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Alive HERO
Doug Zeeff
8/14/2012 10:15:00 AM  HEROes may be the most supported archetype in all of Yu-Gi-Oh. It's not all good support, but there's a lot of it; there several really powerful punches that HEROes can deliver and they add up to make many HERO builds a real threat. At this point in time the popular HERO builds include Skill Drain HERO, Masked HERO, Bubble Beat, and lastly the newest of the bunch, Alive HERO. Personally, I think that Alive HERO is the most viable version, considering the fact that it can explode at any time. Another reason that Alive HERO is so amazing is that it benefits from two recent-released cards.Elemental HERO Escuridao For a long, long time, HERO players went back and forth on whether or not they should main deck the game-ending spell card Super Polymerization. Using this powerful card allows you to fuse one of your HEROes and an opponent's monster to summon the corresponding HERO from your extra deck: Elemental Hero Absolute Zero, Elemental Hero The Shining, Elemental HERO Great Tornado, Elemental Hero Gaia, or Elemental HERO Nova Master. The issue was that you could hit every single attribute besides Dark and Divine, so main decking Super Poly would spell death against Inzektors and other Dark-based decks. And then HERO players received a gift from the heavens: Elemental HERO Escuridao. Elemental HERO Escuridao Level 8 DARK Warrior/Fusion/Effect ATK 2500 / DEF 2000 1 "Elemental HERO" monster + 1 Dark monster Must be Fusion Summoned and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. This card gains 100 ATK for each "Elemental HERO" monster in your graveyard. While Escuridao's effect may not snatch you a ton of games, what really matters is that it's a Fusion that can be Summoned by taking the opposition's Dark monster. With this guy in your extra deck you can safely main deck Super Polymerization knowing you'll always have Fusion Materials. The Dark hero also facilitates certain OTKs, where you use Future Fusion to dump Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite and Elemental HERO - Alius, and then proceed to bounce Future Fusion back to your hand with Zeph. This allows you to send two more HEROes to the graveyard as well as put a Level 4 monster on the field, ready to be overlaid into an Xyz. Heroic Champion - Excalibur For the past several months Blade Armor Ninja has been the go-to Xyz monster for HEROes to OTK. In Return of the Duelist there'll be an even better monster, the cover card known as Heroic Champion - Excalibur. Heroic Champion - Excalibur Rank 4 LIGHT Warrior/Xyz/Effect ATK 2000 / DEF 2000 2 Level 4 Warrior-Type monsters Once per turn: You can detach 2 Xyz Materials from this card; Until your opponent's End Phase, this card's ATK becomes double its original ATK. Excalibur is simply ridiculous. He does so much more then Blade Armor Ninja can, despite doing 400 less damage when attacking directly. First of all, if your opponent has less than 4000 life points they can't drop Gorz the Emissary of Darkness on you, since they'll be finished in one sword swing – long before Gorz can hit the table. Second, Excalibur is also a Light attributed monster, allowing you to go into Elemental Hero The Shining with it, as opposed to going into the less effective Elemental HERO Great Tornado with a fallen Blade Armor Ninja and Miracle Fusion. It also should be mentioned the Excalibur is probably going to be staying around for a turn or two, due to the fact that it stays at 4000 ATK until your opponent's End Phase. In Blade's case the other player can simply go into Number 39: Utopia, Evolzar Laggia, or any other passable Rank 4 and run over your Ninja. As if Excalibur couldn't get any better, it also even up your grave with two HEROes needed for Miracle Fusion, which will fuel some crazy OTKs. Why Alive HERO is Amazing For those of you that aren't aware, Alive HERO gets its name from the spell card A Hero Lives. By paying a cost of half of your Life Points, while you control no monsters, you can special summon one Elemental HERO from your deck. While this may seem like a steep cost at first, you'll soon come to realize that the turn you activate it you'll most likely be winning. As far as deck building is concerned, Solemn Warning is automatically taken out. Running triple A Hero Lives and a single Solemn Judgment means that we'll often be under the 2000 LP mark. The good news is that you can have any number of life points when playing those costly cards because they just take half or whatever you've got, whether that is 4000 or 400. Similar to Bubble Beat, we'll only be including the necessary monsters because Elemental Hero Bubbleman needs an empty hand to special summon himself. Running a small monster count shouldn't be an issue though, as we'll be taking full advantage of E - Emergency Call and Multiply uses of Elemental Hero Stratos' searching ability. Don't let the eight card monster count scare you, you'll definitely have a monster ready at all times. While not having a hand comes naturally to an Infernity player such as myself, you may find it kind of strange to be setting your entire hand. Don't fret, for you'll probably be activating the cards the same turn you set them. You'll be setting things like E - Emergency Call and Miracle Fusion just to make sure you have an empty hand for Bubbleman, while still giving you the option of special summoning more Bubblemen and Fusing into powerful Fusion Monsters. Before I get any more into the explanation of my build, I thought I'd just show you how it's tailored.
I can tell that I'll get one comment that goes along the line of, "hey Doug, you said Super Poly was the best card ever, why aren't you running three, blarg a harg a smarg." Well that's because while Super Polymerization is great, it's also a heavy minus. You give up your Super Polymerization, a discard, and a HERO monster (-3) to eliminate an opposing monster (+1 [-2]) and Special Summon a Fusion (+1 [-1 overall]). The way to abuse it is by discarding something you got for free with Stratos, and then maybe Hero Blasting it back to your hand. You then just made a huge play with a small numbers of cards, congratulations. Also take note that this is one of the few decks out there right now that can actually lose the die roll and not even care. That's extremely important in a format like this, where the die roll is so important. You'll find yourself grinding through a few turns with Hero Blasts and Gemini Sparks, and then you'll just randomly go off. Another thing to mention is that this deck doesn't have one single, linear OTK, it has several combinations of cards that net you the win in a single turn. Oh The OTKs You Will Make Picture this: You have Stratos (or A Hero Lives to get Stratos) and Miracle Fusion. With those two cards you can do 6500 direct damage by making a pumped up Excalibur and an Absolute Zero. If you had an Elemental Hero Neos Alius in your graveyard, which you probably do, then you can bump that damage up to 7200 by fusing for Elemental Hero The Shining instead of Absolute Zero. This basically means that if your opponent took any damage this Duel, they're in a position where you can demolish them in one turn. You can also finish someone off in a single turn by just making two huge Shinings, by activating two Miracle Fusions in one turn. With two Elemental Hero The Shinings on the field you can do a total of 7600 direct damage. You can also do some tricks with Super Polymerization in the Battle Phase, attacking directly with two Elemental HERO monsters and then Super Poly'ing into a Fusion Monster to take the win. No matter what way you decide to win the game, I promise you that you will have options.
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General Playstyle The first step to playing this deck is getting to your Elemental Hero Stratos and proceeding to search out your Elemental HERO Alius. That makes Hero Blast, Gemini Spark, and Miracle Fusion all very viable actions. From there you'll want to clear a path for a direct attack. While, yes, you can grind out several turns by abusing annoying cards like Phoenix Wing Wind Blast and Hero Blast, it's better to just get out your heavy hitters as soon as possible. To use Elemental Hero Bubbleman to its fullest ability you'll have to have no cards in your hand, and from there you can do crazy shenanigans with Returning Alive' rel="/db/WP-CH.asp?CN=The Warrior Returning Alive">The Warrior Returning Alive and Elemental Hero Stratos. Bubbleman is the most efficient way to go into Elemental Hero Absolute Zero, and Ab Zero is good because your opponent is forced to waste so many resources on taking him out. You'll also want to utilize Heavy Storm to its fullest potential. Basically, you want to bait out the other player's Heavy Storm early, so you can safely set your entire hand for Bubbleman. From there you can just activate everything you set and then Heavy Storm for huge pluses in card advantage. The single most important Fusion in the extra deck is Elemental Hero The Shining. It lets you reuse Stratos and retrieves Alius for Hero Blast and Gemini Spark plays. Returning the banished monsters to your hand also makes Miracle Fusion a +2, not counting whatever Shining destroyed in battle or what Stratos will search upon its next summon, which is just plain insane. Why Now? The HERO deck is nothing new. It's topped tournaments in the OCG for a while, since they have some other choice Xyz monsters that really push the strategy. Whatever the September 1st list does to HEROes, the beginning of a new format is the time for decks like HEROes, Gadgets, and Gladiator Beasts to shine. The first couple months of the new format will be an open field that won't have a defined Championship-level metagame. Something interesting about this deck is that you can build it dirt cheap using the lowest rarity version of each card, but that it's incredibly expensive to holo out everything. Side note: holoing out this deck will look badass, I promise. So the timing is right, the deck is probably the most consistent OTK strategy out there at the moment, and it's cheap to make. Keeping all this in mind, why aren't you running HEROes for the last weeks of the format? -Doug Zeeff 
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this card!