Shiranui Synchro: deck recipe [May 2020]

When Shiranui Squire is Normal Summoned, you can Special Summon 1 “Shiranui Spectralsword” monster from your hand or Deck. If you use this effect, Squire will prevent you from Special Summoning monsters for the rest of the turn, except Zombie monsters, which is why the only non-zombie monster in the Deck is Dragonecro Nethersoul Dragon, a Fusion Monster that you are mostly going to Summon during your opponent’s turn.

• Normal Summon Squire;
• Special Summon Shiranui Spectralsword Shade;
• Synchro Summon Shiranui Squiresaga.

Once per turn, during your Main Phase, Shiranui Squiresaga allows you to banish 1 face-up monster you control or in your Graveyard and then, depending on what the monster was before it was banished, you can apply the following effects in sequence:

• If it was a Zombie, you can have all monsters you control gain 300 ATK;
• If it was a FIRE monster, you can destroy 1 Spell/Trap Card on the field;
• If it was a Synchro, you can destroy 1 monster on the field.

Shiranui Squiresaga gives you monster removal, back row removal, and a permanent ATK boost while also triggering the effects of Squire, Spiritmaster, and Solitaire.

• If Squire is banished, you can draw 1 card and then discard 1 card;
• If Spiritmaster is banished, you can target 1 face-up card your opponent controls and destroy it;
• If Solitaire is banished, you can target 1 of your banished “Shiranui” monsters (except Solitaire) and Special Summon it.

Note that you can trigger any of these effects by banishing Squire, Spiritmaster, or Solitaire directly from your Deck via Gold Sarcophagus.

Now, in order to destroy a monster with Squiresaga’s effect, you do have to banish a Synchro Monster, which may sound like a waste, until you realize that Squiresaga can banish itself and you only need Shiranui Squire in order to bring it out. I’m not saying you are always going to banish Squiresaga via its own effect, I’m just saying that, since it’s a Synchro FIRE Zombie, if you did, you would get a lot of value from it.

Since you can only Special Summon Shiranui Squiresaga once per turn if you Synchro Summon it and you banish it via its own effect, you are not going to be able to Special Summon it right away via Solitaire’s effect, but you can still do it on your next turn.

When Shiranui Spiritmaster is Normal Summoned, you can Special Summon 1 “Shiranui” monster from your hand or Graveyard (except Shiranui Spiritmaster), but banish it when it leaves the field.

• Normal Summon Spiritmaster and Special Summon Solitaire from your hand;
• Tribute Solitaire to Special Summon Shiranui Spectralsword;
• Synchro Summon Shiranui Samuraisaga.

Alternatively, if you lead with Gold Sarcophagus, you can:

• Banish Squire from your Deck (with Gold Sarcophagus);
• Draw 1 card and discard Solitaire;
• Normal Summon Spiritmaster and Special Summon Solitaire from the GY;
• Tribute Solitaire to Special Summon Shiranui Spectralsword;
• Special Summon the banished Squire via Solitaire’s effect;
• Synchro Summon Shiranui Sunsaga.

You are not always going to be able to do this, but learning what your cards can do and what certain combinations can lead to is very important.

If you turn any Level 4 Shiranui into a Level 8 by Level Augmentation skill, you can Synchro Summon Shiranui Shogunsaga with ease.

• Disrupting your plays is not exactly hard and this time I’m not just talking about Treacherous Trap Hole; the Skill Sealed Tombs and the Field Spell Necrovalley can shut down your entire strategy.
• If you Normal Summon Shiranui Squire or Shiranui Spiritmaster to make a Synchro play and their effects are negated (Forbidden Chalice or The Sanctified Darklord), you are pretty much done with your turn.
• All of your monsters have 0 DEF. A single SSphere Kuriboh or an Enemy Controller and your best monster are gone.

Note by Cesar:

Sphere kuriboh very useful in this meta again, the best deck for me, Greetings and good luck!

Note by PentolMaker:

I want to try to build Shira pre-banlist with no CC and Gold Sacro to climb rank and it still strong. 3 free staple trap also very helpful.

Shadow-imprisoning mirror and Light-Imprisoning mirror is a great counter for any dark and light meta monster like DM, BWD, Lightsworn, Thundra, D/D/D, Lunalight, Hero, etc.

Head judging (if I get luck) it can negate and control any annoying opponent monster

Note by RJLO:

How I reach KOG:

Before the banlist apply fortunately I manage to reach KOG, in my last 5 matches, I met Red-Eyes, Dark Magician, BEWD, and 2 stall deck.

Matchups :
Manageable - Easy: CyDra, D/D, ThunDra, Red Eyes, BEWD, Aromage, Gravekeeper

Medium: Stall, Blackwing, Elementsaber, Lightsworm, Crystron, Fortune Lady, Desperado

Hard: Dark Magician, Lunalight, Metaphys, SHS, Subterror

Note by dr_doctor:

It is a standard Shiranui deck. And it's viable without Cosmic cyclone or gold sarc which I don't have. No point in using NMCR without CC hence used grit. The fiendish chain is the most useful trap in difficult duels.

Note by [CBD]4bb3y:

Use this list from L5, worked solid even against cydra. Archfiend is the mvp.

Note by Solace:

This deck's main key points is persistence(strong early opening rounds with Shiranui Sunsaga level augmentation combo), firepower(with Black Rose Dragon that can wipe off the entire field, leaving behind only Sunsaga because of his protection and with Shiranui Squiresaga- Shiranui spirit master combo, that gives you one face down trap/spell and one face-up card removal), consistency(in case you can't pull off an early Sunsaga level augmentation combination early on with your starting hand, Shiranui Samurai and Gozuki can hold off an opponent on their own.

With the former specializes on monster card removal through banishing and with the latter's effect of putting essential cards on the grave like bacon saver, Shiranui monster cards needed for your combo). This deck fares well enough against heavy backrow decks, with the only exception of flood gate trap hole(it can clog your field and the only way to remove it is through Shiranui Solitaire's effect or with Black Rose Dragon). That's why I'm exploring the feasibility of incorporating the trap card ballista squad on the next upcoming builds.

Note by SimSimFN:

The Shiranui deck is selfexplaining, but with the countertraps, if you time them correctly you just throw every enemy off and destroy their rythm. Rebirth of Parsath is such a underrated card too.Got easily 10-0 to KOG. Good Luck :)

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