Cookie Cutter

A Cookie Cutter Deck is a kind of deck type in HCCG.

Cookie cutter decks have no general strategy and do not revolve around a particular archetype or similar kind of theme, unlike most other deck types in the game. Instead, they are filled primarily with staples and other splashable cards with basic effects that do their best to not net the player negative card advantage. These kinds of decks were extremely prolific in the metagame when HCCG began; however, due to the push of archetypes from first the TCG and later within the HCCG itself, these decks are no longer a common presence in the metagame.

Because there is no official way to build a cookie cutter deck, the deck can vary from player to player, and as such it can be a pretty unique deck type but can prove difficult to build effectively. The traditional cookie cutter deck uses 1 of each card to maximize the amount of diversity available to the deck, and uses no Extra deck monsters due to their reliance on a theme. They also use primarily Level 4 or lower monsters that required no cost to Tribute Summon, keeping with the basis of not losing card advantage. Modern cookie cutter decks, however, can ignore these constraints, as the card pool has changed very much since the game first began.

Trivia

 * The most powerful Cookie Cutter deck, Splash Dragons, was the first deck to dominate the HCCG meta. However, it is now extinct since many of the cards used were deemed illegal after the reset.
 * Resource Decks are similar to cookie cutter decks in that they also do not revolve around a particular archetype. However, these decks do have a much more focused strategy and only use a specific pool of monsters, as opposed to the much broader selection used in cookie cutter decks.