I'VE RETURNED!!!

So it’s been a while since I posted. Reason being is that I had some personal stuff to deal with, then my sister’s 18^th, then obviously Christmas, then my 21^st, but I’m back now and this post is going to be a response to a question that a reader asked me, and if you have any comments or questions or even things that you want me to talk about or anything that you think I’ve missed or gotten wrong, feel free to say it. Especially if I’m wrong so that I can correct it. I like to think I know a fair bit about the game, but as knowledgeable as I am about the game, I can get things wrong occasionally. It happens, not everyone can know everything because there’s just too much to know. Anyway, after I’ve answered the question, sort of as a late New Year’s gift to all of you I am going to give you my Destruction Sword Deck Profile and talk about some of the substitutes you can use if you don’t have a certain card(s). Obviously if you play it online, that won’t be an issue for you.

So Elemune asked me on Christmas Day “Is there any way to separate Yugioh! cards by release in order to gain a more competitive balanced playing? Something like order by sets, structural decks, etc?”. Well Elemune, it’s complicated and it all comes down to what Deck you want to play. Ultimately there are Decks that are not competitive and that’s just how it is. So for example, say you want to play Greydles (which is a fun little deck in my opinion), then you would need at least two sets of Dimension of Chaos to get the bulk of the deck. But you want to run something like PePe (Performages and Performapals), which I consider to be a cancer in the game, then you’ll definitely need Dimension of Chaos and Breakers of Shadow which are the latest two sets. PePe is inherently stronger than Greydles so it doesn’t matter how strong you try to build your Greydle Deck, you will still lose to PePe. That’s not being uncompetitive, that’s not unfair, it’s just how it is. So, to extent, yes there is a way to separate cards in terms of what you’ll use, but it depends on what deck you want to play. One more quick thing, Yugioh! is not a balanced game. Even in the Meta at the moment. There are three decks which are ruling the Meta at the moment: PePe, Dracoslayers and Majespecters and even between those three decks the game is not balanced. It’s close. I’ve seen Dracoslayers and Majespecters take down PePe, and I’ve seen PePe destroy them both almost effortlessly. So Elemune, I hope that answered your question. I’m guessing English isn’t your first language because when I first read the question I didn’t exactly understand what you were asking but I think I got the general idea of what you wanted to know. If not, comment again and maybe reword the question and I’ll take another crack at it. Again, I’m always happy to answer questions from you guys, but please be aware that if you ask me a question in anything other than English, the translation might not make a lot of sense to me and I’ll either ignore it or ask you try again. Alternatively, I might try to answer it the best I can, but it might not make a lot of sense to you, or it might not answer your question at all. So please, if you comment, please use English even if it’s a bad translation I’ll at least be able to piece together the general idea of your question.

And now, my gift to you all. My Destruction Sword Deck Profile.

MONSTERS (16)

2x Dark Magician

1x BLS

3x Buster Blader

1x Prisma

1x Wizard Buster Destruction Sword

1x Maxx “C”

3x Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman

3x Dragon Buster Destruction Sword

1x Kinka-Byo

SPELLS (13)

1x One For One

2x Emblem of Dragon Destroyer

1x Raigeki

1x Fusion Conscription

1x The Claw of Hermos

2x Galaxy Queen’s Light

1x Dark Hole

2x Destruction Swordsman Fusion

2x Twin Twisters

TRAPS (11)

1x Chain Dispel

1x Bottomless

1x Solemn Wishes

2x Eternal Soul

1x Royal Decree

2x Anti-Spell Fragrance

2x Solemn Strike

1x Dark Bribe

EXTRA DECK (15- 5 Fusion, 8 Synchro, 2 Xyz)

2x Dark Paladin

2x Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman

1x Red-Eyes Black Dragon Sword

1x Bishbalkin

2x Beelze

1x Hot Red Dragon Archfiend

1x Thought Ruler Archfiend

3x Buster Dragon

1x Dracossack

1x Number 11: Big Eye

So the main card you’ll be wanting to substitute in this deck is Eternal Soul because it’s OCG Exclusive at the moment. I’m hoping they bring it across to the TCG but I guess we’ll find out when the new Dark Magician support comes out. So you can sub in two Call of the Haunted, that’s probably the closest you’re going to get, and you might want to replace Galaxy Queen’s Light (which you’ll only use for Bishbalkin) with Ancient Rules to help you with summoning the Dark Magician. You can even run Dark Magic Attack and Thousand Knives in the deck so that’s another option.  You can try Upstart Goblin to increase consistency. I’d say it’s fairly consistent. All you need in hand to make a decent field is Buster Whelp and Buster Blader and both are searchable through One for One and Emblem of the Dragon Destroyer respectively. But feel free to mess around with it, But whatever your do, do not replace Kinka-Byo. The card is broken in the Deck, draw it at the right time and you can straight up win off of it. Anyway, that is my New Year’s gift to you. Next up, and I’m hoping to finish this over the next few days, is my 10 favourite Spell cards of all time and we’ll finish off that series with my ten favourite Trap cards of all time. I’m on Salvation, so if you feel like Dueling me and you see me hosting, feel free to join in. Username is BigDub