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From: Anteaus44@aol.com [mailto:Anteaus44@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:19 AM

Subject: How to Spy on your opponent-Anteaus



Crazy crackers! The man can't keep me down! (Sorry, if anyone has seen Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, I just watched the part with Condoleeza Rice at Dever...remember)



Sorry. Hello, all you pojoers out there, and welcome to another exciting episode of Anteaus' (insert cool name here)! Today we're gonna talk about two things: The Eye of Truth and Hand Advantage. This article will be especially interesting to those who love to spy on their opponent :)



The Eye of Truth is originally out of a set that I can't remember at the moment (I have the DB1 version), but that's not really important. What is important is what Eye does. This card is amazing in its ability to spy on your opponent, which not only offsets their play strategy but also their entire composure as well. But before we get too in depth, let me tell you what it does:



The Eye of Truth

Continuous Trap

DB1-EN074



As long as this card remains face-up on the field, your opponent must show his/her hand. Your opponent increases his/her Life Points by 1000 points during each of his/her Standby Phases if he/she has a Spell Card [sic] in his/her hand.



(If you're wondering what the [sic] is, it's me saying that the card has something wrong with it, it's not my mistake. [But it really doesn't, I just hate the term "Spell" for Magic Cards]).



This card already summons up some pretty interesting things. The first thing I think of is a Continuous Forceful Sentry that I don't discard from. This is good, because I can anticipate what my opponent is going to do, but bad because it has the potential to run up a massive Life Point bill. But hey, that's OK by me, because most decks run at most 16 Magic Cards; most run between 12-13. Now, if we take into account the Spell Canceller Control deck, that only has 8, we have ourselves a nice little mole, if you catch my drift. Being Continuous, it's vulnerable to anything, but again, that's OK; it's really not meant to last more than a turn or two, but a turn or two is just long enough to know what your opponent has and what he/she might have up their sleeve.



Other things come to mind, too: Bad Reaction to Simochi, anyone? This card has some devastating combos, most noticably the Bad Eye of Simochi Deck that I formulated (but didn't actually build...yet). This deck focuses around these two cards with 3x Solemn Judgment and 3x Seven Tools of the Bandit to protect them. Not to mention Spirit Reaper/Don Zaloog/Confiscation. Oh, and don't forget the basic fact that YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR OPPONENT IS DOING. This card is g0dly simply for that reason. You know what your opponent is doing. I'll say it again: you know what your opponent is doing. This is crucial because you can now formulate a strategy around your opponent's hand rather than his/her field.



And this ties in with Hand Advantage really well because. as we all know, Advantage is everything. One for ones, 2 for ones, all that jazz. Well, in my opinion, a 141 is only as good as the card you play. And, conversely, 7 cards in your hand means crap if you can't play them; but that's OK, because now you have another card to fall back on: The Eye of Truth. This card runs well in almost any deck because it can be used at any time. Unlike some cards, this card can save you the game anywhere, anytime, any place, just by being activated. It doesn't rely on a combo or another condition (except your opponent having a hand), doesn't net anything at all (people will frown at that), but what it does do is give you a much more basic advantage: information.



Yu-Gi-Oh! is a game of deceit, traps, lies, told by one another to lure each other into one another's trap in order to win the game. The more you know about your opponent, the better able you are to thwart that plan. Again, enter The Eye of Truth. This card provides invaluable information at a small price: a +1000 LP gain for your opponent. But then again, who runs 20 Spell Cards [sic] in their deck?



Oh, and before I go, I would like to...well, never mind, I'll wait for another article.



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Cheers,

Anteaus