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Article 18: The Infinite Limit

As always my excuse of not writing any articles, yes...it's still the same reason - I have no idea what to write on. Not really...I have this idea stick in my head over a long period of time, yet I am just too lazy to think of how to write it or what I should put into this articles.

As many people that had read my articles before knew that, my so called "General Articles" are nothing but flaming on how people sucks or how Konami do not know what they're doing. Yup, when you look at the title of this article, you would know that I'm back on my flaming streak...

Am I??

As I go around different forums on the net (especially Yu-Gi-Oh ones), I always saw the Magic: the Gathering banner saying this:

"Play for the Name, Play for the Fame, Infinite Strategies, Infinite Combos, Infinite Possibility..." (cannot exactly remember all the words, but something like that)

Nope, I'm not here to bash Magic: the Gathering, I play both Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh and like both games, and really would not take one game over the other...as like the Detours in The Amazing Race like: (by the way...please for god sake turn on the TV at Tuesday 11/16 to CBS at 9/8c PM to watch the two hours premiere of the 6th season of the best reality show on TV ever...)

"A Detour is a choice between two tasks, each one have it's pros and cons..."

Of course, I'm not going to go deep on that, but what I try to say in this articles is, if the cardpool in Standard format of Magic is about as much as Yu-Gi-Oh, and both of the game contain many trash cards, why Magic can say they have "Infinite possibility" but Yu-Gi-Oh player cannot say that??

BECAUSE...WHAT MAGIC SAID IS NOT TRUE (yeah...look at tourneies, I can name all the deck type that could work in Magic Standard format)

Nope, but that does not mean people cannot create deck types because card games limit them to do so...

Every card game, of course, have a dominant deck type (the so called "meta", it's hard for a card game not to have one deck over the other). But now, why people cannot create?? Simple question: most card players are not nerds, and they would not even try to build a deck, they would just...simply do something called "Copy and Paste" (that's something that even an idiot know how to do...). But "copying" the first deck seems no problem to me, as people always needs many many help to build their first deck...but...the next, the next, next next...etc...

All card games have this problem, I cannot blame it on the players, but is it THAT hard to overcome this "limit" and start the own game?? The answer is of course, no. Many Magic experts bashed Yu-Gi-Oh for following reasons (other than this is a kiddy game and the game don't need brain because of pretty much no cost for most cards): it gets boring because only card pool of 40 could work (and shame on those people...LOL).

There's just no limit on a card game, it just depends on the player DO it or not. Yes, you may say, there're limit number of cards in a deck...but let's do some math. Just say the Yu-Gi-Oh game have 1300 cards (I do not know the exact #), and let's say about 500 of them are really useable, so now...it's math time...500 ^ 40 = 9.09 * 10^107...that's a 107 digit long number (does not count decimal)...

So, HOW to be creative?? I cannot say...combos are always infinite as anyone could think of working combos from 2 card ones to a 7-card "impossible" combo. There're even at least 7 common way to so called "lock-down" combos, and how to do it...it depends on each person's perference and their way.

By the way...there're 4 main types of Chaos (L/D) decks, so yeah, is it hard to create something?? No...use 1-2 cards that no other use could equal to creative...anyway...so yeah, the limit to deckbuilding is always infinite, and combos could be create no matter how stupid it is or how "uneffective" it is.

My last comment: For those who copy decks, let me ask you guys/gals a question, do you even know how to use the deck?? Also, to those people saying this game is boring and limit, do you guys EVER invent a new combo, ever??