Blackwing Synchro: deck recipe [Aug 20]

“Blackwing” is an archetype of mostly DARK Winged Beast monsters whose main strategy revolves around swarming the field and Synchro Summoning.

While they are not in full power anymore due to some cards being put on the ban list, they can still perform quite consistently because of Black Whirlwind. This can end with you having 2 to 3 powerful synchro monsters on the field in a single turn.

Simoon's normal summon effect is considered an effect, which means it doesn't count towards your once per turn normal summon rule. Black Whirlwind's effect will activate once Simoon gets on the field, and you can normal summon another monster to activate Black Whirlwind again.

You usually want to make use of this opportunity to summon Simoon and then use Black Whirlwind to search Oroshi. Special Summon Oroshi and pair him with Simoon to make a level-7 Synchro. If you already have a tuner in your hand, you can consider using Black Whirlwind from Simoon to search for Zephyros instead.

Blackwings have always been pretty underwhelming whenever Black Whirlwind was not available, but, thanks to Simoon, they now have a way to get it on board that also gets around negation like Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En and Silent Magician.

Black Whirlwind is the main core searcher card in the deck and it can be activated twice per turn if you use Simoon's effect.

If you are using a skill that uses Harpies’ Hunting Ground or Peak Performance, summoning a Simoon will let add a monster with less than 1800 ATK (instead of 1600), allowing you to search for Zephyros. If you already have Black Whirlwind in your hand, remember to activate it before using Simoon’s effect to search twice.

During the End Phase, the Black Whirlwind that was placed on the field by Simoon’s effect is sent to the GY and you take 1000 damage, but you can actually prevent this from happening by returning the Continuous Spell to your hand via Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite’s effect.

Zephyros is the monster that you ideally want to be able to use as part of a synchro so that he's in the grave. Once it's in the grave, you can activate its effect by returning your Black Whirlwind to go for another synchro or to just have a 3rd monster to attack with.

You can search for Zephyros easily if you are using a skill that gives you a +200 ATK field spell like Mountain / Harpies' Hunting Ground, then activate Simoon's effect.

Its effect of being able to be special summoned is what makes this a good card as either an opener or the last one to summon.

Being a 1700 ATK also makes this the second highest ATK normal summonable monster to use with Black Whirlwind, meaning that you can search for most Blackwings in the deck, other than Kris the Crack of Dawn.

An easily special summonable level 3 tuner to go into a level 7. This is the tuner that you want to search for most of the time, especially if your opponent has a face-up monster.

Aside from just being a level 3 tuner, it has a pretty strong effect that's also not hard once per turn. If you can special summon Gale twice, then you can use its effect on the same monster twice. You will end up being able to get over most monsters, even if they have 10,000 ATK.

This is the highest attack normal summonable Blackwing monster, which just means that you can use this with Black Whirlwind to search just about any other Blackwing monster you have in your deck.

Being able to be special summoned is also what makes this a really good card since you can special summon this at any point of your combo.

The last effect of not being able to be destroyed is a nice bonus and can be good if you think your opponent is playing something like Treacherous Trap Hole.

This is a level 1 monster used with Simoon to go into a level 7 synchro.

If you're using a field spell skill for the +200 ATK increase, you can summon Simoon to search for Zephyr/Bora, then normal summon the one you searched so you can add Oroshi.

Blackwings can be a powerful control type deck, and even more so if you have multiple Book of Moons. Necrovalley is a good addition to this type of play since it can prevent many different decks that uses the graveyard at all.

You'll want to use this at the end of your combo since some of the Blackwings effects do use the graveyard like Obsidian Hawk Joe or Zephyros.

There are going to be times where banishing your opponent's spell/trap is better than destroying them since they might have effects when destroyed. This comes at a cost of 1000 LP, which can be dangerous if you also take another 1000 from Simoon's effect. But the benefits often outweigh the risks.

This deck can somewhat easily perform a level 7 synchros due to its consistency with Black Whirlwind search, and having a good monster removal like this can be pretty handy. Though, oftentimes it's better to go into Raikiri instead since it's part of the Blackwing archetype, allowing you to make extended combo plays.

The effect of the +1 draw can be used when you activate Necrovalley, or by returning your Mountain / Harpies' Hunting Ground from the skill by using Zephyros' effect. Simply play the field spell again to get an extra draw.

Blackwings can recycle their graveyard, but they don't necessarily need this recycling to function properly. Because of this, your match up should decide whether to go the Ancient Fairy or Ancient Pixie route.

When facing decks like Shiranui or Crystron that uses their graveyard better than Blackwings, it is better to make Ancient Pixie Dragon and activate Necrovalley to shut down most of their plays. This also restricts you from using Hawk Joe, but it is more important to stop your opponent.

When facing decks like Gouki and Gravekeeper that can use Necrovalley as a control card and not be disrupted by Necrovalley themselves, you can opt to make Ancient Fairy Dragon to destroy your opponent's Necrovalley. This lets you search your own Necrovalley to thin your deck but don't activate it. Without Necrovally on the field, you are free to make powerful boards with Hawk Joe.

Hawk Joe's revive effect can be used offensively to put high ATK monsters onboard. This effect will mostly be used to revive your Synchro monsters. Notably, your opponent would destroy Raikiri to get rid of your multi-card removal effect. In that case, you can revive Raikiri with Hawk Joe's effect.

With another Blackwing on the field, Raikiri will be able to use his effect immediately. The revival also gives this deck good comeback ability, to the extent that summoning Hawk Joe while you're in a losing position can turn the tides of your Duel.

Redirecting an effect targeted at Hawk Joe is actually a decent form of protection, letting Hawk Joe dodge things like Fiendish Chain, Raigeki Break, and Ballista Squad. But can be costly since you essentially sacrifice another monster on your field. Hawk Joe's revival effect can give you monsters to redirect targeting effects to, then you can simply revive that monster the next turn.

With Chidori's self ATK boost, and the monsters you used as synchro material, he starts out with at least 3200 ATK which is enough to beat even Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Chidori has the potential to reach pretty high ATK numbers when you load the graveyard, giving it the ability to deal with monsters that Raikiri cannot destroy.

When it’s destroyed by battle or card effect and sent to the GY, it allows you to target another Winged Beast Synchro in your GY and Special Summon it. The floating effect makes Chidori the perfect monster to fall back on when you are sure that your opponent has removal available, provided you have something to float into.

1. Activate Blackwing - Simoon the Poison Wind’s effect, place 1 Black Whirlwind in your Spell & Trap Zone from your Deck.

2. Normal Summon Simoon and search Blackwing - Oroshi the Squall, then make Raikiri.

3. Special Summon Blackwing - Bora the Spear and/or Blackwing - Kris the Crack of Dawn from your hand and destroy up to 2 cards on your opponent’s side of the field using Raikiri’s effect

This is used to deal with certain monsters with effects when in battle or destroyed. Cards like any of the Yubel related ones, Maiden with Eyes of Blue, or any monster that can activate when destroyed will not activate when Samurai Destroyed attacks.

Samurai Destroyer's effect that prevents your opponent from activating a card during battle is also amazing since it prevents powerful spell/traps and some hand traps like Sphere Kuriboh, or Battlin Boxer Veil. Just keep in mind that this effect will only activate when Samurai Destroyer attacks a monster, not when it's direct attacking.

One of the better rank 4 XYZs currently available in the game. If you find yourself in a position where you can't synchro, simply summon another level 4 to go into Malevolent Sin.

It has a pretty good effect of temporary monster removal that can be used to secure games or to remove enemy XYZ materials.

Pretty good against certain matchups where you know they will work like Thunder Dragons.

• Peak Performance: Increasing the ATK of your “Blackwing” monsters by 200 allows you to search Blackwing - Bora the Spear via Black Whirlwind by Normal Summoning Blackwing - Simoon the Poison Wind. It essentially gives you a wider variety of monsters to choose from whenever you are searching while also obviously increasing the offensive value of your monsters.

Any card to help deal with your opponent's back row is important. It helps make sure that you can perform your combos uninterrupted.

The combo can be easily stopped if they remove your Black Whirlwind, or your normal summoned Blackwing monster as the effect is activating, which will prevent your search effect from Black Whirlwind.

Not a quick-play spell like Mystical Space Typhoon, but still pretty strong and useful to have.

Serves as a board clearer, or to simply force your opponent to activate their back row. This can be a close-ended play in certain situations since you won't have any monster on your field as well. But if you go into Black Rose by using special summoned monsters only, then this can be pretty good.

You can special summon Zephyr by returning your Black Whirlwind to save it from destruction. Then special summon Gale to go into Blackrose without using your normal summon at all.

This can be worth bringing if you intend to play this with Onimaru. But since there is only 1 Oroshi in the deck, this will end up making you unable to synchro with Simoon.

It can serve as a comeback card since you can revive Raikiri for more destruction, and then synchro Sohaya with Raikiri to go into Onimaru.

Can't be destroyed by card effects and is a 6000 ATK monster if you summoned it properly using 2 synchro monsters. Useful for OTK and just generally a difficult monster for your opponent to deal with.

It's not untargetable so there are still various forms of removal, making this not a good turn 1 play.

Black Whirlind already serves as a pretty strong and consistent way to draw the monster cards that you need, so skipping a draw turn is less of an issue compared to most decks. Offerings to the Doomed can be an effective way to stop your opponent's combos since it's a quick-play spell.

Effective against a lot of different meta decks since synchros and XYZ are common, and you can search for this easily through Ancient Fairy Dragon.

A decent comeback card in later turns, but it's often better to use better cards to prevent that situation than to have a situational play like this.

A cheaper alternative compared to Gale. This one can't be special summoned, but you can special summon the level 4 non tuners instead. The search effect is a nice addition, but only activates during end phase, so not really effective at extending current combo plays.

Special summonable level 2 tuner with a level changing effect. On its own, this can let you bring something like a Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier, or use it together with Pinaki so you can synchro into Sohaya.

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