Great Tech cards for 2012 Yugioh Nationals

When deciding cards for your side deck or main deck tech you have to keep in mind the Tier 1 decks. If you don't know what they are then look at my earlier post to get a good feel for what they are. If you don't feel like reading the earlier post then I'll give a short and sweet list: Chaos Dragons, Dino-Rabbit and Inzektors. I cannot fail to mention other highly used decks such as wind-ups, final countdown, dark world, HEROs, gadgets, and Stun. It is fortunate/rare that this format consists of a wide range of decks but when looking for cards to side deck this is an unfortunate occurrence. This makes fitting in the best side decks cards tedious; due to the fact that you must consider a lot of different decks that forces you to play main varying side deck cards.

My suggestion for cards in the side deck:

• If you are playing Chaos Dragons and Inzektors:
• Mystical Space Typhoon x3
• Dust Tornado x2
• Royal Decree (Only for Chaos Dragons) x2

• If you are playing Dino-Rabbit 
• Macro Cosmos x3
• Royal Decree x2 (If you are not playing a trap heavy build)
• Dust Tornado x2 (If you are playing a trap heavy build)

I believe that EVERY deck needs to be side decking Soul Taker. I know that they can be a pain to get a hold of but this card is a MUST. Chaos Dragons by far is the cheapest and most competitive Tier 1 deck. You can get the entire deck (including side and extra) for under $500. That is relatively cheap for just jumping into a game and becoming competitive.

Considering that Chaos Dragon is a deck that is highly played Messenger of Peace has become another great tech card for decks that has small beaters. Personally I would only play Messenger of Peace in Inzektor decks. A great alternative for Messenger of Peace would be Level Limit Area B. This cards is going to be the secret tech card for Dino-Rabbit players. Dino-Rabbit is primarily dependent on XYZ'ing that Level Limit has very little effect on this decks plays and absolutely stops Chaos Dragons in their tracks. Due to the fact that all of the monsters are Lv4 -Tour Guides and Rykos. As well as makes Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress completely useless other than her mill effect.

Other tech cards that I would consider in the main or side Bottomless Trap Hole / Compulsory Evacuation Device. These two cards are a great choice when it comes to stopping your opponent in their tracks when they XYZ/Synchro summon monsters. I believe that Bottomless Trap Hole is overall the better card but if you are more worried about Inzektors then compulsory is your go to card. Although Bottomless Trap Hole does hit some Inzektor cards such as Inzektor Centipede and Inzektor Hopper most likely it will be destroyed from the Inzektor Hornet plays.


After reading this I hope you feel more informed. Above all else this game takes a lot of practicing and not just practicing single game games but also match with full side decking. If you do not have practice side decking then you might as well not even play. It is great knowing that your deck can win Game 1 but when it comes to Game 2 and 3 you can consider those losses due to the incompetence of your ability to side deck properly. So remember practice matches with friends or on the Duel Network it will help you immensely when you decide to play at a tournament.

Yugioh National Championship 2012 Coming Fast!

Alright guy, it is that time again...NATIONALS!

In the next couple posts I will be talking about a few topics for this upcoming weekend; not this weekend but the next weekend: What decks to expect to see, Great tech cards, deck that I will be playing, what cards to pick up and drop.

What decks you should expect to see play.

The obvious Top Tier decks (Rabbits, Inzektors, Chaos Dragons, Final Countdown)

I am not going to really touch on these because they are all obvious decks to see in the top tables.

I expect to see a lot of HERO decks also. It is a fairly cheap deck and it does not take Tour Guides to win. The issue with the deck now is that Rabbit since it is a for of control take away a lot of the stem a HERO deck can half. HERO deck's plays are very telegraphed and if you stop one part the chain of them winning nearly falls a part. HERO decks were very good because they had big beaters and if go rolling then it got shut down. Now, with Chaos Dragons, hitting the mainstream play, HERO's big 1900 then turn into 2500 attackers really aren't doing any good especially with the soft loop of Lightpulsar Dragon and Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon.

Dark World, finally won the 100th YCS, I don't expect to see a lot of play. Obviously there are dedicated Dark World players, such as myself (although I am not that dedicated anymore), that will be there to compete but the deck is just so lackluster now and if you don't get a grapha to the grave then it is game over.  I just don't see them really putting up much of a fight against Rabbit or Chaos Dragons.

Wind-ups, the most underrated deck, will definitely have their dedicated players as well. These players most likely will stay true to their love of the deck but again a well placed effect veiler just shuts the deck down and its all down hill from there.

Then we have Gadgets. Gadgets took Spain national by surprised for a lot of the community in the North American TCG. I don't think any really expected it but I think as players in this community should expect to see a lot of people coming out of the dark with Gadgets especially full on net-decking. I don't know what this dude played against but I don't think the meta is anywhere near the same as North American TCG. I expect a lot of people to play Gadgets but I don't expect them to do well because most of them are probably not well practiced with the deck. Also a lot will have to do with if Stock Master is legal or not.

Obviously there will always be the random decks that will see play: Sabers, Lightsworn, Blackwings, Hieratics, Monarchs, Stun, ect, ect. I just don't think that these decks in the North American meta stand much of a chance. Innovation is such an amazing thing to have especially when it comes to such a competitive card game BUT if you are wanting to win then you are going to have to play on of Top 4 decks that I means to even be considered. You can look at the other nations winning decklists, those are meaningless especially when you are comparing the meta of the two nations.

I expect in the Top 32: 9 Rabbits, 8 Chaos Dragon, 4 Inzektors, 3 Countdown, 3 Wind-up, 2 HERO, 1 Dark World, 2 Random Squeeze ins.

Our nationals are also very clean cut and straight to the point. I just want the best players to win; so they can represent us well in Tokyo.

Stay tuned for another article in the next for hours about Great Tech cards for the main deck or side deck that nearly every deck so have.