Hey,

Okay, I keep getting screwed by the Tournament Judges rulings, and want
to
beat him bad. But as you know, I started less than 2 weeks ago, and
don't
know much about the game. I was wondering if you could help my deck:

Creations ~18~
[3] Neo the Magic Swordsman
[3] 7 Colored Fish
[3] La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp
[3] Summoned Skull
[2] Man Eater Bug
[2] Jia Gymro
[2] Wall of Illision

Magic Cards ~17~
[3] Fissure
[3] Tribute To The Doomed
[2] Heavy Storm
[2] Card Destruction
[2] Yami
[1] Change of Heart
[1] Dark Hole
[1] Monster Reborn
[1] Pot of Greed
[1] Raigeki

Traps ~9~
[3] Trap Hole
[3] Reinforcements
[2] Waboku
[1] Mirror Force

44 Cards… I want to get it down to 40 again; I just got 2 more Tribute
to
the Doomed and Pot of Greed today and threw them in (it was 41). I also
made
a pretty lot of changes from when I posted in t on Pojo Message Board.
Any
help is greatly appreciated…

Add anything, the deck doesn't have any Magic Ruler, but I got some and
will
trade people at the store for ANYTHING. Add anything. Remove anything.
I
don't care if you change every card, I want this deck to be good.
______________________

Hey Jake, good to see you started playing Yu-Gi-Oh ;).

For only playing two weeks, it really isn't that bad. It does have some flaws though. Nothing that can't be fixed.

Lets begin.

-Monster-

Neo the Magic Swordsman really has to go. He was good when we were limited to one set, but now with three sets out, we can do much better.

So definitely drop all of those.

Summoned Skull also loses some of his punch with Magic Ruler released, but we'll stick with two in your deck nonetheless. So far we have:

3x La Jinn teh Mystical Genie of the Lamp
3x 7 Colored Fish
2x Summoned Skull
2x Witch of the Black Forest

As we know, Magician of Faith is too good not to play. A couple Maha Vailo should work nicely as well. Two Dark Elf should help out when your short on Equipment Magic.

3x Magician of Faith
2x Maha Vailo
2x Dark Elf

We will also keep in the 2x Man-Eater Bug and 2x Wall of Illusion. That way I won't change your deck TOO much.

2x Man-Eater Bug
2x Wall of Illusion

That gives us 21 monsters.

-Magic-

All the restricted cards of course... Blah Blah Blah. You know the drill:

1x Raigeki
1x Dark Hole
1x Change of Heart
1x Snatch Steal
1x Monster Reborn
1x Pot of Greed
1x Confiscation
1x The Forceful Sentry
1x Delinquent Duo
2x Swords of Revealing Light
2x Heavy Storm

Thirteen cards. Now the "rest" of the Magic cards (Not much else):

3x Axe of Despair (If you cant get them, substitute with Malevolent Nuzzler.)
2x Megamorph

The Axe works great with Maha Vailo (And pretty much everything else). Megamorp-ing a Summoned Skull or Dark Elf is always cool too.

That gives us 18 Magic cards. For a total of 39 cards so far. Let's try not to exceed 45 cards. That's usually a good amount to have.

-Trap-

3x Trap Hole
1x Mirror Force
2x Magic Jammer / Solemn Judgment

Reinforcements as well as Waboku aren't very necessary anymore. Depending on your enviroment, you may want to play Solemn Judgment over Magic Jammer.

The side deck is also dependant on your enviroment.

Good luck Jake. And remember, if you can't get some of the cards, don't be afraid to do some substitutions.

~SomeGuy