Monarch Deck Breakdown

DARK 8

You can Tribute Summon this card by Tributing 1 Tribute Summoned monster. If this card is Tribute Summoned: Target 1 card on the field; banish it, and if you do, inflict 1000 damage to your opponent, then, if it is a DARK Monster Card, banish all cards with that name from the hand, Main Deck, Extra Deck, and GY of the player who controlled it. If this card was Tribute Summoned by Tributing a DARK monster, add this additional effect. ● You can target 2 cards, instead.

DARK 6

If this card is Tribute Summoned: Target 1 card on the field; banish that target, and if you do, inflict 1000 damage to your opponent if it is a DARK monster.

LIGHT 8

You can send 4 monsters with 2400 or more ATK and 1000 DEF from your hand, Deck, and/or face-up field to the GY; Special Summon this card from your hand. You can target 1 Spell/Trap on each field; destroy them, then Special Summon 1 "Homunculus Token" (Fairy/LIGHT/Level 2/ATK 800/DEF 800) to both players' fields in Defense Position, and if you do, this card gains 1600 ATK. You can only use each effect of "Demiurge Ema" once per turn.

WIND 1

If a card(s) is added from the Main Deck to your opponent's hand, except during the Draw Phase (Quick Effect): You can send this card from your hand to the GY; for the rest of this turn, cards cannot be added from either player's Main Deck to the hand.

LIGHT 1

If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 monster with 800 ATK and 1000 DEF from your Deck in Defense Position, except "Edea the Heavenly Squire", also you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn. If this card is sent to the Graveyard: You can target 1 of your banished "Monarch" Spell/Trap Cards; add it to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Edea the Heavenly Squire" once per turn.

LIGHT 8

You can Tribute Summon this card by Tributing 1 Tribute Summoned monster. If this card is Tribute Summoned: You can send 2 "Monarch" Spell/Trap Cards with different names from your hand and/or Deck to the Graveyard, and if you do, Special Summon 1 monster with 2400 or more ATK and 1000 DEF from your Deck, but return it to the hand during the End Phase. During your opponent's Main Phase, if this card is in your hand: You can banish 1 "Monarch" Spell/Trap Card from your Graveyard; immediately after this effect resolves, Tribute Summon this card (this is a Quick Effect).

DARK 6

If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Monarch" Spell/Trap or 1 monster with 2800 ATK/1000 DEF from your Deck or GY to your hand. You can declare 1 Attribute; make 1 face-up monster on the field become that Attribute. If you Tribute Summon a monster with 2400 or more ATK and 1000 DEF, while this card is in your GY: You can add this card to your hand or Special Summon it. You can only use each effect of "Eidos the Underworld Monarch" once per turn.

DARK 2

If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: During your Main Phase this turn, you can Tribute Summon 1 monster, in addition to your Normal Summon/Set. (You can only gain this effect once per turn.) You can banish this card from your Graveyard, then target 1 monster with 800 ATK and 1000 DEF in your Graveyard, except "Eidos the Underworld Squire"; Special Summon it in Defense Position, also you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn. You can only use this effect of "Eidos the Underworld Squire" once per turn.

DARK 8

You can Tribute Summon this card by Tributing 1 Tribute Summoned monster. If this card is Tribute Summoned: You can send 2 "Monarch" Spell/Trap Cards with different names from your hand and/or Deck to the Graveyard, and if you do, shuffle 1 card from your opponent's hand (at random), Graveyard, or their side of the field into the Deck. Once per turn, during either player's Main Phase, if this card is in your Graveyard: You can discard 1 "Monarch" Spell/Trap Card, then target 1 monster in your Graveyard with 2400 or more ATK and 1000 DEF; add it to your hand.

LIGHT 6

Cannot be Special Summoned. Neither player can activate monster effects.

EARTH 2

During either player's turn: You can send this card from your hand to the Graveyard; this turn, each time your opponent Special Summons a monster(s), immediately draw 1 card. You can only use 1 "Maxx "C"" per turn.

LIGHT 11

During the Main Phase, if your opponent Normal or Special Summoned 5 or more monsters this turn (Quick Effect): You can Tribute as many face-up monsters on the field as possible, and if you do, Special Summon this card from your hand, then Special Summon 1 "Primal Being Token" (Rock/LIGHT/Level 11/ATK ?/DEF ?) to your opponent's field. (This Token's ATK/DEF become the combined original ATK/DEF of the Tributed monsters.) You can only use this effect of "Nibiru, the Primal Being" once per turn.

LIGHT 1

You can reveal 1 "Monarch" Spell/Trap in your hand; Special Summon this card from your hand. During your Main Phase, you can: Immediately after this effect resolves, Tribute Summon 1 monster. If this card is sent to the GY: You can Special Summon 1 monster with 800 ATK/1000 DEF from your Deck, also you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn. You can only use each effect of "Tessera the Primal Squire" once per turn.

Spell Field

While you have no cards in your Extra Deck and you are the only player that controls a Tribute Summoned monster, your opponent cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck. If a Tribute Summoned monster you control attacks an opponent's monster, it gains 800 ATK during damage calculation only. Once per turn: You can reduce the Level of 1 monster with 2800 ATK and 1000 DEF in your hand by 2 until the end of this turn (even after they are Summoned/Set, and even if this card leaves the field).

Spell Normal

If you control a monster with 2400 or more ATK and 1000 DEF: Target 1 Set card on the field; destroy it. You can banish this card and 1 "Monarch" Spell/Trap Card from your Graveyard, then target 1 Set card on the field; destroy it.

Spell Normal

Destroy all Spell and Trap Cards your opponent controls.

Spell Normal

Send 1 "Monarch" Spell/Trap Card from your hand to the Graveyard; draw 2 cards. You can banish this card from your Graveyard; reveal 3 "Monarch" Spell/Trap Cards from your Deck, your opponent chooses 1 for you to add to your hand, and you shuffle the rest back into your Deck. You can only use this effect of "Pantheism of the Monarchs" once per turn.

Spell Normal

Immediately after this effect resolves, Tribute Summon 1 monster (and you can Tribute monsters your opponent controls even though you do not control them), but it cannot be Tributed this turn. If this card is sent from the field to the GY: Your opponent can apply this card's preceding effect. You can only activate 1 "Spell Card "Soul Exchange"" per turn.

Spell Normal

Reveal 1 monster in your hand with 2400 ATK & 1000 DEF, or 2800 ATK & 1000 DEF; add 1 "Monarch" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand, except "Tenacity of the Monarchs". You can only activate 1 "Tenacity of the Monarchs" per turn.

Spell Normal

Send 1 "Monarch" Spell/Trap from your Deck to the GY, except "The Monarchs Masterplan". If this card is banished: You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; add 1 monster with the same Attribute that has 2400 ATK/1000 DEF, from your Deck or GY to your hand, then you can apply this effect. ● Immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 "Zaborg the Thunder Monarch", "Mobius the Frost Monarch", "Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch", "Granmarg the Rock Monarch", "Raiza the Storm Monarch", or "Caius the Shadow Monarch". You can only use this effect of "The Monarchs Masterplan" once per turn.

Spell Normal

Discard 1 card; reveal 3 monsters from your Deck, with 2400 or more ATK and 1000 DEF, and/or 800 ATK/1000 DEF, your opponent chooses 1 for you to add to your hand, and you send the rest to the GY, also for the rest of this turn after this card resolves, you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck. You can banish this card from your GY; Special Summon 1 monster with 800 ATK/1000 DEF from your hand. You can only use each effect of "The Monarchs Revolt" once per turn.

Spell Quick

Once during this turn, if you would Tribute a monster for a Tribute Summon, you can Tribute 1 monster your opponent controls even though you do not control it. You can only activate 1 "The Monarchs Stormforth" per turn. During the turn you activate this card, you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck.

Spell Normal

If your opponent has activated a monster effect during this turn: Set 1 Normal Spell/Trap directly from your Deck, except "Triple Tactics Thrust", or if your opponent controls a monster, you can add it to your hand instead. That Set card cannot be activated this turn. You can only activate 1 "Triple Tactics Thrust" per turn.

Trap Normal

Declare 1 monster card type (Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, or Pendulum); for the rest of this turn, neither player can Special Summon monsters of the declared type, also negate the effects of all monsters of that type while they are on the field. You can only activate 1 "Dimensional Barrier" per turn.

Trap Continuous

Once per Chain, if your opponent Special Summons a monster(s), and you control a Tribute Summoned monster (except during the Damage Step): You can banish 1 "Monarch" Spell/Trap from your GY, then activate 1 of these effects (but you can only use each effect of "Monarchic Perfection" once per turn); ● Destroy 1 monster on the field. ● Destroy up to 2 Spells/Traps on the field. ● Discard 1 random card from your opponent's hand. ● Destroy 1 face-down card on the field. ● Place 1 card from the field on top of the Deck. ● Banish 1 card on the field.

Trap Counter

When your opponent activates a Trap Card: Negate the activation, and if you do, Set that card face-down, then they can Set 1 other Trap directly from their Deck. For the rest of this turn after this card resolves, your opponent cannot activate Trap Cards. You can activate this card from your hand by paying half your LP.

Trap Counter

When a monster(s) would be Summoned, OR a Spell/Trap Card is activated: Pay half your LP; negate the Summon or activation, and if you do, destroy that card.

Trap Continuous

Activate this card only if you have no cards in your Extra Deck and control a Tribute Summoned monster. Negate the effects of all face-up monsters on the field, while those monsters are face-up on the field, except Tribute Summoned monsters'. During your End Phase, if you control no Tribute Summoned monsters, send this card to the Graveyard.

Trap Continuous

Once per turn: You can target 2 "Monarch" Spell/Trap Cards in your Graveyard; shuffle them into the Deck, then draw 1 card. If this card is in your Graveyard: You can banish 1 other "Monarch" Spell/Trap Card from your Graveyard; Special Summon this card in Defense Position as a Normal Monster (Fairy-Type/LIGHT/Level 5/ATK 1000/DEF 2400). (This card is NOT treated as a Trap Card.) You can only use this effect of "The Prime Monarch" once per turn.