Reasons why modern yugioh sucks for me...

Fun fact: Most "Control" decks actually don't fit the definition of a control deck, which is to say a deck based on denying opponents resources and winning in a grindgame. Most "Control" decks actually are Stun decks, playing floodgates and locking the opponent out of taking entire game actions rather than denying resources. It's gotten that bad

Yugioh went from 15 turn games to 3 turn games with each player doing 15 things each turn

“I play a monster in defense mode, then I place one card face down and end my tu-what do you mean I lost already?!?”

Modern Yugioh is literally “play the newest stuff out. You can’t even play with your favorite deck because its power crept by a landslide.

Yugioh games these days only last 1 or 2 turns, either whomever goes first summons an invincible army or he gets countered and ragequits, it's not fun to play nor to watch.

Konami seems to be naming its new archetypes like pharmaceutical companies name new drugs. I really despise the naming schemes and aesthetics of modern yugioh designs. Bysteel sucks as a name, tearlamnt sucks as a name, kashtira sucks as a name. I don't want a pill bottle of kashtira served to me by my doctor

This is why I feel people shouldn't mix archetypes. If you pick Elemental Heroes, you shouldn't get access to Destiny Heroes, Evil Heroes, Masked Heroes, etc. If you use Blue Eyes, you shouldn't get access to Galaxy Eyes. If you use Frightfurs, you shouldn't get access to non Frightfur fusion monsters. I could make more examples, but I won't. I know I'm being hypocritical with my point because I splash Dark Rebellion with my Evilswarm deck, but I truly hate FTK and heavy Negate decks.

Yugioh has become a game where the meta is more about stopping your opponent from playing, instead of having smarter plays.

My question to most yugioh duelists who’s main strategy is using your entire deck on the first turn to basically either defeat your opponent that same turn or have so many negate effects that your opponents don’t have a chance to win in the least, why do you think people should still play yugioh when you don’t even give them a turn to use their deck?

Consider yourself lucky that yu gi oh players are intelligent enough to realize the banlist thing is exploited for money .

I recently got pulled into YGO because a friend of mine was starved for a challenge (I have been in a similar position, so I figured I'd give it a try after he bought me Legacy of the Duelists: Link Evolution), and I absolutely hate the "meta" level of play. Every meta-competitive deck is designed entirely around preventing the opponent from doing anything on their first turn, and then killing them before they get a second. It's for this reason that we (me, my friend, and my brother who got caught in the crossfire) came up with an honor-system for how we play.