18/01/2013

Deck Concept: Noble Knight Virus Control

Virus, love 'em. Crush Card Virus was banned because of his greatness at low cost, but Deck Devastation Virus and Eradicator Epidemic Virus are still playable because of their quite high costs.
However, what if I said you that Viruses could plus you (without considering opponent's minuses via DDV) in Noble Knights?
The concept is, basically, use Equips to power-up Laundsallyn or even Medraut to make them viable target for both DDV and EEV and control the opponent like that.
The main combo of the deck should be something like, Medraut+random equip, I myself would like Arfeudutyr to destroy opponent's face-downs (if you didn't notice, it can kill even face-down monsters), with an activable DDV on the field.
Equip Arfeudutyr on Medraut, use Arf's effect to destroy one card
Eff Medraut, SS Laundsallyn, destroy Arf and re-equip it on Medaut
Use Arf's effect again, then activate DDV tributing Laundsallyn
Use Medraut's effect again, SS Gawayn/Artorigus and destroy Arf
Now you have two main possibilities not considering other cards you could have:
1.XYZ into Kink Artorigus and get back Arf and other cards from the grave or go into another big XYZ like Excalibur or such
2.SS Laundsallyn tributing Medraut, tribute the other Noble Knight, get a good equip and equip it on Laundsallyn

In the end it was -2 on the opponent's field (not considering King's destruction effect and Arf's destruction effect once equipped to the king)+other minuses via DDV, and you got, from just 3 cards a king with some equips equipped, even though that's a minus, you could even not XYZ.
However, that's one easy and not that good combo, based on what you have you can plus alot even in terms of LPs. A standard play that isn't a combo is doing what you can during your turn leaving Laundsallyn and another Noble Knight with an equip on Laundsallyn with an activable DDV. Even though you used that card's re-equipping effect already in that turn, you can just wait your opponent's turn to use it and suddenly boost Medraut's ATK (yeah, it probably will be Medraut) via 1000 with Gallatin or 500 with Caliburn. That could wreck your opponent's plans that was expecting just to face an 800 DEF monster and a 1700 normal LIGHT monster, will be facing a 2200 or 2700 ATK DARK effect monster, and believe me, that really wrecks your opponent's plans, expecially if his boss monster has less than 2700 or if he's playing HEROes (assuming he didn't draw into Super Poly, but, let's be honest, that kills everything) and has, let's say, stratos and just added a bubbleman, wouldn't that kill him, basically?
Via Gallatin and Caliburn you have access to EEV, and EEV on spells against DW and similar is pretty much an auto-win.
Viruses are great because they give you long-terms control abilities, like I really lol'd when I used both EEV and DDV against Chain Beat. He had 4 face-downs and rabbit on the field. I had Medraut with Gallatin and Laundsallyn with DDV and EEV face-down. Activated EEV tributing Medraut declaring Traps, and he chained Compulsory Escape, Legacy, Rabbit, Accumulated, I chained DDV tributing Laundsallyn. That was GG without a second though.
Next turn I went into Artorigus+Gawayn to go into King Artorigus that was quite the beatstick (Gallatin and Caliburn). Next turn I drew into Medraut, summoned him, tributed him for Laundsallyn's Summon from the grave and won.
The deck has quite some potential, I easily see this as one of the builds that should be played in the near future for the competitive or semi-competitive scene, however I've got quite a bad connection in those days so I could test it just a little bit without being able to heavy test it to do some fixes.

See Ya

4 comments:

  1. The effect of Medraut can only be activated once per turn...
    This combo doesnot work :(

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    1. It should be like geminis, if you make him a normal monster, his "once per turn" should reset. If it was "once "medraut ecc..." per turn, it wouldn't have, but, except for strange konami rulings, it should work.

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    2. This isn't true. Gemini monsters don't reset their "Once per turn...", look up rulings for Gigaplant and not Dark Valkyria.

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    3. Oh, that's right, I misinterpreted a ruling. Oh well, that means you'll just have to keep field control after the virus.

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