I think the lack of an anime in recent years really hurts people

Simplicity is something that Yu-Gi-Oh actually had going for it back when it was first coming out. I remember my buddy trying to teach me MtG and me telling him "it's too complicated, ill stick with YGO." Now it's the opposite, and worse, now it's oppressive.

No one hates the game more than the people who plays it. And yet we continue on.

I’m a long time mtg player and gave Yugioh a chance because a friend loved the game. I had zero idea what i was doing and pretty much had to study the deck I built. Even after that, I got stomped when I went online and played against other people. There’s another video where someone described a new player coming to Yugioh is like a new player coming to a fighting game versus a veteran. The only difference is that with the fighting game, the new player knows why they lost and what they can do to improve. With Yugioh, you lose but will have no idea exactly why you lost or what you can do to improve. So for anyone struggling with Yugioh, try MtG. The cards are much more straight forward and if you lose, you’ll know why and how to improve.

Him: "you can play Yu Gi Oh in vr" Me: "you never saw this coming _I SUMMON POT OF GREED!!"_

-chill -to the point -helpful yep, that earned my subscription :p

You're right. People ARE interested in Yugioh. But they're not interested in learning an extremely dense and esoteric game. It's ironic that a children's card game with huge casual appeal is actually a very difficult game to play. It takes a lot of time to get into when... why don't I just play or do literally any other hobby? People bitch about Konami being bad at bringing in new players but they already have an answer: Rush Duel. Rush Duel takes the 25 years of broken Yugioh design and lessons and makes it not only very accessible but emphasizes what people love about it. People love bukkake-ing 20 special summons in normal Yugioh so let's allow players to summon as much as they want in Rush Duel. Yugioh was designed by a writer who wanted to write cool stories. Rush Duel was designed by game designers that want to make you feel cool. Nobody wants to watch someone play solitaire. No one wants to read a novel in tiny text with 4 different floating effects to remember. IMO, Yugioh was never designed to be played this long, hence, why it's become the mutant Frankenstein of a game it is today.

I got around the card text wording to the point that I feel like a lawyer when reading cards, which honestly this power-feeling ceased to be fun rather fast. After that I distanced myself because, out of all card games out there, Yu-Gi-Oh is so centered around denying the opponent plays instead of reacting to them and, for a fast game (lasting few game turns), it is a long and methodical management of the game that it feels like lab work procedures. Yu-Gi-Oh lacks the balance of give and take that many other card games have. Sometimes I used to quit playing and go study college homework instead because that was the mood some matches gave me.

When comes to the Yu-Gi-Oh community in general we just need to be more inviting to new players ,who want to learn and play the game

Edison Format becoming more popular is a sure sign that we have people who want to keep playing the physical game, but the game is simply too hard.

I've been playing since 2016, and I gotta tell you, probably both the best and worst decisions I made in my life. The amount of money I spent on cards isn't that crazy, I would say my most expansive deck ever was around 50$, but the social aspect is the big oof. I made a lot of friends playing tbe game, but these friends quit, and now I'm stuck with a bunch of know-it-alls. This is also not the game's fault, but the fact that I live very far from the nearest store caused me to not be in a tournament since early 2023, and because of that I'm not really up todaye on the game. I could make the effort and travel but with our community it's not really worth it

I like Master Duel. I'm from Romania. Konami doesn't sell or print YGO cards in Romania... You'd be surprised how many people outside Japan, US or other developed countries would want to play physically but can't because they were born in the wrong country

I got introduced to yugioh from the anime on Saturday morning cartoons but I started playing yugioh on duel links which imo is pretty underrated

The frustrating part is how long some people’s turn will take. Like oh my god, I swear it’ll be 5 minutes and it’s like, all that time and 10 cards in the graveyard, 3 cards banished and 3 monsters summoned and most of all I’m asleep. Also think what would help is different rule sets and modes, having the modern yugioh here, older and simpler yugioh there.

I think one of the biggest problems that Yu-Gi-Oh! suffers is the lack of a universal format. If you were a Master Duel player, your entire format is different from both the TCG and OCG. You have a completely different ban and restricted list. The TCG and OCG have different tournament formats. Cards are not released simultaneously. You have Japan exclusive cards. You have North America exclusive cards. Etc... This creates the Maxx "C" dynamic, where the card is banned in one format but not the other, just as an example. If your game isn't consistent then you don't have players learning the same game.

Honestly I only started playing yugioh coz of how complex it was

Real interesting advertisement for Duel Cafe

I learned the game from a deck box manual. I had only a teeny couple of questions questions, thankfully answered by the mobile games. It's not exactly that complex. It's just oddly specific depending on interaction.

I worked at collectors cache in kansas and we had a huge selection of yu gi oh. Realistically there is a decent amount of children still playing and begging for yu gi oh cards. Best thing i heard was a kid saying he needed an exodia card specifically to beat his rival at school, gave him the exodia card for free. Brought back good memories. Not as much as magic and pokemon for aure but we always had a healthy turn out for yu gi oh events

Your fit is the best part of this video, and that’s not to say the rest is bad, quite the opposite lol. Good job 👍

I'm a new player, somewhat. I used to be intimidated and took the opportunity to get into it when Master Duel released. Now that I moved and only have to travel about an hour to weeky locals, I started going there two weeks ago. I was very scared of my opponents being mad I would forget to announce phases, or not know the cards that aren't in MD, but most of my opponents have been incredibly nice and helpful, and even those more neutral were anything but mean. And to my surprise, a lot of them had also only started with MD, or even later.

Yugioh was mainly intended for a teenage demographic in Japan. Allow me to explain… Yugioh is a Shonen series. Shonen is a demographic term for both manga and anime that mainly targets early to late teen boys between 12 and 18. And every Yugioh OCG pack from 1999 and now all say on the back; “対象年齢12才以上” (Translation: “Target age 12 years and older”) Which implies it’s for early to late teen players. The reason behind Yugioh’s complexity in rules is due to that reason. Konami wouldn’t have given the OCG that age range if it wasn’t as hard. The game was deemed hard even back then. And today it’s 10 times harder. Most of us Americans refer to the TCG and English (Censored) version of Yugioh. Thanks to 4Kids censoring the anime for kids and Upper Deck censoring the card game and watered the ruling for kids then. Before Konami took over the TCG and made us now play under their OCG ruling. The only version of Yugioh that is intended for kids is Yugioh Rush Duels as Konami stated it was so kids can play without having issue. The OCG wasn’t made for players under 12 which is still teen in Japan. Understand that in most countries including Japan, “12 and up” is a standard teen rating. “15 and up” is treated as a soft-mature rating. So don’t get those mixed up. The reason why I bring this up, is because a lot of people don’t research this franchise thoroughly. And learning more about the OCG gives you a much deeper understanding of the series as a whole.

I'm surprised that Yugioh doesn't do what Pokemon does; which is putting in a code where you can redeem the physical deck in game, like the structure decks at least. Like Pokemon they put codes in their league battle decks. So it's cool you can buy decks that are designed around competitive play, and then redeem the code to play online when you're not at locals.

I remember going to a local card shop and tried to play, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, I played a paleo-frog deck and won 1 set and overheard “you lost to this guy??” And never really wanted to play again after that

This is so well put together that im subbing to a Yu-Gi-Oh channel and i dont play any version. Im also sending this to a friend who does play. 😂

amazing vid and presentation! i don't see people talking about the duel cafe vrc world often! eager to see more from you!

Quite a bit of depth into making and presenting this. Great vid!

"Power creep can go over forever" they said..... LOL I KNEW THIS WOULD FUCKING HAPPEN

I started playing Yugioh a week ago and it was scary, the first days in Ranked everyone broke my face in one move and I didn’t understand anything, now I don’t always get my face broken (low rating lol), but I began to understand what the game is like at the current time. - 80% of the cards in Yugioh are garbage (there are about 13,000 of them in total); - New cards and especially meta cards generate a lot of resources and are too strong (many special conditions that are activated from the hand, from the cemetery, when sent to the cemetery, when interacting with the deck, etc.); - Fusion/Synchro/XUZ/Link (understanding how they work is not too much of a problem) their endless uncontrolled synergies generate a ton of resources; - If you do not have cancel cards in your starting hand, then you most likely lost, since your opponent will disperse the table and any of your movements on your first turn will be blocked. In the game, it is not enough to have individual strong cards or have strong synergies; you need to have several strong synergies in your deck and for them to synergize with each other. PS The Yugioh Masters' Duel is truly like an 18th century duel, where everything is decided in two moves.

Bro you convinced me to try to get into VR just for that server.

You know it's funny, that one person mentioned being able to use a QR code or something to get your physical cards into MD is something that would help them enjoy it. Oldschool Yugioh video games actually used to do that all the time. Every card has a passcode on the bottom right corner of it that you could enter in older games like Sacred Cards or Duel Academy to get a copy of that card in-game. It'd actually be sick if Konami brought that back for MD and would honestly be a great way to bridge the gap between MD and the TCG

Great video & great editing/presentation as well. As someone thats been playing on and off since like '03 and has been trying to get my best friend into it for 13 years, a lot of your points are true in my experience. I've never played competitively so I'm not dropping 1K on a deck but it is still a big investment into a hobby that is incredibly complex. It is similar to Warhammer 40K, but a lot of people enjoy that hobby just by building/painting the minis, reading the novels, playing the video games, but with YuGiOh in order to enjoy it you have to learn 20 years worth of mechanics and complex rulings to even begin to play it. Back when I first got into it you only had to remember the very basics of the game and try to build a strategy. Now I have to try and get my friend to understand a 25+ step combo without fucking it up while remembering the spell speeds of cards to chain block important starters to avoid getting handtrapped turn 0 😅

First time I saw Yugioh cards IRL as a kid, I thought those were some kind of knock-offs cards you could buy on bazzar or get from pack of chips

This was such a good video! Subbed and eagerly awaiting the next! :)

Honestly im 20 and as a long time yugioh player i cant enjoy this new stuff. I still don’t know how pendulum summoning works. I think it’s complicated for no reason

Subscribed because this was well put together, and now I’m interested in more of your videos

Super cool video. It’s so great to see there are communities and discords out there dedicated to helping people play. I remember being about 10 or so when it was popular for me and walking into my local card shops feeling intimidated by the older kids, but I always dueled with my brother . I wish I had this kinda access to tourneys and people to duel against back in the day, but it’s alright. It’s pretty crazy tho to see how the game has changed over the years since duelist kingdom era, maybe one day it’ll be less complicated haha

I had not played the game since I graduated from elementary and decided to download duel links in last year of university and I feel it was a great way to come back since it allowed me to learn all the new summonings at my own pace, its been years and im still playing on the app

Phenomenal video, my friend. I played back in the OG days and would love to play again…it’s just way too complex for me at this point. SUBSCRIBED!

Playing in person is so much harder. Especially if the other person has been keeping up to date. I'm a bit of a Yugi-boomer. So my friend just started throwing down cards and telling me there effects and I just have to take his word for it. Other wise I'm reading 3 paragraphs for a single card effect lol

I only follow the game nowadays, but my actual involvement in the game ended a long time ago, in the XYZ era. That was the last time I played the game and was also really good at it.

Subbing! Great chill video and super excited to see the Duel Cafe vid! Didnt know something like that existed!

The problem is too make a deck that can win costs a lot of money

Ever consider proxying? 87 pages of cards with 6 cards per page is 40 dollars, and cheap sleeves is 15$ for 100; so 15x5x1.13=84.75. So under 200 for a cube. This from a guy who proxied his own Yu-Gi-Oh cube.

Subscribed!! I think it's the "Choice of Decks" for Newbie actually plays more of an important role introducing for old Yugioh players!! (XYZ is the best way to go since people can easily understand two-level-4 making into 1 boss with negates such as Utopia Leo Ray (created from Utopia Double) + some others like Swordsoul, DMs' era deck like Blue-eyes, DM, Toon cause it's designed to be simple for our old Yugi fanbase- not strong but simple)

dude amazing video, and great production, i thought this video was from some kind of big channel. Definitely gained a sub bro

I've been trying a "Progression Series"-esque type of teaching style for my friends who want to get into ygo, and it's been working alright so far, though it requires a lot of patience. Where like the first deck has just a bunch of old school staples (e.g. Breaker, Exiled Force, D.D. Lady, Mobius, Mirror Force, MST, etc.) to play around, and do simple combos (Creature Swap + Sangan/WotBF, Marauding Lock, etc.). Then it transition up into the different summoning mechanics, in order (so, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum, Links), with decks designed (and mostly nerfed) to move at specific speeds, simulating the ramp-up in speed over the years but in fast-forward over the course 1-3 weeks.

Amazing video, thanks for sharing

8:31 What are the other green 2 slots next to the link zones?

Quality content, my friend. Keep it up. I literally feel just like you described in the video. I tried to pick up Yu-Gi-Oh recently, and it felt impossible... Maybe the VR thing is the future, who knows.

Played the game for many of my teenage years. Konami over did it after synchro/xyz. They shouldn't have changed the field area, for instance. For a TCG to survive it has to maintain certain things sacred. FTKs, for instance, cannot become a norm, they should be the exception. Game was fun when it was unpredictable and everyone had a chance to win. I remember defeating many of the top decks at the time with fun combos that were, in principle, weaker and less consistent. These were also cheaper, smartly crafted decks. Now you wait for people to play the game alone. You're a spectator, not an opponent.

Can't wait for part 2!

I’ve been in love with Yu-Gi-Oh since it came out back in the day. Had hundreds of physical cards, a GameBoy game and watched the anime. I really enjoy Master Duels and I haven‘t spent any money on it. But yeah, it‘s gotten complicated. I‘ve lost to crazy OTK decks where one turn takes ages. Not a bit fan of link monsters too. But nonetheless I really enjoy it.

Awesome video, great job!

I'm just a guy commenting to support the video or something, idk. Just wanna say I've been watching since your youtube shorts, since the way you edited your shorts was actually rather interesting especially on the monster card lores like the fallen of albaz and the live twins. The way those edits were eye catching carried on to your videos. Keep it up, do what you wanna do, hope to see you big

I'm a bit of an odd ball because I used master duel to find a deck I like and then started buying the cards for it. Thankfully Galaxy-Eyes isn't super expensive to build for but my actual biggest issue is that there's no card shops in my city at all so I'd have to take a bus to the next city over to actually play with anyone. Finding out that there's a group to play with over discord is great.

the background music (for anyone interested) is most likely a lofi remix of Kaikai Kitan by Eve. great video btw. been playing for almost 19 years and i've only been able to keep up with the meta for a couple of seasons out of that whole time. i feel like a lot of the fun of the game gets sucked out by the insane rulings and that everyone at a locals thinks they need to play at 500mph or they'll die. playing casually with friends is a much better experience, at least for me. speed duels are also a good option for beginners. it slows the game down and even seasoned players can enjoy using old cards knowing that they actually have some use in the format. i hope to see more from this channel. it's nice to see a yugituber with a more relaxed attitude to the game and some very honest opinions.

When come to the "physical cards" Konami see us from the WEST as "money tree" and they f us over by short printing, turn meta or staple cards into hard to get cards. They make more money by doing this. This name of staple card in the OCG might only cost...$5 or $20 in USD at the most but the TCG legal West card is super hard to get so therefore the secondary market is in high demand. An meta deck shouldn't cost $1000 to $2000 and I'm not saying that a meta should cost $50 either. As a Yugi boomer in my view Yugioh went downhill when Synchro entered the game.

Remember in The Eternal Duelist's Soul you could enter a card's ID to add it to the game? It was a great way to get your physical deck into the game.

I got into master duel about a year ago, and had a full competitive phase that lasted two months. I hit a point in ranked where certain decks became meta, turns lasted 3 minutes, and the game turned into a pack opening simulator. I’m glad I didn’t spend too much money on the game :/ but at the same time it feels like there was a ceiling I never reached

All of these points are really valid. It might be a hot take, but I think Speed Duel was a great answer to these issues. It's unfortunate that it had so much things going against it, from entitled players hating the simple pacing, content creators saying it's a scam and even a good portion of people within Konami seemingly disliking it to the point where it was not advertised as the gem it is.

I would say it is the major 3. 1) lack of an anime. It sounds odd, but it is true. The anime gives you a basis to learn, introduce new people, and draw in a new audience. Even then there are character archtype decks that some people are drawn to more due to their love for the protag or seeing a neat combo or idea they saw in the anime and decided to build their own version of it. 2) Cost of physical game. Just look at the top decks and tell me how many of them have common or uncommon cards. Most of them tend to be the SR or UR spots and usually the ones that did well in japan get bumped up into the UR slots to ensure you have to buy more packs and hope you get lucky to pull it. Without an Anime to tie it to there is less of a need to make good or useful archtype lower ranking rarity cards and simply focus on the SR and UR cards as the commons and uncommon are left as space fillers in packs not worth much. 3) Lack of a plan. A bit of an odd point to make, but let's look at the formats. OCG, TCG, Master Duel, and Duel Links... those are the big four. OCG and TCG are physical products which are rather expensive today. Master Duel and Duel Links are the cheaper version... but also their own mess as Duel Links is it's own format so no physical play. Master Duel is considered it's own format even if it can help you learn how to play it is far different than the physical format. Also to draw back to the first point... there is a lack of a plan or need to make decks balanced. With anime decks being sold off the protagonist you needed cards to face one another to look interesting for a duel. The MC needs good cards, but the MC must also face opponents with good cards to battle against to make the duel interesting. Without the anime... we get a lot more Tier 0 decks lasting a lot longer. There is no need to make them balanced as the 'balance method' is based upon people's wallets... and the only way those decks get knocked off the Tier 0 format is by banning cards for the broken combos... or making an even more broken deck appear. There is no rival deck, no rival plan, and thus the decks only get faced off whatever the current idea of 'player vs player' which tends to devolve into... budget vs budget. Master Duel has this problem also bleed into it. Take a look at how many people like to play the game, but only prefer to play at 'gold ranking' which is the wild west allowing you to face against multiple types of decks, deck ideas, and combos... and then how people groan when they run into the latest meta deck. 4) bonus round - Turn times. Depending on the player some get annoyed that the game seems 'to fast' or more precisely 'too long'. We get decks like Black Wing or some of the other major long infinite combo decks. Not the 'synchro deck' or 'zombie deck' that plays a lot of cards, but the decks that can take ten to fifteen minutes for them to finish their first turn as you have only your hand to stop the infinity combo they plan to play and also continue to play even if you break up a piece of their combo. Some decks being the 'OTK' where if they go first they win before you played your first card. Some being the 'Board wall' where they sent up the board to the point you can't break it. Then some being the 'F@@! You' decks which prevent you from doing anything as they win regardless if you went second or first. It is why people default to some of the other games or older formats preferring to 'trade blows' rather than watch someone else play solitaire in the modern format leaving you stuck waiting until letting you know they won or not. As while the 'trading blows' can still result in your loss... it at least felt like you had a chance at winning rather than feeling as if you wasted your time and should have gave up after now having the perfect hand/needed hand.

Old-school yugioh player here, the game speeding up and lack of rotation is why I personally quit playing, when u play frog/monarchs and the new set where DaD comes out and pub stomps EVERY deck in the format, that's when I was done

I haven't played competitively YGO in almost 3 years. I decided to visit my locals to see what's new and 90% of the people playing were still the same people from when I quit but just older and balder.

I’ve been on a break with the TCG yugioh for a little while now. I sorta still try to keep up with the new archetypes and ban lists and stuff but I’m definitely not an active player. I tried Master Duel when it came out but quickly lost interest cuz it required a lot of money to get the same decks that I physically already had. Doesn’t help that I’m and old school player in the way that I will always prefer having the physical cards over virtual cards. There’s something that feels so great about having your favorite decks at hand. Like my Mekk-Knights. Absolutely love that deck. There will always be a deck (or decks) that you just identify that just can’t be replicated with virtual cards

I loved Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid, and did play it properly for a while beyond just "caveman Yu-Gi-Oh" as well. I dropped off around Cyberdark Impact, as I just couldn't afford it anymore and my life was ramping up with further studies, so I also couldn't dedicate time to it anymore either. Flash forward to now and the problem with Yu-Gi-Oh is you pretty much can't return to it. It is not inaccessible to returning players, left alone first-timers. Coming back many years later with games like Magic the Gathering or Pokemon is fine, because yes, while powercreep and the evolution of those games is still definitely a thing too, it's not like it is with Yu-Gi-Oh. This game by comparison to those is a whole other beast; it was easy for me to jump back on board with Magic and Pokemon as the core gameplay remains essentially the same in both. With Yu-Gi-Oh, it's an entirely different card game nowadays. Because it has no mana-based system like Magic or Pokemon to rein it in, it has been powercrept into the stratosphere. So much so that people can pull off the ludicrous FTKs you see nowadays with combos that entirely negate your opponent from even responding. Yu-Gi-Oh has turned itself from a fun interactive 2-player experience into solitaire.

I played as a kid up to 5ds and loved it but it’s just unapproachable to relearn. I’ll always love the IP and concept of yugioh but I’ll never play it aside from the occasional master duel, and duel links or speed duel.

Ive gotten back into master duel, and before i used to be terrified of playing against actual people, so the fact they have a solo mode really helps people who arent yet confident in their decks. Not to mention the bots can be pretty challenging sometimes on their final stage. It gives players both the ability to test their decks, while maybe interesting them in a new one

Video took a weird 180 with the VR stuff, up until that tho I loved the video dude straight fax

I used to play yugioh everyday, but it got too complicated. Anytime I tried reading cards and their effects, I would litterally time out on master duel. I moved over to Magic and enjoy it far more. Slower pace, turns don't last four centuries, and games last way more than two turns. There's no looking back for me. Old school yugioh or bust.

IMO yugioh back in 2010-2012 was the peak.. Synchros added a cool strategy without making it too complicated

On the flip side, Magic the Gathering is doing awesome. Commander is a super fun format and really easy for new players to get into. I would encourage any Yugioh player to consider getting into Magic

I used to compete in tournaments locally and state during the Goat era. I just hopped on master duel and the catch up is just crazy.

It needs more than one format. Magic the gathering’s longevity comes from its multiple ways to play, from sealed to standard to legacy and commander etc. new players have no entry level format, they must know everything the games ever produced

This video is awesome, sick shoutout to remote dueling and the brotherhood discord I'm on it all the time 👍

The issue I had...I started to play in person, and then the store I was playing at became ots certified, which brought in all the high skill players. Which left me getting stomped and I'm not spending $100's on cards.

The effects of the cards should be far more clear and should not require players to spend 10 minutes looking for the ponctuation. The tutorial in Master Duel should also be far more useful they should do like Pokemon and their official TCG simulator and straight up make you start with competitively viable deck. Also I know plenty of players saying you should start with goat format or Edison format but to me that just shows how unattractive modern Yu-Gi-Oh! is and how much of a terrible reputation it has: experienced players literally telling new players to start with formats that will soon be 20 and 15 years old to feel not too intimidated. And at least in English speaking countries there are good YGO content but I'm French and there's not that many YGO content in French except about the glory days of the anime (also a big problem for YGO). So I think this issue could become a serious problem for Konami.

I might consider playing ygo again if it had a consistent, easily accessible, readable rulebook which stuck to mechanical interactions rather than case by case basis’, explained it ban rulings, had set rotation & most importantly had readable card w/ sensible formatting and spacing, fewer irrelevant effects or unnecessary clauses filling up the text boxes, Keyworded mechanics, and references to type lines not card names. See, the tcg/ocg is so inherently flawed by design that I adamantly believe it needs to be remade into an entirely different game. That or, y’know, give us Rush Duel. That’s a game which is (comparatively) well designed, looks great and is easily accessible. Sure, cock-riders will cry about “splitting the playerbase” but Konami have long since split the player base between paper deck tryhards and “Those Guys” and everyone else who plays digitally.🤷‍♂️

Ive been playing yugioh on and off for the better part of a decade (ocg) i couldnt imagine playing it in person. Imagine playing against someone in person and they are running some ultra complicated zombie deck for example. A million effects going on back to back to back. Man I wouldnt know wtf is going on 😂 and asking who im playing to explain the whole process man Id probably just get cussed out and they'd quit. Master Duel really made things so much simpler for everyone. And yeah buying tcg packs should give at least a pack in master duel of that pack. Pokemon online tcg does that. Inside every card pack is a QR code you can use to claim a pack. I dont know how they havent thought of this yet whether it be greed or what

If you’re jumping in from after a little time; may I recommend getting the blue eyes Max structure deck; not only do you get to use blue eyes, but you’ll have the cards you need to catch up to the meta with it! It’s also not as much of a convoluted mess to play! (It’s still convoluted however)

what's the jjk's song version? so soothing

This is an awesome video!

I tried Master Duel. Right from the first tutorial match I had no idea what was going on in the game.

Been getting into Duel Links recently. I am managing to so fairly ok without spending much, or any, real money, and I'm enjoying the experience. I'm not much of an "in-person TCG meeting place" kind of person, so this is a better experience for me. I'm not engaging with Ranked since I don't enjoy the "bullshit decks" that causes a 1-or-2 turn loss. Duel Links is missing the social aspect entirely, so I suppose that's quite unlike most of (local) TCG, but hey.. I'm having a good time regardless.

The local scene in my area is very intimidating. I follow the local Facebook group and some of the members are some smart asses 😭

crazy high quality vid was expecting 80k subs no 80 lmao

Learning how to play yugioh; The summoning methods, Types/Attributes, Archetypes, Memorizing Strategies lines & counters, Turn1/Turn2 endboards..... ect. Very complicated to learn if your learning on your own. Found it easier to play games like Duel Links to learn on a smaller format. What i found was most annoying, How difficult it was to obtain an optimal deck in a reasonable time. I can understand why new players are not joining.

I tried picking up Yu-Gi-Oh, through the mobile version, and there was too much happening and too many blocks of text on cards and interactions where you had NO idea what was going on, since everyone was pjaying combo decks. The basic rules are fine, but the mirror-flat learning cliff of each individual cards and players makes ita impossible to really get into.

We need an alternate universe DM GX and 5ds anime to last 9 years and bring back everyone and the hype

I am actually new to Yu-Gi-Oh and tbh at the moment I really don't have any interest in playing master duels, both because of the commitment but mostly because I just really love having the physical cards! Though I realized it's probably harder to make the deck I want this way... Who knows maybe in a few months I'll manage to gather all the cards I want🤷‍♀️

Anyone know the difference between master duel and dueling nexus?

I simply love this game but the fact cards are absurdly expensive and the fact that you can't get money by winning tournaments makes me wanna quit sometimes

Yugioh for me became absolutely unbearable and complicated after 5Ds and the synchro mechanic. Up to that point, yugioh was at its prime. I understand needing to evolve… But my god it’s just insanity now

I think I need to drop some money on a VR set

What I think would help the game seriously, however would be difficult in the grand scheme of things, is organizing tournaments that only do master rule 1. (The set of rules you see in duel monsters.) if we can have get-togethers and games that only focus on the base level of yugioh without complex mechanics like link or XYZ summoning, that’d help greatly. We need to get back to the roots of yugioh

I go into Yu-Gi-Oh back in 06 and stopped playing around 2015 because the rules got way to out of control with all the rules and style of different types. There's way too much going on now and no way to learn the basics. It's really sad. I miss the og when effect monsters were the chaos

I just found duel cafe last night and had a couple games in it! Was great!

I remember they used to have numbers on the bottom right or left of the card and you could put it in the games and get the card

As someone who plays master duel semi competitively (master 1 player) I have no interest in getting back into the tcg at this time. As someone who works full time I can just play when I want. People that say master duel isn’t free to play friendly don’t grind much. I have 4 competitive decks and a ton of rouge decks. Only thing that kinda sucks about master duel is the best of one and Maxx C. Also learning a completely new format because of the different ban lists makes me not want to go to the tcg.

Yugioh use to be sooo good. It’s sad to watch them kill their own game.