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The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

I was going to post a bit with Ben but my mouse fucked me and sent me backward to my previous page as I was editing the post so I'll get him in next post.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

"Hmph that was quick. That guy got into light dorm? That's almost as much as a joke as I am in this dorm. I guess they got the dorms backwards." Andre muttered as he watched the duel end and he started to clap though he tried his best to hide the sarcastic undertone he had to his clap by making it go a little faster. Given the circumstances he doubt he could've done any better due to his own lack of skill with action fields. However he did note that he had outs to some of these guys. Skill Drain, Royal Decree went a long way. Hell even sinister Yoshirio went well with his deck. The problem mainly being it was so damn slow...the trade of being some of his cards having outs to targeting effects like Skull Archfiend. Still he couldn't help but not like his odds against some of these cards. Also he couldn't help but think of Vincient's attitude as a bit overboard. Though he wasn't one to talk...he had after all been quite pissy with that one kid...what was his name? Haas? Though he believed he had right too with him bouncing his archfiends back to his hand like the after effects of a bad date and his first attack being stopped so cleanly. He wondered if that Haas kid had been simply unlucky or was his starting deck really in need of some structure? He thought it being the latter. Regardless Ben hadn't even made it back yet and the first duel was done. That bode bad for Ben. Hey it was his fault for being such a massive pain.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

Yes and once you summon Arthur he can be tribute sacrificed using one of my above mentioned cards. In my opening duel I had the option of going for Merlin, borz, excaliburn, borz's effect, medraut next turn and smacking Angelo around like a rag doll. Instead I opened up with Peredur and nearly go my head handed to me on a silver platter by dragunity. According to Jag he should've won that duel earlier too if not for a mistake he made in doing his plays. I don't intend to be summoning a level 5 king unless Ben is in the dire need to. He's not Andre who would summon his Archfiend Emperor of Horror with Sinister Yoshiro second turn and run over people like small children n a construction zone. Likewise once cards are banished...I'm out of luck. I can't get them back. Also if I don't get Exaliburn for one reason or another a book of moon flips Artorgius over and removes his cards. He can get magical clyinder'd, he can get negate attacked. Artorgius at his worst does 4000 which may be the life point limit here but i need literally all the noble arms equipped to Artorgius and as mentioned I don't intend on having Ben go full on ham with Artorgius and run rough shot over everyone unless they pull out a similar big play or Ben sees one coming in the near future. Ben likes tough duels and he's more than happy to just bring out medraut and borz and not xyz summon. This is fore most a ROLEPLAY and that's what I've been trying to do with Ben. Bringing up his deck at the moment will just end up with me throwing more cards into the deck than needed. Get merlin down to two or one? I put in swords of revealing light and or call of the haunted. Likewise Merlin is a glorfied ROTA that can attack you just like how U.A Signing contract is a rota that makes you play life points.

I also don't have ROTA in my own build so merlin replaces on of those. Would you prefer i throw merlin away and just get rota? All that does is prevent me from calling out laudsallyn turn one to go for a big play with medraut next turn or set up for a super laudsallyn. Likewise I don't even need artorgius. Why not just put destiny, caliburn, and exacaliburn on peredur and have a super peredur? Artorgius isn't the problem the noble arms are and without noble arms I got literally nothing to work with and i already only have one caliburn and noble arms gallatin so that leaves me with three noble arms of destiny (used to be two but since i drew one in the opening pack i got three throwing out the exchange of night and day which was literally a dead card in my deck) which becomes two possible dead cards in my hand if i already have it in the field and two excaliburn which don't re-equip. Overall I'm standing firm in saying while my deck is strong it's not as ridiculous are people are making it seem by way of all this talk about my archetype dominating my deck.

I use merlin as a seacher, maxx 'c' becomes a dead card against non-special summoners, i don't have any way of searching cards other than milling them into the grave, artorgius can be gotten over by non-targeting effects or cards that flip him once he has no excaliburn, he can be completely blocked by skill drain, and i have an disproportionate amount of noble arms destiny which don't save him completely. Dark hole him and then try to blow him up or run him over somehow and he goes to the grave then run over medraut or whoever i don't bring out.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

Yes I built Ben's deck to be based completely around the noble knights because that's what they worked best on but i didn't put in galvachad, i didn't put in artorgius, i didn't put in the field card, and i didn't put in eachter, avalon (you know banish five knights and pop the entire field), and i completely neglected to put in laudsallyn's noble arms (it's spelling evades me and ammo said to remove it so i did). I made a build based around the king himself. I could put in lightstray grepher, dawn knight, and a few other cards but all those do is put more noble knights in my grave or let my mill more of those cards in to my graveyard. Or you know Honest. Honest solves a lot of problems.

While I admit that Ben's deck is stronger than some decks, it also heavily relies on drawing the right cards. Also I don't intend to play Ben as a power player. He brought out Artorgius in his first match up only because he had no other way out of the situation at hand. If he could've fought Angelo with him or high laudsallyn he would've. I don't intend to be spamming the hell out of Ben's cards unless he feels he has to. I just played a couple test rounds on yugioh pro against the ai and due to the ai for some reason constantly getting stupidly good hands that i would never get he wrecked Andre's deck rather easily which more than likely won't end up happening here due to my own player put constraints.

Likewise Noble Knights Aren't spellbooks. I can't just spam the hell out of them. the most i get out with my build is noble knight borz, meduraut, and gawayn (that's three cards from my hand right there (medraut, gawayn, a noble arms) and one removed from my deck) two of which are in defense mode with piss defense unless i got destiny on gawayn or borz or the queen on borz. The King Artorgius is the power monster here and he gets blown to hell if he doesn't have his arms protecting him. Unlike spellbooks skill drain murders any chance i have of mounting any sort of strategy unless i get gawayn in and special summon a level 4 and have a noble arms, i can get trap holed, i can get my monsters banished or even my arms banished. Spell books you play the cards and you don't need to worry about them unless they somehow got horus out. In fact horus fucks me pretty hard too. Likewise my monster can be tribute summoned.

It's when Artorgius comes out with his giant fist and punches you in the face is when you need to worry about things. If things have gone completely right that means he has a bunch of equips and can't be destroyed or targeted like my first duel. If things go horribly wrong you got a 2(2/0)00 beater who can't pop anything in the case of the level four or is only good for holding your ground for a turn with two noble arms at his disposal. Lava Golemn, level 5-8 with monarchs stormforth, destiny hero plasma (without king having excaliburn), and volcanic queen can completely circumvent artorgius and just remove him as a none factor and if there are no other noble knights i just spent a good chunk of my deck and strategy pulling out a field with little to no defense and i need to get lucky and either pull last chapter or another medraut and hope i have a queen in my grave to bring out noble knight level 4.

Likewise he can be stepped on. U.A's are a perfect example of that. Stadium, midfielder, U.A Dreadnaught dunker, U.A Power Jersey 4000 atk, punch artorgius in the face, blow up his excaliburn, swap out for perfect ace, discard card next turn if he tries to activate his effect. If you're even luckier use U.A Penalty Box to just remove him from play for two turns burying all of the noble arms and he comes back without material or noble arms.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

You're really going to go throwing stones at me dude? If I remember correctly the GM doesn't want us using pre-made structure decks as there was an example when I was thinking of giving Ben cyber dragons I remember Ammo saying something about not making it the same as The Cyber Revolution deck or something along those lines. I added in Maxx 'c' because I didn't want to just run full on noble knights while still wanting something that helps with their draw power. With Ben's deck it's all or nothing. If he dead hands he's dead. In the first duel it was the only thing he could do to stall until he got lucky and drew his second noble arms equip.

Besides if anything some of the cards in the noble knights deckbox include:

Honest, Eachtar, release restraint wave, reinforcements of the army, dark hole, dimensional prison, artorgius (Normal which is a target for honest AND lady of the lake), more noble arms than i actually have in ben's deck, foolish burial, swords of revealing light, and the field card.

You want me to have an upgraded deck or two maxx 'C' and a couple more merlin, bedwyr, and peredur? Really all I lose is two copies of my king and then i still have the other one. The reason why i have two is because he can still be removed by non-targeted non destruction cards.

Digimon: As the Lights Fade [Closed/Dead; Thanks You Everyone Who Participated!]

I'm going to wait a bit longer before i post just to make sure everyone is here also I'm not sure what to post at the moment.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

fair enough i suppose i just wanted to point out Ben is not trying to be edgy by doing the punishment he's just having fun with it since he doesn't mind running and it's not that he views the duels are beneath him or anything he just doesn't have any interest in action duels. If that relegates him to him being edgy so be it.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

No I think you misunderstood Ben. It's not that he wants to show he's not a tool he wants to show that he's different. Perhaps I could've used a better word choices of 'boneless statistic' but Ben's attitude in here is more of the local internet troll.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

But Ben's the opposite of edge don't you mean Andre?

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

"Alright well cya later bro." Ben said as he simply started to head in the opposite direction of where everyone was going to sit down at. "And just where do you think you're going?" Andre asked his brother plainly without much care on it. He'd up and leave himself but he figured he'd be taking lessons from action dueling from now on so he may as well take notes. He wondered why his brother would sneak out of class but then it dawned on him what Ben was doing. "You serious?" Andre said thinking he answered his own question. "Hey the boss said take three laps. Since I went easy on myself this morning I figured this is the perfect opportunity to go and do my own thing. Show the teacher I'm not just some boneless statistic. Maybe he'll think I'm a smartass or maybe dumb. Me I like to think I'm working my way to a healthy future." Ben said as he began to jog off away from the class as Andre looked on with complete disdain for his brother's antics. Why was he always so difficult to deal with? Whatever it wasn't his problem. Andre went to sit down somewhere. He found a place in the middle with two seats open to the sides of him and sat down. He heard one guy whisper to a girl about him. He heard Ben's name mentioned and the word 'demon' he assumed that guy was talking about his duel once more and or they were calling him a demon. He preferred the title of prince but hey who was complaining? He was the local freak after all...aside from that freaking ninja loser who popped out of nowhere a couple moments ago. Whatever hopefully this was good if not it was probably just going to be yet another waste of time. Like his placement duel. Everyone here was so self absorbed himself included. He wondered if there were anyone actual normal.