Yeah, pretty much. That’s the thing about Zoodiacs, they don’t SEEM threatening at first, until you realize exactly what they’re doing every turn.
Also one must realize, unlike most decks (outside of Paleos natch) that run a very lean-to-nonexistent trap count, Zoodiacs can do all the stupid explosion most top decks can do now while also running a healthy amount of traps akin to Old School Yugioh decks because their stupid turns do not require much deck or hand commitment. It also makes them an even deadlier deck post-Sideboard because it gives them a LOT of room to work with to swap cards in and out.
Zoodiacs aren’t like the Tier 0 decks of old that just straight up overpower you and you can see the scorched earth from miles away. They’re extremely subtle in their dominance. Everything seems fine and okay but you’re really getting played.
Oh, then you’re good. CyDras are actually decently positioned right now because a Machine Deck is the top deck in the format (ABCs) which means Chimeratech Fortress Dragon will always be well fed.
Kaiju’s work pretty well in Cyber Dragons too. You’ve got an out to pretty much every monster in the game and you can absorb them back as materials for CDI or Fortress Dragon.
Also, Goyo Guardian errata is hilariously dumb but I can dig it. He fits in better with his small archtype. Not a fan of the other errata’s (read: nerfs), but it’s better than cards like Brio and Future Fusion being locked up forever i guess.
Double post, but this is worth mentioning. We got a new hand trap coming and it’s pretty damn good.
灰流うらら Haru Urara (OCG: Floating Ash & Beautiful Spring/TCG: Ghost Ash & Beautiful Spring)
Level 3 FIRE Zombie-Type Tuner Effect Monster
ATK 0 - DEF 1800
You can only use the effect of “Haru Urara” once per turn. During either player’s turn, when your opponent activates a card effect that would add a card from their Deck to their hand, Special Summon a monster from their Deck, or send a card from their Deck to the Graveyard: You can discard this card; negate that effect
That new Zefra card looks really good.
Though its eff has me confused, the first monster eff. Does that mean you can do another pendulum summon when you SS the monster from the extra deck?
Sure the summon condition is harsh and would rarely be used but man its good if so. Even then pendulum eff is great.
that metalfoes alchehest card is broke as fuck, metalfoes are broke as fuck, and then you got majespecters…who cant be destroyed by card effects…and all of them float…why is this a thing, why did they make the game into this…i rather deal with TeleDaD era than this shit…
full power DDDs is going to be a problem, i agree, but metalfoes is more annoying imo, ability to float and just grind you out is dumb, atleast with juunishishi if you hit them with a board wipe, your good.
looking at the ocg tounies, kirin is banned and union hanger is at 1, so gimped ABC and metalfoes are both dead over there trying to handle essentially full power zoodiacs(terrortop and tenki @1 is a small slap on the wrist).
it will all depend on what kind of banlist we get, our meta could end up being completely different.
not to mention i have a small bias against metalfoes, i play cyber dragon, i love going 2nd, metalfoes love going first, but its such a bad match up, its not even funny. im waiting on fusion enforcers to come out so i can make that winwitch eidolon artifact deck.
lol, no you’re not good if you hit them with a board wipe. Zoodiacs actually have more grind ability than Metalfoes do. Metalfoes also have far more weaknesses than Zoodiacs.
Metalfoes will drop from 2 all the way to 4 in the next month. Hell you can argue they’re 3, if only because their Blue-Eyes matchup is horrid.
just basing my analysis on what ive seen so far, a well timed dark hole or D barrier seems to wreck zoodiacs. i havent seen enough to know if that was a anomaly or the norm.
and i thought the current top decks were 1. metalfoes, 2. Paleazoics , 3. ABC ???
A Zoodiac deck playing properly shouldn’t be anywhere near affected by a board wipe. It usually just means you won’t die the next turn. Between Daigusto Emeral and their own Avarice, they always have resources ready. And with the way they deck thin and draw they always have relevant traps to make sure you don’t kill them if you can get their shields down. Your best chance is to make sure they can’t Xyz at all.
Don’t need power when you can easily draw into a bunch of Solemn Strikes and Dimensional Barriers.
You also don’t need draw power when you can just put the engine into a deck that does have power.
Anyway, first local with…MOSTLY Full Power D/Ds. I had no Crystal Wing (now at $60 goddamn dollars) and it’s a huge deal. You can go without Desires/Trish/Omega and such, but Crystal Wing is an absolutely mandatory card. In its stead, I actually ran the Red Dragon Archfiend suite (Scarlight/Abyss/Bane) and…well I won, and it worked solidly. The Bane was mostly for giggles but I DID summon it once. Abyss was great though. I may actually see if I can keep two slots for Scarlight/Abyss.
Deck has the same resiliency it always had, just now with the stupid 2017 Turn 1 Boards to back it up.
People at my locals that dont have Desires are running Trade In. Seems like a decent replacement.
But i’m wondering if this deck will have the chronomely treatment and be in the category of “just too late.” Most D/D/D players at my locals are going balls out with the deck because they will ditch it in 2-3 weeks.
I wanted to keep this on the low until the bugs were fixed, and it looks like for the most part it’s been cleaned up.
There’s a new Browser Based YGO game out (hopefully it actually lasts). Dueling Nexus. https://duelingnexus.com/
It’s more in the vain of YGOPro where it’s automated and it’s still relatively early, but most of the bugs are worked out and I played a few games to no issues at the moment.
Oh and the Zoodiac rarities (for the most part) were seen, by some miracle Rat isn’t the Secret (it’s either Super or Common, most likely Super but then again Gofu remained Common so we’ll see). Instead it’s Zoodiac Barrage (card formerly known as Triangle) as the Secret.
it looks like both triangle and bullhorn are secrets, with tiger being ultra, im still surprised they didnt make rat a secret, i aint complaining though, i will need a playset. super rare should be easier to get. i can already see triangle being a pain in the ass to get a playset of.
The only way to enjoy this game these days is to play a meta deck, crush everybody for an entire format, and wait for all of your cards to get banned. Then, you drop another 500 on another meta deck that’s better than everything, and crush everybody, and rinse repeat.
There is just not alot of return on investment unless you go to tourneys alot.