Evilswarm, Tests and Builds

Evilswarm, if you're Malaysian you totally know what I'm talking about. Evilswarms are getting lots of attention lately in Malaysia (source: Digital Mortal, I'm not Malaysian), as such, lots of people started building and playing it. It's an easy guess, even as an Italian yugioh player, that Evilswarms will be considered part of the meta in a short time there in OCG-land, specifically Malaysia because of the different meta.
As I read about that, though, I remembered having an old list on my pc of Evilswarms. I like the entire 'lswarm archetype, I played those nasty steelswarms, too, when they were just released, and thus it was obvious I had one.
Let's start saying I NEVER saw another build of Evilswarms nor played against them before those last two days, so all I did was on my own and of course it was different from other builds. Said so:
I play a rabbit build, as I think everyone does since it looks like the most intelligent option right now. I play 6 vanilla monsters, 3 of those are obvious Heliotropes. I remember myself thinking while building that list that Sabersaurus would have been wonderful, since we're already going for the control route, so laggia/dolkka could just have been better. Even though, I decided to play 3 Archfiend Soldier. I didn't really remember why, but I continued reading my list and everything matched, in the end.
I did play some mandragos and thunderbird, and tour engine (now 2 tours, 1 sangan and 1 night assailant, but previously it was 3 tours and 1 sangan). Going on the spells I noticed what was off for sabersaurus: Dark Calling. 3 Dark Callings, not one. Seeing that I remember everything about the build.
I basically went for the control routes with Ophion and Thanatos, sometimes stealing opponent's monsters with Bahamut, and then, when we were late game, with few options left, I could have relied on Dark Calling on Gaia for giant beatsticks (sometimes 1900 Archfiend Soldier + 2600 Pearl, or 1950 Heliotropes + 2350 Thanatos, or 1900+1950 or 2600+2350). Dark Calling was either played late game, as a finisher, or early game, to attempt to some OTKs or giant damages to prevent your opponent's future Warnings on your key monsters.
I'm actually trying to perfectionate it, 'cause I'm liking it. I should check some builds online, but that wouldn't help because the gamestyle is way different.

See Ya.

P.s. in the tags there's the Verz tags. For those who don't know, Verz is the OCG name of Evilswarms, and since I already posted with that tag, I'd prefer to keep this one.

30.000 Visit Count Hit!

Greetings to the Blog! Greetings to Thomas for the screen, winner of the contest! I see you're a Digital Mortal follower, you're doing the right thing, LOL.
First, let's talk about the 30k visits: it took 2 months and 14 days, compared to 1 month and 28 days of the precedent one (20.000), to get 10k visits. Well, I think it's ok, or even good, considering that last time it was during the starting of school, so everyone had a little more time, and this time Christmas was stealing time from everyone, I think, right? Well, I hope it has been an awesome Christmas for you all (I had a fever), and an awesome Christmas for the blog.
Going back on Thomas, our contest-winner, I have two things to tell you:
1.You've got the right to choose the topic of the special for the 30k visits;
2.I'll wait for your idea to write the special, I won't write it on my own, I'll do other posts in the whiletime, though. However, You've got three weeks (21 days, long enough, I think) to suggest something, because later it would be kinda off time from the actual 30.000th visit, and in 33 days it'll be Blog's first birthday.

If you want to discuss about anything to think about the topic, just ask me on DN, my nick is Leodip, just tell me your nick under here in the comments and it'll be fine.

Once again, greetings to the blog.

Contest: Prepping for 30000

I won't be at home today, so I won't be able to screen the 30.000 visit on the counter on the right of the screen, so, since I'd like to have a screen of that, let's start a contest:
The first to screen the visit counter when it hits 30000, and to post it under the comments, will be able to choose one topic for a post of mine. And I'll write it in both English and Italian, as a special.
There's just one rule, don't cut the screen: screen the entire page, without cutting to leave only the visit counter. If you screen the page while in fullscreen it's better, but not needed.
Stay Tuned, the contest starts now.

Prohibition, What About Maindecking?

Activate by declaring 1 card name. Cards with that name, and their effects, cannot be used. Cards already on the field are not affected (including face-down cards).

Great side deck card it is, isn't it? Generic enough to be a generic side deck card against every deck. For this exact reason this card is primarly used for random decks you could encounter in a tournament but that you weren't ready for so that you didn't side anything. But, let's be a little more specific: every deck has a key card or some cards that they'd suffer alot to lose, or even cards that you don't want yourself to face. This card will always be there for you (looks romantic as a statement, doesn't it?).
So, what am I reviewing this card for? Maindeck it.
When there's a card enough specific to always be used it is considered a staple, let's say Reborn, Heavy and Dark Hole. Dark Hole and Heavy Storm are in the 90% of cases great minuses for the opponent and they could win your game, while reborn is played even in macro decks because SSing something without any cost is just great. No limit for the summon, even the opponent's grave is ok, and you can bring your opponent's BLS.
Prohibition does just the same, but even better: DH isn't good against some decks, Heavy isn't against other, Reborn suffers Macro decks, but this card can slow down ALL of them, or even kill some of them (prohibition on sea lancer is pretty much an auto-win, if you can protect prohibition).
Here's another factor, protection. Sometimes you can use Prohibition to protect yourself from DH when you overextended and opponent used fader or swift scarecrow, or even gorz. Sometimes you can use Prohibition on MST (maybe along Starlight face-down) to protect your field spell, your continuous cards, your face-downs, and your prohibition itself. Sometimes you can use prohibition when you see your opponent has 3 DARK monsters in grave on DAD.
This all makes maindecked prohibition great for lots of decks, from OTKs to control, to Antimeta, to Macro, to Skill, to Grave-reliant, to SS-reliant and so on.
Focusing a bit more on OTKs, you can use Prohibition on Gorz, Fader or Scarecrow (based on what you think opponent has in hand), or, if he has a set card, on Mirror Force, Prison or Compulsory. If you're comboeing and your opponent has a face-down, declare that Solemn Warning or Torrential Tribute right away.
Focusing on Control/Antimeta decks, stopping MST and Heavy Storms isn't everything you can do. If you play, let's say, a Control deck that focuses on bringing a boss monster to win, you can declare Solemn Warning and summon without worrying.

This is in game 1, in early game, where you don't even know what the opponent's playing, in mid and late game you can easily kill decks once you know what they're playing. Go for Prohibition on Hornet and plan to win, or use it on REDMD to stop the infamous Lightpulsar-REDMD loop, or use it on WU-Rabbit to stop some more abuses or Magician if he has yet to combo, while Mermails could lose some power once you stop their infantry, because they'd lose their raigeki break for face-ups that's searchable and abusable and that could destroy that prohibition itself. Everything suffers at least a bit Prohibition, even in game 1.

In game 2 and 3, if you didn't side out those prohibition (I'd always recommend to keep them, though, except for some rogue and such), this card gives you the upper hand since you won't have to side out anything to fit them, they're already in! Side what you want, and if it is a continuous spell/trap, declare MST.
Use this on Magician and protect it well, you should have already won like this. I won't explain all the decks cause you should know their main cards, just know that everything suffers, rogues and similar apart.

In game 2 and 3, too, you can use this card to counter-side. Basically awesome. You playing Wind-Ups? Go for Needle Ceiling. Playing Chaos Dragons? Fissure. Fear opponent's Prohibition? Prohibit it. (If you're asking if it is possible, yes it is).

Well, I described Prohibition as a meta call, sometime I should show you something else about Prohibition-
Stay Tuned, I prohibit you to stop following me (? LOL, just wanted to use prohibit someway, I like this verb a lot).

Black Garden, Giant Little Beatsticks, How to Build

When a monster(s) is Normal or Special Summoned, except by the effect of "Black Garden": Halve its ATK, also you Special Summon 1 "Rose Token" (Plant-Type/DARK/Level 2/ATK 800/DEF 800) to its controller's opponent's side of the field, in Attack Position. You can target 1 monster in your Graveyard with ATK equal to the total ATK of all face-up Plant-Type monsters on the field; destroy this card and all face-up Plant-Type monsters, then Special Summon that target.

Yeah, yeah, great card, anyone knows this card's great, right? Let's start saying that recently I'm taking a liking to this card (I always liked this, but recently it got better), and I'm thinking of lots of uses for this card's effects. Let's start reading them one by one:

When a monster(s) is Normal or Special Summoned, except by the effect of "Black Garden": Halve its ATK, also you Special Summon 1 "Rose Token" (Plant-Type/DARK/Level 2/ATK 800/DEF 800) to its controller's opponent's side of the field, in Attack Position.

Basically, I summon a monster, his ATK is halved, and I summon a token on the opponent's field or viceversa. This part of the effect is awesome, it's way this card is played where it is played. Decks that abuse this part of the effects are usually called Garden Control. Basically you set a monster that would benefit alot by having a greater ATK than other monsters, like don zaloog, next turn flip summon it and have a great beatstick that does anything. Here the name Giant Little Beatstick (GLB) comes to mind, it is a little beatstick, but it becomes giant if compared to other monsters. To abuse this card's effect we have:
Don Zaloog, hand control like hell.
Wind-Up Rabbit, becomes basically a 2800, good enough, isn't it? Comboes with Kaiser Colosseum (I'll say more about this later). (Verz Thunderbird does the beating better, but the Kaiser worse)
Horus, once LV6 is summoned, he'll be a hell of a beatstick (not halved via Garden, too), and could upgrade  easily beating a token into LV8 to negate ALL the spells, good enough.
Jurracs, Guaiba could easily become a laggia destroying the token he just generated, and Dino could let you draw two during the end phase (always working with kaiser colosseum).
(Pseudo-/)Flip Effects, Sazank could be a 1200 (2400 against other monsters) that sends a monster to the grave and direct attacks, Fossil Dyna could destroy all of the tokens and keep control on the field with his 2400 ATK, and so on.

What's more, the tokens being plant means you can use pollinosis as additional judgments (or better, main judgments, since I wouldn't play judgment itself for the LP cost that here is really bad), and fragrance storm as a mean to control the field for kaiser (I wouldn't suggest this, anyways, because could really be a dead draw)

Let's see the second and last part of the effect:

You can target 1 monster in your Graveyard with ATK equal to the total ATK of all face-up Plant-Type monsters on the field; destroy this card and all face-up Plant-Type monsters, then Special Summon that target.

Then, what about this? Let's start saying that tokens are 800 ATK and are probably the only plant monsters on the field, that means that the monster that you want to reborn has to be a 800*X ATK monster, where X is a number from 1 to 10 (even if the higher it is, the most difficult to summon it is), I find that 800, 1600 and 2400 are the easier to summon). I wrote something about Garden and possible targets in this post, so I think I should not focus on this part of the effect in the explanation, just use the other post as a reference for anything about this part of the effect.

Now, let's see supports for the supports. You can't just randomly play those supports if they don't accomplish at anything, so let's see some supports for the supports:
-Tour Engine, brings Rabbit faster. Not really needed, but for those who don't care for Kaiser Colosseum's field control and like Tour, this engine could be played. As engine I mean 2 Tours, Sangan and Night Assailant. Sangan searches pretty much anything, while Night Assailant is a mindfuck for the opponent. You'll be setting a lot of monsters, so your opponent wouldn't always expect a flip effect when you set a monster, so cards like assailant, fossil dyna, sazank and others are real bitches for the opponent.
-Kaiser Colosseum, I talked alot about this card in this post, why's that? Rabbit that auto-banishes itself reduces the number of monsters on your side of the field, reducing even the number of monsters the opponent can play. What's more, let's see an hand of garden+guaiba+Kaiser, and the opponent with a clear field (first turn, for example). Activate Garden, summon guaiba, the opponent gets a token, then activate kaiser and stop your opponent's monsters. Next turn (assuming it was the first turn), you beat the token, get another guaiba, opponent gets a token, too, go into laggia, your opponent can't summon the other token, and you'll be left with Laggia, kaiser and garden, while the opponent has a token. Lots of cards, generally, can abuse kaiser in here, I don't see why you shouldn't be playing with it.
-Ninjas, we do play sazank, we could play other ninjas. They can easily bring Horus and keep field control with supertransformation for when you don't have kaiser. You can summon either horus or white dragon, since the latter can prevent your S/Ts' destruction. We do even play some Dinos, so why not?
-Royal Decree, along with horus LV8, needs no explanation. You just have to balance your trap set well.

Now, counteracting to the opponent's counteract in the first game. Let's first see what the opponent is likely to do:
If he NS or SS monsters, it'll halve their monster's ATK, and they'll get me a token as tribute for horus and such, but he could not know I do play horus, based on your gamestyle and what you revealed to the opponent. Since he surely knows that having a monster with halved ATK against my monsters that benefit from killing opponent's monsters isn't good, he'll probably set them, so let's see what we can do against the setting of monsters.
Setting a monster isn't a very good option in YGO, since it'll make you lose the normal summon of the turn and you can't attack with that one, what's more you'll have to flip it next turn exposing it to additional traps the opponent could have drawn in the turn he bought. For this exact reason I'd max out on those BTH and CED. Bottomless is a great card, if the monster has less than 1500, it won't be a threat to us, if it is greater than 1500, you can kill it. Compulsory, on his side, can bounce that monster buying you another turn since he'll have to set the monster again and flip it next turn. I'd play some Torrential, too, but it's based on how your build is.
Acid Trap Hole is another choice, based on how much control you want on the opponent. Let's be realistic, no one plays >2000 DEF monsters, except Glads if they tech Hoplomus (but you'll have to encounter a GB that does play hoplomus, and both of the facts are pretty surrealistic, and they'll even have to draw into it, because searching it with proving would conclude nothing from their side of the game), and in that case you'll know who the set monster is. Only sad fact is that it trigger FLIP effects, but they would have triggered them however, sooner or later, right?

Other things they could do in game 1 is activating a field spell to ruin your garden setup. In that case you have few responses, but they are good enough considered that you'll have first to encounter a deck that plays a field spell and searches it pretty fastly. In that case we have 2/3 maindecked typhoons, cards to negate the field spell so that it won't destroy garden, and horus LV8. Horus is your main response to ANYTHING, once you have it into play, you can stop the main S/T destruction cards (MST and Heavy), and opponent's field spells.
Other than this, there's something I'm playing in lots of places recently, and it gave me some pretty results: maindecked Prohibition.
Every deck has some main cards for their strategy, and every deck plays typhoon and heavy that you'd want to forbid, so why not?

And there we are, post-side situation: you know the opponent's deck, your opponent knows yours, you've got to side.
You don't fear neither Macro nor Fissure, so if you encounter a Macro Rabbit, he'll surely de-side them in game two, even if it hasn't nothing special against you, so that'll be 3 slots that will probably go to hand traps or prohibition.
For the fact you don't fear Macro and Fissure, you can play them, even in the main if you want.
What someone will probably side against you is Closed Forest, if they do play it. In any case, what they'll side will probably be some continuous S/Ts, so add some Dust Tornadoes.
They could (should) add some more mass destruction effects if they side them, so build your list the way you'll be able to play 1 or 2 starlights in game 2.
Be aware if skill drain, too.
Build your list the way you'll be able to side Royal Decrees, if you're not maining them.
If you're not maining them, side hand traps. It's highly recommended to main them, though, since you fear a first turn explosion that you wouldn't be able to control since they started comboeing before you could put anything on the table.
Side some more mass destruction, if you don't play at least TTs in the main, because you, as just said, fear first turn explosions.
If your list is a little bit homogeneous in either type or attribute, side or main Gozen Match or Rivarly of Warlords. You just have to continuously summon plant/EARTH tokens on the opponent's side of the field so that he won't be able to do anything. That is more hate for the Wind-Up loop and other explosive decks, aside from Chaos Dragons. For Chaos Dragons Macro/Fissure are enough, but you should control them well enough with your mained cards.


Well, this was all for today's post. I could update it someday, but for now it is all. Take this post as a guide to the deck, I think it is pretty exhaustive about everything. If I forgot something, make me notice in the comment, I'll fix it.
See Ya.

Fine del Mondo: Madolche T.G.

Monsters: [15]

1 Madolche Butlerusk

1 Madolche Cruffssant

3 Madolche Magileine

3 Madolche Messengelato

3 Madolche Mew-Feuille

1 T.G. Striker

3 T.G. Warwolf

Spells: [14]

1 Dark Hole

2 Forbidden Lance

1 Heavy Storm

3 Madolche Chateau

1 Madolche Ticket

1 Monster Reborn

2 Mystical Space Typhoon

2 Pot of Duality

1 Monster Reborn

Traps: [11]

2 Bottomless Trap Hole

1 Dark Bribe

1 Madolchepalooza

2 Starlight Road

3 Threatening Roar

2 Torrential Tribute

The extra is messy since it is the same from the other lists but a little adapted. It needs a big R3 beater (thing that I already implemented in the other builds).

The side is messy, too, it is the same from the other list, but soul drain conflicts a lot more and I'll need to side those Snowman Eaters, so I just copy-pasted that part.

For the build itself, some surely remember that I once played a build with TGs, but I strangely stopped playing it and using the snowman eaters instead. I decided to bring back the T.G. part of the deck since it is pretty awesome, lets tons of comboes and you can go into tiara easily without losing control ability (except for the Snowman's monster destruction).

I like how the build is at the moment, except for the side and the extra (R3 Beater missing). Threatening are a solid choice in my Madolche builds, now. It stops OTKs, nullifies some overextensions, -1s the opponent on their MST, baits MST itself and, main reason for it being in madolches, prevents battle destruction for your madolches making you able to do tiara normal summoning twice. Magi, add butler, use roar in opponent's turn, then normal butler, search chateau and go into tiara.

The build is pretty much the same, so there's not lot to talk about, the only things in the main new are (excluding threatening) TGs and Reinforcement of the Army:

The T.G. engine offers a great R3 ability and Synchro possibilities, going into turn 1 Naturia Beast+Gelato+Chateau is possible with only Mew, Striker and Gelato (and a monster on the opponent's side of the field), and that's great to start off. Going into tiara is even easier than going into the combo I said little before, since warwolf is at three. With Warwolf you can do crazy things with Cruff (that I was thinking to bring back at 2 with the T.G. engine) and mew. Mew+Warwolf+Cruff is pretty much the same of Mew+Warwolf+Gelato, only a little less powerful.

Rota, great card is great. Another searcher for gelato, but mainly searches for striker, when available.

Naturia Beast is awesome, Barkion is too. Barkion is easier to summon, Beast is better because it mills and doesn't banish from the grave, stops lots of staple and kills some decks. Barkion, however, lets you OTK and such, stopping pretty much anything they could use against you.

The deck's great, I suggest you to try it.

As for the usual trivia, "Fine del Mondo" means "the End of the World". Well, it's 21 December 2012, after all, isn't it?

See Ya.

Back In Action///YGOPro

Let's say something about my absence in these days. If you were thinking it was because I was preparing for Maya's prediction, well, you were wrong.
My PC crashed for the last time, my internet connection disappeared for two weeks or so.
I had to change my pc (Christmas present, thank you guys!) and I've now got a notebook with Win7, and then I waited for the connection to be back.
Since I've got this new computer with Win7 (to those who don't know, I used Ubuntu, a Linux distro, on my late PC, because it was kinda old and slow), I figured I could install, along with the standard applications, even YGOPro. This post is basically a review for YGOPro, and a message to you all saying that I'm still alive.

Compatibility
Since this is the main thing that didn't let me install it on my previous pc, I figured I could have started the review with this. It is Mac and Windows compatible, with Wine a decent PC could use it even on Linux. DN is better on this front, though.

Deck Building and Cards Updates
The deck building has pretty much the needed options, but it lacks some. I still prefer DN to search cards that serves me some particular purposes. The Deck Edit option has one little more issue that could annoy anyone, even though it is really little: you can't search a card immediately after having put one in your deck or having touched anywhere else. On DN you could search, let's say, Thunder King, add him, then type Doomcaliber and add him. On YGOPro you have to type Thunder King, add him, then go with the cursor on there and erase "Thunder King", then write Doomcaliber and add him. That can be pretty annoying when trying to build the fastest possible.
About cards updates, DN does it faster and updates everything as soon as someone who has to power to edit has the time to do it, while on YGOPro (dunno if it is because of the translator, Percival, but he's doing a great work himself, so it's ok) right now the cards from ABYR are still considered OCG. There are lots of Anime cards, though, for those who don't mind playing cards that won't ever exist.

Gameplay
I'm still learning to use it, but I still can't activate Threatening roar the moment we enter the BP, I have to activate it when leaving the MP1 (not knowing if we're going into BP or EP). After some problems like those, the gameplay is awesome. It is automated, and you won't have n00b issues like on DN for rulings and such. No rate means that less people will shark you or cheat (even because it is automated and thus cheating is far harder and sharking is impossible), and you can enjoy the game more, when trying to relax like I do when playing.
It even has a Tag Duel option, I tried it, it is pretty good, but it doesn't let you private chat with the team mate or see the cards in his hand (if I don't remember wrong it is possible in official 2 on 2 duels).
The possibility to filter the opponent's deck for TCG only, OCG only, Anime and Turbo duels (yup, there are even turbo, I should try them out sometime) is simply great, if it wasn't for some slow updates, but, well, it's ok.

Users
The users aren't bad. There are less n00bs than on DN, or, since it all is automated, it could be that I didn't notice them, even because it is only one day I'm using it.
There's less communication than on DN, because there are no registered nicks and no chats. This could be a good thing when you want to test something without having to be blocked from some friend of yours.
ìì, but generally it isn't that good.

Duel Puzzles
Good, some are harder than others, but not that hard.
The good thing about this is that you can create your owns. Basically you can just set them with avenger, archfiend and necromancer in grave, mirage in hand, some cards in deck, some in your extra and try your comboes. Same with Wind-Ups or any other combo deck.

Customisability
Like for the duel puzzles, other things in the game are customizable as well, like sleeves and background. That's pretty awesome, I'd say.


If you want to download YGOPro in english go on Percival's blog, it is a great blog, not only for YGOPro, follow him, too.

Should be all for my first-day review.
Stay Tuned, tomorrow (or even today itself) there'll be another post.

Madolche (Tech) Side Choices+Updated List

Let's start saying that I changed my build a bit:

Monsters: [15]

1 Effect Veiler

1 Madolche Butlerusk

1 Madolche Cruffsant

3 Madolche Magileine

3 Madolche Messengelato

3 Madolche Mew-feuille
1 Maxx "C"

3 Snowman Eater

Spells: [13]

1 Dark Hole

2 Forbidden Lance

1 Heavy Storm

3 Madolche Chateau

1 Madolche Ticket

1 Monster Reborn

2 Mystical Space Typhoon

2 Pot of Duality

Traps: [12]

2 Bottomless Trap Hole

1 Dark Bribe

1 Dimensional Prison

1 Madolchepalooza (Ex-Madolche Festa)

1 Mirror Force

2 Starlight Road

2 Torrential Tribute

1 Ultimate Offering

As you can see, I did -1 palooza and -1 veiler for 1 Maxx "C" and 1 other Snowman Eater. The reason for this is the mindset I explained here and the fact that I think Maxx hits some deck that veiler doesn't, and maxx, along with veiler in the deck, can hit decks that wouldn't be hit by maxx alone. I like this.

If you want any explanation on gamestyle and cards choices, look at the post I linked, then come back here.

As you probably noticed, I added the side deck (and an excalibur in the extra for both the side deck and the usual double gelato, totally missed he wasn't in my extra before). First of all, I should thank a user called ~Straiker~ because he lent me an hand by letting me see his side deck, I'm bad at building side, usually, so I asked for help there. He, strangely, put in some cards in the same number I would, so I could have probably built it myself, but, yeah, he did help me.

2 Veilers and 2 Maxx, great against deck that do explode, rely on monsters effect on the field and Special Summon alot. The opponent doesn't see them coming, and when he'll be aware that you have got a good number of them he'll slow down, and you can re-side them out in game three, if you need slots for other things. Be aware of Fissure and Macro, though.

Third Typhoon and 2 Dust Tornadoes, actually, needed. I could encounter a deck that does main or can side macro cosmo or other continuous cards against madolches. Dust tornado is great, and the setting effect isn't half bad, too.

2 Prohibtion, one of the best side deck cards, IMO, but I don't play lots of S/T protection, so I can't side three. Prohibition is both a card against other deck, and a counter side. You can even prohibit MSTs and Heavy Storms to protect your other cards. Let's say we drew into double prohibition and Starlight, would activate a prohibition on MST, the other one on the card you want to prohibit and set Starlight be a bad thing?

2 Needle Ceiling, against WU and lots of swarms and explosive deck, really. Good card. Start off with set monster and this against an explosive deck and you're safe, you'll probably be even able to combo the next turn.

Let's see then the techy cards:

2 DNA Surgery. Good card, really good. I always found this a great card. Against Dino Rabbit, against HEROes and Six (no Shi En), against tons of things that do rely on the type. However, be aware of this card, it can kill your own games if you don't play this good. I like this card in here because by declaring Beast you'll both stop most of your opponent type-reliant comboes and start off yours. Let's say you have Surgery set on Beast, and Snowman on the field with Mew and Gelato in hand (I'd just kill anyone who tries to say that this is occasional, really, you just have to draw into surgery that's not vital for your comboes and that is against your opponent's deck). Normal Mew, SS Gelato, search Chateau, activate it. Snowmand+Mew into Invoker, eff Invoker, detach Mew, SS Gelato and get another search, Ticket probably. Activate it, go into Tiara with double Gelato, detach a gelato to add Gelato and Mew back to your hand and shuffle back two cards your opponent controls in his deck, then use Ticket's effect to bring another Gelato that gets you another search, probably another copy of chateau to generate targets for tiara's effect or Festa. Just notice that Festa is great with DNA Surgery on the field set on Beast, because you can trigger Gelato with ease.

2 Soul Drain. Same reasoning of Surgery, just two because of lack of S/T Protection. Great card against Mermails, one of the worst match-up we've got, against DWs (that's why I don't side Shadow-Imprisoning Mirrors), against lots of single cards and staples that do activate in the grave and, as most of my tech cards, has a double use. Soul Drain stops your own Madolches in the grave, so it could backfire if not properly used. However, as I said, I have a new Mindset that does rely on their returning effects only as a backup plan and to help setting up your games with both recycling and ticket. By following the same reasoning of TK in decks that do search from the deck, consider that YOU are the owner of Soul Drain, and YOU get to decide when to activate it. Locking your own Madolches in the grave is a good thing when trying to get targets for tiara's effect, and at the same time you're locking your opponent strategy, so that he can't really answer your moves with their Marksman, Graphas, and such, while he can't set-up his own strategy with Dragoons, Snoww and others.

I like how my Madolche deck gets better everytime I post. I recommend anyone to try this deck out, even the Madolche haters. As it is right now, it is fit for a tournament, so if you have regionals, locals and such, and have got the cards, try it out, you could/should win.

See Ya.

Level 6 Synchro

I think that anyone noticed that, LV6 Synchros actually left aren't that good. The moment Brionac was banned, synchros lost the little playability they still had, why's that? Brionac is one of the best synchros level 6 is easily accessible and the effect was really versatile and not limited to once per turn. Little cost that could be abused to clean for OTKs or looping (just think of all the Infernity Loops or Fableds, or random FTKs, and so on). However, Brionac was the first and usually sole synchro option when going for LV6, because other weren't even a quarter of Brio's power. Still, Brio was banned, and we lost our LV6 synchro option, effectively killing lots of comboes or power-plays, may it be synchro climb or just a random synchro to draw with Librarian's effect. People almost instantly decided either to totally drop the synchro part in their deck to focus on XYZ sheningans (or main deck ones, like BLS and such) or to find a substitute for brionac. The main choices were Iron Chain Dragon and Gaia Knight, the Force of the Earth. Let's analyze them:

1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters You can remove from play all "Iron Chain" monsters from your Graveyard to have this card gain 200 ATK for each card removed, until the End Phase. When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent, send the top 3 cards of your opponent's Deck to the Graveyard.

Well, why do some people choose this over gaia? Because of the milling effect. Still, I totally find this unuseful, if not dangerous for yourself: setting-up your opponent's grave isn't a good thing for the 80% of the deck in this meta. 2500 ATK is good, but gaia's 2600 are better, since he doesn't need to sucide against stardust, shi en and others.
To be blunt, then, I totally don't like this card, and I (I, ME, that's personal, you could particularly like this card for some unknown reasons, and, if you do, it is unuseful to talk, since you're probably so convinced that nothing would change your mind) won't recommend anyone to play this card over Gaia.

Let's see him, now.

1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters

Well, no effect. Actually, this card is better than Iron Chain, in my opinion. 2600 ATK, better than Iron Chain's 2500. No milling effect, thus no risks in attacking your opponent to deal some damages, but, what's more, there's no effect at all. The awesome thing about this part is that Fiendish Chain doesn't do a thing against this, and, even though this one is really improbable to happen, your opponent can't randomly veiler this card just to have a random LIGHT monster in the grave for BLS. Good card, if I were to choose between one of those, I would, without any further thinking, choose this one. HOWEVER, there's one more thing I want you to see. There's a synchro option that only few players consider, and just a little part of those plays:

1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters During battle between this attacking card and a Defense Position monster whose DEF is lower than the ATK of this card, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent. This card gains 300 ATK each time it inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent.

So, what about this card? He's the thing I wrote this post for. I like this card over both Gaia and Iron Chain because of the piercing effect. Everyone in here hates, at least a bit, Reaper, right? Well, Reaper hates this card. Why having a card that deals constantly damage to the opponent while building-up its strenght shouldn't be considered for competitive plays? This runs over spy, while dealing damages, or even over recruiter. This runs over Mother Grizzly (yeah, lol), while dealing damages. However, the main reason is that this card by itself totally defeats the purpose of setting a monster to avoid battle damages, and that's great. After little time, if protected and well-played, this card can even be better than gorz when he's summoned after the opponent's deck's boss' attack.

Overall, Gaia should be used, Uruquizas too. If you have one slot, play the one that would be better in your meta (gaia is good against decks like rabbit, six and others that have some monsters under 2500 ATK, uruquizas is good against, strangely, Inzektor, some wind-up situations, reaper, and cards like Maestroke, eventually GK, sometimes GB), I usually like uruquizas better (on DN), but depends on my deck and if it plays easily summonable beatsticks over 2500 ATK. If you have two slots, don't hesitate to play both.

That's All Folks.

Dolce Delizia: Actual Build of Madolches #1

Monsters: [15]

2 Effect Veiler

1 Madolche Butlerusk

1 Madolche Cruffsant

3 Madolche Magileine

3 Madolche Messengelato

3 Madolche Mew-feuille

2 Snowman Eater

Spells: [13]

1 Dark Hole

2 Forbidden Lance

1 Heavy Storm

3 Madolche Chateau

1 Madolche Ticket

1 Monster Reborn

2 Mystical Space Typhoon

2 Pot of Duality

Traps: [12]

2 Bottomless Trap Hole

1 Dark Bribe

1 Dimensional Prison

2 Madolchepalooza (Ex-Madolche Festa)

1 Mirror Force

2 Starlight Road

2 Torrential Tribute

1 Ultimate Offering

This should be the first time where my extra deck is kinda reliable...I'm astonished.

Let's talk for a moment about the post itself before going on the deck. You probably noticed the "#1" in the title. That's because I think I'll continue updating my actual list and thoughts on the deck on more posts as my main deck. Hope you like the deck, because you'll read alot about this one. If you don't like it, I'll make you like it with those posts, so there's actually no difference.

About the deck itself, I radically changed my mindset on this one. Before it was "plus off magileine, ticket and eventually butlerusk, and as game-setter (something that basically decides the game, even if it wins you the game in that turn or some turns after) mew-gelato", then it changed to "plus off magileine, ticket, mew-gelato, and eventually butlerusk, then with mew-gelato again as a game-setter". This justified the presence of double tragoedia. I, gradually, changed way to think about this deck, thus I dropped one copy of tragoedia because I put on the field the most of the things I had in hand. I found myself not drawing often into trago, winning the game before drawing into it, and when I, rarely, summoned it, I found it being just a random wall from an attack. I decided to drop it completely and added a veiler. Just for not having that random veiler at 1 copy, I dropped one fiendish for another veiler, and, being satisfied with this I continued playing. Without having tragoedia in my deck I never cared about my hand size, so I didn't notice what I did notice later. However, playing and playing, I met a deck that randomly dropped one trago and had quite a good hand size, 4 cards+1 from the draw of the next turn. Seeing that, I randomly wondered how my hand size was if I dropped tragoedia, and noticed I had just one card in hand. I thought "that's just a coincidence". I won that game and played with another opponent. In this game I noticed that, except for the first turns, I never had a good hand size, even though I did play 2 hand traps. This went on and on and I noticed that I radically changed my mindset on the deck. It had now become "Search those Mew-Gelato combo pieces using magi and ticket, all the rest is for filling slots and controlling the opponent". Basically I did play for Mew-Gelato into Invoker-Tiara.

It's not like I don't like the deck anymore as it plays, it is just that I feel bad for the other cards not being used, LOL. Just think that I was actually thinking of building a random one with just 3 mew, 3 gelato, 3 magi, 2 ticket and 3 chateau along with some lots of good LV3s.

Let's explain some choices in this build:
2 Veilers, even though I don't like 'em, I decided to fit them in. Why's that? Because I'm trying to make this the most competitive possible.
1 Cruffsant, good card, but as said, I'm aiming to Mew-Gelato, and Cruff isn't a piece of those comboes. However, if I happen to combo having this one, he's quite generic, so it's good.
2 Snowman Eater, die TK, die. Improving Rabbit Match-up, killing nasty TKs and hitting random cards to -1 your opponent. Of course the main reason is being the LV3 piece of the Mew-Gelato combo.
2 Lance, saving everything, killing opponent's monsters, and Tiara's best friend. 'Nuff Said.
1 Ticket, I already explained in another post about madolches why just one. More than 1 aren't needed, even though it wouldn't be a totally bad thing, maybe in place of an Ultimate Offering (I'll explain this later).
1 Bribe, judgment substitute, great card for your comboes.
2 Festa, oh, well, not sure about this one, I'd drop one of these for the next thing I want to play. Basically, even though it is a great card and target for tiara, in this build that aims to Mew-Gelato with just 1 madolche beast that's not mew.
1 Offering, not sure anymore about this card. Going for the Mew-Gelato thing, this card is occasional, since you'll need this, setted, tons of lps, magi just to loop a little bit, risking that a simple mst kills your combo leaving you with nothing. I'd rather keep it, but for slots I'd take this out before anything else.

Yeah, ya know? The deck's great. I'm actually aiming to make it become a meta deck, I think I'm not that far away from it. Next time that I'm talking about madolches I'll talk about side, counter-siding, countering your opponent side without heavy counter-siding.

Usual trivia about the name: "Dolce Delizia" means "Sweet Delight". Why's that? For the obvious reason "Madolches are made off sweets".

Stay Tuned, I'll post something in these days, I should have some spare time.

Rosso Sangue: Red Dragon Ninja Control

Monsters: [18]

1 Alector, Sovereign of Birds
1 Dark Simorgh

1 Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon/White Dragon Ninja

3 Jurrac Guaiba

3 Karakuri NINJA mdl 339 "Sazank"

2 Mist Valley Falcon

3 Ninja Grandmaster Hanzo

3 Red Dragon Ninja

1 Silver Senior Ninja

Spells: [7]

1 Dark Hole

1 Magic Planter

1 Monster Reborn

2 Mystical Space Typhoon

1 Reinforcement of the Army
2 Swallow's Nest

Traps: [13]

1 Dark Bribe

1 Fake Trap

2 Ninjitsu Art of Duplication

1 Ninjitsu Art of Shadow Sealing

1 Ninjitsu Art of Super-Transformation

3 Ninjitsu Art of Transformation

1 Return from the Different Dimension

1 Solemn Judgment

2 Solemn Warning

1 Starlight Road

'Kayyyy, that's it. Actually I don't know which one to choose between GEPD and White Dragon, GEPD takes care of common threats like zenmaines, maestroke, gachi and similar, while bonusing doing so. White Dragon is compatible with the Ninjitsu cards, Red Dragon target and protects all of the backrows you've got, even though it has 300 less ATK than GEPD, and there are some monsters with an higher ATK. What's more, GEPD can take care even of those with an higher ATK, working as a wall. Actually, I'm more into GEPD, but sometimes having White Dragon would have saved me from sure death. I'm sure that I'll side the one that I'm not maining, though.

About Guaiba without Lance, it's ok. At least, it puts pressure on the opponent.

About double Falcon and no Fiendish, I was thinking of adding them, since at least 2 cards to negate monster's effect are required.

About Reinforcement of the Army with only 3 hanzos, it's awesome. It's like playing 4 of them.

About single Magic Planter, it fits my gamestyle perfectly, just 1 is good.

About triple Sazank, good MU against Rabbit, it kills Zenmaines, Gachi and Maestroke with ease, Ninjitsu target and awesome surprise effect. Duplication can eventually bring two of them for great mass destruction.

About Fake Trap, it's great, Starlight is good, but can easily be negated and mst plays around it, while this card blocks more cards. If you don't like this card, play a Huge Revolution is Over, instead.

About single super-transformation with only Guaibas and GEPD/White Dragon as targets, it is good. First turn hanzo that searchs this puts the opponent under great presure, it's awesome.

For more explanation, here is the other post.

I played this deck quite a lot, I must say I'm having some fun with it, trolling your opponent with Sazank and Red Dragon, ultimately stoppiong some continuous cards with Alector, other than, obviously, monsters. I realized that I have quite a great match-up against rabbit, only that this deck suffers quite a lot Fissure/Macro, so siding S/T destruction should be needed. Maybe you can change the deck play-style entirely against some decks that don't set a lot. I think I'll build a side for this, not sure. If I do, I'll post it too.

That's All Folks.

Rosso Sangue: Deck Prototype: Red Dragon Ninja Control

Monsters: [20]

1 Alector, Sovereign of Birds

1 Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning

1 Dark Simorgh

1 Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon

3 Jurrac Guaiba

2 Karakuri NINJA mdl 339 "Sazank"

1 Mist Valley Falcon

3 Ninja Grandmaster Hanzo

3 Red Dragon Ninja

1 Silver Senior Ninja

2 Upstart Golden Ninja

1 White Dragon Ninja

Spells: [7]

1 Dark Hole

1 Magic Planter

1 Monster Reborn

2 Mystical Space Typhoon

2 Swallow's Nest

Traps: [13]

1 Dark Bribe

1 Fake Trap

2 Ninjitsu Art of Duplication

1 Ninjitsu Art of Shadow Sealing

1 Ninjitsu Art of Super-Transformation

2 Ninjitsu Art of Transformation

1 Return from the Different Dimension

1 Solemn Judgment

2 Solemn Warning

1 Starlight Road

The extra is the worst I've ever built, just try not to even see it. Still, I don't use it a lot, so it's ok, I should add more xyz options, indeed.

About the main, let's start saying I've got the idea from Beau Butler from the TCGPlayer Blog (here's the article). To be honest, I didn't read it all, since I usually get tired from reading articles talking about a single cards in a single deck, but all I read (till the end of AssuREDly Good) gave me so many ideas that I shifted that page to DN to build it fastly, so even if I could read it all, I wanted to build it so badly that I couldn't have continued reading it however.

Back to deck itself, this is just a prototype, what I built in about 4 minutes, extra included. I've got so many doubts about this, that it could radically change.

Basically, the deck is based on Red Dragon Ninja and the -1s it can provide to the opponent. Getting that huge thing on the field isn't hard, and it can kill all of the backrows and even the set monsters like ryko, snowman eater, Gravekeeper's Spy, Geargiarmor, and so on. Being able to either put that card to bottom or top can not only do a -1 to your opponent, but even "stopping" his next draw making him draw the same card you spun. The mind set is: if that card can't kill you or your key cards, spin it. If it is a trap card or a flip monster and you can summon Simorgh, spin it. Otherwise, just put it back to the bottom of the deck and -1 the opponent.

That card really lets abuses everywhere, I happened to face an antimeta that set a pachy and 1 forbidden lance, 1 compulsory and 1 starlight road. I've first used mst, hitting compulsory, then I summoned red dragon to put back to the bottom his pachy, then used duplication to bring another red and spun his starlight road, then used swallow's nest and put to the bottom lance, then summoned simorgh banishing a dead hanzo and falcon. No need to say that the opponent just felt the need to ragequit.

Let's talk about the single cards:

Alector, great card, can be easily bringed to the field from the handto use swallow's nest on him to bring Red Dragon Ninja. Mainly Transformation target.

BLS, not sure about this card, however, in the few test I did, I didn't draw into him once, so I can't tell.

Dark Simorgh, great card, if backupped with some traps can be a great starting.

Galaxy, newly added, not sure, just 1 test with this one. If I drew into Hanzo or Super-Transformation, this card would have won the game for me. I won via Red Dragon in the end, though.

Guaiba, why be original? Let's be mainstream. Every deck with Hanzos and Super-Transformation plays those, so why not? Not sure about this one, I don't play lances, but this card rides over common cards, so it's ok. It won me games, but it's one of the prime candidates to be dropped along with BLS and another one.

Sazank, one of the main reason I built this deck. I thought "it should be trolling enough to exchange a red dragon in the opponent's end phase with two of these with Duplication and minusing the opponent by two, other than having 2 monsters that can attack directly and valid Ninjitsu's tribute fodder.

Falcon, great card, recycles dead ninjitsu's in an awesome way. Good card, I found myself in a situation like red dragon, falcon, double transformation already activated. I think it is needed in more than 1 copy, though, even if you can bring it with transformation.

Hanzo, awesome.

Red Dragon, centerpiece.

Silver, well, trollish card. In the few games I played (about 10), I could pull off his effect only once, and that felt great. Double Sazank and double Red Dragon, u mad? I think that 1 copy is enough.

Upstart, not sure about this card, but it is one of the best ninjas out there to be played here, I would run out of Ninjitsu's tribute fodders, but I'd like to drop this.

White, good card, but I'm thinking of dropping this one, too. Galaxy-Eyes has basically the same use (beater that doesn't fear its ninjitsu being destroyed), while being able to kill nasty XYZs easily.

No Heavy Storm, I've got lots of S/T hate, and this would have backfired on me, probably.

Planter, draw card.

Swallow's nest, comboes with Red Dragon. I did OTK with this and a couple of set cards with hanzo (opponent's field was clear). Attack with Hanzo, then Transformation, bring Red Dragon, attack with him, then transformation, bring another Red Dragon, attack, then Swallow's nest.

Bribe, good negation card.

Fake Trap, here, I like it more than Starlight, and that's a rare thing. Seeing your opponent being killed by his own heavy while we don't take any damages to our S/Ts is just awesome. What's more, can't be negated via Warning.

Duplication, great card, can both do some swarms with Sazanks, and do Red Dragon again, or Senior Silver Ninja.

Sealing, testing this one. Actually, I don't like how it minuses you without any direct pluses, but this card is perfect against nasty combo decks and zenmaines/chronoaut.

Super-transformation. Why one? Because I don't really need this one, but it's awesome to break apart your opponent's comboes and bringing a big beater to the field, or guaiba.

Transformation, great card. I was thinking of playing 3 of those.

Return from the Different Dimension, didn't draw this card, not even once. Still it is theorically awesome, I've seen with my own eyes how much I can banish with red dragon.

Starlight, backrow protection.

So, the cards I think I'll drop are:

Upstart Golden Ninja

BLS

White Dragon Ninja

Guaiba (not sure about this one, I think that in the end I'll keep it because laggia and dolkka are amazing)

The cards I'd like to fit in are:

one more sazank (upstart substitute, since I'd run low on the number of ninjas)

one more Transformation

I'll try to fix this one, if you've got some ideas, just write them under here in the comments. I think that by next Saturday at least you'll be able to see the new decklist.

Usual Trivia: "Rosso Sangue" means "Crimson". That's referring to the card that Red Dragon Ninja is based off, Crimson Ninja.

That's All Folks!

My take on Meta (or ex-meta) Decks: Infernities

Monsters: [16]

1 Armageddon Knight

1 Dark Grepher

2 Destiny HERO - Malicious

3 Infernity Archfiend

1 Infernity Avenger

2 Infernity Mirage

3 Infernity Necromancer

1 Plaguespreader Zombie

2 Stygian Street Patrol

Spells: [11]

1 Allure of the Darkness

1 Dark Hole

1 Foolish Burial

1 Heavy Storm

1 Infernity Launcher

1 Mind Control

1 Monster Reborn

2 Mystical Space Typhoon

1 One for One

1 Reinforcement of the Army

Traps: [13]

2 Call of the Haunted

2 Compulsory Evacuation Device

3 Infernity Barrier

1 Infernity Break

1 Infernity Inferno

1 Solemn Judgment

2 Solemn Warning

1 Torrential Tribute

As always, the extra is pretty random, I tried to fit in everything I could see an use for.

So, let's explain something:

I don't know how infernities are played in this period, but I think they're pretty different from this. The main idea behind this deck is being able to start off with something. Basically, recently I saw an infernity playing, and it often started with setting necromancer and a card and ending the turn. I just didn't like that, because a good deck with a good hand would have killed them, and if it didn't, it would have setted so many cards that would have stopped the deck's plays totally. So I thinked that being able to start off with something on first turn would be great, and so it was. I added plague to freely control my hand and as a lv2 tuner that can go into catastor with a dead necromancer, but mainly to start with some big monsters on turn one with armageddon and such. However, I think this card is great because it isn't hard to have a malicious in the grave with this card. Starting off with grepher+malicious could let you handle even a 4 monsters hand and not only, even more based on the other sources you've got. However, grepher, discard mali, send plague. Oh, see, a first turn Void Ogre Dragon. So, if you didn't notice, this build is kind of based on void ogre. Being able to summon it in early game can win you games, if well played. Trying the deck, you can see how fast it is.

This was the main strategy of the deck, let's see the single cards:

1 Armageddon+1 Grepher+1 Reinforcement of the Army, since emptying your hand is almost as important as setting-up your graveyard, Reinforcement is an awesome card, since you can set it if you can't normal summon this turn. Grepher is an awesome card, but drew late game he's kinda bad if you don't have dark monsters in hand (likely to happen), that's why an armageddon is there, too. That works however and whenever, great card, sheningans with call of the haunted.

2 Malicious+1 Plaguespreader, fast synchro plays and hand clearing. Awesome.

3 Archfiend, 1 Avenger, 3 Necromancer, 2 Mirage. You know how much I love looping and comboeing, right? So 2 mirage is self explanatory. The 3 Archfiend are for search power, the 3 necromancers for reborning and searching with archfiend, and avenger is for synchro power. Why just one Avenger, you may be asking. Space issues. I decided to drop this to 1 copy instead of other cards because this one isn't realy needed at more than 1. Can't be Bottomless'd, can't be prison'd, it would be stupid to Crow it. If they do really remove him some way, you can still recycle him with leviair. 2 Mirage are for looping.

2 Stygians, great card. Other than enabling comboes with mirage, and searchs with archfiend, it easily empties your hand for great plays. Recycling it with leviair is great, too.

Staples, no need to talk about them, right?

1 Allure, draw power and empties hands like a boss. Banishing archfiend when you are able to go into leviair is great, too.

1 Launcher, obvious card, still most tend to forget about the discarding effect.

1 Mind Control, we do play some good tuners, and level 3 and 4 are everywhere in this meta, so why not?

1 One for One, great card, searches your avenger to start comboeing, your mirage to start your loop while discarding a dead monster in your hand.

2 Call of the Haunted, originally those were 3, cutted to 2 because I needed slots. Triggering armageddon like this is great, but this starts comboes everywhere, no need to ask.

2 Compulsory, great card, and versatile. It happened that I bounced my own leviair for the game.

3 Barrier, yeah, I don't know much about how infernities are played right now, still I think of this as a great card. For me, it is a staple in 3x in every build.

1 Break, you may be wondering, only 1? Well, that's not wrong. The card is good, but slots are really a problem, and I didn't expecially liked this card, so it's fine with me.

1 Inferno, great card, empties hands and set-ups the graveyard like a boss.

Solemn Trio, staple.

1 Torrential Tribute, great card.

As for the extra, I want to make you notice, before we continue, that this is a TCG build. However, since there are some cards that would be great from the OCG, I think I should have put them however, so I put them in the side deck. There should have been an Emeral, too, but I forgot it.

As for the TCG extra:

Catastor is a great card.

Colossal against deck that don't have lots of destruction effects, like Chaos Dragon. What's more, he has a really great ATK.

Dark End Dragon, a little cost of ATK points can actually send a monster to the grave bypassing stardust. That's great.

Uruquizas, and not gaia, why? Reapers, that's it.

2 Hundred-Eyes Dragon, loops, loops everywhere.

Infernity Doom Dragon, if only void had the "infernity" word in his name... Oh well, that's what we've got. For great starting hands that could make void ogre but with a couple of barriers, it is a great card.

Scrap, awesome card, needn't to talk.

Stardust, read scrap.

Stygian security, oh, awesome card. You can virtually wipe out a full field. I happened to face a chaos dragon that had tons of big monsters and 1 lyla on the field without any set cards. That was the death my opponent had to face.

2 Void Ogre Dragon, great card, I would have played more if I had slots, still I won't need all of them.

Abyss Dweller, instant detach, and that's needed when comboeing with infernities. Other than this, it is a great card against DWs and atlanteans/mermails and random cards like sangan.

Leviair, looper. Period.

Maestroke, great card to protect yourself. It even is an instant detacher sometimes, and that's needed.

So, so, what do I think about infernities? It is a great deck, with great cards and great comboes. Still, dies to Dimensional Fissure and Shadow Imprisoning Mirror. Awesome deck for casual games. I like how this deck comboes, but my internet connection, recently, is way too slow to enjoy combo decks since it lags alot, and I'm sticking to antimeta.

Hope you enjoyed the post, I'm planning on doing more of this. See Ya.

Deadly and Dead

It's sad to make two off-topic posts about no-writing without putting any contents between them, still, I've got to write this.
I've got twice the tasks to do, and half the energy to do them, so writing posts here is kinda difficult for me. I've thought of a little solution, though: stop the card of the week.
That's not meant ot be a definitive stop, it's just for the time being. The reason for this are two:
1.I won't be here next monday, so I can't post it, and mondays are hard days to write or post something;
2.I think the CotW slows me down.

The two things I swore when I decided to start the CotW thing were that I wouldn't have missed one without letting you know and that I wouldn't have reviewed other cards outside the CotW. The latter really slows me down, not being able to review a card when I feel like just slows me a lot, and I noticed that writing it as a Card of the Week is pretty tiring, because I need to stay on that card for the most of the time, without being able to do little reviews about other cards to work in the same scenario and such. Being able to review whatever and whenever I want should work.

Stay Tuned, I believe I'll post something these days.

Missing the Blog and More Absence from It

Well, actually, I'm pretty missing blogging, but I never have the energy to write or something to write about. If that wasn't enough, I'll be missing from the blog for a week, so, for the first time, no card of the week for tomorrow, since there'll be no internet connection. Sad.
I'll try to be more active when I'll be back. I'm writing right now on my phone some topics to talk about when I'll be back, so, fear not, I should be able to write something.
See Ya.

Card of the Week #20: Metaion, the Timelord

Cannot be Special Summoned from the Deck. If you control no monsters, you can Normal Summon this card without Tributing. This card cannot be destroyed by battle or by card effects. You take no Battle Damage from battles involving this face-up Attack Position card. At the end of the Battle Phase, if this card attacked or was attacked: Return all other monsters on the field to the hand, and inflict 300 damage to your opponent for each card returned. During your Standby Phase: Shuffle this card into the Deck (even if face-down).

Lovely card, rulings, there we go:
If the a card returned to the hand via this card's effect isn't really in the hand (Plaguespreader summoned via its own effect, for example), that card won't be counted toward the number of cards for the damages.
Bouncing a Synchro monster, Fusion monster, or XYZ monster, is counted as bouncing them to the hand, so they will be counted.

No explanations.

Let's take a close look, then:
FIRE, nothing special since it can't be summoned from the deck;
LV10, some XYZs, go into Gustav with this and another monster;
Fairy, the great one, it's just perfect for this card;
Stats, 0 ATK and 0 DEF, not that they matter given the effect.

Well, I like this card. I used to play, and recently brought back to life, a fairy deck using Freya with Court of Justice and Valhalla to bring giant fairies. Needn't to say that this card was probably one of the best star of the deck, and funnier ones to play. In three copies I drew it frequently, and frequentily I did summon it. That was to clean the field from nasty XYZs, such as Zenmaines, Maestroke, or even giant synchros and hard-to-play-around monsters. Dealing some damages was even actually funny, and game winning if used right.
In this deck I used to play Freya as LV1 to trigger Court of Justice, and ATK booster for our fairies, while Athena and this dealt damages, while krystia was frequently blocking opponent's summons. Athena+this worked wonders, since you could attack with this, get rid of monsters on the field, summon athena somehow, tribute this and SS another monster so that we didn't get the -1 that this card usually has. Athena comboed quite a bit with Superbia and another athena, summoning this as finisher some times, while dealing other damages and having a field full of powerful beaters.
Valhalla was there to summon giant beatsticks from the void, and the rest was protection and staples. Good deck it was.

Talking of this card generally, I should underline how this card can be freely summoned from the hand, grave or banished zone. The only limit it puts, is that you can't from the deck. Actually, I think that if built well, Call of the Haunted should be its best friend. SS it via coth, wipe out the field, recycle CotH somehow (still thinking of a solid way to do so), use it again next turn, profit.
While this idea is still developing, one of the most possible ones is in Burn decks or monster-less (or deck with a low monster count) as a way to stall the opponent, do some damages, and have an empty field for your moves during your turn. As a level 10, it's great for random gustavs with metal reflect slime or other cards.

Having 0 ATK makes it a workable target for Limit Reverse, but even for reptilianne vaskii, if you were to play metaion in a reptilianne deck (needed to name this one since I'm thinking of how to efficiently play and build a reptilianne deck).


Actually, this post was just a fast one to put together various uses of this card. Today I had no time to write anything, since tomorrow there's English Oral Test (side note for who doesn't remember/know: Italian is my language, English is only the language I learnt at school) and need to study something, even if not truly needed. Oh, well.

See Ya.

Once again

Lack of post. Actually, it's not a time issue, but some ideas. It's just that recently I'm not playing ygo enough to build something, or even only think of some comboes. I should make posts like "Random Thoughts", to make the blog a little more active.
If you've got something you want me to talk about, just ask here under the comments, but don't expect builds, I could give some advices. If you want, you can post your decklist and ask for fixes, I'd like to try this one too. Only original decks, though.

Card of the Week #19: Doomcaliber Knight

Cannot be Special Summoned. During either player's turn, when a monster effect is activated: Tribute this face-up card; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy that monster.

I wanted to review this card from quite some time, yesterday talking with a friend of mine I thought about reviewing this today, and so it was. Here, have some rulings:
-Tributing is a cost;
-The "cannot be special summoned" part of the effect is a condition;
-This effect does not target.

The first two don't need explanations, just keep in mind that you can use his effect even with skill drain on the field and that that "cannot be special summoned" can't be avoided no matter what.
The third one, instead, is a logical thing. As you all know, you can't target cards in hand or deck, so if this card hits a card in hand or deck, this means it can't target. That's the same reasoning that's behind Trishula's rulings.

Let's take a close look, shall we?
DARK, yeah, supports, and given his effect even chaos fodder;
LV4, usually a lovely level, but with this card it doesn't really matter, just keep that in mind for eventualities;
Fiend, some other good supports;
Stats, 1900 ATK is great, and everyone seems to forget that this card has a great defense, too, 1800 is really something.

I love this card, that's it. Great stats with great effect. Negate monster's effect to stop their plays, at the worst it's 1 for 1 trade, so it doesn't matter, expecially if you have some cards to back you up.

Well, why this card? As you should know, I like controllish and antimetish things, so that cards that are always there in these decks are my favourite ones. To be honest, I hated Doomcaliber initially, probably because of some bad experiences I had against him, but then I started playing chaos stun for something like 2/3 formats (before BLS was limited again) and this became one of the big three of the deck, alongside Thunder King and Chaos Sorcerer.

Why is doomcaliber so awesome? Doomcaliber has a particular ability: can negate any monster's effect, no matter where and when. The problem is that his effect is mandatory, but that's not a problem if you can work with him. Summon this, set 1 warn, 1 bribe and 1 dimensional prison and you are ready to win. While playing this card the main thing you need to control is YOUR field, and not only your opponent's. If you have nothing to back you up after you use his effect you're probably done for. I'd rather not summon him in place of sumoning him without any back-up plans or other antimetish cards in the backrow.
While you have to play being aware of this, this card is great because it can destroy giant monsters if they have mandatory effects or stop your opponent from using them if they don't have anything else to kill doomcaliber. If they do have them, you have your backrows, so anything's fine and you'll continue stopping your opponent's cards while locking your opponent's monster's effect with your still-on-the-field Doomcaliber Knight.

A pro that's at the same time a con is that doomcaliber can negate cards from everywhere, both fields, both hands, both decks, both graveyards, both banished zones, basically everywhere.
While this can be used from your opponent to kill your doomcaliber without high costs, or sometimes without any cost at all (treeborn frog is an example), you can use this to stop your opponent's key monster's effects, like the only monster's effect that inzektors will need to start comboeing, that rescue rabbit your opponent is trying to use, that Stratos your opponent is trying to summon (that has a mandatory effect, of course), that dark world's effect that your opponent used wasting a discard card only to kill that 2200 beater you have on the field (cause he gets the 300 ATK bonus from gateway, of course) and so on.

Speaking of Dark World, even though I never played them competitively recently, I started building an antimeta build that features triple doomcaliber. I'm actualyl developing this with a friend of mine that's way more expert than me about this deck, but I definitely think it has potential.
Being able to generate +1s or generally not to go into some -1s, and the ability to play skill drain, it makes Dark World a perfect deck for antimeta/control. Being Doomcaliber fiend, too, he gets the +300 ATK from gateway, making him a 2200 beater against TK or even cyber dragon, while being able to stop effects from the hand or graveyard, other than field if skill drain is not active.

I should, one day, do a general guide to control and antimeta decks, I felt the need of it sometimes.

Well, this was all, hope you liked the card and the post. Check out LFN and YGO's post about him, too, as he did a fast post about that card mained against the meta.
See Ya.

20.000 Visit Count Hit!///Look at my favourite meta-ish decks

The blog reached 20.000 visits, totally good thing, in less than 2 months from the 10.000 (actually 1 month and 28 days, since the 20.000th visit was yesterday). As a special for this new record, I should do something I don't often do: talk about competitive decks that I like.
If you're fellow readers of this blog, you should know I hate overplayed decks, but I like them when no one knows about or plays them. However it happens that I fall in love with some kind of decks that are quite played, well, shit happens.
I like Control and OTK decks, better if they're together, that's the main reason of most of those decks:
Infernities, probably the one that looks like a meta deck that I like the most. Control your opponent, stop him from attempting suicide, then go into some wild OTK. Love Infernities for their explosion abilities. I'm actually playing them with a standard, beetle-less, build. Go into void ogre and archfiend with a pair or barriers down there and subsequently win. A side note, I do play 3 barriers cause I love them.
Karakuris, you should know this one too, since I posted it some time ago. Generates +1s, goes into Naturia Beast, my favourite synchro, possibly with safe zone attached, then goes into OTKs. Lovely one.
Six Samurais, even though it's been quite some time since I last played or built them, it's been some time that I wanted to restart playing them. I like them since they can explode with a lucky hand and go into easy OTKs OR stall with shi en and one of my favourite synchros ever, Naturia Beast (and eventually Barkion, but I like Beast more). Control 'em all, then kill.
X-Sabers, I like their style too, even though I have never played them, I'd like to start, only that recently I'm having quite some problems with DN (as usual, lol), and some combined lack of time and will. They're good, once again control them, their hand, their field, and then kill. Good, good, good, and EARTH for Beast/Barkion, other than eventual grandsoil.
Wind-Ups, only recently I've started liking them, since the limiting of zenmaity. They can combo to go into something controllish and OTK the opponent, while plusing you from everywhere. And, what's more, I love WU Rabbit, so that's it. After Zenmaity's limitation, it became more and more hard to play, with lots of reasoning needed, that's why I like it. Should start playing this one, too.
Rock Stun, actually playing them. Negate your opponent's thingies, and gradually make them lose their LPs. Like this because you negate even your opponent's breathing, and negating everything is one of my major sources of fun.
Antimeta&Rogue, same for the rock stun, only that this is more lollish. Turn 1, summon pachy, set 5, opponent gets an heart attack and then win.

This was all, pretty much. Consider that for today I didn't planned on write anything, so I just wrote a bunch of random things in this post, but I think I'll take some and write something more appropriate to them in the future.

Selvaggio: Beastly Synchro

Monsters: [22]

3 Chain Dog

2 Dark Desertapir

1 Egotistical Ape

1 Green Baboon

3 Key Mouse

3 Kinka-Byo

1 Lock Cat

3 Ryko

2 Super-Nimble

3 Uniflora

1 X-Saber Airbellum

Spells: [10]

1 Creature Swap

1 Dark Hole

2 Gold Sarcophagus

1 Heavy Storm

1 Mind Control

1 Monster Reborn

2 Mystical Space Typhoon

1 One for One

Traps: [7]

1 Fiend Comedian

3 Horn of the Phantom Beast

1 Solemn Judgment

2 Starlight Road

The Extra Deck is quite randomish, but it worked well. If you want, I think I should do it too, add one other Emeral by dropping a tricorn or unicorn.

Then, back to the deck itself, how does this work? It works fairly well, I'm yet to find the perfect build, but it works.

Go into fast Naturia Beast, maybe with Horn equipped to make it a giant beatstick not overrunnable via usual methods, then do, as fast as you can, barkion to lock out the opponent's usual choices and eventually lock even all of the methods they have to kill your duo (not everyone plays monsters capable to kill other monsters, and if the draw into veiler too late they should have lost already, even because you play other protections, too.

While doing this, you have lots of beat abilities, ryko's destroying ability, uniflora's SS ability, Kinka's effect to bring back uniflora and another monster with uniflora's effect, that single creature swap control and so on.

Explaining some of the most odd choices:

Desertapir+Gold Sarcophagus, extreme SS ability, with uniflora in the grave you can virtually SS all of the beast monsters.

Egotistical Ape, discard chain dog, bring him back, go into Beast. What's more, random tuner with variable levels.

Single Lock Cat, I didn't feel the need for more than one, since uniflora can't activate its effect, only thing left was summon mouse to use its effect once destroyed, or go into armory arm. If armory was beast, Lock Cat would have been at least at 2, but usually 3.

Green Baboon, decent beater, main reason for it. As an added reason, back-up plan sometimes.

Single Creature Swap, more have been cloggy to me, and 1 just good.

Fiend Comedian, my favourite tech from some time on. Use this, either ruin opponent's plans or give you the mill you need.

I'd like to have another emeral in there because one recycles the other one so that you don't have non-beasts in the grave.

The major problem of the deck was, though, the speed. You could either start with awesome hands or bad hands that needed you to stall some turns. However the deck has one main good point: it has pretty much never a totally bad hand such as "Oh, I have these shits, I should hit the admit defeat button", you could always turn the table.

Other ideas for the deck were playing solidarity as, the most of times, we have only beasts in the grave.

What's more, I initially played Bazoo in the deck to get rid of non-beast monsters, but when I read desertapir's effect closely I noticed that it wouldn't work with bazoo's effect, so I took if out for soul release that worked, but was way too occasional, I gave up on the idea of removing those monsters like that and use emeral instead, however I thought of Transmigration prophecy while writing this post. I think it should be good, recycle your cards, make your opponent's monsters not be a valid target for lot of cards and they're done for. What's more, chainable.

I believe I'll play one dropping an Airbellum, since it felt more than anything else cloggy and useless. And, yes, it happened, I had airbellum on the field against DWs making him totally dead.

Well, that was it. As usual, the translation: "Selvaggio" means "Wild", I felt it was appropriate for the deck since this goes "selvaggiamente" (wildly) into some big synchros and beaters.

See Ya.