Expert: Skye Hayes - 6/26/2007

Question
QUESTION: hi there, i have recently made a DEMISE OTK deck and after many duels with my friends i thought i was ready for tournament play. however i encountered many problems, the main one was not drawing the cards i needed, the second was not being able to defend myself and the third was just the overall "sloweness" of the deck which enabled my opponent to figure out my strategy and conter my cards. Here is my deck and if you have any critism or changes (anything) would be greatly appreciated :D  :

monsters;
3 x Demise, King of Armageddon
3 x Doom dozer
3 x Manju of the ten thousand hands
3 x Senju of the thousand hands
3 x sonic bird
2 x iron blacksmith kotestu
1 x sangan
2 x insect knight
1 x neo bug
1 x metal armoured bug

magics;
3 x Advanced ritual art
2 x metamorphosis
2 x megamorph
1 x premature burial
3 x magical mallet
1 x giant trunade
1 x heavy storm
1 x swords of revealing light
1 x scape goat

traps;
1 x waboku
1 x gravity bind
1 x ring of destruction


ANSWER: My only answer to you is to drop demise. Not that it isnt good its just that current tournaments have seen plenty of defense against this kind of deck. Demise is pretty much obsolete because of the the overwhelming fear people harbor for it. I wou;d reccomend taking a break from demise for while because people in tournaments today are more than prepared for it and it's variants.

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QUESTION: thanks for your reply, quite gutted :( owell. what type of deck would you recommend i use then?
ANSWER: Dotn give up on demise. Just take a break from it. it might be unexpected and good again someday. Im really sorry if you thought my reply was rude or anything just i want you win. Neway a good cheap effective deck to move onto is gadgets. SUper effective in tournament play. Anyway follup if there is a decktype you want to try out ims ure i can help you. O' also the six samurai cards are effective you should try those. hope to hear from you again soon.

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QUESTION: hi again, thanks for the reply, i wasnt offended at all :D i am looking to try out a monarch deck or maybe a diamond dude turbo, i have been told they are really competitive for tournament play. could you please explain how they work and win, and then if possible what are the essential for them. thanks again, your a big help :D

Answer
Oh ok. THey are extremelycompetitive decks. Diamand Dude TUrbo, DDT, recently made a comeback at the natiional SJC.(shonen jump chamionship. ALright. DDT works around abusing diamon dude's effect. It also works around throwing cards into you graveyard and essentially pulling cards from it. Like a toolbox. The reasoning behind DDT is that your graveyard is your deck. You pick the cards from it. DDT has massive draw power to augument this kind of play also. It is nto untypical for a ddt player to have a full handat the end of the turn.
Monarchs work around the the often ecomonimical trades by whihc each monarch works around. They excersise extreme tribute potential. The strategy is to tribute your opponents monsters while letting the ffects break down the opponent. Thus allowing the monarch at 2400 to eventually strike for game.There is a variant of monarchs called perfect circle. Perfect cirlce works around using extreme drawpower through use of continually special summon disk commander. THey also use malicous as effective tribute fodder. perfect circle is generally thought to be better than pure monarchs. However, a pure monarch deck won the national tournament recently. Monarchs are extremely versatile and easy to use. DDt is extremel;y expensive to build costing in the avenu of around 500$ to  make. monarchs genrally run all but granmarg. usually a full set of raiza and thestalos. THe have treeborn frog. A full set of brain controls.. a zaborg. one to two mobius. essentially all tribute monsters. with few exceptions. LIke some run legendary jujitsu master into their decks.