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CraniumX

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Count: 42

Monsters: 22
Tribute: 4
Raiza the Storm Monarch x3
Harpie Lady Sisters

Non-Tribute: 18
Birdface x2
Enraged Battle Ox x2
Flying Kamakiri #1 x3
Garuda the Wind Spirit x3
Harpie Queen x3
Harpie Lady 1 x2
Harpie Lady 2
Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird
Sangan

Spells: 11
Elegant Egotist x2
Harpies' Hunting Ground x3
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon
Nobleman of Crossout
Premature Burial
Snatch Steal
Swords of Revealing Light

Traps: 9
Call of the Haunted
Hysteric Party x2
Icarus Attack x3
Mirror Force
Ring of Destruction
Torrential Tribute


The real funny thing is, I put this together before the pre-release today, with the hopes of picking up 3 Harpy Queens (yes) and 3 Raizas (yeah right, I got 1, an ultimate, but, it's 1 down, anyway, using 2 Mobius as proxies at the moment) to just play around with while not doing anything else, and the amazing thing was, it was winning. It was winning a LOT. It beat Six Samurai pretty consistantly. It won a match against a Dimension Fissure/Macro Cosmos deck. I was really surprised, I mostly built it for fun, and this was pretty much just a rough draft, since I was toying with the Enraged Battle Oxen, and still don't know whether I'll keep them or not, I'm more inclined to swap them for Hunter Owls at this point, since we don't have Marshmallon to worry about over here, and goats aren't seeing much play.

I've found with the Harpie Queens now, Elegant Egotist has been a huge help in swinging momentum. Needless to say Icarus Attack works with nearly every creature and is chainable as can be, and according to my very frustrated brother, broken as crap, heh. If you feel like givin' someone the bird, well, here's your answer.
 
CraniumX said:
Count: 40

Monsters: 24
Tribute: 5
Raiza the Storm Monarch x3
Harpie Lady Sisters x2

Non-Tribute: 19
Birdface
Enraged Battle Ox x3
Flying Kamakiri #1 x3
Silpheed x3
Harpie Queen x3
Harpie Lady 1 x3
Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird x2
Sangan

Spells: 9
Elegant Egotist x2
Harpies' Hunting Ground x3
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon
Nobleman of Crossout
Snatch Steal


Traps: 7
Hysteric Party x2
Icarus Attack x2
Mirror Force
Ring of Destruction
Torrential Tribute


The real funny thing is, I put this together before the pre-release today, with the hopes of picking up 3 Harpy Queens (yes) and 3 Raizas (yeah right, I got 1, an ultimate, but, it's 1 down, anyway, using 2 Mobius as proxies at the moment) to just play around with while not doing anything else, and the amazing thing was, it was winning. It was winning a LOT. It beat Six Samurai pretty consistantly. It won a match against a Dimension Fissure/Macro Cosmos deck. I was really surprised, I mostly built it for fun, and this was pretty much just a rough draft, since I was toying with the Enraged Battle Oxen, and still don't know whether I'll keep them or not, I'm more inclined to swap them for Hunter Owls at this point, since we don't have Marshmallon to worry about over here, and goats aren't seeing much play.

I've found with the Harpie Queens now, Elegant Egotist has been a huge help in swinging momentum. Needless to say Icarus Attack works with nearly every creature and is chainable as can be, and according to my very frustrated brother, broken as crap, heh. If you feel like givin' someone the bird, well, here's your answer.
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Hope this helps.
 
Magician of Darkness` said:
Hope this helps.
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I'd like to hear your thoughts and reasons for your changes? For the most part, I see many of them as bad, in this deck... for these reasons:

The second Harpie Lady Sisters while only running 2 Elegant Egotists leads to actually drawing it more often, which is bad, since it's a dead hand card, unless you're dumping it for Hysteric Party, at best, and Elegant Egotist can always summon one of the other Harpie Ladies instead, if necessary. Since there's no other way to summon the sisters if they get into your hand, and I'm not running Card Traders, especially, that doesn't help.

Silpheed vs. Garuda. While Silpheed would normally be superior in every way, normally, in this deck, Garuda is superior for two reasons, the big one, is Icarus Attack, and I'd hate to even think of dropping down to 2 copies, since it's the most powerful card in the deck, if you've ever went against it, since most of the cards in this deck have a "floater"-ish status in a way. The second reason is there's always the change your opponent might be playing Dark World, which is just like giving yourself a free kick in the pants. If Silpheed were a Winged Beast instead of a Fairy though, I'd still run them over Garuda and just side-deck differently, but Icarus Attack is really just that good.

The only other change I was even thinking about before this was possibly even adding a couple of Spiritual Wind Art - Miyabis to the deck, but finding the room is always a problem.
 
1 thing to keep in mind with Icarus Attack. There must be 2 other cards on the field (other than itself and whatever you tribute) in order to activate it. If you have Harpie Queen on the field and nothing else other than Icarus Attack and your opponent decides to Special Summon Cyber Dragon, sack for Mobius and there's nothing else on the field, you wouldn't be able to activate it.

Spiritual Wind Art - Miyabi is also an interesting choice since it helps with the bounce theme of Raiza (as well as get rid of annoying cards you don't necessarily want destroyed.

Also, I'd drop the Harpie Lady 2. 3 Harpie Lady 1s really is the way to take this. There aren't many FLIP effect monsters you're going to run into and the attack bonus will be so much better in this case. I also don't really see the need for Harpie Lady Sisters. There's no Triangle Ecstasy Spark and that 1950 ATK on its own really isn't worth it not to mention it's a dead draw. Granted Elegant Egotist can only fetch Harpie Lady 1 (2/3/Cyber/Normal) then.

You also might want to look at Hunter Owl.

Hunter Owl
Effect Monster (Winged Beast / WIND / 4 Stars / ATK 1000 / DEF 900)

This card gains 500 ATK for each WIND monster on your side of the field. While there is another WIND monster on your side of the field, your opponent cannot select this card as an attack target.

That would be 1500 ATK when he's by himself. With a Harpie Lady 1 and himself: 2300 ATK.

Also, Shrink would be a very useful card. Chainable and it offsets the fact that the Harpies on their own could use that extra little boost sometimes, esp when dealing with Gadget and Hydrogeddon decks.
 
CraniumX said:
Count: 42

Monsters: 22
Tribute: 4
Raiza the Storm Monarch x3
Harpie Lady Sisters

Non-Tribute: 18
Birdface x2
Enraged Battle Ox x2
Flying Kamakiri #1 x3
Garuda the Wind Spirit x3
Harpie Queen x3
Harpie Lady 1 x2
Harpie Lady 2
Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird
Sangan

Spells: 11
Elegant Egotist x2
Harpies' Hunting Ground x3
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon
Nobleman of Crossout
Premature Burial
Snatch Steal
Swords of Revealing Light

Traps: 9
Call of the Haunted
Hysteric Party x2
Icarus Attack x3
Mirror Force
Ring of Destruction
Torrential Tribute


The real funny thing is, I put this together before the pre-release today, with the hopes of picking up 3 Harpy Queens (yes) and 3 Raizas (yeah right, I got 1, an ultimate, but, it's 1 down, anyway, using 2 Mobius as proxies at the moment) to just play around with while not doing anything else, and the amazing thing was, it was winning. It was winning a LOT. It beat Six Samurai pretty consistantly. It won a match against a Dimension Fissure/Macro Cosmos deck. I was really surprised, I mostly built it for fun, and this was pretty much just a rough draft, since I was toying with the Enraged Battle Oxen, and still don't know whether I'll keep them or not, I'm more inclined to swap them for Hunter Owls at this point, since we don't have Marshmallon to worry about over here, and goats aren't seeing much play.

I've found with the Harpie Queens now, Elegant Egotist has been a huge help in swinging momentum. Needless to say Icarus Attack works with nearly every creature and is chainable as can be, and according to my very frustrated brother, broken as crap, heh. If you feel like givin' someone the bird, well, here's your answer.
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sweet..now i have living proof i can make a ygo deck based off of naruto's chakra nature...=D

anyhoo..i really like this deck..=D but i agree with densetsu's fixes lose the harpie lady sisters and add some shrink in...and maybe fit in a hunter owl or maybe tech some sasuke samurai #4..those things are crazy fun..:)
 
I suppose it depends on the area you play, I usually prefer using all Harpy Lady 1's, but you never know. The matches that I played for fun, seemed like everyone had a few flips, either a Dekoichi, or an Old Vindictive Magician, or Night Assailant, but it's usually easy enough to side deck one in if needed, so I'll probably just put a third Harpy Lady 1 in otherwise.

I have one Hunter Owl, from buying Spirit Caller, but my brother didn't want a copy of the game, so I only have the one copy of the card at the moment. I thought about running just one, but I hate running a single copy of a card usually. I thought about replacing the Enraged Battle Oxes with these though. The sister for the most part was a personal choice, because you could actually get it out now, I'm sure I'll remove it, but it was fun to actually use. Since I only have one Hunter Owl, I'll probably just switch those two out, it's a win-win situation, really. Even still, Elegant Egotist I think is worth it as long as you play it properly, since the Hunting Ground will be out almost constantly, it's like another MST with the bonus of another creature to the field.

I've thought about Shrink. I've thought about Creature Swap. I've thought about Spiritual Wind Art - Miyabi, Sakuretsu Armor, Smashing Ground, and even others, the main problem is of course the room. Miyabi's good for especially getting rid of Treeborn Frog, for instance, but most of the time, you'll get to use Icarus Attack. Chances are, if my opponent had a completely clear field already, I wouldn't be setting my Icarus Attack, but if I did, and they wanted to special summon a Cyber Dragon and then tribute it off for Mobius to get rid of it, then by all means, let them, chances are they'd be hitting a Harpie's Hunting Ground as well, in which case, I'd go ahead and tribute off whatever bird I have and target Mobius and my own Hunting Ground, or if it was just the bird down and an Icarus attack, I'd feel fine they wasted the Cyber Dragon for a trbute, personally. I suppose it's just a personal preference, but if someone really wanted to play to where they only /ever/ had one card on their side of the field, that's where the side deck comes in handy for any of the aforementioned.

The thing I like the best is that the little Hummingbird nearly always makes opponents make mistakes, either putting too many cards down in the S/T zone, or putting something down to attack it that they would rather not, usually.
 
hmm..maybe you could also slip in a pair of brain control if you make the room...those could really help ya..=D
 
CraniumX said:
I'd like to hear your thoughts and reasons for your changes? For the most part, I see many of them as bad, in this deck... for these reasons:

The second Harpie Lady Sisters while only running 2 Elegant Egotists leads to actually drawing it more often, which is bad, since it's a dead hand card, unless you're dumping it for Hysteric Party, at best, and Elegant Egotist can always summon one of the other Harpie Ladies instead, if necessary. Since there's no other way to summon the sisters if they get into your hand, and I'm not running Card Traders, especially, that doesn't help.

Silpheed vs. Garuda. While Silpheed would normally be superior in every way, normally, in this deck, Garuda is superior for two reasons, the big one, is Icarus Attack, and I'd hate to even think of dropping down to 2 copies, since it's the most powerful card in the deck, if you've ever went against it, since most of the cards in this deck have a "floater"-ish status in a way. The second reason is there's always the change your opponent might be playing Dark World, which is just like giving yourself a free kick in the pants. If Silpheed were a Winged Beast instead of a Fairy though, I'd still run them over Garuda and just side-deck differently, but Icarus Attack is really just that good.

The only other change I was even thinking about before this was possibly even adding a couple of Spiritual Wind Art - Miyabis to the deck, but finding the room is always a problem.
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I guess 2 Sisters wouldn't be the best, but all my other changes I find useful.

1. Incarus Attack isn't always the best card. You just use two of your cards to destroy 2 of his/hers.

2. I don't see how 3 Hystaric Party helps all the time. You will not often have enough harpies.

3. Most decks need to run 40 cards and that's it. You need to get a good hand 90% or more of the time to really be efficent.

4. You should run 3 Oxes. They will just kill the opponent.

5. Silpheed really is better than the wind spirit. He really annoys the opponent when killed.
 
Magician of Darkness` said:
I guess 2 Sisters wouldn't be the best, but all my other changes I find useful.
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1. Incarus Attack isn't always the best card. You just use two of your cards to destroy 2 of his/hers.
You just have to know when and how to play it, like all of the spiritual art cards, it's more of a reactionary card, especially to Sakuretsu Armor, or Smashing Ground, Brain Control, Creature Swap, Snatch Steal, etc. It may seem like it's just a 2 for 2, but when played properly, it usually pulls you way ahead, instead. I suppose it's just experience talking, though. If you've ever tried playing with Spiritual Water Art - Aoi, for instance, in a water deck, you can know just how strong it can be as a reactionary.

2. I don't see how 3 Hystaric Party helps all the time. You will not often have enough harpies.
I only had 2 of those in the deck anyway, I had 3 Icarus Attacks, and didn't want to lose any of those mostly from how strong it can be.

3. Most decks need to run 40 cards and that's it. You need to get a good hand 90% or more of the time to really be efficent.
Most, yes, but not all. With as many "tutor" cards as this deck has, with its own thinning via battle, mostly, but also just some via dumping from the hand possible, the two extra cards hasn't hurt it at all.

4. You should run 3 Oxes. They will just kill the opponent.
I can agree with this, especially if I'm running over the frog constantly, but otherwise it seems like there's not much defense being played lately.

5. Silpheed really is better than the wind spirit. He really annoys the opponent when killed.
Unless the opponent is playing Dark World, of course.... but again, it kind of comes down to Icarus Attack. Switch them out for 3 Miyabis, and I'd switch in 3 Silpheeds in a heartbeat, but that wil probably require some playtesting of its own. Definitely good sidedeck material, as Miyabiing a Frog into the deck would hurt a Monarch deck more than hitting a Gadget, while Icarusing a pair of Gadgets hurts them a lot more than Monarchs. I really feel this is side deck thing for sure, though, since it single-handedly changes the side-focus from Birds to Wind.

I appreciate the comments though, at least I now know your reasonings behind them, since most of the changes seemed to stray pretty far from my own.
 
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