Rock Deck

Bouncing Rock Control Deck

The point of this Deck is to restrain the opposition while supporting field advantage using the bouncing effects and high DEF of Rock monsters to, then attack for about 1000-2000 damage every turn.

Many good cards are in Structure Deck: Invincible Fortress. There are also several Trap Cards that destroy face-up monsters, and many Rock monsters can flip themselves face-down. Keep in mind the opponent will attack high DEF monsters to keep them from Flip Summoning and activating effects, so punish them with cards like "Shifting Shadows" and "Canyon". See Stone Statue of the Aztecs (character) for some good ideas.

Opponents may be intimidated from attacking, so "Battle Mania" can force them to do a lot of damage to themselves, particularly with cards like "Canyon" or "Continuous Destruction Punch".

Beware mass monster removal cards like "Dark Armed Dragon" and "Dark Hole".

Rock Anti-Meta (Rock Stun)

Rock Anti-Meta (commonly referred to as "Rock Stun") Decks use Rock-Type and other monsters that have meta-breaking effects to counter the current Metagame. The Deck can be played in a variety of ways. Some builds splash Rock monsters into a standard Anti-Meta build with cards such as "Thunder King Rai-Oh", "King Tiger Wanghu" and "Doomcaliber Knight". Other builds focus on a more aggressive play style, often using only Rock monsters and playing "Solidarity" to gain 2700 ATK "Koa'ki Meiru" monsters and a 2000 ATK "Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo". Still other builds use a pseudo-Macro Cosmos Deck to counter common effects that resolve in the Graveyard, while using cards such as "Release from Stone" and other cards like "Core Blast" to set up combos and gain field advantage, while using the "Koa'ki Meiru" monsters to hinder the opponent's strategies.

Rock Anti-Meta

Main Deck Monster Cards Barrier Statue of the Drought Block Golem Block Dragon Cyber Dragon D.D. Warrior Lady D.D. Assailant D.D. Crow Doki Doki Doomcaliber Knight Effect Veiler Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo Gaia Plate the Earth Giant Legendary Jujitsu Master Koa'ki Meiru Boulder Koa'ki Meiru Guardian Koa'ki Meiru Overload Koa'ki Meiru Sandman Koa'ki Meiru Wall Morphing Jar (Forbidden) Neo-Spacian Grand Mole Power Giant Thunder King Rai-Oh Spell Cards Burden of the Mighty Catapult Zone Diamond Core of Koa'ki Meiru Enemy Controller Forbidden Lance Magic Planter Moon Mirror Shield Pot of Duality Prohibition Seal of Orichalcos Shrink Smashing Ground Ties of the Brethren Trap Cards Anti-Spell Fragrance (Pendulum, Harpie, etc.) Core Blast Light-Imprisoning Mirror Lose 1 Turn Mask of Restrict (counter to the updated Monarch archtype) Pinpoint Guard Powerful Rebirth Quaking Mirror Force Skill Drain Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror Starlight Road Trap Stun Extra Deck Fusion Monsters Chimeratech Fortress Dragon Synchro Monsters Stardust Dragon Xyz Monsters Number 55: Gogogo Goliath

Catapult Rock Stun

With the release of "Catapult Zone" and "Block Golem" in "Return of the Duelist", Rock Stun focuses not only on anti-meta, but also on controlling the field and filling the Graveyard with monsters for their ace monsters "Block Golem" and "Gaia Plate the Earth Giant".

Catapult Rock Stun

Main Deck Monster Cards Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo Legendary Jujitsu Master Neo-Spacian Grand Mole Morphing Jar 2 Koa'ki Meiru Guardian Koa'ki Meiru Wall Koa'ki Meiru Sandman Koa'ki Meiru Overload Maxx "C" Gaia Plate the Earth Giant Block Golem Revival Golem Grandsoil the Elemental Lord Spell Cards Catapult Zone Terraforming Solidarity Attack the Moon! Trap Cards Starlight Road Skill Drain Debunk Call of the Haunted Fiendish Chain Magic Cylinder Extra Deck Xyz Monsters Number 30: Acid Golem of Destruction Soul of Silvermountain Giant Soldier of Steel Fairy King Albverdich Gem-Knight Pearl Number 52: Diamond Crab King Daigusto Emeral (Number 55: Gogogo Goliath can recycle your Rock-Types without disrupting Block Golem's conditions) Gagaga Cowboy Number C106: Giant Red Hand

Aggressive Rock Bounce Deck

This deck uses the bounce effect of Golem Sentry to continually return the opponent's monsters back to their hand, leaving them open to attacks by stronger rock monsters. Gigantes works well because of its high 1900 ATK and its ability to be Special Summoned also working as a possible Spell and Trap removal. Also the Effect of Mirage Dragon will help allow Direct Attacks without worrying about Traps. Giant Rat works to keep Monsters on your side of the Field. Its ability to Special Summon Golem Sentry, Criosphinx, Moai Interceptor Cannons and Neo-Spacian Grand Mole gives you great flexibility.

Rock Swarm Deck

This Deck utilizes the card powerful Rock beatsticks like: Koa'ki Meiru Guardian, Koa'ki Meiru Wall, Gogogo Giant and Koa'ki Meiru Sandman. One of the major differences between this Rock Deck and other Rock Decks, is that it special summons. While most Rock decks rely on flip effects to take down the opponent, this deck relies on swarming the field with huge beatsticks and/or several rock floaters that provide both field advantage and a host of power plays. It's key card is Block Golem. This card allows you to summon any two level four or lower rock type monsters from your graveyard by sending itself to the graveyard. From here you have access to rank 3 and 4 xyzs like Acid Golem of Destruction, Gem-Knight Pearl and the like. Its has two ace monsters: Gaia Plate the Earth Giant and Grandsoil the Elemental Lord. other cards that may be useful for this deck due to their easy summoning requirements and/or deck thinning abilities are Naturia Cliff, Naturia Rock, Chronomaly Crystal Bones,and Chronomaly Crystal Skull. It is recommended that the deck is comprised of earth type monsters, as Block Golem cannot activate its effect if there are any other attributes in the graveyard. You can use several spell and trap cards to dump rocks from your deck to the graveyard to fulfill the summoning requirements for the ace cards in the deck.

Rock Swarm

Main Deck Monster Cards Gaia Plate the Earth Giant Naturia Cliff Gogogo Golem Block Golem Koa'ki Meiru Guardian Koa'ki Meiru Sandman Koa'ki Meiru Wall Koa'ki Meiru Overload Chronomaly Crystal Skull Neo-Spacian Grand Mole Chronomaly Crystal Bones Naturia Rock Grandsoil the Elemental Lord Gem-Knight Crystal Gem-Knight Alexandrite Revival Golem Spell Cards Catapult Zone Ties of the Brethren Foolish Burial Trap Cards Release from Stone Return from the Different Dimension Rock Bombardment Skill Drain Call of the Haunted Extra Deck Xyz Monsters Gem-Knight Pearl Fairy King Albverdich Giant Soldier of Steel Soul of Silvermountain Gagaga Cowboy

Rock Surge Deck

Surprisingly, a large number of monsters in a typical Monster Surge deck are Earth. This Deck combines them with Rock Swarm for excellent synergy and versatility. Milling cards fill the graveyard with Rock and Earth monsters quickly for fast swarming setups and Gaia Plate the Earth Giant, which will kill almost any beatstick. Earth tuners like T.G. Striker and Glow-Up Bulb enable access to Naturia Synchros - when combined with Rock Stun monsters, the opponent can get locked down hard. Remember to run few Spell Cards (only one recommended) so as not to interfere with Witch of the Black Rose or Gallis the Star Beast.