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I started playing back in 3rd grade when a friend bought me the yugi starter deck because he didnt know the diference between pokemon and yugioh. I was at the time playing at my local pokemon tornamnet and while there I had a few rounds with a kid with the kaiba deck and I was hooked. Mostly do to the lack of an energy/ mana system that poke and magic have

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Started years ago, right after Metal Raiders come out. My friend bought 3 Yugi and 3 Kaiba decks and gave me the cards he didn't want. We played by Duelist Kingdom rules and I never won. Lets face it, under DK rules 3 Blue Eyes, 3 Dark Magician, 3 Summoned Skull were impossible to stop. Started learning the real rules and playing by them, my friend following suit a few months later because no one played by DK rules. My first real deck....fiends/Destiny Board

I started with Legend of Blues Eyes, before the structure decks ever came out. Me and my brother had only a booster pack apiece and no rules what so ever, so we sort of "invented" our own version of the game, that now,as I look back on it, was pretty bad.

I started out watching Yu-Gi-Oh! on tv like most people with my first card being Flower Wolf and after that I was given a Blue Eyes Whit Dragon which prompted me to buy the Kaiba starter Deck after that I started dueling and learned the basic rules naturally I didn't like them so I played like they did during the Duelist Kingdom arc of the show after a few months of that it got boring so I played by the official rules around the time I got to Junior High I took a pause from playing to play Warcraft 3 Reign Of Chaos and The Frozen Throne but then that got boring so in 9th grade I dusted off my old deck but realized I had no chance against any of the new cards coming out so I scrapped it and worked on new ones

Myself and a couple of friends went to Anime North in 2000, two years before the release of Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon in North America, and we decided to go into the vendor's area. We saw this guy selling singles from the OCG, never having seen any cards like these, I asked more information about it. I learned that the name of the game was Yu-Gi-Oh, and that it supposedly ment "King of Games". So one of my friends, who was also interested in this new game, decided to split the cost of a booster box and one of each starter deck. The guy of whom we bought the cards from, produced a small duotang with images and transilations of every card in the set we bought. It took us a while to learn how to play the game, but we eventually got the transilation down and started to play without having to grip the rulebook between us. Two years later, the TV show and English boosters came about, I started to play in local tournaments. What kept confusing people, was how I knew what was coming out before it actually did. Sure, my names weren't exactly accurate, but I had everything else right.

blasphemy!