*Huge thanks to everyone who helped me get my deck back. I also appreciate the supportive words and those who offered to send me replacements. I understand how truly lucky I am to have gotten this back, so from the bottom of my heart: Thank you. I hope this never has to happen to any of you.* 💗
I used to visit my friend at his apartment and we'd duel outside at this little setup he had. There was a druggee who used to watch us duel and he seemed harmless and we didn't mind him because he was kinda funny. My friend's girlfriend sent us to the store to get cigarettes and we were mid duel. Dude was totally whipped so we went to get it out of the way since the store was less than a block away. He told her to watch our cards while we went and when we got back my deck was gone. She said she went inside to get something and didn't even notice it was gone. I was so pissed. My fault entirely for trusting my so called friend and his so called girlfriend. It was 2011 and that was my six samurai deck. I know the druggee guy either stole it or my friend's girlfriend stole it and blamed the druggee. I hope karma catches up to whoever did it.
@@GIR177 oh Karma is very real.....just because it doesn't happen right away doesn't mean that it won't happen at all. Doing bad things brings bad energy and that can bring bad things to you
@@lordvika2526 The concept of karma is based largely on anecdotes and the comforting idea that bad people will get what they deserve...eventually. Which a lot of the time they do, but there's also many, many times where they don't. Making bad decisions fueled by negative intentions could likely come bite you in the ass later, but karmic intervention has nothing to do with it.
Yeah it was about $1200 worth of magic cards at the time. I was only about 14 at the time. I was naive handed it to someone for a "deck inspection" never brought it back. Black box black sleeves no identiying marks other than the card list I had in the box.
That’s actually pretty amazing. Someone sold your deck instead of giving it to a lost and found. I can only assume that it was sold so cheaply just to get it out of their hands as quick as possible. Surprisingly, it was returned out of all the things the vendor was selling that someone finally recognized your deck
I had all of favorite cards stolen as a kid over a decade ago. My holo Dark Magician, Blue Eyes, Summoned Skull and a few others from the OG structure decks. Never played again after that. Still miss the beautiful artwork of those cards.
Yeah, this is what happened to me. I never got my deck back so I quit yugioh and didn't play for five years. I can't explain it to anyone but it just crushes your morale. I literally felt sick watching people play. Worst part about my experience I was at a house tournament with 12 people I was close to. They were my friends and I never found out the truth. Be careful with your stuff guy's.
Will Hewson I am so sorry to hear that I know what it’s like to lose your deck your one of your good cards because it happened to me and my friends except we didn’t lose decks we lost our good cards someone in our yugioh club were we host tournaments was a thief I think I know who it was but sadly nothing was done
Glad you got your deck back Paul. Having stuff lost or stolen is never a good experience. On your tips, for a few of them. Backpack/Bag: When I have my backpack and I have sat down ready to duel, I always hang my backpack on my leg/knee with one of the straps. Even putting your through one of the straps then hanging is even more secure. With this method I always know both where my bag is/my bag is secured and not going anywhere. Lost and Found: I've been lucky not to have lost anything Yugioh based, but if I did I would turn in a copy of my deck list of the deck I was using before I lost it. That way you aren't having go off memory of what your deck consisted of. Having an extra copy of your deck list on hand is a great to double check you have everything accounted for, and to better describe at Lost & Found exactly what you lost. That's just input added in to your tips Paul, and I'm happy your deck is safe and sound 👍
As a golden castle player who also had his deck stolen myself, I'm glad you got it back. I've been trying to replace mine since but I'm fairly poor and got mine before it got the tops so it was fairly cheap, thanks to reprints I'm on my way to finishing it again.
8:01 I put my legs through the bit of the rucksack that goes over your shoulder, if someone tried to nab the bag, I'd more than notice as I'd come along with it (assuming they could deal with my weight).
1. Use a Tile square and a false bottom or top in you deck box. 2. Use a Fanny Pack or sling bag over a backpack. 3. Use zipper locks 4. If you use a backpack place in the floor in front of you place your feet through the straps. 5. If they are uncomfortable with it being in front you put it under the chair and put at least 1 but preferably 2 of the chair legs through the straps. 6. Use easily identifiable card sleeves and deck boxes.
I'm glad you got your deck back, bro. And I can totally understand the apprehension when thinking about going to stores and events after an experience like that. Recently I had a card stolen and even though it was just one inexpensive card, I got really bummed because someone who steals a card can steal much more than that. Also, my local store is a place I thought I could feel safe and not having to look over my shoulder all the time like we have to do everywhere. And lastly, I'm a pretty nice guy when it comes to yugioh (at least I think so). I give away cards, I lend them, I try to help our local community as much as I can. If the guy had asked me for it I'd given the card to him. At the end of the day these things really bum you out.
RFID Tags are my friend. You can even set up proximity alarms with it. Good for bags, boxes, and binders. Doesn't help with the swiping of the cards themselves though.
This hit home for me. My deck was stolen in middle school. My deck fell out my pocket and my teacher took it from me. Later on that day it was stolen from her desk. I was heartbroken and I stopped playing for a few years.
I always refused when teachers tried to take my stuff. After seeing other peoples stuff get stolen from teachers desks, i’d take a suspension and take my stuff home with me over letting them have it
Oftentimes when something bad happens you start to think "What can I do to prevent this from happening next time." And that's when you start being super careful with things and come up with lists like this. Another thing is that once you have a negative emotion attached to something, you start to not want to be involved with it, but I personally think that's the worst thing you can do. You shouldn't stop being involved with something you loved because of 1 bad event that occured with it, especially if it wasn't your fault and/or you know how to prevent that from happening next time.
I’m So Glade that you finally got your Deck Back I Imagine those Cards Aren’t Cheap. And only Couple of other Advice that I Could Possibly give is that First Don’t Be Afraid to Use your Low Rarity Cards a Common Blue Eyes Works the Exact same as a High Rare Blue Eyes. And the Second is Don’t Bering All of your Highest Rarity Cards to the Event Leave some at Home, Your Favourites and or The Cards that you Don’t want to Trade would be Preferred, so it Doesn’t get Miss Placed or Stollen.
Deck box manufacturers need to look into making deck boxes that can be strapped to your belt like Yugi did in Battle City. Its not just stylish (at least at an event), but it guarantees your deck never leaves your person.
I made my own 14 years ago, only recently gave it away because it no longer fit. Figured it would be cheaper and easier to make a new one as opposed to replacing the belt and possibly ruining the box.
honestly having anything stolen just sucks man, i know yugioh has super expensive decks similar to magic in terms of being standard, and i'm happy you got it back
Working on construction sites I've learned to keep everything in the smallest packages possible and never letting things out of sight. Trust none, survive longer.
I got my deck stolen at school once, it had jinzo which had some distinct feature and bunch of other goat format cards. The next day this kid that played yugioh a lot all of a sudden had a bunch of new cards which happened to be all the ones that were in my stolen deck. It was obvious he stole my deck so I just walked up and took my deck back and was fine. But I was devastated when it happened, I’m glad you got your cards back
I got my deck stolen 3 years ago and that ruined my experience because I spent so much money in the deck and I just decided to get back into the game hoping it won’t happen again
Glad to hear you got your deck back! Sorry the experience kind of killed the fun of playing the deck for you; I can see how that might happen, but it's at least encouraging to know there are people out there who would put in the time and effort to return your cards. Thanks for the update!
Glad you got your deck back dude :) I can understand the feeling of having your deck taken considering this happened with my Gouki deck during my first year of college. But luckily, I have rebuilt it and it's better than ever :) Anyway, congrats dude. :)
Man, you're lucky. Someone snagged it, they sold it to a vendor, the vendor didn't take it apart, someone just happened to find it, bought it from the vendor, decided to be honest and send it to you. All of means it's fortunate so many things went right. Thanks to the person who bought and returned it.
Keep in mind people wanted to give Paul cards or even replace his deck and that goes to show that people are not always the sneaky card swipers and offer help to others during their yugioh needs
You know it’s times like this that makes me glad that I haven’t lost my faith in humanity because while it is no secret that in this game that a lot of people will take your stuff if left unattended but there are plenty of other people who are kind enough that if they find something they will make an attempt to return it to its rightful owner because I remember roughly a year or two ago this one person who played Yu-Gi-Oh had lost his deck at an event and even though it took about roughly a year or so someone did turn in the deck And Konami had mailed it to him and seeing as well as hearing that makes me happy
Getting my deck stolen just made me quit Yu-Gi-Oh, for 4 years. I was just starting to play, i bought 3 Knights of the Round table boxes, i also got the Chalenger Excalibur, Armor ninja (those guys used to be veeery tough to find) and some other stuff. I had my Noble Knights deck just ready to play, used it for like 2 months, and then someone stole it when i was out from my class, on the last year of my highschool. Can you imagine? How hard it was for me? Just started to play the game, i build the best deck that i could with my limited knowledge about Yu-Gi-Oh, and then that happened.
I completely understand how you feel. I had my deck stolen at a regional and thankfully the shop knew who I was so they managed to find it and returned it to me.
when sitting down to a table, between the legs with one leg through one of the straps, small padlock on the zippers. Never let your cards out of your sight. I am much less scared of losing trade cards over actual decks. I don't leave my backpack in a vehicle (friends car got broken into and collection stolen outside of a bar) or my house. Maybe a little too paranoid there, but who tf knows when something can happen. Being paranoid over my collection, even though I really only collect yugioh and play mtg, I never let my cards out of my sight as much as I can control. I've taken my backpack to the doctors office once before. xD
Glad you got it back man. I can relate. I lost multiple decks having been playing since ‘02. Most recently my blackwing deck got lost/stolen this year. At first heartbreaking because it was competitive and started building the deck when black wings first came around in 2009. As hurt as I am after the stolen deck I have looked into heroes and can say I actually have a viable and pricey deck at that with the recent evil hero engine play set. I can’t imagine losing my current hero deck. I protect this deck like I do my wallet. Anyways from one Yugioh player to another, good luck protecting your cards!
Glad you got it back. I like when people get their stuff back and it’s a somewhat “happy” ending. A similar thing happened many years ago. Although not a big event but a large locals and I misplaced my extra deck and didn’t realize till I got home a friend ended up finding it before they left not knowing who’s it was and returned it to me after posting about it in our locals group. It’s just stuff like this can kind of ruin the cards or even deck for you after retrieving them. It’s like they are like a reminder of the horrible feeling. I’m not telling you what to do but maybe resleeving the deck in different colour as well changing the deck box could maybe remove that bad vibe. This video is good for really even going to play at locals. Anyways gl with future events. Hope this doesn’t happen again or to anyone else!
I remember a friend of mine who was quite popular player in Greece on every competitive level locals,regionals and so on.What he would do is marking his cards,since he was a name the word was spread that his deck was marked somehow,i think he tries to get signed copies from other players.Im case someone would stole it(which had happened many times to him) he could do nothing with it due to the marking.I mean yes you pretty much damage your cards but when you are competitive you care little to not at all to damage your cards.
A tip for what to do with your bag is to put it between your legs and put your legs through the straps, if it is a small bag/pack with a single strap put the strap part on the seat and sit on the strap, although you can still just put your leg through it if that's more comfortable. If you have a backpack with two zippers and want to be really secure those small padlocks you use for luggage are a good way to go (I've known all sorts of cases were people have had all sorts of things taken straight out of their backpacks while standing around/in a queue etc.). However the best overall tip is for people to just be more conscious of where their stuff is, don't let anything out of your sight that you don't want to lose. And go with your gut, if someone around you just seems sketchy, they probably are.
What to takeaway from this video: someone (maybe even “people”) is (are) going around at events, stealing deck boxes and selling the cards to vendors. Watch people’s hands.
dang, you can relate to how even though you like the thing (in this case the deck), it will impact you by remembering the bad associated with it. Hope it will get better soon, Paul!
Honestly, I think that knowing that there is one good person in the community cuts through people that are shady. I wish we had a decent community but it will not happen until we take action.
It probably just guilt trip from the one who stole. It's sketchy how a vendor who paid for the cards will just give it back without any proof that it was really his.
I'm glad u got your deck back with everything, my was stolen by one of my brothers friends, but another buddy of mine who knew him got it back for me but it was missing my siding and some extra deck monsters.... That was my platinum Noble knights too
Ugh! Fucking brutal! I have that same deck! If someone took any of those from me... I would most definitely carve each and every missing card out of their flesh and tattoo the artwork on each rectangular slab to replace the deck!
Glad you got your deck back.....Wish i would got my Ultimate Dark World Destiny Hero deck back Years ago when it was stolen in Arkansas. Congrats again on getting it back......
Yo man, you should consider getting a Tile for your deck box. It’s pretty much a mini GPS device. They come in different sizes and are really affordable. I have a $400 wallet that I’ve lost a couple times and luckily found it by using my Tile! Even though you found it the device could be a little safety net for you to have a little piece of mind whenever you do go to another event! Just a thought you. Glad you got your deck back homie
What i usually do is when I have a big bag is something me and my friends came to call bag under foot. Put your bag right under your foot and you step on that thing until you get up to leave the table. Dont even lift a foot off the bag. Not for a second, until your leaving
It's actually quite nice of them, as in my opinion, had most people found a full competitive deck, you would have never seen that deck box again m8. Absolute respect to them
Glad you got your deck returned decks are expensive... and it is always some hurt when you work hard to put a deck together just for someone to get it and sell or keep it... glad everything worked out bro much love keep up the content
Always check the lost and found. You don’t lose anything by checking. And check more than once. I found a green cinch bad under a table at nats this year and brought it up to lost and found, but by then the convention center was almost empty and I don’t think that person got their stuff.
I always watch your Vids I saw your deck got stolen and I am glad you got it back honestly. I have had so many cards stolen mostly not decks persay but my collection like of the most expensive stuff I had from exs which sold them to stores but I didn't know what to do I didn't want to take it to the police because I was worried they wouldn't have taken it seriously and things... So I let it go and started again only to have it happen again. All my first ed Ghost rares and more it was just like why both I should quit but I didn't and I am back to a decently good collection again. But that's my story. But I am so glad you got your deck back but I know what you mean by the interaction with others. Stay playing and stay true. Peace! 🙂
A close to the family friend of a pal of mine went over to his house while he was at work (3rd shift) and his mom let him in not even expecting much. Went into my pals room and plucked his 3 ultimate maxx Cs and a bunch of other stuff right from his binders and boxes. It’s fucked up
Outstanding! I think the whole "Yu-Gi-Oh!" community is feeling quite joyful for your deck being returned after such a terrible experience, Paul. Glad to see honest people still among us in this world.
In college around 2011-2012, I used to play a junk synchron deck. I let someone borrow my deck plus extra deck. His person I duel with a few times before but we wasn't friends. At the time I didn't think letting him borrow my deck plus extra deck was a big deal but I learned the hard way. When I finally got my deck back I looked to make sure if all the right cards was in the deck they were. However that wasn't the case for my extra deck. I noticed a monster was missing in my extra deck. The whole experience put a bad taste in my mouth. I should of asked him about the missing card, but I didn't because I didn't want any drama with his person. After that I just didn't find the deck to be fun anymore. I ended up selling it to someone who asked. Someone I have duel with many times before. I sold it for way let then I should have. Like 10 dollars or so for the deck plus extra sense I wanted nothing do with the deck at that point of my life is most likely why I didn't care about selling it so low. Also I later learned the person who stole a card from me stole a good friend of mines laptop he let borrow. Stoling isn't cool and is a awful feeling when it happens to you, me and those who are friends of yours, family and people you don't know. It's a awful thing to happen to anyone really regardless how little or how much is stolen. Stealing is awful period.
One big tip, in each of your deckboxes, keep a slip of paper with your name and email saying "contact if you find it", just in case someone who is super nice finds it, but make sure its not a business email or something with a super raunchy title, and one more thing, help others with keeping and eye on their stuff and they will do the same for you, in general
Best tip i figured is put ur back pack under ur chair. Then put the chair unbetween the arm slots. Makes it so they cant steal it as its stuck to the chair if someone tries to take it u will feel it
gem protech backpacks seem like the ideal way to go as far as things in your backpack. theres obviously mental discipline for yourself that needs to be a thing. for example, putting your yugioh stuff in the locked part. and just because the bag has a lock doesnt mean you should be careless about it. because people can find someway to just rip the material to get acess to your stuff if they have your bag.
I would build a scapegoat copy of the deck I'm using at the tournament. Obviously some cards would share the same set id, but I would have it to throw off any potential thieves, being built of the least valuable copies of each card possible.
My best friend got his high rare Hero Frog Deck stolen 3 years ago at YCS Bochum. He never saw ist again, but Out playgroup and local Store Players all Gifted him a Few Cards so He Had His deck again even If IT wasnt high rare.
Anyone going to an event should keep this in mind. Any tcg there will be people that only think of themselves. Protect your things. This is why people hate on card games but we are supposed to have fun
Tbh if a deck like that was laying around what a lot of people do is separate the cards, keep the sleeves, sell 30% of the deck and trade the other 70%. Always keep you’re cards kept up with.
Great to hear that. Hope you be more careful next time since there are a lot o thieves at these events with no morale. Day 252 of waiting for new Volcanic support to arrive
Dude I feel you, a couple years back my display binder that had basically all my cards in it. It was stolen at a local and I never saw it again. Right now I only really have a endymion deck. Hopefully my Silent Magician deck will reunite with me someday
Yep always have a back up plan i remember as a kid i always forget things and got things stolen. So now i learned specially with technology today i keep all my records everything i buy or bought over the years and took pictures of everything i took to my home after i bought something. Like if this happens to any of you yha do some methods of making sure people can trust you and know that this was your stuff that someone stole and it's also help out to know the employees to if you like to shop at one store or heck yugioh locals it will help a whole lot.
Question If I try to pendulum summon an odd eyes monster and my opponent solemn strikes it, can I use arc pendulum to bring it back or do I not Control the monster because the summon was negated
Yeah we had a buddy at our locals who always lent his decks or cards to his other buddy. Twice in a row that guy got one deck stolen, and never got it back. Second time he almost lost it but me and another guy at the regional at the time found it stationed on a table. Waited for hours to see if anyone would claim it. We grabbed it opened it and then checked it's contents and went. "WELP" this is his deck xD...
I had several decks stolen by a friend's friend before going to a locals and I was very upset about it but the owner of the shop gave me free cards to build my main deck that I was using back then which was monarchs at the time but all my casual decks were stolen at the same time and the guy's excuse was he wanted his little brother to have better cards
Glad you got the deck back, its a shame that this event ruined the deck for you. I have a tip for your followers about attending events too, to avoid theft. I always have a small travel lock on my bag so that if I am doing something I can lock the bag and that makes stealing stuff from the bag harder. Locks are inexpensive and can protect everything in a bag.
In grade six I had a mini binder that I left in my desk during lunch and a few cards got taken but they were returned and the kid who returned them took more cards from other people to try to be my friend LMAO
It hasn’t happened to me *knock on wood*, but at a few 40K tournaments I’ve seen dudes that have had their hundreds of dollars armies, and once a Stormbird ($1,200)that was just walked away with. It’s shitty, I’m sorry that that happened to you, but thank The Emperor that you got it back 👍🏻
I'm glad your 4th rate deck was returned to you
By a 3rd rate duelist no less
😂😂😂
Thank you, Seto Kaiba. One day I hope to become a 1st rate Duelist like you. 😍
Screw the money, I have rules.
Screw the rules I had green hair!!
*Huge thanks to everyone who helped me get my deck back. I also appreciate the supportive words and those who offered to send me replacements. I understand how truly lucky I am to have gotten this back, so from the bottom of my heart: Thank you. I hope this never has to happen to any of you.* 💗
Team APS I just started to play yu gi oh and your channel is the reason I started playing keep up the good work 💓 💓
Team aps it made me sad when you told us I was at the event it just made me sad
I wa the kid you took a picture with you
Merle haboink
@@yusuf_ym3829 yugioh is a fun game im glad you enjoy it
I don't know what would hurt more getting your deck stolen or learning that it was sold pretty cheap
I used to visit my friend at his apartment and we'd duel outside at this little setup he had. There was a druggee who used to watch us duel and he seemed harmless and we didn't mind him because he was kinda funny. My friend's girlfriend sent us to the store to get cigarettes and we were mid duel. Dude was totally whipped so we went to get it out of the way since the store was less than a block away. He told her to watch our cards while we went and when we got back my deck was gone. She said she went inside to get something and didn't even notice it was gone. I was so pissed. My fault entirely for trusting my so called friend and his so called girlfriend. It was 2011 and that was my six samurai deck. I know the druggee guy either stole it or my friend's girlfriend stole it and blamed the druggee. I hope karma catches up to whoever did it.
@@dizasteroid7 people are shit man
@@dizasteroid7 Karma isn't real. Sucks about the deck tho
@@GIR177 oh Karma is very real.....just because it doesn't happen right away doesn't mean that it won't happen at all.
Doing bad things brings bad energy and that can bring bad things to you
@@lordvika2526 The concept of karma is based largely on anecdotes and the comforting idea that bad people will get what they deserve...eventually. Which a lot of the time they do, but there's also many, many times where they don't. Making bad decisions fueled by negative intentions could likely come bite you in the ass later, but karmic intervention has nothing to do with it.
My deck was stolen at a MTG event in the 90s. It's heart breaking unfortunately I didn't get my deck back. I'm glad you got yours returned.
Yeah it was about $1200 worth of magic cards at the time. I was only about 14 at the time. I was naive handed it to someone for a "deck inspection" never brought it back. Black box black sleeves no identiying marks other than the card list I had in the box.
Glad you got it back my brother!
TeamSamuraiX1 ily bro
Hey Sam, you still need to show us how to use that teleport super-power of yours
Congrats on 300k
@@mechamedeamigo3984 it’s called being super saiyan
That’s actually pretty amazing. Someone sold your deck instead of giving it to a lost and found. I can only assume that it was sold so cheaply just to get it out of their hands as quick as possible. Surprisingly, it was returned out of all the things the vendor was selling that someone finally recognized your deck
@Garfield Mobile Gaming didnt even notice his name or pfp until you mentioned it
The guy who “bought it off a vender” definitely stole it in the first place...
pretty much has to be.
if people were aware of a deck being stolen then it would be a hot item and you would be stupid to sell it.
I had all of favorite cards stolen as a kid over a decade ago. My holo Dark Magician, Blue Eyes, Summoned Skull and a few others from the OG structure decks. Never played again after that. Still miss the beautiful artwork of those cards.
My brother who has done this to you and we shall send their asses to the Shadow Realm!!!!
Yeah, this is what happened to me.
I never got my deck back so I quit yugioh and didn't play for five years. I can't explain it to anyone but it just crushes your morale. I literally felt sick watching people play. Worst part about my experience I was at a house tournament with 12 people I was close to. They were my friends and I never found out the truth. Be careful with your stuff guy's.
Will Hewson I am so sorry to hear that I know what it’s like to lose your deck your one of your good cards because it happened to me and my friends except we didn’t lose decks we lost our good cards someone in our yugioh club were we host tournaments was a thief I think I know who it was but sadly nothing was done
@@phantomdemon6613 well I believe in karma and thieves are always caught out in the end
Glad there is some glimmer of hope for anyone that loses their deck
Not really . He’s a UA-camr... you need to be a youtuber to get your deck back....
Glad you got your deck back Paul. Having stuff lost or stolen is never a good experience.
On your tips, for a few of them.
Backpack/Bag: When I have my backpack and I have sat down ready to duel, I always hang my backpack on my leg/knee with one of the straps. Even putting your through one of the straps then hanging is even more secure. With this method I always know both where my bag is/my bag is secured and not going anywhere.
Lost and Found: I've been lucky not to have lost anything Yugioh based, but if I did I would turn in a copy of my deck list of the deck I was using before I lost it. That way you aren't having go off memory of what your deck consisted of. Having an extra copy of your deck list on hand is a great to double check you have everything accounted for, and to better describe at Lost & Found exactly what you lost.
That's just input added in to your tips Paul, and I'm happy your deck is safe and sound 👍
As a golden castle player who also had his deck stolen myself, I'm glad you got it back. I've been trying to replace mine since but I'm fairly poor and got mine before it got the tops so it was fairly cheap, thanks to reprints I'm on my way to finishing it again.
Tanner Meis hope you finish your deck
8:01 I put my legs through the bit of the rucksack that goes over your shoulder, if someone tried to nab the bag, I'd more than notice as I'd come along with it (assuming they could deal with my weight).
This is a fantastic counter to the situation! Glad I saw this comment thanks dude just one question. Do the judges allow it?
1. Use a Tile square and a false bottom or top in you deck box.
2. Use a Fanny Pack or sling bag over a backpack.
3. Use zipper locks
4. If you use a backpack place in the floor in front of you place your feet through the straps.
5. If they are uncomfortable with it being in front you put it under the chair and put at least 1 but preferably 2 of the chair legs through the straps.
6. Use easily identifiable card sleeves and deck boxes.
Michael Yater sweet
I'm glad you got your deck back, bro. And I can totally understand the apprehension when thinking about going to stores and events after an experience like that. Recently I had a card stolen and even though it was just one inexpensive card, I got really bummed because someone who steals a card can steal much more than that. Also, my local store is a place I thought I could feel safe and not having to look over my shoulder all the time like we have to do everywhere.
And lastly, I'm a pretty nice guy when it comes to yugioh (at least I think so). I give away cards, I lend them, I try to help our local community as much as I can. If the guy had asked me for it I'd given the card to him.
At the end of the day these things really bum you out.
RFID Tags are my friend. You can even set up proximity alarms with it. Good for bags, boxes, and binders. Doesn't help with the swiping of the cards themselves though.
This hit home for me. My deck was stolen in middle school. My deck fell out my pocket and my teacher took it from me. Later on that day it was stolen from her desk. I was heartbroken and I stopped playing for a few years.
I always refused when teachers tried to take my stuff.
After seeing other peoples stuff get stolen from teachers desks, i’d take a suspension and take my stuff home with me over letting them have it
that literally happened to me. No idea why either. It was all fake cards anyway
Oftentimes when something bad happens you start to think "What can I do to prevent this from happening next time." And that's when you start being super careful with things and come up with lists like this. Another thing is that once you have a negative emotion attached to something, you start to not want to be involved with it, but I personally think that's the worst thing you can do. You shouldn't stop being involved with something you loved because of 1 bad event that occured with it, especially if it wasn't your fault and/or you know how to prevent that from happening next time.
I’m So Glade that you finally got your Deck Back I Imagine those Cards Aren’t Cheap. And only Couple of other Advice that I Could Possibly give is that First Don’t Be Afraid to Use your Low Rarity Cards a Common Blue Eyes Works the Exact same as a High Rare Blue Eyes. And the Second is Don’t Bering All of your Highest Rarity Cards to the Event Leave some at Home, Your Favourites and or The Cards that you Don’t want to Trade would be Preferred, so it Doesn’t get Miss Placed or Stollen.
Deck box manufacturers need to look into making deck boxes that can be strapped to your belt like Yugi did in Battle City. Its not just stylish (at least at an event), but it guarantees your deck never leaves your person.
I made my own 14 years ago, only recently gave it away because it no longer fit. Figured it would be cheaper and easier to make a new one as opposed to replacing the belt and possibly ruining the box.
@@MikkelBrahmsson This video got me looking into boxes like these. I just ordered a rather well put together leather one off of Etsy.
Glad you got your deck back man, hopefully this doesn't effect you from going to future events
"I don't want to take things from people"
But you've given us so much❤
Instead of "Don't trust your friends with your stuff", I like thinking of it as "Don't burden your friends with watching your stuff".
honestly having anything stolen just sucks man, i know yugioh has super expensive decks similar to magic in terms of being standard, and i'm happy you got it back
Working on construction sites I've learned to keep everything in the smallest packages possible and never letting things out of sight. Trust none, survive longer.
I got my deck stolen at school once, it had jinzo which had some distinct feature and bunch of other goat format cards. The next day this kid that played yugioh a lot all of a sudden had a bunch of new cards which happened to be all the ones that were in my stolen deck. It was obvious he stole my deck so I just walked up and took my deck back and was fine. But I was devastated when it happened, I’m glad you got your cards back
I got my deck stolen 3 years ago and that ruined my experience because I spent so much money in the deck and I just decided to get back into the game hoping it won’t happen again
Never leave your stuff unguarded! Always bring a few friends over to the tournaments to keep an eye on your stuff.
Glad to hear you got your deck back! Sorry the experience kind of killed the fun of playing the deck for you; I can see how that might happen, but it's at least encouraging to know there are people out there who would put in the time and effort to return your cards. Thanks for the update!
Dude you have a lot of character and definitely get my respect ✊🏾
Glad you got your deck back dude :) I can understand the feeling of having your deck taken considering this happened with my Gouki deck during my first year of college.
But luckily, I have rebuilt it and it's better than ever :)
Anyway, congrats dude. :)
randy anderson you deserved getting it stolen for playing that cancer of a deck
@@MYTHIC_PRODIGY That's a really insensitive response. How would you feel if someone stole your stuff?
@@MYTHIC_PRODIGY Have you ever heard of Orcust? Or Danger thunders? Or Dragon Link FTK? Or ABC?
Glad you got it back bro. If it were me even after i got my deck back i won't ever play at events or even be around things outside my local shop
I do appreciate you making a video about this man that helps out and does also show that the community isn't always that bad
Man, you're lucky. Someone snagged it, they sold it to a vendor, the vendor didn't take it apart, someone just happened to find it, bought it from the vendor, decided to be honest and send it to you. All of means it's fortunate so many things went right. Thanks to the person who bought and returned it.
Keep in mind people wanted to give Paul cards or even replace his deck and that goes to show that people are not always the sneaky card swipers and offer help to others during their yugioh needs
You know it’s times like this that makes me glad that I haven’t lost my faith in humanity because while it is no secret that in this game that a lot of people will take your stuff if left unattended but there are plenty of other people who are kind enough that if they find something they will make an attempt to return it to its rightful owner because I remember roughly a year or two ago this one person who played Yu-Gi-Oh had lost his deck at an event and even though it took about roughly a year or so someone did turn in the deck And Konami had mailed it to him and seeing as well as hearing that makes me happy
Getting my deck stolen just made me quit Yu-Gi-Oh, for 4 years.
I was just starting to play, i bought 3 Knights of the Round table boxes, i also got the Chalenger Excalibur, Armor ninja (those guys used to be veeery tough to find) and some other stuff.
I had my Noble Knights deck just ready to play, used it for like 2 months, and then someone stole it when i was out from my class, on the last year of my highschool.
Can you imagine? How hard it was for me? Just started to play the game, i build the best deck that i could with my limited knowledge about Yu-Gi-Oh, and then that happened.
@Malice Catastrophe While I don't necessarily agree with your statement, I do wonder what Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are doing in a school.
@@sebastiantschatordai some high schools do mini-tournaments and have game clubs and things. It's possible that's why they had them.
I completely understand how you feel. I had my deck stolen at a regional and thankfully the shop knew who I was so they managed to find it and returned it to me.
when sitting down to a table, between the legs with one leg through one of the straps, small padlock on the zippers. Never let your cards out of your sight. I am much less scared of losing trade cards over actual decks. I don't leave my backpack in a vehicle (friends car got broken into and collection stolen outside of a bar) or my house. Maybe a little too paranoid there, but who tf knows when something can happen. Being paranoid over my collection, even though I really only collect yugioh and play mtg, I never let my cards out of my sight as much as I can control. I've taken my backpack to the doctors office once before. xD
Congrats on getting your deck but always have faith in your fans and people and believe in the heart of cards
It good to know you have your deck back i am hoping a situation like this doesn't happen to anyone else
Glad you got it back man. I can relate. I lost multiple decks having been playing since ‘02. Most recently my blackwing deck got lost/stolen this year. At first heartbreaking because it was competitive and started building the deck when black wings first came around in 2009. As hurt as I am after the stolen deck I have looked into heroes and can say I actually have a viable and pricey deck at that with the recent evil hero engine play set. I can’t imagine losing my current hero deck. I protect this deck like I do my wallet. Anyways from one Yugioh player to another, good luck protecting your cards!
Glad you got it back. I like when people get their stuff back and it’s a somewhat “happy” ending. A similar thing happened many years ago. Although not a big event but a large locals and I misplaced my extra deck and didn’t realize till I got home a friend ended up finding it before they left not knowing who’s it was and returned it to me after posting about it in our locals group. It’s just stuff like this can kind of ruin the cards or even deck for you after retrieving them. It’s like they are like a reminder of the horrible feeling. I’m not telling you what to do but maybe resleeving the deck in different colour as well changing the deck box could maybe remove that bad vibe. This video is good for really even going to play at locals. Anyways gl with future events. Hope this doesn’t happen again or to anyone else!
I remember a friend of mine who was quite popular player in Greece on every competitive level locals,regionals and so on.What he would do is marking his cards,since he was a name the word was spread that his deck was marked somehow,i think he tries to get signed copies from other players.Im case someone would stole it(which had happened many times to him) he could do nothing with it due to the marking.I mean yes you pretty much damage your cards but when you are competitive you care little to not at all to damage your cards.
Plus, for competitive players, they have separate cards for dueling and collection purposes so I guess it won't hurt if they mark it too.
A tip for what to do with your bag is to put it between your legs and put your legs through the straps, if it is a small bag/pack with a single strap put the strap part on the seat and sit on the strap, although you can still just put your leg through it if that's more comfortable. If you have a backpack with two zippers and want to be really secure those small padlocks you use for luggage are a good way to go (I've known all sorts of cases were people have had all sorts of things taken straight out of their backpacks while standing around/in a queue etc.). However the best overall tip is for people to just be more conscious of where their stuff is, don't let anything out of your sight that you don't want to lose. And go with your gut, if someone around you just seems sketchy, they probably are.
What to takeaway from this video: someone (maybe even “people”) is (are) going around at events, stealing deck boxes and selling the cards to vendors.
Watch people’s hands.
dang, you can relate to how even though you like the thing (in this case the deck), it will impact you by remembering the bad associated with it. Hope it will get better soon, Paul!
Your a great hearted person I'm glad everything worked out for you in the end
Happy you made this, I was bummed out for you
Anthony: Wow and when I saw it I thought that MY deck but now...
Anthony: I feel like an idiot and my deck had VERY POWERFUL cards.
This is the beauty of the community that can shine through the darkness. Just the idea that the people bought the deck back and shipped it to him.
For every one person who received their deck back there are around 10 people who never did. This community blows and the same with Konami. XD
Honestly, I think that knowing that there is one good person in the community cuts through people that are shady. I wish we had a decent community but it will not happen until we take action.
One reason I quit the game
It probably just guilt trip from the one who stole. It's sketchy how a vendor who paid for the cards will just give it back without any proof that it was really his.
I'm glad u got your deck back with everything, my was stolen by one of my brothers friends, but another buddy of mine who knew him got it back for me but it was missing my siding and some extra deck monsters.... That was my platinum Noble knights too
Ugh!
Fucking brutal!
I have that same deck!
If someone took any of those from me...
I would most definitely carve each and every missing card out of their flesh and tattoo the artwork on each rectangular slab to replace the deck!
I’m glad you got it back. Nice to see there are still decent people in the world
Glad you got your deck back.....Wish i would got my Ultimate Dark World Destiny Hero deck back Years ago when it was stolen in Arkansas. Congrats again on getting it back......
Yo man, you should consider getting a Tile for your deck box. It’s pretty much a mini GPS device. They come in different sizes and are really affordable. I have a $400 wallet that I’ve lost a couple times and luckily found it by using my Tile! Even though you found it the device could be a little safety net for you to have a little piece of mind whenever you do go to another event! Just a thought you. Glad you got your deck back homie
What i usually do is when I have a big bag is something me and my friends came to call bag under foot. Put your bag right under your foot and you step on that thing until you get up to leave the table. Dont even lift a foot off the bag. Not for a second, until your leaving
I once lost a Colossal Warrior Assault/Solidarity deck. I stopped playing after that.
It's actually quite nice of them, as in my opinion, had most people found a full competitive deck, you would have never seen that deck box again m8. Absolute respect to them
THAT'S GREAT PAUL!!!
I'm so happy for u!
Glad you got your deck returned decks are expensive... and it is always some hurt when you work hard to put a deck together just for someone to get it and sell or keep it... glad everything worked out bro much love keep up the content
its pisses me off a bit that someone sold this to a vendor
never clicked so fast, also im happy to hear that your deck got returned
You could also only use common versions of every good card in your deck
Always check the lost and found. You don’t lose anything by checking. And check more than once.
I found a green cinch bad under a table at nats this year and brought it up to lost and found, but by then the convention center was almost empty and I don’t think that person got their stuff.
Don't be Yugi when he let Weevil take the Exodia cards
I always watch your Vids I saw your deck got stolen and I am glad you got it back honestly.
I have had so many cards stolen mostly not decks persay but my collection like of the most expensive stuff I had from exs which sold them to stores but I didn't know what to do I didn't want to take it to the police because I was worried they wouldn't have taken it seriously and things...
So I let it go and started again only to have it happen again.
All my first ed Ghost rares and more it was just like why both I should quit but I didn't and I am back to a decently good collection again.
But that's my story.
But I am so glad you got your deck back but I know what you mean by the interaction with others.
Stay playing and stay true.
Peace!
🙂
A close to the family friend of a pal of mine went over to his house while he was at work (3rd shift) and his mom let him in not even expecting much. Went into my pals room and plucked his 3 ultimate maxx Cs and a bunch of other stuff right from his binders and boxes. It’s fucked up
Outstanding! I think the whole "Yu-Gi-Oh!" community is feeling quite joyful for your deck being returned after such a terrible experience, Paul. Glad to see honest people still among us in this world.
In college around 2011-2012, I used to play a junk synchron deck. I let someone borrow my deck plus extra deck. His person I duel with a few times before but we wasn't friends. At the time I didn't think letting him borrow my deck plus extra deck was a big deal but I learned the hard way. When I finally got my deck back I looked to make sure if all the right cards was in the deck they were. However that wasn't the case for my extra deck. I noticed a monster was missing in my extra deck. The whole experience put a bad taste in my mouth. I should of asked him about the missing card, but I didn't because I didn't want any drama with his person. After that I just didn't find the deck to be fun anymore. I ended up selling it to someone who asked. Someone I have duel with many times before. I sold it for way let then I should have. Like 10 dollars or so for the deck plus extra sense I wanted nothing do with the deck at that point of my life is most likely why I didn't care about selling it so low. Also I later learned the person who stole a card from me stole a good friend of mines laptop he let borrow. Stoling isn't cool and is a awful feeling when it happens to you, me and those who are friends of yours, family and people you don't know. It's a awful thing to happen to anyone really regardless how little or how much is stolen. Stealing is awful period.
Thanks to the yugi gods. I am so glad you got your deck back Paul. You are very fortunate
I just like each of team aps voices for some reason it’s so soothing no homo
Nice vid, really brought some awareness to this issue
Congrats man I'm really happy you got your deck back👌
One big tip, in each of your deckboxes, keep a slip of paper with your name and email saying "contact if you find it", just in case someone who is super nice finds it, but make sure its not a business email or something with a super raunchy title, and one more thing, help others with keeping and eye on their stuff and they will do the same for you, in general
Best tip i figured is put ur back pack under ur chair. Then put the chair unbetween the arm slots. Makes it so they cant steal it as its stuck to the chair if someone tries to take it u will feel it
gem protech backpacks seem like the ideal way to go as far as things in your backpack. theres obviously mental discipline for yourself that needs to be a thing. for example, putting your yugioh stuff in the locked part. and just because the bag has a lock doesnt mean you should be careless about it. because people can find someway to just rip the material to get acess to your stuff if they have your bag.
The fact that you got your deck back made my week brotha
So glad to hear that your deck was returned to you! Always nice for a story to have a happy ending
Bro I'm glad to hear you get it back, that's great news there is still hope in humanity after all
*double snap* it sure won't happen to me because there's nowhere near my area that actually dose Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments
I would build a scapegoat copy of the deck I'm using at the tournament. Obviously some cards would share the same set id, but I would have it to throw off any potential thieves, being built of the least valuable copies of each card possible.
My best friend got his high rare Hero Frog Deck stolen 3 years ago at YCS Bochum. He never saw ist again, but Out playgroup and local Store Players all Gifted him a Few Cards so He Had His deck again even If IT wasnt high rare.
Anyone going to an event should keep this in mind. Any tcg there will be people that only think of themselves. Protect your things. This is why people hate on card games but we are supposed to have fun
Tbh if a deck like that was laying around what a lot of people do is separate the cards, keep the sleeves, sell 30% of the deck and trade the other 70%. Always keep you’re cards kept up with.
Glad to hear that happy New year
Glad to hear you got your deck back bro...Time to rebuild and conquer
Glad you got back with all your cards.
Great to hear that. Hope you be more careful next time since there are a lot o thieves at these events with no morale.
Day 252 of waiting for new Volcanic support to arrive
What would you do if you got your Volcanic stolen?
He can’t have one since there’s no support
@@randomstuffs2962 hahaha
Dude I feel you, a couple years back my display binder that had basically all my cards in it. It was stolen at a local and I never saw it again. Right now I only really have a endymion deck. Hopefully my Silent Magician deck will reunite with me someday
As a fellow Silent Magician user i pray for you to one day get to play Silent again.
glad to hear you got your deck back.
Yep always have a back up plan i remember as a kid i always forget things and got things stolen. So now i learned specially with technology today i keep all my records everything i buy or bought over the years and took pictures of everything i took to my home after i bought something. Like if this happens to any of you yha do some methods of making sure people can trust you and know that this was your stuff that someone stole and it's also help out to know the employees to if you like to shop at one store or heck yugioh locals it will help a whole lot.
Question
If I try to pendulum summon an odd eyes monster and my opponent solemn strikes it, can I use arc pendulum to bring it back or do I not Control the monster because the summon was negated
Damn you got me thinking but I'm going to say no because you never actually controlled the monster since the summon was in fact negated.
@@DanielFlores-fo1ee k thanks
Yeah we had a buddy at our locals who always lent his decks or cards to his other buddy. Twice in a row that guy got one deck stolen, and never got it back. Second time he almost lost it but me and another guy at the regional at the time found it stationed on a table. Waited for hours to see if anyone would claim it. We grabbed it opened it and then checked it's contents and went. "WELP" this is his deck xD...
I had several decks stolen by a friend's friend before going to a locals and I was very upset about it but the owner of the shop gave me free cards to build my main deck that I was using back then which was monarchs at the time but all my casual decks were stolen at the same time and the guy's excuse was he wanted his little brother to have better cards
Today's Episode on American Greed.
A Yugioh Retailer stealing decks at a Yugioh event right under participates noses and reselling them.
Glad you got the deck back, its a shame that this event ruined the deck for you. I have a tip for your followers about attending events too, to avoid theft. I always have a small travel lock on my bag so that if I am doing something I can lock the bag and that makes stealing stuff from the bag harder. Locks are inexpensive and can protect everything in a bag.
Happy for you man you better top with it now
In grade six I had a mini binder that I left in my desk during lunch and a few cards got taken but they were returned and the kid who returned them took more cards from other people to try to be my friend LMAO
It hasn’t happened to me *knock on wood*, but at a few 40K tournaments I’ve seen dudes that have had their hundreds of dollars armies, and once a Stormbird ($1,200)that was just walked away with. It’s shitty, I’m sorry that that happened to you, but thank The Emperor that you got it back 👍🏻
That's so cool man I was super pissed about that glad that you got your deck back
I'm glad someone mailed you your deck with everything in it.
I like your name.