Yu-Gi-Oh Dueling Thoughts. . .

well i've now played a total of 10 games against my friend's deck. . .and i've yet to lose to his deck with my yu-gi-oh deck.
it's not even completed yet. . .and i'm running some filler cards untill i recieve some of the cards i won off ebay a couple days ago (filler cards such as reflect bounder, soul exchange, gobline attack force, and a few others i'm forgetting at the moment).
i'm able to answer most things my friend can throw at me. . .his deck is a slow control deck, which runs alot of annoying flip effect monsters, and lots of annoying spells/traps (to stop me from attacking, or to mill my deck). his main win is to deck his opponent out.
my deck is quick, and trys to continously put on pressure. . .i'm always wanting to destroy what my opponent has on the feild, and to attack. . .it's a great deck because once i start gaining momentum, at a certian point i'm near unstopable.
i've also got a quick recovery time with my deck. . .when my friend plays a raigeki, or plays something i'm not expecting. . .i find myself able to recover quickly from it, and start the pressure once again.
some times the games we play come to stalls. . .he'll have a gravety bind up, and i'll have no answers. . .or something else will come up keeping me from attacking, and we'll pretty much just pass turns (he doesn't do alot of attacking).
i actualy enjoy it when it stalls. . .i think he thinks it's in his advantage to stall the game like this. . .what he doesn't realize is during this time, i'm also drawing into cards that will greatly punish him, once i do have an answer for the stall.
it's just a great deck. . .and it's able to find answers to my opponent's threats.
i'm proud that it's undefeated one on one, and i know it'll only become stronger within the next week, once i'm able to add a couple more cards. . .i'll have alot more answers to my friend's deck (mei-kou, gradmaster sasuke, sheild crush, royal decree, an extra nobleman of cross out and reinforcement of the army, etc.) my friend can't beat my deck right now (though he got close once. . .each other game, it wasn't even close). . .he'll have a much harder time with my deck once my cards come.
i'm trying not to brag too much. . .i actualy kinda feel bad for him. but he frustrates me. . .he's got a tremndous amount of cards, and he could easily build an extremely powerfull deck, that would be a great challenge for me to play against. . .but he just doesn't seem very good at deck building.
i refuse to help him tweak his deck (even though i truely believe i could make his deck much better, and much more consistant) because i don't want to argue with him. he's running alot of cards (i think it's over 80 cards), and there's tons and tons of cards i'd take out of his deck to drop the count, and to make the deck consistant for him. . .but he'd argue with me the whole time, telling me that the cards i'm taking out can't be taken out.
i don't like to get into arguements.

okay, now that i've talked about one on one games with my deck. . .let me talk a little about multiplayer games.
frankly. . .my deck sucks in multiplayer, all vs. all games. . .of course it doesn't help that everyone starts out at 24,000 points either.
my deck does okay at first. . .but i simply run out of answers, and run out of threats when having to go against more then one player.
i played 2 3 player all vs. all games last night, and the first game i did alright for awhile. i had strong answers to alot of my 2 friend's answers, and was able to keep pressure on both of them.
but i can only keep it up for so long. . .i can't answer both decks at the same time, it's just too much for my deck.
i lost both games (i was the first out on the first game).

i'd also like to add about my friend's deck (the one i was speaking about above). . .it does alot better in multiplayer games. it's made to be a slow deck, so he can get all set up. . .so multiplayer helps his deck out alot.

maybe my deck just can't handle multiplayer. . .or maybe it's my play style. perhads i'm trying to be too aggressive, and over extending myself to early in the game (and the games tend to last quite awhile).
my deck is solid. . .it's not great (i don't believe you can build a great deck at anymore then 45 cards in yu-gi-oh. . .i'd love to cut my deck down to 40 cards, which would boost the consistancy of my deck tremendously. . .unfortunently anything under 60 cards just isn't enough in 24,000 point games. . .especialy with my friend who's goal is to deck his opponents out).
but it is a solid deck. i'm going to have to really pay attention next time i play some multiplayer games. . .take some notes (perhaps i'll take a note pad with me, and keep track of things) of how aggressive i'm being.
perhaps it's not my deck that sucks in multiplayer. . .but me. if it is me, i'm positive i can change that, and learn to become better, and make better decisions in multiplayer.
or i could just say screw it all, and build a completely broken deck (like the exchange first turn kill deck i have posted below). . .lol, just bring a deck that wins in a really cheap way :p. . .but where's the fun in that? (it would be fun to see the looks on my friend's faces lol).

anyhow, i'm completely obssesed with yu-gi-oh once again, so i'll be keeping you posted on how i'm doing, and any changes to my deck i make.
i'm really determined to figure out what i'm doing wrong in multiplayer. . .or what i need to do to my deck to be stronger in multi games.

till next time,
thnx.