Artemis is something I'll give some thought to. I'm playing 6 Counter Traps in my current build (3 Pollinosis and 3 Dark Bribe) so it would be nice to get an extra draw every now and then with Artemis on the field.

On that same note has anyone tried running a teched copy of either Mask of Darkness or Harvest Angel in a Black Garden deck? For those that have Card Crush Virus it might be worthwhile to run Mask of Darkness as not only a CCV target but as a way to reuse the power Trap. I like this idea more than Harvest Angel at this point since it would give me a lot more flexibility in the deck to grab whatever I needed.

I've also had fun with defenders too in a Black Garden Deck.

Don Zaloog, as said, being one of them.

There's also others like Stone Statue of the Aztecs (damage is very nice with the ATK halving) or, in the OCG, Saurobeast - Brachion and whatnot.

I just discovered something that works amazingly well in Black Garden Plants; Mystic Swordsman LV 4. So far it has tested extremely well. Since you have to set it first anyways your opponent won't get a token and it's attack won't be halved, and since the common counter strategy is to set monsters it can punish such plays easily.

FINALLY, someone else realizes its use. I only mentioned it a few times now XD

LV6 is also fun since you can use a Rose Token to Tribute Set it. In such cases, Book of Taiyou can be handy to have so you don't have to wait a turn to Flip Summon LV4 and LV6.

I thought of it last night : P

Then I proceeded to dominate my friends with it because they all got used to setting their monsters first. I run 2 LV 4 and I've been thinking of adding a 3rd. Couple this with 3 book of moons and it's just full of win.

Yeah, Book of Total Solar Eclipse can be fun too if your opponent doesn't have many monsters.

Of course, if you don't have LV4 or LV6 or they end up destroyed, Light of Intervention can be another annoyance for your opponent. Whenever it comes out to the TCG, then Dark Simorgh would also be annoying as they'd both prevent your opponent from Setting their monsters, lol.

Yea, I made a build thinking that Dark Simorgh was gonna be released. It had 2 Raiza, and 2 Tytannial for the wind monsters and 2 Mystic Tomato, Violet Witch, and Sangan for the darks.

Here's my current build:

Monsters : 18
Tytannial Princess of Camellias
Tytannial Princess of Camellias
Lonefire Blossom
Lonefire Blossom
Koa'ki Meru Gravirose
Koa'ki Meru Gravirose
Botanical Lion
Botanical Lion
Mystic Tomato
Mystic Tomato
Dandylion
Lord Poison
Plaguespreader Zombie
Mystic Swordsman LV 4
Mystic Swordsman LV 4
Legendary Jujitsu Master
Legendary Jujitsu Master
Sangan

Spells : 12
Black Garden
Black Garden
Black Garden
Terraforming
Terraforming
Book of Moon
Book of Moon
Book of Moon
Miracle Fertalizer
Miracle Fertalizer
Brain Control
Lightning Vortex

Traps : 10
Pollinosis
Pollinosis
Pollinosis
Solemn Judgment
Threatening Roar
Threatening Roar
Threatening Roar
Phoenix Wing Wind Blast
Phoenix Wing Wind Blast
Call of the Haunted

It's for September '09

I'm surprise we don't see a bit more of a Hell Bramble/"Queen of Thorns". I actually got one more focused on her alongside Chain Energy and such. They gotta pay 1500+ LP for that DAD or Dragoon or something, only for the Summon to be negated by Pollinosis XD

That sounds like a lot of fun. Queen of Thorns is the reason why I run Plague in my build. I can easily dump it with Gravirose and then synch into Queen of Thorns.

Yeah, that's what I've been doing. It's also fun to dump other ones and use Limit Reverse, Angel Lift/"Graceful Revival" and/or Call of the Haunted to bring them back too.

Would you believe I've seen Black Garden help an Exodia deck?

I'll give you the full details later, but this is how it ended:

The opponent had Don Zaloog , two XX-Saber Guardstrike and two rose tokens on the field.

The opponent special summoned Exoidus, the Ultimate Forbidden Lord then played Diffusion Wave Motion. You see where this is going.

By the by, he won the first round the old fashion way, assembling Exodia in his hand.

Exodios OTK with DWM was actually talked about a bit (again) when Black Garden came out along with the various Plant Token spawners in CSOC. Never seemed to catch on though. Probably because people thought it too slow and whatnot.

Any new techs out for this decktype? I'm struggling between running a garden build or gigavise.

Gigavis would most likely be better for today's environment as Garden tends to be more stall/control-oriented while Gigavis is more aggressive and fast.

TSHD bringing in Revival Rose, Splendid Rose, and Blossom Bomber from the anime, though that won't be for a few months;

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Revival Rose
Dark/Plant/4/1300/1300
When a Level 5 or higher Plant-Type monster you control is destroyed, you can Special Summon this card from your Graveyard.
Rare

...get Tribute fodder for a 2nd Gigaplant when 1 gets destroyed if necessary or for Synchro fodder or something. Also easily searchable with Botanical Girl or Violet Witch and easily dumped to the Graveyard with Foolish Burial, Pollinosis, Lonefire Blossom, etc.




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Splendid Rose
Wind/Plant/6/2200/2000
1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner Monsters
Once per turn, by removing 1 Plant-Type monster in your Graveyard from play, halve the ATK strength of 1 face-up monster your opponent controls until the End Phase. During the Battle Phase, when this card attacks, you can remove 1 Plant-Type monster in your Graveyard from play to halve the ATK strength of this card and it can attack once again in a row.
Ultra/Ultimate Rare

...pretty much a Plant beater overall. A nice Plant addition to consider though.




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Blossom Bomber
Normal Trap
You can only activate this card when a Plant-Type monster you control destroys a monster and sends it to the Graveyard as a result of battle. Inflict damage to your opponent's Life Points equal tothe ATK strength of the destroyed monster.

...any Plant of yours that kills a monster can become a Flame Wingman/Shining Flare Wingman so even if you lower it with Splendid Rose, Shrink, etc, it'll still look at the original ATK as it'd be in the Graveyard.

Now to wait and see if there's more misc Plant support.