How to make a new deck?

Every duelist have their own way of creating a new deck, some use their favorite cards first and build up a deck around them, some follow a skeleton with the best cards and fill in the blanks, and others simply avoid the "trouble" and netdeck, in this blog I will go through a good way to do it, and then how I usually do it.

First up, as much as I like originality I must admit that some cards just are to good to ignore (at least in most decks), I'm talking about cards like brain control, mirror force, bottomless and their like. So an approach I've used a couple of times is first build this "skeleton" of the best cards, and afterwards filling in the blanks.

One example of a skeleton could be:

1x Gorz/tragoedia
1-2x Cyber dragon
1x Sangan
1x Gold Sarc
1x Heavy storm
1x MST
1x Brain control
1x Torrential tribute
1x Trap Dustshoot
2x bottomless trap hole
1x mirror force
1x Starlight road
1x Call of the haunted

This skeleton is very basic and would fit nicely into almost every deck. Then there a various deck types where some additional cards should be added, an example is a dark deck:

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1x Dad
1x Allure of darkness
1x Plaguespreader
1-3x Caius
1-2x Mystic Tomato
1x gale


When I usually make a deck, I see a card(s) I want it to revolve around, and go from there and example of this is my stardust assault mode deck (decklist will be added soon), here I started with:

2x Stardust dragon AM
2x Assault mode activate
2x Assault beast

Then I needed quick ways of making lv 8 synchros, so I added these cards:

1x Summoner monk
3x Flamvell magicians (since his atk. is lower than 1500 bottomless doesn't get to him, as it does for rose)
2x Flamvell firedog (since I got 3 magicians, I might as well ad the puppy)
2x Rekindling (fits in nicely now)
2x Instant fusion (brings out lv 4 fusion to help magician make lv 8 =)

Now we have 16 cards in there, so we got about 24 places left for cards that will help me bring out my boss monster, like:

1x Plaguespreader
2x krebons
1x emergency teleport
1x sangan
1x brain control
1x mind control
1x call of the haunted

And then we need some cards to stop the opponent:

1x mirror force
1x heavy storm
1x Gorz
1x Starlight road
1x Dark bribe

(As you will notice, most of the cards on this list is taken from the basic skeleton above)
Now we have a total of 29 cards which leaves only about 11 spaces, but these can then be used for your favorite cards, for me it was:

1x Shiba warrior Taro
1x Dandylion
1x Enemy controller
1x Pot of averice
1x Morphing Jar
2x Quillbolt hedgehog

add in some playtesting and final tweaks, and you got yourself a new deck to play =)