Deckfix: Blood Monarch

I recently received a deckfix request for a rather interesting deck, and I wanted to share it with you.

The original deck can be found on Gambit's blog, Duelism.

It appears as follows:

Blood Monarch/Bloodarch (Gambit Style)

2 Destiny Hero Plasma/Ｄ・ＨＥＲＯ　Ｂｌｏｏ－Ｄ
1 Destiny Hero Dogma/Ｄ・ＨＥＲＯ　ドグマガイ
2 Destiny Hero Diamond Dude/Ｄ・ＨＥＲＯ　ダイアモンド・ガイ
2 Caius the Shadow Monarch/邪帝ガイウス
2 Raiza the Storm Monarch/風帝ライザー
1 Kuraz the Light Monarch/光帝クライス
3 Tongue Twister/タン・ツイスター
1 Cyber Dragon/サーバー・ドラゴン
1 Elemental Hero Stratos/Ｅ・ＨＥＲＯ　エアーマン
1 Blackwing - Gale the Hurricane/ＢＦ－疾風のゲイル
1 Treeborn Frog/黄泉ガエル
1 Dandylion/ダンディライオン
1 Mashmallon/マッシュマロン
1 Shiba Warrior Taro/柴戦士タロ
1 Spirit Reaper/魂を削る死霊
1 Sangan/クリッター
2 Krebons/クレボンス

3 Destiny Draw/デスティニードロー
1 Emergency Teleport/緊急テレポート
1 Trade In/トレード・イン
1 Pot of Avarice/貪欲な壺
1 Brain Control/洗脳ーブレインコントロールー
1 Heavy Storm/大嵐
1 Mystical Space Typhoon/サイクロン

3 Reckless Greed/無用な欲ぼり
2 Ultimate Offering/血の代償
1 Torrential Tribute/激流葬
1 Mirror Force/聖なるバリアーミラーフォースー

The premise of this deck is the ridiculous number of draw 2 cards.

For starters, Destiny draw and reckless greed together with a Trade in for good effect has proven in the past to work quite well.

Gambit has taken the extra step and packed Tounge Twisters along with Ultimate offering, a powerful draw engine available to almost uniquely to Ultimate Offering Monarch decks.

Another interesting tech is the single Kuraz, allowing you to get even more draws off of cards such as Reckless Greed.
Additionally, the Ultimate Offering allows for you to retrieve the one drawback of Kuraz, that it eats your normal summon.

Now, for deckfixes.

First off, I have no idea why you didnt add Allure of Darkness, considering how many DARKs you are running, so +2 Allure off the bat.

Trade in is a powerful card, yes, but in ones, even with 3 targets, it is a bit weak and hard to use. I would suggest adding one more Trade In.
+1 Trade In

To balance this out, one more level 8 must be added, so another Plasma is added, for good effect.
On top of this, it contributes to the deck's namesake, Blood Monarch.
+1 Destiny Hero Plasma

With your increased draw power, digging into that Ultimate Offering is easier. This allows for more monsters to be fielded and used, so why not add another Pot of Avarice? It also helps for your Destiny Draw + Trade In super draws.
+1 Pot of Avarice

Now, another integral part of using Destiny Draw with Monarchs is the Stratos into Malicious, then D-Draw'ing off the Malicious, for free monarch fodder later in the game.
+2 D-Hero Malicious.

Totaling
+2 Destiny Hero Malicious, +1 Pot of Avarice, +1 Destiny Hero Plasma, +1 Trade In, and +2 Allure of Darkness.

Undoubtedly, this gives you much more draw power. Your deck now is packing SIXTEEN draw 2 Cards, more than most people have in ALL their decks combined.

Unfortunately, these increased aspects of the deck calls for cards to be cut.

With the increased number of D-Heroes for Destiny Draw, losing one Diamond dude is now a viable move.

MST is cut because this deck allows access to almost all your cards all the time, so simple stalling or removal can be in the form of Brionac and Stardust Dragon easier.

Along with the increased draw power, you have easier access to Ultimate Offering, the powerhouse card of this deck. However, this also means you lose the ability to use Treeborn Frog quite as often. Thus, Treeborn Frog will be cut.

Gale, while a powerful card, is great for killing monsters, but is only valid once. The drawback of Gale in the new deck is that you pull out strong moves in momentum in one turn alone, perhaps your opponents turn, so the one time valid mini tide turner that is Gale is not quite as good.
A hard cut, yes, but necessary.

Shiba Warrior Taro, a third onwards indestructible by battle monster after Mashmallon and Spirit Reaper, will be cut because you dont have to stall quite as much anymore.

The last two cuts are extremely difficult.
Cyber Dragon, because you can lay down monsters every turn, meaning you dont usually have nothing on the field, and Torrential Tribute, because of your massive moves, and the fact that IMO, Mirror Force is slightly better.

It will end up something like this:

Bloodarch (Rauzes Fix)

3 Destiny Hero Plasma/Ｄ・ＨＥＲＯ　Ｂｌｏｏ－Ｄ
1 Destiny Hero Dogma/Ｄ・ＨＥＲＯ　ドグマガイ
2 Destiny Hero Malicious/Ｄ・ＨＥＲＯ　ディアボリック・ガイ
1 Destiny Hero Diamond Dude/Ｄ・ＨＥＲＯ　ダイアモンド・ガイ
2 Caius the Shadow Monarch/邪帝ガイウス
2 Raiza the Storm Monarch/風帝ライザー
1 Kuraz the Light Monarch/光帝クライス
3 Tongue Twister/タン・ツイスター
1 Elemental Hero Stratos/Ｅ・ＨＥＲＯ　エアーマン
1 Dandylion/ダンディライオン
1 Mashmallon/マッシュマロン
1 Spirit Reaper/魂を削る死霊
1 Sangan/クリッター
2 Krebons/クレボンス

3 Destiny Draw/デスティニードロー
2 Allure of Darkness/闇の誘惑
1 Emergency Teleport/緊急テレポート
2 Trade In/トレード・イン
2 Pot of Avarice/貪欲な壺
1 Brain Control/洗脳ーブレインコントロールー
1 Heavy Storm/大嵐

3 Reckless Greed/無用な欲ぼり
2 Ultimate Offering/血の代償
1 Mirror Force/聖なるバリアーミラーフォースー

This concludes today's deckfix writeup. Enjoy your new deck, Gambit. Super Draw LiDa on steroids, only without the LiDa part.

Feel free to netdeck or copy the concept!

Halloween Tournament, make your locals one!

Well, since Halloween is coming up this month...

You might say its a little early to say so, but I feel that enough time should be given to let people prepare/tell their friends.

The thing is, since Halloween is on Saturday this year, and locals are usually on Saturday, why not lump both together for some extra fun?

Heres the concept:

On halloweeen day, a tournament will be held(on any scale is fine. Just do it.), where all/most contestants must be in costume.

I'm goanna leave "costume" undefined, so you can be cos playing as Yuusei, saying RAWR I AM DRACULA, or pretending to be Bahamut84, for all I care.

Even if not everyone agrees, the point is to have fun and enjoy playing on Halloween Day.

And someone must be nice and supply Candy for consolation prizes!

Of course, regular prize Gold Series Box/3X SOVR box/whatever you guys use as prizes is normal.

So what do you think?
WTF Fail? OMG MUST DO? Sure why not? I suggest these intelligent changes to make it a better experience overall?

Anti LS:

Needle Ceiling would work quite well for your LS problems.

Deals with the swarming and to an extent JD.

Magical Android: Why isnt it being used?

Magical Android is one of the first Synchro monsters to be released, alongside Stardust Dragon, etc.

Yes, it is overshadowed by Catastor, but what people do not usually notice is that it by itself makes 3000 life advantage.

While Catastor does eat everything sans Zombie Synchro alive, Magical Android clears the 2200 line, allowing it to kill things like Arms Wing and Brionac.

In light beatdown decks, especially, or LS, Android can also call upon Honest.

Level 5 may be hard to come by in the top decks of the format, but shouldnt we clear a slot in the extra for this monster?

Duel Puzzle #9!

You:
Hand:1 Foolish Burial 1 Phantom of Chaos
Life: 500
Graveyard: None
RFP: None

Enemy: BF Sirroco the Dawn, BF Gale the Hurricane, BF Shura the Blue Flame, BF Silverwind the Lonely, BF Kalut the Moonshadow
Hand: BF Kalut the Moonshadow
Graveyard: None
Life: 7600

It is the standby phase of your turn.

Reduce the enemy to 0 this turn.

Multiple Sleeve Layers: How its done.

Recently, people have put interest into the multi layer sleeves.

And so, I have put together a little tutorial/pictoguide as to how the Japanese put mutiple sleeve layers.

Note that the first few steps are usually standard, while on higher layers differing techniques may be used.

We begin with our raw materials, the sleeves.

Note that Dimension Zero Sleeves are out of production, considering Dimension Zero kinda died out.

We enlist the help of our friend, Archfiend of Gilfer, now available in Gold Rare.

The first basic layer is used in many decks in the OCG, clear and with the 5D's Logo.
Note that many players do not place their logo on the front of the card, but many also do.

The friendly KMC sleeve. While these are not quite the quality of Ultrapro IMO, their size IS different, and this size allows it to be the second layer without conflict with other sizes.

Next up is the Konami made 5D's sleeve.
Take note that if you use the Signer sleeves, due to a difference in size, KMC sleeves cannot be used.

Next up is the "Perfect Size" sleeves. Also great for binder sleeves, alongside the clear 5Ds one.

This allows you to stick a junk card behind the sleeves to give it extra strength.

Next, you have the "Super Size" sleeves.
Note that these also come in half clear colors, which allows you to put a tint on the front of your card.

Not pictured, but an alternative to these are "The Forum" sleeves. However, due to the lack of color shown on the final product, and the sheer cost of them(10USD for 50), they arent exactly the most popular.
However, the metal supports give your card extra strength.

Your final product will use the Dimension Zero sleeves.
As you can see, the flowery framing fits around the card image.

Recently, another company has begun production of the same sized sleeves, with several different options for the "frame". They havent really caught on yet, because they are clear, with the exception of the frame.

And finally, your product will be pretty thick.
Pictured is the card, covered in several layers of sleeves, and on top of it a regular card.

Junk and Debris Tutorial!

On a side note, searching Junk and Debris Yugioh on youtube proves quite intersting!