Just a quick note: Ancient Gear Reborn is a card that also works well with this basic strategy. I might try a couple copies of it in place of Infinite Impermanence.
I’ve been trying to find ideas for so long and I’m so glad I found this vid. Ancient gears have been my favorite ever since I watched the first episode of GX and saw the mechanical titan. God bless you for making this vid
I was pumped when I read this comment because this is exactly why I wanted to make this video in the first place. Ancient Gears are a beloved deck for many people, myself included. But people just think it's totally uncompetitive. I have to disagree. It's a great deck in my opinion. Thanks for the comment.
Really cool build dude! I've never considered playing Ancient Gears as a control deck but it looks like it works surprisingly well. Might just have to give it a try
Glad you liked the vid! I highly recommend this control strategy. I think I'll upload another video showing more gameplay with this deck. Thanks for the comment.
You're doing great man, really proud of the video! Speaking well is difficult when you're speaking on the fly, and you did really well. I'll support and look forward to future content!
I’ve been playing Ancient Gears as a combo deck myself. I like summoning a bunch. However, I see how powerful Howitzer and Fortress are together. The combo I go for usually is: Geartown, then activate Fortress, then pop either one with Catapult to get two free bodies, one of them being Wyvern for a search, then a bigger one like Golem or Reactor. If I have other monsters in my hand I’ll search AG Fusion and go into my Chaos Giant. Most of the time I’ll end up with Howitzer for early damage, but my endgame is going for Giant as soon as possible for intimidation factor. I’ve summoned Giant with power bond for 9k attack and an OTK before, but that’s rare. There are other intricacies to it as well depending on my starting hand, but that’s the gist.
Ancient Gears have been the one deck I've used for years, my friends absolutely hate it, especially when I get Chaos Giant on the field. I use my Gear deck with The Ballista link but more importantly the Infinitrack Anchor Drill for an easy way to get the Ballista link out and Speedy Express Bullet Liner and an additional easy special summon. I've also bought some lunar eclipse books too, to force my opponents monsters into face down defence position 🤌🏻 I sometimes use necro fusion too as another way to get my bigger ancient gear guys onto the field. You can create so many different types of ancient gear decks I love it 🤟🏻
Have you tried vernusylph engine + 1 mudora and keldo ik the metas changed and the banlist killed tear and the shufflers are at 1, but for a control build it gives you an interruption against grave effs and recycling, the vernusylphs make your monsters less commital, the good ones go + except the one that dumps, and they can get your citadel out for free. The problem is that its a big engine if u max it its 12 or even 15 vernusylphs if you play the one that adds from grave + 2 shufflers. It also doesn't conflict with fortress and can cheat out reactor dragons.
It's great because there's two routes to play the deck, big fusion monsters go brr, or gadgets/Geargia. Both are like walking floodgates because most of the monsters put limits on backrow.
No. It has to be a faceup card. Catapult can't activate by itself in the first place, so there would be no way to activate the second one. Also, since Catapult is a normal spell, you couldn't chain onto the activation of a spell card with it. You would need a spell speed 2 like a quick play spell card. If you are referring to the gy effect of Ancient Gear Catapult however, then you can Catapult a Catapult as it were. You could set one Catapult facedown, then banish the other Catapult from the gy to destroy the set one.
oops, I read the card wrong. My apologies. You need to destroy a faceup card for both effects. However the gy effect let's you activate it even if you control a monster. So no catapulting a Catapult after all. Glad you liked the vid.
It probably shouldn't get played often. But if you run 2 of the King and 2 Stadium it loops infinitely by itself. It could be replaced by something else though for sure.
@@runa8015 I would say moving Torrential Tribute up to 3 copies is smart. It triggers Citidel and won't hurt Howitzer, making it unfair in some circumstances. I also have used Heavy Freight Train Derricrane as a way to extend plays when you need that extra AG card in hand. Use it to summon Ballista and add another AG monster to the hand. Derricrane also chain blocks your searchers from getting Ashed.
Great video, I’m currently building an ancient gear deck myself but unfortunately ancient gear fortress is very expensive currently so I’m only buying one as of now for 15$ will I be fine ?
One is better than none, and it's searchable with Ancient Gear Wyvern, so that's a plus. But if you could get your hands on 3 copies of it I think it would be best.
I thought you were joking it's a little cheaper now but it's crazy to me that a common is that much. I bought the structure decks when they came out I had no idea they're expensive
as rank 1 ancient gear player this deck is completely contradict the whole point of gears and idek why you're trying to stall with a kill deck, personally would not recommend this version of ancient gear to anyone
I respect your take. I agree that this deck contradicts the typical Ancient Gear Deck strat which gets Chaos out and OTKs. However, this build is pretty good too. I'd be willing to show you if you wanna duel on Dueling Nexus? We could set up a time and you can play any deck you like, even the OTK variant of Ancient Gears.
@@montezharris73 Aggro Ancient Gears is currently unplayable without Verte Anaconda. But if you want to see the basic idea behind it Dark Armed Duelist covers that deck in his Ancient Gear Deck Profile video.
Just a quick note: Ancient Gear Reborn is a card that also works well with this basic strategy. I might try a couple copies of it in place of Infinite Impermanence.
Awesome profile and video.
This was my first archetype in Yugioh so they’ll always have a soft spot in my heart.
I like your channel and Deck! Nice background music too haha
Thanks. Can't have silent background lol
I’ve been trying to find ideas for so long and I’m so glad I found this vid. Ancient gears have been my favorite ever since I watched the first episode of GX and saw the mechanical titan. God bless you for making this vid
I was pumped when I read this comment because this is exactly why I wanted to make this video in the first place. Ancient Gears are a beloved deck for many people, myself included. But people just think it's totally uncompetitive. I have to disagree. It's a great deck in my opinion. Thanks for the comment.
Thank you for the build ancient gears are some of my favorite cards
We need an updated version for 2023
Really cool build dude! I've never considered playing Ancient Gears as a control deck but it looks like it works surprisingly well. Might just have to give it a try
Glad you liked the vid! I highly recommend this control strategy. I think I'll upload another video showing more gameplay with this deck. Thanks for the comment.
Imagine if they made ALL the anime exclusive ancient gear cards double hunting hound unfinished gear chaos ancient gear fusion and all the others!
You're doing great man, really proud of the video! Speaking well is difficult when you're speaking on the fly, and you did really well. I'll support and look forward to future content!
I’ve been playing Ancient Gears as a combo deck myself. I like summoning a bunch. However, I see how powerful Howitzer and Fortress are together.
The combo I go for usually is:
Geartown, then activate Fortress, then pop either one with Catapult to get two free bodies, one of them being Wyvern for a search, then a bigger one like Golem or Reactor. If I have other monsters in my hand I’ll search AG Fusion and go into my Chaos Giant. Most of the time I’ll end up with Howitzer for early damage, but my endgame is going for Giant as soon as possible for intimidation factor. I’ve summoned Giant with power bond for 9k attack and an OTK before, but that’s rare. There are other intricacies to it as well depending on my starting hand, but that’s the gist.
Ancient Gears have been the one deck I've used for years, my friends absolutely hate it, especially when I get Chaos Giant on the field.
I use my Gear deck with The Ballista link but more importantly the Infinitrack Anchor Drill for an easy way to get the Ballista link out and Speedy Express Bullet Liner and an additional easy special summon.
I've also bought some lunar eclipse books too, to force my opponents monsters into face down defence position 🤌🏻
I sometimes use necro fusion too as another way to get my bigger ancient gear guys onto the field. You can create so many different types of ancient gear decks I love it 🤟🏻
Yo my ancient gear deck is basically the same! Tho I use power bond as a last ditch effort to win and necro for an unexpected fusion.
Nice vid bro, II wiill try this deck !
Have you tried vernusylph engine + 1 mudora and keldo ik the metas changed and the banlist killed tear and the shufflers are at 1, but for a control build it gives you an interruption against grave effs and recycling, the vernusylphs make your monsters less commital, the good ones go + except the one that dumps, and they can get your citadel out for free. The problem is that its a big engine if u max it its 12 or even 15 vernusylphs if you play the one that adds from grave + 2 shufflers. It also doesn't conflict with fortress and can cheat out reactor dragons.
Yeah, the Verns are a good engine for earth machines. I've been picking them up and I'm excited to tinker with them and see how they feel.
Thanks for your video I don't find any video about a tcg ancient gear deck
From the new format
Very true. It's a deck that a lot of people seem to have forgotten about. But I think it's still a sweet Archetype to play with.
It's great because there's two routes to play the deck, big fusion monsters go brr, or gadgets/Geargia. Both are like walking floodgates because most of the monsters put limits on backrow.
Thanks bro!
Can you only use ancient gear catapult to destroy continuous spell/traps or can you use any type of spell?
Any face up card. So field spells as well as continuous spells and traps, and any card that stays in back row like a pendulum.
@@metaggrit so could you activate ancient gear catapult on it self if you had 2?
No. It has to be a faceup card. Catapult can't activate by itself in the first place, so there would be no way to activate the second one. Also, since Catapult is a normal spell, you couldn't chain onto the activation of a spell card with it. You would need a spell speed 2 like a quick play spell card.
If you are referring to the gy effect of Ancient Gear Catapult however, then you can Catapult a Catapult as it were. You could set one Catapult facedown, then banish the other Catapult from the gy to destroy the set one.
@@metaggrit oh ok thanks and nice video🔥
oops, I read the card wrong. My apologies. You need to destroy a faceup card for both effects. However the gy effect let's you activate it even if you control a monster. So no catapulting a Catapult after all. Glad you liked the vid.
Love the deck! But I have a concern, why the therion. I saw your explanation for it, but I don’t see it getting play often.
It probably shouldn't get played often. But if you run 2 of the King and 2 Stadium it loops infinitely by itself. It could be replaced by something else though for sure.
@@metaggrit ah ok, do you have any recommendations for replacing therion?
@@runa8015 I would say moving Torrential Tribute up to 3 copies is smart. It triggers Citidel and won't hurt Howitzer, making it unfair in some circumstances. I also have used Heavy Freight Train Derricrane as a way to extend plays when you need that extra AG card in hand. Use it to summon Ballista and add another AG monster to the hand. Derricrane also chain blocks your searchers from getting Ashed.
Great video, I’m currently building an ancient gear deck myself but unfortunately ancient gear fortress is very expensive currently so I’m only buying one as of now for 15$ will I be fine ?
One is better than none, and it's searchable with Ancient Gear Wyvern, so that's a plus. But if you could get your hands on 3 copies of it I think it would be best.
@@coltonharris1526 yea I’ll keep my eye out on some other copies but most likely I’m gonna have to hope for some reprints if I want it cheap 😅
I thought you were joking it's a little cheaper now but it's crazy to me that a common is that much. I bought the structure decks when they came out I had no idea they're expensive
Why can’t I find Ancient Gear Fortress online any lower that £5?
It hasn't gotten a reprint. And since it's so powerful, nearly every Ancient Gear Deck uses it.
Needs a reprint badly
as rank 1 ancient gear player this deck is completely contradict the whole point of gears and idek why you're trying to stall with a kill deck, personally would not recommend this version of ancient gear to anyone
I respect your take. I agree that this deck contradicts the typical Ancient Gear Deck strat which gets Chaos out and OTKs. However, this build is pretty good too. I'd be willing to show you if you wanna duel on Dueling Nexus? We could set up a time and you can play any deck you like, even the OTK variant of Ancient Gears.
Whats the best version. And do you have a decklist?
@@montezharris73 Aggro Ancient Gears is currently unplayable without Verte Anaconda. But if you want to see the basic idea behind it Dark Armed Duelist covers that deck in his Ancient Gear Deck Profile video.