CDP: Centurion With or Without Bystial, ft. DVBS Support

Two builds to test out the new competitive archetype!

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Strategic Summary:

Welcome to another Creative Deck Profile, this time focused on the Centurion archetype. This new theme offers by far the most competitive potential of the new DVBS archetypes, so let’s talk about why. The theme only has 3 in-archetype monsters: the first, and most important, is Centurion Primera (YGOrg Translation). Whenever Primera is summoned, it tutors another Centurion card, simple as that. The second monster is Centurion Trudea (YGOrg Translation), which can place itself and another Centurion from your deck face-up in your S/T Zone as Continuous Traps. And lastly, Centurion Emet VI (YGOrg Translation) can Special Summon itself from the hand or GY by placing a face-up Centurion Monster into the S/T Zone as a Continuous Trap. Most importantly, each of these three monsters can Special Summon themselves from the S/T Zone during either player’s Main Phase. Given that fun information, and the fact that their Field Spell, Stand-Up Centurion! (YGOrg Translation), performs a similar role by letting you place a Centurion monster from your deck into the S/T Zone, let’s talk about how this theme wins: Synchro Summons. You see, their Field Spell also has an effect to immediately Synchro Summon using at least 1 Centurion you control, whenever any monster is Special Summoned. While you may choose to Synchro Summon Centurion Legatia (YGOrg Translation), their in-theme Level 12 Synchro Monster, you often can opt into Synchro Summoning The Crimson Dragon instead, letting you ‘Synchro Summon’ Hot Red Dragon Archfiend King Calamity during the opponent’s Main Phase, shutting down their cards and effects on the field for the rest of the turn. And this combo is ultra consistent, as you just need one of 13 cards to pull off a Calamity effect on your opponent’s first turn.

Now that’s a great description of the overall gameplan of the theme, but that doesn’t get into the big question of this profile: Should you run this theme with the Bystial archetype, or not. If you’ve lived under a rock the past few years, the Bystial archetype consists of Dragon monsters that can Special Summon themselves from the hand by banishing a LIGHT or DARK monster in either GY. This gives you quite a bit of control over the duel, especially if your opponent is running a LIGHT or DARK-heavy deck. In the first build of this video, I’m using the Bystial monsters, and as you will see, this gives the Centurion additional support in the form of disruption, but they also give them more Synchro options by expanding the pool of available Synchro Monsters to those that are Level 10. Additionally, The Bystial Aluber serves as another Level 4 Tuner to augment Primera for other combo plays. The second build of this video uses no Bystial monsters; in their place, I’ve substituted a bunch of cards that would otherwise be typically found in a sideboard. Options like Lightning Storm and Harpie’s Feather Duster let you go second through an established board, and cards like Dimensional Barrier or Ice Dragon’s Prison can just end an opponent’s combo. I’m also highlighting a few tech cards for the Centurion archetype, such as Apophis the Swamp Diety to negate face-up cards, Red Reign to mass banish monsters on the field, and Burning Soul as a back-up Synchro option during the opponent’s turn that also happens to recover any card from your GY.

The choice is yours: Bystial or No Bystial. Either way, hope you enjoy seeing the new archetype in action!

Provided Decklists:

Centurion With Bystial:

Monsters: 17
||| The Bystial Lubellion
|| Centurion Emet VI
| Bystial Druiswurm
| Bystial Magnamhut
|| Bystial Saronir
| Bystial Baldrake
| The Bystial Aluber
||| Centurion Primera
||| Centurion Trudea

Spells: 13
| Upstart Goblin
| Terraforming
| Monster Reborn
||| Bonfire
| Synchro Rumble
| Called by the Grave
| Faith of Centurion
| Branded Regained
||| Stand-Up Centurion!

Traps: 10
||| Infinite Impermanence
| Centurion Phalanx
||| There Can Be Only One
| Branded Beast
| Etude of the Branded
| Truth Centurion

Extra Deck:
| Hot Red Dragon Archfiend King Calamity
| Red Supernova Dragon
||| Centurion Legatia
| Crimson Dragon
| Bystial Dis Pater
| Chaos Angel
| Baronne de Fleur
| Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend
| Draco Berserker of the Tenyi
| Cyber Slash Harpie Lady
| Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder
| Stellar Nemesis T-PHON – Doomsday Star
| S:P Little Night

Centurion Without Bystial:

Monsters: 9
|| Centurion Emet VI
||| Centurion Primera
| Inari Fire
||| Centurion Trudea

Spells: 17
|| Lightning Storm
| Harpie’s Feather Duster
| Upstart Goblin
| Terraforming
| Monster Reborn
||| Bonfire
|| Synchro Rumble
| Burning Soul
| Called by the Grave
| Faith of Centurion
||| Stand-Up Centurion!

Traps: 15
|| Red Reign
||| Infinite Impermanence
||| Ice Dragon’s Prison
|| Dimensional Barrier
| Centurion Phalanx
||| Apophis the Swamp Deity
| Truth Centurion

Extra Deck:
| Hot Red Dragon Archfiend King Calamity
| Red Supernova Dragon
||| Centurion Legatia
| Despian Luluwalilith
| Crimson Dragon
| Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend
| Draco Berserker of the Tenyi
| Cyber Slash Harpie Lady
| Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder
|| Stellar Nemesis T-PHON – Doomsday Star
|| S:P Little Night

Note: This is continuing the style of Creative Deck Profile articles, designed to showcase a build through replays and an attached summary. If you wish to see a CDP for an archetype, theme, or strategy you love, feel free to private message me on the YGOrg Discord server, the comments section of any of my YouTube videos, or just post a comment in response to this article on our Facebook page or through the site with your ideas for me to keep under consideration! On most YGO-related communities my username is Quincymccoy, so feel free to reach out. Current pending requested profiles include: Fluffal, Yosenju, Infernoid, Armored Xyz, Valmonica, Memento, Kashtira (differently)

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