Forum:What cards to use? Amount of cards in deck?

I have a dragon based deck that I have done very well with many, many times. However, it has been first generation since the original anime came out. Recently, I drove over to the game store and bought a structure deck, and quite a few of the newest booster packs; along with a few xyz's and pendulum monsters.

As of right now, I have 55 cards in the main deck, and 5 in the extra deck. First question is, what is a good amount to have in my main deck? I know a lot of people say to try to get as close to 40 as possible, but in my deck, the cards I have work beautifully together. My main monsters are Blue Eyes White Dragons. A lot of my low level monsters can negate an attack, and summon BEWD, or when sent to the graveyard, summon BEWD. With my pendulum monsters, I can summon good defensive/offensive monsters to protect/clear the field. If I have no monsters, I have trap cards that will defend me. If I take damage, on my next turn, I most likely have a spell card that will allow me to summon a high level monster, or simply a monster from my deck. My deck works perfectly, but my question is, should I really try to narrow it down? On terms of very powerful monsters, my plan is:

If I have all 3 BEWD, and I have polymerization, I summon BEUD. If I don't have polymerization, I summon Galaxy Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon and apply some axe spell cards to him.

But here is the next question, in my deck, I have all 3 original Egyptian God Cards. Should I keep them all in there? It is nice to be able to summon a very powerful monster who can negate spell/trap cards. I can easily defeat monsters such as honest, who threaten my 3 divine beasts. But I think I could go without 2. I work best with Slifer the Sky Dragon, figuring as Winged Dragon of Ra requires me to give life points (as this could be dangerous and if I have low life points, I can't have a high Attack/Defense) and Obelisk only has 4000 Attack/Defense. I know I can destroy all my opponents monsters with Obelisk, but it requires two tributes each time. Slifer will destroy monsters with an attack at or lower than 2000; and severely weakens stronger monsters. With Slifer, yes, my hand determines his power. But I can load the field, keep 6 cards in hand, and have a powerful monster. With Obelisk, I'll have to worry about summoning monsters to tribute if I wish to destroy the most powerful monsters.

I'm open to all opinions as I'm not the most experienced player haha. If you want to recommend other cards/newer cards to add, do it! Also, people have recommended me to watch the newest yugioh series, but I can't find it anywhere, even on youtube. Where can I find it? ARC-V or something like that.

Rafapex (talk • contribs) 02:20, June 10, 2015 (UTC)Zac (Raf)