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Timeline Pojo's YuGiOh Books Apprentice Stuff Life Point Calculators DDM Starter Spoiler DDM Dragonflame Spoiler The DungeonMaster Millennium Board Game Magic Yu-Gi-Oh! DBZ Pokemon Yu Yu Hakusho NeoPets HeroClix Harry Potter Anime Vs. System Megaman This Space For Rent		Trading Card Game Tips from fans April 2008 They Don't Call Me Master Tricks For Nothing...(By: Master Tricks) Hello fellow Pojo fan duelists and readers! I'm back with a special article on how to defeat the Dark Armed Dragon Decks (DAD). Now, you are all probably wondering why they (whoever I'm talking about) calls me Master Tricks. Well, that's a simple question with a pretty simple answer. I am a master when it comes to trickery and trickery is an important key to deceiving and defeating your opponent in duels. Now you duelists are probably now wondering what that's got to do with how to defeat DAD decks. If you missed my answer above because you're drunk, high on crack, shaving your back, massaging your grandpa's back, or whatever, then I'll repeat it once more and stop doing whatever you're doing (That includes breathing. I am just kidding. Please breath b/c it's good for you and I want you to stay alive so I at least have someone reading my entire article). Trickery is an excellent and a very deceptive way to counter against DAD decks and make your opponent make wrong judgments as often as possible and keep making mistakes which will lead your certain victory and win. Here is a list and explanation of cards which can succeed in fulfilling our task to deceive and trick the opponent: Divine Wrath: At the price of a discard, you can negate the effect of DAD when attempting to destroy one of your cards and destroy it! This card is a counter trap so it has spell speed 3 and can only be stopped by Royal Decree and any other Trap negating effect cards. Divine Wrath can also stop Darklord Zerato, DMoC (Dark Magician of Chaos), E-Hero Stratos, and almost any other monster card used in DAD decks. Magic Drain: Quite an interesting card that I had almost forgot about. This card can stop your opponent's spells, mostly Draw effect cards such as Allure of Darkness and D-Draw. Your opponent has the opportunity to keep their spell active and not negated by discarding one of their own spells in their hand, but since most spells in DAD decks are very precious and necessary to use in DAD decks, this card can be conflicting and will put them in a tight position in whether to forget about their activated spell and let the duel proceed OR discard a spell in the hand and proceed with the activated spell's effect. Good card to counter DAD decks and can also be used to counter DImension Fusion Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer - Kycoo prevents your opponent to touch either player's graveyards and therefore, cards such as Monster Reborn, Premature Burial, DAD himself, DMoC, cannot use their effects while Kycoo is around. Plus, if this card is in the opening hand, keep inflicting damage with it to keep removing dark monsters in the opponent's graveyard to prevent them from summoning DAD or Darklord Zerato. You should also pack some spell/trap negation effects to not let your opponent special summon the RFP monsters with Return from a Different DImension, Escape from the Dark DImension, and Dimension Fusion. Royal Oppression doesn't sound like a too bad idea, eh? Royal Oppression - Of course, this card is a must to counter DAD decks and prevent special summons of your opponent's. Since 800 LP seems like a lot, maybe we should get some help from a card us pojo writers reviewed a few weeks ago called... Prime Material Dragon - As I mentioned in my review for him/her/it/whatever, Prime Material Dragon is a great card to counter DAD decks since at the price of a discard, you can negate the effects of Monster destruction cards including DAD himself, Darklord Zerato, Lightning Vortex, Torrential Tribute, Mirror Force, Crush Card Virus (If he/she/it/whatever is on the field when Virus activates), etc. Dragon can also stop burn from burning your LP and instead, you gain that amount of LP. Try combining this effect with Graverobber and see how it goes. You get a 2000 LP gain and a free spell from your opponent's graveyard. You now have more LP to pay for Royal Oppression! Kinetic Soldier - We also need to point out the weaknesses of the monsters that make up and are found in DAD decks. Most DAD decks contain Warriors so Kinetic Soldier is a great way to crush them as it boosts itself into a 3350 Attacker when battling a warrior. Puppet Plant - This may seem like an odd choice at first glance and you must be asking me by now "What the hell are u thinking?". Well, you should understand why I think this card is a great card to counter against DAD decks since it can take control of a warrior or spellcaster for a turn. There are plenty of warriors to take control in DAD decks and DMoC is the spellcaster to possess! Electric Virus - Again, another odd choice, but believe me; it's a great card to counter DAD decks. It can control a dragon or machine for a turn and you know what that means; you can take control of an opponent's DAD or Jinzo! Give your opponent a taste of their own medicine! Destiny Hero Plasma - This card can negate opposing monster effects and so nearly all the monsters in your opponent's deck with have no purpose to be on the field other than tribute fodder, defense, or attackers. It can also possess an opponent's monster and absorb half the ATK of the taken monster. Really good card and if you think summoning him/her/it/whatever takes too long, try combining it with Scapegoat. Necroface - I know this card is still hard to find, but if you do have this card, then add it to your sidedeck if you want a card to counter DAD decks b/c it sends all RFP monsters back to the owner's decks. This card disrupts the RFP strategy of DAD deck users. Trap Dustshoot/Mind Crush - Hand disruption is also another key that should be focused on since a large portion of the duel and victory lies within the hand and the cards in it. Use these 2 mentioned traps to decrease your opponent's hand size and prevent them from using anything especially DAD Don Zaloog/Dark Red Enchanter/Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch - These are more Hand Disruption cards that was featured in SHonen Jump Columbus not long ago by a duelist who I was surprised didn't make Day 2. This duelist's deck is a great example of a hand disruption deck and you can check the decklist out on www.metagame.com. Waboku/Threatening Roar - More Great cards to counter DAD decks as they stop a hoard of dark monsters special summoned by Return from a Different Dimension or DImension FUsion for a turn as you plan you're counterattack. It is also chainable to DAD's effect. Now, a DAD counter deck will not be able to sustain itself if it focuses on destroying DAD material on the field, graveyard, hand, deck, and RFP zone. We need to build a deck that has a high potential ability to crush DAD decks, but at the same time can counterattack with your own monsters and is playable since some decks aren't just DAD decks. Some could be Gadgets, Six Samurais, Macro Cosmos decks, etc. I have a decklist for you today on what I believe could possibly be an archrival of DAD decks. Here it is: The Dark Creator Deck Monsters - 18 3 x The Dark Creator 1 x Dark Magician of Chaos 1 x Darklord Zerato 2 x Dark Nehpthys 1 x Jinzo 2 x Armageddon Knight 1 x Dark Grepher 1 x D-Hero Plasma 1 x D-Hero Dasher 1 x D-Hero Disk Commander 1 x E-Hero Stratos 1 x Snipe Hunter 1 x Sangan 1 x D.D. Crow Spells - 18 3 x Allure of Darkness 3 x Trade-In 2 x Hand Destruction 1 x Reinforcement of the Army 1 x Monster Reborn 1 x Premature Burial 1 x Lightning Vortex (After using Waboku or Threatening Roar, use this to destroy your opponent's army of monsters.) 1 x Brain Control 1 x Enemy Controller 1 x Heavy Storm 1 x Mystical Space Typhoon 1 x Dimension Fusion 1 x Scapegoat Traps - 9 2 x Return from a Different Dimension 1 x Threatening Roar 2 x Waboku 1 x Trap Dustshoot 1 x Mind Crush 1 x Torrential Tribute 1 x Mirror Force This is the deck I will be using at a local regionals in Charlotte, NC, but unfortunately it is incomplete due to the fact that I still do not possess 3 copies of Allure of Darkness and 2 more Dark Creators as well as Darklord Zerato. The deck is not as fast and powerful without these materials. Hopefully I get at least 1-2 copies of Allure of Darkness at regionals as well as Darklord Zerato, if I'm lucky. Purchasing them is not a smart idea for me since I am on a budget. If any duelist knows how much a Yugioh Card merchant at a regional tournament would sell Allure of Darkness, The Dark Creator, and Darklord Zerato, please tell me at my trickery kingdom at pathoon@aol.com. If you need anything else from me, such as advice, lectures, deck fixes, and such, pleas feel free to ask me them at my email address I posted above. Thanks for reading! - Master Tricks :)
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