As a long-time Magic: the Gathering player it’s been fun introducing that to my kids and also learning Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh with them. I think Pokemon is slight

As a long-time Magic: the Gathering player it’s been fun introducing that to my kids and also learning Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh with them. I think Pokemon is slightly less satisfying than MTG without a lot of concerted deck building, and there’s a lot more to keep track of, but I do enjoy it. Yu Gi Oh I will just never understand. Absurdly complex, both at the macro level of the rules and the micro level of every card having a paragraph of tiny text to read. My boy learned to play MtG to a pretty functional level way faster than these other games, and while I’d never call MtG’s rules simple I still think it has an elegance some of these other games lack, but obviously nostalgia and familiarity colour that.