Forum:Creator Monarchs V.Lappy

Well, now that Fishborg is banned and Formula Synchron is limited, Frognarchs need a new draw engine. Here's a deck based around one I've discovered.

WARNING: WALL OF TEXT AHEAD

Three things should immediately jump out at you: 1. Only five Monarchs. 2. Three of them are Kuraz. 3. The Creator.

And now is when I explain this new draw engine. Standby Phase, Treeborn comes out. Creator's effect, revive Kuraz. Kuraz's effect, pop self and Frog. Draw 2. It sounds situational, but it's really not, and Kuraz is helpful plenty of times. Since he can't attack the turn he's summoned, I'll usually destroy him as one of the cards in order to draw. I use Kuraz to draw more often than I use him to destroy. Its easy to do since the deck has a lot of expendable cards: Fluff Tokens, Treeborn Frogs, Battle Faders, Tengus, Plants, Sangan, set MSTs when I don't have Frog in Grave for plusses, etc. Basically, the deck revolves around Kuraz. He's so freaking good. The choice of getting rid of troubling monsters or drawing a ton of extra cards is fantastic.

Those same expendable cards are really good with Scrap Dragon, who's fairly easy to make with a level 4 Spore and a Tengu, or Debris + Dandy and Treeborn. That fact makes the Tengu Plant Engine really good in this deck.

But the real star player here is Swap Frog, who loads up the Grave with Treeborns, Swaps, and Toadin, the last of which helps me bring out The Creator much more consistently, and is also great fodder for Tributes, Kuraz, and Scrap Dragon. To get him more consistently, I've turned to the consistency engine of the format: Tour Guide. Tour Guide is mostly used to grab Sangan early so I can start getting stuff done, but it's also really good for Leviair/Leviathan plays, the former of which lets me recycle removed Swaps/Treeborns for even MOAR Kuraz abuse.

I love love LOVE Enemy Controller in the deck, it's so good. Standby, Treeborn comes out. E-Con, take your Gachi/Hyperion/Stardust/Whatever. Attack directly. MP2, pop with Kuraz and draw draw draw. This card gets it done all day.

Everything else is pretty self-explanatory. Cards that I want to try but haven't found anything that "isn't working" for me to make space: Third Caius, 2 Tragoedia, 3 Effect Veiler, BLS, and One for One. Also, this is only on DN at the moment, but if I were to make it in real life, game 2 after they sided out their MSTs and such, I would bring in 2 Call of the Haunted and use them with Kuraz as Pot of Greed. Thoughts? Lappyzard (talk • contribs) 03:35, October 16, 2011 (UTC)