So today I WAAAAS going to try to work on a deck idea that I had (Watapon Drain Beat) however an opportunity came up that I just could not pass up. A redditor by the username of DownExtreme needed some help with his old school deck, and I graciously offered to help.
So this is the deck that we had to start off with. It's like a fun trip back to 2003, only with out my discovery of the fun side of the internet.
We've all built a deck like this at one time or another
So the very first thing that I did was take out all of the immediately bad cards, and find a theme for the deck. There's a lot of light and dark monsters, plus he already has BLS so that was what I decided to go with.
Strike Slash would be a great card if it was a quickplay spell. +700 atk and piercing is something every monster would love, but there's just to many better options out there right now for a slow trap card like that.
Ordeal of a Traveler is a decent card, until you're opponent learns the simple trick. Most decks run about 50% monsters, 30% spells, 20% traps. By just guessing monster every time, your opponent gets it right 50% of the time, and gets a free look at your hand.
Burden of the mighty was good before XYZs hit, now it's unfortunately useless as XYZs have ranks, not levels. This card, gravity bind, and grave of the super giant organism all shed little tears that day
Lighting Vortex seems like a good card on paper, but you need to destroy at least two of your opponents monsters to break even with the cost of playing it. You lose the one card (-1) from the actual play and another (-1) from the discard. Plus with all of the destruction negation running around, you would be better off with the deck space.
I also took out the equips as they don't generate any speed to the deck. Sure having extra attack is nice, but having out a boss monster even faster is even better, and BLS is one HELL of a boss monster.
Reborn Tengus are a good card, but I took them out to make the deck smaller and follow our new theme of chaos.
Now that we've trimmed up the deck a bit, and have a theme, we can focus in on the theme more and attempt to make the deck faster.
I took out the vanillas, and added in a tour guide engine, two photon thrashers, 3 unknown synchrons, an honest for our light monsters, and a chaos sorcerer.
Now you may be wondering why the unknown synchron? It's a level 1 dark tuner with a cyber dragon effect. You can special it, normal thunder king, synch a lv 5, then banish for BLS. You could also use it as tribute fodder for Caius, or what ever else you may need a free summon for.
Now all we need to do is fill up the extra deck
that was easy!
And now we have a semi-decent deck! There's still a lot of improvements that could be made, but I believe DownExtreme can add his own touch from here and have a deck that he can call his own and have fun playing.
Next time: I have absolutely fallen in LOVE with this deck, but I swear I'm not a furry
