Yu-Gi-Oh: Popular Trading Card Game

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Yu-Gi-Oh is the best trading card game ever developed! Yu-Gi-Oh is a popular trading card game the lets the player, or known in the game as the “duelist” to summon monsters, activate spell cards, and traps cards. Yu-Gi-Oh was created by Kazuki Takahashi, a manga artist who said the reason he created the trading card game was because “I've always been obsessed with games. Certainly as a kid, and even today, I like blackjack and board games like Scotland Yard. In a game, the player becomes the hero. And that's the basic premise for Yu-Gi-Oh” (Cullen). Players are able to come together with their friends and imagine their “henshin” (the ability to become someone else). It is a difficult task for some to come up with the necessary strategy to …show more content…

The simple answer is that Konami is able to hook the younger audience while the older audience is still learning new mechanics, for example “if veteran players have to relearn the game while new players are learning it for the first time it creates an atmosphere that entices those new players to stay” (Allen). The unique card game allows new and old players to enjoy the challenge of playing Yu-Gi-Oh. Moreover with the newest addition to dueling being the introduction of the pendulum zones to compliment the newly added pendulum summoning, and its new pendulum monsters, a monster spell hybrid, players have a new way to strategize and build new decks like never before. Pendulum summoning creates a new mechanic to the game by adding two new zones call Pendulum zones, a blue and red one. These two new zones are placed between deck and grave and the extra and field on either side of the field. The new pendulum mechanic cards will have those same symbols on them called scales. Pendulum monsters each have its own pendulum scale or number on the side of the card, These scales represent a level, when you place both pendulum monsters, one on the left zone and one on the right zone this is called setting the scales. When you have both scales set you can pendulum summon or on t Players are able to special summon monsters from the hand if they are between the pendulum monster scales like never

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