goodstuff.dek

Monsters: 19
3 Blood Knight
3 Iceborn Chimaera
3 Pressure Ball
3 Soulbound Psion
3 Tungsten Oyster
2 Carnoxiphos, the Bladed Carnivore
2 Treeformed Druid

Spells: 9
3 Book Of Belial
2 Brave the Elements
2 Ticking Time Bomb
2 Tonic of Temporary Tenacity

Traps: 12
3 Chi Drain
3 Death by Undeath
2 Gremlin Sabotage Specialist
2 Reverse Guillotine
2 Volatile Blasting Apparatus

Not convinced by my S/T line up. Or by my inclusion of Blood Knight but its strong and synergizes with the Tribute monsters I'm running atm. This was my list pre-Nerfs to Psion and Oyster but I still think they're 2 of the best generic guys I could run.

I don't see any reason to run Death by Undeath. It's only a 1-turn revival, and I don't see any way for you to really use that 1-turn monster to the fullest. Only combo I see is tributing Blood Knight, which frankly still isn't that terribly impressive a combo.

Can't you use DbU to revive a monster and trib it away for one of the larger beaters?

That's true, I suppose, but there's only 4 of those in there, and the whole point of a deck like this is to just run a bunch of cards that are strong on their own and don't need combos to function. This works because we're only a few sets large and thus combos aren't really that toolboxable.
There are a few combos in this deck that do work, like Pressure Ball + Soulbound Psion, but they can function perfectly fine if you draw them seperately, whereas Death By Undeath serves little purpose in this deck.

What purpose does Pressure Ball serve in this deck? Sure, you draw a card on normal summon. But then you've used up a normal summon for a 37 card deck where you could use some other cards for that space. There's no way to get around that "wasted" normal summon here.

I don't know what you'd use instead. Magic Rabbit Hole, maybe?

Sea makes a good point, actually. Deckthin has little purpose in a deck in which most cards are of roughly equal strength.
In defense of Pressure Ball, though, it does combo well with Soulbound Psion, and if you can manage to Tribute it, then it is a freebie tribute.
Admittedly, these are situational, but it's hardly a disaster if you don't get the combo, because it'll just replace itself with a different card.

something i think everyone missed with undeath is you can bring back oyster during their ep, attack in your turn flip it and it sticks to the field. grabbing a druid attacking then drawing when it dies is pretty neat and a psion in hand with that makes it actually the best combination of cards in the deck

additionally, blood knight comes out bigger than psion, oyster and chimaera which is really useful on top of tribute synergy and goes nice with gremlin and dbu.

pressure ball is the best standalone card and if you draw it w/ belial you have great deckthin and +1 removal