The Perfect Side

Side decking is a difficult art to master since there are so many decks out there and you're only allowed to 15 cards to help combat them. The side deck should include cards that cover your decks weaknesses and help take down others. With only 15 slots lets look at some decks and see what they're staple side should look like.

Lightsworns/Twilight: They rely heavily on milling their deck and focus on their graveyard while summoning huge monsters. Anti Meta decks like Skill Drain and Fissure their them apart. Here's an average side for them.

3x Royal Decrees
2x Breaker the Magical Warrior
2x Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer
2x Bottomless Traphole
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Giant Trunade

Those 11 cards are pretty much standard for the LS/Twilight builds. The extra four cards can be tech cards of your choice. My body as a Shield and Fairy Wind work well too. The decrees completely shut down Light and Shadow Imprisoning Mirror as well as the feared Skill Drain. Breakers make sure they clear Light Imprisoning Mirrors and Fissures while counting as dark's for DAD and Chaos Sorcerer. Kycoos are usually brought in against Zombies to completely shut them down and can be sided against other decks to prevent Soul Releases and opposing Kycoos from damaging your strategy. The Bottomless Trapholes are sided in against decks that carry large monsters like Dimensional Eatos and makes the LS/Twilight more aggressive and dangerous as the Bottomless are usually not expected. MST and Giant Trunade are sided in against GB's and every anti meta deck that uses Skill Drains and Fissures.

Gladiator Beasts are one of the most feared decks around because they can easily shut down your opponents strategies with their multiple tag ins. The GB's rely heavily on special summoning and effects so when the opponent sides in Oppressions and Skill Drains the GB player is in trouble. Here's their usual side deck strategy.

3x Banisher of the Radiance
3x Trap Stun
3x Dust Tornado
2x Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer
2x Dimensional Fissure
2x My Body as a Shield

Banishers, Kycoo, and Fissures are sided in against Zombies and Lightsworn decks. Even though GB's have an even match up against Zombies it can still be out sped by Lightsworns. It evens the playing field and makes both decks strategies fail. The Trap Stuns and Dust Tornadoes are sided in against anti meta decks and any deck that sided in Mirror of Oaths. My Body as a Shield are sided in against the dreaded Stardust Dragon, Bottomless Traphole, and Mirror of Oaths.

I'll go over more decks side deck tomorrow. Peace.