This is Byron with my entry in ARG’s Deck Doctor Contest. I’ll definitely spare you my boring life story until after the contest if I get this job. I’d prefer to get right into the deck.
Billy Brake provided this deck for us to fix.
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
Billy has given this deck a solid straightforward skeleton. Summon and attack, defend with traps. However, the current state of Yu-Gi-Oh requires something more. For as long as Rock Stun has been an option it has consistently ranked low on the speed scale. Lately, we have seen some incredible advancement in deck explosiveness. I would like to bring that to Rock Stun.
The first card I would like to look at is called Monster Slots. Monster Slots is a card I began testing last format with Wind-Ups and Inzektors. Monster Slots lets a player target 1 face-up monster you control and 1 monster in your Graveyard with the same Level; banish the target from the Graveyard, then draw 1 card and reveal it, then if the card you drew is a monster with the same Level as the monster on the field, Special Summon it.
Since this deck will be running mostly Level 3s and 4s, this card should achieve maximum efficiency very often, and even if it doesn’t special summon it still draws a card, allowing it to get around the ever present Thunder King Rai-Oh.
I will also add Gigantes due to its 1900 atk and spell/trap row clearing ability.
Some people would like to add Grandsoil due to the use of Card Trooper, I would prefer to go a much different route.
Koa’ki Meiru Boulder is an underutilized deck thinner that could make for some great set-ups with Creature Swap (a card also added) and Block Golem
Brake’s Extra Deck includes Naturia Beast and Barkion, which any player who has faced either can tell you, presents some incredibly difficult match-up problems. However, without Earth Tuners, a player is forced to hope for a favorable match-up or play with two dead cards in the Extra Deck. This was a tricky fix as there are no Rock-Type Tuners and the especially vulnerable Naturia Cosmobeet was the only Special Summon tuner available. Therefore, I chose to go with Naturia Cherries, since it would be able to self-replace after an attack or a card effect, thereby thinning the deck and offering extra protection.
This deck should now be able to make some explosive game 1 plays including summoning a Number 16: Shock Master.
The simple changes to the Extra should allow the deck to be much more competitive in Match-ups
The New List:
Monsters 23:
3 Koa’ki Meiru Guardian
2 Koa’ki Meiru Sandman
3 Koa’ki Meiru Wall
3 Block Golem
2 Koa’ki Meiru Boulder
2 Maxx “C”
2 Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo
1 Neo-Spacian Grandmole
2 Gigantes
3 Naturia Cherries
Spells: 9
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
2 Monster Slots
2 Creature Swap
1 Heavy Storm
1 Monster Reborn
1 Dark Hole
Traps: 8
2 Compulsory Evacuation Device
2 Dimensional Prison
2 Solemn Warning
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Starlight Road
Extra Deck: 15
1 Gem-Knight Pearl
1 Temtempo the Percussion Djinn
1 Fairy King Albverdich
1 Naturia Beast
1 Naturia Barkion
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Stardust Dragon
1 Catastor
1 Number 39: Utopia
1 Number 16: Shock Master
2 Maestroke the Symphony Djinn
1 Gagaga Cowboy
1 Kachi Kochi Dragon
1 Steelswarm Roach
Joe Giorlando contributed this submission to the contest.
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
First Off, I decided that to make this work at all I would have to completely overhaul this deck. Breaking it down to basics, I wanted to start with:
1 Stratos
3 Neos Alius
3 Thunder King Rai-Oh
1 Honest
3 Miracle Fusion
3 Gemini Spark
on the Hero end, and:
2 Gishki Shadow
3 Gishki Vision
2 Evigiski Soul Ogre
1 Evigishki Gustkraken
Giving us 22 of the 40 cards for the deck
With Staples
Monster Reborn
Dark Hole
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon x2
Reinforcement of the Army
E – Emergency Call
This brings our card count to 29, leaving us 11 spaces to work with, since a deck should never be called turbo if it’s over 40 cards.
2 Tour Guide
1 Sangan
1 Gorz
1 Salvage
2 Gishki Aquamirror
I added 2 Royal Decree to help the deck go off uninhibited.
And for the 2 final spots I chose Deep Sea Diva
I switched 1 Soul Ogre for a Gustkraken, due to Gustkraken’s effect and I felt that the added information would easily outweigh the potential benefits of one more Soul Ogre.
Adding in the Neos Alius, seemed more consistent than leaving in the plasmas and allowed for Shining to play a major role in the deck. Gemini sparks come with the Neo Alius’ for obvious reasons. I added another Gishki Aquamirror so that the Gishki monsters would have a chance to be used multiple times per turn. Deep Sea Diva was added to give the deck easy access to Gachi Gachi for ATK boosts, while also being able to search Gishki Vision from the deck for use as tribute. Also it give salvage more targets, and I was also able to drop one Salvage so it doesn’t become an early game Anchor, the deck runs just fine with one. I added one Emergency Call due to the increased number of Elemental Heroes, and I feel like I was able to eliminate many of the potential dead draws and get the most use out of the cards in the deck.
This way the deck is able to make huge momentum swings without being weighed down with top heavy monsters.
The Extra Deck needed to include Fusions, especially Shining and Absolute Zero.
I was sure to include 3 of each.
The Final List
1 Stratos
3 Neo Alius
1 Honest
3 Thunder King Rai-Oh
2 Gishki Shadow
3 Gishki Vision
2 Evigiski Soul Ogre
1 Evigishki Gustkraken
2 Tour Guide
1 Sangan
1 Gorz
2 Deep Sea Diva
1 Salvage
2 Gishki Aquamirror
1 Monster Reborn
1 Dark Hole
1 Heavy Storm
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 E – Emergency Call
3 Miracle Fusion
3 Gemini Spark
2 Royal Decree
3 Elemental Hero The Shining
3 Elemental Hero Absolute Zero
1 Gachi Gachi
1 Zenmaines
1 Leviair
1 Maestroke
1 Utopia
1 Leviathan Dragon
1 Heroic Champion - Excalibur
1 Acid Golem
1 Heliopolis
Suggestions, comments, and criticisms are welcome.
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