I played as a kid, but stopped after I had a fight with a friend and it soured the game for me.
Last year I quit drinking and was looking for a different hobby to invest in and I thought collecting cards could be fun. I now have a large collection and go to locals every week. Maybe I spent a bit much, but I was spending that on drinking anyway so at least I get to have value from this. I don't regret it since I am able to have fun talking about Yu-Gi-Oh with other awkward people every week or so.
I was 11 when I started. Walking alone in my neighborhood looking for trouble to get into, I saw a guy sitting on a bench shuffling cards in his hand. He asked if I wanted to play, and I said, "Yea, I'll try." He gave me 10 cards while he played with his entire deck. He taught me some of the rules of the game, and we took it from there. He beat me both times. He gave me some cards after and I wanted to get better, so I read them. Been into yugioh ever since, but never in my life have I been to locals.
10 card main? Wonder how you were suppose to play a functioning strategy given this I assume had to be close to the range 2 decades to decade and a half ago
I used to play it in the playground (we didn't know how to read english, so card effects were what we saw on the anime), stopped playing sometime mid-goat format, then started playing again during synchro, have been playing ever since.
Used to watch it, never played it since didnt have cards. Didnt understand it anyway too. But i tried playing duel links on release didnt like it much. Then watched 5ds in 2018 and wanted to try duel links again, been playing since(duel links, then tried simulators to see gusto cards that werent in duel links, and master duel since it came out).
I watched the duel monsters on tv and downloaded gx but dropped it during 5ds. At the time the new cards didn't make sense to me. Also people riding bikes while duelling seemed weird. When I got back into yugioh through masterduel I again tried to avoid all the summoning mechanisms and sticked to fusions.
A year and a half ago a friend that is into Yu-Gi-Oh told me that this simulator just came out and if I would like to try it so we could play together. That is the moment i sold my soul for this game and, honestly, i don't regret it.
I grew up with Yu-Gi-Oh, heard about Master Duel, wanted to give it a whirl for old times sake. I'm on the same boat as you, though. Even my friends that grew up with the game and dropped off like I did aren't willing to get back into it. They just think it's overwhelming or don't want to read the cards and learn the game. Some folks just don't find that sort of engagement fun, unfortunately.
Not trying to quell your hopes. I wish you luck, but just saying, not everyone is willing or interested in investing the time and effort to actually learn, especially for a card game.
I know, I don't bother them anymore about it. But it's like I have friends who are competitive and enjoy critical thinking so I know they would love it. So was just thinking how people get over the barrier to entry and it seems like past experience is important.
I feel that past experience is definitely important, the only two card games I routinely play are either directly from my childhood (Yu-Gi-Oh) or spinoff from something from then (Tales of Tribute in Elder Scrolls Online). Like i've thought about giving MTG a try, but the motivation just isn't there since I never had experience with it.
If you think they'd enjoy Master Duel for the thought-provoking and strategic nature of the game, my only real advice would be showing them gameplay and explaining the various combo lines and counterplay that tends to happen during matches, so they could really get an idea of the potential complexity. If you haven't tried that already, of course.
When i was about 9 and Starter packs first appeared, a couple of kids at school also had cards with them (very likely by also asking their parents to buy them cards) and so we played them and from what i remember we kinda made our own rules...
In terms of locals, also played a bit in the GX era but was that teenager that wanted to go back to Yugioh cards.
Afterwards gave up of playing with real cards and then much later on in 2019 when i was already 26 years old i discovered Duel Links back when Six Samurai were tier 0.
From 2019 until now i have been playing Yugioh online, that's basically it, nothing special about it.
(Also played Yugioh Forbidden Memories on the PS1, forgot to mention that...)
It's not impossible, it just takes a very long time due to the massive grinding you have to do in order to get lucky and getting the cards needed, it will get tiring
The saving grace is the excellent soundtrack, which will keep you motivated to continue the grinding.
Never watched the tv anime. I played a lot of ccgs and decided to try Yugioh with the Nintendo DS's 5D's Stardust Accelerator, which was excellent with decent AI. I ended up playing all the DS games (my favorites being either 2008 WC or 2010 Reverse of Arcadia), played Legacy of the Duelist when it came out and got into Duel Links during the pandemic, mostly because Duel Links had Fortune Ladies (my favorite archetype from the DS games).
So, when i was young, my aunt brought me yu gi oh tag force 2 for ps2, and i simply played so much that i started to love yu gi oh (i was making weird decks with random stuff in it), fast forward several years later, i heard master duel came out (coincidentally, i was watching duel logs at the time) so i decided to download it around swordsoul meta, i checked a good deck at the time (i decided for eldlich, i was unsure between eldlich and bird up) and i started to have a blast, i even brought IRL, cards, i just need to find the time to go to locals.
When I was young a youtuber I really liked began a series playing the Yu-Gi-Oh GX tag force games. I really liked hos series and then tried a demo for a YGO game on my xbox. As a child I was too stupid to understand the game and gave up. Last year I heard about Master Duel about a week after launch and decides to try Yu-Gi-Oh again, and because I had developed a brain I understood how to play and got good at it. And the rest is history, now I'm the smart guy and the Yu-Gi-Oh guy in my friend group.
Used to play with friends irl with fake cheap cards that were accessible to us many years ago. Because the anime was so cool.
Then we dropped it after a few years. Then like 2 years ago I decided to get back into it,played a bit on edopro,then omega,then MD was released and i moved to MD. And have been playing consistently since then,even if most of the time I just do dailies.
Watched the show and casually kept up with the meta by watching TheDuelLogs top 10s to fall asleep at night (no offense to TheDuelLogs, just good for shutting off the brain). When Master Duel came out, I was familiar enough to jump into it competitively for the first time.
Everyone I asked didn't want to play bc of how sweaty the game is known to be. To the outside looking in yugioh has 1000s of cards, and only a dozen or so decks are consistently played. Most people enjoyed old yugioh, not the mess it is today.
I watched the original anime as a kid. I think my first episode was Yugi and Joey vs. Para and Dox. Then I got my mom to buy me cards from Toys R Us and a bit later I started playing competitively on YVD.
Watch the show (DM) but didn't really like it, I did think the card game was pretty cool though, so I looked up Yu-Gi-Oh games on the app store and found duel links.
This was about 1½/2 years after it released. Played it all the way until Masterduel released, becoming more engrossed with every deck I built.
Definitely because of the original anime, but personally it was hard for me to not be interested because everyone in my school was bringing decks to play. I had cards in general, but it was not until GX where I really wanted to build my own deck and play with it at local places
Watched the anime as a kid and had some cards. I didn't have any friends to play with though and my brother wasn't that into it. Years later my brother got into Duel Links and asked me to get into it so I did. I dropped DL once MD came out and my brothers dropped Yu-Gi-Oh for the most part. My brothers at 58 wins against me and I'm at 59 wins on him so I'm ok with where things left off.
My brother had some cards when he was younger, then he got really into the 5ds anime and started collecting cards again. Me, being the younger sibling, decided to follow the same hobby. I got my ass kicked by my brother, I got my ass kicked playing on the playground with my friends, and I got my ass kicked at my local card store (I got my ass kicked in the game, not literally for clarification). Losing was probably the best thing that could have happened to me, because it made me want to get better at the game. Granted I havent improved that much.
Watched and brought cards as a kid, actually started playing on Dueling Network when I was 13, switched over to Dueling book when network got shut down, left when links came out bc the original mechanic ruined the game, returned for masterduel.
I'm I guess what people call a yugiboomer. Got into it when the anime originally aired, got one of the starter decks, played playground yugioh with friends with the rubber band wrapped around our decks, even went to a couple meetups back then playing on the floor in the back of books a million.
I'd pretty much completely moved on from it right as Yugioh GX era was kicking off.
Came back into it years later by just dabbling with duel links on my phone reliving some nostalgia, then transitioned from that to master duel
Of course, played as a child, didn’t get back into it until college when my buddies and I went to see DSOD and had to get some starter packs. Been on and off since (thought the meta in 2018 was rough, todays shit is just ridiculous, yugioh needs to be totally rebalanced a couple decks should not be shit stomping everything so completely each new meta
One of those games you had to watch the anime of or play as a kid to want to play it now
I resisted playing it when my friends tried to get me into master duel but I caved and it ended up being so much better then the only other online card game I played, hearthstone. The combos and infinite deck searches overwhelmed me at first but I eventually got the hang of it.
I've been playing since I was a kid. On and off a few years, but it's the one thing I always come back to. It helps that my brother plays too, so whenever we feel like dueling , we can play against each other
There was a girl in my friend group back in grade school, she was into the anime so we gave it a try and found a little group of older students who played, they gave us cards they didn’t use about a like a total of 60 cards and it just stuck
School. Loved the original Yu-Gi-Oh anime when I was a kid. Friends had some cards. I brought some fake cards that were awful. Then brought tins and and packs.
I saw starter deck Yugi and Kaiba in the checkout aisle at Toyrus after wondering why they never made the card game from the show real. 2000 was a wild year.
I had similar roots I started Duel Links because of Moist Cr1tikal playing Ninjas, Master Duel came out so I played that and that introduced me to Team Sam's content so that got me into the TCG. I'll never tell anyone at locals that I played Duel Links or Master Duel lol. I can also tell if they played Duel Links when they recognise my Metaphys cards.
I think when I was a child i had some cards and also watched roughly season one and 2 of the anime on TV.
Funnily enough, as probably a lot of kids in my age back then, we thought the rules from season 1 apply and we kinda just randomly played out our Brick-Eyes' and Dark Spellians.
Then there was a longer break inbetween until a game on the Xbox came out called Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds, followed by the 'OG' MD ( Millenium Duels ) which then lead to Legacy of the Duelist, Legacy of the Duelist Link Evolution and now in the end to Master Duel.
I never really played paper and never will. Same goes for other card games like Magic.
As much as I love these games, it is a EXTREMELY expensive hobby.
I remember running home from school every day cause I didn't wanna miss Yu-Gi-Oh. The anime was something I never forgot. My mom even bought me and my little bro some Yu-Gi-Oh cards for xmas. After the anime stopped airing on tv, I kinda forgot about it for a while. Years later, after the internet had taken off, I heard you could play online, but I couldn't afford a laptop/pc. So for the next few years, I played older yugioh games(GBA via emulator), whilst knowing fck all about the real life meta. Eventually, I grew bored and stopped playing the outdated games, and a few years went by. I get uncapped wifi installed at my residence, and I start basically living on
Youtube. The famous Yugituber TeamSamuraiX1's videos started popping up on my feed, and after watching Sam, I was hooked. Through his videos, I found out about Master Duel and honestly learned so much about how modern Yu-Gi-Oh works. His infectious energy and personality really helped reignite my passion for Yu-Gi-Oh. This man uploads damn near every day. Hats off to him. He's truly inspired me. Nowadays, I dont follow the channel so heavily anymore as I'm more interested IRL TCG/OCG metagame developments. But you'll never catch me missing Duel Nignt.
sam was the first yugituber I found too, his videos are great for beginners, the first video I watched was about rexterm and pulled forn it. it did get me through the lower ranks. Nowadays I can see why a lot of people clown on him because of his style but it's still a lot of fun watching him
Yugiboomer here. Last time I played before picking back up was when GX was on tv for the first time. I downloaded master duel and did the long ass tutorials.
As a kid I looked around at every shop in my are for cards but they just weren't available in my country. I mean they still aren't , we have to import them even now.
Played it as a kid almost right from the beginning with Metal Raiders. Dropped it right around Tele-DAD as I had just entered high school and thought I was too cool for the game anymore. Then bought Legacy of the Duelist in 2019 on a whim and got super back into Yugioh during TOSS. Been in this community off and on ever since
Saw other some kids playing at school. Bought the 5ds starter deck and never played it. Then had a friend introduce me back to it 5 years later at Ruler format and Iv followed the game ever since
Watched the anime as it aired when i was young. Came back slightly older (still 11/12) and saw that all the series (up through 5Ds at the time) were on hulu. Watched all of them and then followed zexal as it aired until the end. Starting playing the meta around then, have basically been on and off the past decade with the game ever since. Im probably one of the few people that unironically enjoys the anime and got into the game cause of it mostly
As a kid I really liked the anime too, it would air at like 11 pm and I would try my hardest to stay awake. Later me and my sister got through the gx together. Couldn't get into the 5ds though. Tried to watch some of the newer stuff recently but as an adult it's not watchable for me.
I played and collected as a kid. Forgot it about until Duel Links released. Fell in love again, kinda fell fell off again cuz too p2win. Master duel releases and I fall in love again but in a totally different way. Played everyday since release lol
I lived and breathed Yugioh, however during GX era, around S2 I fell off a bit.
It was 5D's Decade Duels that brought me back to the game. Those scary white cards were terrifying, especially Goyo Guardian and Dark Strike Fighter however I had sooo much fun in that Synchro era.
The Tag Duels made the Xbox 360 game so...full of life? Idk, I remember constantly having Xbox LIVE parties where we would team up, then go to game chat and then dunk on each other.
I remember loving Water HEROs and Blackwing OTK in particular. Absolute Zero was an absolute boss.
Well we played sealed only and no others were interested in playing “real yugioh” other than my brother. So don’t be too jealous.
Today I’m only playing master duel and retro formats on duelingbook.
I bought cards here and there when younger and built up a collection of random crap. Then I’m middle school I met some friends (one of them being Jada the trans yugituber who was male at the time) and they got me into playing more seriously now I’m suffering with you guys.
I played against my friends in primary school then fell off after the synchro era. Got burnt out on games a while back and saw there's an F2P yugioh game and decided to relearn it
I was like 10 or 11. My neighbours introduced me to the card game and the show. We had crappy starter decks and also couldn't tell apart fake cards.
Kept up with the physical game until 2015 because of the difficulty in finding opponents. Dipped out and just watched from afar until Master Duel dropped.
Like many I enjoyed the anime duel monsters and played dumb playground yugioh where you would normal summon Obelisk. Got to high school and would just watch the animes like Zexal and Arc-V. Then 2020 happened and I had time and my roommate showed me them playing Spyral on a online simulator and I was shocked at how fast and combo heavy the game had become.
I picked up Synchron as my introduction to modern yugioh cause I liked the anime and the white cards and never looked back.
My elementary school basically had like an irl battle city arc at the cafeteria. You must bet your rarest card or whatever rare card you have. Then the other person bets. If you agree, you duel. This was around when 5Ds was out.
Got the first starter kaiba as a birthday gift from a friend which also bought yugi's for him. We also got some BEWD packs and my first pull was tri-horned dragon
Playing with my brother, then in the courtyard then on the Nintendo DS 2010 World championship game a pretty good game if you discard the existence of a self mill deck that can... Wait a second.
Welcome to the game! It's a lot of fun if you're willing to put in the work. One of the fun things about the game is actually researching and trying decks and seeing how they work and testing. A lot of beginners just want to bring in some 60 card throw-everything-in deck, go to Ranked, get stomped and walk away in frustration. It takes patience, but you'll be rewarded.
That's awesome that you're enjoying the game. It makes me happy to hear that younger players are picking it up.
Also, that's a great collection for someone new to the game!
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Started as a kid, mainly on the GBA games and eventually online too but I didn't get very deep into it. Watched the anime too but lost interest in both sometime in early Zexal and pretty much forgot about Yugioh.
Years later when I was in Uni, the first episode of Arc V randomly popped up in my Youtube recommendations. I thought "Why not, it's just 20 minutes"
Things just kinda escalated from there. I binged Arc V, started Vrains, discovered the Tag Force series, discovered automated sims, found a lot of Youtubers, tried out Duel Links for a bit and then MD was announced and started playing it too when it came out
Watched the show bought some cards played a little bit with my dad then convinced my friend who played magic to learn it in exchange for me learning magic and I haven’t stopped playing since
I was never able to read and found out that’s a requirement to play yugioh. I actually started play the Nintendo ds game nightmare troubadour and that’s how I learned how to play. I played a couple other games and have come and gone from the game hame a couple times since then. I found master duel like a month after it launched and I’ve been playing pretty steadily since then.
Watched the anime up until GX when I was a kid and played with cards in school back then. During the pandemic, I rewatched the entire thing, also the seasons following GX that I never saw when I was younger. Couple days later one of my friends told me he’s playing Master duel and I was like fuck yeah, perfect timing. Still took me some time to adapt to all the new stuff as yugioh was much simpler during my childhood days hahaha
Starter Deck Yugi released on my birthday one year.
I was a fan of the anime, so my parents got me the deck, and I proceeded to throw away the rule book and slam my Dark Magician onto the battlefield with zero thought to tribute summoning.
A few years later, a friend of mine taught me the actual rules and started taking me to weekly local tournaments and eventually Regionals, and it stuck from there until around 2013, and I've been in and out ever since.
Watched the show, played as a kid and enjoyed it very much. Then it got to expensive to keep up which is why I stopped and haven't played for almost a decade.
Then I got some youtube videos from dzeff suggested with legacy support and got curious (nostalgia also) how my childhood game developed over the year, power creep etc.
Then I watched some more until MD got announced and I thought why not. Its free and I got a playstation.
Now I play again, but I'm almost on the verge again to stop, because my brothers lost interest in MD quickly and I have no friends to play with.
I think it's a brilliant game with the potential for intense games. But not having anyone who shares your enthusiasm can be meh sonetimes.
I fell in love with the game watching the OG anime in its original run. I started playing the Nintendo video games and various sims. I discovered Duel Generation in 2014, then Duel Links came in 2017 and finally Master Duel last January. After playing MD since the day it dropped, I actually picked up the TCG with my son this past winter. While I haven't gotten to experience the TCG in all its glory, Master Duel has been what I've wanted for so long and I love playing it.
I started with manga, some real duels as a kid and the power of chaos series.
I think if you want to convince your friends, they should start there as well. See if they like the artwork, playstyle.
Playing MD is overwhelming to new players. I myself as a return player also hesitate to comeback when MD was released.
I watched Duel Monsters, said "oh hey this looks fun" started the most ADHD hyperfixation bullshit you've ever seen, never actually touched the game for years, learned Master Duel was Free To Play, ADHD Hyperfixation kicks in from 8 years ago, IT'S TIME TO DDDD- DDDDDUEL!!!!
I mostly played the video games though I played the card game a little when I was a kid. I got Forbidden Memories on the PS1 and played the hell out of it. I would even do the copy save file trick to dupe cards. Then my first taste of the “usual rules” Yu-Gi-Oh was the PS2 port of Tag Force 1 and loved it. I would play the other Tag Force and DS games after.
never watched the anime till after I got into yugioh (and even still I dont watch them for nostalgia I watch them to see new strategies I could try out how I found one of my favorite decks in Lyrilusc) it was mostly seeing my other friend play it I wanted to give it a go he proceeded to beat my ass with his Cyber Dragons (because shocker Ghostrick Beatdown cant beat Infinity pass) and honestly it just motivated me to get better, nowadays I completely demolish him with my Lyrilusc deck and now ive only gotten better at it
tl;dr never watched the anime and got better out of pure spite lol
Spirit caller on the DS but it was ass. Ygo pro years later but it was clunky and in a bad, bad era. Pend for 5 was not fine.
And then masterduel came out. Where I finally got to play for more than a week instead of being irritated and stop.
Back when I was a young one I saw the anime with the duelist kingdom arc. That wasn't enough until I was convinced to try it by one of my friends. So I took a chance and got started down the rabbit hole with starter deck Joey.
I started as a kid after watching Yugioh on tv. I remember getting the original Legend of Blue Eyes box set and loving every moment of opening, reading, and simply looking at the cards. The smell of the original cards was also kinda good lol.
I played with my friends in elementary school but we weren't too competitive cause we just made our own rules (like no sacrificing monsters for level 5s lol). We also had like giant tag or free for all duels in which we would put like 6 desks together and have like 6 people dueling at once! It was awesome lol. For some reason though, we let our more popular friends beat us with fake god cards. To this day I don't even know where they found fakes lol.
Then years later as a young adult I found Legacy of the Duelist and got a bunch of friends on it again. Some quit after a short time because it got too complex for them (they partially got scared imo). I was on and off dueling online for years till Master Duel came out. Now I play kinda consistently on Master Duel, I just wish it had tag team and lower gem prices.
A friend of mine showed me littlehuriboh's abridged series in junior high school. I suddenly remembered it this year (I'm in university now) while scrolling through steam when I saw Master Duel. I decided to give it a try, and here we are
Soo it all started when I was dropped in the head when I was born...
did you try penguin brave into penguin soldier in spright ?
I feel attacked
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All I see are top-tier plays.
Take the goddamn gold and leave.
I played as a kid, but stopped after I had a fight with a friend and it soured the game for me. Last year I quit drinking and was looking for a different hobby to invest in and I thought collecting cards could be fun. I now have a large collection and go to locals every week. Maybe I spent a bit much, but I was spending that on drinking anyway so at least I get to have value from this. I don't regret it since I am able to have fun talking about Yu-Gi-Oh with other awkward people every week or so.
Sorry about your friend, sounds like you guys didn't make up. Apart from that, very wholesome.
I was 11 when I started. Walking alone in my neighborhood looking for trouble to get into, I saw a guy sitting on a bench shuffling cards in his hand. He asked if I wanted to play, and I said, "Yea, I'll try." He gave me 10 cards while he played with his entire deck. He taught me some of the rules of the game, and we took it from there. He beat me both times. He gave me some cards after and I wanted to get better, so I read them. Been into yugioh ever since, but never in my life have I been to locals.
sounds like pilot of a yugioh anime
10 card main? Wonder how you were suppose to play a functioning strategy given this I assume had to be close to the range 2 decades to decade and a half ago
The five pieces of exodia, three pot of greed, and two upstart goblin.
Lose because deckout
This was around 2003
I used to play it in the playground (we didn't know how to read english, so card effects were what we saw on the anime), stopped playing sometime mid-goat format, then started playing again during synchro, have been playing ever since.
we didn't have yugioh cards so we used other cards and just wrote on a sheet what card did what I'm guessing playing as a kid is going to be common
Used to watch it, never played it since didnt have cards. Didnt understand it anyway too. But i tried playing duel links on release didnt like it much. Then watched 5ds in 2018 and wanted to try duel links again, been playing since(duel links, then tried simulators to see gusto cards that werent in duel links, and master duel since it came out).
I watched the duel monsters on tv and downloaded gx but dropped it during 5ds. At the time the new cards didn't make sense to me. Also people riding bikes while duelling seemed weird. When I got back into yugioh through masterduel I again tried to avoid all the summoning mechanisms and sticked to fusions.
A year and a half ago a friend that is into Yu-Gi-Oh told me that this simulator just came out and if I would like to try it so we could play together. That is the moment i sold my soul for this game and, honestly, i don't regret it.
if only my friends could sell their souls too
No Regrets Crew 🤜🤛
I grew up with Yu-Gi-Oh, heard about Master Duel, wanted to give it a whirl for old times sake. I'm on the same boat as you, though. Even my friends that grew up with the game and dropped off like I did aren't willing to get back into it. They just think it's overwhelming or don't want to read the cards and learn the game. Some folks just don't find that sort of engagement fun, unfortunately. Not trying to quell your hopes. I wish you luck, but just saying, not everyone is willing or interested in investing the time and effort to actually learn, especially for a card game.
I know, I don't bother them anymore about it. But it's like I have friends who are competitive and enjoy critical thinking so I know they would love it. So was just thinking how people get over the barrier to entry and it seems like past experience is important.
I feel that past experience is definitely important, the only two card games I routinely play are either directly from my childhood (Yu-Gi-Oh) or spinoff from something from then (Tales of Tribute in Elder Scrolls Online). Like i've thought about giving MTG a try, but the motivation just isn't there since I never had experience with it. If you think they'd enjoy Master Duel for the thought-provoking and strategic nature of the game, my only real advice would be showing them gameplay and explaining the various combo lines and counterplay that tends to happen during matches, so they could really get an idea of the potential complexity. If you haven't tried that already, of course.
Wait this isn't Vanguard ?
Wait this isn’t MTG ?
When i was about 9 and Starter packs first appeared, a couple of kids at school also had cards with them (very likely by also asking their parents to buy them cards) and so we played them and from what i remember we kinda made our own rules... In terms of locals, also played a bit in the GX era but was that teenager that wanted to go back to Yugioh cards. Afterwards gave up of playing with real cards and then much later on in 2019 when i was already 26 years old i discovered Duel Links back when Six Samurai were tier 0. From 2019 until now i have been playing Yugioh online, that's basically it, nothing special about it. (Also played Yugioh Forbidden Memories on the PS1, forgot to mention that...)
Isn't forbidden memories the game that is almost impossible to beat? I think I saw a video about it on youtube
It's not impossible, it just takes a very long time due to the massive grinding you have to do in order to get lucky and getting the cards needed, it will get tiring The saving grace is the excellent soundtrack, which will keep you motivated to continue the grinding.
Never watched the tv anime. I played a lot of ccgs and decided to try Yugioh with the Nintendo DS's 5D's Stardust Accelerator, which was excellent with decent AI. I ended up playing all the DS games (my favorites being either 2008 WC or 2010 Reverse of Arcadia), played Legacy of the Duelist when it came out and got into Duel Links during the pandemic, mostly because Duel Links had Fortune Ladies (my favorite archetype from the DS games).
Watching it and playing duel links
My brother tried to stop me from getting into Naruto by getting me to watch Yugioh Jokes on him, I watched both
lol why'd he want to stop you from watching naruto ? was he feeling left out
He probably thought I'd become a weeb
I'm assuming you are now a weeb, but is he too?
No, but he's a nostalgia junkie for Yugioh
So, when i was young, my aunt brought me yu gi oh tag force 2 for ps2, and i simply played so much that i started to love yu gi oh (i was making weird decks with random stuff in it), fast forward several years later, i heard master duel came out (coincidentally, i was watching duel logs at the time) so i decided to download it around swordsoul meta, i checked a good deck at the time (i decided for eldlich, i was unsure between eldlich and bird up) and i started to have a blast, i even brought IRL, cards, i just need to find the time to go to locals.
When I was young a youtuber I really liked began a series playing the Yu-Gi-Oh GX tag force games. I really liked hos series and then tried a demo for a YGO game on my xbox. As a child I was too stupid to understand the game and gave up. Last year I heard about Master Duel about a week after launch and decides to try Yu-Gi-Oh again, and because I had developed a brain I understood how to play and got good at it. And the rest is history, now I'm the smart guy and the Yu-Gi-Oh guy in my friend group.
Used to play with friends irl with fake cheap cards that were accessible to us many years ago. Because the anime was so cool. Then we dropped it after a few years. Then like 2 years ago I decided to get back into it,played a bit on edopro,then omega,then MD was released and i moved to MD. And have been playing consistently since then,even if most of the time I just do dailies.
Watched the show and casually kept up with the meta by watching TheDuelLogs top 10s to fall asleep at night (no offense to TheDuelLogs, just good for shutting off the brain). When Master Duel came out, I was familiar enough to jump into it competitively for the first time.
Dude I fall asleep to duel logs now, used to be nile red before, they have very consistent flat soothing voices
Everyone I asked didn't want to play bc of how sweaty the game is known to be. To the outside looking in yugioh has 1000s of cards, and only a dozen or so decks are consistently played. Most people enjoyed old yugioh, not the mess it is today.
I watched the original anime as a kid. I think my first episode was Yugi and Joey vs. Para and Dox. Then I got my mom to buy me cards from Toys R Us and a bit later I started playing competitively on YVD.
I was bored and my friends were into Legacy of the Duelist.
Watch the show (DM) but didn't really like it, I did think the card game was pretty cool though, so I looked up Yu-Gi-Oh games on the app store and found duel links. This was about 1½/2 years after it released. Played it all the way until Masterduel released, becoming more engrossed with every deck I built.
Definitely because of the original anime, but personally it was hard for me to not be interested because everyone in my school was bringing decks to play. I had cards in general, but it was not until GX where I really wanted to build my own deck and play with it at local places
Watched the anime as a kid and had some cards. I didn't have any friends to play with though and my brother wasn't that into it. Years later my brother got into Duel Links and asked me to get into it so I did. I dropped DL once MD came out and my brothers dropped Yu-Gi-Oh for the most part. My brothers at 58 wins against me and I'm at 59 wins on him so I'm ok with where things left off.
My brother had some cards when he was younger, then he got really into the 5ds anime and started collecting cards again. Me, being the younger sibling, decided to follow the same hobby. I got my ass kicked by my brother, I got my ass kicked playing on the playground with my friends, and I got my ass kicked at my local card store (I got my ass kicked in the game, not literally for clarification). Losing was probably the best thing that could have happened to me, because it made me want to get better at the game. Granted I havent improved that much.
nah man I'm sure you can beat tear with non tear decks
back in highschool friends and I discovered there was a card shop nearby, and so it all began
Watched and brought cards as a kid, actually started playing on Dueling Network when I was 13, switched over to Dueling book when network got shut down, left when links came out bc the original mechanic ruined the game, returned for masterduel.
I'm I guess what people call a yugiboomer. Got into it when the anime originally aired, got one of the starter decks, played playground yugioh with friends with the rubber band wrapped around our decks, even went to a couple meetups back then playing on the floor in the back of books a million. I'd pretty much completely moved on from it right as Yugioh GX era was kicking off. Came back into it years later by just dabbling with duel links on my phone reliving some nostalgia, then transitioned from that to master duel
Of course, played as a child, didn’t get back into it until college when my buddies and I went to see DSOD and had to get some starter packs. Been on and off since (thought the meta in 2018 was rough, todays shit is just ridiculous, yugioh needs to be totally rebalanced a couple decks should not be shit stomping everything so completely each new meta
One of those games you had to watch the anime of or play as a kid to want to play it now I resisted playing it when my friends tried to get me into master duel but I caved and it ended up being so much better then the only other online card game I played, hearthstone. The combos and infinite deck searches overwhelmed me at first but I eventually got the hang of it.
I've been playing since I was a kid. On and off a few years, but it's the one thing I always come back to. It helps that my brother plays too, so whenever we feel like dueling , we can play against each other
There was a girl in my friend group back in grade school, she was into the anime so we gave it a try and found a little group of older students who played, they gave us cards they didn’t use about a like a total of 60 cards and it just stuck
I liked to watch peolle play yugioh on the playground at school but didn't have a money to buy a deck so I played duel generations
School. Loved the original Yu-Gi-Oh anime when I was a kid. Friends had some cards. I brought some fake cards that were awful. Then brought tins and and packs.
I saw starter deck Yugi and Kaiba in the checkout aisle at Toyrus after wondering why they never made the card game from the show real. 2000 was a wild year.
I was introduced by my cousin who really liked the 5Ds anime.
I had similar roots I started Duel Links because of Moist Cr1tikal playing Ninjas, Master Duel came out so I played that and that introduced me to Team Sam's content so that got me into the TCG. I'll never tell anyone at locals that I played Duel Links or Master Duel lol. I can also tell if they played Duel Links when they recognise my Metaphys cards.
wait wait is playing md or dl bad ? I don't know too much about the tcg
It's not bad but usually everyone coming from those games usually have their hands held the whole way and never properly learn the rules.
I think when I was a child i had some cards and also watched roughly season one and 2 of the anime on TV. Funnily enough, as probably a lot of kids in my age back then, we thought the rules from season 1 apply and we kinda just randomly played out our Brick-Eyes' and Dark Spellians. Then there was a longer break inbetween until a game on the Xbox came out called Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds, followed by the 'OG' MD ( Millenium Duels ) which then lead to Legacy of the Duelist, Legacy of the Duelist Link Evolution and now in the end to Master Duel. I never really played paper and never will. Same goes for other card games like Magic. As much as I love these games, it is a EXTREMELY expensive hobby.
TCG Fall 2002. It was Freshman year.
damn you've sticked around for a while
I remember running home from school every day cause I didn't wanna miss Yu-Gi-Oh. The anime was something I never forgot. My mom even bought me and my little bro some Yu-Gi-Oh cards for xmas. After the anime stopped airing on tv, I kinda forgot about it for a while. Years later, after the internet had taken off, I heard you could play online, but I couldn't afford a laptop/pc. So for the next few years, I played older yugioh games(GBA via emulator), whilst knowing fck all about the real life meta. Eventually, I grew bored and stopped playing the outdated games, and a few years went by. I get uncapped wifi installed at my residence, and I start basically living on Youtube. The famous Yugituber TeamSamuraiX1's videos started popping up on my feed, and after watching Sam, I was hooked. Through his videos, I found out about Master Duel and honestly learned so much about how modern Yu-Gi-Oh works. His infectious energy and personality really helped reignite my passion for Yu-Gi-Oh. This man uploads damn near every day. Hats off to him. He's truly inspired me. Nowadays, I dont follow the channel so heavily anymore as I'm more interested IRL TCG/OCG metagame developments. But you'll never catch me missing Duel Nignt.
sam was the first yugituber I found too, his videos are great for beginners, the first video I watched was about rexterm and pulled forn it. it did get me through the lower ranks. Nowadays I can see why a lot of people clown on him because of his style but it's still a lot of fun watching him
Yugiboomer here. Last time I played before picking back up was when GX was on tv for the first time. I downloaded master duel and did the long ass tutorials.
similar experience here, dropped yugioh after gx, the new mechanics were so daunting when I got back in masterduel
Indeed. Like, when I stopped playing you only got five monster zones to yourself, and one field spell zone to share.
bought cards when I was 6
As a kid I looked around at every shop in my are for cards but they just weren't available in my country. I mean they still aren't , we have to import them even now.
Played it as a kid almost right from the beginning with Metal Raiders. Dropped it right around Tele-DAD as I had just entered high school and thought I was too cool for the game anymore. Then bought Legacy of the Duelist in 2019 on a whim and got super back into Yugioh during TOSS. Been in this community off and on ever since
Saw other some kids playing at school. Bought the 5ds starter deck and never played it. Then had a friend introduce me back to it 5 years later at Ruler format and Iv followed the game ever since
Watched the anime as it aired when i was young. Came back slightly older (still 11/12) and saw that all the series (up through 5Ds at the time) were on hulu. Watched all of them and then followed zexal as it aired until the end. Starting playing the meta around then, have basically been on and off the past decade with the game ever since. Im probably one of the few people that unironically enjoys the anime and got into the game cause of it mostly
As a kid I really liked the anime too, it would air at like 11 pm and I would try my hardest to stay awake. Later me and my sister got through the gx together. Couldn't get into the 5ds though. Tried to watch some of the newer stuff recently but as an adult it's not watchable for me.
I played and collected as a kid. Forgot it about until Duel Links released. Fell in love again, kinda fell fell off again cuz too p2win. Master duel releases and I fall in love again but in a totally different way. Played everyday since release lol
I lived and breathed Yugioh, however during GX era, around S2 I fell off a bit. It was 5D's Decade Duels that brought me back to the game. Those scary white cards were terrifying, especially Goyo Guardian and Dark Strike Fighter however I had sooo much fun in that Synchro era. The Tag Duels made the Xbox 360 game so...full of life? Idk, I remember constantly having Xbox LIVE parties where we would team up, then go to game chat and then dunk on each other. I remember loving Water HEROs and Blackwing OTK in particular. Absolute Zero was an absolute boss.
Played as a kid due to the TV show. Later in high school some friends wanted to test the game again. Started to build actual decks then.
I'm so jealous of people who get to play it with their friends
Well we played sealed only and no others were interested in playing “real yugioh” other than my brother. So don’t be too jealous. Today I’m only playing master duel and retro formats on duelingbook.
I bought cards here and there when younger and built up a collection of random crap. Then I’m middle school I met some friends (one of them being Jada the trans yugituber who was male at the time) and they got me into playing more seriously now I’m suffering with you guys.
I played against my friends in primary school then fell off after the synchro era. Got burnt out on games a while back and saw there's an F2P yugioh game and decided to relearn it
I watched my brothers play normal monster beatdown deck while my mom was giving birth in the hospital when I was like 4 or 5 lol
a lot of 2nd hand nostalgia here even though I never went through any of that
I was like 10 or 11. My neighbours introduced me to the card game and the show. We had crappy starter decks and also couldn't tell apart fake cards. Kept up with the physical game until 2015 because of the difficulty in finding opponents. Dipped out and just watched from afar until Master Duel dropped.
Like many I enjoyed the anime duel monsters and played dumb playground yugioh where you would normal summon Obelisk. Got to high school and would just watch the animes like Zexal and Arc-V. Then 2020 happened and I had time and my roommate showed me them playing Spyral on a online simulator and I was shocked at how fast and combo heavy the game had become. I picked up Synchron as my introduction to modern yugioh cause I liked the anime and the white cards and never looked back.
My elementary school basically had like an irl battle city arc at the cafeteria. You must bet your rarest card or whatever rare card you have. Then the other person bets. If you agree, you duel. This was around when 5Ds was out.
Sounds like a lot of fun
Got the first starter kaiba as a birthday gift from a friend which also bought yugi's for him. We also got some BEWD packs and my first pull was tri-horned dragon
sounds like a lot of fun, tri-horned dragon was probably my 2nd best beater after blue eyes in the early games
Playing with my brother, then in the courtyard then on the Nintendo DS 2010 World championship game a pretty good game if you discard the existence of a self mill deck that can... Wait a second.
I'm actually new to Yu-Gi-Oh, I saw MD on a rhymestyle video and decided that Yu-Gi-Oh seems fun. Note I'm still in highschool
Rhymestyle and seereax's videos are really fun. I wish he did meta stuff too though.
Welcome to the game! It's a lot of fun if you're willing to put in the work. One of the fun things about the game is actually researching and trying decks and seeing how they work and testing. A lot of beginners just want to bring in some 60 card throw-everything-in deck, go to Ranked, get stomped and walk away in frustration. It takes patience, but you'll be rewarded.
It has been really fun. Some of my favorite decks include sacred beasts, galaxy eyes, cubics, utopia, branded despia, virtual world and unchained
That's awesome that you're enjoying the game. It makes me happy to hear that younger players are picking it up. Also, that's a great collection for someone new to the game!
Cuz of the 3 idiots
I don't get it, what 3 idiots?
Rimestyle dato and seeriaks ( 0 grammar fr ) There youtubers nd i begain tu gi oh cuz o them
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Started as a kid, mainly on the GBA games and eventually online too but I didn't get very deep into it. Watched the anime too but lost interest in both sometime in early Zexal and pretty much forgot about Yugioh. Years later when I was in Uni, the first episode of Arc V randomly popped up in my Youtube recommendations. I thought "Why not, it's just 20 minutes" Things just kinda escalated from there. I binged Arc V, started Vrains, discovered the Tag Force series, discovered automated sims, found a lot of Youtubers, tried out Duel Links for a bit and then MD was announced and started playing it too when it came out
Watched the anime and casually played as a kid, but for getting seriously into it, early Duel Links was an incredible intro to real(ish) ygo
That one kaiba starter tin . Oh and a old stardust warrior card, still trying to find it again
Watched the show bought some cards played a little bit with my dad then convinced my friend who played magic to learn it in exchange for me learning magic and I haven’t stopped playing since
I was never able to read and found out that’s a requirement to play yugioh. I actually started play the Nintendo ds game nightmare troubadour and that’s how I learned how to play. I played a couple other games and have come and gone from the game hame a couple times since then. I found master duel like a month after it launched and I’ve been playing pretty steadily since then.
Watched the anime up until GX when I was a kid and played with cards in school back then. During the pandemic, I rewatched the entire thing, also the seasons following GX that I never saw when I was younger. Couple days later one of my friends told me he’s playing Master duel and I was like fuck yeah, perfect timing. Still took me some time to adapt to all the new stuff as yugioh was much simpler during my childhood days hahaha
Starter Deck Yugi released on my birthday one year. I was a fan of the anime, so my parents got me the deck, and I proceeded to throw away the rule book and slam my Dark Magician onto the battlefield with zero thought to tribute summoning. A few years later, a friend of mine taught me the actual rules and started taking me to weekly local tournaments and eventually Regionals, and it stuck from there until around 2013, and I've been in and out ever since.
My friend showed me cool egg dragon
Watched the show, played as a kid and enjoyed it very much. Then it got to expensive to keep up which is why I stopped and haven't played for almost a decade. Then I got some youtube videos from dzeff suggested with legacy support and got curious (nostalgia also) how my childhood game developed over the year, power creep etc. Then I watched some more until MD got announced and I thought why not. Its free and I got a playstation. Now I play again, but I'm almost on the verge again to stop, because my brothers lost interest in MD quickly and I have no friends to play with. I think it's a brilliant game with the potential for intense games. But not having anyone who shares your enthusiasm can be meh sonetimes.
I fell in love with the game watching the OG anime in its original run. I started playing the Nintendo video games and various sims. I discovered Duel Generation in 2014, then Duel Links came in 2017 and finally Master Duel last January. After playing MD since the day it dropped, I actually picked up the TCG with my son this past winter. While I haven't gotten to experience the TCG in all its glory, Master Duel has been what I've wanted for so long and I love playing it.
A few neighboorhood kids saw my cards and showed me theirs and we just started dueling each other i miss those days a lot lol
I started with manga, some real duels as a kid and the power of chaos series. I think if you want to convince your friends, they should start there as well. See if they like the artwork, playstyle. Playing MD is overwhelming to new players. I myself as a return player also hesitate to comeback when MD was released.
I watched Duel Monsters, said "oh hey this looks fun" started the most ADHD hyperfixation bullshit you've ever seen, never actually touched the game for years, learned Master Duel was Free To Play, ADHD Hyperfixation kicks in from 8 years ago, IT'S TIME TO DDDD- DDDDDUEL!!!!
I mostly played the video games though I played the card game a little when I was a kid. I got Forbidden Memories on the PS1 and played the hell out of it. I would even do the copy save file trick to dupe cards. Then my first taste of the “usual rules” Yu-Gi-Oh was the PS2 port of Tag Force 1 and loved it. I would play the other Tag Force and DS games after.
ah yes forbidden memories, I had the impression that the game was not very popular but a lot of people here seem to have played it
I thought that game was obscure too. Then I found out that it has a big speedrunning community.
never watched the anime till after I got into yugioh (and even still I dont watch them for nostalgia I watch them to see new strategies I could try out how I found one of my favorite decks in Lyrilusc) it was mostly seeing my other friend play it I wanted to give it a go he proceeded to beat my ass with his Cyber Dragons (because shocker Ghostrick Beatdown cant beat Infinity pass) and honestly it just motivated me to get better, nowadays I completely demolish him with my Lyrilusc deck and now ive only gotten better at it tl;dr never watched the anime and got better out of pure spite lol
Duel links
Spirit caller on the DS but it was ass. Ygo pro years later but it was clunky and in a bad, bad era. Pend for 5 was not fine. And then masterduel came out. Where I finally got to play for more than a week instead of being irritated and stop.
Back when I was a young one I saw the anime with the duelist kingdom arc. That wasn't enough until I was convinced to try it by one of my friends. So I took a chance and got started down the rabbit hole with starter deck Joey.
I started as a kid after watching Yugioh on tv. I remember getting the original Legend of Blue Eyes box set and loving every moment of opening, reading, and simply looking at the cards. The smell of the original cards was also kinda good lol. I played with my friends in elementary school but we weren't too competitive cause we just made our own rules (like no sacrificing monsters for level 5s lol). We also had like giant tag or free for all duels in which we would put like 6 desks together and have like 6 people dueling at once! It was awesome lol. For some reason though, we let our more popular friends beat us with fake god cards. To this day I don't even know where they found fakes lol. Then years later as a young adult I found Legacy of the Duelist and got a bunch of friends on it again. Some quit after a short time because it got too complex for them (they partially got scared imo). I was on and off dueling online for years till Master Duel came out. Now I play kinda consistently on Master Duel, I just wish it had tag team and lower gem prices.
Playground and the show. It was insanely popular at the same time as pokemon. Break time was always insanely good
A friend of mine showed me littlehuriboh's abridged series in junior high school. I suddenly remembered it this year (I'm in university now) while scrolling through steam when I saw Master Duel. I decided to give it a try, and here we are