From: lordtranorix [lordtranorix@mail.pojo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:51 AM
To: jonnyo@pojo.com
Subject: FWD: The game of Yu-Gi-Oh: Where is it headed?




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From: rsturkey@webtv.net (I am Weasel)
Date:  Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:45:30 -0800

First off, thank you Kwazy Wabbit for pointing out that I forgot to add White Dragon Ritual to my BEWD in my last tip.  This seems kinda essential since I put in Paladin :)

I'm going to make this short and to the point.  Yu-Gi-Oh! is going down a bad road.  The other day, a dude at my school got all pissed off at me cuz I beat him in three turns with m Warrior/Chaos.  He said that it was a given I would win since I ran the "cookie-cutter" deck.

It's that type of thinking that is going to ruin the game.  I work hard to try and tweak my deck to fit my meta, and so does everyone who is any good.  Why do I run Warrior/Chaos?  I love warriors, (I used to always try to add the Celtic Guardian into my deck just cuz he looked cool), and in October, I just happened to pull a BLS in my 2nd IOC pack.  Once he's banned, I'm still gonna run Warriors (and Gravekeeper's, but thats another topic all together).  

I suppose what I'm trying to say is, run what u like.  If your motivation to run a DM deck is cuz the artwork on the LOB DM looks awesome (Francis...) then by all means, run that deck.  It's when people get caught up in the "cookie-cutter" and "originality" mindset that the game begins to deteriorate.  Just have fun with he damn game and run what suits, not what other dictate to you, from either side of the spectrum, and then, Yu-Gi-Oh! will be back to being enjoyable.

Sorry for the shortness, but I really have nothing other that a short comment on the direction of Yu-Gi-Oh!  Expect a much lengthier article on strengths, weaknesses, and construction of the Fiend Deck, hopefully in collaboration with one of the duelists from my school, but theres not guarantee :)

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-Yokiano