Forum:Help with Beat Down deck

I've only recently returned to yugioh. For the past four or five years I've been out of the loop. My deck was origionally built on custom rules of my school, no tributes or fusion cards/polymerization necessary. So it wasn't even usable when I started playing again. My deck was an ultimate beat down. Only the strongest of monsters, I was the champion. Since then I've put in playable monsters and use traditional format.

Sadly no matter what I do to try and beef my deck up, I can only take out the lower level duelists. Out of the 15 or so duelists I can only regularly defeat about five of them, and another five it's on and off depending on who gets what cards. the other five beat me in less than five turns every time. I'm getting extremely frustrated with this, I only know how to make generic beat down decks with no other theme.

I need to figure out if there's anything that can be done to make my deck a winner (and if so what is it?), or if I should pick out a structure deck and start over. I was thinking about the Rise of the Dragon Lord deck but then someone told me it was only useful for a couple of the cards and the rest was worthless.

If anyone could help me with a beat down deck or picking out a structure deck that would be awesome. A theme I'm interested in adopting is dragons or dark theme of some sort. I tend to face alot of darkworld, warrior (inlcuding a six samurai), burn, and monarch/elemental hero. I don't expect to have a deck that can kill ALL of those but a deck that can handle itself against those would be nice.

Monsters:

Old Vindictive Magician (x1)

Man-Eater Bug (x1)

Exiled Force (x1)

Witch of the Black Forest (x1)

Kelbek (x3)

Zolga (x1)

Asura Priest (x1)

Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke (x1)

Gladiator Beast Andal (x2)

Insect Knight (x1)

Luster Dragon (x2)

Berserk Gorilla (x1)

Saber Beetle (x1)

Summoned Skull (x2)

Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight (x1)

Magic:

Lightning Vortex (x2)

Change of Heart (x1)

Monster Reborn (x1)

Swords of Revealing Light (x1)

Heavy Storm (x2)

Graceful Charity (x1)

Pot of Greed (x1)

Premature Burial (x1)

Axe of Despair (x3)

Mystical Space Typhoon (x1)

Trap:

Michizure (x1)

Trap Hole (x2)

Sakuretsu Armor (x3)

Side Deck (Most of the Cards are used for anti burn decks cause I always get hit by gravity binds):

Copycat (x1)

Sonic Duck (x3)

Mad Lobster (x3)

Jerry Beans Man (x2)

D.D. Warrior Lady (x1)

Fissure (x1)

Ground Collapse (x1)

Mystical Space Typhoon (x1)

Torrential Tribute (x1)

Call of the Haunted (x1)

Again I don't expect to become the ultimate duelist, and my resources, money included are limited. But I'd like to have the means to be able to get into the middle or upper range of duelists. My pure beat down deck just isn't cutting it and I don't know enough modern deck strategies only 2002-3 era strategies. If nothing can be done to fix my deck, I need suggestions on a good structure deck that I can modify that will suit my needs. Vampiremessiah51 01:14, 10 April 2009 (UTC) Vampiremessiah51

Hmm... you used a deck with lots of huge monsters? And now you'd like a structure deck that has huge monsters? I'd have to say... Rise of the Dragon Lords. It has Tyrant Dragon, Felgrand Dragon, Darkblaze Dragon, Gilford the Lightning, Guardian Angel Joan, and The Creator; end of story. Runer5h 01:06, 10 April 2009 (UTC)Runer5h

I don't necessarily want huge monsters (level wise) but I do have a thing for powerful monsters. I want a deck that defeats things efficiently. I like the sound of the dragons, but someone told me Rise of the Dragon Lords was only good for one or two cards and worthless in a duel. If Rise of the Dragon Lords is in fact a powerful base for a deck then I'm totally into it. Vampiremessiah51 01:12, 10 April 2009 (UTC)Vampiremessiah51

Well, the monsters are HUGE! In level and ATK. And yes, the deck can be a wee bit difficult, as I have found to my detriment, but if you can get the deck going, you've won. I mean it; with the Creator getting you something with at least 2400 ATK each and every turn, your opponent will have not one option. Here's a revised build of the deck: [1]

If that doesn't strike your fancy, do what I do; find a ridiculously powerful, overlooked card to make a deck around. Like my Goka, the Pyre of Malice deck (here's the card in question) and my Greed Quasar deck (here's the card). It's a lot of fun to do. Runer5h 01:21, 10 April 2009 (UTC)Runer5h

I like that setup. I'll try to see if I can get it. I have some of those cards. It sounds pretty solid especially since none of my friends run the light and darkness dragons (except one and I haven't seen them use it in ages) and it sounds strong against the six samurai (which my one friend just started running)Vampiremessiah51 01:42, 10 April 2009 (UTC)Vampiremessiah51

You're welcome for the suggestion! Runer5h 02:40, 10 April 2009 (UTC)Runer5h

Any suggestions for my current deck? It's going to take me some time and money to get together the Rise of Dragon Lord deck. >.< --Vampiremessiah51 02:48, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Justi-Break. It's an über-Mirror Force for normal monsters, which you have a lot of (particularly in the side deck). Runer5h 03:35, 10 April 2009 (UTC)Runer5h

hmmm thanks. ^^ --Vampiremessiah51 03:40, 10 April 2009 (UTC)