A Treasure Hoard of Classic Decks

(High-quality Trident Dragion picture provided by @fyeahygocardart)
The primary focus of this blog is for uploading my own deck profiles for decks designed or edited by me in Yu-Gi-Oh! video games, designed primarily for singleplayer use, but can of course be used in multiplayer as well. The profiles include an overview of how the deck works or explaining my card choices, followed by a complete list of every card in the deck so that they can be used by others. Currently the only video game I have profiles for is Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s World Championship 2011: Over the Nexus, which uses the September 2010 TCG banlist and contains cards up until Storm of Ragnarok. This post will be updated with links to new profiles, including when I eventually start making profiles for other games.

Over the Nexus Deck Profiles:
Red Dragon Archfiend/Assault Mode + Yubel
Cosmic Synchro Flamvell
Elemental Hero + Dragon Ravine
Diamond Dude Pachinko Machine
Evil Hero
Jurrac
DARK Gusto
Blackwing
Nordic Beast
Dark Magician
Dark Paladin
Red-Eyes Black Dragon
Red-Eyes Fusion
Blue-Eyes Exodia
Blue-Eyes White Dragon
Cyber Dragon
Cyberdark Dragunity
Zombie World
Drill Warrior Dark World
Evil Hero Dark Gaia
Dragunity
Earthbound Immortal Uru + Dragon Ravine
Six Samurai
Horus the Black Flame Dragon
Dark Horus
Armed Dragon
Stardust Dragon/Assault Mode
Black Garden
Psychic OTK
DARK Dragunity
Genex
PACMAN
Malefic World
Scrap
Watt Lockdown
Charmers
Familiar-Possessed
Dark Magician Girl
DARK Harpie
Evil Hero + Dragon Ravine
Majestic Dragon
Warrior Beatdown
Flamvell Hero
Ancient Gear
Hiita Control

I think the next DS game I’m going to look into is GX Spirit Caller! The format looks very interesting, with Stratos (called Airman in this game) at 3 and Cyber Dragon being a main deck staple. It’s a very different game from the World Championship series, instead being evocative of Nightmare Troubadour, except with a real cardpool. The elephant in the room though, is the same elephant that was in Nightmare Troubadour, Cyber-Stein being legal at 3. Stein warps the deck building meta around it, and it can be hard to justify playing anything besides Stein OTK decks on a practical level, especially since Megamorph is also unlimited, and Last Will is legal at 1. I’ve come up with a couple Stein builds I think are actually cool, being a Stein-Horus deck that takes advantage of Last Will and a Dragon-Stein deck based around how a lot of the cards that support Stein also support Lord of D., but I’m gonna try to avoid relying on it too much for the sake of variety. Beyond Stein, the set of three each of of Cyber Dragon and Elemental Hero Stratos provides a powerful offensive backbone to any deck, especially fusion based ones, which typically struggle with that if they don’t open well. Cyber Dragon has three different fusion monsters you can make with it, and Stratos can be used to search Elemental Hero Sparkman, which when paired with King of the Swamp can make either Thunder Giant, or my go-to, Shining Flare Wingman. There’s something fascinating about seeing Shining Flare Wingman be this accessible even outside Elemental Hero decks, and it really enhances the early GX aesthetic of this game!