Expert: Skye Hayes - 6/20/2007

Question
Could you help me fix up this deck for a regional tournament?

1x Dark Magician of Chaos
2x Dark Magician
3x Cyber Dragon

3x Skilled Dark Magician
2x Apprentice Magician
2x Old Vindictive Magician
1x Injection Fairy Lily
1x Sangan
2x Card Trooper
3x Gravekeeper's Spy

2x Magical Dimension
1x Dedication Through Light and Darkness
1x Dark Magic Attack
1x Premature Burial
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Heavy Storm
1x Confiscation
2x Smashing Ground
1x Nobleman of Crossout
1x Snatch Steal
1x Book of Moon

1x Birthright
1x Call of the Haunted
1x Ring of Destruction
1x Mirror Force
1x Torrential Tribute
1x Sakuretsu Armor

I guess that a strategy is to get out my Chaos Magician and have a Dark
Magician on the fiesld to quickly beatdown the opponent. Cyber Dragon
is there to add the raw power.
Also, Horus the Black Flame Dragon is there for some support, and is on
the field constantly in most of my duels.

Thanks


Answer
Hi Muhammad,
My first reccomendation is to unfortunately not use DMoC.OR the Card Trooper. I uderstand what your getting at but in today's tournament enviroment this deck, albeit interesting and good, would not survive against a top tier deck like big city or destiny hero beatdown. Reason being that those decks run extremely fast. However this deck is not bad it just needs modification. THe first being that trying to summon DMoC is a pain in and of itself that has the poetential to take forevor. YOu only have about 5 turns against some decks at a regionals. also he is one card that is complety subject to getting destryed by say a gadget deck- which are geared(no pun intended) at monster removeal. I really like your spell lineup. However i think it need more 1 for 1 cards. Your trap line up is good but some of it needs ot be removed. like sakeretsu. TOo many people expect that card. Birthright is also not good. I dont like magical dimension either. However dark magician is still a aplayable card. Here is a good lineup i think you should try.-

Monsters
3 dark Magician
3 Cyber Dragon
3 Skilled Dark magician
2 apprentice magican
2 old vindicitive magician
2 gravekeeper's spy
3 zombyra the dark
2 mad dog or vorse raider (1900 dark attack monster)
20
Spells
1 heavystorm
1 snatch steal
1 nobleman of crossout
3 smashing ground
1 premature burial
1 pot of avarice
2 terraforming
2 mystic plasma one
12
traps
3 miracle restoring
1 mirror force
1 torrectial tribute
2 pulling the rug
2 mask of restrict
1 ring od destruction
1 magic cylinder
10
42 cards
Alright this should give you a competive edge. Its a beatdown oreint that focu'c on power without tributing.THis should shut down monarchs. also this decks keeps pressure on your opponent. Your biggest enemy is gadget decks. so throw in the side deck-imperial order or magic drain and king tiger wanghu .btw check the current metagame and get a good idea of what you want your side deck to have. I suggest maybe 3 solemn judgments, another copy of pulling the rug and mask of restrict. Hope you like btw which regional