Simple Deck-Building for Simple Duelists.

Alright Cardhousian Boys and Girls, here's a post I've been working on for Yugioh for a while.

The New Banlist, means that the Hazy-Flames are as impotent as I am on a Saturday morning, so you know what time it is then?

Time to build another Deck! I am opening up my book of tricks, and showing you how I fail at building-new-decks!   This isn't the only way to build a deck, but I like to KISS (Keep it Simple, Sucess!)

DECK BUILDING 101

  Step 1: Choose your "Staples".

You want roughly 10 from these lists. From my interpertation of the format, the Staple choices are will be (by Catagory):

Choose =<4 Anti-Monster cards:

Mirror Force x 2 (Destroy all attack-position monsters!)

Dark Hole X 1 (A slightly less useful version of the card above, but it still Flushes the field well enough)

Torrential Tribute x 1 (This card cannot be overstated; it's like Dark-Hole, but you can wait until your opponent summons the last XYZ material, then Flush them!)

Dimensional Prision x 2 (A bottomless trap hole that requires your opponent to attack with the monster.)

Fiendish Chain x 3 (Don't really like this because monsters you chain can still be used for tribute/xyz, but still a solid choice.)

Solemn Warning x 1 (Can negate Special Summons and effects that Special Summon, but at a price of 2000lp)

Bottomless Trap-Hole x 1 (Good Targeted Removal)

<=6 Anti-Spell/Traps:

Dark Bribe x 3 (Can counter almost any spell/trap clean up, but your opponent's hand goes up by 1)

Mystical Space Typhoon x3 (The one Free Spell/Trap clean-up, doesn't counter though.)

Seven Tools of the Bandit x 3 (Counters traps only, 1000 lp seems a bit hefty though.)

For this deck, I chose 3x MST, 3 Dark Bribe, 1 Torrential Tribute, 2 Mirror Force, 1 Dark Hole, and 1 Bottomless Trap hole. 11 is one higher then I like, but no matter.

Step 2: Choose your Monsters.

You will want around 20 monster cards. The More Synergy they have with each other, the better! I'm sounding like a Human Resources manager with this talk of Synergy, but what can you do?

For this Deck, I chose 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon, 3 Darkstorm Dragon, 2 Dodger Dragon, 3 Maiden with Eyes of Blue, 3 Radius, the Half-Moon Dragon, 1 x Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, 3x Schwarzchild Limit Dragon, and 3 The White Stone of Legend. 21 cards is a bit high, but only Step 5 can show me what's redundant.

21 monsters... one too many IMO, but Step 5 and 6 will give us opportunity to fix it.

Step 3: Choose extra Spell and Traps that will work in synergy with your other choices.

These cards will fill out the remainder of your deck. If you chose a particular archetype, there are often support cards that will help you here.

For this deck, I chose 3 x Silver's Cry, 3 Dragon Shrine, 2 Mausoleum of the Emperor and 2 Trade-In. Dragon Shrine allows me to send a Darkstorm Dragon, and then The White Stone of Legend. (activating it's effect, adding Blue-Eyes White Dragon to my hand) from my deck to the graveyard. Then Silver's Cry allows me to special-summon Darkstorm Dragon from my graveyard, and then use Mausoleum of the Emperor to Normal Summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon for 2000lp.

10 cards is perfect here.

Step 4: Choose your Extra-Deck Monsters.

You can have <= 15 cards in your extra-deck, made up of Fusion Monsters, Synchro Monsters and XYZ monsters. The More Synergy they have with all your previous selections, the better!

For this Deck, I chose 3 Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon, 1 Mist Wurm, 2 Hieratic Sun Dragon Overlord of Heliopolis, 2x Number 107: Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon, 1x Number 82: Heartlandraco and 3x Thunder-End Dragon.

  Step 5: Test and Refine it!

 This is the fun part Boys and Girls. This is also the only way to make sure what looks great on paper, works efficiently on the game-mats. After each session, pick-over your performance with a fine tooth comb, just like I will be doing come Saturday!

Next Week, I will discuss Step 7: Choose your Side Deck.

The Chad Is done!