Instructions for playing Mayakashi (Update after Phoenix Blaze box)

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This will be an article about Mayakashi after having the Support Link.

Sections covered in this guide:

1/ A little bit of Lore

2/ Skill

3/ Main card

4/ Targets for Yuki-Musume

5/ Tech/Engines

6/ Sample deck

A little bit of Lore

The "Mayakashi" in the story use very powerful and terrifying Yokai magic, however this power cannot be used until nightfall. So they always seek to remove light from this world - which they absolutely hate - and put the world into eternal night so they can completely dominate. The leader of "Mayakashi" is a yokai who possesses the strongest Yokai Magic. During the day, she appears as a perfect woman, uses her physical beauty to deceive people's hearts, and takes advantage of the opportunity to try to learn about "Shiranui Style".

"Shogunsaga" always hunts "Mayakashi". However, that effort was not enough to seal the eternal "Mayakashi"... So, "Spiritmaster" and the others created the "Samsara" formation, giving a temporary body to the soul of "Samuraisaga". " was sealed, allowing him to reincarnate as "Sunsaga" and to seal "Mayakashi".

"Mayakashi" begins to show signs of returning after being sealed. However, "Squire" during that time inherited the "Shiranui Style". As a result, "Spectralsword" turns into "Spectralsword Shade". And by chance, "Squire", who spent most of his time practicing, had a fateful encounter with a woman. And that woman is none other than the fake form of "Yoko", who is slowly restoring her powers. This encounter makes the battle more intense and dramatic. "Squire", after being exposed to Yokai Magic from his encounter with "Yoko", combined this power with his sword, using additional "Success" formation to become " Shiranui Skillsaga Supremacy " .

"Yuki-Onna" begins to make her moves in the fierce battle between "Yoko" and "Skillsaga Supremacy". She silently approached the successor of the main base "Shiranui Style" and stole her power. Now "Yuki-Onna", gained the power of "Skillsaga Supremacy" and became " Yuki-Onna, the Absolute Zero Mayakashi ". With the power of both "Mayakashi" and "Skillsaga Supremacy" in hand, "Yuki-Onna" begins to carry out her plan to make the World covered by Eternal Darkness a reality...!!

Skill

The Stirring Mayakashi (Skill Card) (x1)

At first glance, this skill seems quite useless. " Oh, can't Synchro slowly increase, so let's play another skill " until you realize that this deck has no space for Extra Deck if you play every Mayakashi Extra Deck Monster card.

If you start with 12 Mayakashi cards in your Main deck, 3 Mayakashi Synchros will be added to your Extra Deck. More specifically, levels 3, 7 and 11 will be added for free. This frees up 3 slots in your Extra Deck, leaving you to only think about level 9 cards, Yoko, Graceful Mayakashi , and 2 Links when building a deck.

Well, there's also the level 5 card to think about, but it probably won't be that important thanks to the second part of the skill. This effect allows you to send up to 5 Mayakashi Synchros from your Extra Deck to the GY if you are controlling any Mayakashi Link/Synchros on the field. Meaning you can skip the whole boring synchro tower climb and go straight to Yuki-Onna, Ice Mayakashi . While it's true, this skill doesn't seem to do anything special, it does allow you to stuff at least 2 Link Monsters of each type, which wouldn't be possible without it. This also opens up the Extra for the Shiranui Synchros, combined with the Shiranui Spe ctralsword if you can get it down to the GY.

Main card

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All Mayakashi Synchros can be special summoned by banishing another Zombie Monster from the Graveyard. But this can only happen if a higher level 2 Synchro Monster is destroyed by your opponent.

If you don't understand what this means, here it is : Assuming level 11 Synchro is destroyed, level 9 Synchro can special summon itself. Repeat for levels 9 and 7, etc

Hajun the Winged Mayakashi (x3)

Summons Dakki from the Deck when this card is Normal or Special Summoned. This is also a level 1 card, so you can change all Synchro to Link Climbing if you want. Perhaps there is no need to say anything more, just know that Hajun is the best starter deck because it has Dakki and everything to be flexible in gameplay.

Oh, and you also can't summon anything other than Mayakashi Monsters while Hajun is on the field. This is a pretty big side effect because you can't touch quite a few strong Extra deck cards.

Yuki-Onna the Ice Mayakashi (x1-3)

Link-2 of the deck, looks like it has no effect because it really is like that :V, the card is almost useless! However, it is still important because this is the first Link Monster you must summon to get higher Link.

Remember to special summon your Synchros to the middle Monster Zone if Yuki-Onna is on the field, as she will gain free self-protection if she only enters the Synchro. You also gain more protection if the Synchro you control is destroyed by an opponent's card, thanks to halving ATK/DEF until the end of EndPhase.

At least x2 for this card because of how the deck plays. When you play, you will see this card summon up to 2 times in 1 turn

Yuki-Onna the Icicle Mayakashi (x1-2)

Link-3 of the deck you will want to get to the GY as soon as possible. When special summoned, you can negate 1 effect of your opponent's monster. A very useful effect when going second and makes her a good target for your revival effects.

Most importantly, Icicle Yuki-Onna can banish herself from the Grave with a Quick Effect to Special Summon Zombie Synchro from your Graveyard or banish zone, most likely just one of the Mayakashi. This gives her a relative advantage as it activates Synchro's effect when summoned from the Graveyard, making her a card that can cause Disruption.

Typical gameplay in the new version of the deck will include going from Link-2 to Link-3, then back to Link-2 to get the Icicle in the GY.

Gashadokuro, the Skeletal Mayakashi, Oboro-Guruma, the Wheeled Mayakashi, Tengu and the Winged Mayakashi (Synchros added by Skill)

Latest Synchro released. When special summoned from the Graveyard, Gahadokuro becomes a Beatstick with 3300 that is unaffected until the end of the turn. This makes it a very difficult wall to overcome and can easily stall your opponent during the turn. Unlike other Synchros, Gashadokuro's special summoning effect activates when destroying a Link Monster instead of a Synchro, meaning he will punish your opponents if they dare touch your beloved Yuki-Onnas.

Tengu will remove Spell/Trap when summoned from the Graveyard, and Oboro-Guruma will just be a name to send out and act as a food banish for your Synchros.

Dakki the Graceful Mayakashi (x1-2)

Center of the deck. She is a level 2 Tuner responsible for all the tasks of helping Synchro and Link for the deck. Because she is not limited to Once per turn, she can special summon herself from the Graveyard any time a Mayakashi monster is special summoned from the Extra deck.
And since you'll always be using her as an ingredient, she'll basically never go away.

Note that she has a different limitation than the other two Main Deck Mayakashi. You cannot special summon ANY monster other than Mayakashi from the Extra deck during the turn you want to use Dakki's effect. This means that if you summon something like Vampire Sucker or Shiranui Squiresaga that turn, you cannot use Dakki's effect before or after that summon takes place.

Yuki-Musume the Ice Mayakashi (x1-3)

Extender level 1 of dec, quite ok to use. If you control a Mayakashi monster, you can special summon Yuki-Musume from your Hand OR GY, and in doing so, you can send ANY Zombie monster from your Deck to the GY. The effect is similar to Foolish Burial , as you will have many options. You can send Shiranui Spectralsword and end the game on the next turn with Shiranui Synchro. You can also submit Nine-tailed Fox for a powerful Attacker that can replace itself when destroyed. Or you can simply give the Bacon Saver to save yourself from the Battle Phase.

Note that when Yuki-Musume goes down to the GY, you always have access to her first effect. Do this so you always have a backup plan when Mayakashi is on the field.

Yoko the Graceful Mayakashi (x1)

Level 9 is cool and the best target to revive. When summoned from the Graveyard, you can destroy Monsters your opponent controls... That's it

Tsuchigumo the Poisonous Mayakashi (x0-1)

Synchro level 5 of the deck. Quite redundant, when it becomes most important is because it level 5 allows you to create Shiranui Squiresaga with Shiranui Spectralsword if you play.

Mayakashi Return (x3)

Archetype's ROTA, can also act as an optional Foolish Burial . Great for non-brick stability, allowing you to add Hajun or Mayakashi Metomophosis to your hand, and also send Yuki-Musume or Mayakashi Winter GY.

Mayakashi Winter (x0-3)

A good tool to take advantage. The ATK reduction isn't really something to worry about, but it can be useful in some matches. However, the remaining two effects are both good.

When you finish your Link Climbing, you can send Dakki and Winter from the Field to the GY to draw. This is very stable if you want to set up Winter in GY and potentially draw Staple.

The GY effect mimics Synchros' special summon effect, allowing you to banish Winter and another Zombie in the Graveyard to special summon any Mayakashi in the Graveyard. Can also be used to bring Link-3 to Negate if you have used Yoko.

Mayakashi Metamorphosis (x0-2)

A revive trap for Archetype. By discarding 1 card, you can summon any Mayakashi that is banned or in the Graveyard. Always remember that these types of revival effects are always beneficial because you can also activate Synchro Monster effs and Link-3 effs. Therefore, the leaf can also act as a lite Removal Trap.

Mayakashi Mayhem (x0-2)

Mayhem is… quite magical and quite witty at the same time? It brings a lot of value to the deck every time you summon Zombie Synchro from the Graveyard or Banish Zone. It has 4 effects, all of which can be used in one turn, and you can choose which effect you want. You can get advantage from the first 2 effects, incredible removal with the 3rd effect, or random burn damage from the last effect. This is a card that punishes your opponent every time they destroy your Synchros. In reality, you'll only get to use one of the effects per turn, but when facing a desperate opponent, you'll gain more value.

To compare in the current meta: The third effect is game-ending with decks like Kozmo and Tenyi (Send without targeting the grave). Kozmo will not be able to activate its leave-field effect and you can remove Tenyi's Berserker without activating Tenyi Spirit - Mapura or Tenyi Spirit - Shthana .

Yasha the Skeletal Mayakashi (x0-3)

In general, this is a monster that is often overlooked, but has recently been brought out of the cave thanks to new support. Yasha is a pretty good Extenedr to go second and can actually make the End board even stronger than usual.

Cost of removal is usually not an issue, as Dakki and Yuki-Musume will be fine when taken to the GY. But most notably, Yasha is a 2k Beater that you can summon from Hajun for later turns. And it's also a 2k Monster that you can ban for Shiranui Shogunsaga 's effect, and you can also ban Yasha because he's not too important to lose. And of course, like Hajun and Yuki-Musume, you can only summon Mayakahis when he's on the Field.

Shafu the Wheeled Mayakashi (x0-1)

The card is good to keep track of, but really isn't necessary at all for the deck to be successful. He'd be even better if he didn't negate the monsters he summons, but his main use seems to be just to help you perform Link Summon again. …andndddd he has the same lock as Hajun and the others, you get the idea.

Targets for Yuki-Musume

The level 1 extender card has the effect of sending cards to the grave. When choosing, you can choose the following cards

Shiranui

While in the Grave, you can banish Spectralsword and another Zombie from your Grave to Synchro a Zombie right under the grave. Speaking of when playing with Shiranui Synchros, this is a pretty strong effect in every way. Tsuchigumo + Spectralsword is probably the most notable, as it makes Squiresaga able to Eliminate Monsters, Spell/Trap non-Target enemies, and also increase your Monster's ATK by 300 ATK. However, you cannot use this effect the same turn you send it to the Graveyard, so it is strictly for your second turn. Anyway, you can't use the Shiranui because Dakki locked you on turn 1.

Nine-Tailed Fox (Option)

Another FIRE Zombie you can summon. This is a level 6 card that you can special summon from the Graveyard or Hand by sacrificing 2 Monsters you control. You will have a lot of food on the field after climbing Link so this cost is not too big. And when summoned from the Grave, it can also deal piercing damage.

When it is destroyed and goes to the GY, it will special summon 2 tokens to the field, Use to summon it back or simply to protect from Battle Phase. Level 6 is good for Shiranui Shogunsaga as well as your second turn when combined with Dakki.

Bacon Saver (Option)

It only protects you from battle. Generally the safest target to send on Turn 1 and can even get more value than Shiranui Spectralsword or Glow-Up Bloom.

Dark Dust Spirit, Glow-Up Bloom and Vampire Vamp (Option)

Glow-Up Bloom is quite good for milling. It helps you get Zombie level 5 or Higher from the Deck, don't bother with the Zombie World part because you will never play it.

Similar to what I said with Nine-Tailed Fox, this deck can easily give a food tribute to the card you add to your hand. Whether it's Vampire Vamp or Dark Dust Spirit, both are GREAT ways to disrupt your opponent's position.

Tech/Engines

One for One (x1)

This card helps summon Hajun from the deck by discarding 1 Monster. It will give you a big advantage if you discard Yuki-Musume, Ice Mayakashi with this.