Notes & Combos
The might of industrial revolution still lives on this format it seems!
This deck has quite the unorthodox ways to survive this Tenpai season thanks to Konami releasing Infinitrack Road Roller out of nowhere. This JoJo-reference *** card was once thought as a neat extender without requiring a tribute, but now its continous effect is the only thing that keep this janky deck alive. River Stormer, having both Goliath and Road Roller as material, transforms it into a Bagooska that's rather cumbersome to out. The inclusion of Scrap Recycler makes it very searchable as well, thus more consistent compared to just adding 3 Threatening Roars in the deck.
I also have tried adding Electromagnetic Turtle, which also happens to be searchable by Scrap Recycler and Gear Gigant X. I do still feel rather 50/50 at it though, since it is an additional brick, and if you failed to interrupt Tenpai, they will make Transcendent Dragion at Main Phase 1 before Battle Phase anyway. It's quite a funny meme card still!
Other than that, no more Vernuslpyhs since I run more bricks than ever and need to survive Turn 2 with handtraps. Goliath went from 2 to 3 so one of them can be an xyz material for River Stormer, and has good matchups mostly (if you draw the right cards, that is).
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Here's how to perform a couple of my important Turn 1 combos shown in replays:
Needs any Infinitrack monster + Gearframe + Machina Ruinforce
Scrap-Line with Road Roller search (Harvester in hand)
Scrap-Line with Road Roller search (Trencher or Tunneler in hand)
Needs Havester + any Infinitrack monster
Replays
All of my replays have been updated, so enjoy watching me trying to desperately survive against 6000 ATK, multi-attacking Trident Dragon I guess.
Username: Emelia_san
ID: 992-502-666
If you wanna see how my last duel went before reaching Master 1, here's the Youtube link down below! (recorded live, with quite a misplay at that!)
Finally, here's my meme-filled Earth Machine compilation vid! I hope it gets traction at least!
I haven't used Vernuslyphs for the half of the grind. I love using them though I need space to add Scrap Recycler and important handtraps like Veiler, Imperm, and Ghost Ogre at the time. Maybe I'll addd them back when Tenpai shows up less in Ranked game.
What's the reason for the 1 copy of Irradiator? The maindeck is already over 40 cards with plenty of bricks, is there any combo route where you specifically need Irradiator to do?
Other than that, it's a solid list. EARTH MACHINE BEST DECK LETSGOO
Not really, if anything Irradiator is simply a utility tool in most cases. Besides being an obvious unbrick tool for Unclaspare, it provides means to both bring back Unclaspare/Gearframe back from GY (and trigger Citadel while we're at it). It happens sometimes, when I started the combo with Gearframe, and then drew Machina Redeployment after the Draw 2. Also it adds an extra target for Machina Redeployment.
And I know, not exactly justifies its use, but its one of those wierd cases where I couldn't play the deck without him lmao. As always, other players can ditch Irradiator for other cards
Now that you mention it, I did notice drawing Unclaspare hurts the deck's combo routes quite a lot.
My playstyle lives and dies with the Machina side of the deck, and drawing Unclaspare means that combo line is just completely dead lmao! Irradiator at least reduces the chances of me just looking at my hand and say "pass turn"
My deck is a machine that turns big trains into "super dreadnought rail cannon super dora" pass
We also have River Stormer that happens to be a stand user that turns everyone into defense position on presence, to boot
I'm just kidding. I'm actually happy u made it to M1 with earth machine that's a crazy result
Ngl, I wasn't even expecting this to be possible as Tenpai puts so much pressure in the Ranked Ladder. Glad that the archtype still find ways to get play around it. I was like "yeah, maybe I'll just grind next season" at first haha