In the Yugitard community there had been lots of complaints by losers like me that a lot of modern card art had been too much generic waifubait animegurls, and not enough monsters for the monster cards, but KONAMI follows the money, and money follows the coomers 
Many of the older art had been more monsterous, ghosts, zombies, hydras, mythic creatures from europe or asia, but the past decade more waifu shit had been released in archtypes cuz they sell more cards . It's so obvious too
Here's a post about waifudecks:
https://old.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/dldl05/why_do_people_hate_waifu_decks_so_much
it's because it makes our neckbeard hobby look even more manchildlike (unironically)
Anyways sorry, today's post: basically OP asks: what was ur favorite Yugioh playmat? Which is basically these super special rubber mats for turbo autists, because the starter-deck default paper playfield provided in every yugioh sold deck wasn't cool enough for Yugioh straggot eletists.
The 4 examples OP provides, 3 of them are 
waifubait, and even the Yugioh sub regulars pick up on this
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/04/yu-gi-oh-tournaments-adds-rule-asking-players-to-shower
at least OP takes it in stride
Does this one go to anime or /h/traditional games?
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The only kids who I ever saw play yu gi oh were the legitimately special needs kids in high school
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I think the game's gotten too complicated for them.
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This card was released in 2006, was the card with the longest text for some time.
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And it's so over described for a simple effect and monster,
Later text was much more concise for the same effects later
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Problem-Solving Card Text
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IF =/= WHEN
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When a game gets too complicated for rslurs, you're still going to end up playing against them. Except now it's going to take 40 minutes for game 1 and you're going to have to explain things to them. But on the bright side it's a free win for prizes.
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i mean special
needs 
kids just make up their own rules 
lol. they just like to collect 
the cards 
that they think 
look cool.
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