Paleozoic: deck recipe [Feb 4]

“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.

Other popular versions of the deck run Vision HERO Witch Raider or Citadel Whale as alternative winning conditions, taking advantage of the fact that “Paleozoic” cards are Trap Cards and WATER monsters respectively.

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.

To incorporate a Ritual Beast Engine, all you really need to do is add Winda to the Main Deck and some Ritual Beast Fusions to your unused Extra Deck space.

Summon then crash Winda into enemy monsters to get the Spiritual Beast Fusions onboard. These Fusion monsters function as stable bodies on the field, because your Paleozoic monsters are pretty easy to run over if you don't have Sogen.

Ulti-Apelio is a powerful offense-oriented monster. The 2600 is a decent amount of ATK for a beater, but what really makes Ulti-Apelio so powerful is his immunity to all card effects during battle. This makes him entirely immune to battle traps such as Drowning Mirror Force and debuffs such as Forbidden Lance.

When the opponent destroys Winda, Special Summon Ulti-Pettlephin to prevent them from getting more damage in. Ulti-Pettlephin's immunity to the most common form of removal combined with its high DEF stat makes it an annoying wall to overcome, especially when factoring in all the backrow used in this deck.

Lava Golem's rare method of removing enemy monsters is the reason why it's so effective and hard to counter. Simply dropping Lava Golem to the opponent's field is enough to get rid of practically any problem monster, subsequently burning 1000LP when the opponent's turn comes around.

The heavy backrow run by this deck is also ideal for getting rid of the 3000ATK monster you put on the opponent's field. Suggested ways to dispose of Lava Golem include Amulet of Ambition on a Paleozoic monster, Wall of Disruption, and Drowning Mirror Force.

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.

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.

Even halving the opponent's ATK is a bit useless when your monsters all have a 1200 ATK base. This effect is much more useful with Sogen active, or if you have an Extra Deck monster onboard. However, in terms of survival this does reduce the opponent's damage potential by a lot, hopefully letting you live till your next turn.

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.

Can be a great way to special summon a Paleozoic trap from the grave since you can then attack without needing the amulet right away.

Strong monster removal effect but this also lets you discard a Paleozoic and can be chained to special summon itself right away.

Because your monsters are all level-2, you can only really make level-6 or 4 Synchro. But since the level-6 pool is much more versatile, it would be better to allocate Extra Deck space for that.

Brionac is good for field clearing and loading the graveyard with Paleozoics.

Summon White Aura Dolphin if you don't have anything onhand to use as cost. The ATK halving effect and decent base stat makes it good for attacking over enemy monsters. White Aura Dolphin also has decent staying power, with its ability to revive itself by banishing Dewdark in your graveyard.

Used in the version that uses Territory of the Sharks skill and with Deep Sea Diva. This monster essentially has 3600 ATK so it can help beat over a lot of monsters or to just be a wall to block attacks. It also has a floating effect in case it's destroyed so it's somewhat safe to summon on the field.

Since you can somewhat swarm the field with the Paleos and Diva/Infantry, you can use the skill on them all so you can bring out Shark Drake. It has high ATK and can be a good OTK card if you can do it without interruptions.

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.

To recover a card from your grave. If you only play 1 Grand Mole, then this is the only way to recover it so you can use it again.

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