Subject: 11 steps for deckbuilding

In order to build a good deck, you must follow a certain set of steps. They 
will help to maximize the potential of your deck. The steps are as follows:
1)Find a card to base your deck around
2)Find a supporting theme
3)Find cards that support that theme
4)Look at cards/combos that are very effective against the cards you have 
chosen
5)Find cards that counter those cards
6)Add the essentials (the Big 6 and other powerful counters)
7)Add other strong cards/combos
8)Eliminate any unnecessary cards
9)Create your Deck using cards from #1,3,6, and any cards from #5 that 
counter VERY commonly used cards, such as Card Destruction
10)Create a Side Deck using the rest of the cards from #5 or a set of cards 
that would change your deck in case the opponent's deck is a perfect counter 
to yours
11)Playtest and revise

Example:
1)Barrel Dragon
2)Monster Removal
3)Trap Hole, Acid Trap Hole, Tribute to the Doomed, Fissure, Man-Eater Bug, 
Wall of Illusion
4)Magic Jammer, Seven Tools of the Bandit, Solemn Judgement
5)Seven Tools of the Bandit, Solemn Judgement
6)Raigeki, Mirror Force, Monster Reborn, Pot of Greed, Change of Heart, Dark 
Hole, Card Destruction, Swords of Revealing Light, Heavy Storm, Magic Jammer
7)Summoned Skull, La Jinn, 7 Colored Fish, Stim-Pack, Sword of Deep-Seated, 
Reinforcements, Witch of the Black Forest
8)Fissure, Solemn Judgement, Stim-Pack, Sword of Deep-Seated
9)I'll skip this step because a decklist might cause them to not post this
10)See #9
11)Can't do this because I have no deck list and have not playtested

Later!
~Barrel Dragon (barreldragon126@hotmail.com)

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