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Topic: Yu-Gi-Oh

Expert: Michael Lucas (Yu-Gi-Oh Category Guru)
Date: 5/16/2008
Subject: dark LADD

Question
help? i also want to know if I should continue with this deck or make a macro deck instead. they seem to be winning alot in my local shop lately.

3x Light and Darkness Dragon
2x Cyber Dragon
2x Destiny Hero Malicious
1x Card Trooper
1x Destiny Hero Disk Commander
2x Destiny Hero Fear Monger
1x Sangan
1x Spirit Reaper
1x Treeborn Frog
1x Elemental Hero Stratos
1x Snipe Hunter
1x Breaker the Magical Warrior
1x Jinzo
1x Dmoc
3x Cyber Valley

Spells: 13
2x Allure of Darkness
2x Destiny Draw
1x Pot of Avarice
1x Enemy Controller
1x Premature Burial
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Reinforcement of the Army
1x Brain Control
1x Heavy Storm
2x Foolish Burial

Traps: 5
2x Phoenix Wing Wind Blast
1x Mirror Force
1x Torrential Tribute
1x The Transmigration Prophecy

Answer
First and foremost -- Breaker's banned. You have to get that out of there. Did you mean some other card?

This deck looks okay; Cyber Valley is far from dead despite the OTK loops being gone. Transmigration? I think you'd be better off with one mained D. D. Crow to be honest, given you'd be chaining Transmigration to an effect that manipulates your opponent's Graveyard, it's seriously the same thing.

I'd like to see a third D-Draw if you can get one (I know they're $70-80 right now.)

If Macro is winning a lot in your area, you might want to side heavy spell and trap kill cards (at least three copies of Dust Tornado), and whether maining or siding, there should be three Solemn Judgment somewhere. The nice thing about Solemn in a LaDD deck is that it's Spell Speed 3, whereas LaDD's effect is Spell Speed 2. This way, you can use Solemns to negate opposing cards while most of your opponent's cards will still be dead.

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