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Rules:

1. All of the cards in a deck must only contain cards that are either from or support a single archetype

Example: An Inzektor deck can only include Monsters, Spells, and/or Traps that include "Inzektor" in the name or effect
Example: Evil HEROs cannot be used as a deck because they don't have enough support to build a 40 card deck.

2. There can be certain exceptions to this rule, but not many

Example: Super Polymerization may be used in Elemental HERO decks
Example: Effect Veiler may or may not be universally usable (TBD)

3. This format follows its own banlist, which is to be determined



This format potentially has some interesting ideas. I've done things like this before, like building an all Inzektor deck or an all Blackwing deck, but I want to see what certain decks would stand out in something like this. Notable ones are Inzektors and Wind-Ups, which sorta demands Effect Veiler in this format.

I'll write more stuff (like viable decklists and banlist) tomorrow, but for now, thoughts?

[spoiler="Usable Decks"]
Asteriks denote cards that are usable within the decktype

Aliens
[spoiler="Cards"]"A" Cell Breeding Device*
"A" Cell Incubator*
"A" Cell Scatter Burst
Alien Ammonite
Alien Dog
Alien Grey
Alien Hypno
Alien Infiltrator
Alien Kid
Alien Mars
Alien Mother
Alien Overlord
Alien Psychic
Alien Shocktrooper
Alien Skull
Alien Telepath
Alien Warrior
Brainwashing Beam*
Cell Explosion Virus*
Code A Ancient Ruins
Corruption Cell "A"
Cosmic Fortress Gol'gar
Cosmic Horror Gangi'el
Crop Circles
Detonator Circle "A"*
Flying Saucer Muusic'i
Interdimensional Warp*
Mass Hypnosis
Mysterious Triangle
Orbital Bombardment
Otherworld - The "A" Zone
Planet Pollutant Virus[/spoiler]

Amazoness
[spoiler="Cards"]Amazoness Archer
Amazoness Archers
Amazoness Blowpiper
Amazoness Chain Master
Amazoness Fighter
Amazoness Fighting Spirit
Amazoness Heirloom
Amazoness Paladin
Amazoness Queen
Amazoness Sage
Amazoness Scouts
Amazoness Shamanism
Amazoness Spellcasters
Amazoness Swords Woman
Amazoness Tiger
Amazoness Trainee
Amazoness Village
Amazoness Willpower
Dramatic Rescue
Queen's Pawn[/spoiler]

Ancient Gear

Arcana Force

Blackwings
[spoiler="Cards"]Against the Wind
Black Feather Beacon
Black Return
Black Thunder
Black-Winged Strafe
Black Whirlwind
Blackback
Blackboost
Blackwing - Abroholos the Megaquake
Blackwing - Aurora the Northern Lights
Blackwing - Backlash
Blackwing - Blizzard the Far North
Blackwing - Bombardment
Blackwing - Boobytrap
Blackwing - Bora the Spear
Blackwing - Boreas the Sharp
Blackwing - Breeze the Zephyr
Blackwing - Brisote the Tailwind
Blackwing - Calima the Haze
Blackwing - Elphin the Raven
Blackwing - Etesian of Two Swords
Blackwing - Fane the Steel Chain
Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind
Blackwing - Ghibli the Searing Wind
Blackwing - Gladius the Midnight Sun
Blackwing - Gust the Backblast
Blackwing - Hilen the Tengu-wind
Blackwing - Jetstream the Blue Sky
Blackwing - Jin the Rain Shadow
Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow
Blackwing - Kochi the Daybreak
Blackwing - Kogarashi the Wanderer
Blackwing - Mistral the Silver Shield
Blackwing - Shura the Blue Flame
Blackwing - Silverwind the Ascendant
Blackwing - Sirocco the Dawn
Blackwing - Vayu the Emblem of Honor
Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite
Blackwing Armed Wing
Blackwing Armor Master
Cards for Black Feathers
Delta Crow - Anti Reverse
Fake Feather
Raptor Wing Strike[/spoiler]

Cloudian

Crystal Beast
(Includes cards with "Rainbow Dragon" in the name or effect)

Dark World
(Includes Dark Scheme)

Destiny Hero

Dragunity

Evilswarm

Evol

Fabled

Flamvell

Fortune Lady

Gem

Genex

Gishki

Gladiator Beast

Gravekeeper's

Gusto

Harpie
(Includes Harpie's Feather Duster. List position TBD)

HERO

Hieratic

Ice Barrier

Infernity

Inzektor

Jurrac

Karakuri

Koa'ki Meiru

Laval

Lightsworn

Meklord

Mist Valley

Morphtronic

Naturia

Ninja

Nordic

Ojama

Photon

Reptilianne

Resonator

Saber

Scrap

Six Samurai
(Includes cards with "Shien" in their name or effect)

Steelswarm

Toon

Roid

Volcanic
(Includes cards with "Blaze Accelerator" in their name or effect)

Vylon

Watt

Wind-Up

Worm[/spoiler]

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[quote name='byakklon Omega' timestamp='1336535808' post='5935497']
1. All of the cards in a deck must only contain cards that are either from or support a single archetype[/quote]
>Scrap.dek is terrible
Ugh.

Aside from me being unable to run my favorite archetype, I like the concept you have here, Byak.
As mentioned, archetypes like Glads and Blackwings would be pretty good.
...
So would Watts and GKs.
(Well, maybe not GKs)

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YES
I LOVE THESE FORMATS
I ALWAYS BUILD DECKS LIKE THESE FOR LOL AND STUFF

With the way the game's been trending, effect negation is more or less mandatory. So Veiler is [i]effect[/i]ive, if nothing else. I'd say @2.
What about decks with no unified archetype, but a unified concept? (Skill Drain, for example)
And yeah, either GKs or Heroes would dominate, I think, but we would still have a competition. I would totally play a tourney with this format.

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I'm surprised no one brought up Samurai yet, which is one thing I'm considering for the banlist.

[quote name='TheTurtleOnceCalledGod' timestamp='1336566144' post='5935635']
Does this include character decks?
[/quote]

No

[quote name='Darkplant - VENOM' timestamp='1336570468' post='5935668']
How many archetypes actually have over 14 maindeckable cards?
[/quote]

There should be at least 10 :S

[quote name='Chris' timestamp='1336540601' post='5935542']
Does support also include type/attribute support, or not?

Cos this looks interesting.
[/quote]

Nope

[quote name='~Coolio~' timestamp='1336564443' post='5935621']
Making Effect Veiler a staple seems like it defeats the point.

And what about Decks that weren't themed around an archetype? Can "Rock" be a Deck type?
[/quote]

I agree with you, but it'll be hard to maintain the format. The custom banlist should probably fix it though.

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Hey wait a minute...
[quote name='byakklon Omega' timestamp='1336535808' post='5935497']
Example: Evil HEROs cannot be used as a deck because they don't have enough support to build a 40 card deck.[/quote]
Evil HEROs are just an expansion of Elemental HEROs, because all of their Fusions(except Dark Gaia and Malicious Fiend) specifically list E-HEROs as Fusion Materials.

Add to it, if were counting sub-archetypes as their own separate deck, then "True Six Samurais" cant be in a deck with "Six Samurais".
Same goes for "XX-Sabers and "X-Sabers".

[quote name='byakklon Omega' timestamp='1336535808' post='5935497']Example: Super Polymerization may be used in Elemental HERO decks[/quote]
Using this logic, one could run Dark Fusion and/or Dark Calling.

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[quote name='byakklon Omega' timestamp='1336580700' post='5935726']
I could merge all of the HEROs together and make them all legal, in that case.
[/quote]
D-HEROs can function as their own deck(I think they have enough cards for it).
Its only Stratos and Zero that randomly support them. but you could actually list that you cant use Stratos in D-HEROs.

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^ Yeah, I wouldn't call this a "custom" format then, because it really stifles any sort of deck ingenuity with this layout. It's an "archetype" format.

IMO, if you wanted to make a custom format and not an archetype format you'd just ban all actual staples, not cards that didn't fit into a specific archetype. For example, something like Icarus Attack should be allowed since it's not universal and as such not an actual staple. Same thing for Synchro and XYZ cards that have more specified summoning requirements.

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Hey guys, Flamvells cant run Rekindling.

[quote name='TheTurtleOnceCalledGod' timestamp='1336591720' post='5935805']
So many decks are excluded because they don't fall under an "archetype" but act like one, like Psychics, Fish, etc.
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Spiders
XYZ-Archetype
Every card used by Yusei
Plants
etc
etc

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