I Gave Every OG Yu-Gi-Oh Anime Character a New Deck! 

*This was a fun video to make! I wanted to go beyond just "legacy support" with my ideas. After you've seen the video, I wanna know: Which of these characters would come out on top in a tournament with their modern Yu-Gi-Oh deck?* 🤔 Giving GX characters modern decks! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wOFJhWKNsMk.html

With Kaiba’s obsession with power and winning I could absolutely see him on Snake-Eyes Diabelstar. Plus it has a big scary 3K dragon. Oh and it’s a billion dollars.

Considering how she dueled Joey in S1 i like the idea of Mai using Aromages

Weevil would 100% be a sweaty Runick player

Grandpa Muto would absolutely use Subterror. It has that tomb-raiding dungeon-delving feel from his older days as an archaeologist, while having some elements of playfulness with how the humanoid cards are acting like an adventurer party and playing a guessing game with facedown behemoths. Also adding some control elements might fit with how an older, more experienced character is perceived in the anime

Honestly if you want to give marik a torture deck just give him a stall burn deck with infuriating handtraps

With Espa Roba, I was thinking Psy-Frames more than anything. It's centered around Driver, which is reminiscent of a deck centered around Jinzo and "predicting the future" ties in well with how Psy-Frames play in response to what your opponent does.

Now this is a great take! Instead of defaulting to a pre-existing cards turned archetypes, you looked at the characters' personalities and playstyles and chose a modern fit. Love how much thought went into this! Makes your channel one of the greats!

You should take this concept and do a series of duel videos where the Yu-gi-oh characters use these modern decks in a revamped duelist kingdom, battle city, etc.

I could see Mai playing a pure Diabellestar/Sinful Spoils deck, since Mai and Diabellestar are both rogue types that play hard and chase that dollar. Then maybe she splashes Flamberge as the new "Harpy's pet Dragon". Additionally, Ishizu might like Prediction Princess, since they're mysterious monsters that flip down everything and can hinder the opponent.

mai would play Labrynth i say. think about it. she a pretty lady that acts like a villain and has her guard up (the labrynth traps)and play hard to get, but she secretly wants the knight lady to get to her,but she just acts hard to get and like a tsundere. mai is the lovely lady and the lady knight is joey(he also play a lot of warriors and knights). joey just need to get pass mai defenses to see her good real self and "sweep her off her feet". he just need to work for it.

Okay, but here's the important question: WOULD Yami Yugi puppet lock his opponent? (My guess would be yes, if you really pissed him off. This would be the modern equivalent of what he did to Weevil, where instead of attacking even after the game is over, he'd just puppet lock you turn after turn while refusing to finish you off)

Dragunity for Joey is also suprisingly because it would give that little nudge nudge towards his friendship/relationship/situationship with Mai due to Winged Beasts, his rivalry with Kaiba due to dragons, his lessons from Yigi and Grandpa Muto about not juat using monsters (he could easily have tried using Dragunity without the support or even without tuners), and they still have that Warrior vibe even if they aren't warriors

For Mai I would think either the Twins or even Sky Striker, especially since Sky Striker is in essence one of 2 girls in a Mech Suits, while also keeping her high flying aesthetic of the Harpies, and the synergistic properties of the Amazoness Monsters. And I fully agree with Atem's choice of Branded. That whole archetype screamed Protagonist, granted it might have something to do with the stat lines on most of the boss monsters, with Mirror Jade being like the only one that breaks the status quo.

Atem with Branded would actually be amazing. Not just for the reasons you mentioned, but also because it's a very protagonist-friendly deck. Since there are so many different variations on Branded, Yugi can keep the core of it while swapping out monsters or archetypes throughout the series to show progression, or to counter specific opponents.

I definitely feel Fire Kings for Marik as he’s all about those fire birds. But if there was another really good deck for him I feel it be Lair of Darkness. It’s all about manipulating your opponent by tributes there monsters. But also torturing them with viruses and other trap cards. As for Yami Bakura. What better deck for a puppet master than Shaddolls. Plus using warped twisted versions of other monsters feels right up his alley.

Yami Yugi with Branded sounds interesting. I also play the deck myself on TCG and I always see new things I can do and it really relies on your decision making skills and so many things work with it. I personally like having Dark Magician in it because the deck can make Dragoon which is a TCG thing

I would say Joey would like tear cus he likes those gamble cards and tear milling is basically gambling lmao

4:21 Kashtira feels like a deck gozaburo would use if he took duel monsters seriously. It’s he not Kaiba who wanted to rule the world and would burn it down if he couldn’t.

I know it’s a lot but a tournament with those decks would be soo cool each of the members of team aps choose two decks out of a hat and go at it

I would have given Pegasus "Fluffals/Frightfurs" myself. It really mirrors his "Toon/Relinquished" deck with it being playful at first but becoming something more sinister.

This is such a fun idea, great suggestions. I do think Vaylantz is very Duke Devlin though, there’s a ninja and everything! For Bakura, considering Diabond is his Ka- I can see Ogdoadic or even Mementolan.

I also would consider Traptrix for Weevil and Odion

Fire video! I loved to hear your opinions! Also I think your Yugi Muto-Adventure token was soooo smart and amazing fit!

I had thoughts for Mai and Solomon Muto specifically! For Mai, I think Mikanko could be a good fit! It's definitely a little on the "girlier" side, but to me a) that goes along with her prominent usage of Harpie and Amazoness as strongly "female-inspires" decks, b) it plays into how her earlier appearances had her taking advantage of male duelists underestimating her (especially with the Mikanko stat lines), and c) the way Mikanko plays and especially interacts with battle is similar to how her duel against Joey saw her make tricky use of her Flying monsters. In addition, a case could be made for the trickier equip spells being vaguely reminiscent of the tricks she'd play in early duels For Solomon Muto, I'd make a case for Memento! It strikes a similar chord as Adamancipator in terms of looking to the past, the overall gameplan of "assemble the combo to play the big monster" present somewhat in Exodia and very present in his KC grand prix deck is similar to what Memento wants to do, and, given that this sort of rebooted series clearly features newer cards, the fact that all but one of the Memento monsters are retrained old monsters suits him well!

I think the coolest idea with Yami playing Branded and Kaiba playing Kashtira (especially for the META a few months ago) is how strong both decks were (and still are) and how either deck could win. Branded being the more tool-box/flexible option with many options to counter for winning in a longer game and Kashtira being more aggressive and depriving with zone locking and banishing to crush your opponent.

I don’t think Mai would associate with dragonmaids as it doesn’t come off as girlbossy and is more of a maid fantasy with a furry twist, I’d say lyrilusc would be good but idk if an anime character uses them

Loved to see this! My first guess for Kaiba was also Kashtira, but my experiences playing that deck make me wish he did not end up using that if he had the chance lol.

Love the writing in this, rather than a simple discussion I felt nostalgic hearing these concepts and other archetype are interesting to hear about too Great one brotha

We both had the same base thought for the Yami Yugi deck, but I was thinking he would more specifically be on Branded Chimera. It goes into his use of Gazelle and Berfomet, while also not going too far into the Despia packages or Illusion monster pool.

This is really cool & I love all your ideas, some I might have to look up because I'm not familiar with them such as the one you picked for Atem, but I hope you do this for the other yu-gi-oh series as well.

Hey Paul, awesome video, you picked some creative choices i never thought of and wish i did. Also, side note since you dotn play duel links, but some events kinda hint at decks theyd make characters use. Bonz had a big event where its revealed his type of Spooks would be like Ghostricks now.

This was Such and well thought out video.!! Great job

I love your Atem and Kaiba pick, I could totally see Atem setting Albaz, Kaiba laughing at how pathetic Atem is for setting a monster against his Dragon link board. Then it all gets fused away for Lenatus

I didn't expect to enjoy this video way more than I should have. Do more of this in the future please

Funny how u had mako in the opening list but didnt mention him. As a mako fanatic who made a deck based solely on his love for the ocean i think he would play a white fish synchro deck or ghoti deck. Both have powerful cards and effects and are water types that mainly use fish/sea serpent/aqua types

man, even though I don't even play yugioh since my veeery casual days of gba games, duel links and master duel, I love just watching y'all talk about the TCG you're invested in, always a fun watch :) gotta say, this video opened my eyes to what sounds like some really fun archetypes that I didn't know existed! especially the ones mentioned during yugi's section about emulating traditional board games and fighting games, gonna end up downloading master duel again @_@

I really liked the Idea of Yugi on an adventure deck. Fits his style and the idea of a party of friends. Joey would fit super well with a flame swordsman infernoble build. I love the idea of Kaiba on Kashtira, it really fits his personality and his playstyle with crush cards virus. Pegasus on Amazement is a fun fit to his flamboyant style. Mai is 100% the trickiest to nail down if your not just giving her Harpies or amazons. I like the live twin idea. Mikanko is also a decent fit for her more tricky play styles she uses in duelist kingdom. Atem on branded was an deck I wasn’t immediately expecting but I see your points, it has the ability to play multiple different ways depending on how you configure your deck and draw. The Horus cards would also be a good fit for him

I’ve built a few decks so far based on characters using a few of their cards from the anime, but just building support around those key cards. Yugi for example, uses dark magician support but also has slifer and Gaia with it along with magical hats and old trap staples. Kaiba uses blue eyes/obelisk support, but has cards like fairy meteor crush and enraged battle ox. Still gets ok results but they are so much fun to use.

I feel Ishizu is a Labyrinth player. All 3 of the gravekeepers in Yu-Gi-Oh had a focus on traps, and Labyrinths general theming of an elegant trap castle fits Ishizu to a T. She can appear unassuming and gentle, but if you let her appearance decive you your toast.

I can see Tristian wasting a throwaway midseason bosses time by bricking on his flower cardian deck for a whole episode while the gang is in the background trying to thwart the villians evil plans.

fun video, hope you consider doing more of them!

nice vid, earned my sub. There is one archetype that I think would fit Hassleberry easily and matches the theme for his deck when you get to GX.

This is a really good question and video idea!

Ok, hear me out, I know you were trying to think outside the box, BUT THERE IS NO WORLD WHERE KAIBA DOESNT HAVE A BLUE EYES DECK. Edit: THANK YOU FOR PIN!!! Edit: NOOOOO!!! Chat they unpinned my comment!!!!

Excellent video ! The choices for the decks are really good and feel natural for all of the characters

I've seen this concept like 100 times but I think you're the first to actually nail it. So many just pick the modern variants or go with whatever's relevant right now and shares a type with their OG deck. You actual thought about the themes and character parallels that make a deck feel like a character's signature.

I could see Yami Bakura, Yami Marik or Bones using Memento they destroy themselves to use their effects, that one trap has 5+ negates which is good from just one card then you have their artistic theme being skeletal/phantom versions of older cards.

This could be a fun video series. Keep it up.

I absolutely love every single pick you mentioned. Great video, it was entertaining!

Yo Paul, your transitions between each point you make are so smooth. You’re great speaking Lmfaooooooo I promise it’s a compliment, I’m not tryna sound sarcastic or anything. If you wrote a script for this video, it was very well written too.

Would love to see this for other anime series!

If we're talking about Kaiba playing dragons and debilitating his opponent, he would absolutely be puppet locking with branded. They're getting a new fusion that screams over the top anime card too

Thank you so much for this video! That's the kind of content i love,you've done a really good job my friends❤💪

Nice video and good job giving these characters their modern decks

I enjoyed how you took into consideration for the personality traits of each character and tied a deck to that theme instead of just giving them powerful versions of other peoples decks. Honorable mention I could see Joey play is…..War rocks Those warriors personify his fighting spirit in the way that they will clash with anything and become stronger when fighting with their friends or for their friends.

Kaiba - Mannadium, Tenpai, Kashtira Yugi - Yubel, Branded, Chimera Joey - Snake-eyes Fire King, Runick, Unchained

Awesome video, totally agree with a lot of this. I would love to see other videos on the other animes.

Very cool concept video 👍🏻

This video was super cool. I really agree about Yami Yugi, and now I can totaly see Kaiba playing Drytron! I also agree a lot with Pegasus, but I would include Plunder Patrol on his possible decks, for rememebering his style of monster hinding inside other cards plus the aesthetic of plunder cards.. For Mai, I really think Mikanko feets her character, strong females that can challenge the most fearsome monsters, supported by very strong spell cards, like in his old harpies deck.

Great video! Very fun! I haven't kept up the anime as much as I used to. I love Infernoble Knights, but I also think Battlin' Boxers would fit Joey pretty well too 🥊

I would enjoy to see this for every era! Maybe decks for each in specific Legacy formats? Like the DM era people in Goat and the 5Ds era people in Edison.

My pick for Kaiba is actually a Branded/Despia/Bystial pile he played Saggi and Peten so playing Comedy/Tradgey doesn't seem that off beat, his flair for the dramatic would 100% let him use the Theatre and he gets to use all of the cool dragon fusions including the blue eyes ones. There's also a theoretical line where he summons queridas, drops the atk of everything on the board, and then turns over Crush Card Virus using his now-0 atk monster

Thank you for this video! It showed many archetypes that looked interesting and presented in a way that would appeal to a former player wanting to pick up the game again!

This is a fantastic concept honestly

I love that you didn't just go with the more updated meta versions of their original decks. A lot of thought went into the selections, I appreciate when people take the duelists' personalities into account.

I have thought about this before and came up with a few Yugi/Atem -> Endymion (DARK Spellcaster like DM so it makes sense) Ishizu -> Ishizu Tear lol or maybe Ishizu Loghtsworn? Joey -> Dragon Link Kaiba -> Chaos (He used Chaos Emporer Dragon so it works) or ABC Pegasus -> Probably the Eyes restrict stuff. Prank Kids was a clever option. These are just a few I came up with lol

Aqesome video. Tcg anime has been doing videos on this as well recently. Liked both

I feel like Yugi is an underdog, and he would play decks that could be underestimated. But I think that tri-brigade might me a really good deck for him. They’re a group of monsters that don’t have a place, but they have each other- emphasizing Yugi’s care for others. Furthermore I think that zoodiac could also make sense by that same logic. All of these cards coming together to make each other stronger.

I've seen you guys on the professors RU-vid channel. I'd love to see an episode where you talk about what mtg commander decks each of these characters would play!

Fun video concept

This is really the way these videos should be done. Everyone always just says - They have gotten support and retrained. Doesn't really work. Great vid

Bakura = Burning Abyss + Necrofear

I gave this some thought before watching this and I also landed on LiveTwin for Mai. I do think Dinomorphia would fit as well, given both decks can lean in a control direction.

I like kaiba with the kash deck like you said but Mai had a soft toss hit out the park pick (imo) with tear. Strong ladies that use resources around them or each other to fusion summon. Kinda like the synchros but fusion

Personally I can see Marik running something like Runick Stun+Burn. You look me in the eyes and tell me that deck isn't a legal torture method.

Shame on you for forgetting this legendary duelist: Johnny Steps! Joking aside, awesome video! Very fun

Inzektor for weevil actually makes sense for a few reasons one Is rhat in duel links events involving weevil as well as his level up rewards feature inzektor cards. Also, there is an investor card called in investor giga weevil.

For Rex Raptor i am not sure if this would be an option but i am gonna say it. Rex could play a Dinowrestler deck.

I enjoy all the videos you guys put out. But i really liked these theories and enjoyed this video alot

Honesty love this type of vidoe. Would love to see this done with other series in the franchise. For yugi. Now this isn't one i took a long time to think about. this was just a gut reaction but for him, plunder patrol. I dont really have a super strong reason I just thought his innocent and adventurous nature would go well with it.

Yooo!!!! I literally downloaded Duel Links a while ago just to play with Skull Servants again and finding out my boii Bones has it was a crappy grind but now imma go back to it 😅

Pegasus did play burning abyss tho that was a live event at the World Championship. I don't know about Adventure for Yugi, you said he wants to be a game designer but there's more to that than just ttrpg which is Ryo Bakura's area along with maybe Generaider Boss'. Joey also did like his game shows.

6:20 Idk, I feel like in that one YGO championship character duel with Pegasus and Kaiba that he would end up using Wind-ups since Toys are his 2nd favorite thing besides cartoons. 8:55 Mai I think could go with Traptrix or Sky Strikers. Both are hardcore and both have their strengths in Mai’s personality. Traptrix alluding to her S1 persona of playing mind games with her opponent and end up fooling them. Sky Strikers being how she likes variants of her harpie ladies. So this would fit the bill 16:40 I’d also like to nominate Nephthys as deck for her since it’s also an Egyptian deity and would likely evoke the imagery of Ra for her.

The first thing i thought of was "obviously yugi is playing vs soul, right?" I didnt even make the game connection, i just thought that all the teamplay themes, the surprise disruption despite weak looking boards, and the very protagonist-y look of caesar valius with his human-esque proportions and glowing blonde hair made for an easy choice.

I think you forgot about Téa Gardner, but I could totally see her playing a Madolche deck, not sure if there is anyone that plays it in the anime, if not then Vernusylph. They are cute and adorable, and a lot of them are fairy monsters, which fit how her deck was in the anime. It's still a good Archetype and it's getting some new support which makes me happy, being a Madolche player.

4:20 i feel that a thunder dragon deck for kaiba would have been a cool idea😊

Could you make a part two, maybe for the rest of the battle city characters?

I think a good Illusion deck that would work well with Pegasus is Altergeis as they really give relinquish vibes as they do use other monsters that are their arch while relinquish uses the opponents monsters but same vibes with a different route

Personally I think Labrynth would work well for Mai. It has the feeling a woman being in control and independent while also feigning a tough exterior.

Evil Twins and Mai was my first thought and I love it!

The is probably the most interesting version of the DM characters using modern day decks

Nah, I know if Yami Marik was playing in 2024 he would play stun.

I feel like Dream Mirror could also work for Pegasus, it literally is all about two opposed looking sides, being the ones from the Mirror of Joy and the Mirror of Terror, kind of like the Toons and Relinquished, in a way

Branded for Yami/Atem seems extremely appropriate. He already has like five archetypes (Dark Magician, Gaia, Black Luster soldier, Buster Blader, Kuriboh), so having a Deck with a collection of archetypes which all synergize would be a natural fit for a modern version of his Deck. Plus, all the big bosses have 2500 ATK.

Yugi: the new Illusion stuff would really fit his love for mixed up magic Illusions and fusions, so I think he'd very likely play that new strategy in whatever variant is topping lately. Kaiba: Branded, He loves big dragons that hit hard, that's exactly what Branded does. Joey (Jonouchi): Definitely vanquish soul, he loves warriors that hit hard, maybe if you wanted to go down the gambling angle he could play Paleo Tearlaments! All gas and all gambling! Anzu: Skull Guardian/Lo's Prayer Ritual, it just fits Her and Yugi's relationship dynamic of punk butch and dependable femme. Atem: the new Horus stuff definitely, with the whole ancient Egyptian vibe it would literally be perfect for him. Odion: Eldlitch, it's arguably a modern incarnation of his trap-monster strategy, it would be literally perfect! Isis (Ishizu): definitely just the modern support version of her ancient sentinel deck, Mudora and Agido, Kelbek and Keldo are just too good to pass up on. Honda: Earth machine, enough said. Bakura: probably the newest version of the zombie world pile, with all the modern support. Bonz: Skull servant. It's too funny. Bandit Keith: Fire king tri-brigade he's an American, he loves blowing up everything. Pegasus: Maybe the new goblin deck? Goblins are like a famous MTG deck and the toon monsters are literally the way that they are BECAUSE of magic, it could be another stealth reference to them. EDIT: oh man Prank kids and Amazement are WAAAAY better as options for a modern Pegasus he would love those goofy strategies. Raphael: Infernoble knights, their love of equip spells is perfect for him. Mai: Floowandereeze. She loves her annoying winged beasts. Either that or Sky strikers because of the whole powerful women angle. Trying to think of good characters for Swordsoul and mathmech, maybe the armor guy... I'll edit with more if I think of any

My first thought for Yami was Branded, Invoked, Dogmatika. He always used different stuff to win each duel and the flexibility of those engines makes the most sense, and they're all spellcasters. Edit: I also just realized that the Mementotlan cards could work with those strategies as well. We could call it IMDB. P.S. This was an awesome video Paul. Mad props

I considered the archtype, the Earthbound Immortals for Bakura to more accurate to his darker side because he is bound by the limits of the ring until he finds a vessal and his obsession with sending duelist to the shadow realm is like a field spell to the mentally strong while the immortals are bound by there shackles until enough sacrifices are made to bring them out in the show and game for tributes with a field spell active aka there insignia.

So I disagree on Pegasus. I have two ideas for him: Ghostricks and Danger! Both are focused on using mind games to trick your opponent into choosing the "wrong" cards to target for you to discard or flip up.

Personally I would give Marik Shaddoll because they are puppets, reference his millennium rod, they are mainly dark monsters and you can still your opponent's monsters which in a sense could be torturing them if you steal their boss