User talk:Vorpal Storm Pony

Your Playing Style

Hey VSP, I've noticed that you've said that certain decks don't match your "playing style", and that your trying to find your playing style, but my question (out of curiosity) is how many different decks have you played? Are they all rouge decks, or have you played a few meta (like Wind-Up & Mermails) or even previous meta decks (like Monarchs, Gladiator Beasts, & Inzektors)? --Dark Ace SP (Talk) 19:08, February 3, 2013 (UTC)

Hmm I see. That's a complicated problem, and since I'm not a psychic who can read minds, I can only give you a few suggestions of decks to possible try out. Try out Gravekeepers, Relinquished, and Uniflora Beasts. Each of those decks plays to a slightly different tempo and a different style all together. Gravekeepers create instant advantage plays off of 1 GK Spy, Relinquished requires patience and the ability to drag the game out as much as possible to gain the incremental advantage over the opponent, and Uniflora Beasts needs some set-up, but then just explodes with one of the most well made Beasts ever. Try them all out, and then you can always try Froggy Inzektors if you want a mix between explosive and defense. --Dark Ace SP (Talk) 19:47, February 3, 2013 (UTC)

Re:Well if you don't necessarily use certain cards that's not totally a bad thing, but if you say that you never really use Chain Dog that much, why not drop 1 copy for a Book of Moon? It fits into the whole beatdown tactics thing as it makes high ATK monsters go into DEF mode, where they usually have lower DEF. The only reason to carry stuff like Fiendish Chain would be to have a quick answer to Inzektors or Wind-Up Zenmaines, who both don't give one once to the amount of ATK power your beasts are packing, they could care less and will probably punish your most basic power play, throwing a Horn onto a monster you control. Fiendish is a good answer to that, but if you want something more versatile, use Breakthrough Skill, it acts like Effect Veiler on your opponent's turn to stop stuff like Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning and it acts like Fiendish Chain on your turn stopping the effects of Wind-Up Zenmaines, it's a solid tech choice and running 1-2 of it isn't a bad thing to think about.

Personally I think your just looking at deck building from the wrong perspective, for example, your using Super Rush Recklessly which you say works really well for you, and it's a perfectly fine trap, except for the fact that your always going to take a minus in terms of Card Presence (# of cards in hand + field), since your lose 2 cards (Monster tributed + Super Rush), and your opponent loses only 1, it would be perfectly fine at 2 if you were running 2 Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest, but your not. Just something to think about. --Dark Ace SP (Talk) 23:27, February 6, 2013 (UTC)

Fine, so be it. But I don't think there's a lot of things left that you could do. There's no real consistent search card for Beasts, so yeah. I sadly don't think this deck can really go anywhere at the moment, based on the current Beast specific support we have, I really do hope Konami makes a Fire Formation - Tenki or Fossil Dig for just Beasts. Also, it might be rude of me to say, but when you use the effect of Dire Wolf, it's stays as a -1 overall, since you burned up 2 monsters to make 1, and then after that you lose a monster to take away 1 of your opponent's monsters, and I still think that follows your logic, but I'm not too sure. Plus, it's only being hyped because it basically acts like a MST you can make on demand with 2 Level 4 monsters, plus I've only seen commentary saying to include 1, which isn't a horrible thing to do when you know your deck is crippled by certain cards, after that, it's kinda pointless.

But let's jump ship from the tigers for now. I just don't think they can do much right now, it's sad but true. However, if you wanted to try a different theme, but that still basically plays like your Tigers, then try Koa'ki Meiru Urknight and Koa'ki Meiru Crusader, and they're searchable by Fire Formation - Tenki, don't know how long Tenki will stay at 3, but even at if Tenki goes to 1, it can still search out a single Urknight/Crusader. Plus, there's no short supply of good Beast-Warriors to use, and Leotaur fits right in. Thoughts? --Dark Ace SP (Talk) 04:11, February 7, 2013 (UTC)

Cat Tribe Deck

Finished it, comment if you want. --Dark Ace SP (Talk) 23:17, July 10, 2013 (UTC)

Stuff.

Hm. I believe some clarification needs to be made on the part of face-down banished cards; working on the logic that they are face-down and therefore unverifiable, they would work, one would assume, similar to how they do on the field. However, rulings on Lightforce Sword imply that they are unaffected because they cannot be looked at, and therefore not verified by a type. However, cards such as RftDD specify "as possible", and there's no rule arguing that a player may not have knowledge of their own facedown cards - only that the opponent may not look at a facedown card, much as they must ask - and must allow - their opponent a glimpse at a face-down. Working under the assumption that the cards banished by Phantom Hand are not immediately forgotten by the player who banishes them, their nature would be exposed the moment they were summoned to the field, unless they were spells or traps utilised in an illegal play and placed in the monster zone face-down, the only circumstance in which they could not be verified as monsters.

Now, Parallel World Fusion works similarly under the logic - or at least, its ruling does - that the monsters used never reach the field, as they are shuffled back into the deck, and thus their lack of verification leaves their identity suspect and by extension the validity of the summon.

My point is, the rules argue one way, but the logic behind them another. I prefer to see the card game as a game played between sentient beings capable of understanding the game, not as a set of interrelating concepts conflicting harmoniously among automata without the ability to recognize their worth.

Thus, it seems to me that this is a grey area - whether this is a game for people, and operates on logic, or a game for machines, following a strict set of rules despite their logical inconsistencies, and so I feel the need to ask you, as a more prolific editor - has there been any official mention, rule book-based or otherwise, on such specific combinations? If so, damn, that's annoying. If not, I hope they get on that soon. Because it seems worth addressing. Most of the best, CaptainThunderGuy. CaptainThunderdude (talk • contribs) 01:38, November 1, 2013 (UTC)