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In addition to watching the Yu-Gi-Oh anime, I also play the physical card game. I got into the card game around the same time the anime started airing in Canada (so...2002ish? I was in junior high), and I think my first deck was the one that came in Joey's Red Eyes Black Dragon tin. Back then, I just played with my friends, so having an awesome deck wasn't a big deal. Cyber Jar and Pot of Greed were still A Thing, and the one of the strongest monsters in the game was Blue Eyes White Dragon.
As I collected more cards, at some point I started building my main deck, and the deck I still use today - my Water deck. It's been tweaked and added to over the years, but the core parts of it are still the same. Now, I took roughly an eight year break from both the Yu-Gi-Oh anime and card game starting around 2006 due to various factors (finishing high school, Duel Monsters finishing, slowly moving away from watching anime in general), so while I played off and on after that, my deck mostly stayed the same.
And then it was 2014 and Arc-V was starting, and suddenly I was 13 and in love with the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise all over again. So I dug out my old deck and went to a local shop that held weekly tournaments. And realized my trusty deck was way, waaaay out-of-date.
The break I took meant I missed the introduction of Synchro and XYZ monsters, and that, combined with the then-new Pendulum monsters made my head spin as I tried to get up to speed on how all the new mechanics worked. When I had stopped playing, card archtypes weren't really a thing - Elemental Heroes were just starting to come out, and the only Extra Deck monsters that existed were Fusion monsters. Nowadays, most decks are centred around cards of a specific archtype like Cyberse or Performapals, whereas my deck isn't - it's a collection of a bunch of different monsters, most of which are Water-types, with some spell/trap cards that support them and some that don't. I have a couple cards in my Extra Deck, but I don't really use them since my deck wasn't built with them in mind.
My deck has never been competitive, and so it tends to get stomped on by top-tier decks in a matter of turns (losing to a nine-year-old in several turns was a humbling experiences, let me tell you). But if I'm facing a slower deck, like a dragon or a Black Magician deck, I can sometimes pull off a win. Even if I don't, I can usually surprise them at least once a duel, which is nice. I haven't played much since Link Monsters were introduced, but I think they're an interesting concept and I like the changes they've brought to the game. I'm hoping some cool Water-type Link monsters come out so I can add them to my deck, but I'll be fine if they don't.
If anyone is interested, I can post my deck cardlist in a separate post - I don't think any of them are super rare/expensive if someone wanted to recreate it physically, and I'd be interested to know how it does in Duel Links.
As I collected more cards, at some point I started building my main deck, and the deck I still use today - my Water deck. It's been tweaked and added to over the years, but the core parts of it are still the same. Now, I took roughly an eight year break from both the Yu-Gi-Oh anime and card game starting around 2006 due to various factors (finishing high school, Duel Monsters finishing, slowly moving away from watching anime in general), so while I played off and on after that, my deck mostly stayed the same.
And then it was 2014 and Arc-V was starting, and suddenly I was 13 and in love with the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise all over again. So I dug out my old deck and went to a local shop that held weekly tournaments. And realized my trusty deck was way, waaaay out-of-date.
The break I took meant I missed the introduction of Synchro and XYZ monsters, and that, combined with the then-new Pendulum monsters made my head spin as I tried to get up to speed on how all the new mechanics worked. When I had stopped playing, card archtypes weren't really a thing - Elemental Heroes were just starting to come out, and the only Extra Deck monsters that existed were Fusion monsters. Nowadays, most decks are centred around cards of a specific archtype like Cyberse or Performapals, whereas my deck isn't - it's a collection of a bunch of different monsters, most of which are Water-types, with some spell/trap cards that support them and some that don't. I have a couple cards in my Extra Deck, but I don't really use them since my deck wasn't built with them in mind.
My deck has never been competitive, and so it tends to get stomped on by top-tier decks in a matter of turns (losing to a nine-year-old in several turns was a humbling experiences, let me tell you). But if I'm facing a slower deck, like a dragon or a Black Magician deck, I can sometimes pull off a win. Even if I don't, I can usually surprise them at least once a duel, which is nice. I haven't played much since Link Monsters were introduced, but I think they're an interesting concept and I like the changes they've brought to the game. I'm hoping some cool Water-type Link monsters come out so I can add them to my deck, but I'll be fine if they don't.
If anyone is interested, I can post my deck cardlist in a separate post - I don't think any of them are super rare/expensive if someone wanted to recreate it physically, and I'd be interested to know how it does in Duel Links.
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