Forgive the incoming wall of text but this format is something I get very excited about* My playgroup actively partake in chaos format (Although we all gentleman out of scientist ftk and the empty jar decks). We have found that metamorphosis is a very nice inclusion with scientist, as it is a 2 card balter + easy light in the graveyard. Balter has warped a lot of our deck choices now since he counters more than half of most decks. A few other things we have explored are the addition of Blade Knight since he was released about a month before the ban list took effect in October. DMOC is another card we have added and can place a lot of pressure on a painful choice decision for an opponent. Normally the play looks like painful for: Serpent, DMOC, another dark, and 2 lights. The less punishing play has been to give DMOC to avoid a Reborn/Premat/Call combo. 2 of us also have adopted Exiled Force and Injection Fairy Lily into our main decks. Exiled Force is a 1 card out to a scientist balter field, and can deal with recruiters/large monster swiftly. Lily is partially a player preference thing, but Cookie Chaos tends to be a very tempo based format due to so many power staples running around. Lily can end games rather quick and acts as another out for Balter/Large monsters that are protected by Imperial Order. Thunder Dragon has been another great light card we have added due to its ability to instantly provide a light target in the grave and in the off chance it makes it on the field is a level five target for meta to create a balter. Along with being a good light fodder it, acts as a pitch fodder for Duo, Graceful, and Tribe. Some cards/decks we haven't tested or done minor testing: Zombyra, as mentioned already in the comments he can be searched off witch, and beat over all other common 4 stars, he can also beat over Balter. Dark Balter/DMOC Turbo - This is a deck that could be either sided into if you are actually playing Scientist FTK, or if your playgroup has decided to not touch FTk style decks but still want a combo deck to play around with. Essentially you are using the Resoning Gate/Last WIll combo but instead of burning your opponent your focus is to either end with a Balter on field or OTK with multiple DMOC's off of Dimension fusions set up via Bazoo. In terms of side decking this is something I would use if I was walking into a Time Wizard Format today 2 Blade Knight (to deal with jar decks) 1 Jinzo 2-3 Emergency Provisions 1 Nobleman of Crossout (assuming your main decking 1 already) 1 Heavy Storm 3 Chain Disappearance (hits scientist and turtle) and can trigger off your own scientist summon 2-3 Waboku 3 Royal Decree
I am really enjoying these really old school videos you‘ve been putting out lately. I started playing in 2003 so the nostalgia kicks in extra hard with these. Thank you! :)
Thinking about this format in retrospect, I have a few observations: -I think Thunder Dragon is definitely the way to go for Light monsters. It puts a free Light in the graveyard, while also giving you Graceful Charity fodder and defense against Delinquent Duo. I think a suite of them is better than Reflect Bounder and Airknight. D.D. Warrior Lady is fine because it can be a proactive out to Sangan/Witch or an unprotected Chaos monster. -Multiple Kycoos in the main deck are absolutely necessary. Being able to deny your opponent Chaos material and Sinister Serpent is vital. -I also like Zombyra the Dark as a main deck monster. It's searchable off of Witch, and can run over nearly any other normal summon, including Berserk Gorilla and Breaker with its counter. -I'm very iffy on any monsters that require being attacked to work, like the recruiters and some flip effect monsters, because it's just so easy to get blown out by Raigeki, Dark Hole, Torrential, NOC, or BLS/CED's non-destruction effects. MOF is maybe an exception because recurring all of the format's power spells is just that good, but I really don't like Tomato, Angel, or Pyramid Turtle. -Solemn Judgment is definitely worth experimenting with. On the one hand, it's probably the only way to definitively stop CED from going off, especially because Priority exists. But on the other hand, half of your LP is a big price to pay, and there are so many power cards that do the same thing as other power cards; it feels really bad to negate Raigeki, just to be blown out by the follow-up Dark Hole. -Generally, the Spell/Trap lineup is hard to tinker with, because everything that you profiled here is really just that good; it's hard to replace anything, except maybe finding space for Solemn Judgments. It's really the monster lineup that needs some innovation.
Quite niche but you might find this interesting - when talking about fusion deck monsters, Roaring Ocean Snake fills a very small niche where it is the safest thing to make playing into Tribe Infecting Virus as it shares a type with it, meaning it can't pop the Roaring Ocean Snake without popping itself
Love your videos! Would also love to see more HAT format profiles akin to some of the more roughish picks like hieratic ruler or spellbooks, or even more gameplay with commentary would be fantastic. I feel HAT has untapped potential here on RU-vid and in the yugioh community in general. As always, keep up the great work!
hi joe, been loving the channel, so much nostalgia for a player like me who used to play this game from day one, also great explanations of everything. will there be more videos? one format i really enjoyed, was probably my favourite, but i cant tell if it had any name or what time period it exactly was, used to be the monarch warrior toolbox before cyber stein got introduced / emergency banned. decks felt quite consistent imo and every game was really grindy.
The first time I played against chaos emperor dragon at locals as a little kid my opponent kept it on the field after using it’s effect and I got scammed 😢
3 mst, heavy and harpies feather duster. You never get torrential off. Most people played 2-3 waboku, ring, imperial, and call only because they were chainable or could deal with the removal.
