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[Kansa]

FelixSparks just something I noticed. You can't have more than 3 of the same type of card in a deck

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Here's my character, I hope she's ok


Name: Athena Baskerville
Age: 18
Appearance: Athena stands about 5’9” tall, she is slim and muscular. Her hair is a bright red which hangs down to just below her shoulders, she keeps her fringe short. She usually keeps her clothing practical wearing a simple pair of black trousers, a plain white t shirt and a navy blue jacket. Her eyes are a bright emerald green, she wears her duel disk on her right arm that is painted a light green.

Backstory: Ever since she was little Athena wanted to follow in her mother’s footsteps, as she was the major duelist protecting the village it was only to be expected. Her mother was against it at first, knowing how dangerous that the life she led could be. Despite her protests though Athena’s desire never wavered, in the end when her mother saw how determined she was she gave in and began to teach her.

Athena’s enthusiasm did not dampen, she listened to each and every one of her mother’s lecturers with incredible concentration and quickly picked up the basic rules of the game. It wasn’t too long before she was putting her own deck together and finding the style of play she enjoyed the most. Her first duel against one of the machines was when she was fifteen years old, it was a close one and she only just managed to defeat the thing.

After this near loss Athena’s mother sent her back to training, not wanting to risk her daughter any more. Athena was furious at first but over time began to calm herself, knowing that she would have to focus on her training if she ever wanted to duel again. It was not until two years later that her mother finally judged her as being ready to fight. It was then Athena joined the ranks of her city’s defense force. She stayed there for around a year putting up a good fight against the various machines that would assault the place. She began to long to see the outside world though, she requested her mother’s permission to travel for a while and even though her mother protested at first she finally gave in and gave Athena her blessing. Filled with excitement Athena packed a few things and set off on her journey into the wilderness.


Devices:
1-  An old copper ring 60% charge
2-  A digital watch 50% charge
3- An old mobile phone 40% charge

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Monsters:
3x Appelion the Noble Spirit Beast  (Common)
3x Rampeta the Noble Spirit Beast   (Common)
1x Kannahawk the Noble Spirit Beast (Super Rare)
3x Petolphin the Noble Spirit Beast (Common)
3x Spirit Beast tamer Wen (Common)
3x Elder of the Spirit Beast Tamers (Common)
3x Spirit Beast tamer Lera (Common)
1x Tempest, Dragon Ruler of Storms(Rare)

Spells
1 x Emergency Teleport (Ultra Rare)
3x Bond with the Spirit Beast(Common)
1x Book of Moon(Common)
2x My body as a shield (Common)
1x Foolish Burial (Rare)
2x Upstart Goblin (Common)

Traps
1x Bottomless Trap Hole (Rare)
1x Combination With the Spirit Beast(Super Rare)
2x Sakuretsu Armour(Common)
1x Compulsory Evacuation Device (Common)
2x Phoenix Wing Blast (Rare)
1x Spiritual Wind Art- Miyabi (Common)
2x Trap Stun (Common)


Extra Deck:
1x Sacred Spirit Beast Mount Appelion (Super Rare)
1x Sacred Spirit Beast Mount KannaHawk (Secret Rare)
1x Sacred Spirit Beast Mount Petolphin (Super Rare)


32x Common
5x Rare
5x Ultra/Super rare
1x Secret Rare

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I may have gone over the Ultra Rare limit. Not sure though.

Checking now.

Metric:
1 Approved Custom Card or a Secret, Ghost, or Ultimate rare, 5 Ultra or Super rares, and 10 Rares.  Short print and commons are unlimited.
TCG Advanced

Deck:

Spoiler:  Phantom Beast Deck (click to show/hide)

Monsters:
Battery man D (Common)
Big Eye x 2 (Common)
Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat (Common)
Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise x 2 (Common)
Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle (Common)
Dark Necrofear (Ultra Rare)
Elemental Hero Prismatic x 3 ( - I could find an Elemental HERO Prisma (Ultra Rare), but not Prismatic.  Can you provide a link?)
Giant Germ x 3 (Common)
Great Maju Garzett (Rare)
Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder (Ultra Rare)
Kuriboh (Super Rare)
Phantom Skyblaster (Ultra Rare)
Raviel, Lord of Phantasm (Ultra Rare)
Sagan ( - Could not be found.  Please provide link to card.)
Uria, Lord of Searing Flames (Ultra Rare)

Fusion Monster:
Armityle the Chaos Phantom (Secret Rare)

Spells:
Archfiend's Oath (Common)
Burden of the Mighty x 3 (Super Rare)
Convulsion of Nature (Common)
Level Limit- Area B (Rare <Structure decks are skipped>)
Messenger of Peace (Common)
Monster Gate (Common)
Multiply (Super Rare)
Reasoning (Common)
Recycle (Common)
Scapegoat (Rare)
Spirit Message "A" (Rare)
Spirit Message "I" (Rare)
Spirit Message "L" (Rare)
Spirit Message "N" (Rare)

Traps:
Anti-spell Fragrance (Rare)
Destiny Board x 2 (Ultra Rare)
DNA Surgery (Common)
Fairy Box (Common)
Gravity Bind (Common)
Imperial Custom (Common)
Metal Reflect Slime x 3 (Ultra Rare)
Mirror Wall (Super Rare)
Nightmare Wheel (Ultra Rare)
Ordeal of a Traveller (Common)

1 Secret/Ghost/Ultimate
12 Ultra/Super
8 Rare
4

A major thing to note that I am mildly concerned with is that, despite them being common, I recall that in the Manga/Anime that the Crystal Beasts were unique cards.  Also, Hamon, Uria, Ravel, and Armityle were also stated to be unique cards.  In fact, those had to be gathered from an alternate dimension and were sent back there.  That would make them Secret/Ghost/Ultimate rare category, which, while removing 3 from Ultra/Super rare, would add 7 to Secret/Ghost/Ultimate rare.

Also, I didn't check the legality of all of them, so you may want to check that out, via the links I provided in Felix's review.

Reserved.  Not sure if I want to do the same deck as my last submission, since there isn't the same push for synchros this time around.

If no one selects them, then they'll probably not be used.  If someone does select them, they'll be rarely seen, but you'll be certain to encounter them occasionally.


Thank you Kansa for providing the rarities.

[FelixSparks]

Thanks Kansa, I wasn't aware that it was a three copy limit. I've fixed it, and SHOULD be good now.... I'm more used to Magic than Yugioh, my apologies.

[Culise]

In the end, it was pretty hard to decide, actually.  The rarity restrictions rule out any Duel Terminal archetypes, and Melodious seemed a bit inaccurate to the general bleak theme, though I really want to try it.  Mecha Phantom Beasts were an option, but not one I wanted to go into when it would make me the only one with Synchro monsters, even if it'd work really well with tag duels with Kansa's Wind deck.  Ultimately, I went Nekroz, since it lets me use Gishki without the Gishki, and the whole "recycling old monsters as armor" plays in well with a salvage theme.  It also gives my deck scope for development as well.

Name: Meriel Taylor
Age: 32
Appearance: Rather average in height at about 5'11".  Dark hair cut short, with pale blue eyes.  Her tastes tend towards sturdy clothing that won't show stains: a leather jacket, black short-sleeved shirt, and heavy denim jeans with steel-toed work boots suitable for long hikes, all of which show the signs of regular patching and repair. 
Backstory: Meriel was discovered at the age of 4 a presumed orphan, with the only knowledge of her parents being a single duel device - a pendant of a crescent moon.  Taken in by a sympathetic duelist, she learned quickly how to fight and survive.  Now operating as a scavenger and retriever, Meriel tends to operate solo for long stretches in the abandoned cities, especially those in hot areas where Singularity forces were known to operate in strength.  Her job tends to be not just the gathering of energy, but also of equipment - non-perishable supplies, examples of tech to be studied, and the like.  Mechanically clever, she tends to repair these and either sell them in towns or use them herself: her duel disc is itself a piece of salvaged tech, taken from a destroyed AI and repaired.  As this is the only remaining way to replace old duel discs and obtain new ones ever since the human factories were destroyed, and thereby prevent humanity from losing the war through simple attrition (as duelists die and their discs are taken), skills like her permit her to be in demand wherever she goes. 

Devices:
1: Single silver pendant of a crescent moon. 43%
2: Duel disc data core (integrated device). 59%
3: Metallic flat plate, of dimensions identical to that of a game card, covered in circuitry. 55%

Spoiler: Salvage Operation (click to show/hide)

MONSTER:
The Nekroz of Trishula (WATER Warrior 9; 2700/2000) (Secret Rare)
The Nekroz of Gungnir (WATER Spellcaster 7; 2500/1700) (Ultra Rare)
The Nekroz of Unicore (WATER Spellcaster 4; 2300/1000) (Common)
The Nekroz of Unicore (WATER Spellcaster 4; 2300/1000) (Common)
The Nekroz of Clausolas (WATER Warrior 3; 1200/2300) (Common)
The Nekroz of Clausolas (WATER Warrior 3; 1200/2300) (Common)
The Nekroz of Clausolas (WATER Warrior 3; 1200/2300) (Common)
Archmage of the Nekroz (WATER Spellcaster 4; 1500/800) (Common)
Archmage of the Nekroz (WATER Spellcaster 4; 1500/800) (Common)
Exa, Warrior of the Nekroz (WATER Dragon 5; 2000/1000) (Common)
Dance Princess of the Nekroz (WATER Spellcaster 4; 1600/800) (Common)
Dance Princess of the Nekroz (WATER Spellcaster 4; 1600/800) (Common)
Schritt, Caster of the Nekroz (WATER Warrior 3; 300/1800) (Common)
Schritt, Caster of the Nekroz (WATER Warrior 3; 300/1800) (Common)
Schritt, Caster of the Nekroz (WATER Warrior 3; 300/1800) (Common)
Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands (LIGHT Fairy 4; 1400/1000) (Common)
Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands (LIGHT Fairy 4; 1400/1000) (Common)
Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands (LIGHT Fairy 4; 1400/1000) (Common)
Senju of the Thousand Hands (LIGHT Fairy 4; 1400/1000) (Common)

SPELL:
Ascending Soul (Common)
Ascending Soul (Common)
Nekroz Exomirror (Common)
Nekroz Exomirror (Common)
Nekroz Exomirror (Common)
Nekroz Kaleidomirror (Super Rare)
Nekroz Illusion (Rare)
Preparation of Rites (Super Rare)
My Body as a Shield (Common)
My Body as a Shield (Common)
My Body as a Shield (Common)
Reinforcement of the Army (Super Rare)
Reinforcement of the Army (Super Rare)
Salvage (Common)
Salvage (Common)
Salvage (Common)

TRAP:
Aquamirror Cycle (Common)
Aquamirror Cycle (Common)
Bottomless Trap Hole (Rare)
Sakuretsu Armor (Common)
Sakuretsu Armor (Common)

EXTRA: 15
Barbaroid, the Ultimate Battle Machine King (Earth Machine 12; 4000/4000) (Common)
Master of Oz (EARTH Beast 9; 4200/3700) (Rare)
D.3.S. Frog (WATER Aqua 8; 2500/2000) (Common)
D.3.S. Frog (WATER Aqua 8; 2500/2000) (Common)
Humanoid Worm Drake (WATER Aqua 7; 2200/2000) (Common)
Humanoid Worm Drake (WATER Aqua 7; 2200/2000) (Common)
Roaring Ocean Snake (WATER Aqua 6; 2100/1800) (Common)
Roaring Ocean Snake (WATER Aqua 6; 2100/1800) (Common)
Roaring Ocean Snake (WATER Aqua 6; 2100/1800) (Common)
Rare Fish (WATER Fish 4; 1500/1200) (Common)
Rare Fish (WATER Fish 4; 1500/1200) (Common)
Rare Fish (WATER Fish 4; 1500/1200) (Common)
Dragoness the Wicked Knight (WIND Warrior 3; 1200/900) (Rare)
Dragoness the Wicked Knight (WIND Warrior 3; 1200/900) (Rare)
Dragoness the Wicked Knight (WIND Warrior 3; 1200/900) (Rare)

1 Approved Custom Card or a Secret, Ghost, or Ultimate rare
5 Ultra or Super rares
6 Rares

[Beirus]

This is taking longer than I planned to find substitute cards with lower rarities. Still working on it though.

[FelixSparks]

I editted my deck again, noticed a problem... Sorry.

[kingofferrets]

I'm interested, since I haven't had a chance to play YGO in a while, but I do have a few questions beforehand.

1) About the rarity limit - is there a particular reason that you chose rarity of first printing, rather than, say, lowest rarity, or most commonly printed rarity? It has the disadvantage that a lot of cards are later reprinted as lower rarities because they've become staples of the game, and so running staples will cut into the rarity budget under the current rules. For example, if I'm reading the wiki page correctly (I'm going to Gallery and looking at the rarity of the top-left-most printing, since I think they're in chronological order), MST is going to be a Super under these rules and cut pretty heavily into the 5 super budget, but in practice, 3 MST is what most people run.

2) If I have an extra deck, does it share rarity restriction with the main deck? I probably won't run Synchros, but I might do Fusions.

3) How will dueling actually be handled? Are we going to go onto, say, DN and have the battle there, or are we going to have some way to PBP it?

4) How often will the players be dueling each other as opposed to dueling the evil robots of doom?

5) Should we avoid newer archetypes? I'm curious to see if I can get Shaddolls (probably Shaddoll/Artifacts) working under the rarity restrictions, but I can also run Chain Beat if you prefer avoiding that for power creep reasons.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

1) About the rarity limit - is there a particular reason that you chose rarity of first printing, rather than, say, lowest rarity, or most commonly printed rarity? It has the disadvantage that a lot of cards are later reprinted as lower rarities because they've become staples of the game, and so running staples will cut into the rarity budget under the current rules. For example, if I'm reading the wiki page correctly (I'm going to Gallery and looking at the rarity of the top-left-most printing, since I think they're in chronological order), MST is going to be a Super under these rules and cut pretty heavily into the 5 super budget, but in practice, 3 MST is what most people run.

2) If I have an extra deck, does it share rarity restriction with the main deck? I probably won't run Synchros, but I might do Fusions.

3) How will dueling actually be handled? Are we going to go onto, say, DN and have the battle there, or are we going to have some way to PBP it?

4) How often will the players be dueling each other as opposed to dueling the evil robots of doom?

5) Should we avoid newer archetypes? I'm curious to see if I can get Shaddolls (probably Shaddoll/Artifacts) working under the rarity restrictions, but I can also run Chain Beat if you prefer avoiding that for power creep reasons.

1) It's first, after structure decks have been removed from the list, as there are times when cards that are really powerful get released as common, short print, etc in limited edition sets.  So rather than having players being forced to look through twice as many pages, I'm using the 'first after structure decks' as a blanket rule to reduce deck building difficulty.  Besides this, I want people to have their decks be able to improve over the course of the game, rather than having the best right out the gates.  I really enjoy Culise's extras, as it provides me with a variety of choices for loot I can give the character.

2) Yes.

3) Play-by-post.  Cards will be drawn via RNG, with players having one 'destiny draw' that has a 1 in 100 chance of occurring, which, if it does, allows the player to out-of-character choose what the next card they draw is.

4) Inter-player will be rare, but the deathbots aren't going to be the only entities you'll be battling.

5) I don't care as long as it follows the rules.

[kingofferrets]

Alright, cool, makes sense. I'll probably post a character tomorrow - I think I've got my deck worked out. One last question - can we have a side deck? I guess the robots probably won't be battling in match format, but it might be nice to just have a couple extra commons laying around that my character can swap in between duels if he feels like a card isn't working for him.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Alright, cool, makes sense. I'll probably post a character tomorrow - I think I've got my deck worked out. One last question - can we have a side deck? I guess the robots probably won't be battling in match format, but it might be nice to just have a couple extra commons laying around that my character can swap in between duels if he feels like a card isn't working for him.

Nah.  Extra likely won't be too full, so you'll have plenty of spares there.

[FelixSparks]

Sorry, I redid my deck again, but this is the final version! Promise!

[kingofferrets]

Name: Bert Tobler
Age: 56

Appearance: A somewhat balding, white-haired man who looks older than he is - living in the wilderness takes its toll. His eyes are brown on a mildly wrinkled face, and his slightly slouched posture makes him 5' 7". He has a long, slightly scraggly beard that extends to his belly button, and normally wears a frayed heavy coat, an old T-shirt, and loose long pants. He carries around a small backpack and and few yellowing, dog-eared survival books, most of which have margins filled with his personal notes in surprisingly good handwriting. He keeps a well-maintained survival knife at his belt, and usually keeps one of his old awards (a gilded Blue Eyes card that isn't legal for dueling use) stuffed into a coat pocket.

Backstory: Bert was a rising star on the dueling circuits at the time the Singularity War began. Being a practical man with a fondness for not being brutally murdered in a hopeless-seeming war, he checked some wilderness survival books out of the library (with no intention of returning them) and skipped town to dodge the draft. With the help of his books, a dash of ingenuity, and more than a few lucky breaks during the first few months while he got situated, he managed to survive. Living in the wilderness for years, he rarely saw other humans, but once he was a practiced hand at survival, he started to offer the few he found a spot by his fire for the night in exchange for the pleasure of some company. Eventually, a passing messenger he hosted revealed to him that the survival of humanity now relied on the skills of brave duelists fighting against the Singularities, using the powers of these new Duel Disks. He asked the messenger about the way to the nearest town, and bid him farewell in the morning. After pondering on this for a few days, he dug into his stores and pulled out a memento - his old deck. He caught a big surplus of food and brought it to town, deck and backpack in tow. Trading the food and some dueling lessons for a spare Duel Disk, he started the next phase of his life. While Bert still disliked the idea of risking his life to defend others, he now had a way to protect himself against the vicious robots as he wandered if he couldn't evade them, and he was more than happy to make a less dangerous contribution to the defense of humanity - going from town to town, giving dueling lessons and training to the defenders in exchange for someone else's cooking and a bed that makes his back less sore than the ground.

Devices:
1) A clockwork ten-gallon hat. The rim is marked as a clock, and two hands extends out from the side of the hat. It keeps terrible time. Bert usually wears it, claiming the ticking helps him think. He tends to stop it with a sharp smack when he needs to sneak around, and restart it the same way. (43%)
2) A pair of pink fuzzy dice linked with a fiber optic cable. When charged, the fuzz tends to be warm, and can serve as a pillow. It usually dangled from Bert's backpack. (56%)
3) A shiny gem in a weathered and slightly ripped felt bag. The bag isn't part of the device, but exists so that birds will stop trying to steal the gem. (54%)

Spoiler: Gladiator Beasts (click to show/hide)

http://i.imgur.com/P6U0QR7.png

Unfortunately, Shaddolls just weren't working out and one of the core Black Garden cards is Secret Rare (Wind-Up Rabbit). So I went with Glad Beasts. I think these rarities are right, though I could've missed a structure deck or something.

Monsters -
Brotherhood of the Fire Fist - Bear x1 (Super)
Brotherhood of the Fire Fist - Gorilla x1 (Rare)
Gladiator Beast Augustus x2 (Rare)
Gladiator Beast Bestiari x1 (Common)
Gladiator Beast Darius x2 (Common)
Gladiator Beast Equeste x2 (Common)
Gladiator Beast Laquari x3 (Rare)
Gladiator Beast Murmillo x1 (Rare)

Spells -
Book of Moon x1 (Common)
Fire Formation - Tenki x3 (Common)
Fire Formation - Tensu x1 (Common)
Gladiator Proving Ground x3 (Common)
Raigeki x1 (Ultra)
Upstart Goblin x3 (Common)

Traps -
Bottomless Trap Hole x1 (Rare)
Compulsory Evacuation Device x1 (Rare)
Gladiator Beast War Chariot x2 (Super)
Trap Stun x3 (Common)
Vanity's Emptiness x2 (Short Print)
Waboku x3 (Common) - depending on if Battle Pack counts the same as structure deck
Fire Formation - Tensen x1 (Common)
Sakuretsu Armor x2 (Common)

Extra -
Gladiator Beast Gyzarus x1 (Super)
Gladiator Beast Heraklinos x1 (Secret)
Bait Doll x3 (Common)
Raigeki Break x3 (Common)
Vanity's Emptiness x1 (Common)
Gladiator Beast's Respite x1 (Rare)
Gladiator Beast Equeste x1 (Common)
Sakuretsu Armor x1 (Common)
Fire Formation - Tensen x2 (Common)

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Only complaint I have about your sheet King, is that you should keep in mind that the average life expectancy is 43.  You don't have to change anything, just...keep that in mind.

Is it possible to find/loot/obtain Synchro Cards later on?

Yes.

[kingofferrets]

Only complain I have about your sheet King, is that you should keep in mind that the average life expectancy is 43.  You don't have to change anything, just...keep that in mind.

I'm aware. I thought about it, and went with making him 56 for three reasons:

1) The practical reason. The character concept requires that he be on the dueling circuit before the war starts. If the war started 38 years ago, there's only so young he can really be. I went with him being 18 when the war happened because it seemed reasonable.
2) The statistical reason. The average life expectancy is 43, sure, but that also means plenty of people are dying later than 43 - it is, after all, an average. Not only that, but since the world is dangerous, average life expectancy is dragged down low - because a lot of people are dying very young. Those that survive the dangerous early years, before they have their skills and wisdom, I think are going to be much more likely to live a long time. It's part of the weirdness of having unnatural violent deaths included.
3) The philosophical reason. The average life expectancy is 43. So it's probably the case that given some random person, it would be odd to have him be 56+ years old. However, this is a story. We're not talking about a random person off the street - we roleplay these characters because they're interesting people with a story, and part of Bert's story is his long life. So it's not that I chose a character to play that happened to live weirdly long - I chose to play the character because he had the unique characteristic of a weirdly long life.

Admittedly, 56 is definitely an age where things like cancer and heart disease (though not dementia or Alzheimer's, I don't think) start to be a concern, but on the bright side, he doesn't have a lot of risk factors. Not much smoking or drinking, and it's hard to gain a lot of weight living in the wilderness most of the time.

[Kansa]

When are we planning on starting this?