Sunday, May 13, 2012

Meta Update: May 2012

Two months into the format, and one new set out, the meta has made a good change. We'll go over what decks are winning, and what cards are doing well right now.

Inzektors: No YCS victories, but a really broken deck. With the recent release of Inzektor Ladybug, the deck obtained more options for Xyz summons. Any deck that uses your opponent's field as a playground is really broken. It's really bad that you can even use two cards to potentially blow up 2 cards, a free Special Summon, and a free search if everything goes right. With Inzektor Hornet going up in price, pulling one would make you feel like a real winner! With that said, other than Hornets, nothing else really expensive about the deck.

HERO Beat: Personally, this deck is even cheaper than Inzektors! This deck has the ability to drop beat sticks, being able to massively plus off a few cards, and randomly bring out 3200+ beat sticks off one spell card! Not to mention that it can adapt to everything in the meta right now. If you're playing the Bubbleman Beat build, you'll know how quickly you can do damage to your opponent. The more Rank 4 Xyz's that come out, the more options you will have. All I will say is, if you have the ability to collect all of the cards for this deck, build HERO's!

Dino Rabbit: Although this deck has lost a lot of popularity due to losing priority, it's still a really good deck to use. When Rescue Rabbit goes off, it can win you games because of the Evolzar Xyz's. Although it can still be really hard to obtain a playset of Rabbits and sluts err I mean Tour Guides, once that's done, the rest of the deck will be cheap (except Zenmaines of course.) Building this deck should still result in an almost guaranteed locals top.

Dark World: Although this deck is probably the most sided against, it's still really annoying! As long as you have a card in your hand (in which most cases, you do) then you're going to probably lose them. As long as you know the contents in your opponent's hand, you'll know exactly what to do next! Not to mention that Grapha is a difficult monster to deal with as long as it sits in the Graveyard. With lots of draw power and destruction involved with this deck, you're sure to see the majority of the cards in your deck.

Hieratics: The new deck in the meta. Although it's result in YCS's are yet to be known, the concept of the deck is really annoying. It pretty much brings out 2 Rank 6 monsters, and Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragons to swarm the field. I don't know too much about this deck, considering that I've only seen the deck in action a few times. However, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a powerful force in the current meta!

Chaos Dragons: If not Hieratics, then it's Chaos Dragons. This deck is consisted with very high beaters and the factor of dropping up to 4 different monsters that involve banishing a Light and a Dark monster from your Graveyard. Most of these builds play Ryko and Lyla to fill the Graveyard with monsters so that they can get their stuff to go off. So everyone knows, Future Fusion is the card you don't want to resolve. If it does, nice knowing you. He gets setup, and maybe a Five-Headed Dragon.

There are other decks other than the ones above that are succeeding in today's meta, but those are the notable ones. Now what we're gonna do is go over what cards that I believe that we should tech in almost every deck.


Chain Disappearance: I must admit, this card is broken. I'd suggest main-decking one and siding another. With every deck above (except Chaos Dragons) having at least one notable monster with 1000 or less ATK, it's a safe bet to play one. Remember! Hieratic's bring monsters out at 0 ATK and 0 DEF!


That Whacky Magic!: It's a brand new card that I believe should be played. Against the right decks, it's essentially a Lightning Vortex without discarding! The more spells you use, the more broken it is. Most cards have a rather low DEF anyways, so give it a try!

Penguin Soldier: My God this card is so good! With a lot of decks Xyz summoning up the ass, this card makes those decks look bad. Nothing feels any better than bouncing 2 monsters back to the Extra Deck!

There are more cards that you can try out in your decks. Just remember that you gotta think outside the box! There are so many cards in today's game, and any one of them can win you a game! Well...almost any card. Just remember this! Enjoy the meta! There won't be any more new cards until August! 



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