In my newest endeavour of this blogging quest of mine, I chose to add another expensive hobby to my list. As collecting legit and old retro games wasn’t enough for me. So collecting Yu-Gi-Oh cards now and mainly ’cause I just like the artwork. I used to dabble playing in my youth. How legitimately I played it though is another question. Plus scouring through my childhood collection I found many of my prized cards were fakes. Some really bad ones as well, so fuck knows how I missed them.
What I have done as I don’t really get to actually play it properly, I bought some of the older GX speed duel boxes. Also cause they were on offer and super cheaps. That is beside the point. The closest I get is playing the few years old Legacy of the Duelist on my Switch. Which I am neither that far into, nor am I good at it. I try my best but the games A.I hates me and just wants me too suffer. I am trying to use this as my re-introduction of how to play the game, before everything became a way of fusing monsters from what I can tell. As well as the all important deck building.
Even though the rules slightly differ, small decks, less life points, skill cards etc. Primarily usd for fast duels hence the name, who’d have thunk. I’m not even sure when the last set or decks for this variation was released, or if more will be released. The ones i’ve got are from 2020. Hoenstly i’m just happy to have some cards that I never got as a kid. I’m especially thrilled at having the Gate guardian and three monsters for summoning this card. Suijin, Sanga and Kazejin. Honestly it gives me slight tingles. You can take that statement as you will. I’m also all for the never ending amount of elemental hero cards and the various fusion monsters as well.
This is definetly a slow reintergration to the world of Yu-Gi-Oh TCG, as I am so far behind on what’s what, what’s happened, what’s being added/changed. Having barely added much more to my minimal and weak collection. I will one day be more in the loop and dueling away merrily, as I begin to collect more of the standard sets, and try to amass all of the cool old cards. But most importantly as previously mentioned in my lst post of this I will one day have a functioning duel disk so I can be the coolest adult on my street and everyone will fucking know it.
As always my tasty followers, keep your eyes peeled here for future updates and new testaments that will be written in time. So that one day I may field a deck of nothing but blue eyes white dragons regardless if that’s even allowed, and as I work on purchasing Yu-Gi-Oh the 2004 Xbox exclusive The Dawn of Destiny. To give that a bash even if it did get mixed reviews, can’t be any worse then the dogshit falsebound Kingdom which i’ll always bring up and slander when given the chance. Most importantly though stay Tasty.
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