[Matrixbeast]

We talkin Yugioh? Shit, I love that game~
Anime, ehhhhh

Season 0/Toei anime is a closer adaptation of the first few volumes of the manga, featuring way more games than just the card game. It also is more violent than the following anime. However, considering it's status as "Season 0", it basically ends and disappears, and is completely unrelated to the rest of the shows.

Duel Monsters (Or Yu-Gi-Oh Seasons 1-5, as it doesn't really have a subtitle) is focused on selling you cards, yes, but they also want to have more tense duels. As a result, you end up with feature length card games and a lot of Ancient Egyptian cheating to accommodate this. It can be pretty fun when the duels don't drag on too much, though.

GX is more MOTW formatted, with a different duel each episode, rather than one duel lasting 5 episodes. It begins light hearted, but it does take a turn. GX also much closer follows the card game rules (Though Jaden/Judai still pulls wins out of his ass by always having some new fusion).

5Ds began pretty well, but quickly takes a dip in order to sell product (Including altering the rules of it's plot because a new characters' deck turned out extremely popular, so they wanted to market it more in the show). The card games on motorcycle memes aside, it did allow for some more visual flare to the duels beyond 2 guys standing 12 feet apart yelling at each other.

Zexal is a show that happened. Contrary to the dub, you don't pronounce the X.

Arc-V introduced one of my favorite archetypes in the game, Raidraptors. Literally never watched an episode, but hey, thanks for that!

Sevens is a return to the more lighter tone, but considering how GX do, it could take a sudden turn, who knows. It also opted to change duels into Speed Duels, a new method of play, over traditional ones.

...Fuck, I really wanna play some Yu-Gi-Oh, now