Yu-Gi-Oh: EXPECTATION vs REALITY! 

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"I'm just going to buy singles" is the most relatable thing in this video for me

"Activate my monster effect." "Which one? You know what? Don't matter. Veiler." Someone help me. I can't stop laughing XD

*Expectations:* playing card game *Reality:* reading paragraphs of card effects

"it can't be that much, they're just cards" i felt that one.

"I'm just gonna play duel links" lmaooooOOOOO literally me

Expection: Hasn't played in years. Game cant be that diffrent. Reality: Why are you summoning ten times? Where did my hand go? And its only the second turn with 2k life left...

The sad part, is that some of the expectations actually used to be reality years ago.

“Which effect? -don’t matter, Veiler!” had me dying

Expectations : yugioh is a children card game,it should be easy. Reality: *if you lose the duel you lose your soul*

"You know what? I think I'll just play Duel Links" That's so me.

4:12 If this is you, consider going out and making a friend or two.

"I got cash" Those are the magic words.

My Expectations: The heart of the cards will guide me. My Reality: It didn't.

"I can't trade talker" "I got cash" "Maybe we can talk"

"We don't play gimmicky cards." *Laughs in Kuriboh deck*

The “Asking for Deck Help” bit, I try to be the “Expectation” to others and the “Reality” for me has been people sighing just looking at my cards, but honestly I just like playing for fun. I’ll admit that I play using Blue-Eyes strongly because I love dragons, so I play a dragon deck.

"No one plays traps anymore" "Stop" "That's bad, you're bad"

12 year old me: “I’m gonna save this Blue Eyes for 15 years and I bet it will be worth thousands!” 27 year old me: *researches Blue Eyes *sees it for $1.83

4:13 is the reason I got out of yu-gi-oh lol. 2007 I went to a tournament, my first tornament. The dude acted just like this and kept calling the judge. After I played 3 matches and all the people acted like this I stopped playing lol. Just looked it up again to try and get back in and found your channel dope stuff

Expectation: Wow. Everyone’s using a fun well balanced deck. This is what Yugioh’s all about. It’s about being creative! Reality: That’s the 5th person in a row that used Anaconda on me….

Expectation: Playing for fun, nostalgia, for liking the game. Reality: "I play this first card who's effect takes all your life points."

The most difficult part is finding someone to play with

Expectations: "well, let's have some fun with this game!" Reality: begging in a suburb of detroit

3:12 is what old school Yu-Gi-Oh! players from 2010 returning to playing the card games ten years later feels like.

Tournament was so accurate, I thought it would be filled with people saying anime like lines but instead we got people that try to find any way to get you disqualified

Expectations: I’ll learn how to play by watching the show The show: Screw the Rules!

You can tell they were having way more fun with the reality ones

Yugioh a “Children’s card game” Where if actual children played would get board from all the reading on the cards and technical stuff now

Card player: "How much can they be, they're just cards" Bill: 400$ Relatable for all TCG players

Expectation: "I'll buy a fun deck based around my faves and it'll awesome." Reality: "Shit, too many cards. I need to cut something out... but they're all my faves" ;_;

expectation: "hm, i should start playing Yu-Gi-Oh again. i know there are some new card types, but they'll be easy to learn." reality: "five years later and i still don't understand Pendulums in the slightest" (based on a true story) (that story is i don't understand Pendulums at all)

I like your friend with the glasses! He’s so calm and has a nice voice

Gameplay Expectation: "This is going to a fun and interactive game just like in the anime." Real Gameplay: "My goal is to stop you from playing the game with floodgates and multiple negations."

"We don't play gimmicky cards!" "I like gimmicks.." That had me cackling 😂😂

"No one plays traps any more" Laughs in Eldlich

Oh this is just too damn freaky. I recently decided to pick up Yu-Gi-Oh again since I stopped playing way back in 2008 when Synchro Summoning was introduced. And in just one month alone I went through all these expectation vs reality scenarios that was shown.

That trading skit was too real. That hit me hard when I learned the truth.

Expectation: Third turn in, opponent studies his monster and says, "So my first monster's effect, I will sacrifice my other monster and that destroys your monster. With that, I'll go into battle phase and attack you directly for 1700 life points." Reality: First turn, *complete and utter silence* as instantly, cards are put down, monsters are moved, hand is discarded, and two minutes later, opponent says, "And that's game. I win."

SO true about the deck building! Ever since I picked YugiOh back up and started playing LOTD I realized how people literally just copy and paste from others. It’s pretty annoying to me. I didn’t think about that until I started playing online. I was getting whooped by people pulling off these monstrous turns and it didn’t make sense how EVERYONE’S decks were so perfectly made. Started watching building videos and saw how damn near everyone was using similar crap and just passing it on. There was no chance everyone was that much of a mastermind when building decks.

1:58 I never build my decks based on other people's decks I build based on how I want it to be. Every person at my locals that plays "meta" decks gets so upset when banlists come out because their cards get hit but ban lists have pretty much never touched my best deck(gravekeepers) apart from the occasional errata.

"Go play Blue Eyes or something" *the next day* "You wanna play Blue Eyes? WHERE ARE YOUR HANDTRAPS?"

This is depressingly accurate. For every TCG.

4:12 I remember I was 15 in this little tournament and this dude in his late 20s was acting just like this. People are sad

Larry’s handshakes look so satisfying lol

"I think Imma just play duel links" Yu-Gi-Oh duel links just hit 100 million downloads

It would be a strange moment if we could witness Yugi's reaction for the real world game . I wonder what could it be ? ... On the other hand , Kaiba would absolutely love to see Yugi's heart of the cards's belief to be extinguished in mere seconds .

So for 3:15 Synchro summoning is reserved for the cards with the white border that go into your extra deck and are labeled as SYNCHRO in the card text. You need a tuner type monster (literally a monster that specifies it's a TUNER in the card text) and a non tuner monster, which is any monster. The levels of those 2 (or more at times) have to add up to the level of the synchro monster you wanna summon. So stardust dragon that's a level 8 can be summoned with a level 4 tuner and a level 4 non tuner, or a level 1 tuner and a level 7 non tuner, you get the point. Xyz summoning is reserved for the cards with the black border that go into your extra deck and they also specify themselves as XYZ in the card text. These need 2 or more monsters of the same level to be summoned, so 2 level 4s or 3 level 3s etc. The monsters you use for the xyz summon go UNDER the xyz monster that comes from the extra deck to the field, and can be used as materials (or tributes in a way) for the xyz monster to activate some effect. You basically activate an effect at a cost of sending an inactive monster to the graveyard. Pendulum summoning involves both your hand and the extra deck. It can be done by getting 2 cards that form a pendulum scale, which is a range whose bounds are indicated by the numbers on the cards. You put them face up in the spell/trap zone (or pendulum zone if you're from 2017) to form the scale, and then you can summon multiple monsters from your hand or FACE UP from the extra deck whose levels are within the scale. So with a scale of 1 to 8 you can summon monsters from levels 2 to 7, with a scale of 3 to 6 you can summon level 4 and 5. Pendulum monsters actually go face up in the extra deck if they're destroyed by battle, otherwise they go to the graveyard, so you can resummon them if you want afterwards, given your opponent destroyed them by battle. Pendulums can also be combined with monsters of the same levels for xyz summons, or also with involving tuners for synchros, and that's what makes them actually really fun to use, you can get really creative with them. Link monsters can be summoned from the extra deck by tributing the number of effect monsters the link monster indicates, and those are summoned in the extra monster zone where they have to point to effect monsters equal to the link rating listed on the bottom right of the card. Depending on the arrows on the card, they can also be summoned in the main monster zone, with your other monsters, so long as they have monsters where the arrows are pointing. They don't have a defense position, only attack. So, a link 2 monster with an arrow pointing the the left and another one to the right needs to be summoned in between 2 effect monsters. Apart from that they're more or less like effect monsters themselves.

"I'm just going to play duel links" is so funny 'cause xyz and synchro are in the game

Nobody: "let's play a nice fair game of yugioh!" Everyone: mills half their deck, brings out five monsters all with negate effects and ungodly attack power on turn one.

3:14 how my math teacher explains it 3:01 how the indian guy on youtube explains it

This was HILARIOUS! (Yes I know I am VERY late watching this). I can say, though, that my tournament experiences were like the "expected," and not the "reality" except in my first Regional for Pokemon VGC where I played a former world champion and trounced him (I mean it wasn't even close, I predicted correctly and even double-missed a 90% accurate attack) and he told me I was just trash and lucky and should just forfeit to him because he was better. I know, not Yugioh, but that was my biggest reality check.

I like how Alec and Alex play the good twin-evil twin act in this video lol

I'll just play duel links "Goes on ranked faces 5 darklords or blue eyes decks in a row

"I'm just gonna play duel links" most relatable thing bruh. My fiance said the same thing when I tried teaching her xD

" A round of Gwent? "

The end was the best.." How much can this be... There just cards... Show 400+$ 🤣🤣🤣

My biggest reality check is when all of my friends started playing hand traps when I was just having fun with my muka muka deck

4:15 A: I activated my monsters effect- B: You know what? don't matter. Veile- A: -from my graveyard B: (Oh F*ck.....)

I think my largest Yu-Gi-Oh Wake Up Call was when I started to go to card shops to play and would get OTK'd by Meta decks. I personally like to do challenges such as having a non-YGO player make me a deck or just to shuffle random cards I have and see what's playable. When push comes to shove and I just wanna win, I don't do it cheaply.

Just got back into Yugioh after not playing for 8 years cause of Master Duel and these new meta decks, pendulum and link summons are crazy. The deck building part killed me cause I went through the same type of thing when I made Glads years ago lmao

Going to locals Expectation: 10+ people there for Yugioh Reality: 10+ people there for Magic

The opening packs/cynet mining skit hit home so hard "Two water beasts and a Kaiju, whatever it must work" also really hit home

"No one plays traps anymore." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is an expectation versus reality it's how you play the game as a kid and a adult

“They can’t be that much, they’re just cards” What followed after... honestly was too real.

Expectation: "I guess I'll start building my own deck then." Reality: "Here is a list of all the cards you need to have in your deck if you want any chance of winning. Just go out and buy this exact deck and play it the way the guide tells you to play it. So basically, the person who originally created that deck and strategy is playing through you, and you're just following every one of their instructions with no room for thinking on your own. Fun, right?"

Is it me or does these guys make Yu-Gi-Oh more relatable for all of us.

2:44 "We don't play gimmicky cards". Laughs in Luck Deck entirely composed of cards that rely on coin tosses and dice rolls to activate their effects.

0:32 it's a $50 card. Bends it attempting a high five/handshake 😂

"go play blue eyes or something" Im feeling personally ofended and atacked at the same time right now

4:49 That's when he sealed his fate...

2:45 “we don’t play gimmicky cards” when talking about Gladiator Beast🤣🤣🤣. The subtle details like that is what makes Team APS skits so great

Sad part is, I don't even know how to play Yu-Gi Oh, and only play MtG, and this video still hit home.

the tournament reality ive dealt with exactly "that guy" many times lol meanwhile im like "i just want to play a card game man..."

I used to be like this a decade ago, always checking the official yugioh website if some cards will be taken off the ban list and then plan what cards to use. And i bought alot of booster packs that i started using shoe box to keep all my cards. So nostalgic seeing this.

The tournament guy with his cards killed me 😂

I love the effort that went into editing this one, with the color differences between expectations and reality.

"Reality is often disappointing."

Learning Yu-Gi-Oh, for me is the hardest because I can’t figure out how to defeat the opponent with all these details and complicated words and jargon. Not excluding the regular rules.

I used to play Yugioh but a magic player now…I feel personally attacked on many levels and I love it hahaha

Me: draws 4 exodia cards at the beginning and doesn’t pick up the last one until your opponent has won and there’s only 1 card left in the deck

Yugioh has gotten out of control that it is hard to have a good time when you lose in your own turn.

I love how he tells him his deck build sucks: then takes it for himself. WTF? LOL! Golden.

lmao this video still hits 4+ years later 😭 so good, you guys have great line delivery lmao

The learning to play part is so true. I recently got back to playing on dueling nexus. Had some fun, built a fun deck and had even matches with friends. Then I faced randoms and learned the horror that I link monsters or whatever. The dude had like a three minute turn

This is so true. I literally told my friends "f#£k the meta" and built me a fun crystal beast deck with no hand traps

“We don’t play gimmicky cards” Clearly hasn’t met *literally every yugioh player in existence*

massive respect for these guys.

“ I think ima play duel links” That hit me hard...🤣🤣

0:35 This reminds me of that episode where spongebob tried to get that mermaid man and barnacle boy card that was very rare lol.

This can be said for every TCG ever tbh

As someone totally new to the game this is both hilarious and real. Loved it!

Expectation: play a duel! Reality: Second turn Aka = OTK

Not going to lie, the reality of how it works is exactly why I just stopped trying to play Yu-Gi-Oh

2:30 "Traps!? Nobody plays traps!" Laughs in Imperm/Evenly Matched

I like helping people build their decks, it's a good way of sharing your knowledge while gaining knowledge at the same time. Dark Worlds, Six Samurai, and Nordics are my specialty.

I totally feel like that guy when trying to learn all this new rules of Yugioh, I don't like the new stuff, every card has a paragraph to read, and all these new rules, I miss the simplicity of the old Yugioh.

Should make an old school yugioh (speed duel doesn’t count) where it doesn’t go past yugioh GX. Synchros and xyz ain’t that bad but the pendulum and link sh!t can leave

"I'm just gonna buy singles." The Professor over at Tolarian Community College would be proud