Subaru and her experience playing Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel for the first time 

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that's impressive actually. even platinum players still don't read cards

I mean, my biggest complaint about the digital Yugioh implementations I've tried is how unless you have a possible chain it needs to ask about it shows you each card your opponent plays for about half a frame :/

@@dapperghastmeowregardcan’t you check the graveyard? I haven’t played Master Duel in a long time, but I’m pretty sure other Yugioh games allowed you to view the graveyard as that is a thing you can do in person

@@anthonynguyen1289 Yeah, I think so, but still annoying to have them flash fifteen cards at me in the span of three seconds and then have to be like "Okay, let me look at this pile of cards now and try to sleuth out what the fuck just happened."

​@@dapperghastmeowregardChecking the log in the bottom right corner helps. Most card activations tells you exactly which effect is being activated if there are multiple. Idk if you already knew this but yeah it can be hard to keep up especially if you haven't memorized certain cards. Dueling a deck I've never encountered is always a trip.

Opponent: Sits on one very large cat.

​@@hurrdurrmurrgurrow. You mean Gigantamax Umbreon? XD

"With my weakest I will defeat your strongest." - Mikanko, probably

I wanna ask how but the answer is probably some bs effect they gave it 💀

Feet strong

yeah, that shit is annoying, unless you add a bunch of defend cards, or you will watch a 15-chain in your turn

Praying for the day I see her get her turned skipped 😂

Well better that than playing a week later and getting her S/T cards Plump'd into a Noir

​@@nv4896radiating sadism ener-jii right there

not me but i would. 😓 i love shuba but i need to climb the ladder.

I love suba, but i have to rank

That's the standard experience of everyone getting into Yu Gi Oh / MD :D

I dunno what happened but i died LMAO

Nay bro, that's every ygo player for a solid 6 months. You don't even know why things are happening half the time.

I recommend link evolution for total beginners the game helps new players understand summoning mechanics without being too difficult

Shes probably using meta decks outside of her stream.

@@JayceCH. Nope her climb from gold to plat was slow considering there is no rank down in gold

Litteraly bought one structure deck

@@JayceCH. Okay anddd what are you trying to prove? Master Duel only awards you if you play the best decks it is how the game makes it;s money

I used to be like that in the early days of MD using nothing but Sacred Beasts. Then Swordsoul was introduced to me...

That's why most people - myself included - play Commander in Magic. YGO not really having formats is wildfto me.

The only way to do it is play in lower rank. Many veterans have second acc. Only in lower rank just for fun, you will still meet meta but they're missplay so much that you can beat'em with your pet deck.

That mindset why i always add incredible ecclesia into iris swordsoul into any decks that can run synchro or rank 4 xyz decks. I really love iris swordsoul design and her effect.

Well, depends on what your favorite cards are.😂 If we're talking cards like Dark Magician or Blue Eyes, I still see them around platinum and diamond so I guess they're still playable?

"Our turn"

Fun is also an illusion in modern yugioh.

I once took a massive shit that made me feel like I lost a few pounds afterwards. When I came back it was STILL my opponent's first turn...

I don't think that could have worked, chat would have coached her basically and drained all the fun of discovery and earning the win out of it. She played it the perfect way to personally enjoy it. Despite its flaws and the hurdles to "get in to it", Yugioh can be very enjoyable to new players as long as they make an actual effort to learn it.

Pretty sure cover still haven't got permission to stream master duel. When some of Holostars boys played it on stream, it was on other people channel

​@thieftheodore I doubt Cover ever WILL get permissions tbh. It wouldn't surprise me if they have an exclusive contract with Bushiroad considering how close they are.

@@amethonys2798 Konami already gave permission to Cover to stream their games recently. Pekora already finished 2 MGS games and the fact that Subaru can freely talk about YGO stuff and showing the actual cardboards on stream shows that Konami already forgive and lax on giving Cover to livestream their games. Bushiroad exclusivity has nothing to do with why they cant livestream Konami's games before.

@@amethonys2798 That's also what I thought. Talking about something in a stream is one thing, but it's hard for me to believe that no one in Hololive has shown interest in streaming MD, not even once. Cardfight Vanguard and especially Weiss Schwarz are owned by Bushiroad, and they even have Hololive cards in Weiss. YGO is also very popular in CN. Maybe, from Konami's side, they are being extra careful, though this is just my conspiracy theory.

Yeah, i remember my first time duel against someone in bronze rank, seemed like have certain understanding bits about the pendulum combo but somehow put a set card on one of pendulum zone and can't do pendulum summon until lose to a deckout. I only randomly stalled too and left with 100 ish LP in the end. That's too painful to rewatch but yeah, we didn't really know what we were doing lmao.

Yeah unfortunately she lucked out on that regard, normally i just get meta garbage or ftk'd.

I do farm silvers and golds tho. I'm not a regular MD player but I definetely know my way around yugioh. Staying at gold 1 each resets ensures I can always climb up to my goal in a couple hours easily and get the same amount of gems I'd get for doing it at higher levels. Still, I do make sure to at least play ojamas or some random shit like that. I really don't want to make a new player's experience worse than it already is.

you spend barely any games in bronze and ppl stay in silver/gold if all they want to do is farm dailies so it's a moot point.

Bronze is the wild west where anything goes and mistakes can happen after than you think

yea, i had to check to make sure my translation was correct. i think she means it in the sense that there's many different styles (summoning methods)

Pekora is probably playing too. Hopefully.

Yeah it's super impressive she got into plat with only playing modern yugioh for couple months. Especially in this current meta with things like Kash and Tear. Hope we see more hololive yugioh content in the future!

@@ritathekiwi wdym kash does nothing rn

@@schokoladereeeYea I don't think Peko well play Master Duel as she doesn't have any interest in Yu-Gi-Oh.

Most of holostars play master duel

same, thats why i translated it :D i hoped some yugituber watched it, but im already happy it got so many views

@@ConspoLopes I know she probably can't, but I wish we could watch her duel. That would be such a fun stream.

@@ConspoLopes well farfa literraly just watch this lol

@@luzllednar361 oh shit really? lets goooo

​@@luzllednar361sauce?

RDA is capable of reaching Master rank if you really know how to play around today's meta deck

@@SYMgenshin I think it could along with a deck like Synchrons, but I think it would be kinda rough tho for RDA in it's current state. The new support it got tho can absolutely make it to Master

The problem is that casuals havent experienced old school yugioh period. But yeah, Master Duel ladder provides little to be desired for casuals. You really just have to have friends to play with if you want to play casual Yugioh, or else you're just going to get mad that your non-competitive deck isnt climbing.

I think that's most peoples experience with yugioh, to be fair. Just throwing together whatever garbage you managed to pull out of those DM era packs, or buying like a single copy of a starter deck and playing with school friends/family. It's not 'real' yugioh, but that's what they know it to be because that's what they experienced.

i mean back in the day we didn't have arctype so mixing random card you can still work it out

@@popoch2 The first wave of Gravekeepers and Amazoness cards came out in 2003. We been knew archetypes.

To be fair, the 2006 meta players didn't even know how to play their format. We've found so much better things to do with that card pool

I boot MD every once in a while and there's still a lot of people in bronze and silver with their trusty blue eyes or dark magician... Sometimes i feel bad to walk over them with a much faster deck but it's the price they have to pay to enjoy their deck xD

I've had a Dark Magician player manage to pull a fast one on me in Plat before. I probably bricked or something, but I recall it happening.

​@raynalldoprime me with Magikey

Pretty sure shes also been collecting the cards for years as well but she doesn't play with them just likes collecting them.

I have the same reaction to Pokémon, I played it before when I was a kid and then I saw the new cards and reserves as confused as hell.😅

@@Laevant adjustment time is needed, is all. granted the pokemon relearn wasn't as complex for me, but the theres not that many ways to pull out complicated or cornercase wins in the current standard format. I think part of why is a double edged sword to pokemons benefit and downside. rotation results in a narrower line of cards, but the pokemon card game also actively sells meta relevant decks near the ground floor, to the point playing the current online version hands you some stuff not far off from their tournament tier decks. this means the meta line in pokemon in that format is far more easily approachable than yugioh, but that also means you don't see as weird cornercase decks because at least in their live client you run into so much meta heavy stuff because people won't go out of their way for worse results often. due to the lack of variant win cons, the only ways to win are decking out your opponent, clearing the whole field, or out prize-trading your opponent, and some of the odder decks require both coin flips on top of normal card luck. Maybe id like their longer term formats more, but it feels like there's just nothing like my non-meta yugioh decks there, which benefit from Yugioh's eternal but banlist format design and amount of alt-wincons. I just pulled a win in the master duel festivals this month by running into a hard staller that let me pivot from paleozoic into an Exodia finish to take the win. meanwhile trying to play United Wings in pokemon always feels like an uphill climb to me when i just can't put enough birds in the discard to effectively prize trade and just see defeat slow-marching towards me, forcing me to either sit for it, or concede because i know i can't regain tempo. had a 6 loss streak of that the other day.

tearlaments in OCG had to basically put every card in the deck at 1, banning kitkalos and those bastards kept playing the deck

​@@ignacioperez5479we're still playing it lol

@@ignacioperez5479 nah kitkallos are just swamp king subtitute Just paired it with punk(chaos ruler) and/or kash Since branded is dead in ocg i don't know if it's good to have tear branded

Greetings fellow Dragonmaid player, how is using the deck that was 10th best at launch and has only dropped fairing for you today? Don't let those whales catch you, and remember; if the meta players forfeit against you, publicly shame them for it. They deserve it.

Oh man, Kashtira right now isn't even its final form. Kashtira is about to tear some shit up in MD because they're adding Ariseheart and a whole bunch of Kash supports in October. If you think this deck is OP now, you're in for the ride of a lifetime. Tearlaments has definitely taken a hit lately, but the addition of Tearlaments Kashtira could also rejuvenate the deck as well.

@@UltimateUnknown Tear definitely gonna be more dead than it is now in both OCG and MD recent banlist really show that Konami Japan tired of people play that deck at this point

and for many of those older formats, people discover just how fast and crazy a lot of old decks can be

As someone who quit around pendulum intro, it didn't use to be this fast. A lot of decks were fast but for casual play between me and my brokeass friends. We had slower decks, now in casual, it's fast or die. Also playing all these cards on the opponent's turn is blowing my mind

​@@NakanoHitoriYou can still pick up a deck like Traptrix if you want slow. It's almost trolling how slow they make the game

@@1stCallipostle I have a traptrix deck, people are telling me it's okay I just need to put in more cards

Laughs in Ɛ1 13

There's no point running a fun deck if you're just gonna give the meta sloppy toppy to win anyway