I'll make it clear now - I love the adorable Charmer monsters, and all the cards related to them. Inari Fire is a case of retroactive additions to this menagerie, as the fox monster originally portrayed in the art of Blazing Hita and Familiar Possessed - Hita was just an enraged, juiced up Fox Fire. I could be wrong, but that's the assumption I've always held. If not, that's great, because that means we have at least five other monsters, who'll hopefully all have the same competitive potential as Inari Fire. Today, I'd like to look at a specific place where I think Inari Fire bumps up the amount of awesome sauce.
No, not Flamvells. While that's where the majority of the talk is, and while playing Inari Fire along with Flamvell Magician and Scrap Dragon is cool, I have a different deck in mind. That deck is Volcanic Alice! Alice decks typically function around a Summoner Monk engine, based on grinding out advantage through monsters like Sacred Crane or Volcanic Rocket. The Alice deck actually originated with a Volcanic engine along with Summoner Monk, and it's that retro build that I think Inari Fire works best in. The basic play sequence would go like this:
Use Summoner Monk's effect to special summon Volcanic Rocket (+1), discarding a spell card (-1) [0].
Volcanic Rocket's effect activates, fetching a Blaze Accelerator (+1) [+1].
Special summon Inari Fire from your hand (0) and proceed to either make a 2-material Rank 4 Xyz (-1) [0] or a 3-material, such as Number 16: Shock Master [-1].
Taking a -1 to go into Shock Master is completely acceptable, as Shock Master often functions as a win condition in and of itself. Even better, you can make monsters like Infernal Flame Vixen with your two pyro-type monsters if the situation calls for it, while leaving Summoner Monk on field to fetch more monsters. I think that a Volcanic Alice deck could be built in a few different ways now, with the added strength and consistency of Inari Fire. It could main-deck Royal Firestorm Guards, Pyrorex the Elemental Lord (just be sure to use graveyard manipulation!), and other fire monster all stars. Heck, that Flamvell Magician could probably make an appearance, because Scrap Dragon with Inari Fire is a really good play. Best of all, it's possible with only a Summoner Monk, Inari Fire and a spell card, in hand. I don't have a decklist, but that's only because Inari Fire and Summoner Monk are a really versatile pair. Anything running enough spells can throw in Summoner Monk and Inari Fire, whether it's a Alice deck, or a Fire deck. There's a multitude of ways you could build a deck just around those two, so go forth and build!
No comments:
Post a Comment