Big Shield Gardna | Decks and Tips

This page notes details of Big Shield Gardna (EARTH/Warrior/Effect Monster) : decks, tips, effect and rulings. Learn and enjoy playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links!

update 05/09/2016

Big Shield Gardna

Attribute	EARTH
Monster Type	Warrior
Card type	Effect
Card Effect Type	Quick Effect / Continuous Effect
Level	★4
Passcode	65240384
ATK	100
DEF	2600

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During either player's turn, when this face-down card (and no other cards) is targeted by a Spell Card: Change this card to face-up Defense Position, and if you do, negate the Spell Card's activation. If this card is attacked, change it to Attack Position at the end of the Damage Step.

How to Get / Rarity

Pack	--
Level-up reward	--
Victory against	--
Card trader	300 EX Jewels [UR]
Other	--

Evaluation

Rating	7.5 /10

Big Shield Gardna (BSG) is one of the well known monster cards that has been introduced since the original series. With a high DEF of 2600, you are very likely to inflict defense battle damage when the opponent attacks this set card. However, BSG is defeated easily if the opponent has more than one monster on the field to forcibly trigger BSG’s effect provided they have the LP to tank the first hit.

Tips

BSG is best used with lockdown decks or as a tribute fodder due its vulnerable effect. Avoid having too many BSGs in your deck if you are not building a lockdown deck as its effect is a double edged sword and should not remain on the field for too long once flipped face-up.

Helpful cards

Desert Sunlight

Switches the battle position of BSG to defense again.

Decks

Parasite Infestation

Chain Reaction

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Anonymous

Why doesn’t this card work against Dark Magical Circle?

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Because DMC is UR and this one is less rare. So your activation priority goes down. Try to also use a more expensive card and see what happens.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

stop trolling!

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

actual, non-trolling answer: BSG only negates the activation of a Spell card that targets it.

DMC's banishing effect is activated long after DMC itself is activated. In other words, it's only the activation of a Spell card's EFFECT.

Basically, BSG only works against cards that immediately targets BSG after activation. Continuous cards that activates their effect later, ignore BSG's effect.

jooj

Was expecting to see everyone on the comments saying that this card is terrible

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Anonymous

i had approximitally 290 ex jewels but event ended.now(new event),jewels are unavailable.where are my jewels?

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See all 5 comments..

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

I love dumb people like you the games tells you MANY different time they expire you deserve to lose all ur ex gems

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

You 🔥ing 🔥, eat a pile of 🔥 and die mother🔥er. No wonder your mother despises you and no one bothers to love you.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Ya 🔥 that guy for not useing his ex gems

sop19971

Always funny to watch someone lose a duel by ramming their monster into this while it's facedown

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Anonymous

I was facing an npc attacked BSG with jinzo and he didn’t change to attack then attacked with horus lvl6 and still didn’t change anyone know why?

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<< Anonymous

Xenon Reply

Known Issue reading ftw! To troll you: It's bugged. They will fix it in 2.9 or so(I think?).

Anonymous

This card is a lot better now than when the game got released. Surprised it isn't getting more attention being in the Card Trader again.

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Because back then 95% players don't have econ.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Regardless, econ was still used in most decks back then. With stuff like Inverse Universe, Ojama Country, and Super Rush Headlong existing, it is definitely better. Also being immune to cards like Tribute of the Doomed and Magic Triangle of the Ice Barrier when Set can be useful. People would just rather use meta decks.

Anonymous

Why are people wasting EX jewels and UR ticket on this when you could just go into the card trader's inventory?

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

This card was removed from card trader before. Sigh.. New players.

TerraGaroa

i made a pretty good deck with him:
3 BSG
3 EH Woodsman
2 EH Ocean
1 EH Clayman
1 King of Swamp
1 Gaia the fierce knight
3 Inverse Universe
2 Mirror Wall
2 Wall of Disruption
2 Polymerization

Aditional deck:

2 EH Terra Firma
1 Sky Galloping Gaia the Dragon Champion
1 EH Thunder Giant
1 UFOroid Fighter

i'm thinking in change gaia for another warrior with a good fusion, like EH Neos or Notable Blader, but i'm not sure

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<< Anonymous(TerraGaroa)

TerraGaroa Reply

Other option, more consistent, but less technical, since you cant tribute BSG when he is no more usefull in field

<< Anonymous(TerraGaroa)

TerraGaroa Reply

other option, with other great warrior

<< Anonymous(TerraGaroa)

TerraGaroa Reply

You can use it with Joe, Bastion or Jaden, work well with theirs habilities

Anonymous

Can you use Shield and Sword spell card on this bih?

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

you should be able to

Anonymous

I call 🔥 on the vagabound challenges. Gardnas effect activated even when it was the "no effect activation" challenge. So it should have stayed in defense position after being attacked.

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

I'm with you on the Vagabond "No effect" crap. I made a deck filled with high stat effect monsters like Boar Soldier and the like. Some of them still activated their effects. Like wtf?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

No effect activations meaning any effect you have to activate doesn't work

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Because it doesn't stop the negative effects

Anonymous

Nice of them to bring this back in the anniversary UR ticket.

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Valencia Reply

I agree. I spent my ticket on it because I missed it before.

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Yomama Reply

How to use it now? I got two copies

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Same. Used all 3 UR tickets on it straightaway. Might do some Ojama Land shenanigans with it at some point

(Set Gardna, let enemy attack it, then on your turn use Ojama monster (ideally fusion summon Ojama Knight or King) to switch ATK and DEF values and attack with surprise 2600 ATK Boomstick.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

But why did they remove from card trader? I could use tickets on another card :(

Anonymous

If used in an ojama deck BSG will be an offensive powerhouse with 2600 attack.

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Yup, can beat most monsters under Ojama Country, even BEWD.

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