Hey man. You'll probably get some people who are gonna give you push back for this video. But i just want you to know you are right, and everything you said is what 90% of casual digimon players feel when they play competitively. Honestly its sad to see a digimon tcg channel go when there are so few of them.
I'm 100% expecting push back for my comments and I'm honestly kind of looking forward to some of them. With the amount of Digimon content dwindling, I really didn't want to follow suite and stop posting content, but with the massive success of One Piece and the support Fusion World has been getting, I'm afraid this game is going to end up the same way as DBS Masters.
I feel that man. Luckily for me, my locals usually runs jank most of the time, so you see some fun decks and other themed decks that aren't run as often. Cant wait for when you decide to post videos again. ❤
I thought it'd be fun to try to get an EX06 match up randomly for fun, but finals was the exact same thing every week. Imperial vs. Rapid. We also just didn't get a lot of product in so everyone is kind of unsure of what they want to play.
Thank you for uploading the videos, I've recently started playing the card game and watched your vids to see how other people think and play, I've learned a lot so thank you for uploading and I hope you do well in your endeavors :).
Sad to see you go, but I think blaming a problem that doesn't exist is a bit disingenuous. We didn't have an abundance of Tier 0 formats. There was Apoc/Anubis, but for EN it lasted maybe about 2 weeks before the ban went into effect so I don't see where this is coming from. Formats will always have a best deck, but at no point were most of these "Tier 0". I think your perception of the game is more of a culprit than the game itself, which is fine and fair to an extent. It's unfair to blame players that aren't playing jank either. As a long time viewer I have to respectfully say this has been the most "skill issue" channel I've come across. Every makes misplays, but a lot of the "Tier 0" decks that've been on the channel could've been beaten if the players just read the cards a little more closely... Your point on not being a fan of the format is completely fair. Regardless, I hope your next passion, whatever that may be, brings you joy. Thanks for the uploads.
You’re totally not wrong, and it’s not so much the deck itself that I find a problem, it’s the way people play them and the reason people play them. I’ve been competing across multiple card games for like 15 years (I’m older than you’d think) and I’ve never really been someone to play something with the intention of beating the best decks or playing it because it’s the best deck. I used to enter Magic tournaments with precons out the box. I used to enter Pokémon tournaments with a random top 64 deck from a regional where only like 3 out of 1100 people played it. And I always did really well. I don’t get that same sense of accomplishment in this game when I play something rogue or just different in general. I don’t know if that’s because of the meta, the card pool, the power creep, or what. You’re probably right in saying that it’s not a “tier 0” meta issue. But I definitely think the issue lies in the format.
Validd, I love to check the uploads even though I stopped playing when ACEs came out. 1v1 card games have been in a weird no fun allowed zone for a while now and it sucks :/ The only fun game out is still just MTG EDH since competitive is completely different than casual
I just want to start with saying that I understand and sympathize with 90% of what you are saying. But saying people shouldn’t play competitively at a local level is another thing entirely. As someone who has a family, locals is literally the only place I can play and paying to play a lower tier deck just to lose and not play to win is honestly insulting to my opponent, as well as a waste of my limited time that I take away from my family. I don’t play nume, magna X, or rapid x even, but I don’t discourage others from playing those decks either. In fact, I enjoy that I get to go out to locals and get competitive games, for the very fact that I can’t go to regionals or other championships. Playing competitive decks is not a gatekeeper to new players. (For example I got murdered playing starter deck imperial during bt13 when I started). The gatekeeper is playing a new player as if they should know everything about the game, or telling them that they should never play a competitive deck at locals for this new game they just got into. TLDR; most people have fun when they are playing to win, especially when they are paying to play in their own limited free time. We have had simulators (drasil, untap, now dcgo) which are perfect free spots to try out/play pet decks. I love this format based around every deck currently being able to be countered in some way (besides maybe nuke where you just have to be faster than 8 ukkos) and the current format has been extremely diverse (partly because people come in thinking their magna X is unbeatable (despite all the counters against him) That all being said, I’ll miss your videos and wish you the best of luck with your future endeavors!
I would like to clarify I do not have an issue with people playing to win. My issue is when people consistently try hard a 8 man, $5 local. Locals should also be a place for people to try out new builds. To play new cards. To play a bit of jank with their friends. If someone is spending $5-10 a week at locals just to lose to the same top tier decks over and over again because someone needs to feel like a winner, I don’t think that’s very fair to the community. There’s a time and a place to try hard. A local with the same people you’ve been playing against for 3 years is not always going to be that time or place. Now if it’s a win-a-box, a store championship, or a large scale event, I get it. But I will never accept someone sweating week after week to win $15-20 store credit against some dudes that just wanna play Gammamon or some stupid shit like that.
Locals is just meant for people to get together to play a card game they all enjoy and have fun or learn to play better so they can go to tournaments and win. Not everyone has spare time to play test or try a deck out that's part of what locals are for. I would rather someone learn a deck at my locals then someone show up to a tourney and not know how to play a deck because they were never really allowed to play test it at all and then people are now forced into time because someone doesn't know how to play said deck. This has happened to me countless times and it sucks. If your community doesn't like tier 0 decks or it's killing your community then maybe your community should communicate and lay down some rules or set days for fun days. It's not impossible. My locals has done it for Digimon and magic the gathering.
@@MeatyKage It sounds like you have an issue with people running tier 0 decks without changing up the deck and just knowing they will win. That is completely different to playing a tier 0 deck, expecting competition, and making slight changes week to week which is what most people do. Additionally, we have these great events like tamer battles and starter deck pre-releases which are a great way to play less competitive stuff. If you want to play jank with your friends, without the possibility of running into a tier 0 deck, you can just play jank with your friends outside of locals. That is not gatekeeping you from bringing jank to locals, but anyone can bring anything they want to locals and they dont have to have a reason to do that. Like I said, I personally maybe get to locals once, maybe twice, per month. I want to be able to go and play against people who will make me have to get better if I want to win. Does that mean that people can’t play jank against me? Of course not, but I paid to be there and I am going to play whatever deck I bring to win. I only have a handful of decks and playing against someone who is going to get pissed at me cause they dont have a single counter in there deck is the dumbest thing in the world. Magna X for example is countered by source strip, blockers, wide boards, options in security, high dp, bounce, aces, etc… Way more counters than there are for someone like fanglongmon. Locals is a great way to learn how to adapt and have fun. Telling someone they can’t have fun playing the deck they want to play is not a great way to keep a player base, and removing difficult to beat decks also ruins the fun of beating those decks. So like I said, it sounds like you have an issue with specific individuals and not, say, a random guy at locals who plays tier 0 while being friendly and kind.
@@MeatyKage cause that's how people like to play and in most competitive things in life you either adapt and overcome or you concede and give up, people like to win and don't wanna play some theory jank they came up with on a whim the night prior
People like to win, but other people also like to PLAY the game. Not have their board wiped and all their security removed in 3 turns. If everyone at locals is desperately trying to win $20 store credit by using the most recent regional winning deck, good for them. I'm not one of those players, nor will I ever be. So I'm not going to play with people like that. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
@@SomthingFresh That's a very optimistic way of looking at it in a bubble, but realistically it's not just people playing meta decks, it's people going to every small local they can find running tier 0 meta decks to farm wins off casual players at small $5
@FreindTrey well I'm an optimistic person and don't get upset or complain about what people are running. At my local it's an array from tier 0 to jank and no one's a dick about it at my shop either so I don't get that side of the game culture
