Shiranui Synchro: deck recipe [Jan 8]

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.

A workable opening hand would have Gozuki, Samurai Skull, or Solitaire. 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.

Because we're no longer able to run reliable copies of Shiranui Squire, our next best option is to mill Spectralsword. This gives us the added consistency of running multiple searchers, but sacrifices speed since you'll be making your Synchros a turn later. Always mill Spectralsword first to get its effect live sooner.

Gozuki can get you a ton of graveyard setup if you keep it alive long enough, this is fairly easy to accomplish with the amount of backrow in the deck. Mill Spectralsword first, then mill Solitaire on your next turn.

As opposed to Gozuki, Samurai Skull only lets you mill once upon Normal Summon.

However, one aspect where this card is better than Gozuki is its floating effect. This means your field won't be left defenseless after Samurai Skull is removed via card effect. But the monster you Special Summon would most likely be destroyed by battle. Therefore, the best targets for Samurai Skull's floating are Solitaire or Spectralsword; in other words, something you want in the graveyard.

Shiranui decks are very reliant on their backrow, now more than ever due to the limiting of most of their archetype. Powerful control backrow are used to compensate their slow-paced Synchro Summoning.

Continuous monster negate to help with stalling if you don't have better cards, but not a reliable long stall card since they can still be used for to Xyz into something. This will also end up not removing the chain on your field, potentially clogging up your trap zones.

Alternatively, you can use Breakthrough Skill as a negate card instead.

Potentially a game-winning card if used when your opponent has 3 monsters since Shiranui synchros have high ATK.

Effective against monsters that can't be destroyed or have effects that activate when sent to the grave, like Bloom Diva the Melodious Choir or any Burning Abyss monsters.

Gets rid of one of your monsters affected by Fiendish Chain or Floodgate Trap Hole, while also getting rid of any problem card your opponent might have.

Similar to Floodgate Trap Hole but less permanent. It has the advantage of not requiring you to activate it upon a monster's summoning. Because of this, you can also use Canadia to protect your monsters during battle.

Getting a free body onboard when a Trap is activated and Canadia is in your graveyard is good. Unfortunately, you won't be using it for anything except catching attacks and occasionally deal extra damage.

The slowing down of this deck's Synchro ability means that Shogunsaga will replace Sunsaga as your beater. The first effect temporarily boosts his ATK by a lot, especially if you banish Samuraisaga. The floating effect lets you return a banished Samuraisaga to the graveyard in preparation for a second Shogunsaga.

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.

Only make Samuraisaga when Synchro climbing. It's onfield effect is barely usable unless your oppponent controls really weak monsters or you have a Shogunsaga banished.

However, the effect when banished synergizes well with Shogunsaga especially since you'll be using Samuraisaga as material for it.

Summon Coral Dragon by using Spectralsword and a Level-4 monster both on the field as material. It has a decent removal effect, but more importantly it sets you up to Synchro climb into Onimaru. When Coral Dragon leaves the field you get to draw a card; this is good for refunding the resource cost of making it.

At best, Onimaru is a 6000 ATK beater immune to destruction effects. But even if you don't summon him with Synchro monsters as materials, he's still a powerful beater with destruction immunity.

• 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.

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.

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.

Its monster removal effect sounds risky to use since it involves battling, but it can be used when you set the monster down and the opponent attacks into it.

The ATK boost is pretty sizeable for a level 4, but the graveyard banish also synergizes with the other Shiranui cards to make follow-up plays.

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.

Not a reliable searcher since it only works when it's used as a synchro, but it works well with only 1 copy and Ghost Meets Girl so you can special summon this from the deck.

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.

Useful as an opener but can be bricky in the later turns, especially if you play a lot of disruption traps to protect your monsters. The special summon restriction after using it matters if you use non-Zombie extra deck monsters too.

Use this to special summon Solitaire so you can use its effect to special summon Spectralsword from the deck. With another level 4 monster, you can already synchro and sets up Spectralsword's graveyard effect for the next turn.

The banishing removal of Karma Cut is generally useful for both offense and defense. Discard Shiranui monsters as cost, prioritizing Spectralsword. If you already have Spectralsword in the graveyard, discard Solitaire.

Post-nerf Shiranui Decks suffer from slow first turns making them very vulnerable early game. Having defensive options like Sphere Kuriboh on hand can help you survive until your plays are setup.

Malevolent Sin is a great tech against enemy Xyz monsters. By temporarily banishing the targeted monster, you get to remove all of its Xyz materials. The removal is non-destruction which bypasses many protection effects. Lastly, Malevolent Sin has the ability to slowly grow into a stronger beater over time.

Noted by IIINC:

Tech out backrow to fit the meta. Removals are good against Harpie Ladies and F.A. On Mach while card effect negations are better against Yosenju’s and Water Xyz’s.

Noted by PentolMaker:

Just try climb KoG with no skill SHIRA and it still strong.

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