5 Main Reasons Why People Are Quitting Yu-Gi-Oh! (Please Fix These Problems) 

There are two types of cards in Yu-Gi-Oh. 1). This eventually wins if it resolves. 2) negate

The reason people are quitting yugioh is due to the fact that watching someone play by themselves for 10-15 minutes AND setup an omni negate board is no fun.

The power creep isn't even creeping up its Power Sprinting at this point >_>

My 10 reasons for quitting this game: 1.) 10+ minute turns 2.) One card combos 3.) Emphasis on hand traps 4.) Konami's refusal to curb power creep 5.) Prize support is actually pathetic, and that's putting it nicely 6.) Konami being radio silent and refusing to properly communicate with the player base 7.) The cards aren't being designed to focus on the fun of both players instead of just one player 8.) There are more card game alternatives now 9.) The game is prohibitively expensive just to play the top decks that will be hit on a ban list because of the aforementioned lack of balancing 10.) Konami has a smooth-brained dent-head working for them designing cards that are either intentionally unhealthy for the game or absolutely useless pack filler. I smell nepotism.

I feel that the main core of the game reached the Point of _"No Return"_ There is a good reason why many games implement systems with restrictions or stamina: *So that the Turn Player doesn't bombard the opponent with so many resources* In Yugioh, your Stamina System consists (or consisted) of 3 parts: - Cards in hand. Where you can only play with what you get or draw - The Graveyard represents the cards that you can no longer recover and the Deck are the cards that you can get - The Normal Summon to not play multiple initials in one turn What's the problem? That Konami has been breaking all those restrictions for an extremely fast and aggressive game - With a card in hand you can bring something from the Deck and that card from the Deck can do something else in the Deck (creating a chain in reaction) - The Graveyard became a third hand and the Deck became the second hand. EVERYTHING is searchable and EVERYTHING is recyclable - The Normal Summon is now optional. Now all monsters have some Special Summon condition to continue playing after so many interruptions I know I sound like a grumpy grandpa, but it's something I really feel. I *literally* took a break from Yugioh for 3 Months (at the time of Runick and Floowandereeze being Meta) and when I came back, I had no idea what my Opponent was doing (With his Tenpai and his Voiceless) *+10 years of experience in Yugioh* and participated in multiple local tournaments and they annihilated me because I used my Ash Blossom at the wrong time + having 0% knowledge of the current Meta... Now imagine what it would be like for an 8 year old child who just bought a Structure Deck and enters the local tournament for fun

The problem is people keep showing up to events. It's our fault. If we don't show up Konami doesn't have a choice but to change. But people still show up so the problem will never be fixed.

Most reprints are disconnected from the metagame by time they come out. Fenrir is an exception, but does anyone else agree?

tcg is on his last leg, few months ago on reddit an OCG player that moved to europe was flabbergasted by the TCG prices, he had no idea, and he asked: "how do kids play the game then?"

I saw the writing on the wall when it comes to Handtraps years ago. I knew they were going to be a huge problem long term for the game. It destroys interactions of the game and makes in many ways trap cards utterly useless the game becomes solitaire. This is why I don't really play it anymore. They might as well stop producing spell and trap cards and put all effects into effect monsters they already have up to 3+ effects in some cases. The game has strayed far from what it used to be decade ago. My solution is a hard reboot of the game its the only way to stop power creep at this point.

I know some people will not like this , but for my opinion the first thing Konami should do is limiting all most played handtraps to 1.

I remember a duel in which I played and then he summoned a bunch of monsters and I thought “okay, my turn now.” Only to remember he’d done all this during my end-phase and now it was just his turn. I think my biggest gripe is there’s just too many searchers that also floats. There’s no reason a monster should be able to special summon itself from the hand and then be able to be special summoned again from the graveyard to be used again in the same turn.

Honestly, my problem hasn't been the floodgates, but the fact that a player would still have 4 or more cards left in their hand. There should be a drawback for using so many resources in one turn, but there isn't sadly

Played competitively for about 9 years now, I never thought I would drop out but this year I have genuinely had enough. As you said, it feels like the top deck not being hit while mid decks are being forced out is genuinely annoying even if I play the best deck of the format as it is very obviously supporting the excessive powercreep. I love the back and forth of yugioh, especially handtraps and mind games compared to other card games but the win conditions being based on locking your opponent out (especially recently) makes the game less attractive. Another thing that has annoyed me is the fact that the value of cards seem to drop so quickly due to the reprinting in such high rarities. I agree that reprints are necessary and I am all for it, but I genuinely don`t feel like buying boxes as I did before or holding on to staples as they will be losing their value so quickly as they will be printed in a higher rarity so quickly! (I am NOT an investor!) I can understand anyone disagreeing with these points, but I feel a lot of people won`t play consistently if these remain, especially the power creep point!

Konami was always like this. This game cant be fixed because Konami doesnt want to fix it. It was always like that and it will stay like that. Sad but true.

Im playing pokemon now and im enjoying not getting hand trapped, locked out of the game completely and not paying crazy amounts for a deck. Pokemon actually has true deck building too because you cant just play the deck that plays the most hand traps and just shut your opponent down. Also it doesnt feel like im out of the game after turn 1 ever. Ive won games i thought i was going to lose because i played my deck optimally. Really don't miss the toxic environment of yugioh either

Great video. People have to come together. If they keep seeing people spend money and go to events they think it’s fine. Have to take a stand. Stop showing up, stop buying, play a different game. That is the only way Konami will respond.

The last straw for me was a duel with an unusual deck that had an Obelisk. This was during an event that only limited 1 copy of a card for a deck and I ran a plant deck with aromages and rose dragons. I was genuinely surprised because it was something I didn’t see coming and I wanted to try and overcome it with a plant deck. When I used my firework bloom card that allows me to tribute a plant monster to special summon another plant monster in the deck, I was hit with an immediate Ash Blossom. All of that anticipation and excitement just died, I had an empty field and my only chance to do something just died before I could even begin. The amount of hours spent building both a full aromage deck, rose dragon deck, a Dragonmaid deck, and even a few favorite card decks of Dark Magician and Black Luster Soldier just felt meaningless when the competitive players use the same 5 archetypes.

Game's Ruined, one big facter is Erratas also, Not as much people are talking about it but who remembers crush card being unbanned just to have its legacy destroyed by changing It's effect, none of the cards hold value with continuous reprints rarity upgrades and erratas.

This is how Konami's Marketing strategy: Print expensive overpower(OP) deck > This OP deck puts too much pressure on other decks, especially the cheaper decks > It forces "cheap deck" users to also buy the expensive OP deck if they want playing the game > Because most players play the same deck, Konami can kill that deck easily when they want to release now OP deck > The older OP deck now unplayable, players don't have choice but buying new OP deck > repeat. . I still believe Konami can do something to Fix this, especially Master Duel. MD should create an alternative format where you can only play with unpopular cards and low-win-rate decks. Let's be honest, the decks or cards that ruin the game are usually only a small part of YGO decks as a whole. If we can remove them from the format, most cards & decks in the game are fair. Why MD? Because of digital games, they can get detailed data easily compared to paper YGO. You can see sometimes MD use their data to create a "good ban list" for side events in the game. They just need to make a permanent alternative format. And paper YGO can use it as references and adjust it. . About the prize, I think the prize will be more valuable if they give an alternative art of a popular card. They can pay someone to draw a useless vanilla card. So, they should pay someone to draw an alt art of S:P, Ash, Talker, etc.

I'm a casual player and when I play my favorite decks I do expect to loose but if I get to do all my plays and put up a great fight but loose then it's what ever but if you stop all my plays and I cant play then that's BS

This is coming from someone who's been priced out of formats for about 2 years now, it is too expensive to play and even keep up competitively. The best way to send Konami a message is to hurt their wallets, and simply not buy product. A lot needs to change, starting with short prints and rarity distribution.

As a Pokémon player and Tournament Organizer, y'all's prize support is wild to me; the fact that there are no cash prizes at any level is insane. For what it's worth, we just had a player win $25,000 at the North American International Championships with a deck that cost less than $100. 2nd place won $15,000 with a similarly priced deck. I hope YGO players can find themselves in similar circumstances sometime in the near future.

I play on Master Duel thanks to the easier costs of entry, but it’s becoming increasingly frustrating to play outside of organized events in rooms. Everything in Platinum rank and Casual is some variant of “stop playing the game” (Snake Eyes, Branded Dogmatika, Naturia Runick, Manipulator Burn etc). Diamond and beyond is somewhat better, but there’s still way too many people going SE or nothing. Konami is making too many decisions that is just trying to wring the 1% of players willing to shill for the most powerful meta decks, and forgetting the other 99% just want to play. YCS Indianapolis is another canary in the coal mine.

as someone who has been playing this game for 16 years yeah this is one of the rougher formats. there have been worse times in the games history but this is getting to a point where the community is hitting a boil point something i honestly haven't seen since the fallout from the march 2012 ban list. great video!

They need an emergency banlist. Snake-Eye is still basically tier zero, and it’s because the deck is being combined with the last tier zero archetype, Kashtira. Wasn’t the reason why Konami stopped giving us a banlist on a fixed date because they wanted more freedom to make emergency banlists anyway?

I was gonna either rejoin Yugioh or play Lorcana. I chose lorcana and it was a great choice.

Why is the prizing finally a problem after all these years? I remember going to a regionals a few years back and realized that the hassle of getting ready for the event, building the deck, money spent, the time spent smelling the atrocious B.O. of most opponents and people sitting next to me was not worth it. I stick to locals and going to Worlds is not something that is really worth aiming for tbh. Thanks for the video.

We feel like it is almost too much weight on a game to only have 1 way to play it over the course of 25 years.

The thing about the Tri-Brigade argument is that "its format dependent" When a deck isn't objectively the strongest in the room, the reason it sees play in a competitive sphere is because it can counter/compete with other meta decks. A really good example with this format is Labrynth. Because we're currently in a very handtrap-reliant main deck meta, Lab just gets to do its shit almost uncontested game 1. I mean, the only stuff it has to worry about are board pops, which Snake-Eye can't do in a heavy amount. So all Lab has to do is secure game 1 and then just ride it out. Its for similar reasons why Runick Stun is seeing success as opposed to more synchro heavy builds. A deck like Tri-Brigade (much like other decks such as Swordsoul or Spright) could still be really good. It just needs a strong package to be paired with (in the past, that was Zoodiac and Lyrilusc), and it needs a good match-up spread in that given format (which you won't find out unless you're pioneering the deck in that format). Beyond that, people have to be willing to further experiment with the deck.

i loved how mixed the decks were back then. I realy like the idea of "You choose one archetype and if you put something other than a fitting archetyp in you deck you sabotage yourself"

I started collecting cards like 3 months ago, a month ago i downloaded duel links and master duel. Duel links is pretty fun, but master duel is genuinely frustrating; i know i'm very new to the game and i'm far from having a meta deck (currently using a blue eyes that i copied from duel links). In ranked games i run into people that summon 3+ monsters with over 3k attack in the first turn that took them 10 minutes to end, and when it's my turn, i special summon 1 monster, they negate it, i try to activate a spell card, they also negate it and i'm pretty much out of options, i just surrender after that. Hope the people doing this are having fun playing with themselves.

When it comes to this game, it sucks to watch someone go full combo and setup a full board, it goes to you, then they keep going because you drew a card and then after getting a better board, negate all your stuff, they flip floodgates so even after you burned through 5 negates, now you have to deal with backrow that prevents you even more. Like in my opinion you should be able to play your favorite deck and not have to bank on winning the dice roll or you lose. Like the fact that "rogue" decks need to setup Calamity, Puppet, D.D. Cali locks so they can win is kind of stupid. Or even Heat Wave. It is literally, the only way you can play the game is by make it to were your opponent can't play at all which isn't skillful

Can we just have different formats on MD? Or like custom rule sets?

As someone who just picked up yugioh after a literal 20 year hiatus, it is wild how different it is. I've played mtg consistently for the past decade and it is way easier to learn. I think one of the things they could do to help would be to support different formats. Magic has 7 distinct main formats that are all supported to some degree by wizards of the coast, as well as tons of variations on those formats. Also as a newer player the lack of keywords drives me insane. Every card is so wordy and difficult to comprehend if you don't know what's going on. I have like 60 hours on master duel and I'm still lost like 70% of the time lol

I was trying to learn ygo but the game is so expensive and hard (specially in my country) and I swear a guy said in deck building video "you need 15 handtraps to build a good deck". Also here, rarity collection costs about 700 and rarity collection 2 costs 1,100. I make 2,000 a month, I literally can't pay for that. So I guess I'm not playing it.

I dont think players have what it takes to actually force them to change the game. This is why konami does what it does, they know you will keep spending your money no matter what they do.

solution : release support card for old archetype so they can be tier 1 again

the game is becoming too impossible to play, with all the handtraps, and non hand trap cards preventing you from playing or just building a whole board in one turn that locks out the other player. its also becoming less fun bacause of how much single cards are getting, if its a hard to get card thats broken, youre killing your wallet. i stopped playing just after pendulums were introduced (loved the idea of it, was just in college at the time) its also the players, some players are rude, they touch your cards with out asking AND they dont announce their moves like it states in the Official Rule Book! if you dont announce what youre doing, you can easily confuse your opponent or even bore your opponent, and dont get me started on the current meta! almost 500- 1000 dollars per deck. the game is no longer fun, this is why i love rush duels.

The format I want is very simple. No player can special summon more than 3 times per turn. Any card that would special summon or be special summoned has its effect ignored and it does not chain or resolve. And then I want to see what happens after that rule is in place.

I quit Yugioh back when Chaos Control got banned. I tried to get back into it in 2011 with the Dark World structure deck with Grapha, but even then playing against a tournament viable deck was impossible. I recently bought three of the new Dark World decks just to update it, but if I want to make it viable it will cost me over $300 just to get it playable at all, and even then it is a weak deck. Meanwhile, MTG and Pokemon have much lower bars of entry for a deck that could win matches. Downside is dealing with the rolling formats that keep you buying product constantly. There's just no reason to get into Yugioh anymore, hasn't been for a very long time.

The main issue with YGO is how completely unintelligible has become. I used to play a long time ago, I have tried SO many times to get back into the game, but it's impossible for me because it's SO complicated. Everything is a combo of 40 different other cards, with multiple effects, and card X connects to ability 2 of card Y which then triggers effect 3 from card Z in your graveyard but then you have to remember that in your deck you have this OTHER card that does this OTHER thing and so on, to death. It feels like it's extremely difficult to get into the game and when you do, it's a russian roulette of who draws the most broken interference card to completely disrupt the other player.

At the locals i go to the shop owner was thinking about dropping yugioh and most of the player base is declining most of the players are switching over to digimon, Lorcana,magic and one piece.

The other day I decided to play a game on Dueling Nexus after weeks of not playing, and the very first game, I get hit with ash and veiler. My reason are handtraps, you can't play rogue decks because it dies on 1 hand trap which ruins the fun of unique deck building, every list starts looking the same and becomes stale. Not to mention banning/limiting floodgates but not touching hand traps is an indicator where the game is heading. At least you have to set up a floodgate unlike handtraps which you just dump to you gy. I switched back to MTG, at least they need to pay mana to counter your stuff.

Even in my 17 years of playin the game im still hyped till this day to play it. The problems thou is not entirely on konami (there are always points i wished konami could do better) but also espeically in recent years and formats from the playerbase too.

So to a level I agree and to a level I find contradictions here. I agree snake eyes is a pain a major downside and annoying it leads to non games and the hand traps war is a negative that really needs to be fixed. Konami needs to implement something to lower the threshold of 1 card starters. For the tournament scene I agree with the need for prizing additions it needs cash or something more tangible. Now to some of the examples. I think it does suvk when you get blown out by a random deck having the right lock at the right time. But I feel like the solution to removing viability for that rogue deck to exist is counterproductive for the game as a whole. Just as these teir one decks are feel bad and handtrap heavy, more alternative strategies being available is something that is a net positive. The fact the snakeye gameplay loop is as bad as it is hugely contributes to why competitive and causal players alike hate it, but if we remove it, narrow down the meta to about 2 or 3 decks at teir one I still think we get to the root of the problem design space wise. It's good if 15 decks are viable because it gives as many people possible the option to try for a competitive scene. The formats when players of all ages and price ranges can pick a deck are more rewarding than not and rogue strategies getting a top is generally universally loved I find. Konami needs to slow down the gameplay loop not to lower complexity but to improve player retention here. If I played 4 hours of games in which my opponent activates half their deck through every interrruption I have causing me to scoop before my first turn who really had fun here? Another thing as well is design space and practice.These should be centered less on a single archetype and how to counter and more on how a person's deck can counter types of decks rather than specific archetypes endboards. How good is the match against more aggro oriented strategies vs control? The fact so many decks act as combo but call themselves control is another design issue but I sound like an old man griping so I'll just say, it feels like we need to get back to making strategies mean what their titles are.

Something some people don't understand is that adding a lot of superficial complexity to a card game with mechanics and a bunch of text etc makes the game a lot less enjoyable not because people are too dumb to understand it, but because it makes it really inconvenient to play . Even the greatest games in the world that have lasted for centuries have simple straightforward rules, they dont involve 5 different effects and walls of text that play on their turn and your turn.

My only counter argument to the prices of cards is that players dictate prices even though Konami dictates rarity. Solution could be to reboot the game, implement new rules like the, "legendary" rule from rush duel (I think that's a thing) or banlist rules from duel links. Another solution, different formats (GOAT, etc.) or rare format, only 1 format (see master duel).

Noone wants to have to play around a promethean everysingle turn and every single duel and have to deal with infinite recursion and after that have to sit out a full 1 card combo and have to deal with 4 hand traps.

Its all about the profit no passion for the player base

bought cards went to locals there was 4 people waiting to play across the store was like 22 Pokémon players in a tournament. I lost all my games with the four people to gimmick puppet flood gating

best way to play yugioh this days is building ur own banlist, even full archetypes, and do kind no-meta game with rouge being the main decks

Great video and points. You articulated the issues so well, I genuinely hope someone at Konami sees it.

The last time I played was with the 3 monarch deck hack. 😂 how much worse did it get?

Effect monsters now can search, draw, special summon, negate, can be played off turn, and so on. Non-stop with no restriction or mana cost? Really? Thats broken dood.

I agree on the part that you have to play toxic cards, one of my friend plays danger dark world and I literally have to play droll, ash and d. d. crow all at 3 just to stop them from discarding two sillvas (which would make me go second with one card in hand) and cycle at least 3 danger monsters, its insane I feel like Kaijus, handtraps and floodgates are a necessary evil at this point of the game but it's so annoying

Edison was the golden age of yugioh. What exists now is a clusterfunk of overcomplicated power creep

Tldr: it's not fun anymore.

im not a player so im sure i lack lots of knowledge here but i used to watch tournaments a lot and at some point i just stopped because turn one was a holy mess with one payer making a set up of 20 cards that lasted ten minutes and it was way too boring to watch, i dont exactly know how things are now but at that time i used to think that limiting the special summons to 2 per turn could be a really fast way to shorten the turns and make the game more dynamic

I never played competitive yugioh and just sometimes my friends and me still play yugioh but with a bunch of restrictions so that we can enjoy the game, we also mostly still play like if we were in the synchro era. We love our decks, we invested on them (at the time) and we think its bs that you have to keep on getting the newest deck to be relevant, reason why we still play the synchro era xD.

try looking at it as what decks get to play after 3-5 sis interruptions then how well they can 1 card combo in ark then out of ark and final can it splash?

I'd say at this moment Pokemon TCG is a best place for competitive structure and environment. Decks are not expensive to enter the game and be at competitive level - it's good for game growth. Tournament structure is stable and generous for players. Tournaments are huge in player base and in number per year for every region. Meta is healthy and dynamic with constant yearly, predictable rotation.

back in the day it was more fun theres meta but also plenty of people just played what they had it was fun now i spend 15 having to watch someone summon on their first turn like a full squad that can negate also destroy AND before you get to summon they can just shut you down EVEN before your turn comes up honestly its just tiering and just when you think its over the other 5 players have the same decks its just not fun back in my day we had og and GX and people were really going at it and then 5ds was meh

Sadly Yugioh is not as fun as it used to be for 4 simple reasons 1. Hand trap spam: if you don’t open a single hand trap you instantly lose or if your opponent opens with a hand trap you literally can’t play 2. Negates: people still make 20 board negates and people say it dosent matter sadly they keep spamming more negates or flood gates and you can’t play 3. Price: to play the game you need to drop a couple hundred on 1-3 cards and it is meant to be a children’s card game I have 2 jobs and I can’t afford to keep up with these broken cards or decks 4. Meta decks: they hyper focus on these single card spam decks and leave all the previous decks in the dust as example heraldry beasts it was a decent XYZ deck and the support they could have got they had 2 cards a spell that says you can only XYZ psychic LV 4 monsters so you have 3 options thanks and a single monster. They could support these old decks and not bring out new decks and we could end up with a better game

As a player I feel that I am better off just playing locals and winning 8 to 10 boosters and/or a playmat or even just winning 4 boosters in a raffle between the participants than going all the way to worlds just to get more boosters and an exclusive card and playmat. Lol. It is not about having prize money, its about winning something that actually has some value. Not a vanilla monster in a case, what is that even for? How iconic is Anotherverse Dragon or Gluttonia to even be a prize for topping a YCS??? lol

Honestly I don't blame anyone for quitting Yu-Gi-Oh, I have even quit myself because the modern format is just too complicated.mainly because of Konami and meta sheeps. a lot of competitive players that uses nothing but meta archetype are the reason why the game is mostly unplayable, like why would any of us wanna wait 15+ minutes just to finish this "combo"? That's not even combo in my eyes, to me it's just them wasting my time 💀 and these combo moves sucks the fun out of it, it's not even yugioh at this point it's a card game where u just nonstop "i summon this and than this and than that" bro you sent every boss monster to the graveyard that would ended my LP at this point and you still summoning more, and for Konami, i just think they dont even care, they just make cards and archetype and boom nothing more, they dont see their game is too broken at this point

I just quit when I tested the cyberdark SD: You can either play the combo version that 100% looses to any handtrap (or itself) or you go control, but cant set much backrow because of your permanent spells and equipcards. When konami doesnt even testPlay the game why should I play? 😅

I think Konami hates its players. It’s the only thing that makes sense. Even if they are trying to line their pockets they could give us what we’d like at the same time. The only explanation is that they just don’t like the players

mostly why i missed playing yugioh video games going PvE, build ur own deck at ur pace and duel with friends. play with other archetype or make a deck if we going Roleplaying based on our own original character if there is a mechanic for Tabletop RPG

The design of yugioh archetypes fundamentally changed when Infernity came out. From that point on, the best decks were the ones that set up negates or stopped combos. YGO was more enjoyable before that

The real problem is that we love this game.

This is why I play magic now. A lot more room for actually being able to play the game since resource management is a thing.

"the game is still fun guys" -yugioh players constantly.

Amazing point of view!

I quit Yugioh after playing it for the past 15 years because its simply not fun anymore.

Dropped the game in December for magic the gathering. Mainly coz an LGS hosted tournaments for commander and it was the best decision i made. Imma still play yugioh with my buddies coz we dont play snake eye or tenpai and i can enjoy TOSS format or POTE.

I think the most telling issue I saw was when my friends, who had played casually with school friends when they were kids, wanted to try and give it a go again. They bought two structure decks and tried to play against each other. It took them like 45 minutes to work out what the hell the cards in their hand actually did and it was just frustrating and not even remotely fun for them. And I knew full well that was going to be their experience. I would not recommend anyone try and get into this game any more, unless it was Edison format. It is basically a closed shop that actively puts off new players from joining.

Are you Raye? From the sky striker archetype?

I truly don't understand how you have fun in this game anymore. I've moved on to pokemon these days. I thought about my relationship to this game, and I was just nostaglic for it. When I grew and looked around at options, I decided I wanted to explore a new game, and I fell in love with Pokemon. It feels good to play a game more than 10 turns where your moves matter a lot, and making mistakes don't automatically screw you over, unlike yugioh. Cost to play is extremely cheap, and you can more than likley play with the $100 deck you buy for months if not the whole year. Prize support is phenominal too, like, $10k for 1st place at a regional? Imagine if first place got $10k for YCS. This game would be so different. And im just gonna say what no one else is willing to say, Yugioh would be better with a set rotation. Konami can abolish the ban list and just reprint cards they want in new sets (yes, even good generic monsters, spells, traps, etc.)

I left Yu-Gi-Oh master duel for magic the gathering a few months ago after buying a labyrinth deck and have been having way more fun. The game is a mess. They charge you hundreds of dollars to make a competent deck and then ban only a few core cards on a whim. The cards don't generally work in other decks so instead of being able to reuse your expensive cards, you are now stuck with a dead deck. The cards are also incredibly difficult to read and understand, and you end up having to actually study combo guides to even play the deck you bought. Then, you have the problem of sitting there watching your opponent play for 15 minutes to set up a board that you can't even interact with. The game feels terrible to play and it's too much money to be that frustrating.

I quit Yugioh about two months ago after falling in love with the game playing fun decks with my friends. And I’m not talking your locals rogue type fun decks. I’m talking fun starter decks without any upgrades or hand traps. Once you get into the competitive scene, Yugioh is such a toxic game full of hand traps that just stop you from playing. There is always a meta in any card game but games like One Piece, Magic, and Pokémon all require resources which slow the game down & still let you play, even if your deck is outmatched by a stronger deck. Sometimes I wish Yugioh didn’t require a certain format like GOAT for it not to be all OTK’s and constant disruptions. Yugioh is my favorite anime and it is still probably my favorite card game in terms of the lore, but I gave up playing Yugioh TCG for One Piece TCG & I don’t regret it one bit. Yugioh still has a special place in my heart though.

All the things you said are the reasons I have one foot out of the game already and am seriously contemplating selling all my cards and maybe playing edison once a month or so.

How to fix Yu-Gi-Oh; 60 card decks to improve variance. Only allowing 2-4 extra deck summons per turn. Only allowing 1-3 on field negates per player. Changing the time rule. 6-7 card hands. 20k life points. There. Fixed.

I miss playing yugioh and feeling a sense of game play back and forth battles I hate locals because all I see really is just 20 players all playing the same damn meta deck like for instance I'll play things like noble knights dark magician buster blader or flame swordsman

My thought on prize support for the main event...every game has full arts. What a prize it would be for a ycs/nats winner to get a full/extended art, uncut sheet? Personally, i think that alone could solve the prize problems. Oh and keep the prize card, packs, mat, and sleeves as well.

Elemental hero Duelist here just want to let you guys know who quit, That I have not given up and I made the best elemental hero deck I could of made I've been Using elemental heros for more than a decade so I'm glad to announce that I've beaten almost every meta Archetypes

Imagine during Pepe era, emergency banlist came out 2 weeks after tour tournament based on how destructive tier 0 it was. And Konami literally hit Skulcrobat joker (Normal summon searcher ) , Monkeyboard ( Scale searcher) and a few others which the main core cards while nowadays Konami just hit linkuriboh, proxy cards and they do not even dare to touch the main core cards anymore

I gave up on yugioh after synchro summoning. It’s too easy to summon powerful things now and duels are over in seconds

i am way to addicted to other games so playing yugioh for real would waste too much time for me but i do play some master duel. but there its the same problems i play blackwing tax dragons ( 2100 dmg for each monster effect ) 1 omni negate, 3 monster pops + 1 open card pop, + handtraps, destruction prevention with a lot of handtraps.. i don't really have that much fun looking at oponents combos.. i feel like im only playing to make my daylie quests so i surrender when i'm not first or brick.. often they surrender instantly too or when i start my combo and i'm not upset about it.. time is valuable.

A Fight in any Media is a conversation between ideals. you can see game vrs as fights between mindsets/strats/etc but if its just two dudes using the same deck where theirs no interaction(conversation) its just not a fun experience.

The main reason I played Timelords was because of the meta decks that plagued Master Duel. It was no longer fun playing my decks that felt fun and thematic because cards like Baronne, Ash, Nibiru, Maxx "C" etc felt painful to play against. Then one of my favorite Decks T.G. got new cards on the anniversary but it *still* got outclassed by the meta and better players. It no longer felt fun. Even Timelord's power creep that once held great toxic power has now faded as an after thought to the new decks and archetypes

65% deck representation is crazy. Absolutely bonkers.

I can deal with one card combos for all I care (heck, I really wanna play with Fiendsmith in Ranked DB once INFO rolls out), but I would enjoy games to last longer than 3 turns on average. A bit more back and forth, where you are not completely out of options, but you also cannot outright win a game without some additional dedication to your plays, which some of the recent design tries to aim for with less focus on omni-negates or prevention of immediate OTKs like S:P when Linked with an ED monster. Less handtraps could be welcome, albeit not the most urgent of matters.

I do agree with some points like event prizing could be better, also I wish Konami wasn’t waiting to cash in on cards before hitting them (snake eyes/diabellstar stuff). But I play the game for the same reason I play basketball, or play video games, just for fun. I have an invite to Texas and although I know I’m probably just wasting money because I’m probably not gunna do so well 😅, I like being able to travel with friends just for the experience. Just like anything else, if you wanna be competitive or good, you’re gunna have to put some time into it.

I left yugioh a LOOOONG time ago when the Yata-garasu + Chaos emperor dragon combo was the strat (yes yes, i'm old, i already know this) and it was basically the only thing i ever saw at tournaments. Years later my brother still plays the game and i wanted to see how the game has changed and every game ended in turn 1-3 with some crazy stupid combo. No thanks, I like to have fun exploring a card game, not solving the puzzle before we even sit down to play, if i wanted to play a game where i did everything and my opponent did almost nothing to win, i'd just play single player video games, they last longer and are fun

2:30 Rarely, altough It can happen with stuff like D.A.D or a double Wulf special summon. Those moments are rare though and considered pop-offs.

When it comes to pricing, wouldn't it be a lot more easier to print every card in a set as N/R and Super, and then have alternate rarities for those same cards? This way you can get a full play set of cards for a deck but still have them in those special rarities so you can still sell them to collectors n stuff...

I feel like it all started to get worse around 2022. I quit the game during 2022 and never came back again. It is sad because I´ve been playing the game since 2004...

I was a yu gi oh player for years but after watching 15 turns and falling asleep for boredom I've got to MTG and it's so much more engaging. The sheer amount of deck building and ways to play reinvigorated my joy of card games. MTG is bad for mad combos but the amount of formats means you can always find your niche

I completely agree. I want to like the TCG but unless you play with the broken decks and buy expensive cards, you're not going to win anything and waste your time. Nothing is more aggravating than not even getting a turn and when you do, you're blocked/countered from doing anything. The power creep ruined most of their cards (like traps) where they're unplayable. Out of everything I hate, it's the waiting. Waiting 5mins for someone to go through their deck pulling out every card they need and flooding the field.

the emotions I felt when you said Tri-Brigade was a throwback. i need to be held