Eric Ortega Quintana

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Lepprince has been playing the game since 2017 and is known wide and far for posting dumb stuff about Yu-Gi-Oh! on his Twitter.

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The 250th YCS: Looking Back on an Amazing Experience

Eric Ortega Quintana | 2023-05-22

After the Shonen Jump Championship events ended, Konami introduced the Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series, YCS for short. Since the first YCS in Washington in May 2010, we've come a long way over the past thirteen years. Two hundred and fifty events later, we arrived at the big birthday bash. Time to review the festivities!

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How the Extra Deck Gave Yu-Gi-Oh! Its Identity

Eric Ortega Quintana | 2023-04-05

There are a lot of trading card games out there, but Yu-Gi-Oh! is the one that feels the most different from its peers. A bunch of mechanics contribute to its unique gameplay, but arguably none has a bigger effect than the presence and importance of the extra deck. Let's take a trip down memory lane!

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Hot Takes: Time Rules

Eric Ortega Quintana | 2023-03-21

Yu-Gi-Oh! matches have a set time limit to make tournaments run smoothly and finish at a reasonable hour. But is the current limit too much of a constraint? Are players exploiting it? Does it impact deck-building decisions to an uncomfortable degree? Should we have something better, even if no one knows what? Yes.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Hot Takes: Maxx "C"

Eric Ortega Quintana | 2023-03-05

No other card in the game has seen as much discourse around it as this level two insect first printed as a TCG exclusive in Storm of Ragnarok. Maxx "C" has gone on to become one of the biggest powerhouses of all time. Time to look at the history of the card and of the debates it caused!

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Hot Takes: The OCG

Eric Ortega Quintana | 2023-02-27

Yu-Gi-Oh! is one of the most popular IPs of all time. The card game is played by countless people throughout the entire world, and in case you didn’t know, it’s pretty big in Japan. But the OCG (Official Card Game) in Japan looks pretty different from the one we enjoy. Is it any better?

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Hot Takes: Rogue Players

Eric Ortega Quintana | 2023-01-29

Yu-Gi-Oh! players are all different but generally fall into some category or archetype: There are meta players, casuals, scrubs … But it seems the one most people identify with is the label of "rogue player." A few of them pride themselves on it and claim an air of superiority. It is time to stop with this nonsense!

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Hot Takes: The 2019 Tin Promos

Eric Ortega Quintana | 2022-12-01

Totally overhauling the original mega-tin design, the 2019 Gold Sarcophagus Tin resolved basically all the issues this kind of product had before. It also introduced three cards that have changed the game forever. But have they change the game for the better? Opinions vary. Here's one!

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Hot Takes: Mystic Mine

Eric Ortega Quintana | 2022-11-17

What's mine is mine, and what's thine, in the end, doesn't even matter. Opinions are divided, as they always are, on any topic, but Mystic Mine may just be the most divisive card of all time. On one side are the players who whine, on the other side there's Konami saying, "Everything's fine."

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Hot Takes: Ban List Filler

Eric Ortega Quintana | 2022-10-17

The ban list is one of the game's oldest traditions and balancing tools. Time, however, passes relentlessly. While it seems as if it passes by the Forbidden List, power creep *exists*. It's time for us to discuss a myriad of cards Konami could take off the list with little to no impact!

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