Prologue
Going in, I was going to be playing Andrew Olexa, with an Air/Chaos base. However, the shortage of Feline Spikes within our group, and loaning out my Berts, meant I couldn't play that deck or one based off Order. My next most comfortable symbol is Chaos, and going in I'd been working on a tri-symbol Kyoshiro. But I was persuaded by one smooth talker (Mr. Ben Shoemaker) to just play Defender loop if I were to play Kyoshiro.

And so, as we piled back into the van after stopping at Dairy Queen for a bathroom/Blizzard break, I spent abotu five minutes making a Chaos Kyoshiro deck. That night, I played one game with the deck, and then made some minor adjustments, which became the finalized deck for the next day. Here is is.

Characters: 0 + 1
1x **Kyoshiro**

Actions: 4
4x Tag Along

Assets: 12
4x Olcadan's Mentoring
3x Lynette's Shop
3x Seal of Cessation
2x Defender

Attacks: 7
4x Mega Spike
2x Neo Raging Storm
1x Negative Strain

Foundations: 43
4x Forethought
4x Lord of the Makai
4x Oral Dead
4x Tira's Contract
4x The Bigger They Are...
4x The King of Fighters 2006
4x The Red Lotus of the Sun
4x Trapped in a Nightmare
3x Destiny
3x Ibuki Artist (drawin' you from the bushes)
3x Lesser of Many Evils
2x Dancing Battle Ibuki

Sideboard:
4x Experienced Combatant
4x Program Malfunction

Most of the deck is extremely self-explanatory; it's not rocket science. It's both extremely solid and extremely consistant. Looking back, the only changes I'd probably make are the removal of the NRS, and the possible change of Negative Strain to Butt Slam. Adding in Powerful Style would probably have been a big help in keeping myself alive against Mr. Jon Herr. A third Defender and a fourth Lynette's would have helped, but I didn't have 'em at the time. If I ever rebuild it, I might give them whirl. Divination would have come in handy at one time, too, as I cycled my deck and RFG'd three of my throws. Billiard Player would also have been a huge enabler, as almost every time the loop wasn't ready by turn three, it was because I was missing one card (typically Defender or LotM; drawing the throws was easy).

The sideboard was made by my general lack of anything that I could think of to put in it. This deck's worst enemies are Revenant's Calling and Amy's Assistance (Past Shrouded in Mystery, too), so I put in a few more committal cards to get those taken care of. Trapped in a Nightmare earns the underdog MVP spot in the deck, being insanely useful when it came time to put certain cards to bed, like Chester's Backing, BRT, and the like.

The only losses the deck had throughout the entire tournament were to one man - Jon Herr, whose Donovan won the tournament. I played against him in the final round of Singles, and again in the semifinals. Other than that, the deck didn't lose a single game. CURSE YOU, JON HERR!

Changes that would have been made with an Order/Chaos split - addition of BRT, Experienced, Amy's Assistance, and ProMal to the mainboard, and the removal of Battle Ibuki and probably Trapped in a Nightmare.

Questions and comments welcome.

Don't you mean Dancing Battle Kabuki instead of Dancing Battle Ibuki?

But ya, you pretty much explained what needs to be done to make the deck play at its peak performance. How did you, Brian, and your group all do at GCC?

Looks like solid deck was solid. chaos and order go quite well together and any character that can reliable draw cards wether it be through hand size or draw ability is going ot front the deck well. Kyoshiro has both.

Chaos has quikly become one of my favorite symbols. your deck illustrates why.

Gummy Bear said:

he third placed, read the name of the thread. i would sugest n-type human, meat eater, fire kick (instead of negative strain and neo raging storm), and biliard player (i know you already said it). also how did you deal with tag along?

god all these cool decks and i never got to face them........im relieved

@trane: Meat Eater? I don't think there's anything that needs the momentum in the deck, except Defender, and Defender only does anything when he's going to do his loop <ie he needs to whack you 11billion times>

Did Negative Strain's E ever happen, or was it just "4-diff throw with Chaos and Earth"? Additional question - did I waste two words by saying "and Earth" in that sentence?

Gummy Bear said:

Jacob made top 8 with his Seong-Mina. I honestly don't remember how everyone else did. They mostly broke even, I think.

theboogerman said:

trane said:

Surprisingly...not a single person TA'd his ability all day O.o

GeneralReaction89 said:

But there's always the SCC >=]

Wafflecopter said:

And yes...yes you did =(

It was actually Ben's suggestion, btw. Since then, I've taken his other suggestion and gone with Butt Slam for the 3-check.