Introduction to Stardust Bystial

The Centur-Ion Main Deck monsters cannot be Special Summoned after they resolve their unique effect:

• Loading... Search
• Loading... Placing a Centur-Ion monster in S/T Zone
• Loading... Special Summon from hand
• Loading... Draw 1

If their effect is negated, the lock does not apply.

The lock is mostly relevant for Primera. For example, if you Normal Summon Primera and activate her search, you cannot then summon another copy with its effect when treated as a Continuous Trap. This means you can only access one Centur-Ion Tuner per turn if you do not run Atrii.

This can be played around by delaying the activation of their effect, but you typically cannot afford to do this, especially when you need your extension to play through hand traps or disruption.

Rulings while treated as Continuous Trap:

Each Centur-Ion Main Deck monster has the effect: During the Main Phase, if this card is a Continuous Trap: You can Special Summon this card.

Centur-Ion revolves around this effect. Loading... and Loading... place your combo pieces in the S/T zones from the Deck, then summon them to combo further. It also facilitates Synchro Summoning using Loading... on your opponent’s turn.

• Since they’re treated as Continuous Trap, this effect is Spell Speed 2. You can summon your monsters on your opponent’s turn and chain them to your opponent’s cards.

• This effect is once per turn, separate from the lock.

• Only activatable in the Main Phase. You will get a prompt that says your opponent wants to leave the Main Phase, so you can Summon them before they go into the Battle Phase.

• This avoids giving your opponent draws under Fuwalos.

• This is a Trap Effect and not a Trap Card Activation, so it cannot be negated by Loading... , Loading... , Loading... , or Loading... , for example.

• They’re not negated by Loading... .

• They can trigger Loading... .

• They’re negated by Loading... column.

• They can be sent to the GY under Loading... by the cost of Loading... ’s effect, etc.

Loading...

Starter, Normal Summon, Tuner end board, and combo piece.

If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Centur-Ion" card from your Deck to your hand, except "Centur-Ion Primera."

• Searches Loading... in case you started the combo with Normal Summoning Primera or Trudea.

• Searches Loading... in case you started the combo with Stand Up. This usually does not apply for normal Centur-Ion decks, instead, you’ll search Loading...

• Searches Loading... in case you already have access to Trudea or Stand Up.

• Under Maxx C, if you started with Stand Up, you can choose to search Phalanx instead of Trudea, if you have a Bystial. This way, you can summon a Synchro 10 while also having Phalanx’s banish. If you’re concerned about follow-up, or you don’t have a Bystial, you can search Trudea, place it, and Gargoyle in the S/T zone, and end on 1 disruption. This makes Primera great under Maxx C, since it provides 1-2 disruptions with one or zero draws.

• Searches again after summoning itself on your opponent's turn for follow-up. You can search Trudea if you don’t want to or can’t discard with Stand Up. This effect can be Chain Link blocked with Stand Up’s effect.

While this card is a Continuous Trap, Level 5 or higher "Centur-Ion" monsters you control cannot be destroyed by card effects. It might be optimal to delay summoning Primera to protect your Loading... .

Bystials extend a lot better with Primera than with Trudea. You have the option to Link summon into Loading... , and you have the option to summon level 10 or 12 Synchros.

You usually want to play 2-3 to avoid running out of copies to access with Stand Up or Trudea turn 3 onward. This also applies to Trudea, but to a lesser degree. If they’re 1 ofs, they can also be garnets in your hand if you can’t Normal Summon them.

Loading...

Starter, Normal Summon, end board, and combo piece.

During your Main Phase: You can place this card you control and 1 "Centur-Ion" monster from your hand or Deck, except "Centur-Ion Trudea", in your Spell & Trap Zones as face-up Continuous Traps.

• Places Primera if you started with Trudea.

• Places Loading... if you started with Primera.

• This lets you combo further, while keeping Trudea in the S/T zone to summon itself on your opponent’s turn and facilitate Stand Up’s Synchro summon effect, or to be sent to the GY for Gargoyle to summon itself on your turn.

• Start your combo with Loading... or Loading... if you open with either of them and Trudea. Trudea’s effect is too important, so you don’t want it to be disrupted. It’s not as bad if Primera is negated instead.

Trudea plays worse into Maxx C than Primera, but it can’t be Ashed or Purged, unlike Primera.

When summoned from the S/T zone, it can change its level to 8 to summon a level 12 Synchro. Retains its level increase even after being negated. You can keep it at level 4 to summon Primus or Loading... .

Loading...

Combo piece. Typically used for Synchro Summoning on your turn.

After using it to Synchro Summon Loading... , it can then be used for summoning Seals, thanks to both of its unique effects.

If this card is sent to the GY as Synchro Material: You can add this card to your hand.

• This effect Chain Link blocks your Synchros’ on-summon effects, so they’re protected from Ash and such. Always activate it last in the Chain.

• Gargoyle is vulnerable to Bystials here, but you can destroy the Bystial with Legatia or Primus on resolution. If you do, your opponent’s Magnamhut won’t have the window to activate its effect. This also applies to Loading... .

• This facilitates Gargoyle’s other effect:

You can send 1 face-up "Centur-Ion" card you control to the GY; Special Summon this card from your hand.

• In your 1c Centur-Ion combos, you usually don’t activate this effect and instead keep Gargoyle in your hand.

• If you can continue to extend your combos, like with Stardust or Lubellion, Trudea in your S/T Zone is typically the card you send to summon Gargoyle, in which case you use Lubellion or a Bystial for the Synchro Summon with Stand Up’s effect on your opponent’s turn instead of Trudea.

• Turn 3, you can send the Stand Up you activated in turn 1, since you can't reuse the effect of the old one. Better use it for Gargoyle’s summon instead of replacing it for no benefit.

• Gargoyle is generally a bad draw, but it can sometimes help extend with this effect.

• You can summon it again to OTK.

• Gargoyle can be used to summon Lubellion. This way, you can use the Magnamhut it searches to trigger Regained for a draw 1.

Gargoyle can be a garnet when drawn, unless you can place it with Trudea from your hand. Your combo will be worse, or at the very least, you'll have to go minus.

It can change its level to 4 when summoned from the S/T zone to summon Primus or Chaos Angel. Retains its level decrease even after being negated.

Loading...

Combo and end board piece. Atrii facilitates more combo lines. It lets Loading... access an extra name after using up the other Main Deck monsters.

If this card is Normal or Special Summoned and you have an "Emblema" card and a "Centur-Ion" card in your GY: You can draw 1 card.

• This effect is facilitated with the help of Loading... searching Emblema Oath.

• Atrii increases the ceiling for your Centur-Ion combos, letting you draw 1 on your turn and your opponent’s turn, providing hand traps or great extenders.

The Cons:

• You won’t be able to fully combo interrupted most of the time, so a card like this might not come up. For Atrii specifically, sometimes you need to start the combo with Oath, or you have to use Oath to extend, so you can’t afford to use it for Atrii. You could open with Gargoyle or Atrii, so you can't use Atrii. Fuwalos can also make Primus not worth summoning. Deeper analysis is in the Deck Building tab.

• It can be a garnet. You can Normal Summon it in some lines.

• It doesn’t provide a protection effect like Primera.

• It’s not a LIGHT attribute, so it can only summon Loading... with Battle protection.

This makes Atrii an optional card for Stardust Bystial, though I would 100% recommend it for a normal Centur-Ion deck. If you don’t want to run it in a normal Centur-Ion deck, then you might as well play a different deck because this is the best you've got for your ceiling and grind game. It’s better than Wake Up in that regard.

Since Atrii is a Dragon, it can help summon Loading... . It’s also summonable with Seals and is searchable with Magnamhut.

Loading...

Starter, extender, combo piece. It’s also the end board piece Centur-Ion is built around. Stand Up does everything for the engine.

During your Main Phase, if this card was activated this turn: You can send 1 card from your hand to the GY; place 1 "Centur-Ion" monster from your Deck in your Spell & Trap Zone as a face-up Continuous Trap.

• As a starter, Stand Up places Primera.

• As a combo piece, Stand Up places Trudea if you started with Normal Summoning Primera, or it places Gargoyle if you started with Normal Summoning Trudea.

• As an extender, if your Primera is negated, Stand Up places Trudea.

• As a combo piece after searching it with Auxila in your Stardust Bystial combos, Stand Up places Trudea.

• As a starter, to combo with placing Trudea, you’ll require running Loading... , which is suboptimal for Stardust Bystial decks. If you do play Wake Up, then Trudea is usually your go-to placement when starting with Stand Up. If they negate your Primera with Ash or Purge, you can still end on one disruption with Stand Up’s Synchro Summon, but this also applies to Primera if you have a Bystial. Unlike Trudea, Bystials extend better with Primera, and have more options for Synchro Summoning with Stand Up if you can’t extend with them on your turn. This is more important for Stardust Bystial because we play a lot more Bystials than normal Centur-Ion decks.

The sending for cost is free if you open Stardust. Sending a LIGHT/DARK monster can be beneficial for your Bystials. This effect cannot be activated under Loading... or cards with similar effects.

If a monster(s) is Special Summoned, you can: Immediately after this effect resolves, Synchro Summon 1 Synchro Monster, using monsters you control as material, including a "Centur-Ion" monster.

• It summons a boss monster on your opponent’s turn, typically Loading... . This effect is usually activated on your opponent’s turn and is facilitated by the effect of your Centur-Ion monsters summoning themselves from the S/T zones.

• You need to use at least 1 Centur-Ion for the Synchro Summon, so you can use a Bystial as the other material for summoning a level 10 Synchro like Loading... or Loading... . This can trigger the effect of Loading... .

• This effect triggers on any Special Summon, from you or your opponent, and in any part of the turn.

• Usually has no use on your turn. Avoid activating it just because you get the prompt. You can use it in Loading... lines to summon Primus in the End Phase with Phalanx and Quick Synchro to play around Nibiru. Edit: This effect is a great way to counter Loading... on your own turn, if you activated Ash Blossom or any other card in your hand. This way, you can summon Legatia or Primus once Izuna hits the field, before Loading... has the opportunity to summon itself, then destroy Izuna. If they are able to XYZ summon, they can go into Loading... , which you can’t interact with on your turn, besides with SMSD’s ignition negate. It might also help against Loading... .

• Chain Link blocked by Atrii or Primera’s effects to play around Loading... or Spell/Trap negates like Loading... or Chain Link blocks Atrii or Primera to avoid Ash Blossom or Purge. If you’re summoning Crimson Dragon, there is no point in playing around Impulse. If you're summoning Primus or Legatia, you'd rather play into Ash or Purge on your Primera/Atrii.

Cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects while you control a "Centur-Ion" Monster Card.

• Works with Centur-Ion monsters in the back row, not just the monster zones. It plays around Loading... . This is a secret effect, so your opponent might waste cards trying to destroy it.

• You can activate Loading... in response to a destruction effect against Stand Up.

Loading...

Versatile starter, extender, and sometimes a combo piece. Oath can provide any missing engine piece, even under Loading... .

Oath can’t be searched by Primera or Auxila. It can only be searched by Loading... .

Activate 1 of these effects;

Set 1 "Centur-Ion" Spell/Trap directly from your Deck.

• This is the effect you typically use, usually sets Stand Up to start your combo or extend through hand traps.

• It can set Phalanx to play under Maxx C or to go into Legatia instead of Auxila for the draw 1. It does not add Phalanx to discard it, unfortunately.

Place 1 "Centur-Ion" monster from your Deck in your Spell & Trap Zone as a face-up Continuous Trap.

• This is typically not the effect you use when starting with Oath.

• For the rest of this turn, while you control that card, or any card with that same original name, you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck, except "Centur-Ion" monsters.Be cognizant when using this effect. This makes it difficult to extend through disruption. If you started the combo with this effect, instead of setting Stand Up, if you get disrupted, you might not have Stand Up set up for the next turn. You can place Trudea with this, and later Gargoyle can send it from the back row, so you’re not locked.

• Sometimes you can’t or shouldn’t discard with Stand Up, so this is the better option. This can let you combo without discarding.

• Use this effect when extending after starting with Stand Up.

• This facilitates combo lines that summon Legatia and Auxila, though they’re mostly useful for going second.

• As a combo piece with Primus, this effect can be used to place Atrii from the deck. Oath facilitates its effect to draw 1. When starting your Centur-Ion combo with Primus, It places Trudea.

• This can let you combo without using your Normal Summon.

For placing a monster or setting Phalanx, you require two free S/T zones to activate Oath from the hand.

Oath is not always ideal as a starter. Some combo lines become unavailable because you used it earlier in your combo. This is especially the case if you're running Atrii and/or Wake Up.

Oath is not necessary for your Centur-Ion engine to function, so you can play without it if you’re on a budget, though you need it to use Primus. Unlike Primera and Trudea, you don’t have to worry about running out of copies of it, so you can run one or two copies.

Loading...

Combo piece.

Wake Up extends your combos and facilitates many combo lines. It summons a token and dumps Loading... , which is usually then used to reborn Loading... , allowing you to summon and use Loading... on your own turn and your opponent’s turn. This is particularly useful when going second.

• Wake Up can make you less reliant on Gargoyle, so drawing it isn’t a big issue.

• Useful for Nibiru lines.

• Makes combos that start with Primus better.

• Let's you combo under Loading... and similar cards when starting with Trudea or Oath.

• As an extender, when you’re starting with Stand Up or Oath, activate it before summoning the monster in your S/T zone. Place Primera with them, so you can Synchro Summon through disruption.

• Allows you to combo without using your Normal Summon if you placed Trudea with Stand Up, letting you extend with your Normal Summon. This is more useful when you’re going second. This line is not very consistent.

• Allows Trudea to combo without discarding. Not very consistent either.

The issues with Wake Up:

• You have to skip out on searching Phalanx, so you’ll end up with the same amount of disruption anyway. Blazar is a cooler and higher-quality disruption, but Phalanx isn’t bad either. You have to play 2 copies of Phalanx to access an additional copy of it, making your deck worse in the process.

• It’s a win-more brick, since the engine can combo without it, while it doesn’t add enough value most of the time. It has the same issues as every other card that’s purely a combo piece.

• Plays worse into Maxx C and Droll than lines without it. You might miss out on searching Stand Up or even Phalanx, because you search Wake Up before them, then you get Drolled.

• You have to start your Stand Up or Oath combos with Trudea instead of Primera.

• Having to also run Atrii in Stardust Bystial.

• It’s incompatible with Stardust Bystial combos. You won’t have Phalanx’s GY effect to summon Auxila, and you can’t use Phalanx as a discard for Brotaur either. Wake Up’s lines don’t use Gargoyle, so you can’t access Seals. For Stardust Bystial, there are better uses of the Extra Deck spot besides a 2nd Crimson Dragon target.

Wake Up is generally recommended for normal Centur-Ion decks.

Loading...

Combo piece, disruption, and follow-up.

You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 "Centur-Ion" Synchro Monster in your GY; Special Summon it, but it loses 1500 ATK.

• When starting the Stardust Bystial combo with Centur-Ion, after Auxila adds Phalanx, Brotaur discards it; Phalanx reborns Auxila later in the turn, making its End Phase and on-field effects active.

• Facilitates combo lines with Wake Up.

• It’s Spell Speed 2, since it’s a Trap Effect. It can summon Auxila or Legatia on your opponent’s turn for additional resources, or Legatia’s pop. Generally, it’s great for follow-up.

Target 1 face-up Monster Card on the field; banish it, and if you do, during the Standby Phase of the next turn, Special Summon that banished monster to its owner's field.

• “Monster Card” refers to what the card physically is, not what it is treated as. On top of banishing monsters in the Monster Zones, Phalanx can also target and banish Centur-Ion monsters treated as Continuous Trap, monsters treated as Continuous Spell, such as Loading... , monsters treated as Equip Spell, such as Loading... , and Pendulum scales. Phalanx cannot banish Monster Traps, such as Loading... .

• Monsters that can’t be Special Summoned by card effects, or that are not Summoned Properly, like Loading... or Loading... , will be permanently banished.

• If you banish a Monster Card in the S/T Zone, it will be Special Summoned.

• If you shuffle the banished monster with Regained or Dis Pater, it won’t be summoned.

• Banishing your monsters can be useful. It can be used to dodge your opponent’s targeting or removal effects, then bring it back next turn. It resets Loading... ’s once while face-up omni-negate. Phalanx triggers the monster’s on-summon effect, which can also be a downside.

• Your opponent’s Phalanx summoning a monster triggers your Loading... . Activate Maxx C in the Draw Phase to draw off it.

• Against Stun, banish their floodgate on your turn.

You cannot use the banish and then use its GY effect in the same turn. You typically don’t want to activate it in response to Loading... , for example, to use its GY effect.

Loading... & Loading...

Auxila and Legatia are Centur-Ion’s in-archetype boss monsters. They’re level 12 Synchros that require generic materials.

Auxila is the go-to combo piece and boss monster. Auxila is a Dragon; therefore, it can be used to summon Seals along with Gargoyle. Legatia usually does not fit into linear combos.

Both Auxila and Legatia have two effects on the field, so if your opponent Imperms or Veilers them, you lose out on both effects. This is not an issue if you have Stardust, since you don’t require the on-summon effect to full combo. Dis Pater can consistently revive them, so you don't miss out on the End Phase effect either, or ideally, you’d have Phalanx to discard and use.

Both Auxila and Legatia have an effect that triggers on Special Summon:

Auxila:

If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Centur-Ion" card from your Deck to your hand.

• Allows the Stardust Bystial and other engines to access the Centur-Ion engine in their combos. In which case, it adds Stand Up. Stand Up places Trudea, which provides you with Primera, which adds Phalanx and is used to summon Loading... with Brotaur.

• Typically adds Loading... if summoned at the end of your Centur-Ion combo.

• It can add Wake Up in some combo lines.

Legatia:

If this card is Special Summoned: You can draw 1 card, then you can destroy the monster your opponent controls with the highest ATK (your choice, if tied). Non-targeting

• This makes Legatia your level 12 summon with Stand Up’s effect, in case you don’t have another Synchro for Loading... ’s effect. This usually comes up if you get Maxx C’d and don’t have access to a Bystial to summon Loading... .

• Legatia can be summoned if you already have Phalanx. You still need Auxila if you have Stardust. The draw 1 is redundant and could be detrimental if you already have Stardust, so I prefer summoning Auxila, even if I have Phalanx. If you don’t have Stardust, you can use Legatia to high-roll and draw into Meister, Lubellion, or Stardust.

• The draw can be a Bystial. Combined with Legatia and Gargoyle, that’s enough to OTK.

• When summoned with Stand Up, the draw 1 can be a Bystial or a hand trap, so Legatia can provide more than 1 disruption.

• It cannot destroy face-down monsters.

• This effect can be looped for multiple turns in a row, with Phalanx’s banish effect summoning Legatia and Phalanx’s GY effect. Auxila’s search effect is usually redundant turn 3 onward. Draw 1 and pop is much better for your grind game.

Both Auxila and Legatia share this effect:

During the End Phase: You can place 1 of your non-Synchro "Centur-Ion" monsters that is in your GY, in your Spell & Trap Zone as a face-up Continuous Trap.

• Auxila can also place from the banishment. This makes it invulnerable to Bystials, since this effect does not target.

• Legatia can also place from the hand.

• This provides you with the Synchro material for Stand Up’s effect on your opponent’s turn.

• Typically places Primera.

Both Auxila and Legatia provide protection for your field:

Auxila:

Face-up cards in your Spell & Trap Zone cannot be destroyed by card effects. Spells/Traps are a crucial part of Stardust Bystial’s and Centur-Ion’s End Board. This effect can make a huge difference. It makes Auxila better to end on than Legatia.

• Protects your Regained, Beast, AiL, and Centur-Ion Monster Cards.

• Let's you save up on an omni-negate against back row removal.

• A lot of players aren’t aware of this effect, so they will waste their board breaker.

• It won't protect your Phalanx, but at least its GY effect will be available.

• This also works in tandem with Primera’s protection effect.

Legatia:

Your monsters with 2000 or less ATK cannot be destroyed by battle.

• It can protect your Seals or S:P. Legatia becomes 2000 ATK when summoned with Phalanx, making it protected.

• This effect can be a downside if you have a low ATK monster in ATK Position, since your opponent can attack multiple times into it and OTK. It can play poorly into Loading... for this reason.

• Your opponent might waste their Battle Phase, unaware of the protection.

Loading...

If this card is Synchro Summoned: You can add 1 "Emblema" card from your Deck or GY to your hand, then you can destroy 2 cards (1 on each field). This is the only searcher for Loading... .

• As a combo piece, it gives you access to more combo lines, especially when running Wake Up or Atrii.

• It can be used to access the Centur-Ion engine using any level 8 Synchro engine, like Loading... or Magistus. This way, you can make a bigger board than usual, even without Wake Up or Atrii.

• It’s your only level 8 Synchro Summon with Stand Up. Provides good disruption and follow-up. The non-target pop any card makes it really versatile, and harder to play around.

• If you have already activated Oath or you already have it, you can skip summoning Primus.

• You can attempt to destroy any card protected by Auxila or Primera’s effect, so only your opponent’s card will be destroyed. Stand Up’s protection is only from your opponent’s card effects, so Primus will destroy it unless Auxila protects it.

• You can pop Stand Up when going second, if needed. You can set a useless Spell/Trap for the pop. If you summon Primus with Stand Up, you can pop it, since it has no use for the rest of the turn, and the turn after.

• It has to add to pop. If Oath is in your GY, this effect is activatable under Droll.

If a face-up "Centur-Ion" card(s) you control leaves the field by an opponent's card effect, while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card.

• This facilitates specific lines to play around Nibiru. It does not trigger if it was sent to the GY at the same time as the Centur-Ion card leaves the field, like if Nibiru tributed Primus and another Centur-Ion monster.

Cannot be destroyed by battle, unless it was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck.

• It’s protected if summoned with Phalanx or its effect.

Loading... & Loading...

Crimson Dragon is a core boss monster for Stardust Bystial and is also Centur-Ion’s go-to level 12 Synchro Summon with Stand Up’s effect. It accesses broken and cool boss monsters.

(Quick Effect): You can target 1 Level 7 or higher Synchro Monster on the field, except "Crimson Dragon"; return this card to the Extra Deck, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Dragon Synchro Monster with the same Level from your Extra Deck. (This is treated as a Synchro Summon.)

• Typically targets your Auxila or Legatia to summon Loading... .

• It can target your opponent’s Synchro monsters.

• It cannot summon Synchros that require being summoned by specific materials like Loading... or Loading... .

• It can summon another copy of the same Synchro you targeted, so you can summon a second Loading... by targeting the first.

• This effect cannot be successfully resolved if the monster you targeted leaves the field before the effect resolves. For example, Crimson Dragon targets SMSD, then SMSD activates and resolves its omni-negate in the same Chain, and therefore leaves the field. Crimson Dragon then returns to the Extra Deck, but no Synchro will be summoned by its effect.

• Flipping Crimson Dragon face-down does not prevent the successful resolution of the effect.

• Since Blazar is a WIND monster, you usually wanna summon it after using up SMSD’s negate(s), so you can avoid having your strongest boss monsters removed by Loading... with Loading... . I typically Chain Crismon Dragon to SMSD’s last negate, so I can immediately have access to another negate.

Crimson Dragon can be summoned on your turn in some lines.

On-summon, you can add Loading... .

Loading... :

Rumble can reborn any Tuner from the GY, or a level 7/8 Dragon Synchro, then locks you into Synchro Monsters.

• For Stardust Bystial, generally, Rumble facilitates summoning Crimson Dragon, then Accel Synchron by providing an additional Tuner, letting you make use of all of your non-Tuners.

• This is not necessary at all for the Centur-Ion variant, since you’ll need the additional Lubellion to remain on the field to Synchro Summon with Stand Up. For lines that don’t start with Centur-Ion, you’ll be using Lubellion to summon Auxila, instead of Crimson Dragon.

• Out of all of our win-more cards, this is one of the worst options you can run, but its existence is appreciated for facilitating combo lines for some tertiary variants.

Loading...

Your go-to Crimson Dragon target. Very versatile and impactful. Possibly the best boss monster in the game, at least in a vacuum.

(Quick Effect): You can banish this card until the End Phase to activate 1 of these effects;

• It banishes itself for cost, allowing it to survive each turn. The only way to out it is with cards like Kaijus. It won’t benefit from Loading... ’s protection effect then, so monsters can negate Blazar. It dodges Loading... .

• It cannot return to the Extra Monster Zone. Moves to the GY in the End Phase instead of returning to the field if no Main Monster Zones are available. Always summon it in a Main Monster Zone.

When your opponent activates a card or effect: Negate the activation, and if you do, destroy that card.

• You will have to use the omni-negate if you want to negate a card with the effect to Special Summon, such as Loading... .

When your opponent would Summon a monster(s): Negate the Summon, and if you do, destroy that monster(s).

• This only negates Inherent Summons(Summons that occur outside of a Chain or effect resolution), such as Synchro, Xyz, Link, Normal Summons, Monsters with Summoning Conditions, such as Lubellion. It does not negate card effects that Special Summon.

• This negates Summons by card effects with this text: immediately after this card/effect resolves, such as Stand Up or Loading... , because their Synchro Summon occurs after the effect’s resolution, not as a part of the effect.

• Extra Deck monsters have to be summoned properly first; otherwise, they cannot summon themselves from the GY or Banishment, like with the effect of Loading... . If their summon was negated, this can ensure that they cannot summon them for the rest of the duel if they’re running 1 copy.

• Some monsters can attempt to Special Summon themselves again that otherwise can only be Summoned once with their Summoning Condition, like Loading... .

• They can still fulfill their summoning requirement, such as Loading... shuffling, or Loading... tributing.

• Blazar can negate the Summon of multiple monsters if they’re Summoned simultaneously. It can negate the Pendulum Summon of 6 monsters, for example.

Negating a summon means the monster was never on the field, even if it appears they are. This means the monster you’re attempting to negate the summon cannot apply or activate their effects, or be interacted with by other card effects, within the window of their attempted summon.

• This effect is perfect for avoiding monsters that could threaten your board with 2 forms of interaction, such as Loading... and Loading... or other highly impactful monsters and floodgates such as Loading... .

• Loading... ’s floodgate effect is not applied, so you're able to activate this effect when TY-PHON would be summoned. The lock TY-PHON applies after it is summoned does not apply either. Your opponent might try to bait you into negating TY-PHON’s summon, then extend safely if you fall for it.

• Protections such as from Loading... or Loading... are not applied

• They can’t be banished for cost by Loading... , for example.

• Floating effects, like Loading... ’s, do not trigger.

• Effects that trigger when a monster leaves the field, such as Loading... or Primus, will not trigger.

When an opponent's monster declares an attack: Negate the attack, then end the Battle Phase.

• This wins you the game against Tenpai if it resolves. They could play around it by chaining their Quick Synchro effect. The monster you attempted to negate then leaves the field; therefore, there is no monster to negate the attack of, so the Battle Phase would not end, as you need to negate the attack to end the Battle Phase. None of my opponents had been aware of this, but it’s still risky. If they can’t Quick Synchro, then you’re safe.

Blazar's effect is soft opt. It can negate infinitely in the End Phase. Return to SMSD’s section to learn more.

Must be Synchro Summoned. You cannot reborn it with Loading... .

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Your go-to level 10 Synchro Summon for going second, and with Loading... . It’s practically the face of this variant, especially with how many Bystials I run, and because of how good and versatile it is.

Summoned using a Bystial and any of our Level 4 monsters thanks to its effect:

For this card’s Synchro Summon, you can treat 1 LIGHT or DARK monster you control as a Tuner.

• Not requiring a Tuner opens up more possible plays that other level 10 Synchros will not give you access to.

If this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 card on the field; banish it.

• Great for getting rid of threats or follow-up, especially 1-of cards.

• Triggers on Special Summon not just Synchro Summon. It can be triggered if Special Summoned by Dis Pater or Loading... getting banished.

• This effect is not once per turn, so you can loop it with Dis Pater.

This card gains these effects based on the original Attributes of materials used for its Synchro Summon.

LIGHT: Synchro Monsters you control are unaffected by monster effects activated by your opponent.

DARK: Monsters you control cannot be destroyed by battle.

• The LIGHT protection, coupled with the banish effect, makes Chaos Angel very effective at board breaking, especially when coupled with Loading... , which Chaos Angel can Chain Link block.

• You get both protections thanks to Bystials and Primera or Stardust. Your Synchros become hard or impossible to out against certain match-ups, making it single-handedly win you the game, like against Dracotail, which might not have any answer for a Defense Position Chaos Angel.

• It provides a unique way to deal with certain cards, like preventing Loading... from decreasing the ATK of your Synchro monsters, which is huge.

• A lot of the time, your opponent won’t know about the protection effects, and your opponent will waste their effects or Battle Phase.

• Once Chaos Angel is no longer face-up, like with the effects of Phalanx, S:P or Daruma, then is flipped face-up or returns to the field, it forgets the properties of the monsters used for its Synchro Summon, such as their attribute, therefore it loses the effects that it gains from being summoned by LIGHT/DARK monsters. Don’t banish it with your S:P.

• The battle protection can be a downside if you have an Attack Position lower ATK monster that can be used to OTK by attacking it multiple times. Loading... can facilitate that by summoning a monster to your field.

• In Master Duel, if the protections are active, they’re each written in white text; otherwise, they’re not active.

When summoned using a LIGHT monster, it and other Synchro monsters can still be affected by:

• Lingering Effects, such as Loading... and Loading... ’s effect to destroy all your monsters.

• Continuous Effects, such as floodgates, like Loading... .

• Summon negate by Loading... .

• Effects that don't affect the monster, such as Loading... ’s effect change, and Loading... equipping itself.

Summoning Chaos Angel turn 1 is usually not recommended

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Spirit can convert Primera into a Dragon body, so it can be used to summon Seals.

It opens up other combo lines where you want to summon Seals instead. For example, under Loading... , instead of summoning Auxila first, you can summon Seals with Spirit and Gargoyle. Stardust tributes Seals, Seals summons Saronir. Summon Dis Pater and dump Lubellion. Dis Pater summons Stardust, Lubellion tributes Dis Pater and places Regained, then you can summon Auxila for the End Phase effect, giving you a larger board, despite not having AiL.

In case Primera gets negated, Spirit is especially helpful as it provides a LIGHT in the GY to extend with your Bystial.

• This might be unnecessary if you have Stardust to Tribute Primera, but if you have Stardust and Loading... , you can summon Seals using Spirit and Saronir, so you can trigger Saronir to dump Lubellion, to have extension in case they negate Stardust’s search effect.

• You can also pass on Stand Up, Bystial in hand, and Primera instead of summoning Seals.

• It can be used when you need to Normal Summon CWD, Brotaur, or Atrii.

• Spirit converting any low-level Spellcaster into a Dragon could open up the possibility for other variants of Stardust Bystial, like the future Branded variant.

• You cannot Special Summon, except Dragon monsters. This is a Continuous Effect. If Spirit leaves the field, the lock will be removed. It can’t be used for Loading... . It can’t be Tributed by Stardust.

• It baits Loading... , and in some cases Veiler/Imperm.

Because we run so many Bystials, and because of the importance of Seals, Spirit is a core part of Stardust Bystial. It is not as important in normal Centur-Ion decks. Unfortunately, with the Magistus engine, you won’t find space for it.

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Sifr is now a core card after the release of Loading... . Always play it. You can run Blazar alongside it by removing a utility option, since Sifr can be weak against some decks.

Second-best Crimson Dragon target and the budget option. All of your cards are protected from battle and card effect destruction one time each. If your opponent has destruction removal, this can let you save up on a negate, making it count as an additional interaction. It can make it really challenging to break through your board each turn.

It can negate a monster effect, then non-target destroy any card on the field, not just the monster you negated. The pop effect is mandatory, so you might be forced to destroy your own card, but his protection effect applies, as well as Primera’s and Auxila’s. Try to use this effect when your opponent controls a card you want to destroy. This can make it disrupt two cards.

Banishes itself from GY to summon a Stardust monster from GY, including Loading... . Dis Pater’s effect can’t summon it.

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Budget/flex option if you got the free royal.

Cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects.

Banishes itself and all cards your opponent controls in response to their monster effect or attack.

• This effect is not hard once per turn; it can be summoned again by Assault Synchron to be activated again.

• Supernova’s conditions for the banish effect are too restrictive, and it lacks a good protection effect, making it easy to be played around, forced out, or disrupted. For example, Engraver or Druiswurm can easily get rid of Supernova or force its activation before your opponent commits to their main plays.

• Whenever you can pull it off, it’s very impactful.

• Special Summons itself in your next End Phase, so you won’t have it for an entire turn.

• It doesn't need to banish itself to banish your opponent's cards. Chaining S:P’s banish to its effect will only help Supernova.

• Great against Tenpai, since it’s non-targeting and banishing their cards lets you permanently get rid of their 1 of Chundra and can prevent the effects of Bident and Fadra.

• Summons itself to your field if your opponent takes control of it and uses its effect.

The attack bonus makes it good for OTKing or destroying towers.

Loading... & Clear Wing

Quasar is an omni-negate that floats into Loading... when it leaves the field. Shooting’s attack negate can come up against Tenpai, by negating Chundra’s attack, but that only matters if it's their only monster. They’ll have to negate and destroy Quasar, or Super Poly it for this to work, and Blazar, Sifr, and Supernova are better, more reliable counters to Tenpai.

Quasar is practically just a worse Baronne. The multi-attack effect doesn't even work when summoned with Crimson Dragon because it wasn’t summoned using any non-Tuners as material. They take up 2 Extra Deck spots.

Similar to Quasar, Loading... is a basic omni-negate, except it can attack over big monsters sometimes. However, it floats into a much better boss monster than Shooting Star Dragon. Still, it’s not worth 2 Extra Deck spots.

As your secondary Loading... target, you want an option that gives you more versatility than Blazar, in the form of removal, like from Supernova, or protection and removal, like from Sifr. You don’t want just another negate that’s less versatile than Blazar, and relies on your opponent removing it to float into another boss monster, instead of protecting itself as the other options do.

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The OG Majestic Synchro. Summonable by targeting Dis Pater or your other level 10 Synchros. Tributes itself to omni-negate and destroy all cards your opponent controls. Soft OPT. It can be reborn by Loading... for another omni-negate and board wipe.

Ignition effect to negate an opponent’s monster and steal one of their activatable effects. Also soft OPT.

Mandatory effect to return to the ED in the End Phase. Loading... ’s effect prevents it from returning.

The board wipe sounds great on paper; usually, you’ll only destroy one or two cards, since it can be forced out. Most of the time, it’s overkill. It’s vulnerable to Called by, and it doesn’t return to the field like Blazar or SMSD. Banishing the card, like what SMSD does, is usually more valuable than this effect.

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The equipped Extra Deck monsters can activate their own effects, such as Artemis’ effect to add a Magistus monster, which facilitates the engine’s combos. The equipped monsters can be used to facilitate the summoning conditions of Loading... , or Loading... .

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Loading... Special Summons itself when it's added to the hand, making it extend your combos using the search effects of Artemis or Loading... . Unfortunately, this makes it a garnet.

On-summon, it can Fusion Summon an Invoked or Magistus Fusion, such as Loading... .

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Starter, extender, and combo piece. Spenta is what makes the engine so good. It has two great effects.

Discard this card; add a Magistus monster.

You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 face-up monster you control; equip 1 "Magistus" monster from your Extra Deck or GY to it as an Equip Spell.

• As a starter, it adds your Normal Summon. The GY effect lets you summon Doomed Dragon or Chorozo, but it’s not always necessary to use it, except for Loading... ’s line.

• As a combo piece, it's added by Artemis, then it adds Crowley, then you can use its GY effect to summon Doomed Dragon or Chorozo.

• As an extender, it adds Crowley, and its GY effect lets you summon Chorozo, or Doomed Dragon if you have a Centur-Ion monster in the S/T zone. Artemis can add an additional copy of Spenta for a free discard or additional follow-up. You can loop Spenta for multiple turns, and with Brilliant Fusion or Foolish Burial, Spenta equips Artemis, which adds Spenta, since its hand effect was not activated.

• It requires your Normal Summon to fully combo with the engine.

The Normal Summons

Each Normal Summon is a combo piece and a starter. They can equip Artemis from the Extra Deck, letting you add Spenta, when used as a starter, or Crowley when starting with Spenta. Each Normal Summon benefits from being equipped. You have to play 1 of them.

Loading... ’s effect to Special Summon a level 4 or lower Spellcaster from hand or GY when equipped.

• When starting with Spenta, Zoroa reborns it. If you’re not starting with Spenta, since it negates the summoned monster, it’s not the greatest for extension.

• It cannot summon Artemis, since it has no level.

• It provides material for Loading... and can summon Auxila using Loading... .

Loading... ’s effect to destroy a face-up Spell to draw 1, then shuffle a card in your hand.

• It can shuffle Brotaur, Nepyrim, Gargoyle, Crowley, or CWD. It’s great.

• Since we run like 5 engines with Magistus Centur-Ion, you’re likely to draw good and not redundant extension.

• In case Artemis gets Ashed or Purged, Endymion can extend with the draw 1 effect.

• It can be used to access Called by or Ash before committing a lot to your plays, or draw into hand traps or engine pieces that help you pass under Maxx C or Fuwalos. They might be forced to pre-emptively activate them.

• Endymion can pop Loading... when it’s otherwise just taking up space. Only pop it if Seraphinite is not on the field.

• Auxila can prevent you from destroying your own cards, therefore not drawing.

• This effect makes it challenging to summon Doomed Dragon. You can choose not to use it for this reason.

Most decks run Zoroa as their go-to Normal Summon, since it’s a Tuner, and it creates a bigger board and combo. It doesn’t have anti-synergy with Doomed Dragon, and you’re not required to summon Chorozo, so you have a much easier time summoning Doomed Dragon.

For Stardust Bystial, Endymion is arguably the better choice, mostly because we run many garnets.

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Doomed Dragon helps you extend, OTK, and it removes without destroying or sending to the GY. The Centur-Ion engine makes it easier to access.

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Chorozo gives you access to a Tuner, which is essential for the Endymion line.

Mechaba is awkward to use since it requires discarding specific types of cards. It can help you threaten your opponent when going second, or insulate your combos from hand traps. Not recommended if you’re running Endymion.

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The combo and end board piece Dragonmaid is built around.

2 "Dragonmaid" monsters with the same Attribute but different Levels

Must first be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by banishing 1 each of the above cards from your field and GY.

• After Normal Summoning your Maids, each of them can get their Dragon Form into the GY. You can then inherently summon Lady's. This does not start a Chain Link, so your opponent might not try to prevent it.

• This summons Lady's properly, therefore it can be reborn. This comes up a lot and is crucial for follow-up and playing through disruption.

• You can summon Lady’s more than once per turn this way. This can help you play through Nibiru.

• You can summon her using a face-down monster.

• Cannot be Fusion Summoned.

If this card is Special Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower "Dragonmaid" monster from your Deck.

• This effect lets you extend your combos and add additional layers to your end board by triggering your maid's on-summon effect. Adding a maid in circulation, after having to banish your Normal Summon, provides a summon with Sheou's effect.

• Triggers on any Special Summon, making it highly impactful for follow-up plays when recovered.

• When starting with Loading... , summon Loading... with Lady’s. When starting with Parlor or Loading... , summon Chamber with Lady’s.

During the Standby Phase: You can Fusion Summon 1 Dragon Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, by shuffling its materials from your field and/or banishment into the Deck.

• This is your main access to your boss monsters.

• Unlike Loading... , this gives you access to your Fusions without having to search a specific card, since Lady's is available in the Extra Deck, and without having to use up three cards from your hand or field, and instead summon them for free, a much more efficient and consistent method. This also means you can consistently use your monsters for Link Summoning, or for their hand effects, and save your searches for cards that are not Changeover. If you can afford to, you can also use Changeover on your turn, then summon an additional Fusion on your opponent’s turn, so you end up with more than 1 Fusion boss monster, something the deck could very rarely do before. There were no 1c Loading... combos before this. This changes everything for Dragonmaid.

• Lady’s shuffles materials only from banishment or field. Typically shuffles the materials banished for summoning Lady's. This also lets you recycle your fusions and your Dragon Form maids. Shuffling Chamber or Loading... with Regained could be detrimental.

Stardust Bystial specific interactions:

• Dragonmaid makes Loading... more versatile, as it lets you extend by dumping a Dragon form, in case any of your Maids are negated. It can also make Changeover and Cehrmba activatable, so it can be a 2c combo starter.

• Dis Pater can summon Lady’s.

• Brotaur can also search Loading... to summon Lady’s.

Human Form Maids

Each maid is a Normal Summon and a starter.

They each have a search effect that triggers on-summon:

• Loading... dumps any Dragonmaid card.
• Loading... adds, then discards any Dragonmaid monster in your hand, usually adds and discards Loading... .
• Loading... adds a Dragonmaid Spell/Trap.

As starters, they are each used to dump their Dragon Form to summon Loading... .

As combo pieces, when summoned with Lady’s, Chamber and Parlor usually search Loading... . When comboing with Stardust, Chamber searches Hospitality to summon Seals. Kitchen isn’t typically used as a combo piece.

Kitchen is searchable by Loading... , making Kaimen an additional starter. It can be used as an extender if you have access to the Battle Phase. You need the consistency, but the engine functions without it, and since it’s the budget variant, there’s no need to make the additional UR mandatory.

Parlor and Kitchen shares the effect: At the start of the Battle Phase: You can return this card to the hand, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 8 "Dragonmaid" monster from your hand or GY.

• Chamber also summons any Level 7 or higher Dragonmaid monster, including Loading... , and even Loading... .

• This lets you recover Lady’s, as well as Loading... and Loading... .

• This effect lets you gain additional advantage, and by summoning Lady’s, you can also trigger its on-summon effect. It facilitates the end of the Battle Phase effect of your Dragon Form maids.

• Helps you OTK.

Dragon Form Maids

Combo pieces.

• Loading... is Parlor’s Dragon form
• Loading... is Kitchen's Dragon form
• Loading... is Chamber’s Dragon form

Each Dragon has an effect in the hand that discards them for cost.

• Larpor prevents either player from activating the effects of a monster. Great for going second. Since this affects the player and not the card, it works against towers.

• Tinkhec increases the ATK of a Dragonmaid by 2500 ATK on a Quick Effect.

• Cehrmba reborns a Dragonmaid monster from the GY or banishment. Decent extender. You might have to fuse from the field with Lady’s if you summoned a banished monster. When starting with Kitchen and Chamber/Cehrmba, you can search the other one, then discard Chamber, Cehrmba summons Chamber, then you can summon Lady’s. You can also summon Kitchen with Lady’s for this, if you need the additional body. You can also search Cehrmba if you opened with Tinkhec.

• All 3 effects can help you extend by providing material for Lady’s summon if your maid was negated.

Larpor and Tinkhec share the effect: At the end of the Battle Phase: You can return this card to the hand, and if you do, Special Summon Parlor or Kitchen from your hand.

• This provides you with follow-up and can let you extend further by giving access to the in-hand effects, or by summoning the maid in hand, in case you can trigger their on-summon effect.

• Cehrmba can summon any Human Form maid.

Each Dragon has the effect to protect themselves from card destruction if you control a Fusion monster, except for Cehmbra, which protects your Fusions instead.

Spells & Traps

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Hospitality is a combo piece with Chamber, making Chamber a 1c starter. It’s also an extender and 2c combo starter with any Dragonmaid monster, including the Dragon forms. Only searchable with Chamber. It can recover your boss monsters as well.

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Tidying provides disruption with its on-field effect, and follow-up or resilience against removal with its GY effect, allowing you to reborn Sheou on your opponent’s turn, or reborn Lady’s for more follow-up. You'll end with Tidying in GY as part of your Chamber 1c combo. It can be used to extend your combos.

The monster you summon with its GY effect returns to the hand or Extra Deck in the End Phase. Avoid summoning Sheou or Lady’s unless you can use their effects or body before they return. You can delay using it till your opponent’s Standby Phase.

Only 1 effect can be used in the same turn.

Tidying combined with Bystials is very strong, especially if they're summoned by Regained or Seals. They're added to your hand, then you can use their hand trap effect.

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Changeover is your access to Fusions beyond Lady's, providing more access to your win-conditions. Accessed with Parlor or Chamber. Its GY effect returns a Dragonmaid monster to the hand to add itself.

• Changeover can be useful for summoning your Fusions for immediate disruption, board breaking, and resilience to hand traps or disruptions. It can be an extender.

• You can use Lady's as Fusion material, then summon her again with Sheou. This is especially useful if you get to keep Chamber on the field, so you can use Changeover’s GY effect on it.

• It will light up in the GY, but think before activating it. You might only have a Fusion to return. Don’t activate the GY effect before summoning Lady’s. Summon Lady’s first, then use the GY effect.

• Changeover provides a +2, which is useful for Brotaur’s and/or Nepyrim’s discards for Stardust Bystial.

If you could choose, search Changeover with Chamber, instead of Parlor.

Fusions

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Sheou is the main boss monster of Dragonmaid.

It has an Omni-Negate that destroys, then it tags out into Loading... .

• House Dragonmaid can facilitate even more disruption or removal from there. It can also provide an additional body to OTK in the Battle Phase, or if you summoned Sheou in Defense Position when summoned with Hospitality or Tidying, the negate let's you summon an ATK position House. House is not summoned properly with this effect.

On either player's Standby Phase, Sheou can summon a level 9 or lower Dragonmaid monster from GY or hand.

• This can provide you with additional follow-up by triggering the maids on-summon effect, and provide more resilience to your board, through the protection effect of Cehrmba or the Battle Phase effect of your human maids. It can also recover your Lady's or a properly summoned House.

• You can use Changeover to summon Sheou using Lady’s, and later reborn it.

• If you end on Sheou and Lady’s, activate Sheou’s Standy Phase effect first. Otherwise, your opponent might chain something to Lady’s effect, so you’ll have to negate with Sheou, and you will lose Sheou’s Standby effect.

• Chamber usually stays on the field, so you can't summon it again with Sheou. It provides a monster to return with Tidying, and it can be used to recover Sheou or Lady’s in the Battle Phase.

• Parlor is a great summon with this effect or Lady’s effect in Standby, that way you get Tidying’s GY effect.

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House can target and destroy a monster when a Dragon you control returns to the hand. This is facilitated with the effects of Tidying, Changeover’s GY effect, Filia’s effect when it banishes a card on the field, and the tag put effects of your small and big maids. This effect is not once per turn, so you can trigger it multiple times per turn.

• Because of this, Sheou + Tidying or Filia is a very strong board.

• House misses timing. You have to activate Tidying or Filia on Chain Link 1 for House to trigger.

• Returning to the Extra Deck doesn't trigger House. It has to be from the hand.

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Typically summoned with Lady’s if you summoned Sheou turn 1, or its summoned on turn 3.

• Banish any card from your opponent’s field or GY. If you banish from the field, you have to return a Dragon you control to the hand.

• It can only activate in the Main Phase, so keep that in mind.

• It can also recover itself from the GY at the start of your opponent’s Battle Phase, which can also trigger House.

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Khaos is a going second or turn 3 option. It's great for OTKing or playing through boards, and it’s then used as Fusion or sometimes Link material.

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Furious is a Quick Effect pop, unlike Khaos. You target your Dragon form maids, and they won’t be destroyed. It's mostly summoned turn 1 or on your opponent's Standby Phase. Does not come up often.

Its GY effect can summon Striker Dragon or S:P.

Links

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A detailed description of Seals is at the beginning of the Stardust Bystial Core tab.

Seals is an important boss monster for Dragonmaid. It’s 100% mandatory.

Its effect when tributed lets you summon any of your maids for follow-up or recovery, and it facilitates great plays through Nibiru, sometimes letting you build a better board than you had before getting Nib’d, or recreating the same board.

If you don't have access to Stardust, it's usually best to end on Tidying instead of Seals. That way, you don't just die to board breakers, you'll arguably have more follow-up, and you're less vulnerable to Nibiru if you can't summon Seals on the 4th or 5th summon.

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Sends your maids to the GY, making Hospitality activatable. This makes Chamber a starter, and it helps you extend if your maids get negated. Provides a banish for your Bystial, so you can extend.

In case your opponent can disrupt your GY resources, like with Bystials, you can use Striker to add an additional target in the GY for Hospitality.

• It also provides a DARK for Stardust to tribute, in case you used Parlor or Kitchen.

• It can be summoned just to provide a DARK material for Khaos or Furious.

• It can facilitate S:P’s on-summon banish sometimes.

Secondary engine to play with Pure Stardust Bystial or Centur-Ion.

Baby Dragons are a 1c Seals engine with the help of Loading... .

Chaos Space adds Loading... by sending a DARK monster for cost or Loading... by sending a LIGHT monster for cost. Summon the one you searched by banishing the card you sent with Chaos Space. Summon Loading... . This triggers the Baby Dragon’s effect to add the other one. Summon the searched Baby Dragon by banishing the other one. Activate Chaos Space’s GY effect to shuffle the banished Baby Dragon and draw 1. Summon Seals. This triggers the baby Dragon’s effect to add the other one, since you shuffled it with Chaos Space.

The end product is Seals + draw 1 + free discard in hand. Now, if you have Stardust, you can full combo with Seals, while having a discard or two for Brotaur and Stand Up. You will also have your Normal Summon.

• Baby Dragons have an Inherent Summon, which can allow you to play around Maxx C, since your opponent might not expect it. This is more useful when you have Primera or Trudea in your S/T zone by chaining them to Maxx C.

• Outside of Seals, you can also summon Loading... with its on-summon banish effect thanks to Striker Dragon. They can be used to summon Loading... or Loading... . Wyverburster applies his LIGHT protection effect.

• The GY effect can recycle your Extra Deck monsters as well.

• Chaos Space can also search Loading... . Baby Dragons are usually the better search. Chaos Space is bad without Baby Dragons. Searching Lubellion can be very redundant, and without a DARK search target, Chaos Space will be even more bricky and redundant.

• Stardust isn’t a good discard with Chaos Space since you don’t want to banish it. It's fine to banish it if that's the only option you have. Gargoyle provides a discard in your Centur-Ion combos. Discarding Brotaur lets you banish it to reborn it with Dis Pater or shuffle it with Regained.

• Since it has to discard a monster and one with a specific attribute, Chaos Space can be bricky. Sometimes you have to discard your only extender. The discard for cost makes it bad into hand traps and disruption. Collapserpent and Wyverburster are also non-starters. Unlike Bystials, they only banish from your GY.

• This engine can fit into variants that run LIGHT/DARK monsters, like Centur-Ion.

• Loading... is usually only played in Pure.

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Starter and Normal Summon.

Sends a Dragon(s) from hand or field to the GY to add a Dragon with the same level. It can send itself to add Collapserpent and make Seals, or send a Bystial to add Loading... , or send Saronir to add any Bystial you need, or send Loading... or Loading... to add the other one.

You can then recover them with the following effect:

You can banish it from GY to add a level 8 LIGHT/DARK Dragon from GY to your hand. Saronir dumps Lubellion to facilitate this.

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Boss monster and extender. Searchable with Chaos Space, Seyfert, and Magnamhut. It can be searched with Brotaur, in case you already have Lubellion or Regained.

Summoned by banishing 3 DARK and/or LIGHT monsters from your GY. This is not OPT. This does not start a Chain. Card effects can summon it after being summoned this way.

Depending on what cards you banished for its summon, you can activate one of these effects on-summon:

• Reborns a monster from your GY if you banished 3 LIGHT. Recovers your boss monsters or helps you extend further. It can single-handedly flip the game on turn 3 with this effect.

• Randomly hand rips your opponent if you banished 3 DARK. Great effect for turn 1.

• Non-target destroy 2 cards if you banished any combination of DARK and LIGHT. Great for dealing with disruption or follow-up or for OTKing, making this effect great for going second or turn 3 follow-up.

Cannot attack the turn it activates any of these effects. Use it for Link/Synchro material or Lubellion/Stardust tribute.

Loading... draw 1 can Chain Link block Levianeer.

Levianeer can be challenging to summon turn 1 or 2, especially without compromising on useful GY resources. Easy to summon with 3 LIGHT or 3 DARK if you full combo.

Loading... & REDMD

Don't craft REDMD. It's in the Dragonmaid-To-Order Structure Deck, which you also need to get for Seals.

Loading... is a starter, Normal Summon, and a potential combo piece. It provides Seals & Max Metalmorph, making it combo with Stardust.

If this card is sent from the field to the GY: You can add 1 "Red-Eyes" card from your Deck to your hand.

This effect is typically triggered by using BMD to summon Loading... . BMD then adds Loading... .

REDMD summons itself by banishing Striker Dragon, then activates its effect to summon BMD again. This gives you 2 Dragons to summon Seals, then BMD’s search effect can trigger again to add Loading... , since it’s not once per turn.

• BMD can extend by equipping itself from the hand to REDMD, allowing it to trigger its search if REDMD leaves the field. This is inconsistent, as it usually requires you to open with two BMDs.

• REDMD’s summon does not start a Chain. It can trigger Loading... , Regained draw 1, and makes Chaos Space’s draw 1 activatable.

• REDMD can also recover your Dragon boss monsters, including SMSD. It can sometimes reborn and trigger Brotaur, letting you search any DARK Dragon.

• BMD can be summoned using Loading... ’s effect, in case Brotaur is not in your deck, or you don't need it, or you can't discard. You can trigger BMD by summoning Accel Synchron using it or by tributing it with Stardust or using it as Link material if you're not locked yet. You can search REDMD and trigger it again if you’re not locked into Synchros. Otherwise you can search Fullmetal instead. REDMD might also not have a good banish target. You can banish SMSD, then reborn it with Assault Synchron’s effect, but you'll lose an Omni-Negate. BMD does not replace Brotaur. Searching Lubellion does too many things for the combo.

• In your Stardust Bystial combos, you can summon REDMD with Seals if you have a Bystial in your GY for an additional body, typically used for Lubellion’s Tribute.

The issue with the BMD engine is how inconsistent it is, especially when its engine requirements are almost the same amount as the starters.

Metalmorph

Loading... is an Omni-Negate + Burn that is hard to out, therefore Pure builds get to enjoy a higher ceiling and floor, as you don’t rely on comboing with Stardust as much, and you gain an additional boss monster if you do combo with Stardust + BMD.

Fullmetal shuffles itself from hand to set Loading... from the deck. Max Metalmorph Tributes a level 5 or higher Dragon to summon Fullmetal. Metalmorph then equips itself to Fullmetal to give it 400 ATK/DEF and targeting and destruction protection from Spells and Monsters.

• Fullmetal gives you an additional discard in case you open it or REDMD, since you can shuffle it to set Max Metalmorph, then add it again just to discard. Metalmorph can summon Fullmetal from the GY.

• The tribute triggers Druiswurm’s effect, which Seals can summon, making BMD’s 1c combo count as 3 disruptions.

• Max Metalmorph can help play around Droplet and DRNM by tributing SMSD to trigger Assault Synchron.

• It doesn't help you extend going second, but it can turn the tide around if you manage to summon Fullmetal turn 3.

• Good for Maxx C pass.

• Fullmetal can be searched with Chaos Space. It's not a Dragon, so it can't be added with the effects of Magnamhut, Seyfert, or Brotaur.

• Both cards are bricks, since you need to wait a turn to use them.

Loading...

Special Summons itself from the hand by sending a Normal Monster from hand or deck to the GY by cost and becomes level 7. Budget option in case you don’t have Fullmetal and you’re running the Primite engine.

Loading...

Starter and extender. Summons BMD from the deck by sending a monster from hand.

It can also summon Brotaur to add a DARK Dragon.

Plays poorly into hand traps with its cost. If they chain Fuwalos or Maxx C, you can summon Brotaur to search a Bystial and pass. If you can immediately search Fullmetal and have a way to summon it, then BMD isn't bad to summon.

Vanillas

Loading... :

Your main vanilla. As a level 6 non-Tuner Dragon, it acts as a Bystial, making it Synchro material for Dis Pater.

Wattail having 2500 ATK makes it so Loading... can trigger on any Normal Summon in the game, while allowing you to banish higher ATK Special Summoned monsters if they're on the field.

Loading... :

Provides your Primite engine access to Synchro monsters, making it more threatening, versatile, and fun. It can facilitate an additional Synchro Summon when summoned by Loading... at the end of your combo, increasing the ceiling. Wattaildragon summoned by Lode would just be sitting there under the Synchro lock. Being DARK Dragon also provides a Tribute for Lubellion.

It can summon level 10 Synchros with Beryl, including Dis Pater, which is particularly useful if you opened with AiL. It can summon level 12 Synchros with your Bystials, like Loading... or Crimson Dragon, or even Loading... with Brotaur.

It can be summoned with Loading... ’s effect.

Since it has 0 ATK, it can’t make Roar’s GY effect activatable. Sometimes you should choose to summon Wattail instead of it just for that reason.

Loading... :

Provides the Primite engine access to the Fiendsmith engine, making Loading... a better and more versatile starter and extender. Mandatory if you run the Fiendsmith engine.

Dipity is better than Loading... because it can summon Chaos Angel with your Bystials/Engraver/Lacrimosa as a level 4 monster.

It can count as an additional starter, since you can Normal Summon it, but requiring your Normal Summon does suck.

Loading... & Loading... :

Roar/Lode makes Loading... summonable using Dark Magician. It adds Loading... , which is then used to summon Loading... .

• This makes Roar a sort of 1c starter, and improves the overall quality of the engine with the additional win-condition it provides.

• Since you can summon Dragoon before committing to your main plays, this can insulate your main combos.

• It gives you bodies to attack with, when your Vanillas are usually summoned in Defense. You can attack with DMoD, then activate Gaze to summon and attack with Dragoon.

• Unfortunately, you do have to banish your Dark Magician, so Roar’s GY effect might not be activatable. Your Drillbeam might not have a way to activate afterward, so you have to manage that.

• Something you can do is tribute DMoD with Loading... or Stardust, then immediately activate Gaze on Chain Link 2, before the Synchro lock applies. You can also use DMoD for summoning S:P with the on-summon banish, before Fusing.

• Being locked into Synchros is fine, since Gaze can summon Dragoon on your opponent’s turn. It’s more useful to summon it on your turn so you can play through disruption or break your opponent’s board.

• Unless you’re locked, you can use DMoD to Synchro Summon a level 12 using Stardust. You can full Stardust Bystial combo that way.

• You can also use Loading... along with Loading... to have access to Fusions like Loading... , but it’s definitely not worth the bricks and Extra Deck space. Dragoon is also a Spellcaster, so Primite Fusion can’t summon it.

Overall, a cool addition to the deck, only requiring 1 brick, and it can be accessed very easily and it provides missing pieces for the engine, so it doesn’t go into win-more territory.

Loading...

Your main access to your Vanillas for your combos and a form of disruption.

Pay 2000 LP for cost to summon a Vanilla from the Deck.

• This requires controlling no monsters. Loading... or Loading... can Tribute a monster to empty the field, then Chain Link 2 Roar. This also works with Loading... Tributing itself, or S:P banishing itself.

• You need to use your Keyboard for this. For Loading... , you can type "Watta," for Loading... , you can type “Labr,” and for Loading... , you can type "Dark Magi" for short.

• Unfortunately, Roar only summons from the Deck, making your Vanilla count as a garnet. This usually requires you to play more than 1 Vanilla.

• Roar isn't once per turn, so you can chain another copy of Roar if your opponent Ashes or chains Maxx C or Fuwalos. The first Roar activated won't summon since you control a monster. You can’t declare the same name on a separate chain, for the rest of the turn. You can use a second Roar later to summon a Vanilla with a different name, in case your field is emptied.

• You can choose not to Special Summon the monster you declared if your opponent chains Fuwalos or Maxx C. Roar pass is decent, but you might have a better play.

• Roar protects your Primite monsters and the Vanilla you declared from battle till your opponent’s End Phase. This can be very effective against Blind Second decks. Since this card has a lot of text, your opponent won’t know about this, so they might not try to remove your Vanilla, see a vulnerable 1000 DEF Wattaildragon, and waste their Battle Phase.

• Typically, you want to activate Roar first thing in your turn. Sometimes it’s worth delaying it to ensure Drillbeam is activatable, or at least within the Chain.

• Roar summons the Vanilla in Defense, so you can't use it for battle.

If your opponent Normal Summons a monster: You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 Normal Monster you control or in your GY; banish 1 monster from the field with less ATK than that monster.

• Roar's GY effect is not once per turn, and you can activate multiple copies in the same window. This is particularly good against decks that Normal Summon more than once per turn, like Floowandereze or Gem-Knight.

• Roar does not need to banish a Normal Summoned monster. Your opponent is likely to have a Special Summoned monster on the field, then commit to their Normal Summon.

• You have to banish a monster from either side of the field, so don’t activate more copies than monsters your opponent controls. You might be forced to banish one of your monsters if your opponent removes their monster in response or if their other monster has a higher or equal attack to your Vanilla. Keep the stats in mind when activating this effect.

• Your opponent can Bystial or Called by the Vanilla you targeted, preventing the banish effect. You can keep the vanilla on your Field to avoid this.

• It is also triggered by Tribute Summons.

• You can use Nibiru’s token for this effect.

You don't need to summon with Roar. In some cases, you want to activate it just to get it to the GY. In this case, activate it before your opponent’s Main Phase, so that you wouldn’t miss their Normal Summon.

If you have a Roar in the GY, and you want to activate a second copy for its GY effect, you should do so if they control or Special Summon a monster before committing to their Normal Summon, to banish two monsters; otherwise, it’s pointless.

If you don't have a Vanilla in your Field or GY, and Beryl is in your GY, if you top deck Roar in your Draw Phase, you can activate it right away if your field is empty, then Beryl can add itself to the hand in the Standby Phase.

Loading...

Starter and Normal Summon.

If this card is Normal Summoned: You can Set 1 "Primite" Spell/Trap from your Deck.

• As a starter with Stardust, it sets Lode, which adds Roar. Then you can tribute Beryl with Stardust, and Chain Link 2 activate Roar to summon Wattail.

• Beryl typically sets Loading... , then Lode searches Loading... . If you started with Lode and searched Beryl, you set Drillbeam.

• Drillbeam or Roar will not be activatable when set, since they’re Quick-Play.

• It does not trigger when Seals Special Summons it. You can summon Magnamhut to add it instead.

• This effect is not once per turn, which can come up if you have a second Beryl or Lode to search it, thanks to Loading... . The extra Normal Summon can be used to summon another Loading... . Beryl’s effect when Normal Summoned is not once per turn, which can be abused in case you opened with a second copy of it or Lode and Beryl.

• Primite can occupy a lot of your S/T zones. Keep this in mind before setting an additional card with Beryl.

You can Tribute this card; send 1 Normal Monster from your Deck to the GY. Usually a useless effect, but it can come up.

• Tributing Beryl can clear the field for Roar to be activatable.

• It helps you play under Fuwalos by dumping and summoning your Vanilla from the GY with Lode instead of the deck.

• This can dump Dark Magician to make Gaze activatable, in case you opened with it.

• It’s useful to access a Vanilla in GY to make Roar’s or Beryl’s GY effects activatable.

During your Standby Phase, if you have a Normal Monster in your field or GY: You can add this card from the GY to your hand.

• This is infinite recursion, giving you a great Normal Summon each turn, accessing an additional Lode, and recovering Drillbeam from the GY. This effect is especially powerful in a simplified game state. Make sure your Vanilla monster does not get stuck as XYZ material or get Bystial’d to keep this activatable. This also applies to Roar’s GY effect.

Loading...

Starter and extender.

When this card is activated: Add 1 "Primite" card from your Deck to your hand, except "Primite Lordly Lode".

• Typically adds Beryl, which then sets Drillbeam.

• When comboing with a Normal Summonable Stardust, or when you run the Dark Magician tech, it adds Roar.

• This is a mandatory search effect. You cannot activate Lode at all if you’re under the effect of Droll. You can only use the effects once per turn, so if the activation is negated, you still can’t activate a second copy.

• If they Ash this effect, you can still activate the second one for extension:

You can declare 1 Normal Monster Card name; Special Summon 1 declared Normal Monster from your hand, Deck, or GY in Defense Position, also you cannot activate the effects of Special Summoned monsters on the field this turn.

• Because of the lock, this effect is usually used when you're unable to extend beyond it or at the end of your combos.

• This gives you the ability to make Drillbeam activatable, or to summon Seals using Wattaildragon and Beryl; however, you won't be able to fully combo with Seals and Stardust this way, since the lock prevents Stardust, Magnamhut, Dis Pater, and Lubellion from activating their effects.

• You can activate Seals or Saronir under the lock.

• In your full combo, your Stardust Bystial board might be vulnerable to Nibiru or other disruption. If you’re worried about it, or if you don’t need the vanilla, don’t activate this effect.

Normal Monsters and "Primite" monsters you control gain 300 ATK for each Normal Monster with different names in your GY.

• This effect can stack. This is relevant because of Beryl’s infinite recursion provides you with extra Lodes.

• The attack increase counts for Roar’s GY effect.

Loading...

Disruption and board breaker. It can also extend by negating Dominus hand traps or Imperm going first. Drillbeam is the main in-archetypal pay-off for the engine.

You can activate Drillbeam if you control a Vanilla monster, or by revealing a Vanilla or a Primite card in your hand. Sometimes you have to end on a Vanilla, and you cannot afford to summon Seals, etc, with it. Lode will let you end on a Vanilla. You can search Beryl with Magnamhut instead of a Bystial to make this activatable.

Target a face-up card on the field to negate it, then banish it.

• It can't target Vanillas or negated cards. It can only banish after negating. Your opponent can play around this effect by removing the card you targeted, such as with the effects of Vanquish Soul monsters.

During your Main Phase, if you control a "Primite" monster: You can Set this card from your GY.

• Before Beryl leaves the field, you can activate Drillbeam, then set it from the GY.

Extra Deck Options

Loading... :

A detailed description of Seals is at the beginning of the Stardust Bystial Core tab.

While you can’t normally summon Seals without locking yourself, and therefore you can’t always use it to combo with Stardust, Seals is an important win condition for Primite.

Seals can give you access to Wattail or Labradorite to make Drillbeam activatable, or make Beryl’s GY effect active. Labradorite can be summoned so you can gain access to a Tuner. Beryl can sometimes be summoned so you can activate Drillbeam’s GY effect, and to have it in rotation for its GY effect.

Seals can sometimes be used to bounce your Lode for follow-up next turn, or to make Drillbeam activatable.

Loading... :

Converts your Vanilla into an Effect Dragon Link body. This helps you summon Link monsters that require Effect monsters as material, like Loading... , which would also trigger its on-summon banish effect, thanks to Imduk being a Link. It can convert a non-Dragon vanilla into a Dragon for Seals. It can get your Vanilla in the GY to summon it again with the effect of Lode.

At the start of the Damage Step, if this card battles an opponent's monster this card points to: You can destroy that opponent's monster. Non-targeting destruction. Normally, your Vanilla will be in Defense Position, so converting it into Imduk provides an attack and/or destroy, which is nice.

Loading... :

Summoned using Beryl, it provides Stardust a DARK to Tribute, then banish with your Bystial. This is especially helpful if your Beryl gets negated, or you started the combo with Lode and searched Beryl instead of Roar.

Also gets your CWD or Brotaur in the GY for your Bystials if you have to Normal Summon them.

Loading... :

Spell/Trap negate. Summoned using Loading... and Brotaur, typically when starting the combo with Lode. Stardust is instead used for summoning Loading... using Lubellion.

Loading... , Loading... , & Loading... :

Explained in Dark Magician’s section. DMoD and DM are available in the latest Structure Deck. Dragoon’s pop effect won’t be activatable when summoned using DMoD. As you all know, Dragoon is an omni-negate and destroy that is untargetable and can’t be destroyed by card effects. Dis Pater can reborn Dragoon. The negate effect is not hard once per turn.

Master of Chaos can let you recover your boss monsters or start/extend your combos turn 2-3 onward. It can also wipe out your opponent’s monsters with its non-targeting banish. It can summon from the GY, then tribute Seals for this effect. Great utility that Dragoon does not provide.

Loading... & Starters

Requiem is summoned using 1 LIGHT Fiend. Requiem is a starter and combo piece for your Fiendsmith combo. It also fills your GY with more LIGHT Fiends to shuffle as cost for your Engraver/Sequence effects.

Requiem typically summons Loading... from the deck, Lacrima dumps Engraver, Engraver summons itself from the GY by shuffling a LIGHT Fiend, usually Closed Moon, another Engraver, or Requiem. Typically, you shouldn’t shuffle Lurrie if you want to summon Accel Synchron, or Lacrima if you want to summon Primus. The same goes for shuffling with Loading... . When going second, ideally, you want to shuffle something other than Requiem to access its GY effect to equip to Engraver, then Engraver sends Requiem to send a monster your opponent controls.

Requiem can only be summoned once per turn. If Requiem is banished by a Bystial, you can only return it to the deck with Lacrimosa if it was summoned that turn.

Loading...

Engraver adds Loading... , Tract adds Loading... , then discards it. This triggers Lurrie’s effect to summon itself. Lurrie’s effect is a mandatory activation. If Lurrie is already in your hand, you can add Lacrima or Engraver with Tract, then discard the Lurrie.

The Pay-off

Loading... summons Loading... , typically by shuffling Engraver and Loading... , Lacrimosa summons Loading... from the GY

Summon Loading... using Sequence and Lacrimosa. Lyna provides you with a Spellcaster. Sequence's GY effect equips itself to Lurrie. Loading... can then be summoned with its alternative summoning condition by sending Sequence and Lyna to the GY. Summon Loading... using Chorozo and Lurrie. Accel Synchron dumps Stardust Synchron.

If you have a Bystial or Wattail, you tribute Accel to summon Stardust. If you have the Centur-Ion engine or any Seals engine, you tribute Seals. Now you can full Stardust Bystial combo.

Accel Synchron can be banished by your Bystial to be summoned again with Dis Pater's effect. Accel Synchron can activate again to dump Assault Synchron and increase its level, since its effect is soft OPT. This provides you with a second SMSD negate and the ability to summon Loading... with level 7 Accel + Brotaur, giving you 2 more Omni-Negates.

If you did not start your Fiendsmith combo with Loading... or Loading... , then Lacrimosa can add Engraver to your hand, search Tract, search Lurrie, and summon it. If you started with Normal Summoning Lurrie, you can shuffle it with Engraver or Sequence, then summon it again this way. This will allow you to keep Engraver in the GY for follow-up. This also provides you with Tract’s GY effect for other lines.

Lyna can also summon a LIGHT monster from your opponent’s GY to a zone it points to. It can also search Stardust when destroyed by battle or card effect. Your opponent’s Detonator.

In case you don't have access to Bystial/Wattail/Seals, you can use the engine to summon Loading... by summoning Lacrima instead of Lurrie with the effect of Lacrimosa.

Lacrimosa can Chain Link block trigger effects such as S:P’s banish.

Other Pay-offs

Desirae/Caesar are alternative win-conditions for the Fiendsmith engine, in case you already have access to Stardust, or you can't Stardust Bystial combo, and you don't run the Centur-Ion engine.

Blue-Eyes

Sage and Maiden are 1c Seals + Loading... + Loading... , so it can full combo with Stardust.

You can Quick Synchro into Loading... using level 3 Loading... , BEWD, and Maiden when you reborn BEWD with Loading... . Very funny synergy.

It can alternatively full 1c Stardust Bystial combo with Loading... accessing Loading... . Note that Starlight Junktion shuffles any card on the field once you Synchro Summon on your opponent’s turn with Crimson Dragon’s effect, or Accel Synchro’s. This is a mandatory activation, so try to Synchro Summon when your opponent controls a card.

Requires playing 6 extra bricks, or 8 extra bricks if you’re playing the AFD variant, which is the last thing we’re missing. Takes up a lot of Extra Deck space, so you have to cut out some important cards. Not recommended.

Brotaur can search Loading... , letting you access the Blue-Eyes engine in your Stardust Bystial combos in the future. Loading... can be a search target with Brotaur and Magnamhut as well.

Runick

The only variant with TCG tournament tops.

Runick combos with Stardust by Synchro Summoning Loading... , tributing it with Stardust, then summoning Loading... with AiL activated.

Makes a bad and boring end board that doesn't take full advantage of the Stardust bricks. It doesn't end on Dis Pater, unlike every other variant, nor does it end on an additional Synchro along with SMSD.

Alternatively, you can combo by summoning Loading... using Loading... for a much better combo, but you’ll miss out on Loading... .

Runick hits in Masterduel make this variant significantly worse than it was in the TCG when it topped. You have to Normal Summon Stardust. It doesn’t synergize very well with Bystials, nor are there any other synergies with Stardust stuff, like Loading... has. The combos require too many Extra Deck spots.

There's no point in playing this over other variants or normal Runick Bystial, especially since it barely resembles other Stardust Bystial decks. Not recommended.

Yummy

Credits to DeathEcho for developing this variant.

Yummy is 1c Stardust Bystial combo

I’ll be honest, I don’t care about the combo slop engine that does anything in the game, and happens to also Stardust Bystial combo. I’d rather play engines with actual synergies that are also apparent, and don’t require a big wombo combo to reach the synergistic part, but that’s just my personal feeling. This is why it’s DeathEcho who came up with this variant and White Forest, and not me.

White Forest Azamina

Credits to DeathEcho for developing this variant.

This variant can 1c Stardust Bystial combo(with many discards) by summoning Accel Synchron using OSS, which summons Loading... or Loading... , combined with a Savage Dragon and the Magistus engine, or the Centur-Ion engine.

The White Forest Azamina deck is already very engine and combo-heavy, with a lot of engine requirements, and inconsistent 1.5 combos. Adding the entire Stardust Bystial engine on top of that makes for a terrible and unnecessary deck. They barely have any synergy beyond the full combo.

Loading... means you can’t summon Dis Pater, so you can’t use it for Stardust Bystial combos.

This variant does not highlight or play off any part of Stardust Bystial’s identity, similar to most variants here.

Decks that heavily depend on a bad, convoluted long combo to do anything are bad. On top of that, they don't need Stardust Bystial.

Not recommended.

Superheavy Samurai

Wakaushi and Bike are full Stardust Bystial combo, with a higher ceiling than normal combos.

Not enough starters, too many engine requirements, including a garnet, barely any synergy with Stardust Bystial, and combo slop that plays poorly into lingering hand traps.

Soulpiercer is not a starter, unless you use the Centur-Ion engine. Adding the Centur-Ion engine on top of all of that will make for a terrible deck.

It has similar issues to the White Forest Azamina variant.

Materiactor

Credits to Wywuas272 for developing this variant.

Materiactor are 1c Seals that also add any 1 of 6 cards from the top of the deck, so depending on the consistency of Stardust, it can often be a 1c full Stardust Bystial combo.

After Loading... ’s release, it can be used to summon Invoker and full 1c combo.

Cool variant, but loses pretty badly into hand traps and disruption since it discards for cost a lot. It also adds some engine requirements, including 2 vanillas, which sucks.

Ancient Fairy Dragon

1c full Stardust Bystial combo with Loading... . The engine summons AFD and searches Loading... , then makes Loading... with AFD and Spore, summons Spore to tribute it with Junktion to summon Stardust from the deck, Activates AiL, then summons Crimson Dragon, which searches Loading... . Also has a draw 1 for Brotaur’s discard, making it a true 1c combo.

Junktion is a disruption and mandatory activation, as mentioned in the Blue-eyes section.

Regulus, on paper is a broken card. Starter with 2 potential means of extension. Unfortunately it doesn’t have a search target to extend your combos beyond Loading... , which is OPT, so World is not a starter.

Only has 3 starters, uses up Normal Summon, requires 4 bricky engine requirements and takes up some Extra Deck spots. Not recommended.

Tenpai Dragon

1c Seals engine. It’s good for going second, though you cannot afford to run a lot of non-engine, and the Stardust cards will make going second even worse. Loading... discards Stardust for free. Beyond that, it doesn’t work particularly well with Bystials or Stardust and has a weak end board going first. The hits make it a lot worse. Not recommended.

Dragon Rulers

Loading... is a 1c Stardust Bystial combo with 2 discards, using Loading... to dump Loading... and mill Stardust, then summon Seals with Chasmatis and Tidal.

We only have 3 copies of Spectral, and the rest of the Rulers are bricky and not LIGHT/DARK, therefore don't work well with Bystials. Discarding 2 cards for cost is also bad. Overall its very inconsistent, bricky and low quality. Not recommended.

Mitsurugi

Level 8 non-Tuner engine that doesn’t take up your Normal Summon, so you can Normal Summon Stardust, summon Loading... or Loading... with AiL activated, and later reborn Stardust, then summon Dis Pater using the Bystial Brotaur searched.

It can be used to summon Loading... . TZV can summon a Bystial, and Stardust can reborn itself. TZV can mill important engine pieces like AiL or CWD, which sucks.

Unfortunately, you’ll need to dump or open with Stardust to use it in these ways. You can run Loading... to Normal Summon Stardust more consistently, but Tuning has a major downside.

Loading... can be used to search Habakiri, along with Lubellion, and maybe Baby Dragons.

Mitsurugi has a bit of synergy with Stardust, being able to tribute them.

P.U.N.K

1c full Stardust Bystial combo by summoning Loading... . It can provide more win-conditions with a larger engine, which could be a legitimate option. Not the greatest card quality, beyond e-tele, though.

Loading... or Loading... can be summoned with Ze Amin + Armor or Meister with its level modulation.

Snake-Eyes

Diabellstar, Wanted, Bonfire, One for One, and Ash are all 1c full Stardust Bystial combo, thanks to Jet Synchron adding Loading... when used as Synchro material.

Only 7 starters, requires 3 bricks, including a garnet, the cards don’t have the same quality as they do in a normal Snake-Eyes deck with Flamberge and other win-cons like Fiendsmith.

It doesn’t provide a good way to pass your turn. It’s too combo heavy. Ash Blossom on OSS leaves you with 3 cards in hand and none on the field.

It can be played if it gets unhit.

Scarlight Line - Loading... + Discard

1. Activate Loading... to Special Summon itself
2. Activate Meister to add Loading...
3. Activate Armor to summon itself
4. Activate Armor by tributing itself to summon Loading...
5. Activate Stardust to add Loading...
6. Activate AiL to place Loading... on top of the deck
7. Synchro Summon Loading...
8. Activate AiL to draw 1
9. Activate CWD to summon itself, then Loading...
10. Activate Brotaur by targeting CWD to add Loading...
11. Activate Lubellion to add Loading...
12. Special Summon Lubellion by tributing Scarlight
13. Activate Lubellion to place Loading...
14. Activate Magnamhut by targeting Scarlight
15. Activate Regained to draw 1, Chain Link 2, activate Magnamhut to add a Dragon in the End Phase
16. Activate Stardust by tributing Brotuar to summon itself
17. Synchro Summon Loading... using Stardust and Magnamhut
18. Activate Dis Pater to summon Stardust
19. Synchro Summon Loading... using Dis Pater and CWD
20. Synchro Summon Loading...
21. Activate Auxila to add Loading...
22. Activate Stand Up
23. Activate Stand Up's effect by sending a card to place Loading...
24. Activate Primera
25. Activate Primera to add Loading...
26. Normal Summon Trudea
27. Activate Trudea to place itself and Loading...
28. Activate Gargoyle to summon itself as level 8
29. Synchro Summon Loading... using Primera and Gargoyle
30. Activate Gargoyle to add itself to the hand
31. Activate Crimson Dragon by targeting Auxila to summon Loading...

End Phase:

32. Activate Auxila to place Primera
33. Magnamhut adds Loading...

Primus Line - Loading... + Discard

1. Activate Loading... to Special Summon itself
2. Activate Meister to add Loading...
3. Activate Armor to summon itself
4. Activate Armor by tributing itself to summon Loading...
5. Activate Stardust to add Loading...
6. Synchro Summon Loading... using Stardust and Meister
7. Activate Primus to add Loading...
8. Activate Oath to place Loading...
9. Activate Trudea to summon itself
10. Activate Trudea to place itself and Loading... in the S/T zones
11. Activate Primera to summon itself
12. Activate Primera to add Loading...
13. Activate Stand Up
14. Activate Stand Up’s effect by discarding 1 card to place Loading...
15. Activate Gargoyle to summon itself, then decrease its level to 4
16. Synchro Summon Loading... using Primus and Gargoyle
17. Activate Auxila to add Loading... , then activate Gargoyle to add itself to the hand
18. Activate Gargoyle by sending Trudea to summon itself
19. Synchro Summon Loading... using Primera and Gargoyle
20. Activate AiL to place Loading... on top of your deck
21. Activate Crimson Dragon, targeting Auxila to summon Loading... in the Extra Monster Zone
22. Activate AiL to draw 1
23. Activate CWD to summon itself, then Loading...
24. Activate Brotaur by targeting CWD to add Loading... and discard Phalanx
25. Activate Lubellion to add Loading...
26. Summon Lubellion by tributing Auxila
27. Activate Lubellion to place Loading...
28. Activate Magnamhut by targeting Trudea to summon itself
29. Activate Regained to draw 1, then activate Magnamhut to add in the End Phase
30. Activate Stardust by tributing Brotaur
31. Synchro Summon Loading... using Stardust and Magnamhut
32. Activate Dis Pater to summon Stardust
33. Synchro Summon Loading... using Dis Pater and CWD
34. Synchro Summon Crimson Dragon using Stardust and Lubellion

End Phase:

35. Activate Phalanx to summon Auxila
36. Activate Auxila to place Primera
37. Magnamhut adds Loading...

Opponent’s Turn:

38. Activate Crimson Dragon by targeting Auxila to summon Loading...
39. Druiswurm and Primera summon Chaos Angel

Without Loading...

6. Special Summon Gargoyle as level 8 from S/T Zone
7. Synchro Summon Loading...
8. Activate Auxila to add Loading...

End Phase:

9. Activate Auxila to place Primera in the S/T zone

Opponent's Main Phase:

10. Summon Trudea as level 8 and Primera
11. Activate Primera on Chain Link 1 to search Trudea and activate Loading... on Chain Link 2 to summon Loading...

With Loading...

6. Special Summon Gargoyle as level 4 from S/T Zone
7. Synchro Summon Loading...
8. Activate Primus to add Loading... , Chain Link 2 activate Gargoyle to add itself from GY to hand.
9. Oath place Loading... in S/T zone
10. Activate Atrii to summon itself and draw 1
11. Synchro Summon Loading...
12. Activate Auxila to add Loading...

End Phase:

13. Activate Auxila to place Atrii in the S/T zone

Opponent's turn:

14. Summon Trudea as level 8 and Atrii to draw 1 and summon Loading...

Loading... + Discard

1. Activate Stand Up to send Ash from hand to GY, place Loading... in the S/T zone
2. Special Summon Primera and add Loading...
3. Normal Summon Trudea
4. Activate Trudea's effect to place itself and Loading... into the S/T Zone

The rest is the same as the Primera combo.

Loading... + Discard

1. Activate Loading... to set Loading... from your Deck.

Same as the Stand Up combo.

Monsters

Graveyard

Spell/Trap

Extra Deck

Hand

8-10 Disruptions.

• 2x Loading... omni-negate & banish
• Loading... Omni-negate or end Battle Phase or negate Summon
• Loading... monster negate/destroy
• Loading... board wipe
• Loading... send monster to the GY and GY banish
• Loading... banish
• Loading... destroy a card
• Loading... search Loading... for ED/Ritual monster banish and GY banish
• Draw 2 with Loading... and Loading... .

5-8 Disruptions. Minimum ceiling end board

• 1x Loading... omni-negate & banish
• Loading... Omni-negate or end Battle Phase or negate Summon
• Loading... monster negate/destroy
• Loading... board wipe
• Loading... send monster to the GY and GY banish
• Loading... search Loading... for ED/Ritual monster banish and GY banish
• Draw 2 with Loading... and Loading... .

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I do not recommend making Seals under Maxx C. It gives them way too many draws, and ending on Seals is not the FTK it used to be.

Don’t summon Auxila under Maxx C.

Should you do the Maxx C challenge? Decks nowadays run many hand traps, making it very difficult to successfully combo. It’s hard to set up a negate early to counteract your opponent’s hand traps. Droplet and other breakers might completely undermine your end board if you’re playing under Maxx C.

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Minimum draws with the Stardust Bystial combo are 2. Dis Pater, then CWD summons Brotaur from the deck. Lubellion and Bystials don’t give draws under Fuwalos, so you can set up Magnamhut and Regained without giving any draws. If you already have access to Regained, then you can skip summoning Brotaur and instead summon SMSD.

Dis Pater’s reborn effect can also be activated without giving a draw, making Synchro Summoning more justifiable.

For 3 draws, you can summon SMSD, Dis Pater, and Brotaur.

For the 4th draw, you can summon Auxila, or if you’re running Assault Synchron, you can summon Accel Synchron; both of these get you 2 disruptions on their own, so they’re worth it.

The maximum draws you can give them is 7 if you add Seals and Auxila. Seals is 2 draws for its summon and its effect when tributed. Don’t combo using Seals under Fuwalos.

In some cases, you can afford not to Summon Brotaur.

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Since Shifter sends itself to the GY and is DARK attribute, you're able to summon a Bystial and combo with a Normal Summoned Stardust. Ironically, sometimes Shifter will let you combo when you otherwise could not.

You typically want to search Lubellion with Brotaur, and summon the Bystial in your banishment, then summon Lubellion from your hand, tributing the Bystial you summoned. Place Regained, summon SMSD, and shuffle Dis Pater to draw 1. You can then summon Seals using Brotaur and the Bystial.

• You won't be able to summon Dis Pater from the GY with Regained since he's banished, but at least you can summon it again on a different turn.

• Dis Pater will have his monster negate live to counter other hand traps.

• If you have enough bodies, you can summon Auxila to search Phalanx and use it for Seals or summon Little Knight.

Bystials

If you’re trying to combo with a Bystial, try summoning the Bystial first, especially if your board is empty, like if you started with Lubellion.

Normal Summoning Stardust, then trying to summon your Bystial, will result in your Bystial getting countered, and you’re left with a lonely Stardust doing nothing.

1. Have a clear goal in mind, and build your deck around it.

• For this deck, you primarily want to do the Stardust Bystial combo.

• Since it’s not consistent enough, you’ll want to run a supplementary engine to provide much-needed consistency and extension.

• The supplementary engine should serve the main goal of the deck. For example, the Centur-Ion engine gives you access to Seals, so it can 2c combo with Stardust. The fact that it also increases the ceiling of your full combo board on its own does not justify running it. It’s only a bonus.

• The supplementary engine ideally should be mid-range. Combo decks can struggle to pass without hand traps. Having a good way to pass the turn on an incomplete board is important for Stardust Bystial, especially because we don't have space for non-engine.

• You also want to have some amount of non-engine to help you when you’re going second, or help you counter Maxx C or Fuwalos. But you can reach a point where non-engine makes your deck lose focus of the main goal.

• The rest of the rules will follow from this one.

2. Keep it at around 44c

• Every deck-building decision can make a significant difference within 100 games you play. This is especially the case when it comes to your deck’s card count.

• Every card you add above 40c will significantly impact your hands throughout your games. Deck size is particularly important for Stardust Bystial.

• The more cards you add over 40, the less consistent all of your cards become. This includes your best starters, your best extenders, and your best non-engine. It does not just make your bricks less consistent, which is what a lot of people focus on.

• Just because you run 50-60c doesn't at all mean you won't brick. There is usually no reason to play exactly 60c.

• 44c is a balanced spot where you don’t open with your bricks/garnets as much, while not compromising on the consistency of your best cards.

3. Starters and extenders are the priority. Don’t let non-engine compromise too much on them.

• If you can't combo consistently enough, then your deck is pointless. You want to actually play the deck.

• Starters will provide consistency, and since your opponent will usually disrupt your plays, extenders are important to successfully combo.

• Hand traps are great, but you need to establish a board and gain more advantage than your opponent to win.

• The last thing you want when playing this deck is opening with just hand traps, bricks, and one part of your 2c combo. Adding more non-engine will lead to that. You won’t win going second if you have no follow-up plays on your turn.

• The consistency of your 2c combos also factors into the overall consistency of your deck, but you should maximize on your 1c starters.

• If your deck can’t afford to run enough 1c starters, and your deck runs a bunch of bricks or 2c starters, then adding more non-engine will make you brick more. Centur-Ion has a better time fitting in hand traps, since you can run 8 or more 1c starters, outside of Junk Meister, while only running 2 engine requirements.

• The deck plays a lot of bricks that are required for the engines. Stardust Synchron is a low-quality card as it doesn't provide a 1c combo, nor does it excel at being an extender. Bystials don't have a 1c combo. You want to see a lot of engine, or you'll have a hard time extending and playing the game.

• Extension is especially important for Stardust Bystial, since we cannot usually pass the turn with hand traps, so we have to keep pushing.

• Non-engine can also compromise on deck size.

4. Minimize win-more cards and bricks

• Win-more refers to a card that is usually used or accessed only when you're likely to win the game, regardless, making it unnecessary.

• You’re not always going to full combo. Most of the time, some part of it will go wrong. You will get Maxx C’d or Fuwalos’d, so you can't afford to reach a certain part of your combo, or your opponent will disrupt your plays, so you can't combo any further. Sometimes you will also open a garnet, so you can’t combo fully, or you will open with the win-more card, and it won't do anything in your hand.

• Instead of playing cards that won’t matter if your combo is disrupted, you want to play cards that provide extension to let you play through disruption or hand trap your opponent so you won’t be disrupted on your turn. That way, you will consistently have a stronger board, not by playing these win-more cards. Playing them will make it less likely that you’ll combo successfully. They’re counterproductive.

• Win-more cards add to your deck’s card count, which is an issue for Stardust Bystial.

• Adding more copies of your garnets is more likely to make your hands worse, more than it would help you combo successfully more.

• Some bricks are necessary for Stardust Bystial or the supplementary engine to function optimally. Cards like Brotaur, CWD, Arrive in Light, Regained, Phalanx, and Junk Armor. There's already more than the average deck.

• The amount of bricks or garnets we need is a fair criticism towards Stardust Bystial, but if you add unnecessary ones on top of that, you can’t blame the deck for it.

• There’s nothing wrong with adding cards you enjoy, just know what to expect, and try to enjoy it.

Centur-Ion

Owned Cards

44 cards

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• A registered Konami ID linked to your master duel game
• Must login to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB using the same Konami ID
• If the Yu-Gi-Oh! DB website asks to login with Game Card ID just click "I don't have a game card ID" and fill some basic information to proceed

Export Guide

- Via the MDM extension (Recommended): Download on Firefox, or Chromium Browsers
For Chromium browsers (Chrome/Edge/Opera/Brave...etc) just click "Add to chrome" on the store page and it'll work on most if not all chromium browsers.
After using the extension, go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it

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1. Click here to copy the export code
2. Go to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB and click My Deck => Add a Deck
3. Once the deck page loads click Edit then do one of the following based on the platform your device is running:
• (PC Only): Press F12 to open the DevTools window => Navigate to the Console tab in the window => Paste the export code => Hit Enter
• OR (Other platforms/PC): In the address bar of the current tab remove the URL and type "javascript:" without the quotations then paste the export code, then if you're on mobile look for the *globe* icon and tap on it to run the code (Chrome only), for PC users just hit enter.
4. The deck will save automatically
5. Go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it

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W/O Terrortop & More Non-Engine

Owned Cards

44 cards

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Prerequisites

• A registered Konami ID linked to your master duel game
• Must login to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB using the same Konami ID
• If the Yu-Gi-Oh! DB website asks to login with Game Card ID just click "I don't have a game card ID" and fill some basic information to proceed

Export Guide

- Via the MDM extension (Recommended): Download on Firefox, or Chromium Browsers
For Chromium browsers (Chrome/Edge/Opera/Brave...etc) just click "Add to chrome" on the store page and it'll work on most if not all chromium browsers.
After using the extension, go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it

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- Manually

1. Click here to copy the export code
2. Go to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB and click My Deck => Add a Deck
3. Once the deck page loads click Edit then do one of the following based on the platform your device is running:
• (PC Only): Press F12 to open the DevTools window => Navigate to the Console tab in the window => Paste the export code => Hit Enter
• OR (Other platforms/PC): In the address bar of the current tab remove the URL and type "javascript:" without the quotations then paste the export code, then if you're on mobile look for the *globe* icon and tap on it to run the code (Chrome only), for PC users just hit enter.
4. The deck will save automatically
5. Go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it

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Primite

Owned Cards

44 cards

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Prerequisites

• A registered Konami ID linked to your master duel game
• Must login to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB using the same Konami ID
• If the Yu-Gi-Oh! DB website asks to login with Game Card ID just click "I don't have a game card ID" and fill some basic information to proceed

Export Guide

- Via the MDM extension (Recommended): Download on Firefox, or Chromium Browsers
For Chromium browsers (Chrome/Edge/Opera/Brave...etc) just click "Add to chrome" on the store page and it'll work on most if not all chromium browsers.
After using the extension, go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it

Unable to detect extension

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- Manually

1. Click here to copy the export code
2. Go to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB and click My Deck => Add a Deck
3. Once the deck page loads click Edit then do one of the following based on the platform your device is running:
• (PC Only): Press F12 to open the DevTools window => Navigate to the Console tab in the window => Paste the export code => Hit Enter
• OR (Other platforms/PC): In the address bar of the current tab remove the URL and type "javascript:" without the quotations then paste the export code, then if you're on mobile look for the *globe* icon and tap on it to run the code (Chrome only), for PC users just hit enter.
4. The deck will save automatically
5. Go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it

Click here for a more detailed guide