After the realease of Gen Urobuchi's Puella Magi Madoka Magica, back in 2011, there wasn't a big number of new animes that attempted to deconstruct popular anime genres targetted mainly towards kids, like Madoka did with magical girls, despite the show's success.
One of the exceptions was Mari Okada's Selector Infected WIXOSS, that tried to do the same with card game animes. The first problem is, despite the show attempting to gave the Madoka treatment to card anime game, it seems like Okada or anybody else in the production staff haven't watch a single epiosde of a card game anime in their entire life. While Madoka uses some of the most common elements and tropes you can find an any magical girl anime, specially the Pretty Cure franchise down to the color coding of the cast. To make matters worse, we barely see any of the games in the anime, most of the events related to them happen off-screen. So if you came to this anime hoping at least for epic battles with nice animation, I'm afraid I'll have to tell you to keep movin'. You are not gonna find it here.
Okada's territory is teenage melodrama, that's the reason her most popular anime is Ano Hana. And to be fair, there's tons of it here too, but most of the characters feel underdeveloped and unsympathetic, so the watcher has a hard time trying to get invested in what's happening. Some characters will simply make you want to not root for their desires to came true, despite it was probably Okada's intention to be otherwise, like Yuzuki wanting to bang his own twin brot...sorry, i mean made a gender reversal OreImo (we'll take later about this). Others will make you feel like their problems are not as hard as they want you to present them so you don't have another solution that risk everything in a magic cards game, like in the case of Hitoe "I don't have any friends except the ones from my old town who still wrote me letters, and i made two pretty easy in a span of a few episodes" Uemura (seriously chica it doesn't seem that you're doing that bad on your own, why did you enter a card game?).
And don't forget our MC, who is supposed to be, like Madoka, a girl who doesn't know which wish to ask to make it become true, but she enters in the game anyway despite she learns how dangerous it is because, why not. At least when you become a magical girl you save people's lives, but here is basically a bunch of people risking their lives for wishes that in most cases are pretty selfless.
Like i wrote above, there's an incest subplot in this anime, and it makes this show pretty uncomfortable to watch. On of the main character has been in love with her twin brother since she was just a little kid, and has enter the game hoping that if she wins it her wish will be granted. And it's pretty obvious that Okada wants us to root for her, downright to incluiding a secondary female character who's the twin brother's classmate and later girlfriend, than acts all jealous of the relationship her boyfrined has with his sister, and when she calls it out she acts all bitchy, she won't gonna take her side. Well, Okada, let me tell, making a douchey character something that's true, doesn't make the thing less true, it only shows you're desperate to make us agree with the characters you want us to agree, because you can think of any other way to fo it, because there's no way some sane will do it.
Definitely a skip.