Pendulums themes highlight and harmonize!
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Welcome back to a brand-new CDP, this time featuring a variety of Pendulum archetypes that work together. The core of today’s build is none other than the Symphonic Warriors, a group of WIND Machines that can be leveraged as quite the flexible Synchro engine, something fairly unique among Pendulum themes (at least until Superheavy Samurai came along). Whether it is Symphonic Warrior Guitaar or Symphonic Warrior DJJ Special Summoning a Symphonic Warrior from the Deck, or Symphonic Warrior Guitariss Special Summoning itself from the hand, this theme is tuned to Tune. From its support suite, Generalprobe and Symph Amplifire are Spells that gain a Symphonic Counter each time the effect of a Symphonic Warrior is activated. Once you amass enough, Generalprobe can remove 3 to tutor any Symphonic Warrior, while Amplifire gets to remove 7 to banish cards your opponent controls or that is in their GY, up to the number of Symphonic Warrior cards you control. This offers a big swing in advantage, and is the ultimate power chord for the archetype.
Unfortunately, that’s just not enough of a win condition on its own, and the Symphonic Warrior archetype frequently looks to be paired with something else to do the heavy lifting. Today, I’m turning to the Supreme King to do just that. Supreme King Gate Magician is the newest consistency booster, so I’ll start there. First, it can destroy itself in your Pendulum Zone to set a Supreme King Gate Zero there, but more importantly when summoned, it tutors any S/T that mentions Supreme King Z-ARC. In most cases, I recommend that you grab Pendulum Evolution, a Continuous Spell that lets you Pendulum Summon a second time in a turn that you Special Summoned a Pendulum Monster from your face-down Extra Deck. That’s quite easy when you can Synchro Summon Symphonic Warrior Rockss, Superheavy Samurai Commander Shanaw, Nirvana High Paladin, or even Supreme King Z-ARC – Synchro Universe (YGOrg Translation), all with ease with your Symphonics.
Now the last archetype in play today is the Deskbot, a group of EARTH Machines that also happen to have their own in-theme Pendulums. However, there is a catch – Deskbot 005 and Deskbot 006 restrict you to only Pendulum Summoning Deskbot monsters. To be blunt, that doesn’t matter if you’re never really using them to Pendulum Summon. Both are easily tutorable via the effect of Deskbot 002, which tutors any Deskbot on Special Summon, and Deskbot 002 can be Special Summoned from the deck with Deskbot 003. But once you grab your 005 or 006, you can destroy them while in the Pendulum Zone to trigger their additional effect, recovering a Deskbot from the GY. Destroying your monsters in the Pendulum Zone is quite easy as well, as Deskbot 005 destroys an S/T on the field on Special Summon, Pendulum Witch (YGOrg Translation) exists, or in desperation, Symphonic Warrior Rockss can be turned on your own cards if absolutely necessary. Whenever you do, Astrograph Sorcerer and Chronograph Sorcerer are there to help, extending your players even further! Leverage the madness of multiple Pendulum Summons, when this hyper hybrid swings into action!
Provided Decklist:
Monsters: 34
|| Supreme King Gate Magician
| Astrograph Sorcerer
| Supreme King Gate Zero
| Chronograph Sorcerer
|| Deskbot 006
| Symphonic Warrior Miccs
||| Deskbot 005
| Supreme King Dragon Darkwurm
|| Symphonic Warrior Synthess
||| Symphonic Warrior DJJ
|| Pendulum Witch
||| Symphonic Warrior Guitaar
||| Symphonic Warrior Guitariss
||| Deskbot 003
| Symphonic Warrior Drumss
||| Deskbot 002
| Symphonic Warrior Basses
| Deskbot 001Spells: 8
|| Wings of Light
| Pendulum Evolution
||| Generalprobe
|| Symph AmplifireExtra Deck:
| Odd-Eyes Arcray Dragon
| Supreme King Z-ARC – Synchro Universe
| Nirvana High Paladin
| Baronne de Fleur
| Deskbot Jet
| Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon
| Superheavy Samurai Commander Shanawo
| Odd-Eyes Meteorburst Dragon
| Symphonic Warrior Rockks
| Mannadium Trisukta
| Worldsea Dragon Zealantis
| Exceed the Pendulum
| Qliphort Genius
| S:P Little Knight
| Beyond the Pendulum
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3 Comments
There should defo be a Horus yubel build
a Centur-Ion/Uria deck. Yes, getting Uria on the field would be stupidly easy due to Centur-Ion acting as continuous traps, but Uria would equally be stupidly weak without some prep work beforehand. So you can use Uria’s back row destruction effect, special summon Finis Terrae, then overlay summon your rank 10 monster of choice, such as Gustav Max for raw damage or Valdrath for omni-negate. Removing Finis Terrae as per activating those effects protects your rank 10 from reprisals for the turn, and if it runs out of overlay units/materials you can bring out Heraldry Crest as either a counter Xyz, or a way to continue using your rank 10’s effects.
This is what I do in my own Centur-Ion deck, however mine has a bit of a focus on Pyro monsters (because I thought using Bonfire for just Trudea by itself might seem like a bit of a waste) and ended up including a selection of Ashened (using DNA Surgery to better use Hero’s pyro destruction effect without using the Ashened field spell) and Volcanic (because I like Volcanic Emperor) cards alongside it.
If that does go into the list, maybe you should come up with other decks that works with only one of the Sacred Beasts instead of all of them, like a Hamon/Crystal Beast/Snake-Eyes deck (never could figure out a good archetype to pair with Raviel other than “fiend”, which isn’t all that interesting on its own. Need to narrow down what archetype to pair with it… hmm…)
Is there an actual way to submit a deck here? I play symphonic and have a few variations that I think are semi decent.