Yu-Gi-Oh structure decks have a big problem. 

_I think we could all use a little bit more structure in our lives._

Biggest issue is they dont have the little card windows anymore

It's crazy that it's May and we haven't gotten any structure decks for 2024. I'd love to see more good anime structure decks, especially if they go through a bunch of characters that haven't gotten much love in the recent years.

The Jack Atlus structure deck got me back into Yugioh after a 10 year hiatus. For what it is worth nostalgia products do have merit in player retention.

2024 is about halfway over, and no structure decks. Hope they aren’t secretly ditching them altogether in the TCG, because the OCG has had 4 in the past month alone.

The fact that tactical try decks cost 10 DOLLARS A POP with lightning storm, 3x ash, 3x maxx c, 2x called by with generic staple extra deck cards?? It's literally crazy and I was thinking Konami TCG WOULD NEVER want to print this lmao. You can buy just 1 of each archetypes (Eldlich, Cyber Dragons, and Live Twins) and got 1-2 playsets of staples AND 3 ready to play decks. TRUST ME the OCG players in my country went freaking crazy and buying out pre orders of this when the card list of cyber dragons released with many staples. These products will LITERALLY SELL LIKE HOT CAKES and TCG Konami would be dumb if they never release it on the west with their marked up staple price

There’s no “overprinting” of staples. That should not be something that’s discouraged. Cards like evenly, TTT, and lightning storm should be PENNIES just like how in the first structure decks, staples like snatch steal were printed with everything. We need to copy Pokemon in this regard, where they have cards like Professors Research reprinted to oblivion making the game so much more excessible

As a MD player it feels surreal to get so many of these "UR" staples for so cheap with these decks. But then again we get SP Little Knight for the same price as any other UR card, meanwhile you TCG guys need to choose between getting that card and paying rent this month so it's all good.

Personally, I'd love to see some lore style duel structure decks. albaz vs despia, goblin bikers vs diabelstar, ancient gear vs neos, shinking sarcophogous vs egyptian gods.

Maybe Konami should be asking the fans what structure decks they would want to see. Polling, questionnaires, and so forth. More interaction with the player base might help to let them know what people want updated in a structure, and what they would go out and buy. I was thrilled when I learned about the Traptrix update/structure version, and another structure deck ended up being my absolute favorite archetype, Lair of Darkness (though it REALLY needed some creative tweaks on my end). I remember also wishing the Icejade update was put into a full archetype structure deck, as I think people would love it if they got some instruction on how it works. Structures have had a massive influence on me as a player, so I would gladly contribute on my part if Konami regularly addressed the fans over what structures should be made.

One of the old 5DS video games on DS, had a thing where each player uses a Structure Deck.

Would not mind (and would highly appreciate) a dual structure deck release of Joey's red eyes and Pegasus' Thousand eyes. Hell maybe a toon one would be cool too.

Personally, I am a casual player and one who likes to collect decks for fun, so yeah, structures decks have always been my favorite product and I'd like to get more based on anime characters or old archetypes that are bit hard to find right now. I actually like the idea ofthe Tactical-Try, since for example I don't have an Eldlich nor Evil Twin decks.

I'm still wanting a akiza black rose structure deck

I’d love to see a new and improved Atlantean deck. It would make sense, considering we had the year of Fire.

Me worrying before I watch video because I bought 3x of each of those:

Yeah Konami is being weird about releases this year. We are 13 days away from rarity collection 2, and a month away from this years battles of legend with no promotion or updates. It makes me wonder if there will be delays

Konami is slowing down product in general. We also had multiple deck build packs in a year but this year we've only just had a deck build pack announced. Could be supply isuses could be just an intentional slowing. Could be experimenting. My guess is Konami had just pivoted a bit more resources to rush duel to keep it alive and so it's slowed OCG a little which slows tcg

As a filthy casual I don’t see a problem, having a new structure deck every month feels like it saturates the market. Most people aren’t dropping money on 2 or 3 of the same structure decks every month, let alone the target audience, kids. Also my local cvs sells YuGiOh structure decks for $5 and pokemon structure decks for $20

Crimson King was a special case to me, a LOT of bad reprint, no handtraps or good board breakers but amazing structure in the sense 3 of them give you the full deck A good deck to me, for this perspective

More structure decks would be amazing! They're so good for Domain Format, usually just gotta pick the right deckmaster and add about 20ish cards and you can play!

I think structure decks can be used to help players like myself both get back into the game, and also explore new archetypes at a low entry price. The Egyptian God decks got me into collecting and playing in 2020, and then Albaz Strike fully got me (and coworkers) back into YuGiOh and going to locals! I tend to build decks based of cards I like, and I’m open to explore since I’m not too concerned with playing beyond local. Having structure decks that both reprint good staples, and have interesting cards I think would be a big win for middle ground players in the TCG!

The problem is that I have to buy 3 decks to make it viable

I feel like they made the structure decks anime related would go better than having to buy them from booster sets like an example I would use is adding the new clear cards put into a structure deck instead of in anime only booster set I think would make it easier for people to play the game that way

It'll be smarter to do 3x deck in one box. Because Konami will be using less resources to create boxes which means they'll be saving money. It seems they're going on the saving money route due to the changes of size of the structure deck.

I think the Tactical Try decks would work better in the TCG than most think. There's still a lot of people who would pick them up to try a deck they never felt interested in investing the money into building AND it provides an easier way to perform the structure deck tournament idea you brought up (as it brings the entry price down to just the cost of 1 structure deck). Tie in the structures with Master Duel (with branding or potentially even using incentive rewards for buying the deck physically) and there's a LOT of potential on the table.

All I want in this world is a Clown structure deck with a Saggi retrain as the cover card.

I want them to advertise the structure decks with animated shorts of an original character playing the deck, showing off the main strats and a couple of combos leading to win! That along with anime archetypes and decks would be AWESOME! I would love to see sets of 2 decks that you could play off, watching your videos of the structure decks going against each other having legit back and forth was so fun!

I know this is unrelated but I really miss back in the day how they would release several collector tins at once for different characters with different promos I really think they should bring that back

something that i have seen a lot of confusion about is that the tactical try out decks is just a rental, you do not get to keep the deck they just lend you the deck for the event

At this point, I'm surprised they haven't just gone through every character from the anime/manga seasons and just make structure decks for everyone. Can have some new and retrains of cards since there are many retrains of DM cards nowadays and can just both update older monsters, reintroduce people to the various characters, both main and side, and people can use monsters they were fans of but have become (or were never) viable. Things like when Team 5D's vs. Taiyo were old cards had some spotlight helps with both nostalgia and see something new/updated. Also we still don't have Bastion's Fire Dragon >.>

I think the problem is that the TCG just doesnt want to release the Tactical Try Decks. They don't know how to make those products worse without pissing off the community, so they just aren't going to release them at all. Not to mention that with Maxx C banned in the TCG, you'd have to adjust the non-engine cards in there out of necessity and idk if Konami would be willing to put 2 copies of Prosperity into a structure deck, not to mention that Spright Blue and Spright Jet are still money cards on the secondary market. Printing those would also be bad for vendors, even though I think its EXACTLY what the game needs to get people into paper play. The reality is that with the way the secondary market works in the TCG (where there's just not as big of a collector's market as games like Pokemon), the game pretty much makes its money off of whats competitive. So printing stuff like the Tactical Try decks in the TCG goes against their financial interests because the culture of the TCG community is just vastly different from the OCG. There's a large sect of players in the TCG community who outside of the DM-5Ds era don't care that much about the anime. Hell, I started playing in 2021 and only really watched the original series for the first time after learning the game. I have ZERO nostalgia for the anime and care more about the card lore. I only care about the DM-era stuff because I think the story of the original manga/anime was really good, I genuinely think it holds up well. But anyways, the collector's market problem could be easily resolved if Konami started also locking alt arts behind rarities like statlight rare, collector's rare, what have you (as well as just started printing more alt arts in general). Just rarity bumping beloved cards like Dante or what have you at stupidly high rarities isn't enough anymore I think. Konami needs to do a better job of fostering a collector's market so that the player base can suffer less. Konami also needs to further capitalize on people who enjoy lore-based archetypes. Stuff like the Albaz, Aluber and Ecclesia alt arts are a step in the right direction, Konami needs to really milk alt arts for what they're worth tbh. The best thing that Konami did right lately was print alt arts of the Evil Twin link monsters. I'd highly recommend that they do the same for archetypes like Dragon Maid, Tearlaments or Labrynth for example. THATS the sort of shit that modern day collectors in this game would want. Thats one of the big things about the Pokemon TCG and why their collector's market works. Their collectors want all the different arts of their favorite Pokemon. For whatever reason, Yugioh isnt willing to embrace that and its partially affecting the price of the game. Like, if Konami printed a copy of Incredible Eccledia that showed her eating a Hungry Burger, i'd be willing to fork over 100 dollars for a single copy if they locked it behind a collector's rare or some shit. It'd look really good in a binder and it'd surely raise in value over time so long as Konami doesnt get too crazy with reprinting alt arts. Not to mention that vendors pulling it from cases of a given product could use it to further cover the expense of the case, which would help bring down the price of the rest of the cards.

New Harpie Support when?

X-Sabers!Gladiator Beasts!Hell,a proper Yusei Fudo structure deck that actually kicks ass unlike that synchron extreme garbage we got years ago.

Honestly it be nice if they fixed the CyberDark archtype to work better with the cyber dragon archtype,like for example give them the ability to attach level 4 and lower dragon and machine monsters,make more cyber cards that support them both like seriously there meant to be one archtype not separate.

Cyber Dragon and Ligtsworn got a lot of love. I'd like to see Summoned Skull come back and reclaim it's former glory. Gusto + Beast Tamer ; Gishki + Nekroz ; Beetrooper ; Jinzo... So much cards or archtype to support... It's hard to pick only one.

I've been thinking the model of buying 3x structure decks should go away. Make it more expensive and change the ratios. A playset of all the new/meta/engine cards. Get rid of all the filler. Provide sleeves maybe so that it's ready to play out of the box and is a viable deck from just 1 box.

Two structure decks I hope we get is a Ra deck and a Exodia deck, its weird we got a Slyther and Obolisk deck, and Exodia is getting a bunch of support. Also, make the Ra deck a brdige deck that you could combine all three of the god deck to make a god deck. Also, would love some Zexal Decks. Of course make the Main Three(Yuma, Shark & Kite), but it would also be cool to make the Seven barrian decks, with maybe a Don 1000 deck.

I was honestly surprised that Konami never did what Pokémon does with their structure decks, of providing a code to allow the deck to be used online, it would make easier for players who are starting Master Duel from scratch. I also think a structure deck only format would be cool and may be more ideal for younger players to get around the costs involved in playing meta decks.

Structure decks need more "yugi and kaiba" decks we don't have "enough"

For me, nothing beat Salamgreat structure deck. A guy just went to his local shop, bought x3 deck, and won a tournament.

I've been hoping for a water structure deck too, but I would personally like a Marincess deck. I like that strategy a lot and structure decks are always great ways to get into a new strategy. Just buy three and you basically have what you need to get started. Then you can upgrade your deck over time. It's a cool and fun way to build decks and play the game. I hope they don't get rid of structrue decks any time soon.

It's odd that Konami hasn't released a structure deck this year. As a casual Yugioh fan who has returned to collecting cards after a 20-year absence, I will be down for this year's structure deck because I like collecting Yugioh cards, that's exactly one of my hobbies.

Spot on with what you said about being in Yu-Gi-Oh or out of it. As a returning player I just found it so difficult to get back into the game that I ended up just going to other tcgs. I feel like structure decks should serve to bring in new players and bring back old players but I just don't see anyone doing that. Either structure decks don't feel playable in competitive Yu-Gi-Oh or competition from other TCGs is to strong to bring in player bases with that product.

I'd like that new Exodia archetype made into a TCG SD.

If they put out a playable Agents structure I'd be back in Yugioh tomorrow.

If they do a red eyes or harpie lady structure deck that modernises the decks i will come back to this game.

Literally needed to wait one day to find Old Blue-Eyes is back yet again

Structure decks will always hold a special place in my heart, I was always too late for the starter decks but never missed (and had the most fun with) the structure decks and this video has definitely brought me up to speed on what I’ve missed this in this decade so far.

If they do bring in the tactical try decks, i feel like it'll be like the box set decks like they had in 2016-2019(legendary dragon decks, legendary Hero decks, etc)

I lost my mind at the Traptrix structure deck. I hard mained Traptrix BEFORE the support for years and it was tough but I found success. Now they're just leagues better, and I'm so happy for it.

I think a structure deck with a whole new archetype. Or older dead decks making them fully competitive not just playable.

nothing hit like Albaz Strike, They need to drop Swordsoul and Ashened as a structure deck.. with 1 random secret from the decks monsters to give it a chase.

Honest they have yet to do barian Emperor decks yet or they could print and release each anime character deck that would booster sales I mean alot of theses Characters are very much In very high demand

Dark Magician Structure Deck with the current cards and the old packaging would be nice.

Have been looking into that topic aswell and the TCG has an Lightsworn Structure Deck coming that seems to be super old in the OCG but allows us to get reprints of monsters that are too old and expensive to buy.

Salamangreat SD is releasing tomorrow and will have good reprints, I'm grabbing it for the triple tactics thrust foil. We never had it above Rare here in OCG.

They should make the small archetypes that won't have a huge card pool (say the new Shining sarcophagus Yugi stuff) into a structure deck rather than a booster. They could've made bank off a Yugi Muto Shining Sarcophagus Structure Deck

Who needs cyber dragon tatical-try decks when we get unlimited print cyber strike!!!

I could see a Dragonmaid structure deck selling well.

There's a retool of an older one coming in June, the Realm of Light structure. It's on their website.

I still remember the zombie madness deck when i played old school yugioh. It's such a great starter deck I almost won at my locals just with the structure deck.

Curious how theyd impliment mtg commander precons where every main set has a structure deck tie in and some common bulk in the main set aligns with the structure deck.

We are getting Structure Deck R of the Lightsworn in June. Japan also announced Tactical Tri Decks for Eldlich, Cyber Dragons and Evil Twins. Also just today they announced a new Blue Eyes Deck with 8 new cards. This in combination with the cards from new Rarity Collection II, like the Bingo Machine look pretty good to me. Yea, we got no dates for any of those in the TCG, but we got several good cards this year already and going forward, so I'm not really looking for another structure decks besides that at the moment. Guess no big problem here.

Hello! Wich would be the best structure deck to pair up against The Crimson King in order to have a balanced/fun/interactive duel? A friend gifted me The Crimson King structure deck and I would like to have another structure deck around the house to play against when casual friends come over. Any tip would be really apreciated. Cheers!

I love the modern structure decks. They feel so much better then the old ones. I do feel we need new releases of Structure decks. I like them over the tactical try decks because they always have new cards as well as good reprints, while the tactical try decks have the ladder they lack the former. Releasing them in pairs like the Asian-English Decks sounds like a great idea. Rather then having an entire format for Structure decks, having structure deck release events would be a great idea. They should use it to promote getting the games to new players, providing the deck with entry cost and power up packs similar to what are in the Asian-English decks. With Prize Support being additional packs. We would have to figure out how to make it fair for newer players and promote the vets teaching them however, which may be the difficult part.

There was also no deck build pack in May, which is strange. Happily for you a blue eyes structure deck was announced

I mean, having to buy 2-3 of a structure deck to get the deck to a usable state is a bit, odd.

What would you recommend between the 3 structure decks from 2023? I’m kinda stuck between Crimson Kings and Fire Kings but traptrix isnt out I just don’t like the archetype as much as the other 2

Gotta plug the Pod of Greed where you and Alec discussed this. Episode 53 but they're all worth a listen

I agree that structure deck-only tournament support would be huge. The old pokemon tcg online (haven't looked too much at the new one, but could be there too) supported starter deck tournaments. You were incentivized to buy the newer ones or ones with better staple supporter cards, but type match ups did matter too and so counter picking the "meta" starters was also an option

Still sad Chaos Dragons R got shafted to bring Fire Kings R earlier, and now the lack of news... So frustrating!

I think pairs would be cool. Like a Dogmatika vs Albaz. Or Spellbooks vs Invoker. Or Sky Strikers vs Kaiju.

Its GX's 20th anniversary, so seeing structure decks for that would be dope

I'd love for them to re-release older, meta archetypes in structure deck form just to make them accessible to newer players and showcase the history of the game. Something like a Zoodiac or Burning Abyss structure deck would be really interesting to see, giving players rogue decks to play around with and introducing new support whilst lowering the cost of older cards.

I've been trying to get into Yu-Gi-Oh and just find some structure decks but it sucks they're so hard to find in person

Another idea is they could start releasing short lore videos about the structure decks. I think an issue with modern yugioh is that people who don't already play don't really have a way to get attached to a deck other than playing it. Thats why so many returning or new players gravitate to DM and blue-eyes because its the only decks they know and have some kind of connection with. Another example is a lot of people like the albaz and world chalice lore but i garentee you not a single person who doesn't already play the game knows anything about either of those archetypes

Lost Sanctuary was one of my favorites, so id love to see a new one with all the newer Hyperion and Planet cards, maybe a new agent along with it 🤔

I didn’t realize they cut down on the box size for the latest Fire King Structure. Good on Konami TCG for reducing some cardboard waste.

I would love to see them make new support for the Orichalcos archetype in a structure deck. I believe that archetype has a LOT of potential to be competitive.

Hey I'm new to yugioh ik the mechanics but idk a good structure deck to use ill get crimson king soon but I want a good xyz structure decks what's a good one? (Sory it's so long)

Yooo, Konami recently released an errata version of "Max C" now only available in the OCG. It's called "Multchummy Purulia" But boy is it going to be wild in TCG Effect: "If you control no cards (Quick Effect): You can discard this card; apply these effects for the rest of this turn. ● Each time your opponent Normal or Special Summons a monster(s) from the hand, immediately draw 1 card. ● During the End Phase, if you have more cards in your hand than the number of cards your opponent controls +6, shuffle random cards from your hand into the Deck equal to the difference. You can only activate the effects of other "Multchummy" monsters once the turn you activate this effect."

i kinda noticed older cards were thicker than new ones. the only structure deck i bought back in highschool is zombie madness and ancient gear

Dark Worlds were one of the top decks back when it was released, then again in when they got their 1st Structure. When the deck got the 2nd Structure it was in a time where it could not shine people were siding hate for Tear which unfortunately hit Dark Worlds much harder. But something I wish Konami would do is release a 3x Structure Deck Deluxe thing where it'd come with Sleeves, a rubber mat (Like the mat from Epic Dawn), a deck box and maybe even a pack that can rarity bump the deck. They could easily sell it for $40 - $60 and people would pick it up.

I've been getting a friend into the game who used to play with me at the lunch table, the speed duel boxes with the deck variety has just helped like start his collection and then we've been getting structure decks to expand from there, and in like a month dude has like 6 decks and has taken a liking to heros, cybers, and roids unfortunately 😂

Im slowly waiting for a Galaxy eyes photon/Kite structure deck, Blackwings/Crow structure deck and a re-trained Elemental hero mixed with other heros/Jaden deck. But I can always still dream.

I think they need to add code cards like Pokémon does which gets you packs in master duel and for the tryout deck or other decks moving forward, they include a code card that essentially gets you the same deck in master duel, maybe even unlocks a tutorial mode or something to teach you how to use it.

So I'd love a tournament format where it was a structure decks only. Could do something where they have to bring a sealed structure or the tournament supplies a certain stock of them. Then the prizes could be upgrades to the structure or other staple cards that are more expensive/rare/hard to find I've played structures since I started yugioh. I think they are a fantastic way for people to start the game and have a low cost of entry. Tournaments set up around them would also add a fantastic way into the tournament scene with a low cost of entry.

I would love a Yubel structure or a structure deck with the dragon spells (Timaeus, hermes and etc.)

I would love to see some Mystical Beast of Serket/Temple of the Kings support

konami only wants rarety collection or premium stuff to go out for now but we have one deck reprint for lightsworn in june i think

I want a structure deck that introduces a new archetype based on logical fallicies, such as a red herring, a strawman, ad hoc, slippery slop, ect all with effects that reflect what they are perfectly. By teaching the player base about fallicies the average player will improve both at the game and at other ways of thinking. Also fallicies can be tricky and as such might prove to inspire some really good effects or several combo plays by working off of each other.

What I really like with these recent structure decks are the meta relevant cards such as imperm, droll and ash

Ive been waiting for a Celtic Guardian arc-type it has neo and mystic elf, but just mainly a celtic guardian deck.

Honestly I think there should be like updated structure decks to bring back some of these older decks with more modern deck lists. Like Saga of Blue Eyes could use a little more Eyes of Blue cards. Or HERO Strike needing a few modern hero support

I ordered a JP structure deck by accident once (HERO Strike), and have never been able to look at the TCG design with any positive feelings since. The one good thing I can say about the latter is that maybe they're a bit easier to recycle without the little plastic windows (though recycling is a bit wasteful compared to just USING LESS), and attaching the player guide to the back of the mat isn't the worst idea, but just stand any OCG structure deck box and its TCG counterpart side by side. The TCG ones are chunky monstrosities several inches larger than necessary with the art splashed over the front. Meanwhile the OCG boxes are barely larger than the deck itself, have the cards in a little plastic tray with the mat, rulebook and player guide folded up under the tray, and a little plastic window that lets you see the actual headline card instead of a blown-up image of it. Did I mention the quality of the OCG cards? They're not that different on the face of it, but the feel and handling is much smoother--the OCG cards will literally slide off if I try to stack them unsleeved! And that extends to the boxes, find me a TCG Structure Deck box with the shine of an OCG SD box.

As a ygo player who only plays with structure decks and have been running structure deck tournaments since 2020, it's pretty concerning that a structure deck hasn't been announced yet. However, they recently announced Advent of the Eyes of Blue for the OCG so there's hope

One of the biggest problems of the structure decks is also the quality control, some cards come damaged sometimes or misprinted

I would love a competitive toon structure deck, last I remember them making a toon pegasus structure deck, was for the ocg in the early 2000s, also it wasn't even a full toon deck just had toon cards in it.

I miss the old approach for structure decks, like the ones you mentioned. Zombie vs. Dragon, Earth vs. Wind, etc. There is some GBA games that used those structure decks and it was super cool to play among themselves.