User:MrVariant/Hybrid Efficiency

I realized how it can be tough to make decks using cards that are useless by themselves or have several useless cards if you look at every related card. For example, Ojama Red and Ojama Blue are too slow to get off, considering how weak Ojamas are in general. Using them might give you a higher chance of having a bad hand, given you ideally want to get your Ojama Black, Ojama Yellow, and Ojama Green from Ojamagic. However, you can create a hybrid deck that will work much faster. For example, Ojamagic is the main focus of any deck with ojamas in it. However, it can backfire should you have drawn or sent to the graveyard your Ojama Black, Ojama Yellow, and/or Ojama Green monsters. You also have to make a count to see how many Ojamas you put into your deck and how many are left; this is why Magical Hats may be a bad combo with 2 Ojamagic because unlike with 2 Geartown or 2 Crystal Release, Ojamagic can miss if you already got 3 of either Ojama; you should just pick 1 Ojamagic for Magical Hats instead if you have only 1 left of each for either Ojama Black, Green, or Yellow.

Fortunately, there are many combos easily usable with this deck. You can use Reshef the Dark Being, Cyber Gymnast (which you can get with Reinforcement of the Army), or Snipe Hunter while sending your Ojamagic and/or a level 8 light normal monster like Blue-Eyes White Dragon to your graveyard (especially through your deck via Advanced Ritual Art for Reshef) to reuse with Beckoning Light, Monster Reincarnation, or Dark Factory of Mass Production. You can also use Paladin of White Dragon with Advanced Ritual Art if you need to dump 2 of your Ojamas into your graveyard, and then transform it into a Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

There are also the usual graveyard revival/reuse combos too. However, I think Backup Soldier is too slow, since you need 5 monsters to get 3; you could just use Pot of Avarice instead with The Transmigration Prophecy to let you reuse Ojamagic and your ojama monsters, with Thunder Dragon helping you with the discard/deck returning combos.

Another decktype that works similarly to this Ojama deck I mentioned is the Volcanic deck, where you can easily thin/reuse your deck with Pot of Avarice and Volcanic Shell (just choose 2 so you can easily recall the 3rd Volcanic Shell that's in your graveyard) or Volcanic Scattershot. You can either play a hybrid deck or you can overload it with deck thinners like Peten the Dark Clown, which can easily be used with Dark World Dealings, Foolish Burial, or Armageddon Knight. The specialty of this deck is that Volcanic Rocket searches for Blaze Accelerator, which you can use with Volcanic Shell to destroy a monster, damage your opponent, and search for another, which you can use again in the same turn should your opponent have 2 or more monsters on the field because you used the second Volcanic Shell's effect. Volcanic Scattershot can instantly do 2000 damage with Blaze Accelerator given both of their effects. The best part of it all is that you only need a Blaze Accelerator and 1 of these cards to quickly destroy opponent's monsters while thinning your deck and reusing them via Pot of Avarice or Royal Firestorm Guards. Lastly, you can use Volcanic Counter to make both players take equal damage the next time you receive battle damage.

You can even aim for the Solar Flare Dragon lock in this deck rather than use Volcanic Slicer because the lock will let you attack (provided you didn't use Blaze Accelerator that turn), protect you from non-direct attacks and do 1000 damage per turn if you have 2 Solar Flare Dragons. You can get Solar Flare Dragon easier with UFO Turtle or Summoner Monk. I generally wouldn't recommend using Tri-Blaze Accelerator because you'll be discarding weak fire monsters while destroying the same amount of monsters and doing 500 damage to your opponent, anyway plus you'd need to lose a Blaze Accelerator. It becomes even more suicidal to use it with Volcanic Doomfire should it be removed from the field during the turn it is summoned or the turn afterwards because you just lost Tri-Blaze Accelerator to summon it.

You just need to think of common themes in a deck, such as discarding/sending cards to the graveyard. Just remember to know what combos won't work, with cards Missing the Timing like Peten the Dark Clown with Card Destruction, complex rulings like Barrel Behind the Door not working with continuous spells/traps like Psychic Tuning, and cards like Forced Requisition specifically needing discards; they won't work with Blaze Accelerator that sends cards to the graveyard.

--MrVariant 18:42, September 23, 2009 (UTC)