Lightsworn Deck

[ActiveHate]

Been trying to tinker around with my Lightsworn deck that I've been running since Decade Duels. Trying to get it back up to tier 1, but I'm not familiar with all the new cards they added in just yet. Here's what I've come up with so far.

3x Judgement Dragon
3x Lumina
3x Raiden
2x Lyla
1x Jain
1x Garoth
1x Ehren
3x Chaos Emperor Dragon
3x Kuribandit
3x Summoner Monk
1x Tour Guide From the Underworld

3x Charge of the Light Brigade
3x Solar Recharge
3x Allure of Darkness
1x Card Destruction
1x One Day at Peace
1x Upstart Goblin
1x Reinforcement of the Army
1x Foolish Burial
2x Monster Reincarnation

I mainly run the Ehren + Jain + Garoth toolbox alongside Foolish and Reinforcement to get the names I need in the graveyard fast, while also trying not to fill the deck too much with unnecessary lightsworns.

Summoner Monk is there for the instant Minerva and other rank 4 exceeds. Tour Guide + Kuribandit goes into my rank 3's.

Kuribandit is there for the fast mill in the early game while also recycling my draw power spells to get to my boss monster OTK faster.

[mimizukari]

get rid of filler monsters, use twilight sworns like ryko, the twilightsworn. twi[LIGHTSWORN] are valid targets for all twilight sworn stuff... and then on top of that use Lyla the Twilightsworn, and only run 1x judgment dragon and 1x punishment dragon. lastly, you also need lumina the twilightsworn.


also use lightsworn support spells/traps.

[SoapyTaco]

I played Lightsworn competitively in 2011 lol and quit using them in 2012 (and stopped playing ygo in 2014)so idk about new cards, using them with xyz, etc but I remember running something similar to you without the tour guide, summoner monk, ced, or kurribandit. Instead I'd recommend 2 honest, 2 ryko, plaguespreader zombie, and an extra jain. again this advice is from 2012 lol

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by SoapyTaco:

I played Lightsworn competitively in 2011 lol and quit using them in 2012 (and stopped playing ygo in 2014)so idk about new cards, using them with xyz, etc but I remember running something similar to you without the tour guide, summoner monk, ced, or kurribandit. Instead I'd recommend 2 honest, 2 ryko, plaguespreader zombie, and an extra jain. again this advice is from 2012 lol

you always use TWILIGHT ryko now in modern lightsworns, never regular ryko... the reason is it's non-targeting banish which is one of the most powerful effects in all of Yu-Gi-Oh.

[ActiveHate]

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

get rid of filler monsters, use twilight sworns like ryko, the twilightsworn. twi[LIGHTSWORN] are valid targets for all twilight sworn stuff... and then on top of that use Lyla the Twilightsworn, and only run 1x judgment dragon and 1x punishment dragon. lastly, you also need lumina the twilightsworn.


also use lightsworn support spells/traps.

In my experience almost all traps are far too slow for my tastes, hence why I am running as much draw power as possible (One Day at Peace, Upstart Goblin, Solar Recharge, Allure of Darkness, etc...) The goal is to have 1, possibly 2-3, JD's ready to go by turn 2-3. So the deck has a glass cannon mindset and isn't meant to play the midrange control type game. I either kill them fast or I brick and try again.

The only monsters that could be considered filler is the dark engine imo. CED is the backup plan to JD, Kuribandit is there to burn through cards as fast as humanly possible due to the fact that I can't play more than 1 Card Destruction, and Summoner Monk + Tour Guide are easy XYZ summons.

While the banish effect of Ryko is amazing, I think it's a bit redundant when the plan is to nuke the field with JD or CED anyways. Twlightsworns need too much space in your deck that inevitably kills the quick OTK potential Lightsworns can have. I also don't like Punishment Dragon.

Originally posted by SoapyTaco:

I played Lightsworn competitively in 2011 lol and quit using them in 2012 (and stopped playing ygo in 2014)so idk about new cards, using them with xyz, etc but I remember running something similar to you without the tour guide, summoner monk, ced, or kurribandit. Instead I'd recommend 2 honest, 2 ryko, plaguespreader zombie, and an extra jain. again this advice is from 2012 lol

I actually was running 2 plaguespreaders, Dark Armed Dragon, 3x Necro Gardna and some other things in my dark engine back then. With CED being unbanned, I see no reason to run DAD anymore. The plaguespreaders might make their way back in here though if the XYZ summons don't pan out. I've also used honest and love it, but I just don't have the room for it. I need a sizeable dark engine to make the most of 3x Allure of Darkness because it's crucial draw power to get into those JD's fast.

[midget spinner]

with Grass being banned there's no reason to play lightsworn, the deck is not even good enough to be in the rogue category

but if you really into it and wanna play it, take out chaos emperor, it's terrible, play levianeer instead. Also you're playing lightsworn so you 100% must play 3 wulf and 1-2 felis.

you also will want to play jet synchron and crystron halqifibrax. Consider also starliege seyfert to get back your dragons from the GY

[Na]

This is the deck i used.

Monsters:

Arkus
Celistia x2
Ehren x2
Shire
Herald of creation
Honest x3
Jain
Judgment dragon x3
Lumina x2
Lyla x2
Plaguespreader zombie
Raiden x3
Ryko x3
Wulf

Magic:

Charge of the light brigade x3
Foolish burial
Gold Sarcophagus
Monster reborn
One day of peace
Reinforcement of the army
Solar recharge x3
Twin twisters x2

Trap:

Bottemless trap hole x3
LIghtsworm judgment x2

Extra:

Gaia knight the force of earth
Magical andriod
Micheal x2
Stardust dragon
Castel
Constellar omega
Leviathan dragon
Acid golem of destruction
Utopia x2
Wind up zenmaines