These MASTER DUEL REVIEWS Are HILARIOUS! 

Old player here. I started Master Duel on release not playing the card game since the DDD Structure deck, and thanks to Master Duel I caught up incredibly fast as an F2P and constantly hit Diamond rank any time I want to play on ladder. 10/10 great way to catch-up if you're will to give it the time of day

They should make a single player mode that focuses on common staples and deck building strategies. It seems like a lot of newcomers would use something like that. I bet it probably is frustrating to play the game if you don’t know you’re supposed to have at least couple hand traps in most decks.

Boomer here. Played TCG back in the OG days (02-05). Stopped playing once I started college. Was nothing personal. Just had other interests. Near the start of 2022, I'm casually strolling through my PSN and see a friend playing MD. Caught my interest even more when I saw it was F2P. Was hesitant at first. I was overwhelmed by all the changes over the years. Synchros, XYZs, Pendus, handtraps etc. It was a rough transition. Over time, I figured out the modern playstyle from replays, watching numerous youtubers/twitch streamers, and of course playing online myself. I've reached Gold rank once and hope to get to Plat at least once. I'd describe the transition like a storm. Its rough and rocky at first, but if you ride it out and learn the modern style its completely possible for any ogs to get back into yugioh. The problem is there are so many changes most older players just dip out after a game. I recommend joining a discord server or finding a friend who can walk you through it for anyone struggling.

Oceans and oceans of "I'm bad, so the game is bad" logic

yugi boomers on their way to play set 2 pass simulator and call the 50 turn game fun

The time lord guy if he only saw what tear do bro gonna mald for years

Well I think the negative reviews are mainly a result of master duels biggest flaws: You need to use outside resources if you don't you are probably spending a lot of resources on a really bad deck and you are probably not having a fun time

8:26 "they only guarantee the win cause you're on a bad deck" gets Bishbaalkin ftk'd twice a day.

Ik it’s not as big a leap as some other players but coming back after not playing since full-power orcust format, this game helped me catch up fast to newer decks and metas. Ik it was annoying for current TCG players but the fact that the card pool wasn’t quite caught up helped ease me back into it

To be fair, if I got Time Lord'd I'd be furious too.

"Yugioh sucks, I cant win vs all of these BUSTED combo decks" Plays Summoned Skull beatdown

I last played Yu Gi Oh Fu when there was still the series of when one of the protagonists was in the school, BTW, I really like the game, I don't spend even a penny on these games, it still allows me to have decent decks and have fun, I don't care to always win, in fact I use decks where it doesn't take long to form them , for now I have two decks: megalith and toons, but I'm about to finish a deck red eyes, U.A, and raidraptor

A custom cpu duelist would be kind of fun.

I was having mixed opinions until that final review popped up. Really put into perspective for me how stubborn some of the reviews are (aside from Giovani's, I think his was somewhat fair for a beginner). Some of them reminded me of that time when Coder had a judge call where one of the players called Super Quants a monkey deck.

People really see a game with 10k cards, then get upset when they're told not all 10k of them are good

To be fair to the second guy, the fact that there will always be an optimal strategy doesn't mean that other strategies shouldn't also be viable or unaccessible. Like, Team Fortress 2 is a wonderful example of this, since most of the unlocks are more sidegrades than upgrades. Even though there may be an overall optimal build for every class, there are gimmicks that fit the play style of some players better than those optimal builds, and you can find just as much success using some of those gimmicks as you can the optimal strategy if you are skilled enough. YuGiOh unfortunately will never be like that due to it's design principles, which is something you will need to go through the five stages of grief for.

Dude, your comment about beating someone at locals is actually so factual. I beat a full power marincess player and dragon link bystial player by playing Labrynth with no arianna and one welcome (im poor lol), the moment I won and from then on, the mf has sworn by Labrynth being meta and im like :IIII.

The only way to make them happy is to finally release the “No Syncho No XYZ No Pendulum No Link” Ladder.

I'm a player who only played the PS Vita games in like 2011, I live in a part of the world where there's no yugioh locals, found Master duel by coincidence last June, was amazed to catch up to see all the new support for archetypes I enjoyed, found a deck I liked and played it till I reached diamond, then started branching out and learning new decks every few months all f2p, I'm 28, I work 12 hs shifts, 5 days a week, this game is the only way to someone like me to enjoy yugioh and have some fun in my regular days and it's been a blast. With resources like RU-vid and MDMeta I catched up pretty quick and had fun feeling like I'm a part of a community with people who enjoys the same things as I do. My guess most bad reviews are from people who didn't want to invest the time to learn, every multiplayer game have a learning curve, maybe it's just not for them. It took me time to learn competitive Pokemon, it took time to learn overwatch, if it's fun and engaging you'll do it, if it's not your cup of tea, maybe you should just stick to the type of games you enjoy.

Every deck is the same. No one plays pure decks or fun decks because everyone sweats so hard even at the lowest levels. "Yeah bro i love beetroopers" *plays 2 beetroopers with the rest of the deck being handtraps and accesscode talker turbo*

“Ahri is the only character that I know. Don’t ask me why.” I think this says more than enough on what Coder does on the internet when he’s not making Yu-Gi-Oh! content. 👀

Yeah I can definitely vouch. Sweats start showing up in high silver

Time: 5:22 Ali: You are pathetic if you using that way, I be using more efficiently than that.

Didn't knew I was watching Dzeef

To be honest the building a deck for a bot to play might be interesting to test out what counters certain combos and for practice

Man I literally win a duel with a Naturia Deck vs a Blackwing Deck and I only use a Wall of Spines to decimate my opponent entires field, after that he surrendered, so its not impossible to beat meta decks

Ahri is fucking always meta btw

0:06 BURN!!

"someone summoned a monster that can destroy anything you summon with its effect". Aww dammit, Slifer is back at it again smh

I love Master Duel, but I get where the "i like games that allow any playstyle" is coming from. It's not a matter of wanting to play a specific character/build/deck/archetype like wanting to play Reaper in OW or Ahri in LoL, but actually a playstyle kind of deal, as in "offense" in OW or "AOE Mage" in LoL. It always feels bad when one style of play completely overwhelms others in a game, like when tanks are too tanky for glass cannons to be playable in OW or when all the top characters have such high burst damage that they can one-shot any mage in LoL, forcing everyone to play bulky slow characters or super high damage assassins. Same goes for YGO. It doesn't really matter how big, complicated, or long the combo is for each deck, but rather what the final endboard/counterplayability is. Even if Dark Magician is bad, as long as there's another "tanky hard to kill monster" deck that's kind of viable like Rank 10 Trains, I enjoy it. Even if Magical Scientist is banned, as long as there's another kind of viable gimmicky OTK deck like Numeron, I enjoy it. Even if Guru decks aren't that good, as long as there's another kind of viable stun deck like Runick, I enjoy it. Many of these decks are hated, but even so they play very differently to one another. Even in the TCG, Splights and Tearlaments do play pretty damn differently, so I liked it when there were other decks like Mathmech that was getting plenty of play. Despite Tearlament mirrors being heavily skill-based, I don't really enjoy it as much because the playstyle has gotten pretty similar and only really for that reason. I do like modern OCG where people are also playing Labrynth, Exosisters, etc. even though Tear is still dominating, but if all those decks were like Tear in terms of gameplay, I would hate it even though they are technically different decks. That being said, there was a short time in Master Duel where, for like a week, every deck I played against was putting up Rhongonymiad or True King of Calamities, and the only reason I still had fun during other weeks of the same meta was because there were other decks like Tri-Zoo or Adamancipators that were meta, even though those are still heavily oppressive and could prevent me from playing all the same.

People really out there calling a game in which you can get diamond with basically everything "pay to win". My god.

I've never been this early since I saw the first Master Duel trailer

The ladder is frustrating sometimes but I got to Plat 1 with my bad maju deck sooo maybe they're just bad

I started Master Duel when I had literally zero experience with Yugioh and I did the mistake of bulling Ghostrick as my first deck ive recovered from that (but I do like to keep one Angel of Mischief for moral support) but after a long break after my friend kinda bullied me alot with his Cydra deck (because who knew a deck from 2013 couldnt beat Infinity Pass) and when I came back I decided to build Live☆Twins because I liked their aesthetic and Toruble Sunny just came out it is now like what 5 months later and I love the game ive gotten better with knowing interactions and the like, while I do often play Lyrilusc more then Live☆Twins, Live☆Twins will forever hold a place in my heart for being my first proper Yugioh deck

Yugioh has always been a “chance” game. From the hand you open with to the opponent you’re matched up with. Konami is kind of getting better with shutting out FTK decks who also have the same issues as any other deck, if you open with everything you need or brick. In a best of 1 format, you have no idea how many times that ftk deck got stomped before beating you and that’s the realm I live in, it’s called reality.

I’ll admit, I stopped playing after MR4 came out and link was starting to be the newest summon at the time, now I’m back in it and duel masters help me by teaching me the forms of link summoning and combo’s. Altho I haven’t MD much because I’m an avid monster hunter player and I haven’t spent money in the game yet but I gotten some decent decks to start out with, as for the term “meta” my theory is play what you like regardless. I like playing with ppl more then worrying about winning. I’ve been in this game from the very beginning and I still love playing decks that peek my interest rather it be ojama’s or cybers. Still just have fun with it.

I had never played YGO until master duel and I have to say that the tutorial was great at explaining a lot, however I would've found playing against players WAY more annoying if I didn't have a friend to clue me in on hand traps and what a lot of the best considerations for making decks are. Also beating what looked like a copied meta deck with ghostrick in gold was one of my fave moments of master duel

those comments felt likee they were written by Briggs from All Day Anime xD

Like I once raged at yugioh master duel, but it is not the game's fault, like it is just that u have to certain cards in ur deck in order for u to bypass ur enemies' deck, like i can assure u the reason many players who quit master duel or hate it is because their old deck doesn't even compete with new meta, like bro u have to add and improve ur deck, add impermenance or droplet for monster negates, red reboot for trap negates, max c(although i think this card should burned to hell not just banned) players need to start thinking about the meta and how to counter them by adding new cards(watch some yugioh streamers who will teach u how to counter the new meta , i learnt a lot from them especially distantcoder i learnt from him the code talker deck and improved upon it myself), in many games including fps games there are new characters who r op or meta and u have to play them to compete and win, u have to accept that, this game developed over the years ...

At least the overwatch score makes sense.

I believe the reason many yugiboomers say that in old times the game was more fun because there is no meta deck or stuff like that, I believe they play playground yugioh, where there is no many rules, you do things base on the first anime (Duel monsters) and they doesn't know what a real meta deck is, I think these are the ones complay about the game. But, there is yugiboomers that play GOAT and still call the game nowdays stupid, these are the hypocrit ones, since GOAT it's a format where like 70% of the deck it's staples of the time and the remain % it's just random cards they would like to play, in most cased they doesn't use they and just play the staple ones.

The analogy to other games also having narrow metas doesn't hold up. Other games only have restrictive metas at the absolute highest level of play. In master duel it extends all the way down to mid tier play

I'm an old player, haven't played anything since the 5Ds era. When I first started playing master duel I had started off with earthbound immortals and realized how broken some decks could be. However now I'm still having fun playing the game and I'm using Fluffals now as my main deck. I learned to take apart pretty solid boards, and learned which cards to hit. These people that are calling the game bad are just being too lazy to learn or the RNG is just isn't in their favor.

3:22 Brazillian jumpscare

that's why MD needs lots of Solo Mode because they're user friendly on how no just the mechanics but the archetype works. but i can understand the malding the pace of the duel feels like eternity if you play against combo deck with your non-constructed (either meta/rogue), forfunonly deck because maybe they dont know the sauce or have no gems/dusts for craft since MD still a gacha game at heart

Been enjoying the game since day 1, irl ive only played until the xyz era, thanks to this game ive learn every new mechanics very easily and also ive learn more about the rules, pretty solid game. PS: literally every deck ive made has been for free, literally 0 dollars wasted on this game and i have meta deck, rouge deck, funny decks, pen15 decks, etc

well in silver i play againts runick + floodgate, eldlich + floodgate, tri-brigade Lyrilusc, swordsoul, branded despia to be fair i play salamangreat with 10 handtrap + 6 board breaker

Hey guys- is there a bot/single mode where i can try out my weird and useless anime-decks against the pc?

I do truly believe that konami is screwing us by not having a GOAT FORMAT mode on master duel

I've beaten meta decks with my trash 55 card Paleo Volcanic deck. People do not read Volcanic Counter's effect.

A lot of newbies and boomers just complain because they don't know what it's like to play in a format where the longest combo goes beyond activating 3 effects in one turn. They probably played against some combo deck (like adamancipator) and thought it was the most OP crap out there. I started playing Yugioh as a kid with a structure deck with some Umi cards, then I played with the XYZ (Utopia ❤️) and left it until the release of Master Duel. Upon arrival it can be overwhelming to see how much the game has evolved, but it doesn't cost anything to READ what the cards do for a while, it is a faith the most broken skills you can learn in modern Yugioh, with this you can beat any meta deck using rare things from rogue

ofc he knows only ahri. Just listen to her voice when she dies, lmao, especially the korean version...

Hi. I am one of those who do not like to play YGO (despite sincere intentions). Here are the reasons: - lack of keywords - while I am able to understand that it takes time to learn the game, with YGO it is impossible, each card has a wall of text and it takes at least a minute per card to analyze what the card does, if I want to read the text I will take a book, I want to play cards! - opponent's turns last indefinitely - this was already said in the video, I will only add from myself that it is incredibly frustrating for a new player if all i have to do is look at the screen and wait - too much going on - it's actually a combination of the above examples, as a newbie I see the opponent throwing dozens of cards in one turn while I will put max 3 in a turn, I don't know what's going on, I don't know what that card is doing, opponent's cards are jumping then to the hand then to the graveyard, I can't keep up with the action and what's worse I have no idea what to do and how to react to it or predict what's going to happen OMG... I enjoy watching others play it, but for me YGO is unplayable despite sincere intentions.

My favorite meta deck back on the playground was Mask of Restrict-It had the most overpowered effect ever, cuz my opponent can't summon Summoned Skull due to it being the deck counting as a situation. Nowadays, Komoney made it suck by nerfing it's effects! And I also can't La Jinn pass anymore because some dumb anime neckbeard waifu maid deck was like "LOL I summon a big dragon now somehow without tributing and swap my 500 attack monster out" and beat over it when I attacked it first! Clearly they're a bunch tryhard sweats and Komoney ruined da gaem! -One of these reviews, probably.

I've been playing since launch and I've had a blast. It's made a lot of progress since launch. Now I will admit that my luck is complete garbo and I've been stuck in gold since (playing mostly galaxy photon). The thing I can't stand is slow play and I wish we could convert materials to a higher value. I've got plenty of rare, now let me turn it into SR and UR.

They should simply implement a Legacy Mode where only old cards (up to GX) can be used. So old players and new alike can enjoy simple yugioh without the 20min turn 1s and playing with 10 hand traps.

Hot take: id like the solo mode to have some stronger archetypes in it than myutants and starry knights. Makes it hard to practice decks before taking them to ladder.

Only thing I disagree with is the idea that people can’t complain when their ideal deck/hero/character is unviable. Yes, games have metas that shift but you but you can’t blame someone for disliking the meta. My favorite deck is Red Eyes but it kinda sucks. Meanwhile Blue Eyes got jet which makes it way better. Obviously, I’ve switched my deck and mainly run Madolche , but that doesn’t mean I’m not upset that pure Red Eyes isn’t good.

Hey! I started playing Master Duel on release without knowing ANYTHING about YuGiOh and it was and still is pretty fun I always believed because of the community that the game was hard and not begginer friendly but in reality is very simple to start tbh. I started playing trikstars because my friend knew how to build the deck but i didn't like it that much, but in the same packs i pulled a lot of the Marincess cards and that deck just clicked.

I think the problem is that back in the day people would play with friends locally, when they were children where they not only didn't know what meta decks were, but also didn't have the money to make fantastic decks, so it was just "make a deck you think is fun" and play for fun, cant do that nowadays. also playing against solitaire is genuinely not fun.

I agree with that guy who said there are some Meta Deck players in lower ranks. I know a few that loses on purpose when they would rank up just to never leave low ranks to kick some noobs in the d. Due to a trip, i stayed 3 months or so without being able to play last year and derank to Bronze or something. I joke you not, When i came back to play Mid October, i saw a lot more Branded Despia climbing up to Gold than in Gold itself (Yeah, on Plat and Diamond had a lot more, but that's what i was expecting, not on baby ranks). Edit: Also, i completelly disagree with that guy who said "only meta decks can be played". I got D5 playing only fucking Danger! Kaiju and Dogmatika Ritual. You only need to know and have staples to play against Meta Decks. It's a little hard to counter everything without BO3 format, but it's possible to climb with any somewhat playable deck. ALSO 2, this game is very Free to play. I started MD with Heroes. I only spend the 1000-ish Bundle gems packs once, just because i wanted to support the game and never again since. I can get D1 with that deck EASILY, only adding (as i mentioned previously) Staples to have a better match-up against Meta Decks (Well... i Add DPE, but that's the only REALLY added card to my initials). And i would say, i know players that can achieve similar features, of playing the same non-meta decks they started with, and climb to D1. In 9 months of playing, i have 6 decks (more, if you count F2P decks like Pacifis or Yosenjus), almost all staples and 9k gems saved. For only 12 bucks spend. That's F2P friendly IMO.

One thing that turns me off from the yugioh community, is seeing people bash on others for calling out poor practices in a game made by a company that only wants their money. *Sigh…😒

Mentions games like League and Overwatch. Doesn't mention chads like For Honor

It's hilarious that people give the game itself a bad rating because they got a bad impression from the player community. Also, these people have no idea what Pay2Win means lmao. Komoney be doing Komoney things, but absolutely nothing is locked behind a paywall. My experience with YGO before Master Duel was mostly through the anime as a kid, casual collecting and through video games. Then I stumbled across folks like Hardleg, Cimo, and Duellogs much later on in life. Aside from watching these channels among others, the most up to date game we had to play was Legacy of the Duelist, which quickly became outdated. I had some prior knowledge and casual experience going into Master Duel, but it did not prepare me to be thrown in headfirst against the likes of Drytron Herald, IDS, Adamancipator, and Zoo Tri Brigade. My first deck was Cyber Dragon blind second, I bashed my head against the wall, learned a lot of things the hard way, and here I am now, still playing casually a year later. MD could improve on a lot, but it is much more visually appealing than LOTD, effects and chains are easier than ever to follow, you can acquire any card you want as long as you continue to play the game, and duel rooms allow for fun play or community events. By no means perfect, but MD is pretty neat if you ask me.

what stream is this from? i want to watch the full discussion. thanks in advance :)

Bruh, when I play I get to plat and stop playing ranked for the most part, so I reset. Sometimes I go so long without playing I get knocked to silver - most of my time is spent in Gold. Can confirm, you pretty much stop seeing fun decks after silver. I typically play shit like Windwitch and Yubel up to Gold 3 though before I feel like I need to play something good. They may be playing sweaty decks at low gold, but they often don't know how to play them.

"If you don't play meta, you can't win lmao!!!111!!!!!1!" Rogue Decks that have had success throughout the history of the game, MD included: 🗿

We played this game too much that we think it's normal..all these reviews are valid. A card game with no real casual mode where u face the same 2 decks over and over is sad. I've been venturing into other card games and it's nowhere near as bad. Yes there is ofc a meta. But depending on the power gap or even just the support for casual modes and alternate formats there's always a way to have fun with random shit. We already invested time into Yu-Gi-Oh bcs we love it's gameplay at core so we are very biased. But we should never dismiss the reviews of potential new players

I think I understand the guy from @0:40 The thing about the mentality about the player base is kinda true, when winning seems to be more important than having fun playing. What do I mean by that? Say for example you’re playing a very good deck, and your opponent starts with plays that are obviously starter deck level. You don’t need to go all out against such players, as completely overwhelming them is what discourages most from enjoying the game. Losing can be fun if you can learn from it.

I haven't really played since I was a kid, but I find that, sure, the game has some frustrating things. Best of 1, Floodgates being fully available, Runick Stun. I don't have a problem with the game, but power creep hasn't been kind to Yu-Gi-Oh. I enjoy playing MD with Adams, but its absolutely aggravating when my opponent has both enough gas to combo, and enough interaction to stop me cold.

CODER! Bro, thank you for making this video, specifically starting at the 3:30 mark. From now on, every single time someone starts with the Yugioh version of "Back in my day", I'm gonna link this video with the timestamp and politely and kindly tell them... TO SHUT THE FUCK UP!

this reviews might be stupid.....but they are also valid since they describe the state of the game.

i quit master duel once because it was too hard with this meta decks, them one day I copied a swordsouls and simply got to platinum without being like very good in the game. I just learn how my deck works(not very hard btw) but is not how I could make genious plays and stuff only the basic synchro shoukan

If master duel just made another permanent ranked format, it would bring in all these guys back

Got to Diamond 1 a few times and realized the game sucks. Just an infinite rotation of 'new' banlists and 'new' metas which are really just copy outcomes of TCG and OCG. MD is just a third money-making wheel for Konami. Maybe I'm just getting older but games fucking suck these days. I came from Tekken thinking the complexities of Yugioh could keep me entertained, but it got boring way too quickly. Honestly, you're better of playing TCG as at least you can surround yourself with a community and have social interaction while you know Konami doesn't care about you.

Anyone know why Destiny Hero Plasma outs bagooska? I understand Plasma negates the effects of all monsters on the field but shouldn’t bagooska take priority if it was on the field first?

Yugi Boomers when bluff spells don’t work

gotta love the boomer reviews

I play everyday with my harpie deck and I love the game

yugiboomer takes about meta are so funny, it's not that old yugioh never had strong decks that play the same cards, they just don't know what strong decks looked like cause they were kids playing with friends who probably didn't know tournaments existed

lol I remember when I cooked some meta deck user in my locals and I told him good luck in his next match, and he was like…. When luck gets involved I lose!! I just stared and was like… sure lol

To be fair with some of these this was b4 casual queues. But some of these are just dumb tho

Coder implying Dark Magician Turbo isn't the most meta deck in the game. Doubt.

An opinion I have: I do feel that Master Duel released very late into the lifespan of the actual card game itself, the fact that we are almost a tearlament is really weird to me.

I started playing again when Master Duel came out, my only experience before was Power of Chaos: Yugi's Destiny. I think the game has a cheap feeling and Konami could definitely do better, but I also know that they're not interested in doing that because it's not pachinko. Thing is, I have tried the other simulators, none of them are as smooth and streamlined of an experience, even though the game is extremely frustrating because of the silly bug and BO1, I keep playing because it's just, like, easy to play, the banlist is dogshit and BO1 is frustrating even if it had a banlist optimized for it, but I feel if just one more to do with the game was cumbersome or annoying to deal with I just wouldn't play it. I think it's an okay product that could be great, but it's good enough for now. The game is definitely at it's best on Gold, that's where you'll find the funny silly stuff, the lower ranks are all bots or secondary accounts running perfectly optimized meta decks, Platinum is either terrible players playing meta or good players playing absolute garbage, but it's still annoying, not worth ranking up beyond that if you just wanna have fun.

I play my cyberdragon boomer ass deck to gold/plat and then just switch to casual play, idk why people expect any competetive game not to have a meta. There will always be a strongest and if you wanna play something that is objectively shit you shouldnt expect to win

Glad master duel is on mobile now. Can play while on the go. Love the game however, this game punishes newcomers hard. The starting deck you get encourages you to build your own deck then get stomped on both casual and rank by one turn k.o combo decks that immediately destroys you. Hope they at least improve match making especially for new players on mobile. I really love this game, but it has flaws.

I could'nt give the game a 10/10 as they are missing a lot of cards which sucks and probably won't release some cards like Illusion of Chaos. They want to help other decks and i get that for sure. It just feels like some decks are just missing cards. I like the crafting but they have a problem with choosing what cards should be SR and UR and what cards should be normal or rare. They have made some crappy cards URs like someone is even going to waste dust on those cards. I been playing F2P since that game came out to see how well a person playing F2P can do. If you do all of the solo modes stuff you can get a good amount of gems even if you are new right now. Do the solo mode and get all of the gems and just spend them on the packs you want to spend them on. Do all of the events as best as you can. Do complain even if you lose. Sometimes you will win. Overall it is a 8/10. If it had all of the cards they was missing then this would be a 10/10 especially if they fix the cards that don't need to be a UR.

That last guy was based as hell. Spoke only facts.

Timelord is too op not gonna negate it

Lmao, the fact that there are so much tryhards in gold is extra funny, cause I get doble the fun beating them with a d/d/d after they just took so much to figure out a combo they barely know cause they don't know how to play their copy-pasted meta decks

Your editor fucking cracks me up, holy shit the timelord meme sent me

2:06 why? 🤨

Master Duel is not good, and the meta and the players is the least of its problems: -There are way too few events spread over a way too long time. You can reduce the ammount of rewards to have more events take place and keep the game fresh and with new things to do constantly. -Not enough PvE. The only way to play against AI is in solo mode, which is about 60% not actually playing as is, and that is the only incentive to play besides ranked, which can be quickly draining. This results in people playing a lot less of the game . -Certain cards that are legal are simply not fit for a best of 1. Obviously there is maxx C, rhongonymiad, and literally every floodgate under the sun (I love bagooska, it should nit be in a best of 1 format). These cards can be dealt with in a best of 3 with a side deck, but in a best of 1 they simply ruin the game experience. Power level is irrelevant here, if you can't enjoy the game because at every turn you run face first into something that stops you from playing, the game will not survive for long. You could also argue for vertain other cards, like nib or electrumyte, but since they haven't been a major issue with them so far, I'll reserve judgement on cards like those. -No competitive environment. In Duel Links, winning the KC cup and the WCQ preliminaries at the higest rank gets you an invitation for bigger tournaments. In Master Duel, getting the highest rank gets you.... absolutely nothing. There is literally no reason to play the "competitive tournament" the game has. Unironically, MBT's Master Series might be the best thing to happen to this game. AND LET ME REMIND YOU THAT KONAMI INTENDED FOR MASTER DUEL TO BE AN E-SPORT. *HOW ARE YOU GONNA MAKE AN E-SPORT WITH NO COMPETITIVE SCENE KONAMI?! RANKED DOESN'T WORK FOR A COMPETITIVE SCENE. IT'S NOT EVEN AN ELO, IT'S JUST A BARE BONES LADDER CLIMB WHERE ANYTHING THAT CAN WIN AT LEAST 51% OF THE TIME MAKES IT TO THE TOP. WHAT ARE THE PLAYERS SUPPOSED TO BE EVALUATED ON, VIBES?!* I could keep going, but these are the major issues that make the game legitimately not good. Duel Link did really get it right from the start, didn't it?

How is Yu-Gi-Oh not pay to win? That's literally the whole thing like we don't get meta cards for free(talking specifically on Master duel). You have to BUY a pack, BUY gems (if you're a whale) and spend time. Yu-Gi-Oh is especially paid to win in real life because nobody just gives you cards. You either got up by them from a pack or order them from a dealer. Yu-Gi-Oh is 100% pay to win. I see nothing wrong with it.

They didn't play staple, did they?

I run beetroopers and Dinos KEKW

New player here I’m happy that Master Duel release cause I wouldn’t have found out about yugioh otherwise and I’m having a fun time learning more and more about it also rip toadally awesome 🥲

Reviewer: "opponents take 10 minutes to play." Coder: "FALSE." Also Coder: *10 seconds left on 480 second timer*

I kinda wished these people put the decks that they used in the review.