Men are simple creatures

I dig it tbh

I didn't think I'd like a card game where I had to play on my opponent's turn as often as my own, but I play a few games of Master Duel a day and appreciate how diverse the meta is compared to games like hearthstone.

I'm not really part of the community (yet) since I've been banned on Reddit for years.

From what I've picked up though, the drama in Yugioh is so much more mild than any other card game.

The meta has now grown around “hand traps,” which are any cards you can activate from hand the way you would a Trap Card that was set on the field. This has been part of an effort to reign in “first turn kills” (FTKs), which dominated the game for a while. Winning the coin toss and playing 1st gave a massive advantage.

These hand traps aren't often even trap cards, they're just “discard this card when your opponent does something, then do X,” where X is “draw a card for every monster your opponent summons,” or “negate an opponent's action after they spend their resources to attempt it.”

Basic and easy to follow, which is obviously rare in Yugioh, which is infamous for using “if, then, or” conditions and having five different card destruction categories.

So hand traps are powerful and force games to go on longer. And some players are really salty about it since these cards can end your turn prematurely if you either don't or can't play around them.

It's not really drama though, and I'd worry it's a bit too niche.

A soulless husk masquerading as Yu-Gi-Oh.