Teach an old Fish some new Tricks!<\/p>\n
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<span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Strategic Summary:<\/h4>\n<p>Today’s CDP dives back into the depths with the Shark archetype, a group of WATER\/Fish monsters that aim to spam out Xyz Monsters. While the Sharks have a ton of tools at their disposal, they’re probably best at having such a wide diversity of extenders that advance your gamestate. You see, <strong>Surfacing Big Jaws<\/strong> can Special Summon itself from the hand as long as Spell Card was activated, and when summoned, it tutors any Fish Shark monster. <b>Abyss Shark<\/b> is similar, just it summons itself from the hand and tutors any Level 3-4-5 Fish as long as you only control WATER monsters. Then there’s <strong>Hydrojet Shark<\/strong>, which can summon itself from the hand by controling any WATER Xyz Monster, with an ability to dump any Shark or Xyz S\/T from Deck to the GY. Then lastly you have <strong>Crystal Shark<\/strong>, which can summon itself from the hand or GY by targeting a WATER monster.<\/p>\n<p>All of these individual Sharks add up quick to a fearsome array of boss monsters, from <strong>Number 4: Stealth Kragen<\/strong>, which turns all monsters on the Field to WATER and lets you destroy one via Quick Effect, to <strong>N.As.H Knight<\/strong> and <strong>Full Armored Dark Knight Lancer<\/strong>, a R5NK and R7NK which both can attach an opponent’s monster as material. I also want to callout <strong>Number C101: Silent Honor DARK<\/strong> here, as regardless of whether or not you rely on <strong>Rank-Up-Magic – The Seventh One<\/strong> or <strong>Seventh Force<\/strong> to bring it out, you’ll still have another tool to attach an opponent’s monster, just this one is quite difficult to be rid of! Given the title, I also want to highlight <strong>Number C32: Shark Drake LeVeiss<\/strong>, as this offers both a Quick Effect to negate the effects of an Effect Monster the opponent controls, plus if you used <strong>Veiss Shark<\/strong> or <strong>Drake Shark<\/strong> as material, it can also have additional effects such as to negate an S\/T card or effect.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of these WATER staples, there’s one particular play I want to highlight, since I found it amazing to deploy when testing out this build, and it all revolves around the underutilized <strong>Xyz Revive Splash.<\/strong> You see, this Trap has a great GY effect to Rank-Up any WATER Xyz Monster into one that is 1 Rank higher. Ideally, this can be used to Rank-Up any of your R5NK Xyz monsters into<strong> D\/D\/D Wave High King Caesar<\/strong>, no Fiendsmith required! If you want to explore building this yourself, you can even think about testing out leveraging <strong>Mermail Abyssgaios<\/strong> or <strong>Aegaion the Sea Castrum<\/strong>… or you can just stick to Caesar for now. With that, hope you enjoyed the splash zone, and catch you next time with a weighing of the Scales.<\/p>\n<h4>Provided Decklist:<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Monsters:<br \/>\n3 Abyss Shark<br \/>\n1 Crystal Shark<br \/>\n1 Veiss Shark<br \/>\n3 Surfacing Big Jaws<br \/>\n3 Buzzsaw Shark<br \/>\n1 Lantern Shark<br \/>\n1 Drake Shark<br \/>\n1 Hydrojet Shark<br \/>\n1 Xyz Remora<\/p>\n<p>Spells:<br \/>\n1 Seventh Tachyon<br \/>\n3 Seventh Ascension<br \/>\n1 Triple Tactics Talent<br \/>\n2 Xyz Force<br \/>\n1 Aqua Jet Surface<br \/>\n2 Triple Tactics Thrust<br \/>\n1 Rank-Up-Magic – The Seventh One<br \/>\n1 Armored Xyz<br \/>\n1 Seventh Force<\/p>\n<p>Traps:<br \/>\n3 Infinite Impermanence<br \/>\n1 Xyz Poseidon Splash<br \/>\n2 Xyz Revive Splash<br \/>\n1 Full-Armored Xyz<br \/>\n3 Dominus Impulse<br \/>\n1 Numbers Protection<br \/>\n1 Unbreakable Xyz Barrier<\/p>\n<p>Extra Deck:<br \/>\n1 Full Armored Dark Knight Lancer<br \/>\n1 D\/D\/D Wave High King Caesar<br \/>\n1 CXyz N.As.Ch. Knight<br \/>\n1 Number C32: Shark Drake LeVeiss<br \/>\n2 Number C101: Silent Honor DARK<br \/>\n1 Xyz Armor Fortress<br \/>\n1 Valiant Shark Lancer<br \/>\n1 N.As.H. Knight<br \/>\n1 Number 32: Shark Drake<br \/>\n1 Full Armored Utopic Ray Lancer<br \/>\n1 Number 101: Silent Honor ARK<br \/>\n1 Number 4: Stealth Kragen<br \/>\n1 Stealth Kragen Spawn<br \/>\n1 Number F0: Utopic Future Zexal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>This is continuing the style of Creative Deck Profile articles, designed to showcase a build through replays and an attached summary. <strong>If you wish to see a CDP for an archetype, theme, or strategy you love, feel free to message me on the YGOrg Discord server in Decklists-Garage or the comments section of any of my YouTube video with your ideas for me to keep under consideration!\u00a0<\/strong>On most YGO-related communities my username is Quincymccoy, so feel free to reach out. Current pending requested profiles include: Crystal Beast, Suship, Rokket, RDA, Darklord, “Something Good”, Amazoness, Z-ARC, Centur-Ion, Galaxy, HERO<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Coming Soon:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7bIkCy1lmGQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-131157 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/03\/CDBanner_dARKLORDsOLFA_Small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/03\/CDBanner_dARKLORDsOLFA_Small-300x169.png?wsr 300w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/03\/CDBanner_dARKLORDsOLFA_Small-150x84.png?wsr 150w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/03\/CDBanner_dARKLORDsOLFA_Small.png?wsr 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77881\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/creative-deck-archetype-archive\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-77881 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2022\/04\/CDBanner_CDArchive_Small-300x173.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2022\/04\/CDBanner_CDArchive_Small-300x173.png?wsr 300w, https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2022\/04\/CDBanner_CDArchive_Small.png?wsr 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Check out the Archetype Archive to see if I’ve covered a theme before!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teach an old Fish some new Tricks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":131079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archetype-discussion"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2026\/03\/CDBanner_Shark26_site.png?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131220,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131083\/revisions\/131220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}