A Deep Dive Into Blue-Eyes White Destiny
Someone's Getting Spoiled On Valentines Day- Yu-Gi-Oh Players W/ The Release Of The Blue-Eyes White Destiny Structure Deck
A new structure deck has entered the TCG today, Blues-Eyes White Destiny. A 51 card Blue-Eyes White Dragon based structure deck. Retailing for $11.99 at a your local OTS store today.
The new structure deck has been in the OCG since September and it has already became a top tier competitive deck so I am not surprise for it to rise here in the TCG.
The deck comprises of 21 monsters, 12 spell cards, 5 traps and 10 extra deck monsters. Looking into the deck we can see that many of the new monsters such as , Maiden of White , Neo Kaiser Sea Horse, Spirit with Eyes of Blue, along with the new level 12 synchro monster , Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon, coincide really well with the preexisting Blue-Eyes support.
The deck is broken up into 4 or 5 rarities including:
5 Ultra Rares
3 Super Rares
42 Commons
1 Secret Rare (a second copy of 1 of 3 of the Ultra Rare cards), with a small chance of being Quarter Century Secret Rare instead of Secret Rare
Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon is the new boss monster the structure deck revolves around. Once per turn, this Dragon can negate any effect activated by your opponent on the field. And when it does, it also gains 1000 Attack Points for the turn. Along with a powerful floodgate that shields your Graveyard so that your opponent can’t banish any of the cards located there. Unfortunately, it does have a hard summoning condition, “2 Tuners + 1 Non-Tuner Blue Eyes Monster”. The best way around this is using Blue Eyes Spirit Dragons effect to tribute itself to special summon a light dragon synchro from your extra deck.
There are many ways you could build a competitive/meta Blues-Eyes deck.
The simplest and cheapest way being just buying three of the structure decks and putting them together according to another deck list online. Along with adding non-engine cards like hand traps to better enhance the competitiveness of the deck.
According to the tournament results in the OCG the best engine to play within Blue-Eyes is the primite engine. The primite engine consists of about 10 cards that add extra support and defense to the Blue-Eyes monsters. Primarily focused on the spell Primite Lordly Lode which allows an easy way to special summon the normal Blue-Eyes monster. Unfortunately, the Primite engine is pretty expensive with the spell, Primite Lordly Lode, costing around $85 per copy and an engine needs at least 3 to be effective.
A more cost effective way to build a competitive blue-eyes deck is using the centurion engine, most cards in the engine are pretty cheap and easy to acquire but still add a good bit of support to Blue-Eyes due to all the monsters being easy Synchro targets.
Overall I think the new Blue-Eyes Structure deck is a great pick up for anyone in the Yu-Gi-Oh world. It would be a great start for a new Yu-Gi-Oh player as the deck is simple and effective while also providing the nostalgia affect from the iconic Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Along with being a good pick up for seasoned Yu-Gi-Oh players who just want something new but also holds extreme potential to preform well in the competitive format.