Subject: Character Decks - Relinquished Well, this tip is on some decks containing certain cards and revolve around one strategy mostly. They go in order of boosters. (LOB, MTR, MRL, PSV) The first one comes from the starter decks and LOB; Lord of D. This is almost a pure dragon deck. The point of this is to get Lord of D. out and play a couple of high level dragons, like BEWD and Tri-Horn Dragon. When used with Raigeki, this deck could take you out in one turn...easily. However, this deck could be slow, if you have 2 BEWD and LOD(Lord of D.) but not the Flute of Summoning Dragons. LOD decks could be complimented with cards like WOTBF, Sangan, and some high level dragons. Next deck is one of my favorites. Exodia decks. Obviously, they revolve around Exodia. WOTBF and Sangan are required for this style of deck. Mystic Tomato, surprisingly, works well in this deck. Add cards like Backup Soldier, Hane-Hane/Monster Reborn, Magician of Faith, Pot of Greed, and Last Will. Even Card Destruction works extremely well with Backup Soldier. Play it down, play CD, and next turn u got 3 pieces of Exodia back. Painful Choice works well with Backup Soldier too. Both of these cards thin out your deck too, so it is much easier to draw them. Now we move on to Metal Raiders and the oh-so-hated Gate Guardian. This is one of the hardest cards to get out, but it is not impossible. Play Ultimate Offering/WOTBF/Sangan/Sacrifice for Sanga, Kazejin, Suijin/Last Will and you practicley have it out in one turn. Add in Mysterious Puppeteer for even better results. Next is the next hardest card to get out; Great Moth. This card isn't all that powerful, and still takes 4 turns to make. For this to work, add cards that increase defence for your Cocoon. Using Sword and Shield/Waboku on your last turn of having it may be able to wipe out your opponents monsters so Great Moth will be able to work its magic. Now for the Harpy Lady deck. This is designed for speed, not stamina. The whole point of this is to get Harpy Lady Sisters from your deck/hand to the field. THAT'S RIGHT! You can take HLS from your deck to the field by playing Elogant Egotist. People are able to get 3 Elogent Egotists on their first draw, and play 3 HLS to demolish their opponent. MOF actually helps this deck well b/c you can use the same EE 2 or 3 times! Pumpking the King of Ghosts deck is next. This deck requires 3 Castle of Dark Illusions and 3 PKG(Pumpking the King of the Ghosts). In the tourney reports, I have heard of a guy who got their PKG up to over 3000 Attack Power! That's pretty good for no equipment cards...and imagine 3 of those! Plus, PKG has a good, solid defence at 2000, and a pretty good attack at 1800. Well, now for my favorite. The Shadow Ghoul deck. Well, I can never make a successful one that will work, but I know that this should be a stall deck. It will need at least 25 monsters in a 40 card deck to work. 18 monsters in your graveyard only brings it up to 3400 attack. So, for that reason, this deck should be designed to outlast, not outbattle. Last one from Metal Raiders: Little Swordsman of Aile. Well, this deck can be powerful for a turn, but then it goes downhill. Add some good attacking monsters like La Jinn. With PSV out, you can play Premature Burial, Giant Trunade, MEF, Premature Burial, Giant Trunade, Premature Burial. This combo only uses 3 cards, and LSA's attack will be at 2800. So, as you can see, this deck can be powerful for 1 or 2 turns, but then fizzles out. Ok, now on to Magic Ruler, and the most famous deck from it, Toon Decks. This revolves mostly around Toon World. Try using this combo: Toon World, Ultimate Offering, Soul Exchange, Bunch of Toons, WOTBF & Sangan sacked, more sacking cards, more Toons. Well it is quite an advanced move, but when played correctly, can bring up to 3 Toon BEWD and 2 Toon SS to the field. XD The next deck we look at is the Maha Vailo deck. This centers around getting Axe of Despair/Megamorph onto MV. I prefer to use Horn of the Unicorn over Megamorph, b/c it is automatically sent to the top of your deck instead of being destroyed, and will never decrease her attack power. But it is up to you. Next is the Ritual Deck. I added this in here because most people use Relinquished instead of Crab Turtle, or Hungry Burger. In my opinion, these are better. You can use Megamorph on these and they will actually have their attacks doubled. lol. Anyway, these decks can be extremely powerful and can catch some people off guard. Now, I think this is the last one from Magic Ruler: Wall Shadow. This deck isn't really all that good. You need Labyrinth Wall, Magical Labyrinth and Wall Shadow for this to work. And Wall Shadow is only 1600 attack points better than Labyrinth Wall. So don't play this deck. Anyway, on to PSV. This is a fun deck; The Legendary Fisherman. This deck can be almost impenatrable. TLF's effect sayd that if Umi is on the field TLF is not affected by magic or effects, and cannot be attacked. Therefore, this monster could have the longest life span of a monster in Duel Monsters. Dark Hole doesn't effect it either. Watch out for Heavy Storms and Giant Trunades. There are also a large amount of insect monsters for PSV. So this will go in here. There are many monsters and magics that will increase your bugs, and they are finally getting their recognition. Last in this comes Thousand Eyes Restrict. Possibly the best card in the game. And plus, with the Polymerization rules the way they are, you can fuse from your hand! So, you don't need Black Illusions Ritual. Just Relinqished, 1000 Eyes Idol, and Poly. This is one of the most destructive decks EVER! No other monsters can attack while this is on the field, and none of the monsters in it can be trap-holed!! Making it even deadlier. No one use Eatgaboon. To wrap things up, I want to tell everyone to use one style of deck. I played someone who played Gate Guardian, Exodia, Toons, and Maha Vailo. I lost, but it was only because I was testing out a deck. So, play one kind. For those of you who want to e-mail me suggestions, tips, or anything else my e-mail is frieza_00@hotmail.com . But don't add me to your MSN, or send me hate mail, please. I will delete you or it from my list and won't worry about it later. ---------- Unlimited Internet access -- and 2 months free! Try MSN. Click Here