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[Arctaurus]

Hello I'm new to Yu Gi Oh, my 3 friends and I are all MtG converts and each went and bought 3 Preconstructed Decks of Warrior, Spellcaster, and Fury of the Deep to swap and build a playable deck.

Before I get advice on the deck I built I had 2 questions that I hope the experienced posters here could help me answer.

1. Does a tribute for a Special Summon count as a Normal Tribute? For instance if I have 2 Fiends on the field and lay a Giant Germ as a normal summon can I tribute all three to Special Summon Raziel?

2. Can a ritual monster, say White Dragon Paladin be taken outta the graveyard with a Monster Reborn..etc after his original Ritual went off and be used again? Or do I need to have another White Paladin Ritual card to Monster Reborn him?

3. What about Gearfield the Swordmaster....To Monster Reborn him do I need to Sack another Iron Knight and use another Release Restraint?

Thanks for help for these questions.

As for my Deck Idea basically I have a Warrior/Lock Down Deck....I like to call it the Mataza Lock.

Monsters x 23

Dream Clown
Obnoxious Celtic Guardian x 2
Maurading Captains x 3
Mataza the Zapper x 3
Command Knight x 2
Goblin Attack Force x 2 (just found out I don't untap them till the end of my next phase may lower to 1)
Warrior Lady of the Wasteland x 2
Hunter with 7 weapons x 3
DD Warrior Lady
Exiled Force
Mystic Swordsman LV 2 x 2
Mystic Swordsman LV 4

Spells x 18

Snatch Steal
A Forces x 3
Mage Power
Axe of Despair x 2
Warrior Returning Alive x 2
Reinforcing the Army x 2
Heavy Storm
Swords of a Concealing Light
Monster Reborn
Lightning Vortex
Serial Spell
Mystical Space Typhoon
Swords of a Revealing Light

Traps x 5

Royal Decree x 2
Gravity Bind x 2
CofH

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Basically I wanted to know if there were any other good 3 star Warriors other then Mataza and the Hunter? Or if there are any monster that are like Kaiser Seahorse or Unshaven Angular that's tribute acts as 2 for Earth creatures.

No word of a lie this deck is very capable of a 2nd turn kill against my friends deck.

More recently this is how it unfolded. He went 1st and layed a trap card and a face up Mystical Beast Cerberus.

In my hand I had a Mataza the Zapper-Maurading Captain-Heavy Storm-Axe of Despair-A Forces. Off the draw I received a Snatch Steal.

So I Heavy Stormed putting a counter on the beast and destroying his trap (Magical Cylinder). Played a Maurading Captain to S.S. Mataza. I then laid the A forces and the Axe of Despair on Mataza to put two more counters on the Beast. To top off the Coup de Gras I snatch stole his Beast and attacked him for 9900 pts of Damage.

I couldn't believe my luck.

Anyway I hope to be around here for awhile so I'll next post my friends evil Chaos deck.

[Arctaurus]

After looking looks like I could use some a Freed tMG x 2 and DisciplesotFS x 3.

[Diamond *Guy*]

the Trojan Horse is the monster you should be looking for, a trib. 1 for 2

[Seraphon]

1. Does a tribute for a Special Summon count as a Normal Tribute? For instance if I have 2 Fiends on the field and lay a Giant Germ as a normal summon can I tribute all three to Special Summon Raziel?

2. Can a ritual monster, say White Dragon Paladin be taken outta the graveyard with a Monster Reborn..etc after his original Ritual went off and be used again? Or do I need to have another White Paladin Ritual card to Monster Reborn him?

3. What about Gearfield the Swordmaster....To Monster Reborn him do I need to Sack another Iron Knight and use another Release Restraint?

Thanks for help for these questions.

Heya,

1. You may perform as many special summons in one turn as you have the resources to, and this does not take up your one Normal summon per turn, even if the Special summon requires some kind of tribute. So your example is a valid one.

2. For most monsters who need to be special summoned (Ones that say 'This card can only be special summoned by...' ) the requirement printed on the card is only needed for the original special summon. This includes Ritual Monsters, who by rulebook definition 'can only be special summoned' by their Ritual Spell card.
If they are properly brought to the field, and then destroyed, then it is perfectly legal to bring them back with Monster Reborn - you do not use another Ritual card. However, some monsters can never be brought back, which brings us to your third question.

3. Gearfried the Swordmaster belongs to a group of monsters who 'cannot be special summoned except by...' meaning the requirement on the card is the only way they can ever be special summoned. Therefore he can not be special summoned from the graveyard, by Monster Reborn or any other card, even if he was properly summoned originally.


Or if there are any monster that are like Kaiser Seahorse or Unshaven Angular that's tribute acts as 2 for Earth creatures.


Yes, it is called 'Trojan Horse' and is from the 'Soul of the Duelist' expansion pack.

[yalefield]

Seraphon's got exactly the right answer... that should clear things up....

-Nice work done!! Well, I mean by using 3 Structure Decks this is a good build....
-Since you have the Spellcaster Structure, put Breaker the Magical Warrior in, it is a great monster staple....
-Just try getting other powerful cards and this should be great!!

[Mecha]

Monsters x 23

Dream Clown
Obnoxious Celtic Guardian x 2
Maurading Captains x 3
Mataza the Zapper x 3
Command Knight x 2
Goblin Attack Force x 2 (just found out I don't untap them till the end of my next phase may lower to 1)
Warrior Lady of the Wasteland x 2
Hunter with 7 weapons x 3
DD Warrior Lady
Exiled Force
Mystic Swordsman LV 2 x 2
Mystic Swordsman LV 4

Spells x 18

Snatch Steal
A Forces x 3
Mage Power
Axe of Despair x 2
Warrior Returning Alive x 2
Reinforcing the Army x 2
Heavy Storm
Swords of a Concealing Light
Monster Reborn
Lightning Vortex
Serial Spell
Mystical Space Typhoon
Swords of a Revealing Light

Traps x 5

Royal Decree x 2
Gravity Bind x 2
CofH



Ok, lets take look to your deck.

First thing is that you have too many monsters so drop 3 from them. Then add more traps Take out 1 Marauding Captain, 1 Mystic Swordsman lv4 (Mystic Swordsman lv2 is better) and 1 Hunter with 7 Weapons. Dust Tornado, Compulsory Evacuation Device and Waboku are good choices. You don't much need Snatch Steal so replace it with Premature Burial.