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The Name of the Game is – YOU!
Part I
by Sith Dragon
August 12, 2005

This is the first in a series of articles I will be writing. I hope to keep these a bit shorter, but we shall see. These articles are going to be designed more for the beginning players in the Vs. universe, but I hope that some of the seasoned vets out there may take a thing or two away form these articles as well.

OK. So you are going to play Vs. Well, you are off to a good start J! Anyway, I think the first thing to look at is who are you? It may seem like a really stupid question, but stop and think about it. I have seen many a good player come into a TCG/CCG, have plenty of skill, yet they suffer beating after beating, get frustrated and quit. Many times they don’t ask themselves who am I? Why am I here?

In looking at yourself and why you are playing the game, it will better set up your style of game play, the decks you will run, and a more realistic expectation of how you are going to do in a tournament. There are basically three types of people that play these games; those that play for whimsy, those that play for fun, and those that play to win.
I will discuss each of these over the next couple of articles in detail as I go.

I’m going to start with those that play to win, as this is the easiest group to identify. Those that play to win will not be happy with anything but the best. They won’t ever play anything but the most broken decks, and if they do switch, it will be to whatever the hot new deck is at the time. A great many of these people (not all), are the people that are on the top lists in regional and national events.

This doesn’t mean they are jerks by any means, but rarely will any of them pick up a lesser deck to see what they could do with it or because they like a thing. Listen for these people to often whine because the only reason they lost was the other person got lucky, and of course they never win through luck. Of course they got lucky! Luck is a part of any game you play. You have a 60-card deck – You need a six-drop and the two cards you draw are the 1&2 drops you missed earlier. You are screwed! Or you happen to draw the last card in your deck that you have to have, and you win. Either way, luck dominates any game.

If you are this type of player then my articles will do little for you. These people will run Sentinel, pure teen titan, cosmic cops, gamma bomb etc. If this is the type of person you are, find a deck list of these decks and copy it. There is little room for growth here.

As you can tell the ‘must win’ crowd is the group that I personally have the least amount of patience with.

Let me clarify one thing before the hate mail rolls in. Not all these people are jerks as I said earlier.

You can find some real masters of the game in this group and good teachers, but per capita these are the people that are going to be snobbish and conceited, especially when interacting with the other two player types. (Okay, so much for short)

Next week I will discuss those who play strictly for fun, so until then feel free to send rants, raves or comments to sithdragon13@yahoo.com. And please put something about Pojo in the subject line so I know you aren’t spam mail.

So battle on!

"Are you threatening me, Master Jedi?"