Vanity Control

A Vanity Control Deck is a deck focused on limiting your oponnent's Special Summons by using one of the Vanity monsters: "Vanity's Ruler" or "Vanity's Fiend". This is usually followed by some other control meassure, like summoning Light and Darkness Dragon.

The advantage these monster have against other "Special-Summons blockers" like Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo or Jowgen the Spiritualist is that they can stand their ground in battle. Archlord Kristya is good on this as well, but one advantage Vanity's Ruler got over him is that it doesn't block your special summons.

Have in mind that Vanity monsters can be used on other decks as well, like using Vanity's Fiend on a Frognarch deck or using Vanity's Ruler on a fairy deck which includes Gellenduo.

Strategy
Since the Vanity monsters can't be Special Summoned but are not Nomi, one key aspect of the deck is finding ways to quickly summon them. Cards like Photon Sanctuary or Fires of Doomsday are good to get tributes, but Mausoleum of the Emperor is usually better: not only it will allow summon of these monsters, but of other strong monsters as well. (like Light and Darkness Dragon or Dark Simorgh)

Terraforming is suggested to speed up this deck, as well as another field card besides Mausoleum of the Emperor of the emperor, like Necrovalley or Future Vision.

Pot of Duality is a stample, since this deck shouldn't have many special summons.

There are many variants of focus, but it's usually among these:


 * Big Monsters:
 * Level 8 monsters which can be discarded by the effect of "Trade-In" to draw 2 extra cards.
 * They can be revived by Light and Darkness Dragon effect (if they are Special Summon able).
 * They can be normal summoned by Mausoleum of the Emperor.
 * Vanity's Ruler and Light and Darkness Dragon belong to this group.
 * Light and Fairy:
 * Light and Fairy monsters which can be banished by the effect of "Cards from the Sky" to draw 2 extra cards.
 * Vanity's Ruler belongs to this group.
 * Banisher of the Light and Banisher of the Radiance belong to this group, which makes them good Anti-Meta.
 * Dark Simorgh:
 * Wind and Dark monsters that can be removed to create a lock with DS and Anti-Spell Fragrance
 * Vanity's Fiend belongs to this group
 * Twilight :
 * Dark and/or Light monsters which can be send to the graveyard to fuel the summon of other creatures like Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning.
 * Vanity's Ruler,Vanity's Fiend and Light and Darkness Dragon belong to this group.

Competitive Value
This deck competetive value is rather low, and it's only used for casual play.

The main problem is that it relies on the fact that the enemy is going to Special Summon. A deck with little to no Special Summon or with monsters that get stronger (like decks with plenty Equip Card) can break this apart in minutes.

With cards like Thunder King Rai-Oh or even Archlord Kristya, this deck is considered too slow to be played in tournaments.