Happy... Saturday! 😚 Next week, we'll be back to our normal podcast schedule (Thursday mornings at 9 AM Central) Anyway, let us know your thoughts on any of the stories we talked about this week!
@daviddent5662
7 ай бұрын
Posted quite a long reply so I'll just say I like the material curtailed for our viewing/listening pleasure and appreciate that Alec and Paul are underpaid journalists for us! Might have to not murder Paul so much with Scareclaw next time =P
@oneeyeopennation5870
7 ай бұрын
Y’all read my review!!😂😂 it wouldn’t let me leave a name for some reason! Love y’all though keep up the great content ❤
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
We appreciate it regardless! Thank you so much! 🙏🏾
@KoopaBlue
7 ай бұрын
I play MTG so let me talk about the stories to off the day. 1) Yea, there is too much product. These were the tentpole sets released last year: (Phyrexia, March of the Machine, Wilds of Eldraine, Lost Caverns of Ixalan, Lord of the Rings, Commander Masters, Dominaria Remastered). Of those sets, all except Dominaria Remastered had Commander decks released with the product). In addition, there was a micro set released (Aftermath), a holiday set (LotR: Holiday Edition), and 12 Secret Lair Drops (a drop consist of at least one secret lair but most of t he super drops have ~8). On top of that, they released the Dr. Who Commander Decks + Collector Boosters). Now, to be fair, you don't need to buy everything in this list. You don't like Dr Who? Don't buy it! You don't like the Secret Lair arts? Pass! Dominaria Remastered was a fully reprint set, so if you really need a card you can get it elsewhere and Dominaria Remastered and Lord of the Rings were not "Standard" (what used to be the on-ramp format for new players) so unless you play Modern or Commander you don't need those either. However, this is still a TON of product. If you want to here me go on about this I would be more than happy to talk about it but I will keep my ranting here to a minimum. 2) I think the Secret Lair change is really overblown. Yes, technically, with a limited drop we could see scalpers hording the drops but Secret Lairs are notoriously AWFUL value. The art is gorgeous but if you are just looking at acquiring a card, you are just better off buying Singles from your LGS/TCGPlayer. Also, they stated that they have loads of data on how much they sell of each drop, so they SHOULD be good at printing more than enough supply. They aren't turning these into limited releases to maximize FOMO, I imagine most Secret Lairs will be live for most of their drop.
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for the detailed analysis. You're definitely right about the fact that even though there's a lot of product releases, nobody is being forced to buy anything that doesn't interest them. I think the fact that there are sometimes multiple commands commander decks released together at a time is what makes them feel a bit overbearing. They're at least consolidating the draft boosters into the regular packs (if I remember correctly) so that should also shave off some excess.
@briant1784
7 ай бұрын
@@apsamplifierjust to add on as another resident MTG player: what adds to this "product confusion" is like you said: the formats of magic. Only 5 of those products are "standard" legal (which should be the premier but is the least popular rotating format) and those are the quarterly sets ( phyrexia, March of the machine/aftermath, wilds of eldraine and caverns of ixalan). If standard was.. actually standard like it used to be fatigue might not be so bad.. Instead most players play commander which has pretty much the exact same legality as Yu-Gi-Oh unless it's banned, it's legal in commander... Which means literally every set released (that's the other 3 sets) matters to "everyone" because it could contain a vital reprint or straight up new cards for your favorite commander decks. And of course there's the commander precons with Every non reprint set and universes beyond, (25 of them this past year!) Each of Which has their own set of reprints and new cards! Fortunately the preconstrcted decks you can find on a shelf had their last batch of powercreep with streets of new capenna (April 2022) so anything newer should be viable against other precons-and if the cycle continues, a few more years... So just pick a deck theme you like. They're generally outclassed by anything remotely custom anyway.
@Daniel-ws8ug
7 ай бұрын
I might be coping but maybe magic cylinder and swords of revealing light are in there to show how they don't work anymore. like in the manga duel one player may think they are safe behind a swords of revealing light or are about to win with magic cylinder just for the opponent to pop it before going to battle phase and winning
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
That would actually be really funny if true lol
@Vic_Chaos_
7 ай бұрын
@Daniel-ws8ug you are definitely coping. Magic Cylinder and Swords of Revealing Light are cards that existed back when the game actually made sense and was popular. Now, Doctor Frankenstein is mortified by the monster it has created and is desperately trying to go back to the good old days, before every card had either it's own ruling or it's own mechanic to the point that you can't even print something so basic as a rulebook because it would be bigger than the entire Game of Thrones book series...
@BroncosDaBomb19
7 ай бұрын
The whole bring-a-friend idea is exactly how Wizards does it with Magic events, so it’d definitely not be a crazy thing for them to do (I know it’s Konami, but still). You bring someone who hasn’t been to a Magic event before, sign them up, and you get a promo card specifically for that (I can’t remember if the new player gets one too though).
@MillenniumBulbyTCG
7 ай бұрын
Really hoping Konami sends you guys a sneak peek of the 2 player structure deck. You guys would be perfect to follow the script and then play the decks random after.
@Acholight.
7 ай бұрын
Another amazing episode of the Pod as always 🙌 and seeing as you guys emptied the Pot of questions the last episode since it was the end of the year (I think that was why😅) made me think maybe emptying the Pot whenever a TCG banlist is announced? I'm not too sure how many questions you guys get submitted but having it be emptied every few months sounds not too bad, and with Pot of Greed being heavily synonymous with the Forbidden and Limited list is like the cherry on top imo 😉
@sweetassassin1768
7 ай бұрын
here is an idea, in another video it was said a bystial blue eyes and branded dark magician scripted duel, on top of that include a pack of 10 cards that you are supposed to upgrade the deck with. That way new players can see how upgrading a deck can help it and be kind of indoctri...... inspired to look up builds and buy singles and pack when they see direct results of those upgrades.
@BroncosDaBomb19
7 ай бұрын
On the commander deck side of things, while there’s definitely been power creep with newer sets, there are plenty of older commander decks out there that can be very good to play with. They have been seemingly been getting better reprints and mana base with newer sets though.
@ghost-iv8gt
7 ай бұрын
in regards to the mtg secret lair stuff: previously, an order would take about 6-10 months to arrive. the secret lairs also usually have 1-2 staples and/or chase rares, and paired with the fact that they were printed with unique custom art, they were the target of MANY scalpers and resellers.
@Dooferification
7 ай бұрын
Lolol the irony of pauls comment about using ai art right before they got caught using it on a Twitter promo.
@bryantoro9608
7 ай бұрын
Not me getting my Sparkman negotiated with judgement 😂
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
Sorry, had to be done.
@RDAalltheway
7 ай бұрын
01:51:07 god, Alec sounds so asking these questions. He’s right in asking, he just does it so adorably
@fernandobanda5734
7 ай бұрын
36:20 Atog is an old famous card in Magic. There have been many "_atog" cards made after it. The original "Atog" name comes from making an anagram of "goat".
@Majinai72
7 ай бұрын
So, with the My hero thing, this actually happened with Dragonball. There was already a Dragonball game here in America by Panini and when Bandai announced their game, Panini had to cancel their game. I imagine, If Bandai already has license in Japan, they will force Jasco to stop their version, too. Its unfortunate, but luckily, Jasco has a lot of other series for their game UFS, err Universes.
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
Was not aware of this! I fear for the folks at Jasco!
@Hegna1
7 ай бұрын
I think one of the things that wasn't mentioned regarding the beginner set is that from Konami's point of view, you probably don't want too many staples and high value reprints in them. The likely expectation from their point of view is if they put too much value into the set, they just get bought out by established players (this has happened in Magic for example. An old example I can remember is True Name Nemesis in one of the commander precons, which stores could only buy in a set of 5 different decks at the time, meaning that one of the decks was off the shelves everywhere while the other 4 mostly sat around) which means the deck isn't avalable for the beginners who might want to try to use them to get into the game. I don't know how much that goes into the decision making for it, but I imagine it probably was considered somewhere.
@loganmccartney9412
7 ай бұрын
Happy to see the first podcast of the new year!!
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
Hope you enjoyed it!
@thaddeusrussell8919
7 ай бұрын
In regards to the effect summoning mechanic thing Tyrant Neptune has been banned for years
@PaladinfffLeeroy
7 ай бұрын
I activate Algorithmic Booster
@antonyfranco2866
5 ай бұрын
I don't know if they should add new summoning mechanics, but maybe they should do more with the ones we already have. I do think it would be cool to see something new with Traps and Spells though. Or maybe a new kind of card to go along with Spells & Traps. Maybe something that could go in the Extra Deck, and like Extra Deck Monsters, it requires a combination of cards to bring it out and activate it. Just an idea off the top of my head: Enchantments. Enchantment cards could be like an Extra Deck "Spell" that requires some sort of cost, as well as specific spell or trap cards to bring it to the field. Could be Vibrant Green in color, or maybe Cyan. Idk. What it could do, is kind of act like an equip spell, but with more focus on adding additional effects to specific cards on the field. Perhaps effects that some monsters don't already have, like negates, or trap mechanics. I think this could help balance the game and allow people to use other, more "useless" cards, OR cards that they'd love to have in their deck that normally wouldn't be a good addition to it. For an example, lets say someone really wants a Dark Magician in their deck, or any card they really like, but of course, they can't add it because.. well.. It's Dark Magician. Maybe an Enchantment Card made specifically for Dark Magician (or cards like it) could give it the power/effect boost it needs to actually be a viable Monster in the deck, something that could contend with modern/meta cards. Enchantments wouldn't have to be specific to one particular monster or archetype. They could affect a variety of cards. Then we wouldn't need retrains. Then we might also have the ability to combine more archetypes or use cards that would allow decks to be more "personalized" and give them more variety and character. If there was some sort of Extra Deck spell card though, I think it would require an increase in the limit of ED cards. Maybe 20-25 max. Perhaps there could be a limit of 15 for Monsters in the extra deck, and a limit of 5 or 9 for Extra Deck "spells" or Enchantments.
@irongiantBH
7 ай бұрын
I think, instead of giving out an SP little knight, give out a promotional pack that could have rare staples in it, including the SP little knight so it still has a random pack opening field to it Also, atog is an old mtg card. So blog atog is just rose water being playful
@theweebchannel4850
6 ай бұрын
I think that, instead of a new summoning mechanic we should get a 4th card type (in addition to monster, spell and traps). I dont know how it would work, but I'd love to see it
@trailed-off
7 ай бұрын
Love the podcast!
@YTDan
7 ай бұрын
Favorite Podcast!
@7thHourFilms
7 ай бұрын
Maybe with Physical Rush Duel in the West, they could do the box approach like Speed Duels? Like don't just start doing the packs like everything's the same but release a box with like 8 decks every 6 months. First one could cover Sevens with decks for Yuga, Luke, Romin, Gavin, Roa, Nail, Asana and Yuo. Then the next could do more Sevens characters or move on to Go Rush. They could even included decks that don't have an anime character to go with them like the new Blue-Eyes and Jinzo support. That way it's just a clean product that anyone could pick up and play (and some could get a set of 3 like a normal structure deck).
@Boyzby
7 ай бұрын
It's the first time I've watched the podcast in a while, I listened on Spotify for a while while grinding in games but haven't done so for some time, but your set looks great! To me, art is about expression. AI don't have intentions or feelings or visions like an artist has, it just regurgitates what actual artists have done and blends them together.
@brcienpartin5462
7 ай бұрын
Mtg has 4 standard sets every year. Standard is moderate power with slight creep. 2-5 commander decks not standard legal are released with each set now, not standard legal pretty analagous to YGO structure deck power wise. 1 reprint set and 1 high power creep nonstandard set per year, meaning there is a set released about every 2 months. Secret lairs are sold with 5-10 bundle selections per drop. I have heard as high as 6 months to recieve one, but got the ones I got in 3-4 months, still feels long. Also sporadic extra Commander sets like the Doctor Who decks. Between these product lines and main sets, about 1 release a month. My summon mechanic is burst. Medium power spells with a second type Burst are discarded to charge a monster on the field. Like a Makiu that can pop a s/t or burst summon an archfiend into a summoned skull retrain like Zeuss or a Time Magic making a dark sage retrain for you or turning their Purrely Noir into a ragged old mutt. Public Domain is useful for quick stories to short cut character dev to focus on actions in the story rather than characters. If I say Sherlock Holmes and Donald Duck solve a mystery, you have a good idea the story vibes.
@fernandobanda5734
7 ай бұрын
I'm a Magic player with no issue about product fatigue, a minority online. I'm on and off with Legacy in MTGO, I play Standard in Arena, I play almost every draft format in both MTGO and Arena, and I'm a huge Cube enthusiast (although I dismantled the last one I had). Notably, I don't play Commander. Here's the thing: I think if you just list every single product with no context, it's impossible to keep up. But the products are very clearly delineated for an audience, so you *should* be able to keep up with only the ones that matter to you. For Legacy, 1-2 cards at most are going to be playable for each Standard set, you can safely ignore most Commander products, and you want the expensive sets (Masters for reprints and Horizons for powerful new cards). Cube has similar considerations if the power is high. For Standard, there's just four products a year (barring Aftermath last year which sucked and they won't do again). For draft, it's those same products, and *maybe* an extra one like Lord of the Rings or a Masters/Horizons set (but it's very likely you won't draft these much because of their price, maybe only in digital). So where's the issue? It's two things. One, if you want to make either case, you can count sets however you want. You can say we get Wilds of Eldraine, Wilds of Eldraine: Commander, Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanted Tales and Wilds of Eldraine: Alchemy if you want to inflate the product list. But the decks come out at the same time as the main set, Enchanted Tales is a series of cards with their own numbering and legality but they come in the same boosters, and Alchemy is Arena-only and frankly nobody cares about it anyway. It's also very common to list all the individual Secret Lairs throughout the year, but they are very expensive product that most people don't get, they're all reprints, and they are only 4-6 cards each. No matter what format you play, you can always ignore them. I'm not discrediting people who do feel fatigue, but I think there's plenty of bad faith when talking about it. Two, Commander (especially casual), the most popular format, has everything ever as legal, there's no meta just vibes so everything is relevant no matter the power level, archetypes need to support a 100-care singleton deck so every single new Horse is relevant to someone who wanted to build around Horses, and the personalization of your deck makes people want to seek out the one specific fancy version of certain cards. At the same time, content creators almost universally play Commander and they HAVE to cover every single product (either because they're sponsored or because their audience expects them to). This is why we hear about fatigue so much. Commander is working great for Wizards because they found a way to market every single card they print no matter how weird or trash it is, but it's taking a toll on people. There are other factors. If you like Fallout, you might feel you need to pay attention to the Fallout set even if you only play Standard. Some people engage to collect and it's harder for them. If you play physically, you have less time to get the cards or draft them. But I truly believe that if you focus on 1v1, or on a specific casual way to play that isn't "everything ever", you have a reasonable rate of products and you'll be much happier. Wizards say Magic should be like a buffet where you pick and choose your experience and are still surprised to discover more things as time passes, but players can't help wanting to know and get absolutely everything and get stuffed immediately.
@Kevbotomy
7 ай бұрын
AI is theoretically a tool for improving and expediting the more tedious aspects of the artistic process. The tools for making art have changed and evolved over time. That said, if I stole, tore up and glued a bunch of DaVinci paintings together it would hardly qualify me as a painter.
@KevinTangYT
7 ай бұрын
Re: Summoning Mechanic, I think they should just revamp Vanilla monsters that doesn't take up Normal Summon and/or need Tributes for summon. This would actually give reason to use them. Nothing like your link 3 just losing to a Normal Summoned Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Makes them not bricks in exchange for possibly raw attack. Maybe give lv4 or less not take up normal summon. Rush Duel kinda already does that, but it would give a reason to just get strong cards on the board without combos to almost an early 2000's game state.
@darrenblackwell9798
7 ай бұрын
Having ordered mtg secret lairs from both distribution models: the “print to order” drop of 5 cards took close to 10 months to arrive. More recently a similar 5 card “drop” arrived in about 3 weeks. As long as the drops aren’t crazy value (150$ of cards on secondary market being sold for 30$) then they shouldn’t be so demanded that major scalping happens
@antonyfranco2866
5 ай бұрын
1:56:11 Like Xyz with extra steps? Actually that would be cool. What if it was like a combination of Fusion & Xyz? What if instead of brand new summoning mechanics, the current ones got combined? Like how there are Pendulum Xyz cards, what if there were Fusion Xyz? or Synchro Xyz? This way, if you're already familiar with the current forms of summoning, you could easily learn the new forms. I personally think we don't need a new type of card, we already have plenty of diversity with summoning mechanics and newer/returning players are probably overwhelmed enough by it. Edit: Fusion/Xyz Monsters could work like this Fusion summon and Xyz summon first, then use some kind of spell to combine them (Parafusion, or Parapolymerization). The Xyz monster loses its overlay units as a cost, but the Fusion and Xyz monsters become the new overlay units. Perhaps the overlay units and fusion materials sent to the GY could be Banished each time any effect is activated with the Fusion/Xyz Monster. The most powerful effects will send the new overlay units under the Fusion/Xyz Monster to the GY, same as how regular Xyz monsters work. Maybe they could have two separate effect boxes, the Fusion effect and the Xyz effect, but you can only choose one or the other while it's on the field. Fusion/Synchro could be interesting. Fusion Tuners. Hear me out.. Synchro summon, then summon a Fusion Tuner. Use that to tune the Synchro Monster, and it creates a Fusion/Synchro Monster. Maybe it could have the same mechanic, you banish one of it's materials as a cost for activating any of its effects. And maybe it could have two separate effect boxes, its fusion effect and its synchro effect. You can only choose one of these types of effects while it's on the field. If the Fusion/Synchro leaves and comes back, you then have the opportunity to choose the other effect. Or, maybe the cost to activating the Synchro effect is to banish the Synchro Monster. Same with the Fusion effect--remove the Fusion Monster.
@sangdrako
7 ай бұрын
Dinosaurs is one of the BEST decks to teach all mechanics - they have a lot of odd cards that somehow come together; I think one deck to learn-to-play with would be that, then have it fight a control based deck (I think I'd go with Skystriker: simple game plan, but plays very; another possibility is Altergeist). I think these decks aren't Top meta but they have been in fringe of play since forever.
@nonsensewalrus
7 ай бұрын
Personally, I don't side deck cause it's just more thinking I have to do and I hate thinking lol. I do think a neat idea would be to limit it to 1 chance to side per match. So if you wanna side deck between game 1 and 2, you can but you can't side deck between 2 and 3 whereas your opponent could side wait to side deck between 2 and 3.
@XSaberUruz
7 ай бұрын
Completely agree with your feelings towards side decking Paul
@dejann8784
7 ай бұрын
I wouldn't add a new summoning mechanic, but, i would add type or attribute advantage. Water monsters destroy fire or thunder beats aqua or something
@CatPhil
7 ай бұрын
Oh I had the pod on overnight on repeat, didn’t skip 1 commercial. My bad.
@alexanderjohnson231
7 ай бұрын
That's real, I open Master Duel for the daily reward even if it's a day that I'm too busy to actually play.
@ZeroSonata
7 ай бұрын
I was wondering if YGO could do something like a MTG Jumpstart style product, where you could just put any two sealed packs together and have a functional deck. It feels like this just doesn't work in YGO because of how synergy focused YGO is, like if there was a labrynth pack and a dragonmaids pack, and you slammed them together, could you get a functioning casual level deck? Or would they just anti-synergize? But that feels like one of the best ways to onboard people. You still get the experience of opening packs, but you don't need to stress about deck building. Just pick up two or three packs and play.
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
I think Yu-Gi-Oh packs and archetype design today is unfortunately too insulated for this to work. Not that it's a bad idea, though!
@seankelly6620
7 ай бұрын
Doug did a short series where they did 100 legacy packs vs 20 or so Master Packs
@JOKERSMOKE104
7 ай бұрын
Former Yu-Gi-Oh player turned magic player, started back during neon dynasty, and even though I've only played for a couple years now, even I have felt the product fatigue from everything releasing so quickly after one another, its at the point that we get official spoilers and teases for the following set, before the newest set has even released on shelves, as much as I do love most products, and feel that the last few in 2023 were mostly fun, I do wish we would get the time to appreciate the world, story, art, and mechanics (new and old) of the set.. On the hand of secret lairs, I have ordered plenty, and the system that wotc had been doing recently was just fine, before when it was only print to demand, I believe they took orders and had them all printed after the time window of the release, which is why it would take sometimes 3-4, maybe 6 months after you ordered to receive it, however, I believe they started doing batch printings and pre-prints of lairs as of recent, so in the case of the last three lairs I ordered, "Special guest Yoji Shinkawa", "Secret Lair x Post Malone", and "Transformers, Optimus v. Megatron", I ordered the Shinkawa and Posty lairs at the same time, the day of release for the drops and I received both with in 2 weeks of ordering, however I ordered the transformers one near the end of the release window and I remember it almost taking a month to arrive. But, given that most lairs are just special art reprints of cards or in some cases universe beyond reskins or unique cards, I don't mind them taking as long to be delivered, and I fear that with this new "drop" format, they're going to have another "Count down to 30" incident ( A special lair that had multiple one card packs, each being a reprint of well noted cards of that year / era of magic, and each card had a 30% chance of being foil, not to be confused with "Magic 30", F*** that S***), where they had a pre-printed product that was in so much of a demand, that it caused the site to lag and in some cases, crash, when everyone tried to purchase it, it bugged so much, that some people had orders canceled or some how even had purchased multiples because they kept clicking "confirm order" as the site was lagging, intending on only ordering one, instead purchasing over 10. I really do hope they would just move to the system that a lot of people asked for when the count down lair released, which would be a first-come, first-served, followed by a print to demand run, even if the demand run was a fraction of the time they do normal lairs.
@Thegameshadow1
7 ай бұрын
As an MTG player, I do think there have been too many products, especially if you want to play more than one format when it gets stale.
@zephy64
7 ай бұрын
Just an FYI on "Jasco" it changed to UVS Games. This year they are starting to bring in new properties with Yu-Yu Hakusho in Feb and Attack on Titan in q3 and q4. They do still have a MHA set releasing this year but it looks like the first one not featuring an arc from the anime.
@nathanvig4401
7 ай бұрын
I wish Rush Duel would come to English, I personally don't play a lot of online games and would prefer to have the cards in my hand for this new game
@bleack8701
7 ай бұрын
Ik not surprised that WotC has acknowledged product fatigue. They do acknowledge a lot of their faults, but beyond that barely address them.
@fernandobanda5734
7 ай бұрын
I think they're pretty good at taking feedback or defending their position, but obviously they work years ahead. Card draw in white, no more Aftermath-like sets, increasing complexity in Standard sets, bringing back keywords as a one-of to fit with older cards, "print a legendary X for my Commander deck", "he or she" -> "they", faster spoiler season to avoid perpetual spoiler season, free The One Ring cards for Magic Online to meet demand, I can think of a hundred things that players want and they were made. Reserved list is not going anywhere, reprints are still slow (at least a couple years after first print), and bans to new (rare) cards are often avoided especially early. But these obviously impact their business a lot.
@Saber_234
7 ай бұрын
I just want to say, about the Secret Lair thing for MTG… I hate that this happened for the cutest most adorable commander deck that I had already built a few months ago. It’s titled “Raining cats and dogs” and has so much amazing artwork, and I’m afraid I won’t be able to get it now because of scalpers. I don’t think the old way was any better for the record, i just… idk. PS i hope the law years AI artists a new one very soon. I hope the legal system will crack the hell down.
@Reluxthelegend
7 ай бұрын
12:50 that is why those are 2 player decks to give a safe environment to learn the game first.
@christopherb501
7 ай бұрын
I think I know EXACTLY what you'll be be talking about next time when MtG comes up...
@Reluxthelegend
7 ай бұрын
15:38 also it is always dangerous to put staples in a intro product because if it gets bought out new players cant get it and intro products are printed in low quantities.
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
Good point!
@SakuraAvalon
7 ай бұрын
Well, I'm sold. Give me those Yoruichi full arts! lol
@animeknight99
7 ай бұрын
Great Podcast 👍
@zalmute423
7 ай бұрын
What if the 2p starter has a " teaching deck" that just contains some easy vanilla cards to teach the game then the Manga has you use the other 2 actual decks to go through harder concepts.
@coletonmarino1310
7 ай бұрын
I think a good entry level deck would he myutant for introducing fusion summoning, thanks to their relative simplicity and control aspect
@ShadowReaver573
7 ай бұрын
I really hope nothing happens to battle spirits saga. It is currently the only tcg that is holding my interest these days.
@TheDeliciousMystery
7 ай бұрын
"boy i'm glad this isn't a wizard screwed things up again story" DIRECTOR ROBERT B. WEIDE
@housedelarouxmotion
7 ай бұрын
Huh the timestamps for topics are gone...
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
Give it just a bit!
@naterobinson2487
7 ай бұрын
I really want to build the earthbound deck when the support comes out
@SonicNotAmy
7 ай бұрын
Na, I got this. We need a summon mechanic, yes, it's red cards. This mechanic needs to fix the forgotten trap cards in our game. Something akin to ritual spells as a trap summon, maybe with a new mechanic that improves traps. Mayne it could eat the ritual trap like an xys and gain some kind of effect. Something like that.
@bryceduyvewaardt8136
7 ай бұрын
The Secret Lair limited print run is disappointing since more casual collectors were still paying a lot per card on a print-to-demand basis so Wizards wouldn’t be stuck with dead product that was meant to be sold without local game stores, but now as you said scalpers will benefit and if some products don’t sell, the leftovers will have nowhere to go but a landfill as some cards have been trashed in the past. I wish the Secret Lairs had some LGS exclusive cards to help them out.
@BlablaPaige
7 ай бұрын
The stacking mechanic kinda existed in the anime with the seal of orichalchos
@CaptainMarvel4Ever
7 ай бұрын
Out of all the card games I play Magic might be the lowest. The product thing is a problem but it stems from a larger issue of MTG not being able to commit to a format properly. Each format gets just enough attention to exist an no more, leaving a lot of them in disarray. The other problem is that all of them accept new cards and only have retroactive cutoffs, unlike the Time Wizard formats which prevent new cards from entering. It also hurts that Vintage, Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer are all very similar to one another, and I honestly think they could and should get rid of 3 of those (though then we run into issues with the reserve list, a whole other can of worms). Standard may as well not exist anymore given they seem to be leaving it out to die, and draft is already almost dead. Other than that there's Commander which Magic seems to soft push as the "main" format, but never really commit to since they know as soon as they admit it's the main way to play a whole new wave of competitive players come in, and suddenly it's no longer the "Just for fun" format. All in all they like keeping things vague and up to the fans so they can just stuff the shelves with product and not put much effort into regulating the game. The reason why it's the game I play the least of is because between this and the cost of the cards themselves, it feels like a game that's actively fighting me from playing it. Say what you want about Yu-Gi-Oh, but $30 for 3 structure decks that can become a competent and sometimes even competitive deck? hell yeah.
@GG_Nowa
7 ай бұрын
I think banning maxx C in master duel would be a net positive though. Most combo decks that actually are Meta relevant already don't care about it because they can play low enough under it while capitalising off it more but more mid range decks absolutely get bodies by maxx C because they are focused around setting up first for a pay off that maxx c absolutely ruins. There's also the mandatory maxx C tax that creates a huge rift for decks that can compete because not every deck has the non engine room to support it showing that it existing creates a more narrow and worse play experience for most people who want to play Thier fun pet decks.
@henriquerodrigues7795
7 ай бұрын
1:36:30 to add on to that discussion, that person complaining about most likely Julia, as one of the native American characters, As the games progress They are allowed to let go of those more obvious designs and allow character to change, we all know Julia at this point so now she's completely different design-wisr. Same for Eddy, he doesn't have to wear his green and yellow suit because we already know him, we know he's Brazilian (so am I btw). So that just goes to show how strong Harada's argument is and how these ppl have no idea wtf they are talking about, if they did, they'd know Julia nowadays dresses pretty much as they described "natives dress nowadays".
@rowdyruu8275
7 ай бұрын
People were using wicked avatar in flunder too. Not new to see.
@navrayat8002
7 ай бұрын
I would love to see Alec stream his superheavy samurai quest. I miss your duelinks streams.
@younasdar5572
7 ай бұрын
Is it not good that it does not have a lot of good reprints? I remember a time back when MTG had a card in a new Commander precon that was, or would be since that one was not a reprint, a meta staple and then the one out of 4 decks it was in was sold out everywhere all the time and even when you found it online it was 3x the price. So if I try entering a new card game I prefer to have a product that can teach me the basics, has full playsets of cards (!), and includes a few good cards that are inexpensive before that product is released as opposed to having to pay 100$ or more for the privilege of getting a product that should teach me the game.
@royalhaaki4064
7 ай бұрын
I like that podcast i think im going to watch the older ones
@mairain6443
7 ай бұрын
I would personally like some of the new rules for purchases in game. I like the Nintendo way the best if i'm honest, the Extra stuff is in the store section of the switch, you have to LEAVE the game to view it/get it making it clear you are gonna be paying for it, and it's in you local currency, making it clear how much each item or set costs. Plus it's normally just game DLC expansion packs or random Skins/Cosmetics. I'm fine if they put in skins which you have to pay for, that doesn't affect game play, it doesn't affect me if someone buys it and i don't affect others if i buy it, it's win-win. I saw people complaining about Monster Hunter Rise which had weapon skins that were only paid skins, but it doesn't change anything about the game at it's core, it just let's you use a plushy toy as a sword, which is fun but not a necessary. If they made a new mechanic for the game i would like a similar version of pendulum but for Gemini monsters, so they count as normal and effect monsters, so it works with all the normal support but have a effect. make them half yellow and half orange. The side deck comparison isn't quite right for fighting games but i get the gist of your argument, i feel the side deck was best used in this way by that one guy who played monarch then used his side deck to completely remove them and use a different 15 cards engine which don't play like monarchs, that is more in line with the fighting game comparison but that's not what we see now days, now it's just side in the floodgates or blow outs.
@jamaldavis2480
7 ай бұрын
I always thought maximum summon was going to be brought in at some point.
@Banunkie
7 ай бұрын
My opinion on AI art is I think its fine if you literally just want to make something for exclusively you. But when you market it and flaunt it thats when it comes into question as to whether its ethical. One think I hate those is when I look for a picture of a rabbit and only get AI images of rabbits. Theres something dystopian about seeing only AI generated images of animals, not actual wildlife photography
@ducky36F
7 ай бұрын
Yeah I think the Rush duel situation is sad. I really think it offers a lot of what people out of the game but it has no recognition, and frankly, the name is to similar to speed duel. People who aren’t hardcore into yugioh wouldnt know they were different
@tsukikofudo3838
7 ай бұрын
quirky summoning mechanic. 1 spell + one trap + one monster = ? its weird but cool. other than that. I think we just need a new format that is different by choosing to ban, semilimit, and limit more harshly on the banlist. You can take all the limit cards to being banned. All the semilimit cards to limit. Than make a new semilimit list. This harsher banlist would make for a one turn longer back and forth game format that would be more appealing to newer players.
@TruAbsoluteZer0
7 ай бұрын
Ok so im hoping you guys read this but a few things. Mark rosewater can respond to most things as a designer but the last time someone brought up prodict fatigue im not sure if it was him or another worker but they pretty much told the playerbase " oh well were gonna keep printing" and another excuse they used is that it gives new players and players in general the choice to pick what they want to play. Even though new and veteran players alike have shared the sentiment that is too much. Even with them releasing more boosters like set, collectors and draft. Another thing secret lairs always took a long time. During rhe first anniversary of secret lairs. The secretversary they toon a complete year to ship out the commander decks they made. It was the first secret lair commander deck and the cards came warped and in bad quality and by the time most players got it at least 7 sets and etc came out and 12 secret lairs released by then
@TruAbsoluteZer0
7 ай бұрын
Another thing with the limited releases . You can order secret lairs from your locals and some of them were exclusively from locals. I.e. the shock land secret lair that happened 2 years ago with the shock lands which are staples for multiple formats and you could only get it from locals stores and certain specific stores that wizards chose so that secret lair ended up being 200+ dollars. Same thing with the fetch land secret lair and this is when certain fetch lands ( which are land tutors ) had not been reprinted in years but needed to be used in again: multiple formats
@TruAbsoluteZer0
7 ай бұрын
And every time they're released limited sets there are scalpers who will buy as many as they can and try to upmark them from being the typical price of secret lairs (30-40 dollars and sometimes premium ones would be worth more) and upcharge them more than half, sometimes double, sometimes more than that
@TruAbsoluteZer0
7 ай бұрын
In fact hasbro laid off over 1400 workers recently including ones from wizards even though they bring in the most money( so much so the new head of Hasbro( after the leader before him died ) has been the one who ran wizards of the coasts department) and an employee did an interview recently about how much wizards / Hasbro doesn't care about player feedback regarding too much product and even though people have complained about it including employees it's remained largely ignored
@fernandobanda5734
7 ай бұрын
You say "excuse" but that's exactly how it should be. I keep up with Legacy, I play Standard, I play every draft format, and I'm extremely happy and can disconnect for weeks with no issue. And yes, I keep up with every announcement, spoiler season, etc. But I just say "cool collaboration, never gonna play this" and move on. I think most people should act like this, and play only what they want to play.
@TruAbsoluteZer0
7 ай бұрын
@@fernandobanda5734you're absolutely right and that's why I quit because I couldn't keep up. I'm just explaining player sentiment that Ive personality seen and youre the only person I've seen in the past year that has even said something like this I think the variety is cool but for a lot of people it can feel like you're behind. Case in point you had the innistrad set, then the vampire wedding set and then a third set that just combined those two sets and made the cards grayed out and no one bought it. What player would want that realistically?
@aaronwightley9752
7 ай бұрын
I like the idea of a side deck but only aloud to swap out before the start of the match so they are still there to use if you know what a person uses friends can say this guy used this deck change up you no in your 5min to change it up
@krisalvarez3809
7 ай бұрын
Does anyone know if dinomorphia intact will be added to MD?
@Reluxthelegend
7 ай бұрын
17:20 probably a structure deck.
@starjadiancloneinvestigato1772
7 ай бұрын
eddie gordo fans would be so mad if they could read. maybe they can play a new character that doesn't require facerolling
@Stormhawk777
7 ай бұрын
1:42:25 You can't imagine it because Disney has brainwashed you into thinking this way I wonder if Alex thinks all those people making Santa movies are in the wrong because "they didn't make that" Come on dude We stand on the shoulders of giants. We need to use the works of the past to lift ourselves up to new heights.
@Reluxthelegend
7 ай бұрын
10:55 I think the goal is just the same as the MtG two player decks. these decks are also nowhere near competitive.
@aaronlawrence4218
7 ай бұрын
You guys keep leaving out visas starfrost its also in the 2 player box
@Vic_Chaos_
7 ай бұрын
12:13 that's a long winded way of saying Yu-Gi-Oh isn't even real Yu-Gi-Oh anymore if I've ever seen one...
@BretGammons
7 ай бұрын
1:42:34 I mean, nobody at Disney made Mickey Mouse either. Ub Iwerks has been dead for half a century. If you think it's weird that people can make money off a character they didn't create, you should think it's weirder that a company can own an idea. The problem is with capitalism, not copyright. You're missing the forest for the trees.
@brucwayn6403
7 ай бұрын
Links i dont mind but i never use pendys back in 2015 when i quit i bought 3 of the stargazer SDs made a deck upgraded it and went to locals after 1 full round i was laughing so hard at the absurdity of the new SM that i just left and hadnt bought or cared about ygo until early 21 when i found your channel now ive enjoyed many new SDs have a comp build of TTs ACB and slowly making my version of DB and DDW so overall im glad i got back into it but i still just never liked or have played pendys
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
They're very hit or miss with people, I've found. I'm also not much of a fan of the mechanic to play myself. The only Pendulum deck I used seriously was Zefra back in like... 2018 ish.
@brucwayn6403
7 ай бұрын
@@apsamplifier loved the art on that card its a chaos build i bkv if id ever try pendys thats not a bad one ill give you full credit Thnx for the idea
@ghostintheattic-official1293
7 ай бұрын
honestly, i like pendulums because they have in mechanic cards that can be used instead of staples most times. it’s nice to be able to use almost any card in my deck to get to the end goal instead of having dead cards in my hand that won’t do anything until my opponent does something. that being said, i love non pend decks too, but they feel slow by comparison
@brucwayn6403
7 ай бұрын
@@ghostintheattic-official1293 nice if you enjoy them thats great theyve stuck around for almost 10yrs now so alot of ppl do enjoy them they just were not meant for me lol
@Dagotar130
7 ай бұрын
I play Master Duel all the time so I don't need to spend to make any deck I want just about, the funny thing is that actually makes me feel good enough to spend on it because I can and I feel like they do a good job of making the game pretty free to play friendly and even though I disagree with some of the stuff they do like being 6 to 7 months behind the TCG overall I think Master Duel is pretty great
@spicymemes7458
7 ай бұрын
You get enough for or or two decks up front, which is good if thats all you want, but I like playing a wide variety of things, which eventually does get you to buy in, unless you get in the habit of rebooting accounts.
@Dagotar130
7 ай бұрын
@@spicymemes7458 I mean it does require patience but even on months without an event if you do all the dailies which doesn't take too much gets you 4k gems which 4 10 pulls from a pack should be enough for most any deck. Even if you don't think that is true two months for sure you can get a whole new deck and ever time they run an even you get another 3k. They give a good amount of gems for free. I had like 10 decks before I put in a penny.
@catowarmeowson9964
7 ай бұрын
I hate how they sent rush duel out to die
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
Right! I think they didn't have faith in it and took the path of least risk, but also doomed it in the process. Granted, a physical game launch is a very expensive thing, so like... Ugh, I don't know
@allthejars5664
7 ай бұрын
As Disney has effed up many movies with their "put a chick in it and make it lame and gay," F that mouse.
@apollosparks6019
7 ай бұрын
I think the 2 player thing should be a mystery. Make a different deck for each mechanic, then randomly have 2 of them in a box. That way you get to experience different battles. You could even throw in like 3 packs per deck of staples to upgrade the decks too.
@shitaishiro
7 ай бұрын
regarding modern yugioh decks being too niche to teach an average newbie how to play yugioh, there are plenty of decks that can teach a broad game mechanic. tenyi swordsoul can easily accomplish minimal link and synchro basics while the only hard concept would be the existence of tokens. I’ve been able to teach a lot of my friends how to play ygo using tenyi swordsoul. not every starter deck needs to be able to compete in top tournaments, but even modern rogue decks teach yugioh better than the slop that konami put in the 2 player pack. i see no benefit in playing devil’s advocate for konami when they’ve been putting this garbage filler cards in sets and structure decks for years. they finally started putting valuable/useful staples in the latest structure decks so it is regressive to allow them to pull that bs on new players.
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
I do agree that Swordsoul is one of the best modern decks for accessibility. Maybe that could be a pre-constructed deck.
@Antoni0704
7 ай бұрын
Um is it really over they never passed the turn
@Homtas_
7 ай бұрын
Hey i got a question I'm making a card game how would I start promoting it
@hamsandwich6685
7 ай бұрын
You already are..
@hamsandwich6685
7 ай бұрын
I'd get connected to the local game player market by going to the local game store and introduce yourself, get to know the locals well enough to ask if anyone wants to help play test/learn a new game that you are producing. Reception goes better if you offer a free easy to learn type of starter deck. Bonus if you let them keep it if they enjoy it. That's a solid start. Expand through things like discord, this is amplified if you got the local game store crowd on board and stirring word of mouth hype organicly. There is no fast way to build the base and timing is somewhat of a factor but quality will speak for itself and passion carries it the rest of the way. Good luck, it's difficult to make it to market and have sustainability, but good games stand the test of time.
@hydrotatsumaster
7 ай бұрын
Hello, Paul. Long time watcher, here. I've noticed in your most recent videos whenever you have an opinion or idea that you think, or know, might be controversial, you make a comment in reference to negative responses you expect to find in the comments. Usually, this comes in the form of assuming you'll be insulted in some way. In this video, for example, you say, "you can call me a dumbass" in a way that shows you fully expect this from some people and are trying to get ahead of them. I understand why you feel that you have to do this. For as long as you've been uploading onto KZitem, you've most certainly had a good number of negative comments, and i can only imagine how irritating that can be. However, in my personal opinion, when you do this it feels as if you're not confident in what you have to say. As if you don't fully believe yourself. I'm not saying that's the case, but only how i read the situation. i feel that you should be comfortable to offer your thoughts and options without having to defend yourself against comments that have yet been sent. I'm sure you're very aware of how unavoidable it is to have such comments and response occur. So, in knowing that, please continue to offer your piece on any subject, but please don't feel like you have to offer an early defense. I enjoy to hear your thought, regardless if i agree or not. I just wish you didn't feel like you have to preemptively defend yourself.
@RLMedia417
7 ай бұрын
Gosh I wish I would totally bring someone new if I could get a free S:P.
@Stormhawk777
7 ай бұрын
58:25 This, children, is what we call a "false dichotomy" Alex is so frantic and panicked about technology he forgot the people can actually "use" it to their advantage. His two options given are literally to either fight the ai in terms of quality OR fight the ai in terms of irl gatekeeping Why don't the artists just use the new and transformative tool to their own advantage? They should already have the theory and terminology down such that they can weild the ai better than anyone else These crybabys should have been the first ones one the bandwagon
@TaylorLeprechaun
7 ай бұрын
2:09:00 banning maxx c isnt all it would take. Some people defend C because a bunch of degenerate cards exist but they should be banned too. Why on earth are colossus, tomahawk, verte, and auroradon still legal lmao
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
Yep!
@NewtBannner
7 ай бұрын
Chaos Ruler is a fair card! Get better!
@GG_Nowa
7 ай бұрын
Real and true
@lostronin9113
7 ай бұрын
What’s the difference it’s all breast -The wisest Of Team Aps😂😂
@Carlos.Rivera
7 ай бұрын
Damn... 2 hours
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
Trying to set a record!
@dylanhelvetios2300
7 ай бұрын
Thanks
@apsamplifier
7 ай бұрын
Wait what did we do? 😅
@dylanhelvetios2300
7 ай бұрын
@@apsamplifier oh it's for the stream and it was getting late in the night so I didnt know what to say for the algo 😅
@tonybj7785
7 ай бұрын
Ok, so those 2 player STARTER decks. They're working for literal beginners. They are to help someone new learn to play the basic mechanics of the game. The very basics. not the upper level plays. Not getting you ready for a tournament. It wants you to see if you want to move forward in the game. So that if you do WANT to continue and get more into the game, you can buy a Structure deck to move more into more complicated gameplay. It's ALWAYS been the case with Starter decks and the competitive player viewpoint that ya'll have been talking about is always like this. Like why are this Starter decks so lame and weak and it's because it's NOT MEANT TO BE COMPETITIVE! And having such a huge variety of different archetypes and just a mash of stuff is really good for that. bad for a singular deck. bad for competitive. Great for someone who doesn't have any cards at all and not really an understanding of where they want to even begin.
@GG_Nowa
7 ай бұрын
Paying a premium price for a tutorial that gives them nothing really to use going forward is a joke though. If someone wants to then move forward the lack of actual playable cards makes it so they now have to pump more money to actually have something playable rather than have something they can actually upgrade from.
@spicymemes7458
7 ай бұрын
@@GG_Nowathey should delegate the burden of teaching new players to Master Duel. The automation takes a lot of the guesswork out of it starting out.
@CronoEpsilon
7 ай бұрын
As much as Paul hates long combo decks, surely he recognizes that Maxx C makes those decks even better.
@GG_Nowa
7 ай бұрын
Yea like maxx C makes them better because they can go full combo and then draw more stuff to follow up with or even interuption but also allows them if they get hit by the maxx C still play a copious amount of hand traps to still survive then just combo off turn 3 and win
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