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 Trading Card Game Tips from fans

 

March 2008
 

yugioh: newbie friendly? (READ THIS NEWBIES )--pwii

        
hi, i'm back with another article. this one actually doesnt feature a deck! its me simply screaming how the trading card game of duel monsters (competitively) squashes someones dreams of being the best.
 
take for example "bob". bob got into yugioh because of the TV show. he bought a structure deck, and a few booster backs. he hasnt heard of abbreviations like ladd, mof, ECT. if you asked him about the metagame he would say 'gesuentight'. at his school, he knows some people who like the game too. he plays them, and eventually gets to the top. now the others arent that good of players either. so when he sees a flyer for a yugioh tournament with prizes, he thinks he can dominate it easily. but he's utterly flattened by everyone there. so now, he can A) talk to the people there and try to learn more about the metagame and such, B) go back to dominating his freinds, C) get depressed and give up the game altogether. problem is, a lot of people will do B or C. I was pretty bad when I started. but then I saw the forword in my sister's pojo's guide to neopets. I saw that pojo also did yugioh. so I went to pojo.com. I loved the CotDs. I kept reading them for a while, learning more and more about the metagame, but I still had a few problems: Everyone on the site it seemed was a competitive player. I loved the game, but I didnt want to spend more then $15.00 on. especially because I had nobody to duel, (except sometimes by little brother). Back then, I didnt know about the tips section, so I thought that I would never get on the CotD team or be able to write articles like tebzu, dark paladin, mofox, ECT. I actually wrote articles just in case I ever got to be a 'featured writer'. But I'm getting off subject. if I had never read that forword or came here, I might've given up on the game completely. so on behalf of all newbie's that might read this: dont give up. read as much as you can on the site, and ask Qs at every turn. and contribute. just doing that gave me so much happyness, and I hope it does for you too. and if it doesnt, and you want to play, get the video game. you could even request duels over wi-fi with all sorts of people. I guess what I'm trying to say is, read as much on here as you can. you might even get to be as good as me (MAYBE ;P)!
 
if there's anything AT ALL, E-mail me at iizduhdude@yahoo.com. I love it.
 
--pwii
 
ENDING NOTE: this has got to be the longest article I've ever written.


 


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