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Yu-Gi-Oh!

I’ve played Yu-Gi-Oh! since childhood. You don’t understand how much I love this card game. No seriously. I’ve browsed Yugipedia↗ extensively in my free time, read the translations of the lore books, started writing my own lore book – and above all, I absolutely cannot stop creating custom cards.


Directory

directory notes
decks The canon decks I play with
archetypes All my custom archetypes
cards My most significant custom cards.
lore My lore-related content (currently only the Stranded Saga)
thoughts Various pieces of writing relating to Yu-Gi-Oh

Playing

Note

Long section of personal stories ahead!

I’ve had several ‘phases’ (hah) of Yu-Gi-Oh, to be honest.

Main Phase 1

I was introduced to Yu-Gi-Oh by some friends in primary school, who were kind enough to give me some cards for free(!). I still remember those cards to this day. Dragonpulse Magician ↗, Gagaga Child ↗, Goblindbergh↗, The A Forces↗... I used to lie in bed and admire them under the summer evening light.1 Such different times :’) I managed to pull off procuring some pretty cool cards purely from trading with (read: scamming2) other people. Unfortunately our school had a card limit since some numpties were stealing other people’s cards3, so we couldn’t play actual Yu-Gi-Oh – naturally, we had our own “playground rules” 🔥

Draw Phase

Standby Phase

I stopped playing after primary school for a couple years. Then came summer of 2022, where I think I was just really bored one day. I thought I’d search up Yu-Gi-Oh to see where the game was at. I can’t really remember what I even found (first) at this point, but it was some order of a random custom card creator, DuelingNexus↗, and DuelingBook↗.

The custom card creator was pretty insignificant,4 but DuelingNexus started to draw me back into the game. I tried building my old physical full 60-card deck (which I never properly played with), and immediately realised how many better Monsters there were. I proceeded to fill my deck with all the beatsticks I could fine, and headed into a duel where I got destroyed by Cyber Dragon. That was something.

The catalyst for sure tho, was DuelingBook. I think I asked an online friend about Yu-Gi-Oh and he told me of its existence, but anyhow – damn. I was utterly blown away that I could not only create my own custom cards (which actually looked accurate), but also DUEL WITH THEM. Like, that is dream come true, holy mackerel. I started making some, and built a small deck to battle with said friend.

Around this time I also started watching ARC-V↗ (the English dub on YouTube), and this actually gave me a really good feel for how much Yu-Gi-Oh had evolved from the classical Duel Monsters that was all I had to go off.

Damage Step

I decided to craft a Raidraptor deck. I loved Kurosaki Shun↗ from the anime, and after watching him duel a few times thought “yo, I actually really want to play that deck.” I just threw in all the archetypal cards on DuelingNexus, practiced a bit against AI, and then went into actual online duels. I’ve gotta say, I picked up the hang of things really quickly. Ofc, I was plenty familiar with Yu-Gi-Oh already, and the anime did help explain some mechanics too. But in no time at all, I’d become accustomed to the much faster pace of modern Yu-Gi-Oh.

Main Phase 2

My adventures in custom card development really kicked off after that. I started creating more and more cards and archetypes, and dueling against people online in the customs lobby.

Battle Phase

Towards the start of 2024, I decided I really wanted to build my Drytron deck irl, so that I could play physically with friends or at locals. Turned out the quickest and easiest way to build the deck was to just buy the singles on Cardmarket, so that’s what we started doing.

We’re still missing a couple of cards (including Drytron Nova↗, which is one of the most important 💀), but the deck is pretty much complete.

Damage Calculation

Nowadays, I really don’t have time to create custom cards – or play Yu-Gi-Oh – but I still keep coming back to make some more every now and then.


Footnotes

  1. Yes, this is why I’m intimately familiar with the colours, shapes and layouts of Pendulum Monsters ;P ↩

  2. I’m only joking! I never purposefully scammed or tricked or manipulated people. Most trades were a (small) net gain, so y’know – with time, I managed to build up a pretty nice collection. ↩

  3. Primary school children, honestly. ↩

  4. I made a Galactron STAR Legend, which I laugh to see now. ↩