Gusto Synchro: deck recipe [Aug 24]

“Gusto” is an archetype of WIND monsters that was originally introduced in Visions of Ice back in May 2018 and that is yet to see any competitive play. One of the main things this archetype was previously lacking was a good Extra Deck to complement the various Special Summoning effects and this exactly what the new Mini BOX Tornado of Phantoms is seemingly trying to provide.

The playstyle of this Gusto build involves lots of floating effects alternating between Winda and the birds to form a floating loop. This works well with its Synchro strategy, making sure you have a monster onboard to use as synchro material when your turn comes around.

The Gusto monsters in your graveyard after the floating loop will be used for your Synchro monsters' effect cost.

You can Set Gusto Gulldo on Turn 1, wait for your opponent to destroy it with card effect or simply by battle and then Special Summon Winda, Priestess of Gusto from your Deck in Defense Position. When Winda is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, it allows you to Special Summon a “Gusto” Tuner from your Deck (Gusto Gulldo). This lets you stall a bunch of attacks.

Neither Gusto Gulldo nor Winda has limitations to how many times their effects can be activated during the same turn; use this opportunity to set up your Graveyard for Daigusto Gulldos while thinning your Deck at the same time. You can use Egul in place of Gulldo for this combo.

Keep in mind that, if you use Gulldo or Egul as Synchro Material, their effect will miss timing because it’s an optional “When...you can…”.

Caam lets you recover Gusto monsters from the graveyard and draw a card at the same time. This lets you extend your floating loop when the opponent's turn come around, while also giving you what is essentially a free draw.

Since She is your only level-4 monster, after activating her effect pair her with Gulldo to make Gulldos.

Both Gulldo and Egul are the tuner monsters in the deck that Pilica can summon. Since there are no level 4 synchros in the deck, you want to summon this when you can get Gusto to the field.

This version of the deck does not use Spiritual Beasts and Ritual beasts to special summon the fusion normally. However, the extra deck monsters are worth bringing because of how easily Beast Tamer Winda can summon them, making Winda a card that you can put in just about any deck.

Since there are no spiritual beast monsters in the deck, the fusion's effect of splitting into 2 monsters is unusable here.

Ulti-Apelio is a nice 2600 ATK beater that has an effect of being unaffected by other cards during battle. Handy to ensure that you can destroy your opponent's monster.

Ulti-Pettlephin is mostly for defensive purposes since it has really high defense and can't be destroyed by card effects.

Having a handtrap like Sphere Kuriboh really gives you some control over what monsters you have at the end of enemy's turns. This prevents unexpected additional attacks from your opponent if they use a follow up card after their monster attacks.

A form of recovery for the later turns. Gusto monsters have low ATK and DEF with good floating effects, so there will be plenty of times where you end up filling the graveyard pretty quickly.

You can summon Pilica to bring back a tuner and restart the whole floating chain again, or go with Caam / Gusto synchro if you have more cards in the grave that you can return.

A great generic level 9 synchro monster for a card removal. You can synchro into this by using any of the spiritual beast fusion with Gusto Gulldo.

Strong generic level 6 synchro since you can return multiple cards per use. The discard cost is less of an issue since there are ways to recycle from the grave to the deck, and Gusto monsters can float into other Gustos from the deck.

If you can make a level 5, it's often better to special summon Daigusto Gulldos. But if it's destroyed and you can't recycle/resummon it yet, this is another alternative.

Sometimes your opponent won't attack into a Spiritual Beast Tamer Winda since it will be obvious if you special summon her from another Gusto card. You can use Egul to synchro away to make some aggressive plays.

Summon Gulldos by pairing Gulldo with Winda, or Egul with Caam. It has a basic targeting destruction effect but what makes this effect particularly good is its activation cost. Returning 2 Gusto monsters to the deck actually helps you by replenishing your floating loop, and getting Gusto monsters in your graveyard is not a problem by using said floating loop.

If you synchro Daigusto Gulldos with another Gulldo, Hama will get the added effect of being able to attack twice per turn. With a beefy 3000 ATK, it can help secure games through an OTK.

Make Clausolas with Winda plus Egul. If you want to remove an opponent's monster, you will need something else alongside Clausolas to actually attack the monster you debuff.

The negation lets you turn off effects that are disruptive to your Battle Phase like Witchcrafter Madame Verre, Masked HERO Koga, and the Crystron Tuners. You can also get rid of Shiranui Sunsaga's protection while simultaneously debuffing it so another one of your monsters can take it down.

Fairly okay stats but the effect is too slow. Summon Eguls by pairing Gulldo with Caam. Since the removal effect only targets face-down cards, you will mostly be using this to get rid of backrow. The problem is this effect only activates during the End Phase, but usually you want your opponent's backrow destroyed before you battle.

Realistically the only matchup where Eguls' effect will be useful is against something like Subterror.

Samurai Destroyer is generally a better level-7 to make than Eguls. Preventing your opponent from activating effects until the end of the Damage Step protects Samurai destroyer from battle traps and prevents your opponent from using cards like Kiteroid. The effect negation also prevents the battled monster from floating and removes any self-ATK boosts.

Psy-Framelord Zeta removes a problem monster from the field. When they comeback during your next Standby Phase, you can just banish them again effectively acting as permanent removal. You can keep doing this until you make something capable of removing said problem monster, like Gulldos or Lava Golem.

Just make sure you leave an open monster zone for Zeta to come back to.

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