Yosenju: deck recipe [Oct 10]

“Yosenju” is an archetype of primarily Beast and Beast-Warrior WIND monsters that are capable of quickly swarming the field through sequenced Normal Summons, but, similarly to Spirit monsters, they usually return themselves to the hand during the End Phase.

The strategy of this deck is pretty straightforward: we are going to continuously empty our opponent’s side of the field by returning their monsters and Spell and Trap Cards to their hand until we are able to finish them off.

Yosenju Kama 1 works in the same way Kama 2 and 3 do: if it’s Normal Summoned, it allows you to Normal Summon another “Yosenju” monster from your hand. The sole addition of another monster that can start the sequence of Normal Summons is huge for the archetype because it directly translates into a notable increase consistency, but that’s obviously not the only thing Kama 1 is bringing to the table.

If you control another “Yosenju” monster, Yosenju Kama 1 allows you to target 1 face-up card your opponent controls and return it to their hand. More removal that can be used to allow one of your monsters to attack your opponent directly (synergy with Yosenju Kama 3) and potentially close out a game very early. There’s even some potential synergy here with Lava Golem that I am not going to get into since I think the card can be awkward at times in this deck.

If you Normal Summon Yosenju Kama 2 or Yosenju Kama 3, you can Normal Summon another “Yosenju” monster from your hand. Once per turn, when another “Yosenju” monster you control inflicts battle damage to your opponent, Yosenju Kama 2 allows you to add 1 “Yosenju” card from your Deck to your hand. Since Yosenju Kama 3 is able to attack your opponent directly, triggering Kama 2’s effect will be extremely easy.

During the End Phase of the turn they were Normal Summoned, both Yosenju Kama 2 and Yosenju Kama 3 will return to your hand, leaving no monsters on your side of the field, so, if you don’t already have Drowning Mirror Force or Yosenju’s Sword Sting available, you can always search Yosenju Oyam via Yosenju Kama 2’s effect to protect you during your opponent’s turn. If you have no need for protection, you can search Yosenju’s Sword Sting or another “Yosenju” monster.

Yosenju’s Sword Sting allows you to return up to 2 face-up cards your opponent controls to their hand. In order to activate this Trap Card, you need to control no monsters and you also have to reveal up to 2 “Yosenju” monsters with different names in your hand.

The number of face-up cards on your opponent’s side of the field that you get to bounce is equal to the number of monsters you revealed, so, even if you have only 1 “Yosenju” monster in your hand, you can still use Sword Sting.

You can Tribute 2 monsters your opponent controls to Summon a Lava Golem and then after the Level 8 Fiend has inflicted 1000 damage to them during their Standby Phase, you can return it to your hand. I wouldn’t exactly advise you to run Lava Golem since it prevents you from Normal Summoning the turn you Special Summon it, but I can definitely see the fundamentals for an extremely fun experience for your opponent here.

Get rid of your opponent’s monsters with Drowning Mirror Force and Yosenju’s Sword Sting, Hey, Trunade! their back row away, swarm the field via Kama 2 and 3 and end the game.

Yosenju Kama 2 or 3 and Yosenju Izna are sorts of the ideal opening hand. You are going to Normal Summon Kama 2 or 3 and then use their effect to Normal Summon Izna. If you control another “Yosenju” monster, Izna allows you to draw a card, essentially increasing your chances of finding Drowning Mirror Force and Yosenju’s Sword Sting, which you will definitely need since, with the exception of Yosenju Oyam, all of your monsters return to the hand during the End Phase of the turn they were Normal Summoned.

You can also discard Izna during your Main Phase to prevent your opponent from activating cards or effects when a “Yosenju” monster is Normal or Special Summoned this turn. I doubt you are ever going to use this effect unless you know for sure that your opponent has a Floodgate Trap Hole or a Solemn Scolding, but I guess it’s always nice to have more options.

Prevents OTKs similar to Sphere Kuriboh. Keep it in your hand to avoid damage from a direct attack, then later banish it from the graveyard to avoid damage from another direct attack.

Fire Fist and Fire Formation cards have proven to be excellent techs in Beast-Warrior heavy Decks such as this. Tenki lets you fetch any low-Leveled Beast-Warrior monster so you can more easily complete the Yosenju Kama combo.

Good Searcher Tech for adding Key Card as soon as possible from your Deck to your hand since Yosenju doesn't require much Special Summoning sometimes.

Because the Yosenju Kamas are effective at spamming your field with level-4 monsters, this deck gets easy access to a standard Rank-4 toolbox. Making an Xyz monster can also be crucial to field presence during the opponent's turn, since your Yosenjus return to the hand during End Phase.

General Rank 4 Xyz Monster for players to use so far. Its effect essentially lets you deal 2500 (its own ATK) damage if this attacks the monster you targeted. The advantage is that your opponent's monster's ATK is also lowered, allowing you to attack over it with your other weaker monsters.

Abyss Dweller is an anti-Graveyard interaction tech, intended to hinder Decks that activate a ton of effects from the graveyard. It's best to activate this at the start of the opponent's turn, so make sure to toggle Chain to "ON" and activate Abyss Dweller's effect during the opponent's Draw Phase.

Utopia Ray can be summoned by using a single Utopia as material. Do this when you're going on the offensive, effectively exchanging Utopia's protection effect for Utopia Ray's ATK manipulation.

Usually used for Xyz Summoning Utopia Ray

Malevolent Sin is an anti-Xyz tech. 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.

A good flexible option to make on your first turn. Utopia's protection effect can be used to defend against enemy attacks. And later you can switch Utopia into Utopia Ray.

Good as a turn 1 monster to summon when going against certain decks that can Roach can be used against like thunder dragons.

Great Magnus will becomes powerful controller on board with min. 3 materials which can be Xyz Summoned easily by using Dreadnoid's effect.

Decent ATK and defensive effect to help survive. Bring this out if your opponent only has 1 monster on the field that you know you can get over. Destroying a monster by battle will let you Xyz summon a rank 10, which can be used to bring out Great Magnus with 3 materials.

When a “Yosenju” monster you control battles an opponent’s monster, during either player’s Damage Step, you can discard Yosenju Tsujik in order to increase the ATK of your monster by 1000 until the end of the turn. Alternatively, if you control Yosenju Tsujik, during your Main Phase, you can target a “Yosenju” monster you control and increase its ATK by 1000 until the end of the turn. One thing that should be noted is that Tsujik can target itself with its own effect, meaning it can reach 2000 ATK on its own, which will make it easier to finish off your opponent.

Almost a handtrap like Sphere Kuriboh or Kiteroid, Oyam can be used to protect your LP. It can be hard to get over because of its ATK and DEF effect, but it will only take the original ATK and DEF values of the attacking monster. Attacking monsters with an increased ATK from their original values will be able to get over Oyam.

If your opponent's monster only has 1 monster and they have no ATK increasing effect, you can special summon Oyam and hope that they crash into you so that you can get the search effect off.

Due to Yosenjus' tendency to return to the hand there's a high chance that your field will be left empty on the opponent's turn. This leaves you highly vulnerable to OTKs unless you run defensive options like Battlin Boxer Veil.

Special Summon Veil after receiving a large amount of damage, regaining your LP and putting a body on board. Veil can catch a subsequent attack or, if it survives till your turn you can use it as Xyz material.

Can be used during either players' turn makes this card more useful to prevent OTK from your opponent by reducing their ATK regarding to their own Level/Rank.

Since the deck barely uses the graveyard, having this can be good to disrupt your opponent's plays. This can also save your set Sword Sting since opponents that rely on their graveyard will want to focus on Necrovalley first.

Prevents your opponent from activating cards such as Floodgate Trap Hole and Void Vanishment. Other than that, the generic removal effect is also highly useful.

Storm can allows you to destroy your Tenki on your Field which will clog on your backrow after you use Tenki's effect to search out Yosenju monsters and destroy min 1 backrow of your opponent controls.

Trishula has become a staple against debuffs that aim to clog your monster zone such as Floodgate Trap Hole and Fiendish Chain. These cards effectively shut down your monster's effect, so Yosenju's returning to hand effects won't help.

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