Masked HERO: deck recipe [Nov 9]

Heroes are a versatile deck that properly utilizes the extra deck to handle various situations. Depending on what you want to focus on, they can go with fusion, Masked Heroes, or XYZ. With the help of Stratos, the deck can be pretty consistent, but he's also considered a core card in many versions of HEROes.

HEROes

Elemental HERO

Stratos' will mostly be used for his second effect. Normal Summon him to search out Faris. Or search Malicious if you already have Faris and want something to use as discard cost. You can Normal Summon Stratos and search another copy of himself if you just want to cycle your deck.

You can occasionally use Stratos' second effect to remove your opponent's backrow. But usually Stratos is the first monster summoned to search your combo pieces. If you do want to use this effect, do your Faris combo first and you should end with Increase and another HERO onboard. Summon Stratos and destroy 2 of your opponent's Spell/Traps. Then follow this up by Fusion Summoning Trinity for an OTK.

Helps put another monster on the field so you can make a rank 4. Special summoning Stratos will then let you destroy 1 spell/trap card your opponent controls. Its effect to special summon a HERO from the grave works good for Masked Changing into Masked HERO.

Helps put another monster on the field by reviving another "HERO" monster from your Graveyard. Special summoning Stratos will then let you destroy 1 spell/trap card your opponent controls or Vyon to search out Polymerization for Fusion Summoning Combo.

While he is used as Fusion Material no matter it is sent to the Graveyard or banished, you can gains extra 2 Cards draw, then discard 1 card. You can use this effect to increase your hand resources and discard 1 "Elemental HERO" monster for graveyard setup after you Fusion Summon monster by using this card with another "Elemental HERO" monster.

Miracle Fusion searcher for another Fusion Monsters summoning while it is Special Summoned. His Card Removal effect will allows you to destroy 1 card your opponent control while another "HERO" monsters you control attack or attacked.

Elemental HERO Sunrise will boost up all Monsters you control by 200 ATK for each different Attribute which works good with Anki for OTK by min. 3000 ATK stat.

You can put monsters into the graveyard pretty easily through Faris or Liquid Soldier, which will allow you to use those monsters to summon another strong monster to the field.

With limited space in the extra deck, there are a couple of fusion monsters that you can put in the deck. You can use this card to Fusion Summon Vision HERO Adoration or Elemental HERO Sunrise.

Koga's ATK boost easily puts him at 3000+ ATK enough to deal with most monsters. And the stat debuff can let you deal huge damage through an opponent's monster.

Most of the monsters in this deck doesn't have graveyard recovery or graveyard effects so you will have lots of options for the debuff cost. Using an Anki, sent to your graveyard by Masked Change, or any other Extra Deck monster as cost will usually 0 the opponent's ATK. The only things you shouldn't banish as cost are Vision HERO Increase, Destiny HERO Celestial, and Destiny HERO Malicious. (if you haven't used Malicious' effect yet)

Additionally, the ability to debuff your opponent's monsters during their turn, prevents them from battling you while you have HEROes in the graveyard and Koga on the field.

Since Stratos is your only WIND HERO, you can only summon Blast by targeting him Mask Change. Blast's first effect is good for getting your opponent to OTK range by reducing their monster's ATK by a significant amount. It can also be used defensively when summoned during your opponent's turn and reducing their ATK so that they can't attack over your monsters.

Bouncing your opponent's Spell/Trap cards back to their hand has some good utility. You can do this during your opponent's End Phase to bounce something like Dark Magical Circle so they cannot activate its effect during your turn. Returning set backrow during your opponent's End Phase prevents them from chaining the targeted card. On your turn, you can bounce an opponent's Necrovalley so you'll be free to use Malicious' or Celestial's effect.

Do not bounce cards during their Main Phase because they'll just re-activate it or set it again.

The way Mask Change works is you send one HERO monster from your field to the graveyard, and then summon a Masked Hero monster from your extra deck that has the same attribute as the HERO monster that you sent. Because Destiny HERO and Vision HERO monsters are DARK attribute, they are all possible targets for Mask Change to summon Masked Hero Anki.

Best Counter Tech in the current meta. Great Disruption effect to stop your opponent's combo by graveyard effect activation or monster reviving.

Elemental HEROes Searcher.

General Rank 4 Xyz Monster for players to use so far. Its effect essentially lets you deal 2500 (its own ATK) damage if this attacks the monster you targeted. The advantage is that your opponent's monster's ATK is also lowered, allowing you to attack over it with your other weaker monsters.

Abyss Dweller is an anti-Graveyard interaction tech, intended to hinder Decks that activate a ton of effects from the graveyard. It's best to activate this at the start of the opponent's turn, so make sure to toggle Chain to "ON" and activate Abyss Dweller's effect during the opponent's Draw Phase.

The Vision HEROes in this deck are used to get a bunch of HERO monsters out on the field quickly. Because all of them are DARK, they are good targets for Mask Change to make Anki.

Faris alone can start a combo that Special Summons two monsters from the deck. Special Summon Faris by discarding a HERO, preferably Malicious. Use Faris' effect to put Increase in your Spell/Trap zone, then tribute Faris to Special Summon Increase. Increase Special Summons Vyon from your deck which mills a HERO to the graveyard. This is your main combo and from this you can make various boss monsters depending on the match up.

Vision HERO Vyon is usually seen when Special Summoned by Increase, letting you mill a HERO monster from your deck. You can send Celestial or Malicious to the graveyard to prepare their effects. Or you can mill extra copies of Faris or Vyon, which you will banish to search Polymerization.

Destiny Hero - Celestial has a good draw effect when he is in the graveyard. The other monster you will banish for Celestial's cost should be your second copy of Malicious. You can mill Celestial to the graveyard with Vyon, or put him there by using him as a target for Mask Change or using him as fusion material.

The first effect is actually quite useful for getting rid of problem cards like Necrovalley and Dark Magical Circle. But being activated during the Battle Phase makes it kinda slow, since you would want to get rid of your opponent's disruption before you do your combos during the Main Phase.

Fusion Spell with only using monsters on your field as materials for Fusion Summoning but you can recycle 1 Fusion Monster from your Graveyard to your Extra Deck for Extra 1 Draw and reuse the returned Fusion Monster.

Trinity has extremely high stats upon summoning, and the ability to attack three times lets him easily OTK if your opponent controls at least two monsters. Because of this he should be summoned when your opponent doesn't have backrow, letting him freely attack. However, he is extremely costly to summon and you should never summon him on the first turn.

The versatility of Anki and Mask Change comes from the fact Mask Change is a Quick-Play Spell, meaning you can first attack with your HERO to destroy a monster or deal extra damage and then bring out Anki for a second attack. You can also activate Mask Change in response to your opponent activating a card like Enemy Controller, Wall of Disruption, etc. to avoid those card effects and still get another attack in.

Anki can attack your opponent directly, but his attack will be halved when you do so. This can let you steal some wins when you only need to put in a little more to damage.

But more importantly when Anki destroys an opponent’s monster by battle you can search a Mask Change or Form Change. Search for Masked Change if you want to make another Anki; higher base stats make him good for direct attacking and his search effect can be used the next turn. Search Form Change if you want to make Koga; better for pushing damage if your opponent controls a monster because of his self ATK boost and debuff effect. You can immediately activate the searched Change Spell to summon another Masked HERO, giving you an extra attack. However, you only get the search effect once so even if you summon a new Anki you don't get to search another Change Spell.

Similar to Anki, this card is pretty good to summon when you know you can destroy an opponent's monster. Since it's an earth attribute, you'll have to use Mask Change on Solid Soldier or use Form Change.

The monster special summoned by Dian can attack right away since it's summoned before the end of the battle phase. Use Dian's effect to special summon a Stratos so you can search a HERO or destroy a back row card. Alternatively, you can go with Solid Soldier if you have a Mask Change to make a combo of attacks.

Only 1 copy of this card is available, and 1 is all you need. Works similarly with Mask Change but has a more strict requirement. It's mainly used to deal more follow-up damage or just dodge effects.

Noted By Astlexis:

I decided to try something a little different here and added masked heroes since I was having problems with too much disruption. Masked hero Blast really helped with that.

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