Master Duel lets me enjoy the game of Yu-Gi-Oh without ever having to meet a Yu-Gi-Oh player or interact with the Yu-Gi-Oh community. And it's free And Electrumite is legal
You can use any card as long as you have crafting materials, and can farm for them for free. You don't need more than 3 copies per card. You don't need to keep track of things like LP and other data. It's just pure simple fun.
Happened with me when I did physical person argued evenly didn't count itself so I'd have to exile board and the judge ruled his way (he was a friend of the judge)
Evenly is still on the field at the time of its effect, therefore is always +1 to your board not much to argue about. Is it on the field resolving, or in the grave. Ez pz@@Someone-lg6di
Yugiboomer here: Back when I played the TCG, I hated the constant cheating and judge debates. MD is not only cheaper and more convenient, but I don't have to listen to some 300lbs mouth-breather telling how his twink cards work.
I'm glad that in the store I go to they have a VERY good community that lives off trust so you dont see disputes like this mainly just them going back and forth on some dumb ruling then calling the employee and whatever he says they roll with
I don’t trust IRL anymore, I can sit there and argue about how a card works for 20 minutes or I can just go in master duel and have zero arguments on how a card works.
Also master duel is getting closer to modern day yugioh every day to the point that some cards are getting released at the same time or faster than tcg and reaching ocg . Vanquish soul is an example of its entire archetype getting released when tcg just recently got the entire archetype.
I play exclusively Master Duel and it's what got me back into yugioh after not having played since early 2000's. I've been grinding ladder with an Evil Eye deck and yesterday I kinda got the urge to buy that deck in paper. Until I looked around and saw how much it would cost to get all the staples.
If Fenrir declares an attack, both Hope and Fenrir would trigger. Turn priority so Fenrir chain 1 target, Hope chain 2. Resolve backward; Hope resolves, battles Fenrir and Fenrir would be destroyed by battle. Then Fenrir resolves and banishes target. You can completely avoid this scenario if you declare an attack on Hope because Hope can't switch attack targets if he's already the attack target.
@@soulstarved4116 yes and in this case the effect of fenrir should resolve because the turn player has priority but the effect of hope harbinger “loses timing”
@TheGearFirst Timing is only lost if something happens before a when trigger effect has a chance to activate. In this scenario, Hope and Fenrir are basically triggering simotaneously at the same time, but you still have to order their effects, which creates a chain.
Master Duel is a godsend for me. I've never had a "locals" that wasn't at least a 45 minute drive away... if I wanna play Magic, there'll always be a game shop around the block hosting events, but for some reason YGO event hosts are always spaced super far out. combine that with the price of paper creeping up, and I just can't justify the time or financial investment.
As a brazilian 18yo I'm 100% willing to take 2 buses and the almost 2h trip to my "local" shop, What I'm not willing to, however, is spending thousands (I don't even have that kind of money LOL) in my currency to play a deck that won't make me go 0-8
As Brazilian to, this fucking SUCKS, I don't have to travel that much, but every new deck feels exactly like this to me, even when I made a Labrynth deck relatively cheap (R$400/90US), the literal next month bring the new supports (Lab Buttler and Rollback), both of them cost MORE than the deck I just made, and like, Its still missing things that I will basically ONLY use in this specific strategy like Chaos Angel and Unchained links.. While in MD is like 12 URs AT MOST..
As a brazilian, my city has 2 locals, both at least 1 hour away from me, and I can't play in them cause I play to win, and I can't win if a tier 2 deck costs like 2000 reais
The biggest benefit of MD over TCG is the timer. Nothing worse than burn for game 3 or malicious slow playing. MD just keeps it fair with same time available for both players.
I always imagined that it would be kinda nice to have a clock like in chess its a 40 minute match everyone gets 20 mins to react or to play. Why not? It would maybe even stop playing decks that just do way to much and slow the game down. If the opponent wants to check the field he uses his time and so on you can also have a 3 min timer for siding. Maybe it would be terrible as for all the little interactions asking for effects and info but I would like to try that. Of course timer stops when asking for a judge.
@@BaxsStudiosI think it could work, people just have to get used to it. In blitz chess the clock could get hit over 100 times in a 6 minute period. As soon as you activate an effect or do a summon you hit the clock. If the Opp doesn't have a response then they'll hit it back immediately and you continue. Would also make it very clear who the action is with and should reduce disputes in that area.
Its kinda funny that the OCG has competitive pricing because there are so many card games in Japan. But the TCG kept having abusive pricing. But now the TCG is slowly going to realize it effectively needs to be competitive with the Master Duel pricing.
MD but also Pokemon, Elestrals, Lorcana, and realistic about how much is lost when people aren’t using new products. I have seen many aging card packs on shelves that was uncommon during big sick year.
@@four-en-teeive never seen someone deep dive explain exactly what in the law says they cant make good cards hard to pull. I think this is just something people started saying and others started believing its true.
@four-en-tee that does not make any sense. The land of gacha is perfectly okay with making things hard to pull. I guarantee there is no way a law covers that.
All of the locals around me have abandoned yugioh entirely. They don’t carry product anymore. They don’t host events anymore. I gotta travel out of state if I want to play the game at this point.
@@spicymemes7458True in that you’ll be able to see what people are saying about new cards, but if this is your first chance to see or use Yubel cards or Tenpai watch out, it’s new for that crowd.
One of the biggest barriers to entry is the card text and how jumbled it is. I love how the OCG translations generally just say “You can use each of these effects once per turn. 1) search 2) special summon 3) etc Rather than needing to know what text you can effectively skip over
Even without points or number effects the MD formatting has become popular enough to send waves of anti-paragraph wall of text remarks. The vernacular of cards is another barrier to entry besides costs, which can make things tough outside of MD, if we are really reading them.
@@runningoncylinders3829 very true, I think it’s more important for the sheer fact that if it’s more clearly labeled, it’s easier to figure out which effect is used when you’re against a card ur unfamiliar with.
@@kingofgrim4761 MD has another great tool for this that paper can’t replicate. The highlighting of the effect being used. If we have a future in VR or AR gaming this would be a must.
Aging Farfa is getting more and more relatable. The price, the horrid quality of cardboard, the time, effort and annoyances of IRL play is just becoming too much of a burden combined with real life stuff. I love my locals, I love in person play, but there is just so many wounds the hobby is bleeding from...
Yeah, at this point playing on my locals is becoming less and less fun and les and less popular, the compound of all the problems with prizing, meta and how in general the game is very very hard to get into even if you ignore the cost, a lot of people is just moving to other games when going to locals and playing YuGiOh online.
I stopped playing the real-life cards due to cost, but mostly because others stopped playing. It actually took me a few months after Master Duel went online to get in. While I do regret having put so much into it at times, playing casual is a nice way to unwind, learn new tactics and check stuff you wouldn't otherwise be able to see while playing IRL. For instance, it's hard to find off-the-wall decks and cooky strategies that work and are not Meta-locked offline, but there are channels dedicated to that online.
Its so wild to see how freely farfa seems to speak against certain aspects of the game now that he is not a konami employee. More yugitubers should be like this.
Not even the "master duel is Free to play but goddamn you need to farm your ass off to build your deck" argument holds so perfectly... cause you can just start a new account and get showered in gems, crafting points from both achievements and "discovered secret packs", at which point the only decks you can't get right away are just the ones where almost every card is a craft-required UR
Yeah seriously. Like it might not be the most seamless thing but there's nothing stopping someone from just making dozens of alts for every archetype they'd want to play without paying a cent
I feel like I’m crazy, I get zero enjoyment from Master Duel, it feels like a time suck and seems to only make me angry. I enjoy playing cards with my friends and actually getting out of my house to go see people at locals.
Without Master Duel, I'd legit never going to touch YGO, period. The hassle of being in a small community, couple with high card price mean I will never touch paper regardless of the format anyway. And MD has been a godsend in that regards Also, I think another thing is that ... People only buy YGO cards for the gameplay, compare to other card games. Like, you don't see people buying YGO cards because they like the lore, or the artworks, or, in very rare cases, they're the fan of the characters from the anime, compare to, say, One Piece or Pokemon.
I've played competitive Yu-Gi-Oh until 2014. The biggest issue, that is facing Yu-Gi-Oh is the fact that the tournament structure didn't evolve with the maturing of the game and the audience, while other games like Magic, Pokémon and other card games aged with the players. Building a 1000$ deck to win a play mat and two displays is pathetic, if you compare it to a Pokémon tcg event, where doing well earns you cash or other cash related rewards. And a good pokémon deck is rarely more expensive then 150$. Yugioh never got out of its infancy in regards to these things. The opportunity cost is relatively low in comparison to the potential payout. Yu-Gi-Oh is way more volatile. And it isn't Master Duels fault. Pokémon does have an online client as well where you can play for free and craft cards for in game currency. So that isn't an argument.
I'm a master duel baby, and tbh, I think the TGC is complete scam. I can't believe TCG players put up with the insane prices and non simultaneous releases. Feels completely inferior to the OCG.
You dont know how amazing the social aspect is. If you have good locals near you the interactions with friends you make is really great. Also driving together to other citys or countrys exploring them go to the tournament, go x2 dropping out and just having fun after. sitting next to each other testing hands, ratios, debating and such before tournaments is way more fun in real life then over discord. It also feels cool to have physical cards, to collect them and actually own something not just a account password. Master duel is great but so is playing in reallife. My locals never were hyper competitive so we always played fun rouge decks for the most part. We also just often played with proxys when not in a tournament setting so that also cuts the price argument. I wished they would have better pricing I would like to play meta there is certainly a lot wrong about that but tcg aint a scam it has a lot of value to do all this in person and in a community
@@BaxsStudiossomething having positive outcomes doesn't mean it isn't a scam, you could've had multiple trips out with friends for the price of a deck and a trip to a ycs The social aspect is great but if it costs you too much the social loses its meaning, you shouldn't have to go bankrupt to have fun with friends over a card game
@@gregnog8119 I mean I said I wished there is better pricing but no one forces you to play the best deck espacilly at local level or playing with friends. You can play other formats with them and such for extremly cheap. I would like for Konami to promote more alternative formats like commander or even tag duels as they are extremly fun on ygo pro. I can understand how opening packs can feel like gambling but most people just buy singles and structure decks. You could even buy cards for a tournament and sell them afterwards easily but most are to lazy for that. Ygo is pay to win but certainly not a scam, a meta deck shouldn't cost over like 250€ from scratch and thats something we all agree. But acting like Konami is forcing you to spend that money just isnt true.
Not going to lie I personally think Master Duel is the best thing Konami has put out since the original series. It is far and beyond the best way to play yugioh
My biggest complaint with master duel is the shuffling It's bad, really bad You repeatedly get the 1 garnet in the entire deck in your hand, and hey no shuffling system is truly random i get it But edo fixes this with the simple fact that you can rearrange the cards yourself in the deck or even press shuffle a few times to get a more randomised deck shuffle The same deck irl gives much better hands than in master duel because you can get better randomisation All i ask is lemme preshuffle
Why would I waste thousands of dollars to have the "privilege" of meeting yu-gi-oh players irl and play after a 2 hour trip to a local shop, when I can keep my current 0 dollar investment meta deck in Master Duel and wait a minutes at most to search for a game?
I love master duel. tcg simply became far too expensive for me. I stopped in 2016. Of course, at the beginning I was a bit lost because I didn't know all the meta cards etc, but since MD I've been enjoying playing Yugioh again...at least online
The bad experience at locals does kill the interest in physical play of the game. For me, last year I started playing again since like the gx era, I played a bit about 2017 but fell off, so last year was my user where I reignited that interest in the game, I learned how to play synchros, xyzs, links, all that stuff through master duel and built my first deck to play at locals, I went there, went 1-3 because it was a small store, but with my second mach I played against a lab player who told the judge that I was marking my cards just because I had one sleeve that was a little bit smaller than the rest and It was my mistake and I told him that was my first time playing in person so I didn't knew like all the intricacies of physical play and he went on and on telling me that I was cheating. This wasn't like a ots tournament or anything just like a casual thing where people was testing out decks for the upcoming ycs. (Also I was winning that mach) Do anyway I felt like really dumb and slow, so now I prefer playing just MD where i can just take my time with the confines of the limitations and now one will look at me like I'm a dim witted fool.
thats what discourges a lot of players i cant imagine being that much of a bum just becasue of a small gritty detail like that.Bro was just abusing rules
As a man with a very busy schedule it can be hard putting aside multiple hours of my night to go to locals so the draw of getting to play any time is nice. Also never needing to worry about illegal actions is good too. However playing side by side with a real person is just such a high so there is a dichotomy
Konami USA is killing the TCG, Dragon Master Magia is the prime example. In the OCG, you can get it in multiple rarities. The TCG, Quarter Century Rare only and if Ruxin34 is any example, damn near impossible to pull in a pack.
The weirdest thing is, there are plenty of hobbies FAR cheaper than yugioh. And yugioh is literally shiny cardboard, so there’s no excuse for it to be pricier than cycling as a hobby.
Just a personal anecdote: I stopped playing TCG around Dragon Rulers, sold all my cards, but still enjoyed some content around yu-gi-oh. I didn’t start playing again til master duel because it’s free to play. Otherwise I still wouldn’t be playing
@@tame1773 Stapels and decks that have been upshifted in rarity by the TCG, and thus skyrocketed in price. Fuwaross, a $130 secret rare, is a STANDARD RARE in OCG.
I don't think TCG is inherently less interesting, I think the issue is the lack of production value in the TCG events draws a much bigger contrast to the relative polish of the master duel ones.
I haven't played the physical game since ~2015. Then I tried it again with Speed Duels and Edison last year. All the memes are real. The cards are too small and the text is tiny, while the effect box is an incomprehensible mess compared to every other physical card game I played. It's something you'll never notice unless you stop playing and go touch grass for a few years. When you come back you realize that ygo card text is like someone vomiting an alphabet soup into your eyes. Players don't notice this because they memorize the card text and associate it to card names and images. This way you rarely re-read the effects. That's why the "Yugioh players don't read" meme is true. And that's honestly the real issue. The pricing issue only affects people playing competitively, which are in the minority. Most players are just casuals playing tier 3 decks or using alternatives to the most expensive cards in their decks. The cute version of Maxx C being €100+ is irrelevant when the average player will just use a €1 card instead. Digital is the way to go. Be it official video games or unofficial sims.
After coming back to playing YGO with Master Duel's release, i've been wanting to play TCG but due to the local scene being dead around me and the prices not being friendly at all, i decided against it. I think the TCG will always have its own charm but if Konami insists on shafting the players with meta options being shortprinted and/or expensive then i wouldn't be surprised if some just swapped to Master Duel.
Yet NEW staples, upped in rarity by the TCG, are needed. The new (mainly meta-) decks, UPPED IN RARITY BY THE TCG, become your new decks. it's just a problem of rarity-, and thus price-gouging in paper which turned me off of playing YGO in paper after attempting to get into it.
Imo the best thing about md is just the variety you have You could have a full on salad deck, a full visas 60 card pile where you play all variants, a kashtira, a tear deck, a full on imsety horus pharao deck, use that engine in all decks as well, craft the board breakers for all your going second variants, get yourself your nibirus, all handtraps once and you are done for most of your life I:p, s:p, appo, acces code, zeus baron ect And the amount of gems you get is crazy, solo mode allow gives you a huge amount if you are in dire need, else all the events and mission give you the much needed ones Yes if you want to play every deck in the game its not doable, BUT if you only wanted to play one meta deck every meta for the competitive players, or certain archetypes that you specially like, its so easily doable The only thing/deck that doesnt allow it if you are a pendulum lover (me) and most of their cards are not generic enough for the other decks
I think prices is a deciding factor for me. If I want to play any deck, I can make a new Email, registered new Nintendo account and then start a new account on Master Duel. Took about 2-3 hours grinding I will get a semi completed version of the deck I wanted to play barring the staples. Only few exceptions like those that hasn't been added to secret pack yet or something like HERO.
As someone who doesn't go to locals anymore but still wanna collect physical cards every now and then, the TCGs pricing problem is so god damn atrocious that it's even killing my desire to collect paper. Why do they do things where they see a card is doing well in the OCG, they'll make it so it's ONLY available as the highest rarity printing and nothing else in the TCG. Why is it that when accessible new-player friendly products like the Tactical Try Decks are introduced in the OCG, the TCG willfully ignores their existence because they don't want you to access easy reprints. Why is it that products like the Complete File -The White Story with the Branded story cards or the YuGiOh Card Game Art Works Book with the Sky Striker ROTA not even considered to be localized for the global market???? WHY TCG WHY????
The rules, that's the most important thing. IRL is purely worse because of that, you have a card game with an insane amount of rules that only a PC could always get right.
Master Duel has festivals with different card pools or rules. Festivals are my most played formats sure. My locals and other players may actually host fun events like this if Konami encouraged it.
TBH I hate master duel with a passion. It Absolutely did nothing but cut up the community player base and has a separate ban list. If I could have it removed I would Thanos Snap so fast. 0/10 game.
Having Master Duel dealing with convoluted rulings and interactions in YuGiOh make it a lot more fun as well, you can actually focus on playing the deck you like instead of learning the thousands of interactions, the timings of card effects and rulings that you are force to deal with in paper.
I find the whole "my YGO friends and I got together outside of a YCS and didn't play YGO" part of this to be confusing. I'm an MTG player, if I get together with my other friends who play MTG then we're probably going to play MTG... because we enjoy the game? Is it just that YGO can't be played casually or something? Team APS gave me the impression that casual kitchen table YGO is a thing but maybe that's not the case?
I feel a lot of yugioh players don’t know how to play fun casual anime decks as it’s so much fun to play casual yugioh. The decks might be ass but if you love the deck, it’s fun.
I feel the disparity between casual and competitive is so huge in yugioh nowadays that most people don’t even know what ‘casual’ implies anymore. It could mean anything from 2002 yugioh (the further thing away from modern competitive yugioh) or modern casual decks (casual by today’s standards but practically competitive compared to 2002 yugioh). Knowing what level of casual you actually want to play is a big hurdle because different casual players have different ideas of what that sweet-spot is.
Maybe theres middle ground. What if we could wear a machine on our wrist that can decide rulings for us. Perhaps with time, it can show holograms of the monsters we summon
@@mhead1117Other card game players actually like and praise their game. Yugioh players complain all the time and make videos like this because deep down they know the game is a broken mess.
I read slowly. So what i do often is ask my opponent for the sparknotes on their card. For example: simoon would be "i banish 1 from hand for cost then search black whirlwind. And then i can normal summon it with no tribute after if i want. And it dark locks me and i take 1k in end phase". Cuz that is always faster than me reading it all.
If they update the card pool, they can even make 3 ranked, one with TCG, OCG and MD formats. TCG and OCG can go with reduced rewards and people will still play them.
Being an MtG player primarily, there are 2 major things that I think MD needs: a Bo3 format and earning rewards for just playing. Feels bad games decrease when you have the ability to side against top meta decks. Players should not be forced to play ranked to get rewards, and further, they should not be punished for conceding. One of the most sacred things in magic is the ability to concede for any reason or no reason at all. In MD it sucks knowing you've lost but needing to sit while your opp kills you so you can get your game actions to actually count.
The best way to learn yugioh is not either suggestion. It's simply just playing with your friends and having fun. You see if you have an interest, then you do the MD stuff, or look at content creators. But have fun with your friends
My crack at hope harbinger ruling. If hope harbinger didn't active it's negate yet, it will attach fenrir when fenrir active's it's banish effect on attack declaration. If hope's negate been used already and fenrir is attacking a different card but also active it's banishment effect on attack decoration, hope harbinger can change attack targets as a chain-link 2 and make fenrir miss-time due to it's attack variant being a "when" effect. but if the fenrir player is actually smart and hope harbinger happens to be in defense position or fenrir player actives a book of moon on hope harbinger as a chain-link 2, fenrir player will lose 100 LP but be able to active fenrir's effect after the battle.
33:20 as someone who started playing yugioh with MD, i like it more to be his own format, because i get the experience the progression in "powerlevel" of every new deck or legacy support, intead of just jumping in to the latest format. i was able to enjoy/hate tearlament format, same with snake eye and now tenpai hell even getting Phoenix Enforcer in every deck with Verte
I played Yugioh in 2018 - 2019 and quit because it just afford the travelling to to regionals, buy cards to compete events and do terrible lol I made it to Euros just felt I wasn't getting any fun out of it and when masterduel came out and it was a massive breath of fresh air and gave me what I want which was just to play yugioh whenever I want. I have enjoyed it so much to date from release I have spent $2,770 and have no regretted a cent and have loads of decks (most I haven't even played lol). I also have 1,000 hours in the game. I have enjoyed it so much I started playing Edison at my locals and even thought of playing the decks I had made in masterduel at my locals which was Scareclaw and omg I was shocked at the difference. Cards just so much more expensive and like even before the tins spending like 10 euro each on an astraloud when I wanted 2 was just eh especially when I needed other cards. Let alone wanting to play SP like how in masterduel it's 30 UR where as in TCG it was like 100 before and is like 50 now? but for that I could just make an entirely new deck in masterduel. I have made a budget Scareclaw deck though and told me friends and they all just told me to not play modern as it sucks. There are some bad personality people there which bring down the mood when playing against them, some not fun decks to play against decks like Kash and doesn't sound the best right now but I thought I might go sometime just periodically until I started thinking about actual TCG product. I was looking at the rarity collection 2 at first and was interested in buying a box as I wanted the Visas field spells and 1 was pretty good until I saw the price. Why did they increase it? Sure you get more cards but it's so much more expensive I just bought one pack and traded what I got at the shop for some edison cards.Then I looked forward to the tins as I would like some tins to keep cards in and there was some reprints and I liked the tins in 2018 and then the unboxing came out and I saw how awful the pulls and how anything good is in a way over bloated secret pool with no good rarity down grades. Why are Vanquish Souls secrets when they were ultras at release and really hard to get? really konami? I also thought about buying a box of ROTA as I want the insect stuff for beetroopers and it's all commons and super but if I bought a box I would probably get bad secrets and it's just better for me to buy singles than the box. All these things together has just really killed my mood to play TCG. If I feel like I get value for my time and money I will spend and play like in masterduel but they just ruining the products I feel and as you said with playing at locals, I have travel for over an hour to get to mine only to probably do ok and get an OTS pack with random stuff I don't care about. Really to be honest for me the biggest killer for playing TCG is just value for money. If the sets were like the OCG and you could get good cards at minimum super I would buy packs and actually try to play but they won't so I am just going to stick with masterduel and enjoy all the fun events and festivals like the current one I am having a lot of fun playing pure Scareclaw. Also on Masterduel worlds just being better I agree. I love the animations and visuals and I also love you can watch all the games in masterduel where as in worlds TCG I am pretty sure you can only watch like 1 feature match a round? I prefer seeing all the best players of yugioh playing against each other.
I don't have any friends who's interested in playing ygo, the nearest locals from where I live is 2 hrs and 30 mins just to get there and another 2 hrs and 30 mins to get back to my home. Master duel is a blessing for me when it came out.
My homie and I haven't played yugioh in literal years. I stopped playing around when xyz monsters came out and he stopped caring around when GX CAME OUT. I finally decided to bite the bullet, and play master duel because a different friend told me I could essentially make any one deck fairly easily. 2 days later I had the basic version of my current main deck, and convinced my homie to join just to get me the campaign rewards, but he decided to build Trains on recommendation and we've been playing ever since.
The logical answer as to why MD is it's own thing is servers, if they made it follow specific regions they'd need to separate the servers between TCG and OCG so they couldn't duel each other
The tcg definitely needs to start adding a code card like pokemon does for some bonus in master duel. Would help bring the distance between thr two and help people who play master duel but still collect irl cards
Master Duel just needs three things to be perfect for me: - A better reward system. The rewards we get right now are good, I’m not complaining about that. But I think MTG Arena actually does this better. Every challenge, every daily mission can be contributed to via any game mode. The way they incentivize people to play ranked over unranked/casual is by giving end-of-season rewards based on your final placement in the ladder. The fact that the only way to actually earn new cards to build with outside of the solo mode is to climb the ranked ladder is just a feels-bad experience. I enjoy the ranked mode, I like playing in the meta and it’s a great time when you have an actually skilled matchup. But I don’t want to do it all the time. Sometimes I want to just slap some cards together, see what I can come up with, and have some fun. But when those decks get matched up against Tenpai OTK, Yubel, and Snake-Eyes, they get steamrolled until I derank to just going up against self-TK bots. When I first started playing, my very first duel in Rookie II was against full-power Kashtira. That should not be the wall a new player needs to overcome to access the game. - Game modes. Konami used to have a draft format with, what was it the Battle Box sets? If they brought back drafting and introduced it to Master Duel, hands down I would spend money on gems weekly to play. Limited formats are some of the best ways to engage with a card game, especially in one where the only official format is eternal. You have a select pool of cards you have to know, and you know loosely what to expect from your opponents. It becomes a game of who is more creative with their pulls and who can make the best of what they have. Plus, getting to keep the cards you open is always a plus. It’s a good way to fill your collection. To once again compare to Arena, a Quick Draft (drafting process is untimed and an AI removes cards from packs you don’t see whenever you make a pick) gives you 3 packs worth of cards upfront. It costs the equivalent of 5 packs, but you get to choose what your 45 cards are *and* you can earn more if you do well. - This is kind of a continuation of the previous point, but a Best of 3 mode with separate F/L for BO1 and BO3. It’s such a different experience, as any TCG player can tell you, to have 15 extra card spaces for your side deck picks and not having to front load your main deck with non-engine.
Master duel is something I was waiting ages for because I was not near no locals places nor was I willing to dish out the money for decks. I can just hop online and just play. It’s so easy and so convenient I just wish they gave us real tag dueling lol
The only change I would make to master duel is downgrading unpopular/unviable cards during the anniversary event so that the poorly performing decks are more accessible and better justify all the new decks having multiple playset URs.
Okay to be fair to the content creators telling people to stop playing. That's kind of the only way to improve the game. To drive enough people away so that Konami starts losing money and is forced to make some changes.
Business-wise, funneling most people to play a costly to make TCG using a less costly digital game that they have full control over and still has Payment Options is unreal. In the future, just focusing on Master Duel (maybe even Duel Links too with their VR stuff) while quickly grabbing as much money as they can on paper play especially outside Japan is very profitable until it inevitably dies outside JP and is more likely Business-wise and is very Corporate-like. Konami is even experimenting on how other Yu-Gi-Oh IPs outside the Card Game could work with the new YGO Early Days Collection to see how they can milk the IP. I certainly am interested in this direction their taking and if that's the case, then it's possible we'll get another YGO anime (series/movies/OVAs) just to hype and freshen/revitalize the attention of people on the IP. Honestly, hoping for: * that VR thing to still be playable in mobile/android/IOS, * an anime about the monsters/archetypes, * Duelist of the Roses Remake
