The biggest barrier to entry for Yugioh is that there's no great way of easing someone interested into the game without throwing them face first into the Deep End of a 10 min Snake Eyes combo. Master Duel is a great program but only if you know the game already. For new players it does next to nothing to get them ready for the intricacies of a duel. The good news for anyone trying to get into Yugioh though is that once you do push through that high barrier everything else comes easily and you really do just 'get it' for lack of a better phrase. Once I got all the fundamentals down after coming back I could perform combos and understand what effects do what pretty effortlessly. Yugioh at its best is the funnest card game and blows any other out of the water with ease; but getting there isn't easy(and Konami tries to ruin it every step of the way). PS none of this applies to the horrible costs of physical cards currently so uh maybe wait off on building stuff in paper till things get less absurd. Cockroach birb at 100$+ is a great way to keep people away Konami
There is. I have alot of decks that each are designed to be better thah last and set up appropriate amount of interaction for newer player. I explain everything carefully during open dueling and i can even help em play if they want to. Patience helps a lot with newer player and engaging them on their level. Like my decks go from pure fire fists to stronger fire firs tribrigade/tellarknights/ gladiator beasts to exosister to vanquish soul.
I'd argue that the best way to get someone into the game would be layering mechanics more gradually. There are a few ways to do this, but I think two ways I'd recommend is a) start with Goat, to get used them to the basics, then Edison to get them used to the Extra Deck being a more regular aspect of the Game, then maybe Hat or some modern rogue decks to make the jump to the modern game not quite so jarring, then more competitive modern stuff. Alternatively b) is pretty similar in how I'd stage things, though more complicated, though you'd have more control over the pace at which new aspects get layered on, is Cube. You'll probably have to walk them through a few practice cube drafts, but once they get the hang of it, it can be a way to control the available options while you're teaching the game, so I'd start with a cube that's just main deck cards with a few easy to grasp strategies that just show off the basics, then move on to a cube with Synchros and Synchro era strategies, then XYZ, then Links, with each summoning mechanic siloed to its own separate cube. Then once they're more comfortable with the mechanics, I'd make a final cube that has bits of every summoning mechanic and more modern-level power (though a cube is going to naturally still be weaker than a constructed deck), and then introduce them to modern yugioh. It'd be a lot of work on both parties' parts, so it may just be too much, but it's still what I'd probably do if I had a friend who wanted to get into the game, but didn't know where to start or was intimidated by the complexity of the modern game.
@@EdWuncler3rdplaying competitive yugioh can be miserable in certain formats but a casual duel is always fun. perspective is a factor too. some people absolutely hate the current format that went into effect at the beginning of september. i’m having fun playing against all these decks, i haven’t been this into yugioh in a while.
How generous is the game beyond the initial barrage of gems? It seems like i've hit a wall on UR's and no real good way of getting more CP after getting: - most of the UR bundles (ash and whatnot) - 3x of the premade deck - some master packs (40x, i wanna say?) - premium battlepass granted I did waste some CP as I didnt really know what I was doing, but that would be like 2/3 extra UR's max
@@tldreview well you get 140 gems per day from login and daily quests, so you get like 1000 gems per week which you can use to buy packs etc. for cards. i would advise going for one of the newer selection packs rather than the master pack, as the selection includes cards that are mostly relevant in the meta in some way, so you can save on crafting by playing those archetypes that you got from the selection packs.
The generousness of the game really depends on how you value brewing vs playing. If all you want is play a stock meta deck, you can grind quests easily and new decks shouldn't be too much of an issue, especially when so many decks share staples. If you like to brew though, it's very mediocre. Every other interesting card is SR or UR, so you'll be dumping precious mats for cards you can't use elsewhere. If you're lucky, you can find the cards in packs, but those love to give you the other archetype you don't care about. I am building a deck - it's probably not good, it's mostly a fun gimmick deck - and it needs 800SR and 400SR points, which I don't have. My odds are grind daily (with my other garbage decks) for a month or two, or nuke half my collection.
I recently got my friend back into Yugioh through Dueling Nexus, and we looked for a deck for him together until he got a Raidraptor-Deck. And now we're going to Locals together. Our local is a bit more casually so its a lot of fun and we dont meet frustrating decks that often. 🦉🇩🇪
An ex-friend got me started on dueling nexus when he entered highschool. Prior to then it was the terrible playground play for me. Once I got started there w a few other friends we all learnt and got better at yugioh. 1-2 hours per day on nexus for like 3 years. Those were the gud ol days.
4 ways. 1 Get master duel. 2 Explore alternate formats (Goat, Edison, Domain) 3. Move to Japan 4. What you can do today, might be better done next year.
You could try some other independent initiatives of formats, TOSS is one that could be nice, and Domain seems to be gaining traction, though the extra rules might make it more challenging to get into.
one thing I noticed is that regular sized perfect fit sleeves work quite well as normal sleeves for yugioh cards. that way you won't have to buy different sleeves for different games.
Initially, what I tell new or returning players from the old school era of yugioh is to play Master Duel. It's free, it goes over the basic, and it's practically straightforward. The hardest part that players will have to learn and practice over and over through time is chaining properly. MD babies you into chaining for you by highlighting your moves, but when you're in IRL gameplay, you're on your own. For me, it took a long time and still to this day still learning to chain properly. I got better and doing well now, but maaaaaan....it was a mean learning curve transitioning from MD to IRL.
I just find it hilarious that even people that like Yu-Gi-Oh will say to not bother picking up the game. I agree with the sentiment too, and if that's not an indictment of the franchise as a whole... I don't know what else it could be.
i was breathing ygo from the day it hit the shelves in europe until last dragon ruler meta .. and i was a good player, couldnt drive far because i was too young but i was doing really well in our locals etc in munich .. in its prime imo the best tcg out there .. but what they did to the game is a shame. autopilot decks that just have to be learned aswell as techs and matchups, true core of a grindy game smartly outplaying your opponent is almost gone and more often then back in the good days the worse player can win .. thats why i stepped away. some years ago during the nightmarch era i tried the pokemon tcg, way more affordable, easy to learn but a decent depth aswell, i would highly recommend everyone who wants to start getting into one of the more popular tcgs to try pokemon.
@@michaelfellner9822 "start getting into one of the more popular tcgs to try pokemon" Sorry to break it to you, but pokemon definitely isn't one of the more popular tcgs. It's one of the least popular tcgs/average at best. It's the most popular TC, without the G. Pokemon is popular for card collectors. The game itself is so incredibly boring that they consistently fail to get a 100k views on their world finals while yugioh easily gets 150k on YCS finals. Also no, learning the deck also means learning how to play. Sure there are combo lines, like in almost every card game, but they are still situational and there is no 100% correct play/board. And if you want skill expression, just play D/D/D. A good D/D/D player can even clap tier 2 or tier 1 decks.
Man, as a returning player I’ve been trying to get back into the game but I’m about ready to give up. The power creep has gotten so fast and the cards so expensive lately that I feel by the time I scrape enough money and cards to build the deck I want, that deck won’t be relevant anymore. Locals don’t help either. The few times I went with the few card I had, everyone just looked so bored and barely talked to me. They’d just do their typical 10-minute long combo for the billionth time on auto-pilot and then sigh to themselves with a thousand-yard stare like they’re dying for something more entertaining to happen. Playing online is far better but even that has huge limitations and isn’t really how I wanted to experience the game.
@@8bitdiedie "everyone just looked so bored and barely talked to me" as if it was different during yata lock. Competitive environments is always play-to-win. Neither Master Duel nor Locals are casual environments. And that's what most yugi-boomers miss. Let's say I'd offer you to play a few duels with you on weekends, without meta decks. You still wouldn't play. Cause you don't miss the decks (Blue Eyes, six sams and glads are playable right now), you don't miss the pace since competitive pace was extremely slow until late 5ds/early XYZ era. The one thing you miss is your memories. And nobody can give you these memories back. Just try to get a friend who also abandoned yugioh and play fun decks. Thats the best you can do.
@@ObviouslyDeven It's ridiculous to act like the pace of the game back then is the same as the pace now. Prior to Synchros, it was rare that you'd Special Summon 5 times in a GAME, let alone in one turn. Sure, you had one-offs that were OTK decks (e.g. Frogs, Starbirdman, Magical Scientist, etc.) but they weren't very common outside of the top tier competitive scene. Even when you get past the introduction of Synchros and the drastic increase of Special Summons, at best you could end up with a board that had a single omni-negate and a couple bits of disruption. Now? It's 2 or 3 omni-negates, multiple hand traps, and potentially even a floodgate. It used to be that the game was about struggling to keep advantage, there was back and forth over multiple turns and both players had plenty of chances to take control of the game. Now it's pretty much one person getting to do their thing and the other sitting there with their thumb up their ass. It isn't simply "the memories" or nostalgia, it's literally that the game changed to be something where only one person in any given game gets to actually have fun. The game sucks now. It's sucked for a long damn time, in fact. If I didn't help judge games, at this point, I wouldn't bother keeping up with it at all.
How to play yugioh: Never play competitive Play master duel, way cheaper If you want to play physical, get a couple friends, buy 3 of a recent structure (trap trix us a good start) and play. DON'T play competitive.
great video, thanks cardmarket yugioh! was thinking about this exact topic just a while ago, and i think a good way to learn modern-day yugioh would probably be to play yugioh many times, going through the years and eras of yugioh and slowly go from the most basic yugioh from the early 2000's era, through each year, each era, each new summoning mechanic, until we get to the modern-day era and newest summoning mechanics and duel formats. i think, in this way, going from normal/tribute summoning to ritual to fusion to synchro to xyz to pendulum to link summoning to the new rush duels, people could fairly and roughly quickly pick up on how to play yugioh quite thoroughly in this way, using many different various decks and meta strategies and tier 0 and 1 decks and archetypes along the way in each duel.
I just got back into Yu-Gi-Oh. I loved the game as a kid but I never got a chance to play it as a kid until recently I found a place where people get together to play. What the hell is a tuner, syncro, or and XYZ monster? What the hell is a Link card? Where did the fusion deck go?
I’m trying to get back into the game and oh boy has the game changed since I was 10. So much to learn and so many moving pieces. I’m getting there though
As a returning player, I just didnt like the speed of the game but then I heard of retro format. And its just up my level, I personally play edison format but there are others like Hat and GOAT. All with resources online and you can check your OST shops when they host them.
In my city 80% of players already switched from modern to retroformat. We play GOAT, Edison, Tengu and HAT and those are the most fun formats out there. Everything which comes after is just too much
I just love how every YGO player is saying "Don't" play YGO. And, I honestly gotta agree with them. I had to play 9 months of Master Duel and watch IRL YGO duels on youtube to be comfortable to participate in a YGO tournament. Keeping up with the meta, OCG trends, looking ahead of the curve for new decks/staple cards, plus checking up prices in TCGplayer and local stores can be quite time consuming. All just to play 2 tournaments on the weekend right after my weekly 40 hours of work. Each tournament taking up 4-6 hours + 80 mins travelling back and forth to my locals. And this isn't including how much money I spent on my 3 decks, staple cards, tech cards, sealed products, structure decks, accessories, tournament fees and time. Edit: I forgot the most important point, which is reading. Reading each card's effect and knowing every single deck combo and choke point. To be a competent YGO player, you must know all meta decks or 80% of them.
I tell new players to play through all the duel links gates in order. By the time you finish them all you know each summoning mechanic and you will have seen how most cards get played. Then I say dive into master duel.
Actually I haven’t played yugioh tcg since 2000’s but thinks to the anime and games like legacy of the duelist for keeping me up to date on mechanics like synchros,XYZ, and links now with master duels I can try out decks like swordsoul, eldlitch, and branded that would have cost an arm and a leg to play in the tcg
Step 1: buy a playset of Fuwalos, $400. Step 2: You also need the counters to that card, that' another 10 cards. Step 3: Good, now you can choose what archetype are you playing, hopefully it has space for non engine.
Master duel is a great way to teach a new comer to play the game but the harsh reality that a good deck to play at locals is tough. I have a co worker who I got to try it out and got really good paying a meta deck on MD but then wanted to join me in the TCG and was immediately discouraged knowing to play the deck they like will cost $200+. I play Yubel and it wasn’t cheap to build and it’s understandable why it’s such a hard game to get into just simply based on cost.
Buy 3 copies of a structure deck to start playing the game, that is something I agree to wholeheartedly. However, getting 3 copies of a structure deck for under 20€? At least in Germany that seems impossible. The prices per structure deck range from 10€ to ~25€ on average with some of the older structure decks being 40€+ if you are lucky enough to find them. So expecting ~50€ to 60€ to get a decent deck to start out with is the better financial expectation. However, just to start playing the game and get a feel for how the structure deck is to be played a single copy should be enough.
I’d argue that Master Duel isn’t the best way to get a tutorial if you’re getting back into the game - Legacy of the Duelist Link Evolution gives you great tutorials on all the summoning mechanics and has a lot of content, but of course is very out of date by now. Master Duel is good only because it’s officially supported.
I would say buy two sets of dice, to work out who starts the game. Maybe a couple more if your cards need counters. And bring your phone with a life point calculator app.
if you ever buy physical cards buy 3 copies of the same structure deck and play with your friends. tournament prize support isnt rewarding enough to get back what you spent for your cards if you have a deck that can actually win an event. play digitally. there are many official and unofficial sims you can pvp and also games you can play solely pve. my prefered platform is duelingbook. its good for learning imo because the manual factor of the sim allows you to take back your misplays. maybe you played the last card in your hand when you need to have a card in your hand to discard for something else. duelingbook allows you to grab back the card in your hand. the downside of a manual sim is that a new player will break a rule. if thats your opponent you can leave an unranked game any time for no loss. but it can also be you and your friend playing improperly. this can be a good thing and feel like playground but for me its good because you can invent special rules you made up and play like that. for example you can treat normal monster flavor text as if they are effects. i had lotta fun playing that with a friend
I started playing again when I heard there was a revival of Ancient Gears. But even then, I have little interest in competitive stuff. I like actual games, not quick-draw matches. At that point just make every deck a basic Exodia deck and cut out the middleman- who draws the cards to instantly win first while the opponent is completely locked out of playing.
I used to play the gba games, then got a few decks.. they all still in the loft.. I would love to play again but the summoning mechs are so confusing for a 46 year old lol
Comment Section feels cool for telling people not to start. I can only laugh at that. The game offers alot of fun. Maybe not at the highest competitive level where power creep, money etc. Is all people care about. But playing locals is fun even when going x-3 or x-2.
@@bluetf2622 Yeah though the fun immediately stops at the horrible deck building which tries to copy Commander. If you cut out and modify half those rules it could be fun, but as it is it’s like making playing Yu-Gi-Oh into work.
Don't get me wrong, I love Yu Gi Oh but its bad right now, the Meta & needed bans are not being addressed correctly, konami's obsession with tcg speed duel (speed duel has died everywhere except USA) is preventing Rush duel from leaving japan (having two active formats would be great, and rush is very easy for new players). But most of all is probably the sheer amount of rules and summon types a new player would need to learn and pick up quickly- they need to make a starter deck that has every type of extra deck mechanic, plus rituals, yes it will be a bunch of random generic things meshed together because a new player needs to learn all of those mechanics ( and the main deck should have at least one of each card type variety, each type of Spell (normal, quick, continuous, equip, field etc) Trap (continuous, counter, monster etc) and Monster cards - vanilla, tuner, union, pendulum. unfortunately most structure decks have a specific archetype that uses a singular extra deck mechanic, sometimes two.
As much as I hate some aspects of Master Duel I think it's legitimately the only option to both get new players into the game and for keeping players in the game. The price is 100% prohibitive for new players in TCG. It's repulsive to ask players to drop like $500 on a deck that isn't even the best deck, in Master Duel you can work your way through to farm gems and craft the best decks for free. Also you can at least try the game with loaner decks in Master Duel to make a decision if you actually like the game before you buy into it lol
I played yugioh When i was 6 Till 11. the oldschool yugioh. I dont wanna play it anymore. My mom gave me on my 26th Birthday old yugioh cards. For me is yugioh only Memory of my childhood.
Real yugioh players know that the true meta for years now has been quitting the game. People who never started were just ahead of the curve; starting to play now would be going backwards.
I only play oldschool yugioh and I refuse to play anything else. I always have multiple oldschool decks with me when I visit old friends and we play with them
Yugioh is only surviving off of hardcore players and nostalgic boomers (like myself). Tried to teach a friend how to play Yugioh again on Master Duel and show him what is competitive... he uninstall Master Duel after five rank games.
The best way is trow master duel. Compared to a lot of other online card games Yu-Gi-Oh is so free to play and cheap. You just need to be smart at the beginning when you get a lot of gems . Don't spend those on nostalgia trips like blue eyes or heros. Spend those on getting staples like handtraps, boardbreakers and generic extradeck monsters. Most meta decks will consist on 20-30 of those staples so after you have all the staples even the most expensive decks are not more then 300 URs. I played Master duel for the begining. I bought most of the Gem sales in the first 2 years so maiby 200$ in 2 years but now the game is essentially free to me.I haven't bought any At this moment I have every competitive deck that was ever meta in the game, every stapels, 9000 gems and 1700 URs. That's amazing compared to other games like Hearthstone and MTG arena where you need to put 100$ in the game every 3-4 months or so to get the best decks.
I have a question about the game. If I move an on summon trigger of a gemini monster's gemini summon in to the damage step can I activate it like all other on summon triggers and if I can, when in the damage step will it trigger?
@@TwistedBOLT the only effects that can activate during the damage step are attack/defense modulation quick effects. Edit: and counter trap cards, forgot about those. No other effect can be activated unless the card says it can.
@@TwistedBOLT Those effect trigger right after or just before the damage step. Monsters are flipped face up before damage calculation takes place (and even then, the flip effect itself doesn't resolve until *after* the attack resolved, otherwise a man-eater bug would kill the monster that attacked before it would die in battle) And floating affects occur after an attack has concluded. (You don't search with Sangan until after the Sangan has been sent to GY)
@@KaoruMzk Monsters are flipped at the start of the damage step flip effects trigger after damage calc and floating effects trigger at the end of the damage step but all of them trigger in the damage step. Mandatories trigger in the damage step always as well. Almost all on summon effects trigger during damage step as they're effects that trigger when a card itself is moved somewhere.
@@KaoruMzkthats still within the dmg step, the “end of the dmg step” is when floaters and recruiters’ effect activated and resolved which is still part of the dmg step itself the entire range of the dmg step is bascially whatever happens after an atk is declared successfully till the turn player has back priority to be able to declare another atk
It's easy to start playing Yu-Gi-Oh... You get some cards together, and draw 5 cards! And that's how you start playing! Sorry, but I can't help with anything after that...
Well competitive yugioh isnt fun at the slightest but playing with friends and helpimg eachother upgrade and build decks that compete with one another in more equal playing grounds is where the game shines. Going to locals and tournaments is just cancer
Ehhh, a lot of decks themselves are very affordable except the most recent prints, which is completely normal. Tenpai is a good example which is only expensive because of Purulia, which is a very recent secret rare print, but not necessary, and trident dragion which is an old ass card that never got reprinted (because why would they?) The majority of the expensive yugioh cards in meta decks are staples any way which you can use in your other decks, like S:P or Ash as an example. Yugioh has a lot of problems, but freshly released cards being expensive isn't one of them and isn't yugioh exclusive either.
If I tried to run my Cyber Dragon Synchron deck right now, I would likely get ripped apart by Tearlaments, Runicks and Sprites. It's the analogy of throwing somebody into the deep end of a pool, yelling "Sink or swim" after doing so, then hoping for the best results. Returning and starting players need to be eased into the game instead of walking into the game and getting destroyed by the 4th turn. The new rules and mechanics are not good for starting out unless you've invested at least several thousand dollars and several months of play testing to get the combos and strategies down pat. I've played up until the Pendulums came out, and I just find that a broken as hell spam mechanic. Where do I even start with link summoning?? Introducing that and hand traps have just accelerated the game to s breakneck pace.
Take it from me 1. Don’t play Master Duel or the irl game (unless you don’t mind spending money), play on EDOPRO, YGO Omega, Duelingbook, etc. where all the cards are FREE. 2. You will have to learn A LOT but it’s the journey that counts😊.
lol, those sims are terrible, they are old, lack all the quality of life improvements, no AI opponents, no tutorials, and installing them is overly complicated for a brand new player. who gives a shit about free cards at that point?, and besides that, in Master Duel is so easy to get cards that is not even worth it for that reason either.
@@Badbufon ok I usually never have any problems with those sims, what QOL issues do they have? Both EDO and Omega have A.I. opponents. I will submit that they could use some tutorials. Complicated to install ehhhhh maybe that usually depends on how good someone is with a computer.
I really don't understand why people have this opinion yes the meta decks are very oppressive however not all locals are filled with yubel/snake eye in fact staples are the cheapest they've ever been with the rarity collection yes there are some cards that are price gapped but it is way better than it has been in a long time it's not everybody's intention to go into competive
honestly you missed the best bit of advice you could ever give to anyone considering getting into yugioh...... 1.Dont i wish this game had more merit and fundimentally what you said is correct with regards of ways to get into it but the worst part about the game IRL is the game itself, the community i play with i love but the game itself just isnt welcoming anymore sadly
Seriously, don’t. Yugioh is a fundamentally flawed game with some of the most heartless greedy management of the big tcgs. Right now is the worst time to try to enjoy this game.
i think when choosing to get into Yu-Gi-Oh! you need to ask some key questions. If your answer to just one of these is no, then probably don't even try. obviously, my answer to all of these is yes. are you mentally deranged? (this is the most important question so I think it should be asked first) are there other people who want to or already play the game that you know of? do you want an obsession to be stuck with for many years? do you hate fun? do you want to make sure people do not have fun? are you willing to let people make you not have fun? do you hate the limited time you have in this world? do you want to make sure people waste their limited time in this world? are you willing to let people waste your limited time in this world? do you want to be a lawyer? nerd out and dispute rules harder and wronger than players in an average TTRPG group? Is YuGiOh truly the TCG you want to get into? Do you have alternatives you could rather be or are already playing (optional)? if yes, do you believe you can find time to enjoy YiGiOh alongside these other games? barring the last question which is optional, if your answer is yes to all of these, then congrats. you are willing to play Hell: The Card Game. If you answered no even once... Walk away. Do not look back. You will regret nothing if you do. I have only started YuGiOh last month and have been having an unironically grand old time. YuGiOh is such a neurodivergent game. It just gets me, I think. And it gets me back. I have of course watched tagalog dubs of some episode of Duel Monsters, GX, and a few memes about card games on motorcycles beforehand but those are not nostalgic memories for me. just, an accepted fact. So what do you do now that you know you are interested? This is what I did when starting personally: First and foremost, I read front to back the official Master Rule 5 on Konami's website. I always read the rulebook when getting into any tabletop game. You are genuinely insane if you want to play a tabletop game and not expect to read. (remember you said yes to the lawyer question by now.) considering the meme that us YuGiOh players don't know how to read, I'm afraid I am an exception... Afterwards there are two routes to go from here: first option is to find a simulator for YuGiOh (Master Duel is likely the go to choice if you want an official simulator) and play from there. if learning 7 different summoning mechanics, chaining, how cards are worded, and all 15 substeps of the Battle Phase and a rapport of over 10,000 cards is too overwhelming (understandably), then i suggest playing in a Time Wizard format first. Play the classic DS games, play through a Progression Series with a friend, there are options to naturally learn all 10,000 cards eventually. (i haven't yet.) if, after playing a bit of Edison or GOAT you still think modern format is too overwhelming, you can choose to be a boomer and stick to time wizard from there, or just drop the game from there... For choosing a deck, how I went about it is simple: Pick a card. You are bound to end up liking at least one. Maybe it's the artwork, maybe the effect sounds cool, or maybe you saw the big numbers and said "yup. i wanna summon that guy". From there try and see if people have decks made that incorporates that card and learn from there. I am a pet decker. I play the Ruin & Demise ritual archetype. Ritual is my favorite summoning mechanic. Ruin waifu card. Help me, I have never tasted victory in my life. I wish to play in Nekroz format.
@@altejoh a format where you only play cards from the early days of Yu-Gi-Oh!. My bad for not elaborating jargon only people who already play would know. the two most popular formats are Goat format which plays cards from up to 2008. The only special summoning mechanic there are fusions and rituals and you will barely ever see them. It is the most bare bones version of the game you can play making it potentially a perfect gateway into the world of Yu-Gi-Oh albeit as long as you keep in mind that current Yu-Gi-Oh barely resembles Goat anymore. It teaches you the basics, but if your goal is to get into modern Yu-Gi-Oh, Goat is only the first step to potentially thousands. If you want to experience Goat format on your lonesome, I recommend playing Nightmare Troubadour, Spirit Caller, World Championship 2007 or 2008. DS games I am quite nostalgic about. Just a purely personal suggestion tho. Edison is the other format which features cards all the way until 2011. There you will see Synchros as the main special summoning mechanic from the extra deck. It is still somewhat of a far cry to how modern is played, but does feature more nuance, variety in strategies and overall is more complex than Goat. If you want a taste of the absurdity of Yu-Gi-Oh but not the peak absurdity of the more modern formats this is the format for you. I recommend playing World Championship 2011 for a singleplayer experience of Edison. My personal favorite YuGiOh video game. I do not recommend jumping straight into Edison if your goal is to gradually learn. If you are crazy as well as confident in your skills and reading comprehension as a TCG player then go right ahead. Otherwise, stick to Goat until you are ready and willing to read cards that have more text in them. There are many more formats for Yu-Gi-Oh. Some officially sanctioned, others made by the community, however I can't in good faith recommend them to anyone starting out. Alternate formats like Domain, Common Charity and whatnot are for those who are already familiar with YuGiOh and want to try a different flavor of absurd.
fr really wish I played progression with my friends already in the game before I started playing, I just dived into the deep end with on release master duel. Eventually got to a point where now I feel like I am a confidently average player but playing progression now has actually made me a better duelist in advanced format since I now have way more knowledge of decks I would have never bothered to play before so I find myself less often staring down an opponent doing a darkworld combo and not knowing where to interrupt.
