Instructions for playing Buster Blader

If you are fed up with being defeated by extremely powerful dragons and are at the top of tournaments and Ranks such as: Blue - Eyes, Red - Eyes, Shooting Star Dragon, Red Dragon Archfiend,... Then Using the Buster Blader line (also known as "Dragon Slayer") will definitely make you feel more confident when playing Rank and using these cards to bring dragons into submission. However, this line of articles still has many weaknesses. Therefore, this article was written so that you can better understand and create your own "Dragon Slayer" deck.

Sections covered in this guide:

Skills

Destiny Draw (Skill Card) (90% used)

Destiny Draw is a skill that most players use when using the character Yami Yugi because of its decisiveness in a match. When applied linelessly Buster Blader , you can use this Skill to carry important cards so you can end the match immediately or survive a few more turns. However, the weakness of this Skill is that you have to reduce your Life Points to activate it. Therefore, although it is decisive, it also brings you extremely high danger if the card you draw does not decide the outcome of the match.

Switcheroo (50% used)

Switcheroo is a similar type of Skill Destiny Draw , However, the card you draw will be random and your life points will only decrease by 1500. You can use this Skill to replace Destiny Draw. However, it will not be very effective and will be very risky if the card you need is not drawn.

Ultimate Dragons (Skill Card) (57% used)

It will not be surprising that some players combine the Blue - Eyes and Buster Blader lines together. The Chairman's skill will be most effective when you don't have the resources to bring out Dragon Destroyer Swordsman , you can take advantage of the Blue - Eyes deck's infinite card drawing ability thanks to Card of Consonance and Whelp. is a Tuner , to bring out Blue - Eyes and utilize them to be able to use your Extra Deck optimally. Overall, with the current meta, the combination of President Kaiba and Dragon Slayer is not a bad choice.

Light and Dark (75% used)

If you are a Red - Eyes enthusiast like me, then combining Red - Eyes and Buster Blader is a perfect combination and using Skill Light and Dark is an extremely suitable choice for you. This skill is very flexible as it allows you to play up to six Destruction Swordsman 's Buster Whelps , as you can trade your Black Metal Dragon and The Black Stone of Legend for a Whelp . The most optimal way to play this Skill would be 2-3x BMD, 1x Blackstone and 1 x Red -Eyes Black Dragon as you can keep recycling your Blackstone (Discard it for Destruction Swordsman Fusion or by using use it as a Fusion Material) and Red - Eyes (by sending it back to the deck with Blackstone 's GY effect) You will be able to use multiple Red - Eyes Fusions while having a lower chance to open Red - Eyes during your starting turn.

Master of Fusion (Skill Card) (50% used)

Using this Skill is extremely suitable for a card line that relies on the main monster being a fusion monster like Buster Blader the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman . With the activation condition being only 1000 life points, you may not need to worry about not having a card that can fuse your monster. However, it will be very difficult without cards that use your Life Points to activate the Skill and in case you do not have materials in your hand to fuse, this Skill will lose its effect.

Core Cards

You can find Cores (Key Cards) mostly in the Crimson Kingdom, Power of Bravery boxes and in the Card Trader area .

Buster Blader (3 [100%])

This is one of the fusion materials for your deck as it allows you to summon Dark Paladin or Buster Blader, Dragon Destroyer Swordsman with another alternative fusion material. You can also Tribute Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman while it is on the field and special summon this card from your hand or from your graveyard. It's best not to summon this monster unless you're in a dire situation where you can lose because this card can't do anything except be attacked.

Destruction Swordsman Fusion (2-3 [100%])

The ability to let you use one of your opponent's monsters as a fusion replacement is a game-changer, and with just one card you can change the properties of all of them. monsters on the field, making it possible to use this card's full potential at all times. However, be careful when attacking right after you summon as you can only use this fusion card once per turn.

Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman (3 [100%])

This card is really good, along with being a one star Tuner it allows you to add Destruction Swordsman Fusion to your hand and allows you to sacrifice it to summon Buster Blader in your hand or in your graveyard. Additionally, if you have a Buster Blader of any type on the field and this card is in the grave, you can discard your Destruction Swordsman Fusion card to the grave and special summon it. The versatility of this card is great because you can have many different playstyles like summoning it to look for a fusion card and then sacrificing it for a Buster Blader and then using that fusion card with that Buster Blader and a substitute material to special summon Dark Paladin , the monster will also have that 500 attack buff from Whelp in the graveyard.

Buster Blader the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman (2-3 [100%])

This card is the main card of this deck, when a monster with the Dragon race is on the field, its effects will be negated and moved to a defensive position, completely stopping combos and attacks. . Be careful when summoning this monster as you only have 2-3 cards in your Extra Deck and no inherent protection. You can use this monster on anything if you plan to continue the match and have another fusion card in hand so you can fuse this monster for another DDS if your opponent activates traps like Widespread Ruin or Offerings to the Doomed . However, this card cannot attack the player directly. It is a pity that there is a huge source of power from Dragon-type monsters from the opponent's grave but cannot cause direct damage. However, one advantage of this card is that it attacks through armor (i.e., causing damage to your opponent even when their monster is in defense position). You can take advantage of this when forcing their monsters to submit to you and ending the battle quickly

Emblem of Dragon Destroyer (2 [97%])

A perfectly suitable card to be able to search for Buster Bladers and put them in your hand if you have a brick hand (bad card). With its search ability, this card can also make your deck easier to operate and you can recycle the card to bring DSF to further fuse and bring Swordsman back to the field.

DNA Surgery (3 [100%])

This card changes all monsters on the field to an attribute so that when selected Dragon and having Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman on the field, all of your opponent's monster effects will be negated and At the same time, he was transferred to the Defense position. However, you should avoid placing 2 DNA cards at once because doing so will crowd the field and you may accidentally switch to another attribute.

Goddess with the Third Eye (1-2 [70%])

Another alternative fusion material to have, often used when you have Armades, Keeper of Boundaries in your Extra Deck as it can be used to synchro with Whelp into Armades . Interchangeable with The Dark - Hex-Sealed Fusion.

Destruction Sword Memories (3x)

This is the latest support of the Buster Blader line when it was recently released. It can be said that it will help make the Buster Blader line much more diverse and powerful, really a lot. It provides a quick summon of Buster Blader to the field if you don't have a way to bring it out as a fusion material in your hand. Not only that, it also provides a fusion summon from the grave, a very wonderful and perfect provision. Well worth your investment.

Buster Dragon (2-3x)

The presence of Buster Dragon after its recent release is helping Buster Blader become much stronger. Sometimes, it helps to completely reduce the use of DNA Surgery in your deck to avoid bricking. Additionally, like Memories, it provides a free summon for your BB.

Engine

This is a summary of the Engines (systems) by which Buster Blader will be played with the smoothest fighting style.

Red-Eyes Slash Dragon, Black Metal Dragon and Red-Eyes Fusion (Red-Eyes Engine)

Personally, I feel that Red-Eyes is the best line to run with Buster Blader because now you don't need to rely solely on DNA Surgery to win, you can block and neutralize with Red- Eyes Slash Dragon . And if you open Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman with Red-Eyes Fusion , you can send Buster Blader to the grave and equip it to your Slash . This allows you to summon BB when your Slash is destroyed and prepares it for DNA Combo. In addition, Black Metal Dragon will be very helpful to you if you draw it first because you can both take it to the grave to draw the Red-Eyes Fusion card into your hand, and use it as a fusion material for BBDDS. BMD can also help you equip Slash to protect it right on your summon if you want to bring Slash out first. Overall, Red-Eyes will make your gameplay more diverse when combined with Buster Blader .

Ritual Beast Ulti-Pettlephin, Spiritual Beast Tamer Winda and Ritual Beast Ulti-Apelio (Ritual Beast Engine)

You can operate Buster Blader with the Ritual Beast line because most of the monsters are Fusion-type. One good thing about the Ritual Beast line is that they can resist effects, from there, you can both protect your side of the field and use them and DNA to quickly bring BBDDS to the field.

Elemental HERO Brave Neos, Elemental HERO Neos and Neos Fusion (Neos Engine)

When talking about the Neos series , we always think of Heroes with extremely fast summoning speed and strength that makes them almost invincible. Therefore, combining them with Buster Blader is also not a bad idea when they are also the line that uses the main monster, the Fusion system. That's why the flexibility and balance of Buster Blader will be increased.

Cards of Consonance, The White Stone of Ancients and Dragon Spirit of White (Blue-Eyes Engine)

It will not be surprising that president Seto Kaiba's card line is always suitable for all genres and is almost invincible against strong enemies. Blue-Eyes is a pretty good way to play Buster Blader as this line essentially addresses one of Buster Blader 's biggest weaknesses, which is the backrow, which with the addition of Keeper of the Shrine will allow you recycle your Dragon Spirit of White in some matches, and can also help you prevent some deadly situations. With 6 Tuners in your deck, you have plenty of fuel for your Vermillion Dragon Mech to bombard your opponent's backrows.

Gaia the Magical Knight of Dragons, Necro Fusion and Curse of Dragonfire (Gaia Engine)

Recently appearing in early 2021, Gaia is a card line that is considered quite cost-effective and helps you climb to KoG very easily. Because of this and most of them are dragon-type, using a fusion material to replace Buster Blader and Gaia is completely reasonable because they can bring out key monsters from the array. Your Extra Deck. However, with such high strength, their only weakness is still their annoying backrows .

Aleister the Invoker, Invoked Magellanica and Invocation (Invoked Engine)

I have used this mercenary engine in my Buster Blader set and to be honest, it works very well. By using a resource like the Earth attribute Buster Blader , you can fuse and bring Magellancia onto the field (you can use it to attack or defend, in general, either way is fine because its stats are quite high). ). Or you can use the Invocation card to replace Destruction Fusion and bring out BBDDS quickly. The only weakness of this line is that because of its great strength and easy combination with other lines, they are greatly limited, even banned. This will affect the use of Tech to protect your monsters because the stronger the Tech you use, the more limited they will be.

Tech Cards

Most longtime players of the Buster Blader series will always notice that the only weakness is the backrow. Despite the ability to overcome Dragon-race monsters, if they are not able to protect themselves, Dragon Slayers can only be destroyed to the grave or eliminated from the match . Therefore, to create the most stable Buster Blader deck for you, always prepare yourself a fairly tough tech set to be able to knock out your opponent's backrow set.

Necro Fusion (1-2 )

This card can be useful because you can combo summon Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman and Red-Eyes Slash Dragon using resources from your grave instead of in your hand or field. However, it is not recommended to use Slash if you only run one Red-Eyes Black Dragon because every Red-Eyes Fusion you draw becomes dead, this card should only be used to fuse Slash if your Red-Eyes Fusion thrown to the grave to negate a certain card that has the effect of discarding cards in your hand.

Vermillion Dragon Mech (1)

In a normal Buster Blader deck there are always at least 3 Tuners. Using this advantage, you can optionally use them to synchro (assimilate) and bring Vermillion onto the field. The goal is to bombard your opponent's annoying backrows so you can comfortably defend your side of the field.

Stardust Dragon and Stardust Spark Dragon (Tech)

A perfect combination for your Extra Deck. Stardust Dragon or Stardust Spark Dragon can prevent your opponent from using his backrow to destroy your BBDDS . However, their ability is to prevent destruction, not to prevent elimination, so you may have to prepare more Tech for this . Normally, using Stardust Dragon will be preferable to using Spark because Stardust can prevent yourself and the monsters of the field from being destroyed, while Spark can only prevent the destruction of one target. , meaning one is Spark is destroyed, two is your other monster is destroyed. But in general, both have very good abilities to prevent destruction and can be used as fusion materials for BBDDS .

World Legacy Clash (2)

With a limited status of 2, this Tech card can contribute to preventing the destruction or removal of BBDDS. In addition, it also reduces the enemy monster's attack power by up to 2800 points, a not small number, and this effect will remain until that monster is removed or destroyed. And when your Real Estate successfully returns to the field, you can destroy your opponent's monsters without worrying about any problems.

Kiteroid (2)

This is a perfect protection for yourself if your hand is bricked (bad card) right in the first turns and you want to wait until Destiny Draw is eligible to activate and draw the card you desire. However, this card has been limited to 2, so note that when creating a deck, you will want to use up to 2 of these cards and avoid other cards that are limited to 2.

Sphere Kuriboh (2-3)

If you don't want to use Kiteroid , this is a perfect alternative, but it will take quite a bit of resources to get. However, with the ability to change the opponent's monster into animal position and help you avoid a dangerous attack, this is also considered an extremely reasonable Tech to use in your BB deck.

Anti-Magic Arrows (2)

The effect can prevent the opponent's backrow from being activated and is a quick-play spell (instant magic card), you can easily use it on your turn or set it to use on your opponent's turn. defense. However, the only weakness of this card is that it can only be used at the beginning of the Battle Phase, which means that during the Main Phase your monster will be affected by your opponent's backrow. as usual. Therefore, you should carefully consider using this leaf.

Cosmic Cyclone (2-3)

Currently, this card is limited to 3, but when used in the Buster Blader deck (a deck that does not have a single limited card), I encourage you to make the most of these 3 cards in your deck. Its advantage is that it subtracts your life points to completely eliminate the opponent's backrows. This is a combo attack when you combine it with the Destiny Draw skill because you can both prevent the opponent's backrows from being activated. , can both meet the conditions to activate the Skill for your next turn. However, it's best to use them during your opponent's turn (because this card is a quick-play spell so it can be set and activated during your opponent's turn), so you can easily activate the skill quickly on the turn. mine. Or there is another way for you to use this card, for example, if you accidentally set up to 2 DNA and your opponent does not set a backrow, you can use this card to destroy the excess DNA card and activate it at the same time. all my skills. However, using this method can greatly reduce your Life Points because the activation cost is 1000 Life Points. Therefore, you should watch the timing as well as the amount of life points you need to survive the next turn.

Armades Keeper of Boundaries (1)

This is a really good card if you use it when creating a pure Buster Blader set. You can synchro it and use it to prevent your opponent's backrow from being activated.

Mystical Space Typhoon (2-3)

A very good Tech to destroy the opponent's backrow and is a great replacement card for Cosmic Cyclone . One advantage is that it does not deduct life points to activate and can destroy opponent's backrows quickly but it cannot discard opponent's cards to prevent them from being activated in the grave nor does it facilitate You can easily activate your skills.

Paleozoic Canadia (2)

A great card to have in the deck, this card can overthrow your opponent's threats that threaten to destroy your monsters like Karakuri Shogun mdl 00 "Burei", Masked HERO Anki or threaten to pop Your DNA like Koa'ki Meiru Maximus and Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon and deal it next turn, you can also special summon it to your field from your grave and use it as a substitute material so as to integrate. Be cautious about summoning it later as it has very low stats (atk: 1200 / def: 0) and can be easily destroyed.

Floodgate Trap Hole (2-3)

A great alternative to Cannaia , this permanently sets your opponent's monster face down so you can deal with that monster whenever you want instead of having to deal with it the next turn . However, with the upcoming limit of 3, you should consider including it in your deck because you will need to deal with your opponent's backrows rather than their monsters.

Book of Moon (2-3)

A perfect card to block your opponent's attacks and be able to turn them face down and deal with them on your next turn. However, the only weakness of this card is that it costs too many resources to obtain, so you always need to consider choosing it and Canadia and Floodgate .

Forbidden Lance (2-3)

This can be a useful Tech because it solves the Buster Blader's biggest weakness, which is the backrow, it can also be useful against Darklords because if you get locked on, the only way for them to break It will trigger a trap from the field, and if you Lance yourself, they will have no escape.

Dark Paladin (1)

Dark Paladin is no longer as useful as it used to be because Ancient Gears are starting to fall out of Ranks and that is the only matchup where Dark Paladin is truly useful. In some cases, this is also good in mirror matches (using the same system) because you can disable your opponent's Destruction Swordsman Fusion to prevent them from setting up their combo while setting up theirs. Friend. Due to space and speed issues, most Buster Blader decks go undisrupted for extra appeal, so you don't have to worry about your Dark Paladin flipping. The important thing to note for mirror match is that if they are playing Red-Eyes Buster Blader , there is no need to waste resources by disabling their Red-Eyes Fusion as you will get bigger with the more dragons they Have. But if the match is relatively long and you have a card to spare, it may be more beneficial to negate it to avoid potential danger.

Cipher Soldier (1-2)

If you want to use the Buster Blader line that runs mainly on Red-Eyes then Cipher Soldier can be a really good Tech because you have the DNA and can change everything to Warrior and let your Cipher become a player with 3350/3800. It also helps against the really tricky Six Samurai match, since they're all Warriors, and once you eliminate Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En with your Cipher, you're free to flip DNA Surgery and Destruction Swordsman Fusion . It could also help against Neos but now they run with the Koa'ki Meiru line which is risky to just place and forget.

Red-Eyes Black Dragon Sword and The Claw of Hermos (Tech )

This is just a sideline Tech setup. If you want to OTK faster, combining Hermos with BBDDS will definitely cause your opponent to suffer a significant amount of loss. However, it should be noted that when summoning REBDS to the field, you must summon it when you are in the first turn of the match, the opponent's field is empty and has no monsters, or your field has monsters so REBDS can activate. Activate your abilities and equip them to your monsters.

Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon (1)

A very good tech to add to your Extra Deck now that Duel Links has released it in the latest Selection Box . If you're lucky and get this card, add it to your Buster Blader set. An Xyz monster uses 2 7-star monsters as materials, while most of the monsters you use are 7-star and will be even better when you combine this card with your Red-Eyes Buster Blader set. You can both cause damage effects, protect your field, and recycle your Red-Eyes. So I recommend adding it.

Sample Decks

Sample deck 1

Need 15 UR

Main: 20 Extra: 7

Sample deck 2

Need 17 UR

Main: 20 Extra: 7

Combos

The main combo of the Buster Blader line mainly depends on DNA Surgery . However, with the meta changing rapidly recently, creating many different combos is completely possible. With this article, you will have some ideas to create your own combo to use for the Buster Blader line.

DNA Surgery, Buster Blader and the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman (Combo)

This is the main combo of this card line, using DNA to change the race of cards on the field to Dragons. From there, BBDDS will easily control the opponent's monsters and cause a large amount of armor-piercing damage. However, you should avoid setting up too much DNA because doing so will confuse your squad.

Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman, Buster Blader and Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman (Combo )

This combo is used to end the match quickly (OTK - One turn kill) if you are lucky enough to encounter lines of cards that only use the Dragon race. You just need to use Whelp to bring Destruction Fusion to your hand and fuse Buster Blader with another ingredient to bring BBDDS to the field and start your OTK stage.

Destruction Swordsman Fusion, Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman and Emblem of Dragon Destroyer (Combo)

This will be a secondary combo, if you start your turn with a brick hand (bad card): only Whelp and dragon materials in hand and no Buster Blader. You will use Emblem of Dragon Destroyer to bring Buster Blader to your hand and fuse them together to bring up the main monster (continue combo 2).

Destiny Draw (Skill Card), Destruction Swordsman Fusion and Cosmic Cyclone (Combo)

This is the most common combo when you have to combine it with the Destiny Draw skill to bring out the card you need. To promote this Skill better, when activating the Skill, you should draw the Destruction Fusion card directly to quickly fuse and bring BBDDS to the field . And you should use the Cosmic Cyclone card first to facilitate skill activation and backrow removal.

Red-Eyes Slash Dragon and Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman and Buster Blader (Combo )

This combo will be used more if you are more inclined towards Red-Eyes Buster Blader . How to use is very easy, especially against lines with high attack points like Blue-Eyes, you just need to bring Slash to the field and equip Buster Blader (used to fuse Slash or BBDDS) and kill yourself, then When destroyed, Slash will bring Buster Blader back to the field and you can use BB to destroy your opponent's Dragon monster or if he is affected by backrows, you can just activate Destruction Fusion 's effect to fuse. BB to continue attacking the opponent. (Note: it's best to set Whelp after summoning Slash or setting Black Metal Dragon for easier fusion).

Matchups

Best matchups

Most of the best matchups of the Buster Blader line are Dragon race lines. Since they are easily overcome by BBDDS, I can say that with confidence. However, even though we are invincible against the Dragon, we should not be subjective because there is always a backrow to destroy us. We can take a look at some Dragon card lines that can easily be overcome by Buster Blader such as:

Blue-Eyes
Red-Eyes
Resonator
Synchron
Gaia
Dragunity
Hieratic
Chaos Levianeer

Bad matchups

The only weakness of Buster Blader is lines with extremely strong backrows, that's why I always recommend that you discard 1-2 cards that can remove the backrow and end the match quickly. We can take a look at some lines that are considered natural enemies of Buster Blader such as:

Shiranui Traps: this is the most annoying line of cards I've ever seen because of their versatility and huge array of traps that can sink your entire deck in one turn.
Harpie Lady: when encountering this line of cards, if you are very lucky, you will draw DNA into your hand and transform them. However, life is not inherently easy, Harpie Lady always has cards in her that can quickly remove backrows and from there, DNA will no longer be valuable and the opponent's main monster will activate. Activate your abilities and return our monsters to your hand, so it's best to use their main monsters as fusion materials. That will reduce their ability to come back.
Fortune Ladies: Fortune Ladies are a tough matchup because they have canadias/floodgates or counter-traps at their disposal, which can mess with your BBDDS. However, the good news is that you have read this guide and prepared yourself with quite a few Techs to remove backrows.
Water Xyz/ Fish: with a line that mainly uses Water The main problem is that they rotate their Extra Deck very quickly and that messes up your squad, not to mention, they always prepare a lot of Lance, not only to resist the effects of their monsters but also Reduce your monster's attack points and take advantage of Shark Drake's ability to attack a second time. The only thing you can do is wait for DNA to enter your hand and turn the tide of the battle.
Melodious: This is a line of cards that can counter almost every current meta line, and they can also counter an Anti-meta line like Buster Blader due to its overreliance on special summons. However, like any other matchup, what you can do is place your DNA and transform your opponent's monsters into Dragon-type monsters and start slaying them.

Mirror matchups

Normally, if you encounter Mirror matchups, you will encounter mostly players using Red-Eyes Buster Blader. Of course, this is not strange and you will be fine when dealing with them if you can remove their backrows 1 step faster than them and you can be sure of victory. However, in the end you will need a lot of luck to win or you can survive the next turn and use Destiny Draw to draw the card that ends the match.

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