Guide to EvilSwarm aka Verz

With the release of duelist box sacred and verz, verz aka evilswarm has come into competitive scene actively winning the top shop singapore 2012 as well as topping recently. This post aims to breakdown the deck and attempt to explain how good it actually is.

First lets take a recent decklist that top in japan.

16 Monsters
3x Verz Heliotrope
3x Verz Castor
3x Verz Thunderbird
3x Verz Ceyclon
2x Verz Mandrago
2x Rescue Rabbit

12 Spells
1 Monster Reborn
1 Heavy Storm
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 Dark Hole
1 Allure of Darkness
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
3 Verz Pandemic Infestation
1 Book of Moon

13 Traps
3 Compulsory Evacuation Device
2 Torrential Tribute
1 Starlight Road
1 Solemn Judgement
2 Solemn Warning
1 Infestation Infection
1 Fiendish Chain   

             Pros of the deck

• Triple Verz Pandemic Infestation makes this deck immune to bottomless, torrential and prison.
• Verz Castor plus any Verz = Verz Ophion
• Infestation Infection can be chained onto opponent's bottomless and torrential tribute, searches Verz Ceyclon as well
• Verz Ceyclon is an instant rank 4 when effect successfully resolves, if Ceyclon plus another Verz monster = Ophion which its effect earns back the 1 card used.
• Top decking prowess, Top decking rabbit or Ceyclon as well as reborn when u have Ceyclon in graveyard and 2 other Verz
• Verz Thunderbird is one of the best level 4 floaters around in yugioh now, its survival can be ensured easily and used to XYZ the next turn.
• Mandrago plus Verz Ceyclon or rabbit = Verz Ouroboros or Shock ruler
• Mandrago plus Verz Ceyclon taking back Verz Castor and Castor using its effect = able to XYZ 2 rank 4 monsters
• Trap cards like Torrential Tribute works well with Pandemic as well as Thunderbird.
• Bad hand of monsters can be easily cleared by Allure of Darkness      

         Cons of the deck

• Drawing 3 Infestation 2 mystical 1 infestation infection is not a funny thing, alternatively opening with spell trap that are not protective is not going to help one in winning games.
• Opening with monster hand such as Rabbit Thunderbird Castor Ceyclon Heliotrope is not funny when your opponent starts with 4 backrow and ends turn.
• Its weakness to Windup (Hence some actually play 3 compulsory and even Fiendish Chain) 

         Optional Techs

•  Dark Armed Dragon (If ur ophion gets warninged, DAD becomes alive lol)
•  Pot of Duality (To alleviate bad hand rates and to ensure u can XYZ next turn)
•  Forbidden Garments (Useful Against Ryko as well as torrential tribute and mirror force as well as bottomless trap hole)
•  Maxx-c and Effect veiler (To stop windup and mermail stunts as well as gives you a chance to draw outs to it)  
• Forbidden Chalice against monster effects
• Ability to tech in Deck Devastation Virus

  For me, my verz testing has been good so far (probably tournament reports in another post if i have time lol). Starting to see many different versions of Verz being played in Japan, most importantly will be to find a balance between the builds i feel. For me, i do not like to play 2 Verz Mandrago in the deck as its attack is the lowest (1550) among the other verz usually played. And top decking this card is useless, when u have ophion on the field this card is also a useless normal summon. Although it allows for stunts to be done with this card, i am still sceptical of it. Possibly a player would play 2 because u can use mandrago to be banished for allure of darkness LOL.

zzxiaoboizz signing off 

Top Shop 2012 Singapore tourney report

Nope i did not do well this time not at all, misplay much when it matters

Deck used: Offering Machina Gadgets

Match 1 vs Cassandra (Hero beat)
OXX
Game 1: Started with 2 warning 1 torrential 1 tragoedia and 2 gadgets. Started to grind out and stalled till real late game where i drew a fortress to turn the table. The notable top deck moment was when she had shining and i had 2 gadget and i top into a compulsory lol.
Game 2: Drop Gorz but still lost as i miscount my lance and red gadget against a photon thrasher and lost my fortress to a dd warrior lady when 2 gadgets is in my hand
Game 3: She had 2 miracle and that was enough to rush me and win as i had no tragoedia nor gorz in hand to stop the rush (i did have dark hole and gadgets in hand though)

Match 2 vs Anthony (Chaos Dragons)
XX
Game 1: Real Grinding match and i top deck reborn while he top deck Dark armed dragon with 3 dark in grave
Game 2: Drew 4 trap including an ultimate offering which was all countered by a single royal decree

Match 3 vs Sherwyn (Mermail)
XOO
Game 1: His hand too overpowered, basically otk me on his 2nd turn
Game 2: His hand too op but i had cosmos luckily
Game 3: His hadn too op but i had shock ruler to declare monster effect

Match 4 vs Lauren (Wind up)
OO
Game 1: He started with 2 factory and rabbit shark and end up with 1 backrow, 1 shock ruler, 1 coat of arms and 1 zenmighty. Shock ruler declared spells. On my turn i tinplate red gadget into giganto x and drop fortress to clear the zenmighty and shock ruler while setting my 3 backrow of avarice prison and ultimate offering. He went for zenmaines the next turn and i prisoned it and on my turn i open offering and came out ouroboros to remove his backrow, big eye gemknight pearl and shock ruler to end the game.
Game 2: Drew into hand traps but din get the chance to use it as i just beat down and heavy storm when he had 3600 left and i had double summon red gadget and fortress

Match 5 vs Keith (Infernity)
XOX
Game 1: Grinding match and he had warning and bottomless to my giganto x and fortress
Game 2: His infernity doom dragon hit the wrong target and allowed me to top the table
Game 3: He top deck archfiend x2 plus reborn on the next draw = enough said

Total Score 2-3

Decklist of the deck

So now top shop is over......the question is what to do next (stay or quit or hmm)
Sorry for the hyper inactiveness rofl, will try to be more active now till i enlist in march hmm.

zzxiaoboizz signing off

Top shop qualifier 11/11/2012

So some would ask why go again when u qualified on 10/11/2012. Well its all conspiracy to 'help' ur own friends get in that day.

Deck used: Kara Laggia (Was supposed to play Kara World but Weemin did not bring fran ken to help me damn it)

Match 1 vs 'Kid' from Jurong (Frogs)
OO
Game 1: Dolkka to kill his first turn ground mole and controlled from there with tour guide follow up
Game 2: Marshmellon stalling fell short when i dark hole it and followed up with ophion and dolkka to lock down.

Match 2 vs Anand (Hero Beat)
XOX
Game 1: Early mst exchange and i was left with no backrow, he went for excalibur to take down my ophion before going absolute zero in main phrase 2 and i drew no answer.
Game 2: Mid game rabbit stayed on field due to a set warning and top deck mst on his only backrow which was torrential tribute to turn the table and otk with 3 heliotrope (normal 3rd one from hand)
Game 3: Similar as game 1, early mst exchange just that my prison this time got solumned and i gt otked by shining plus excalibur

So i was supposed to lose at this point but he gtg so he gave me the win and i truely thank him (would be sure to return the favour)

Match 3 vs Jason (Inzektor)
OXO
Game 1: Typical grinding match with rabbit in late game to seal the game
Game 2: Had Rabbit early on but he pot for bottomless and i was unable to lure it away
Game 3: Another grinding match but had a saber plus 4 backrow start and was able to rabbit in mid game for the win desptie a Maxx-c chained upon its activation.

Match 4 vs Cheng Wee (Wind Up)
OO
Game 1: Thunder bird set 5, reminds me of arimura yohei style and unfortunate for him 4 were real backrows
Game 2: Summoned raioh, was forced to negate his exceed and he reborned my raioh which was killed by my heliotrope and i reborn raioh to my field. He began the rabbit rat grind and exhaust his resources trying to get past raioh, his last card in hand was a rat which gt solemned by me and his 'supposed to return rat' gt lucksacked by my top deck tour guide and leviar it back to completely control the game and win.

Match 5 vs Sherwyn (Dark World)
O--
Game 1: Grinding match and he misplayed his sangan by not attacking into my heliotrope and resulted in him being resourceless
Game 2: Discontinued as i can't qualify and had to give up the win in exchange for 3 can drinks

Conclusion: I should consider siding better for hero matchups, they turn out to be the most vulnerable ones.

zzxiaoboizz signing off

Top shop qualifier 10 Nov at ttz trading

Deck used: Kara Laggia

Match 1 vs Bahamut84 (Chaos Dragon)
OO
Game 1: Heavy backrow plus tour guide start lead to sangan getting rescue rabbit and verz ophion control to win the game.
Game 2: Similar Verz Ophion control and chalice stopped ryko from destroying ophion.

Match 2 vs Wei Ann (Laval)
OO
Game 1: Had mst to clear his backrow and set up ophion on turn 2 and control with heavy backrow from there.
Game 2: He had double rekindling but i had bottomless and dark hole in hand to clear it and apply pressure with verz castor to win.

Match 3 vs Jackie (Arrive Hero)
OO
Game 1: First turn rabbit wasted much of his resources and was able to win with card advantage outstripping hi by 2.
Game 2: First turn rabbit again and had reborn plus dark hole to turn the table when he excalibur plus absolute zero.

Match 4 vs Ryan Stark (Darrive Hero)
OXX
We did not side since both of us qualified already being in top 2.
Game 1: Reborn plus tour guide to turn table
Game 2: Rush by him and lost
Game 3: Rush by him with miracle fusion x2 and lost.

Conclusion: Forbidden Lance is not a good card in kara laggia aka verz laggia. With windups flying around, setting a lance seems rather wtf when they do their stunts.

Free ranking tourney at full yen 27/10/2012

Deck used: Kara Gadgets

Match 1 vs Calvin (Dark world)
Game 1: Early machina search plus giganto x made the advantage too big and won.
Game 2: Drew consecutive 4 gadgets and lost to skill drain
Game 3: Soul drain stop opponent snow plus heavy storm hits opponent 5 backrow to steal the win

Match 2 vs Zexuan (Hanzo Rabbit)
Did not play and some conspiracy (cause i lend him my rabbit to play lol) so won and thanks for the win ^^

Match 3 vs Wesley seek (Wind up)
XOX
Game 1: Tour guide plus 2 factory on first turn = enough said
Game 2: Giganto x set 4 backrow, 1 of them was rivalry and was able to win that game.
Game 3: Trap stun then rabbit plus magician stunt plus normal rat to otk with shock ruler shark revise butterfly zenmighy.

Conclusion: Top 4 again consecutive and mayb its time to follow the crazy japanese and play 3 Maxx-c 43 card deck in my kara machina. Wind up a bit too imba (Emergency banlist plox)

Asia plus 21/10/2012

So today's team tourney lineup

Me as leader playing Mermail without undine
Wesley as Player A playing chaos dragons
Weemin as Player B playing dark world

Match 1 vs Team Tian Yu Di

Me vs Kelvin Neo (Hanzo Mermail)
XX
Game 1: Opened spike slinde megalo and got pro stormed. Gt rushed to death after that
Game 2: Same as game 1 except that i did not get pro stormed but instead gt owned by an exactly 5 water in grave top deck moulin grace plus hanzo and marksman stunts.

Totally smashed after the first round

Wesley lost to Yijie (Dark world)
Weemin won Soon Hai (Inzektors)

Match 2 vs Neo's Team

Me vs Neo (Gorila Meklord Emperor)
OO
Game 1: Some Megalo rush won the game with help from heavy storm
Game 2: Was too lucky and had storm to clear backrow and rush again

Wesley won Ash (Gravekeepers)
Weemin won Machina gadgets sry forgot name

Match 3 vs  Team Facebook dotcom

Me vs Yew Loong (Skill Drain Valley Beat)
XOX

Game 1: Gt controlled by Raioh
Game 2: Was able to draw into side decked dd warrior lady and trap stun to turn table and won
Game 3: Top deck war and lost but i caused the top deck war to happen. It was at this point where i had 3 backrow and he had 5 backrow 2 faceup d fissure. I was at 1600 and had solumn warning solumn judgement and bottomless. I know 1 of his backrow is lance due to an earlier on royal tribute which i equalled the advantage thru a heavy storm. I summoned diva and he opened skill drain while i had another armsman on field. I thought of playing solumn but was afraid to land into a mirror force which could be the other set card. I went to play safe and it turned out to be a Xing Zhen Hu which locked my solumn and we went into top deck war as i lost my armory arm to his monsters.

Wesley Seek won Ryan Stark (Chain burn) Epic game 3 whereby wesley mst hit ryan's mst and decree came into the play.

Weemin won Wenliang (Heroes)

Match 4 vs Baha team

Me vs Bahamut84 aka Michael Santoso (Hero Beat with main decked maxx-c and veilers)
XOO
Game 1: Paid too much on warning and solumn judgement and gt killed by a gorz onto my aoj catastor
Game 2: Game stalled for everylong before i managed to get rid of his monsters and direct for game. Many maxx-c and veiler throwed to my face thruout.
Game 3: He had absolute zero and 2 hand. I had 1 hand which is armsman. I top deck compulsory. Set it and use it on his standby phrase. He went for card car d draw, i top deck horseman and attacked him and he had only 900 lp left. He drew and set a defence monster. I top decked diva again but got veilerd, made gaia knight and attacked a set veiler. Next turn he played a defence and i attacked into a set card car d. Time was called at 5500 to 900 and he conceded as he drew no outs.

Really luck sack to top compulsory....sided one out and nearly regreted it.

Wesley won Jeff (Inzektors)
Weemin lost to Calvin (Mermail)




Match 5 vs Team Aequus Bubble match

Me vs Shaun Lim (Dark World)
XOO
Game 1: Was in Cruise Control with 5 Atlanteans in hand, he went for some epic 1 card card destruction and turn the tables with that thru gateway and i was unable to clear it. After the card destruction, the next card i drew was Megalo WTF tats ygo folks.
Game 2: Went with a set slinde and set call of the haunted. He went with one backrow and ended his turn. I summoned diva and got marksman out lost all to a flush and slinde called out spike which discarded Horseman and searched megalo and slinde. Dropped slinde and marksman for Megalo. Megalo eff tribute spikeman and double attacked him dropping him to 3200. He had no response to my megalo attacks, i flipped call sp marksman attacked and horseman finished the game.
Game 3: Drew side decked stuff and we continued to play despite hearing that both my teammates lost. Cleared a grapha with gates on field via sphere plus diva into scrap dragon. After that he went defensive and i went to solumn his eradicator epidemic virus while having shadow imprisoning mirror on field. Eventually won the game as he went for Card destruction to throw 4 dw to see if he drew any outs but he did not.

Wesley lost to Weiann (Breaker Bls Heroes)
Weemin lost to Shaun (Herald Agents)

And all of us ended the day with 3-2

Once again Team Insanetech lost the bubble match, now 4 times in a row, with me winning 3 of those 4 losses

zzxiaoboizz signing off.

Consolidation of team tourney pre main event qualifiers

So it has been close to a month since i last posted. Mainly due to the lack of content that is gonna be posted anw.
Team Insanetech has been actively involved in the team tournament with the recent 3 qualifiers

1st one at Jcube 29/10/2012 ended up at top 4
2nd one at Ahsoo 6/10/2012 ended up as first round eliminated
3rd one at Audio Ventura 13/10/2012 ended up as 2nd

Audio Ventura tourney report

Me: Mermails
Wesley Seek: Chaos Dragons
Weemin: Dark World


Match 1 vs Team BBT

Me vs Vishal (Dark World)
XOO
Game 1: First turn grapha proves too much to handle to my hand of warnings
Game 2: Double megalo rush plus marksman to clear his only trap
Game 3: He went for dealings dropped grapha i debunked it, he went for card destruction drop 4 dark world and i chained shadow mirror, he din draw any outs to it with his 4 card draw from card destruction and went downhill from there as his attempt to revie a grapha via call of the haunted got trap stunned by me as i went for game.

Wesley and Weemin both won

Match 2 vs Wei Ann (Dark World)
OO
Game 1: Controlled by skill drain but was able to survive till storm came and then snatch the win after clearing his backrow
Game 2: Survived an early DDV to be able to stall till i have diva and storm and once again snatch the game.

Weemin lost to herald agents
Wesley won

Match 3 vs Rong Jie (Hero Beat)
OO
Game 1: Started with spike plus horseman and was able to reap pluses off it and start to control and won.
Game 2: His first miracle ate btmless and he book of moon his shining and miracled again with a photon thrasher and his facedown shining, i dprisoned the 2nd one and was able to go for the game then.

Wesley and Weemin both won

Top 2 vs Alvin Putra (Agent Angels)
XX
Game 1: He had 2 hyperion, venus and storm while i started with 2 mst and abyssphere megalo and no atlanteans....read a backrow wrongly mid game and misplayed from there.
Game 2: Drew no atlanteans, 2 mst and 2 abyssphere, quickly lost ground to his first turn venus followed by double earth. Did not feel so bad as my teammates told me i lost before i was about to get killed.

Team both lost. Weemin losing to Keith Chen  in a mirror match dark world and wesley seek losing to sherwyn's 'Light Dual'

Result is 2nd and that means we will have to qualify via main event qualifiers and if we do, its gonna be dead tiring that day. From my knowledge, the team that won last year's team tourney did not have to go thru the tiring swiss.

Fun Fact: This year team tourney record
Wesley win 5 lose 3
Weemin win 5 lose 3
Me win 5 lose 3

No one is the bright spark of the team it seems, we all perform equally dissapointing/satisfying since perception is by one's view.

Fun Fact 2: Team Insanetech has lost 3 out of 3 matches that concerns advancement to top 8
1st one last year team tourney losing to jonas bai team in swiss round 4
2nd one this year new banlist team tourney losing to bryan chua's team in swiss round 4
3rd one this year 4th qualifier losing to Team Putra in the finals.

Odds of making it thru this year: Too unpredictable ( i know i say this to make myself feel good maybe lol)

zzxiaoboizz signing off