Warrior Deck

A Warrior deck is, not surprisingly, based upon the monster sub-type of Warriors. Warriors make up one of the largest pools of cards in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game. In addition to that they possess some of the most powerful cards in the game. Some of this is due to the fact that there are so many warriors (some are bound to be good), but some of it must be attributed to a favoritism on the part of Konami because an overwhelming proportion (compared to other types) of Warriors are at least playable, if not powerful, and more often than other types, downright broken.

With this in mind, its easy to see why the Warrior Deck is one of the oldest deck types and is still in heavy use today. To be a true warrior deck all a deck needs is a profusion of warriors, but some of the most popular types of Warrior Deck through time have been the Warrior Swarm and the Warrior Toolbox.

Warrior Swarm - This is a rather old, and currently outclassed deck type that was popular back in the days of mass removal cards like Raigeki and Dark Hole. With one's field constantly under threat of being wiped it was naturally an advantage to be able to return to numbers as quickly as possible and while you had the chance to grab for as many lifepoints as you possibly could. This deck's main power was rushing the field with Marauding Captain (which allows the summoner to summon an additional monster). This combo was particularly deadly with United We Stand and if monster removal was available (such as the oft made summon of Exiled Force through Marauding Captain's effect) then it spelled a clean and direct hit to the opponent.

Warrior Toolbox - Sometimes referred to as merely "Toolbox", Warrior Toolbox is a much more recent and still popular and powerful deck type. This deck type revolves almost completely around loading the deck with utility monsters, cards such as Goblin Attack Force, Mystic Swordsman LV2, Exiled Force, D.D. Warrior Lady, D.D. Assailant, Don Zaloog, and sometimes Elemental Hero Wildheart. The reason for this is that the majority of these cards (with a few exceptions such as the D.D.s) have a limited useful outside of specific situations. That is the raison de etre of toolbox though...specific situations. Toolbox survives and thrives in today's metagame because it is able to reliably search the monsters it needs when it needs them to suit any situation. Most of this searching is done via Reinforcement of the Army and Sangan, but occasionally Toolbox will utilize cards such as Giant Rat or Mystic Tomato due to the fact that a large majority of its cards may be tutorable by those monsters (including many non-warrior monsters which are seamlessly splashable in the Toolbox deck).

Warrior Deck - Must Haves:

x2 Reinforcement of the Army x1 Exiled Force x1 Mystic Swordsman LV2 x1 D.D. Warrior Lady x1 D.D. Assailant