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Heya guys today I’m gonna discuss discuss what siding is and I hope this could help new/beginner players especially with Battle Arena(BA),War Arena’s,Tournaments etc etc since are of them are matches and mostly people side cards that would weaken or hurt ur deck badly
I know hostile/rarehunter made a topic about this on NEDA so I thought we would need it on CEA due to swarming greens(u know what I mean)
Here we go

1:What is Side Deck?
2: 3 Options of Siding
3:Most Common Side Cards
4:Other Side Card

What is Side Deck?
A "Side Deck" is a collection of between 1 and 15 cards, separate from the Main Deck. The Side Deck is used in Matches between Duels, to alter the contents of the Main or Extra Deck. Previously, the Side Deck could not be used to alter the contents of the Extra Deck, though this has been changed.[1] This is done to better suit a strategy against an opponent's Deck.
For example, a Burn Deck, a Deck based around dealing direct damage through Card effects and Spell Cards, could be easily countered by including several cards to prevent Life Point damage, such as "Des Wombat" or "Nature's Reflection".
Since a Side Deck is not compulsory, a value of 0 for a Side Deck is considered legal. In both the OCG and the TCG, any value between 0 and 15 inclusive is permissible
Credits of This Goes to Wikia ._.

3 Options of Siding
Well in my Experience there are 3 types of Siding so far as I know

1:Siding against your opponent
Siding against ur opponent would weaken or hurt their decks badly,lets say GB vs DW lost likely GB would lose but side some Macro,Fissure,Soul Drain,SIM would stop DW completely,these are just example of bad matchups that MAY or would happen.Siding against Your Opponent is Effective and would give u a slight OR massive advantages.But Alas Yu-Gi-Oh! Is a game based on Luck so yeah u need luck to draw yours side’s too
And I’d rather

Rely on Chances Drawing my Side > No Chance of Winning >_<

2:Giving your deck a boost up because they ruin/stop ur plays

Reader: Say wha o_O I don’t understand this Shyz Rai,Please Explain

To Be Honest I Rarely Use this Siding option so I cant explain further >
Boosting ur Deck makes it Pushings Your Deck’s Power Limit in my opinion
Boosting Your Deck capabilities is just good as (1:Siding against your opponent)

Reader:Oh yeah Hows so?

Example Synchrons vs GK….tahts already bad matchup as for Junk Synchron would be useless and u wont get ur JunkDoppel Play,so most likely u would lose but side in some Closed Forest(OCG),Twister,MST,More Lyla(maybe),and voila u would had a chance against GK(unless luck hates u that much)

3:Boosting ur Deck Consistency While at the same time Hurting ur Opponent
Reader:Oh yeah? Like What Cards Are u Talking about o.o?
Im talking about Rai-Oh,Imperial Iron Wall,SnowMan and Other Stuff
Now ur asking Why Rai-Oh and Snowman is a Side option.Firstly No Space Secondly Would Slow Your Deck
Reader:How does Rai-oh Slows my Deck -.-?
Rai-Oh Slows a Deck when u Used a toolboxing deck like T.G or Synchrons,T.G search for each other while Synchrons search via Tuning,Charge of the Light Brigade,Reinforcement of the army and other stuff but nonetheless WHY would u side Rai-Oh on a Synchron Deck o.O maybe for the special summon negation or u want more lights for BLS options.As For T.G it was explainable to run Rai-Oh as for the best and successful T.G build nowadays are Stun Ones
Reader:Ok Now How Does Imperial Iron Wall hurts Ur Opponent and Boost Yours? O.o
If I Run Synchrons and my Opponent Runs Chaos Dragons for an example
I Would have the infinite quillbolt nontuner and eaters wont be gone while hurting his pulsar and chaos monsters


Most Common Side Cards

Prohibition(declare their Keycards that would hurt their deck badly)
Gozen Match(attribute based)
Rivalry of Warlords(type Based)
System Down(pesky machines)
Cyber Dragon and fortress(still machines)
Chain Disappearance(pesky phalanx and old inzekturds and rabbits)
MST(if u don’t main it)
Twisters(if u feel u need more S/T desu for those pesky macros and stuff)
Snowman Eater(Laggimon!!(laggia lol)
Light-Imprisoning Mirror(lightsworns,Hieratics,Thunders and other Decks use Many Lights)
Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror(Screw u DW and Infernities XD)
Macro Cosmos(U could Side this if it doesn’t hurt ur deck )
Fissure(Same Effect As Macro)
D.D Crow(Phalanx and Junk Synchron target Removals,Much versatile)
Kinetic Soldier(Six Sams,Enuf Said)
Puppet Plant(Six Sams or Heroes)
Closed Forest(GK,Madolche and other Field relactant)
Soul Taker(for monster’s u cant get over with)
Soul Drain(any Cards that would work on banish and grave)
Dust Tornado
Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer( no removals for u and ur chaos)
Imperial Iron wall(works LIKE the same as Kycoo but including yours cant be removed)



And These Are Just the Common Side Cards Lurking Around
U Could Post More Useful SideCards so Other Readers would Know I missed some decent side cards )
Till Again,My the Goddess of Wisedom and Luck Be with U!

~Rai-Jinn

Not sure if this does go in Card and Deck discussion o_o

Derpy Hooves wrote:

Not sure if this does go in Card and Deck discussion o_o

well its a side deck o.O so yeah i think it should o3o

lol good point. But not sure.

I think alot of your points are flawed at a very fundamental level. And your title is completely wrong as well (i'm hoping it's not serious).

Siding IS mandatory if you want to better your chances of winning.

The main types of siding are a little more straightforward and clear:

1) You side against your opponent's deck (like your first point)
2) You side against your opponent's sides (like u side in MST's because you know your opp is siding backrow)
3) You transform your deck into another deck with your side.

I'd get more detailed, but I'm not currently motivated to provide a full counter-argument to the issue of siding lol.

Using dark blue as a text colour in a forum with a dark background is a bad idea.

I don't think you knew what mandatory meant whilst writing this article.

Still, good article. Has some good points and it's clear you put a lot of effort into it.

Actually, Rai. Siding in a Match game is mandatory. Especially when you play the game in real life and expect to do well.

Also, here's an outline of cards to be used in a side. Feel free to swap it out for yours if you wish. There's more, but I'll come up with some later.


Arcana 0 - The Fool
Cyber Dragon
D.D. Crow
Doomcaliber Knight
Effect Veiler
Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo
Gellenduo
Gemini Imps
Kinetic Soldier
Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer
Maxx "C"
Marshmallon
Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
Puppet Plant
Snowman Eater
Spirit Reaper
Thunder King Rai-Oh
Closed Forest
Dimensional Fissure
Last Day of the Witch
Mystical Space Typhoon
Prohibition
Smashing Ground
Soul Taker
System Down
Twister
Bottomless Trap Hole
Chain Disappearance
Compulsory Evacuation Device
Dimensional Prison
Dust Tornado
Fiendish Chain
Gozen Match
Grave of the Super Ancient Organism
Imperial Iron-Wall
Karma Cut
Light-Imprisoning Mirror
Macro-Cosmos
Malevolent Catastrophe
Mask of Restrict
Mirror Force
Rivalry of the Warlords
Royal Decree
Royal Prison
Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror
Skill Drain
Soul Drain
Summon Limit

yea i did misunderstood what mandatory means... xD i need to grab a book of english lessons XP

I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure this goes in The Classroom...

Good article though.

Also, some not so known (or maybe it is) side deck cards that works well with a lot of decks.

Morphing Jar #2
Injection Fairy Lily
Skull Meister
Night Beam
Debunk
Overworked
Mind Crush
Black Horn of Heaven
Needle Ceiling