Where I play Magic a lot of people play Yu Gi Oh. We get a lot of refugees from that game, almost every month a player converts from Yu-Gi to magic. Apparently from what I heard Yu-Gi-Oh is the most popular trading card game but I wouldn't believe it from what I see. Maybe it was the most popular but it's fan base is dwindling or it has some phenomenal following in some very specific region of the world that makes up it's numbers (A bit like some MMo's make up it's numbers from chines farmers).
From what I heard it's got some issues. I don't know the game very well and have no desire to look it up, but it's something to do with a limitation of decks your able to compete with. Pretty much everyone plays a certain deck or the deck to counter it, so you either clash with the same deck or you win cause you played the counter. So it's effectivly Rock, Paper Scissors.
Magic the Gathering can be just as bad if you play limited (all cards legal) where you don't interact with other at all in the game, you just grab your cards, say if you muligun or not, reveal the top 10 cards of your libary to see who won that round. If you play Magic in what they call Modern or Standard format however (Modern bans certain cards and only stretches to cards from a certain year and beyond, standard is all cards from the last 2 years) you get to have interactive games which give you almost limitless deck designs you can come up with.
People talk of pro tier 1 decks and archetypes, but constantly a random wild deck comes in and kicks everyone's ass in Magic the Gathering. Is why it's the best, and always will be better then Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh.
I sometimes think Yu-Gi is a limited generation of people who watched the show. Since that stopped being aired I expect it's followers to dwindle as the years go by. Magic has been going since 1993 and it's still going strong now. Test of time.
Log in to comment