Buster Blader: deck recipe [Jan 1]

Destruction Sword Memories is almost always a safe choice to search for, especially if you get turn 1. If you have DNA Surgery, you can search for Destruction Swordsman Fusion instead, but this can be risky if you don't have any Buster Blader in hand and your opponent starts their turn with a Mystical Space Typhoon or Cosmic Cyclone.

With a Buster Blader on the field, you can then synchro into Buster Dragon so you can revive a Buster Blader back to the field. If you haven't used Whelp's revive effect, you can bring itself back so you can synchro into another level 8 like Scrap Dragon or Cyber Slash Harpie Lady.

Keep in mind that you can only choose to either special summon itself or Buster Blader once per turn, so you can't tribute itself to special summon a Buster Blader and then revive itself on the same turn.

Generally we prefer running the original Buster Blader over his retrained version due to the simple fact his name is already Buster Blader while in the hand. This means you can use him in your hand as fusion material with Destruction Swordsman Fusion. He is also searchable with his own exclusive search card.

Searchable with Whelp because of its name. The effect to attach a monster destroyed by battle can be situationally useful to prevent potential combos, and the additional effect can be nice to have, but performing this combo is pretty rare since the main deck Buster Bladers are often used for the fusion and rarely stay on the field for long.

High priority card to search for with Whelp to special summon a Buster Blader from the deck. Together with Whelp, you can synchro them away to become Buster Dragon and use Memories in the grave to fusion summon Dragon Destroyer Swordsman.

You can easily discard this card if you have it in your hand with Whelp's graveyard effect, Destruction Swordsman Fusion, another copy of itself, or use your own Mystical Space Typhoon on it.

It's a very flexible card since it's a quick-play and lets you use monsters from field and hand, but what makes this card even more unique is that it allows you to use your opponent's monster as part of the fusion material. The fact that it's searchable with Whelp and has a self-recovery effect is the cherry on top.

However, this can only be used to fusion summon Dragon Destroyer Swordsman or Dark Paladin(which isn't used since there is no Dark Magician in the deck). Against a Dragon deck, you can very easily fuse using their monster. But against any other deck, you will have to rely on either DNA Surgery or Buster Dragon to turn them into a Dragon monster if you want to use this with your opponent's monster.

It's a very powerful anti-Dragon card since it gets a high ATK boost and 2 continuous effects that negates and forces them to defense position as long as this is on the field. Its weakness is that it can't attack directly and doesn't come with any form of protection from spells/traps. Against a Dragon deck, simply bringing this out will give you a massive advantage.

Against non-Dragon decks, you'll have to rely on the support cards like Buster Dragon or DNA Surgery. Doing this will allow you to go against any deck, regardless of their monster type. And since Dragon Destroyer comes with a high ATK increase effect, there's a pretty good chance you'll be able to get over just about any monster.

You can synchro into this using Whelp and Buster Blader on the field. Both Whelp and Buster Blader are somewhat easily special summonable since Whelp can search for Destruction Sword Memories and also revive itself.

Buster Dragon is a useful support, but not exactly core since DNA Surgery exists. Having this just makes the core combo much faster instead of relying on drawing DNA Surgery.

Once Buster Dragon is out, you can revive a Buster Blader in the grave. If you haven't used Whelp's self revive effect, you can bring Whelp back to synchro into another level 8 if you need it.

Buster Dragon's last effect is only useful if you decide to bring cards like Robot Buster Destruction Sword or Wizard Buster Destruction Sword, which are situationally useful, but can increase the odds of not getting a good starting hand.

Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman and DNA Surgery is a powerful combo. Strong enough to shutdown a good portion of current top-tier decks.

DNA Surgery turning all monsters into Dragons means they are now affected by Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroying Swordsman's debilitating effect. This is especially potent against decks that heavily rely on monster effects.

A level 9 backrow/monster removal synchro monster by banishing tuner monster from your hand or graveyard.

In case you have Boxer Veil on the field and can normal summon a Whelp. Catastor can be a decent wall to prevent attacks since its effect can deal with most monsters.

Its main use is to simply "protect" your DNA Surgery since it becomes a high priority threat to your opponent once you have Dragon Destroyer Swordsman on the field, which makes it highly likely that they will use some kind of spell/trap removal to get it off your field.

Unfortunately, this just sets the card back instead of facing it up again right away.

Special Summon Battlin Boxer Veil after taking a big hit. Veil gives you back the LP you lost and will be Special Summoned to catch the next attack.

Like most Fusion Decks, this one is very combo heavy. And you'll be highly vulnerable to OTKs before you get to your final board state of Dragon Destroyer Swordsman plus DNA Surgery. These defensive techs are here to protect you while you build your board.

Sphere Kuriboh changes the opponent's monster to defense position so that the attack won't go through. Dragon Destroying Swordsman can inflict piercing damage so you can deal a ton of damage on your next turn.

Preventing your opponent from using graveyard effects is a great way to disrupt graveyard setups and floating effects. The second effect lets you retrieve Buster Whelp for more searching.

A good monster to summon incase you get matched with a Dark Magician Deck. Not only do you get to take the opponent's Dark Magician as fusion material, Dark Paladin is also a great counter to the deck preventing them from using key Spells.

Stardust Dragon can negate enemy effects that would destroy a card, targeting or not. This makes it an effective counter against the most common form of removal. This effect is practically activated for free, only temporarily tributing Stardust Dragon.

Scrap Dragon is a good beater with a 1-for-1 targeting removal effect.

Gives a one-time protection to any card you control. Particularly, you want to protect DNA surgery or Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroying Swordsman because this powerful combo has no inherent protection. Keep in mind this effect can be used during both players' turns.

Most archetypes run a single Type of monster so Karma of the Destruction Swordsman can readily be used for graveyard disruption. Even if you're not facing this type of deck, you can still use this card as cost for Buster Whelp's revival.

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