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it's time

who: kaiba, yugi, and open to one and all
what: DUEL. State of the art card games like you've never seen before. Afterward, lessons and deck-building!
when: Egret 1, evening
where: gym car
warnings: None at this time

Welcome to the gym car. It's a large,if narrow space, and Kaiba and Noctis have hauled an ordinary card table and chairs inside. Not exactly the formula for an exciting spectator sport. But Yugi has entered the gym from the other side, all smiles, with something under his arm.

Something is about to roar to life here. And you'll be the first to witness it.

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"If you don't want to and if you know they can work well together." He could recall a game where elements could work together, but also that game meant you lose and you'd lose your soul. He was so glad that is no longer available to anyone.

"Everyone is different and we change all the time, so of course a deck will as well. So what style were you thinking of? You mentioned Kaiba thought Earth monsters, but I assume you had another idea before that."

"I think I get it," Nita said, grin firm on her face.

"I like the Earth style, but I guess you'd say mine's more... analytical? I like digging into what makes a system work, and piecing it apart that way."

Often in the course of putting it back together into something improved, straightened or otherwise fixed, but in a duel that second part was less important.

"I think letting you see what cards are there might help you I think." because at least then one is finding a card that just clicks with them or at least he hoped that would happen and then find the cards that just work with it.

Coming to her own conclusion from that statement, Nita let her hand settle down partway across the case, coming back with a card.

Snorting, she showed it to Yugi, commenting, "I may be a visionary, but this seems a bit on-the-nose, don't you think?"

He chuckled slightly "Maybe, but being able to see the top five of your cards and being able to put them in order is a pretty good ability to have, don't you think? You get to choose in which order you draw which of those five cards." Which was a pretty good thing when he thought about it. But at the same time without knowing what the other might be doing could be a double-edged sword too.

Nita nodded her understanding.

"Knowing your own side is important, yeah. But that won't make you infallible or anything."

Nita went through, letting her hand land on another Spell card.

"Oh, come on!" she said, but she was grinning.

"This would restrict one of the other player's monsters, am I reading that right?"

He went to look at it quietly for a moment "No. tPsychic_FervoThis one doubles your monsters attack during the battle phase, however you lose life points based on your monster's original attack power. The restriction is the fact you cannot attack your opponent directly, but monsters are okay. That one requires knowing your monster's attack as well as how many life points one has. it's good to use on a weak monster to powered them up for one turn and deal with aa stronger monster though"

Nita nodded, mentally straightening out her 'view' of how the duel field was structured.

"That would fit in with my style, then. Though my sister would call that style more 'reckless' than anything," she added wryly.

"But then, she'd know."

It sure was Dairine's strategy, in some ways.

"So you are least now figuring out your style. That's great." He said with a bit of a smile.

"It means sorting out a deck for you will actually be quite easy to do today"

"Oh?"

Nita was relieved to hear that.

"What else would you recommend, then?"

"Well... You seemed to be pulling cards that have a psychic theme, right now nothing jumps to the top of my mind at the moment." There were a lot of cards after all, and he knew that it might take a while for him to go over in his head. "Kaiba is usually much better at pinpointing exact cards."

Nita nodded.

"I'll try and start pulling those on purpose next, then. Can't make my whole deck Spell Cards, though, I'll bet."

He shook his head slightly. "No sadly, you need a good balance of monsters spells and traps. By having a solely spell deck you would leave yourself wide open for a quick defeat since unless they are quick play as spells cannot be used until your turn."

"So, Spell Cards only handle the short term, but monsters can still react outside their turn..."

Nita flipped through a few more cards, at times shaking her head or staring curiously at the descriptive text, before pulling up one last card, baffled.

"And what does this mean? Sounds like it limits both sides."

"It would only limit both sides if your deck isn't a zombie styled deck. A card like that works for a zombie type deck as it means you can still get more powerful ones due to all cards being zombie types, but limits the other to having to try and find ways to power up weaker monsters."

So basically it's only good for a certain style of deck at best.

"Thus forcing your opponent to adapt - sink or swim, where if they don't have the right cards, they sink..."

She could see the usefulness, there.

"Something for special occasions. Is it one you've used?"

"Basically. That's really the whole point of a duel in general. Use cards that your opponent has to adapt to and be able to defeat what you put up on the field." He shook his head slightly

"It's not a card I've ever used myself because I don't have the type of deck it's useful for." Plus having a zombie type deck would have just creeped his friend out in general.

"So you're not like your friend where you have every card..." Nita trailed off, smiling, amused.

"That was clever of you, by the way; getting him his own disc for the demonstration as well as your own. Completing the set with the cards, in a way."

"no, I may live above a game shop, but that doesn't mean I do. Plus, Kaiba can afford to have every card."

He smiled slightly, he was rather happy when he finally managed to present that to him, happier than he had honestly expected. "I just figured that it would be a nice gesture."

That also made sense, and Nita smiled as well, attention shifting more from the cards to her friend.

"It definitely delivered, I'll tell you that! I couldn't really see the look on his face, but he reacted for sure, I could tell that much."

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it's time

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This is what happens when I use the 'random' feature... XD

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Assume it's the original edition, in this case:

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Hmm - close to thread wrap here, if that's alright?