They took too long to release synchros, I'm sure if they made a 5ds box it would sell really well just for the reprints of old synchro cards for Edison, There's so much you can do with Dark magician reprint number 25
In addition to having a horrible first outing with the booster boxes and dull caveman-Yugioh gameplay, I think what ultimately killed Speed Duel was poor marketing. I've only learned about the format in 2022, and I am THE target audience. I came across it accidentally, through a video on team APS's channel, which I don't even follow. So I bought the Battle City Box and the Duel Academy Box (Midterm Paradox still hadn't been released at the time) and I loved them, and (more importantly) all of my friends who I had played Yugioh with as a kid loved them. We still get together every couple of weekends just to play Speed Duel and we're grown ass men all around 30, with jobs, wives, kids, etc. I remember a courier who delivered the Duelists of Shadows Boxes to me being super excited when he saw what it was I'd delivered, saying how he used to love playing Yugioh as a kid, and then visibly intrigued when I explained to him how the Speed Duel Box system works, without random cards and the old school vibe. So the format and the product was clearly not marketed to us players who stopped playing (not effectively, at least). And who was it marketed to, you might be asking? Well, it was marketed at YCSs. That's right. The place where the sweatiest modern Yugioh players come to compete in modern Yugioh, because they like the game enough to want to compete in it. That's the people who this caveman Yugioh format was marketed to. And what I find the most insane is how this would be stupid EVEN IF modern Yugioh players who attend YCSs wanted to switch to Speed Duel. These are players Konami already has in their pocket. If anything, they stand to lose money by converting players from an expensive format into a cheaper one. All this while there is a throng of disenfranchised ex-Yugioh players who were huge fans of the anime and loved the game growing up, but just gave up on it as it grew more convoluted-players who I know from first hand experience would buy your old school product provided it wasn't sold in booster boxes but the box format. It's laughable how Konami marketed Speed Duels.
Honestly I agree with you 100%, I started playing it when it came out with my wife it was an easy format that literally anyone could learn easily. And with the complexity of the main card game speed duels was in my opinion a good way to get new players interested. In short Konami really did let it down, I know i still play it with my wife and release content on it. And I truly loved the game it's always fun playing a deck that never was playable in the official card game. Like great moth, gate guardian, Cyberdarks and so many more.
@@teamnon-stopgaming2336 thank you and absolutely speed duels was a great alternative to the mess the TCG is currently. Duels actually feel fun in Speed and not stressful like they do in TCG play or master duel lmao
Speed Duel needs a second wave for all the products specially the GX one's... Let's just hope they keep on printing cards for this the Best Format of the entire franchise... This Format has so much potential to keep improving... I really hope it's not over.... #Konami #Yugioh #SpeedDuelForEver
@@luishorna1662 I 100% agree with the sentiment but unfortunately I'm not super optimistic on speed duels being revived. I think it's up to us as a community to keep it going.
@@TopsyTurnip Yes I totally agree with you... But faith will never be lost for more Speed Duel products in the future #Konami #Yugioh #SpeedDuel #BestFormat
The only reason I didn't buy them until 2 weeks ago is because I was unsure if the cards themselves could be part of TCG/OCG, meaning I would be investing in cards that are nigh unplayable elsewhere and wasn't sure if Speed Duel was popular enough to be played in my area. That said, the one highlight of Speed Duel is that it brought many of the original OCG Normal monsters into English, including cards I've wanted to see for a while such as "Shadow Spectre", "Kairyu-Shin", "Neck Hunter" and "Big Insect", and if they continued to release them I'm sure we would have seen more and it seemed like the ONLY way to get these cards released other than OTS and Astral Packs. Still, I got 1 box, played with friends, and they had genuine fun, so I bought more, and since the game is getting shut down, I'm more than happy to collect them as a finite collection, and they have drastically gone down in price so it doesn't break my wallet, I say it's fun enough for me to get invested, though it is a shame it's too late for me to go to any tournaments or go any further.
This says so much about Konami's poor promotion of the format. Speed Duels are great and could have done so much better if Konami tried harder to make it work.
@@LateFiddle392 can't blame you for that lol Edison is a great format low-key I feel like thats when Yu-Gi-Oh peaked in terms of fun and engaging duels
I loved Speed Duels. The Issue was we could not get a good following up here where I live to run proper tournaments. We even went as far as to allow non speed duel cards to be used, it just needed to exist in the card pool. (Example, Any copy of Vanilla Blue-eyes white dragon is legal). The reason for this was anyone was able to set a demo deck for free allowing them to have at least a skill card to use. But Players in my area are so rigid to change that they just want to play regular Yugioh and not stray from the path. They look at other formats like its a completely different games. Almost as if they are programmed to play one way and one way only.
@@shadow_man_exe4727 I feel you on this. I knew many friends that had a very skewed perspective on speed duels and once they actually played changed their minds completely. I primarily put this on Konami tho. They did a very poor job at promoting the format that players had no idea that SD we'rent actually boring.
Konami saying they ran out of ideas is pretty weird considering Duel Links pretty much IS Speed Duel already and has a crazy amount of cards available. (I’d argue including Link monsters was a mistake, but that’s neither here nor there lol.)
They had so much content they could of made products from its insane. waking the dragon, final season, they could of gone off the anime too and give some six sams, aliens, gladiator beasts..... maybe move on to 5Ds...
It truly is a shame speed duels went out the way it did as you said their was still so much that could be done with it and it sucks that konami took the time to do it. At least its cool to see youre trying to do something about it
I play Duel Links exclusively, but I had to intimately know Speed Duel rules to get better at that. I can tell TCG made this an after thought. Redundant printing and competition with Duel Links was always my impression. Duel Links has a handful of cards from the Tag Force video games and one of them actually became uniquely useful (Kiteroid). I guess the reason they don't print new cards is because they are legal in non-Speed format (as they rightfully should). Some of the aforementioned Tag Force cards became legal cards with much stronger effects (Sherry 5Ds Noble Knight/Floral cards). Speed Duel is such a fun format. I really dislike that Duel Links is being powercrept too hard with favoritism skills and some cards I just straight up dislike. That's also probably another reason. They have very very low-key skills on paper SD but a lot of crazy interactions on Duel Links until they started imposing a ton of restrictions that's only feasible with a computer regulating.
@@Karzeon oh for sure speed Duel was definitely an afterthought for Konami. Also yeah some of the skill available in DL are super hard to translate to SD just because how much they do and how they modulate the game lol.
The booster boxes could've worked, but they were soooo poorly structured and wildly expensive for the cards inside (like you said). Still, we ended up getting a way better product release via the multi-deck boxes. We had it pretty good for a while there, aside from the extensive reprints among the boxes.
Exactly it doesn't help that only speed duel cards can be used for the format and forcing players to buy cards they probably already own to play the format was just not the move at least for the boosters
I've actually thought about that for a while but the more I talked with people about this the less I felt comfortable with exodia lmao 😅 only because the decks are so small that I'm sure there would be shenanigans that could be done to cheat it lmao but idk maybe I build a custom exodia deck for a future video
I recently returned to the Game and bought a Speed Duels Mini-Box a few days ago. I had so much more fun compared to the main format due to the reduced complexity. Sad to receive this news. :(
I feel you on this. I absolutely love Yugioh i play pretty much every format, but it really sucks that this format which is so much fun a feels like a refreshing break from the chaos that is modern TCG play, is getting axed.
I would have liked to see 5ds, with reprints of old cards like fortune lady, on normal tcg I would feel out of place since they are so old and kinda never worked there, but in speed that deck has potential like in duel links
@@ldarkneso ikr it's truly a shame Konami decided to pull the plug in speed duels when there was soooo many other arcs that could have been so fun to experience. Also if you're interested on this channel I'm currently working to make custom speed duel boxes for arc we never got. I'll eventually get to 5ds (:
Is it possible that they might replace Speed Duels with Rush Duels. I think a lot of fans here in America are clamoring for an English version. I imported Yuga’s Starter Deck and The Goha Corp. Duel Disk, I hope those purchases were not in vain.
@@bmhedgehog2 I wouldn't be surprised if did get speed duels over here but nevertheless I don't know if I trust Konami to properly handle Rush I feel like they didn't learn anything from Speed
I seriously think Speed Duels failure sets the stage for Rush Duels failure as well. It's a different format, but paper TCG yugioh product is on the outs. I think people are grossly overestimating it's popularity in the West because they are using Japan as a comparison. Completely different environment.
Very true, I also believe if we get rush over here it's myight suffer the same faith as Speed since I don't trust Konami to properly promote and support
I feel like Speed Duel was good for promotion of Reprints and giving players more options when it came to formats, I know most people will complain of fragmentation, but with proper promotion and treatment as a secondary format. The Box format was very good for casual players and more competitive players had the ability to simply play around with the cards included to make custom decks rather then having to gamble boosters and/or buy singles and considering these sets consisted of reprints I think thats fine, maybe Konami didn't but Speed Duel was a more casual format in every way. There are some good printings of fan favorite cards in high rarities and such so people who are collectors would have enjoyed them as well. They just had to slow roll releases of the products for each series just long enough to make the game not power creep too quickly. Now it seems like they are just going to push Time Wizard and stuff reprints everywhere they can. Also remember in the OCG speed duel is just an alternative format with no special cards
I would have loved the speed duels cards if it didn't say SPEED DUEL on the card. Cheap shiny reprints of badass classic cards are exactly what I want, but the SPEED DUEL text kind of puts me off from buying them. I want them for regular duels.
@@cliffturbo2146 no but you see, speed, turbo, and rush duels are all completely different forms of dueling. Silly you, how come you can't tell them apart? /j
People has no interest in alternate formats. Side events at WCQ's and YCS are often empty. I remeber at a YCS getting a playmat after a single win in a restricted format because no one wanted ro play it. Speed duels sales were low and konami had even less incentive to support it.
I thought Speed Duels were great, I actually was able to teach people the game via the first speed duel starter decks, and yeah very rocky start and I thought the following starter decks were odd, but once we got to the big boxes like Battle City and Gx I think they finally managed to make a dam near perfect product, aside from being fun casual games with friends it was a box that had effectively everything you need like a living card game, and I think what with the modern tcg just being a hellscape that is not easy to get into this was the perfect bridge to get new people into yugioh seeing as we'll never get Rush Duels. Ultimately I think the death nail and just a problem with yugioh in general is they don't bother promoting or pushing the game and the franchise anymore, and when they do it's just DM era, usually just Battle City, case in point we got lime 2-3 Battle City boxes, no Duelist Kingdom box where you could introduce some wacky skills and unique format rules to invoke the feel of the anime, but alas back to Battle City again, and Ra forbid they ever do anything with the Virtual World, Waking the Dragon and Season 5 arcs, maybe not as popular but options. At least with GX they went have a dedicated villian box, have some boxes to fill out some other niche characters, though kinda ticked off we never got the last gx box in the UK. And ok Konami you say your running out of ideas why not turn to the other 4 animes, a 5ds box if they promoted it would sell, like a mini edison box but no :/ a zexal box with skills to make the character decks playable and balanced against the other boxes. I think the Arc-V and Vrains boxes would be a bit too powerful but as self packaged mini formats it would still be great. So yeah just a massive missed opponent that is largely due to Konami poorly managing yugioh in general and that's sad because Speed Duels were a genuinely fun, simpler yet still interesting way to get into yugioh which at the moment is something the game is sorely missing
@@AstraRandom I completely agree with you. I've always thought the concept of speed duels was great specifically once the boxes came out. It's always difficult to get people to try playing Yu-Gi-Oh because the current format is so chaotic and hard to follow unlike other card games like Pokemon, hearthstone or magic you can usually learn the basics and pick the game after a bit but Yu-Gi-Oh is tougher.
It was never about releasing and supporting a new format for konami with speed duels, but rather a very effortless cash grab. They were never going to put that much effort and money into the speed duel format. That's how I saw it. And I'm a cynical person so I really wanted to be wrong. But yeah....
@@KuroNa_NaShiro it sucks to say but yeah I do think this was no more than a cash grab for Konami. I had hope for them once the boxes came out since those take more effort
To me, the point of speed duels not being anime enought is more about why the fuck does blue-eyes and dark magician suck? really???? they made weevil and joey fans rejoice but the main guys just suck? come on. there is a lot to talk about, terrible ban list, terrible erratas, etc etc to much to talk I just hope that you could continue with ur deck showcase, since speed dueels is gonna end soon would be good to have a good compedium of playable decks of many levels to play for the future
@@alastoralex4828 don't worry I do plan on continuing the series of making decks for characters. School s been rough which has made it tough to work in those videos. But I'm actually getting really close to finishing the GX finally box
My list of mistakes 1) Not letting people use their old cards. If you did let them use old cards you would've gotten a lot more people to just try it. 2) No power cards. I think it was a mistake to avoid printing the power spell and traps. Monster Reborn, Mirror Force, etc. You can limit them all if you want. But I think they anime fans like game changing top decks. 3) Making the decks small. Weird as it sounds I think the decks are too consistent. They feel like they do one play then they are done. They is no room for variety or tech cards. 4) Marketing. Speed Duels was an anime fan format. And I don't think there was a good effort to let that group know they existed. 5) They should have printed playable precons out of the gate. The singleton pile thing is not a good experience for a new player.
I think i agree with most of your points, im iffy with the power cards but i supposed if they were all limited maybe they would feel okay so decks still feel fair. also thats a really interesting thought on the decks being too small never really thought of that
@@TopsyTurnip I don't know if you played commander at all. Its actually not my thing. But every deck ever is given a soul ring. Soul Ring is a crazy powerful card. All the casual love that chance to top deck that one of. So a one of mirror force or a one of monster reborn would have been cool. Monster reborn is a good comeback card cause it isn't always live and Mirror Force is easy to play around but its great to resolve.
BTW number 5 got me. I got a box when I didn't know much about yugioh, but I liked the anime. Those decks are horrible to try to play with in singleton. I'm only now considering going back and building some speed duel stuff. But I think I'd rather make some Zexal or 5Ds decks instead.
what kind of cool stuff you can do with that cesspool of bad cards released? you cant just straight up us duel links card pool even if it far faster than older format.
Man it still feels weird that speed duels is not going to be getting anymore product after the release of the battle city box.
They took too long to release synchros, I'm sure if they made a 5ds box it would sell really well just for the reprints of old synchro cards for Edison, There's so much you can do with Dark magician reprint number 25
@@kauanjos3199 oh... Physical Speed failed because the demographic only cares for competitive Master. Explains way too much...
@@phorchybug3286 Basically yeah, Konami did almost no Speed duel tournaments
In addition to having a horrible first outing with the booster boxes and dull caveman-Yugioh gameplay, I think what ultimately killed Speed Duel was poor marketing. I've only learned about the format in 2022, and I am THE target audience. I came across it accidentally, through a video on team APS's channel, which I don't even follow.
So I bought the Battle City Box and the Duel Academy Box (Midterm Paradox still hadn't been released at the time) and I loved them, and (more importantly) all of my friends who I had played Yugioh with as a kid loved them. We still get together every couple of weekends just to play Speed Duel and we're grown ass men all around 30, with jobs, wives, kids, etc. I remember a courier who delivered the Duelists of Shadows Boxes to me being super excited when he saw what it was I'd delivered, saying how he used to love playing Yugioh as a kid, and then visibly intrigued when I explained to him how the Speed Duel Box system works, without random cards and the old school vibe.
So the format and the product was clearly not marketed to us players who stopped playing (not effectively, at least). And who was it marketed to, you might be asking? Well, it was marketed at YCSs. That's right. The place where the sweatiest modern Yugioh players come to compete in modern Yugioh, because they like the game enough to want to compete in it. That's the people who this caveman Yugioh format was marketed to.
And what I find the most insane is how this would be stupid EVEN IF modern Yugioh players who attend YCSs wanted to switch to Speed Duel. These are players Konami already has in their pocket. If anything, they stand to lose money by converting players from an expensive format into a cheaper one. All this while there is a throng of disenfranchised ex-Yugioh players who were huge fans of the anime and loved the game growing up, but just gave up on it as it grew more convoluted-players who I know from first hand experience would buy your old school product provided it wasn't sold in booster boxes but the box format.
It's laughable how Konami marketed Speed Duels.
I feel you on this, Konamis marketing of speed duels was atrocious. Makes you ask why they even bothered with speed duels
im so mad that we didnt even get the last 2 boxes in europe ... the reprints were really needed over here
@@mavw5612 yeah I'm sorry to hear that man. Idk what was going on with the whole Europe not getting product
Honestly I agree with you 100%, I started playing it when it came out with my wife it was an easy format that literally anyone could learn easily. And with the complexity of the main card game speed duels was in my opinion a good way to get new players interested.
In short Konami really did let it down, I know i still play it with my wife and release content on it. And I truly loved the game it's always fun playing a deck that never was playable in the official card game.
Like great moth, gate guardian, Cyberdarks and so many more.
@@teamnon-stopgaming2336 thank you and absolutely speed duels was a great alternative to the mess the TCG is currently. Duels actually feel fun in Speed and not stressful like they do in TCG play or master duel lmao
Konami does suck lmfao not only did they ended speed duels but they also completely ruined the TCG my god the format has sucked for so long now
ooff does the Current format suck that much still
Speed Duel needs a second wave for all the products specially the GX one's... Let's just hope they keep on printing cards for this the Best Format of the entire franchise... This Format has so much potential to keep improving... I really hope it's not over.... #Konami #Yugioh #SpeedDuelForEver
@@luishorna1662 I 100% agree with the sentiment but unfortunately I'm not super optimistic on speed duels being revived. I think it's up to us as a community to keep it going.
@@TopsyTurnip Yes I totally agree with you... But faith will never be lost for more Speed Duel products in the future #Konami #Yugioh #SpeedDuel #BestFormat
The only reason I didn't buy them until 2 weeks ago is because I was unsure if the cards themselves could be part of TCG/OCG, meaning I would be investing in cards that are nigh unplayable elsewhere and wasn't sure if Speed Duel was popular enough to be played in my area. That said, the one highlight of Speed Duel is that it brought many of the original OCG Normal monsters into English, including cards I've wanted to see for a while such as "Shadow Spectre", "Kairyu-Shin", "Neck Hunter" and "Big Insect", and if they continued to release them I'm sure we would have seen more and it seemed like the ONLY way to get these cards released other than OTS and Astral Packs.
Still, I got 1 box, played with friends, and they had genuine fun, so I bought more, and since the game is getting shut down, I'm more than happy to collect them as a finite collection, and they have drastically gone down in price so it doesn't break my wallet, I say it's fun enough for me to get invested, though it is a shame it's too late for me to go to any tournaments or go any further.
This says so much about Konami's poor promotion of the format. Speed Duels are great and could have done so much better if Konami tried harder to make it work.
A real shame. Switched over to Edison Format, but do I ever miss Skill cards. Was such a cool concept.
@@LateFiddle392 can't blame you for that lol Edison is a great format low-key I feel like thats when Yu-Gi-Oh peaked in terms of fun and engaging duels
I loved Speed Duels. The Issue was we could not get a good following up here where I live to run proper tournaments. We even went as far as to allow non speed duel cards to be used, it just needed to exist in the card pool. (Example, Any copy of Vanilla Blue-eyes white dragon is legal). The reason for this was anyone was able to set a demo deck for free allowing them to have at least a skill card to use. But Players in my area are so rigid to change that they just want to play regular Yugioh and not stray from the path. They look at other formats like its a completely different games. Almost as if they are programmed to play one way and one way only.
@@shadow_man_exe4727 I feel you on this. I knew many friends that had a very skewed perspective on speed duels and once they actually played changed their minds completely. I primarily put this on Konami tho. They did a very poor job at promoting the format that players had no idea that SD we'rent actually boring.
Konami saying they ran out of ideas is pretty weird considering Duel Links pretty much IS Speed Duel already and has a crazy amount of cards available. (I’d argue including Link monsters was a mistake, but that’s neither here nor there lol.)
@@JW-dp4we My point exactly!! I couldn't have worded it better myself
Link monsters make more sense in a duel links field format instead of six zones.
They had so much content they could of made products from its insane. waking the dragon, final season, they could of gone off the anime too and give some six sams, aliens, gladiator beasts..... maybe move on to 5Ds...
It truly is a shame speed duels went out the way it did as you said their was still so much that could be done with it and it sucks that konami took the time to do it. At least its cool to see youre trying to do something about it
I play Duel Links exclusively, but I had to intimately know Speed Duel rules to get better at that.
I can tell TCG made this an after thought. Redundant printing and competition with Duel Links was always my impression.
Duel Links has a handful of cards from the Tag Force video games and one of them actually became uniquely useful (Kiteroid). I guess the reason they don't print new cards is because they are legal in non-Speed format (as they rightfully should).
Some of the aforementioned Tag Force cards became legal cards with much stronger effects (Sherry 5Ds Noble Knight/Floral cards).
Speed Duel is such a fun format. I really dislike that Duel Links is being powercrept too hard with favoritism skills and some cards I just straight up dislike. That's also probably another reason.
They have very very low-key skills on paper SD but a lot of crazy interactions on Duel Links until they started imposing a ton of restrictions that's only feasible with a computer regulating.
@@Karzeon oh for sure speed Duel was definitely an afterthought for Konami. Also yeah some of the skill available in DL are super hard to translate to SD just because how much they do and how they modulate the game lol.
The booster boxes could've worked, but they were soooo poorly structured and wildly expensive for the cards inside (like you said). Still, we ended up getting a way better product release via the multi-deck boxes. We had it pretty good for a while there, aside from the extensive reprints among the boxes.
Exactly it doesn't help that only speed duel cards can be used for the format and forcing players to buy cards they probably already own to play the format was just not the move at least for the boosters
Yeah new tcg exclusive cards could of saved it
Hope to see speed duel again in the future 😔
I feel the same but I wouldn't hold my breath unfortunately 😔
I can't believe they never made a Yugi Moto deck including the Exodia package 😭
I've actually thought about that for a while but the more I talked with people about this the less I felt comfortable with exodia lmao 😅 only because the decks are so small that I'm sure there would be shenanigans that could be done to cheat it lmao but idk maybe I build a custom exodia deck for a future video
I recently returned to the Game and bought a Speed Duels Mini-Box a few days ago. I had so much more fun compared to the main format due to the reduced complexity. Sad to receive this news. :(
I feel you on this. I absolutely love Yugioh i play pretty much every format, but it really sucks that this format which is so much fun a feels like a refreshing break from the chaos that is modern TCG play, is getting axed.
I think one thing you forgot to mention is the time between products.
@@RedCloudsBlackSky very true, as soon as they started to release the boxes, the release of product became extremely slow
It's crazy how Konami has years of data from Duel Links and their legacy banlists but still mismanaged Speed Duels.
because you cant really treat western market the same as asian market, duel links is managed directly by konami japan.
Speed duel is the best Yu GI oh TCG ❤❤❤❤
@@uniquegalaxy very based of you lmao I also share that sentiment I love speed duels and it's frustrating how it was mishandled by Konami
Oh. Speed only works as those Starter Decks.
I would have liked to see 5ds, with reprints of old cards like fortune lady, on normal tcg I would feel out of place since they are so old and kinda never worked there, but in speed that deck has potential like in duel links
@@ldarkneso ikr it's truly a shame Konami decided to pull the plug in speed duels when there was soooo many other arcs that could have been so fun to experience. Also if you're interested on this channel I'm currently working to make custom speed duel boxes for arc we never got. I'll eventually get to 5ds (:
Is it possible that they might replace Speed Duels with Rush Duels. I think a lot of fans here in America are clamoring for an English version. I imported Yuga’s Starter Deck and The Goha Corp. Duel Disk, I hope those purchases were not in vain.
@@bmhedgehog2 I wouldn't be surprised if did get speed duels over here but nevertheless I don't know if I trust Konami to properly handle Rush I feel like they didn't learn anything from Speed
I seriously think Speed Duels failure sets the stage for Rush Duels failure as well. It's a different format, but paper TCG yugioh product is on the outs. I think people are grossly overestimating it's popularity in the West because they are using Japan as a comparison. Completely different environment.
Very true, I also believe if we get rush over here it's myight suffer the same faith as Speed since I don't trust Konami to properly promote and support
They definitely should release more and probably will again soon. Tell them your feelings and they will listen.
I feel like Speed Duel was good for promotion of Reprints and giving players more options when it came to formats, I know most people will complain of fragmentation, but with proper promotion and treatment as a secondary format. The Box format was very good for casual players and more competitive players had the ability to simply play around with the cards included to make custom decks rather then having to gamble boosters and/or buy singles and considering these sets consisted of reprints I think thats fine, maybe Konami didn't but Speed Duel was a more casual format in every way. There are some good printings of fan favorite cards in high rarities and such so people who are collectors would have enjoyed them as well. They just had to slow roll releases of the products for each series just long enough to make the game not power creep too quickly. Now it seems like they are just going to push Time Wizard and stuff reprints everywhere they can. Also remember in the OCG speed duel is just an alternative format with no special cards
I would have loved the speed duels cards if it didn't say SPEED DUEL on the card.
Cheap shiny reprints of badass classic cards are exactly what I want, but the SPEED DUEL text kind of puts me off from buying them.
I want them for regular duels.
When I hear Speed Duel, I honestly thought they were gonna do Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds Duel Runner rule lol
@@cliffturbo2146 no but you see, speed, turbo, and rush duels are all completely different forms of dueling. Silly you, how come you can't tell them apart? /j
@@Liliana_the_ghost_cat They all sound the same to me! 😆
@@cliffturbo2146 yes. That's the joke
All Speed Duel cards inherently work in TCG/OCG.
People has no interest in alternate formats.
Side events at WCQ's and YCS are often empty. I remeber at a YCS getting a playmat after a single win in a restricted format because no one wanted ro play it.
Speed duels sales were low and konami had even less incentive to support it.
I thought Speed Duels were great, I actually was able to teach people the game via the first speed duel starter decks, and yeah very rocky start and I thought the following starter decks were odd, but once we got to the big boxes like Battle City and Gx I think they finally managed to make a dam near perfect product, aside from being fun casual games with friends it was a box that had effectively everything you need like a living card game, and I think what with the modern tcg just being a hellscape that is not easy to get into this was the perfect bridge to get new people into yugioh seeing as we'll never get Rush Duels.
Ultimately I think the death nail and just a problem with yugioh in general is they don't bother promoting or pushing the game and the franchise anymore, and when they do it's just DM era, usually just Battle City, case in point we got lime 2-3 Battle City boxes, no Duelist Kingdom box where you could introduce some wacky skills and unique format rules to invoke the feel of the anime, but alas back to Battle City again, and Ra forbid they ever do anything with the Virtual World, Waking the Dragon and Season 5 arcs, maybe not as popular but options.
At least with GX they went have a dedicated villian box, have some boxes to fill out some other niche characters, though kinda ticked off we never got the last gx box in the UK.
And ok Konami you say your running out of ideas why not turn to the other 4 animes, a 5ds box if they promoted it would sell, like a mini edison box but no :/ a zexal box with skills to make the character decks playable and balanced against the other boxes.
I think the Arc-V and Vrains boxes would be a bit too powerful but as self packaged mini formats it would still be great.
So yeah just a massive missed opponent that is largely due to Konami poorly managing yugioh in general and that's sad because Speed Duels were a genuinely fun, simpler yet still interesting way to get into yugioh which at the moment is something the game is sorely missing
@@AstraRandom I completely agree with you. I've always thought the concept of speed duels was great specifically once the boxes came out. It's always difficult to get people to try playing Yu-Gi-Oh because the current format is so chaotic and hard to follow unlike other card games like Pokemon, hearthstone or magic you can usually learn the basics and pick the game after a bit but Yu-Gi-Oh is tougher.
Time to print rush duel proxies
lmao true
It was never about releasing and supporting a new format for konami with speed duels, but rather a very effortless cash grab. They were never going to put that much effort and money into the speed duel format.
That's how I saw it. And I'm a cynical person so I really wanted to be wrong. But yeah....
@@KuroNa_NaShiro it sucks to say but yeah I do think this was no more than a cash grab for Konami. I had hope for them once the boxes came out since those take more effort
To me, the point of speed duels not being anime enought is more about why the fuck does blue-eyes and dark magician suck? really???? they made weevil and joey fans rejoice but the main guys just suck? come on. there is a lot to talk about, terrible ban list, terrible erratas, etc etc to much to talk
I just hope that you could continue with ur deck showcase, since speed dueels is gonna end soon would be good to have a good compedium of playable decks of many levels to play for the future
@@alastoralex4828 don't worry I do plan on continuing the series of making decks for characters. School s been rough which has made it tough to work in those videos. But I'm actually getting really close to finishing the GX finally box
My list of mistakes
1) Not letting people use their old cards. If you did let them use old cards you would've gotten a lot more people to just try it.
2) No power cards. I think it was a mistake to avoid printing the power spell and traps. Monster Reborn, Mirror Force, etc. You can limit them all if you want. But I think they anime fans like game changing top decks.
3) Making the decks small. Weird as it sounds I think the decks are too consistent. They feel like they do one play then they are done. They is no room for variety or tech cards.
4) Marketing. Speed Duels was an anime fan format. And I don't think there was a good effort to let that group know they existed.
5) They should have printed playable precons out of the gate. The singleton pile thing is not a good experience for a new player.
I think i agree with most of your points, im iffy with the power cards but i supposed if they were all limited maybe they would feel okay so decks still feel fair. also thats a really interesting thought on the decks being too small never really thought of that
@@TopsyTurnip I don't know if you played commander at all. Its actually not my thing. But every deck ever is given a soul ring. Soul Ring is a crazy powerful card. All the casual love that chance to top deck that one of. So a one of mirror force or a one of monster reborn would have been cool.
Monster reborn is a good comeback card cause it isn't always live and Mirror Force is easy to play around but its great to resolve.
BTW number 5 got me. I got a box when I didn't know much about yugioh, but I liked the anime. Those decks are horrible to try to play with in singleton. I'm only now considering going back and building some speed duel stuff. But I think I'd rather make some Zexal or 5Ds decks instead.
@@josephcourtright8071 that's magic right ? And no I've never played it buts that's a really interesting concept actually
what kind of cool stuff you can do with that cesspool of bad cards released? you cant
just straight up us duel links card pool even if it far faster than older format.
dont worry ill revive it
also we should play sd soon no cap
Good luck with that buddy lmao