Skills and Techniqes Thursday

By : Seamus Allen

This article is about players skills and tactics they know not just me.

A lot of you may know some of these but hopefully you wont know some as I made some myself. Do not share these with any one apart from other cork players (after all this is a cork site) or Tom will throw you off the site!

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First lets talk about Reads.A Read is a method used by skilled players to make good assumption about your opponents hand and set cards.For example say your opponent sets a monster and a spell or trap. In your turn you summon a monster attack your opponents monster which happens to be a D.D scout plane and is destroyed. You now end your turn. Your opponent draws and sets the monster they just drew.In your turn you draw and see that you can do major swarm this turn.

You have drawn muarading captain. Should you risk swarming? What are the risks? Well for one your opponent could activate mirror force or torrential tribute to destroy all your monsters. Or you could attack into marshmallon are spirit reaper and then next turn your opponent could play vortex. Losing 3 monsters on your second turn could be enough to lose the game.

What information do you have on your opponent and his or her cards? Almost none you might awnser but we actualy know a lot about your opponent. Firstly they are using some remove from play deck probobly macro cosmos. How do we know this? Well from the D.D scout plane of course. Always stock pile as much information about your opponent as you can during the first and some times second duel. It will help with reads and also with side decking.

For instance you might be playing a player who happens to have lots of dark monsters. He migh have no allure of darkness or mystic tomatoes or dark themed cards just a lot of ordrinary dark monsters. You might not even notice yourself. but a good way of getting information about your opponent is looking through their graveyard (or remove from play zone)every so often to see what kinds of cards they use and study there personal or unusal choices. Now so you know your opponent plays lots of darks now what????

You can side shadow imprisoning mirror in for the next game! This example can also work with royal decree against a trap heavy deck. Now back to the duel. what could there face down spell or trap be?

Now heres how to do a read: Seeing as your against a macro cosmos deck could it be macro cosmos face down? no because other wise they would have activated it when you attacked.Using that logic it also means they dont have a dimensional fissure in the hand. Could it be a sak or dimensional prison? well put yourself into that persons shoes. They would have used either of the above traps to protect scout plane and hope to draw macro or D fissure next turn.

Could it be a mirror force or torrential? Unfortunetly you will have to come back next thursday for my next article. I appoligise as I did not get to show all the expert techniches I planned but i will show them next week in a more organised article.

See you then!

Well guys we hope we wetted your appetite enough for next week..