Troza's agents

[troza]

Hi there.

Finally had a time to do some testing... and now I'm able to post a deck after playing with it a while. Not as much as I would like but enough to have an idea on how it runs.

So... here is what I'm testing/playing for now:



Some notes about this:

- Side deck is only cards that I was thinking for testing. Not a real side deck. But you can see that what I'm thinking if I need to do a change.

- Never had an extra deck that felt so tight. In the side deck there are another options. Star Eater might be so casual that I might take him off. The Rank 8 option that I wanted is Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand (or whatever it is his name). Not sure if a rank 6 option is cool... and if Gauntlet is the right option (as I have lots of cards to do that) or if I should go with Constellar M7 (that has more uses...) or even Photon Strike Bounzer (sit on a bounzer with Herald of Orange Light live in hand gives a hard time to everyone). In the level 8 department, Angel of Zera is a must... now, not sure if I should go with Stardust Dragon or Crimson Blader. I guess that I will have to see what I will face more, as Stardust is still a beast and this deck lacks the ability to protect cards on the field...



- I would love to have 3 tour guides in there with tour bus... I just don't feel that there is the space as Maxx "C" will give this deck the draw power it needs... and Veiler has it's uses. And I will not play with less than 6 agents. And Spirit Reaper is still a nice guy to have on our side.



- 2 Trifortressops and 2 Chaos Sorcerer opens the rank 6, the level 7 and level 8 synchro play in a great way. With 4 level 2 tuners and 2 level 1, I guess that I will be fine. The bad part is that Trifortressops is rare and this leaves my ultimate tragoedia out... I can always use one of each but I believe that, unless I start to face DW everyduel, trifortressops opens more plays and is a better card latter in the game.

- I also thought about T.G. Agents (it is so much easier to make Armory Arm and low level synchro summuning in there while with this version is a bit of a gimmick summon) and maybe I would love if I could fit everything into one deck. But, for now, I want to be able to abuse Zera and the rank 3 usually do a better job than the low level synchron summoning. So... if you have points in favor of T.G. agents you can always share

[g1nz0]

My guys and I have been testing Agents a lot for the start of the format and I think it would be best to focus more on Kristya and Herald of Orange Light. Not really digging the Trifortressops, but we are running the double Sorcerer and BLS. We are supporting that with triple TGU and surprisingly enough a copy of Tour Bus. Tour Bus has been kind of nice in testing.

[troza]

Jan 4, 2014 7:32:16 GMT -6 g1nz0 said:

My guys and I have been testing Agents a lot for the start of the format and I think it would be best to focus more on Kristya and Herald of Orange Light. Not really digging the Trifortressops, but we are running the double Sorcerer and BLS. We are supporting that with triple TGU and surprisingly enough a copy of Tour Bus. Tour Bus has been kind of nice in testing.

No tragoedia in there? I'm testing trifortressops and they do tragoedias protection and get me a level 6 to follow up into a level 8 (I want to abuse Angel of Zera), level 7 or rank 6 with Chaos Sorcerer. I know that Tragoedia would give me the rank 3 play or rank 2 that could be much better but even so... I would have to take damage and have a good number of cards in my hand.

I feel that, in this version, one Kristya is the right number... 2 is too much... And I can't find the space for one more tour guide and tour bus, but I would want that. Why? Cause the only card I might see going for now is Spirit Reaper. If Maxx "C" turn out to be a side deck card, then I guess that will have an easy time to get what I want in there, but when I faced Chaos Dragons and Wind-ups at locals, you see my point. I also faced Gladiator beasts and even so I kept the Maxx "C" (but sided in one Herald of Orange Light for one of the Veilers).

[troza]

So, time to make this go up.

The deck as it is now:



I know that Maxx "C" might not be as good in the main deck as it once was and we can argue about the Veiler/Herald of Orange Light ratio. For now I will keep it like this cause I found that the regular matchups I might find, maxx "C" will, at least, be a one for one and that ain't a bad thing. And I can always side out that card. And Veiler uses one less card from the hand and gives me the level 7 option out of a Trifortressops summon.

We can also argue about the number of Tour Guides and the use of Spirit Reaper right now (I can take him out for Tragoedia... )

But my main doubt is extra deck. This is the first time that I don't feel that the extra is tight... it is super hyper mega tight.

Let's see...

Synchros:
- Level 3: It could be made but it would be so rare to see it that I don't think that Mist Bird Causolas is a good option here.

- Level 4: Armory Arm is there as an option. It is too good to not have there, considering that we might get a surviving Venus and a Veiler, a surviving Venus or earth with the other in hand and one MSB to summon, a surviving Reaper or even some tour guide for whatever reason. What makes him that good is the fact that this deck will special summon monsters after (and before) we make this bad boy. Also... I have an ultra rare version of the card. The other option is Underworld Fighter Balmung. But I make level 4 so little (T.G. Agents do it more often) and his effect could open some plays but won't open them for sure as it is meh. I guess that isn't a viable option.

- Level 5: And there it goes... Ally of Justice Catastor and Armades, Keeper of Boundaries were my choices for the last time. I don't know if Catastor is still that good, mainly cause I can blow a monster whenever I want... but I took him anyway. Armades is good and if I find any Bujins the question will be: will I be able to summon him as easily as I would like? I don't think so... but still... Other options: T.G. Hyper Librarian (that is a meta call... I don't think that it is worth it right now as I need to normal summon my tuners... meaning, one synchro per turn at best). I'm not remembering the others... but I guess that would be one or two more options

- Level 6: For now, I only have HTS Psyhemuth there as I don't feel like I'll do it the majority of the time but there might be a chance. Also, a good effect as I want to use Angel of Zera... Other options: Gaia Knight, the force of Earth (a beater is always good but I feel that HTS is better), Celestial Wolf Lord, Blue Sirius (dark, this card with BLS-EotB dropped with the opponent having a monster with more than 2400 ATK points should be pretty nice... but not that great). For now, I guess that's all. The new level 6 isn't there yet...

- Level 7: For now Black Rose Dragon (what better way to follow a trifortressops summon with a nuke on the field and then drop boss monsters like crazy? Too bad I have to use the normal summon on veiler...) and Ancient Sacred Wyvern (this can really help to finish a duel sonner... and in a deck with so few defenses, it is good... but is it worth it?). Ancient Fairy Dragon will be up to the meta. I guess that he can come in vs gravekeeper's but 3 level 7 synchros is a bit too much for this deck...

- Level 8: That's where it starts to get tricky: Angel of Zera is the only one that I know that I won't take out for sure... at least for now... I really built this deck to be able to summon him and to use him. Other guys: Stardust Dragon, Crimson Blader (ok, meta call but it is always good... and he is that Kristya that never comes when we need him), Scrap Dragon (another Hyperion!!), Colossal Fighter (dark, gets back on the field...), Thought Ruler Archfiend (dark, nice effect but I don't see him being that good right now).

- Level 9: First the question: will this be worth it? Only Mist Wurm and Giganticastle as options for now... but I don't feel they are worth it for now. Sure, Mist Wurm can clear the field but truth to be told: the majority of the times we're able to go for him, we can go for a level 8 and Venus or level 5 and rank 2 and those are the better options... I guess that's easy for me here.

- Level 10: No options for now, but I guess that I will need to get something in here in the near future...

- Level 11: Star Eater is an option but I feel that he would be much better in T.G. Agents than in here. At least when I think about the build I had with 2 Archlord Kristya.


XYZ monsters:
- rank 2: for now, I'm using Armored Kappa (much better than Gachi Gachi), Daigusto Phoenix and Herald of Pure Light. Other options: Number 96, Dark Mist (I feel that he can be good to make the chaos part of the deck live faster... but is the need to do that?) and Gachi Gachi Gantetsu (I just feel that Armored Kappa is better than him and I can stall with rank 3)

- rank 3: using Leviair the Sea Dragon (obvious choice here), Wind-Up Zenmaines (and I guess that's only cause I have the secret 1st edition one...) and Mechquipped Angineer (I feel that this one is better than Zenmaines right now). Other options: Number 30: Acid Golem of Destruction (with Creature Swap in there, I can use a beater and send him to my opponent... nasty play), Number 49: fortune tune (I just need the monsters in the graveyard more than this guy's abilities), Number 17: Leviathan Dragon (I don't feel that I need him...), Temtempo the Percussion Djinn (depends on the meta and the deck I'm playing against). Ok, there are other good Djinns... 

- rank 4: this doesn't make that many sense, cause I'm not using Jupiter now and only one TKRO. I'm sure that I will miss one here once in a while... but not worth it. Options: Maestroke the Symphony Djinn, Gem-Knight Pearl, Number 39: Utopia and I guess that I'm forgetting others... but not worth it, I guess... Number 101 might be an option in the future... that is good enough to make me thing. Too bad this deck isn't able to make Starliege Paladynamo in a regular basis.

- rank 5: no way I can do this.

- rank 6: Constellar Ptolemy M7 is what I'm using. The card is so good that it has to be there (chaos sorcerer with Trifortessops... that's nice...). Photon Strike Bounzer and Gauntlet Launcher are my other options but one is what I need and is more than enough in here.

- rank 7: not worth in here

- rank 8: as soon as I get my Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand, I will need to get him in here. It is useful... other rank 8: Hieratic Sun Dragon Overlord of Heliopolis, Number 107: Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon, Number 15: Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder... but I feel that one is more than enough and I'm not even sure that I will need it that much but with angel of zera going and coming, I'm sure I'll see this play a lot more and Felgrand seems like the better option

And that's it..


Now the question: what extra-deck would you use right now?

[Ursiel]

Cut Herald of Pure Light.

[troza]

I guess that I need a third tour guide in here... Do you think that taking out a spirit reaper and one forbidden lance for one tour guide and one tour bus or Night assailant is good?

And, by the way... do you think that Number 49 would be good in here?

[Ursiel]

#49 is good in any deck that can use it. Leave the Lance in, drop the Reaper for the 3rd TGU and leave it that way.