Which came first: Magic the Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh?

Question

If it is Magic the Gathering, could u tell me what year it was?

Answer 1

Yu-Gi-Oh! ( Yūgiō?, literally "Game King") is a popular game, Japanese anime, and manga franchise created by Kazuki Takahashi that mainly involves the card game called Duel Monsters (originally known as Magic & Wizards), wherein each player uses cards in order to defeat one another. Running from 1996 to March 8, 2004, the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga was one of the most popular titles featured in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump.



Magic: The Gathering (colloquially "Magic", "MTG", or "Magic Cards") is a collectible card game created by a mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast, an American game publisher later purchased by Hasbro. Magic is the first example of the modern collectible card game genre and still thrives today, with an estimated six million players in over seventy countries.



Peter Adkison (then CEO of Wizards of the Coast games company) first met with Richard Garfield to discuss Garfield's new game RoboRally. Adkison was not enthusiastic about the game, as board games are expensive to produce and difficult to market. He did enjoy Garfield's ideas and mentioned that he was looking for a portable game that could be played in the downtime that frequently occurs at gaming conventions. Garfield returned later with a prototype he had been working with on and off over the last few years under the development name of Mana Clash. Adkison immediately saw the potential of the game and agreed to produce it. The game was rechristened Magic: The Gathering and underwent a general release on August 5, 1993.



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Answer 2

Magic the Gathering came first.

Answer 3

I first began with those card video games via Pokemon. When all my peers all of the sudden stopped and selected to play Magic. I reluctantly adopted go well with, and under no circumstances regarded again. I am now one of the vital few of the ones usual peers that also play (This was once 6 or so years in the past). When Yu-Gi-Oh began emerging up, I performed the video video games a little, and entirely brushed aside it as a sport for children (Despite the very dull use of insanely top numbers.) There is outwardly no method, and the whole lot is simply positioned card down, say what they're doing, cross. Not so much pondering. I was once compelled to observe a little of a event of this even as looking ahead to a desk to transparent so my pal's and I might play Magic, and I spotted that the video games under no circumstances took longer then five mins. Where the hell is the joys in that?? "Play , assault for prime quantity, cross" "Ok, I do the equal factor, cross". Also spotted that the majority playing cards become being within the equal deck, simply packed up the high-quality matters round, throw in what they name a method, and voila. Not so much use of creativity. Magic presents such a lot freedom, until you're a tourney junky and spend your entire time web-decking, which I discover to be lovely lame, but when it wins them their Pro excursions and what no longer, allow them to opt for it. I play most of the time casually so it does not do so much to have an effect on me. I believe I completed ranting, did not anticipate my reply to be this lengthy.

Answer 4

Learn Easy Magic Fast!

Answer 5

Magic The Gathering did and it was in 1993 it was first released. Alpha Edition was the name of the very first release and included a very sought after card "Black Lotus". The Beta Edition(2nd year of MTG) "Black Lotus" went for an astounding $20,000 once. Pristine condition Gem Mint 10 Graded version.

Answer 6

Magic the gathering has been around since 1993 and has a wider fan base then yugiho. MTG started it all and will continue to be better then ANY card game out there.

Answer 7

Yu-Gi-Oh! was released in 1996 and Magic Gathering was released in 2000.

Answer 8

Magic came first(I have had this argument with my Yu-Gi-Oh playing friends, magic came first in 1993 and Yu-Gi-Oh came after in 2000 magic also happens to be the FIRST modern trading card game and is one of the most popular

Answer 9

Yu-Gi-Oh came way before Magic even was thought up.

Answer 10

game wise, magic came first (i don't know the year).

Answer 11

Don't need to answer... but i never got Magic.