can read cards with long text very quickly and I read almost every card I se, so is hard for people to surprise me with a card effect from the field or GY. I also rarely ever scoop and I'm kind of good at making decent plays in weird ways that look like obvious negation bait.

I’ve had the same trouble pulling the trigger in magic. But I was shown by others that leaving untapped mana is also a waste of a turn because next turn I might not have the mana to use that spell after a summoning. Causing me to lose. So ALWAYS PULL THAT TRIGGER EVEN IF IT CAN KILL 3 TAKE OUT THAT 1 👍🏼

Thanks, for the content... love these topics and discussions. Makes you think how you play and understand where your opponent is at, whether a new player or competitive player.

I feel like Yugioh is similar to a mix of chess and poker in a way that you have to calculate multiple steps ahead sometimes to find the optimal play, and you have imperfect information. As someone who used to play chess competitively I can for sure see translatability between the two.

One of my strengths is deception/perception. Im often able to sequence my plays optimally and act in a way that can cause my opponent to unknowingly misplay or be punished for taking certain actions. And conversely I can normally tell if my opponent is trying to do something similar. A weakness of mine is that I can often get lost in thought about so many different plans I set up and thinking what ill do if they have x card that I can miss or forget 1 small thing. It doesn't always punish me but when it comes up it can completely derail my thinking making it hard to regain composure especially under pressure of time or being on the bubble.

This video was very interesting because we're both moreso of Going Second players but Im usually never the type to wait to chain a card to the activation of a card, like if Im on MD and I have that Maxx C you bet Im immediately using it as soon as Ik its not a backrow deck, sometimes this is good cuz it trades, other times the Maxx C just resolves and then entirely other times I didnt even realize its a backrow deck so I just wasted my card, and while I do consistently analyze the state of the game & the card economy Im still really greedy but not in the same way you are that you want to maximize the usage of your cards but instead Im often in the mindset that certain things wont even matter if I can win the game very very soon anyways, which sometimes does help but also sometimes just fucks me over, so its kinda a double edged sword

As a very new player, I’m not sure I have any particularly powerful strengths, but I’ll say the very large amount of questions I ask has lead to some very fast improvement. A huge weakness of mine (not just in yugioh but other games) is over prioritizing recursion. I don’t like doing something in a game knowing I won’t be able to do it again. This often results in not making more “high risk high reward” plays and comes up a lot in deck building when I run 2 cards I should probably run one of just in case it gets negated, banished etc.

1:16 I love going second. Running a Predaplant deck with Edgeimp engine. It's so fun being able to turn a nasty situation back in my favor or make it neutral. My biggest challenge so far is running into Phoenix destroyer or Zeus primarily. If I can get a negate off fast enough I can halt them for a moment yet if I brick... I'm almost doomed

This is an important skill for everything, recognizing strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good practice to do it on your YGO skills. I'd say one of my strength is the will to learn new things, so that I can come back into the game after lang pauses, playing old decks like Burning Abyss but with new tools and figuring out new ways to deal with my opponents strategies for an eventual win after several losses.

I always struggled with improving decks and side decking. I can work with what deck I have well, but siding stuff or building for other matchups is a struggle, and seeing new variants of a deck can be hard for me to get my head around.

you have a lot of great points in this video. i sometimes avoid setting everything if I don't have anything to negate board wiping effects. I've also lost sometimes because of it, but I think it's best to realize when to do it and when not to, but the problem is that you can't usually know for sure if you're going first and have no idea what your opponent's deck is. also i think card advantage is very important, but i can often tell when using a harpie's feather duster or raigeki on 1 or 2 cards is worth it, and it's sometimes better overall if you use such cards before you get otk'd by your opponent, if it can slow them down enough to make sure you get another turn. this is situational, but it's sometimes worth considering in some matchups and depending how a game is going.

Good: I can pinpoint odd/off plays that me and my opponent makes. Gives me good insight on what the players are thinking and learn from. I learn decks very quick that way. Bad: I get tilted easily. . .

I too refuse to scoop in any duel, for you never know whether or not you'll draw the card that will turn the duel around into your favor. For me, I'm particularly good with decks that have a linear strategy, and I've found ways to restart them if interrupted. That said, the fact that those strategies are linear means they are easier to interrupt.

Awesome video man! Whilst my knowledge is still very lacking it’s so rewarding being able to read what my opponent has and still set up a crazy board! But honestly for me Yu Gi Oh is about summoning boss monsters and your ace!

sometimes its not about the skill but about the money u spend in the game like ocg is the place where u can show skill and tcg ur showing how deep u can go into ur pocket

It's been awhile since I've played but I always had good deck building skills, and seeing the value of cards' utility before they were popular. Back in the day, one of my Chaos Stun builds topped a YCS, after which people netdecked.

I'm kind of the opposite of you on the first point. I love, LOVE, building boards. (It's why I play combo decks.) I prefer to go first, set up my board, and dare my opponent to break through. I just find it *SUPER* satisfying to go through the motions of a 10+ step combo, and ending on a board of boss monsters. I also get the resilience thing. I'm not the biggest fan of auto-scooping, and prefer to play turns out and see what happens.

Only thing I love more than playing YuGiOh, is preventing my opponent from playing YuGiOh. :)

My strength: Reading the opponent's cards, like when I see a new card I haven't seen I will take my time and read it and I don't usually have hard time understanding them. My weaknesses: Scooping easily Not knowing when best to use my cards (mostly handtraps) so I actually waste them Getting a bit mad sometimes when I brick or when opponent happens to have that one response or when I had game but played my cards in the wrong way and so I end up losing Great vid!

I've noticed that I like to try and swarm the field and put pressure on my opponent with field presence, because I play a lot of decks that are good at putting a lot of monsters on the board or getting really strong boss like monsters on the board

My strengths are playing through my turn as best as possible and picking the best interruption timings. My weakness sometimes is to ignore some cards and not read them, well that's something I'm trying to improve

My strengths: 1. Understanding rulings. 2. Making decks by my own mindset. 3. Foreseeing plays against the majority of recently played decks. Weaknesses: 1. Don't play a majority of hand traps like Ash especially (because I just don't like the card in general and I want to have playable hands). 2. Not big into casual, so some things may set me off. 3. Might be too quick to think on my plays and that may screw me up big time, if I don't stick to the plan.

I'd say, like you, resilience is one of my strengths. I typically won't scoop unless I'm pretty certain I'm gonna lose, and I've played through some stuff that even I was like, "So, uh, I'm probably dead, but I'll still make them kill me." (This is in Duel Links by the way). This plays into another strength of mine, and that's: unorthodox solutions to problems. For example, I keep track of my opponent's current deck size, because I've totally won games by just... realizing that my opponent had searched/drawn more cards than me, and I have a monster that they can't get over and can stop itself from being destroyed. So I just... got that monster out, and turtled until they drew their entire deck. I just, try to view a problem from every angle, not just the obvious one, and I've pulled off some pretty crazy clutch wins as a result.

My weakness is not being able to play the actual game when my opponent has a board with 99 negates on it along with a scythe

My strength back when I played wasn't playing, but finding and organizing. Very useful for my friends, especially when they wanted to find something that no one had, verify that fact across how many thousands of cards, and then sent my thrifty ass out to find it. Sadly, my deck-building was too gimmick-centric without an ounce of sane strategy, but at least I was good at accumulating heaps of cards and figuring out where everything was at all times.

My strength is probably in deckbuilding. Choosing ratios, getting it consistent, and optimizing the win-con. My biggest flaw is probably memory. I can't tell you how many times I have misplayed because I thought an opponent still had a card they discarded two turns ago, or got tunnel vision and could only focus on certain cards, and forgot all about backrow or graveyard effects. My biggest flaw makes me relate way to well to Gage in the progression series.

I primarily play Machina, and my biggest weakness is strategy. I can typically win a duel if I go second, but going first is often a struggle for me.

My biggest strength is being able to find combo lines with every hand no matter how bad. I can see the best path and the path that will lead to the weakest board, being able to see what i can afford to have negated and what i cant and playing in that order.

Getting ahead of myself is the biggest weakness I'll have the game or cards to break boards but I'll miss play because I'll get to anxious or excited and overlook a crucial part of my chain. So I guess patients needs work. My strengths I have no idea

I tend to gravitate towards control and/semi-combo decks with the occasional rogue aspects. I also have a habit of running cards that people don't tend to expect for the times, and because of this, I've won games or had close games. It typically varies by who and what I face with the success of these crude builds of mine

strengths: I am *very* good at deckbuilding, this was a skill that got refined over the years by playing multiple card games on a competitive level. Also pretty good at figuring it out new combo lines and stuff like that, since I'm pretty much a combo one-trick. weaknessess: My mental is really bad sometimes, when tilt hits, it hits HARD. I'm also very greedy, and get punished because of it.

My biggest “skill” or strength is also my biggest weakness and that’s being very bold and not being afraid of losing a card or getting hand trapped which makes my opponent hesitant but if there not hesitant i get destroyed ,so i almost always go for the most optimal play even if it’s risky or I get a neg in card advantage which is also y I play change of heart because to me change of heart is always a plus of a neutral because they have to negate the card or I get there card

I’m a big Joey wheeler fan so my biggest weakness and strength is not giving up no matter what because with the right combo I can turn around the duel. So I would say I have a hyper sense of Heart of the Underdog.

Idk how many people have this skill but mine is just foresight. I wouldn’t call myself a god of predictions but even against decks I’ve rarely seen I’m able to accurately guess what they’ll do during my turns especially since I like playing going second decks. I tend to play a lot of blowout cards like feather duster, dark hole, raigeki, lava golem, alpha, and evenly matched. Most times I play decks with super small engines where all their cards are one card combos (numerons, lyrilusc, etc) so for me it’s just “ok so I’ll bait him with the dark hole then use numeron network. Attempt to use left arm offering as a way to bait a ash then use network effect to get game”

I think my biggest strength is making the most of whatever I have. Just like junks. Finding on the fly unique to the situation uses for cards that normally arent used in those interactions. Alot of the time dueling really is like an intrecate puzzle. Like finding the right combination of cards and playing them in the just the right order at just the right time. I dont see card advantage as much as see openings for win conditions.

My strengths I'd say is mainly in my ability to find weird cards and make them work in my decks. As an example, my favroite deck is Sky Striker. However, I don't use the archetypal field spell. Instead I use Cynet Universe to recycle my links infinitely. Sure it is a consistency loss but in my personal opinion it's worth it. If nothing else it lets me summon Kagari to use Engage multiple times over. A card which gives insane draw power. I've also splashed in Imperial Iron Wall as along with Multirole it can essentially allow me to infinitely recycle up to three spell cards per turn as well. My second biggest strength is probably my problem solving skills. Not to toot my own horn but I am quite proud of them and they come in quite handy in pretty much any deck that has a lot of varied tools (one of the main reasons I enjoy Sky Strikers so much in the first place)

When i used to play for my final rank climb in duel links I never scooped because even if they somehow disconnect when they clearly winning would help me get that 5 win streak that requires for KING OF GAMES

I have an interesting take on my own play. My biggest advantage is also my greatest downfall. I simply play my game like my opponent doesn’t have the interaction. Now to be more specific I don’t mean turn ending interaction; rather an ash or imperm. This wins me a lot of games while also losing me games as well. Also I think I build decks very differently more so focused on consistency and playing through interaction so I can almost always get my end board set up.

You're either a sadist or a masochist. Also I've been binge watching all these videos, thanks for making them!

I like having a bit in the middle of first and second. If your opponent knows you have a going second deck they’ll pass turn I notice.

Just knowing certain interactions is definitely my weakness.

I also like going second. What I don’t like is that a lot of meta end boards are literally unbreakable if you don’t draw a perfect going second hand and even then you might not have a survivable board to fight in turn 3.

As a player, I value flexibility. My favorite decks are the ones that have some kind of option for various situations. Plunder Patroll is my favorite deck since the ships can do various things with the extra deck ships that can be cheated out. I've also been playing Kozmos recently because if Master Duel's no extra deck event. They are also fun and flexible. The bad news, I'm a slow player because I'm reading all my options. I also don't can't play specific combo decks consistently. Greatly prefer gameplay that can branch out.

My weakness is i don't read no good

My weakness is I like to strictly stick to an archetype. A few general support cards are fine but I hate using cards out of other archetypes when I'm mainly trying to run a certain one.

The card he was talking about was Branded Retribution if anyone was curious

I think a big weakness for nearly everyone is knowing when cards miss timing or not cause even some if cards end up missing the activation window or knowing if you have priority or not is one I personally have issue with

my main weakness is probably that I refuse to play hand traps or backrow removal unless it's in the side and even then I don't use aah just cause I don't wanna

My greatest skill is probably improvising, i can play with pretty much any hand that isn't a full brick, not Only that, i can find unique interactions between unlikely cards (necROID shaman + emergeROID call for example) and Ace bad match-ups with some Crazy secret play i end up finding in the middle of the duel. My weakness is stress, my game gets shook in a bad day (like when i lose to witchcrafters x5 in the same day)

I think my biggest weakness is deckbuilding, i try to build too "pure", thinking "oh, archetype card goes into archetype deck" when in reality there is a much better engine to play out the strategy. im not sure if a have a major strength ahaha

I'd say my strengths are resource management, strategy, and sheer game/card knowledge. Weaknesses, on the other hand, are being overly cautious, overconfidence, and being almost neurotic about doing everything my way. I'll dunk on someone with Sunny Pixie, but then lose because I wanted to try to outgrind Salamangreat. The duality of man.

i think one of my strengths is either figuring out what will make my opponent burn a staple hand trap like Ash and not being too afraid to pull the trigger on an effect even if i wont get the full benefit or just want to attempt to stop a combo before it gets too far to the point i can’t get rid of their main target for that combo. one of my favorite things to do is get my face card knights on the field then set a joker’s wild…then using the wild to gain the effect of thunderspeed summon on their turn (once they have three monsters) and give them sphere mode (or the shortcut being i have sphere mode in my hand already so no need to search).

One of my strengths as a Yugioh player is coming up with absurd combos that no one would really think about, ie, I came up with a future fusion exodia quintet magician combo that I made super consistent with other exodia deck cards

I feel I have multiple weaknesses as a player. 1.) I honestly don't run handtraps because of my disdain for them. I know that if I were to run handtraps I would win more but I honestly would rather play something else than a handtrap. 2.) My second weakness is running Pure Decks. I could probably run the craziest engines out there and win more, but I love the challenge of making a deck as pure as possible and winning with it. My main deck is Odd-Eyes and I don't happen to run any crazy engines like branded or whatnot. I just love running Odd-Eyes as Pure as I can. Strength: Learning from my defeats is useful for the next duel. Same as you I would rather be as resilient as possible when dueling instead of scooping right then and there. I love learning what my opponent likes to do and basing my activations if cards around that. Trying to break a board of negates if at any time possible is also a fun thing for me. Honestly just enjoying the duel and learning about my opponent and what their deck can do is a great strength of mine..I don't wince at the thought of loosing just the prospect of what I can do better next time.

Hey man love yalls videos its kinda making me wanna play again. I'm a pretty good card player not just in yugioh, if I had to say what my weaknesses were when playing, at first it was monster/spell/trap ratios so I don't dead draw, apart from that my biggest weakness would probably be that the archetypes I like aren't ever mainstream or meta at the time.

Breaking boards. Def relate to you about seeing it as a puzzle

My strength: reading (actually true) My weakness: keeping everything inside/bad memory

Law school has served me well to understand the difference between a colon and semicolon

My strength: learning the various plays a deck I'm interested in can make. Going beyond the "standard" plays of a deck and researching obscure cards that could help. My weakness: not researching matchups at all. If I was playing at locals, on Master Duel, or at a YCS, I wouldn't look into what's popular and how to stop it or the combos or anything.

First of all, love this pages content. now, onto the prompted question. I think my strengths and weaknesses both come from the same place: lack of knowledge. I picked up yugioh only a couple years ago through duel links and i fell in love with learning combos and seeing what different decks do. However i have nearly no card knowledge. I see traps and monsters everyday that I've never seen before. My biggest weakness is i don't know what to expect from the enemy, and i don't know how to reliably hit any combo ive ever made. i just go. My strength is i dont stop and im not afraid of scary boards. i feel like Yuma "feeling the flow" or Joey Wheeler just doing whatever he feels is correct at the moment. However jank my board ends up, I will still get somewhere even through joyous ash, infinite impereance, and the insane amount of interruption. Also, go second deck gang

my weaknesses is that I cant afford to build a deck even in budget right now, my strength is that I have fun watching people play XD

I’m solid at coming up with unique combos for decks like blending unique cards but at doing so I don’t always have meta cards like a imperm which can be more generic helpful versus the big anime style play that makes players have to stare at my cards and ask “what is this??”

I was kind of like this with sky striker, that I wanted the 3 spell in grave effects, also in master duel with only 1 kagari I almost always save her for turn 3/4, also I don't use that technique with shizuku add quick play activate reset to field with multiroll. I much rather add engage, also not activate engage even if I have it, so I can add the second engage with shizuku instead for an insane follow up.

I definitely love manipulating board states. It's the main thing of any TCG that I love. That and building engines in decks that work well together that I can make little lore stories behind, or finding ways to play old cards and engines in modern decks. I was always super surprised to find out that I had any level of competency as a player but it made it sorry satisfying to win a few tourneys as a more casual/street player with a moderately competitive/mechanical mind

My biggest flaw is i get attached to cards and at times I hate to send them to the graveyard, because I like them so much and I want to see them on the field even tho I know I have to

As someone who has come to yugioh from magic, I actually take the time to read my opponent’s cards so I know what of my actions will and won’t get effected by them. But I often don’t read my cards. I think there is something about the game that makes people not read cards.

I feel like I adapt cards different, likely from being an old school player. I once stalled out a Blue eyes user after I bricked using dragons shield so he couldn’t deal damage with his dragon long enough for me to draw cards and turn the duel around (I was using a galaxy eyes/cipher deck). However because Ive been out of the game for so long I dont know a lot of the popular new archetypes and strategies

My natural tendency is to play oppressive combinations, aggressive strategies, with minimal flaws. One of the issues I ran into is that I would I always gravitate towards meta, because typically the top of meta in any game features this. It’s an odd feeling honestly.

My strengths and weaknesses: I'm too bad to see my strengths and weaknesses.

I don't really know exactly what I am good at tbh but I do know that I have a problem with just using every single card I have all at once and not really saving anything for a follow-up that's a serious issue I have to combat sometimes and I have to mentally keep in mind "I should save this for my next turn"

My skill, if it can even really be called that, seems to be that I can almost always pick just the right time to spring my traps and turn things around when I'm behind. Granted, I don't think I'd be nearly as successful in a competitive setting, but when I'm dueling against my buddies every week, I have nearly infinite patience and somehow always know when's the right time to activate a trap or effect that will turn the duel back in my favour. At least that's what I've been told. It's ironic because in real life I'm not the most patient person but in a duel it's a whole different story.

I kinda wish there were a bit more videos like this. Something that can allow you to get into a player's brain and get a better understanding of how they work... Admittedly, I don't know if I'm looking hard enough, though. :P I'm not sure what kind of strength I have while playing Yu-Gi-Oh! specifically since I haven't played that much against other people recently, but I do know that Yu-Gi-Oh taught me a bunch of fundamentals of card game design and deck building that I try to implement into other games. However, I do know that because I rarely play against other people that one of my weaknesses is not knowing when to hold back or let loose, since I tend to play against people who don't pour as much insight into these sort of things as I do. Not sure if what I said here reflects to the question, but it does feel nice to let this feeling out there somehow. :P

I invested too many points into my "I'm still losing!" perk lol.

I like to go for reads and baits, especially against turn 1 DPE Andy's. Try to bait out DPE and then chain to either bounce or banish it lol

I love when my friends try desperately to break my bord for like 3 turns cause they will only play 1 game a day so I drag it out a bit but anyway it was tacking more resources than I'd like to preserve my bord so I made shor that if I let him play that he would not be able to win in one turn then I let him break my bord so I could bring everything back and then steal the best monster on there bord so they are in a worst condition after breaking my bord than beforehand and then I'll go for game. You should see the despare on there face when I do it as it is prisless like it is better than when the mc of the promised neverland finds out that they live in a farm

lol im the same way too lol.. i love predicting the prediction that way i dont mind starting first to set up board to break their board. either way it's fun.

Yes certain players have certain skills, like how synchro players can do math, and how xyz monsters exist for the ones who cant count past 5.

Hmmm. My 2 biggest strength's in Yu-Gi-Oh are: 1, playing aggressively and defensively when I need to. 2, playing combos that don't necessarily have a linear outcome. My biggest weaknesses, 1, being a bit to trigger happy when it comes to certain handtraps. 2, refusing to play certain meta cards until they fall out of favor. Tldr screw ash. I don't like how omipresent that card is. Also, called by the grave is only on the limited/forbidden list because people kept complaining that they couldn't use their 70$ ash because of it Change my mind.