Generic Staples

No matter what deck you run, every archetype and strategy needs some staples backing them up. These cards are incredible, able to fit into almost any deck and instantly upgrading them after doing so. A list of generic cards takes a long, long time to make. I’ve done it though, in the hope that new and/or returning players know exactly which cards they can afford.

Overall, every player should own every card on this list. Budget-wise, I’ve made it easy to know what to get if you’re short on money. I personally don’t have many of the non-budget cards myself unfortunately, I do wish this list existed a year ago as I’d know exactly what cards I can afford when I go to buy staples!

Cards with (B) next to them signify cheap budget options

Engines/Toolboxes

Engines/Toolboxes are a series of cards you can tech into almost any deck.

They work independently to boost the power of your deck, even if the rest of the deck is unrelated to the engine in terms of archetype/attribute/type etc.

The Brilliant Engine for example gets you a Fusion monster easily and an extra Normal Summon, allowing you to make your Link plays a lot faster and/or tribute summon if needed!

• Brilliant Engine (Brilliant Fusion + Garnet + Seraphinite)
• (B) Predaplants (Lonefire Blossom + Predaplant Othrys Scorpio + Predaplant Darlingtonian Cobra)
• Toon Chimeratech (Toon Table of Contents + Toon Cyber Dragon + Chimeratech Megafleet)
• Spellbook (Spellbook Magician of Prophecy + Spellbook of Secrets + Spellbook of Knowledge)
• Windwitch (Windwitch Ice Bell + Windwitch Glass Bell + Windwitch Snow Bell + Level 7 WIND Synchro + Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon)
• Lightsworn Mill (Raiden, Hand of the Lightsworn + Charge of the Light Brigade + Solar Recharge)
• Symphonic Warriors (3 Guitar + 2 Miccs for an extra Normal Summon)
• DARK engine (3 Armageddon Knight + Blackwing – Zephyros the Elite + Shaddoll Dragon + Evilswarm Nightmare)

Monsters

Hand-Traps

• Droll & Lock Bird
• (B) Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries
• (B) Effect Veiler
• (B) Psy-Framegear Gamma
• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
• Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit
• (B) Battle Fader
• Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion
• (B) D.D. Crow
• (B) Artifact Lancea
• (B) Gorz the Emissary of Darkness

Other

• (B) Glow-Up Bulb
• (B) Goblindbergh
• (B) Tin Goldfish
• (B) Summoner Monk
• (B) Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
• (B) Cardcar D
• (B) Crane Crane
• (B) Mathematician
• (B) Scapeghost
• Destrudo the Lost Dragon’s Frisson
• Knightmare Corruptor Iblee
• Kaijus
• (B) Genex Ally Birdman
• (B) Performage Trick Clown
• (B) Heroic Challenger – Thousand Blades
• The Winged Dragon of Ra – Sphere Mode
• (B) Eater of Millions
• (B) Vanity’s Fiend
• (B) Saambell the Summoner
• (B) Tour Guide from the Underworld
• (B) Denko Sekka

Spells

• Raigeki
• (B) Called by the Grave
• (B) Dark Hole
• (B) Reasoning
• (B) Pot of Duality
• (B) Pot of Desires
• (B) Allure of Darkness
• (B) Trade-In
• (B) One for One
• (B) Foolish Burial
• (B) Monster Reborn
• (B) Mystical Space Typhoon
• (B) Cosmic Cyclone
• (B) Twin Twisters
• (B) Reinforcement of the Army
• (B) Instant Fusion
• (B) Soul Charge
• (B) Book of Moon
• (B) Scapegoat
• (B) Mind Control
• (B) Gold Sarcophagus
• (B) Future Fusion
• (B) Polymerisation
• Upstart Goblin
• (B) Foolish Burial Goods
• (B) Forbidden Chalice
• (B) Terraforming
• Card of Demise
• (B) Into the Void
• (B) Forbidden Lance
• (B) Forbidden Dress
• (B) Pot of Riches
• (B) Set Rotation
• (B) Monster Gate
• (B) Pot of Acquisitiveness
• (B) Moon Mirror Shield
• (B) Where Arf Thou?
• (B) Ties of the Brethren

Traps

• Solemn Strike
• (B) Solemn Warning
• Solemn Judgement
• (B) Back to the Front
• (B) Call of the Haunted
• (B) Drowning Mirror Force
• (B) Mirror Force
• (B) Quaking Mirror Force
• (B) Storming Mirror Force
• (B) Fiendish Chain
• (B) Dimensional Barrier
• (B) Heavy Storm Duster
• (B) Dark Bribe
• Reckless Greed
• (B) Black Horn of Heaven
• Evenly Matched
• Infinite Impermanence
• Anti-Spell Fragrance
• Imperial Order
• (B) Torrential Tribute
• Skill Drain
• Mask of Restrict
• Solemn Scolding
• Blazing Mirror Force
• (B) Red Reboot

XYZ

Rank 1

• (B) Mira the Star-Bearer
• (B) Sylvan Princessprite
• (B) Slacker Magician

Rank 2

• (B) Number 47: Crumble Logos the Prophet of Demolition
• (B) Number 65: Djinn Buster
• (B) Sky Cavalry Centaurea
• Daigusto Phoenix

Rank 3

• (B) Wind-Up Zenmaines
• (B) Number 17: Leviathan Dragon
• (B) Totem Bird
• (B) MX-Saber Invoker
• The Phantom Knights of Break Sword
• Levair the Sea Dragon
• (B) Number 47: Nightmare Shark
• (B) Chronomaly Crystal Chrononaut
• Super Quantal Mech Beast Grampulse
• Muzurythm the String Djinn
• Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss
• (B) Acid Golem

Rank 4

• (B) Heroic Champion – Excalibur
• (B) Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon
• (B) Gear Gigant X
• (B) Utopia Toolbox (Number 39: Utopia + Utopia Ray + Utopia the Lightning)
• (B) Gagaga Cowboy
• (B) Lightning Chidori
• (B) Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir
• Tornado Dragon
• (B) Steelswarm Roach
• (B) Gagaga Samurai
• (B) Number 101: Silent Honor ARK
• (B) Maestroke the Symphony Djinn
• (B) Castel the Skyblaster Musketeer
• (B) Photon Papilloperative
• (B) Abyss Dweller

Rank 5

• (B) Adreus, Keeper of Armageddon
• Wind-Up Arsenal Zenmaioh
• Artifact Durendal
• (B) Number 61: Volcasaurus
• (B) Super Quantal Mech Beast Magnaliger
• (B) Constellar Pleiades

Rank 6

• (B) Number 24: Dragulas the Vampiric Dragon
• (B) Number 25: Force Focus
• (B) Sword Breaker
• Number 72: Shogi Rook
• (B) Gauntlet Launcher
• (B) Constellar Ptolemy M7
• Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal

Rank 7

• Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack
• (B) Number 11: Big Eye
• Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon
• (B) Number 42: Galaxy Tomahawk
• Number 89: Diablosis the Mind Hacker (pretty impossible to get though)

Rank 8

• (B) Number 68: Sanaphond the Sky Prison
• Hieratic Sun Dragon Overlord of Heliopolis
• Number 107: Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon
• Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy
• Thunder End Dragon
• (B) Galaxy-Eyes Toolbox (Cipher Dragon -> Cipher Blade Dragon OR Full Armor Photon Dragon OR Dark Matter Dragon)
• Number 15: Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder

Rank 9

• (B) True King of all Calamities
• Phantom Fortress Enterblathnir

Rank 10

• Superdimensional Robot Galaxy Destroyer
• (B) Number 81: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Super Dora
• (B) Skypalace Gangaridai
• Super Dreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max
• (B) Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula (+ Number 84: Pain Gainer + Number 77: The Seven Sins)

Synchro

Level 2

• (B) Formula Synchron
• (B) Celestial Double Star Shaman

Level 3

• (B) Tatsunoko
• (B) Mist Bird Clausolas

Level 4

• Crystron Quandax
• (B) Old Entity Hastorr

Level 5

• Ally of Justice Catastor
• (B) Armades, Keeper of Boundaries
• (B) Samsara, Dragon of Rebirth
• Hi-Speedroid Chanbara

Level 6

• (B) Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
• Coral Dragon
• (B) Goyo Guardian
• Stardust Charge Warrior
• (B) Hi-Speedroid Kendama
• (B) Metaphys Horus

Level 7

• (B) Black Rose Dragon
• (B) F.A. Dawn Dragster
• Michael, the Arch-Lightsworn
• (B) Clear Wing Synchro Dragon
• Black Rose Moonlight Dragon
• Dark Strike Fighter
• (B) PSY-Framelord Zeta

Level 8

• Stardust Spark Dragon
• Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon
• Stardust Dragon
• (B) Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons
• PSY-Framelord Omega
• (B) Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend

Level 9

• (B) Cloudcastle
• Mist Wurm
• Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

Level 10

• White Aura Biphamet

Level 11

• Star Eater

Level 12

• Ultimaya Tzolkin
• (B) Phantasmal Lord Ultimitl Bishbaalkin

Link

Link 1

• Linkuriboh
• (B) Link Spider
• (B) Knightmare Mermaid
• (B) Clara & Rushka the Ventriloduo

Link 2

• (B) Knightmare Phoenix
• (B) Space Insulator
• (B) Knightmare Cerberus
• Knightmare Goblin
• (B) Proxy Dragon
• (B) Binary Sorceress
• (B) Underclock Taker
• Heavymetalfoes Electrumite
• Akashic Magician
• (B) Masterking Archfiend
• (B) Missus Radiant
• (B) Ib, the World Chalice Priestess

Link 3

• Knightmare Unicorn
• (B) Tri-Gate Wizard
• Gaia Saber, the Lightning Shadow
• Decode Talker
• Topologic Trisbaena
• (B) Curious, the Lightsworn Dominion

Link 4

• Borreload Dragon
• Knightmare Gryphon
• Topologic Bomber Dragon
• Saryuja Skull Dread
• Firewall Dragon

Fusion

• (B) Elder Entity N’tss
• (B) Mirror Force Dragon
• (B) Sea Monster of Theseus
• (B) Thousand-Eyes Restrict
• Millenium-Eyes Restrict

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