So This Is the World of Card Players? Ya-da-ze!

He wakes up to find his dueling skill has dropped to one ten-thousandth of what it was?

He wakes up to find the dueling scene has gone back twenty years!

Utterly bewildered, he finds himself a top-ranking duelist in old Domino City before Duel Monsters take the world by storm, and a classmate of the original Duel King, Yugi Muto.

Hayato says, "Things have come to this, so let's duel first. I need to play my Tamashi right away... Wait, as the protagonist, shouldn't I be starting with a cutting-edge meta deck? Why am I stuck with a pile of vanilla chaff?"

But it doesn't matter!

I'll tribute my monsters for the greater good!