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From: Paul Robinson [mailto:e-herowarrior@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 10:00 AM


Subject: Theme support and what is being done about it

Chapters:
Part 1: The Introduction
Part 2: Spellcaster Support
Part 3: Warrior Support
Part 4: What is being done about it?
Part 5: What can Upperdeck Entertainment and Konami do about it?
Part 6: My Opinion

Part 1: The Introduction

This article is about the lack of support for some themes e.g. dinosaurs and

the themes that have too much support e.g. Spellcasters and Warriors and what can be done about it. Dinosaurs one support card which is Ultra Evolution Pill which lets you sacrifice a reptile on your side of the field to summon a dinosaur, but what competitive deck is going to run dinosaurs and reptiles in the same deck? There are only a couple of cards that are even playable in a dinosaur deck which are Tyranno Infinity and Black Tyranno. There is also The Two-Headed King Rex, but with only 1600 attack it

can be destroyed by a majority of today's level 4 monsters and even some level 3 monsters e.g. Jerry Beans Man.

Part 2: Spellcaster Support

Spellcasters have too much support, heck they had a set based around them {Magicians Force}. They have support such as Sages Stone and Dark Magic Attack. There is also the classic Spellcaster Dark Magician that has the most support in the game for a single card, not an opinion, it's a fact.
Dark Magician has the card Skilled Dark Magician that lets you sacrifice it to summon Dark Magician for a lower cost. They also have the newly released promo Magicians Circle that is seeing a lot of play in Spellcaster Decks.
They also have Diffusion-Wave Motion, which lets you equip it to a level 7 or higher monster and it gives it an Asura Priest effect for 1 turn.
Magicians Forces was a very good set, which brought us staples such as Breaker the Magical Warrior, but imagine instead of Magicians Force being released that Konami replaced it with a set named Reptile Revolution would Reptile's be as good deck as Spellcasters?

Part 3: Warrior Support

Warriors are also a theme that has a lot of support. They have Reinforcement

of the Army, which is semi-restricted probably because of the hand advantage

it can give you. They have Marauding Captain which is now un-restricted and is used in most Warrior decks because it can let you summon 2 monsters on the same turn while not letting your opponent attack your Warriors, much like the effect of Command Knight which sees some play and it powers up Warriors on your side of the field by 400. The Warrior Returning Alive can help get cards that don't stay on the field long like Mystic Swordsman Lv2 or Exiled Force back to your hand. Warriors are also a good theme to run in a Topdecking situation because of cards like Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight or

Blade Knight. In my opinion Konami can predict what decks will shine by the cards they release and they want Warriors to be a top deck so that is why they released so many cards to help them.

Part 4: What is being done about it?

Well, from Invasion of Chaos and up we have seen a lot more support for Insects e.g. Insect Princess, Howling Insect, Millennium Scorpion and the Ultimate Insect family which has made insects more playable because ythey have what they need to be a successful deck. In the Lost Millennium series we have seen lots more support for Rock types e.g. Hieracosphinx, Master Monk and Megarock Dragon which has also made them some what better because of some of their bounce effects and the way you can use Rock Bombarment to inflict battle damage which also can thin your deck and even get more cards in the graveyard to give your Megarock Dragon a monstous attack power!. In the Ancient Sanctuary Series we had more support for Fairies e.g. Mazera De Ville, the Agents and The Sanctuary in the Sky.

Part 5: What can Upperdeck Entertainment and Konami do about it?

We still have to see more theme support for Dinosaurs, Aqua, Reptile, and Fish. I know that most Reptiles, Fish and Aqua type monsters are classed under A Legendary Ocean, but imagine a pure fish deck without any staple monsters. You would think that this would never work, but if Upperdeck Entertainment made a change in the Banned/Restricted list it might just give

theme decks what they need to be a TIER1 deck and make an appearance in Regional/Shonen Jump top 8. As Konami create the cards they could supply us with a lot more support for the mentioned themes, which could very well be done in the upcoming Japanese Set Shadow of Infinity or even later sets.

Part 6: My Opinion

My opinion is that Konami/Upperdeck Entertainment should realise that themes

play a major part in the Trading Card Game. In this they should release a set for every theme like the way they did for Fairies, Rock and Spellcasters. The set would not have to be all support cards for Dinosauars,

but it should be based mostly around that type. Same goes for Fish, Reptile and Aqua, it doesn't have to be based around cards only for that theme. I thin that they have released a lot of support for Spellcasters because of the anime, this may sound stupid, but they were the most used type by Yugi in the anime and this would attract more little kids to the game and Konami makes more money. I think that they have released so much support for Warriors because they have been a dominating theme for a long time. They have given Warriors and Spellcasters the Support they need, now move over and give the Dinosaurs a chance to shine!