Something thats unique to Yu-Gi-Oh amongst its peers is the fact that cards are never rotated out or made illegal to use in tournaments as new sets are released which means that cards you picked up in the early 00s are still playable in your tournament deck even now, up to 20 years later
A certain card may warp a format to the extent that every other deck is forced to either use that card or work extremely hard to counteract it
Willbender Willbender was first released in Invasion as a card that could effectively be hidden for its morph cost and act as a way to protect you or your other permanents
Which, all in all, isn't really that bad of a deal, provided the price of this doesn't get pumped through the roof by other formats
[17] [192] Japanese people, by contrast, were alleged to care more about characters and plot
Theyre awesome as playable items but hold less value as a collectors item