Angel Flores, Save the Meta

Another article written by Danny the Team O Captain:
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Right now I'm reminded of a time when Samurai was kicking our butt every single tourney, week in and week out. People thought for sure there was no beating the Samurai deck at all. I myself had trouble with the deck but at the time didn't have money to build Samurai. Then an angel was sent from the yugioh gods, that man's name was Angel Flores. Now this is not a personal cry or plea for help to the man himself, but the next YCS is at Long Beach and maybe, just maybe, lighting can strike twice in California. Come on yugioh give us something to work with yugioh.

Here is the deck he made and won with:

Monsters: 16
1 Elemental Hero Stratos
3 Elemental Hero Alius
2 Thunder King Rai-Oh
2 Cyber Dragon
2 Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo
1 Genex Ally Duradark
1 D.D. Warrior Lady
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1 Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind
1 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
1 Honest

Spells: 15
1 Dark Hole
1 Nobleman of Crossout
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 Monster Reborn
1 E - Emergency Call
3 Gemini Spark
2 Forbidden Chalice
3 Pot of Duality

Traps: 10
1 Hero Blast
1 Torrential Tribute
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Seven Tools of the Bandit
2 Solemn Warning
2 Dimensional Prison

Side Deck: 15
1 Mind Crush
1 Nobleman of Crossout
2 Miracle Fusion
2 Penguin Soldier
2 Kinetic Soldier
2 Summon Limit
2 Super Polymerization
2 Pulling the Rug
1 Royal Oppression

Now I think that this can be adjusted to fit our current meta by a lot. Of course with the big 3 holding down the fort for right now, and for those of you not knowing what I'm talking about I'm referring to Dino Rabbit, Inzektors, and Wind Ups. With this format a lot of it is who wins the die roll, hence the term dice roll format. So when your opponent goes first with Dino Rabbit, Laggia is always usually the turn one set up. Now I notice when you play the deck if you play cards that force your opponent to activate Laggia like Book of Moon, Smashing, Dark Hole, etc they will auto Laggia's effect. Well the same goes for monsters- if you summon Gale, Grand Mole, DD Warrior Lady, anything that causes a problem for the Dino Rabbit player right then and there. Same goes for Wind Up and Inzektor- if you go first Fossil Dyna or TKing with back row, stops Wind Up really well. Inzektors is a little tough but Veiler and Fiendish Chain, even Doom Calibur, takes care of that. Most smart players won't summon turn one and pass with Inzektors so you're in the clear.

So lets look at some of the possibilities. I'm no pro when it comes to deck building but if I was gonna build the deck I would probably go with something like this

Monsters: 15
1 Snowman Eater
1 Elemental Hero Stratos
3 Elemental Hero Alius
3 Thunder King Rai-Oh
2 Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1 Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind
1 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
1 Honest
1 Spirit reaper

Spells: 13
2 Miracle Fusion
1 Dark Hole
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 Monster Reborn
1 Book of Moon
1 E - Emergency Call
3 Gemini Spark
3 Pot of Duality

Traps: 13
1 Starlight Road
2 Fiendish chain
1 Hero Blast
2 Torrential Tribute
1 Solemn Judgment
2 Solemn Warning
2 Dimensional Prison
1 Mirror force

Side Deck and Extra is your choice or based according to your local tourney.

So I know what you're thinking- "where's Maxx C, where's Veiler ?" To be honest I'm so tired of the bad draws with all the hand traps. I played without Maxx C in my locals this weekend but I did side two and guess what I took first place. If you guys remember our big box tourney was last weekend and I got into the top 4 with 3 Maxx C's. Coincidence? I think not. Now I'm not saying these cards are terrible but against certain decks they completely suck. I imagine that you're worried about hand loop and Rabbit Laggia but you really don't get much out of Maxx C against a skilled player and I think Wind Up is dying unless they make a build that's unheard of. Inzektors should get raped by this deck or at least with using the side deck. I'm gonna be testing this real soon here but Heroes has a chance to make a strong impact cause there's also the Skill Drain build. Look at this way, with priority possibly leaving the game, this deck barely gets hit by the change, meaning this can be tweaked even more and is cheap as hell to build. So players, there's a ton of innovation you can do to this deck but for now I'm giving you a starting to a possibly strong idea.

I wish I could be at Long Beach but I'm celebrating my birthday that weekend. Til next time, love the game, stay confident, and always play to win.