Re: Yu-Gi-Oh cards site?

"Glenn Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Eric Moore wrote in rec.arts.anime.games:
>
> > It's called "Scroll Of Bewitchment".  I have no idea if it's any
> > good or not.  I'm also not sure if I should buy any more cards, since
> > getting a good deck in a collectable card game can be rather pricey.
>
> If I'm reading http://www.pojo.com/yu-gi-oh/PriceGuide/LON-%20Spoiler%
> 20List%20-%20George.htm (watch for line wrap) correctly, Scroll of
> Bewitchment allows you to change one attribute of one of your monsters
> currently on the playing field -- i.e., change it from, say, Earth to
> Fire.
>
> > How does real life gameplay differ from the anime?  Aside from
> > the lack of holograms, melodramatic dialog and ancient spirits of
> > course.  :)
>
> The game training guide on Upper Deck Entertainment's Yi-Gi-Oh Trading
> Card Game site (http://www.upperdeckentertainment.com/yugioh/train.asp)
> mention that both duelists start a duel with 8,000 life points, as
> opposed to 2,000 points in the anime.
>
> Another rule we don't see in the anime is what happens when one Duelist
> runs out of cards to play: the first person who cannot draw a card loses
> the duel.
>
> IIRC, we also don't see Tribute Monsters in the anime -- that is,
> monsters that are summoned by sending one or more other monsters
> currently on the playing field to the Graveyard.
>
> OTOH, the real-life game does have some rules that parallel the anime.
> For example, the player who has all five parts of Exodia the Forbidden
> One in his hand instantly wins the duel. :)
>
> Of course, with the real-life game there are real-life tournaments with
> real-life prizes. For example, the winner of the 2003 Yu-Gi-Oh World
> Tournament, sponsored by Upper Deck and Konami and held this past August
> in New York (see
> http://www.upperdeckentertainment.com/worldchamp2003/default.asp),
> won, among other things, a giant 24-karat gold plated replica of Yugi's
> Millennium Puzzle, encased in a large Plexiglas pyramid. I personally
> saw this large trophy when it was on display at the Upper Deck
> Entertainment booth at Gen Con Indy this past July. :)
>
> Speaking of tournament trophies, one of the regulars at our local anime
> shop won a different Millennium Puzzle Trophy at one of the seasonal Yu-
> Gi-Oh GGC Tournaments sponsored by Upper Deck. It's smaller than the
> World Championship trophy, and is in a rectangular case, but it's still
> an impressive trophy nonetheless. :)
>
> -- 
> Glenn Shaw
> Indianapolis, IN
> Sergeant-at-Arms, Indiana Animation Club (www.indyanime.org)

I don't know how far behind you are, but the Battle City arc introduced
tributes for upper level monsters, and higher Life Points (4,000 though, so
still less than the real life game, but more to make things still a bit
interesting).

-- 
~Mizu~
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