[008] Tribute Monsters
[001] Jinzo
[001] Dark Magician of Chaos
[002] Mobius the Frost Monarch
[002] Raiza the Storm Monarch
[002] Destiny Hero - Dasher

[016] Normal Monsters
[001] Exiled Force
[001] Sangan
[001] Morphing Jar
[001] Treeborn Frog
[001] Night Assailant
[001] Injection Fairy Lily
[001] Elemental Hero Ocean
[001] Elemental Hero Stratos
[001] Iron Blacksmith Kotetsu
[001] Twin-Headed Behemoth
[001] Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
[002] Mystic Tomato
[003] Snipe Hunter


[011] Spells
[001] Megamorph
[001] Heavy Storm
[001] Snatch Steal
[001] Brain Control
[001] Premature Burial
[001] Monster Reincarnation
[002] Reinforcement of the Army
[003] Lightning Vortex


[005] Traps
[001] Call Of The Haunted
[001] Ring of Destruction
[003] Waboku


The idea is to give you more "problems" to worry about than the actual problem. Being Snipe Hunter. His ability to turn any card into potential use is powerful, especially combined with cards like:

- Treeborn Frog
- Destiny Hero Dasher
- Night Assailant

It gets worse when you realize that extra utility like Monster Reincarnation and Elemental Hero Ocean become very broken tools for the deck. Eg.

Dasher in the grave. Drop Ocean and guard it with Waboku. Special summon during your draw step, Treeborn during your standby and also bounce that used Dasher to hand. You can now: Use it again for Snipe / Vortex food or tribute Treeborn and use it as some muscle. :eek:

Monster Reincarntion turns the entire grave of monsters into a toolbox. Do you need Mobius? Raiza? Jinzo? Lily? Even a flip monster? I got what you need right here.

Blacksmith does a good job of side utility, comboing well with Night Assailant while being able to provide: Snatch Steal, Megamorph or Premature Burial on demand. Essentially, rig your own deck ;)

The deck is quite fun to play and requires a decent bit of headwork to get it running smoothly.

Distractions via Waboku and Ocean can easily create much needed openings to overpower the opponent.

I'm curious why you decided on only including one copy of Elemental Hero Ocean into the deck. It seems like it offers a decent amount of utility to the deck, though I guess now that I look back you really are only running 1 Elemental Hero Stratos and 2 Destiny Hero Dashers, so I'm retracting my question since it doesn't seem like you have enough D or E Heroes to support more Oceans.

In this deck I'd probably prefer Spirit Reaper over Grand Mole since it sticks around longer and gives you something to tribute if you don't have a Dasher/Treeborn setup yet.

I like the Waboku Trap setup, though I'm a bit more partial to Threatening Roar myself. I think I might have to update my Big City deck tonight to make use of them.

The only other thing that really makes sense to me to run in this deck, and this is going to sound so tired cause everyone is throwing them in everything these days, is Card Trooper. This easily can dump Dasher, Treeborn Frog, and even Dark Magician of Chaos into the graveyard to start up your shenanigans earlier. The only thing I'd probably do if these were going to be included is consider running another copy of Monster Reincarnation incase you dump Monarchs into the graveyard.

I think this is a pretty solid concept. I'm trying to stay away from the generic Perfect Circle set up that everyone seems to be leaning on these days to make decks consistent. Now I just need to find a consistant "Perfect Circle setup" for my Crystal Beast deck before everyone else jumps on that bandwagon.

Ocean at two forces my playstyle to retract from using everything as a tool and lean towards forcing myself to get the Ocean Snipe Dash setup. Which isnt hard really considering its only two cards on the field and one in the grave, but the deck has tremendous potential outside that. Ive had people play the deck three ~ five times in a row and see a completely different facet of it each time. That way, its harder to side against. Ive had people side all sorts of stuff against it. Most hurting being Macrocosmos / Dimension Fissure. But really, all it is - one Mobius / Snipe away from being taken care of. If I leave it for extended periods however, thats where the trouble is.


In short: I can run two Oceans, but it mentally limits me and I usually aim to go for Ocean Snipe Dasher routine. Which isnt bad on its own, but is too weak a foundation for the deck without diverting serious resources / opportunities to making it happen.

ooooooh me likey. no fixes. I give it a 9/10. I'd go higher but I don't wanna. what are you going to do shoot m*ping**thud!*

i doube posted im so sorry

Its ok. Id written a big response on why Card Trooper was a bad idea for most decks and this (4 dumps only in whole deck, opening for monarchs etc to do upwards of 1600 dmg just for one card? :| )

Also addressed Reaper versus Mole (path clearing ... returns to hand to feed Snipe as opposed to a Reaper that could be swapped with Goat or something else to completely eff my low handcount up).

But the server ate it. And Im tired.

I'd go one less Snipe, one more Tomato. Three Snipe just seems kinda overboard, and probably not needed.

Would you mind taking a look at the deck in my sig? Odd Concept: Infection!

Tomato is practically useless except for picking up Sangan. More often than not, Ild rather draw the SNipe Hunter myself than try to tomato it out. Costs lp, risks Sakuretsu, happens during damage step so priority can't be made use of ... etc.

Snipe Hunter wins games. Nothing else can top it.

Still going strong. Most losses due to very bad openers (3 Snipe Hunters in the opening hand, no treeborn, dasher, sangan etc).

The full complement side of 3 Pulling the Rug tips the scales in my favor versus most other decks. Pretty impressive.

Still looking for a deck that is considered a "bad matchup" versus this.

Nice deck.9/10.But why do you want to guard yourself with Waboku?Why don't you use Threatening Roar?

Gives me a chance to get flip effects off, usually thinning my deck (Blacksmith / Morphing Jar) without actually flipping it on my turn and risking torrential / whatnots.

I guess the real reason is that im oldskool and its easier on those of us who are too old to remember what traps we have facedown or to remember to chain it at the end of main 1. : /

Beat a Dimension Fissure deck 4 - 2 without siding. Won the first 4 in a row. Dude sided in Drains and things and made my life much uglier.

Well, It looked pretty nice until I noticed 3 Vortexes in addition to 3 Snipes, Sangan, Mystic Tomato and Monster Reincarnition.Not to mention Exiled Force?

I don't get them, care to explain?I see here much more discard power than discard stuff - discards fit into deck with:

•highly conditional strong plays
•Water deck with ability and using Salvage(and potentially Ocean)
•Dark World deck (with ability and using Forces of Darkness)
•Normal deck using atleast Dark Forces of Mass Production and being able to do so.
•Volcanic deck (using The Transmigration Propechy,Pot of Avarice and possible Volcanic Recharge)
•Darkness deck using Menae the Thorn and possibly DD Scout Plane

Also, doesn't Snipe and Ocean get alot targets of removal, not attacking.

Also, your reasoning for using random stuff, like IFL, Exiled,no Mirror, and so on?

There is no point in sacrificing stability if you don't get anything out of it.

Perhaps you might wanna consult those who have faced the deck to find out just how much stability it lacks. This version, yes. It was a tester. The current Ghillie Suit sacks people like no other. I dumped a lot of the lower level monsters to create a nasty upbeat tempo.