From: Drake
Subject: Article- Stein and Lily, the LP Eaters -
Adam Culp
Cyber and Lily: The LP Eaters
And both are good cards in their own right. Lily is
one big beatstick, provided you can spare the LP,
and who among us has not fallen victim to a
Cyber-Stein OTK? But there are counters to these big
beaters, and they’re some I’ll bet you’ve never
thought of. Believe it or not, there’s a way to turn
Lily against your opponent and get rid of it without
wasting a removal card. Lily is mighty, but there is
one type of monster she’s ill-equipped to deal with.
Lily’s mortal enemies are the Searchers: Mystic
Tomato, Giant Rat, Shining Angel, etc. She can’t
handle them. Why? Attack Lily with a Searcher, and
search out another. You’ll lose around 2000 LP (most
searchers have 1400 ATK), but so will your opponent
for pumping up Lily. Attack with the second
searcher, same deal. You opponent will catch on
fairly quick, and thus you have turned Lily’s
strength into a weakness. Your opponent must now
either let their Lily bite the dust, or keep paying
LP to keep her on the field as she mows through your
searchers. And in a game with Ring AND Magic
Cylinder (not to mention Secret Barrel and
Ceasefire), is paying that much LP a risk they can
take, when for all they know you’re ready to Ring
them and make them regret ever decking Lily in the
first place? I recently used this trick against a
Lily-player at a local tournament, and it worked
like a charm. Try it out, you’ll find that it puts
the hurt on opponents who like using Lily.
Now for Stein. A properly executed Stein OTK will
include clearing out your Spell/Traps, summoning
Stein, calling out the Fusion of the day (there’s so
many), and pumping it up with Megamorph/Limiter
Removal for the game. And with no field and a
Trampler at 16K attack, it seems the only surefire
way around this is to side-deck Kuriboh. But the new
Cyberdark Impact has given us the answer…
Cyber Ogre
CDIP-EN004
*****
EARTH-Attribute
Machine-type
ATK: 1900
DEF: 1200
And what could be so great about it that it can halt
a Stein OTK? When it’s in battle, you can discard a
second Cyber Ogre from your hand to negate the
battle. But what’s more, the Cyber Ogre that was
battling gets another 2000 points until the next
time it battles! And what do you know, your opponent
just left their Stein in attack mode…do the math.
They’re down to 3000 LP for using Stein, and now you
have a 3900 points Ogre versus a 700 points Stein.
They lose. Cyber Ogre is the mecha-Kuriboh, and has
a nice place in Cyber-Style decks to counter other
Cyber-Styles. If you can fit it in your machine
deck, I say do so, it’s good. Protection against
beatsticks AND a nice power boost is worth
something. And don't neglect Cyber Ogre #2, who
starts off at 2600 and powers up more, when it
attacks, have the target's attack is added to Ogre
#2. Cyber Ogres are meant to dish out pain, and they
do it well.
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