Melffy Spright is a Control Deck in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel that combineds the aggressive Xyz and Link swarming of the Spright Engine, with Melffy's unique control over the field through card bouncing effects.. Check out the core deck list, key combos, as well as how to play & counters!

Spright Deck Lists
Pure		Runick		Evil★Twin
Tri-Brigade		Melffy		Gishki

Melffy Spright Deck List

Main Deck: 40 cards
x3	x3	x3	x2	x2
x2	x1	x1	x1	x1
x1	x1	x1	x1	x1
x1	x1	x1	x1	x3
x2	x2	x2	x1	x1
Extra Deck: 15 cards
x1	x1	x1	x2	x1
x1	x1	x1	x2	x1
x1	x1	x1	-	-

Melffy Spright Breakdown

Tier List Evaluation

Tier Ranking
Tier 1
Deck Archetype		Deck Difficulty
Aggro		Hard
Deck Evaluation
Melffys are all Level 2 monsters, making them perfect with Spright synergy Full combo results in a near-unbreakable board of negates and bounces Can easily pivot from control to aggression depending on the situation

Melffy Spright Deck Guide: How to Play

Playstyle and Win Condition

Melffys are mainly Level 2 monsters for their Main Deck Monsters, which means that they can be supported with the Spright Engine and boost its playability by a wide margin. Melffy's penchant for returning cards to the hand is a tactic not many Decks can counter, not even some of the best Decks in the current meta.

Main Deck Monsters

The classic Spright Engine is as usual when it comes to a Spright Deck. Spright Blue searches a fellow "Spright" monster, Spright Jet seraches out the "Spright" Spells, and Spright Red and Spright Carrot provides protection through negating either monsters or Spells/Traps.

Spright Pixies is an uncommon addition, but provides offensive support through boosting Level 2, Rank 2 or LINK-2 monsters' ATKs whether on the field or in the hand.

Alongside it as the main archetype of the Deck Recipe are the Melffy monsters, which benefits from having cards be bounced back to the hand. Melffy Catty searches out another Beast-type monster, and Melffy Puppy Special Summons one straight from the Deck.

The other two "Melffy" monsters are meant to Specail Summon and provide an extention to combos. Melffy Wally can Special Summon up to two "Melffy" monsters from the Deck with different names. Melffy Pinny can be Special Summoned from the hand, and as soon as the effect resolves can be used for a Synchro Summon.

Players have their options when it comes to Level 2 monsters to supplement the Melffys and the Spright Engine. Most common options are Swap Frog, Ronintoadin and Dark Beckoning Beast as monsters that can have big or repeated presence on the field that can be used as material for Synchro, Xyz or Link Summons.

New additions are Kalantosa, Mystical Beast of the Forest that can be used by the Melffy monsters, as being Special Summoned lets it destroy a card on the field. Plaguespreader Zombie is another Tuner that is similarly a Level 2 monster, opening up the Deck for options to Synchro plays should the players decide to go for it.

Hand traps are standard options here; always start building any Deck with three copies Maxx C and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring--anything else otherwise becomes extremely punishable, especially against players in higher Ranks. Dimension Shifter deals with Decks that use the Graveyard as a secondary resource pool, especailly with the likes of Ishizu Tearlaments and Branded Despia currently dominating the meta as of writing.

With the recent restrictions of cards like Swap Frog and Spright Jet, access to Level 2 monsters are a little harder to come by. The Nimble Monsters can come along with Spright Sprind for an easy summon of two Level 2 Monsters on the field by triggering Nimble Angler's effect when sent to the GY from the Deck.

Spells and Traps

The two "Spright" Spell Cards are part of the Spright Engine and are basically mandatory cards when running them. At the cost of Life Points, Spright Starter Special Summons a "Spright" monster from the Main Deck for free. Spright Smashers is an easy card remover, taking out one card on the field at the cost of banishing a monster you control and a "Spright" card in the GY.

Other support cards are to support the Deck with their strength. Opening of the Spirit Gates is key to getting two monsters out through the effect of Dark Beckoning Beast. Meanwhile, if you have a DARK monster on the field, you can use them with Mask Change II to bring out Masked HERO Dark Law and deal with GY-centric strategies.

Alongside the hand traps mentioned above, players will have to run Called by the Grave and Crossout Designator as counters to hand traps. The former, in particular, becomes even stronger in mirror matches.

Extra Deck Monsters

Merry Melffys is often brought out as a special Combo together with Melffy of the Forest. The Xyz Monster enables the combo, and the Synchro Monster bounces cards from the field back to the hand whenever a "Melffy Monster"

Joyous Melffy is an outlier of the Melffy monsters, providing both offensive and defensive options, like enabling "Melffy" monsters to attack directly. It can also Special Summon Beast-type monsters from the GY during the opponent's turn as a Quick Effect.

As part of the Spright Engine, the two Extra Deck monsters are mandatory to properly play the Deck. Gigantic Spright can Special Summon a Level 2 monster as a combo extender, and can be a beatstick in its own right if it has a Link Monster as part of its attached materials.

Spright Elf is one of the best LINK-2 monsters in the game, being able to Special Summon a Level 2 monster even during the opponent's Main Phase, and protects any monsters its Link Markers are pointing to from targeted card effects. Meanwhile, Spright Sprind can send a monster from the Deck to the GY; a perfect combo to use with the Nimble monsters.

Besides the aforementioned Synchro and Xyz Monsters mentioned above, players can have their pick for monsters as they so choose. Our recommendations would be Herald of the Arc Light to discourage mill effects or just cards being sent to the GY in general.

To give more firepower and control for the Xyz Monsters, our choices will include Cat Shark which can double the original stats for Xyz Monsters that are Rank 4 or below, and Onibimaru Soul Sweeper which temporariliy banishes a monster the opponent controls

I:P Masquerena is another solid LINK-2 Monster that can use its effect to Link Summon during the opponent's turn, and granting the Link Monster that used this card as material immunity to card destruction effects. Usually, Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax is a popular choice to make it harder to remove in the field, but Topologic Zeroboros is another great option that also clears the field by banishing all other cards. The latter also has an effect that can lock the Extra Monster Zones when placed properly.

Core Combos and Interactions

Spright Starter

This 1-Card Spright Starter Combo can be bridged into multiple other variants, and is the main combo of any Spright Deck--provided they also use the "Frog" monsters as well.

Required Cards
Step	Description
1	Activate Spright Starter from Hand to Special Summon Spright Blue from the Deck.
2	Activate Spright Blue's effect, searching Spright Jet from the Deck to the hand.
3	Special Summon Spright Jet from the hand. Upon being Summoned, activate its effect to add Spright Starter or Spright Smashers from the Deck. The card you add here depends on the current game state.
4	Using Spright Blue and Spright Jet as materials, Xyz Summon Gigantic Spright. Then, activate Gigantic's Effect to Special Summon Swap Frog from the Deck and then detach Spright Blue.
5	Activate Swap Frog's Effect to send Ronintoadin from the Deck to the Graveyard. Activate Swap Frog's second effect to return itself to the hand.
6	Normal Summon Swap Frog afterwards, then activate its effect to send Swap Frog from the Deck to Graveyard. Make sure that that this is your first Normal Summon of the turn. Swap Frog's additional Normal Summon only works for "Frog" monsters with a different name.
7	Activate Ronintoadin's effect in the Graveyard; banish Swap Frog from the Graveyard, then Special Summon itself.
8	Link Summon Spright Elf using Swap Frog and Ronintoadin as materials. Activate Spright Elf's effect to Special Summon Swap Frog from the Graveyard. Activate Swap Frog's first effect to send another copy of itself (Swap Frog) from the Deck to Graveyard.
9	Activate Ronintoadin's effect by banishing Swap Frog from the Graveyard to Special Summon itself. Then Link Summon I:P Masquerena using Swap Frog and Ronintoadin as materials.
10	Activate Ronintoadin's effect by banishing Swap Frog from the Graveyard to Special Summon itself. Then, set Spright Starter or Spright Smashers that you searched with Spright Jet's effect.

Your End Board should look like this:

No Active Field Spell
			X
	-			-
-	-	-	-

Notes:
During the opponent's turn, activate Spright Starter as soon as possible to Special Summon either Spright Carrot or Spright Red from the Deck.
Activate Spright Elf's Effect to Special Summon an additional Spright Monster from your Graveyard that can be later used as Material for I:P' Masquerena's effect into the following options:

1. Knightmare Unicorn - to bounce 1 card your opponent controls from the field to the hand.
2. Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess - to negate multiple monster effects.
3. Topologic Zeroboros - to act as a full board wipe threat to the opponent.

Combo Switch into Melffy Monsters

In the middle of a Spright Combo, players can go into Melffy monsters--so long as they have two Level 2 monsters that can satisfy a certain Xyz Monster's material requirements.

Card(s) Needed
Any two Level 2 Monsters on your field
Step	Description
1	Once you have two Level 2 monsters you can use outside of their effects on your field, use them as material to Xyz Summon Melffy of the Forest.
2	Use the effect of Melffy of the Forest; detach one material from itself, then search out Melffy Catty from the Deck to the hand.
3	During your End Phase, activate the effect of Melffy Catty from the hand; Special Summon it.
4	When the opponent conducts a Normal or Special Summon, activate the second effect of Melffy Catty; return it to the hand, and add Melffy Pinny from the Deck to the hand.
5	Activate Melffy of the Forest as Chain Link 1, and Melffy Pinny as Chain Link 2. Chain Link 2: Special Summon Melffy Pinny from the hand, and immediately after effect resolution, use itself and the Melffy Catty from your hand that was bounced back earlier as materials to Synchro Summon Merry Melffys. Chain Link 1: Using the effect of Melffy of the Forest, target one monster the opponent controls. That monster cannot attack nor can it activate effects while it remains face-up on the field.
6	Upon Merry Melffys being Synchro Summoned, you can activate its effect to send one card the opponent controls back to the hand.

Boss Monsters

	Masked HERO Dark Law
	Quite a number of the Spright archetype are DARK monsters, meaning they can make use of Mask Change II to bring out Masked HERO Dark Law. All the monsters the opponent sends to the GY are banished instead, and if they try to add a card to the hand from the Deck, it can banish a card from their hand.
	Melffy of the Forest
	Melffy of the Forest searches out a fellow "Melffy" monster from the Deck once per turn. It can also negate an opponent's monster from effects and attacks if a "Melffy" monster you control gets bounced back to the hand.
	Merry Melffys
	Merry Melffys sends a monster back from the field to the hand. However, its main effect is being able to replace itself with a "Melffy" Xyz Monster, and players have a choice between Melffy of the Forest and Joyous Melffy.
	Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax
	Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax usually comes as a package deal with I:P Masquerena, making it even harder to remove from the field. It is exceptionally strong in battles, being able to gain the ATK of a monster that attacks it once per turn.
	Topologic Zeroboros
	This Link Monster can lock out an Extra Monster Zone if one of its Link Markers manages to point towards it--both if this Link Monster is placed correctly. Topologic Zeroboros will banish all cards on the field if a monster is summond too a Monster Zone it points to, then Special Summons itself the next Standby Phase after card activation..

Melffy Spright Counters: How to Beat

Best Decks to Use Against Melffy Spright

Runick Decks can completely screw up the Melffy Spright playstyle if it manages to get a few banishes it from its plethora of Quick-Play Spell Cards. It's gotten weaker thanks to a number of their cards being hit into the banlist, but it is still the most formidable Deck it can go up against.

Runick Deck Lists
Pure Runick	Spright Runick
Ishizu Runick	Naturia Runick

Ishizu Tearlaments, if they go first, becomes extremely hard to stop. They're the best Deck in the current meta as of writing for good reason. Your best shot against this Deck is to set up the strongest board possible, disrupt the correct plays to prevent any combos, AND hope that they do not have any wacky strategies that players don't normally expect.

Ishizu Tearlaments Deck Guide & Card List

Best Cards to Tech Against Melffy Spright

	Summon Limit
	Summon Limit locks down the players into only two summons overall per turn. This immediately shuts down a full combo from the Spright monsters, and forces the players into making each of their summons count.
	Dark Ruler No More
	Even a full-spread field from a Spright combo can stop Dark Ruler No More, unless they have a non-monster effect that can negate this card. However, if there is no response, the opponent can easily break through your defenses.
	Lava Golem
	Lava Golem continues to be a powerful counter to safely remove key monsters unexpectedly, like Spright Elf. Spright Red or Spright Carrot. Its Kaiju counterparts and The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode also get honorable mentions here
	Maxx "C"
	As with all Special Summon-heavy Decks, Maxx "C" still remains the biggest deterrent from the opponent making continuous Special Summons, one after another. For every Special Summon the opponent does after this card has its effect resolved, you get a free draw.
	Forbidden Droplet
	Not only will Forbidden Droplet negate all the monster effects the opponent has on the field, it also halves their ATK and is prevented from responding using the type of card that was discarded to activate this Quick-Play Spell.

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