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I haven’t played a competitive game of Yu-Gi-Oh in so long.  Due to the release of a new Blue-Eyes White Dragon structure deck and a local tournament near me, I can’t resist any longer.  Dear old followers/fans, I feel ancient, but that didn’t stop me from taking second place and first place the last 2 weeks at my current local. I use to be the 2^nd ranked player in my state, so I kind of know something about Yu-Gi-Oh other than how annoying having collections upon collections of metal card tins sitting around can be.  Seriously, what do you do with tons of metal tins?   A pound of aluminum sells for about $0.94 which means if somehow we were all able to collect 100,000 pounds of Yu-Gi-Oh tins we could probably buy an Elephant or put a few kids through college or have one hell of a night at a strip club in Las Vegas. Anyway….   

They’re so many new cards, so many new strategies, new rules, game mechanics and support cards I’ve never heard of.  Despite this obvious handicap, card advantage is and will always be the key to winning competitive duels.   Regardless of people’s opinions on the current metagame, Yu-Gi-Oh doesn’t look like it could be any more fun than it is right now.

If I have a vice in life, it’s Yu-Gi-Oh….  At my core I’m a duelist, a wizard. I enjoy casting spells & watching dragons explosively decimate my opponent’s life points all in the name of glory and blood.

As nerdy as it sounds very few things bring the kind of satisfaction in life like the summoning of a Blue-Eyes White Dragon.  One night stands, parties, reading newspaper articles about yourself & even watching yourself on TV…nothing strokes  a man’s ego, at least this man’s ego or feels as good as saying, “Blue-Eyes White Dragon attack!!!” and imagining  Seto Kaiba giving you a nod of approval.  Regardless, the past 2 weeks I’ve attended a local tournament, securing a respectful 2^nd & 1^st place standing with the following deck.  I’d totally of had two first place finishes if it wasn’t for some random trap card called Sixth Sense an E-Dragon deck used against me in our third duel…The fact a card like Sixth Sense is legal, I thought about punching my opponent as they spammed the field and summoned a Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack off a Sixth Sense dump….Anyway I present,

It’s Time to DUEL!!! (40)

Monsters (14)

2x Maxx “c”
2x Penguin Soldier
2x Maiden with Eyes of Blue
2x Dragunity Phalanx
3x Dragunity Dux
1x Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
1x Blue-Eyes White Dragon
1x The White Stone of Legend

Spells (14)

3x Terraforming
3x Dragon Ravine
3x Forbidden Lance
3x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Dark Hole
1x Book of Moon

Traps (12)

3x Call of the Haunted
2x Mirror Force
2x Dimensional Prison
1x Torrential Tribute
1x Solemn Warning
1x Bottomless Trap Hole
1x Compulsory Evacuation Device
1x Dust Tornado

Extra Deck (15)

1x Star Eater
1x Trident Dragon
1x Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon
2x Stardust Dragon
1x Stardust Spark Dragon
1x Scrap Dragon
1x Thought Ruler Archfiend
1x Colossal Fighter
1x Crimson Blader
1x Hieratic Sun Dragon Overlord of Heliopolis
3x Dragunity Knight-Vajrayana
1x Dragunity Knight-Gae Bulg 

Side Deck (15)

3x Electric Virus
3x Imperial Iron Wall
2x D.D. Warrior Lady
2x Fairy Wind
2x Puppet Plant
1x Dust Tornado
1x Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1x Thunder King Rai-Oh 

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the kind of diversity in Yu-Gi-Oh like I have the past couple weeks at my local.  I played against a Constellar deck, which I’d totally play myself if I had two more Sombres.  That was one of my favorite wins which I simply credit to outplaying my opponent who thought he could capitalize off his exceed monsters, never expecting cards like Penguin Soldier and Call of the Haunted to be used against them.  The look on their face when I used Dark Hole after synchro summoning my Dragunity Dux that had its effect negated by an Effect Veiler my previous turn with an in hand/searched Dragunity Phalanx, protecting my Stardust Spark Dragon with a Forbidden Lance, using Spark Dragon’s effect to save it from some fire ferret card, Call of the Haunted into Dragunity Phalanx for a synchro summon into Trident Dragon…OTK in your face.  Don’t talk smack!!!    I played against a Madolche deck, which my spell & trap removal pretty much crippled.  That player wasn’t expecting D.D. Warrior Lady to come in from my side deck either.  I think Madolches are stupid, I don’t care if they become a number one deck, I will never play a game about priests, spellcasters, fiends, dragons, warriors and monsters of all kinds with pastry chefs.    The E-Dragon Skill Drain deck was the only one to defeat me that was a three round game. I beat them with a Trident Dragon push one game.  It took me a minute to realize that most people aren’t really running heavy back row and are depending on hand traps and monster effects to keep their field presence hoping to get an OTK.  Anyway I lost to a first turn summon of Crimson Blader onto a Dux who had its effect negated & an epic Sixth Sense play.  I’m still impressed with the fact I was able to summon a Blue-Eyes White Dragon off a Compulsory Evacuation Device I chained to my Maiden with Eyes of Blue after he activated a Skill Drain in Response to my Forbidden Lance.

I played against a fire deck & a few other weird things.  I was really impressed when I played against a Hieratic Dragon deck.  Needless to say I went to eBay & bought the skeleton of that deck with 2 Atums because Hieratic Dragons are just so cool, especially with all the normal monster and dragon support the new Blue-Eyes White Dragon structure deck brought to the game.  I’ve been chewing on so many Hieratic Dragon ideas and kind of want to see Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon make a return to play.  I kind of would love to see some of your weird ideas for Hieratic Dragon decks, personally the fact Wingbeat of Giant Dragon is a splashable combo card now…EPIC!!!  The fact a Blue-Eyes White Dragon can be special summoned from  your hand, deck, or graveyard…Like seriously, broken!!!

I’m really surprised how many people aren’t taking advantage of Call of the Haunted.  Personally, in any flavor of a Dragunity deck backbone, especially now that I got my E-Dragon tins, Call of the Haunted is like added flavor on top of flavor.  Bring back a Stardust Dragon, bring back a Scrap Dragon, it special summons my Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon…It’s a defensive and offensive option with a lot of utility when you’re dealing with a graveyard of boss monsters.  Plus, lots of players are over extending like crazy…nothing seems to rain on somebodies parade like after they think they have game & have to get through Call of the Haunted plays.    I can’t believe Call of the Haunted is at three in a format where Heavy Storm is banned, seriously, like seriously…

Anyway, I’m looking forward to getting back into the world of dueling somewhat more when time permits it between all of my current endeavors.  Regardless, if you have a cool deck idea or would like to trade cards hit me up.  Feel free to email me at Tebezu@gmail.com or contact me via twitter or Facebook.

I’d really like to try out a Hieratic Dragon deck, a Crystal Beast Deck, a Codarus water deck, an iswarm deck, or whatever crazy ideas you have floating around.  Until next time…