My Pokemon playing ass is laughing seeing the cost of Yugioh staples while I look at my mostly finished Gardevoir ex deck that ran me less than 50 USD.
Spent around 60 euros for a playset of Peaceful Planet Calarium. It was totally worth it for the Mannadium deck, since playing the deck just makes me happy and i love a good deck with handsome men.
I never spent a certain amount of money for only one card. But in my early Yu-Gi-Oh days, I did exchange my Game Cube with one game I don't remember for a box of sorted cards. One of those cards was a first edition Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon from Dark Beginning 1, which I don't have anymore because I gave away the binder where it was to my nephew years ago. Guess what? His dad threw the binder to the thrash can because he said those cards were made by the devil.
Should've told him they were made by Japan and send him an invoice for the cards he trashed. Those were assets at the end of the day due to the "T" in TCG.
6:15 - I'll always remember seeing the $100+ pricetag for Engage on T&T when Sky Strikers came out in the TCG and going "yeah okay, *not* this format".
I spent $110 for a spright blue on release, our regionals were 1 week after POTE released.... I got 2nd place after not playing in a regional for 4 years... so yeah it was worth it
Here's a reverse thread, I held onto Aluber thinking it'd continue to go up. It was like $130 at the time. Then it got announced for a reprint in Ghosts from the Past, and I quick sold it for like 80
I pulled a playset of the secret alubers when they came out, kept them when they were 90 euro a piece, because i loved the deck and i didnt want to part with them, even though i knew they would fall in price. Still have them.
I’m just surprised that little knight being too expensive was the breaking point for yugioh twitter while TT thrust and that one branded dragon card were also 100$ secret rares day 1 and didn’t get nearly this much noise.
I don't think it's so much about the fact that Thrust was expensive, or Lubellion. Heck, Regulus was $90 for like ever too. It's the fact that S:p little knight adds $100 to an already ridiculously priced list. When the top deck is a grand, that's when people start to focus on that stuff. Happened when BASED pile did the same thing a couple years ago
@@shawnjavery Thrust a month ago(Septemeber 25) was sitting around the 65 dollar mark. I think going forward it's going to be format dependent more than anything. In formats where we have to answer a morbillion different decks it will be heavily used, but in formats with a more obvs bdifs it will fall in price.
Crush card virus ar $400 each after reprint.....🤣 And DAD almost $300 a pop. Back the only rich ppl can play YGO meta. Note thats like over 13 years ago where $300 had way more value than $300 now coz infaltion and such. Imagine if converted to modern pricing lol.
There was someone new to YuGiOh at my local card shop. He was interested in my copy of Super Poly because he thought it was the most powerful thing he had ever seen He proceeded to give me a brand new XBox 1 and Controller for the single copy
@@spicymemes7458 in his defense, it was technically the most powerful card he had seen up to that point plus he had like 9 switches in his bag…I don’t think it counts much as a scam when they are clearly filthy rich
No mention of adventure or DPE makes me feel like meta people are shelling out truly gross amounts of money for their decks. The whole adventure package + DPE was easily over 300 bucks, and you could not go a game past round 3 without seeing it.
The most amount of money I ever spent on a card was $80 for an Ultimate rarity Stratos that I bought my best friend for his birthday cuz Heroes was his favourite deck. It was worth every penny
Aluber was actually just about $20 for the longest time. It wasn’t until the Albaz Strike structure deck, when Aluber actually spiked, and the highest price was $150 before the reprint was announced in GFTP2
My best friend recently graduated university and as a graduation gift I bought him a full Tenpai Dragons deck because he had been talking about picking it up. Spending $150 on a UTR Trident Dragion made my wallet weep but it was worth every penny to see the look on his face.
I have a near mint(formerly graded 8s, but I freed them from their plastic prisons) copies of both versions of the Chaos Neos misprints. One was like 4K the other a few hundred I don’t remember exactly. A couple mortgage payments but honestly so worth. If we’re talking for actually playing in a deck then I spent 100 on my droplets when those came out, won me enough games that I feel justified but checking that current sell price still hurts.
Watching this video I’m realising I’m a fucking moron because I’ve spent a ludicrous amount of money on Yugioh cards and I’ve went to a locals 1 time I’ve only been playing the game for like 8 months I don’t believe where I’m at, I sleep watching Duel Logs videos, I wake thinking about this fucking card game and I have no idea why
Online for a couple of weeks... 8 months later and meta decks are only going up in price. We're getting close to the $2000 per deck with the Fiendsmith Engine.
I really emphatize with the Brazilian Duelist. I bought my current War Rock Synchro Deck for like $280K in Colombian currency which can be normally translated in: $70 USD & $ 56 Euros. So yeah for those that like to inflate prices, I'll see you in hell.
Ever since I got into magic I can't help but laugh at Yu-Gi-Oh's pricing because if you asked me like 3 years ago if not more. I thought 120 for a place out of a card was completely ridiculous. I tried to build a deck in magic and they're asking for almost a grand and I just have to cry and play with proxies
Same. Ngl, it's hard to take these seriously after playing modern and commander. Between fetches, mana rocks, planeswalkers, forces, evokmentals, and staples for various colour decks, mtg has cost me more than my entire time playing yugioh. At least YGO will reprint their best cards and not sell it to in 250 dollar lotto tickets. I haven't bought sealed product since that and the pinkerton fiasco(unless I'm immediately going to make a profit off it).
@@invertbrid Well, that is true, but that's legacy. People however, play commander and pioneer for their price flexibility however that's only casual play. The thing ygo players always miss when comparing the games price point is that competitive play always costs money and most locals don't bother playing standard. Ygo players always talking about being gatekept by decks that cost 500 dollars ignore that the most played competitive formats in magic cost 2-6 times that at minimum. People who make the comparison between these 2 franchises are usually never actually aware of the playerbase in these formats or arguing in good faith because they're just trying to say "grr, why good cards cost money?"
@@TheJamieellis The literal same thing could be said of yugioh, yet everytime that point is brought up, the response usually is: "It doesn't mean it should be expensive to compete." Even though that's kinda how anything competitive works, the issue this video is addressing is when the cards aren't seeing/will not see enough competitive representation to justify the price tag. S:p out of a series of 10 matches(as a very small sample size) will be less relevant than a card like Thrust, Fenrir, Accesscode, Baronne, and Prosperity yet it commands a price tag above the rest of them upon release date? The math just isn't mathing.
As a consumer this game is garbage. I love Yugioh, but I've nerver been able to get into TCG cause this Game is so expensive I end up feeling I'm wasting money, so I settled in Master duel.
This stems from two factions: TCG Konami bumping the rarities of many cards in core sets and ruining the OCG's rarity system for sets. Horus and Snake-Eye are far easier to collect in the OCG since most are common and rare with only 3-4 cards at most taking up super or ultra rare slots. Over in TCG anything of value is anything less than super rare. Not to mention odds for pulling valuable stuff is lower in TCG since there are fewer packs per box and you'll only get one card in each pack that is a super rare or better. The other faction is the section of the community who blindly buy into every set of relative value to get hundreds of worthless bulk for some needlessly rare cards.
The constant pricing problems is one of the main reasons why I only play digital. Even before MD I was always playing on EDO. The price for decks now a days can often go towards rent depending on where you live.
@@TainyaGaming It's not an equal comp, though. Pokemon is still marketable to new audiences and had unarguably way more popular and a more far-reaching impact than yugioh. Let's not kid ourselves, either. Pokemon cards are still insanely expensive on the secondary market and are also a higher MSRP per pack and product.
@@sluggernott It's usually only the "bling" rarities that go for stupid amounts in Pokemon. The only two times I can remember a card going to insane prices for meta reasons were both complete flukes. In one case, the souvenir card given out at the Pokemon finals in Hawaii (which normally have intentionally awful effects) accidentally had a HUGE meta-defining effect and turned into a Cyber-Stein situation. The other was when a Japanese set had a "ghost rare"-style reprint of a certain Rayquaza card from a past sub-set, but the English game didn't get the subset until AFTER the extremely rare reprint so it was the only version of that card to exist. And it happened to be an extremely good card in one of the big meta decks of the time, so it shot up to a couple hundred dollars. (then we got the subset a few months later and it dropped to like two bucks) Even the extreme tier zero meta cards usually don't break 50 in the lowest rarity, and those don't happen often.
@@sluggernott imagine how marketable yugioh would be to new players if it had the same barrier to entry cost as pokemon, sure pokemon has a whole line of video games to lean on, but konami has literal slot machines to lean on, they can ease up on the childrens card game a few notches in the TCG.
buying a halqifibrax for £45 ($70ish, dirt cheap for what it was) right before arurodon/o-lion lines were discovered. well well welllll worth it. i also brought a buster dragon and had to shell out £35 (like 50bucks) for it, this was when dogmatika released and buster blader had a brief period of being the best deck for like 2 weeks. the card had no other prints other than BOCH, this was before its GFTP out-of-nowhere reprint. the card made its way across the planet all the way to my front door only for the mail man to use my package as a clipboard when ticking the 'delivered' box on a post-receipt. the card was not in a top loader, and has a gigantic tick indented in his face from the biro pen. only for the deck to become a rogue deck 2 weeks later and IDS and Kitchen Synch taking the meta. was NOT worth it. at all. after the GFTP reprint, buster dragon was like £2 (3 bucks)
I think one of the really big issues is the TCG rarity bumping cards for their initial release. When the OCG prints an intended staple, cards like Little Night and Droplett, they tend to release in multiple standard rarities in the set. TCG tends to take those cards and shove them up to the rarity ceiling that the OCG released them at. Somebody at Konami probably has some bad excuse about needing the space for TCG exclusives, but those cards and decks tend to be critically undersupported till the OCG gets them, so I don't exactly find that compelling.
A few months ago, I went to my local card store and checked their case, where they held Yugioh cards, and I saw a moderately played Elemental HERO Air Neos. After debating it for a while, I bought it for around 100 and something dollars
Big ups for the Otakon shout out. I'm from MD very close to Baltimore and I went there every year from I think 2006 to 2012. Now I live on the west coast and just haven't been able to go back all the way to Maryland from California for a con when there's stuff just as cool over here like Anime Expo. However, I will go back one of these years for MAGFest because that was one of my favorite convention/festival experiences I've ever had and I only got to go for 1 year. (I got that ice cold waaaater..... and it's only one daaaaaalllur)
Right when Kozmos were at their peak here in Brazil a guy was trading his MOTORCYCLE for a playset of Dark Destroyers. It remains in our country as a milestone of how sometimes yugioh prices can get out of hand.
In a perfect world, you’d have most cards in common with rarities/alt arts being the expensive variants. So there would be a common/rare Little Knight, then the expensive pretty version. I’m pretty sure this is how One Piece TCG does it.
pokemon does this sort of thing as well and it's really nice. i dont play pokemon anymore as yugioh has become my full focus card game but it was nice building a decent deck for 90 bucks
Unfortunately, shops don't like that. People have to buy more product if they NEED something that they're only gonna get one of, maybe not even one, if they buy the whole damn box. This cash cow is too big to pass up
so I did the calculation for tear around mid December 2022 and in North America the main engines (tear and Isuzu) were around 100-110$ total excluding the field spell. and what's crazy is even without the field spell the deck was still better then every other deck in the format.
I spent around 300 ish for a playset of Thrusts on release and initially didn't use them much since the decks I had at the time couldn't really take advantage of them. Then CYAC dropped and I realized "wow this card is cracked in Mikanko", put them in and topped my regionals later that month.
Just got into Pokémon TCG and was flabbergasted about the prices after playing Yu-Gi-Oh! for so long. Bought TWO top tier decks for my girlfriend and me for about 110€ combined. Yu-Gi-Oh! Prices are insane ...
It's basically priced me out of physical entirely. Like, I know budget-friendly decks/options exist, but I'm so tired of having to settle for cards that are often _significantly_ worse; I'm already handicapped IRL-I don't wanna be handicapped in the game too. Thank fucking god that online sims are free; I'd literally have to stop playing entirely if they weren't.
No one talking about this yet as far as I can see, but Dire's SOA intro gave me a conniption fit and I love it so much. The LEAST expected reference, and some of her best work yet. Good lord.
Having moved from Europe to Japan, my biggest culture shock had nothing to do with Japanese culture itself, but with how absurdly cheap Yu-Gi-Oh! is over here. I dread the idea of having to ever buy TCG product ever again.
I remember buying two boxes of Dark Saviors to build Vampires and pulled two Engages from the first one, and Widow from a second one. Ended up buying 2 more boxes to try my luck and completed the deck, 3 Engage, 2 Widow one Afterburner, 4 Multirole. The worker at the shop, who was also a competitive player, bought 3 boxes before that and pulled nothing. He was so pissed that he ended up quitting the game. XD
As a general rule of thumb I never spend more than 20eur on a single card, so far it has worked out for my engagement level with the game. If prices are too high I usually just wait for a reprint - that is one thing this game does better than say magic.
Yeah same, ish. I broke my rule for accesscode cus I just couldn't play mathmech without it. Paid £27 which was pretty good but nothing else over £17 for me (Zeus)
I remember buying a playset of pot of Desires while I was in high school (and living in Brazil). I used my lunch money that I kept saving for some time, which means I LITERALLY gave up of food just for 3 pieces of shiny cardboard, and I don't regret doing it.
Getting back into paper after years of Duel Links and Master Duel, wading through my local card shop trying to get Ruddy Rose Dragon to make Rikka/Rose Dragons happen when I spotted The Iris Swordsoul and said out loud "Whoa, that looks awesome!" The guy behind the counter tells me there's a whole archetype following her that drops in a couple months, I end up taking 3 copies at $30 each and then coming back a couple months later to buy 2 boxes of Burst of Destiny. That's how I learned to always read the contents of a new set before committing to an archetype from it...
I have a funny story involving Baronne, when the 25 anniversary packs dropped it was the only card I wanted. Instead I got an Fallen of Albaz, 2 Lightning storm, Dark ruler no more, Inspector Boarder, Borrelload savage dragon and N'tss. When I mentioned it to the clerk who happened to be my eldest sister's ex-boyfriend he gave me one from his personal binder for free. If you see this Kelly, thank you.
About the Brazilian Purchase: 12 dollars for a playset means 36 dollars, which if we avoid conversions, it's a month worth of food or electricity + water bills (if you're in mid/low class). In some places, it does cost a day worth of food.
As a big fan of both ghost rares and synchros, when Ghosts From the Past was announced I was crazy excited and had to get a ghost Crystal wing. I watched the price drop from £350 down to £200 and stop there for over a month, so I decided the time was right and went in, deciding it could only go up as a collectable in the long run… The card is currently worth £30…
I feel like paying a ton for a piece of card board is pretty crazy, but that story about buying starlight rares for the groomsmen is pretty funny. (7:54) I feel tempted to do that if I get married.
I bought two ulti Rafflesias for like $20 a pop and three secret Seras for around $12 each during Covid era, and after the structures released (cough cough after Pak went undefeated at locals three weekends in a row and convinced people they could win with Traptrix cough) they shot up to $70 and $40 respectively. They've obviously deflated since then but I was smug as hell rolling up to locals blinged out like I had money for two weekends
In Brazil there's so many scalpers that a common joke about card prices here is to use Dolar x10 as conversion price instead of the around 5-6x. Some cards go way above that and never go down because sellers don't wanna go minus with their absurd prices.
Someone once traded me an ok card for my ultimate Maxx c straight out of the astral pack 4. It's sitting at about 500 USD today and the guy is still playing competitive today. I can't say I'm still upset but this is why it's so hard for younger players. Be careful y'all 🙏
I remember I randomly pulled 2 adamancipator researchers from Walmart packs during Covid times and I wanted to play the deck against my bf so I just spend like 60 bucks to get my last copy. Worth it for the fun but similar to eldlich sucks I never used it when it was good at tournament
I have a new one of these. Just spent around £250 for a playset of WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils and almost £30 for Diabellstar the black witch. I'm hoping she's the next Albaz and becomes useful in other decks around her lore as the new sets come out.
I've been only collecting cards for the past few years. Bought Rescue ACE-Hydrant CR for about 40 CAD, it's now at over triple the price. So thankful I made that purchase.
Bought a secret Accesscode for $130 when I got back into YGO in 2021 when I bought a Sky Striker core to have a playable deck right when Engage came back to 1 (because my other main deck was Lunalight). Kinda worth it since I doubt it will drop out of relevance as a staple to have ready to drop into a deck, but I moved on to Mikanko and Marincess that can't really use it.
4:57 I played full power pepe that weekend and it was the first time in my life i won a locals. Thankfully, i only had to borrow 2 of the three Sorcs lmao
I "bought" (aka just sold off/traded a bunch of cards over time to afford them like I do most staples) a playset of prosperity back when it was easily over 100$/copy. Considering owning prosperity made playing a bunch of decks much more playable I'd say it was more worthwhile to pay the staples tax than the deck core tax.
It's wild tho that tcg peeps doesn't make a big movement to make tcg has rarity distribution like ocg to lower the bar of entry. Seems like albeit the price is high, tcg peeps secretly wants to keep it this way since opening pack can make them profit a hefty amount (aka kinda like gacha addiction).
The most money I've ever spent on a single card is exactly $100. It was 2014 and it was a DDS blue-eyes that was in pretty good condition. The tinest bit of what looked like it may have been water damage in the top left corner, but thats it. Pristine otherwise. I went and got it autographed by Eric Stuart, and about a year later it just fucking vanished. It never left my house. If it was stolen, then someone broke into my house and stole nothing but this card. I had put it up somewhere for safekeeping, and couldn't remember where. I looked for it for like 3 years before I finally just conceded that it was gone forever.
A story from digimon, at the beginning of the year when bt11 came out, I paid 60 a copy for alt art Galacticmons, fast forward about a month and they are sitting pretty at about 11 dollars for the alt art.
I was selling my SwordSoul deck a couple of weeks ago, all of the cards are from MAMA, when a guy texted me asking how much for the deck, I told him $46 for the whole deck. He replied with, "Damn, I wish you sold the deck earlier. I bought a set of SwordSoul Emergence for $51". I asked him if it was from BODE (not that it justifies the price). He replied, "No, they are from MAMA." I really felt bad for him.
Haven't really spent anywhere over $25 on individual cards, but the purchase I regret the most is spending $30 on a playset of Vanity's Emptiness from Secret Forces only for it to get limited like less than a month later.
I bought 3 copies of arabesque for about 5$ each. Then when I went to make the deck and play it, I realised one of the copies was removed from my cart as I purchased it and had to go back and buy 1 for 20$. then it went down again.
I literally bought THE meta Digimon deck for 90$.... A few years ago. It's wild that alot of yuigho stables are 90$ by themselves.
Digimon isn’t always cheap though. There’s definitely been meta cards that were 50ish a piece.
My Pokemon playing ass is laughing seeing the cost of Yugioh staples while I look at my mostly finished Gardevoir ex deck that ran me less than 50 USD.
@@SDREHXCstill way cheaper than most cars gsmes
And now you have Hunters which can easily be built for like $50
@@TheForeverRangerLaugh in 50$ Tapu Lele GX back in the day
Spent around 60 euros for a playset of Peaceful Planet Calarium.
It was totally worth it for the Mannadium deck, since playing the deck just makes me happy and i love a good deck with handsome men.
Ha, gayyyyyyyyyyyy
@@caiovieira2168 yeah.
SAMEEEEE! I love mannadium so much it’s such a fun deck and I am in love with visas hair. It looks so pretty
I never spent a certain amount of money for only one card. But in my early Yu-Gi-Oh days, I did exchange my Game Cube with one game I don't remember for a box of sorted cards. One of those cards was a first edition Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon from Dark Beginning 1, which I don't have anymore because I gave away the binder where it was to my nephew years ago.
Guess what?
His dad threw the binder to the thrash can because he said those cards were made by the devil.
Fundies are nutso
Understandable reaction to toon cards tbh
Should've told him they were made by Japan and send him an invoice for the cards he trashed. Those were assets at the end of the day due to the "T" in TCG.
Depends on your definition of 'devil'
some people are just so irrational that it is shocking
6:15 - I'll always remember seeing the $100+ pricetag for Engage on T&T when Sky Strikers came out in the TCG and going "yeah okay, *not* this format".
"Play online for a couple weeks" nah man, play online forever, we too broke for this shit
I spent $110 for a spright blue on release, our regionals were 1 week after POTE released.... I got 2nd place after not playing in a regional for 4 years... so yeah it was worth it
I personally don't, but that's cool that you do
Here's a reverse thread, I held onto Aluber thinking it'd continue to go up. It was like $130 at the time. Then it got announced for a reprint in Ghosts from the Past, and I quick sold it for like 80
"Pot of Greed is good" Adrian Gecko
I pulled a playset of the secret alubers when they came out, kept them when they were 90 euro a piece, because i loved the deck and i didnt want to part with them, even though i knew they would fall in price. Still have them.
"Ill never spend that much money on cardboard"
Said the me, after I bought a 500$ Near Mint Air Neos.
Why
Air what
@@spicymemes7458hasn't been reprinted in close to 20 years. Why not?
Air Neos? Is that a new card that has definitely never been printed before?.
The forbidden card! HE’S TOO POWERFUL!
dang seeing someone buy zeus for 70 reminds me that model kit got announced and is likely going to be cheaper than the card used to sell for
For how shitty it looks it should be free.
I would have pulled up to locals with a built Zeus and said it was my 15th extra deck card.
I’m just surprised that little knight being too expensive was the breaking point for yugioh twitter while TT thrust and that one branded dragon card were also 100$ secret rares day 1 and didn’t get nearly this much noise.
Thrust was up in the air on whether it was mandatory or not, its still kinda in that spot tbh. Where as SP is immediately every where.
I don't think it's so much about the fact that Thrust was expensive, or Lubellion. Heck, Regulus was $90 for like ever too.
It's the fact that S:p little knight adds $100 to an already ridiculously priced list. When the top deck is a grand, that's when people start to focus on that stuff. Happened when BASED pile did the same thing a couple years ago
Despite TT being an incredibly stupid card, I feel like it didn't get as overhyped as SP got, so thst might be why
@@shawnjavery Thrust a month ago(Septemeber 25) was sitting around the 65 dollar mark. I think going forward it's going to be format dependent more than anything. In formats where we have to answer a morbillion different decks it will be heavily used, but in formats with a more obvs bdifs it will fall in price.
Crush card virus ar $400 each after reprint.....🤣 And DAD almost $300 a pop. Back the only rich ppl can play YGO meta.
Note thats like over 13 years ago where $300 had way more value than $300 now coz infaltion and such. Imagine if converted to modern pricing lol.
There was someone new to YuGiOh at my local card shop. He was interested in my copy of Super Poly because he thought it was the most powerful thing he had ever seen
He proceeded to give me a brand new XBox 1 and Controller for the single copy
Congratulations you discovered scamming
@@spicymemes7458 in his defense, it was technically the most powerful card he had seen up to that point plus he had like 9 switches in his bag…I don’t think it counts much as a scam when they are clearly filthy rich
Please tell my it was at least shiny cardboard~
@@gamerwolffang2722 :) no
No mention of adventure or DPE makes me feel like meta people are shelling out truly gross amounts of money for their decks. The whole adventure package + DPE was easily over 300 bucks, and you could not go a game past round 3 without seeing it.
i mean, the prompt does say "single YGO card"
UA-cam with less reading comprehension than twitter this time.
It says single card. As in 1 card.
Dpe and adventure where 5-6 cards needed and only 2 of them where super expensive
I bought 2 Secret Rare Animadorned Arcosaurs for $45 each... 2 days later the reprint was announced and then the SR immediately tanked to $11 each
The most amount of money I ever spent on a card was $80 for an Ultimate rarity Stratos that I bought my best friend for his birthday cuz Heroes was his favourite deck. It was worth every penny
This video get more and more relevant with every new card/archetypes being released in tcg.
Aluber was actually just about $20 for the longest time.
It wasn’t until the Albaz Strike structure deck, when Aluber actually spiked, and the highest price was $150 before the reprint was announced in GFTP2
I think I paid $25 for White Aura Whale. That was worth it as he was the MVP for my Ghoti deck.
White Aura Whale absolutely slaps. I'd have paid 50 for one, Ghoti is fun as fuck.
@@THEGRUMPTRUCK I am really looking forward to the new support.
Ironic to say this during the WHALE THREAD.
Brazil means paying 700brl in a card while the minimal monthly salary is 1400brl
My best friend recently graduated university and as a graduation gift I bought him a full Tenpai Dragons deck because he had been talking about picking it up. Spending $150 on a UTR Trident Dragion made my wallet weep but it was worth every penny to see the look on his face.
I have a near mint(formerly graded 8s, but I freed them from their plastic prisons) copies of both versions of the Chaos Neos misprints. One was like 4K the other a few hundred I don’t remember exactly. A couple mortgage payments but honestly so worth. If we’re talking for actually playing in a deck then I spent 100 on my droplets when those came out, won me enough games that I feel justified but checking that current sell price still hurts.
Joseph: *sees MX-Saber Invoker*
Joseph: I did crimes to get this card
Joseph: Jk, jk.
Joseph: I did different crimes for this card.
Joseph: wait-
Watching this video I’m realising I’m a fucking moron because I’ve spent a ludicrous amount of money on Yugioh cards and I’ve went to a locals 1 time
I’ve only been playing the game for like 8 months I don’t believe where I’m at, I sleep watching Duel Logs videos, I wake thinking about this fucking card game and I have no idea why
raw unbridled autism
same unfortunately
Online for a couple of weeks... 8 months later and meta decks are only going up in price. We're getting close to the $2000 per deck with the Fiendsmith Engine.
I'm surprised Tour Guide wasn't brought up.
I quit playing in 2016 and these stories are exactly the reason why I only play online now
I really emphatize with the Brazilian Duelist.
I bought my current War Rock Synchro Deck for like $280K in Colombian currency which can be normally translated in: $70 USD & $ 56 Euros.
So yeah for those that like to inflate prices, I'll see you in hell.
Ever since I got into magic I can't help but laugh at Yu-Gi-Oh's pricing because if you asked me like 3 years ago if not more. I thought 120 for a place out of a card was completely ridiculous. I tried to build a deck in magic and they're asking for almost a grand and I just have to cry and play with proxies
Same. Ngl, it's hard to take these seriously after playing modern and commander. Between fetches, mana rocks, planeswalkers, forces, evokmentals, and staples for various colour decks, mtg has cost me more than my entire time playing yugioh. At least YGO will reprint their best cards and not sell it to in 250 dollar lotto tickets. I haven't bought sealed product since that and the pinkerton fiasco(unless I'm immediately going to make a profit off it).
Well yea obviously alternate formats of MTG are more xpnsive, especially legacy with dual land cost $400 each or something
@@invertbrid Well, that is true, but that's legacy. People however, play commander and pioneer for their price flexibility however that's only casual play. The thing ygo players always miss when comparing the games price point is that competitive play always costs money and most locals don't bother playing standard. Ygo players always talking about being gatekept by decks that cost 500 dollars ignore that the most played competitive formats in magic cost 2-6 times that at minimum. People who make the comparison between these 2 franchises are usually never actually aware of the playerbase in these formats or arguing in good faith because they're just trying to say "grr, why good cards cost money?"
I mean your problem there is trying to play competitive commander. Find a group to play casual decks with and you won't need to break the bank
@@TheJamieellis The literal same thing could be said of yugioh, yet everytime that point is brought up, the response usually is: "It doesn't mean it should be expensive to compete." Even though that's kinda how anything competitive works, the issue this video is addressing is when the cards aren't seeing/will not see enough competitive representation to justify the price tag. S:p out of a series of 10 matches(as a very small sample size) will be less relevant than a card like Thrust, Fenrir, Accesscode, Baronne, and Prosperity yet it commands a price tag above the rest of them upon release date? The math just isn't mathing.
Got a playset of effect veiler and a copy of triple talent for about 12 bucks and a play set of aluber for 20 cents.
The most I've spent on one card, was $5.
It was on a Herald of the Arc Light, when I wanted to jump back in to Yugioh back in 2019.
That's why I only play online. The only cards I get nowadays are from structure decks I like.
As a consumer this game is garbage. I love Yugioh, but I've nerver been able to get into TCG cause this Game is so expensive I end up feeling I'm wasting money, so I settled in Master duel.
This hits the feels..
This stems from two factions: TCG Konami bumping the rarities of many cards in core sets and ruining the OCG's rarity system for sets. Horus and Snake-Eye are far easier to collect in the OCG since most are common and rare with only 3-4 cards at most taking up super or ultra rare slots. Over in TCG anything of value is anything less than super rare. Not to mention odds for pulling valuable stuff is lower in TCG since there are fewer packs per box and you'll only get one card in each pack that is a super rare or better.
The other faction is the section of the community who blindly buy into every set of relative value to get hundreds of worthless bulk for some needlessly rare cards.
Man...Seeker of Sinful Spoils being rare...
The constant pricing problems is one of the main reasons why I only play digital. Even before MD I was always playing on EDO. The price for decks now a days can often go towards rent depending on where you live.
@@thotslayer9914 How is Konami going to make boatloads of cash if they make every card easily accessible?
@@sluggernottidk ask pokemon 😂
@@TainyaGaming It's not an equal comp, though. Pokemon is still marketable to new audiences and had unarguably way more popular and a more far-reaching impact than yugioh. Let's not kid ourselves, either. Pokemon cards are still insanely expensive on the secondary market and are also a higher MSRP per pack and product.
@@sluggernott It's usually only the "bling" rarities that go for stupid amounts in Pokemon. The only two times I can remember a card going to insane prices for meta reasons were both complete flukes. In one case, the souvenir card given out at the Pokemon finals in Hawaii (which normally have intentionally awful effects) accidentally had a HUGE meta-defining effect and turned into a Cyber-Stein situation. The other was when a Japanese set had a "ghost rare"-style reprint of a certain Rayquaza card from a past sub-set, but the English game didn't get the subset until AFTER the extremely rare reprint so it was the only version of that card to exist. And it happened to be an extremely good card in one of the big meta decks of the time, so it shot up to a couple hundred dollars. (then we got the subset a few months later and it dropped to like two bucks)
Even the extreme tier zero meta cards usually don't break 50 in the lowest rarity, and those don't happen often.
@@sluggernott imagine how marketable yugioh would be to new players if it had the same barrier to entry cost as pokemon, sure pokemon has a whole line of video games to lean on, but konami has literal slot machines to lean on, they can ease up on the childrens card game a few notches in the TCG.
buying a halqifibrax for £45 ($70ish, dirt cheap for what it was) right before arurodon/o-lion lines were discovered. well well welllll worth it.
i also brought a buster dragon and had to shell out £35 (like 50bucks) for it, this was when dogmatika released and buster blader had a brief period of being the best deck for like 2 weeks. the card had no other prints other than BOCH, this was before its GFTP out-of-nowhere reprint.
the card made its way across the planet all the way to my front door only for the mail man to use my package as a clipboard when ticking the 'delivered' box on a post-receipt.
the card was not in a top loader, and has a gigantic tick indented in his face from the biro pen. only for the deck to become a rogue deck 2 weeks later and IDS and Kitchen Synch taking the meta. was NOT worth it. at all. after the GFTP reprint, buster dragon was like £2 (3 bucks)
WE ACTUALLY MADE IT INTO THE VIDEO LETS FUCKING GOOO
the current accesscode price is still insane, like £47.15.....for a piece of cardboard...yay
I think one of the really big issues is the TCG rarity bumping cards for their initial release. When the OCG prints an intended staple, cards like Little Night and Droplett, they tend to release in multiple standard rarities in the set. TCG tends to take those cards and shove them up to the rarity ceiling that the OCG released them at. Somebody at Konami probably has some bad excuse about needing the space for TCG exclusives, but those cards and decks tend to be critically undersupported till the OCG gets them, so I don't exactly find that compelling.
A few months ago, I went to my local card store and checked their case, where they held Yugioh cards, and I saw a moderately played Elemental HERO Air Neos. After debating it for a while, I bought it for around 100 and something dollars
Big ups for the Otakon shout out. I'm from MD very close to Baltimore and I went there every year from I think 2006 to 2012. Now I live on the west coast and just haven't been able to go back all the way to Maryland from California for a con when there's stuff just as cool over here like Anime Expo. However, I will go back one of these years for MAGFest because that was one of my favorite convention/festival experiences I've ever had and I only got to go for 1 year. (I got that ice cold waaaater..... and it's only one daaaaaalllur)
3:52 - I like the throwback to that Barone meme, even did the voice and everything
I can buy every meta Pokémon deck for the same price as a single Yugioh deck
Right when Kozmos were at their peak here in Brazil a guy was trading his MOTORCYCLE for a playset of Dark Destroyers. It remains in our country as a milestone of how sometimes yugioh prices can get out of hand.
I took generaider to Philly and almost topped recently.....if not for konamis stupid time rules.
Generaider itself doesn't sap up too much time normally. What deck were you facing?
@@DG_Raizen rescue ace, I hand looped him for 3 through ash and impulse and I just needed to get to end phase but he wouldn't let me.
@@N3XTREVOLUTION Sounds like intentional stalling.
In a perfect world, you’d have most cards in common with rarities/alt arts being the expensive variants. So there would be a common/rare Little Knight, then the expensive pretty version. I’m pretty sure this is how One Piece TCG does it.
pokemon does this sort of thing as well and it's really nice. i dont play pokemon anymore as yugioh has become my full focus card game but it was nice building a decent deck for 90 bucks
Unfortunately, shops don't like that.
People have to buy more product if they NEED something that they're only gonna get one of, maybe not even one, if they buy the whole damn box.
This cash cow is too big to pass up
so I did the calculation for tear around mid December 2022 and in North America the main engines (tear and Isuzu) were around 100-110$ total excluding the field spell. and what's crazy is even without the field spell the deck was still better then every other deck in the format.
People just scalp the prices even though there isn't a lack of stock. people just charge that because they can
I spent around 300 ish for a playset of Thrusts on release and initially didn't use them much since the decks I had at the time couldn't really take advantage of them. Then CYAC dropped and I realized "wow this card is cracked in Mikanko", put them in and topped my regionals later that month.
Just got into Pokémon TCG and was flabbergasted about the prices after playing Yu-Gi-Oh! for so long.
Bought TWO top tier decks for my girlfriend and me for about 110€ combined. Yu-Gi-Oh! Prices are insane ...
Its a shame how more expensive generic cards are getting
yeah it's like
The boss monsters
The combo enablers
The staples
Like what's left? How long will it be until we have whole decks over $100 per card?
Getting? You saw that $500 Crush Card Virus and $300 DAD right?
It's basically priced me out of physical entirely. Like, I know budget-friendly decks/options exist, but I'm so tired of having to settle for cards that are often _significantly_ worse; I'm already handicapped IRL-I don't wanna be handicapped in the game too.
Thank fucking god that online sims are free; I'd literally have to stop playing entirely if they weren't.
@@jamesruth100 remember having to play evilswarm exciton knight over Zeus because Zeus was still way too expensive
No one talking about this yet as far as I can see, but Dire's SOA intro gave me a conniption fit and I love it so much. The LEAST expected reference, and some of her best work yet. Good lord.
Konami when the see people are willing to shell out 100$ for a piece of carboard it took them probably 10 cents to make:
Having moved from Europe to Japan, my biggest culture shock had nothing to do with Japanese culture itself, but with how absurdly cheap Yu-Gi-Oh! is over here. I dread the idea of having to ever buy TCG product ever again.
The most I've ever spent was an Ultimate Rare Nova master, from back when I was a kid and I didn't know what rarities were.
I remember buying two boxes of Dark Saviors to build Vampires and pulled two Engages from the first one, and Widow from a second one. Ended up buying 2 more boxes to try my luck and completed the deck, 3 Engage, 2 Widow one Afterburner, 4 Multirole. The worker at the shop, who was also a competitive player, bought 3 boxes before that and pulled nothing. He was so pissed that he ended up quitting the game. XD
As a general rule of thumb I never spend more than 20eur on a single card, so far it has worked out for my engagement level with the game. If prices are too high I usually just wait for a reprint - that is one thing this game does better than say magic.
Yeah same, ish. I broke my rule for accesscode cus I just couldn't play mathmech without it. Paid £27 which was pretty good but nothing else over £17 for me (Zeus)
@@ziggylcd12 ACT is probbably gonna be the exception for me as well should I choose to commit. Until then I'm coping on rasterliger lol
I remember buying a playset of pot of Desires while I was in high school (and living in Brazil).
I used my lunch money that I kept saving for some time, which means I LITERALLY gave up of food just for 3 pieces of shiny cardboard, and I don't regret doing it.
Getting back into paper after years of Duel Links and Master Duel, wading through my local card shop trying to get Ruddy Rose Dragon to make Rikka/Rose Dragons happen when I spotted The Iris Swordsoul and said out loud "Whoa, that looks awesome!" The guy behind the counter tells me there's a whole archetype following her that drops in a couple months, I end up taking 3 copies at $30 each and then coming back a couple months later to buy 2 boxes of Burst of Destiny.
That's how I learned to always read the contents of a new set before committing to an archetype from it...
I have a funny story involving Baronne, when the 25 anniversary packs dropped it was the only card I wanted. Instead I got an Fallen of Albaz, 2 Lightning storm, Dark ruler no more, Inspector Boarder, Borrelload savage dragon and N'tss. When I mentioned it to the clerk who happened to be my eldest sister's ex-boyfriend he gave me one from his personal binder for free. If you see this Kelly, thank you.
I spent $300 for a starlight rare exosisters magnifica when it first came out had it since then to me it was worth it at the time
I got Floo during Covid thinking "i will surely go to locals when all this is over"
then i developed social anxiety.
About the Brazilian Purchase: 12 dollars for a playset means 36 dollars, which if we avoid conversions, it's a month worth of food or electricity + water bills (if you're in mid/low class). In some places, it does cost a day worth of food.
Here in Brazil +1 card = -1 meal.
Me after spending 100 dollars on the best One Piece deck
I'm gonna guess Red whitebeard
@@starbound100 Yep, worth every shekel. Such a fun deck, gonna bring it to Pasadena and lose every game 😎😎😎
As a big fan of both ghost rares and synchros, when Ghosts From the Past was announced I was crazy excited and had to get a ghost Crystal wing. I watched the price drop from £350 down to £200 and stop there for over a month, so I decided the time was right and went in, deciding it could only go up as a collectable in the long run…
The card is currently worth £30…
Oh cool sounds like a net+ for me!
The most I ever paid for a single was Destroy Pheonix Enforcer when it was still new to the meta. Worth every penny.
Filing this under "Videos that make me happy for playing Mater Suel only"
Love this topic.
What were the prices of cards/ decks like throughout yugioh history?
I would love to hear more about this topic
getting this video to appear in home in THIS meta is genuinely funny
The Kashtira deck that won the 250th YCS in Bogotá in February 2023 was worth three times the minimum monthly wage in Colombia.
I feel like paying a ton for a piece of card board is pretty crazy, but that story about buying starlight rares for the groomsmen is pretty funny. (7:54) I feel tempted to do that if I get married.
I cant ever wrap my head around the sentence "you spent 80$ on a piece of cardboard and its worth it" YGO cards are so grossly overpriced
This is any tcg.
I bought two ulti Rafflesias for like $20 a pop and three secret Seras for around $12 each during Covid era, and after the structures released (cough cough after Pak went undefeated at locals three weekends in a row and convinced people they could win with Traptrix cough) they shot up to $70 and $40 respectively. They've obviously deflated since then but I was smug as hell rolling up to locals blinged out like I had money for two weekends
In Brazil there's so many scalpers that a common joke about card prices here is to use Dolar x10 as conversion price instead of the around 5-6x. Some cards go way above that and never go down because sellers don't wanna go minus with their absurd prices.
Someone once traded me an ok card for my ultimate Maxx c straight out of the astral pack 4. It's sitting at about 500 USD today and the guy is still playing competitive today. I can't say I'm still upset but this is why it's so hard for younger players. Be careful y'all 🙏
because kids are dumb
PePe got me a regional win. Then I bought the tier 0 deck on release day to keep playing it. 😢 was at YCS ATL when the list dropped
0:07 what's this a reference to?
I remember I randomly pulled 2 adamancipator researchers from Walmart packs during Covid times and I wanted to play the deck against my bf so I just spend like 60 bucks to get my last copy. Worth it for the fun but similar to eldlich sucks I never used it when it was good at tournament
I have a new one of these. Just spent around £250 for a playset of WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils and almost £30 for Diabellstar the black witch. I'm hoping she's the next Albaz and becomes useful in other decks around her lore as the new sets come out.
I've been only collecting cards for the past few years. Bought Rescue ACE-Hydrant CR for about 40 CAD, it's now at over triple the price. So thankful I made that purchase.
7:53 if there ever was a reason to bully Joseph, this would be it!
Bought a secret Accesscode for $130 when I got back into YGO in 2021 when I bought a Sky Striker core to have a playable deck right when Engage came back to 1 (because my other main deck was Lunalight). Kinda worth it since I doubt it will drop out of relevance as a staple to have ready to drop into a deck, but I moved on to Mikanko and Marincess that can't really use it.
fitting to wear the priceless shirt while talking about priceless cards
4:57 I played full power pepe that weekend and it was the first time in my life i won a locals. Thankfully, i only had to borrow 2 of the three Sorcs lmao
I "bought" (aka just sold off/traded a bunch of cards over time to afford them like I do most staples) a playset of prosperity back when it was easily over 100$/copy. Considering owning prosperity made playing a bunch of decks much more playable I'd say it was more worthwhile to pay the staples tax than the deck core tax.
4:14 almost everyone iknow used there stimulus checks in frivolities. I personally used it for a new custom gaming PC
I knew a dude in 2011 who spent hundreds to pull a Ghost Rare Black Rose Dragon. I hope he's doing well now.
the Brasil one hits hard, it's either choose food or apollousa and one month ice water soup
Spent I think $150 on Dragoon alone to complete a red-eyes deck for my best friend's birthday a few years back. Given how happy he was, 100% worth it
2:30 The official terminology is Dollaridoos to Freedom Eagles
200th YCS was Mexico, Columbus and Utrecht. That was summer of 2018
YCS Chicago was Feb of 2019.
It's wild tho that tcg peeps doesn't make a big movement to make tcg has rarity distribution like ocg to lower the bar of entry.
Seems like albeit the price is high, tcg peeps secretly wants to keep it this way since opening pack can make them profit a hefty amount (aka kinda like gacha addiction).
Konami wouldn't give a shit. They didn't care when people complained before they certainly won't care now if it means less gambling
The most money I've ever spent on a single card is exactly $100.
It was 2014 and it was a DDS blue-eyes that was in pretty good condition. The tinest bit of what looked like it may have been water damage in the top left corner, but thats it. Pristine otherwise.
I went and got it autographed by Eric Stuart, and about a year later it just fucking vanished. It never left my house. If it was stolen, then someone broke into my house and stole nothing but this card. I had put it up somewhere for safekeeping, and couldn't remember where. I looked for it for like 3 years before I finally just conceded that it was gone forever.
A story from digimon, at the beginning of the year when bt11 came out, I paid 60 a copy for alt art Galacticmons, fast forward about a month and they are sitting pretty at about 11 dollars for the alt art.
i wish Trust was in the 25th collection box that comes out Nov 1st.
Yea but let's be real it's the only thing with value from phhy now. Konami are gonna milk it hard
I was selling my SwordSoul deck a couple of weeks ago, all of the cards are from MAMA, when a guy texted me asking how much for the deck, I told him $46 for the whole deck. He replied with, "Damn, I wish you sold the deck earlier. I bought a set of SwordSoul Emergence for $51". I asked him if it was from BODE (not that it justifies the price). He replied, "No, they are from MAMA." I really felt bad for him.
I swear like, not even a month ago we were talking about Yugioh being expensive.
Haven't really spent anywhere over $25 on individual cards, but the purchase I regret the most is spending $30 on a playset of Vanity's Emptiness from Secret Forces only for it to get limited like less than a month later.
3 spellbook of judgment at 175 a piece just for it to get banned less than a month later.. good times
I bought 3 copies of arabesque for about 5$ each. Then when I went to make the deck and play it, I realised one of the copies was removed from my cart as I purchased it and had to go back and buy 1 for 20$. then it went down again.