Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Anti "Maxx C"
Appropriate , Anti Maxx "C" at the best.. Let him Draw for every Summon, and do one better and Draw twice! :) watch out tho, you may Deck out with this :)
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Storm of Six Samurai!
Yes, after a quick look thru of Stor, Unless your playing Six Sam, or Nordic you outta luck.
Some nice cards to look for , if your not playin said above..
Doppelwarrior , Great for Junk Synchron decks, making junk warrior 3100... Or if playin solidarity, Much bigger.
Yaksha , Good for bouncing a backrow or fields spell and swinging for 1900
Foolish Return , Kinda like a 1 shot Transmigration Prophecy, quick play spell to return to Deck..its chainable, stops Pot of Avarice, can Hurt LOTS of Decks reliant on GY, like Scraps,Frogs,Dandy - X, and can even hurt GB on Prisma plays when they fetch Darius.
Forbidden Lance, Its a given, easy to see the money card in this one.
Xing Zhen Hu Replica, Awesome Says No to that set card, and u cant Chain to stop it
The Golden Apples, Replaces life lost in a single hit, and Gives you a free monster for tribute fodder.or what not
and my 2 favorite cards in this set.
Maxx "C", Amazing card, Junk Synchron/ Debris Target, Lets you draw for EVERY monster they special summon at Spell speed 2, Activate on a Debris Dragon,Junk Syncron,Scrap Chimera or similar card, or any monster that special summons in the end phase or Standby Phase, like Treeborn, or Stardust Dragon..
Lastly Stardust Shimmer, people really arent noticing how amazing this card is , with all the Six Sam hype..amazing in scraps,Plant Syncro,or Any deck that can spam dragons..
So, this is What i'll be Searching for come Tuesday... next to my Scraps , Ugh curse u scrap breaker being Secret.. hopefully not Overpriced...
Some nice cards to look for , if your not playin said above..
Doppelwarrior , Great for Junk Synchron decks, making junk warrior 3100... Or if playin solidarity, Much bigger.
Yaksha , Good for bouncing a backrow or fields spell and swinging for 1900
Foolish Return , Kinda like a 1 shot Transmigration Prophecy, quick play spell to return to Deck..its chainable, stops Pot of Avarice, can Hurt LOTS of Decks reliant on GY, like Scraps,Frogs,Dandy - X, and can even hurt GB on Prisma plays when they fetch Darius.
Forbidden Lance, Its a given, easy to see the money card in this one.
Xing Zhen Hu Replica, Awesome Says No to that set card, and u cant Chain to stop it
The Golden Apples, Replaces life lost in a single hit, and Gives you a free monster for tribute fodder.or what not
and my 2 favorite cards in this set.
Maxx "C", Amazing card, Junk Synchron/ Debris Target, Lets you draw for EVERY monster they special summon at Spell speed 2, Activate on a Debris Dragon,Junk Syncron,Scrap Chimera or similar card, or any monster that special summons in the end phase or Standby Phase, like Treeborn, or Stardust Dragon..
Lastly Stardust Shimmer, people really arent noticing how amazing this card is , with all the Six Sam hype..amazing in scraps,Plant Syncro,or Any deck that can spam dragons..
So, this is What i'll be Searching for come Tuesday... next to my Scraps , Ugh curse u scrap breaker being Secret.. hopefully not Overpriced...
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Just a virus
Virus cards are awesome, infact the best one got banned .. But the rest are still awesome and chances are there's more to come.
Crush card virus , destroys all 1500atk and higher in hand,field and drawn op right?
Deck devastation virus , destroys all 1500atk and lower in hand,field and drawn
Eradicator epidemic virus, destroys spells or traps on field and hand and drawn.
Planet pollutant virus, destroy all monsters without a-counters.
So, if you had a deck with ccv,ddv and eev. You could potentially lock down for a solid 3 turns. To bad ccv is banned.
Crush card virus , destroys all 1500atk and higher in hand,field and drawn op right?
Deck devastation virus , destroys all 1500atk and lower in hand,field and drawn
Eradicator epidemic virus, destroys spells or traps on field and hand and drawn.
Planet pollutant virus, destroy all monsters without a-counters.
So, if you had a deck with ccv,ddv and eev. You could potentially lock down for a solid 3 turns. To bad ccv is banned.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
What does "Codarus" mean, anyway?
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen! Lonely Tylenol, returning from the grave (apparently) to discuss another deck type for WATER users: Codarus Control!
Codarus Control focuses on the effect of Codarus, a level 4 Sea-Serpent from Absolute Powerforce:
You can send 1 face-up "Umi" you control to the Graveyard to select up to 2 cards your opponent controls and send them to the Graveyard.
Codarus' effect is simple: you can send a "Umi" on the field (or a card treated as "Umi"!) to the Graveyard to send up to two cards your opponent controls to the Graveyard. This card has an effect similar to the popular Icarus Attack, and the less popular Offering to the Snake Deity, in that it allows you to trade another card for two of your opponents'. Unlike Icarus Attack, however, this card remains on the field after use, so you are only trading the card you use as fodder for two of your opponent's cards, as opposed to a two-for-two trades! This card is a +1 in some of the best possible ways: It acts as field disruption against your opponent; it is versatile in that it can hit either the front row or the back row; and it maintains field presence, which allows you to reuse the card!
There are three outlets for Codarus' effect: Two cards that are treated as "Umi" while face-up on the field, and "Umi" itself. One card that you can use is "A Legendary Ocean", which is always treated as "Umi". Unfortunately, this means that you cannot use three copies of "Umi" along with your three copies of "A Legendary Ocean"; however, you can use Warrior of Atlantis, itself a fairly powerful monster (a level 4 1900 ATK monster that becomes a level 3 2100 ATK monster when "A Legendary Ocean" is out), to search out "A Legendary Ocean", meaning even though you are only running three copies, you are also running three searchers, for a total of six cards which lead to Codarus fodder in your hand! Unfortunately, neither Umi nor A Legendary Ocean has a very useful effect: the 200 ATK gain is mediocre and won't help many monsters in battle, and the level reduction of A Legendary Ocean doesn't do much unless you are running an abundance of level 5 WATER monsters, which will be Normal Summonable out of hand while A Legendary Ocean is face-up on the field.
Another card that you can use to fuel Codarus' effect is Forgotten Temple of the Deep. Unlike A Legendary Ocean, Forgotten Temple of the Deep only counts as "Umi" while on the field, so you can run it along with the three copies of Umi/A Legendary Ocean that you are allowed. Unfortunately, this card's effect is limited in its usefulness, but it does give you more fodder for Codarus. Between A Legendary Ocean, Warrior of Atlantis and Forgotten Temple of the Deep, you can run up to nine cards that will lead to a "Umi" on the field for Codarus' effect (six cards that count as "Umi", plus three searches), allowing for fantastic draw odds!
All told, it is probably preferable to run three copies of "A Legendary Ocean", along with "Warrior of Atlantis", before you consider running additional copies of Codarus fodder.
So, how exactly does a Codarus deck work? It's not like a lone 1400-ATK monster with the occasional destruction ability is enough to win games, let alone survive two turns to battle... So, how is it done?
The answer to that question is that Codarus' destruction engine is the centerpiece to a set of cohesive, synergistic advantage-based engines which make up the deck. Codarus control decks are all about advantage, which is why it's no surprise that roughly a quarter of your average Codarus control deck is made up of cards that are +1s from the moment they are activated.
The first thing that you might want to consider to complement your Codarus engine is Snowman Eater. Snowman Eater has gained a tremendous amount of respect this format, as people are turning toward advantage-generating walls to clear out problem cards without the element of risk that attacking into a potential Book of Moon or Dimensional Prison can incur. Snowman Eater is a 1900-ATK wall with a built-in destruction effect that is triggered when it is flipped face-up, allowing you to generate advantage from almost any entry-level monster's attack! When Snowman Eater is destroyed, you can also take advantage of its low ATK in a few different ways: Since it has 0 ATK, you can add it to hand with Salvage (for a +1 to your hand and the opportunity to reuse Snowman Eater's effect) or Special Summon it with Debris Dragon for a +1 to the field and a one-card Black Rose Dragon/Gungnir, Dragon of the Ice Barrier!
Next, you might want to consider including the Deep Sea Diva engine. Deep Sea Diva is a level 2 Sea-Serpent Tuner that allows you to grab another level 3 or lower Sea-Serpent from your Deck. Unfortunately, the card pool for Deep Sea Diva's effect is small and largely unimpressive--aside from Deep Sea Diva, the only four targets for its effect are Spined Gillman, Mermaid Archer, Reese the Ice Mistress and Atlantean Pikeman--but in Deep Sea Diva's case, that has always been enough to make do. Deep Sea Diva searching out Reese the Ice Mistress, or another copy of itself, means two Tuners for the price of one--and a healthy +1 at that--or, for the bold and daring, Deep Sea Diva searching out Spined Gillman or Mermaid Archer means a one-card level 5 Synchro (or more with the right cards on the field), which is essentially like Normal Summoning Ally of Justice Catastor from your hand!
Finally, the Spell support for the engine, which, unsurprisingly, includes Salvage and Moray of Greed. While my love of Salvage is already well-documented, it would do good to state it again for the purpose of this deck. To do so, it might be easiest to post a sample list (you can attribute the high monster count to a lack of Dualities; my builds tend to be more "affordable" that way):
Codarus Control
Monsters: 17
3x Codarus
3x Snowman Eater
3x Deep-Sea Diva
3x Warrior of Atlantis
2x Spined Gillman
2x Debris Dragon
1x Mother Grizzly
Spells: 13
3x A Legendary Ocean
3x Book of Moon
1x Dark Hole
1x Monster Reborn
1x Moray of Greed
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
2x Salvage
Traps: 10
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
1x Call of the Haunted
2x Dimensional Prison
2x Forgotten Temple of the Deep
1x Mirror Force
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Torrential Tribute
Of the seventeen monsters run in this version of the build, fifteen are WATER monsters with 1500 or less ATK, thus making almost every monster in my build an eligible Salvage target. You could Salvage Codarus, in order to Normal Summon it and use its effect to destroy two; Snowman Eater, to Set it and force your opponent to either waste removal or lose a monster attacking it; Deep Sea Diva, to get another one-card Synchro Summon; Spined Gillman, to boost the ATK of your Codarus and of itself; or Mother Grizzly, to search out another component of the deck (such as a second Codarus, or something to that effect). The best part is, you can add more than one at a time, due the advantage that Salvage affords us!
Once again, Moray of Greed benefits from its synergy with Salvage; Salvage allows you to pay the cost of Moray without using two WATER monsters already in your hand, and Moray + Salvage is still a +1. Better yet, Moray of Greed allows you to return targets for your Diva engine to the deck for re-use.
With ten cards that are instant +1s in the above deck list (3x Codarus, 3x Deep Sea Diva, 2x Debris Dragon, 2x Salvage), plus three potential +1s (3x Snowman Eater) and a slew of disruption cards (2x Bottomless Trap Hole, 1x Torrential Tribute, 1x Solemn Judgment, 1x Mirror Force, 2x Dimensional Prison, 1x Dark Hole, 3x Book of Moon and 2x Mystical Space Typhoon, in addition to the aforementioned), you are bound to whittle away at your opponent's resources with Codarus Control, reducing them to a heap of dead cards that you can run over with relentless aggression!
Codarus Control focuses on the effect of Codarus, a level 4 Sea-Serpent from Absolute Powerforce:
You can send 1 face-up "Umi" you control to the Graveyard to select up to 2 cards your opponent controls and send them to the Graveyard.
Codarus' effect is simple: you can send a "Umi" on the field (or a card treated as "Umi"!) to the Graveyard to send up to two cards your opponent controls to the Graveyard. This card has an effect similar to the popular Icarus Attack, and the less popular Offering to the Snake Deity, in that it allows you to trade another card for two of your opponents'. Unlike Icarus Attack, however, this card remains on the field after use, so you are only trading the card you use as fodder for two of your opponent's cards, as opposed to a two-for-two trades! This card is a +1 in some of the best possible ways: It acts as field disruption against your opponent; it is versatile in that it can hit either the front row or the back row; and it maintains field presence, which allows you to reuse the card!
There are three outlets for Codarus' effect: Two cards that are treated as "Umi" while face-up on the field, and "Umi" itself. One card that you can use is "A Legendary Ocean", which is always treated as "Umi". Unfortunately, this means that you cannot use three copies of "Umi" along with your three copies of "A Legendary Ocean"; however, you can use Warrior of Atlantis, itself a fairly powerful monster (a level 4 1900 ATK monster that becomes a level 3 2100 ATK monster when "A Legendary Ocean" is out), to search out "A Legendary Ocean", meaning even though you are only running three copies, you are also running three searchers, for a total of six cards which lead to Codarus fodder in your hand! Unfortunately, neither Umi nor A Legendary Ocean has a very useful effect: the 200 ATK gain is mediocre and won't help many monsters in battle, and the level reduction of A Legendary Ocean doesn't do much unless you are running an abundance of level 5 WATER monsters, which will be Normal Summonable out of hand while A Legendary Ocean is face-up on the field.
Another card that you can use to fuel Codarus' effect is Forgotten Temple of the Deep. Unlike A Legendary Ocean, Forgotten Temple of the Deep only counts as "Umi" while on the field, so you can run it along with the three copies of Umi/A Legendary Ocean that you are allowed. Unfortunately, this card's effect is limited in its usefulness, but it does give you more fodder for Codarus. Between A Legendary Ocean, Warrior of Atlantis and Forgotten Temple of the Deep, you can run up to nine cards that will lead to a "Umi" on the field for Codarus' effect (six cards that count as "Umi", plus three searches), allowing for fantastic draw odds!
All told, it is probably preferable to run three copies of "A Legendary Ocean", along with "Warrior of Atlantis", before you consider running additional copies of Codarus fodder.
So, how exactly does a Codarus deck work? It's not like a lone 1400-ATK monster with the occasional destruction ability is enough to win games, let alone survive two turns to battle... So, how is it done?
The answer to that question is that Codarus' destruction engine is the centerpiece to a set of cohesive, synergistic advantage-based engines which make up the deck. Codarus control decks are all about advantage, which is why it's no surprise that roughly a quarter of your average Codarus control deck is made up of cards that are +1s from the moment they are activated.
The first thing that you might want to consider to complement your Codarus engine is Snowman Eater. Snowman Eater has gained a tremendous amount of respect this format, as people are turning toward advantage-generating walls to clear out problem cards without the element of risk that attacking into a potential Book of Moon or Dimensional Prison can incur. Snowman Eater is a 1900-ATK wall with a built-in destruction effect that is triggered when it is flipped face-up, allowing you to generate advantage from almost any entry-level monster's attack! When Snowman Eater is destroyed, you can also take advantage of its low ATK in a few different ways: Since it has 0 ATK, you can add it to hand with Salvage (for a +1 to your hand and the opportunity to reuse Snowman Eater's effect) or Special Summon it with Debris Dragon for a +1 to the field and a one-card Black Rose Dragon/Gungnir, Dragon of the Ice Barrier!
Next, you might want to consider including the Deep Sea Diva engine. Deep Sea Diva is a level 2 Sea-Serpent Tuner that allows you to grab another level 3 or lower Sea-Serpent from your Deck. Unfortunately, the card pool for Deep Sea Diva's effect is small and largely unimpressive--aside from Deep Sea Diva, the only four targets for its effect are Spined Gillman, Mermaid Archer, Reese the Ice Mistress and Atlantean Pikeman--but in Deep Sea Diva's case, that has always been enough to make do. Deep Sea Diva searching out Reese the Ice Mistress, or another copy of itself, means two Tuners for the price of one--and a healthy +1 at that--or, for the bold and daring, Deep Sea Diva searching out Spined Gillman or Mermaid Archer means a one-card level 5 Synchro (or more with the right cards on the field), which is essentially like Normal Summoning Ally of Justice Catastor from your hand!
Finally, the Spell support for the engine, which, unsurprisingly, includes Salvage and Moray of Greed. While my love of Salvage is already well-documented, it would do good to state it again for the purpose of this deck. To do so, it might be easiest to post a sample list (you can attribute the high monster count to a lack of Dualities; my builds tend to be more "affordable" that way):
Codarus Control
Monsters: 17
3x Codarus
3x Snowman Eater
3x Deep-Sea Diva
3x Warrior of Atlantis
2x Spined Gillman
2x Debris Dragon
1x Mother Grizzly
Spells: 13
3x A Legendary Ocean
3x Book of Moon
1x Dark Hole
1x Monster Reborn
1x Moray of Greed
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
2x Salvage
Traps: 10
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
1x Call of the Haunted
2x Dimensional Prison
2x Forgotten Temple of the Deep
1x Mirror Force
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Torrential Tribute
Of the seventeen monsters run in this version of the build, fifteen are WATER monsters with 1500 or less ATK, thus making almost every monster in my build an eligible Salvage target. You could Salvage Codarus, in order to Normal Summon it and use its effect to destroy two; Snowman Eater, to Set it and force your opponent to either waste removal or lose a monster attacking it; Deep Sea Diva, to get another one-card Synchro Summon; Spined Gillman, to boost the ATK of your Codarus and of itself; or Mother Grizzly, to search out another component of the deck (such as a second Codarus, or something to that effect). The best part is, you can add more than one at a time, due the advantage that Salvage affords us!
Once again, Moray of Greed benefits from its synergy with Salvage; Salvage allows you to pay the cost of Moray without using two WATER monsters already in your hand, and Moray + Salvage is still a +1. Better yet, Moray of Greed allows you to return targets for your Diva engine to the deck for re-use.
With ten cards that are instant +1s in the above deck list (3x Codarus, 3x Deep Sea Diva, 2x Debris Dragon, 2x Salvage), plus three potential +1s (3x Snowman Eater) and a slew of disruption cards (2x Bottomless Trap Hole, 1x Torrential Tribute, 1x Solemn Judgment, 1x Mirror Force, 2x Dimensional Prison, 1x Dark Hole, 3x Book of Moon and 2x Mystical Space Typhoon, in addition to the aforementioned), you are bound to whittle away at your opponent's resources with Codarus Control, reducing them to a heap of dead cards that you can run over with relentless aggression!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The Hunt!
This is a fun card that doesnt see much play.. with so many dark decks and so much setting.. i dont see why not ? i like it :)
He easily becomes 2000 atk and can combo well with Book of Moon, Book of Eclipse or Swords of Concealing Light.. good against Decks that enjoy setting like GK, or Hamster Builds.. Enjoy!
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This card's effect changes depending on the number of DARK monsters in your Graveyard. ● 1 or fewer: This card loses 400 ATK. ● 2 to 4: This card gains 400 ATK. ● 5 or more: You can send this card to the Graveyard to destroy all face-down monsters your opponent controls. |
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Tokens!
Damned Tokens.. Everywhere! Dandylion is definitely a huge pain with all those fluff tokens going around ,and with all those plant decks or DandyWarrior decks out there the sure can be a pain.. But theres a little hope out there.. Twin-Sword Marauder is a cool option, search able by Rota,Allure target, and a warrior.. not to mention hes a Peirce's! that means he can kill 2 tokens, while dishing out 3200 Damage.. Painful.. You can also throw out Jurrac Monoloph, a Smaller Asura preist that's a tuner and wont get sent back to your hand. if you want to Synchro you can always use Flamvell Uruquizas, he gets bigger, and Peirce's! and lastly Token Thanksgiving! gain some life off your opponents tokens.. Fun stuff :) Enjoy!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
XYZombie
With the Tcg release of Hidden Arsenal 3, we got a few interesting cards, 2 of my Favorite are Worm Xex and Worm Yagan.
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When this card is Normal Summoned, you can send 1 Reptile-type "Worm" monster from your Deck to the Graveyard. If you control a face-up "Worm Yagan", this card cannot be destroyed by battle. |
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If the only monster you control is "Worm Xex", you can Special Summon this card from your Graveyard in face-downDefense Position. If you do, remove it from play when it is removed from the field. When this card is flipped face-up, select 1 face-up monster your opponent controls, and return in to it's owner's hand. These two make an Awesome team, Worm Xex is a Decent beatstick, and Light, while Worm Yagan is a decent defender with an awesome flip effect,which isn't a Flip effect! Summon Worm Xex, Send Worm Yagan to the Graveyard, Special worm Yagan in Face down defense. That's an Instant +1 off 1 card. you can throw them into Monarch decks to help with tribute fodder, compatible with Honest and Offering's to the snake deity. or even Zombies! Yep and here's a fun deck list I've been playing with! WormyZombie - 43 Monsters - 24 3x Worm Xex 3x Worm Yagan 2x Dimensional Alchemist 2x Honest 3x Goblin Zombie 2x Zombie Master 2x Pyramid Turtle 1x Mezuki 1x Plaguespreader Zombie 2x Chaos Sorcerer 1x Dark Armed Dragon 2x Krebons Spells - 13 2x Book of Life 2x Book of Moon 2x Gold Sarcophagus 2x Mystical Space Typhoon 1x Foolish Burial 1x Monster Reborn 1x Dark Hole 1x Emergency Teleport 1x Allure of Darkness 1x Burial From a Different Dimension Traps - 6 2x Bottomless Traphole 2x Offerings To The Snake Deity 1x Torrential Tribute 1x Return From The Different Dimension The deck is a little larger at 43 but tends to thin itself quite reliably , due to X sending Y to the when hes summoned, Sarco searches out what you would want and goblin zombie grabbing them to your hand and you have the awesome Swarm Potential of Zombies! beside Book of life is OP this format with all the Frogs,dandylions and what have you sitting in so many Graveyards these days. Cut want you want, or play it how its is, its up to you, just Enjoy! |
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Posibilitys
So many Archtypes out there with so much potential, yet we always see the same decks winning/topping.. Why? is it just that they are familiar,Superior, or just has that edge over everything using tried and true mechanics.. theres a ton of LS variants,Dandy Warrior and even Frogs now. is it time for something new? Depends if you wanna risk a loss to be the ugly duckling..but then again, what fun is Always winning with the same thing?
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Cleanin it out
Happy New Year!!
Its the End of the year , Lots of good stuff happening now, time to clean out the binders and trade fodder to get ready for the new year.. How do YOU get rid of all the extras?
I packed up 100+ of my Good commons/supers and put them in a deck box and GIFTED them for Xmas :) one mans Trash is anothers Treasure :) besides.. who doesnt want the whole Worm Set in 3's ? :P
Its the End of the year , Lots of good stuff happening now, time to clean out the binders and trade fodder to get ready for the new year.. How do YOU get rid of all the extras?
I packed up 100+ of my Good commons/supers and put them in a deck box and GIFTED them for Xmas :) one mans Trash is anothers Treasure :) besides.. who doesnt want the whole Worm Set in 3's ? :P
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