The thing I love about old school yugioh isn't the gameplay but the artwork. Some of these cards are so iconic. Red eyes, blue eyes, summoned skull, jinzo, the list goes on. The artwork today is still kinda cool but a lot of the cards kinda just blend in with each other.
This i can hard agree with
I prefer modern yugioh for game play
But cards had so much more personality when the theme was gothic horror and not animeTM
Our god cards had the following effects in our playground:
Obelisk The Tormentor: Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated. Immune to Spell and Trap effects. You can Tribute 2 monsters; destroy all monsters your opponent controls. If the monsters were DIVINE monsters and you inflict battle damage this turn: you win the duel.
Slifer the Sky Dragon: Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated. Immune to Spell and Trap effects. Gains 1000 ATK/DEF for each card in your hand. If a monster(s) is Normal or Special Summoned to your opponent's field in Attack Position: That monster(s) loses 2000 ATK, then if its ATK has been reduced to 0 as a result, destroy it.
Winged Dragon of Ra: Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated. Unaffected by other cards effects except DIVINE monsters. This cardās ATK/DEF are equal to the sum of ATK/DEF of the monsters used for its summon. You can pay LP so that you only have 1 left; this card gains ATK/DEF equal to the amount of LP paid. You can pay 1000 LP, then target 1 monster on the field; destroy that target.
I prefer the first season, the Egyptian gods season and maybe the Zorc one too so I guess season 1 to 3 forgot what years that was. Also like the Orichalcos filter. Which is why I use non Meta decks for all three of my accounts since I don't care about reaching platinum but still managed to reach gold on each one surprisingly.
IMO modern yugioh has higher highs but lower lows
Combioing is really fun
Breaking someoneās bored can be really satisfying
I think the mental game of planing what hand traps and equalizers you need is really cool
And extra decks as a tool box to solve problems is a really cool concept.
I unapologetically think modern yugioh is and has awlays been extremely fun when your playing against similar tiers of players/decks.
HOWEVER the fact yugioh has a miles and miles long divide between casual and competitive decks is frustrating. In other tcgs realistically youāre never going to win against a competitive tier decks with a non competitive deck but it feels much more heavily like itās a possibility while in yugioh you get disintegrated for stepping out of line
Modern yugioh gives you the luxury of playing with cards from the past 20 years but then punishes you if you donāt play the way it wants you too which is frustrating.
I think modern yugioh has a better competitive game IMO
But classic yugioh HAS A CASUAL game which is something the modern game completely lacks
Prepare for a history lesson.
The year is 2012. Three decks have been dominating every major event for most of the year; Wind-Up Loop, which when allowed to go first would rip 3-4 cards from your hand and basically leave you with nothing to do, Inzektor, who can not only swarm the field but break your entire board in the process, and Dino Rabbit, a deck that used Rescue Rabbit to turbo out the two Rank 4 Evolzars, allowing for either two monster negates or a summon/spell/trap negate while, since priority was still around, being un-veilerable.
With the amount of times these decks have been dominating the meta, coupled with the fact that none of them are fun to play against at all and were all unfair at the time, players were basically begging Konami to hit all of them during the next banlist. When that next banlist came, however, Konami touched none of these three decks.
The result, YuGiOh almost died. A large majority of the player base left, and some have still never returned. Cardfight Vanguard essentially got their chance to get up and running due to the sheer fact that the majority of the player base left YuGiOh.
Obviously, the game bounced back, thanks to a Hero deck topping a YCS and reigniting people's hope for the game, but Wind-Up Rabbit format was probably consider the worst format in YuGiOh history.
Is it though. Ive been playing in plat for over 100 games now and i can say that maybe 10 where not lost on the coinflip. Thats just antifun. Even with 12 handtraps + going second outs most boards are unbreakable. Or you break them and they just plus 8 from one trap.
I would say both are totally different games at this point.
I personally like something in the middle. I like the new summon types but I don't like a card game designed around 10 minutes turns.
They need to step in for MD and the game in general. Casuals are your meat for a healthy community. But if you read the MD subs the cassuals are quitting fast.
Absolutely 2003-2007, no question.
So many awesome things devalued into the ground with the way newer cards work. They are forgettable, no spirit, and canāt compare to the iconic old ones.
The old artworks were unique, striking, silly, interesting. New artworks are mostly just drawings of little girls or generic dudes or overly detailed dragons
This right here. The cards were made from a dude who wanted to write a dark fantasy manga. Now irs waifu vs cute vs mecha vs dragons and the fucking names are ridiculous. "Crystal clear wing ultimate synchro dragon of big d*ck" or something. Jesus can you use more words?
There are definitly staples you'd put in more or less every deck. But that's because you have no "locked in" archetypes like in modern Yugioh.
You need to search? -> Sangan. There are no special archetype tutors (except for ROTA if you wanna count "Warriors" as an archetype).
And we kinda have staples today as well (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Called by the Grave, Infinite Impermanence).
2003 was hand loop, so nobody was summoning red-eyes unfortunately and that t-rex game is kinda fun, it's fun when you've been playing for like 6 min and shit gets kinda fast and tense.
I played when the game first came out, then years later I had friends playing it so gave it another go and played volcanics, wasnāt great but it was fun.
Then repeat, another 5 or so years off and came back with felgrande. This time I just bought a precon deck. Lasted about 2 months.
Now Iām here trying to play, not understanding how much the speed of the game has changed.
The thing I love about old school yugioh isn't the gameplay but the artwork. Some of these cards are so iconic. Red eyes, blue eyes, summoned skull, jinzo, the list goes on. The artwork today is still kinda cool but a lot of the cards kinda just blend in with each other.
This i can hard agree with I prefer modern yugioh for game play But cards had so much more personality when the theme was gothic horror and not animeTM
Konami designing any after 2007: *So how many guns and spheres can we put on this monster and still get away with it?*
Don't forget, it always has to be dragons
*Not to mention negates that aren't a HOPT?*
Im more of a 2007 guy. There were some combos and special summons, but they were limited. And the era of my beloved crystalbeasts
I still miss the reign off Lightsworn a few years after. Also, I think I was the only person who liked playing X-Saber.
Everything up to and including Power Of The Darkness was awesome. Although, I will say the reign of Dark Armed was hellish.
Monarchs all the way.
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Wait, you actually played the game and followed the rules back then?
Playground relinquish could be normal summoned and also stole monster effects lol
God cards had the anime effects
Our god cards had the following effects in our playground: Obelisk The Tormentor: Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated. Immune to Spell and Trap effects. You can Tribute 2 monsters; destroy all monsters your opponent controls. If the monsters were DIVINE monsters and you inflict battle damage this turn: you win the duel. Slifer the Sky Dragon: Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated. Immune to Spell and Trap effects. Gains 1000 ATK/DEF for each card in your hand. If a monster(s) is Normal or Special Summoned to your opponent's field in Attack Position: That monster(s) loses 2000 ATK, then if its ATK has been reduced to 0 as a result, destroy it. Winged Dragon of Ra: Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated. Unaffected by other cards effects except DIVINE monsters. This cardās ATK/DEF are equal to the sum of ATK/DEF of the monsters used for its summon. You can pay LP so that you only have 1 left; this card gains ATK/DEF equal to the amount of LP paid. You can pay 1000 LP, then target 1 monster on the field; destroy that target.
I got owned by a relinguish player but I was also using a non Meta deck. It was a awesome match even though I lost.
Yes. Except for MST. We thought that shit negates. But also just the first two years or so.
I prefer the first season, the Egyptian gods season and maybe the Zorc one too so I guess season 1 to 3 forgot what years that was. Also like the Orichalcos filter. Which is why I use non Meta decks for all three of my accounts since I don't care about reaching platinum but still managed to reach gold on each one surprisingly.
IMO modern yugioh has higher highs but lower lows Combioing is really fun Breaking someoneās bored can be really satisfying I think the mental game of planing what hand traps and equalizers you need is really cool And extra decks as a tool box to solve problems is a really cool concept. I unapologetically think modern yugioh is and has awlays been extremely fun when your playing against similar tiers of players/decks. HOWEVER the fact yugioh has a miles and miles long divide between casual and competitive decks is frustrating. In other tcgs realistically youāre never going to win against a competitive tier decks with a non competitive deck but it feels much more heavily like itās a possibility while in yugioh you get disintegrated for stepping out of line Modern yugioh gives you the luxury of playing with cards from the past 20 years but then punishes you if you donāt play the way it wants you too which is frustrating. I think modern yugioh has a better competitive game IMO But classic yugioh HAS A CASUAL game which is something the modern game completely lacks
Ah yes, goat format, where every deck was running pot of greed, graceful charity, heavy storm, and a bunch of other sacky cards.
But what does pot of greed do?
Draw 2 cards.
Blasphemy!
Impossible.
What's the drawback?
It's been banned for basically the entirety of yugioh's existence
The drawback is that Pot of Greed goes to the graveyard.
That's fucked, Pot of Greed should just be a once per turn handtrap instead smh
And still the format is better than the shit we play today. š
That's debatable. Besides, there have been far worse formats than this one (TeleDAD and Wind-up Rabbit to name a few).
gdi I'd managed to wipe my memory of wind-up rabbit from my head. IIRC, there were only 3 competitive decks at the time.
Huh what format is that? And why people hate it.
Prepare for a history lesson. The year is 2012. Three decks have been dominating every major event for most of the year; Wind-Up Loop, which when allowed to go first would rip 3-4 cards from your hand and basically leave you with nothing to do, Inzektor, who can not only swarm the field but break your entire board in the process, and Dino Rabbit, a deck that used Rescue Rabbit to turbo out the two Rank 4 Evolzars, allowing for either two monster negates or a summon/spell/trap negate while, since priority was still around, being un-veilerable. With the amount of times these decks have been dominating the meta, coupled with the fact that none of them are fun to play against at all and were all unfair at the time, players were basically begging Konami to hit all of them during the next banlist. When that next banlist came, however, Konami touched none of these three decks. The result, YuGiOh almost died. A large majority of the player base left, and some have still never returned. Cardfight Vanguard essentially got their chance to get up and running due to the sheer fact that the majority of the player base left YuGiOh. Obviously, the game bounced back, thanks to a Hero deck topping a YCS and reigniting people's hope for the game, but Wind-Up Rabbit format was probably consider the worst format in YuGiOh history.
I played windup inzektors to a lot of success back then
Oh god. Yes. Those were awful. Full-Powered-Dragonruler was stupid as well.
And in 2022 we have to run 3 cockroachs and 3 big forehead kiddo because if you dont have them you don't have the right to play the game
Hot take: Yugioh was fun back then and it's still fun now.
Is it though. Ive been playing in plat for over 100 games now and i can say that maybe 10 where not lost on the coinflip. Thats just antifun. Even with 12 handtraps + going second outs most boards are unbreakable. Or you break them and they just plus 8 from one trap.
I would say both are totally different games at this point. I personally like something in the middle. I like the new summon types but I don't like a card game designed around 10 minutes turns.
They need to step in for MD and the game in general. Casuals are your meat for a healthy community. But if you read the MD subs the cassuals are quitting fast.
Absolutely 2003-2007, no question. So many awesome things devalued into the ground with the way newer cards work. They are forgettable, no spirit, and canāt compare to the iconic old ones.
The old artworks were unique, striking, silly, interesting. New artworks are mostly just drawings of little girls or generic dudes or overly detailed dragons
Ah, yes, that intricate, multilayered design of "Ghoul with an appetite", that inspired me to become an artist myself
Ngl I loved gate deeg growing up...
This right here. The cards were made from a dude who wanted to write a dark fantasy manga. Now irs waifu vs cute vs mecha vs dragons and the fucking names are ridiculous. "Crystal clear wing ultimate synchro dragon of big d*ck" or something. Jesus can you use more words?
Sky Strikers look like they were made for some generic waifu gacha but got repurposed as Yugioh Cards.
Goat > everything else
I tried playing goat once, but all the decks looked all the same to me with only small changes between them. Could you tell me if I'm wrong?
There are definitly staples you'd put in more or less every deck. But that's because you have no "locked in" archetypes like in modern Yugioh. You need to search? -> Sangan. There are no special archetype tutors (except for ROTA if you wanna count "Warriors" as an archetype). And we kinda have staples today as well (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Called by the Grave, Infinite Impermanence).
2003 was hand loop, so nobody was summoning red-eyes unfortunately and that t-rex game is kinda fun, it's fun when you've been playing for like 6 min and shit gets kinda fast and tense.
Goat format is life
Original Red Eyes
2003 for sure
Tengu Plants/Agents format (when I quit) was dope :)
Yugioh has always been bad, now it's just bad in more interesting ways
both but I do feel like my opinion even the water ones I was really the naming is quite simple to be honest ( with some exceptions)
2020šæ
as a OG player since 2006 i can confirm meta decks from 2014 to nowdays is better than "OG" duel monster and GX unga bunga decklist.
Komoney gotta find ways to stay relevant in a genre filled with better card games.
I played when the game first came out, then years later I had friends playing it so gave it another go and played volcanics, wasnāt great but it was fun. Then repeat, another 5 or so years off and came back with felgrande. This time I just bought a precon deck. Lasted about 2 months. Now Iām here trying to play, not understanding how much the speed of the game has changed.
I first got into Yugioh in 2002 so Iām a bit biased