So I've finally made my mark on the Yu-gi-oh community, topping at a YCS going undefeated in Swiss, with a powerful and innovative deck. What better way to use this to advance in my Yu-gi-oh career and have people actually listen to my ideas than to start this blog and power up my yu-gi-tube channel.
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Shoutout to Michael Bonacini for always having my back and giving me mad support.
DeathAspectBlog This is also where I got the idea of keeping a blog because it is a great place to put all my ideas and thoughts about yu-gi-oh.
So let's get started. What will will see at Nationals?
Top 32 deck breakdown at the YCS:
5 Six Samurai
3 gravekeeper's
9 tengu/debris synchro
2 x sabers
3 planets/herald
10 random decks
With hyper librarian coming out before nationals, we will see every person running this card. It is not a matter of price, because everyone who is attending this nationals trying to win it, will be running hyper librarian. So a few decks already have been knocked out of the picture because of this. The low reliance on synchros (gravekeeper's) and how hard it is to make a level 5 (sabers) lowers the "national's value" (NV) of these two decks. I'm going to refer to NV (national's value) in the remainder of this post.
Three decks that will see it's NV go up.
1. Samurai
Samurai have a great drawing engine, and special summon with reckless abandon. They make level 5 in so many ways (ascetism, kagemusha, kaigeki, elder, kizan and squire) that is is hard to pass. In many ways, samurai can win this natoinals.
Take an opening hand of Smoke Signal, Ascetism, Six Samurai United, Kaigeki, Reinforcement of the Army and Mystical Space Typhoon. You can turn this into such a powerful opening, especially going second. (2nd): Smoke signal for elder, activate united. Special elder, asecetism into kagemusha. Synchro Librarian. ROTA for kagemusha, draw two for united (pretend you don't draw ANYTHING useful) kaigeki for kagemusha, then synchro shien (draw one). So what does that leave you with? Librarian and Shien on the field, and four cards. Imagine if you drew gateway of another united or dojo off of the united. Samurai is a force to be reckoned with.
2. Reborn Tengu Variants (Mainly Water Tengu Synchro)
Seeing that I ran the water tengu synchro, I will talk about its variability and how devastating the water engine is in this deck. Seeing how I can formula every turn without normal summoning, I can draw two cards from hyper librarian every turn. With hyper librarian on the field, this is what a turn could look like.
DRAW for turn: standby phase, get treeborn. Discard Malicious for fishborg blaster. Remove malicious. Tune to make formula (+2), then tune formula and malicious for stardust (+1), that leaves a normal summon for things like tengu or lonefire that can lead to even MORE draws. That is why the water variant is the BEST version of the deck, hands down.
3. Planets:
This deck is pretty good and amazingly consistent. What I do like about this deck is that it can make its own hyper librarians while also stopping other people from special summoning their own (with archlord kristya). This deck has tons of surprises (herald of orange light) that can not always be "read" and is a great choice for players who don't really like "meta" decks but are still hoping to take people down at nationals.
Decks with lowered NV:
1. Gravekeeper's
This deck is all about consistency. But in this format, consistency with mediocre power is not the right way to go. True, royal tribute is still devastating and necrovalley is still a good card, but without the ability to make synchros, this deck is getting outpaced by all the others. As you can see, gravekeeper's have been dwindling (slowly) in numbers in the top 32. Decks that take advantage of huge turns with synchros will soon outpace gravekeeper's.
2. X-sabers:
Sabers are somewhat of a mess for me. I know that they can play very well and that they are not a tier 2 deck as many people have them out to be. To be fair, they can pull off hyper librarian (although not as easily) and have some decent tricks up their sleeves. But having to set all so many monsters, and still having an engine that needs people to attack blindly into facedowns (emmersblade) is being outdated quickly. What the deck needs is to get back to its original roots. I feel like being able to synchro Gottoms and discard cards people's hands is one of the only ways for x-sabers to get back into this meta.
Predictions:
Even though I have made my name in the yu-gi-oh community with water synchro, I feel like Samurai is the deck to beat. It is true that tengu is an amazing card and that's what makes these variants so versatile. However, if you are willing to trade in the more consistent plants for a more explosive six samurai deck, I'm sure that it won't disappoint you. Being able to go hyper librarian and Trishula first turn is just WOW amazing.
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