If you are ever in the realm of business, you would know that one of the biggest rules to learn is to “Know Your Consumer”. After reading an article about Magic: the Gathering, it explained the company’s psychographic profiles that they have of their consumers, realizing that there may be some similarities, and of course many differences between the two. The article in which my inspiration comes from contains only 3 profiles, and it is very linear (You are either one or the other). My profiles are more interchangeable, and are more detailed than the ones listed in the Magic: the Gathering link, therefore you may relate to more than one person.
NOTE: The first names I use are the real first names of my friends, used with their permissions.
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Profile 1: Jann
Jann is the “standard” competitive duelist that you see at your locals. He does his research and knows what is the metagame, and what cards may does and does not work, and he has the group of fellow duelists that help him playtest his deck. He knows all the advanced rulings (Level-1 Judge), and is very willing to enter tournaments. Jann is the typical well-rounded Yugioh player
Profile 2: Danh
DanH is also very competitive at yugioh. However, he prefers to win by skill rather than expensive cards, as he does not spend a lot of money on yugioh cards and uses whatever tech cards he could find in his collection instead. He will not use what necessarily is the top deck, and many may view this at a disadvantage, the fact that he uses cards that no one else may use usually turns out to be an advantage, as no one would expect what he pulls out.
Profile 3: Mark
If DanH wins his duels by skill, Mark wins his duels by the fact that he has access to the priciest of cards. If the deck he runs is hit by the banlist, he has no problem accessing cards from his local card store to build a completely new deck. While his skill level and knowledge of rulings may not be as strong as it should be, he is not a misplay machine in any way. And it may be due to the fact that he has access to the cream of the crop when it comes to cards.
Profile 4: Karl
While the previous three profiles cater to the competitive players, Karl plays yugioh for fun. He has never run any Tier 1 decks, and he prefers to run decks that are fun to use in his opinion. His current list of decks: Rock (Guardian Sphinx, Golem Sentry, etc.), Frog (up to CRMS), Machine (A weird Ancient Gear/Machina Mix), which shows he doesn’t necessarily want the so-called best deck. It is not that he does not want to win, but if he had to choose between winning and fun, he would choose to have fun.
Profile 5: Ruel
Ruel is also very competitive, has the cards to create the top deck, and knows what cards works and doesn’t work. His problem? His knowledge of the game is, subpar, to say the least. He would be what I would call a “misplay machine” making moves that are not necessarily the best moves to make, and his deck construction skills are not that good as well. He has untapped potential, and he is not terrible in any way, but he fails to bring out the total potential of his deck.
Profile 6: Mike
Mike is what you would call a “newbie”. He is not bad at the game, just simply inexperienced, and many mistakes he makes can be caused by having played the game for a full 3 weeks. Given time, he has a lot of potential that could make him a dangerous duelist. Oh, and Lightning Vortex
Profile 7: Jordan
Jordan loves power. Simply put, he is one of those duelists that prefer the old fashioned “strong monsters wins you duels.” His deck, following the saying “it isn’t cheating until you get caught” contains 4 Vorse Raiders and 5 Axe of Despairs. It is obvious he cheats; it is also obvious that he is nostalgic towards the humble beginnings of yugioh
Profile 8: Marc (me)
I am a player of yugioh, but I more interested to game mechanics and everything else besides competition in yugioh. I’m not bad of a player in any means, I just don’t have as much of an interest in dueling as much as others, my interests will be more towards judging and hosting events, finding out weird facts about yugioh etc.
Profile 9: Aaron
He isn’t a duelist, he probably does not even know the rules. He has yu-gi-oh cards because they look cool. If the picture is epic, he probably wants it. He would be those people that buys cards that are rare and hard to get, and has no qualms with getting “ripped off” in terms of playability, but if a card is shiny, he would want it.
Profile 10: Adam
Simply put, he does not like to play yugioh. His sole purpose in life when it comes to yugioh is to make everyone who plays it a living hell.
So now I ask you the question, Who are you?
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