Understanding the Game: Six Samurai

"A field of over 1000 Duelists has been trimmed to just 2: Sean Coovert with Six Samurai, versus Nicky Lacaille with Fish!  One of these Duelists was about to become a Dueling legend!" - Jason Grabher-Meyer, March 20th, 2011, http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=5362

   If you were paying attention to YCS Charlotte, North Carolina, you would have probably read the above quote relating to the finals of it. Even if  you didn't read that quote, you would have heard Six Samurai had won. To many, Six Samurai were a deck dependent on the dice roll, which does seem to be supported by the match (Coovert went first). That  is not the point of this article though, the point is to show you how they work.


               Part One of their Strategy: A Strong First Turn

A Critical Component to their first turn shenanigans.

   A critical part of any competitive Six Samurai’s strategy is a first turn “Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En” as doing so enables them to control most of your moves. When they win the dice roll, they can summon him with ease, with three “Shien’s Smoke Signal” available to search out “Legendary Six Samurai - Kageki” and “Kagemusha of the Six Samurai” which once they have both allows them to easily synchro summon “Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En” with ease as “Legendary Six Samurai - Kageki” allows you to special summon a Six Samurai monster when it’s normal summoned from your hand, which allows for an easy “Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En” play. 

   It is a good idea to note that if they manage to get “Legendary Six Samurai - Kageki” and “Kagemusha of the Six Samurai” to their hand you can still play “Effect Veiler” on “Legendary Six Samurai - Kageki” in order to prevent them from climbing into “Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En”, which would leave them with a 200 Attack monster in attack position.

  If they manage to bring out “Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En” you can still hope they don’t have any “Solemn Warning” or “Solemn Judgment” to eliminate the chance of you fighting back. “Mirror Force” is also pretty bad, but it is easier to play around. And even if you don’t have a monster on field to use to stop them, or extra spells and traps to chuck at them, if you have an “Effect Veiler” in hand and a “Mirror Force” or “Torrential Tribute” you can still attempt to get rid of “Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En”.

Part 2: Swarming

The Second phase of their strategy is to swarm your field with huge beaters. “Legendary Six Samurai - Kizan” is especially good at doing this, as it doesn’t have a limit to how many of it they can control. “Grandmaster of the Six Samurai” is also useful, though there can be only one on the field of it. “Gateway of the Six” helps makes these swarms even worse as it allows them to search their deck for a Samurai each time they summon a mere two of them.

 This is especially brutal, but "Kinetic Soldier" or "Spirit Reaper" are good at stopping their attacks, and "Kinetic Soldier" can also attack for even more damage. "Hand of the Six Samurai" is able to get rid of them though, but it can't special summon itself, so that is a plus to that. "Gozen Match" can work, as "Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En" is dark, unlike most of the swarm. "Gozen Match" can also help prevent Kageki's effect.

Urban Rivals

So I have gotten hooked on it, I am currently playing around with a Skeelz deck for ELO.

Got me in 500th out of 3000 and I'm only level 16, time to go as a tourney is going to start in under a minute.

The last deck sucks

That is all to say about the results.

New Deck of the week!

Monsters (24):

Tribute (8) :

Fortune Lady Dark
Fortune Lady Dark
Fortune Lady Dark
Destiny Hero Malicious
Destiny Hero Malicious
Caius the Shadow Monarch
Caius the Shadow Monarch
Light and Darkness Dragon

Non-Tribute/Special Summon Only (16) :

Destiny Hero Diamond Dude
Destiny Hero Diamond Dude
Destiny Hero Diamond Dude
Treeborn Frog
Treeborn Frog
Fortune Lady Water
Fortune Lady Water
Genex Undine
Genex Undine
Genex Controller
Genex Controller
Dark Armed Dragon
Elemental Hero Statos
Elemental Hero Ice Edge
Swap Frog
Fishborg Blaster


Spell Cards:

Normal Spell Cards (16) :
Fortune's Future
Fortune's Future
Miracle Fusion
Miracle Fusion
Gold Sarcophagus
Gold Sarcophagus
Cold Wave
Reinforcement of the Army
Monster Reborn
Allure of Darkness
Foolish Burial
Future Fusion
Giant Trunade
Dark Hole
Destiny Draw
One for One

Quick-Play Spell Cards (2) :
Enemy Controller
Enemy Controller


Extra Deck (15) :
Elemental Hero Absolute Zero
Elemental Hero Absolute Zero
Elemental Hero Absolute Zero
Formula Synchron
Formula Synchron
Formula Synchron
Locomotion R-Genex
Colossal Fighter
Scrap Dragon
Ally of Justice Catastor
Armory Arm
Black Rose Dragon
Goyo Guardian
Brionac, Dragon of the ice barrier
Stardust Dragon

Explanations
The Genex Undines allow me to dump Treeborn Frog, Fishborg Blaster, or Fortune Lady Water to the grave, allowing a few extra Foolish Burials.
The Gold Sarcophagus combo with Fortune's Future allowing me to do a 2 for 2.

What I want to fit in:
2 more swap frog and a ronintoadin.
A third Caius the Shadow Monarch

Want to have me fix your deck? Now you can!

So now that I am back I figure I can do this. Just send me your deck (or post it in the comments, don't worry, they have to have me approve them first) and when I get the chance I will fix the deck!

Go Five-0

And still no voice actor's being used, Yusei's could easily have one!

In a mirror, darkly.

Deck used: Dragunity (pre Legion)

Round 1: Machina Gadget
Game 1: Lose
Game 2: Lose due to a topdeck.

Round 2: Chain Burn
Game 1: Get burned to death by Chain Burn
Game 2: I hate ceasefire

Round 3: No Show
Win easily due to them not playing and still not dropping

Round 4: Random Deck
Game 1: Win
Game 2:Win with style

Round 5:
Game 1: They double herk, I sadface
Game 2: Win due to compolsury.
Game 3: They misplay too much and I win by showing them how certain cards work in certain ways (they allegedly were not thinking straight)

I get 13th

Sadface :(

I can fail so easily.

Went to buy a pack of Player's choice sleeves, got them, sleeved my deck, and then realized I got the MTG ones :(

The Chaos Beyond : Test Hands

Hand: Cold Wave, Mystic Tomato, Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter, Debris Dragon, Debris Dragon
Draw: Torrential Tribute

Assuming this is against an opponent you have never played, and the first turn of the first game of the match, It would most likely be best to set Tomato. Why? Because it will allow you to be able to control the fact your opponent has no clue what you are playing. Then next turn you can use Debris Dragon plus Sangan for a Blackrose if they over extend, or even set a ryko, which will make them think it is another tomato.

Any other time set Ryko and Torrential

Test Hand #2
Hand: Dark Hole, Tragoedia, Card Trooper, Pot of Avarice, Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
Draw: Charge of the Light Brigade

This is a tough hand to figure out, you are likely to mill 3 cards no matter what by your opponents next turn. Play Charge and they know you use Rykos and that is what you most likely set, use card trooper to mill three (risking milling both remaining rykos and making Charge dead) and drawing one, but possibly being able to go into Armory Arm.  Setting Ryko has the same weakness of Card Trooper  except you will destroy instead of drawing. Using Charge and then one of those has the same risks.

Next 6 Cards (In order):
Limit Reverse
Dark Armed Dragon ( :( )
Debris Dragon
Snowman Eater (Good!
Giant Trunade (:( )
Sangan

So if you played charge and then set a ryko or summoned Card Trooper, good job!

If you only used Ryko, ouch.

Remember luck did play a key part in this hand.

The next draw would have been Spore, so :) with Chaos Sorcerer following so hopefully you didn't play charge and ryko/card trooper, and then set the second ryko or summoned the second card trooper.

-Catking5

To re-play through Reverse of Arcadia - Thus the Daily Duel begins.

Deck Used: Temp. Deck

Opponent: Okita

Opening Hand: Genex Controller, Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter, Genex Turbine, Mystic Wok, Krebons

MT1: Draw Power Invader. Set Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter [Ryko] and Mystic Wok.

OT1: They actiate Golden Ladybug in Standby, gaining 500 life [Me: 8000 Them: 8500]. They then play Soul of the Pure, gaining 800 life [Me: 8000 Them: 9300]. They then proceed to play Blue Medicene [[Me: 8000 (Glitched) Them: 9800]. {This would indicate they engine playing costly cards, so I should keep an eye out for those} They activate Domino Effect. Then Different Dimension Capsule { Now I am starting to realize that the early AI has no clue about card advantage, or bluffing. I start to believe they are going to not have a single monster}. They set a monster and end.

MT2: I draw Old Vindictive Magician, and decide to flip Ryko to kill the capsule. I proceed to summon Genex Controller, to tune the two together for Magical Android, who I proceed to attack with, killing Torike {I start to realize I should have not attacked to try to go into Power Invader quicker, but oh well.} I end turn gaining 600 life (Android) [Me: 8600 Them: 9800]

OT2: The use Golden Ladybug's effect, gaining 500 life  [Me: 8600 Them: 10200]. They set a monster and end.

MT3: I draw Genex Neutron, someone Krebons, Android attacks F/D who is a Golden Ladybug, Krebons attacks. I end gaining 1200 from Android.  [Me: 9800 Them: 9000]

OT3: They set a F/D monster.

MT4: I draw tomato, summon Neutron who attacks the face down. I destroy it and end, gaining 1200  [Me: 11000 Them: 6600]

OT4: They set after drawing.

MT5: Draw Magic Jammer, summon Genex Turbine, attack with Krebons into the healing mirror, and attack with the rest after that. ENd[Me: 11800 Them: 2000]

OT5: They set a S/T.

MT6: Draw T-Roar, attack for game.

Hey!

This is my new blog, after realizing not everyone probably understood what the old URL meant (and I am considering adding additional writers), so here is the new Blog!

All of my old posts will be still available on the old blog, which I will add a link to somewhere.
I will continue all article series I recently started as well as make new ones.