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Cloudstrife 189 on Yugioh I’m finally going to piece everything all together So get ready, Get set… Go!!! Welcome to my next article, The secret to dueling: Denouement First, let me refresh you in what I covered in all my past articles. Hang tight, it’s a lot. 1st article, The secret to dueling: A Direct Correlation I emphasized the importance of the player finding a deck that adequately correlates to his/her playstyle and skill level. 2nd article, The secret to dueling: Win without playing a card I spoke about 7 steps of duel preparation (Duel Zone, Life points, Deck knowledge, Shuffling, Graveyard/RFG, Bluffing and Waiting 7 seconds) 3rd article, The secret to dueling: Soft Cheating This article hinted on the importance of not cheating and some common ways at how players are currently cheating/manipulating the rules. 4th article, The secret to dueling: Identity Crisis In this article, I encouraged all players to quickly identify their opponent’s skill level, deck type, and playstyle and I talked about changing your own playstyle accordingly. 5th article, The secret to dueling: The Forgotten Art In this, I expressed a key component to YGO is figuring out how to use the side deck effectively and spoke of 4 ways to side deck (Counter, Convert/Transform, Protect and Randomize). 6th article, The secret to dueling: A Fight Against Time This article indicated that there is indeed a time limit at all major competition and that you need to use it to your advantage while not directly manipulating it. I also spoke about how to avoid being cheated into time. 7th article, The secret to dueling: Coming up to Tier I understand that one of the hardest things in YGO is to build a deck, so in this article, I spoke about how to build a deck and what key components you need in order to bring it alive (Skeleton Structure, Synch it up, Give it a boss). 8th article, The secret to dueling: Hidden Advantage I talked about how many cards currently being played give some type of hidden advantage. How much advantage they will generate is completely unpredictable as it could be game breaking or another completely dead card. 9th article, The secret to dueling: It’s not the Deck…My most recent article spoke about the importance of the player’s importance over the outcome of the duel as opposed to the deck. The deck helps, but the player ultimately decides all factors, including what deck to run. 10th article, The secret to dueling: Denouement This is the article you’re currently reading! In this article, I’m currently trying to express the importance of all of my past articles being used together. Wow. That was a lot. If you ever want to reread any of my past articles, feel free to click on any of the above links or you can find them all conveniently here. This article will most likely be my shortest, because there is only one overall point I need to make here. All these articles I write, all the articles you read, and all the other sources you go to cannot win the duel for you. All they are is another tool in your toolbox. Winning in YGO is about consistency. Anybody with any deck can win occasionally. These tools will all only help with your consistency. When you go to a tournament, you don’t have to win every game to win the event. All you need to do is win a high majority of your matches. Many people fail to see this and understand the bigger picture. They seem to get caught up in winning each individual game that they fail to ever increase their consistency. The same thing can be said about building a deck. Any deck can get their combo off from time to time; however, the most effective decks are those that can do it the most often. In conclusion, I just want to thank all you guys again for reading my articles. I’ll keep ‘em coming. Keep striving to get better. It will happen. Maybe not as fast as you want, but give it time. The best things in life are worth the wait. If you keep practicing these techniques, you will up your consistency. You will eventually find yourself making less and less mistakes until they are eventually nonexistent. You will start winning more games and eventually matches over those who practice less. Those matches will turn to local victories and those will turn to regional tops. This will in turn lead to regional victories and SJC tops and who knows, the National Championship title isn’t that far off. I have come to learn that if you work hard for something in life, it always eventually pays off. Learn this. Practice this. Master this. And only then, will you understand the real secret to dueling. -Cloudstrife189 Any comments are very welcomed and much appreciated: AIM: Cloudstrife189 Yahoo: Cloudstrife189@ymail.com Email: Cloudstrife189@ymail.com
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