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This is a beginner-friendly Domain Format list built upon a $9.99 MSRP purchase of the Structure Deck: Shaddoll Showdown. It consists of a $10 upgrade of cards purchased from sites like TCGplayer.
Deckmaster: Shaddoll Hedgehog
Domain Restrictions: DARK // SPELLCASTER // SHADDOLL
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Domain Format General Rules:
- Singleton Format: Every card restricted to 1 copy per deck.
- 60-card Format: Each Main Deck must contain exactly 60 cards.
- 4-player Pods: Each player competes individually in an all-out battle against three opponents.
- Deckmaster Restrictions: Each player chooses a "Deckmaster" which dictates the allowed types and attributes for their deck.
- Deckmaster Contract: A Deckmaster can be summoned from a designated "Deckmaster Zone" using normal summoning rules. After switching zones, Deckmasters may return to the "Deckmaster Zone," where they start the game.
Refer here for additional rules and exceptions:
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Broad Categories
This simple strategy has cards that fall into three simple categories:
- GY Resource Loops
- Extra Deck -> GY
- Free Fusions
Primary Packages: Dogmatika, Shaddoll
Reccommend Shaddoll Guide (from tcgsam):
What do we want our Deckmaster to do? Shaddoll Hedgehog
- Shaddoll Domain
- Searches Shaddoll Spells or Traps on Flip
- Searches a Shaddoll monster if sent to GY by card effect
Shaddoll Hedgehog is not an optimal normal summon. However, its Dark Spellcaster Shaddoll domain allows us to access the varied attributed Shaddoll monster and its most important support archtypes. In a pinch, you can set Shaddoll Hedgehog in hope of flipping it face up to obtain access to powerful Shaddoll spell/traps on a following turn for engine access. You will likely want to add Reeshaddoll Wendi when using Shaddoll Hedgehog's GY effect, in order to gain more access into the Shaddoll Engine.
The constant stream of monsters given by Shaddoll Hedgehog GY effect allows us to easily use topdecked Fusion Spells in the long game.
What to Fusion Summon First?
El Shaddoll Construct is often the first Shaddoll you want to be summoning due to its ability to send a Shaddoll card to GY on summon and ability to fetch back a Shaddoll Spell or Trap when sent to GY. This allows you to find either utility or your Shaddoll Fusion. El Shaddoll Construct does not have a once per turn on its effects, so reiving it with Naelshaddoll Ariel can be reuse its effects. In order to obtain a Light Monster for fusion material, you can link any Spellcaster (including the Deckmaster) into Artemis, the Magistus Moon Maiden.
The easiest way to send the Shaddoll Fusion monsters from Field to GY is by summoning them into the Extra Monster Zone and linking them into Gravity Controller or XYZ into Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis.
Fusion Access and Alternative Fusion Effects
The easiest way to gain access to our Shaddoll Extra Deck is by fusing. While the Deckmaster Shaddoll Hedgehog can get access to the Shaddoll Fusion spells once flipped, doing so is quite slow. Instead, the deck plays a large variety of Fusion effects, the most notable and searchable of which is Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous. Plese also note that Mathematician and Armageddon Knight can send Tearlaments Havnis into GY to activate it as a Fusion effect.
Boardbreaking and Endboard Options
This deck will leverage powerful effects active when going second/third/fourth, notably Dogmatikamatrix and Shaddoll Fusion . Additional, this deck has powerful boardbreaking tools in Shaddoll Schism and Shaddoll Fusion (for El Shaddoll Apkallone using Nehshaddoll Genius and Naelshaddoll Ariel)
For boardbreaking, the best monster to summon is El Shaddoll Apkallone, which permentaly negates a card on summon. El Shaddoll Winda is the best shaddoll monster to pass the turn or summon with Shaddoll Schism due to its floodgate effect.
GY Resource Loop
- Offers Interaction ( Nehshaddoll Genius )
- Triggers if Sent for Ritual or Fusion Summon ( Reeshaddoll Wendi ) or Trap Effect ( Subterror Succession )
- Fill GY as Resources ( Shaddoll Schism )
- Deincentivize Removal ( Shaddoll Falco )
Shaddoll monsters have 2 effects each, one on Flip and one if sent to GY. If an opponent attacks into a facedown Shaddoll, it'll trigger the effect. If an opponent trys to destroy the Shaddoll, it'll trigger the effect too! Your opponent is put into a situation where they must let you get value out of your Shaddolls. Now what are these effects?
Main Deck Shaddoll Monsters:
Extra Deck Shaddoll Monsters:
The deck's primary way to recur GY resources will be Shaddoll Falco and Naelshaddoll Ariel in addition to your Extra Deck Shaddoll GY effects. The Shaddoll monsters sent to GY effects can also be triggered through use of our Fusion and RItual Spells, using the Shaddoll as material. The most desirable monster to trigger the GY effects of is Reeshaddoll Wendi , which gets access into the other Shaddoll monsters from our deck. However, the other GY effects of Shaddolls offer amazing utililty and interaction.
The more Shaddolls are put into the GY, the more different Extra Deck Shaddolls you have access to through Shaddoll Schism which banishes its Fusion Materials from GY.
Each extra deck Shaddoll monster gets you access to a Shaddoll Spell or Trap if sent to the GY. Here are the targets:
Shaddoll Spells/Traps:
The most powerful Shaddoll Spell/Traps are Shaddoll Fusion and Shaddoll Schism , which are the cards you most want to obtain with El Shaddoll Apkallone and El Shaddoll Construct. The primary card for resource looping is Resh Shaddoll Incarnation , which can revive a Shaddoll monster from our GY. The most efficient monster to revive will be El Shaddoll Construct , which can both send another Shaddoll to GY and also fetch the Resh Shaddoll Incarnation back to hand once it is sent to GY.
Secondary Resource Loop
Another GY resource loop involves the Labrynth monsters and thier favorable interaction with Subterror Succession .
Labrynth by themselves is a small package that can search Normal Traps through Lady Labrynth of the Silver Castle . By searching Subterror Succession and using its effect, we can both trigger our Shaddoll Monsters GY effects and find our other monsters from deck while also triggering the revival abilities of Labrynth Stovie Torbie and Labrynth Chandraglier in the GY (because a monster was sent to GY by Trap effect). This becomes a continous stream of resources when Subterror Succession resets itself after use.
Extra Deck -> GY
- Trigger GY effects ( Branded in High Spirits )
- Access Engine ( El Shaddoll Apkallone )
- Interupt Combo Lines ( White Relic of Dogmatika )
When Shaddolls were made, the intention was for them to be Fusion Summoned, and have effects if they were sent to GY from field. However, in modern Yugioh we now have cards like Nadir Servant , Branded in High Spirits and Dogmatika Maximus which not only send them directly from the Extra Deck, they also give additional benefits! By sending the Shaddolls directly from our Extra Deck to GY, we shortcut the process and resources needed to use the GY effects of the Extra Deck Shaddoll Monsters. The most important of these effects is El Shaddoll Apkallone , which accesses our Shaddoll Spells and Trap from Deck. Recall that the most important Shaddoll Spells and Traps are Shaddoll Schism and Shaddoll Fusion.
However, we also built this deck to utilize Dogmatika Maximus and White Relic of Dogmatika to disrupt our Opponents extra Deck. While we benefit from our Extra Deck being sent to GY, our opponents may not, especially if they have tight extra decks that they need for their combo plays. Meanwhile, we will use the GY effects of Shaddolls in conjunction with the GY effects of Titaniklad the Ash Dragon , Albion the Branded Dragon , and Alba-Lenatus the Abyss Dragon for advantage generation!
To access the powerful Dogmatika monsters, we have a combination of Dogmatikamatrix and Dogmatika Ecclesia, the Virtuous. Another powerful Dogmatika of Note is Guiding Quem, the Virtuous , which can access our Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous to access our Shaddoll Fusions. Each of these can be accessed through the GY effect of Titaniklad the Ash Dragon.
Between El Shaddoll Winda and ripping cards out of the Extra Deck with Dogmatika Maximus and White Relic of Dogmatika, we will force our opponent to play a more lower-powered game. We excel in lower-powered games because of our excelent resource looping.
Free Fusions
- Cheat Resource Costs ( Mutiny in the Sky )
- Extend Past Interruption ( Shaddoll Fusion )
Fusion Spells are crimminal. Many of modern Fusion Spells no longer require monsters on Field or GY, which simply mean you can get Free Fusion Monsters and in some case also Free Monsters into GY to trigger their effects. Here are some examples that we play in this deck:
Fraudulent Fusion Spells:
With each of these Fusion Spells being able to direct access our Shaddoll Extra Deck (notably either El Shaddoll Construct or El Shaddoll Apkallone), we can ensure that even just a single card allows our deck to access our Engine. This allows the deck to extend and recover well against interruptions. Especially of note is how our Shaddoll monsters have GY effects, so if the Fusion summon goes through even if they remove and negate the Fusion Monster they will need to contend with the GY effects of Materials and the Fusion Monster.
In the cases of Branded Fusion and Shaddoll Fusion that use material from deck, the materials itself can gain us advantage. For example, if boardbreaking, Naelshaddoll Ariel and Nehshaddoll Genius contribute GY banishing and monster negation. Shaddolls work fabulously if allowed to be sent from Deck to GY.
The easiest Fusion Spells to search are the Shaddoll Fusion , Shaddoll Schism , and Branded Fusion.
Gameplans
Endboard Pieces: El Shaddoll Winda , White Relic of Dogmatika
Extend/Recover: Branded Fusion , Magicalized Fusion , Mutiny in the Sky , Shaddoll Fusion , Dogmatika Maximus
Backup Plan: Set Shaddoll Hedgehog , Labrynth , Shaddoll Falco
Searchable Utility: Shaddoll Dragon , Nehshaddoll Genius , Naelshaddoll Ariel
Grindgame: Resh Shaddoll Incarnation , Shaddoll Fusion GY effects , Shaddoll Falco
Other Considerations:
Extra Deck Monsters: Borreload Savage Dragon , Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon , Predaplant Dragostapelia , Sprind the Irondash Dragon , Guardian Chimera , Magistus Chorozo , Accesscode Talker , Selene, Queen of the Master Magicians
Monsters: Edge Imp Chain , Tearlaments Havnis , Danger!? Tsuchinoko? , The Iris Swordsoul , Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous , Springans Kitt
Spells: Ultimate Slayer , Foolish Burial Goods
Traps: Dogmatika Punishment , Gigantic Thundercross , Titanocider , Trap Tracks , The Return to the Normal , Dogmatikaturgy , Dogmatika Genesis
Removed From Deck:
Monsters: Aleister the Invoker , Invoked Caliga , Predaplant Ambulomelides , Predaplant Bufolicula , Predaplant Dragostapelia , Alba-Lenatus the Abyss Dragon , Fallen of Albaz , Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis
Spells: Extra-Foolish Burial , Magistus Invocation , Branded Fusion , Shadow's Light , Emergency Teleport , Instant Fusion , Mutiny in the Sky
Recap:
Important Cards: El Shaddoll Construct , Shaddoll Fusion , Shaddoll Schism , Subterror Succession
Strategy Elevator Pitch: Outwit with recursion, overwhelm with fusion.
Recommened Upgrades: Granguignol the Dusk Dragon , Despian Luluwalilith , Deception of the Sinful Spoils
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