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Ten Thousand Negates (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Quest)

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[X] You've spent a long time dealing with his crap. Today, you're going to let him have both barrels. Let him know exactly what you think of him.
[X] "The life costs my opponent relies on are exploitable. I know he's never ready for his opponent to immediately go for the jugular."
 
[X] But you do not say them. He's looking for a rise from you, as he always is. Stone wall him. Let your cards do the talking.


[X] "The life costs my opponent relies on are exploitable. I know he's never ready for his opponent to immediately go for the jugular."
 
[X] But you do not say them. He's looking for a rise from you, as he always is. Stone wall him. Let your cards do the talking.
[X] "Without a critical mass of cards, my opponent cannot function. Constantly clearing his board will allow my standalone cards to prevail
 
[X] But you do not say them. He's looking for a rise from you, as he always is. Stone wall him. Let your cards do the talking.
[X] "The life costs my opponent relies on are exploitable. I know he's never ready for his opponent to immediately go for the jugular."
 
[X] He still doesn't get it. Walk him through exactly why you haven't destroyed him until now. Set the record straight.
[X] "The life costs my opponent relies on are exploitable. I know he's never ready for his opponent to immediately go for the jugular."
 
[X] He still doesn't get it. Walk him through exactly why you haven't destroyed him until now. Set the record straight
[X] "My opponent's big trick is going all in with a single push. I can just stop him from attacking and kill him with indirect damage."
Indirect damage he will do to him self too.

his deck seems familiar, like from a YouTube episode of jank. If he is running distructro tron, that psychic that is pay for back-row removal, it is our ideal to let him pay for snail and cyborg then negate attack!
 
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[X] But you do not say them. He's looking for a rise from you, as he always is. Stone wall him. Let your cards do the talking.
[X] "The life costs my opponent relies on are exploitable. I know he's never ready for his opponent to immediately go for the jugular."
 
Flintlock said:
[] But you do not say them. He's looking for a rise from you, as he always is. Stone wall him. Let your cards do the talking.
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I will point out, that this is probably what Rudy is expecting us to do. Ana up to this point has had to avoid making too many waves, lest she attract the animosity of other duelists in District 500. For that reason, I much prefer the other two options over staying silent. Staying silent is how we've been acting up til this point, and thus, Rudy isn't really going to be affected by it. The other choices at least have a chance to throw Rudy off or aggravate him into making a mistake.
 
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Sir Giraffe said:
@Flintlock btw, how exactly is our deck? Like, because of Kurikara, do we use FIRE monsters with fairy as our tribe? Or cards that switch control to our opponent to activate the effect there to make Kurikara easier to summon?
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As it currently stands, the MC doesn't even know Kurikara exists. Her deck is a mix of mostly just good stuff. The monster picked at the start wasn't meant to have an influence on the MC's deck outside of what summoning method she'll be focusing on to start with.

Birthday said:
I think "You're not sure why" got auto corrected to "not use why".

Ha! You know, that's good a reason as any for why Yugioh Protags have weirdass hair styles. I guess that means Ana is going to need a barber in the future.


Yeesh. I know underestimating your opponent is a bad idea and he's the tutorial fight, but man. Two 1's?
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Much obliged. That's not auto correct. That's just a failure of a connection between my brain, hands and eyes.

Them's the dice.

Also, I've left the MC's appearance undefined so far, so that I don't need to ask again when this happens to her.

ABalloonyChaos said:
Found it! Found the jank! For those who are not familiar with psychic .


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqkwnHFcOE0
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Imagine this, but without the stuff that made it actually work as a competitive strategy. I was mostly inspired by the gimped version of Psychics that you inevitably build in the old World Championship DS games, except without the synchros.

On an unrelated note, I still have one gripe with the character's name: Between the notable elements of her trump card and her name, there is an archetype that is implied that I really don't want to deal with (mostly on account of the fact that I'm aware it'd require a lot of custom work, I don't know how the deck is meant to be played, and I generally don't like the deck's game plan).
 
Shadowdrakon said:
Which one is that?

(Igknights?)
(True Kings? Agnimazud)

Those are the only ones I could think of.
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Fire Attribute
Main Deck Focused
Indian Surname

I won't blame you for not knowing of/remembering the existence of Fire Kings. They haven't been relevant in something like nine years outside Duel Links.

Good thing that neither the first nor third points are immediately binding; I already have a series of archetypes prepped as choices for the MC's actual starting deck.
 
[X] You've spent a long time dealing with his crap. Today, you're going to let him have both barrels. Let him know exactly what you think of him.
[X] "The life costs my opponent relies on are exploitable. I know he's never ready for his opponent to immediately go for the jugular."
 
Flintlock said:
I won't blame you for not knowing of/remembering the existence of Fire Kings. They haven't been relevant in something like nine years outside Duel Links.
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Fire Kings wouldn't gel well with Kurikara anyway. Garunix would wipe her off the board and Kurikara can't be summoned from the graveyard when that happens. Plus, like you said, they lack the support to make their archetype actually viable.
 
[X] You've spent a long time dealing with his crap. Today, you're going to let him have both barrels. Let him know exactly what you think of him.
[X] "The life costs my opponent relies on are exploitable. I know he's never ready for his opponent to immediately go for the jugular."
I don't want a Guile/Drive character to end up being the same taciturn 'better person' that every other protagonist on SV is.
 
[X] You've spent a long time dealing with his crap. Today, you're going to let him have both barrels. Let him know exactly what you think of him.
[X] "The life costs my opponent relies on are exploitable. I know he's never ready for his opponent to immediately go for the jugular."
 
[X] You've spent a long time dealing with his crap. Today, you're going to let him have both barrels. Let him know exactly what you think of him.
[X] "My opponent's big trick is going all in with a single push. I can just stop him from attacking and kill him with indirect damage."

changing my vote a bit. I Don't want be silent, but still think this is the better strategy that leaves room to react and doesn't get run into something unexpected.

I'm not familiar with every DS game. Nice to know we most likely won't run into some of the spells that get the right monsters on the field but still expecting target destruction from psychokinesis. Really is annoying that we don't know what kind of deck we are running but this seems like a "get in the water, to lean to swim" tutorial, so it is fine. Helps the story of it.
 
ABalloonyChaos said:
but still think this is the better strategy that leaves room to react and doesn't get run into something unexpected.
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The problem with "stall and deal indirect damage" is that it doesn't hamper his ability to fight back. Removing his monsters means we gain field advantage, going for the throat means we limit his ability to use his ability to use his monster effects. Stalling and dealing indirect damage doesn't actually stop him from amassing monsters and it doesn't stop him from using his monster effects since indirect damage is usually much smaller than direct damage.

This means that we'd probably be at a pretty big diaadvantage if he manages to blow our backrow away. Especially since he has Master Gig, and stalling him means he has plenty of time to summon Psychic monsters so he can clear our board.

Basically, the other 2 strategies stop Rudy from amassing the cards needed for his "one big push". So if he manages to beat our "argument" he still has to start from square 1. Stalling him means that by the time Rudy manages to bypass our defences, he's likely already got the cards needed for his big push on the field.
 
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Oh no, how could I forget Master Gig.. A monster that requires 2 tributes to be summoned an then pop a monster, at the cost of 1000 LP, may even three if he had a full board. Master Gig even has the amazing protection from, nothing.

To be serious I'm more scared of snail and Psychic Borg, as they hit above average to very hard for normal summons. Indirect damage would hamper his ability to play spells and monster effects without risking something like mirror force or mind control. I think all three plans could work, but all three plans could have him respond with counters. Telekinetic power well could have backfired the board wipe plan, mirror force or any disruption/floodgate for the rush life points. Some common twin twister or enough muscle on board can break through a defense play. The thing is I have a harder time thinking of cards that a psychic player could have that would brake a defense either without paying a good chunk of LP or doesn't have another cost like discard a card.
 
ABalloonyChaos said:
Indirect damage would hamper his ability to play spells and monster effects without risking something like mirror force or mind control.
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Maybe it's my understanding of what is considered "indirect damage" that's wrong? With how the options were laid out, I pictured "indirect damage" as burn damage. Damage via card effects that would chip away at his life points while we had backrow defense stopping Rudy from actually attacking. But maybe that's wrong?
 
[X] You've spent a long time dealing with his crap. Today, you're going to let him have both barrels. Let him know exactly what you think of him.
[X] "The life costs my opponent relies on are exploitable. I know he's never ready for his opponent to immediately go for the jugular."
 
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    • The option I voted for won, but why is my vote not being counted?
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    Yzarc said:
    The option I voted for won, but why is my vote not being counted?
    Adhoc vote count started by Yzarc on Sep 17, 2022 at 7:00 AM, finished with 35 posts and 19 votes.
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    I think I was late starting the vote and didn't put it back far enough, so your vote got missed.

    (I need to remember to not do that)

    EDIT: That said, the vote that was quoted did include yours since that appears to be the previous vote.

    EDIT2: Or not? Now it seems to be correct. I don't quite understand how that works, but I guess it is what it is?
     
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