So I was thinking about the OCG banlist (Yes. I know this is not the TCG banlist, but its still good to prepare for the possible future) and just how much it was aimed towards Shaddolls with Limiting Winda, Construct, and Sinister Shadow Games. So the question at hand is: Would this make Shaddolls un-usable in this format? So for all 5 hours I was at school, I thought about it. At first I was 100% sure that yes, they will drop out like Mermails did. But then I started thinking. What does having Winda and Construct at one cause? It causes dead-draw Shaddoll Fusions, El-Shaddoll Fusions, and Super Polymerizations due to the lack of targets in Extra. Next set we will be getting Shekhinaga and Egrystal, which are more targets, but arent used that often. They negate effects of Special Summoned monsters, and next set with Qliphorts, I feel that it wont help a much. Not to mention you would need fire/earth targets. But Shekhinaga is a corrupted Apoqilphort Killer. Qliphorts are Earth monsters so Super Polymerization is not going to die entirely. I had considered dropping mine down to 2, but that thought got rid of that. But I digress. So with Winda and Construct at one, my next thought was: Is there a way to recycle them?. The Transmigration Prophecy was my first thought, but that Trap card is at 1. Then I thought Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord?. But that leads to the same reason I only (itallics) side one Sephylon the Ultimate Timelord. It become too much of a dead card when you draw it early, and at one its not common at all to pull it. Two seems like the right number but do you have room in your deck for something so gimmicky? It wasnt until I watched Azneyeswhitedragons video about the OCG banlist that it hit me. Shaddoll Hound might be good. Not too long ago I said that Shaddoll Hound was literally so much trash, that it doesnt deserve the name. Shaddoll Hounds flip effect states: FLIP: You can target 1 Shaddoll card in your Graveyard; add it to your hand., and its send effect states: You can target 1 monster on the field; change its battle position. (Flip monsters effects are not activated at this time, except Shaddoll monsters.). Now after some thought, I think every Shaddoll deck should be running this at at least one or two. One because Hedgehog and Coinorma can target it (depending on how Coinormas effect is when she is released), but until then two so you can abuse the flip effect. But what bout the send effect? Will anyone use that? Well as I have said in the past, Coinorma is a thing, and I have hype. You could very easily stop a Shaddoll players play if they run Coinorma. This would take some predicting though. But it can also be used in the mirror to force effects to go off. Force that Shaddoll Dragon while you have nothing on board for example. Now you may be asking, but Tim, what about Sinister Shadow Games? This is as sad as the loss of Infernity Barrier (to those who played the deck). Sinister Shadow Games sends a Shaddoll from your deck to the graveyard, then you can (if you wish) flip any number of facedown Shaddolls, face-up. This card was the epitome of the traps that most Shaddoll players ran. I myself only run 7 traps in total, in my build (for now), but I digress. John is who I thought of when I saw this. He was the only Infernity player I really talked to when Infernity Barrier hit. One quote I will never forget from that day is Maybe this is a good thing... It makes room in the deck for other things, and it can be searched. And Infernitys went and won Worlds during that format. Now yes, They literally could search for it, with Infernity Archfiend, and with all of the ways to get Archfiend, it was almost like it was at 3. So how can this idea be extrapolated into Sinister Shadow Games? The simple answer is: It cant. There is nothing that can search Sinister Shadow Games, that I know of. So how about something to take its place? Its a trap version of Foolish Burial, that can only target Shaddolls, and flips face-down Shaddolls. There isnt another card that has a similar effect, or it would be mained in every Shaddoll deck (other than the obvious Construct). It would be another thing if Shaddoll was in the card name, since there are various ways to obtain cards from the graveyard, with Shaddoll in the name, and at one it could easily be recycled. But what if we look at this equation from another point of view? Something my math teacher said a few days ago, stuck with me. He was teaching the class how to solve a problem, and he showed three different ways. After he went along that process, he explained why. Its because if you look at things, like a problem, from a different view, you learn something more; something else to maybe use in future endeavors. So first lets put down the equation: Sinister Shadow Games is now at 1 in the OCG, it among the other limited cards helped the Shaddoll deck in their ways, with the main one being Sending from the deck to the graveyard. Okay so there are a few solutions. Shaddoll Lightsworn can just empty their deck like its nothing, but with Construct at one it might cause some minor problems, plus you can mill out some key cards (Boss monsters, Spells, and Traps). But what about the Hand? What if you ran a build that ran say: Triple Reckless Greed, Triple Upstart Goblin, and double (maybe Triple. I havent decided yet) Shaddoll Beast, and run cards that send from the hand to the graveyard, like Dark World friendly cards. Dark World Lightning, and Dark World Dealings would be a prime example of this. On paper the idea is that you draw your deck, use effects with cards like Dark World Lightning, and get out the possible, even quicker OTK. This is just a thought, and will need to be tested, but I think it can work. And I think it is but one answer to that problem. Each Shaddoll player differs from the next. Be it Shaddoll Artifacts, Shaddoll Lightsworn, or Chaos Shaddoll, they all have this one common problem that can be solved if you just look at the problem in a different way, and find all the possible solutions.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:56:17 +0000
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