Blackwings [January 2014 TCG]

Monster Cards 20

3 Blackwing - Shura the Blue Flame

3 Blackwing - Bora the Spear

3 Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow

2 Blackwing - Blizzard the Far North

2 Blackwing - Sirocco the Dawn

1 Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite

1 Blackwing - Kochi the Daybreak
1 Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind

2 Effect Veiler

1 Dark Armed Dragon

Spell Cards 11

3 Black Whirlwind

3 Pot of Duality

3 Mystical Space Typhoon

1 Book of Moon

1 Dark Hole

1 Allure of Darkness

Trap Cards 9

3 Icarus Attack

2 Fiendish Chain

1 Torrential Tribute

1 Compulsory Evacuation Device

1 Solemn Warning

1 Bottomless Trap Hole

Extra Deck 15

1 Blackwing Armor Master

1 Blackwing Armed Wing

1 Scrap Dragon

1 Beelze, King of Dark Dragons

1 Black Rose Dragon

1 Vulcan the Divine

1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Armades, Keeper of Boundaries

1 Diamond Dire Wolf

1 Gagaga Cowboy

1 Number 101: Silent Honors Ark Knight

1 Maestroke the Symphony Djinn

1 Ice Beast Zerofyne

1 Evilswarm Exciton Knight

1 Wind-Up Zenmaines


The deck focuses on Swarming the field with Synchros and Xyz while also taking control by gaining advantage and clearing your opponents field.
The deck has many powerful monsters which let you summon more monsters.
 First of all is "Blackwing - Shura the Blue Flame", who has really good stats and when it destroys a monster it can grab you a "Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind" or a "Blackwing - Koichi the Daybreak" from where you can go into a Synchro Summon or an Xyz Summon. It can also grab "Blackwing - Vayu the Emblem of Honor" but I have chosen not to use him in the current deck.
"Blackwing - Bora the Spear" lets you Special Summon itself, its great when you add it with "Black Whirlwind" after Normal Summoning "Blackwing - Shura the Blue Flame", which lets you go into a rank 4. Its also good with the decks tuners such as "Blackwing - Kochi the Daybreak" which lets you go into a lv8 Synchro Summon or a Rank 4 Xyz Summon.
"Blackwing - Blizzard the Far North" lets you go into Synchro plays while also lets you re use your cards such as "Blackwing - Kalut the Moonshadow" with "Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite" who also works with other cards in the deck such as "Blackwing - Bora the Spear" and "Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind" letting you get a free summon.
"Blackwing - Sirocco the Dawn" has become better with the unlimit of "Black Whirlwind" as now you get to search any monster in the deck with it while also you are able to run over problem monsters such as "Thunder King Rai-Oh".
"Blackwing - Kalut the Moonshadow" is the deck's themed "Honest" causing mind games for your opponent. It also lets your monsters run over lots of other stuff and lets you get summons from "Blackwing - Shura the Blue Flame".
The deck also mains non-Blackwing monster cards. "Effect Veiler" is a hand trap which off right now I think is a better choice over "Maxx C" as it can stop more decks, but I would still suggest to side the hand trap which you didn't main unless you find space to main both. "Dark Armed Dragon" is a free beater and is easy to summon as the deck manipulates the grave well with cards such as "Blackwing - Blizzard the Far North".

The deck is very consistent as it mains 3 "Pot of Duality", which may seem like it can conflict with the deck but overall the deck can make out a play without Special Summoning. It also means it can grab "Black Whirlwind" faster which is an amazing recruiter for the deck as it can be used multiple times and you can also use multiple copies for multiple searches.  "Allure of Darkness" is our last card for consistency and it has no drawbacks and the deck has a lot of DARK monsters so it will rarely be dead .
Even tho the deck does use "Icarus Attack", "Mystical Space Typhoon" is still a pretty good card in the deck and is pretty important in the format against decks such as Fire Fist and Prophecy.

"Icarus Attack" is a 2 for 2 card. The best thing about it is I can use it on my set Blackwing monster when they least expect it. It lets me clear out backrow and also stop otks or just big plays.
The rest of the trap lineup is standard.


The deck is also good as it can give me Synchro plays and Xyz plays which right now not every deck can do so it gives me a variety of plays. The deck also has "Blackwing - Armor Master" which is a strong card as it can't be destroyed by battle so my opponent will have to use effects to get rid of it.
"Diamond Dire Wolf" is a card most decks would use to tribute itself to get rid of their card, but not in this deck as "Diamond Dire Wolf" can destroy your Blackwing monster instead!
"Ice Beast Zerofyne" is an Xyz which is type specific to Winged-Beast with a good effect which lets me negate the effect of all face-up cards my opponent controls which can also stop continuous Spells and Traps, so you can stop their "Royal Decree" or their face-up Fire Formation Spells and Traps!
The deck also gives me other good rank 4's such as "Evilswarm Exciton Knight" which is at the moment one of the best rank 4's which can change the whole duel entirely without a cost.
The deck mainly focuses on rank 4's but I also decided to use 1 rank 3 just incase. I decided to use "Wind-Up Zenmaines" as there would be a rare time that I would need to summon a rank 3 unless I was in a really bad situation to where I would lose.
The deck can summon Level 5, 6, 7 and 8 Synchros which gives the deck a variety in different situations such as a Level 7 Synchro "Black Rose Dragon" to clear the field or "Beelze, King of Dark Dragons" to be able to stall out and kill your opponent.

Note: "Beelze, King of Dark Dragons" isn't TCG yet but it can be replaced by a lot of other level 8 synchros such as "Crimson Blader" if you are going to be using this for TCG only play.

With Dragon Rulers gone I feel like this deck can come back and be able to top a tournament there or here!
There will be more Blackwing variants that i'll be making so keep on checking this blog out!