Burn Deck

"Burn" redirects here. For the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V opening theme, see Burn!.

Burn Decks are designed to inflict damage (or burn) to the opponent's Life Points to 0 with cards that effect damage, instead of relying on battle damage and in many cases, Burn Decks do not rely on the Battle Phase at all.

True to its name, many "burn" cards feature FIRE Attribute or Pyro-Type monsters, or otherwise feature fire in general (such as "Hinotama", "Tremendous Fire", and "Meteor of Destruction"). The "Trickstar" archetype focuses on effect damage, while many other archetypes have some burn cards, usually to give the archetype on last push in damage, examples include; "Updraft", "Venom Burn" and "Shadow Toon" for "Cloudian", "Venom", and "Toon" Decks respectively.

Playing Style

There are many different methods for building a Burn Deck. The most effective play style often changes depending on the format. Burn Decks can generally be divided into two types:

• Fast, FTK/OTK Burn Decks. These tend to focus on a few extremely powerful burn cards together, or using almost all of the user's deck in a single turn.
• Slower (perhaps 1000-2400 damage per turn) Burn Decks. These are usually combined with Stall cards to protect the user's Life Points (as Burn Decks do not usually run many powerful monsters to defend directly) while chipping away at the opponent.

Some cards that can be run in most Burn Decks include; "Lava Golem", "Ring of Destruction"/"Bad Luck Blast", "Dimension Wall"/"Magic Cylinder", "Secret Barrel"/"Secret Blast" and "Just Desserts"/"Ceasefire".

See also:

• Anti-Cure
• Frog Burn FTK
• Magical Explosion FTK
• Trickstar
• Zombie Burn

Chain Strike

Chain Strike OTK

Chain Strike or Chain Burn is a Deck usually designed to win usually by the third turn. This is accomplished by starting a chain with and continuing until a well-timed "Chain Strike" can generate enough burn damage to win. These Decks are generally built with very few monsters.

Historically, Chain Burn decks aimed to finish off the opponent during their first turn, though modern Chain Burn decks is now geared towards blind second approach, by allowing the opponent to build their board and punish them by using "Lava Golem" to neutralize their board, and inflict large amount of damage with cards such as "Ceasefire", "Just Desserts", "Secret Barrel", or "Secret Blast", etc..

Chain Strike (non-OTK)

While "Chain Strike" is certainly part of the Deck's strategy it doesn't rely on it completely. Chainable stall cards such as "Threatening Roar" and "Swift Scarecrow" can be used in supplement to more reliable stall cards such as "Marshmallon".

Stall Burn

The main priorities of this Deck is to stall using cards such as and "Swords of Revealing Light" to prevent taking battle damage, while slowly inflict damage with cards such as "Solar Flare Dragon", "Stealth Bird", "Lava Golem" and "Wave-Motion Cannon". One must also include defense against Spell and Trap destruction, due to the Deck's reliance on Continuous Cards.

In past formats, cards such as "Burden of the Mighty", "Gravity Bind" and "Level Limit - Area B" were popular choices for stalling, however with the advent of Xyz Monsters and Link Monsters they are largely redundant now.

Bubbleman Burn

The Bubbleman Burn Deck is a very fast version of the Burn Deck, which uses cards like "Elemental HERO Bubbleman" and "Card of Sanctity" to draw Normal or Quick-Play Spell Cards which inflict damage. These Decks are made up mostly of one-time burn cards and self-milling cards that go to the Graveyard after they are used, making "Bubbleman" and "Card of Sanctity" easier to use.

Stall cards are not recommended, since the drawing effect of "Bubbleman" won't trigger if there are cards on the field. Dome people do run Normal Traps like "Threatening Roar" or "Magic Cylinder" that can be set last, and can be used as back-ups when you are forced to discard. The only Trap card specifically recommended is "Magical Explosion", which is often used as a finisher in this Deck.

Cure-Burn

Not to be confused with: Anti-Cure

This deck uses the effect of "Fire Princess" along with Life Point gaining cards to deal constant effect damage. The Deck is sometimes called a Big Bang Deck, after the Japanese name of "Fire Princess" - "Big Bang Girl". Despite being a burn deck itself, Cure-Burn tends to be quite strong against most other burn decks due to the constant LP gain.

Deck

Main Deck Monster Cards Fire Princess Cure Mermaid Dancing Fairy Darklord Marie Golden Ladybug Healing Wave Generator Injection Fairy Lily Kiseitai Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird Sangan Spirit of the Breeze UFO Turtle Witch of the Black Forest White Magician Pikeru Spell Cards Dark Room of Nightmare Foolish Burial Goblin Thief Gold Sarcophagus Last Will (Traditional Format only) Messenger of Peace Nightmare's Steelcage Poison of the Old Man Swords of Revealing Light Trap Cards Draining Shield / Rainbow Life Mirror Force Traps Mirror Wall Red Screen Solemn Wishes Torrential Tribute Wall of Revealing Light Extra Deck Synchro Monsters Magical Android

Dark Stall Burn

This Deck focuses Special Summoning, and inflicting a large amount of damage using "Dark Room of Nightmare" and "Earthbound Immortal Chacu Challhua".

For defense, use tokens (can also be used as Synchro fodder) along with cards, such as "Magic Cylinder", "Black-Winged Dragon" and "Stardust Dragon" to disrupt the opponent's attacks, effect damage and destruction respectively.

Deck

Main Deck Monster Cards Effect Monsters Earthbound Immortal Chacu Challhua Earthbound Immortal Aslla piscu Armored Axon Kicker Needle Burrower Phantom Skyblaster Scrap Worm Spell Reactor・RE Stealth Bird Summon Reactor SK Trap Reactor・Y FI Turbo Booster Tuner monsters Creation Resonator Glow-Up Bulb Krebons Spell Cards Ante Cursed Bill Inferno Reckless Summon Mausoleum of the Emperor Misfortune Dark Room of Nightmare Darkworld Shackles Wave-Motion Cannon Trap Cards Ceasefire Fatal Abacus Fire Darts Stardust Shimmer Ojama Trio Ominous Fortunetelling Extra Deck Synchro Monsters Ally of Justice Decisive Armor Armory Arm Black-Winged Dragon Blood Mephist Formula Synchron Scrap Twin Dragon Stardust Dragon Shooting Star Dragon Tempest Magician Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

Exxod Burn

See: sphinx

The main point of the Exxod Burn Deck is to quickly Summon "Exxod, Master of The Guard" and continually use its burn effect.

FIRE Burn

As the name implies FIRE Burn, sometimes called Molten Burn, is a Deck that focuses on dealing damage with FIRE-Attribute, mostly Pyro-Type monsters. This Deck can be played either passively or aggressively.

The more passive variants of the Deck play similar to Stall Burn, using many protective cards and slowly, but consistently, dealing effect damage each turn. See Stall Burn's recommended Spells/Traps. If using only Pyro-Type monsters, "Soul of Fire" & "Firewall" could be considered as methods of effect damage and protection respectively.

The more aggressive variants tend to focus on a higher monster count and dealing damage through monster effects, often including the destruction of their own monsters, then dealing damage with the monster's on destruction effects in combination with the Continuous Trap Cards "Backfire" and "Kickfire".

Herald Cannon Burn

This Deck focuses in restricting the opponent with "Herald of Perfection" and inflicting effect damage using "Wave-Motion Cannon".

Deck

Main Deck Monster Cards Normal Monsters Gyakutenno Megami (if using "Advanced Ritual Art") Effect Monsters Herald of Orange Light Herald of Purple Light Herald of Green Light Senju of the Thousand Hands Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands Fairy Archer Athena Nova Summoner Ritual Monsters Herald of Perfection Spell Cards Dawn of the Herald Advanced Ritual Art Dark Factory of Mass Production Pre-Preparation of Rites Preparation of Rites Wave-Motion Cannon Trap Cards Royal Decree Extra Deck Xyz Monsters Number 16: Shock Master (Traditional Format only)

Reactive Burn Deck

This deck works around making your opponent pay life points for every action. As your opponents life points start reaching zero, they stop making plays, which forces a few high damage cards to be used like "Ceasefire"and "Just Desserts", or continuously damaging cards like "Minor Goblin Official", "Nightmare Wheel", or "Lava Golem". This deck works best adding stalls cards, forcing your opponent to waste most of their efforts destroying either your stall cards or burn cards, hopefully not both. Cards that can stall without completely negating attacks like "Ordeal of a Traveler", "Mirror Force", or "Waboku" over those that completely stop attacks likes "Gravity Bind" or "Swords of Revealing Light" to add in the damage from "Toll".

Reactor Burn

Main article: "Reactor"

This Deck revolves around the three "Reactor" monsters, working to Special Summon "Flying Fortress SKY FIRE" while dealing damage to your opponent until you can.

Deck

Main Deck Monster Cards Flying Fortress SKY FIRE Summon Reactor・SK Trap Reactor・Y FI Spell Reactor・RE Solar Flare Dragon Raging Flame Sprite Stealth Bird Spell Cards Dark Room of Nightmare Swords of Revealing Light / Nightmare's Steelcage Messenger of Peace Meteor of Destruction Poison of the Old Man / Ookazi Tremendous Fire Wave-Motion Cannon Trap Cards Fake Explosion Call of the Haunted Hidden Soldiers Meteor Flare Scrap-Iron Scarecrow Secret Barrel Extra Deck Synchro Monsters Blood Mefist Dark Flattop

Timelord Burn

See: "Timelord"

This variant of a "Timelord" Deck using cards such as "Michion, the Timelord" and/or "Lazion, the Timelord" to quickly reduce the opponent's LP before finishing off with various burn cards that can be easily chained together, Continuous Trap Cards that can deal damage with certain actions of the opponent, or battle traps that prevent the opponent from attacking.

Toon Burn

See: "Toon"

This variant of a "Toon" Deck focuses on weakening the opponent with burn cards before attacking directly to finish the Duel. One of its powerful plays involves giving the opponent "Lava Golem" or a "Kaiju" monster, then using "Shadow Toon" to deal large amounts of damage, before taking control of it with "Comic Hand" and using it to attack the opponent directly. Instead of attacking directly to finish the Duel the deck can use "Toon Cannon Soldier", which can tribute Tokens and itself to deal 500 damage multiple times a turn.

Deck
Monster Cards Toon Dark Magician Girl Toon Mermaid Toon Gemini Elf Toon Cannon Soldier Toon Masked Sorcerer Dandylion Lava Golem / "Kaiju" monsters Spell Striker Spell Cards Toon World/Toon Kingdom Toon Table of Contents Shadow Toon Comic Hand Scapegoat (can Tribute for "Toon Dark Magician Girl" or the effect of "Toon Cannon Soldier") Vengeful Bog Spirit

Volcanic Burn

See: "Volcanic"

The strategy of this burn deck is to attack and burn your opponent with Pyro-Type monsters.

Deck

Main Deck Monster Cards Volcanic Doomfire Volcanic Hammerer Volcanic Rocket Volcanic Slicer Volcanic Scattershot Volcanic Counter Volcanic Shell Volcanic Blaster Flamvell Fiend Laval Magma Cannoneer Royal Firestorm Guards Solar Flare Dragon UFO Turtle Spell Cards Blaze Accelerator Tri-Blaze Accelerator Wild Fire Molten Destruction Poison of the Old Man / Ookazi Soul of Fire Tremendous Fire Trap Cards Volcanic Recharge Blaze Accelerator Reload Backfire Spiritual Fire Art - Kurenai Meteor Flare Extra Deck Xyz Monsters Gagaga Cowboy Grenosaurus

Weaknesses

Burn Decks are infamous and generally disliked by many players as most Burn Decks play solitaire and can be rather difficult to play against and defeat when a player is not prepared for it. Despite this, in general, it is considered one of the easiest Decks to Side against. This results in Burn Decks having more success in single Duels, opposed to Matches and, by extension, tournaments.

• One of the most effective methods for beating a Burn Deck is good access to Spell/Trap removal, such as "Twin Twisters" or "Galaxy Cyclone". Many Burn Decks rely on a large number of Continuous Effects, either to prevent taking battle damage and/or deal effect damage constantly. A Burn Deck must therefore contain plenty of Counter Traps, such as; "Solemn Judgment", "Dark Bribe", "Judgment of Anubis" (stops destruction-based removed), and "Seven Tools of the Bandit".
• Dragon Decks can use "Prime Material Dragon" (ineffective against anti-cure Burn Decks) to change LP damage caused to increase their LP instead. To counter this card tribute it for a "Kaiju" monster, "Lava Golem" or "Volcanic Queen", destroy it with "Divine Wrath".
• Since many burn cards are minus 1s, Burn Decks can quickly deplete the player of cards. If the player can defeat the opponent quickly this won't matter, but should the opponent manage to stall (either by regaining LP, negating effects or reducing effect damage) it can quickly leave the Burn player out of resources.
• There are some cards that punish a player for using effect damage, such as; "Barrel Behind the Door", "Crimson Fire", and "Shining Silver Force.

See also: Counter Burn Deck