Yu-Gi-Oh!

[sky_rider19]

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I would get back into yugioh once they make duel disks

They had duel disks from battle city, Orichalcos, and GX series. But they're really expensive online now.

I meant real ones not the cheap plastic ones that dont put out holograms.

oooohhhhh.

 

[Crispee]

I started playing Yu Gi Oh recently, good fun, even though I'm usually not sure whether to feel stupid or not when I say "I summon such and such a monster!". Feels awesome though.

 

[Uzbekistan]

I play a lot of card games casually. I don't have the money to go through with it, and I'm not that good at it anyway.

 

[spartan231490]

Good-day my fellow Escapists. I am here to talk about a serious matter indeed. I shall speak, of course, about children's card games. Now, I play Yu-Gi-Oh! (or duel monster's) and I love it. I am a 16 year old male having played for about 3 years now. Many of my friends play as well, and we each run different archetypes in our decks to keep things fresh. From this you should be able to derive my personal opinion on those wonderful little cards, which leads me to my full question:
What are your opinions on 'Children's Card Games'. Ie, do you play them? Why or why not? What would bring you to play them?

For all who may be interested, I run a pure Gemini deck, stapleless.

Spoiler: My Deck

Monsters:
3x Dark Valkyria
3X Evocator Chevalier
2x Gemini Summoner
2x Crusader of Endymion
2X Blazewing Butterfly
2x Gemini Soldier
2x Featherizer
1x Grasschopper
1x Tuned Magician
1X Gemini Scorpion
1x Knight of the Red Lotus
1x Goggle Golem
1x Energy Bravery

Spells:
3x Unleash Your Power
3x Supervise
2x Gemini Spark
1x Foolish Burial
1x Metalsilver Armor
1x Wicked-Breaking Flamberge-Baou
1x Future Fusion
1x Dark Factory of Mass Production
1x Double Summon

Traps:
2x Gemini Booster
1x Gemini Trap Hole
1x Gemini Counter

I love YU-GI-OH, and I believe, to my friends dismay, that it can be much more strategic than magic the gathering. I don't play much anymore, just because I can't afford to keep buying new cards, or to drive 2 hours one way to go to a tournament, but it's a great game. i've always run a deck based around blue eyes, it's one of my favorite cards.

 

[Buizel91]

But seriously, I used to play it as a kid but... It was kinda childish, like Baneblades.

I don't remember kids playing with the primary super heavy tank used by the Imperial Guard from Warhammer 40K

I think he means Bayblades

And I think you mean Beyblades

Touché, good sir ;D

 

[martin's a madman]

I used a machine deck (Ancient Gears)

And I had a special deck focused on level 3 and lower normals monsters.
Sound like a bad idea? You'd be surprised.

 

[theonlyblaze2]

I used to play that with my buddies. I had to stop when I ran out of cards. We played for keeps, putting up our best cards every match. I did pretty good for a while, but kinda stopped caring at one point. But the one thing I remember was the fact that I never spent a dime on the game!

 

[martin's a madman]

But seriously, I used to play it as a kid but... It was kinda childish, like Baneblades.

I don't remember kids playing with the primary super heavy tank used by the Imperial Guard from Warhammer 40K

I think he means Bayblades

And I think you mean Beyblades

And I think you mean Baywatch

 

[binvjoh]

I used to play it, not anymore, though.

Even went to tournaments and shit.

 

[Trivun]

I used to play it as a kid, but stopped after a pretty short while as none of my friends had any decent decks and my brother, who I'd lend cards, was a sore loser (he's the same with Monopoly too, and he's the reason I have a LOTR Risk set in my wardrobe that I've never actually played). I didn't really have a specific deck, I tended to use similar strategies (realistic of course) and cards to Yugi and Atem from the anime. Strange thing is, it seemed to work most of the time, too...

Nowadays I don't exactly play it, though I have dabbled in the GBA and DS games. Whenever I do play, through those consoles, I tend to go for a mostly Magic-based deck, with lots of Spellcasters and Spell cards, then pad it out with Traps that deal damage whenever the opponent uses basic moves like drawing a card, and that sort of thing. Basically, a magic-based deck with plenty of poison-esque strategies available...

EDIT: Forgot until someone above mentioned the Blue Eyes, but I also tend to include a fair few Dragon and Spellcaster Fusions as the big guns. And I always make sure I have at least three Blue Eyes in my deck if possible, as soon as I have those monsters available, and the Blue Eyes Ultimate too...

 

[Veldel]

I still have my deck put up but havnt played for years id suppose if it was anything them wise its anti-dragon/Defensive-Countering

I always beat my friends when we played

 

[Veldel]

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I would get back into yugioh once they make duel disks

They had duel disks from battle city, Orichalcos, and GX series. But they're really expensive online now.

I meant real ones not the cheap plastic ones that dont put out holograms.

I would get back into yugioh once they make duel disks

That would be fun, scaring people with holograms of massive monsters.
Until then we just have this hunk of plastic in various styles:

They are going to eventually make real duel disks considering they got the card scanning technology already.

Im gonna save up money till then.

They get real duel disks and il come outa retierment

 

[Marik2]

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I would get back into yugioh once they make duel disks

They had duel disks from battle city, Orichalcos, and GX series. But they're really expensive online now.

I meant real ones not the cheap plastic ones that dont put out holograms.

I would get back into yugioh once they make duel disks

That would be fun, scaring people with holograms of massive monsters.
Until then we just have this hunk of plastic in various styles:

They are going to eventually make real duel disks considering they got the card scanning technology already.

Im gonna save up money till then.

They get real duel disks and il come outa retierment

I think within like 10-15 years we would get real duel disks

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Good-day my fellow Escapists. I am here to talk about a serious matter indeed. I shall speak, of course, about children's card games. Now, I play Yu-Gi-Oh! (or duel monster's) and I love it. I am a 16 year old male having played for about 3 years now. Many of my friends play as well, and we each run different archetypes in our decks to keep things fresh. From this you should be able to derive my personal opinion on those wonderful little cards, which leads me to my full question:
What are your opinions on 'Children's Card Games'. Ie, do you play them? Why or why not? What would bring you to play them?

For all who may be interested, I run a pure Gemini deck, stapleless.

Spoiler: My Deck

Monsters:
3x Dark Valkyria
3X Evocator Chevalier
2x Gemini Summoner
2x Crusader of Endymion
2X Blazewing Butterfly
2x Gemini Soldier
2x Featherizer
1x Grasschopper
1x Tuned Magician
1X Gemini Scorpion
1x Knight of the Red Lotus
1x Goggle Golem
1x Energy Bravery

Spells:
3x Unleash Your Power
3x Supervise
2x Gemini Spark
1x Foolish Burial
1x Metalsilver Armor
1x Wicked-Breaking Flamberge-Baou
1x Future Fusion
1x Dark Factory of Mass Production
1x Double Summon

Traps:
2x Gemini Booster
1x Gemini Trap Hole
1x Gemini Counter

I play Yu-Gi-Oh! and I'm 19. It is just as complex, if not more so, than the "grown up" games like Magic. Seriously, screw anyone who goes "I DON"T PLAY KIDS" GAMES. LOL"
I don't own the cards. I use the Kaiba Co. Online Duel System. I run Lightsworns.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I used to play a few years ago. Got pretty good at it for a bit, but then I lost interest/couldn't afford it.

I got back into it for a few weeks every summer when I was in high school when I went to a state choir for 18 days, as it was a good way to pass time, but by that point I didn't really care that much about the ability of my deck. It was just for fun at that point, and nobody really had any newer cards.

Here's a good indicator of when I quit. My deck revolved around Jinzo. I have no idea what the hell a Gemini deck is.

Geez that's quite awhile. xD Gemini's are Effect monsters that have no effects. xD

Gemini decks are too risky. Cards like Book of Moon, Bottomless Trap Hole, and the countless destructive abilities of cards make summoning one twice neigh impossible. I first read their effects and went "WTF, How can you use this?"

 

[LogicNProportion]

I was playing Yu-Gi-Oh! since LoBE.

Since, I have stopped playing, but I was once a notable player in NC.

I won two championships and a sneak peek tournament when the Elemental Heroes came about.

What was my secret to success you may ask?

ZORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT: I also played a warrior deck which gave me an endless attack phase. I forget how, though.

 

[j0frenzy]

Good-day my fellow Escapists. I am here to talk about a serious matter indeed. I shall speak, of course, about children's card games. Now, I play Yu-Gi-Oh! (or duel monster's) and I love it. I am a 16 year old male having played for about 3 years now. Many of my friends play as well, and we each run different archetypes in our decks to keep things fresh. From this you should be able to derive my personal opinion on those wonderful little cards, which leads me to my full question:
What are your opinions on 'Children's Card Games'. Ie, do you play them? Why or why not? What would bring you to play them?

For all who may be interested, I run a pure Gemini deck, stapleless.

Spoiler: My Deck

Monsters:
3x Dark Valkyria
3X Evocator Chevalier
2x Gemini Summoner
2x Crusader of Endymion
2X Blazewing Butterfly
2x Gemini Soldier
2x Featherizer
1x Grasschopper
1x Tuned Magician
1X Gemini Scorpion
1x Knight of the Red Lotus
1x Goggle Golem
1x Energy Bravery

Spells:
3x Unleash Your Power
3x Supervise
2x Gemini Spark
1x Foolish Burial
1x Metalsilver Armor
1x Wicked-Breaking Flamberge-Baou
1x Future Fusion
1x Dark Factory of Mass Production
1x Double Summon

Traps:
2x Gemini Booster
1x Gemini Trap Hole
1x Gemini Counter

I play Yu-Gi-Oh! and I'm 19. It is just as complex, if not more so, than the "grown up" games like Magic. Seriously, screw anyone who goes "I DON"T PLAY KIDS" GAMES. LOL"
I don't own the cards. I use the Kaiba Co. Online Duel System. I run Lightsworns.

Not to be offensive, but back when I did play Yu-Gi-Oh, I quit because it definitely was not as complex as Magic. Not by a long shot. I admit this could have changed, but when I played around 8 years ago, the best decks were the ones where people dropped a lot of money on getting 4-star 1900 attack monsters and just going agro. There were a couple of viable decks, but if you played in tournaments there were probably about 5 different deck types there. But things could have changed. The early days of Yu-Gi-Oh are probably significantly different from what they are now.

I used to play, but quit and switched up to Magic. I quit because a)my friends were more of Magic people b)there was a lack of variety in deck types and c)the company could not stop limiting good cards. First rule of game design: the less changes you have to make in post-production the better. I got tired of good cards getting printed and the best thing they could think to balance it was saying you could only have 1 copy.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Good-day my fellow Escapists. I am here to talk about a serious matter indeed. I shall speak, of course, about children's card games. Now, I play Yu-Gi-Oh! (or duel monster's) and I love it. I am a 16 year old male having played for about 3 years now. Many of my friends play as well, and we each run different archetypes in our decks to keep things fresh. From this you should be able to derive my personal opinion on those wonderful little cards, which leads me to my full question:
What are your opinions on 'Children's Card Games'. Ie, do you play them? Why or why not? What would bring you to play them?

For all who may be interested, I run a pure Gemini deck, stapleless.

Spoiler: My Deck

Monsters:
3x Dark Valkyria
3X Evocator Chevalier
2x Gemini Summoner
2x Crusader of Endymion
2X Blazewing Butterfly
2x Gemini Soldier
2x Featherizer
1x Grasschopper
1x Tuned Magician
1X Gemini Scorpion
1x Knight of the Red Lotus
1x Goggle Golem
1x Energy Bravery

Spells:
3x Unleash Your Power
3x Supervise
2x Gemini Spark
1x Foolish Burial
1x Metalsilver Armor
1x Wicked-Breaking Flamberge-Baou
1x Future Fusion
1x Dark Factory of Mass Production
1x Double Summon

Traps:
2x Gemini Booster
1x Gemini Trap Hole
1x Gemini Counter

I play Yu-Gi-Oh! and I'm 19. It is just as complex, if not more so, than the "grown up" games like Magic. Seriously, screw anyone who goes "I DON"T PLAY KIDS" GAMES. LOL"
I don't own the cards. I use the Kaiba Co. Online Duel System. I run Lightsworns.

Not to be offensive, but back when I did play Yu-Gi-Oh, I quit because it definitely was not as complex as Magic. Not by a long shot. I admit this could have changed, but when I played around 8 years ago, the best decks were the ones where people dropped a lot of money on getting 4-star 1900 attack monsters and just going agro. There were a couple of viable decks, but if you played in tournaments there were probably about 5 different deck types there. But things could have changed. The early days of Yu-Gi-Oh are probably significantly different from what they are now.

I used to play, but quit and switched up to Magic. I quit because a)my friends were more of Magic people b)there was a lack of variety in deck types and c)the company could not stop limiting good cards. First rule of game design: the less changes you have to make in post-production the better. I got tired of good cards getting printed and the best thing they could think to balance it was saying you could only have 1 copy.

A lot has changed. A lot. You just don't know. Synchro summons, the upcoming Excel summons. It is now as complex as Magic. Go on the wiki and see for yourself.

 

[j0frenzy]

Good-day my fellow Escapists. I am here to talk about a serious matter indeed. I shall speak, of course, about children's card games. Now, I play Yu-Gi-Oh! (or duel monster's) and I love it. I am a 16 year old male having played for about 3 years now. Many of my friends play as well, and we each run different archetypes in our decks to keep things fresh. From this you should be able to derive my personal opinion on those wonderful little cards, which leads me to my full question:
What are your opinions on 'Children's Card Games'. Ie, do you play them? Why or why not? What would bring you to play them?

For all who may be interested, I run a pure Gemini deck, stapleless.

Spoiler: My Deck

Monsters:
3x Dark Valkyria
3X Evocator Chevalier
2x Gemini Summoner
2x Crusader of Endymion
2X Blazewing Butterfly
2x Gemini Soldier
2x Featherizer
1x Grasschopper
1x Tuned Magician
1X Gemini Scorpion
1x Knight of the Red Lotus
1x Goggle Golem
1x Energy Bravery

Spells:
3x Unleash Your Power
3x Supervise
2x Gemini Spark
1x Foolish Burial
1x Metalsilver Armor
1x Wicked-Breaking Flamberge-Baou
1x Future Fusion
1x Dark Factory of Mass Production
1x Double Summon

Traps:
2x Gemini Booster
1x Gemini Trap Hole
1x Gemini Counter

I play Yu-Gi-Oh! and I'm 19. It is just as complex, if not more so, than the "grown up" games like Magic. Seriously, screw anyone who goes "I DON"T PLAY KIDS" GAMES. LOL"
I don't own the cards. I use the Kaiba Co. Online Duel System. I run Lightsworns.

Not to be offensive, but back when I did play Yu-Gi-Oh, I quit because it definitely was not as complex as Magic. Not by a long shot. I admit this could have changed, but when I played around 8 years ago, the best decks were the ones where people dropped a lot of money on getting 4-star 1900 attack monsters and just going agro. There were a couple of viable decks, but if you played in tournaments there were probably about 5 different deck types there. But things could have changed. The early days of Yu-Gi-Oh are probably significantly different from what they are now.

I used to play, but quit and switched up to Magic. I quit because a)my friends were more of Magic people b)there was a lack of variety in deck types and c)the company could not stop limiting good cards. First rule of game design: the less changes you have to make in post-production the better. I got tired of good cards getting printed and the best thing they could think to balance it was saying you could only have 1 copy.

A lot has changed. A lot. You just don't know. Synchro summons, the upcoming Excel summons. It is now as complex as Magic. Go on the wiki and see for yourself.

I'll take your word for it. Quite frankly, even if it has become as complex as Magic, I have no one to play with, so its a moot point. Thought I am intrigued by some of the stuff in this thread. Flaming Dinosaurs and Frog decks sound kind of awesome. Awesome like trying to build a Magic deck around a sheep-mage.

 

[WorldCritic]

I used to have a really good deck and was pretty good at the actual game, but I eventually lost interest and now I've got hundreds of dollars worth of cards sitting in storage. Not sure why I haven't sold them yet.