Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman | Decks and Tips

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update 08/05/2020

Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman
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Classifications

Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman

Attribute	LIGHT
Monster Type	Warrior
Card type	Fusion / Effect
Card Effect Type	Summoning condition / Continuous Effect
Level	★8
Passcode	86240887
ATK	2800
DEF	2500

Archetypes	Buster Blader
Supports	Dragon
Anti-supports	Dragon
Related to Archetypes	Destruction Sword

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1 "Buster Blader" + 1 Dragon-Type monster
Must be Fusion Summoned and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. This card cannot attack directly. This card gains 1000 ATK and DEF for each Dragon-Type monster your opponent controls or is in their Graveyard. Change all Dragon-Type monsters your opponent controls to Defense Position, also Dragon-Type monsters in your opponent's possession cannot activate their effects. If this card attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent.

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Pack	Crimson Kingdom [UR] Selection Box Vol.05 [UR]
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Evaluation

Rating

Pros

Good attack and defense, and can be increased higher if your opponent uses Dragon-type monsters.
Very strong against Dragon decks since it will negate their effects, and switches them to defense position.
Deals piercing damage when attacking defense position monsters.
Fusion summoning this card can be easy if you use fusion substitute monster, since you can use any other dragon type monster as the other material.

Cons

Can't attack directly.
If you are using a dragon deck, and your opponent takes control of this card (through cards like Enemy Controller), it can potentially one shot you if you don't have any protection.
If your opponent does not use any Dragon-type monsters, it is just a high attack monster that can pierce defense position monsters, but can't attack directly.

Tips

Fusion substitutes

Without needing to bring Buster Blader, you can use any Dragon-type monsters to fuse into the Dragon Destroyer. This can make it more versatile and much easier to summon. Red-Eyes B. Dragon now can be used to fusion summon into 3 different monsters, which can make it versatile, especially since Red-Eyes has its own supports as well.

Decks

Buster Blader DNA Surgery

Rulings

Classifications

Actions	Changes Battle Positions
Monster/Spell/Trap categories	Prevents activation of your opponent's Effect Monsters
Summoning categories	2 Fusion Materials / Nomi
Stat changes	This card gains ATK / This card gains DEF
Attack categories	Cannot attack directly / Piercing

Comments

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Anonymous

I'd play 3 Goddess of the Third day over 3 Hex Fusion any day. This way I get rid of defense position Decider pretty easy.

PuffingBear

This card and Dark Paladin just has a cool vibe...

can you use light hex sealed fusion and a dragon without polymerization to summon
Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman? Im trying to experiment with light hex but for some reason I cant get the effect to activate.

<< Anonymous(EX)

Anonymous Reply

No you can't do that because the card says "Must be Fusion Summoned and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways."

Anonymous

how come Relinquished is able to activate its effect when this card and DNA are both faced up on the field?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Because it is ritual summoned with djinn.

Anonymous

I was fighting Amazon, with this card and DNA on the field, but when I attacked the Amazon Swords woman in face up defense position, I lost life point at the end of the battle?! I thought this dragon type monster can’t activate their effect in such situation...... a bug perhaps?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Swordswoman doesn't "activate" her effect. It's continuous effect.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous. Reply

Agreed. It sounds like a bug. "can't activate their effects" should also apply to auto effects like swordswoman's, but it doesn't? strange.

<< Anonymous(Anonymous.)

Anonymous Reply

...Not all effects activate. What's difficult to understand about that? There is no reason why Buster Blader should stop an effect like Amazoness Swordswoman or Silent Swordsman LV7 that doesn't activate, nor any logical reason to assume it would.

Anonymous

This card destroys Kaiba

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Indeed

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

What about the Majesty card? BB won't be able to attac, ya know?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Yep, probably Majesty can save you for 1-2 turns.

Anonymous

With the right build this deck is pretty much tier 0 wow !

Anonymous

This card destroys Zane

See all 8 comments..

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Cannon and Claw wouldn't be able to activate their discard effect, meaning if this card is up on the field turn 1, Zane cannot get the dragons into the graveyard so they can be equipped, and cannot search Inferno either.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

What about Cyber Dragon

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Yes, Cannon and Claw couldn't activate the effects, this is a good observation. But we all know that being able to summon this card on turn 1 is not that easy as it depends on luck. But this is a good card overall.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Wtf :v a Zane hater lol ^^

Anonymous

The only way to defeat a dragon is to become a dragon
*gets some dna surgery

Gaia Dragon !

I'd build this deck but...
I'd feel as some kind of blue-eyes hater.

Maybe I should reach kog with one of my 2017 decks

some smuck

With the rise of the dragon-meta this card can be an extremely hard counter. If you run into a mirror match while running a dragon deck and you pull this bad boy out, you have a good chance of winning.

<< Anonymous(some smuck)

Anonymous Reply

this deck has a hard time dealing with backrow

Anonymous

Although DNA surgery is in game atm, buster blader archetype seems somewhaw bricky. Has anyone tried to build around this card?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

I've been tempted, but it's hard to find the time to devote gems to getting a second copy of the Fusion. Either way, it'll be much better when we inevitably get the rest of the Buster Blader stuff. (Buster Whelp and Buster Dragon will fix a huge number of the issues the deck currently has, and even better if we get any of the Traps.)

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

I got a Buster/Red-Eyes fusion deck. A little brick-y but fun for F2P

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Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman

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