Torneo en Sevilla

El dia 11 de diciembre, CórdobaDeck organiza un torneo en el Otakon de Sevilla. Un gran evento en el que yo actuaré como organizador y como Juez. Los premios y las caracteristicas del torneo ya se encuentran en internet, asi que espero poder ver a todos mis lectores de Sevilla y del resto de Andalucía alli.

FMD 2 more

So, I tried to record some games, but I don't always draw diva. So I'm only uploding those videos where I draw diva.

The deck is too much better than before. However, after 16 duels I only summon black mist twice. And only one of those time Black mist gave me the game.

On this game I use Herald of perfection instead of a monarch to make Trishula. Actually I won this because my opponent burn too many resources too fast.

My opponent used MST on Aoi and I almost loss to that. But then I saw his hand with mind crush and I had a chance to win the duel. My opponent keep burning resources to kill my monster, while I wait to draw anything strong. Diva gave me trishula again and I almost won if he wouldn't draw that lucky JD.

This type of strategy works better on a different meta. I will talk about that on another post I guess.

Frog-Monarch Designator again...

I don't want to bore all of you with this topic again. I just say that deck works better with diva and black mist.

3 swap frogs

2 tree F

3 Dupe F

3 deep sea diva

1 lost blue breaker

1 Ronintoadin

3 raiza

2 caius

1 vanity

1 gorz

3 duality

3 enemy C

2 d.d. designator

1 MST

1 Heavy storm

1 Reborn

3 PWWB

2 Mind crush

1 Trap dustshoot

3 spiritual water aoi

Diva works like another monarch because I can bring android in early game, or gachi gachi or armory arms in the middle game, or black mist in late game. Also, I don't need to use 7 tribute monster, so that means less dead draws. Diva match perfectly with aoi too, I can even use two aoi in the first turn thanks to diva.

I won't upload more videos because it seems redundant, but I can change my mind if someone really don't believe it.

Nº 96: Black Mist

I can use the frog engine to summon this card, I will get a boss monster thanks to the engine. I just need to summon swap frog, ronin and another lv2 monster. And we all know the perfect lv2 water monster: Deep Sea Diva. Who can give another lv2 monster on the field. Now I can threat my opponent with a syncro summon or a xyz summon. Also diva + monarch + treeborn frog = trishula.

I'm testing the new version of Frog Monarch Designator and looks amazing, maybe I will put a few videos.

FINALLY!!

Finally someone new and with real passion show us that this game is about fun (and really expensive cards), but mainly fun XD.

You can see the decklist here. This guy talks a lot but I really like to hear his opinion. He even side a Sword of revealing light just to troll a little.

Frog-Monarch Designator: Final conclusion

I hope you, at least, had seen one of the videos I made before read this.

The wining condition of the deck is based on a simple concept. If you control your opponent resources, you can control the duel. However this concept isn't always true. This strategy is strong as long as the game is based on 2 or 3 cards combos. Not combo decks are usually antimeta, which usually play slowly enough to win with monarchs. But we have to take one more thing in consideration: 1 card combo.

The one card combo is based on a single card capable of change the duel on his own. Examples of that is Monster Reborn, JD, BLS, among others. Mostly, all of them need some previous preparation before be useful. If you see my duel against Tourguide plants, you can see that my opponent had BLS on his hand but I never led him summon it. However there are few exceptions, those cards are Tengu, Tourguide, Dark hole, among others. These cards can be drawing and instantly played, even more you can draw Tourguide and instantly kill a monarch. That is the reason of some of my losses. So, the wining probability of this deck is negatively correlated to the number of good cards that can work to well on their own.

About the decklist, I have been testing a lot of different things to put inside.

Back to the square one: This is another pwwb but you always have to target monster. It is a great card that led me see the opponent hand with mind crush on the next turn. But sometimes the number of discard cost was to high. I changed it for Enemy controller, which gave me too many victories on his own.

Effect veiler: I already have too many control cards with even higher costs and better benefits. I couldn't loss more space on cards that don't give field advantage.

Duality: Yes, I have to play three copies. I need to active it on my first turn, to pull aoi-frog combo, and if i don't need it, I can discard it with pwwb. This card is totally necessary to make the deck consistence.

Mother grizzly: At some point, I used mother Grizzly to increase the chance to get my frogs on the field, however the probability to draw a frog is too high, and drawing a mother grizzly on late game is really awfull.

Tragoedia: Aoi-Frog combo is really expensive, and it totally worth it. However it doesn't match with tragoedia, since my hand is reduced. Also even when I summon it under the best condition, it wasn't so useful. Also I couldn't use pwwb, mind crush, etc because it could reduce my hand. I changed both of them for mst and Heavy storm.

The best thing I tested was the Frog engine. I'm talking about Des frog, the only "monarch" that can be search it from the deck or grave due to Dupe frog. Also you can really use the second effect of swap frog to summon twice. Or use two des frog to summon Tiras or Andreus, or clean the field with Des croacking. The results where great, but the number of potential dead draws were too high.

Finally I think the deck is good, could be better if the game wasn't so fast. But it will be definitely something that I will test again on march.

FMD duels (part 2)

Now I upload 5 videos, there was two more duels where I loss in the first turn, so I won't upload them.

On this one I could play vanity instead of caius at the begining, but luckly I won anyway.

This guy offered me a rematch, so we played a full match. I won the first one but I should be presure over him from the begining.

On the second duel, he OTKed me, nothing else to say...

On the third duel he started with a bad hand so I slowly won, probably you can skip this video because there is nothing interesting on wining on this way.

And the last video is another DW duel, and probably the prove that Tragoedia isn't a good choice at least for this build. Even when I special summoned under the best conditions, it didn't be able to push for damage and it was easily destroyed. Also, I ussually burn resources (swap frog and Aoi) during a duel, so Tragoedia is hard to play.

I will talk more about the deck, and will try to draw a conclussion