@@GeorgeWKush-nh8xz honestly that’s pretty true. I guess the decks that can summon it just have better options. Most decks would rather make a generic 8/9/10 XYZ because they are more useful for less investment.
Actually you can't skip on Giga-Mantis. You need one of each because both Mantis and Weevil are hard once per turns, and most Inzektor combo lines need both reborns to refresh your dragonfly without dedicating even more of your extra deck to wombo bombo. The edge cases of the attack boost mattering is indeed quite irrelevant, but that's not the reason people play it.
Thats the reason my friend plays it...his inzektors are stally as fuck...and occasionally he'll amass a huge dude with hopper after horneting all he can then he will get in direct...actually kinda devastating
@@Raminator243 2 years late but maybe they mean how long the turns take once they get comboing. Even before the latest support they could take 10+ minutes per combo turn with a practiced pilot. Like, if you tried across 2 turns with an opponent that refuses to scoop and dedicated effort, you could probably time out a round with Inzektor.
Well, that's not exactly possible. The fact is that it's supply and demand. If the supply never goes up then the seller has no reason to bring their prices down. Remember, some of these are in a way Collectors items, hence the pricing to begin with. Since the demand has gone down, you might see the price go down, but it's unlikely since these people are trying to make a return on their investments.
Yeah no it's not happening, not like this. The only way for a price to drop on a card like Egyptian God Slime is to get a reprint. It's value isn't based on it being competitively viable. For example, The Dark Magicians is going to drop around July as it is getting a reprint in Legendary Duelists Season 3. Aluber is now dropping cause of Ghosts from the Past. But Egyptian God Slime? No reprint on the horizon and no hope for all these Yami Marik roleplayers.
You do in fact make Photon Lord in Galaxy because it's literally your best archetypal turn 1 play. Yes, that is more a damnation of the deck than it is praise for the card. No, I'm not sorry. I too put down hundreds of dollars to play this deck back in 2018 and even back then it was just okay, now it's stone cold bad. I feel like I have authority to say this: GALAXY IS BAD.
Evil Twins feel like a very beginner friendly deck that I enjoy. I'd recommend them to people starting out since it has combo play but isn't super intensive that it'd put someone new off. Then you check prices and find out, both Evil Twins range from 10 to 50 bucks a copy. You have to play at least 2 of both of them for the deck to function. A deck that folds to Ash. The rest of the deck is pretty affordable, it's literally just the 2 cards the deck runs that cost more than it should. Funnily enough, the fun of brick is 3 dollars. A literal brick is cheaper.
Twins seem easy but they are deceptively difficult to play. Not as difficult as something like d/d/d or plunder, but playing a single card in the wrong order will 100% lose you a game. The pure variant is really expensive because you need to fill half the deck with pricey staples, and then you still need stuff like zeus, underworld goddess ect in the extra.
@@Konzeptionz you def dont need goddess, its super niche, also zeus altough is super good, its not the end of the world not playing it, the deck can even not play acesscode, because most of times u cant even make him and still otk, and also not being locked into fiends. The only real expensive card that the deck needs to play to try to remotely win something is droplets.
the deck doesn't actually fold to ash thanks to the amount of natural extenders and staples it can play, but no one would blame you for thinking that. imo, twins feel like sky strikers in the sense that it's a control deck that focuses on constantly recurring a few link monsters, but instead of grinding your opponent down over several turns, it can close out games a lot quicker thanks to Trouble Sunny. Although it has some combos and can close out games, it's still a control strategy at its core, which makes it deceptively difficult to pilot properly, since you don't want to waste all of your resources stopping your opponent at non-pivotal chokepoints.
Actually, Photon Lord is the primary boss monster in Photon Galaxy. It's extremely good in that deck specifically, because it's negation becomes considerably stronger while it has a Photon as material. It's a card that is excellent in-archetype, but only ok outside of it.
Before Naturia Cherries got reprinted recently it was like a 20-30 dollar super rare. Heart-Earth Dragon is like 50$ and for some reason they only reprinted the Chaos version.
@@Gigacorn Even weirder, Germany specifically had a 2014 Advent Calendar reprint of it. It's, in fact, THE strangest occurence ever, but it IS the cheapest Number 92 print, and around 8 bucks for near mint copies
Cherries was released in Starstrike Blast, a set that only ever had one English printing so any card from the set that sees any play goes through the roof (ie Vanity's Emptiness).
The Madolche one is funny because their price is usually inverse to their playability. When they were much cheaper in 2019 was peak Madolche rogue hours. Also, Star Eater is a Nekroz Kaleidoscope target. Doesn't really justify the price, but that's what it's used for.
We're not gonna talk about Necroworld Banshee? A literal structure deck card that, as much as I love zombies, exists only to fetch the field spell and is currently $30 a copy
As a dragonmaid fan it has been a frustrating journey budget-wise lol at least kitchen was fairly optional back then but chamber is a 3 of that sadly was taken by dragonlink ,same with nurse and parlor and the reborn spell which were pricey too before reprints
Also I love how us Red-Eyes fans get bullied for Konami treating the archetype so poorly because God forbid we get a decent agro burn or control burn deck. Though Red-Eyes honestly works better as a back row control burn deck. Just give good disruption spells and traps and more main deck play starts and we'll have a functioning deck for casual play. Maybe some rogue tops here and there.
Try liking Ghostricks. Everyone dunks on us for no reason, and I'm pretty sure MBT has a restraining order against me (someone he's never met) because he made jokes about an archetype that I stopped playing around the time the lockdowns started.
You're looking at these things in only a meta sense. For cards like Red Eye, Dark Magician, and Evil Heroes the value comes in the name and collectablity. Nostalgia is driving their value not their playability.
I get that the nostalgia tax is a thing, especially as a casual fan who focuses more on collecting than competitive dueling, but then there's versions of Blue Eyes White Dragon that range between several hundred dollars to a few grand, and I'm just like "people are insane."
Fun fact; the Yu-Gi-Oh 5d's Wheelie Breakers promos have never been reprinted and they don't even work with anything or function on their own (ig shiranui can tech the tiny one but still, almost 10 bucks for literally useless shit?)
It is now 2030. Dire has forgotten what the sun feels like. Grass smells have faded into distant memory. All that remains is the constant glare of computer screens as video render and pixels are edited, and the same four walls of the basement.
I think what kicks a lot of these cards pretty high is not their meta viability, but how key they are in the deck. No one in meta will pay that much for toon kingdom...but there will always be a toon lover that will have to bite the bullet for it. Or so the seller thinks.
I wanted to play Dragonmaid when it came out, then saw the prices. On master duel, finally did and loved it. Wanted to buy the cards because there's no way they are that expensive anymore... Then I saw the prices.
Only Chamber is really that bad. Did you only look at the MYFI copies of the others? Because that would be like looking at the INCH copies of Witchcrafter and thinking it's expensive to play.
@@KristopherCharles Im from Mexico, and well... Its expensive, would need to spent a almost a whole month worth of salary to buy the deck. Better build tri brigade or despia xD
As I have been trying to build a HERO deck for over a year: Liquid Soldier does not need to be 75 dollars. It's 2 of the last 3 cards I need, the last is DPE, but it is not worth 75 dollars per copy.
As a casual player this video speaks to me. I love having tons of differents decks, ranging from pretty good to absolutely horrible, and playing them against similar level decks, and seeing random non-meta cards extremely expensive cause they never got reprinted sucks... Like i wish Konami would just print common full reprint sets with like 3-4 chase meta cards so idiots would spend a butt ton of money on them and sell the commons dirt cheap to us who need them.
I remember when infernoids first released. For some reason Harmadik was 30 a piece for some reason. Don't get me wrong, it's a cheap monster to summon with the ability to pop one monster on the board. But you gotta remember at the time destroying cards with card effects weren't a good idea since the Duelist Alliance archetypes were still meta and they loved being destroyed and going to the graveyard. Plus Infernoids weren't in the best of shape since Monster Gate was banned and Reasoning was at 1 and That Grass wasn't a card yet along with their best support cards in the archetype weren't a thing yet. TL;DR: Why the heck was every Infernoid card cheap, but Harmadik was 30 to 35 USD a piece at a time when destroying your opponent's cards with card effects were a terrible idea?
For what its worth, Millennium-Eyes Restrict is excellent in Albaz (along with Winda). Both of those cards are easy fusion targets for Lubellion after using Branded Fusion, and Millennium-Eyes is a good substitute for Dragoon in the deck (since A: Dragoon is stupidly expensive, and B: i would not be shocked it Dragoon and Verte get banned because of Branded Fusion). It also stops DPE floats since you can target DPE in response to its effect and attach it to Millennium-Eyes in order to not only negate its effects, but inherit its stats. And this can be done repeatedly to your opponent's monsters and continue to stack so long as you have open back row, and for each monster attached to Millennium-Eyes, it negates other cards of the same name from successfully activating their effects. This is really troll against Eldlich or Sky Strikers, lol.
It is so nice watching this vid and seeing how many of these cards have tanked in price. Really goes to show how aggressively komani's reprinting policy is
2:35 you are not responsible for this, it was ridicolous even in peak xyz I remember trying to build blackwing for fun and it cost more than any card in the deck
Funny thing for me with that Madolche part, still one of my fav decks. I originally bought 3 copies of everything before petingcessoeur came out and spent only like 100 bucks in total back then in Master rule 4, then randomly it suddenly became worth 500 bucks.
Stopping this at 1:30... will edit after If I don't see Ancient Gear Fusion on this list, I'm gonna be disappointed. Spoilers for the video ahead I'm not disappointed! Oh wait, my deck main just got roasted, okie now I'm sad...
Giga weevil is actually better than mantis because it can bring itself back while mantis can't. Need both for the deck though since their revives are each once per turn
Shout out to Warrior of Tradition. A bad vanilla fusion only printed in a single tourney pack that only has a niche use in goat format. $100+ a copy if you're lucky. Last playset of fusions I need for the full goat fusion deck :')
As someone who wants to go from playing lab in masterduel to paper, its really awesome that most of the deck is pretty cheap, EXCEPT for arguably the best card in it, Big Welcome Labrynth, which has been printed *basically* only once and thus sits between 40-60 bucks a copy. super cool and awesome
"There is not a SINGLE good ancient gear fusion monster" Shh Shh its okay chaos ancient gear giant he didnt mean it your 4500 piecing is still good in my heart
Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous. A card meant to support and link the Branded and the swordsoul archetype by summoning fallen of Albaz or any swordsoul monster. It as never ran in either Branded/Despia and it isn't even ran in Swordsoul just because the decks never see a point in it or is messes with monster summon restrictions. Yet it still costs around £30.
As somebody who like dragonmaids, madolche, and generaider I feel somewhat called out. Also all the red-eyes players pre-order because they believe in those cards' P O T E N S H U L
I had someone drop one on me at a case tournament like right after it was released. There had only been like 3 YCSs, and this dude just casually throwing a $2000 card down against some random lightsworn player.
People want the secret rare printing of Snow I guess. Any deck needs 3 of them since it's basically a stratos that gets around Ash and can easily get around veiler/imperm in archtype. Expect some spikes with their new support in May, followed by a dip again when their field spell doesn't shoot then immediately to tier 1 playability
@@stardust9470I'd argue (or cope) they were still good up until a little while ago, and I haven't played their gate on MD yet. Having 3x monsters be Neo Spacian Grand Moles was good at "outing" a lot of boss monsters, and the fact that they banish as cost gets around a lot of effect negation because you usually still get the "body" back next turn, or eat *another* negate. They also have insane search/summon from decks to get any utility creatures they need. It's just very mentally taxing to play well. Their new support is another link 3 that you can kinda ignore in favor of a field spell that: places a canvas from your deck face-up in the S/T zone on activation (gets around Ash) Let's you activate to normal summon a The Weather monster, and Once Per Turn let's you link summon using your canvases as materials. With Cloud Painter on the field when you do this, you can return up to 2 canvases back to the field, so you can easily t1 link summon Rainbow with canvas support and 2 omni negates if you open well.
@@stardust9470 before the field spell, you only really made Rainbow in games you basically already won through controlling as much as you could, because by the time you sink 3 monsters, 1 probably being Sun which will come back in defense, and have enough monsters to back up through enough negates (even in the late-late game) Rainbow was basically just the death nail in the coffin of the game. Omni negates you can't worm around like a start-of-damage bounce-to-hand that requires a creature and specific s/t **in a specific position on the board**
@@stardust9470 also: Skill Drain going to 3 is a The Weather buff because the banish as cost and don't get negated by it, and Thunder Painter can swap it out for a canvas without getting negated either when it's no longer needed
I'll never understand skill drain being so expensive or used. Like don't get me wrong it's a powerful card, but most decks I play which are usually rogue decks use this card even though the decks need their own monster effects.
Also, Icejade Tremora. I mean, there probably is a reason for it, including the fact that it could special summon Water Enchantress from your hand, but outside of that niche interaction, it never saw actual competitive play. Icejades, as much as it pains me since it's one of my decks, is not good enough yet, outside of being a gimmicky stun deck.
You somehow managed to get every single detail in that comment wrong. Soldier of chaos doesn't come in ultimate. It has a secret and a ghost. The secret is about $88 And the ghost is $170
@@Skua777 right. I forgot about that. I remember when it was announced I was arguing with this idiot about how the ultimate would likely become the cheapest version. And it looks like I was right.
@@iamatrain4397 I'm guessing it'll spike a bit, but the deck won't light the world on fire so then the price will drop after that. I'm just hoping that the field spell is all it's been cracked up to be
I know this video is 2 years old, but why is the original print of Trouble Sunny worth 80 dollars when it has two reprints that are worth like 20 cents?
Air Neos for the konami hate only got printed once in north america and the last Japanese print was in 07. Imagine dropping over 200 on an anime card that was summoned twice
I remember buying a bunch of madolche cards before the price went up (except for anjelly cuz that was just too much). A while ago I needed money for something and was shocked to see the price... it went up so much that just selling all the queens and hootcakes actually gave me more money than the amount I spent on the whole bunch.
Ascator has actually felt kinda bad in synchron since stardust at least on MD, I have had no problem making the full line without it, and there isn't space in parts of the combo if you have an extra monster around, and towards the end of the combo, I usually don't have 2 zones left to resolve it.
I don't understand the price gouging that goes on with some cards. Like EGS is $50 if you're build is in any way optimal (lol optimal gods) you don't often play this card, maybe one copy, but even then the most important card in the Ra support, Ancient Chant, is €20+ and no one buys it. Like it's a mandatory 3 of in any deck that plays Ra and the copies that were 20+ on cardmarket the day this set came out are still there today. There's no reason this card should be a cent over€5
Well idk how good black winged dragon is, but I found out my ghost rare goes for as much as 120$ so that's pretty neat to find out. Gold thing I didn't use it ever
I mean, yugioh kind of has an unofficial reserve list. All the anniversary pack stuff will never be reprinted. The bandai dark magician that just came out will never be reprinted. The jump blue eyes on Kaiba corp tower will never be reprinted.
The funniest thing about Gold and Bane was they were so expensive for so long, never saw any meaningful tops, and now in modern more competent lists for heroes, they are not even being played.
I remember once as a kid when I had no idea about card value, a guy wanted to trade for an upstart I had. I traded for a skill drain. I think I got the better deal
As one of the only other Fluffals players, I can say I only play it at 1 for Cruel Whale when going for lethal due to it being the frightfur with the highest atk
@@bigdumber7242 Yeah, there is really only ONE reason to summon Daredevil, and that is because you want to summon a Level 8 but Kraken was too expensive
9:05 White house basement, I'm on a rescue mission 😎 Egyptian God Slime is pricey because every human on Earth wants a divine simulacrum, it's just their nature.
This is why I plan to make a jurrac deck as basically all jurrac cards are under a dollar each, though some synchros I plan to get are price that are outside the archetype xD
Star Eater is still very playable expecially in synchro decks like Yang Zings; Also the only reason why you would hate so much on Toons, is because you probably lost to them. Its a fun deck! Its one of those decks you can play where you dont give a shit about a META, your playing to have a good time. And its nostalgic, dont hate.
,,Completly worthless" Starts of showing one of the strongest floodgates in Yugioh and explains it by pointing to a specific counter engine. I love you MBT but this is nonsense.
I'm so glad the Dark Magician stuff is getting reprinted in LDS 3. Also The Dark Magicians wasn't even the worst part of that, a playset of Magician's Souls runs about $120 total. Also overlooked is Dragoon, which was at the time of recording still not really worth the asking price since there were just better Verte targets.
I got one for you. $13+for Happy Lover. It’s a vanilla, has one printing, Common rarity, -I got it for my Spirit Charmer collection hoping Ko-money would release more support for Light/Dark Charmers.
A bunch of the LED5 and LED6 cards had ridiculous prices for a long time, and I can only assume a big part of that was being released during the height of lockdowns in 2020 and thus being artificially scarce.
I’ve never paid for a mardel single. Too damn expensive for no reason. The only way it was able to receive both copies was due to getting one in a booster pack and I got one b/c PayPal randomly gave me $50 so mardel was on PayPal lol
ok now im probably abit of a weirdo but in my frightfur list i keep 1 devil and 1 sheep, i call them "weird sollutions to weird problems" and they have one me games. my favorite memory is a dogmat player clearing my board and milling almost all my ED, passing and then i traded with devil to do the 1000 damage plus 5500 more which was lethal at the point of back and fourth we'd had
Shoutout to the BLS link monster that’s been expensive for ages but only gets summoned like once every 30 duels.
At this point Konami will make its next reprint an alternate art Ghost Rare just to piss everyone off
@@torokami1109 Owning a Solider of Chaos in Ghost Rare gives new meaning to the term “Flex Spot”
Every 30? I think you mean every 300. I've only personally seen him summoned once, and that was 3 years ago
@@GeorgeWKush-nh8xz honestly that’s pretty true. I guess the decks that can summon it just have better options. Most decks would rather make a generic 8/9/10 XYZ because they are more useful for less investment.
30 is a bit too generous. I haven't seen it at my various locals at all in literally over a year.
I did. I bought three of them. For a brief moment, i had a half playable Ra deck.
I know that feeling, I used to play the original Noble Knights irl.
@@erisesoteric7571 Nice pfp
I bought 2 EGS for wicked gods, and 3 toon kingdoms for toons...
Sure love that Air Neos is still stupidly expensive and seemingly impossible to reprint based on the art of Instant Contact.
Not to mention that Air Neos OTK memes also aren't as exciting with everyone and their mother playing Verte and already shaving 2000 LP off the top
Actually you can't skip on Giga-Mantis. You need one of each because both Mantis and Weevil are hard once per turns, and most Inzektor combo lines need both reborns to refresh your dragonfly without dedicating even more of your extra deck to wombo bombo. The edge cases of the attack boost mattering is indeed quite irrelevant, but that's not the reason people play it.
Thats the reason my friend plays it...his inzektors are stally as fuck...and occasionally he'll amass a huge dude with hopper after horneting all he can then he will get in direct...actually kinda devastating
@@metalmario1231 stally? That’s the last thing most people would use to describe inzektor
inzektor can still swarm with either or, so that's good news for budget players
@@Raminator243 2 years late but maybe they mean how long the turns take once they get comboing. Even before the latest support they could take 10+ minutes per combo turn with a practiced pilot.
Like, if you tried across 2 turns with an opponent that refuses to scoop and dedicated effort, you could probably time out a round with Inzektor.
Can all of yugitube do this for every single expensive card so we can bring the market to reality and make cardboard cheap again
Well, that's not exactly possible. The fact is that it's supply and demand. If the supply never goes up then the seller has no reason to bring their prices down. Remember, some of these are in a way Collectors items, hence the pricing to begin with. Since the demand has gone down, you might see the price go down, but it's unlikely since these people are trying to make a return on their investments.
They won’t do anything. Supply and demand
Yeah no it's not happening, not like this. The only way for a price to drop on a card like Egyptian God Slime is to get a reprint. It's value isn't based on it being competitively viable. For example, The Dark Magicians is going to drop around July as it is getting a reprint in Legendary Duelists Season 3. Aluber is now dropping cause of Ghosts from the Past. But Egyptian God Slime? No reprint on the horizon and no hope for all these Yami Marik roleplayers.
Capitalist pig hoarder: no, screw u
note that there hs been a blue eyes card for $125k
You do in fact make Photon Lord in Galaxy because it's literally your best archetypal turn 1 play. Yes, that is more a damnation of the deck than it is praise for the card. No, I'm not sorry. I too put down hundreds of dollars to play this deck back in 2018 and even back then it was just okay, now it's stone cold bad. I feel like I have authority to say this: GALAXY IS BAD.
those are all very good points, but have you considered "number go big"? because big number feel good
My friend has a point, big number do feel good. It’s at least fun
@@MegaBichiX 62 is bigger than 90
big space dragon go big number sometimes
Counterpoint: it’s a very fun deck
Evil Twins feel like a very beginner friendly deck that I enjoy. I'd recommend them to people starting out since it has combo play but isn't super intensive that it'd put someone new off. Then you check prices and find out, both Evil Twins range from 10 to 50 bucks a copy. You have to play at least 2 of both of them for the deck to function. A deck that folds to Ash. The rest of the deck is pretty affordable, it's literally just the 2 cards the deck runs that cost more than it should. Funnily enough, the fun of brick is 3 dollars. A literal brick is cheaper.
Twins seem easy but they are deceptively difficult to play. Not as difficult as something like d/d/d or plunder, but playing a single card in the wrong order will 100% lose you a game. The pure variant is really expensive because you need to fill half the deck with pricey staples, and then you still need stuff like zeus, underworld goddess ect in the extra.
@@Konzeptionz you def dont need goddess, its super niche, also zeus altough is super good, its not the end of the world not playing it, the deck can even not play acesscode, because most of times u cant even make him and still otk, and also not being locked into fiends. The only real expensive card that the deck needs to play to try to remotely win something is droplets.
the deck doesn't actually fold to ash thanks to the amount of natural extenders and staples it can play, but no one would blame you for thinking that.
imo, twins feel like sky strikers in the sense that it's a control deck that focuses on constantly recurring a few link monsters, but instead of grinding your opponent down over several turns, it can close out games a lot quicker thanks to Trouble Sunny. Although it has some combos and can close out games, it's still a control strategy at its core, which makes it deceptively difficult to pilot properly, since you don't want to waste all of your resources stopping your opponent at non-pivotal chokepoints.
@@ketsura3618 zeus line with downerd magician right?
@Shito Is it because of the Waifu tax? I think the core cost me $120. Also, the deck is tricky to play.
I really like these type of videos, and I remember ancient gear fusion being reprinted was the best moment of my life
It still sits at around £8-10 a copy on average. Glad you only need 1 of it in AGs now
Actually, Photon Lord is the primary boss monster in Photon Galaxy. It's extremely good in that deck specifically, because it's negation becomes considerably stronger while it has a Photon as material. It's a card that is excellent in-archetype, but only ok outside of it.
Before Naturia Cherries got reprinted recently it was like a 20-30 dollar super rare. Heart-Earth Dragon is like 50$ and for some reason they only reprinted the Chaos version.
I posted Heart-eartH Dragon in the replies to this thread and he didn't see it :(
How many times have they reprinted chaos heartearth. 3-4 times
@@Gigacorn Even weirder, Germany specifically had a 2014 Advent Calendar reprint of it. It's, in fact, THE strangest occurence ever, but it IS the cheapest Number 92 print, and around 8 bucks for near mint copies
Cherries was released in Starstrike Blast, a set that only ever had one English printing so any card from the set that sees any play goes through the roof (ie Vanity's Emptiness).
MBT reading $22.99 as $22 instead of $23.
Joseph Rothschild, your family painted this tunnel and you still crash into it.
That is an incredible line TBH, gonna steal that sometime.
The Madolche one is funny because their price is usually inverse to their playability. When they were much cheaper in 2019 was peak Madolche rogue hours.
Also, Star Eater is a Nekroz Kaleidoscope target. Doesn't really justify the price, but that's what it's used for.
I played Star Eater as a second Towers out in Shaddolls in 2014 (in case my Diamond Crab King failed to secure the win).
We're not gonna talk about Necroworld Banshee? A literal structure deck card that, as much as I love zombies, exists only to fetch the field spell and is currently $30 a copy
As a dragonmaid fan it has been a frustrating journey budget-wise lol at least kitchen was fairly optional back then but chamber is a 3 of that sadly was taken by dragonlink ,same with nurse and parlor and the reborn spell which were pricey too before reprints
Also I love how us Red-Eyes fans get bullied for Konami treating the archetype so poorly because God forbid we get a decent agro burn or control burn deck. Though Red-Eyes honestly works better as a back row control burn deck. Just give good disruption spells and traps and more main deck play starts and we'll have a functioning deck for casual play. Maybe some rogue tops here and there.
Try liking Ghostricks. Everyone dunks on us for no reason, and I'm pretty sure MBT has a restraining order against me (someone he's never met) because he made jokes about an archetype that I stopped playing around the time the lockdowns started.
You're looking at these things in only a meta sense. For cards like Red Eye, Dark Magician, and Evil Heroes the value comes in the name and collectablity. Nostalgia is driving their value not their playability.
yeah, that's the point. people are paying for expensive shiny cardboard.
thanks for explaining the joke dad
@@ich3730 you gotta have a joke before it can be explained.
@Gundam sandrock well that and constantly treating casual players like they have no intelligence
I get that the nostalgia tax is a thing, especially as a casual fan who focuses more on collecting than competitive dueling, but then there's versions of Blue Eyes White Dragon that range between several hundred dollars to a few grand, and I'm just like "people are insane."
Some of the anime related stuff is expensive because of collectors. Most who didn't want them likely already sold them by now.
Fun fact; the Yu-Gi-Oh 5d's Wheelie Breakers promos have never been reprinted and they don't even work with anything or function on their own (ig shiranui can tech the tiny one but still, almost 10 bucks for literally useless shit?)
Only $10? That'd be nice, they're far more now.
It is now 2030. Dire has forgotten what the sun feels like. Grass smells have faded into distant memory. All that remains is the constant glare of computer screens as video render and pixels are edited, and the same four walls of the basement.
I love how Dire put the address to the White House in that ending skit.
I think what kicks a lot of these cards pretty high is not their meta viability, but how key they are in the deck. No one in meta will pay that much for toon kingdom...but there will always be a toon lover that will have to bite the bullet for it. Or so the seller thinks.
Gusto Pilica is like $10 for a card you run at one with the E-Tele package and only in like Speedroids.
I wanted to play Dragonmaid when it came out, then saw the prices.
On master duel, finally did and loved it.
Wanted to buy the cards because there's no way they are that expensive anymore...
Then I saw the prices.
Only Chamber is really that bad.
Did you only look at the MYFI copies of the others? Because that would be like looking at the INCH copies of Witchcrafter and thinking it's expensive to play.
@@KristopherCharles Im from Mexico, and well... Its expensive, would need to spent a almost a whole month worth of salary to buy the deck.
Better build tri brigade or despia xD
As I have been trying to build a HERO deck for over a year: Liquid Soldier does not need to be 75 dollars. It's 2 of the last 3 cards I need, the last is DPE, but it is not worth 75 dollars per copy.
As a casual player this video speaks to me. I love having tons of differents decks, ranging from pretty good to absolutely horrible, and playing them against similar level decks, and seeing random non-meta cards extremely expensive cause they never got reprinted sucks...
Like i wish Konami would just print common full reprint sets with like 3-4 chase meta cards so idiots would spend a butt ton of money on them and sell the commons dirt cheap to us who need them.
Chaos Emperor, Dragon of Armageddon. It's still $50 and it only sees occasional use as a Thunder Dragon extender.
It's not exactly best either. I only used it for nostalgia reasons every so often. If you play a lot of rank 8s it has a little more value.
Today I learnt that Red Dragon Archfiend is a hilariously expensive deck to play irl
I'm commenting from the future to tell you it's now one of the most budget friendly decks out there lol
"I don't get why this card is so expensive!?"
The anime.
I’d love to see one where you talk about cards that single-handedly make an archetype good
I remember when infernoids first released. For some reason Harmadik was 30 a piece for some reason. Don't get me wrong, it's a cheap monster to summon with the ability to pop one monster on the board. But you gotta remember at the time destroying cards with card effects weren't a good idea since the Duelist Alliance archetypes were still meta and they loved being destroyed and going to the graveyard. Plus Infernoids weren't in the best of shape since Monster Gate was banned and Reasoning was at 1 and That Grass wasn't a card yet along with their best support cards in the archetype weren't a thing yet.
TL;DR: Why the heck was every Infernoid card cheap, but Harmadik was 30 to 35 USD a piece at a time when destroying your opponent's cards with card effects were a terrible idea?
Decatron was 10 euros for YEARS
For what its worth, Millennium-Eyes Restrict is excellent in Albaz (along with Winda). Both of those cards are easy fusion targets for Lubellion after using Branded Fusion, and Millennium-Eyes is a good substitute for Dragoon in the deck (since A: Dragoon is stupidly expensive, and B: i would not be shocked it Dragoon and Verte get banned because of Branded Fusion).
It also stops DPE floats since you can target DPE in response to its effect and attach it to Millennium-Eyes in order to not only negate its effects, but inherit its stats. And this can be done repeatedly to your opponent's monsters and continue to stack so long as you have open back row, and for each monster attached to Millennium-Eyes, it negates other cards of the same name from successfully activating their effects. This is really troll against Eldlich or Sky Strikers, lol.
Okay, counterargument: Just make Mirrorjade
I’m pretty sure Star Eater was playable during Dragon Ruler format, decks were making it left and right.
Wasn't star eater made with debris and any of the dragon rulers?
@@scizor285 you could also use labradorite dragon and eset, if you were running hieratic rulers
It is so nice watching this vid and seeing how many of these cards have tanked in price. Really goes to show how aggressively komani's reprinting policy is
2:35 you are not responsible for this, it was ridicolous even in peak xyz I remember trying to build blackwing for fun and it cost more than any card in the deck
Funny thing for me with that Madolche part, still one of my fav decks. I originally bought 3 copies of everything before petingcessoeur came out and spent only like 100 bucks in total back then in Master rule 4, then randomly it suddenly became worth 500 bucks.
Heart earth dragon is 40 pounds for no reason except it was printed once at high rarity
Stopping this at 1:30... will edit after
If I don't see Ancient Gear Fusion on this list, I'm gonna be disappointed.
Spoilers for the video ahead
I'm not disappointed! Oh wait, my deck main just got roasted, okie now I'm sad...
Giga weevil is actually better than mantis because it can bring itself back while mantis can't. Need both for the deck though since their revives are each once per turn
No card, regardless of how meta it is, should cost more than £1...I like yugioh, but its just fucking cardboard.
Shout out to Warrior of Tradition. A bad vanilla fusion only printed in a single tourney pack that only has a niche use in goat format. $100+ a copy if you're lucky. Last playset of fusions I need for the full goat fusion deck :')
You should do this more often and call it "market nots". This would totally bring the market down if it was done as much as market watch.
As someone who wants to go from playing lab in masterduel to paper, its really awesome that most of the deck is pretty cheap, EXCEPT for arguably the best card in it, Big Welcome Labrynth, which has been printed *basically* only once and thus sits between 40-60 bucks a copy. super cool and awesome
"There is not a SINGLE good ancient gear fusion monster"
Shh Shh its okay chaos ancient gear giant he didnt mean it your 4500 piecing is still good in my heart
@Gundam sandrock Too bad it needs FOUR materials, and Ancient Gear sucks ass at setting that up on its own
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 overload fusion
The retain Silent Magician has been like $40 for years
Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous. A card meant to support and link the Branded and the swordsoul archetype by summoning fallen of Albaz or any swordsoul monster. It as never ran in either Branded/Despia and it isn't even ran in Swordsoul just because the decks never see a point in it or is messes with monster summon restrictions. Yet it still costs around £30.
I'm still waiting for the reprint of Heart-eartH Dragon, a 50 dollars secret rare that will never see play...
This, and weirdest thing is it's number c got so much reprint compare to the og
Heart earth dragon doesn't come in secret.
It has an ultra, an ultimate, and a ghost.
@@GeneralNickles And a Super Rare in the Christmas promo
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 nope. It only has an ultra, ultimate, and ghost. All from Cosmo blazer. It wasn't in the advent calendar.
@@GeneralNickles Strange, because Card Market mentions it was in one of them as a Super Rare, I even own a Super Rare copy of Number 92
As somebody who like dragonmaids, madolche, and generaider I feel somewhat called out.
Also all the red-eyes players pre-order because they believe in those cards' P O T E N S H U L
I still remember the day someone dropped giant hand on me during nationals. This was before it was reprinted, so I was not ready for it at all!
I had someone drop one on me at a case tournament like right after it was released. There had only been like 3 YCSs, and this dude just casually throwing a $2000 card down against some random lightsworn player.
People want the secret rare printing of Snow I guess. Any deck needs 3 of them since it's basically a stratos that gets around Ash and can easily get around veiler/imperm in archtype. Expect some spikes with their new support in May, followed by a dip again when their field spell doesn't shoot then immediately to tier 1 playability
I was forced to play with this dogshit in MD.The new supports must,MUST be broken for the deck to even work in 2022
@@stardust9470I'd argue (or cope) they were still good up until a little while ago, and I haven't played their gate on MD yet. Having 3x monsters be Neo Spacian Grand Moles was good at "outing" a lot of boss monsters, and the fact that they banish as cost gets around a lot of effect negation because you usually still get the "body" back next turn, or eat *another* negate. They also have insane search/summon from decks to get any utility creatures they need. It's just very mentally taxing to play well.
Their new support is another link 3 that you can kinda ignore in favor of a field spell that: places a canvas from your deck face-up in the S/T zone on activation (gets around Ash)
Let's you activate to normal summon a The Weather monster, and Once Per Turn let's you link summon using your canvases as materials. With Cloud Painter on the field when you do this, you can return up to 2 canvases back to the field, so you can easily t1 link summon Rainbow with canvas support and 2 omni negates if you open well.
@@LegendLeaguer I hope it actually works as a Rainbow turbo,since that's the best card on the deck and it is AWFUL to get 3 monsters before you die
@@stardust9470 before the field spell, you only really made Rainbow in games you basically already won through controlling as much as you could, because by the time you sink 3 monsters, 1 probably being Sun which will come back in defense, and have enough monsters to back up through enough negates (even in the late-late game) Rainbow was basically just the death nail in the coffin of the game. Omni negates you can't worm around like a start-of-damage bounce-to-hand that requires a creature and specific s/t **in a specific position on the board**
@@stardust9470 also: Skill Drain going to 3 is a The Weather buff because the banish as cost and don't get negated by it, and Thunder Painter can swap it out for a canvas without getting negated either when it's no longer needed
I'll never understand skill drain being so expensive or used. Like don't get me wrong it's a powerful card, but most decks I play which are usually rogue decks use this card even though the decks need their own monster effects.
Also, Icejade Tremora. I mean, there probably is a reason for it, including the fact that it could special summon Water Enchantress from your hand, but outside of that niche interaction, it never saw actual competitive play. Icejades, as much as it pains me since it's one of my decks, is not good enough yet, outside of being a gimmicky stun deck.
I like their art, people read specual summon and just bought it for future potential I guess.
I think it'll be a good card one day when Konami makes a new busted water deck.
So uh, did they ever get better?
Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Chaos is around $80 for ultimate rare and $100 for secret rare, nobody summons that guy ever.
You somehow managed to get every single detail in that comment wrong.
Soldier of chaos doesn't come in ultimate.
It has a secret and a ghost.
The secret is about $88
And the ghost is $170
@@GeneralNickles it literally does have an ulti in ots 17
@@Skua777 right. I forgot about that.
I remember when it was announced I was arguing with this idiot about how the ultimate would likely become the cheapest version. And it looks like I was right.
Egyptian God Slime is used in decks that is that try to get Ra out bc it’s a big beatstick and can be used as 3 tributes for DIVINE monsters
Anyone else try to get the address to help Dire in that basement? No? Just me? Alrighty imma head out, gotta save Dire from MBTs Yugitubing Tyranny
Ready Fusion topped in Beetrooper with another $200 card the level 6 vanilla Insect fusion Kwager Hercules.
That's the bug I was trying to remember the name of! I remember Kwager getting waaaaaaaaaaay more expensive too.
Cosmic Fortress Gol'gar
Only 1 printing. Cough up if you want to play Aliens after new(ish) support for it and reptiles.
Do you REEEEEEALLY need Gol'gar though?
Dire holding up the entire YUgituber community by herself honestly
thank you random person on twitter for letting me know I have a $15-$20 weather painter in my binder
Hold off on the selling/trading until the new wave of support come May
@@LegendLeaguer fair point
@@iamatrain4397 I'm guessing it'll spike a bit, but the deck won't light the world on fire so then the price will drop after that. I'm just hoping that the field spell is all it's been cracked up to be
I know this video is 2 years old, but why is the original print of Trouble Sunny worth 80 dollars when it has two reprints that are worth like 20 cents?
Air Neos for the konami hate only got printed once in north america and the last Japanese print was in 07. Imagine dropping over 200 on an anime card that was summoned twice
korean strike of neos boxes are going for around $40 USD.
maybe people could pull a korean air neos there. lol
Make one regarding historical prices as well. It's good information
6:34 MBT turning into bill cipher lmao
I remember buying a bunch of madolche cards before the price went up (except for anjelly cuz that was just too much). A while ago I needed money for something and was shocked to see the price... it went up so much that just selling all the queens and hootcakes actually gave me more money than the amount I spent on the whole bunch.
Ascator has actually felt kinda bad in synchron since stardust at least on MD, I have had no problem making the full line without it, and there isn't space in parts of the combo if you have an extra monster around, and towards the end of the combo, I usually don't have 2 zones left to resolve it.
The adamancipator ready fusion target that matters is the level 2 fusion tuner :) the peacock dude from dawn of majesty.
If you're that desperate for a tuner just play gamma with e tele
Kuraz the Light Monarch sits between $5 to $15 because it only has 1 printing
Kuraz has 4 prints.
And one of them is duelist league, so it has like 5 versions.
I don't understand the price gouging that goes on with some cards. Like EGS is $50 if you're build is in any way optimal (lol optimal gods) you don't often play this card, maybe one copy, but even then the most important card in the Ra support, Ancient Chant, is €20+ and no one buys it. Like it's a mandatory 3 of in any deck that plays Ra and the copies that were 20+ on cardmarket the day this set came out are still there today. There's no reason this card should be a cent over€5
fun fact. ancient gear fusion topped out at $78 before the reprint got announced
...So am I just supposed to ignore the slow creepy zoom in during the Vayu bit? You ok there dire?
Isn't Creation Resonator playable in synchro piles? Since it's searchable off of Cupid Pitch.
It is also occasionally used within Resonator in Red Supernova Dragon Turbo lists
Well idk how good black winged dragon is, but I found out my ghost rare goes for as much as 120$ so that's pretty neat to find out. Gold thing I didn't use it ever
Star Eater was playable and was used during Dragon Ruler, not sure if any other time.
Meanwhile Magic has tons of useless cards expensive just because of the stupid reserve list.
I mean, yugioh kind of has an unofficial reserve list.
All the anniversary pack stuff will never be reprinted.
The bandai dark magician that just came out will never be reprinted.
The jump blue eyes on Kaiba corp tower will never be reprinted.
@@GeneralNickles Those are versions of cards that exist though for nothing. Good luck buying any of Power Nine for under four figures.
Twitter forgot about cursed bamboo sword, the card has 1 print and is only play in some weird ftk decks.
The funniest thing about Gold and Bane was they were so expensive for so long, never saw any meaningful tops, and now in modern more competent lists for heroes, they are not even being played.
I remember once as a kid when I had no idea about card value, a guy wanted to trade for an upstart I had.
I traded for a skill drain.
I think I got the better deal
As 1 of the 10 fluffal players I can say that I have never used daredevil or reborn ever.
As one of the only other Fluffals players, I can say I only play it at 1 for Cruel Whale when going for lethal due to it being the frightfur with the highest atk
@@bigdumber7242 Yeah, there is really only ONE reason to summon Daredevil, and that is because you want to summon a Level 8 but Kraken was too expensive
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 I feel called out
3:23 I can see why yami wanted to trade kaiba's fiend sanctuary for the slime
7:11 i dont care what you say, absorbing monsters with fang-with-chain is still funny as fuck
9:05 White house basement, I'm on a rescue mission 😎
Egyptian God Slime is pricey because every human on Earth wants a divine simulacrum, it's just their nature.
Cards that everyone thought were gonna be super expensive but resulted being not so much like noblemann of crossout
This is why I plan to make a jurrac deck as basically all jurrac cards are under a dollar each, though some synchros I plan to get are price that are outside the archetype xD
Star Eater is still very playable expecially in synchro decks like Yang Zings; Also the only reason why you would hate so much on Toons, is because you probably lost to them. Its a fun deck! Its one of those decks you can play where you dont give a shit about a META, your playing to have a good time. And its nostalgic, dont hate.
I don't know how to feel about the fact that these price tags all make sense in some sort of twisted way.
Overdrive teleporter is kind of ok in VW, but nothing you'd spend 20$ on.
"there is not a single good AG fusion"
Damn Im taking this 100% personaly
Shootout to Blood Mefist, who's absurdly expensive purely because it's only printing was as a YCS prize card like 10 or 11 years ago
This is basically a list of Legendary Duelist cards.
And here I am waiting for Silent Magician to drop in price for casual Spellbooks
Red-Eyes Baby Dragon been trying to buy it for a while, price is ridiculous
,,Completly worthless"
Starts of showing one of the strongest floodgates in Yugioh and explains it by pointing to a specific counter engine. I love you MBT but this is nonsense.
Ok but when's the last time a skill drain dek topped a best of 3 event?
I'm so glad the Dark Magician stuff is getting reprinted in LDS 3. Also The Dark Magicians wasn't even the worst part of that, a playset of Magician's Souls runs about $120 total.
Also overlooked is Dragoon, which was at the time of recording still not really worth the asking price since there were just better Verte targets.
With Minerva, that was the DIRECT price, not price you can spend to buy one. they are around 9-12 right now.
I got one for you. $13+for Happy Lover.
It’s a vanilla, has one printing, Common rarity, -I got it for my Spirit Charmer collection hoping Ko-money would release more support for Light/Dark Charmers.
A bunch of the LED5 and LED6 cards had ridiculous prices for a long time, and I can only assume a big part of that was being released during the height of lockdowns in 2020 and thus being artificially scarce.
I’ve never paid for a mardel single. Too damn expensive for no reason. The only way it was able to receive both copies was due to getting one in a booster pack and I got one b/c PayPal randomly gave me $50 so mardel was on PayPal lol
The banish effect of Rudy rose is better than the level modulation
4:10 MBT and I reacted in exactly the same way at exactly the same time
And that's down from where it was.
It peaked around 130 before the starlight and LDS3 were announced.
Ah, it's the single print brigade.
And Toons are pricey because any toon deck plays the same cards all at three and they don't get a lot of reprints
ok now im probably abit of a weirdo but in my frightfur list i keep 1 devil and 1 sheep, i call them "weird sollutions to weird problems" and they have one me games. my favorite memory is a dogmat player clearing my board and milling almost all my ED, passing and then i traded with devil to do the 1000 damage plus 5500 more which was lethal at the point of back and fourth we'd had