Anime

An engine in Yu-Gi-Oh is defined as a compact collection of cards too few to constitute a full deck, but which find residence in multiple independent strategies as a means to either add or enforce a win condition of the deck they supplement. I totally just made up that definition to make it sound super cool & serious, but in simple terms, an engine is just a splashable group of themed cards which help the player boost their deck. That's practically it. This can involve either boosts in consistency, power, field presence or practically any other variable in the game. Although a lot of things come into play to determine just how strong an engine is, by far the most important factor is how splashable (i.e. capable of use in widely differing decks) that particular engine is.

In this Top 5 segment, we'll be walking you through the Top 5 Engines in Yu-Gi-Oh, based totally on their splashability!

Google defines anime as "a style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children", but even though anime follow a similar system of age & maturity rating as their western counterparts (when being dubbed),...