That's their whole business strategy. By releasing new and powerful cards, they're almost forcing players to buy those cards if they want any chance of keeping up with the meta.
Right. Archetyoes need to have summon restrictions on certain cards. I shouldn't be locked down to summoning heroes for the turn if I summon a cross crusader and it gets negated, meanwhile snake eye gets to summon heroes, failures, fiends, angels, god. What happened to restrictions like, skip battle phase goes back to hand and end turn.
It's not Goddess that's the problem, it's the Fiendsmith engine itself, especially the link 1. Whether it's Mermaid or Requiem, a link 1 bridging you into a powerful engine is the real dumb design.
8:58 This is EXACTLY the problem. Konami knows they can get away with it no matter how many times people bring this up as a problem because these exact same people will continue to purchase the product they're complaining about.
Unfortunately boycotts are the only answer. Konami won't learn unless everyone even the tournament going meta players would need to boycott the sets and just refuse to buy the new cards. Which isn't going to happen because Yu-Gi-Oh and magic are closer to addictions then hobbies at this point.
Conspiracy Theory: Konami is releasing this engine to make a hyper tier 0 deck so toxic that it makes players invent a new Master Rule 5 retro time wizard format that Konami can later host and make money from.
They need to start paying people for event wins. Billion dollar company can’t give their loyal player base 50k for tournaments. lol Konami really is ran by the yakuza
@@PokemonTrainerChris303Konami is contractually restricted from cash prizes. But jesus fuck you’d think they’d at least TRY to make winning a tournament worth while lol
I know people always say this, but this is genuinely the worst place yugioh has been in for a LONG time, at least in tear the mirror match was entertaining but everything about snake eyes sucks; at the end of this competitive season im hoping yugioh will go through massive changes. A. Getting us good prizing, with Lorcana and One Piece giving amazing prizing and some of our top players jumping ship to go those games konami almost has to give better prizing now. B. Actually listen to the players/give regular banlists. Some of the biggest issues in today is the fact engines are way to small and dont have enough restrictions, ive seen a lot of people (me included) that are done with playing decks and playing against decks with 20 hand traps/board breakers. Its old and annoying but you need to play those decks in order to compete. Also maybe this is a me problem but im sick of playing against the exact same decks at my locals week after week, with how pricy decks are it makes it difficult for people to change decks so at least at my locals like half the people have been playing the same deck for 2 years cause they dont wanna put money into it.
LIGHT fiend will make it a shitty engine if thats the case and only playable with magical muskett lol, a fiend lock would be much better, but even better is to just ban beatrice and problem solved it cant bridge to anything and make a one card combo to any deck lol
@@AceSif155 banning beatrice in my opinion won’t solve anything, fiendsmith can allow you nib protection (wave king) with one card without taking your normal summon which is insanely powerful. Locking you just to fiends is an option, but it would severely restrict future archetype designs (basically konami wouldn’t be able to make a good fiend archetype because fiendsmith exists)
@@grimvengeance7445 thats a very good point, but without beatrice ull have to draw or otherwise use cards from ur hand for ur starters and reveal ur hand which makes the lines wayyy more susceptible to handtraps besides nib, and lets say they make an apo for 3 instead of wave king, the meta will shift to more ghost ogres, and veilers, imperms to counter that, but having beatrice allows for insanely consistent combos without using cards from hand and u can link off to other engines or even sp for protection. As for the restrictions side of things fiendsmith could have been like tenyis for swordsouls where its strictly tailored for that specific type of deck, and later down the line they can hit the smith cards on the list if fiends overtook the meta but at the end of the day they didn’t put restrictions on it just like melodious for business reasons and maybe their planning to make one card combo engines a thing who knows🤷🏻
Someone mentioned in your Discord that Russian players have an agreement not to play Snake-Eye. Imagine an event where majority of players, if not all, agreed to play anything but expensive meta. Think of the looks on Konami reps' faces as their T0 bullshit rots on shelves.
I'm so tired of everyone bitching about yugioh, KONAMI DOESN'T CARE get it through your heads either stop playing or enjoy what we have. And no I'm not going to play fiendsmith
No xeno lock means it can be splashed to most decks, but the lack of low rarity option means low accessibility, so not everyone can play this deck. Causing a larger gap between new and veteran players. Turning away new or returning players equals losing players. No wonder why some stores in my area dropped yu-gi-oh!. Some locals reduced their events from every day to 1 day only. My closest locals don't even do edison format and only do speed duels when there is a release.
In all videos for this set, while everyone agrees it's a game changing set, nobody seems happy or excited for it because of this, and can't say I blame them.
Konami realized hand traps are fundamentally bad card design. And proceeded to make the game infinitely worse by doing everything in their power to powercreep hand traps as a concept.
Most likely at the same level of power. If you were to put Tear Ishizu vs Fiendsmith snake-eye it actually benefits from having their stuff being milled aswell. So Tear milling them 10 cards in grave wih the Ishizu cards it legit I feel gives them a huge amount of options, maybe without even having to use cards in hand to start comboing.
I wouldn't mind about this new engine if it was CHEAP but once again this ygo format is going to be players who don't have 600 to drop on new cards, being priced out for the next few months :/
They ruined yugioh when they released OTKO card combos. Honestly, you can't tell me that you ENJOY watching your opponent, on their first turn, knock you out and you haven't even been able to even lay 1 card down.
In my experience, they tend to lose when I Ash the search spell since it is hard once per turn card. Droll also hurts them. Shifter hurts them the most. As time goes by, choke points will show up, allowing us to make it easier to interrupt them.
The thing is that even if the effect looks bad, that link 2 makes underworld goddess a link 3 monster (by using 2 monsters your opponent controls). Even if the fiendsmith engine gets nerfed it will be useful
Welcome back. The game is just as bad, if not worse, while being more expensive and everyone hates the meta deck while playing said meta deck because NOT playing it is an auto 0-2.
the EU konami twitter released an image of it with a bunch of other cards. including cards that have secret rare text and UR text. this one just had white text only
