Weeds always grow back

So since Konami butchered plant synchro with the new ban list, I decided to cry like a little girl create a new type of plant deck (took me a little longer than expected to make the deck consistent enough). 

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This is a reactive control focused deck that waits for your opponents plays, steals their monsters (with MotR, Mind Control & Big Eye) and uses them for XYZing/Synchroing or as beatstiks. 

3x Fallen Angel of Roses
3x Cherry Inmato
3x Verz Mandrago
2x Copy Plant
1x Gigaplant
1x Lonefire Blossom
1x Sangan
1x Violet Witch
1x Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
2x Effect Veiler
2x Maxx "C"


Fallen Angel of Roses & Copy Plant are the power cards of the deck, they give you access to a wide variety extra deck cards. While Verz Mandrago and Cherry Inmato serve as combo enablers for the deck.

Notable play: 

Special Summon* Verz Mandrago & return to hand to SS* Fallen Angel of Roses, normal summon Copy Plant, use its effect and XYZ into a Rank 7 or SS a level 8 Synchro (withouth using Copy Plants effect). 

You can also preform this play with Lonefire Blossom instead of Copy Plant by tributing Verz Mandrago for Lonefires effect.

Mark of the Rose x3

Miracle Fertelizer  x2

Mystical Space Typhoon x2

Heavy Storm x1

Dark Hole x1

Allure of Darkness x1

Monster Reborn x1

Foolish Burial x1

Mind Control x1

Book of Moon x1

Mark of the Rose is prety much a legal version Snatch Steal which has become even stronger with the introduction of XYZs.

Because the way XYZ summons are ruled, Miracle Fertelizer stays on the field if the summoned monster is used as a XYZ material and with Verz Mandrago one can bypass the "no normal summon" drawback.

Notable play:

Steal your opponents  Number 39: Utopia with either Mind Control or Mark of the Rose and turn it into your Number C39: Utopia Ray.

2x Torrential Tribute
2x Solemn Warning
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Mirror Force

Because both Effect Veiler & Maxx "C" are already used and due to deck space, the trap line up is keept minimal with the only notable inclusion being the newly semi-limited Torrentail Tribute.

Notable play:

One can negate Macro Cosmos with Solemn Warning because its effect includes Special Summoning.

Ally of Justice Catastor x1

Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier x1

Black Rose Dragon x1

Stardust Dragon x1

Scrap Dragon x1

Gachi Gachi Gantetsu x1

Wind-Up Zenmaines x1

Number 39: Utopia x2

Number C39: Utopia Ray x1

Photon Streak Bouncer x1

The Sacred Ptolemys M7 x1

Number 11: Big Eye x2

Ennead, the Holy Marked Divine Dragon x1

The Rank 6 XYZs are usaly summoned by using Gigaplant,  Ennead is summoned with your opponents monsters like 

Elemental Hero Absolute Zero. 

While Black Rose Dragon is the least summoned monster from the extra deck, its 2nd effect can in ocassion be as devastating as its 1st.


Notable cards not included in the deck:

• Dark Armed Dragon -> the deck runs quite a few darks but due to its speed this card is dead in your hand more often than not. A faster verzion of this deck could run it (either a turbo or a mill variant).
• Pot of Avarice -> same as Dark Armed Dragon.
• Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite -> combos with Miracle Fertelizer.
• Mist Wurm -> can replace one of the less used extra deck cards.
• Thunderclap Knight - Gaia Dragoon -> is quite devastating with Mark of the Rose if your opponents deck focuses on Rank 5 or 6 XYZs.

That time of the year

The reason why I haven't been writng stuff here was because I wasn't innovating at all and only atendet locals.

I played Plants until TGU came out and then TGs. 

Now this list rapes my TG deck so I have to get into a creative spirit again so expect more frequent posts from now on.

Banned

Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

Glow-Up Bulb

Spore

Trap Dustshoot

Limited

T . G . Striker

Agent of Mystery, Earth

Semi-Limited

Lumina, Lightlord Summoner

Marshmallon

Reborn Tengu

Level Limit Area B

Emergency Teleport

Shien's Smoke Signal

Torrential Tribute

Ultimate Offering

No Longer Limited

Call of the Haunted