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Sith Dragon
A Tale of Two Games

 It was the best of games. It was the worst of games. This saying can describe about any game that starts as a fad and later dies, but in this article I reference it to yugioh and the Vs. system. Being new to Pojo let me give you a quick history of my card playing history and a bit about myself. My first experience in the TCG universe was yugioh. I caught the anime when it started here in the U.S. and could not wait for the card game to be released. Eventually it found its way into the interior of the U.S. and I was in heaven. I loved the game (still do). I thought it was loads of fun and early on there were lots of different things you could do. This also led to my first tourney exposure.

Now fast forward to today. i still love playing yugioh online, but in my opinion yugioh is in decline.

Why do I say this? There are two reasons. The first is that when the newer sets come out there are very few if any cards that will actually see competitive play. The creators of the cards are not balancing the effect per type and sub-type, ignoring whole groups of creatures. Every good monster is either light or dark (chaos fodder) or a warrior or zombie. If you look at Regionals every year, the final 8 decks were all the same save 3-5 cards. (Yes I know Vs. has sentinels and teen titans, but creative players can find ways to win.) This leads into point two. The success and future of the game is being placed in what cards you can’t play instead of what you can play. This means they have created too many broken cards that have unbalanced the game. How many people are going to be sitting on a $50 BLS in a month and having to mothball it for the rest of eternity because it has been banished to the forbidden list?!

Now you maybe asking what this has to do with Vs.? Well its quite simple. The creators of Vs. said one simple thing when they agonized (agonized being a key word) over banning overload: They tested their cards and took pride in NOT having to ban any cards in this game. The only reason they banned Overload is because too many other cards would need to be changed when the problem is easily fixed by banning overload.

Problem solved. I give them mega kudos for this.
They are trying to think ahead and not release obscenely broken cards that will hurt the game. Now granted you will always have creative players trying to think up some way to make a powerful and unorthodox loop of cards, so they wont always succeed, but they are doing their best.

This game I think is in very capable hands, and this is why. At least around here, many of the top Yugioh duelists have opted out of a one dimensional tournament atmosphere and started Vs. where almost any team affiliation is good enough to be played in tourneys. Are there teams better than others? Of course. That will happen in every game, but tourneys around here you see a wide range of decks, and no one is afraid to run the new teams from the new sets as they come out. I believe Yugioh will die when the anime disappears, but this game I think is a game that has true staying power.

I hope I can give you all some interesting reads in the near future. If you have any ideas or thoughts for articles you’d like explored, rants, raves, etc., email me at Sithdragon13@yahoo.com and ill see what I can do. just make sure you put Pojo in the subject line so i know its not spam.

"Are you threatening me, Master Jedi?"