Creative Deck Strategy: Fossil Nemeses’ Code

Flex the Time Stream to your advantage by unearthing the Fossils, banishing your Nemeses, and coding some Cyberse!

Starting with Fossils:

The Fossil archetype will soon be the newest Rock-type theme to hit the TCG with its release in Battles of Legend: Armageddon next week, and this time, the Rocks are breaking out Fusion monsters! While some of you may still be annoyed with Rocks following the quick rise of Adamancipator, this theme is much different including only one Main Deck support monster and a couple of supporting Spells, thus making the Fossil archetype very reliant on other cards. Let’s whip out our best Indiana Jones hat and begin researching this unique theme.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – the Theme:

Now Encoding the Future:

Synergy on Synergy on Synergy:

The themes of this convulsed strategy may lore-wise range across the entire Time Stream from the Jurassic to digital cyberspace, but there are so many underpinned synergies to highlight. Each theme connects to the other, and unlike many hybrid builds that rely on 2 themes covering each other’s weaknesses, this strategy actually uses the strength of each synergy to cover the weakness of the third theme.

As you probably guessed, the primary synergy here is the banishing, as the Fossil Fusion engine continuously provides a stream of fodder from the GY for the Nemeses monsters to return to summon themselves from the hand. But did you notice that Nemeses Keystone is also a Rock-type monster that meets the criteria for all of the Fossil Fusion monsters? Even if you don’t have a Weathering Soldier at your disposal, Keystone is a searchable option to serve as a stand-in… That also happens to recycle itself back to the hand. If you happened to summon Fossil Warrior Skull King, Keystone even provides the discard fodder to steal a monster from the opponent’s GY during their turn! Lastly, the Nemeses monsters may not range too far in Levels, but they do provide access as non-Rock Fusion material for Skull Bone and Skull King.

While the last synergies were based around providing material for each other, this synergy is all about augmenting the other’s strength for its own advantage. The Nemeses monsters serve as a solid stream of Link fodder to power your high-material Link plays, but it also continuously recycles your most valuable tools. By recycling banished copies of Parallel eXceed, you can work to trigger its effect multiple times over a duel unlike many decks that can only hope to use it once. Additionally, all of the attributes of the Link monsters you create over the course of a combo provide more than enough to satisfy Protos’ summoning requirement. Lastly, since you are running a Cyberse monster of every attribute in one way or other, you can also sacrifice a Cyberse monster for destruction if you need to lock out an attribute other than DARK for the rest of the turn!

This synergy is a bit more difficult to spot at first glance, but there is definitely some overlap here in terms of making the most of your cards. First, you are using Cyberse monsters of very diverse levels, letting you Fusion Summon for any of your Fossil monsters using a Rock-type and a Cyberse-type monster. Even just a simple Formud into Parallel eXceed unlocks both Skull King and Skull Bone, while making Gallant Granite along the way to search out a Rock for free along the way! Also, since the Fossil archetype is so reliant on the Battle Phase, the blanket negation and alternative options provided by the Link bosses and Cynet Conflict can be integral to letting the Fossils shine in the right situations! But enough on the theory of the evolution links between these themes – check them out in all their timeline-spanning action and be sure to take a peek at the decklist!

Replays:

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Sample Decklist:

Open the spoiler below for the full decklist!

Spoiler

Monsters: 31
| Archnemeses Eschatos
|| Archnemeses Protos
||| Parallel eXceed
|| Destiny HERO – Malicious
|| Scrypton
| Code Exporter
|| Weathering Soldier
||| Nemeses Corridor
||| Nemeses Umbrella
||| Nemeses Flag
|| Nemeses Keystone
||| Micro Coder
| Dotscraper
||| Formud Skipper

Spells: 11
| One for One
| Foolish Burial
||| Miracle Rupture
||| Fossil Fusion
|| Cynet Mining
| Time Stream

Traps: 1
| Cynet Conflict

Alternative Tech Options:

Outro:

Thanks for spanning the decades of life with this strategy built on the principles of conservation biology. It’s all about recycling your resources with this deck to reuse them time and time again as you combo through Fusion and Link monsters, ending on a solid board of boss monsters that meet the need of any given situation. I hope you enjoyed this mix, even though individual elements may still be a ways off for the TCG. But goodbye for now, and catch you next time when we explore a different strategy!

Reminder, I also take suggestions for future CDS articles! I really want to see some input from you! If you wish to see a CDS article about the 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 with your ideas to keep under consideration! On most YGO-related communities my username is Quincymccoy, so feel free to reach out

As of now, I have a couple of outstanding requests that I am looking into: Cardian, Digital Bug, Witchcrafter, Superheavy Samurai, & Simorgh.

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