Not exactly the first kind, Yu-Gi-Oh came out before it xP

Destiny could learn from Space Invaders

It's all about yu gi oh

I picture you in your daily life wearing a wizard hat and sporting a handlebar mustache.

Someone tried to introduce it to me late in high-school like 2008'ish. He used a Green deck, and I'm not sure what series, block, or expansion it came from, but basically the whole thing was based around summoning an ass ton of Squirrels. At the time I was already pretty solidly invested in Yugioh and couldn't really adapt to Magic. I recently got into the game with the Kaladesh block. I have always absolutely loved "magic technology" concepts, and the Kaladesh block is all about that, so the sheer aesthetic got me. Currently still collecting more cards to put together. Thinking a mono-blue deck with it is going to be pretty damn fun. I wasn't aware of that history with Magic. Honestly, the degree of customization, planning, and strategy that goes into building a deck would probably feel pretty awesome in Destiny with classes and weapons.

pre-release this weekend if you've got a game shop near by.

I loved magic, and had a shit load of cards. I ended up getting rid of the first batch to come back to them a few years later and the new mechanics were mental and nullified everything I knew about the game from before. Stuff like trample just squashed all my old techniques haha. I had sold all my cards a few years ago but still have some great memories mostly getting trashed but it was good.

Interesting lol. . [quote]you could give everybody Gjallahorns with Icebreakers duck-taped on top that shoot Nova Bombs on rapid fire. [/quote] 😇

Back when I played Magic, socially with friends, what I loved about it was that although there were “The Rules”, they didn’t restrict cards from when you were just playing around with your mates. But if a card was dangerously overpowered or unbalanced, chances are it wouldn’t be Tournament Legal. So you could bring certain cards or decks to your casual or social sessions, but not into a Tournament. [b]That[/b] is a lesson I wish Destiny would learn from Magic. If something is massively overpowered in competitive play, don’t neuter it. Let it exist, as-is, in most PvE and (quickplay) PvP games. But ban them from being in the loadout for Competitive, Trials, IB and maybe even Prestige PvE activities. e.g. Colony in patrols, PEs, missions and Rumble? Hell yes. Colony in Trials? IB? Upcoming ranked play? Hell no!

I'll go in the opposite direction. i used to be an extremely dedicated player in the competitive arenas. I had multiple tournament wins, was a DCI certified judge on all levels that were available to me, and garnered an invite to the DCI Tour the first and second year that it was a thing; fortunately, my parents were a little more far-sighted than myself, and insisted that I dedicate myself to school, rather than card gaming. I played an extreme amount, spent hours working on new concepts and combos, did deck balancing for fun, and in general, made the game my life, as high schoolers are able to do. The reasoning behind it was very simple: there was a strategic and meta-game element to Magic that hadn't been present in anything else in my life until that point. Nothing was a one-and-done, do this to win thing, everything had to be combined and used carefully to get you to victory. And more than just knowing what you had in your deck, you had to know what else was available to your opponent, and try to think of their responses well in advance before you did something: in the Revised edition days, you never cast a clutch spell when your opponent had 2 islands untapped, lest they pull out a counterspell, and wreck your path to victory. For the longest times, the expansions focused heavily, not on making you more powerful, but on giving you extra points of strategy that you could employ. Yes, creatures kept getting bigger and bigger at the high end, but by an large, big creatures were also big resource drain and huge targets for direct damage and bury effects. And there were some junky expansions: Fallen Empire sucked, with it's focus on white weenie hoards and goblins (and the ever-stupid and insanely abused Goblin Bomb...). But by and large, the focus was in trying to give you new options, not make the wealthy or the lucky insanely more powerful than everyone else: a common deck, well built, could beat tournament-level designs in the hands of a good player. When things started to swing in the direction of massive power plays, I dropped the game like a rock. When someone, anyone, just because they got a good first-turn draw could unavoidably and uncounterably win the game at any point, it became no better than solitary. The focus shifted from actually being good at the game to simply manipulating the rules and system into allowing you to try for a slam dunk as soon as humanly possible. The elements of skill and strategy were lost. The expansions became more gimmicky; when Indestructable became a property, I just sold everything off and hung up the gloves. I got to watch dozens of games decided, not by who was better at building a deck and playing, but by who was able to pack more basically virtually unkillable artifact creatures into the deck. It became a break in the mechanics of the game that had stood for 10 years, and it seemed like a bad move. As time went on, it just became more and more gimmicky, power-festy, and in general, seemed like it was trying to keep peoples attention, rather than be a balanced, strategic, enjoyable affair. In addition, the shift in tournaments from Type1 (unresticted set rules) to type 1.5 and type 2 was a blantant attempt to force tournament players to keep buying more cards, rather than use the best of everything that was out there. Sorry to say, but in my opinion, Magic died right after the Urza's sets. The strategy focus left, and the luck of the draw became the king of the castle. It was a fun time, and I met a lot of great and even some famous folks while playing. I got to go visit Doug Schueler and Melissa Benson in their studios, and see artwork that was coming up in new sets. I sat tournament in Omaha against who was, at the time, my favorite author, and against who, now a days, is my new favorite. And if I get to one of their book signings, they still give me a hand shake hello as an old friend. But the game turned against itself, and it became something it was never designed to be. If this is the path of Destiny, I think it's in for even harder times, once the novelty wears off. TL:DR - ignore this if you don't want to here a nerd talk about card gaming.

Not how to get a date! That’s for sure!

Mmm Magic. I still have fun these days playing it casually with the wife, as I just never had the time or money to stay current. Still have an old school Slivers Deck with Duals. Not nearly as fast as it could be with Moxes and the like, but those cards were out of my price range then and they are way out these days.