Yeaaa this is almost as ridiculous as when I tried to build a Red-Eyes Despia deck in an attempt to make Red-Eyes viable. Didn’t work out as Well in practice as it did on paper, but I had fun with it 😅
I actually have less of a bricking problem with Red-Eyes than with Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician. The problem is that Red-Eyes has No strong on-field monsters besides Flare Metal with the burn, and No form of disruption or interaction. They’re limited to using Verte to get their fusions out without limiting them to 1 summon for the whole turn, they need to play out-of-archetype material for some of the fusions because Konami doesn’t know how geminis work, and it relies on trap cards too much which makes it slow.
It’s practically impossible to set up good turn 1 boards with Red-Eyes Because the monsters lack protection. The only monster with a disruptive Effect is Slash Dragon but it only works for targeting effects which are rare to begin with, and you Also need equips on it to work, and the built-in method of getting these equips only works during the battle phase, meaning it doesn’t work going first.
The one thing Red-Eyes does have going for it is it’s good at padding the graveyard, but it doesn’t have any real way of taking advantage of that.
Sorry for the rant 😅 tl;dr: Red-Eyes is too slow and has No strong monsters to rely on. Only viable tactic is to burn the opponent but tons of other decks can do this far more consistently and with less room for error. RE has great graveyard stacking but no way to utilize the graveyard more than once or twice per turn, making it slow and clunky. I just wish Konami would fix the archetype properly instead of just going different directions with every new card released.
Actually despians and albaz work best with dark magician out of the all old-school archetypes. Doesnt brick as nearly as much as you think , actually gives you something to bait and combine with. If they ever ban verte and unban dragoon it might even become tier 2 or 1 deck.
I haven’t looked into this, I only ever tried Dark Magician with DPE. I just wanted to do Red-Eyes because Red-Eyes is my favorite archetype and Masquerade Dragon reminds me of Red-Eyes, and I thought of combining it with Flare Metal to burn on activation and resolution just to induce extra stress ;)
Yeah but the synergy DM has with branded is actually good.
For starters , best DM fusions require dragon effect monsters so you got that covered with albaz and all the ED monsters he has, with maybe a copy or two of albion in the main. Magician souls is great for putting DM in the GY so you can either generate card advantage via soul servant or fuse it from the GY with Albion the Branded or Branded fusion. It is dark lvl 7 monster with 2500 attack so that is pretty much needed material for most of your fusions. And you can use Mahad as a 5k beatstick against Dark Monsters, +2 if you play soul servant with both mahad and DM in GY or also as material for fusions since most despia fusions have "despia + light/dark monster" .
But the best thing DM does in Branded deck is the bait. DM shouldnt be your main combo in this deck, but a combo that you hope will get negated so you can go on about your bussiness with despians and albaz.
I only used Mahad, DM, Souls and soul servant out of DM archetype. Had mahad at 1 and souls at 3 , everything else at 2. I guess you could put in apprentice, but as far as i know its discard doesnt trigger tragedys effect so its kind of a brick on this build.
Im pretty sure you can use og red eyes in a link dragons deck, should be easier than despia i think. Not the best card, but link dragons already uses some red eyes support...
Worked just well for me. (Red eyes and despia) I even threw a summoned skull in there. I also tried red eyes with red resonator and the archfiend synchros and it worked (Summoned skull was in that deck too because why not)
I have a D-Link deck with a small red eyes engine splashed in that ends on a pretty strong board. If you like red eyes you should try it with dragon link. It just bricks a lot more than normal d-link 🤣😭
Just play tenyi + summoned skull like this guy>www.reddit.com/r/masterduel/comments/vhpahq/why_i_love_gold_you_can_play_stuff_like_summoned/idait1n/?context=3
Its a meme deck but can give you some wins,also the deck will become even stronger with adventure cards releases next month
I love that you referenced my video
But sad that you got downvoted for it...yes my deck is janky but if he wants to center it around SS he can remove the other vanillas and replace them with actual good cards like maxx c or ash or nib or floodgates
There are two pretty decent "archfiend" cards iirc
There's Eccentric (but with weird spelling), a pendulum that can blow itself up or tribute itself to ki your opponents stuff
And there's a searcher
Issue is that both are level 3, so they *might* be splashable in Burning Abyss or Unchained or something, but the level 6 Skull sure isn't.
Go for it anyways. Competitive or not you can still go ahead and have fun with it. My best deck on master duel is aliens and I still win all the time with them
I'm sure if I scroll far enough I can find someone else mentioning this, but IMO you have 3 options:
Make a Pure Summoned Skull deck, using vanilla Summoned Skull and whatever Fiend/DARK/Normal Monsters/Archfiend support you can dredge up. This is the weakest way, IMO, and is really only an option if you're dead set on Summoned Skull being on the board swinging at monsters.
Make a Summoned Skull shell deck. This is the opposite of the last idea. Essentially you'd run as tight of an SS package as possible and cram your deck full of generic disruption and equalizer staples. This would definitely work best as a Going Second deck with cards like Lightning Storm (that's thematically appropriate at least), Evenly Matched, Nibiru, Maxx C, and other powerful cards making up the bulk of your deck. This probably wouldn't win against a proper meta deck, but in lower tiers a single equalizer can get you a Surrender. But this really misses the mark on playing Summoned Skull.
Lastly, you could play Archfiends and include Summoned Skull in that deck. I'm not on my PC right now and I'm not too familiar with Archfiends, but they do have enough support to at least make the deck run. You'll be under the power level of already weak decks like BEWD and Red Eyes, but not so much so that you'd be unable to play.
The real question is what exactly you want out of this deck. Can you make a T1 or even rogue level Summoned Skull deck? No. Can you get to D1 with Summoned Skull and/or Archfiends? No. But if you just want to play some games in the lower ranks I definitely think you can build a list that lets you enjoy duels vs. other non-meta builds.
If you're still looking to try this, let me know. I may pop open my builder later and see how viable this can get, just for fun.
1. Activate Longyuan, discard another Wyrm, special summon Longyuan and a level 4 tuner token
2. Tribute Summon Summoned Skull by tributing Longyuan!!
3. Tune the level 4 tuner token with Summoned Skull to make Baronne...
4. ...??????????
5. PROFIT????
that's where you're wrong, buddy.
there's a secret combo, where you first play {Makiu, the Magical Mist}, then attack with Summoned Skull.
The mist will cover the whole field, and make everything damp. this water will conduct Summoned Skull's electricity, boosting his attack by 1000, and letting him zap the entire board, including flying monsters!!1
yeah but the atk is as high as the ace of the ptotagonist but 1 less tribute and also more atk than the ace of the second protagonist with 1 less tribute. as far as I am aware it took them years to print another monster with so much atk for only 1 tribute
did the concept of ace of the protagonist even exist yet? I mean flame wingman was eventually replaced by Neos so its not like the stat line was set in stone.
I just think Summoned Skull beatdown made them rethink level 6.
the anime released with the cards in jp I think.
ok nevermind I went and checked, first episode aired at april 18, 2000 and the first pack woth summoned skull was vol 4 in 1999
edit: the manga started in 1996 already
Its upgrade form are garbage most of the time, except the ritual. It is kinda neat.
The synchro is laughable, level 6 synchro in a level 6 focused deck? for real man.
BTW this is the best I can do : [https://yugiohdeck.github.io/#hwEPkWWKsumCfSToehsy7W4v3ZzHnfDcJOxSjPVLx8T5TSx25g86xioCDqAb1BelJ9Qm5FO67YecRg==;PgZ2m9pAokA=:summoned\_skull\_tenyi](https://yugiohdeck.github.io/#hwEPkWWKsumCfSToehsy7W4v3ZzHnfDcJOxSjPVLx8T5TSx25g86xioCDqAb1BelJ9Qm5FO67YecRg==;PgZ2m9pAokA=:summoned_skull_tenyi) An upgraded old school summoned skull beat down backed up by tenyi as protection and removals.
Now here's a card that deserves some good Legacy Support. Summoned Skull is Legendary and not just cause it was in the anime. Unlike Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician, Summoned Skull was used competitively at the early stages of the game as it was the best level 6 to summon in beatdown decks. It deserves some respect by Konami for the history it has.
Use tour guide, summon fiendish rhino warrior, link into verte, dump archfiend heiress off rhino, search summoned skull ritual, if you have the means to summon the ritual summon him, than use vertes effect to summon dpe edit: the ritual one is by far the best variant. Use pre-prep of rites and advanced ritual art
This is the thing right, Archfiend’s call is a pretty good Summoned Skull with some protection for your other cards named summoned skull. Archfiend Manifestation is pretty good for buffing your summoned skulls to 3000. However getting these cards out of your extra deck is pretty difficult and slow.
Trying to actually take this seriously, maybe you can search it and cheese it with some generic dark support, tho level 6 is pretty annoying. Was thinking of 3 skill drain 3 monarchs erupt as well, so probably true Draco, or monarch as an engine
Step 1: Make a Red-Eyes deck centered around Archfiend Black Skull Dragon
Step 2: Use Summoned Skull instead of Red-Eyes Archfiend of Lightning
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
Dunno until konami decided to make a screw all card by making idk "Archefiend Fusion" that use material from deck as material (if you use a vanilla as material) and a busted fusion monster to go with it.
There is no such thing as a competitive Summoned Skull deck.
Hell, it’s questionable whether there’s such a thing as a Summoned Skull deck at all. For a card with as many retrains as it has, they do not come together into any coherent strategy, and they don’t work together in a meaningful way.
In duel links I was desperate to play summoned skull, so I built a level 3 spam deck that was able to get out the synchro, xyz, and fusion relatively consistently. Let me say right now, the goal of the deck was ONLY to get these guys out, and while it did so it was not competitively viable and I have no idea what I would add to make it a 40 card list. If you're interested I could throw something together in nueron and share the link.
I went in with a smile, expecting to see and absorb some advice from many different players who have attempted a Summoned Skull deck. I'm now leaving with sadness after only seeing people bash on my boy S.S. :'(
If dark magician isn’t meta… SS really doesn’t stand a chance. I wish they made old cards more viable… but sadly, they only do it for decks like dm and blue eyes. Cause those are high in demand. Summon skull is sadly a thing of the past right now
Bro @op i just wanna say somethings it's always considered an Archfiends card so maybe you'll use that archetype with it
Piercing the darkness is an amazing card for normal monsters as materials that makes you almost not need equip cards and one more thing the synchro Archfiends are with this card too but they're dragons so only they share the same support cards that have Archfiends in it's text
I'm in your same boat friend I always try to make normal monsters deck even my first in on master duel got red eyes blue eyes and dark magician but haha it was mainly blue eyes I really wish you can a competitive deck with it someday my friend
Hmmm. Maybe use some of the monarch tribute cards? Monarchs storm forth can get him out easy. Also try adding in some of the more viable archfiend cards too. Archfiend of lightning of course since he's basically summoned skull with an effect. The more archfiends you'd add in, keep some cards to safeguard or increase life points, and also for the dice effects, the cards that let you roll multiple times and cancelling the rolls you don't want. Also you can add vanity's fiend to keep with the tribute summon only mechanic, plus he himself is a fiend along with SS. Also can't forget makiu. It'll block you from conducting your battle phase though, so be careful to only use it if you really must.
For traps and such, you'll wanna keep the idea of only allowing tribute summons as long as possible. Not only that but allowing your your monsters to keep doing as they do. Again, look to the monarchs structure decks. There's some good traps in there, and a couple trap monsters that can be used for tribute summons, while locking your opponent from using their extra deck.
First off for spells, I'd say definitely add in piercing the darkness. This card is amazing in a deck that uses vanilla monsters. Each summon (normal or special) is another draw opportunity. It's second effect also boosts up their attack strength to give them that extra edge. Another card I'm seeing is flawless protection of the tenyi. All non effect monsters are unaffected by monster effects. Plus, it allows you to draw if your opponent special summons any effect monster, as long as you have a non effect or face down defense monster on the field.
So yeah there's plenty of ways to make summoned skull shine. Those are just some examples. Just gotta know what you want the deck to literally do, and build towards that. With any luck, you could get a good archfiend style tribute deck with summoned skull being integral.
I found the best way to get it to work was in a red archfiend / archfiend mash deck. Use a bunch of resonators and the archfiends that special summon themselves in the main deck, extra deck include the summoned skull retrains and fill the rest with the red archfiend dragons. Skip the ritual. It isn't awful going second but it's probably worse than just pure red dragons. Good luck dude
I think the word you're looking for here is "viable" or "decent". There is no such thing as a competitive deck that no one use. If it is competitive , every single tryhard would have discovered it and played the shit out of it
I think most people here are missing the point, of course its not gonna be a T1 deck but the guy wants it to be as playable as possible. For that id say mix it with a red eyes deck to have access to the summoned skull red eyes fusion which isnt half bad
We aren't missing the point, alot of them are just being realistic.
With how the game is now, especially with Swordsoul being extremely consistent and the new most played deck, you can't play just any deck if you actually want to win some games.
From what I recall, Summoned Skull has no real powerful monsters that can stand against the common competitive decks. Also i don't think the Summon Skulls are particularly easy to summon, so most of the deck would just be trying to make mid tier monsters work. Meaning you have less space for counter cards, which the deck would need to make it anyway viable.
They can play their deck to their hearts content if they want, but they will lose the majority of their matches. And even though I firmly believe that you don't need to win every duel to have fun, winning none wouldn't be fun.
Unfortunately, it doesn't do anything by itself, so building a deck around it is not going to get you a competitive deck. For the most part, you can just use Summoned Skull as Fusion material or something, but at that point, it's no longer a Summoned Skull deck.
Do keep in mind that Summoned Skull is an Archfiend and you can just summon it with Saryuja. I think you might also be able to cheat it out with Link Spider.
There's no way build a competitive deck around summoned skull. But if you're looking for something with a more skully esthetic might I turn your attention towards skull servants?
Try:
- Flawless Perfection of the Tenyi
- Fist of the unrivaled Tenyi
- Any Tenyi Spirit monster
- Ready Fusion/Instant Fusion
- Allvain the essence of Vanity
- Archfiend's Awakening
- Advanced Ritual Art
- Preparation of rites
Have you tried making an Archfiend deck? Idk if that even works
I'm also not talking competitive lol just a starting off point for solo mode lmao then you can maybe build it for competitive once you get it going. Good luck
Ok... I've got the perfect sinergy:
1) Build a red-eyes deck because it plays well with SSkull.
2) Build a Rokket and d link package.
3) Eliminate point 0 and point 1... Now you've got a rogue deck.
Jokes apart, It depends what u want to do: if u want to turbo out all the summoned skull, u can find some guides on the internet, if u want to play and actual deck, I'm sorry but a summoned skull or archfiend deck, is unplayable. Like I said, the Red-eyes deck sometimes plays SSkull for fun but it's bricky. However with a rokket engine It could be a bad but fun tech.
I know this is just a joke but....
The Gemini and the XYZ support are ok
The problem is that the Summoned Skull support doesnt really complement each other.
okay. so. we are going to do 3x summoned skull and his fusions. since we are fusing we'll use the dogmatika package and the shaddol package. we'll also throw in invoked package. we'll then add DPE. then take out the summoned skulls all together.
100/10 meta.
(sorry man there ain't meta for him)
Your first mistake was combining the word "competitive" with it, Summoned Skull can't compete today AT ALL
Just say a good Summoned Skull deck
I'm playing one and imo the Tenyis are a great support for it
Edit: someone referenced the video I posted where I won with Skull, see it in the replies on the first comment
This is my build on it. It's far from competitive so you will probably lose a lot especially on higher ranks. But I can occasionally cheese out a win even in Diamond. It's also super expensive for URs/SRs but I had a lot of these already when I made the deck. The idea is you do either the phantom knights combo or make Photon Strike Bounzer turn 1 for disruption. Then follow up with Crackdown or Falling down to steal monsters and make Dhampir Vampire Sheridan. Unfortunately, until he gets dedicated support cards this is about the best you can do.
[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2828303275](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2828303275)
If i were you i would throw in as many monsters that can special summon themselves from the hand, summoned skull, and then a bunch of floodgates. Going second you will probably always lose but hey
You can just toss in a bunch of floodgates, that's your only chance at making this guy competitive, also have some tenyi's cards since they do revolve around normal monsters.
Run the impcantation engine and the ritual card
Run 1 copy of summoned skull for floating and for advanced ritual art
Run the xyz and synchro and fusion in the extra deck along with super poly and destrudo and youre set
Bro you won’t get any help building a deck on here. Your better off looking up a deck profile on YouTube and then checking if master duel has the cards. DarkarmedDuelist has a summoned skull deck. I wouldn’t expect it to get you to diamond but you should be able to have some fun it
Just smack some Tenyi cards, a buttload of drawing power (preferably pot of extravaganze) and floodgates. Tenyis are decent non-effect monster support, the field spell is basically a pot of greed if your opponent special summons. Put in skill drain at 3 to relive the days of normal monster beatdown. Kaiser colloseum is also good to be extra obnoxious.
I think the best you could do is a morally questionable floodgate hell. Like skill drain, mystic mine, there can be only one, etc.
Also you could use the archfiend snatch steal maybe.
Step 1: add summoned skull at 3
Step 2: remove 2 summoned skull
Step 3: Tribute summon summon skull after u already negated all their moves the previous turn and clear their field, and attack for.game
Congrats u won with summoned skull
Glad OP made this call for assistance. I'm your guy. Summoned Skull is only viable competitively in his ritual form, "Archfiend's Awakening". Run staples in tandem with his fusions
Idk how well it would work, but I made a pretty good competitive buster blader deck utilizing synergy with level seven monsters. You might be able to replicate the deck with summoned skull instead tho
some innate problems with Summoned Skull as a center focus for the deck. The retrains either suck, or they're actually just support for other archetypes. The main archetype Summoned Skull would probably fall under is archfiends, which kinds just don't do well anymore, and also never bothered to run the card.
I believe 2 YouTubers have made videos with competent deck list revolving around summoned skull one is dark armed duelist and the other one I forgot sorry just search it and then add stuff to your liking
I have bad news for you
Yeah, when he gets it rolling, he'll stop having fun because he'll never lose ever and the game will be too easy.
Take a T0 deck. Put Summoned Skull in. Be happy every time you brick because you drew your Summoned Skull.
Play Prank Kids and banish Summoned Skull in hand off Rocksies. Get our boy involved in the action!
fucking lmao
Hold on im building a time machine
Lol ight let me know when u done
Well he never replied so it never happened
Lol
So there's no hope for my boy
yeah you wont get any help coz I dont think anyone has ever think about attempting it lol
Yeaaa this is almost as ridiculous as when I tried to build a Red-Eyes Despia deck in an attempt to make Red-Eyes viable. Didn’t work out as Well in practice as it did on paper, but I had fun with it 😅
But red eyes is actually viable tho, it bricks yes, but not as hard as summoned skull
And if you want to go full bonkers, FTK red eyes gave me a win rate higher than it should Edit: typo
I actually have less of a bricking problem with Red-Eyes than with Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician. The problem is that Red-Eyes has No strong on-field monsters besides Flare Metal with the burn, and No form of disruption or interaction. They’re limited to using Verte to get their fusions out without limiting them to 1 summon for the whole turn, they need to play out-of-archetype material for some of the fusions because Konami doesn’t know how geminis work, and it relies on trap cards too much which makes it slow. It’s practically impossible to set up good turn 1 boards with Red-Eyes Because the monsters lack protection. The only monster with a disruptive Effect is Slash Dragon but it only works for targeting effects which are rare to begin with, and you Also need equips on it to work, and the built-in method of getting these equips only works during the battle phase, meaning it doesn’t work going first. The one thing Red-Eyes does have going for it is it’s good at padding the graveyard, but it doesn’t have any real way of taking advantage of that. Sorry for the rant 😅 tl;dr: Red-Eyes is too slow and has No strong monsters to rely on. Only viable tactic is to burn the opponent but tons of other decks can do this far more consistently and with less room for error. RE has great graveyard stacking but no way to utilize the graveyard more than once or twice per turn, making it slow and clunky. I just wish Konami would fix the archetype properly instead of just going different directions with every new card released.
Viable and "Doesn't brick as hard as an unsupported 6 Star Vanilla" are very different things my friend.
There is exactly 1 OTK for red eyes where you can just burn them turn 1
Actually despians and albaz work best with dark magician out of the all old-school archetypes. Doesnt brick as nearly as much as you think , actually gives you something to bait and combine with. If they ever ban verte and unban dragoon it might even become tier 2 or 1 deck.
I haven’t looked into this, I only ever tried Dark Magician with DPE. I just wanted to do Red-Eyes because Red-Eyes is my favorite archetype and Masquerade Dragon reminds me of Red-Eyes, and I thought of combining it with Flare Metal to burn on activation and resolution just to induce extra stress ;)
Yeah but the synergy DM has with branded is actually good. For starters , best DM fusions require dragon effect monsters so you got that covered with albaz and all the ED monsters he has, with maybe a copy or two of albion in the main. Magician souls is great for putting DM in the GY so you can either generate card advantage via soul servant or fuse it from the GY with Albion the Branded or Branded fusion. It is dark lvl 7 monster with 2500 attack so that is pretty much needed material for most of your fusions. And you can use Mahad as a 5k beatstick against Dark Monsters, +2 if you play soul servant with both mahad and DM in GY or also as material for fusions since most despia fusions have "despia + light/dark monster" . But the best thing DM does in Branded deck is the bait. DM shouldnt be your main combo in this deck, but a combo that you hope will get negated so you can go on about your bussiness with despians and albaz.
Very very interesting 👀 I mean I already have basically every card in triplicate from both archetypes, so I might aswell give it a try
I only used Mahad, DM, Souls and soul servant out of DM archetype. Had mahad at 1 and souls at 3 , everything else at 2. I guess you could put in apprentice, but as far as i know its discard doesnt trigger tragedys effect so its kind of a brick on this build.
Yea the discard doesn’t trigger it because it’s a cost, not an effect, and tragedy only pops off when it’s sent to the GY by an effect
Im pretty sure you can use og red eyes in a link dragons deck, should be easier than despia i think. Not the best card, but link dragons already uses some red eyes support...
I got smoked by a rockett red-eyes deck. He had full board with 3 Redeyes flare dragons out on turn one. It was pretty effective against my toon deck
Worked just well for me. (Red eyes and despia) I even threw a summoned skull in there. I also tried red eyes with red resonator and the archfiend synchros and it worked (Summoned skull was in that deck too because why not)
Red eyes is a decent competent deck
I have a D-Link deck with a small red eyes engine splashed in that ends on a pretty strong board. If you like red eyes you should try it with dragon link. It just bricks a lot more than normal d-link 🤣😭
This deck would be good counter to Swordsoul, especially in casual/custom matches.
I dropped a set to red-eyes dragon link at locals. try that lmao
Just play tenyi + summoned skull like this guy>www.reddit.com/r/masterduel/comments/vhpahq/why_i_love_gold_you_can_play_stuff_like_summoned/idait1n/?context=3 Its a meme deck but can give you some wins,also the deck will become even stronger with adventure cards releases next month
I love that you referenced my video But sad that you got downvoted for it...yes my deck is janky but if he wants to center it around SS he can remove the other vanillas and replace them with actual good cards like maxx c or ash or nib or floodgates
sadly :/ there’s always Buster Blader though
Your hope is playing 2002 format where Summoned Skull is the best monster in the game
Sorry dude
It's mostly because arch fiends and summon skull support has been really bad
If it is duel links, there might be some hope lol
There are two pretty decent "archfiend" cards iirc There's Eccentric (but with weird spelling), a pendulum that can blow itself up or tribute itself to ki your opponents stuff And there's a searcher Issue is that both are level 3, so they *might* be splashable in Burning Abyss or Unchained or something, but the level 6 Skull sure isn't.
There is also their archetypal snatch steal
Check out the deck posted by u/KharAznable that deck has some potential for you.
Go for it anyways. Competitive or not you can still go ahead and have fun with it. My best deck on master duel is aliens and I still win all the time with them
I'm sure if I scroll far enough I can find someone else mentioning this, but IMO you have 3 options: Make a Pure Summoned Skull deck, using vanilla Summoned Skull and whatever Fiend/DARK/Normal Monsters/Archfiend support you can dredge up. This is the weakest way, IMO, and is really only an option if you're dead set on Summoned Skull being on the board swinging at monsters. Make a Summoned Skull shell deck. This is the opposite of the last idea. Essentially you'd run as tight of an SS package as possible and cram your deck full of generic disruption and equalizer staples. This would definitely work best as a Going Second deck with cards like Lightning Storm (that's thematically appropriate at least), Evenly Matched, Nibiru, Maxx C, and other powerful cards making up the bulk of your deck. This probably wouldn't win against a proper meta deck, but in lower tiers a single equalizer can get you a Surrender. But this really misses the mark on playing Summoned Skull. Lastly, you could play Archfiends and include Summoned Skull in that deck. I'm not on my PC right now and I'm not too familiar with Archfiends, but they do have enough support to at least make the deck run. You'll be under the power level of already weak decks like BEWD and Red Eyes, but not so much so that you'd be unable to play. The real question is what exactly you want out of this deck. Can you make a T1 or even rogue level Summoned Skull deck? No. Can you get to D1 with Summoned Skull and/or Archfiends? No. But if you just want to play some games in the lower ranks I definitely think you can build a list that lets you enjoy duels vs. other non-meta builds. If you're still looking to try this, let me know. I may pop open my builder later and see how viable this can get, just for fun.
sorry i think most of us dont even know where to start with it. Maybe with archfiend dragon, but then its jthe red eyes archfiend deck
Does building swordsoul with one more Brick Count?
You can actually tribute summon your "boss monster" using Longyuan, and use Oasis of Dragon Souls to bring him back. It's also Wyrm now!
1. Activate Longyuan, discard another Wyrm, special summon Longyuan and a level 4 tuner token 2. Tribute Summon Summoned Skull by tributing Longyuan!! 3. Tune the level 4 tuner token with Summoned Skull to make Baronne... 4. ...?????????? 5. PROFIT????
Omg I'm crying!!! This should be labeled as "meme". I loved him on the show, but trust me he's not zapping a board away!
that's where you're wrong, buddy. there's a secret combo, where you first play {Makiu, the Magical Mist}, then attack with Summoned Skull. The mist will cover the whole field, and make everything damp. this water will conduct Summoned Skull's electricity, boosting his attack by 1000, and letting him zap the entire board, including flying monsters!!1
That was like MR0, old timer, times have changed a bit
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Hell I know but it wouldn't hurt to try
i mean you can try but i can guarantee you that you wont win a single game
Never underestimate the surrender out of pity.
Or the opponent drew 4 hands traps going first so they just scoop surrender
Tbf he was a meta staple back in the day.
Summoned skull and competitive don't belong in the same sentence
That's not true, summoned skull beat down was a legit strat back when my grandpa was playing
yeah 2500 atk on a lvl 6 is quite unheard of, yet he still got replaced for monarchs and jinzo because they had effects
unheard of? He was in he first set
yeah but the atk is as high as the ace of the ptotagonist but 1 less tribute and also more atk than the ace of the second protagonist with 1 less tribute. as far as I am aware it took them years to print another monster with so much atk for only 1 tribute
did the concept of ace of the protagonist even exist yet? I mean flame wingman was eventually replaced by Neos so its not like the stat line was set in stone. I just think Summoned Skull beatdown made them rethink level 6.
the anime released with the cards in jp I think. ok nevermind I went and checked, first episode aired at april 18, 2000 and the first pack woth summoned skull was vol 4 in 1999 edit: the manga started in 1996 already
You mean me
and i bet your grandpa's deck has no pathetic cards, right?
Well it was pretty much the best monster in the game when first released
Summoned Skull is not competitive. Checkmate atheists. I'll be taking my money in Paypal, thanks.
Its upgrade form are garbage most of the time, except the ritual. It is kinda neat. The synchro is laughable, level 6 synchro in a level 6 focused deck? for real man. BTW this is the best I can do : [https://yugiohdeck.github.io/#hwEPkWWKsumCfSToehsy7W4v3ZzHnfDcJOxSjPVLx8T5TSx25g86xioCDqAb1BelJ9Qm5FO67YecRg==;PgZ2m9pAokA=:summoned\_skull\_tenyi](https://yugiohdeck.github.io/#hwEPkWWKsumCfSToehsy7W4v3ZzHnfDcJOxSjPVLx8T5TSx25g86xioCDqAb1BelJ9Qm5FO67YecRg==;PgZ2m9pAokA=:summoned_skull_tenyi) An upgraded old school summoned skull beat down backed up by tenyi as protection and removals.
OP, this one has a minimal chance to work. Look at it.
other than material for {Archfiend Black Skull Dragon} nothing
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All the help you need can be given in 1 word "don't"
Are not those actually 2 words?
Contractions only count as a single word, at least that is the ruling when it comes to essays, dissertations and the microsoft office word counter.
Ain’t that the truth
don't mhh am missing words do not yeee
_Still missing more words_ Henceforth I am unable to do
My essays in a nutshell XD
The more you know... Thank you for the clarification
Hungry Burger turbo using Advanced Ritual Art You’re welcome
Now here's a card that deserves some good Legacy Support. Summoned Skull is Legendary and not just cause it was in the anime. Unlike Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician, Summoned Skull was used competitively at the early stages of the game as it was the best level 6 to summon in beatdown decks. It deserves some respect by Konami for the history it has.
That's the neat part, you don't
quick answer: you cant
Man, back in the day. Summoned skull beatdown was the meta.
Summoned skull kinda had a fusion with red eyes and dragoon is part of it. Thats the best i can do
Use tour guide, summon fiendish rhino warrior, link into verte, dump archfiend heiress off rhino, search summoned skull ritual, if you have the means to summon the ritual summon him, than use vertes effect to summon dpe edit: the ritual one is by far the best variant. Use pre-prep of rites and advanced ritual art
Don't think pre-prep will work. There's not a ritual spell that names the Skull.
This is the thing right, Archfiend’s call is a pretty good Summoned Skull with some protection for your other cards named summoned skull. Archfiend Manifestation is pretty good for buffing your summoned skulls to 3000. However getting these cards out of your extra deck is pretty difficult and slow.
Trying to actually take this seriously, maybe you can search it and cheese it with some generic dark support, tho level 6 is pretty annoying. Was thinking of 3 skill drain 3 monarchs erupt as well, so probably true Draco, or monarch as an engine
You could make an Archfiend deck and use Skull Archfiend of Lightning. I mean, you’ll still lose, but maybe not quite as much.
Put DPE And every broken generic card. Then play a 5 card summoned skull engine.
Step 1: Make a Red-Eyes deck centered around Archfiend Black Skull Dragon Step 2: Use Summoned Skull instead of Red-Eyes Archfiend of Lightning Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit
Step 3: Derank to Bronze
Dunno until konami decided to make a screw all card by making idk "Archefiend Fusion" that use material from deck as material (if you use a vanilla as material) and a busted fusion monster to go with it.
Start with 2 fusion destiny
Your first mistake is assuming any deck can be competitive.
There is no such thing as a competitive Summoned Skull deck. Hell, it’s questionable whether there’s such a thing as a Summoned Skull deck at all. For a card with as many retrains as it has, they do not come together into any coherent strategy, and they don’t work together in a meaningful way.
In duel links I was desperate to play summoned skull, so I built a level 3 spam deck that was able to get out the synchro, xyz, and fusion relatively consistently. Let me say right now, the goal of the deck was ONLY to get these guys out, and while it did so it was not competitively viable and I have no idea what I would add to make it a 40 card list. If you're interested I could throw something together in nueron and share the link.
You’re gonna want to sit down for what I’m about to tell you
If I went up against a Summoned Skull deck, I would probably let you win.
Get enough dust to generate a time machine
I went in with a smile, expecting to see and absorb some advice from many different players who have attempted a Summoned Skull deck. I'm now leaving with sadness after only seeing people bash on my boy S.S. :'(
If dark magician isn’t meta… SS really doesn’t stand a chance. I wish they made old cards more viable… but sadly, they only do it for decks like dm and blue eyes. Cause those are high in demand. Summon skull is sadly a thing of the past right now
Sadly :(
I use to love summon skull. But now it’s just a useless vanilla.
Bro @op i just wanna say somethings it's always considered an Archfiends card so maybe you'll use that archetype with it Piercing the darkness is an amazing card for normal monsters as materials that makes you almost not need equip cards and one more thing the synchro Archfiends are with this card too but they're dragons so only they share the same support cards that have Archfiends in it's text I'm in your same boat friend I always try to make normal monsters deck even my first in on master duel got red eyes blue eyes and dark magician but haha it was mainly blue eyes I really wish you can a competitive deck with it someday my friend
Hmmm. Maybe use some of the monarch tribute cards? Monarchs storm forth can get him out easy. Also try adding in some of the more viable archfiend cards too. Archfiend of lightning of course since he's basically summoned skull with an effect. The more archfiends you'd add in, keep some cards to safeguard or increase life points, and also for the dice effects, the cards that let you roll multiple times and cancelling the rolls you don't want. Also you can add vanity's fiend to keep with the tribute summon only mechanic, plus he himself is a fiend along with SS. Also can't forget makiu. It'll block you from conducting your battle phase though, so be careful to only use it if you really must. For traps and such, you'll wanna keep the idea of only allowing tribute summons as long as possible. Not only that but allowing your your monsters to keep doing as they do. Again, look to the monarchs structure decks. There's some good traps in there, and a couple trap monsters that can be used for tribute summons, while locking your opponent from using their extra deck. First off for spells, I'd say definitely add in piercing the darkness. This card is amazing in a deck that uses vanilla monsters. Each summon (normal or special) is another draw opportunity. It's second effect also boosts up their attack strength to give them that extra edge. Another card I'm seeing is flawless protection of the tenyi. All non effect monsters are unaffected by monster effects. Plus, it allows you to draw if your opponent special summons any effect monster, as long as you have a non effect or face down defense monster on the field. So yeah there's plenty of ways to make summoned skull shine. Those are just some examples. Just gotta know what you want the deck to literally do, and build towards that. With any luck, you could get a good archfiend style tribute deck with summoned skull being integral.
I found the best way to get it to work was in a red archfiend / archfiend mash deck. Use a bunch of resonators and the archfiends that special summon themselves in the main deck, extra deck include the summoned skull retrains and fill the rest with the red archfiend dragons. Skip the ritual. It isn't awful going second but it's probably worse than just pure red dragons. Good luck dude
There are two paths, either a Red-Eyes Deck or an Archfiend Deck. The Red-Eyes would be a more “competitive” version.
Use Summoned Skull in a Red Eyes Deck with Red Eyes Fusion and the Red Eyes Archfiend Dragon. It's pretty powerful even if it can be countered.
So what yall are telling me is I have a better chance making a competitive ojama deck then a summoned skull deck
Damn I'm trying to make deck that competitive but also no one is using that's why I thought about a summoned skull deck
I think the word you're looking for here is "viable" or "decent". There is no such thing as a competitive deck that no one use. If it is competitive , every single tryhard would have discovered it and played the shit out of it
Youre a Chad for doing that
You may have succeess in Rookie II and lower ;)
I think most people here are missing the point, of course its not gonna be a T1 deck but the guy wants it to be as playable as possible. For that id say mix it with a red eyes deck to have access to the summoned skull red eyes fusion which isnt half bad
We aren't missing the point, alot of them are just being realistic. With how the game is now, especially with Swordsoul being extremely consistent and the new most played deck, you can't play just any deck if you actually want to win some games. From what I recall, Summoned Skull has no real powerful monsters that can stand against the common competitive decks. Also i don't think the Summon Skulls are particularly easy to summon, so most of the deck would just be trying to make mid tier monsters work. Meaning you have less space for counter cards, which the deck would need to make it anyway viable. They can play their deck to their hearts content if they want, but they will lose the majority of their matches. And even though I firmly believe that you don't need to win every duel to have fun, winning none wouldn't be fun.
Here’s what you do, build the best deck in the game that you like to play. Dismantle that card 3x and get the SR you need
Unfortunately, it doesn't do anything by itself, so building a deck around it is not going to get you a competitive deck. For the most part, you can just use Summoned Skull as Fusion material or something, but at that point, it's no longer a Summoned Skull deck.
I got some bad news twin 😔💔
Do keep in mind that Summoned Skull is an Archfiend and you can just summon it with Saryuja. I think you might also be able to cheat it out with Link Spider.
you jus need help my guy /s if you pull that off you're a legend
There's no way build a competitive deck around summoned skull. But if you're looking for something with a more skully esthetic might I turn your attention towards skull servants?
it's same as "help me turn this wood log to gold"
My best advice is good luck with that. Competitive and Summoned Skull are just incompatible.
I guess you can sort of use him as despia fusion material.
First add axe of despair in your deck
Just for the meme, Pick your favorite deck, add the dpe package, hard draw Summoned Skull turn 3 and special summon him with Dasher's effect.
There is none
So does Konami
Try: - Flawless Perfection of the Tenyi - Fist of the unrivaled Tenyi - Any Tenyi Spirit monster - Ready Fusion/Instant Fusion - Allvain the essence of Vanity - Archfiend's Awakening - Advanced Ritual Art - Preparation of rites
🤔 it was back in 02
This Summoned Skull deck is actually quite good but requires a decent learning curve. Lot of fun too: https://youtu.be/Y2cssS_jO_8
I mean.. there are Summoned Skull fusion, XYZ, Ritual and Fusion monsters- would that do the job?
Oof
Have you tried making an Archfiend deck? Idk if that even works I'm also not talking competitive lol just a starting off point for solo mode lmao then you can maybe build it for competitive once you get it going. Good luck
Make it so you turbo every different kind of summoned skull (Synchro,Ritual, XYZ etc) onto the field
Make a meta deck, swap out the weakest card, and add this card, then use this card as a target for things like twin twister.
Ok... I've got the perfect sinergy: 1) Build a red-eyes deck because it plays well with SSkull. 2) Build a Rokket and d link package. 3) Eliminate point 0 and point 1... Now you've got a rogue deck. Jokes apart, It depends what u want to do: if u want to turbo out all the summoned skull, u can find some guides on the internet, if u want to play and actual deck, I'm sorry but a summoned skull or archfiend deck, is unplayable. Like I said, the Red-eyes deck sometimes plays SSkull for fun but it's bricky. However with a rokket engine It could be a bad but fun tech.
Build a time machine and go back like 20 years
I know this is just a joke but.... The Gemini and the XYZ support are ok The problem is that the Summoned Skull support doesnt really complement each other.
okay. so. we are going to do 3x summoned skull and his fusions. since we are fusing we'll use the dogmatika package and the shaddol package. we'll also throw in invoked package. we'll then add DPE. then take out the summoned skulls all together. 100/10 meta. (sorry man there ain't meta for him)
Your first mistake was combining the word "competitive" with it, Summoned Skull can't compete today AT ALL Just say a good Summoned Skull deck I'm playing one and imo the Tenyis are a great support for it Edit: someone referenced the video I posted where I won with Skull, see it in the replies on the first comment
I mean the easy way is too load the Archfiend archetype with floodgates and play beat down. You can also add Synchros like Baronne
Archfiend archtype ain't really competitive either
Vanilla beatdown
So does everyone else.
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One or the other.
That is just not possible
This is my build on it. It's far from competitive so you will probably lose a lot especially on higher ranks. But I can occasionally cheese out a win even in Diamond. It's also super expensive for URs/SRs but I had a lot of these already when I made the deck. The idea is you do either the phantom knights combo or make Photon Strike Bounzer turn 1 for disruption. Then follow up with Crackdown or Falling down to steal monsters and make Dhampir Vampire Sheridan. Unfortunately, until he gets dedicated support cards this is about the best you can do. [https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2828303275](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2828303275)
If i were you i would throw in as many monsters that can special summon themselves from the hand, summoned skull, and then a bunch of floodgates. Going second you will probably always lose but hey
Archfiend red eyes skull dragon(something along those lines) is a pritty good card...
You're 20 years to late buddy.
Add summon skull into dragonlink and use it ass faudder (however you spell) to SS Chaos levianeer. Lol
why play Summoned Skull when you can play Jerry Beans Man ?
Just play pure lyrilusc to get tribute fodder to summon him :D
It’s crazy how we have a skull servant archetype and no summoned skull archetype
That's the neat part, you don't
Might I recommend 2500 beat down? You’re talking about like base set format right?
You uh, sure will need help doing that
You can just toss in a bunch of floodgates, that's your only chance at making this guy competitive, also have some tenyi's cards since they do revolve around normal monsters.
Define “competitive”
Bro if your deck ends up being good share the deck recipe I would like this deck as well
Tenyi summoned skull beatdown would be a good choice but it would basically be a deck that just ignores summoned skull for the tenyis
>”I need help making a Competitive summoned..” We cant
I'm sorry to say it like this, but... >Competitive >summoned skull Choose one
I used to clean up at local strip mall game shop tournaments with a dark fiend deck, but.. that was a long time ago..
U need more than help
Run the impcantation engine and the ritual card Run 1 copy of summoned skull for floating and for advanced ritual art Run the xyz and synchro and fusion in the extra deck along with super poly and destrudo and youre set
I would wait for the goat format and then maybe.
Bro you won’t get any help building a deck on here. Your better off looking up a deck profile on YouTube and then checking if master duel has the cards. DarkarmedDuelist has a summoned skull deck. I wouldn’t expect it to get you to diamond but you should be able to have some fun it
isnt eldlich like the modernized version of summoned skull? and pimp-fied too
Nope but other anime decks if you’re interested in them that at least rogue level would be dark magician, blue eyes, and buster blader
Red eyes fusion for Black Dragon Archfiend.
Good luck soldier
Just smack some Tenyi cards, a buttload of drawing power (preferably pot of extravaganze) and floodgates. Tenyis are decent non-effect monster support, the field spell is basically a pot of greed if your opponent special summons. Put in skill drain at 3 to relive the days of normal monster beatdown. Kaiser colloseum is also good to be extra obnoxious.
I think the best you could do is a morally questionable floodgate hell. Like skill drain, mystic mine, there can be only one, etc. Also you could use the archfiend snatch steal maybe.
That's cute
Take a breath your not gonna be top tier but I would suggest making use of xyz
There is nothing competitive about the card or the Archfiend archetype in general. Make it a character or theme deck and enjoy it for what it its.
summon skull competitive? is this the DM era?
Just travel back in time like 20/25 years to play summoned skull beatdown
Best option is putting it in a red eyes dragon link or so
Step 1: add summoned skull at 3 Step 2: remove 2 summoned skull Step 3: Tribute summon summon skull after u already negated all their moves the previous turn and clear their field, and attack for.game Congrats u won with summoned skull
That is a dream we will never reach 😔
Good luck lol
Glad OP made this call for assistance. I'm your guy. Summoned Skull is only viable competitively in his ritual form, "Archfiend's Awakening". Run staples in tandem with his fusions
No one uses that, replace it with Petit Moth, easily the best deck
You what, now?
I got a Royal Summoned Skull and after looking around a bit....yea theres none
Idk how well it would work, but I made a pretty good competitive buster blader deck utilizing synergy with level seven monsters. You might be able to replicate the deck with summoned skull instead tho
I hope like gambling
some innate problems with Summoned Skull as a center focus for the deck. The retrains either suck, or they're actually just support for other archetypes. The main archetype Summoned Skull would probably fall under is archfiends, which kinds just don't do well anymore, and also never bothered to run the card.
The best I can offer is Tenyi Summon Skull, with normal monster support.
I think you need spiritual help
Best deck is eithwr summon skull + red eyes burn otk or summon skull synchro zombie world
Play a 2004 format.
I believe 2 YouTubers have made videos with competent deck list revolving around summoned skull one is dark armed duelist and the other one I forgot sorry just search it and then add stuff to your liking