How'd dueling start for you?

Question 1: How did you get into Dueling? (Friends, show, etc.)
I watched the show, and the rest was history. I came in when the show first started at a young age.

Question 2: What's your first Starter deck/Structure deck?
My first starter deck was Kaiba's. I just had to have that BEWD. Haha

Question 3: Can you remember and specific cards in your first starter deck?
There were so many, Lord of D, Battle Ox, Dark Hole.

Question 4: Do you remember your First booster pack?
No I do not, but I remember what it looked like.

Question 5: Do you remember any cards from that booster pack?
Sadly no, I was way too young.

Question 6: How old were you when you started?
Probably around like 7-9.

I do have a really sad story though..
When my father took a look through my cards, he deemed them products of the devil. He then proceeded to rip them all up, and the only card I could save was my Blue Eyes. So many tears shed that day, ahahaha.

Let's go back in time, I don't remember what year it was, but the Yugioh Anime was at the point where Yugioh beat Pegasus.

At this point in my Life, the only thing I cared about were Video Games. After all, why would I want to pay for cards when I could buy a Super Mario Game.

One night, my Older Brother comes back from hanging out with his Friend playing Yugioh. He did proceeds to teach me and my sisters how to play. It gives up each a huge stack of cards to build decks with. It was fun, but not enough to get me into the game.

Let's skip to the point were the Yugioh Anime is at the Seal of Orichalcos Arc. At this point, our Local Toys R Us start having Locals. We attend to see what it's like, and to my surprise, it was a lot of fun. We begin to go there every week. At this point, I got hooked on the game, and actually start saving money to buy some cards. Keep in mind that Mario will always come first.

Sadly, we stopped going to Locals for because our Dad got tired of taking us every week, even though it was free. At this point, I am only able to duel my sister and brother. Until one day, we just stopped playing all together.

Time Skip!

Yugioh GX is out, and I'm enjoying it! My Sisters hate it, but that's fine by me, I'm used to doing stuff by myself at this point in my life. I once again get back in the game, and purchase lots of cards trying to build a Hero Deck. At my age (I don't remember the exact age), having money to buy lots of cards is impossible, so I'm even less of what we call a Budget Player. My Sisters start to duel again, so we duel each other once more, where this time I made an unbeatable Zombie Deck. They stopped dueling me because of it...

Time Skip!
5Ds is out, and once again, I'm by myself in this one as well. I had somethings to do and had to stop watching for a bit. At this point, I no longer cared about Yugioh.

Time Skip!

Me and my sisters start to duel again, and now I'm forced to make a new deck since they refused to duel against my Zombie Deck. This is where I find out that 5Ds introduced a new form of Monsters, Synchro Monsters. I was regretting missing those episodes. I now get the chance to catch up when they start airing Re-runs. I wanna buy more cards at this point, but my sisters don't believe in Synchros and won't duel me if I use them.

Time Skip to this year.
Now my older Brother starts to duel us again, but he also hates Synchros and won't duel if I use them, so now I'm just bored and sick of their complaining. At this point, I just roam the internet for something to do. GameFAQs is a site I enjoy, for I was reading the forums about the WC11, since it newly released. One thread was about Dueling Network. I try it out, and to my surprised it's a free service, and I can use any card I want. This was great for me since I never had the chance to use Synchros. I was also able to try out cards I wasn't able to afford. Keep in mind that my Sisters find ways to insult me and the Dueling Network.

Hold your thought, for I'm about to tell a story no one would guess.
When I first when to Dueling Network, my knowledge of Rulings were just pathetic. For I tried to use Mystical Space Typhoon on Monster Reborn when it was activate thinking Monster Reborn wouldn't work. This is where I learned about the differences between Negate and Destroy. In another Duel, I find out about Priority. In another one, I learned that Synchros can't be special summoned if they weren't properly Synchro Summoned, same with Fusions. And in another one, I learned that you chain a trap card that would be destroyed by an effect just so you can use it.

At this point, I'm excited about learning all these Rulings I didn't know. I inform my Brother and Sisters where all of them insult and argue with me just because I found out new rules. Finally, I'm able to convince them.

Time Skip!

I'm now excellent at Rulings, and my Knowledge is great. My Sisters can't deal with my new Knowledge, so I quit playing with them since they kept cheating not listening to my rulings.

As I'm able to Duel on DN since I'm done dueling with them, I find out I'm an Admin on DN. Funny, cause instead trying to Help them out, I can just help members, who will at least listen to my Rulings.

Time Skip!

TamA is now testing to see if I can my a good DN Judge. I'm even better at Rulings than before, and I love it. I want to share my Knowledge with people.


So I decide that I will duel once again, with my brother and sister who wanted me to duel them again. We played some good duels, but one day, I wanted to eat first. So they dueled while I watched them. Brother uses Paladin of White Dragon's effect to Special Summon Blue Eyes White Dragon. Sister activates Solemn Judgment to the Special Summon of Blue Eyes. I proceed to tell them that Solemn Judgment does not negate Monsters Special Summon by Card Effects. Their response was "The Card says Special Summon," and dismissed my Ruling and didn't even try to look it up.