Emperor Tanuki's Critter Chefs, Genesys Nouvelles

Overview

Really enjoying this in Genesys right now. Quite a few decks simply cannot deal with the ability to quick effect ritual and tribute their board in the middle of their combo. Emperor Tanuki is definately a little cute but I've found it helps immensely in being able to break established boards to make way for your Nouvelle setup.

Maindeck

As far as the Nouvelles the ratios I've settled on here can be explained as such. 2 copies of Buerillabaisse is pretty standard, as this will often be your starter. 3 recipes at 1 meat and 2 fish is also fairly standard. Zero copies of Confiras in the main is a bit of an odd pick, but I found that his associated ritual spell and its secondary effect are lackluster enough, along with his own effect, that unless I am going into a super heavy backrow deck I am almost never searching him. So he remains in the side for those matchups but only at the 1 copy.

Two copies of both Poeltis and Foie Glasya are my preference for consistency as well as recursion. Often you will want to go into one copy of Poeltis straight from a Buerillabaisse, but also have it available to be revealed off Voici La Carte along with another Beast-Warrior to garuntee you get you copy of Recette De Poisson to hand, and possibly stranding the singleton copy of Balameuniere in hand when you'd always rather be summoning her from deck isn't advisable. I suppose you could run two copies of Balameuniere and one of Poeltis but that is just personal preference at that point, the search or the draw. Poeltis is a good cut for sideboarding in games where you don't expect to get through your mainline Ritual chain twice in the same game.

Foie Glasya at two means that we can consistently grind out games in Genesys, where we often end up in turn 3 or even 4 and have burnt through our one of traps and need to get them back into rotation. Additionally Foie Glasya being able to pull either Balameuniere or Baelgrill makes it the best ritual to leave on field with a Staff Recipe set, so its a fairly standard part of the endboard.

Balameuniere I was orignally running at 1 copy, however I have found with further testing that the ability to go up into her as just a straight ritual summon, while leaving the second copy in the deck to be summoned of Foie Glasya or Poeltis lets you much more consistently get to both the traps. The traps having such a huge impact on the endboard that the slight lack of power off a ritual summoned copy becomes worth it in many scenarios. You must remember that any copy of Balameuniere who has not been summoned off the effect of a Nouvelles monster is absolutely dead in the water, tribute her off for an effect or another ritual summon at your earliest convienience. The up from 1 copy to 2 was also an effort to make the excavate off Buerillabaisse more consistent, as I cut a copy of angry burger for her. The burger not being a Nouvelles actually makes it somewhat clunky.

Baelgrill is run at 2 copies because not only is he needed for summoning by your monsters from any competent endboard, but also because in a best possible endboard you will have the ability to summon him Twice. By using the effect of Staff Recipe to trigger Foie Glasya and summon Balameuniere she will then be able to tribute an opponents monster to summon him, and to search for the second copy when you summon her. Which you can then tribute Balameuniere and any 1 star, or the first Baelgrill to play the second. This is extremely useful for if your first gets its activation negated or is destroyed before you can use both effects.

Other ratios of Nouvelles cards are pretty self explanitory. Two copies of La Carte, as it is technically a worse but also an unpointed Pre-prep. Two copies of the field spell, as it is one of your prefered hits off Buerillabaisse's excavate as well as it searching both of your traps as well as the recipe book or a ritual if needed. Recipe book at 1 because it is easily one of the most mission critical pieces to find, but is also found off just about every other search in the entire deck. And finally a singleton each of the two archetypal traps, when fetching these it is often correct to grab the staff recipe rather than the omni-negate, as often the ability to trigger Nouvelles effects on your opponents turn as well as perform a quick speed ritual summon are going to be more impactful than a single omni and a win-more effect.

Three copies of Manju are basically required points for most ritual decks. Same with the two and two of Preprep and Prep. Impcantation package is just personal preference but could be shuffled around to be more to your liking. Typically I'd be running two plume and two book, with one talisman and one candoll. But I found that plume being a level 3 often made it feel pretty lacking as ritual material, so I swapped it for a second talisman. Two Slime and one Inception is where I ended up on it, slime is excellent but going from a +1 to a +0 is something you really feel in terms of advantage. It might even be better to be running one slime and two candoll. Pretty straightforward. Playing a moderate Impcantations package, important to get them off field if you are looking to use Super Poly but otherwise they are just pure advantage here.

The Impcantations also give us access to the only real "Tech" card that I'm running, the mini Demise. There is a world where you could ritual summon him, it would be funny, but in reality he is here to get searched as material for a ritual summon, as when he is used his effect will trigger and let you target your Nouvelle as soon as it hits the field. This will trigger the effects of the 1, 3, and 4 star that you run maindeck immediately, but make sure to chain your triggers correctly to not miss the timing. Also if you manage to trigger mini Demise's effect and keep that ritual monster on the field rather than immediately tribute it to its own effect, your board becomes nightmareishly difficult to break outisde of proper board breakers as all your ritual effects become one sided in their ability to be responded to. He will also trigger this effect off a discard so in hand he is quite flexible.

Now, is Emperor Tanuki's Critter Count good? Debatable. Is it funny? Most certainly. Will it absolutely make your opponent go, "Oh I'm sorry, what the hell did you say this card was called? And it does what?"? 1000% of the time. The way I am treating it is that we are using him as a normal summon in a deck that often doesn't need it, and once on the field its just absolute pure advantage. Nothing feels better than using Staff Recipe to ritual summon in the middle of your opponents setup and watching the light leave their eyes when you say "Send N'tss to grave.", truely an unbeatable feeling. Also you can often trigger these effects multiple times in a longer grind game, between the endphase effect of the field spell and Foie Glasya you can quite easily shuffle back multiple cards a turn and just happen to make one or two of them be your pointed sends.

Super Poly and Nibiru maindeck are calls based on boths sheer power, and in the case of Nibiru its ability to fuel any ritual summon in the deck. They account for a full third of our points. Super Poly I wouldn't remove for any reason, but Nibiru can obviously be swapped around for another handtrap to better suit your meta. But they are both significant parts of our ability to break just about anyboard in the game even pre-side.

Extra Deck

The board is split into two  halves

Sends off Ultimate Slayer/Emperor Tanuki

- Golden Cloud Beast Melong: Bounces any one faceup card

- Garura: Draws 1

- Merelogic Aggregator: Negates faceup card for rest of the turn

- N'tss: Pops 1

- Enigmaster Packbit: Discards a card to send one monster to the spell-trap zone, snake-eyes style

- Predaplant Chimerarafflesia: Searches up Super Poly on opponents standby, bit of a "win-more" but with the points restrictions all youd be running here is a second Packbit, who was already probably the worst target.

Super Poly Targets

- Garura and Muddragon: The classics. Any super poly board not running these into a meta this diverse are going to raise an eyebrow.

- Predaplant Dragostepelia: This begins our general tendancy to include poly targets that can use one of our monsters as half of their materials. I prefer these because it means you have even more possible boards where super poly can be used to break or even interupt your opponents plays. The quick effect negate makes this one of your best and most common poly plays.

- Starving Venom Fusion Dragon: Another fairly standard super poly target. Being able to use your own darks in a pinch is just icing. There is an arguement to be made that the 3 Darks predaplant (Aka venoms big brother) could be put in here, but this is just my personal preference in this slot.

- Dragon Knight Draco-Equiste: If I had a nickle for everytime I caught someone playing the Red Rose engine with this, I'd have about $0.30. Which is a lot when you think about it. Being able to use your warrior rituals to summon this off 60% of synchro decks is just icing, as is the posibility of it becoming a clearwing on your next turn.

- The Duke of Demise: This slot is a personal preference and can also be swapped around. Especially as its easily one of the most expensive cards in the deck. Fiends are common enough, and while zombies aren't, I often find that both will often play a fair mix of attributes that makes Garura/Mudragon not legal targets without using your own board often enough I decided to include this guy. The ability to break a board going second and get an additional normal summon is also pretty great when you can use it.

- Saint Azamina: Another meta call. The decks this hits, it'll absolutely house them. The ones it doesn't? You'll be questioning why it isn't a second copy of Mudragon/Garura

- Magistus Chorozo: A shockingly easy to summon monster. I think this new little guy is gonna become a mainstay of super poly sideboards alongside the multiple dark targets. Its effect is decent as well, but nothing to write home about.

The Funniest Possible Rank 6

Theoretically you can make a rank 6. Do not make a rank 6. Do not try and make a rank 6. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Sumo is here to send off Ultimate Slayer if you happen to have already sent Aggregator for another monster. But if you win with sumo it would be the funniest possible way to win.

Sideboard

The Sideboard has seen some changes since I posted this deck the first time. A removed copy of Garura gave us extra points space to run two copies of Dark Ruler No More, which has been doing wonderfully as a board full of negated monsters is exactly the kind of thing the Nouvelles want to play into. Two copies of Confiras De Nouvelles and another Meat Recipe allow us to side them in against extremely backrow heavy decks (Man with the Mark notably doesn't want to waste their omni's on the 2 star). Three ultimate slayer allows us to further leverage our extra deck pitch package included for Emperor Tanuki, orignally these were being run in the main, but a shocking number of Genesys decks end on no extra deck monsters. Lava Golem is a fiend for super poly plays into The Duke of Demise, and is also just a solid Kaiju in a meta where very few people's endboards are singular monsters. D.D. Crow is as ubiquitous as it is for good reason. And finally Heavenly Zephyr - Miradora functions not only to negate a monster on field, but also then sits as a body to be tributed off for any number of our effects.

Some sideboarding advice:

- When putting in Ultimate Slayers you don't need to cut Emperor Tanuki, while they do pull from the same resource pool, Foie Glasya and the Field Spell do so much heavy lifting for us in recycling extra deck pitches that you can easily sustain one to two activations per turn.

- Often the second copy of Baelgrill is a decent cut for a sideboard card. The second copy of Poeltis can also easily be cut if you are putting in Confiras as you won't suffer in your tribute chains from her lack of availability, as Confiras can go directly into Foie Glasya.

- Try and only put in 3 to 6 cards from your sideboard at a time. The deck greatly suffers if you start shaving off copies of too many Nouvelles.

- Shavable cards you can swap out include: One copy of the field spell, one each of Baelgrill, Balameuniere, and Poeltis, all three Emperor Tanuki so long as its being replaced by another card that could theoretically be normal summoned, one copy of Chalislime, and Mini-Demise

Update and Rundown of Starting hands and Play Patterns

As requested by the comments <3

So put simply, the deck is challenging to work out starters for until you get the hang of it, as the number of searchers the deck gets is frankly so absurd that getting your order correct is about as difficult as running a proper kitchen at full tilt during a Friday dinner rush lol.

Your optimal starter is Buerillabaisse to kick things off, but also she is almost never going to be your "true" starter in anything but a best of all worlds hands. Treat Buerillabaisse more as two searchers in one with the ability to be three in one on an optimal board. As with Fish Recipe summoning her you get to go grab the other ritual spell, her excavate can grab you any other Nouvelles ritual, or the field spell, or the recipe book, and if you have used a normal summon or a impcantation beforehand and have some way to target her on field (Mini demise pitch effect, an on field Recipe book, ect) then she will also immediately go into Poeltis and become a +4 off the card draw effect, or even a +5 if you used the recipe book to trigger her effect.

This is the real strength of the deck, by using the correct setup you can turn most Nouvelles into absolutely crushing amounts of advantage in a vacuum, with things like +3s and +2s being extremely common.

Starter Hands
I would say a solid and "optimal" average starter hand will be the following:

- 1 Nouvelles ritual monster/Impcantation

- 1 Normal Summon/Impcantation/Preprep/Prep/La Carte

- 1 Ritual Spell/Preprep/Prep/La Carte/Impcantation

- 2 whatever, usually going to be redundancy, more searchers, or monsters to pitch

Your goal with your opener hand is to sculp it to reach this point:

- 1+ Non-Nouvelles Bodies on field in attack position to be tributed for rituals/Nouvelles effects

- Fish Recipe and Buerillabaisse in hand

- Preferably a way to try a second time if the first ritual gets negated.

To be clear this is the choke point of the deck. if your summon of Buerillabaisse gets negated or prevented somehow you are absolutely dead in the water without follow up. So holding something extra like a La Carte or a Preparation of Rites for the follow up will keep you from just going end turn as well as giving you extra flexibility depending on what you got off the excavate.

In-Depth Play Pattern
From this sculpted start we are going to go as follows:

Ritual summon Buerillabaisse using Fish Recipe. If you happened to start with bodies on board as well as a way into the the Recipe Book go ahead and stack your triggers to be Excavate 1, Target to search 2, and trigger to tribute off target 3. We'll assume you didn't have that and move on with just the excavate.

When you excavate 5 you are looking for the field spell first, the recipe book second, and if neither of those hit the 4/3/5 star Nouvelles depending on what is in your hand in that order of priority. Never get the 5 star unless you absolutely need to do so to continue plays. As stated in the primer she is absolutely dead on board if ritual summoned and puts you -2 in card advantage to tribute for her ritual summon, use her, use a ritual spell, and only search one card.

So now you should have a way to recipe book or the field spell, assuming you didn't get lucky and have them already, as well as the meat recipe in your hand, and some amount of material left both on field and likely in hand. Go ahead and play the recipe book now if you haven't already, and use your meat recipe to ritual summon either the Poeltis or Four Glasya using remaining materials, leaving an attack position monster on your side of the field. Trigger effect of Recipe Book, target. Always make sure to stack your triggers on a summon of a Nouvelles as "Nouvelles Summon Effect CL1" and "Effect that targets a Nouvelles CL2" then "Nouvelles trigger on target CL3", because fun fact THE TRIGGER ON TARGET CAN MISS THE TIMING! So it HAS to be the last thing on the chain.

So resolve the chain, Poeltis should tribute to go get Foie Glasya if that is what you ritual summoned, and Foie Glasya should go get Balameuniere. The goal here is to have Balameuniere ready in some way shape or form on your opponents turn. And is a call on if you would rather have 2 tributes into a Baelgrill, a draw, and an opponents turn search. Or if you'd rather have a search on your own turn for a missing piece like staff recipe or special recipe, and a single tribute into Baelgrill and a quick ritual on your opponents turn.

Simplified Line Explanation

So to recap in simplified form, here is an assumed line:

1.Impcantation (any) effect to SS, Effect on field to SS Talismandra/Candoll to get needed spell or ritual

2. Activate Preprep/La Carte/Prep/Normal Summon Manju, hand should be Buerillabaisse+Poeltis+Fish Recipe

3. Ritual into 1 star with fish recipe, search meat recipe

4.Excavate 5, hit Field Spell, activate field spell, go get recipe book, activate recipe book,

5. Ritual summon Poeltis, CL1 draw card CL2 search with Recipe Book CL3 trigger on target to tribute and summon from deck

6. Take a moment to think before your search. Check remainder of hand, if ritual monsters are left over remember you are going to be using the field spell to bottom them and draw and leave them open for summon. If you have either of the traps excellent! No need to search them. If you don't have either search them in priority of Staff Recipe followed by Special Recipe. Obviously stuff like Nib is excellent to hold onto. Do you have a super poly? If you do make sure you are clearing any leftover Impcantations to remove their lock.

7. Resolve effects. We will assume summon Foie Glasya by tributing an impcantation on field along with Poeltis. Search for Staff Recipe with the recipe book effect. Opponent takes 850 from recipe book (this is mandatory so don't forget it). Then draw 1 card.

8. Trigger Foie Glasya summon effect 

9. Set staff Recipe, activate field spell to bottom a ritual monster from hand and draw, set any other relevant spells/traps.

10. Go to end step, activate field spell to bottom ritual spell and another card from grave to draw another card.

11. Pass the turn.

End Board
This is roughly your end board. Either Balameuniere and/or Foie Glasya, a set copy of Staff Recipe, and Recipe Book, hopefully some number of additional material. While this doesn't look terribly threatening you are now representing the following with our assumed example play

1. Activate staff Recipe to target and trigger Foie Glasya. Tribute an opponents monster and Foie, SS Balameuniere, search the second copy of Foie Glasya or Poeltis.

2. Quick effect the now on field Balameuniere to SS Baelgrill from deck, negating your opponents face up cards as well as tribute all of them.

3. The now summoned Baelgrill on field effect to tribute one more and summon Angry Burger.

4. Staff Recipe to tribute the token copy of Foie Glasya to summon your searched Foie Glasya, activate it's summon effect to shuffle in things like staff Recipe/special recipe for follow up. Or the copy of Poeltis to draw a card and possibly get triggered to summon another Foie Glasya and do the same thing with another tribute trigger.

I think the most important thing to remember about these points of interaction on your end board is that they are, to borrow a term from fighting games, "disjointed" from each other. There is rarely a good point where something like a "dark ruler no more" or other mass negates to effectively stiffle you. As much of your end board is neatly tucked away inside your deck at the start of your opponents turn.