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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
Armored Xyz Shark Deck List & Card Guide
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Armored Xyz Shark is an Aggro deck in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, featuring a plethora of Shark-themed monsters that specialize in conducing Xyz Summons. Check out the core deck list, key combos, as well as how to play & counters!
Armored Xyz Shark Deck List
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| Extra Deck: 15 cards | ||||
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Armored Xyz Shark Breakdown
Monsters
Spells
Traps
Extra
| Rarity | Name | Qty |
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 | Maxx "C" | 2 |
| Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring | 3 |
| Mulcharmy Fuwalos | 3 |
| Surfacing Big Jaws | 3 |
 | Abyss Shark | 3 |
| Drake Shark | 1 |
| Hydrojet Shark | 1 |
 | Buzzsaw Shark | 3 |
| Xyz Remora | 1 |
 | Lantern Shark | 2 |
| Rarity | Name | Qty |
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| Called by the Grave | 1 |
| Crossout Designator | 1 |
| Seventh Tachyon | 3 |
| Seventh Ascension | 3 |
| Armored Xyz | 1 |
| Aqua Jet Surface | 1 |
| Reincarnation Unveiling Mail | 1 |
| Rarity | Name | Qty |
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| Infinite Impermanence | 3 |
| Virtue Stream | 1 |
| Full-Armored Xyz | 1 |
| Xyz Revive Splash | 1 |
Optional Cards
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Cards to consider when building a Shark Deck is making use of WATER monsters that can Special Summon or can be Special Summoned easily to be able to have the materials to Xyz Summon. Cards like Xyz Remora, Double Fin Shark, Silent Sea Nettle and Tin Goldfish should make it easy to get monsters on the field as often as possible.
There's also additional support to consider like Beautunaful Princess, Dream Shark and Lifeless Leaffish, which despite having different Levels all synergize with one another. On top of that, the Spell Card White Mirror can Special Summon a Fish-type monster from the GY and search for a copy of the recycled card at the same time.
Special mention among the Main Deck options is Barrier Statue of the Torrent, which locks out both players out of Special Summoning non-WATER monsters. In this Deck, this can be a surprising floodgate against the opponent.
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Other optional support cards can be of great help for this Deck. Rank-Up-Magic Barian's Force provides a bigger pool of Xyz Monsters that can be summoned via Rank Up, while Seventh Force provides an additional summon during the Battle Phase if you control a certain Xyz Monstre and its "Number C" counterpart.
Torpedo Takedown is a really versatlie card for the Deck, which does a little bit of everything: burn damage, an ATK boost, and drawing 2 cards.
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With various Xyz Monsters of the same rank, an option for a more defensive play would be to go for Number F0: Utopic Future and then immediately going into Number F0: Utopic Draco Future, which comes with a negate against monster effects, and potentially even stealing the opponent's monster.
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Another very viable option for the Extra Deck is Number 4: Stealth Kragen and Stealth Kragen Spawn, which turns all monsters on the field into the WATER Affinity--and then destroying WATER monsters the opponent controls. These two Xyz Monsters also come hand-in-hand, Special Summoning one another.
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For more offensive power, a classic set of cards to run are the Utopia cards, specifically going with Number 39: Utopia Double, then eventually going for the win (and even an OTK) by doubling its attack with the help of *Double or Nothing!.
It also has its own Rank-Up variant in Number S39: Utopia The Lightning, which is another strong monster when it comes to battles.
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Tellarknight Ptolemaeus having been unbanned a couple of updates ago, it's becoming a powerful option to run if the Deck can go into Rank 4 Xyz monsters. Climbing into Stellarknight Constellar Diamond, and then into Constellar Ptolemy M7 is a great way to get multiple materials into an eventual Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder summon.
Tier Evaluation
| Tier Ranking | |||
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 Tier 2 |
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| Deck Archetype | Deck Difficulty | ||
| Aggro | Easy | ||
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 Fish-type WATER monsters that can be Special Summoned easily for materials for Xyz SummonsCan Rank Up into stronger Xyz Monsters, which have very powerful offensive effectsCombos can end with 2 Xyz monsters on the field at least, and up to 4 in a single turn |
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Armored Xyz Shark Deck Guide: How to Play
Playstyle and Win Condition
| Attention! | This portion is in progress, stay tuned until then! |
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Core Combos and Interactions
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| 1 | Normal Summon Buzzsaw Shark, then activate its effect (by targeting itself) to Special Summon Surfacing Big Jaws from the Deck. Then, using the two monsters on the field as material, Xyz Summon into Bahamut Shark. |
| 2 | Activate Bahamut Shark's effect; detach one material from itself to Xyz Summon LeVirtue Dragon from the Extra Deck, without having any materials attached. Then, activate the latter's effect on summon; add the Virtue Stream Trap Card to the hand. |
| 3 | Activate the second effect of LeVirtue Dragon by detaching the last remaining material from Bahamut Shark; add Surfacing Big Jaw from the GY to the hand. |
| 4 | Overlay using LeVirtue Dragon to Xyz Summon Full Armored Black Ray Lancer. Then, overlay using the newly summoned Xyz Monster to Xyz Summon Xyz Armor Fortress. |
| 5 | Activate Xyz Armor Fortress's effect by detaching two materials; add Reincarnation Unveiling Mail and Full-Armored Xyz from the Deck to hand. |
| 6 | Overlay using Xyz Armor Fortress to Xyz Summon Full Armored Crystalzero Lancer. Then, overlay again into Full Armored Dark Knight Lancer |
| 7 | Activate Reincarnation Unveiling Mail, and equip it to Full Armored Dark Knight Lancer. |
| 8 | Activate Surface Big Jaws from the hand to Special Summon itself. Trigger its effect on summon to search and add Abyss Shark. |
| 9 | Activate Abyss Shark from the hand to Special Summon itself. In the same effect, add Hydrojet Shark from the Deck to the hand. Special Summon it afterwards, then activate its effect to send Xyz Revive Splash from the Deck to the GY. |
| 10 | Using Hydrojet Shark and Abyss Shark as materials, Xyz Summon Abyss Dweller. |
| 11 | Overlay using Bahamut Shark to Xyz Summon into Full Armored Utopic Ray Lancer. Discard Full-Armored Xyz as cost for activation. |
| 12 | Banish Xyz Revive Splash to trigger its GY effect, then target Full Armored Utopic Ray Lancer; overlay to Xyz Summon Number C32: Shark Drake LeVeiss. |
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Boss Monsters
| Number C32: Shark Drake LeVeiss | |
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Number C32: Shark Drake LeVeiss is one of two versions of a Shark Drake evolution availalble. This Xyz Monster serves as a last-ditch effort, considering its effect has a requirement that needs the user to have 1000 or less LP left. By banishing a card from the GY and detaching a material from this card, it can target a monster to drain its stats to 0. |
| CXyz N.As.Ch. Knight | |
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CXyz N.As.Ch. Knight is pretty easy to summon once you get its prerequiste Xyz monster N.As.H. Knight on the field. Immune to card destruction effects, this card can be a cheat to summon a Number Xyz Monster betwen 101 and 107. |
| Full Armored Crystalzero Lancer | |
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While it needs a Rank 5 WATER Xyz Monster as a prerequisite for its cheat summon, Full Armored Crystalzero Lancer immediately takes advantage of it with an ATK boost for each material attached to it. It can detach a material instead if it is about to be destroyed by card effect, and it can negate all monster effects for a turn. |
| Full Armored Dark Knight Lancer | |
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For each material and Equip Card attached to Full Armored Dark Knight Lancer, it gains an ATK boost. It can recycle an "Xyz" card from the GY, making it easy to recover the Armored Xyz Cards, and it absorbs a monster as material once a turn when it gets an Equip Card. |
Armored Xyz Shark Counters: How to Beat
Best Decks to Use Against Armored Xyz Shark
Floowandereeze
Floowandereeze has been a Deck that specializes in going up against Special Summon-centric Decks, using multiple Normal Summons and various floodgates to punish the opponent.
Floowandereeze Deck List & Card Guide
Runick
Various versions of Runick Decks are still a problem, even with numberous hits onto their Quick-Play Spells into the banlist, on top of the floodgates being affected as well. Most of these Decks are reactionary, however, thus making their gameplay reliant on how the Shark Deck player goes about their turn.
| Runick Deck Lists | |
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 Pure Runick |
 Spright Runick |
 Ishizu Runick |
 Naturia Runick |
Snake-Eye Diabellstar
Right now, Snake-Eyes is the strongest Deck in the game with its unmatched card advantage and various ways of ending the game. Especially helped with the power of the Diabellstar engine, and various effects that turn monsters into Continuous Spells/Traps, it will be a rather uphill battle going against this Deck as an Armored Xyz Shark player.
Snake-Eyes Deck List & Card Guide
Kaiju
Kaijus are already a troublesome archetype to deal with as a splashable archetype across many Decks, but against a full-fledged Deck, they will simply take advantage of the Special Summons by tributing them.
As a Shark player, try to save your strongest Xyz Monsters for a game-winning play before they can tribute that boss monster away.
Best Cards to Tech Against Armored Xyz Shark
| There Can Be Only One | |
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There Can Be Only One limits both players to control one monster per affinity. This will completely bottleneck the Shark Deck if this card is active before they can do their first Xyz Summon. |
| Summon Limit | |
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With multiple Xyz Monsters that can be Ranked Up into stronger monsters, Summon Limit will also bottleneck the Deck's ability to bring out the higher Ranked Xyz monsters. Though, this is best used in a Control Deck, as it also limits its user much like their opponent to two summons in a turn. |
| Maxx "C" | |
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The bane of all Special Summon-heavy Decks, Maxx "C" makes its user draw a card each and every time the opponent decides to Special Summon for the rest of the turn. Unless the player going up against this card's effect can Special Summon enough times for a Deck Out win condition, this will result in a massive card advantage. |
| Nibiru, the Primal Being | |
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The one downside of an Xyz-centric Deck that focuses on Ranking Up the Xyz Monsters is that they can easily go past 5 summons in a single turn. This makes the Deck very susceptible against Nibiru, the Primal Being--and unless certain cards are teched in to counter this card, this card's efffect will most likely resolve. |
Related Packs to Armored Xyz Shark
| Blazing Arena | Legacy Pack |
| Master Pack | Rulers of the Deep |
| Shark's Pride | Shark's Pride |
| Sword of the Seventh One | Treasures of the Cosmic Ocean |
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World Champion Decks
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| Decks Used By All Teams in Worlds 2024 | ||
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| snipehunters | CER | Hero's Future |
| BOTB | MYYGO | Thank Love |
| CER 2 x FCG | BRAZ IL | Maxx “Yee” |
| Double Noir | Rogue Ruler | |
Aggro Decks
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| List of All Burn Decks | ||
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| Red-Eyes Burn | Timelord Burn | Chain Burn |
| D.D. Dynamite | Igknight OTK | Cubic |
| Dinosaur Bishbaalkin FTK | Volcanic Snake-Eyes | Transaction Rollback Burn |
Alt-Win Decks
| List of All Alternate Win Decks | ||
|---|---|---|
| Crooked Cook Exodia | Flower Cardian Exodia | Treasure Panda Exodia |
| Suicide | Defense OTK | |
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