What's happening'! I
am back somewhat earlier then usual because I will be
away from a computer for the next week, and wanted to
make sure I got my weekly deck fix in. I was chatting
with WickEd over AIM recently, and he was telling me
about his next article, which was posted Monday, about
spirits. It was a great article I must say, very
informing!
Lets get to the deck, today's deck is coming from Nathan
from my own home state of Louisiana!
Hey Rj,
My name is Nathan and I'm from Greensburg, LA. I would
really be honored
if you could fix my deck before I go into any
tournaments. It has been doing
alright against some of my friends, but I don't think it
is ready for
mainstream. I run the basic Dark Magician/Dark Paladin
Deck (no chaos and I
don't plan on going there, ha, ha). Anyway, I am usually
a very aggressive
player. I like to attack without remorse, but if
necessary put up a defense
long enough to mount a blitzkrieg of offense. I have a
pretty good hold on
a lot of cards so feel free to mention anything (except
chaos, Ha). The deck
goes like this:
Monsters - 18
Dark Magician of Chaos
Dark Magician
Dark Magician
Jinzo
Skilled Dark Magician
Skilled Dark Magician
King of The Swamps
King of The Swamps
Double Coston
Breaker The Magical Warrior
Apprentice Magician
Apprentice Magician
Old Vinidictive Magician
Magician of Faith
Magician of Faith
Tribe-Infecting Virus
Sangan
Spirit Reaper
Spells - 17
Thousand Knives
Big Bang Shot
Graceful Charity
Dedication Through Light and Darkness
Scapegoat
Scapegoat
Polymerization
Creature Swap
Swords of Revealing Light
Mystical Space Typhoon
Deliquent Duo
Metamorphosis
Snatch Steal
Pot of Greed
Premature Burial
Dark Core
Heavy Storm
Traps - 10
Waboku
Waboku
Raigeki Break
Call of the Haunted
Magic Cylinders
Ceasefire
Mirror Force
Ring of Destruction
Torrential Tribute
Magic Drain
Fusion - 5
Dark Paladin
Dark Flare Knight
Ryu Senshi
Reaper on the Nightmare
Thousans-Eyes Restrict
Total - 45 (yikes)
So Rj, there you have it. Any help will be greatly
appreciated and I thank
you for your time.
This was the 3rd spellcaster typed deck I have seen
today in my inbox from readers, so I knew this was a
sign, Spellcasters must be fixed! The first thing I
notice about your deck is it is pretty big, 45 is a nice
sized number. Although I recall in the shonen jump
tournament in Pomona, they had a lockdown deck sitting
at table...3 I think it was that ran 45 cards. But
that's no excuse for this deck xD.
My plan is to cut 4 traps, and one monster to make it 40
cards even. Out of all 10 of your traps, I only like 6,
which by the way is how much we need xD. So the new trap
set up is...
Traps x6
Magic Cylinder
Ceasefire
Mirror Force
Call Of The Haunted
Torrential Tribute
Ring Of Destruction
Now although the Ceasefire and Magic Cylinder trap cards
are not really needed, they sure are helpful sometimes,
and thus, they make it into the final build. The magic
build is pretty janky as well, so the new one will be...
Magic's x17
Pot Of Greed
Delinquent Duo
Graceful Charity
Nobleman Of Crossout x2
Lightning Vortex
Snatch Steal
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon
Premature Burial
Scapegoat x3
Metamorphosis x2
Swords Of Revealing Light
Book Of Moon
Eh...The single BoM kinda seems out of place, but we had
room and its a solid card, I don't think I am forgetting
anything here, but I, AM, these early in the morning
when I first get up (Its about 6:45 here). That's 23
cards total, so now lets get the other 17, monsters!
This is gonna be the easiest part, a lot of the stuff is
gonna be ran in 2's and 3's...
Monsters x17
Dark Magician Of Chaos
Jinzo
Magician Of Faith x2
Old Vindictive Magician
Apprentice Magician x2
Tsukuyomi x2
Kycoo The Ghost Destroyer x2
Spirit Reaper
Breaker The Magical Warrior
Tribe Infecting Virus
Sinister Serpent
Skilled Dark Magician x2
Ok, so that's the deck. I know what your thinking, I
took out the dark magicians, I know I know. I just don't
like them, you wanted a competitive deck, like, a real
competitive deck, so that's what I made. I left the
Skilled Darks in there, their beatsticks, and if your
cool like me, you use a dice to keep track of the spell
counters even though you have no Dark Magician in your
deck, just to be cool ;).
You have the whole Goat Control thing in it, with about
13 spellcasters, 2 tributes, and a lot of apprentice
magician action in there as well. You have a little bit
of everything in the deck, and I hope you liked the
fixes Nathan! The side deck should have some basic
stuff, like King Tiger Whangus and Kinetic Soldiers (If
that's your thing) and also some stuff like Card
Destruction couldn't hurt if you have the room.
Well, guys, that's it for today guys, I will be rather
busy for about a week and a half, but I will get one
more article in between Now and Nationals...;)...
-Rj
