Royal Decree

Has not been helping very much.

While it single-handedly won me one duel since I started using it, it hasn't really helped all that much since then. At the last local tournament I went to, I only drew it once, and I didn't even use it. It was just sitting there, as I didn't need it to protect my plays. Yes, it did allow me to play slightly more recklessly, but my opponent happened to have a Book of Moon or something, and I never even flipped the Decree.

Of course, it's not supposed to carry my deck, but it's supposed to help at least somewhat. I mean, I'm supposed to open with it once every few duels, and that doesn't even account for drawing into it later. It's just been pretty useless recently.

It makes me feel as though I shouldn't play it. I mean, let's list the decks it's good against:

Six Samurai

Gravekeeper's

Gladiator Beasts

Machina Gadgets

Random Stun

I don't count Hero Beat since they have Gemini Sparks, and I'd much rather just negate their summons with Warning and push through their back row. And, I guess I could include Worms, but meh. They could just Evil Dragon Ananta or whatever to destroy Royal Decree whenever they need to.

Now, let's list the decks it's good against that I actually care about:

Six Samurai

Gravekeeper's

Um, yeah... Against Gravekeeper's, with Closed Forest, it basically makes an auto-win scenario for me. Their Gravekeeper's can't get over Scrap Beast without Necrovalley, especially with the boost from Closed Forest, and their Traps are dead. They basically hope to draw both Mystical Space Typhoons or lose.

However, against Six Samurai, Seven Tools of the Bandit might be better. It pushes through Shi En's negation effect to stop stuff like Solemn Warning. The only problem is that Musakani Magatama is being used more, which stops Seven Tools...

I'm probably going to keep it in the deck for this weekend, and I'll see what happens before I decide on what to do.