Although Shaddoll monsters were slowed with the extra deck limitation rules due to their focus on fusion summoning, several handy link monsters and unexpected support from the Prediction Princess series help keep them relevant. Copyright 2023 Altereality Games, All Rights Reserved, Analyzing Galileos 1st place CAWCQ Decklist, ARGCS Washington DC May 31 & June 1, 2014, Circuit Championship Cleveland, Oh July 25-27, 2014, ARGCS Atlantic City, NJ August 23-24, 2014, ARGCS Indianapolis, IN September 20-21, 2014. Shaddoll Beast. The Shaddoll archetype consists of dark-attributed spellcaster-type flip monsters who activate different effects when flipped and when sent to the graveyard. Super Poly should be something you save for the right moment and not a contest as to which Shaddoll player draws into three Super Poly's first. Pros play better than average pojoer( I didn't mean to insult you in any way) so they know that lower tier decks stand no chance against shaddolls(unless you always open with floodgates and a shaddoll player doesn't draw outs to them). Also, if you pitch Tragedy with its effect, or if you play a Branded Shaddolls variant, you can chain block Aluber from getting Ashed. A quick but important note on the effect of "Squamata" is it can be used to send even "Shaddoll" Spell and Trap cards, this is only important for "Shaddoll Core" who will recover another "Shaddoll" Spell or Trap from the Graveyard. Instrument Rentals; Orchestra Supply Lists The Pot Collection is Now Available for Pre-Order! You can only activate 1 Instant Fusion per turn. you can even clear boards easier and trigger your Shaddolls thanks to Scrap Dragon (which can be made with Raiden and any level 4, using Lyla to destroy a S/T and then synchroing gives you a huge amount of value out of your Soul Charge). Clear your opponent's field of monsters if they have any or just deal damage by attacking, then in Main Phase 2 Tribute Set your Shaddoll Beast by tributing El Shaddoll Construct (don't forget to trigger Construct's effect and add a Shaddoll Fusion from your graveyard to hand if you have one!). It requires Soul Charge, Vanity's Emptiness, and either Mathematician or Armaggedon Knight. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Hello duelists! World Championship 2023 Has Been Announced! I do not understand why people only play 1 of this considering how this is your main searcher. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit"; Syaedoreu (romanized)Translation: Shador End of Format Innovations: TCG DABL Metagame Report, TCG DABL Metagame Tournament Report: YCS Sydney 2023. EMMY NOMINATIONS 2022: Outstanding Limited Or Anthology Series, EMMY NOMINATIONS 2022: Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series, EMMY NOMINATIONS 2022: Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series, EMMY NOMINATIONS 2022: Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie, EMMY NOMINATIONS 2022: Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie. During your main phase, you can send a flip monster from your deck to the graveyard, and if you do, special summon a monster from your hand in face-down defense position to a zone Behemoth points to, not only activating a graveyard Shaddoll effect but also filling your field and conserving your normal summon/set for the turn. Anything that start with "when" and has "you can" in the text has strict timing. The Insanity of YCS Sydney: TCG DABL Metagame Report. amzn_assoc_linkid = "8080b9592497380738d02a3f9fb9dfe0"; Hyozanryu[/ygocard];30286199]You play a floodgate, which usually solves any problems with the matchup, or you just exhaust them. Simple: Armageddon Knight lets you make better use of Soul Charge. You can play more than 1 but 3 can be bricky. ContentKarma 3 yr. ago I'm assuming you mean The Tricky that discards to summon itself? Even dragon rulers in their prime weren't unbeatable. Master Duel or Neuron using our Web Browser extension! Shaddolls are limited by the amount of stuff you can do. . This tremendous effect keeps your hand and field stocked and pulls from your deck without the delay of Future Fusion. The Fusion Material Monsters are sent to the Graveyard when Super Polymerization resolves. Portuguese I guess this question also applies to cards being sent to GY due to other fusions. TRADING CARD GAME. True, this effect is a bit random since you never quite know what's at the top of your deck, but you're virtually guaranteed at least one or two (if not more) Shaddoll activations. Being a level 2 fits with the whole awkward level thing Shaddolls have going. This is a good explanation for why Satellarknights won the first event with three Soul Charges in their deck. A last minor point regarding Armageddon Knight is that it is a Dark monster, which means that it can be used as a material for Shaddoll Fusion (but also your opponent's Super Polymerization!). Open New Zealand is Now Live! Despia is an archetype of dark fairy and light fusion fiend monsters that focus on fusion summoning. Yeah, Shaddoll has essentially fallen off of the face of the earth. If that wasn't a Deck, 3 Super Poly would certainly change a lot. Which brings me to my next point; Shaddolls that dont play inconsistent cards like White and Black Dragon cant really do much damage. With Armageddon Knight, send Shaddoll Beast. It seems like your inability to kill your opponent is going to result in the majority of your games going to the late game, a game state that you are not favored in. Can you Fusion summon without polymerization? Everything else (now when Super-Poly is limited) is fine to me. I don't recommend cutting this. "But they have a BLS on the field; how am I supposed to out it without leaving a Construct on the field? Easy! Sure, BA were close behind, but Shaddolls were still better. The aforementioned "El Shaddoll" monsters rely on anti-supporting Special Summons, either by restricting them, negating them, destroying Special Summoned monsters in battle or destroying those ones who dare to activate their effects; also, some of them send 1 "Shaddoll" card from your hand to the Graveyard at their effect's resolution, which can trigger the effect of the sent monster. Because of this, I have an idea that the best deck will be able to effectively use the maximum amount of Soul Charges and that if it cant, there probably is a better deck that can. YCS Lima Peru Registration Info Announced! "El Shaddoll" is a play on "El Shaddai", one of the Judaic names of God. Master Duel or Neuron using our Web Browser extension! You have to set him, flip him up, set another monster, and then wait another turn to flip that monster up. The archetype was initially released in dawn of majesty but didn't see much competitive success. Furthermore, Shaddoll Schism had just come out back then, so the attached explanation on the card's usage was less than ideal. It also sets you a Branded Spell/Trap from your Deck if it is sent to the GY this turn, ideally either. Maining Super Polymerization. If it was up to me I'd change Shadoll Fusion so that it always requires 1 monster from the hand/field and the second can be one from the Deck whose attribute matches the attribute of a monster summoned from the Extra Deck that your opponent controls and I'd change all the fusion monsters to have a "When: you can" effect on their spell recycling. I don't find the Shaddolls themselves broken just their abilities to utilize many power cards better than other decks (super poly, emptiness, It doesn't make sense to talk of the Shaddoll Fusions as if they weren't Shaddoll Fusions, or of Shaddoll Fusion as if it were. I would say that Super Poly remaining limited wouldn't have made much difference outside of maaaaybe keeping Shaddoll's from slowly losing their grip on the metagame. Lets look at a deck like Water that might lose to Rivalry of the Warlords. Masquerade - The bane of combo decks. Shaddolls were the most hyped deck right off the bat from Duelist Alliance. World Championship 2023 Has Been Announced! Lets not underestimate how good Soul Charge actually is. Archetypal hand trap to protect your Despia monsters from targeting effects, also allows your Fusion monsters to dodge your opponent's targeting effects while it's in the GY. It was limited to HEROS mainly..not really OP. Can you Fusion summon with face-down monsters? Has a targeting negation effect when an Extra Deck monster is special summoned (not just from the Extra Deck). The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. All fusion spells and rituals spells send as effect cost. However recent support in Burst of Destiny and changes to the surrounding meta game make this deck poised to be a powerful threat in the upcoming season. Other names SchattenpuppeTranslation: Shadow Doll Assuming you have a Shaddoll Fusion or a Super Polymerization you can activate. Nobody is allowed to activate anything while another card or effect is resolving. 10. Slifer Deck | March 2023 | DarkArmedDuelist, SPIRIT MESSAGE DECK (YAMI BAKURA INSPIRED). The Shaddolls have access to their own link monster, Shaddoll Construct, but with Subterror Behemoth's increased ATK and diagonally-backwards arrows, it's usually the better choice. For starters, Forbidden Droplet doesnt target, making it one of the best options to negate untargetable boss monsters like Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon. I don't have anything against them floating and generating huge advantage. Additionally, when you fusion summon a Shaddoll fusion monster, you can spend three spellstone counters to use an appropriate face-up monster your opponent controls as one of the materials. The only problem is Fusion's ability to use materials from the deck. This can even annihilate your own spells/traps in rare situations where you want to. your computer and could take a minute or so to complete so please do not close the Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution video game, which released back on March 24th. Armageddon Knight, on the other hand, only has 1400 Attack. The prevention of Super Polymerization means that no card or effect can be chained to its activation. When playing in the mirror match, it's very risky to leave an Extra Deck monster out on the field during your opponent's turn because that gives them a lot of value out of their Shaddoll Fusion by letting them send monsters from the deck. All other content 20162023 YGOPRODeck. Sets Falco is the absolute slowest card in the deck. This effect is not a once per copy, so having two of him stacks, bumping it up from 600 to 1200 LP per card or effect activation. This is because it negates the resolution of the effect rather than the initial activation. A field spell that creates the perfect arena for your malicious clan, Curse of the Shadow Prison acquires a "spellstone counter" whenever a Shaddoll monster is sent to the graveyard. However recent support in Burst of Destiny and changes to the surrounding meta game make this deck poised to be a powerful threat in the upcoming . It was a stupid hit considering that other removal forms like Monarchs Stormforth. It doesnt quite compare. HubPages is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The archetype was initially released in dawn of majesty but didn't see much competitive success. Beast is definitely the best thing Shaddolls have going for them in the monster department. Thankfully, if multiple are sent at once, Prison gains that many counters, rapidly strengthening its next effects. Marionnette de l'OmbreTranslation: Shadow Marionette Long forbidden for its fierce powers, Future Fusion is now legal but has added errata. All of your Fusion monsters are Super Poly targets. Shaddolls version of that is something like Arcanite + Dweller. Crow can snipe Dinosaurs out of the graveyard when theyre targeted by Souleating Oviraptor, and preemptively knocks out Miscellaneousaurus. Both Behemoth's effects are once per turn but provide awesome ways to stock your graveyard and hand while making good use of the "send to the graveyard" Shaddoll abilities. amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; AS FOR WIN CONDITIONS, Super Poly, when used correctly, is almost an Autowin card. Think about that. It breaks the rules of Fusion Summoning by letting you use your opponent's monsters, it can be used offensively or defensively, it can be used on either player's turn, and card effects can't be activated in response to its activation. Albion - Ideally you'll be summoning him first before Lubellion, but he's the third reason you can summon Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon in this deck. To compensate for this disadvantage, he wields higher battle stats than other non-fusion Shaddolls, and when flipped, he lets you draw two cards, then discard one, simultaneously increasing your hand and potentially activating another Shaddoll's ability. Italian Additionally, one can also use cards that banish or return the Fusion Monsters to the Extra Deck to avoid the retriever effect. Unless you are running the Sacky Babies Rulers, you have to grind it out which sometimes works against you, cuz you can easily run out of Shaddolls. The Light monster options for this deck are exceedingly underwhelming as well. At this point, the only outs to this lock in the Shaddoll Mirror are either setting Shaddoll Dragon to bounce Master Key Beetle, or a trap card like Compulsory Evacuation Device. The second reason you can summon Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon in this deck. Thanks to this, Super Polymerization is a fantastic card for Decks that go second to take care of problem boards, as well as a solid choice in the Side Deck. Yu-Gi-Oh! "Shaddoll" is a portmanteau of the words "shadow" and "doll". TimesMojo is a social question-and-answer website where you can get all the answers to your questions. And lastly, "Shaddoll Squamata" and "Shaddoll Hedgehog" are best for searching the other two or left be until they are Drawn as the 1st basically acts as any "Shaddoll" when sent and the second usually searches the other of the first two. You play a floodgate, which usually solves any problems with the matchup, or you just exhaust them. Forbidden Droplet in particular is similar to a variety of monster negation cards that came before it, but its cost and its wording set it apart. This is done on Additionally, when a monster this card points to is flipped face-up, you can add a flip monster from your deck or graveyard to your end. amzn_assoc_region = "US"; You can get rid of both of their monsters, summon your own, plus off of that, all off just one card and 1 . Since the Deck basically relies on sending the "Shaddoll" monsters to the Graveyard in order to trigger their effects, or flipping them face-up, cards like "Soul Drain", "Royal Command", "Abyss Dweller", "Armades, Keeper of Boundaries", "Majesty's Fiend", "Archfiend Black Skull Dragon", "Gem-Knight Citrine" , and can be simple and effective. Especially now that they've lost the best variant of the deck with, Yu-Gi-Oh! During your opponent's turn only, opposing monsters lose 100 ATK for each counter on Prison; it's unfortunate this only applies on their move, but it's a great defense that can really slow their offensive and keep your monsters that would otherwise be destroyed alive. Since your strategy is rooted in resolving Fusion and Hedgehog gets you Fusion, he seems integral. An excellent field for the Shaddolls; just note that Prison doesn't actually carry the Shaddoll name and won't qualify for name-dependent effects.