Eleanor's Decks

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And here's the post for Eleanor's different dueling decks! Each deck has its own way of use/reason for existing, which will be outlined below on their individual comment strings.

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ROSE DUELIST DECK

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This is the deck that's specifically used for when Eleanor is dueling as the Red Rose Duelist, using the dueling system and rules set up by the game Duelist of the Roses. As dueling is different in that game, the effects of some cards are different as well. While I've noted some important information for myself on the lists, a full list of what the cards do in the game itself can be found here.

You can see a mock-up explanation of the differences here, as well.

OVERVIEW

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Because her RP/AU assumes that a Deck Leader is the duelist and direct attacks are attacks directly aimed towards said duelist, Eleanor's deck focuses on locking down and draining her enemies without having to resort to direct attacks, thus sparing them the severe pain or wounds a direct attack would cause.

The build of her deck allows her to do this fairly easily -- with only a few good turns, Eleanor's field presence can change in many ways: she may have a few hard-hitting Fusion Monsters preventing any sort of meaningful offense, she may have a wasteland area jacking up the attack of all of her Dinosaurs or Earth Monsters, or her entire field could be zombies that are constantly being strengthened by Pumpking. The variety of cards allows her to swap her strategy on the fly and gives her a flexibility to adapt to what her opponent does, making her hard to truly shut down; block one of her options, and she'll simply go to the next.

The major weakness in Eleanor's deck and dueling style is her refusal to resort to direct attacks unless absolutely necessary. Because of this, she is heavily reliant on lengthening out the duel so that she can chip away at an opponent's life points without severely hurting them. Therefore, the best strategies against her are ones that involve ending the duel quickly somehow. Whether a more merciful opponent blocking her way and using an effect to end things or a more ruthless opponent rushing head-on to attack directly as hard as possible, both are currently the most effective counters to her dueling style.

DECK LEADER

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Patrician of Darkness

MONSTERS

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Curse of Dragon
The Snake Hair x2 (2LT)
Pumpking The King of Ghosts x3 (MAJ)
Graveyard and the Hand of Invitation x2
Fiend's Hand x2
Blue-Eyed Silver Zombie
Flame Ghost
Shadow Ghoul
Great Mammoth of Goldfine (CPT)
Job-Change Mirror x2
Candle of Fate (1LT)
Soul Hunter
Dragon Seeker
Mammoth Graveyard
Dark Plant x2
Living Vase
Snakeyashi

FUSION MONSTERS

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Summoned Skull (Job-Change Mirror + Fiend)
Pumpking the King of Ghosts (Zombie + Plant)
Great Mammoth of Goldfine (Mammoth Graveyard + Zombie)

SPELLS

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Gift of the Mystical Elf
Call of the Haunted
Dimensionhole
Dark Energy x3
Paralyzing Potion
Cursebreaker

TRAPS

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Shadow Spell (Spellbinder)
Mesmeric Control (Spellbinder)
Gorgon's Eye (Spellbinder)
Reverse Trap
Magic Jammer