Anicent Gear is a deck that focuses on OTKing opponents with Chaos Ancient Gear Giant . With an Atk of 4500, penetration, the ability to attack all monsters, immunity to Spell/Trap and preventing the opponent from activating Monster Effects when it attacks means you will almost certainly win if you summon This card goes onto the field.
As said, Ancient Gear is not a strong deck and the actual highest rank you can achieve with this deck is Low Diamond
*NOTE: the article is mainly translated and referenced from z efile 's Ancient Gear Guide article on the Master Duel Meta page

Instructions for playing Ancient Gear
Sections covered in this guide:
Core Cards
The following cards are really important for Ancient Gear, let's dig into them
X3 per card
Destroying Geartown or using Ancient Gear Catapult to destroy a card will allow you to Special Summon 1 Ancient Gear from the Deck, thereby performing a combo. To do this, you need to have one of the pile of 2-card combos below:
- Geartown + ( Ancient Gear Catapult or Archfiend Eccentrick )
- Ancient Gear Catapult + ( Geartown or Archfiend Eccentrick or Ancient Gear Fortress )
- Archfiend Eccentrick : removes opp's annoying cards through both effs
- Chicken Game : draw, thin the deck
- Ancient Gear Fortress : protects your Ancient Gears from being targeted, destroyed or even unable to chain after the effects of Ancient Gear cards. Note that you should not use the third effect indiscriminately, otherwise it will limit your summon ability and prevent you from comboing
Ancient Gear Wyvern will be the card that you will want to special summon from the deck the most when playing this deck. It will help you search for Ancient Gear Box (the card has an effect that helps us search for more cards besides Archetype Ancient Gear), and then search for the cards you need like:
- Ancient Gear Frame will search for more Ancient Gear Golem , which means we have 2 more monsters named "Ancient Gear" to fuse. It also has the ability to search Ancient Gear Fusion if you decide to use it.
- Sage of Wisdom - Himmel can summon itself, so search for this card if you used your Normal Summon turn. However, having to discard a spell is a relatively unpleasant condition, but many times when the Ancient Gear Catapult card cannot be activated, you can discard it without hesitation.
- Infinitrack Anchor Drill can also become a good Extender after being searched with Gear box, however it requires a Normal Summon.
Once you have established a stable field, you will usually Link two EARTH-MACHINE monsters into Ancient Gear Ballista to search for Geartown . ( In case you draw Chicken Game without Ancient Gear Catapult to destroy it, you can still send Chicken Game to the grave by activating the Geartown you searched for .)
Link two monsters into Predaplant Verte Anaconda and send Overload Fusion to the grave to help you fuse Chaos Ancient Gear Giant by using the Ancient Gear in your grave instead of on the field. This effect helps you keep some cards on the field to attack.
Knightmare Unicorn or Number 60: Dugares the Timeless is often released by Link to strengthen the Chaos Ancient Gear Giant .
Optional Engines
Super Express Bullet Train is a high level card to play with Urgent Schedule . This support pair is extremely important and almost indispensable in Ancient Gear because it only takes one activation of Urgent Schedule to create Ancient Gear Ballista .
The only downside to this pair of cards is that Ancient Gear Hunting Hound cannot be summoned because Ancient Gear Ballista must then summon Ancient Gear Wyvern . The other extenders are not bad to play with, so drawing Super Express Bullet Train is ok. If you draw SEBT , Sage of Wisdom - Himmel can act as a high level replacement card to summon from the deck.
Strikers will give you the powerful Spell abilities and impressive versatility of Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! .
- You can search for Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones to get Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! via Sky Striker Ace - Kagari and search Sage of Wisdom - Himme l, then change Sky Striker Ace - Kagari to Sky Striker Ace - Kaina so you have two Sky Striker- Machine-EARTH monsters and link to Ancient Gear Ballista (approximately like like Urgent Schedule! ). You can also re-add Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones by itself, although the meatball will not be an EARTH Machine .
- Searching for Sky Striker Mecha - Widow Anchor helps you remove a difficult effect so you can combo without worry, or steal a monster for Predaplant Verte Anaconda or Number 60: Dugares the Timeless .
- Finding the Sky Striker Maneuver - Jamming Waves! helps you eliminate an opponent's Trap, or can help you start a combo by destroying Geartown . If you do so, DO NOT destroy a monster with the optional Effect, as it will cause your Geartown to miss timing .
- Sky Striker Airspace - Area Zero acts as an additional target for Ancient Gear Catapult, summoning Sky Striker Ace - Raye from the Deck when destroyed. The near-impossible unwieldiness in the hand makes playing these last two cards difficult to justify.
Platinum Gadget is a card that will prove useful at times and become an integral part of your Extra Deck, allowing you to summon a bricked monster from your hand that you may want to bring to the field. However, not being able to Link it to another card often makes using it not worthwhile. Ancient Gear Catapult's second effect can solve that problem if you play Ancient Gear Gadget . You will receive an Ancient Gear Token from destroying the Platinum Gadget , which will then activate and summon an Ancient Gear Gadget from the Deck.
Adventure is also quite good. Foolish Burial and Water Enchantress of the Temple give you the ability to use Rite of Aramesir , creating an Adventurer token and Fateful Adventure , which in turn gives you Dracoback, the Rideable Dragon and Illegal Knight .
Having the last two cards of the above line means you can discard 3 cards from your opponent's field, while still keeping an attack position monster on their field to use the Ancient Gear eff Ballista . Consider using these cards as they will prevent you from activating Normal Summon effects, Gadgets are recommended to play with them as you will not be able to activate Ancient Gear Frame. Link Spider is used to link from Adventurer Token, then used as material for Predaplant Verte Anaconda or other links.
The True King set aims to give this deck stability through their flexible effects. Planet Pathfinder can search both Geartown and Dragonic Diagram , giving you any card you need.
Dragonic Diagram will be used to destroy Geartown in your hand to search for True King Lithosagym, the Disaster and activate it. It can also be destroyed via the Ancient Gear Catapult. True King Lithosagym, the Disaster can summon itself by destroying the Ancient Gear Box and anything you have searched from the Box, this is useful for sending Ancient Gear to the grave, then you can use it to attack or for Predaplant Verte Anaconda .
Some other popular cards
Besides Maxx "C", there is no need to introduce these cards. These cards will help us remove some annoying effs from our opponents. How many and which cards you play will depend on your preferences and the available slots in your Deck after choosing your optional support cards.
Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir is an indispensable choice because of its power when entering turn 1. This deck cannot play well if the opponent does not have too many cards on the field, so this is a good choice. your best. If you can't summon it, Ancient Gear Howitzer is your second choice.
Combo
Let's take a quick look at the common combos that this deck can do
- Special Summon Ancient Gear Wyvern from the deck
- Search Ancient Gear Box , activate the box's eff and continue searching for Ancient Gear Frame .
- Normal Summon it, then search Ancient Gear Golem .
- Link Summon Ancient Gear Ballista with both monsters on the field.
- Search for Geartown , then destroy it with Ancient Gear Ballista 's second effect .
- Use Geartown to Special Summon Ancient Gear Hunting Hound from the deck.
- Use Ancient Gear Hunting Hound to fuse Ancient Gear Howitzer , using both Ancient Gears in hand.
- Don't forget to burn 1000 Effect Damage...
- Link Summon Predaplant Verte Anaconda with Ancient Gear Hunting Hound and Ancient Gear Howitzer .
- Use Predaplant Verte Anaconda to throw the Overload Fusion card into the grave, Fusion to create Chaos Ancient Gear Giant with 4 Ancient Gears in the grave.
- Punch!


































































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