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 VENOM's Reasons for dueling
Hello my duelist comrades.I know that hardly any of u have read my previous articles, but to those who did and wanted to contact me , it seems there's been a problem. i put the wrong email in my reports.My email is toddyhole@aol.com not toddyhole@aol.co.uk and Toddy by the way is the name of my dog. As far as my name goes its VENOM. i just feel sorry for the real toddyhole that got all those emails that were mine. Any way back to the article.
 
 
I recently sent an article to pojo announcing my retirement aswell as writing in great detail and length about  how i hated the ban list. luckily that didnt get posted . so now here i am waiting for the banlist tournament i'm going to enter. hypocrit eh?? thats true. but now i can see the banlist not doing such a heavy blow  to decks. ok its annoying but its life ok?  thats reason number 1: Quiting only to be sucked right in.
 
    Maybe you are one of the growing number of duelists who had been a loyal collector for 2 years, you were a veteran only to quit nearly because duelmasters seemed to be a big shiny new cheaper solution. i was. but let me tell u , duelmasters is a good game, but i found it too easy to win. No offense to duelmasters, but yugioh is far supirior.
 
i have a friend who has quit yugioh 3 times only to come back even stronger.hes quit again, but i expect to see him back.
 
the point im trying to put across is that yugioh is not just a game its a way of life.
 
A way of life not so easily thrown aside.
 
 
Reason number 2: We are living in the silver age of dueling.
When yugioh first came out it was at a suky worse than led ,iron ore  stage. something you only played to be your hero from the anime.  Blue eyes was the most feared card when summoned and polymerization was a tradebait of gods. with the release of expansion sets like metal raiders, spell ruler and pharoahs servant the game quickly shot up to what i like to call the basic game steel age. strong but not perfect, playable and competitive. then packs like the now legendary labrinth of nightmare and legacy of darkness, my favourites for the soul purpose of them releasing the ultimate fiend cards as well as magic cylinder , torrential tribute, united we stand, mage power,airknight palshath,and fibre jar to amp up the game to Bronze level. So many theme decks have support from these packs. The next packs transformed this basic game into an intense strategy complex system. with pharonic guardian came judgement and rejection. Man eater bugs were tossed aside for the more powerful, practical newdorias. sasuke samurai now there to kill any other un needed flip effect. this strategy was increased when magicians force relased loads of 1900 attackers at once. these 2 packs even though one was pink, tossed the yugioh gameinto a great divide. control and beatdown. the dark ages of duelmonsters. but hope endured as with the release of dark crisis and invasion of chaos the chaos decks were built. support was thrown everywhere for every type of deck. this support advanced the game to Silver level. the shining light of originality is now beggining to fade. the disapointing ancient sanctuary which main storyline was the blood fued between archfiends and archlords was ok. but the only support was for fairy and machine decks. very un-used themes.
 
This silver age is good, lots of powerful varied cards but no originality. only when new cards are released that can increase originality so much that new decks never need to be copied, then we can acsend to the golden age of dueling .
 
Reason 3: The high quality of cards
i dont know about u, but in my opinion the yugioh cards are made with such high quality that none can contnd. the cards are perfect sized, have great pictures and shiny writing. there just great.
 
 
Right then, if this article gets posted by the king generous pojo then thats it for me, thanks for reading till the bottom. my emails at the top of the page if you agree with me, you disagree with me or you to think i should be a featured writer for pojo's yugioh page.[hint ,hint]. also i have taken the time to write a few articles in my own time and i would be happy to share them with you.
 
1,VENOMS unofficial god card rules: a hilarous look at the god cards through the eyes of one V.E.Nom.Worth reading.
2: VENOM's  fiend supremecy: i VENOM run a fiend deck, if you want to have a peep at my ultimate fiend power then this is the choice for u. Look how my once organised deck was transformed into a fiend force.
3: VENOM's great battle: a superb fanfic story of the battle between fiends and machines.
 
if u want any of these then dont hesitate to email me at the above address and i'll be happy to oblige.