The combos needed to excavate victory with Adamancipators
Want to master the Adamancipator deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel?Adamancipator is a unique deck withinYu-Gi-Oh Master Duelin that its success comes in spite of the deck’s inherent randomness. This unpredictability also makes it one of the most skillfulmeta decksin the game, due to the need to adapt your strategies on the fly to the cards excavated from the top of your deck. Excavation effects are the core gimmick of the Adamancipator deck, making this a deck that truly has you believing in theHeart of the Cards.
This guide will provide you with an in-depth introduction to the Adamancipator deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, including a sample deck profile and core strategies to master. Here we will also introduce you to a few key strategies that you can use with this deck to start your journey. Consider both these basic strategies and your opponent’s deck and cards in order to decide which move is best against any given opponent.
Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel: Adamancipator deck profile
Here is our recommended Adamancipator deck profile. The deck consists of a total of 40 Main Deck cards and 15 Extra Deck monsters:
The challenge with using the Adamancipator deck comes from how it lacks a consistent core strategy or combos you may repeatedly rely upon, as seen in other meta decks such asZoodiac Tri-Brigade. As a result, victory comes from knowing what cards to play next and reacting to the randomly-excavated cards. The desired strategy you have in mind at the beginning of your turn may not be the one you actually use.
This is also a monster-heavy deck, partially due to how your core Adamancipator monsters rely on excavating Level 4 or lower Rock monsters from your deck and using their effects. Indeed, the deck’s low number of Spell and Trap cards is also a result of this, as it’s important you draw into your Rock monsters as consistently as possible.
Aside fromCalled By The Grave, the only other spell card we recommend using isSekka’s Light, thanks to its effect that allows you to draw 2 cards if you have no Spell or Trap cards in your Graveyard. Even the condition that you can’t activate Spell or Trap cards for the rest of the duel except those named Sekka’s Light is not an issue for this deck thanks to its reliance on monster effects. The card is made more powerful by Sekka’s Light’s secondary effect to banish itself from the Graveyard to shuffle an unnecessary monster from your hand into the Deck and draw 1 card.
Additionally, much of the Deck is low rarity, making it a perfect deck for playing Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel without investing real money. The core Adamancipator cards can be found in the Pyroxene Relinquishedsecret pack.
The core of this deck is your Adamancipator monsters, each of which have the same effect: during your Main Phase, you can excavate the top 5 cards of your Deck, then Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower non-Tuner Rock monster from that selection. Their defining attributes come from their additional effect that offers a condition within which these cards can be Special Summoned.
Adamancipator Analyzeris effective when going second, as it can Special Summon itself if only your opponent controls a monster.Adamancipator Seekercan Special Summon itself if you control another Adamancipator monster, whileAdamancipator Researchercan Special Summon itself if you control any Rock monster.
For the purposes of showcasing how the Adamancipator deck works and to make this guide easier to follow, we will use Adamancipator Analyzer and assume we are going first. Each Adamncipator monster can only activate each of its effects once per turn, therefore specifying an example Adamancipator monster is important for this demonstration. By going first, this also means that Analyzer can’t Special Summon itself. We will also assume we have one copy ofBlock Dragonin our hand.
With this in mind, a strategy could look like the following:
While it is possible to further develop this board and evenSynchro Summonmonsters like Borreload Savage Dragon if you have another Tuner on the field, the deck’s unpredictability makes it difficult to assume your board will have developed exactly along the same lines as this strategy sets out. By simply changing one small aspect of this combo, possibly by necessity as a result of excavating a different card, the combo can end very differently.
For example, it is possible at any excavation point in the combo to not reveal any eligible monsters that can be summoned, something that can cripple the Deck from as early as step 2. Having another Adamancipator monster in hand can help circumvent this and restart your strategy; but even then, this combo can diverge rapidly from what is listed above as a result of your reduced potential to keep extending this combo further. Similarly, excavating a different monster to Doki Doki may require you to take different action.
RevealingPrank-Kids Rocksiesinstead of Doki Doki is one possibility at this moment. This card’s effect allows you to banish 1 card from your Hand to draw 1 card, before then Special SummoningPrank-Kids Dropsiesfrom your deck. Alternatively, at any moment you summon a monster from your Extra Deck if you have aKoa’ki Meiru Supplierin your hand, you can activate Supplier’s effect to Special Summon it to the field. This will allow you to add a copy of Koa’ki Meiru Guardian to your hand.
While this strategy is just one example of what you can do using Adamancipator, the randomness of this deck requires adaptation at every step. The key to victory comes not from memorizing strategies but from player knowledge and knowing which cards synergize best with one another. This knowledge allows you to most effectively adapt your play depending on whether you reveal a Doki Doki, Gigantes, Koa’ki Meiru monster or nothing at all.
This mini-combo relying on the deck’s Prank-Kidsmonsters is good in situations where you’re successfully able to summon Prank-Kids Rocksies via an excavation. While this may not be the best strategy in all scenarios where Rocksies is summoned from the effect of an Adamancipator monster, it is possible to do the following:
This small engine makes it easy to fill your graveyard with the materials needed to summon Block Dragon, while also ensuring you have a Link-2 2000 attack monster on the field for either offense or material for another Link Summon. If needed, you can also tribute Bow-Wow-Bark to add the Rocksies and Dropsies in your Graveyard to your hand to make space on the board or to ensure the materials can be re-used the following turn. In many instances, however, you will be simply using these cards, once they’re in the Graveyard, as material for Block Dragon.
This guide aims to offer a brief introduction to the Adamancipator deck. Ultimately, due to its random nature, it’s a deck that requires deep understanding of your cards in order to master. This has the benefit of making it an unpredictable deck for your opponent to counter as they may not know what play is coming next. The potential of this deck to summon multiple powerful negation Extra Deck monsters like Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess, Borreload Savage Dragon and more within a single turn can shut your opponent down, and is part of what makes this such a powerful and difficult deck to play against.
If you’d like to try another deck out, why not check out our guide to theLyrilusc Tri-Brigadedeck, or our guide to thebest structure deckscurrently played within Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel.
