Ice Barrier Deck List & Card Guide

Ice Barrier is an Aggro deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, focusing on an expansive WATER archetype that specializes in Synchro Summoning. Check out the core deck list and key combos, as well as tips on how to play, alternative card options & counters against this specific Deck!

Ice Barrier Deck List

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

Ice Barrier Breakdown

Monsters

Spells

Traps

Extra

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring	3
	Mirror Mage of the Ice Barrier	3
	Maxx "C"	3
	PSY-Framegear Gamma	2
	Revealer of the Ice Barrier	3
	Speaker for the Ice Barriers	3
	Georgius, Swordman of the Ice Barrier	2
	General Raiho of the Ice Barrier	1
	Icejade Ran Aegirine	1
	Hexa Spirit of the Ice Barrier	2
	PSY-Frame Driver	1
	Warlock of the Ice Barrier	1

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Called by the Grave	2
	Crossout Designator	1
	Medallion of the Ice Barrier	3
	Freezing Chains of the Ice Barrier	2
	Winds Over the Ice Barrier	2

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Infinite Impermanence	3
	Torrential Reborn	1
	Torrential Tribute	1

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier	1
	Trishula, Zero Dragon of the Ice Barrier	1
	Lancea, Ancestral Dragon of the Ice Mountain	1
	Gungnir, Dragon of the Ice Barrier	1
	Baronne de Fleur	1
	Adamancipator Risen - Dragite	1
	Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier	1
	Icejade Gymir Aegirine	1
	Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying	1
	S:P Little Knight	1
	Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis	1
	Coral Dragon	1
	Ravenous Crocodragon Archethys	1
	Brionac, the Magical Ice Dragon	1
	Marincess Coral Anemone	1

Ice Barrier Deck Guide: How to Play

Playstyle and Win Condition

Core Combos and Interactions

Boss Monsters

	Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
	Recently made Unlimited in the most August 8 2024 Banlist Update, Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier is a very famous Synchro Monster even outside of its own archetype. Now players can add up to three copies in an Extra Deck, allowing players to abuse its banish effect to rip cards from the opponent's hand, field and Graveyard.
	Trishula, Zero Dragon of the Ice Barrier
	On Synchro Summon, Trishula, Zero Dragon of the Ice Barrier can banish up to three cards the opponent controls, and much like its predecessor, this effect has no once-per-turn clause.
	Adamancipator Risen - Dragite
	While the Deck does not have any Rock-type monsters, Adamancipator Risen - Dragite is still a powerful boss monster for WATER-based Decks. Ice Barriers can enjoy more Spell Card protection with this card, being able to negate a Spell/Trap Card's activation once per turn if there is a WATER monster in the GY.
	Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying
	Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying has generic requirements for its Synchro Materials, allowing it to be teched into Ice Barriers. It also makes great use of any banishing effects, increasing your monsters' ATK and deacreasing the opponent's for every banished card. In addition, if a card gets banished, this monster can banish a card both from the field and from the opponent's GY.

Ice Barrier Counters: How to Beat

Best Decks to Use Against Ice Barrier

Anti-Meta Stun

Setting up a field using Ice Barriers does take up a lot of time and resources, especially going into a combo for a Synchro Summon. Anti-Meta Stun Decks are going to considerably slow down their access, with floodgates and hand traps ready to stop most of this Deck's effect activations.

Anti-Meta Stun Deck List & Card Guide

Yubel

One of the Best Decks in the current meta after the release of Eternal Partners, Yubel is strong against most Decks due to their signature effect of reflecting back Battle Damage.

It does not help that this Deck will most likely carry copies of Super Polymerization on hand, allowing them to fuse away Ice Barrier Monsters.

Yubel Deck List & Card Guide

Labrynth

Another Deck that can interrupt a combo for Ice Barriers, Labrynth and their Trap Cards will find ways to disrupt the field repeatedly, and destroy cards from the field and even from your hand.

They only got stronger when the Unchained archetype managed to get Sharvara added to Master Duel, allowing them more ways to disrupt.

Labrynth Deck List & Card Guide

Kashtira

Kashtira are currently the best Deck when it comes to punishing monster card effects. As soon as one triggers, cards like Fenrir, Unicorn, and Ogre will rip resources from them and banish them face-down.

Once Arise-Heart is on the field, it is game over for the Ice Barriers, as they need the Graveyard for some of their plays to properly take effect.

Kashtira Deck List & Card Guide

Best Cards to Tech Against Ice Barrier

	Necrovalley
	Quite a number of Ice Barrier effects involve cards moving in and outof the Graveyard, whether it be for Special Summoning or for banishing themselves for effects. Necrovalley locks down the GY and disables any effects that will move them out of there.
	Super Polymerization
	As mentioned above, Ice Barriers are a prime target for Super Polymerization due to a majorityof the Deck Recipe using WATER monsters. It is incredibly hard to negate this Quick-Play Spell, as it also dictates that no card or effect can be activated in response to this card's activation.
	Skill Drain
	A majority of the Ice Barrier monsters trigger their effects on the field, usually upon being Summoned in some way. Skill Drain should stop any and all monsters from activating or triggering their effects while on the field.
	Summon Limit
	A usual combo with Ice Barriers will take a lot of summons to get to their Synchro Monsters, especially for those that need more than two monsters as material. Summon Limit will act as a floodgate and restrict both players into only two summons per turn, so long as this Continuous Trap Card is face-up and active on the field.

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