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Plant Guide
By Akiza

=General history and strategy of Plants=

History

 * The Plant type was extremely unsupported, until the Phantom Darkness Booster Pack was released, helping Plant users with Lonefire Blossom and Gigaplant. Even so, a competitive Plant deck was yet to be made. This soon changed with the debut of the Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's anime, since Akiza Izinski uses a Plant-based deck. This indroduced the Crossroads of Chaos Booster Pack, along with some of the Plant-type's strongest support cards, some examples being the Black Rose Dragon, Tytannial, Princess of Camellias, and Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis. This allowed Plants to become a semi-meta deck, often ending up in second tier on the list.

Basic Strategy
Much of the general strategy of Plant decks involves ressurecting Monster cards from the Graveyard[[ to the [[Field, using effects of cards like Gigaplant, Miracle Fertilizer, The World Tree, and Plant Food Chain. One of the things that differs a Plant deck from a Zombie deck in it's ability to ressurect cards, is the fact that Plants usually require one card on the field to take root and begin swarming, much resembeling as if you chop a weed away, but the roots remain and the weed grows back. If even a single card survives, such as Gigaplant, Miracle Fertilizer, or The World Tree, then you can regrow your botanical army next turn. Now that you know what you're going to be working with, let's take a look at the different cards you will be including in your deck, shall we?

=Card Choices=

Botanical Girl - This isn't one of the best Plant cards, but it can search a number of good Plant monsters, such as Dandylion, Lord Poison, and Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis. It is also good material for Synchro Summons, since you can search a monster to put in your hand just in case the Synchro Summon goes wrong somehow.

[[Botanical Lion - This is one of the strongest level 4 Plant monsters, and it can get even stronger, with a max ATK of 3100 when you have 5 Plant monsters on your side of the field. As an added bonus, your opponent can't change his loyalty, with cards such as Brain Control and Mark of the Rose.

Copy Plant - A very versatile tuner, being able to change its level to match any Plant monster on the field. This allows you to copy a level 4 monster on your field, to make an easy level 8 Synchro, or any number of things. You could even copy a larger monster such as Gigaplant, then tune it with a weak monster, and keep your Gigaplant on the field while you bring out your Synchro.

Dandylion - Not many cards will give you two more cards for free when they die, but Dandylion is one of them, and he has the added bonus of being a Plant. Dandylion is a VERY useful tool, even though he may not seem like it at first. For one, Synchro Summons, Synchro Summons, and more Synchro Summons. He acts as a level 3 himself, high for his stats. Then, once he is placed in the Graveyard, his effect will trigger and give you 2 level 1 Tokens to work with. This works excellently if you have a Plaguespreader Zombie in the Graveyard, since you can bring him back with his own effect, then make an Armory Arm with the two Tokens. This is just one of the wonderful combos this little flower can pull off.

Fairy King Truesdale - One of the first Plant monsters ever created, and also summonable by Lonefire Blossom. Ever since the effect was rewritten, he hasn't been of much use, since Gigaplant and Tytannial, Princess of Camellias outrank him, but he's not a terrible card.

Lonefire Blossom - This card is a staple in nearly all competitive plant decks. Being able to Tribute itself, (Or any other Plant of your choice) to Summon any Plant from your deck, is just amazing. No wonder he was Semi-limited, he can summon a monster of any level!

Gigaplant - Ring a bell? This is the card I was talking about in the History/Strategy section, and there's a reason. He has a great effect, being able to Summon a Plant or Insect monster from your hand or Graveyard, once per turn! Being a Gemini is sort of a pain, but remember that he can be summoned by the Lonefire Blossom, and can be further supported with cards like Supervise or Double Summon.

= Basic Plant Deck =

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= Black Garden Control Deck =

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= Phoenixian Burn Deck =

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= Gigplant Gemimi Deck =

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