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Deck Profile – DJ Coates’ Plants
Fourteen year-old DJ Coates is here this weekend playing Plants. His Deck includes "Koa'ki Meiru Gravirose,” "Armageddon Knight,” and "Lord Poison,” plus three copies of "Necro Gardna” for more defense. The result is a very aggressive Plant Deck that tries to quickly bring out "Tytannial, Princess of Camellias.”
| Monsters | Spells | Traps | Side Deck | Extra Deck |
2 Tytannial, Princess of Camellias |
1 Foolish Burial |
1 Trap Dustshoot |
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His Graveyard is the key to Coates’ Deck. If he has "Lord Poison,” "Miracle Fertilizer,” or "Call of the Haunted" in his opening hand, he can set up a combo by sending "Lonefire Blossom" from his Deck to the Graveyard with "Koa'ki Meiru Gravirose.” Then he uses any of the 3 cards mentioned to Special Summon Lonefire to the field, giving him easy access to "Tytannial, Princess of Camellias" on the following turn.
If he has "Debris Dragon" instead, Coates can use Gravirose to send Dandylion to the Graveyard, and use the “Fluff Tokens” for a Synchro Summon. He can even send "Plaguespreader Zombie" to the Graveyard, easily setting up to Synchro Summon "Goyo Guardian" if an opponent ever leaves himself vulnerable. He can set up "Call of the Haunted" plays by using "Card Trooper" to send cards to the Graveyard, too.
If Coates has “Armageddon Knight” in his opening hand instead of Gravirose, his best option is usually setting up an early defense. If he can Summon the Knight, and use its effect to send “Necro Gardna” to the Graveyard, and Set “Bottomless Trap Hole,” his opponent is in major trouble. The opponent will lose almost any attacker to “Bottomles Trap Hole,” and the Knight will either make a direct attack next turn or become a Synchro Material Monster. From there the defense can stack up even more and become insurmountable.
One big contributing factor to that wall-like defense is “Burial from a Different Dimension.” Burial lets Coates re-use “Plaguespreader Zombie” and “Necro Gardna,” but it also lets him save anything he loses to an opponent’s “D. D. Crow.” If his opponent robs him of “Dandylion” for instance, he can bring it back – which is good, because “Dandylion” create “Fluff Tokens” to Tribute with “Tytannial, Princess of Camellias” to negate and destroy the opponent’s cards.
"Koa'ki Meiru Gravirose" and “Armageddon Knight” also help with the activation of "Pot of Avarice.” There are nearly a dozen monsters that Gravirose can send to the Graveyard, and while not all of them have effects that activate in the Graveyard, "Pot of Avarice" can shuffle them back to draw more cards, and the cycle starts over again.
This Deck can Synchro Summon "Trident Dragion" for an unexpected win. Coates can Set “Mystic Tomato,” lose it in battle, Special Summon “Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind” with Tomato’s effect, and then next turn Normal Summon "Debris Dragon.” If he can bring back Dandylion, he can Tune Gale to it for "Iron Chain Dragon” (a Level 6 Synchro Monster), then Tune the "Debris Dragon" to Iron Chain and Synchro Summon "Trident Dragion.” Doing this leaves him with two “Fluff Tokens” to feed to "Trident Dragion" for its effect, meaning three attacks for up to 9000 Battle Damage!
DJ Coates is not the only Duelist playing Plants here this weekend, and we could see some great success for Plants in this tournament!reported by
Jason Grabher-Meyer
