Avarice of the Phoenix (YGO)

[Frostweaver]

Pot of Avarice needs to be abused, even if it's to be done casually.



Tribute Monsters (5) {GASP! More than 3?}
Mobius the Frost Monarch
Zaborg the Thunder Monarch
Airknight Parshath
Airknight Parshath
Sacred Phoenix of Nepthyrs

Non-Tribute Monsters (14)
Apprentice Magician
Apprentice Magician
Apprentice Magician
Mystic Tomato
Spirit Reaper
Spirit Reaper
Magician of Faith
Old Vindictive Magician
Old Vindictive Magician
Hands of Nepthyr
Tsukuyomi
Dekoichi the Battle Enchanted Locomotive
Dekoichi the Battle Enchanted Locomotive
Sangan

Spell Cards (14)
Premature Burial
Snatch Steal
Creature Swap
Creature Swap
Pot of Avarice
Pot of Avarice
Dark Hole
Nobleman of Crossout
Smashing Ground
Smashing Ground
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon
Book of Moon
Swords of Revealing Light

Trap Cards (7)
Dust Tornado*
Dust Tornado*
Sakuretsu Armor
Sakuretsu Armor
Sakuretsu Armor
Torrential Tribute
Call of the Haunted


1 Pot of Avarice: "Oh it may just work, but don't think of it as pot of greed kiddo"
2 Pot of Avarice: "OMG YOU N00B YOU AREN'T GOING TO HAVE ANY MONSTERS TO USE IT and you screw up your spell-monster ratio!!!111oneoneoneeleven"

It will work.

Sangan and Mystic Tomato can both call out anything that doesn't require tribute in the deck (Magician of Fatih is the exception for Tomato), and that's all this deck needs to initiate a chain of card advantages by either special summoning one another, or just draw cards directly.

Apprentice Magician defense line should be familiar to everyone by now. It calls out Hands to get out Phoenix asap, Old Vindictive Magician to clear the field, or Magician of Faith to recycle spells. Notice how all of this special summoning is easy to send monsters to the graveyard.

Sangan and Tomato can also call out Dekoicihi and Tsukuyomi, allowing me to continously recycle the draw effect to get more cards. Tsukuyomi allows Magician of Faith and Old Vindictive Magician to be reused as well, on top of destroying the Monarchs. It's a key card to this deck. Spirit Reaper should be no stranger to anyone.

All of the non-tribute monsters are pathetic in attack power, and that makes them the perfect target for Creature Swap. Swap opponent's (very likely) higher attack monster for my used flip effect monsters, and tribute them for Airknight or Mobius, both of them capable of generating further advantages. Even without creature swap, the special summon in this deck can handle one or two tribute more than usual. Instead of running 2 Mobius, one of them becomes Zaborg to assist Old Vindictive Magician in monster destruction. Phoenix should be enough to destroy the spells in theory. That one Mobius is already a symbol of me being paranoid (could have been another Zaborg.)

Most of the magic and trap cards should be self explanatory. They're all common sights. Book of Moon can act as a backup Tsukuyomi. Now the Sakuretsu Armor are essential in trying to protect the Phoenix by destroying the suiciding D. D. Assailants. It's worth the attempt at least.

I added 2 Dust Tornado there for now. Open to suggestions about the Tornados. I'm thinking of possibly Rush Recklessly, as it can boost Dekoichi to a bearable attack for a round, and it's also a good method to destroy reapers. Letting one of those 2 card slots be Breaker may not be bad either...

Pot of Avarice can be used in 2 to recycle the entire chain of Apprentice Magician. This deck uses them FAST, and it's necessary to recall apprentice magician, magician of faith, sangan, dekoichi and a tribute monster. The special summon will diminish the imbalance of monster-spell ratio of the deck. It's absolute pain to recycle this chain over and over again. Even the Pot of Avarice itself can be recycled by Magician of Faith.


This deck has its own problems though...

a) it never wins on 2nd round, simply because the element of surprise is gone, and those D. D. Warrior Lady knows that she must remove anything she sees, realize of how pitiful it looks in order to break the chain

b) the lucky hit with nobleman of crossout spells end of game immediately, should apprentice magician got removed

c) can't do a thing against the one copy of tech Level Limit Area A, unless I got lucky to get Heavy Storm/Mystical Space Typhoon very fast

d) can't win against trample decks (for obvious reasons, but this problem is beyond hopeless to fix. The deck just doesn't permit itself to fight trample decks.)

Fix, rate and comment ^_^

 

[Mullet]

Oh I want to use my time to rate a good deck, lol. suggestions in bold.

Pot of Avarice needs to be abused, even if it's to be done casually.



Tribute Monsters (5) {GASP! More than 3?}
Mobius the Frost Monarch
Zaborg the Thunder Monarch
Airknight Parshath
Airknight Parshath
Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys

Doesn't really need that much draw power, you might want to try Mobius over one Airknight.

Non-Tribute Monsters (14)
Apprentice Magician
Apprentice Magician
Apprentice Magician
Mystic Tomato
Spirit Reaper
Spirit Reaper
Magician of Faith
Old Vindictive Magician
Old Vindictive Magician
Hands of Nephthys
Tsukuyomi
Dekoichi the Battle Enchanted Locomotive
Dekoichi the Battle Enchanted Locomotive
Sangan

What do you plan to bring out in attack mode with Tomato as you have no beatsticks. You might want to give some DDA's, a Don or two, Exiled and the Crack Lady a try.

Spell Cards (14)
Premature Burial
Snatch Steal
Creature Swap
Creature Swap
Pot of Avarice
Pot of Avarice
Dark Hole
Nobleman of Crossout
Smashing Ground
Smashing Ground
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon
Book of Moon
Swords of Revealing Light

Creature Swap lost it's use IMO. You might want to try 3 Smashings, and take one Creature Swap. If you add the Warriors in try a Reinforcment too.

Trap Cards (7)
Dust Tornado*
Dust Tornado*
Sakuretsu Armor
Sakuretsu Armor
Sakuretsu Armor
Torrential Tribute
Call of the Haunted

Two Armors please. Three is over doing it. Where are your Bottomless, add those in and you can kill Crack Lady and make sure it stays gone (Dimension Fusion, and Return from the Different Dimension are not even that cool).

1 Pot of Avarice: "Oh it may just work, but don't think of it as pot of greed kiddo"
2 Pot of Avarice: "OMG YOU N00B YOU AREN'T GOING TO HAVE ANY MONSTERS TO USE IT and you screw up your spell-monster ratio!!!111oneoneoneeleven"

It will work.

Sangan and Mystic Tomato can both call out anything that doesn't require tribute in the deck (Magician of Fatih is the exception for Tomato), and that's all this deck needs to initiate a chain of card advantages by either special summoning one another, or just draw cards directly.

Doesn't Tomato call something out in attack mode (I don't use him enough to remember).

Fix, rate and comment ^_^

I see one blaring weakness...

...You can spell Nephthys:P

 

[Frostweaver]

Tomato can call out Sangan, and hopefully with the heavy monster destruction I can keep the opponent's monster count down to one every turn (Cyber Dragon is always the exception just because it's a special summon though ._.; ) or just call out Tsukuyomi and it'll come back to my hand later on anyway.

I tried adding the usual removal monsters like D. D. Assailant, but then Pot of Avarice becomes such a terrible card, and the deck tries to utilize this card. Right now every card can be special summoned one way or another pretty much, allowing me to draw out the extra monsters from the Pot recycle. Don Zaloog is possible as Mystic Tomato can call it, but that may force me to add another Tomato to have 2 Tomato and 2 Don Zaloog, making monster ratio really high, even for this deck. I'll have to play test.

Creature Swap is amazingly useful, just because the weenies in this deck makes them just as valuable of a target as Poison Draw Frog. It's like, the only way this deck can score LP damage with non tributes (let those trains beat up the old magicians), lol. ^^; I'll have to try what it's like using only one Creature Swap though.

I know what you mean by the warriors, but it doesn't work with Pot of Avarice if they can only be special summoned (regardless of how easy it is) with magic instead of being special summoned by monsters.

Deck change

-2 Dust Tornado
-1 Sakuretsu Armor
-1 Creature Swap
-1 Airknight Parshath

+2 Bottomless Trap hole
+2 Don Zaloog
+1 Granmerg the Rock Monarch

(Going to try a Granmerg. He is the in-between of Zaborg and Mobius, and maybe that'll work. I'm honestly not the most thrilled about having Phoenix and 2 Mobius...)

 

[Mullet]

Tomato can call out Sangan, and hopefully with the heavy monster destruction I can keep the opponent's monster count down to one every turn (Cyber Dragon is always the exception just because it's a special summon though ._.; ) or just call out Tsukuyomi and it'll come back to my hand later on anyway.

What if you already have Sangan on the field in your hand or what if he is in the grave. Tsukuyomi can't be Special Summoned

I tried adding the usual removal monsters like D. D. Assailant, but then Pot of Avarice becomes such a terrible card, and the deck tries to utilize this card. Right now every card can be special summoned one way or another pretty much, allowing me to draw out the extra monsters from the Pot recycle. Don Zaloog is possible as Mystic Tomato can call it, but that may force me to add another Tomato to have 2 Tomato and 2 Don Zaloog, making monster ratio really high, even for this deck. I'll have to play test.

You can get back other monster than them.

Creature Swap is amazingly useful, just because the weenies in this deck makes them just as valuable of a target as Poison Draw Frog. It's like, the only way this deck can score LP damage with non tributes (let those trains beat up the old magicians), lol. ^^; I'll have to try what it's like using only one Creature Swap though.

If you want to use it...Whatever floats your boat.

I know what you mean by the warriors, but it doesn't work with Pot of Avarice if they can only be special summoned (regardless of how easy it is) with magic instead of being special summoned by monsters.

Deck change

-2 Dust Tornado
-1 Sakuretsu Armor
-1 Creature Swap
-1 Airknight Parshath

+2 Bottomless Trap hole
+2 Don Zaloog
+1 Granmerg the Rock Monarch

(Going to try a Granmerg. He is the in-between of Zaborg and Mobius, and maybe that'll work. I'm honestly not the most thrilled about having Phoenix and 2 Mobius...)

Seems good, I like Mobius over Grandmarg.

In-between isn't propler English, lol.

The fixes seem good, if they don't work you might want to try some of the other stuff I suggested. Hope I helped:D

 

[Zaikiro]

I always though you would use 2 Hand of Nepthys Frostweaver. https://www.pokecommunity.com/posts/1500880/ last sentence.

Intresting idea. It can make Avarice work well. Creatre Swap is good but mabye not well in 2's for this deck. 1 should be good.

Magical Merchant will make great use of this deck. I think you should add 1 of it into your deck. I would use it instead of Apprentice Magician. 3 seems to may be too defensive.

I did see what you said about Creature Swap. But mabye some stall are needed until you get a high atack monster out. Messenger of Peace. Even though some monsters can atack through it, it still can protect you more and you are able to stop it. But then agian, your monsters are meant to be destroyed in battle.

Grandmarg is good. D.D Warrior Lady will be good to add. Your opponent will remove cards from play any way even though you are saving them for Avarice.

Warriors can work well with Avarice. Renforicment can search them which will thin more or get them into the grave yard quicker. It will be better with this deck.

I have more to say but I can't think of much now. But wonderful build.

 

[Frostweaver]

It doesn't need 2 Hands of Nepthys. As long as one is out to the field (which is a very easy task to do with all the special summons), Phoenix is basically gurantee to come out, unless they play smashing ground in main phase 2. Even then, the high amount of special summon can catch up eventually.

Creature Swap in 2 is really worth a try... ALO-Bind deck with 3 poison draw frog and just 2 yomi ships use 2 Creature Swap, and that's 5 weak monsters. All of this deck's non-tributes are pathetic in stats, so shouldn't that work even better...? I just don't see how Swap won't work in 2 for this deck, when it's "an excellent synergy" if it goes for ALO-bind with only 5 low stat monsters? >>;

Be very surprised how fast Airknight/Mobius come out... also, Phoenix comes out very quickly (chances of drawing sangan OR apprentice wizard assuming that I didn't get any of those 4 in my opening hand? 4/35) provided that smashing isn't played in main phase 2. Tried Messenger of Peace before but it's pretty pathetic... it crashes the 5 tribute monsters, and they come out pretty fast due to the constant deck thinning. Basically, the magicians and Tsukuyomi can stall the short period of time until phoenix come out, who can stall long enough until I draw the next tribute before it gets removed by D. D. Warrior Lady.

Again like what I said before, warriors can't special summon themselves through monsters. Reinforcement can search them once, but that's all. After the 1st recycling, the recycled warriors don't have their precious search cards anymore, so they really lose their infamous advantage of having the best searching support. If I'm playing warrior deck, I'll play Divine Sword Phoenix Blade mini-combo...

I know that Magical Merchant's monster discard ability is wonderful. It's so far the only decks that run 2 Avarice (as they got 2 merchants) except this deck. Didn't see a very good slot for it as it doesn't have the same advantage as the Apprentice chain where it can be both defensive with Old Vindictive Magician, and offensive with Magician of Faith's constant recycle of Premature Burial/Pot of Avarice/Heavy Storm. I still firmly believe that Magical Merchant doesn't work best (but still pretty good) with Pot of Avarice, because it truly belongs to Chaos Sorceror decks.

Thank you for the advices ^^

(And WHY did you also use Kanna as the avatar? >>; To my knowledge, no one used it before except me, and Lily used one for awhile after me)

 

[Zaikiro]

It doesn't need 2 Hands of Nepthys. As long as one is out to the field (which is a very easy task to do with all the special summons), Phoenix is basically gurantee to come out, unless they play smashing ground in main phase 2. Even then, the high amount of special summon can catch up eventually.

Creature Swap in 2 is really worth a try... ALO-Bind deck with 3 poison draw frog and just 2 yomi ships use 2 Creature Swap, and that's 5 weak monsters. All of this deck's non-tributes are pathetic in stats, so shouldn't that work even better...? I just don't see how Swap won't work in 2 for this deck, when it's "an excellent synergy" if it goes for ALO-bind with only 5 low stat monsters? >>;

Be very surprised how fast Airknight/Mobius come out... also, Phoenix comes out very quickly (chances of drawing sangan OR apprentice wizard assuming that I didn't get any of those 4 in my opening hand? 4/35) provided that smashing isn't played in main phase 2. Tried Messenger of Peace before but it's pretty pathetic... it crashes the 5 tribute monsters, and they come out pretty fast due to the constant deck thinning. Basically, the magicians and Tsukuyomi can stall the short period of time until phoenix come out, who can stall long enough until I draw the next tribute before it gets removed by D. D. Warrior Lady.

Again like what I said before, warriors can't special summon themselves through monsters. Reinforcement can search them once, but that's all. After the 1st recycling, the recycled warriors don't have their precious search cards anymore, so they really lose their infamous advantage of having the best searching support. If I'm playing warrior deck, I'll play Divine Sword Phoenix Blade mini-combo...

I know that Magical Merchant's monster discard ability is wonderful. It's so far the only decks that run 2 Avarice (as they got 2 merchants) except this deck. Didn't see a very good slot for it as it doesn't have the same advantage as the Apprentice chain where it can be both defensive with Old Vindictive Magician, and offensive with Magician of Faith's constant recycle of Premature Burial/Pot of Avarice/Heavy Storm. I still firmly believe that Magical Merchant doesn't work best (but still pretty good) with Pot of Avarice, because it truly belongs to Chaos Sorceror decks.

Thank you for the advices ^^

(And WHY did you also use Kanna as the avatar? >>; To my knowledge, no one used it before except me, and Lily used one for awhile after me)

The Kanna part seemed to get my attention more than your other replys.It was from my photobucket account when I was looking. I was in a Inuyasha mood. I was going to do Kagome but Kanna cough my attention more because I love her motionless and look.

With the tributes, I would suggest Soul Exechange. I'm not trying to make it a Soul Control but could help with bad tribute topdecks. Running 1 would be good for needed moments.

Hidden Book of Spells can bring back Renforicment of the Army but can be a bad topdeck so son't pay attention to that much.

I'm still not sure about Creature Swap but if it works for you. That's great ^^

 

[Frostweaver]

Hidden Book of Spells work better when Delinquet Duo and Pot of Greed are around. It's the most deadly thing to recycle ever with Magicial Merchant to hunt for them (in the meantime, making Soldier food) quickly.