A few weeks ago, Konami released 25th Anniversary Tin: Duel Mirrors for Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading card game. To say that these cans received applause and praise would be far from the truth and not even remotely funny.
These cans are one of the most annoying products Konami has ever released for its users Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG has been around for a while. In fact, I didn’t hide my dissatisfaction with my friends. But why are people so angry about these cans?
Not only do I want to outline the issues that duelists are having with these cans, but I also want to discuss how I think they can be saved for next year’s cans and even see if we can get through the release Duel Mirror. While I personally don’t recommend purchasing these jars, if you really want them, you can purchase them from your local OTS or game store for $21.99.
Before we discuss all the points I mentioned, I would like to introduce Duel Mirror Cans provide duelists. Inside the jar, you’ll find three Super Packs. Each Mega Pack contains 8 Common, 3 Ultra Rare, 1 Prism Secret Rare, and 1 Quarter Century Secret Rare.
Overall, it sounds pretty good. There are 400 cards in the set, including 50 QCSR, 100 PSR, 150 UR and 100 C. Power of the Elements, Photon Supernova, Cyberstorm Nexus, Duelist Nexus, Age of Overlords, Labyrinth of Memory, Astonishing Defender, Wild Survivorand brave crusher. I think this basic information is enough.
Also, I do want to acknowledge some of the positives Duel Mirror can. First off, the actual tin looks nice and is functional. A lot of people like to use these jars to store cards (usually public cards), and they really go to great lengths to do so.
Second, whether we like it or not, the price of canned cards has dropped. Before the can, S:P Little Knight cost $75+, now you can get a can for about $40, so while it’s still not ideal, it’s a lot better than it used to be, and we do need to acknowledge that a little.
My final positive is that I love alternative art and, frankly, Duel Mirror There are quite a few, and they are all great. Come on, those thunder dramas and the red-eyed black dragon! Now let’s talk about the not-so-good stuff.
Let’s start with perhaps the most compelling question Duel Mirror: The size of the card pool. There are 400 cards in this set. That’s over 100 more cards than the 2023 jar! The deck is so bloated that even if every card is of the same rarity, you don’t have a great chance of getting any of the cards you want.
To make matters worse, many of the cards are terrible. First, it includes cards from two years ago! Then you add all the nostalgia bait and two tokens, and the can is no longer in a good spot. Why is there so much nostalgia bait here?
Here’s how I fix large decks: Just reduce the count! In my opinion, a box should have no more than 200-250 cards, and it should be a celebration of the past year of the game (give or take), offering the best cards in that time frame.
Honestly, this solves a lot of problems. Secondly, nostalgia bait should be limited to no more than 10 or so pictures. “But Tommy,” I hear you say, “how are people going to celebrate the game’s 25th anniversary by enjoying their favorite badass nostalgia cards alongside the shiniest rare cards ever?”
I’ll tell you how. There is an upcoming product called A Quarter-Century Bonanza It’s the perfect vessel for nostalgia bait! The set features a nostalgic pool of 200 cards that are guaranteed to be Platinum Secret Rare or Quarter Century Secret Rare! To me, putting the Link Spider in that set makes more sense than putting the tin in that set.
Additionally, the two tokens and three new cards are supposed to be promotional items. You don’t have to put all five in each jar, either. You can have a special 3-card promo pack that contains some combination of five cards. This incentivizes multiple purchases, reduces the card pool, and makes duelists feel better that their purchases have some kind of guaranteed return.
The next big question is rarity selection. I feel like the QCSR pool is very fragmented. There are some cards that make sense, such as Yubel and Shards of Exodia, but many others, such as Link Spider, Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle, and Gadgets all look terrible and would be better served in an upcoming product A Quarter-Century Bonanza Set than canned!
Then, not only is our PSR pool huge, but most of the cards in that slot are already secret rares or ultra rares, meaning they’re already hard to come by.
The massive UR pool does have a mix of rarity boosts (like Shadow Ghoul of the Labyrinth) as well as some rarity downgrades (including Golden Pride – Roller), but many of them are just cards that no one seems to care too much about, because every time The chase card has been placed in the PSR.
Finally, since Konami decided to drop the super rares in this jar, which is really the perfect place for big chase cards, we have a bunch of common cards that I’m pretty sure are already universal, so most duelists will already have a useful game set . So we can honestly delete public periods.
I think this problem needs some discipline to solve. As duelists, we love shiny cardboard. The shinier the better, right? However, Konami needs to enforce some unwritten (or perhaps spoken) rules.
The first big problem is that there is no horizontal upgrade. If a card was originally released as Secret Rare, it should not be put into the can as PSR. In keeping with this, rarity improvements should be focused on cards that are super rare and below.
I think it would be great to have cards like Shadow Ghoul of the Labyrinth upgraded from rare to ultra rare. This is a rare boost that makes me feel good as a duelist (especially since I’m currently playing a Janitor deck).
It doesn’t feel good to see the triple tactical thrust from Secret to UR to PSR or the S:P Knight from Secret to PSR. These cans should put last year’s best cards into new rarities to provide rarity boosts for those who want shinier versions of their decks, or lower the rarities to make them more accessible.
On a related note, large staples (including original URs like TY-PHON) should all be downgraded by at least one rarity.
Another downside to Konami is their card selection. I’m not sure what Konami’s criteria are for selecting the packaging available in a specific can. I know in the old days canning was like a celebration of the last year Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG.
According to some research, the history of canning seems to date back about a year. For example, 2022 tin of pharaohs and gods Featured Cards of 2021. 25th Anniversary Tin: Duel Heroes It’s filled with cards for 2022.
However, Duel Mirror Dating back to August 2022, the latest pack is Valiant Smashers, launching in November 2023. Here come the junk ear lovers like Rabbit.
Why isn’t Gotica reprinted here? Why does the only memento card contain the field spell “Mementomictlan”? Why don’t the new Gatekeeper fusion monsters get rarity upgrades? Now their main deck monsters all have a higher rarity than the boss monsters, which is really weird. Many of these choices seem confusing to me.
How can I solve this problem? Just be more intentional with the cards in the pool. If you want to include a prototype card, include at least one, and make sure it includes key/good cards.
For example, if they wanted to include Mementomictlan, they could at least add Mementotlan Angwitch, Mementotlan Bone Barty, and Mementoal Tecuhtlica – a joint creation.
In the 400-card pool, there are a lot of cards that duelists simply don’t care about, and there are also a lot of cards that at least some duelists will be excited about because they’re ignored. Put the prototype together and make sure to include the higher value parts.
So, now that I’ve got all of that out of the way, I want to share my ideal version of the future of canning. In an ideal world, Konami would combine the legacy of the can (aka celebrating the past year’s games) with perhaps their most successful product of all time, Rare collectibles Model.
I know this is highly unlikely to happen, but if they pick 100-150 cards from last year Yu-Gi-Oh! (They could decide to be more like the original can and have 2025 contain cards from 2025, or they could stick with a more modern option so 2025 would contain cards from 2024) And every card in that set has With every rarity, people will get really excited about every can.
They don’t even have to include exotic rarities like QCSR or Collector’s Rares or Ultimate Rares (although honestly, that does make things more exciting). It’s a much smaller card pool than the current can, which is already a bonus, but you can exaggerate it Rare Collection I and Rare Collection II Promote more chasing.
This smaller pool will also facilitate (hopefully) more careful selection of the cards included so that related cards in the archetype are kept together. Rather than have a Memento here and four Conquer Souls there and then complete garbage that will probably never be played, we could remove the garbage and give us key Memento and Conquer Soul cards along with fan-favorite cards like Gordy.
Additionally, since every card has every rarity, this naturally means that each card is both a rarity boost and a rarity downgrade, helping the secondary market so that more people can actually buy the card and Play the game while also providing duelists with the biggest rare decks of shiny stuff.
I know Konami is unlikely to read or care about what I’ve listed here. i do think Duel Mirror The design of the can is very poor and a sign of dishonesty from Konami.
I know quite a few people who have recently left gaming, or are seriously considering jumping ship, because of products like this Duel Mirror Processing.
I love this game and want to see it get better, and I think I’ve provided some good ideas that might help fix some of Konami’s graphics.
