#i remember for the first time i stole a box set that had exodia. i remember on my way home so i could open it... i genuinely felt like ther | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

turtlemagnum · 3 months

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one of my favorite parts of strategy games like chess and advance wars is that feeling when you haven't quite won yet but the enemy has no real options so it feels like you're just sloowly wrapping around them like a snake. when all your enemy has is their king and you've managed to turn 3 of your pawns into queens, and all you've gotta do is get in juust the right position, and in the meantime all they can do is squirm. god, that's such a wonderful feeling. nothing quite like it

#incidentally i don't like it when versions of chess insist on enforcing a stalemate rule #honestly to a certain extent i feel like if your enemy has nothing but a king and you've got more than one queen that should just be an #automatic win. like exodia except instead of the individual pieces being useless they're all the most powerful monster card in the game #i think the favorite card i had as a kid was my five headed dragon. thought that shit was so cool. 5000 in both attack and defense???#it seemed unbeatable to my little kid brain. also it was a dragon. of course i loved it #i never learned how to Actually play yugioh of course. just what rules my stupid kid reading comprehension could understand #im pretty sure a monster has to be in play for you to be able to sacrifice it. i didn't know that so i filled my deck with nothing but #really strong monsters and i'd just sacrifice some directly from my hand to summon what i wanted #i stole a lot of yugioh cards as a kid from target. i'm comfortable saying this online because the statute of limitations has absolutely ru #out by now. i looked it up.#i remember for the first time i stole a box set that had exodia. i remember on my way home so i could open it... i genuinely felt like ther #was something mystical in that box. something ancient. there was something really special about that to my kid brain #i'd later steal quite a few more because i got the bright idea to fill a deck with nothing but exodia cards. i figured i'd always have a #first draw win. took me until actually trying to play it that i realized i'd often just get 5 left arms which obviously wouldn't work #so i took that deck and added some actual monsters to “hold me off”. it was pretty much just a normal deck with too much space taken up by #essentially useless cards. i don't think i ever actually won by drawing exodia naturally. what a shame #side note but i still get a bit anxious every time i go to that target. i haven't in years and i can basically guarantee they wouldn't #recognize Grown Ass Adult me as “that kid who stole a lot of yugioh cards”. it's been almost a decade if memory serves #i've grown a lot since then. both physically and metaphorically #i digress

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