Top Ten Reasons Yu-Gi-Oh! is the Best Trading Card Game

The reason I never liked other card games was that they were too difficult to understand. I never got the concept where you put one card down like a mission card or something, then play someone on top of it, and so forth. It's just too much to remember.

True. I've seen the other games, and to this day, I don't know how to play them despite watching matches.

It only took me one night to learn how to play.

If you're a fan of dragons, you can use those. If you're a tree lover, use a plant deck. If you're a bully or just like pounding stuff into nothing with brute force, then a dinosaur deck is for you. In short, whether you love birds, fish, ninjas, samurai, or pretty much anything else, there's something for you.

Just having a set amount of attack and defense (most of the time) is good enough for me. Sure, there are a lot of cards that can change that, but it's good to have a solid foundation before that without having to determine things like rage and other complicated concepts.

Some cards just look plain cool, like Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord and Number 96: Dark Mist. Depending on the type of pictures you like, you can collect just those. For instance, if you like chibi art, you can collect some of the Fabled cards.

I really liked the art on some of the cards. Unlike Pokémon (for example), the art can be really detailed and straight-up cool. Plus, the art comes in different styles.

Ritual monsters, XYZ monsters, fusion monsters, synchro monsters, normal monsters, and effect monsters are just the beginning. Then you have archetypes like Photon, Elemental Heroes, Wind-Up, etc. There are so many possible decks that can be built. You never know what you might come up against.

I have social anxiety, and every time I play this game, my social anxiety is cured for a week!

I am very socially awkward, but nothing else has gotten me as hyped as Yu-Gi-Oh! It's fairly easy to find people who also like Yu-Gi-Oh!, so that helps.

If you're someone who has been playing for a long time like me, you've probably run into the same problem I have: having a ton of extra cards that you're never going to use and can't trade, just sitting in a box collecting dust. You can't just throw them away, but you can sell them and make a few bucks. Even most commons can be sold for $0.20 each. If you sell 100 commons for $0.20 each, you can make a good $50. Then, you can use that money to buy more valuable ones and sell those. Well, you get the point.

You can make some good money from this and most other popular trading card games. This is probably the best thing about this game.

Considering that it holds the top spot in the best-selling cards, it should be relatively easy to find someone to play against or find an official tournament store close to you.

The original shares nothing with the game, except that they're both nonsensical.

Pokémon will always be able to keep up just behind Yu-Gi-Oh!, but in the long run, Yu-Gi-Oh! will stick around while the others fade away.