Shiranui Synchro: deck recipe [July 2020]

On your first turn, you can Normal Summon Shiranui Squire and Special Summon Spectralsword from your deck. Use Level Augmentation to increase either one of their levels by 4, then make Shiranui Sunsaga. This puts a powerful beater with self protection on your field. You can also do this combo later in the duel to make use of Sunsaga's removal effect.

When banished, use Squire's effect to cycle your deck. discard Solitaire or Spiritmaster to later banish and trigger their effects. You can also discard Spectralsword to prepare making a Synchro monster.

Summon Solitaire and tribute him to Special Summon any of your Tuners from the deck. This can let you make a Synchro monster, but more importantly gets Solitaire in the graveyard where he can easily be banished to use his effect.

Banish Solitaire in your graveyard alongside Spectralsword to make Samuraisaga. Solitaire's effect will then revive the banished Spectralsword, which you can pair with Samuraisaga to make Shiranui Shogunsaga. Shogunsaga can then banish Samuraisaga to greatly boost his ATK and debuff an opponent's monster by 500. If your opponent has no backrow this can result in an OTK.

Another way to banish Solitaire and trigger his effect is to banish him as cost for Sunsaga's protection. Because of Solitaire's importance in the graveyard, you should mill him with Gozuki or Samurai Skull if you already have Spectralsword in the graveyard and don't intend to use Spiritmaster's removal effect.

Spectralsword is an essential piece in practically all your combos. Your first turn should always involve getting Spectralsword on the field or in the graveyard. At best your opening hands should have Squire to Special Summon Spectralsword from the deck, and another level-4 monster for Level Augmentation.

A workable but not ideal opening hand would be something like opening with Gozuki, Samurai Skull, or Solitaire as your only monster. Normal Summon Gozuki or Samurai Skull to mill Spectralsword, or Normal Summon and tribute Solitaire to Special Summon Spectralsword. Let your opponent destroy your monster and use your backrow to prevent an OTK. On your next turn make a comeback by using Spectralsword's graveyard effect.

Sunsaga is the reason we run Level Augmentation. All you need to make him is Squire and another level-4 monster on hand. Summon Squire and use her effect to Special Summon Spectralsword from your deck. Use Level Augmentation to increase either monster's level by 4 and use them to make Sunsaga. The high ATK stat and protection from all forms of destruction make Sunsaga quite difficult to get rid of, so you usually want to make him on your first turn.

Summoning Sunsaga later in the duel is a very impactful play because of the Zombie Synchros you probably have in the graveyard and banish zone. Letting you remove multiple cards from the opponent's field, especially while you control a high ATK monster such as Sunsaga, can easily lead to an OTK.

After spending Level Augmentation on your first Sunsaga, your second Sunsaga will usually be made by Synchro climbing. To restate and add to a combo mentioned in the Shiranui Solitaire section above, banish Solitaire in your graveyard alongside Spectralsword to make Samuraisaga. Solitaire's effect will then revive the banished Spectralsword, which you can pair with Samuraisaga to make Shogunsaga. Spectralsword is now in your graveyard, so if Shogunsaga is later sent there you can use both monsters to make Sunsaga and destroy at least 2 of your opponent's cards.

Archfiend Zombie Skull in this deck can only be summoned with Spectralsword's graveyard effect. The mass protection from destruction effects is nice especially since all your Shiranui Synchros, except Sunsaga, have zero forms of protection. Having Archfiend Zombie-Skull alongside Sunsaga, means that Sunsaga won't have to use his own protection that often in case you are running out of Shiranuis in the grave.

When Archfiend Zombie-Skull is in the graveyard, use him to make Shogunsaga. And then revive him and Spectralsword from the banish zone with Spectralsword Shade. You can then use Spectralsword with Shogunsaga to make Sunsaga.

• 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 (i.e. Forbidden Chalice ), you are pretty much done with your turn. This also applies if they are removed from the field (i.e. Raigeki Break) or put in a position where you can't use them as synchro material. (i.e. Paleozoic Canadia)
• All of your monsters have 0 DEF. A single Sphere Kuriboh or an Enemy Controller and your best monster is gone.

Prevents your opponent from banishing to disrupt their strategy, while not affecting your own banish heavy strategy. Her summoning condition is also easy to achieve giving you a good beater onboard and the chance to load a Shiranui into your graveyard.

There are two ways to use Spectralsword Shade. Firstly, you can Special Summon it with Squire or Spiritmaster to make Squiresaga. Second, you can use it to revive two banished monsters usually including a Spectralsword to make a Synchro monster.

Use Spectralsword's graveyard effect to make Archfiend Zombie Skull. Normal Summon Spectralsword Shade and tribute it to revive the banished Spectralsword and its pair to make Samuraisaga. This puts Spectralsword back in your graveyard, ready for later use.

If you don't open with Squire, Spiritmaster is the next best thing assuming you also have Spectralsword on hand. Normal Summon Spiritmaster and Special Summon Spectralsword from your hand. Use Level Augmentation to increase either monster's level by 4 and make Sunsaga. However, this combo will banish your Spectralsword without letting you use its graveyard effect. But you do get Spiritmaster in the graveyard, so when you use Sunsaga's protection effect you also get to destroy a card.

Another way to do this combo is to Normal Summon Spiritmaster and Special Summon Solitaire from your hand or graveyard. Tribute Solitaire to Special Summon a Tuner and, since the Solitaire Special Summoned by Spiritmaster will be banished upon leaving the field, Solitaire will let you revive a banished monster.

The problem with this combo it usually won't work on your first turn. Having Spiritmaster, Spectralsword/Solitaire, and another level-4 monster in your opening to make Sunsaga is fairly uncommon so you will only be making Samuraisaga or Squiresaga most of the time.

Like Solitaire, Spiritmaster is a great monster to put in your graveyard with Gozuki or Samurai Skull. But while Solitaire is put to the graveyard as a combo extender, Spiritmaster is used for his removal effect. Banish Spiritmaster as cost of Sunsaga's protection or Spectralsword's graveyard effect.

When summoning Squire or Spiritmaster, you would usually want to make Sunsaga first because of its high ATK stat and inherent protection effect. But making Squiresaga is also a valid play if you suspect your opponent has battle traps Sunsaga can't defend against, like Drowning Mirror Force or Wall of Disruption. To make Squiresaga, Special Summon Spectralsword Shade with Squire or Spiritmaster's effect.

Squiresaga's Spell/Trap removal is good for removing problem cards like Necrovalley Temple and Dark Magical Circle, it also helps you get rid of Fiendish Chain attached to another one of your monsters. The permanent ATK boost is nice because it affects all your monsters, making them formidable beaters over time. Lastly, Squiresaga's cost lets you banish Shiranuis and get their effects off, which is especially good with Spiritmaster for on-demand removal.

Occasionally, you get the chance to banish a Zombie Synchro with Squiresaga's effect letting you destroy a monster. This might not be the best choice since you want to pair the Synchro monsters in your graveyard with Spectralsword and synchro climb. Instead, stick to banishing Spiritmaster for monster removal.

Removal effect that also loads Spectralsword, or any monster you want to pair with Spectralsword, into the graveyard.

Can be summoned by adding Dragon's Mirror to a Zombie deck such as Shiranui. Being summoned by Dragon's Mirror makes it a good comeback option. Cannot destroy monsters by battle so its mostly used for field presence, giving you powerful Tokens.

Noted by Solace:

"This is the revamped version of the deck I used last month. I have to replace galaxy cyclone with another copy of book of life. Base on my ladder matches, I have analyzed that completing my combo's is much better than popping one backrow in the field. Book of life also synergizes with gozuki's effect(you revive the zombie monster gozuki have put in your graveyard using book of life, while limiting your opponents play by banishing one monster on their graveyard).
Matches Breakdown:

Easy- Ritual Beast, Blue Eyes, Cyber Dragon, Lightsworn

Favorable- Lava Golem Stall, Dark Magician, Black Wing, Super Heavy Samurai

Slight Disadvantage- Dragunity, Invoked, Witchcrafter, 20 card Shiranui

Tough- New Neos, Lunalight, Crystrons, Masked Heroes

Other Notes: You can tip the balance on your favor against slight disadvantage matches if you have grass greener in your opening hand, and can even go toe to toe with tough matches if you mill burgeoning flame wheel in the graveyard."

Note by Solace:

The same deck I used in KC GT Preliminary Tournament 1st Stage. Quiet powerful and flexible, the risk of bricking is only minimal(the only bad hand you can have is drawing three tuners at once but it's a very rare case only since the chance of drawing variations of card is great because it is a 30 card deck). Opponents will usually find that it is hard out resourcing you because of the huge number of monsters(coupled with the extended drawing power when you banish Shiranui Squire).

Points Of Note: Be careful when facing decks that can attack multiple times in one turn(masked heroes, luna light- counterable with Shiranui Spiritmaster when he is banished which is usually through Shiranui Samurai or with Burgeoning flamewheel, cyber dragon-counterable with Sunsaga turn one) and decks that can prevent access from the grave(new neos structure equip deck that can set up the spellcard Necrovalley directly from their deck, gravekeepers-counterable with Black Rose and Shiranui Squiresaga).

Note by [CBD] 4bb3y:

Soul Release is the poor-man MVP to disrupt many decks, like Crystron/mirror/Neos/LS/Invoked.
Having Spectralsword Shade/Squiresaga really helpful to diverse your play, mostly helpful against mirror to manage your resources or to play
around heavy backrow decks such Burn-Stall (and yes i met a lot of them at Legend 5).

Note by skyestro:

"Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror against:

• Vison / Destiny Hero
• Elementsaber
• Aleister The Invoker
• Dark Magician
• Lunalight
• CHAOS DRAGON LEVIANEER"

Note by RJLO:

My second KOG with Shiranui, this time take a longer time because I focusing more on KC cup and preparing the deck for those, also grinding for gems.

My 5 last matches into kog was 2 Heroes, 2 Shiranui and 1 REBD. As usual hard matchup was Crystron, Ritual Beast, Subterror and sometimes Lunalight. Other than those are still manageable or easy.Will try to tech lancea for a better matchup for those who like to banish things. Lance prove vital in this deck after I can't use cosmic cyclone.

Note by dknight178:

"I use these two interchangeably depending on who is winning.

Shiranui: Squiresaga and spectralsword shade helped me win matchups I otherwise would not have won and made my deck more flexible against backrow-heavy decks.

Masked hero: Standard deck but with two favorite hero cards instead of two Malicious, as added attack boost and protection against targeting outweigh higher chance of summoning Plasma or fusion summoning Trinity."

Noted By Daeryldan:

"Try to summon sunsaga as soon as possible and protect him with his effect. The skill lv augmentation gonna be really helpful to summon him. You can also summon the second sunsaga after recycling your spectralsword with solitaire."

Noted by cala 92:

My IGN is cala 92 and this is my shiranui deck. well basically, although i used this deck to reach KOG, i recommend changing 1 ballista for 1 chain disappearance for duels against witchcraft, invoked and even, shiranui. i recommend the use of chaos hunter because she give you a win condition against a lot of deck such as shiranui, cryston, cyber dragon and another deck that depends on banish system. but i used lancea against deck in which isnt easy the use of chaos hunter such as invoked.

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