[quote=@Kaggs] [list] [*]2 duelists wanted to prove themselves (ma boi Jou and Mai). [*]6 are doing/want to do something. [list] [*]2 want to get something [*]4 are doing shit around Atem [/list][/list] ngl I get what you mean but the examples from yugioh ain't really that character inspiring. [/quote] I'm aware of the problem here, but it's just the thing on hand I have to help illustrate the idea. It's better than the Fortune Cup route of "Half the cast was forced into it" at the very least, since everyone did sign up voluntarily. Yugioh doesn't always have the best writing. [quote=@PKMNB0Y] I do think that sort of... Banking on the 'trading' aspect wouldn't be too bad, either? [/quote] I'm not particularly interested in this myself. It's something the OCG Structures manga does (that's the actual title, not a descriptor) and I'm... just not too fond of it. If you read on the subreddit it has definitely found an audience of people who like a (slightly) more realistic and low-key take on Yugioh with more closer-to-real-life duels, but I'm more fan of the "Hey the fucking world is ending and everyone around me is dead" type of storytelling. That said, I think there's been definitive enough pushback against the idea for me to not really go with it, so back to the drawing board.