You now realize that MTGO sucks...

"Stealth" Arena Thread? Sure

I hope they go back at least to origins so we can play not-Frontier.

looks so shitty wtf

they don't even have all standard cards yet

it's not even out yet

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>expecting wotc to make these 'meh' animations for at least another ~3k cards

You act like it's difficult and not a one time afternoon task for a person and a half.

Both sides of your statement are wrong. Ygo is an horribly unbalanced game. And you can absolutely succeed with budget decks at the FNM level in Magic, in either Modern or Standard.

That absolutely depends on the local meta. FNM here is go big or go home.

This, I used to play yugioh, on the budget too, so when my only deck that was cheap as fuck but strong got banned out(I'll miss you substitoad) I just quit the game. Now i look at it and im like, 'did he really just grab all pieces of exodia to his hand on turn 1?' and other fuck ton of bullshit combos that you need shit like Max C shit or yugiohs Force of Will to negate to actually make it to your turn alive. The powercreep is real and hearthstone avoided that path by doing something that yugioh should have done and magic has done for years, make different formats, and not just traditional and advanced like they have right now. Not only that Yugiohs pricing is stupid too, 75% of a deck can cost less than 10$, but the last 25% is always something like 20-30$ and sometimes in the 100s for whatever fucking reason(pot of duality) like its even more ridiculous than magics prices.
This is also true, but no matter which LGS you go to, either it be the competitive spikes or the casual timmies, there will almost always be someone there wanting to play edh, the best format, :33333