Empty Jar
An Empty Jar deck is a type of Mill Deck that focuses on abusing the three Books that center around flipping monsters face-up/face-down.
By using these 3 Spells the player can reuse the effects of Needle Worm and Morphing Jar to mill out the opponent.
WARNING: Although EXTREMELY unlikely, Needle Worm can backfire if the opponent's deck contains Penguin Knight.
This deck is sometimes referred to as "Flip Trolls" or "Flip Mill".
Contents
Weaknesses
- Skill Drain is a massive threat to this deck build, without any means of countering, as this is an instant loss whenever this is played against you. Mystical Space Typhoon is one of the very few counters to this, so it's recommended you side deck them in the rare occurrence your opponent plays these. Heavy Storm is also a popular choice as it can be used before going for the win. A counter to Skill Drain would be to play Book of Moon or Book of Eclipse after you flip summon because Skill Drain only negates face-up monsters effects. Trap Eater also works and the 1900 ATK will probably make your opponent focus on the treat to his life points instead of his deck and he if pops up another Skill Drain you can switch strategies and summon a Synchro beatstick
- Using Night Beam is also a good idea, or Mind Haxorz.
- Be careful when using "Morphing Jar" and lay a few Traps, because this can help your opponent since they will also be drawing cards, which can be dangerous if they get cards like "Dark Hole".
- Its a good idea to run Neko Mane King to stop the loop of morphing jar and needle worm.
Empty Jar
Recommended Cards
Monsters
- A/D Changer
- Morphing Jar
- Morphing Jar 2
- Needle Worm (Included to deck out opponent more efficiently. For instance, if you only have 4 cards left in deck and you can Book of Taiyou either Morphing Jar or Needle Worm, you can Taiyou the Needle Worm for game (possibly))
- Swift Scarecrow
- Tsukuyomi (for fliping cards face down)
- Marshmallon (prevent attacks)
- Spirit Reaper (prevent attacks)
Spells
- A Feather of the Phoenix (Nice Card, Discard A/D Changer to put One Day of Peace or Morphing Jar in the top of your deck, or cards you want)
- Book of Eclipse
- Book of Moon
- Book of Taiyou
- Burial from a Different Dimension (Combined with A/D Changer)
- Card Destruction
- Creature Swap
- Final Countdown (Alternative winning condition, same reason for including Blasting the Ruins)
- Foolish Burial
- Gold Sarcophagus (For Morphing Jar or Heavy Storm)
- Heavy Storm
- Magical Mallet
- Magical Stone Excavation
- Mystical Space Typhoon (Not necessary, but helpful. Empty jar hates backrow)
- One Day of Peace (Essential)
- Pot of Duality
- The Shallow Grave (Not Necessary. Very good to have if running Needle Worm)
- Upstart Goblin (If running Blasting the Ruins only run one (8000 + 1000 (from Upstart) - 3000 x 3 (Blasting the Ruins) = 0, anymore would give your opponent 1000 or 2000 Life Points)
Traps
- Blasting the Ruins (An Alternate way of winning in case your mill engine fails. If running only run one Upstart Goblin (8000 + 1000 (from Upstart) - 3000 x 3 (Blasting the Ruins) = 0, anymore would give your opponent 1000 or 2000 Life Points)
- Desert Sunlight
- Dark Bribe (Like including Mystical Space Typhoon, Empty Jar hates backrow)
- Ghostrick Roleshift
- Royal Decree (Empty Jar Hates backrow)
- Reckless Greed (With Morphing Jar, you don't need the Normal Draws)
- Threatening Roar
- Thunder of Ruler
- Waboku
Empty Jar FTK
The Empty Jar FTK build is a more focused version of Empty jar, which attempts to deck out the opponent in the first or second turn. The cards recommended below were added without regarding the card ruling on Xyz Material:
Xyz Materials are not treated as being on the field, as seen in the October/November 2011 issue of Shonen Jump and later confirmed by Konami.[1] When an Xyz Material is detached, any "leave the field" effects it may have are not activated, so for example, "Sangan" does not have its search effect activated upon being detached, and "Reborn Tengu" does not Summon a copy of itself when it is detached.
Recommended Cards
Monsters
- See the section above for the "Normal" Empty Jar build.
- A/D Changer
- Deep Diver (To put Morphing Jar on the top of your Deck)
- Giant Rat
- Morphing Jar
- Mystic Tomato (To search Sangan)
- Needle Worm
- Sangan
- Swift Scarecrow
- Battle Fader
Spells
- A Feather of the Phoenix
- Book of Eclipse
- Book of Moon
- Book of Taiyou
- Burial from a Different Dimension (Combined with A/D Changer)
- Card Destruction
- Dark World Dealings
- Darkness Approaches
- Heavy Storm
- Gold Sarcophagus (Search for free Heavy Storm and Morphing Jar)
- Hand Destruction
- Into the Void
- Magical Stone Excavation
- One Day of Peace
- Spell Reproduction
- Serial Spell (combined with Card Destruction)
- The Shallow Grave
- Upstart Goblin
Traps
- Damage Condenser (Searches Morphing Jar or Sangan)
- Waboku (since it can flip Morphing Jar by an attack)
