There IS a doctor in the house!

November 15, 2012

by Ivan Wong

Hello fellow Yu-gi-oh patients! Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Dr. Wong from Melbourne, Florida and I am here to provide you a dose of treatment for your diseased deck.

Today 2 very special patients came across my clinic in search of a cure for their deck and they are the superstars, Billy Brake and Joe Giorlando!

Let’s start things off with Mr. Brake’s 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

Mr. Brake the way you know your rock stun is running properly is when you realize your opponent wants to strangle you. Please, keep that in mind. Now, I will provide you with my analysis of your version of the deck based on your card choices then accommodate you with the correct medication.

The Core: 3 Copies of the Koa’ki Meiru Rocks, Wall, and Sandman, shuts down monster effects, spells, and traps. Maxx “C“, Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo, and Neo-Spacian Grandmole help you control the amount of monsters on your opponent’s board. Card Trooper send cards to the graveyard not only to increase its attack but also feeds cards to the graveyard for Block Golem and call of the haunted. Mystical Space Typhoons, Dark Hole, and Soul Takers allow you to play your win condition (the monsters) safely. Pot of Dualities and Monster Reborn give you the field presence you need to pressure your opponent. Seal of Orichalcos turns your monster into giants. Your traps simply defend your win condition and prevent you from losing.

Judging from the way the Meta is leaning towards, Koa’ki Meiru Sandman doesn’t seem potent enough to play in 3s and Card Trooper mills can be inconsistent. My solution to this would be King Tiger Wanghu and Cardcar D. Those cards are great to open with since Cardcar D would net you a +1 and gives you more consistency while King Tiger Wanghu deal with those pesky Mermails, Madolche, Wind up, and geargi. Seal of Orichalcos provides great synergy with King Tiger since all your monster will get a 500 attack boost your Fossil Dyna won’t be destroyed by King Tiger!

There seems to be some minor problems also in the extra deck but thank god…. There’s a doctor in the house!

Here is the cured version of the deck:

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

3 Koa’ki Meiru Wall
2 Block Golem
2 CardcarD

2 King Tiger Wanghu
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

1 Abyss Dweller

1 Leviar the Sea Dragon
2 Kochi Kochi Dragon
1 Soul of Silver Mountain
1 Temtempo the Percussion Djinn
1 Wind-Up Zenmaister
1 Gachi Gachi
1 Fairy King Albverdich
1 Number C39: Utopia Ray
1 Number 39: Utopia
1 Photon Papilloperative
1 Stardust Dragon

Let’s have a look at our 2^nd patient, Mr. Giorlando’s Gishki Turbo deck.

Monsters: 20

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

Spells: 20

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

Extra Deck: 15

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

Hm.. What do we have here? The “virus” that this deck has caught seem fairly new to me. Don’t worry though; the technology in this clinic should be sufficient to fix this deck right up!
The Core: "Gishki" focus on Ritual Summoning and then recycling cards to maintain advantage. For example, after using Gishki Aquamirror to Ritual Summon a Gishki monster, it can be returned to the Deck in order to add a Gishki Ritual Monster from your Graveyard to your hand, possibly the ones that was tribute to the graveyard during the previous Ritual Summon. Gishki Shadow and Gishki Vision are vital to the Deck for this reason: by discarding one of them, a Gishki Ritual Spell or Ritual Monster can be added from the Deck to the hand. Joe Giorlando’s deck focus on the raw speed of the deck from all the draw engine the deck has to dig through all the win condition the deck has in a few turn. HEROES combines with other attribute such as the water monster (Gishki) can transform in to power monsters such as Elemental Hero Absolute Zero.

Now, I have good news and a bad news. The bad news is that the deck suffers from inconsistency due to the numbers in the deck but the good news is that I got the cure for this virus! To fix this, we shall remove 1 copy of Gishki Vision due to the fact that there is only 1 target this card can search for in the deck. Adding in 2 copies of Maxx “C” to combo with Tragoedia and to either punish or stop your opponent from over committing. Removing 1 copy of Mystical Space Typhoon and 1 copy of Salvage for 2 copies of Pot of Duality to add make the deck much more consistent. The extra deck is where the big issue lies. We have 3 copy of miracle fusion, but 0 copy of fusion monsters. We shall add in 2 Copies of Elemental Hero Absolute Zero and 1 Copy of Elemental Hero Escuridão by removing some monster that are practically unsummon-able in this deck.

Here is the cured version of the deck:

Monsters: 21

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

2 Maxx “C”

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

Spells: 20

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

2 Pot of Duality

Extra Deck: 15

2 Elemental Hero Absolute Zero
1 Elemental Hero Escuridão
1 Elemental Hero Gaia
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 Wind-Up Zenmaines
1 Gagaga Cowboy
1 Abyss Dweller

Thank you for trusting me with your precious decks. Now I know I won’t be able to cure every deck out there in the world nor do I have all the right remedy, but as your doctor, be sure that I will give it my all to help! Thank you all for you time and hopefully I will get to see you guys again.

Deck Doctor, Ivan Wong