Build an Elemental Hero Yu Gi Oh! GX Deck

Building an Elemental Hero deck in Yu-Gi-Oh! can be a great way to strike your opponents quickly with powerful monsters. This article will teach you how to successfully build this awesome type of deck.

Steps

  1. Decide what kind of deck you want to build. There are many different variants of Elemental HEROs. Currently, the best build is Masked Heroes, which use Mask Change and Shadow Mist to bring out Dark Law. However, there are many other options, so feel free to just experiment with the cards until you figure out what works for you.
  2. Get the monsters. The best HERO monsters are Shadow Mist, Bubbleman, Neos Alius, Blazeman, and Prisma (for fusion decks). None of the others are really worth using, except for fusing with. Masked HERO decks also use a few copies of Summoner Monk and Goblindbergh to special summon Shadow Mist and trigger its effects. Typically, HERO decks use few monsters and many cards to search them.
  3. Put in draw and search cards to help you gain advantage and get to your combo pieces faster. HEROs have access to some great searchers in Reinforcement of the Army, E - Emergency Call, and A Hero Lives. The first two cards are great for searching out all of your HEROs, but A Hero Lives has a rather steep cost and is best for an early game Dark Law in meta decks.
  4. If you are playing fusions, add some fusion spells and support. Miracle Fusion is the best fusion spell they have access to, and is good in nearly any HERO deck. If you are using Blazeman, add Polymerization since he can search it out. Fusion Reserve and Fusion Conscription can be used if you use fusions with specific materials, and Fusion Recovery can recover your materials. If using specific materials, it can be a good idea to use fusion substitutes like King of the Swamp and Prisma.
  5. If you play Masked HEROs, add 3 copies of Mask Change. You can also use a few copies of Mask Charge to recycle Mask Change and Form Change to switch around your HEROs. Also, use cards like Call of the Haunted or Oasis of Dragon Souls to special summon Shadow Mist.
  6. Put in staple cards. These are powerful cards which can disrupt your opponent or get you out of a tough situation, and so are used in almost every deck. Add cards like Twin Twisters/Mystical Space Typhoon, Raigeki, Soul Charge, Solemn Warning, Solemn Strike, etc.
  7. Build an Extra deck. Add the Masked HERO monsters if using Mask Change, and the generic HERO fusions if you have a fusion spell. Good Masked HEROs are Dark Law, Acid, Anki, and Koga, Dian and Divine Wind if using Form Change, and Contrast HERO Chaos if using Miracle Fusion. The best fusion monsters are the ones who only require a HERO monster and a certain attribute as their materials, like Absolute Zero, The Shining, Escuridao, and Nova Master. Also, include some Rank 4 Xyz monsters like Castel, Abyss Dweller, and Utopia and Utopia the Lightning, and Rank 8s like Hope Harbinger and Felgrand.

Tips

  • Fusion Gate is great for Fusion summoning, but be aware that it banishes the materials.
  • Here are a few Elemental HERO cards that are not good and should be avoided: Hero Blast, O - Oversoul, H - Heated Heart, R - Righteous Justice, HERO Flash, Fake Hero, and any Hero Kid related cards.
  • A deck consisting of Elemental Heroes is a different than running a Neos deck. In the anime, it seems easy to use. But an Elemental Hero deck and a Neos deck have two very different strategies, making it very unstable if you run both in one deck. If you want to use Neos and his fusions, you will need a dedicated deck. Make a Neos Yu Gi Oh! Deck
  • Cards like Fusion Conscription or Elemental HERO Prisma which allow you to search a Fusion Material listed on a Fusion monster will only work if the Fusion Monster revealed requires a specific name for its materials. If it says '"Elemental HERO Avian" + "Elemental HERO Burstinatrix"', you will be able to search either Burstinatrix or Avian, but if it says '1 "Elemental HERO" monster + 1 LIGHT monster', you will not be able to add any Elemental HERO or any LIGHT monster.
  • Keep your deck to 40 cards. Too many cards will make it more inconsistent.
  • A cheap way to build this deck is to buy 2 or 3 HERO Strike structure decks and combine them. You will have to buy cards like Acid or Absolute Zero.
  • Don't add cards that aren't based around the deck or your strategy will go out of the window. Base the deck around Dark Law and add good support cards, cut unnecessary cards and add staples otherwise the deck will fall apart and you will draw the cards you don't need.

Warnings

  • Keep an eye on your cards in public, they can and do get lost or stolen.

Things You'll Need

  • 3 Elemental HERO Shadow Mist
  • 2-3 Elemental HERO Bubbleman
  • 1-2 Elemental HERO Neos Alius
  • 3 Reinforcement of the Army
  • 1-3 E - Emergency Call
  • 0-2 Polymerization
  • 2-3 Miracle Fusion
  • 1-3 A Hero Lives
  • 2-3 Mask Change
  • 2-3 Masked HERO Dark Law
  • 2 Masked HERO Acid
  • 1 Elemental HERO Absolute Zero

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