Really YuGiOh is one of the easiest card games to understand. The only thing about it that gets tricky is resolving effect chains but other than that it's pretty simple.

Play on DuelingNetwork.com, Google rules -- bam, you've learned how to play. Personally, I really like Yu-Gi-Oh. My brother's more into MTG and won't give Yu-Gi-Oh a fair shake since he only remembers it for the simplistic gameplay of the first generation, but it's become a ton more complex and interesting since then. I don't know how it stacks up to other games, but whatevs, I like it. Nostalgic and shit.

watch little kuribo's abridged series, he basically states that the game makes no sense right from the start of the anime, with an attitude like this I'm sure you'd enjoy it.

p.s. I don't get it either...

Well the game hardly abides by the rules in the anime because that would require more episodes to cover duels, especially considering in the first story arch they use 2000 lifepoints, when in real rules it's 8000 -- something they rectify in later story archs I thiiiiiiiink. Haven't really watched any since they were fighting on a blimp or something and that was when I was a kid.

I used to play the card game a little when I was young, and I know that the anime rarely reflects a card game that well, but when the anime IS a card game, you'd think they'd be a little more accurate, in any case, little kuribo's abridged series is worth the watch just for the laughs =)

Wow dude, come back anytime and I'll give them back. Thanks for you kindness and thinking of me :)

willing to go big?