It was a warm summer’s day in Ocean City, NJ. The sun was shining, and I was fresh with my thoughts of my slightly emotionally devoid (currently EX) girlfriend. We had a day to ourselves “down the shore” and decided to walk around on the board walk for a while, when I spotted packs of cards for a show I’d been seeing on TV, Yu-Gi-Oh!. I immediately decided upon purchasing a pack before we left, and when I got into the car for the long ride home, I opened up my lone Metal Raiders pack. After sifting through the cards (which will be posted later), I saw a monster I recognized from watching the TV show. Low and behold, I’d pulled Suijin, the super rare water guardian monster. I was really happy with myself, as the odds on the pack stated that this was indeed a rare. This day changed my life forever.

Not a summer before that, I’d met a girl, who I’ll just call Rose, who unknown to me had taken a fancy in me. During a study hall in high school, she saw my cards and expressed a great interest in playing. After purchasing her pack and opening up her Ultra Rare Mystical Space Typhoon, I knew she had to continue playing. During all this time I had began my posting on Realms, and had befriended Nataku. He quickly taught me how cards worked, great combos, and the basic deck building skills I’d need to be tournament caliber (especially with Diabokuhatsu, but that’s a whole different article). One important thing he did was keep me in the game.

Time went past and the girl known as Rose and I grew closer. Eventually, she decided that she wanted to be with me, and we began our relationship. We’re going on our first year this coming May, and I love her very much. Without Nataku guiding me, I’d of never gotten to know her so well. I’ve become a person recognizable by the size of my Skull Servant Collection, the generaly correct nature of my rulings as a judge, and my pro-style dueling talent. People know me by my aluminum briefcase any my affinity for anything new and original. Judges appreciate my help when I’m not judging, and new players love when I give their decks the added boosts they need. I’ve gained respect of my fellow duelists not by a quick scheme, but dedication and hard work.

My life has been changed by this game dramatically. The friends I’ve made, the adventures I’ve had, and the experiences I’ve gained as a person have greatly improved my outlook on life. I can’t be the only person who has changed drastically, come and share your experiences.

It has changed my life also, I was mainly just doing nothing but, playing sports and working out, I needed something I can do in my free time. I was watching Yugioh one day thinking...w/e might as well. Then when I saw the starter deck, it was Kaiba. I bought one opened and saw a really cool looking BEWD. I grew to like the game very much. I just started from there and also I met other people have havn't dreamed of meeting...and made friends along the way. Its just a way to get all the srtress off of you.

my life also changed, it all started 3 years ago i was taking a walk by the mall when i saw the Magic Ruler booster packs (now called spell ruler). i had started to see the T.V series so i decided to take a look at it, so i bought it. i looked through the cards and as i looked at them i saw a shiny card on the top it said Blue eyes Toon Dragon. that was enough to get me going. now three years later i'm happy that i made the decision to keep on going trough the world of YuGiOh.

you pulled TBEWD i pulled a 1st ed Gate guardian in my MRD..lol. both of us pulled secrets

Yugioh has changed my life too. I started watching the tv series when it first came out. I keep up with it and told my friend tim about it. Shortly after that tim and his step brother brandon started collecting yugioh cards. I still kinda thought it was a game for the young so I told myself I realy didn't need to start wasting money on it. A few months and $70 later I bought my first packs of yugioh cards the first day the yugioh movie came out after I got done watching it. I have collected many cards and taken my love of strange off the wall charaters in diablo 2 and turned it into strange off the wall decks in yugioh. All in all I have filled my brain with all sorts of yugioh knowledge. I can usualy give an effect to go with a card name and vise versa. I have spent countless hours in the offical card FAQ and on the realms learning the rueling of yugioh. Hopefuly soon I will go to my first official yugioh tournamate and get a # so I can become a level one judge.
All in all other that possible being an expensive hobby yugioh is alot of fun and definatly life changing.

My first booster pack (a long time ago, may I add) was 2 MRD 1st edition packs. The two cards I pulled were Suijin and Heavy Storm. After I received the two, I was unstoppable for a while. Funny to look back on that, isn't it?

Yu-gi-oh really hasn't changed my life much, but there have been good things that have happened because of it, I met new friend, I use to be a little shy around new people but now after playing in tourn's and such im not so shy.

gee you guys were lucky on your first packs! I got crap in my first 2 packs of LOB I got a charubin the fire knight and a freakin hane hane.

my special relationship with the game started when I bought a magic ruler booster pack. I pulled this amazing one tribute monster with 3000 defense points (labyrinth wall). shortly after, I was on eBay and saw a joey starter deck and decided I wanted a red eyes for my deck so I bought it. after that, I found the realms and started trading. my first trade was for a Dark Magician (SDY). after that and another trade I did on realms (forget what it was for), I quit coming for awhile and concentrated on buying cards on eBay. it wasn't till I moved to a new city that my flair for trading came back and I made several good trades (2 involving the 2 BEUDs that I picked up on eBay) I traded my chinese one to my nephew for a bunch of beatdown cards cause he was collecting at the time and the japanese one was traded to another kid for a Gaia the Dragon Champion (I already had poly thanks to the joey starter) so I started buying packs again and pulled a SORL and a pot of greed and had purchased a raigeki (which I got for $10 back then) and mirror force. unfortunally, I was feeling bored with my multi-character based deck and it's unoriginality so I created a second deck with some cards I didn't particulary care for at the time (dark hole). once again I was bored though so I pulled the best cards out of both and created another deck, one much more original than the last ones. afterwords, it was back to the realms for trading. I traded off mirror force and raigeki fast and have been building most of my trades off cards I got from those 2 since. well, I figure that's enough history. next time, I'll go into how I made my current deck.

yugioh changed my life too. I started to watch yugioh when my friend and I watched it. When we were at the mall we saw a box with only two metal raiders packs left. We each bought a pack to see if it was worth playing. My friend got witch of the black forest and I got Barrel Dragon. We decided to stay with it and still play today.

yeah yugioh has changed my life to when i moved to a different school i made friends very quickly (if beating them in 2 turns is friendly) because half of the school was into the game and my first secret rare was imperial order and my first ultras were buster blader, axe of despair, and forceful sentry and im glad i kept going because now i have more friends and im the best duelist in my town and in theirs.

I first started playing this game when I was a bookish nerd in the Junior High (Zero the Hunter and I were in 8th Grade) and we picked up the yugioh stuff due to the popularity so we played the game since the days of LOB. I bought my first 3x LOB packs and pulled:

Exodia the Forbidden One
Raigeki
Pot of Greed (Now displayed in a case)

i had a Blue-Eyes deck, and it totally dominated every single duel. Zero built a Dark Magician Deck.... oh, yeah. We were the kings of Brea. Shortly, at Sept 2004, Zero quit because he had to study in the Phils, and I didn't play that much until December. I realized that I can continue his work, and from then on, I can surpass Zero the Hunter, (Currently running Horus/Phoenix burn)

I've also made friends here, and 4 in Brea. Now, yugioh helped my life, now I'm seeing a girl right now, and my mathemathical academics have never been better....

Yu-Gi-Oh! has been a part of my life since my first semester of college, three years ago.

I started playing because there was this really cute girl in my Art class that played with some other people, who would eventually become some of my closest friends. Things didn't work out with the girl from my Art class, but through my new friends I met the girl whom I would dedicate the next two years of my life to.

Yu-Gi-Oh! was one of the things we had in common (among...other things). She wasn't interested in playing the game, but she enjoyed the thrill of buying boosters and searching for rare cards. As a matter of fact, it was she who pulled my Masked Beast, Airknight Parshath, Fiber Jar, and Mirage Knight.

Even though my ex-girlfriend has left me since then, I still play the game (and sometimes run an Amazoness deck in her honor).

the first time i started playing, it really didn't do anything for me....but now that I've started again, it's mainly just being used as a way to keep my mind focused elsewhere since my girlfriend, whom i loved very much, broke up w/ me several weeks ago....

my very 1st pack was a 1st ed. metal raiders. i realy cant remember the rare because i focused my attention on the highest attack mon. punished eagle. And as for my 1st foil i got a summoned skull whitch, now i regret trading for a sieariou or somthing like that, i forget how it was spelled. i also met lots of freinds through the game, and though some of them have quit the game they remain freinds. well besides that all the game has realy given me is causious thinking. (sorry if i misspelled any words)