for april fools, proper bluffing tatics.

[werewolfjedi]

bluffs are important, everyone agrees to that right? it's what makes your opponent hold back when you got nothing, it's what makes them waste their important traps and monsters when you wouldn't have be able to recover if they focused on their plan.

disscuss proper bluffing tatics for the tournament scene, and thingss you should and should not do, outside of playing the game itself.

and here's a funny story that alludes to a very good bluff.

this was just my locals, we had a huge player base, filled the room with 150+ people every friday night. and about 110 play yugioh for the night.

at the time, honest was at 3, I had a fool around light atribute anti-meta build style deck that liked to sit on thunder king, and I would often drop honest to protect it, and sometimes I'd use my backrow negation as well, I played around with that deck before the tournament, people saw me drop honest often, and it was generally assumed I had one in hand. I also had been saying this was just a play around deck, and not what I was going to use for the tournament, which was fully true.

the deck I had at the time that I enjoyed using, was a chaos citadel synchro deck, because black rose dragon was basically everyone's go to answer in my place. so I ran defender the magical knight, since it being able to survive to my turn with it's ability, generally made black rose dragon a bad play.

now, mind you, I could make black rose too, so it wasn't surprising to have everyone go for stardust instead if a counter wipe could easily happen.

not once, but in 4 rounds, I had the exact same situation come up,

citadel on the field, defender with it's counter, 2-3 cards set, nothing to stop a battle since I didn't hit a d-prison or mirrior force or what have you, and no honest in hand, because this deck didn't play it. couldn't afford the space.

every time, they make stardust dragon, and look at the field, thinking it should be safe to attack.

but it happens to be a person I was playing for fun before the tournament, that fact of honest on a light monster I feel is worth protecting. now, you may think defender, by virute of it's ability, doesn't need to be protected. and you'd be right, I love my reliable citadel blocker for just that reason.

they don't attack, I look at the field, and think why not, look at them, and realize exactly what is running through their head.

"this guy ran honest in his other deck, could they be in this deck too, I can't afford to lose my stardust to a battle."

I don't say anything, I don't question why they didn't attack, I just put on a smile and wave my hand around a little. yeah, the deck has a hand drop in effect veiler, but that's not they are worried about.

they don't attack.

and I get to walk right into an arcanite magician, give it an extra counter with spell power or apprentice magician, and run dragon over without the need for an honest to ever exist in my deck.

it was only the week after I told them I had been bluffing the whole night. oh the looks on their faces. priceless~

[Zauls]

I remember someone once D-Prisoning my Shine Ball when I attacked with it and I didn't even have the Honest. I knew they had the Prison somehow (Duality I think) and thought I would try and bait it out.  

[BANZAI!!!!]

I like to set mirror force and take damage, provided it won't kill me. means my opponent is more likely to swing in at it when it counts. plus if they know me well, they might not swing at all, since i do this a lot.

[Dog King]

one time i had scarecrow in hand but instead i let my opponent attack me directly successfully and let him win

when he did he jumped up in excitement and when he did i grabbed his cards and ran away

 

not sure how this is relevant to the topic

[Northern Sage]

Yami did it

Therefore legit

 

one time i had scarecrow in hand but instead i let my opponent attack me directly successfully and let him win

when he did he jumped up in excitement and when he did i grabbed his cards and ran away

 

not sure how this is relevant to the topic

Oops, speaking of the anime…

[Dog King]

speaking of anime its kind of funny how every time a player set mirror force the enemy player always found a way to destroy it

yet in other times when they didnt set anything along those lines of a mirror force then they ignored the set card and attacked anyway 

[Toffee.]

Guys. No. Best bluff is to play the infamous Yu-Jyo OTK.
Opponents will be in constant panic throughout the game while they try and anticipate when they have to shake your hand.

[goddamnit names are a pain]

Proper bluffing is setting 5 spells and traps, making your opponent think you play Burn and then when they MST you Special Summon like Artifacts....oh wait that's not bluffing

 

You know I did this funny thing once where I set cards and THEN played Duality

added Theosophy to my hand and set it

sure enough it gets MST'd (I had a second though) letting me destroy a card

 

So what does bluffing mean? You can take advantage of bad opponents.

 

I mean some things are ok to assume but most of the time assuming gets you killed.

[Neutrality Man]

My mantra is "90% of every card game is psychological warfare". Feint like you're playing something like Mermail where one card you know theirs contains (Macro Cosmos) completely kills you, when really you're playing something that gets off on that card (Necroface OTK).

[NeoRWBY65]

Opponent hit me with Magic Cylinder twice in a row, and I was scared to death he had the third one set, so I just didn't attack with my big guys for the rest of the game.