And we're back. This article will cover a rather cheap and annoying deck, the Ojamas. This trio of speedo wearing aliens debuted in YuGiOh GX as the deck Chazz Princeton dug out of the ice.
Originally they weren't much and were better off being ignored. After all they're just normal monsters with no atk and subpar def. Then came the release of their brethren, Blue and Red.
So let's start with the trio:
Ojama Green, Yellow, Black
Light/Beast/2/0/1000
He's one of the Ojama Trio. It's said that he butts in by any means necessary. It's also said that when the three are together, something happens.
That "something happens" would be Ojama Delta Hurricane!!
Normal Spell
You can only activate this card while "Ojama Green", "Ojama Yellow" and "Ojama Black" are face-up on your side of the field. Destroy all cards on your opponent's side of the field.
Now how do we go about summoning the trio?
Ojama Red
Light/Beast/2/0/1000
When this card is Normal Summoned, you can Special Summon up to 4 "Ojama" monsters from your hand in Attack Position.
But how do we get Ojamas in hand for that?
Ojama Blue
Light/Beast/2/0/1000
When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, you can add 2 "Ojama" cards from your Deck to your hand (this can include "Ojamuscle").
Ojamagic
Normal Spell
When this card is sent from the hand or the field to the Graveyard, add 1 each of "Ojama Green", "Ojama Yellow" and "Ojama Black" from your Deck to your hand.
Ojamagic provides great bluff or discard fodder. Blue provides another Ojama for Red to summon but has no affect on Hurricane.
Now let's cover a great recruiter in the deck.
Super-Nimble Mega Hamster
Earth/Beast/4/1100/1800
Flip: You can Special Summon 1 Level 3 or lower Beast-Type monster from your Deck in face-down Defense Position.
Your most often target will be Blue.
So the skeleton should look like:
2 Black
2 Green
2 Yellow
3 Blue
3 Red
3 Mega Hamster
2 Hurricane
3 Ojamagic
No reason to run a complete playset of the trio plus we have Ojamagic and Blue to grab em.
Now what makes this a good deck? The exceed mechanic and Ojama Country.
Ojama Country
Field spell
Once per turn, you can send 1 "Ojama" card from your hand to the Graveyard to Special Summon 1 "Ojama" monster from your Graveyard. While you control a face-up "Ojama" monster, switch the original ATK and DEF of all monsters on the field.
So first you can dump an Ojama card to revive an Ojama. Second as long as you control an Ojama all monsters switch their stats. Now what's that mean? Our Ojamas become 1000 atk instead of 0. Not much to write home about but that's where the exceed mechanic comes in.
Summon Red>special up to 4 Ojamas>overlay and summon X Gachi Gachi Gantetsu.
Gachi gives all monsters 200 atk and def times the number of materials it has. This effect stacks so 2 Gachis with 4 materials means 2600 atk or def depending on Country. Add a third and you get 3 3000 Gachis. Those Gachis will be pesky to get rid of. The only concern is the Ojama. Once that goes down, and it won't be hard since it'll only have 1800 atk if you managed a full field off Red's effect netting you 2 Gachis, all stats revert to normal. The good thing is that most monsters tend to have high atk and low def or vice versa.
The deck has many directions to go in. There's using Junk Synchron to revive a fallen Ojama to summon Ally of Justice Catastor or Frozen Fitzgerald. You can even use Genex Ally Birdman after a Red play to summon a higher lvl synchro. Bounce an Ojama to summon Birdman>synch into lvl5-9>toss the Ojama in hand to revive an Ojama if you have Country out.
There's using entirely beasts and Solidarity.
There's using a number of high def monsters alongside the Ojamas and Country to get high atk, ie: D Hero Defender.
You can even go the fusion route and lock up your opp's field.
Here's my current build on DN:
20
2 Ojama Black
2 Ojama Green
2 Ojama Yellow
3 Junk Synchron
2 Snipe Hunter
3 Ojama Blue
3 Ojama Red
3 Mega Hamster
17
Dark Hole
Heavy Storm
Monster Reborn
Mind Control
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
3 Ojama Country
2 Ojama Delta Hurricane!!
3 Ojamagic
2 Pot of Duality
3
3 Royal Decree
Ally of Justice Catastor
Black Rose Dragon
2 Frozen Fitzgerald
Mist Wurm
3 Gachi Gachi Gantetsu
There's the basic Ojama skeleton plus staples and some tech choices.
Junk opens the door for synchro monsters.
Snipe Hunter gets rid of trouble cards plus it'll net you the trio if you chucked Ojamagic.
Mind Control let's you nab opp monsters for exceeds or synchros.
Duality grabs a key piece if you're missing it.
The deck runs a lot of monsters and spells so Decree shuts down troublesome traps.
Other tech choices:
Honest; all the Ojamas are light so if you want some def if your opp tries to knock down the Ojama keeping Country active here you go.
Pot of Avarice; you'll likely end up having a fair amount of monster go to the grave if you synchro often. I myself wouldn't mind having one in the deck but I haven't really found the room. I may cut a MST for it.
Future Fusion; dump the trio and summon King or dump a pair to summon Knight.
Creature Swap; there's a ton of low/nonexistent atk in the deck so steal an opp's monster. Use it with Blue and get more advantage.
Hand Destruction/Card Destruction; both can toss cards you don't want to speed the deck. Both will activate Ojamagic, increasing your hand size but Hand beats DW since it says sends and not discard.
White Elephant's Gift/Common Charity; both let's you draw 2, one at the cost of sending an onfield normal monster, the other by removing a nilla from your hand.
Hope you enjoyed the article. Until next time this is the Island of Lost Cards, taking care of the eccentrics.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Aquatic Zeal
First off Gishki; they are a water archtype that focuses on rituals. The ones currently out are interesting but not all that great.
The money's at Evigishki Zeal Gigas
Water/Aqua/Effect/Ritual/10/3200/0
Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must first be Ritual Summoned. You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Gishki" Ritual Spell Card. Once per turn: You can pay 1000 Life Points; draw 1 card, and reveal it. If it is a "Gishki" monster, shuffle 1 card on the field to the Deck.
It's a rather nice beatstick with a nice effect. For a mere 1000 lp you get a draw. If that draw happens to be a Gishki monster your opp loses a card to the deck.
Now Zeal Gigas isn't due out until HA07 so we have some time til then to gather the deck pieces.
The key ritual spell is Gishki Aquamirror.
Ritual Spell
This card can be used to Ritual Summon any "Gishki" Ritual Monster. You must also Tribute monsters from the field or your hand whose total Levels equal the Level of the Ritual Monster you Ritual Summon. You can shuffle this card from the Graveyard into the Deck to target 1 "Gishki" Ritual Monster in your Graveyard; return that target to your hand.
There are 2 other ritual spells but they aren't nearly as good as Aquamirror.
Forbidden Arts combines a ritual spell with Soul Exchange while cutting the summoned monster's atk in half. Not worth it.
Duplicate Soul Mirror costs a minimum of 2000 lp to summon a ritual. Also not worth it.
Now that we've covered the rituals, let's cover the engine.
Gishki Shadow
Water/Sea Serpent/4/Effect/1200/1000
If you Ritual Summon a WATER Ritual Monster, this 1 card can be used as the entire Tribute. You can discard this card; add 1 "Gishki" Ritual Spell Card from your Deck to your hand.
Grab Aquamirror and if need be tribute it for a ritual.
Vision Gishki
Water/Sea Serpent/2/Effect/700/500
If you Ritual Summon a WATER Ritual Monster, this 1 card can be used as the entire Tribute. You can discard this card; add 1 "Gishki" Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand.
Same as Shadow but for a monster.
Gishki Abyss
Water/Fish/2/Effect/800/500
When this card is Summoned: You can add 1 "Gishki" monster with 1000 or less DEF from your Deck to your hand, except "Gishki Abyss".
The deck's Manju. It'll either grab a Shadow or Vision which will then grab its respective target.
Gishki Ariel
Water/Spellcaster/4/Effect/1000/1800
FLIP: You can add 1 "Gishki" monster from your Deck to your hand.
The deck's recruiter, very similar to Worm Cartaros. Rather nice def so it'll have a chance to sit on the field.
Gishki Beast
Water/Beast/4/Effect/1500/1300
When this card is Normal Summoned: You can target 1 Level 4 or lower "Gishki" monster in your Graveyard; Special Summon that target in face-up Defense Position.
Beast opens the door for exceeds or grabbing a Shadow/Vision for a desperate ritual summon.
Gishki Chain
Water/Sea Serpent/4/Effect/1800/1000
When this card is Normal Summoned: Look at the top 3 cards of your Deck and if there is a Ritual Monster or Ritual Spell Card among those cards; you can reveal it to add it to your hand and return the remaining cards to the top of the Deck in any order.
Allows for stacking and can grab a missing ritual piece. Cuts luck out of Gigas's effect.
So the skeleton should look like this:
3 Evigishki Zeal Gigas
3 Gishki Shadow
3 Vision Gishki
2 Gishki Abyss
3 Gishki Ariel
3 Gishki Beast
2 Gishki Chain
3 Gishki Aquamirror
Non theme support covers a fair amount of cards, most notably Salvage and Surface.
Salvage grabs Vision and Shadow for more deck thinning or that necessary ritual tribute. It'll also grab Beast and Ariel if you need walls (Beast into Utopia).
Surface works well with Abyss and Vision. Summon Abyss>grab Vision>dump for ritual>Surface to revive Vision>overlay for Gachi.
Next is staple spells/traps.
Here's my current build I've enjoyed on DN:
21
3 Evigishki Zeal Gigas
3 Gishki Ariel
3 Gishki Beast
2 Gishki Chain
3 Gishki Shadow
3 Vision Gishki
2 Gishki Abyss
2 Tragoedia
16
3 Salvage
2 Surface
Monster Reborn
Heavy Storm
Dark Hole
Book of Moon
Mind Control
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
3 Gishki Aquamirror
3
3 Royal Decree
The extra is up to you but I'd include:
2 Number 39: Utopia
Gustaph Max, Super Dreadnought Cannon Express
Gustaph Max is a lvl10 exceed that deals 2000 damage by detaching a material. It also has 3000 atk and def. Summon and atk with 2 Gigas then overlay into Max for 2000 more damage. If done right it'll be game.
Trag provides a bit of def should you get hit plus it's lvl10 for Gigas.
Triple MST allows the deck a chance to be more aggro.
Mind Control steal lvl4s for Utopia.
With the heavy monster and spell count, Decree helps shut down the traps that'll get in the way, most notably Warning.
Quick note for summoning the rituals: Using actual monsters to add up to 10 or whichever lvl you need is not all that efficient. The optimal play is to grab an Aquamirror and 2 copies of the ritual monster. Tribute one copy to summon the second and then use Aquamirror's effect to add that first copy to your hand and shuffle Aquamirror back into the deck.
Hoped you enjoyed the article. This is the Island of Lost Cards, saving all the Gishki supers from Hidden Arsenal. We'll be right back after these commercials.
The money's at Evigishki Zeal Gigas
Water/Aqua/Effect/Ritual/10/3200/0
Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must first be Ritual Summoned. You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Gishki" Ritual Spell Card. Once per turn: You can pay 1000 Life Points; draw 1 card, and reveal it. If it is a "Gishki" monster, shuffle 1 card on the field to the Deck.
It's a rather nice beatstick with a nice effect. For a mere 1000 lp you get a draw. If that draw happens to be a Gishki monster your opp loses a card to the deck.
Now Zeal Gigas isn't due out until HA07 so we have some time til then to gather the deck pieces.
The key ritual spell is Gishki Aquamirror.
Ritual Spell
This card can be used to Ritual Summon any "Gishki" Ritual Monster. You must also Tribute monsters from the field or your hand whose total Levels equal the Level of the Ritual Monster you Ritual Summon. You can shuffle this card from the Graveyard into the Deck to target 1 "Gishki" Ritual Monster in your Graveyard; return that target to your hand.
There are 2 other ritual spells but they aren't nearly as good as Aquamirror.
Forbidden Arts combines a ritual spell with Soul Exchange while cutting the summoned monster's atk in half. Not worth it.
Duplicate Soul Mirror costs a minimum of 2000 lp to summon a ritual. Also not worth it.
Now that we've covered the rituals, let's cover the engine.
Gishki Shadow
Water/Sea Serpent/4/Effect/1200/1000
If you Ritual Summon a WATER Ritual Monster, this 1 card can be used as the entire Tribute. You can discard this card; add 1 "Gishki" Ritual Spell Card from your Deck to your hand.
Grab Aquamirror and if need be tribute it for a ritual.
Vision Gishki
Water/Sea Serpent/2/Effect/700/500
If you Ritual Summon a WATER Ritual Monster, this 1 card can be used as the entire Tribute. You can discard this card; add 1 "Gishki" Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand.
Same as Shadow but for a monster.
Gishki Abyss
Water/Fish/2/Effect/800/500
When this card is Summoned: You can add 1 "Gishki" monster with 1000 or less DEF from your Deck to your hand, except "Gishki Abyss".
The deck's Manju. It'll either grab a Shadow or Vision which will then grab its respective target.
Gishki Ariel
Water/Spellcaster/4/Effect/1000/1800
FLIP: You can add 1 "Gishki" monster from your Deck to your hand.
The deck's recruiter, very similar to Worm Cartaros. Rather nice def so it'll have a chance to sit on the field.
Gishki Beast
Water/Beast/4/Effect/1500/1300
When this card is Normal Summoned: You can target 1 Level 4 or lower "Gishki" monster in your Graveyard; Special Summon that target in face-up Defense Position.
Beast opens the door for exceeds or grabbing a Shadow/Vision for a desperate ritual summon.
Gishki Chain
Water/Sea Serpent/4/Effect/1800/1000
When this card is Normal Summoned: Look at the top 3 cards of your Deck and if there is a Ritual Monster or Ritual Spell Card among those cards; you can reveal it to add it to your hand and return the remaining cards to the top of the Deck in any order.
Allows for stacking and can grab a missing ritual piece. Cuts luck out of Gigas's effect.
So the skeleton should look like this:
3 Evigishki Zeal Gigas
3 Gishki Shadow
3 Vision Gishki
2 Gishki Abyss
3 Gishki Ariel
3 Gishki Beast
2 Gishki Chain
3 Gishki Aquamirror
Non theme support covers a fair amount of cards, most notably Salvage and Surface.
Salvage grabs Vision and Shadow for more deck thinning or that necessary ritual tribute. It'll also grab Beast and Ariel if you need walls (Beast into Utopia).
Surface works well with Abyss and Vision. Summon Abyss>grab Vision>dump for ritual>Surface to revive Vision>overlay for Gachi.
Next is staple spells/traps.
Here's my current build I've enjoyed on DN:
21
3 Evigishki Zeal Gigas
3 Gishki Ariel
3 Gishki Beast
2 Gishki Chain
3 Gishki Shadow
3 Vision Gishki
2 Gishki Abyss
2 Tragoedia
16
3 Salvage
2 Surface
Monster Reborn
Heavy Storm
Dark Hole
Book of Moon
Mind Control
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
3 Gishki Aquamirror
3
3 Royal Decree
The extra is up to you but I'd include:
2 Number 39: Utopia
Gustaph Max, Super Dreadnought Cannon Express
Gustaph Max is a lvl10 exceed that deals 2000 damage by detaching a material. It also has 3000 atk and def. Summon and atk with 2 Gigas then overlay into Max for 2000 more damage. If done right it'll be game.
Trag provides a bit of def should you get hit plus it's lvl10 for Gigas.
Triple MST allows the deck a chance to be more aggro.
Mind Control steal lvl4s for Utopia.
With the heavy monster and spell count, Decree helps shut down the traps that'll get in the way, most notably Warning.
Quick note for summoning the rituals: Using actual monsters to add up to 10 or whichever lvl you need is not all that efficient. The optimal play is to grab an Aquamirror and 2 copies of the ritual monster. Tribute one copy to summon the second and then use Aquamirror's effect to add that first copy to your hand and shuffle Aquamirror back into the deck.
Hoped you enjoyed the article. This is the Island of Lost Cards, saving all the Gishki supers from Hidden Arsenal. We'll be right back after these commercials.
Lapse
Sorry for the lapse in articles. I've been a lil busy jumping into a new game and designing playmats for said game. I've also been lacking ideas for decks and cards to write about. And lastly I had a large portion of my collection stolen. Seven decks and every good extra/fusion deck card I've had.
The new game is Cardfight Vanguard. It came out last year in Japan and was imported late last year to America, mostly on the west coast I believe. It's quickly jumped to the forefront in Japan and many like it here.
The anime is rather interesting and can be found on Crunchyroll for those interested. It's one of the few, if not only, animes that actually follows the real rules of the game. Just by watching the first few episodes you'll learn the basics.
I've spent the past week testing a pair of decks on DN. The other week at local casuals a duelist had a Gishki deck he was trying to get an oldschool player to use. He didn't succeed but he did spark my interest in the archtype. On top of that a team member on Pojo has also been playing Gishki. Add that together and I had an overwhelming urge to try em out.
The other deck was Ojamas. It's something I've wanted to try before but kept forgetting to make it on DN while I've had trouble gathering the pieces for an actual deck.
I'll post separate articles for each deck shortly.
The new game is Cardfight Vanguard. It came out last year in Japan and was imported late last year to America, mostly on the west coast I believe. It's quickly jumped to the forefront in Japan and many like it here.
The anime is rather interesting and can be found on Crunchyroll for those interested. It's one of the few, if not only, animes that actually follows the real rules of the game. Just by watching the first few episodes you'll learn the basics.
I've spent the past week testing a pair of decks on DN. The other week at local casuals a duelist had a Gishki deck he was trying to get an oldschool player to use. He didn't succeed but he did spark my interest in the archtype. On top of that a team member on Pojo has also been playing Gishki. Add that together and I had an overwhelming urge to try em out.
The other deck was Ojamas. It's something I've wanted to try before but kept forgetting to make it on DN while I've had trouble gathering the pieces for an actual deck.
I'll post separate articles for each deck shortly.
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