galacticdonut

" No one plays Yu-Gi-Oh anymore. At least, not that I know of.MTG is still pretty popular. "

Orange Squash is the traditional and clearly the best flavour!

@MattyFTM
Yeah if Murray wins the press are going to do my head in, but saying that I'd like him to do well. I do find it funny how we're so intensly patriotic to be English with things like football and when a Scotsman starts doing well in an individual sport we're all suddenly from the UK again.

Speaking as someone who has been judging, demoing and doing absolutely everything to do with the Yu-Gi-Oh tcg (in the UK at least) for about 4/5 years my advice is to play whatever most of your friends do :). Seriously, in a actual-card environment you'll have the most fun just having the opportunity to play. It's easy enough to grab a starter deck, play a few games and see if it sticks.
As far as complexity goes, Yugi is fairly simple to get into and the basics are easy enough.

That's entirely from a casual-playing perspective.

Tournament/serious play is a totally different thing. If you're after that, I'm not too up on the state of competive Magic but the Yugi scene can be pretty expensive to make a top tier deck.
I wouldn't worry about which has more depth, both Magic and Yugi can get very complicated if they need too (see: the stack/chain). I would start ranting about how many Yugi game mechanics make no goddamn sense but I'd be going wildy offtopic :D

Magic will be around forever, and Konami can still milk Yu-Gi-Oh for as long as they keep making episodes of the anime.