July 2006
From: Rojas123@aol.com
[mailto:Rojas123@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:16 PM
To: yugiohcrew@pojo.com
Subject: Shonen Jump's, Regionals and thoughts by J
i have gone to several regionals and 1 shonen. i
have made top 8 in regionals 3 times. my first
regional was in nuetral ground when dark world was
just released.
my experienced in regionals have been good because
of my record but i did terrible in the Philadelphia
Shonen Jump TCG Championship, i was like in the
bottom hundreds. through out my dueling's there have
been moments i just wanted to quit because of all
the "top decking" and "god hands" my oppents draw.
which leads me to this conclusion yugioh is 35%
skills, 30 % luck, 30% deck, and 5% shuffling based
on average decks.
5% shuffling because it is hard to win with a hand
full of tributes, monster, spells, etc. it is good
to have a mix between monsters, magic traps.
30% deck because no matter how good you are you cant
win a shonen with vanilla mons like neo or celtic
gaurdian sword of deep seated etc. you need cards
that gain advantage and cards that work with each
other.
35% skills because i have seen good duelist get out
of god hands, like graceful, confi, nobles. mof
locks etc. they use it against their oppent for
example the oppent uses graceful several times bu is
dicarding key cards like torrential, mirror force,
breaker, etc. so they know they dont have to worry
about falling to these cards. they conserve their
cards, dont play gfc unless its very neccasery,
trying to get 2 for ones or more with the keys
cards, using their own scapegoat token against them
and so on and just trying to the best they can with
the cards they got.
30% luck because this has happened to me too many
times to count. i am usually always at a
disadvantage because my oppent has had "god hands"
and i have had poor hand like to many chaos, but
some how i have managed atleast to equal cards to my
oppent by using skills and taking a lot of damage to
life and just waiting for the right time use the
card's at my disposal. i have the oppent sort of on
the run because i have used my "skills" to get of
several situtations, but than all of a sudden they
top deck the only card that could save them like
heavy breaker snatch or graceful. if you go to
metagame.com and see top 8 matches ull see some of
our best top deck, one of the best of the game and
my friend jerry wang he is an ultimate duelist with
a lot of luck, just recently he topped a gfc to beat
shane scurry in one of the duels, just a few that
have one by luck, dont get me wrong they are great
duelist, just showing their is luck in yugioh,
austin and the canadian winner calvin when he top
decked a cyber stein while getting a limiter from
merchant.
in my shonen jump i lost mainly to little kids, dont
get me wrong their are a lot of good duelist that
are small just look at austin. but i mean little
kids with great cards but dont know too much on the
real way the game is played. just to show some
examples in the third round this kid plays gfc and
dumps a frog. and to begin with i had a bad hand. i
tried to use the cards at my disposal the best i
could but it didnt work. the kid saced for mobius
not destroing any magic and traps playing smashing
ground too on my cyber dragon just to inflict
damage. it didnt matter what i did the kid just drew
the cards he needed one by one.
but anyway try to have fun with the game people and
experiment with cards and try to make it to the top
being creative, and always keep on practicing.
J
NEXT TIME ILL WRITE ABOUT WHEN TO ATK SCAPEGOAT AND
NET DECKING.
