BattyMan says "Just Say No to Harpies" From: "Ryan Arida" Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:38:16 -0400 I have found out what is the worst deck ever in Yu-Gi-Oh. Some of you might think the worst deck possible would consist of nothing but tribute monsters, thereby making it unplayable. No my friends, there is a worse deck type. And this is the Harpie Deck type. Now many of you may be saying that you could make a worse deck type than Harpie, first of all: shut up, second: you are wrong. This article will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, through slow painful examination, how truly terrible Harpies are. Harpie Lady: ATK 1300/ DEF 1400 No Effect Each deck type has a card that in particular stands as the backbone and links together all the other cards, and in the Harpie deck type it is the Harpie Lady. But what criteria must a card have to be the backbone of a deck? Let us look at some examples. It might benefit all monsters in your deck such as A Legendary Ocean, maybe it gives speed to a deck like Reinforcement of the Army, perhaps it simply provides raw power such as Blue Eyes White Dragon. So far Harpie Lady is 0 for 3. About the only thing Harpie Lady does to help the deck is to get out a slightly less weak monster or power up an embarrassingly bad monster. And with an attack of 1300 you can be sure Hapie Lady will be perfect for helping you take down that pesky Sinister Serpent. Even better is the 1400 defense, perfect for stoping the vicious onslaught of a Magician of Faith. To be fair there have been three remakes of the Hapie Lady card, each more censored than the last. And each Harpie lady is designed to look like one of the three Harpie Lady Sisters, each one has been given a unique effect, and each one is a lesson in mediocrity. The first (aptly named Harpie Lady #1) is the best of this bunch, but that’s like saying Moe is the smartest stooge. She boosts the attack of all wind monsters by 300, welcome news for the five people using wind decks. After her boost she becomes a solidly inferior 1600 attacker, a safe margin below the average 1900 attack. I’ll admit most effective monsters have a lower attack than 1900, but those monsters usually have some kind of effect that actually makes them playable. Harpie Lady #1 on the other hand gives you an easily overpowered monster that boosts the attack of a rarely played type of card, and the boost is less than one third what Axe of Despair will give to ANY monster you play. And no one is playing Harpie Decks?! How surprising! Harpie Lady #2 stops flip effects if she is the one who destroyed the monster. When you draw this card you can breathe a sigh of relief, because you know those two flip effect monsters your opponent uses won’t be giving you any trouble now. Assuming you can actually keep a monster with 1300 attack on the field, which you won’t. The one reason someone might use this instead of Mystic Swordsman LV2 is they think combining it with Harpie Lady #1 will make it decent. Let me tell you something, the moment you start playing a card and think boosting its attack to 1600 will make it playable is the moment you need to put all your cards into a box and mail them to me. Harpie Lady #3 is one example of when it is not suitable to say “saved the best for last”. Let me put it this way. You know how some cards made for a deck type can be used in other decks and are decent, like Strike Ninja. Konami forgot that they could do that when they made this card. You know what, I take that back, this card would be horrible in a Harpie deck too. Its effect is to stop the monster that destroyed from attacking for two turns, two whole turns! Wow, I thought they stopped making gems like these after Magic Ruler. Nope, they went and put everything you hate about your old effect monsters in a whole new waste of cardboard. Even the logic behind this card makes no sense. Obviously, it’s meant to get attack boosts and become strong like all the other Harpie monsters. But its effect only takes place once it gets destroyed! Why even give it an attack over 1000 if it’s made to be destroyed. Why even make a third Harpie? Harpie’s Pet Dragon: ATK2000/ DEF2500 Increases the ATK and DEF of this card by 300 points for each face-up Harpie Lady on the field. If you love having a monster that needed two sacrifices get destroyed by a Berserk Gorilla than this is the card for you. And a lackluster effect, don’t get me started! 300 attack boost for every Harpie Lady on the field, even if you got three this monster would still have 100 less attack than a Blue Eyes, who can I trade with to get one of these! You could always discard it then revive it, but if you waste a revival card on this dreadful monster than you need to seriously reevaluate your dueling abilities. But hey, at least its got a good defense, for some reason. You would think it would be given a higher attack than defense since its effect is based around raising its attack. Such is the logic found in the Harpie deck. Harpie Lady Sisters ATK1950/ DEF2100 This monster can only be Special Summoned with the Magic Card Elegant Egotist. There’s nothing better than having a monster whose effect makes it horrible. There are cards with bad effects that are still playable, for example, Goblin Attack Force has to go into defense mode after attacking but has a huge attack. But this thing, this thing needs a specific spell card to be summoned. Which makes it comparable to a ritual monster, but usually when you want a ritual monster in your deck it needs to have a huge attack or game-breaking effect. Not the Sisters, they have a bad attack and effect. And once again, as was the case with the Harpie’s Pet Dragon, the defense is higher than the attack. Why it’s like that, your guess is as good as mine. And because it’s at a 1950 attack you can be sure to be stronger than only your average four star monster and nothing else. And when it comes to dead cards this thing takes the cake, when you pick up Harpie Lady Sisters you can say goodbye to your draw phase that turn because this card can’t do anything in the hand except take up space. And you will pick up this card while you’re dueling, even if only a single copy exists in your deck you will draw it every time you duel. Harpie decks are so bad they will actually bend the fabric of space and time to move useless cards to the top of your deck. There you have it, undeniable proof that Harpies, if used, will bring about the end of your Yu-Gi-Oh career. It is advised to simply avoid the Harpie deck. The fact that it is a supposed swarming deck with monsters that all have a higher defense than attack simply proves my point. Remember, JUST SAY NO TO HARPIES! BattyMan says “Just say no to Harpies!” Email me if you liked the article, BlueYoshi2187@hotmail.com