[AGM] Overgrowth, the experiment gone wrong

[ChampionZero]

Overgrowth: A small archetype. Starting with Rank 3 Overgrowth-Heart, this army of mutants can Xyz Evolve every turn, with effects developed seemingly without rhyme or reason. Once the player Xyz Summons Rank 12 Overgrowth-Lord, it's all but over, with the Xyz monster able to absorb the abilities of every Overgrowth Xyz monster attached to it, and attack multiple times.

 

[spoiler=MD MONSTERS]

Genome Extractor

Level 3 ~ EARTH ~ Psychic/Effect

When this monster is Normal Summoned, you can Special Summon one "Genome" monster from your hand, except "Genome Extractor."

1500/0

 

Genome Weaver

Level 3 ~ EARTH ~ Psychic/Effect

When this monster is Special Summoned, you can shuffle one "Genome" card from your hand into the Deck, then add a "Genome" Card with a different name to your hand, except "Genome Weaver."

500/500

 

Genome Defender

Level 3 ~ EARTH ~ Psychic/Effect

While you control this monster, your opponent cannot target other "Genome" monsters you control for attacks or card effects.

0/2000

 

 

 

 

 

[spoiler= ED MONSTERS]

Overgrowth-Heart

Rank 3 ~ EARTH ~ Psychic/Xyz/Effect

3 Level 3 Psychic-Type Monsters

Once per turn, you can detach one Xyz Material from this card: add 1 “Genome” card from your deck to your hand. Once per turn, during your Standby Phase, you can Special Summon an “Overgrowth” Xyz monster one Rank higher than this card from your Extra Deck using this card as Xyz Material.

ATK: 1000

DEF: 1000

 

Overgrowth-Acolyte

Rank 4 ~ EARTH ~ Psychic/Xyz/Effect

Cannot be Summoned from the Extra Deck, except by the effect of a “Genome” or “Overgrowth” card. Once per turn, you can detach one Xyz Material from this card: your opponent cannot control Special Summoned monsters until your next Standby Phase. Once per turn, during your Standby Phase, you can Special Summon an “Overgrowth” Xyz monster one Rank higher than this card from your Extra Deck using this card as Xyz Material.

ATK: 1500

DEF: 1500

 

Overgrowth-Drake

Rank 5 ~ EARTH ~ Psychic/Xyz/Effect

Cannot be Summoned from the Extra Deck, except by the effect of a “Genome” or “Overgrowth” card. Once per turn, when this card battles, you can detach one Xyz Material: the opposing monster has its ATK reduced to 0, and this monster gains ATK equal to half the monsters lost ATK, during damage calculation only. Once per turn, during your Standby Phase, you can Special Summon an “Overgrowth” Xyz monster one Rank higher than this card from your Extra Deck using this card as Xyz Material.

ATK: 2000

DEF: 2000

 

Overgrowth-Diablo

Rank 6 ~ EARTH ~ Psychic/Xyz/Effect

Cannot be Summoned from the Extra Deck, except by the effect of a “Genome” or “Overgrowth” card. Once per turn, you can detach one Xyz Material from this card: banish five cards face-down from your opponents Extra Deck at random. Once per turn, during your Standby Phase, you can Special Summon an “Overgrowth” Xyz monster three Ranks higher than this card from your Extra Deck using this card as Xyz Material.

ATK: 2500

DEF: 2500

 

Overgrowth-Chimera

Rank 9 ~ EARTH ~ Psychic/Xyz/Effect

Cannot be Summoned from the Extra Deck, except by the effect of a “Genome” or “Overgrowth” card. This monster can attack monsters your opponent controls a number of times per Battle Phase equal to the number of Xyz Materials attached to it. Once per turn, during your Standby Phase, you can Special Summon an “Overgrowth” Xyz monster three Ranks higher than this card from your Extra Deck using this card as Xyz Material.

ATK: 3000

DEF: 3000

 

Overgrowth-Lord

Rank 12 ~ EARTH ~ Psychic/Xyz/Effect

Cannot be Summoned from the Extra Deck, except by the effect of a “Genome” or “Overgrowth” card. Three times per turn, this monster can activate the effects of “Overgrowth” Xyz Monsters attached to this card. You can only activate an attached monster's effect once per turn this way.

ATK: 3500

DEF: 3500

 

 

 

[spoiler=SPELLS]

 

Overgrowth Genome X

Continuous Spell

This card counts as a Level 3 Psychic-Type monster when you Xyz Summon.

 

Overgrowth Genome Y

Continuous Spell

This card counts as a Level 3 Psychic-Type monster when you Xyz Summon.

 

Overgrowth Genome Z

Continuous Spell

This card counts as a Level 3 Psychic-Type monster when you Xyz Summon.

 

Rank-Up Genome Omicron

Normal Spell

Target one “Overgrowth” Xyz Monster you control: Special Summon one “Overgrowth” Xyz Monster from your Extra Deck 1 Rank higher. You can only activate one “Rank-Up Genome” Spell per turn.

 

Rank-Up Genome Omega

Normal Spell

Target one “Overgrowth” Xyz monster you control: Special Summon one “Overgrowth” Xyz Monster from your Extra Deck 3 Ranks higher. You can only activate one “Rank-Up Genome” Spell per turn.

 

Genome Grafting

Normal Spell

Target one “Overgrowth” Xyz monster you control; attach up to 3 “Overgrowth” cards in your graveyard to that monster as Xyz Material.

 

 

CnC is much desired, but with my distinct lack of computer access, I may not be able to make edits right away.

 

EDIT: added Main Deck "Genome" Monsters to make summoning the Xyz Monsters easier! Will soon add more Xyz Monsters because options are good. Also removed Disigma for reasons.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

To be honest, this Archetype is pretty much reliant on those Continuous Spell Cards to generate fodder for Heart, as the current monsters that would fit the bill either have no synergy or can't field 3 monsters. As the Overgrowth Genomes have no easy way of searching outside of Heart, you are going to brick HARD if you can't draw them.

 

Regarding the Overgrowth Genomes, I would recommend having them SS themselves on your field; that way, you'll be able to protect your LP if you can't Xyz right away; especially given Heart is a 3-mat.

 

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Heart is basically your engine that can fuel into whatever you need; despite requiring a detach to do so. However, it can let you Xyz change itself up to Chimera, which is unsettling to an extent (see Disigma).

 

Acolyte is cool, and basically a temporary one-sided Vanity's for the opponent; suppose it'd be nice against the common Decks that SS heavily nowadays, but it still has low stats and relies on Heart to even summon it.

 

Drake is basically Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon, which is nice since you can heavily damage the opponent if you hit their key monsters.

 

Diablo kills the opponent's ED, which hurts a lot, seeing how often it gets used. For what it's worth, you can either kill the opponent's key cards or remove some Pendulums that you killed earlier so they can't re-summon them. Then again, provided you can protect this card, it'll basically jump several Ranks into Chimera.

 

Chimera gets multiple attacks depending on how well you can protect the previous ones and Rank-Up from them. Suppose it's nice against Pendulum swarms and all, but that's pretty much all this card is capable of doing; outside of Ranking-Up into the final one.

 

I'm not really sure how to word Lord's effect properly in PSCT, but yeah it's effectively going to be a legitimate pain to deal with once you get this out and keep its Xyz Materials high enough. Not really fond of this having a "thrice per turn" thing, despite the effort needed to even make this.

 

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Overgrowth Genomes should summon themselves as Level 3 Psychic-Type monsters, since that's what they normally do for real-life things. For anime/manga stuff, yeah they'll let you use S/T cards for material, but this isn't it.

 

Omicron is just an Archetype-restricted Barian's Force; nothing wrong with it, but suppose you can use this to Xyz change faster if needed. Omega beats even Astral Force in terms of Rank-Up stuff, but yeah it's essentially for heavier boosting. Disigma is pretty much the power RUM for this, since as mentioned, you can make Heart into Chimera, or Diablo into Lord. To be really honest, the last two RUMs should have a heavier cost to their usage, given the extent of what they can make. I know you did put a hard OPT on using any "Rank-Up Genome" card, but one shouldn't be able to heavily Xyz change that much.

 

Grafting is pretty much going to be nuts with the whole Deck, since it will essentially guarantee you a bunch of free mats for the Rank-Ups. Taking into effect Lord, this basically gives you free access to the other stuff in the Graveyard (either you detached them earlier, or you didn't summon it through the entire evolution process [i.e. use Disigma on Diablo]). Granted, this does let you use old RUMs as well.

 

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Xyz are fine up to maybe Diablo (Chimera's fine to an extent, but it's asking for trouble); Lord is worrying, the latter two RUMs need some form of drawback to counterbalance their capabilities to Rank-Up farther and the Overgrowths should SS themselves as monsters (you can decide the stats; make them different so they're not copy/paste versions of each other). 

 

Basically, the Deck can become a pain if left unchecked and you don't deal with Heart, but otherwise relies on you drawing Overgrowths to fuel Rank 3 stuff. I suppose you do have access to the regular Rank 3 pool too, which helps a bit, but yeah.

[ChampionZero]

Bump! Edits made!

[kevintriedge]

I love the concept. I like playstyles where you need to do something first before you are rewarded with something, instead of free pluses right off the bat like real-life broken decks. In this case, we need to protect Heart and we get better and better Xyz monsters as rewards. Nice concept.

 

I agree with 木ノ葉隠れの心霊龍疾風主人公 regarding the Overgrowth Genomes. Summoning them as monsters also has a nice benefit of giving a wall monster. If you don't want to make them overpowered, maybe just let them has the "(This card is still treated as a Spell Card)" condition, so the opp can destroy those Spell-monsters with S/T-destroying effects.

 

And too bad I have never gotten the opportunity to see Disigma before it was removed, haha

[ChampionZero]

Disigma looked something like this:

 

Hyper-Rank-Up Genome Disigma

Normal Spell

Target one “Overgrowth” Xyz monster you control: Special Summon one “Overgrowth” Xyz Monster from your Extra Deck 6 Ranks higher. You can only activate one “Rank-Up Genome” Spell per turn.

 

Which meant you could Rank-Up your Heart into a Chimera, no sweat. I cut it out because who the hell designs something like that? Not me!