Zombie Metamorphisis Deck Benthegreat, Toys R US Akron Ohio 8/21/04 Ok well it was that time of the week where i finally get to duel. I must add that this was the last tourney i'd be in charge of before i run away to college to go get smarter and such. So i figured since i finally got my fingers on a few very important cards, i would bring my zombie deck with the hopes of making duelists everywhere cringe in fear. hahaha... as any good duelist i made some trades, one very important one my end of anubis for butterfly dagger- elma, levia dragon- daudalus, Shinato king of a higher plane, and Breaker the magical warrior. this kid had by far the best collection ive ever seen, almost every card from every set (except he didnt bring his heavy storm :( ) some may say i got ripped off, end of anubis being one of the best new cards, and best cards ever, except i never really played him outside of my gravekeepers deck which i dont play any more anyway. but i really wanted a breaker and butterfly dagger, and my sister had wanted levia dragon for a long time, so i took it. mirage of nightmare for a 3rd mst and twin headed behemoth i know i kinda got ripped here, but i have one mirage already, really wanted a 3rd mst, and behemoth was just frosting. necisity over value i guess 3 thousand eyes restricts (promo's) for big burn, messenger of peace, and penguin soldier i have 5....only play 2, so i figured since most people have em anyway, why not trade. really like big burn in my gren maju deck so with those cards in tow, my deck eventually looked like this...btw this is a pro-banlist deck to show the kids that they're viable (i had most of this deck before jaelove's article ;) ) Monsters = 17 1x Vampire Lord (finally got one...a must have for most decks, especially zombie) 2x Ryu Kokki (so strong, no envoy of the beginning is nice too) 1x Patrician of Darkess (lock w/ sinister serpant and spirit reaper, also metamorphisis fodder) 3x Pyramid Turtle (mmm thin the deck, special summon v. lord) 1x Regenerating Mummy (strong, dark, protects against hand destruction) 1x Vampire Lady (dont have any more regenerating mummies, so why not add the lady? a little destruction never hurts) 1x Fear from the Dark (look above) 1x Tsukuyomi (new card for me, i really like it! put stong monsters into defense, destroy equipped [especially nice], and creature swap and get her back!) 1x Breaker the Magical Warrior (good card, extra mst) 1x Tribe-Infecting Virus (monster on monster removal action) 1x Witch of the Black Forest (Get breaker and tribe) 2x Spirit Reaper (a wall! and a nice patrician locker 1x Sinister Serpant (Metamorphisis Fodder and a versitle monster) Spell = 17 3x MST 1x Graceful Charity 1x Dark Hole 3x Book of Life (best recursion card....yup) 1x Creature Swap 1x Pot of Greed 2x Metamorphisis 1x Giant Trunade (no heavy storm yet) 1x Mystic Plasma Zone (give those monsters a lil boost) 1x Monster Reborn 1x Scapegoat (creature swap, protection, metamorphisis) 1x Mirage of Nightmare Trap = 7 1x Ring of Destruction 2x Waboku 1x Raigeki Break (versitle trap, why isnt it played more?) 1x Call of the Haunted 1x Judgement of Anubis (protect Call, Raigeki ect...plus draws out an mst) 1x Magic Drain (not a sure bet, but sure to mess em up some how) Total = 42 (possibly take out metamorphasis and Patrician and put in a 3rd spirit reaper or magic scientist) Fusion Deck Thousand Eyes Restrict Reaper on the Nightmare Ryu Shenshi (oops didnt realize it cant be metamorphed!!!!) i need a dark baltar anyway onto the action... duel 1 Zombies v. some sort of beatdownish dice deck This duel was pretty much over quickly (at least compared to the rest of mine.) A solid deck, packing a few g-binds, and a lot of cards that use dice. was able to eat away some of my lp, using cylinders and dice jar, but it was over when i ring of destructioned my V. Lord for the win duel 2 Zombies v. Restrict Deck Now heres a deck I haven't seen in a long time...or really ever now that i think about it. Very cool. It seems our old friend Victor decided to stray from his typical dragon deck and make this (which packed like 2-3 relinquished, thousand eyes restrice, mof, mucus yolk, and g-bind) It was pretty cool and fairly tough. At this point i did not yet have all of my mst's or breaker so the gbinds caused a little problem. I think i might have pushed him this way (props to me?) when i would destroy his tyrant dragon w/ my TER like, all the time Match 1 Solidly swinging in favor of the zombies. I played Mystic Plasma did some near fatal damage, then....G-bind, Mucus Yolk, axe of despair...sad Match 2 He started us off with some relinquished action, stealing the V.Lord i had quickly brought to the field. I had already burned through about 10-ish cards after the first turn using graceful, pot, mirage, and a pyramid turtle, and sadly was left w/o any useful monsters (this situation prompted me to remove call of the mummy from my deck) however i had a sinister in the graveyard and metamorphasis in hand. i brought out my TER attached his relinqhished and caused a stasis long enough to tribute TER for ryu kokki and end the match Match 3 I really dont remember much about this, similar to the first one except i won. we were being swarmed by some little kids who wanted to trade and i was in the middle of trading my end of anubis. duel 3 Zombies V. Gravekeepers! This is suprisingly the 3rd (4th if you count the one i used to play) Gravekeepers deck in our area. now mine was ok, except i only had one spy, but this kid had pretty much the perfect gravekeeper deck (perfect being a term i use loosely) Anyway, with V.lord and my searchers out of commission, and since i didnt yet have my 3rd mst, this guy was rough. Match 1 I am well acquainted w/ Gravekeepers, playing a combo of that and a zombie deck for about a year until now) but all the know-how in the world can't stop fate. Gravekeeper Gaurde sent V.lord back to my hand, and he used his assailants to destroy me and my scapegoat tokens (that were played a few turns earlier) Match 2 Well i survived a little longer this time, managing to remove 2 of his necrovalley's and do some good damage, but a thousand or so lp's from victory, he drew his last necrovalley, and it was pretty over... a great deck, especially since it negates the graveyard (the crux of a zombie deck) but his deck didnt seem to swarm the way mine did...mine was more of a burner anyway. good deck tho man! im just being nitpicky duel 4 Zombies V. EXPENSIVE beatdown This was the kid who i said had the best collection id ever seen, so obviously his deck was packed full with pricey cards. Match 1 I went first, got a spirit reaper onto the field, thinking i was safe, and kept a waboku in my hand....bad idea. COH reaper for MY end of anubis and somehow got mataza the zapper w/ a united we stand out and demolished my lp...barely hanging on, i stall w/ waboku's, reaper's and tokens, drawing Tsukouyumi to get rid of them both and get the win Match 2 I established a little more control this time. He quickly burned out his hand w/ a little help from a few direct reaper attacks. Top-decking for the rest of the game i put him away w/ V.lord i think duel 5 Zombies V. a Jinzo-Jar-beatdown i guess??? While it seems a very disorganized deck, its really not. This man (he is probably 30-40's) is one of the greatest duelists that consistently comes to our tourney. Anyway our game was huge, taking a bit over an hour to complete, going past the tourney's end time, but still drawing a good crowd. Match 1 He managed to get Jinzo out (who btw not a whole lot of people in our area play anymore) and began causing a lot of problems. I stalled for a while, but whenever i would destroy him, the Psycho Shocker was promptly revived. His jars (morphing #2) kept sending my pyramid turtles to my hand and eliminating some options. i played defense for a while but eventually lost Match 2 Ok so jinzo was this guys Trump card. so i TER long enough to get 2 books of life, and a 2 mst's. he had witch out for a while, and i pretended to be really afraid to kill it. i killed her w/ pyramid turtle. he promptly took jinzo, killed the turtle for ryu kokki (who hadnt made an appearance in the first duel). suicide, book of life (removing Jinzo) for ryu kokki (usually the combo i use to take out BLS but whatever). anyway I won shortly after that. Match 3 FINAL ROUND>>> FIGHT ahhhh mortal kombat...Ok well this match went a lot like the second, except i didnt have to stall w/ TER, just reaper. we traded S/T removal, he used a bunch of jars, and we were jocking for position in the hand and on the field. I got rid of Jinzo the same way, only to see...the Masked Beast!!!! whoa who saw that comming...not this guy....anyway. i said no! and darkholed, he (as usual) revived him, i used breaker to get rid of Call, and removed the beast when i reborned spirit reaper. put him on his heels to a point that he couldnt recover, and eventaully won. in retrospect i guess this was a recursion deck??? anyway. while his deck doesnt seem all that strong. it was way tricky w/ all the jars, penguin soldiers, jinzo ect. and he is a very smart player, and is very knowledgeable about the rules (which is a nice reprieve from a lot of the n00b's) a fun duel, im glad he wanted to come for my final tourney and play me! anyway thats how i did! i was happy. I love zombie decks, obviously. and i think Metamorphasis adds a fun little twist, enough to give me some options and keep people on their toes. i also like makeing a banlist compliant deck. its gonna have to be sometime, better do it now. props a gigantic turn out all of the best duelists decided to come out (minus 1 kid) and 3 or 4 new ones (Gravekeeper kid included) who were excellent. really upping the ante at these small tourney finally 'completing' my deck...w/ V.Lord, book of life, tribe, ect all finally comming from ebay (after like 3 week wait) i am a happy boy Happy w/ my trades (tho ill miss End of Anubis :'-( ) 4-1, pretty good the asian kid (sorry man forget ur name) almost finishing his deck! (hes trying to recreate the world champions...and is pretty close) slops last tourney...unless i can find kids at ND who play Necrovalley (love hate relationship) well thats the report. lemme know what you think! comments, questions, hate mail....at benthegreat1210@aol.com (does anyone ever really email?)