Sylvan: deck recipe [Nov 17]

This plant based deck revolves around excavating cards from the top of your deck, and if Sylvan monsters get excavated they have effects that can be activated.

Most Sylvan deck lists you’ll see will only run a few spells/traps because your strategy will be to clear your opponent’s backrow and monsters with the help of your Sylvan monsters and to consistently excavate Sylvan monsters you need to run a lot of them.

What level to special summon this depends on what you have on your field/hand. If you get turn 1 and want to make some plays, it's often better to special summon as a level 1 so you can potentially special summon another level 1 sylvan from your deck to make Princessprite.

Orea (rank 7) is a pretty good monster to bring out if you want to get some card removals on turn 2 or higher, but you'll need to have Sagequoia on the field, which can be special summoned with its own effect, Princessprite, or Rose Lover.

Princessprout's first effect is mostly useful in the later turns after several milling, including a Cherubsprout in your grave, and only worth using if you can follow it up with another excavating effect.

Low-Leveled Sylvans excavate only once with their effects, Komushroom when he is flipped face-up and Marshalleaf when he is summoned making them less useful to keep on the field. But being easier to put on the field makes them good opening plays. The best opening play would be to set Komushroom and wait for your opponent to attack into it and excavate 5 cards from your deck.
Additionally, these two monsters have the best effects when they are excavated. Komushroom destroys a spell/trap card on the field while Marshalleaf destroys a monster, and chaining them together with other Sylvan effects makes them impossible to negate.

You can somewhat reliably put this to the top of your deck by using Princessprout's effect.

If you want to special summon a monster from your hand, you can special summon Rose Lover from your deck and make Princessprite with another monster. Then activate Princessprite's effect for more excavating by using Rose Lover as the material.

But if you simply need more excavating, then special summon Peaskeeper instead. Glow-Up Bulb is also a decent option if you already have a level 1 monster on your field. This can potentially let you make 2 rank 1 Xyz in a turn.

Oftentimes it's the main way to special summon a level 1 monster from the grave to make a rank 1.

Cherubsprout has a special summon effect to excavate more cards, while Princessprout can be good if you haven't used Cherubsprout's excavated effect to special summon a level 1 from your deck.

Aside from having excavate and excavated effects, these have different levels so you can do different follow-ups with your extra deck depending on what you have. Xyz cards are easier to make since Princessprout can be the other same-level monster.

These are usually summoned by either using Rose Lover or tribute summoning. They have a good amount of ATK to act as the main beaters of the deck, and special summoned with Rose Lover makes them immune to trap cards for a turn as well.

Hermitree and Guardioak are some of the ways to help get some control over what you end up excavating.

• Marshalleaf or Komushroomo if you need a monster/backrow removal.
• Cherubsprout if you want to special summon a level 1 tuner from your deck.
• Princessprout if you want to make a rank 8 (Heliopolis).
• Peaskeeper if there's any level 4 or lower plant monster in your grave that you want to special summon.

Its excavated effect is what lets it re-use all the sylvan's effect. Cherubsprout is usually a good option in most cases because of its special summoning effect, but Princessprout is also another good option for some Xyz follow-up.

This is pretty much the main way to Xyz into Orea. Ideally, you want to start with this in your hand so it can special summon itself. Otherwise, you can special summon this if it's in the grave by using Princessprite's effect.

Its excavated effect is used to get the field spell from the grave to hand. But since some of the excavating effects don't put non-plant type cards to the grave, Sagequoia's excavated effect isn't that reliable.

Since most of the monsters have effects to excavate cards, Rose Lover is useful in general to special summon any monster in your hand. You can reliably get Rose Lover from your deck by using Cherubsprout's excavated effects, but to send it to the grave, it will need to Xyz with another level 1 monster so it can be sent to the graveyard when used as cost.

It's a level 1 monster so it can help make a rank 1 Xyz, but also a tuner so you can use it with some of the higher level monsters to bring powerful generic synchros like Hot Red Dragon Archfiend or Cyber Slash Harpie Lady.

Make Princessprite with another level 1 monster, then bring itself back from the grave so that Princessprite can use it to special summon a Sylvan monster from the grave.

If it's used as an opening, Cherubsprout or Princessprout are good options so you can make a rank 1 Xyz. Otherwise, you can activate the field spell as your last play before you end your turn so you can put a Marshalleaf or Komushroomo to the top of your deck and excavated at the end of your opponent's turn.

Any of the Xyz monsters can be pretty easy to make since Princessprout can be special summoned as a level 1~8 through its excavated effect, while synchros will need to rely on Glow-Up Bulb.

Useful if you need to remove multiple monsters, but not good as a follow-up since it will also destroy your own monsters. Make this by using Sagequoia and Glow-Up Bulb.

A pretty good generic rank 8 since it gives more controlled card removals, but needs resources to use compared to Hot Red Dragon. What makes both Heliopolis and Hot Red Dragon stands out is that they can still attack after destroying cards.

It's a pretty decent defensive card, but might not be used that often because of how easy it is to swarm the field with monsters. Rarely will there be opportunities where you use the 3 zones for only this.

Will be made pretty often during duels because of how easy it is to summon. Use the level 1 monsters and activate their effects to excavate, then Xyz into Princessprite for another excavate before ending with a special summon of a Sylvan from the grave.

This is pretty much the main monster that's best to summon with this deck. It gives a good amount of control over what cards will be excavated, and it also comes with some card removals that are pretty good against extra deck monsters.

Since you want Naturia Pineapple and Amarylease in your graveyard, it would be bad if they got stuck in your hand. As a solution you can send them to the graveyard to special summon World Carrotweight Champion from your graveyard. Carrotweight can then be used as a beater or as tribute to summon Sylvan Hermitree in combination with Amarylease.
You can also send the low-leveled Sylvans to the grave to revive Carrotweight after you are done using their excavation effects.

It can help end duels more quickly, but the nature of the deck can be quite a gamble and there's no way to reliably get this to the hand.

Offers the deck a potentially more safe turn 1 monster to summon, but also has a small use against certain decks that rely on their graveyard.

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