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Whats in a Theme - Kevin Bryant
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 16:36:00 +0100

What in a Theme?





Into



Hi my name is Kevin and im 28 and live in Liverpool. I run a Zombie Deck (since MRD all the way to now), a Machine XYZ/Union Deck and a Clown/Burn Deck. Ive been playing Yu Gi Oh for about 4 years, and I would have been World Champion if I didn't have such rotten luck with the cards when it really matters :-(





Background



#This is just so you will understand where all this came from.#



The other day I was having a few friendly duels with some mates I made from my local club - plug "impact games" - and we were talking about what cards are broken and combos and all the usual stuff. When I said about a game id had the week before when id used my Zombies and had my opponent against the wall - he had nothing on the field, one card in hand and I had 4 monsters and 2 bluff set M/T cards and he pulls Tribe and cleans the field and pulls off a comeback only Yugi can do. This was the reason why I said that Tribe kills themed decks and now it's a common in a starter set!!!



After I said this one of the people there who was looking at my Machine Deck turned round and said my Deck wasn't a Themed Deck anyway cause it wasn't all Machines (2 Shinning Angels, Sangan and D.D. Warrior Lady).
In his view a Themed Deck should only be of one type and one type only.
This caused the comeback of what about certain support cards like Lord of D and Castle of Dark Illusion both of which help a deck type but isn't of the same type it helps. His response was that you could use them but the deck still wouldn't be a pure theme!!





The Point



His view is true to a point, how many decks have we all seen where a Deck is just all the hardest cards with no link together i.e Berserk Gorilla - Beast, Magician of Faith - Spellcaster, Tribe - Aqua, Jinzo - Machine, Vampire Lord - Zombie etc etc. Not only monsters what about Traps and Magic? Would Fairies have a Theatening Roar? Would a Water Deck use Lightning Vortex? Im not saying that this is wrong the game allows all this but one of the points that was brought up by this line of thought is how, if from the start the Big/Staple cards had had restrictions such like Dark Magic Attack and White Lightning. Then the Theme of a deck would have a much bigger effect. Imagine only Spellcasters could have Magical Cylinder, Water Decks have Tribe, Fiends have Sangan, Machines have Jinzo, Beasts have Gorilla, Wind have Heavy Storm?



Im not saying take all the cards in the whole game and grouping them, but by doing this, when you duel someone each person will have totally different cards to each other rather than 90-95% the same. Some Decks are like this already to a point - Gravekeeper and Toon but even these will have the Staple cards in them.



Very few of us will ever be World Champion so the only reason we should be playing this game is for fun and the challenge, one of the biggest challenges you can do with this game and many other card games like this is to stick with one theme and work on just that. Ok it will have weaknesses but on the other hand by focusing on just that theme you will have room for very good specialist cards for that type - book of life/limiter removal for example which give you bonuses elsewhere. This in the long term is much more satisfying than going for the quick fix of adding a non themed cards just for its effect.



Ive seen decks posted on sites that claim, for example, to be a Zombie Deck just cause it has Vampire Lord, Spirit Reaper and 2 Pyramid Turtles, that's 4 monsters out of 18, to me that is not a Zombie Deck, (if you must know my Zombies have 18 monsters 15 of which are Zombies, I would have all Zombies but since everyone else has mixed decks to a point it is nice to win now and then)



Maybe im sounding sort of old fashion but the purity of a deck is a very good a rewarding challenge to anyone that would like to try it.



Like what ive said or hate it, it feels nice just to voice this, if you have a view either way, other than your fingers in your ears shouting im right your wrong to me id like to hear, hate mail is funny to read, just no junk mail please.



Peace



Kevin Bryant



Kevin.bryant@lycos.co.uk