Following openings by content creators, we now have the entire setlists for both decks, plus a few looks at the included comic guide.
First off, the decklists for both included decks are in an atypical order. That’s because in these decks their set numbers correspond to the intended order for the tutorial duel in the included comic. Each Extra Deck monster is Ultra Rare, while each Main Deck monster is Common.
| Synchro Deck | |
| Card number | Name |
| STAS-EN001 | Elemental HERO Sparkman |
| STAS-EN002 | Inpachi |
| STAS-EN003 | Spirit of the Harp |
| STAS-EN004 | Launcher Spider |
| STAS-EN005 | Ryu-Ran |
| STAS-EN006 | Ojama Green |
| STAS-EN007 | Gil Garth |
| STAS-EN008 | Ally of Justice Clausolas |
| STAS-EN009 | Swords of Revealing Light |
| STAS-EN010 | Back-Up Rider |
| STAS-EN011 | Apprentice Piper |
| STAS-EN012 | Storming Mirror Force |
| STAS-EN013 | Scapegoat |
| STAS-EN014 | Cardcar D |
| STAS-EN015 | The Warrior Returning Alive |
| STAS-EN016 | One-Time Passcode |
| STAS-EN017 | D.D. Crow |
| STAS-EN018 | Obsessive Uvualoop |
| STAS-EN019 | Visas Starfrost |
| STAS-EN020 | Mannadium Fearless |
| STAS-EN021 | Barrier Resonator |
| STAS-EN022 | Fissure |
| STAS-EN023 | Mask of Darkness |
| STAS-EN024 | Dark Hole |
| STAS-EN025 | Kunai with Chain |
| STAS-EN026 | Mask of the Accursed |
| STAS-EN027 | Magic Cylinder |
| STAS-EN028 | Mage Power |
| STAS-EN029 | Mobius the Frost Monarch |
| STAS-EN030 | Card Trooper |
| STAS-EN031 | Quillbolt Hedgehog |
| STAS-EN032 | Dark Resonator |
| STAS-EN033 | Power Frame |
| STAS-EN034 | White Elephant’s Gift |
| STAS-EN035 | Liberty at Last! |
| STAS-EN036 | Phantom King Hydride |
| STAS-EN037 | Supply Squad |
| STAS-EN038 | Galaxy Cyclone |
| STAS-EN039 | Mannadium Fearless |
| STAS-EN040 | Back to the Front |
| STAS-EN041 | Stygian Sergeants |
| STAS-EN042 | Coral Dragon |
| STAS-EN043 | Rampaging Smashtank Rhynosaber |
| STAS-EN044 | Mannadium Prime-Heart |
| Xyz Deck | |
| Card number | Name |
| STAX-EN001 | Queen’s Knight |
| STAX-EN002 | Giant Soldier of Stone |
| STAX-EN003 | La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp |
| STAX-EN004 | Rabidragon |
| STAX-EN005 | Dark Magician |
| STAX-EN006 | Ojama Yellow |
| STAX-EN007 | Swordstalker |
| STAX-EN008 | Trade-In |
| STAX-EN009 | No Entry!! |
| STAX-EN010 | Draining Shield |
| STAX-EN011 | White Ninja |
| STAX-EN012 | Thousand Knives |
| STAX-EN013 | Cost Down |
| STAX-EN014 | Call of the Haunted |
| STAX-EN015 | Cyber Dragon |
| STAX-EN016 | Eldlich the Golden Lord |
| STAX-EN017 | Skill Successor |
| STAX-EN018 | Crane Crane |
| STAX-EN019 | Xyz Reborn |
| STAX-EN020 | Dark Magician Girl |
| STAX-EN021 | Chiron the Mage |
| STAX-EN022 | Magician of Faith |
| STAX-EN023 | Penguin Soldier |
| STAX-EN024 | Mystical Space Typhoon |
| STAX-EN025 | Book of Moon |
| STAX-EN026 | Needle Ceiling |
| STAX-EN027 | Gravity Axe – Grarl |
| STAX-EN028 | Dark Factory of Mass Production |
| STAX-EN029 | Gyroid |
| STAX-EN030 | Swing of Memories |
| STAX-EN031 | Beast King Barbaros |
| STAX-EN032 | Burden of the Mighty |
| STAX-EN033 | Fighting Spirit |
| STAX-EN034 | Gagaga Magician |
| STAX-EN035 | Star Changer |
| STAX-EN036 | Attraffic Control |
| STAX-EN037 | Night Beam |
| STAX-EN038 | Star Drawing |
| STAX-EN039 | Magical Broker |
| STAX-EN040 | Fierce Tiger Monghu |
| STAX-EN041 | Daigusto Emeral |
| STAX-EN042 | Number 20: Giga-Brilliant |
| STAX-EN043 | Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer |
| STAX-EN044 | Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder |
Just in case you didn’t realise the order by looking at the decks, they’ve helpfully included these.
Here’s some panels from the comic – it’s a large volume in and of itself, with 64 pages.
How to Synchro and Xyz Summon – the summoning mechanics focused on in these decks:
Opening moves, including instructions:
Battle explanation:
Explaining how to D.D. Crow the opponent:
Sourced from the content creator videos
36 Comments
Awful product that will be remembered as ‘that thing that contained another Zeus reprint’.
Not the worst product. Should have seen me, a 13yr Army vet, trying to teach my nephew how to play Generaiders as his first deck lol
An army vet at 13? I salute you.
Actual crazy talk. This isn’t a product for reprints, it’s a product for introducing new people to the game. How good it is at that, we’ll have to see once it’s actually released and put into practice, but I’m optimistic, personally.
Extremely good product for what it is, but lots of people misunderstand what it is and think it’s bad. If you’re not teaching someone how to play the game, this isn’t for you.
If you want to teach newer players about how to use very niche strategies like Visas Synchro climbing or Ranking Up into ZEUS, the cards in here should be designed around doing that. Why do you have Launcher Spider, Mask of the Accursed, Clausolas, No Entry!, and Atraffic in here?
Why are there no hand traps, starters, extenders, board breakers, negates, or GY effects? This set is tricking people into thinking this is casual play when it’s not.
Those cards and effects are way too complicated for a beginner.
It’s not about teaching niche strategies, it’s about basic mechanics. It’s not for casual play either – this set is for teaching someone who *maybe* knows what a monster card is. It walks you through step-by-step in an easily repeatable manner the basic mechanics of the game, as well as a small number of intermediate ones like hand traps in the very basic form of DD Crow.
While I would have liked to see Links included, I can also understand why that might be a bit much – Synchro and Xyz are much easier concepts to grasp. The cards included here cover a very solid variety of interactions and concepts in an easy-to-follow manner. This product is designed to follow a scripted duel to learn things like “what is the Battle Phase”, or “what is a Continuous Trap”; it does what it designed to do very well. The problem comes when people think this is a “shuffle up and play” product. It is not. You are not taking this to an event, you are not having kitchen table games with this, you are ***learning*** with it.
Why is this even a set to begin with? Starter Decks have existed since forever, Speed Duels are more casual friendly, and every single pack and Structure Deck is targeted aged 6 and up? If you want to teach someone how to play the game from the beginning, just direct them to Yugioh101, discord, or the official rule book.
This Deck does an awful job at teaching a new player how to play the game and shows how out of touch the TCG developers are with the actual fanbase.
The issue here is that if you already have someone who’s willing to teach you the game, he probably would do a better job just grabbing some cards from his bulk and scale up at whatever pace is comfortable for the newbie. Because, after you’ve ‘played’ the pre-built scenario from the product, where do you go from there? The cards in here don’t have a functional gameplan without following the instruction manual to the letter, which simply isn’t the way one should be taught how to play the game.
you listed two community resources which are not official physical products (very important), prone to misinformation, and even more prone to overstimulation which is the death of entry because there are other clowns like you who dont know how to ease someone into the game. the rulebook isnt meant to teach someone how to get into the game for the *very first time*, it’s for when youre ready to take the game more seriously. this set is basically the equivalent of a video game tutorial where it teaches you the fundamentals of the game and gives you a taste of its potential with some “complex” bosses of the two easiest summoning mechanics, to which i think it does a great job especially with the comic walking you through it. if you don’t like the product you simply don’t understand game design.
If this is just a tutorial, why have this product to begin with? A video demonstration or a Starter Deck rule book can easily fulfill the same purpose.
This product is awful because it doesn’t do any one thing correctly. It is a mishmash of random cards that have no synergy with each other centered around a gimmick they aren’t even good at. It’s only good for that scripted duel, so much that they literally advise in the product to not shuffle the Deck and play it as is.
Waste of cardboard. The resources on the Internet were made by players, not out of touch card developers who think that Cost Down/Swing of Memories into a high leveled vanilla is a beginner strat.
Dude, even being fair and comparing them to other starter decks they are still garbage.
Give the link strike starter deck a look. Only 3 normal monsters, 2 of them justified by Draconet. The other one at least being a 2k beat stick. A couple hand traps to teach new players about them. Good spell/traps. And even the field spell is good in the context of the starter decks cause when you do a sealed game of two copies of the deck against itself the field spell let’s you recycle the link monsters for the grind game.
Of all the sealed starter deck games I’ve played with my friend, Link Strike has to be the one we had the most fun with. It’s so well designed in the context of just itself vs another starter deck.
People need to understand that this is supposed to be designed to teach newer players how to play the game, its not supposed to be another reprint set for expensive cards. With that being said, its still not great. There are a ton of modern pack filler cards that aren’t great but would be great for a starter deck of some sort. Gagaga Magician is in the Xyz deck but there only rank 4s besides zeus, could’ve had other ranks to take advantage of that effect. Obviously they’re not supposed to be taken to tournaments, but there could’ve been much more here to really take advantage of each summoning mechanic.
You don’t need to take advantage of effects or mechanics with this product, you just need to learn what they are. That’s the level of play this is designed for.
Giga-Brilliant is there as a R3
Ok but can we please question why Konami starts you off on NORMAL MONSTERS?
To simplify the jobs cards have and teach basic battle concepts.
Because they’re the most basic level of play??? That’s like asking why MTG starts you off on lands
Some people have never had to teach another person how to play Yugioh, and it shows in this comment section
fr lol. ygo players idea of a tutorial for the game is showing them a spreadsheet for a deck and saying memorize all of these lines
To teach you to normal summon and do battle without complicated memery
These should be called “Learner Decks” not “Starter Decks” calling it the same name as shuffle up and play decks can be very confusing for people.
A physical, tangible tutorial. How quaint~
This product is not awfull for being what it is its awfull for being what it is when EVERY SINGLE YUGIOH DIGITAL SIMULATOR HAVE A TUTORIAL OF THE GAME and guess what EVEN MASTER DUEL and DUEL LINKS and both are FREE so why in the lands of our lord would you buy this instead of playing a tutorial FOR FREE
Both Duel Links and Master Duel are different formats with their tutorials being of arguable quality, this product is designed specifically for paper play and can be great for someone wanting to teach a friend how to play the game, which is a better scenario than a static one sided digital tutorial as you have someone there who you can discuss it with, experienced or not.
It is blatantly clear you have forgotten how difficult it is to get into this game but that shouldn’t then hold back new people who want to learn.
its funny to see so many people missing the points this product is trying to make
I am sure kids near my house are willing to trade Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS for a copy of Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
If they were going to include normal monsters that old, the least they could do is include 1 or 2 monsters from Series 1 that have never been imported to the TCG yet. That would have at least been something.
To reiterate, there are 159 normal monsters that have never been imported to TCG. All but a handful were released within the first two years of OCG. We just got a retrain of Tao the Chanter and that monster is one of the never-imported. But here we are getting cards like Gil Garth, Ryu Ran and Swordstalker.
Speed duel is cost prohibitive for kids. Kids should not be on discord. Exposing adults to 24-step combo nonsense is a cruel act, nevermind kids.
This product feels undercooked, and some of you all are defending it a bit too hard. Yes it is important for new players to learn how to play the game, but a mishmash of random cards only good for a scripted duel is how they go about it? If you have a friend willing to teach you, then you don’t need all this, they’d have the cards to teach you and knowledge to not need a script. If the cards at least had some sense of cohesive functionality as a deck outside of scripted duels, so that after you follow the script to learn how to play you could use the cards effectively in a normal game, then maybe it’d be worth it. Like make it two decks each focused on one simple archetype or type, like spellcasters vs machines or protagonist 1 vs protagonist 2 or something, and make sure most of the summoning types are covered between the two. I can’t really imagine this product flying off the shelves. The book looks nice and detailed though, I’ll give it that. Good concept, less good execution.
Tbh exactly what I expected. An ok product for teaching new players how to play, and an easy way for more experienced players to get Zeus. Coral Dragon is also a nice reprint. Btw people saying that you do the scripted duel and that’s it, once you learn the game (which this product will hopefully help you do) and decide that you’re going to build an actual deck, you already have a few generic strong cards like Zeus that you’ll likely play in another deck.
What’s with all the Konami simps? “It’s supposed to be worse than any other starter deck since the first 5ds era one.”
I’m pretty sure even the Junk Destroyer starter deck is better than these.
Only saving grace is that Zeus is a win button if it drops against a starter deck. But that has it’s own problems in just the context of these two decks against each other. Of giving a starter deck in a twin pack meant to be played against each other a card as easily summoned as Zeus that wins the game if it hits the field against another starter deck. Yeah that’s going to get people interested in the game, giving one of these two decks a card that auto wins thanks to how bad these decks are. I can easily see whichever brother got stuck with the synchro deck rage quitting because of Zeus since their boss requires hoops to be jumped through to be summoned and Zeus is just any two monsters with the same level plus a battle phase.
no surprise Konami fumbled the ball as always. If it isn’t the main set they just don’t know what to do.
I can definitely understand keeping the card simple so that newcomers aren’t intimidated by a large walls of text. but actively teaching bad habits with deck building with your tutorial decks is not great for getting new players in. it’s great for charging more money for filler, which was probably their main goal, but I genuinely don’t know how they expect to stay afloat if they can’t meaningfully cultivate new players like better TCGs can.
>This’ll teach someone to Xyz summon.
>Doesn’t include Tin Goldfish or similar.