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Anthony Alvarez

Trading Card Game Competitor · known as dango

I have spent years competing at the top level of trading card games, from regional circuits to multiple World Championships across several titles. Reading a metagame, building a deck nobody sees coming, and holding up under pressure is just how my brain works, and it is the same brain I bring to designing card games now.

Yu-Gi-Oh! TCGTEPPENBattle Spirits SagaDragon Ball Super Card Game
Credentials

Where I have competed

My record across four competitive card games, played under the names dango, dango0001, and Anthony Alvarez.

TEPPEN World Championship feature matchWorlds feature match
TEPPEN

World Championship Competitor

5x Worlds
  • I qualified for the TEPPEN World Championship five separate times.
  • I held a top ranking season after season.
TEPPEN esports ↗
Battle Spirits Saga feature matchFeature match
Battle Spirits Saga

World Championship Competitor

Worlds · ~14 Tops
  • I competed at the Battle Spirits Saga World Championship.
  • I topped around fourteen Battle Spirits Saga tournaments.
Official events ↗
Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG feature matchFeature match
Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Regional Top Finisher

Multiple Regional Tops
  • I have topped several Regional Qualifier events.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! is about as deep and demanding as competitive card games get, and I love it for exactly that.
Official events ↗
Dragon Ball Super Card GameOfficial trailer
Dragon Ball Super Card Game

Seasoned Competitor

Veteran Player
  • I have played this one since early on and stuck with it.
  • I know its metagame and archetypes inside and out.
Official site ↗

The TEPPEN, Battle Spirits Saga, and Yu-Gi-Oh! clips are feature matches of me. The Dragon Ball Super Card Game clip is official footage.

I never copied a deck. I built my own.

More than the results, competitive play shaped the way I design. I was always the player chasing out-of-the-box concepts, with a heavy emphasis on deck building and finding lines that other people overlooked.

That same habit carries straight into my creative process as a TCG and card game designer. I approach cards from the player's side first: how they combine, where the surprises hide, and what makes a deck genuinely fun to build and pilot.

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