 In today's video, we discuss why Konami made this product. What's up guys, we're back with another epic opening video. In this video, we will be opening the new two player starter set, which many of you guys have seen already. This is such an interesting product. Before we actually get into the discussion and the opening, we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this Hidden Arsenal Special Edition. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed to notifications. Let me know what you think about this two player starter set. Does it suck? Is it worthless? Is it actually useful in some ways? Let me know what you think. Today's video is sponsored by What Not. What Not is a live auction app where you can sell and buy items live, as well as offline. I personally go live there pretty often, and I will be going live there this Thursday at 5 p.m. opening Legend of Blue Eyes Wide Dragon until we get the Blue Eyes Wide Dragon. And we may even open up some original 2002 packs. 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There's not even an English TV show going on right now, like for a long time. What was the last one? Like, I don't know, a couple years ago. So pretty interesting. This two player set will get you started on your dueling adventures with a different 44 card deck for each player. 44 cards. Does that include like extra deck as like four of them or something? That'd be weird if it was like a 44 card main deck. Plus a 64 page comic book, 64 page comic book that teaches you how to play. Wow, 64 pages. OK, the easy way, the easy way. OK, includes one to 64 page teaching comic book plus two, 44 card. It just said that. OK, 88 cards total and eight ultra rare cards. So as you can see, we have a dark magician there. I don't even know what's in here. I didn't watch any videos of people opening this, but if you just look at all the pictures, I'm sure we can figure out what might be inside. So unlike a starter deck slash structure deck, it doesn't tell you the contents here. Like a lot of times it would just tell you everything in here. So it's actually somewhat interesting for me to open because I don't know exactly what it is. So let's get into this as we open it. I'm going to talk about what I think about this product. This thing costs twenty dollars. So keep that in mind. It's about twice as it is twice as expensive as a normal structure deck. So I think they're normally ten on regular structure decks. Is that right? Or did they bump up to like eleven? I feel like they might have done that. But this is you can get it nineteen ninety nine right now on eBay. So shout out to sassy auto, by the way, for sending me this. Let's open this thing up and see what you can get. So this thing was in a box that was pouring down rain on my porch. So it's so this thing is somewhat moist. So I think it's just the outside part. So I think we salvage the actual decks, which is good. Here's the sixty four page manual of learning how to play. And we are not going to go through everything here, but that's this very dual links, Esk right there with some stuff there. So we've got a bunch of stuff, how to do it. Here's how you play the game. Look, I may or may not know how to play the game. We're not going to, you know, debate that here right now. But this thing's a little wet too. I definitely should have gotten that. They delivered on a Sunday morning. I mean, come on. I mean, I'm busy. I'm at church guys. OK, so we have two decks here. Let's see if there's any warping going on. These definitely you can feel it, but it was a tiny little box and they deliver it. You know, I'm just unfortunate, but I think the cards are fine, which is all that matters. So we have the two decks here. We have the divine arsenal. You get a Zeus in here. OK, so I'm guessing this is an XC's deck versus a synchro deck. If I had to guess, Manadium, Primark also decent card, but wow, a free zoo. Not free. It's twenty dollars, but you get a Zeus. I mean, Zeus in a lot of prints is twenty dollars. So you basically made your money back right there. That's pretty cool. All right. Well, we'll do Zeus last because that's pretty good. Let's get this thing out of here. These are so cold. I just got them off the front porch and wow, they are cold. It is definitely not not not warm outside. OK, let's get this thing open. The weather has been killing us recently with the last release. We didn't get our stuff until a week late. You know, it's been pretty rough. So let's see what cards you actually get for the synchro deck. You get Manadium, Primark. I guess you get four ultras per deck. That's what it seems like forty four cards. So I'm guessing you get four extra deck synchro cards rampaging Smash Tank Rhino Saber. I don't even know where that card's from. Coral Dragon, I think is a pretty good card and Stygian Sargeants. OK, there's all our ultras. So four ultras and then you get a deck worth back to the front. You got Manadium Fearless. I'm not going to lie. These cards are freezing right now. Galaxy Cyclone. We have supply squad. It looks like they didn't get like warped or anything, though, which is good. Phantom King Hydride Liberty at last. White Elephant's Gift, Power Frame, Doc Resonator. We have Quillbowl Hedgehog card. Trooper is a good card. Mobius, there you go, Seemo. That's some good Seemo stuff. Mage Power. Yeah, these are definitely learning how to play. Mage Power, I love that. Magic Cylinder, a classic for me back in the day when I was learning how to play. Mask of the Accursed, Kunai with Jane. What is this? You think that was a reference? You think that was a reference, Konami? Well done. We have Dark Hole, Mask of Darkness, Fissure, Barrier Resonator, Manadium Fearless, Visa Star Frost, Obsessive, Uvaloop, Diddy Crow. Wow, that was pretty good, Diddy Crow. One-time Passcode, Returning Alive at Card, Card D. Skateball, there's some good cards in here. Stormy Mirror Force, Backup Rider, Swords of Revealing Light, and then some big guys. That's what you like to see, a one-tribute, Gilgoth, formerly Secret and Glass. Oh, John McGreen, why are you here? Why are you here, oh, John McGreen? Okay, Rai-U-Ran, Launcher Spider. Didn't we have the bone that, like, you get to draw a Spirit of the Heart? So it's a bunch of vanilla's at the end, which is pretty interesting. So, very simple deck. You know, there's a few cards in there that are, like, you know, have effects and stuff, but there are some simple stuff going on. Which I think, you know, as we're getting to the discussion part of this video, I mean, we're opening this, but I'm still gonna talk about it. It's kind of the point of this thing. I saw a lot of complaining about this product, and people were like, ugh, this product sucks, you know? Like, why do we have this thing? And I think that we overlook kind of the point of the deck. Like, I know it really is to learn how to play the game. And there's a lot of people, like, if you're a kid these days, and that's what we want, we want kids joining Yu-Gi-Oh, you need something like this. You need something where you get the cards, and a lot of people learn by playing. They don't learn necessarily by reading a 64-page manual, like they also gave us. Or by watching. So if they could start with something like this, I can not get this thing open. That's one thing I really hate is this, the plastic on these decks, it is a pain to get open. But I figured it out. Okay, stop, don't shuffle this deck, why not? The closed comic book walks you and a friend through a scripted duel. Oh, don't change the order. Oh, cool, so that's nice. Okay, the learning part is very important. We want people to learn, we want people to understand. And if you have too many complicated cards, like, I saw people like, why don't they just give them like these really playable decks that they can actually use. They're not gonna give a learning situation playable decks. It'd be too confusing. I mean, if you're a kid, if you're an adult shirt, like it wouldn't make sense, but even adults, like you throw pendulums in there, I mean, that's just confusing. So I think that they went the right route. I think by putting some powerful cards in here, but also throwing in some just like very basic ideas. Divine Arsenal, A.A. Zeus, we have Castell, number 20, and Agustor Emerald, that's another good card. Fierce Tiger, a Mongo, Magical Broker, Star Drawing, there we go. The Star Drawing, just like on TCG Player, guys. Night Beam, oh, one of our investments. We have a Traffic Control, Stark, Changer, a guy, a guy, a magician. Fighting Spirit, we have Burn of the Mighty, Beast King, Barbaros, Swing of Memories, Gyroid, Dark Factory, NATO Ceiling, Book of Moon, MST, Penguin, Magician of Faith, Chiron, Dark Magician Girls in here, randomly. XC's, Crane, Crane, there's a lot more Eldritches in here, wow, okay. There's a lot more Effect Monsters in here. Cyber Dragon, I feel like the XC's deck is a million times better, if I had to guess. Gold on it, cost down 1,000 eyes, White Ninja, Draining Shield, No Entry, Trade in, I mean, here are all the, look more Ojamas, they just, it's like they took the really popular ones, like we'll put at least one Ojama in there. One Dark Magician, one Dark Magician girl, like we gotta get those in their Lajin. I feel like if we actually dueled here, this deck might be significantly better than this one, which might be something that they could work on in the future. But I feel like it's a really awesome product because, yeah, $20 shirt, could this have been $10? Probably. It doesn't have a few nice cards in here, like Zeus, yeah, it does. It could have been a little cheaper, maybe $15 would be a good compromise. But I think it's important to have products like this, and the exciting part for me about this is that introducing this kind of product means they might make it more in the future, like maybe they'll make sort of a starter version, then they'll do a more advanced version. Maybe they could have a starter deck, two starter decks that go together or that face each other that are actually playable, because the problem with starter and structure decks is usually need three of them. It'd be really cool if they had set-ups of decks like this where you could buy it and it was playable right immediately, and there was two of them. Not necessarily playable in the meta, because there's no way they're gonna give us a top tier meta deck for $20. It's just not gonna happen. Just for the finance version of it, I know they're not gonna do it. It would be cool though if they gave us two decks that were very evenly matched, and they also had a bunch of cool cards in them that you could just pull right out of the box and play. That's what I think is cool about this. If you just wanna grab it and play it with a friend, Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't really have options for that at the moment. They have structure decks, which are really cool, but if you grab one structure deck versus another structure deck, it doesn't really work that well. They're not really that playable on their own. You usually need another copy of the deck or whatever. It is doable, but I still feel like the idea they're going with here is, first of all, if you buy two structure decks, it's 20 bucks. This is also 20 bucks. You might argue, well, the structure deck you're gonna get better cards, true, but I think if they make this product and maybe make it even better, they can make it where the experience of you and a friend grabbing it for 20 bucks, splitting it 10 bucks each, and then just playing it together one night or multiple nights, could be really fun. And honestly, this experience could be more fun than trying to put together a meta deck for certain people. Like if you're a casual person like me, I've enjoyed putting together decks before, but then I never end up using them. The exciting thing about this is I could just grab this with a friend and we could play and there's no like build up of building the deck. Cause sometimes that building the deck is fun. Sometimes it's just tedious. And if you're just wanting to play Yu-Gi-Oh! with a friend and you don't wanna do it online, you wanna do it with physical cards. Cause let's be honest, physical cards are just more fun. You know, online's great and everything, but playing with physical cards is the reason we all love Yu-Gi-Oh! And even me, who doesn't really play that much anymore? When I was a kid, playing with the physical cards and having my deck and Rocky walking around and like, are you ready to duel? That was the fun part. So just being able to like grab a friend, grab a box, throw down two decks. And look, I know these decks are not amazing. That honestly, for me, I know I'm a boomer, gives a little bit of charm. You know, you're playing with some cards that aren't that good. You're setting spirit of harp on certain turns. Like very weird, you know, it's not current Yu-Gi-Oh! So a lot of people want more current Yu-Gi-Oh! So that's where I think they could add that more advanced version. Maybe they even have three tiers, like the sort of basic learn how to play decks. They could have more middle tier ones. Then they could even have a high tier with like even stuff that could potentially be playable. So I wasn't actually gonna make a video about this, but I got this from Sasiata and I was like, you know what? I want to, first of all, I want to see what's inside. Second of all, I want to talk about how I feel about this deck. And I actually think it's a cool product. I think it's a good product. And I hope that people like it so that they continue to make it. Oftentimes a problem with products like this or at least different products that aren't like booster packs such as like Dual Devastator, which was a great product. People didn't really buy that many because once you bought it, you were kind of good. Like you bought like three of them. You had to play set of all the hand traps and everything. You didn't really need to keep buying it. Same thing with this is like, it's sort of a one-time purchase, but if it's so good that people are like, oh, I love when they come out with the starter sets. I love the starter set formats. They're so much fun. Like when they come out with a new one, I buy it. Kind of like drafting boxes and stuff like that and Magic the Gathering, which I would love if Yu-Gi-Oh! would do. That'd be super fun. If they can make it where this is a thing that people look forward to like a new release and they come and buy like every single time, they buy it and they play it and they save them up and you know, they switch them up and they play different decks at different times. Like the two players starter set first edition and then like the next one that comes out, we could like mix the four decks and you have four different matchups and all this different stuff. I think there's a lot of potential there for people that are casual Yu-Gi-Oh! players then even for even high-end people and not just casual, but other people that are just interested in playing like different matchups because sometimes playing the meta can get stale because like, you know, you're playing the same thing over and over. The nice part about this is I guarantee no one has been playing the Stygian Sergeant's deck versus Daigusto Emeril, which I know is not their top card, but these two decks have never faced each other. Like this concoction of two decks, that's completely new, which is fun and exciting. So overall, I think this is honestly an exciting product for me. I don't know if it's gonna sell super well. I don't know if people are excited about it. From what I've seen, a lot of people are negative about it, but if you are a sort of a casual Yu-Gi-Oh! player and you don't really like messing around with all that extra stuff that comes with Yu-Gi-Oh! You don't have time for it. You like watching openings. You like to duel on occasion online or something, but you don't have time to put together deck by all the cards. This is a great option. This is just something you can do with your friends. And I think it's pretty cool. So let me know down below, do you agree with me? And what do you think they should do to make these better in the future? Cause obviously it's not perfect products. The first time it's come out. Besides like pricing, cause like, yeah, pricing, whatever. Like it can always be better, it can always be worse. Let's hear about what you think in the decks or like the deck structure would make this an even more exciting product for you. Appreciate you guys watching. If you want to see more discussion videos, opening videos, and even more, make sure to subscribe to the channel. 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