Is YGO only for the rich?

Captain Fabio

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    Can you really afford to win?

    There have always been expensive cards around, mainly ones that you get in the tournament and there are hardly any of, which is fair enough, but now-a-days, you need to apparently have a bottomless pocket to play the decks that you want. Tour Guide is one of the most sort after cards, but it is about £100-£120 a pop.

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    Firstly that picture is so lols. Yugioh is truly an expensive hobby and it is really costly to build a tournament deck. The main deck is often expensive but also the extra deck too. Even with reprints like Pot of Duality and Solemn Warning, as long as they continue to stick to the ratio of secret rares and pull rates and whatnot, Yugioh will always be an expensive game to play. Other TCGs are far more reasonable with rare cards which means that the stock and demand are more balanced and hence those games are less expensive compared to Yugioh.

    Personally I can afford to play this game on a competitive level. I'm wealthy enough I guess but I'm the kind of guy who runs a niche deck which really helps in lowering the costs and such. If you're a decent player and really good at innovation, you can find ways to play the game and win effectively without having to run an incredibly expensive deck.
     
    You should know by now that I try an find amusing pictures for my threads; this one particularly made me chuckle.

    It is just crazy at some things, Rescue Rabbit is around £80-£90 already! XD​
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    I think for casual decks/ play it's not so bad.. but competitively? Yeah you better be digging in your pockets and selling your stuff.. haha ;3 Especially in the fact that you have to keep up with how the game changes overtime. You can't just get a good deck and stick with it because soon that deck will be outdated.
     
    It's like this for Magic too.

    ... Better because of the ability to make cheap, somewhat competitive decks, though, I suppose. YGO - you just autolose if your deck isn't up to par (i.e. breaking the game 3 times a turn).
     
    It's not that bad if you're just playing casually since you can just make a deck with what ever cards you can find but if you want to play competitively at tournaments or even win a hobby league then you'll need to spend a lot of money.
     
    Personally, the expensive prices don't affect me much. Unlike some/most 'competive' players, I don't buy a new deck every format.

    I've been running the same deck type for the past few years. I modify it every ban list, but its more like swap this and this, not buy this and sell this. Well, I take that back. After a few years of swap this and this the deck was reduced to junk so I had to rebuild the entire deck. I didn't have to spend a arm and a leg to do so though.

    I also use the cheapest variants of cards that I can. One card in my deck has 3 different variants. One is 35, one is 11, one is 9. Guess which one im using? Yeah. The cheapest. Keeps cost of the deck down, and its just as effective as the 35 variant.

    It would be nice if everyone treated this game like a hobby instead of a way of life.

    Edit - I've seen Tour Guides going for ~$180.
     
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    its definitely an expensive hobby no doubt about that. I have a complete tournament ready drag deck, its just that i need a few more synchros to make it really good. the scrap dragon, BRD, and tg hyper librarian would totally make the flow better, not to mention a trishula and a brionic and a trident dragion, but all of them are over 20, and its something i can't afford at the moment.

    from the new booster pack, RESCUE RABBIT is already hitting the same price as tour guide. the ghost rare galaxy eyes photon dragon goes for about roughly 50.

    one of these days, im going to pack a tour guide, sell it for an even 200, get all the cards i need and then imma just COAST
     
    Rarity plays a part of the price but, effectwise, RR is worth much more then Photon.

    Anyway, better get and sell quickly. Personally, i'm believing that it will be limited/semi'd which might/could/will cause the price to drop.

    Just noticed this but that deck in the picture? Looks a lot like a SYE deck. (Starter Deck Yugi Evolution. Not sure if I got the abbreviation right though.)
     
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