With the release of Enemy of Justice, the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game now has over 2000 unique tournament legal cards available. 2008 to be exact. (Source: RONINâ„¢)
This is quite the milestone, and with the danger of sounding like a broken record ... how many of these 2000+ cards are we really using? 500? 400? less?
I just took a look through my three constructed decks here, and of 126 possible unique cards I could be using (40 + 2 fusion, 42, 42) even I, a self-proclaimed lover of originality come up with a grand total of 63 unique cards across all decks. Exactly 50% of what I *could* have attained (kinda cool how that worked out, actually):
30 unique monster cards
21 unique spell cards
12 unqiue trap cards
In my defense, I think that even with 3 very distinct deck types that don't have that much in common, I've done fairly well here. I have some really unusual cards here, and put them all to good use: Gaia Soul, Interdimensional Matter Transporter, Double Spell, Nightmare Wheel, The Shallow Grave, and the list goes on. Of course, you have a ton of cards played in 2x and 3x in each deck, which is why I think that 50% is a GOOD number here.
OK, so maybe 45-50% of the entire card pool consists of completely worthless or outdated cards now. I'd like to think that's shooting it a little high, but still ... that leaves 1000 or more unique, somewhat useful cards at our disposal. And I used around 6% of them. Man, that's scary.
I'd venture to bet that 50% uniqueness is actually a higher number than most players generally attain with 3 or more decks they would be consider "ready" for an advanced format tournament. So my challenge for all of you is ... prove me wrong.
Tell me about how well you use this vast card pool of ours and put my statistics to shame! Tell me what you think about my claim that there are more than 1000 "somewhat useful" cards out there to use right now. Tell me where to put my ... no wait, on second thought don't do that. LOL!
Note: This isn't to garner deck lists .. use the proper forum, please. Discussion about the card pool and how well we use/don't use it is what I'm looking for.
Oh, and no UDE/Konami bashing allowed in here. That's not the point at all.
:djmorph
This is quite the milestone, and with the danger of sounding like a broken record ... how many of these 2000+ cards are we really using? 500? 400? less?
I just took a look through my three constructed decks here, and of 126 possible unique cards I could be using (40 + 2 fusion, 42, 42) even I, a self-proclaimed lover of originality come up with a grand total of 63 unique cards across all decks. Exactly 50% of what I *could* have attained (kinda cool how that worked out, actually):
30 unique monster cards
21 unique spell cards
12 unqiue trap cards
In my defense, I think that even with 3 very distinct deck types that don't have that much in common, I've done fairly well here. I have some really unusual cards here, and put them all to good use: Gaia Soul, Interdimensional Matter Transporter, Double Spell, Nightmare Wheel, The Shallow Grave, and the list goes on. Of course, you have a ton of cards played in 2x and 3x in each deck, which is why I think that 50% is a GOOD number here.
OK, so maybe 45-50% of the entire card pool consists of completely worthless or outdated cards now. I'd like to think that's shooting it a little high, but still ... that leaves 1000 or more unique, somewhat useful cards at our disposal. And I used around 6% of them. Man, that's scary.
I'd venture to bet that 50% uniqueness is actually a higher number than most players generally attain with 3 or more decks they would be consider "ready" for an advanced format tournament. So my challenge for all of you is ... prove me wrong.
Tell me about how well you use this vast card pool of ours and put my statistics to shame! Tell me what you think about my claim that there are more than 1000 "somewhat useful" cards out there to use right now. Tell me where to put my ... no wait, on second thought don't do that. LOL!
Note: This isn't to garner deck lists .. use the proper forum, please. Discussion about the card pool and how well we use/don't use it is what I'm looking for.
Oh, and no UDE/Konami bashing allowed in here. That's not the point at all.
:djmorph
