Chapter 122: No Books Are Worth Having
Hui carefully read through the Dark Realm deck. The Dark Realm deck brought by Li Zheng was not a typical Dark Realm deck. Even with the rare cards sent by Feng Jingxuan, Li Zheng's Dark Realm deck was not complete. He did not use this deck in his previous life. Now he was able to put it together by relying on some Dark Realm cards that were originally used as plug-ins in other decks, cards sent by Feng Jingxuan, and cards drawn from the system.
If you want the tactics of this deck...
[Li Zheng, I've finished reading.] At this time, Hui finally sorted out his thoughts, and a telepathic message pulled Li Zheng back to his thoughts.
[Oh? Is there a result?] Li Zheng said, [What are the characteristics of this deck? Why use these cards to form a deck? 】
【Most of the monsters here have relatively uniform races and attributes.】 Hui picked up a monster card from the Dark Realm. 【For example, this one, even though it is called "Dragon God of the Dark Realm", looks like a dragon, but its race is still a demon, which allows it to be supported by some support cards dedicated to the demon.】
【Well, the analysis is very good, continue.】 Li Zheng nodded. He was able to notice the importance of race and attributes at the first time. Ming Hui has made great progress during this period. After all, duelists of this era rarely care about race and attributes. Weak duelists only care about card pictures, and powerful duelists care more about star rating and attack power. Those who can properly consider the effect are relatively excellent duelists and can get a certain ranking in major competitions.
Race and attributes, these two are not particularly important in the eyes of many duelists - to be precise, except for the dragon race, after all, duelists now generally have the mentality of "as long as it is a dragon race, it is not weak", so dragon cards are sold at a higher price - Li Zheng often sees posts like "Monster A is much better than Monster B except for its appearance, come and argue if you don't agree", and their basis is often that both sides have the same attack power but Monster A uses one less sacrifice than Monster B, etc.
In the environment of Li Zheng's previous life, the race, attributes, star level, effect and attack of monsters could all become its shortcomings, the most obvious of which is the wind attribute. Because of the lack of support cards, many powerful wind monsters are considered to have attributes that have become shortcomings. And some cards 5◆5◆5◆5◆,
[The monsters in the Dark World are basically dark attribute and demon type, plus there are some light attribute and angel type support monsters in this deck, which makes the use of this card possible. ] Hui picked up another card, which was a demon with sharp claws and nails all over his body, "Demon God Norelas".
[Demon God Norelas: Effect Monster, 8 stars, dark attribute, demon type, attack power: 400, defense power: 1500, effect: This card cannot be Normal Summoned. It can only be Special Summoned when 1 Light attribute and Angel type monster and 1 Dark attribute and Demon type monster in your Graveyard are excluded from the game. You can pay 1000 basic points, send all the cards in both hands and on the field to the graveyard, and draw 1 card from your deck. 】
【In my world, this is called "cheat". Keep going, what else? 】
【These "Dark World" monsters have effects that can only be activated when "sent from hand to graveyard", so the auxiliary magic cards are generally centered around sending hand cards to graveyard. If you don't draw these auxiliary magic cards, it will be very uncomfortable. 】 Hui put down "Demon God Norelas" and raised a Dark World monster.
【Haha, that's right, that's right, this deck "Dark World" has the nickname "Card Hand World" in my world. 】 Li Zheng smiled slightly and nodded to Hui, 【You can notice so many things, it means you are indeed very talented, what else? 】
【What else? 】 Hui tilted her head, looking at a few cards that she didn't understand why they suddenly appeared here, and said: [I can't think of anything else, except why you added these cards that seem to have nothing to do with its theme "discarding hand cards" to this deck. 】
[Is that so... Well, indeed, it's good that you can analyze so much for the first time. Next, let me tell you. 】 Li Zheng put away the "Dark Realm" deck. He didn't know whether Hui would choose this deck, but it wouldn't be bad to let her see more. [Do you remember the "card difference theory" I told you before? ]
Hui nodded obediently: [Remember, it means that you must have more cards than your opponent to establish an advantage, right? ]
[Yes, but because there was not much time at the time, I couldn't tell you all of this. Today I will use this "Dark Realm" deck to tell you about this. 】Li Zheng flipped the cards in the Dark Realm deck one by one and said to Hui: [In this Dark Realm, some cards do not conform to the "card difference theory" I told you before. Can you find it? 】
[Hmm... it should be this one. 】 Hui took a card out of the deck and said: [This card seems useless. 】
Li Zheng looked at the card Hui took out, nodded, and said: ["Dimensional Crack"? As expected, I noticed this card. Indeed, this card cannot bring advantages to the Dark World deck. If you can't throw cards, the monsters of the Dark World will be stuck in your hand. However, any effect is relative. You know Hui, when you think this card is very painful for you, the opponent may be more painful than you. That's why I added this card to the deck, and there is also "Teleport Demon" to assist. You usually have more means than the opponent. The most important thing is that the initiative to activate this card is in your hands. When you judge that this card causes you much more trouble than the opponent, you can hold it in your hand and throw it away as a cost at any time or cover it on the field to deceive the wind. It's up to you. ]
[Dimensional Crack: Continuous Magic, Effect: Monsters sent to the Graveyard are excluded from the game without going to the Graveyard. 】
【Teleport Demon: Effect Monster, 4*, Dark Attribute, Demon-Type, ATK: 1500, DEF: 500, Effect: Once per turn, you can discard 1 Demon-Type monster from your hand and increase this card's ATK by 500 until the End Phase. When this card on your field is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, you can choose 1 of your Dark Attribute monsters that was removed from the game and add it to your hand. 】
After listening to this, Hui nodded thoughtfully.
Li Zheng continued: 【I said this mainly to let you know that in a duel, the situation on the field changes rapidly, and no card is truly useful forever. Even the "Pot of Greed" that I have always admired is not as powerful as "Goblin Upstart" and "Pot of Greed" when there is only one card left in your deck. 】
Hui seemed to think of the miserable situation of having only "Pot of Greed" in her hand when there is only one card left in her deck. Her expression that has remained unchanged for thousands of years seems to have loosened a little. She should want to laugh.
Li Zheng shrugged and continued: [The same is true for the "Card Difference Theory". It doesn't always work. For example, the right to use a general move once a turn should also be counted as half a card in the "Card Difference". So if you use two cards to exchange for a monster that uses the right to use a general move, you would lose a card in common sense, but in fact you only lose half a card; and there are graveyard resources...]
For the next period of time, Li Zheng was concentrating on teaching Hui, so much so that Patchouli didn't notice when she brought the book back. Of course, Patchouli was not the kind of boring person who would show her presence for no reason. She just read the book quietly, but from the fact that this magic otaku who reads very fast didn't turn a page for a long time, she was actually listening to what Li Zheng said.
[...The last thing I want to tell you is that it is better to have no book than to believe in it blindly. Just use the card difference theory, and don't fall into it. 】 At the end, Li Zheng emphasized to Hui very seriously: [The purpose of earning cards is to win. If you can guarantee a win, losing five or eight cards is worth it; if you can't win at all, then the cards you earned can only make you look like you have a big advantage. 】