Mannadium Prime-Heart has a special defensive ability that stops your opponent from targeting it with card effects. No monsters facing Mannadium Prime-Heart will be safe due to its multiple energy blades! Find this powerful card in Cyberstorm Access, releasing on May 5th!
Pendulums aren't even complicated, people are just too dumb and lazy to learn, if literal kids could learn how to pendulum summon by watching yugioh arc-v (a kids show) then grown-ass adults can learn it as well.
On side I appreciate Konami making an effort in teaching new people how to play YuGiOh, on the other hand it's kind of dumb that this Starter Set doesn't allow you to make even a semi-playable deck. Like ok you learned how to play the game, now if you want to play someone in your local card shop go spend another 100$ on an actual playable deck.
UA-camrs are going to have a field day making videos of having magic players play with this The big text and drawings will make it easier for kids to learn because no kid wants to read a multiple page rule book of just text. I also really like that it includes hand traps since they're so important and one of the things new or returning players seem to struggle with for some reason.
Considering the product is more expensive than the Zeuses we already have at the marketplacee, it is safer to just buy a more expensive Zeus and let Konami realize trolling us is not a choice. Please people do not support this product.
@@JuanGonzalezZzZzZz... This is not complex man... If you don't wanna buy it then don't, I know I won't buy it either. I already know how to play the game, so why would I need this product? We are not the target audience for this, but that doesn't mean someone else won't find use for this. It's that simple.
I definitely think just, as a removal spell and repeatable extender, Eldlich might see play in Common Charity. Maybe even thrown into Traptrix? And I wonder, 'how' playable mannadium is in CC now.
As a starter its not half bad, i would have loved it if they had also added more of the gagaga and mannadium cards to teach beginners about archetypes centered around synchro and xyz summoning.
As a modern starter bad it's very bad, yes there is "some" good card but how can you teach proper modern Yugioh with this ? Even for teaching basic concept, I think there was far more option than "tribute summon a vanilla monster that was already bad 25 year ago". This is too limited, even at begginer level
as a modern starter its probably the best you can really get, if someone has no idea how to play the game this is a good and concise way to teach them it without overloading them with too much all at once, the point isnt to teach you that you should tribute summon a vanilla its teaching you the mechanics of the game and what can be done
@@Csthh even people who've never played before can pick up a simple constructed deck and learn the game by playing, this product is not useful at actually teaching new players what the REAL game looks like, it's the master duel tutorial all over again but as a printed product that people can waste their money on.
Hmm, this reminds me heavily of the Magic starter set which was first made in 1996, but for me mostly the 1999 starter box, which is rather similar to this (even including the Stop, don't shuffle bits) that had TV advertising for the set. It included a "guided game", and it even came with a CD for sample games. I distinctly remember the 2001 7th Edition starter set did use a comic-book style for its play guide, giving a little booklet to each player.
I felt like the point of this product is obviously not to make someone "insane" at the game it's to teach then how to play you cant explain a full mannadium combo without first teaching what a special summon is what a spell is etc. Once you have this basic idea you go out and build upon it. Although it would be nice if there was a decently relevant deck they could teach all the mechanics in but even if they thought of one konami and money are best friends
This is one of my most anticipated products in the year since I need a good intro product for the newbies in my locals. The scripted duels certainly make my life a lot easier, and the 64 page comics instead of ever-thickening rule book is a step in the right direction. That being said....that comics is still intermediating since they really need to to avoid huge wall of texts as much as possible, and hire a competent mangaka to make the booklet even more visually appealing. I sincerely hope NO ONE (scalpers I am looking at you) just buys this deck for ZUES, we need this product for teaching the beginners!
We dont you didnt need to and they wont learn modern ygo with this shit. The info you get from this scam can be learned with yt videos and structure decks which they would end up buying anyways if they were interested. But go ahead buy this trash be the one scammed.
@@dannyboers4704 If you are arguing that there are new players not wanting to learn the modern 2024 game when they get into ygo and would only buy a product like this to stay on this lvl of gameplay even slower than goat format then sure you can argue that this product is not a scam for these people... but if you are honest a new player wants to learn a game to be on the same page as the other players and for these players this product is an absolute scam. And these players are the big majority. Notice that I said modern and not meta.
To be fair, this is probably good for getting someone who has 0 clue how to play the game to learn the basics. I dont see how 1 product can take someone from knowing nothing about the game to being even locals-ready. With that in mind, Id love to see a follow-up product on this that has 2 decks that are more comparable to a constructed deck, being more focused on an archetype instead of being mishmash of generic cards that teach the most basic of basics.
@@dundazupapokemon sells proxy decks of the World Championship finalists and that's probably the coolest thing they've regularly done. You get a competitive meta deck that you can use to practice for pretty cheap and the only downside is you can't actually use any of the cards in locals. Great way to give them a "good" deck to learn with (even if the "can't actually use these cards in a real duel" aspect sucks)
@colmecolwag Oh Ive seen those, they seem quite neat. For Pokemon it probably works as the game at its core is easier to pick up. I dont think it would go well if you handed someone a fully optimised Rescue Ace deck before they even know what a main phase 1 is though.
@@dundazupa yeah you prob don't hand someone a rescue ace deck day one. But even the Pokemon decks are labeled for advanced players too. But also yugioh is a LOT more "wait how the eff does this even work" so even then it may not be enough lol
@colmecolwag Id love to see a followup product for these, giving them a deck that resembles modern yugioh by having playsets of important cards, having the deck focus on 1 archetype instead a bunch of generic randoms etc
Maybe this is some kind of ironic moral lesson. Like Konami telling players that if they want to get their friends into Yugioh, teach 'em your damn self.
I remember in 2016 my friend bought a Pokemon 2-player starter set like this, where the cards were also put in a certain order for the tutorial. Took them this long to do what Pokemon has been doing for (at least) 8 years.
No mention of pendulums No mention of links could've done a link 1 or something No fusions One thing I do think though Konami wanted this to be accessible so though it has bad cards people aren't going to scalp this. If they put in really good cards people who are really into the game would probably snatch these up rather than new people. The biggest overall problem though is new players will go from this to the true craziness that Yugioh really is.
I don't think its the risk of old players buying up the stock, konmai could easily print more. its that that they dont want to give anything too valable away with out being able to put it in a high rarity and/or short print it
The idea of two scripted decks to teach the basics is nice, but the execution is, once again, half assed. They acknowledge the skill barrier maxes out to Synchro and XYZ, which makes me think we will get a part 2 with Pendulums and Links eventually. The biggest issue aside from Nadir not demonstrating the product with another person is the card pool is another starter deck mish-mash of cards haphazardly thrown together, only being bound together by the script. Konami's mainline game is so far removed from this type of design that it actually risks setting up players for disappointment when archetypes and other mechanics are introduced. In other words, for now, newcomers are going to be restricted only to this product. If they are going to go this method of teaching however, its better suited for Master Duel solo mode because its also scripted, in the form of automated activation timing and card placements rather than a book full of text. I'd pick it up just to dork around with those who are yugi curious, but I do not expect them to be more interested in continuing beyond this point. It makes for a cute birthday/christmas gift, nothing more.
4:45 Swords is no continuous spell. Just wanted to point that out, since cimoo started a new series with how good do you know yugioh and ruxin got that one wrong.
this set had potential if it was not konami doing it. to make it work the decks need to be competively playable which would require printing too much of value for a garateed card list set.
i think they should have had four decks - two for the "introduce all the mechanics" duel, and two for something which at least kind of resembles an actual duel with like, fairly simple decks like Striker vs Dragonmaid or something
@@samuelheddle it needed an completive playable XYZ, synchro, fusion and link deck. then the new player understands how each one plays. intorducing all the mechanic duel is overkill when there is 4 decks to put it it in with out overloading.
Pokemon does this by selling proxy decks of the world championships, which might be a decent compromise between Meta Ready and Competitively Greedy, lol
@@bluekittie6630as long as it manages the explain all the basics within this scripted Duel it doesn't matter what cards it has. It's such a struggle to teach new players, I feel like I could make good use if that
@dudono1744 no you can bc after you play using the scripted duel you can shuffle then play an actual game with it then just put it back in order if you wanna do another scripted duel.
They didn't include counter trap tutorial for basic spell speed stuff even though that's mid level game knowledge Also they should made tier 2 and 3 type of 2 man tutorial, like tier 2 is a scripted rouge deck with pendulum, and tier 3 tutorial is a D/D/D vs Odd-eyes tutorial to teach player to combine every summoning mechanic
I think that the concept for a 2-player starter deck set is a really great one and their implementation with a scripted duel to teach how the game works in practical terms. I'm not sure if it was included but if it also has the order each deck should come in, in case both players want to see how the opposite deck works in a 2nd duel, that would likely help the players understand both decks that are included. That said, it's absolutely insane that the decks they include aren't fully fleshed out decks with 3-ofs & staple cards that both players could bring to a locals to compete in a fairly decent manner. Having a slew of almost entirely single cards with a few seemingly random extra deck cards is a WILD decision. There are plenty of archetypes and relatively competitive decks they could have crafted for this where both players get a chance to see almost all the Extra deck summon methods instead of just 2. The first few beginner friendly archetypes that come to mind that they could have used that encompass a large number of Extra Deck monster types are Swordsoul, Sprights, Mathmech, and even Dark Magician. They also could have included cards like Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, & Effect Veiler as ways to teach about hand traps rather than just a single D.D. Crow. Overall this is a terrible product born of good intentions and a really solid idea. Not giving new players actually playable decks for practical scenarios, along with sufficiently competitive staples for those decks is a massive failure. There's no coherent deck that can be made from the cards they give these new players from this.
Farfa is such a konami shill for not calling out konami on how shit this product is in this video, new players deserve better introductory products than this, and yugitubers need to stop pretending that these products are anything but TRASH
As much as I hate konami, I think its really clear the intent of this product is to sort of speed thru teaching the basics of the game to someone who knows absolutely nothing about yugioh and didn't grow up watching the anime. This product is clearly not meant for you to use for an actual deck you'd take to locals, its for you to teach your 6 year old sibling how to play at home.
@@frig7014 i disagree, i don't think Konami's intent is clear here at all. If this product is entirely for super casual beginners then why does it contain modern staples like zeus and modern archetypes cards like manadium and eldlich? Why not make it all nostalgia bait if they're fully appealing to the casuals by not commiting to adding two real constructed decks here? What's worse is the way they advertized this product, they put zeus and prime heart in the cover as a hint that the product was designed with the modern game in mind and would introduce players to how the modern game works, but in reality the decks are so bad they can barely even summon their bosses, any new player would be better off doing the master duel tutorial than wasting 20 bucks on this
@@MrGshinobi agreed a new player should just play the tutorial on MD instead of this. But I think the schizophrenic artwork of the box that was announced last year kinda gave away that this was not gonna contain what you would normally call a "playable strategy" but just a pile of as much things to teach you little nuances about the game as possible. I wouldn't call zeus so much a staple anymore as it was in kashtira format, but I think it was chosen (along side primeheart) because both of those 2 cards exemplify the rule of modern yugioh: cards are allowed to break the rules if they say so, hence zeus shows that some XYZ don't need 2 monsters of the same level just like primeheart shows some synchros cheat and don't need a non tuner. Explaining to a brand new player how an archetype works is gonna require a supplementary product afterwards. Knowing konamis greedy ass it'll be just like a structure deck where you need to buy 3x of it to actually build the decks tho 🤣
Uk there only doing this for money. Yugitubers like farfa get paid by Konami to say good stuff on video and since there getting paid they don't care weather the product is good or bad there gonna say it's really cool
Yeah cause a brand new player is going to want to sit down and read all that plus the cards themselves lmao. Konami is desperate to get new people to join. Farfa collecting on the sponsorship tho is that a win or a big L ?
If Konami wants new players to join then they're going to have to actually balance their card game and change it from being about locking your opponent out of the game while playing on their turn and making it about DUELING. Back and forth interactions. Like it used to be. But no! Konami is too obsessed with chasing money and the Yugioh cattle will buy the product regardless which is why nothing has changed and nothing will change. Existing players will eventually leave and newer players will continue to be turned away by the overwhelming nonsense allowed to go on in this game.
While the idea is good, i think having a better tutorial in masterduel should be the main focus for konami. Since the game is free anyone could get a basic 101 of how yugioh goes.
this finally going to be a good yugioh product to help my friends and family who can't even play yugioh and will now find out what i've been doing with my life for the past 7 or 8 years glad konami made this
I still think Arc-V tag force has some really great tutorials for new players to learn from, if they ever made one for VReins then that would probably be my favourite way to teach new players 😢
Funnily enough, a Cyberse pile would probably be good at teaching a chunk of stuff while providing a decent deck with a pretty simple gameplan (spam Cyberses, make big links and use big links to win). Especially if some Cyberse fusions/synchros/xyzs are in boosters of that time, so you could start with just links and people can just grab the other methods.
I'm so buying this for myself. I just bought me the crimson king structure deck to try and get back into Yu-Gi-Oh man synchros amd combos have my so confused. But im determined to learn
I think it's better if they give a proper Blue-eyes and Dark Magician deck. Blue-eys has fusion, synchro, ritual, and you can add any link and Xyz. Dark Magician also has fusion, ritual, Xyz, and you can add any link and synchro into the deck. You can teach tribute summon with these decks too. Also, they have any types of Spell/Traps. For the pendulum, we can pretend it never existed. . Giving a proper deck with the right copy of each card can teach them basic deck building. We all know it is very important. Also, this will be more playable if the player wants to use it outside the script. This current deck will be very unplayable if you shuffle it a little. . And because it is for new players. I think Blue-eyes and Dark Magician are very iconic for people who never play the real game, and only know YGO from anime or somewhere else.
Why they didn't just sell two premade decks of archetypes already focused in the summoning types to both reprint archetypes and give new players a better idea of how the game flows is beyond me - these cards are ass and if anything it just creates the same scenario as Master Duel.
Holy shit, its Master Duel tutorial mode but IRL. This is gonna be ass, the fact Konami thinks a new player needs assigned reading just to learn a single deck is pretty sad. Why doesn't Konami just make another Legendary Hero Deck product if they want to give new players a full introduction to this game's mechanics? These aren't representative at all of what actual Yugioh decks are like. What the fuck are the win cons in these strategies? And there isn't even any link or fusion monsters, let alone any pendulums or other fairly common mechanics (although I think we can all agree that pendulums do require assigned reading, but they're the exception). Also, i'm pissed that Tour Guide isn't in the comic. She's lowkey the modern game mascot at this point if Duel Links is anything to go off of.
It's hilarious that there's no Ritual, Link, Pendulum, or even Fusion in there. That's like half the mechanics of the game not present in this starter set.
That would hurt the premise of the product. The more appealing you make this to existing players, the more likely those players will be to buy it making it harder for potential new players to get their hands on this.
Launcher Spider was one of my very first cards, seeing it again takes me right back - I never realised just how lucky I was pulling an ultra rare Magic Jammer back then. Hopefully Konami does more of these to include the other summon mechanics - yes, even Pendulum - it'll definitely make it more interesting for beginners than the token spam Slifer and tribute fodder spam Obelisk decks we got last time. Also the code for the Xyz deck is STAX, that's just funny.
Zeus reprint LFGG how much do you think it's gonna cost now? I hope it gets the baronne treatment Wait also coral dragon? I know It wasn't already that much before but since I'm planning on byuing a virtual world deck I'll gladly take it, this should drop its price even lower
Is no one gonna mention how you could get a better learning experience from playing the tutorial in Master Duel, which is free, btw, than buying this poor excuse for a product?
How does a rank 4 deck have 7 level 4 cards? And none of them are kagetokage or goblindbergh????? I'm not asking for them to make a competitive deck but it's just sad to see how this deck looks like a lv20 npc deck from duel links but with random broken cards like zeus and eldlich.
I really like the idea of this because its a good mix of classic cards that aren’t that complicated for a new player to understand but also has the newer cards so players can kinda grasp what the modern card game is about. Definitely much better than overwhelming someone with all the rules and card text all at once or not explaining most of the rules and leaving players confused
Opening 6 vanillas is just a scary first hand imo. I don't mind having 1 or 2 to simplify the plays, but opening only monsters in itself is a bit annoying, let alone full vanilla.
Que basura de producto si soy sincero. Voy a tener que comprar sueltas el Dark magician, la Dark magician girl,el swordstalker para mi colección, el Eldlich para tenerlo en común y ponerlo también en mi colección y espero que ahora con este reprint Zeus ya no sea tan caro. Solamente me interesa eso de la caja. Que decepción es esto para ser un starter deck
I feel like there is a bit of a loss without having a coherent deck as a prime strategy Even older decks like joker knights with their link support and Genex Older strategies that would be good for a new player but can also make a coherent deck Or maybe even a community submitted combo deck variant where one deck is a gigantic combo deck and the other is hantraps and board breaker kaiju deck
Damn this is really bad, like really bad, like sure it'll help teach the absolute basics of how the game works, but that was never the problem with learning yugioh, the main problem is people not understanding how the modern game has changed since the early 2000's, konami is still trying to teach people the game like we're in edison format where the duels last longer and combos are less prevalent. With cards like zeus and eldlich it could've been a cool way to introduce people to the more modern side of yugioh, but most cards in here weren't even playable in goat format????? it's baffling, this may be fun to play with a single friend, but once they actually start to play yugioh they're gonna be confused at how different the actual game is to this. This should've focused more on providing a deck with a linear combo or control strategy, doesn't need to be good, but it should help teach players the basics of what a combo looks like in yugioh (adding mutliple cards, extending plays using the extra deck and so on). This is an abysmal product and sadly probably will sell poorly, meaning konami won't try something like this again, which sucks, because if this product was good, it could be super useful at introducing new players into the game.
Am I the only one thinking that this deck teached nothing? I mean they give 2 decks, 1 for teaching synchro mechanic and the other one is xyz, but then the monsters level that they give are not even supporting the mechanic that they want to teach I get it they don't want to put a full complete deck in there but at least add monsters that actually can be used for the summoning mechanic For example If the extra deck are rank 4s than give them level 4 normal monsters instead of random level monsters.. Anyway great video as always sir farfa...
This is misleading, people would think "hey I just bought this, I can start playing YuGiOh" just to realize the thousand knifes can't even be used, are they teaching people to pass their turn?
Oh this is awful, konami should have just put a manadium deck and a real xyz archetype (zoodiac?) in these alongside real staples and let new players have a great starting point, instead we got vainillas and cards from the year 2002, god awful product this shit is not gonna be helpful at all to anyone.
Expectations: Rank 4 Gadget / Tin Goldfish type turbo deck that makes XYZs + some Rank-Ups. Vs Synchron Spam deck that pumps out multiple synchros and is on the same level. Both with integrated traps, field spells, quick spells etc to familiarize. Reality: 💩💩💩
How to play yugioh. Step 1- spend too much money on a deck. Step 2- flip a coin. Spend 30 minutes setting up the field/watching your opponent set up their field. Roll credits.
@@Binzob it was an exaggeration. I know the game now n days is decided in the first turn or two. If it did last 30 minutes it would be an actual game. Ty tho.
This product is not very good, how can you proper teach modern Yugioh with this. I know that teaching basics before complexe tactics is important, but how can you expect begginer to progress with a deck that look so much dated like this (Really, Swordstalker in 2024 ?). Even for basic tactics, i think there was better way to made a starter product. Well, thanks for the Zeus and coral dragon reprint I guess ?
I unironically like how both of these decks have just one Ojama randomly thrown in.
Those wacky boys always find themselves in strange situations.
gotta have some GX rep
@@anonymous71207 time to get your game on
Mannadium Prime-Heart has a special defensive ability that stops your opponent from targeting it with card effects. No monsters facing Mannadium Prime-Heart will be safe due to its multiple energy blades! Find this powerful card in Cyberstorm Access, releasing on May 5th!
No way, dude
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Well it's not May 5th yet and we already got it
I love how there is No pendulums in here, like the mechanic wasn't already hated enough😢
No hazzy flames either
Pendulums are basically their own ygo rulebook
I love how konami employees just looked themselves in their eyes and just agreed that pendulum is a useless mechanic for an already complex game❤
Just as there is no fusion and link monsters
Pendulums aren't even complicated, people are just too dumb and lazy to learn, if literal kids could learn how to pendulum summon by watching yugioh arc-v (a kids show) then grown-ass adults can learn it as well.
Now to do the obligatory "I found 2 magic/hearthstone players and made them do a tutorial duel" video
Can’t wait
It's always fun
5:18 I like that the manual already describes Pendulums as complicated here
On side I appreciate Konami making an effort in teaching new people how to play YuGiOh, on the other hand it's kind of dumb that this Starter Set doesn't allow you to make even a semi-playable deck. Like ok you learned how to play the game, now if you want to play someone in your local card shop go spend another 100$ on an actual playable deck.
Level 1 is Learn to Play Starter Deck, Level 2 is "but three structure decks and make a real one" I guess
I mean you can't do that either with MtG's starter kits.
@@Reluxthelegend, except in Magic, you can get away with having some bad cards in your deck
@@4GRJ You can also in yugioh lol depends on how competitive are the players you are playing against.
8:48 Ah yes... Eldlich the Common Lord
UA-camrs are going to have a field day making videos of having magic players play with this
The big text and drawings will make it easier for kids to learn because no kid wants to read a multiple page rule book of just text.
I also really like that it includes hand traps since they're so important and one of the things new or returning players seem to struggle with for some reason.
I still feel like this wont do a single thing and konami still doesn't understand why people are not playing the game
Its just too complicated. Too easy to OTK and fill your board in 1 turn
I love how they put zeus in because it wont sell without it
Considering the product is more expensive than the Zeuses we already have at the marketplacee, it is safer to just buy a more expensive Zeus and let Konami realize trolling us is not a choice. Please people do not support this product.
@@JuanGonzalezZzZzZz...ima grab either way
@@JuanGonzalezZzZzZz... The set is for teaching new players, not for experienced players to buy a zeus lol. Don't take it so seriously
@@MineteInc what? Do not? Ryuran man. You must be a R&D agent working for these trollers.
@@JuanGonzalezZzZzZz... This is not complex man... If you don't wanna buy it then don't, I know I won't buy it either. I already know how to play the game, so why would I need this product? We are not the target audience for this, but that doesn't mean someone else won't find use for this. It's that simple.
That synchro deck goes from modern to Edison real fast
I definitely think just, as a removal spell and repeatable extender, Eldlich might see play in Common Charity. Maybe even thrown into Traptrix? And I wonder, 'how' playable mannadium is in CC now.
As a starter its not half bad, i would have loved it if they had also added more of the gagaga and mannadium cards to teach beginners about archetypes
centered around synchro and xyz summoning.
As a modern starter bad it's very bad, yes there is "some" good card but how can you teach proper modern Yugioh with this ? Even for teaching basic concept, I think there was far more option than "tribute summon a vanilla monster that was already bad 25 year ago". This is too limited, even at begginer level
@@Animexdraco it’s probably meant for people who have no idea what the game is.
as a modern starter its probably the best you can really get, if someone has no idea how to play the game this is a good and concise way to teach them it without overloading them with too much all at once, the point isnt to teach you that you should tribute summon a vanilla its teaching you the mechanics of the game and what can be done
@@Csthh ah yes, lets put the poor person with this deck against, fire kings, they will have fun.
@@Csthh even people who've never played before can pick up a simple constructed deck and learn the game by playing, this product is not useful at actually teaching new players what the REAL game looks like, it's the master duel tutorial all over again but as a printed product that people can waste their money on.
Wow, I'm impressed. I had no expectations for this deck and somehow I'm still disappointed with its content. Good job Konami.
Finally it’s been ages since this was announced
How to play -Zoodiac- Yugioh:
Make Zeus.
BOTTOM TEXT.
Hmm, this reminds me heavily of the Magic starter set which was first made in 1996, but for me mostly the 1999 starter box, which is rather similar to this (even including the Stop, don't shuffle bits) that had TV advertising for the set. It included a "guided game", and it even came with a CD for sample games. I distinctly remember the 2001 7th Edition starter set did use a comic-book style for its play guide, giving a little booklet to each player.
Except the Starter Box and Starter Box EX had some actually decent cards
Can't wait to learn the book off by heart to teach it with absolutely nobody 😭🤣🤣
Well the problem is that even if someone new picks this thing up, the real game it way different than the garbage cards on this decks...
Gotta sell the good decks somehow
Yeah Zeus is garbage
Yea its crazy how they didnt choose to use better staple monsters or an actual archetype/engine thats USABLE outside scripted play.
I felt like the point of this product is obviously not to make someone "insane" at the game it's to teach then how to play you cant explain a full mannadium combo without first teaching what a special summon is what a spell is etc. Once you have this basic idea you go out and build upon it. Although it would be nice if there was a decently relevant deck they could teach all the mechanics in but even if they thought of one konami and money are best friends
Yugioh Players when a new player friendly product comes out that doesn't overwhelm them with 500 different mechanics and rules:
This is one of my most anticipated products in the year since I need a good intro product for the newbies in my locals. The scripted duels certainly make my life a lot easier, and the 64 page comics instead of ever-thickening rule book is a step in the right direction. That being said....that comics is still intermediating since they really need to to avoid huge wall of texts as much as possible, and hire a competent mangaka to make the booklet even more visually appealing.
I sincerely hope NO ONE (scalpers I am looking at you) just buys this deck for ZUES, we need this product for teaching the beginners!
We dont you didnt need to and they wont learn modern ygo with this shit. The info you get from this scam can be learned with yt videos and structure decks which they would end up buying anyways if they were interested. But go ahead buy this trash be the one scammed.
@@Pkey995why do they need to know modern yugioh?
@@dannyboers4704 If you are arguing that there are new players not wanting to learn the modern 2024 game when they get into ygo and would only buy a product like this to stay on this lvl of gameplay even slower than goat format then sure you can argue that this product is not a scam for these people... but if you are honest a new player wants to learn a game to be on the same page as the other players and for these players this product is an absolute scam. And these players are the big majority. Notice that I said modern and not meta.
Zeus, Visas and Multiple energy blades? Pretty good, imo. (Fearless is cool too, I guess. Would've prefered the other two tho)
So its like master duel tutorial. Teaches you 2003 ygo. But not really how is game being played these days.
And that’s fine. New players have to start somewhere and this is a nice foundation
I’m pretty certain this will prepare newcomers to play against endless Fire decks and all the crazy stuff…. It’s bloody Master Duel all over again
To be fair, this is probably good for getting someone who has 0 clue how to play the game to learn the basics. I dont see how 1 product can take someone from knowing nothing about the game to being even locals-ready. With that in mind, Id love to see a follow-up product on this that has 2 decks that are more comparable to a constructed deck, being more focused on an archetype instead of being mishmash of generic cards that teach the most basic of basics.
@@dundazupapokemon sells proxy decks of the World Championship finalists and that's probably the coolest thing they've regularly done. You get a competitive meta deck that you can use to practice for pretty cheap and the only downside is you can't actually use any of the cards in locals. Great way to give them a "good" deck to learn with (even if the "can't actually use these cards in a real duel" aspect sucks)
@colmecolwag Oh Ive seen those, they seem quite neat. For Pokemon it probably works as the game at its core is easier to pick up. I dont think it would go well if you handed someone a fully optimised Rescue Ace deck before they even know what a main phase 1 is though.
@@dundazupa yeah you prob don't hand someone a rescue ace deck day one. But even the Pokemon decks are labeled for advanced players too.
But also yugioh is a LOT more "wait how the eff does this even work" so even then it may not be enough lol
@colmecolwag Id love to see a followup product for these, giving them a deck that resembles modern yugioh by having playsets of important cards, having the deck focus on 1 archetype instead a bunch of generic randoms etc
I mainly like that product because of Zeus and the rest of the reprints are cool to be frankly.
I feel like even for table play with friends this is just awful
Maybe this is some kind of ironic moral lesson. Like Konami telling players that if they want to get their friends into Yugioh, teach 'em your damn self.
I remember in 2016 my friend bought a Pokemon 2-player starter set like this, where the cards were also put in a certain order for the tutorial.
Took them this long to do what Pokemon has been doing for (at least) 8 years.
better late than never, honestly
I believe the 2015 Yugioh starter deck had already done it, no?
No mention of pendulums
No mention of links could've done a link 1 or something
No fusions
One thing I do think though Konami wanted this to be accessible so though it has bad cards people aren't going to scalp this.
If they put in really good cards people who are really into the game would probably snatch these up rather than new people.
The biggest overall problem though is new players will go from this to the true craziness that Yugioh really is.
Literally fighting game tutorial.
I don't think its the risk of old players buying up the stock, konmai could easily print more. its that that they dont want to give anything too valable away with out being able to put it in a high rarity and/or short print it
you havent played a fighting games in years huh?@@monkey_blu
The idea of two scripted decks to teach the basics is nice, but the execution is, once again, half assed. They acknowledge the skill barrier maxes out to Synchro and XYZ, which makes me think we will get a part 2 with Pendulums and Links eventually.
The biggest issue aside from Nadir not demonstrating the product with another person is the card pool is another starter deck mish-mash of cards haphazardly thrown together, only being bound together by the script. Konami's mainline game is so far removed from this type of design that it actually risks setting up players for disappointment when archetypes and other mechanics are introduced. In other words, for now, newcomers are going to be restricted only to this product. If they are going to go this method of teaching however, its better suited for Master Duel solo mode because its also scripted, in the form of automated activation timing and card placements rather than a book full of text. I'd pick it up just to dork around with those who are yugi curious, but I do not expect them to be more interested in continuing beyond this point. It makes for a cute birthday/christmas gift, nothing more.
4:45 Swords is no continuous spell. Just wanted to point that out, since cimoo started a new series with how good do you know yugioh and ruxin got that one wrong.
this set had potential if it was not konami doing it. to make it work the decks need to be competively playable which would require printing too much of value for a garateed card list set.
It doesn't have to be competitve, something like swordsoul or salamangreat would be enough.
i think they should have had four decks - two for the "introduce all the mechanics" duel, and two for something which at least kind of resembles an actual duel with like, fairly simple decks like Striker vs Dragonmaid or something
@@samuelheddle it needed an completive playable XYZ, synchro, fusion and link deck. then the new player understands how each one plays. intorducing all the mechanic duel is overkill when there is 4 decks to put it it in with out overloading.
Pokemon does this by selling proxy decks of the world championships, which might be a decent compromise between Meta Ready and Competitively Greedy, lol
@@colmecolwag I am refering to L3 league battle decks, some have been more in box complete than others but they are solid for competive decks.
really cool set idea
more like that would definitely bring in more new players
It's a cool idea but this set was honestly ass cheeks.
@@bluekittie6630as long as it manages the explain all the basics within this scripted Duel it doesn't matter what cards it has. It's such a struggle to teach new players, I feel like I could make good use if that
@sanda5226 what I'm saying is they should have at least gave us cards that have synergy together instead of this jumbled mess.
The main issue is you can't shuffle the deck.
@dudono1744 no you can bc after you play using the scripted duel you can shuffle then play an actual game with it then just put it back in order if you wanna do another scripted duel.
They didn't include counter trap tutorial for basic spell speed stuff even though that's mid level game knowledge
Also they should made tier 2 and 3 type of 2 man tutorial, like tier 2 is a scripted rouge deck with pendulum, and tier 3 tutorial is a D/D/D vs Odd-eyes tutorial to teach player to combine every summoning mechanic
Imagine they printed Bonfire in this set. Would sell out. 😂
Bonfire makes you shuffle
I think that the concept for a 2-player starter deck set is a really great one and their implementation with a scripted duel to teach how the game works in practical terms. I'm not sure if it was included but if it also has the order each deck should come in, in case both players want to see how the opposite deck works in a 2nd duel, that would likely help the players understand both decks that are included.
That said, it's absolutely insane that the decks they include aren't fully fleshed out decks with 3-ofs & staple cards that both players could bring to a locals to compete in a fairly decent manner. Having a slew of almost entirely single cards with a few seemingly random extra deck cards is a WILD decision. There are plenty of archetypes and relatively competitive decks they could have crafted for this where both players get a chance to see almost all the Extra deck summon methods instead of just 2. The first few beginner friendly archetypes that come to mind that they could have used that encompass a large number of Extra Deck monster types are Swordsoul, Sprights, Mathmech, and even Dark Magician.
They also could have included cards like Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, & Effect Veiler as ways to teach about hand traps rather than just a single D.D. Crow. Overall this is a terrible product born of good intentions and a really solid idea. Not giving new players actually playable decks for practical scenarios, along with sufficiently competitive staples for those decks is a massive failure. There's no coherent deck that can be made from the cards they give these new players from this.
Farfa is such a konami shill for not calling out konami on how shit this product is in this video, new players deserve better introductory products than this, and yugitubers need to stop pretending that these products are anything but TRASH
As much as I hate konami, I think its really clear the intent of this product is to sort of speed thru teaching the basics of the game to someone who knows absolutely nothing about yugioh and didn't grow up watching the anime. This product is clearly not meant for you to use for an actual deck you'd take to locals, its for you to teach your 6 year old sibling how to play at home.
@@frig7014 i disagree, i don't think Konami's intent is clear here at all.
If this product is entirely for super casual beginners then why does it contain modern staples like zeus and modern archetypes cards like manadium and eldlich? Why not make it all nostalgia bait if they're fully appealing to the casuals by not commiting to adding two real constructed decks here?
What's worse is the way they advertized this product, they put zeus and prime heart in the cover as a hint that the product was designed with the modern game in mind and would introduce players to how the modern game works, but in reality the decks are so bad they can barely even summon their bosses, any new player would be better off doing the master duel tutorial than wasting 20 bucks on this
@@MrGshinobi agreed a new player should just play the tutorial on MD instead of this. But I think the schizophrenic artwork of the box that was announced last year kinda gave away that this was not gonna contain what you would normally call a "playable strategy" but just a pile of as much things to teach you little nuances about the game as possible. I wouldn't call zeus so much a staple anymore as it was in kashtira format, but I think it was chosen (along side primeheart) because both of those 2 cards exemplify the rule of modern yugioh: cards are allowed to break the rules if they say so, hence zeus shows that some XYZ don't need 2 monsters of the same level just like primeheart shows some synchros cheat and don't need a non tuner. Explaining to a brand new player how an archetype works is gonna require a supplementary product afterwards. Knowing konamis greedy ass it'll be just like a structure deck where you need to buy 3x of it to actually build the decks tho 🤣
Uk there only doing this for money. Yugitubers like farfa get paid by Konami to say good stuff on video and since there getting paid they don't care weather the product is good or bad there gonna say it's really cool
The fuck is he gonna do? Talk shit and get blacklisted by Konami?
Yeah cause a brand new player is going to want to sit down and read all that plus the cards themselves lmao. Konami is desperate to get new people to join. Farfa collecting on the sponsorship tho is that a win or a big L ?
If Konami wants new players to join then they're going to have to actually balance their card game and change it from being about locking your opponent out of the game while playing on their turn and making it about DUELING. Back and forth interactions. Like it used to be. But no! Konami is too obsessed with chasing money and the Yugioh cattle will buy the product regardless which is why nothing has changed and nothing will change. Existing players will eventually leave and newer players will continue to be turned away by the overwhelming nonsense allowed to go on in this game.
You can just buy Zeus... Komoney sure is feeling generous.
A pile of goat/speed duel format cards...and a Zeus reprint lol
these decks are so bad that any good edison or goat deck could beat them LMAO
@@MrGshinobingl I think even War Rock, Ursarctic and Dream Mirror got a chance in this one XD
While the idea is good, i think having a better tutorial in masterduel should be the main focus for konami. Since the game is free anyone could get a basic 101 of how yugioh goes.
Cool to see, also casual players rejoice, you even get a Zeus :)
And that's the only thing you're getting XD
this finally going to be a good yugioh product to help my friends and family who can't even play yugioh and will now find out what i've been doing with my life for the past 7 or 8 years glad konami made this
I still think Arc-V tag force has some really great tutorials for new players to learn from, if they ever made one for VReins then that would probably be my favourite way to teach new players 😢
tbh its impossible for this game to attract new players
They need to start restricting things per format.
Like 1 format no Pendeulum allowed.
it'll be cool if they did something similar with the other summoning mechanics, maybe next year
Funnily enough, a Cyberse pile would probably be good at teaching a chunk of stuff while providing a decent deck with a pretty simple gameplan (spam Cyberses, make big links and use big links to win). Especially if some Cyberse fusions/synchros/xyzs are in boosters of that time, so you could start with just links and people can just grab the other methods.
You need a friend for this;_;
I think what they really should put in these are Sleeves and a new designed and almost perfekt rulebook
Seeing the order of the decks, and seeing more of the cards, im a little excited for this.
i like this product, the only problems is that you need a friend to play with it.
I'm so buying this for myself. I just bought me the crimson king structure deck to try and get back into Yu-Gi-Oh man synchros amd combos have my so confused. But im determined to learn
Finally we are getting info on this and I am glad they got yugitubers to show it
Ryu-Ran😂😂😂 Definitely that a new payer deck needed. Lv 7 vanilla monsters great.
If we have this with code for accessing Master Duel, It would be gold to teach newbie!! 🎉
Look, as the world's biggest Token Collector, I'm so mad they gave Scapegoat and OTP but didn't print fuckin token cards for them
FINALLY WE GOT THAT
Edit: wait this sucks
Facts
Eldlich getting ddcrowed, I can feel the pain.
This is what I call training children 😂
It's basically Pokemon Battle Academy without the cardboard mat
So paper Master Duel tutorials?
I think it's better if they give a proper Blue-eyes and Dark Magician deck. Blue-eys has fusion, synchro, ritual, and you can add any link and Xyz. Dark Magician also has fusion, ritual, Xyz, and you can add any link and synchro into the deck. You can teach tribute summon with these decks too. Also, they have any types of Spell/Traps. For the pendulum, we can pretend it never existed.
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Giving a proper deck with the right copy of each card can teach them basic deck building. We all know it is very important. Also, this will be more playable if the player wants to use it outside the script. This current deck will be very unplayable if you shuffle it a little.
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And because it is for new players. I think Blue-eyes and Dark Magician are very iconic for people who never play the real game, and only know YGO from anime or somewhere else.
Why they didn't just sell two premade decks of archetypes already focused in the summoning types to both reprint archetypes and give new players a better idea of how the game flows is beyond me - these cards are ass and if anything it just creates the same scenario as Master Duel.
Holy shit, its Master Duel tutorial mode but IRL. This is gonna be ass, the fact Konami thinks a new player needs assigned reading just to learn a single deck is pretty sad.
Why doesn't Konami just make another Legendary Hero Deck product if they want to give new players a full introduction to this game's mechanics? These aren't representative at all of what actual Yugioh decks are like. What the fuck are the win cons in these strategies? And there isn't even any link or fusion monsters, let alone any pendulums or other fairly common mechanics (although I think we can all agree that pendulums do require assigned reading, but they're the exception).
Also, i'm pissed that Tour Guide isn't in the comic. She's lowkey the modern game mascot at this point if Duel Links is anything to go off of.
The point of this wasn’t to learn what modern yugioh plays like though.
Well yugioh is set more towards younger audience
This product is horrible for everyone lol, Konami of America cannot justify releasing any good non gatcha products cant they?
It's hilarious that there's no Ritual, Link, Pendulum, or even Fusion in there. That's like half the mechanics of the game not present in this starter set.
I would have expected better reprints to be useful to cureent players aswell so we have more reason to pick it up but thats just wishful thinking
I dunno, I feel like Visas, Coral Dragon, Zeus, and Emeral are a pretty good number of decent reprints.
That would hurt the premise of the product. The more appealing you make this to existing players, the more likely those players will be to buy it making it harder for potential new players to get their hands on this.
@@DualSwordBeskenyeah exactly its not made for existing players
@@TrueBlueMcgooOnly Vsauce and Zeus are worth it.
Btw who tf plays emeral?
@@bl00by_Magikey
3:14 Isnt that the famous "Squirreldragon"
Launcher Spider was one of my very first cards, seeing it again takes me right back - I never realised just how lucky I was pulling an ultra rare Magic Jammer back then.
Hopefully Konami does more of these to include the other summon mechanics - yes, even Pendulum - it'll definitely make it more interesting for beginners than the token spam Slifer and tribute fodder spam Obelisk decks we got last time.
Also the code for the Xyz deck is STAX, that's just funny.
Zeus reprint LFGG
how much do you think it's gonna cost now? I hope it gets the baronne treatment
Wait also coral dragon? I know It wasn't already that much before but since I'm planning on byuing a virtual world deck I'll gladly take it, this should drop its price even lower
This thing retails for $20 and Zeus is really the only notable card. A Zeus in TCGplayer goes for about $14-16. I wouldn't get my hopes up lel
Is no one gonna mention how you could get a better learning experience from playing the tutorial in Master Duel, which is free, btw, than buying this poor excuse for a product?
Facts
Pokemon releases products like this every so often and they're great
How does a rank 4 deck have 7 level 4 cards? And none of them are kagetokage or goblindbergh????? I'm not asking for them to make a competitive deck but it's just sad to see how this deck looks like a lv20 npc deck from duel links but with random broken cards like zeus and eldlich.
not the way i wanted ZEUS to get a reprint
you should when it comes out. get one each and then deck build out of it and play vs someone else irl
I really like the idea of this because its a good mix of classic cards that aren’t that complicated for a new player to understand but also has the newer cards so players can kinda grasp what the modern card game is about. Definitely much better than overwhelming someone with all the rules and card text all at once or not explaining most of the rules and leaving players confused
Opening 6 vanillas is just a scary first hand imo. I don't mind having 1 or 2 to simplify the plays, but opening only monsters in itself is a bit annoying, let alone full vanilla.
Pendulum (which is.. complicated)
I wasnt expecting Visas Starfrost
I need new deck thats why i will buy this along with chapter 1 chaos legendary box
This set having Zeus and Mannadium Prime-Heart in it is just nice for new players.
Teaches them a pseudo high level of play.
Rayranch would probably still get lost
Rayrayranch it rocks! Cowboys love terrible yugi box
Get that bag but like, why.
Que basura de producto si soy sincero.
Voy a tener que comprar sueltas el Dark magician, la Dark magician girl,el swordstalker para mi colección, el Eldlich para tenerlo en común y ponerlo también en mi colección y espero que ahora con este reprint Zeus ya no sea tan caro. Solamente me interesa eso de la caja.
Que decepción es esto para ser un starter deck
I feel like there is a bit of a loss without having a coherent deck as a prime strategy
Even older decks like joker knights with their link support and Genex
Older strategies that would be good for a new player but can also make a coherent deck
Or maybe even a community submitted combo deck variant where one deck is a gigantic combo deck and the other is hantraps and board breaker kaiju deck
Thank you farfa 4 saving me money
what a bizarre choice of cards
The ones we got in stores do not open like this.
Oh god, spell cards are officially green.
Damn this is really bad, like really bad, like sure it'll help teach the absolute basics of how the game works, but that was never the problem with learning yugioh, the main problem is people not understanding how the modern game has changed since the early 2000's, konami is still trying to teach people the game like we're in edison format where the duels last longer and combos are less prevalent. With cards like zeus and eldlich it could've been a cool way to introduce people to the more modern side of yugioh, but most cards in here weren't even playable in goat format????? it's baffling, this may be fun to play with a single friend, but once they actually start to play yugioh they're gonna be confused at how different the actual game is to this. This should've focused more on providing a deck with a linear combo or control strategy, doesn't need to be good, but it should help teach players the basics of what a combo looks like in yugioh (adding mutliple cards, extending plays using the extra deck and so on). This is an abysmal product and sadly probably will sell poorly, meaning konami won't try something like this again, which sucks, because if this product was good, it could be super useful at introducing new players into the game.
Disappointing product tbh
Am I the only one thinking that this deck teached nothing? I mean they give 2 decks, 1 for teaching synchro mechanic and the other one is xyz, but then the monsters level that they give are not even supporting the mechanic that they want to teach
I get it they don't want to put a full complete deck in there but at least add monsters that actually can be used for the summoning mechanic
For example
If the extra deck are rank 4s than give them level 4 normal monsters instead of random level monsters..
Anyway great video as always sir farfa...
What is thousand knifes doing there? the deck doesn't even provide dark magician to play with..
This is misleading, people would think "hey I just bought this, I can start playing YuGiOh" just to realize the thousand knifes can't even be used, are they teaching people to pass their turn?
I think this is an excellent idea, I hope another set comes out for Pendulum and Links
Oh this is awful, konami should have just put a manadium deck and a real xyz archetype (zoodiac?) in these alongside real staples and let new players have a great starting point, instead we got vainillas and cards from the year 2002, god awful product this shit is not gonna be helpful at all to anyone.
Wtf is this set cuh 😭😭😭
That's a nice reprint
Mst is in there to teach them that it negates
Expectations:
Rank 4 Gadget / Tin Goldfish type turbo deck that makes XYZs + some Rank-Ups.
Vs
Synchron Spam deck that pumps out multiple synchros and is on the same level.
Both with integrated traps, field spells, quick spells etc to familiarize.
Reality: 💩💩💩
How to play yugioh. Step 1- spend too much money on a deck.
Step 2- flip a coin. Spend 30 minutes setting up the field/watching your opponent set up their field. Roll credits.
Turns dont take close to 30 minutes unless both players are doing a ton of interaction but sure.
@@Binzob it was an exaggeration. I know the game now n days is decided in the first turn or two. If it did last 30 minutes it would be an actual game. Ty tho.
wow. need this set. need those cards.
Great Video
This product is not very good, how can you proper teach modern Yugioh with this. I know that teaching basics before complexe tactics is important, but how can you expect begginer to progress with a deck that look so much dated like this (Really, Swordstalker in 2024 ?). Even for basic tactics, i think there was better way to made a starter product. Well, thanks for the Zeus and coral dragon reprint I guess ?
Dogshit product, but thanks for the zeus reprint I guess
At least the packaging is fuego
Orange card? You mean a Pringle right?