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Yu-Gi-Oh - I Need Help With My Advanced format Zombie Deck PLZ

Expert: Exo - 11/4/2009

Question
QUESTION: I want this deck to be regional worthy,I have no price limit,if you can can u help me with a deck setup dat doesnt involve syncros but could go head 2 head with them. I want a 40 card deck, right now its incomplete.if you can fix/rebuild/make this deck hard to beat,id much appreciate it
monsters
3 Zombie master
2 mezuki
3 pyramid turtle
1 Dad
3 red eyes zombie dragon
1 spirit reaper
3 paladin of the cursed dragon
1 Cauis the shadow monarch
Magics
3 book of life
1 MST
1 heavy storm
2 allue of darkness
2 zombie world
1 brain control
1 Giant trunade
Traps
2 royal decree
2 bottomless traphole
1 torrential tribute
1 call of the haunted
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ANSWER: There's quite a bit of contradiction going on here, Zombie World and Caius don't like each other, and neither do Royal Decree and Traps...
Royal Decree isn't that great this format anyway, since it just lets Lightsworn known you can't stop them...

Why the aversion to Synchros? They do nothing except help, and you're playing the deck that has the most access to them in the game...

For your monsters, I'll be dropping out the Red-Eyes Zombie Dragons in favour of better tributes, namely a second Caius and a Ryu Kokki
I'll also be dropping all the copies of Paladin of White Dragon in order to play 2 Goblin Zombie, Sangan and Card Trooper, all of which help you get at your monsters, along with a Necro-Gardna, which provides discards for Zombie Master, and hits for the copies of Burial from the Different Dimension we'll be playing.
Gorz the Emissary of Darkness finishes the monster lineup:

1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1 Dark Armed Dragon
1 Ryu Kokki
2 Caius the Shadow Monarch
3 Zombie Master
3 Pyramid Turtle
2 Goblin Zombie
1 Necro-Gardna
2 Mezuki
1 Sangan
1 Spirit Reaper
1 Card Trooper
(19)

For spells, we'll drop Zombie world, since there's not much point in resurrecting your opponent's monsters if you're not gonna use them to synchro.
I'll also drop out Giant Trunade, which is better suited to OTK decks.
I'll be adding in 2 Copies of Book of Moon, and 2 Creature Swap to abuse Turtle and Goblin with. 2 Burial from the Different Dimension complete this line.

3 Book of Life
2 Allure of Darkness
2 Book of Moon
2 Creature Swap
2 Burial from a Different Dimension
1 Heavy Storm
1 Brain Control
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
(14)

That leaves 7 spaces for Traps, which'll be filled by the base 5 plus 2 Phoenix Wing Wind Blast, which discard Zombies for Revival:

2 Bottomless Trap Hole
2 Phoenix Wing Wind Blast
1 Mirror Force
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Call of the Haunted
(7)

For 40 cards total
Give that a try.
If you have any further questions about it, feel free to ask a follow-up question.

---------- FOLLOW-UP ----------

QUESTION: thanks,this will do well. what changes would you do to turn the newly constructed deck in a syncro deck that way i could start round one without synchros then round two with them

Answer
It's not overly difficult to do so, you'll only need 1 Tuner: Plaguespreader Zombie.
Drop Ryu-Kokki out for it, since when you're aiming to synchro, you'll be using Turtle to get Zombie Master or Goblin Zombie, or even straight to Plague...
You also drop a Book of Life and a Creature Swap for the Third Burial and a Mind Control.

If you really want to go all the way, you could trade out the 2 Caius for Il Blud too... that'll allow you to abuse the new Black Brutdrago Synchro monster.
Alternatively, they can be replaced by an Armageddon Knight and a second Necro-Gardna.

Remember that your extra deck should contain plenty of Level 6 Synchros. That becomes less of a problem in a week's time, when Brionac is released in Hidden Arsenal.

Hope that helped.

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