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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 25 2005, 11:41 AM (113 Views) | |
| Vampire Lord | Jul 25 2005, 11:41 AM Post #1 |
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Soul Control The Soul Control deck was pioneered by Evan Vargass, and since then it has become a fairly popular decktype. However, there is more to constructing the effective Soul Control deck than simply net-decking Sandtrap’s -- today, I’m going to construct a Soul Control deck that’s both original and powerful. Let’s begin. The purpose of a Soul Control deck is to take control of your opponent’s monsters and tribute them for your own high-level monsters. Thus, the deck will obviously run a very high number of Tribute monsters. Cards like Dark Magician of Chaos and Dark Ruler Ha Des, excellent cards that don’t quite make the cut into your standard CC, can fit in here. Let’s start with the Monster line-up for our Soul Control deck: *2 Spirit Reaper provide stall and tribute fodder. *2 Spear Cretin will allow you to revive your tribute monsters. *2 Magician of Faith will allow you to reuse your Soul Control cards. *1 Tsukuyomi will allow you to keep your Brain Control’d monsters. *1 Tribe-Infecting Virus, 1 Sangan, and 1 Sinister Serpent are near-staples. *1 Morphing Jar will aid us if we get an opening hand clogged with Tributes. And those are all of our non-tribute monsters -- we have 9 of them. Evan Vargas’s deck made use of 3 Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch, 1 Mobius, and the Sacred Phoenix. We’re going to be bold and use even more tribute monsters than that. *1 Jinzo *1 Dark Ruler Ha Des *1 Dark Magician of Chaos *1 Airknight Parshath *1 Mobius the Frost Monarch *1 Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch Those are our 6 Tribute monsters. At first glance, they appear to be thrown together with little thought. Not so. Jinzo and Dark Ruler Ha Des work together to block both your opponent’s Effect Monsters and Traps. Dark Magician of Chaos will let you re-use your Soul Control cards. Airknight Parshath will punish your opponent’s goats, Mobius is just all-around great, and Thestalos provides hand control. Let’s move on to spells. *1 Pot of Greed, 1 Graceful Charity, and 1 Delinquent Duo are all staples. *1 Heavy Storm, 1 Mystical Space Typhoon, 1 Snatch Steal, and 1 Premature Burial are all near-staples. *1 Nobleman of Crossout will provide even more Flip Effect Management. *3 Brain Control will take control of your opponent’s monsters. *1 Enemy Controller work well with our 2 Scapegoat. *2 Soul Exchange give you more tribute fodder *2 Metamorphosis are easily abusable. *1 Lightning Vortex is mass monster destruction. Let’s analyze our spell line-up more closely. On the surface, it appears we don’t have enough Soul Control cards to fuel 6 Tribute monsters. However, that’s not the case. Between our Magicians of Faith to re-use Soul Control cards, our Spear Cretins to provide extra revival, and our DMoC, we have plenty to work with. We have 17 monsters and 19 spells, which just leaves room for the Big 4 Traps. From now on, for the convenience of the reader, I’ll be including a full decklist with every article. So here is a sample Soul Control deck: MONSTERS (17) 1 Jinzo 1 Dark Ruler Ha Des 1 Dark Magician of Chaos 1 Airknight Parshath 1 Mobius the Frost Monarch 1 Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch 2 Spirit Reaper 2 Spear Cretin 2 Magician of Faith 1 Tsukuyomi 1 Tribe-Infecting Virus 1 Sangan 1 Sinister Serpent 1 Morphing Jar SPELLS (19) 1 Pot of Greed 1 Graceful Charity 1 Delinquent Duo 1 Heavy Storm 1 Mystical Space Typhoon 1 Snatch Steal 1 Premature Burial 1 Nobleman of Crossout 3 Brain Control 2 Soul Exchange 1 Enemy Controller 2 Scapegoat 2 Metamorphosis 1 Lightning Vortex TRAPS (4) 1 Call of the Haunted 1 Ring of Destruction 1 Mirror Force 1 Torrential Tribute |
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| Kyp Durron | Jul 26 2005, 12:52 AM Post #2 |
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nice, however idk that ha des, or DMoC are needed here, since normally, soul control decks are based off of Monarchs + Soul Exchange. also, why double up on your articles? haven't we seen something like this around here before?? |
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| Vampire Lord | Jul 26 2005, 01:00 AM Post #3 |
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No, that was a Monarch deck. There are many different ways to run Soul Control, because there are a lot of really good Tribute monsters out there just begging to be abused. I like the ones I chose a lot, but I encourage all Soul Control duelists to experiment. |
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| Kyp Durron | Jul 26 2005, 01:01 AM Post #4 |
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for fixes, - 2 scapegoat + 2 shallow grave |
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| Apocolypse | Jul 29 2005, 06:35 PM Post #5 |
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Nice. And yes there are many ways a Soul Control deck can be made. This one is pretty good. |
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