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The Synchros

Which Synchro Monsters should I summon? It really depends on the situation and on your opponent’s deck. In some situations it’s good to summon Stardust Dragon with protection if your opponent favors Raigeki Break and Mystical Space Typhoon. You summon Colossal Fighter when you are afraid of Dragon beatdown. Angel of Zera should be used in the late game or if you have to get over Ancient Fairy Dragon or Redox in defense position. Orient Dragon also got stronger due the popularity of AFD and I would not cut it from my Extra Deck simply because of that.

Overall, there are a lot of small things that you can do differently and the one who does them right will be the winner in the end. Patrik played 16 rounds at YCS London, 14 of those were Dragon Ruler mirrors. He must have done something right to win 12 of them. I think his deck was designed to beat the mirror and he also changed the way of how to play it. If you haven’t seen his interview yet then here’s your chance ;)

WHAT ABOUT YU-GI-OH! ITSELF?

Yu-Gi-Oh! is a great game where you can learn a lot if you play it competitively. If you trade, buy, and sell cards then you will learn how supply and demand in a market works. Whenever an event is won by a new deck the price for the cards of the winner’s deck list will increase a lot. Before the new Limited & Restricted List, the speculation starts and you will get a clue how some people in the finance market earn/lose their money.

I already explained how resource management can be learned from playing Dragon Ruler and learning from your past mistakes gives you the first lesson for programming. As a programmer, you have to write correct source code until it produces the result you want. Most of the time, there will be tiny mistakes in it and you have to redo it over and over again. In Yu-Gi-Oh!, it is the same with your mistakes. You have to analyze them and practice until they do not happen anymore.

If you travel together, then you will see how easy it is to find new friends inside the game. I got a lot of very close friendships with Yu-Gi-Oh! and I would never regret that I started to play that game.

One last message to the players:

About The Author:

Claudio Kirchmair is the President of United Gosus and has been a member since 2008. For more information on Claudio check out his member profile.

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