Poll: YuGiOh or Magic:The Gathering, which is better?

[Infernai]

Yu gi oh is unbalanced...i mean, you can disregard any rules if you either A) Are rich or B) have green hair.

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

whichever game your friends are willing to give you cards for free from

The only trading cards i ever bought it my life was one of those tiny packs of pokemon cards, you know the ones that have 4 or 5 strong/rare cards. All the rest of what i have was given to me for free

 

[scyrin]

honestly it depends on your budget

im assuming your going for casual play, so mtg will probably be cheaper in the long run

for tournament play, i would say yu gi oh is cheaper because the tournament decks in MTG will run you well over $100 (possibly over $500 if you play some of the legacy)

 

[AncientSpark]

Yugioh is great, Magic is better.

Mostly because if you read a magic card, its is pretty easy to see what its actually does.

If you read a yugioh card, you have to squint your eyes right down, read full text (there are no keywords in yugioh), try to remember all the abilities, remember to use synchros (ruined the game), remember to use Chimeratech fortress dragon if it's a machine and sometimes you have to look up the ruling on the internet even if two cards with the same text are in play, they may have different effects.

Also Zombie Master. He has an effect that still hasn't been given an errata even though the japanesse card has a different effect.

Also I'm a Yugioh judge.

The magic community is usually alot better IMO and there us no good way to play ygo online (like Magic Online).

Yes, you have to know how the game actually works. Understand the rulling so ppl wont go OMFGwtf bugged cheats because they cant summon their chimeratech fortress dragon because they cant relate how banisher of light affects chimeratech fortress dragon summoning conditions.

Having no good way to play a game is a good thing. You want diversity to make games more intersting

I love when ppl fail so much at math and ruling when i have 2x skull invitation on the field and completely forget that the cards that will play will go to the graveyard after passivisation. Or that synchro material monsters go to the graveyard and cause damage to you too

Skull invitation, its beautiful. It transforms a childrens cardgame to a SHADOW CHILDRENS CARDGAME

If you want really obscure, difficult decisions based on rules and knowledge of the game, Magic has that too. "Oh noes, I'm going to pump my guy in response to this -1/-1 counter. Wait, my guy died at end of turn?! Oh yeah, -1/-1 counters are permanent while this effect only lasts until end of turn." Or, you know, the whole "what goes to the graveyard" trick, which every TCG on the planet does.

The OP's point was that it's much easier to digest what a Magic card does and what kind of effects it's used for compared to Yu-Gi-Oh. It's a "easy to understand, hard to master" idea, whereas Yu-Gi-Oh's much more middleline on that regard. Even if you have super crazy, bomby effects, it's much easier to understand with a glance through on what it does in Magic (if you can get past the initial learning bump, which, I admit, is fairly significant in Magic).

 

[Macgyvercas]

How is this even a question? Yu-Gi-Oh is just a cheap MTG knock-off with half the complexity and depth and eight times the stupid anime androgyny.

MTG is way more fun and addictive in the long run. I mean, when you get to the point where you can start fucking people over with a blue/artifact deck, it's just...nirvana.

*eye twitches*

As long as that blue/artifact deck doesn't include Memnarch, I'm cool with it. It really sucks if it has Memnarch, Grand Architect and Pili-Pala. That is a recipe for fuck overs galore.

Of course, my demons can usually handle that sort of deck no problem, and my angels crush the rest (yes, I have an angel deck, yes it has Akroma, Linvala, and Iona, and yes, it's built around lifelink and has Akroma's Memorial in it. You may call me a dick at any time).

 

[Jeff Gibson]

There are a lot of yugioh fanboys on this thread that seem to think magic is slower paced or not as strategic for some strange reason.

Yu Gi Oh is a simpler game that has rules that limit deck building. In magic the rules are very open ended and complicated, but allow for far more freedom in deck building.

I've played both, and yu gi oh wears off it's novelty fairly quickly. Magic continually drags me back in however. I like knowing I have so many different decks with different ways to win (winning via lifegain, or decking your opponent, or poison counters). It keeps the game fresh and interesting knowing I have so many options of flavour when making decks. In yu gi oh I always felt every deck was a variation of just playing a bunch of creatures. It got boring for me after a while, but to each their own.

Magic just offers more in my opinion. It's far from perfect though, but it's the best out there at the moment imo.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Played YuGiOh for years, and by the time I'd finished with it, just looking at the cards pissed me off more than I could adequately describe. I don't get that feeling with Magic.

So yeah, Magic wins IMO.

 

[smokeraven]

I'd go with MtG as there's more strategic thinking involved, however the one thing I don't like about it is that during tournamnets, there are so many "Net decks" that it made players like myself (that think of their own deck) question why they play the game anymore

 

[chaos order]

yugioh is definitely fun but WAY TO UNBALANCED. especially with the newer cards out there (victory dragon wtf is that about!). id say magic, but i just got my first deck so im not too sure about the game right now

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

My experience with Yu-Gi-Oh isn't huge, but what I played of it I didn't like. For example, the time one of my opponents played a single spell that destroyed all my monsters but left his intact. I was more than a little annoyed, since the Magic equivalent would be Plague Winds for 0 mana.

On the other hand, I've had great times with Magic. Lots of ridiculous multiplayer games, especially since the rules are so flexible for alternative game types. For example, I once won a game with a Simic deck by transferring about +1/+1 tokens to a creature with flying in a single turn. Another time my opponent hit me with Plague Winds, and then swung for about 50 damage; it took him about 6 turns to kill me because I'd got my health to ridiculous levels using Wellwishers in my Elf deck. Or for something plain silly, the time my 5/5 demon got transformed into a 3/3 monkey... and then shot.

Spoiler: And just look at the card art from Magic

 

[chaos order]

yugioh is definitely fun but WAY TO UNBALANCED. especially with the newer cards out there (victory dragon wtf is that about!). id say magic, but i just got my first deck so im not too sure about the game right now

Victory Dragon is banned, it was a promotional card.

i knew it was banned in tournaments, but then why release cards that are soo unbalanced that they need to be banned. victory dragon isnt the only one for example witch of the black forest is one that was banned too, same with dark hole.

 

[squeekenator]

Oh and bullcrap. Magic cannot do any of those. It has approximations, but it doesn't have anywhere near the depth of use for those.

Traps = instants, removal from play = exile, sacrifice is a bad substitute for mana, which single-handedly makes Magic more strategically deep. But you are right about Magic not having super-special-awesome fusion sequences, so feel free to act superior about that if you like.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Play both for a few games, see which one you like better. Personally I like YuGiOh more but its mostly because I fell like I have less options in Magic.

 

[EbonBehelit]

I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh years ago, got bored of it and quit after going to a local tourney and realising that half of your 40-card deck was staple rare cards (mirror force, magic cylinder, etc). I lol'd irl when I heard the news that pretty much all of the old staples had been banned.

Anyway, moved to MTG after that, never regretted my decision. The game is far superior in terms of lore, deck flavour, game mechanics and card abilities that make sense. The card artwork is almost uniformly STUNNING in MTG.

It's also cheaper as well - something that's hard to believe considering. I remember back in the day buying 5 Yu-Gi-Oh boosters (9 cards each for 6 bucks lol) and getting 6/8 of the same commons in every. single. one.

So yeah, MTG by a mile and a half.

 

[Joel Soh]

Firstly, I want to say, I think the TC stopped reading this 3 pages ago.

Anyway, I don't think you can determine which is a better card game unless you take your own personal preferences into account. On top of that, it's all based on your opinion of each.

Both games have strategy. Both games have varying win conditions. Both games have a lot of great things about them. A person's preference depends on what they find more enjoyable, what they can afford and how the local community or your friends are going with the game at the time.

Not playing both before making a judgment is simply biased.