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Dude there are people that just collect the cards and not play. Then there are people like me that trade everything that is not needed to get more useful cards, to keep things neat. Your argument is fail.

No, my friend, your argument has failed. If you have the cards, you can be considered a collector. If you're trading many off to get some new, more useful ones, you're still considered a collector. You're just centering more around certain cards / kinds of cards / groups of cards.

Well, the only deck I currently have is more of a fun deck, but I'd be willing to verse you with it, I guess. :] And that works for me because I'm not downloading it, either. Anyway, do you have a hotmail or anything that we could do it over? Or do we need to create a thread here in YDoG for it? It's your choice.

BEWD, REBD, and BM decks CANNOT stand against current meta.

If you made a general dragon deck with the right cards (incorporating REDMD in there), you could have something flexible and possibly noteworthy.

If you made a spellcaster deck focused around a particular goal, you could have something okay.

If you built for those old generic cards (that may be classic but are nowhere NEAR valid in today's format), you will lose...HARD.

Like I've said before, there are a lot of cards I like. I LOVE summoned skull, as well as several low power normal monsters from LOB, but I'm at least smart enought to know that decks built around them won't last.

If you want to have what you like and make it good, use one of the retrained BM cards (like Endymion) to support spellcaster, or a retrained REBD (such as Red eyes darkness metal dragon) to make an impact. Don't go in unprepared for the decktypes that are out and will soon come out. Be prepared with powerful retrained versions.

First, did I not just say that today's game is just as skilless as it was back then? I did actually. I specifically said today's game was skilless but the skilless plays were more powerful. Also, and Mustard will provide a better list if they are interested, today's meta has somewhere around ten to twelve good tier one to one point five decks. Samurai, Fish, Formula Monarchs, X-Sabers, Doppel Plants, Plant Chaos, Generic Plants, Malefic Drain, Gemini City, Gemini Beatdown, Empty Jar, Karakuri Machina Plant, Generic Chaos, Tigerless Gladiators, Infernities, Gravekeeper's, etc are all seen in today's game. Yes you won't see all of them top a YCS but they are all viable threats. The reason you won't see them top a YCS is simple, popularity. The less popular decks have to be more consistent to even think of topping. Also, waste of money? The most expensive cards in the game are Pot of Duality and Solemn Warning. Pot of Duality is only necessary for a handful of decks so you can ignore it. Solemn Warning is a staple, sure. I had a playset (sold one when it was semi limited). Guess how much I spent on it? $58. I ripped some kid off right? No. I preordered. I was intelligent enough to know that it was a game breaking card and I picked them up at about $20 a pop before they hit their now $60-70 ultra rare price. It's your own fault you didn't pay attention like a competitive player would. Deal with it. If you don't want to pay attention to what's coming out and predict what's good and what's not, if you want to play more casually, cool. Just don't expect to be able to take on intelligent players who DO do those things.
Sadly, you're utterly wrong. Variation exists even in today's game. If you can't see it, that's your own issue. Also, did you even play competitively back then? I doubt it. If you had you would know the ridiculousness that cookie cutters were back then too. They were slower but the principle was the same as what you're complaining about. Variation existed but in small doses just like today. Hell, back in the days of Goat Control there was ONE top deck. Goat Control. That was THE deck. Now we have, as I addressed before, somewhere around a dozen.
As I already stated earlier, up to what set would you like this challenge to be? Only LOB? Up to MRD? MRL? PGD? Set an end point. Also, as I said before, I'll be using proxies to cover for limitation differences and the obvious difference in top tier decks.
It's all good, I'm slightly entertained by it.
I am quite calm. Always am in these things.

It's not a matter of opinion. Blue Eyes was not top tier. Period. You may have liked it but it was not amazing. Shrab will be showing as much when he does not win with Blue Eyes. Regardless of if he wins or not, he won't win with Blue Eyes.
Uh, wrong. An attitude or presentation of an opinion can be arrogant, absolutely, but an opinion never changes from an opinion until it is set in stone by fact. Opinion =/= arrogance. Just trying to eliminate your misunderstanding of the English language. It seems to be high.

Uh no. You were implying that you believed I ran Blackwings due to the attitude I have. Questions can be wrong. Watch this. "If I rubbed my d**k into an electrical outlet, wouldn't flowers bloom out of my a**?" So can simple statements, "If birds and bugs are the only thing I see flying then all flying creatures are obviously birds or bugs." See? These are wrong. Also, you clearly said that you were guessing that I ran Blackwings. You clearly said that you thought I ran Blackwings. So, telling you that I don't is not incorrect and telling you to try again (to guess again) is also not wrong. Unless you mean that I am wrong in saying that I run whatever I feel like? Well then you're just silly and wrong.
Lawl I don't? Correction in game theory, correction in misconceptions about the history of the game, etc etc. I slaughter ignorance and idiocy in this guild. Obviously someone hasn't been looking at things from different angles. I will not be a "good cop" for this guild. I will only destroy. Why? Much more interesting to do. If someone asks for help, as you have done earlier today and even told me you "respect me as a duelist", I will offer it. I hold no animosity towards people in this guild. If someone comes to me for help I'll help. If someone posts a decklist, I'll help... if I feel like it. If someone posts a misconception or something utterly wrong? I'll destroy it.
As I said earlier, I accept this. You will have to wait until Monday at the earliest to get anything out of me though. I'm currently away from home at a Civil War reenactment.

Keep trying. This is fun.

Statistics OR common sense apparently. Bows and arrows don't win in today's wars. Bullets and artillery do.

lol ok fair enough. but yeah back then i didnt even see a competitive area of play. im probably thinking back way to far in that case though to when their were like not many cards at all. but w/e that doesnt even matter. as for the challenge lol it sounds fun. and why limit it to sets. i say if blue eyes is to proove anything then it should be proven with all cards available. i really do think blue eyes is playable. not as good as other things. but certainly playable especially with all the dragon support that exists that could help one along... i was trying to type more but my brain just kinda died on me. going to sleep now @.@

Uh, sure, we can play with the current card availability. The point of the ENTIRE CONVERSATION was that Blue Eyes was not playable in the past as EVERYONE, even Solid Snake, agreed that Blue Eyes was not playable in today's game.

Whatever then. Monday I'll be available to play.