With the name, Demon Samurai, you'd expect my favorite deck to be a generic Demon deck.  Nope.  My strongest deck, my greatest, will always be my Undead Deck.

Undead is the Japanese name for “Zombie.”

Unlike Kane, my deck doesn’t class itself by versions.  My preferred form is “age.”

The 1st Generation: After several different deck experiments, I came across a little card called Call of the Corpses.  This card allowed me to special summon 1 Undead monster to the field if my monster field was empty.  At first, this came as a bad card.  Why?  What the hell is so good about Undead anyway?

Well, I found some spare Undead monsters in my collections:

Despair From the Darkness, Dragon Bone Ogre, and Noble De Noir were the first to catch my eye.

These monsters seemed strange and had effects that I was unfamiliar with.  Despair had a anti-deck and hand destruction effect.  Bone Ogre was mainly anti-Warrior and Magic-User.  And Noble De Noir allowed me to force my opponent to attack a monster of my choosing on my field.

The thing was, almost all the Undead monsters depended heavily on my opponent’s weaknesses… which seemed strange.

Each was higher then level 5, which meant sacrifice.  That made Call of the Corpses a vicious weapon.  I put the deck together using basic Undead monsters and basic magic and traps.

The Generation 1 Undead Deck was un-officially called the “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!” deck.  A total of 9 high level monsters.  That’s right.  2 Despair From the Darkness, 3 Dragon Bone Ogres, 3 Noble De Noir, and 1 Giant Mummy… don’t ask.

The 2nd Generation: Testing and testing.  I took it upon myself to find and duel against the strongest deck possible to test it.  That happened to be my friend and rival, Kane.  His shotgun deck was the perfect experience for this deck.

This time, I upgraded the forces.  Soul Hunting Spirit and Pyramid Turtle were introduced to me.  They added a new level of low-level Undead that were actually really good!

This got my deck to 20 monsters, and only 7 sacrifices this time!

I named this deck, “The Army.”

The 3rd Generation: Just a minor upgrade where I found some Book of Life-Forbidden Magic and a new Cry of the Living Dead… which helped… a lot.

This was a quick change, and the ratio was changed to 18 monsters, 16 magic cards, and 6 traps… and for some reason, Android Psycho Shocker was in the deck too…

I deemed this deck, my “Cemetery.”

The 4th Generation: This is probably the greatest addition, yet the smallest.  I bought Vampire Lord.  It’s like the literal “Lord” of the Undeads.

Easily, the greatest upgrade.  I called this deck “Corpse Army”

The 5th Generation: This is my perfect form.  I cannot upgrade this deck any further.  The balance of high level monsters was dead perfect.  The deck was shaped into the new ratio that was going around, and, if you ask Kane, it can even handle Chaos Soldier.

Officially, this deck is now called “Hell.”  My prized deck.

The deck is currently posted in the “Decks of the Inner Circle” page.

update: 9/5/04
"Ok, I actually updated abunch of times since this last essay.  Now it's officially version 9 *as of yet*, so expect a crap-load more updates.

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