I don't want to play Yugioh today... No problem it's Flower Cardian time! No no no wait! It's not as difficult and boring as you think. My goal today is to explain Flower Cardian as simple as possible and tell you why it's so strong, let's start:
The VERY important Starters
In this Deck you will find 13 Cards which get things started, every other card is essencially a Brick at first. Sounds terrible but the odds of drawing at least one starter are on your side 90% of the time from my experience.
For the Spells the 1x Flower Gathering and the 3x Super Koi Koi are the starters. 3x Flower Stacking can prepare a Starter for the following turn if you can survive one turn with an empty board.
The Monster Starters are the 3x Level 1 Pine (The grey colored one), 3x Cherry Blossom (The red and pink colored one) and 3x Cherry Blossom with Curtain (the purple colored one).
You have to draw one of these 13 Starters or you can't play the game at all. Flower Stacking kinda brings it to 16 Cards if you manage to survive one turn.
I don't like playing more then one Flower Gathering since Ash Blossom negates it and it's the only card which doesn't gain advantage of any kind when it's milled to the GY.
The general Idea behind the Cardians
Whenever you summon a Flower Cardian monster you will almost always Draw 1 Card and show it, if it's another Flower Cardian Monster you keep it in your Hand, if it's a Spell you discard it to the Graveyard.
Almost all Flower Cardian cards have no Once per turn so it's easy to go through your whole 40 card Deck as early as turn one to create big Synchro Boss Monsters.
You want to use one of the three different tuners which all share the ability to change the level of all Monsters you control to 2 for a Synchro summon to create these Synchro Bosses. That means you have to summon many Cardian Monsters to get out many Synchro Monsters in one turn.
5 Cardians = LV10 Synchro Monster
4 Cardians = LV8 Synchro Monster
3 Cardians = LV6 Synchro Monster
The three different Cardian types
Every Cardian can be placed into one of three categories:
The free special summons
These Cardians can special themselves onto the field when a Cardian with a lower level then themselves already exists on the field. They always have 100 ATK and DEF.
The one tributes
These type of Cardians can special themselves by tributing any other Cardian Monster on the field and always draw one card when they are summoned. They always have 1000 ATK and DEF.
The specific tribute ones
The last type of Cardians can only be special summoned by tributing a Cardian with the same level which is already on the field. They always draw one card on summon and can special the drawn card if it's a monster. They always have 2000 ATK and DEF.
The Goal for Turn one
The best thing you can aim for initially is to special summon the 3 Synchro Bosses onto the field. The LV10 Lightflare, LV8 Lightshower and the LV6 Boardefly.
With that you get a Spell & Trap negation with 5K attack which gives the ability to negate Monster effects during Battle for all Cardians and replaces itself with any other Cardian Synchro Monster if it leaves the field by the opponent.
A 3K tower that gives targeting and destruction protection to all Cardians and burns the opponent for 1500 during his Draw Phase.
And a 2K boy who gives piercing to all Cardian Monsters and prevents Monster effects and Special summons from the Graveyard.
In short a very formidable Board that can easily Deal with Meta threats and easily OTK the opponent.
Additional Spice
If your Synchro Board gets broken through mainly non targeting Removal you can use the Spell Super All In to revive any 4 Cardian Monsters from the GY and special a 5th by drawing it. The big downside if you fail to draw a Cardian can be prevented with Lightshowers destruction protection (I had to read this 3 times to understand how it works).
The Maindeck Monsters can change the order of the top 3 cards of the opponents Deck or place them on the bottom. Extremely useful in Master Duel to find out what you are up against. You have access to non targeting Monster and Backrow destruction too. Even a 1000 ATK gain Handtrap is part of the Maindeck lineup and the Moonflowerviewing Synchro can enable a 2k direct attack with her effect.
Tips from me for beginners with this Deck
The L6 Synchro Moonflowerviewing can enable a Draw 1 which is 100% safe meaning you don't have to discard the card even if it's a Spell. Very useful if the cards don't fall into your favor to keep advantage going.
The green colored LV11 Willow Cardian in the Maindeck is very important. His effect allows to recycle 1 Cardian from grave back into the Deck to Draw 1 card. This card draw is 100% safe again so no discarding even if it's a Spell. The level 8 Zebra Grass can also enable safe Draws but is less useful in that regard. Try to loop Willows effect as often as possible by recycling Willow with Willow.
Don't Panic if you don't find tuners fast enough sometimes. A Board of 5 different 2K beaters is often formidable enough to clear the game too especially with all the non targeting Removal which is accessible for you.
Special summon the LV10 Synchro first. He's useful for it's negation and ability to be any other Flower Cardian Synchro should he leave the field. Be sure to summon him in the Extra Monster Zone to have space for the others.
And lastly special your Cardians with 100 ATK in defense. If the opponent interrupts you, you will be glad to have them in defense.
Final Words
This Deck doesn't play the Yugioh you know and it somehow works very well. It's easy to reach Diamond in Master Duel with this Strategy but beware your biggest enemy Nibiru. The usual offenders like Kaijus, non targeting Banish and Barrier Statue stun also work well against this Strategy so if you can choose go first.
You will win many games from the opponent scooping since this Archetype is known for it's long turns. If you want quick wins it's kinda possible with this Deck simply because 50% of the time the opponent will surrender to not watch you go full Combo.
If you choose to pick this Deck up you will notice how much fun playing Cardians can be (The opponent may have less fun). I like these based on Hanafuda fellas a lot.
Overall Rating: ★★★★★☆
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