U.A.: deck recipe [Dec 15]

“U.A.”, short for “Ultra Athlete”, is an archetype of EARTH Warrior-Type monsters that share the ability of Special Summoning themselves by returning another monster of the same archetype from the field to the hand. There are two types of “U.A.” monsters, the offensive ones (U.A. Mighty Slugger, U.A. Rival Rebounder, U.A. Dreadnought Dunker and U.A. Playmaker) and the defensive ones (U.A. Midfielder, U.A. Perfect Ace, U.A. Goalkeeper, and U.A. Blockbacker); now that all of these monsters have been released, we finally have more options.

The midfielder is the only “U.A.” monster that you can Normal Summon without Tributing, so it’s a very important card. Ideally, you would open with it in your starting hand, but you can always draw it via Draw Sense: Low Level. Normal Summon Midfielder and then switch him out for a Level 5 or higher “U.A.” monster-like U.A. Mighty Slugger or Perfect Ace.

Midfielder’s secondary effect allows you to return another face-up “U.A.” monster to your hand to Special Summon a “U.A.” monster with a different name from your hand. This effect can be used to get around the “once per turn” restriction all “U.A.” monsters have on their primary effect or to simply prevent them from being destroyed by a card like Treacherous Trap Hole.

Incredibly useful as a turn 1 card so you can disrupt your opponent, preventing their powerful combos, but it's also generally useful throughout the duel.

With the protection of Penalty Box, you only need to worry about removal effects that don't involve battling.

Even though Mighty Slugger can attack safely, Perfect Ace's effect can help prevent dangerous effects that can be used outside of battle phase, especially if it can destroy multiple monsters like Treacherous Trap Hole/Needle Ceiling or when you don't have Midfielder on the field.

Its revival effect is part of why the deck can work with only 1 copy of certain cards since it lets you re-use them pretty easily.

However, this can only be special summoned during your opponent's turn through Midfielder's effect. You can use it early at the start of your opponent's turn so you can also special summon Perfect Ace or Blockbacker to the field, but it will mean that you can't tag out again with Midfielder's effect for the rest of the turn.

One of the two main attackers of the deck, the other being Mighty Slugger. This has the highest base ATK in the main deck plus a piercing effect, making it effective against defensive players, or any monster with low defense since you can use Book of Moon on them.

With one activation of the ATK boost from Stadium, it becomes 3000 ATK to compete with other most other high ATK monsters. With Powered Jersey on top of that, Dunker becomes 4000 ATK, which can potentially OTK your opponent through direct attack or 0 def monsters.

When Mighty Slugger declares an attack, your opponent cannot activate cards or effects until the end of the Damage Step. You can use this effect to temporarily disable your opponent’s backrow or to prevent your opponent from negating a Spell/Trap Card using Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En’s effect.

Mighty Slugger is a Level 5 monster, which means it can be Special Summoned from the hand or Graveyard via Feast of the Wild LV5 together with a U.A. Perfect Ace or another copy of Mighty Slugger. Feast of the Wild LV5 does negate the effects of the monsters it Special Summons, but you can still return them to the hand using another “U.A.” monster in your hand and then Special Summon them back to the field.

Similar to Perfect Ace, this is a powerful defensive effect that's best on turn 1, especially since this doesn't require discarding a card.

Compared to Perfect Ace, not being able to destroy a monster can be useful since they might have good effects when destroyed, like Cyber Dragon Nova, Spiritual Beast Tamer Winda, etc.

U.A. Stadium is the Field Spell of the archetype and it has two effects: one that activates if a “U.A.” monster is Normal Summoned and one that activates if a “U.A.” monster is Special Summoned.

• If a "U.A." monster is Normal Summoned to your side of the field: You can add 1 "U.A." monster from your Deck to your hand.

You can Normal Summon U.A. Midfielder or Tribute Summon for any of your higher-level monsters and get a monster to tag them out for right away.

• Once per turn, if a "U.A." monster(s) is Special Summoned to your side of the field: All monsters you currently control gain 500 ATK (even if this card leaves the field).

Not only the ATK boost stays even if the card is banished by a Cosmic Cyclone or destroyed, but it’s also permanent as long as that monster stays face-up on the field. Use the ATK boost from U.A. Stadium together with Beatdown to quickly overwhelm your opponent.

A Continuous Trap Card that banishes a monster that battles with a “U.A.” monster at the start of the Damage Step. Sounds familiar?

Penalty Box, unfortunately, cannot Special monsters from the hand and its banishing effect lasts only until the 2nd End Phase of the opponent, but, if it ends up in the Graveyard, you can banish it to add a “U.A.” Spell/Trap Card to your hand (Stadium). The fact that you can banish Penalty Box from the Graveyard means that you’re free to run Treacherous Trap Hole in this Deck.

Has good potential to OTK your opponent, but it can be a risky play since there is no way to recover the banished card back to your hand.

It's best used on Mighty Slugger since it can attack safely without interruption and disables hand traps. Having some protection from Perfect Ace can also be important.

Core searcher for the deck and sometimes the starter card of the turn, but it needs to be paired with at least any other U.A. monster so you can start tagging in and out monsters.

With Stadium on the field, you can use this to search for Midfield. Tag out into any other U.A. in your hand and then normal summon the Midfielder to get the search effect.

Without having to slowly increase ATK through Stadium, this gives the deck quick access to a 4000 ATK monster for a turn so you can get over certain monsters or go for an OTK when you can direct attack.

The only level 5 monsters are Perfect Ace and Mighty Slugger. Volcasaurus gives the deck a monster removal that can be used outside of battle phase, but it's only better than Mighty Slugger if you need a 2500 ATK monster, the effect damage is enough to win the duel, or if Mighty Slugger is negated or locked-up with something like Forbidden Chalice / Fiendish Chain.

If you survive with less than 1000 LP, you can use this to potentially get an OTK if your opponent also controls a monster that's less than 3000 ATK.

Special summon Midfielder with Signing Deal then normal summon another Midfielder from hand to Xyz into Utopia so you can rank it up into Utopia Ray.

Mainly to be used to rank up into Utopia Ray for an OTK. But can be a decent stall card if you're desperate. The Midfielders sent to the graveyard can be recovered with Rebounder's effect, but will require the third Midfielder to work.

Rival Rebounder’s secondary effect allows you to Special Summon another “U.A.” monster from your hand or Graveyard when he is Special Summoned during the opponent’s turn or Normal Summoned. Special Summon The Tricky by discarding U.A. Penalty Box or a “U.A.” monster you want to Special Summon, and then Tribute it to Summon Rival Rebounder.

Useful for when your opponent only has 1 monster on the field. Temporarily banishing them will let you attack directly, and the deck has decent options for OTK through tagging out with Midfielder, Mighty Slugger, or Powered Jersey.

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