#this post partially brought to you by my digica friend ranting about ppl who only use one deck/playstyle lol

[keithhoward]

He was a dueling champion and all but I think Keith’s actual favourite part of Duel Monsters was deck-building, on account of like. He’s one of the few (if only) duelists we see in DM that has and uses multiple types of decks to this extent, like completely different cards and playstyles. Throughout the Duelist Kingdom arc alone he’s shown using three separate decks (with the implication of at least two more vicariously through Takaido and Satake). He kept a bunch on hand with the insinuation he knew them all well enough use them interchangeably and knew how to supplement other decks. Machines may be what he’s most associated with but I don’t think that was like, his favourite or most used or anything, just what he thought was most convenient at the time (and then all he was left with for R). R of course having my forever favourite scene where he’s pissy about having to use a card that doesn’t fit his deck build, even when the card in question is a literal God card. It just seems like he hones in on this aspect of the game a lot more than other characters lol.