Chaos and Zombies

Since I was able to get a second Mezuki, I've been wanting to run Zombies. However, I really like the idea behind Chaos.

So, I wanted to try both of them in the same deck. It didn't do as well as I had hoped. It was very rare that you could use a Chaos Sorcerer and Zombies together, the deck functioned like one or the other. That wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that the support for one is dead for the other.

Mezuki doesn't exactly help when you've got no Zombies in the Graveyard, and Chaos Sorcerer can't be summoned if you don't have a Light and Dark in the grave.

Because of this, I've decided to scrap the Chaos and go with Zombies. I'm trying to decide between a Monarch variant, a twist on Zombie Synchro, or a variant with Plants in it.

The thing with just plain Zombie Synchro is that you don't always get to your Zombie engine quickly enough to set up. You basically have to get to Goblin Zombie, which is only two cards in a 40-card deck.

This is why I'm leaning away from my Zombie Synchro variant, since there's no reliable way to search for Goblin Zombie. I'll see where it goes, though.

5D's Episode 87

An "eh" episode. It's just the duel between Yusei and Kiryu. It would have been much better if the duel had actually been completed in the episode. Of course, there's so much talking and so many flashbacks that the duel has to spill into the next episode.

Kiryu actually plays some decent cards. However, most of them are only good if you're top-decking.

He also plays a bunch of cards that empty his hand in one turn. What if he top-decked one of those cards? That would be really bad for him, but, of course, anime characters stack.

Yeah... Not much to talk about for this episode.

Monster to Spell/Trap Ratio

Generally, decks tend to have more Spell/Trap Cards than Monsters. This is mainly based on the reasoning that you can really only play one Monster from your hand per turn, and it's beneficial to get more cards that you can use (Spells/Traps).

A top tier deck that has (many) more Monsters than Spell/Trap Cards is Lightsworn. For one, some of the Monsters act as Spells/Traps, like Honest in the hand and Necro Garnda in the Graveyard. The more obvious reason is that Lightsworn players like to mill more Monsters than Spells/Traps, which should make sense.

For me, in most of my decks, I like to have slightly more Monsters than Spells/Traps. This is because my decks' engines are usually Monster-based and an all-Monster hand would be better than a no-Monster hand.

Of course, as shown, it depends on the deck. For instance, Gadgets obviously wouldn't want to play too many Monsters, since the Gadgets themselves almost guarantee that you won't run out of Monsters to play.

What does this have to do with anything? Not much. It's an interesting perspective on deck building, though.