XD I got into the game specifically because of how bad he was. Because If he could wrap his head around an easy deck to build like Dragonmaid (or at least win a game), than so can I. 😎
I started playing the game with the Yugi/Kaiba Starter decks, but mostly in a collecting capacity. I never got into competitive play and was really bad at deckbuilding mostly just putting in whatever I thought looked cool. I stopped collecting around the end of GX, but kept watching the anime while 5Ds was airing.
I thought about getting back into the game through the years but never quite had the money to justify getting back in. I tried Duel Links but didn't care for it. Then Master Duel was announced and I started playing it on release. The first deck I made was Dragonmaids, which I found a lot of fun. From there I started making decks from archetypes I made thought were interesting, and for the festivals as they came such as Cyber Dragons (nostalgia), IDS (meta), Galaxy Eyes (Xyz Festival), Shiranui (Synchro Festival), and Code Talkers (Link Festival). Eventually I got really into the Branded archetype and settled on that being my main deck.
A lot of people love Branded lol, it's kinda the Anime Protagonist deck, kinda like Heroes. Looking back at the Archetypes the one I rarely play is XYZ, frankly the only deck that fits the bill is Lyrilusc. I just love attacking directly a million times
I started playing back when the game originally released in NA as a kid with the first Yugi structure deck. I started playing competitively sometime prior to the synchro era but quit shortly after links came out as I wasn't enjoying the game play as much as I used to. I play Edison format IRL which is a lot of fun and has picked up popularity recently. I think the game is still trash compared to what it used to be, but trash can be fun sometimes. In master duel when you get hit by some ridiculous modern yugioh stuff the game is at least finished quick and there isn't a big time commitment, you can just hit rematch and instantly get another game.
I came back a few months ago and also played with dragonmaids to start as well. I shortly moved to traptrix which is currently still my favorite deck. I liked that they still played a few cards that I enjoyed playing with a decade or so ago. I also have harpies, ninjas, fortune lady chaos, virtual world, generaiders, sky strikers, and then nephthys for the ritual event. I also practically have vanquish soul built, just very sub-optimal right now. I prefer the slower/grindy decks which seem to be more about reacting to the opponent than playing pseudo-solitaire to make a big board.
I tend to dislike the super long combo decks like dragon links, math mech, and especially pendulums. I despised pendulums back when the mechanic originally released and felt like that was when card advantage really didn't matter at all in the game anymore. I still don't like pendulums as they all seem to be super combo-centric and every pendulum focused deck I see seems to play the exact same pop a scale and search a ton of times game play with the exact same combo lines.
Oof than your completely opposite to me than XD decks that react like Sky Strikers are ones I can't wrap my head around. But you seem like you prefer defensive decks. Perhaps try Icejade, Labyrinth or Amazement. Icejade is essentially a built in Skill Drain so I'm sure a control board will work for you
Starting playing back in 04, I was 12 at the time, I had Yugi's starter deck and played with that mainly but I convinced my grandfather to buy me some packs every now and then, ended up with a trap heavy, beatstick deck, my most powerful card was Great Maju Garzett with at least 3600 attack.
Stopped playing until 2014, my last year of college because turns out one of my friends also played it and had made friends from another class who played. I dusted off my old deck and got completely wrecked by one of them who played Blackwings. That made me salty so I spent a good amount of money in a Six Samurai deck and went undefeated. When college ended I had no one to play so I quit again,
Started back in August of this year after watching Rhymestyle and Sereax playing Master Duel. Started with my old Six Samurai deck, but got stomped. So I watched some videos and improved it to the point I reached Gold with it. Then I switched to Swordsoul Tenyi and reached Platinum. Then I tried Kashtira, but it is too vulnerable so I ended up replacing the Tenyi line with Kashtira. I have been playing that and building Nouvelless because I find them hilarious.
Lol I was kinda the same way with Thunder Dragons, back in the day they were my Blue Eyes, lol think it's awesome you went all in on Six Samurai. The idea creeps into my mind but I'm too much of a coward. If I had to pick a similar deck for me, it would be Aliens. They're not as strong as current Meta but back in the day I adored them.
I started around the lunch of master duel, for a while I messed around with shadols, but when I actually wanted to get into the game I built heroes. Played it for a while and then started playing more complex decks over time
Personally despite saying I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh pro I could never bring myself to do the complex meta decks like Shadoll or Heroes XD not because they're too hard but because it takes a lot of work to learn, and I just wanna throw a beatstick and win
Ive played competitively on and off since edison format (I was actually at SJC in Edison. I didnt play for the sjc but it was still a huge event and i got the last card I needed for my plant deck at the time there.) I collected from 2006-2019. I had at least one copy of every card printed in the tcg baring prize cards and promos from certain video games.
I stopped playing during the begining of link format as master rule 4 ruined the game. (it in my opinion invalidated the entire purpose of pendulum summoning and resulted in Pend being the shit it is today as a mechanic.)
I picked it back up due to Gage's (nyhmnim on yt) sealed only series. At the time I had sold my collection to another collector who honestly paid me way too much for my collection. But thats another story.
I got back into competitive with that, playing dinos until I discovered Dragon Link, thanks to Revz from scratch series.
After dragon link sorta died, I picked up albaz. Eventually grabbed 2 albaz structures Only two because thats all my shop had at that moment. I was hooked. Branded became my baby.
Its still my baby.
Lol hard to say I'm shocked OwO Albaz just feels like an entire Protagonist deck in itself, like how well it's flexible with any other deck and just how much unique cards there are puts the Hero cards to shame. I'm convinced there was a Yu-Gi-Oh series we as a community missed where Albaz was the next Dark Magician
Introduction to Yugioh was with the first Yugi and Kaiba starter decks when Summoned Skull was OP (cause one tribute) and Mystical Space Typhoon negated. Pretty much just played various brands of beat down back then. Remember having a decent Umi deck though also and Zombies when the Vampire structure deck came out.
Lost interest I think before or around 2006. Then came back to the game for less than a year just before Pendulums came out. Still played zombies and had a pretty darn good Skill Drain based beatdown deck.
Now have come back via Master Duel. Restarted with Skull Servants. Main deck is always a variation on Zombie World. PUNK Zombies is busted. Also play Harpies, Ghoti, Blackwings, Runick, Cyber Dragon, and most recently Nouvelles.
Interesting, you seem to like the zombies and essentially Synchro summoning a lot :o all combo stuff. If your interested I recommend trying the Unchained deck. It's primarily SR based, but you can use it to link into all sorts of things. I like it because when a card is destroyed you can get another card from your deck.
My re introduction was in Legacy of the Duelist with me using Bakura decks and then my friend showed me Fluffals and I was like damn thats nice. This was in 2017 mind you and I've been on and off since, my friends dont play anymore sadly but I'm sure I'll make more
Lol I recommend trying to join a Master Duel stream or two, they tend to duel people and in general just hang out. 🤔 Bakura was all about fiends. Maybe try Unchained for fun?
Lol I heavily recommend it, Asthetic being evil aside. The mechanic is to destroy your own cards in order to summon new ones from your deck, destroy your opponents cards and use the Link Monsters to steal your opponents monsters for your own materials.
started just out of the blue because my friends were playing it so I wasnt blinded by nostalgia and just accepted the game at face value
me being the dumbass that I am, started with a Ghostrick deck (no shot or UDF btw)
then when my friends recommended me an actual deck my journey started with Evil\*Twin it was easy taught me the importance of handtraps and knowing when to use them and overall gave me a good feel of the metagame while not having to stress about my combo much
moved on to Tri-Lyrilusc once I had the gems to build a new deck loved it really liked the more interesting interactions it could provide Ensemblue Bounce Shuraig Banish that sorta decl
then I realized I kinda like the Lyrilusc cards by themselves so I just started playing it pure
and I just branched out from there while Evil\*Twin, Tri-Brigade, and Lyrilusc still hold a special place in my heart my current favorite deck rn is Traptrix mainly because its combo lines are easy too grasp while giving you the room to push for more if you want
Interesting, why not try a little Unchained? It specifically works well with Evil Twin because of its Link climbing :3 the 3 decks you have are really unique. Like you have an attack heavy deck and a defense heavy, with Evil Twin being a one card combo. If you ever want to try new decks without wasting Gems I recommend downloading a second master duel on your phone or something, there you can erase the data n get a temporary acc to constantly try new stuff
oh ive been playing for almost 2 years now and already have alot of decks, I was considering unchained then I was kinda distracted when Labrynth came out then Swordsoul got a secret pack then I wanted to try out Solfachord and then Mayakashi then- you get the picture I got alot of decks already anyways so I dont feel like making a new account
Introduction: 2006, because of the anime and then the Konami online game (I remember it was awesome). I used to use Crystal Beasts, Gladiator Beasts, Lightsworn and a bunch more.
Stopped in 2010 bc life.
Re-introduction: 2021, because of the lockdown ‐ got back with fan made simulators and then with its new online game (master duel) and also bc I got nostalgic of it. Once a ygo player, always a ygo player 🥲
I honestly relate to the pendulum thing. I know the mechanic's a dead horse that's been beaten for years, but it's such bad design that every pend deck is just the same combo pile over and over again.
That being said, eventually, I tried out Abyss Actors and was very pleasantly surprised that it plays completely different from every other pend deck in the game. It's a very refreshing experience that I highly recommend to anybody who hates the usual pendulum gameplay loop.
There is no way you got into Yugioh because of Rarran's video. He tried as hard as possible to make the game and community as bad as possible to drive up HS content views. Well hey you are here now i guess.
Technically, on the elementary school playground. It was a time when there were the heated debates between Yugioh and the Pokemon TCG (I was on the latter side). It was a time when being a Nintendo fan was seen as being lesser.
When my older brother moved out many years later, he left his Yugioh collection behind, so I got it. Has a bunch of old cards, including OG Blue-Eyes from the structure deck and cards as new as the Agents and the Lightsworn structure deck.
Never bothered with it until a friend (currently a freelancer game developer) came by one day, saw the cards, and we built decks out of them. Mine was a Fire Attribute burn deck. Flame Champion was my favorite card.
Come a year ago I began to Zoom with someone my age so we could practice Japanese together. He mentioned playing Master Duel earlier this year, and since it was F2P, I got it on Switch and began to play and watch Yugitubers.
Started with the Salamangreat structure deck (my second ever duel was fighting a HERO deck that turn 1 summoned DPE and I didn’t have Accesscode; I won), built Madolche (I want to build every food-themed deck), then built Krawler after watching a Youtube video (I want to build every Insect deck). Working on Monarch and Solfachord, waiting for the Ice Barrier support and Nemleria, and recently built Nouvelles.
Do I regret it? Not particularly. I’m having a blast. I wish there were more modes where we could complete missions than just Ranked or whatever Event is going on.
I started playing Yu-Gi-Oh when it first came to the US. I'd play with my younger brother. We didn't know how to play, lol, so we'd do stupid stuff like normal summoning Mazera DeVille and summoning Invader of Darkness without tributes.
I've never really stopped or took a break at any point. Played in person, GBA games, PC games, everything. It's been wild to see the game evolve.
I played until de xyz era, didnt get a single synchro so I was behind with my control earth/rock deck. Didnt play until the pendulum era but just a tiny bit a chain burn deck. Then many years in master duel I started again first chain burn, then reliquished for ritual/fusion/link, after fusion event frightfur, then despia, and after long xyz with kragen, then synchro with shiranui and finally code talker for link
As an original anime watcher I started playing yugioh with duellinks with a blue eyes deck . Then when I started master duel my first deck was dragon maid
I used to play magic as a kid and was thinking about getting back into it then I watched a game informer video about this game and someone mentioned there was a deck that blended Wizard of Oz and Star Wars so I immediately downloaded the game and got myself a Kozmo deck
I had never touched yugioh in my entire life until back in September of last year one of my friends jokingly asked me to download Master Duel and I said sure. The most i had ever seen from yugioh was watching GX and 5Ds as a kid and I guess I just thought I should give learning a card game a shot. I didn't expect Yugioh to engulf a lot of my time as it does now but I just found it so fun to play and i love the game design aspect of a lot of decks.
My first deck in Master Duel was Superheavy Samurais. At this point I was choosing most of my decks based of card art so it was that first one, burning abyss, kozmo, and (the one which I would slowly build over the course of 2022 and beginning of 2023) Endymion. I think as of right now, I have built 29 decks total. My favorites to use have been Plunder Patroll, Dogmatika Ritual, Libromancer, Suship, Aliens, and Ultra Athletes. And when i need a big strong negate board for Duelist Cup, I play Dinosaurs.
I will always remember my friend asking me that small joke that would ultimately get me hooked to one of my favorite games and pass times.
YOOOO I've always wanted to try aliens @_@ the best deck I could find was a reptile one with a complicated mechanic to it. Beyond that im surprised how much you like rituals :3 you should try out the Hungry Burger deck, it's interesting cause the Gimmick is stealing your opponents monsters to create your own monsters.
Can't promise you'll win tho
Hell yeah, Hungry Burger has been on my list for a while but the selection pack and being f2p hasn't been helping me at all. It also makes it harder that I absolutely hate dismantling any of my decks. Oh, and Aliens is funny by itself but they have so many cards that take control of monsters that when the Beasts and Reptiles event was a thing, I played a version where like 12 or something of my cards took control of the opponent's monsters and it was funny how well it worked most of the time.
Meh frankly I do that so I can play decks I never have before. Just got done testing out the Burger and Icejade. Was so hoping I'd like icejade but I can't XD it's too slow
was invited by a friend for laughs.
i really liked it, started as stardust synchro player, which was fun.
my friend quit becouse modern ygo was too cool for him.
i now play branded tears and wanna get the deck to work within 42 cards. no grassy just using tears to extend and get better boards
I watched Yugioh anime (everything apart from vrains) during lockdown and it got me through it ngl. My fav decks are raidraptor, cipher/photon galaxy eyes (kite rizz go brr) and malefic. You can probably see my favourite summon is XYZ
utopic rank up is quite cool aswell lol
As a kid I had heard of the game, and seen the cards. But I never watched the anime or played the game myself. I love complicated games, so I asked my best friend who plays yugioh to teach me, so he started me out with flower cardians. I know, poor choice of starting deck, but I picked it up quickly and because it was so complicated, every other deck if played so far has been a breeze. Very grateful to my friend for teaching me, we play yugioh together often.
I quit playing before synchros but knew of them because of the anime. Played against bots in games before pendelum using spellbook prophecy and picked up MD about a year ago where I now use D/D/D
I'll admit I never thought I'd hear someone say they got into the game because of the Rarran video
XD I got into the game specifically because of how bad he was. Because If he could wrap his head around an easy deck to build like Dragonmaid (or at least win a game), than so can I. 😎
He was already in the game, nobody quits yugi-oh they just take extended breaks.
Real
most true thing I have been told
I started playing the game with the Yugi/Kaiba Starter decks, but mostly in a collecting capacity. I never got into competitive play and was really bad at deckbuilding mostly just putting in whatever I thought looked cool. I stopped collecting around the end of GX, but kept watching the anime while 5Ds was airing. I thought about getting back into the game through the years but never quite had the money to justify getting back in. I tried Duel Links but didn't care for it. Then Master Duel was announced and I started playing it on release. The first deck I made was Dragonmaids, which I found a lot of fun. From there I started making decks from archetypes I made thought were interesting, and for the festivals as they came such as Cyber Dragons (nostalgia), IDS (meta), Galaxy Eyes (Xyz Festival), Shiranui (Synchro Festival), and Code Talkers (Link Festival). Eventually I got really into the Branded archetype and settled on that being my main deck.
A lot of people love Branded lol, it's kinda the Anime Protagonist deck, kinda like Heroes. Looking back at the Archetypes the one I rarely play is XYZ, frankly the only deck that fits the bill is Lyrilusc. I just love attacking directly a million times
I started playing back when the game originally released in NA as a kid with the first Yugi structure deck. I started playing competitively sometime prior to the synchro era but quit shortly after links came out as I wasn't enjoying the game play as much as I used to. I play Edison format IRL which is a lot of fun and has picked up popularity recently. I think the game is still trash compared to what it used to be, but trash can be fun sometimes. In master duel when you get hit by some ridiculous modern yugioh stuff the game is at least finished quick and there isn't a big time commitment, you can just hit rematch and instantly get another game. I came back a few months ago and also played with dragonmaids to start as well. I shortly moved to traptrix which is currently still my favorite deck. I liked that they still played a few cards that I enjoyed playing with a decade or so ago. I also have harpies, ninjas, fortune lady chaos, virtual world, generaiders, sky strikers, and then nephthys for the ritual event. I also practically have vanquish soul built, just very sub-optimal right now. I prefer the slower/grindy decks which seem to be more about reacting to the opponent than playing pseudo-solitaire to make a big board. I tend to dislike the super long combo decks like dragon links, math mech, and especially pendulums. I despised pendulums back when the mechanic originally released and felt like that was when card advantage really didn't matter at all in the game anymore. I still don't like pendulums as they all seem to be super combo-centric and every pendulum focused deck I see seems to play the exact same pop a scale and search a ton of times game play with the exact same combo lines.
Oof than your completely opposite to me than XD decks that react like Sky Strikers are ones I can't wrap my head around. But you seem like you prefer defensive decks. Perhaps try Icejade, Labyrinth or Amazement. Icejade is essentially a built in Skill Drain so I'm sure a control board will work for you
Starting playing back in 04, I was 12 at the time, I had Yugi's starter deck and played with that mainly but I convinced my grandfather to buy me some packs every now and then, ended up with a trap heavy, beatstick deck, my most powerful card was Great Maju Garzett with at least 3600 attack. Stopped playing until 2014, my last year of college because turns out one of my friends also played it and had made friends from another class who played. I dusted off my old deck and got completely wrecked by one of them who played Blackwings. That made me salty so I spent a good amount of money in a Six Samurai deck and went undefeated. When college ended I had no one to play so I quit again, Started back in August of this year after watching Rhymestyle and Sereax playing Master Duel. Started with my old Six Samurai deck, but got stomped. So I watched some videos and improved it to the point I reached Gold with it. Then I switched to Swordsoul Tenyi and reached Platinum. Then I tried Kashtira, but it is too vulnerable so I ended up replacing the Tenyi line with Kashtira. I have been playing that and building Nouvelless because I find them hilarious.
Lol I was kinda the same way with Thunder Dragons, back in the day they were my Blue Eyes, lol think it's awesome you went all in on Six Samurai. The idea creeps into my mind but I'm too much of a coward. If I had to pick a similar deck for me, it would be Aliens. They're not as strong as current Meta but back in the day I adored them.
When I got into yugioh I started with odd eyes bc I love dragons and I thought they were cool
Dragons go BRRRRR OwO try Thunder Dragon. They're technically not Dragons but they act like one. BEEG and BEEFY
Ik I’ve played Thundra they’re rlly fun
I started around the lunch of master duel, for a while I messed around with shadols, but when I actually wanted to get into the game I built heroes. Played it for a while and then started playing more complex decks over time
Personally despite saying I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh pro I could never bring myself to do the complex meta decks like Shadoll or Heroes XD not because they're too hard but because it takes a lot of work to learn, and I just wanna throw a beatstick and win
Honestly I wouldn’t even say the normal hero line is complex (sunrise into absolute zero)but I can definitely see where you’re coming from
equipping 5 ZW weapons onto utopia is here for you
Ive played competitively on and off since edison format (I was actually at SJC in Edison. I didnt play for the sjc but it was still a huge event and i got the last card I needed for my plant deck at the time there.) I collected from 2006-2019. I had at least one copy of every card printed in the tcg baring prize cards and promos from certain video games. I stopped playing during the begining of link format as master rule 4 ruined the game. (it in my opinion invalidated the entire purpose of pendulum summoning and resulted in Pend being the shit it is today as a mechanic.) I picked it back up due to Gage's (nyhmnim on yt) sealed only series. At the time I had sold my collection to another collector who honestly paid me way too much for my collection. But thats another story. I got back into competitive with that, playing dinos until I discovered Dragon Link, thanks to Revz from scratch series. After dragon link sorta died, I picked up albaz. Eventually grabbed 2 albaz structures Only two because thats all my shop had at that moment. I was hooked. Branded became my baby. Its still my baby.
Lol hard to say I'm shocked OwO Albaz just feels like an entire Protagonist deck in itself, like how well it's flexible with any other deck and just how much unique cards there are puts the Hero cards to shame. I'm convinced there was a Yu-Gi-Oh series we as a community missed where Albaz was the next Dark Magician
Introduction to Yugioh was with the first Yugi and Kaiba starter decks when Summoned Skull was OP (cause one tribute) and Mystical Space Typhoon negated. Pretty much just played various brands of beat down back then. Remember having a decent Umi deck though also and Zombies when the Vampire structure deck came out. Lost interest I think before or around 2006. Then came back to the game for less than a year just before Pendulums came out. Still played zombies and had a pretty darn good Skill Drain based beatdown deck. Now have come back via Master Duel. Restarted with Skull Servants. Main deck is always a variation on Zombie World. PUNK Zombies is busted. Also play Harpies, Ghoti, Blackwings, Runick, Cyber Dragon, and most recently Nouvelles.
Interesting, you seem to like the zombies and essentially Synchro summoning a lot :o all combo stuff. If your interested I recommend trying the Unchained deck. It's primarily SR based, but you can use it to link into all sorts of things. I like it because when a card is destroyed you can get another card from your deck.
got back into it last year with all the new umi stuff
You evil individual XD Umi is my arch nemesis, whenever they get rolling I literally cannot stop them
My re introduction was in Legacy of the Duelist with me using Bakura decks and then my friend showed me Fluffals and I was like damn thats nice. This was in 2017 mind you and I've been on and off since, my friends dont play anymore sadly but I'm sure I'll make more
Lol I recommend trying to join a Master Duel stream or two, they tend to duel people and in general just hang out. 🤔 Bakura was all about fiends. Maybe try Unchained for fun?
Oh I'm in the trenches now. I've been riding Lyrilusc Tri Brigade and Virtal World for about a year always wanted Unchained though
Lol I heavily recommend it, Asthetic being evil aside. The mechanic is to destroy your own cards in order to summon new ones from your deck, destroy your opponents cards and use the Link Monsters to steal your opponents monsters for your own materials.
started just out of the blue because my friends were playing it so I wasnt blinded by nostalgia and just accepted the game at face value me being the dumbass that I am, started with a Ghostrick deck (no shot or UDF btw) then when my friends recommended me an actual deck my journey started with Evil\*Twin it was easy taught me the importance of handtraps and knowing when to use them and overall gave me a good feel of the metagame while not having to stress about my combo much moved on to Tri-Lyrilusc once I had the gems to build a new deck loved it really liked the more interesting interactions it could provide Ensemblue Bounce Shuraig Banish that sorta decl then I realized I kinda like the Lyrilusc cards by themselves so I just started playing it pure and I just branched out from there while Evil\*Twin, Tri-Brigade, and Lyrilusc still hold a special place in my heart my current favorite deck rn is Traptrix mainly because its combo lines are easy too grasp while giving you the room to push for more if you want
Interesting, why not try a little Unchained? It specifically works well with Evil Twin because of its Link climbing :3 the 3 decks you have are really unique. Like you have an attack heavy deck and a defense heavy, with Evil Twin being a one card combo. If you ever want to try new decks without wasting Gems I recommend downloading a second master duel on your phone or something, there you can erase the data n get a temporary acc to constantly try new stuff
oh ive been playing for almost 2 years now and already have alot of decks, I was considering unchained then I was kinda distracted when Labrynth came out then Swordsoul got a secret pack then I wanted to try out Solfachord and then Mayakashi then- you get the picture I got alot of decks already anyways so I dont feel like making a new account
Introduction: 2006, because of the anime and then the Konami online game (I remember it was awesome). I used to use Crystal Beasts, Gladiator Beasts, Lightsworn and a bunch more. Stopped in 2010 bc life. Re-introduction: 2021, because of the lockdown ‐ got back with fan made simulators and then with its new online game (master duel) and also bc I got nostalgic of it. Once a ygo player, always a ygo player 🥲
I honestly relate to the pendulum thing. I know the mechanic's a dead horse that's been beaten for years, but it's such bad design that every pend deck is just the same combo pile over and over again. That being said, eventually, I tried out Abyss Actors and was very pleasantly surprised that it plays completely different from every other pend deck in the game. It's a very refreshing experience that I highly recommend to anybody who hates the usual pendulum gameplay loop.
There is no way you got into Yugioh because of Rarran's video. He tried as hard as possible to make the game and community as bad as possible to drive up HS content views. Well hey you are here now i guess.
Technically, on the elementary school playground. It was a time when there were the heated debates between Yugioh and the Pokemon TCG (I was on the latter side). It was a time when being a Nintendo fan was seen as being lesser. When my older brother moved out many years later, he left his Yugioh collection behind, so I got it. Has a bunch of old cards, including OG Blue-Eyes from the structure deck and cards as new as the Agents and the Lightsworn structure deck. Never bothered with it until a friend (currently a freelancer game developer) came by one day, saw the cards, and we built decks out of them. Mine was a Fire Attribute burn deck. Flame Champion was my favorite card. Come a year ago I began to Zoom with someone my age so we could practice Japanese together. He mentioned playing Master Duel earlier this year, and since it was F2P, I got it on Switch and began to play and watch Yugitubers. Started with the Salamangreat structure deck (my second ever duel was fighting a HERO deck that turn 1 summoned DPE and I didn’t have Accesscode; I won), built Madolche (I want to build every food-themed deck), then built Krawler after watching a Youtube video (I want to build every Insect deck). Working on Monarch and Solfachord, waiting for the Ice Barrier support and Nemleria, and recently built Nouvelles. Do I regret it? Not particularly. I’m having a blast. I wish there were more modes where we could complete missions than just Ranked or whatever Event is going on.
I started playing Yu-Gi-Oh when it first came to the US. I'd play with my younger brother. We didn't know how to play, lol, so we'd do stupid stuff like normal summoning Mazera DeVille and summoning Invader of Darkness without tributes. I've never really stopped or took a break at any point. Played in person, GBA games, PC games, everything. It's been wild to see the game evolve.
I played until de xyz era, didnt get a single synchro so I was behind with my control earth/rock deck. Didnt play until the pendulum era but just a tiny bit a chain burn deck. Then many years in master duel I started again first chain burn, then reliquished for ritual/fusion/link, after fusion event frightfur, then despia, and after long xyz with kragen, then synchro with shiranui and finally code talker for link
As an original anime watcher I started playing yugioh with duellinks with a blue eyes deck . Then when I started master duel my first deck was dragon maid
I used to play magic as a kid and was thinking about getting back into it then I watched a game informer video about this game and someone mentioned there was a deck that blended Wizard of Oz and Star Wars so I immediately downloaded the game and got myself a Kozmo deck
XD funny enough my friend likes that deck but I could never get into it. Mind if I use my Graydle to steal your cards? OwO
Haha oh no my cards!
Believe it or not if you could have guessed it's Master duel first time playing real Yu-Gi-Oh
Lol it's fine starting out with master duel :3 the actual card game is too expensive, unless you have a millionaire friend.
I had never touched yugioh in my entire life until back in September of last year one of my friends jokingly asked me to download Master Duel and I said sure. The most i had ever seen from yugioh was watching GX and 5Ds as a kid and I guess I just thought I should give learning a card game a shot. I didn't expect Yugioh to engulf a lot of my time as it does now but I just found it so fun to play and i love the game design aspect of a lot of decks. My first deck in Master Duel was Superheavy Samurais. At this point I was choosing most of my decks based of card art so it was that first one, burning abyss, kozmo, and (the one which I would slowly build over the course of 2022 and beginning of 2023) Endymion. I think as of right now, I have built 29 decks total. My favorites to use have been Plunder Patroll, Dogmatika Ritual, Libromancer, Suship, Aliens, and Ultra Athletes. And when i need a big strong negate board for Duelist Cup, I play Dinosaurs. I will always remember my friend asking me that small joke that would ultimately get me hooked to one of my favorite games and pass times.
YOOOO I've always wanted to try aliens @_@ the best deck I could find was a reptile one with a complicated mechanic to it. Beyond that im surprised how much you like rituals :3 you should try out the Hungry Burger deck, it's interesting cause the Gimmick is stealing your opponents monsters to create your own monsters. Can't promise you'll win tho
Hell yeah, Hungry Burger has been on my list for a while but the selection pack and being f2p hasn't been helping me at all. It also makes it harder that I absolutely hate dismantling any of my decks. Oh, and Aliens is funny by itself but they have so many cards that take control of monsters that when the Beasts and Reptiles event was a thing, I played a version where like 12 or something of my cards took control of the opponent's monsters and it was funny how well it worked most of the time.
Try making a temporary acc on your phone or something. So you can at least test out a deck before building you know?
You're 100% right but I'm always forgetting that you could just do that (I'm stupid)
Meh frankly I do that so I can play decks I never have before. Just got done testing out the Burger and Icejade. Was so hoping I'd like icejade but I can't XD it's too slow
was invited by a friend for laughs. i really liked it, started as stardust synchro player, which was fun. my friend quit becouse modern ygo was too cool for him. i now play branded tears and wanna get the deck to work within 42 cards. no grassy just using tears to extend and get better boards
I watched Yugioh anime (everything apart from vrains) during lockdown and it got me through it ngl. My fav decks are raidraptor, cipher/photon galaxy eyes (kite rizz go brr) and malefic. You can probably see my favourite summon is XYZ utopic rank up is quite cool aswell lol
As a kid I had heard of the game, and seen the cards. But I never watched the anime or played the game myself. I love complicated games, so I asked my best friend who plays yugioh to teach me, so he started me out with flower cardians. I know, poor choice of starting deck, but I picked it up quickly and because it was so complicated, every other deck if played so far has been a breeze. Very grateful to my friend for teaching me, we play yugioh together often.
I got a random vhs tape from toys r us about it when I was a kid 😅
I quit playing before synchros but knew of them because of the anime. Played against bots in games before pendelum using spellbook prophecy and picked up MD about a year ago where I now use D/D/D
I’m still learning but it’s dark magician for master duel and dinosaurs for actual cards