The All-Powerful...Spirit Deck? Part 2~Cloak Kandagger
Greeting from Dare to everyone (if anyone) who checked out my last entry, the rason for this article is to make everyone knows presisly how the combo works, and (if anyone cares) an exaple spirit deck. Before the article gets underway I would like to point out two things.
    #1:I have never competed in an actual tournament so I'm not sure if the combo is leagal.  if any of you tourney goers know otherwise, let me know (say by actually building such a deck and taking it to a tournament) I'd greatly appreiciate it (just don't hit me too hard)
    #2: the deck fallowing I is NOT what I actually use (I'm not that rich) it's what I would consider the epitome of a spirit deck (if anyone has any better ideas tell me)
 
The combo in practice:
    this is the way my spirit-burn combo should work.  Stall with the other cards in the deck as well as face-down spirit monsters(attacking them flips them over,activating their effect) until you get Catapult Turtle, Spring of Rebirth, Ultimate Offering, and Spirit's Invitation all on the field (this the full combo but bits and peices work pretty well too), and then to work.  Use Ultimate Offering to summon your spirits to the field (a good trick is to summon enough that the number of your spirits equals the number of your opponent's monsters on the field) then sacrifice them all to the catapult turtle to damage your opponent. finally end your turn, your spirits return to your hand (from the field and/or graveyard) and because of Spring of Rebirth you gain 500 life points for every monster returned from the field to your hand, and, thanks to Spirit's Invitation, all your opponent's monsters return to thier hand and you get life points for every single one (this, of coarse, is why it is better to only summon as many spirits as your opponent's monsters because then you won't get your life points back.  However if doing so results in you winning, go ahead) generally your turn will end with you breaking even or obtaining a net gain of 500 (which you can use to pay for Spirit's Invitation next stanby phase).  There are variations to this combo (e.g. summoning just the white rabbit, attacking directly, and ending your turn to return both the rabbit, and one of your opponent's monsters to your hands for a net gain of 500) but this is the desired goal
 
An Example Spirit-Burn Deck
    Here's the promised deck: 50 cards, 25 monsters,
1: Yamata Dragon (as stated previously,I can't resist)
2: Vampire Lord
3: Guardian Sphinx
4: Catapult Turtle
5:    ~    (this means same card as above)
6: Asura's Priest
7:    ~
8:    ~
9: Susa Soldier
10:    ~
11: Hysteric Fairy
12:    ~
13: Kelbek
14:    ~
15:    ~
16: Amazon Archer
17:    ~
18: Inaba White Rabbit (I thind that's it's name)
19:    ~
20:    ~
21: Spirit Reaper
22:    ~
23:Penguin Soldier (or hane-hane if your scarred about the ban-list)
24:    ~
25:    ~
 
26: Spring of Rebirth
27:    ~
28:    ~
30: Luminous Spark
31:    ~
32: Pot of Greed
33: Graceful Charity
34: Dark Hole
35: Monster Reborn
36: Change of Heart
37: Mystical Space Typhoon
38:    ~
39: Magic Reflecter
40: Judgement of Anubis
41:Torrential Tribute
42:    ~
43: Waboku
44:    ~
45:    ~
46: Spirit's invitation
47:    ~
48:Ultimate Offering
49:    ~
50:    ~
 
Questions? Comments? Wondering where I got my web name? E-mail me at
cloakkandagger@yahoo.com, TTFN