I've just found my old collection hidden away in my attic and that brought back a lot of memories, a real nostalgia trip. I used to play almost exclusively with "heroic"-looking decks like elemental Heroes and warriors. What did you like to use back in the day?
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Gem-Knights all the way
Harpy. I idolized Mai Valentine when I was a kid.
I had a Relinquish and Thousand Eyes Restrict deck because Pegasus was my favorite character http://uploads1.yugioh.com/card_images/2963/detail/4643.jpg?1385127310 http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/2/2f/Relinquished-TF04-JP-VG.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120614205229 http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/6/66/ThousandEyesRestrict-TF04-JP-VG.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121012185427
I had a bunch of water types so i could digivolve my charizard into exodia
I had many decks, although my 3 most succesfull were probably:
A volcanic deck I built focusing on flame accelerators and quick damage Crystal Beast deck with rainbow and dark rainbow dragons My favorite was my Naturia deck, once you got your cards on the field the opponent couldnt do anything to stop you :S
Zombies were my first love especially Zombie Red Eyes and Vampire Lord.
Nowadays I'm playing Madolches (cause who can hate cake man?) and Ice Barriers if I'm feeling troll-y. : p
The first and last complete deck i ever had was a Crystal Beast deck. That was the last time i ever touched yugioh cards, but still, good times.
Yata-lock. Destroying my opponent's hand then attacking their life points with Yata Garasu to skip their draw phase. With no cards in their hand and hardly anything on the field I pretty much sealed their fate :)
ONe filled with traps and magic there was only like 5 monster cards lol
I quit and come back to yugioh a lot. In the old days I played a classic blue eyes deck. It sucked but it was mine. When Syncros came out I played Dark Worlds and Fables. When xyz came out I played madolches which was the most fun I ever had with the game. The last time I played I used a shadoll deck which I had an absolutely absurd win rate with like a 9/1 win/loss over 100 games. Man that deck was overpowered. People who think league or smash bros are super unbalanced should play yugioh.
Elemental Hero. Back at the time i was really hipster because i played them before the anime made them popular.
My biggest real-life decks were as follows:
Hybrid deck, from the days before Synchros existed, where man-eater bugs and trap holes reigned supreme. It focused extremely heavily on beatsticks and destroying enemy monsters. It ran all kinds of kill cards like Raigeki break, tribute to the doomed, Trap Hole, Fissure, etc. Back then, there wasn't a lot of spells or traps that could overcome the sheer field control.
Burn deck. An absolutely satanic deck that used stuff like level limit area b, gravity bind, wave motion cannon and dark snake syndrome to burn off tons of lifepoints. It was also an old deck, and it lacked a lot of good cards that would make it better, but for the entire duration I had it, it was the most effective deck bar the next deck.
Madolches.
Tiaramisu is absurd. She basically forces enemies to shuffle their entire field, spells, traps and monsters, back into their deck, two at a time. Madolches are already a swarm deck, so it doesn't take long to flood the field with multiple Tiaramisu while simultaneously removing all options opponents had left.
The effect was this: When summoned, flip a coin. If heads, you can tribute two monsters at your end phase to skip your opponent's turn. If tails, you add the top card of your opponent's grave to their hand every end phase.
Combine it with cards like Gellenduo, (can't be destroyed by battle, counts as two tributes for the summon of light monsters ~ like the World) Aroma Pot, (can't be destroyed by battle, +500 LP every players' end phase) Reversal of Fate, (reverses coin flip result) and tons of spell/trap removal, (Malevolent Catastrophe, Emergency Provisions, Mystical Space Typhoon - Works great when combined with good goblin housekeeping) and finally Treeborn Frogs and Samsara Lotuses. (Can be special summoned during Standby/End Phase If you have no spell or traps) and it actually works a decent amount of the time.
The end result of a successful setup was this: You would continuously special summon Treeborn Frog/Samsara Lotus and tribute them for the World's effect, skipping your opponent's turn infinitely. It allows you to draw your entire deck without your opponent being allowed to react, until you drew all five pieces of Exodia and win.
I used to play a heiratic dragunity hybrid deck but then then the meta became set 5 go and I just... wasn't allowed to play.
Back in the day I was all about the Ancient Gears, so happy to see them getting some love soon.
Nowadays I play Superheavy Samurai, or Monarchs every now and then when I feel like being a total scumbag.
I used to have a Wave Motion Cannon Deck. Wave Motion Cannon is a magic card that if you send it to the graveyard, takes 1000 life from your opponent for every Standby Phase since its activation.
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Wave-Motion_Cannon
Basically, as soon as you drew the card, the game has at maximum, 8 turns left if you can keep the card alive. The entire deck revolved around drawing the card as soon as possible using monsters that could get cards from the deck, and keeping your magic cards in play using trap cards.
Blue Deck in Magic: The Gathering ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
A self created card destroyer deck I finished it after Yugioh 5 Ds was intially released so my trump card was Ally of Justice Catastor who would destroy enemy monsters that were not dark attribute before the damage step.
Volcanics. Good mix of offensive and defensive power. Very easy to get to the point where my opponent couldn't attack me with anything over 2800 Atk without killing themselves.
Also, reverse OTKed Blackwings with that deck once.
Last time I played (within the past year), I just took all my cards, threw them in a pile and my best friend and I drew a random 40-60 cards and played with whatever we got. It was pretty fun.
Zombie mill deck as my main Evil heroes and morphtronics when I just want to have fun.
Ritual monsters, super annoying deck, and tons of trap cards/spell cards LOL
Those catnipped kittys tho :D
Axe of Despair + whatever high attack level 4 monster and traps
Used to run a Dark Magician deck. The classic stuff. DM Girls, a Knight, Chaos magician and other support cards. And worms with cheesy Venominaga + Fairy Meteor combo. Either you remove it or die in 3 turns.
Recently found some people on college playing it in their pastime and they dragged me in. Nostalgia did it's thing and now I'm assembling a relatively cheap Cyber Dragon deck.
Tho Harpies or Exodia are my dream decks, but around here I couldn't find the required cards anywhere, neither in shops or players selling them. And customs in my country can be particularly nasty, so I'm afraid ordering those online could waste me a lot of money.
I currently have Shaddolls. I swear we need at least 1 Construct. Rest in Peace Doll Mama
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Decks that I used to have were Piper Exodia, Lightsworn, Lightsworn Zombies, Zombies, I think that water structure deck, and in the beginning of the game just a light and dark good stuff. (Not chaos but before chaos)
I had all the cards from the original Yugi-Pegasus duel.
Malefic deck, because I like summoning lvl 10 monsters instantly.
Venoms(All hail Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes), Destiny Heroes, Ancient Gear, Gadgets, Archfiends, Neo Space, Lightsworn, Arcana Force, Trap creatures, lv up Warrior, Final Countdown ft;Self Destruct button, Yubel.
there's more decks i used that i cant remember but, you name it most likely used it.
Well, I 'tried' to have a dragon deck. I say Tried because I was absolutely horrible at deck building (But then I was like 10, 11 at the time). I had a huge deck (60-80ish cards), almost entirely of one-offs, so I was pretty doomed from the start there. Even then most of those cards were "The image looks cool!" cards. And when I did have card synergies, it was like 2-3 cards that worked together, and then about 15 seperate sets like that. (Like, general dragon theme, but then I had Relinquished in there just because, )
That being said, I have a special place in my heart for Fiber Jar
I'd pretty much only play against cousin, I never played any official matches or anything (So we probably skewed the rules often). My cousin was way better than me, and would beat me in every game, but if I could get Fiber Jar's effect off to sort-of-kind-of reset the match just to annoy him, I considered it a victory.
Another one of the "I sucked at the game, so annoying or stalling my opponent was how I 'won'" cards was "Ordeal of a Traveler"
i ran a deck with light and dark monsters with dragons being a main theme to it.Also it focused on banishing monsters to summon them again.
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i would summon lots of monsters to the field plus i had an anti Xyz monster
Earth Injection Fariy Lily Aggro
Lord of D. Based Dragon Deck
Used Card Destruction, Cyber Jar, and Gracful Charity in conjunction with Super Rejuvenation to draw a perfect Lord and Flute Setup.
ah, I used dinosaur. I loved dinosaurs.
I played Dark Magicians.
dunno
ask 
My favorite deck was (is? - I still have it) a Spirit deck. It probably isn't all that competitive, but it is unique and fun to play. New Spirit monsters and Xyz summoning make it much more reliable and versatile than it used to be. Great casual deck for when people get tired of seeing meta/serious decks.
Ah, the nostalgia.... if I remember correct... 2 Variants of spell-casters:
i never had a deck of physical cards. no one seemed into these games where i grew up, or at least i never found that group. funny now that i'm in college the group is real.
I did have one of the video games and my deck was kinda just whatever because i didn't know what i was doing and also because fuck the whole "duelist level" system they had in place. I would probably say it was mostly insects though or at least i had enough to throw out an insect monster and make it strong enough to fuck shit up. worm drake was an insect in sacred cards/reshef wooo. i eventually got a jirai gumo to be like, kek 2200 attack at level 4 and look at this insect armor and laser armor and this forest field spell. kek.
Spellcaster deck around dark magician and his fusion cards I still have my eye of timaeus 3 of em and dark magician girl dragon knight :3 along with a few other spicy things
I played a bitchy combo of lockdown and direct damage. Dupe Frog + Mist Body, Dark Door + Scrap Iron Scarecrow, Patrician of Darkness + either Man Eater Bug or Neo Aqua Madoor, Level Limit area B + Testudo Erat Numen, Spirit Reaper and Marshmallon, Ominous Fortunetelling and Raging Flame Sprite and Stealth Bird for damage, and some continuous backlines like Gravekeeper's Servant and Ordeal of a Traveler.
Inconsistent as heck but under ideal circumstances was able to defeat an elemental dragon deck before any of their cards were banned.
Batteryman AA OTK
I occasionally play with friends using it to this day, so much fun if you set it up right.
I threw together the cards with the highest numbers possible, like all powerful 4 stars and 6-7 stars. Worked pretty well.
Gladiator beasts. Their field spell, special abilities and field barrier were such a toxic combination XD
