Amano-Iwato Control: deck recipe [Oct 15]

Amano Iwato is a spirit monster that disables all monsters' activateable effects. Since the effect is strong enough to shut down a deck entirely on it's own, you can make a deck that focuses mostly on it alone. While it's biggest weakness is that it returns to the hand during the end phase, there are various ways to make it stay on the field.

Preventing the activation of monsters will pretty much disable most combos that involve monster effects, especially ones that needs to activate in order to special summon. This can be considered the ultimate counter to decks like Thunder Dragons, Darklords, or Metaphys that heavily rely on them.

Handtrap cards will also be unusable, ensuring that you can deal damage when you attack directly without getting stopped by cards like Kiteroid, Sphere Kuriboh, or Battlin Boxer Veil.

Its biggest downside is that it will return to your hand in the end phase, but there are ways to make it stay.

It's good in general to stop your opponent's plays that need their monster activation, but it can also be used in the deck to negate your own cards.

Negating Amano during the end phase will prevent it from returning to your hand, making it still on your field during your opponent's phase.

You can negate Barbaros if it's summoned without tributes, which will reset its attack to 3000 because it's negated. The total attack will be 3400 because of Chalice's attack increase. Useful to use in the damage step to give your opponent less chance to react.

This will never be summoned using 3 tributes. It's mainly here since it has very high attack that can be normal summoned easily. Doing it this way will only make it 1900 ATK, but using Chalice on it will permanently reset its attack to 3000.

This is to be used in combination with Amano Iwato, essentially disabling your opponent from being able to use their monster effect and their graveyard altogether. When both are on the field, it gives you a good amount of control over your opponent.

There will be times where your opponent might still be able to special summon high ATK monsters, or if their deck is faster than this deck. Amano Iwato has 1900 ATK, and this trap can destroy monsters above 2000 ATK.

Since Amano disables monster effects, your opponent won't be able to use some easy card removals, which are usually from monster effects like Cyber Slash Harpie Lady or Vermillion Dragon Mech.

Against opponents that don't play many spells/traps, their best answer to Amano is to attack with high ATK monsters, so having cards like Wall of Disruption can be devastating if they summon multiple monsters.

This will be used on Barbaros to protect your Amano, not to be used on Amano itself since it can't be special summoned. Amano is most likely the main priority for your opponent to destroy, which will allow you to banish Barbaros during damage step to reduce the attacking enemy's ATK by 3000.

Using Clash on Barbaros will reset its attack too. If Barbaros is your only monster on the field, you'll still want to use Clash during the damage step since this will cancel your opponent's attack altogether.

For when your LP gets to below 1000, you can XYZ into Utopia to then become Utopia Ray. Its effect can be used 3 times in a turn, reducing an opponent monster's ATK by 3000 and Utopia Ray's ATK to 4000. If your opponent has a monster with 3000 ATK monster or lower, then this already results in an OTK.

To be used to go into Utopia Ray when your LP is low, but can be used in desperate situations to stall duels.

Effect is somewhat similar to Necrovalley. You can consider going into this early if you still don't get Necrovalley and are going against decks that uses cards in the grave like Blue-Eyes.

One of the few answers to dealing with enemy spells/traps other than dodging them by using Legacy Clash. You can target another Barbaros instead of itself to destroy a card in case you need the effect again for next turn. Otherwise, Barbaros has better use on the field since it works with the other cards in the deck.

Useful against monsters that are difficult to get over, or if your opponent uses a lot of resources to only have 1 boss monster on their field. Also good against XYZ monsters since it will end up removing their materials.

Helps when going against certain decks that rely on special summoning high level monsters. It's one of the safer turn 1 XYZ monsters that you can summon.

Against decks that share same names like Harpies and Cyber Dragons, this is a pretty good counter to deal with them since itt stops them from being able to continue their combos.

It works similarly to Barbaros, except it has less ATK. You can substitute for this if you don't have Barbaros, but not recommended to put this instead of spells/traps since you want 6 of each card type for the skill to work.

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