Progress?

Well, loads.  I'll summarise.

My first Tournament after returning to the game was great, but inherently disappointing, as a tiny misplay saw me lose the final to the admittedly rather damn good Daniel.  I had him 1-0, but he came back, though I had him on the ropes in 2, before he trashed me in 3 by basically drawing his sidedeck in the opening hand.  I should have won, but didn't.  Meh.

Since then, I've been a bit disappointed with the deck's overall performance.  Simply put, even the weenier X-Sabers can go toe-to-toe with Gadgets, and other decks almost always stomp right over them.  Gearframe can hold it's own, mostly, but Thunder Kings are a fucking pain in the hole, and the Machina element is far from solidly secure anyway, primarily because of Peacekeeper's inherent defensiveness...that and Neos Alius decks maining Cydras, or just the sad fact that my innovation of bringing Crossout and Extermination into everyone's maindecks, by using them myself, sees my deck fail miserably when I'm called upon to go defensive.  Frankly, if I didn't main a Veiler, and thus had no Tuners, I think I would have had to completely give up on the deck by now.  Or buy Pots of Duality, and that is NOT a pleasant idea.

At least Debris Dragon, which these guys have mostly now adopted as their main deck-of-choice, isn't as bad a match up for me as bloody Neos and the strangely unpopular Sabers.  Everyone's played Sabers for a while, and they are a bit burnt out and bored with it.  Understandable.  I get that a lot.  Lucky gits have the card pools, of course, to change to Blackwing (yeah, right!) or DAD, or Lightsworn, or whatever they want.  I no longer have that option in my arsenal, and it gets irritating.  Ho-hum.  I'm currently working on a Relinquished Deck, a Dark World Deck, and I still haven't tested that DinOTK...I'll get around to that eventually.  Meantime, I suck it up, and tweak my Gadchina.

Ho-hum.

Experimentation...

Thinking of trying out some sort of Dinosaur Deck after a casual comment (about how potentially good Fossil Dig was) was met with derision and a general put-down of the Dinosaur Archetype.  So, I plan to create at least a medium quality Dino deck.  Not beyond me, even this little back into the game, me thinks...sure, it'll be no X-Sabers, or Infernities...it won't be even as good as Monarchs, probably...but it's worth a shot.  Gotta be as good as Psychic OTK, right?

Initial thoughts - there are two ways to approach this.

Either the 'standard' beatdown with my super-powered Dinos...or go all rentsy, and try for a Mass Driver/Black Ptera burn.  The latter sounds lots more fun.  ;)

So, shortlist for that deck:

3 Black Ptera
3 Nimble momonga
Sangan
Spirit Reaper
1 Toon Cannon Soldier
2 Frostosaurus
3 Gilasaurus
1 Effect Veiler
Gorz
3 Broww

2 Gold Sarc
2 Different Dimension Capsule
3 Mass Driver
3 Fossil Dig
2 Dark World Dealings
2 Monster Reincarnations
Monster Reborn
Dark Hole
3 TToC
2 MST

2 Cylinder
2 Ultimate Offering
Torrential
Solemn
Mirror

A few over 40, as you can see...but shaping up okay, IMO.  Just need to trim a bit,. and try to keep the ludicrous amount of thinning.  I really don't want to resort to Dark Room of Nightmare to make it work, no.  lol.