The Light Shall Burn You! {Fairy Burn aka Tricksters feat. Athena, Star Seraphs, and BriFu}

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Athena and seraphinite come out once in a blue moon

The extra deck was bigger but I did some reorganizing and I don't know what else to put in

I really wish fairys had generic revival

 

Deck list upon request. 

 

CnC Pls

 

EDIT: Took out the 2 Valhalla cards for 2 more brifu. Also it's now link format. I'll see how this plays cause *shrug*

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Is this solely for online play? Because that's the only format where you can play Tricksters without Links.

 

I'll give more advice once I better understand the context within which this deck is being played.

 

In the meantime, I'll just say that 1 Brifu looks really weird and pointless.

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Is this solely for online play? Because that's the only format where you can play Tricksters without Links.

 

I'll give more advice once I better understand the context within which this deck is being played.

 

In the meantime, I'll just say that 1 Brifu looks really weird and pointless.

YGOpro doesn't have links yet and I wasn't aware book did. I'm gonna recreate this deck on there with links and see what happens. 

[Darj]

The burn is the deck's gimmick, right? Because I don't think Dark Room and Athena are worth it. Well, Athena can enable some plays with Scepter, but still, it doesn't look as practical so Summon.

Have you tested Valhalla and Hecatrice? It may assist with swarming.

AFAIK the Seraph Scale isn't good enough; if you really need extra Seraphs, Scout may be a better pick, to start plays.

With this Fairy theme, how about 1~2 Archlord Kristya?

Have you considered Invokeds? Gives you access to Merkabah and Aleister synergizes nicely with Seraphinite. You can drop a Trick Clown as tech, too.

How about Droll & Lock? Remember the hand kill combo with Durendal? yeah, pretty sure you can do the same play with Trickstar Reincarnation. And if you opt for Invoked, you can use any dead Droll as fodder for Raideen.

Alternatively, a Predaplant engine may come in handy to grab that Brilliant Fusion; then you could be pro and tech BLS or Emperor Dragon xD

If it's DNCG, you are missing IF + Norden.

Extra Deck monsters you can run are Emeral, Fairy Cheer Girl and Links of higher numbers like Decode, Firewall, etc.

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The burn is the deck's gimmick, right? Because I don't think Dark Room and Athena are worth it. Well, Athena can enable some plays with Scepter, but still, it doesn't look as practical so Summon.

Have you tested Valhalla and Hecatrice? It may assist with swarming.

AFAIK the Seraph Scale isn't good enough; if you really need extra Seraphs, Scout may be a better pick, to start plays.

With this Fairy theme, how about 1~2 Archlord Kristya?

Have you considered Invokeds? Gives you access to Merkabah and Aleister synergizes nicely with Seraphinite. You can drop a Trick Clown as tech, too.

How about Droll & Lock? Remember the hand kill combo with Durendal? yeah, pretty sure you can do the same play with Trickstar Reincarnation. And if you opt for Invoked, you can use any dead Droll as fodder for Raideen.

Alternatively, a Predaplant engine may come in handy to grab that Brilliant Fusion; then you could be pro and tech BLS or Emperor Dragon xD

If it's DNCG, you are missing IF + Norden.

Extra Deck monsters you can run are Emeral, Fairy Cheer Girl and Links of higher numbers like Decode, Firewall, etc.

Just no in every way.

 

Dark Room is absolutely staple at 3 in Trickster burn. They burn in small increments of 200 repeatedly, so Room puts in a lot of work. Athena seems less worth it imo.

 

He has tested Valhalla and Hecatrice. They were in the old decklist, and could perhaps come back. (But the control no monsters clause hurts a lot)

 

You're probably right about the Star Seraph Scales. I personally wouldn't run the Star Seraphs at all, since they don't seem to do much for the deck's wincon.

 

Kristya would be a fun troll card, but this deck relies way too heavily on SSing and True Draco aren't hurt at all by Kristya. Perhaps worth siding.

 

Aleister requiring the Normal Summon clashes heavily with Candina while doing nothing in terms of burn damage.

 

Droll would be memey, but this is a burn deck, not just a general troll deck, plus it would conflict with the level 3 Trickster.

 

Using the Preda engine just to search Brifu would be meaningless, since he's only using Brifu for the extra NS. May as well run Double Summon/Chain Summoning if you want to loop Candina.

 

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Anyway, as for my own tips: I recommend you run a Gagaga Cowboy, a Heartlandraco and a Nightmare Shark to finish games. Probably focus more on the Tricksters, running 3 copies of the Level 3 one for sure. Lilybell seems a bit slow for what this deck aims, but could work. The 5 CotHs are weird and probably do nothing. Three Pot of Desires are an absolute must for this, no reason not too. Like I say, Double Summon/Chain Summoning could work. You can make Chain live with Candina CL1 and the Level 3 CL2. Doesn't seem the most likely, but will probably win you the game.

[Darj]

Dark Room is absolutely staple at 3 in Trickster burn. They burn in small increments of 200 repeatedly, so Room puts in a lot of work. Athena seems less worth it imo.

 

Is that so? IDK, Room feels a bit on the overkill side to me, and with the potential of backfiring if drawn in multiples. Then again, this comes mostly from looking at the deck; I have yet to see the card at its best.

 

Using the Preda engine just to search Brifu would be meaningless, since he's only using Brifu for the extra NS. May as well run Double Summon/Chain Summoning if you want to loop Candina.

 

Isn't that like, the main reason to play Brilliant Fusion? Also getting Brilliant earlier would also let it mill a LIGHT earlier, and bring it back with a revival Trap, or mill a Trickstar and grab it with Lillybell, or be pro with a Trick Clown tech.

 

 

Also, the Droll combo may be situational and silly, but pretty sure it's close to an pseudo-OTK by killing the opponent's hand, unless the opponent is playing a Lawnmowing deck or something. At the very least it's worth a test IMO.

 

 

EDIT:

Nevermind, I went on to look for Trickstar gameplays and saw this \burn turbo deck that abused Lycorissica with Disturbance Strategy and Present Cards to OTK with burns, and Dark Room secured the OTKs in some of the duel demonstrations. You don't really need Droll either when you can OTK by burn anyway. However, this build went full turbo with Pot of Desires and Cards of Demise, and ran no stuff like Seraphs nor Brilliant Fusion, but Double Summon instead; pretty much what Speedroid suggested above.

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Multiple Dark Room is actually really good so long as you can find some way to make them live.

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Not gonna quote cause I'm on mobile and cant be assed to switch over.

 

If you haven't noticed, this deck summons a kot of fairys. With Athena, you can deal some pretty hefty dmg. The only down side is that because fairys dont have generic revival, I have to run the coths. This decks is combo heavy af. Seraphs are there for draw power. Scales, while not the most useful, can give me value with lyric and lily, since they both ss from hand. I'm probably gonna cut scales down to 1 because I don't wanna draw it too often, but if I don't draw a stick somehow and I have all my seats, at least I'll still be able to combo.

 

Desires I'm hesitant about because theres so many peices that I'm afraid to lose. If I kill off my DRoNs, its really hard to get the win by burn. Chain summoning I can also use with the stick seat combo, though, so I suppose I could do something with it.

 

D&L with incarn is a strong combo, but if I don't draw into D&R turn 1 then I can't do anything, because in this day and age establishing a hard to break board is easy.

 

Predaplants took up too much space, even if it is was just 4 cards. Deck space is tight.

Also I don't want an OTK because those arent fun to play against. I want a semi-consultant fairy burn. That's all.

[Tinkerer]

Might I recommend Powerful Rebirth over CotH? It might not be able to revive Athena, but it isn't as easily disruptable.

 

I might suggest -1 CotH, -1 Scales, +2 Honest. Honest doesn't contribute as much to the burn aspect, but it combos nicely with Athena and can put doubled pressure on the opponent.

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Might be more accurate to call this Fairy Spam or something like that, and have the burn element just be a surprisingly large amount of Cowboys for game. Actual burn decks are usually degenerate.

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Powerful rebirth is an idea, but the revivals are mainly around for athena. I suppose I could tech 1 for the others, though.

 

But the burn is the wincoin. And it doesnt spam nearly as much as you might think.