"Surely only being a few hundred dollars instead of over 1000 will have us printing money... right? What do you mean people don't want to pay a grand for 3 cards?"
Surprised the new fire-themed Legendary Duelists set didn't make it on here. Nearly singlehandledly killed a lot of retailers selling Yugioh products because of how badly it did
Deck build packs can stop being a thing. You can legit just put the archetypes separately in Core Sets. We need a break too. Over saturation of product releases.
@@u.a.perfectace7786 Really speaks to how much they fumbled that idea. On paper, the idea is great. A set focused around building decks is neat. But the rarity structure and pull rates kills any value the set offers.
@SakuraAvalon It's an unfortunate reality because deck build archetypes are pretty cool. Just ruined by greed 😑 If the idea was to build decks with them, lower rartires+better pull rates AND feature tech cards that go with the decks (no filler, actual useful cards that can double as a reprints) Although Structure Decks would just eliminate the RNG together and release archetypes that way (since you are meant "build" upon a SD).
@@DrAiPatchIt was heavily nerfed labrynth you can't complain about it, as for the fiend vs fairy event no handtrap mode was an absolute mistake it amplified ddd and herald agents power to the point of *draw the out".
@@r3zaful heavily nerfed? By not have big welcome and lady? Because not a single card Lab played other than D barrier was banned that event.... If you had DDD built it was great for the event...... So like 4 people..... Never seen agents the whole event
@@DrAiPatch how about you staring at 1. wave king Caesar 2. Siegfried 3. Deus Those 3 are guaranteed to show up if you play dd during the festival, with best hand you have entire field full of 3-6k ddds. Remember, no handtrap available, and dd can main deck red reboot etc. Dd mirror is basically who goes first won Dd vs labrynth dd goes first summon Caesar instant surrender for labrynth because Caesar negate both welcome.
I fully believe the reason that we don't get "no sooner than" updates for the banlist is because so many TCG players were too stupid to understand what it meant. Inevitably, as soon as it crossed the listed dates there was a barrage of posts being like "kek 1st day of no sooner than, where is the banlist Konami?" when the phrase "no sooner than" just means that the banlist would not be before that date rather than that date being the date the banlist was due.
Thank you MBT for calling out Konami with the rarity bumps. It’s a lose-lose-lose situation. What hurts them the most is that entry or starting out players who wants to try out the new decks gets priced out immediately of the cool stuff AND they also would need to buy expensive staples if they want to compete. My locals have plenty of adolescents and teenagers too who wants to and are eagerly to play every week but the price and rarity gouging just makes the competitive disparity all the more saddening. I just hoped that the 25th Set becomes the rarity standard moving forward but this is Konami we’re talking about.
It's especially bad when the decks in Deck Build Packs aren't even that strong on their own, so you are likely to need outside support if you really want to push them to their peak - not even counting staples. Imo, Deck Build Packs should almost be like mini structure decks or something; a cheaper option that gives you a *mostly* playable/competitive/rogue deck that still has room for further improvement. Structure decks are just objectively better, don't get me wrong, but deck build packs could maybe be fun in sealed or something? I dunno... The idea has just been fumbled badly.
A list of the worst of YGO for 2023… would be epic if a sudden and astronomical banlist dropped within the next 24 hours that would drive a lot of us wild.
For me it's the disappointing Speed Duel sets. The most recent release was so bad it caused the top 3 speed duel channels I know to pivot into new content lmao
@DemonicDevilDiran Team JDG, Rooks Table, and OddToxin havent been doing any vids on the game lately even with a brand new set out; although to my knowledge they havent "officially" given it up. I think the new set didnt create any new decks for the meta except a burn/stall list. And since it's already 6 months between releases of barely 200 new cards (maybe a couple dozen of which are playable), speed duel metas get stale really fast :/
I think the second to last speed duel box was actually really awesome. The problem is the last one's obscenely toxic Queen skill card. If they had errata'd it by now they could have stemmed the bleeding. I only needed to play 1 4-man locals against it to drop the format for the time being.
Orcust in Duel Links. Not only did we get Orcust only missing Crescendo and Girsu the Orcust Mekk-Knight, but we also had Knightmare Mermaid legal. Oh and the ONE deck we had that could POSSIBLY compete with Orcust got gutted in the banlist right before Orcust came out. MISERABLE few months where decks with absurd skills like Odd-Eyes, Speedroid and Destiny HERO were the only things that could match this ridiculously unfun deck. It felt like there was so little you could do once they got going.
Skills really do have way too much text, they should have simple effects. If you really want to help turboing Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon, you could just have "Xyz monsters can be treated as level 7 for an Xyz Summon".
I hate that we’ll never get a physical version of Rush Duel. I’ve been wanting it for so long, and Duel Links was nice and I really enjoyed it (first time hitting KoG) but you’re right. Konami is doing absolutely NOTHING with the goldmine they have in front of their faces… *sigh*
I feel like Konami fumbled bringing Speed Duels to the TCG just to have Rush Duels come out later. I'm sure Speed Duels existing are why Rush Duels haven't been brought over to the TCG yet.
yeah it was very clear that they wanted to capitalize on what they thought Yugi boomers would enjoy more. there was this real trepidation with bringing over a reboot, despite the TCG constantly clamoring for that. at this point KoA is just being stubborn. and all that's done is shoot them in the foot because at this point if they did bring over Rush to the West, a lot of the people that have been putting up with their bullshit and buying the products aren't going to play it. because why would you want to sit through Dragias format FOR A FOURTH TIME.
@@Xeroxthebeautifulit’s very clear that there is a drastic difference between Konami of Japan and Konami of America. Konami of America seems to either have near full autonomy from Japan, or the main division in Japan is extremely lax because Konami of America rakes in plenty of money/meets their quota every quarter so the higher ups at the company just don’t care.
It's because Konami TCG wants you to just collect the cards and not play the game associated with it. There is way more profit to earn through catering to collectors than to the players. How else do you explain a structure deck that was sold in the OCG getting turned into a "deck build" pack in the TCG?
It’s not that the dark magician platinum is expensive. It just looks so much worse than the recent Adidas, quarter century, and ghost. The ghost is expensive, but it actually seems somewhat deserving because it’s the best looking modern ghost. Adidas similarly just is cool and the quarter century is great for $10 looks amazing.
the worst part of deck building packs is that you get LESS CARDS to try and "deck build" with. Well give you 5 cards from three different strategies that cant be combined in any way. imo deck build packs should have mega pack amount of cards.
The fact that I bought an entire box of wild survivors, pretty much constructed dino and ritual deck, and yet pulled like 3 VS cards in the entire set still baffles me.
That May banlist was a PR disaster for Konami. I was at YCS Philly when it dropped and people were not happy. My one friend who’d been on Floo as long as I can remember just built Superheavy Samurai only for the deck to be killed on arrival. Most of it was low rarity but that extra deck was so damn expensive. He quit the game over that banlist, and I doubt he was the only brokenhearted duelist at that event. Obviously they had to do something about Superheavy Samurai but they should have either waited to release the list or lightly tapped the deck before CYAC released along with lowering the overall power level of the format to give the new stuff a chance to shine in a more healthy way.
My shs stuff hadn't even all arrived from tcgplayer when that list killed the deck. Best part is that the list even kills causal versions of the deck not doing generic extra deck bullshit cause of how important scarecrow is.
Yeah that list was maybe the worst thing for people who actually play physical tcg and bought a deck that was expected to be good for a decent amount of money. I don't fault people for quitting over that.
I bought everything too thankfully I already had the extra deck from previous decks but man the commons were hell to find finally got them built the deck went to locals twice boom banlist I was pretty upset as many were, they should've just hit soul piercer to 1 and it would've been a nice hit instead of out right killing shs
the DM and GX cards in Hidden Arsenal Chapter 1 were there because they were included in the Duel Terminal distribution card pools but not included in the Hidden Arsenal release and this product made Duel Terminal style prints available again for those cards (like alt art polymerization, skill drain, cyber dragon, etc)
It really sucks that Deck Build Packs are so bad in the TCG. I remember pulling them in the OCG. Aside from the fact that their prices are less than half that of a TCG box (~$25 USD, albeit OCG DBPs have 15 packs per box rather than TCG's 20), they do have some semblance of actually being able to pull something playable. I remember trying to build Labrynth but constantly pulling 1 or even 2 Runick Fountains instead of any Lovely, and while I did end up having to buy my copies of Lovely, it did feel nice to know that I basically had somewhat playable Runicks (and I suppose Vaylantz too) from just pulling 1 or 2 boxes. I didn't have any trouble pulling the Labrynth maids either, it was basically just missing Lovely and nothing else.
Side Sets (including Deck Build packs) absolutely need to have their ratios improved. Core sets have a very standard amount of rarities per box, and the easier to get Quarter Century chase cards have helped them feel nice to open casually. But all this year I have been interested in new archetypes and reprints from side sets only for them to have terrible ratios of pulls, some boxes having not even 3 ultra rares. Main offenders of 2023 have been Maze of Memories (not getting my hopes up for next year’s Maze set), the 3 deck build packs (AMDE, WISU, & VASM) and the Fire Legendary Duelists set. Amazing Defenders only aged well because the archetypes got good follow-up support, people weren’t wrong about how bad it was to open in the first few months of release.
Anything duel links related is of course gonna cost you at the very least your entire life savings. That game is fcking horrendous. It's so baffling why people keep playing it. The money you spend there building one deck is equivalent to building 10 tier 1 decks in master duel
The Fairy and Fiend festival in MD wasn't that bad... But I say that because I built a Fluffal Dark World deck that had a decent match up against Labrynth, and could go first or second. For the Beast, Beast Warrior, Winged Beast, Reptile and Insect, Lunalight was decent, but the best deck for me was a Danger Fabled deck with triple Danger! Zone, it was pretty cool. Festivals in MD are not perfect but they are the best the game offers at the moment, is pretty much the reason I play the game.
At least the Big and regular Welcome Labrynth have been banned from most of the Festivals since then. But yeah, the Festivals are kind of the entire reason I still play MD too.
Oh sick, my MD festival tweet made it. For real though, MD has generally good festivals except those two. Even the ritual one was fun because of how stupid and funny Gishki is to play, but King of the Island/Fairy and Fiend festival were hell on earth.
I actually really enjoyed the king of the island one because I finally got to play inzektors, learn the cards and have actual games against decks. Fuck those birds tho
@@Blackopsspartn When I got to see stuff like Fire Kings or Inzektors, it was really fun (even if the former was hard as hell to beat, and I was using pure Lunalights!). But the second that damned bird came out or the roach was used, I wanted to eat my phone.
@@NoahMonroe_I was playing beetroopers in the King of the island event along with Lunalights and......Yosenju stun. I was playing Lab in the fiend event along with Abyss Actors and evil eye (Won most games against lab with them)
7:11 Slightly related note, when Dark Savers first came out the only deck I wanted from it was Fur Hire. And with Striker being the popular choice I figured they would have made them harder to find but it took me 6 packs to pull a single Fur Hire card meanwhile I already pulled like 5 or 6 Striker cards
Im personally getting a bit tired of the current branded and dragon link meta we have in master duel. 90% of the last 50 games i played today have been “activate bystial lubellion”, and my eyes glazing over for the 15 minute combos ending on ridiculous end boards through interaction. I played into dlink, and through droll, ash, and nib, they proceeded to end on branded regain, dis pater, light dark chaos angel, seals, and druisworm + max c in hand
The hell? Branded is one of the worst matchups for VS, Branded can easily play around the bounce effects VS tried to do, we have floating effects and don't care about pops. Only thing VS has going for the matchup is non-engine, at that point then it's not really a VS strength now is it@@DrAiPatch
@@DrAiPatch i find with vs going second there is a little back and forth, but ultimatly it comes down to “do you have razen + fire + jaolong/burger”, as you desperatly need to resolve razen and jaulong to get going. However, if the person uses bystial lubellion to get the new trap that negates everything, its usually just game as vs cannot interact with it
6:53 Me when I saw the rarity bumps for Valiant Smashers (I wanted to play the new archetypes, but I prefer to have food for the next month, thank you)
I heard of Centurion's playstyle and thought it would be fun. Then I checked the prices. $20 or so per copy of EACH card (for just the core) So I'm going broke just to play (at best) a tier 2 deck.
About the rarities in the deck build pack, I saw the price for Centurion and Valmonica here in Brazil. Centurion costs like the minimum wage (or more) that we have in the country and Valmonica costs less than half of this. It was the same thing to Vanquish Soul. You have to spend almost your entire salary to play the new deck, its an absurd this.
Mbt puts a video up. Makes a typo in title. Comment section not talking about video but of the typo instead like if its a big event to mention it before it gets fixed. I enoy this community.
Hidden Arsenal Chapter 1 was one of my favourite products. It was super cheap to buy, even on pre-order, and DT Parallel foil rarities are my favourites. So me and a buddy played sealed with them (it was naturia with a little x-saber versus x-sabre with a little flamvell. Catastor won me everything baby.), and on top of that, the trishula die looks really cool (although the heads should have replaced the 3, not the one)
MBT jokingly in description: "PLEASE give us a third platinum rare." *8 hours later* Konami: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wJvGMLCozAM.html
I can't wait to see how Konami screws us with the next 2 sets in terms of rarities. I can' t justify the money for this hobby anymore. I'm better off buying a few packs to see what I get and then buying singles...but the good stuff like the Horus Engine is too damn expensive!
I'm tilting over to flat out quitting physical Yugioh (again) probably permanently too. The rarity spiking is so tiresome and to spend 400+ on an engine that will lose its value at any given moment, nah. I rather spend those 400 in my other hobbies. Getting really tired of Konami's shit.
What players are going through now is one that was similar around the time Zoo came out and was the big reason why I quit paper Yugioh for Pokemon and never looked back. Now with Pokemon being so cheap, it is even easier then when I got into it.
Oh yeah, Konami being super scummy with Rush Duels in Duel Links. You can still play and have fun without maxed out decks. I got DLv 100 in the GR festival after everyone who got it the first few days was done playing. It’s bizarre to me because Konami released a box with all the cards you would need for Lunalight, Bujin, and Firefist in Duel Links and it wasn’t hard to clear it 3 times even for F2P and Dolphins, but then you see some of the other stuff that just isn’t working out well. I didn’t get any of Roa’s level 6 UR drop for example and that put me at more of a disadvantage. It would be nice if they stopped with the crazy high price to play a format that is probably never going to be treated seriously in Duel Links if they continue like this. I put in a survey maybe they could release Rush duels in boxes like the speed duel product is released since I doubt players here are going to be like “oh boy, more sealed product” especially with how Konami likes to rarity bump stuff.
I still get blasted by Dark Magician decks in Duel Links. I also still rock Blue Eyes in many of my decks. And War Rocks. Mammud is my favorite target for summoming Odd-Eyes Advance Dragon, the very one that won me the match yesterday afternoon. I love doing that play when there is still another monster on the field so that I cam swing and return Mammud (or any other fun thing that qualifies! I love this card!) back to the field.
While I like how diverse the format is now, a significant amount of top deck around the mid-late year could and frequently did go for King Calamity Turbo, Centurion and Mannadium can still do it, even non meta decks like TG ( remember THAT deck got new stuff this year lol?) can set up a King Calamity on the opponent's turn and literally shut them off from anything but setting.
I really miss the old Deckbuild packs like Dark Saviours with Supers and Secrets instead of that 3 URs in a Box with rares sprinkled in...i feel like everytime when a competent Engine or Deck releases there its almost alway unattainably pricy like Adventure, Punk, LiveTwin, Toons, Centurion, Purrely and R-ACE. Simply for godawful Ratios. Drytron s were also completly shafted cause they would actually get Reprinted...BUT NOT THE CARDS THAT MADE IT EXPENSIVE. We just got some rarity bumps for the 0,02€ cards. Come on Konami. Bring back old deckbuild set backs.
@@u.a.perfectace7786happy I am not the only one. Miss also some magistus reprints. Not because they are expensive but because no seller close to me has actually any.
Regarding deck build pack, konami tcg knows how shit the rarity structure is that they remove the deckbuild pack moniker in tcg. Ocg's product is just a lot better sadly.
I have no clue what Konami was smoking with that set. It even came out right after all the "good" Ice Barrier cards got reprinted in the Structure Deck.
YES!!! An easier way to play the game is the thing I have been begging the most for, but good God building a good deck on Duel Links was expensive. Legsndary failure in Konami's part. Rush Duel was still fire though.
I still don't understand what are they thinking about rarity upgrade dump into 1 good archtype. It only gonna hurt the game and player in the long run. Ocg already show how to do it, why can't they just follow it.
The TCG only wants you to just collect the cards and not really play the game that is associated with it. Hence why we get more rarity bumbs in the TCG. In the OCG there is way more overlap between players and collectors so they need to cater to both equally over there. Don't forget the OCG is just the Japanese domestic market.
@@aaronabbey2604 I play in Thailand and OCG market extend to SEA too. We recently got Eng asia but that will take a while to integrate into ocg format but we mainly reference the price from Japan.
@@aaronabbey2604 they do it in the TCG because they can, and they hate you. If you want to vote with your wallet get Etsy proxies and just pass them off as real, encourage your friends to do the same.
I really like the CONCEPT of the Hidden Arsenal set. Having all the cards in one place in a way that let you build the deck from the set would be cool. Too bad that they decided to stick almost entirely to JUST the cards that appeared in Hidden Arsenal sets (barring a couple of archetypes like Ice Barrier, which got a bare minimum of outside stuff). Yes, Konami. We totally needed a reprint of Ally of Justice Rudra, a like literally 10 cent card nobody would ever use even in an Ally of Justice deck but not the cards that ended up as high-rarity booster pack cards like Ally of Justice Cyclone Creator or The Fabled Rubyruda that actually could use a reprint. (Even if their prices on the secondary market also aren't especially high either.) I don't mind reprinting the entire thing, but A) That should be the entire thing, including stuff that appeared outside Hidden Arsenal. and B) Should have included fewer archetypes so there was a realistic chance at pulling everything.) It's also hilarious how badly they planned the set. Remember how the set was announced to contain Jurracs and Worms?
I have not played Duel Links, but I have heard of how insane the monetization is in that game and after playing MD since launch I can believe it. So I was super excited to see Rush Duels being in Duel Links, but I did not play because I knew that I would never be able to enjoy it decently without spending a lot of money.
Sad thing about deck buld packs: I opened 2 korean ones with the prank kids, which cost me 24€ and i was able du build all 3 decks thanks to the great rarity distribution. In TGC its horroble in comparison
I mean, I enjoyed the two monster-type festivals cause Plunder was legal in the first which dominated the Labrynth guys (except one who was playing IDP) and Yosenju absolutely tore through the other even with Kama 1 limited to 1. Now the link event on the other hand was absolutely ass.
In a way, the OCG being the ground zero for experimentation and the fact that VS was the meta deck for a while means they can bump the rarity which baffled me when Jiao Long is released on AGOV tcg (now VS fell off quite hard, the OCG is filled with R ace and Fire kings because FK is good alongside diabelle and populus)
On new player onboarding: It's the same problem fighting games have. The only way for your noob friend to engage with you and yugioh at the same time is to play you, and if you're experienced then they just don't want to do that.
7:00 literal capitalism meme: two rival comoanies that sell the same product should get in a competition about which can bring out the higher quality one. Instead they resort to make it as cheap as possible cutting down labor, watering it, and so on. They make what you actually want a minimal paet of the purchase, so you heve to buy more of it
It's cost less than constellar, the difference is constellar ur all in the extra deck while vs in the main deck, the ur ratio is actually the same as 90% of the archetype in md.
My 2023 gripe is how Rush Duel opened up with a brick. The characters mostly get shitty cards and only go to LEVEL TWENTY, and the damn bots get some way better cards than we get access too (Counter Cannonball is a PRIME example). I like the flow of the game but what we get is for the most part underwhelming. It takes the combining of multiple ace monsters to really pop off, and the cards for tickets are all pointless, even the one they set to 1, and that's DUEL LINKS 1...
4:52 1. That's the wrong nightingale on screen. Just an editing mistake but it's kind of funny because independant nightingale is basically never summoned in actual lyrilusc decks outside instant fusion 2. Assembled nightingale ruined around 4 different events at this point. Any event where lyrilusc is playable can be speedran easily because you just make a 6-7 mat nightingale going 2nd and otk through almost any board I'd know because I use lyrilusc in every event I can. It's just a really good speedrun deck for MD events 3. Literally no event matches how horrible flying C in the xyz festival 2 felt and I am sad that wasn't brought up in the post
