New Boosts For Forgotten Decks-Master Paladin
From Dark Crisis to Ancient Sanctuary, We've gotten alot of Strong Cards, and alot of forgotten Decks themes have gotten some major reinforcement. These Decks would be Zombie Decks, Fairy Decks, Water Decks, and Beast Decks.
 
I'll start with Zombie Decks, cause its quite obvious how potent they've gotten.
 
In the early days of Yugioh, The only Zombie card with any power were Pumpking the King of Ghosts and Dragon Zombie. Zombie Decks now have cards like the Almighty Vampire Lord, Spirit Reaper, Spirit Reaper on Nightmare, Patrician of Darkness, Despair from the Dark, Fear From The Dark, Pyramid Turtle and now, thanks to Ancient Sanctuary, we have Spirit of The Pharoah, Double Ghoston, and Vampire Lady.
 
As you can see, Zombie decks have gained alot of powerful monsters. They also have some nasty card combos. Like....
 
1)Using Patricain of Darkness to redirect all your opponents attacks to Spirit Reaper.
2)Using Pyramid turtle with Vampire Lord.
3)Dump Despair from the Dark into the graveyard, then use Book of Life to revive it and remove a card from your opponents graveyard.
4)Using Staunch Defender with Despair from the Dark or Spirit Reaper(or Spirit Reaper on nightmare), forcing all your opponents monster's to attack one of them.
5)Using Double Coston to make Despair from the Dark a 1 tribute monster.
 
I know some of these weren't really combos, more like tips, but still, they all work and they're pretty good "combos."
 
Anyway, incase anyone is interested in building a good zombie deck, Here's something to work off of.
 
Tribute Monsters:(04)
Despair From The Dark
Spirit of the Pharaoh
Vampire Lord
Patrician of Darkness
 
Non-Tribute Monsters:(12)
Double Coston
Fear From the Dark
Vampire Lady
Pyramid Turtle x 3
Pharaoh's Servant x 2
Pharaonic Guardian x 2
Soul Absorbing Bone Tower
Spirit Reaper
 
Spells:(16)
Monster Reborn
Change of Heart
Dark Hole
Raigeki
Pot of Greed
Graceful Charity
Premature Burial
Harpie's Feather Duster
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon x 3
Book of Life x 2
The Second Sarcophagus
The Third Sarcophagus
 
Traps:(08)
Bell of Destruction
Mirror Force
Magic Cylinder
Call of the Haunted
The First Sacrophagus
Staunch Defender
Judgment of Anubis
Curse of Anubis
 
Well that should be a good jump-start for your brain's to build a zombie deck.
 
Next, I'm gonna talk about Fairy types, becuase they've gotten alot of help in the last three sets.
 
As you know for a while our only good fairies were WingWeaver(not worth it) and Shining Angel. But now we have Mudora, Zolga, Guardian Angel Joan, Archlord Zerato, The Agent of Judgement- Saturn, The Agent of Force- Mars, The Agent of Wisdom- Mercury, The Agent of Creation- Venus, and of course Sanctuary in the Sky.
 
Well as you can see, Fairy's went from having near nothing to quite the army of cards.
They also have some mean or "heavenly" combos. Like...
 
1)While Sanctuary in the Sky is in play, Ram a Shining Angel into a strong monster, and then special summon a D.D. Warrior Lady and Ram that into the Monster.
2)Use Kaiser Seahorse to make WingWeaver(i repeat, not worth it) or Guardian Angel Joan to make them only one tribute monsters.
3)Sacrafice Zolga for The Agent of Judgement- Saturn or Guardian Angel Joan and gain 2000 life points.
4)While Sanctuary in the Sky is in play, Summon Guardian Angel Joan and The Agent of Force- Mars. Now lets say you and your opponents life points are equal and your opponent has a Jinzo on the field. Have Guardian Angel Joan attack Jinzo, Your Opponent loses 400 and you gain 2400, the difference in life points is 2800, So Mars' attack is 2800, now attack directly and i believe teh difference is 5600, and that would be Mars' attack.
5)Use Painful Choice to dump Fairy monsters into the Graveyard for Mudora's effect. 
 
 
Now those were some nice combos, now here's a deck to work off of.
 
Tribute Monsters:(03)
Archlord Zerato
Guardian Angel Joan
The Agent of Judgement- Saturn
 
Non-Tribute Monsters:(13)
Kaiser Seahorse
Freed the Brave Warrior
Zolga
Warrior of Zera
The Agent of Creation- Venus
Mudora
D.D. Warrior Lady
Shining Angel x 2
Mystical Shine Ball x
The Agent of Wisdom- Mercury
The Agent of Force- Mars
 
Spells:(16)
The Sanctuary in the Sky x 3
Monster Reborn
Change of Heart
Dark Hole
Raigeki
Pot of Greed
Graceful Charity
Swords of Revealing Light
Painful Choice
Harpie's Feather Duster
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon x 3
 
Traps:(08)
Ring of Destruction
Mirrir Force
Magic Cylinder
Negate Attack
Solemn Judgment
Ray of Hope x 3
 
Next is a deck that just keeps getting better with every set. That is a water deck.
 
In the early days we only had 7 Colored Fish, Giant Red Seasnake, StarBoy, Penguin Soldier, Great White and of course Umi. Now we have Tornado Wall, A legendary Ocean, Levia Dragon-Daedalus, Orca Mega-Fortress of Darkness, Sea Serpent Warrior of Darkness, Gagagigo, Giga Gagagigo, Tordedo Fish, Cannonball Spear Shellfish, Legendary Fisherman, Amphibious Bugroth MK-3, Mermaid Knight, and Piranha Army.
 
I would list soem combos for these monsters, but tehre are far too many. So I'll just go straight to the deck.
 
Tribute Monsters:(05)
Suijin
Levia Dragon-Daedalus
Giga Gagagigo
Orca Mega-Fortess of Darkness
The Legendary Fisherman
 
Non-Tribute Monsters:(11)
Gagagigo
Sea Serpent Warrior Of Darkness
Giant Red Seasnake
Amphibious Bugroth MK-3
Mermaid Knight
Torpedo Fish x 2
Cannonball Spear Shellfish x 2
Piranha Army
Star Boy
 
Spells:(16)
A Legendary Ocean x 3
Umi
Monster Reborn
Change of Heart
Dark Hole
Raigeki
Pot of Greed
Graceful Charity
Premature Burial
Harpie's Feather Duster
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon x 3
 
Traps:(08)
Ring of Destruction
Mirror Force
Magic Cylinder
Tornado Wall x 2
Torrential Tribute x 3
 
Ok and now my Final Deck, will be a deck type I tried once, and these are the mighty Beasts. They had basically nothing until Invasion of Chaos. Thanks to IOC, they now have Manticore of Darkness, Berserk Gorilla, Mad Dog of Darkness, and Enraged Battle Ox.
 
There aren't many combos for beast, they're mainly Beatdown using Enraged Battle Ox's effect to make them all tramplers. Though, there is one combo, the infinate loop combo with two Manticore's and a Card of Safe Return, but I won't go into that.
 
Here's a Deck...
 
Tribute Monsters:(02)
Manticore of Darkness x 2
 
Non-Tribute Monsters:(14)
Berserk Gorilla x 3
Mad Dog of Darkness x 3
Enraged Battle Ox x 3
Exodia the Forbidden One
Left Arm of the Forbidden One
Left Leg of The Forbidden One
Right Arm of The Forbidden One
Right Leg of The Forbidden One
 
Spells:
Monster Reborn
Change of Heart
Dark Hole
Raigeki
Pot of Greed
Graceful Charity
Premature Burial
Harpie's Feather Duster
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon x 3
Card of Safe Return
Wild Nature's Release x 2
Stumbling
 
Traps:(08)
Ring of Destruction
Magic Cylinder
Mirror Force
Negate Attack
Call of the Haunted
Waboku x 3
 
Well thats the end of my article, I'll be back again soon with some new stuff.
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