Monster Surge Deck

Also known as Monster Mash, Monster Surge Decks can vary greatly from duelist to duelist, but they all all based around the principle of filling the deck with monsters with up to 3 spell or traps. In doing this, a player is almost garunteed to draw a monster to attack with, but more importantly certain monster effects become much more reliable. Some key cards include "Gallis the Star Beast" and "Magical Merchant", but "Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter" also appears to be a frequent choice with this deck type. The most common spell and trap cards appear to be only "Giant Trunade" "Cold Wave" and sometimes "Heavy Storm" to clear the opponent's traps and pull off an aggresive attack immediately.

Because of the lack of defensive trap cards, some Monster Surge decks include many defensive monsters like "Battle Fader", "Gorz the Emissary of Darkness" and "Tragoedia". These also make great tribute fodder for cards like the Monarchs, but also the higher level monsters can be used with "Level Eater" so that cards like "Light and Darkness Dragon" can be tribute summoned!

Example Deck List
From ''[http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?cat=44 2010/06 - Chicago, Illinois, Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series.] ''

Standard extra deck with "Junk Destroyer", "Drill Warrior", "Nitro Warrior", "Junk Archer", "Turbo Warrior" and "Zeman the Ape King" as anomalies.

Weaknesses and Counter Strategies
When being played, the deck may be found to be somewhat untreliable, but other cards like "Vanity's Fiend" and "Mask of Restrict" could cause a problem.