Offering Gadgets (Post GENF)

Hey everyone. I'm sorry i've been away for a month. I just want to apologise to my regular readers who might have wondered where i have been and thought i was gone forever.

However, that is not the case.

I've theorised a gadget deck, but with the machinas thrown in there too (They are just so darn good not to).

Deck 41
Monsters - 19
3x Machine Gearframe
3x Machine Fortress
1x Machine Force
2x Green Gadget
2x Red Gadget
2x Yellow Gadget
2x Thunder King Rai-Oh
2x Effect veiler
1x Blackwing - Gale the whirlwind

Spells - 12
1x Monster reborn
1x Dark hole
1x Limiter removal
1x Book of moon
2x Smashing ground
2x Mystical space typhoon
1x Giant trunade

3x Pot of duality

Traps - 11
3x Ultimate offering
2x Dimensional prison
2x Solemn warning (or Bottomless trap hole)
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Seven tools of the bandit
1x Mirror force
1x Torrential tribute

Extra deck
3x Number 39: Utopia
3x Steelswarm roach
1x Trishula, Dragon of the Ice barrier
1x Chimeratech fortress dragon
7 other generic synchros

So the general idea here is to use Ultimate offering to Xyz summon up to 4 Xyz monsters in a single turn using ultimate offering and the gadgets. I have seen many decks trying to make this but have some really stupid cards in there like Marauding captain (I refuse to use trashy cards like Gurensaurus). This deck still needs some tweaking (like a couple of Pot of dualities for consistency) so give me some ideas about what to change.

Yu-Gi-Oh Card Review: Aspiring Emperor Hope/ Number 39: Utopia

Hello once again readers. After looking on the wiki (If you don't use it, why not?) and it seems like the next yu-gi-oh related item to be released by Konami is the 2011 starter deck. This deck is no ordinary starter deck, it marks the beginning of a new era in duel monsters: Exceed monsters. This starter deck comes with 3 Exceed monsters and a bunch of the new protagonist's monsters (Which are not very good).

The starter deck comes with Yuma's ace monster, Aspiring Emperor Hope or as it's called in the TCG, Number 39: Utopia (Which i will call it from now on)

Exceed monsters look so badass

This Exceed monster is a Rank 4 (I'm going to have to get used to saying rank) and to exceed summon it, you must overlay 2 level 4 monsters on your field. It's got the standard 2500 attack and 2000 defence like all of the previous protagonist's ace monsters had. It's a light attribute, so it works with Honest and other light support. It's effect is pretty good:

When a monster on the field declares an attack, you can remove 1 exceed material from this card (Which you have 2 upon summon) to negate the attack. When this card is attacked while it has no exceed materials on it, destroy it.

So its got a good effect and a bad one. With a possible 2 attack negations, that can be the difference between surviving a swarm and losing to it. However, i would never recommend using both negations unless its necessary since you can just get attacked by a weak monster and it destroys itself (Meklord's don't mind that though). This negation effect is comparable to something like Necro guardna and that card's limited on the banlist. While it might not be as versatile as guardna, its still good.

The best part of exceed monsters is how easy it is to bring them out. They don't ask for a specific monster, just its level. There are so many level 4 monsters that can bring out more level 4s and bring this card out:

• Gravekeeper's spy: It lets you special summon any gravekeeper from your deck with less than 1500 attack, so just grab another spy and exceed summon on your turn.
• Batteryman AAA: While this card sucks in general, it is a level 4 that lets you special summon another AAA from your hand or graveyard, so thats all good.
• Summoner monk: Ditch a spell and grab any level 4 from your deck then exceed summon, without having to wait a turn like spy.

But the best way to get a bunch of rank 4 exceed monsters on the field at once is with the Gadget + Ultimate offering combo. All you have to do is activate ultimate offering, summon a gadget and add a new one to your hand. There you can just pay 500 life points and summon the gadget you just added to your hand and then you can get another gadget from your deck. Repeat this process and you will now have 5 gadgets on the field for the cost of 2000 life points from ultimate offering. You can just overlay 2 of them and exceed summon Utopia and since you have 3 left on the field, you can exceed summon another utopia. Now that you have freed up 2 monster slots on your field, you can just summon 2 more gadgets and exceed another utopia. Overall it cost you 3000 life points, but now you have 3 Utopias on the field and a gadget. With those utopias you can negate up to 6 attacks!

Because of that malicious combo, you can expect Ultimate offering to be limited or even banned come september.

So thats it. Exceeds are going to hit this game with its versatile summoning conditions and hopefully, their effects will rival that of the first synchro monsters.

I shall be picking up a few starter decks for myself, and i suggest that you do too.