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My name is Jin Kazama and I am going to talk about something you may or may not have heard of in tournaments: Side Decks.
It's simple, right? Fifteen cards in your side deck that help you counter other decks. But that's not as easy as it sounds. Let's have a little bit of fun. An interactive exercise for you duelists, with my deck:
Dark Turbo
Monsters - 21
3 Thunder King Rai-Oh
3 Reborn Tengu
1 Black Luster Soldier
1 Spirit Reaper
1 Sangan
1 Caius the Shadow Monarch
2 Destiny Hero - Malicious
2 Destiny Hero - Diamond Dude
1 Elemental Hero Stratos
1 Plaguespreader Zombie
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
2 Krebons
1 Dark Grepher
1 Dark Armed Dragon
Spells - 12
2 Destiny Draw
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Book of Moon
1 Monster Reborn
1 Dark Hole
1 Pot of Duality
1 Mind Control
1 Emergency Teleport
1 Allure of Darkness
1 Reinforcement of the Army
Traps - 8
2 Dimensional Prison
2 Solemn Warning
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Trap Dustshoot
1 Mirror Force
1 Torrential Tribute
Extra Deck
1 Chimeratech Fortress Dragon
1 Number 39: Utopia
1 Leviair the Sea Dragon
1 Number 17: Leviathan Dragon
1 Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Thought Ruler Archfiend
1 Stardust Dragon
1 Ancient Fairy Dragon
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Orient Dragon
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 T.G. Hyper Librarian
1 Magical Android
Side Deck
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Matchups: (This is based off of information I have done during testing.)
Plant Synchro: This deck is about even against Plant Synchro, 50/50.
Karakuri: Barely tested, not in our locals. Wrecks them 80/20.
Agents: Reasonably well-tested, 60/40 in favor of a win.
Lightsworns: Heavily favored. 75/25.
Heroes: We have a -lot- of Hero decks here, and this deck is about 55/45 in favour of winning.
Rabbit: This is one of the worse matchups against this deck. 40/60 against.
TG Stun: Another bad matchup for this deck. 35/65 against.
Dark World: Terrible matchup, this deck has severe problems with them. 25/75 against.
Machina Gadgets: This deck is about even grounds, but it can be surprising to see one of these decks in my area. 45/55 against, but just barely.
Random decks: This deck wipes the floor with anything not listed here.
Given this information, I don't want you to tell me what to change in the deck. I want you to provide a side deck that helps me solve the problems with the decks this deck has problems with. In 48 hours, I will have this topic locked and review answers in a second article, as well as provide my side deck for this deck. So on December 6th, please lock it. I'll make a reminder.
Remember. MAKE A SIDE DECK. DON'T TRY TO OFFER FIXES TO THE DECK.
My name is Jin Kazama, and this is the first part of a two-part interactive article.
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My name is Jin Kazama and I am going to talk about something you may or may not have heard of in tournaments: Side Decks.
It's simple, right? Fifteen cards in your side deck that help you counter other decks. But that's not as easy as it sounds. Let's have a little bit of fun. An interactive exercise for you duelists, with my deck:
Dark Turbo
Monsters - 21
3 Thunder King Rai-Oh
3 Reborn Tengu
1 Black Luster Soldier
1 Spirit Reaper
1 Sangan
1 Caius the Shadow Monarch
2 Destiny Hero - Malicious
2 Destiny Hero - Diamond Dude
1 Elemental Hero Stratos
1 Plaguespreader Zombie
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
2 Krebons
1 Dark Grepher
1 Dark Armed Dragon
Spells - 12
2 Destiny Draw
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Book of Moon
1 Monster Reborn
1 Dark Hole
1 Pot of Duality
1 Mind Control
1 Emergency Teleport
1 Allure of Darkness
1 Reinforcement of the Army
Traps - 8
2 Dimensional Prison
2 Solemn Warning
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Trap Dustshoot
1 Mirror Force
1 Torrential Tribute
Extra Deck
1 Chimeratech Fortress Dragon
1 Number 39: Utopia
1 Leviair the Sea Dragon
1 Number 17: Leviathan Dragon
1 Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Thought Ruler Archfiend
1 Stardust Dragon
1 Ancient Fairy Dragon
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Orient Dragon
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 T.G. Hyper Librarian
1 Magical Android
Side Deck
???
Matchups: (This is based off of information I have done during testing.)
Plant Synchro: This deck is about even against Plant Synchro, 50/50.
Karakuri: Barely tested, not in our locals. Wrecks them 80/20.
Agents: Reasonably well-tested, 60/40 in favor of a win.
Lightsworns: Heavily favored. 75/25.
Heroes: We have a -lot- of Hero decks here, and this deck is about 55/45 in favour of winning.
Rabbit: This is one of the worse matchups against this deck. 40/60 against.
TG Stun: Another bad matchup for this deck. 35/65 against.
Dark World: Terrible matchup, this deck has severe problems with them. 25/75 against.
Machina Gadgets: This deck is about even grounds, but it can be surprising to see one of these decks in my area. 45/55 against, but just barely.
Random decks: This deck wipes the floor with anything not listed here.
Given this information, I don't want you to tell me what to change in the deck. I want you to provide a side deck that helps me solve the problems with the decks this deck has problems with. In 48 hours, I will have this topic locked and review answers in a second article, as well as provide my side deck for this deck. So on December 6th, please lock it. I'll make a reminder.
Remember. MAKE A SIDE DECK. DON'T TRY TO OFFER FIXES TO THE DECK.
My name is Jin Kazama, and this is the first part of a two-part interactive article.