Notes & Combos

For this season I decided to try a more engine-heavy Fire King build for the climb before the end of the season. It ended up working well and I had a lot of fun playing this deck.

Of course, playing into a full negate board is tough but it is what it is... Droll, Maxx "C" and Fuwalos are trying their best to prevent the opponent from building one. In any case, the occasional blowout loss is worth it for how much fun the Fire King cards are to play with. Where this deck really shines are grind games where you have a ton of gas due to the high number of Fire King cards.

I didn't keep track during the climb but my Match History is 13-7 and my record in Master 2 was 9-5, though many of the losses can be attributed to my misplays...

The general idea with this deck is that you can often lead with a normal summon of Arvata or Rangbali to protect your plays, with Kirin, Island and Sanctuary combined with a high number of Fire monsters allowing you to do the rest of your turn without a normal. I thought about playing 41 cards with a third Rangbali, but I didn't want to reduce the chance of opening a turn 0 hand (e.g. Kirin, Garunix and Ulkanix) that lets you pop a card on the opponent's first turn which is always fun. You could probably cut one of the spells for it.

I forgot to put in Almiraj, you should replace Anima or any of the other niche cards with it. It's especially useful with Circle of the Fire Kings, letting you turn any handtrap into a Fire that can then be used to summon from your GY in a grind game. Circle was surprisingly helpful in general, and I was never sad to see it in my hand or to have it as an alternate search target if I opened Sky Burn. Whether it was OTK lines or reusing Kirin, it did the job well.

The only Extra Deck monster I summoned consistently was Garunix Eternity, and I also summoned TY-PHON, Draglubion into Numeron Dragon, and Hiita into Promethean Princess more than once. I would have summoned Almiraj a couple times but I kept forgetting to put it in. The others were summoned 0-1 times, you can pretty much fill these slots with whatever you want. A third Garunix Eternity for Extravagance would probably be a good idea but I didn't want to spend 30 UR on it.

The combos and endboards were nothing elaborate, ranging from an Arvata and a dream to Sanctuary, Arvata, Garunix Eternity, set Sky Burn and Circle, and a Kirin in hand.