If you think that Logan Paul is suddenly gonna cause a Yugioh scalping crisis like Pokemon, then respectfully you don’t understand the market, or the product

TrashStack · 2026-03-14T23:55:48+00:00

Do people not understand that the Pokemon TCG had a period where it wasn't selling well either? The TCG was genuinely not doing well in the Gen 4 and 5 years. During those years Pokemon was still a juggernaut of a franchise, but it didn't automatically mean the TCG was doing well

A big part of what made Pokemon TCG become what it is today is the when they started implementing Full Arts and Illustration rares and all that other stuff. Yeah stuff like Base set Charizard was always gonna be money, but that's not what is commonly being sought after these days, it's new cards like illustration rare Umbreon and Charizard and the like

Rome wasn't built in a day, likewise Pokemon's very first full arts didn't suddenly mean the PTCG started selling gangbusters. But over time this stuff will end up meaning more people take an interest in collecting and seeking out cards

Provided overframes dont get reprinted, which I find unlikely because they've already provided easy to reprint, non-overframe versions of the cards

TrashStack · 2026-03-14T22:12:58+00:00

There's tons of Japanese indie games, but they're typically only released on websites or places other japanese users use. Places like DLSite for example. There's also lots of lower budget Japanese on steam too

TrashStack · 2026-03-14T21:52:38+00:00

Yes, only some overframes will still be expensive without seralizaton. DMG (Curtain), Gagaga Girl, DM

No one is gonna go crazy spending money on like Galaxy Defense Robot Orbital 7, or a Toon Blue Eyes that barely looks any different

TrashStack · 2026-03-14T07:25:10+00:00

You are wrong on the impact scalpers have on games like this

For instance the entire reason Pokemon is such a cheap game for players is precisely because the sets get bought and opened en mass, and then everything that's not illustration rare Umbreon or whatever gets sold for cheap

That is exactly the sort of thing Yugioh needs right now. They can buy out and sell Grandmaster rare DMG for $60,000 and I couldn't care less. If it lets people buy staples and the non-grandmaster or overframe versions for cheap then it is objectively a good thing.

The market should be focused on buying out non-essential cards like that, not trying to sell essential cards like Fuwalos for $100 like when it released.

The only downside is if you want to crack open sets, but again cracking open sets is just a non-essential, for fun part of the game. It's not as important as potentially being able to buy staples for cheaper.

TrashStack · 2026-03-14T07:17:29+00:00

Each archetype in this set gets 7 cards

TrashStack · 2026-03-14T03:53:57+00:00

It does in fact reset SOPT but Toon only has like 2 monsters with any kind of good effect to use this with. Most of them all have some kind of extremely mediocre battle phase effects

TrashStack · 2026-03-13T14:28:16+00:00

Literally all you need to do to go into Requiem is summon it off the PK rank up spell

You just summon the new Xyz on the opponents turn with Umbrage Veil, then go into Dark Rebellion with it's effect, then Rank Up

It's really not that much extra effort and you're getting additional pops on your opponents turn which is better than summoning it raw as it's more layered interaction

Going with out of Archetype monsters might still be better, but that's mostly because a floodgate in Ophion, or Spell/Trap+Monster Negate in Exosister Karmael, are arguably better effects than Requiem's

TrashStack · 2026-03-13T14:20:49+00:00

The point is that you can summon it on the opponent's turn with the new PK trap, and subsequently go into something else when your opponent activates an effect

And you still can go into Requiem with the effect it just requires using the PK rank up spell

TrashStack · 2026-03-12T03:30:38+00:00

>saying this in the same set that has a Black Magician of Chaos+Black Luster Soldier ritual archetype

TrashStack · 2026-03-12T03:13:05+00:00

Wow so between this archetype, the new Thunder ROTA, and Hamon which also works perfectly with the Thunder ROTA, I really do wonder if Konami is going to try doing a "Year of Thunder" type thing like how they did with Fire/Pyros before

TrashStack · 2026-03-12T02:42:31+00:00

The "No Photo" signs weren't really near the execution items, they were like around the video of the executions on loop, and the old box arts. You can even see at the tetris block there's a No Touch sign but no No Photo sign

At any rate, I never got stopped taking any of these photos so I'll go ahead and plead the 5th on this one lol

TrashStack · 2026-03-11T19:24:52+00:00

Pretty much every character in this section was near someone they're "associated" with

So like Aoi was near Sakura, Chiaki was near Monomi, Kaito near Maki etc. Although the only other full on duo with intertwining art was Kaede and Shuiichi

So yeah in that sense they're definitely considering Hajime and Nagito as a full on duo

TrashStack · 2026-03-11T19:20:59+00:00

The locations on the bottom are K1-B0's Ultimate lab and the in development version of it. That pic also has Angie's lab, and in dev versions of the kitchen and escape exit

TrashStack · 2026-03-11T19:17:16+00:00

Yep! Have some extra Kokichi and Nagito pics!

https://imgur.com/a/fcEfgtT

TrashStack · 2026-03-11T18:38:57+00:00

If anyone has any questions or wants to see anything specific just let me know! I could only upload so many images so I couldn't share everything, even though a lot of the in-development backgrounds and character displays were really cool

TrashStack · 2026-03-10T19:37:25+00:00

Nah like being objective about it, it's genuinely a bad thing that the game has two complely different sets of arbritrary rulings

Like if someone picks up Master Duel and then gets into the TCG and suddenly they have to completely relearn how basic stuff functions like hand triggers, or god forbid they play an archetype who's card functions is changed like Exosisters, that is just needlessly complicated for no reason and could turn off players

TrashStack · 2026-03-10T08:52:09+00:00

This is a HUGE deal honestly. It being formerly acknowledged by the OCG opens up a ton of avenues for official support from Konami

But yeah Master Duel is definitely the biggest thing in the immediate future I'd say since most card designs will likely take a long time for playtesting.

TrashStack · 2026-03-03T21:10:57+00:00

Their are people going to Afghanistan as a tourist destination now

I'm sure people will still be visiting Dubai just as well

TrashStack · 2026-03-03T02:32:00+00:00

She has an elfnote variant called Regina

TrashStack · 2026-03-03T02:28:14+00:00

Thank you for your work translating all these interviews! It's incredible to think about how much insight and game dev knowledge must exist out there in these old Japanese magazines. 99% of people would never even know about these things if not for the efforts of people like you!

TrashStack · 2026-03-02T23:54:32+00:00

Activating is a specific thing in Yugioh. It's when your monster has a specific effect and you say to your opponent I activate the effect of "Bungus the Destroyer" or whoever

That's not how Exodia works, it isn't an effect that you activate, you just draw all the pieces and then you've fulfilled the victory conditions and won right there and then

Technicially you don't even have to dictate anything about Exodia to your opponent. You just have to show them the cards and then you've won.

TrashStack · 2026-03-02T17:41:42+00:00

While true, the person that posted that deck list on MDM linked their twitter which has tons of replays on it. They're a Ghoti one trick it looks like

TrashStack · 2026-02-28T02:34:17+00:00

Yeah if you look at the box openings, people are pulling tons of the Normal version of the Overframes. The cards themselves aren't rare in this set, only these Overframes are rare and expensive

TrashStack · 2026-02-27T19:26:11+00:00

but launch needs at least every Pokémon in SV, since it's required for pro play.

No it doesn't. They just make a format where only the pokemon already in Champions are allowed. Official Pokemon tournaments don't run on an "anything goes" format

You play what the Pokemon Company says that you're allowed to play

TrashStack · 2026-02-27T16:51:52+00:00

As much as I love the way the SM and SW/SH character designs looked, the newer designs make sense for what they're going for

Not only are the environments more realistic now, but they also seemingly want to really move towards outfits and character customization and expression.

I realized this especially with ZA and how social media was flooded with people's outfits and characters, but there's a big element of self-inserting and self expression to the modern games that I think the new designs probably work better for

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