Deck Construction

Contents

What They Think
The Perfect Deck
Other Tips

What They Think

Most people think the perfect deck relies on powerful monsters, and rare magic/trap cards. They think the stronger the monsters in your deck the better. Most people would trade in all there magic cards and trap cards from there deck for Obolisk the Tormentor, and Slyfer the Sky Dragon. And to add to that they'd give up all there week monsters for a Winged Dragon of Raw card. On average this is someone's 50 card deck:

• 13 magic cards
• 10 trap cards
• 9 weak monsters (below 2000)
• 18 powerful monsters (above 2000)

The Perfect Deck

The perfect deck in duel monsters doesn't mean powerful monsters, infact it really depends on the magic and trap cards to support it. Take the duel layout for an example:

 
 _______
|       |
|       |Monster Zone
|       |
|       |
|_______|
 _______
|       |
|       |Magic &
|       |Trap Card Zone
|       |
|_______|

The top of the image represents the monster card zone and the Magic/Trap Card Zone. Realize that it shows the monster on the magic card? This is because the monster depends on the magic card to support it.

Here's the list of the perfect decks quantity of cards:

• 12 magic cards
• 12 trap cards
• 13 weak monsters
• 13 strong monsters

See how this makes more sense? It's what we duelists call a balanced deck. It has an equal amount of everything.
Why does it need 13 weak monsters?
The perfect deck has to be able to win in several ways. It has to win if you're playing tribute, multiple attacks, or both, or vice versa. It has to enable you to win by depleting life points or by enduring until your opponent runs out of cards to draw.

Other Tips

Here's a list of dueling tips you might want to know:

• Make sure you have to or more field cards.
• Have practise duels with friends.
• Test yourself.
• Look for monsters with good affects.
• Make sure you have boost up cards and helpful trap cards.
• Remember, all cards are helpful, ask me, once I was dueling, and the guy didn't come near loosing. He had one face up monster on the field, whereas I had two. I drew the last card of my deck, and to surprice it was fissure. Can you believe my luck!!!!

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