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I'm amazed nobody on here is discussing this yet. A Monarch variant playing Quickdraw Synchron and Brilliant Fusion to summon this and make pretty awesome turn 1 plays. It's topped a few Regionals and will probably end up being quite a common build.

 

Article about it here: http://yugioh.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=5741&writer=Jason+Grabher-Meyer&articledate=5-26-2016&utm_source=tcg-fb-post&utm_medium=tcg-fb-post&utm_content=yugioh&utm_campaign=tcg-fb-post-yugioh

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Crystal Wing is a game-changer. As the guy mentioned, it's a big part of why Tzolkin is great atm. You finally have something that can be summoned off it that does a lot of work first turn.

 

Talking about that guy's build, I really freaking love it. It got all the cute interactions and sass, and it looks like a blast to play. Builds like this are probably what makes Monarch actually looks like a great deck instead of the infamous domain lock builds that's like a tired cliche to play and face.

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The hell is with the Jacks Knight?

He's using Lazuli instead of Garnet, so he can use Brilliant, then drop lazuli and Jack, grab Jack, and use the extra NS from Seraphinite to tribute summon Jack to trigger Return to grab Kuraz, which you can then drop by tributing Jack, pop Brifu and return to draw 2.

 

among other combos, but the express intention is to turn Brifu into something that's capable of grabbing a tribute summonable card that's also level 5 for Xyz/Tzolkin plays.

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He's using Lazuli instead of Garnet, so he can use Brilliant, then drop lazuli and Jack, grab Jack, and use the extra NS from Seraphinite to tribute summon Jack to trigger Return to grab Kuraz, which you can then drop by tributing Jack, pop Brifu and return to draw 2.

funking hell, this is convoluted.
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It's the OCG what did you expect?

 

Hmm, this card has also seen a lot of play thanks to Gofu and the allure of Ignister/Void for Metals

 

It's a TCG deck. Ultimaya Brifu Monarch and all the sick Kuraz plays starts in OCG but I don't think I've seen the Jack's Knight engine in their list. It's not a 100% vital change but it does have a lot of cute interactions.

 

Saw the Metalphosis list with Ultimaya, can you tell me the tuner they ran usually? The pic wasn't clear

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Brilliant Fusion honestly sucks balls, especially considering the deck wants CONSISTENCY, and not POWER. You are running 3 more bricks for 3 Spells that you may or may not draw, and it further takes away from what the deck actually does; Summoning Ehther and fetching Stormforth to get going and establish your optimal gamestate. The extra ceiling given by something like Brilliant Fusion is just pointless if Monarchs can never get to that point, so you are basically stacking plays on top of plays when you do get them, while f***ing yourself over by adding 3 more bricks in an already inconsistent archetype.

 

In addition, not opening Brilliant Fusion will also lead to another dilemma; you will also most likely draw into Jack's Knight or Lazuli before you draw Brilliant. This further contributes to the deck's bricky nature and just makes your win/loss ratio by brick worse.

 

Red Layer and Quickdraw Synchron are honestly the only fodder you need to access Ultimaya or Durendal, as both are still tribute fodder when drawn separately and can make Return live. They don't require running numerous other bricks to be functional.

 

Tzolkin is a really good powerhouse monster that offers much more utility than anything in the Rank 5/6/8 toolbox, but running more bricks to try to utilize it or Durendal is just 1 step forward and 2 steps back.

 

At worst, you can also be cute and add an additional Jet Synchron and Tuning to improve consistency and open you up to Clear Wing by using Jet + Kuraz, while still providing Tribute Fodder / Crystal Wing laddering.

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You don't need to play Jack's Knight so it's not simply 3 Spells and 3 Bricks

 

If you are to run BriFu at all just play the 1 Gem Knight, at this point you have to be comparing this with other tribute fodder that you haven't already maxed out on.

And holy sheet how does the card take away from Aither + Stormforth when you've maxed out on all available methods that let you do this (Stormforth Aither Return Panth etc) already...does it decrease the percentage of seeing those cards???

 

In fact it would improve it by acting as tribute fodder in scenarios where you draw Aither or Return, this just goes back to deciding whether it's comparatively worse than other tribute fodder

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You don't need to play Jack's Knight so it's not simply 3 Spells and 3 Bricks

 

If you are to run BriFu at all just play the 1 Gem Knight, at this point you have to be comparing this with other tribute fodder that you haven't already maxed out on.

And holy s*** how does the card take away from Aither + Stormforth when you've maxed out on all available methods that let you do this (Stormforth Aither Return Panth etc) already...does it decrease the percentage of seeing those cards???

 

In fact it would improve it by acting as tribute fodder in scenarios where you draw Aither or Return, this just goes back to deciding whether it's comparatively worse than other tribute fodder

 

In the case of Brilliant Fusion with 1 Gem-Knight, the obvious problem is that resolving it once will leave 2 blanks in your deck, regardless of whether or not they're Kuraz fodder. I would argue that cards like Red Layer, Mithra, and Quickdraw Synchron are better than Brilliant Fusion simply because they can be resolved multiple times throughout a game and do not require Extra Deck dedication. I'm still not convinced on BriFu in either ratio.

 

I will recant on my other statement about it taking away from Aither+Stormforth though, that was just me bullshitting stuff while drunk.

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It's a TCG deck. Ultimaya Brifu Monarch and all the sick Kuraz plays starts in OCG but I don't think I've seen the Jack's Knight engine in their list. It's not a 100% vital change but it does have a lot of cute interactions.

 

Saw the Metalphosis list with Ultimaya, can you tell me the tuner they ran usually? The pic wasn't clear

Sorry, took so long to get back to you. Kaiji is correct, atleast for OCG. The Bri-Fu engine has honestly faded. And it's not even just Jack that's not vital, the whole set up really isn't.

 

 

Or when it picks up, the Synchro aspect isn't there. This was a /rare/ specimen from the Penguin cup a few days back

 

It's been kinda hard to find a recent Brilliant 15-ED Synchro build, and impossible to find an ultimaya variant as of recent matching those criteria 

 

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I assume this is somewhat similar to the deck you were describing? It topped a lot more back in the day before Metal showed up, now days pure (15 ED) monarchs seem a lot more popular.

 

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As for the tuner, Blackwing - Gofu the Ghostly Shadow is the main one, but I suppose you could make an argument to say multi-purpose cards like Winter and Ghost are also "tuners" for the deck

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I'm not correct on anything since I wasn't really advocating or dismissing BriFu as I've never (or probably never will) take the time to consider which one is better.

 

I can say for sure that Gofu is immediately better than Quickdraw since it fulfills the same niche of being a tuner for Ultimaya without having to pitch a card (and in smaller scenarios be able to pair with additional copies to become a tributed summoned monster to trigger Return and set up Aither). And of course Kuraz memes with the tokens.

 

Ghost Ogre and Cherry Blossom cannot be considered as multipurpose in the context of monarch as they don't double as Tribute fodder.

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I'm not correct on anything since I wasn't really advocating or dismissing BriFu as I've never (or probably never will) take the time to consider which one is better.

 

I can say for sure that Gofu is immediately better than Quickdraw since it fulfills the same niche of being a tuner for Ultimaya without having to pitch a card (and in smaller scenarios be able to pair with additional copies to become a tributed summoned monster to trigger Return and set up Aither). And of course Kuraz memes with the tokens.

 

Ghost Ogre and Cherry Blossom cannot be considered as multipurpose in the context of monarch as they don't double as Tribute fodder.

Hmm, well I think think I might have to agree with you on the first point that about dismissing it. It does have uses for the deck like double normals and pitching the light guy to add back Panth. But on the other hand, drawing the Gems is some bullshit. There's definitely merits and flaws to it (yeah IK, cop out).

 

Sorry I misinterpreted. Can I say that it's been losing favor in OCG overall? That's more of an objective deduction rather than a debatable criteria.

 

By Multi-purpose I meant.

 

Useful effect as a hand trap & tuner

 

Maybe an allure target or a tele target if the deck owner feels like it

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