OPEN THE GATES
A combo starter disguised as a floodgate, this card special summons one Helios the Primordial Sun from your hand or deck.
Macro Cosmos
End of main.
Nibiru, the Primal Being
The handless combo deck.
Infernity.
Invoked.
Magical Meltdown.
The hand size limit of this card's controller becomes 3.
Silent Wobby.
Completely shuts down decks like Adamancipator, but is useless against decks like Eldlich.
Skill Drain
Be sure you attack from the lowest to highest.
Gorz.
Wielded by the man who could control destiny, there was almost never a time in which he failed to come up with heads.
Arcana Force.
Destiny Hero's.
Clock Tower Prison / Dark City.
Special Summon 1 rock monster from your hand in face-down defence position.
Gallant Granite.
One of the most oppressive fusions to eve be played and became even stronger when this decks archetype released a new trap card.
El Shaddoll Winda
A unique cyberse support card, this card was slotted in decks like Salamangreat in order to help bounce back problematic monsters like Winda and Colossus.
Prohibit Snake.
This archetype was wielded by a minor antagonist in Duel Monsters and was the only person to legitimately defeat Yugi without having to resort to dirty tricks.
Guardians
Qliphort.
Laser Qlip
You can banish 3 cards from your extra deck face down, then target 1 face up monster on the field and destroy it.
Gizmek Orochi.
Makes the use of hand traps and all combo decks completely unplayable but required a hefty activation cost.
Tyrants Tirade.
This fiend allowed you to book your opponents monster's face down.
Ghostrick Jackfrost.
This mad king wielded this archetype on order to coerce Jaden to the dark side, sacrificing both himself and Jaden's friends to create the Super Polymerization card.
Dark World.
Shaddolls.
Curse of the Shadow Prison.
Raidrapotor - Ultimate Falcon.
A dark horse of the format, this card put dragon rulers on halt despite remaining a primarily anti-meta rogue deck.
Evilswarm Ophion
Whilst still having the same ability as Effect Veiler, this monster would also deal damage to your opponents life points.
Ghost Mourner & Moonlit Chill.
This deck was first printed in 2009 as a starter deck but was not shown in the anime until 5 years later on.
X-Sabers.
Gemini.
Catalyst Field.
You can detach 7 materials from this card: Skip you opponents next turn.
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