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| - Apart from the RULES of Deck building, here's advice on how to do it well from a competitive player:
* Try never to exceed 43 cards, keep as close to 40 as possible
* Stick to 1 or 2 main themes, only use 2 if they work together. Sticking a load of strong monsters in a Deck won't get you very far.
* No Normal Monsters without a VERY good reason.
* Around 20-23 monsters, 12-16 Spells and very few traps. Most traps should be staples (Mirror Force, Solemn Judgement, Bottomless Trap Hole, Dimensional Prison, Trap Hole, Royal Oppression, Torrential Tribute, Dark Bribe and Skill Drain are considered among the few usable trap cards)
* Very few level 5 or above monsters in the main Deck unless they have an EASY TO USE effect that Summons them from your hand - even a Monarch Deck,
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| - Apart from the RULES of Deck building, here's advice on how to do it well from a competitive player:
* Try never to exceed 43 cards, keep as close to 40 as possible
* Stick to 1 or 2 main themes, only use 2 if they work together. Sticking a load of strong monsters in a Deck won't get you very far.
* No Normal Monsters without a VERY good reason.
* Around 20-23 monsters, 12-16 Spells and very few traps. Most traps should be staples (Mirror Force, Solemn Judgement, Bottomless Trap Hole, Dimensional Prison, Trap Hole, Royal Oppression, Torrential Tribute, Dark Bribe and Skill Drain are considered among the few usable trap cards)
* Very few level 5 or above monsters in the main Deck unless they have an EASY TO USE effect that Summons them from your hand - even a Monarch Deck, based on level 6 monsters, only normally runs 6 of them (3 Caius and 3 Raiza)
* Unless a card is Limited or Semi-Limited on the ban-list, it's probably best to run 3 of them, since it will increase consistency.
* Do not use a card just because it's part of a "combo", a card should work on it's own or with MOST other cards in your Deck before you include it.
* A strategy that will definitely win, in other words, inflict 8000 or more damage, should not be more than 4 cards, since you might as well be using Exodia if it's 5 or more. And (almost) all those cards should, like I said above, work without the full combo.
* Check what cards fit into the Deck online, probably with the yugioh wikia, then buy them individually, this is probably the best way to get a Deck. Just using cards you got from a small number of Packs or Tins is unlikely to yield a good Deck.
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