"Brian Schmittling" <brian@koerberturner.com>

Reasoning and Zombie Madness
 
I purchased one of the new Zombie Madness structure decks hot 
off the shelf.  With a few changes, this deck is killer.  
The main advantage if the Zombie deck is the ability to get 
high level monsters on the field without tribute.  Here are 
the monsters I’m currently running:
 
Tribute
Despair From the Dark x 1
Ryu Kokki                   x 3
Patrician of Darkness  x 1
Vampire Lord              x 1
Dark Dust Spirit          x 1
 
Yes that’s right, seven tribute monsters.  They are very 
easy to get out and rarely get stuck in your hand.  
Patrician of darkness was added for field control since 
you can redirect your opponent’s attacks.
 
Non Tribute
 
Pyramid Turtle          x 3
Spirit Reaper             x 3
Cyber Jar                   x 1
Magician of Faith      x 2
 
That’s 16 monsters total and 7 of those are tribute.  With 
Pyramid Turtle, Call of the Mummy, and Book of Life, you 
can get the tribute monsters on the field easily.  You can 
also use Change of Heart and Snatch Steal to get tributes.  
But here is a card the structure deck left out, Reasoning.  
 
Reasoning, your opponent calls out a monster level, you draw 
cards from your deck until you hit a monster.  If your 
opponent guessed the monster level, it is destroyed.  If not, 
it is special summoned onto the field.
No tribute is required for tribute monsters.  
 
If you notice the monster lineup, there are only 3 level 
4 monsters.
Most decks are heavy with level 4 monsters.  The remaining 
monsters range from level 1 to level 7.  This deck was made 
for Reasoning.  Your opponent is very unlikely to guess the 
level of the monster.  
 
With the addition of Reasoning, the Zombie deck has 12 cards 
to special summon tribute monsters onto the field, and that is 
not counting the typical graveyard recursion cards, Monster 
Reborn, Call of the Haunted, etc.  Total madness.  It is not 
unusual to summon 3 monsters on your first turn, and you almost 
always get to summon 2.  Once I managed to summon 5 monsters 
after the field was cleared by Torrential Tribute.
This deck’s swarming ability is amazing with the addition of 
Reasoning.
 
Comments, thoughts, suggestions
brian@koerberturner.com