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From: "Ryan Wirth" <Pape666@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:57:34 -0400

Over-Splashing Can Make Your Yu-Gi-Oh Deck All Wet-T34 W!rt$m@n

Well, heres another tip. I know you want another. Who wouldn't?

I'd also like to thank all the people who e-mailed me with their agreement with my last...er, tip, if you could call it. They know who they are.

Also, to the person(this is questionable) who sent me my first hate mail ever, thanks. I hope you can turn your Caps Lock off soon.

Moving on, I decided to submit this one on the splashability of certain cards. And how over-splashing, can really bog down the deck.

First, will cover what is means to splash something. Its also known as teching. This is when you take a card and put it in your deck, not normally because it fits the theme, but because it can combat something the deck is weak against, or a card your opponent might play that you can counter.

Now that you know what splashing is, we can go over a few cards that are normally splashed:

Scapegoat
Elephant Statue of Disaster
Book of Moon
Tsukuyomi
Dark Core
Wave Motion Cannon
Enraged Battle Ox

These are just some of the cards I see people main deck, or side deck. I'm assuming you know what they do, so you'll know why someone might want to run these. But, it can easily get out of hand. After awhile, all you have is a deck full of cards meant to counter something your opponent might not even be playing. It sucks to play Scapegoat to stop Berserk Gorilla, only for your opponent to slap down Enraged Battle Ox just for these situations(assuming hes only running Beatdown, not Beastdown). That is a good time spalshing can come in. Putting in Dark Core is a good idea too, since it can deal with recurring creatures like V. Lord, Phoenix, and Manticore of Darkness.

But too often people will play cards JUST because it can provide advantage in really slim situations. Remember White Hole? It would protect your cards from Dark Hole while destroying your opponents. How situational is that? Not worth it at all really. Don't main deck 3 Elephant of Destrucion because everyone runs Delinquent Duo. I hope you can understand what I'm getting at.

Splashing cards works best when those cards not only help cover your weakness and exploit your opponents, but also when they fit the theme of your deck.

Remember, don't oversplash, cause I'm gonna freak out if I go to another tournament and my opponent has White Hole in his hand.


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