Harpies 2013

Okay, my wife can tell you (at least where the fun games are concerned) my Harpies have always been a little nasty. There is just so much you can do with a well played card and even better with a little field lead. Elegant Egotist into Harpie Lady #1, chain Inferno Reckless Summon nab all cards named Harpie Lady in your hand, deck, and graveyard (At the time this was just Lady #1, Cyber, and Queen [in graveyard]. Well #2, and #3 count, but who used them?) Now we add Dancer and Channeler! Oh my!

Hysteric Sign? Gorgeous. Search for Elegant Egotist, or reclaim it from graveyard. That alone is nifty. It would be better if we could errata Egotist to summon other Harpie cards too, a man can dream. (After all they errata-ed away Harpie Brother to Sky Scout. It could have been used another target for Hysteric Sign, more on that to come.) Hysteric Sign has an awesome second effect when sent from the hand or field to the graveyard add up to 3 "Harpie" cards with different names from your deck. What great targets: Either Pet, any Lady (vanilla, #1,2,3 or Cyber), Dancer, Queen, Channeler, Hunting Ground field spell, or Lady Phoenix Formation spell. This can lead to great plays. Destroy it when you summon a Harpie using Hunting Grounds, get more Harpies to swarm your enemies. Other nifty methods of triggering that second effect include: Raigeki Break and Lightning Vortex cost, Magical Hats bait, and even letting your opponent nuke it face down.

Channeler and Dancer are very useful. Dancer is fine return 1 wind monster you control to get a second normal summon of a Wind monster. This can be used to bounce Harpies to get the best effects out at once. Channeler is a little more useful, she summons 1 Harpie monster from your deck by discarding a Harpie card (see targets for Hysteric Sign). Also while you control a Dragon monster she becomes level 7. This means you could summon Channeler discard any Harpie card to summon Pet dragon in def, the exceed into any rank 7 XYZ monster. Both Channeler and Dancer can only be used once a turn and are named Harpie Lady on the field or in the grave.

Now I used to use Aqua Chorus to add 500 attack to each of my Harpies, but there is a new hotness. Credit goes to Hans for showing me this: Phalanx Pike equipped monster gains 900 attack for each card in the graveyard with the same name. Now the maths: 3 Dancers, 3 Channelers, 3 Queens, and 2 Ladies #1 on a Cyber Harpie Lady (1800 attack) is 11,700 attack. Mwa ha ha! Almost any Harpie with 7 in the grave becomes OTK. Two of these bad boys can turn a game on it's head.

I can't walk away without talking about XYZ monsters. There are 3 that really stand out in a Harpie deck. Lightning Chidori requires 2 level 4 Wind monster (nearly every card in our deck) and can return a target to the top of your opponent's deck. Good. Ice Beast Zerofyne requires 2 level 4 Winged Beasts and has a real nasty effect. Detach 1 material to negate all the effects of face up cards on your opponent's side of the field, and gains 300 attack for each face up card on the field other than this one. With 2000 base attack Zerofyne becomes a great beatstick at the drop of a hat. Best of all is Harpie's Pet Phantasmal Dragon which requires 3 level 4 Wind monsters. While Phantasmal Dragon has materials attached it gets awesome effects: It can attack directly, and Harpie monsters can't be targeted by attacks or effects. It detaches 1 monster during your end phase, so you should do some damage and stall out your opponent for a turn or two.

Harpie 2013 Beta
Monsters: 17
Harpie's Pet Dragon
2x Harpie's Pet Baby Dragon
Cyber Harpie Lady
2x Harpie Lady #1
3x Harpie Channeler
3x Harpie Dancer
3x Harpie Queen
Battlestorm
Genex Ally Birdman

Spells: 13
2x Phalanx Pike
2x Inferno Reckless Summon
3x Hysteric Sign
2x Elegant Egotist
3x Harpie's Hunting Ground
Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation

Traps: 10
2x Mirror Force
2x Raigeki Break
Aqua Chorus
2x Icarus Attack
3x Hysteric Party

Extra Deck: 8
2x Lightning Chidori
2x Ice Beast Zerofyne
3x Harpie's Pet Phantasmal Dragon
Black Rose Dragon

That's That.
I'm out.