White Forest is an Aggro deck in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, focusing on a Synchro-centric playstyle that benefits from sending Spell or Trap Cards from the hand to the Graveyard. Check out the core deck list, key combos, how to play & beat as well as F2P or budget options!

White Forest Deck List

Main Deck: 40 cards
x3	x3	x3	x3	x3
x3	x2	x2	x1	x1
x3	x3	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

White Forest Breakdown

Monsters

Spells

Traps

Extra

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Maxx "C"	3
	Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring	3
	Astellar of the White Forest	3
	Silvy of the White Forest	2
	Nightmare Apprentice	2
	Diabellze the Original Sinkeeper	1
	Elzette of the White Forest	3
	Toy Soldier	3
	Rucia of the White Forest	3
	Toy Tank	1

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Tales of the White Forest	3
	Toy Box	3
	Called by the Grave	2
	Crossout Designator	1
	Susurrus of the Sinful Spoils	2

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Infinite Impermanence	3
	Woes of the White Forest	1
	Angel Statue - Azurune	1

Rarity	Name	Qty
	PSY-Framelord Omega	1
	Visas Amritara	1
	Diabell, Queen of the White Forest	1
	Baronne de Fleur	1
	Chaos Angel	1
	Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis	1
	I:P Masquerena	1
	S:P Little Knight	1
	Silhouhatte Rabbit	1
	Formula Synchron	1
	Herald of the Arc Light	1
	Coral Dragon	1
	Silvera, Wolf Tamer of the White Forest	1
	Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest	1
	Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir	1

White Forest Alternate Cards

	Horus Engine
	The Horus Engine works with the White Forest for being an easy way to summon Level 8 monsters onto the field, while being able to send monsters from either the hand or Deck to the GY. With a number of Level 2 and Level 4 Tuner monsters in the Main Deck, this eases access for more Level 10 and Level 12 Synchro Monster options.
	Bystial Engine
	The Bystials can make use of LIGHT or DARK monsters from both players to be banished to summon themselves from the hand. With the Deck having Level 4 Tuners, the engine also includes Bystial Dis Pater--which becomes a negate so long as there are banished cards from either player's side.
	Centur-Ion Engine
	Centur-Ion happens to share a lot of penchantes with White Forest, the most crucial of which being their ability to Synchro Summon during the opponent's turn. It helps that it has access to both Level 4 and Level 8 non-Tuner monsters that can be Special Summoned to the field even during the opponent's turn. This might be a common engine to be used for those wanting to focus on flexibility.
	Witchcrafter Engine
	Realistically, the player can make a Deck mixing both White Forest and Witchcrafter cards, as they have synergy in essence of being both Spellcaster archetypes. Both archetypes have generic support for the Spellcaster-type too, which furthers their ability to mesh together.

White Forest Deck Guide: How to Play

Playstyle and Win Condition

Core Combos and Interactions

Boss Monsters

	Diabell, Queen of the White Forest
	The White Forest's ace monster. Diabell, Queen of the White Forest recycles a Spell Card if it is sumoned using a Synchro Tuner monster as material. Then, it can also Special Summon a Synchro Tuner monster fr om anywhere in response to an effect the opponent activates.
	Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest
	On Special Summon, Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest searches out a "White Forest" Card or a Spellcaster monster from the Deck by tossing a Spell Card from the hand. So long as this monster is on the field, your Spellcaster-type and Illusion-type Synchro Monsters will gain an ATK boost, and are immune to the opponent's card destruction effects.
	Silvera, Wolf Tamer of the White Forest
	Silvera, Wolf Tamer of the White Forest can turn all Special Summoned monsters to face-down Defense Position every time it is Special Summoned. It also provides an ATK boost to your Spellcaster-type and Illusion-type Synchro Monsters like Rciela, and when they attack a monster in Defense Position, the piercing battle damage they do is doubled automatically.
	Baronne de Fleur
	If a Deck can Synchro Summon a Level 10 monster easily, rest assured they will have Baronne de Fleur in the Extra Deck--and that includes White Forest. Its negation and card destruction effects are far too helpful to not add to the Deck Recipe.

White Forest Counters: How to Beat

Best Decks to Use Against White Forest

Centur-Ion

As much as the Centur-Ion Engine can work with the White Forest cards, it is also one of the best Decks to counter it with. Centur-Ion's consistency in getting big boss monsters out with the help of the Crimson Dragon combo line makes it incredibly hard to break their defense, and then retaliate with big bodies like Cosmic Blazar Dragon and Red Supernova Dragon.

Centur-Ion Deck List & Card Guide

Tearlaments

Besides the typical overwhelming strategy Tearlaments Decks can run with to get multiple boss monsters on the field quickly, what makes this Deck a powerful counter is that it can make use of Super Polymerization very well, using its own cards or the White Forest cards as material.

Just to be safe, unless you can take sacrificing a few cards into being used as material, it may be safer to clear a Tearlament player's back row firest.

Yubel

Another brilliant user of Super Polymerization, Yubel is an extremely persistent Deck that has a unique strategy of crashing its monsters to the opponents and reflect all the battle damage back. They like having their cards destroyed, yet they do not get destroyed by battle, and the Graveyard doubles as a resource pool.

Between the various Yubel monsters, its synergy with the Unchained archetype, and ability to pivot, White Forest will have a good challenge against this Deck.

Yubel Deck List & Card Guide

Best Cards to Tech Against White Forest

	Super Polymerization
	As aforementioned above in the Best Decks to Use Against, Super Polymerization is very effective against White Forest, due to their LIGHT and DARK attribute, as well as their solitary focus on Spellcaster-type monsters. The worst part is that there are very few cards that can stop this Quick-Play Spell from resolving.
	Nibiru, the Primal Being
	A standard White Forest combo can easily go past 5 Summons total in a single turn. Nibiru, the Primal Being has been rising in popularity more with combo-heavy and summon-centric Decks being added to Master Duel on a regular basis.
	Dimensional Barrier
	For Trap Card-heavy Decks like Traptrix, Labrynth and Dinomorphia, Dimensional Barrier is such a good card to bring along. Once they spot the "White Forest" Tuner monsters, they can simply call "Synchro" on activation of this card, and all attempts to Synchro Summon are basically denied for the rest of the turn.
	Skill Drain
	Part of the strategy of White Forest is being able to Synchro Summon during the opponent's turn via monster effect. A well-timed Skill Drain will force them to only Synchro Summon during your own turn properly,

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