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It's Yu-Gi-Oh!, warts and all. But as much as I can wax poetic about the game, I'd rather talk about Master Duel as a client itself, as it has been YEARS since the last official online client for Yu-Gi-Oh!, in case people forgot about Yu-Gi-Oh! Online.

Pros:
- Relatively friendly for a new player to cobble together a deck of their favorites, or a meta deck for rank climbing.
- Pretty decent rate of QoL changes as Konami updates the game every season or event to have a better experience. (For now, will be updated depending on how Konami goes
- The client has pretty great animation and music, as well as punchy sound effects to accentuate your actions in a duel.

Neutral:
- Banlist being OCG oriented more than TCG, this can be great or bad depending on how you play the game itself. This means that those coming from TCG will be blindsided by how OCG is more lax with their banlist, leading to either crazy off-meta decks or really overbearing actual meta decks compared to the more curated decks of TCG format.

Cons:
- Money to Gem rate is atrocious. (It still, however, is cheaper than the physical game, which is saying something)
- PvP oriented. While there are AI duelist, and some with a pretty high difficulty actually, PvE is not how you earn a chunk of your monthly gems.
- Slow banlist updates. As of this moment, it has been almost 3 months since the release, and there has been no banlist changes at all.
- Hands-off tutorial. The tutorial and solo mode, while pretty lengthy and serves as a decent introduction to the basics, immediately dumps you off into the wild west upon completion, leaving players to have to either figure out what deck to make or sink immediately. This makes the barrier of entry to the game still high.

Overall, it's a decent OFFICIAL client for Yu-Gi-Oh, for what it's worth. While there might be better options there right now, having an officially supported online client is also important considering other physical card games have been toying with going digital as well.