The History of Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Rules

Can't watch the entire video right now? No worries! Here are some timestamps so you can watch it in sections: What is a Master Rule: 0:00 Master Rule 1: 3:01 Master Rule 2: 7:32 Master Rule 3: 15:47 Master Rule 4: 21:25 Master Rule 5: 27:40

I'm just a filthy casual but I think it would be cool if you talked about the evolution of the meta in competitive yugioh

“Dzeeff doesn’t understand podcasts” (People like long videos)

I almost quit Yugioh because of Master Rule 4. But Master Rule 5 brought me back and now my old decks are playable again!

I'm intrigued how you mentioned that Master Rule 3 was the most despised master rule, because my personal experience pointed to that being Master Rule 4. Every new mechanic since Synchro did not actually change how your deck played, but Link monsters were mandatory if you wanted more than one extra deck monster on the field at a time, and that pissed a lot of people off, myself included. Maybe it's just the context of playing with people who hadn't changed decks but a handful of times over many years instead of chasing the meta (we were young and didn't have the disposable income for that), but that change alone seriously killed a huge portion of the community I was in off because they felt like they were being strong-armed into purchasing new cards they didn't actually care about and couldn't play the decks they loved anymore. It's the first change that made me think Konami wanted to make money not by creating new or interesting deck styles for us to want to experiment with but by flat out changing the rules on older decks and forcing them to evolve newer cards into their strategies to even try and stay alive, which is basically why I quit at that point.

I would've love to see a meta history of Yugioh, since to the beggining till today

I stopped playing just before Pendulums came out. I recently started playing with the Yugioh game on Switch. I was dissapointed at first because you could only summon only 1 Fusion or Syncro or XYZ monster without having Link monsters with the right arrows so even though I liked the game I didn't had as much fun as I thought. But when the Monster Rules 2020 came out the game is a blast to play. You can ignore LInks and just summon a bunch of monsters at once, you know like how it should have been from the beginning? Summoning a bunch of Shaddols Fusions at once, a bunch of Raidraptors at once, a bunch of Blackwings at once? So much fun!

Master rule 5 got me back into the game . hated when they added link monsters

Christmas come early boys, we got ourselves a 30 min Dzeeff video

As someone who was into Yugioh as a kid and only just recently started learning about it again, this video is super helpful for me. A lot of videos mention Master Rules but those same channels don't tend to define their terms, so thanks for making this :)

Doug, I love longer videos like these. I tend to listen to videos in the background while I play a game (in fact I played Animal Crossing while listening to this) and longer form videos like this are perfect for that.

“Watched in one go” gang

Master Rules: Tokyo Drift

Long ago, the duelists lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the master rule 4 attacked

As much as I appreciate PSCT, I wish the tcg used bullet points more often. Stratos is one of my favorite cards just because of the way its effect is formatted, it's just so clean.

I stopped playing the game in 2008 before synchros but returned last year so this was an interesting video

You underestimate my free time.

Doug, we are all in quarantine, no way no one doesn’t have time to watch/listen to this!

"I do not expect you to watch this all in one go." watches entire video in one go

The same way you fondly remember synchros I actually have fond memories of xyz monsters. I started playing yugioh after I watched some reruns of the old series and after I started watching zexal I think I was ten or nine at the time(I think, It was right after the series started.) Anyway I got some random packs from gx and the utopia structure deck. Back then I really only had my grandma to play with even though she didn't really understand much of the cards (hell I didn't understand the cards myself). Now I know what my cards do and I have friends to play with, but those were nice times.