Forum:Help with Beat Down deck

I've only recently returned to yugioh. For the past four or five years I've been out of the loop. My deck was origionally built on custom rules of my school, no tributes or fusion cards/polymerization necessary. So it wasn't even usable when I started playing again. My deck was an ultimate beat down. Only the strongest of monsters, I was the champion. Since then I've put in playable monsters and use traditional format.

Sadly no matter what I do to try and beef my deck up, I can only take out the lower level duelists. Out of the 15 or so duelists I can only regularly defeat about five of them, and another five it's on and off depending on who gets what cards. the other five beat me in less than five turns every time. I'm getting extremely frustrated with this, I only know how to make generic beat down decks with no other theme.

I need to figure out if there's anything that can be done to make my deck a winner (and if so what is it?), or if I should pick out a structure deck and start over. I was thinking about the Rise of the Dragon Lord deck but then someone told me it was only useful for a couple of the cards and the rest was worthless.

If anyone could help me with a beat down deck or picking out a structure deck that would be awesome. A theme I'm interested in adopting is dragons. I tend to face alot of darkworld, warrior (inlcuding a six samurai), burn, and monarch/elemental hero. I don't expect to have a deck that can kill ALL of those but a deck that can handle itself against those would be nice.

Monsters: Old Vindictive Magician (x1) Man-Eater Bug (x1) Exiled Force (x1) Witch of the Black Forest (x1) Kelbek (x3) Zolga (x1) Asura Priest (x1) Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke (x1) Gladiator Beast Andal (x2) Insect Knight (x1) Luster Dragon (x2) Beserk Gorilla (x1) Saber Beetle (x1) Summoned Skull (x2) Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight (x1)

Magic: Lightning Vortex (x2) Change of Heart (x1) Monster Reborn (x1) Swords of Revealing Light (x1) Heavy Storm (x2) Graceful Charity (x1) Pot of Greed (x1) Premature Burial (x1) Axe of Despair (x3) Mystical Space Typhoon (x1)

Trap: Michizure (x1) Trap Hole (x2) Sakuretsu Armor (x3)

Side Deck (Most of the Cards are used for anti burn decks cause I always get hit by gravity binds): Copycat (x1) Sonic Duck (x3) Mad Lobster (x3) Jerry Beans Man (x2) D.D. Warrior Lady (x1) Fissure (x1) Ground Collapse (x1) Mystical Space Typhoon (x1) Torrential Tribute (x1) Call of the Haunted (x1)