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Rj's Deck Garage Whats up readers?! I'm back with another Deck review, I know I promised one a week, but its going to be hard to do so in the next few weeks, I'll shortly be moving back to New Orleans, and that's going to take alot of hard work. I know I needed to do one..but I had no idea which. Nate Nielebeck, formally a member of the now retired Team Savage, is now a member of Team A-1, formed in Sacramento, California, and he recently contact me over AIM and gave me his opinion on my Deck articles. He had no big problems with it, just one concern, I wasn't doing decks that relevant to the current game, I was reviewing decks from old formats etc. I understand this, but the aim of these articles is to review decks that were innovative and won something at one point in time. Not to give players a Netdecking Source other than...all the other Netdecking sources =]. I will probably start looking over decks relevant to the current format in the future, but for right now, lets check out Nate Nielebeck's The Answer deck, which he piloted to a top 4 finish in the Houston, Texas SJC. Nate Neidelbeck's "The Answer" Monsters: 19 3 Spell Canceller 3 D.D. Assailant 1 D.D. Warrior Lady 1 Breaker the Magical Warrior 1 Tribe-Infecting Virus 1 Sinister Serpent 1 Mystic Tomato 1 Spirit Reaper 3 Don Zaloog 1 Injection Fairy Lily 1 Exiled Force 1 Sangan 1 Morphing Jar Spells: 13 1 Mystical Space Typhoon 1 Graceful Charity 1 Pot of Greed 1 Heavy Storm 1 Delinquent Duo 1 Snatch Steal 1 Nobleman of Crossout 2 Scapegoat 1 Lightning Vortex 1 Swords of Revealing Light 1 Premature Burial Traps: 8 3 Mirror Wall 1 Mirror Force 1 Torrential Tribute 1 Call of the Haunted 1 Ring of Destruction 1 Royal Decree Side Deck: 15 3 Dust Tornado 3 Phoenix Wing Wind Blast 3 Kinetic Soldier 3 Mystic Swordsman LV2 2 Hallowed Life Barrier 1 Nobleman of Crossout If you haven't seen this deck before, where the hell have you been?! This deck is a Team Savage creation, and its one of their best, so you know its going to be pretty innovative, and the deck doesn't disappoint, either. Looking over the monsters...theres alot of original stuff. 3 Spell Canceller sounds like insanity, but its the heart of the deck and is gamebreaking in the April 2005 Format (Now affectionately known as the "Scapegoat" format.). Spell Canceller could be seen by many as a terrible card, and rightfully so. Its got only 1800 attack for a tribute, but theres much more to it. When its on the field, face up, no spells can be activated. Whats this mean? This means that having a Spell Canceller on your side of the field, with your opponent topdecking almost guarantees you win. Pot of greed, Graceful Charity, Snatch Steal, Scapegoat, Swords Of Revealing Light...all negated. Of course, your opponent WILL be topdecking after you gain a hit or two with your Don Zaloogs, which Nate runs 3 of. Don is also supported with a Mystic Tomato, which is a great opening if you're looking for a possible turn 2 Don/Reaper hit. Tomato is...very good in this deck. Fetching Sangan for a Spell Canceller tribute, fetching don if you have a Smashing ground/Lightning vortex/Exiled force in hand to get that hit for a card, and even fetching reaper if you need to stall for a bit, the possibilities are endless with Tomato, and Nate supports it well with 3 Dons, Sangan, and Spirit Reaper. The only real complaints I have about the deck is the Exiled Force, it seems kind of random to me with RoTA, but thats more of a personal prefernce. It works without RoTA maindecked, you can still get any monster on the field, clearing the way for a Don Zaloog hit. Three DDA is a nice add, too. Clearing the field is always good when you're playing a deck with 3 dons and 1 reaper, those direct shots are needed. Spells are mostly basic stuff, Pot/Grace/Duo, Heavy/Snatch/Premature/MST. He runs 2 scapegoats, which helps if you cant get the canceller out soon enough, or you're just in trouble. I'll be honest, theres no big problems with the deck, anything really wrong with it would just be preference. The traps...are my favorite part of the deck. That's right baby, 3 Mirror Walls. Spell Cancellers is bad because it only has 1800 attack? BOOM. Mirror Wall in the damage step, and your opponent never saw it coming. Mirror wall is supported by 3 Dons, and 3 Cancellers, and they fit in here so well. Nate rounds out the innovative traps with Royal Decree, which is perfect in this deck, Negating things so you can hit direct with Don/Reaper, and also setting up an outrageous lock with Spell Canceller. The side deck is pretty neat, too. Nate has 3 of alot of things, haha. 3 Dust tornado's are a great choice, a useful side deck card for alot of match ups, including Burn and Stall oriented decktypes. 3 Phoenix Wind blast are like X_x with a Canceller/Don setup, screwing up there draw and allowing direct his to gain even MORE advantage. 3 Kinetic soldier is a popular choice, despite only a few pros running the Toolbox build (Pojo.Com's own JAELOVE.), it was a good deck last format, and you should side accordingly. It also takes down Soldier, which is always hot, and D.D. Assailant ran in 2s/3s wasn't the most far fetched thing you've ever heard of. Besides, Mirror Wall + Kinetic = GG soon. Mystic Swordsman LV2 is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not THE best side deck card. Depending on what you're playing. Nates deck just owns the Burn/Stall match up with 2 of these baby's mained, talk about rape, Canceller negating your Stall and WMC's, LV2 killing f/d's, and Don raping your hand. Its crazy good. Hallowed Life Barrier and Nobleman of Crossout round out Nate's side deck, Hallowed comes in handy for OTK match ups (Which Nate did play against the first mainstream build of DMoC/Mass Driver/Dimension Fusion/Spell Economics during this Shonen Jump, and beat it after a Cyber jar/Morphing jar, allowing him to summon Spell Cancller.), and Nobleman should always be sided, if not mained. I'm short on time, I didn't get to say as much on the deck as I would have wanted too (Again...), I still have a bunch of things to do today, so I hope you enjoyed the article, send all feedback to RjAkaPeanut4u@gmail.com ~RJ
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