Earthbound Immortals: The Condor

As I announced yesterday, I will today focus on building a deck around an Earthbound Immortal.
Let me introcude you today's star of the show:

Wiraqocha Rasca was played by Rex Godwin in the series and is cosindered as the most powerful Earthbound Immortal. In the series, his effect allows you to skip your Battle Phase to decrease an opponets life points to 1.




Of course, this card would have been to strong if it would realy have gotten that effect in reality (ever killed an opponet with Sparks?)

So, we chose to play Wiraqocha Rasca. Let's first look at his stats....he's a Dark, so we can try running Allures in our deck. He's a winged beast, so we could tribute him for Icarus Attack if we're really desprate. He has 100 ATK and 100 DEF before his effect activates, so he won't be affacted by Bottomless Trap Hole and can be searched with Sangan. He's Level 10, so we need to tribute 2 Monsters to bring him up.
Now let's look at his effect:

There can only be 1 face-up "Earthbound Immortal" monster on the field. 
Would anyone try to summon 2 of those? o0

If there is no face-up Field Spell Card on the field, destroy this card.
Okay, so we need to find a fitting field spell for him.
Your opponent cannot select this card as an attack target.
Translated to player's language: No Honest or Kalut!
This card can attack your opponent directly.
Pretty decent.
When this card is Normal Summoned, return up to 3 cards you control to your Deck, except this card, and discard the same number of cards from your opponent's hand at random. This card gains 1000 ATK for each card discarded by this effect.

So it goes up to 3100, can not be affected by BTH, can not be attacked and can attack directly, while also limiting your opponet's options by stealing up to 3 cards in his hand.

Well,there's only one problem: We need to send three of our own cards bakc to our deck. We also just tributed two Monsters to summon Wiraqocha Rasca. So we have to give up major field control to gain hand advantage. Another problem is that we have to run a Field card. So let's just think...is there any Field Spell in this game that would work with Wiraqocha Rasca?

In fact, there is!

Black Garden gives us tokens we can tribute to summon Wiraqocha Rasca use for his effect. So Black Garden gives us a Field Spell that helps summoning him while not even touching his ATK! Remember, Black Garden only halfes the ATK when he's summoned. He will still get the full amount of ATK from it's effect!

So after finding a Field Spell that works with him, let's start building the deck:

2 Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca

1 Sangan

3 Black Garden

2 Terraforming

1 Solemn Judgement

That's what I would add until now. Now,let's look at Wiraqocha Rasca's weaknesses:

While he can not be attacked and because of that doesn't have to fear Honest or Kalut, he is still affected by effects. DAD, Brionac, Monarchs, Gyzarus, Celestia and all thier friends will kick him off.

Noticed something? Most of these effects tartget. And what card very well prevents targeting effects?

Tributing a Plant to negate and destroy DAD, Gyzarus, Brionac and all those? No problem! As often proofed in the past, Black Garden also works with Tytannial very well. To have an easier way to access Tytannial, we can and should add 2 Lonefire Blossoms to our deck. Dandylion also brings more tribute fodder, while he can also be searechd with Lonefire Blossom and tributed for Tytannial's effect.

Now let's also add some staples like Call, Space Typhoon, TT,BTHs and Mirror Force. We won't play Storm, as killing our Field Spell is also killing our Immortal. 

2 Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca

2 Tytannial, Princess of Camellias

2 Lonefire Blossom

1 Dandylion

1 Sangan

3 Black Garden

2 Terraforming

1 Brain Control

1 Mystical Space Typhoon


2 Bottomless Trap Hole

1 Solemn Judgement

1 Mirror Force

1 Torrential Tribute

1 Call of the Haunted

Until now, we have a very low numer of monsters, right?
As we want to get out our Black Garden as soon as possible, we need more speed in our deck, so we can add Morphing Jar and 2 Cyber Valleys. The last ones especialy work well with the Garden. For more speed, we can play Reckless Greed along with a pair of Mask of Darkness. Reckless Greed is a very good card when the Earthbound comes down. Sending back three cards is not a cost, so you can target your face down Greed, cahin them, and your opponet still has to discard for each Greed you targeted. As we now play 3 Flip-Effect monsters, we can add 2 Book of Moon. 2 Tomatos can get out our Sangan faster,while they are also searchable with Lonefire Blossom. As an additional target to summon for Tomato, we can also throw in Spirit Reaper,which can also buy us some time.
With now 8 Darks,we can also add Allures. We don't want to remove Wiraqocha Rasca for it, but I will still count it as target. Besides, did you notice all our Darks have below 1500 ATK? We can add Dark Eruption to reclycle them (even the Immortal!):

2 Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca

2 Tytannial, Princess of Camellias

2 Lonefire Blossom

2 Mystic Tomato

2 Mask of Darkness

2 Cyber Valley

1 Morphing Jar

1 Dandylion

1 Sangan

3 Black Garden

2 Terraforming

2 Book of Moon

2 Dark Eruption

1 Brain Control

1 Mystical Space Typhoon




3 Reckless Greed
2 Bottomless Trap Hole

1 Solemn Judgement

1 Mirror Force

1 Torrential Tribute

1 Call of the Haunted

5 Slots left.

I think 8 Darks are enough to run Dark Armed Dragon, even if it will sometimes only have 1400 ATK, we still can use it's devastating effect. I also think 2 copies of Dark Bribe and one copy of Polinosis as additional possibility to counter opposing cards. (For OCG People: Just play 3 Starlight Roads). For the last slot, let's add one Mark of Rose to get additional tribute/Valley fodder.

So this is the final decklist:

2 Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca

2 Tytannial, Princess of Camellias

2 Lonefire Blossom

2 Mystic Tomato

2 Mask of Darkness

2 Cyber Valley

1 Morphing Jar

1 Dandylion

1 Sangan

1 Dark Armed Dragon

3 Black Garden

2 Terraforming

2 Book of Moon

2 Dark Eruption

1 Brain Control

1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Mark of Rose


3 Reckless Greed
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
2 Dark Bribe
1 Polinosis

1 Solemn Judgement

1 Mirror Force

1 Torrential Tribute

1 Call of the Haunted

Like always, this deck was build while I wrote this article, so rate the deck an help me to make it better ;)

I think I will feature more of the Earthbound Immortals within my next articles.

Oh,and about my Tuner-Articles: I chose not to write any more of those, as I think everyone knows by himself which ones are good and which ones are not. Also, there are too many Level 2 or 3 Tuners out there,listing them all would be to much xD