Edit: The second option: "Play competitive (advanced format, casual only)" should say ACTIVELY instead of COMPETITIVE, sorry for the confusion
To date, it goes without saying that everyone knows that the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise consists of a trading card game with a promotional anime series attached. The franchise is all about collecting and fighting with monsters. It is also famous for being comparable to the Pokemon franchise.
But what did you think Yu-Gi-Oh! was before you played the trading card game and/or watched the anime?
For me, I always have been aware that Yu-Gi-Oh! is, has always been and will forever be a monster collecting trading card game. I've also seen Yu-Gi-Oh! been compared to Pokemon hundreds of times due to both being monster collecting franchises. Not to mention, I actually initially thought that Yugi and the other duelists would function similar to trainer cards in the trading card game.
After the last Yu-Gi-Oh post I did got a really strong response and even inspired some others, I was kind of at a loss for what to do next. There's a lot of fascinating drama around the franchise, which is currently hitting its 25th anniversary, and a lot of angles with which to go at it, and also I hit an iceberg of drama that was pretty darn huge. But that said, I saw a lot of requests in the comments section to cover a rather specific source of drama, and frankly? This one's not as big as a riot, but what it is, is absolutely hilarious. So, friends, let's lay out our playmats and calculators, and bring ourselves back to the year of 2015.
Setting the Stage
Yu-Gi-Oh! is a long-running franchise, originally springing from a late-90s gaming manga, which holds a rarified place in the hearts of younger millennials and older Gen Z-ers and serves primarily as a showcase for a trading card game. The TCG in question is one of the most popular in the world, consistently ranking in the top three, and is known for its brutal metagame, massive card pool, highly explosive gameplay, and having a development team held in the same regard as telemarketers and people who chew with their mouth open.
At the time our story takes place, it is March 2015, in Fort Lauterdale. Alter Reality Games, a player-run organization, is holding a tournament; a part of the ARG Circuit Series. These small, informal tournaments don't tend to have big prizes, but they still serve as a great test of skill and a showcase of top decks in between the big events. You have walked into the tournament, ready to play a good game. You check the board, and you discover: you are playing against Patrick Hoban.
Patrick Hoban, at the time of this event, was one of the most highly regarded players in the English-speaking world. In the past two years, he had managed to place in the top 32 in a total of 17 different tournaments according to yugiohtopdecks. He had won the 2013 North American Championship outright, and qualified for the World Championship. In the past six months, he had won two large tournaments outright. He's often recognized as the first
... keep reading on reddit β‘Inspired by u/h0m3r's breakdown of Magic: The Gathering's Combo Winter, I felt it was important to make a post on the biggest controversy of the other biggest card game in the world, that being Yu-Gi-Oh. This is a drama that went on for years, and is arguably still not quite over, so strap in, folks; this one's gonna be long, weird, and feature a whole lot of card game terminology.
What Yu-Gi-Oh Is
Most people do know what Yu-Gi-Oh is, and plenty even played it when they were younger (developing a bizarrely strong affection for Summoned Skull in the process), but many aren't as familiar with what it is now. And for the fully uninitiated: Yu-Gi-Oh is a franchise that began a manga, initiailly focused on several different games but eventually latching on to showcasing a highly-marketable in-universe card game. It received an anime adaptation, many different video games, and is overall one of the longest-running and most successful Japanese franchises, with a new anime coming out every few years. And the crown jewel of its empire is the card game, which has been going uninterrupted since 1999: a de-fictionalized version of the card game featured in the series, which the other elements of the franchise evolved to serve as a showcase for, creating shounen-style battles and epic narratives dedicated to people being immensely serious about their shiny pieces of cardstock with pictures of dragons on them.
The Yu-Gi-Oh card game is... quite the beast, and it's largely down to three major factors, all of which will be very important for the drama to come.
- Yu-Gi-Oh does not utilize any form of "card rotation." While Magic: The Gathering's standard format requires players to use cards released in the past few years, cards in Yu-Gi-Oh that haven't seen a release in twenty years are just as playable as cards released last week, as long as they haven't been explicitly banned. Yu-Gi-Oh's use of this format creates mixed results. On the one hand, it means your old deck from 2008 can be played at any card shop, and old decks can suddenly be supplemented by new support. On the other hand, it means that new cards need to be superior to old cards to convince players to buy them, a process known as "power creep," and this can cause the game's overall power to spike out of control. Sure, you can play your beloved [Cyber Dragon](https://yugipedia.com/
After my last post on Yu-Gi-Oh got a great response, I saw a lot of requests to do another notable bit of drama in the community. There were a lot of great suggestions, but one that came to mind as something immediately interesting was a rather similar period: a time of transition between new formats. While last time, I talked about a period of incompetence, this time, I'm going to talk about a period where it was not incompetence the community saw--rather, they saw malicious intent.
Introduction
Yu-Gi-Oh is a franchise based largely on a card game based largely on a manga. It is considered one of the top two TCGs in the world, and is noted for its extremely fast speed, its regular introduction of new mechanics, and its notoriously high level of power creep.
In 2008, Yu-Gi-Oh notably changed its rules dealing with what was at the time called the Fusion Deck. Previously, this had been simply "the place you keep your Fusion Monsters when you haven't fused something yet." Many players didn't use Fusions; the majority of them were either bad or not worth the effort of fusing to make them. It was such an underutilized mechanic that many players simply stuck a bunch of rare Fusions in there that they couldn't even play, and used them as trade fodder.
This changed with the introduction of Synchro Monsters, which were put in the Fusion Deck as well (now called the Extra Deck), but used a summoning method distinct from Fusion. Rather than being fused from two monsters and a fusion card, Synchros were made by taking a monster labeled as a Tuner and adding up its level with that of other monsters on the field, then sending them all to the Graveyard. This meant that a level 3 Tuner and a level 4 non-Tuner could simply turn into a powerful level 7 Synchro.
Synchros changed the game massively, making it much easier to get strong cards on the field and significantly speeding things up. Response at the time was mixed, but overall, it got people buying cards by the dozen and changed up how the game was played heavily. Ergo, it seemed that the game designers considered it a success, and decided to try repeating the process in 2011 with a new variety of monster: the Xyz Monsters.
What the hell is an Xyz?
Xyz (pronounced "ek-sees") were, in many respects, an attempt to answer the critiques of Synchros by creating a sim
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That game will be Khans, a TCG where you (through a Khans card), lead Champion cards to battle, using Item and Action cards to help your Champions.
The game will be obviously running on classic web2 (initially at least, like other games, Axie Infinity^2 for example) while all aspects of ownership and governance will be onchain ^3. Play2Earn capabilities will happen on the web2 part but will allow any player to convert their gains to cards or tokens.
Honestly just working with artists on cards design made me want to own them myself lol.
I'm sharing my project with y'all to get some interest, feedback, and invite you to the project's discord or to stay tuned by following the twitter.
PS: Nothing is released yet, the project is very much in the early stages.
^1 And more EVM based blockchain down the road, at least ones with NFT bridge capabilities in place.
^2 Until a workable, fast and cheap solution is available for production that can accommodate a game needs for computation.
^3 ERC1155 will power cards ownership, and every card will have limited supply, beside beginners cards which will have an infinite supply to make everyone able to participate and have fun.
Would love to hear what you guys think about my project!
Hay there I'm just wondering if someone knows a place which deals in training car games again more specifically Yu-Gi-Oh that also host tournaments and sells them
Parents of Reddit. Do Children nowadays still play Yu-Gi-Oh the TCG? When I grew up in the 2000s as a kid and spending my childhood playing the TCG. I am wondering do Kids still play the game or is it mostly adult ridden? Do your kids even care for physical board/card games? Focus on YGO if possible?
I am just curious because I am a 22 year old male and loved the game, and I don't have younger family members to ask whether they still play the game. So I am just wondering whether TCG is dead.
If so? Do they actually know the game? Is the game too complicated for them nowadays? Do they just collect the cards or do they actually sit down with friends and play the game? Do you as a parent play TCG with your kids? Also are schools still super strict on Card Games and does YuGiOh rule the school ground still? Thank you.
Yu-Gi-Oh! is a trading card game that ties into an anime series of the same name, and is one of the top three TCGs in the world, alongside Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering. Like those games, a new booster pack series is released roughly once every three months, adding around 100 new cards into the game. The game is primarily developed in Japan, and so they receive the sets first, normally a few months in advance. This first release in Asian regions (where the game is referred to as the "Official Trading Card Game", or "OCG") gives players in western areas (the "Trading Card Game", or "TCG") an insight into what cards are coming out and how they will shape tournament play in the future. However, there are some key differences between the two - they maintain separate banlists, and each set that releases in the TCG comes with around 10 additional TCG exclusive cards that have not been seen before in Japan. This story centres around a series of TCG exclusive cards, leaks, and some crazy price hiking.
Inferno
The story begins in August 2014, just before the release of the set Duelist Alliance. This was the first set tying into a new anime series, which brought about a lot of changes. A whole new game mechanic was being introduced, and we already knew from the 4 months the set had been in Japan that it was about to introduce two powerful new deck archetypes that would become immediate contenders with the existing metagame.
Prior to Duelist Alliance, the 10 TCG exclusive cards in a set had typically been a mixture of an extra card or two to supplement cards in the main set, and completely new and distinct cards with no connection to any others. Starting with Duelist Alliance, however, Konami decided to mix it up and instead use the slots to form entirely new deck types. As a result of this, 5 of the 10 TCG exclusive slots in the set were cards for the new Burning Abyss archetype, a series of cards based on the 14-century poem Dante's Inferno.
Despite only being 5 cards, the resultant decks that formed around them were decently powerful. They meshed well with some existing cards to pad the numbers, and their ace card based on Dante himself tied the whole thing together to form a very resilient core. That card was also at the highest rarity - Secret Rare - which meant it was not particularly easy to get the three copies needed for the deck to work. This was a common practice by Konami, and the demand coupled with the smaller supply lead to prices fo
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Yah title. I think these would have fun single player, competitive online and it would be fun to play local matches with switch. As far as I know nothing of the sort has been anounnouced, what do yall think the odds are?
