I absolutely agree with you. When I was younger I'd always opt for the anime first but these days I am all manga. I can knock out a volume's worth of chapters in the span it takes me to watch an episode or something.
I think this is the order of how the manga goes
Yugioh->Yugioh Duelist...
The manga is a bit different than the anime at the start and the anime is way more tame, but it basically is what you asked for. Summoning creatures who fight each other. And the story evolves. At its essence it's still about those fights but for much different goals.
There's Seven Deadly Sins but that unfortunately fell off quite a lot, and pretty sure Fairy Tail deals with a lot of those but I've only ever heard bad things about it.
There's a very famous one called The Prince of Tennis. I myself haven't seen it but I've seen people praise it.
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