Me Playing (Gravekeepers) vs. Some Sort of Anti-Meta

Gravekeeper’s has been an archetype that has been thrown under the bus. That is mostly because of their lack of support. The last thing they received that helped them as a hole was Gravekeeper’s Commandant. I find that sad.

But what can you do, it’s just Konami for you…

Anyway back to the match. Just looking at a deck doesn’t do much for me because you may think one thing in theory (like running morphtronic slingen, thinking it’s good and finding out it doesn’t work in practical game play). I played the deck to see exactly what the problem was.
Gravekeeper’s lost power ever since the rulings behind it, for instance. Necrovalley doesn’t negate anything that activates in the graveyard (Sangan, Giant Rat, Pyramid Turtle), nor that gets itself back from the graveyard (Plaguespreader and Sinister Serpent)

Game 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-TCxgrxvIk )

From 4:48 to 5:04. When I played Gravekeeper’s Chief, using its effect and he chains torrential.

This is the chain,

1. Chief being tribute summoned (doesn't matter)
2. Activate chief’s effect
3. He chains torrential tribute

It resolves backwards

This is what happens. Torrential goes first, destroying chief. Chief’s effect activates (since it doesn’t have to be on the field, just has to be tribute summoned)

5:14 to 5:28 when he played allure and I played solemn. I played solemn because with his current field, he wasn’t doing anything (even with 4 face downs) and I didn’t want him to get any other cards to give him any chance of coming back. I believe playing solemn at times like that can and will win games.

Game 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URtFTCMZIHE)

1:02-1:12 I had to remove the Chief. I only had a choice between the chief and the Caius, I kept Caius. It would be better in the late game (if I made it that far).

1:46-1:56 he tried to remove valley and Krebons during my turn, lol

4:27- 4:35: I solemned the monarch not soul exchange… there is no real reason for you to solemn soul exchange, but the tribute off of it. Now he’s out a monarch… and can’t attack.

Believe me: if you would solemned soul exchange, that still gives them a normal summon or set but since he played the monarch. The only thing he could do is sp.summon but he doesn’t sp summon much (he’s playing monarchs). It’s vital to know what you’re up against. If you don’t know off hand, try to bait some cards out that give away their deck. Even take some extra damage. You’ll be better off doing so in the end. At the end of the day, it’s about the W and not the L.

All in all, the deck was okay when you got monsters to summon. I would suggest mystic tomato to search for the gravekeeper monsters. You won’t always have a spy to summon them. I don’t think he needed chief at all. All that did was increase your dead draws.