Dark-Link
10-01-2005, 08:05 PM
Well, 2 thing's to start off with,: 1) i'm sorry for the late article, I know it shoulda been yesterday, but a arguement with my parent's kept me off .... and 2) I dunno why I had to pick such a hard type to strategize for... but i'm gonna try my best.
*take's a big breath* Well, here goes! Plants have a certain characteristic like almost every other types do, but if you were wondering what it is, there are several opinions from multiple people of what it could be, but my opinion is that it is regeneration (not graveyard manipulation... that's zombies jobs ;) ). What I mean by Regeneration is... well... i'll give a couple examples: Mystic Tomato, Lord Poison, Lekunga, Vampire Orchis/Des Dendle. Basically, the first two, Bring out a new monster when it's destroyed by battle, the second two generate token's.
Now I have thought up of a few, but it's hard though... (since there is a LITTLE variety to choose from) and that's to do a beatdownish field control type. Basically, using Jerry Beans man, and the like with a few Atk booster's such as Blast With Chain, Axe of Despair, United We Stand and such... Now I know equips aren't the BEST things in the game to use, but unfortunately, they are needed.. and I found by playtesting, in this new environment, equips aren't necessarily that bad either.
Another strat is to use maybe a Gaia Power or 2. Reason? Vampire Orchis, Jerry Beans Man and Homonculous the Alchemic being(change its attribute to Earth) and that way you'll have a 2200, 2250 and 2300 (heh all in a row, and yeah, not much, but it'll have to do)
Another strat I JUST thought of, is to base the Plant deck around Homoculous, what I mean is, using Lord Poison to special summon it back to the field after it's been destroyed, Similar to Book of Life for zombies, and also to use it as a Anti-attribute card, because whatever one you're facing, they're more than likely to run the field card .. in which case you will just change Homonculous's attribute to that type.
Also with Homonculous, if you don't wanna go PURE plants, you can use the Element monsters (ex: Element Valkyrie, Element Dragon, Element Soldier, etc..) but then you wouldn't be able to use Lord Poison to bring back them would you? Just homonculous.
Another strat you can use, is to base it off their Water attribute, and i'm not talking about A Legendary Ocean here, i'm talking about a long forgotten Field Spell called Umiiruka. Basically, your Water attributed Plant type's will get + 500 to their attack (yes, all other Water monsters as well, but we're focusing on Plants right now). Also let's not forget that when Lord Poison is in the graveyard, that is more "food" for Lekunga to use.
And last but not least, the strat that seems to be effective (in my head whlie i'm typing this lol) is a " Low Level Plant Beatdown" ... Basically using A Legendary Ocean instead of Umiiruka, and Homonculous (who you would obviously change it's attribute to Water), Lekunga, Lord Poison, and Jerry Beans Man will all be able to attack under Level Limit Area - B and Gravity-Bind and for the opening to stall with, Des Dendle for it's 2000 Defense!
Well, that's it for this article, see ya all next friday!! And I hope ya enjoyed this article.. just remember, no deck is impossible, but there are ones that require ALOT more effort to work (like Plants) than others (like zombie, chaos, etc..)
I'm also sorry that last week I said i'd do Dinosaurs, but I just quickly thought about doing a SEVERLY underplayed type... and I may just do Dino's next week, well, you'll just have to wait and see what it's gonna be about heh heh heh
-Dark Link (a.k.a. J.C. of Team Nightmare)
*take's a big breath* Well, here goes! Plants have a certain characteristic like almost every other types do, but if you were wondering what it is, there are several opinions from multiple people of what it could be, but my opinion is that it is regeneration (not graveyard manipulation... that's zombies jobs ;) ). What I mean by Regeneration is... well... i'll give a couple examples: Mystic Tomato, Lord Poison, Lekunga, Vampire Orchis/Des Dendle. Basically, the first two, Bring out a new monster when it's destroyed by battle, the second two generate token's.
Now I have thought up of a few, but it's hard though... (since there is a LITTLE variety to choose from) and that's to do a beatdownish field control type. Basically, using Jerry Beans man, and the like with a few Atk booster's such as Blast With Chain, Axe of Despair, United We Stand and such... Now I know equips aren't the BEST things in the game to use, but unfortunately, they are needed.. and I found by playtesting, in this new environment, equips aren't necessarily that bad either.
Another strat is to use maybe a Gaia Power or 2. Reason? Vampire Orchis, Jerry Beans Man and Homonculous the Alchemic being(change its attribute to Earth) and that way you'll have a 2200, 2250 and 2300 (heh all in a row, and yeah, not much, but it'll have to do)
Another strat I JUST thought of, is to base the Plant deck around Homoculous, what I mean is, using Lord Poison to special summon it back to the field after it's been destroyed, Similar to Book of Life for zombies, and also to use it as a Anti-attribute card, because whatever one you're facing, they're more than likely to run the field card .. in which case you will just change Homonculous's attribute to that type.
Also with Homonculous, if you don't wanna go PURE plants, you can use the Element monsters (ex: Element Valkyrie, Element Dragon, Element Soldier, etc..) but then you wouldn't be able to use Lord Poison to bring back them would you? Just homonculous.
Another strat you can use, is to base it off their Water attribute, and i'm not talking about A Legendary Ocean here, i'm talking about a long forgotten Field Spell called Umiiruka. Basically, your Water attributed Plant type's will get + 500 to their attack (yes, all other Water monsters as well, but we're focusing on Plants right now). Also let's not forget that when Lord Poison is in the graveyard, that is more "food" for Lekunga to use.
And last but not least, the strat that seems to be effective (in my head whlie i'm typing this lol) is a " Low Level Plant Beatdown" ... Basically using A Legendary Ocean instead of Umiiruka, and Homonculous (who you would obviously change it's attribute to Water), Lekunga, Lord Poison, and Jerry Beans Man will all be able to attack under Level Limit Area - B and Gravity-Bind and for the opening to stall with, Des Dendle for it's 2000 Defense!
Well, that's it for this article, see ya all next friday!! And I hope ya enjoyed this article.. just remember, no deck is impossible, but there are ones that require ALOT more effort to work (like Plants) than others (like zombie, chaos, etc..)
I'm also sorry that last week I said i'd do Dinosaurs, but I just quickly thought about doing a SEVERLY underplayed type... and I may just do Dino's next week, well, you'll just have to wait and see what it's gonna be about heh heh heh
-Dark Link (a.k.a. J.C. of Team Nightmare)