Hey everyone hope you enjoyed the video. Let me know if you want to see a sequel and what games you want to see featured in it. Also, for the accessibility of each card game, I was going off of my personal experiences but it's defiantly not the same everywhere. If theirs a game that's more popular in your neck of the woods, then let me know in the comments!!!
Unfortunately I’m not child anymore and honestly too tired for this crap. It’s Basically like learning to code a new language and I’m too old to be bothered anymore. Maybe if I was homeless or in prison I would consider it since tons of time to waste then.
@@electricant55 I counter with the BILL of rights trap card! All Presidenccurrency cards are now destroyed and sent to the graveyard, dealing you 500 damage for each one!
@@darkstone_official_2427 And I attach a fire energy to my Charizard ex and use its ability to attach one more energy to it. Then, I attack using Burning Darkness and do 180 + 30 damage for each prize card you have taken! So It would attack 330 and you lost since you dont have any other pokemon in play. (So sorry guys I know you arent playing pokemon I just wanted to say something lol)
Interesting to hear. I don't know where you are from, but here in Germany, or at least near my location Yu-Gi-Oh is by far the most common game being played physically. Every game store has Yu-Gi-Oh locals and even privat locationis have tournaments from time to time. While MTG is definitely the second major game right now. The amount of players is shrinking quite a bit in the last time. It is nearly on par with Digimon right now. Pokemon I have never seen anyone playing with physical cards to be honest 😄
All fine, however I would argue, that Yu-Gi-Oh is nowhere near as popular as mtg. It is hard to find good data online, but since Yu-Gi-Oh is way more popular in a lot of countries outside of the US like in Europe and for example in Japan I think it is quite a close competition. Nevertheless it seems like Pokemon has by far the most sold cards but still no one plays it. 😄
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Very nice video. I'm a magic player myself and have played a bit of pokemon in the past. I think a video about Flesh and Blood would be really cool, from what i've seen it looks like a very good game and is also pretty different from the other big TCG's out there so it's worth looking in to.
Any homies here ever played the Naruto TCG? was pretty fun. Also, there was a yu yu hakusho card game that i thought about getting into, but i knew no one would of played it or have even of heard of it, lol
I was able to get to Diamond 5 on Master Duel with monarchs using the same list I used back in 2016 on Dueling Network. I even got a 5 win streak into Diamond 4. Of course I went first 3 of those 5 matches and also had an evenly matched the other 2. Monarch was my favorite deck and when it was in the meta I had the highest or second highest rating on Dueling Network using it. 1565. Some Yugioh decks can survive the test of time. Although, I will admit it is rare.
@Gaiseric I'm just saying they're not a good deck. Of course in a best of 1 alot of decks can go on a win streaks but returning players can't expect their old 2016 decks to compete in diamond in the long run
i disagree on yugioh: good thing that the game has is the different formats that have been created by the community and enforced by konami as well, so people can play oldschool yugioh no issues anywhere
Yeah but people are interested in competition and tournaments and OTK has ruined the game that means mainly most of the old cards aren’t usable terrible experience rather have 7-10+ turns in MTG and have a actually chance to play every time I set up my cards and mat
@@jessed5057 There's literally tournaments and a big competitive scene for old yugioh formats, saying otk ruined the game is like saying mono red ruined the game. I can tell that you haven't touched yugioh in a hot min.
@@zandrazoo2112 Hey uhh i rlly wanna start getting into yugioh tcg but dont know the corrct way to do so...there not rlly much tcg players irl...what should i do?
Digimon 2020 is a really interesting one. It just lets you play giant numbers without the need for setting up resources at the cost of passing turn, giving a fat stack to the other player. Sounds perfect for newcomers.
Or you could just do what I did and make your own. Get some friends together and design some cards based on your favorite fictional characters. You will have to agree on the rules, and everyone in the group should have the power to veto any overpowered cards. But other than that, go nuts! Even if you're not an artist, you can still make designs relatively easily with programs like canva or Google slides, and Tabletop simulator let's you easily import them into a virtual table top. So the cards will cost you nothing but the time it takes to make them.
You didn’t actually answer the question of the title in the video, but it’s still a nice wrap up and comparison of the most popular tcgs in the western hemisphere. Have good day.
Glad you enjoyed the video! Sorry for not answering the question!! The perfect TCG is going to be different for everyone so I decided the best way to go about answering it was to just give a comparison and let people decide for themselves.
I would disagree on the "up until recently magic only allowed new cards in their most popular formats". Magic's premier format is standard, which is roughly just the past two years of set releases, but they have around a dozen other actively supported formats which include pioneer, which is 2012 forwards, Modern, which is 2003 forwards, and eternal formats like legacy and commander which allow for any cards not on their respective ban lists. If you are looking for budget, you can even play pauper, which is all commons.
Fair enough. I was just referring to how up until a few years ago it seemed like most magic-constructed events were in Standard format. Since then they've introduced Pioneer and formats such as Commander and Pauper have exploded. But you are right, formats such as modern and legacy have been around for a while so you could always play your old cards in some format.
@@amactcg1089 sure. And to be fair, they have done their share of monetizing modern via modern horizons as well as commander through all the products for that, although for the latter it's more about new art styles and the quantity of new legends people will want to build around than pure power.
@@seandun7083 I HAVE 3 DECKS RIGHT KNOW, ONE FOR PIONEER, ONE FOR COMMANDER AND ONE FOR OATHBREAKER I THINK THOSE 3 ARE THE ONES THAT I LIKE MORE AND THE ONES THAT LOOK MORE DIFFERENT TO THE OTHERS
Another point that people gloss over when discussing what TCG is best for someone is that out of all the TCG's Magic does the best at allowing for multiple players in a single game. In fact there are formats specifically meant for doing so. Yugioh was super popular in my college and often people would try to play multiple players in a single duel. I know the analogy of duel is lost there. It would often not work out that well but it did have its own strategies. Magic because of its resource driven system slows the game down enough for players to pull back into the game even with slow starts. The reason for this is in multiplayer games players who don't put out early threats are often ignored due to the unique way board presence works. This allows them time to draw into answers and recover their position. Recently there has been an emphasis on power but that doesn't mean a new player can't have fun too. There are many options for lower power such as Yugiohs beginnings and higher power decks to play against. I only have enough time/money to keep up with one TCG at a time but currently MTG is my favorite.
Imagine trying to play mekknights in a 3 way watch Duos could work similar to the anime but how the hell do you get up the board for FFA Here’s another question link zones how to they adapt
I've tried all of them and I've gotta say I like pokemon best it's simple and there aren't that many cards Modern yugioh has too much text and the meta is terrifying and magic is surprisingly simple but has too many god damned cards and I can't decide which cards to use send help
I personally found Pokémon to be too simple and made it feel boring to me. But I am a yugioh player so it kinda makes sense. My 1st TCG was Pokémon, but after discovering yugioh I slowly migrated my money and time to yugioh. Now I just cherish my Pokémon cards but I never play. But the worst part about Pokémon is the last time I checked 90% of my cards r too old to play in any legal format. I only found 2 formats, 1 for recent cards and 1 that goes back to the generation after the bulk of my Pokémon cards r from, black and white onwards. This means that even in the older format I can’t play w most of my cards. Lv.X, team rocket, dark, they r all collection only. 😢
@@baileydombroskie3046 Yess formats in Pokemon tcg are so annyoing... I have a lot of physical cards but cant play them because they become illegal so fast (and i dont have the money to keep buying more) in Standard format. Which is why I play Expanded format online. It feels more free and fun
I was a yugioh player my whole life, since literally LOB and just quit after what the game has become. Transitioned to mtg last year and haven't looked back since.
I play YGO all my life too and started MtG recently cause it is more popular where I live. I still prefer YGO over MtG. MtG is fun but I feel like its base overhype the game that is somehow more balanced than YGO cause it is almost impossible to FTK or even OTK right away with the whole mana system. But they are pretending to forget how most competitive Magic game pretty much end within turn 3-4 cause there are more cards now they dont need any or much mana.
My daughter loves Pokemon and it was a huge part of my childhood, so it's definitely the right one for me when it comes to actual gameplay. However, when it comes to buying and reselling, the market for Magic is much better, so I do that as a side hustle.
Yes, pokemons gameplay is so fun and easy to learn! I learned to play it when Pokemon TCG Online still had its servers up, the tutorial they gave you was so useful!!! So sad that the servers shut down, but atleast we have PTCG Live now!
I started with Pokémon, moved on to MtG and I mostly haven't looked back, other than my forays into the now defunct Legends of the 5 Rings and WoW TCG (not Hearthstone, the actual paper WoW TCG). I'm not going to move away from MtG, but I am taking stock of other TCGs, and Yu-Gi-Oh is so opaque to me. Also when I look in on Pokémon I am deeply saddened that my old energy destruction strategy isn't really a feature of the game. I was far more sadistic in my youth and thrilled at keeping my opponent from using the big attacks they were building towards and chipping them away with the old TCG implementation of Hyperbeam. What was WotC thinking back when they designed the initial game? "Hey in the video game there is this absurdly powerful attack that exhausts it's user" and WotC went "Cool, but in this game it's chip damage that does more to slow your opponent". Nintendo now develops the game, but WTF WotC? [WotC stands for Wizards of the Coast, the developers of MtG and the initial devs of the Pokémon TCG, that only lasted a few years, Nintendo retook control of their own property and I don't know enough about the post WotC game]
Energy destruction is still a very real play option in Pokémon, especially in control/mill decks. Crushing Hammer, flip a coin, discard an energy. Supporter cards that discard any energy. And a demon chicken named Yveltal that has an attack that destroys 3 special energies on your opponent's monsters.
@@chasealexander88 oh, that's new to me. When Nintendo took over development energy destruction really fell by the wayside, glad to see its return. Having said that I am not interested in branching out any more, I'm happy being an MtG player. Having also said that I am done with D&D and I love all of the indie TTRPGs, like Apocalypse World and games derived from it. I'm not consistently against WotC, but D&D needs to D&Die
There are 5 game shops in my town. 4 of them offer Magic regular play, 4 of them offer Pokeman play, and only 1 of them offers Yugioh. So, I would definitely think YGO is more niche than Pokemon.
it depends where you live, when I used to live in LA area. majority of places do yugioh/pokemon and hardly did MtG, MtG is still popular cause I know they do/did host big tournaments in LA area. But I feel because of the demographic in LA, they like more of the anime games more especially among asians, blacks, and hispanics. But when I moved up to Seattle, almost everywhere does MtG and Pokemon, you will be lucky to find anything else. Kinda surprised me at 1st but then again most big tournaments for YGO happens in CA for US. YuGiOh is more popular than magic internationally though.
12:03 Ah, yes. The bad future where Taiga fails to succeed at life and has to pose for trading cards to get by. This is the only explanation I'll accept.
I pleated mtg when portal came out. I enjoyed it but it did feel methodical and geared toward executing your meta. I only recently started playing ygo and its pace is comparably frantic. Multiple metas can be played, but sadly i think most players have mtg brain and will give up their match if they dont get the hands that build up their "guaranteed win" conditions. Konami has definitely made the game harder for oldschooler and buff, by default, their most recent players And this is where mtg still shines despite its slow speed.
Important note missed in the video: Pokémon is incredibly cheap to play because of the heavy collector interest and therefore is by far the most accessible option of the big three.
Yea for competitive decks Pokémon is defiantly the cheapest. I thought about mentioning prices in this video but decided against it. Pricing for each game varies widely depending on the format and how competitive you want to be. Competitive Pokémon is cheaper than Magic on average but if you play pauper format then it's substantially cheaper. Also if your a casual player you can build/buy a beginners deck in almost every game for under $20.
In the infinite wisdom of Nintendo and Pokémon company. I got back into playing tcgo, but had to migrate to tcg live. All my cards older than Sun and Moon got deleted. 😢
When he says cast spells in yugioh and he calls the player a wizard is weirds me out. Yugioh the trading card game is just that a card game in the anime too. They just have technology to animate the cards and shit.
Yea there are probably better ways I could have put that. I just really wanted a good one-sentence introduction to the game's mechanics. That was the best I could come up with, although I'll be the first to admit it's not entirely accurate to the game's lore.
Pretty sure your either supporting the big 3 for your own selfish reasons, or your just straight up oblivious to games like digimon, wixoss, vanguard, D spirits, domhan rhapsodie, or any other tcg that exists as of this moment, it's not always about the big 3.
Yugioh is a power creep game If you manage to complete your dream deck, most of your useful cards will be added to updated banlist so If you want a balance game go for MTG because yugioh Is like a pay to win game I mean newest deck are always superior.
Pokemon is defintetly the easiest to pick up and play and I recommend it for noob TCG players. MtG is probably the most fun to play once you get your head wrapped around it due the various formats and the varied deckbuilding. Yuigioh can be fun but boy its not a noob friendly game at all which is a shame.
I still say yugioh has my favourite rule set of all TCG I have played however the cards they've decided to fill it with, frustrates the game experience. If an idea for a cared requires a wall of text, it shouldn't be in the game. And some of thr combos are way too crazy and not enjoyable to play.
the only cards that have long text is pendalum cards and thats why its the least played.interms of synchro or XYZ or fusion their pretty easy to follow
@@braydenb1581 i mean yugioh will never be balanced because of the power creep and 20+ years of building cards a good e.g would be true king of all calamitys that got banned not to long ago due to its OP affect
You might have wanted to mention that pokemon is just simply the cheapest game to play. decks rarely run for more than 160$. I recently started playing Pokemon because lets be honest... Yu-Gi-Oh is just toooooo expensive. I do think it is the most unique and complex TCG out there, can be extremely fun in the right formats
Magic if you want to shut your brain off and take it super easy. Just play lands and pass turn. For like 4 turns. Digimon is you want to think a little more. You will see faster and somewhat more complex gameplay. Yugioh if you want to read, memorize long combos, look up guides, etc. So in other words....big brain. Yugioh is honestly more skill based, faster, more complicated, and generally has a higher ceiling than any other tcg.
@@AirIUnderwater It is the most skill based out of the 3. You only lose on turn 1 if you're bad. You have to actually counter your opponent or stop them from building their board. Of which there are plenty of ways to do. The game ends usually in about 4 turns. Turn 1 player tries to build a board. Turn 2 player then tries to break that board. If your losing in 1 turn that'd genuinely be a skill issue.
@@thebelmont1995 You're going to sit there and say that if you lose turn 1 in Yugioh you are bad at the game? Think about that for a moment and make sure you're not imbibing in the Yugioh koolaid too much. I play all three. Of the three, Yugioh is my favorite. But I'm not going to lie to people and tell them that it's the most fun or the most complex or the most skill based of the three TCGs. Because it's objectively just not true. What is true is that of the three, there are games where you will lose turn 1 because of randomness. In Yugioh, the number of games you will lose turn 1 simply because you didn't draw the out, or because your opponent's cards just have such overwhelming effect that even if you drew all the handtraps you wanted to draw you'd still lose, or where you didn't draw into what you needed and you lose instantly because that was enough time in that one turn for your opponent to take game. It is the least skill based out of the three. Yugioh is the game where you lose the most not because your opponent outplayed you or knew your gameplan and found the line. Yugioh is the game where you lose simply because the opponent drew 1 out of 15 of their instant win cards even though you drew 3 of your 4 "stop the opponent's effect" cards. I haven't ever seen that happen in MTG or Pokemon. In Yugioh, that happens every other game. Go to PTCGO, see how many instant win decks are played. Go to MTGA, see how many instant win decks are played. Go to Master Duel, and just look in the short history of its life how many degenerate decks are out there that upsets people. Decks that win turn 1, or decks that are so oppressive that you are funneled into playing very few specific cards. So yeah, of the three, Yugioh is my favorite. I love the art, the concept, the general gameplay that it does have. But I am under no illusion that it is the most thought-provoking or skill-based card game we have available.
@@AirIUnderwater If you lose in 1 turn yes, generally that is on you. There is not a single deck currently that you will auto lose to if you make your extra deck properly and utilize your side board and run a healthy making of board break cards in your main. You don't need to draw the out in most cases, if you run mutiple board break cards you will 9 out of 10 hands have what you need. There is not a single deck in the game that has no out and will auto win against turn 1 unless you don't know what to hand trap, your deck is bad, you have no going 2nd cards to break a board or you don't have any ED cards to play for it. Of which there are dozens of each. Yugioh is the least luck based out of the 3. You don't have mana, which mean you don't need to rely on luck to draw mana. In mtg you will have to rely to luck most games because you don't draw mana, don't have enough of certain color, or just a plain draw too many. And the decks are 60 cards, not 40. Also you have no extra deck. So you are never guanteed any outs. Also in magic there is no thinking. You play a mana pass your turn then play 1 card end your turn. Rinse repeat for around 6 turns. Very little strategy. Very little thinking involved. I'm aware of every competing deck in the meta. I usually beat them all just fine if my deck isn't absolute crap. Which it usually isn't. In yugioh I always set up my extra deck so that I have in my ED guaranteed 3 to 5 outs to any major deck and my side board is for when I known I'm going 2nd so out of the 40 cards in my main deck I know I'm having at least 20 cards that I can rely on to break a board. 15 in my side deck, 3 to 5 in my extra. I'm litterly guanteed to "draw the out" if I'm playing at bare minimum 20 cards total 3 to 5 which I'm guanteed no matter what. And as for master duel, it's best of 1 format. If it was best of 3 and allowed a side board NONE of the degenerate stardegies would be that powerful. A lot of cards were made for best of 3 format. Entire decks were also designed around that in mind too. But even in MD I usually don't have any issues. I countered every deck that was "broken". The DD dynamite deck I just ran a 10 card ED. The new mill deck I just play 60 cards instead of 40 in my main. Combo decks that have 5 negates or more I just run dweller in my ED or bagoohooska, and at least 3 max c, 3 droplets, 3 ra sphere mode, and maybe some gozens. In yugioh you have to memorize long combos, learn entire 10 to 15 cards setups, learn how to dodge hand traps, learn to play around your opponent with your extra deck cards, use your side board more, and actually think beyond play 1 red mana pass your turn. It's objectively the most complex and skill based out of the 3. It is mathematically the least luck based. Every decent card in the game netw you advantage. Searching, drawing, etc you don't need 4 mana and have to wait 4 turns just to search a card with a "tutor" or wait 3 turns just to draw 2 in a 60 card mimum format and of EDH a 99 crad format where you can only run 1 copy of every card in your whole deck! You're just factually wrong here. Again yes, skill issue. I've played the game for over 15 years. I've almost never had problems exept for very early yugioh which was much more luck based. Cards like ra sphere mode, droplets, lightning storms, nibiru, etc are so good they can break entire boards on their own. And cards like summon limit, there can be only 1, Gozen match, etc etc. There are honestly so many ways and so many cards to beat most meta strategies it is usually on you if you dont run any of them. Most people don't play handtraps anymore either.
@@thebelmont1995 dont get me wrong, I love ygo too and play it more than MtG. It doesnt change the fact that in ygo going 2nd sucks since most decks were designed to go 1st especially if you are a very control based deck outside of sky strikers that are really made to deal with breaking boards. The only way a lot of control decks have a shot to relevance in the current format is if they can run d shifter or main a lot of bystials. In YGO we have shit like tear-ishzu which practically have answers about anything you throw at it, they dont play an oppressive negate board, the only "negate" they play is dweller and their walking solemn warning or some builds with Branne de fleur. They can literally go full combo even on your turn because of havnis. The only true way to beat tear is practically your deck can main deck d shifter, macro, soul drain or d fissure. And wait until kashtira comes out, they literally have a walking macro that banishes cards face down and locking your zones. To the point Konomi has do murder both decks in OCG. The only deck that had a fighting chance against either of them was Labyrinth because they can main gozen, rivalry, skill drain and doesnt care too much about the graveyard. And it is even impressive for a trap deck, which is generally a slower deck, to have a fighting chance against those 2 decks. Now the current most cancerous deck is Runick (the banish mill deck). Which is practically floodgate.deck without mystic mine. YGO has a tier 0 format every few years and this one is more powerful than the pure zodiac in their prime. I am not a yugiboomer but I have been playing since the 5Ds era on and off. I am generally not a fan of tier 0 formats but this current one isnt as cancerous as pepe or zoo. TCG is still fucked right now since Konomi wants to sell hypernova which has more support for kashtira and tear.
Hearthstone is defiantly a game I need to play more. I tried it years ago but I have yet to dive too deep into it. If I ever do another video on digital card games then I'll definitely include it!
I still have to try flesh and blood but it looks like a really cool game. If I make a sequel to this video I'll definitely include it as one of the featured games.
Nobody really play Pokemon because let's be honest, it's a bad card game. But most seem to collect it which is amazing because the art on the cards are SO good
@@Skadi257 Magic has been the king, always. Still is. Magic is exploding now in a way no other game has. Pokemon is largely COLLECTING as few play it. it's a TERRIBLE game. but a great collectable
@@thecrimsonfuckeralucardlor5087 maybe if you ask the fat 40 year old neck beards playing commander at locals that’s what they would tell you. Like I said. Normies will be normies :) way to make yourself look ignorant tho.
Hey everyone hope you enjoyed the video. Let me know if you want to see a sequel and what games you want to see featured in it. Also, for the accessibility of each card game, I was going off of my personal experiences but it's defiantly not the same everywhere. If theirs a game that's more popular in your neck of the woods, then let me know in the comments!!!
A tcg is a good start to every childs gambling addiction!
sounds great
Also to appropriate certain Skills and tactic
Not if you only buy singles
Unfortunately I’m not child anymore and honestly too tired for this crap. It’s Basically like learning to code a new language and I’m too old to be bothered anymore. Maybe if I was homeless or in prison I would consider it since tons of time to waste then.
Technically buying a card IS trading. You're just trading your hard earned rapidly shrinking wads of valuable paper for them.
I SUMMON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN ATTACK POSITION
@@electricant55 I counter with the BILL of rights trap card! All Presidenccurrency cards are now destroyed and sent to the graveyard, dealing you 500 damage for each one!
@@darkstone_official_2427 you fell right in my trap, Benjamin never was a president thus he's immune to that effect
@@darkstone_official_2427 And I attach a fire energy to my Charizard ex and use its ability to attach one more energy to it. Then, I attack using Burning Darkness and do 180 + 30 damage for each prize card you have taken! So It would attack 330 and you lost since you dont have any other pokemon in play.
(So sorry guys I know you arent playing pokemon I just wanted to say something lol)
Old poop encrusted paper for fresh new thiccer paper with better graphics. It’s a trade-up
Interesting to hear. I don't know where you are from, but here in Germany, or at least near my location Yu-Gi-Oh is by far the most common game being played physically. Every game store has Yu-Gi-Oh locals and even privat locationis have tournaments from time to time. While MTG is definitely the second major game right now. The amount of players is shrinking quite a bit in the last time. It is nearly on par with Digimon right now.
Pokemon I have never seen anyone playing with physical cards to be honest 😄
ikr many casuals that own pokemon cards don't even play the game or know how to play it, at least from my experience xd
idk bout germany in particular but yugioh is nowhere near as popular worldwide as mtg is
@@steviegreenthumb4720 Thats why I talk about Germany
@@Caedor912 yeah i aint arguing man, just noting how its interesting how different demographics can be.
All fine, however I would argue, that Yu-Gi-Oh is nowhere near as popular as mtg. It is hard to find good data online, but since Yu-Gi-Oh is way more popular in a lot of countries outside of the US like in Europe and for example in Japan I think it is quite a close competition.
Nevertheless it seems like Pokemon has by far the most sold cards but still no one plays it. 😄
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Very nice video. I'm a magic player myself and have played a bit of pokemon in the past. I think a video about Flesh and Blood would be really cool, from what i've seen it looks like a very good game and is also pretty different from the other big TCG's out there so it's worth looking in to.
Mtg players like to pretend flesh and blood doesn’t exist.
Any homies here ever played the Naruto TCG? was pretty fun.
Also, there was a yu yu hakusho card game that i thought about getting into, but i knew no one would of played it or have even of heard of it, lol
I was able to get to Diamond 5 on Master Duel with monarchs using the same list I used back in 2016 on Dueling Network. I even got a 5 win streak into Diamond 4. Of course I went first 3 of those 5 matches and also had an evenly matched the other 2. Monarch was my favorite deck and when it was in the meta I had the highest or second highest rating on Dueling Network using it. 1565.
Some Yugioh decks can survive the test of time. Although, I will admit it is rare.
Monarchs aren't good at all. You got lucky it sounds like
@@tiktokexposed898 I'm just very good with monarchs. But I play despia and swordsoul most of the time.
@Gaiseric I'm just saying they're not a good deck. Of course in a best of 1 alot of decks can go on a win streaks but returning players can't expect their old 2016 decks to compete in diamond in the long run
@@tiktokexposed898 Most decks with a real strategy can get to diamond in MD, since you gimmick to the limit to win
@@tame1773 not most decks but a decent amount for sure
Great vid! I just got back into Yugioh!
i disagree on yugioh: good thing that the game has is the different formats that have been created by the community and enforced by konami as well, so people can play oldschool yugioh no issues anywhere
Yeah but people are interested in competition and tournaments and OTK has ruined the game that means mainly most of the old cards aren’t usable terrible experience rather have 7-10+ turns in MTG and have a actually chance to play every time I set up my cards and mat
@@jessed5057 There's literally tournaments and a big competitive scene for old yugioh formats, saying otk ruined the game is like saying mono red ruined the game. I can tell that you haven't touched yugioh in a hot min.
@@zandrazoo2112 Hey uhh i rlly wanna start getting into yugioh tcg but dont know the corrct way to do so...there not rlly much tcg players irl...what should i do?
@@souparnabakshi3206 Try duelingbook
Digimon 2020 is a really interesting one. It just lets you play giant numbers without the need for setting up resources at the cost of passing turn, giving a fat stack to the other player. Sounds perfect for newcomers.
Or you could just do what I did and make your own. Get some friends together and design some cards based on your favorite fictional characters. You will have to agree on the rules, and everyone in the group should have the power to veto any overpowered cards. But other than that, go nuts!
Even if you're not an artist, you can still make designs relatively easily with programs like canva or Google slides, and Tabletop simulator let's you easily import them into a virtual table top. So the cards will cost you nothing but the time it takes to make them.
I completely agree. Designing your own card game isn't only cheap but it also really fun to do!
You didn’t actually answer the question of the title in the video, but it’s still a nice wrap up and comparison of the most popular tcgs in the western hemisphere.
Have good day.
Glad you enjoyed the video! Sorry for not answering the question!! The perfect TCG is going to be different for everyone so I decided the best way to go about answering it was to just give a comparison and let people decide for themselves.
I would disagree on the "up until recently magic only allowed new cards in their most popular formats". Magic's premier format is standard, which is roughly just the past two years of set releases, but they have around a dozen other actively supported formats which include pioneer, which is 2012 forwards, Modern, which is 2003 forwards, and eternal formats like legacy and commander which allow for any cards not on their respective ban lists. If you are looking for budget, you can even play pauper, which is all commons.
Fair enough. I was just referring to how up until a few years ago it seemed like most magic-constructed events were in Standard format. Since then they've introduced Pioneer and formats such as Commander and Pauper have exploded. But you are right, formats such as modern and legacy have been around for a while so you could always play your old cards in some format.
@@amactcg1089 sure. And to be fair, they have done their share of monetizing modern via modern horizons as well as commander through all the products for that, although for the latter it's more about new art styles and the quantity of new legends people will want to build around than pure power.
@@seandun7083
I HAVE 3 DECKS RIGHT KNOW, ONE FOR PIONEER, ONE FOR COMMANDER AND ONE FOR OATHBREAKER
I THINK THOSE 3 ARE THE ONES THAT I LIKE MORE AND THE ONES THAT LOOK MORE DIFFERENT TO THE OTHERS
Just started Pokémon and loving it
Give this man more subscribers
Glad you liked the video!
Another point that people gloss over when discussing what TCG is best for someone is that out of all the TCG's Magic does the best at allowing for multiple players in a single game. In fact there are formats specifically meant for doing so. Yugioh was super popular in my college and often people would try to play multiple players in a single duel. I know the analogy of duel is lost there. It would often not work out that well but it did have its own strategies. Magic because of its resource driven system slows the game down enough for players to pull back into the game even with slow starts. The reason for this is in multiplayer games players who don't put out early threats are often ignored due to the unique way board presence works. This allows them time to draw into answers and recover their position. Recently there has been an emphasis on power but that doesn't mean a new player can't have fun too. There are many options for lower power such as Yugiohs beginnings and higher power decks to play against. I only have enough time/money to keep up with one TCG at a time but currently MTG is my favorite.
MTG is a dying game….. no one knows it no one plays it, only freaks
Imagine trying to play mekknights in a 3 way watch
Duos could work similar to the anime but how the hell do you get up the board for FFA
Here’s another question link zones how to they adapt
I've tried all of them and I've gotta say I like pokemon best it's simple and there aren't that many cards
Modern yugioh has too much text and the meta is terrifying and magic is surprisingly simple but has too many god damned cards and I can't decide which cards to use send help
The pokemon card game is pretty incredible due to just how simple and fun it is!!
I personally found Pokémon to be too simple and made it feel boring to me. But I am a yugioh player so it kinda makes sense. My 1st TCG was Pokémon, but after discovering yugioh I slowly migrated my money and time to yugioh. Now I just cherish my Pokémon cards but I never play. But the worst part about Pokémon is the last time I checked 90% of my cards r too old to play in any legal format. I only found 2 formats, 1 for recent cards and 1 that goes back to the generation after the bulk of my Pokémon cards r from, black and white onwards. This means that even in the older format I can’t play w most of my cards. Lv.X, team rocket, dark, they r all collection only. 😢
@@baileydombroskie3046 Yess formats in Pokemon tcg are so annyoing... I have a lot of physical cards but cant play them because they become illegal so fast (and i dont have the money to keep buying more) in Standard format.
Which is why I play Expanded format online. It feels more free and fun
@@baileydombroskie3046 then just sell them for a bigger profit and buy newer cards ? I rlly dont see a problem here
I was a yugioh player my whole life, since literally LOB and just quit after what the game has become. Transitioned to mtg last year and haven't looked back since.
I play YGO all my life too and started MtG recently cause it is more popular where I live. I still prefer YGO over MtG. MtG is fun but I feel like its base overhype the game that is somehow more balanced than YGO cause it is almost impossible to FTK or even OTK right away with the whole mana system. But they are pretending to forget how most competitive Magic game pretty much end within turn 3-4 cause there are more cards now they dont need any or much mana.
Keep up the good work! found you a while back through getting back into ygo and started with your video on getting into it on a budget
thank you for the advice rich evans
this wasnt an insult it was ment to be a humorous observation i love that guy
Hilarious and well put together. A+
Glad you liked it!!!
My daughter loves Pokemon and it was a huge part of my childhood, so it's definitely the right one for me when it comes to actual gameplay. However, when it comes to buying and reselling, the market for Magic is much better, so I do that as a side hustle.
Yes, pokemons gameplay is so fun and easy to learn! I learned to play it when Pokemon TCG Online still had its servers up, the tutorial they gave you was so useful!!!
So sad that the servers shut down, but atleast we have PTCG Live now!
Tcg has lost its meaning. People dont even trade cards anymore😭😭. They just sell them for money
I started with Pokémon, moved on to MtG and I mostly haven't looked back, other than my forays into the now defunct Legends of the 5 Rings and WoW TCG (not Hearthstone, the actual paper WoW TCG). I'm not going to move away from MtG, but I am taking stock of other TCGs, and Yu-Gi-Oh is so opaque to me. Also when I look in on Pokémon I am deeply saddened that my old energy destruction strategy isn't really a feature of the game. I was far more sadistic in my youth and thrilled at keeping my opponent from using the big attacks they were building towards and chipping them away with the old TCG implementation of Hyperbeam. What was WotC thinking back when they designed the initial game? "Hey in the video game there is this absurdly powerful attack that exhausts it's user" and WotC went "Cool, but in this game it's chip damage that does more to slow your opponent". Nintendo now develops the game, but WTF WotC? [WotC stands for Wizards of the Coast, the developers of MtG and the initial devs of the Pokémon TCG, that only lasted a few years, Nintendo retook control of their own property and I don't know enough about the post WotC game]
Energy destruction is still a very real play option in Pokémon, especially in control/mill decks.
Crushing Hammer, flip a coin, discard an energy. Supporter cards that discard any energy. And a demon chicken named Yveltal that has an attack that destroys 3 special energies on your opponent's monsters.
@@chasealexander88 oh, that's new to me. When Nintendo took over development energy destruction really fell by the wayside, glad to see its return. Having said that I am not interested in branching out any more, I'm happy being an MtG player. Having also said that I am done with D&D and I love all of the indie TTRPGs, like Apocalypse World and games derived from it. I'm not consistently against WotC, but D&D needs to D&Die
Same thing as land destruction and punishing effect in mtg
They are gone forever and now Red and White have half their mechanics removed
@@stylesheetra9411 I kinda miss mono-red land destruction, but I like the impulsive draw in modern aggressive red cards.
There are 5 game shops in my town. 4 of them offer Magic regular play, 4 of them offer Pokeman play, and only 1 of them offers Yugioh. So, I would definitely think YGO is more niche than Pokemon.
it depends where you live, when I used to live in LA area. majority of places do yugioh/pokemon and hardly did MtG, MtG is still popular cause I know they do/did host big tournaments in LA area. But I feel because of the demographic in LA, they like more of the anime games more especially among asians, blacks, and hispanics. But when I moved up to Seattle, almost everywhere does MtG and Pokemon, you will be lucky to find anything else. Kinda surprised me at 1st but then again most big tournaments for YGO happens in CA for US. YuGiOh is more popular than magic internationally though.
Cool video man keep it up
12:03
Ah, yes. The bad future where Taiga fails to succeed at life and has to pose for trading cards to get by.
This is the only explanation I'll accept.
I pleated mtg when portal came out. I enjoyed it but it did feel methodical and geared toward executing your meta. I only recently started playing ygo and its pace is comparably frantic. Multiple metas can be played, but sadly i think most players have mtg brain and will give up their match if they dont get the hands that build up their "guaranteed win" conditions. Konami has definitely made the game harder for oldschooler and buff, by default, their most recent players And this is where mtg still shines despite its slow speed.
9:14 Dante chain link 1 target cir, cir chain link 2 target Dante?
Yep. I'm honestly still surprised it works but I tested it out in master duel and it defiantly does.
@@amactcg1089 let’s gooooooo
How does he not have a bigger audience???
I think it's a massive conspiracy with UA-cam purposely keeping me down out of fear of my power. That or it's because my upload schedule is terrible.
@@amactcg1089 keep grinding!
Important note missed in the video: Pokémon is incredibly cheap to play because of the heavy collector interest and therefore is by far the most accessible option of the big three.
Yea for competitive decks Pokémon is defiantly the cheapest. I thought about mentioning prices in this video but decided against it. Pricing for each game varies widely depending on the format and how competitive you want to be. Competitive Pokémon is cheaper than Magic on average but if you play pauper format then it's substantially cheaper. Also if your a casual player you can build/buy a beginners deck in almost every game for under $20.
You payed $1,000 for cardboard meanwhile you work your life away for paper
Truer words never been spoken!
Field spells though @9:35. I know it doesn't do the same thing but it's still close enough to say it similar
video didn't really address or explain which one is right for "you", like giving proper draws or drawbacks for starting one or the other and such
Magic the Gathering, Pokemon or Yugigo? Which one is more fun?
I still be using old school yugioh cards and winnin just not all the time haha
In the infinite wisdom of Nintendo and Pokémon company. I got back into playing tcgo, but had to migrate to tcg live. All my cards older than Sun and Moon got deleted. 😢
I would go with Yugioh cards since my older brother Andrew played them.
Wait, why does this channel have ONLY 470 subscribers!?
471 now ;)
deck out is also an option in pokemon tcg. just saying :D
Such a rare way to win, but it can happen!
When he says cast spells in yugioh and he calls the player a wizard is weirds me out. Yugioh the trading card game is just that a card game in the anime too. They just have technology to animate the cards and shit.
Yea there are probably better ways I could have put that. I just really wanted a good one-sentence introduction to the game's mechanics. That was the best I could come up with, although I'll be the first to admit it's not entirely accurate to the game's lore.
What you think about cross duel, op? I didn't like it myself
Amazing video, very entertaining 8/10
Glad you liked it!!
Pretty sure your either supporting the big 3 for your own selfish reasons, or your just straight up oblivious to games like digimon, wixoss, vanguard, D spirits, domhan rhapsodie, or any other tcg that exists as of this moment, it's not always about the big 3.
No one plays those that's why.
Here's my opinion.
Mtg: playing ✅ collecting ✅
Yu-gi-oh: playing ❌ collecting ✅
Pokemon: playing ❌ collecting ✅
i smell biased&based
Sakura Arms?
Yugioh is a power creep game If you manage to complete your dream deck, most of your useful cards will be added to updated banlist so If you want a balance game go for MTG because yugioh Is like a pay to win game I mean newest deck are always superior.
Isn't rotation a thing? Your deck will literally be unusable compared to yugioh where your deck is still legal to use.
You are totally right, powercreep is exclusive to Yugioh, other TCG totally don't have it lol
Pokemon is defintetly the easiest to pick up and play and I recommend it for noob TCG players. MtG is probably the most fun to play once you get your head wrapped around it due the various formats and the varied deckbuilding. Yuigioh can be fun but boy its not a noob friendly game at all which is a shame.
u can use the more simpler decks in yugioh but of course ur getting ass whooped compared to a modern format
I still say yugioh has my favourite rule set of all TCG I have played however the cards they've decided to fill it with, frustrates the game experience. If an idea for a cared requires a wall of text, it shouldn't be in the game. And some of thr combos are way too crazy and not enjoyable to play.
Fair point. I still prefer M:TG rules, but the concept of YGO is pretty amazing, despite any implementation issues.
the only cards that have long text is pendalum cards and thats why its the least played.interms of synchro or XYZ or fusion their pretty easy to follow
@@thatmemeguy2520 there are a lot of cards that have issues not just due to wall text
@@braydenb1581 i mean yugioh will never be balanced because of the power creep and 20+ years of building cards a good e.g would be true king of all calamitys that got banned not to long ago due to its OP affect
@@thatmemeguy2520 yup. But the rules are awesome imo just the cards break it
Digimon?
Digimon is one of the card games I really wanted to mention but just ran out of time. If I do another video like this I'll definitely discuss Digimon.
Yugioh solos ! Best cardgame ever! Pend best deck lets goo
Your videos are hilarious 😂
Thanks!!
You might have wanted to mention that pokemon is just simply the cheapest game to play. decks rarely run for more than 160$. I recently started playing Pokemon because lets be honest... Yu-Gi-Oh is just toooooo expensive. I do think it is the most unique and complex TCG out there, can be extremely fun in the right formats
That depends on the format you're playing whether decks are cheap or not, this counts for all tcg games. But yes, pokemon usually tend to be cheaper.
cool video
I can't speak for everyone, but I'm gonna do it anyway and say the answer is not Yugioh, lol.
Yugi is best
i used new and old dack
Magic if you want to shut your brain off and take it super easy. Just play lands and pass turn. For like 4 turns.
Digimon is you want to think a little more. You will see faster and somewhat more complex gameplay.
Yugioh if you want to read, memorize long combos, look up guides, etc. So in other words....big brain. Yugioh is honestly more skill based, faster, more complicated, and generally has a higher ceiling than any other tcg.
No way. In yugioh you lose turn 1.
Of the three it is the least skill based.
@@AirIUnderwater It is the most skill based out of the 3. You only lose on turn 1 if you're bad. You have to actually counter your opponent or stop them from building their board. Of which there are plenty of ways to do. The game ends usually in about 4 turns. Turn 1 player tries to build a board. Turn 2 player then tries to break that board. If your losing in 1 turn that'd genuinely be a skill issue.
@@thebelmont1995 You're going to sit there and say that if you lose turn 1 in Yugioh you are bad at the game? Think about that for a moment and make sure you're not imbibing in the Yugioh koolaid too much.
I play all three. Of the three, Yugioh is my favorite. But I'm not going to lie to people and tell them that it's the most fun or the most complex or the most skill based of the three TCGs. Because it's objectively just not true. What is true is that of the three, there are games where you will lose turn 1 because of randomness. In Yugioh, the number of games you will lose turn 1 simply because you didn't draw the out, or because your opponent's cards just have such overwhelming effect that even if you drew all the handtraps you wanted to draw you'd still lose, or where you didn't draw into what you needed and you lose instantly because that was enough time in that one turn for your opponent to take game. It is the least skill based out of the three.
Yugioh is the game where you lose the most not because your opponent outplayed you or knew your gameplan and found the line. Yugioh is the game where you lose simply because the opponent drew 1 out of 15 of their instant win cards even though you drew 3 of your 4 "stop the opponent's effect" cards. I haven't ever seen that happen in MTG or Pokemon. In Yugioh, that happens every other game.
Go to PTCGO, see how many instant win decks are played.
Go to MTGA, see how many instant win decks are played.
Go to Master Duel, and just look in the short history of its life how many degenerate decks are out there that upsets people. Decks that win turn 1, or decks that are so oppressive that you are funneled into playing very few specific cards.
So yeah, of the three, Yugioh is my favorite. I love the art, the concept, the general gameplay that it does have. But I am under no illusion that it is the most thought-provoking or skill-based card game we have available.
@@AirIUnderwater If you lose in 1 turn yes, generally that is on you. There is not a single deck currently that you will auto lose to if you make your extra deck properly and utilize your side board and run a healthy making of board break cards in your main. You don't need to draw the out in most cases, if you run mutiple board break cards you will 9 out of 10 hands have what you need. There is not a single deck in the game that has no out and will auto win against turn 1 unless you don't know what to hand trap, your deck is bad, you have no going 2nd cards to break a board or you don't have any ED cards to play for it. Of which there are dozens of each.
Yugioh is the least luck based out of the 3. You don't have mana, which mean you don't need to rely on luck to draw mana. In mtg you will have to rely to luck most games because you don't draw mana, don't have enough of certain color, or just a plain draw too many. And the decks are 60 cards, not 40. Also you have no extra deck. So you are never guanteed any outs. Also in magic there is no thinking. You play a mana pass your turn then play 1 card end your turn. Rinse repeat for around 6 turns. Very little strategy. Very little thinking involved.
I'm aware of every competing deck in the meta. I usually beat them all just fine if my deck isn't absolute crap. Which it usually isn't. In yugioh I always set up my extra deck so that I have in my ED guaranteed 3 to 5 outs to any major deck and my side board is for when I known I'm going 2nd so out of the 40 cards in my main deck I know I'm having at least 20 cards that I can rely on to break a board. 15 in my side deck, 3 to 5 in my extra. I'm litterly guanteed to "draw the out" if I'm playing at bare minimum 20 cards total 3 to 5 which I'm guanteed no matter what. And as for master duel, it's best of 1 format. If it was best of 3 and allowed a side board NONE of the degenerate stardegies would be that powerful. A lot of cards were made for best of 3 format. Entire decks were also designed around that in mind too. But even in MD I usually don't have any issues. I countered every deck that was "broken". The DD dynamite deck I just ran a 10 card ED. The new mill deck I just play 60 cards instead of 40 in my main. Combo decks that have 5 negates or more I just run dweller in my ED or bagoohooska, and at least 3 max c, 3 droplets, 3 ra sphere mode, and maybe some gozens.
In yugioh you have to memorize long combos, learn entire 10 to 15 cards setups, learn how to dodge hand traps, learn to play around your opponent with your extra deck cards, use your side board more, and actually think beyond play 1 red mana pass your turn. It's objectively the most complex and skill based out of the 3. It is mathematically the least luck based. Every decent card in the game netw you advantage. Searching, drawing, etc you don't need 4 mana and have to wait 4 turns just to search a card with a "tutor" or wait 3 turns just to draw 2 in a 60 card mimum format and of EDH a 99 crad format where you can only run 1 copy of every card in your whole deck! You're just factually wrong here.
Again yes, skill issue. I've played the game for over 15 years. I've almost never had problems exept for very early yugioh which was much more luck based. Cards like ra sphere mode, droplets, lightning storms, nibiru, etc are so good they can break entire boards on their own. And cards like summon limit, there can be only 1, Gozen match, etc etc. There are honestly so many ways and so many cards to beat most meta strategies it is usually on you if you dont run any of them. Most people don't play handtraps anymore either.
@@thebelmont1995 dont get me wrong, I love ygo too and play it more than MtG. It doesnt change the fact that in ygo going 2nd sucks since most decks were designed to go 1st especially if you are a very control based deck outside of sky strikers that are really made to deal with breaking boards. The only way a lot of control decks have a shot to relevance in the current format is if they can run d shifter or main a lot of bystials. In YGO we have shit like tear-ishzu which practically have answers about anything you throw at it, they dont play an oppressive negate board, the only "negate" they play is dweller and their walking solemn warning or some builds with Branne de fleur. They can literally go full combo even on your turn because of havnis. The only true way to beat tear is practically your deck can main deck d shifter, macro, soul drain or d fissure. And wait until kashtira comes out, they literally have a walking macro that banishes cards face down and locking your zones. To the point Konomi has do murder both decks in OCG. The only deck that had a fighting chance against either of them was Labyrinth because they can main gozen, rivalry, skill drain and doesnt care too much about the graveyard. And it is even impressive for a trap deck, which is generally a slower deck, to have a fighting chance against those 2 decks. Now the current most cancerous deck is Runick (the banish mill deck). Which is practically floodgate.deck without mystic mine. YGO has a tier 0 format every few years and this one is more powerful than the pure zodiac in their prime. I am not a yugiboomer but I have been playing since the 5Ds era on and off. I am generally not a fan of tier 0 formats but this current one isnt as cancerous as pepe or zoo. TCG is still fucked right now since Konomi wants to sell hypernova which has more support for kashtira and tear.
You play Yugioh, lemme see your playmat and I will be able to tell if you play the last card game ;)
Yo next gen games! Thats my locals lol
That's awesome. Honestly I just grabbed footage of a random store from a wizards promotional video. It looks like a really cool store!!
im recovering from knee surgery, please dont do that intro again
he forgot to say yugiohs og card pot of greed still hasnt been surpassed in 20 years ? XD :P
lol, paying that much money to buy cardboard, this is true, not very different from buying digital thing
yugioh is for me
I like how you go over every game and then you get to yugioh and it's like... ah yes... yugioh... it's dumb
You arent a Wizard in ygo, you are literally playing the cards
I say yugioh can use any card of it history
In my country we only play yugioh 🥴
Try hearthstone
Hearthstone is defiantly a game I need to play more. I tried it years ago but I have yet to dive too deep into it. If I ever do another video on digital card games then I'll definitely include it!
I actually play legend of runeterra.
The more hair you loose the more cardboard you must collect 😢
HOW ABOUT HEARTHSTONE MAN. The gameplay is simple for everyone to understand at one glance compare to other card game
Hearthstone is good but you can't beat the feeling of sitting down with 4 of your friends and jamming a game of commander with Magic in real life.
@@Toey- who got time for that man.
@@joelheer1685 I do cause it's my only hobby besides from pc gaming and I'm on uni holidays :)
And its also how I get to hang out with my friends
@@Toey- are maybe for your country
as of 30/11/2023 , pokemon tcg and live shutdown already , sooo ya
I hope your knees are fine...
and pokemon
It's Flesh and Blood
I still have to try flesh and blood but it looks like a really cool game. If I make a sequel to this video I'll definitely include it as one of the featured games.
4:50 jojo reference
Magic or Pokémon or some other niche TCG just not Yu-Gi-Oh never play Yu-Gi-Oh
Comparing Yu-Gi-Oh to MTG or Pokemon is like comparing chess to Call of Duty Modern Warfare
sorcery, one piece
Sad MTGO noises
Nobody really play Pokemon because let's be honest, it's a bad card game. But most seem to collect it which is amazing because the art on the cards are SO good
wrong. It's the most popular tcg right now
@@Skadi257 you're stupid and lying. Magic is ten times as popular. It's been #1 since... FOREVER.
@@Skadi257 Magic has been the king, always. Still is. Magic is exploding now in a way no other game has. Pokemon is largely COLLECTING as few play it. it's a TERRIBLE game. but a great collectable
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Yugioh best
Could’ve talked about flesh and blood/digimon. But you had to be a normie
No one actually plays those.
@@thecrimsonfuckeralucardlor5087 maybe if you ask the fat 40 year old neck beards playing commander at locals that’s what they would tell you. Like I said. Normies will be normies :) way to make yourself look ignorant tho.