Gaia: deck recipe [Sept 16]

Easily special summonable in this deck since there are LIGHT and DARK monsters. Its effect is pretty decent for either monster removal or as an OTK option.

Having 1 in hand can be very important to help you dodge opponent's cards that can remove your Magical Knight fusion, or when your opponent has a monster with higher attack than your monster.

You can also use this card as a follow up attack. Just keep in mind that its effect to switch a monster to defense can be used on itself, so you'll want to remember not to activate it if your opponent has no monster and you want to do an attack.

If you have the field spell available, as well as another "Gaia the Fierce Knight" on your field, going for the second attack is essentially guaranteed since your opponent can't activate any cards due to the field spell, potentially securing the game quickly.

This can happen often if you are able to perform the usual fusion combo, then activate Dragon's Mirror as the second monster to be tributed for Magical Knight.

Use the skill or field spell to help get both Magical Knight and Curse of Dragonfire to your hand. Then simply normal summon Magical Knight, bringing Curse to the field and activate its field effect (not the on-summon effect) to fuse into Magical Knight of Dragons.

After the first fusion, doing it again becomes easier since Cures of Dragonfire is in the grave, so you only need to use the field spell to search for another Magical Knight, unless you banished Curse using Dragon's Mirror.

Its on summon effect is useful if you go against decks that uses field spells like Triamids or Harpies, but this is mainly to be used with Magical Knight to fuse into Magical Knight of Dragons.

This is to help search for Magical Knight from deck to hand since it's important as the combo starter. Having this essentially means that you have more than 3 copies of Magical Knight in the deck.

The effect of getting a ritual spell isn't used at all, but the skill doesn't prohibit anyone from using Black Luster Soldier if you want to mix that in. However, the consistency can end up dropping quite a lot.

It's a consistency booster to help get a better hand, but its effect is also pretty strong and useful. You can consider playing more than 1 in case your opponent has an answer to it, but you can reliably get it in the first turn through the skill.

Magical Knight and the 2 fusion monsters are considered as the monster that this field spell specifies. Allowing you to safely do as you please when you have them on the field and enters battle phase. Destroying monsters during battle phase won't even trigger their destruction effects.

In most situations, you'll always want to summon this whenever you can. Putting Curse of Dragonfire to the grave will end up making it easier to perform another fusion later on.

With the field spell available on the field, you have the security of knowing that your opponent can't activate anything during the battle phase. Destroying cards during the battle phase is the best time to do it since it won't end up activating the destroyed card.

You can reset its attack by using Chalice or Book of Moon on it, which is best used during your opponent's turn in case you want to use the destruction effect on your turn.

If you play the deck without Spiral Spear Strike, then this is simply to have a monster that can switch enemy's battle position.

Its position switching effect works out quite well since most monsters don't have that high DEF. With the field spell active on your field, your opponent can't even respond to the battle.

This deck doesn't play Red-Eyes for this to really have an impact, but its burn effect can add up, or if you just need the extra damage. Its good for when you don't really want to attack into your opponent if they play stall or cancerous decks.

In the event that you get interrupted when normal summoning Magical Knight, but Curse of Dragonfire is left on the field. You can use the field spell to search for Darkflare Dragon. Special summon it so you can XYZ into Adreus.

Mostly to be used for a spell/trap removal, but it's also useful for turns where you have the advantage and your opponent keeps setting monsters.

Worst case scenario if you have a bad starting hand, you can at least set this monster to block an attack.

1 copy of this can be considered since it can be searched for through Sky Galloping Gaia's effect. When it works, it gives a pretty big advantage and works well against opponents that end up playing defensively when you have the advantage.

Has a card removal effect that you can use multiple times in a turn, up to however many materials you use to make it. Needing to banish a card in your grave won't be a big issue since you can use it on the used spells/traps like MST/Monster Reborn.

The Gaia monsters, except for Soldier Gaia, are all level 7 monsters. If they ever get locked up, or if you want to make further plays for more card removals, you can XYZ them into Dracossack to destroy another card.

Keep in mind that its effect needs to summon 2 tokens, so you'll need to have 2 monster zones available. You can tribute one token and then use Dragon's Mirror to bring another fusion out.

This can be a risky play if you go against decks that can deal piercing damage as well, since they will just attack the 0 DEF token.

Useful as a piercer, but using the Gaia monsters to XYZ into this is often not going to be worth. You get the most value out of this card if you rank up from a lower rank, which is only going to be from Adreus, but that doesn't happen often for this to be good.

Its effect only works when you have no other monsters, which are quite risky when most decks can simply remove 1 monster easily through cards like Malevolent Sin. Requiring 2 Gaia monsters for this is often not worth it as well, but can be good against defensive decks.

Noted By [HNF] IIINC:

• Try to have at least 2-3 floodgates or removals when playing against Gandoras.

• DDD’s suffer from having their scales broken and are at their weakest on the turn of using their Command of the Doom King as they can’t Orthos and only have two spell/trap zones left. Break their scales, floodgate (or even bottomless) their pendulum summons.

• Tech out Book of Moon and other removals depending on what you see being ooayed

Noted By Ned Flanders:

Went on a 6 game winning streak from my Legend Rank 4 Rank Up Match to KOG with this deck. The title of the deck is abbreviated for KaibaCorpCup for November 2021 Top 500 for North America along with KOGs from October 2021 through January 2022. As for the deck itself, it is a pretty standard build. Dragon Ice is added just in case my opponent special summons a monster while I have no protection on the field (also good for fusion summoning with Dragon's Mirror).

Noted by Woakage:

Very typical Gaia deck, skill makes fusion super consistent. Oasis of dragon souls = summon Gaia from GY use effect and get another fusion. Essentially 5 Gaia cards for the fusion.

Noted by Ned Flanders:

Went on a 10 game winning streak from Legend Rank 4 to KOG with this deck. The title of the deck is abbreviated for KaibaCorpCup for November 2021 Top 500 for North America along with KOGs from October through December. As for the deck itself, it is a pretty standard build. Dragon Ice is added just in case my opponent special summons a monster while I have no protection on the field (also good for fusion summoning with Dragon's Mirror).

Noted By Plasmwindz:

"Use skill to have insane consistency with starting hand. Breakthrough skill and mst as disruption. You can use forbidden chalice and world chalice clash to reset gaia the magical knight of dragons attack.
Always look for one gaia the magical knight and one curse of dragons in starting hand."

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