{"id":41769,"date":"2019-02-01T00:51:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T00:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/?p=41769"},"modified":"2019-02-01T01:28:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T01:28:55","slug":"toottootonmyflute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/?p=41769","title":{"rendered":"Guest Article: Speed Duels – An Early Look into Blue-Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we\u2019re seeing how Kaiba\u2019s classic deck works in the new format. (We\u2019re told Beatdown couldn\u2019t make it)<\/p>\n

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It took just a few days for one deck in the Speed Duel format to be solved. The first contender of this new meta appeared, eager to ask all their opponents a vital question;<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cCan you deal with a 3k beater?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

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The goal of the Blue-Eyes deck is to turbo out a high attack monster onto the board, then protecting it with traps such as <\/span>Champion\u2019s Vigilance<\/b>. Most decks in the metagame will struggle to out it, as you keep beating over tribute fodder and use Vigilance to negate any threats. <\/span><\/p>\n

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As such, gameplay for the deck is fairly linear – Use <\/span>Dragon Caller<\/b> to ensure you have both <\/span>Lord of D. <\/b>and <\/span>Flute of Summoning Dragon<\/b> in hand so that Flute can summon out dragons from your hand, including the classic <\/span>Blue-Eyes White Dragon<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blue-Eyes will impose a lot of threat just by being on board, as it has the ability to shave away the majority of your opponent\u2019s LP in one attack as well as beat over basically every other monster. Just because it\u2019s big however, doesn\u2019t make it unbreakable – Other popular cards like <\/span>Gravekeepers\u2019 Oracle<\/b> and <\/span>Riryoku<\/b> can easily strip it\u2019s attack, while <\/span>Amazoness Swordswoman<\/b> can just keep crashing into it in a seemingly unending game of \u201cStop hitting yourself\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is where Vigilance comes in, a card with the ability to either negate a Normal Summon or a Spell\/Trap, Vigilance is essentially the classical staple from the TCG, <\/span>Solemn Judgment<\/b>, with a condition that you need to control a Level 7+ Normal monster to act as a counter to most outs. If Blue-Eyes is a card which forces most people to answer a question, Vigilance is just checking if they\u2019re sure when they try to reply \u201cYes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Just from this baseline gameplan, we already have half the deck built out for us. It\u2019s a simple strategy, which makes it easy to plan out with a skeleton like this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon<\/span><\/p>\n

3 Lord of D.<\/span><\/p>\n

1 Flute of Summoning Dragon<\/span><\/p>\n

3 Champion\u2019s Vigilance<\/span><\/p>\n

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As Vigilance helps us protect our dragon, ways to dig into the deck for multiple copies are extremely useful. <\/span>Wonder Wand<\/b> is a spell from the Yugi deck which can help faciliate this, as it can sack the Lord after you play Flute to draw an additional 2 cards.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Also from the Yugi deck is <\/span>Blue Dragon Summoner<\/b>, a monster who can tutor your Blue-Eyes upon being sent to GY as well as also being another Spellcaster for Wand. It\u2019s not an ideal card to summon going first, but it can help you prepare for a Flute play the next.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So that leaves us with 4 cards wiggle room, 1 of which would be best served as another high level dragon to increase the odds of drawing it in your opening hand. From the starter decks, we have 2 options:<\/span><\/p>\n

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