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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
White Forest Deck List & Card Guide
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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 | ||||
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| Extra Deck: 15 cards | ||||
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White Forest Breakdown
Monsters
Spells
Traps
Extra
| Rarity | Name | Qty |
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 | Tales of the White Forest | 3 |
| Toy Box | 3 |
| Called by the Grave | 1 |
| Crossout Designator | 1 |
 | Susurrus of the Sinful Spoils | 3 |
| Rarity | Name | Qty |
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| Infinite Impermanence | 3 |
 | Woes of the White Forest | 2 |
| Angel Statue - Azurune | 1 |
White Forest Alternate Cards
| Horus Engine | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 that like discarding cards to gain advantage. 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
The White Forest archetype is primarily made up of LIGHT Spellcaster-type monsters. The Level 4 monsters of the archetype serve as Tuners, and specialize for Level 6 and Level 8 Synchro Monsters.
Some of the effects have a cost of discarding a card, and the Spells and Traps take advantage of this effect. Should they be discarded by a monster's effect, they can be Set back onto the field without any drawback.
Main Deck Cards
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Astellar of the White Forest is the monster you want to have on hand to start a combo, due to its Special Summon of a LIGHT Spellcaster Tuner--which the player can choose between Silvy (which can search a White Forest
Spell/Trap from the Deck), or Rucia (with its free draw after using its effect).
Elzette is the monster searcher for the Deck, thus is summoned much later in the combo. Both itself and Astellar share the effect where they can be Special Summoned back from the GY if a LIGHT Spellcaster Tuner is Special Summoned on your field. This allows their innate synergy with the Level 4 Tuners of the archetype.
Some Synchro Monsters are also Tuners
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The monster that kickstarts the combo for this Deck is Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest. On summon, it adds either a LIGHT Spellcaster-type monster or a "White Forest" card from the Deck. Keep this monster on the field; it also provides a boost of 500 ATK for Illusion-type and Spellcaster-type Synchro monsters, as well as card destruction effect immunity.
Silvera, Wolf Tamer of the White Forest's effect is a field-wide Book of Moon, which can be powerful against targeted effects. It also provides an ATK boost like Rciela, but its secondary buff is dealing double piercing battle damage for the same monster types.
Diabell, Queen of the White Forest is the most crucial among the three. When summoned using a Synchro tuner (Rciela or Silvera), it can target any Spell or Trap in your GY to add back to the hand. It also can Special Summon a Level 7 or lower Synchro Tuner from the Extra Deck for free, which means popular options like Formula Synchron, Herald of the Arc Light and Coral Dragon are all viable here.
Toy Box Engine
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Because of the White Forest archetype's penchant for sending cards to the GY as cost, the Toy Box Engine has incredible synergy for this Deck. A single activation of Toy Box can set two monsters from the Deck to the Spell/Trap Zone, and both monsters can Special Summon themselves back once they are sent to the GY.
Core Combos and Interactions
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| 1 | Activate Toy Box, and use its first effect; Set 1 copy each of Toy Soldier and Toy Tank from the Deck to the Spell/Trap Card Zones. |
| 2 | Normal Summon Astellar of the White Forest. Trigger its effect; send the Set Toy Soldier from the Spell/Trap Zone to the GY to Special Summon Silvy of the White Forest from the Deck. |
| 3 | Chain Link 2: Activate Toy Soldier upon being sent from the field to the GY; Special Summon itself to the field from the GY. Chain Link 1: Activate Silvy of the White Forest's effect upon being summoned; add Tales of the White Forest to the hand. |
| 4 | Upon being summoned, activate the second effect of Toy Soldier; add Rucia of the White Forest from the Deck to the hand. |
| 5 | Using Silvy of the White Forest and Astellar of the White Forest as materials, Synchro Summon Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest. Upon being summoned, activate its effect: discard Tales of the White Forest, then add Woes of the White Forest from the Deck to the hand. |
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Chain Link 2: Activate Astellar of the White Forest from the GY; Special Summon itself back to the field from the GY. Chain Link 1: Activate Tales of the White Forest's effect after being discarded to the GY; Set it on the Spell/Trap Zone. |
| 7 | Flip up and activate Tales of the White Forest's effect; add Elzette of the White Forest Effect, Rarity, and Packs from the Deck to the hand. |
| 8 | Using Astellar of the White Forest and Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest as materials, Synchro Summon Diabell, Queen of the White. On summon, activate its effect to retrieve Tales of the White Forest from the GY back to the hand. |
| 9 | Activate Rucia of the White Forest from the hand; Special Summon itself from the hand. Then, activate its second effect: discard Woes of the White Forest from the hand, then draw 1 card. After being discarded, activate the second effect of Woes of the White Forest: Set itself back onto the Spell/Trap Card Zone. |
| 10 | Using Toy Soldier and Rucia of the White Forest as material, Synchro Summon PSY-Framelord Omega. |
| 11 | Activate Elzette of the White Forest from the hand; Special Summon it onto the field, send the Set Toy Tank from the field to the GY, then add your next choice of "White Forest" monster. |
| 12 | Upon being sent to the GY; activate Toy Tank from the GY; Special Summon itself from the Graveyard. |
| 13 | Using Toy Tank and Elzette of the White Forest as materials, Link Summon Silhouhatte Rabbit Effect, Rarity, and Packs onto the Extra Monster Zone. Afterwards, activate its effect: Set Angel Statue - Azurune from the Deck straight onto the field. |
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Boss Monsters
| Diabell, Queen of the White Forest | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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.
| Tearlaments Decks | |
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| Tearlaments | Horus Tearlaments |
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.
Best Cards to Tech Against White Forest
| Super Polymerization | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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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