The Yugioh Master Duel meta is a diverse one currently. But for those who want to get to the top ranks of competitive play with no experience, it can be difficult. Well don’t worry, these guides will take you through Master Duels best decks, their goals, combos, and what you should be seeing at the end of your turns.

The type of card in a deck will be broken down into a few categories:

Searcher – This card lets you search your deck for another card

Extender – This card will special summon itself or another card

Starter – A card that will begin your combo

Interrupter – A card that allows for interaction on your opponent’s turn, be this negate, destroy, or return a card to the hand.

Finisher – A card intended to finish up games by attacking

Drytron & Ritual Fairies

A deck that cannot be stopped. Currently one of the best decks and with good reason. This deck can play through 3 to 4 pieces of interruption and still end on a board of incredible cards, multiple negates, and resources to go again next turn.

Drytron

A new and unique ritual summoning archetype that summons based on the attack of the monsters not levels like classic ritual monsters. Each Drytron main deck monster has 2000 attack, is level 1, and cannot be normal summoned.

They can be special summoned from your hand or graveyard by tributing a Drytron or ritual monster. You will see why the use of the word tribute is important later. Each Drytron also has a unique effect to extend your combos but we can get into that later.

Fairies

A strange collection of archetypes, the ritual Fairies were the key to breaking this deck. Cyber Angels and Heralds are the two archetypes that make up the Ritual fairy portion of this deck. These cards are great at getting your resources back for making those efficient plays and keeping your hand stocked with cards.

The Heralds are cards that are powerful negators. Each card can negate some kind of card your opponent has normally at a high cost. But with Drytron and the Cyber angels this isn’t a problem.

The Synergy

Cyber Angel Benten is a level 6, light fairy, Ritual monster that when it is Tributed you can search for another Light fairy monster. This means tributing by any means including for the effect of a Drytron monster. Also, you can just add another Benten with Benten’s effect, making the effect to summon a Drytron effectively free. This initial connection between this card and the Drytron archetype is what let Drytron quickly snowball into the powerhouse it is today.

The Deck

Drytron cards

Drytron Alpha Thubin (Searcher)

Drytron Zeta Aldhibah (Searcher)

Drytron Gamma Eltanin (Extender)

Drytron Delta Altais (Extender)

Drytron Meteonis Draconids (Finisher/ Interuppter )

Main deck

The gang is all here. Alpha when summoned searches for any ritual monster. Zeta when Summoned searches any Ritual spell, but you will only be searching for one. Delta lets you draw a card if you reveal a ritual monster or spell. Meteonis Draconids is optional in this deck but it can clean up board when summoned using 2 Drytrons, allowing it to attack every monster your opponent controls once. With 4000 attack not much it going to be surviving that. It can also at quick effect speed send cards to the graveyard, an all-around insane boss monster. Gamma when summoned gets another Dryton onto the field allowing for extended plays.

Spells and traps

Drytron Nova (Starter)

Meteonis Drytron (Extender)

Drytron Fafnir (Starter)

Drytron Nova summons any Drytron from the deck, the rest doesn’t really matter as you won’t be normal summoning any monster in this deck. Meteonis is the Drytron ritual spell and the only one in this deck. It ritual summons using attack points and can add itself back to the hand for the low price of making a monster lose 1000 attack. Fafnir the field spell searches any Drytron spell/trap when activated. So if you get this on turn one you can search nova, if you draw it any later you can still search nova because Nova can summon any of the Drytron monsters. Consistency really is a key to a deck like this.

Extra Deck

Drytron Mu Beta Fafnir (Extender/Searcher/Interrupter)

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Now, this is a boss monster. If you ritual summon while Mu Beta is on the field you can detach the materials used to make this card for that summon. When you Xyz summon Mu Beta you can send any Drytron from your deck to the grave. Since Drytron monster can summon from the Graveyard, this is a search. Finally when your opponent has the audacity to play a spell or trap you can detach a material and negate the activation. Before this card lose Drytron monsters would just sit idly on the field, with Mu Beta they keep your combo going.