New player guide: What packs to buy first? [Dec 2020]

• Hazy Flame and Noble Knight are added to Other Interesting Options Section.

• Fire King Section Added.

• Mini Box Cards Investigation Section Updated.

If you have just started playing Duel Links or you simply haven’t opened the game in a while, you are probably looking at the Shop, wondering where to start. After all, this game has been out for over two years, and the amount of options available at this point is quite overwhelming. You do, however, have a limited amount of resources, so I am going to try and direct you towards what’s relevant at the moment.

For starters, let’s talk about some of the most popular cards in the game right now—mostly Spell and Trap Cards that can fit in pretty much any deck. These cards have proven to be a great investment for many players by remaining relevant for a very long time and should be one of your primary foci, if you have just started playing the game.

Another amazing low-Level monster that can allow you to survive an OTK. Kiteroid has been Semi-Limited pretty much right after its release.

Quick-Play Spell used for backrow removal; Cosmic Cyclone’s activation cost gives it synergy with a lot of Skills. (i.e. Sorcery Conduit)

Can be used offensively or defensively depending on whose monster you target. Firstly, you can use Forbidden Lance to protect a monster from removal and other harmful effects. Alternatively, you can use it as a significant 800 ATK debuff on an opponent's monster.

Versatile Quick-Play Spell that can be used to protect your monsters and/or your Life Points, or to take control of an opponent’s monster. Enemy Controller is currently Semi-Limited.

Another Quick-Play Spell that is currently Semi-Limited; World Legacy Clash is used to decrease the stats of the opponent’s monsters, stall, or to trigger certain effects.

Removal effect that can get rid of any card in your opponent's field. Tributing your monster can also be useful for triggering effects whose activation involve "when sent to graveyard" or "when this card is tributed"

Quick monster effect negation is extremely useful in a monster-heavy meta; useful for shutting down searchers and combo starting effects.

Trap Card that’s generally used to slow down the opponent by locking a monster that has just been Summoned in face-down Defense Position.

Similar to Floodgate Trap Hole, Paleozoic Canadia can flip monsters face-down, but it’s more versatile and it has an additional effect that allows you to Special Summon it from the Graveyard as Level 2 monster.

Banishing is a great form of removal since it's usually harder to recover banished cards. Also, the added effect of banishing similar copies from the graveyard can occasionally be useful to disrupt graveyard setup. The discard effect can actually be helpful in some Decks that need the graveyard setup.

While not as effective as before, because everybody nowadays runs some form of backrow removal, Wall of Disruption can still occasionally catch your opponent off-guard. And if you do manage to activate it, the debuff will severely punish field-spam strategies which most modern decks utilize.

A Trap Card with a minor activation requirement and the ability to destroy two monsters on the field. Treacherous Trap Hole is currently Semi-Limited.

Here are the decks that we recommend to invest.

Noble Knight

• Medraut starts your main combo so you'll want to run as many copies of him as possible.
• Said combo involves equipping Medraut with a Noble Arms and destroying the equip to search Borz. The destroyed Noble Arms goes to Borz, and Borz searches a new Noble Arms you will equip to Medraut. Use both monsters to make Sacred Artorigus.
• You'll also want to max out on copies of Merlin and add some copies of Until Noble Arms are Needed because of their versatility. You can use them to fetch Medraut to start combos, or fetch Drystan for on-demand removal.
• Most of the time, Borz is the monster you will fetch with Medraut's effect. Borz will fetch a Noble Arms as part of your combo.
• Noble Knight Brothers is an Rank-4 Xyz enabler if you have other Noble Knights on hand.
• Only run one copy of Gwenhwyfar, because you'll just be recycling it over and over again. However, you should prioritize getting this one copy of Gwenhwyfar into the graveyard as soon as you can.
• It's also essential to run as many copies of Glory of the Noble Knights as you can, because this is your best way to fetch Noble Arms.
• Run various Noble Arms for utility, each one will be useful in a different situation. But if you were given the option, Noble Arms of Destiny is a solid choice to fetch first.
• Arfeudutyr is usually for backrow removal. This is a good equip for your Medraut combo. Since the monster it's equipped to will be used as Xyz material anyway, so the ATK reduction won't matter.
• Gallatin gives the equipped monster a huge ATK boost. You'll need this to give your Xyz monsters a significant amount of ATK.
• Caliburn also gives an ATK boost, but to a lesser extent than Gallatin. The advantage is that it doesn't slowly decrease your monster's ATK, while also having a secondary heal effect.
• Of the Xyz monsters, you'll most often be summoning Sacred Artorigus due to the Medraut combo. He has a decent removal effect and great Noble Arms recovery effect.
• The Rank-4 Artorigus has the same Noble Arms recovery effect as Sacred Artorigus. But with an arguably better effect suited for OTKs.
• Custennin is a good "safe" option to summon when you're not going on the offensive. His removal effects can let you remove 2 cards from the field in one turn. Equally important, his floating effect is great because you'll still get to use Sacred Artorigus or King Artorigus' recovery effects.

• Since Noble Arms tend to recover themselves, Pellinore essentially gives you a free removal effect with draw. Great for gaining card advantage.
  
  
• Generic backrow removal effects like Hey, Trunade! are appreciated to help the deck OTK.
  
  
• Raigeki Break and its improved version Karma Cut are great generic techs for on-demand removal.
  
  
• Make Gaia Dragon with a Sacred Artorigus that has already spent its materials for a decent beater with piercing effect.
  
  
• Since most Noble Knights are LIGHT attribute, at least when they're not equipped with anything, you can make Omega for a beater unaffected by backrow.

Fire King

• High Avatar Garunix is the boss monster of the deck and your goal is to destroy it. This way it revives itself and gets rid of all your opponent's monsters at the same time.
  
  
• Arvata is overall a really strong monster, especially when you go first because you can negate the opponent's combo starter. Destroying a FIRE monster isn't really a downside because it goes with the deck's playstyle.
  
  
• Destroy Barong to search any card in the archetype.
  
  
• Circle of the Fire Kings is your go-to revival effect. You can Normal Summon Barong, then use Circle of the Fire Kings to destroy Barong, triggering its search effect and reviving High Avatar Garunix.
  
  
• Fire King Island is just a free source of resources. You can destroy Barong to fetch any Fire King monster, then later activate Barong's effect for another search. However, you should beware of Fire King Island getting destroyed.

• You can mix in the Invoked engine due to this deck being all FIRE monsters. This gives you easy access to Invoke's most popular monster, Invoked Purgatrio.
  
  
• Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys is similar to High Avatar Garunix, but instead wipes out the backrow.
  
  
• The deck can easily be put in vulnerable situations when Fire King Island is destroyed. There are also vulnerable situations where you'll be waiting for High Avatar Garunix to revive itself. Because of this, it is a good idea to tech in defensive options such as Sphere Kuriboh and Battlin' Boxer Veil.
  
  
• Fire King Avatar Yaksha can be a way of destroying High Avatar Garunix in your hand without relying on Fire King Island or waiting for Arvata.

Triamid

• You should have at least 1 copy of Sphinx as the deck's boss monster. Special Summon Sphinx with its own effect or when Kingolem is swapped out. While on the field Sphinx offers powerful damage output and essentially prevents the opponent from attacking.
  
  
• All the low-level Triamid monsters share the effect of letting you cycle your Field Spell. This is highly useful in protecting your monsters from effect destruction by fetching Triamid Fortress.
  
  
• Hunter is essential to your field Swarming ability, so summon him first when possible. Remember, more Triamid monsters on the field means more opportunities to cycle through your Field Spells.
  
  
• Dancer gives a permanent stat boost and also recovers your Triamid Field Spells and sometimes monsters. Her presence on the field is also important to your beatdown potential.
  
  
• You can have two Dancers on the field for double the boost every turn.
  
  
• Get Cruiser out during the start of your turn for draw power. This helps you get Sphinx onhand quicker incase you don't have it yet. Don't worry about decking out as long as you have Dancer.
  
  
• Kingolem is the Field Spell you want present most of the time because ATK boost is generally useful. However, you also want to cycle it out for its swarming effect. The solution is to use search effects twice to go from Kingolem>Fortress>Kingolem again.
  
  
• The in-archetype Quick Effect of Triamid monsters lets you pull Fortress out of the deck in response to your opponent's destruction removal.

• In terms of removal, there really isn't much for Triamid Decks. Because of this, it is a good idea to tech on-demand removal effects such as Treacherour Trap Hole and Karma Cut.
  
  
• Battle protection is also an issue without Sphinx or without a significant boost from Dancer.
  
  
• Triamids have good swarming potential but no in-archetype Xyz monster. Because of this the Extra Deck often goes unused so you can fill it with generic Rank-3 and 4 toolboxes. With more Rank-3's because they are easier to make in this Deck.
  
  
• Soul of Silvermountain is a particularly good toolbox option with its second effect letting you revive any Triamid monster. And Dancer allows Soul of Silvermountain to effectively run things over.

The Weather

• Max out on Painter Snow and Snowy Canvas for consistent searching, resource gain, and combo extending.
  
  
• On your first turn, Normal Summon Snow and search Snowy Canvas. Use Snowy Canvas' effect to fetch Thundery Canvas.
  
  
• If you don't have Snow onhand, you can Summon Thunder then activate Snowy Canvas to still search Thundery Canvas. Alternatively, you can activate Cloudy Canvas then use Thunder's effect to search Snowy Canvas, using Cloudy Canvas as cost.
  
  
• Basically your board setup should consist of Snowy Canvas, Thundery Canvas, and a Painter monster.
  
  
• Cloudy Canvas is can be used to halve the opponent's ATK for a quick debuff, or give one of your monsters a direct attack opportunity.
  
  
• Cloud helps maintain your board setup. Just use his effect to immediately recover a Weather Spell/Trap was removed.

• The filler cards for this deck are mostly defensive to match its control playstyle.
  
  
• You already have enough removal power with Thundery Canvas, the problem is you need a full field of Weather monsters to maximize it while this deck isn't really good at swarming. The stall cards are present to keep you alive while you slowly Normal Summon into a full field of monsters.
  
  
• Valhalla can be tech may be teched in to hasten your swarming. It can later be used as cost for Thunder's search to prevent backrow clogging.
  
  
• Aside from Cloud, The Weather Decks don't really have any graveyard recursion. This means you can tech in Necrovalley to disrupt the opponent's graveyard plays without affecting your plays.

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