The biggest difference is Yugioh does not have a Professor Juniper. If my opponent goes first and unload their whole hand, I know I will win that game because I can Dark Hole their field and/or Heavy Storm and remove all their options. Then they will be at a 0 card hand, where you dont want to be in Yugioh. In Pokemon, I can play my whole 7 card, Professor Juniper, play that hand and have a supporter for the next turn and/or use my Tropical Beach to go back to 7 card hand. Pokemon is a lot worse then Yugioh and dropping hands.
Juniper goes both ways. Its good in a game where you have to use lots of resources, but its bad in the same sense since it allows for easy recoveries. Plus when your opponent screws you with N, its an option to get back in the game.
But Juniper is also once per turn and sometimes discarding your entire hand isnt very ideal. Its a double edged sword to the game.
Yugioh is not a hard game. Most good players dont unload their hand in one turn or the first turn of the game. I know for sure I dont unless I know I can take the game. I normally play 1 to 2 cards per turn and try to keep my hand at least 5 cards. Most players dont do it unless they can take game. Some hand traps like Battle Fader prevents aggro plays like this. You can then punish your opponent for overextending and Dark Hole them the next turn and take the game because you played your resources smart.
The thing in YGO is that games are dependent on single cards. Dark Hole is 1 per deck, what happens when you dont draw it? What happens when your opponent drops their entire hand and can negate everything you got? Heavy Storm and Dark Hole shouldnt be legal, the games rules should be changed instead since these cards are always needed. I dont like how its either have 1 or 2 cards or lose, a 1/40 chance in staying alive in a game is not good odds. Compared to a dead hand in Pokemon, you play 4 Juniper, 4 N's/Biancas/Cheribuns, 4 Random receivers sometimes, deck thinners like Ultra Ball, Energy Search, + a computer search, and drawing a bigger opening hand along with prizes thining your deck, thats like close to 1/4 of being able to stay in a game verses 1/40. I guess you can add draw cards in the mix but its all dependent on what you run.
Yugioh has a ton of decision making. You need to search out the right cards when you have a search option open for you. Just like Pokemon, you need to take the right cards at the right time. Unlike Pokemon, plays I make in Yugioh are not set in stone and require planning in the event something fails because of trap cards and monster effects. In Pokemon, I play what I want without worry. I would like to see the return of cards like Power Spray that can be played on your opponents turn to add more options and defending on a opponents turn.
YGO doesnt have as many searchers as Pokemon so the decision making is more based upon the opening hands. I disagree that in Pokemon you can do whatever you want, you dont stack your Mewtwo EX with more than X amount of energies in fear of their own Mewtwo EX, you dont bench Terrakion if hes going to keep getting catchered out, you dont N if your opponent's hand is bad, etc.
Thats the other way around. Plays in Pokemon are straight forward. There is nothing any player can do on their opponents turn but wait for it to end to take their turn. One of my biggest problems with the game is you cant prevent yourself from losing on your opponents turn. A card that prevented a attack during your opponents turns would be nice. In yugioh, there are not many cards that work in every deck because they all do their own thing but just about every card in Pokemon will work in the same deck.
I disagree on that since in Pokemon sometimes your playing on limited resources. Your not always opening with a lot of draw power and have to pick and chose out of the little things you drew what to work with.
If Catcher didnt exist, you could easily retreat and stall your opponent out in order to prevent losing. Counters are pointless since they depend on you drawing them, you cant have them every time, it makes more sense for players to just have less control over their opponent instead of having counters that your forced to run against those situations.
Many other cards are playable in some deck, competitive or not. Most cards are not playable in Pokemon in any deck, competitive or not. Pokemon, just like Yugioh depends on the opening hands. Pokemon,like Yugioh can also have games ending in 3-4 turns. The biggest difference is Yugioh does best of 3 game where the player who played their cards better will win.
I never see it too often where the games end in 3-4 turns unless its a serious mismatch. You cant end games that quickly due to the prize system. A best of 3 is just a waste of time since what happened in the previous game can just happen yet again.
If my research is correct, both MTG and Yugioh release their new sets around the world at the same time. What they get in 1 set. we get in the game set. No one country has a card advantage over the other
because they get everything at the same time. If a set is held back for any reason, the cards in those sets will be the same card for card. In Pokemon, our cards in our sets come from a bunch of sets consisting of their core set, starter decks, promos and other piles. I think they just design 10 cards and grab the first 80 or 90 they can find. Look at the first BW set from Japan and then look at our BW set. They even gave us a few full art supporters a set early just for sales.
YGO has Japanese exports in their base sets, it has the same issues of Pokemon in terms of release. In Japan they get game changing promos before the rest of the world does, the metas are different, MTG is an American made game so they dont have those issues. It disappoints me that YGO doesnt have Full Art or alternative arts (anymore at least), they just have different shades of foil instead.
The biggest difference is MTG allows players to mulligan to get a better hand. If you have no mana, then you have a option to try to get a better hand. In Pokemon you are forced to take what you have. You start a lone Tynamo to your opponents Landorus EX and they go first, get ready to sign the match slip. You will also get overrun if you dont start with a supporter or a way to get one and your opponent gets everything.
And that is a problem that they should fix.
Evolutions are slow but should be stronger then non EX basic Pokemon. I'm saying EX as in basic EX, Stage 1 EX or Stage 2 EX. The difference here is the game is not trying to care about what get made, as long as the EX Pokemon are more or less playable. Stage 2 Pokemon should be on the same level as basic Legendary Pokemon with about half of each being better then each other. The game also needs to put in stage 1 EX Pokemon, Stage 2 EX Pokemon and non Legendary Basic Pokemon. I'd like to see a Zangoose EX.
Not really sure how evolutions really should be like since right now since they seem like one big combo pieces and in a more less EX geared format they would dominate. They are already pretty good and if you knock them out, its only 1 prize and not 2 which is an advantage to running them. Its not like losing an EX to where half the game is over.
Agreed
Pokemon needs to find a way to prevent some cards from being 4 of in a deck because some are way to powerful to be 4 ofs. Hammer (any) are too good to be at 4 per deck. Mewtwo EX should have not been printed and should be banned. Keldeo EX's attack should do 20+20 like Ho-Oh EX, who is way harder to play and the first turn rules need work. Both card games require a lot of luck but a good Yugioh game will be like Pokemon because both have a large amount of search options during the game. Yugioh does it more often then Pokemon most of the time. As of now, if your yugioh deck is not search to swarm monsters. then your doing something wrong. Its not the only way to play though. In Pokemon. Big Basics is the way to do.
