Yu-Gi-Oh! Pricing is Out of Control 

The 20$ supers makes this feel like we're back in 2010

I sold everything 2 months ago. Prices are to insane for a bunch of paper with shiny colors. Really wish things were like they are on the OCG on the side of print and secondary market, but we are the fat cow Konami lovess to milk :^)

I’d rather have a super at $20 - $25 dollars than an Ultra at $100 or a secret at $150. That said, that’s still too expensive. Tenpai was supposed to be a budget option, and it is compared to like last format where the top decks were $700+, but $60 for a playset of cardboard is stupid. There are too many dogshit speculators in the game (some of whom are popular yugitubers), and I hope they all go broke and go trade stocks instead. Konami only encourages it too because they don’t care about the players beyond how much money we’re willing to give them

Sigh.... Yugioh will never change 'til the heat death of the universe.

Have yugioh pricing ever been IN control?

And this is why I go for Rouge options a whole deck could cost 20 bucks

I've just dropped Yugioh all together, and just been playing Digimon & Pokémon so my wallet can breathe

I'm leaning towards the clumped option. Farfa opened a box on stream today and pulled a playset of Paidra.

I literally went to my card shop yesterday and saw Tenpai at $25. Fucking Ridiculous

Why would people complain about cards being cheep? You want people to get cards. Yes, even you market bros. If prices are too high, people stop buying

Time to miss another format :^)

I feel like it’s the clumping issue. Bought four boxes and got no Paidras, but the other 8 boxes that other people at my locals bought contained several Paidras. These 12 boxes were from the same case.

I fail to understand why Lightsworn Dragonling is a $17 ultra and there are good ultras in the set worth $1.

Honestly, i think the sets good. Its just that its not game warpingly busted, the cards in this set aren't anywhere near as good as Fiendsmith or the Yubel contact fusion will be. Although, I will say that i've had a lot of fun with the new Shining Sarc stuff in Gold Pride PUNK. Being able to get access to a searchable spell that negates Nibiru, a monster thats Dark Hole + Heavy Storm on a body, and a searchable spell negater is very nice. Plus i can make Dawn Dragster in my deck list. So all of that on top of the normal GP PUNK stuff is amazing. Plus this deck has, like, 3 different ways to draw a lot of cards. I think some cards in this will maybe raise in price once we get Infinite Forbidden, but for rn, most the good stuff in this atm are pretty budget so its hurting vendors in the short-term.

name of the first song?

Someday Konami will print a set with cards worth buying (plural).

I think we should do away with different rarities. Make everything common and that's it

For the set to hold value, Paidra and nightmare throne should've been secret rares

Does anyone ever complain that yugioh is too cheap? I wanna live in this place now

Game has been overpriced unfun dogshit for ages now; it is wild watching people make this same exact video with same exact complaints when cards drop with the same exact 25-50$ (if lucky) price tags every single set

Just gives me more reason to stay at Pokémon. Konami and the secondary market is never gonna change. And I wouldn’t be surprised if this deck is killed very quickly because everything is low rarity. But the $20+ super is unjustifiable to me. Sure it’s “cheap” by Yugioh standards but in Pokémon this rarity happens. Among other reasons for me not to play Yugioh. I just think it’s the same thing over and over and another secret dominated deck will pop up and be $1000 again and it’ll just be the same situation. I’m not simply playing cards for 6 just for them to get banned.

Spent £400 on a mannadium deck 3 months ago. Quitting wasnt my choice, it has been forced upon me

Thankfully I bought my purrely Deck which is such a nice budet Deck people gave up on it after the banlist making it check. Every new Deck's cost right now is completely bonkers.

It sucks that Paidra is just rising in price (and probably short printed) and Trident Dragion is still overpriced at $100, but it's still not that bad considering everything else is super cheap. You can still play a solid tenpai deck without Dragion or S:P for like $200 to $300 assuming you are buying everything from scratch. Which honestly, doesn't sound that bad when you still can't buy a playset of Diabellstar and Wanted for that price.

This is the best way cheap on release so people can actually play the cards then a high rarity for the next reprint for the collectors,

I don't see any of this, in cardmarket is still around 10.

This isn't a "Yu-Gi-Oh!" problem. This is a TCG problem. The same problem that has been plaguing us for decades. Upper Deck, the western distributor side of Konami has the authority to rarity-lock cards and short-print them, inflating prices to stratospheric proportions. It's been this way for two decades. But nothing changes because our Upper Deck know they can subsist on the whales of the industry like game stores to buy their product en mass and resell the singles to the most dedicated, high-level players. This leaves the budget players to compete with rogue-tier strategies without expensive staples that can decide games based on who has a deeper pocket. In the OCG, each card with a high-rarity printing also has a lower-rarity printing, making them more accessible. TCG also uses worse cardboard than OCG SPECIFICALLY so that we can't proxy expensive TCG cards with their much less expensive, OCG counterpart. Upper Deck have done nothing but ruin the TCG for the mass majority of players since it acquired rights to distribute in the West in 2002. They are without a doubt the worst company in the industry and they deserve far more hate.

bro you didnt even mention dragondark and memento sandwich like why are they both 20 rn

Welp for me personally I dont really care that much, the only thing stoping me for playing tenpai isn't the dragion (I found one in my bulk) it's just that my local cardstore hasn't got the set yet due to shipping issues 💀💀💀

I thought Selettrice Vaalmonica was being shorted, so I ended up kinda scamming myself to get em I thought it was gonna end up settling a lot higher, so I wanted to get my playset fast. Turns out they were just clumped and I got fucked. also yeah, i was the only person that wasn't there to make money. and i think vaalmonica's gonna be slept on this format

I have money but I don't want to spend 60$ for a playset, if I can do so much more with it. I can buy gold for 60$, not much but it will always keep it's value unlike our current favorite meta defining piece of cardboard that can and will have it's value destroyed by a banlist/reprints. Guess I'll just enjoy tenpai digitally, at least I won't have to borrow a friends trident dragion online 😂😂😂

One thing to say : TCG treat like shit as always with bad printing process not help by sellers on website as Cardmarket ...

I’m so proud that I got Paidra as a 15 dollar card.

I kinda like Supers being over 10$ because it makes the set actually worth buying. Again, it's still hard to pull the card 3% because they have too many supers, but that's better than just getting your standard trash supers.

Well, they could've made tenpai ultra/secret so every card could be 20$+. People just can't be happy about anything lol. They printed a deck you could build for less than $100 and bring to a ycs. Side note is they just need to make every card in the set a common, then make the obviously good cards ultras and secrets... People like shiney things, so they'll still want them.

go buy yourself a £50-ish runick core and slot it into whatever jank you feel like investing in this week. or just hold it for White Woods in a couple of months. If you only go to Locals that's enough to keep you going.

Lmao, this wouldn't have been an issue if TCG printed sets like OCG. Rarity breakdown gets you to see far more different cards in a set than TCG's current model.

you mean the tcg genre, built off artificial scarcity and surprise mechanics is predatory? Time to complain about it but hot address the roots of the problem

Yu-Gi-Oh is arguably the most expensive TCG outside of One Piece because of what you need to maintain your Decks and buy new ones every few months or so. Your spending at minimum, thousands a year on singles.

The tokens is from the walmart special rebundles basically

My brother opened three boxes; I opened seven. Between us we had zero copies of Paidra. I also obtained four yugi and gandora tokens, and three shay and ultimate falcon tokens. Even the dang tokens are clumped :(

How dare you say that about my beloved Salad, 1v1 me rn 😡

Just gamba

laughs in EU price

Did you say Tenpai is a FUN deck..?? Seriously..??

I mean, when this came out i was kinda glad even if I wasn’t gonna play it. Mainly cause i viewed it as a “look into a better future” moment. Basically Tenpai is everything we wanted in terms of rarity distribution and its as good as it will inevitably get. So I was saying to myself “If this archetype is ‘too expensive’ then yugioh will never be cheap enough.” And look where we are now.

Honestly, I’ll almost always defend Konami’s first print of cards. Konami DOESNT dictate the price of cards. They don’t know how much a new deck will impact the meta and therefore how expensive it will be They also have no way of knowing how much impact a “possible new staple” will have until after the set has already been released and the prices of the card set If individual cards are expensive in a set, if it’s their first time ever being printed, that’s at no fault of Konami. How are you even supposed to blame them for not perfectly predicating the meta and how much we will resell these cards for when we don’t even know half the time ourselves Now what we can blame them for is REPRINTS. While they may not know how much a new card will be, once it’s on the market they should be perfectly capable of seeing that $100 for a single card is too extreme and they should just reprint it in the next (or more reasonably the next next) set And idk why they do, it would make them MORE money. Since it suddenly gives more incentive to actually buy that set, not just for the new cards but for the ACTUALLY GOOD reprints

Card is good? Everyone wants, everyone buys. Everyone buys, more cards are bought off the market. Less supply? Still more demand? More price to compensate. Everyone just wants to be mad that out of the ENTIRE core you have 2 supers. Of the 3 mains deck dragons, 2 of those are played at 3. Of those 2 that are played at 3, one of those is super. That’s ALL you gotta worry about. If we were looking at a full secret-ultra core, they wouldn’t be as rabid about the pricing. Why? This was seen as a budget option. Low skill demand type of deck. Attracts less competitive players. Less competitive players are not willing to spend to compete in this game. Not even for the price of $20 supers and a $100 secret. The rest of the card being bulk or staples they already own. Cope and seethe.