Are The Yu-Gi-Oh Tins as Bad as Everybody Says? Well... 

Can't wait to pay $20 for a secret rare token, and a QRC Green Gadget

there's a whole lot of "why is this in here?" cards lol

Your pulls were defo above average from what I've seen, and even then it's still 90% bloated filler. Singles all the way

Ok, so I think the reason the sticker says XYZ-Dragon Cannon has a different art is because the art on the tin is the uncensored OCG version of the art, which you can tell by the design of the canons on X-Head Cannon. Weird detail, but it is technically different

The problem isnt really short printing or anything. Its just that the structure of the set now requires you to pull more packs to try and get the chase cards, which is going to bump up the price of singles since anti-consumer practices like this will only result in less people opening and selling these on the secondary market. This is an L for vendors, and thus an L for the consumer. So yeah, its a bad product.

I don't know why these tins give off fake AliExpress vibes.

Paying 20 bucks for a prismatic (🤢) secret token and 2/3 QCR Gadgets: 💩 Paying 30 bucks for every single hit you wanted from the set: 🗿

How long has it been the “25th anniversary?” Feel like I’ve been seeing that for a while.

For those wondering about XYZ Dragon Cannon at the start. On the tin it actually uses its uncensored artwork from the OCG. As in the OCG it has like actual cannons while the TCG art it has laser cannons instead!

Yes, full stop. This product is hot garbage

I'd be at least a little happy if I can pull something like that first box on Christmas, but the other 3 can make kids cry, who tf thought :"ah yes, QCR Link Spider, that'd be cool to print".

Im cool with the super old cards getting QCR but they need to keep it to like 5 in the pool. Nobody tryna pay 21 dollars for a secret token and a QCR green gadget 🤣

These tins are a scam

3 packs in a tin? Aww hell nah, i thought it was atleast 5 or 6 packs. 3 for such random cards feels like a scam.

Like a lot of products, this feels like two different products merged together in one. You either want the reprints from the last year and couldn't care less about the retro cards, or you're like me and only want the nostalgia bait. I feel like that ends up killing the value of like 80% of the pulls because everyone is going to be looking to get ride of half their pulls. Which makes it even harder to justify paying $22 per tin instead of buying singles.

Notice Paul paid $21.99 per tin. One of the tags we’re left on a tin. This man paid over $84 dollars for tins. Plus tax. Just for 4 tins. Does that really sound worth it to you?

This tin is an example of why i quit 3 months ago

Ygo has fallen off (All those QCR, +tokens could have been in a Promo pack)

Yay! A shiny Link Spider! Totally worth it! 🙄 Konami is scamming people with this trash.

Holy shit most of these cards are just garbage filler from the last 2 tins. They even added filler from duelist nexus lmao. They didn't even get a bump in rarity. Fire king backfire players are feasting with extra cuckoos (a common card that some shops give away if you wanna buy them) I guess lmao Also they were more generous with digit jamming this year I see. Which is still a common for some reason. Man this game is going downhill

We all must channel that inner AVGN and ask: "What were they thinking?!"

Emergency was a common in duelist nexus lol

those tins are a scam some people at my locals just buy the tins not even knowing whats in it hoping to pull something nice and i just sat there thinking not gonne happen bro

I feel like these tins are made more for people like me. People that don't or can't participate in tournaments, but just kinda like to collect the shiny nostalgic cards

I love that you pulled many of the cards you guys talked down on during the podcast. Konami heard this and was like, "A CURSE UPON YE!"

The format for the Megatins and rarity collection should be combined.

Edison / goat are gaining popularity so fast. And as a player from that era I love these rarity upgrades to old cards. Couldn’t care less about getting something from the current meta

When hearing it was 400 cards plus all the marketing around it, I assumed it was going to just translate the OCG sets of Side:Unity and Side:Pride which were explicitly anime-celebration sets of 200 cards apiece just with a handful of non-anime cards in there as well. But it isn't, it's just 400 cards for no reason. It guess for the purposes of being the annual tin it wouldn't really make sense for it to be an anime set with a ton of cards across many years but it's still just a really odd set. Seeing it's putting random pack filler as commons instead of stuff that works with the rest of the set is weird. The set has, like, Purrely, Mannadium and Mikanko cards in it and even assuming you don't want to make cards available in multiple rarities you could include common variants of stuff like My Friend Purrely, Visas Starfrost and Mikanko Fire Dance as cards that those individual decks run, that are not in the 400 card setlist of Dueling Mirrors, and that do not currently have common printings (ignore 2 player starter set it doesn't exist). People would probably appreciate those sort of cards in the set instead of things like Sari of the Silverwing Axe or Aqua Chorus Round. Theia is a "counter-Nibiru" card that frankly is not really that great at countering Nibiru and also doesn't really need to exist. Obviously the use is that if you play into Nibiru, you tribute the token for Theia, then pop the opponent's Nibiru, and your opponent is HARD locked to 4 summons then in your turn you turn Theia into something else.

The thing about nostalgia cards being in packs is the nostalgia is not there anymore, anyone who cares about nostalgic cards for yugioh has been long gone; the game is just for the semi-competitive to competitive players now.

The "someone else might enjoy this" feeling is a big part of what's driven me away from sealed product over the years. I want to open things that feel good to me, not things I have to try and justify the existence of while staring blankly at them later that day.

While some people can be excited for the Quarter Century anime cards(though Relinquished Anima is just a good card in general), the product as a whole is pretty much $22 for 3 shiny cards they recognize and a fistful of nothing. They should've pushed these back into a retro product that the Yugioh Retro Games account is about... except for Link Spider.

The biggest grips i have the this years tins are the insane cardpool (400+ cards) and that EVERYTHING worthwhile is secret but also useless cards DMG and tokens.

My local Walmart has last year's mega tin for 15.00 dollars. So I broke down and picked one up. I also bought 3 packs of The Rarity Collection 2. This is the first time in over a year that I've purchased sealed products. I got a Quarter Century Secret Rare Utopia Promo from the Tin, and a QCSR Abyss Dweller from the Packs. So I am sad that this years Mega Tin doesn't come with a promo QCSR.

"A nice little collection of very disparate cards" is probably the perfect description of everyone's pulls from these tins

Thank you for the video. I bought three for fun because of the general sentiment around the tins’ massive card pool. I looked at it more as something cool/fun to do, at the suggestion of another creator. Opening packs of pretty looking cards can be its own reward, and I’m more a collector that dabbles in meta decks once in a while. I am now convinced the tins can sense your intent going in because holy cow I was so rewarded. Got 9/10 of the cards I wanted most, and some very lucky rarity upgrades. Pulling the QCR Blue Eyes with the original art probably made my day more than any S:P Little Knight would’ve. That said, ain’t no shame in the buying singles game. Hope everyone pulling from this tin has great luck and, above all, fun.

Can’t wait for a secret rare token and a qcr red gadget I didn’t ask for. Singles all the way.

the link spider had me howling

XYZ- dragon cannon is uncensored in the side of the tin

I need monarch qcr konami always forgets this archetype

While part of me is happy to see a lot of out of print cards being reprinted, a lot of these are extremely unnecessary and a 400 card pool is way too much. There's only a few cards I really want in this set (dark corridor, cosmic blazar dragon, accel synchro stardust dragon, the synchrons and chimera cards) and I see no point in buying a tin aside from supporting my favourite card shops. Instead of having everything shoved in a needlessly bloated set, what they should've done was release 2 or 3 different tins with 100 card pools themed around GOAT/EDISON, Meta and/or other themes.

In Canada paid $30 for one, kept telling myself I'll pull a token what do you know i pulled a token

they did a mistake with the art of xyz dragon, the one in the card is correct it's the gun cannon is censored, but the one in the tin is uncensored which is for OCG, the funny thing is dark magician girl is censored on the image printed on the tin, so yeah they just forgot to censor xyz dragon cannon

Not that anybody is playing Link Spider anymore, it was overdue for a reprint as it had not been printed since 2018.

Scareclaw Kashtira is not a rarity upgrade because an OTS pack gave us that rarity already.

I bought two tins and the fact that to tokens take the place one of your secret rares is ridiculous

Not getting any Tokens is a relief😅

Its so nice of Konami to give us these tins to store all of the bulk shit that comes out of their crappy packs :D

Now that you pulled the Nemleria search spell, you should play Nemleria. 🤣

The 25th anniversary reminds me of the New Orleans Tricentennial here where i live that started in like 2018 and lasted 3 years.

I feel if the QCR slot was a promo outside of the pack and we got another ult or possibly another chance at a secret then these would have been better received. That being said as someone relatively new to getting back into the game I do enjoy the product and the chance of getting things I’ve missed in the last year

Once I saw YugiohCardMarket's stats comparing the pull rates of the 2019 tin to the 2024 tin, yeah it seems very bad 😢

400 cards in this set is ridiculous

It's funny you say Sour Scheduling - Red Vinegar Vamoose looks like a Suship card: in the OCG lore book, they confirm that it is in the same "lore" as Suship. It potentially also references the fact that Shari Red released in POTE, multiple sets after the initial wave in DAMA, since the name and art imply some kind of delay. Shari's flavor text also has the restaurant owner say that they will introduce red vinegar in the near future.

XYZ Dragon Cannon on tin is uncensored

Mega packs are just 2002-2006 yugioh random cards in one pack. Archetypes really sold the whole buying 2 or more boxes for a decklist.

I bought two tins like I do every year, and was lucky enough to pull a couple of the rares I wanted, DMG and Red Eyes. For the most part, there wasn't too much in the tins that struck my fancy that I'll buy more of the tins, as I didn't play Snake Eyes, and I built my Illusion deck when the cards were cheap for a bit. I will probably pick up some more singles later.

I’ll get two tins just to have them. But the pack art is so plain it’s crazy

It kinda feels like Konami gave us a second chance to pull the cards we wanted, but threw in a lot of randomized cards to fill the dead space.

Gotta be honest this feels like it should've been 2 different products. Like, keep the design on one tin featuring anime cards for those collectors. Then maybe a design with current meta cards that has competitive cards like Snake-Eyes & Yubel.

this tin seems so weird q: the 2023 tin was pretty dope, after buying a few i had pretty much all the cards id need for very specific decks, dinos, labrynth, blackwing, runik and so on. the og cards seem cool but overall a more focused box that would lead to some of the new modern decks would have been nicer. think ill be passing on this one sadly

EMERGENCY was actually released later as a common in duelist nexus

The art of XYZ Dragon Cannon is slightly different as it's the censored TCG version. The art on the tins is the Lost Art/OCG version EDIT: other's appear to have mentioned that already, so I'll just say that the only QCR I'd be at all interested in is Light Stage, and that's due to me being a Trickstar player

The only reason for me to get it, is because it likely has cards I don't own and a lot of them.

The old cards should've been their own product for those who want those and a seperate product for the people that want meta cards. Just 2 products at 200 each with tikens and QCRs as promos seperate from the 3 packs. Splitting them into two products would've solved the entire problem

Honestly as cool as some as those cards are…. I think I’ll stick with buying singles on TCGPlayer. But I might buy one just for the tin alone

Well, I'm happy you got a tax write-off on this as a business expense. If nothing else, in the name of science, an autopsy, if you will, but in a world that made sense, this product in my mind has been replaced by Rarity Collection so well that it doesn't even make me remember how good tins used to be, but be grateful that Konami themselves have moved on and gave us something infintely better in almost every way. I look forward to Bonanza.

I was actually excited about the gadgets XD. Just picked up a play set of all 3.

Problem with this set is also there is no ultra rare worth more than 0.10 cent so if you miss on the secret slot you will not even get half of the price of the tin back.

I just wanted shiny ninjas but Konami said "no, have Cassimolar upgrade"

As a nostalgic player I just want to collect the og cards. I don't want to collect winged Kuriboh and stuff. And also, as a set collector, these tins provide absolutely no value at all

It would be great if the tins could be deck boxes with packs inside. Less real-estate taken up for shipping and more utility of actual product.

There are so many cards in here that I ask, “Why?” 🤣

These tins are so fucking bad that they could have removed all of the 150 commons and the set would still have 100 commons.

I don't mind if anime or older format cards have QCR, but they could have left it to a specific product for that. In an tin people are expecting reprints of newer cards.

It's impressive that they managed to have SO MANY cards and still avoid somehow every single archetype I care about! I was honestly looking forward to the tin, I've been getting into physical Yu-Gi-Oh a bit this year after mostly playing master duel and the tins are pretty and cool... then I saw the set list and man... it's rough.

Quick note, dis pater wasn't a super, it was a fairly expensive ultra.

EDIT: Is the BGM at 12:10 a remix of ARC-V OP 3? Is there a name for this version? The dragon cannon art on the card is censored, yet the tin is the original uncensored art. As for the set list for this tin.. They could have easily put the oldschool cards and the Token in a separate promo pack like they did last year's tin. They're missing some rarity upgrades, like the new Abyss Actors.. I was really looking forward to blinging them out.

Scatter Fusion was in last years tins as a UR as well.

I noticed the XYZ Dragon Cannon sticker and that it was the same art too lol

Over here where I live these tins are mega worth considering that 1 tin is the same price as like 3-4 packs of any other normal set, I'd rather have 3 qcr, secrets and ultras over MAYBE 1 secret if lucky

The giant gun is missing on XYZ Dragon Cannon.

Really don’t know why the tokens weren’t just promo cards.

Konami just reselling us their factory backstock at this point

XYZ Dragon Cannon has its uncensored version on the tin.

Legitimately I think this is Konami’s worst product in years I have yet to see a single tin opening where I thought it would be worth the money

The Tin shows the OCG art the actual card is the TCG art regarding XYZ Dragon Cannon

While I DID want cards like Snake Eyes, and Horus, SP Little Knight, Thrust, they are still extremely pricey and insanely hard to pull. This product is so bad I don't even want to buy singles.

5:35 omg that was so funny!

The cards in the UK packs are laid out differently. The first few are commons, then all the ultras, then the secret, then the QCR then the rest of the commons. Wonder why?

Kashtira Scareclaw is quite the rarity upgrade 🙀🙀 I have commons of that 😅

This is my problem with packs nowadays. Too many cards i dont care for. Im a sucker for classic cards but it just doesnt feel worth it. Duelist packs used to be amazing due to the fact that you got cards solely for 1 archetype, allowing you to build a decent deck 10x faster than trying to pull 1 archetype from a whole set of nonsene

Im gonna be 100% here- I don't care about the tins, not because I think the rarities are bad, but because I'm over the 25th anniversary stuff. I desperately want them to get back to the Branded and Visas storylines in the main sets and back to high rarities that are actually difficult/exciting to pull. QCR went from discount Starlight to basically just secret rare but uglier.

I hate it when Konami doesn’t follow the theme of their Tin . Have yugi and kaiba but hardly any cards they use .

3:25 from looks of it it's uncensored version on the tin. Focus you attention on x-head cannon's...cannons.

Likely the quarter century anniversary will last through 2027 to cover the TCG quarter century as well.

Still pissed off they took out Drytron Nova from the tin

I pulled the QCR DMG from my 3 tins and I still think they are pretty ass. The fact that out of 9 QCR pulls I managed to get 2 duplicates out of 36? feels off. I basically got 1 good decent per tin which I guess is decent enough, but overall there really is just TOO much garbage. Looking forward to grabbing 24-36 loose mega packs for far cheaper early-mid next year. Edit: also the fact that there is video evidence of 1:1 pack mapping in RU-vidr case openings is absolutely disgraceful and just shows how packs aren’t 100% random at all as they SHOULD be.

In regards to the 'clumping' I have only seen this in cases where people buy cases. Like seen two videos out of like 5 that I have watched for opening where players got cases. and 2 different sets of tins had the exact same 5 holos (secret, ultra, and qcr) all in the same order, same cards. so having 2 tins be complete duplicates of 2 other tins in the case is not fun to see unless it's like the most busted pulls ever.

Most if not all of the commons here are just reprints of commons from other sets. That's the main thing driving me away from getting some of these tins, usually yugioh packs are just skipping to the foil slots, but you at least get some new commons along the way. These aren't even new, they're just bulk from past sets with a different set code

So, Paul spent like $88 and was only interested in getting Snow Devil which is like a $1card.... Poor wallet.