Player from Germany here! Those news really did make me sad when I found out. Speed Duels actually got me into Yu-Gi-Oh as a whole. The actual TCG was too overwhelming for a beginner like me, but when Speed Duels dropped me and my buddies (they were already into the TCG) picked up the first wave of Speed Duel starter decks. I'd build a fairly decent Dark Magician deck and my friends taught me everything I needed to know. Eventually through Speed Duels I also tried out the TCG, watched all the animes and became a huge Yu-Gi-Oh fan in general. Still hoping this is just some production error because Speed Duels hold a special place in my heart❤
keep supporting the series, it's the production of Konami we hate but we still have a large Speed Duel Community online to play and support 🎉 lets just hope for the best P.S: Lets hope Konami Make a Speed Duel Digital Game…!! (non-Duel Links) with codes to every physical product and we have a huge playerbase coming back, Konami.. 😢 (Casual Format for Yugi-boomers and a quick break for Modern players)
Glad to see i'm not the only person who has done this, i love the game and making cool decks but than i realize wow i have noone irl to play speed duel with
I feel you so hard on this I tend to make multiple decks around similar power level incase friends show up only for friends to have no interest in it and the ones that do live hella far :(
It has always felt like konami themselves viewed stuff like speed duel and duel links as the alternative formats players ask for. Even though I would like to imagine that getting rid of speed duel just means "making room" for rush, time wizard boxes for edison, or the much asked for modern casual alternate format like MTG's commander that you guys have brought up so many times recently, I think konami will instead just never bring anything else over cuz speed duel didn't succeed to reach the sales numbers they wanted.
I’m a British Yugiboomer who loved Speed Duel - it was great to play with my brothers as a bit of ol’ nostalgia, so this is a real shame. However, I’ve noticed that the recent GX sets have ended up getting heavily discounted for a while. So, I wonder how they were selling compared to the Duel Monsters era.
I've tried to collect every Speed Duel card from the different sets as a nostalgia kick, and this is just heartbreaking. I want to keep the hope that it'll be released later in the year, but trusting Konami US isn't exactly a good decision.
Idk man, the speed duel cards feel really fake. And it feels like I just bought them off a flea market than an actual store. I love secret rares, but not in a speed duel format.
A big reason for people to not play or purchase speed products is because of the rule that you can only play cards with the speed duel print on it (why should i be forced to buy a card i already have just because of the print in the text box)
@@kuroginava8498 its to limit the card pool for balancing around different tactics, its not a perfect solution by any means but it's probably the best option they had. Most people aren't going to want to mull through a card list of compatible speed duel cards online to build their deck, the average joe is probably just going to have a separate pile of cards at home with the speed duel cards in it.
From the EU here, the ONLY product I buy direct from Konami is speed duel boxes. everything else I buy is singles from my local shop or online. Such a shame, was really looking forward to this box in particular to play the neo spacians. Very sad situation, going to be a nightmare trying to get a box imported. :(
While speed duels being phased out is sad, not having any major Yu-Gi-Oh events in Europe in the coming months is much more worrying. Usually we would've had at least some YCS by now but we have nothing until mid/end June. They're definitely cutting back on the European market.
@@axelt6312 with the japanese having no children who'll play their card game in the future if they cut the other markets xd i'd not put my money in konami stock if it was their plan
I really like RUSH's Card Layout. Enough that I'm slowly working on converting all the OCG/TCG cards to it. Bit slow process as there are 13,000+ Cards.
Check if whatever graphics software you're using has a Data Merge feature. I'd also look for some kind of publicly available YGO card database or API so you can pull all the text on individual cards into a database or spreadsheet. It'll make your life much easier than doing everything by hand.
im from portugal and just started playing speed duel this year cuz my locals had a small scene. ive been enjoying it a lot and love the fact you can actually pick up multiple decks for less than the price of 1 tcg deck very sad to see this tbh
A que ser honesto, a nivel nacional mesmo temos muitos poucos a jogar. E mais comum formato tradicional de Yugioh...a nivel geral ate aqueles torneios grandes la de fora(Speed Duel) tem um número muito pequeno de jogares para eventos de tal dimensão. E para confirmar mesmo a morte, tens sites piratas como Dueling Book que e acessivel a todos com um computador minimamente barato e acesso a todas as cartas, e mesmo assim raramente ves jogadores. Admito que o produto nao e ruim de todo, e nostalgico. Existe um servidor de discord para Speed Duel e ai convidas pessoas para jogar contigo, mas por norma e uma cidade fantasma.
@@JohnnyFish971 I have heard that many are also using English cards instead of Portuguese. Is that true? I saw talk of that being the reason for changes to support for the eurozone.
@@residentgreymust People even outside my own country rather buy english cards(any tcg) its more valuable for trades it any players Native language of said countries arent interesting for other places Like you playing it German or France cards, not many understand that😅
Since almost no one uses the second main phase somehow, it is still a good way to learn how to play the TCG/OCG format. It is just a bit of work to handle LP difference and that second phase
I don't think they ever really wanted an alternative format. They do this to make a quick buck, but it's almost always in service of driving traffic back to modern. That's what they wanted with Master Duel, but it's taken on a life of it's own and exists outside of what it was originally intended to be.
@spicymemes7458 yeah 100% it def started as a nostalgia bait cash grab. Its a shame tho its a fun format and whoevers been designing it with the card pool and products has done a great job at making a fun and affordable alternate format. The local card shop I used to regular had a way bigger flesh and blood community compared to ygo and a lot of the flesh and blood players would show up for speed duels
Unfortunately there no 1 in my area that plays SD/OTC and every Walmart and Target I've been to hasn't had any Yu-Gi-Oh products... its all DBZ, Pokémon, and MTG...
I'm in Europe and I really like the speed duel secrets for my edison decks. Card Trooper, mst, dandy and gaia plate are so nice that I am trying to get them some way or another. So I'm sad that speed duel is getting cancelled in the EU.
The speed duel boxes are in my opinion, the perfect way to collect/play yugioh. I always buy three of each of the gx ones and collect the nostalgia decks. I'm so sad i can't get the fossil and neo spacian decks
Im loving speed duels. I ended up quitting master duel for duel links and I'm having way more fun. I was actually considering checking it out in real life.
Duel Links was amazing up until Synchros, it felt like classic Yugioh but modernized. I stopped playing it after it got to Xyz because to me that's when power creep starts hurting the game. Well, that and it got old to keep making smurf accounts due to how f2p unfriendly the game gets after you play the same account for a while. But it was great fun while I played it.
Even though it wasn't officially released in Belgium, a few of us still managed to get our hands on a few copies of this box. It's sad, because the format is actually pretty fun with the skill cards etc...
I do think there's room for at least two more sets if they were to conclude with GX, since Yubel and Viper have both been teased through Skills, as has Dark World. I also wouldn't be surprised to see a Duelist Kingdom Box at some point.
I started to play with Speedduel GX when I came back into YGO from my hiatus. 2006-2019 or so :D We played almost every week Speed Duel Remote or at least remote games. Also it was easy to pick up and play with friends that are not really into YGO. (Speed Duel is just easy to play, also we only got fusions). I even got like 3 copies of every set, to build some decks for the normal format and upgraded it with the new support. (Ancient Gear was my first real deck after the break + learn how to play link and XYZ). Speed Duel is also the reason I relived the time I did not play. (Stopped before GX) - so i was happy to see how this format was. Also I hoped to see like how it will change when maybe syncro or xyz got added. I'm in Europe and super sad that this is not released. Been hypend for all the decks in the box :( I still try to import a set, but it costs like 20$ + 20$ to ship and idk how much import costs. So my only option is to get one set, to add it to the collection and play it. In the end I can use it in friendly matches - or kitchen table ygo - but no locals/remote competition. Weird move from Konami :( PS: I always loved and watched the house tournaments. That was also my idea to get the box, just to play with friends at home with those decks. Greetings from Europe / Austria :)
I play speed duel in the UK as I came late to yugioh and struggling to get head round it. I was told about speed duel and it helped me pick up the bigger yugioh as I call it better help understand mechanics of it. I now teach special need children and adults how to play yugioh through speed duel decks as simple to learn and understand. I was looking forward to this boxset when saw it as I have all the other speed duel boxes and really hope to get this product if released in uk
I only play speed duel right now mostly casually with my family and friends. It was a lot easier to get my friends and family into this than regular yugioh and after my local scene kinda collapsed and mostly went to other card games (mainly one piece) this was were I got my fix. I live in the uk and was excited for the new box but with this cancelled I feel like it’s going to be even harder to find games :(
@@JohnnyFish971not only Speed duel, Europe still has no YCS announcement. I think yugioh Is going to sink at this rate over here, especially with stuff like One Piece taking the TCG sphere by storm.
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The conversation around speed duel always goes like "This is very cool" and "It should help newcomers to learn about the game". But after getting all the "cool" and "learning", everybody moves to the "real" game. You can have a stand-alone product (like starter set just release), but cannot be a trading card game like good old YugiOh TCG
Me and my friends are working on an alternate speed duel format where it is like normal yugioh but using the speed duel card pool and we don't run the skills but like call of the haunted and zombie master we added to the card pool because they are directly available only as a skill tho (we also limit them to 1 since they are once per game in actual speed duels )
I just wanted Speed Duel 5Ds. :( I play casual anime decks with friends and we use the skill cards from speed duel because they often do goofy anime things. I really want 5Ds skill cards...
The English dub is already over for Sevens and Go-Rush has yet to have one episode dubbed, despite almost reaching its second year of airing by now and pretty much reaching its conclusion - even the Sevens Switch game hasn't received its DLC outside of Asia - it's frankly way too late to release a physical Rush Duel format worldwide without it being one big product dump right now. All we're getting from Rush Duels is through Duel Links, it's clear that's Konami's only focus with that format.
Speed Duels is the best Yugioh format ever made IMO, because I can play it while still playing other TCGs. Keeping up with playsets in Speed Duel is so easy/cheap. I can keep my Modern/Pioneer MtG deck updated as new sets come out, Speed Duels stay up to date, all while actively playing Lorcana exclusively as a 2-color player. It's a really great casual way to play Yugioh. Like the "pauper" format of MtG or something. I love the smaller deck sizes, I like the smaller/curated meta, skill cards are insanely fun. It's the best way to LARP the anime, ostensibly- Which is exactly what we all wanted to do as kids. Speed Duels is FOR the Yugi-boomers.
Thanks for this video. It's pretty sad for our speed duelists fellas in Europe, they have also awesome speed duel content creators. I want to clarify some points: One, this product was never posted on konami's yugioh speed duel products in EU web page, it was just assumed it would come, just as the former ones has been released for them in different languages; for example since day one here in my country (Colombia, yup Latinoamerica is getting this product as well) we knew the product wouldn't be release in other languages, we talked to distribuitors back then. Second, this might be due to the increase in taxes and shipping costs V.S. OTS's selling numbers, as result, here and some countries are selling this box for $25 usd, in the EU would be a similar price and probably higher, which wouldn't be acceptable for a mini box! people would stop even more purchases from OTSs and buy the box in Amazon since just one box should be around $20 with free shipping (there are not taxes for small imports), so Konami forbidden the cards to avoid this or smuggling. I do not think Speed Duel will be finished, the production and distribution lines just need a restructure, so meanwhile this products will be on hold for EU or other languages :c
I was very sceptical for this midterm (don't like Neo Spacians archetype, love just Mole) and was not fun of Arkana fate-based deck, but then I saw quite good skills + nice Dino and Fossil decks and just wanted to buy this (really liked idea of playing simple YuGiOh with friends who like card games but not things like fresh YuGiOh). I am sad... if they would end it and announce this - would be ok! If they would add last midterm product for final duel of DM saga (Atem cards, maybe more cards for Yami Bakura, some Blue-Eyes support or even reprints of gods because it is hard to buy Battle City box) - even better. I invested more than $100 in speed duel and I am happy about this nostalgic collection which can be played just out of the box, even without deckbuilding but... it is very bad way of ending this Konami! I hope Paul is right and EU will have it later. PS I will not play Rush duels, not my vibe. I would prefer playing 5DS era
I have all sets and me and my friend use them as a way to still enjoy yugioh. We use the pre built decks and have character tournaments its fun :) had a lot of game time with just the battle city box alone
Tbh this seems worrying for EU more then just product because They didnt get any YCS this year really and now they are getting less product beyond just the jump promos. This is kinda scary.
Oh damn, speed duels was also great from a collecting point for me, because If I forgot to check the game for a year, there were only a few sets released and I could catch up on it. I hope this is just economy and supply lines being rough and we're returning back to europe getting stuff a little late. It's not great, but we can deal with it I think.
Honestly, even if they were axing Speed Duels (which I hope they aren't), I don't think it would have anything to do with Rush Duel, for one simple reason that Rush Duel doesn't have an audience beyond the subset of regular Yugioh players who are also into it. The Rush Duel anime dub got released and I don't think it resonated with kids, so it doesn't look like Rush Duel would have the potential to bring in a younger audience, which is the whole purpose to its existence in Japan. Plus, releasing Rush Duels TCG would require waaaaaay more manpower than supporting Speed Duel does, for a couple of reasons: 1. We get Speed Duel products maybe twice a year, everyone understands it's a side product and is okay with it. Rush Duel would be a completely new game that would warrant more frequent product releases. 2. Card curation for Rush Duel would be a difficult task, deciding what to import as you try to catch up on 4 years of OCG Rush Duel card releases while maintaining a healthy and fun format. Meanwhile, deciding what to put in new Speed Duel products seems like it requires way fewer brain cells. Same with tournaments and ban lists, it's clear that little effort is being put in this on the Speed Duel side of things, but you would not have this luxury with Rush Duels. So, to bring over Rush Duels, you'd have to dedicate way more people and overall resources, for a format whose target audience (given the failure of the Rush Duel anime to capture a younger audience) is the same as the target audience of Speed Duels -- already established (and thereby older) Yugioh fans who are sick and tired of modern Yugioh. Personally, I love both Speed Duels and Rush Duels. I have bought every single box release since the Battle City Box and watched all the Rush Duel anime, played the Switch game, and even using the atrocious client that is Duel Links to play Rush Duels online. I don't write this as a Rush Duel hater, because I couldn't be anything further from that. The announcement a couple of days back that Elemental Heroes would be making their way into Rush Duel got me hella excited. But if a format as inexpensive to make as Speed Duel is failing, then I cannot possibly see how Rush Duel would fare any better.
Konami's keeps releasing spin-offs to capitalize on DM-era nostalgia. They keep going back to the same well and it's starting to run dry. It's he TCG version of Disney's live-action adaptations, except we're on the fourth or fifth cycle now.
I wonder if it's a shift in the place of production in another country and the logistics force them to delay it in Europe. I can only hope because more casual formats are always a positive for a card game.
I enjoy speed duels. Not so much when it first began, but when they switched to boxes of decks I got interested. If they are stopping at GX, I kind hope they at least finish GX and release some products based on seasons 3 and 4
There was a big delay in distribution for this pack here in Brazil, I'm still waiting for the Midterm Destruction box to arrive at my local store. I hope they get it figured out and back in full power, cause Speed Duel got me back into yugioh after many years of not playing, and if it goes away I don't know if I have much incentive to keep playing yugioh at all.
I live in the uk and I’m so Gutted I’ve been collecting all these speed duel boxes making decks on my fave characters from gx I was so excited to use the neo spacians
Konami *REALLY* needs to be doing product for casual formats. We either gotta get dedicated Time Wizard product or some additional *supported* formats to use our cards in like in Magic.
Oddtoxin (he'a pillar of the Speed Duel community on YT) has pointed out that the cards released in this latest set could serve as setup for the 5ds era, with support for junk and debris in particular. I don't think speed duels will ever want to change the board, so I highly doubt anything beyond Xyz, but there may be more sets in the works even if this is a sign of the format winding down. Honestly, so long as Konami continues to utilize the banlist, the format can be kept relatively fresh for a long time without new releases.
I feel like Konami sees Speed Duel as just getting in the way of Rush Duel being released in TCG regions, so there's a real chance they might just drop it.
Ngl I’m not huge on the speed duel format but did like picking them up for making fun decks and the secrets. In a way I’m kinda hoping that speed duel get swapped out for rush duel instead 🤞🏻
On the subject of print quality, it absolutely is noticeably bad in this set. Actually posted about this on Twitter but had picked up 3 boxes of the set from my OTS and all 3 had highly damaged SCRs, while one of the sets of commons had ink smudges in every text box. Never had issues like this in the past with Speed Duel products
if speed duel is ending and they don't go the rush duel route, it would be interesting to see if they started producing time wizard format cubes like the speed duel boxes.
From America. It sucks that the newest set for Speed Duels can't be enjoyed in the U.K. Although I don't care for the format, it's still a great format for people to play outside of the meta and it shouldn't just die for you guys. Hopefully Konomi changes their mind and releases the set.
It worries me not really for me but for my friend. I’ve pretty much quit YGO entirely for Pokémon ever since he moved states away, so he hasn’t been keeping up with the game much either but wants to play ygo. Speed duel is a good substitute for him and he’s been seeing more success with it than the traditional game. It would suck if it gets cut.
Greetings from Germany. From my own (totally anecdotal) observations over the last year I could sadly see Konami axe Speed Duel over poor sales. There hadn´t been lots of Speed Duel on shelves lately and most of it was on clearance. I got a Duel Academy Box for 10€.
@@janithernest3929 I'm HOPING it still does come out in physical form, my theory is that currently, the Duel Links version is a "testing ground" for it in the states. Some of the third-party Duel Simulators already have Rush as a playable format, YGO Omega is one.
This is a sad thought. I love Duel Links and have been so excited for Speed to catch up to Zexal era so I can play my decks offline. I will say, I thought all the Speed boxes have weird quality cards, not just this latest GX box. Definitely different than TCG, and in my opinion don’t feel as good to play with, but that could just be personal preference.
I was honestly getting sick of the speed duel sets JUST being GX, but it’s a great format that got my friends back into YuGiOh. None of us play competitively but it’s a great time to just have a 4 man game
rush duels has A LOT of nostalgia factor - lots of legacy archetypes like dark magician, gaia, cyber dragon, magnets, blue-eyes, red-eyes and etc have their own original rush support that make them a viable deck in the format. in fact a lot of cydra players want the rush support in advanced so badly 😂 of course there are also lots of rush original decks too!
Red eyes in rush duels is what I WISH it were in advanced format. It's so sad the deck is steaming trash in the actual game and borderline meta in rush duels.
Rush duel invoke the aggressivity and speed that the modern deck have without making new players overwhelmed, it should be the main thing that tcg promote instead paper draft speed duel that slow ass and boring which is not representation of how yugioh played in majority of its lifespan, especially in ocg.
@@r3zaful Say you have no idea how Speed plays without telling me you have no idea how Speed plays. Speed Duels is filled with fast and aggressive decks. We've got Dark Gaia, we've got regular Gaia (who you summon without tributes and gets piercing), we've got CA (who has a 3500 attack Izana), we've got Fossils now, Neos has turned into a Cyber Dragon, Dinos are very aggressive, Roids are a full on combo deck with Mixeroid and Card Trooper and the list goes on. Do we have slow control decks? Sure, but the turns aren't glacial and its rare to even get close to hitting time. So, "slow ass and boring" is not *at all* how Speed is played.
Konami Make a Speed Duel Digital Game please…!! (non-Duel Links) with codes to every physical product and we have a huge playerbase coming back Konami... 😢 (Casual Format for Yugi-boomers and a quick break for Modern players)
I'm of 2 minds about it. On the one hand it may just be that they either don't feel it'll sell in Europe anymore or that they don't want to or can't put the time and effort and money and such into printing for the different European Languages anymore aside from English (which is why they moved production to the US), or potentially both at the same time (not wanting to print for the different languages because they don't think it'll sell anymore). On the other hand, I feel it could signify a larger shift in the Yugioh landscape, eventually possibly leading to the end of the franchise altogether. the main game is often said to be too complex for new players to get into, and older players are dropping off because of the game just growing stale in general, especially with the lack of formats and every duel lasting 2 turns max. Not to mention the cost of buying the cards needed just to be able to even stand a chance and then those same cards becoming irrelevant in the very next set or banlist. They also have been slowing down significantly on producing video games for the franchise, as well as shifting the entire focus of the Anime from Regular Duels to Rush Duels and not having most Rush Duel stuff available outside of Japan, and shifting the Manga to a focus on only OCG and Rush Duels. It's also important to note that anything exciting announced about the franchise recently doesn't end up being as exciting in the end like Master Duel being announced and then people not having as much fun and stuff with it as they thought and it wasn't what they expected it to be and only use it as a glorified duel simulator with friends and people online, or like that recent Yugioh Chronicles trailer that was awesome, that was just randomly put out but it doesn't seem like anything is going to come of it despite people wanting it.
I Love Speed Duels, It's something I constantly play. As an European, the fact that the Product isn't released in in EU is a such punch to the gut... I'm gonna have them ordered from the US just so I can experiment and play with the new stuff, maybe mix some old and new stuff togheter. It's gonna be very costly, but hey, I want to have the new Stuff so what can a man do...
Add to list of odd decisions. I learned that that Konami changes their OCG tournament rules recently. In that you have to be a Japanese citizen to participate in official OCG tournaments
I’ve been hoping they bring Rush Duel to the TCG for years now. I hope Konami doesn’t see middling Speed Duel sales as an indication they shouldn’t launch Rush in the TCG-they’re completely different games! Rush brings a lot of fresh artwork/mechanics alongside classic monsters whereas Speed Duel is solely nostalgic.
I play duel links and i actually thought speed duel would have been pretty much the same but im surprised its only DM - GX thats crazy. Imo people should just play "speed format" with tcg cards but with the same limited/ ban list. Pretty much duel links but irl
What are speed duels like in Japan? If it hasn't been doing well there, then that could be a reason why they're dropping it in other areas. Unless they're doing fine there, then idk.
imo since they made it a point to make duel links be labeled as "Speed Duels" and "Rush Duels" They're basically phasing out the physical product since it didn't pop off as they thought it would. I wouldn't mind Rush, but if the duel links are anything to go off on, The initial cards are pretty stale I'd like for more of the more recent fusion stuff to be at the forefront etc.
I’m a yugiboomer to preface but if they really are getting rid of speed duel I hope they do something to address the segment of the audience that really wants to play but can’t jive with how far modern has gone. I recently got back into Pokémon and jumping back into the tcg feels so much more inviting than yugioh. I know it’s been talked about a lot but they seriously need to figure that out, even from a company standpoint they’re leaving so much money on the table.
What you guys need to do is be like Smogon with competitive Pokémon handheld games and come up with and support your own balanced system for the fans. It doesn’t need to be official to be legit. Also Pokémon handheld games have a system that allows you to use certain Pokémon based on different tier lists and the tiers are individually competed in. They still ban moves and Pokémon but also just take them out of the lower levels to balance those lower tiers or move them up or down as needed. I’m not saying do it exactly like how they do it but the point is you have people balancing and tweaking the game unofficially and it’s more popular than the official rules
I wasn't interested at Speed duel as a format but I really liked the reprint of old card especially the one that comme in Secret Rare, I was really waiting for the Speed Duel box supposed to cover the late GX and expected 5Ds speed duel to come after to see card we haven't seen since a while to play some Edison. I was really hyped to get the Gaia Plate reprint, learning that we will probably never get the set and the reprint sucked so much, especially since we didn't get a proper reason for that. Really disappointed once again by Konami
Ive always wanted yugioh to change up the cards a little bit (full arts etc.). But after playing rush duels on duel links, i really dislike the change. The cards clash with the original style and the gameplay removes most resource management and card advantage aspects of the game. I'm a filthy link climb spammer but i love goat, eddison and i adore speed duels
As an EU player (and as someone who'd buy the GX boxes), I'm glad to see it go, means we can get rush which is a million times more interesting As for the announcement from konami, I think people are blowing it out of proportion, even if the speed duel cards didn't appear on that list they'd still be illegal for play in these regions as per their rules surrounding them (hell most of the time cards aren't even removed from that list, before this update "Go DDD rage" and "Odd-eyes Phantasma dragon" where featured despite being legal in these areas for over 2 years at that point)
The quality of the cards also dropped off. They probably shifted to TCG standards which is a shame because previous Speed Duel sets had amazing quality.
_Wishing for a SPEEDY recovery to this situation! You get it?_
i love speed duel but if it's the end of it i hope rush duels come to the tcg
Yugioh is already dead, speed duel is just a futile attempt of resistance to bringing some customers back, it will just go all downhill from now on
don't diss our game like that it's still alive not dead there's a lot of people that play it u realise@@TK11223
I need to catch up on the previous speed duel house tournaments 😅
@@TK11223nothing is dead. The economy is hurting incomes heavily.
Player from Germany here! Those news really did make me sad when I found out. Speed Duels actually got me into Yu-Gi-Oh as a whole. The actual TCG was too overwhelming for a beginner like me, but when Speed Duels dropped me and my buddies (they were already into the TCG) picked up the first wave of Speed Duel starter decks. I'd build a fairly decent Dark Magician deck and my friends taught me everything I needed to know. Eventually through Speed Duels I also tried out the TCG, watched all the animes and became a huge Yu-Gi-Oh fan in general. Still hoping this is just some production error because Speed Duels hold a special place in my heart❤
Same here, it was just a nice way to get some older cards and I was really looking forward to getting Arcana Force reprints.
keep supporting the series, it's the production of Konami we hate but we still have a large Speed Duel Community online to play and support 🎉 lets just hope for the best
P.S: Lets hope Konami Make a Speed Duel Digital Game…!! (non-Duel Links) with codes to every physical product and we have a huge playerbase coming back, Konami.. 😢 (Casual Format for Yugi-boomers and a quick break for Modern players)
I buy the speed duel sets in 3 so I can make low powered decks to play with friends.
Too bad I don't have friends.
Glad to see i'm not the only person who has done this, i love the game and making cool decks but than i realize wow i have noone irl to play speed duel with
That's what we do with them. You can't get new players to play otherwise
But you saved money on the decks so you can just buy friends 🙃
I feel you so hard on this I tend to make multiple decks around similar power level incase friends show up only for friends to have no interest in it and the ones that do live hella far :(
Did the same in the past but where i live ygo is dead the stores dont even sell packs since over 8 years so nobody is playing anymore
It has always felt like konami themselves viewed stuff like speed duel and duel links as the alternative formats players ask for. Even though I would like to imagine that getting rid of speed duel just means "making room" for rush, time wizard boxes for edison, or the much asked for modern casual alternate format like MTG's commander that you guys have brought up so many times recently, I think konami will instead just never bring anything else over cuz speed duel didn't succeed to reach the sales numbers they wanted.
I’m a British Yugiboomer who loved Speed Duel - it was great to play with my brothers as a bit of ol’ nostalgia, so this is a real shame. However, I’ve noticed that the recent GX sets have ended up getting heavily discounted for a while. So, I wonder how they were selling compared to the Duel Monsters era.
I've tried to collect every Speed Duel card from the different sets as a nostalgia kick, and this is just heartbreaking.
I want to keep the hope that it'll be released later in the year, but trusting Konami US isn't exactly a good decision.
I agree my fav format is rush duel though how do you feel about rush duels
ngl speed duel cards feel like way better quality than normal tcg cards, itd be a shame if it goes away.
This set is scuffed
Friends in the US opened the new box and the print quality of cards had gone down drastically (Secrets with marks and even common are affected)
@@asimhussain8716 a lot of secrets are scratched up, bad name prints, and miscut
@@asimhussain8716 see if you can get a refund. I would play mod played cards from 2002 over these. So disappointed.
Idk man, the speed duel cards feel really fake. And it feels like I just bought them off a flea market than an actual store. I love secret rares, but not in a speed duel format.
speed duel is my favourite format by far. it's really sad to see it basically get forgotten by konami and ignored by players
A big reason for people to not play or purchase speed products is because of the rule that you can only play cards with the speed duel print on it (why should i be forced to buy a card i already have just because of the print in the text box)
@@kuroginava8498 its to limit the card pool for balancing around different tactics, its not a perfect solution by any means but it's probably the best option they had. Most people aren't going to want to mull through a card list of compatible speed duel cards online to build their deck, the average joe is probably just going to have a separate pile of cards at home with the speed duel cards in it.
From the EU here, the ONLY product I buy direct from Konami is speed duel boxes. everything else I buy is singles from my local shop or online. Such a shame, was really looking forward to this box in particular to play the neo spacians. Very sad situation, going to be a nightmare trying to get a box imported. :(
While speed duels being phased out is sad, not having any major Yu-Gi-Oh events in Europe in the coming months is much more worrying. Usually we would've had at least some YCS by now but we have nothing until mid/end June. They're definitely cutting back on the European market.
i legit think yu-gi-oh is dying here and konami think about pulling off from the eu market
@@axelt6312 with the japanese having no children who'll play their card game in the future if they cut the other markets xd
i'd not put my money in konami stock if it was their plan
I really like RUSH's Card Layout.
Enough that I'm slowly working on converting all the OCG/TCG cards to it.
Bit slow process as there are 13,000+ Cards.
God speed o7
Check if whatever graphics software you're using has a Data Merge feature. I'd also look for some kind of publicly available YGO card database or API so you can pull all the text on individual cards into a database or spreadsheet. It'll make your life much easier than doing everything by hand.
@@drunkcrunkfranken That's way beyond my head.
Unfortunately I dont remotely have those kind of technical skills.
Many are already converted
im from portugal and just started playing speed duel this year cuz my locals had a small scene. ive been enjoying it a lot and love the fact you can actually pick up multiple decks for less than the price of 1 tcg deck
very sad to see this tbh
Do pipe up! We all need you to.
A que ser honesto, a nivel nacional mesmo temos muitos poucos a jogar.
E mais comum formato tradicional de Yugioh...a nivel geral ate aqueles torneios grandes la de fora(Speed Duel) tem um número muito pequeno de jogares para eventos de tal dimensão.
E para confirmar mesmo a morte, tens sites piratas como Dueling Book que e acessivel a todos com um computador minimamente barato e acesso a todas as cartas, e mesmo assim raramente ves jogadores.
Admito que o produto nao e ruim de todo, e nostalgico.
Existe um servidor de discord para Speed Duel e ai convidas pessoas para jogar contigo, mas por norma e uma cidade fantasma.
@@JohnnyFish971 I have heard that many are also using English cards instead of Portuguese. Is that true? I saw talk of that being the reason for changes to support for the eurozone.
@@residentgreymust People even outside my own country rather buy english cards(any tcg) its more valuable for trades it any players
Native language of said countries arent interesting for other places
Like you playing it German or France cards, not many understand that😅
@@JohnnyFish971 I still love how there is an Elemental HERO Escuridão because of the final word for shadow.
Speed Duel is going to be my intro to yugioh. Not sure if it's the best way to start but I got one of the old starters.
Its a simplified version of tge game. Definitely a good way to ease yourself into yugioh
What's the most popular format?
@@TheBearNecessiTCGstandard/modern. But Edison is probably more popular I think.
Since almost no one uses the second main phase somehow, it is still a good way to learn how to play the TCG/OCG format. It is just a bit of work to handle LP difference and that second phase
@@kalani2016 honestly off the internet i've never seen someone even mention or know what edison even is.
I enjoy Speed Duel. I hope it is not the end, and as a person from the UK, I'm sad we are not getting it yet. thingers crossed
I really liked speed duels as a format, sad Konami never pushed it
I don't think they ever really wanted an alternative format. They do this to make a quick buck, but it's almost always in service of driving traffic back to modern. That's what they wanted with Master Duel, but it's taken on a life of it's own and exists outside of what it was originally intended to be.
@spicymemes7458 yeah 100% it def started as a nostalgia bait cash grab. Its a shame tho its a fun format and whoevers been designing it with the card pool and products has done a great job at making a fun and affordable alternate format. The local card shop I used to regular had a way bigger flesh and blood community compared to ygo and a lot of the flesh and blood players would show up for speed duels
tell them to
Konami has only one interest and thats money they dont care about the game, or its players.
Unfortunately there no 1 in my area that plays SD/OTC and every Walmart and Target I've been to hasn't had any Yu-Gi-Oh products... its all DBZ, Pokémon, and MTG...
Absolutely wild!!! I think this format is really underrated and deserves more love!!
I'm in Europe and I really like the speed duel secrets for my edison decks. Card Trooper, mst, dandy and gaia plate are so nice that I am trying to get them some way or another. So I'm sad that speed duel is getting cancelled in the EU.
This does not look like a canceling yet. I see an unfortunate shift that could still be corrected.
The speed duel boxes are in my opinion, the perfect way to collect/play yugioh. I always buy three of each of the gx ones and collect the nostalgia decks. I'm so sad i can't get the fossil and neo spacian decks
Im loving speed duels. I ended up quitting master duel for duel links and I'm having way more fun. I was actually considering checking it out in real life.
Duel Links was amazing up until Synchros, it felt like classic Yugioh but modernized. I stopped playing it after it got to Xyz because to me that's when power creep starts hurting the game.
Well, that and it got old to keep making smurf accounts due to how f2p unfriendly the game gets after you play the same account for a while.
But it was great fun while I played it.
Even though it wasn't officially released in Belgium, a few of us still managed to get our hands on a few copies of this box. It's sad, because the format is actually pretty fun with the skill cards etc...
I do think there's room for at least two more sets if they were to conclude with GX, since Yubel and Viper have both been teased through Skills, as has Dark World. I also wouldn't be surprised to see a Duelist Kingdom Box at some point.
Speed duels are great, you can get all of the anime cards relatively cheap and be your fav character!
I started to play with Speedduel GX when I came back into YGO from my hiatus. 2006-2019 or so :D
We played almost every week Speed Duel Remote or at least remote games.
Also it was easy to pick up and play with friends that are not really into YGO. (Speed Duel is just easy to play, also we only got fusions).
I even got like 3 copies of every set, to build some decks for the normal format and upgraded it with the new support. (Ancient Gear was my first real deck after the break + learn how to play link and XYZ).
Speed Duel is also the reason I relived the time I did not play. (Stopped before GX) - so i was happy to see how this format was. Also I hoped to see like how it will change when maybe syncro or xyz got added.
I'm in Europe and super sad that this is not released. Been hypend for all the decks in the box :(
I still try to import a set, but it costs like 20$ + 20$ to ship and idk how much import costs.
So my only option is to get one set, to add it to the collection and play it. In the end I can use it in friendly matches - or kitchen table ygo - but no locals/remote competition.
Weird move from Konami :(
PS: I always loved and watched the house tournaments. That was also my idea to get the box, just to play with friends at home with those decks.
Greetings from Europe / Austria :)
I play speed duel in the UK as I came late to yugioh and struggling to get head round it. I was told about speed duel and it helped me pick up the bigger yugioh as I call it better help understand mechanics of it. I now teach special need children and adults how to play yugioh through speed duel decks as simple to learn and understand. I was looking forward to this boxset when saw it as I have all the other speed duel boxes and really hope to get this product if released in uk
I only play speed duel right now mostly casually with my family and friends.
It was a lot easier to get my friends and family into this than regular yugioh and after my local scene kinda collapsed and mostly went to other card games (mainly one piece) this was were I got my fix. I live in the uk and was excited for the new box but with this cancelled I feel like it’s going to be even harder to find games :(
I haven’t played speed duels for ages which I do miss playing it
When i found out about speed duel not being printed for the EU and that we're only getting 1 box this year. I immediately jumped ship.
Why has Konami decided to not support Europe? They realise more people live there than NA right?
Low sales, not many interested in speed duels
Only classic format duels, even websites like Dueling Book barely sees anyone playing it
@@JohnnyFish971not only Speed duel, Europe still has no YCS announcement. I think yugioh Is going to sink at this rate over here, especially with stuff like One Piece taking the TCG sphere by storm.
The conversation around speed duel always goes like "This is very cool" and "It should help newcomers to learn about the game". But after getting all the "cool" and "learning", everybody moves to the "real" game. You can have a stand-alone product (like starter set just release), but cannot be a trading card game like good old YugiOh TCG
I hope you guys do another tournament video for this box
Me and my friends are working on an alternate speed duel format where it is like normal yugioh but using the speed duel card pool and we don't run the skills but like call of the haunted and zombie master we added to the card pool because they are directly available only as a skill tho (we also limit them to 1 since they are once per game in actual speed duels )
I just wanted Speed Duel 5Ds. :( I play casual anime decks with friends and we use the skill cards from speed duel because they often do goofy anime things. I really want 5Ds skill cards...
Well with the Anime finally released outside Japan it might now be Time to release Rush Duel
The English dub is already over for Sevens and Go-Rush has yet to have one episode dubbed, despite almost reaching its second year of airing by now and pretty much reaching its conclusion - even the Sevens Switch game hasn't received its DLC outside of Asia - it's frankly way too late to release a physical Rush Duel format worldwide without it being one big product dump right now.
All we're getting from Rush Duels is through Duel Links, it's clear that's Konami's only focus with that format.
I just got back to YuGiOh after 14 ish years and speed duel is awesome
Speed Duels is the best Yugioh format ever made IMO, because I can play it while still playing other TCGs. Keeping up with playsets in Speed Duel is so easy/cheap. I can keep my Modern/Pioneer MtG deck updated as new sets come out, Speed Duels stay up to date, all while actively playing Lorcana exclusively as a 2-color player. It's a really great casual way to play Yugioh. Like the "pauper" format of MtG or something. I love the smaller deck sizes, I like the smaller/curated meta, skill cards are insanely fun. It's the best way to LARP the anime, ostensibly- Which is exactly what we all wanted to do as kids. Speed Duels is FOR the Yugi-boomers.
Cherry on top is Duel Links duels are now called "speed duels" apparently...
Thanks for this video. It's pretty sad for our speed duelists fellas in Europe, they have also awesome speed duel content creators.
I want to clarify some points: One, this product was never posted on konami's yugioh speed duel products in EU web page, it was just assumed it would come, just as the former ones has been released for them in different languages; for example since day one here in my country (Colombia, yup Latinoamerica is getting this product as well) we knew the product wouldn't be release in other languages, we talked to distribuitors back then. Second, this might be due to the increase in taxes and shipping costs V.S. OTS's selling numbers, as result, here and some countries are selling this box for $25 usd, in the EU would be a similar price and probably higher, which wouldn't be acceptable for a mini box! people would stop even more purchases from OTSs and buy the box in Amazon since just one box should be around $20 with free shipping (there are not taxes for small imports), so Konami forbidden the cards to avoid this or smuggling. I do not think Speed Duel will be finished, the production and distribution lines just need a restructure, so meanwhile this products will be on hold for EU or other languages :c
I was very sceptical for this midterm (don't like Neo Spacians archetype, love just Mole) and was not fun of Arkana fate-based deck, but then I saw quite good skills + nice Dino and Fossil decks and just wanted to buy this (really liked idea of playing simple YuGiOh with friends who like card games but not things like fresh YuGiOh). I am sad... if they would end it and announce this - would be ok! If they would add last midterm product for final duel of DM saga (Atem cards, maybe more cards for Yami Bakura, some Blue-Eyes support or even reprints of gods because it is hard to buy Battle City box) - even better.
I invested more than $100 in speed duel and I am happy about this nostalgic collection which can be played just out of the box, even without deckbuilding but... it is very bad way of ending this Konami! I hope Paul is right and EU will have it later.
PS I will not play Rush duels, not my vibe. I would prefer playing 5DS era
I have all sets and me and my friend use them as a way to still enjoy yugioh. We use the pre built decks and have character tournaments its fun :) had a lot of game time with just the battle city box alone
I love the character cards and the glossy secret rare cards from speed duel
Tbh this seems worrying for EU more then just product because They didnt get any YCS this year really and now they are getting less product beyond just the jump promos. This is kinda scary.
Oh damn, speed duels was also great from a collecting point for me, because If I forgot to check the game for a year, there were only a few sets released and I could catch up on it.
I hope this is just economy and supply lines being rough and we're returning back to europe getting stuff a little late. It's not great, but we can deal with it I think.
Honestly, even if they were axing Speed Duels (which I hope they aren't), I don't think it would have anything to do with Rush Duel, for one simple reason that Rush Duel doesn't have an audience beyond the subset of regular Yugioh players who are also into it. The Rush Duel anime dub got released and I don't think it resonated with kids, so it doesn't look like Rush Duel would have the potential to bring in a younger audience, which is the whole purpose to its existence in Japan. Plus, releasing Rush Duels TCG would require waaaaaay more manpower than supporting Speed Duel does, for a couple of reasons:
1. We get Speed Duel products maybe twice a year, everyone understands it's a side product and is okay with it. Rush Duel would be a completely new game that would warrant more frequent product releases.
2. Card curation for Rush Duel would be a difficult task, deciding what to import as you try to catch up on 4 years of OCG Rush Duel card releases while maintaining a healthy and fun format. Meanwhile, deciding what to put in new Speed Duel products seems like it requires way fewer brain cells. Same with tournaments and ban lists, it's clear that little effort is being put in this on the Speed Duel side of things, but you would not have this luxury with Rush Duels.
So, to bring over Rush Duels, you'd have to dedicate way more people and overall resources, for a format whose target audience (given the failure of the Rush Duel anime to capture a younger audience) is the same as the target audience of Speed Duels -- already established (and thereby older) Yugioh fans who are sick and tired of modern Yugioh.
Personally, I love both Speed Duels and Rush Duels. I have bought every single box release since the Battle City Box and watched all the Rush Duel anime, played the Switch game, and even using the atrocious client that is Duel Links to play Rush Duels online. I don't write this as a Rush Duel hater, because I couldn't be anything further from that. The announcement a couple of days back that Elemental Heroes would be making their way into Rush Duel got me hella excited.
But if a format as inexpensive to make as Speed Duel is failing, then I cannot possibly see how Rush Duel would fare any better.
Konami's keeps releasing spin-offs to capitalize on DM-era nostalgia. They keep going back to the same well and it's starting to run dry.
It's he TCG version of Disney's live-action adaptations, except we're on the fourth or fifth cycle now.
I wonder if it's a shift in the place of production in another country and the logistics force them to delay it in Europe. I can only hope because more casual formats are always a positive for a card game.
I enjoy speed duels. Not so much when it first began, but when they switched to boxes of decks I got interested.
If they are stopping at GX, I kind hope they at least finish GX and release some products based on seasons 3 and 4
There was a big delay in distribution for this pack here in Brazil, I'm still waiting for the Midterm Destruction box to arrive at my local store.
I hope they get it figured out and back in full power, cause Speed Duel got me back into yugioh after many years of not playing, and if it goes away I don't know if I have much incentive to keep playing yugioh at all.
I live in the uk and I’m so
Gutted I’ve been collecting all these speed duel boxes making decks on my fave characters from gx I was so excited to use the neo spacians
I'm not a big fan of physical Speed Duel, but I adore Duel Links Speed and Rush Duels.
Konami *REALLY* needs to be doing product for casual formats. We either gotta get dedicated Time Wizard product or some additional *supported* formats to use our cards in like in Magic.
Someone told me the reason for not releasing in Europe were the high taxes Konami had to pay
Oddtoxin (he'a pillar of the Speed Duel community on YT) has pointed out that the cards released in this latest set could serve as setup for the 5ds era, with support for junk and debris in particular. I don't think speed duels will ever want to change the board, so I highly doubt anything beyond Xyz, but there may be more sets in the works even if this is a sign of the format winding down. Honestly, so long as Konami continues to utilize the banlist, the format can be kept relatively fresh for a long time without new releases.
I'm heartbroken this is the only format that keeps me buying in. I hope it comes to the UK 🤕
I like the speed duel boxes I have been buying them since the mid term one id be as if they discontinued it
I feel like Konami sees Speed Duel as just getting in the way of Rush Duel being released in TCG regions, so there's a real chance they might just drop it.
Ngl I’m not huge on the speed duel format but did like picking them up for making fun decks and the secrets. In a way I’m kinda hoping that speed duel get swapped out for rush duel instead 🤞🏻
I don’t want these to go they are like the only way I play yugioh anymore 😢
I like how they are rereleasing a lot of fan favourite cards, but I had the ‘speed duel’ text on them - looks terrible
On the subject of print quality, it absolutely is noticeably bad in this set. Actually posted about this on Twitter but had picked up 3 boxes of the set from my OTS and all 3 had highly damaged SCRs, while one of the sets of commons had ink smudges in every text box. Never had issues like this in the past with Speed Duel products
It could be a variety of reasons why Europe isn't getting as much support. Low sales and meddling lawmakers come to mind first.
if speed duel is ending and they don't go the rush duel route, it would be interesting to see if they started producing time wizard format cubes like the speed duel boxes.
From America. It sucks that the newest set for Speed Duels can't be enjoyed in the U.K. Although I don't care for the format, it's still a great format for people to play outside of the meta and it shouldn't just die for you guys. Hopefully Konomi changes their mind and releases the set.
It worries me not really for me but for my friend. I’ve pretty much quit YGO entirely for Pokémon ever since he moved states away, so he hasn’t been keeping up with the game much either but wants to play ygo. Speed duel is a good substitute for him and he’s been seeing more success with it than the traditional game. It would suck if it gets cut.
Greetings from Germany. From my own (totally anecdotal) observations over the last year I could sadly see Konami axe Speed Duel over poor sales. There hadn´t been lots of Speed Duel on shelves lately and most of it was on clearance. I got a Duel Academy Box for 10€.
Speed duel is the format my friend and i play and we love it please dont let speed duel go away 😢
Maybe you and your friend can play in Dueling Book 😅
Im there too, but barely find anyone playing
I just got a bunch of speed fuel cards in a misc bundle from Walmart. I had to look up info on them to make sure they weren't fakes. Interesting
remember rush duel? was dead on arrival...
Which is a shame, because I actually loved it when I gave it a try.
ik its 2 months late but how is it dead when it never came here in the first place
@@janithernest3929 It technically did come to the U.S. very recently, but only in digital form, they added it to Duel Links.
@@Cr4z3d oh that’s what they meant but tbf not a lot of ppl play duel links it could be a different story if it came IRL but we’ll see
@@janithernest3929 I'm HOPING it still does come out in physical form, my theory is that currently, the Duel Links version is a "testing ground" for it in the states. Some of the third-party Duel Simulators already have Rush as a playable format, YGO Omega is one.
Cope mindset, EU is getting Rush Duels
This is a sad thought. I love Duel Links and have been so excited for Speed to catch up to Zexal era so I can play my decks offline. I will say, I thought all the Speed boxes have weird quality cards, not just this latest GX box. Definitely different than TCG, and in my opinion don’t feel as good to play with, but that could just be personal preference.
I bought speed duel for the memories of the OG anime. Felt fun making character decks. Once they started introducing GX I stopped buying.
I was honestly getting sick of the speed duel sets JUST being GX, but it’s a great format that got my friends back into YuGiOh. None of us play competitively but it’s a great time to just have a 4 man game
rush duels has A LOT of nostalgia factor - lots of legacy archetypes like dark magician, gaia, cyber dragon, magnets, blue-eyes, red-eyes and etc have their own original rush support that make them a viable deck in the format. in fact a lot of cydra players want the rush support in advanced so badly 😂
of course there are also lots of rush original decks too!
Red eyes in rush duels is what I WISH it were in advanced format. It's so sad the deck is steaming trash in the actual game and borderline meta in rush duels.
Tbh I a big fan of the Rush exclusive archetypes. I especially love the playstyle and artworks of Royal Rebels
Yes *now* early on it didn't and it was Normal Beatdown, which is what we'd wind up getting.
Rush duel invoke the aggressivity and speed that the modern deck have without making new players overwhelmed, it should be the main thing that tcg promote instead paper draft speed duel that slow ass and boring which is not representation of how yugioh played in majority of its lifespan, especially in ocg.
@@r3zaful Say you have no idea how Speed plays without telling me you have no idea how Speed plays.
Speed Duels is filled with fast and aggressive decks. We've got Dark Gaia, we've got regular Gaia (who you summon without tributes and gets piercing), we've got CA (who has a 3500 attack Izana), we've got Fossils now, Neos has turned into a Cyber Dragon, Dinos are very aggressive, Roids are a full on combo deck with Mixeroid and Card Trooper and the list goes on.
Do we have slow control decks? Sure, but the turns aren't glacial and its rare to even get close to hitting time.
So, "slow ass and boring" is not *at all* how Speed is played.
Konami Make a Speed Duel Digital Game please…!! (non-Duel Links) with codes to every physical product and we have a huge playerbase coming back Konami... 😢 (Casual Format for Yugi-boomers and a quick break for Modern players)
I'm of 2 minds about it.
On the one hand it may just be that they either don't feel it'll sell in Europe anymore or that they don't want to or can't put the time and effort and money and such into printing for the different European Languages anymore aside from English (which is why they moved production to the US), or potentially both at the same time (not wanting to print for the different languages because they don't think it'll sell anymore).
On the other hand, I feel it could signify a larger shift in the Yugioh landscape, eventually possibly leading to the end of the franchise altogether. the main game is often said to be too complex for new players to get into, and older players are dropping off because of the game just growing stale in general, especially with the lack of formats and every duel lasting 2 turns max. Not to mention the cost of buying the cards needed just to be able to even stand a chance and then those same cards becoming irrelevant in the very next set or banlist. They also have been slowing down significantly on producing video games for the franchise, as well as shifting the entire focus of the Anime from Regular Duels to Rush Duels and not having most Rush Duel stuff available outside of Japan, and shifting the Manga to a focus on only OCG and Rush Duels. It's also important to note that anything exciting announced about the franchise recently doesn't end up being as exciting in the end like Master Duel being announced and then people not having as much fun and stuff with it as they thought and it wasn't what they expected it to be and only use it as a glorified duel simulator with friends and people online, or like that recent Yugioh Chronicles trailer that was awesome, that was just randomly put out but it doesn't seem like anything is going to come of it despite people wanting it.
I love these products but I'm digital only at this point.
We playing Master Duel format
I Love Speed Duels, It's something I constantly play. As an European, the fact that the Product isn't released in in EU is a such punch to the gut...
I'm gonna have them ordered from the US just so I can experiment and play with the new stuff, maybe mix some old and new stuff togheter.
It's gonna be very costly, but hey, I want to have the new Stuff so what can a man do...
Add to list of odd decisions. I learned that that Konami changes their OCG tournament rules recently. In that you have to be a Japanese citizen to participate in official OCG tournaments
i just like the card reprints
I’ve been hoping they bring Rush Duel to the TCG for years now. I hope Konami doesn’t see middling Speed Duel sales as an indication they shouldn’t launch Rush in the TCG-they’re completely different games! Rush brings a lot of fresh artwork/mechanics alongside classic monsters whereas Speed Duel is solely nostalgic.
I play duel links and i actually thought speed duel would have been pretty much the same but im surprised its only DM - GX thats crazy. Imo people should just play "speed format" with tcg cards but with the same limited/ ban list. Pretty much duel links but irl
Europe got done dirty with speed duel i was excited for arcana force reprints
Unify the tcg and OCG into the OCG english edition
Speed duel was awesome. Will import American cards at least
I truly hope it isn't ending, but if it is... I hope it's to make way for Rush Duels.
What are speed duels like in Japan? If it hasn't been doing well there, then that could be a reason why they're dropping it in other areas. Unless they're doing fine there, then idk.
Physical Speed Duels is a TCG Exclusive product and were never release in Japan.
imo since they made it a point to make duel links be labeled as "Speed Duels" and "Rush Duels"
They're basically phasing out the physical product since it didn't pop off as they thought it would.
I wouldn't mind Rush, but if the duel links are anything to go off on, The initial cards are pretty stale I'd like for more of the more recent fusion stuff to be at the forefront etc.
as soon as i saw this product wasnt coming here to the EU/UK I asked my wife to pick one up from Best Buy before she comes back over
I’m a yugiboomer to preface but if they really are getting rid of speed duel I hope they do something to address the segment of the audience that really wants to play but can’t jive with how far modern has gone. I recently got back into Pokémon and jumping back into the tcg feels so much more inviting than yugioh. I know it’s been talked about a lot but they seriously need to figure that out, even from a company standpoint they’re leaving so much money on the table.
What you guys need to do is be like Smogon with competitive Pokémon handheld games and come up with and support your own balanced system for the fans. It doesn’t need to be official to be legit. Also Pokémon handheld games have a system that allows you to use certain Pokémon based on different tier lists and the tiers are individually competed in. They still ban moves and Pokémon but also just take them out of the lower levels to balance those lower tiers or move them up or down as needed. I’m not saying do it exactly like how they do it but the point is you have people balancing and tweaking the game unofficially and it’s more popular than the official rules
I can imagine they reduce two sets to one and will release it in eu.
Eu is technically behind a banlist too.
So, we are back to the times of the first sets, when US and EU had different releases 😅
I wasn't interested at Speed duel as a format but I really liked the reprint of old card especially the one that comme in Secret Rare, I was really waiting for the Speed Duel box supposed to cover the late GX and expected 5Ds speed duel to come after to see card we haven't seen since a while to play some Edison. I was really hyped to get the Gaia Plate reprint, learning that we will probably never get the set and the reprint sucked so much, especially since we didn't get a proper reason for that. Really disappointed once again by Konami
Ive always wanted yugioh to change up the cards a little bit (full arts etc.). But after playing rush duels on duel links, i really dislike the change. The cards clash with the original style and the gameplay removes most resource management and card advantage aspects of the game. I'm a filthy link climb spammer but i love goat, eddison and i adore speed duels
As an EU player (and as someone who'd buy the GX boxes), I'm glad to see it go, means we can get rush which is a million times more interesting
As for the announcement from konami, I think people are blowing it out of proportion, even if the speed duel cards didn't appear on that list they'd still be illegal for play in these regions as per their rules surrounding them (hell most of the time cards aren't even removed from that list, before this update "Go DDD rage" and "Odd-eyes Phantasma dragon" where featured despite being legal in these areas for over 2 years at that point)
If they were to move on from gx and introduce 5ds then perhaps the product could actually sell since it'll have Edison cards in the boxes.
The quality of the cards also dropped off. They probably shifted to TCG standards which is a shame because previous Speed Duel sets had amazing quality.
They have the Hello Kitty X Yugioh at Mc Donald's... Let them wait 😂
I started to play YuGiOh again just because of Speed Duel. It's a shame what they are doing to us here in the EU.