I wasn't lying when I said this would be a blog dedicated to my hobbies, and now an old flame has been rekindled. I remember playing the earlier YuGiOh versions in Highschool, before classes and during lunch. Back then it was essentially a game to see how many generic high attack point based monsters you could smash into a deck with support cards. Nowadays, the game seems to be changed, with more time given to Effect Monsters and less to things like Equip Cards.
Being perfectly honest, this isn't my first return to YuGiOh. More than a year ago a friend got me to play casually and function as an extra to fight as he trained for tournaments. He abruptly quit after being insanely dedicated and getting me to buy an outrageous amount of cards(I think he was trying to impress his current girlfriend by dropping all nerdy hobbies. LAME). It was fun, but he put me off of any sort of dedicated serious play when he would just bash casuals at area Anime Conventions and brag about how he destroyed them.
So I took a break after that and then got back into it briefly to play one of my roommates at my old apartment. He was a fan of the anime and themed his decks on what looked cool and what was featured on old episodes of the YGO! TV series, which I was fine with. We hit a problem down the road as he didn't like the fact my decks beat his rather easily. This was a little irritating because while I didn't make tiered tournament decks; I did employ some synergy and always offered tips or aid in anyway I could. Still, he would just get angry like a child when he would lose and I didn't even gear my decks to be competitive, with the two I played being easy enough to counter with some foresight. One was a Warrior themed beatdown deck with a few Synchro monsters thrown in because I thought they looked cool and they came with the the 5Ds Toolbox and some of the tins, and then a Fairy themed deck due to the release of the Hyperion structure deck. He started getting whinier, eventually going into little screaming tangents and making me wait around as he double checked my plays on his PC because he didn't like his 'plans' being interrupted. Eventually he told me he "phased out" of the game, but turned around to one of our shared friends and bitched about how he got tired of losing, so he just decided to quit the hobby instead of take any advice or work on making his primary deck a bit more playable. This was especially irritating because he would tell me he was going to play later and I kept updating my decks and wasting money on cards.
So after I recovered from that fiasco, I picked up the new Samurai Warlords structure deck this weekend. I've always loved the Six Samurai themed cards, but I don't care enough to pay for single cards for decks online. So my Samurai were just gathering dust until this release and a desire to want to play at upcoming conventions. I also grabbed one of those snazzy playmats and sealed play boxes. So, I'll probably spend some time working on my YGO skills and half-ass my way into the scene at Youmacon, possibly joining any tournaments that may have just for the fun of it.
So without further rambling on a blog no one cares about, here is my current deck;
Monsters: 19
2 x Great Shogun Shiend
1 x Enishi, Shien's Chancellor
2 x Grandmaster Of The Six Samurai
2 x The Six Samurai - Irou
2 x The Six Samurai - Nisashi
2 x Legendary Six Samurai - Enishi
2 x Legendary Six Samurai - Kizan
2 x The Six Samurai - Yaichi
2 x Legendary Six Samurai - Kageki
2 x Hand Of The Six Samurai
Spells: 11
3 x Solidarity
2 x Temple Of The Six
2 x Cunning Of The Six Samurai
1 x Gateway Of The Six
1 x Asceticism Of The Six Samurai
1 x Burden Of The Mighty
1 x Reinforcements Of The Army
Traps: 10
3 x Musakani Magatama
2 x Sakuretsu Armor
2 x Double-Edged Sword Technique
2 x Shien's Scheme
1 x Mirror Force
Extra: 4
2 x Shadow Of The Six Samurai - Shien
2 x Number 39: Utopia
The strategy is fairly straight forward. I want to spam as many Samurai as I can and sacrifice a few to get any number of Solidarity into play. Yaichi will hopefully help stall my opponents set Spell and Traps and Temple of The Six paired with Burden of the Mighty could help control monsters effectiveness.
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