JUNE 2008

I'm here and ready to writie, plus a theme review - djgamer

 

As my subject title says, I djgamer (josh) have decided to start writing reviews for pojo.com on their tips and rant section. Now I know from my first line it sounds like I am being full of myself but what I mean is that I have always been interested in yugioh and other card games and finally have dedicated time to seriously write to pojo.com (that is if they let me). Some basic info for those who might write to me or for everyone in general is I have been playing Yugioh for 9yrs, or basically since it began. I never have gone to a regional event but have been to a few state tournaments and have been to countless tournaments at my local card shop. Through the years I have gained much dueling knowledge but mostly experience. Experience is important in my opinion because it helps you realize what situations could happen when you build a deck, what to do in any situation, and how to build decks in the first place. I personally like to build anti meta decks but have no problem working on meta decks. I also like casual decks because they bring out the most creativity in this game. Also I like doing theme reviews because new and old themes in yugioh affect the current meta alot (such examples are themes like gladiator beasts, warriors and RFP.)

As I said above in the subject line I will also write a review. What review you may ask? Well I thought that for my first review on pojo.com I should write about one of my current decks... The Gravekeepers. The Gravekeeper's have been around since Pharaonic Guardian ( Commandant from Force of the Breaker) and have always had some kind of presence among tournaments and casual dueling alike. Many people had used gravekeeper spy for a strong 2000 def plus search ability. Well even in this current time Gravekeeper's are still both competitively and casually playable, mainly for their ability for special summoning. Nowadays special summoning seems to make decks top tier because of its speed, but that's a different article in itself.

Back to the Gravekeeper's; their support has long since been helped but because of not only their attribute being dark and the fact that their spellcasters they have received some cards to make them thrive. I'm not going to include every gravekeeper because honestly not all of them are worth playing, if you want to win (even though winning isn't everthing, fun is). Instead of listing all of them and their abilities I will show my deck and explain it, since it is practilly what most gravkeeper's are running (of course others might have used some different number of cards and one or two different cards.)

Give it up for Gravekeepers: 40

Mon: 18
1x Gravekeeper's Chief
3x Gravekeeper's Assailant
2x Gravekeeper's Guard
3x Gravekeeper's Spy
3x Gravekeeper's Commandant
3x Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier
1x Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
1x Morphing Jar
1x Sangan
Spells:11
1x Lightning Vortex
1x MST
1x Brain Control
1x Sword of Revealing Light
1x Enemy Controller
1x Book of Moon
3x Necrovalley
2x Magical Dimension

Traps: 11
3x Sakuretsu Armor
2x Magician's Circle
3x Rite of Spirit
2x Dust Tornado
1x Torrential Tribute

Sorry this is such a long review but I want to try to get everything said.

Monster Line-up
The monster line-up is set up to balance out the effects of the Gravekeeper's that are being used. The GK Guards are for returning creatures and the fact that with necrovalley in effect you get a 2400 def monster. Both Spear Soldier and Assailant are your main attackers, though unless your opponent has scapegoated the field you'll want Assailant. Remember that Spear Soldier gets his effect even when necrovalley isn't on the field (assailant doesn't.) Both have effects that help take care of most monsters and for anything else their are the spells. Commandant is great to search for Necrovalley, and is much better than terraforming. Spy is the ultimate searcher for this deck, right next to sangan. And yes sangan does get his effect ( I have done the research). Morphing for draw power and mole for field control. Finally Chief who is the only tribute in this whole deck. Not only does he allow you to get back any gravekeeper but in turn makes your graveyard unaffected by Necrovalley. In this deck that doesn't make a difference but he is a great attacker when Necrovalley is out.

Spell line-up
Magical Dimension is a nifty trick to re-arrange which gravekeeper you want out, mostly you'll be switching Spear Soldier to Assailant and vice versa. Lightning, MST, EC, Book of Moon, and Necrovalley are all obvious staples for this deck. Brain Control is in here mainly because sometimes your monsters are not the strongest on the field and SORL is because nobody could not want 3 potential turns for stall.

Trap Line-up
3 Sakuretsu armor is standard for most decks, torrential tribute if your opponent is special summoning faster than you are (six samurai or gladiator beast.) Dust Tornado's are good to help with s/t removal since heavy storm will not be played. The two interesting cards in the trap line-up is Rite of Spirit and Magician's Circle both which offer incredible special summoning abilities. Rite of Spirit is essentially an unrestricted chainable monster reborn for gravekeeper's. Magician's Circle can special summon every monster except Morphing Jar, Grand Mole, and Sangan. It can even special summon GK Chief, the only problem is that this occurs when you attack so threatning roar can shut this down. Also your opponent gets to special summon a spellcaster of 2000 atk or less just like you but that hardly is a problem (with breaker gone at least.)

Hope you like the deck and have a new outlook on Gravekeeper's. So as i said before you can contact me with questions about dueling, or deck fixes, and occasionally I will review decks or cards or some kind of deck type. Also if your going to send me a deck fix tell me what kind of money situation is available. It isn't fair for me to tell someone to buy this and that when they don't have like $300.00 at their disposal. Trust me I know this well and I can make cheaper and still effective changes. Also what kind of cards you have available, like ( I have a ton of cards or I have tons of hollows and rare cards and such or I have only commons and rares.) This isn't required for every email, but it does help. Thanks.


Contact me at djgamer101@aol.com.