Justification And The Nature of Misconception

Asia Championship has gone by so has YCS Toulouse and Dallas. Rabbit has finally won in their own ground for the first time and surprising enough Dragons did well in Toulouse. Similar to that, Hieroglyphs Ninja took Asia. This seems to be a good year for dragons.  Congratulations to all the champions that won! Much to be assure, there will be an increase in Hieratics players. Malaysia-wise. I suppose I should be prepared to face an onslaught of mirror matches.  I am interested in observing how Hieroglyphs would fare in TCG seeing that Card Car D will most probably be Secret Rare. Surprisingly, the TCG-exclusives for Hieratics does not promise much. I am not saying they are bad but it takes too much work to plus with them. All and all, hopefully they are worth while and more innovations happen.

Been doing a lot of deep considerations lately and concluded that events sometime happens for no apparent reason thus came the topic of the day. Today I’d like to discuss about a factor in YGO that every player is familiar with, misplays. This has always been a hot topic to highlight whenever a duel happens. May it be locals or in a major tournament.  We hear the term ‘misplay’ a lot but what does it really mean? Does it signifies anything? Frankly speaking, there is no clear definition to what a misplay is. This is a personal point of view, something subjective in its own manner. First off all, there are two factors players need to be clear of, obvious mistakes whereby everyone understands its a big mistake and the other being tactics. Actions like forgetting  to equip Giga Mantis and attacking for game are issues one can never write off as “tactics”. Plain stupid much? Now here is where the tricky part lies.

Tactics itself is something one can never expect unless, again, If it is obvious. I have constantly encourage the need of playing to your own preference. Similar to the current topic, no one can really define a play another duelist made to be a misplay because each different players has their own play-style and tactics. Only you can define whether or not the move you just made is a misplay to yourself and only you can justify that decision. Stop trying to classify or categorize certain points  when you might not have fully understood it, in general. At the end of the day, only the player making that move has the right to judge or call the decision he or she just made as a misplay. This is something Mike, from Dueling Legacy, and me has been trying to observe and discuss whenever we play-test.  We would go through the pros and cons of a certain move taken after duels and discuss how our game would or could have ended. For example, I would prefer to summon Card Car D first when I am going second in attempt to bait out traps while Mike would activate MST, if he has it, and blow off something before attempting to summon and resolve Card Car D’s effect to plus like a boss. 

Perhaps what I am trying to point out is my decision would usually be called a misplay. Due to the fact that maybe I should have aimed to plus off Car D instead of using it as a bait to get rid of traps. Though not to forget, every play and decision should be thought of first by considering the amount of resources you own at the time being. How much advantage can it generate, now and later on. Similar to how one would choose to Warning an Armageddon Knight to prevent it from Milling. It looks to be a waste of resources but who can really tell other then the player doing so himself? Could it be he does not have outs to the in-coming Dragonfly+Hornet plays later in the game? Or maybe what he did is to prevent an early setup that would have cost him that particular game due to him or her holding a bad hand of cards? 

There are many elements to consider before making such claims. Conclusion, this subject is a factor which holds many answers and opinions. Players should aim to understand a play made before immediately calling it a misplay. Determine through consideration. Think and re-think again to catch what you have just witness really means then only you decide if in your case would you have made that move. Justified truth, one may say so. Remember we all speak in different voices. This is all for today. Thank you for reading!