User blog comment:RevengerSword15/Beginner Advice?/@comment-28173866-20160807001317/@comment-11372432-20160807003641

I feel the anime is a good point to start, but if you want to be good, you'll need to start figuring out your own improvements. I don't know how many realize it, but Gao is actually a competent player and rarely makes a bad move. That's how he kept winning. He was just a competent person in an incompetent world lol. Naturally, more characters are getting competent.

For an example of what I mean: in the anime, Revolted is this horrifying monster. In reality, we have access to many easy soul removal cards that can take care of him, and playing Revolted ASAP like Dai does is a great way to die ASAP. If Gao (along with Baku and Kuguru, technically) were smart, there would be a Shinestorm in his deck when he went up against Dai. Then again, if Dai was smart, he'd have hold off on evolving Jaeger and packed some soul adders like Rin.

And Wataru is a terrible player. I feel like he only plays the way he does because the best way to play that deck isn't flashy like his moves lol. He is just so terrible. It just bugs me about how bad he is, is all. Prolly why he cheats.