Forum:Fine-tuning my Deck

Long time since I've posted a Deck here, and this time it's to fine-tune a Deck I will be using in real life:

Right then, I have a few questions on the Deck:

• Should I take out Emergency Provisions? It does provide some Life Points in dire circumstances but by removing it I find that it does not compromise on the Deck's performance. It also drops the Deck count to 40.
• Should I use Gorz the Emissary of Darkness? When the opponent's not dead and I've exhausted my burning cards, I find myself with a (usually) empty field and vulnerable to direct attacks. Gorz and his token here can help provide a wall to tank incoming attacks.
• What about Battle Fader? My friends suggest using that is better than Gorz.

Thanks in advance. --Gadjiltron 07:00, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

You're running a burn deck without staple burners like Wave-motion Cannon. Try taking out Ookazi ad Poison of the Old Man for 3 Wave-Motion Cannon's, add another Just Desserts, and also try adding three Stealth Birds instead of Mecha Bunny. On the Gorz and Fader topic, both have strong points and either will do well in your deck. Fader does better in Monarch decks allowing for a tribute the turn after while Gorz is more to maintain field presence, though he can be used to tribute too. Gorz will probably supply you with more advantage allowing you to take on your opponents monsters, but remember you have to take the damage and need to have a clear field to summon him. An interesting way to utilize him would be to activate Enchanted Javelin when they attack to gain life points, then take the equivalent damage to summon Gorz, allowing you to save life points but also summon a large beatsticking token. Also, with Des Koala, try running Rescue Cat and Book of Moon/Book of Eclipse. This makes for a lot of crap to backfire on your opponent. What you do is activate rescue cat and summon 2 Koalas. Activate Book of Eclipse to flip them down while giving your opponent an extra two or three cards depending on however many monsters they control. Next turn they draw and if they attack Koala they have extra cards in hand for you to burn for with Koala. It magically flows together as if it were made for each other. Also using Nightmare's Steelcage helps to stall out and use these tactics. I use Arcana Force 0 - The Fool to help stall in my burn deck as well. You're also running too many traps so running into a Royal Decree or Jinzo would kill you, so try to limit what you do with them. I like using Solar Flare Dragon in my burn deck because they can lock down and start burning every turn so try those out in combination with UFO Turtle to help create a lockdown situation. Another unheard of card i like to use which helps in today's meta game is Ominous Fortunetelling which can burn 700 if you call it right and also slowly show you your opponent's hand regardless of whether you call it right. Use it in combination with Dark Room of Nightmare to burn 1000 l.p. per right call along with slowly revealing their hand. adjusting your deck this way should allow for you to take out Emergency Provisions to create a more burn relevant deck. Hope this helped. =] u5h3ra1i' ^{Relished Saber Player} 23:08, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips, but are you sure about the kind of Deck you're looking at? This is a Chain Burn deck, after all, and stuff like Wave Motion Cannon looks a little unintuitive for use. --Gadjiltron 00:48, June 13, 2010 (UTC)

what about level limit and gravity bind?