[YGO] Methuselah

[Gymnotide]

ITT: TTG has been quiet lately, so I wanted to post a deck that needs work.

Monster (20)
3 | Blue Thunder T-45
1 | Cyber Valley
1 | Falchionβ
2 | Honest
3 | Jade Knight
3 | Lord British Space Fighter
1 | Sangan
2 | Shining Angel
3 | Victory Viper XX03

Spell (12)
3 | Creature Swap
3 | Enemy Controller
1 | Limiter Removal
2 | Machina Armored Unit*
1 | Mystical Space Typhoon
2 | United We Stand

Not sure about swapping this out for 1x Heavy Storm, 1x Giant Trunade.
If so, then Cyber Valley should be replaced with a more useful card, like Gorz.
Creature Swap's use is diminished with this swap as well.

Trap (8)
2 | Bottomless Trap Hole
2 | Dark Bribe
1 | Mirror Force
2 | Royal Oppression
1 | Solemn Judgment
1 | Torrential Tribute

--- Total: 40

Comments: When this deck works, it works very well. I'm able to blast my foes with many attacks in one turn and lock down their summoning potential. There's OTK in both Lord British and Victory Viper, which is why I run them in threes. Creature Swap is there to fuel the hate when needed with destruction effects (and Jade Knight / Shining Angel if possible). Creature Swap works a lot better with Machina Armored Unit, but that's on the verge of being swapped out, since I find it less useful than it should be. Also, sometimes I have problems keeping the attacks outside of a one-shot and die kind of play. It's very worrisome when Victory Viper XX03's tokens are destroyed along with himself. I was also considering adding something like Cyber Eltanin, but that I am also unsure of. Some other cards I've experimented with are Book of Moon and Shrink, but I haven't seen results better than Enemy Controller. What I really want is consistency, so that's what I'm asking for in this thread. Rate away.

 

[Cirrus]

Play a copy of Riryoku. Don't play Dark Bribe - it's not really... well, decent. Play a duplicate of Dust Tornado over it, I think, and find some space for Divine Wrath, because monster effects are really prevalent. Machina Armored Unit is just random. Enemy Controller... just play 2 copies of Book of Moon and 1 of Brain Control. >_> Cyber Valley isn't necessary for the build. United We Stand isn't necessary, either... but it's an okay card, I guess.

Be sure to find some pseudo-stall space - Threatening Roar and stuff. Play less Creature Swap and less equips - YES THIS MEANS NONE =|

 

[Gymnotide]

Play a copy of Riryoku. Don't play Dark Bribe - it's not really... well, decent. Play a duplicate of Dust Tornado over it, I think, and find some space for Divine Wrath, because monster effects are really prevalent. Machina Armored Unit is just random. Enemy Controller... just play 2 copies of Book of Moon and 1 of Brain Control. >_> Cyber Valley isn't necessary for the build. United We Stand isn't necessary, either... but it's an okay card, I guess.

Be sure to find some pseudo-stall space - Threatening Roar and stuff. Play less Creature Swap and less equips - YES THIS MEANS NONE =|

Armored Unit makes my Blue Thunder into a Lord British into a Jade Knight into a Cyber Valley. That's about it.

Enemy Controller is to abuse the fact that many popular monsters have low defense and high ATK and that the tokens I amass can be used for the secondary effect. I'm using it over Book of Moon just because it forgoes FLIP effects, can switch from defense to attack if I need it, and just has the added versatility of stealing a foe's monster. If anything, I'd like to run both... And I'd sooner do so than use Brain Control, since I need my opponents monsters to be there for my effects to activate anyway.

Cyber Valley is mainly splashed because of Machina Armored Unit to pull out when Jade Knight dies, but otherwise not very useful. I'm /this/ close to removing the whole lot of cards altogether.

Creature Swap I have in there because it lets me swap over weaker cards like Jade Knight to destroy for the ship effects and then reap the benefits of Machina Armored Unit and Jade Knight. It's saved my life many times, but of course, it's also something I'd remove too if Armored Unit goes.

You're also right about United We Stand. Even though its effect doubles up on Victory Viper XX03 and its Option Tokens and makes Lord British a very, very strong monster, I could be without it. Dunno, though.

Redo in about a week's time.

 

[Cirrus]

I thought Creature Swap was to swap over Tokens and then kill them...

Armored Unit generates +1s on paper, but it's a -1 on paper at first too. In MtG this would work (Phyrexian Arena, incremental advantage over time - other examples are Dark Confidant, et al.), but in YuGiOh... Idunno.