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Monsters: [12]
1x Elemental HERO Avian
1x Elemental HERO Burstinatrix
1x Elemental HERO Clayman
2x Cardcar D
2x Elemental HERO Bubbleman
1x Elemental HERO Heat
1x Elemental HERO Alius
1x Elemental HERO Ocean
2x Elemental HERO Voltic
Spells: [17]
1x Dark Hole
3x E - Emergency Call
3x Fusion Gate
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
3x Pot of Duality
1x Reinforcement of the Army
2x Super Polymerization
2x Terraforming
Traps: [11]
1x Bottomless Trap Hole
3x Chain Material
2x Dimensional Prison
2x Fiendish Chain
2x Mirror Force
1x Solemn Warning
Extra Deck: [15]
1x Blaze Fenix, the Burning Bombardment Bird
2x Elemental HERO Electrum
1x Elemental HERO Nova Master
2x Elemental HERO Shining
Other cards up to you (my extra decks suck, you know that)
2x Elemental HERO Electrum
1x Elemental HERO Nova Master
2x Elemental HERO Shining
Other cards up to you (my extra decks suck, you know that)
What's this? I named a lot of times in my two years of blogging (actually, 2 years, a month and some days), but never really posted a build. I don't know why I didn't post it, so I thought I should have fixed that posting one, although after Stratos' ban. As I said in "Gate Material's Versatility", at this point of the game, HEROes get more consistent by adding an engine known for being the base for tons of OTKs but not really consistent.
So, what is this really? It's Gate HEROes Fenix, a Gate HEROes deck that uses Chain Material as another win condition. The synergy is born by the fact that both Gate HEROes and Gate Material decks play HEROes (although not the same ones) and Fusion Gate. This means that by adding the Gate Material engine into a Gate HEROes we'd have more discard fodder for Super Polymerization, more material for fusions (even with Gate, if you manage to take back the materials you banished via Shining) and draw power due to Cardcar D, other than the obvious OTK from Gate Material.
Shall we see the cards one by one?
-Avian, Burstinatrix, Clayman, Bubbleman and Chain Material are packed together. Although Veiler kills this loop if shot on Electrum because of only one copy of Avian, Burstinatrix and Clayman, if you know how to play the deck, you should be able to make the opponent waste their veilers on a Blackship of Corn or something like that. Playing doubles isn't worth it. Bubbleman, on the other hand, is quite a good card and works nicely in 2 copies because he is an AZ material to freely use and easy XYZ material unless you have 2 Fusion Gates in your hand.
-Cardcar D and Elemental HERO Heat are needed for the loop too. You could attempt one without playing them, but it'd require an even worse extra, so I decided to go for the Blaze Fenix one. What's more, I generally play either Heat or Lady Heat, so it's not like that is a burden on me, and Cardcar D is a great card first turn for consistency.
-Alius, Ocean and Voltic are my go-to HEROes, generally. Although I used to play one Ocean and one Ice Edge, I may be more into only 1 Ice Edge as of now. Ocean has a nice body, though, and is LV4. Your pick. Alius is a nice beater and LIGHT for Shining spam, while Voltic has always been one of my favourite cards in Gate HEROes. I even played builds focused on him with Thunder Sea Horse, but when they banned Stratos it wasn't worth it anymore. 2 is nice, though, because it even lets you recycle Electrum's materials or Heat if they got banished, other than going for burst damage at one point, expecially if you have Voltic banished.
-Emergency Call and RotA are for consistency once again. Also, being able to choose which HERO you want, most of the times it'll let you go into the AZ-Shining combo. Also, it thins the deck a lot, giving you earlier access to Chain Material.
-Fusion Gate (supported by Terraforming) is the backbone of the deck.
-2 MSTs are for dealing with nasty backrow when you get into the loop. I used not to play them, but they came to my liking once I tried them. Also, if you're not aiming to the loop, they can be used to protect your field by chaining it to the activation of a Field. Also, smart MSTs can take care of pretty much anything, Fiendish Chain on Electrum is one of the easiest examples, but you may see while playing that it kind of hurts when you hit their field which was resolving or other cards which need to stay face-up. Hitting stuff is good.
-Pot of Duality is awesome in here. Although it most of the times lets your opponent guess what you're playing, some of the times you'll be so fast thanks to this that even if he wanted to counter you he cannot because he doesn't have the cards he needs to do so. I'd generally use it after thinning the deck with Emergency Call and RotA, but some of the times it's better to keep them in your hand until it's time to look for the monster you need.
-Super Polymerization is what solves your first turn. With this deck, most of the times you feel no nee to summon on first turn, because it may lead to losing resources without Stratos. With this card, instead, summoning an HERO means having a raigeki break on your opponent's monsters always ready which gives you a nice monsters in exchange (just today I won two games out of 4 thanks to this). I wouldn't max it out, though, because it leads to dead draws and lose too much advantage due to the discard.
-Aside Chain Material, the traps are all for control, to slow down the game a bit. Also, most of the times you'd want to kill shi en or other monsters with nasty effects if you're going for the loop.
You may have noticed that this deck lacks Miracle Fusion. To be honest, I don't feel it's needed since they banned Stratos. Maybe you could play it in Bubble Beat, but that's only because it tends to send to the graveyard a lot and you generally don't recycle them. Here we wouldn't want to banish HEROes, even the one not needed for the loop, because we'd rather keep them if we went into a Shining and we need another one for the loop. With extra HEROes, used fusion monsters are recyclable, but if you banish them just for one extra Fusion which doesn't give you any real advantage, you'll be digging your own grave.
As for the deck, there aren't many tips I'd give you, mainly because the deck got a lot simpler since Stratos' ban. The only things I can write your are:
-The Loop. I used to think everyone knew it but, apparently, given my games in rated and the fact that almost everyone asked me time to read Chain Material, not everyone does. In a tournament, though, I believe everyone will know that. The loop goes as follow: you need two Electrums in the Extra (or one banished and one in the extra), 1 Blaze Fenix, 2 Shinings (or banished) and 1 Nova Master (or banished). If you don't have them like this (maybe you used Shining), banish them from where they are and put them back into the extra via Electrum. Then start the loop. Summon Blaze Fenix, then Electrum, use Fenix's effect and deal damage. Electrum+Fenix into Nova Master, then Electrum again, Electrum+Nova=Shining, then ||Fenix, then Electrum, Fenix's effect, Electrum+Fenix into Nova, Nova+Shining into Shining, then Electrum, Electrum+Shining into Shining||
Loop the part between the "||" until your opponent dies. A problem you may have is Veiler on Electrum, avoidable chaining Super Polymerization on Electrum, but you'll need to banish it later.
-When not looping, the combo you'll be using a lot is AZ-Shining. Basically, you can wipe your opponent's monsters by using Gate+3 HEROes of which two need to be WATER and LIGHT. Basically, fuse the WATER HERO and another HERO into AZ, then AZ+LIGHT HERO into Shining, wipe the field, and beat with a Shining with at least 3800 ATK. This works best if you have, other than those monsters, 1 Voltic. If you have two, one Voltic could be used as the LIGHT HERO. If you do this, after wiping the field, you should beat with Shining, then Voltic which SSs Voltic, which SSs another HERO, dealing at least 5800 damages withouot considering last monster's beat. I OTK'd a lot by using Heat as the other monster, because it means 8000 damages.
Also, there are some cards you may want to consider adding:
-Ice Edge, the main reason I don't play it is that my teammate hates him, but I'd generally use it, although he cannot be used for XYZs. I don't really XYZ summon, so it's ok.
-Macro Cosmos and/or Dimensional Fissure. Although they damage Shining's retrieving effect, they usually make him a better beatstick, other than acting as Antimeta cards by themselves. What's more, it helps against Veiler.
That's All, Folks!
Usual Trivia: "Cancello Feniceo" means Phoenixian Gate. Other than being a nice name, it is also, visually speaking, what the deck does with Fenix. Fusion Gate is the only thing which connects the Extra Deck to the Field, letting Fenix go in and out freely, by looping.
-Cardcar D and Elemental HERO Heat are needed for the loop too. You could attempt one without playing them, but it'd require an even worse extra, so I decided to go for the Blaze Fenix one. What's more, I generally play either Heat or Lady Heat, so it's not like that is a burden on me, and Cardcar D is a great card first turn for consistency.
-Alius, Ocean and Voltic are my go-to HEROes, generally. Although I used to play one Ocean and one Ice Edge, I may be more into only 1 Ice Edge as of now. Ocean has a nice body, though, and is LV4. Your pick. Alius is a nice beater and LIGHT for Shining spam, while Voltic has always been one of my favourite cards in Gate HEROes. I even played builds focused on him with Thunder Sea Horse, but when they banned Stratos it wasn't worth it anymore. 2 is nice, though, because it even lets you recycle Electrum's materials or Heat if they got banished, other than going for burst damage at one point, expecially if you have Voltic banished.
-Emergency Call and RotA are for consistency once again. Also, being able to choose which HERO you want, most of the times it'll let you go into the AZ-Shining combo. Also, it thins the deck a lot, giving you earlier access to Chain Material.
-Fusion Gate (supported by Terraforming) is the backbone of the deck.
-2 MSTs are for dealing with nasty backrow when you get into the loop. I used not to play them, but they came to my liking once I tried them. Also, if you're not aiming to the loop, they can be used to protect your field by chaining it to the activation of a Field. Also, smart MSTs can take care of pretty much anything, Fiendish Chain on Electrum is one of the easiest examples, but you may see while playing that it kind of hurts when you hit their field which was resolving or other cards which need to stay face-up. Hitting stuff is good.
-Pot of Duality is awesome in here. Although it most of the times lets your opponent guess what you're playing, some of the times you'll be so fast thanks to this that even if he wanted to counter you he cannot because he doesn't have the cards he needs to do so. I'd generally use it after thinning the deck with Emergency Call and RotA, but some of the times it's better to keep them in your hand until it's time to look for the monster you need.
-Super Polymerization is what solves your first turn. With this deck, most of the times you feel no nee to summon on first turn, because it may lead to losing resources without Stratos. With this card, instead, summoning an HERO means having a raigeki break on your opponent's monsters always ready which gives you a nice monsters in exchange (just today I won two games out of 4 thanks to this). I wouldn't max it out, though, because it leads to dead draws and lose too much advantage due to the discard.
-Aside Chain Material, the traps are all for control, to slow down the game a bit. Also, most of the times you'd want to kill shi en or other monsters with nasty effects if you're going for the loop.
You may have noticed that this deck lacks Miracle Fusion. To be honest, I don't feel it's needed since they banned Stratos. Maybe you could play it in Bubble Beat, but that's only because it tends to send to the graveyard a lot and you generally don't recycle them. Here we wouldn't want to banish HEROes, even the one not needed for the loop, because we'd rather keep them if we went into a Shining and we need another one for the loop. With extra HEROes, used fusion monsters are recyclable, but if you banish them just for one extra Fusion which doesn't give you any real advantage, you'll be digging your own grave.
As for the deck, there aren't many tips I'd give you, mainly because the deck got a lot simpler since Stratos' ban. The only things I can write your are:
-The Loop. I used to think everyone knew it but, apparently, given my games in rated and the fact that almost everyone asked me time to read Chain Material, not everyone does. In a tournament, though, I believe everyone will know that. The loop goes as follow: you need two Electrums in the Extra (or one banished and one in the extra), 1 Blaze Fenix, 2 Shinings (or banished) and 1 Nova Master (or banished). If you don't have them like this (maybe you used Shining), banish them from where they are and put them back into the extra via Electrum. Then start the loop. Summon Blaze Fenix, then Electrum, use Fenix's effect and deal damage. Electrum+Fenix into Nova Master, then Electrum again, Electrum+Nova=Shining, then ||Fenix, then Electrum, Fenix's effect, Electrum+Fenix into Nova, Nova+Shining into Shining, then Electrum, Electrum+Shining into Shining||
Loop the part between the "||" until your opponent dies. A problem you may have is Veiler on Electrum, avoidable chaining Super Polymerization on Electrum, but you'll need to banish it later.
-When not looping, the combo you'll be using a lot is AZ-Shining. Basically, you can wipe your opponent's monsters by using Gate+3 HEROes of which two need to be WATER and LIGHT. Basically, fuse the WATER HERO and another HERO into AZ, then AZ+LIGHT HERO into Shining, wipe the field, and beat with a Shining with at least 3800 ATK. This works best if you have, other than those monsters, 1 Voltic. If you have two, one Voltic could be used as the LIGHT HERO. If you do this, after wiping the field, you should beat with Shining, then Voltic which SSs Voltic, which SSs another HERO, dealing at least 5800 damages withouot considering last monster's beat. I OTK'd a lot by using Heat as the other monster, because it means 8000 damages.
Also, there are some cards you may want to consider adding:
-Ice Edge, the main reason I don't play it is that my teammate hates him, but I'd generally use it, although he cannot be used for XYZs. I don't really XYZ summon, so it's ok.
-Macro Cosmos and/or Dimensional Fissure. Although they damage Shining's retrieving effect, they usually make him a better beatstick, other than acting as Antimeta cards by themselves. What's more, it helps against Veiler.
That's All, Folks!
Usual Trivia: "Cancello Feniceo" means Phoenixian Gate. Other than being a nice name, it is also, visually speaking, what the deck does with Fenix. Fusion Gate is the only thing which connects the Extra Deck to the Field, letting Fenix go in and out freely, by looping.
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