Secrets of Teching Part II - Mind Crush
Posted 4 Weeks Ago at 02:33 PM by Jebus McAzn
Updated 4 Weeks Ago at 03:20 PM by Jebus McAzn (lol "torrentail" tribute)
Updated 4 Weeks Ago at 03:20 PM by Jebus McAzn (lol "torrentail" tribute)
Since YuGiOh really got going with cards like Synchro Monsters, and even before that, people never underestimated the power of looking at your opponent's hand. It's why Confiscation was Forbidden, it's why Trap Dustshoot is Limited. And with the whole montage of hand peeking comes Mind Crush.
Mind Crush
Normal Trap Card
Declare 1 card name. If your opponent has a declared card(s) in their hand, discard all of the declared card(s) to the Graveyard. Otherwise, you randomly discard 1 card.
This card answers so much. Against Lightsworns? Declare Honest and attack with impunity. Against Blackwings? Declare Kalut. Versus a Blackwing user who loves his Black Whirlwind? Punish him dearly. Even cards like their Sangan, their Goblin Zombie, or even your Neo-Spacian Grand Mole can be used in conjunction with Mind Crush. It’s an amazing card that shuts down the key cards of many a top deck. It doesn’t even have a cost, although there is a downside.
If you call the wrong card, you have to discard one card. So you need to have a reasonably good idea of what card your opponent has (unless you just want to nail an Honest or something like it). Thus, Mind Crush is perfect against decks like Blackwings with Black Whirlwind or a Gadget deck.
But other decks are a little harder to work around. You may want to just test your luck and try for a card, but this is rarely effective. You want to see your opponent’s hand first to get the full use of Mind Crush. But how? Certain cards come to mind, like Respect Play, the Eye of Truth, even a Chaos-End Master/Mind on Air combo. But all of these are inefficient and not too reliable. My solution to a deck built around Mind Crush is the Viruses.
Deck Devastation Virus
Normal Trap Card
Tribute 1 DARK monster with 2000 or more ATK. Check your opponent’s hand, all monsters your opponent controls, and all cards they draw (until the end of your opponent’s 3rd turn after this card’s activation), and destroy all monsters with 1500 or less ATK.
Eradicator Epidemic Virus
Normal Trap Card
Tribute 1 DARK monster with 2500 or more ATK, and choose Spell Cards or Trap Cards. Check all Spell and Trap cards on your opponent’s side of the field, your opponent’s hand, and all cards they draw (until the end of your opponent’s 3rd turn after this card’s activation), and destroy all cards of the chosen type.
Oh, how sad I am that Crush Card couldn’t make it on this list. But still, these two can cause plenty of peril by themselves. With these two cards, you can almost lock your opponent out of monsters and S/Ts for quite a while, with the added bonus of being able to kill their hand with Mind Crush. But their conditions are rather problematic; DARK monsters with over 2000 and 2500 ATK? What deck do we know that swarms the field with DARK beatsticks? You said it. Hopeless Dragon.
I’m going to paraphrase OGRE here for a bit: "Since the dawn of time, people have wanted to smashface with Dragons, because let’s face it, smashing face with dragons is cool. But there was nothing to bring Dragons together and make a real deck out of them. Then came Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon."
This is perfectly accurate. REDMD changed Dragon meta as we know it, making Dragons capable of insanely fast rushes. Since most Dragons are generally high in attack power, it’s easy to fufill the conditions of the viruses.
I’m going to post the deck now, because it’ll be that much easier to explain the blog afterwards. This is a tweaked version of OGRE's Dark Hopeless Dragon deck.
Card Count: 42
Monsters: 19
3x Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3x Dark Horus
1x Dark Armed Dragon
2x Darklord Zerato
1x The Dark Creator
2x Red-Eyes Wyvern
3x Phantom of Chaos
2x Dark Grepher
1x Morphing Jar
1x Mask of Darkness
Spells: 11
2x Allure of Darkness
2x Trade-In
1x Card Destruction
1x Foolish Burial
1x Future Fusion
1x D.D.R. - Different Dimension Reincarnation
1x Brain Control
1x Heavy Storm
1x Giant Trunade
Traps: 12
3x Dark Bribe
3x Eradicator Epidemic Virus
1x Deck Devastation Virus
2x Mind Crush
1x Torrential Tribute
1x Mirror Force
1x Call of the Haunted
1x Trap Dustshoot
Extra Deck: 15
2x Five-Headed Dragon
13x Miscellaneous Synchro choices
Side Deck: 15
3x Koa'ki Meiru Drago
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
3x Mirror of Oaths
2x Threatening Roar
2x Light-Imprisoning Mirror
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Burial from a Different Dimension
1x Deck Devastation Virus
As always, monsters come first.
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
This is the staple of any Hopeless Dragon. He has the ability to Special Summon himself by just tributing any Dragon on your field, and as a bonus, he can Special Summon one Dragon per turn from the hand or Graveyard. In addition, he's a DARK monster with 2800 ATK, making him a target for both DDV and EEV.
3 Dark Horus
Currently, in most Dark Hopeless decks, White Night Dragon is a better choice, for its effect. But in this deck, Dark Horus can be tributed for both Viruses and is a DARK monster, making it a superior choice here. He also has the nice ability to Special Summon a level 4 DARK monster from your Grave when a Spell is activated, meaning he works well with Phantom and Grepher.
1 Dark Armed Dragon
Not only is he food for REDMD (if need be), he also feeds the viruses and is a great source of card destruction. He's a major tech in any DARK deck and certainly belongs here.
2 Darklord Zerato
He's an interesting choice. His ability allows you to discard a DARK monster to gain a Raigeki effect, but he's destroyed at the end of the turn if you do. Running two means a potent source of monster destruction, a great target for Phantom of Chaos, and food for Dark Armed. His 2800 ATK also allows him to feed the Viruses.
1 The Dark Creator
Another interesting choice, but one I feel that belongs. His ability can get out a card from your Graveyard by removing a card from your Graveyard (both must be DARK). This means easy access to Zerato, REDMD, or Dark Horus if you've just been hit by, say, Mirror Force or Torrential Tribute. He's also PoC food and DDV food.
3 Phantom of Chaos
He's quite possibly more of a backbone of the deck than Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon is. Phantom of Chaos's ability removes a card from your Graveyard to have itself gain the same ability that the card would have, and its ATK. This means copying a REDMD lets you Special Summon a Dragon, copying Darklord Zerato lets you nuke your opponent's monsters, copying Dark Armed Dragon lets you destroy stuff, and copying almost any monster in the deck lets you feed the Viruses. Phantom of Chaos is the reason this deck works and he's why you'll never be out of cards to tribute for both DDV and EEV.
1 Morphing Jar
This deck is rather slow at times, and actually benefits from having cards in the Graveyard. Morphing Jar adds draw power and adds to the consistency of Hopeless Dragon.
1 Mask of Darkness
This is a choice I was debating for a while, but having a Mask of Darkness means being able to get back a Virus card for further abuse. He's a great choice in this deck, I feel, and his pros in here far outweigh his cons.
All the Spell cards, Trap cards, Synchro cards (and FGD) and Side Deck choices are pretty obvious. I will, however, be going over one side-deck choice; Koa'ki Meiru Drago.
3 Koa'ki Meiru Drago
He prevents LIGHT and DARK monsters from being Special Summoned. This is a blow against Dark Hopeless decks, who rely on said cards, but it hurts other decks far more. Lightsworns lose Lumina, Wulf, and JD, and Blackwings lose their ability to summon from the hand. In addition, LIGHT/DARK synchros can't be summoned either (meaning no Red Dragon Archfiend, no Colossal Fighter, no Thought Ruler Archfiend). And this deck uses Phantom of Chaos to get across many of its means anyway, so Drago is a logical side deck choice.
So what is the point of this strange deck? It's an odd mix of hand destruction and beatsticking. While your opponent is devoid of cards to play, you're attacking directly for huge sums of damage each turn. Play EEV, declare Spells or Traps, and Mind Crush will take out any further cards that you deem threatening, leaving your opponent with literally no options whatsoever. With the plethora of cards able to be used as food for the Viruses, you'll be almost locking your opponent out of choices, securing the win easily.
This blog has been one of my favorite to write. Please leave comments and feedback! Next week, I'll be going over the top five replacements for Solemn Judgment.
'Till next time!
Mind Crush
Normal Trap Card
Declare 1 card name. If your opponent has a declared card(s) in their hand, discard all of the declared card(s) to the Graveyard. Otherwise, you randomly discard 1 card.
This card answers so much. Against Lightsworns? Declare Honest and attack with impunity. Against Blackwings? Declare Kalut. Versus a Blackwing user who loves his Black Whirlwind? Punish him dearly. Even cards like their Sangan, their Goblin Zombie, or even your Neo-Spacian Grand Mole can be used in conjunction with Mind Crush. It’s an amazing card that shuts down the key cards of many a top deck. It doesn’t even have a cost, although there is a downside.
If you call the wrong card, you have to discard one card. So you need to have a reasonably good idea of what card your opponent has (unless you just want to nail an Honest or something like it). Thus, Mind Crush is perfect against decks like Blackwings with Black Whirlwind or a Gadget deck.
But other decks are a little harder to work around. You may want to just test your luck and try for a card, but this is rarely effective. You want to see your opponent’s hand first to get the full use of Mind Crush. But how? Certain cards come to mind, like Respect Play, the Eye of Truth, even a Chaos-End Master/Mind on Air combo. But all of these are inefficient and not too reliable. My solution to a deck built around Mind Crush is the Viruses.
Deck Devastation Virus
Normal Trap Card
Tribute 1 DARK monster with 2000 or more ATK. Check your opponent’s hand, all monsters your opponent controls, and all cards they draw (until the end of your opponent’s 3rd turn after this card’s activation), and destroy all monsters with 1500 or less ATK.
Eradicator Epidemic Virus
Normal Trap Card
Tribute 1 DARK monster with 2500 or more ATK, and choose Spell Cards or Trap Cards. Check all Spell and Trap cards on your opponent’s side of the field, your opponent’s hand, and all cards they draw (until the end of your opponent’s 3rd turn after this card’s activation), and destroy all cards of the chosen type.
Oh, how sad I am that Crush Card couldn’t make it on this list. But still, these two can cause plenty of peril by themselves. With these two cards, you can almost lock your opponent out of monsters and S/Ts for quite a while, with the added bonus of being able to kill their hand with Mind Crush. But their conditions are rather problematic; DARK monsters with over 2000 and 2500 ATK? What deck do we know that swarms the field with DARK beatsticks? You said it. Hopeless Dragon.
I’m going to paraphrase OGRE here for a bit: "Since the dawn of time, people have wanted to smashface with Dragons, because let’s face it, smashing face with dragons is cool. But there was nothing to bring Dragons together and make a real deck out of them. Then came Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon."
This is perfectly accurate. REDMD changed Dragon meta as we know it, making Dragons capable of insanely fast rushes. Since most Dragons are generally high in attack power, it’s easy to fufill the conditions of the viruses.
I’m going to post the deck now, because it’ll be that much easier to explain the blog afterwards. This is a tweaked version of OGRE's Dark Hopeless Dragon deck.
Card Count: 42
Monsters: 19
3x Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3x Dark Horus
1x Dark Armed Dragon
2x Darklord Zerato
1x The Dark Creator
2x Red-Eyes Wyvern
3x Phantom of Chaos
2x Dark Grepher
1x Morphing Jar
1x Mask of Darkness
Spells: 11
2x Allure of Darkness
2x Trade-In
1x Card Destruction
1x Foolish Burial
1x Future Fusion
1x D.D.R. - Different Dimension Reincarnation
1x Brain Control
1x Heavy Storm
1x Giant Trunade
Traps: 12
3x Dark Bribe
3x Eradicator Epidemic Virus
1x Deck Devastation Virus
2x Mind Crush
1x Torrential Tribute
1x Mirror Force
1x Call of the Haunted
1x Trap Dustshoot
Extra Deck: 15
2x Five-Headed Dragon
13x Miscellaneous Synchro choices
Side Deck: 15
3x Koa'ki Meiru Drago
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
3x Mirror of Oaths
2x Threatening Roar
2x Light-Imprisoning Mirror
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Burial from a Different Dimension
1x Deck Devastation Virus
As always, monsters come first.
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
This is the staple of any Hopeless Dragon. He has the ability to Special Summon himself by just tributing any Dragon on your field, and as a bonus, he can Special Summon one Dragon per turn from the hand or Graveyard. In addition, he's a DARK monster with 2800 ATK, making him a target for both DDV and EEV.
3 Dark Horus
Currently, in most Dark Hopeless decks, White Night Dragon is a better choice, for its effect. But in this deck, Dark Horus can be tributed for both Viruses and is a DARK monster, making it a superior choice here. He also has the nice ability to Special Summon a level 4 DARK monster from your Grave when a Spell is activated, meaning he works well with Phantom and Grepher.
1 Dark Armed Dragon
Not only is he food for REDMD (if need be), he also feeds the viruses and is a great source of card destruction. He's a major tech in any DARK deck and certainly belongs here.
2 Darklord Zerato
He's an interesting choice. His ability allows you to discard a DARK monster to gain a Raigeki effect, but he's destroyed at the end of the turn if you do. Running two means a potent source of monster destruction, a great target for Phantom of Chaos, and food for Dark Armed. His 2800 ATK also allows him to feed the Viruses.
1 The Dark Creator
Another interesting choice, but one I feel that belongs. His ability can get out a card from your Graveyard by removing a card from your Graveyard (both must be DARK). This means easy access to Zerato, REDMD, or Dark Horus if you've just been hit by, say, Mirror Force or Torrential Tribute. He's also PoC food and DDV food.
3 Phantom of Chaos
He's quite possibly more of a backbone of the deck than Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon is. Phantom of Chaos's ability removes a card from your Graveyard to have itself gain the same ability that the card would have, and its ATK. This means copying a REDMD lets you Special Summon a Dragon, copying Darklord Zerato lets you nuke your opponent's monsters, copying Dark Armed Dragon lets you destroy stuff, and copying almost any monster in the deck lets you feed the Viruses. Phantom of Chaos is the reason this deck works and he's why you'll never be out of cards to tribute for both DDV and EEV.
1 Morphing Jar
This deck is rather slow at times, and actually benefits from having cards in the Graveyard. Morphing Jar adds draw power and adds to the consistency of Hopeless Dragon.
1 Mask of Darkness
This is a choice I was debating for a while, but having a Mask of Darkness means being able to get back a Virus card for further abuse. He's a great choice in this deck, I feel, and his pros in here far outweigh his cons.
All the Spell cards, Trap cards, Synchro cards (and FGD) and Side Deck choices are pretty obvious. I will, however, be going over one side-deck choice; Koa'ki Meiru Drago.
3 Koa'ki Meiru Drago
He prevents LIGHT and DARK monsters from being Special Summoned. This is a blow against Dark Hopeless decks, who rely on said cards, but it hurts other decks far more. Lightsworns lose Lumina, Wulf, and JD, and Blackwings lose their ability to summon from the hand. In addition, LIGHT/DARK synchros can't be summoned either (meaning no Red Dragon Archfiend, no Colossal Fighter, no Thought Ruler Archfiend). And this deck uses Phantom of Chaos to get across many of its means anyway, so Drago is a logical side deck choice.
So what is the point of this strange deck? It's an odd mix of hand destruction and beatsticking. While your opponent is devoid of cards to play, you're attacking directly for huge sums of damage each turn. Play EEV, declare Spells or Traps, and Mind Crush will take out any further cards that you deem threatening, leaving your opponent with literally no options whatsoever. With the plethora of cards able to be used as food for the Viruses, you'll be almost locking your opponent out of choices, securing the win easily.
This blog has been one of my favorite to write. Please leave comments and feedback! Next week, I'll be going over the top five replacements for Solemn Judgment.
'Till next time!
Tags: ddv, eev, hopeless dragon, mind crush, virus
Total Comments 9
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i thought mind crush is semi-limited.....
oh and why not play a trap dustshoot?Posted 4 Weeks Ago at 10:10 PM by tsog 
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Thought it was unlimited. Well, I was considering Dustshoot but there wasn't room, but now that one Crush is out, in Dustshoot goes! Thanks.
Posted 4 Weeks Ago at 03:20 PM by Jebus McAzn
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blech.....i really dislike dark decks, even though mind crush and viruses are nice. but hear me out. is discarding one card, even if its something vital to your opponent like their honest, rescue cat(ok, maybe that one would win you the game...), quick play spells, and stuff like kaluts or tuners but.......it just seems a rather em-pty deck concept. DONT GET ME WRONG. this is a GOOD deck with the viruses and can easily decimate your opponenets hane the whole game. it just seems.....so setuppy. get wut im saying here? no? oh well...im not the smartest gal ever at YGO.Posted 4 Weeks Ago at 08:10 PM by Konata Res.Cat 
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its a good idea, but personaly, i combine mind crush and the viruses with darkworld monsters, because if you fail declaring the card you discard one from your hand so it can be usefull, plus silva and oher darkworld monsters has 2300 or more ATKPosted 4 Weeks Ago at 10:40 AM by Unregistered
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Konata: You'll devastate their hand completely while beatsticking with 2500+ ATK monsters and deprive them of cards to retaliate.
Psyknz: Bribe, MBaaS, etc are all the closest you can get to Solemn. The epicness that was Solemn is incapable of being reproduced, but we can try to get near it. D:
Unregistered: You shouldn't fail declaring a card because you can see their hand with the Viruses. Darkworld+Mind Crush does have potential.Posted 4 Weeks Ago at 01:16 PM by Jebus McAzn
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The blog is pretty great, but I can see it having dead draws. The deck concept is pretty good, though.
Posted 4 Weeks Ago at 04:45 PM by Samuraialz
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A suggestion
Good deck, I'm a dark/fiend user, so I must like this one for being dark.
On another note, have you ever considered running Trap of Darkness? Of course it can be situational, but it's faster than Mask of Darkness (and chainable) and it could reuse either Mind Crush or any Virus without tributing monsters (not to mention it could be a second Torrential Tribute/Mirror Force, possibly catching your opponent out of guard). I think it deserves at least some consideration.
But overall really good deck, I will build one myself and I will test it as soon as Red-Eyes Wyvern is available to me. See you on future blogs.Posted 2 Weeks Ago at 01:54 AM by Darkness Son
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Trap of Darkness is waaay too conditional and risky. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Posted 2 Weeks Ago at 02:10 PM by Jebus McAzn
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