I played MTG many moons ago. Was fun for awhile but quickly turned into this excessively competitive game. If you played you basically had to build certain decks to compete. I didn’t like the lack of freedom to experiment.
I watched yugioh as a kid on tv. It was part of the story that the rich sephiroth guy was clearly p2w. Very hot take: Anybody who goes out of their way to follow metas in games is a tool.
I mean, the rich Sephiroth in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime was literally the “inventor” of the game, so that’s why he did some P2W whenever he played, as he had access to basically any card he desired, including unreleased ones afaik, and yeah, he’s also super rich, you’re right.
(I wrote “inventor” in quotation marks because, according to the lore, it was ancient Egyptians who invented the game, the rich Sephiroth whose name I still can’t recall only brought it back to the modern age. But yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh! lore is pretty weird.)
Lmao I completely forgot how weird that show was, and only remember a few tidbits. I watched it in the 90s I think.
Edit oh god i just remembered the aryan dragons too lmaoooo
Edit2: omg i just read a cbr bio on the guy literally named Maximilian Pegasus:
Pegasus is the creator of Duel Monster and the president of Industrial Illusions. He is the first antagonist introduced in the original Yu-Gi-Oh anime. He has his hands on various cards that have not been seen by the public eye but tends to use his toon/illusion deck when dueling.
Pegasus is in possession of the Millennium eye. Pegasus wanted to gain control of KaibaCorp for their Solid Vision and all the Millennium items to resurrect his dead lover Cecelia. He went as far as to take the souls of Kaiba, Mokuba Kaiba, and Solomen Muto in his efforts to save his wife. When Yugi defeats him he becomes an ally to Yugi and his friends throughout the rest of the series.
Ridiculous. Imagine that read by the English dbz narrator. I’m literally laughing out loud irl
Eh, you can buy a Commander precon and win games right now. The game is fine. My budget decks rack up plenty of wins. There’s actually a lot of fun to be had in finding cheap ways to do what the expensive decks do and building around undervalued cards. My Xyris deck is now kill on sight for anyone who’s ever played against it and it’s my cheapest deck by far.
MTG is very very different. I used to play with my group of friends around the release of 2nd edition. Mostly bought them from a comic store. It was picking up hype, but felt not so bloated as around 4th or 5th think I ducked out around then?
Was around when everyone was “you have to make a slivers deck!” what was that Tempest? Shit got too expensive and there were a lot of “you have to buy this card or buy this premade deck” displays showing up.
Also I was dumping all my funds into Warhammer 40k, I left TCG’s in the dust. Than eventually I left 40k because I needed my money to pay rent and live.
The usual competitive play is to only allow cards from the current season and It’s relatively balanced within that. But there are competitions (and obviously just for fun games) where all bets are off.
I think the combo was…
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I played MTG many moons ago. Was fun for awhile but quickly turned into this excessively competitive game. If you played you basically had to build certain decks to compete. I didn’t like the lack of freedom to experiment.
The internet ruined TCG.
Once you could go online, look up the meta and order the cards you need it became P2W.
I watched yugioh as a kid on tv. It was part of the story that the rich sephiroth guy was clearly p2w. Very hot take: Anybody who goes out of their way to follow metas in games is a tool.
I mean, the rich Sephiroth in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime was literally the “inventor” of the game, so that’s why he did some P2W whenever he played, as he had access to basically any card he desired, including unreleased ones afaik, and yeah, he’s also super rich, you’re right.
(I wrote “inventor” in quotation marks because, according to the lore, it was ancient Egyptians who invented the game, the rich Sephiroth whose name I still can’t recall only brought it back to the modern age. But yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh! lore is pretty weird.)
Lmao I completely forgot how weird that show was, and only remember a few tidbits. I watched it in the 90s I think.
Edit oh god i just remembered the aryan dragons too lmaoooo
Edit2: omg i just read a cbr bio on the guy literally named Maximilian Pegasus:
Ridiculous. Imagine that read by the English dbz narrator. I’m literally laughing out loud irl
Okay okay I’m done.
Eh, you can buy a Commander precon and win games right now. The game is fine. My budget decks rack up plenty of wins. There’s actually a lot of fun to be had in finding cheap ways to do what the expensive decks do and building around undervalued cards. My Xyris deck is now kill on sight for anyone who’s ever played against it and it’s my cheapest deck by far.
MTG is very very different. I used to play with my group of friends around the release of 2nd edition. Mostly bought them from a comic store. It was picking up hype, but felt not so bloated as around 4th or 5th think I ducked out around then?
Was around when everyone was “you have to make a slivers deck!” what was that Tempest? Shit got too expensive and there were a lot of “you have to buy this card or buy this premade deck” displays showing up.
Also I was dumping all my funds into Warhammer 40k, I left TCG’s in the dust. Than eventually I left 40k because I needed my money to pay rent and live.
I had a shadow deck loosely based on that method. There was:
It was about the only thing I found that could reliably beat a sliver deck, but if you didn’t get the artifacts you were screwed.
I really wonder how balanced MTG is with all those cards from multiple decades floating around.
The usual competitive play is to only allow cards from the current season and It’s relatively balanced within that. But there are competitions (and obviously just for fun games) where all bets are off.