Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2011

(Angels) 1st Game: Abuse TG Librarian -> Use Side Board -> Win 2nd Game with MetaBeat

Hey guys,


to use Librarian perfectly you have to play as much Lv. 2 and 3 Monsters as possible. Also cards which negate Specialsummons aren't useful.
So, what Cards do we mustn't play?
Oppression, Kristya, Barrier Statue of the Heavens.
So, what options to we have?
Lv. 2: Earth, Shine Ball, Herold
Lv. 3: Venus, Birdman, Banisher of the Radiance.
WHAT? Banisher? Yes!
Banisher is really amazing, it kills the Tier-1-Decks XSaber and Plant. Because of playing without Kristya our MatchUp is worse against those Deck, but Banisher compansate that. Absent Kristya we have less cards who needs the graveyard. Honest + 2 Herold (only 2 because of the Board (later more) and DD-factor) + 3 Hyperion and Reborn. None of that cards need more than 2 Fairys in the grave so they aren't really DD with Banisher.

Yeah. All in all in game 1 we have so many options to Synchro for Librarian. Then we can abuse it with our 8 Tuner and win easily.
But what to we do in Game 2? Our opponent know our Deck now and could board cards against the Deck.
My idea is an real MetaBeat-Board. We board out the complete Fairy-Engine and side in the AntiMeta-Stuff Cyber Dragon, Pachycephalo or Jowgen, Breaker, DD Warrior Lady + Reinforcement of the Army, Dimensional Fissure, Smashing Ground and Royal Oppression.
All Slots in Side are filled, only heavy decision is now playing with Pachy or Jowgen.
You have to set Pachy 1st before you can clear the Synchros. So a Tengu come, run into Set Pachy, both are destroyed, but a new Tengu come. Jowgen doesn't have that problem. You play him, use the Effect, destroy the Tengu and a new don't come. Probleme is that his ATK is lower, and you have to discard a random card.
Another fact is that Jowgen is Light. That is good and bad in one. You can use Jowgen for Light of Redemption and save it with Honest, BUT Light Improsing Mirror and Ally Salvo is a big problem.
Actually I don't have Pachy, so I am going to test Jowgen 1st.

A complete build is following in the next days, because I must find a consistent one before posting. The biggest probleme is that you have to play a Fairy-Engine which is small as possible, but the cutbacks mustn't jeopardize the consistentce.

~Marager

Sonntag, 19. Juni 2011

(Project Angels) F**k with Librarian

Hey guys,

the T.G. Hyper Librarian is available now and it a really imba card.
You actually have three options: play with it, play explicit against it (and lose, lol) or stop playing YuGiOh for a short time.
In the Angel-Deck the Librarian is really amazing, because it is so easy to get Lv. 5. You play about 6 Lv. 2 and up to 3 Lv. 3 Tuner and all works perfect for synchroing the Hyper T.G..
You can start easy with Earth+Birdman+Protection in your hand and then make in the 2nd turn +3 or something and win the game.
I like mor and more the fact selling Kristya, because when you play with Kristya you have to play less Tuner. Without Kristya you can play up to 9 Tuner (Herold, Birdman, Earth x3) and abuse the Hyper T.G. really hard. Only for synchroing I will test Tengu so that I can synchrosummon more and more when I control the Hyper T.G.
BUT you don't only have to integrate the Hyper T.G., you have to answer you opponents Librarians. With Herold of orange Light the Angels have already a good answer, but I don't know if that is enough. I think Veiler or Forbidden Chalice aren't good enough, because they aren't permanent and only make the abuse slower. My personal favorite is by now Fiendish Chain, because it is permanent and also stops attacks, so you can save the Earth with it when you have to.

That where my 1st thoughts about the T.G. Hyper Librarian, thanks for reading.
~Marager

Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2011

(Project Angels) Play without Kristya

Hey guys,

The Nationals are over, I can't go to the European Championship, because I am in holydays and also don't have the Quali, so all in all there is no big event for me in the future.
Everybody know that Kristya get a reprint, but nobody knows where. I think we get the reprint at September at the earliest.
I am going to sell my 2 copies at eBAY. Here is a link to my auction! I hope I get about 60€, because I bought it for about 30€, so I have a 100% win-quotient.
I want to keep on playing the Deck, so I need a build. I know netdecking is random, but I am going to start my testings with the following build. Florian Amelang made the Top 32 with the Deck at the Nationals. Good work btw!

3x Master Hyperion
3x Herald of Orange Light
3x Genex Ally Birdman
3x The Agent of Creation - Venus
3x The Agent of Mystery - Earth
1x Honest
3x Mystical Shine Ball

3x Pot of Duality
3x United We Stand
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Mind Control
1x Monster Reborn
1x Dark Hole
1x Book of Moon
1x Giant Trunade

2x Solemn Warning
2x Trap Stun
2x Dimensional Prison
1x Mirror Force
1x Solemn Judgment

1x X-Saber Urbellum
1x Colossal Fighter
1x Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Boundary
1x Stardust Dragon
1x Scrap Dragon
1x Avenging Knight Parshath
1x Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Boundary
1x Black Rose Dragon
1x Magical Android
1x Armory Arm
1x Ally of Justice Catastor
1x Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth and Sky
1x Scrap Archfiend
1x Ancient Holy Wyvern
1x Chimeratech Fortress Dragon

2x Consecrated Light
2x Puppet Plant
2x Cyber Dragon
2x Snowman Eater
2x Nobleman of Crossout
2x Dust Tornado
2x Chain Disapperance
1x Malevolent Catastrophe

I will ignore the Side and Extra Deck, it's only written here for the sake of completeness.

The Maindeck is really interesting.
He played the mxaimal copies of all monsters. Also 3 Birdman, what is most interesting. The Birdman come always special summon, what could be deathdraw with Kristyas, but he played no Kristyas, so Birdmans deathdraw rate is lower.
3 copies of Venus is also interesting, but it is in his buid a good choice for 2 reasons: 1st are the 3 Birdman. Venus + Birdman are a really good synchrooption and you can give an Earth to your hand (with Birdman) and search again with Earth then. That means +1, but you need the targets. 2nd reason is United we stand (UWS). UWS is a really amazing equip-spell, not only because of the Daigusta-OTK. With 3 Venus you have easily Venus + UWS what means a really big Beatstick.
He ignore Treasure of Heaven, but play 3 copies of Pot of Duality. When you have the money a logical choice, I will test only 3 Treasures, I don't think that matters so much, even if PoD is clearly better.
Mind Control is a good choice with the 3 Birdman. You can give a Synchro back to the ExtraDeck or play a big Synchro on yourself.
2 Warning - moneycard. I am going to play BTH or Debunk, don't know yet. Or maybe a crazy thing like "Forced Back" oder "Compulsary Evacuation Device".
Interesting is Trap Stun. It is always the same discussion. Dust Tornado or 7 Tools or Trap Stun like Florian played it. Dust Tornados were in my build the right choice, because I control and don't really rush big or want to OTK. In his build the both other choices could be good. Warning kills the Deck and 7 Tools is a really good answer, but the Rush is more important and with UWS you could OTK easier, so Trap Stun could be a good decision also. I will test both.
Interesting is that he didn*t play Torrential Tribute, Miraculous Descent, Call of the Haunted or Dimensional Alchemist.
He didn't play TT because he want to save the Earth and the Venus and not destroy the whole field. Also he doesn't have the awesome combo "play Alchemist, remove a monster, play TT". So this decision is obvious.
Descent or Call could be good cards with UWS, because you get more monster, but Florian decided to play less deathdraws as possible and both are death cards in the early game. When I play with 2 or 3 Treasure Descent is less dd and I have to test it.
Alchemist wouldn't be good in that deck than in mine because you don't really need the big monster. Alchemist normally get you Kristya or Hyperion early, but none of that cards are real central in here.
A funny choice could be Pot of Avarice, because after the 1st Venus you normally doesn't have any Shine Balls anymore, what could kill you in the lategame. So you could play PoA to get them back from the Grave or Necroface to get them back from the RfG-Pile. I don't any other card which put cards from the RfG back to your Deck, is there?

With that thoughts I end.
~Marager

Montag, 13. Juni 2011

(Project Angels) Report German Nationals Champioship 2011


Report German National Championship 2011

1st my build for the main event:

3] Hyperion
3] Earth
3] Shine Ball
3] Herold of orange Light
2] Kristya
2] Venus
2] Dimensional Alchemist
1] Birdman
1] Cyber Dragon
1] Honest
(21)

3] Cards from the Sky
2] MST
1] Reborn
1] Trunade
1] Dark Hole
1] Book of Moon
1] Swords of Revealing Light
(10)

2] Dimensional Prison
2] Bottomless Trap Hole
2] Dust Tornado
1] Black Horn of Heaven
1] Miraculous Descent
1] Judgement
1] Force
1] Torrential
(11)
EXTRA DECK
1] Lord Gishilnodon
1] Scrap Dragon
1] Avenging Knight Parshath
1] Armory Arm
1] Colossal Fighter
1] Brionac
2] BRD
1] Formula Synchron
1] Ancient Sacred Wyvern
1] SDD
1] Trishula
1] Catastor
1] Thoughtruler (Day 2: Mist Wurm)
1] CFD
(15)

SIDEDECK
3] Banisher
2] Puppet Plant
1] Veiler (Day 2: DD Crow, what was also bad)
1] Kinetic
1] Gorz (Day 2: Rivalry of Warlords)
2] Smashing Ground
1] Burial from a DD (Day 2: Debunk, what is awesome)
2] Gozen-Match
2] Chain Disappearance


Round 1: vs. Enrico H. (Gladi)
I won the 1st game easy, because he couldn’t fusion. Then Trishula + Kristya were just awesome. The 2nd game I lost, because he started with Gladi + 2 Chariot + Warning. 3rd game I lost too, because I didn’t draw monster. The duell was really quick, but my match-up against Gladi ist just too bad, maybe Walhalla + Hecatrice in the Deck would be better.
0:1

Round 2: Michael S. (Plant)
1st game was really funny, I started with Earth + BTH. He played Lonefire and searched out a Tytanial, I answered with BTH. He used Tytas effect bringing it to the Graveyard. I had Reborn in Hand, so I played Trishula (removing Dandy from Hand and Force from field, lol) and then Reborn for Tyta and that was the win.
2nd game he started really good and bring me to 1000 lp, when he had only 2800 damage. The I played Trunade clearing the field, Hyperion (topdeck) + Kristya turning the Duell around and won 2:0.
1:1

Round 3: Kay Z. (Samurai)
He was really young and opened game 1 with Portal + SSU so I lost. Kristya won the 2nd game for me. 3rd game I didn’t get damage, because he didn’t have removals against Kinetic. Then he made a big misplay, because he thought Double-Edged Sword Technique can bring back Shien’s Squire, but it doesn’t. So I told him, he had to bring back Shi En + Kizan and in the End Phase he died because of Double-Edged drawback.
2:1

Round 4: Torben (Tengu Plant)
1st game I didn’t have any chance, but it was a long duell. The important scene was the following: I had Earth and TT, Prison, Horn facedown. He played Debris to bring Dandy back and had 2 cards in his backrow. I didn’t played TT to save the Earth (lol). So he bring out BRD, I answered with Horn but he had the 7 Tools and the BRD blowed up the field. I didn’t come back after that situation.
2nd game he made lots of plus with Tengus and his 3 Pot of Avarice. PoA was the gamebreaker, because he had 6 cards in Hand where I only had 3 and on the field we had all in all the same options. Quick: I lost.
2:2

Round 5: Andre W. (Xsaber)
I love matches against Saber. 1st duell he had about plus 6 but couldn’t kill Kristya, so I beatdowned with Alchemist for the win. 2nd duell was closer. I had Kristya early, but he had Forbidden Chalice as a really good response. So he killed Kristya, but I  had already 6 Fairys in the grave. However I had enough traps to control the game. Then I draw Hyperion through Card from the Sky with the result winning tha game next turn.
3:2

Round 6: (Forgetting Name L ) Agent Angels
My match-up for mirror-matches is really good, because I play lots of protection. He was a really nice guy, but I 2:0ed him without any problems. Afterwards we talked a lot, it was nice.
4:2

Yeah, then come what have to come: My tiebreak was really bad, because some opponents dropped (I hate you! lol) and my defeats werde in round 1 and round 4 what is really bad. Altogether I ended up at place 260, but the cut where at 256. Sad.


Day 2:
I arrived really late at the location. There wasn’t an attack of the giant card and I was too late for playing the Teamcup.
I made a few changes (kicked Sorl + Horn, added 1st Prison + nothing and later instead of Prison Walhalla + Hecatrice). I played with the 3-prisons-build 2 8-people-KO-events and lostone time against Gladi in the final and the other time against Gravekeeper in round one.
Then I decided playing 1 Hecatrice + 1 Walhalla and played a 32-people Win-A-Mat tournament. I made the finals and my opponent agreed to a split. We selled the mat for 30€, so both get 15€.
Afterwards there wasn’t another 32-people-Win-A-Mat, but you could win a mat at the 8-people-events. I played, won and selled the mat for 25€. All in all I get 40€. I bought a WCQ 2011 mat for 20€ and some cards.
Day 2 was all in all a really good result for me.


Conclusion:
+ 4:2 in Mainevent without Warning + PoD
+ Proved all wrong which said my build isn’t consistent enough
+ Won 2 mats
+ really nice opponents in the Mainevent, round 1, 4, 5 + 6 were really funny
~ Hecatrice + Walhalla (both random) are really awesome, but I assesses to late
~ PoD isn’t that important, Warning sadly is.
- Didn’t made Day 2
- Sidedeck wasn’t good enough
- Selling + Trading was really difficult
- Amigo’s planning was really bad, the mainevent-hall didn’t have enough place, so lots of tables were in the Sideevent hall.
- The schedule was totally crap

All in all Day 2 was better then Day 1 for me, lol.

Thanks for reading!
~ Marager

Samstag, 11. Juni 2011

(Project Angels) Tiebreak kills Day 2

Hey guys,

I am back from the Nationals. The organisation was a catastrophe, so we played just 6 rounds, then make a cut of 256 players, which play tomorrow 2 rounds and then Top 64.
I went 4-2, I think that is a good result, but not good enough, because my tiebreak is tooooo bad, so I finished on position 260. Fail! Here are the finalstandings, I am at position 260 like I said, watch at it.
I really hate all my opponents who drop, so that they killed my chances making Day 2.

All for now, tomorrow or tonight I will post a longer report.
Thank you for reading!
~Marager

Freitag, 10. Juni 2011

(Project Angels) Tomorrow is D-Day // Metagame predictions

Hey guys,

tomorrow is, where it all comes down. One month work, lots of hours testing and trading, lots of energy invested. My build is ready, it works perfect together with the Sidedeck and have no real problems.
So, WCQ Kassel...Veni, vidi, vici; I came, I saw, I conquered!

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Here are my Metagame predictions,
1st, what is going to be played:
1. PlantVersions + Saber
2. Samurai + Gravekeeper
These are the 4 Decks, which will be played most. No matter, what is in the reality good, but all the Decks won some events in the past and on Nationals player only play, what they THINK is good.

2nd, what makes the Top 16:
6 Plant Versions
3 XSaber
2 Samurai
1 Gravekeeper
1 Agent Angels
1 XXX-Sworn
1 Formula Monarch
1 Gladi

I think Tengu/Plant Versions are the strongest choice for the Nationals, because they are very flexible. Against Samurai and Gk they can board really good and against all other stuff there isn't a really auto-lose match-up. Only the prohibition of the Armory Arm + Kolo OTK could be problematic, because it what very easy with the Combo Dandy + LfB.
The really good players in Germany like XSaber more than all other Decks, so the will top very much too.
Normally there will be one rnd who mills lucky all the tournament, the quota Formula Monarch, because one have to  go to Top 16. European loves Gladi, so we will have one in Top 16 too.

Yeah, that was all for today. Wish me enough luck, I will post the results tomorrow  night.
~Marager

Dienstag, 7. Juni 2011

(Project Angels) United we stand

Here, live (lol) from Japan: [url=http://shriek.twoday.net/stories/19460317/]The United we stand Agent Angel Deck[/url]!
I dont have to copy the list, you can use the link for sure.
Interesting is, that the Deck is a normal Agent Angel Build, but the player added 3 UWS and fixed the EstraDeck with [url=http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Daigusto_Phoenix]Daigusto Phönix[/url] and Power Tool dragon.
It is so easy to OTK with the Deck. You only play Earth, search Venus, save Earth for one turn. Next Turn you summon Venus + 3 Shine Balls. You synchrosummon for Power Tool Dragon and Exceedsummon Daigusto Dragon. Then you put UWS on Daigusto and have an OTK. lol.
You need only ONE card and a bit set-up for the OTK.

So, TCG-World, look forward to Exceeds, they will change the game and bring you new OTKs, like Synchros did too. But, up to that cruel time, play with the cards you have, win tournaments and don't be to scared of the future :)

(Project Angels) Weekend Insights

Hi,

the last weekend I played a random 30-men tournament. I went very bad, but I didn't have a real deck, so that doesn't matter at all.
The biggest insight was that Germans love XSaber. XSaber went to the finals, but lost it (Plantversion won). I am not affraid of Plantversions at all, because reading is really easy against it. Normally you know their options so that you can make good plays against it.
I didnt saw any Gravekeeper, which would be a problematic match-up for me. I like that, but despite I think I maindeck Dust Tornados instead of 7 Tools, because I don't want to lose because of paying LP and also Dusts are really good against Gk and Sams.
Anyway I am a bit scared of Samurai, because a Portal is such a random win and I dont like to lose because of Portal. In all other cases Samurais arent a big problem.

All in all I tested today against XSaber and I like it veeeeery much.
Yeah, of cause there are some games, which Angels draw very bad or Saber luck around, but yet Saber arent a real difficult match-up. You can board easily with Banishers and Kristya is an autowin, even so Saber don't have real outs against her.
There was one really funny game. I had Kristya, rnd. monsters and stuff like Solemn, Dusts, Prison set. He had only a small backrow and about 3 facedown monsters and a Pashuul. He didnt had outs against Kristya, so he all in all lost because of his own Pashuul.

I have a good build now, but I have to fix about 5-6 cards.