Yu-Gi-Oh! Can't Be Better Right Now... (I'm Coping) 

600$ for 3 cards to win a 200$ switch. Nice.

As of today my locals have scrapped Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments and turnout is at an all-time low. We had no more than four or five players for months. Is there any wonder how and why when Konami run the game like they do?

Yugiohs a great game but it’s run worse than any other tcg right now. I only play Lorcana now I made 3 out of the 4 meta decks for less than a tier one yugioh deck. Konami doesn’t care about their players it shows constantly.

Pay to win is the state of yugioh right now

Sorry if it hurts, but when I buy cards, I don’t care about rare cards. Yes it is cool, but if I can get a common card at low price and be able to play it, that’s what is important for me.

It's funny how OCG gets their meta cards like candy while Konami in the US is so stingy. It's also why they banned OCG cards because they don't want everyone to have the same cards. What a jooooke

First!! I have unfortunately given up Yu-Gi-Oh for Pokemon, but I will always be subbed to this channel!! Thanks for the content Cali!!

Maybe the "best" scenario about this is that because so many tryhards getting on boxes for Mulcharmy everything else may drop heavily in price

Konami and game stores across the West all universally agreed that Rarity Collection was one of the largest successes in years and the main reason for that was just that it was way easier for people to buy into sealed product when they could feel secure in their chances of getting something good out of it. And KoA just forgot about that and I guess the lesson they took was only "people like shiny cards" or something.

Tcg players: We hate Maxx C Also tcg players *Spends $500+ on a worse Maxx C*

I hate the fact that theres so many people that want to treat a hobby like theyre playing stocks or some crypto thing. Like dude. I just want to play a game. Not get price gouged out of something to play.

….how in the FUCK did fuwaross get bought out????? Even if I did have so much money that I could just throw 510 dollars for three copies of a card on prerelease, I would absolutely not do it. I’d feel genuinely dirty and ashamed of myself, even if I had a shitton of money to waste. Also, Pokémon is fucking awesome for the costs and the artworks. Genuine mini-paintings

Yeah, this new format ain’t it. I’m just sticking to MD, maybe playing at locals with Runick Spright, and playing Commander in MTG. This is just insanely expensive.

Yep, and this right here is why I'm not buying any more sealed product period, until Konami reprints both Mulcharmy cards in an easily attainable (as in more than 2 per box on average) rarity.

Pokémon tcg has a guy that won worlds with a 20$ deck . Like lmao do you think it would happen in yugioh

Not to be a defeatist but it feels like a massive slap in the face Not from Konami, we all knew Fuwaross was gonna be a Secret rare, but it’s because it literally doesn’t matter because it SOLD OUT at $200 A COPY A PIECE OF PAPER IS $200…AND PEOPLE PAID THAT What’s a boycott gonna do? Like 100 players are gonna actually say anything and it’s gonna fizzle out within a week, we’re just gonna be going through the same song and dance until they make some serious fucking concessions out of the goodness of their heart basically, it sucks I’m just glad that Vanquish Soul is able to play around both of the Mulcharmy cards very easily, especially the new Fuwaross so I’ll have an option for a decent deck that can play under these things

I'll say it again rn yugioh is a rich person game

I love yugioh but I quitted after the AGOV set. It was the best decision I have ever made. I can’t stand konamis greed. They suck the soul out of every Yugi TCG Player. Bad Banlists purely oriented to sell new sets. Ridiculous card prices and stupidly overpowered cards… „You can have fun with rogue tier 5 decks“ Yeah, I like to lose every match against my opponent. It’s so much fun. You need those expensive staples and if you want a chance to win, you might need a „semi competitive“ deck. I love Yugioh but I hate konami with a passion.

Staples should be common, archtype boss monsters should be secret rare.

I feel like the comparison to duelist nexus and legacy of destruction isn't really fair given that in both cases the number of cards that actually mattered were limited, and archetype specific. If they had made mulcharmy and dominus super rares instead, it would have been more like darkwing blast and the bystials, and that set was very good. Phantom nightmare also does really well despite Promethean and poplar being ultra.

$170 is my phone bill, electric bill, and my car insurance. For ONE. SINGLE. CARD. No, Konami. Just straight up no.

I heard that Kozmo Dark Destroyer was a $200 preorder card. Makes me worried Fuwaros will go up to $250 since it’s a 3-of that’s rated e for every deck. Edit: I don’t consider Phantom Nightmare to be a terrible set. The only sets I consider to be terrible are ones that are filled with bad cards like the Dueling Mirrors tins (wtf were those common reprints among many other problems), ones that were extremely greedy in how they handled their max rarity cards (WISU and the Dueling Mirrors tins), have terrible pull rates, or were really mistimed like Valiant Smashers. I think it’s not a good idea to have deck build archetypes be unplayable on release as it hurts the value of those products as well as the OTS stores that sell them. Legendary Duelist sets have a similar problem exacerbated by terrible pull rates, which Konami should really stop doing. Phantom Nightmare and Age of Overlord do lose points from me though since they still have some pack filler and did not have cohesive TCG exclusive archetypes. Wave 2 of Tistina was awful…

Meanwhile my OTS has the 10c bin and they shoved a bunch of rarity collection cards in there and more (dragostapelia, mudragon, eldlich, lancea, lubelion, etc.)

Ygo has fallen off, Big dog start pivoting to Mtg low key

Kali: "it is, an amazing day for yugioh!" *proceeds to explain why it is NOT an amazing day for yugioh!....

OCG gives out maxx c in starter decks while tcg is paying $170 for its baby sister 🤦🏻‍♂️

We're complaining about something that's been happening since 2004. It's a hobby, some hobbies are more expensive then others. Sure the price sucks but everyone talks about boycotting the company but clearly nobody is actually doing thay

I really need to get that homebrew format video out, but the Halloween video comes first. Priorities.

In my area we have slowly moved away from physical Yu-Gi-Oh and have started having master duel tournaments. What used to be a 7-10 tournaments has jumped to 15+ in the newer format we have with Master Duel. Even the kids in our area now come and play in these tournaments and honestly it’s the closest to old Yu-Gi-Oh feeling as it gets. Winners are given a choice of gift cards for their accounts, packs/tins, or even a cash prize depending on the tournaments. We even had a pro game controller as a prize and in a retro theme duel cup. I think other areas will learn and follow the wave if they haven’t already done so.

I just got back into yugioh after over half a decade. I was never playing competitively but it has been peaking my interest lately. Just feels like barrier to entry is so high rn. I’m alr having a hard time affording must have cards but another must have hand trap being this hard to get is unfortunate. Like I know I’m not gunna get a “new ash” for a while, let alone 3 copies anytime soon.

Yeah the new Fuwaros card demands a boycott from the players NOW. It’s genuinely gotten to a point where not only is it insulting it’s fucking disrespectful and disgusting business practice. Without its players Yugioh is nothing, Konami NEEDS to understand this Unfortunately things aren’t going to change because I don’t see any people with real importance talking about real solutions. RU-vidrs/influencers or “pro players” don’t do anything about it other than complain and play on. Wake up, boycott. Don’t buy the set, don’t buy singles from the set, nothing.

YGO community is just wave riding for content at this point. I couldn't imagine the social anxiety and exhaustion of ship jumping every week. Scam this, buy now. Doom this, good now. I actually APS channels on block. Had me feeling like Nino Brown "cutting off" Gee Money.

No shot someone with brain will buy a single card for $170+, it could be a marketing tricks where your friend buy your pre-order to scare the sh1t of you all. And make their "Own Price Points", sort of a monopoly tricks. This will be the end for komoney, if this keeps happening, I will just proxy a cardboard for friendly match. Just to see money doesnt win you the game, your brain does it.

that Kaiba on Pegasus reference was PEAK

My locals have been 25-40 ppl for the last half a year until last month. Now this past Sunday, we've only had 15 people. More people are going through bulk boxes for Pokemon cards before the tournament than YGO players, and the Disney Lorcana game is close to reaching our numbers. Their prize support is MASSIVE compared to our own in some aspects, such as once a month the person with the most points gets a playmat and 10 packs, but for YGO we only get store credit- we're lucky to have a case tournament once or twice a year because prize support is so poor. I even folded last week to buy S:P for $60. Pray that Konami doesn't give it the banlist treatment later on

I came back to Yugioh after 12 years due to my friends goading me around the time Rarity Collection 1 came out and was massively hyped up. Now I'm thinking about quitting again for another decade. the TCG is constantly getting mistreated and it's straight up criminal. The TCG consumers are largely to blame too cause despite all this, people are still buying and konami sees nothing but profits from the TCG, concerns and complaints from the fans are ignored. I find it funny that Rarity Collection 1 is what temporarily brought me back, as that set was basically the OCG rarity collection product minus Maxx C, getting a small taste of OCG's superiority was great, then TCG shat all over that good will with Rarity Collection 2, and probably Quarter Century Bonanza too will be dog water.

I just recently came back to the game after MANY years and I've been playing with friends some old and cheap archetypes, been trying to buy some staples to build a deck that I can at least go to locals with but man, some prices are ridiculous

I'm just gonna stay budget for life. If it costs too much, i'm not wasting money. Konami already knows the solutions. If they aren't implementing them, then they don't really deserve my cash.

People just need to stop paying for their new sets and kick out anyone playing the new set in their locals. lol 😂 I don’t care. The more you spend on product the more you allow this abuse.

could you imagine the outrage of the ocg community when we buyout their product lmfao.

Anyone know where or who or how I can get some good proxies ? I’m just not financially stable enough to pay for the current state of yugioh but I really want to play the current state and also get my friends more involved

Agreed taking a break from current meta, Ive been looking into trying that 4 player Domain format looks fun

Nothing beats wizard of the coast sending the pinkertons to someones house when he leaked a set xD

Blame the clowns who keeps paying at these prices 💀 konami doesnt see a cent from these sales

The worst part of all of this is no other TCG appeals to me at all. I'm too ride or die in yu-gi-oh and I just feel miserable for it

Cali, how much for some bulk ?😅

My experience with Branded post ban list is having Branded Fusion banished hurts but not enough to kick it out of the tier 1 slot because Light and Darkness Dragon Lord is still a heck of a card when it isn't hit by cards like Dark Ruler and Pot of Prosperity limited your chances are low if 3 copies of Dark Ruler is all you've got. I've had plenty of games where I've watched my opponents lose 3 cards because of it and then because I had more interruptions after that they couldn't play. Needless to say having the omni-version of Apallousa as a fusion in a deck that meets the requirements easily is one heck of a game winner. Also Branded has never really lost consistency because we have replacements for the replacements especially if your careful not to lock yourself with Nadir to early and heck Cartesia is a busted 1.5 card combo if I've ever seen one and when you get that Eclessia off of Titaniklad you be ballin'. If you can't every consistency increasing card Branded can use with the consideration that the majority of them can be ran at 3 copies they have almost 30 cards that can be put in the main deck even after Branded Fusion got limited and you can't forget about Shaddoll Fusions' going 2nd applications because you can get access to Aluber by sending Tragedy from deck to grave. Apart from Branded Fusion Branded much like a lot of decks never really had an identity and Branded was simply just the best fusion pile deck in the game that was capable of using almost any set of fusion monsters and archetypal cards.

I respectfully disagree. Lowering the rarity makes the game balanced. Yugioh whales who spend triple the price can cry if they want to

for the guy who asked about the gundam TCG, they were talking about Battle spirit Saga which is the flagship tcg from Bandai. Because Bandai owns Gundam rights, they introduced Gundam monsters inside one set of BSS

6:04 This is spoose to be a good thing?

"Have the TCG back" so does that mean all current Asain-English cards are still illegal, but future ones might not be?

Thanks for making my rough work week a better one with your hilarious, informative and all around awesome videos! Thanks to you all, Team Cali!

170 for 1 CARD. I can get an entire tier 1 pokemon deck and have leftover money lol

I honestly feel insulted. The expensive staples are getting more frequent and even more expensive. Not to mention the archetypes themselves. Even if you don't want to play high tier meta you still need the staples. I decided to finally bite the bullet and buy a playset of Ultimate Rare thrusts after noticing that even after multiple reprints (as secrets..) the secrets are still 30€ while ultis are 50€. Might as well. Once they print it truly cheaply the Ultis at least hold some value and won't make me feel that bad. Now we got 120€ mini-maxxCs. The other one just released were still 50€ each or something purulia or whatever. By the time they reprint them to be more "affordable" they will print brand new broken staples you will NEED to keep up. I'm genuinely considering dropping the paper play even though going to locals kept me going so far. Numbers are already dwindling, stores are closing idk where I'm going with this. I'm sad because even if you look back on notoriously expensive formats like teleDAD and whatnot, for the time they didn't feel this bad and this intentional.

3 ash 3 impermanence 3 Mulcharmy What a fun game…

1:20 goes unbelievably hard. The American response to konami. WTF IS A KILOMETER?! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅

honestly man i so greatful to have you here, you really don’t have to do this but your standin on business for us. respect

I will be un Hiatus untill Mystic Mine is back in the game... or if Komoney decides to print a similar playable card like it

1:18 you're hilarious lmao

There are infinite things that I'd rather spend money on than 3x Mulcharmy

They should just do everything they do in ocg with the multiple rarities

Nah hell no if S:P would have been a common in the megatins I would have said it was great and bought a case of it. Good lower rarity cards is what makes a set good. Or sets like Age of Overlords where it has so many good higher rarity cards you can't really miss a lot of the time. Thats why Dark Wing Blast is one of the better sets ever made. Fenrir and the Bystials were easier to obtain. It made opening boxes actually worth it because you could pull what you need. Dueliest Nexus(DUNE) Sucked because it just had really specific archetype cards. If you didn't play specifically those archetypes it had nothing for you. It needed better widely used generic cards. If I could open yu gi oh product and get cards I NEED to play the game. I woudldn't mind llosing money on boxes. But right now you open a box, lose money, AND don't even get cards you need to play the game.

me coping because my toons and kozmos never get support q.q

While it doesn't surprise me at all that Konami has done their usual tactics for the rarities of Rage Of The Abyss, I am glad that all the Metalmorph cards that I'm after for this set will be Utra Rare and lower 🙂

Im convinced people paying $200 have NO LIFE 😂 I have money and im far from broke!! But because how hard i work for my money i CAN'T justify paying 510 for 3 cards!!! Im not even competitive any longer and YET i bought all the fiendsmith engines just to have.

Man im done holding it in, The way people play the game is the freaking problem, I get it I'm a casual masterduel player on ladder and it is what it is but why is the community so awful to play against. I play a lot of games and in no other game have I seen such a homogeneous playstyle, like every single player even in the lower ranks are just playing the exact same decks but slightly differently. The 15 to 20 handtraps in half the decks has to stop because it's killing the experience every single time. It's not just the handtraps though because there are too many m decks like snake eyes and tierlaments that litterally have ZERO WEAKNESSES, like unless u playing dimension shifter ur not winning at all and it just freaking sucks. Yugioh needs a rework in counterplay philosophy, stop making one card combo and or 1TK decks and also stop making cards that just NEGATE EVERYTHING. I think most players can agree that playing against a card that destroys, moves or interacts with the player instead of just negating makes for a much more fun and interesting game. Delete ASH and flush Max C down the toilet for the love of god.

Oh yay! Another format I can’t possibly afford to play! I guess I’m sticking to the simulators.

Frankly, I moved to TCG format on Omega from Master Duel because of two things: full power Tear Ishizu, and Maxx "C" I thought it was an anti roach format, so im not particularly enthused to play against Mulcharmy especially as a rogue player.

Some changes that would turn things around. -OCG rarity spread for the TCG (This could be the only thing changed & sooo many people would be happy/return) -More alt arts in sets / border break arts -Give out giant cards for main event tournament winners (they have left overs from the side events so this can be done) or offer a few boxes/case of the newest set. -Make the prize card a unique rarity -Make better quality products (mats/deck boxes/field centers etc) There are A LOT of 3rd party makers they could commision for such things. Idk.. I could go on but a lot of these changes seem easy to do without dumping a lot of money. They'd also make a lot of money with these changes too, tho. Konami just seems lazy & without a clear direction of how to innovate/progress the game.

that's what kinda pisses me off in the TCG, i'd like to build a White Forest Runick Deck with already owning the whole Runick lineup. White Forest would be so easy and cheap to add, but there is that 1 Card (Elzette) that has to cost about 60-70€ for the whole Playset. disgusting :D

5:23 No, we SHOULD expect every single card to be reasonably accessible, other TCGs do it, the OCG does it. We do not have to take their stupid bs set model amd that's why people are walking away and stores are dropping Yu-Gi-Oh.

Everything should be accessible. It's how the OCG runs things.

Yea I’m taking a very large break from yugioh. I’ll be putting my stuff in a storage locker or something for a while, the game is just too expensive and I just can’t keep shelling out 100’s of dollars every set to get a few cards. Financially it just doesn’t make sense. I’m moving into Union arena and having a lot of fun with just 2 structure decks!

Mimighoul, insect stuff. I'm under 100, all good for this, splurging on a budget.

This is why I am sticking to MD. For 1K in MD I can make every meta deck even some fun rogues. TCG 1K barely gets me enough to Top 16.

Yea I’m taking a very large break from yugioh. I’ll be putting my stuff in a storage locker or something for a while, the game is just too expensive and I just can’t keep shelling out 100’s of dollars every set to get a few cards. Financially it just doesn’t make sense. I’m moving into Union arena and having a lot of fun with just 2 structure decks! It is honestly up to yugitubers like your self to band together and say hey guys let’s try and make a change, let’s stop buying products like. And after seeing these tins it should be easy.

Yea I’m taking a very large break from yugioh. I’ll be putting my stuff in a storage locker or something for a while, the game is just too expensive and I just can’t keep shelling out 100’s of dollars every set to get a few cards. Financially it just doesn’t make sense. I’m moving into Union arena and having a lot of fun with just 2 structure decks! It is honestly up to yugitubers like your self to band together and say hey guys let’s try and make a change, let’s stop buying products like. And after seeing these tins it should be easy.

I recently came back to the TCG, around two months ago, and the amount of hyper competitive, meta decks, and the amount of people just jumpgin from one meta deck to the next is so exhausting. Which is sad, because I like the game, it is a fun game, but playing it at locals with 11 other people having meta or Tier 1 decks is just... I don't think I'll ever stop liking YGO, but playing the TCG goes way over budget for me. I hoped Speed Duel were an accessible way to play the game, but nah, it's dead already, and I don't think they release Rush in the West. Gotta say, it is kinda hard to keep yourself invested in a game that goes way over to push around its players if you don't spend a ton of cash.

Hot take: A few days ago, many people were angry in MTG that their cards devalued because of the rules committee, but I think that was still an okay situation. Now I look at this scenario in Yugioh and it feels more sad because Konami has their players by the sack, and these cards are only used in their ONLY recognized format....

I'm not buying any more product after tins. And when I saw the content of the tins I pre-ordered Charizard ex Battle Deck that's coming out in November. for the price of 3 YGO SDs you have a complete deck that's actually competitive and requires very little investment to be even more competitive

I've give up on yugioh. I am sick of the long turns. I'm sick of the extremely linear one card combo. I'll play HAT, Edison and speed duels. Modern yugioh is dead to me.

im poppin off with the red-eyes/metalmorph support, DLINK OMNI NEGATE IS BACK BABY

Yeah I’m sticking to almost exclusively masterduel now. I get to collect almost any card virtually for free and play how I want to play in casual. Sometimes I just wanna play a janky light and darkness dragon and spam negates and stuff

I got into Link/TOSS format watching alot of your deck profiles and played at regularly only to dropped the game because the banlist kept hitting my decks. RIP Halq and pepega dragon for punk zombies. I moved onto pokemon and now to one piece and both games have been feeling great to play and rewarding to compete in. I'm sitting here sorting which cards yugioh cards I want to trade in for one piece alts and now I'm hearing you of all people calling for a yugioh boycot? How far has yugioh fallen?

I currently have baskets across two stores containing: 3 secret rare alt art drolls 3 secret rare imperm 3 secret rare ash blossoms 3 secret rare nibiru 3 secret rare effect veiler All 15 totaled around $100. That is almost half of a single fuwaross. Stop. Buying it. Vendors wont charge it if it doesnt sell.

Yugioh is trash. And the fact that people make content on yugioh still is criminal. Literally yugioh is less of a card game and more of an online joke that people keep making videos on saying I need a girlfriend talking about scooping after the die roll....dumb

Imagine talking about slavery and saying the N word in a Yu-Gi-Oh video……………

Left YGO for OP, loving it! I don't miss paying 300+ for a new set of top tier staples 😂

Over here we have a strong Yu-Gi-Oh scene. All the locals I go to Yu-Gi-Oh is the main game. Except everyone also plays other games ans they like them more so if they uave to chose between One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh they chose One Piece.

I'm a MTG player, and I actually just started getting into Yugioh. So its not all bad... theres still a few new players out there 😊

Currently ive picked up a pokemon deck, commander deck, one peice deck , wiess deck, altered deck , and a digimon deck....all for a fraction of what it cost to be meta in yugioh and these decks perform decently enoughto where i enjoy winning one game then losing the other and not sitting there waiting half a hour to lose and lose 5 matches in a row....

I stayed subscribed to Cali cause he’s a real one, Idk why people still play this game 😂 Konami has used the same yearly business trap and banlist trap for a decade now, I love trolling all these people who act excited and get free boxes and advertisement money it’s hilarious and y’all still buy paper 😂😂😂

honestly boycotting this whole format is probably best. let others pull all the cards from the 2024 tins, let those singles prices drop, and hope konami reprints charmy by next format

We need to start making our own tournaments non TCG but actually have good prizes and change some things. I know it’s possible.

Kali My man, I was not having a pretty good day, but you remembering not focus about the bad stuff made my day. Thank you

Konami short prints plus second market supply and demand equals player base opening them cheeks dang at least buy me dinner before taking me to Konami Diddy party lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣

When he said, "WERE GETTING SCAMMED!". I felt that...

Learned helplessness is ingrained in the brain of tcg players. I have not been able to play any archetypes i’ve wanted to play in the last 2 years because I refuse to be taken advantage of by Konami. I’ve already left this game. All that’s left for me in this disappointing game is tuning in to watch the continuous stream of horrible news every other month 😂😂😂

I know it’s not the opening of the floodgates (yet), but how often do Japanese cards get English backs? My google u be lacking.

This pay to win was annoying. When they banned all the generic cheaper extra deck monsters so us rogue players can't even hope to compete unless we splash out? That was the line. I've not been to locals since the banlist with Borreload's ban, and with that trend continuing I don't intend to come back.