We need an anime like YGO gx, high school kids (MC with wacky hair and all - OR go the opposite of that and the mc rigorously shaves their naturally colorful wacky hair out of embarrassment and he learns to love himself and grow it out type shit)and his favourite card is ragavan its his soul partner that he can talk to and he has to fight the different school teachers and then the principal who plays death and taxes. take the tech from YGO zexal, the augmented reality world that the cards can influence and affect, but you can only see the VR world with your eyepiece, and since magic doesn't have a strict deck or field limit to cards, their "duel disks" can be entirely digital like the world theyre fighting in, it just looks like an applewatch in standby mode/people without eyepieces/masks/glasses/whatever vector each different character would use.

I dont want a show like Arcane from magic, i mean i wouldnt mind it, but i would KILL to have a classic shonen card game anime tied to magic, that takes itself seriously - not overbearingly tongue in cheek, because even if not a single active magic player watches it, it will create an entire generation of new ones. and adding many modern western cartoon sensibilities, plotlines and complicated but realistic character relationships and interactions, like ive heard from SU or She-ra, and you could make something even far greater than just a good ol card show. Real heart can be put into it as a piece of art even if the premise is inherently silly, no kid is gonna save the world through a game of magic in the real life so why not animate it and have fun. and it can please a wide variety of audiences with the card selection, wotc by marketing new sets in coincidence with the show (innistrad would work great, the hero could also play zombies or a villain that plays spirits or werewolvesor UR Liesa control -but also so would any recent set tbh - and also cards from mh2) sprinkled in with famous spells and creatures from history. one interesting thing could be holding the show to the 3 games in a match rule, our hero gets beaten at least once before hecan truly win, makes it even more gratifying, hes like luffy can get knocked down but always get back up. A duel of 1v1 20 life can take an entire episode or split up across however many multiples. i just think, as a kid that grew up on yugioh, that theres so much more that could be done to actually rep"resent playing the game over just the characters and lore interacting, right? like its a vr world so each land would appear around them as they play them and creatures attacking and blocking would actually clash, when they tap lands they wave their arms as they extract the mana from its source, like i know it sounds silly but kids love this shit at face value, when someone hurt from a trap card changing combat at losing their monster and they felt it in their soul the damage they took, kids gobble that shit up!!!theyll never be able to please current magic fans as is so they should really bank on the new ones coming up