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The Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game is often considered a childes game but is it really? Many older people, including teens and even adults are a big part of the market when it comes to this game, but yet in the eyes of the American public Yu-Gi-Oh is seen as a game for children. Upperdeck and Konami have marketed the game this way, or at least they did in the begging so this is where the misconception comes from, but in reality it is far from being a child card game.

The amount of strategy involved with this game is extreme! You have to have a sound and solid mind and a very good memory to be able to perform at this game. There are thousands upon thousands of cards to know and understand, a large list of cards that are banned and restricted to memorize, and a huge card clarification and Errata list that every player must know and understand in order to perform well. Aside form all of this you have to know the basic rules of the game, when you can and can't play certain cards, where they fall into a place when resolving their effects and more. It's all very hard to grasp, even for most adults.

Strategy plays a large part in the game obviously and most children cannot understand the ideas behind the card combinations and so on that play a big part in winning such a game. Most children are contempt with their Dark Magicians and Blue Eyes White Dragons to care about anything else, when in reality both cards are not even anywhere near competitive. During play you need to consider options that you have, what consequences will there be for you next move, what cards does your opponent have in play, what cards has he already played and what is the difference in score that could dictate your next move. Children under the age of ten just cannot understand these concepts, and frankly don't want to.

Yu-Gi-Oh also takes a lot of money and resources in order to compete. On average your looking at 5$ to enter a local tournament 2-3$ on drinks during the course of the day 4-6$ for lunch and that's just a start. Already your spending around 12-13% just to participate in a local event, not to mention gas money getting to and from the event, the cost of packs and sleeves if you buy any, and if the event runs late then you have to worry about dinner. This all comes at a weekly cost, but what about the fact that you have to build a deck in order to compete?

A regular tournament legal deck that you can compete with is going to cost you between 10 and 20 dollars, and that's just for some

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