Why are people using Mystic Tomato's in their decks?

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With Giant Rat a few of my personal favorites are...

Golem Sentry
Enraged Muka-Muka
Exiled Force
Injection Fairy Lilly

Those four alone present a pretty good toolbox let alone numerous other possibilities.

It should probably also be noted that searchers not only thin..but give fodder for cards like Pot Of Avarice.
 
Im not saying that the searchers aren't good but why would you use a searcher in a deck when u can only target like 2 good monsters?
 
Ok lets try this then..... Its because they are a carry over from when people used more monsters that could be searched. Since those times the meta has changed slightly but in everyones eyes who is unwilling to work at a great deck tomatoe is the best card for the job. Thats the simplest reason anyone can offer you.
 
DuelzEntity said:
Im not saying that the searchers aren't good but why would you use a searcher in a deck when u can only target like 2 good monsters?
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there's no point to it the only time it is useful in my opinion is at the start of the duel which is highly unlikely to have it at that time!!!
 
Searching Night Ass or Dekoichi with Tomato is dumb unless you have Tsukuyomi. But still, getting Sangan, Spirit Reaper, Newdoria, another Tomato, etc. are all good. What's wrong getting Sangan or Reaper? I honestly play Sangan in ATK always unless my LP are low cause I do not want that thing NoCed. Sangan is a free floater so it's fine. So what if it's ATK is low so that you take LP damage. Similer with Reaper. Yeah, it got low ATK, but it cannot be destroyed as a result of battle so that's not a prob. Besides, if you got Smashing or NoC in your hands, you can bust all the monsters on the foe's field and swipe a card from your foe's hand by Reaper direct attack.
 
Tomatoes and any searcher are simple field advantage and deck thinning. Without them, you don't have them. Nothing more nothing less. We're not talking about a game winning combo here., We're talking about the ability the functionality of certain cards. You keep saying only 2 good monsters, but what are you classifying as "good"? We've pointed out that in this strategy (one of the oldest and most overused) your going to pull a lot more then just the two monsters you personally think are good. They're there to provide searchability, where there is otherwise none. Searchers, as was pointed out, are one part of a larger mechanism. That's the reason I don't play CC deck like these. Because they are machines that are essentially churning out the same results over and over again.
 
When I mean good I meaN valid monsters that work. I didn't say you shouldn't pull sangan. Sangan SHOULD be searched using the tomato. But in my opinion not spirit reaper and not night assailant and not dekoichi. I guess if your desperate you can oull spirit reaper. The only good time to pull spirit reaper is when the opponent has only 1 monster on the field that already attacked mystic tomato.
 
If it's the Life Point loss you're concerned about, keep in mind that these days losing hand and especially field advantage often has a much greater impact in a duel.
 
DuelzEntity said:
When I mean good I meaN valid monsters that work. I didn't say you shouldn't pull sangan. Sangan SHOULD be searched using the tomato. But in my opinion not spirit reaper and not night assailant and not dekoichi. I guess if your desperate you can oull spirit reaper. The only good time to pull spirit reaper is when the opponent has only 1 monster on the field that already attacked mystic tomato.
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Consider this. This type of deck isn't sculpted around being a "toolbox"/"Man for all Seasons" type deck that we usually work on around here at CoG. These are the CC decks that people usually go with because they have been run though the mill and time tested as "winning" decks.

As such, the overall strategy is getting to certain cards as quickly as possible, not being able to pull out options, which is where I think your line of thinking may be coming from. But your not trying to get to Night Assailant or Sangan or Dekoichi, your concern is the higher attack, unsearchable monsters. So deck thinning is what the deck becomes all about, plus adding fodder for Chaos Sorcerer's Special Summon. Factor in the searchable monsters and then Dekoichi, and Morphing Jar and you have the potential to thin your deck out by 10 cards, effectively making this a thirty card deck. Haven't you ever wondered how Chaos players get to their Chaos Sorcerer so quickly? This is why. The deck is built for sheer speed. The ability to pull different cards is nice, but that's merely an added bonus. Without the tomatoes, this deck can only be thinned out by 8 cards. Plus, something like Giant Germ, while certainly searchable, can only search out another Giant Germ, greatly diminishing the odds of thinning your deck. 3 Giant Germs have only 2 available options for thinning. While merely 2 Mystic Tomatoes have 9 options for thinning.

These decks are all about the speed and ability to get the speed. And we're only looking at his monster line-up. Who knows how much faster the deck is with his Spell/Trap Cards factored in. I think you may be thinking along the lines of a completely different style of play. This deck is an engine with each card serving the overall good of the machine. Your merely looking at one cog in the machine. Spark plugs don't do really serve but one function, but my car won't run properly or at all without them. Step back at look at the overall function of the deck and you'll see why he runs Tomatoes. His deck wil not run as fast without them.
 
OK I get it. The person wants to think his deck and dump darks as fast as possible. Even if he searches out crap monsters.
 
LOL Well, if you want to call them crap. Ultimately they do each serve their own small function, just like the Tomatoes do, providing each part to the larger machine.
 
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