Toronto Trip and my Deck Profile

So after a crazy week after the Toronto regionals, I finally can start writing about going.  It was a great time.  Got to say hi to Joel (from HunterSerge), Austin Somers and a couple people who read my blog. It's always great to meet people in the community and chit chat. My friend Josh got second place with Sun Dragons which was cool. I'm so proud of him.  It just seemed like yesterday I sucked him into Buddyfight.

I didn't do great in the tournament (2-4) but I wasn't playing a good deck or one I was expecting to do well with anyways.  I just wanted to troll with people especially since Oni Assassins are so hot right now. People were expecting them when they saw my Katana World sleeves. People gave me some weird looks with this deck. I went with the below deck because I wanted to mainly trade with people and take it easy and while I tried to win, I didn't want to go try-hard.  I mainly wanted a mini vacation and have fun.

The deck I ran was Skull Warriors but it didn't revolve around discard Yamigitsune...

...or draw Yamigitsune...

...or any Yamigitsune...

In fact, my deck revolved around Skull Warrior Birds of the Four Bones, "Akuten Haba".

Bird is the Word

Here's the deck profile for "Bird is the Word":

Buddy: Undying, Benishojo

Size 0:
3x First Omni Beast Messenger, Goishi Goma

Size 1:
3x Aftermath, Gagaku
2x Blood Knife, Kimensai
4x Demon Kid, Hiunmaru
3x Godly-Speed, Natsubame
4x Lightning Speed, Tsukiusagi
4x Retainer of the Demonic Dragon, Resurrected Dragon Bones
4x Snake Princess, Setsuna
3x Undefeatable, Setsujishi
4x Undying, Benishojo

Size 2:
4x Cat Shadow, Aoihime

Size 3:
3x Revelation Tactician, Keiganryu
3x Skull Warrior Birds of the Four Bones, "Akuten Haba"

Spells:
3x Hundred Demons Sorcery, Kyakaryouran
3x Odd Ritual, Skull Festival

Sideboard:
3x Barbed Wire
3x Ninja Arts, Half-kill
2x Perfect Beauty, Hyoshi Shirasagi
2x Strength Summoner, Kotenso

So anyone will notice this is just a casual "funny" deck especially since there's 44 monsters and only 6 spells in the deck. This deck has some reach on damage that people don't expect since it's not hard to mill 4 Skull Warriors with this deck. Plus, since the buddy is Benishojo, people just expect Yamigitsune to be in the deck somewhere. Benishojo is perfect for buddy in this deck because of the milling.  It makes him always available.

I make my own luck

The overall point of this deck is to mill for the impact monster then grab it back with Resurrected Dragon Bones. If you don't see the impact monster, then you can try to stall with Revelation Tactician, Keiganryu. First Beast Messenger, Goishi Goma is there to help reduce the call cost of the Akuten Haba and Keiganryu.

Cat Shadow, Aoihime is in the deck to grab Odd Ritual, Skull Festival out so the only spells left in the deck are Hundred Demons Sorcery, Hyakaryouran and with the deck being devoid of most spells, you'll almost always hitting Hyakaryouran successfully to gain life back and keep using Odd Ritual, Skull Festival. Lightning Speed, Tsukiusagi is meant to be your other "nullify" in the deck and he fits perfectly in it.

Undefeatable, Setsujishi is in the as a way for me to recoup my losses if my opponent didn't get to 6 or less life in my turn. If my opponent got to six or less, I could call Akuten Haba but if I didn't get there, I could try again next turn and put Skull Warriors to my gauge instead. Then I could use that gauge for Lightning Speed, Tsukiusage if I needed to.

I did originally run Demon Way, Arakuyou to draw off of the summon of Akuten Haba.  Since Akuten Haba says "destroy 1 or more Skull Warriors on my field", you just board wipe (or keep a size 0 alive) and draw 3.  It's pretty nice but the point of the deck is to try to finish.  It doesn't have much longevity to it.

In the side board, the spells were meant to replace Hundred Demons Sorcery, Hyakaryouran for spell nullifies more appropriate to what I was facing.  The monsters could just really be added in after the first match to fill it with more monsters. One thing to note with Perfect Beauty, Hyoshi Shirasagi. She nullifies the penetrate of the monster that attacks it for the TURN. So if a monster has double attack and penetrate and kills her and she nullifies the attacking monster's penetrate, you can safely counter call Lightning Speed, Tsukiusagi on the second attack and not get penetrated. It never happened to me but it's there and I'm sure it would blow someone's mind when it happens to them.

Improvements:

*ribbit ribbit*

One card I didn't have a chance to try in the deck was Premature Passing, Bibikawazu because I was having consistency issues which costed me games. He could search out literally anything for the deck for the situation I'm in. I could throw Akuten Haba in drop and grab him with Resurrected Dragon Bones. I would probably take out Aftermath, Gagaku for Bibikawazu.

I thought of running 4 Akuten Habas but if I run Bibikawazu, I don't think I need 4 Akuten Habas.

I was trying to fit in a Skull Warrior with move but couldn't find space. I just called monsters to the center anyways. No item fit the deck so there's no real reason to have a monster with move.

I thought maybe Boy Transformation, Yamigitsune for the deck since he fits in it the best but the Skull Warriors during the battle phase would more than likely hit and activate Boy Yami's once per turn ability before Akuten Haba entered the field. Plus, I was trying to make the deck not have any form of Yamigitsune in the deck and see what would come out of it.

Hope you guys enjoy this novel idea. Decks like these give flavor to card games. They're funny and unexpected but they still work and when it works, oh boy is it scary. 6 damage out of "dumb luck" milling isn't expected.