[OOC] Yu-Gi-Oh! Summon Masters

[Scarifar]

Oh yeah, I can use manga-only cards too. That stuff'll come in handy.

[Rethel34]

Arch: Pendulum Summoning really isn't that OP when you think about the fact that they've cut off a first-turn draw, and it takes two cards out of your hand before you can even play any monsters. If you stack up 5 Pendulum Monsters in your Extra Deck, though, THAT could get overpowered. However, it's going to take a carefully constructed Deck to get them to work properly.

Now, time to see how much I can tear apart offer constructive criticism on this character.
1) Maybe it's just me, but doesn't he look a little bit old to be 34?
2) Traditional Summoning isn't a course; maybe Generic Special Summoning would better fit with Dark World? That and he has 8 Extra Deck, all of which (from what I can tell) is Xyz, correct? And . . . how does he even use all of these?
3) . . . Actually, that's it. I just wanted to make you think it was worse than it was to mess with you.
4) Continuing to mess with you before you actually read this, My major issue is just that his Deck makes no sense to me.

@Scar: Yeah . . . I'd advise against Lightsworns. They make you Deck Out against an overly defensive Duelist REALLY fast. Look into a Yang Zing Deck? They all have long effects, but they're all similar, so once you've read one, the rest are mostly the same.

[Archmage MC]

Still sorta OP, unless you can dark hole the pendulum slots, then its not that bad. Or destroy them with grapha, ext...

1. I've seen 24 year olds with real santa beards, so yeah. Though I think thats DOTA 2's warlock, and I think hes like a 60 year old librarian in universe. But you can't adventure well at 60 :P.

2. Special works fine. Its not an XYZ central deck, but it does use them since its a 15 card utility 'extra' deck. The most commonly used ones would probably be Leviar and Zenmanes or something. Basically stuff that expands what dark world can do. If you want a XYZ professor instead, I can very very easily change his deck to Hieratic.

[Scarifar]

The pendulum monsters in the pendulum slots count as spell cards (apparently) so I doubt Dark Hole would work. Things like Grapha can destroy one, though.

[Rethel34]

Anything like MST would work on a Pendulum Zone, and people usually play three of those in a deck. But then they go to the Extra Deck and can be Pendulum Summoned back if you have the right Pendulum Monsters. Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon can destroy itself in a Pendulum Zone, but that gives its controller one of the Magicians (which together can Summon Odd-Eyes back, so n/m).

[Archmage MC]

Anyway, want him to use a hieratic deck instead and be an XYZ teacher?

[Rethel34]

Only if you really want that. I've actually got an Xyz Professor in mind if you want to stick with Dark World guy.

Also, just to clarify because this is a fairly common mistake among Yu-Gi-Oh! fans everywhere, even on some "professional" websites: XYZ is a group of three monsters that fuse together (eventually expanded to VWXYZ and five main deck monsters) while Xyz is the form of Extra Deck Summon. I promise the "y" and "z" are lowercase on the Extra Deck Monster.

[Joshua Tamashii]

Edited Joshua's deck

Though the way I made it, I'm not sure if the D in D-hero stands for Destiny or Dark

[Archmage MC]

I personally don't care which deck he uses. up to you. Hieratic uses Xyz very commonly, while Dark World just uses them for a toolbox.

[IVIasterJay]

Edited My deck because I found some fun new toys on ygopro.

-1 Performapal trampolynx
-1 The Monarchs Storm Forth
-1 Kuraz the Light Monarch

+1 Yamata Dragon
+1 Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi
+1 Beast King Barbaros

[Scarifar]

I will edit my deck tmw because I'm currently on a phone right now, and I do much better on a pc.

Also it's 11 pm for me right now and I gotta go to sleep.

[Rethel34]

Professor Alexander

- Age: 67
- Course Taught: Xyz

Professor Alexander is a bit of an enigma. He's a man who, despite his age, loves to stay fit, and seems to have the energy of a youthful child. It is known that he has a bit of an obsession with the beasts of the earth (particularly lions) and with all manner of flying devices, from paper airplanes to blimps to spacecraft. On that note, he is not entirely opposed to paper airplanes being built in his class, and actually encourages his students to stretch their origami skills to the limit, giving a prize to the student who builds the most elaborate paper airplane.

After graduating from high school, his senior trip turned into studying abroad in some of the most random places around the world rather than staying at any one college. His goal: Find and obtain at least one "Number" monster. That proved to be an exhausting task. By the time he first started teaching at Duel Academies, he still had yet to find even a single "Number". He thought that with around a hundred cards, they might be easier to find, but they're much smaller than the world. All of them evaded him until almost twenty years of searching just after his thirty-sixth birthday. Since that day, Professor Alexander has settled in Miami City to continue his teaching career, eventually leading the Xyz course at LDS where he still works today.

(There is a drawer in his desk at the school which mysteriously is always locked. He has a very specific key that must be used to unlock said drawer, yet it has never been opened. He claims that inside is a piece of valuable treasure he obtained during his travels.)

Deck: Roar of the Lion

Effect Monsters: 22
Ancient Crimson Ape
Ape Fighter
Beast King Barabos (*3)
Beast Machine King Barbaros Ür (*2)
Chiron the Mage
Cybernetic Cyclopean
Leotaur (*2)
Mecha Phantom Beast Harrliard
Mecha Phantom Beast Kalgriffin
Mecha Phantom Beast Megaraptor
Mecha Phantom Beast Sabre Hawk
Mecha Phantom Beast Tetherwolf
Photon Sabre Tiger (*3)
Regulus
Rhinotaurus (*2)

Spell Cards: 12
Closed Forest
Double Summon
Forest
Galaxy Queen's Light (*2)
Overlay Regen
Star Changer (*2)
Wild Nature's Release
Xyz Reception (*3)

Trap Cards: 6
Beast Rising
DNA Surgery
Horn of the Phantom Beast
Rising Energy
Roaring Earth
Xyz Reborn

- - -

Xyz Monsters: 8
Coach King Giantrainer
Diamond Dire Wolf (*2)
Kachi Kochi Dragon
Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack (*2)
Number 88: Gimmick Puppet of Leo
King Landia the Goldfang (Doesn't Use)

[Van]

I always like joining yugioh RPs but they always get super slow and die off in the beginning. I will not fall for your temping tames! But good luck regardless on what I decide.

[Rethel34]

I hope you decide to join, and we'll do our best to keep this alive. I've got a good feeling about this seeing as we have an active and lively group to work with unlike some Yu-Gi-Oh! RPs I've seen/done.

[Scarifar]

Hmm... there are some cards in real life that have different effects from their manga/anime counterparts. Which version should we use, real life or fiction?

[Rethel34]

Real life unless its real life effect exists only in a video game, then I'll leave that up to whatever you think makes the most sense.

Going to go snack on something, then make the IC. c:

[Rethel34]

IC is up. YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH!

So, whoever Brent's opponent is shall be whoever posts that they're going against him first. It's a race. Go.

Also, I have Brent's opening hand ready to fire for this Duel. I'll find a good collab site to use for the Duel so we don't have to post one turn per post.

[Joshua Tamashii]

There's a site a friend of mine uses called Sync. Try there.

[Rethel34]

Sync.in, yeah. If my internet is cooperative, we can use that.

[Joshua Tamashii]

Note, the last YuGiOh thread I joined I ended up dueling myself so I've never done a collab duel before. Would like to try though but I got work soon so that would really slow it down (2nd shift sucks)