Yu-Gi-Oh! part 1

I am a OCG player. started when I was around 12 i think. As a newbie everything was new and interesting. by that time, i stilled remember my 1st and favourite card was Red Eyes Black Dragon, still have it until now. remember playing with all sorts of cards any types, attribute, effects. at that time i think it still the start of 401-soul of duelist if i've not mistaken.i started off playing with friends from school. after a while i start playing at a shop called "new style".

After playing for some time, i realized i kept losing duels and i was wandering what is wrong? are my cards not good enough or my opponents too strong. I bought a dragon structure deck because the most "powerful" card in that deck is Red Eyes Dark Dragon (direct translation) and i am also a fan of red eyes. maybe the reason why i bought it. i got a lot of new cards: swords of revealing light, snatch steal(banned), foolish burial(banned),pot of greed(banned),heavy storm, call of haunted and many more. i didnt own those before so suddenly i felt that my deck improved a lot.by this time i realized that there is banlist. eventhough i still lose to my opponents and i keep wandering "am i so weak?"

I play with my dragons for some time and i get a little bored with seeing my opponents keep changing decks. I changed my deck into a warrior type deck(no synchros back then). it manages to give a better win ratio than my dragon deck. as time goes by, the shop owner and some duelist at New Style recognise me and i make some new friends. all of the duelist are better than me and they teach me a lot of things i need to know, some combos, deck-building strategy and many more.

between the 2nd and 3rd year of playing yugioh i stopped for some reasons and continued playing after 6 months. after i returned, i found out there were a lot of new cards out there and some of my cards were banned or limited. when i returned, i kept seeing ppl playing monarchs and overload otk. i needed a change to compete with them so i made myself a zombie deck (again no synchros) which also scored some wins for me.later i play a ritual insect deck.