Mike’s Battle Pack Deck
The players don’t get to have all the fun. While the Duelists were building their Decks for the tournament, the coverage staff was given their own card pool with which to construct a Deck. Check out my card pool and the 30-card Deck that I constructed from it!

As you can see from the Registration Sheet pictured above, my card pool consists of the following cards:
Traps: 7
Call of the Haunted
Magic Cylinder
Liberty at Last!
Mirror Force
Skill Successor
Reckless Greed
Damage Gate
Spells: 8
Axe of Despair
Bait Doll
Enemy Controller
Offerings to the Doomed
Scapegoat
Swords of Revealing Light
United We Stand
Monster Gate
Monsters: 35 (including 3 Xyz Monsters)
Obelisk the Tormentor
Witch of the Black Forest
Wind-Up Dog
Tragoedia
Toon Gemini Elf
The Tricky
Tanngrisnir of the Nordic Beasts
Stealth Bird
Snowman Eater
Phantom of Chaos
Noisy Gnat
Milla the Temporal Magician
Injection Fairy Lily
Hyper Hammerhead
Helping Robo for Combat
Gravitic Orb
Gilasaurus
Freed the Matchless General
Drillroid
Dark Dust Spirit
Cyber Valley
Cloudian – Poison Cloud
Chainsaw Insect
Card Trooper (x2)
Big Shield Gardna
Bazoo the Soul-Eater
Backup Warrior
Arcana Force XIV – Temperance
Ancient Gear Golem (x2)
Amazoness Sage
Number 39: Utopia
Gem-Knight Pearl
Gachi Gachi Gantetsu

I can quickly spot some synergy among the cards in my card pool. First off, Card Trooper is able to send cards from the top of my Deck to my Graveyard. Phantom of Chaos can then copy the ATK of monsters sent to the Graveyard by Card Trooper’s effect.
You’ll also notice that I pulled Obelisk the Tormentor, with a couple of cards that help to Summon it. Tanngrisnir of the Nordic Beasts, for example, leaves behind 2 Nordic Beast Tokens that can be Tributed for a Tribute Summon when it’s destroyed in battle. Swords of Revealing Light keeps monsters from being destroyed in battle, so they can be Tributed for a Tribute Summon on a later turn.
Monsters that can be Special Summoned, like Gilasaurus and Backup Warrior, help to enable Tribute Summons of big monsters like Obelisk the Tormentor and Ancient Gear Golem. Strong defenders like Big Shield Gardna (2600 DEF) and Snowman Eater (1900 DEF) also help keep monsters on the field for Tribute Summons.
I pulled 3 Xyz Monsters: Number 39: Utopia, Gem-Knight Pearl, and Gachi Gachi Gantetsu. I’ll throw all three of them into my Extra Deck, in order to maximize my options throughout each Duel.
I also pulled a bunch of monsters that have low Levels and high ATK, like Injection Fairy Lily (which boosts itself to 3400 ATK), Chainsaw Insect (2400 ATK), and Toon Gemini Elf (1900 ATK). United We Stand and Axe of Despair can boost the ATK of my weaker monsters so that they can triumph over stronger ones in battle.
Keeping these simple combos and strategies in mind, here’s the 30 card Deck that I quickly constructed:
Monsters: 19
1 Obelisk the Tormentor
1 Witch of the Black Forest
1 Tragoedia
1 Toon Gemini Elf
1 The Tricky
1 Stealth Bird
1 Snowman Eater
1 Big Shield Gardna
1 Phantom of Chaos
1 Card Trooper
1 Tanngrisnir of the Nordic Beasts
1 Backup Warrior
1 Injection Fairy Lily
1 Gilasaurus
1 Dark Dust Spirit
1 Cyber Valley
1 Chainsaw Insect
1 Ancient Gear Golem
1 Bazoo the Soul-Eater
Spells: 6
1 United We Stand
1 Swords of Revealing Light
1 Scapegoat
1 Axe of Despair
1 Enemy Controller
1 Offerings to the Doomed
Traps: 5
1 Call of the Haunted
1 Magic Cylinder
1 Liberty at Last!
1 Mirror Force
1 Skill Successor
Extra Deck: 3
1 Gachi Gachi Gantetsu
1 Number 39: Utopia
1 Gem-Knight Pearl

This was just one of many ways to construct a 30-card Deck from a 50-card pool. Which cards would you use in your Deck if you had this card pool?
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