User:MrVariant/Hard Casting Efficiency

This article pertains to paying for costs by reusing cards for free, or at worst, you can manage the hard way should you get a mediocre or bad hand. For example, Destiny Hero - Diamond Dude lets you use spell cards without paying an activation cost. However, you won't always get that good combo with Plaguespreader Zombie off to make it free. Therefore, you shouldn't use a card like Short Circuit that you could never use. Instead, getting free Destiny Draw, Lightning Vortex, or Back to Square One, helps more because you won't encounter the chance you can't use it. Worse comes to worse, you discard Destiny Hero - Malicious for Destiny Draw, letting you draw 2 and get an extra special summon from your deck if you don't draw the other one with that effect. You could use Necro Gardna with the latter 2 cards to use it in your graveyard.

It's important to know how to reuse cards because 1 card can enable several cards to work. For example, Burial from a Different Dimension is a much better card to use in this deck than Pigeonholing Books of Spell because you can easily reuse Plaguespreader Zombie to combine with Destiny Hero - Diamond Dude again. It can even reuse Necro Gardna or Mezuki. You could even use Pot of Avarice to reuse your Destiny Hero - Malicious and Thunder Dragon that you used before. Should some of these spells be unusable at the moment, such as Magical Stone Excavation, there's always Summoner Monk to let you get a quick summon/synchro via Rose, Warrior of Revenge, or get Diamond Dude to use his effect immediately.

I think it's easier to use A Feather of the Phoenix with Diamond Dude rather than Pigeonholing Books of Spell because my graveyard has definite access to spells rather than my next 3 draws, plus it'll work for next turn with A Feather of the Phoenix should I have Plaguespreader Zombie with Destiny Draw in my graveyard. You just need to compare similar cards and see which one works better; it's like using Peten the Dark Clown with Dark World Dealings since it will not miss the timing unlike with Hand Destruction.

You also have equip combos when you're not using a theme that benefits you with more than just attack/defense, such as Legendary Ebon Steed protecting you or Crystal Release making Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder easier to summon, like when you use 2 of those with Magical Hats. You just need to get them from your deck via Power Tool Dragon or from your graveyard via The Kick Man or Gilford the Legend. In general 4-5 equips are best used to prevent yourself from getting them at a bad time but being able to have a decent chance at using those effects. For basic equips, I'd recommend Megamorph, Shooting Star Bow - Ceal, Mage Power, and United We Stand. These 4 equips can really power up your monsters, with the 1st 2 possibly weakening your opponent's (with Ceal being used to direct attack for a win). Mist Body isn't really worth using since there's too much removal and it doesn't cover monster destruction via effects.

You can even discard an equip spell with Summoner Monk and special summon The Kick Man from anywhere by using Mezuki, Marauding Captain, Pyramid Turtle, or Escape from the Dark Dimension. This is better than using Armed Samurai - Ben Kei because you will not need to stack a bunch of equips from your hand to lose everything.

I mention Gilford the Legend because you can work your deck around to normal summoning him. It's similar to triple tributing for Beast King Barbaros because the same cards can work for either one, Soul Exchange undermines them both due to their need to attack/wipe the field respectively, plus you can use The Trojan Horse to count as 2 tributes for either one. Hero Kid can also work via Reinforce Truth or Marauding Captain and be reused with Pot of Avarice getting 2 while you revive the 3rd one, or use all 3 and special summon via a searcher.

Light and Darkness Dragon is similar but completely different to those 2 cards because it is a lockdown card. Therefore, using Totem Dragon is a waste of time because you could easily use Soul Exchange. You can even clear the field with Demise, King of Armageddon, and then play Foolish Burial to get Wulf, Lightsworn Beast (or play Geartown to get Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon) to tribute both and put your opponent in a hole because unlike those other cards, Light and Darkness Dragon works by itself, does not clear the field unlike Barbaros, and does not need to attack the turn it is summoned to do major damage unlike Gilford. By comparison, Light and Darkness Dragon can easily be put into a deck, using many of the same strategies I mentioned earlier for Diamond Dude, such as millingNecro Gardna and Destiny Hero - Malicious via Armageddon Knight/Foolish Burial, with the only possible new change being Cyber Dragon or Soul Exchange to let you get your summon.

--MrVariant 06:45, September 22, 2009 (UTC)