July 2006
From: Jacob Linville
[mailto:bigbilly68rox@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:21 AM
To: yugiohcrew@pojo.com
Subject: Starter Decks - Jacob Linville
Hi! It's me again, but this time not w/ a deck. I'm
here to talk about starter decks. First, let's try
to remember way back to the first starter decks,
Yugi & Kaiba. Everyone(including myself) were
ecstatic about them. A BEWD & DM were the most
popular cards around. Common Monster Reborn, Dark
Hole AND 1 super-powerful monster was to good to
pass up for most people(although every other card
sucked). Now, let's look at the new "starter decks".
These decks come w/ much more than their ancestors.
First,
1 card you cannot get unless you buy this deck.
Then, as if that weren't enough, common Snatch
Steal, SORL, Premature Burial. All the people who
spent 100's of dolllars on booster packs to get just
one of these cards are now feeling very stupid,
because now you can get them all for like 10 bucks.
You can get a common Vampire Lord in a starter deck
OR spend 100's of $$$ on
Dark Crisis packs to get a secret rare one. Most
people say, "Well, mine's rarer!" But, tell me this;
does rarity matter in duel? When you're about to use
your common Snatch Steal to take their Mobius and
hit for game, does it matter whether or not it's
Ultra-Rare? My point is, these so called "starter
decks" are making high-priced cards available to
kids that don't have much money AND the decks com w/
a strategy, so younger kids are getting the feel of
a real strategy and not smushing together 80 of
their favorite cards and calling it a deck. These
decks aren't really starter at all. Their teacher
decks, because they teach kids how to play a
strategized deck. The intermediate players buy them
and customize them to make them their own, instead
of buying 10 booster packs and getting like 4 cards
for their deck.
I think starter decks are useful and cheap ways to
learn how to play yugioh.
I have built 3 decks based on the starter deck
strategies. Their great and I
like them for the reasons I stated above.
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