Post by Blair Flannigan on Oct 9, 2006 19:14:55 GMT -5
Blair looks at a notice which says this
So how do I win duels? Simple. I use the most effective mix of tactics, strategy and manipulation combined with the most powerful deck ever assembled. Do I cheat at duels? No. I depend only on my skill and trust in my deck to defeat my rivals. I know nothing of my opponents cards or strategies, taking them on headon, without any trick shuffling or the like. Do I use a Millennium Item? What Millennium Item do I have? Finally, tell me this, have I ever, EVER won a duel without some outrageous trick that saved me from defeat? No, the power of my deck and my tactics have won each and every duel. So let's go through the various categories.
Tactics: Knowing what to do with a hand is an integral ability in dueling. Clearly, I make the best with every hand I get, using every combination I have available, and bringing out my powerful monsters more rapidly than any other fool duelist. Not once do you see me making a stupid attack, or playing an effect uselessly. I know everything that goes on in the duel and maintain a high level of control over it.
Strategy: My deck is designed around getting my power monsters on the field and annhilating my opponents defenses rapidly. I also have a strong element of desk/hand destruction that further wrecks my opponents effects. My deck maintains a lot of high leveled monsters that require tribute and hence I have plenty of effect cards that allow for rapid tributing, and special summoning.
Manipulation: Sometimes you just have to play a little bid of mindgames with an opponent. Mind disruption can be key to winning a duel. By setting off an opponent's emotions you can increase their chances of making an impulse move which you can quickly capitalize over it. Take the second duel I had with Yugi. He managed to use every trick in the game to beat me, but my wanting to save my brother overcame it, and by challenging him with my very life, I won the duel. Some may call that the one cheap trick that I used, however that trick still gave my opponent a choice unlike the direct methods used by my rivals.
The Deck: As I stated before, my deck is the assembly of the strongest cards in the game, used very effectively. For example, my Duelist Kingdom deck was a combination of a two pronged strategy. On one side, you have the pure power, Blue Eyes White Dragon, and a host of powerful Dark type 4 star monsters. On the other end, there is the monster destruction attack, by using magic and traps to halt my opponents advance and destroy his/her monsters. My Crush Card combo forces my opponents to summon weak monsters, and because most pack their decks with ones with over 1500 ATK, they are all annhilated by the power of my combination. When I changed the rules, and obtained the Egyptian God Card, Obelisk the Tormentor, I geared my deck to the summoning of him, without removing the pure power my deck had. I maintained a large amount of field, hand and deck destruction, whereas Yugi would constantly rely on lucky cards. How many times have you seen me use the same strategy? A lot. And though one may consider it a bad thing, it shows consistance, rather than Yugi's completely randomness. I don't veer from my strategy where Yugi's random cards help him. Want an example? I use a card to force a powerful monster into Yugi's hand, such as Slifer. I use another card to take it. However he plays Exchange, a card few use for its riskiness, and I end up losing Slifer. Even though my strategy had one, his one card tactic ends up getting the last laugh. That sounds more like a cheating strategy to me.
Thus my tactics are focused into three phases of attack. The first phase is the Internal Attack Phase, where I attack cards in hand, and on the field. I used this first in my battle with Yugi, where I crushed his strongest cards with the trap whose name is the very word Crush. By removing the opponent's attacking ability, I am able to then press on with the second phase. The second phase being the Offensive step, which I commonly go into in conjunction with the first. Because my deck contains the most powerful cards in the game, there are few things my opponent can do to stop them. This phase continues until my third phase, if needed, the End Phase. Here I summon my most powerful monster, be it Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon or Obelisk, The Tormentor. This series of attacks makes it difficult for anyone to stop me, and assures me victory every time.
So how do I win duels? Simple. I use the most effective mix of tactics, strategy and manipulation combined with the most powerful deck ever assembled. Do I cheat at duels? No. I depend only on my skill and trust in my deck to defeat my rivals. I know nothing of my opponents cards or strategies, taking them on headon, without any trick shuffling or the like. Do I use a Millennium Item? What Millennium Item do I have? Finally, tell me this, have I ever, EVER won a duel without some outrageous trick that saved me from defeat? No, the power of my deck and my tactics have won each and every duel. So let's go through the various categories.
Tactics: Knowing what to do with a hand is an integral ability in dueling. Clearly, I make the best with every hand I get, using every combination I have available, and bringing out my powerful monsters more rapidly than any other fool duelist. Not once do you see me making a stupid attack, or playing an effect uselessly. I know everything that goes on in the duel and maintain a high level of control over it.
Strategy: My deck is designed around getting my power monsters on the field and annhilating my opponents defenses rapidly. I also have a strong element of desk/hand destruction that further wrecks my opponents effects. My deck maintains a lot of high leveled monsters that require tribute and hence I have plenty of effect cards that allow for rapid tributing, and special summoning.
Manipulation: Sometimes you just have to play a little bid of mindgames with an opponent. Mind disruption can be key to winning a duel. By setting off an opponent's emotions you can increase their chances of making an impulse move which you can quickly capitalize over it. Take the second duel I had with Yugi. He managed to use every trick in the game to beat me, but my wanting to save my brother overcame it, and by challenging him with my very life, I won the duel. Some may call that the one cheap trick that I used, however that trick still gave my opponent a choice unlike the direct methods used by my rivals.
The Deck: As I stated before, my deck is the assembly of the strongest cards in the game, used very effectively. For example, my Duelist Kingdom deck was a combination of a two pronged strategy. On one side, you have the pure power, Blue Eyes White Dragon, and a host of powerful Dark type 4 star monsters. On the other end, there is the monster destruction attack, by using magic and traps to halt my opponents advance and destroy his/her monsters. My Crush Card combo forces my opponents to summon weak monsters, and because most pack their decks with ones with over 1500 ATK, they are all annhilated by the power of my combination. When I changed the rules, and obtained the Egyptian God Card, Obelisk the Tormentor, I geared my deck to the summoning of him, without removing the pure power my deck had. I maintained a large amount of field, hand and deck destruction, whereas Yugi would constantly rely on lucky cards. How many times have you seen me use the same strategy? A lot. And though one may consider it a bad thing, it shows consistance, rather than Yugi's completely randomness. I don't veer from my strategy where Yugi's random cards help him. Want an example? I use a card to force a powerful monster into Yugi's hand, such as Slifer. I use another card to take it. However he plays Exchange, a card few use for its riskiness, and I end up losing Slifer. Even though my strategy had one, his one card tactic ends up getting the last laugh. That sounds more like a cheating strategy to me.
Thus my tactics are focused into three phases of attack. The first phase is the Internal Attack Phase, where I attack cards in hand, and on the field. I used this first in my battle with Yugi, where I crushed his strongest cards with the trap whose name is the very word Crush. By removing the opponent's attacking ability, I am able to then press on with the second phase. The second phase being the Offensive step, which I commonly go into in conjunction with the first. Because my deck contains the most powerful cards in the game, there are few things my opponent can do to stop them. This phase continues until my third phase, if needed, the End Phase. Here I summon my most powerful monster, be it Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon or Obelisk, The Tormentor. This series of attacks makes it difficult for anyone to stop me, and assures me victory every time.
