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* [[Rose, Warrior of Revenge]]
 
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* [[Warrior Lady of the Wasteland]]
 
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* [[Number 39: Utopia]]
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===Spells===
 
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* [[Amazoness Fighting Spirit]]
 
* [[Amazoness Fighting Spirit]]
 
* [[Amazoness Heirloom]]
 
* [[Amazoness Heirloom]]
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* [[Amazoness Spellcaster]]
 
 
* [[Amazoness Village]]
 
* [[Amazoness Village]]
 
* [[Pot of Avarice]]
 
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* [[Reinforcement of the Army]]
 
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* [[Solidarity]]
 
 
* [[United We Stand]]
 
* [[United We Stand]]
 
* [[The Warrior Returning Alive]]
 
* [[The Warrior Returning Alive]]
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* [[Demise of the Land]]
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* [[Rush Recklessly]]
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===Traps===
 
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* [[Amazoness Archers]]
 
* [[Amazoness Archers]]
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* [[Amazoness Shamanism]]
 
 
* [[Amazoness Willpower]]
 
* [[Amazoness Willpower]]
 
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* [[Queen's Pawn]]
 
* [[Queen's Pawn]]
 
* [[Spiritual Earth Art - Kurogane]]
 
* [[Spiritual Earth Art - Kurogane]]
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* [[Covering Fire]]
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* [[Needle Ceiling]]
  
 
==Solidarity/Synchro Build==
 
==Solidarity/Synchro Build==

Revision as of 18:57, 11 September 2011

Amazoness

Amazoness

Japanese (base text)

アマゾネス

English

Amazoness

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The Amazoness are a series of female EARTH-Attribute Warrior-Type Monsters (with the exception of "Amazoness Tiger", who is a Beast-type monster) that were introduced in Labyrinth of Nightmare, with further support in Magician's Force and Duelist Revolution. Their names include "Amazoness", with the exception of "Amazon Archer", which in Gold Series 3 was changed to "Amazoness Archer". Although "The Unfriendly Amazon" is similar in name, it is not considered an "Amazoness".

Mai Valentine and Tania have both used "Amazoness" cards in the anime.

The Amazoness are based on the Amazons from Greek Mythology.

Play Style

The Amazoness monsters have average ATK and effects, and are designed either to weaken the opponent's monsters or strengthen themselves. Key cards include Amazoness Village, Amazoness Paladin, Amazoness Tiger, and Amazoness Queen.

With the recent additions to the Amazoness archetype in Duelist Revolution, Amazoness have more support for field-flooding and field control. Using Amazoness Village, Amazoness Willpower, and Queen's Pawn allows Amazoness to swarm the field much faster and more easily. Amazoness Queen, Amazoness Heirloom, and Amazoness Scouts can help keep your Amazoness on the field while you increase their attacks with Amazoness Village and Amazoness Fighting Spirit.

While their ATK is often weak for their level, cards such as Amazoness Tiger and Amazoness Paladin increase in strength relative to the number of other Amazoness on the field. Amazoness Trainee increases in strength for every monster she destroys. Amazoness Queen protects all Amazoness monsters from destruction in battle, while Amazoness Sage can destroy one spell or trap at the end of each attack; with these two cards alone, a player can defend his or her monsters, while slowly dismantling an opponent's back row.

Strengths

Amazoness cards can do a lot in a duel. Amazoness monsters can swarm the field very quickly and make trouble for the opponent using field control. In battle, Amazoness monsters can manipulate an opponent's attacks, ripping through monsters and life points. Amazoness Swords Woman can deal massive damage to opponents with strong monsters. Amazoness Heirloom can be equipped to Amazoness Swords Woman as a powerful combination that inflicts damage to an opponent with higher ATK and destroys the opponent's monster at the end of the turn, yet can be countered with a Stardust Dragon.

Amazoness monsters can easily be kept on the field with Amazoness Queen and Amazoness Scouts, they can also be replaced with Amazoness Village or Soul Rope. They can inflict large damage in numbers: with their attacks mostly hovering around 1500, it is very easy to take down an opponent's remaining life points once his or her field is cleared. Combined with ATK-boosting continuous spell cards such as Solidarity or The A. Forces, a field of Amazoness can dish out potentially game-ending damage to an undefended opponent.

Common build strategies for this archetype include:

Weaknesses

Amazoness' massive field control comes at a cost. As an Earth type monster, Amazoness have trouble when fighting decks with a strong focus of spell and trap cards (unlike Harpies, which focus on destroying them). Amazoness decks cannot break through spells and traps that can stop their attacks, like Messenger of Peace, Level Limit - Area B, and Gravity Bind, as Amazoness Sage cannot attack and destroy Gravity Bind or Level Limit - Area B. Cards such as Dust Tornado, Mystical Space Typhoon, Seven Tools of the Bandit, and Xyz Monster can counter such plays.

Amazoness decks may struggle against decks designed to counter an opponent's spells and traps, as most Amazoness builds rely on cards such as Solidarity and Amazoness Village to flood the field and boost their monster's attack. Cards such as Dark Bribe, Judgment of Anubis, and Solemn Judgment prove useful against such decks.

Due to their lack of draw power outside of Pot of Duality, if one of these key cards is countered, the deck will stall and wither until a new Continuous Spell Card is drawn. This also applies to important monsters before the strategy can get running.

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