Vampire: deck recipe [Feb 23]

“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.

Vampire Duke works well as its ability to bring back DARK "Vampire" monsters from the Graveyard and its disruptive effect on your opponent's Deck.

Duke's ability to Special Summon a DARK "Vampire" monster from your Graveyard when Vampire Duke is Normal Summoned can help you to maintain field presence and apply pressure to your opponent. You can use this effect to bring back another copy of himself.

His second effect, which allows you to declare a card type and force your opponent to send 1 card of that type from their Deck to the Graveyard, can be very disruptive to your opponent's strategy. By sending a key monster or spell/trap card to the Graveyard, you can disrupt your opponent's plays and gain an advantage on the field.

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.

Iblee's ability will help for Special Summoning a Link Monster from your Graveyard and point it to itself. This effect can help you to quickly establish a powerful Link Monster on your field, which can then be used to summon other monsters or activate Link Monster effects.

Knightmare Corruptor Iblee's effect can be a useful way to disrupt your opponent's plays and potentially slow down their strategy.

This Link 3 Knightmare Monster not only allows you to shuffle 1 card on either player's board back into Deck (this effect will prevent some card effect trigger action for Graveyard/Floating effect) when it is Link Summoned. Unicorn's co-linked effect will allow you to have 1 Card Draw.

You can use it as LINK Summon Tech by using Knightmare Corruptor Iblee which is special summoned by the opponent to your field due to her own effect.

A Link 2 Knightmare Monster owns Special Summoned Monster Removal Effect by discarding 1 card. Cerberus's co-linked effect will allow you to have 1 Card Draw and Card Effect Destruction Protection.

A Link 2 Knightmare Monster owns Backrow Removal Effect by discarding 1 card. Phoenix's co-linked effect will allows you to have 1 Card Draw and Battle Destruction Protection.

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.

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.

You can use Vampire Awakening to quickly bring out Vampire monsters like Vampire Retainer, Familiar, or Duke directly from your Deck for a combo setup.

It's important to note that you can only activate 1 "Vampire Awakening" per turn, so you need to choose the timing of when to use it carefully. You also need to be aware that the summoned monster will be destroyed during the End Phase, so you need to plan your strategy accordingly.

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.

Always a strong card to have. Can be used to disrupt your opponent and dodge from backrow disruption for your monsters.

Use Enemy Controller to get rid of strong monsters that are in attack position or for setting up a monster for an attack. You can also activate Enemy Controller to take control of a strong monster that your opponent has on the field, and it can potentially help you to turn the tide of the game.

Ice Dragon's Prison is used as Disruption Tech and is very useful against the Deck that only contains or mostly 1 Monster-Type like Gouki and Mekk-Knight.

Very powerful monster removal card that can disrupt your opponent's combo easily.

Andreus provides a decent ATK stat and a simple targeted removal effect.

Vampire Sucker is a great LINK 2 Vampire as she allows you to tribute your opponent's Zombie monsters for a Tribute Summon, which can be extremely useful for maintaining board presence and getting rid of your opponent's monsters.

Vampire Sucker also has two other powerful effects. The first allows you to Special Summon a monster from your opponent's graveyard to their field in Defense Position as a Zombie monster. While this may seem like a strange effect to use, it can be very useful for setting up plays with your own Vampire monsters, such as using them as tribute fodder or activating their effects.

The second effect of Vampire Sucker allows you to draw a card if a Zombie monster(s) is Special Summoned from either player's graveyard and it will allow you to generate card advantage.

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.

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.

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.

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