Lightsworn: deck recipe [Sept 18]

The “Lightsworn” archetype revolves around milling, meaning sending cards from the top of the Deck to the Graveyard. The vast majority of “Lightsworn” monsters mill a number of cards during the End Phase of their controller’s turn and/or can generally benefit from this mechanic. Fueling the graveyard will help summon the deck's boss monster, whether it's Chaos Dragon Levianeer or Judgment Dragon.

Chaos Dragon Levianeer is an excellent boss monster in this deck due to its ease of summoning. The “Lightsworn” engine is well-known for its quick graveyard setup. In a deck such as this using both LIGHT and DARK monsters you will almost always have the means to summon one or even multiple Levianeer.

Levianeer is a good generic boss monster for any LIGHT and DARK deck because of its high attack stat and multi-card removal. You should always choose the removal effect among Levianeer's effects. Additionally, Levianeer's stats allow you to search it with The Melody of Awakening Dragon for added consistency.

Keep in mind that you'll need to banish a mix of LIGHT and DARK in order to get the non targeting destruction effect. Most of the Lightsworns are LIGHT, so you'll need to watch out for the non Lightsworn cards sent into the grave.

Get these monsters in your graveyard with the Lightsworn mill engine. From there Stegocyber and Bacon Saver can protect you from enemy OTKs.

Furthermore, Stegocyber and Bacon Saver being DARK attributes gives them additional utility as cost for Levianeer's summoning, provided you do not use their graveyard effects. Do this if you decide to go on the offensive while they are still in your graveyard.

Charge of the Light Brigade and Solar Recharge are better at setting up your graveyard than the Lightsworn monsters for two reasons. Firstly, aside from milling, they let you dig further into your deck by searching and drawing. Secondly, they mill during the Main Phase, while most Lightsworn monsters mill during the End Phase. This lets you make use of the milled cards on the same turn.

Some reasons why you would want to mill during your Main Phase include:

• Using milled monsters as summoning cost for Levianeer.
• Getting Plaguespreader Zombie or Glow-Up Bulb in the graveyard for quick Synchro plays.
• Getting Raiden in the graveyard as revival target for Lumina.

Use Lumina’s effect to Special Summon Raiden, Hand of the Lightsworn (Level 4 Tuner), and then Summon a Level 7 Synchro from your Extra Deck.

Before using Raiden as Synchro Material, you can activate its effect and send 2 more cards from the top of your Deck to the Graveyard. This will give you a higher chance of sending Bacon or Stegocyber.

Excluding Raiden, the Tuners in this deck have the ability to revive themselves. With the Lightsworn mill engine, this gives you access to Synchro plays on-demand. Additionally, Glow-Up Bulb lets you further mill from your deck.

The Twilightsworn lumina lets you revive banished Lightsworn monsters. This will usually be used to bring back monsters banished as cost for summoning Levianeer. You can also bring back a Lightsworn monster banished by Twilightsworn Ryko.

Your Synchro toolbox will consist of levels varying from 7 to 9 but will mostly focus on level-7 Synchros. Additionally, most of them will have removal effects to further facilitate board control and OTKs alongside Levianeer.

Level-7 Synchros are made by reviving Raiden with Lumina's effect. Among them, Fortune Lady Every is an excellent choice for board control because of her free non-targeting, non-destruction, banishing removal. She also gets stronger the longer she stays on the field, putting further pressure on the opponent. Lastly, every Lumina in your graveyard will let Fortune Lady Every revive another time.

Summon Black Rose Dragon to get rid of your opponent's entire board setup.

A safe turn 1 monster to summon other than Fortune Lady Every. Most strong monsters are special summoned, so you can banish this and your opponent's monster to negate an attack. Alternatively, you can banish your opponent's special summoned monster to prevent them from performing a synchro summon or XYZ summon.

Keeping in theme with the board control aspect of this deck, Michael gives you non-destruction banishing removal at the cost of 1000LP. This bypasses effects that protect from destruction while also costing you no card resources to activate.

You might want to be careful with the second effect since, while returning cards to the Deck will prevent you from decking out, it also will eliminate some, if not all, of your resources.

Hama is good for pushing damage, especially when summoned using a Synchro monster as material. Good as a follow up after synchro summoning a level 7, use Glow up Bulb or Jet Synchron for a potential OTK.

Banish Raiden as cost for Vermillion Mech's removal effect and then revive that Raiden with Twilightsworn Lumina's effect. This lets you extend your Synchro combo while also getting rid of an opponent's card.

Useful to prevent monster effects involving a battle. Only works when attacking a monster, not when direct attacking.

A tuner that can be special summoned from the grave like Jet Synchron. Being a level 2 can make things awkward since you'll want to focus on the Raiden and Lumina combo for a level 7 instead, but being a DARK element is good for Levianeer as well.

Compared to Levianeer, this gives your opponent more ways to react since its effect does not activate on summon, and this summoning condition is more strict than Levianeer. For those reasons, Levianeer is better to use oftentimes. But Judgment Dragon is still good to consider, as long as you play plenty of different lightsworn monsters.

Not a bad monster to bring, and can combo into a level 7 using any of the graveyard level 1 tuners. But Chaos Sorcerer has no graveyard effect, so it's better to bring cards that are useful when you get it in hand and when it's milled.

Can act as a searcher for any of your high level boss monsters, which Levianeer and Judgment Dragon are. Unfortunately, it's kind of useless in the hand, and its mill effect needs to be manually triggered by using other ways to banish it from grave. This can end up forcing you to synchro into something you don't need, like Shiranui Squiresaga.

Spell/trap destruction only works on face-up cards, already making it not as versatile. The effect of milling is also more difficult than just focusing on Lumina Raiden combo.

Useful against opponents that uses plenty of back row cards, but it doesn't activate on summon, making it more easily disruptable by your opponent. If it gets hit with a Floodgate or Book of Moon, you'll end up losing on the milling effect.

Definitely useful when it works, but it can be a little unreliable. It messes up your hand if you happen to draw it, but the special summon effect for a free destruction is certainly nice.

Its main effect will almost never see use since it's very conditional to use as a reliable search for Judgment Dragon / Levianeer. Mainly used for the additional milling effect when it gets sent to the grave.

Ryko, Twilightsworn Fighter has the ability to banish any card on the field without targeting or destroying. This is good for getting rid of problematic monsters such as Invoked Cocytus and Shiranui Sunsaga. The fact Ryko is searchable by Charge of the Light Brigade makes it an even more versatile removal card.

Cycles a card into the graveyard to draw a new card. This can be used to load one of your Tuners into the graveyard where it can revive itself.

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