Grave "piledrive" keepers reformed, renewed , ready for anything

[Nightstalker]

So I decided to fix up my gravekeepers to a tourny worthy standard so that they can take on top tier decks and survive nicely too. So here we go!

Monsters: 14

2x Gravekeeper's assailant
3x Gravekeeper's commandant
3x Gravekeeper's descendant
3x Gravekeeper's recruiter
3G Gravekeeper's spy

Spells: 15

3x Royal Tribute
3x book of moon
3x pot of duality
2x necrovalley
2x Gravekeeper's stele
1x allure of darkness
1x dark hole

Traps: 11

2x dimensional prison
2x bottomless trap hole
2x solemn warning
2x starlight road
1x compulsory evacuation device
1x mirror force
1x solemn judgement

Extra deck:

2x stardust dragon
2x x-saber hyunlei
2x chimeratech fortress dragon
1x goyo guardian
1x ancient fairy dragon
1x brionac, Dragon of the ice barrier
1x mist wurm
1x black Rose dragon
1x ally of justice catastor
4x whatever else that I can put in

Comments and suggestions needed, thanks!

 

[Circuit]

Nice looking, but I find your lack of faith 7 tools disturbing. Perhaps you can find someway of getting them in there.

 

[Nightstalker]

You don't really need them because this deck doesn't really mind mosttraps anyway

 

[Cirrus]

Cut the Starlights for Solemn Warnings.

Warnings aren't even THAT expensive... like $30-50? Certainly cheaper than Kami no Senkoku (Solemn Judgment) in the latter's heyday. Significantly. About half. ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU ARE RUNNING 3 POT OF DUALITY. : X

Compulsory is also bad. Like. Where is your Torrential. Use Torrential over CED always. ALWAYS. : ( Torrential is the epitome of a staple Trap (besides Solemn Judgment). One can afford to not run Mirror Force, but one cannot afford to not run Torrential (and Solemn) unless one is running a virtually Trap-less deck (Turbo decks, MPT, etc) or one runs Treacherous Trap Hole (like the most hilarious card ever).

 

[Circuit]

I know a place where Kami no Senkoku costs $18.99 for the Ultra Rare. So, not true. However, Pot of Duality, I haven't seen it cheaper than $118.99.

Erm, He has Solemn Warnings as well, Cirrus.

 

[Nightstalker]

Yeah fire's right but I'll go with torrential over compulsory and I still love starlight for many a reason.

 

[Circuit]

Looks good xD
-Dark Hole
-Hyunlei
-Bottomless, when destroying 2 or more.
- Something else.

 

[Nightstalker]

why should i be taking out those cards firestar?

 

[Circuit]

That's my bad. I didn't mean take them out. I was listing what Starlight can counter. Why no Gravekeeper's Chief?

 

[Cirrus]

Starlight will typically not counter Bottomless (like... ever) in this deck. Dark Hole is okay because everything in your deck is built to stand against board sweeps (sort of like Gadgets) and plus it is only 1 card in a 40-card deck. Thus Starlight only does ANYTHING against Hyunlei. Why not cut it to a one-of and run Seven Tools instead? Seven Tools beats Trap Stun (which you do not like... Hyunlei + Trap Stun = Harpie's Feather Duster... basically) and it beats other dastardly Traps as well (Solemn Warning versus Spy and so on).

I did not note the Warnings when I wrote the Warning-related post.

@Firestar: You have no space for Chief. It is, granted, a free summon... but it can cause you to actually lose advantage if it is Warning'd, which can cause problems.

 

[Nightstalker]

so far ive got this then;
-1 compulsory
+1 torrential

thanks Cirrus and Firestar for your input, anything else?

 

[Apple Juice]

I don't know much about GK, but what exactly is that 4x in your Extra deck? You're missing stuff that you could use.

 

[Circuit]

1 Thought Ruler Archfiend
1 Trishula Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
1 Ally of Justice Catastor/Desicive Armor

That's what should go in, imo.

EDIT: Could you by any chance, run DAD? If you can run Allure safely, then you can run DAD right?

 

[Apple Juice]

He already has Catastor, Firestar, if I read it right.

 

[Circuit]

You can have two. Besides, if I'm correct, none of them are tuners, so what's it matter?

 

[Nightstalker]

Dad's presence is not required as strong monsters arent what this deck is about. Its "popping" effect is also fulfilled by descendant anyway.

 

[Cirrus]

Necrovalley and Dark Armed Dragon conflict. So don't run Dark Armed.

Plus it's not even necessary to the strategy and you have no space.

Nightstalker, this decklist is Frazier Smith's (basically), correct? His was the most optimized version of Gravekeepers, and will be for quite a bit. If you have his deck basically down, then you should be fine.

 

[Nightstalker]

its effectively frazier smiths, sean mccabes and some other guy, they all made it to the top 4 of the philadelphia tournament - sean and frazier were in the final and frazier won 2-1, the only diff between this one and theirs is that mine has torrential and theirs has compulsory (thanks to you cirrus!)

 

[Cirrus]

Yeah, I know. Smith, McCabe, and Mack played mirrored lists.