Plant

Plant monsters were, until Phantom Darkness, a very undersupported Type. The general strategy for Plant-Type monsters is to use cards like "Gigaplant", "Lonefire Blossom" and "Lord Poison", but also using cards that summon tokens. You can use "Return from the Different Dimension" along with "Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis", "Mark of the Rose", "Black Rose Dragon" and "Splendid Rose" to re-summon many Plant monsters. They can go hand-in-hand with Insect-Types as well with cards like "Arcane Archer of the Forest" and "Prickle Fairy". The most usual Attribute associated with Plants is EARTH or WATER but they may be of any Attribute. Recent support from Crossroads of Chaos also alters Plant-type strategies to include effects that summon tokens to the opponent's side of the field (Black Garden) and trigger on or cause the destruction of fellow plant-type monsters.

Some of the most notable Plant-Type monsters include "Mystic Tomato", "Spore", "Dandylion", "Botanical Lion", "Glow-Up Bulb", "Lonefire Blossom", "Tytannial, Princess of Camellias", "Gigaplant", "Nettles" "Lord Poison" and "Rigorous Reaver".

Plant monsters were previously very overlooked and weak, until Gigaplant was introduced. Even then, plants weren't very strong and well-used. However, massive support to Plant-Types began to be released in Crossroads of Chaos and have been continuing further on in the Crimson Crisis and Raging Battle booster sets. These cards are the ones being used by Akiza Izinski herself in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.

The strongest Plant-type monster is Tytannial, Princess of Camellias at 2800 ATK along with the power to negate any card effects that target simply by sacrificing a Plant-Type monster (which in worst case scenario can even be herself), not to mention the fact that she can be summoned as easily as tributing Lonefire Blossom on first turn. In power and strategy she is followed by Gigaplant with 2400 ATK and the power to bring fallen plants back to life from the Graveyard. When combined with Gigaplant, she can easily stop any targeting force on the field, and in case of cards such as Lightning Vortex or simply your own Black Rose Dragon's effect, she can be brought back with a Gigaplant or better yet by the effect of Plant Food Chain

Plants also have Plant version of Staple cards like "Solemn Judgment" and "Mirror Force", in the forms of "Pollinosis" and "Wall of Thorns," respectively.

Plant cards usually revolve around swarming and regenerating back onto the field - unlike Zombies, however, these Plants are often used to fuel effects such as negations rather than for strictly attacking purposes. They have many cards that allow them to be special summoned to the field from the deck and hand but mostly from the graveyard. Cards like "Lonefire Blossom", "Plant Food Chain", "Lord Poison", "Gigaplant", "The World Tree" and "Miracle Fertilizer" all add major support to bringing back a swarm of weeds to annoy your opponent and often overwhelm them. Plant Types have good Tuner Monsters, like Copy Plant and Spore. Basically, It'll also have good Synchro monsters, like Black Rose Dragon and Queen of Thorns, with effect that can choose the level at will. But with low ATK and DEF, these tuners pretty much force you to synchro Summon on the same turn.(Copy Plant has zero ATK, zero DEF.)

Another good strategy is to summon Evil Thorn, use it effect to summon 2 more of them, and then use it for an instant Xyz Summon.



Chaos Plants
The successor to the very popular Plant Synchro deck, Chaos Plants takes advantage of the LIGHT and DARK attributes of its monsters to summon Chaos Sorcerer. A notable card in this deck is Reborn Tengu, which lead to a major expansion in its play

Monster Cards

 * Reborn Tengu
 * Caius the Shadow Monarch
 * Chaos Sorcerer
 * Card Trooper
 * Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
 * Debris Dragon
 * Effect Veiler
 * Lonefire Blossom
 * Dandylion
 * Glow-Up Bulb
 * Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
 * Spore
 * Sangan
 * Plaguespreader Zombie
 * Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning

Extra Deck

 * Formula Synchron
 * Stardust Dragon
 * Black Rose Dragon
 * Scrap Dragon
 * Iron Chain Dragon
 * Shooting Star Dragon
 * Shooting Quasar Dragon

Spell Cards

 * Foolish Burial
 * Mind Control
 * One for One
 * Pot of Avarice
 * Charge of the Light Brigade

Trap Cards

 * Call of the Haunted
 * Limit Reverse
 * Dimensional Prison

Doppel Plants
A derivative of Chaos Plants that uses Doppel Warrior and Junk Synchron

Monsters

 * Debris Dragon
 * Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
 * Super-Nimble Mega Hamster
 * Caius the Shadow Monarch
 * Effect Veiler
 * Card Trooper
 * Lonefire Blossom
 * Dandylion
 * Tytannial, Princess of Camellias
 * Sangan
 * Spore
 * Glow-Up Bulb
 * Quickdraw Synchron
 * Junk Synchron
 * Doppelwarrior
 * Reborn Tengu

Extra Deck

 * Formula Synchron
 * Stardust Dragon
 * Black Rose Dragon
 * Scrap Dragon
 * Iron Chain Dragon
 * Drill Warrior
 * Junk Destroyer
 * Shooting Star Dragon
 * Shooting Quasar Dragon

Spells

 * Pot of Avarice
 * Book of Moon
 * Foolish Burial
 * Pot of Duality

Traps

 * Call of the Haunted
 * Trap Stun
 * Limit Reverse
 * Dimensional Prison
 * Bottomless Trap Hole
 * Mirror Force

Volcanic Quickdraw
While similar to Quickdraw Plants, this deck uses Volcanic Shell and Volcanic Rocket to feed the effects of Quickdraw Synchron and Pot of Avarice

Monster Cards

 * Lonefire Blossom
 * Debris Dragon
 * Volcanic Shell
 * Sangan
 * Volcanic Rocket
 * Caius the Shadow Monarch
 * Dandylion
 * Spore
 * Tytannial, Princess of Camellias
 * Quickdraw Synchron
 * Card Trooper
 * Effect Veiler
 * Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter

Spell Cards

 * Pot of Avarice
 * Blaze Accelerator
 * Charge of the Light Brigade
 * Foolish Burial
 * Enemy Controller

Trap Cards

 * Royal Decree

Extra Deck

 * Stardust Dragon
 * Shooting Star Dragon
 * Iron Chain Dragon
 * Formula Synchron
 * Black Rose Dragon
 * Armory Arm
 * Drill Warrior
 * Turbo Warrior
 * Junk Destroyer
 * Nitro Warrior

Quickdraw Plants
This deck uses the Quickdraw engine merged with the Plant synchro engine, allowing multiple Synchro Summons to be made rather quickly. This deck is also known as a QuickDraw DandyWarrior Deck and/or a Yusei-Hime Deck.

Monster Cards

 * Debris Dragon
 * Lonefire Blossom
 * Dandylion
 * Tytannial, Princess of Camellias
 * Sangan
 * Spore
 * Glow-Up Bulb
 * Quickdraw Synchron
 * Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
 * Caius the Shadow Monarch

Spell Cards

 * Pot of Avarice
 * Book of Moon
 * Foolish Burial
 * Pot of Duality

Trap Cards

 * Solemn Warning
 * Call of the Haunted

Extra Deck

 * Stardust Dragon
 * Black Rose Dragon
 * Iron Chain Dragon
 * Drill Warrior
 * Junk Destroyer

Plant Beatdown
This deck revolves around Lonefire Blossom and Gigaplant to help flood the field. Make sure you use Gigaplant's effect effectively in order to pull decent synchro monsters out while using Queen of Thorns to make your opponent pay life point to summon non-plant monsters. You could use Tytannial, Princess of Camellias and combo it with Gigaplant so you could tribute Plant monsters special summoned by Gigaplant's effect to negate any cards that target your plant monsters. You can also keep the opponent at bay with powerful cards like Wall of Thorns. This deck also uses Pollinosis or Tytannial, Princess of Camellias to negate spells and traps that destroy multiple monsters such as Lightning Vortex or Mirror Force or Torrential Tribute, however, this can be entirely foiled with cards like Zombie World and DNA Surgery, so be sure to pack in Mystical Space Typhoon and an optional Twister. This deck's ability to swarm the field quickly for fuel or for an all out attack can be foiled by cards like these.

Monsters

 * Dandylion
 * Botanical Lion
 * Copy Plant
 * Fairy King Truesdale
 * Gigantic Cephalotus
 * Gigaplant
 * Lonefire Blossom
 * Lord Poison
 * Nettles
 * Revival Rose
 * Spore
 * Twilight Rose Knight
 * Tytannial, Princess of Camellias

Extra Deck

 * Black Rose Dragon
 * Queen of Thorns
 * Splendid Rose

Spells

 * Mark of the Rose
 * Miracle Fertilizer
 * Smashing Ground
 * Swords of Revealing Light
 * The World Tree
 * Mystical Space Typhoon

Traps

 * Blossom Bombardment
 * Dark Bribe
 * Plant Food Chain
 * Pollinosis
 * Wall of Thorns
 * Ultimate Offering

Plant Lockdown
This deck takes advantage of the PlantDrain deck, with the lockdown coming through the additions of Queen of Thorns and Royal Decree. It also uses the effect of Debris Dragon, whether or not someone uses Skill Drain or Forbidden Chalice. The final piece is the addition of Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon and Geartown from the PlantTown deck.

Monsters

 * Beast King Barbaros
 * Tytannial, Princess of Camellias
 * Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon
 * Debris Dragon
 * Twilight Rose Knight
 * Lonefire Blossom
 * Gigaplant
 * Dandylion
 * Botanical Lion/Lord Poison/Rigorous Reaver
 * Beast Machine King Barbaros Ür
 * Cactus Bouncer

Spells

 * Terraforming
 * Mark of the Rose
 * Mind Control
 * Forbidden Chalice
 * Trade-In
 * Geartown
 * Miracle Fertilizer

Traps

 * Skill Drain
 * Royal Decree

Extra Deck

 * Queen of Thorns
 * Black Rose Dragon
 * Ancient Fairy Dragon

GigaVise
This is a deck utilizing Supervise and Hidden Armory which allows players to Synchro Summon quickly with the main monsters Gigaplant and Spore. This can Summon a variety of different Synchros to control the field, but most used is Power Tool Dragon, which allows the player to grab a quick Supervise.

Monster Cards

 * Lonefire Blossom
 * Gigaplant
 * Dark Armed Dragon
 * Spore
 * Sangan
 * Cherry Inmato
 * Tytannial, Princess of Camellias
 * Cyber Valley
 * Glow-Up Bulb

Spell Cards

 * Super Solar Nutrient
 * Mark of the Rose
 * D.D.R. - Different Dimension Reincarnation
 * Supervise
 * Mystical Space Typhoon
 * Hidden Armory
 * Swing of Memories
 * Giant Trunade
 * One for One
 * Future Fusion
 * Foolish Burial
 * My Body as a Shield
 * Dark Hole

Trap Cards

 * Royal Decree

Synchro Monsters

 * Power Tool Dragon
 * Black Brutdrago
 * Black Rose Dragon
 * Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

Naturia Plants
The Naturia Plant variant. This type of Naturia build utilizes Naturia Plants and other Plant-types (hence the name) to beat the opponent down with Tytannial, Princess of Camellias and lock the opponent down with Naturia Bamboo Shoot. This deck type is effective because it combines power with field and Graveyard control. Be careful though; if you tribute a non-Naturia monster for Naturia Bamboo Shoot, its effect will not activate and it will become dead weight. A new Naturia supporter--Naturia Pineapple--has recently been released as a TCG Exclusive in the Duelist Revolution booster pack. Its effect greatly helps Naturia plants for it is basically a Treeborn Frog for this decktype.

Monster Cards

 * Naturia Pineapple
 * Naturia Bamboo Shoot
 * Spore
 * Naturia Cliff
 * Naturia Cosmobeet
 * Naturia Rosewhip
 * Naturia Cherry
 * Naturia Hydrangea
 * Naturia Maron

Spell Cards

 * Super Solar Nutrient
 * Foolish Burial
 * Swords of Revealing Light
 * Mark of the Rose
 * Enemy Controller
 * Pot of Duality
 * Naturia Forest

Trap Cards

 * Dimensional Prison
 * Dust Tornado
 * Wall of Thorns
 * Divine Wrath
 * Bottomless Trap Hole
 * Pollinosis
 * Solemn Warning

Extra Deck

 * Naturia Beast
 * Naturia Leodrake
 * Naturia Landoise
 * Naturia Barkion