As someone who couldn't afford many cards and didn't have many friends to play against, having a game where you can get the whole collection and battle against a huge roster of opponents was such a god sent.
I fucking love this game.
Sequels is nice too but definitely has it's issues. Like
>>55842417 said it feels more like a taxing commitment to just pick up and have fun for a bit knowing you'll have endless walls of """story""" text to skip through and being forced to drastically change your deck every duel in your (linear) path
