Tuesday 8 May 2012

Hieroglyph Ritua (Gishkiglyphs)

Hello everybody! I haven't posted in quite awhile and so here I am, bringing you a decklist of a deck which I've been having fun with for the past month - Gishkiglyphs! (as I call it) It is a deck with Hieroglyphs and Gishki combined together *you don't say?* to gain pluses and minus your opponent at the same time with the help of Evigishki Gustkrake, our key player.

Without further ado, the deck:-

Monsters - 25
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1x Luster Dragon #2
1x Wattdragon
3x Vision Gishki
3x Gishki Abyss
3x Shadow Gishki
3x Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands
3x Hieroglyph Dragon - Shiyu Dragon
3x Hieroglyph Dragon - Tfeni-Dragon
3x Evigishki Gustkrake
2x Effect Veiler

Spells - 15
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3x Preparation of Rites
3x Hieroglyph Seal of Gathering
3x Upstart Goblin
3x Gishki Aquamirror
1x Salvage
1x Heavy Storm
1x Monster Reborn

This deck is kinda similar to the infamous Wind-Up Hunter loop decks where you put your opponent at a great disadvantage turn one. Let's take a look at Evigishki Gustkrake's awesome effect:-

Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must first be Ritual Summoned. You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Gishki" Ritual Spell Card. When this card is Ritual Summoned: Look at up to 2 random cards in your opponent's hand, and shuffle 1 of them into the Deck.

By summoning Gustkrake multiple times during your first turn, your opponent will not have much options left when their turn starts. Unlike Wind-Up Hunter, Gustkrake returns the card back to your opponents DECK, making their cards harder to obtain as many decks now might benefit from you sending them to the Graveyard. Furthermore, you get to see up to 2 cards from their hand and then CHOOSE one of them to return. With some lucksacked card picking skills, you can know your opponents entire hand by summoning 3 of these guys in 1 turn.

This was just the Gishki side of the deck. Now, by summoning Gustkrake with the Level 6 Hieroglyph dragons, you will gain an additional Level 6 vanilla to accompany him. With le awesome vanilla, you can continue your stunt by Xyz Summoning a powerful Rank 6 Xyz monster. If you have read my previous card review on "Photon Strike Bounzer", I did mention about Gishki decks being able to summon him with a Gustkrake which has already used its effect. After picking off a few of your opponents cards and having a PSB sitting on the field like a boss, your opponent has little means of a comeback.

Apart from PSB, you can also summon Number 25: Force Focus which is a huge 2800 beatstick with a somewhat limited effect negation ability, or my favorite - Constellar Ptolemys Messier 7. M7's awesome effect will help you with summoning more Gustkrakes during your turn by being able to return the tributed Hieroglyph monster to your hand. The Gishki Aquamirror's special effect will also return the Gustkrake which you detached for M7's ability. Having 3 M7s in your side deck is no surprise as you can really summon all 3 of them in a single duel. I however cannot afford 3 so I just stuck with 2 which is almost as good.

Other cards like Preparation of Rites and Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands will help you get your pieces fast to pull off the stunt. Upstart Goblin works here too as you really want the speed and this deck is not worried about your opponent having lots of LP. Salvage is just a random splash which works with the Gishki search monsters. I ran 2 Salvage once but realized they are most of a time a dead draw. You might also want to add in an Inzektor Exa-Beetle to your extra as this mini-scrap dragon might just come in handy if you did not manage to pull off much combos.

So this is pretty much summarizes what this deck does - Go first, loop your opponent's hand cards away, proceed to summon scary, high-attack Rank 6 monsters and pray that your opponent does not have Dark Hole. Go ahead and netdeck this, improve on it and have fun trolling your opponent with the awesome power of Gustkrake!

Sorry for the lack of images as I am writing this quite late in the night. I hope the links will be helpful.

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