ELDLICH, BE META!? - Archetype Breakdown - The Return of Pay 800LP!

Nishi's breakdown of the new Eldlich archetype, which debuts in the new Secret Slayers set!

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[SirButterlegs]

It is tragic that Eldlich is a 70 dollar card. Was really looking to play it :(

[DirtCheapFU]

I cant wait to see this Archetype grow over time. I've always been a fan of zombie archetype. The lore of El Dorado. Weaponizing trap cards from gy. I hope it pans out past its honeymoon phase. I also love the fact that this style of play is kinda conflicting and new with the lesser content creators with what was the standard play.

[RanserSSF]

*Skill Drain is at 1 here in TCG*

Mystic Mine at 3 in TCG: Hey, I heard you called for backup!


Actually, I think Mystic Mine still at 3 in TCG easily makes up for Skill Drain being at 1. The way how Eldlich abuses it is different from other decks. Burn for instance heavily relies on it to stall for burn damage, going 2nd decks like Dino use it to help OTK and bait out negates.


Eldlich uses it similar to how Bujins used Kaiser Colosseum in 2014: Control the pace of the match by forcing the opponent to play around both mystic mine and eldlich cards, which allows you play your game easier. Plus, Mystic Mine is easily searchable unlike Skill Drain, even if it was at 3. Even if your opponent gets rid of Mystic Mine, they still have to deal with your recurring resources and other backrow, where that was a flaw with Burn cause it had no way to get more resources. Also, you can turn off Mystic Mine at anytime you want as you have more control over the card than any other deck that abuses mystic mine. Obviously, we have more backrow removal than ever before, but it's still a strong floodgate that eldlich can abuse so easily.


If events pop up again and this deck starts to top with mystic mine, I hope this deck makes konami realize that it's a problematic card that shouldn't exist, despite its weaknesses.

[richardthepastamancer]

Eldland is a continous spell so you can use zombieworld

[GigachadU]

Other plenty of powerful trap cards can be used to replace the two skill drain. The power isn’t what makes this deck good, it’s the consistency with which it can set up a few disruptions backed up by handtraps and the ability to always follow up on your turn. I think it’s the best control deck because of its ability to continually regenerate its resources.

[skiingeverPS]

Play the Mayakashi build. It fixes a lot of the inherent problems Nishi brings up (lack of interaction, reasoning call 10, having 1 card combos)

In pure, just run extrav and trains over Magician's Soul. Magician's Soul bricks a bit too often.

[dragospaul-andrei]

Ignoring the limitation of Skill Drain in the TCG, i have a very good reason to believe this deck will do a lot better here than in the OCG. Their decks are much stronger as they are not hit as much as ours (Salads, Orcust, Thunder, Striker, Spyral). Once you adjust the power of those decks to their TCg counterparts, Eldlich remains one of the best decks. I'd say it'll be at least tier 1.5 here

[legendsoflaughter]

Looking at how meta Eldlich are now, this video surprised me

[Clownzombie]

Sucker activates if a zombie is summed from either grave not just yours

[leoornstein]

I would like to see a hybrid between Eldich and True Draco. It might be a good combination since all Eldich trap monster could replace themself in the end phase and True Draco allow more draw power and floodgate.

[MercifulsunPS]

I’ve been finding success with the pure trap build. 1 skill drain hurts but there are plenty of other floodgates since the deck can pretty much play any floodgate since you can send them to grave if you ever need to turn them off for yourself. Stuff like there can be only one etc

[Akunza]

250+ Just for the whole core and ONLY using two Lords so fuck my life..

[theWashingtonPigskins]

I will laugh if someone is able to incorporate True Dracos into this deck

[SapphireGlasses]

When TCG figures out Eldlich i would love to see it fight the OCG version

[darryljack]

This is good and all but what about the duel disk and foot ball fields

[leolima]

5:10 man, its a control deck. the matchs gonna take so many turns. you gonna need three Scarlet because its a fucking trap. I honestly would play with 3 Awakening, 1 Destiny and 3 Scarlet.

[adamsherwani]

Will you guys do a Eldlich Zombie World deck profile?

[mayuko]

this video reminds me of a funny(hilarious) thing, skill drain is at only 1 at TCG

[drearydoll]

I personnaly play it as a trap deck but with a of hand trap.
The trap cards being flexible toolbox on top of providing advantage over and over and on the very top of that, the golden lord providing a reccuring body makes the deck an effective grind feast


Playing it as a zombie world deck is not a good idea as said strategy is already cloggy on top of the summon spells/trap looks you into zombie AND if you don't control the lord, you can't even access your generic zombies.


Unfortunatly we don't have 3 maxx c nor skill drain 3 at 3 to attemps to mimique ocg's success.
Still a nice grind deck, though

[hiddenfog]

Eldlich are terrible generic zombie support but could be a decent archetype by itself