Deck Comparison: HERO Drain

In this section, I pretty much take a deck and compare it with my build, showing the mistakes that I made when making my deck. Then I go in detail on why everything is so good in each build.

For today, I'm gonna compare my HERO deck with the top 4 HERO drain deck from YCS Long Beach!

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For whatever reason, we thought alike. I had the intention to run Beast King Barbaros in my build, but instead, I run Effect Veiler. As a result of Saturday's local tournament run, I lost 2 matches in swiss due to inconsistency. Honestly, it was a complete shock with every mistake that I had made, that I even got to top 4. I HATED drawing into those damn veilers. Now to get 2 Barbaros and replace those ladies.

Thunder Kings: Check!
HERO Engine: Check!

Crusader of Endemyon: Not check. I would have perfered Evocater Chevalier over it, but I guess he's saving his Nova Masters for the Evolzars. Running 4 Gemini Monsters, though, sounds like a good idea. He wanted as much consistency as possible in the deck, and it can be a major issue for that and any other low monster count deck.

And as a random factor, he didn't run Honest as I did. How many times did I get Honest to go off? NONE! That's definately coming out of the deck, for sure.

We had a lot of the same Spells in our lineups. The only difference is he didn't play the 1 Super Polymerization that I mained. To be honest, I think I'll do the same thing, since Elemental HERO Escuridao isn't in the TCG yet. That and he played Heavy Storm and I didn't. For me, I'm gonna continue to not play storm because with my theory, I want them to waste their backrow, so that when I go off, I won't have to worry about anything.

Trap lineup was so different, though. I believe his lineup was like this

2x Skill Drain
2x Dimensional Prison
2x HERO Blast
2x Torrential Tribute
2x Solemn Warning
1x Mirror Force
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Starlight Road

2 HERO Blast? I suppose it was pretty good when I saw my 1. Might try it. Another mistake I made with my build is trying to throw in 2 Fiendish Chains. Not saying it's a bad thing, but I got 2 Skill Drains in the deck, so why am I gonna need those? I have all-purpose Removal such as Gemini Spark.

Side Deck: Maxx C's I don't have, I'd side more Snowman Eaters, but I only own 1, and other than that, almost the same thing. Oh and about Forbidden Chalice, very underrated card! If I owned them, I'd use them. Smashing Ground is also a busted card in case D-Prison sucks ass. But yeah. I need to steer away from Effect Veilers if I wish to be successful with HERO's.

Extra Deck is pretty much like all others. You run HERO fusions, some expensive Xyz's, and a Stardust Dragon. Pretty much all there. He plays 1 Gaia, I will play 2 since Six Sams are really widespread in my area.

And that pretty much concludes today's comparison segment! Tune in whenever for more stuff coming your way in the future! =D