In Yugioh you don't need luck if you have the HEART OF THE CARDS!aba1 said:
Never played MTG but I watched the Yugioh anime and played the card game, still have my deck kicking around somewhere.
Poll: Yugioh and MTG
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Never played MTG but I watched the Yugioh anime and played the card game, still have my deck kicking around somewhere.
I didn't hear about Magic: the Gathering until high school and I've never played it. I played Yu-Gi-Oh throughout elementary school, watched the shows, and saw the movie in theaters so I was a big fan of it. I continued to watch the shows for a few years after I stopped playing until...the motorcycles. Yugioh 5Ds had a lot of well-written characters, but the idea of card games on motorcycles was a bit too stupid for my taste.
My current thoughts on M:TG are that it is probably the most widely accepted trading card game internationally. The silliness of the most recent adaptations of the Yugioh cartoon/anime have probably hurt it more than helped how seriously it is taken. I rank M:TG up with games like Dungeons and Dragons in that there will always people that mock them, but they are still held in high regard many years after their creation.
My current thoughts on M:TG are that it is probably the most widely accepted trading card game internationally. The silliness of the most recent adaptations of the Yugioh cartoon/anime have probably hurt it more than helped how seriously it is taken. I rank M:TG up with games like Dungeons and Dragons in that there will always people that mock them, but they are still held in high regard many years after their creation.
If anything, I feel the show helped Yu-Gi-Oh immensely, it had much more of a pick up and play feel than magic the gathering. The show, while it broke the rules, gave a feel for the game and was able to rope in people who never, ever, would have gotten into collectible card games otherwise. And some players found that there was enough depth to keep playing long after they stopped watching the show. (Also, though the TV was my start, and many others, we probably would quickly hear about it from our friends anyway, so it was impossible to avoid.)citrusfr00t said:
To compare it to pokemon, I feel the vast majority of people that bought pokemon cards never used them to play, but to collect. At my high school there were pockets of people playing Yu-Gi-Oh, I was one of them, but I've never seen anyone play pokemon outside of the Gameboy version. So the show helped it financially, but as far as getting people to actually play it, the pokemon card game is in the dust.
MTG was a gift from one of my friends, who never played the game themselves. Without any idea of how to play, I set my deck aside for maybe 8 years until I met friends who played the game. I dusted the old deck off and finally got into it. A show, however, wouldn't help MTG, since the rules would be too complex and wouldn't offer a great viewing experience. It survives by the strength of the game alone.
Magic did release some commercials on TV; however, that was a few years after I started playing. The one I remember most clearly is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEspN6C5Oys
While Yu-Gi-Oh did have a more apparent marketing system (to their target audience) with the whole tv series, I doubt it would have would have been even remotely as successful if not for M:tG or even the Pokemon TCG at least in so far as the American market is concerned
While Yu-Gi-Oh did have a more apparent marketing system (to their target audience) with the whole tv series, I doubt it would have would have been even remotely as successful if not for M:tG or even the Pokemon TCG at least in so far as the American market is concerned