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Tebezu on
YuGiOh
The Machines
are taking over and slowly we will be unable to
stop them. A dark cloud known as Overdragon lurks
about. Flesh and blood will be replaced by
steel and hydraulic fluid. In case you have not
been paying attention to the new ban list,
everyone is proposing a doomsday for all other
deck types. A doomsday of otk/ftk for the
metagame. How will we stop the Cyber Stein
Era? Overdragon will eat and devour our souls,
a monster so powerful that we should compare it
to the Egyptian Gods themselves. All hail
machine king, for we will be his slaves? In
case I have missed any predictions let me help
you all out. If I recall machines are inanimate
objects incapable of free thought. Mans
endeavor to see himself as a God. But in the
end machines will fail. My objective today is
to shoot an EMP to kill all of your worries.
Now I will in
no way tell you machines are not powerful and
have not gained strength from the September 1
ban list. But people come on. We should be
thankful people will be playing these decks
because it should make for an easy win. Thus I
present you with a premature build of the new
otk which will rule the format...
(21)
3x Cyber
Stein
3x Cyber Dragon 3x Reflect Bounder 3x Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive 2x Exiled Force
1x D.D.
Warrior Lady
1x D.D.
Assailant
1x Mystic
Swordsman Lv. 2
1x Morphing
Jar
1x Spirit Reaper 1x Breaker 1x Sangan (14) 1x Last Will 1x Future Fusion 2x Overload Fusion 2x Reinforcements of the Army 2x Giant Trunade 1x Heavy Storm 1x Graceful Charity 1x Nobleman of Crossout 1x United We Stand 1x Megamorph 1x Limiter Removal (6) 1x Mirror Force 1x TT 2x Solemn Judgement 1x Magic Cylinder 1x Ceasefire
Now a few
things will change. Maybe we will see the
emerges of Creature swap and a tomato recruiting
engine. Maybe we will see UFO turtle and Cyber
Phoenix. Maybe the deck will take on a more
stall burn build utilizing gyroid and lava
golem. Maybe some observant person took a
liking to my one liner about the self destruct
button stein build (AS MY FRIEND ANTHONY FROM A
LOCAL CARD SHOP HAS) Return from the D.D. will
be used and then abused. But this deck in one
way or another will be something we all fear. I
by no means look at otk's as a cheap shot. I
personally think anyone who plays them to be
ballsy just because they have decided to let
certain cards decide the game fate instead of a
deck. Yet in my experience of using stein and
playing against it my team and I have come up
with innovative ways to shut it down.
(Hopefully
this will help you all feel better about
regionals, and those of you thinking of using
this kind of deck may stray simply because smart
players will have nothing to fear)
First up on
the list...
Giant Orc and
Deck Devastation Virus totally own the dedicated
stein build while also making for killer game
play against recruiter, warrior, etc. decks.
One shot from an Orc and any monster with 800 or
more attack will end stein. On top of that,
Deck Devastation Virus will stop any hope of
Stein hitting the field in the first few turns,
while also giving you a heads up on what a
player has in hand.
Confiscation
is the perfect answer because it allows you to
see a players hand and thus take stein or
whatever away. But exchange, a card my team has
had success with in regionals, allows you to
take a players option for yourself. If played
correctly it will be positive advantage for you
because remember you control what is in your
hand. Thus exchange, giving them a sangan or a
recruiter monster and take their stein for
game. If all of this in hand peeking sounds fun
imagine the benefit of mind crush. A trap, thus
a chain-able form of hand control can be chained
to heavy storm or giant trunade, forcing an
opponent to discard all in hand steins or
whatever, thus making an opponent even
more fearful about the back field.
As pointed
out by my teams co-leader, BTA from NJ, Macro
Cosmos makes future fusion and the whole concept
of overdragon pointless. Yet this idea can be
expanded to include Banisher of the Radience and
banisher of light.
Good old
ideas like solemn judgement, ceasefire, poison
of the old man, Reflect Bounder, etc. will also
make this deck and it in general less of a
threat.
So many ways
to beat it and absolutely no way a player can
prepare against them all. Magic Cylinder, Magic
Jammer, Magic Drain, kuriboh, ancient lamp,
adhesive explosive, etc. All of these things
shut down this deck.
Do not fear
the machines, for in the end they will rust. At
this point in time we are still a part of their
success because they are unable to maintenance
themselves. In the future who knows, but if we
do not give them a chance to become individual
entities they can never succeed.
Think about
this advice when building your side deck. The
deck to fear is the deck we can not prepare
for. Machine OTK is something we all know
about, thus it can not generate problems for the
prepared.
If
anyone wants to talk about the new format, has
any ideas on what should be played,or simply has
a crazy deck idea, contact me at
Tebezu@gmail.com
If you take
nothing else from this article take this...
Do not fear
that which we can prepare for. Fear only the
unknown and even then learn from the experience.
Forest Thomer
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