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Umbrella Corp. Project Mako
Make O' Character Deck
November 30, 2005

Hello everyone. My name is Mako and I have recently been invited to write for viewing pleasure, the new character deck section of Pojo. Before we get start I’d like to thank Pojo for this opportunity as well as YamiBakuraFan for inspiring me a couple years ago at our local tourney. Now lets get started.

As my first article I thought it would be appropriate to make a Mako deck since it is my name on the Pojo message board. This was one of my original decks I used before I started going to the evil side of dueling. I hope your reading to go under the sea while I analyze many of the cards that help Mako in his duels in episodes 7 and 68-9.

Before making any character deck I would suggest listing their cards they used and cards that will help out. Remember while you are making a character deck you still what to put up a fight when facing some of the best decks.

Here is a list of Mako’s cards-
Legendary Fisherman
Fortress Whale
Fortress Whale's Oath
Umi
Tornado Wall
Jellyfish
Fiend Kraken*
Leviathan*
Megalodon*
Flying Fish
Torrential Tribute
Amphibian Beast
Return of the Doomed
(* = cards that have never been made)

Featured Cards in this deck-
The Legendary Fisherman
WATER/ Warrior/ Level 5/ Attack 1850/ Defense 1600
As long as "Umi" is face-up on the field, this card is unaffected by any Spell Cards. Monsters on your opponent's side of the field cannot select this card as an attack target.

Ah Mako’s favorite card and one of the strongest cards if used correctly. There are three cards that can make this card a lot better since by itself or even with Umi it’s still a weakling. First of these three cards is one known and used by many, Royal Decree. This will make him perfect against those Sakuretsu Armors everyone is using these days. It will also negate Dust Tornado lowering the amount of spell and trap removal your opponent can use.

Another card that helps is Star Boy. Powering up a weak 1850 monster like our fisherman to 2350 strong enough to beat Goblin Attack Force. Not only will it power the fisherman up it’s searched out by mother grizzly and can be gotten back from salvage. Lastly there’s Spirit Barrier. This will protect your life points while your fisherman is swimming solo on the field and when a Star boy falls on the field. This will easily replace Tornado Wall a mediocre card that is too dependent on Umi. While I do support being extremely close to the character deck it needs to be playable. Just by running the Fisherman so protectively will make your mindset be just like Mako and allow you to enjoy this deck.

Fortress Whale
WATER/ Fish/ Level 7/ Attack 2350/ Defense 2150
This monster can only be Ritual Summoned with the Ritual Spell Card, "Fortress Whale's Oath".

The power of Mako’s deck, while sad it’s true, this is considered his strongest monster even though it has 50 less attack points then Amphibian Beast but does have more defense. XD. For those who don’t know this Fortress Whale and his ritual are come out in TP7 as a super rare. There isn’t much to look at unlike the Legendary Fisherman. Support for rituals include Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands, Ritual weapon, and Fulfillment of the Contract. I personally think Fulfillment and Manju are great but might not work well in the deck. They of course go on a list of cards that I use if I still have room. Pretty much Fortress Whale is a Ritual water monster that disserves a spot in this deck since it came out. If it hadn’t I would be ranting about Orca Mega-Fortress of Darkness.

The final card we look at is The Legendary Ocean.

A Legendary Ocean
Spell/ Field
This card's name is treated as "Umi". Downgrade all WATER monsters in both players' hands and on the field by 1 Level. Increase the ATK and DEF of all WATER monsters by 200 points.

The best card ever created for water decks. This card sneezes on Umi for a reason. Giving all WATER monsters a 200 attack and defense boost and not just a few selected sub-types. It also lowers water monster’s level by one, which is a huge help for the fisherman. And since it’s considered Umi, The Legendary Fisherman will stay protected by his effect. Since it s a field card it’s searched out by teraforming so you’ll always have one in hand. Lastly we won’t be running Levia-Dragon – Daedalus but I’d like to point out that it makes it a 1 tribute, 2800 attack monster. I’d like to consider this card lethal and always a first choice for this deck.

The Character Deck Card of the Day-
Well every character in the how usually runs a card that many of the others run. This of course is a staple. Today’s card is Monster Reborn. Yes a banned card. I’m going to actually be talking about its substitute, Monster Reincarnation. This card is very good card. This card gives you the ability to grab a monster from your graveyard and put it to your hand with a minimal cost. Since many characters use Monster Reborn I suggest this card as a substitute.

Mako’s Deck-

Number of Cards- 40
Monsters- 18
Spells- 16
Traps- 6

Fortress Whale
Fortress Whale
The Legendary Fisherman
The Legendary Fisherman
The Legendary Fisherman
Star Boy
Star Boy
Star Boy
Mother Grizzly
Mother Grizzly
Amphibious Bugroth MK-3
Amphibious Bugroth MK-3
7 Colored Fish
7 Colored Fish
Giant Red Seasnake
Giant Red Seasnake
Terrorking Salmon
Terrorking Salmon

Dark Hole
Snatch Steal
Premature Burial
Mystical Space Typhoon
Heavy Storm
Swords of Revealing Light
A Legendary Ocean
A Legendary Ocean
A Legendary Ocean
Teraforming
Teraforming
Monster Reincarnation
Salvage
Salvage
Fortress Whale's Oath
Fortress Whale's Oath

Spirit Barrier
Spirit Barrier
Royal Decree
Royal Decree
Call of the Haunted
Torrential Tribute

As you can see the deck is based on the fisherman as well as the fish cards i.e. 7 colored fish, giant red seasnake, terrorking salmon that replaced amphibian beast. The deck sticks with the theme of Mako’s deck and still stays competitive. Hope everyone enjoyed this first article and will be excited for the next one. I will gladly take requests and the one I get the most of will be the next character deck I make. But if you guys don’t write I’ll just make my favorites or I might get lazy. So just write to mastermalik@gmail.com. Have a nice day.
Mako ~.+