Forum:Samurai Beatdown/OTK

this is my samurai deck using the new cards released in Storm of Ragnarok. as the title suggests, its a more OTK/FTK oriented version, the basic concept being of swarming the field using Kageki, Grandmaster and Kizan, which are drawn/searched with Gateway, Six Samurai United, Reinforcement and Smoke Signal.

Hand of the Six Samurai, Zanji and Irou are supposed to clear the monsters standing in my way, while being protected my My Body as a Shield or Magatama of Musakani.

Kagemusha's main purpose is to be summoned by kageki and synchro into Shien to provide some extra protection.

Yariza is more or less an experimental card, which could work very well with United We Stand or for a somewhat finisher move. yet, since its very situational, i think about adding a 3rd Smoke Signal instead and search him if needed.

overall the deck is not supposed to survive for a long time (hence i dont use many traps), but to finish the opponent in the first 3 turns.

during my matches against some friends, i noticed that 3x MBaaS/Magatama may be too much, but I can't decide whether to remove some or not. i neither wanna draw too many of them, nor none :/

I'm also not to sure about United We Stand, Solidarity might be a better choice. it's not destroyed when my monster dies by an effect, neither makes it myself vulnerable to cards like Magic Cylinder. and i should probably run 3 whatever i decide for.

Great Shogun Shien would probably fit very well into this deck, but i hesitate as it doesnt count as a six samurai monster, thus i have no way to search for him.

Yaichi and Kamon are not included, as they cant attack when their effect is used. i could sacrifice them using Hand of the Six Samurai, but the problem of not being able to summon them both in the same turn (without cards like Double Summon/Ultimate Offering), made me decide against it. overall i tried to keep the numbers of monsters who can only be normal summoned (except by Kageki ofc) as low as possible.

right now the deck works quite well, i never thought "oh my god this hand is gonna kill me" which i know from a friend's samurai deck, and i always had a fair chance of winning, yet Im sure there's room for improvement.

uhh...yeah that's it I think, looking forward to your feedback :) Nightleaf (talk • contribs) 17:15, November 12, 2010 (UTC)