As some of you might know due to new changes to the rules on battle positions have changed the metagame. Now Book of Moon and Enemy Controller are a lot less powerful and Tsukuyomi has become deadly because of this Chaos Morph has once again become one of the most powerful decks again. Along with this Zombies and Chaos have also merged making a deadly combination (although alone Zombie is nearly just as powerful). These two decks form the current metagame. Also a new deck being netdecked everywhere is the Ben Kei deck which is one of the most powerful one-turn kill decks since MAgical Scientist/ Catpult turtle decks. These 3 decks are probably going to be the main decks at Nationals and for most of the year. However I hate going with the pack so I am hoping that you guys can help me come up with a deck that has an anwser to these decks yet remains distinct. The best I can come up with is Beastdown. I will include an example of these 3 decks. When responding keep in mind that Burn does poorly against all three decks, especially Ben Kei.

Chaos Morph

Monsters- 18

1 Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
1 Jinzo
1 Airknight Parshath
1 Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast
2 D. D. Assailant
1 D. D. Warrior Lady
1 Sangan
1 Breaker the Magical Warrior
1 Blade Knight
1 Reflect Bounder
2 Magician of Faith
2 Tsukuyomi
1 Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer
1 Tribe-Infecting Virus
1 Sinister Serpent

Spells: 16
1 Pot of Greed
1 Graceful Charity
1 Delinquent Duo
1 Lightning Vortex
1 Premature Burial
1 Heavy Storm
1 Snatch Steal
1 Brain Control
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
3 Scapegoat
2 Creature Swap
2 Metamorphosis

Traps: 6
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Ring of Destruction
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Call of the Haunted
1 Mirror Force

Fusions: 20
2 Gatling Dragon
2 The Last Warrior from Another Planet
2 King Dragun
2 Ryu Senshi
1 Dark Blade the Dragon Knight
3 Thousand-Eyes Restrict
3 Dark Balter the Terrible
3 Karbonala Warrior
2 Fusionist

Ben Kei

Monsters: 13
1 Jinzo
1 Sangan
1 Cyber Jar
1 Sinister Serpent
1 D.D. Warrior Lady
3 Armed Samurai – Ben Kei
3 Iron Blacksmith Kotetsu
2 Magician of Faith

Spells: 24
1 Pot of Greed
3 Giant Trunade
1 Heavy Storm
1 Delinquent Duo
1 Graceful Charity
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 Premature Burial
1 Snatch Steal
1 Swords of Revealing Light
1 Lightning Vortex
1 United We Stand
1 Mage Power
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Nobleman of Crossout
2 Scapegoat
2 Big Bang Shot
2 Book of Moon
2 Axe of Despair

Traps: 4
1 Mirror Force
1 Call of the Haunted
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Ring of Destruction

Vampire Chaos

Monsters: 16
2 Magician of Faith
3 Pyramid Turtle
2 Vampire Lord
1 Blade Knight
1 D. D. Warrior Lady
1 Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning
1 Kycoo, the Ghost Destroyer
1 Breaker, the Magical Warrior
1 Tribe-Infecting Virus
1 Spirit Reaper
1 Sinister Serpent
1 Sangan

Spells: 17
2 Creature Swap
2 Scapegoat
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Heavy Storm
1 Lightning Vortex
1 Graceful Charity
1 Pot of Greed
1 Delinquent Duo
2 Nobleman of Crossout
1 Premature Burial
1 Snatch Steal
1 Book of Moon
1 Book of Life
1 Enemy Controller

Traps: 7
1 Call of the Haunted
1 Ring of Destruction
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Dust Tornado
1 Mirror Force
1 Sakuretsu Armor

(Normal Zombie does just as well if not better than this deck)

what are you talking about "metagame" and changes in rules to battle positions? what is all this?

Wow, I'm really out of things. Thanks for this information and some deck views. I should go into town sometime a watch a tourney sometime. Just to see how the game has changed from a year ago

the term metagame itself is abstract, but for this case lets just say its the current enviroment for playing yugioh. part of the current metagame is the rampant abuse of cards like scapegoat and magicain of faith. metagame is the way others play in
your gaming community. This may seem rather odd if you don't know what it is but here is an easier example. If all your friends like to play fast speed decks your metagame shall be different from someone who's gaming group plays slow, high firepower decks. However due to the massive amount of yugioh web communites the local metagames have nearly merged with the nation-wide metagame at big events such as Regionals and SJC's. Did you know that they are even posting the top 8 decklists on the Internet from each regional event. This causes so much copying that orginality in the game has even less of a chance. That is basically why i posted my article, to find a deck capable of taking out the current meatgame.

As for the the new rules visit this link:

http://www.pojo.com/yu-gi-oh/FeaturedWrite.../2005/6-6.shtml

Wow, these rulings should make some things interesting

wow...crazy stuff...sounds like this game could be getting a bit better again