Everyone seems to make one of these, so here's mine. I'm just going to go over a deck by deck commentary heading in to toronto.
Dark World: The most intimidating deck of the format. With no hits, this deck has only gotten better with the disappearance of inzektors. With no more autoloss matchups, dw can cut cards like skill drain and focus on becoming faster and more consistent. Definitely a deck to watch out for, although the deck is its own worst enemy. The horrendous mirror match, death via natbeast and macro, and possibility of absolutely horrible hands make this deck a difficult one to label as "the deck:" to win this event. It should be guaranteed at least a t16 spot or two though.
Heroes: The other deck unhit by the list. This deck has even more problems than dark world in the return of cards such as thunder king to prominence. The Bubblebeat variant looks even less consistent than it was previously, the beat variant is shut down by cards like naturia beast, and with dark worlds so prominent, I expect that while this deck will be a popular choice, it will not capture more than a t32 spot or two.
Plants: The most hyped up of the returning decks. Can it reclaim its throne in toronto? My answer to this question would be no. Without gub and tengu, this deck is slower and more passive than it was even when it was phased out at the end of march 2011 format. With the dark world matchup being pretty much an automatic loss, and maxx c still just as big a problem for this deck, this seems like nothing more than hype. If any of these sneak into the t32, I will be very surprised.
Wind-ups: From my playtesting, this deck is my personal favorite to win YCS toronto. The deck has quite a bit in its favor. From the lack of bad meta matchups to the ability to otk with 2 cards, to the sheer consistency and explosiveness, this i feel, is the deck to beat. With the ability to side into dfissure, decks like plants and dark worlds simply cannot handle it. I expect this to be a major competitor.
Agents: Chaos dragons with their bosses without the consistency of chaos dragons. No thank you. Seriously though, this deck has worse dead draws than rabbit, and with the lack of good builds for the current metagame, I expect it to play a small part, if any.
Rabbit: The deck that survives everything? It does not seem to have gone too well through the loss of consistency in losing 1 rabbit and 1 tgu, so i do not expect it to compete majorly. 1-2 in t32 at best.
As you can see, my top decks is not really rounded out, so something will probably surprise me. I probably left out some decks too x.x. Obviously, decks like karakuri geargia and samurai also have a shot. I don't know how this new format will shape up, but hopefully it will be better than the last. I await YCS toronto with bated breath!
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Satoshi List for real
So, the list that was floating around has been confirmed. Brio and future fusion are banned. I'm not going to go through this whole list, but basically it hits a bunch of cards we slammed down on tables so konami can print us some new cards to slam on the table. Unfortunately, we still have heavy storm and 3 mst to allow us to continue to abuse tables. If you are a table and are being abused..... Konami doesn't give a fuck.
Butthurt complete - Tsgreen
Butthurt complete - Tsgreen
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Locals Report 8-12-12
So, with the format winding down, I headed to my locals today for a sunday box tourny. My first time at locals with my new deck, worms....
Round 1
vs. Bad Empty Jar player.... He ran needle worm....
G1: He foolish burialed jar, and then tried to shallow grave when i had no monster in grave. My reaper took a card from his hand, and then i was able to reborn his jar, leaving him no real way to deck me out....
G2: He foolish burialed jar again, and this time he ate d.d. crow in response to his shallow grave. BLS and tour guide combined to otk him.
OO
1-0
So yeah.... That was kinda lolscrub....
Round 2
Dark World
G1: I managed to get up a lot of advantage, as he misplayed by xyzing and attacking yagan twice......
G2: A very long drawn out game with me stalling with spirit reaper and sim. He finally managed to dark hole away my reaper, only to lose out to bls and tour guide.
OO
2-0
Round 3
DEM WABBITZ
My first real test of worms against the meta....
G1: He opened rabbit into laggia, only to run into yagan, which he had to read :). He dropped another rabbit into laggia, and tried to heavy storm my 3 backrow, only to be defeated by starlight road and fiendish chain. Eventually, I resolved nebula meteorite to go +3 and gain advantage.
G2: He opened rabbit into laggia. I set yagan and set torrential fiendish and prohibition, as i read his set mst. He mstd torrential and went into dolkka. Dolkka negated my yagan, after laggia negated chain. Next turn i resolved dark hole and flipped prohibition, calling tour guide. He drew no significant monsters or backrow removal after that, and my worm king won handily. After the game he revealed his in-hand pair of tour guides.
OO
3-0
Round 4
EVIL TOYS.dek
G1: 3 yagans two torrentials and mst is my opening hand. I manage to keep him from looping me for much, and resolve a massive torrential to turn the game in my favor. I take his last lifepoints with a big push from BLS and Tour guide.
G2: I stop his initial loop with a veiler and then crash sangan into his carrier to search another veiler, drop bls and banish carrier. The next turn he dfissures, loops and uses zenmaines to get rid of my BLS.
G3: He resolves dfissure and loop, and with no significant backrow, i have difficulty retaliating. I keep a topdeck war going for a while, but eventually my dead draws finish me off.
OXX
So I am brutally outplayed by a very *skilled* wind-up player with a very *balanced* deck and some very *original* combos.
Round 5
Bubblebeat
G1: I warning his stratos and beat him down with xex until he desperately attempts to resolve miracle fusion with a bubbleman he set previously. I dark hole and monster reborn for game.
G2: He takes the early advantage, and super poly's my leviair to make great tornado. He summons alius, which i book of moon, leaving me a fiendish chain to stop his attack, only to have him miracle for shining, and game.
G3: All i remember is midgame, he overextends and leaves me 400 lp to his 3400. My 4 in hand to his alius shining blade armor and 2 backrow. I summon yagan monster reborn his bubbleman and yolo C39
for game.
OXO
Round 6
Gravekeepers
G1: He is savagely outplayed by my +3 nebula and cannot recover.
G2: He goes -1 on an ill advised royal tribute, then loses his board to shadow mirror and torrential. My Xex's and yagans beat him to death.
OO
5-1 overall.
So yeah, a good first test for worms. Major props to BrandonBalls of dueling network, a great admin, and a great help with my worm deck. Picked up some kaijudo stuff, so i'll see what i can do with that. Thanks for the great times to everyone there.
Repping dem rogue decks -
Tsgreen
Round 1
vs. Bad Empty Jar player.... He ran needle worm....
G1: He foolish burialed jar, and then tried to shallow grave when i had no monster in grave. My reaper took a card from his hand, and then i was able to reborn his jar, leaving him no real way to deck me out....
G2: He foolish burialed jar again, and this time he ate d.d. crow in response to his shallow grave. BLS and tour guide combined to otk him.
OO
1-0
So yeah.... That was kinda lolscrub....
Round 2
Dark World
G1: I managed to get up a lot of advantage, as he misplayed by xyzing and attacking yagan twice......
G2: A very long drawn out game with me stalling with spirit reaper and sim. He finally managed to dark hole away my reaper, only to lose out to bls and tour guide.
OO
2-0
Round 3
DEM WABBITZ
My first real test of worms against the meta....
G1: He opened rabbit into laggia, only to run into yagan, which he had to read :). He dropped another rabbit into laggia, and tried to heavy storm my 3 backrow, only to be defeated by starlight road and fiendish chain. Eventually, I resolved nebula meteorite to go +3 and gain advantage.
G2: He opened rabbit into laggia. I set yagan and set torrential fiendish and prohibition, as i read his set mst. He mstd torrential and went into dolkka. Dolkka negated my yagan, after laggia negated chain. Next turn i resolved dark hole and flipped prohibition, calling tour guide. He drew no significant monsters or backrow removal after that, and my worm king won handily. After the game he revealed his in-hand pair of tour guides.
OO
3-0
Round 4
EVIL TOYS.dek
G1: 3 yagans two torrentials and mst is my opening hand. I manage to keep him from looping me for much, and resolve a massive torrential to turn the game in my favor. I take his last lifepoints with a big push from BLS and Tour guide.
G2: I stop his initial loop with a veiler and then crash sangan into his carrier to search another veiler, drop bls and banish carrier. The next turn he dfissures, loops and uses zenmaines to get rid of my BLS.
G3: He resolves dfissure and loop, and with no significant backrow, i have difficulty retaliating. I keep a topdeck war going for a while, but eventually my dead draws finish me off.
OXX
So I am brutally outplayed by a very *skilled* wind-up player with a very *balanced* deck and some very *original* combos.
Round 5
Bubblebeat
G1: I warning his stratos and beat him down with xex until he desperately attempts to resolve miracle fusion with a bubbleman he set previously. I dark hole and monster reborn for game.
G2: He takes the early advantage, and super poly's my leviair to make great tornado. He summons alius, which i book of moon, leaving me a fiendish chain to stop his attack, only to have him miracle for shining, and game.
G3: All i remember is midgame, he overextends and leaves me 400 lp to his 3400. My 4 in hand to his alius shining blade armor and 2 backrow. I summon yagan monster reborn his bubbleman and yolo C39
for game.
OXO
Round 6
Gravekeepers
G1: He is savagely outplayed by my +3 nebula and cannot recover.
G2: He goes -1 on an ill advised royal tribute, then loses his board to shadow mirror and torrential. My Xex's and yagans beat him to death.
OO
5-1 overall.
So yeah, a good first test for worms. Major props to BrandonBalls of dueling network, a great admin, and a great help with my worm deck. Picked up some kaijudo stuff, so i'll see what i can do with that. Thanks for the great times to everyone there.
Repping dem rogue decks -
Tsgreen
Friday, August 3, 2012
The wait is on....
This is the list that matters konami. After this format, the majority of players i know have little-no patience for profit-whoring bullshit. Either give us a good list, or there shall be goat control and magic for all. /end rant.
Seriously though the fake lists have begun, and i have taken apart my meta decks. Lets see what will happen.
Seriously though the fake lists have begun, and i have taken apart my meta decks. Lets see what will happen.
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