Yu-Gi-Oh Commons Are Playable Too!

The word of Yu-Gi-Oh is dominated by those few players that have enough power and connections to buy and or obtain every single card in the game. If it's rare and powerful, you can bet that these top players are going to have those cards in their deck. For instance, the card Mirror Force, it's a great card and fetches about 20 - 30 dollars on Ebay. Now average card players that buy packs here and there and play only on a local level would not even think about spending such an amount of money on just one card, and therefore it stands to reason that the average player in the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game will not stand a chance against the players with all the money and means, however that may not be entirely true.

Many players in this game are blinded by the rarity of many cards. This many that many lower valued cards go unnoticed, and many times untouched by better players. Just recently a combination of cards that were common in nature came to light that changed the face of the card game, had many cards re-written, and even influenced the recent changes to the banned and restricted list. The following is the combination.

Black Petra (common monster)
Ultimate Offering (common trap)
Cannon Soldier (Rare Monster, reprinted in common form)
1 random spell card with a burn effect, or direct life point damage effect that does at leas 500 damage (Tremendous Fire, Ookazi, Hitmoa, Jar Robber, or any other)

Black Petra states that when he leaves play be a card effect he returns to your hand. Ultimate Offering is a trap that allows you to perform an extra normal summon for the cost of 500 life points. Cannon Soldier allows you to sacrifice any monster on your side of the field to inflict 500 life points to an opponent. And the spell card will direct damage.

Summon Cannon Soldier to your side of the field. Use Ultimate offering by paying 500 life points and then summon Black Petra. Use Cannon Soldiers effect and sacrifice Black Petra to inflict 500 points of damage to an opponent. Then Black Petra's effect comes into play once he is placed into the graveyard and returns to your hand. The use Ultimate Offering again, paying 500 life points to summon Black Petra, sacrifice for Cannon Soldiers effect to inflict 500 points to an opponent then return Black Petra, lather rinse repeat.

You can keep this combination up until you and your opponent are dead even at 500 life points each. Then you use one of the spell cards in your hand, like Ookazi, to finish off the job. Now you just won the game, with a total of four cards in all, and every single one of them was a common. This just goes to show you that every card in this game has some sort of use, we as players just have to find it. And what happens is that people, especially those with a lot of money and connections, tend to take the easy way out. Using high powered cards is much more convenient the putting together a deck that takes strategy and thinking to build and play.

Each of the cards in this combo was printed at different times and in different sets. But one person was all it took to recognize the potential of these common cards and in doing so was extremely successful on the pro circuit for this game. After his deck preformed many one turn kills, and was duplicated over and over again the cards used, specifically Ultimate Offering, were reworded and or bannd/restricted.

The fact that an infinite combination was found using only common cards proves that even those players with not a lot of money, or who are on a budget can build decks that are cheap, and competitive. At first glance this card game may seem like a money card game, where the rich dominate, but if you have the determination to make a deck unlike any other, that will work and be viable in a tournament environment then it is entirely possible to do so. So go ahead and put that box of commons you have collecting duct under your bed to some use. You never know what you might run across.