When Was "Peak" Yu-Gi-Oh? 

*Happy Thursday and thanks for 1 year of support on the podcast! Remember to leave a comment with your favorite fandom, Yu-Gi-Oh or otherwise, and why! Winner gets a ceramic Pot of Greed like the one we use in the podcast! Good luck! Also looking forward to hearing all of your opinions on the stories discussed this week!* 🥳

Favorite fandom is the TeamAPS side of the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom. They're nice and kind and don't yell at me for playing fun decks or character themed duels. Very epic environment that promoted open-mindedness for different players.

Brooooo, hearing you talk about Yu-Gi-Oh birthday parties reminded me of some of the best of those when I was a young teenager. Myself and all of my friends each had their own Yu-Gi-Oh birthday party when we were in our early teens. Most of these parties were basically just eight person tournaments with like a prize card to be given out by usually the person whose birthday it was. One of them, however, was a battle City style tournament because he had a huge yard with a small Forest behind it. We each had our own starting locations out of us 12. Truly was a blast that I will never forget in my entire life. I do also remember all of the old Yu-Gi-Oh merch that was available back in the day. I had one of those Yami Yugi skateboards. It was a terrible skateboard, but was a great collector's piece. Thank you guys as always for hosting such a wonderful podcast. Happy birthday to the pod and long live the pod of greed!

Simply, I play Yu-Gi-Oh! because I love it. Playing this game has vastly improved my life. It’s hard to quantify in a few sentences. But, Love is the best word I have found to describe my resolve for this game.

Alec is killing me. I'm laughing so hard with how honest he is. What makes your show and podcasts so good is that you guys have a strong passion for yugioh and other trading card games, but yet are down to Earth and understand that you have an obsession where you can laugh about it. It's great! Awesome podcast i look forward to it every week.

Disney movies helped me learn English when I was a child. Now that Lorcana is out, I have gone all in and its amazing to see my childhood movies in a TCG.

First, gongrsts on the year anniversary! Second things second, I love the Mother/Earthbound fandom because of the sheer amount of dedication they have to keeping a game franchise alive 18 years after the last game. It's also a pretty welcoming and chill as fandoms come

My favorite Fandom has to be my pet deck fandom. Blue-Eyes White Dragon. There is quite nothing like a bunch of Kaiba-referencing duelists playing all the same brick deck.

My favorite fandom changes from time to time but as of now it is Yu-gi-oh , due in part to y'all and new and old friends coming together in recent years getting me back into the fandom and such in such a positive way

Ill also explain in Yu-Gi-Oh terms The Stellar Blade controversy is mostly just an extension of all the times the western market has censored some games but not others. Like Last of Us 2. The infamous Abigail in bed scene and all the times blood and gore was not censored in GTA games (along with way more i dont know about) For Yu-Gi-Oh. Think of it as LART. 99/100 the cards really dont need to be censored. But they censor it anyway and then resold it to us as Lost Art Collection. Stellar Blade is basically the most recent "victim" to the trend. And it happens to be one of the more mainstream ones

Producers, directors, and all sorts of execs will blame anyone but their greedy selves, specially the consumers. The censorship argument isnt really about the T&A but about the censorship in general. Cos companies will take the lack of a response as a sign that thwy can keep doing it. They also rely on people having the response Paul is having, "They're just being whiney and look at what they're whining about, isnt pathetic?"

the pokemon tcg points thing is that different countries have different levels of qualifying points. idk the exact numbers but say americans needs 500 points but brazilians need 300 points. this is probably because its harder to run events in brazil (in this example) and the point requirement directly correlates with how many events are run. but what this means is that if youre rich and can travel you have more opportunities to go to different events from other countries and not only that but by doing it you in a sense "take away" points from people of that country. an example was the london nationals where 1st/2nd place were guys from australia and peru. honestly i think this might be why konami wont let non japanese participate in nationals. also my fav fandom is team aps! guys at the shop who like team aps are much cooler pls count this as my pot entry:)

Congratulations on a year! I looked forward to these videos every week, while I love hearing the Yu-Gi-Oh, y'al

So happy to have made it a full year! I’ve watched every episode so far and couldn’t be happier with it

Congrats on the anniversary guys! I've listened to every episode since you started and it's one of my favourite broadcasts to put on when building model kits. Which brings me to my favourite fandom in Gundam. I always lived Sci-Fi and whilst Gundam might not be the 'best' Sci-Fi overall it is the most entertaining to me. With all the different types of shows the franchise tends to stay interesting even if it can be hit or miss for me personally. Gunpla also introduced me to building model kits which has become one of my favourite ways to spend my free time and got me through some difficult years in my past. Coincidentally I just finished the Exodia kit from Bandai this week so it's standing in front of my tv as I'm watching the pod right now which feels very fitting. Keeo up the good work guys and I hope you continue with the pod for many more years!🎉

Paul, Voiceless does run the Blessing spell at 1! It’s pretty dang good. But that’s about it for the new support.

Only just got around to watching this now, but congrats on y'all's first anniversary!

My favorite fandom is Digimon. It's somehow still survived despite being crushed by Pokemon, North America getting little love from Bandai, and some less than stellar videogames being released. It's peak nostalgia for me and the character designs are awesome.

I mean, without a doubt the fandom that had the biggest impact on me was definitely Yugioh. Growing up, the first manga series I started collecting was the original Yugioh! graphic novels when I was first introduced to the franchise via somebody bringing in the VHS of 4Kids Yugioh! Vol 2 when Yugi duels Weevil... I immediately fell in love with the series and found it very gratifying that I had the OG series. I felt like I had all the context to what the yugioh universe was really supposed to be about and re-read them all CONSTANTLY. The series had been out for a few years by the time I started getting the books, but I got to get the last few volumes as the released before the Duelist Kingdom manga started releasing and I was all over that and their loose definitions of how this card game was even supposed to be played. I also collected all the original DVD releases, but I'll never forget the day... My mom hands me a package that had just came in from express delivery and I open it to see the first 2 DVDs for BATTLE CITY?! I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY COULD DO THAT- I was SO HYPE. The brief return of Bandit Keith, watching Seeker say that he has the only 3 surviving copies of Exodia in this deck, Yugi's 5-head Lightforce Sword play... its SO nostalgic and engrained in me. I was an only-child and had nobody to play the TCG with that knew the rules (well, tributing at least). Everyone had only seen Duelist Kingdom, so explaining the real rules was impossible to anybody while they had their 200 card deck on the table turn-one summoning Dark Paladin from their hand. I did have a few gameboy games for yugioh, namely Sacred Cards (goated) and Reshef of Darkness, which is Sacred Cards' port clone made into the most absurdly frustrating game I've ever played.... You get your lifepoints back between duels by going home and saving at your PC but the entire start of the game is a tournament on a train you can't get off of! Anyway, yeah. I love the lore of early yugioh so flipping much. I loved GX as well, its definitely more entertaining as a cartoon. 5D grew on me with its dystopian gritty social commentary and its direct connection to the domino city continuity Tetsuo Trudge was Yugi's school bully hall monitor who worked Yugi up to the point where he was able to finish solving the Millenium Puzzle after standing up for the dumbnamic duo and fundamentally altering Joey's outlook on life forever. Its all kinda poetic, or it is to me anyway. Pendulums tilted me so I took a break from staying up-to-date until Duelist Alliance in 2016 and slowly got back in to the TCG through your channels. Honestly, the absurdity of the state of the game around Master Rule 5 made me actually start looking into the game seriously again lol. You guys are a pretty massive reason I was able to even reconnect with modern yugioh in a digestible way. so, thanks... heres to another year of podcasting!

My favorite fandom swings back and forth between Yu-Gi-Oh and Digimon all the time. But it's always one of the two.

I’m not really a podcast guy, but I started listening to this one and have listened to almost every single episode weekly. You guys are great! Favorite fandom is Monster Hunter 😎.

Happy 1st anniversary! I remember watching the first pod and have been watching ever since. I gotta say I got hooked on yugioh in my last year of highschool by my friends and got hooked. I watched the anime, read through the manga, played the weird spin off games and of course play the tcg. I love how unlike Pokémon and some other battle anime’s, you actually get to play the game they are playing in the show. It feels very immersive at times. It’s a game that can really tie together your friendships and meet new friends. My highschool friends still keep in touch through yugioh so it holds a very special place in my heart. I think it’s best shown through you guys at team aps. As it’s clear that yugiohs done the same thing for you guys! Can’t wait for more yugioh from team aps!

Yugioh is my favourite fandom because it grew up with me. When I left the game to go through early adulthood, I changed a lot. At the same time, Yugioh changed a lot too. So when I came back to yugioh after covid. It was like reuniting with an old friend. We're still the same people, but we needed to get reacquainted and adapt to the new versions of ourselves. And I think that's pretty poetic.

As someone who has been playing commander for the past 3ish years, I will say that especially once you get into the layers of continuous effects and have to remember the timestamps for different cards and such, it can get really confusing really quick. I will say that my favorite official ruling for any MTG card is for Apex Devastator, who just has Cascade 4 times as it's effect. One of its rulings just ends by saying "the stack can get messy, and we wish you luck."

I love this Pod Cast, and look forward to listening/watching you guys more in the future!

my favorite fandom is the Star Wars fandom , congrats on the year! keep up the content !

Favorite fandom is the Bass fandom, idk if it counts but i love playing bass and interacting with bass players🤘🏻🎸

My favorite fandom It took me a minute to figure this out but in terms of money, time, size of collection, community, and knowledge of it Yu-Gi-Oh wins on all fronts so I would say Yu-Gi-Oh is my favorite fandom. On why Yu-Gi-Oh has been there always in my life it feels like since my childhood best friend Tyreek introduced it to me in 1st grade and everyone played it during recess and on the bus and then in middle school moved halfway across the country and made new friends and they also played liked and played Yu-Gi-Oh and then even now in adulthood i feel out of it during Covid and just started playing again in January and some friends still play and some don’t but you make new friends at locals and ig my point is that for the last 22 years Yu-Gi-Oh has always helped me make new friends and that’s why it’s my favorite fandom.

Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon take first place for me, and it's been that way forever. Other than that, South-Park and Spider-Man. Love the pod guys! Look forward to it every week.

Congrats on 1 year! Some of my favorite fandoms are Metal Gear Solid, and the Suda51 games

Congrats gentlemen! Always looking forward to Thursday mornings. My favorite Fandom is a 3-way tie between Yugioh, Gundam, and the Fate Series

Favorite fandom: Megaman. As a fan of that franchise, it's great to see all the love and passion from the fans even though Capcom refuses to acknowledge the Blue Bomber. They are carrying the franchise on their back, honestly. I also think that in general, smaller fanbases are almost always less toxic. Also, congrats on the first year anniversary of the podcast! Here's to many more years to come :)

My favorite fandom? I’m not too certain, in fact I think “fans” are some of the most toxic people to be around because of how passionate they are, although it’s not a bad thing. I do like various communities though, sometimes, most days. Yesterday I found out one of my coworkers played Yugioh, and basically we ended up talking about our favorite decks, the metas we entered the game in, when and why we stopped keeping up with the physical game, our favorite moments. It’s honestly refreshing how passionate as fans we can be. I enjoy seeing the community jump up at the newest card reveal/leak and theory craft. I think what really exemplifies a fandom more than shipping wars and elitism is the people. The community sharing moments, games, decks, and being so passionate about their hobby that it can just leak out into casual conversation. Yugioh is great sometimes, the people similarly, but the memories I’ll cherish.

Congratz on the 1 year anniversary! Kudos on the hard work. My favorite fandom would have to be the pokemon video game series. The community is just always so helpful when it comes to advice, trading, and overall fun. I love yugioh but I had to take a break since I am actually getting married, and need to save money. I don't like meta decks but I enjoy opening packs to collect cards and build decks. My favorite deck is insects just because the boss monsters are so cool. Keep up the good work and I hope you guys keep playing while the game til ur old dudes. You guys seriously heal my inner child. You guys are great!

Congratulations on your first year dudes! 🎉🎉 My favorite fandom right now is the Fallout fandom. Ive only played the 3D games and I've watched the series but Ive been learning the lore of the old games and ideas of future stories by reading the comments of the fans nerding out. Its been great!

Congrats on the podcast anniversary! Best podcast in the business! Also my favorite fandom is Street Fighter! Which coincidentally was the MTG crossover to get me all in on Universes Beyond! Lol And just wanted to tell Paul congrats on getting into Magic! It really is a fun change of pace to mix it up every now and then from Yugioh! Now the fun part is finding your Color(s) and Commander(s)! Good luck!

1hr late but happy to enjoy the 1yr anni of this fun and great series CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Favorite Fandom has to be Yu-Gi-Oh! It’s still going strong and the passion for the card game after so many years is cool to see. It is sad that at times it can get hostile but overall I think it’s nice to see how much a childhood card game anime has impacted and influenced our whole lives. Dragon ball is a close second for me in terms of fandoms!

Peak yugioh was just before they introduced synchros. Or before monsters got to have two effects.

I remember the first Pod of Greed 😎 can't believe it's been a year already! That means I've been watching you guys for longer than a year now!!!

My favorite fandom would be the Dragon's Dogma fandom -- it's weird how such a well selling game only has a niche community but I love the content and humor the community has! Congrats on one year!

The Pokemon fandom is my favorite fandom because of how many friends and family enjoy it. Since I was 8 I remember playing games like XD gale of darkness with my siblings and even playing Pokemon go as an adult with tons of friends and family.

I would have to say my favorite fandom is Gundam. All fandoms have their issues but it is also tied to a model building hobby that has lead me to make some great friends and memories. Thank you so much Team APS for everything and the great community you have. I love the channel and the Pod of Greed. Keep up the good work and to another great year!

One year lets goooo🎉 my favorite fandom as of right now has to be yugioh 😅 every since MD came out I’ve been obsessed

Congrats!! Hmm id say my favorite fandom is the kagurabachi one 😂 they really memed it to the top

Congrats on the 1 year anniversary 🎉 watching all the TeamAPS content has renewed my interest in yugioh. My favorite fandom is the Destiny 1&2 lore fandom.

Congrats on the one year episode! I have been listening to you guys since day one! My favorite fandom is probably pokemon. Pokemon got me into so many other fandoms like Yu-gi-oh and opened up anime in general to me. Like Pokémon cards got me interested in other card games like Yu-gi-oh and I probably would be much more boring these days without it.

fav fandom is probably guitar pedals lol - JHS specifically has a strong sense of community where in most places I feel like a passive viewer

Its hard to pick a Fandom as a favorite, but I would say I am enjoying all of the seculations in One Piece and where it's going. I have been listening to you guys for a while and really enjoy your videos, especially the duels with the different packs. You guys rock.

My favorite fandom? Hard to say, I guess I like the fandom of little indie games. The fear and hunger is cool.

My favorite fandom iiiiissssss the YuGiOh GX fandom. GX is so wacky that I think the fans have really garnered an appreciation for it at this point. On movies, they should make a GX movie.

Congratulations on 1 years! Keep up the good work! I would say my favorite fandom at least right now is yugioh, rewatching the anime and getting back into collecting/playing the tcg has been a lot of fun

Congrats on 1 year guys!! Best fandom to me is Nintendo, people aren’t judgemental and all we care about is enjoying fun games. Here’s to many more for the best Pod around!!! 🎉

The gamergate 2.0 thing is from sweet baby inc trying to cancel a guy who started a steam group, this is just another part of it

Given what they've done with giving some of the Maximum Monsters in Rush Duels "border breaking" artwork, I could easily see them making 3+ cards have connected artwork and have some of the art extend outside of the normal artwork borders to connect together to display the set together so it makes a complete picture.

Hello, and congratulations on the one year anniversary of the Pot of Greed. My favorite fandom, I guess it would be the anime fandom; yugioh, naruto, and dragon ball z. The yugioh anime is the reason I got into the card game when I was a kid, I dropped off around 5D's. I've recently picked it back up, even if I struggle with it. I just wish I had more friends that I could play old-school formats with or house rules formats. My favorite part of master duel is the events and duel trials.

Congrats on 52 and hopefully we get to see episode 104 as well! My fandom of choice is/are most things cyberpunk distopia and Hellblazer/modern day magic. Came to YGO from Legends of Runeterra as they have stopped prioritizing PvP gameplay and I have enjoy this game a lot. Is really enjoy YGO's play style of swift acceleration to a powerful endgame state with interesting cards and mechanics. I have played several TCG/CCGs and my most favorite parts are the big play moments.

My fav fandom is Yu-Gi-Oh!, as locals is such a great community and I know I can always go there to find other people that “hate” the game but still show up every week to play it

My favorite fandom is probably the One Piece fandom. I haven't really met too many gate keepers, I mostly just meet people that desperately want to spread the good word of Oda lol

Thank you TeamAPS for these awesome podcasts! I have been binging them and your other duel vids after recently discovering your channel. You have inspired me to dip my toes into Yugioh, especially the other casual formats, after I stopped playing in middle school 18 years ago 😭 My favorite fandom has to be Age of Empires 2. We too are a bunch of "StrategyBoomers" playing and complaining about the same game made in the late 90s.

What sucks about the Stellar Blade thing is that people are pretty much not getting the game solely because it got censored, and while it makes sense - you know, vote with your wallet, it really makes you wonder if those people were genuinely interested in the game in the first place. On a brighter note, happy 1st anniversary to the pod! Crazy to think it's been a year since this started.

Glad to see this series still going strong! As for me, my favorite fandoms are really tied between YuGiOh, MLP FiM, and Ki gdom Hearts.

My favorite fandom right now is definitely Yu-Gi-Oh. I have recently gotten into playing a little more competitively and am making friends along the way as we compete at locals or meeting at a game cafe. I'm also eagerly anticipating the next repeat from all the yugitubers and podcasters I follow.

My favorite fandom is probably Star Wars because of its huge and ever-expanding lore. Not so much the fans themselves, but the lore is my favorite.

A fan of game lore, don't know if that counts as Fandom, whether it's Yugioh card lore, Runescape, Xenoblade, etc. You guys encouraged me to get back into yugioh recently, love seeing you guys grow. Keep doing what you're doing :)

Great job sticking with it for a whole year! I've enjoyed watching ever since episode 1! My favorite fandom is any DBZ fandom. Keep up the great work! I hope its still as fun for you to create content as it was since day 1!

🎉. Favorite fandom is tenchi muyo. Ryoko is my #1 favorite character since getting into anime her writing is great and very touching at times

My Playgroup still has our og LOB Pot of Greed card that has been traded back and forth between us all forever now.

I personally think pendulums whole issue is the insane special summoning portion. If a spell/monster existed that had the unique effects of being both a unique continuous spell but also a monster without the scales I think we could have saw something more similar to decks now. Perhaps that's why so many decks are treating monsters as face-up continuous traps/spells in their effects.

I still remember when y'all started the first few episodes I found your channel probably a few month b4 y'all started the pod

Favorite fandom has to be tcg in general. Love seeing deck build stratagys from every level and how cards interact

My favorite fandom is FGO, Fate fandom in general. My reasoning for it is that I've always been a huge fan of the series. From the Ero visual novels to the anime and game. The fandom is so down to earth and down bad at the same time. They keep to themselves. I don't often see fights, cosplayers are scarce even at bigger cons but when you see them you know it is out of love for the servants. It combines mythology and history and I love the subsection of the fandom who are history and mythology buffs. They are enlightening and always willing to share information and support. We also have some of the best artists in the fandom. The games are great fun and we are typically happy even in rough times. We made it through no pity system and we love our future vision. I can't find a single complaint as an FGO fan and observer and even participant in the fandom. Also if I do get picked, I will happily take the broken pot. Maybe signed by y'all *wink wink*

My favorite fandom is the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG (I haven’t really watched the anime past season 1), because it provides me a way to meet new people from different areas and I know we can always bond over this card game no matter where we go. Even if we don’t speak the same language, there’s a shared love for the card game

When it comes to getting nervous at locals, just remember everybody in that room(including yourself) are a part of a niche group. They are people that have a common interest along with you. They are people, too. Talk to them, get to know them. Express your opinions, thoughts, and concerns. I often just talk about my deck build and any improvements or opinions they might have about it.

Hey guys, congratulations on a full year of the podcast! I always enjoy listening to each episode I get a chance to (sometimes it can be tough to find the time). If I have a more in-depth question for the show than the Pod form might allow me, can I email your show at the address given on the main APS channel?

My favorite fandom is probably Pokémon to be honest! But there are so many things I love about Yu-Gi-Oh and fluctuate between them both! I think Pokémon has just been a part of my life for longer but Yu-Gi-Oh has so many interesting characters and I LOVE the lore behind cards!

I'm a fan of Monster Club personally. It's a niche little card game produced by a small team out of Europe that captures the spirit of watching the early Duelist Kingdom days of the anime with a blend of Rush Duels. The card art is spectacularly well done, the game simple and an absolute blast to play with a friend! They've done a great job so far and wish them nothing but success going forward.

Favorite fandom is definitely Yu-Gi-Oh!, specifically this “sphere” of the game, because despite the fact that every fandom has its ups and downs, the APS / Yugituber side is really positive and welcoming, and gives both competitive and casual players a place to just hang out together which is nice when it comes to bridging that gap that comes around in the game

Wow finally caught the premiere

My favorite fandom has to be Pokemon. There’s so much love to go around: the games, the shows, the card games, and so much more.

And here's me absolutely buzzing that I've managed to get TWO (2) copies of Evil Hero Malicious Bane for £5 rather than the £60+ per copy that I would've had to pay a couple of years ago. I'm trying to build an Evil Hero deck simply because I love the archetype and I'm so happy that it's now within my budget.

My favorite fandom is the Berserk fandom, the strugglers. Runner ups are the Arcane and the DDLC fandoms.

45 minutes from the end, Alec is describing AR, not VR, and it is described like Ordinal Scale from SAO

My favorite fandom has to be the Yugioh Duel Monsters fandom. As a fellow YugiBoomer myself, it warms my heart every time our old archetypes get support.

I honestly love the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom (well... The part that's g-rated). The art style and lore is great, all the universes, I've never argued with another sonic fan over anything.

I love the pot! As a casual yugi boomer, this podcast is super easy to listen to and understand the modern mechanics of ygo. My favorite fandom is the dragonball series.

How to improve VR: -Abandon the idea of transporting to other worlds via a clunky headset. -make the equipment used for this technology appear as though it could be anothe part of ones daily dress (example: Sun Glasses) -basically, move away from virtual reality and aim for augmented reality. AR is better than VR in almost every conciveable way.

My fandom in Yu-Gi-Oh has to be swordsoul. After being out of the game for a while I just love the style and ease that comes with this deck. It will always be fun for me to play.

Congrats APS 🎉🎉

Happy 1st year anniversary! 🥂🍾🎉

My favorite fandom is the ssbm scene. Just incredible people and a surprising amount of yugioh crossover

Great Podcast 👍

My favorite fandom is Dragon Ball. I can still vividly remember not only which episode was the first I ever saw but also where I was. DBZ opened up a love of anime that also got me into Yu-Gi-Oh in the first place.

My favorite Fandom right now is One Piece. I know people say it's overrated, but I love it. It's a super long story, but it's worth it. The show has charm, humor, and a lot of world building. I love One Piece. I love Yu-gi-oh, but stopped playing because the duels are much too fast now. Oh, I love Pokémon, Naruto, Demon Slayer, AOT, HxH, and a bunch of other stuff. Congrats on the year anniversary.🎉

I love the yugioh Abridged Fandom. I've binged it many times, and I've watched convention videos where ppl even myself have gotten back into watching and playing the game and just playing your favorite decks. And "what does pot of Greed doooooo!" And I'd love to have cracked pot of Greed. But I'd want all of the crew to sign it.

Congrats on the anniversary guys! As much as I love Yugioh and Marvel, DC has always been my favorite.

I m very into playing with the traptrix these days. Love the yugioh and love you guys. You simply rock!!! I really enjoy your work and content!🔥❤️

Yugioh of course is my favorite fandom. I have accepted the game and the game has accepted me back.

I hate to admit it I have been getting really into the Lorcana fandom lately! side note keep up all the hard work you guys put into everything you do!

Choosing just one is hard but I guess I would have to pick Warhammer 40k. I never went harder than when I was sucked in by this Fandom. Building the minis, kitbashing and converting my own custom minis. And the lore hundreds of books of all the different factions. Very immersive stuff. Pokemon and yugioh are probably a close 2nd. Love you guys hope for another great year of the Pod of Greed.