Greetings ladies and gentlemen, as you know this weekend has been an important one for many many duelists as its YCS columbus.
As you know, before the actual YCS the structure deck "Gates of dark World" was released, and many people we're scared of this deck dominating the scene because of its sheer consistency and speed by using the field spell to dicard snoww/grapha to gain advantage... However people have been smart, smarter than usual anyway, and have found many good counters for the deck. So lets see what decks have teched in to stop the dominating army of grapha and his darkworlds... [source:
http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=7326]
1.) Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror
Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror is one of the most popular choices for defeating Dark World Duelists. Dark World Decks rely on the effects of their monsters to carry them through Duels. But since all Dark World monsters are DARK, all of their effects are negated by Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror.
Monsters like Broww, Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World, and Snoww are helpless to use their effects while Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror is face-up on the field. Even Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World won’t be able to destroy any cards with its effect while Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror is up.
But as great as Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror is against Dark World Decks, it’s not an automatic win against them. Grapha has come up with ways to fight around it. Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror only negates the effects of monsters that activate. Grapha’s power to revive himself from the Graveyard by recalling a Dark World monster to the Duelist’s hand doesn’t activate. So even while Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror is face-up, Grapha can continuously Special Summon itself from the Graveyard and take control of a Duel.
2.) Debunk
Some Duelists sought a permanent answer to Grapha, instead of just a way to negate its destruction effect. That’s why they resorted to using Debunk.
Debunk has the power to negate any monster effect that activates in the hand or the Graveyard, and then banish that monster. Again, since all of the Dark World monsters have effects that activate in the Graveyard, all of their effects can be negated by Debunk. It’s just like Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror in that respect.
But unlike Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror, since Debunk banishes the monster whose effect it negates, it has the ability to get rid of Grapha for good. When an opponent discards Grapha and tries to destroy a card on the field with its effect, Debunk will negate Grapha’s effect and banish Grapha so that it can never return to the field.
Unfortunately for the valiant heroes fighting against the darkness, Debunk also has the same weakness as Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror. Since it negates monster effects that activate, it won’t work against Grapha when he Special Summons himself from the Graveyard. That Special Summon is an inherent Summon, which Debunk, like Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror, is powerless to stop. Debunk is also a sitting duck for Dark World Lightning, unlike the Mirror which can be Chained to it.
3.) D.D. Crow
Some Duelists are using D.D. Crow to try to stop Grapha’s army. D.D. Crow can banish any card from an opponent’s Graveyard, so Duelists fighting against the darkness are using it to stop Dark World monsters before they can reach the field.
Even though Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World and Sillva, Warlord of Dark World Special Summon themselves from the Graveyard when they’re discarded, their effects use the Chain. By Chaining D.D. Crow to one of their effects, a Duelist can banish the Dark World lords and prevent them from ever reaching the field.
A Duelist can also use D.D. Crow to banish Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World from the Duel! But unlike Goldd and Sillva, Grapha’s effect doesn’t use the Chain, so D.D. Crow needs to be used to stop it before Grapha tries to Special Summon itself from the Graveyard.
4.) Gemini Imps
Some Duelists have chosen to use Gemini Imps against Dark World Decks. By discardingGemini Imps from the hand, a Duelist can stop any card effect that would force him to discard a card. Plus, the Duelist who uses Gemini Imps gets to draw a card. Unlike the previous 3 tech cards, Gemini Imps can completely stop Dragged Down into the Grave, Morphing Jar, and Card Destruction. Many Duelists consider these to be Dark Worlds’ strongest cards, so by stopping them, they think they can triumph over the Dark World beings.
So basically as a result of this crafty tech, Dark worlds arnt even in the TOP 32. Which makes me weep with happyness. Well dont lads, keeping the synchro monster deck dominating for another format. However in march I can see a limitation of Junk synchron... maybe even a ban of dandylion... but we will wait and see!!!
ONTO LOCAL NEWS!!!
This weekend at my locals I decided to run a different deck, considering that Krystia is a super I found her easy to obtain and played Angel Stun/ Also known as counter fairy for you old skool duelists like myself. The deck did well defeating Synchro monsters and DARK WORLDS! As the trap card Divine Punishemnt can negate their effects when the try to activate in the grave, creating a huge advantage for me.
My featured duel (which is on my youtube channel youtube.com/channel/thecynicalduelist) was infernity's ran by my team mate L (Dane Pearse) against synchro monsters. What was brilliant was the domination he had all weekend due to the sheer speed of his deck... Next time I play him I have shadow imprisoning mirror ready for him muahaha.
Anyway, my best duel of the day was against flamvell sworn played by Benjamin Frost... incredibly close last game where Krystia Royally saved my ass from a rekindling as did my dark bribes. The deck thought still needs work, snowman eater, fissures and Thunder kings are my main wants for the deck so if you have any guys let me know ^^.
The duelist league is looking close woth 2 weeks to go, with first place tied between benjamin frost and James (i forget his surname) but he plays a mean swap burn deck... beat me 2-0 as I didnt see it comming, one hillarious moment was when I dark bribed his creature swap... only for him to draw another costing me the game... sad times.
NOW ONTO THE BEST NEWS!
The next euro YCS has been announced as YCS brighton the party capital of Britain (ignoring newcastle cuz those geordies are retarded on taht show... and possibly not human... :/) So I will be heading down there with my deck of choice, WIND-UP STUN. Due to there being a ton of new wind-up stuff comming out from photon shockwave Im torn between playing Rabbit stun/ Wind-up stun... or maybe even just go with synchro monsters. Depends what I can aqquire in that time. May play scraps but they are so easily countered these days it will take some work...
Hopefully I will see you guys there :D
See you on the duelling field folks. PEACE
