There are a lot of decks that I enjoy. Plant decks are one of them. The fact that they are explosive, powerful, and pack a lot of good cards into the deck, making it really hard for you to ever draw a card you can't use. All of that really turns me on to the deck.
The Graveyard is also another toolbox in a Plant Deck, you need it to get the effects of cards like Spore, Glow-Up Bulb, and Dandylion. Some Plant Decks mill to get their good cards that should be in the Graveyard into the Graveyard. This variant does not mill, save for Glow-Up Bulb's effect. The deck draws into it's cards, and then dumps them into the graveyard with cards like Foolish Burial, and One For One. A very wonderful combo is playing Foolish Burial, and dumping a Dandylion into your graveyard to receive the Fluff Tokens from it's effect, then Normal Summoning a Debris Dragon, and using his effect to Special Summon the Dandylion back, and then synchroing with everything to create an easy Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier, and still have two fluff tokens on the field. This can also make a quick and dirty Scrap Dragon, with fluff tokens as fodder for this destruction effect.
In a Plant Synchro deck, as the name implies, you do a lot of synchro summoning. With the introduction of XYZ monsters, the deck has been given more options to play around with.
Loaded with three Tour Guide of the Underworld, which has been said to be the "One Card Toolbox," the deck makes Rank 3 XYZ monsters very easily, and you can use them to gain the upper hand against your opponent. Your Extra Deck is your toolbox, and the field is your work space.
Loaded with three Tour Guide of the Underworld, which has been said to be the "One Card Toolbox," the deck makes Rank 3 XYZ monsters very easily, and you can use them to gain the upper hand against your opponent. Your Extra Deck is your toolbox, and the field is your work space.
The Graveyard is also another toolbox in a Plant Deck, you need it to get the effects of cards like Spore, Glow-Up Bulb, and Dandylion. Some Plant Decks mill to get their good cards that should be in the Graveyard into the Graveyard. This variant does not mill, save for Glow-Up Bulb's effect. The deck draws into it's cards, and then dumps them into the graveyard with cards like Foolish Burial, and One For One. A very wonderful combo is playing Foolish Burial, and dumping a Dandylion into your graveyard to receive the Fluff Tokens from it's effect, then Normal Summoning a Debris Dragon, and using his effect to Special Summon the Dandylion back, and then synchroing with everything to create an easy Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier, and still have two fluff tokens on the field. This can also make a quick and dirty Scrap Dragon, with fluff tokens as fodder for this destruction effect.
Monsters such as Reborn Tengu can make Synchro and XYZ summoning a breeze. Sangan helps search out your Lonefire Blossom or Tuners. Thunder King Rai-Oh adds a touch of Anti-Meta to the deck, preventing your opponent from getting the effects of cards like Sangan, or Snow, Unlight of Dark World, or even E - Emergency Call, as well as preventing your opponent from synchro summoning or XYZ summoning, or even special summoning a Cyber Dragon. Effect Veilers can keep your opponent from making their large plays. If that cannot stop them, a Maxx "C" will hopefully make you draw enough cards to have a decent answer to their play on your turn, and give you a nice advantage.
The deck has access to Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, and Gorz the Emissary of Darkness. Both are very aggressive cards and can save you from certain defeat, and help make a big push. Cards like Enemy Controller and Mind Control can also make some aggressive plays as well, by stealing opponent's monsters and synchroing or XYZing with them.
Cards like Trap Dustshoot and Scapegoat make your opponent feel stupid for wasting a Mystical Space Typhoon on the card, and the deck makes good use of Solemn Judgment, and Solemn Warnings. Scapegoat is especially fun, because you can synchro with the tokens, use them for Enemy Controller, and simply use them as a wall for a turn or two. The deck makes it's big Synchro and XYZ plays, and then recycles everything back into the deck by playing Pot of Avarice.
Cards such as Enemy Controller and Mind Control are truly beautiful cards when used in this deck. Mind Control turns your opponent's annoying Thunder King Rai-Oh into a T.G. Hyper Librarian, if you have a tuner in hand. Enemy Controller can be used on an opponent's boss monster, or during their turn, you can chain Enemy Controller, tribute a Sangan/Reborn Tengu/Dandylion/Scapegoat Token/whatever the fuck, grab their tuner, and disrupt their plays. One of my favorite plays so far has been grabbing an opponent's Formula Synchron with Enemy Controller and syncing it to my Tengu and a Fluff Token, making a Black Rose Dragon, and clearing the field, all during his turn.
New additions to the Extra Deck are Orient Dragon, which is a card you can make with Debris Dragon and a Maxx "C", or some Fluff Tokens, or any combination of cards, and can eliminate your opponent's annoying Stardust Dragon or other problem Synchro monster. Another new card is an upcoming Rank 4 XYZ monster: Lavalval Chain.
Rank 4 FIRE Sea Serpent 1800 ATK/1000 DEF
2 Level 4 monsters
Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card toactivate 1 of the following effects:
● Send 1 card from your Deck to the Graveyard.
● Choose 1 Monster Card from your Deck and put it on top of your Deck.
Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card toactivate 1 of the following effects:
● Send 1 card from your Deck to the Graveyard.
● Choose 1 Monster Card from your Deck and put it on top of your Deck.
This card is amazing, easy to make, and can dump a plant into the graveyard for you so that you can do some Synchro summoning, or add a card to the top of your deck so that you can draw it next turn, or maybe even draw it on the same turn, if you have a T.G. Hyper Librarian on the field, and make a Synchro monster whilst he's out. It can make you draw into your Black Luster Soldier quickly, your Lonefire Blossom, your Debris Dragon, nearly any monster you need to topdeck.
Another addition to the Extra Deck will soon be Wind-Up Zenmaines, a Rank 3 XYZ monster.
Rank 3 FIRE Machine 1500 ATK/2100 DEF
2 Level 3 monsters
If this face-up card on the field would be destroyed, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card instead. Once per turn, during the End Phase, if this effect was used this turn: Target 1 card on the field; destroy it.
If this face-up card on the field would be destroyed, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card instead. Once per turn, during the End Phase, if this effect was used this turn: Target 1 card on the field; destroy it.
This card is much like Gachi Gachi Gantetsu, only with a destruction effect at the End Phase, making your opponent think twice about trying to play any monsters, or Spells and Traps. The downside to this card is, if it is the only card on the field, and it's effect activated, you will then have to destroy it, so you have to be very careful when you play the card. Tour Guide of the Underworld makes summoning this card easy as hell.
All in all, Tengu Plants is still an amazing deck, and while some matches such as Gravekeepers and Macro can be somewhat tough, they are not impossible. Tengu Plants benefits greatly from side-decking, and can overcome nearly any obstacle, it seems, given the right tools. Definitely a deck I plan to play locally. That's all for now.
-Brian
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