How Pay-To-Win is Yu-Gi-Oh?

My brother and I went to locals on Saturday, my brother was playing nouvelles and his opponent had all the mannadium cards +2 SP, my brother still won the match 2-0

I do pretty well at locals without either although Little Knight absolutely steals games off me regularly.

It’s not necessary. The thing that makes me the most mad is Konami shows their clear favoritism of the OCG and shows they could easily make the cards cheaper. Even with the rarity collection they’ll probably not change how things go

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I think the biggest hurdle for me trying to get into yugioh at this point in time isn't just the price tag on a single deck, but how effective down the line that one deck is going to be. With the sporadic changes from new sets, to the meta, to how out of nowhere the banlist seems to drop, you're going to be sinking money into multiple of these decks over a short period. It's a significant investment to keep into this hobby, and other games have a much more manageable fee for entry and following the meta.

7 f boxes? omg im about to jump a wall si señor

I stopped watching at around the 2:00 mark because it was obvious enough what the point of the video was going to be. What you were demonstrating is called a handicap. A similar concept is used in chess where a player of higher elo may play with fewer starting pawns and can still win if there is a large skill difference. If you're traveling to a YCS or regional, you probably don't want to be handicapped. There is nothing wrong with trying to help players do more with less, but at least be honest about it. Telling people they don't need s:p is only true if they are fine losing matches they could have won to save that $100-200. Anything else is cope.

There’s probably a lot of players who are stuck at local levels because they can’t afford the expensive cards.

“Occasionally tops Locals “ don’t be modest now Garret 😂

Since Master Duel came out, it alleviated this problem for me. I really don't care if the card pool is behind if it means cheaper access to stuff. Casual stuff in paper, competitive stuff online. Great if you see otherwise, but this is how I can get the most out of the game.

I skipped OTS weekend because there's too many turbo bullshit decks (d barrier, droll, shifter, eev, king calamity) running around and there's too many pay to win cards as well. I actually just wanna sell everything at this point and never play competitive again. Sucks because casual yugioh is boring but competitive yugioh is unreasonably expensive.

Can you play without thrust and Little night? ABSOLUTELY YES, can you win even if your opponent are playing those cards? ABSOLUTELY YES, staples are just cards that everybody plays, that doesn't mean that they will resolve everytime they're played, and even if everybody plays them, that does not mean it will give you an advantage if they manage to resolve, does that mean you should be afraid of those cards everytime you go against somebody? ABSOLUTELY NOT, but if you're afraid of those cards then don't play all your resources and play around those cards, that might sound difficult at first, but just as everybody was playing around arise-heart when it was available on the TCG, I don't know why or how everybody are complaining to S:P little night, it appeared everybody just completely forgot how to play yugioh when that card arrived, completely bonkers.

fun decks have a place in yugioh.

Phy we're gonna need that runick fur hire deck lmao

Bars

Last month I’ve beaten rescue ace with nemleria (2-1)😭😭 funniest games I’ve ever had :)

NGL tripped out when I saw some of my homies on that case tourney at Project rn

Phy, where did you get that blue mat? Its gorgeous and i would love to buy one!

As a casual player im annoyed thrust is expensive because its an interesting card and i would like to play it in my branded deck because it creates more interesting results. Same for SP the cards really strong but also has cool interactions like resetting a baronne effect. Its not simply a matter of wanting these cards to be "competetive" people also want these cards because they have found some use within the decks they like playing.

You can def win without staples but I think thrusting into a evenly against lab is really funny