Nice meeting you at Raleigh Trell. I was the player in the power wheelchair 🙂

@DarkAuraLord

Ай бұрын

oh snap, a fellow disabled yugioh player! I use a manual chair though! Hope the venue was accessible and you had a great time mah dude 👌

@EzBricks_

Ай бұрын

Respect ✊

@nharviala

Ай бұрын

I remember seeing you about! I was the lurker hunting for Yubel stuff all along the prerelease tables!

@jeanpitre5789

Ай бұрын

​@DarkAuraLord to be fair, any of us who aren't playing snake eyes currently are ALL disabled yugioh players 😂😂

@Ps.lySaber

Ай бұрын

Still voting trumP

Thought you guys might appreciate hearing some of what Trell has to say about the game right now.

@haroldnecmann7040

Ай бұрын

Meta sheep 🐑

@Nylspider

Ай бұрын

Meta G.O.A.T. 🐐

100% agree with Trell about stuns. I don't get discouraged that I lost, I get discouraged because every move I make is just negated and my turns don't exist.

@GhostintheMachine25

Ай бұрын

The only time I had a decent time against runic stun was when I was pressure testing my branded deck to see which deck to outgrind the other in resources. At a certain point I said screw it and got Masquerade on the field and taxed them down until they couldn’t play anymore. And yes I do call Masquerade the blazing dragon “the tax dragon”

@RedTheWeeb

Ай бұрын

​​@@GhostintheMachine25I mean he is 1 of the big 3 tax dragons

@NokodaHere

Ай бұрын

Playing in the MD fusion event with Ritual Beasts without fissure and cosmos going up against Runic banishing my whole deck. While losing staples, it got my engine rolling pretty instantly. Surprising how well RB carried me this event. But goddamn Albez was rough.

Trell in Pot of Greed Podcast will be so cool

@SmuggyOcelot

Ай бұрын

absolutely; as long as he’s interested, having a cameo APS member would be awesome. I’d also love to see others if they’d like to talk, too

I'm glad y'all have addressed this issue with Yu-Gi-Oh. To put it simply there isn't any individualism in Yu-Gi-Oh, 10-15 decks get used because they are overloaded with support, that Konami set up.

The state of yugioh?! Looks like I’m moving soon

@mulldrifterz6469

Ай бұрын

You'll be back. They always come back.

@bleack8701

Ай бұрын

​@@mulldrifterz6469 Sure, I came back for a bit, so you're right. Now I'm definitely moving to MTG because giving Yu-Gi-Oh a second chance was wasted effort.

@stoiccrane4259

Ай бұрын

@@bleack8701 MTG is worse. Hasbro is milking the game into the ground and powercreep is accelerating at light speed. Players are being put into situations between getting top tier decks or paying their car notes. The game is in a horrendous state right now from a monetary standpoint. Alot of older players are leaving for games like Sorcery and Flesh and Blood. Unless you play low level commander or just pre-release the game is hyper expensive.

@unclefred3128

Ай бұрын

@@bleack8701 I think you also missed the joke lol

@gzales158

Ай бұрын

Modern yugioh is awful

I loved the format prior to snake-eyes, it had so much variety in what people could play. It's always a bit frustrating to lose to the best deck, that's just how competitive games are, but that problem is largely alleviated when the "best" is a loose collection of 5+ different decks that all have realistic chances of beating the others. And for those who play more casually at locals instead of going to events, it means you're not going to be playing against the same thing every week

Trell talks fast, but he makes a lot of salient points once your brain catches up to what he's saying lol. I can tell that he's an experienced player with a lot of good insight and I feel like I have a good idea of what the game is like right now even as a casual player who hasn't even been to a local tournament. Would love to see him on this channel more often

@makenaiyomi1083

Ай бұрын

Feeling the same. As a non native english speaker it's difficult to follow what he says sometimes. Paul and Alec talk a bit slower.

@YeahTheDuckweed

Ай бұрын

he's literally the one competitive player on team aps iirc so it makes sense. i love that for him and for you tho

So, for Trell, with pure Chimera, you just want to loop your resources. Mirror tributes to summon Befromat, Berf searches Gazelle and fusion, then you fuse them off and use their GY effects to re-summon mirror form GY and add any illusion from deck to hand. Then, because the fusions count as Chimera the Mythical beast, you add the fusion back to either hold for next turn or set it to fusion summon Guardian Chimera to pop/draw on you opponent's turn. It gains a lot of resources this way so I play 3 ghost girls and veiler to draw into. Mirror is a quick effect as well, so it dodges everything but Ash, so Triple Tact comes up a lot. As for other handtraps, playing 3 Cornfield Koatar is mandatory because it pitches to search Mirror and banishes from GY to negate ANY targetting effect so long as you control Chimera the Mythical Beast(again, all your fusions count as him). So hes weak to Ash as well but sets up to stop Imperm/Veiler from hitting your fusion. The fusions themselves chain block when they summon. One is an end phase hand rip, the other is an on summon Foolish for a Beast, Fiend or illusion. Both banish from GY to quick eff summon back either a banished or GY fiend, beast, or illusion. The foolish does Banished, the Hand rip does GY. The big fusion is a little harder to get out, so what I do is play the resource game, kind of like looping Fire Fist in HAT, and build up slowly while trading 1:1 with hand traps and +1 with Guardian Chimera then summon him to push for game T2-4. You can cheat him out with Mystical Sheep #1 but its only got 1 printing and its $15+ so take that as you will. You also don't really need to do this, just an option. For first turn plays, setting up the hand rip into Guardian on your opponents turn is the main play, but you can also try to get End of Anubis into the GY to bring him back as well. Sadly, the Foolish summons from banished, not the GY, so you can't set it up without a little bit of extra work. TL;DR the Chimera deck loops resources well but ash blossom throws huge wrench in it. Thats why people play it with Branded so much.

@DreamsTCG

Ай бұрын

🎉🎉 BC cm

That match-up between Trell and Susu was lit. I'd love to see more collabs like this with APS and other creators

met you at Raleigh and you were awesome! Just as cool in person as you have been online

5:55 thats a awesome take.

This is my state of the union address

This is a good reminder to go to events. Ive been playing yugioh for years but never been to a tournament (Dont have locals within an hour). Traveling to one seems like a lot of fun.

The best thing about Trell is that he really wants to earn his Victories.💪🏻

Yo a pure Illusion deck would be dope! I'd love to see a profile on that. P.S. If you read this comment, please know your drip from the video you guys just did on the main channel was anime tier, 10/10.

@drizzt04

22 күн бұрын

Thank you so much

Idk if I’m the only one but I would really like a blog style series to be made about trell or any of the aps guys about their competitive run.

Would like to see that lightsworn deck profile if he gets something that works.

Oh shit, I just realized there are 2 APS channels.

Trell knows what's up

Glad Trell enjoyed his time in NC. Especially Charlotte 😭

PURE ILLUSION DECK?! :OOOO

I wanna see that trolly Illusion deck 👀

Would love more Trell opinions. Everyone on team APS has a unique perspective and level of commitment to the game and it's wonderful to get so many different ideas from one channel

Illusion pile seems like it will either be a very strong deck or a very funny one

Respect Rell, wish I got to meet him in Raleigh

Yo Trell, 1 question: You still interested in the Metaphys Deck, even tho it's probably been dead for year (although D-Shifter was a power-up for them)?

Hype for Trell coming on honestly nice to see him

Trell, you the goat. We gotta get Paul out there with you in that competitive scene, he's good. Happy for the update as a fan. Thank you guys for the great content and opinion pieces.

Trell has the perfect mindset for a competitive player imo i appreciate his insight and can't find much of anything i disagree with

I’m building my Chimera deck right now! I borrowed my friends cards last week for it and it was a lot of fun! I’m not an expert at it, but the deck does have so much potential! Also, the pure version is better than the branded version.

Funny that he's so grumpy about Runicks lately while also wanting to know how to play Chimera without Branded. After all, the Runick variant of Chimera is probably the best non-Branded one.

I’m loving the shark deck

🐐 return

Profiles n combos when!!!

The only way the format will change for the better or at least to the point where the game is even more diverse in this format is for yugioh players to do the one thing they are afraid of: try something completely new. What i mean isn't just try a new engine in one of the same 6 decks I see every event I judge (QSN: apologizes if I invaded your space last time you came to Vans in MS for that OTS last time.) Yugioh players are afraid of truly thinking outside the box and running something other than the deck that's "guaranteed to get them a dub or an invite cause the top tier players are running it", which makes the game stagnate season after season.

@JuwanBuchanan

Ай бұрын

Won’t happen. Yugioh players are too obsessed with playing the most broken cards and decks to win. They aren’t interested in trying anything else if it doesn’t result in them getting easy wins and they don’t want to waste hours on something that may not be good.

@MTGDuelist8870

Ай бұрын

or yugioh players could just do the actual thing that would get Konami to listen and just stop giving Konami money (aka speak with their Wallets) and tell them to fix their broken game, or just stop playing yugioh all together and move on (like i have with MTG). the game is in the state it's in because yugioh players reward Konami for making busted short-printed cards because they wanna win, so they buy it which tells konami this is profitable and what players want. too the point where the casual scene in yugioh has basically been obliterated outside of time wizard formats (which are utterly garbage), it's either play to win or don't play at all. problem being if you say this part out loud every yugioh player will do everything in their power to deflect and use kinder garden level insults, "your garbage at the game, Yugiboomer, git gud scrub, ETC ETC". we complain and moan all day that about this game, buying the cards and telling Konami to keep doing it and yet for some reason we refuse to actually do the one thing that would actually fix the problem due to sunken cost Fallacy. which is Vote with your wallet, yugioh's stagnant as hell?, tired of the game ending on turn 2?, sick of Tier 0 formats out the wazoo?, vote with your wallets.

@shigesohma

Ай бұрын

@@MTGDuelist8870 Ayo, this dude's kinda spittin.

I miss Trell

I got back into yugioh through the old legacy of the duelist game. I can’t play with nostalgic cards from childhood unless I build entire decks with new cards around them and then still get beat easily by meta decks with unlimited negates. Sometimes someone starts a turn with 5 cards and ends it with a solitaire board with seemingly everything activating searches and draws making pot of greed look like a joke. Frankly the best way to fix yu gi oh it to dumb it down.

TRELL !! Hope you and your family are well, please consider a tag duel with the twins and Paul.

Shifter is a necessary evil for this format. Card was shit until Kashtira appeared, because basically no deck could play it without suffering from it too. Now, there are more decks that can use it and the powercreep demands it as well, since there are combos which can't even be stopped by 2-3 handtraps.

@trell i got a buddy who is a wizard with chimera - one of those old school guys who plays one deck and never puts it down. he got back into the game late last year and has already topped multiple regionals with branded chimera. he’s since pivoted to melodious chimera and somehow made the deck even better. let me know if you want me to hook you up.

@steezah3063

Ай бұрын

Hook me up too 😂

@drizzt04

22 күн бұрын

I am not against this. But I don’t wanna play Branded cards

The MVP of Team APS

To be honest, if you want to enjoy Yugioh it's best to just find a casual buddy and battle using decks you make or buy versus "meta" tournament decks that demand perfect turn plays or risk misery.

Just got home from my first locals tourney in 12ish years for the RC2 Playmat and i had some genuine fun. Meet a few cool people. Went 2-3 and I thought id lose them all 😂 Edit 15 minutes later: Just checked my bag and I think someone swiped my Ash Blossom pin off my bag… damn unless it fell and the back found its way out of my bag

Trell 🐐

@haroldnecmann7040

Ай бұрын

Meta sheep 🐑

8:08 🤣

Trell is 100% correct

Trelly lookin cool 🤝🏻

Losing to a die roll, with no mulligan, and watching your opponent waste 15 min of your life turn 1 is way worse than losing to a stun deck that can easily lose to a lightning storm. How can a 2 deck format and a 2 turn clock be considered a game or a fun format? Yugioh has to do something with the power creep and either hit problem cards or bring back older cards.

Infinity forbidden fiendsmith engine will be a pain in anus when comes out. Whitewoods archetype looks cool as well

But Trell, there's no playing for you without disruption... what are you gonna do when the other player has a board and hand full of negation to what you do. Yes of course this is bad game design, but what are you gonna do just surrender every time you don't get to go first?

when

Americans have no idea how bad the state of yugioh is in the rest of the world. In Europe it's literally disappearing, more and more locals stopped supporting it entirely since the sets do not sell anymore. They dont sell anymore because there is no incentive to buy the cards. We dont have YCS anymore potentially forever. The game is extremly expensive and with super high inflation most people simply can not afford the game anymore. And why would you? We have Master Duel, we have YGO Omega we have DB. people have now realized the game is a scam and I dont think it's going to get better anytime soon.

@jeanpitre5789

Ай бұрын

We know very well my guy. Konami is grasping at straws to make the game SEEM successful like the championship series in Japan that pulled the biggest crowd in card game history. This SOUNDS amazing, but you then realize this was a publicity stunt with no real competition in a Bo1 event, single elimination. The Tcg product is dying and tanking in sales. People also just don't want to play the game with how the current format makes gameplay unbearable

@shakeweller

Ай бұрын

@@jeanpitre5789 I know I am smacktalking Yugioh a lot, but I actually do not mind the Snake Eye Mirror as much. I've been through Firewall Dragon, I've been through Linkross combos I've been through Halq-Scythe. My expectations are very low XD

@Infinite8blue

Ай бұрын

Oh no we don't have ycd anymore, we haven't had a ycs in my country since 2018 and I never see any one complaining

@hecatrice2064

27 күн бұрын

@@jeanpitre5789Correct me if I’m wrong, as I just came back after quitting the irl TCG in 2017 (after playing for a decade with breaks), but what u (and other yugitubers/players) are saying, have been true for a decade now. Konami has received the same criticism for years, with the only diff being that the criticism is louder nowadays (which ofc I think is a good thing). However, that didn’t really put a stop to the irl TCG. Much to my surprise I see YCSs break records in player attendance, but at the same time hear that they have stopped taking place recently in EU with no explanation. This is my only worry. Everything else, like decks costing 1k and then getting hit in a banlist/ tier 0 formats/ powercreep/rogue decks getting hit indirectly in banlists/ older archetypes needing more support etc has also been going on for years. What makes this year any different? I’ve experienced worse tier 0 formats like PEPE, Dragon Rulers, Shockmaster lock and staple cards like Pot of Duality costing 100€+ on release (while ofc the OCG gets em for cheaper). I genuinely feel like I left, came back, and the game is the same. Only diff is having to play 15 hantraps,5 handtrap counters and hella boardbreakers in the side deck. I agree that the game isn’t as popular as in like 2013 when XYZ came out, which according to my anecdotal experience in the place that I live, was the last peak of modern Yugioh in terms of player numbers, but is there actual data showing a steady decrease in TCG sales/tournaments?

ngl they should make a new dragon for jack and then banned calamity he needs another 2 tuner + monster

The Susu shirt 👀

next banlist should just ban anything that works by multi negating, negating should have an actual cost aside from being a passive effeft for a monster to do once a turn, or at least limit it to one negate a turn or smth

My locals loooooves Ragnaraika lol

Barz

Miss the old Trell rizz tho.

Trell never misses.

If Trell is the Governor of the State of Yugioh, then what does that make Paul? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Chimera is the best in Branded Despia.

The moment when you get asked about your Yu-Gi-Oh! opinions and you casually become rap god.

Y'all not know what a tripod is?

Stoping the kids saying first

@-nekrozcard-7447

Ай бұрын

Respects!

Kush

Look. You cannot get rid of Shifter (or Droll). For anyone that is one of these people that want them banned you have to understand how much worse the format could (and most likely would) get. It becoming a Darkworld coin flip format could become a real possibility and then we would have no tools to fight that. Floodgates keep the bigger demons in check, it's just how things are unless Yu-Gi-Oh radically changes with a new format, or something.

@Honest_Mids_Masher

Ай бұрын

Darkworld's bricky af and extremely luck dependant droll and shifter definitely ain't stopping it and even if it was LET THE BANLIST DEAL WITH IT Also how ironic with you talking about Darkworld being a coin flip deck when floodgate decks are the exact same thing just go first or lose

@Infinite8blue

Ай бұрын

Shifter invalidate so many decks

So no more asking Trell for pictures and signing?

@drizzt04

22 күн бұрын

Lmao who said that? I love interacting with people.

Aye guys, as a man who lives with hallucinations, yugioh has helped me on that journey. In various ways and i love that you guys are this invested in yugioh. It saved my life and i could take all day explaining how but i hope this reaches you. DONT SLOW DOWN GET BETTER!!!! 💪💚👑

I agree, I feel like annoying floodgate cards don't promote anything good for the game and not to mention annoying to play against.

@GuilhermeDiGiorgi

Ай бұрын

I'll continue to play stun as long as the TCG doesn't get cheaper for the current meta stars (diabell, SP, typhoon, fenrir, etc). I dont care if the other person is not having fun, Im having fun milling them as much as they would be having fun negating and destroying my stuff.

@Gatitasecsii

Ай бұрын

What, you're saying it's more fun to just let your opponent set up an invincible board?

@4llfy

Ай бұрын

@@Gatitasecsii Handtraps and board breakers could make it less scary of an end board. Not to mention bad hands and its more interactive than a skill drain, rivalary, synchro zone, and a runick fountain with spells in rotation. Playing yugioh is more fun then floodgates.

@MTGDuelist8870

Ай бұрын

you realize your same arguments for why floodgates aren't good for the game and are annoying can also apply to combo decks setting up the same thing with extra steps right?. just open with your backrow removal and board breakers and floodgates won't be as scary an end board, not to mention bad hands and it's far more interactive a back and fourth game then sitting there and watching your opponent combo for 40 minutes, oh yea and just always go first.

@4llfy

Ай бұрын

@@MTGDuelist8870 Yes, it is bad when your opponent can have full combo with no interruption, but the whole point of yugioh is to have a deck that can make a scary end board . The only difference being as the game evolves turns last longer and there are more combos into turns. It can be frustrating sometimes but in order to even play you need a deck that can do that (besides some decks). I was only arguing that floodgates promote bad gameplay. Also, many decks prefer to go second and you can voluntarily go second to break apart your opponents board, however, many decks like going first.

This game will die with this generation's adults.

Calamity isn't the problem. Crimson dragon will always be the problem.

@looneyloonatic

Ай бұрын

Huh? Did you just start playing the game? HRDA has been a problem since therion lmao

@HotRed00

Ай бұрын

Crimson dragon is fine nothing is wrong with it at all

@Honest_Mids_Masher

Ай бұрын

Etude of the branded still gives way to Calamity lock.

@AKidWithGlasses

Ай бұрын

Calamity requires 2 tuners and 1 dark dragon synchro. RDA is the only deck, that isn't jank, that I know of that can consistently make calamity with etude of the branded. Centurion and mannadium has to use crimson dragon. Ghost Ogre (popular handtrap) stops etude.

Imagine hating stun while playing the best deck in format 😅

@drizzt04

22 күн бұрын

I play the best deck for the first time ever even tho I’ve got numerous previous tops & I’m the problem? Ok

You lost to zuzu how did you get out of the shadow realm

@pancho123456ify

Ай бұрын

Jk man you had that 🤣

3rd

I was here.

I swear to God if the meta gets Kali yuga banned, im slappin the shit out the first meta player I see.

@Honest_Mids_Masher

Ай бұрын

D/D/D doesn't even play it though it's mid. Heck it's also been used for summon locks in Raidraptors

@honest2722

Ай бұрын

@@Honest_Mids_Masher im not a net decker. I create my own builds.

@Honest_Mids_Masher

Ай бұрын

@@honest2722 Ehh well regardless it isn't the most optimal so if it did get banned you'd be forced to choose better options anyway

Wt the fk is this guy doing with his hair?

But does Calvin still exist😂??

@Xana17

Ай бұрын

? I’ve only been watching for a year I think. I’ve seen Larry in the hole, the guy who tried structure decks at locals, Alex, Paul, trell house duels and the pod. Don’t think I’ve heard the name Calvin

@maticus5640

Ай бұрын

@@Xana17 He was a friend of theirs who used to be apart of Team APS and had a video series called “Can we summon this” if I remember correctly. I know Trell mention him on the H2HB podcast.

Oh no.... If he says something bad about our game, get him. 😃

@haroldnecmann7040

Ай бұрын

Duelist Otakus will get him

It doesn't feel like Yu-gi-oh!

Modern yugioh is awful

Hmm lets see if trell has more sense than paul

We don't have enough cards to make Pure Illusion competitive, but we have enough cards to make it trolly! Yes, Sir 😂 🗣 🫵🏽 💯