Valkyrie: deck recipe [Aug 9]

Valkyrie decks have good swarming potential, being able to special summon multiple monsters on the field at a time for a beatdown. With Valkyrie Erda on the field, she has a continuous effect that reduces the ATK of all your opponent's monsters, as well as being able to banish destroyed cards.

Valkyries gain their control effects when Special Summoned by another Valkyrie monster. And among the Valkyries, Sigrun is one of the better combo starters. Special Summon her by sending Ritual Cage / Ancient Gear Castle to the graveyard.

Your main combo would go something like this:

1. Special Summon Sigrun using Ritual Cage / Ancient Gear Castle as cost.
2. Special Summon Sechste with Sigrun's effect.
3. Special Summon Erda with Sechste's efect.
4. If Sechste is still alive during your next turn, tribute her to summon Zweite.

Erda is your offense-oriented Valkyrie, and usually the Valkyrie you want to summon at the end of your Special Summon combo. The 1000 ATK debuff to all your opponent's monsters is quite important if you want to beat them down, since Valkyries have below average base stats.

Erda's second effect can be a very useful control effect against some matchups like Blackwing. This effect prevents the opponent from recovering destroyed cards and can also stop some floating effects from activating.

Only consider summoning Zweite as an offensive option if Erda is already on the field. You're unlikely to trigger Zweite's second effect without Erda debuffing the enemy monsters. However, if you manage to trigger the second effect, you can retrieve the card you used to special summon Sigrun to do another combo next turn. Also with Erda on the field, Zweite's removal effect will banish the destroyed monster.

If you only want her removal effect, you can Special Summon Zweite as a quick way to get rid of an enemy monster. You can follow this up with Embrace or Ballista Squad to maximize the Zweite on your field.

Your priority is searching Sigrun if you don't have her yet, otherwise search any other Valkyrie that's part of your combo. Since Dritte is already occupying a space on the field, search Erda/Brunhilde if you already have Sigrun on hand.

Dritte's inherent ATK boost can continuously increase while you have Erda on the field. But even so, it will take a while to reach a significant amount.

Vierte will mostly be used for her floating effect. Valkyries have very few combo starters like Vierte, but once they do perform their combo, they can be extremely deadly.

Set Vierte along with Trap cards you have on hand then pass the turn. When your opponent destroys Vierte by battle, Special Summon Sigrun, then Special Summon Erda with Sigrun's effect to complete your board setup.

Using the extra deck monsters, Vierte can be your answer to defensive decks since you can go into Giga Brilliant -> Corebage -> Gaia Dragon, Thunder Charger. You'll need 2 Viertes on the field to do this, which is doable through Super Team Buddy Force Unite!

Sechste is a combo extender. Sigrun can only Special Summon from your hand or graveyard, which doesn't give you as many options early game. In this case, Special Summon Sechste with Sigrun, then use Sechste's effect to Special Summon any Valkyrie from the deck.

You should never use Sechste's second effect because it just gives your opponent a free graveyard setup.

Only relying on Zweite for monster removal can be insufficient, especially since we only run one copy of her. Also, her removal effect won't be any good at protecting your monsters since it only activates upon summon. Supplement this by adding generic monster removal techs such as Karma Cut or Ballista Squad.

The graveyard disruption does is useful for disrupting enemy combos and setups. For example, you can banish Crystron Thystvern and Crystron Sulfefnir to disrupt Crystron Deck combos, you can also banish all LIGHT or all DARK monsters from the opponent's graveyard so they can't summon Chaos Dragon Levianeer with its best effect.

The second effect's activation is all up to chance, but when it does occur you get a huge resource boost. Most competitive decks run Cosmic Cyclone tech for easy back row removal, giving you a good chance at triggering the draw effect. Just be sure to only set this when you already have Valkyries on the field.

Reviving Sigrun/Sechste is one of the few comeback plays this deck has, do this by Normal Summoning Dritte, search Erda/Brunhilde, then activate Super Team Buddy Force. From here you can use Sigrun/Sechste's effect to rebuild your board.

You can also use this card reactively by special summoning Zweite to disrupt combos. Useful to prevent any synchro or XYZs from being summoned.

The main reason you would want to make him is to unclog your field, removing monsters afflicted with negative effects such as Floodgate Trap Hole. Since this is not a dragon deck, you won't be able to use its effect at all, so it becomes just a beater.

Keep in mind that if you want to special summon this because your monster is Floodgated, Fiendish Chained, etc, you need to special summon other Valkyries with different names from each other because of Trishula's restriction.

This card helps provide an answer for when you can't get over your opponent's monster, even with Erda's effect like a high DEF monster. Since it's a rank 3 monster, it's only summonable by using 2 Viertes.

Summon Nightmare Shark, use its effect on itself, and hit your opponent directly for 2000 damage.

Malevolent Sin is an anti-Xyz tech, special summonable by using 2 Drittes. Summon Malevolent Sin and use its effect to temporarily banish an enemy Xyz monster. The Xyz monster will return with no materials attached to it.

Generally useful against opponents that uses a lot of resources to focus on 1 main boss monster.

Valkyrie decks can lack good options for dealing with dangerous non monster cards, so Dire Wolf is useful for when you need to deal with a very high attack monster, back row, or a dangerous field spell like Necrovalley.

Giga-Brilliant and Corebage is essentially the deck's answer to high DEF monsters that your valkyries can't get over.

If you only have 1 Zweite in the deck, then the only way for you to summon this is by going 2 Viertes into Giga-Brilliant to go into Corebage.

Only special summonable by using Corebage. A pretty decent ATK monster against defensive decks, and together with Erda essentially makes this card a 3600 ATK beater.

Run any skill that gives you a Continuous Spell at the beginning of the Duel, Master of Rites II and Middle Age Mechs are good examples. Avoid It's a Toon World because Toon World has a LP cost to reactivate.

If you have none of these Skills, a Skill that activates a Field Spell at the beginning of the Duel should be a good placeholder.

The second boss monster of this deck. Brunhilde is a more defensive monster which can wall your opponent when in a losing position. The attack boost is handy when your opponent has a full field of monsters, putting Brunhilde at 3300ATK.

The battle destruction immunity is good because it helps you maintain your board, which is important because of the low comeback potential of this deck. However, nothing is stopping the opponent from just removing Brunhilde with a card effect.

The Spell effect immunity is handy for dealing with cards like Enemy Controller, World Legacy Clash, and Dark Magical Circle. But sadly most disruption cards are Traps like Floodgate Trap Hole and Karma Cut, leaving Brunhilde just as vulnerable as your other Valkyries.

When used offensively, the debuff of Erda and the inherent buff of Brunhilde make a great OTK combo.

A simple no-cost banishing removal card. Valkyries have a good amount of defense so changing their battle position does not leave them too vulnerable, especially with Erda debuffing your opponent's monsters. However this will decrease your damage potential when on the offensive, so it is better to target a Valkyrie that's about to leave the field (i.e. Sechste to tribute summon Zweite) or at least target your weakest Valkyrie.

One downside of this card is it can become a brick when in a losing position because you need at least 1 Valkyrie onboard to use it.

Herald of the Abyss offers great non-destruction non-targeting removal tech that Valkyries lack.

The downside is you don't get to choose the monster to remove. This makes your removal kinda useless against decks like Blackwing and Shiranui that can spam their monsters with similar Type and Attribute.

Some Valkyrie monsters are able to activate their effect just by being summoned, no matter the method. And with many of the Valkyries being high-level monsters you'll need a bunch of Special Summoning effects to not brick.

Celestial Transformation can be used to Special Summon Sigrun, letting her put another Valkyrie on the field for field presence. You can also Special Summon Zweite for on demand removal, or Sechste for an instant summon from the Deck.

Simple backrow removal that's greatly appreciated in a deck lacking it. Good for OTK decks since you will want to be getting rid of backrow during your turn and you don't want your opponent chaining the targeted card.

Night Beam being a Normal Spell lets you occasionally fetched it with Vierte's excavation effect.

As stated previously, Valkyries' don't have any form of backrow removal. Gyokkou does not get rid of the opponent's backrow but alternatively prevents them from using it.

Gyokkou being a Continuous Spell is another reason why it synergizes well with this deck. This lets you use Gyokkou as cost for Sigrun's summon, but of course you will lose the lock on your opponent's backrow.

Ballista Squad gets rid of nuisances like a Lava Golem put on your field or Valkyrie monsters attached with Fiendish Chain. With Erda on the field Ballista Squad also becomes a banishing removal.

Bad Aim is a costless removal effect. It's activation condition usually isn't a problem since you can use it in response to any opponent activation, such as when they are performing their board setup combo.

Summon Paladynamo and use its effect to completely cripple a powerful enemy monster. This works well at getting rid of threats that are immune to effect removal. After spending his effect, Paladynamo just becomes a below average beater, so you can crash him into an enemy monster to get a free draw.

The Deck doesn't really have much graveyard setup ability aside from Vierte's excavation effect. But even so, Emeral is still a decent monster to toolbox incase you need a draw engine and/or graveyard recycling.

Roach is great for monster suppresion, much like a Trap Hole card. When your opponent summons a boss monster, use Roach's effect to immediately destroy it. This is an especially good counter against Synchro Decks. But most of the time, just Roach's presence on the field is enough to deter the opponent from making big monsters.

Noted By Yami Ninja:

Great ease in Synchro Summoning, and Agile Summoning with the Paradox ability to already start with the field.

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