Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game

The card game from the anime, with monsters, spells and traps. In the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, released in 1999, two duelists start at 8000 Life Points, and the last one standing wins. You summon monsters onto the field, and stronger ones cost you a sacrifice of weaker ones first. Spell and trap cards then boost your creatures, weaken the opponent's, or turn the duel sideways. The game is collectible, so the real hobby is building a deck from a growing pile of cards and figuring out how the pieces fit. It is a duel for exactly two, about twenty minutes a round, with plenty of rules to learn and plenty of cards to buy.