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How Magic The Gathering cards are written VS How Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are written

by RashFaustinho


How Magic The Gathering cards are written VS How Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are written



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  • a_casual_observer

    Way back when I played a lot of Spellfire and thought some of those cards got too wordy. They aren’t nearly as bad as this.

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  • Smart_Ass_Dave

    My only feedback is that on the Yugioh card I would have increased the angel’s cup size at least 3 letters.

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  • gigantuar

    Early YuGiOh was great. As power creep kicked YGO just didn’t handle it great and made increasingly complex cards. I tapped out when fusions became a thing which is when it really felt like the cards became a novel.

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  • That_Jammed_Guy

    Am I weird for preferring Yugioh text? I’d rather pay a bit more attention to a longer but simpler text than having to pull out a dictionary to translate each keyword

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  • Nightsheade

    It’s worth noting that Yu-gi-oh has a general philosophy of having its card text describe exactly what it should do and that two similar-looking effects can have very different interactions. A few cards that have a similar effect involving negating a card effect for example can differ where one card negates the activation only, another negatives the activation then destroys, another only negates the card effect, etc. There also just aren’t a lot of keywords that condense a lot of text, with I believe the biggest one in recent years being ‘Graveyard’ being abbreviated to ‘GY’.

    Problem-solving card text means that there is a difference between effects that read “X, and if you do, Y” vs. “X, also do Y”, and how they interact with certain card effects and chain sequences.

    I’d say the yugioh card design should definitely be upgraded to make better use of the space and provide more room for card text, but otherwise, Yugioh would be more difficult to comprehend if you just start trying to condense things into keywords.

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  • Tucos_revolver

    Magic started using templating for cards eventually which is why they look much cleaner. Its had to change a little over time to account for rules changes but for the most part it works and is mostly pretty clear on what exactly a cars does.

    There are some exceptions however.

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  • DismalChance

    Too many people are forgetting that a lot of the lower rarity cards that have keywords on them will have the keyword explained on the card as well. Used to be alot more common with the core sets when those were still a thing and good entry point for new players.

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  • Mautos

    Unrealistic af. The yugioh card didn’t have a super specific summon condition that only works with its own decktype

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  • Demibolt

    Yeah but you have to know what all the names mechanics mean. I barely recognize magic cards today. So many bizarre, named mechanics.

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  • sudden_aggression

    You forget this but early editions of magic also spelled everything out. Vigilance and haste weren’t a named ability until much later.

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  • fartboxco

    Yeah magic the gathering has been doing it much longer.

    There wouldnt be enough room on the card to explain all of those abilities. (even on the yugioh explanation to entry level player they wouldn’t understand)

    I remember before the rules and definitions were online. Everyone that played the new regenerate ability with their zombie deck would just revive anytime they want even 10 turns later.

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  • Beard341

    I absolutely hate what yugioh has become. Too much text for all those effect monsters. I’m not about to read a fucking essay each turn just to understand what’s going on and I certainly don’t have the stamina to memorize so many of them, too. Just insane to me. But maybe I’m just old.

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  • Darth_Rutsula

    Yu-Gi-Oh has a lot more cards focusing on how they are played. Yu-Gi-Oh cards are generally strong imo but they also tend to call out specific card types (specifically names) a lot more often than magic does. For example a Yu-Gi-Oh monster could have “if this card is summoned from the GY…” Plus they tend to have a lot more summoning conditions compared to mtg.

    I like both games, but a Yu-Gi-Oh deck in magic would be busted. Also mtg has a resource system, Yu-Gi-Oh doesn’t. So there’s that.

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  • CrumbsCrumbs

    The Yu-Gi-Oh version’s piercing battle damage will never activate because any card with defense lower than its attack will be destroyed before damage calculation.

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  • shifterkrieg

    The amount of assumed knowledge on a MTG card vs. a Yugioh card is generally very different, and MTG tends to assume more.

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  • Accurate-Cap3894

    Finally, a card game that accurately reflects real life. Just try using a stapler to summon an ancient dragon, I dare you.

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  • master_cheech

    This one kid used to come to my house and I would steal his cards. I was so jealous of the kid with the holographic chinese one. I remember stealing them from toys r us and opening them in the bathroom. I remember trying to steal some at the flea market and my mom caught me, I never played yugioh ever again.

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