Well now it is. But actually to be more accurate it's the main antagonist and rival tax. Cause hero, dm as well as blue eyes also suffered from massive inflation on card prices for a not so good card strategy.
@@FaolanKitekaze that's absolutely not true tho. dragoon wasn't dominant like in the ocg but it still saw plenty of play over here. hell, it *still* sees play in a number of topping branded lists. a snake-eyes buster blader dm brew got top 32 at french nats and they were also playing the card
And then we have the OCG version sitting at a respectable $5 on average after applying conversion. Makes you despise the TCG and second hand market at times, when it comes to collecting.
To be fair, OCG had to learn this lesson as well. They had printed Dragoon exclusively in a premium product, and that card went on to become basically tier 0 in that format, demanding a three-digit pricetag by itself.
even the highest rarity for it in ocg market cost way less than tcg ver tbh. ppl probably should just get it shipped from jp if they simply wanted it for collection.
@@cheeznite1985 Online simulators exist... Yeah, it's a bit hard to summon and having to run a Ritual monster brick sucks but it honestly has an extremely good effect and can float into a Blue-Eyes monster. From the Extra Deck. Of which the pool consists of Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon as well as Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon. It's really not that playable in Blue-Eyes Decks either.
Dad was also was the best deck of format and because of the playable prize cards you could snowball wins It wasn't also uncommon for people to rent out the prize cards for a few hundred
@@leoultimaupgraded9914I wonder why people always compare MD to gachas instead of other digital card games. Compared to something like hearthstone, it's pretty grindy/expensive to build decks once you get through the generous amount of free gems they give to new players
@@spicymemes7458idk it's like $40 for gems for 4 10-packs with small UR odds, which you usually gotta dust at a 1:3 ratio, whereas you can just buy most cards you need on the secondhand market for cents or a couple bucks each. Sure MD gives out gems for free, and generously to new players, but if you want to try a bunch of different decks without grinding, I think the TCG would be cheaper than building them all in MD, since UR points are so scarce.
For those who don't know, when Dragon Ball Super card game was still pretty new, it released a card that when it dealt any damage at all, you won the game immediately. The card was also the rarest card in a super limited run set. It was 3000 dollars.
@@agungxs9715it has magician of black chaos in it, of course it's a DM cards. it gives u option whether to summon it using "Chaos" or "BLS" ritual mons, not specifically chaos BLS mons.
@@amr3731No its a Blue Eyes card because its not Dragon Master Knight its a retrain inspired by DMK but not same card also were does it say DM in its txt correct answer it doesn't. Specifically says 3 Blue Eyes monsters or BEUD or a chaos ritual monster which is generic. There are 4 different Arc-Types that fit this criteria. There is nothing in cards txt that implies it has ties to the DM. Is it usable by DM yes it can be is it a DM card absolutely not.
@@Citizen_Nappa23 this is like saying dark calvary isn't a gaia card just bcs it doesn't mentioned it when it's supposed to be a fusion between dm and gaia. dragon magia just not a DM card in a sense of in game archetype, but it is one due to the supposed mons fuse to make it is a dm retrain.
See I’d agree, and am thinking of getting OCG cards myself… but how can you play a card whose text is exclusively Japanese? How’s your opponent going to read it to understand its effect? Would every Yugioh player have to learn how to read and translate Kanji to play the game? Or would we just have to look up the card just to understand its effect? Unless there’s ways to translate the OCG cards for non Japanese players, i don’t see them being playable in the TCG any time soon
@@leoultimaupgraded9914I imagine we'd just use the TCG rulings for the OCG cards instead of translating them again. problem is, you cant really look those up in the middle of a tournament game either
why doesn't konami just go the pokemon route of printing the same cards in the set at common rarity AND high and shiny sparkle rarity so normal players aren't price locked out and the whales/collectors can have their shiny cards
They do in the OCG 99% of the time, with a few notable exceptions. It's only in the TCG they don't do this. Iirc S:P Little Knight has a regular Rare version that goes for like $10.
It's funny because the MTG story event depicted in Nexus of Fate is about a time traveler saving the dragons of his home world from their extinction event 1000+ years ago, and when he returns to the present he finds out that the dragons he saved became tyrannical despots who subjugated everyone else on that world under an iron fist. So it's only fitting that Yugioh's own Nexus of Fate is a dragon from the past.
The negates are cool, but this card probably isn’t worth the effort it takes to summon in a Blue Eyes deck… yet. There’s a Blue Eyes structure deck coming out soon in the OCG. The new cards haven’t been revealed yet but I really hope they don’t lean into Magia as a centerpiece for the new support. As of right now, Magia is more of a boss for Dogmatika than it is for Blue Eyes. For the sake of my wallet, I hope it stays that way.
you can easily summon this card with fusion armament which would give you a free blue eyes ultimate dragon and then use king of the swamp or any other substitute fusion card so you can get it out.
As a TCG accelerationist, I welcome this bullshit. The OCG is the superior paper version and the more things that make people realise this, the better. The day the TCG dies will be a day for celebration. It gets worse before it gets better.
So I'm currently in Japan right now on vacation and I bought a few ocg cards and dragon Master Magia is around 10,000 yen if you want the qcr. Which puts it around $70 USD. So it's even going up over here.😮 And the craziest thing is: Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't seem to be very popular at the moment here in Japan, it's been all about pokémon lately, I was lucky to find a few card shops that sold ygo.
Me happy that I can build my Jodah commander with cards like Nexus of Fate, Enter the infinite, and Omniscience all for like $10< a piece is amazing. I started collecting yugioh cards for nostalgia purposes. I’ve been buying Japanese cards from eBay in the original sets they came from for the most part. Ultimate CED is like $10-$60 and I grabbed a good condition for $15. Ultra BLS was $10 for a good condition. It makes me wonder why Konami doesn’t allow players to play with different languages so as long as you have the card printed out for your opponent or even pulled up for them to read. Magic allows this.
I remember my trick of using Black Luster Soldier and Beastking of the Swamps to cheat out DMK, I wonder if I can do that again. Doesn't specifically mention with the exact fusion monsters, so one of them can be substituted.
Don’t worry when the new blue eyes support gets released as a side set instead of a structure it’ll be a 1k hard to pull chase card that’s no longer printed.
Digimon just did this with a Magnamon X Ghost rare. Not only is it the best card ever printed, but in Digimon you need 4 copies of your main lvl 6 to run a deck. Because of the ghost rare chasers, boosters sold out in hours and prices for all cards in the set on tcgplayer exploded and really haven't come down.
Honestly Wotc (the company that owns magic the gathering) didn't learn shit about artificial scarcity, they still need to reprint so many cards for the first time but they keep making limited printing of useful and expensive cards to this day, when they do reprint cards they usually wait years or make limited printing of those cards preventing the prices from decreasing meaningfully
@@YeahTheDuckweedit also helped cause mass exodus’s from the game by completely pricing out players a trend that has ebbed and flowed throughout the game ever since.
@@ShiningJudgment666 you can easily summon this card with fusion armament which would give you a free blue eyes ultimate dragon and then use king of the swamp or any other substitute fusion card so you can get it out.
Speaking from a perspective from someone who plays both yugioh and mtg I definitely agree but that being said let's just hope Konami stays away from serializing cards like wizards has or that Konami never does to set releases what wizards has done 1 set but 3 different boxes with 3 different prices standard,set,collectors at least yugioh still has it reprint rates
I really wish they wouldn't only make cards in high rarities, especially when they're actually good; Ground Xeno is nearly a year old and still sits at £30
Nexus of fate is another story. The issue was because it was only a foil card that can shuffle backs to the deck. Which made it predictable because it was too bent.
Sadly, Konami won't stop this. Konami, almost exclusively the TCG, doesn't get the difference between player rares and collector rares. They'll print 2 rarities of one card in the TCG, short print them into oblivion, and then wait a year before reprinting it. While in the OCG cards like TTThrust have about 4-5 rarities in one pack and get reprinted in structure decks that we'll never receive
One thing I did learn from yugioh abridged is that they for some reason Decided to have graveyard shorten up to gy I thought that was weird when the owners of yugioh in America konima aren't hurting for money at all I haven't played the game in a very long time as you tell
I had one of the first ever edition blue eyes. When I was 18 or so I started collecting the cards on eBay and building up folders and displays of them. 10p here, £5 there etc. I didn't play, just loved the cards and the idea of ebay trading. Came across my blue eyes by chance. it was framed just for display and it vanished when I moved house. Well pissed :/
I'm the only person who likes that they make collector bait. Makers the packs exciting to open! If they had multiple printings of this card the jack pot element of opening packs is gone. Also makes it cool to own such a rare card if you pull or buy it.
You’re acting like this card is the first playable mechanically unique artificially scarce card in Yugioh. Do you remember stuff like Minerva Xyz, Giant Hand and Crush Card Virus?
I think the reason is because in the TCG exclusive blue eyes structure deck they will add this as a way lower rarity. Still a slap in the face either way
*FYI: THE AVERAGE YUGIOH CARD COST IS $0.16. THE AVERAGE POKEMON CARD COST IS $3.20-nonholo, $7.50-holo. THE AVERAGE MTG CARD PRICE IS $21.76.* *BASED ON AVERAGE PRICING, DECK SIZE, AND STANDARD FORMATTING, AN AVERAGE YUGIOH DECK SHOULD ONLY HAVE 1 CARD OVER $5 REGARDLESS OF TOURNAMENT LEVEL. MATH, IT MAKES EVERYTHING EASIER TO UNDERSTAND.*
@@BigGooch6_9 You can watch the short, you literally see one of the ways it can be turbo'd out. Hell, I'll even give you one, any of the fusion replacements, any chaos ritual monster, and polymerization. Done.
@@BigGooch6_9This card is easy as hell to bring out, the most basic way is fusion replacement monster, chaos ritual, and polymerization. Done, and before you say that's hard? Branded exists.
Magic learned their lesson, but the customer feedback showed consumers preferred their BAB promos be mechanically unique, so now they're back to making BAB promos (which is what Nexus of Fate was) mechanically unique.
Nexus of Fate was actually deceptively accessible. The supply of Nexus of Fates was higher than basically every other card in the set it was from because, while it was only printed in the first print run it was guaranteed in every box outside of the packs. The chance of getting a specific mythic in a given box for magic is about 26% so in order for Nexus of Fate to just match that there would have to be 3x as many boxes without Nexus of Fate as the amount with it. And like most gaming products the majority are sold near the release or within the first month. Basically, Nexus of Fate's price was driven by its uselessness as a game piece and the perception that it was a rare promotional card, not the actual scarcity of the game piece relative to the other mythics from its set. Still, I think the biggest mistake is how bad it feels to think about buying a booster pack while knowing you have a 0% chance of pulling the best card from the set. It's just a weird idea.
The best part of Nexus of Fate's story, is how awful Wizard's quality control over card stock was. Foils pringle so much it's only allowed to be played in decks with all foils or none at all, creating the most amusing footage of high level event coverage where basic lands with "Nexus of Fate" scribbled onto them were handed out by judges as proxies. Of course, most of the footage has been taken down, but the internet never forgets.
@mitchsirois606 god the Pringle problem is such a nightmare and I hate that they've literally solved the problem but are keeping it around. It doesn't happen with etched folks or oil slick or any of the new foil treatments they're rolling out and yet they refuse to just make one of those standard.
Because Konami can't really sell this set otherwise. They know its bad, which is why the only two cards worth anything are this and Phantom of Yubel. Boxes are already being discounted, and then they wonder why vendors have been dropping yugioh product for other games.
@@12thLevelSithLord It keeps getting worse. Like frog in the boiling pot, but also people are more strung up for cash, too. The value of the boxes has been going down, and the prices of things keep going up. It's just not sustainable anymore.
Yep and nowadays there could be a level 4 or lower normal monster with 3k ATK and it probably wouldn't see any play unless it synergizes with something.
This was seriously one of the dumbest fucking things konami has ever done Like, I get it, they're exploiting nostalgia collectors and cardboard whales, but this has to be the most baldfaced exploitation they've ever done
Did Magic learn not to put good cards at inaccessible rarities? I feel like The Big Score cards being artificially rare as almost revenge for no one liking MotM Aftermath kinda puts that in question. And those cards aren't even fringe playable. A lot of them see meta play.
Konami gets more greedy with every year that yugioh hasn't died from Konamis mistakes yet. It's like Satan testing the limits of human tolerance and never actually reaching a limit because the playerbase is stupid enough to feed the evil dragon that is konami. The meta is broken and onesided, metadecks cost wayyyy to much and now even fun roguedecks get support cards that have unhinged prices. As someone who is an on-off yugioh player the reasons to sell all my cards and quit yugioh for good outweigh the reasons to stay by a long shot. Whenever I get back into the game I basically pay a 300€ re-entry fee to have a somewhat competitive deck for a YCS. It's not fun if it's more about money than the actual game itself. It's so sad because Yugioh in itself is one of the absolute best card games ever.... but Konami is one of the worst TCG companies ever
Can kind of feel that. Just watching your opponent play their turn while you can't do anything unless you stop them with Droll and Lock Bird and then they play while you're trying to have your turn isn't fun. It was satisfying watching someone who was running some Runick White Woods build scoop to my Lightsworn deck with all their annoying shenanigans. With an assist to SP Little Knight and then a turn later wiping their board with Judgment Dragon.
Westerners ruining it honestly, I have four magias with me right now. Ygo as a whole is being hard carried by the OCG, especially Japan. They have no limit on what they can use tournament wise and easy access to every print except the obviously collectors copies.
They made a nostalgia bait card, but accidentally made the effect not absolute dogwater, and then made a second mistake of having it be a monster with actual support
It doesn't help that dragon master megia also has the wrong fusion material on it it says black glasses soldier and three blue eyes but you can genuinely see on the card itself it's the magician of black chaos and three blue eyes so konami did a fuck up
Wizards hasn't learned their lesson. They are still making uniquely rare cards via secret lair with the Universes Beyond without making a card in Universes Within.
Ive been wondering, I'm so upset cause on omega I have a crazy blue eyes deck that i feel like could definitely be rogue or maybe even shake up the tier list a bit but I need magia to make it flow 😢
I bought two boxes wanting to get this cause I like boomer bait, I wasn't fussed with whatever rarity it'd be. Got nothing and decided to buy it online. Changed my mind immediately when I saw the price.
Me hearing how magia is so expensive and then staring at the three copies I pulled from my box in OCG. Also hearing how that new xyz worm is "competitive" and then watching pullers complaining about seeing it for the 11th time in a crate. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Geez TCG shafting ya'll hard.
