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4 (15.4%)

Freeform Duels/Storydriven duels

7 (26.9%)

IRC Chatroom

2 (7.7%)

Which time period should this be done in?

1 (3.8%)

Before GX

5 (19.2%)

During GX

3 (11.5%)

After GX

4 (15.4%)

Total Members Voted: 14

[Rolepgeek]

So we aren't using Synchro monsters, then?

Aww. Oh well.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Edit: So, we're doing this After GX? Awwww.

I might actually have to research what happened in GX!

Spoiler: Angel Carlson (click to show/hide)

Age: Whatever a first-year student would be.
Appearance: A short, red-haired girl who wears green clothes.
Duel Spirits: Sure, why not?
Backstory: Don't you hate when you have a game where the background's going to be simple, generally because your characters aren't supposed to be particularly special to begin with, and yet it's asked for in a single, unspecified line? It makes me want to write a melodramatically-tragic description of my character's childhood.
Angel was a kid. She grew up. What do you want me to say?
Something about her parents? Alright. Her father works in a card factory and her mother hoped to be a quantum physicist before she got pregnant with Angel in college. Her father can get some blank trading cards, but I don't think those come up in GX.

Spoiler: Deck v1 (click to show/hide)

I need to check to make sure I didn't go over any limits. Sorry if I did!

Monsters (23):
Battle Fader x2 [50*2]
Bio Plant x2 [1*2]
Blast Asmodian x2 [1*2]
Broww, Huntsman of Dark World x2 [20*2]
Chaos Hunter x3 [70*3] I may need to change this.
Dark Necrofear x1 [40*1]
Evil HERO Infernal Gainer x1 [1*1] Huh. A neat card that started as Common!
Evil HERO Malicious Edge x1 [30*1]
Flame Ogre x1 [1*1]
Fusion Devourer x1 [20*1]
Grave Squirmer x2 [30*2]
Gren Maju Da Eiza x1 [1*1]
Lava Golem x2 [40*2] I used to have one of these! Huh. I wonder how many of my old Yugioh cards were rare.
Stray Asmodian x2 [1*2]
Trance Archfiend x1 [1?*1]
Total: 520 points. Better hope I found a lot of Commons...

Spells (12):
Dark Fusion x1 [20*1]
Final Countdown x2 [1*2]
Gold Sarcophagus x1 [40*1]
Guarded Treasure x1 [1?*1]
Nightmare's Steel Cage x1 [1*1]
One Day of Peace x1 [1*1]
Solidarity x2 [20*2]
Swords of Revealing Light x3 [30*3]
Running Total: 695. I knew I'd have to rebuild, but let's finish checking the damage...

Traps (5):
Return from the Different Dimension x1 [1*1]
Thunder of Ruler x2 [1*2]
Waboku x2 [1*2]
Running Total: 700 even; traps didn't add much. But let's add another fair chunk...


Fusion:
Evil HERO Malicious Fiend x1 [40*1]
Final Total: 740

It's a bit of a chaotic deck, with major elements of a couple different decks, but I'm hoping this will make it flexible (and hence give multiple distinct ways to win without bending the rules) without crippling it too much. Certainly, it should be fun to play.

Alright. Once I double-check my deck I'll be ready. I'll get on that right away, but class, dinner, general lack of knowledge of what I was doing, and such has forced me to delay this long enough!
EDIT: Now to chop 90 points off!
EDIT2:

Spoiler: Deck v2 (click to show/hide)

Monsters (23):
Battle Fader x2 [50*2]
Bio Plant x2 [1*2]
Blast Asmodian x2 [1*2]
Broww, Huntsman of Dark World x2 [20*2]
Chaos Hunter x2 [70*2] I may need to change this.
Dark Necrofear x1 [40*1]
Evil HERO Infernal Gainer x1 [1*1] Huh. A neat card that started as Common!
Evil HERO Malicious Edge x1 [30*1]
Flame Ogre x1 [1*1]
Fusion Devourer x1 [20*1]
Grave Squirmer x3 [30*3]
Gren Maju Da Eiza x1 [1*1]
Lava Golem x2 [40*2] I used to have one of these! Huh. I wonder how many of my old Yugioh cards were rare.
Stray Asmodian x2 [1*2]
Trance Archfiend x1 [1?*1]
Total: 480 points. Better than last time.

Spells (12):
Dark Fusion x1 [20*1]
Final Countdown x2 [1*2]
Gold Sarcophagus x1 [40*1]
Guarded Treasure x1 [1?*1]
Nightmare's Steel Cage x3 [3*1]
One Day of Peace x1 [1*1]
Solidarity x2 [20*2]
Swords of Revealing Light x1 [1*30]
Running Total: 597. Should be good now.

Traps (5):
Return from the Different Dimension x1 [1*1]
Thunder of Ruler x2 [1*2]
Waboku x2 [1*2]
Running Total: 602 uneven. Shame, but whatya gonna do?


Fusion:
Evil HERO Malicious Fiend x1 [40*1]
Final Total: 642, just in the limit.

It's a bit of a chaotic deck, with major elements of a couple different decks, but I'm hoping this will make it flexible (and hence give multiple distinct ways to win without bending the rules) without crippling it too much. Certainly, it should be fun to play.

Spoiler: Deck v3 (click to show/hide)

Monsters (22):
Battle Fader x1 [50*1]
Bio Plant x2 [1*2]
Blast Asmodian x2 [1*2]
Broww, Huntsman of Dark World x2 [20*2]
Chaos Hunter x2 [70*2] I may need to change this.
Dark Necrofear x1 [40*1]
Evil HERO Infernal Gainer x1 [1*1] Huh. A neat card that started as Common!
Evil HERO Malicious Edge x1 [30*1]
Flame Ogre x1 [1*1]
Fusion Devourer x1 [20*1]
Grave Squirmer x3 [30*3]
Gren Maju Da Eiza x1 [1*1]
Lava Golem x2 [40*2] I used to have one of these! Huh. I wonder how many of my old Yugioh cards were rare.
Stray Asmodian x2 [1*2]
Trance Archfiend x2 [10*2]
Total: 449 points due to a mistake being fixed. Ironically enough, the mistake-fixing lead to one more of that critter being added.

Spells (12):
Dark Fusion x1 [20*1]
Final Countdown x2 [1*2]
Gold Sarcophagus x1 [40*1]
Guarded Treasure x1 [1?*1]
Nightmare's Steel Cage x3 [3*1]
One Day of Peace x1 [1*1]
Solidarity x2 [20*2]
Swords of Revealing Light x1 [1*30]
Running Total: 566.

Traps (5):
Return from the Different Dimension x1 [1*1]
Thunder of Ruler x2 [1*2]
Waboku x2 [1*2]
Running Total: 571, well within the limit


Fusion:
Evil HERO Malicious Fiend x1 [40*1]
Final Total: 611, easily in the limit.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Edit: So, we're doing this After GX? Awwww.

I might actually have to research what happened in GX!

Actually, it's a tie before and after right now (sort of a tie between all, since I desired before for a year and then during, but there was no option for that so I put it at before).  Also, did you do totaling of deck cost?  Formula is two posts above yours in the quote, and Blitz said the limit for the exams is 650.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I didn't when I posted, I have now, and I'm currently shaving off the extra.
EDIT: That was fast.

[Rolepgeek]

Name: Daethwin Riesston
Age: 16
Appearance: Long dark hair, a pretty face, and a penchant for wearing androgynous clothing leave many people confused as to Daeth's true gender, especially when looked at together with the duelist's ambiguous facial features and the fact that no one knows what dorm they sleep in...
Duel Spirits: Sometimes. Only when the Duel Spirits want to be seen, typically.
Backstory: Daethwin rarely talks about the past, and those who know the duelist well can only really say that Daethwin has some dark memories, as something happened to them earlier in life that they refuse to speak of, but affects them to this day. It has certainly affected their Deck choice, and Daethwin seems to prefer to use mostly Light and Dark attribute cards, when he can.
Deck:

Spoiler: Dragontech Compulsor (click to show/hide)

Main Deck:
Monsters:
2x Cyber Dragon (30x2)
Cyber Dragon Zwei (20)
Cyber Dragon Drei (30)
3x Proto-Cyber Dragon (20)
Cyber Valley (30)
Cyber Phoenix (30)
Cyber Barrier Dragon (20)
3x Fusilier Dragon, The Dual-Mode Beast (1)
Twin-Barrel Dragon (30)
2x Heavy Mech Support Platform (1)
Perfect Machine King (40)
2x Machine King (1)
3x Machine King Prototype(1)


Spells:
Limiter Removal (20)
Machine Assembly Line (1)
Overload Fusion (1)
Power Bond (40)
Solidarity (20)
Machina Armored Unit (1)
Second Coin Toss (20)
De-Fusion (30)

2x Cyber Repair Plant (1)
Inferno Reckless Summon (30)

Traps:
2x DNA Surgery (1)
Return from the Different Dimension (20)
Scrap-Iron Scarecrow (1)
Cyber Network (1)
Roll Out! (1)
Attack Reflector Unit (1)

Side Deck:
Swords of Revealing Light
Rivalry of Warlords
Cyber Repair Plant
Ojama Trio
Machina Fortress
Cyber Eltanin
Cyber Phoenix
Evolution Burst
Armoured Cybern
Light of Intervention
Twin-Barrel Dragon
2xCyber Larva
2x Polymerization

Extra Deck:
Chimeratech Fortress Dragon (40)
Cyber Twin Dragon (30)

I'm bad at deck-building because I can't choose cards not to take.
So, now I need to check what points that is and such. Some of them are probably side-deck and such, by the way. I dunno. >.<

[Rolepgeek]

Two things.

1. How do I figure out whether a card is common, rare, or other?
2. Anyone have pointers for how I could cut down on the size of this deck? >.<

[GreatWyrmGold]

Two things.

1. How do I figure out whether a card is common, rare, or other?
2. Anyone have pointers for how I could cut down on the size of this deck? >.<

1. Check the Yugioh Wiki. There should be lists of TCG sets the card was in. Click on the top one and see what the first listing's rarity was.
2. ...Add less cards? I dunno, I'd give advice but I'm not good at Yugiohing.

[Rolepgeek]

Cyber Dragon was Super Rare.

Whut. >.>

How am I supposed to make a bloody Cyber Dragon deck like this? Argh.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Cyber Dragon was Super Rare.

Whut. >.>

How am I supposed to make a bloody Cyber Dragon deck like this? Argh.

You can start by removing cards.  There is a minimum of 40, but Yugioh also has a maximum of 60, and I counted that many with some remaining.  Fusion monsters don't count towards the limit of cards (they do count t, since they are in the extra deck, which has an independent maximum (15).  You can drop up to 15 cards in a side deck, meaning you will have them, but they cannot be used in the duel.  Since they are unused in the duel, the side deck cards don't count towards the 650 point limit.

Edit: Also, you may want to check the Forbidden (cannot have those cards), Limited (only one copy of these cards) and Semi-limited (only two of these cards) listings under the TCG advanced column to determine if you can have those cards, as well as keeping in mind that you can only max out at 3 cards.  Finally, for ease of reading, put a multiplier behind a card if you have more than one copy, rather than listing it twice.

[Culise]

Cyber Dragon was Super Rare.

Whut. >.>

How am I supposed to make a bloody Cyber Dragon deck like this? Argh.

Hmmm, well, when I was doing Gishki for this, I ran into the situation that the lowest Duel Terminal rarity is Super Rare, and almost all of your aces rank at Secret Rare.  Cyber Dragon's actually pretty easy, compared to that. ^_^
1. The 1400/1200 searchers were all Common - Shining Angel can tutor any LIGHT monster with 1500 ATK or below, and you can get a full set of three for just 3 DP.  This includes Proto-Cyber Dragon and Cyber Dragon Zwei, both of which are only Rare.  Cyber Dragon Core is Super Rare, but for free searching *and* CyDra replacement...
2. The Light - Hex-Sealed Prison is Common.  For 3 DP, you get a full set of cards that can actually summon any CyTwin or CyEnd by bypassing the "Fusion Summon" requirement, because they don't Fusion Summon (they only do a generic Special Summon) if you use their own effect.
3. Likewise, Polymerization itself was a Common.  Astonishingly, so is Overload Fusion, though with Future Fusion banned, it's a bit harder to dump into the graveyard for that delicious OTK. 
4. Your most expensive ace cards, Cyber End Dragon, Cyber Twin Dragon, and Chimeratech Overdragon are a bit spendy at Ultimate Rare (50 DP).  However, since it'll always be at hand in your Extra Deck, you only *really* need one for starters, and you can economize further by only going with two of the three - buy the third later. 
5. Chimeratech Fortress Dragon is cheaper at Super Rare, and is also compatible with the entertaining (and cheap-as-dirt Common) DNA Surgery. 
6. We're almost certainly doing story, not actual duels, so you don't need to optimize for dueling.  That means that goofy stuff that worked in the anime, like the Cyber Barrier and Cyber Laser Dragons, can be pulled out by rule of drama, and you can promote to the actual power-cards later. 
6a. For more practical economization, Cyber Eltanin is also only a rare. 
7. Photon Lead (Common) + Inferno Reckless Summon (Super Rare) used on Proto-Cyber Dragon or Cyber Dragon Core pulls out up to three actual Cyber Dragons, not just "this card's name is treated as" cards.  And you haven't used your Normal Summon yet. 

Actually, I kinda want to use my Gishki deck now...it would offer more scope for advancement over the course of the story as well...

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

GreatWyrm, you're one outside the limit.  The Trance Archfiend is valued at 10, since it is labeled SP, short print, which has a value of 10.  Only saw that because of the question mark as I was slicing out the version 1 for the compiled list.

[GreatWyrmGold]

GreatWyrm, you're one outside the limit.  The Trance Archfiend is valued at 10, since it is labeled SP, short print, which has a value of 10.  Only saw that because of the question mark as I was slicing out the version 1 for the compiled list.

Oh.
Gosh dangit.
Fixed. One more Trance Archfiend!

[Rolepgeek]

Alright. Hopefully fixed/good deck now. We'll see how I've screwed up, I suppose...

[TCM]

If we're going Freeform/Story-based Dueling, why are Deck Limitations and Forbidden/Restricted Cards such important factors?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

If we're going Freeform/Story-based Dueling, why are Deck Limitations and Forbidden/Restricted Cards such important factors?

On Limitations: What incentive would there be to attempt to improve your deck if you can have the perfect straight from the beginning?

On Forbidden/Restricted: Cards have been stated to be illegal or restricted in the anime and manga.  In order to keep with the setting, we would need to have there be Forbidden/Restricted Cards.  TCG advanced is being used since there is no complete listing of the anime and manga's Forbidden/Restricted cards.