Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 6:48 PM
Subject: The Butcher's Betrayal- Adam Culp
While I personally think some duelists focus on it
too much, there is one thing no Yugioh player can
deny- card advantage is important. And I am about to
describe a simple 4-card combo. The cards to pull it
off are not limited (although one is semi-limited),
it requires only 2 turns to set up.
And there is quite honestly no limit to the
advantage this combo can give you. Don't believe
such a combo exists? Here it is.
1 Bistro Butcher
1 Shining Angel
1 Solemn Wishes
1 Creature Swap
simply put, you should want to use Giant Trunade or
Cold Wave to ensure your opponent can't stop this
combo, but don't most game-breaking strategies get
better with S/T clearers? Anyway, turn 1, summon the
Butcher in attack mode. That's it. Turn 2, summon
Shining Angel and Creature Swap the Butcher to your
opponent. Now attack the Butcher with Shining Angel.
Combo complete. Angel dies, you take 400 Battle
Damage, but you'll draw 2 cards by Butcher's effect,
and get 1000 LP back with Solemn Wishes. And, you
get another Light monster by Shining Angel's effect.
So search out another Angel and repeat, followed by
searching out the third Angel and attacking. Now
when the Angel dies, you have none left. Instead,
search out UFOroid! Let him die to search out
another UFOroid, and then a third!
Now by now, you've already drawn about 10 cards.
With the kind of advantage, your opponent might as
well surrender now. But we're not done!
When the third UFOroid bites the dust, Search out
UFO Turtle! Run through them, and search out Masked
Dragon! Finally, search out Troop Dragon.
Now this combo is broken. None of the 15 searchers
used in it can search monsters from the hand. So
sooner or later, you'll draw a searcher that you
can't use. But on average, it's logical to assume
you'll get at least 5 monsters with this, for a
total of 10 cards drawn. As for the searchers. Pot
of Generosity actually helps here by returning
searchers to the deck so they can be searched to the
field. Ultimate Offering also works.
Now, what deck can use this? EXODIA!!!! Exodia
decks, to me, are totally broken. There is no way to
stop Exodia's effect once you get all 5 pieces. And
with this combo, you'll thin out at leat half your
deck, making it easier to draw them.
Overall, it may require a lot of space for this to
be fit into a deck, but the advantage is worth it.
If nothing else, anyone running 3 Mystic Tomatos
(which probably ammounts to anyone running Don
Zaloog and Spirit Reaper), or anyone with 3 or more
searchers, can use this combo to get massive
advantage.
