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 Trading Card Game Tips from fans

 

JULY 2008

 

Constructing a Good Rogue Deck - ThatGuy

 

Hey, this is That Guy coming at ya with another meaningful, tear-jerking article that will surely have you asking for more as you give a standing ovation while the critics rave about it. Anyways, today, I'm gonna teach the people who want to create the next best thing, how to do so.

There's 3 steps in creating a good rogue deck
1. The idea has to be original
One day, little Jimmy woke up and stated he was going to create a Gladiator Beasts deck. After posting his deck on the Pojo message boards, he received flames and soon found out that the idea had been broken by some dude in glasses at this thing called an Es, Jay, See. What's the lesson here? Well, you gotta be informed about the current metagame. And the idea of using a rogue deck is to have the element of surprise behind you. So this is why you have to be original. This portion could've been the last 2 sentences only, but hey, we all need a good laugh once in awhile(If you didn't laugh, you are a cruel and heartless person who wouldn't feel anything if your dog dropped dead in front of you).

2. You can't devote yourself to the strategy
Hey, with this deck, Venominaga will be so easy to get out! Now if someone could just burn all those Heraklinos and DADs, this would work. The thing about a rogue deck is it needs tech to fight the meta. Paul Levitin (dude with glasses from above paragraph) teched 3 Shadow-Imprisoning Mirrors in a DAD heavy arena and it paid off. You can't say your strategy is going to go unharmed and your opponent will just sit there while you draw out your needed pieces. You need some way of holding off the meta, and cards that hit all of the top dogs. In this case, Bottomless Trap Hole and Solemn Judgment works divine.

3. You can't stray too far from your deck's goal
Opposite from the above, you can't just devote your entire deck to fighting the meta, otherwise, you'd have no win condition =/. A good rogue deck is built to do what the initial strategy is, and also defend itself from opponent's forces. I mean, when was the last time you saw a deck that was x3 BTH, x3 D-Prisons, x3 Solemn Judgment, x3 Legendary Juitsu Master, x3 D.D. Crow, etc. etc. Paul's Gladiators still got Heraklinos off, Jerome's Fairies still did what they were built to do while stopping the opponent, Jon Moore's Samurais still stumped DAD with Shogun. The key is strategy, and combining proper defense with it.

Hopefully, this article helped you, and if it didn't, sorry for wasting a small portion of your life even though you've spent more time on the internet when you could be outside, enjoying life, and not grow up to be some 40 year old virgin who lives in his mom's basement...I mean, it's not fair...jus...just leave me alone. I'm just kidding, I'm not even in College yet :p

Anyways, yall can reach me at bamoon518@yahoo.com or AIM me at Thatguytotheleft. And I can't use my signature "Until Next Time" 'cause someone stole it so here's my new slogan
This is ThatGuy reporting live on Channel I don't exist.
This article is brought to you by the FBI. Yes, when they aren't on duty, they're doing what you the reader do best, playing Yu-Gi-Oh! ;)


 


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