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− | A Gradius Deck revolves around the use of the cards "[[Gradius]]" or "[[Victory Viper XX03]]" along with their support cards. The main strategy is to protect your monsters from traps with the effect of "[[Jade Knight]]" and boost them all with cards you can activate during damage calculation, so you dont lose your trap free advantage over your opponent. As a result, a Gradius Deck operates under a [[Swarm]]/[[OTK]] hybrid. Fighting under this style is a major gamble because just one wrong move can cripple the Deck, so this Deck must have a counter ready every turn. A variation on this Deck reached the [http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?cat=33 SHONEN JUMP Championship Nashville 2010], using cards like "[[Honest]]" (before it became [[ | + | A Gradius Deck revolves around the use of the cards "[[Gradius]]" or "[[Victory Viper XX03]]" along with their support cards. The main strategy is to protect your monsters from traps with the effect of "[[Jade Knight]]" and boost them all with cards you can activate during damage calculation, so you dont lose your trap free advantage over your opponent. As a result, a Gradius Deck operates under a [[Swarm]]/[[OTK]] hybrid. Fighting under this style is a major gamble because just one wrong move can cripple the Deck, so this Deck must have a counter ready every turn. A variation on this Deck reached the [http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?cat=33 SHONEN JUMP Championship Nashville 2010], using cards like "[[Honest]]" (before it became [[Limited]]) and "[[Creature Swap]]". <ref name="SHONEN JUMP Championship Nashville 2010">[http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=1856][http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?cat=33 : Top 16 Deck Lists – SHONEN JUMP Championship Nashville 2010]</ref> |
The mass swarming of this Deck provides the opportunity to Summon the strongest Synchros. However, if this is the desired strategy, then it is best to gear the Deck to focus only on performing [[Synchro Summon]]s; for that you can include "[[Lightwave Tuning]]" for fast Level 8 Synchros. | The mass swarming of this Deck provides the opportunity to Summon the strongest Synchros. However, if this is the desired strategy, then it is best to gear the Deck to focus only on performing [[Synchro Summon]]s; for that you can include "[[Lightwave Tuning]]" for fast Level 8 Synchros. |
Revision as of 03:23, 15 August 2012
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These are a series of cards Konami released based on characters in their Gradius video game series and other shooters based games. These include player controlled ships, support items, enemies and bosses. It should be noted however that several in the theme for the card game are not from Gradius series.
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Playing Style
A Gradius Deck revolves around the use of the cards "Gradius" or "Victory Viper XX03" along with their support cards. The main strategy is to protect your monsters from traps with the effect of "Jade Knight" and boost them all with cards you can activate during damage calculation, so you dont lose your trap free advantage over your opponent. As a result, a Gradius Deck operates under a Swarm/OTK hybrid. Fighting under this style is a major gamble because just one wrong move can cripple the Deck, so this Deck must have a counter ready every turn. A variation on this Deck reached the SHONEN JUMP Championship Nashville 2010, using cards like "Honest" (before it became Limited) and "Creature Swap". [1]
The mass swarming of this Deck provides the opportunity to Summon the strongest Synchros. However, if this is the desired strategy, then it is best to gear the Deck to focus only on performing Synchro Summons; for that you can include "Lightwave Tuning" for fast Level 8 Synchros.
Recommended cards
Monsters
- Gradius
- Gradius' Option
- Victory Viper XX03
- Falchionβ
- Lord British Space Fighter
- Jade Knight
- Blue Thunder T-45
- DUCKER Mobile Cannon (to recycle Honest)
- Honest
- Cyber Eltanin
- Sangan
- Cyber Valley
- Delta Tri
- Trigon
Spells
- Burden of the Mighty
- Limiter Removal
- Shrink
- Book of Moon
- Swords of Revealing Light
- Enemy Controller
- Smashing Ground
- Rush Recklessly
- Shield Crush
- Lightwave Tuning
- Creature Swap
- Dragon Laser
- Ego Boost
- Power Capsule
Traps
- Torrential Tribute
- Prideful Roar
- Threatening Roar
- Beckoning Light
- Ojama Trio
- Royal Oppression
- Miracle Locus
- Safe Zone
Extra
- Stardust Dragon
- Chimeratech Fortress Dragon
- Chimeratech Overdragon
- Light End Dragon
- Avenging Knight Parshath
- Genex Ally Triforce
Cyber-Gradius Deck
This deck presents some similarities to the popular Lightsworn Deck, as it needs a lot of Mill effects to have a lot of Machine-type monsters in the Graveyard and on the field to use the effect of Cyber Eltanin to clear your opponent's field and attack it directly for an OTK, but be careful, your opponent's Spells & Traps won't be destroyed, so the use of Heavy Storm, Giant Trunade, Cold Wave, along with Counter Trap Cards can totally clear your opponent's field or save you from devastating effects like Mirror Force, Magic Cylinder, or Torrential Tribute. Additionally, this deck presents some advantages to the Lightsworn Deck, the first one is that the player using this deck can see what to discard, since cards are discarded from the hand and not from the top of the deck, and also this deck is almost immune to "Bottomless Trap Hole" and "Messenger of Peace", but it still having a lot of ATK because of the using of "Honest" and cards like "Beckoning Light" to recover the Honests and send more spaceships to the Graveyard. If "Cyber Dragon" is in this deck, "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" can also be used as an emergency card in the extra deck. Also, only a few Trap Cards are used in this deck, only the staples ("Solemn Judgement" and "Torrential Tribute") and semi-staples ("Raigeki Break") and the "Beckoning Light" because it is a great engine in the functionality of this deck.
Recommended cards
Monsters
- Gradius
- Victory Viper XX03
- Falchionβ
- Jade Knight
- Lord British Space Fighter
- Delta Tri
- Trigon
- Honest
- Cyber Dragon
- Cyber Eltanin
Spells
- Swords of Revealing Light
- Mystical Space Typhoon
- Giant Trunade
- Hand Destruction
- Card Destruction
- Limiter Removal
- Dragon Laser
- The Fountain in the Sky
Traps
- Solemn Judgement
- Raigeki Break
- Torrential Tribute
- Beckoning Light
- Option Hunter
- Mirror Force
- Miracle's Wake
- Xing Zhen Hu