Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Text is OUT OF CONTROL

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Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards have a DISGUSTING amount of text. Just this year, I accidentally came into ownership of the card with the most text on it. Today I dig in to discover how and why the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG has so much to read!
Sources:
Average Speaking Speed
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Font Size
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Bell Centennial
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Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Meta Analysis
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Japanese Reading Speed
wakarukoto.com/?p=15340
Problem-Solving Card Text
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[@dave7886]

Is everyone sponsored by raid? Been seeing them everywhere

[@dadocta5168]

Did you see the video of Eric Stuart (Kaiba) voicing other famous anime dragons?

[@morphor]

@@dave7886 Sadly, mobile games are invading everything...they are even appearing on steam now

[@HahaHaha-gy2xe]

Hmmmmmmm I’m thinking

[@Imirui]

That hits way too close to Roblox and how my friends would send that towards my face

[@TSFboi]

The words "raid: shadow legends" actually mean "skip the next 2 minutes of the video"

[@ryukomatoi4128]

it also means "lets waste our time by talking about a game literally nobodys talking about and nobody will download."

[@kotzenderkeks61]

@@ryukomatoi4128 its making money by literally nothing

[@alansmithee2012]

Or "install the Sponsorblock add-on/extension"

[@typhoonfox6478]

So true

[@daenor7807]

Hey the ads are funny at least, I’d rather a yugioh or Star Wars game but it’s fun to watch the ads

[@callummandragore9004]

‘Draw 2 cards.’ Remains the strongest card in the game

[@AstralLaVista]

Yes because its not a mana based game. There is some real good videos explaining why pokemon can have a card that says draw 7 cards on it but a card that says draw 1 card is limited in yugioh

[@callummandragore9004]

Nathan McCarthy we’re talking about text length, you just need to play the game for two seconds to figure out why non opt draw cards always get hit in yugioh

[@MrEntinen]

Pretty sure game has gotten stupid enough that the best card is Draw 3 and Discard 2. It has become a meme by now that card in the discard pile is just as good as in hand

[@jgamez106]

Nathan McCarthy a draw 7 in Pokémon is broken depending on the deck

[@sdc3536]

@@AstralLaVista Except that wasnt always the case. Todays yugioh is about speed, with all the various types of special summons its all about filling up your monster zone as quickly as possible. Back when the game first came out you needed to tribute summon to get the good monsters out, so drawing 2 cards wasnt that bad when you could only summon one monster per turn.

[@saphired02]

When I asked how to play this card game I was told that half the game is basically trying to convince your opponent you won the game.

[@trevorturner9733]

So like the anime?

[@fressejetzt840]

Like poker so whats your point?

[@nicholasrickhoff2912]

MY NAME IS GANJAALF No it’s quite clear in poker who wins

[@fressejetzt840]

@@nicholasrickhoff2912 it is but some pro poker players lost because they had no pokerface or because a pokerface tricked them
Poker is both card and psychic gameplay lol

[@chaddoom7993]

HA!

[@cumulus1869]

2:59 is when the ad for Raid Shadow Legends is over.

[@novakrabby]

I feel bad for skipping but I have seen it like 20 times already

[@kairou7023]

Thx man

[@AveryGuitar]

Thank you

[@zjzr08]

Reading Yu-Gi-Oh! effect text is so fascinating because it feels like you're a lawyer trying to find how to resolve the conflict.

[@YugiMomo]

I love it so much. I just learned today that Cyber Dragon's special summon is something called an "inherent summon" and so it can't be chained to and therefore negated

[@VORTEX___]

@@YugiMomo lol I knew that back in 2007. card rulings are more important to learn than the mere card texts

[@sleeexs]

@@VORTEX___ lol

[@Liathrys]

@@YugiMomo not exactly. It CAN be negated by cards that specifically states that it negates summons, and not just effects that would summon a monster(s).

[@FallingStar1080]

Lmaooo awww

[@skeptale]

Fun fact: every time a UA-camr does an ad read for Raid Shadow Legends, if you listen really closely, you can actually _hear_ his soul screaming in protest.

[@Terilice1]

I stop watching any video if it jumps to a shadow raiding ad

[@strain42]

I totally understand that they've gotta get those FIDDY DOLLAR BILLS but unlike most other common sponsors, I've never heard a UA-camr actually sound convincing when they're plugging Raid Shadow Legends. Like it never sounds like a product they personally enjoy and appreciate outside of the sponsor.

[@bigchumbo6489]

The only youtuber to do a good raid shadow legends ad is internet historian
Watch his "serious business" video

[@thefunydaino3991]

I tough you were going to say that they do asds to get some time to read the card

[@ShinKamaitachi]

LOL

[@Robin280497]

Raphael: *Says "Graveyard".*
Pharaoh: It's called the GY now.
Raphael: Why did they do that?
Pharaoh: It saves space for text on the cards.

[@rongilev7647]

Waphael

[@jorisbonson8180]

I didn't even know these things had text

[@JanJanNik]

I hated that change. JUST SAY THE FREAKING WORD

[@larrychilders6599]

@@JanJanNik well you have to add everything to the card, to the point of making the Kingdon Hearts plot scream " this is too complex

[@black97_0]

Raphael: I didn't even know this things have text
Pharaoh: yes, soon they'll be abriviating all most commonly used words. Imagine how ridiculous that would be: now I S my KBs and send them to the GY in order to TS Kuribandit to my side of the F!

[@rodrigodamian620]

Konami could make a ton more money if they included a magnifying glass in every pack...

[@tubegerm6732]

I know this is a joke but... do you even know how much magnifying glasses cost...

[@ZenoDLC]

@@tubegerm6732 Depending on quality and embellishments, from cents to tens and hundreds of dollars, probably more to add stuff to make sure it don't break in transport

[@KertaDrake]

@@tubegerm6732 They have those plastic ones roughly the size and thickness of a yugioh card for wallets. Pretty sure those would cost pennies for a dozen at bulk rates... but then you'd eventually realize you gave thousands of children tools they can use to start fires.

[@LionLostInTime]

Konami: we don't want it to get too technical that's lame
Also Konami: spell speed and missed timing are a thing

[@ZakanaHachihaCBC]

Magic’s Stack is so much better then the Chain.

[@pablomadrid6962]

@@ZakanaHachihaCBC the chain is super easy my man. Just activate and then resolve in reverse. I hate that you can activate more effects while the stack is resolving in MTG. It's needlessly complex.
The missed timing thing is pathetically easy to figure out: "when... you can..." means that if ANYTHING happens after the first action, the second simply cannot happen because it's WHEN, not IF. If it doesn't say "you can", it's mandatory and is unaffected.

[@encapturer]

@@pablomadrid6962 The problem is that those words "When" and "If" are so similar in this case in natural english. "When... you can..." statements in english has nothing to do with that kind of immediacy, at least not any more than "If... you can..." statements.

[@Patadude100]

@@ZakanaHachihaCBC The stack and chain are the exact same thing

[@hi-i-am-atan]

@@Patadude100 Nah, there's a _very_ major difference between them: players are still free to add to the stack after it begins to resolve, while the chain is _completely_ locked down once it's done being built. That's one of the big reasons why "missing the timing" is even possible: some effects can only be added to a chain the exact _moment_ their condition is fulfilled, but if that happens while a chain is already resolving, it's impossible to do so. It's also why if you summon a monster in the middle of a chain through a quick effect, you can't immediately use its negate effect on another card in the chain, unless the summon and negate are done in the exact same effect ( i.e. PSY-Frames ).

[@radianzero]

Yugioh Card text:
10% the effect
90% the rulings about the text

[@lichinthepolo]

Too true lmao

[@cbbblue8348]

Inspecter boarder in nutshell

[@daanjamo]

If only they'd use keywords like in mtg...

[@user-iy6rp1zt1l]

*Once per turn*

[@DerVasto]

@@daanjamo At least they started, using "piercing" instead of a whole sentence of "When this card attacks an opponent's defense position monster, blah blah...".
And nowadays they often shorten "Graveyard" to "GY".
It's not much, but a start.
I think the next step would be adding "searching" and "milling" to official PSCT.

[@shakeweller]

Hearthstone: Battlecry: Deal 2 Dmg.
YuGiOh: "Take a seat, I have a story to tell."

[@r3zaful]

Battlecry basically effects on summon in Yu-Gi-Oh.
But Yu-Gi-Oh have many different ways to summon and certain effects only can be activated when the monster summoned in specific ways

[@haleys7230]

"Endymion has to have the largest text ever"
Anime Ra: *laughs in mega ultra chicken*

[@simosgaming]

I mean, 20 effects in a card are a lot.

[@majinish]

MedjedTheEdged Yugioh does wonders. I remember in middle school having a test that asked what a pendulum was. I forgot what it was but then remembered Bandit Keith’s Pendulum Machine. Got the question right all because of Yugioh. 😊

[@victorq4842]

majinish haha the same thing happened to me but with the word synchro

[@DynamiteChannelist]

Ah. I see you’re all men of culture.

[@randomname9723]

Endymion is not even that bad. It only has 4 seperate effects. That's about the average for a modern Yugioh boss monster. They're also not too complex, just lengthy.

[@antondolhain369]

Just the fact that they also need to print a hard once per turn clause on most cards gives them a lot of text

[@zakd2124]

Not to mention the space dedicated to "This card cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned by..."

[@antondolhain369]

Zak D And the bonus effect: “If this card was send to the GY by a card effect: ...”

[@makairidah8354]

Well there was a time when konami thought it was fine not to put the opt text on their cards
That time is now known as *the dark times*

[@antondolhain369]

Makai Ridah yeah now all those cards make for ftks and infinite loops

[@thomashare6733]

@@antondolhain369 Can't wait for the next Cannon Soldier OTK/FTK.

[@Roboshi2007]

Actually structure decks are NOT entry level. STARTER decks are.
Structure decks are for competitive players looking for a base to build from

[@proffapoluga2573]

Just dont look for the starter deck for 2019... it never came to be.

[@whiteraven562]

That doesn't change the fact that the box is labeled "Ages 6 and up".

[@sqfzerzefsdf]

@@whiteraven562 yugioh is still a tcg, as a kid I had tons of pokemon card yet I to this day have no clue on how to even play the game. The cool artwork can still attract kids but at this point in time I find it hard to believe that even konami considers the actual playing of the game to be intended for kids.

[@proffapoluga2573]

I mean they started uncensoring stuff no one ever thought they would. Imagine, monster reborn was a religious allusion this whole time!

[@sarthakarora3212]

@@whiteraven562 It means ages 6 and up can handle it safely because 5 or younger might eat it or cut themselves.

[@joeywin42]

Old player : "I set one and pass"
New Player: "Its free realestate"

[@ZION73082]

I love you your soooooo right AHHHHHH 😡

[@callummandragore9004]

*has ash / nibiru & lancea in hand*

[@jennifergarcia7149]

(Flight of the bumblebee starts to play)

[@Abdhm98]

lmao

[@ravinercf]

New Players:I make a board that makes it so you can't play the game becuase I have 80 negates including from hand like ash blossom so your domed
The opponent:plays evenly matched vanishing every thing in field
The player: wazalky face

[@chaddoom7993]

The best card effect in the whole game to this day...
THIS LEGENDARY DRAGON IS A POWERFUL ENGINE OF DESTRUCTION. VIRTUALLY INVINCIBLE, VERY FEW HAVE FACED THIS AWESOME CREATURE AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE.

[@tommoore2012]

Fun fact: Even after nearly two decades, Blue-Eyes White Dragon is still the most powerful normal monster in the game. There has never been another has had or has had more than 3000atk.

[@SuperGoose42]

I tried to play my Blue Eyes deck online the other day 😭😭😭😭 I won maybe twice out of 20 games

[@matheusmoreira9951]

@@SuperGoose42 I mean, it may be still viable, but Blue Eyes is a rouge strategy deck that tends to brick a lot. And that's coming from a Blue Eyes fan.

[@aesir1ases64]

Blue Eyes is still a decent rogue deck and you can have a good chance as long as you dont face good players playing top top meta decks.

[@LolaAlolaXD]

Yu-gioh: "So as much as we can, we've always written cards the same way that plain folks talk"
Plain folks: "hey there son, wanna go visit your grandpa at the GY???"

[@Lucky-lt7lz]

"you can only speak to your son this way once per turn"

[@eliaswilliamsson8553]

Hey there son! Wanna send ”Son” and ”Grandpa” from the Home to the GY?

[@imrane161]

''To activate this effect you need to send your grandma from the field/hand or deck to the GY banish either a ''grandma'' or ''grandpa'' from the GY to resolve this effect (only once per turn).

[@llyourdudesnickerll9823]

I activate monster reborn to special summon grandpa from your graveyard

[@Rotokyo]

"Discard after use"

[@roninwarriorsfan]

"Yugioh card text is out of control, how did this happen?" Powercreep my dude, powercreep

[@chikasnotmadjustdisappoint6266]

In addition, the simplicity and/or lack of text on older Yugioh cards made them ripe for abuse. That's why some older cards have to get erratas and almost all new cards nowadays have paragraphs with very specific effects and texts like "Once per turn" to prevent that.

[@roninwarriorsfan]

Cardfight Vanguard started using more keywords as it progressed, then it shorthanded some of them (Forerunner, Limit Break, Legion, Bloom, Harmony, TimeLeap, Blaze, ect)

[@chendror872]

Exactly

[@bloodarcher7841]

roninwarriorsfan yeah.. but that’s an excuse. You could use better ways to explain more.. with less.

[@okagron]

To be fair, it is like this to add synergy to archetypes and make getting bricked hands happen less often. The reason the game is like this now is because the early game was too simple, too luck based and prone to getting bricked hands far too often.

[@girlinadumpster]

Everybody gangsta till the Yu-Gi-Oh carts require a microscope to read.

[@KertaDrake]

Knowing Konami, it will likely end up skipping regular microscopes and go all the way to electron microscopes because they felt the need to add an entirely new method of summoning AGAIN.

[@rbxCriss]

Another thing that contributed to card effects text in length form:
"Once per turn, during either player's turn (Quick effect)"
"If this card in its owner's control was sent to the graveyard by a card effect"
"If this card is in the graveyard, except the turn it was sent there"

[@edwardrobinson5470]

Yep. Pierce= if the attack of an attacking monster is higher than def of a defending monster inflict damage equal to the difference.

[@ShapelessMonstrosity]

The first example is actually one of the good improvements they've made somewhat recently. "During either player's turn" isn't used anymore in favour of just saying "(Quick Effect)".

[@Yoursy2]

I definitely think this stemmed from the cards being translated from Japanese so it would already be getting adjusted for translation mistakes and these were probably just an oversight.

[@ShapelessMonstrosity]

@@Yoursy2 A big part of it is that Japan has an official site where they issue rulings. Whereas in the TCG (the Western version), they haven't issued rulings since 2011, so all of the mechanics must be contained on the cards themselves.

[@koneksilemot9049]

Another famous one. "This card cant be normal summoned or special summoned. This card can only be special summoned by..."

[@ChristopherMoom]

The constant Raid Shadow Legends sponsors are the Trap Cards of UA-cam

[@wilton1990]

They are the only reason I give video's Downvotes. If it's an ad I can skip, then I don't count it, but if it's a content creator ACTUALLY talking about that garbage, I downvote it. Even if I like what the video is talking about, or my favorite creator.

[@Shockwave527]

@@wilton1990 I do the EXACT same thing.

[@JAxz5]

well if you dont want to support jwittz

[@WaddleDee105]

@@wilton1990 You can just skip through these ads. It only takes a few seconds and creators only do these because it helps give them revenue (people like JWittz are doing this for a living). Downvoting instead of upvoting will only make their videos be less likely to appear in non-subscribed people's recommendations which will mean less revenue, thus you're just supporting a cycle of ads.

[@wilton1990]

@@whatsoup Evan Holtz See that's the thing, I ONLY ever do it for the Raid Shadow Legends ads. Any other ad I don't care for. And while you guys say that, TFS with their My Hero Aca Movie review video is sitting at half and half, and still gets views because "it's polarizing" meaning more people are going to view it. But again, the only sponsored videos I downvote are ones with Raid, Nothing else. That's a game I want to just see crash and burn like Fortnite.... and Fallout 76

[@DaRealPielover1987]

"Assuming you don't rap god it"
Someone should really try that

[@Zayindjejfj]

@BB Hoody Allows me to summon from my graveyard, graveyard.

[@SuperSaiyanD48]

@@Zayindjejfj You guys are hilarious. 😂

[@YugiMomo]

Part of the issue is you aren't just reading one card. You're interpreting that card in relationship to all of your other cards, to the cards your opponent has on field or in grave, and you have to constantly think through whether or not a play is legal based off game rules and specific syntax. I just can't touch Pendulums. It doesn't help that I have ADHD

[@unkown34x33]

sameeeee lol ADHD and couldn't memorize pendulums for the love of me.

[@ShinkuGouki]

@@unkown34x33 I hate pendulums. They should've never existed.

[@Elfking94]

Ya I used to run a grand horn of heaven but I kept having to Google what special summons it didn't work on

[@UltraXD64]

Too be fair, the endymion cards (and pendulumn cards in general) only require you to read half the text depending on whether you use them as a monster or a spell.

[@arkanamaster4961]

Metalfoes in a nutshell

[@r3zaful]

If they have floating effects then well

[@jenkohr]

Structure decks aren’t made for people who just got into the game, that’s starter decks.
Structure decks are for an intermediate player, someone who knows the rules and wants to get into more competitive

[@MrMan-uw2vp]

It’s also good for more budget players, considering they have a lot of staples and a base to work off of.

[@Raiko01]

I, too, would rather buying a same priced deck for less value in the cards :)

[@joshuaperkins9344]

That’s why they waste money and paper putting a rule book in the structure set.

[@nickxcaliber7991]

Jen Kohr some people must be born stupid. Or did you learn to be stupid on your own

[@gamingmilk829]

@@nickxcaliber7991 Ah yes, because a new player is going to buy 3 Pendulum Domination and learn the game with the most complex combo deck ever printed

[@LottieSquidHugs]

EXCEPT “FROG THE JAM”

[@GonnaDieNever]

He a toad now.

[@seki108]

Except [distorted noises from the abyss]

[@zakd2124]

@@GonnaDieNever we don't talk about Slime Toad.

[@alexryu2632]

EXCEPT "RED-EYES B. CHICK"

[@Acsilverfish360]

It's always except Frog the Jam, but no one ever asks "How is Frog the Jam"?

[@lennyface8195]

"Unless you're trying to Rap God it-"
Me: "I think you mean, Godzilla it."

[@mrorcadood]

Take a shot every time any UA-camr says "this video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends"

[@Chris-of7qb]

Anyone that plays video games

[@duckmine5809]

died on the first video

[@Tinskap]

Woah, i ain't trying to get a alcohol poisoning over here my boy.

[@magnedeusfenrir9582]

You'd be doing it too if they were paying you.

[@RhyperiorRanger]

“I liked Dark Magician growing up. I like spellcaster”
Pendulum magicians: I’m bout to end this man’s whole career

[@konikonitrainerwill5969]

@HettGutt that joke would make sense if there were more if the pendulum magicians that banished instead of just harmonizing

[@cullenlatham2366]

ive only played DL, but i just couldnt get into the spellcaster type. It seems quite a few spellcaster archtypes rely on a second type to work with making it hard to build a mono spellcaster deck. Zombies on the other hand...

[@bijuutamer729]

@@cullenlatham2366 Spellcasters in DL are basically "Silent Magician" decks.

[@cullenlatham2366]

@@bijuutamer729 well, the (fruity) magician girls were just released, so maybe i will get a chance to try a spellcaster deck.

[@bijuutamer729]

@@cullenlatham2366 I've never lost to DMG, but I play heavy synchro based Fabled so Samurai Destroyer and Armadeas deals with them pretty well. That said. Those two are still a toolbox option.

[@Forever_Zero]

When you can't remember your history and math classes.... but you can fully remember Effects, Atk and Def of almost every YGO card out there

[@foleysmith6779]

Oh yeah? Frog the jams stats pls

[@Forever_Zero]

@@foleysmith6779 ok, without cheating I can say that it has 900 atk (I think) 700 def and no effects... but again, I said *almost* (Im going to check if Im correct)
Edit:700 atk and 500 def, it wasn't that far

[@hazakurasuyama9016]

probably something i can relate to

[@Bee-wk7hw]

@@foleysmith6779 how about this?
Stats for vampire Fraulein.

[@cryomaniac5081]

@@Bee-wk7hw 600 ATK, 2000 DEF

[@f1r3hunt3rz5]

If Yu-Gi-Oh TCG doesn't want to put numbers to denote the beginning of an effect, then please frigging colour-code which is the cost and which is the effect. Visual clarity helps so, sooooo much in TCGs, and doing this may help Yu-Gi-Oh players to actually read the cards for once.

[@EskChan19]

For real, the DIgimon TCG does this and it's SO easy to read. Timing in a blue box, like "Your Turn", "All Turns", "Your Main Phase", pink textbox for restrictions or triggers like "Once per Turn" , orange hexagon for keywords, which are then explained in brackets behind the keyword for new players, but as a more experienced player you really only need to read these 3 boxes to understand the card. This helps reading the cards SO much.

[@TungstenViper]

I love how Konami wants the game to remain easy to explain when you have things like: chain, instant spell and traps, ritual, special summon, synchro, fusion, token, xyz and link. Not to mention all the difference between monster types, attributes, levels, special conditions...

[@DapperestDave]

Also reading a full paragraph of text looking for specific grammar usage to tell whether or not your spell misses timing or is a hard once per turn is how plain people speak, but abbreviating damage that goes through defence positions is geek speak that's like going to the dmv

[@SrTNick1]

Ngl learning yugioh's problem solving card text system has been incredibly helpful for deciphering rules interactions in board games and tabletop rpg's.

[@admontblanc]

it does make you feel big brained, personally I feel like my mind is a little bit sharper whenever I'm playing it regularly.

[@Reubs1]

Magic The Gathering has been doing keywords for a long time so they've learned the best ways to do them. For instance, cards with keywords will have reminder text printed next to them that explain what the keyword does, but not on cards with higher rarity. This is because you will see rare cards less often, and the lower rarity cards will tend to have less effects (thus more text space).
Also, some of their evergreen keywords are quite intuitive. Creatures with 'Flying' can't be blocked by non-flying creatures. Creature's with 'First strike' will do their damage first. Etc.

[@fikriirshade1132]

dont you think keyword system kinda limiting cards interaction, variation and future design?

[@AlteredNova04]

Exactly. Most keywords are elegantly intuitive to the point that they only need to be explained once and then they are easy to remember even for new players. Protection from a color = can't be damaged or targeted by cards of that color. Lifelink = whenever it deals damage, you gain that much life. Fear = can only be blocked by black and artifact creatures (so stuff like robots and zombies, which logically cannot feel fear). Haste = can attack immediately (most creatures have to wait a turn after being summoned to attack). Trample = any extra damage this creature deals to a blocking creature still hits the opposing player (it basically runs the blocker over and is just slowed down by however tough that blocker was.)
In my experience, memorizing keyword abilities is actually one of the easiest parts of learning how to play magic the gathering. It's learning how to use the stack (rules about when you can play different kinds of cards, such as during opponent's turn or "in response" to their spells) that really trips up new players.

[@GuyNamedJordan]

@@fikriirshade1132 Not really. Keywords don't have to act as the card's whole ability if the designers don't want it to, especially for the more powerful cards. Magic also tends to experiment and create next keywords every few sets to keep things fresh as well providing flavor towards the set's theme.

[@rueblie2627]

Flying is not at all intuitive. You would never work out what it meant without explanation. Same is true of a lot of keywords, flying at least is on lots and lots of things so you get used to seeing it but the less common ones are pretty opaque. I still don’t really understand how first strike works even with the description anyway.

[@Ballade90]

@@rueblie2627 It's easy, the damage step in Magic is done in basically two phases: the first strike phase and the second strike phase, and by default all damage is assigned during the second strike phase, whereas if you have first strike you do your damage during the first strike phase and if you do enough damage to drop their health to 0 (or have deathtouch), you basically win that fight. Visualize it as a fist-fight where first strike is someone throwing a punch super quickly before getting hit compared to no first strike where two people punch each other at the same time. You only need to have it be explained once to get it due to how short the explanations are.
Yugioh though is so complex that there aren't many instances in which a keyword system would help. Banish and pierce are a thing sure but there aren't too many repeating effects beyond archetype gimmicks and even then not all of them are done in the same way, Ghostricks and Maldoche have the same wording for their archetype specific cards but Blackwings don't, Endymion don't, Mythical Beast don't, so not every archetype would benefit from keywords and it would be limited to just archetypes as well which doesn't help due to basic redundancy (you aren't going to find a non-ghostrick that has the same effect as a ghostrick too often).

[@The1blindguy]

The text size is why I can't play yugioh physically. I love playing duel links because of how accessable my phone is

[@paulomeier8587]

Beginner tries to learn Yugioh
Me: explaining 2hours
He: 💥

[@TheDragonaf1]

As someone with Dyslexia - This is the most relateable video in the history of videos

[@maganhassan2627]

Lool yeah I can see that as a dyslexic person myself

[@howlingwolfart8380]

The other reason for why is that they're having to make sure that they are being as specific as possible. The older cards weren't specific enough, and that often lead to severely broken effects. The extreme specifics make it so that people know exactly when, how, and why an effect can, will, and should be used. That doesn't justify the ridiculous amount of text, but it does help explain it a little bit. Although, too much text really is just as confusing as not enough.

[@PrismariLaura]

The problem is that lends to incredibly confusing gameplay.
When rules are defined on a card-by-card basis, you need to pay incredible attention to every single card you spot.
Cardgames with a consistent ruleset, like MtG, simplify this heavily by standardizing the effects. Every creature with only "Trample" as card text will behave exactly the same way. You still get weird interactions, of course, but it's much easier to parse 99% of the game due to an unified ruleset.

[@DS-tv2fi]

Like the famous story of the Magic card that was worded along the the lines “Opponent loses next turn”.

[@PrismariLaura]

@@DS-tv2fi to be fair, that was a playtest card from before MtGs first edition ever released. Even in Magic's first edition, most cards had clear text to indicate their effects.
And, on following years, as the game evolved, older cards were errata'd to work consistently with the new rules.

[@TheShadesOfBlack]

"Instead of having you use geekspeek like some freaking loser, we're gonna make you read a book for every single card"

[@Shenaldrac]

Keywords are for losers, you don't want to be a loser do you?

[@chaddoom7993]

Well...
At least parents can't say the game isn't educational!

[@KicksPregnantWomen]

Chad Downs karens always find a way.

[@rafael502]

Just like a geek. They've gone full circle.

[@PrimeroJinJusuke]

What I like about the Qliphorts is that while they have lots of text, most of the monsters have largely the same text. It's the last part that makes each of them unique.

[@runningoncylinders3829]

Like how "During either player's turn" became "Quick Effect" & "Graveyard" became "GY"...
"You can only use the Effect of 'This card's name' Once Per Turn" NEEDS to be shortened to Hard OPT.
And number the effects like the OCG does it so it won't get confusing like Dark Worlds, Vendreads, or Silent Wobby.

[@ProfDragonite]

Or piercing damage. That was a whole line of text that explained itself before Cyberdark Dragon.

[@timaeus22222]

There's a useful difference between
You can only *use* this/each effect of "[card name]" once per turn.
(EX: Destruction Swordsman Fusion)
and
You can only *activate* this effect of "[card name]" once per turn.
(EX: Spellbook of Secrets)
and
You can only *use 1* effect of "[card name]" per turn and *only once that turn.*
(EX: Salamangreat Foxy)
Having that distinction is important imo. "Use once per turn" can be negated in any way and you can't try to activate the card or effect again that turn. "Activate once per turn" can have its activation negated (e.g. Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En) and you can use it again that turn, but if you negate its effect (e.g. Magician's Navigation), you can't use it again that turn. And if you negate the activation or effect for "one effect per turn and only once that turn", they can use the other effect, as long as the monster's entire effect isn't blanket negated (e.g. Effect Veiler).
Just shortening all of them to "Hard once per turn:" removes those differences, and could create a bunch of ruling mishaps.

[@eclipsesoluna3453]

@@timaeus22222 It shouldn't be this complicated for a card game that is supposedly for kids six and up.
Mind you, the OCG was made for slightly older players, which would explain some of the most convoluted example exact wording in anything I've ever seen. This is also why I don't condone how the anime dubs kiddify everything and how this forces the card game to superficially attempt to cater to a younger audience and their overprotective western civilization parents.

[@vehicledestroyer]

@@eclipsesoluna3453 6 year olds do not play this game i can tell you that much. The majority of the player base is 13+

[@eclipsesoluna3453]

@@vehicledestroyer I know, right? So, like why even bother with all that bowdlerization?
At least give us uncensored BMG (and the support cards with her in the artwork) and Harpies in one of those special reprint sets, Konami! That's all I really ask...
Also, #FucKonami

[@emperorxander666]

UA-cam:Today sponsored is raid-
Me: ahhhhhh *runs away*

[@mariopikaman1]

He gotta make them 50 dolla bills tho

[@chendror872]

@@mariopikaman1 aka the mew

[@chrishansen1842]

@@polocatfan no it's more specifically Raid. It's literally meme levels of everywhere. You can basically expect to click on any video from a channel that does do sponsors to have a Raid ad. I have the pitch memorised by now. I CAN RECITE IT.

[@chrishansen1842]

@@polocatfan so you wanna miss my point and restate the same thing over and over again? I have nothing against any kind of ad except Raid. I am not saying "I don't want UA-camrs" to eat. I will gladly sit through any ad and participate when I can. Which isn't often but I do when it applies to me. Raid though. Raid like I said. Is everywhere to the point I can recite the script. My god someone made a video on it. How dense are you? People who do the Raid ads are clearly uncomfortable as well. They become so robotic. Maybe the first two or three times they seem happy then after a bit they're as bored as the viewer. I'm not saying I DON'T WANT UA-camRS TO EAT. ALRIGHT. if I could I'd go and give them money myself. Worst of all the script they're given and have to read for their sponsorship is just false. The game isn't anywhere near as good as it's trying to sell itself to be. I'm willing to bet not a single UA-camr who made a "clan" has touched the game since the sponsorship. I want to draw the line when it's a problem for me AND the UA-camr. Again. I will reiterate because that's clearly something you're gonna do in the next 5 seconds. I DO WANT UA-camRS TO EAT AND IF I COULD PAY THEM MYSELF I WOULD AND SO DO MANY OTHERS. Alright? Have I made myself clear here?

[@chrishansen1842]

@@polocatfan i have premium. And sorry. I. Am a little mentally tired. I went a little off there and I shouldn't. I've just had to deal with a lot of idiots who don't listen to reason. You're most likely not that kind of guy. But I do still stand by what I said and having premium doesn't really Dodge the sponsorship issue. I probably shouldn't complain. Cause like you said they do it because it gets them money to eat and stuff. I'm not the best at wording things clearly. But I can honestly say this one instance just does something wrong. Idk man.

[@TSFboi]

One of the reasons YGO is my fave card game is that everything is so extra. There are so many up and downs and literally any card can change who's winning. Because it was based on a manga, it's more exciting than it is practical.

[@EskChan19]

When was that? Because nowadays you either win turn 2 or lose turn 3, there's really not any ups and downs left.

[@Stratuji]

While a lot of cards have a good amount of text to read, I think it's fair to point out one thing.
Once someone gets used to how Yugioh works and the gimmicks of each archetype, it starts to have a certain "flow" that is progressively easier to put together. Like many archetypes have shared effects or very similar ones in which if your read one, then you've read at least half or more portions of the other cards in the archetype. For example Unchained or Crystal Beasts.

[@AstralLaVista]

Or in some cases like skystrikers its there spells that have the gimmick. I really love this game.

[@KertaDrake]

After enough time, you even figure out how to summarize effects much better than the card designers ever could. The only problem is when you end up playing against that one guy who insists on reading every card you play just to make absolutely sure.

[@justanotherchannelonyoutub126]

Then:
“you activated my trap card”
(Gasp) “Oh no!”
Now:
“You activated my trap card”
(Groan) “oh no”

[@ventus5628]

justanotherchannelonyoutube
Then: I have the all powerful Blue-Eyes white dragon on my field!!! Nothing can stop me now!!
Now: ok so I use Blue-eyes to send to the GY in order to add two blue eyes from Melody *begins complex and over the top board set up*

[@GonnaDieNever]

@@ventus5628 your blue eyes ultimate dragon is now a turtle kaiju with 1800 attack.

[@CrimsoniteSP]

Then: You've activated my trap card!
Now: You've startled me, so I'll use my hand trap now, oh and my graveyard effect which sets off my banished monsters effect to receive this trap card from my deck. Oh, I can play this from my hand as well, WHICH ALSO TRIGGERS-

[@Degenerick]

justanotherchannelonyoutube yeah no one says “you activated my trap card” anymore

[@makairidah8354]

justanotherchannelonyoutube lol.you really think people are still using trap cards that dont negate?

[@WarmLillie]

I can’t lie... When I was returning back to the game after a few years. I was afraid of the cards because of the text and effects.

[@commonviewer2488]

Same, especially when considering you would have to memorize what all of your cards do, as well as counters against them, if you wanted to play even semi-competitively.

[@melek_the_weird]

i have done the exact same BUT my friend & I stop once we hit Pendulum. Since that edition along with links have completely changed the actual board, we have stuck with syncho & XYZ. This has been an absolutely wonderful decision & really does make the game fun once you learn but by god that took us a long time.

[@deathxanamon7211]

@@melek_the_weird you made the right decision

[@therapeface4153]

@@commonviewer2488 Oh no! You have to learn your deck!
Would you rather decks just be autopilots where you don't even play?

[@poro9084]

@@melek_the_weird yeah pendulum was overkill, it made a lot older deck completele trash

[@lightdrgn20]

A yes, a children's card game.

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

Good luck trying to have a kid figure all the summoning mechanics out

[@white-eyesbluedragon1767]

@@AxisChurchDevotee especially synchro and fusion

[@GunlessSnake]

Abridged Bandit Keith: ONLY ADULTS CAN PLAY CHILDREN'S CARD GAMES!

[@DerVasto]

@@white-eyesbluedragon1767 Let me introduce you to Synchro Summoning with modulating levels and multiple conditions, like Synchro with 2 Tuners, Synchro with at least 2 or more non-Tuners, Synchro by banishing from Graveyard, Synchro from hand, Synchro with a Synchro non-Tuner and finally Synchro with nothing but Synchros while the summoned Synchro has no actual level, but its effect says it's always treated as level 12.
Might I also introduce you to Link-Summoning with conditions like "3+ Xyz Monsters"?

[@white-eyesbluedragon1767]

@@DerVastono let me introduce you to link and pendulum were you can you summon monsters,spells and traps all at the same time including all past summoning methods

[@macabre_and_cheese]

Oh sweet sweet JWittz, Endymion isn't the worst offender of this issue.

[@shyguy4617]

Watching this video now im just in my head thinking "deck isnt even complex so what theirs a good amount of words the deck is easy to understand at its core" like i would give a new player this deck tell him to resd the cards and he would prob get it unless hes like uhhh mentally handicapped or a child in first grade

[@ZenoDLC]

@@shyguy4617 Wonder how long the reading would take

[@benshiotsu8553]

cough* cough* draitrons

[@caster25000]

*Laughs in Golden Castle of Stromberg and Anime Winged Dragon of Ra*

[@supershadow9933]

Daily Post of Yuuto Except This PFP it’s pretty good if you have a deck structured around banished cards

[@ramirezthesilvite]

"We don't want it to feel like taking a test."
As opposed to printing a novel on every card. That's not tedious at all.

[@thanosthepurpleman7917]

Ok boomer

[@Bezaliel13]

Less so than having to google a keyword because you did not pull up a card with the reminder text.

[@Bezaliel13]

@jocaguz18
Are you seriously going to call some extra *reading* "unreasonable stupidly?" Remember that Yu-Gi-Oh does not have set rotation, so it would not have you studying the current keywords to know your opponent's cards but *ALL* the keywords ever.
Honestly, resorting to using "stupidity" was just embarrassing.

[@LoskiBroski9352]

@@Bezaliel13 oh please, there are something like five or six keyword mechanics that you have to worry about, the rest are either very intuitive or almost always come with reminder text. Never in my entire MTG experience did I have to GOOGLE a keyword.

[@Bezaliel13]

@@LoskiBroski9352
Because of set rotation limiting the active keywords that are not evergreen. But hey, good for you in that one scenario. Now, try to say that it us the same for you when ignoring set rotation. I think it is called legacy, or something like that.
Before you even start, YES, that is relevant because Yu-Gi-Oh lacks set rotation, so you would have to keep track of all keywords instead of just Magics current "set keywords." Not like Magic has legacy support *similar to* Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@SEELE-ONE]

Worst part is, sometime during middle game there are bound to be *several* cards at play at the same time, each with their own complex text, interacting with each other and with the complex gameplay rules... By the end there is so much text around that you need Shakespearean troupe to keep track...

[@briancho237]

I can imagine Yu gi oh animation episodes just filled with characters listing off the effect for 20 minutes

[@zbird.1239]

"Hard to understand"
Inspector Boarder:

[@ryanmooney7816]

Zbird.123 that card is worded so poorly 😂

[@tiktokexposed898]

I still dont understand that card

[@darko7432]

Here lemme some it up
If you have no way of negating or destroying him with S/T or running him over, you s c o o p

[@Drachenherz1901]

@@tiktokexposed898 i read this card like 100 times and i dont know how it exactly works

[@salvadorsanchez5057]

it just limits the number of effects a player can activate per turn, up to every type of extra deck monster on the field (+ ritual)
no link/xyz/synchro/whatever on the field? no one can activate monster effects.
theres link monsters on the field? you can active 1 effect per turn
links and synchros? 2 effects per turn
& so on & so forth

[@darko7432]

DID SOMEBODY SAY
F O U R N E G A T E S

[@Lucky-lt7lz]

Insert trif 10 NEGATE BOARD

[@therapeface4153]

see your hand?
gumblar says bye

[@therapeface4153]

@@Lucky-lt7lz Only JOKINGLY, JOKINGLY

[@r3zaful]

Here's an egg
Have a good day

[@r3zaful]

Oh yes super poly too

[@AviChetriArtwork]

As a regular old-time player of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, Edymion is completely understandable to me. Although, it must be a nightmare for new players. Good thing, these cards are not common in the new Speed Duel, and Rush Duel decks.

[@Brutaltronics]

Reading books: smol brain
Reading yugioh card effects and actually understanding it with spell speed and when/it timing: big brain

[@RyujiRoyalSkull]

As someone who can play Yu-Gi-Oh on a competitive level I say to you good job on this video. You nearly hit the nail on the head.

[@naggl3s]

Magic: Officially the most complicated card game
Yu-Gi-Oh!: Laughs

[@JoelRiter]

Pokemon: Eh, fun more important then complexity. So I'd affordability.

[@Rioluman10]

Some of the more complicated cards actually have relatively little effect text though. Case in point: Inspector Boarder.

[@melek_the_weird]

yugioh is a million times more complex & in no way is it better because of it. i feel like yugioh is the perfect case study example oh how making something more complex does NOT equal more fun.

[@Artista_Frustrado]

Complex & Complicated are similar but NOT the same
Magic is Complex, which is having many small parts that work in tandem
YGO is Complicated, which is explaining its rules very inneficiently

[@MrVariant]

@@melek_the_weird magic has more formats, which creates a better stock market (I doubt speed duel will have $30 cards). Then of course adventures, and vehicles were crafted with keywords to help make things easier to read. Planeswalkers can be a bit more complicated though. Both games do have broken cards I admit, but Magic is traditionally more complicated given you need strategies just to play multiple land types (or mill/reuse from graveyard a la deathrite shaman and gifts ungiven). Then of course the whole archetype bit is more helmuty in yugioh. MTG has it, but it's not so bad every set (it's fun to go changelings and be semi-tribal), let alone it feels like a throwaway gimmick until 5+ years where a card will have a new card like Link God Dragon (which I saw a vid on six samurais breaking it lol).

[@JaydonTobler]

There’s a couple really big things too in addition to what you talked about:
1) Cards used to only come with one effect (plus maybe a restriction). Now, a lot of cards come with 3 or 4 effects it seems.
2) Because Konami has had issues with individual cards becoming too powerful, almost every single effect monster printed includes the sentence “you may only use the effect of ‘insert card name here’ once per turn.”
Combine these two things and you get cards with multiple effects that all end in this “once per turn” clause.

[@thejest69]

Perhaps a change in the overall rules is overdue. Just as an example, if so many cards contain the same text like “you can only use this effect one per turn”, then maybe the rules could state ‘cards can only use their effects once per turn unless otherwise specified.’ Rule changes that affect all cards could be a good start to streamlining.

[@Always.Smarter]

@@thejest69 they did this with rush duels... they dont seem to like making changes to the original game tho. I can imagine every little thing involves so much bureaucracy from the japanese side, they dont even bother asking for big changes.

[@RemLasher77]

2:59 To skip Raid Shadow Legends sponsor segment

[@nathanstetson8144]

Oh my God RATA totally called it with his tweet lmaoooooooo. "card text long" me confusion

[@NewGuy2534]

Yuigioh then: It’s too simple.
Yugioh now: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@ssj99lucario]

Boss Umbra (insert Squidward banging his head against the cash register)

[@Officerdown76]

It’s not even that hard

[@xekon14]

Boss Umbra If someone tries to explain some combo I just tell them to do whatever they are about to do and get back to the game after they finished their 5 minutes of spamming cards onto the board because THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY WORDS AND EFFECTS ON THOSE CARDS

[@Dannysapphire]

@@xekon14 Idk what decks you been playing against in recent times but most effects are pretty straight to the point. For example most of the meta at the moment is beyond simple.

[@xekon14]

DanielSapphire Endymion, with all the counters you can imagine

[@GippyHappy]

I haven't watched JWittz video in 5 years. Good to know nothing has changed. Even the audio sounds the same.

[@TokuBoyStudios]

Eventually, we're gonna need a microscope just to read the card text

[@Sean_Bird]

*LAUGHS IN ENDYMION*
More Yugioh videos, please.

[@darko7432]

*DID SOMEBODY SAY*
*4 N E G A T E S*

[@zakd2124]

@@darko7432 NOT ANYMORE GOOD RIDDANCE AGARPAIN

[@lidathrusaraeldokatrigone2656]

@@darko7432 did someone say "this effect cannot be negated".

[@imabanana2371]

Zak D eh u can still put on like 3 negates plus a disruption with agarpain being gone

[@bruceloh7926]

Ah Endymion, the archetype who decided to make Noble Knights card text look like haikus by comparison.

[@theendersteve6821]

To be fair, a STARTER DECK and a STRUCTURE DECK are completely separate products. A starter deck is just that a deck to get people started. While a structure deck (Like Order of the spellcasters) is meant for people who want to go further into the game by combining 3 of them (so you have a playset of every card) to further your game and deck. They are NOT normally the recommended starting point for new players!

[@Grav3staR]

TheJWittz activated his trap card: RAID Shadow Legends ad!

[@Katanaddaeus]

Once you get into the game, you don't even have to read every word each, you've become familiar with the wording and can skip through card text, recognizing blocks of words like keywords in most other card games. The size has become a bit small though

[@Ms666slayer]

Yeah I was going to say that, when you know the game you can literally just read like 3 words of each sentence and understand with the card it's going to do, I'm still wondering why Yu-Gi-Oh hasn't created keywords to finish this problem like in Magic, you could give something like (Piercing, Search on summon Once Per Turn) instead of writing.
When this card is summoned you can search a "Architype name" card from your deck to your hand, whe this card battles a defense position Monster your opponent take damage, you can only use each Effect once per turn.

[@fikriirshade1132]

@@Ms666slayer i guess because even for a search there are so many condition, variation, and/or condition.

[@Mngalahad]

But maaaan thats a lot to read. Pokemon just recombines types, moves and abilities.
Not a paragraph that says: toxapex liquidation poison jab recover haze merciless allows to hit crits when poisoned hp 50 attack 60 defense 120 poisom water.
So its too much trouble to actually learn. I thought of playing some videogames but they are like 15 yo so they wouldnt help to learn the game.

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

Really all you look for is cost, what does it do, and if it is a hard or soft OPT. Pay ____ to search? Ash. Done.

[@jonathanvoss9723]

Pretty much yeah

[@Blizz3112]

It all started with Relinquished, though... :-P

[@KureiSS5]

I was just thinking about Relinquished XD

[@connorreed7523]

Good lord, I totally forgot about Relinquished A.K.A. "that one card that required a magnifying glass to read"

[@quedolapantera7623]

9:54

[@connorreed7523]

@@quedolapantera7623 Actually I didn't forget, Jwittz just dug Relinquished out of my memories

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Funny the thumbnail is Joey, because he has a great system to deal with confusing card text... or card text in general. Just play the card and let your friends explain to you what just happened.

[@TheGAVstudio]

Exactly what happened to me back when Pendulums were released. I hated them for that exact reason. Back then, my Hieratic dragons deck focused only on 8 level xyz and 9 synchro , and it seemed the right amount of complexity and fun. Pends just destroyed the balance for some players....

[@GreycatRademenes]

Dude, Endymion was written with problem solving text designed to simplify the effect and reduce the wordcount. If it was written with the old style of language it could easily go to 250 words.

[@TaskMaster5]

Sounds to me like the game needs an overhaul. If that high of a word count is 'simplified', they're doing it wrong. Maybe they shouldn't make single cards capable of doing so much. It's asinine at best.

[@GreycatRademenes]

@@TaskMaster5 Except this would go against the idea of "Power Creep" - the idea that set has to be better than the previous, otherwise people wouldn't buy it and as established in YGO there is no set rotation, only a ban list.

[@r3zaful]

@@GreycatRademenes actually it's not that powerful, endymion actually a pretty bad deck and also their boss endymion the master, it's just the effect were too unique as he needs to transfer counters to make him works, no other monsters works that way.

[@r3zaful]

@@GreycatRademenes yugioh can't use keywords like magic since almost all cards have different effects and gimmick, you will never found a deck with bizarre play styles like dream mirrors, ritual beast or ghostrick in other games

[@GreycatRademenes]

@@r3zaful I never even said it was powerful, just that it was written with problem solving text ^^

[@Onyxs]

I don’t know how others feel, but the reason I like Yugioh over other tcgs is because of their legality style. I build my decks in a competitive style, but I’m not a hardcore go to regionals player, so my decks are all decks I’ve had for years that I’ve adjusted to fit the current style of the game. If I played stuff like Pokémon, while it is a fun game, after a few years my cards are all worthless and I have to go make brand new decks. One of my Yugioh decks is about 8-9 years old from the 5Ds era, 3 series ago. I love it even if it’s hard to play now with the Link format. I’d rather take a banlist that takes out problematic cards than a rotation that wipes out my cards.

[@luminous3558]

Yeah and also being able to find weird combos between new and old cards is a ton of fun.

[@kds6992]

TCG's like pokemon and magic have extra formats though,including eternal ones and even have their tournaments and special support for those formats.
Just dont stick to standard(unless youre new) and isnt a issue.

[@kigut7443]

i like that in hearthstone, when you hover over the card, it explains the keywords nice and simple in little blocks next to the card, every single time
there hasnt ever been a card in hearthstone that i didnt understand immediately because of this

[@TheMonyarm]

explains why i've noticed that newer printing have "GY" instead of "Graveyard"

[@jennyinutil2018]

"Every era of Yu-Gi-Oh cards is legal"
When that flashed on-screen I had the biggest epiphany of my life which
1. Made this "power creep" I heard so much about instantly recognizable.
And
2. Made me realize I don't get that many epiphanies

[@chrishansen1842]

It's probably a good thing you don't get too many epiphanies. Never good to not know too much about anything.

[@justawarlord]

ehh there also is alot of reverse power creep too
and alot of limitations now a days

[@ghostlyflower9354]

Some old cards are broken for how simple they where

[@menkomonty]

The text on modern Yu-Gi-Oh cards reminds me a lot of my grandparents writing their Christmas cards to their friends and family. My grandfather would always look over at my nan and he'd say to her
"You're supposed to be writing a Christmas card, not a bloody thriller."

[@BugCatcherSimp]

I actually really like how you can use any card in yugioh, it really brings out everyones creativity and its fun to duel against a cool new deck you’ve never dueled before

[@chairmanofrussia]

Toucannon Pirate really? I feel like it’s limited to archetypes nowadays, whereas back then you could play any combination of cards because they didn’t rely on each other so much.

[@gavinmcgee2264]

I do

[@glados4313]

It also means you didn't waste your money

[@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046]

No man, back then it was way more restrictive

[@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046]

@@chairmanofrussia It feels like back then if you wanted to make a meta deck, you needed to have specific cards - These days, you get to choose which cards you want provided they go with your archetype

[@conorfrost6866]

When you laugh at mighty master of magic and then remember that it's one of the main boss monsters of your deck...

[@hidood5th]

Yu-Gi-Oh is basically Paperwork: the TCG

[@Roboshi2007]

it's because Yugioh has it's roots in Dungeons and Dragons. The guy who invented the game loved those games so his card game was inspired by it.

[@justingauthier1878]

No this isn’t a thing this guy just is out of content ideas

[@tiktokexposed898]

@@Roboshi2007 pretty sure it was a parody of magic more than D&D

[@legxannartleb3852]

TheJWittz when talking about yugioh should do an alternate intro where hes dressed like Yugi and hoppip is kuriboh😂

[@arnold12345romo]

Cant wait dzeeff to make "jwittz doesn't understand yugioh card text"

[@catiseith]

"Reading the card, explains the card"
* *2 hours later* *

[@narx221]

chains a trap in response to the effect.
*mind explodes*

[@DerVasto]

@@narx221 "Yeah, uh, I negate that. You can't follow up on that."
*mind reborn as transcended being*

[@vomixed4020]

i think the large card texts are cool, it actually allows me to use my brain figuring out the combos you can do with the cards

[@cypherdastro8105]

Thats what I think is the big draw of Yugioh nowadays. It's very frustrating at first, but taking the time to learn the cards you play can open up so many doors to you and allow you to figure out combos with other cards and even make learning new decks a lot easier.

[@kds6992]

Should defnitly still have bigger text fond though,and more things being shortered/keywords.(so can have text to be more readable)

[@Skasaha_]

Yu-gi-oh players are pretty famous for not actually reading their cards.
Also that Endymion monster does in fact have the most effect text of any monster.

[@taylorsmith9503]

Skasaha it’s pretty much just memorizing the deck at this point and what the cards do

[@romkin1197]

@@taylorsmith9503 The only time a player even reads the card, is when they get called out on their illegal play lol.
You wouldn't believe how many people try to Summon Saryuja with monsters of the same name...

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@romkin1197 Thats against the rules, isn't it?

[@romkin1197]

@@CathrineMacNiel To call out their illegal plays?

[@ce461]

Rom Kin in this game there are no rules just rules of the cards, which no one follows because there are no rules.

[@kokokat06]

7:08
"2 words" yeh I don't thin this text counter knows how Japanese works XD (...to the extent where it isn't seeing the full-stops as word breaks. um... what?)

[@game84cube]

As a player of Yu-Gi-Oh since the beginning (and only recently getting good) I know a few things these days about card effects.
1) Yes, Endymion is the record holder for longest card text in the game.
2) There's a reason for effects being long. Often times they need to explain rulings that could even supercede the actual card game rules. Trap cards like Red Reboot for example, which say you can play it from your hand Quick Play style if you pay the cost, or cards called "hand traps" which are actually monsters with a discard effect, where you send the monster from your hand to the GY and activate an effect. Kuriboh is the classic example, but these days the card Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is the cornerstone for these cards.
3) Pendulum cards are the most obnoxious type for effects, since the good ones have more than one effect in the Pendulum zone and a long effect in the Monster zone.
Yeah, so it's cool regardless

[@Sillimant_]

Nirvana High Paladin says hello

[@EskChan19]

But these things still all do the same and could just get a keyword for that. Like you said there's an incredible amount of text wasted on explaining that if you discard this card from your hand you get to do stuff, or trap cards that can be used quickplay style. Why not just have quick play traps or a keyword (Effect/Warrior/Tuner/Handtrap) and not have that issue anymore?
90% of the card text being long is not because the effect is crazy,but because it explains the restrictions and triggers in excruciating detail. For example almost all Endymion cards use the same base effect of placing a spell counter and then removing a spell counter to cause an effect. So why not condense that whole Spell Counter garbage into an effect, call it Endymion and say something like Endymion 1(to remove 1 Spell Counter): Do stuff? That would immediately remove like 75% of the effect text of all Endymion monsters

[@SleepyTaylor]

5:20 starter decks are made to introduce players into the game. Structure decks are meant to be more complex than the basic starter decks, just so you know.

[@joaogarcia6170]

Thank you, he could have known that by simply googling it but that's too much work i guess.

[@slowpokefriedrice]

I don’t play card games so my first experience with these walls of text was Fire Emblem Heroes. I believe Flora’s “Hoarfrost Knife” weapon that was added last year was the first time the community was like “uh that’s a lotta text” lmao

[@jedc6507]

Trust me, it's not just the text that is out of control. The game's balance is completely unhinged. I remember back at my school they had a miniature tournament and me thinking it was a fun time, but not an avid super collector or anything, participated. I got into my first match, did my first turn, and then proceeded to have several "wtf??" moments in my head as my opponent took his turn using a card i don't quite remember but it was some female with alternate ways of saying blue (as all BEWD connected cards do) the effect was something along the lines of being able to special summon blue eyes, got multiples out on the field, and killed me in one go. Needless to say I didn't play much more after that

[@KiteKenny11]

Non yugioh players: how r u supposed to read everything?
Yugioh players: that’s the best part, u don’t

[@MrFallenFtw]

Fun fact, the Endymion card shown at the beginning of the video currently holds the record for most words for card text, standing at 183 words total. It beats out the previous record-holder by 37 words. Absolutely crazy.

[@clownsingularity]

When you play Cardians, i feel called out.

[@djeldj]

We still need a link though :(

[@MrMan-uw2vp]

tbh it’s the one archetype i get frustrated with when playing ygopro

[@bravestant3921]

Can’t wait for yu gi oh to have the entire dictionary as a description

[@lemonworm]

I kind of understand where konami's coming from with choosing a wall of text over monikers for common effects, not because its "simpler" as they claim but because often the same effect can be worded slightly differently to cause a different result in the game. The ability for them to word freely gives the cards more room to have effects which make them feel like individuals, and a deck feels like some crazy word game where all these paragraphs are synergizing together. I get that the text is a massive barrier to entry to new players, but its the nuance of slightly different wordings and all these minor conditional aspects to various effects that makes every card, even bad ones, feel unique, and makes the game kind of an endless rabbit hole to dive through.

[@EskChan19]

This is also a downside because as a player you always have to read the text multiple times to really get these wording differences because sometimes a single word completely changes how the card actually works, if you miss timing or get to use it and so on. A more standardized pattern would make it more easily understandable for everyone.

[@amirgarcia547]

Yeah...it’s due to the literal wall of texts why I was never really able to get into the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG.
My slow brain just can’t read that much and then remember it in such a short time lol.

[@Snyperwolf91]

No bro . I played with my friends 1 years ago yu gi oh again . And almost no one was able to know all the effects of our Cards. After a time we stopped readin the Card effects and looking Up Wikis and asking on some YuGiOh groups in Facebook how the cards work and some of the new rules. The Card game was totally a text chaos from the Start and sometimes if you didnt read deep enough then some words could change the whole effect differently then you expect. Sometimes our group thought we we're autistic or something but its just the dann Text that was a Nightmare. Even mtg is simpler to understand than YuGiOh.

[@quietguyjosh4643]

watch videos that break down each mechanic one at a time
then all you need is to read the card text
take your time
they're not that complicated
especially structure deck cards

[@Snyperwolf91]

@@quietguyjosh4643Well thats the part about learning the game but making it smoother to read would be much more appreciated because looking up effects shouldnt be such a Research on its own . Just Reading the effect and understanding it in no time should be the highest priority. But still a good solution indeed.

[@quietguyjosh4643]

@@Snyperwolf91
I got back into yugioh this last month
i had originally quit right before xyz
but learning the new mechanics has been fun for me and the new rules seem to help balance
most cards better
the pendulum structure deck used here isn't complicated because it's uses the spellcounter mechanic way more and is a good way to start learning the pendulum mechanic
xyz are just synchros without tuners
links im still learning

[@JT5555]

A Trick I Use Is To Only Remember The Parts That Apply To You (Not Every Part Of Every Effect Needs To Be Used In Order To Use The Effect)/The Cards In Your Deck. Granted,There May Be Times When You'll Have To Go Back And Read It Again Because Of Something The Other Guy Did But As A Whole,It's Helpful For When You Know You Can Still Use The Effect But Don't Have Anything To Apply Some Of It To. Another Trick (For Effects You NEED Every Part For) Is To Simply Make Sure The Effect Works Well With Other Cards In Your Deck/Know EXACTLY What Cards You Have That You Intend To Use It On (For A Very Simple Example: I Have One Card In Duel Links That Let's You Special Summon A Dragon From Your Hand Once It's Destroyed So My PLAN Is To Always Wait Until I Have A Blue-Eyes,Set My The Effect Dragon So It Get's Destroyed And Then BAM: I Got My 3000 Attack Blue-Eyes To Replace It) And Make A Point To Remember THAT Rather Then The Text,Itself. Granted,I Don't Play Competitive So Maybe This Does't Work In Those Kinds Of Games But It Works Almost Every Time For The Duels I Play,So It's Worth A Shot.

[@mathewricafrente5984]

The text on some of these cards is longer than most dictionary definitions, like long winded

[@strain42]

I lost it so hard at the Little D joke that I had to pause the video and go find it (meaning I had to pause and have a nice laugh break)

[@ivn_fgc8005]

That's when you play castle of Stromberg and the opponent dies because he didn't read the text