Gravekeepers for the current meta

Its been a while since Ive posted. Everything has been going hectic but I am going to try to post more. With that said, lets get to the subject of the title. Gravekeepers?? Viable in this format?? I think so!!

With everything so effect dependent lately, you ask why gravekeepers?? The reason is gravekeepers have one of the best field cards in the game. Only second to ancient city: rainbow ruins. Abusing this factor with another great card this format could put it back in play. That other card is skill drain. Now we all know that GK depends on spys special summoning. This build focuses more on the beat and control concept instead of graveyard control. Here's the list:

GK Descendant-2
GK Spy-3
GK Recruiter-3
GK Commandant-3
Malefic Stardust Dragon-2
Beast King Barbaros-2

GK Stele-2
Pot of Duality-3
Necrovalley-3
Royal Tribute-1
Dark Hole-1
Book Of Moon-1
Wonder Wand-2
Forbidden Chalice-2

Bottomless Trap Hole-2
Solemn Warning-2
Solemn Judgment-1
Skill Drain-2
Dark Bribe-2
Starlight Road-1

The deck is able to shut down most of the meta decks fairly easy. We all know that most of the meta cannot deal with big monsters. To take advantage of that, we malefic stardust and barbaros. Both being good with skill drain on and off the field. There are a couple of unique choices in the deck most would disagree with. One of which is playing 1 royal tribute. The reason being is dark world loves that card for the major pluses it will bring. Another interesting choice is forbidden chalice. Think of it as a ATK boosting quickplay skill drain. This can be good offensively and defensively. It can easily stop an inzektor or wind-up or push that barbaros to 3400 in a pinch. The trap line up is pretty basic for this

Thanks for reading.

U

Regionals and other things

helle everyone

my second chance of getting qualified for european championship is quite close (april's 28), so i have to test different deck in order to success.

first of all, i wont netdeck any deck (as chaos dragons), because i dont feel comfortable doing it. 2 of my teammates suggested to play chaos dragons, but my brother suggested to "play what you want".

in order to success, i have to take into account some factors surrounding main and side deck. those factor are:

-capability of siding dimensional fissure
-capability of siding gozen match/rivalry of warlords
-capability of siding royal decree
-capability of siding shadow imprisoning mirror
-capability of swarming
-capability of performing an OTK
-capability of search your key cards quickly
-capability of control your opp's hand
-capability of summoning zenmaines/leviair
-capability of stalling if needed
-capability of controlling the field

considering those factors, the first deck that came into my mind was inzektors (except for siding shadow imprisoning mirror). and after shuffling those factors, i ended up with a decklist that i have to test (but thats local's tourneys purpose)

monsters: 18

3 dragonfly
3 centipede
3 hornet
2 hopper
1 giga-mantis
1 sangan
1 mystic tomato
1 spirit reaper
2 effect veiler
1 gorz

magics: 17

1 dark hole
1 heavy storm
3 MST
1 mind control
2 zektkaliber
2 smoke grenade of the thief
3 pot of duality
1 book of moon
1 allure of darkness
1 book of moon
1 foolish burial

traps: 5

1 solemn judgment
2 solemn warning
2 torrential tribute

as you can see, i included 2 copies of smoke grenade of the thief to control ur opp's hand. despite what somebody could think, its not a bad or dead draw against DW, because DW builds run 15 monsters more or less, the rest are spells and traps.

i hope this deck do it well at locals, but must build the side deck according to the wide TCG meta.

thats all for today

greetings

Hanzo Hieratic

hello everyone

after so much time outta here. im back with som enews and what would be my next deck post GAOV.

the news are:

- i won a guide and sold it XD
- i pulled a zenmaines using tournament credit
- im not qualified for european championship yet (i only have 1 more chance at regionals and 1 more at nationals)
- i hope to sell my inzektor deck before GAOV release (3 hopper, 3 hornet, 3 centipede, 3 dragonfly, 3 zektkaliber, 1 giga-mantis)
- till i get all the cards required for Hanzo Hieratic, i will play Piper chaos.

after those quick updates, the decklist for Hanzo Hieratics:

monsters: 21

3 hanzo
1 luster dragon #2
1 wattdragon
3 hieratic SU
3 hieratic TEFNUIT
2 hieratic ESET
3 hieratic NEBTHET
2 red eyes darkness metal dragon
1 gorz
2 effect veiler

magics: 12

1 heavy storm
1 dark hole
3 hieratic seal of convocation
1 monster reborn
1 ROTA
3 MST
2 pot of duality

traps: 7

2 ninjitsu art of super transformation
2 torrential tribute
1 solemn judgment
2 solemn warning

the main deck could be somewhat like that, but i will have to test it and make some changes (like adding 1 "a wingbeat of giant dragon" instead of maining 3 MST); also i wont main any BLS, even if i can bring it to field.

i have to work in the extra deck, because i dont know how many "hieratic atum" run, and if i can make tiras/adreus.

thats all for today, fellas.

greetings.

Flamvell Laggia

Playing around with a few deck ideas, the one I decided to play is flamvell laggia. Its a deck that is focused on using monsters like flamvell firedog and jurrac guaiba. They can special summon monsters after destroying a monster by battle. The deck has a lot of capabilities.

Chow Len The Prophet-3
Flamvell Firedog-3
Flamvell Magician-2
Flamvell Archer-1
Jurrac Guaiba-3
Card Trooper-2

Rekindling-3
Forbidden Lance-3
Pot Of Duality-2
MST-2
Heavy Storm-1
Book Of Moon-1
Monster Reborn-1

Fiendish Chain-2
Solemn Warning-2
Torrential Tribute-2
Compulsory Evac Device-2
Call of the Haunted-2
Solemn Judgment-1
Starlight Road-1
Dark Bribe-1

Shock Master-1
Vylon Disigma-1
Number 39: Utopia-1
Gemknight Pearl-1
Evolzar Laggia-2
Evigishki Merrowgeist-1
Steelswarm Roach-1
Stardust Dragon-1
Scrap Dragon-2
Thought Ruler Archfiend-1
Black Rose Dragon-1
Arcanite Magician-1
Colossal Fighter-1

The deck is something unique that I had seen checking out World of OCG. This is just modified for the TCG. Some choices that was made was maining a Flamvell Archer. The reason I decided to main one is because Chow Len is a spellcaster. It gives you access to arcanite magician and also another way to special black rose dragon in case you may ever need to. Using two laggia in the extra while only playing three guaiba is something im testing out at the moment. I figured abusing call of the haunted is something decks dont really do. Im going to test and see how it goes. Making changes accordingly as testing progresses.

Thanks for reading guys.

U

YCS Long Beach

After the largest TCG event concludes, its numbers are staggering. Almost 4400 players attended this event. A variety of deck made their appearances here including the big three. Dino rabbit, inzektors, and wind-ups were there and large in numbers. After two days of playing, the final four comes down to Dino rabbit, Chaos piper, Skill drain heroes, and Dark world. After playing out the semis, only dino rabbit and dark world make it. After defeating rabbit 2-0 dark worlds rise to be victorious.

The build in question was something unique and probably unheard of until this event. Michael
Balan main decked malefic stardust to help protect the gates of DW. Maining tour guide to special broww and specialing grapha becomes that much easier to summon. He sided gellenduo against rabbit knowing that wouldn't activate dolkka's effect and laggia couldnt do anything against it. Maining skill drain probably helped this match up in favor of DW as well.

Thanks for reading.

U

Galactic Overload OCG Import

As the release of Galactic nears, all of the exclusives  are usually slowly revealed on the konami strategy site or yugioh-card.com. One of the imports that caught my attention was Number 11: Big eye.

Big eyes effect is something konami never liked. Something players tend to love and that is taking advantage of your opponents hard work for little to nothing. This card is a goyo guardian without having to do battle. Its effect is: Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card to target 1 monster your opponent controls; take control of the target. This card cannot attack the turn you activate this effect.

This card has a great effect but also some bad points about it. One in particular is it is a rank 7 requiring 2 level 7 monsters.  Level 7 monsters are not the easiest to summon this days. Let alone with good to great effects. The main one I think of Arcanite magician. Great card with an amazing effect. It can be hard to summon sometimes but well worth it in the end if successful.

Thanks for reading guys.

U

Managing playing chaos

hello everyone

it has been a long while since the last time i posted here. it is mostly due to regionals and testing and those kind of things.

after testing HERO, inzektors and darkworlds. its time for Chaos.

what you think at first glance, is that if you dont run TGU in chaos (which i would do), you wont be affected massively by MaxxC, since most of your special summons are inherent or in damage step (except battle fader); and can run some techs for those meta decks around.

sample decklist:

monsters (23)

1 BLS
2 chaos sorcerer
2 raioh
1 sangan
2 battle fader
1 gorz
1 neo spacian grand mole
2 kycoo the gost destroyer
3 effect veiler
2 MaxxC
1 honest
3 dimensional alchemist
2 caius

magics (10)

1 book of moon
1 monster reborn
1 heavy storm
3 MST
1 mind control
2 POD
1 dark hole

traps (7)

2 solemn W
1 solemn J
2 torrential tribute
2 fiendish chain

the deck is self-explanatory.

its a bit slow if you dont draw any alchemist. its purpose is to put pressure on your opponent using raioh, grand mole and kycoo; defend yourself using hand-trap cards (gorz, fader, veiler, honest and MaxxC) and get rid of your opp's big monsters using BLS, chaos sorcerer and caius.

the downside of this deck is side-deck options. you can side in 1 or 2 snowman eaters, 1 or 2 cyber dragons, DD crow and some spirit reaper, but you cant side in important cards such as shadow imprisoning mirror (against DW and inzektor), dimensional fissure (against DW), or gozen match (against SixSams, wind-up). so you must be aware of how you build your side deck according to not to disrupt your own strategy.

i will be testing the deck this evening. i expect good results, but i dont see this deck being better than HERO or inzektor.

i hope you enjoyed the article

greetings