I’ll bet that most people who are reading this took one look at the title and thought to themselves, “There’s no way in the world that this can work!” Well, you’re wrong. It can work, it does work, and I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it.
Monsters: 13
1 Left Arm of the Forbidden One
1 Left Leg of the Forbidden One
1 Right Arm of the Forbidden One
1 Right Leg of the Forbidden One
1 Exodia the Forbidden One
1 Sangan
3 Emissary of the Afterlife
2 The Creator
1 Dark Magician of Chaos
1 Sinister Serpent
Spells: 26
2 Upstart Goblin
2 Monster Reincarnation
2 Last Will
2 Spell Reproduction
1 Pot of Greed
1 Graceful Charity
1 Mass Driver
2 Metamorphosis
1 Premature Burial
3 Scapegoat
3 Dark Factory of Mass Production
3 Reasoning
3 Monster Gate
Traps: 2
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Call of the Haunted
Side Deck: 15
2 Dimension Fusion
2 Mass Driver
3 Dragged Down into the Grave
2 Reload
1 Spell Reproduction
2 Giant Trunade
3 Spell Economics
Fusion: 3
3 Thousand-Eyes Restrict
This deck came about as a collaborative effort between Andy and his friend Tony. Andy had been working on recursion-based Exodia decks for a long time, and he was looking for a way to bring the big guy back to prominence in the tournament scene. Enter Tony. Tony was mucking about with Reasoning and Monster Gate online. Andy took one look at Tony’s deck, thought to himself “Can we break it? Yes we can!” and the Reasoning/Monster Gate deck was born.
The main idea of the deck is to fetch Sangan from the deck using Last Will and then get it killed somehow. Afterwards, you want to use Reasoning and Monster Gate to filter through the deck and get The Creator on to the field. Once you’ve got it out, the fun begins as you can keep on bringing Sangan and Emissary of the Afterlife back from the graveyard for more searching fun. Wild, isn’t it?
If you thought that was crazy, check out Andy’s side deck. If Exodia isn’t going to work, (for example, against the Burn deck that Andy faced in round 1), there’s the option to side deck into the Dimension Fusion combo deck that debuted in Houston. “He absolutely didn’t see it coming,” remarked Andy about his deck’s switch to fast combo. I didn’t see it coming either. Andy feels that one of the biggest weaknesses of the Exodia deck its inability to properly utilize a side deck, and I would tend to agree. However, Andy has decided to do something about it, and the result has been explosive.
“It’s a surprise deck,” remarked Andy, “No one can prepare against it because no one knows what to expect from it!” That may be true now, but in the later rounds Andy will have to be on his guard, as potential opponents will have had plenty of time to scout him out. The real test of this deck’s durability will be its performance once that element of surprise is gone.
In a final note, Urza the Tyrant states that, "ANDY R TEH PROSAUC3!!!/1!".