Instructions for playing Ancient Gear

Instructions for playing Ancient Gear

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




Core Cards

The following cards are really important for Ancient Gear, let's dig into them

Help Destroy and special summon from Deck
UR rarity
Geartown
UR rarity
Geartown
R rarity
Ancient Gear Fortress
R rarity
Ancient Gear Fortress
SR rarity
Archfiend Eccentrick
SR rarity
Archfiend Eccentrick
UR rarity
Chicken Game
UR rarity
Chicken Game
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Catapult
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Catapult

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:

Besides, this is their effect in combo:

  •   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

Wyvern
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Wyvern
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Wyvern
R rarity
Ancient Gear Frame
R rarity
Ancient Gear Frame
N rarity
Sage of Wisdom - Himmel
N rarity
Sage of Wisdom - Himmel
R rarity
Ancient Gear Box
R rarity
Ancient Gear Box
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Fusion
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Fusion
N rarity
Infinitrack Anchor Drill
N rarity
Infinitrack Anchor Drill
R rarity
Ancient Gear Golem
R rarity
Ancient Gear Golem

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.

Playing 1 Ancient Gear Wyvern is enough because you usually want to Special Summon it directly from the Deck, but if you have enough Extenders, you can also add this card to your deck and Normal Summon it. But remember that Normal Summon alone will not have enough cards to start a combo .

Regarding Ancient Gear Box , you can x2 this card in the deck because sometimes if you are unlucky, you will draw it.


Ballista et al
R rarity
Ancient Gear Howitzer
R rarity
Ancient Gear Howitzer
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Ballista
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Ballista
UR rarity
Chaos Ancient Gear Giant
UR rarity
Chaos Ancient Gear Giant
R rarity
Ancient Gear Hunting Hound
R rarity
Ancient Gear Hunting Hound

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 .)

Ancient Gear Ballista can then destroy Geartown , reduce the ATK of 1 opponent monster and give you 1 more summon from the Deck, more specifically it will be Ancient Gear Hunting Hound .

Ancient Gear Hunting Hound helps you use two Ancient Gears in your hand (for example, Ancient Gear Box and Ancient Gear Golem searched using Ancient Gear Frame previously) to fuse into Ancient Gear Howitzer . This gives us +1 meat on the field and Ancient Gear Howitzer 's effect will deal 1000 damage from there OTK. You can also use Ancient Gear Hunting Hound   to use everything we have and fuse directly into Chaos   Ancient Gear Giant . We usually do this if your opponent has not yet used negates and you are protected by Ancient Gear Fortress , as the next step will require non- Ancient Gear cards .

* There is a small note here : Ancient Gear Howitzer is a good choice if you are forced to go first. So let's play x2 of these cards, leaving one card for turn 1 and the other card for combo in turn 3 (our next turn).

Mercenaries are popular
UR rarity
Limited to 1 copy
Predaplant Verte Anaconda
UR rarity
Limited to 1 copy
Predaplant Verte Anaconda
UR rarity
Knightmare Unicorn
UR rarity
Knightmare Unicorn
R rarity
Overload Fusion
R rarity
Overload Fusion
SR rarity
Number 60: Dugares the Timeless
SR rarity
Number 60: Dugares the Timeless

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 .

We will leave more than 1 slot for Overload Fusion because it can help you throw a Fusion monster from the sky even after taking dozens of opp's crowd-clearing effects, as long as you actually draw it. If your combo passes through the hand traps and escapes while you still have this card in your hand, you can summon two Chaos Ancient Gear Giants , ensuring victory.



Optional Engines

 

Urgent Schedule and Super Express Bullet Train (Schedule)
SR rarity
Urgent Schedule
SR rarity
Urgent Schedule
N rarity
Super Express Bullet Train
N rarity
Super Express Bullet Train

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.

Striker
SR rarity
Limited to 1 copy
Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones
SR rarity
Limited to 1 copy
Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones
UR rarity
Limited to 2 copies
Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage!
UR rarity
Limited to 2 copies
Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage!
R rarity
Sky Striker Ace - Kaina
R rarity
Sky Striker Ace - Kaina
SR rarity
Sky Striker Mecha - Widow Anchor
SR rarity
Sky Striker Mecha - Widow Anchor
UR rarity
Sky Striker Ace - Kagari
UR rarity
Sky Striker Ace - Kagari
R rarity
Sky Striker Ace - Raye
R rarity
Sky Striker Ace - Raye
R rarity
Sky Striker Airspace - Area Zero
R rarity
Sky Striker Airspace - Area Zero
N rarity
Sky Striker Maneuver - Jamming Waves!
N rarity
Sky Striker Maneuver - Jamming Waves!
SR rarity
Sky Striker Ace - Shizuku
SR rarity
Sky Striker Ace - Shizuku

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.

Gadget
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Gadget
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Gadget
UR rarity
Platinum Gadget
UR rarity
Platinum Gadget
R rarity
Ancient Gear Frame
R rarity
Ancient Gear Frame
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Fusion
SR rarity
Ancient Gear Fusion
R rarity
Ancient Gear Golem
R rarity
Ancient Gear Golem

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.


While not too bad, you have to realize that playing the Ancient Gear Gadget, which can be added with the Ancient Gear Box , means you've completely left the Ancient Gear Frame and its two search targets off the Deck, which arguably very flexible and leaves room for some other better engines to work.

Adventure
UR rarity
Illegal Knight
UR rarity
Illegal Knight
SR rarity
Link Spider
SR rarity
Link Spider
SR rarity
Fateful Adventure
SR rarity
Fateful Adventure
UR rarity
Limited to 1 copy
Foolish Burial
UR rarity
Limited to 1 copy
Foolish Burial
R rarity
Dracoback, the Rideable Dragon
R rarity
Dracoback, the Rideable Dragon
UR rarity
Limited to 2 copies
Rite of Aramesir
UR rarity
Limited to 2 copies
Rite of Aramesir
UR rarity
Limited to 2 copies
Water Enchantress of the Temple
UR rarity
Limited to 2 copies
Water Enchantress of the Temple

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.

True King Lithosagym, the Disaster, Dragonic Diagram and Planet Pathfinder (True King)
SR rarity
True King Lithosagym, the Disaster
SR rarity
True King Lithosagym, the Disaster
SR rarity
Limited to 1 copy
Dragonic Diagram
SR rarity
Limited to 1 copy
Dragonic Diagram
R rarity
Planet Pathfinder
R rarity
Planet Pathfinder

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

 

Main Deck
R rarity
Swords of Concealing Light
R rarity
Swords of Concealing Light
UR rarity
Triple Tactics Thrust
UR rarity
Triple Tactics Thrust
UR rarity
Forbidden Droplet
UR rarity
Forbidden Droplet
UR rarity
Infinite Impermanence
UR rarity
Infinite Impermanence
SR rarity
Gameciel, the Sea Turtle Kaiju
SR rarity
Gameciel, the Sea Turtle Kaiju
UR rarity
Maxx "C"
UR rarity
Maxx "C"

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.

Pay attention to Swords of Concealing Light , as you need your opponent to have a face-up monster on the field to use Ancient Gear Ballista . One good thing is that if it is still on the field, we can deal with it with Ancient Gear Catapult .

Triple Tactics Thrust will be better in some builds but not good in other builds =)) In general, it depends on the Engine you choose.

Extra deck
SR rarity
Knightmare Phoenix
SR rarity
Knightmare Phoenix
SR rarity
Qliphort Genius
SR rarity
Qliphort Genius
SR rarity
Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir
SR rarity
Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir
UR rarity
I:P Masquerena
UR rarity
I:P Masquerena
UR rarity
Accesscode Talker
UR rarity
Accesscode Talker

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.


Qliphort Genius can appear to destroy a monster or Spell/Trap can hinder your deck. It also requires destroying a card on your field, but you can simply deal with it by choosing a card you used an effect on or a Geartown because only effects on the field are negated, but on the grave You shouldn't be able to destroy it freely .


I:P Masquerena can be summoned if you have enough materials to summon it with Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir when going first, however it is somewhat unlikely.

Despite being a very powerful card, Accesscode Talker does not appear often. The battles where you can summon this guy usually involve Urgent Schedule , which means you can't attack with Accesscode Talker . But it can be better when combined with Adventure.



Combo

Let's take a quick look at the common combos that this deck can do




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