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Importance of Hand advantage

From: Tom Liesegang <tglisme@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:58:40 -0700 (PDT)

I have recently come back to yugioh, and like all TCGS, the cards that allow people to win is hand advantage. Now, you all are probably like well duh, but here let me explain it to you. I feel very comfortable in a duel when my oppenent has 1-2 cards in their hand, and I have 4-5. It helps my game psychologically, because I can now think to myself "Ok, now they have less options." So, I can now attack more readily, and summon monsters, because my oppenent is in a state that I like to call topdeck mode. The best cards in my opinion that help you keep hand advantage are spirit monsters, because they return to your hand, and sinister serpent. Now while you do lose field presence with spirit monsters, their effects win you the game. When YGO was fairly new, the card Yata-Garasu pissed off so many people, and if it was allowed in todays format, oh especially todays format, than people would most likely quit the game. But anyways, thats not the point. The more common spirit that im seeming to use in all my decks is Tsukuyomi.
And honestly, this card being a spirit monster makes it even better, because her effect is amazing. Her effect allows me to kill enemy breakers or just other monsters with low life. Also, the most obvious is the fact than you can abuse the living heck out of Magician of Faith. Which brings me to my next point.
Cards like Magician of Faith, Mask of Darkness, and sangan, also give you hand advantage. You can either use faith to get you back pots or anything else you might need. Im a very conservative player. If I can help it, I will only try to play 1-2 cards in a turn.
To maintain hand advantage. Its probably one of the reasons Delinquent Duo is so powerful. The ability to remove 33% of an oppenents hand is amazing. Those are two options that your oppenent does not have. Also it allows you to see what your oppenent is lacking in your current duel, so you can attack or plan ahead accordingly. I know I kind of went offtrack a bit, but as you can see the importance of hand advantage can not only win you the game psychologically, but it can win you the game physically, because if you can keep more options than your oppenent, only ungodly bad luck can lose you the duel.

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