Forum:Should I get into this game?

Hello... My name is Farel and ... to be honest... Up till now I used to be "I like the anime (except GX), but the card game? LAME!", probably because I was more of a Magic The Gathering player.

And I do want to apologize to any die-hard Yu-Gi-Oh fan whom I could offend by such words. Cause I think I did indeed change my mind now.

I do want to start out by explaining why I did think of leaving the realms of Magic The Gathering and entering the world of Yu-Gi-Oh. I mostly do this, so that you Yu-Gi-Oh experts can tell me if it’s the same thing with Yu-Gi-Oh, so there’s no point changing the game. -Constantly new cards – I am annoyed how in Magic The Gathering there’s constantly new cards, your just done with your neat deck and then BOOM! Due to format rules, many of your cards are illegal now and you need to get new cards! And they’re quite expensive! Some people did suggest me to try a different format where only common cards can be used and it’s ANY card ever, but to my surprise, this did reduce the amount of good decks that can be made to about 12 and even more surprising out of this 12, a clearly best deck could be picked out! Is Yu-Gi-Oh like that too? Does it keep forcing to get new cards over and over? Are they as expensive? -Combo – I love em, but sadly they’re not that easy to pull off in Magic The Gathering… I most often get stampeded… Does Yu-Gi-Oh make it a bit easier to survive the few rounds to be able to bring forth your combo? - Rock-Paper-Scissors- I do hope that each deck has a weak point, so that while my deck may be weak against some, it will be superior to others… I watch the show and see all these characters use their decks and from a magic the gathering perspective that seems impossible! They couldn’t possibly make so many various decks and have all of them be fairly equally strong.

And here 2 things that just confused me while watching the show for so many years and might as well ask, since the occasion seems fitting. -Great in the show, but… - Yeah, the main cast is sooo strong… I even heard there’s decks for sales that are simply named “’s deck”. I do suppose this has to be too good to be true. I just do want to know… would you say that using the main cast of the show’s decks as inspiration for deck construction to be… a bad idea or even a TERRIBLE idea? -No mana, so…? – Yes in Magic The Gathering there’s mana and it serves nice to balance stuff out, but Yu-Gi-Oh doesn’t have that! So I always was wondering… what makes one card better than the other? I know some cards have in reality more effects than mentioned in the show… but regardless… there’s moments in the show where a character uses a card to protect himself and… it for example ONLY protects you against 1 attack of a monster of under 4 stars and it does this for the price of half your life points…. But in a different episode I saw the same character use a card that also protected him, but from ALL monsters, works against spell and trap cards…. AND FOR FREE! … If you have such an alternative, why would you limit your option and have it all be for such a harsh price? Ahh well don’t know if I just didn’t understand stuff, but oh well …

Anyways thanks for taking time to read my overly long post and I do hope to get answers soon. Thank you ^^

--FarelTheGecko (talk • contribs) 10:38, October 17, 2010 (UTC)