Friday, January 22, 2010

From Beyond the Grave

Gravekeepers were originally dug up in Pharaonic Guardian and were used to combat Chaos decks with the field card Necrovalley. Gravekeeper decks would rise every once in a while to counter top decks like TeleDad and Lightsworns but quickly faded from popularity due to faster decks being more reliable. Certain Gravekeepers were splashed into decks. Gravekeepers Spy and Gravekeepers Guard found their way onto Monarch decks and Synchro Cat for advantage. With Absolute Powerforce releasing more Gravekeeper Support it revived a nearly dead Archetype. I have taken my time to build a sample decklist for the new set that can work.

Monsters:20

3x Gravekeeper's Assailant
3x Gravekeeper's Commandant
3x Gravekeeper's Spy
2x Gravekeeper's Priestess
2x Gravekeeper's Guard
2x Gravekeeper's Visionary
2x Gravekeeper's Descendant
2x Mystic Tomato
1x Sangan

Spells:13

3x Necrovalley
2x Royal Tribute
2x Gravekeeper's Stele
2x Allure of Darkness
1x Heavy Storm
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Brain Control
1x Lightning Vortex

Traps:09

3x Rite of Spirit
2x Bottomless Traphole
1x Torrential Tribute
1x Mirror Force
1x Trap Dustshoot
1x Solemn Judgment

This deck is heavily reliant on Necrovalley and will shut down most of the top decks strategies. No Destiny Hero-Malicious or Miracle Fusions to ruin your plays. Chaos Sorcerer can't hit the field and Dark Armed Dragon can't destory. Lightsworns can't target their grave with Lumina and no one can use Call of the Haunted. Zombies lose all their Mezuki plays. With Royal Tribute you can flush out all your opponents monsters and drop their Gorz and Tragoedia dead in the grave. The Visionary is considered your boss card as he gets powered up to quite a bit with Necrovalley and can negate his destruction which is pretty cool. The Stele keeps you ahead of your opponent with extra cards for Lightning Vortex or the Visionary. This deck is more of an anti meta beatdown because all of your gravekeepers will pound on your opponent. The rest of the card choices are pretty obvious so I won't go over them.

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