A Magic Player Tries to Solve Yu-Gi-Oh's Biggest Problem... 

The 200 color comparison really hits the nail on the head. YGO's reliance on archetypes just precludes any limited format. The game is designed in such a way that power-creep is the only reason to buy a new set.

"So many formats, you make new ones just to play for a few days" We have formats dedicated to one quirky card like Dandan that try to capture the essence of Blue Magic. We have Judge's Tower to capture the depth of weirdness of interactions in Magic where you set rules forcing how you must act on a turn and you pretty much lose only by illegal action, or not taking an action as soon as it was legal, or being wrong about thinking someone else was wrong. The Tower then turns over the most convoluted, bizarre and difficult to correctly resolve effects possible. Formats are great

A close parallel for archetypal limitations in Yugioh would be tribal support in Magic. While it's technically closer in concept to types in Yugioh, archetypes are basically one more layer of type but instead of being a descriptor, it becomes part of the name

I don’t understand the there is no community argument. Card Market! you have the power to promote new formats! If you did a domain game once a month to a year.I believe it will see growth.

I got so used to how many formats there are in magic that I assumed it was normal to have more than one way to play old tcg’s that have been around for long enough. Like splitting into multiple formats was a natural evolution of how the game is played… I kinda forgot that a long standing TCG would only have 1 format

You gotta play domain. People won't play a format if they don't know about it. This is your chance to shine. Also domain gameplay is pretty entertaining to watch.

Just balance the entire game around EARTH Machine. I'm totally serious, EARTH Machine represents all the best parts of the game without being overly oppressive. It's also the manliest deck and makes you grow chest hair.

I refuse to believe that a magic player could solve yugioh's biggest problem - Konami.

as an mtg player hearing the yugioh people say cube is “not supported” is weird, and I worry they fundamentally misunderstand cube: the point of cube is to make your own draft set. Due to the fundamentals of how making it yourself works, there is no “being supported” necessary whatsoever: you just kinda make one and play with it. If a card seems too strong for your cube? you have editorial control, just don’t put it in. too many modern yugioh cards need archetypes to function properly? don’t put those cards in your cube, focus on the exceptions that aren’t a part of archetypes at all (which I’m assuming there have to be at least SOME of, right?)

Master Duel made me experience the joys of Limit 1 and N/R format

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="600">10:00</a> Part of the problem with "taking things back to the basics" is that, unlike Magic and Pokemon, where the game has rotating formats for cards to be designed around, YGO is more like Legacy was the only format, so the only way to sell new cards is to constantly power up new sets. This means that every new group of cards is meant to be played with a dozen actions a turn in mind (or those few actions end up in a result equivalent to those), so you essentially ban most of the newer cards (with new meaning well over a dozen years). You essentially end up at a retro format, like those mentioned.

Domain Format! Domain Format! Domain Format!. Seriously, it's an incredibly simple but awesome format that is extremely comparable to Magic's Commander. The only new rule is the Deck Master and its domain, but they become very intuitive after one or two games. It's extremely fun and the Discord is very active. Lots of people there even have as their main way of playing the game.

Jump Start styled packs may work for a limited format. Have 2 packs meet required library size, crack 3 and choose 2. A draft may never work, but theme sealed could

It's not the right mentality to wait for Konami to support a new format before you'll give it a chance. New formats begin within the community, not without. EDH succeeded by Sheldon and a few others taking their EDH decks wherever they went and drumming up games within previously unexposed communities.

From what I understand, Yugioh players just want to do their cool thing and hate when their opponent does anything

The problem is: There is no widespread alternative format, and no one is willing to play a format until It becomes widespread. Yugi players want alternative formats, but they dont really want alternative formats. What they want is playing with their regular decks in a format where they are the top dog.

I think Edison has shaped up to be THE secondary format. The community is pretty big, the side events at big events always have a lot of entrants and some stores even do edison locals

I discovered Domain through the video and to be honest, that's the solution. I just think the selection of domain monsters is a bit too open.

My first suggestion would be alternate formats where the type of extra deck monster type. I.e. a format with only Fusion&Synchro. A format with only XYZ. A format with only Link etc…

Yes please make a domain format video :)

I'd love to see a domain format video, or really any alt format video! I tried domain out, and it seemed interesting, but didn't really click for me. I'd be curious to see what you all do with it

I think there is an unofficial format called as domain, it is equilvalent to commander/EDH for MTG

A kind of Droll format where you can only use one "from your deck" effect per turn could be pretty interesting, maybe drawing could be the exception but it would certainly slow down and change the game

This poor guy sitting in the middle like he's a hostage and wants to go home

Before I stopped playing yugioh, friends and I tried making a cube. The biggest issue we had was balancing due to all the different archetypes having vastly different power levels and support.

One of magics most popular "alternative" format in Pauper does have a direct translation to yugioh Common Charity! It's a decently popular and very fun format that sadly fell off a bit since master duel released right when common charity was picking up speed.

Id like to see a series of you guys developing this format you so wish existed.

What about an "Amalgam" format where you can mix 2 archetypes and any card that references the archetype works for the other. Like Elemental heroes and lightsworn, all cards that specifically call for a lightsworn monster can hit a elemental hero and vice versa, and make it a 60 card minimum format. For casual games you could even try out some mulligan rules. I feel much like commander/magic there will need to be a "rule 0" talk to tell what 2 archetypes you are playing, or any weird interactions that rules haven't accounted for. I haven't played Yu-Gi-Oh in over 10 years so I don't know if this could be playable but I hope some one tries it out!!

Let's just stop arguing and admit that the actual alternative yugioh format we all want is: Duelists of the Roses but irl.

I've only been enjoying cube lately. Constructed feels stale, but getting a fresh deck every game is awesome!

I would like to see this Domain format. Also, perhaps something that Yu-gi-oh's community formats need is more random shit being thrown at the player, that can be fun.

Please play Domain Format on the channel! It's my favorite way to play Yugioh, and we could really use more publicity on it. You can look up Yugioh Commander's video on the rules and turn some decks that you guys have into domain format decks. 4 player duels have so many potential outcomes, and they can be a ton of fun, so i think it'd be great for a video!

I think a format where you are allowed 1 normal summon and 1 special summon, then ban all the archetypes that are completely broken with only 1 summon per turn.

All in all, as someone else commented, the main issue is actually the playerbase. For some reason unknown to me, most of the community trembles in fear wherever you mention an alternative format and are so, so quick to judge. "Oh X card is banned? Bad format." "You can do what? Broken, unplayable." It is really impressive how reluctant people are to try something different, but will eagerly speak how bad advanced yugioh is. Another issue is how people have some sort of rivalry between alt formats. For another reason also unknown to me, some folks seem to think you can only play one alt format and see the others has "opponents" that need to be "beaten". Like, chill, you can play more than one alt format just fine, you don't have to hate others just because they exist.

I've solved it. Ygo players hate Floodgates, but only when your opponent plays them. How about a 'Floodgate' format: grab 10 of the most hated (or beloved) floodgates printed, and 2 or 3 of them start randomly in play, but not owned by either player. They can be interacted with like usual spells/traps. And will add another mini game about waiting to get rid of a piece that stops your deck, bc it may unlock the opponents cards.

I am mainly an MtG player, but decided I'd try my hand at something for s&g's. Orphaned Archetype Format Deckbuilding When building your deck you must select a single main deck monster to be your Deck Master and either one attribute /or/ one monster type. All monsters in your main deck must either have both its type and attribute match that of the Deck Master or the chosen type/attribute with the other matching the Deck Master's type/attribute. When building the deck, you may only have a single copy of any given card and if a card is part of an archetype you may not have any other cards of that archetype in the deck (the Deck Master is not considered to be part of the main deck, and the main deck may not contain a copy of the Deck Master). The main deck must contain exactly 60 cards. Deck Master Archetypes If the Deck Master is part of an archetype, then during play any card that references an archetype in its rules text should be treated as if it is referencing the Deck Master's Archetype instead. In addition, each monster in the main deck is treated as if it was part of the same archetype as the Deck Master. During Play The Deck Master starts the game banished in the "Deck Master Zone," and during your MP1 you may pay half of your lifepoints to add the Deck Master to you Deck, Hand or GY. If the Deck Master would leave the field or GY you may instead choose to return it to the Deck Master Zone instead at no cost. At the start of the game you use the London Mulligan rule while drawing your starting hand.

Drafting is possible in Yugioh, but Konami would have to collate sets and design their set releases to accommodate this

You guys should do a series of videos just explaining different alternate formats each week. I've only heard of some of the ones mentioned in this video and a full explanation of domain might get me into it.

I have an idea, let us the community catagorise all archetypes within specific tiers and have a tier based format. We also have to catagorise generic utility cards and catagorise them based on the same tiers. This way the lower the tier is, the easier it is for new players to enter the game. Tier 0 format - Archetype pools & utility cards Tier 1 format - Archetype pools & utility cards Tier 2 format - Archetype pools & utility cards ...

Not only make a domain format video, make a domain format deck building video. Let's learn together.

Surely it wouldn't be hard to make a Yu-Gi-Oh cube? You have two 'cubes', the main deck cube and the extra deck cube, and you try and have as much generic archetype support while also having a couple 'real' archetypes thrown in that you can draft into, and the extra deck cube can have some really powerful pieces that are generic (mainly links if we're being real) but then with some specific archetype cards too. It would take someone or a community with a lot of game knowledge to put together, but I think cubes would be a really fun time.

What if you had a commander like format like the following - 80 card singleton deck. There is no Normal Extra deck. - Cards that would normally be placed in the Extra deck are put in your Normal deck and may be special summoned from hand as if they were in your Extra deck. - 1 Monster Card from your deck is placed in a Extra deck which is your Commander. This must be an Extra deck monster, Ritual, or Level 7+ Monster. -- If it is a level 7+ monster, it may be Special summoned by Tributing the same number of Monsters as if your were Tribute Summoning it. - Each Monster card in your deck must either match Attribute or Monster Type - All Spells and Traps not on the format ban list are legal in any deck.

If you actually want to create an alternate format, you need some guy who has a decent amount of money or popularity, have them create a custom banlist based around something (this could be an old banlist, a theme of cards like the Branded lore, or just interesting cards of a different power level than what we have in advanced). Then that person attracts people to play because of their popularity or by throwing money at it. Because if you even give like $100 for weekly tournaments or have some youtuber behind it, you will have people start to show up online at least. The closest thing we ever got to this was MBT's rotation series. You would then just have to hope that it catches on enough to become something play at locals, then maybe, maybe, in the far future it could become an official offspring if it gets popular enough. So anyone interested in creating a discord and custom banlist with me? You have to supply the money tho :).

Domain please! Deckmaster please!

Make a domain format video!!

meanwhile over here in magic world, we made a format where we just draw on our cards to make them say whatever we want, and it's hilarious and i love it

Jamin finding out what Konami has done to the game in real time and having the ideas not stick was funny and a little sad at the same time. Wish Yugioh gets what magic has eventually. Great discussion and content!

Traditional is probably an interesting format these days actually. Decks like tear and the such make it quite interesting. It's just so not played that literally no one knows what's actually meta for traditional.

I used to be a Yu-Gi-Oh player and I solved all of Yu-Gi-Oh's problems by leaving Yu-Gi-Oh and playing Magic. Best decision I've ever made.

Players: Change the game, make it better. Konami: We improved the game, but you'll have to play a different deck. Players: Change it back! It's very funny seeing Yugioh players make the same arguments Magic players made nearly 30 years ago about new formats. If change is going to happen, it can't be predicated on you, specifically, not having to change.

We need progression series to be given a spotlight. Those are top tier.

Speaking as someone that's judged games at most levels (from casual LGS games all the way up to being a L2 at a YCS), there's one aspect that really wasn't mentioned. The players. I've seen stores try to do Common Charity, Edison, Deck Master/Domain, etc. tournaments and nobody cares. Nobody shows up. Even when you throw in a cash prize and invest in getting the word out, they shrug it off only to then come around during the weekly tourney for Advanced. I know "pet decks" were mentioned but I feel that's different. If it was just an insistence on their pet deck, Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes decks would constantly be competitively viable because tournament attendance would fall off otherwise. Archetypes like Sky Strikers, Harpies, and Trickstars would be treated similarly... for obvious reasons. Some of it might be ignorance, sure, but plenty of it is just the players going, "Typical Yugiboomer" and feeling apathy because they don't see a problem... or they complain about the problems but don't want to step outside of their comfort zone to do anything different (and let's be honest, ALL OF US know a few of those types). Some people might not way to say it, or don't particularly like it, but the community themselves are one of the biggest problems keeping Yu-Gi-Oh from finding the kind of success it used to have. Konami shoulders plenty of blame, without question, but they aren't solely to blame either.

"I threw my hand on the board, is it better then your hand?" Isn't any way to play, you'd have to restrict the 100 _scam_ fusions and bring it back to "1-4 creature summons, no token saccing either"

What hurt Speed Duel the most was that in order to play your card, you need a Speed Duel printing of said card. Common Charity has the same problem. You need to play the common printing of the card. No one wants yo have to buy new copies of cards they already have. Magic doesn't do this. I can play my 9th edition Forests in Standard, my Revised Lightning Bolts in Modern, and my Uncommon Goblin Grenades in Pauper.

as a magic player my impression of modern yugioh very much is that every single deck is just an out of the box prepackaged archetype that was designed from the ground up to play with exactly that decklist, and that seems to me like it would severely limit creativity and deck variety. More than the speed or power level of the game, that's the big thing that seems to me like a problem, and really those other things are symptoms of the decks just being designed in a lab as these incredibly efficient machines to combo off turn one. I love playing Goat, the game is a ton of fun when you can just play a normal deck with a variety of cards instead of 14 tutors in a specified sequence into a boss monster.

Yu-Gi-Oh Deck Master format: (tldr: select deck master monster, signature spell, and personal trap, 1 of every card 60 deck size) 1. Select a monster to be your deck master. Other monsters in your deck may only be summoned in the same way as the deck master (tribute, ritual, fusion, xyz, pendulum, special). The deck master starts the duel on the field in the master zone. Monsters in the master zone cannot be targeted or affected by any cards, nor can they attack or be attacked, though they do count for card effects like having a dark type monster on the field. 1a. Once per turn a player may activate their deck master ability. (Abilities are either the monsters effects [e g. if this monster destroys a card in battle... -> target monster gains this effect until next turn]), perhaps modified for a DM format, or a generic effect based upon element/attribute for monsters with no effect). 1b. A player may summon their deck master to a monster zone at any time with all their remaining LP transferred to the deck masters attack or defense. The player is now unable to be attacked directly, and loses the game if the deck master leaves the field under any condition except reverse summoning. 1c. A player may reverse summon their deckmaster during their main phase, with the same cost it took to bring out the deck master. Their LP are returned, however, if their deck masters attack or defense was lowered then only a proportional amount of LP are returned. 2. Select a signature spell. This card is added to your starting hand. If this card is in the graveyard, you may pay 2000LP (4000LP if banished) to add it to your hand. 2a. If you summon this card to your hand, you may not play any other spells besides your signature spell for the rest of your turn. 2b. This card may be banished from anywhere to pay the costs of a card effect or summon. If you do, you may not play any more spells until the end of your turn. 3. Select a personal trap. This card starts the duel face down in a spell/trap zone. 3a. You may tribute one monster, discard a card, or pay 2000LP to summon this card to the field and it may be activated immediately.

The comments are wild. Ygo is hard to learn, hard to play and hard to stand by. Saw one comment about a nice casual commander deck "only" costing 200 or less. Casual ygo decks (or decks that are almost meta) maybe cost 100 max. The only problem i see when playing ygo is not understanding powerlevels. While in magic you have to had played like 3 or 4 rounds to really see a difference in power, ygo immediatly tells you if your deck is either too strong or too weak. If you and your friendgroup can balance your decks around each others youll be having fun

Ok Yugi players, what's the problem with this: 1. You may only activate 1 spell card (face up) and 1 facedown backrow per turn. 2. You may summon only twice - special or not (no 1x normal summon limit) 3. Even if not normally required - if you special summon a 6 stars you must sacrifice a monster, 8 stars - sacrifice 2. This demand is in addition not instead of any other prerequisites the monster might have unless it requires tribute summoning the "correct amount" to begin with (for example fusion summoning a 8 stars by fusing 2 monsters bypass tributes IF those monsters were already on the field, but you must tribute 2 if they were in your hand) 4. Whenever a card says 'search for a x card' (for example search your deck for a blue eyes card) you are now allowed to search ANY card. 5. Same as 4 goes for any other mention, any fusion requirements, any ritual requirements, any synergy, all works. 6. On your draw phase before drawing a card you may declare that you will not summon this turn and if you do you may set an additional backrow or activate an additional spell card this turn. 7. If it is your opponent's turn and a card instructs you to special summon, you may do so up to once, tribute rules are still in effect.

Out of the dozens of card shops I've played at (and worked for) that run YGO tournaments in the last 20 years.... 2 of them have fully supported alternate formats. The card shops simply don't have any desire to support YGO in general; even if most of their customers are playing. I worked as the "YGO" guy at a store once, and was able to get around 100 players concurrently every month because I supported alternate formats. But the moment the store was able to get FNM going, the owners lost all interest in YGO and as a result, lost 90% of our YGO players.

A Yu-Gi-Oh format where you can only summon once per turn (not normal summon, total) could go pretty hard. No one could say there's a recent deck that would benefit from such a ruleset, and you definitely wouldn't be playing monsters from 2005. The game was originally designed to be played like this, because as it turns out if you can summon 20 things per turn it's kinda a problem that there is no mana like resource system in the game.

Restrict actions per turn, but allow a single card type to be substituted to another. Prevent inf comboing, but break card synergy restrictions

Considering how many alternative formats happen in the anime (and especially the video games), I am very surprised none of them have caught on for yugioh, even if only in very niche communities. Like, there was an entire season that was basically EDH format, i feel like that would synnergize so well with how archetypal yugioh is now!

Yugioh players don't know how to deck build, much less evaluate a format. The jump from Timmy's first 40 cards to a constructed level deck is just so massive and so unguided by principles like curve or ratio that essentially every yugioh player begins netdecking, and most never stop. The reason we don't have cubes and variant formats and such popping up all the time is because, when they do, very few yugioh players come forward with the desire and the mechanics to engage with them.

The big, very big problem of speed duel imo, was NOT the fact that it got undersupported at launch: it's the fact that you WERE ONLY ALLOWED TO USE CARD VERSIONS WITH A GIGANTIC "SPEED DUEL" WATERMARK PRINTED ON THE CARD TEXT. So basicly if you wanted to play nostalgic "stone age yugioh", with the vanillas and mediocre effects you knew from your childhood, you were obligated to buy their new product, which barely/almost never reprinted cards that were usuable for the "standard" format. A lot of people were all for it to play an officially konami sanctioned format with their vanillas found in old boxes in their basement & playground-years , but were not willing to buy boxes of 60+ bucks just to play with vanillas, bad flip- monsters and "Darkness Approach". That one caviat ruined speed duel for sooo many people. Just felt as another cash grab nostalgia bait product.

As someone who has run and been in early for a lot of alt formats like you describe, the issue is that because of HOW modern cards are designed, any format without widespread sweeping changes to the rules will look functionally the same as advanced format. The best deck is the best deck, if it wasnt konami couldnt sell packs

whoever solves to cross compatibility issues in Yu-Gi-Oh will create a single unbeatable archetype

I would like to see what Yu-Gi-Oh looks like with a permanent "Vengeful Bog Spirit" effect, akin to Summoning Sickness. That should really slow it down and allow for more interaction and slower games since opponents would get a turn before a creature can attack.

I have an idea for a format "Homeless" only cards allowed without an archetype.

Attachment to decks is likely the biggest issue. Getting into any archetype in YuGiOh is akin to relearning the game compared to Magic. There are decks, cards and strategies in Magic that completely fall apart between formats, but then we find new ways to use and break other cards. This would be easier with older YGO, but so many of the modern cards are reliant on archetypes that you'd often feel like you're playing a powered down version of your deck. Players would have to treat the archetype synergies as accidental bonuses or stepping stones to some big non-archetype related play.

I don't play because I would want to actually play the game instead of sit down, shuffle, game over because I didn't go first. Magic uses mana to balance the relative speed/power of each deck. Even if you run the fastest deck, i have a chance to get my defense set up or interrupt (counter spell/removal) your plan. So what about first player can only play 1 card first turn. The second can play 2. First can now play 3. Then 4, etc. Like hearthstone. It would make deck construction as much about stopping your opponent while also setting up win con.

Common Charity and similar rarity limitations are the best bet for the game at this point. These limit the most busted nonsense but allows for the cards that are forgotten within the various archetypes a chance to shine. Commander is a massive problem in Magic due to its gameplay and design patterns and would be a total disaster for Yu-Gi-Oh! The problems arise from the huge singleton deck encouraging the use of tutors and the Commander encouraging combo based gameplay. This combines to create a format that naturally gravitates to OTK combo decks and prison/stax/floodgate-type lockdown control decks. In other words, it encourages all the worst tendencies you are trying to control for with the alternative formats!

A really broken but potential format would be Dual Type, each deck focuses on 2 archetypes and each monster within those archetypes count as both archetypes. So for instance, all of my rescue-ace monsters are also Salamangreat monsters, and all of my Salamangreat monsters are also Recue-ace monsters

As a non YGO player I’ve been saying for awhile now that they should print a set like Modern Horizons for a new format that uses exclusively the cards in that set. Would let them build up a new standard with a more tailored power level/design

No matter what the new format should be, it is important that you can play the decks sensibly against someone who doesn't know the format and doesn't have a suitable deck.

There are attempts at mapping Yu-Gi-Oh onto a commander template. This works fine in practice. Thing is, both Yu-Gi-Oh and Commander are infamous for complicated board states, and putting those two things together makes the whole thing complex as hell.

I think the issue with draft is that the rules do not support it in the current state and that Battle packs just had horrid card selection. You were just playing 1800 pseudo vanilla beatdown with power spells and traps. Battle Pack 3 actually had a really good idea which has to allow every monster to count as every type so they could throw in more synergy cards. The actual draft solution would be to go further and treat every card that is part of an archetype as part of every other archetype. So you could effectively draft every set without any need for konami to adjust anything. Everyone just picks the good cards and tries to build a unique combo deck that isnt possible in the regular game.

So that is incorrect <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="940">15:40</a>. It is just type/attribute/archetype/specific cards listed anywhere on the cards as simple as that!

I'd argue Master Duels festivals fill a similar niche to alternative formats for a casual audience in YGO. There were also also several alt formats like rush duel, duel links (it's bigger than hearthstone!) and duel terminal.

As a non-Yugioh player. Why not make a cube where you cross-over different archtypes? Like for example (if we stick to the color analogy) every card that cares about blue creature types is now erratad to work for green and yellow also. E.g. every card that cares about Elemental Heros also works for Dark Magicians and vice versa. It would allow for cards to be more versatile and possibly work for a cube draft. It would certainly require some effort but since cube is such an amazing format its ought to be worth it.

Commander style but you get to pick one creature type and any creatures you put in your deck become that type, and maybe also their abilities get altered to affect that type. Like a dude who pulls a dragon type from your graveyard will instead pull whatever your chosen type is. Maybe both together would be too much lol

New yugioh format: Any card that searches your deck, special deck, or side deck is banned.

Man I would love to see Jamin or other Magic players playing Edison. I think they would like the speed and broadness of the format.

It's pretty clear from that convo the problem is the community not the company

Also one thing on alternative formats: I really dislike "retro" formats, stuff like magic's Premodern or yugioh's Edison always feels far too stuck. I don't want a frozen card pool, i want new and shiny cards and change in the pool! I really like the concept of Standard for this.

A thing with trying to play an alternative format in yugioh is that finding strategies is ridiculously complicated to the point that if you were to make a new rule set trying to deckbuild is just a nightmare.

As a yugioh player I’m getting more and more convinced that Magic is more fun Also hot take: Floodgates could make interesting formats. Imagine a format with no monster effects and you have to build a deck, or a format that only allows two summons a turn. The problem with floodgates in the meta is one deck builds around them and the other is hurt by it

The reason I play Yu-gi-oh! is the fact there's no format but you can always groups meta eras into formats. Hell I play TOSS with my friends just to play Salad.

Yes PLEASE play domain. The format NEEDS more mainstream exposure and it is incredibly fun to play.

yugioh is fundamentally more of a slot machine arcade game, it is first a video game one could say. while magic is more of a "board game" in that sense. understanding this will change how you view this game, fully embracing this makes it way more enjoyable

There are so many formats that yugioh could have, but outside of time wizard, all the other formats have small to almost non existent communities. Trinity, junior journey, common charity, deck master, and highlander would be fun side events, but i dont see it happening.

There was a draft set in Yugioh called War of the Giants and it was a non-archetypal set that was made for drafting and NO ONE PLAYED IT

nice! more mtg x ygo! knowing both magic and yugioh, yeah, the format thing really is a huge difference between yugioh and mtg. magic has all these different ways to play the same cards, and it's all very fun, while in yugioh there's only really one way to play, with the cards themselves acting as restrictions on how they could be played, making other formats difficult to create and play with the same amount of fun as the main format is.

not every deck should be viable in every format. the example if having a format that restricts the number of special summons may invalidate a ton of decks, but that's part of the point of having a different format is hopefully getting different decks to shine instead of just playing the same decks with a few cards swapped.

Konami would never do this and whales would hate this but I think they should just bite the bullet. Release a core set that is huge and entirely reprints and then start a new rotation with only that core set legal. Going forward, design new sets with a 2 year rotation in mind and lean into attributes rather than archetypes for card synergies. When designing cards, treat the 6 attributes as the only 6 archetypes each of which has strengths and weakness, like color pie theory in magic.

I dunno when this video was filmed, but like 2 weeks ago Konami announced Yugioh Retro Games which a lot of people believe it will become the organization that will officialize retro formats like Edison, Geaot, DUEA.

New format from non-YGO player: All cards that search your library is banned. Rest is fine. You're welcome.

Id love a yu gi oh commander style format, Speed duel was the tcg's attempt at its own version of rush duel + duel links

I know most players won’t like it but they should try a standard format. Make it like a 2/3 year rotation with 1 reprint set each year that goes into standard. And keep both formats. You would kinda need to start fresh so that power level is balanced. It should be a more simplified game and more welcoming to new players while injecting more value into new sets while some cards are great in standard but not good enough in advanced format.

Would love to see you guys make a domain format Yugioh video!

Do domain