Fleur
Fleur (フルール Furūru) is a series of cards used by Sherry LeBlanc in the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's anime.
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They were first released separately as Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Tag Force 5 and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2011: Over the Nexus promotional cards. More cards to support the strategy as a whole would only be released later in Animation Chronicle 2021 and Duelist Pack: Duelists of Whirlwind.
Playing styleEdit
This series primarily aims to Summon monsters from two groups: The WIND Synchro Monsters "Chevalier de Fleur" and "Baronne de Fleur", and the DARK Spellcaster monsters "Sorciere de Fleur" and "Sauge de Fleur".
"Chevalier" and "Baronne" have effects that allow them to negate the activation of card effects. "Chevalier" can negate Spell/Trap Cards during its controller's turn, while "Baronne" can negate the activation of any type of card during both players' turns, but only once while it is face-up on the field. While "Baronne" has a clear advantage over "Chevalier", they can effectively be used in conjunction by using the effect of "Baronne", which returns it to the Extra Deck to Special Summon a Level 9 or lower monster from the GY. This allows the player to use "Chevalier" to protect themselves during their own turn from cards such as "Infinite Impermanence", and then use it to Synchro Summon "Baronne" again and reset the latter's effect, since it has left the field.
One way to Summon them is by using "Noble Knight's Shield-Bearer". It can banish itself from the hand to add "Horse of the Floral Knights" to the hand, which allows the player to add "Noble Knight's Spearholder" to the hand, and then Fusion Summon "Centaur Mina" by using "Horse" and "Spearholder". The effect of "Centaur Mina" can Special Summon "Spearholder" back from the GY, and then its effect can be used to treat "Centaur Mina" as a Tuner monster and have it copy the name of "Fleur Synchron" (which "Chevalier" requires). At this point, the player has two options: use both to Synchro Summon "Chevalier de Fleur" (or another Level 8 Synchro Monster); or Tribute "Spearholder" to add "D.D.R. - Different Dimension Reincarnation" to the hand, use it to Summon the banished "Shield-Bearer" and Synchro Summon "Baronne de Fleur".
An important recursive loop can be performed by adding "Necro Synchron" to the above combo. It is treated as "Fleur Synchron", and it can increase another monster's Level by 2. This means that "Centaur Mina" can Summon it from the hand or GY, and give the player the option to choose which monster to Synchro Summon. Since "Baronne" can Special Summon "Centaur Mina" from the GY, the player can continuously reset "Baronne" during their turns by reviving "Mina" and using it to revive "Necro Synchron", then using both to Synchro Summon "Baronne" again. This will also keep triggering the effects of both "Necro Synchron" and "Mina" to Special Summon a Level 1 Plant from the Deck and destroy a face-up monster on the field. "Mina" can destroy the opponent's monsters, but it can also destroy the Level 1 Plant "Necro Fleur".
"Necro Fleur" is the focus of the second part of the series. If it is destroyed, it can Special Summon "Sorciere de Fleur" from the Deck. When "Sorciere" is Normal or Special Summoned, it can Special Summon a monster from the opponent's GY. It has no costs or restrictions to the monster it can Summon, so the player can freely use the opponent's monsters as their own. "Sauge de Fleur" can further help this, since it can Special Summon itself from the hand by destroying 2 cards on the field, including 1 monster the player controls. By destroying "Necro Fleur" and an opponent's monster, "Sorciere de Fleur" will be Summoned from the Deck and can instantly Summon the opponent's destroyed monster. The only limitation to this is the fact "Necro Synchron" and "Necro Fleur" can only Special Summon their respective targets from the Deck, thus limiting the number of times they can be used. "Baronne" helps mitigate this by Special Summoning "Sorciere" from the GY, while "Sauge" shuffles a monster from the GY into the Deck, but the number of "Sorciere" and "Necro Fleur" in the Main Deck is still an important thing to keep in mind.
"Fleuret de Fleur" and "White Steed of the Floral Knights" can work as extenders for the Deck. "Fleuret" will not only Special Summon a Level 2 or lower monster from the GY (albeit with its effects negated), but also equip itself from the GY to a Synchro Monster the player controls, increasing its ATK by 700. Even with its effects negated, the Level 2 monster can still be used with "White Steed", which can Special Summons itself from the hand if the player controls a monster with that Level. Additionally, "Synchro Dilemma" can further unite both groups, since it can send "Fleur Synchron" or "Necro Synchron" to the GY to Special Summon a "Sorciere de Fleur" from the hand, as "Necro Fleur" can only Summon it from the Deck, and can also destroy a "Necro Fleur" the player controls to bring back either "Fleur Synchron" or "Necro Synchron".
The Deck can also make great use of support for the "Synchron" and "Noble Knight" archetypes, both of which are integral part of its strategy. Since "Noble Knight's Shield-Bearer" is one of its starters, "Heritage of the Chalice" can be used to add it from the Deck to the hand. "Tuning" does the same for "Necro Synchron", which also has the benefit of working with "Junk Speeder", a Level 5 Synchro Monster that can Special Summon it (along with up to 4 other "Synchron" monsters with different Levels) from the Deck, although it prevents the player from using "Centaur Mina" that turn. Aside from "Necro Fleur", another target that can be Summoned by "Necro Synchron" is "Spore", which can aid in further Synchro Summons.