Might I suggest looking at the game wizards?  that is an excellent card game for ti8x calcs, you might wanna see what they did there.

sounds cool!  A MTG game would be cool!

and as for yu-gi-oh I used to pwn other duelists when I was 7 or 8, then I kinda lost interest.  But, it was a fun card game

also: you have interesting puncuation, and your name made me lose the game.

My brother was an hardcore Yu-Gi-Oh fan. He went to local tournaments every weekend. He wasn't that great but he still sometimes won a few games there. I think he still has his large card collection and several GBA games.

Yu-Gi-Oh kinda died down, indeed. My bro stopped playing about 2 years ago as well. I'm not a big fan of trading card games, but I found Yu-Gi-Oh to be simpler than Magic, when it started. Afterward it got more complicated when many cards got added, but it was still much easier to learn than Magic, IMHO.

The only downside with real-life Yu-Gi-Oh is that good cards were so expensive. At certain tournaments where people used less strategies and only rely on higher level cards to win, it's always richer people that won.

Yeah my worry would be how to fit like 700+ cards in the calc game, as well as all abilities. It would probably need to have full of removed stuff or modifed card effects, like the Playstation 1 game, which was ridiculously hard, btw.

Exodia. If you're lucky enough to hold all five body parts cards at once, you instantly win. I think it's banned from most tournaments, though. There are other card restrictions in tournaments, too. (Which would make winning too easy otherwise and remove some fun from the game, but sucks when you paid $200 for that card...)

@DJOmnimaga: It is Exodia, but it's never been banned (all pieces are restricted to one per deck). It's is actually fairly difficult to gather all 5 pieces consistently before your opponent kills you.

Really? Maybe it was just at the place/places that your brother played at. As far as I know it was never banned by Konami/Upperdeck in tournament matches.

@DJOmnimaga: It is Exodia, but it's never been banned (all pieces are restricted to one per deck). It's is actually fairly difficult to gather all 5 pieces consistently before your opponent kills you.

Although impossible to gather  all 5 with plain draw phases some decks such as muckera exchange have enough draw traps and spells to draw 40 cards in just one turn! Putting exodia into such decks can form what people call an exodia FTK. This is why exodia is sort of broken.

Exodia. If you're lucky enough to hold all five body parts cards at once, you instantly win. I think it's banned from most tournaments, though. There are other card restrictions in tournaments, too. (Which would make winning too easy otherwise and remove some fun from the game, but sucks when you paid $200 for that card...)

They are other instant win cards such as final cowntdown.  You win in 20 turns.