Subject: Need For Speed - The King

Welcome to THE ROYAL COURT
volume 2
 >From The King

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article too, okay?

 >From Last Week:

Well, last time I spoke on Exodia The Forbidden one.
Their was one detail that I guess I didn't make clear.
  The "Beastro Butcher Trick" I referred to is as
follows:

"Activate Appropriate and deal Damage with Beastro
Butcher."

In theory, both of you are drawing two cards...but
when one of you is going for Exodia, that's not that
bad a trade.

Anyway, onto this week's tip...

THE NEED FOR SPEED

Yeah, like I made that up.  Anyway, games these days
are all about the speed drawing.  Most decks have at
least two of these cards:

Pot of Greed
Graceful Charity
Mirage of Nightmare
Painful Choice

Pot of Greed is the most common, since it has
virtually no downsides, is easy to come by, and has no
cost.  Draw Two Cards.  Not much else needs to be
said.

Graceful Charity is the second most common card
played.  Draw three cards, discard any two.  While the
hand advantage technically doesn't change...you are
thinning your deck by 3 cards.  This is important for
decks that run high-level monsters and recursion
cards...as well as any card that likes running at high
speeds.

Mirage of Nightmare, while a pain in the rear to
Exodia, is a staple in any speed-oriented deck.  The
ability to draw up to four cards (or more, depending
on how you play it) is amazing.  Cards like Mystical
Space Typhoon, Imperial Order, and the highly useful
Solomon's Lawbook make MoN a focus card in speedy
decks.  I hope I can stress this enough to at least
make more people TRY the card before they bash it.
But, I'm not a judge...I'm a King.

Painful Choice.  Only the truly suicidal, or radically prepared, 
need apply here.  More often than not, decks that pack recursion 
love it...decks that depend on every draw hate it.  It's a preference 
thing. Personally, I'm among the love crowd.  (HIPPIE!) Well, not that 
much love.  Anyway, Painful Choice is really funny when played correctly.  
If you run Magician of Faith or Mask of Darkness, through that game-winning 
magic or trap in the graveyard.  Your opponent will laugh as you throw 
away your one saving card to the graveyard...then cry when you flip that 
Magician or Mask.  Discard, return, smashy-smashy. It's simple math.  Oh, 
either that or you throw away your last chance at a win by chucking that 
other card you needed.  But, who's counting?

Now...how else can we speed up a deck?

Card Of Safe Return
Appropriate

These cards are very situational.  CoSR is best used
in Exodia (see previous artical), but can also be used
in a Deck Destruction Deck.  Face it, since you'll be
using Cyber Jar and Morphing Jars over and over again
thanks to The Shallow Grave, might as well get some
cards out of it.  DOWNSIDE is that you might deck
before your opponent.  But, if you run a
60-carder...might as well.

Appropriate is best used in the Beastro Butcher Combo.
  Hit Ctrl + Home to find an explaination.

How ELSE can we do the speed thing? Taking a note from
American Pie, I present to you the Yu-Gi-Oh rule of
three!

Nimble Momonga
Giant Germ
Mystic Tomato
Shining Angel
UFO Turtle
Mother Grizzly
Giant Rat
Pyramid Turtle

These cards (and possibly some I've forgotten) are
best used in three's.  Death of one creates one or two
copies of the card from your deck.  Upside: Deck
thins.  Downside: If they're in your hand, you're
screwed.  Don't forget that you're putting monsters on
the field...but that's a different article.

Let's keep speeding!  What about those funny magic and
traps?

Magical Hats
Reasoning
Gamble
Fiend Comedian

With the exception of MH, these cards can quite
possibly kill you, but I'll be damned if they don't
annhilate your deck as far as cards go.  It's possible
to lose a crapload of cards, good or bad.  But if you
want speed...or a deck that self-decks...then these
are the cards for you.  Hey, a self-decking
deck...that's an idea!  (Later, King...later.)

Quick!  Name two monsters that draw cards!



TIMES UP!

Here they are:

Des Lacooda
Airknight Parshath

Here are two cards that see a lot of play.  Stall
decks use Des, Beatdowns use Airknight.  Personally, I
prefer Airknight...but either is good depending on the situation.  Des isn't 
going to get nailed by those pesky Mirror Forces either.  Oh, and just in case 
you are wondering: Des is one of those funny "Flip me, Hide me" guys that draws 
a card each time he's flip summoned.

And to wrap this up, we look at the two cards that
says speed like no other.

Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest!

Hands down the top two speed-oriented monsters you can
find.  While they don't get you those high-level
monsters...who cares?  Most decks can pick 90% of
their monsters with Witch alone!  Add all these
together, and you can zip through your deck with ease!

There's nothing better...
...
...except a good warrior deck, that is.

Until next time, LONG LIVE THE KING!
kingsnake_007@yahoo.com

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