Deck Spotlight: Superheavy Adamancipators

Superheavy Samurai is one of the decks that received incredible legacy support from Cyberstorm Access. The set pushed the deck to the top of the tier list, but at a superheavy cost. How about a budget alternative for people who want to play the deck but cannot afford the full version?

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Playing a Budget Version … Sort Of

The beauty about the Superheavy deck is that it can be played both as a complete deck and as an engine with other decks. Personally, I do not have all the cards needed to play pure Superheavy Samurai competitively. I really wanted to try the deck though, so I ended up going to my locals with a somewhat budget version of Superheavy Adamancipator. I ended up making second place, losing only to a complete, full-power Superheavy Samurai deck.

My deck was missing many cards, such as , , and the engine. Of course, one could argue my deck was not as good as the pure version, but it still managed to put up strong boards and swarm the field with monsters that turn into annoying negates for the opponent. With a decent hand, I managed to end on , , and .

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The concept of the deck is very simple. Use the Superheavy engine to put up one negate in the beginning, usually Baronne or Savage, before swarming the field with monsters when it is time to pendulum summon. You should have at least two level four monsters on the field in order to xyz summon into to fetch , which can summon itself onto the field since Gallant Granite is a rock monster. From there, you use its effect to excavate the top five cards of your deck and hopefully summon something else onto the field. You then set up your board depending on what you have and what you think could be useful.

If you are in a pinch, could buy you some time while and have proven to be useful against decks that heavily rely on spells and traps. Against decks that like to send monsters to the graveyard, is your that also acts as an omni-negate.

The Full Picture

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The build is a little unorthodox, but I believe moving forward, I could cut down on the Superheavy engine to put more hand traps and kaijus in the main deck since I was only running five of them before. It is not as good against the mirror and decks such as Kashtira. However, on a casual level, if you want to play for fun, the deck has a lot of gas, and you really have to think about your plays. Follow-up is a bit limited since you tend to use most of your hand during your first turn, but maybe with more hand traps, this might improve as you will want to keep those in hand.

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The deck is fun and explosive, and can put up big boards, yet it may struggle a bit when going second. The pure version is still the best, obviously, as you can play a ton of hand traps. Adding would probably make this build a bit better. However, if you cannot pick up the pure version, this is worth giving a shot as a budget alternative—even if you may have to exclude too.

Do you have more suggestions on how to improve the deck and make it work even better? Please share your thoughts with everyone in the comment section below!

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