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#8: Toon World
First TCG release: Magic Ruler (2002-09-16)



Ok so obviously in the Duelist Kingdom era, if you knew anything about the actual rules of how the game is played youll notice a lot of bullshit moments and its not like the bullshit stopped after but Duelist Kingdom had some of the craziest shit ever like how monster types would actually matter all of a sudden or dozens of made up monster effects that you dont have to reveal to your opponent. And to be fair, this was all before any official rules like tributing, direct attacks, etc. came up in the anime but Catapult Turtle, Pumpking, Labyrinth Wall & Shadow Ghoul, the Dark Magician becoming Dark Sage, my favorite Mammoth Graveyard + Living Arrow fusion to rot Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon from the inside, etc. Despite all this I dont actually think I thought of any of that as bullshit when I watched it. Like I knew that wasnt how the game worked because I read the rulebook and they were playing with different life points after all but it was all just hype in the moment stuff.

But when Toon World and the effects of Toon monsters came up I thought wait thats actually bullshit (in kid words). The monsters just could cartoon dodge out of everything and this was all never seen before stuff because this is the guy who CREATED THE GAME. Like what an insane flex of power (also cheating with the Millennium Eye). So this card immediately went to legendary status. Looking some dates up now and the first appearance of Toon World (Kaiba vs. Pegasus) first aired on May 2002 with the Yugi vs. Pegasus episodes airing around September. Now if youll notice, Magic Ruler also was released in September 2002 which meant that there was the glorious overlap period where you could see cards like Slot Machine and Toon World coming out for real at the same time you were seeing them on the show. Well none of that applied to me because I distinctly remember the packs I got were not 1st edition (or maybe Im remembering that too; memories arent entirely reliable after all). But when I finally got my hands on some Magic Ruler, guess what I pulled. Fucking GRIGGLE!

Okay but it was obviously Toon World. And the amount of fucking POWER I was feeling. I honestly couldnt say whether I felt better pulling this or the Base Set Charizard two years before. Im actually leaning towards this because of the context described above and when I was younger because I was a hardcore Blastoise kid and the excitement from Charizard was more that I knew it was the best card rather than an actual attachment to the Pokemon and also Pokemon was more of a game thing anyway. Anyway the Charizard got stolen at church a few days later after I was showing it off and I think I would have been significantly more destroyed had I liked it so much more.

So there I was showing off my Toon World at school and Im getting offers for trades all over the place and Im shutting them down right and left. Pew pew pew. You must be fucking crazy to think Im trading this for anything.

But then Pedro offers me a pencil box full of cards and begs for me to take the trade. And for some reason here I was actually considering it! I actually told him I would have to think about it because this was the most significant decision of my life up to that point in my life.

So yeha I eventually traded it away for that box. And Im starting to think thats where it all went wrong. I dont even remember like five cards I got in that deal. Stupid kid.