Instructions for playing Metalfoes

An Underated deck, although there is no specific combo, this is what makes it interesting. So now let's read a guide about this Metalfoes deck

Article referenced & translated from: " Metalfoes Guide " by The Thingy & EEE on Master Duel Meta Page

Sections covered in this guide:

5/ Main deck Engine/Extender

6/ Tech card

7/ Epilogue

Introduce

Cool iron bodies meet burning metal machines and man/machine combine. Burn up the soul - Metalfoes Fusion!!

Metalfoes is a pendulum deck that mainly uses monsters in the Main deck to access useful Spells/Traps and FUSION SUMMON! So why should we play this deck? First you have to ask yourself, what is the best Deck to use Promethean Princess ? Yes, it is this deck (at this moment lol). And secondly, it's fun to play

Monster card

Most Metalfoes Monsters have the same Pendulum Effect: Once per turn: you can Destroy 1 face-up card on your field, then Set 1 Metalfoes Spell/Trap directly from the Deck to the field.

Normal Monster

These are the Normal Monsters in the deck. Although nothing special, they are a core part of the deck. Some variants like Yang Zing Metalfoes often play the other 3 lower level cards to minimize the number of Metalfoes monsters to avoid bricking.

Raremetalfoes Bismugear (x1-3)

Coming to our first Effect Monster, it has an effect like when destroyed, you can add 1 Metalfoes Monster to your hand in EndPhase, it sounds slow and not very effective (and that's why there are so many ways to build deck but only use x1 of this card). However, this card can still help us have an extra piece of meat to use Fullmetalfoes Fusion which I will talk about later.

Parametalfoes Melcaster (x3)

One of the strongest cards in the deck, when destroyed it will add 1 Metalfoes Monster from the extra deck to the hand but in return that added card will not be able to activate in the Pendulum Zone. However, we can still Normal/Special summon it, so it can be considered that we have more food to Pendulum/Fusion summon. In addition, this card is also level 7 so it can XYZ rank 7 with Metalfoes Volflame .

Metalfoes Vanisher (x0-1 )

The only Metalfoes card that does not have a card set effect from the deck, instead it will destroy 2 face-up cards on your field to summon itself to the field, banish,... and has a few more effects that I almost never use so no need for qtam =)).

Normally we only need x1 of this card like Metalfoes Counter , because they are both relatively strong pieces for your endboard because the banish eff is quite ok.

Spell & Trap

Parametalfoes Fusion (x1)

This card is quite good because it can Fusion summon without taking -1 damage, it takes materials from both the Extra deck, hand or field, and you will often summon Metalfoes Mithrilium for more resources or Link Beyond the Pendulum ,

You should only x1 this card because Mithrilium itself can be easily recycled.

Metalfoes Fusion (x1)

YEP This is a Metalfoes card , maybe because there are so many mercenaries, sometimes you will forget this card also belongs to Metalfoes. This is the second best card in the deck, we can reuse it from the grave for free and still get +1. The Fusion effect is not One Per Turn , so it will be very useful at times

Because this card can return on its own, along with Mithrilium that can restore other Metalfoes cards, we will only need to x1 it in the deck to avoid bricking.

Fullmetalfoes Fusion (x1)

This card allows you to Fusion summon with a quick effect, so it is often used to fuse during the enemy's turn so that you can use the meat lump added by Raremetalfoes Bismugear as a material.

It is also used to deal with cards like Dark Rule No More, waiting and summoning Fullmetalfoes Alkahest.

Metalfoes Combination (x2 )

Also one of the best cards in the deck and also a main searcher . There will be many ways for us to send this card to the grave and get a lot of resources (recommended to use Engine Magicians' Soul to get +4 cards, I will talk about this part later)

Metalfoes Counter (x0-1)

This card has the ability to summon Metalfoes monsters from the deck with some conditions. It sounds strong, but actually we don't have too many cards to make good use of this ability. So we only need x1 to be able to summon Metalfoes Vanisher .

In addition, this card also has an effect in the grave, adding 1 metalfoes from extra so it may also be quite useful in the late game.

Metamorformation (x0)

Cards like cc can't even be searched, please don't play...

Extra deck

Fullmetalfoes Alkahest (x1)

Fullmetal Alchemist . This is our boss, it has the opponent's monster equip effect on it, this is a pretty strong form of disruption while this card is easy to summon. The second effect is also used occasionally, so it's quite fun when we activate it.

Metalfoes Adamante and Metalfoes Crimsonite (x0-1)

These are the two Fusion Normal monsters of the deck, although nothing special, BUT they become very strong because of Super Polymerization along with their summoning conditions. If you play Super Poly, I think you should put at least 1 of this card in your deck (Recommended is Crimsonite because it is better than the other cards in every aspect)

Metalfoes Mithrilium (x2)

This card is the Main Fusion Monster of the deck, it helps restore and increase resources at the same time. The first effect helps recycle 2 Metalfoes cards and return 1 card on the field/disruption (This effect combines very, very well with Chicken Game to be able to draw more cards, and it also Recycles 1 of your Electrumite to take advantage of Use its soft one per turn effect).

The second effect is a pretty good non-One per turn, helping to special summon Metalfoes. So we often summon 2 cards right in turn 1, the remaining card is to destroy the opponent's field.

Parametalfoes Azortless (x1)

One of the newest cards added to the game, because it is a pendulum card, it can also be summoned by Pendulum. It has the effect of destroying opp's card when it is summoned from the Extra Deck, so regardless of Fusion or Pendulum summon it can be destroyed.

We often use this card combined with Mithrillium to destroy the opp field, helping to overcome many difficult situations, so x1 is more than enough for this player.

Metalfoes Orichalc (x1)

Orichalc has 2 effects that make this an indispensable card:

Great OTK ability to make all Metalfoes penetrate and still have x2 damage (BE Chaos max but more vip :v)
The effect of destroying a card when leaving the field is very good with a few other cards (it is Promethean Princess that can destroy 1 more nx card)

Heavymetalfoes Electrumite (x1)

That's right, this is also a Metalfoes card. Just kidding, this is one of the best cards ever printed and I bet you all know this. Banned in TCG, this card has an effect of Soft One Per Turn that adds a Pendulum card from deck to extra deck, and 1 SOFT ONCE PER TURN (very, very important) that destroys the card you are controlling (thereby activating a few effect of the Metalfoes monster) to add 1 Pendulum card from the Extra Deck to your hand.

For those who don't know this card, you will wonder why this card was banned, right? There are two main reasons, firstly, it can repeat the effect (loop) many times (It can repeat up to 5 times in 1 turn in this deck), and secondly, when paired with Astrograph Sorcerer , it helps We have a lot of resources and a huge amount of advantages. So there is no reason for us not to play this card.

Heavymetalfoes Amalgam (x0)

You're a waste and still ask for support... Don't play.

Main deck Engine/Extender

Astrograph Sorcerer and Magicians' Soul will be the two most important Engines, the rest is up to your preference and reference.

Astrograph Sorcerer (x1)

Because Metalfoes always destroy cards, we can summon and gain resource advantage very easily through this card. Level 7 when sandwiched with 2 other Metalfoes can easily XYZ to rank 7 again, and this is also the main reason why Electrumite was banned. Both are soft one per turn, they give virtual advantage by looping Electrumite. There is no reason not to play it, even if you get x3, I will still be willing to x3 this card.

Magicians' Souls, Illusion of Chaos and Preparation of Rites (x3, x1-3, x0-3 )

Both cards Illusion of Chaos and Preparation of Rites have the same purpose, which is to search for Magicians' Souls. As for why Magicians' Souls is so necessary, it is because it has the ability to send up to 2 Metalfoes Combinations to the grave, thereby bringing a +4 cards advantage. So it's very cool!

Rescue Rabbit (x1-3)

Free summons 2 Metalfoes so we can easily Link to Electrumite before Pendulum summons. But it costs 1 normal summon, so please improvise

Upstart Goblin and Chicken Game (x3)

FreeDraw. These 2 cards make your cards a lot thinner, especially Chicken Game when combined with Metalfoes Mithrilium.

Link Toolbox

These Links are really familiar to everyone, their strength is beyond dispute, so we can try to give each card x1.

DPE Engine

hmmm... just the same DPE engine as always

Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon and Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon (Odd-eyes Engine)

As mentioned above, this deck can create some level 7 meat lumps so we can absolutely use this engine.

Dracoslayer Engine

This engine is so crazy =)), it helps us have Beyone the Pendulum and Electrumite before Pendulum summons, even in the build mix with Yang Zing, it also helps us add Oracle of Zefra to play Engine Zefra.