When I was home for Christmas, my 3-year-old nephew asked (in Chinese), “Dad, why does Uncle Jon watch kids’ shows?”
I, of course, was watching (a rerun of) Yu-Gi-Oh, that wonderful cartoon based on a card game (à la Pokémon). Every Saturday (if I’m not working
I bring it up because I recently purchased two titles out of the Yu-Gi-Oh: Power of Chaos series. I was initially only going to buy Joey (which allows you to play head-to-head across a LAN), but I was suckered by the included cards… Kaiba, of course came with Blue Eyes White Dragon. (It’s a good thing that Yugi didn’t come with Dark Magician or else I might’ve been tempted by that too (especially now that I know the origin of Dark Magician)!)
Over the past couple of days, I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit refining my deck, and winning cards from Kaiba and Joey. I’d like to think that I’m doing pretty well though they still beat me (also more than I care to admit).
It’s actually a pretty interesting challenge to try to figure out what cards you want in your deck. 40 is the minimum number, and it seems like it’s good to run as close to the minimum as possible, half monster and half spell/trap (and very few tribute monsters like Blue Eyes) or else you end up with a lot of unplayable cards. Trouble is, when you’re looking at your full collection of cards, it always seems like there are more cards that you want to play (in x circumstance, wouldn’t be awesome to play this combination?). And (of course) the cards that you really want to play are impossible to find (this is why I bought the computer game instead of buying the cards—this way my spending is capped).
Of course, the question I have to ask is do any of you readers own a copy of Joey the Passion? And if you do, when do you want to duel? 
Of course, I’m pretty sure I’m the only one, but yeah…
I guess that’s it for now. But don’t worry… I’m not going off to duel. Yet… 
