Copying Yu-Gi-Oh's most powerful card, verbatim, into an MTG card
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Posted on June 5, 2022, 2:48 p.m. by TypicalTimmy
In Yu-Gi-Oh,
- There is no casting cost for cards
- Spells cast are at "sorcery" speed
- You may place cards face down without their effects being made
- Whenever an opponent attacks you, you may reveal a face down "Trap" card and cast it, not unlike an Instant being cast from your hand
Doing this precisely, this is what we get...
Gidgetimer says... #3
You know what, just completely disregard me. I admitted to not having experience, if I could delete my other comment I would.
June 5, 2022 4:50 p.m.
jconeil1988 says... #4
Pot of greed wasn't a trap card tho, so being able to cast it instant speed doesn't feel right.
June 5, 2022 5:43 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #5
I've never played YGO but I was always told you can activate it a la trap cards? Hmm.
And yes POG is insanely powerful and was responsible for many of the T1 tournament wins.
June 5, 2022 6:07 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #6
It's a spell card (basically YGO's version of a sorcery). so no "It's a trap" for you.
The ressource topic is actually pretty interesting. There is a youtube channel where this YGO guy tries to guess some MtG card's power level, and the mana cost throws him of track quite a few times. When your only ressource is your one "normal summon" per turn, as a game designer you need to be pretty creative with restrictions on your cards.
I've recently played some YGO for job reasons, and someone explained the general structure of a game to me.
There are actual reasons to sometimes play on the draw, and there are decks especially build for that (I can't explain the reasoning for that, unfortunately).
There is no summoning sickness, but on the first turn of the game, the turn player can't attack. Thus, when you're on the play, you either want to establish your board to win on your next turn, or if you can't do that for some reason, you need to establish ways to stop your opponent from winning on their first turn.
The first turn tends to be excessively long, and many times, you'll already dump more than a quarter of your deck into the graveyard. The game is weirdly fast, and you basically need to know everything your cards do because of the font size and the sheer amount of different things many cards can do in different zones.
Don't let me get started on the chain, which is the YGO version of the stack.
TL;DR: It's complicated.
June 6, 2022 2:24 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi "I've recently played some YGO for job reasons"
I'm curious now. No need to answer if it's personal information, but what kind of job asks you to play card games, aside from maybe card game developer or something adjacent?
June 6, 2022 12:59 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #8
legendofa: Nothing too personal. I'm working as a social worker in what is basically a youth centre. We have quite a few youths/young adults with MtG/YGO/other TCGs as their hobby, and my TCG knowledge is pretty useful there.
Gidgetimer says... #2
I was under the impression that Pot of Greed was just kinda meh in Ygo. I have never played it personally, I just thought I had heard somewhere that it was iconic because of the anime, but not busted in half like some cards.
June 5, 2022 4:48 p.m.