Forum:Self-serchers: What's the point?

I'm not talking about the monsters that can only search for another copy of itself, I'm talking about the duelists who put in three copies of cards like Toon Table of Contents or Gravekeeper's Spy just to search for themselves, and call it a "deck-thinning engine". Just...why? There's so many other cards out there that could make deck-thinning more practical, yet these guys choose a single card that likely would have no other use in their deck but to search for itself, thinking that would make their deck thinner. I find it wasteful, myself; not only are you stuffing your deck with otherwise-useless cards, but since those cards can only search for themselves, you can't actually use them to get any of the other cards in your deck that you need. In my opinion, you'd have better draw and deck-thinning power taking those cards out, entirely. Hell, there's deck-thinning cards out there that people are already using in their decks that actually fits it; Zombies have Pyramid Turtle, Plants have Lonefire Blossom, insects have Howling Insect, even Flamvell Firedog makes more sense, since at least it has more targets that it can get.

I'm not saying that self-searchers are bad; I can see the use of a card like Reborn Tengu, for instance. But since most self-searchers are situational to their own archetype, putting them into a deck other than their own archetype and calling it a "deck-thinning engine" makes no sense to me. Any thoughts on this matter? SynjoDeonecros (talk • contribs) 13:31, June 22, 2011 (UTC)