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YuGiOh Deck Building Guide
YuGiOh Deck Building Guide
Yugioh TCG has over 3000 cards available, and the card pool is increased by around 500 cards every year, so for beginners, deck building will be the biggest challenge. As a game mainly aimed toward younger kids, most of the players that started when they were young have grown up and gone away to university etc, making it quite rare for anyone to have knowledge spanning back all the way to the good old days when you could run three Dark Magician of Chaos and Mystical Space Typhoon! Honestly, you could! The point? Deck building is all about finding the right combinations of cards, and you need to have knowledge of all the cards to optimise combos. (If you want to learn about good combos, see my other hubpage or see my profile).
Obviously, even if you have lots of time on your hand and a very good memory, it would still take you forever to memorise all 3000+ cards and then pick out the gems from it that may work with something, go and get it somehow and then build a deck. This is when your card rating skills comes into play. When starting deck building, what I usually do for a beginner who has brought along all their cards (a few hundred at a time) is to first put them in separate piles: Monsters, Spell and Trap.
Within Monsters, separate into: good effect ones, strong ones and somewhat useless ones.
For Spell and Trap, separate into: Useful, support and not useful.
A Monster (Black Luster Soldier)
Monsters
Things to look out for regarding Monsters: For a level 4, if it has around 1800atk or 2000def, they are strong. Level 6, minimum of 2400atk, Level 7+, don’t bother with strength.
With Monster Effects, what is useful? If it gives you something for free usually: Sangan, Night Assailant, Gravekeeper’s spy, Stratos, Diamond Dude, all of the Monarchs, Grand Mole, even Golemn Sentry can be a good pick.
Spell Card (Monster Reborn)
Spells
Spells, what is useful? Just look at the limit list, most of them are: Monster Reborn, Heavy Storm, Mystical Space Typhoon, Brain Control, Smashing Ground etc.
What is Spell support? These are Spell cards that helps you search through your deck, or do amazing things with your Monsters. E.g. reinforcement of the army (only works if you have a few Warriors), Destiny Draw (if you have Destiny Hero, mainly Malicious), Solar Recharge (Lightsworn) etc. Only use them if you have the right Monster line up. They are usually very tricky to get the balance right, so do test out different Monster line-up vs. Support cards.
A Trap Card (Mirror Force)
Traps
Trap, what is useful? Again, limit list; Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute and Crush Card Virus are the key ones. Bottomless Traphole, Royal Oppression, Skill Drain can be very useful against certain decks.
For Support? Same as for Spells, things like Limit Reverse can be amazing to get to use Rescue Cat again, return from the different dimension can win a game instantly for you.
So when building a deck, first have about 100 of your best cards, roughly 50 monsters, 30 spells and 20 traps. Look at which specific Monster ‘family’ have the best support, then start putting away all those that doesn’t fit into the theme.
Including straight one for one search cards (e.g. reinforcement of the army can be counted as a monster, considering you can use it to get a monster), you should have around 20 monster cards. Unless you have lots of Tribute support (Soul Exchange, Treeborn frog + Foolish Burial, Malicious, Gravekeeper’s spy/guard), don’t run more than 2 tribute Monsters. Do a similar mix for Tuners.
Spells / Trap make up the remaining 20. For most decks based around battle, you would want to run Heavy Storm and Mystical Space Typhoon, as well as Monster Reborn. You should dedicate at least 5 cards that can destroy a Monster/s, if not many more, depending on how good your monster line-up is. If your opponent runs out of big Monsters, they can’t beat you easily! That is essentially the idea behind the gadget decks.
So final word of advice, play many people, look at how their deck works and see if any of their cards would fit in with your deck. Ask the more experienced players as well! They can give you good advice usually. But, most importantly, testing your deck is the only real way to improve!
Comments
With monster reborn on the ban list I think a lot of players are developing greta new ways to pull monsters back from the graveyard.
Is chaos necromancer a good card
Is chaos necromancer a good card
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i fined if you go over 40 cards its not a major problem, a 2nd or 3rd copy of one of your top monster (ie a monster to use a combo {vampier lord - gennisus)is usefull.
1 of each in a 40 card deck is only a 1 in 40 chance you will draw that card, and getting both at the same time is realy tuff. 3 in 60 is 1 in 20 chance and getting both is easyer, but you do take the chance that you will get 2 or 3 of one of the cards in stead of 1 of each.
also having a slitly larger deck means you can have a back up or a second stratagy incase the first fails or you don't get a good (or lucky) draw.
i still use cards which interact,
3-5 7/8 star (or higher)
4-7 5/6 star (totaling 10 at most)
10-12 4 star attack minded cards
8-12 defence or efect monsters
no more than 30 monster cards
magic and trap do go up and down but no more than 30 in total.
you need summon, distruction, upgrade (or weeken), draw, defence, and ways to stop your openants stratagies.
i have lots of decks and test them aganst each other.
a 40 card deck is small, but if you find its week spot you can beet it most of the time, a 60 card deck gives you extra posabilitys, and back up statagyes (as long as the cards interact)
multy copies of your best cards, with suport makes a good chance of getting the combo you want. (3 vampire genesis, 3 lords, 3 piramid turtles (lets you special summon vampire lord) 3 call of the mummy magic cards
that is the bacics other strong zombies, cards to distroy and discard, cards to bring cards back from the grave yard, at least 3 fields (help you and can upset oponents stratages) magic and trap jammers.
in short a 52 card dech with 27 zombies 12 of them over level 5, and lots of magic/trap cards witch special summon them or send them to the graveyard.
it doesn't mater to much if you don't get genisus out there as a despair from the dard is almost as powerfull, and is a lot easyer to summon.
at the end of the day a good draw or some bad luck will end the dule one way or the other.
well if your making a good deck you should be able to swarm the field, be able to draw what you need and be able to inflict damage at the same time and honestly even the most skilled people can't do that so just know your cards well and have an opened mind to different cards
i found if running a malefic deck put skill drain you can stome the feild with as much malefics as you can and can attack with more than just one of them(couse there effects say only they can attack) also if you have it on the field and a field card and you skill drain gets destroyed the malefics stay on the field you just cant attack also agains six sams put skill drain+powerful malefic+finalcountdown and just waite
honestly i don't care what cards are banned and what aren't i still play em you got a problem with it? so what i don't care
DARK REVIVING DECK FORMULA
LEVEL 5+ - 9
THE DARK CREATOR X 2
DARK HORUS X 2
DARKLORD ZERATO X 2
DARK NEPTHYS X 2
DARK ARMED DRAGON
LEVEL 4 AND BELOW - 15
ARMAGEDDON KNIGHT X 2
DARK GREPHER X 2
SNIPE HUNTER X 2
DARK CRUSADER X 2
RYKO,LIGHTSWORN HUNTER X 2
MYSTIC TOMATO X 2
PHANTOM OF CHAOS
MORPHING JAR
SANGAN
SPELLS - 15
D.D.R-DIFFERENT DIMENSION REINCARNATION X 3
SOUL RELEASE X 2
MONSTER REINCARNATION X 2
ALLURE OF DARKNESS
DARK HOLE
MONSTER REBORN
MYSTICAL SPACE TYPHOON
REINFORCEMENTS OF THE ARMY
GIANT TRUNADE
BURIAL FROM A DIFFERENT DIMENSION
FOOLISH BURIAL
TRAPS - 6
ESCAPE FROM THE DARK DIMENSION X 2
TORRENTIAL TRIBUTE
SOLEMN JUDGEMENT
CALL OF THE HAUNTED
RETURN FROM THE DIFFERENT DIMENSION
can anyone make any suggestions to improve it ??
my bro says put 10 spells 15 traps 15 monsters that only makes the deck only 40 cards in a deck i put strongest cards in my deck i have blue s. dragon and blue u. dragon and montoge dragon
if you are smart just build your deck of how it shows you and include 1-3 the creater cards in your deck plus if you use spellchronicle you can get cards in your grave and get a magic and or a trap once in a while!
cole taek the 20 crds you no you wunt to put in then meak 2 staks of the uther wons that you tink go good to gather + won of the 2 staks to the frst 20 test it & then swech in the uther 20 to the ferst 20 & test it
I roll with a spellcaster deck with some acceptions like buster blader to polermyzation with dark magician to bring my dark palidan out,and winged kuriboh cause everyone needs one, but im having troubles taking some out to get to 40 rather then like fucking 60.
seory i miss spald soul rope i also oyle put in mausoleum for mausoleum of the emperor extru deck red d.archfiend flamvell uruquizas stardust d.
okey iam done building my deck i put in nobleman-eater bug obnoxious celtic guard w.kuriboh lv10 transcendent wings w.kuriboh umi x2 call of the haunted mausoleum terraforming x2 field barrier demise of the land natural tune d.resonator x2 misfortune d.room of nightmare mirage tube magic cylinder dust tornado mystical space typhoon swarm of locusts snipe hunter wall of illusion element soldier aoul rope swords of revealinglight draining shield ordeal of a traveler royal decree guardian sphinx krebons old vindictive magician big eye sabersaurus gemini elf gene-warped warwolf n e sugasgens
for ppl who have just started you want to start with mostly 4-star cards with no effect , but dnt get no comfortable with this or else you wont be able to progress to higher levels of dueling,just introduce better cards as you go along ;)
just put in 2 terraforming and one or 2 field barriers
iam not a begener i just ned a lita help weth thes deck iam not acostum to thes type of deck monster reborn is forbidden & field spells dau (but it is nies to no that somewon is out ther becas thes is not the olye plaes i put thes up & nowon els has replid) (i don't like playing weth forbidden caeds becus sum pepol let you & sum don't liet you paly them)
Mabye u should put in spells like monster reborn or a field spell
help me iam building a new deak weth malefic stardust dragon and chacu challhua
manero iso edemais
don't bother even making a deck if you're not going to play using the tornament rules.
is mirror force the best yugioh card this year?
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