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The "Shadow Realm" is the best thing to ever come from 4Kids censorship wave

Not only was mech chaser a tournament pack card, which were 3 card packs lol, it was the rarest in the set being UR when the packs didn't even guarantee silver rares.

the fact that there is a synchro pendulum is kinda crazy

Fun Fact: the Yu-Gi-Oh manga was only going to feature the card game for one chapter, but the readers asked where they could get the cards to play, so the entire series was shifted revolve around it because of the support of the fans

When he was naming cards with ridiculous names he missed out on interplanetarypurplythorny dragon

The part about sending cards to space, it was actually both. E-HERO Neos & the Neo Spacian archetype were in a separate capsule than Yubel, sent at different times, for different reasons. Neos and the Neo Spacians for the promo thing Kaiba was doing. Yubel because she was a detrimental threat to basically everyone in Jaden’s life as Yubel was basically a soul-bound yandere.

Sad to hear about the creator of Yugioh, he died an absolute hero tho. Actual legend.

I love mashing two archetypes together with a shitty link between them

"what we got in America was the PUSSY version of Yu-Gi-Oh" So true man😂😂

I took a break from 2005-2022 The learning curve was rough but master duel helped a lot. Far from an expert but I can keep up competitively now 😂

My favorite thing about yugioh was how the Egyptian god monsters can literally be destroyed by something as simple as fucking fissure... "These archetype cards can't be used in your current deck they need their own deck" *despia has entered the chat*

Iconic cards: Blue-eyes Dark magician Red-eyes Exodia Monster reborn Pot of greed Mirror force Call of the haunted (?) that one may just be me, since I have the second episode of gx where Chazz uses it and a guitar riff plays burned into my brain

Superrail Dreadnaught Gustav Max goes hard because it's literally just a card version of a giant Railway Gun the Germans had in WW1. That thing could shell Britain with how stupidly large it was, it took a couple dozen men to man it too. Please look it up if you've never seen it.

I'm so glad I got out of Yugioh right before 5Ds when they added all the crazy stuff. I came back years later thoroughly confused and absolutely hated all the new summoning mechanics. Never got back into it becaue of that, but I'll still play some of the old games. Tag Force is a lot of fun still. All the Synchro Pendulum bs just put a bad taste in my mouth, I don't find it fun anymore. I don't have a problem with people who love the games still, though they often give me shit for my opinion. It just isn't for me anymore. I enjoyed the slower and simpler pace in the old days. Even the broken stuff was fun, Yata was hilarious. A little bird that just slowly pecks your opponent to death, depriving them of resources. I never should have sold my old cards. So many pieces of cardboard worth hundreds now.

The Act Man of one of these duelists that when the opponent summons a Time Lord, thinks that the opponent is an idiot for summoning a 0 atk monster. Then proceed to attack it, wonder why they lost half their LP, and finally activate Raigeki just to find it can't be destroyed by card effects either.

I came back competitively in 2016 and I still have yet to win a locals but I’m finally decent enough to consider going weekly again. Master duel definitely revamped my love of the card game

You *can* mix archetypes sometimes, I’m a crystal beast enjoyer and the (arguably) strongest deck we have usually uses cards from other archetypes to help get the endboard

had a dude back when I started the game, he would literally pay for the whole room's tournament entries if they would just give him their Tournament Pack (TP1, with potential Mechanical Chaser), he ended up getting 3 of them in a few months, and would go on to win a big tourney where he got a giant Millennium Puzzle trophy. Kinda interesting to look back at on it now, lol

Oh my god, How did I only realize after watching. Charlie looks like the guy on Artifact Scythe

I think archetypes are one of the best things that have happened to Yugioh, because they allow you to explore many themes and combinations that you wouldn't otherwise explore. In addition to the existence of archetypes, it does not prevent mixing or trying combinations, it is not for nothing that there are cards with interesting synergies such as the Dogmatika-Invoked-Shaddoll deck that literally combines 3 different archetypes in a single deck. Also, I want to mention that the archetypes have allowed for amazing narratives to be told using the cards, just take a look at things like the "World Chalice" or the whole "Branded/Albaz" lore, which on their own could be their own anime.

joey's duel is always fun, sometimes even more entertaining than yugi's

Yugioh is not a kids card game at all. It’s so insanely in-depth and unlike any other card game. It’s insane. So many rulings and things that have to be done before this other thing and if this happens then this might, so on and so forth. It’s crazy.

JOE WHEELER IS OUR BOY Red-Eyes B. Dragon wasn't as strong, but he was the cooler dragon

It's amazing how poor that man's taste in card art is.

Yugioh fell off because it's no l9nger a chess match... just otks and shut downs 😢

I find archetypes boring. Deck building went from “find a unique combination of disparate cards” to find every card that mentioned “Predaplant” or “Blue Eyes” in it. Your deck is basically pre made for you now

Single player yugioh is so much better i really hope link evolution isnt their last single player experience

22:52 Dragoon is a beast of a card. But it's not neccesarily game breaking. Kaijius exist in YGO, and they're one of the greatest balancing mechanics Konami has ever created.

Honestly, ygo today is better than when it started. When it first started the only thing that mattered was attack and it was inherently just a non-functional game. Around GX i think they started realizing that the only way to fix that problem was to build cards around their effects and let stats/levels be a way to categorize them.

Im so glad yugioh is still mainstream, i still have loved it since 1998

I still love that Syrus has the speed duel skill “The Roids Are Alright!”

I had a choice of yugi’s starter deck or kaiba’s. Stupid young me thinking that since yugi’s the main character his deck is gonna be stronger. Nope. Dark Magician couldn’t beat Blue eyes straight up so it’s a disadvantage already. Still salty about it to this day cuz i got my ass beat by blue eyes from friends

Found my old yugioh cards this year, wanted to get back into it, immediately noped out when I saw how miserable the game looked these days between the card descriptions SOMEHOW GETTING LONGER AND SMALLER TEXT, way too complex mechanics, the way too long turn times, and the combos of the current metas not even feeling that rewarding or fun if you did put in the effort to learn the game Long story short got into MTG instead this year, shoulda just been playing it from the start, so stupid it costs 10x more money to get a competitive yugioh deck of cards printed mainly in the last 4 years vs MTG where you can pick up a win con card to play around for $0.09 and a competitive deck can be built for $40 vs $400

I played yugioh in a local card shop like a few hours ago I had to call over our resident official judge to clarify some unique situations that no one in the room had encountered before specifically around card wording and how literal we take the wording

Reminder that the "Vehicroid" archetype that Actman complains about came out in 2005.

Bro said ewww to a secret rare jinzo that isn’t 1st edition. I’d SHIT if I pulled one of those

He's talking about how the power creep prevents newcomers from enjoying the game because they have to know all effects each card has so they can use their deck in the best way they can. The problem isn't the mass amount of text a single card has, the problem is that 99% of modern cards have a mass amount of text... Why do you think Konami may be wanting to do a hard reboot with Master Duel by returning to its roots. There is just far too much stuff that happens in modern duels that anyone who want to get into the game (either after stopping for years or a complete newcomer) they will get overwhelmed very easily, even in casual dueling.

The cards sent to space were the neos cards but yubel was also sent to space so she could become safe to use (every time Jaden dueled with yubel the opponent was injured because Jaden lost and Yubel overreacted to his sadness at loosing), while the neos cards absorbed cosmic energy and became stronger, yubel was tortured, Jaden sensed this pain and suffered nightmares because of this and was forced to get brainwashed to repress his abilities and memories of yubel…they say original Yugioh was dark, GX is just trauma.

Its funny that Act Man brings up Yu-Gi-Oh's rules being so complicated it takes up 31 pages when Magic: The Gathering's is over 160 pages long and grows every set wuth each new mechanic. Edit: 260 pages, my bad.

in hearthstone we rage if otk'd turn 6-7 yugioh player: hold my beer you think you get a turn? pokemon player: shiny charizard!!!! magic player coudn't comment, lost his house buying the next meta deck

The art comment offended me, AS A TRAIN PLAYER

Moist Jesus needs a Ritual card to summon it and its only effect is to summon a monster from the graveyard?

Mystic Mine was a good and healthy card for a game that is super fast and the spell was easy to play around lol, it was never a problem, people just cant handle their tier 0 deck getting locked down. Its quite sad really. YuGiOh players are trash if they cant win with the wallet.

“Traps are useless now” me laughing in 3 copies of Evenly Matched

me who combined war machines with gigant trains and ww2 nazi cannons with little fairys from the forest because THEY ACTUALLY HAVE SINERGY:

Joey is my favorite being the 3. Not because of his card, but rather because of his personality. He is a underdog that became good enough to be in the top 3. He got hit by a literal god but was still standing with just his will power alone and almost defeated the main villain of that arc as a result. Joey and Yugi has more respect toward each other like a true best friend than Kaiba. He went toward the flames to rescue Yugi. He literary dived off the ship all just to rescue Yugi precious grandpa cards. He lost on purpose and lost his soul all just to make his girl happy. He is the most loyal friend you could ask for in the original Yugioh. And he also has the most cheerful personality between the 3 too. That's why his my favorite. Lol XD

Who didn’t want to be Joey?!? Red eyes, baby dragon, time wizard, jinzo dude is iconic and I like him more than kaiba only because he’s the underdog amd to win with his deck is a real challenge

I love yugioh but the card game is just terrible

Yugioh is great because it feels like the only card game where you can win by drawing a single card. Heart of the Cards isn’t marketing, that shit was real life

Yugioh is not even fun anymore. 15 min turns, 6 negates turn 1 is not fun. I'll stick with goat format

Of all the cards he says are busted he points at predaplants really. *5 min prior OTK someone with said deck* Yeah there balanced

Jesus Christ loves you

I am hating what yugioh is becoming. Ive been playing for like 15+ years but master duel ranked is miserable. There was a match i played the other day where my opponents first turn was 22-23 minutes long, i finished the current anime episode i was watching in the background and got around half way through the next episode by the time he had finished. By the time my first turn had started i had 1 card in my starting hand, couldn't draw monster cards or spell cards for the next 3 turns, so basically i didnt have a draw phase. There were 24 cards from my main deck now in the banish pile. And he could negate the first 3 things i placed on the board each turn and banish them. He could have killed me any time because he had like 20k attack on the board but he wanted to just annoy me so after 3 turns of me not having a draw phase he activated more copies of the cards that stop me from drawing so i had another 3 turns of it vanishing any monsters or spells i draw. Then after like an hour of me LITTERALLY not playing a card on the field he activated a card that destoryed a monster and we both take its attack as damage but then he activated a card that made him gain the damage instead so i went to around -24000 life points and he went to 32000 life point's. Its so fucking dumb playing these days, i have made one meta deck that wins me half the matches i play in ranked but i hate playing it because now my turns and their turns also take like five minutes each. So most days i just play with friends using anime decks, but you cant earn gems doing that so you are forced into ranked to earn gems if you want to make decks. Plus you get almost no gems playing online, i have 299 hours on master duel and i have just finished my 10th deck, it takes like a week of grinding to get one deck finished if its mostly ultra rares

Hardcore E-Hero user cuz for me, they are the most diverse archetype cause I have been using them for years now and I've won more often than I've lost cause they're so applicable and can counter most archetypes if you just understand how

As an OG Yugioh fan, I stopped playing the game once Yugi was no longer in the anime and the ancient Egyptian theme was gone. I tried to get into GX and I collected some of the hero cards but it just didn’t feel the same and it made me lose hype for the series as a whole.

Magic the gathering has formats and it’s still an issue. Although for legacy only the old cards a good modern is a bit better but still has issues and standard I don’t know how I would feel about having to constantly change so often

Yugioh fell off so hard. Played the shit out of it when Fire fists and Mermails were the hot shit, also played glad beasts which were super fun. The archetype thing I feel like is the main draw of Yugioh, though I definitely understand the fact that buying a pack feels like a waste when most of the cards you pull won't work in your deck.

I was raised Pentecostal, I was told the characters all had sex with each other and I couldn't have any cards lol.

A full video of "back in my day."

I was BIG yu gi oh kid when i was younger, i never knew how to play and id play for cards and the older kids would make up rules to take my cards and i just thought i sucked lmao

Your an actor and RU-vidr you got bread big dog I bet your collection is bigger then his if I had your type of money I would by every card to 😅

Actman is such a yugioh boomer though he can't appreciate how much better the game actually is now

I only left the game for like 3 or so years, and ive been playing again for a few months, and i STILL dont fully understand how to effectively play a pendelum deck

32:21 suships is actually fun, it’s good XYZ engine. Run a utopia package and have fun.

1:02 new era. Each new show represents a new yugioh era.

Looking back I think kiba was warning use about Elon musk lol

I have a theory. Yugioh will die out with millennials

Easy way to fix modern Yu-Gi-Oh is a summon limit. Limit it to 5 summons per turn and boom. Boards can't be so oppressive.

idk that pokemon OG theme goes pretty damn hard, both great tho

Remember playing 'Wind Up' and actually discarding someone's entire hand before they got to even draw their first card. Or magic library and goblin merchant one turn KO

Mystic Mine has been banned for years

I definitely wanted to play as joey wheeler. Im definitely in the minority, but that baby dragon time wizard combo just hits different. Especially that bandit keith fight. I miss watching that on my vhs tape.

10:18 icon cards in the game ? “ I think the monarch cards comes to mind” bro what 😂

"it was actual pay to win for a min" IT STILL IS (or 10 luck)

Im not even joking, the 'gagaga' deck is cool

“Cursed to believe he’s on fire for the rest of his life” haven’t seen season 0 yet so I don’t know if they changed it, but in the manga dude wasn’t cursed he dropped his cigarette into the alcohol and set himself on fire 💀

It's funny to me people in the comments talking about other people comparing Yu-Gi-Oh and mtg. What some people ether don't know or forgot is that Yu-Gi-Oh spawned from mtg. In the manga the game was originally called magic and wizards like I don't know how much more blatant it could be. Yu-Gi-Oh exists because the creator was a fan of mtg.

Yugioh is actually, revenue wise, very far down the list around 5 billion. Marvel and all that is above that. But it's above Mortal Kombat but below Demon Slayer which is interesting. And My Little Pony... which is... what?

Wow. Card text went from 19 to 74? 😮How can you have something so good and fumble it? Start from the beginning. Keep all original cards and make a new game using original. They should make a card that the name is the card. The whole card is text 😂 lI’ve never watched any other anime, but Yu-Gi-Oh is still one of the best cartoons (I’m sure that’s not the correct term, but you get what I am saying). They need to make the show into a game with the option for VR battles PVP online and local. I’m not sure why they haven’t made some sort of PVP exactly like the show. To play online you could earn cards or play in person with your own deck. To keep it fair, your friends can look at your deck to ensure you’re not cheating. Online they could just have set decks that they update with the real card game.

I have the theory that this game was never really designed or balanced to begin with. It took years, before proper decks with some form of synergy came out and the lack of balance haunts this game to this day.

32/l00 the art now is so bad I can't even see them. Like I can't even see the head of some Swordsouls. Some cards you can't even see their bodies properly without squnting like htat psychic syncrho.

18:20 & 20:00 ... I'd rather have a mystic mine than wait 20 minutes for turn 1 and then lose to omni negates. 23:40 ... Floodgates will force them to play yugioh back to 2003 lol

1 year later and still hearing Charlie think that dragoon is anything but a noob trap.

Pendulem completly kikled yugioh for me, when ever a yugioh game uodates an adds them i stop playing the game, i love yugioh but i cant stand pendulem

far as i am concerned it should jjust be 1 or 2 special summons. Playing with anyone now is jjust 20 minutes of them doing crap then stopping you from playing anything on your turn. and everyone is playing the same cards so it was pointless to play.

i love how people that makes comments about how "bad" and "not fun" yugioh now are people that never play yugioh, or people that play yugioh from back then (2002) as a coughing babies in playground

I think any game would be too much for me at a serious level. I'm a simple casual player just gaming for the cool feels and the nostalgia. But pokemon and mtg does sound easier.

i stopped playing after the blackwings came out whenever the hell that was i was still having fun and the blackwing deck i had was OP as hell. Really showed the early signs of summoning way too many monsters in one turn and i was blasting people with it. Glad i got out of it then though because it sounds so much worse now

I have to say it… we can’t all have a 1st edition jinzo Charlie. It’s like 500 bucks for one in near mint condition. Honestly, it’s hard enough for me to decide to spend 40-50 for a near mint unlimited of jinzo! That’s all though, rant over.

Na i jus started playing master duel recently after 18 years lol im adjusting pretty well 🤣

I think Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments should just have divisions, like a Normal summon/Ritual summon division, a synchro division, a pendulum division, etc. Just so people can compete in whatever style they want.

Joey Wheeler is the lad. Bullshit magical puzzle powers or infinite money not required

Joey was a real one. The only one brave enough to run an all monster deck!

Pendulum best deck. Especially D/D I love D/D

been a long time since i watched GX so i could be wrong but i think its was both neos and yubel and possibly the neo spaceins that kabia sent to space they were desgined by jaden for a competion held by kabia and the winner of the competion there designs would be made into cards and sent into space i cant remember the reason he wanted to send them into space could have been to duel aliens

Everytime you say "those went hard" those in fact didn't go hard.

nice edit on the magic ruler

37:18 yes they are awesome

I'm 19 and I'm clapping cheeks with my hero deck ( branded when I feel like actually want to win cuz sprit is a thing 😢)

yugiboomers bitching about pendulums when they have only broken the game idk maybe twice? its hilarious edit this dude is literally the yugiboomer that all of us bitch about lmfao