A Starlit Road to the Colosseum

So with Starlight Road finnaly being in the TCG, I've decided to build a deck using it.
So the best deck to use it is ofcourse a control deck, in this meta that would be Gadgets and Gladiator Beast.
Before I show you my deck lets first look at Starlight Road for a bit.

Starlight Road

Activate only when an effect is activated that would destroy 2 or more cards you control. Negate the effect and destroy that card. Then, you can Special Summon 1 "Stardust Dragon" from your Extra Deck.

Pros:

• It is atleast a +1 (depending on the card it negates).
• Protects you from mass removal card like Heavy Storm or Judgement Dragon.
• Makes your opponent think twice before they use mass removal cards (playing around it makes them waste more resources).

Cons:

• It is a normal trap and not a counter trap (can be negated by cards like Royal Opression or My Body as a Shield)
• Can't do anything against single removal cards (like Smashing Ground or Mystical Space Typhoon).
• The summoned Stardust Dragon can't be revived once its sent to the graveyard (including by its effect).

With that out our way lets continue with the deck I made.

I decided to go with GBs because I'm more familiar with that deck type.

Monsters: 17
1x Cyber Dragon

1x Elemental Hero Prisma

1x Gladiator Beast Bestiari

1x Gladiator Beast Darius

2x Gladiator Beast Equeste

1x Gladiator Beast Hoplomus

2x Gladiator Beast Laquari

1x Gladiator Beast Murmillo

1x Gladiator Beast Retiari

2x Gladiator Beast Samnite

1x Rescue Cat

2x Test Tiger

1x X-Saber Airbellum

I only run 2 Test Tigers because I've found out (trought testing) that unless you run the full prisma engine (2 prisma, 1 stratos) they become a horrible top deck. 

X-Saber Airbellum is run in here because it increases the versatility of both rescue cat and the deck in general (Combos pretty nice with Cyber Dragon).

For those of you who want to run Secutor you can drop Retiari for him.

Spells: 7

2x Book of Moon

1x Cold Wave

2x Gladiator Proving Ground

1x Heavy Storm

1x Mystical Space Typhoon

Traps: 16

2x Bottomless Trap Hole

2x Dimensional Prison

2x Gladiator Beast War Chariot

2x Dust Tornado
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device

1x Solemn Judgment

2x Starlight Road

1x Torrential Tribute

2x Waboku

Due to the small number of Gladiator Beasts in the main deck I preffer to only run 2 of Gladiator Beast War Chariot, more of them would cause dead draws.

The number of Wabokus can be droped if you need the space for additional cards.

Extra Deck:

2x Chimeratech Fortress Dragon

2x Gladiator Beast Gyzarus

2x Gladiator Beast Heraklinos

1x Ally of Justice Catastor

1x Black Rose Dragon

1x Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

1x Colossal Fighter

1x Goyo Guardian

2x Stardust Dragon

1x Thought Ruler Archfiend

1x Mist Worm

Do take note that depending on your main deck choices and also on your meta the side deck must change accordingly.

These are some of the card I would advise to be used in the side deck:

• My Body as a Shield -> Against decks that use lots of single card removal like Gadgets.
• Nobleman of Crossout -> Against Flamvell Cat decks (and other flip centric decks)
• Light-Imprissioning Mirror -> Against LightSworn and their variants.
• Dust Tornado -> For game 2/3 to counter their sided cards or decks that also run starlight road.
• Mind Control -> Mirror match (also Brain Control if you don't main it).
• Consecrated Light -> Against BlackWings and other Dark centric decks.
• Pulling The Rug -> Against Monarch & Gadget decks.

Cat on a hot tin roof

Hi there,
I know that I am talking to myself you have been waiting for a new post.
The reason why I didn't post for shuch a long time is not because *inset random bullshit other bloggers tell you* but because I was to lazy.

A few random notes:
* I'm kind of late with this but welcome to the new format.
* I mostly like the new list except for JD still at 2 and mezuki at 1.
* Creative decks like Thunderpants Special make me happy.

Today the fetured deck is Flamvell Cat. For those that don't know it is a basic Rescue Cat deck combined with a Flamvell engine (usally 3 Flamvell Firedog, 3 Flamvell Magician and 2 Rekindling).

FlamCat

Monsters: 20

3x Flamvell Firedog

3x Flamvell Magician

1x Gorz the Emissary of Darkness

1x Gravekeeper's Guard

2x Gravekeeper's Spy

1x Neo-Spacian Dark Panther

1x Rescue Cat

2x Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter

1x Sangan
1x Super-Nimble Mega Hamster

1x Summoner Monk

3x X-Saber Airbellum

I chose to run Gravekeeper's over additional Hamsters because of the versatility they bring. This also allows me to synchro summon Arcanite Magician more frequently.

While Neo-Spacian Dark Panther gives me access to instant level 6 synchros and the ocasional effect copy.

Spells: 13

1x Allure of Darkness

2x Book of Moon

1x Brain Control

1x Cold Wave
1x Gold Sarcophagus

1x Heavy Storm

1x Mind Control

1x Mystical Space Typhoon

2x Pot of Avarice

2x Pureflame Eruption

To minimize hand clutter Pureflame Eruption is played at 2 instead of 3. One Allure of Darkness is also played due to the dark count of this deck (you can replace it for a second copy of Gold Sarcophagus).

Traps: 7

2x Bottomless Trap Hole

2x Dimensional Prison

1x Mirror Force

1x Solemn Judgment

1x Torrential Tribute

On top of the basic trap lineup I chose to run 2 Dimensional Prisons because of the decks large amount of weak monsters (Firedog being the only beatstick). For those who don't like Prison, they can take them out for card like Royal Oppression or Trap Dustshoot.

Extra Deck:

1x Ally of Justice Catastor

2x Arcanite Magician

1x *random lvl 7 synchro*

1x Black Rose Dragon

1x Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

2x Colossal Fighter

1x Goyo Guardian

1x Magical Android

1x Red Dragon Archfiend

2x Stardust Dragon

1x Thought Ruler Archfiend

1x Mist Wurm  (Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Boundary for OCG)

Daedalus Beasts

This deck is a revised version of one of my favorite old decks... GBs teching icarus attack (you know the one using D.D. Crow and stuff). And with the release of Mist Valley Soldier things have become much easier... I'll keep this one short. It's a GB deck after-all.

Monsters: 19
1x Gladiator Beast Bestiari
1x Gladiator Beast Darius
2x Gladiator Beast Equeste
1x Gladiator Beast Hoplomus
2x Gladiator Beast Laquari
1x Gladiator Beast Murmillo
1x Gladiator Beast Retiari
2x Gladiator Beast Samnite
1x Rescue Cat
2x Mist Valley Soldier
1x Summoner Monk
2x Test Tiger
1x X-Saber Airbellum
1x Elemental Hero Prisma

Spells: 10
3x Book of Moon
1x Brain Control
2x Gladiator Proving Ground
1x Heavy Storm
2x My Body as a Shield
1x Mystical Space Typhoon

Traps: 11
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Gladiator Beast War Chariot
2x Icarus Attack
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Torrential Tribute
3x Waboku

Extra Deck
2x Gladiator Beast Gyzarus
2x Gladiator Beast Heraklinos
1x Ally of Justice Catastor
1x Arcanite Magician
1x Black Rose Dragon
1x Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1x Colossal Fighter
1x Goyo Guardian
1x Psychic Lifetrancer
1x Red Dragon Archfiend
2x Stardust Dragon
1x Thought Ruler Archfiend

Supervised

Well hello there myself dear readers.

Today I'm going to watch pr0nz write about the new plant variants.

Intro

With the release of the Warrior's Strike structure deck, plant decks have been revitalized with the introduction of the equip card "Supervise".

Equip only to a Gemini Monster. It is treated as an Effect Monster, and gains its effect(s). When this face-up card on the field is sent to the Graveyard, select and Special Summon 1 Normal Monster from your Graveyard.

In a plant deck this card has more than one purpose. The first effect speeds up the deck by giving Gigaplant its effect as soon as it is summoned, while the second effect enables the deck to maintain field presence and gives it the chance to preform a multitude of combos.  

Example:

• Normal summon Lonfire Blossom
• Use its effect to SS Gigaplant
• Equip Supervise to Gigaplant 
• Use Gigaplants effect to SS Lonfire Blossom
• Use Lonfire Blossoms effect to SS  Copy Plant
• Synchro for Power Tool Dragon
• Due to Supervises effect Gigaplant is SSed
• Use Power Tool Dragons effect
•  If you get a "Supervis"... Lather, rinse, repeat

The Deck

Ok now lets get to the deck. My version of the deck is a dark variant which runs cards like "Mystic Tomato" & "Violet Witch" to search out key components of the deck and also runs more generic dark support like "Allure of Darkness" & "Dark Armed Dragon".

DGV - Dark GigaVise

Monsters: 18  

1x Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind
1x Blackwing - Sirocco the Dawn
1x Copy Plant
2x Cyber Valley
1x Dark Armed Dragon
2x Gigaplant
1x Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
2x Lonefire Blossom
2x Mystic Tomato
1x Nettles
1x Plaguespreader Zombie
1x Sangan
2x Violet Witch

Spells: 17
2x Allure of Darkness
1x Arms Hole
1x Brain Control
1x D.D.R. - Different Dimension Reincarnation
1x Heavy Storm
2x Mark of the Rose
1x Mind Control
2x Miracle Fertilizer
1x My Body as a Shield
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Reasoning
3x Supervise

Traps: 5
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
1x Mirror Force
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Torrential Tribute

Extra Deck: 15
1x Ally of Justice Catastor
2x Black Bulldrago
1x Black Rose Dragon
1x Blackwing Armor Master
1x Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1x Colossal Fighter
1x Gaia Knight, the Force of the Earth
1x Goyo Guardian
2x Power Tool Dragon
1x Red Dragon Archfiend
2x Stardust Dragon
1x Thought Ruler Archfiend

Tech Choices

        Reasoning

With the summoning restrictions caused by cards "Miracle Fertilizer" & "Arms Hole", reasoning gives you the chance to summon another monster without conflicting with the above cards. Due to the decks mixture of different level monsters your opponent will have a hard time guessing the right level.

Blackwing - Sirocco the Dawn

Because Sirocco’s ability counts the ATK of Blackwing monsters on your opponent’s side of the field as well as your own its effect is quite useful against BWs, which seem to be enjoying quite some popularity at the moment. Othervise it servers as a different level for Reasoning and with gale you can get out a lvl 8 synchro.

Sacksworn.dek

Tried making a lightsworn deck.
No need to explain... the deck pretty much runs itself.

Monsters: 24 

1x Aurkus, Lightsworn Druid
3x Celestia, Lightsworn Angel
1x Ehren, Lightsworn Monk
1x Garoth, Lightsworn Warrior
3x Honest
2x Judgment Dragon
3x Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner
2x Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress
3x Necro Gardna
1x Plaguespreader Zombie
1x Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
3x Wulf, Lightsworn Beast

Spells: 12
3x Charge of the Light Brigade
1x Cold Wave
1x Foolish Burial / Brain Control
2x Gold Sarcophagus
1x Heavy Storm
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
3x Solar Recharge

Traps: 4

2x Beckoning Light

2x Royal Decree

VayuZombie & Lego Block explained

Take two broken things and duck tape them together...
In my previous post I mentioned something called the Lego Block approach.
It's what I call when you take multiple deck engines (Zombie, DHero, ect.), simplify them as much as possible and then try out diffrent combinations of 2 or more.

Example of simplified Zombie (synchro) engine:

2x Mezuki

2x Goblin Zombie

1x Plaguespreader Zombie

1x Zombie Master

A overkill good example of this approach is Dale Bellidos DBZ deck (DarkBlackwingZombie). Where he took the DHero engine, the Vayu engine and Zombie engine and stuck them all together.


Looks bad on paper...
Ok now for an example of a whole deck. This is one of my not online real life TCG decks on which I have been working on since ages ago the new banlist.
My Grave Flag (VayuZombie) deck:

Monsters: 20
1x Dark Armed Dragon
1x Gorz the Emissary of Darkness 
1x Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind
2x Blackwing - Sirocco the Dawn
2x Blackwing - Vayu the Emblem of Honor
2x Dark Grepher
2x Goblin Zombie
2x Mezuki
2x Necro Gardna
1x Armageddon Knight
1x Sangan / Mystic Tomato
1x Plaguespreader Zombie
1x Zombie Master
1x Morphing Jar

Spells: 13
3x Burial from a Different Dimension
2x Foolish Burial
2x Allure of Darkness
1x Brain Control
1x My Body as a Shield
1x Heavy Storm
1x Lightning Vortex
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Reinforcement of the Army

Traps: 7 
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Phoenix Wing Wind Blast
1x Call of the Haunted
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Torrential Tribute

Extra:
3x Blackwing Armed Wing
2x Blackwing Armor Master
1x Blackwing - Silver Wind the Isolated
1x Ally of Justice Catastor
1x Black Rose Dragon
1x Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1x Doomkaiser Dragon
1x Goyo Guardian

1x Colossal Fighter
1x Thought Ruler Archfiend
2x Stardust Dragon

One of the decks strengths aside from Burial abuse is that it can play diffrently from game to game. One game it can play like a vayu turbo deck, while somtimes you don't even see vayu in a game and the zombie aspect shines. 

Choices, choices, so many choices...

The deck is not yet finnalized so I'll be talking about some of the card choices that are.

 Phoenix Wing Wind Blast

Gets rid of annoying cards like Collossal Fighter & can discard key cards (Mezuki, Vayu, ect.), there by setting up for a swarm. And if needed it can get rid of cards like royal oppression.

Necro Gardna 
With the deck already running both Dark Grepher & Burial from a Different Dimension this is quite a logical choice. This card helps you survive your opponents attacks, protects key monsters like dark grepher and serves as a payment for all the discard costs this deck has.

Lightning Vortex

Has similar pros and cons as Phoenix Wing Wind Blast but can net you massive card advantage by punishing overextension that is often made by decks like sacksworn Lightsworn.

Oh noes its kryptonite...

The decks weeknesses are cards that either remove cards from the graveyard or that prevent you from removing cards from the graveyard.

Examples: 

Kycoo, The Ghost Destroyer

Necrovalley

Soul Release

The deck has ways  of getting oround those problems but these cards can still do game braking amounts of damage.

Closing thought:

With the introduction of Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier in Hidden Arsenal this deck will gain a very very big tremendous power bost, so watch out for this deck or it might rape take you from behind by suprise.

First Post & Deck

Well hello and welcome to my blog.
As the description says this blog is about creating new decks & makeing my versions of popular decks from both the TCG and OCG (my OCG knowledge is limitted).

The main purpose of this blog is for me to have a place to storage all my wierd deck ideas.

Now most of my deck are usally based of other decks (aka netdecked then reworked with new ideas). You'll also be seeing lots of similar decks because I take a lego block approach in deck building (ex.: Zombie engine + Vayu).

A while ago I add Razues to my MSN and started a debate about Magōshin (Fiend Roar Deitys) in which I stated that Magōshin were splashable (the new beast ones) to which replied with a "no" and shortly there after I was blocked.

Totaly pwned Highly motivated I set of to prove him wrong. to myself  that they were splashable.

Well the result is this deck wich is based on two cat synchro variants: Cat Chaos (TCG) & Magōshin Cat (OCG)
 

Deity Cat

Monsters: 21
1x Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1x Sangan
1x Summon Priest
1x Rescue Cat
1x Dark Armed Dragon
1x Cyber Dragon
2x Chaos Sorcerer
2x Mystic Tomato
1x Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind
2x Gravekeeper's Spy
1x Gravekeeper's Guard
2x X-Saber Airbellun
2x Magōshinjū Keruberaru
2x Magōshinjū Ganashia
1x Magōshinjū Kyashī


Spells: 12
1x Heavy Storm
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Cold Wave
1x Brain Control
1x Mind Control
1x Lightning Vortex
2x Book of Moon
2x Pot of Avarice
2x Allure of Darkness


Traps: 7
1x Mirror Force
1x Torrential Tribute
1x Solemn Judgment
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Phoenix Wing Wind Blast