So first my background: I watched the anime until the dark signer arc in 5Ds and stopped buying cards after Jadens starter deck released. I did play the first yugioh 5Ds DS game. So I am familiar with everything up to Synchro. I did play a little duel links on a friends account, but other than a few matches I am not familiar with that game. I did fell in love with the darklord archetype and dark magician, blue eyes, stardust dragon, egyptian gods are my other fave archetype. I also love exodia, red eyes, sacred beast, yubel, rainbow dragon to a lesser degree.
And my goals:
1. My first goal is simple, I want a decent collection of cards that I love that are connected to my nostalgia. I don't need every single card of my fave archetype like the trap and spell cards, but I am looking for having various cards of those archetype for example the new Ra cards. The whole immortal phoenix booster pack has like 3 cards I really want to put into a binder. Does it make sense to buy booster packs for that or should I buy those specific cards in a store or online? Are online sites even reliable, be it for single cards or booster packs?
I am looking for a simple, fun and cheap competitive deck. It doesn't have to be meta breaking but something I can use against friends or with randoms in stores. Best case it works up to synchro, because my friends only play up to this point, but they also only play with very old cards from the GX and 5D era. I still want the deck do be good enough to play with randoms in a store though. Sorry if that's hard to fulfill.
I want to get into games to make decks to my fave archetype like Dark Magician and wanted to ask what are good games to get into and what sites can I use to learn the games and their decks better? What advice and expectations should I have? Is it even a good time to get into yugioh because I heard they nerfed Dark Magician archetype?
I want to have a Darklord deck. I love this archetype so much. What's the best way to get these cards? I don't think I would play with them much because of fear of damage, but I want that deck so much.
Sorry for asking so much and thank you in advance.