Brief Amaryllis talk and "Intro to Chaos"

We've been having a lot of fun with Amaryllis. It hits hard, it burns, it swarms, it does a lot of things using cards I actually like. The win condition is to whittle the opponent's life points in many different ways, while maintaining field presence. Amaryllis itself doesn't add too much to field presence, but after enough hits it becomes a threat to most opponents. Tytannial, ryko, dandylion, lonefire, debris and gravirose are the cards that contribute the most to field presence, probably in decending order of importance. Unfortunately, the deck does run a few monsters that contribute little to nothing to field presence, but still works toward the grand scheme of obtaining a win condition. Those include:
- Volcanic Counter
- Card Trooper
- Spore
- Revival Rose
- Sangan
- Phoenixian Seed
Now, this isn't to say that those cards don't contribute to the win condition in their own way, which they all do. But each one does walk the thin line of "situational use." If we wanted to build Amaryllis away from its combo orientation and into more field presence, Our replacements would probably be things like Naturia Bamboo Shoot, Botanical Lion, plaguespreader zombie, and other similar monsters.

Besides Amaryllis, I wanted to talk a little more about "Intro to Chaos" that was brought up in this post. This chaos deck uses the Chaos End Master "engine" along with many others to synchro with little effort. Often, a synchro can be pulled off by using 1 card per turn, which makes Intro to Chaos very very focused on available resources. With cards like ROTA and Armageddon Knight, it actually "top-decks" very well, by pitching useless cards out of the deck and using them from the graveyard. So how far are we from the current build?

x1 Armageddon Knight x1 Battle Fader x2 Byser Shock x2 Chaos Sorcerer x3 Chaos End Master x1 Cyber Valley x1 DAD x2 Effect Veiler x2 Fabled Raven x1 Gorz x2 Honest x2 Level Eater x1 Sangan x2 Shining Angel x1 Sphere of Chaos x1 Allure x3 Book of Moon x1 Dark Hole x1 Trunade x1 Mind Control x1 Monster Reborn x1 MST x1 One for One x1 ROTA x2 Bottomless x1 CotH x1 Mirror Force x1 Torrential

Out of that we're really only missing the Fabled Ravens and a few extra deck cards like Brionac, Mist Wurm, and Chaos Goddess. With this build we have Level Eater and, in essence, Sphere of Chaos and Byser Shock as our only potentially dead cards. If we wanted to keep End Master and the Chaos theme, then our replacement level 5 or higher monsters would be Destiny Hero Malicious, Elemental Hero Necroshade, Great Maju Garzett, Regenerating Rose, Shadow Ghoul, Total Defense Shogun, and Yubel. None of those cards are really that great except for Necroshade, Rose and Shogun in this deck, so as of right now Byser Shock is the best choice. To fire off End Master's effect, we have 3 books and 2 honest. Some people would say that you also need shrinks but I believe that it will depend on the deck you're up against. Many decks don't necessarily need more outs to battle, the main focus is to ALWAYS pick and choose your battles until you can synchro summon.