Robert O

For those of you who either saw or were kind enough to answer my question 2 days ago, you know what this is. For those of you who don't know, I asked a question about suggestions on what cards to add in my idea of a Dark Exodia deck. Well I finally finished it and also added a brilliant twist to the Side Deck. I have implemented a "Smokescreen" Side Deck strategy (I may be wrong on the name, so feel free to correct me if I am as I forgot it myself; I'm thinking Smokescreen was the correct term for it). What I did was basically changed my Dark Exodia Dump and Retrieve strategy into a Dark Normal Exodia Draw Engine strategy. The way the "Smokescreen" works, for those that don't know, is that you shuffle your entire Side Deck into your deck before you take out any cards. This way your opponent doesn't know how many cards you are replacing and can't read what cards you may be adding. With this Side Deck I am keeping all 15 cards and taking out 15 from my Main Deck. By doing this I am changing the entire strategy of the deck. There is another name for that as well, but can't remember what it is. Anyway, enough talking and explaining. Here's what I have come up with. Rate, Fix, Give any suggestions you see fit.

Dark Exodia

Main Deck (41)

Monsters (18)

1 Exodia the Forbidden One

1 Right Arm of the Forbidden One

1 Left Arm of the Forbidden One

1 Right Leg of the Forbidden One

1 Left Leg of the Forbidden One

1 Sangan

2 Emissary of the Afterlife

2 Dark Grepher

2 Armageddon Knight

2 Cosmo Queen

2 Tri-Horned Dragon

1 Morphing Jar

1 Magical Merchant

Spells (15)

2 Allure of Darkness

2 Trade-In

1 Heart of the Underdog

3 Dark Factory of Mass Production

2 Dark Eruption

1 Monster Reborn

2 Gold Sarcophagus

1 Level Limit – Area B

2 Messenger of Peace

Traps (7)

3 Solemn Judgment

2 Dark Bribe

1 Gravity Bind

1 Mirror Force

Extra Deck (15)

2 Dark Strike Fighter

2 Stardust Dragon

1 Black Rose Dragon

2 Colossal Fighter

1 Goyo Guardian

1 Tempest Magician

1 Magical Android

1 Psychic Lifetrancer

1 Iron Chain Dragon

1 Red Dragon Archfiend

1 Light End Dragon

1 Thought Ruler Archfiend

Side Deck (15)

3 Vorse Raider

3 Mad Dog of Darkness

2 Archfiend Soldier

2 Heart of the Underdog

2 Skill Drain

3 Common Charity

These are the cards I replace when I Side Deck:

2 Armageddon Knight

2 Cosmo Queen

2 Tri-Horned Dragon

1 Morphing Jar

1 Magical Merchant

2 Trade-In

2 Dark Factory of Mass Production

2 Dark Bribe

1 Gravity Bind

Hey all. I want to make a Dark Exodia deck, hence the title of the question. I have an idea of how I want it and what I want in it, but I just need some suggestion on how to go about it.

I wanna run it with a good amount Normal Dark monsters with 3 copies of Heart of the Underdog. Lots of draw power of course. I would have 2 Allure and 2 or 3 Trade-In. I'd include either 3 copies of Cosmo Queen or 2 Cosmo Queen and 2 Tri-Horned Dragon, depending on the amount of Trade-Ins I decide to use. Also would run the usual search stuff like 2 Gold Sarcophagus, Sangan, 2 or 3 Emissary of the Afterlife, 2 Dark Factory of Mass Production, Monster Reincarnation, 2 Backup Soldier, etc. A few stall cards, of course, like Swords of Revealing Light, Wall of Revealing Light, Messenger of Peace, Gravity Bind, etc. Maybe run a few Dark Grephers just in case my Levels 8's become dead draws when I'm not getting Trade-In or to help get Exodia pieces to the graveyard to use with Dark Factory or Backup Soldiers. Armageddon Knight as well for the latter. These are just some ideas of cards I could add. I'm just not sure how to go about it. I tried searching on the web, but didn't get much of what I was looking for. Any help would be appreciated. I would prefer a decklist if you have one, but any suggestions or ideas would be helpful.

Please, only Yugioh players who know what they are doing. The only Exodia cards you need in an Exodia deck are the 5 pieces. You don't need Exodia Necross or the Spell required for him, or any variation of Exodia. However, in this particular deck, Exodius might fit well.

Does anybody know how to unlock Gouken as a secret character? I have already unlocked everybody else, including Akuma. I went on the internet and searched for ways on how to do it and nothing I found seems to work. I already beat the Arcade Mode with Akuma. I have gotten EXACTLY 2 Perfects and have gotten 3 Ultra Finishers with Akuma and got nothing. I did the same thing with Ryu and got nothing. I played the game againwith both Akuma and Ryu and got more than 3 Perfects and more than 3 Ultras and got nothing. I am at a loss as what to try next. Could somebody who has already unlocked him please tell me how you did it?

And whoever answers this, don't give me links to video game sites telling me how to do it as, like I said earlier, I already tried that and they didn't work. I've been to every video game website and they all say similar ways to do it, but are all slightly different. So basically they are all grasping at straws here because they apparently don't know how to do it either.

I know. The name needs a little work. This deck is following the new Banned List that should be coming out in a few weeks. Let me know what you think.

Baboon Rat Toolbox Synchro

Main Deck (40)

Monsters (21)

2 Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest

3 Giant Rat

3 Nimble Momonga

3 Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter

3 Manticore of Darkness

2 Jutte Fighter

2 Shiba-Warrior Taro

3 Gallis the Star Beast

Spells (11)

1 Monster Reborn

1 Brain Control

1 Reinforcements of the Army

1 Brain Control

1 Heavy Storm

1 Mystical Space Typhoon

2 Creature Swap

2 Foolish Burial

1 Card of Safe Return

Traps (8)

3 Solemn Judgment

3 Phoenix Wing Wind Blast

1 Mirror Force

1 Torrential Tribute

Extra Deck (15)

3 Stardust Dragon

1 Black Rose Dragon

1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Boundary

2 Red Dragon Archfiend

1 Goyo Guardian

2 Thought Ruler Archfiend

2 Magical Android

2 Colossal Fighter

1 Tempest Magician

I asking this question for my Dad. He has Fallout 3 for the PC. He has fully beaten the game and is now working on all the Side Missions he forgot to do. He just recently purchased the Anchorage, Alaska add-on and downloaded it and installed it. However, it doesn't seem to be working. He does everything you are supposed to do. He walks around the wasteland for a few minutes and is supposed to get some sort of call or message and the add-on will appear on his Missions list, but nothing ever happens. The game says it is installed, but when he goes into the folder that the files are supposed to have downloaded to, there are no files. To make matters worse, the game freezes up and crashes after a few minutes of playing. That started after he downloaded the add-on. He doesn't want to have to uninstall it because he doesn't want to lose all of his game and have to start over. I was just wondering if anybody else has had this problem? If so, how do you fix it?

I would also like to add that the problem is not his computer. He has the latest in graphic cards and has the max amount of memory his computer can have, along with the best processor money can buy. So any answers saying to upgrade any of that or anything else along those lines will be ignored.

This is my first attempt at the new Spellcaster Beatdown. I had to spend a decent amount of money to get these cards. I'm just not sure how the deck really looks. I had so many options to choose from as to how to make this deck I had a hard time choosing the right cards. I think it runs pretty good, but my opening hands haven't been all too good.

If you are going to answer this question, all that I ask is that you know what you are talking about. I don't want no answers telling me to add some Dark Magicians and Dark Magician Girls. Well here's my deck.

Spellcaster Beatdown

Main Deck (40)

Monsters (19)

1 Dark Elf

3 Skilled Dark Magician

3 Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer

1 Breaker the Magical Warrior

3 Magical Exemplar

1 Mythical Beast Cerberus

2 Apprentice Magician

3 Night’s End Sorcerer

1 Crystal Seer

1 Old Vindictive Magician

Spells (15)

3 Allure of Darkness

3 Secret Village of the Spellcasters

2 Terraforming

1 Monster Reborn

1 Heavy Storm

1 Mystical Space Typhoon

2 Magical Dimension

2 Foolish Burial

Traps (6)

3 Solemn Judgment

2 Dark Bribe

1 Pitch-Black Power Stone

Extra Deck (15)

2 Stardust Dragon

2 Black Rose Dragon

2 Goyo Guardian

2 Colossal Fighter

2 Thought Ruler Archfiend

1 Red Dragon Archfiend

1 Doomkaiser Dragon

2 Tempest Magician

1 Gladiator Beast Gyzarus

I have no chances at the playoffs right now so this question doesn't really matter much. I do, however, want to give my opponent a run for his money as he might have a chance at the playoffs. I would love to knock my friend right out of playoff contention this week.

With that being said, do you think I should start Hillis or McClain? Hillis is THE only RB that Denver has right now, while McClain is sharing with McGahee and Rice. Hillis is going up against the tough Jets run defense which is 3rd in the league, while McClain is up against Cincy who we all know can't stop anything this year. You would normally go with the back who would get the most touches, in this case, Hillis. However, McClain got the most carries last week with 18. Any suggestions?

Just so you know my other RB options are Ronnie Brown and Justin Fargas who both have pretty good matchups this week. I also have Kevin Faulk on my bench, but is playing Pittsburgh this week and should not be a very good matchup for him.

Also while we are at it, I have McNabb and Orton. Any thoughts on who to start here? I doubt McNabb will have a 3rd bad game in a row, especially against a somewhat bad Arizona pass defense. Orton has a decent matchup against Minnesota, but has had not many points since he got hurt and hasn't shown any reason to start him. I'm leaning towards McNabb. Thoughts?

I went to the Yugioh Sneak Preview today of Crossroads of Chaos and out of 18 packs got nothing but utter garbage. The 3 best cards I got were Revived King Ha Des, Botanical Lion, and an Ultimate Rose, Warrior of Revenge (which is friggin' retarded as that card is the promo). I have the worst luck at these things. At the Duelist Genesis Sneak Preview I got all garbage too. I think the best Sneak Preview I ever went to was Tactical Evolution. I ended up pulling 3 Crystal Seer, which at that time was the highest price card in the set.

Anybody else have any horror stories of crappy Sneak Previews?

I just made this deck last week and played it for the first time yesterday afternoon in a tournament at my local shop without sufficient play-testing. I went 3-1 in 4 rounds and ended up in 5th place because of tie-breakers. It beat an incomplete Lightsworn deck (incomplete meaning no cards like Judgment Dragon or Charge of the Light Brigade), a Six Samurai deck, a Monarch deck, and, in the final match, lost to a Gladiator Beast deck in a great match. Well after giving all that info, here it is. Rate it or fix it if need be.

Rat Toolbox Synchro

Main Deck (41)

Monsters (21)

1 Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest

3 Giant Rat

3 Nimble Momonga

3 Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter

1 Manticore of Darkness

2 Marauding Captain

3 Psychic Commander

2 Jutte Fighter

1 Exiled Force

1 D.D. Warrior Lady

1 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole

Spells (11)

2 Emergency Teleport

1 Monster Reborn

2 Reinforcements of the Army

1 Brain Control

1 Heavy Storm

1 Mystical Space Typhoon

2 Creature Swap

1 Foolish Burial

Traps (9)

3 Solemn Judgment

2 Divine Wrath

1 Mirror Force

1 Torrential Tribute

2 Magic Drain

Extra Deck (15)

3 Stardust Dragon

2 Red Dragon Archfiend

2 Goyo Guardian

2 Thought Ruler Archfiend

1 Magical Android

2 Colossal Fighter

3 Gaia Knight, Force of the Earth

Side Deck (15)

1 D.D. Assailant

1 Legendary Jujitsu Master

1 Exiled Force

1 Enemy Controller

1 Pot of Avarice

2 Phoenix Wing Wind Blast

2 Compulsory Evacuation Device

2 Bottomless Trap Hole

2 Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror

2 Light-Imprisoning Mirror

I just made this deck last week and played it for the first time yesterday afternoon in a tournament at my local shop without sufficient play-testing. I went 3-1 in 4 rounds and ended up in 5th place because of tie-breakers. It beat an incomplete Lightsworn deck (incomplete meaning no cards like Judgment Dragon or Charge of the Light Brigade), a Six Samurai deck, a Monarch deck, and, in the final match, lost to a Gladiator Beast deck in a great match. Well after giving all that info, here it is. Rate it or fix it if need be.

Rat Toolbox Synchro

Main Deck (41)

Monsters (21)

1 Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest

3 Giant Rat

3 Nimble Momonga

3 Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter

1 Manticore of Darkness

2 Marauding Captain

3 Psychic Commander

2 Jutte Fighter

1 Exiled Force

1 D.D. Warrior Lady

1 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole

Spells (11)

2 Emergency Teleport

1 Monster Reborn

2 Reinforcements of the Army

1 Brain Control

1 Heavy Storm

1 Mystical Space Typhoon

2 Creature Swap

1 Foolish Burial

Traps (9)

3 Solemn Judgment

2 Divine Wrath

1 Mirror Force

1 Torrential Tribute

2 Magic Drain

Extra Deck (15)

3 Stardust Dragon

2 Red Dragon Archfiend

2 Goyo Guardian

2 Thought Ruler Archfiend

1 Magical Android

2 Colossal Fighter

3 Gaia Knight, Force of the Earth

Side Deck (15)

1 D.D. Assailant

1 Legendary Jujitsu Master

1 Exiled Force

1 Enemy Controller

1 Pot of Avarice

2 Phoenix Wing Wind Blast

2 Compulsory Evacuation Device

2 Bottomless Trap Hole

2 Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror

2 Light-Imprisoning Mirror

I haven't had the chance to play test this deck as much as I'd like so I'm not sure how it would fare against the top meta decks. I have revised this deck about 4 or 5 times after reading certain articles on websites. So I took a mix of different opinions of what cards to use and this is what I came up with. I have play tested against one of my own decks, a Gigaplant Deck. It's kind of hard though as nobody plays this deck at my local tournaments, but it plays pretty well against it. My extra deck would be a hell of alot better then it is, but I don't have the good Synchros yet. I want to add 2 Goyo Guardian and at least 1 more each of Red Dragon Archfield and Thought Ruler Archfiend. Well here it is:

Psychic Monarchs

Main Deck (40)

Monsters (20)

1 Cyber Dragon

1 Raiza the Storm Monarch

3 Caius the Shadow Monarch

1 Mobius the Frost Monarch

1 Prime Material Dragon

1 Breaker the Magical Warrior

2 Marauding Captain

1 Sangan

1 D.D. Assailant

1 D.D. Warrior Lady

3 Psychic Commander

2 Krebons

2 D.D. Crow

Spells (13)

1 Monster Reborn

2 Reinforcement of the Army

1 Heavy Storm

1 Brain Control

1 Mystical Space Typhoon

1 Enemy Controller

2 Soul Exchange

2 Emergency Teleport

2 Instant Fusion

Traps (7)

3 Solemn Judgment

2 Mind Over Matter

2 Dimensional Prison

Extra Deck (15)

3 Stardust Dragon

1 Red Dragon Archfiend

2 Avenging Knight Parshath

1 Thought Ruler Archfiend

1 Magical Android

1 Gaia Knight, the Force of the Earth

1 Colossal Fighter

1 Junk Warrior

1 Karbonala Warrior

1 Fusionist

1 Dragoness the Wicked Knight

1 Reaper on the Nightmare

I'll start with the Virtual Console part of the question. Well I have a Wii (obviously) and I bought some Wii point cards and I entered all the info correctly and got all of my points, which was about 8000 points I believe. Anyway I bought a bunch of old school 8 and 16-bit games (Bonk's Adventure, Echo the Dolphin, The Legend of Zelda [the NES game], Altered Beast, Magician Lord, etc.), but not of them worked except for Bonk's Adventure. I'd start them up and the screen would go black and then blink on and off continuously. The game, however, was playing, but it was blinking non-stop at a equal timerate. It doesn't make alot of sense that the only game that would work would be Bonk's Adventure.

Now to my second problem which will be more clear and understandable being that the previous problem was stated. Well I just recently bought an SNES online with a few games. I plugged everything into my TV and the system and games work perfectly fine, BUT I am getting the exact same blinking problem that I have with my Wii Virtual Console games. The games are constantly blinking on and off while it plays. It's extremely weird.

Is there something wrong with my TV where it doesn't play old school games? I mean my TV, which is a 32 inch flat screen plasma, works just fine. I am perfectly able to play my PS3, XBOX 360, the Wii, PS2, and XBOX on it just fine. I have no problems with them and have never had a problem with my TV. I'm just thinking that old school games just aren't compatible with the new technology in flat screen TV's. If this is the case, then does anybody know of a solution to fix this problem? Any wires I would need to buy or anything I can do to make them play, besides actually buying an older TV?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Here is another one of my deck concepts. I used alot of the new Psychic monsters from the new Duelist Genesis set. As always, comments and fixes and opinions are welcome. The deck seems good, but also seems like it could be better. Here it is:

Psychic Monarchs

Main Deck (42)

Monsters (22)

2 Cyber Dragon

3 Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch

3 Caius the Shadow Monarch

2 Prime Material Dragon

2 Psychic Snail

1 Spell Striker

1 Treeborn Frog

2 Destructotron

3 Psychic Commander

3 Krebons

Spells (12)

1 Monster Reborn

1 Telekinetic Charging Cell

1 Heavy Storm

1 Brain Control

1 Mystical Space Typhoon

1 Premature Burial

3 Soul Exchange

3 Emergency Teleport

Traps (8)

3 Solemn Judgment

3 Mind Over Matter

2 Psychic Overload

Extra Deck (15)

3 Stardust Dragon

2 Red Dragon Archfiend

2 Avenging Knight Parshath

3 Thought Ruler Archfiend

3 Magical Android

2 Goyo Guardian

Here's my Horus/Jinzo concept that I just came up with. I know the Horus/Jinzo lock isn't anything new, but I added some cards from the previous set and from the new set to improve it. Let me know what you think. I'm not changing the deck as I like them the way they are, but opinions are always welcome. Maybe I'll like some of them and change my mind and change it. Well here it is:

Horus/Jinzo Lock

Main Deck (43)

Monsters (21)

3 Jinzo

3 Jinzo – Returner

1 Horus, the Black Flame Dragon Lv. 4

2 Horus, the Black Flame Dragon Lv. 6

2 Horus, the Black Flame Dragon Lv. 8

1 Sangan

1 Spirit Reaper

2 Cyber Dragon

1 Dark Nephthys

2 Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive

1 Krebons

1 Jutte Fighter

1 Dark Resonator

Spells (16)

2 Allure of Darkness

2 Trade-In

1 Monster Reborn

1 Premature Burial

1 Future Fusion

1 Brain Control

2 Book of Moon

3 Enemy Controller

2 Shrink

1 Pot of Avarice

Traps (6)

2 Royal Decree

1 Crush Card Virus

1 Limit Reverse

2 Reckless Greed

Extra Deck (15)

2 Chimeratech Overdragon

3 Stardust Dragon

3 Red Dragon Archfiend

3 Avenging Knight Parshath

1 Thought Ruler Archfiend

1 Colossal Fighter

2 Goyo Guardian

How would this work? If Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror is on the field first, then you summon Jinzo, would Mirror negate Jinzo's effect and his effect stays negated or does Jinzo still get his effect being that it's a continuous effect and it is truly never really activating?

I actually have another question along the same lines. I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this already. Prime Material Dragon is on the field and I activate Light-Imprisoning Mirror. Next I activate Smashing Ground or Lightning Vortex to destroy monsters on the field and my opponent tries to activate Prime Material Dragon's effect and discards one card to negate my Spell, would Light-Imprisoning Mirror activate and negate Prime Material Dragon's effect? I assume it would, but wasn't really sure. I just need a confirmation on this.

Can I please get answers from people who actually know the ruling on these and not people just guessing because they want points. lol. Thanks.