Ipocrisia: Traptrix Antimeta

Monsters: [14]

2 Maxx "C"
1 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole

2 Summoner Monk

3 Traptrix Atrax

3 Traptrix Myrmeleo

3 Traptrix Nepenthes

Spells: [11]

2 Forbidden Dress

3 Forbidden Lance

3 Pot of Duality

2 Terraforming

1 Seal of Orichalcos

Traps: [15]

1 Bottomless Trap HOLE

1 Compulsory Escape Device

2 Dimensional Prison

1 Macro Cosmos

2 Mirror Force

1 Solemn Warning

2 Trap HOLE

2 Traptrix Trap HOLE Nightmare

3 Void Trap HOLE

I promised, didn't I? That I would post this after the meta defined down a bit. Well, this is it, full of meta calls.

First of all, let's start saying that the Extra matters little to nothing, but on a second though, I'd add 1 catastor in place, maybe, of Utopia Ray or something else. The side is there, not really studied and tested, but that's the concept and should, approximatively, work.

As of the main, if I weren't to play that kind of side, I would have rather played 1 Terraforming and 2 Orichalcos, but I'd have to side two terras each game in which I used those fields.

Well, let's start:
As I already said in the previous post, the Sisters' strenght relies on +1s whenever you use a card, mainly because when you use that card, your opponent already wasted a couple of resources in order to summon the monster you've destroyed. To this, you can add Nepenthes' and Myrmeleo's searches, resulting in some effective +1.
It has some great control, that's for sure, and the monsters are relatively big under Orichalcos. Sure, they don't compete with >2300 ATK monsters, but still, Dress and Lance help there respectively against 2900 or less and 3100 or less, when paired with orichalcos and Atrax.
The deck can effectively main Macro Cosmos, and, if willing, even Dimensional Fissure (probably in place of a Void Trap Hole).

Maxx "C" is there for EDs (predominant deck, most likely, of the format) and as draw power. They're, indeed, substituting CCDs. If you don't like it, you can freely go back to Cardcar D.
Grand Mole here tries to solve one of the two main problems this deck has: big monsters. If the opponent manages to summon a big monster like Maestroke (which isn't hard at all to summon and we have pretty much no way to counter with our traps) or Gachi (which is slightly easier because of Atrax+Orichalcos) or other stuff like that and they keep it in defense, we have no way to kill them and, thus, killing the opponent. Grand Mole bounces the monster and, if they attempt to summon it again (assuming it is one of those we can counter) even though they went through our traps the first time, they won't be able to do so a second time. If they succeed to, oh well, we can just bounce it again, hopefully.
Summoner Monk brings more Sisters for some more consistence. Summoning Nepenthes this way is even more awesome than drawing into it, too.
Atrax, Myrm and Nep deserve no explanation, aside from Nep being in three copies. I didn't really like it that way, but it happens often to draw into no monsters (Yeah, DN hates us, I know) and this tries to extablish a better field alongside Monk. Keep in mind that Nep+Trap Hole is generally a good or decent start. Even BTH is okay, but someone may dodge it. You never know. After Nep activates her effect once, she's gone for good most of the times. When she survives, though, she will give you many pluses. However, by no mean protect her unless you need to kill the opponent's monster or you didn't manage to use her effect yet and have no other monsters.

As for the spells, you may see alot of them, compared to how many you'd expect, but that's because most of them act as traps but are, at the same time, monk fodder.
Dress+Lance acts as main protection, alongside Mirror, Prison and so on for our Atrax. I managed to kill a couple of comboes, too, hitting a monster with Lance so that nothing could be equipped to it. I even saw one of the biggest suicides ever of a monster that had 5000 ATK and dropped to 1700, crushing against my 2300 Atrax. Dress is mainly protection against BRD, whom may be lots of troubles if you don't manage to have a void or a nightmare.
3 Dualities are for consistency, and most of the times I wished I could play more.
2 Terra and 1 Orichalcos. I would have liked the opposite, so that the Terra was pretty much always live, and to reduce the DDs. What's more, if you extremely needed to XYZ, you could set one orichalcos over the other, even though you couldn't use it. With my side, though, it's needed to main 2 Terras. If you won't play that kind of side, I'd say 2 Orichalcos and 1 Terra.

The Traps are quite a lot, uh? Still, sometimes you may lack them if you don't play accordingly to your hand. The deck isn't that skilled, but still, it isn't totally skilless. Just think before activating something and it's all good.
CED, Prison and Mirror act as main counter to monsters once they are on the field. If they maanged to summon something big before you could set your traps, without those and mole, you'd have lost. This way, instead, you have some kind of counter.
Warning is the only trap that activates on the summon that isn't a hole trap, and thus not searchable. Though, it is too awesome to not be played.
As for the Holes, I chose this exact set after a little meta breakdown. I think this is one of the best combinations. BTH is must at 1. Void Trap Hole should be the one with more copies of itself and Trap Hole and Nightmare are to be played accordingly to the player in a total of 3/4 copies.


Let's see the PROs and the CONs of the deck, instead:
PRO: has counters that vary from nice to awesome for pretty much every deck;
CON: there are a couple of DDs, expecially some Holes against some decks;
PRO: can summon some nice beater with ease;
CON: being nice beater doesn't mean good/awesome beater, and we can't drop stronger than 2300, usually:
PRO: has lots of monster removal;
CON: not always it is effective and sometimes the opponent may just summon the boss before we can drop our traps on them;
PRO: the monsters are usually well protected;
CON: when they aren't, them being killed is most of the times a great loss because of the lack of recycling and reviving power;
PRO: when you manage to effectively control the opponent, most of the times it results in a lock;
CON: when you don't, you are probably going to have your ass kicked;
PRO: it manages to destroy pretty much everything if you play it right;
CON: control cards from the opponent are game-killer for you.

Resuming the advantages and disadvantages of the deck, it has some great control over the opponent with crazily good match-ups against other decks, but it basically loses to traps and big undestroyable monsters.

I've had some nice results with it, against most meta decks. I won to some Antimeta, but surely I lost more than won against them. Being able to side Decree is awesome (Atrax lets your traps activate even if decree is on the field). The rest of the side is awesome when it comes to certain decks, but it may be totally useless against others. I already said, that's mostly the concept of the side, not the real side itself.

Try it, you won't be disappointed.

See Ya.

P.s. Usual Lore, "Ipocrisia" means "Hypocrisy". That's to point out how traptrix work with their traps, they say they're able to dodge them (they all dodge Hole trap cards) but in the end, they suffer from them, not being able to practice what they preach.

Quick Post///New Gigavise

Yai, I'm back, even if only a little bit. I finally have finished school, freeing tons of time, but I'm busy with other stuff. Still, I've got a little spare time recently, and I read some stuff about a Chaos Plant engine with Evil Thorns in order to go into Slacker Magician (Shyneet). Reading it, I wanted to get back a moment on plants and remembered my favourite plant deck ever: Gigavise.
Write Gigavise on the search bar, I talked a lot about it in various posts even though I never got serious about it looking for a realy competitive build. Recently, even though my internet still sucks, I got to test something, and realized a pretty good OTK combo for Gigavise. If it's not OTK, hell, it's awesome however.
Considering Celestial Dragon (Starform), I thought that it could fit in there, and thus put it in the extra, even not knowing how to summon it. While playing against a DW (first and only game of that day, though), he had a Grapha on the field and a couple set cards. I had Lonefire (and Super Solar Nutrient, thus a random LV2 or less plant would have been good, too), Supervise and Heavy Storm.
Here's what I did:
Heavy Storm, he activated a reckless greed, the other one was a Skill Drain that was destroyed. Given that he had Skill Drain set, it was pretty safe to assume he didn't have Gorz in his 4-card hand. I tried to deal the most possible damage, maybe OTK, luckwisely. From there, summoned Lonefire, activated its effect, summoned Gigaplant, activated Supervise on it, used Gigaplant's effect to summon Lonefire that summoned a Spore from the deck, went into Power Tool with Gigaplant and used Supervise's effect to bring back Gigaplant, Power Tool's effect, chose Supervise, Supervise, Mark of the Rose. There I thought "I hope it is Supervise", I didn't calculate anything, so I don't know at which point it would have been an OTK, so the longer I could get the combo going, the better. He chose Mark. Here, he got that one card between three that he shouldn't have taken. Thinking about it, I noticed.
I used Spore's effect from the grave banishing Lonefire, went into Celestial with Power Tool and then used Mark of the Rose on Grapha. Safe play, 2700+3200+2400=8300.
There I noticed, "what a good combo, if the opponent has only a 2400+ ATK monster on the field, that's OTK, no matter what he picks with Power Tool, nice".
What I love about Gigavise is the versatility, and this added to my possible plays from the on. If he didn't have a monster, I would have kept Mark and Spore in the grave, attacked with Power Tool and then with Gigaplant. If he didn't do anything, good, I have possible comboes ready for the next turn if he doesn't have DH or stuff. If he did something, like, say, Gorz, I'd have dealt him 4700 dmg to start with, and then, in MP2, I would have stolen his gorz to go into Dracossack with Power Tool, leaving him with just a token that could only beat one of my tokens or into a Big Eye to steal even his token.

I don't currently have the time to playtest this, and thus can't come up with a good build, but the skeleton should be about:
2/3 Gigaplant
1 Spore
1 Copy Plant
1 Lonefire

3 Super Solar Nutrient
0-2 Miracle Fertilizer
1 Foolish Burial
1 One for One
0-2 Hidden Armory (I don't really like it, TBH)

+Staples
With this skeleton, you can build a turbo build based on Gigavise, but you can insert other supports like BLS, Evil Thorn, a LS Engine and stuff for a Chaos Plant Gigavise, or 2/3 Inmato+3 Cherry Inmato for an Inmato, maybe with some monarchs, everything's possible.
Keep in mind that you can drop the fertilizers and the armories in order to slow down the combo but make it more consistent and have slots for other supports you want to play.
I, for myself, would like more an Inmato engine, whom I talked about but have actual troubles finding it, because it gives easier access to DAD, monarchs (and gigaplant), Stardust and Catastor/Librarian, other than deck thinning.

Well, if my internet gets a little more stable and I free more of my time, I'll be back at playing and writing.
See Ya.

Viruses, Gotta Infect 'em All

Scary, isn't it?

Viruses, from Crush Card Virus, the forbidden one, to Deck Devastation Virus and Epidemic Eradicator Virus, they're all scary traps that deplete the opponent's hand and field and disrupts their game.
Crush Card Virus, aka. CCV, is the most known one: it's banned for a reason, just tribute a random Sangan and you can kill all of your opponent's plays by destroying all the monsters with 1500 or more ATK from their field and hand and for three turn, other than checking pretty much all of the cards they have and the ones they draw for the remaining three turns.
Deck Devastation Virus, DDV, is the easier to activate as of now, since it requires only a 2000 ATK or more DARK monsters, compared to the 2500 or more for Epidemic and CCV that's forbidden by the banlist. Destroying all of the monsters with less than 1500 ATK is a great effect, since Wind-Ups die to it, and lots of other decks from the past banlist do too. Sadly, this new meta isn't that reliant on little monsters. Sure, you can kill Diva, Infantry, Marksman, Linde (before they summon her) and likes, it does kill Chicken, Spirit and Panther for LV3 Fire Fists and it destroys Spellbook Magician of Prophecy, but still all of these decks have great search power and can retrieve from the grave with ease and doing so swiftly avoids DDVs effect.
Epidemic Eradicator Virus, aka. EEV, is the hardest one to activate (not considering that CCV is on the banlist), but it has a great effect. Tributing a 2500 or more ATK monster to choose between Spells or Traps for the opponent to keep under control is awesome. Spellbooks totally die to this, Dark Worlds too, Raven and Trance Archfiend aside, not considering that Fire Fists lose all of their tenkis and Tensus and so on. What's more, being able to play this card without heavy minusing yourself is an awesome thing because you can destroy all of the staples, no matter the deck, and if the deck you're against to isn't spell/trap reliant, you can side this card out.

Now you'll be thinking "Well? We all know the Viruses, what's the point in explaining them?", right?
In these days I'm experimenting a concept I had in my mind for quite a while, but lacked some pieces for working correctly in the past. Thanks to T.G. Striker, from Pojo, I discovered how to work with it and it's working indeed.
Remember my Toolbox post? I basically said that Extra Deck's Toolbox is awesome because you can have whatever you need without waiting to draw into it, just into two materials to go into it. Same here: considering you'll have to summon a 2000 or more ATK DARK monster for DDV, you'll have to draw into 2 specific cards, at least, one is DDV itself, the other one is the monster. However, since it has an high ATK, it is likely that that monster will have to tribute a monster or two, or activate a specific card or anything really. To fix this, we'll just have to use the Extra Deck. If we were to make a list of all of the valid targets for DDV or EEV that reside in the extra, it would be extremely big, about 60 cards (if you want to see them, open DN and search there). Considering only the XYZs, though, the list would shrink to 17 cards:
2000 ATK or more.
Black Ray Lancer
Evilswarm Bahamut
Evilswarm Thanatos
King Feral Imp
Magi Magi ☆ Magician Gal
Number 50: Blackship of Corn
Queen Dragun Djinn
Shark Fortress
2500 ATK or more:
Adreus, Keeper of Armageddon
Chaos Xyz: Dark Fairy Cheer Girl
Evilswarm Ophion
Evilswarm Ouroboros
Hierophant of Prophecy
Number 11: Big Eye
Number 22: Zombiestein
Number 40: Gimmick Puppet of Strings
Number 88: Gimmick Puppet - Destiny Leo
(incoming Number 66: Master Key Beetle)

As you can see, many of them are generic or easy to summon. For DDV, Blackship of Corn is a godsend, since it is already a staple and totally generic. If we want to specify, then, every deck that has access to R4s is DDV-ready. As for EEV, consider that Adreus is generic, Big Eye is too, and even Number 40 (number 88 is hard to summon, not counting him). As of that, every deck that can summon R5s, 7 and 8 is EEV-ready.

Still, using DDV this way is, a -2 for the materials of the Xyz, then a +1 for the summon, then a -1 for the tribute and a -1 for DDV itself. On you, this is a -3. EEV is another thing, summoning 2 lv5, 7 or 8 monsters usually wastes lots of resources, making it a still worse card in terms of costs, excluding broken decks and easy plays, namely elemental dragons.
What can we do for this? We need something that makes this a 0, or at maximum a -1. Other than using the summoned monster's effect first, what else can we do? Reborning it is a great thing. Let's say you have an Adreus in the grave because you used it before, just Call of the haunted would make a great EEV target, but there's more to this.

Reborn for XYZs

Xyz Reborn is a +0 upon summon, however, considering it attaches itself to the summoned monster, you should be able to use that monster's effect and plus (corn destroys an opponent's monster for a +1, Big Eye steals one making it, theorically, a +2, Adreus destroys a card for a +1), then you can tribute it for virus.

We've come to the engine itself, finally. I've been testing this for the past 2/3 days, and it looks good:
0/2 Xyz Reborn
0-2 EEV
1/2 DDV

Usually it is 2-2-1 where I can summon R5/7/8 or 0-0-2 where I can summon R4.
The engine is even entirely side-able so that you can side as much hate as you want against Spellbook, DW, or whatever.

Try to splash it, you'll like it. If you need some ideas:
Gem-Knights, preferably sided since it generates lots of minuses. You can go into Prismaura and Citrine and then Big Eye.
Elemental Dragon, easy enough to figure why, you can tribute Big Eye and LaDD. Either sided or mained it's ok.
Constellars, Adreus is the way. It's ok either if mained or sided.
Umbral, they have Master Key Beetle, awesome EEV target. I'd say mained, but we'll have to wait their release on DN/YGOPro.

The possibilities are really lots and lots, you'll just have to try them.

See Ya

Madolche Magileine

When this card you control is destroyed by your opponent's card (either by battle or by effect) and sent to your Graveyard: Shuffle this card into your Deck. When this card is Normal or Flip Summoned: You can add 1 "Madolche" monster from your Deck to your hand.

Well, great, uh? I LOVE this card, she's quite of awesome. Not because it is an auto-searchable stratos that recycles herself, that is perfect for naturia synchros, for arcanite or for her splashability, but because of her art. Oh, come on, a witch on a fork with eyes with different colors and that's quite "moe", why shouldn't you love her?
Put aside how lovely she is, she's the centerpiece of Madolche decks, makes the deck work. Search another copy of her, resulting in a +1 in no matter the deck, then if she's destroyed, you get to recycle her making her another possible target for another copy of herself.
Let's see why this card is good in steps:

Recyclability and Searchability
The titles says it all. Starting off this card on first turn is a pretty consistent opening, since it doesn't really reveal you deck (saying that you're splashing her in another deck aside madolche and spellbook), conducting to misplays based on misjudgments. It is a +1 on the very first turn and as a splashable engine it is a lot more stable than Gadget's, that basically do the same thing in some decks (Gadget are sometimes, or it's better to say "were", used only as an engine to generate +1s in stun decks or such) but eating more slots in the deck. For stun decks based on +1s, gadget are still better, but in decks where you can continuously stun your opponent's monsters, this card is way better. Doesn't eat too many slots if compared to gadgets, leads to less dead draws (double gadget in hand), is better for long games since magileines recycles themselves continuously.

Versatility
Magileine is spellcaster, and thus she works wonders with Spellbooks, power makes her a 2400 that searches when destroys a monster. Being spellcaster is awesome with some random LV3 Tuners to go into Arcanite and destroy two cards. Going into Naturia Synchros with a LV1 EARTH Tuner or LV2 (won't consider Landoise since I don't like him, aside from a few decks). Being LV4 makes her great R4 XYZ material in two turns.

Engine Expandability
The engine should be 3 Magileines alone if the deck supports them, otherwise you should include some monster hate, too, but that depends on the deck. However, what's great about this deck is that you can expand it, too. Add Butlerusk and you'll have a walking Terraforming that afterwards makes you a R4 XYZ, add in Cruffsant in a deck where you play beast supports (Horn of the Phantom Beast is good, too) and you'll have a 1500 at the worst, 1800 usually, and eventually 2100 and so on, recycling you magileine for more searchs and +1s, while having a monster that could be used for bounzer, big-eye, drago-SAC or whatever based on what you're playing.

Dodging Ability
Dodges BTH, makes your opponent's Solemn Warning a waste of 2000 LPs (since you'll get to recycle her), if on her alone TT turns into a -1 for the opponent and so on. If you attack with this into WU Rabbit, you'll have the upper hand, tenki or factory aside.


Really, the only bad sides of this card are not working when flipped face-up (an attack, for example) or Special Summoned and having poor ATK. That's it. And you should love the artwork.

See Ya.

Madolche Hootcake and Madolche Nights, Thoughts on them and Madolches

When this card in your possession is destroyed by your opponent's card (either by battle or by effect) and sent to your Graveyard: Shuffle this card into the Deck. You can target 1 monster in your Graveyard; banish that target, then Special Summon 1 "Madolche" monster from your Deck, except "Madolche Hootcake". You can only use this effect of "Madolche Hootcake" once per turn.

When a monster effect is activated, if you have no monsters in your Graveyard: Negate the activation, then, if you control a face-up "Madolche Puddingcess", shuffle 1 random card in your opponent's hand into the Deck.

I tried not to make a big fuss for this, however I noticed it wasn't like me not to talk at all about those supports (from LTGY) for madolches, being a madolches-addicted, that made me write this post. Lots of people, too, asked me for advices and opinions on those two cards, so this is a review addressed to all of those who asked me.
Let's start it:
First of all, Madolche Nights, cute card. Adds control factor to our build, being searchable and valid target for Tiaramisu. However, I don't like it. It doesn't destroy the monster, but, mainly, it requires a monsterless grave. For this exact reason, I'd recommend none, Puddingcess Builds aside.
Hootcake, however, is another thing. Leaving the artwork aside, that I as for one don't like, it has got a great effect. Banish a monster (not only madolche, any monster is ok), SS a Madolche from the deck (no matter the level, so, yeah, it's great even for Puddingcess builds, since it empties the grave for both Pudding and Nights). If it is Gelato, congratulations, you just got a search. Searching Chateau like this will mean that you'll have two beatsticks, 2000 and 2100 respectively. However, what's the great fact of this card? It is the first, in the main deck, that can bring a monster on the table directly, so this generates +1s and comboes at the same time. Think of the old Mew+Gelato+Warwolf combo, now switch Gelato with Hoot. Do you see what's happening there?
Mew, SS Hoot, SS Warwolf. Warwolf+Mew=Invoker, eff Invoker, detach Mew, bring one Gelato, get to search Chateau, banish Mew for Hoot's effect and Summon Gelato, getting another search. If you've got a target in the grave for Tiara's effect, search Ticket, if you haven't, search another Chateau and activate it in top of the previous one to gain a target.
This combo is really flexible and has lots of different endings, similarly to Wind-Ups. You can even do something with just mew and hoot or hoot and warwolf if you've got a monster in your grave, and this is what I aim for. Basically, the 3-cards setup we needed before just turned into a 2-cards setup+1 in the grave to work. I think that this one is lot more solid, and gives us the chance to enter the meta. Why's that? Not only it's easier to combo and we have more ways to do that, but mainly because this gives us the ability to play Soul Drain and more Hand Traps in the main deck.
Soul Drain is the first thing I thought while reading Hoot, it stops lots of the cards in the actual meta and lets some of our monsters stay in the grave, so that we can use them for Tiara or Hootcake. Other than that, mained, you can use it to stop searchers or other grave reliant monsters (sangan). In the worst case scenario (you face someone who doesn't matter soul drain being on the field) you can side 'em out.
For the Hand Traps, you could have slots issues and cut them out, but with Hootcake, that's just awesome. Veiler and Maxx are awesome Hootcake's effect fodder, and they can stop what soul drain doesn't. Basically, if you face something that fears Soul Drain, play more of them siding out Veilers and Maxx. If you face something that fears Veilers and Maxx, side more of them and side out Soul Drains. However, the most of the times, no matter what of the two sidings you did, you'll have monsters in the grave, and that's just awesome.
Remember that, even though it probably will be the best action in lots of possibilities, SSing Gelato via Hoot isn't the only thing to do. Bringing another beast could make you able to go into Leviair to SS what you just banished, could it be another Madolche, or whatever really. It gives us our first way to recycle some used non-madolche monsters, so I can finally play the T.G. Engine (even though Soul Drain locks their effects in the grave, but that doesn't matter) and be able to use Striker more than just once.
I won't build anything 'till they'll be out on Dueling Network, but I'll test quite some lots of things with those.
That's All Folks!

Ultimate Leodip's Infernity Guide

As requested by Thomas, the winner of the 30.000 Visits Contest, here it is a full Infernity Guide.
As an Infernity lover (and pretty much half-veteran, since I played it in lots of builds with lots of techs at least once per format) I'm more than happy to write this one. What's more, this'll be a guide that I'll update, that's why it is the "ultimate" guide, it'll always be updated as long as I discover something new about Infernities that I think it's worth writing.
Let's start it: (cutting post because it is way too long)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Card of the Week #17: Gravekeeper's Spy

FLIP: Special Summon 1 "Gravekeeper's" monster with 1500 or less ATK from your deck.

GKs, yup. No rulings for this one, easy and short effect.
Let's take a close look:
-Gravekeeper monster, supports, supports everywhere, necrovalley mainly.
-DARK, should I say something? This attribute has probably the higher number of supports, probabl even more of the LIGHT one.
-Spellcaster, spellcaster support, wonder wand, and Secret Village of the Spellcasters (yeah, lol).
-Stats, nice body, 1200 ATK and 2000 DEF, respectively 1700 and 2500 under Necrovalley, great, isn't it?

Set this, opponent attacks, get another monster, possibly XYZ or Synchro. I really like this card, it was a quite popular engine alongside guard or descendant, before the tour engine appeared.
I want to talk about this card because of some things I'm thinking of. I really hate laggia, so I like Snowman Eater a lot, I was going to review that, but then I noticed that it was in the main page of wikia, so I decided not to. Thinking of some cards with a similar effect, I thought of guard. 1900 DEF, bounce effect, not bad, really. However the review is on Spy, and not Guard, and there's a reason. In quite some time I learnt some tricks with Spy. Other than being a R4, he is compatible with Necrovalley to be a 2500 body, to give quite some problems to the already named Laggia, but even without it you can take care of cards like Thunder King. However, leaving apart this ordinary stuff, I learnt how this card's type is awesome. Spy, Summon another GK, bounce the other GK (if you summoned one that's not LV4) for Birdman, then go into Arcanite with Spy. If you summon a LV4 gravekeeper you can then just bounce Spy to reuse it and go into arcanite however. But, that's not all, if you bring Recruiter you can bounce Spy to reuse it and go into a random LV6 Synchro, while searching with Recruiter's effect. However, the main thing is Secret Village of Spellcasters. I truly love that card. Summon Spy, he gets attacked but not destroyed, get a monster, activate Village and have two bodies (one of them is 2000 DEF, the other could be pretty much anything) that lock your opponent's spells. A thing like this would be game against Dark World, but even heroes can't do too much, based on the build, though. Just solemn once their Stratos and you've won.
Just think of a deck that plays Gravekeeper's Spy, Gravekeeper's Guard, Gravekeeper's Descendant, Gravekeeper's Recruiter, Birdman, Village, Necrovalley (well, good card, if you play against a spellcaster deck you don't want to lose right away during game 1, do you?), tons of protection...
I like it.
Good Match-Up against Dark World, Rabbit Laggia, little advantage against Wind-Up, sad match-up against Inzektors, Chaos Dragon and Magical post-ABYR. Inzektor can be killed just using some protections before he can pull off some loops and comboes, Chaos Dragon puts quite some giant monsters on the field, so it's difficult to win against them, but if you manage to go into colossal fighter you should have win, while Magical is quite different. If you have Village, they'll bypass the spell-locking effect, but if you have Necrovalley they'll kill it right after activating their field spell, that they can search way faster than us. I'm siding Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell for that exact reason. If you can forbid the opponent's field spell, you shouldn't have problems anymore against spellcaster decks, go into necrovalley and you're just fine. With the side deck we can shift into a village-only build, against decks that do automatically lose against this card, or into a regular (or little teched) gravekeeper, so that you can use the advantages you still have.
I was even thinking of a little madolche engine. 3 Majoleine, 1 Butlerusk, get to search what you need, but that's just a concept.

Just for the sake of knowing, I wrote this without any pre-thinking, since the planned CotW would have been Snowman Eater, so I improvised everything.
That's All, Stay Tuned.

Beast: Potential and Uses

I'm actually working on Beast decks, with uniflora and such, abusing of Naturia Beast (and Barkion, too, sad it is Dragon). I must say this, it is quite awesome. It still is a beta version, but it works just good. I'm going to review this the next week, I believe I will have improved it until then.
So, so, Beasts, why are they awesome? They've got a personal reborner, and a reborner for the reborner itself, usable once per turn each turn. What's more, we've got search power with Key Mouse, field presence with Chain Dog, that offers material for synch and XYZ, and an instant lv4 Synchro with Lock Cat. We've got some mill power with ryko, and super-nimble mega hamster that searches ryko, so technically more mill power, or other cards. If the opponent summons a first turn zenmaines and attacks your face-down hamster, you'll get to summon your key mouse, and, during your turn, synch them both into naturia beast. Kinka can SS Key Mouse, too, and go into formula to draw one card, or you can summon uniflora with kinka and then SS naturia beast with uniflora's effect, effectively summoning naturia beast with kinka-byo.

This deck has a main advantage, though, it's card advantage.
Summon Kinka, SS Uniflora, eff Uniflora, SS Naturia Beast, bounce back kinka during the end phase. Clear +1. Or even double chain dog into lavalval chain, that should result into 1 lavalval chain, and 1 XYZ LV4. +2.
The main disadvantage this deck has is the limitation on the monsters usable. Only beasts.

As said, I'll do a review on the deck, but here are some cards I do play, I'll explain them on the review, though:
Dark Desertapir
Green Baboon
X-Saber Airbellum


Well, well, I won't spoiler anything else, just wait for the review on the deck.
Stay Tuned.

La Paura: Yubel

Monsters: [20]

3 Armageddon Knight

3 Dark Grepher

2 Doom Shaman

1 Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys

1 Sangan

2 Tour Guide

3 Wind-Up Rabbit

2 Yubel

2 Yubel - Terror Incarnate

1 Yubel - the Ultimate Nightmare

Spells: [11]

1 Allure of Darkness

1 Dark Hole

1 Foolish Burial

1 Heavy Storm

1 Monster Reborn

3 Mystical Space Typhoon

1 Reinforcement of the Army

2 Swing of Memories

Traps: [9]

3 Call of the Haunted

3 Limit Reverse

1 Solemn Judgment

2 Starlight Road

The extra is kinda randomish, but it's ok, I'd say I'll add an Excalibur since I forgot him, maybe -1 giga-brilliant, since it was there just to fill some slots.

Before continuing with the deck, though, I wanted to talk about the title. Reading some of my posts, I noticed how the titles were plain and reduced to the essential. I just wanted to enphatize them a little more, so I decided to use some Italian words in the title, to give something more. I'll translate what it does mean at the end of every post with that kind of title, just wait till the end of the post.

Continuing to the deck, I like it very much, it's still under quite some testing, but it does work wonderfully. I'm thinking of a second nephthys, or an hand of nephthys, probably the second one, but don't know what to take out, maybe an allure since I never want to banish anything.

What about the deck itself? It is quite good, because I play 3 grephers, 3 armageddons, 1 reinforcement of the army, 1 foolish burial, for a total of 8 cards to pitch yubel/shaman. What's more we have 3 call of the haunted, 3 limit reverse, 2 swing of memories and 1 monster reborn, for a total of 9 reborners, excluding shaman himself, of course.
This deck does work because of opponent's MSTs and random backrow hate. Given this, you can even SS your yubel with call to prevent OTKs and if the opponent uses MST or something to kill yubel during the battle phase, you'll get another one. Since this other one is immune to MST there aren't many choices, if you want to do something, just go in MP2, but this has blocked your opponent's OTK, and we're fine with that.
Aside this -1 generator for the opponent, we have a terminator on the field when the first yubel is killed, Terror Incarnate. During your end phase, this 0/0 not destructible via battle and when removed from the field it summons another yubel, destroys all the monsters except itself on the field. Removing opponent's monsters is a piece of cake, then. Since this does prevent OTKs and even stops people that try to accumulate monsters to win after they have quite some resources, this card is so awesomely good. However this itself isn't game winning, and there our 3 main condition arrive:
1.Wind-Up Rabbit, the easier to achieve, a 1400 beater that survives pretty much to everything, even your incarnate. Since this is searchable from both sangan and zenmaity, other than being played in three copies, at mid game you usually have 2 or 3 of them, and once your opponent has no monsters you can directly attack with them. Good Card is Good.
2.Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys, awesome one. Consider that being at 1 and not searchable, except via foolish+reborner, it is harder to achieve, but it works awesomely. Kills all of the S/Ts while your incarnate kills all of the monsters. 2400 ATK, good one, that's why I'd like to put Hand in, to use this more frequently.
3.Yubel - the Ultimate Nightmare, well, more of a win condition this is something that lets you win the game. Kills your opponent monsters without any problem, deals some damages, and then direct attack with your other cards. Sad it gets killed via incarnate's effect, but consider that reborning a yubel while incarnate is on the field will mean you'll have a nightmare and an incarnate, not bad.

What's more, we do have another card that helps us winning: Wind-Up Zenmaines. This card isn't destroyed via incarnate's effect, but it kills an opponent's S/T, clearing the field to atk with Rabbits and such. Another good card.

However, what lets this deck win is its ability to start comboeing, there are tons of ways to summon incarnate, let's see the main ones:
Blind MST, the main one, your opponent MSTs your face-down Call or Limit, you just do chain it on yubel and you'll have your opponent crying because he minused just to give you your key monster.
End Phase Limit Reverse, during the opponent end phase, activate limit reverse and SS yubel, during your turn, turn yubel in DEF and have your incarnate.
Doom Shaman, have shaman on the field with his effect enabled, SS Yubel, during the end phase tribute Shaman for Yubel's effect, then destroy Yubel for shaman's effect and have your incarnate.

I believe that's all. Hope you liked it, try it if you want, just be sure you have some time before starting, because it will take at least 10 minutes, exceptions aside.
And, as post closer, "La Paura" means "The Fright/Terror". The first translation is more appropriate, but the second one is perfect for the post.