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Welcome back for another CDP, this time featuring the Illusion Type in the fifth and final Type-centric profile of the month. This was a request to build an Illusion deck out of the non-Chimera cards, and while it was a tough order, I think there’s enough here for a decent deck concept. Almost all of the Illusion monsters released to date have a really cool effect: If they battle a monster, neither can be destroyed by battle. As a result, I wanted to build around that concept by incorporating Spirit Barrier, a card that reduces all battle damage to you to zero for battles involving your monster. This forces the opponent to look to other forms of removal to get over your board, opening them to disruption via Infinite Impermanence, Silhouhatte, Sinful Spoils of Slumber – Morrian, or even Sinful Spoils of Doom – Rciela. My personal favorite interaction here is to abuse this with Mokomoko, a Level 1 Illusion that draws a card when flipped face-up, in addition to carrying an effect to flip itself face-down. I love that combined with its anti-battle effect, it’s basically become a modern version of Des Lacooda, giving you an additional draw each turn until the opponent spends some resource getting it off your field.

As for the rest of the deck, the name of the game is consistent power. Whether it is WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils and Diabellstar the Black Witch to leveraging Sinful Spoils Subdual and Diabellze the Original Sinkeeper, you have options for getting easy big monsters to the field. Combine that with Nightmare Apprentice, which grabs any Illusion monster on summon, and you’ll quickly build out an array of threats. My favorite was to incorporate the TCG World Premiere Illusion, Vouiburial, the Dragon Undertaker, as it carries 3000 ATK and is easily Special Summoned from the hand whenever a monster the opponent controls is sent to the GY. Once it’s on the field, if another monster leaves the opponent’s field, it can make an opponent’s monster lose 1500 ATK, and if it has less than that, destroy it. The other ‘hand trap’ available to the theme is Emissary from the House of Wax, a FIRE Illusion that can Special Summon itself from the hand when an opponent’s monster declares an attack, then at the end of the Battle Phase, it prevents your opponent’s Attack Position monsters from being used as Material, plus their effect(s) are negated! This allows you to build a board of your own and find the best way to repeatedly attack an opponent’s monster until their LP are beat into submission. I hope you enjoy this Illusion-Type deck and catch you next time with one final, super cool profile for the month!

Provided Decklist:

Monsters: 19
||| Vouiburial, the Dragon Undertaker
| Golgoil the Steel Seismic Smasher
|| Diabellze the Original Sinkeeper
|| Diabellstar the Black Witch
|| Talons of Shurilane
||| Nightmare Apprentice
||| Emissary from the House of Wax
||| Mokomoko

Spells: 6
| Sinful Spoils of Doom – Rciela
|| Whispers of the Sinful Spoils
||| WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils

Traps: 15
||| Infinite Impermanence
||| Sinful Spoils Subdual
|| Mirage Mirror Force
| Sinful Spoils of Slumber – Morrian
||| Silhouhatte
||| Spirit Barrier

Extra Deck:
| Borrelend Dragon
| Underworld Goddess of the Closed World
| Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax
| Worldsea Dragon Zealantis
| Accesscode Talker
| Black Luster Soldier – Soldier of Chaos
| Knightmare Unicorn
| Selene, Queen of the Master Magicians
| Sorcerer of Sebek
| Dharc the Dark Charmer, Gloomy
| Lyna the Light Charmer, Lustrous
| S:P Little Knight
|| Top Hat Hare the Silhouette Magician
| I:P Masquerena

Note: This is continuing the style of Creative Deck Profile articles, designed to showcase a build through replays and an attached summary. If you wish to see a CDP for an archetype, theme, or strategy you love, feel free to private message me on the YGOrg Discord server, the comments section of any of my YouTube videos, or just post a comment in response to this article on our Facebook page or through the site with your ideas for me to keep under consideration! On most YGO-related communities my username is Quincymccoy, so feel free to reach out. Current pending requested profiles include: Fluffal, Valkyrie, Morganite, Shiranui, Agent

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