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Ryan's Amazing Journey: Deconstructing a Chaos deck - Fire's Response
Deconstructing a Chaos Deck- A Fire's Response
 
You asked for it, I promised it, so here it is, my newest article. In my last Article "Deconstructing a Chaos Deck- a Water's Response" I gave several reasons for why water decks are perfect decktypes to beat chaos...notice I didn't say counter...why counter something if u could just beat it easily in the 1st place... Actually most of my reasons for playing a water deck are found in my earlier article called "Why Water Decks are the Best." Also props to Silver for figuring out such an obvious way to counter chaos...necrovalley...I can't believe he even had to write it...Nah I'm just kidding he seems like a pretty cool guy and I'm sure we would be good friends from what I've read of his articles...(Not quite as good as mine, but what can I say...lol...j/k)
 
But today I introduce my water's tag team partner...fire. You would think it wouldn't work well together...but like most people if u think that then u obviously think wrong about a lot of things, or just don't think at all...for instance both Cure Mermaid and Fire Princess work great together...and both LO and Lava Golem make good use of Gravity Bind...lol... yes I am a genius...not to mention one of my water deck's main strenghts is Magical Scientist/C. Turtle which adds some more burn damage for my fire deck and my fire deck's burn cards and lp gain cards usaully make sure I have plenty of lp's to pull it off with.
 
Anyways on to my article. A nicely played fire deck (notice I didn't say made...I'm tired of people emailing me whining b/c they can't beat chaos decks...its not just the cards u have...its how u play them...) will stop a lot of the current metagame. For instance if Chaos is popular...u can side-deck (yes I did say side-deck...and yes I do play with one...lol...a few Big Burns and Graverobber's Retrubution...shoot even Soul Release would work...notice this doesn't take away from your burn theme...they still are going to lose lp's...not to mention nothing is better than sacking a BLS and another monster (esp if that monster is CED...) for a Lava Golem...lol...(to be nice I won't mention any names...lol)
 
This deck also works great against control. *Plz note this includes Chaos/Control* For starters lets look at what a typical control deck plays...namely Del. Duo, Confiscation, Magical Scientist, and CED...now if u look at all of these cards effects they have to pay lp's to play these cards...(which raises the ? why hasn't anyone made a lp gain control deck...) Anyways thats 4000 lp's right there...easy to finish with a nicely timed Wave-Motion Cannon, Cannon Soldier, Fire Princess, Solar Flare Dragon, Curse of Darkness, Stealth Bird, Ring Of Destruction, Magical Cylinder, Barrel Behind the Door, Nightmare Wheel, Lava Golem, Ceasefire, etc, etc...(yes I did include other monsters besides fire in this paragraph...the point was to ephasize that burn decks can make Hand Control Decks best cards into their biggest weakness) Also it is equally important to note that if u get these cards/combos going early on they won't have the lp's to play their almighty CED (that was said in a mocking voice by the way...lol) or their other cards...and if nothing else if their lp's are low they will be constantly 2nd guessing on whether or not they should play a card...ie:should i play Del Duo...what if they bring out Lava Golem or Wave Motion Cannon to finish me...etc, etc...
 
And yes this deck stops the 3rd most popular deck type out there... the over so popular beat-down deck. With a little stall...can u say Gravity Bind, Messanger of Peace, or LV B...Beatdown decks get slaughtered here...in fact its a massacre...and u just sit there and watch their lp's dwindle away...lol...this is great...it case u can't tell I'm really enjoying this...nothing is better with trashing everybody's narrow-minded view with a little originality!
 
Did I mention this deck has speed and swarm...think The Thing in the Crater and UFO Turtle...yeah i know this deck kicks butt...in fact I've already proven it...each of the examples for deck types were real decks that I actually slaughtered several times at our local tourney...it takes a few slaughterings to convince people that they didn't lose b/c of "luck" or b/c they didn't "draw the right cards."
 
Does a lot of this sound familiar...thats b/c a lot of my ideas I have already wrote about in my other articles...including "Pyros, the Return of the Burn." And "Heaven's Wrath; the Angels Revenge" (by the way since a good Angel Deck also uses a lot of lp gain and burn cards everything I've said so far applies to it as well...thus another anti chaos strategy...
 
Wow another strategy that stops chaos/control/and beatdown...whats that 5...(water,fire, dagger, scientist, and angel) Well I'm surprised chaos decks are doing so well...it raises the question how are they winning at all...(oh wait I know this one...its b/c a great duelist will play with one...and everyone sees him win with it...so they try to copy his deck...lol...this really is amusing...1st a great duelist would have a better strategy...and 2nd even if u copied a deck exactly...no 2 people are going to play it the same way...thus another reason why I normally don't give out deck lists...) Now lets logically think about this...a great duelist vs a good or average duelist...even if they have the exact same deck...the great duelist is going to win every time...makes u wonder why people still get mad when they make a chaos deck and still lose...lol...wait thats right they blame it on "luck" until they lose like 10 times in a row...
 
Yeah some people only learn the hard way...(sry no names...I'm trying to be nice...lol) The truth is originality kicks metagame butt...wait thats originality + brains...yes u do have to think for yourself some...lol...if u want this to work. (If nothing else how decks are both equally as good but u have the element of surprise...giving u a huge advantage...)People are always complaining one of 2 ways...one being everyone needs to play original decks...i personally agree with this, but I disagree with how it comes across...its not that everyone needs to play original decks so they have a better chance of winning so they can have more fun...its everyone needs to play original decks so the game will constantly be fun and refreshing...u know a little surprise now and then is good. The other opinion, the much more ignorant one, is that Chaos decks are the best; therefore everyone who complains about them either isn't a good duelist, or doesn't have the $$$ to get them so they just complain. Yes they are good, but far from unbeatable...as I've already proven 5 times...In fact I even have all the "main" Chaos cards (and I use that word lightly...seeing that I personally believe that Breaker, and DDWL,etc are not good chaos cards...but if u read my newest water article u knew that already...and why...yes I do have CED, BLS, Breaker, Yata, DDWL, and Reflect Bounder, but I will run my Water, Fire, or Dagger deck over a chaos anyday...and for good reason...) I hope no one gets offended...wait thats right I really don't care, plus I doubt that anyone who would get offended by reading this would read down this far...they would probably take one look at the title, say Fire deck...this deck sucks and click the back button...lol...o well just another victim that needs to learn the hard way...
 
Oh yeah one last thing...and it needs to be said...I've heard from a lot of people stuff along these lines: well with the new ban list coming out...that deck might be playable... These people are ignorant and/or stupid. (and sadly yes I have heard that from most of those people on Pojo's Card of the Day Staff) My water deck kicked butt at my tourney even when my opponent could play 3 MST's, HFD, CED, Del Duo, Yata, etc, etc!!! For heaven's sake its called thinking!!! If everyone plays 3 MST's play a few Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spells or Spell Vanishings...They allow a side deck for a reason...
 
The truth is don't let anyone, and I mean anyone tell u what is playable and what isn't. Especially with the ban list coming out...the truth is that most of these deck types worth deck worthy, even tournament worthy, even tournament competitive, way b4 the ban list...u just had to think for yourselves...(I know its hard but plz try...) In fact you guys brought this on yourselves... the truth is if everyone played with their own decks they wouldn't have to ban anything...its your fault...so stop complaining...
 
Now I do realize that this will probably produce a lot of hate-mail just b/c I can be very blunt and I do speak my mind (I know surprise surprise) Plz don't send any b/c I really don't care what u think if u do, and your just wasting both of ours time. But hopefully all of my articles has shed some new light on dueling techniques, strategies, and gameplay...as I know it has thanx to the hundreds of people who have emailed me congradulating me on my articles...why pojo hasn't contacted me about a position yet is beyond me...lol...God knows I would do a better job them most of them (no names: but for ex: Airknight is playable again b/c its chaos food...yeah I'm sick of that line...Airknight was way more than playable long b4 chaos came out...)
 
Also I apologize that I wrote for so long and added in some stuff besides fire combos, but I wanted people to see beyond the card names and not to just take my word for it or blow it off...I wanted them to try to think logically about it and see the reasoning behind it...which I did...in great detail.
 
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