Whats your favourite pure deck?

[TormentedSalad]

Now for some ground rules things I dont consider break the rule

• Handtraps and other generic cards like Triple tacts
  
• Some generic extra deck monsters to help support your deck (as long as your typical end board isn't just them)
  
• I also wont disqualify a deck using archetype extra decks ritual decks using arc light or invoked using Almiraj

So i'll start mine would be Plunder Patroll given the event is the reason i'm thinking about this of my possible answers this is the one I like the most generally don't even touch my non Plunder extra deck much except Almiraj to unbrick a few hands.

[Silyon]

Hard to say, I haven't actually built a pure deck in a long time. Usually run at least two related engines, like Blue-Eyes/Bystial or Ogdoadic/Reptilliane. Even Endymion is two related engines, Endymion and Mythical Beasts. I think the only properly pure deck I've run is Floo, unless Apex Avian disqualifies it, and I didn't particularly like it.

[TormentedSalad]

Originally posted by Silyon:

Hard to say, I haven't actually built a pure deck in a long time. Usually run at least two related engines, like Blue-Eyes/Bystial or Ogdoadic/Reptilliane. Even Endymion is two related engines, Endymion and Mythical Beasts. I think the only properly pure deck I've run is Floo, unless Apex Avian disqualifies it, and I didn't particularly like it.

I mean Floo counts but I tried it also when the ex zero first dropped I was pulling for something else just happened to pull the Floo stuff deck bored my brains out for real lmao I think I just swapped to dangers or something

[Lasagna]

does things like frog engine (literally just 3 swapfrog and 1 ronintoadin, only 1 of which is even actually a member of the "frog" archetype) in spright count? because I liked playing pure spright a lot more than runick spright or twin spright.

[TormentedSalad]

Originally posted by Lasagna:

does things like frog engine (literally just 3 swapfrog and 1 ronintoadin, only 1 of which is even actually a member of the "frog" archetype) in spright count? because I liked playing pure spright a lot more than runick spright or twin spright.

I would say yeah thats probably pure enough in Sprights case thats about as pure as it gets

[HeraldOfOpera]

Originally posted by Silyon:

Hard to say, I haven't actually built a pure deck in a long time. Usually run at least two related engines, like Blue-Eyes/Bystial or Ogdoadic/Reptilliane. Even Endymion is two related engines, Endymion and Mythical Beasts. I think the only properly pure deck I've run is Floo, unless Apex Avian disqualifies it, and I didn't particularly like it.

I'd count Endymion just because the archetypes are so clearly related in both lore and mechanics. I know Branded Despia constantly mention each other instead of a shared mechanic that nobody else uses, but both decks are edge cases that should probably have been spelled out in the OP.

[Raven]

I have so many...I think a lot of mine usually would fall under your rules+ultra version of the rules, but I did at least fix up a few to be more competitive.

My favorite has to be Evil Twins, with the caveat that I consider the :P cards as included, being part of the same universe and all.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3412152734

^I do know I have the parallel in there, but honestly, I'll 100% cut those for sweet and deal when they become available. I also want to point out Ty-phon is going to be in my decks because he's the easiest out to dragoon and an auto win for that :P

I want to include white forest, but its more of a lore deck, which...kinda is pure? unfortunately I guess not. I also included the illusion monsters that came with it because it felt appropriate, but when we get the azamina cards, I actually did find a way to do a really pure snake-eyes/white forest/sinful spoils/azamina deck, which is all related? don't know if that counts with pure though, but it feels like it should. It doesn't violate the "spirit" of them, I think:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3412152929

EDTI: I want to point out for my white forest deck, I almost never going into chaos angel or baronne, they are there so people don't think I'm completely insane <_< I don't think I've ever gone into them once since making the deck

Honorable mentions cus I do enjoy them, and they fit under your rules, although for melodious I could cut the honests out, but they really screw people over because NOBODY PLAYS AROUND HONEST anymore:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3412152832

And trickstar, which is pure, minus the droll birds. I do think about cutting them just to be pure, but the droll bird thing is too funny:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3412152661

EDIT: acutally, this topic and thinking about it persuaded me. I'm swapping out the droll birds for chain summoning, its more fun for my opponent that way and less high role. Droll is going to be really important in the future updates, but in the end, I don't like outright taking away my opponents ability to play, even if a lot of decks can play a 1 card combo.

Some other honorables that I don't quite have pure versions made atm (well technically amazoness, but I'm disgusted I have maxx "C" in it because it really wants the draw powers and I loaded in an extra deck it doesn't need.
Voiceless Voice, I just had a few generic cards I couldn't help mixing in (logaeth, honest, diviner of the herald), its really a pure deck, but it violates the rules a bit. Another pure deck I absolutely love but haven't played in years is Spellbooks, I always disliked sitting on jowgen, so I *DO* have a pure version of that sitting around, just IRL rather than on master duel. I could make it really quick, but my post is already getting very long and I don't think anyone cares or even has read to this point

[Merilirem]

Pure decks are hard because I play chaos. Which doesn't really have a pure mode.

Full power tearlaments is fun and works great but got banned to hell.

Chaos Synchro is cool but it feels like they need a couple more pieces to work right pure. Even splicing it has issues.

Thunder Dragon is awesome but feels lacking.

Off the top of my head I guess in this format its chaos Synchro since its the only pure chaos deck I can remember.

[Soji]

ever since the new Ice Barrier cards have come out its been them. Ironically them just being floodgate turbo isn't even out of theme for them like a lot of new support does for legacy archetypes since that's always been what they did besides decks abusing Trishula, and that's still what they do with Lancea making it a lot easier to summon them. Unless you say they didn't do anything before which honestly I wouldn't even disagree with you

[Ryoga]

If we can count the Bystails under "Handtraps and other generic cards" then: Red-Eyes Bystial.

[Merilirem]

Originally posted by Ryoga:

If we can count the Bystails under "Handtraps and other generic cards" then: Red-Eyes Bystial.

Nah, bystials are a whole thing on their own. Hence why you call it Red Eyes BYSTIAL. A pure deck would just be ONE name.

[Ryoga]

Originally posted by Merilirem:

Originally posted by Ryoga:

If we can count the Bystails under "Handtraps and other generic cards" then: Red-Eyes Bystial.

Nah, bystials are a whole thing on their own. Hence why you call it Red Eyes BYSTIAL. A pure deck would just be ONE name.

Then arguably none of them should count as "pure" cause you can easily get into a situation where 75% of a deck doesn't belong to the archetype in question and going by the OP it would still count cause "Handtraps and other generic cards" while other decks where you have about 50%+ in archetype cards wouldn't.

[Raven]

Originally posted by Ryoga:

Originally posted by Merilirem:

Nah, bystials are a whole thing on their own. Hence why you call it Red Eyes BYSTIAL. A pure deck would just be ONE name.

Then arguably none of them should count as "pure" cause you can easily get into a situation where 75% of a deck doesn't belong to the archetype in question and going by the OP it would still count cause "Handtraps and other generic cards" while other decks where you have about 50%+ in archetype cards wouldn't.

OP clearly outlined "generic cards" being spells/traps, not monsters and engines.

and aside from my decks being set for "typical duels" I play my decks much more pure in reality, they don't even allow for handtraps most of the time, pure decks are absolutely something that can be made.

[TormentedSalad]

Originally posted by Ryoga:

Originally posted by Merilirem:

Nah, bystials are a whole thing on their own. Hence why you call it Red Eyes BYSTIAL. A pure deck would just be ONE name.

Then arguably none of them should count as "pure" cause you can easily get into a situation where 75% of a deck doesn't belong to the archetype in question and going by the OP it would still count cause "Handtraps and other generic cards" while other decks where you have about 50%+ in archetype cards wouldn't.

Bystials are an archetype and a full engine on their own it's the same reason I would disqualify Swordsoul because of the Tenyi

[Ryoga]

Originally posted by TormentedSalad:

Originally posted by Ryoga:

Then arguably none of them should count as "pure" cause you can easily get into a situation where 75% of a deck doesn't belong to the archetype in question and going by the OP it would still count cause "Handtraps and other generic cards" while other decks where you have about 50%+ in archetype cards wouldn't.

Bystials are an archetype and a full engine on their own it's the same reason I would disqualify Swordsoul because of the Tenyi

That's beside the point.

[HeraldOfOpera]

Originally posted by Ryoga:

Originally posted by TormentedSalad:

Bystials are an archetype and a full engine on their own it's the same reason I would disqualify Swordsoul because of the Tenyi

That's beside the point.

Then the point is nonsensical. If the name you called the deck by mentions two archetypes, it's not a pure deck unless those archetypes explicitly mention each other (eg. Branded Despia).