Two INFAMOUS Yu-Gi-Oh Starter Decks! LINK VS PENDULUM DUEL! 

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Production value has definitely been improved throughout these duels. The quick cuts, the camera quality, the card sample presentation, it's a lot of little things, but it adds up to so much. I SEE YOU TEAM APS

love how it’s a pendulum deck with only two pendulum cards

Gawd, this is great Yu-Gi-Oh on RU-vid. One deck can't pendulum summon, the cyberse deck can't sustain a board. The interplay between Alec & Paul is what I love about this game.

Man, I felt Paul's pain when he was doing his best to not lose on the final duel, but in the end he lost on the burning effect, Damn, that's awful. LOL. Amazing duel guys.

Ya'll make these weird summoning effects look genuinely fun! I might even pick up the pendulum starter deck (and that's coming from a yugi-boomer)

Thanks man I randomly got a pack one day and found around 6 link monsters in there but I didn’t know how to use them this video helped a ton

I hereby present my official apology to poison of the old man, which was able to secure a victory despite my mockery when it was seen in the pre-duel showcase

Alec said a mistake there, I'm sure he figured it out, but you can't Pendulum summon the levels that are shown on the pendulum scales, you can only summon monsters who's levels are in-between those numbers, so for a pendulum scale of 1 and 8, he can only pendulum summon monsters who's levels are between 2-7. I never thought someone would lose a duel because someone played Poison of the Old Man, that ending was great. LOL :D

29:44 reminds me of one duel where I was so bent on getting an otk field with d/ds (budget/rookie build cause I was real young) that I summoned ash blossom to extend the plays

T'was pretty fun to see the Yuzaku deck in action, since I bought it back when Vrains only had a few episodes released and I attempted to get back into the TCG

3:33, now we're into the empowered archetype, a series of monsters who get nuked by ryu kokki

The power up packs were game changers when I got the structure deck. I think I pulled an odd-eyes dragon and an odd-eyes pendulum dragon off of them

19:35 poor Alec has waited so long for this moment only for this to happen

These duels have more production value than any duel should have. Keep it up y'all

Blue Dragon Summoner is a spellcaster. You summoned it from Red Sparrow Summoner which can only summon a warrior!

This was a great duel, a lot of smart plays and back and forth. It's what others duelists love to watch!

That Poison of The Old Man for the win, ouch.

I started in the game with the Super Starter Deck Time-Space Showdown and I like that product. Odd-Eyes/Performapal is my favorite archtype nowadays thanks to this Starter Deck :3

yo 5:52 I love the animations of you both who did these?

Watching you play duel is very entertaining😁👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 been a fun duel👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😊

Can y’all do like a spooky theme duel for Halloween. Like maybe Gimmick puppets against something else ??

Heres a challenge (that may nor may not be fun) generate a random deck for each other and have a tournament

Two things I don’t touch with a 50 foot poll! Nice! XD

yea PENDULUM did make me quite actually but now i am coming back to the game

Yu-Gi-Oh! needs more Formats so we can see more duels like this

love that fact paul normal summoned twice in a turn.

First synchro structure deck vs. first XYZ deck

Paul's no is amazing xD

Ego Boost activated in the damage step, so wouldn't that mean that dark bribe could not be activated? Also I noticed the double normal summon between draconet and marauding captain.

I got good with pendulums still getting better at link monsters

i see the pendulum deck with 2 scales 😂 maybe you should have given him the pendulum magician deck but that might have been too good

While these decks have really solid cards, they are extremely prone to burning out the minimal resources they have quickly.

Longest round 1 to date ... Defeated by an oldman... got damn XD

How about a shaddol deck vs..a chronamly deck lol 🤣 all while eating spicy hot wings! 😃 ..

duel starts at 6:11

I still have no idea how linked cards work...

Beautiful ending

Amazing video!!! Learned a lot!

"safest move is often to do nothing at all"? spoken like a true "murican pre-pearl harbor, alec~

my man said cowboy for game

Alec should used the power boost pack, because the Starter Deck itself is pretty bad :v Also, Paul makes a missplay when he made two normal summons in the same turn '-')

That pendulum deck What in tarnation is that deck i mean its a structure deck but alot of structure decks are kinda good

Its possible to do all that I mean Declan and Zark did

I think my brother bought the super spacetime showdown because i have a fewa cards of it ( my brother gave me all his yu ghi oh cards )

I knew empowered had an arcayipe It could couldn't have been a councadce

I think at the beginning that pendulum was broken so maybe pendulum will win.

16:14 thats sad

I'm loving all the extra effort put into editing recently! I know its probably a pain putting in a pic of all the cards being used but as a new player it honestly makes these so much more enjoyable to watch. Appreciate you guys!

This is the first time since 2003 someone actually died form Poison of the Old Man

“Pendulum summoning is hard without pendulum monsters.” “Are those the only two pendulum monsters in there?” “Yeah.” That hurt my soul

This would be a cool new series starter deck duels

Paul's abolsute despair at Alec just happening to have drawn Poison of the Old Man was priceless and so, so relateable to anyone who's gotten paired up with mid range burn decks that lock you out and kill you with that old, but shockingly dangerous old common. XD His "NoooooooooooOOOOOoooo!" is comparable to Luke Skywalker finding out his father was Darth Vader all along.

18:39 He already normal summon draconnet, he can’t summon marauding captain.

Spoiler Alert: Of course the Pendulum deck wins by "JOKINGLY" burning for that last 800 LP. 💪😎

18:47 Paul normal summoned Draconet and Marauding Captain in the same turn, if he didn’t attack with the Captain Alec would have have enough life to use Seven Tools on the Bottomless.

Dark Hole was my dad's favorite card. He was the one that would have 3 in his deck. It was almost the only way he'd beat me when we played when I was young.

“He’s got 2000 DEF, I don’t want to hear it!” The funniest thing I’ve heard today! Great video as always!

I love playing this kind of yugioh! 2 preconstructed decks and 1 winner! What other decks should we look for?

This is one of the most enjoyable duels I’ve seen in a while. I really laughed a lot at round 3, you guys are really funny 😆

I like how you separately went through all the cards one pack at time instead of alternating like the last time. It makes it way less confusing. I like how you guys are constantly improving the presentation of this series. Love to see more of these videos.

As an MTG player who wandered over here... I have no idea what happened in this video but it looked fun!

That was the best battle i've ever seen on this channel, such a rollercoaster

We need a tournament where you use tournament made decks that ye would use at reginals to see who is the best player: this was commented by someone else on the tournament video yesterday and like the concept so I commented again hoping for another chance for them to see it

11:12 Alec before drawing: "I must have faith in my cards...I have faith in my cards!" After drawing: "I have cards..."

Here's a series idea, kinda just ripping off Lithium, but each week have two duelists play with a different historical deck. Such as Dino-Rabbit vs Tengu-Plants or GOAT Format. This way y'all can showcase some of your favorite decks and talk about the history of the game

I always enjoy these structure and starter deck duels. Keep going. There are so many out there. Might be worth also going back to try older the structure decks against different opponents. You did fire vs water, but how about the fire vs zombie or some other combination.

As an old school yugioh person this was interesting to see. Two thumbs up

*EDIT for spelling* Ok a bit of a rant on each decks, so TL;DR, Pendulum Deck was outright the worst starter deck, and failed its main job, while the Link Starter Deck did it perfectly. Personally, I think the Pendulum Starter Deck is as flawed as the Elemental HERO starter deck. In that it only gives you 2 Pendulum cards, both of which can only use their effects when you have other pendulum cards on the field...which you don't have. Add in that their effects are concurrent with Odd-Eyes PUNDULUM Dragon, but give you every other dragon plus normal Odd-Eyes Dragon thinking it would be fine, making them effectively worthless. PLUS, those packs they give players don't even give you a chance to pull additional Pendulum cards to help even SUPPORT and teach players how to use the damn deck, let alone any reliable backrow support to help new players keep them same in friendly matches like this. It effectively fails its primary job as well in teaching players how to Pendulum Summon, and imo was probably the worst starter deck made, and the eventual start of the downfall for the mechanic overall in Konami's eyes, which is a shame. If anything, Paul's Link starter deck was the real winner in the end as it did what a Starter Deck should do. It included the core card of the series protagonist (Decode Talker), with cards to help support it (Cyberse type monsters, 2 additional LINK monsters, plus splash-able cards like Cyber Dragon and Photon Thrasher to get Decode Talker out faster). Add in to the fact you got incredible backrow support cards for s starter deck, and the ability to make probably a decent entry level deck for around 20-30 dollars, and this deck bar none successfully succeeds at its job of both teaching a new mechanic, as well as introducing a new monster type, and even giving players a chance to make a deck for casual fun that is decently and favorably strong. Overall, an interesting video, and look at how far Konami has come in the creation of starter decks. However, it also doesn't help make one think that Konami really had no hope for the Pendulum arc-type from the very beginning, which is disappointing in all honesty as its quite an interesting and fun mechanic. But in the end, Konami wanted to push what is more popular, and LINK Summoning did just that to a degree for many that Pendulum Summoning didn't.

33:05 - 33:13 Tbh I still do that, and add a Raigeki to the mix for good measure. Thank you Modern Yugioh for allowing this and the possibility of triple solemn judgement again.

You normal summoned Bitron & Marauding Captain in the same turn. He could have flipped Seven Tools in Game 1 because Marauding Captain should not have been on the field.

I use to play yugioh before my mom burned all of my cards because she thought they were “evil”. I cried for months on in lol. The game has changed so much since then (2004). Im watching you guys duel and it’s bringing back so many memories. I’m gonna go buy some yugioh cards and hop right back in the game lol. Hopefully I can get up to speed.

I hope what's next is a fusion deck vs a ritual deck the two first summoning mechanics in Yu-Gi-Oh

Ya gotta love how Alec summons out blue dragon summon off of red sparrow summoner's effect when red sparrow summoner specifically states it needs to be a warrior type monster, which blue dragon summoner is not. Also gotta love how he even says it needs to be a warrior XD. Nonetheless still a fantastic video. Edit: I think I just heard wrong and it was actually Arnis that went off and nor RSS, so I'm just deaf and dumb :D

You guys are amazing. Love all the content. Hands down some of the most underrated content creators out there. Something I would love to see: you guys doing some more house tournaments. Either draft or not. Love seeing all you guys together. Instead of needing to buy more stuff, just find some way to “make packs” with all those bulk commons you got in them crates!

“I’ve never seen a recycling bin, only seen ‘em on tv.” Best quote of the first duel.

Why did Paul’s starter get so many strong spells like WTF

I used to collect Yu-Gi-Oh but never had friends to duel. You guys bring interesting ideas for deck theory, and really share the good vibes of the game.

paul, did you just normal summon twice on the same turn?

That "NOOOOOO" needs to be clipped for some future video as some random clip LOL so good. Gg's guys, love these starter/structure deck vids

2 pendulum cards in a pendulum deck 😂

The production quality has improved drastically, and it finally matches the high quality of Team APS. Good work as always guys!

20:00 He could have payed the 1000 if he used the Old Man quick spell's life point gaining effect before.........

That sak armor then compulsory combo brought back soooooo much memories fro high school 😩 We used to do that almost every game lmao. Seeing a game with so much chains brings back memories of the good yugioh days :')

I love RAM Clouder so much, and It's not just because I'm a sheep. I just wanted to see ROM Cloudia in the board as well. =¬=

Paul casually cheating by normal summoning Marauding Captain after he normal summoned Draco Net earlier.

nice last game, the infamous Pendulum Burn deck XD

If you’re going for a name for each series, you could call this one “Structure Stand-Offs”.

Hey I dont wanna be nitpicking but at 20:39 when he pendulum summons he says one through 8 but it's meant to be 2 through 7, I dont know if this is important or not but I thought I should at least let you know

Loved the duel but I think you should've used the Yuya starter deck. It has way more pendulum monsters and the deck is actually pretty consistent lol pick that one for another video. Is a decent deck honestly

WELP @5:00 looks like another gacha will pull me in with my one true weakness...Booba

poison of the old man LETS GOOOO!!

I swear you two were both on one today lol love the commentary for this one

Activate your ability Paul storm access when you have 1k or less life points you get to draw a random card outta the data storm

24:48 Decode Talker is 3100 because of Cynet Universe. 2300+500+300.

Hard to believe with only two pendulum monsters in the deck and win the game😂

How the hell....Do you live into your adulthood without seeing a recycling bin???

1 copy of each pendulum...welp, won't be doing that this game.

I'm actually shocked he won with that trash deck. wtf lol

Wanna see more vrain prebuilt deck duels. This is the only one i found so far