AboutMichael Lucas (Yu-Gi-Oh Category Guru) Expertise NOTE: There are no Regional tournaments in the area for the next several months; I will come back and start answering questions again once I am active competitively.
I can answer any question based on the English Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game.
Rulings questions are my specialty. Ask me about ANY ruling for ANY card or combination of cards. If there's a valid ruling or a way to deduce a valid ruling, I'll be able to help you.
I'll also be willing to do deck fixes, but ONLY on decks that actually show some promise of possibly becoming good. Decks that are just random cards that aren't very good will be rejected, and I'll link you to a page where you can look at some better decks for ideas. Decks that are not in Advanced Format, or not competitive, will be sent to the Question Pool.
IF YOUR DECK INCLUDES DARK MAGICIAN, BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON OR RED-EYES BLACK DRAGON, I WILL IMMEDIATELY REJECT IT. These are CASUAL decks, not tournament-competitive ones. Please take decks including those cards to our casual deck experts. Also, I may or may not do fixes on other themes that would be consider non-tournament worthy. (Basically, if your deck is not a Blackwing, Gladiator Beast, Vayu Turbo, Dark Synchro, or Lightsworn deck, AND I don't think it has the promise of being able to compete with any of the above five decks, I'll be hesitant to offer a fix.)
I should also be able to give you general values of cards if you`re looking to buy or sell, or answer whether a certain trade was fair or not. Please limit value questions to 15 cards or less. I'm not going to appraise your entire collection. Additionally, please only list Super/Ultra/Secret/Ultimate rares, and make sure they do not come from structure/starter decks.
Experience Player/trader/collector for 7.5 years
Publications Writer for Beckett Yu-Gi-Oh Collector, Beckett Anime Collector, Beckett Pokemon Collector, and various books produced by Pojo.com
Education/Credentials Player of the American TCG since January 2002, tournament player since March 2002
Awards and Honors Duelist King Tournament Season 3 Champion -- Jahinie Productions, West Mifflin, PA...which has since, sadly, closed its doors.
148th/482 players at 2005 Yu-Gi-Oh Nationals
Top 4 at April 2005 Butler Regionals (Chaos/Trinity format)
Top 4 at August 2005 Butler Regionals (Chaos/Trinity format)
Top 8 at July 2008 Monroeville Regionals (Oppression Monarch)
Top 4 at October 2008 at Coraopolis Regionals (Tele-DAD)
Top 4 at June 14, 2009 Coraopolis, PA Regionals (Blackwings)
Qualified for 2005, 2006, 2009 Yu-Gi-Oh Nationals
Non-gameplay Yu-Gi-Oh Credentials:
Have made over $120,000 in the past 6 years from dealing in bulk quantities of Yu-Gi-Oh collectibles
Created "the point system", a method for fairly trading large quantities of low-valued cards in exchange for high-valued items, commonly accepted throughout the Yu-Gi-Oh community
Question I'm hoping to get my Blackwing Deck worthy of Nationals. Atm I'm missing a
handfull of cards but, I don't want to trade for cards I don't need lol
Monsters(13):
x3 Blackwing - Kalut The Moon Shadow
x3 Blackwing - Shura The Blue Flame
x2 Blackwing - Sirocco The Dawn
x2 Blackwing - Bora The Spear
Blackwing - Elphin The Raven
Blackwing - Blizzard The Far North
Blackwing - Fane The Steel Chain
Spells(14):
x3 Black Whirlwind
x2 Fissure
Solidarity
Dark Eruption
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon
Allure Of Darkness
Lightning Vortex
Swords Of Revealing Light
Pot Of Avarice
Brain Control
Traps(13):
x3 Reckless Greed
x3 Icarus Attack
x2 Bottomless Trap Hole
Mirror Force
Torrential Tribute
Magic Cylinder
Call Of The Haunted
Delta Crow - Anti Reverse
Synchros(2):
Stardust Dragon
Iron Chain Dragon
I'm going for a control/sychro based deck more than capable of taking the small
card shop tourneys lol. Plus I need help with making a side deck.
*Also, I have an unrelated ruling question. Which doesn't matter, but would help if you know. An editor on yugioh wikia tells me
that since "Bad Reaction To Simochi" and "Nurse Reficule The Fallen One" do the
same thing, and since "Bad Reaction To Simochi" doesn't stack, that neither does Nurse + Simochi...
Is this true? False? Can you source me a definite ruling on 2 seperate
questions?
1) Does "Bad Reaction To Simochi" stack with another 1? If no, why not?
2) Does Simochi + Nurse stack with eachother? If no, why not?
Thanx alot in advance, peaceOut
Answer Your Standard Blackwing lineup, if you're not using Vayus, should look like this:
3x Sirocco, Shura, Bora, Kalut
1x Gale
2x Blizzard
And possibly 1-2x Mistral the Silver Shield to make up for not using Vayus.
The deck should also include Dark Armed Dragon since the entire deck is Dark.
Get rid of the Fissures; Solidarity is iffy at best but I understand it at one copy. Your deck should have no problem clearing out single monsters.
Get rid of Swords -- it doesn't do enough in this deck to be worth it.
Move Lightning Vortex to the side deck.
Remove Pot of Avarice -- it's better to focus on trying to get DAD out rather than getting 5 monsters in the Graveyard.
Add a second Allure of Darkness.
Traps...only thing I'm questioning here is Cylinder. Games are slower than last format, and all of the big monsters (Gyzarus, Judgment, Dark Armed) can blow this away before you get the chance to use it.
Your Synchro Deck should include the following:
2-3x Blackwing Armor Master
2-3x Blackwing Armed Wing
1x of each of the good 8-star Synchros that are commonly available (Red Dragon Archfiend, Thought Ruler Archfiend, Stardust Dragon, Colossal Fighter)
1x of any significant 7-star Synchros (Black Rose Dragon, and possibly an Arcanite Magician in case you Brain Control a Spellcaster and Sync it up with Gale)
1x Goyo Guardian
2x Magical Android (for Blizzard --> Kalut --> Synchro)
Nurse and Simochi don't stack. If you happen to have Nurse and Simochi up at the same time, and a life gain card is played, the player will take equivalent damage once, but not twice.
