Ultimate Rant + Future of Yugioh 2
 
To begin with many who read my last article almost didn’t notice an ERROR in it, gladly someone did. Besides being too short  ( I think Pojo edited the naughty parts, lol), I made a simple mathematical mistake. I stated the the perfect recipe for a deck was 16 monsters, 6 traps, and 20 magic cards. That is 42 cards. What I meant to say was 18 magic cards. I was typing really fast when I wrote the article so numbers may have been mixed up in my head. It is imperative that you only run the minimum of 40 cards. Its really important, don’t run more than 40, I’m really, really sorry. My deck does not contain 42 cards, it includes 40 cards, I cant stress this enough. Anyways this is the continuation to my rant. I received some emails that were pleasant, some people felt what I said, but other emailed me with ridicule, and then there were people requesting help with their decks. A few months ago I wouldn’t have mind, but now even though it is fun responding to every single email (Still in progress) there is also so much I can take. I came on the internet today and was overwhelmed by IMs while checking the loads of mail I received. Please be patient, eventually I will answer every single one of your emails, help you with your decks, and slap you with insults. I promise.
 
Anyways I’m back with more things to complain about. I was in a rush to  release this new article to fix the mistake of my old one but I might as well talk more about Yugioh and its future. Now with the unavoidable bans ( such cards as yata, delinquent, etc will be banned , its all a matter of time) a myriad (many) people think the best thing to do is work on a new theme and perfect it, like the long dead beat down which is trying to comeback like the crappy zombie deck. In my next article I will talk about the reasons for these bans, but for now I’m going to talk about how to overcome them. Many kids around here took those cards out and started testing new decks. Even though they got their "buts" beat ("whooped" doesn’t sound like it does when u say it, compared to when you read it, it sounds gay) by me, they fared pretty well. The thing you must know is that the modified ban decks will never compare to the decks with their staples unbanned. Just like magic. An old magic deck, type 1, if built correctly could rip the new decks apart in as fast as two turns. In yugioh, two turn wins aren’t as common, but they happen. Now with the new bans that will be almost impossible (unless you draw Exodia, and if u have a good deck you wont, because it wont be in there).Chaos decks will lose their power tremendously, and control decks will rise again. That’s what happened in Japan. Painful choice is one of the cards that will be banned because Upper deck fears that with the other bans exodia decks will become really competitive. THEY ARE STUPID! They have deck testers which actually see how cards in production fare in decks, and they think exodia decks will be something to fear. Now painful choice is an amazing card. Its really good in chaos and they are going to ban it because of Exodia. Seriously Upper deck employees don’t know what they are thinking. As an announcement I challenge any official employee (card translators, deck testers, advertising?) to play me in real life. I swear on my life if their deck isn’t almost the same as mine, they wont win. I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW THIS COMPANY WITH UNLIMITED RESOURCES CANT GET REAL PLAYERS. At the mall tour the upper deck people you played in the last round played garbage like butterfly dagger, machine, beat down, and some other gay beat down. I was like " Do you not know that the best deck type is, you jack***!" Back then control was the best and you cant tell me they didn’t know that? Now some might differ that they play weak decks to give a chance to little kids who actually purchase these foil wrapping with these things called yugioh cards inside of them. THE TRUTH is that they were trying to incentivate people to play these types of decks, so people can buy old cards, go out of their way, spend money, which in turn reflects on the profits of upper deck. If Upper deck had stock I would like someone to compare the charts of earnings to the news released at the time. I promise you’ll find a pattern.
 
I got off topic but, anyways back to the bans some alternatives might be D.D designator. Usually when you play a game you get to see an opponents cards (either by other card effects like confiscation, when they reveal them to you by effects of the other cards, or if you sneakily get a glimpse by mistake since your opponent held his hand too low, or dropped a card by mistake, or you cheated). I will talk about the ban, and its reasons in the third installment of these articles and after that article I will talk about how I will go to Nationals and how you can meet me there. Lastly I want to commentate that the real chaos player, the really good one, today bases his deck and strategy around getting those monsters out on the field, but playing as you would a control deck, and considering chaos as a supplement (if you pull it good, if you don’t who cares, and if its useless in your hand discard it for Tribe’s effect.) Chaos shouldn’t be in your hand for many turns either play it or get rid of it. Its tempting to play strategically to get it out, but just one mistake will cost you the game. Good luck, and keep the emails coming.
 

Michael Mcbee
Lynxzed@hotmail.com
AIM- Prjctedanarchy
 
P.S To those people who tell me not to take yugioh so seriously and to play for fun, I’ll respond by telling you that you can play yugioh for fun and waste your time, and don’t bother emailing me with your non aggressive yugioh philosophy. If your going to take time to spend money on cards and spend your time, when you can be studying or playing sports, you better get something out of it.