Vampire: deck recipe [Jul 31]

“Vampire” is an archetype of primarily DARK Zombie-Type monsters whose main strategy revolves around slowly taking control of the field using Vampire Grace’s “bleed effect” and Vampire Kingdom.

Samurai Skull being taken off the Semi-Limited List and other powerful contenders such as Darklords receiving their first hit will likely allow Vampires to perform a lot better after being almost completely irrelevant for months.

Running both Gozuki and Samurai Skull may seem excessive, but it’s very necessary. They're the easiest and most consistent way of getting Vampire Retainer and Vampire Familiar into the Graveyard and start your combos.

You can send Vampire Retainer to the Graveyard, Special Summon it by sending a “Vampire” card from your hand or face-up field to the Graveyard, and then, by paying 500 Life Points, add a “Vampire” Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand.

• You can use Retainer’s effect to search the Vampire Kingdom, Vampire’s Domain or Vampire Takeover. If you want to Summon Vampire Vamp or Vampire Grace, you are likely going to need the additional Normal Summon/Set from Vampire’s Domain, whereas, if you already have the Continuous Spell available you might want to go for your Takeover which in turn searches your Field Spell.

Vampire Familiar, just like Retainer, can be Special Summoned from your Graveyard by sending a “Vampire” card from your hand or face-up field to the GY, but, instead of allowing you to add a Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand, it gives you access to any “Vampire” monster, except Vampire Familiar.

• You can use Familiar’s effect to search Vampire Grace, which, in combination with Vampire Kingdom, used to be this Deck’s primary way of removing potential threats from the field, or to add to your hand Vampire Vamp, a Level 7 “Vampire” monster that can get rid of high ATK monsters like Elemental HERO Brave Neos and Blue-Eyes White Dragon by equipping them to itself.

Retainer and Familiar allow you to add, from your Deck to your hand, a Vampire Spell/Trap and a Vampire monster respectively when they are Special Summoned at the cost of 500 LP. Retainer and Familiar can be Special Summoned from the Graveyard by their own effects by discarding a Vampire card from your hand or sending a Vampire card from the field to the Graveyard.

Unfortunately, neither Gozuki nor Samurai Skull can be used to activate their effects and Special Summon them from the Graveyard since they are not part of the archetype, but you can make use any Vampire card.

You can activate Vampire’s Domain’s effect and then send it to the Graveyard to Special Summon either of these monsters: you will still get the additional Normal Summon/Set of the effect from Continuous Spell.

Retainer and Familiar are incredibly important, they give you access to cards like the Vampire Kingdom whenever you need them: you don’t necessarily need to run three copies of both thanks to Gozuki and Samurai Skull, but, due to the cost of their Special Summoning effect, having other Vampire cards in the deck doesn’t hurt.

After Special Summoning these cards you can tribute them to get Vampire Grace on the field. Unfortunately, if they were Special Summoned by their own effect, both Retainer and Familiar are banished when they leave the field, which means you will not be able to Special Summon them again on your next turn or even use them as cost for Gozuki’s effect.

Absorption is a powerful and rare form of removal. It does not destroy the target monster, which bypasses some floating effects. It also prevents your opponent from recycling said monster since it will be attached to your monster.

Summon Gozuki or Samurai Skull and pitch Retainer to the graveyard. Discard Vamp as cost for reviving Retainer which searches Domain giving you an extra summon. Tribute Summon Vamp and absorb your opponent's monster. After this Vamp becomes a powerful beater capable of reviving itself once. If needed you can reactivate Vamp's absoption by Normal Summoning a low-leveled Vampire or Tribute Summoning Grace.

Once per turn, when one or more cards are sent from your opponent’s Deck to the Graveyard, by sending a “Vampire” monster from your hand or Deck to the GY, Vampire Kingdom allows you to target a card on the field and destroy it. This effect can be triggered by your opponent, especially when they use Neos Fusion, Red-Eyes Fusion, or a Lightsworn mill engine.

Use Vampire Grace’s effect to force your opponent to send a certain type of card (Monster, Spell, or Trap) from their Deck to the GY and trigger Kingdom’s effect. You usually don't want to declare monster because this lets your opponent setup graveyard effects and recycling targets. Declaring Spells can get rid of combo cards, while declaring Traps can get rid of disruption, these are your safest bets.

While this card may look similar to Call of the Mummy, another Continuous Spell that’s already in the game, there are a few reasons why Domain is a better choice for this deck: it can be searched by Retainer, it doesn’t require you to have an empty field to activate its effect, and it can be used as activation cost for either Vampire Retainer or Vampire Familiar, and it lets you gain LP which is an important resource for this deck.

This card was notably better in the TCG: in a 20-30 cards format, there’s a higher chance that you will draw into your Field Spell either before or together with this card.

Vampire Takeover allows you to activate Vampire Kingdom for deck and only from there, which means that, if you draw Vampire Kingdom, Takeover becomes a dead card. You can search Takeover with Retainer's effect instead of directly searching your Field Spell during a setup turn.

In addition to getting the Field Spell out, Takeover also Special Summons a Vampire monster from your Graveyard. Letting you revive a high-level Vampire or put a monster on the field to use as tribute fodder. Reviving Familiar or Retrainer with Takeover will let you activate their search effect.

The only problem this card has, other than becoming a dead card after you draw your Field Spell, is that it’s a Trap Card which is especially bad for a search effect.

• Using Life Points as a resource with only 4000 at your disposal is admittedly not that great. A Cyberdark Edge equipped with Leng Ling is capable of inflicting 2500 damage in a single turn, which is exactly where paying for Vampire Familiar, Retainer and Domain would leave you.
  
  
• Disrupting your plays is generally pretty easy: a single Treacherous Trap Hole or Six Style - Dual Wield is all it takes to completely set you back.
  
  
• The Sanctified Darklord can negate the effects of Gozuki and Samurai Skull, pretty much forcing you to end your turn unless you have Vampire’s Desire available, or it can be used on Vampire Vamp and Vampire Grace. Having Hey, Trunade! or any other type of back row removal is mostly irrelevant in this case.

With this deck's swarming ability you should be able to get three monsters on the field fairly often, the three monsters can then be used to summon Destiny HERO - Plasma. Plasma's monster effect negation is amazing since most decks will rely on monster effects somewhere in their combo. Letting you shutting down combo starters like Aleister the Invoker and Vision HERO Faris. Plasma can also single-handedly shut down decks like Crystron.

• One way you can fill your field in one combo is: Normal Summon Gozuki or Samurai Skull and pitch either Familiar or Retainer depending on what you don't have on hand. Revive Familiar/Retainer by discarding Retainer/Familiar respectively. Revive the monster you discarded and now you have three monsters on the field to summon Plasma. This combo also searches two cards out of your deck. The reason why you have to discard Retainer to revive Familiar, or discard Familiar to revive Retainer, is because you can only use each revival effect once per turn.

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