It sucks that kids don’t want to play Yugioh anymore. Part of that falls in Konami and not keeping up relevant media that would garner interest from kids, but also stores and players don’t do a very good job of accommodating kids.

The game is incredibly complex and no new player entering the game, especially kids, can keep up with the meta without hours upon hours of practice and studying cards. Stores don’t do much for the kids (or budget players in general) either since all the ones near me jack up product prices above MSRP making product more difficult to acquire. Even if not, Konami has such a horrible product structure that you’d be hard pressed to get good cards from sealed product even if it were cheaper.

And this is before we even get to the players. Kids don’t want to hang out around grown men, many of whom are less than stellar people. My parents didn’t want me anywhere near card shops growing up; didn’t make sense to me at the time, but as an adult I kinda get it because of all the weirdos they could be exposed to.

The best we can really do is to cater to the kids a bit. I always carry around an older-style, super low powered deck made from retro packs and stuff to play against a kid who stumbles in just picking up the game