Subject: 5 things on how to make you a better duelist and person
(opinion)- iViE

Hiyo all,

    card games are card games, for fun, and not your life.  If you do 
nothing but bury yourself in cards all day, go out and do something 
else.  and unless you're a demo team person or a duelist leader who's 
getting paid for this job, then go do some activity which doesnt just 
involve playing with pieces of cardboard or sitting in front of a 
computer.  Now, onto some of my rants on the yugioh cardgame:

    1. knowing what's in a deck doesn't mean that you're better than your 
opponent.  Same for having really rare cards or staple cards (as in cards 
that should be in every deck).  i've beaten many people who, while cutting 
my deck, looked through it and told me that it sucked.  But what ends up 
happening?  Their deck with all their secret rares and ultra rares lost to 
mine which has only 1 ultra rare and 1 tin jinzo as the rarest cards in my 
deck.
    2. Sportsmanship people, sportsmanship... just because there's such a 
thing called mind games and bluffing in the game, its not called CHEATING 
when you use them constatntly, its quite annoying once in a while, but by 
NO means is it cheating.  i've seen a guy about my age (high schoolish) 
lose his composure becasue i constantly bluffed and double bluffed.  he was 
one of those people who had all the rare cards and thought he could beat 
everybody, and, like all those cocky people out there, looked through my 
deck while cutting, and proclaimed to about 7 or 8 people that were 
standing around that "my deck sucked like *that place you go to after you 
die and you've been baaaad...*"  his was running a light deck, w/6 staple 
magic, 5 of the best traps in the games, and a whole horde of other rare 
cards.  i knew i was at a disadvantage, so i had to bluff, and double bluff 
my way through the duel.  He ended up losing becasue he's not much of a 
strategic person and doesn't know the meaning of bluff.  the result of him 
losing was his yelling to the whole patio that i was a cheater.  now, what 
kind of sportsmanship is that?
    3. It IS good to know the deck types out there, it proves to be quite 
useful once in a while, like during the mall tour, i saw a big fusion pile, 
my fisrt conclusion, Scientist deck.  and i planned accordingly.  and it's 
also good to be aware of all the cards out there also and what they 
do.  finding out combos and pulling them off to people who have no idea 
what you're doing is really fun.
    4. Fun decks.  Don't bash them.  They're good in their own way.  and 
just because a little kid puts a skull servant in his deck, doesn't mean 
the kid doesn't deserve respect.  it might just be his favorite card, who 
knows, but a thing to remember is, don't bash, don't convert, and don't 
explain.  if they like the card, let them keep it in their deck, unless 
they're fine with you messing their deck up.
    5. the point of card games is to have fun playing them.  I constantly 
make those fun-yet-not-so-challenging type of decks.  gradius(just him and 
his options, not a full blown machine deck), harpie ladies (not tournament 
level yet), proxy decks (deck with cards that arent out yet and you want to 
try them out in your deck, so you use another card a substitute for the 
card).  I've seen so many people complaining about how i sometimes proxy in 
the card "reverseal of worlds" or as they changed the name in english, 
"exchange of the spirit."  i personally think its a fun card and that there 
will be decks built around it in the future (i know for a fact,) so what's 
up with the people who're complaining about it?  they'll have to deal with 
it sooner or later, so why not take a crack at it now?  I've also had 
friends proxy in the exodia pieces to try out how an exodia deck feels 
like, and i think that's fine as long as you're not going to a tournament 
with those proxies.  taking a card game so seriously is just too immature 
of a person.

the main point is, i'm sick of people taking these card games so 
seriously.  They have to constantly bicker for what they want, and they cry 
over spilled milk.  i think this ends my rant of sorts.

got something to say?  bashes?  hatemail?  constructive comments?  sned 
them all to: han_celvic@angelfire.com

Vi


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