-Edit When I was a kid, I gave my cousin my S.D.K Blue Eyes for noting. He asked me for it and gave it to him. Now I was like what was I thinking. Wish I had the deck again. Though not sure if it is worth the price.
I played this way as well. I never lost my cards though. Eveeyone wanted to duel for my Mage Power equip magic card. Back in the beginning, old yugioh, Mage Power was great.
You must be the same age as me I remember being in first grade during this time as well. Unfortunately I also relate the first grade to 9/11 since that shit happened across the water from where I live.
Back when all you needed was a big-ass monster with big numbers. I remember kids in school only had these two decks (Yugi and Kaiba). When Pegasus' deck came around, it really changed things. "What do you mean your toon monster can just attack me directly?" This was back when I was living in Ecuador and obtaining cards (be it from booster packs or decks) was difficult.
Screw Toons, remember Relinquished? That thing was a ruling nightmare. iirc I read once, that Relinquished was - for an insanely long time - the most confusing card for most players, because so many forums and magazines had to answer questions about the only good Ritual for quite some time.
@@HRCFre4k now that you reminded me of it, yeah! it was pretty good. I think that might've been the first card description I read with a chunky amount of text.
@@JJMomoida Longest card for quite some time. I´m from Germany and sadly, Joey and Pegasus where Englisch only for years, but my Brother and I only could get them, since Kaiba and Yugi where sold out at so many places. I was in like 5th grade with like 1 year of englisch lessons and as you can see, even now I´m not thaaaat great in Englisch, so I understood nothing and my mother - with no knowledge of YGO terms - had to translate it. The ruling book was also englisch - a nightmare. Luckily, I got the better deck from the both of us - at least I think so. Even though the Toons gave me tons of bricky hands x)
I remember being in the toy store with my older cousins and they were already a bit into yugioh. I was 7 years old and wanted to get the Yugi Starter Deck because it had Dark Magician, and I also suspected it might have other of Yugi's cards like Spellbinding Circle and stuff. Also Yugi always beat Kaiba in the anime, so how could I go wrong? But my cousin urged me to pick Kaiba, since he said that it has a really strong card in it. I was like "what, Blue-Eyes?" I never really liked the design of Blue-Eyes, even though it had 3000 ATK, I really just thought Dark Magician was cooler. But he was like "no, because of this genie card, it has 1800 ATK and 4 stars, so you can just summon it whenever you want." I didn't get what he was talking about so I just ignored him and bought the Yugi starter deck. Later when we dueled and he taught me the rules, not only did I realize that the deck didn't have all of Yugi's cool cards, but also that he was right, and La-Jinn was a card I couldn't get over unless I used equip cards or was able to get out Summoned Skull. I think that's the day I really fell in love with Yugioh, because I realized the game was so different from the show, and that the even though the characters in the show get into dangerous situations surmised by the plot itself, you could find yourself in "dangerous situations" within the game, if you didn't have a strategy going in, which as a kid, I thought that was really cool. After that, for my birthday, my cousin bought me three Kaiba Starter decks. I remember he gave me 1, which I was ecstatic about, then unveiled 2 more, which blew my mind. I took my new cards into 2nd grade and destroyed the entire playground thanks to my cousin. And that's when I REALLY fell in love with Yugioh.
That’s so awesome to read. I recognise a lot of what you are saying. That feeling of nostalgia is what my game - Monster Club - is created of! Have a look at will :-)
I love how Kaiba strictly outclasses Joey and Yugi in every way as far as card choices go, to such an extent that when the Egyptian Gods came around and Kaiba recieved what was canonically the "weakest" one, its still the best card in real life.
I only run Obelisk in my deck completed to the other two, it's too easy to have the other two God effects blow up in your face in my opinion. With Obelisk he plays more like a very powerful monster than a God to me
God i remember when i got the Kaiba deck delivered to my house. i came from school everyday and looked out the window till it arrived. i was the happiest kid alive then. Glorious times
I think the problem with the Levels being weird with under powered Level 5 monsters is that a lot of these cards and their stats are taken straight out of the manga, and in the manga, especially the early manga, the Levels meant almost nothing. There weren't Tribute Summons, so any card could be played at any time regardless of Level. They almost acted more as an indicator of rarity in the manga than being a better card since it cost nothing more to play. That's why Blue-Eyes is this amazingly rare Level 8 monster. Everything else is a Level 7 or lower. That's why Dark Magician is a higher Level than Summoned Skull despite them both having 2500 ATK. Dark Magician was more important. Sure, it also had higher DEF, but being Yugi's key monster meant more. Levels mean more now, not only because mechanics were introduced that make use of them, but because Konami has by now established some general guidelines as far as balancing how much ATK and how many effects go on certain levels. Frankly I think the Level balancing needs to be even more balanced, as power creep keeps messing with that balance, however at least now Levels actually mean something. Early Yu-Gi-Oh being more a promotional tie-in than an actually competitive game was a bit arbitrary as far as stats go.
I mean wasn't Duel Monsters originally just a spin off of what the original Yu-Gi-Oh manga/anime was. Since it at first didn't have anything to do with a card game and was juat about the Pharoah possessing Yugi and murdering people in various sadistic shadow games. Then in the second season of that show they all get trapped in a Fantasy Land where the monsters of the Duel Monsters game were real. Then they made the spin off manga Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters that ended up being way more popular so they just continued with that.
I'm 20 now but i remember getting the yugi & kaiba decks back during release or in 2003. There used to be Joey & Pegasus too I was still teeny weeny at the time lol
@@deioped lmaooo esthetically its charizard. In reality its venusaur cause of stats lol. But in gameplay venusaur was actually the wiser choice to beat the game lol. (I still picked charizard lol)
Konami were very crafty even back then. Strategically placing essential cards in both yugi and Kaiba so you had to buy 3 of both. For example, summon skull in yugi and la Jin in kaiba.
@@noukan42 you were not the most unaware duelist kid back then at least. i remember seeing broadcast of an event on tv and there was a kid who got disqualified for not having any level 4 or lower monsters. since he was unable summon and have no wincon they had to remove him so he didnt give everyone else free wins. i still remember that and it makes me laugh
You can play without Summoned Skull. It's Man-Eater Bug, Neo the Magic Swordsman, Wall of Illusion, and Waboku you absolutely have to have multiple copies in Starter Deck Yugi.
Starter Deck Yugi was my first. My cousin got Kaiba. Although we didn't really know how to play we still loved playing. Eventually got better, moved to secondary school and met some people who also played. I miss the simpler days of yugioh.
bro i had sdk blue eyes, sdy dark magician, original sdp relinquished, og red eyes, thousand year dragon, etc, about 40 cards worth some money nowadays that got stolen while i was in the washroom at a neighbours house :/ even the dds blue eyes thats worth like 800 bucks now ffs
I let a classmate look at my Kaiba starter deck back in 6th grade and with some hand movements he pulled my Blue Eyes and hid it somewhere in the classroom. I realize it right away but I couldn’t find it. I wanted to fight him but he was much bigger than me so I backed out. I held on to that grudge for 4 years and then I finally got my revenge when I stole his GBA SP specifically the back light model. I only stole the handheld, not his Pokemon Sapphire since I’m not a monster. I say I came out on top, losing a $15 Blue Eyes but gaining a $100 handheld.
@@gorgeousnova2304 What is DDS Blue Eyes? And whats is SDP relinquished? Like I had a whole deck, with Relinquished, Thousand Eyes, Blue Eyes, etc... all from "back in the day". Was that enough to be counted as DDS and SDP or do they need something special? Just trynna see how screwed I was for leaving my whole deck in another country and then decided to not take my stuff from the storage. :/
@@millanferende6723 DDS was dark duel stories, a gameboy advance game, came with 3 really expensive cards but not many were in that package, the other package had 3 other cards and are nowhere near as valuable because the first one was very limited. SDP was starter deck pegasus
For anyone curious about the hitasume giant format. The first set in OCGland released volume one which was a fifty card set prior to any starter decks or legend of blue eyes that we had in the states. There highest stat of the non tribute monsters were 1200, hitasume giant, mammoth graveyard, and silver fang. The next highest attack was 800. Giant having the guest defense, made it the best monster in the game for roughly the first month of the sets release. Within two months however, it was power crept by trials of nightmare-1300 attack, followed by Celtic guardian-1400 attack, and quickly followed by uraby-1500 attack in subsequent sets, promos, or movie releases. www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/4lhxnh/for_the_people_playing_the_game_from_the_very/?
While that is true, it is not entirely accurate. That poster failed to take into account a very important thing; Tribute Summoning didn't exist during the first three months of the OCG. That's why the strongest and most sought-after "meta" cards at the time were Dark Magician and Gaia the Fierce Knight, since they can be summoned straight from the hand at no cost (and then they were quickly powercrept by Blue-Eyes White Dragon, released one month after Vol. 1). However, since those cards were Ultra Rare while the 1200 ATKers were Common, it's still true that the 1200 ATKers were widely used back then as the most accessible big beatsticks in decks after the Ultra Rares.
Most of the card choices largely came down to what Kaiba was playing in the anime and Manga at the time. For example Kabia played la gin against yugi in that blue eyes Ultimate dragon duel. Then in the following duel against pegasus a few episodes later he opened the game with Rude Kaiser. This was also back during the duelist kingdom days where they were just playing monsters without having to tribute summon them.
maybe the whole idea was to not bring the tribute summon rule at all - they only brought that up during the battle city ark wich took some time; otherwise, those 1-3, 5 and 7 stars slots would be kinda useless, or, at least, messed up (we could just have a 5* -> 1 tribute; 6* -> 2 tributes and so on, but neh, too simple for our card game XD). i can only think of a few situations in wich having those specific cards may actualy be worth it like when you have catapult turtle (5*) and a legendary ocend (field spell card that reduces certain monsters in your hand by 1*) so you can play the monster w/o tributing. all in all, i kinda have to thank the tribute summoning rule, i hated the yu gi oh forbidden memory deck style where you could just play 4500atk monsters with no problem.
@@duelponzac Not so sure about that. Yugi's Starter Deck had Soul Exchange which tributes your opponent's monster instead of your own and it came out at the same time as Kaiba's. The rulebook also stated the tributing rules.
I remember a rich kid got his parents to buy him three sets of Kaiba/Yugi and bashed them together to make a legit unbeatable deck back in the day. Horrible times.
I remember polymerization was super rare back in the day. When I bought the Joey deck I had a legitimate panic attack when I got to the polymerization card in the deck.
@John Wright I got an Alternate design in the Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon on my first Booster Pack, it was AWESOME to find out, only to have it stolen/ripped off shortly after.
I had 3 of those my dad got them for me after I was top of my class in 3rd grade Most of the cards where stolen Ruined or lost But the memories never die
Yeah, old days of Magic are gone. Now everything's super expensive because the game is just so huge. Kind of nice to have Yugioh relatively small in comparison to Pokemon and MTG - card prices are cheaper. I kind of hope it stays the way it is, where there's still a market for it but not an overinflated one. I don't miss the Magic market. Glad I left that behind when I did.
@@ColasTeam Yugioh is considered concentrated cringe here. It decreases your reputation to a social outcast level so you will never see anyone play in public or talk about Yugioh. It was an anime/manga made for 7 year old boys with the sole purpose of selling cards after all.
@@roberth4395 Weird, the Yugioh tournaments in Europe get 600+ players attend to them regularly. Also not really, the manga began like 4 years before the card game was made.
the wicked worm beast is actually a really cool tech in 2002 format, since aside from trap hole, every removal card is a normal spell, and you don't really want to commit to the board until both dark hole and raigeki have been dropped since you want adventageous trades, so it lets you put some offensive pressure on the board during your turn without actually risking a disadvantageous wrath it's also a last will target which is relevant if you play the card (mostly as a trap hole followup or in tribute decks) so yeah it really was much better than it actually seemed
About Hitotsu me Giant: it was the highest ATK monster, along with Mammoth Graveyard and Beast Fang. The meta was pretty much "spam Dark Holes and Fissure (both at 3 copies), stop the opponent 1200s with Trap Holes, and boost your 800s ATKs with 300 ATK Equips (yeah, you read that right)". Shortly after there was a few other 1200 ATK (The 13th Grave for example), and Trial of Nightmare as an ultra from Shonen Jump if I remember correctly? Aqua Madoor was in the Theatrical Release version of the Starter Deck. You had to go through any Aqua Madoor your opponent was lucky enough to have, making Dark Hole and Fissure even more important. Shortly after that, it was "whoever was at the DM1 tourney or has enough money is going to plow through the opponent with Kanan the Swordmistress". Yep, a bit like Mechanicalchaser here. Then Celtic Guardian was released (as a pre-order promo I believe?). Then Uraby was released with its 1500 ATK. Feel free to correct me, I haven't looked into this for quite some time. I can provide a picture of my full Volume 1 deck, I don't know if I can post links here and still have my comment visible though :-P
Dark hole wasn't in vol 1. But silver fang was, and it could be boosted to 1500 with an equip, becoming one of the most terrifying monsters of any time in Yu-Gi-Oh.
I would actually love a video of you going through the rulebook and talking about how terminology and such has changed in the past 17 years. I'm also slightly mad.
There was "2" viable decks basically, one with Soul Exchanges, and the other without Soul Exchanges. 20/20 deck heh: 1 Summoned Skull 3 La Jinn 3 Battle Ox 3 Neo the Magical Swordsman 1 Giant Soldier of Stone 3 Wall of Illusion 3 Trap Master 3 Man-Eater Bug 1 Pot of Greed 1 Monster Reborn 1 Change of Heart 1 Raigeki 1 Dark Hole 3 Fissure 2 Swords of Revealing Light 1 De-Spell 3 Trap Hole 3 Reinforcements 3 Waboku Soul Exchange deck: 3 Summoned Skull 1 Judge 3 La Jinn 2 Battle Ox 1 Neo the Magical Swordsman 3 Giant Soldier of Stone 3 Wall of Illusion 2 Trap Master 3 Man-Eater Bug 3 Soul Exchange 1 Pot of Greed 1 Card Destruction 1 Last Will 1 Monster Reborn 1 Change of Heart 1 Raigeki 1 Dark Hole 2 Fissure 2 Swords of Revealing Light 3 Trap Hole 1 Reinforcements 1 Waboku And in side deck you had either Soul Exchanges + Tributes + Just Desserts + Stop Defenses / Acid Trap Holes in deck 1, or Battle Oxen / Neos + Hane-Hanes + De-Spells + Reinforcements + Wabokus in deck 2. Sometimes you played things like 1 Sword of Dark Destruction main deck. Sometimes 1 Hane-Hane in main deck. Sometimes 1 Stop Def in main deck. Sometimes the Soul Exchange deck ran The Wicked Worm Beast with an additional Last Will copy. etc.
@@IamGrimalkin The 5 cards you can see at the end of the rule book were limited on day 1, along with Exodia. I don't remember any tournament where SoRL was not at 2 as well at that time. The first real tournament we had in France (the French Nationals) had the complete restricted list, with a small difference (Card Destruction was limited, while it was semi-limited in most other countries - and we had no Pot of Greed, as Abyss Corp chose to print it later to try to boost the sales of Spell Ruler).
@@IamGrimalkin No, but the tournament organiser (Abysse Corp for France, I don't know for the other countries) had a limited and semi-limited list on their Yu-Gi-Oh! website in April (and a limited and semi-limited list for the video game tourney on Stairway to the Destined Duel as well).
A lot of the odd perspectives, is because a bunch of these cards take their art directly from the manga versions. Blue-Eyes Lord of D. Koumori Dragon(he has a full body) etc Also, Summoned Skull is in the Yugi Starter Deck.
The simplicity of the artwork is what I love the most about the old cards. Nowadays they are so crowded that it is often hard to make out what they're actually trying to be.
I started with this deck in 2002. I remember saving up all my allowance money over weeks and weeks to eventually buy three Starter Deck: Kaiba just to get three Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards, and I even succeeded in pulling a Blue-Eyes White Dragon from a Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon booster pack I got that winter in my Christmas stocking. I still splash Blue-Eyes into the decks I build for myself today.
Always wanted that Blue-Eyes artwork as a kid, but I got into the game around the time the other starter decks were introduced, with Kaiser Seahorse instead of Blue-Eyes.
I remember when I first got a starter deck as a kid. It was weird because I had this strange feeling that something good was about to happen as I was walking home from school that day. When I went into my bedroom, there it was - a Starter Deck Yugi. I was so overjoyed that my dad even took a pic of me holding the cards. Dark Magician, Soul Exchange, Card Destruction, Trap Hole, Dark Hole, Monster Reborn, Feral Imp, Baron of the Fiend Sword, Mystic Clown, Trap Master, De-Spell, and so on and so forth. It was the greatest thing I'd ever held in my hand. I think this singular experience is part of why my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh card, as well as my favorite archetype, has always been - and remains to this day - Dark Magician.
I remember me and my brother getting the Japanese kiba and Yugi decks at a store as little kids and thinking it was so damn cool it was in another language so we just played with "whoever had the highest numbers wins"
To me back in the day I thought Hane Hane was better, cause well if you bounce Blue-eyes or Dark Magician, it will be a bit harder to bring them out. If destroyed by Man Eater Bug then well there is a chance to bring it back with Monster Reborn.
@@Gytiss93 it's not a "you can". But a chance to bring it back. Back in the day, it's a lot more harder to get Monster Reborn to hand (unless you are playing Exodia Turbo). Unless, you where playing back to the 5D's era, then it's a lot more faster to get Monster Reborn. Back in the day, when it was extremely slow, there's a chance that you would never see Monster Reborn in the match. Yes in this day of era of Yu-Gi-Oh, it's more of a 60% chance of getting Monster Reborn.
@@sun9708 compare the original and 5d's era of Yu-Gi-Oh. In 5d's there is a higher chance to get Monster Reborn to your hand. The original you have to play a gimmicky Exodia Turbo kind of deck to draw Monster Reborn.
This video, the comments...I literally just time traveled in my head to specific detailed moments I thought I forgot about....I remember saving my allowance for my very first Kaiba starter deck. Me and buddies riding our bikes to our local game shop every Saturday morning, such good times.
Very satisfying to watch the first deck I ever had when I was 8 to be opened again. My my how the game has changed so much since then. I remember playing with my brother for hours trying to get better and understand how to actually duel.
It’s difficult to say Blue Eyes vs Dark vs Exodia. Which one is more well known. Dark Magician and Blue Eyes were prominent on the first episode but I feel everyone knows “Exodia Obliterate!”
In regards of the deck limit change: there was a person at a German regional tournament who thoroughly abused this by bringing a deck with 2222 cards (enough for about 740 cards with 3 duplicates each). To make matters worse, as many cards as possible were added so that the deck had to be shuffled during the game as often as possible. While it was definitely poor sportsmanship, is was unquestionably legal, so Konami instituted the maximum deck size shortly thereafter.
youtube hitting me with a nostalgia trip here, will never forget the Christmas my brother got this deck and i got the yu gi starter deck, trying to recreate the s1 duel and playing each other over and over again GG
I remember this were over the place back in the day, my parents bought me first the yugi then the Kaiba, I owned pretty much every starter deck... When the structured came I had like 1 r 2. At the end I gave all my cards to a friend who was still playing... Years later he passed and I had no heart to tell his parents that he had my cards, so I let them kept them. Later I was told his sister sold the entire collection... :(
"I really want to cut back on the pack openings and stuff as much as possible" *NOOOOOOOOOO!* I really like your pack openings and videos of the same ilk, even though I hate other people's pack opening videos. It's not lower quality content to me, despite the fact that you might think so. Your insight into all the cards that you pull really makes these videos special to me, and I really forward to watching you open packs and talk about the history of the cards or related cards, what the future of these cards might be, why certain cards are good or bad, your perspective on how hard certain cards are to pull from a box or just get in general, and everything else in between. Even this Deck opening, full of cards that everyone knows and everyone had back in the day, taught me a few things I didn't know about the history of the game as well as your history with certain cards. If anything, I'd suggest doing MORE of this type of video, with this sort of educational mindset in the forefront of your brain, rather than just being a side effect of you, being the analytical person you are, doing these types of videos. I think you'll feel better doing these types of videos when you realize just how much you have to offer talking about things like this.
I remember getting both the yugi and kaiba decks and some boosters for my Birthday in October of that year, I had been watching the anime, and begged my mom for some cards so I could play with the kids at school that played it. Makes me miss the old schoolyard days. Here I am almost 30 and getting back into this game after many years away.
I had all the starter decks back then and never used them to play with. I just liked collecting the cards and drawing the pictures. I'm so glad I still have all of the cards I got back then to this day.
Good memories, I remember my Mum taking me to tesco ( big supermarket in the UK) to buy this deck and my best fried was their who just so happened to have bought the yugi deck. Couldn't make it up haha. And we continued playing up intill about 2008ish. Only just started playing again with the games and legendary decks. Always a fun game. Even though I now have money to build top decks, I don't know many people who play so just play semi competeative on a casual setting. 17 years later baby haha
I was today years old when i found out where the lord of d's hands are Edit: the wicked worm beast's effect is actually broken, you can use it for a rank 3 xyz or a synchro or tribute summon and then it gets added back to your hand by the end of the turn, this card is a card advantage engine i tell ya
Had the Yugi, Kaiba, Joey and Pegasus starter decks back then. Had no idea how to play and didnt play properly until 10 years later but it was still one of my best memories of the game.
I had a 1st Edition Kaiba deck, and I remember thinking the fact that I had a card printed as Dark Assassin rather than Dark Assailant meant that I was sitting on a goddamned gold mine. (I wasn't.)
My world was defined with Force of the Breaker and the Volcanic archetype that is still awaiting its new support to arrive Day 80 of waiting for the pyro king to receive new support
Christmas 2002 I got 3 of these decks from 3 different relatives and it was fantastic lol so much nostalgia seeing this deck again. Makes me miss the slower pace yugioh had. Tribute summons were a big deal unlike today where you can special summon 27 monsters before your battle phase
Enjoy all of your videos, including pack openings. I’d like to see some of your old deck profiles and how you go about building a deck. Trying to update mine a bit so my wife and I can play each other casually.
absolutely awesome video its almost 4:30 am and i had to crawl out of bed and turn on my computer and wait for it to boot up just so i could come comment on here about invigoration, i mean come on man
Geez, I remember my uncle bought me 3x of each Yugi and Kaiba starter so I could make decks with full playsets of the best cards from each. And I remember my uncle played too and playmats lamonated to a folding peice of foamcore, I remember thinking that was the coolest thing ever.
I remember going to my nearest Kmart to buy the Kaiba and Yugi starter decks. My uncle taught me how to play and gave me a whole shoe box of cards to strengthen the decks. I went on to buy a small red case that came with the Ancient Gear structure deck, and the rest is history.
This was my very first deck. I still remember walking into Toys R Us as a kid and seeing those Yugi and Kaiba decks on a stand at the end of an isle and being like "woah they've actually made the cards from the show!!"
This is incredibly nostalgic for me. This deck and the yugi starter deck are the first two decks I bought when I started right around the time when metal raiders came out. Man I was so bad at deck building back then. We didn’t have a maximum deck size and I just smashed the two decks together. Also back then dragon capture jar was a huge annoyance for a great many players and I abused the crap out of it
This was my first deck and I had a blast with yugioh. Made a lot of good friends and memories along the way thanks to this game. I really appreciate the game because it allowed me to be creative and more social. Unfortunately, some degenerate stole my Kaiba deck. I’m seriously thinking of buying this deck just to have it again for the memories.
Just came across this video, thanks for posting it, it's such a great reminder and nostalgia, I remember when I was a kid and me and my best friend first going at my place to beg my parents and then at his to give us the money to buy starter decks him buying Kaiba started deck and mine was Yugi's, I always remember how excited we were when we found Dark Magician and Blue Eyes in the deck, good times :')
My very first deck was the Joey starter deck, a week before I finished my primary school my step dad promised to get me a deck once I finished my school exams he would give me a deck as a present and he gave me my first booster back as a tease, a week later I got my Joey deck and fell in love with it, Red Eyes is still one of my favourite monsters today.
The Wicked Worm Beast was designed to be used to constantly be able to sacrifice it to see what face down cards your opponent has, or as a face down defense monster so you always had something to block incoming damage with.
I know how to pronounce invigoration, I promise :)
It's like you've never heard of the Isolde Invigoration Turbo deck before, it's broken!
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I was about to ask if you were dyslexic lol.
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Suuure you do, Doug.
Starter Deck Kaiba was my first deck. La Jinn was a powerhouse at the time
LunarWingCloud I can remember pulling a mechanical chaser and trading someone at locals for another. 2 mecs = easy wins at locals
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When I was a kid, I gave my cousin my S.D.K Blue Eyes for noting.
He asked me for it and gave it to him.
Now I was like what was I thinking. Wish I had the deck again.
Though not sure if it is worth the price.
Joey was my first. Hehe
Kaiba was my first.
I had YuGi first starter deck and it was as cool as an Ipad. I remember the SMELL of new plastic whoo!
I remember back in 2002, 1st grade. Everyone was hooked into YuGiOh.
Everyone always played for keeps. If you lose, you get to keep their best cards.
I played a lot of those. Was such a noob so I lost a lot of my rate cards at the time
I played this way as well. I never lost my cards though. Eveeyone wanted to duel for my Mage Power equip magic card. Back in the beginning, old yugioh, Mage Power was great.
@@haterreplicator4868 another card everyone wanted was the crush card I believe even with the current gen it is pretty hard to get
Hater Replicator man mage power was op
You must be the same age as me I remember being in first grade during this time as well. Unfortunately I also relate the first grade to 9/11 since that shit happened across the water from where I live.
Back when all you needed was a big-ass monster with big numbers.
I remember kids in school only had these two decks (Yugi and Kaiba). When Pegasus' deck came around, it really changed things. "What do you mean your toon monster can just attack me directly?" This was back when I was living in Ecuador and obtaining cards (be it from booster packs or decks) was difficult.
Ay, Ecuador!
Screw Toons, remember Relinquished? That thing was a ruling nightmare. iirc I read once, that Relinquished was - for an insanely long time - the most confusing card for most players, because so many forums and magazines had to answer questions about the only good Ritual for quite some time.
@@HRCFre4k now that you reminded me of it, yeah! it was pretty good. I think that might've been the first card description I read with a chunky amount of text.
@@JJMomoida Longest card for quite some time. I´m from Germany and sadly, Joey and Pegasus where Englisch only for years, but my Brother and I only could get them, since Kaiba and Yugi where sold out at so many places. I was in like 5th grade with like 1 year of englisch lessons and as you can see, even now I´m not thaaaat great in Englisch, so I understood nothing and my mother - with no knowledge of YGO terms - had to translate it. The ruling book was also englisch - a nightmare. Luckily, I got the better deck from the both of us - at least I think so. Even though the Toons gave me tons of bricky hands x)
My favourite part of Relinquished, was the text was so long they couldn't fit in his Summoning requirement. xD
Blue Eyes is the most Iconic card because it's actually playable.
So are Dark Magician, Red Eyes. But yeah
Can't get over with "The Creator" card
Blue eyes is only a meatstick.
The Smetherling you mean beatstick?! 💀💀💀
@@anthonyrios2300 Yes xD I did an oopsie
I remember being in the toy store with my older cousins and they were already a bit into yugioh. I was 7 years old and wanted to get the Yugi Starter Deck because it had Dark Magician, and I also suspected it might have other of Yugi's cards like Spellbinding Circle and stuff. Also Yugi always beat Kaiba in the anime, so how could I go wrong? But my cousin urged me to pick Kaiba, since he said that it has a really strong card in it. I was like "what, Blue-Eyes?" I never really liked the design of Blue-Eyes, even though it had 3000 ATK, I really just thought Dark Magician was cooler. But he was like "no, because of this genie card, it has 1800 ATK and 4 stars, so you can just summon it whenever you want." I didn't get what he was talking about so I just ignored him and bought the Yugi starter deck. Later when we dueled and he taught me the rules, not only did I realize that the deck didn't have all of Yugi's cool cards, but also that he was right, and La-Jinn was a card I couldn't get over unless I used equip cards or was able to get out Summoned Skull. I think that's the day I really fell in love with Yugioh, because I realized the game was so different from the show, and that the even though the characters in the show get into dangerous situations surmised by the plot itself, you could find yourself in "dangerous situations" within the game, if you didn't have a strategy going in, which as a kid, I thought that was really cool. After that, for my birthday, my cousin bought me three Kaiba Starter decks. I remember he gave me 1, which I was ecstatic about, then unveiled 2 more, which blew my mind. I took my new cards into 2nd grade and destroyed the entire playground thanks to my cousin. And that's when I REALLY fell in love with Yugioh.
Do you still play?
didn't read xd xd
that's a really cool story... did it actually happen? (mostly 'cause the 3 decks gift)
That’s so awesome to read. I recognise a lot of what you are saying. That feeling of nostalgia is what my game - Monster Club - is created of! Have a look at will :-)
Tl:dr Kid wants to buy Yugi deck, learns Kaiba deck is better. Awesome cousings gives him 3 Kaiba starter deck, destroys everything
I love how Kaiba strictly outclasses Joey and Yugi in every way as far as card choices go, to such an extent that when the Egyptian Gods came around and Kaiba recieved what was canonically the "weakest" one, its still the best card in real life.
Ra is strongest because it has crazy support. Slifer can make crazy otks. But texhnicly if you look at all individual cards, yes obelisk is stronger
I only run Obelisk in my deck completed to the other two, it's too easy to have the other two God effects blow up in your face in my opinion. With Obelisk he plays more like a very powerful monster than a God to me
*compared
obelisk is not the weakest
Obelisk isn’t the weakest I tested un nerf god cards and Slifer the weakest because of the difficulty breaking established boards
God i remember when i got the Kaiba deck delivered to my house. i came from school everyday and looked out the window till it arrived.
i was the happiest kid alive then.
Glorious times
I think the problem with the Levels being weird with under powered Level 5 monsters is that a lot of these cards and their stats are taken straight out of the manga, and in the manga, especially the early manga, the Levels meant almost nothing. There weren't Tribute Summons, so any card could be played at any time regardless of Level. They almost acted more as an indicator of rarity in the manga than being a better card since it cost nothing more to play. That's why Blue-Eyes is this amazingly rare Level 8 monster. Everything else is a Level 7 or lower. That's why Dark Magician is a higher Level than Summoned Skull despite them both having 2500 ATK. Dark Magician was more important. Sure, it also had higher DEF, but being Yugi's key monster meant more.
Levels mean more now, not only because mechanics were introduced that make use of them, but because Konami has by now established some general guidelines as far as balancing how much ATK and how many effects go on certain levels. Frankly I think the Level balancing needs to be even more balanced, as power creep keeps messing with that balance, however at least now Levels actually mean something.
Early Yu-Gi-Oh being more a promotional tie-in than an actually competitive game was a bit arbitrary as far as stats go.
I mean wasn't Duel Monsters originally just a spin off of what the original Yu-Gi-Oh manga/anime was. Since it at first didn't have anything to do with a card game and was juat about the Pharoah possessing Yugi and murdering people in various sadistic shadow games. Then in the second season of that show they all get trapped in a Fantasy Land where the monsters of the Duel Monsters game were real. Then they made the spin off manga Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters that ended up being way more popular so they just continued with that.
When I was little I thought the deck would come with 3 blue eyes like Kaiba did
Lol what we would do is just pile 3 blue eyes on top of each other and say that was the 3 blue eyes xD
same. But I think that was from the second version of Kiabs deck.
I thought yugi deck had exodia
Carlos Eduardo . Chávez Pulido I don’t we ever got it because then everyone would have op decks
Carlos Eduardo . Chávez Pulido yugi was using his grandpas deck lol
I remember getting this at my local Walmart. I'm 30yrs old now and now collect as a hobby. 👍🏻. Awesome video bud.
Eric Luzan that is so cool! i am 27 and also just buy (mainly from amazon) to collect
Still have my old cards just in case
I'm 20 now but i remember getting the yugi & kaiba decks back during release or in 2003. There used to be Joey & Pegasus too
I was still teeny weeny at the time lol
The Blue Eyes is the Charizard of Yugioh
To me its Red eyes lol
@@jrtg5758 Red eyes is the venusaur lmao.
@@deioped lmaooo esthetically its charizard. In reality its venusaur cause of stats lol. But in gameplay venusaur was actually the wiser choice to beat the game lol. (I still picked charizard lol)
Kuriboh would be Pikachu
Does that make Dark Magician Lucario? XD
Konami were very crafty even back then. Strategically placing essential cards in both yugi and Kaiba so you had to buy 3 of both. For example, summon skull in yugi and la Jin in kaiba.
so greedy
@@IamGrimalkin we need a lajinn archetype. why did the arc v writers had to kill the persian guy?
As a kid i never realized that ypu cpuld actually do that and wasted money trying to find summoned skull in a pack lol.
@@noukan42 you were not the most unaware duelist kid back then at least.
i remember seeing broadcast of an event on tv and there was a kid who got disqualified for not having any level 4 or lower monsters. since he was unable summon and have no wincon they had to remove him so he didnt give everyone else free wins. i still remember that and it makes me laugh
You can play without Summoned Skull. It's Man-Eater Bug, Neo the Magic Swordsman, Wall of Illusion, and Waboku you absolutely have to have multiple copies in Starter Deck Yugi.
Starter Deck Yugi was my first. My cousin got Kaiba. Although we didn't really know how to play we still loved playing. Eventually got better, moved to secondary school and met some people who also played. I miss the simpler days of yugioh.
To this day I still don't know where my two Blue Eyes are, the prick that stole them is still out there
bro i had sdk blue eyes, sdy dark magician, original sdp relinquished, og red eyes, thousand year dragon, etc, about 40 cards worth some money nowadays that got stolen while i was in the washroom at a neighbours house :/ even the dds blue eyes thats worth like 800 bucks now ffs
I let a classmate look at my Kaiba starter deck back in 6th grade and with some hand movements he pulled my Blue Eyes and hid it somewhere in the classroom. I realize it right away but I couldn’t find it. I wanted to fight him but he was much bigger than me so I backed out. I held on to that grudge for 4 years and then I finally got my revenge when I stole his GBA SP specifically the back light model. I only stole the handheld, not his Pokemon Sapphire since I’m not a monster. I say I came out on top, losing a $15 Blue Eyes but gaining a $100 handheld.
@@zero9112 if someone took my Pokemon Sapphire I'd still be dealing with PTSD, you did the right thing (sort of)
@@gorgeousnova2304 What is DDS Blue Eyes? And whats is SDP relinquished? Like I had a whole deck, with Relinquished, Thousand Eyes, Blue Eyes, etc... all from "back in the day". Was that enough to be counted as DDS and SDP or do they need something special?
Just trynna see how screwed I was for leaving my whole deck in another country and then decided to not take my stuff from the storage. :/
@@millanferende6723 DDS was dark duel stories, a gameboy advance game, came with 3 really expensive cards but not many were in that package, the other package had 3 other cards and are nowhere near as valuable because the first one was very limited. SDP was starter deck pegasus
...i never knew those were lord of D hands...youve changed my perspective forever haha
For anyone curious about the hitasume giant format. The first set in OCGland released volume one which was a fifty card set prior to any starter decks or legend of blue eyes that we had in the states. There highest stat of the non tribute monsters were 1200, hitasume giant, mammoth graveyard, and silver fang. The next highest attack was 800. Giant having the guest defense, made it the best monster in the game for roughly the first month of the sets release. Within two months however, it was power crept by trials of nightmare-1300 attack, followed by Celtic guardian-1400 attack, and quickly followed by uraby-1500 attack in subsequent sets, promos, or movie releases.
www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/4lhxnh/for_the_people_playing_the_game_from_the_very/?
While that is true, it is not entirely accurate. That poster failed to take into account a very important thing; Tribute Summoning didn't exist during the first three months of the OCG. That's why the strongest and most sought-after "meta" cards at the time were Dark Magician and Gaia the Fierce Knight, since they can be summoned straight from the hand at no cost (and then they were quickly powercrept by Blue-Eyes White Dragon, released one month after Vol. 1). However, since those cards were Ultra Rare while the 1200 ATKers were Common, it's still true that the 1200 ATKers were widely used back then as the most accessible big beatsticks in decks after the Ultra Rares.
Most of the card choices largely came down to what Kaiba was playing in the anime and Manga at the time. For example Kabia played la gin against yugi in that blue eyes Ultimate dragon duel. Then in the following duel against pegasus a few episodes later he opened the game with Rude Kaiser. This was also back during the duelist kingdom days where they were just playing monsters without having to tribute summon them.
maybe the whole idea was to not bring the tribute summon rule at all - they only brought that up during the battle city ark wich took some time; otherwise, those 1-3, 5 and 7 stars slots would be kinda useless, or, at least, messed up (we could just have a 5* -> 1 tribute; 6* -> 2 tributes and so on, but neh, too simple for our card game XD). i can only think of a few situations in wich having those specific cards may actualy be worth it like when you have catapult turtle (5*) and a legendary ocend (field spell card that reduces certain monsters in your hand by 1*) so you can play the monster w/o tributing. all in all, i kinda have to thank the tribute summoning rule, i hated the yu gi oh forbidden memory deck style where you could just play 4500atk monsters with no problem.
@@duelponzac Not so sure about that. Yugi's Starter Deck had Soul Exchange which tributes your opponent's monster instead of your own and it came out at the same time as Kaiba's. The rulebook also stated the tributing rules.
@@duelponzac I appreciate how later summoning mechanics made the specific number of stars matter, rather than just the three categories.
The manga was made before the actual card game and before Takahashi made rules.
Yeah it defined Yugioh. Just slap in some Man Eater Bugs and boom, a beatdown deck. With Man Eater Bugs.
This is pretty much the first time your comment has unironically been correct
This video is when man eater bug beatdown dream is realized for you 😂
ngl. I was more scared of Penguin Soldier.
Shadewalker xD That stupid Penguin. It would bounce one of your Monsters back, then itself. Or it'd bounce two of your Monster's.
I remember a rich kid got his parents to buy him three sets of Kaiba/Yugi and bashed them together to make a legit unbeatable deck back in the day. Horrible times.
My first deck was the Joey starter deck, I already had a Blue Eyes White Dragon from a booster pack I didn’t need the Kaiba one
I remember polymerization was super rare back in the day. When I bought the Joey deck I had a legitimate panic attack when I got to the polymerization card in the deck.
@John Wright I got an Alternate design in the Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon on my first Booster Pack, it was AWESOME to find out, only to have it stolen/ripped off shortly after.
The only Polymerization I ever had was the Japanese release. But I did get a holographic De-Fusion when I was a kid.
I had 3 of those my dad got them for me after I was top of my class in 3rd grade
Most of the cards where stolen Ruined or lost
But the memories never die
mustafa mrouweh you can always buy it back at TcgPlayer site :)
"Worth way more"
"Over $100"
I think MTG has desensitized me...
Give Yugioh another 10 or 20 years and this will probably be worth 1000$.
Yeah, old days of Magic are gone. Now everything's super expensive because the game is just so huge. Kind of nice to have Yugioh relatively small in comparison to Pokemon and MTG - card prices are cheaper. I kind of hope it stays the way it is, where there's still a market for it but not an overinflated one.
I don't miss the Magic market. Glad I left that behind when I did.
@@PixelPhoenix Yugioh is more popular than Magic in Latin America tbh, not sure about Europe, but in most of Asia it probably is.
@@ColasTeam Yugioh is considered concentrated cringe here. It decreases your reputation to a social outcast level so you will never see anyone play in public or talk about Yugioh. It was an anime/manga made for 7 year old boys with the sole purpose of selling cards after all.
@@roberth4395 Weird, the Yugioh tournaments in Europe get 600+ players attend to them regularly. Also not really, the manga began like 4 years before the card game was made.
the wicked worm beast is actually a really cool tech in 2002 format, since aside from trap hole, every removal card is a normal spell, and you don't really want to commit to the board until both dark hole and raigeki have been dropped since you want adventageous trades, so it lets you put some offensive pressure on the board during your turn without actually risking a disadvantageous wrath
it's also a last will target which is relevant if you play the card (mostly as a trap hole followup or in tribute decks)
so yeah it really was much better than it actually seemed
le spécialiste du format 2002
ptdrrr pas à ce point
About Hitotsu me Giant: it was the highest ATK monster, along with Mammoth Graveyard and Beast Fang. The meta was pretty much "spam Dark Holes and Fissure (both at 3 copies), stop the opponent 1200s with Trap Holes, and boost your 800s ATKs with 300 ATK Equips (yeah, you read that right)".
Shortly after there was a few other 1200 ATK (The 13th Grave for example), and Trial of Nightmare as an ultra from Shonen Jump if I remember correctly?
Aqua Madoor was in the Theatrical Release version of the Starter Deck. You had to go through any Aqua Madoor your opponent was lucky enough to have, making Dark Hole and Fissure even more important.
Shortly after that, it was "whoever was at the DM1 tourney or has enough money is going to plow through the opponent with Kanan the Swordmistress". Yep, a bit like Mechanicalchaser here.
Then Celtic Guardian was released (as a pre-order promo I believe?).
Then Uraby was released with its 1500 ATK.
Feel free to correct me, I haven't looked into this for quite some time.
I can provide a picture of my full Volume 1 deck, I don't know if I can post links here and still have my comment visible though :-P
Dark hole wasn't in vol 1. But silver fang was, and it could be boosted to 1500 with an equip, becoming one of the most terrifying monsters of any time in Yu-Gi-Oh.
@@DrDrao Dark Hole is in Volume 1 as a Super Rare. And yeah, Beast Fang is mandatory
@@mantislazuli silver fang. Beast fang is the equip
Also, you're right about dark hole... I've been playing the format wrong.
@@DrDrao I know, that's what you equip on Silver Fang xD
In the list of the 10 holy grails of Yu-Gi-Oh!, this deck is among them
What are the other 9 holy grails?
I would actually love a video of you going through the rulebook and talking about how terminology and such has changed in the past 17 years.
I'm also slightly mad.
There was "2" viable decks basically, one with Soul Exchanges, and the other without Soul Exchanges.
20/20 deck heh:
1 Summoned Skull
3 La Jinn
3 Battle Ox
3 Neo the Magical Swordsman
1 Giant Soldier of Stone
3 Wall of Illusion
3 Trap Master
3 Man-Eater Bug
1 Pot of Greed
1 Monster Reborn
1 Change of Heart
1 Raigeki
1 Dark Hole
3 Fissure
2 Swords of Revealing Light
1 De-Spell
3 Trap Hole
3 Reinforcements
3 Waboku
Soul Exchange deck:
3 Summoned Skull
1 Judge
3 La Jinn
2 Battle Ox
1 Neo the Magical Swordsman
3 Giant Soldier of Stone
3 Wall of Illusion
2 Trap Master
3 Man-Eater Bug
3 Soul Exchange
1 Pot of Greed
1 Card Destruction
1 Last Will
1 Monster Reborn
1 Change of Heart
1 Raigeki
1 Dark Hole
2 Fissure
2 Swords of Revealing Light
3 Trap Hole
1 Reinforcements
1 Waboku
And in side deck you had either Soul Exchanges + Tributes + Just Desserts + Stop Defenses / Acid Trap Holes in deck 1, or Battle Oxen / Neos + Hane-Hanes + De-Spells + Reinforcements + Wabokus in deck 2.
Sometimes you played things like 1 Sword of Dark Destruction main deck. Sometimes 1 Hane-Hane in main deck. Sometimes 1 Stop Def in main deck. Sometimes the Soul Exchange deck ran The Wicked Worm Beast with an additional Last Will copy. etc.
@@IamGrimalkin The 5 cards you can see at the end of the rule book were limited on day 1, along with Exodia. I don't remember any tournament where SoRL was not at 2 as well at that time. The first real tournament we had in France (the French Nationals) had the complete restricted list, with a small difference (Card Destruction was limited, while it was semi-limited in most other countries - and we had no Pot of Greed, as Abyss Corp chose to print it later to try to boost the sales of Spell Ruler).
@@IamGrimalkin No, but the tournament organiser (Abysse Corp for France, I don't know for the other countries) had a limited and semi-limited list on their Yu-Gi-Oh! website in April (and a limited and semi-limited list for the video game tourney on Stairway to the Destined Duel as well).
In OCG Hitotsu was meta because in 1999 at first, 1200 was the biggest atk monster of the normal summon type, up until Celtic Guardian showed up.
A lot of the odd perspectives, is because a bunch of these cards take their art directly from the manga versions.
Blue-Eyes
Lord of D.
Koumori Dragon(he has a full body)
etc
Also, Summoned Skull is in the Yugi Starter Deck.
You have a point and for some reason the TCG photos of the monsters are smaller than their OCG counterparts
@@tauseefkazi5854 Probably to make the text box slightly bigger. English tends to need more space than Japanese.
I remember going to a Yu-Gi-Oh event back in the real early days and I went with my 120 card deck in tow before the deck size limit was introduced.
i just love the designs of the old school cards,reminds me of playing forbidden memories as a kid.
The simplicity of the artwork is what I love the most about the old cards. Nowadays they are so crowded that it is often hard to make out what they're actually trying to be.
Less is more as they say. The artwork is simple yet striking. Really quite beautiful. You don't see that now
5:30 I can smell this
Mmm, fresh cards~
Same. And I'm not just joking. My brain seriously put that scent into my mind or some shit
@@j_c_93 I wasn't either. Well, the fact that I semi regularly unpack playing cards from some new board game helped, i guess
I started with this deck in 2002. I remember saving up all my allowance money over weeks and weeks to eventually buy three Starter Deck: Kaiba just to get three Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards, and I even succeeded in pulling a Blue-Eyes White Dragon from a Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon booster pack I got that winter in my Christmas stocking. I still splash Blue-Eyes into the decks I build for myself today.
Always wanted that Blue-Eyes artwork as a kid, but I got into the game around the time the other starter decks were introduced, with Kaiser Seahorse instead of Blue-Eyes.
I remember when I first got a starter deck as a kid. It was weird because I had this strange feeling that something good was about to happen as I was walking home from school that day. When I went into my bedroom, there it was - a Starter Deck Yugi. I was so overjoyed that my dad even took a pic of me holding the cards. Dark Magician, Soul Exchange, Card Destruction, Trap Hole, Dark Hole, Monster Reborn, Feral Imp, Baron of the Fiend Sword, Mystic Clown, Trap Master, De-Spell, and so on and so forth. It was the greatest thing I'd ever held in my hand.
I think this singular experience is part of why my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh card, as well as my favorite archetype, has always been - and remains to this day - Dark Magician.
Come forth, BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON
I remember me and my brother getting the Japanese kiba and Yugi decks at a store as little kids and thinking it was so damn cool it was in another language so we just played with "whoever had the highest numbers wins"
To me back in the day I thought Hane Hane was better, cause well if you bounce Blue-eyes or Dark Magician, it will be a bit harder to bring them out. If destroyed by Man Eater Bug then well there is a chance to bring it back with Monster Reborn.
but with Man Eater Bug YOU can bring it back with Monster Reborn, tho
@@Gytiss93 it's not a "you can". But a chance to bring it back. Back in the day, it's a lot more harder to get Monster Reborn to hand (unless you are playing Exodia Turbo). Unless, you where playing back to the 5D's era, then it's a lot more faster to get Monster Reborn. Back in the day, when it was extremely slow, there's a chance that you would never see Monster Reborn in the match. Yes in this day of era of Yu-Gi-Oh, it's more of a 60% chance of getting Monster Reborn.
@@cuauhtemocgonzales2530 Where were you getting these numbers from?
@@sun9708 compare the original and 5d's era of Yu-Gi-Oh. In 5d's there is a higher chance to get Monster Reborn to your hand. The original you have to play a gimmicky Exodia Turbo kind of deck to draw Monster Reborn.
@@cuauhtemocgonzales2530 But how did you reach the conclusion that you have a "60% chance to draw monster reborn?"
This video, the comments...I literally just time traveled in my head to specific detailed moments I thought I forgot about....I remember saving my allowance for my very first Kaiba starter deck. Me and buddies riding our bikes to our local game shop every Saturday morning, such good times.
Back when yu gi oh had simple rules and awesome looking monsters.
At 5:12, right before he opens it, it brings back so many memories and I can even smell that nostalgic scent coming of the newly opened deck of cards.
The Wicked Worm Beast is played in Yugi-Kaiba format due to its ability to dodge Fissure, Dark Hole, and Raigeki. Usually at 1-2 copies.
I'm pretty sure it's *not* played because it's got *1400 ATK.*
Very satisfying to watch the first deck I ever had when I was 8 to be opened again. My my how the game has changed so much since then. I remember playing with my brother for hours trying to get better and understand how to actually duel.
It’s difficult to say Blue Eyes vs Dark vs Exodia. Which one is more well known.
Dark Magician and Blue Eyes were prominent on the first episode but I feel everyone knows
“Exodia Obliterate!”
Tbh I think the heirarchy of mainstream recognizability goes:
Exodia
Blue-Eyes
Dark Magician
Actually my friend who is watching the anime didn't know what exodia was until I told him
In regards of the deck limit change:
there was a person at a German regional tournament who thoroughly abused this by bringing a deck with 2222 cards (enough for about 740 cards with 3 duplicates each). To make matters worse, as many cards as possible were added so that the deck had to be shuffled during the game as often as possible. While it was definitely poor sportsmanship, is was unquestionably legal, so Konami instituted the maximum deck size shortly thereafter.
The other best thing that’s cool about getting new cards was the smell of it
😂 so i am not the only one who act like this
Holy crap this is a blast from the past it's the first deck I'd ever had with Yugioh
The wicked worm beast is the original spirit. Lol its involved in a gimmicky otk.
Oh the jooooy
What's the ftk combo?
Kevin Hinojosa I mean otk, but it’s zombie world plus finite cards plus boneless tower plus the wicked worm beast.
youtube hitting me with a nostalgia trip here, will never forget the Christmas my brother got this deck and i got the yu gi starter deck, trying to recreate the s1 duel and playing each other over and over again GG
I remember I got this deck on Christmas and that shit came with two Blue Eyes.
Lies
Bra me too i bought my deck at the flea market i thought i was the only one who got 2 blue eyes lol good times bro.
I remember this were over the place back in the day, my parents bought me first the yugi then the Kaiba, I owned pretty much every starter deck... When the structured came I had like 1 r 2. At the end I gave all my cards to a friend who was still playing... Years later he passed and I had no heart to tell his parents that he had my cards, so I let them kept them.
Later I was told his sister sold the entire collection... :(
Man, the Kaiba starter deck. Brings back memories. Back when I was like 7. Good times?
I think you meant to put the question mark after 7 and the period after good times. How do you even do that. Douchebag?
@@ogloc4478 Shut up. Jeffrey.
so much nostalgia ! :) really enjoyed the video, thx for uploading
You should totally make an ASMR video of you reading that rulebook.
"I really want to cut back on the pack openings and stuff as much as possible"
*NOOOOOOOOOO!*
I really like your pack openings and videos of the same ilk, even though I hate other people's pack opening videos. It's not lower quality content to me, despite the fact that you might think so. Your insight into all the cards that you pull really makes these videos special to me, and I really forward to watching you open packs and talk about the history of the cards or related cards, what the future of these cards might be, why certain cards are good or bad, your perspective on how hard certain cards are to pull from a box or just get in general, and everything else in between. Even this Deck opening, full of cards that everyone knows and everyone had back in the day, taught me a few things I didn't know about the history of the game as well as your history with certain cards.
If anything, I'd suggest doing MORE of this type of video, with this sort of educational mindset in the forefront of your brain, rather than just being a side effect of you, being the analytical person you are, doing these types of videos. I think you'll feel better doing these types of videos when you realize just how much you have to offer talking about things like this.
Who else remembers Zoodiac format where people played 3x Kaiju Slumber, 2x Dark Hole, 1x Raigeki for 6 boardwipes, no meme, actually a great format
I remember getting both the yugi and kaiba decks and some boosters for my Birthday in October of that year, I had been watching the anime, and begged my mom for some cards so I could play with the kids at school that played it. Makes me miss the old schoolyard days. Here I am almost 30 and getting back into this game after many years away.
Everyone knows the most iconic card is Kuriboh.
I had all the starter decks back then and never used them to play with. I just liked collecting the cards and drawing the pictures. I'm so glad I still have all of the cards I got back then to this day.
"We're not gonna read the whole rulebook... only a madman would do that."
Dzeef's secret stream still haunts him
It hurts everytime he touches rough that Blue Eyes card without puting any sleeve on it 😅
That Blue-Eyes artwork is the only one that needs to exist, for it is the best.
@@justsomedangerbigfootwithweb It was reprinted with that artwork in 2018
Good memories, I remember my Mum taking me to tesco ( big supermarket in the UK) to buy this deck and my best fried was their who just so happened to have bought the yugi deck. Couldn't make it up haha. And we continued playing up intill about 2008ish. Only just started playing again with the games and legendary decks. Always a fun game. Even though I now have money to build top decks, I don't know many people who play so just play semi competeative on a casual setting. 17 years later baby haha
My first Deck was the Joey Deck. Still have my Red Eye.
No, I demand more pack openings. This is the only pack opening channel I watch, don't take this away from me, it's what you're meant to do!
That old kaiba starter deck was my very first deck, that was my start in yugioh
I was today years old when i found out where the lord of d's hands are
Edit: the wicked worm beast's effect is actually broken, you can use it for a rank 3 xyz or a synchro or tribute summon and then it gets added back to your hand by the end of the turn, this card is a card advantage engine i tell ya
i opened 3 of these, wish i had the brains to keep one sealed but what did i know i was like 7
GoodNight Hawk same
Had the Yugi, Kaiba, Joey and Pegasus starter decks back then. Had no idea how to play and didnt play properly until 10 years later but it was still one of my best memories of the game.
Not even 1st Ed. 😉
U dick lol
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I had a 1st Edition Kaiba deck, and I remember thinking the fact that I had a card printed as Dark Assassin rather than Dark Assailant meant that I was sitting on a goddamned gold mine.
(I wasn't.)
My world was defined with Force of the Breaker and the Volcanic archetype that is still awaiting its new support to arrive
Day 80 of waiting for the pyro king to receive new support
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Christmas 2002 I got 3 of these decks from 3 different relatives and it was fantastic lol
so much nostalgia seeing this deck again. Makes me miss the slower pace yugioh had. Tribute summons were a big deal unlike today where you can special summon 27 monsters before your battle phase
The place where I get my cards is SO outdated they still have 1st edition legend of blue eyes boosters lol.
If that is true i wonder how much they want for one booster pack ^^
@@trickytiger1604 its like 4 or 5 euros
@@Raiko01 buy me one and ship it and ill pay you $20
hello good sir then you should definetly buy them all and sell them. you will make a lot of Money
That's a lie
Enjoy all of your videos, including pack openings. I’d like to see some of your old deck profiles and how you go about building a deck. Trying to update mine a bit so my wife and I can play each other casually.
Me an my brother in the kitchen I had starter Yugi he had Kaiba. The epic battles we had
absolutely awesome video
its almost 4:30 am and i had to crawl out of bed and turn on my computer and wait for it to boot up just so i could come comment on here about invigoration, i mean come on man
The mat literally said, "Fusion Deck Zone". Nice. Also used to call spell cards "magic cards". Beautiful.
Geez, I remember my uncle bought me 3x of each Yugi and Kaiba starter so I could make decks with full playsets of the best cards from each. And I remember my uncle played too and playmats lamonated to a folding peice of foamcore, I remember thinking that was the coolest thing ever.
Hooly shit thats cool
I had the 2002 Yugi Starter deck back then.
I remember going to my nearest Kmart to buy the Kaiba and Yugi starter decks. My uncle taught me how to play and gave me a whole shoe box of cards to strengthen the decks. I went on to buy a small red case that came with the Ancient Gear structure deck, and the rest is history.
I still have my foil 1st ed blue eyes. Been in a sleeve since.
Liar
@@tom4705 lol :)
This was my very first deck. I still remember walking into Toys R Us as a kid and seeing those Yugi and Kaiba decks on a stand at the end of an isle and being like "woah they've actually made the cards from the show!!"
Every effect monster is broken in LOB format, wow
Trap Master was at least, unironically.
This is incredibly nostalgic for me. This deck and the yugi starter deck are the first two decks I bought when I started right around the time when metal raiders came out. Man I was so bad at deck building back then. We didn’t have a maximum deck size and I just smashed the two decks together. Also back then dragon capture jar was a huge annoyance for a great many players and I abused the crap out of it
I can’t be the only one that laughed when he said “Lord of D” 😂😂😂
That was my nickname in school.
6:35 You just blew my mind. I never noticed his hands in the foreground there!!
I was today's year old, when I learned this
I feel like the battle city starters we're the ones that *really* defined Yu-Gi-Oh
This was my first deck and I had a blast with yugioh. Made a lot of good friends and memories along the way thanks to this game. I really appreciate the game because it allowed me to be creative and more social. Unfortunately, some degenerate stole my Kaiba deck. I’m seriously thinking of buying this deck just to have it again for the memories.
"20 monsters, 10 traps, 10 spells"
Man, I remember when I did like, 40 monsters 10 traps 10 spells.
Also, "heTAtsu mi Giant"
"Hitotsume" is a japanese word. Of course it is not pronounced "Hetatsumi".
@@nekomata2186 I'm making fun of how he pronounced it.
Just came across this video, thanks for posting it, it's such a great reminder and nostalgia, I remember when I was a kid and me and my best friend first going at my place to beg my parents and then at his to give us the money to buy starter decks him buying Kaiba started deck and mine was Yugi's, I always remember how excited we were when we found Dark Magician and Blue Eyes in the deck, good times :')
Didnt yugi have kamori dragon with his first duel with pegasus
No, that's seto
Yeah. Yugi did
@@chefboiardeeznutz9881 he did in the video duel where pegasus predicted all his moves.
My very first deck was the Joey starter deck, a week before I finished my primary school my step dad promised to get me a deck once I finished my school exams he would give me a deck as a present and he gave me my first booster back as a tease, a week later I got my Joey deck and fell in love with it, Red Eyes is still one of my favourite monsters today.
I miss how the cards where actually “Magic” cards and not spell cards.
in French they still named as "Carte Magie" which is a literal translation of "Magic Card"
The Wicked Worm Beast was designed to be used to constantly be able to sacrifice it to see what face down cards your opponent has, or as a face down defense monster so you always had something to block incoming damage with.
okay i'm desperately curious about hitotsu me giant now tho
When he was released (in the ocg) his 1200 atk was the highest of any non-tribute summoned monster
This brought back some great memories! Thank you for doing this!
I bought the Yugi one... also the Pegasus one... it seems i choose poorly.
Kaiba was my first. Metal Raiders was my first booster, but I got around to cracking packs of Legend and the Yugi deck.