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What's your love/hate game?
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Mine would have to be League or Warframe tbh.
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Yu Gi Oh. Most of the love is nostalgia.
Nowadays every card has like 4 paragraphs of abilities with obscure rulings that while not errata'd on the card, are expected to be understood by every player, which themselves amount to LITERALLY 15 pages for the current Master Duel version.
Not to mention that over they years they have added mechanic after mechanic that exists for the pure purpose of forcing everyone to rebuy a deck every time a new mechanic is added.
It's gotten so bad that not even KONAMI knows what's going on and constantly releases gamebreaking cards that get nerfed or removed later because they can't keep track of every possible interaction EVEN WHEN using massive automatic parallel testing.
Yeah. You ought to try Magic. We've had tons of time to practice the old everything-is-complicated-and-fucked dance; we've been doing it since 1993.
The one "saving" grace you can consider (except to your wallet) is that official competitive play allows cards from sets only up to a certain age from the present, with the most restrictive being "standard" which at the time of writing doesn't allow any cards older than a set released in 2021. It's not even that the metagame makes old decks nonviable -- you're literally forced to buy new cards when expansions come out if you even want to be allowed at the table.
"Modern" is a little less restrictive with the time span, but still restricted. Because otherwise, there would be no way to contain the pileup of legacy unstoppable strategies and broken combos, plus the combinatorial explosion of interactions between old mechanics and the seemingly mandatory 2-3 new ones added per expansion set.
So casual players (myself included) just play with whatever damn fool old cards we have with a gentleman's agreement not to be assholes with the game-breaking combos because fuck it, crack is cheaper.
I got out of MTG at Legends and haven't regretted it. It used to be fun but I've tried the recent video games and it's almost completely gibberish to me.
Keep in mind I complained when they introduced trample, so I'm probably not their demographic.
If they did a Beta only tournament with reissued cards I might try it but the game has been powercreeped to oblivion.
Need to replace all this with real life gwent