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hypnox posted...

funkyfritter posted...

Both yugioh and mtg were never like you've described, the only thing that's really changed is your awareness of the powerful things a well-tuned deck can do. It sounds like what you really want is a game that you don't already understand and a playgroup that will collectively remain ignorant about strategies beyond what the group figures out on their own.

Buddy I have played MTG and YGO since both were new. neither had decks that you could win in a turn, most games when it was new would last a few turns and were a lot more fun to play. Nowadays you have crap like lantern lock or what have you that once the mechanic drops, its almost always game over.

You really think old decks with black lotus, channel, moxen and ancestral recall couldn't win in 1 turn? You really think decks like lantern control are more oppressive than stasis, winter orb, smokestack, armageddon, opposition or mind over matter?

I'll grant you that modern yugioh is nonsense, but the old days where every deck could jam multiple copies of pot of greed, graceful charity and dark hole made blue eyes look just as worthless. Both game have had busted cards and degenerate strategies since inception. If your play experience differed it's because of who you played with and how competitive their decks were, not the game itself.
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And with that...pow! I'm gone!