Yugioh Deck Builders Delight [Help Thread]

[TwilightChrono]

Well, I'm starting to get back into the TCG And am going through alot of my cards that I used to play with in tournaments including my old decks. A lot of the cards in my old decks and a lot of the 1st editions I have from the LOB and Magic Ruler Sets are banned form tournament play. Some have become limited while others are just outright banned.

I wanna get back into tournament play but with all these new Deck Series that have come out, it has left me rather confused. I played back when it was just the original sets like LOB, Magic Ruler, Labyrinth Of Nightmare, Metal Raiders and Legacy Of Darkness to name of few. You know, before all of the DX, 5D's and Zexal were even thought up. A.K.A. When the game first came out.

Now, my problem is that I have no idea if the new sets can be played with the old. No clue at all. I wanna stick to the cards I know and love, which are from the original sets. You know, with good old cards like Megamorph, Swords Of Revealing Light [The original Card, Not The Revised], MetalMorph, Cyber Jar, Mirror Force, NecroValley, Jinzo and Dark Mirror Force just to name a few.

But, I'm at a loss as to what cards can be played with what now, since there are so many sets out. It's unreal. The rules of the game are not a problem for me to follow, as I've been keeping tabs on all the new rules and banned/limited lists.

Basically, I am asking for deck building help from you guys. Whether or not I can get it is entirely up to the forum I know. I realize this may be better asked on a TCG forum, but I thought I would try my luck here before I made a new account just to post help questions on a different forum.

Any advice for an old timer used to the old ways? I just wanna get back in the tournament scene and start dishing out some punishment again. Anyone have any deck building tips? I haven't built a deck in so long. Yet I have hundreds of cards at my disposal.

Help?

[NS]

If you can't win in 1 or 2 turns, your yugioh deck sucks. (this is why I hate yugioh TCG)

[BasharOfTheAges]

my understanding of this game was that it was something like magic the gathering in that tourneys were meant to sell more cards therefore, the only legal sets were the new ones for 95% of what you could possibly be involved in.

[Jadecavy]

Any cards with older text that have been revised are played with the revised rules, regardless of what the card says. Mirror force is still as staple, gravekeepers made a comeback so you can still play necrovalley, and jinzo decks are playable, though the rest of the cards you listed aren't. My suggestion is to get together $250 and buy a Tour Guide from the Underworld playset, it's the only way you can win, these days, outside of twilight. >.>

But really, there are a lot of viable deck options, for cheap. If you're looking for budget, go: Jurracs, Blackwings, or Gravekeepers.

[CodeZTM]

The last time I played, Elemental Heroes were all the rage, and monster reborn was banned. But that was like... A LONG time ago. XD. XD

[gotegenks]

If you can't win in 1 or 2 turns, your yugioh deck sucks. (this is why I hate yugioh TCG)

not true, i go to a pretty top level Local tournament once in a while and all my duels always take over like 10 or 15 turns. And if that's metaphorical like you have the game in the bag by the second turn then that's not it either because the advantage usually switches a couple times before it's over. You must have played during some FTK format or read about it then...

My suggestion is to get together $250 and buy a Tour Guide from the Underworld playset, it's the only way you can win, these days, outside of twilight. >.>

wherever you're finding tour guide playsets for $250, tell em i'm comin', and MONEY'S COMIN WITH ME!

uhh, TC, you literally can't wreck any face these days with a deck made from LOB and MRL/SRL alone. It's gonna take some newer cards. there are actually two new decks that are doing quite well that are made almost entirely from their own structure deck, Dark World, and Agent decks.

Dark World are those old crappy dark world monsters with a new broken boss monster and some new good support and it took like 2-4 places at the last major tournament i believe, the one that made it the highest out of em was using pretty much a pure structure deck build + staples as opposed to the others that had those infamous "Tour Guide of the Underworld" so even cheapo versions are pretty good.

Agents, or Master Hyperion, or Fairies, or something else has those Agent of (planet) cards that are also kinda old. The dark world uses a lot of old dw monsters but this deck only uses 1 old agent card and that's Venus. Again, new boss monster that makes em broken, but this deck also employs a lot of other boss monsters like Archlord Krystia and Black luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning and synchros. This deck is gonna take a lot of outside cards to make it good though so for someone who only has really really early cards i would just suggest 3 of the dark world decks,

and then if you're gonna be semi-active, going to locals and trading and stuff, it would be a good idea to buy a few of the new tins that are out. The no.34 Leviathan, Wind Up Zenmaister, no. 10 illumiknight, and Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon tins are all great buys as they contain great promos and 5 packs. 1 of the promos that comes in each of them is worth like $10 dollars itself (pot of duality in the first two, solemn warning in the latter) but i suggest you use them yourself, because they're staples now, but you can do some damage trading em off too.

hope that helped, if you have any questions, feel free to pm me!

[Jadecavy]

Honestly, my advice is about 4 months out-of-date, I haven't played since I got to Cornwall, as there aren't any shops here and I don't like playing on duellingnetwork. Also, honestly, this is probably the worst time in 3 years or so to get back into it, the meta is pretty terrible and unvaried. Listen to gotenks and it'll be hard not to win, though. ;P

[TwilightChrono]

Awesome replies guys.

I didn't think I would get so many so quickly. I expected a few trolls but not this many incitve posts XD

I've actually already went out and bought a lot of booster packs and such before I even made my initial post and got a lot of Holo Foil Cards Rares and other such goodies.

About $400 dollars spent on Boosters and tins before the post was made. That is why I got so confused. I bought a mixture of new and old.

Woke up this morning and decided to open them and these are the cards I got. I put similar sounding named together. To make it easier for listing.

Here is the list:

GOLD LETTERED HOLOFOIL: [That's what people called them back in my day of playing]

Monsters and Effect Monsters:
Number 39: Utopia
Elemental Hero Neos Alius
Elemental Hero Sparkman
Elemental HERO Divine Neos
Elemental HERO Great Tornado
Cyber Valley
Cyber Larva
Gladiator Beast Equeste
Ice Queen
Lion Alligator
Spawn Alligator
Yubel
Darklord Asmodeus
Darklord Superbia
Dark Lord Edeh Arae
Raviel, Lord Of Phantasms
Hamon, Lord Of Striking Thunder
Uria, Lord Of Searing Flames

Magic:
Shield Crush
Instant Fusion
Court Of Justice
Dragonic Tactics
Dark Fusion
Parallel World Fusion

And here are the last bit of Cards. About 10 or so which are all Holofoil but their names are either white or black. NOT gold or silver:

Traps:
Amazoness Archers

Monsters:
Sinister Sprocket
Destiny HERO - Dreadmaster
Destiny HERO - Diamond Dude
Elemental HERO Grand Neos
Evil HERO Inferno Wing
Evil HERO Malicious Fiend

I could list all of the rares, commons and uncommons that I got but that would take ages, so we will just go with these. Keep in mind that the toplist is all Gold lettered Holofoils Or Are Some Kinda Sparkly Lettered With Sparkly HoloFoil.

What do you guys think?

I realize that the listed cards themselves don't make a deck, but how are these for implementing?

[TwilightChrono]

Also, I really have no clue if any of the cards I listed are good. They sound good when read, but I have yet to read all of the Rares, commons and uncommons that came with them. Haven't had the time. So damn many.

Sorry for the double post. I just needed to say that.

[gotegenks]

only cards people will want out of those are the hero cards, utopia, glad beast equeste, instant fusion.

If you got more hero cards then you could make a deck out of those, they're actually a pretty good deck now, and it's relatively cheap these days. most expensive card in it is E-Hero the shining at 15 tops, but most of the cards are common now and don't go over 4-5. It's one of my fave decks, and it plays pretty simple like the good ol' days. just summon 1800 and 1900 monsters and set traps and beat up your opponents monsters while stopping their stronger monsters with ur traps and magics, then occasionally bringing out your own by fusion. you can also use utopia since like all the monsters are lvl 4 and utopia is an extra deck staple for decks that have a lot of lvl 4's now.