June 2007
Volcanic Theme - Cameron
I was recently
browsing the tips people sent in and it looks to me
like there's really only 1 person who's interested
in the Volcanic Theme. I say why? They're fun to
play, the problem with burn decks has always been a
lack of monster removal so Des Wombat and Jinzo
completely screw them over. Not anymore! Another
thing worthy of note is that Volcanic monsters are
HUGE for burn monsters, if your opponent decides to
side in Royal Decree they might have just shot
themselves in the foot. If you don't wanna burn you
don't have to, the Volcanic monsters double as
beatsticks too! Here's my Volcanic Deck to give you
an example:
Monsters: 19
Volcanic Blaster x3
Volcanic Doomfire x2
Volcanic Hammerer x2
Volcanic Rocket x3
Volcanic Scattershot x3
Volcanic Shell x3
Volcanic Slicer x3
Magic Cards: 14
Blaze Accelerator x3
Burial from a Different Dimension x3
Premature Burial
Soul of Fire x3
Tri-Blaze Accelerator x2
Wild Fire x2
Trap Cards: 7
Call of the Haunted
Firewall x2
Magic Cylinder
Ring of Destruction
Volcanic Recharge x2
Volcanic Blaster is the only card here that really
loses you a card of advantage because it doesn't
actually replace itself when destroyed in battle.
However, this can be mitigated when searching for
Volcanic Rocket, an instant +1 upon summon. It can
also search for Volcanic Doomfire, which will
quickly give you that advantage back if you've
already got Tri-Blaze Accelerator online.
This deck quickly runs the opponent out of monsters,
and as Destiny Hero pointed out, this deck is
actually good against Monarchs. They need to Tribute
Summon those things to do anything, if you destroy
all of their tribute fodder they're stuck with
useless Monarch in hand. And if they muster up a
Special Summon or get Treeborn Frog online you can
just blow everything up with Wild Fire and start
over.
About the Burial from a Different Dimension cards,
those are just there because I saw Axel use it to
return 3 Volcanic Monsters back to the graveyard to
continue using Firewall. It can also be used to
return Volcanics to the graveyard for use with
Volcanic Recharge or burn material for Volcanic
Hammerer. Soul of Fire is best used with Volcanic
Doomfire or Volcanic Hammerer to inflict the most
damage, but refrain from using it unless you were
already going to give up your Battle Phase. If
you're planning on using Blaze Accelerator in a
turn, why not burn with Volcanic Slicer, Volcanic
Hammerer and Soul of Fire cuz you couldn't attack
anyway.
This is truely a fun deck to play, it can run into
bad hands but Volcanic Rocket helps by searching out
this deck's key card and thinning it at the same
time. It's easier to acquire the most expensive
cards in this deck than it is to get ahold of
Sapphire Pegasus and Rare Value for a Crystal Beast
Deck. Believe me, I've bought 2 boxes of Force of
the Breaker and have 2 Volcanic Doomfires, 3 Souls
of Fire, 2 Tri-Blaze Accelerators and absolutely no
Sapphire Pegasuses or Rare Values. I had to buy the
Volcanic Rockets but it was worth it to make use of
the other expensive cards I got. Try this theme out,
you might like it.
Send your questions, comments, etc. to cjrwaud@cogeco.ca.
Please no hate mail, I'm really a nice guy once you
get to know me.
