Yu-gi-oh! Testing Deck Discussion - Testing Phase 2

Aliens: It passed Testing Phase 1, and still continued to do well in Testing Phase 2.

Uriasworn: It passed Testing Phase 2, because the blend it had continued to wreck through everything in its path. It made me very pleased when it was able to get over some stuff that it couldn't before when it had 2 versions of a Continuous Trap Card for Lightsworns. Also with Uria summoning, to reduce the cost of how much resources you lose in comparison to your opponent, you can use Safe Zone as a sacrifice, and you can have it send your opponent's monsters to the Graveyard, when Safe Zone is sacrificed for the summoning of Uria.

Worms: It's doing much better than before, where it get stopped by a Spell and Trap card that instantly rejected what I was going to do, then I didn't have a back-up plan due to that. I'm going to wait until after March 1st to retest this deck a bit.

Anyway, I'll mention this: I have a typical habit of testing the flow of these decks on Dueling Network, which I get a good idea on how it flows and on how it does in the long run. Anyway, I've decided to work on a Dark World variant for March 1st, just in case asking the question: "What would you do when you face off against certain Tier 1 decks that you can't immediately get around and fight them?"

Anyway, I decided to wrap up deck-building for this blog at the end of this month, which leaves the last post wondering "What will it be talking about?" I will be explaining how to schedule posts, because it wouldn't be fair if I didn't tell you how to do it, when I'm doing it right in front of you. Anyway, enjoy!

Yu-gi-oh! Deck Discussion - Gishki II and Dance of the Rituals II

Gishki is listed first and Dance of the Rituals II is listed under it.

Gishki II:

2x Deep Sea Diva

2x Gishki Abyss

3x Gishki Beast

3x Gishki Shadow

3x Vision Gishki

2x Evigishki Gustkrake

2x Evigishki Tetraogre

2x Evigishki Zeal Gigas

Dark Hole

Forbidden Arts of the Gishki

3x Gishki Aquamirror

Heavy Storm

Monster Reborn

3x Pot of Duality

3x Preparation of Rites

2x Salvage

2x Call of the Haunted

2x Mind Crush

Torrential Tribute

Trap Dustshoot

Extra Deck:

2x Armory Arm

Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

Red Dragon Archfiend

Scrap Dragon

Sirius the Blue Wolf Star

Stardust Dragon

3x Daigusto Emeral

Gachi Gachi Gantetsu

2x Lavalval Chain

Number 39: Utopia

Steelswarm Roach

General Comments: 

This deck starts to take into account of Evigishki Zeal Gigas and his advantage of making sure you get a decent card advantage. The downside is that if you aren't careful, your Life Points may unexpectedly reach 0.

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Dance of the Rituals II

2x Armageddon Knight

2x Dark Grepher

3x Djinn Presider of Rituals

3x Djinn Releaser of Rituals

3x Gishki Chain

3x Manju of Ten-Thousand Hands

3x Divine Grace - Northwemko

3x Garlandolph, King of Destruction

Dark Hole

Heavy Storm

Monster Reborn

3x Pot of Duality

3x Preparation of Rites

Reinforcement of the Army

2x Ritual of Destruction

2x Ritual of Grace

2x Call of the Haunted

Torrential Tribute

Trap Dustshoot

General Comments:

While making this deck, I came up with another idea to use with White Dragon Ninja, involving Divine Grace - Northwemko. More will be discussed in February 4th, 2012.

Anyway, rate, fix, comment, thoughts, and discuss. Enjoy!

Yu-gi-oh! Deck Discussion - Gem-Knights II and Holy Seal I

Rehashing on an old favorite deck of mine, I decided to do Gem-Knights. Anyway, here's the list:

3x Gem-Knight Garnet

3x Gem-Knight Sapphira

3x Gem-Knight Tourmaline

3x Gem-Armadillo

3x Gem-Knight Alexandrite

3x Gem-Knight Lazuli

3x Gem-Knight Obsidian

3x Thunder Dragon

3x Volcanic Shell

3x Dark Factory of Mass Production

Dark Hole

3x Gem-Knight Fusion

Heavy Storm

Monster Reborn

Pot of Avarice

3x Tablet Fusion

Extra Deck:

3x Gem-Knight Aquamarine

3x Gem-Knight Citrine

2x Gem-Knight Master Dia

3x Gem-Knight Prism Aura

2x Gem-Knight Ruby

2x Gem-Knight Zirconia

In addition to that, I decided to build a Holy Seal deck along with exchanging ideas with Yuginshin for you all. Here's the list:

3x Blue-Eyes White Dragon

3x Holy Marker of the Divine Dragon

3x Geb, the Holy Marked Dragon

3x Nephthys, the Holy Marked Dragon

2x Osiris, the Holy Marked Dragon

3x Shu, the Holy Marked Dragon

2x Tefnut, the Holy Marked Dragon

2x Burst Stream of Destruction

Dark Hole

2x Dragon's Mirror

Future Fusion

Heavy Storm

3x Holy Marker of Gathering

3x Inferno Reckless Summon

Monster Reborn

3x Trade-In

2x Call of the Haunted

Torrential Tribute

Trap Dustshoot

Extra Deck:

Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon

Five-Headed Dragon

3x Atum, the Holy Marked Dragon Emperor

Dborak, the King of Heavy Machinery

3x Ennead, the Holy Marked Divine Dragon

Inzektor Exabeetle

Number 61: Volcasaurus

The Sacred Pleiades

The Sacred Ptolemys M7

Thunder End Dragon

Tiras, Keeper of Genesis

Rate, fix, comment, thoughts, and discuss. Enjoy!

Yu-gi-oh! Side Deck Discussion - Aliens I

There wasn't any necessary changes that is needed for the Main Deck and the Extra Deck. If you want to see both the Main Deck and the Extra Deck, go here. Anyway, here's the Side Deck:

Side Deck:

2x Effect Veiler

2x Maxx "C"

3x Thunder King Rai-oh

2x Tragoedia

3x Chain Disappearance

3x Vanity's Emptiness

Alright, the reason why this side deck seems to be better suited to make Aliens into a deck that can take a beating is to modify the deck to counteract against decks better. Anyway, rate, comment, fix, thoughts, and discuss.

Yu-gi-oh! Deck Discussion - Evol (Najasho) II

Another deck build I decided to do on my spare time. It's casual, sadly, so you'll barely see it being played against such decks against Insectors or Wind-Ups, however, Evolzar Dolkka and Evolzar Laggia are used in Dino Rabbit, so that'll be no surprise when you see them in an Evol deck. Anyway, here's the list:

Debris Dragon

2x Evolsaur Cerato

2x Evolsaur Diplo

3x Evolsaur Elias

3x Evolsaur Vulcano

3x Evoltile Najasho

3x Evoltile Odonto

3x Junk Synchron

Dark Hole

3x Enemy Controller

3x Evo-Force

Foolish Burial

Heavy Storm

Monster Gate

Monster Reborn

2x Call of the Haunted

3x Evo-Instant

3x Limit Reverse

Torrential Tribute

Extra Deck:

Ally of Justice Catastor

Chain Dragon

Magical Android

Orient Dragon

Red Dragon Archfiend

Scrap Dragon

Stardust Dragon

3x Evolzar Dolkka

3x Evolzar Laggia

2x Evolzar Solda

Rate, comment, fix, thoughts, and discuss. Enjoy!

Yu-gi-oh! Deck Discussion - White Dragon Ninja I

Well, this deck was made because of the release of White Dragon Ninja, admittedly. The two combinations I thought about were the following:

• The obvious one is White Dragon Ninja, Ninjitsu Art of Super Transformation, and Safe Zone.
• The less obvious one is with White Dragon Ninja with Vanity's Emptiness.

Well, here's the deck list:

3x Battle Fader

Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning

Effect Veiler

Gorz the Emissary of Darkness

2x Maxx "C"

3x Ninja Grandmaster Hanzo

2x Tragoedia

3x Upstart Golden Ninja

3x White Dragon Ninja

Dark Hole

3x Magic Planter

Monster Reborn

Reinforcement of the Army

2x Call of the Haunted

3x Ninjitsu Art of Super Transformation

3x Safe Zone

Solemn Judgment

2x Solemn Warning

Torrential Tribute

3x Vanity's Emptiness

Extra Deck:

3x Blade Armored Ninja

3x Daigusto Emeral

2x Gemknight Pearl

2x Lavalval Chain

3x Number 39: Utopia

2x Steelswarm Roach

Rate, comment, fix, thoughts, and discuss. Enjoy!

Several comments

I've begin to notice that people are discussing ban lists and that. I have a general comment to what people think should or shouldn't return:

• If players think that Thousand Eyes Restrict should go to 1. Everyone would be running Formula Synchron and Instant Fusion, because we already have a Tuner that's reusable when it hits the Graveyard. (Glow-Up Bulb)
• As for stuff that I should think that should be hit in an archetype sense (I don't really pull specifics on specific archetype cards, because it feels unnecessary)
• Insecters - Why? Because their archetype can net you pluses like mad. It really becomes ridiculous in both the early game (first turn) or late game.
• Wind-Ups - Why? First turn Hunter loop. They need to lower the consistency of that loop, so that it doesn't happen constantly first turn.
• Agents - Why? Still constantly good, and as a result, it should get hit by the ban list.
• As for single cards that I see should be banned or limited, I put in the separate section for it. Here it is:
• Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning - Why? It's being used in nearly every single deck out there, so I'm figuring that it'll be banned on March 1st, 2012.
• Leviair the Sea Dragon - Why? It has been used in too many combinations, that it would be hit. Also, Rank 3s are the easiest Xyzs to summon, unfortunately, so I see it being limited, if not banned, coming March 1st, 2012.

I'm just stating my views of what should be hit on the ban list. There's no way to know what'll get removed, until the ban list reveals itself.

The Polls:

Sorry that I haven't gotten a chance to comment about this yet, but here's the result of the polls that were going on until January 1st, 2011 at midnight.

First poll is "Is having Twitter updates, shown on my blog, helpful to get you the latest updates, as quickly as possible?" Five people voted Yes, and four people voted No.

Second poll is "Which Yu-gi-oh! text do you prefer?" 13 people voted for OCG text, and 11 people voted for TCG text.

Thank you all for voting.

Other comments:

I will be adding a bunch of stuff to this blog. Look forward to what I have in store for you.