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Is Yu-Gi-Oh Too EXPENSIVE? Marvel x MTG Collab! BIG
Is Yu-Gi-Oh Too EXPENSIVE? Marvel x MTG Collab! BIG Nintendo Controversy! Pod of Greed – Episode 26
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Happy Thursday and welcome back to the Pod! How are you guys feeling about the different topics we discussed today? Particularly that Yu-Gi-Oh price issue?
An overlooked problem with a staple costing 100$ and the mentality being "just don't buy it then" is that it's also another hurdle resulting of YGO not having alternative formats and having one of the shittiest types of products in the market. With 100$ I can buy two precon MTG commander decks and while they're not meta, they would have people playing around their power level.
With 100$ I can buy two Pokemon TCG meta decks.
And why is this staple card (Which mind you, a card that's considered a staple is already accepted to be a card that almost every deck needs to have) be 100$? Because Konami only prints it in one specific rarity and its effectiveness – again, staple – makes it have extremely high demand.
It's a very needless hurdle that exists and mostly results in the TCG losing players because Konami has the shittiest products out of the other major TCGs by a mile. And if you ask my suggestion is to make more products like Structure/Starter decks and have those contain extremelly low rarity prints of staples. It would make the game easier for aspiring new players and make staples more accessible to anyone wishing to tip their toes into the competitive scene.
Alec always has the wrong take. Didn't he say not to use ygo omega now it's okay to use ygo omega to sikulate having an expensive card. High prices like these keep people at the bottom that have families bills and other interests.
That is why I sold my sp little knight for half it's market price
Hey guys I just watched the whole thing. I quit playing smash partly due to Nintendo's actions, if you're curious you can look up the history of Nintendo pulling Melee from MLG and recently Big House during covid. Money can't be the motivating factor for the higher ups in this case but I don't really care to find out their reasoning at this point. You guys were spot on that it doesn't affect small locals but the bigger locals and regional + bigger events absolutely Nintendo sends their ninjas. TOs take huge financial liability organizing events and are pretty much expected to break even.
"We hate FTKs." THANK YOU, ALEC!
Let's be real, ftk's are never going to no be a thing. That's part of the competition. The fact that it was exodia makes it ok, because you're going to get otk or ftk sometimes. Literally the way it goes
100 dollars for SP Little Night for TCG? its only 10 bucks max here in OCG 🙃
The secret rares should be alternate art card, or even autographed card … something cool, that even if is not meta relevant is still valuable in some way
Honestly the reason I stopped playing yugioh was because of how lots of times in either to compete you needed the newest secret rare of the new set. It got too expensive and so I went to pokemon and like Paul said, it was easier to make a deck as the different rarities made it easier. Of course having the option to bling it out with higher rarity versions was a plus as well. Now I play One Piece where also, you can make a cheaper deck or bling it out with using alt arts.
The only reason they Exodia FTK is cheered is EXACTLY because it's Exodia.
Unpopular opinion I’d not think s:p is as busted as people say but a maybe that just depends on the deck you play 🤷🏾♂️
My girlfriend played more in 2008 and got back into the game in 2020. She now plays Crystal Beasts using the structure deck and support cards and had a really easy time transitioning back into the current formats. I do, however, think it's dependant on your locals scene. We didn't see too much Kashtira during the recent formats, so it was more pheasable for her to play.
I also think Branded is a great archetype to get back into the game with especially with how versatile it can be using different builds such as despia, chimera, synchro, etc.
I love Paul's question about MTG remaking Marvel character's like what they did with black Aragorn.
Well Marvel already beat them to the punch and almost all of them except Miles and maybe 2 others have been canceled due to the character's being rejected by fans and due to the decline in the quality of the writing.
Unfortunately the comic book industry is dying theirs only a handful of profitable mainline books and most of them are Batman comics.
Bottom line: Konami knows what they're doing. A little history lesson that I don't see being brought up often:
Back in March of 07, the OCG got two structure decks that we would never see in the TCG; one LIGHT and one DARK. Now, we WOULD get the exclusive cards, but they'd be secret rares in TCG sets later that year. However, the decks' contents were very eyebrow‐raising. We would have gotten common reprints of powerful cards LONG before we'd eventually get them as commons like Air knight, Mirror Force, Solemn Judgment, but most importantly, Crush Card Virus which marked the first major reprinting of the card in the OCG. However, January of that year marked the new SJC season and Crush Card was the prize.
This would mark the beginning of the end for me and yugioh, where I'd get more and more disillusioned with the game, feeling more and more like I was not only being priced out but also not seeing the worth in even trying anymore. And the major price hikes began right at Gladiator's Assault going forward, where you'd see meta-defining cards going for 100 plus a pop. Combination of the excess of secret rares, making other Secret Rares even HARDER to obtain and us getting former promo cards like Goblin Zombie and Necroface as secret rares for exorbant prices.
Issue is exodia is pure nostalgia so the ehm yugi boomer crowd will get excited bout it….also market wise konami seems more interested in secondary market than pack selling….youd think they would want to sell as many packs as they can but they aint worried about it….or the local scene with them carrying packs….very unhealthy unless you are getting your money's worth from somewhere other than just packs….
L take from Alec this week. The issue with S.P. Little Knight is the inability to access it for the common buyer due to it exclusively being a high end luxury item; if there were an alternative, accessible variant, it wouldn't be an issue. This isn't a matter of playing with a luxury foiled out deck vs non foil, it's people being unable to even play the game due to a card being inaccessible
It's why im a much bigger fan of games like Grand Archive and Pokemon tbh. Id love to play more ygo, but the market sucks
Happy he saw why people were annoyed later tho. Y'all are amazing, keep up the great content
I miss Mystic Mine…. Loved my Mystic Mine Exodia, Mystic Mine Burn, Mystic Mine Final Countdown decks….
Alec is special… in a bad way
Yup, completely change the rarity system and distribution….to be the same as what the OCG is using. Because the TCG already changed it to be different from the OCG. Considering the idea comes from the OCG, I dont think it's a big or revolutionary idea. Just print the same card with two different rarities. Most peope at my local scoff at cards that aren't foils so it's not like there wouldnt be a market for thr high rarity versions of the card
Seriously, just compare to the OCG. What the rarities are, what thr distribution is what the most expensive cards go for. Look past the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. It doesn't even have to be an idea from another card game. Just look at the OCG in depth and compare it to the TCG products