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| Vampire Lord | Aug 2 2005, 11:24 AM Post #1 |
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The Ancient Gear Deck The Ancient Gear Deck is a unique type of machine deck. This deck utilizes Ancient Gear Golem and Ancient Gear Beast, two cards that were released in The Lost Millennium. Before we move on, let’s take a look at both of these monsters. Ancient Gear Golem Level 8 EARTH Machine/Effect This card cannot be Special Summoned. When this card attacks with an ATK that is higher than the DEF of a Defense Position monster, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points. If this card attacks, your opponent cannot activate any Spell or Trap Cards until the end of the Damage Step. 3000/3000 Wow. This guy is just all-around HUGE. 3000 attack is nearly unbeatable, and 3000 defense is enormous. His effect has some negative aspects, though -- you can’t Special Summon him. That means that once he’s in the Graveyard, he’s staying there, unless you use Monster Reincarnation to return him to your hand or something. You also can’t dump and revive him. If you want to bring him out, you have to Tribute 2 monsters to do so. However, his effect means he can attack without fear of Mirror Force or similar, and trample is excellent for a monster of these superior stats. Ancient Gear Beast Level 6 EARCH Machine/Effect This card cannot be Special Summoned. The effects of your opponent's Effect Monster that this monster destroys as a result of battle are negated. If this card attacks, your opponent cannot activate any Spell or Trap Cards until the end of the Damage Step. 2000/2000 Ancient Gear Beast has poor ATK indeed for a Level 6 monster. If your attack is at Vampire Lord’s level and you’re a tribute monster, you’d better have a killer effect. Ancient Gear Beast falls short in a CCC deck, but he’s playable in a Machine deck. Though he can’t be dumped-and-revived, his effect is decent and he can be used. It’s clear that neither of these guys is exactly “splashable.” However, in their own deck (and NOT just a standard machine deck!) these two are playable and, indeed, lethal. Let’s make a sample deck list: MONSTERS (17) 1 Ancient Gear Golem is the star monster in this deck. 1 Ancient Gear Beast will negate those pesky MoFs and others. 1 Jinzo is a machine deck staple. 1 Fusilier Dragon can be BoM abused. 3 Mechanicalchaser give this deck some beatsticks. 1 Reflect Bounder gives this deck monster destruction and does some burn damage. 2 X-Head Cannon give this deck more beatsticks. 2 Cannon Soldier can do that last bit of finishing damage. 1 Sangan is a staple. 1 Tribe-Infecting Virus is a staple. 1 Sinister Serpent is a staple. 2 Magician of Faith are near-staples. SPELLS (19) 1 Pot of Greed is a staple. 1 Graceful Charity is a staple. 1 Delinquent Duo is a staple. 1 Premature Burial is a near-staple. 1 Snatch Steal is a near-staple. 1 Mystical Space Typhoon is a near-staple. 1 Heavy Storm is a near-staple. 2 Nobleman of Crossout are near-staples. 3 Book of Moon abuses your Fusilier and Magicians of Faith. 1 Metamorphosis works with your Level 1s, 6s, 7s, and 8s. 3 Limiter Removal are machine deck staples. 3 Brain Control help bring out your beatsticks. TRAPS (5) 1 Torrential Tribute is one of the Big 4. 1 Ring of Destruction is one of the Big 4. 1 Call of the Haunted is one of the Big 4. 1 Mirror Force is one of the Big 4. 1 Dust Tornado is almost as good as Mystical Space Typhoon. There you have it, a decklist with explanation. It’s important to note that though this deck is similar to a standard machine deck, there are important differences in the way you should run it. Brain Controls are essential due to our 4 Tribute Monsters (although Fusilier doesn’t really count, so more like 3), two of which can’t be dumped-and-revived. Try this deck out! It should run well. |
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| Raging Flame Sprite | Aug 3 2005, 10:19 AM Post #2 |
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looks good on paper. but it would need some playtesting to see... |
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| tea'sfavoriteharumboy | Aug 3 2005, 11:03 AM Post #3 |
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i think premmie is pointless in a deck based around amonster that can't be special summoned, but apart from that, it looks really good.... |
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....that was a joke up above .....ok no it wasn't. .....Got you again. ......or did I | |
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| Vampire Lord | Aug 3 2005, 12:43 PM Post #4 |
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Premmy can revive Jinzo, Fusilier, and all your other powerful monsters ... |
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| kewtie_with_a_bewtie | Aug 3 2005, 08:22 PM Post #5 |
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not a bad deck, id add breaker cuz hes a staple, but pretty good article and deck. |
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| Raging Flame Sprite | Aug 4 2005, 08:52 AM Post #6 |
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idk, i wouldn't call Breaker a staple at all. yeah, he has a good effect, but once thats gone u have a useless 1600 atk on the field. i don't think he fits in here. |
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| Vampire Lord | Aug 4 2005, 01:09 PM Post #7 |
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Not necessarily. Breaker can never be called "useless." Flip him face-down with BoM or Tsuku, then flip summon him and he gets his counter back. He's a costless form of MST and a beatstick to boot. |
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| Apocolypse | Aug 4 2005, 11:44 PM Post #8 |
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Meh, Breaker is good..but definately not a staple. Not a bad deck and article Vampy. |
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