Deck Doctor

November 6, 2012

by bradracer07

Hello Yugioh Community! I would like to start off the article by thanking Alterealitygames for giving me the chance to write for their website. My name is Justin Diaz, I am 17 years old and I live in Brooklyn,Ny. I don't have any major event tops but i do have a handful of regional tops if they mean anything. Now lets get on with the point of the article. The first deck im here to look at is none other but Billy Brakes rock stun deck list.

Heres the deck:

Billy Brake’s Rock Stun Deck

Monsters: 19
3 Koa’ki Meiru Guardian
3 Koa’ki Meiru Sandman

3 Koa’ki Meiru Wall
3 Block Golem
2 Card Trooper
2 Maxx “C”
2 Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo
1 Neo-Spacian Grandmole

Spells:10
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
2 Soul Taker
2 Pot of Duality
1 Seal of Orichalcos
1 Monster Reborn
1 Dark Hole

Traps: 12
2 Dimensional Prison
2 Solemn Warning
2 Call of the Haunted
2 Bottomless Traphole
2 Torrential Tribute
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Starlight Road

Extra Deck: 15
2 Gem-Knight Pearl
2 Kochi Kochi Dragon
2 Soul of Silver Mountain
1 Temtempo the Percussion Djinn
1 Wind-Up Zenmaister
1 Gachi Gachi
1 Fairy King Albverdich
1 Gaia Knight, Force of Earth
1 Naturia Beast
1 Naturia Barkion
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Stardust Dragon

At first the Rock Stun deck might look a little different from a normal Rock Stun deck because of some interesting tech choices like Card Trooper. But Card Trooper helps fill up the grave for some big pushes with Block Golem and Call of The Haunted. The deck also plays alot of traps to help stun your opponent. Lastly everyone's favorite Seal of Orichalcos is in the deck to help boost your monsters and steal your opponents soul! Now time for the changes.

Monsters: I've always been a fan of Rock Stun but the deck has always had the same problem. Rock Stun has a hard time Having two monsters, one in hand and one on field in order to keep your koa'ki Meru's alive. If you dont know the Koa'ki Meru monsters in the deck all have a cost to reveal a rock type monster in your hand during the end phase in order to keep themselves alive. There wasn't really much to change with the monster because I really liked the monster line-up but after test playing the deck I decided to cut out maxx "C". After test playing I noticed Maxx "C" became cloggy and was dead alot. I couldn't afford to keep Maxx"C" in the deck because it was just increasing the number of dead draws. Finally I decided to add Giant Rat. Giant Rat is amazing in this deck. Giant Rat speeds up the deck by grabbing cards from the deck, It also gives you easier access to Card Trooper, Neo-spacian Grandmole, and Block Golem. Being able to grab card trooper to thin out your deck or grandmole to bounce away big opposing monsters is always great. Lastly my favorite combo with Gaint Rat is combining it with the Seal of Orichalcos to Bump heads with Thunder King Rai-oh.

Spells: Looking at the spells the first thing I didn't really like was 3 main decked Mystical Space Typhoons. Rock Stun is a slow deck and doesn't really need to push through backrow much so I cut 1 Mystical space typhoon. Another card I didn't really like is the 2x Soul Taker so I decided to cut one. Rock Stun has really big monsters especially combined with the Seal so I felt soul taker wasn't really needed. I replaced one mystical space typhoon and one soul taker with 2 forbidden lance. Lance is a great card in this deck and allows you to do two things with it. One thing Lance does is protect your monsters from powerful Spells and Traps such as dimensional prison and Dark Hole. Also lance can be used to lower your opponents monster and help you run over them. For example when your opponent summons Number 17; Levaithan Dragon and uses its effect to boost it by 500 atk and try's to kill one your Koa'Ki Meru's you can Lance your opponents Leviathan and it will become weaker than your Koa'ki Meru helping you destroy it.

Traps: The Traps in this deck were pretty solid and I only decided to cut a few. The first trap I cut was both copies of Torrential Tribute. The reason I cut Torrential Tribute was because of a reason similar to Dino-rabbits. Your monsters in this deck are usually stronger than your opponents and Torrential Tribute becomes a dead card. The other Trap I decided to cut was Starlight Road. At first you might think I am crazy because of all the traps but Starlight Road can actually make your Block Golems useless. Block Golem needs all earth monsters in the graveyard in order to activate so by playing Starlight Road and bringing out Stardust Dragon you can potentially create 3 dead cards in your deck. To replace the 2 Torrential Tribute i added 2 Compulsory Evacuation Device. Compulsory Evacuation Device is better than Torrential Tribute because instead of destroying your field of big monsters you can just bounce away your opponents problem monsters. To replace Starlight Road I added Dark Bribe. Dark Bribe does the same thing as Starlight Road except it can also stop other powerful spell card also like Monster Reborn and Pot of Avarice.

The Extra Deck: There isn't much to change in the Extra Deck because the deck doesnt really XYZ or Synchro alot. in fact there are no tuners. For the Extra all I replaced was a Stardust with the all new Gagaga Cowboy. Gagaga cowboy is a earth so he wont mess up the flow of the deck and he also can help burn your opponent for 800 damage which can change the whole game.

Heres the final build:

Rock Stun Deck

Monsters: 19
3 Koa’ki Meiru Guardian
3 Koa’ki Meiru Sandman

3 Koa’ki Meiru Wall

3 Block Golem

2 Card Trooper
2 Giant Rat”
2 Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo
1 Neo-Spacian Grandmole

Spells:10
2 Mystical Space Typhoon

2 Forbidden Lance
1 Soul Taker
2 Pot of Duality
1 Seal of Orichalcos
1 Monster Reborn
1 Dark Hole

Traps: 12
2 Dimensional Prison
2 Solemn Warning
2 Call of the Haunted
2 Bottomless Traphole
2 Compulsary Evacuation Device
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Dark Bribe

The next deck is Joe Giorlando's deck.

Joe Giorlando’s Gishki Hero Turbo Deck

3 Gishki Soul Ogre
3 Gishki Vision
3 Destiny Hero Plasma
2 Destiny Hero Diamond Dude
2 Trageodia

2 Tour Guide from the Underworld
1 Sangan
1 Gishki Shadow
1 Elemental Hero Stratos
1 Dark Armed Dragon
1 Gorz, the Emissary of Darkness

3 Destiny Draw
3 Trade-In
3 Miracle Fusion
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
2 Salvage
1 Gishki Aquamirror
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 Allure of Darkness
1 Dark Hole
1 Heavy Storm
1 Monster Reborn

1 Grenosaurus
1 Melomelody the Brass Djinn
1 Wind-Up Zenmaines
1 Leviair the Sea Dragon
1 Number 17: Leviathan Dragon
1 Number 30: Acid Golem of Destruction
1 Temtempo Percussion Djinn
1 Maestroke Symphony Djinn
1 Blade Armor Ninja
1 Heroic Champion Excalibur
1 Number 39: Utopia
1 Hieratic Sun Dragon Overlord of Heliopolis
1 Number 11: Big Eye
1 Gaia Dragon, Thunder Charger
1 Black Rose Dragon

At first glance you might wonder whats the point of Joe's deck? The point of the deck is to draw as fast as possible into miracle fusion and make a absolute zero to help keep your opponent under constant pressure. Joe not only wants to clear his opponents monsters with Absolute Zero but he wants to get rid of back row by using 3 copies Mystical Space Typhoon and 1 Heavy Storm

Monster: The monster are pretty much stable in the deck. After looking at the deck and test playing it I came to the conclusion of cutting 1 Gishki Vision. I cut the vision becuase alot of the times it was dead becuase I either drew all my Soul Ogre's already or I used my aqua mirror .To replace the Gishki Vision I added a Destiny Hero Diamond Dude. The deck reminded my alot like Diamond Dude Turbo so I decided to add another Diamond Dude and He works extremely well. There's alot of normal Spells in the deck so it creates amazing synergy with Diamond Dude. To make Diamond Dude even more powerful there's tons of draw cards to get amazing pluses. Lastly Diamond dude is another target for dead Destiny Draws.

Spells: There's tons of spells in the deck but there all very important. I Decided to cut 1 Salvage because most of the time it was useless or adding the Gishki's to my hand was completely useless. The other spell I decided cut was Mystical Space Typhoon. The reason I cut Mystical Space Typhoon was because with chaos dragons and trap less decks becoming more popular Mystical Space Typhoon is becoming a dead card. Also with the amount of draw power in the deck getting to heavy Storm is no problem. To replace the Salvage and Mystical Space Typhoon I added 2 copies of Pot of Duality. This deck does have some consistency problems and Pot of Duality helps fix this. Pot of duality is also a normal spell and another card to hit with Diamond Dudes effect.

The Extra Deck: Looking at the Extra Deck I noticed a major problem. The major problem is Joe is running three copies of Miracle Fusions with no Elemental HERO fusion's in his Extra Deck. From the Extra Deck I decided to cut alot of useless or to situational cards like grenosaurus,melomoldy the brass djinn, Number 11: Big eye, Gaia the thunder charger, and Black rose dragon. To replace these 5 card I added the disparately needed 3 Elemental HERO Absolute Zero and 2 Elemental HERO Escuirado.

Here's the new Deck list:

Gishki Hero Turbo Deck

3 Gishki Soul Ogre
2 Gishki Vision
3 Destiny Hero Plasma
3 Destiny Hero Diamond Dude
2 Trageodia

2 Tour Guide from the Underworld
1 Sangan
1 Gishki Shadow
1 Elemental Hero Stratos
1 Dark Armed Dragon
1 Gorz, the Emissary of Darkness

3 Destiny Draw
3 Trade-In
3 Miracle Fusion
2 Mystical Space Typhoon

2 Pot of Duality
1 Salvage
1 Gishki Aquamirror
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 Allure of Darkness
1 Dark Hole
1 Heavy Storm
1 Monster Reborn

3 Elemental HERO absolute zero

2 Elemental HERO escurido

1 Wind-Up Zenmaines
1 Leviair the Sea Dragon
1 Number 17: Leviathan Dragon
1 Number 30: Acid Golem of Destruction
1 Temtempo Percussion Djinn
1 Maestroke Symphony Djinn
1 Blade Armor Ninja
1 Heroic Champion Excalibur
1 Number 39: Utopia
1 Hieratic Sun Dragon Overlord of Heliopolis

I would like to thank everyone who read my article and thank Alterealitygames again for allowing me to post this article. Lastly I would really appreciate if everyone checked out my youtube channel I just started. www.youtube.com/2proforyugioh