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N/R Ancient Warriors Deck List & Card Guide

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N/R Ancient Warriors Deck List

Main Deck: 40 cards
Ancient Warriors - Deceptive Jia Wen x3 Ancient Warriors - Eccentric Lu Jing x3 Ancient Warriors - Graceful Zhou Gong x3 Ancient Warriors - Ingenious Zhuge Kong x3 Ancient Warriors - Loyal Guan Yun x3
Ancient Warriors - Fearsome Zhang Yuan x2 Ancient Warriors - Valiant Zhang De x2 Ancient Warriors Saga - Borrowing of Arrows x3 Ancient Warriors Saga - Three Visits x3 Fire Formation - Tensu x3
Ancient Warriors Saga - East-by-South Winds x2 Ancient Warriors Saga - Sun-Liu Alliance x1 Ancient Warriors Saga - Chivalrous Path x3 Ancient Warriors Saga - Defense of Changban x3 Phantom Knights x3
Extra Deck: 15 cards
Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon x1 Gagaga Samurai x1 Gem-Knight Pearl x1 Number 50: Blackship of Corn x1 Number 52: Diamond Crab King x1
Number 70: Malevolent Sin x1 Number 80: Rhapsody in Berserk x1 Super Quantal Mech Beast Aeroboros x1 Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon x1 Imduk the World Chalice Dragon x1
Geonator Transverser x2 Fire Fighting Daruma Doll x1 Hraesvelgr, the Desperate Doom Eagle x1 Tri-Brigade Rugal the Silver Sheller x1 -

N/R Ancient Warriors Breakdown

N/R Ancient Warriors Deck Guide: How to Play

The Ancient Warriors archetype are known for their ability to swarm the field with monsters with high stats, which is often a staple for Beatdown decks. They get stronger or have more effects in the presence of other Ancient Warrior monsters on the field.

To be precise, the monsters have various effects depending on their affinity. The Wind monsters Ingenious Zhuge Kong, Valiant Zhang De, and Loyal Guan Yun have effects that trigger when the opponent has monsters. The Water monsters Graceful Zhou Gong and Eccentric Lu Jing have effects that trigger when other Ancient Warrior monsters activate their effects. Lastly, the Fire monsters Deceptive Jia Wen and Fearsome Zhang Yuan activate their effects when an opponent's monster is destroyed, either by battle or card effect.

The various Ancient Warrior Spells and Traps all provide the Ancient Warrior monsters benefits like battle protection, card destruction or ATK modification, further pushing the Deck's beatdown playstyle. On top of that, Fire Formation - Tensu provides one more Normal Summon for Beast-Warrior monsters, which is exactly the monster type of the archetype.

The Extra Deck monsters are no slouches in terms of firepower, either. Gagaga Soldier, Number 52: Diamond Crab King, Number 70: Malevolent Sin and Number 80: Rhapsody in Berserk all hit hard for low-rarity Xyz Monsters. Odd-Eyes Absolutet Dragon is an easy cheat code to bring outt Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon without needing to do a Fusion Summon, and because of their typing as Beast-Warriors, Ancient Warrior monsters can be used as materials for Tri-Brigade Rugal the Silver Sheller.

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