Name: Daniel Black
Sex: Male
Age: 25

Appearance: If using a description.

Duel Disk: It's a typical Duel Disk, but the round part is painted to resemble a grinning skull.
Duel Runner: A dirtbike he can drive with great skill.

Speed Duel Skill:
 DEATH THE CRISIS- Once per turn, if you control a zombie-type Ritual monster, you can shuffle 2 banished Zombie-type monsters or Ritual spells into your deck.
Ace Monster: Revendread Dangerous
Deck Master Ability: If a zombie type monster would be destroyed, you can send one card from the top of your deck to your graveyard. If you do, it is not destroyed. Once per duel: shuffle your graveyard into your deck.

Personality: Dan appears to be a polite and humble man, both with a sense of sympathy and compassion. He's a jolly fellow, quick to laugh. Despite this, he's quite quick to anger- especially when people question his artistic decisions. He's always under a lot of stress- Pegasus is a tough man to work with. His non-Duel Monsters hobbies include BMX and motorycles... but his greatest passion is trashy zombie movies.
 
History: Dan Black is a card designer at Industrial Illusions- not only does he help to create the game, but he loves playing it as well. He's been working on Duel Monsters since the days of Duelist Kingdom. At first, Special Summoning was something that happened maybe once, twice a duel, that could turn the tide of the entire match. Ritual summons symbolized arcane forces offering powerful monsters in exchange for tribute. Fusions were a way to get out more powerful monsters using your weaker ones. Granted, the game was still a mess in its early phases, but it had a lot of fun to it- just ask the participants in the duelist kingdom. They seemed to love Dan's work on programming Newtonian physics into the engine of the holographic platforms. But, that was removed for the sake of "streamlining" the game. Confusing, but understandable.

Dan kept working on Duel Monsters, making sure his beloved Zombie type monsters got plenty of generic support- something that makes them a bit more viable than, say, Reptiles or Rocks. The zombie archetypes appreciate the support as well. For a few years, they tried introducing new concepts- Union, Spirit, and Gemini monsters. Well, nobody liked Spirit or Gemini monsters, but certain Union monsters saw play from folks like Seto Kaiba. Fusion monsters- alternate summoning conditions like XYZ Tank Dragon Cannon, fusion-based archetypes like Elemental HEROs and Predaplants, and monsters with generic materials. What he [i]didn't[/i] understand was, after all the experimentation with Fusion and Effect monsters, Pegasus decided to roll out Synchros. Okay, sure, they messed up the game for a while, but the metagame adapted, and they were a refinement of the existing Fusion concept- Small monsters into something big. And people could still run decks that didn't rely on Synchro's 100%. But then, Pegasus forced them to introduce three new mechanics at once- Pendulum, XYZ, and Links. Now, Dan wasn't averse to introducing new cards or mechanics- but three at once was a bit much for the metagame.

Well, he was okay with the introduction of the new cards... until he came to a horrible realization. Someone had made the Link monsters the same blue as Ritual monsters... and forgot to make any zombie ones. Well, that wouldn't stand, and he needed to protect the image of his beloved zombies. Thankfully, he had a pretty good record in low-stakes duel tournaments between various offices near the California branch of Industrial Illusions- and got an invitation to the grand opening of Kaiba World. Using his Vendread deck, he hopes to eternally cement the glory of both Ritual monsters and Zombies!

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Total: 60 cards

Monsters (25)
Djinn Releaser of Rituals x1
Djinn Demolisher of Rituals x2
Vendread Hordehound x2
Vendread Revenants x2
Revendread Dangerous x1
Revendread Slayer x2
Scapeghost x1
Tristan, Knight of the Underworld x2
Gozuki x2
Mezuki x3
Shutendoji x2
Samurai Skull x1
Zombie Master x2
Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon x2

Spells: (25)
Zombie World x2
Book of Life x2
Revendread Origin x3
Fulfillment of the contract x2
Preparation of Rites x2
Soul Charge x3
Ritual Cage x1
Recurring Nightmare x2
Veil of Darkness x1
Ritual Weapon x2
Foolish Burial x2
Call of the Mummy x1
The Grass That Looks greener x2
Pre-Preparation of Rites x1

Traps: (10)
Urgent RItual Art x2
Vendread Reorigin x1
Grisaille Prison x2
return from the DARK Dimension x2
Dark Illusion x3

Extra Deck: TBD [/hider]
[hider=Speed Deck:] A deck used for Speed Duels. The deck size will be 20-40 cards in the main with up to 10 cards in the Extra Deck.[/hider]
[hider=Turbo Deck:] 
Monsters: (22) 
Djinn Releaser of Rituals x1
Djinn Demolisher of Rituals x2
Vendread Hordehound x2
Vendread Revenants x2
Revendread Dangerous x1
Revendread Slayer x2
Scapeghost x1
Gozuki x2
Mezuki x3
Shutendoji x2
Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon x2
Pain Painter x2

Speed Spells: 19
Contract with the Abyss x2
Book of Life x3
Allure of Darkness x2
Preparation of Rites x1
Metamorphosis x1
Nobleman of Extermination x2
Rapid Shotwing x1
Accelerator Draw x2
Speed Jammer x3
Half Seize x1
Summon Speeder x2

Traps: 19
Acceleration Zone x3
Speed Booster x2
Speed Edge x2
Full Throttle x2
Urgent RItual Art x2
Vendread Reorigin x1
Grisaille Prison x2
return from the DARK Dimension x2
Dark Illusion x3

Extra Deck: 
Elder Entity N'tiss
Gaia Drake, the Universal Force
Ojama King
Last Warrior From Another Planet
Doomkaiser Dragon x2
Archfiend Zombie-Skull x2
Revived King Ha Des x2
T.G. Hyper Librarian[/hider]
[hider=Dungeon Dice:]
Shadow Specter
Pumpking, the King of Ghosts
Dokurorider
The Snake Hair
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[hider=Revendread Dangerous]
Revendread Dangerous
Level 10 Ritual Dark/Zombie Effect monster
2500 / 0
This card can be Ritual Summoned using Contract with the Abyss. If you do, you do not need to match its level exactly. You can use any number of levels for the Ritual Summon of this monster, and if you ritual summon it, treat all its tributes as if they were on the field. While on the field, you can choose to treat this monster as Level 0. If this monster would be destroyed, you can send the top card of your deck to the graveyard, and it is not destroyed.
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