July 2006
July 15, 2006
From: Will C. (mail to: billywhiskers@gci.net)
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 @ 12:34 P.M.
To: yugiohcrew@pojo.com
Subject: How can we counter the metagame today? Will
C
Hola to Pojo fans everyone! I'm sure everyone has
noticed that in this day and age of dueling, or any
time for that matter, the metagame is always ruled
over by a dominant decktype. Whether it be Magical
Scientist OTK, Yata-Lock, Chaos trinity, Goat-Morph
control or today's Chaos-Return variants, there has
always been one deck that soars above them all and
dominates the Regions, Shoen Jump and National
championships. And there are most of you like me
that hate to play these powerful decktypes, but they
seem like the necessary evil to win these huge
tournaments.
I have been reading articles on lots of different
sites, from metagame to tcgplayer and of course, the
infamous pojo, and I have reached a decent
conclusion on how to counter the metagame today. It
all comes down to a simple phrase: "Fight fire with
fire."
You see, to beat the enemy sometimes means that we
have to do what they do, and learn of their own
tacticts. However, this does not mean run a netdeck
of the top contenders in nationals. It means, use
their tacticts but add some of your personal
originality as well. I have tried to beat the CC
with every deck I can think of as of today, but it
seems like that the only way to beat them is to join
them...to a certain extent, that is.
In a current CC deck I am testing, I do indeed run
two Cyber Dragons, one C-Sorcerer and a Zaborg, but
I don't use it with a return variant. I incorporate
using different monsters, like the slightly
overlooked Vampire Lord, and using an aggro-Royal
Decree control style. Back before Cyber Dragon, I
saw V-Lord teched in nearly every deck I came
across. However, now it's run over by that friggin'
Dragon by a mere 100 points, so it turned to being a
Zombie-only type card. But think of it this way: If
you can protect it from being destroyed in battle,
then it literally becomes impervoius to Sakuretsu,
Smashing, Mirror Force, Torrential and Zaborg,
making it a bear to kill. It'll just come back, and
then you laugh in their face saying what a waste it
was to Sak it, as it will revive and destroy us all!
Hahaha!!! (just kidding about the "laugh in their
face" part :P )
Now of course this is only one example of how to
counter the game and embrace a card's strength's
through your opponent's cards. However, it can be
used as an inspiration to find cards, even older
ones that can actually benefit from your opponent
using all their CC cards that they do. It's a small
step for the CC counter, but a giant leap to the
future of the game.
Next I will be introducing a few of these "CC
counter" cards to help all you duelists that want to
play well but still put a little of your originality
and heart into your decks, even if they are CC. I
will try to make them short, sweet and to the point,
and, if I have time, do two at once so you have
something to read and think about during the day.
Fell free to mail me w/ comments, suggestions,
criticism, but please no viruses as life is too
short to be doing something of the sort (hey, that
rhymes!) So until next time, duel smartly, have fun,
and if you haven't played Halo then get off your
rump and try it 'cause it's the best d*** game I've
ever played!
-Soulmaster52189
