Forum:Deck Guide/Fairy

Here's an example of a Coutner Fairy deck. The strategy of the deck is to summon a card such as Bountiful Artemis and then be reqarded for punishing your opponents every move. Van'Dalgyon is an excellent card in here as there is no cost to summon him. He provides you with an effective counter to most powerful monsters. Splendid Venus is in here to help Bountiful Artemis to survive longer and to ensure that your opponent does not counter your counter trap cards. Venus can be summoned through Gellenduo or can be discarded (along with Van'dalgyon) for Trade-in. Honest also allows Bountiful Artemis to survive longer and can help you get over obstacles such as Stardust Dragon. Morphing Jar allows you to replenish after a handful of traps, this card can get you 5 new cards, making it invaluable to a slow deck such as this. Thunder King Rai-Oh gives this Counter Fairy deck a beatstick, allowing it to get over monsters such as Elemental Hero Stratos. On top of being a beatstick, this can act as a defense mechanism against highly devastating monsters such as Judgment Dragon. Besides being a beatstick and a last defense, This card also hampers with your opponent's draw, making it very devastating when tagged up with Drastic Drop Off. Gellenduo acts as tribute fodder for Venus as well as providing stall if needed. Harvest Angel of Wisdom allows you to retrieve counter traps such as Solemn Judgment making it a very nice addition to the deck. It's beatstick quality isn't to shabby either. Bountiful Artemis is here to provide a reward for punishing your opponent. This is a mandatory card to counter fairies as it provides much needed speed. A single copy of trade-in is included as there are only 4 possible discards. This can be an excellent answer to a useless Venus in the hand. As heavy storm can't be added as you need your traps on the field, giant trunade is here as spell and trap removal. As Artemis needs to be protected, Book of Moon is here to ensure that it stays on the field as long as possible. This can be a very useful card in getting rid of pesky monsters such as Stardust Dragon. Call of the Haunted is a staple card in most decks, it'll be very well protected due to the counter traps so you don't need to worry about using it. Dark Bribe is an excellent card that, along with Artemis, should be played in every counter fairy deck. This allows you to counter things like Gladiator Beast War Chariot and Heavy Storm. Divine Wrath is included to make sure that potentially destructive monsters never use their effects. This is another staple in Counter Fairy decks. Solemn Judgment is the ultimate counter trap card, able to stop almost anything at a steep cost. Though this cost is daunting, this is ia fairy deck that does not run on lifepoints so solemn can be played safely here. Though it's an excellent card, Solemn Judgment should be played very carefully. Magic Drain is one of my favorite counter traps, it allows you to negate an oponents spell for free. This card makes your opponent lose a card no matter what and with Splendid Venus out, it can't be negated at all. Seven Tools, though it can be excellent at times, is too situational for my taste. This card was better last format where Blackwings and Gladiator Beasts ruled (both decks were filled with traps). This card can still be useful this format, showing why it's included in this build. Drastic Drop Off is another favorite of mine, while excellent at running down your opponents hand during your draw phase, it is also devastating to decks that run cards like Allure of Darkness, Reinforcment of the Army, Trade-In, and Charge of the Light Brigade. Mirror Force and Torrential are generic defense in most decks. These cards are essential at keeping your opponent from getting too much momentum over you.

Chaos Counter Fairy[edit]

Chaos Counter Fairy

This is an example of a Chaos Counter Fairy deck. A Chaos Counter Fairy deck is a Counter Fairy deck that has included DARK monsters such as Van'Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord and Dark Voltanis. The inclusion of DARK monsters has allowed the deck to run Chaos Sorcerer, one of the recently semi-limited infamous Chaos Trio, as well as Allure of Darkness. Dark Voltanis, while I don't personally like it, the card does merge Counter Traps and DARKs nicely. As the deck is low on DARK monsters that you'll want to tribute, Voltanis will mostly sit in your hand until you can discard it with Trade-In or Special Summon it via Valhalla. Van'Dalgyon, while not a fairy, fits this theme extremely well as it's a DARK lvl8 monster that can be special summoned by activating a counter trap. Darklord Zerato is not a card that I like here very much, but this is excellent when used with Valhalla. While it's effect will be pulled off only overy occasionally, the main point of Zerato in this deck is as Trade-in and Allure of Darkness food and to act as a potential beatstick. Chaos Sorcerer, one of the dreaded Chaos Trio fits perfectly into this deck. This card is perfect at removing pesky monsters such as Stardust Dragon, Judgment Dragon, and even Gladiator Beast Bestiari. As this is a Counter Fairy Variant, Bountiful Artemis must, of course, be included. The draw effect of this card is too good to pass up. While this is LIGHT-DARK fairy deck, the deck seems to lack in lv4 DARK fairies. There is only one worth playing to date and that is Dark Valkyria. This card is an excellent beatstick that fits into the deck's theme and has an excellent effect as well if you can manage to summon it a second time. Use this card with Valhalla to get it's effect right away. Harvest Angel is mainly here to increase the level of LIGHT monsters to a suitable ammount. Harvest's beatstick status and it's trap recursion effect is nice as well. While the deck isn't a full LIGHT deck, it still has enough LIGHT monster to play two Honests. Marshmallon is here as it's nice defense, something that this deck lacks and as it's a LIGHT attribute monster. The spell lineup is very simple, most of it is dedicated to drawing through Allure of Darkness and Trade-In. Valhalla is here in the event that you have no monsters on the field, if this were to occur, you could use it to summon out huge beatsticks such as Darklord Zerato or use it to get Dark Valkyria's effect. The trap section is a generic counter fairy trap lineup. Forced Back is played over Seven Tools here.

Saturn OTK[edit]

Saturn OTK

A Saturn OTK deck's win is pulled off via tributing The Agent of Judgment - Saturn for a massive ammount of burn damage. Saturn is the best of the Agent Monsters, able to end a game in one turn with a little work. The main way to summon this monster is via Celestial Transformation, Inferno Reckless Summon can be chained to Transformation to get all three out at once. Airknight Parshath is here as it is excellent draw power. While it's not going to remain on the field for long, this card will net you a few free draws. This card can be special summoned via Nova Summoner. Tethys is also here to speed up the deck, there should actually be more of these in this deck, but only one was fit in due to space restrictions. Gellenduo is excellent stall while The Sanctuary in the Sky is out. Nova Summoner is played in this deck as it can easily summon cards such as Honest or Airknight Parshath for an offensive boost or it can summon Marshmallon in defense for a bit of stall/defense. Honest is here as it's a staple in LIGHT decks, the boost that this card gives Fairies is phenominal. As Sanctuary is required in this deck, Zeradias is played here as well. A monster version of terraforming, this card has a HUGE attack of 2100 and can be recycled via Pot of Avarice. Shining Angel is here to search, primarily, for either Honest or Nova Summoner. The Sanctuary in the Sky is essential in this deck, so though it is not a very competitive card as it's easily susceptible to destruction, it must be included. Inferno Reckless Summon is an interesting little toy in this deck, use it with Celestial Transformation to get out all three Saturns for a possible OTK or get all three Honests. Brain Control, though counter-productive, allows you to steal an opponents monster to tribute it for a Tethys, Saturn, or Parshath. Pot of Avarice is one of the best ways to utilize a fairy graveyard as it recycles searchers very well and it supplies the deck with free draw cards as well (perfect for Tethys). Celestial Transformation is here for one reason: to special summon Saturn for free. Another Tethys-friendly card that is included in this deck is Hand Destruction, while not a card that I usually approve of, this usually ends up in gaining at least a card for the hand while Tethys is out. Reckless Greed is yet another Tethys-friendly card. This card is excellent when at least another Greed or a Tethys is on the field. Call of the Haunted is a staple in most decks, this can allow you to retrieve a Saturn for some instant burn. Aegis of Gaia and Secret Barrel are here to make a gap between your opponent's lifepoints and yours. These two allow Saturn to inflict huge ammounts of damage to your opponent very quickly.

RFP Fairies[edit]

RFP fairies

A rough outline of a RFP fairy deck, the point of the deck is to remove fairies in your graveyard to fulfill effects. Freed the Brave Wanderer is one of the most important cards in this deck, it removes fairies as well as potentially devastating obstacles. The three Bountiful Artemis's are here as they are the main draw engine of the deck, these allow the user to speed through the deck while negating our opponent's moves. Nova Summoner and Shining Angel allow the searching of cards such as Cyber Valley, Layard the Liberator, Honest, and other Nova Summoners. This card allows the grave to be filled up with LIGHT monsters quickly, to better utilize the effects of Freed the Brave Wanderer and Soul of Purity and Light. The all-time best LIGHT card, Honest is here as it's a staple in any deck with LIGHT monsters. This can also be searched out via Nova Summoner and Shining Angel making it even better. Cyber Valley is a perfect addition to the deck, it allows you an extra turn and can be set up quickly via Shining Angel and Nova Summoner. Freed the Brave Wanderer is included in this deck as it can remove LIGHT monsters from the grave quickly as well as removing huge potential problems. Soul of Purity and Light is here simply as a beatstick that removes fairies from the grave. Giant Trunade is simply spell and trap removal here, this is played as Heavy Storm can not be. Burial from the D.D. is used to reuse Freed the Brave Wanderer's effect. Light of Redemption is an alternative to Burial, it's extremely useful for grabbing your removed Honests. The Trap lineup of the deck is a normal counter fairy deck with the exceptions of Forced Back. The deck runs Forced Back to try and get in as many hits as possible. Forced Back also removes the threat of rogue Monarchs.

Athena OTK[edit]

Athena OTK

The Athena OTK is a deck in which the user gets Athena, Honest, and Ultimate Offering out on the field. The user then returns Honest to the hand using it's effect and then resummons via Ultimate Offering. The player repeats this, all the while inflicting burn damage via Athena. The deck does need you to have more lifepoints than your opponent or you won't be able to beat them in one turn. Athena inflicts 600 damage while Offering demands a payment of 500. Splendid Venus is here as the deck runs a counter trap engine while also utilizing Valhalla and Trade-In. Van'Dalgyon is here for most of the same reasons as Venus. The monster is an excellent beatstick and can be used as a tribute for Athena as well. Athena is one of the three main components of the OTK, so as many copies as possible should be run. about half of the deck is used up, just so it can use Bountiful Artemis's great effect. The card is excellent at thinning (drawing through/milling)the deck. Nova Summoner is included to search out Honest, a nice card to be include despite having only 2 targets to search for. Honest is the third component to the OTK, so it's essential as well, the card's also incredible by itself. Gellenduo is mainly used as a wall and as a tribute for Athena/Venus. The card is best played while in defense in this deck. The spell lineup of the deck is fairly simple, Giant Trunade to clear the s/t field for a finishing blow, Trade-In for speed, Valhalla to get out Athena and Venus, and Gold Sarco to search out Ultimate Offering. Gold Sarcophagus is excellent in this deck as it can search out any 1 component of the deck. The trap lineup is a generic Counter Fairy side as well. The only variation in this trap lineup is the inclusion of Torrential Tribute and Ultimate Offering, which is mandatory.

Parshath[edit]

Parshath Deck

The point of this deck is to summon out Airknight Parshath or Neo-Parshath, the Sky Paladin as cleanly and effectively as possible. The Parshaths are monsters that have low atk for their levels (1900 for a level 5 and 2300 for a level 7), they make up for their effects, however and, if played right, can be brutal. Neo is an immensely beefed up version of Airknight Parshath. He is the same thing as Airknight except Neo has the ability to power himself up by the difference between you and your opponents lifepoints while The Sanctuary in the Sky is on the field. He can be special summoned by tributing an Airknight, Reasoning, or tributing Gellenduo. The Agent of Force - Mars is an excellent addition to this deck as, while it's a potential liability, it can have HUGE benefits. This card is searchable by Shining Angel and has a similar effect to Neo. I recommend just including 1 as he won't get to big without burn/lp gaining cards. Zeradias, Herald of Heaven is a staple card in any fairy deck that runs The Sanctuary in the Sky. If this card is discarded to search out Sanctuary, you recycle him with Pot of Avarice. Honest is self explanatory, it's especially useful in this deck due to Parshath's low attack. Nova Summoner is essential in this deck, if Sanctuary is out, it can search a Parshath out, this card allows you to fill up the grave quickly for Pot of Avarice. Shining Angel is included as a searcher for Honest but it can be used as a basically unlimited defense while The Sanctuary in the Sky is out. This card is also an excellent grave filler for Pot of Avarice (PoA). Gellenduo is a wall/tribute bait for Neo. While the Sanctuary is out, you don't need to worry about his self-destruction effect. The Sanctuary in the Sky is essential in this deck, both Nova Summoner and Neo-Parshath, the Sky Paladin needing it. As the deck has virtually no spell/trap removal, Trunade is run for field-clearing. Mystical Space Typhoon (MST) is run for the same reasons. Brain Control, though counter-productive to the lifepoint-difference strategy, allows you to turn your opponent's monsters into tributes for the Parshaths. Pot of Avarice is essential in this deck, this card gives the deck a draw card while allowing you to help retrieve your lost Honests, Nova Summoners, and Shining Angels. Book of Moon is the main defense mechanism of the deck, it provides excellent defense while allowing Parshath to take out almost any monster. The card is excellent in this deck. The trap line-up is fairly simple, Mirror Force to take out swarms, Torrential Tribute to get rid of a troublesome monster, Bottomless Trap Hole to keep potential obstacles off the field, Call of the Haunted is self-explanatory, and Reckless Greed is added for speed.

Valhalla Rush[edit]

Valhalla Rush

The point of a Valhalla Rush deck is to summon as many large LIGHT monsters as possible through the effect of Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen. As this deck has no utilization of the graveyard, Athena is included to use the fairy grave to it's maximum potential, Athena is a LIGHT fairy beatstick as well making it a powerful component of the deck. Next up is Guardian of Order. While an odd choice, GoO (Guardian of Order) allows the deck to swarm with LIGHT beatsticks. While using Valhalla, you can get two monsters out per turn as you can Normal Summon after using Valhalla's effect, GoA is almost never a dead card in this deck. The main speed component of the deck is Tethys, Goddess of Light, whenever you draw a fairy type, you can draw again. This effect includes cards such as Reckless Greed and Trade-In. Another important bit of the deck is Majestic Mech - Goryu. Goryu allows you to quickly gain the advantage over your opponent as your opponent can easily defend against a single beatstick by setting a monster (such as Spirit Reaper). This bypasses this weakness. Splendid Venus is excellent Trade-In material as well as a monster that allows you to make unrestricted pushes. This card's importance has recently waned due to the limiting of Solemn Judgment, but It's still an excellent card to include nontheless (it's high attack can attack over almost anything). Honest, though always incredible, is especially good in this deck due to Athena's revival effect. Hecatrice is essential in this deck as it searches out the main component of the deck, Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen. This card, when it's not usefull, can also be tributed via Athena to revive a huge fairy beatstick. Gellenduo is an excellent stall card in this deck and a good beatstick. It can be tributed for any monster in the deck as well. Morphing Jar is an excellent addition as well as it dumps high ATK fairies in the grave to be revived via Athena. The card allows greater speed and consistency. Trade-In has the same roll as Morphing Jar, it dumps a high ATK fairy in exchange for two cards, what's not to like? Both Giant Trunade, Cold Wave, and Mystical Space Typhoon are included as this deck is prone to large pushes, these two are excellent at ensuring that you'll have a clear shot at your opponent. Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen is self-explanitory, it's the whole point of the deck. Reasoning and Monster Gate, though risky, are an excellent addition to the deck. these allow the player to get numerous high ATK fairies out at once. Smashing Ground is an answer to cards like Colossal Fighter, which this deck has a hard time fighting around. The trap line-up is simple, a Mirror Force to make sure your opponent never gets the advantage, a Torrential Tribute and Bottomless Trap Hole to make sure your opponent doesn't get out a particularly nasty monster, Call of the Haunted is a staple that must be included, and three Reckless Greeds for speed.

Sanctuary[edit]

Sanctuary Deck

This is a rough example of a Sanctuary/Agent deck. The point of the deck is to create a difference between your lifepoints and your opponents to power up your cards. This happens through cards such as Honest, Parshath, Joan, and Draining Shield. One of the major players of the deck is The Agent of Judgment - Saturn. This card can occasionally OTK your opponent, but it's main job is to create a larger gap between lifepoints. Another important component of the deck is Airknight Parshath and it's upgrade, Neo-Parshath, the Sky Paladin. As Nova Summoner can get an Airknight when destroyed and Sanctuary is out, Airknight Parshath is a must in this deck. Neo is included as it's very easy to get out while benefiting from the deck's theme. Guardian Angel Joan is the best way to get lifepoints to power up your agents. With Gellenduo and Valhalla included, it's not too hard to get out. Nova Summoner is excellent protection and grave filler. The card allows you to search out Airknight Parshath, Honest, another Nova Summoner, or The Agent of Force - Mars which speeds up the deck considerably. The Agent of Force - Mars is the second best agent and as such, is included. This card can easily get it's attack up into the 6000's. While the card's excellent, it's ony really useful while Sanctuary is out, and Sanctuary won't always be out. Zeradias, Herald of Heaven is an excellent inclusion in this deck, it's high attack completely dominates the field, and it can search for The Sanctuary in the Sky as well. Honest is a staple in LIGHT decks, so it must be run. The card's particularly good in this deck as it can protect you as well as decrease your opponent's lifepoints. While Sanctuary is out, Gellenduo can only be destroyed by spell and traps. This card's double-tribute status makes it a very good card to have in this deck as Joan and Neo need an alternative way to get them out. Gellenduo's wall-like effect is also very nice to have. On to the spell department... The Sanctuary in the Sky is essential in this deck, so it's added. Valhalla is also an excellent addition to the deck as it has more than five tribute monsters. Valhalla allows the deck to recover extremely quickly from overreaching as well. Pot of Avarice gives the deck a small boost of speed, this allows the deck to recycle essential cards such as Honest and Nova Summoner. Giant Trunade and Mystical Space Typhoon are the spell and trap removal for the deck as Heavy Storm cannot be included due to the inclusion of The Sanctuary in the Sky and Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen. For the defense of the deck, we have Mirror Force and Torrential Tribute to keep your opponent from going on the offensive. On top of the twin-defense-traps, Bottomless Trap Hole and Draining Shield are included. Bottomless Trap Hole acts as a mini Torrential Tribute, it allows you to protect yourself against potentially fatal cards such as Gladiator Beast Bestiari, Dark Armed Dragon, and Judgment Dragon. Draining Shield is one of the biggest lp-increasers in the deck, it allows you to quickly gain advantage over your opponent. Reckless Greed allows you to quickly go through your deck, lending the deck speed during essential times. Call of the Haunted is a staple trap that allows you a free monster from the grave, with it, you can easily reuse effects such as The Agent of Judgment - Saturn's.67.241.157.7 (talk) 19:53, December 5, 2012 (UTC)

Drain Fairy[edit]

Drain Fairies

Standard Extra Deck

15x Synchro monsters of various levels

This deck is one of the better anti-meta options. It runs similarly to the Little City Deck, utilizing both Skill Drain, Light Beatsticks, and Honest. Beast King Barbaros is a staple in all decks that utilize Skill Drain, it's free 3000 attack is just too good to pass up. It's 1900 attack isn't too shabby either. The Majestic Mechs are the point of the deck, their summonability makes them excellent as they don't destroy themselves during the end phase (due to Skill Drain). As the deck utilizes mainly LIGHT monsters, Honest is essential. The fairy ensures that your LIGHT monsters remain dominant on the field (it's especially useful for getting over obstacles such as Dark Armed Dragon, Judgment Dragon, and Stardust Dragon). Cyber Dragon is a good opening play, it's 2100 attack allows you to quickly gain control of the field. Being a LIGHT monster is also a reason for CyDra's inclusion. Another staple in LIGHT skill drain decks is Thunder King Rai-Oh, though only 1 of it's effects works, it's still an excellent card to include due to it's LIGHT attribute and high attack. Cyber Valley is an excellent card to include in this deck as, first off, it's a LIGHT monster, making it abusable with Honest. Valley is also unaffected by Skill Drain (it's a cost and it's effect activates off of the field). Shining Angel is unaffected by Drain as well, it' excellent at fetching Cyber Valley for stall as well as searching for Honest (in the event that Skill Drain isn't active). The final monster card to be in the deck is Rose, Warrior of Revenge. This warrior monster allows the deck to have access to Stardust Dragon (who's unaffected by Skill Drain). This helps the deck phenominally as it protects Skill Drain from destruction. Giant Trunade is a good replacement for Heavy Storm (can't be included due to Skill Drain). Trunade allows good late-game pushes, removing all potential threats. Brain Control is self-explanatory, the card should be in almost every deck. Mystical Space Typhoon is similar to Giant Trunade in it's usefulness, but is better as it removes the threat rather then stalling it. Trade-In gives the deck rudimentary speed, allowing you to ditch dead copies of Goryu and Barbaros as needed. Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen is only really good at getting out Goryu without tribute or while Skill Drain isn't active, hence only 2 copies being used. Gold Sarcophagus is an incredible choice here, being able to search out Skill Drain is a godsend. Smashing Ground and Fissure allow the deck to get around cards such as Colossal Fighter and Blackwing - Armour Master which can completely stop this deck. The trap lineup is very straightforward. Skill Drain is the point of the deck, so it, of course, needs to be included. As this deck is very anti-meta, Royal Oppression is an excellent choice as well. As there are so few special-summonable cards in the deck, this will have very little effect on you and will create huge problems for most decks. The rest of the trap lineup are staples, Bottomless Trap Hole and Torrential Tribute to keep large monsters off the field, Call of the Haunted for its ever-usefulness, and Mirror Force as a last-resort card.

Synchro Fairy[edit]

Synchro Fairy

Synchro Monsters