Paleozoic: deck recipe [Feb 21]

“Paleozoic” is an archetype of mostly Normal Trap Cards that have the ability to Special Summon themselves from the Graveyard as Level 2 WATER monsters. You are probably already familiar with some of these cards: Paleozoic Canadia and Paleozoic Hallucigenia are quite popular in the current meta, but you likely haven’t seen them being played in a dedicated deck.

Paleozoic is a Control Deck that focuses on disrupting the opponent’s plays while keeping card advantage, slowly depleting their resources until they finally succumb to the onslaught of 2400 ATK “Paleozoic” monsters under the Field Spell Wetlands.

Special summon this by discarding other copies of itself, or Atlantean Monster if you're desperate, and activate its effect to send Ronintoadin from deck to grave. Then you can activate Ronintoadin from the grave to special summon it.

After you send a frog from deck to grave, you can return the swap frog so you can send another card again. With Swap Frog and Ronintoadin on the field, you can dive into a rank 2 Xyz Monster.

Its special summon effect is not limited to once per turn, allowing you to keep bringing it back as long as you have a frog to banish in the grave. Swap Frog is the way to fuel the grave, and also send Ronintoadin from deck to grave.

The effect is non-targeting, allowing it to work against just about everything unless they are unaffected by other card effects.

Works best when you use it to return your opponent's extra deck monsters since they won't be able to easily summon it back, but this is also needed to remove an Xyz monster since the deck relies on your opponent having levels for Amulet of Ambition to work.

An easy addition to the deck if you want to play this with Reginald's "Territory of the Sharks" skill. With multiple copies of this in the deck, you only need to draw this and normal summon it to bring out Heavy Infantry from the deck and Xyz into Abyss Dweller or Hope Woven.

Used together with Deep Sea Diva so you can make Abyss Dweller so you have a form of disruption during your opponent's turn.

Wightprincess' effect is pretty decent for either monster removal or as an OTK option.

Use Armory Call to bring out Amulet of Ambition quickly and equip this to any Paleozoic monster to instantly turn them into a powerful beater. The Paleozoic monsters are all level-2 so practically anything they battle should give them a significant boost.

Supports Paleozoics extremely well, turning all their monsters into 2400 ATK beaters. This also turns Dewdark of the Ice Barrier into a 2400 ATK monster that can attack directly.

Paleozoic Traps all share a common effect; while they're in the graveyard and either player activates a Trap card, you can Special Summon one Paleozoic Trap as a monster

When on the field as monsters, Paleozoics are immune to monster effects which is a great asset against things like Shiranui Spiritmaster. The low base stats make them difficult to use at first, but once you get a boost from Sogen you'll have an endless army of 2400 ATK beaters.

A Rank 2 Paleozoic Xyz monster with Trap Card activation from hand effect. Pair with Canadia and Olenoides can easily disrupt your opponent's combo.

Use Paleozoic Canadia to disrupt your opponent’s plays: flip their monsters face-down to prevent them from attacking, expose weak DEF stats, and even prevent them from Synchro Summoning if you flip a newly summoned monster face-down.

Paleozoic Olenoides' Back-row Removal Effect can help to control the board and disrupt your opponent's plays.

Pikaia is a good draw engine. Realistically, you'll only want to discard Pikaia or Marella as cost, because Canadia and Hallucigenia have amazing control effects.

Like Marella, Pikaia's effect is a great way to fill the graveyard with Paleozoics to later Special Summon.

Use Marella to thin your Deck and set up Paleozoics in the graveyard to later Special Summon.

Marella is probably the Paleozoic whose effect works at its best no matter when you activate it. This makes it a great trigger when you want to Special Summon Paleozoics from the graveyard.

Snatch 1 monster your opponent control is not only a great disruption to your opponent but also can use that monster for your Link Summoning.

Great Discruptive Trap by negating 1 face-up monster's effect with block attack while it is Summoned, also prevent it from being using as Extra Deck Summon material.

Very powerful monster removal card that can disrupt your opponent's combo easily.

Lets you deal with your opponent's Xyz or any monster that can be targeted, but it's not going to be a quick effect since there are no phantom knights in the deck.

Double your Xyz Monster like Daigusto Phoenix (3000) for OTK or Number 45: Crumble Logos the Prophet of Demolition (4400) for getting rid of Boss Monster easily.

If your opponent has no monster for you to take advantage of with Amulet of Ambition, you can Xyz into this so you can attack twice to deal 3000 damage.

For builds that don't use Territory of the Sharks, Crumble Logos is a decent Rank-2 you can make with your Paleozoic monsters. The targeted effect negation can be used to turn off key enemy cards.

This Link 3 Knightmare Monster not only allows you to shuffle 1 card on either player's board back into Deck (this effect will prevent some card effect trigger action for Graveyard/Floating effect) when it is Link Summoned. Unicorn's co-linked effect will allow you to have 1 Card Draw.

A Link 2 Knightmare Monster owns Backrow Removal Effect by discarding 1 card. Phoenix's co-linked effect will allows you to have 1 Card Draw and Battle Destruction Protection.

1500 or Less ATK Water Monster Revival effect will allow you to bring back core pieces for another Combo Setup. The Summon Limitation effect doesn't matter since all of the Monsters in this deck are Water-Attribute.

• The deck is fairly slow and can take a while to set up properly, which is definitely not ideal right now. A more aggressive deck can easily get rid of your backrow with a Hey, Trunade!, Cosmic Cyclone or Dragon Spirit of White and OTK you on Turn 2.

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