Mayakashi: deck recipe [Aug 16]

Mayakashis are zombie monsters that are synchro focused. They start with a level 3/5 synchro monster and continuously go up the level by "synchro climbing", only made possible because of Dakki's continuous revival effect.

However, the synchro monsters only have effects when they are revived from the graveyard, which can be done when the higher level synchro on the field is destroyed.

Can be Tribute Summoned using a revived Dakki as tribute fodder if you have not yet used your Normal Summon during the turn. Can be a useful beater on the field, and has some self recursion by tributing its Tokens to revive itself.

However if you don't intend to use Nine-Tailed Fox as a beater, you can use it as synchro material alongside Spectralsword or Dakki to make Shiranui Shogunsaga.

The summon of the tokens can be useful as a defensive effect to protect your LP, but it won't be activateable if you go against Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon because of its effect.

There is no restriction on the number of times you can use Dakki's self revival. This lets Mayakashi decks easily synchro climb up to Yoko. After summoning Yoko, you can still revive Dakki to be used as cost for cards like Enemy Controller, Ballista Squad, or Mayakashi Winter. This synchro climb will also load your graveyard with Mayakashi synchros to float into.

Dakki, being a level-2 Zombie Tuner, can also be used when making Shiranui Synchro monsters, specifically when synchro climbing from Shogunsaga to Sunsaga. However, you can't summon any Shiranui monsters if you have activated Dakki's revival effect in your turn, and summoning Shiranui monsters won't revive Dakki from the grave.

Yuki-Musume combos with Dakki to start your synchro climb. Normal Summon Dakki then Special Summon Yuki-Musume to make Oboro-Guruma. From there Dakki can keep reviving herself to make the next Synchro monster. The graveyard pitching is good for setting up the effects of Nine-Tailed Fox or Shiranui monsters.

If you get turn 2 and going against opponents with multiple set back row cards, you can activate Yuki-Musume and send a Nine-Tailed Fox to have a follow-up in case your monsters gets stopped by something like Floodgate Trap Hole. Otherwise, a safe card to put into the graveyard is spectralsword.

Yuki-Musume can revive itself for free when you control any Mayakashi card, including Mayakashi Winter, making her a good tribute fodder for effect cost and summoning Nine-Tailed Fox.

Most of the time you will only be summoning Solitaire to summon Dakki from your deck. If you don't have Dakki on hand, you can summon Solitaire to tribute himself and Special Summon Dakki from your deck, then Special Summon Yuki-Musume from your hand and start your Mayakashi synchro climb.

You can banish this card from your grave through Mayakashi Winter, or when your Mayakashi synchros in the grave can be summoned. This lets you special summon a banished Shiranui monster for more repeated use.

Its main effect is useful to get rid of hard to get over boss monsters. You can summon this as a surprise during your opponent's turn by using Ghost Meets Girl - A Shiranuis Story.

The other use of this is to mainly recover certain cards from the grave. You can put cards from deck to grave in several ways, and many ways to banish them, so Samurai's effect will be useful to recycle resources.

Spiritmaster and Sunsaga are both semi-limited, so you'll have to choose between the two. Spiritmaster can help with consistency, as well as have a pretty good banish effect that works well together with Shiranui Samurai or the other Mayakashi cards.

Shiranui Sunsaga has an incredibly useful non targeting destruction effect, but you might find yourself unable to summon it as often as you'd like. Sometimes duels can be decided pretty early before you even get to summon it.

If your monsters get banished, this will be one of 2 ways to actually recover them, the other one being Shiranui Sunsaga, but Sunsaga is only for synchro monsters, and they go back into your extra deck.

Spectralsword Shade special summons them to your field. Their effects are negated, but they can be used to perform another synchro or tributed for Nine-Tailed Fox. Doing this lets you put them back into the grave so you can re-use Spectralsword or Solitaire again.

Keep in mind that Spectralsword Shade MUST summon 2, not up to 2 monsters, and one of the banished monsters must be a Shiranui monster. You also can't synchro into a Shiranui monster if you have Yuki-Musume on your field, or activated a Dakki revival effect beforehand.

Shiranui Spectralsword is one of the best targets to pitch with Yuki-Musume. However, his graveyard effect will only be most useful when you have Nine-Tailed Fox or Shogunsaga alongside him in the graveyard.

As a back-up plan you can banish Spectralsword and a Mayakashi Synchro in your graveyard to continue the synchro climb in case it is disrupted by your opponent's Raigeki Break.

Synchro climbing with Spectralsword would go something like this; Synchro Summon Shogunsaga with Spectralsword and Nine-Tailed Fox in the graveyard. Banish Solitaire with Shogunsaga's effect and revive Spectralsword. Use Spectralsword and Shogunsaga to make Sunsaga.

With all the Mayakashi Synchros you put in the graveyard during your synchro climb, Sunsaga should be able to remove most of your opponent's cards on the field and result in an OTK. Returning them to the deck also allows you to redo your synchro climb.

However, because this is not a Shiranui deck, the mass protection effect to your Zombies will not be that effective.

Can be easily special summoned using Spectralsword and Nine-Tailed Fox in the grave, which are also easily sent from the deck to grave using Yuki-Musume's effect.

If you also have Solitaire in the grave, you can synchro into Shogunsaga and banish Solitaire to special summon Spectralsword so you can go into Sunsaga right away. This can be a decent play to start with since it destroys your opponent's cards before you even do a normal summon.

Alternatively, you can use Shogunsaga's effect to increase its attack by banishing Yoko to become 5900 ATK for an OTK potential.

Either summon this by using Spectralsword and Tsuchigumo from the grave, use the level 2 tuners when Tsuchigumo is on the field because your opponent destroys your Mayakashi monsters.

A decent monster to summon if you have Spectralsword in grave but no Nine-Tailed Fox, since Squiresaga's card destruction effect is non-targeting, sometimes forcing your opponent to use their effects early.

With so many ways to fuel your grave, you'll have plenty of cards that you can banish to activate Squiresaga's effect. You'll just have to keep in mind what you banish if you need to destroy a monster or a spell/trap. Banishing a Shiranui synchro like herself is an easy way to get all the effects.

Having access to this can be good to help with going up the synchro ladder in case you can't make a Mayakashi play. Its main effect can also be used to recover cards from your banished pile in certain situations.

For the most part, it's going to be used with Spectralsword to become Shogunsaga from the grave for a good OTK potential.

Mainly to be used as more ways to send cards from deck to grave. Not going to be an easy card to synchro with if you don't bring Samuraisaga, but you can go into Squiresaga (the level 7) if you use Spectralsword Shade.

Use Gozuki to send either Spectralsword or Nine-Tailed Fox from deck to grave. If you have Mayakashi Winter, you can send Yuki-Musume from deck to grave to special summon to send another card. This won't really lead to much right away, but your field will be protected with 2 monsters and sets up your spectralsword in the grave.

Similar to Gozuki, except this activates its effect on summon. Arguably better to use at times since your opponent can disrupt your Gozuki more easily before it gets to use its effect compared to this.

A good searcher for the deck. Use this to special summon Solitaire and use its effect to get Dakki from the deck, then special summon Yuki-Musume from hand or grave to do the synchro climb.

A lot of the cards are fine to be discarded since they have usable effects, so there are plenty of options: Yuki-Musume, Spectralsword, Mayakashi Winter, Gozuki, and Nine-Tailed Fox are the main cards you can send.

A decent card to set to be used during your opponent's turn as well. Ideally have a spectralsword in hand so you can discard it during your opponent's turn, and special summon any Solitaire during your opponent's battle phase, or Shiranui Samurai if you're desperate.

Your starting combo should be Dakki and Yuki-Musume, so Mayakashi Return should search whichever you don't have yet. If you already have Dakki or Solitaire, search Yuki-Musume. After doing your synchro climb, you can search Mayakashi Winter.

Keep Mayakashi Winter on your field for the significant debuff. If you want use the draw effect, use the Dakki you revived after summoning Yoko as cost. The revival effect should ideally be used on Yoko or Tengu, but you can revive the lower-leveled Mayakashi to swarm the field.

The Mayakashi Synchro monsters are used like a "ladder". Climb up the ladder by continuously reviving Dakki and then Synchro Summoning, and climb down the ladder by floating when a Mayakashi Synchro is destroyed. However because of limited Extra Deck space, we can't add extra copies of Mayakashi Synchros, so climbing up the ladder again after going down is impossible without Sunsaga. Additionally, Mayakashi Synchros only trigger their effects when they are revived.

Yoko is the highest level Mayakashi monster so you will need to revive it with support cards to activate its effect. Tengu can be revived with Yoko and provides simple backrow removal. Having these Mayakashi out means your situation is still good.

Falling down the ladder to Tsuchigumo puts you in a pretty bad spot but luckily he has a mill effect that helps setup your graveyard for comeback plays. Hopefully you have Spectralsword and Nine-Tailed Fox in your graveyard at this point or revival options for your Mayakashi.

Oboro-Guruma acts as a wall to prevent your opponent from OTK-ing you but ideally you do not fall to this point.

When banishing Zombies for Mayakashi Synchros' revival here are some options: Yuki-Musume because of lack of graveyard interactions. Solitaire to revive a banished Spectralsword. Oboro-Guruma because you will rarely need his "safety net".

Many cards are still useful in the grave, so the discard effect is less of an issue. Its main effect is useful to disrupt a lot of different decks, so it's definitely good enough to consider.

Even if it's not good against your current opponent, you can still synchro into a Yoko for a higher ATK beater. You can't go into Sunsaga since Chaos Hunter is not a zombie though.

Useful to disrupt your opponent's plays, or to banish your own cards. You can banish Solitaire to special summon a banished Shiranui, or banish Spiritmaster for a quick destruction effect.

If you want a safe-play to prevent OTK, you can use Bacon Saver. This can be sent from the deck to grave easily with Gozuki, Samurai Skull, or Yuki-Musume.

Works with the Shiranui monsters or Dakki since most of the Mayakashis aren't FIRE. Disrupting your opponents and getting your Shiranui effects going can be a decent combo, but it's a continuous trap so it can be stopped by any back row removal card.

Just like Mayakashi Winter, use it to revive Yoko or Tengu but for a much cheaper cost. Super Team Buddy Force also has the benefit of being able to revive your Shiranui monsters.

When Yoko is destroyed by your opponent, you can revive Tengu with its own effect. Then target Tengu with Super Team Buddy Force to revive Yoko. But in situations where your opponent does not use destruction to get rid of Yoko, you cannot revive Tengu. In that case you can use Dakki as a target for Super Team Buddy Force. You will have a Dakki and Yoko on your field after you synchro climb. Your opponent will usually get rid of the Yoko first, and in that case immediately use Super Team Buddy Force.

Useful generic level 9 synchro, but some Mayakashi and Shiranui cards have restrictions that prohibits you from summoning other archetypes/type-specific monsters from being summoned. So you might not be able to summon it that much.

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