Synchro VS Xyz! Yu-Gi-Oh Starter Deck SHOWDOWN! 

*Does anyone else wish they still made cool themed Starter Decks like this today? They were so much fun!*

Why is this video not supported/sponsored by Konami....This would have been the perfect time to promote the new Syncro XYZ decks vs the old ones.

I like Synchro more PURELY because the cards are by far the most stylish card

Something about Trell hopping on twitter mid game had me rolling lmaoo

Although the XYZ summoning is good, imo, the Synchro summoning has a place deep in my heart before I left Yu-Gi-Oh after the 5Ds era.

Synchro summoning can actually set up some decent combos. Trell could've used Quillbolt Hedgehog's effect when he controlled a tuner monster to special summon it from the graveyard and could've gone into a level 7 synchro from there. If there were level 7 synchros in the deck.

quilbolt just be chilling in the grave

These duels looked like they were pure suffering for poor Trell. Paul, at least, looked like he could have SOME fun with his deck, even if it wasn't exactly amazing. But Trell? He just had an expression of pure pain, from start to finish. I felt for him. Great video, you both did great enduring the torment of these Starter Decks.

I love Xyz as a Mechanic, hell, phantom knights was one of my first decks, but I've always resonated more with Synchro decks. Speedroid is my best.

my first yugioh i watched is 5ds and has special place in my heart and old animations of summoning is just nostalgic

I'm an old timer player that stopped following yu gi oh for a long while after GX series. I'm learning all the new summoning mechanics from playing Duel Links. Xyz is fun! It's crazy how versatile and accessible that mechanic is just by editing your extra deck a bit!!

1 of my favorite early decks was 1 i built using the 3 different Yusei 5D's structure decks.

Duelist Toolbox is the best Starter Deck ever printed at release. Junk Destroyer was immediately a meta relevant card, seeing play in both Quickdraw Decks but also bringing Junk Synchron into Plant Chaos decks because it was just that strong of a card if it resolved.

XYZ is the absolute best. For me nothing beats Raidraptor, Galaxy-Eyes, Utopia, all the Number monsters, etc. I also love space and stuff so the cosmic black boarder and the Number lore in Zexal is super cool!

I remember my friend picking up the XYZ starter, and I picked up the Light/Dark dragon structure deck. Crazy how steep the power level was with the structure at the time.

After watching this and seeing how much Trell struggled, I ended up looking more closely at his deck build choices and all I can say is "oof". As a long time Synchro player, I really am baffled by it. That said, this had made me think that it'd be interesting to see a bonus video to go with these duels; where y'all discuss the reasons you built the decks you way you did. I reckon it'd shed some light on how people approach going back to older decks like these during the current insanity of modern Yugioh, while showing off cards and combos people might not think of using due to their age.

The first game is like those 2 deep underwater fish puffing air at each other before going back into their hole lol

I love these videos guys! Thanks so much for the content!

I've always loved the XYZ mechanic more than the synchro one.

20:24 no quillbolt for 2 pops on destroyer! Great video just for the nostalgia factor

I love the overlaying thing and having "ammo" for your monster effects, but in the end I think I like the deckbuilding process of a synchro deck more.

Oh, those brings some good memories, Starter deck Symphony Xyz was the starter deck i picked up when i got back to the game! thanks for the video!

Really like the change to seeing the 3x decks list, keep the great vids coming!

Duelist Toolbox was my first Yugioh deck so I loved seeing this. Synchro is my favorite summoning mechanic as a result

Synchro are my favorite from the extra deck. The white border compliments a lot of cool cards like Stardust Dragon. Plus, 5Ds was my favorite arc and the summon animation for synchros in duel links and master duel is rad.

Wow what a throw back, I got both of those as birthday and or Christmas presents as a kid.

Took me a while to finally see this video but man was it worth it! Such a fun duel!

To answer what you missed, you didnt attack with Gaia knight force of earth when swords expired

Fun video, love these kinds..and I like synchro more

This and the discussion Videos of Paul are my favourite types of videos you guys make. Gimmick duels for nostalgia and discussions about the reality of the tcg.

Great video guys!

More entertaining, than watching someone doing his turn for 5 minutes in current game.

Thought you got the 2 player starter set at first. This will be way more interesting!

it would be fun if there was a sort of starter deck tournament to see which one's the best, but it would probably come down to which one's the newer one

Good duel these are fun despite that they are low powered. Really takes me back to the lunchroom duels at school back in the day lol

I started playing (somewhat) competitively around the time that XYZ started deck came out. That being said, my cousin played Synchros with Junk destroyer, Nitro Warrior, Stardust dragon, etc. and I still have fun memories playing against it

I think that Synchro had better limits, the problem with, all now days, summoning mechanic, too many powerful generics. That's the biggest mistake of Yugioh. They needed to have more restrictions to archetypes for the summoning mechanics Synchro and XYZ from the get go, or just make the generics less powerful.

oh god i had that synchro starter deck as a child, I couldn’t afford many cards so this thing was the core of my first deck before i managed to assemble a black wing one years later

Wow this was a throwback that synchro starter deck was my first ever set of yugioh cards

That Utopia package looks freaking adorable.

oh god... xyz symphony was my very first actual structure deck, before i could only buy a pack now and then!

I wonder what a format would be like if each player could only have one type of special summon mechanic (ritual, fusion, syncro, xyz, or link, only pendulum can access all), and a new banlist was started from scratch.

I was half expecting after the utopia animation for maestroke the symphony djinn to be on the field

I really liked this video, this duels with the Starter Decks and everything, but what I liked the most was that Trell was wearing a General Grievous skullcap. As a Star Wars fan, I really liked that!

I've always loved Synchro summoning, and Funnily enough, its's the method I know how to use the most

Man synchros are my fave so fun to use

I think XYZ summoning the best summoning mechanic. All around, I think it’s the simplest of the ED summons to explain, I.e. stack two cards with the same level to summon an XYZ monster. It’s also balanced in that you can only use their effects by detaching a material or if they have material (usually). Lastly, any and every deck should theoretically be able to XYZ summon as long as they play two copies of the same monster.

When I bought the first XYZ structure deck, and found out what kind of summoning it was, I had the thought that the mechanic seemed a bit too easy to pull off, and would be a lot better if XYZ monsters were main deck monsters instead of extra deck monsters.

i love using synchro decks and im lad to see my favorite youtubers using them

gogogo/dododo was all I played when onomatopaira came out, seeing the xyz structure deck brings back memories of playing casual with friends

The synchro structure deck was my first actual deck. But I've played since goat but was far too young. Just played with what my older brothers had.

some of my favorite summoning types going against each other? bet

I love this channel so much

For the love of heart of the cards , Trell use quilbolthedge hogs effect from the grave!

Spicy structure decks 😮❤

This duel had so many footsies that they didn’t want

Realm of the Sea Emperor Structure Deck maybe...? That would be cool!

Lol when Paul was talking about being 10 year old kids learning yugioh that brought me back to 2002 playing yugioh with my brother on the carpet

Sangan is good with a labrynth deck if you needed a labrynth servant or whatever even if you bricked a little bit. But of course there's other ways to get the boss monsters out with or without him

They included the best xyz monster UTOPIA 🤩

Where do you find those old packs? 😮

Yeah, great ! I love this old school duel, haha :D

Idk if Trap Hole could be chained to Goblindbergh. I forgot if proiority was a thing when the xyz starter deck was released or not.

Big fan, you guys are keeping this game alive more than the apps are lol

20:23 you just missed quillbolt hedgehog when I was screaming on my screen xD, but yeah after enemy controller on shine knight you could synchro summon junk destroyer with quillbolt hedgehog and destroy his face down spells, unfortunate but happens to anyone

Synchro is my favorite! Love to use it in any deck I can.

I screamed when you didnt use your hedgehog in the graveyard for that level 8 synchro

Trell cheated and Paul didn’t take 450 damage from Man-Eater Bug for its Flip Effect is MANDATOR, meaning Man-Eater Bug HAD to destroy a monster on the field to resolve the effect.

1:43 those gunpla in the background tho 👌

Yougioh 5D's and Zexal Old School Vintage Decks!

yoo the yuma starter deck is the one i got as a kid it was fr the very first yugioh cards i got i still have em today

I think a fun but painful deck building challenge is that each person has to build a deck only using cards that are currently banned and you are only allowed to use one copy of each of the banned cards and see how good of a deck you could put together.

Wish there was theme deck tourneys

Paul's right, the box for the Xyz one is so cool. I wish they did more like it.

I started getting out of yugioh when Xyz monsters were taking off, so Synchro summoning is the biggest nostalgia mechanic for me. It was also the mechanic that made the Extra Deck relevant in a way that GX's fusion focus had just barely started to do.

Synchro is always my favorite. It got me back into YuGiOh and I will always love it more than anything.

Bigger fan of synchro but xyz makes things a lot simpler (most of the time)

Man, that was rough. I'm a Synchro player through and through, for sure!

@TeamAPS can you guys make vlog videos about your the tournaments you guys may go to. I remember Paul saying he doesn’t compete much anymore but trell and on off the other APS member does

It's been eons since I witnessed classic Trap Hole at work.

I love XYZ monsters, they're simple, fun, and the rank mechanic is a lot of fun without other cards, like Gravity Bind for instance. Also, early XYZ support could also work as fringe synchro support so it didn't feel very intrusive as a new summoning mechanic. I ran an XYZ/Synchro hybrid deck years ago that was bad, but had some unique plays that I would pull off with other cards.I also love the Utopia archetype, so that also plays a role in my choice.

You know your community lol Structure Decks Themes are my fave but Peak SpellBook Era was actually really fun pacing Love your stuff guys

Synchro for sure, but I like to mix them. Ive done synchro XYZ dark world

Well not only that but 2 starter decks introduced 2 new different layouts for their cards, 2010: 7th series and 2012: 8th series

The shaddoll structure deck would be nice to see

Wile I can appreciate all extra deck cards, I just got to say that XYZ summoning is for people that don't normally play yugioh. With that off the chest you all have a grate day and may the luck of the draw be in your favor.

Paul, i wonder if you can battle with an evil HERO deck and win? I would love to see if you could win against a more modern deck like syncro or XYZ. Ive always liked the archetype and would love to see dark gaia on the field with insane attack point lol. Mainly, i want to see if you're good enough to win with an EH deck!

Xyz is easier; Synchro is more interesting. Both are equally cool/fun. I’d like a Xyz Synchro archetype deck that can combine them! Maybe a tuner Xyz monster that can be used to synchro down instead of go up in level? Similar to the polar bear archetype that failed

Just a suggestion I think it would be cool if you guys combine different structures or stater decks from other eras.

So after the resolution of the enemy controller since you had a quillbolt in grave and a tuner on field you could have revived it 3+3+2=8 so you could have gone into junk destroyer with 2 pops and it would have been game am i right?

I started playing competitive as soon as synchros hit. So i got to go with them.

Another suggestion for a duel match would be scareclaw vs labrynth

The 2160 resolution is awesome!

Ok so I had a random question that popped up in my head while watching, Could Feedback Warrior make something like a XYZ or a Link monster level 3. I know this seems like a dumb question but I thought since it says "it becomes level 3." And not something like "Change it's level to 3." I thought it could give a level to monsters that don't have levels. Again this was a random question, even if it was possible I don't think anyone would be giving up their normal summon to make a XYZ or Link monster a level 3.

synchro summoning is the absolute goat for me. I can only think of three decks from fall 2008-fall 2011 that made the format unfun (tele dad 08, frog 2010, and six sam 2011 and that deck was only legal for three weeks). 5Ds anime was so good and seeing those white background cards made 12 year old me flip shit with excitement

XYZ is my favorite summoning mechanic. I love the uniqueness of XYZ summoning's materials that act as a currency. It's not something I've ever seen before. Not only that, I like that each rank seems to have its own identity, and XYZ is not as generic or splashable as some of the other mechanics.

20:20 trell forgot to brring back the quilbolt hedgehog. could have gone junk destroyer and pop 2 things on the board

Took me 20 minutes to realize Trell Wearing a Pennywise cap.

I still don’t think we’ve seen the Synchron Extreme and Master of Pendulum structure decks from 2015 yet!

I love using Burden of the mighty in my decks