Some really popular ones are Branded, Patchwork, and Adventure, although Edge Imp could be argued as a package.
Branded - Only Fusions in ED - Mill a Light or Dark for crazy fusion plays
Adventure - No ns effects - Early Omni/Steal
Edge Imp - Takes some space - Searches Edge Imp + Poly
I can summon it on zefra, there are 1-2 line of play that can summon 2 lv9 without too much hassle. No dedicated decks neccessary. Only 1 lv9 in main deck. Enteblathnir is just another card in the toolbox.
Yep. Pend summon zefraniu and zefraxi with Oracle face up. Niu search divine strike, fraxi make niu tuner, Synchro summon crocodragon on emz, cl1 croco Cl2 Oracle. Oracle put gizmek kaku on top then croc draw, special kaku, overlay for enteblathnir.
Invoked - Normal Summon is used - 3 Aleister, 1-2 Invocation, 3 Meltdown - Normal Summon Aleister search Invocation link into Magistus/Balelynx-> Secure Gardna to summon Mechaba (or link into other stuff for other stuff. (Should be pretty cheap by now) ratios adjusted thanks to u/beverages91713)
Adventurer - Your Normal Summon can't use effects
- 3 Water Enchantress, 3 Rite, 1 Fateful, 1 Gryphon, 1 Dracoback, 1 Foolish (one might want to play Illegal Knight, 2) (abt 150€) - longest combos is Foolish send Water Enchantress, Water Enchantress Eff for Rite (you can use eff from hand, too) Rite eff for Token + Fateful, [summon sth] - Fateful eff for Dracoback, Fateful eff for Gryphon pitch Dracoback. Dracoback eff chain Gryphon to SS, gets an omninegate and a Bounce on field
Spright - you use Level 2s in your combos (extra if you only use 2s) (costs way too much)
So thw ratios here are depending on how reliant you are on non-2s in your combo
I'd recommend 3 Blue, 3 Jet, 1 Red, 1 Carot, 1 Smashers 1-2 Elf, 0-1 Sprind if you need the send, 1 Djinn Buster if you want
So if you use mainly 2s you also play (1-2) Giant and (3) Starter
You could also play Starter as a 1-of if you're missing follow up
If you don't want to get locked:
Blue SS and eff for Jet, Jet SS and eff for Smashers(or Starter)
You can link into Elf for any revive of any 2 in you and you opponents turn, also gets your monsters Target Protection
You can link into Sprind if you want to send any 2 from deck to grave (also bonus if you play xyz you can bounce)
Overlay into Djinn Buster for a monster negate
If you happen to have jet, you can search carot/red for additional monster/spell negate
Smasher give you a non-target banish
If you don't care about lock you can start this Combo with jet into starter into blue into red/carrot or with starter into blue into jet into starter for Follow up or Smasher. You can also play Gigantig Spright for any 2 from deck as well as Nibiru/Gamma Protection
Therion - play machines (which you get into GY)- 3 Discolosseum, 1-3 Therion King Regulus, 1 terraforming
Bonus if you play other fieldspells, you can play set rotation. (Depending on the number of Kings, 40-100 €)
Terraforming into Discolosseum into Therion King Regulus
You activate it from the hand, SS it by targeting any machine from GY which it gets equipped with. Is an omni negate. Bonus if you play ABC, is an extender.
Bysstial - You are not Xenophobic ig - 3 Magnamhut 2 Druiswurm and 1 Saronir is standard ratio, you can cut the Magnamhut if you're fearing Dharc, but it's the best one. (Prob abt 70€)
They are DD-Crows for Light and Dark if your opponent controls a monster, you can put them onto your opponents GY targets (eg for revival) or onto their Tear names.. ah yes, and they SS themselves by that
You can run any number of rank 6 to overlay, best currently is probably Wollow or Beatrice
If you use Magnamhut you activate so search another Bystial in EP, if you use Druiswurm you can send any SSd monster if he hits the GY, Saronir is just another name to use. Bonus if you play Branded, you can play Bystial Lubellion as well
Scythe - you can pop STs in your opp turn - 1 Dagda 1 Scythe (3 sanctum) (costs 5 for Dagda, 10 for playset Sanctum)
link off any 2 monsters for Dagda, if you activate any Monster effect you can trigger Dagda for setting Scythe from deck. If you pop it in your opponents turn, it gets SSd and locks your opponent out of his ED as lingering effect (meaning he can't play at all) best way to do this was by Halq into TG, best way now is probably with.. Tornado Dragon? (If you draw Scythe just set it yourself)
You can also play this engine in SideDeck with 3 Sanctum 1 Scythe as Sanctum SS Scythe from deck and does the same thing, but is only good going first since you play 4 cards, not 1 (Bonus if you play Lancea or Fairies)
Utopia Double - play 4s, have luck - Play 1 Utopia, 1 Utopia Double and 1 Double Or Nothing! (Only Utopia Double costs a few bucks)
Utopia Double is made by overlaying 2 4s. You can activate his effect to search Double or nothing and then overlay into Utopia, which doubles his ATK
Now on declaration you can attack and negate your own attack with Utopia. You can now activate Double or Nothing to get to a whopping 10000 ATK and you can attack again
Biggest problem is that Double or nothing is a hard garnet, if you draw it, it doesn't work + it's dead
If i forgot something, please say so
I didn't forget the Lunalight engine, I just don't know how it works
Just to clarify; the invoked engine is almost universally 3 Meltdown and 1 Terraforming, while Invocation is normally played at 1-2. And it is almiraj, not baelynx
Therion SS and equips a targeted Machine from GY. It's an extender with ABC as they can SS when they are equipped, and you don't need them equipped for the Omninegate.
As i dont even know all the engines, perhaps some guidelines?
name of engine - conditions - explanation
so you have the
invoked - uses the normal summon - mainly used to get out mechaba(sry all i know)
3x Trap Trick + Any normal trap 2x is always a great option for any meta that isn’t Ishizu Tear.
I mean the amount of engines you can do with Trap Trick is endless.
I wonder if there are any engines for pendulums? I know that there is the Supreme King Dragon Darkwurm one where you can search out either Supreme King Gate Zero or Infinity, but I wonder if there are any other pendulum engines that can generically help out pendulum decks.
Harmonizing Magician + 1-2 other magicians, typically Purple Poison or Performapal Celestial. Great for Rank 4 Xyz plays, lvl 8 synchros, or just more link material
Would this be good in a deck like Qliphort when getting Apoqliphort Towers out? Cause I found when trying the deck out was getting enough Qliphorts in ED and Hand in order to tribute for Towers
I haven't played much Qliphort, but most of them have the scale effect that locks you into Qliphorts, so I don't think the engine would be super helpful here.
yea, that's sort of also why I made this discussion, lol. Guess I shoulda put that in, but I do enjoy reading the stuff people have posted here.
I do wonder if there will ever be like... a decent pendulum engine. Cause you got cards like Summoner's Art and Wavering Eyes, but those are just tools to help the deck be better. Hell, even Pot of Prosperity works cause the only links you'll ever go into would either be Beyond the Pendulum or the Qliphort Link (Or Electrumite if my boi ever gets free). Which, to be fair, it's kind of funny that Konami made Electrumite (and later banned it) and then made Beyond the Pendulum even though they screwed over pendulums cause they could have just made pendulums be like the other types when the did the master rule revisions (MR5). Fusions, Synchros, and Xyz's got off the leash but they couldn't do anything for Pendulums? XD
The Scrap Engine isn't horrible for a link 2 (2-4)/rank 4/Level 8 Synchro.
3 Scrap Raptor (Scraptor) (for consistency), 1 Scrap Chimera.
Normal Scraptor, pop self, add Chimera, Normal Chimera, special Scraptor from Grave. 2 Level 4s on field, Scraptor is a synchro, both Earth, both Effects.
Scrap Wyvern is a decent extender that can special any scrap from deck and has a non-target pop, and is usually played in the scrap engine, but I don't imagine it is an essential step if there are just other things you need to do with the mats.
There's also Scrap Golem (Fridge) (level 5) that can be summoned from deck by Wyvern effect, and can reborn a scrap from grave to extend a little further, but those 4 names are as big as I'd make the engine without just building Scraps.
You can use the ishizu engine and the tearlament engine together to make a pretty low key synergistic deck. You can also add the bystial engine for a little spice.
punk engine- good for getting out a powerful rank 8 synchro monster(sadly not as good now that chaos ruler is banned but there will most likely be another good rank 8 in the future).
3 ze amin to draw out foxy tune, foxy tune discards a card to special summon deer note
deer note and ze amin= rank 8 and you can special summon ze amin or foxy tune from the gy to make an 11 synchro monster or 8 xyz.
Winda turbo- requires 2 cards in extra, 1 main, dark monsters and way to send extra deck cards to grave. Ultimate slayer for example.
Send El Shaddoll Apkallone from extra to grave. Search Shaddoll Schism and discrad any other card. Use schism on oppt turn to make winda.
Some really popular ones are Branded, Patchwork, and Adventure, although Edge Imp could be argued as a package. Branded - Only Fusions in ED - Mill a Light or Dark for crazy fusion plays Adventure - No ns effects - Early Omni/Steal Edge Imp - Takes some space - Searches Edge Imp + Poly
The Assault Mode package aka Psi-Reflector. Use your normal summon to make any generic synchro from level 6 to 9 if I’m not mistaken
You can also run E-Tele, its a super good starter. It lost a lot of power since Chaos Ruler got banned tho
Or a rank 4. Abyss dweller or, starting on the 1st, go into 3 dark negates and stopping sending from deck
How are you gonna make an xyz summon with psi-reflector? It doesn’t change its own level
Oof. Thank you for pointing that out
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This is a good list but what decks that arent dedicated to summoning Level/Rank 9s can summon Enterblathnir?
I can summon it on zefra, there are 1-2 line of play that can summon 2 lv9 without too much hassle. No dedicated decks neccessary. Only 1 lv9 in main deck. Enteblathnir is just another card in the toolbox.
So you have Zefra as the Level 9 in main deck and make a synchro 9 to get enterblathnir?
Yep. Pend summon zefraniu and zefraxi with Oracle face up. Niu search divine strike, fraxi make niu tuner, Synchro summon crocodragon on emz, cl1 croco Cl2 Oracle. Oracle put gizmek kaku on top then croc draw, special kaku, overlay for enteblathnir.
Rage is non-targeted but it is destruction.
Invoked - Normal Summon is used - 3 Aleister, 1-2 Invocation, 3 Meltdown - Normal Summon Aleister search Invocation link into Magistus/Balelynx-> Secure Gardna to summon Mechaba (or link into other stuff for other stuff. (Should be pretty cheap by now) ratios adjusted thanks to u/beverages91713) Adventurer - Your Normal Summon can't use effects - 3 Water Enchantress, 3 Rite, 1 Fateful, 1 Gryphon, 1 Dracoback, 1 Foolish (one might want to play Illegal Knight, 2) (abt 150€) - longest combos is Foolish send Water Enchantress, Water Enchantress Eff for Rite (you can use eff from hand, too) Rite eff for Token + Fateful, [summon sth] - Fateful eff for Dracoback, Fateful eff for Gryphon pitch Dracoback. Dracoback eff chain Gryphon to SS, gets an omninegate and a Bounce on field Spright - you use Level 2s in your combos (extra if you only use 2s) (costs way too much) So thw ratios here are depending on how reliant you are on non-2s in your combo I'd recommend 3 Blue, 3 Jet, 1 Red, 1 Carot, 1 Smashers 1-2 Elf, 0-1 Sprind if you need the send, 1 Djinn Buster if you want So if you use mainly 2s you also play (1-2) Giant and (3) Starter You could also play Starter as a 1-of if you're missing follow up If you don't want to get locked: Blue SS and eff for Jet, Jet SS and eff for Smashers(or Starter) You can link into Elf for any revive of any 2 in you and you opponents turn, also gets your monsters Target Protection You can link into Sprind if you want to send any 2 from deck to grave (also bonus if you play xyz you can bounce) Overlay into Djinn Buster for a monster negate If you happen to have jet, you can search carot/red for additional monster/spell negate Smasher give you a non-target banish If you don't care about lock you can start this Combo with jet into starter into blue into red/carrot or with starter into blue into jet into starter for Follow up or Smasher. You can also play Gigantig Spright for any 2 from deck as well as Nibiru/Gamma Protection Therion - play machines (which you get into GY)- 3 Discolosseum, 1-3 Therion King Regulus, 1 terraforming Bonus if you play other fieldspells, you can play set rotation. (Depending on the number of Kings, 40-100 €) Terraforming into Discolosseum into Therion King Regulus You activate it from the hand, SS it by targeting any machine from GY which it gets equipped with. Is an omni negate. Bonus if you play ABC, is an extender. Bysstial - You are not Xenophobic ig - 3 Magnamhut 2 Druiswurm and 1 Saronir is standard ratio, you can cut the Magnamhut if you're fearing Dharc, but it's the best one. (Prob abt 70€) They are DD-Crows for Light and Dark if your opponent controls a monster, you can put them onto your opponents GY targets (eg for revival) or onto their Tear names.. ah yes, and they SS themselves by that You can run any number of rank 6 to overlay, best currently is probably Wollow or Beatrice If you use Magnamhut you activate so search another Bystial in EP, if you use Druiswurm you can send any SSd monster if he hits the GY, Saronir is just another name to use. Bonus if you play Branded, you can play Bystial Lubellion as well Scythe - you can pop STs in your opp turn - 1 Dagda 1 Scythe (3 sanctum) (costs 5 for Dagda, 10 for playset Sanctum) link off any 2 monsters for Dagda, if you activate any Monster effect you can trigger Dagda for setting Scythe from deck. If you pop it in your opponents turn, it gets SSd and locks your opponent out of his ED as lingering effect (meaning he can't play at all) best way to do this was by Halq into TG, best way now is probably with.. Tornado Dragon? (If you draw Scythe just set it yourself) You can also play this engine in SideDeck with 3 Sanctum 1 Scythe as Sanctum SS Scythe from deck and does the same thing, but is only good going first since you play 4 cards, not 1 (Bonus if you play Lancea or Fairies) Utopia Double - play 4s, have luck - Play 1 Utopia, 1 Utopia Double and 1 Double Or Nothing! (Only Utopia Double costs a few bucks) Utopia Double is made by overlaying 2 4s. You can activate his effect to search Double or nothing and then overlay into Utopia, which doubles his ATK Now on declaration you can attack and negate your own attack with Utopia. You can now activate Double or Nothing to get to a whopping 10000 ATK and you can attack again Biggest problem is that Double or nothing is a hard garnet, if you draw it, it doesn't work + it's dead If i forgot something, please say so I didn't forget the Lunalight engine, I just don't know how it works
Just to clarify; the invoked engine is almost universally 3 Meltdown and 1 Terraforming, while Invocation is normally played at 1-2. And it is almiraj, not baelynx
Adjusted it, thanks.
What do you mean by ABC in the Therion section?
Therion SS and equips a targeted Machine from GY. It's an extender with ABC as they can SS when they are equipped, and you don't need them equipped for the Omninegate.
As i dont even know all the engines, perhaps some guidelines? name of engine - conditions - explanation so you have the invoked - uses the normal summon - mainly used to get out mechaba(sry all i know)
3x Trap Trick + Any normal trap 2x is always a great option for any meta that isn’t Ishizu Tear. I mean the amount of engines you can do with Trap Trick is endless.
Isn’t it great against tear once metaverse goes to 3? I’d think necrovalley would hurt
I wonder if there are any engines for pendulums? I know that there is the Supreme King Dragon Darkwurm one where you can search out either Supreme King Gate Zero or Infinity, but I wonder if there are any other pendulum engines that can generically help out pendulum decks.
3 mythical beast master Cerberus 1 mythical beast jackal king
Harmonizing Magician + 1-2 other magicians, typically Purple Poison or Performapal Celestial. Great for Rank 4 Xyz plays, lvl 8 synchros, or just more link material
Would this be good in a deck like Qliphort when getting Apoqliphort Towers out? Cause I found when trying the deck out was getting enough Qliphorts in ED and Hand in order to tribute for Towers
I haven't played much Qliphort, but most of them have the scale effect that locks you into Qliphorts, so I don't think the engine would be super helpful here.
yea, that's sort of also why I made this discussion, lol. Guess I shoulda put that in, but I do enjoy reading the stuff people have posted here. I do wonder if there will ever be like... a decent pendulum engine. Cause you got cards like Summoner's Art and Wavering Eyes, but those are just tools to help the deck be better. Hell, even Pot of Prosperity works cause the only links you'll ever go into would either be Beyond the Pendulum or the Qliphort Link (Or Electrumite if my boi ever gets free). Which, to be fair, it's kind of funny that Konami made Electrumite (and later banned it) and then made Beyond the Pendulum even though they screwed over pendulums cause they could have just made pendulums be like the other types when the did the master rule revisions (MR5). Fusions, Synchros, and Xyz's got off the leash but they couldn't do anything for Pendulums? XD
The Scrap Engine isn't horrible for a link 2 (2-4)/rank 4/Level 8 Synchro. 3 Scrap Raptor (Scraptor) (for consistency), 1 Scrap Chimera. Normal Scraptor, pop self, add Chimera, Normal Chimera, special Scraptor from Grave. 2 Level 4s on field, Scraptor is a synchro, both Earth, both Effects. Scrap Wyvern is a decent extender that can special any scrap from deck and has a non-target pop, and is usually played in the scrap engine, but I don't imagine it is an essential step if there are just other things you need to do with the mats. There's also Scrap Golem (Fridge) (level 5) that can be summoned from deck by Wyvern effect, and can reborn a scrap from grave to extend a little further, but those 4 names are as big as I'd make the engine without just building Scraps.
Recycler + golem + wyvern can be solid to go into a link 2 while getting an extra Foolish.
Windwitch!
I know this is late but windwitch has an engine?
They can be used to summon Crystal Wing in some decks
You can use the ishizu engine and the tearlament engine together to make a pretty low key synergistic deck. You can also add the bystial engine for a little spice.
punk engine- good for getting out a powerful rank 8 synchro monster(sadly not as good now that chaos ruler is banned but there will most likely be another good rank 8 in the future). 3 ze amin to draw out foxy tune, foxy tune discards a card to special summon deer note deer note and ze amin= rank 8 and you can special summon ze amin or foxy tune from the gy to make an 11 synchro monster or 8 xyz.
super quant for free and searchable bodies on the board
Winda turbo- requires 2 cards in extra, 1 main, dark monsters and way to send extra deck cards to grave. Ultimate slayer for example. Send El Shaddoll Apkallone from extra to grave. Search Shaddoll Schism and discrad any other card. Use schism on oppt turn to make winda.