Hidden Arsenal-Return of the Sabers!

X-Sabers have always been good but never good enough to take to a tournament and hope to do well. They were missing something to tie the deck down and get it functioning. With the release of Absolute Powerforce they release four new X-Saber cards that made me take another look at the Archetype. XX-Saber Garsem is the Goblin Zombie of X-Sabers. It doesnt search based on defense. It searches anything with X-Saber in the name. Now thats where he stops being good. He needs to be destroyed by a card effect to get his effect going. With everyone running cards like Torrential Tribute, Mirror Force, and Lightning Vortex it shouldn't be a problem to get his effect going. If you summon Garsem he can eventually become a problem for your opponent when you summon those Faultrolls or activate those Calls because he'll become a big hitter. XX-Saber Emmersblade is the pyramid Turtle for the deck searching for any level four X-Saber monster when its destroyed by battle. Giant Rat was good but it couldn't search out those Airbellums when you needed them. Absolute Powerforce also introduces a Solemn Judgment exclusive to the X-Saber deck. Saber Hole may only negate summons but who in this game doesn't summon? It suddenly turns the X-Saber deck into an aggro control deck that will deplete you of your hand and summons now. With the fear of Airbellums and Gottoms, most players would try setting their spells and traps hoping to keep them safe but Absolute Powerforce releases a new X-Saber Synchro to deal with that. XX-Saber Hyunlei devestates your opponents backfield and leaves them open to an attack. Heres a sample decklist that I've come up with. It may change due to the ban list changing the legality on some of these cards.


Monsters: 17
3 X-Saber Airbellum
3 XX-Saber Faultroll
3 XX-Saber Fulhelmknight
2 XX-Saber Garsem
2 XX-Saber Ragigura
2 XX-Saber Gardestrike
2 XX-Saber Emmersblade
Spells: 10
3 Saber Slash
2 Pot of Avarice
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Mind Control
1 Brain Control
1 Giant Trunade
Traps: 13
3 Saber Hole
3 Dark Bribe
2 Gottoms’ Emergency Call
2 Bottomless Traphole
1 Trap Dustshoot
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Call of the Haunted

The deck is extremely trap heavy which might lead to bad hands. I have not tested the deck yet because I dont like proxying cards. I'll get the cards come Sneak Preview and make the deck there and play test it with my teammate and friends. Im unsure on running either 2 or 3 Emmersblade since he's the only card in the deck that would allow me to synch into Hyunlei. If your in the Los Angeles area and your going to the Sneak Preview at Savys I urge you to look for me. I'll be one of the guys helping out at the event. Just ask for Darwin. Almost veryone that attends should know who I am. I urge you to attend you local Sneak Preview to increase your collection and to make friends and once again. If your in the Los Angeles area visit Savys. Its the friendliest card shop in LA and congrats to Rodrigo Togores for making Top 16 at Shonen Jump Los Angeles.