3 and 4: Ramp and Mana are incredibly tricky to balance but to be frank, I think there isn’t any ‘benefits’. A stronger argument would be magic has an excuse for its resource system because it was the first. Numero Uno. My issue is that old and new magic are vastly different. My brother and I own a lot of old cards. The problem with most is that they are terribly balanced in the modern day, usually creatures with the tone shift beginning roughly around 5th and solidifying after 8. The one exception actually…is lands. But that doesn’t mean lands themselves are ‘good design’. Because fetch and ramp have been mainstays since even Alpha. It is not that hard to find ramp in Green and sometimes Red, or literally search it with Blue or Black if you wanna be on the edge. The only color that sucks with ramp is White, and they have an excuse because most white creatures either have flying/evasion, cost cheap and/or get tribal synergy. It was like Blue and Card Draw. It was too valuable to lock up in one color, so it had to be moved around some, either unofficially with ‘search’ effects, or officially by making Mana Alternatives like Mana Generation from Spells or Artifacts. The best I can say is Mana is too valuable arguably for game balance because Magic has one resource system. Technically Yu Gi Oh has three, as you use creatures to fuse, spells to summon tribals or special summon, or even tokens like Magic. You claimed it didn’t have strong enough base rules and I reject that outright. It is actually kind of worse. Yu Gi Oh always played fast and loose with its rules. Literally an anime trope. In the actual game itself, Life Points were changed literally two times, we had to tweak spell speeds and hand traps exist because apparently the design team didn’t get the memo that the anime didn’t even use quick-play hand spells correctly. Mana flooding and screwing are literally the achilles heel of MTG game design. Hearthstone generates mana far more reliably from just by having a mana turn-based counter basically until you hit turn 10. Or even Kaijudo/Duel Masters where creatures produce mana when in the Mana Zone. If anything, I think both examples demonstrate the sort of agedness of Mana in Magic. Now, you mention some elusive benefits. As a last food for thought since I can’t read your mind, I want to give Magic the benefit of the doubt. Like I mentioned early, Mana Ramp is relatively colorless if you know where to look (but of course Green dominates still like Blue does for Card Draw or Red for Direct Damage/Mana Gen Spending). But Magic’s resource system does get a free fucking pass for once for not only being the oldest, but innovating card economy so much Yu Gi Oh took the opposite approach and imho, both work great. Spending Mana should feel good and it does, assuming you don’t miss a drop or two, or ten. The economy of progression is very solid but if not forced because like I said, if you look at older creature cards, most of them are terrible. I think this comment is too biased in Magic’s Corner. Mana is a big problem. I have seen other games do it better and in my game, I also think I did it better. It is probably also why Dual Lands exist both from the collector point of view and design, since Mana Screwing for One Color in a 3 Color Wedge Deck without a Green Splash is just the worst.

@@twenty-fifth420 Mana flood and mana screw are, in my opinion, the worst experiences in any card game, but the mechanics that allow for flood and screw make for a much more compelling experience overall. Magic's land system solves multiple game design problems by allowing for cards to be balanced against each other, inhibiting the ability to create tier 0 strategies that put all the game's best cards together, and to have a tactile resource system without the need for an external resource like pen and paper. Hearthstone's resource systems can't handle the creation of tier 0 strategies by itself (to which is uses a class system to fix that problem), and resource allocation only works without external resources because it's a digital card game. In addition, Magic has more levers to tune the cost/power ratio of their cards by allowing for different types of colored/colorless lands and offers more choices to tune your deck between the consistency of playing any card at any point in the game and the power offered by mixing cards of different colors that Hearthstone cannot provide. Even when you exclude the ability to play cards on your opponent's turn Magic has more depth than Hearthstone has at every point of the game, a feature common when comparing any CCG with dedicated resource cards to any CCG that has cardless resources. Resource cards are good design because they not only solve multiple problems that card game designers have to solve if they want to design a compelling card game experience, but they also solve those problems in a way that allows players to have a more compelling deckbuilding experience overall by asking them to gauge risk/reward in how they construct their deck.

Complaining about Yugioh base rules became normal. People never mention the benefits of the system.

@@MrVovoda please, tell me about those benefits and yugioh card and game design.

So, do I includ Hard Stops or not?

Does duel master have evolution mechanism and its inherit ability?

@@reezmoguriz2742 Evolution yes. Inherit, no.

@@nmr7203 I'd take a Duel Masters rip-off over MtG ripoffs

​@@nmr7203 tbh I don't think there is hardly anything new in terms of mechanisms in game design anymore, its just interations of something that came before it.

Tbh a lot of game design is just pulling mechanics from other games, combining them, iterating upon them and conjuring up something new.

​@@anab0licIndeed, though the Western/American TCG scene seems surprisingly unfamiliar with the world outside the big 3, to the point that the "clone MtG's land system or have no resource at all" mindset is apparently a prevalent one, and copying any Eurogame or Japanese TCG mechanism suddenly becomes super innovative

This game's memory gauge is lifted from Chrono Clash, a multi-franchise game from Bandai designed by Ryan Miller. So it feels like a nice mix between east and west from that, I'd wager.

@@cantrip7 I wonder if that was inspired by an even older game, and what that game was

@@revimfadli4666 Know any games from there I can borrow from?

Guilty Gear Strive doesn't have this problem unlike team games though tbh, the lack of partners there means even at fast speeds you can keep things going relatively simply. Potemkin, May, and Leo are all pretty good charge characters that feel smooth to play. Not very many in that series in general but I feel like the additions are worth noting

@@KrissyBlues no guilty gear has this problem, charge characters like Leo and May have been eating good. Same with Skullgirls, the two charge characters there have almost no problems with absolutely destroying. You just have to be creative with your gameplay if you play a charge character in a faster fighting game.