Root up with the Skulls!
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Welcome to today’s Creative Deck Profile, this time centered on using various Gemini support cards to create recursive loops leading to victory! First, if you haven’t seen the Gemini monsters before, they are all treated Normal Monsters until you spend a Normal Summon while they’re already on the field to grant them their effects. Let’s start with the cream of the crop, that would be Gigaplant! This Level 6 Plant gains the ability to summon any other Plant or Insect from your hand or GY once per turn, even another copy of itself. Combine this with Superalloy Beast Raptinus which immediately enables all Gemini effects while face-up, and you are able to cycle Gigaplant to Gigaplant nigh endlessly. The trick of making use of this combo is ensuring you have a way to get to that board of Gigaplant and Superalloy, and that’s where Plants and Link monsters are involved! Evil Thorn and Predaplant Ophrys Scropio both give you two Plants for your investment, and the Predaplant option also gives you an Instant Fusion through Predaplant Darlingtonia Cobra. As you’ll see in the video, there’s plenty of combo support cards, but my personal favorite to highlight is tutoring Supervise through Vylon Cube, to give you a Gigaplant activation before you even have your combo setup!
Now that you get the base, let me highlight the win condition. Ultimately, the goal is to Xyz Summon Number 6: Chromomaly Atlandis twice, using its effect to halve your opponent’s LP twice to 2000 (or 2250 if you activate Upstart Goblin), then wipe out the rest of their LP with the effect of The Blazing Mars! Since The Blazing Mars can Special Summon itself from the GY quite easily, you also will need to employ Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal, another Rank 6 Xyz Monster that can send Mars directly to the GY. All this is well and good, but if the FTK options falls short, I built this deck to have a few alternatives. The first is to utilize the powerful Gemini Support to try and grind out a win – Gemini Ablation is great at getting you a monster per turn, and if you summon out Evocator Eveque or Geminize Lord Golknight, you even get more advantage off of it. The second option is to utilize the Summoned Skull support… admittedly this is for more fun than actual practicality, but I really love that this FTK deck can also just choose to summon out Archfiend’s Awakening, Archfiend’s Ascent, or Archfiend’s Call, just for the hell of it. They are daemons after all! Hopefully you enjoyed this homebrewed combination of FTK, Gemini monsters, and the iconic Summoned Skull!
Provided Decklist:
Monsters: 26
| Summoned Skull
| The Blazing Mars
|| Doom Shaman
||| Gigaplant
|| Evocator Eveque
||| Geminize Lord Golknight
||| Predaplant Ophrys Scorpio
| Predaplant Darlingtonia Cobra
| Vylon Cube
| Rose Girl
||| Lonefire Blossom
| Spore
||| Evil Thorn
| Archfiend’s AwakeningSpells: 11
| Instant Fusion
| Polymerization
| Upstart Goblin
| Monster Reborn
|| World Legacy Succession
| Advanced Ritual Art
| Living Fossil
||| SuperviseTraps: 3
||| Gemini AblationExtra Deck:
| Superalloy Beast Raptinus
| Sea Monster of Theseus
| Periallis, Empress of Blossoms
| Archfiend’s Call
| Herald of the Arc Light
|| Number 6: Chronomaly Atlandis
| Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal
| Archfiend’s Ascent
| Number 60: Dugares the Timeless
| Saryuja Skull Dread
| Aromaseraphy Jasmine
| Crystron Halqifibrax
| Proxy F Magician
| Cross-Sheep
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 with your ideas to keep under consideration! On most YGO-related communities my username is Quincymccoy, so feel free to reach out. Current pending requested profiles include: Dracoslayer, Egyptian God.
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