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Hi there!
My take on Unchained. I have been playing the archetype for a while now (about a year). Hope you enjoy, and please let me know if you have suggestions for improvements!
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The following ratios are so standard in any build/variation of unchained, that I am not going to spend any time explaining them.
3x rakea
3x aruha
3x sarama
2x unchained soul
1x unchained soul of disaster
3x abominations prison
3x extravagance
2/3x abominable chamber of the unchained
3x escape of the unchained
3x unchained soul of rage
3x unchained soul of anguish
2x knightmare unicorn
1/2x accesscode
As for the other ratios, I will place a couple of comments for those who are interested.
2x ash blossom - Optional. Goes well with extravagance, trying to establish card advantage.
2x ghost belle - Optional. I like ghost belle a lot because (1) I think it is a great card overal (2) there is niche synergy with the weaknesses of the deck. For example, ice dragons prison can hurt the deck a lot, but so can cards that banish/steal your resources from the graveyard like called by grave, naelshaddoll, shark cannon and others.
1x called by grave - Goes well with extravagance, trying to establish clear card advantage.
2x abominable chamber of the unchained - Controversial maybe. But the games where I open say 2x unchained traps without any of the monsters I straight out lose. This is to minimize such bricky hands. I have been digging this ratio really well when testing, especially in combination with trap trick, which I will talk about later.
3x imperm - Personal preference. I feel this card is important to discuss because It directly conflicts with the gamma package/fantastical dragon phantazmay, which became popular for unchained quite recently. I think the card is so generic that it is worth it. OK going 1st. VERY good going 2nd (dealing with floodgates + backrow negates).
2x ice dragons prison - Amazing card. Leave out the non targeting banish 2 and I still think its a great card, just to put the strength of the card in perspective. Also, it outs dragoon which is this decks cryptonite.
3x torrential tribute - Konami might as well have named the card unchained torrential tribute. I would have played this card at 6 if I could. Let me just mention 1 of the 100 nice deck interations. If you have rage on the board + TT, then you can link into anguish, blow the board up afterwards (or later during the turn), and take sarama to hand for a strong follow up.
2x trap trick - (2nd) Best card in the deck. My favourite play is to activate the card in end phase to set escape of the unchained to then pop backrow your opponent just set, with a potential follow up of summoning abominable for another pop, once again, still in end phase.
1x skill drain - BEST card in deck, hands down. (1) You have three 3k ATK targets you can summon from deck. (2) All your monsters trigger in GY anyway, so worst case scenario you can crash your monsters, something you will doing anyway if you play the deck for more than a day.
1x imperial order
1x unchained abomination - We all know you will almost never make this. 95% of the time accesscode is better, the other 5 percent is probably your eldlich matchup.
1x topologic bomber dragon - Interesting link target against any link based deck (salamangreat, @ignister, cyberse, etc).
2x divine arsenal aa-zeus - I'll leave you to reading the 4 xyz monsters. One important remark to place here is that I ONLY, I repeat ONLY, go for this play if I already have soul of rage on board. Because even though zeus is a great monster, its not worth sending all your OWN backrow too if you dont really need to.
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I blind 2nd after game 1. Just a few small comments below.
3x evenly matched - Best card in side. I literally don't think it is physically possible to OTK with this deck anyway, given the fiend lock you are in mostly. Generic af.
3x dark ruler - See comment above. Synergizes well with unchained of disaster too. Generic af too.
1x pankratops - Goes well with evenly matched, given you can tribute the pankratops if you really have too. Generic af too.
2x kaiju - Same reasoning as dark ruler no more. I chose wind kaiju because I hate wind barrier statue.
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