Duel Masters Was Weird (Surprisingly Not a YU-Gi-Oh Clone) | Billiam 

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The Duel Masters anime was fun. It was like, an abridged series before those were a thing.

This used to be super big in Hungary, but we didn't know the rules, so we played it like rock-paper-scissors based on the color of the cards. And I never knew that there was a series

I’ve been exposed to Yugioh for long enough that 3 turns to OTK an opponent sounds slower than continent drift

That Yu-Gi-Oh vs duel masters challenge was the most badass elementary school thing I've ever heard! 😂 😂

Fun fact, yugioh was also based on magic the gathering, when Kazuki Takahashi introduced it in the manga

"most competitive decks were made to end the game in THREE turns..." that's yugioh as well

I remember the show being hilarious due to just how meta it became, like there was no 4th wall, they obliterated it. References which ep number it was and stuff like that, they definitely gave up on the actual premise and tbh I kind of loved it

Duel Masters has the best artwork when it comes to card games. I'm happy that it lives in Japan and is the second most popular card game there. Despite dying in the west.

I remember as a kid I never heard of duel masters. I got into an argument because another kid wanted to play duel masters and I said "you mean duel monsters" cause that's what they call Yu-Gi-Oh in the anime. After an escalated yelling fit he showed me his cards and I realized we were talking about two different things.

One of the original artists for Magic the Gathering was my Art teacher in college. He's a cool guy.

I had the starter kit as a kid. I never ended up laying with anyone but seeing this video reminded me how much I liked the art.

I remember her like 5 years ago I found one of these packs at a random little discount store for $0.50 and it had a f****** bulshock dragon in it.

its funny how i never understood how the card is played because of the absurd parody dub.

Back in middle school at least in my circle of friends Duel Masters was that nice medium between Yugioh and Magic, while Yugioh had a almost paragraphs of text on a single card Duel Masters was pretty simple and was easy to get my friends into. Until the Ultimate Dragon archetype came along it was actually super balanced because we were all dumb kids and the game was still so new there wasn't a established meta for a pretty long time, partly in due to just so few people playing it. The anime in the beginning took itself seriously but just gave up half way in the season and basically became a comedy as the dubbing company started writing their own material which deviated from the original Japanese script. Not a ton of people may remember Duel Masters but as a shoddily produced Japanese IP coming state side a ton of my friends loved it but eventually we all just went back to Yugioh...

Back when I was a kid (about 2006/2007) we would organize badass neighbourhood vs neighbourhood Duel Masters competitions and every damn block kid, regardless of age, would come play. And if you chose yu gi oh over duel masters you were pretty much considered a heavy douchie nerd. It was a massive craze for a couple of years. Kids would make up strategies to fool and steal cards from one another and Ive seen some punches being thrown over lost duels. Idk how it was in the US but in my east-european town it was fuking massive.

I remember getting these in a Happy Meal before I was even in freakin kindergarten. I was obsessed with the artwork, which is badass. So my uncle bought me and my brother the starter set and man did we get some mileage out of those cards. For the next couple of years before the TCG dried up, all we'd ask for for our birthdays was new Duel Masters. Still have every single one of those cards, they're just old and faded to hell because I was five and didn't use card sleeves.

Anyone remember Battle B Da Man? Would love to see him do that series next

In my freshman year of high school, there was this cute girl I liked who wasn't really a hardcore trading card game fan. I, on the other hand, was really into Yu-Gi-Oh at the time. One day, the two of us got to talking about Yu-Gi-Oh for some reason I can't remember and she told me how she didn't like the game because it was too complicated with lots of rules. She told me about Duel Masters and how she liked it because it was simpler. So, I had the choice between agreeing with her and asking her to teach me and possibly getting on her good side, or being an ass and telling her that Duel Masters was a Yu-gi-oh clone that was stupid. Naturally, my stupid younger self went with the latter option.

The anime was incredibly well received in my country. Most kids dropped yugioh for this game. The problem is the season 2 came out only 2 years later, so we got disconnected.

Honestly as someone who has played MtG it seems like duel mastersr has a better base rules system. Letting cards be both mana and other card types prevents mana screw which really sucks. Also I had freinds that did a MtG s Yu-Gi-Oh duel... My feshman year of college.

Wait, so this series wasn't just a fever dream?? What the hell, I thought I hallucinated this

You forgot the most distinct thing that made Duel Masters different from Yugioh (at least in the English Dub), it was a parody dub, it was an Abridged Series before Abridged Series were a thing, not the best one, but can still be funny from time to time

Bring back “Dungeon Dice Monsters” where you actually have to use STRATEGY instead of meta loops and 10-minute long turns just to OTK!!!!

Who's the kid with the spiky Hair? Shobu!(pretty sure that was his name) Flaming hand up in the air. Shobu! Creatures battle in the zone! Winner takes the trophy home! Duel Masters! Duh-nuh nuh-nuh nuh-nuh nuh-nuh nuh nuh!

I loved Duel master's card art. Yes, the game was basically just MTG, to the point where you could probably make a deck with cards from botth games and play with it functionally, but it had a really, really cool visual aesthetic. Wish it never died here in the US and it went on as long as it did in japan with it's sets.

Dual Masters seems like a distant dream that I can barely remember it existing as a kid but I know I owned some of those cards at some point

I liked the giant monster cards. Especially the dark cards. I don't know I just feel like dual Masters has some of the best art I've ever seen for a card game.

The anime was my favorite thing about Duel Masters. It was pretty funny.

4:04 How did you summon a Nature Creature when you only had Light Mana? How did your opponent summon Immortal Varon, Borg when he had only Nature Mana? You're not a rich anime boi you can't do that.

"Mini Titan, Gett" 😦 That's... 😡 That's just an ordinary sized Gett.

I absolutely loved Duel Masters. It was my favorite card game as a child. I wish it gained the popularity it deserved. I would have enjoyed being able to play it for years to come.

We played this so much at high school 2003-2004ish. I’d played Yu-gi-oh and magic quite a bit but Duel Masters fell nicely in between the two. It was tactical and rewarding, yet without bs rules that you have to stare at for five minutes to figure out what they do...

I freakin loved Duel Masters when I was a kid, but then I'm European, maybe it was more popular over here than in the states? Literally every book or game store sold the packs and I spend so much money on it (like hundreds of dollars). Sometimes when I go digging through my old stuff I find my old cards and just nostalgically browse through them. I gotta say the art style of the illustrations are amazing, much better than Yu-Gi-Oh if you ask me. Some of it is even better than the somewhat bland fantasy MtG art. Man I wish they would make a digital version of Duel Masters a la Hearthstone, but that will never happen. Now I'm sad.

Even the cards themselves feel like they're abridged. My favorite was always "Ur Pale, Seeker of Sunlight"

It caught on like glue here in Romania. For years. When I was finally done, I randomly picked 40 cards from my pile of hundreds and threw the rest to the trash. I got some classics from my final random selection, like Bloody Squito and Tornado Flame, but also rarities like Aqua Master.

ME: *thinking* Duel Masters sounds a lot like Duel Monsters... 3:11 (Accidentally calls the game Duel Monsters.)

I got these cards from McDonald toys

I love you Billiam. You discuss all my favorite childhood nostalgia with such perfect commentary I can relate to, thank you and keep doing what you are doing :D

1: You look like a reject from a matrix convention! 2: There's a matrix convention?

I was a huge fan of Duel Masters, even had 3 GBA games. The monsters were cool and you could actually pull off some cool plays.

I was so excited to see Billiam cover this, only to have increasing sadness that he didn't touch on how much the actual show parodied everything. It's like the English dub knew it was a failed project and so they did just about whatever they wanted. They had some really funny moments.

I played in the Canadian beta test tournament of this game... and it was literally just a room where they brought myself and a whole bunch of other kids into and gave us decks and said "okay, now play"... we were like... maybe 13 and had no idea why we were there and wtf this game was. Honestly, for what it was worth, I really enjoyed the game once we figured out how to play. At the end of the tournament we got to keep the decks and were given another deck to "share with a friend!", three boosters, and a magazine with a promo card in it. Great video, thanks for bringing back the memories! I didn't even know Kaijudo was a remake of it!

I really liked duel masters. I prefered playing DM over Yu Gi Oh. I can't really say about the anime, I watched YGO a lot but i only remember watching DM a bit.

I actually like playing Duel Masters as a kid. it's quite challenging and resource management is a great addition to card games

You know what's weird? DuelMasters was ENORMOUS in South East Asia. Especially in Pakistan, and way more present than Yu-Gi-Oh. Along with Beyblade, this was kind of the 'It' thing back in the day and it's surprising to hear someone say it was a failed franchise, I played it for YEARS as it was the only card game I actually enjoyed. It's still a thing here at cons. Great video, like always Billiam! It's always nice to see an upload from you ♡

“I’ve been stealing cable all this time... wow I am evil”

Only thing I remember from Duel Masters was that one FBI looking guy with the shades.

It was an abridged series before abridged series' became popular.......not the best kind, but you do get quite a chuckle hearing the self deprecating lines.

I've been waiting for this episode for a long time. I still have all my Duel Masters cards to this day and have started re-watching the anime. It is one of the most meta and hilarious English dubs I've ever seen. I was even able to pick up on some of the jokes as a kid. It's really funny to hear Tai's actor play Shobu, but it's even funnier that the Not-Marucho character is voiced by Zatch/Jimmy Neutron.

As a 20 year old, I gotta say thanks for all these videos. I watched your chaotic video the other day and it's been on my mind a lot. I feel like I missed a lot of this stuff cause I was a bit young and cause of my familysituation, but this sorta gives me the chance to revisit some of this stuff, I was like 5 or 6 when toonami was on, so. Idk, I liked yu gi oh but I was just too young. Same thing with like spiderman ultimate. I watch videos about it on RU-vid and the closest I remember to experiencing it firsthand is browsing around my school library during the scholastic book fair. I just wish I could properly go back and see what all that was about. It's all so fuzzy to me, after having moved around so much when I was a kid.

Well, if you ask me, I'll say it's an evolved version of the Pokemon TCG in most parts. I played through a lot of card games through my childhood, even some that wasn't very famous outside of Japan. The whole design of DM is not that bad to be honest. It doesn't need Energy cards like PKmon TCG, cuz every card can become a mana (Energy), which makes the whole bad draw thing does not exist, like PTCG. In DM, you need the cards to be the shield to protect you, which makes you waste some cards, but in the other hand, may bring an advantage to you when one was broken by your opponent, and that sounds more fair. While in PTCG, someone who got the upper hand and kills one of the opponent's PKmon, will then get an extra advantage from the Prize cards. Too bad they didn't bring out a good TV show after the first season. And as to YGO, YGO "was" a great game in the past, until Konami messed it up by making the cards overly powerful, and in nowadays, if you win the scissors, paper, rock, you may finish a unbeatable setup during your first turn and it's game. And I like the whole Ancient Egyptian theme of the card illustrations from the first few seasons than the ones that Konami is bringing out. Other card games, not gonna comment on them since most of them only had Japanese versions or did not last long. Magic The Gathering is the only TCG that I regret I haven't play with it back in the days.

I had a lot of Duel Masters card as a kid, and honestly I always liked it more than Yugioh. I certainly had my Yugioh phase a couple of times as a kid and only one period where I was into Duel Masters but looking back I think I liked Duel Masters more. The anime was dumb and campy but I was young enough to enjoy it. I think I was about 11 at the time that it was in its most popular period in the US. I never found Yugioh as fun. Maybe it was because I was (and still am) a dumbass and Duel Masters was easier to pick up and play. I also liked the art and the descriptions on the cards, and being an edgy kid I was a huge fan of the Darkness civilization. Some of them (like Writhing Bone Ghoul) actually surprised me with how creepy they looked in the art, but I guess that's what drew me to them. My friend was a fan of the Light civilization, so whenever we got booster packs we'd trade cards if we got one from the other's civilization that we didn't have. We had a secondary civilization too (me water and him fire) and nature was just sort of the one we both didn't care that much about. I still remember the last day of my 5th grade before Christmas break. My friend gave me Ballom, Master of Death. It was a super rare Darkness card which blew my mind. I really cherish that memory. Thanks for that Garrett. I think I forgot about Duel Masters like everyone else, and even as a kid I could tell it wasn't catching on in the US and that it was going to die off and be forgotten about. I'm looking through the card database right now and nostalgia is hitting me hard. I had so many of these cards. At the time they were my most prized possessions and my whole world. I wonder what happened to them. My mom probably threw them away...but I guess I still have the memories. Duel Masters might not have caught the attention Wizards wanted it to in the US but at least it left an imprint on some of our childhoods. I consider that to be worth it.

Has he done Bakugan yet?

weplayed this at school, was white kids verses phillipino kids, it brought our 2 groups together, we still hang to this day! 13 years later!

3:11 he said “Duel Monsters” lol

The funny thing is, me and my brother had Yu-Gi-Oh cards and we played them with Duel Masters rules. Best of Both Worlds

I liked Duel Masters' character design. ... At least Sayuri and Mimi.

The person who wrote the manual was obviously a poet (beat box music starts playing in the background)

Did somebody else laugh when he said right behind YU-Gi-Oh

“Duel Masters to Yu-Gi-Oh is like Digimon to Pokémon...” ......... you’re dead to me.

I remember being obsessed with Duel Masters as a kid. I found it easier to play and learn then other card games. Miss this show man, I wish I still had my card collection. I used to collect and buy them all the time.

Pretty sure this is the most popular Duel Masters video on RU-vid

You joke about Immortal Baron Vorg, but him along with Brawler Zyler were some of the first cards to pop back into my mind back when I started getting back into the game.

Now here's a franchise a highly doubt literally anybody remembers or talk about , so I'm glad you're talking about it.😄👌

I found out about this game, because the cards were additionally listed in a Yugioh Card catalogue from 2006.. they looked pretty awesome tbh

Bruh the artwork on these cards were dope af. This game was lit when it debuted in NYC.

That door opening sound from AIM gave me gave me flashbacks to middle school

To be fair to Yugioh/Duel monsters; Yugioh started as a collection of different games the main character would play. Everything from the card game to yo-yos to DnD to air hockey. The only theme was that evil people would get punished via the medium of different games. So duel monsters in the anime was never meant to just be THE Yugioh. Yugi was Yugioh. You can even see evidence of this in the early yugioh spinoffs like dungeon dice monsters and capsule monsters. Not to mention Season Zero which covered stuff from the manga that came before the card game.

I don't know, I was a teenager and I was IN LOVE with the anime (but in Italy is dubbed better). It's so funny and breaks the fourth wall all the time! :D we all played the game a lot!

The VA who played Knight (the dark and mysterious guy with the sunglasses) played Jack from Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.

"Most competitive decks were created to end the game in 3 turns." That is an absolute lie. I dont even think that is possible unless your opponent destroyes their own shield and does nothing during those first 3 turns. Most Duel Masters games with 2 tier 1 decks usually last for more than 10 turns.

OH NO! FORMULAIC TELEVISION HAS FAILED ME!

Duel Masters still massive in japan and tourneys are super hype

0:30 Hey now, Chaotic is fun!

the name immortal baron vorg, is stuck in my mind since in the show, shobu kept using it over and over again each episode.

I remember getting a couple starter boxes like this one as a kid. Unfortunately I could never get anyone to play with me and I just never really got into. Just shows how TCGs can't catch on without lots of people being into it.

I still have some of these cards sitting in a box with my Yugioh cards, Bakugan cards, Digimon cards, Pokemon cards... jesus

What forsaken memory have you awakened from the bottom of my brain

I remember this show felt like essentially a parody of Yu-Gi-Oh with light-hearted humor. Back then I found it pretty funny and was semi-interested in the actual story.

It shall ever be able remembered as a scene in the bonds beyond time abridged movie

For some reason this was a big deal in Hungary, when i was a kid, around 2005. I remember i was on a trip with my family and found a merchant who was selling various stuff. I was into Yu-Gi-Oh for 2 years at the time, because the anime was aired on a channel called A+. The thing was, every store and everybody who sold anything was loaded with Yu-Gi-Oh cards and i knew that this merchant will have some as well.I was wrong. He said "no Yu-Gi-Oh, but i have Duel Masters". I have no idea why but i asked my parents to buy that, and on our way back i was browsing through the cards i just got and i felt like an idiot. The next day, my friend i used to play Yu-Gi-Oh at the time showed up at my house and i asked: "Any new cards?" Then he told: "No, but i got this", and showed me a Duel Masters deck. I was like: "You too??". It turned out Duel Masters took over Yu-Gi-Oh overnight and everyone and their mother had these.I dueled a lot and got owned by more older kids, no surprise. I loved it as much as Yu-Gi-Oh, i don't get what was weird about it for you, but this video brings back good memories.

Never had the cards but remember sinking hours and hours of my childhood playing and building decks on the Duel Masters Ps2 game.

Ah the memories -- i remember watching the anime but man older animation doesn't hold up now

I felt like 13 years old again when you mentioned you didn't understood anything that was happening in the duels

The game was actually really fun and that art was gorgeous. The fact that the anime was self aware was a bonus.

15 years ago. This was the biggest tcg at my school. The library was more than half just duel masters players. But also being a 10yr old definitely made consuming the anime a lot easier.

Will you review original B-Daman series and toys?

It’s strange because they explain most of the rules in episode 2 of the series, I had a dvd with 3 episodes and understood the basics of the card game after watching them

Best thing about the game was that it solved both YuGiOh's and Magic's biggest problem: the creep/ultra specific combinations of YuGiOh and the oh-so-ubiquitous mana-screw of magic. Any card could be used for mana of it's own color, making the game always a choice between short-term and long-term strategies. It did not reach the heights of either YuGiOH and Magic, but even casually playing it, it was a blast. I remember buying like 30 booster packs and getting retarded powerful cards, great art too, good times. But I lost all those cards.

Kaijudo was one of my favourite shows as a kid. I did not realize it was based on a card game.

Second most played card game in Japan? Then where do Vanguard and Buddyfight fall on the list?

What's next Battle B-daman?

I had a pack of Duel Masters cards in secondary school. If I remember correctly, one of the rarest cards was the blue eyes white dragon. I had that card and never traded it. It was my favourite card.

I remember playing a game of Duel Masters on the PS2 and it was actually pretty fun

It's been so long I forgot Duel Masters was even a thing. I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking it was a Yu-Gi-Oh knock-off

I remember the anime was pretty decent same with Zach bell and BOBOBOBO-BO and Rave masters as anime that was good but never finished. I never finished card capture sakura either.

Still remember my favorite spanish pirate duel masters card "Berraco bélico"

To be fair, Kaijudo is a really clever name. It's a blend of kaiju (a kind of monster) and judo (a martial art).

If ProZD was sponsored by Duel Masters, I wonder if it would sell well like they did with a phone app similar to this.