Friday, April 20, 2012

Gallis the Star Beast




Gallis the Star Beast is a level 3 effect monster is not included in the banlist up to March 2012. The design of this card is quite nice, I'll give 7 out of 10.

Gallis the Star Beast is famous of it FTK. a combo which can be done by having 3 specific monster in your hand by using a full fledge monster only deck. It is sure a success if you manage to draw the 3 cards. Such card is of course Gallis the Star Beast, Koa'ki Meiru Doom and Genex Ally Birdman.

Gallis Effect Damage OTK/FTK

Gallis the Star Beast
Koa'ki Meiru Doom
Koa'ki Meiru Boulder
Genex Neutron
Genex Ally Birdman
Giant Rat
Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
Tragoedia
Beast King Barbaros
Battle Fader
Sangan
Cyber Valley
Swift Scarecrow
Fire Ant Ascator
Oracle of the Sun
Cockroach Knight
Sun Dragon Inti

If you have all 3 necessary cards in your hand you can inflict as many damage possible to opponent as long as there is a Cockroach Knight in you deck.

First, Normal Summon Koa'ki Meiru Doom, Then activate Gallis the Star Beast effect to send the top card of your deck to grave, since that this deck consist only monsters, definitely 100% chance of success. 200 damage times the sent monster's level is inflicted and Gallis the Star Beast is special summoned. Afterwards, activate Genex Ally Birdman's effect to return Gallis the Star Beast you control to your hand to special summon it. Genex Ally Birdman is dark monster. Therefore, Koa'ki Meiru Doom will negate its effect and it doesn't special summon it self and remains at your hand. Meanwhile, Gallis the Star Beast is returned to your hand due to the cost to activate Genex Ally Birdman's effect. You can keep activating Gallis the Star Beast and Genex Ally Birdman's effect subsequently to inflict damage to your opponent. Supposedly, the damage is limited to the total level of monsters that remain in you deck, but thanks to Cockroach Knight that is return to the top of your deck each it is sent to grave, you wont be deck out and infinite amount of effect damage ca be inflicted. Note that it is almost the same combo if you include Outstanding Dog Marron instead.

This deck is double edge deck as the OTK cannot be done if opponent has a face-up Skill Drain as your Koa'ki Meiru Doom's effect is negated or if opponent happen to have Fiendish Chain of Forbidden Chalice. Such card can stop this combo from looping and you might be opened for opponent OTK while searching for the 3 cards.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Pot of Avarice


To tell you the truth, not many deck can fit 2 to 3 copies of this card. as it will just be a dead draw if you don't have at least 5 monster cards in your grave. if you include just 1 copy, it might serve your deck well as you can recycle 5 monsters back to your deck and draw 2 cards. So, why is this card limited?

This card can also be a draw power for Lightsworn deck as they self mill quite fast, so most of your monster will be in your grave, but a normal Lightsworn user wouldn't return all Lightsworn monster that was milled as it will become ineffective. But still, 3 copies of Pot of Avarice can help with the draw power of an aggressive self mill Lightsworn deck.

Also, due to some monster effects that can special summon another monster from deck such as Giant Rat, Mystic Tomato, Nova Summoner, Gusto Gulldo, Gusto Egul etc. In addition to the infamous new Reborn Tengu as it has become very popular. A lv 4 1800 power house with ability to special summon another Reborn Tengu from deck when it is removed from the field. Could be destroyed by battle or card effects, removed by Dimensional Prison, return by Compulsory Evacuation Device or sent to grave for synchro or tribute.

Including the popular Rescue Rabbit as it removed it self to special summon 2 normal monster of the same name from your deck and use it for xyz summon. in case if the xyz monster is destroyed, you have at least 3 monster in your grave.

This shown  that it is very easy to set several monsters to the grave, and using Pot of Avarice to recycle them over is definitely be very helpful as it also provide draw power. Since that sending monsters to grave is actually quite easy for current meta game, this card become almost as outstanding as the infamous Pot of Greed.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Fortune Lady




This is another one of my favourite series. Consist of girl-only character, seriously doesn't suite my style.
But then again, I love the combination of their abilities. One of the series that is to be used by intermediate or above player, as they are quite tricky and can adapt to many situation.

I'll say, even the facts that there are only 6 monster for this archtype, but I'll say they are quite complete with several support from other cards of course.

Consist of each one attribute which is light, dark, fire, water, wind and earth, make it looks stylish but for that, this deck will face a problem against a deck containing Gozen Match as it prevent you from swarming your field.

Fortune Lady is an all round having an amazing draw power and swarming capability. Not to mention the destructive power from Fortune Lady Fire and Fortune Lady Wind. For that reason, Fortune Lady is capable of taking on either a power deck or stall deck.

To sum it up,

Fortune Lady Light --> Deck searcher and swarm
Fortune Lady Fire --> Counter attack and effect damage
Fortune Lady Wind --> Back row cleaner
Fortune Lady Water --> Draw power
Fortune Lady Dark --> Massive swarm
Fortune Lady Earth --> Power house and continuous effect damage

Fortune Lady receive excess draw power from Fortune Lady Water and also Fortune's Future. The easiest trick to draw more cards easily, is by combining Fortune's Future after activating Gold Sarcophagus. Activate Gold Sarcophagus to remove 1 Fortune Lady from your deck, it should be added to your hand after 2 turns, but if you activate Fortune's Future to return the removed Fortune Lady back to your grave to draw 2 cards. So roughly, after activating these two card effects, the result is the same as activating Foolish Burial and Pot of Greed.

Since that both Fortune's Future and Gold Sarcophagus is not in the Banlist, so you can put 3 copy each (if desired), indirectly it is almost the same like having 3 Pot of Greed and 3 Foolish Burial in your deck.

Standard Quick Swarm Fortune Lady Deck

Fortune Lady Light
Fortune Lady Fire
Fortune Lady Wind
Fortune Lady Water
Fortune Lady Dark
Fortune Lady Earth
Kinka-Byo
Wattpheasant
Future Vision
Fortune's Future
Gold Sarcophagus
One For One
Slip of Fortune
Compulsory Evacuation Device
Bending Destiny

By focusing on Fortune Lady Light as the key card, you can easily call out any Fortune Lady from your deck to the field and activate their effects. Since that draw power and deck searcher is high, thinning your deck is not a problem at all.

Wattpheasant can attack directly and afterwards remove Fortune Lady Light you control to activate its effect to call out any Fortune Lady from your deck. Since that the Fortune Lady Light removed by this effect is returned during the end phase, you can continuously use this combo each turn only if you manage to protect your Fortune Lady Light as it is a very weak monster and definitely vulnerable to opponents attack.

Dark Magic Fortune Lady Deck

Fortune Lady Light
Fortune Lady Fire
Fortune Lady Wind
Fortune Lady Water
Fortune Lady Dark
Fortune Lady Earth
Kinka-Byo
Wattpheasant
Sorcerer of Dark Magic
Future Vision
Fortune's Future
Gold Sarcophagus
One For One
Slip of Fortune
Compulsory Evacuation Device
Bending Destiny

You can abuse the swarming capability of spellcaster type Fortune Lady Monster to include in Sorcerer of Dark Magic. A beat stickers with 3200 ATK and ability to negate trap activation.

It might hurt the swarming a bit, but if you can summon it to the field, then trap cards is no longer a threat to you. Except counter trap of course, as counter trap cards can only be negated by other counter trap cards. Since that all Fortune Lady's level will increase each turn, so, all Fortune Lady is a viable tribute cost for special summoning this card, which is 2 level 6 or higher Spellcaster type monster. But definitely will be harder for Fortune Lady Fire's and Fortune Lady Light's level to increase until 6 to be tributed for the cost as they are quite weak in term of ATK and DEF.