Resonate your LP with gains and losses.
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Strategic Summary:
Welcome to another CDP, this time brought to you by a request for me to try and combine the Aroma and Vaalmonica archetypes together. The concept behind this hybrid is simple – Aroma monsters love gaining LP, as when you gain LP, their effects trigger and do something beneficial. For example, Aromage Jasmine draws a card or Aromalilith Magnolia makes all of your Plant monsters gain ATK equal to the LP gained. They’re supported by a trio of Continuous Trap Winds cards, Humid Winds, Dried Winds, and Blessed Winds, each that manipulate your LP and give you additional advantages. It also helps that any of the three can be placed on your board by Aroma Blend, as consistency is king.
Now the Vaalmonica archetype, on the other hand, consists of monsters that benefit from both gaining LP and taking effect damage, and their S/T support cards offer you a choice of effects. For example, Vaalmonica Scelta lets you gain 500 LP, return 1 card from hand to deck, then draw 2 cards, or you can take 500 damage, and tutor a Vaalmonica S/T. Their primary monsters, Angello Vaalmonica and Dimonno Vaalmonica, also can banish a Vaalmonica S/T from the GY to apply one of their effects, letting you quickly rack up Resonance Counters on your Pendulum Scales. Once you reach 3 Counters, you unlock the Vaalmonica boss monsters – LINK-1s that can turn the tide of the duel in your favor.
This combined strategy really shines in a few ways, but above all else, you finally can shelve Aroma Garden and Aroma Gardening, two Spell cards meant to trigger your Aromage effects by gaining LP. The problem with these two is that they are useless in isolation – if you don’t have an Aroma combo ready, they are dead weight. That’s what makes the Vaalmonica such an alluring inclusion: they aren’t just used to trigger your Aroma monsters; they also give you other beneficial effects. It also helps that the newest Vaalmonica cards will release later this month to the TCG. This new wave includes Selettrice Vaalmonica, which tutors a Vaalmonica card on Normal or Pendulum Summon, Vaalmonica Invitare, which tutors Vaalmonica monsters, and Vaalmonica Disarmonia, which recovers Vaalmonica cards, all add amazing flexibility and consistency, making a hybrid build more achievable. Enjoy a combination of music and perfume, with the Vaalmonica and Aromages!
Provided Decklist:
Monsters: 19
| Aromage Marjoram
| Aromage Rosemary
||| Angello Vaalmonica
||| Dimonno Vaalmonica
||| Selettrice Vaalmonica
||| Aromage Jasmine
| Aromage Laurel
| Aromaseraphy Angelica
||| Aromalilith RosalinaSpells: 17
||| Vaalmonica Scelta
||| Aroma Blend
|| Vaalmonica Versare
|| Vaalmonica Disarmonia
| Vaalmonica Intonare
||| Vaalmonica Invitare
||| Vaalmonica, the Agathokakological VoiceTraps: 5
| Vaalmonica Followed Rhythm
| Vaalmonica Chosen Melody
| Blessed Winds
| Dried Winds
| Humid WindsExtra Deck:
|| Aromalilith Magnolia
| Periallis, Empress of Blossoms
| Aromaseraphy Sweet Marjoram
| Aromaseraphy Rosemary
| Benghalancer the Resurgent
| Aromalilith Rosemary
| Aromaseraphy Jasmine
| S:P Little Knight
| I:P Masquerena
|| Zebufera, Vaalmonican Hallow Heathen
|| Duralume, Vaalmonican Heathen Hallow
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10 Comments
Finally, a Vaalmonica deck recipe. If you can share more Vaalmonica deck recipe would be great! I really love that archetype but don’t know how to construct a consistent deck with the most of hers cards.
Vaalmonica actually has some (albeit minor) tournament wins in the OCG thanks to the new cards. It’s a relatively compact engine, so the deck is able to run roughly 16-18 handtraps. It’s still not 100% consistent, and we don’t have Maxx “C” here in the TCG so it might not be good still, but the deck can actually play pure now.
Hi there! I’ve also covered Vaalmonica with Blackwing and Performage, if you check out my Archetype Archive, you’ll find the links there! But it’s certainly a fun archetype to play with!
I’m just going to say this, the only problem I have with Vaalmonica’s field spell, is the requirements it has for taking over an opponent’s monster. It requires the third resonance counter, not having three resonance counters. So if you already have 3 or more, you are SOL when it comes to that effect.
My own Aroma/Vaalmonica deck still uses the Aroma field spell, but only because I play by having as many instances of healing trigger as possible per turn to rapidly gain as many of Angello’s Resonance Counters as possible so Dimonno’s effect can drain the Atk out of my opponent’s monsters. Which is why I try to have some back row or Pendulum space protection (I also don’t play for competitive builds)
Also, considering both archetypes are Synchro based using Level 4 Light/Spellcasters, do you think we might get a Centur-Ion/White Woods deck in the future?
Yeh I was thinking about a white woods Centur-ion deck and on Dueling nexus, it aint that bad. U can easily get 2 level 12s on turn one so don’t need to wait for main phase to use King Calamity. And it gives alot more power and capabilities to Centur-ion
Also I made this ridiculously broken horus yubel deck. Not kidding, but out of 40 duels I only lost 3. But the deck has soo many options and tons of ways to pivot if negated or disrupted. But personally, the Towers Heart-Earth dragon combo (which only requires 2 cards) is busted.
Yeh that’s fine. I will send the updated decklist soon. See what combos or options u can do with it. Recently I have been focusing on turboing out both Super Dora and Heart Earth dragon to make an invincible nuke before finishing the next turn with numeron dragon. 2 card combo and super consistent.
If I were to send a decklist, u may be able to see how I get to Towers Heart-Earth dragon. But u will almost definitely find combos that I have never even tried before. So definitely check it out or inventory ur own decklist for it. I probs wont send it here cuz it would clog up the chat section, but check out the CDP on the new yubel support, it should be there.
Horus/Yubel is a fun combo, yes! But that’s mainly because both are extremely flexible engines, that happen to work together quite well. If you do wanna send a decklist, feel free to do so via the YGOrg Discord server; I check there often!