[YGO] gravekeepers return!

[Nightstalker]

After the release of the marik structure deck, I got excited over their glorious return and wanted to make a grave keepers deck. Much feedback on this would be fantastic. Please note that I cannot afford solemn warning or pot of duality. Rate away!!

monsters: 20

3x spy
2x descendant
3x guard
2x chief
2x visionary
3x comandant
2x priestess
1x gorz
1x sangan
1x assailant

spells: 15

3x necrovalley
1x terraforming
2x mst
1x giant trunade
2x royal tribute
2x creature swap
2x magical dimension
1x monster reborn
1x dark hole

Traps: 6

3x rite of spirit
2x bottomless trap hole
1x solemn judgement

3x rite of spirit

 

[Circuit]

Eww, Gravekeepers. I'll say

-1 Giant Trunade
+1 Mirror Force/Torrential Tribute

But, if you did this on Yugioh Virtual Desktop, you could -1 Creature Swap and -1 Terraforming and +2 PoD/Solemn Warning. Not sure what you would do for the PoD/Solemn Warning (depends on what you choose).

 

[Nightstalker]

I'm still thinking about torrential and mirror force. Why ewww?

 

[Perriechu]

Wild guess but, it might be because Gravekeeper's are terrible IMO.

They get crushed easily, but take Fire's advice and add Mirror force/TT in.

 

[Nightstalker]

Gravekeepers are by no means rubbish they can cause simple but frustrating problems for bigger decks. I allready am going to put those in but I will wait until it is up and running so that it's strengths and weaknesses are discovered but yes, theoretically they are allready in the deck, anything else?

 

[Circuit]

Well, actually, they can be easily beaten down and have quite a few weaknesses. I don't know what to say really about Gravekeepers, apart from the staple traps you need.

 

[Cirrus]

Gravekeepers are definitely not weak. Royal Tribute is a fantastic discard spell that wipes a lot of resistance from monster-heavy decks, and hits stuff like Battle Fader, Effect Veiler, Gorz, Tragoedia, etc. You should run 3. In tandem with this is Gravekeeper's Stele, a fantastic recovery card that gets back 2 Gravekeepers from the Graveyard. Amazing combo with Royal Tribute, and you should run 3 as well. 2-3 Commandant is fine, but 2-3 Assailant is generally preferred. Run 2 Caius as well, as Caius is just amazing as a card. Descendant can be 2-3, so that's fine... Priestess can be cut altogether.

Descendant just beats major face as a guy. Blowing up stuff is amazing! Like, amazing amazing.

Magical Dimension is really, really bad. Creature Swap is subpar. Rite of Spirit is... ok-ish to pretty good. In comparison Gorz is a bit meh... when Necrovalley is off the field you're screwed quite a bit anyways.

Well, actually, let me just draft up a list.

Monsters - 22
3 Gravekeeper's Spy
3 Gravekeeper's Guard
3 Gravekeeper's Descendant
3 Gravekeeper's Commandant
2 Gravekeeper's Assailant
2 Gravekeeper's Chief
2 Gravekeeper's Visionary
2 Gravekeeper's Recruiter
2 Caius the Shadow Monarch

Spells - 14
3 Necrovalley
3 Gravekeeper's Stele
2 Royal Tribute
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
2 Book of Moon*
1 Dark Hole
1 Monster Reborn

Traps - 4
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Mirror Force
1 Torrential Tribute

*optionally copies of Rite of Spirit

I feel that this rough build is okay and should work fine.

 

[Nightstalker]

Thanks a lot cirrus! I was going to side in a stele but I never thought of that combo.
I will use this in future, anything else?
I knew they were still good=] firestar!

 

[Circuit]

Well, there you go then, wrong again. I don't like Gravekeepers though, in light of my Nan dying earlier this year.

 

[Nightstalker]

They're not supposed to be evil, they are supposed to be protecting the spirits of those that pass away.

 

[Circuit]

meh, they just give me a bad thought.

 

[Nightstalker]

Some look weird ima.
Guard- big fat man

 

[Gymnotide]

Gravekeeper's Recruiter is such a bad and obvious name for a recruiter.

 

[Circuit]

Aren't they all bad though? SPy, Descendant, etc.

 

[Gymnotide]

Aren't they all bad though? SPy, Descendant, etc.

I meant "recruiter" as a card type. The card is one that recruits cards from your deck. Descendant / Spy are fine since they aren't obvious reflections of the cards' effects. Something bad would be like "Gravekeeper's Tribute Fodder" which lets you Special Summon it from your Hand if you control a Gravekeeper's card.

 

[Cirrus]

This format is pretty Trap-heavy. Some copies of Seven Tools or Trap Stun would be quite beneficial to the list previously posted.