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From: Daguitarfreak09@aol.com [mailto:Daguitarfreak09@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:18 PM

Subject: y originality should b used instead of so many cookie cutters.by The GuitarFreak



Hello everyone....iam just your every day average duelist..i've been playing Yu-Gi-Oh since the first starter decks came out and I have won my fair share of tournaments. Through all of these years no matter how the game has changed with the apperence of new cards, ruleings, and banned/restricted list, one thing always stays the same in this game. That one thing is the decks that people play. Everyone always plays the same decks. During the pre-banned/restricted list days, everyone ran pure chaos. after that, everyone ran either pure chaos with diffrent cards or they ran chaos warriors. Today everyone is useing cyber dragons, dons, spirit reapers, D.D assailants,and so on...Now there is nothing wrong with playing these cards, fore they do win, i use most of them in my main competeetive deck and i have won for 3 weeks in a row at my local tourney. But when ever we duel some one, they are excpeting that u run a cookie cutter deck, and after the first duel, they pretty much know your entire deck! and then they know how to counter it if they are an experienced duelist. So the point of this article is to talk about some ways to put a little originality into your deck. And i'll even talk about how u can make some original decks playable with overlooked cards...

Lets start with cards thatcan replace cookie cutters.
Don Zalood is a poplur card because of his special ability to give you hand control. Well, there are 2 cards that can give ALL of your monsters dony's special ability. Robbin Goblin and Robin Zombie...Now i know you people are thinking "well those are weak against heavy storm, MST, breaker, royal decree, and jinzo"
But if you look at it in a diffrent way, Don Zaloog is weak against: smashing ground, torrential tribute, fissure, lightning vortex, and any monster with an attack of 1500 or more (D.D warrior lady, D.D assailant, breaker, mobius, jinzo,etc) so really, they can all be destroyed easily, but the to robbing trap cards allow ALL of your monsters (except jinzo and E-hero wildheart) to have Don Zaloogs effects. And they throw some originality into your deck.

Another card that has been overlooked and is almost just as good as its cookie cutter cousin is The Fiend Megacyber...If you dont know what cookie cutter this guy is over shadowed by then you should be ashamed..It is Cyber Dragon of course. the only diffrence between these 2 is that the fiend megacyber says your opponent has to have 2 or more cards than you do. but the cool thing is that if you have no monsters on your side of the field, your opponents has 4 on his side, and you have 2 of these dudes in your hand, you can special summon both of them! also fiend mega cybers attack is 2200 instead of 2100. He is also a Drak and a Warrior so he has PLENTY of support...So for those of you who cant afford a cyber dragon, just get a couple of these guys.

I have one more replacement card to talk about and that is the black sheep of the D.D family. D.D survivor is the complet opposite of the rest of the D.D's...and he is anti metagame...so if u cant afford a D.D assailant, then just run 2 or even 3 of these dudes and completly screw your cookie cutter opponents deck...

O.k...now for some cards that could make original decks playable..and for those of you who are still reading this god bless you for i know that this is a very long article.....

the first deck type that iam going to talk about is the union deck..usually the only kind of union deck people run is a XYZ or now even VWXYZ deck. some cards that would greatly help these decks are : Roll Out!, Formation union,and Front line base.
Lets talk about why these cards are good. Roll out is simply a call of the haunted forunion cards formation union could be used for many diffrent things..for example, lets say you summon VWXYZ, you could use its removal effect, attack with it, the activate this card to return VWXYZ into VW and XYZ and get to more attacks in the same battle phase....Front line base could let you get your union on the first turn!

since this article is becomeing so long i will tell youof 2 more cards that could be good and then that will be all for this time.
the first card is called Rivalry of Warlords...it is a common continuis trap that makes it to where u and your opponent can only have 1 type of onster on the field each turn..now if you are running a solid warrior, beast, zombie, fiend etc, deck, then this card would completly ruin your opponents cookie cutter deck!

the other card that could be good is called Fiend Comedian...its true power lies in an exchange of the spirit deck or an exodie deck, or a remove from play/burn deck...it allows u to flip a coin and call it...if u call it right, u remove your opponets grave yard from play (exchange of the spirit OTK) if u call it wrong then u remove from play cards in your deck equal to the amount of cards in your opponents grave yard...so if u run a RFG deck then this could really help you! of if u run exodi, remove all the cards except exodi and cards that can help you...

well these are just some things that you can all think about...but remember..the element of surprise can always help u in anything competetive...so try to be original with your deck and you just might be surprised.....and most importantly HAVE FUN!!! thats what this game is all about...

well untile next time, this is the GuitarFreak saying "have fun dueling and good luck to everyone in your upcomeing tournaments"

any feedback would be appreciated..especially from pojo staff ; )
daguitarfreak09@aol.com