[{"_id":"673a4ddffb7ba5b08cee1922","author":{"_id":"671513333108150413015384","roles":[],"username":"Arotra 🐒💩💨💥"},"created":"2024-11-17T20:10:46.600Z","url":"/master-v/november-2024/vaalmonica/arotra-🐒💩💨💥/HfOWf/","deckType":{"name":"Vaalmonica","tournamentPower":1},"rankedType":{"name":"Master V","shortName":"Master V","icon":"/mdm_img/content/logos/master-5.webp","statsWeight":10,"event":true,"activeEvent":false,"includeInStats":true},"engines":[],"srPrice":690,"urPrice":600,"linkedArticle":null,"notes":"","replays":"","illegal":true,"relevance":5},{"_id":"672d8413e252366ef0a9fe1b","author":{"_id":"667f2f233b9bc7becd580bdf","roles":[],"username":"AbsoultMMA"},"created":"2024-11-08T02:56:04.927Z","url":"/meta-weekly/136/vaalmonica/absoultmma/sakkJ/","deckType":{"name":"Vaalmonica","tournamentPower":1},"tournamentType":{"name":"Meta Weekly","shortName":"Meta Weekly","icon":"/mdm_img/content/logos/dmc-meta-weekly-icon.webp","enumSuffix":"#","statsWeight":10},"tournamentPlacement":"Top 8","tournamentNumber":"136","customTournamentName":null,"engines":[],"srPrice":570,"urPrice":780,"linkedArticle":{"_id":"672d6601e0d9503486dc9dd9","title":"Dkayed Meta Weekly #136","url":"/tournaments/dmc-md-meta-weekly-tournament/136/report/"},"notes":"","replays":"","illegal":true,"relevance":4},{"_id":"671c58b37adff1780919ee84","author":{"_id":"660a74e3ef031a48d8c18822","roles":[],"username":"azuchang"},"created":"2024-10-26T02:48:36.671Z","url":"/master-i/october-2024/vaalmonica/azuchang/62I0S/","deckType":{"name":"Vaalmonica","tournamentPower":1},"rankedType":{"name":"Master I","shortName":"Master I","icon":"/mdm_img/content/logos/master-1.webp","statsWeight":10,"event":true,"activeEvent":true,"includeInStats":true},"engines":[{"_id":"660719a81e9ce725b357d27f","name":"Sharvara"}],"srPrice":690,"urPrice":690,"linkedArticle":null,"hasNotes":true,"hasReplays":true,"illegal":true,"relevance":4,"parsedNotes":"

I've found Vaalmonica to be a very enjoyable deck in the current meta, as the deck feels strong when it gets to establish its board and contains effective interaction vs Tenpai but struggles going second. Vaalmonica also completely folds to Evenly Matched, which has become so rare post-Tenpai that I no longer play it as a Crossout target.

Sometimes you brick and sometimes you get negated to death and sometimes you get hit with the Duster+Droplet+Paidra combo but such is the rogue life.

This build isn't really anything revolutionary, just pure Vaalmonica tuned for the current meta as best I could. I'm very happy with the Main Deck, the Extra Deck has more leeway for changes as most of the ED cards are situational.

Cards not included:

Apollousa: I don't have it, but I would play it if I did. Probably instead of Ragnazero.
Selene: Same as Apollousa, but more situational. If I had it, I'd experiment switching out the synchros, a third Zebufera or Exceed the Pendulum for it.
Pot of Prosperity: A good card that I used to play, but I took it out so I could stick to 40 cards. The next change I would try for this deck would be adding Prosp as the 41st card.
Pot of Extravagance: I think it's playable in this deck because Zebufera is the only ED monster you really absolutely need, but it feels bad when you end up needing one of the situational cards that got banished.
Vaalmonica Chosen Melody: Awkward card. Often it's a struggle just to get Followed Rhythm set up, so adding another trap into the mix doesn't feel good. You would also like to activate both effects, but the targeting protection needs to be activated proactively and the negate reactively.
Vaalmonica Intonare: Nice in a grind game, but not very good at all on your first turn which is the most critical one.

Unfortunately I don't have any good replays saved aside from one that shows off the combo you'd like to go for.

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ID: `980-701-930`

Full combo vs Tenpai (Oct 25 vs やしゃまる)

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Finally got master 5 with Vaal! (guess I chose the right cup to fill huh...) with all the tenpai andys running around our followed rythmn trap and destruction protection from zebufera give us a good chance against them! Have fun duelists and make sure to make the right choice!

a normal board will usually end on zebufera with either bagooska or abyss dweller w the trap of your choice (if ur against infernoid ABYSS DWELLER DOESNT WORK - I learned that the hard way)

some replays here: 705-020-922

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Not going all the way to M1 yet because I already did the Duelist Cup with Vaalmonica and now I'm waiting for the next selection pack to pick a new deck for the season.

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I choose Gamma over Veiler because the deck is very vulnerable to handtraps. You can also do some cool link plays if you activate it durring your turn.

If you can, summon Apollousa before attacking. Espacially against Yubel or if your opponent plays Bystials. If you are only worried about GY effects use Dweller instead.

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after 4 months break from fighting to get to master we are back!

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some basic line with some replays :) \nhttps://youtu.be/UaHkgnr_XzQ

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P/S: Please don't play this if you hate non-playable hands. You have four big, fat bricks in non-Turbo Genexes.

I honestly had no intention of climbing this DC. I was just testing nutty Vaalmonica-Genex builds (+/-Small World, current engine or 3 Blastfan 1 Turing into Locomotion or Arms, +/-Evols or Yama/Sharvara) to DLv.15, then somehow lucksacked this version into DLv.20. Alongside the usual Vaal advantage into stun/burn, turns out this version can also farm mid Yubel hands because:

Dawn Dragster into Return Zero going first was quite effective against Yubel with the usual Vaal endboard. Yubel starters are a mix of Continuous/Field Spells and the Fiend monsters.
Bagooska. Yubel has no way of dealing with it without S:P or non-engine. And Return Zero checks one S:P eff.
3 Phantoms? Rhythm trap bounce, pop Spells :3 You can win the grind game against Yubel if you keep recycling Rhythm (while they don't have Samsara).
Going second, there are 3 ways of stealing their interactions to go into S:P without commiting a monster, with Scales + Turbo still setting up a Genex endboard.

The craziest thing is that my opponent started either playing too safe or overcooking when Turbo is pend-summoned lol. Maybe that's why I kept winning when I shouldn't.

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This list is almost entirely copied from the latest person to bring pure Vaalmonica to Master 1. Vaalmonica is a very... strange deck. It plays very differently from the 1-card combo decks of current times, in both good and bad ways. The bad part is obvious: the deck is all 2 card combos, those combos can die to even single hand traps, and the endboard is not bad but it's far from unbeatable. But its strengths are also surprisingly good. The deck can do well under Maxx "C". If you forgo making Bagooska, the only draw they're getting is the one from Zebufera, and that there's already most of your endboard. But it's also honestly quite good against anti-meta stuff. You can play through Dimension Shifter and Macro Cosmos for instance, since Disarmonia and Zebufera work with your banished cards. It's also shockingly good against stun since they can't use a counter trap on your effect to scale from hand and deck, Dimonno makes winning combat trivial, Selettrice comes back forever, and even without special summoning you can set and later recur Followed Rhythm.

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I'm working on the deck trying to make it the more consistent possible! \nIt does not have that many Exosister stuff in the main deck so you can try to have more hand traps and stuff but still have the Exosis plays! The bad part is that the resources end fast, but yeah

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Ok imma be real, that other vaalmonica mathmech deck was dogwater, so i'm here to give my own version of it (thx to some of the players of the vaalmonica channel that gave me some techs to use.)

First of all, we are actually gonna be using our 3 mathmech names into good use and make it superfactorial targets.

Secondly, if you're wondering why Amritara is there, it is basically to get a free omni-negate (since after doing the mathmech stuff, you'll be left with circular + diameter, a perfect recipe for a synchro 8)

To sum it all up, instead of ending on Zeb + Bagooska, you're ending on Zeb + Superfactorial w/ 3 Mathmech names, and a counter trap. Also as always, i have a combo video showcasing this.

~~(Keeping it short because its 2am as of me writing this)~~

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Selettrice + Vaalmonica Pendulum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yksxzg3r43U

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T1 endboard is Zebufera + bagooska + ip + linguriboh off selettrice + scale + discard or antyhing that gets to that (so a lot of cards combinations).\nThe gy setup is scelta + intonare, you can search trap instead of having intonare in rotation but then the board loses the bagooska, also you might miss a counter because trap isn't immediate counters.

Of course thru interrupts it can only become a bagooska but if you baited the imperm it's likely that they still lose, because bagooska with selettrice under + scales is guaranteed followup.

Linguriboh is self explanatory when you instalose to imperm and evenly.

Imo chosen melody is not needed, imperm is good because you can activate it from hand and the second effect is interesting but you probably still lose in modern yugioh.

In the beginning the tactics were handtraps, but considering how much good engine the deck plays and how it also can pass after an ash, the draw 2/ check hand effects are way too good not to play the card. Also i prefer handtraps for that but the card is also good going second, and is also a good sixth card.

Blue tears has the same characteristics, becomes engine when you go first because you pitch it and set trap for free after a vaal normal spell, and is also a going second card that gives you counters.

Mathmech package may be the most important thing, they give access to link decoder and devotee who cheat 1 card in hand, 1 body on board and allow you to get the linguriboh. Also they're level 4 so if you draw them you can just use them as extenders and go for usual vaal stuff.\nMulptiplication because sometimes duralume can't kill so you whip out your 10k accesscode, it actually came up on the m5 rankup. If used turn intonare can add it back to hand from gy to have it again.

Also i have to stress how good sp is in this deck, it can banish your first zebufera allwing it to activate again in bp, and become another one in bp when opp wants to attack into it, allowing you to get the effect 3 times.

The deck can play apollousa, if you go full combo you have enough material, even more likely if you have field because it can simply take material from opponent, but i never was making it because sp is also so much better into tactics.

I'll post replays when i continue the climb, which actually happened earlier this month.

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Furhire