This reminds me of my best friend. Growing up he played yugioh, to the point he made it to nationals in Chicago and got invited to play in japan. He would min max a deck with cards that are “banned” now and would make the morbidly obese manchilds rage (like the ones in this article) he probably made over 2k just playing local tournaments which was good money for a 13/14 year old and he’s been selling old cards lately for even more.
That and he ran a deck slightly over the minimum card limit. Can’t remember what specific cards he used, but he basically speed ran through his deck while the sweaties were running max card decks.
You’d be surprised. It was the advent of things like Dueling Network that really allowed people to test outside of their local playgroup and started consolidating knowledge and theory. But even into early 5Ds era, I’m pretty sure it’s possible to find occasional tournament deck lists that did put up actual results doing silly things like running Upstart Goblin in a 41 card deck.
This reminds me of my best friend. Growing up he played yugioh, to the point he made it to nationals in Chicago and got invited to play in japan. He would min max a deck with cards that are “banned” now and would make the morbidly obese manchilds rage (like the ones in this article) he probably made over 2k just playing local tournaments which was good money for a 13/14 year old and he’s been selling old cards lately for even more.
Because he liked to use POT OF GREED, allowing him to draw two more cards from his deck???
That and he ran a deck slightly over the minimum card limit. Can’t remember what specific cards he used, but he basically speed ran through his deck while the sweaties were running max card decks.
Everyone knew you needed as small a deck as possible to be effective.
You’d be surprised. It was the advent of things like Dueling Network that really allowed people to test outside of their local playgroup and started consolidating knowledge and theory. But even into early 5Ds era, I’m pretty sure it’s possible to find occasional tournament deck lists that did put up actual results doing silly things like running Upstart Goblin in a 41 card deck.