Flip Effect Deck

About the Flip Effect Deck
A Flip Effect Deck is similar to a Beatdown deck in that it focuses on the utilization of strong monsters to inflict damage, but the difference is that instead of clearing out your opponents monster with strength, you use Flip Effects to destroy, remove from play, return to the top of the deck or return to the hand monsters of your opponent.

Flip Effect decks involve setting a lot of monsters face down before attacking. It requires patience and timing. Even if your opponent has no monsters on their side of the field, and you want to attack directly, if strong monsters are not under your control for that turn, set a Flip Effect Monster down instead of attacking directly as you may want to. Proper utilization of Flip Effects will result in your opponent rarely having monsters on their side of the field. Once you have achieved this state, stronger monsters added to your deck can attack directly often. With a Flip Effect Deck, you have no reason to fear the strength of an opponents monster, because after all, a Blue Eyes White Dragon will always fall to a Man-Eater Bug. Flip Effect monsters are truly a great way to escape the fear of your opponent's strength and even if a Flip Effect monster is attacked while it's face down, its effect will usually take care of the attacking monster by removing it from the field in some way or another without you losing any life points.

Using a good combo of Spell and Trap cards also comes in handy in a Flip Effect Deck. The flaws of a flip effect deck is that without the right balance of Flip Effect Monsters and Beat-Down monsters, you may end up with many Flip Effect Monsters on the field and no way to attack your opponent AND Flip Effect Monsters are often extremely weak. However, with good timing and good judgement, Trap, Spell and Flip Effects will not only take out many monsters of your opponents, but will also make up for the fact that the strength of your monsters is quite low. With cards like Negate Attack and Threatening Roar, although you may want your opponent to attack your face down Flip Effect Monster, the monster will not be destroyed because it will not be attacked. On your next turn, you can flip a Flip Effect monster that has already been on the field for one turn, possibly destroy a monster of your opponents, and then tribute the same Flip Effect Monster to summon a Summoned Skull for the direct attack (if possible).

Construction of the Flip Effect Deck
Flip Effect Decks often have a ratio of Beat Down monsters to Flip Effect monsters 2:1, or 1:2. This way, you have a good chance of drawing a Flip Effect Monster, while also having a great chance of drawing a monster that can attack directly after a flip effect has been used. Level 4 monsters like Archfiend Soldier, Luster Dragon, and Dark Blade are good to use for strength while Man-Eater Bug and Mysterious Guard are good to remove your opponents monsters from the field.

Suggested Cards
Man-Eater Bug Old Vindicative Magician Mysterious Guard Nightmare Penguin Magician of Faith Night Assailant Snipe Hunter Archfiend Soldier Luster Dragon Opticlops

Soul Reversal Swords of Revealing Light Fissure Ekibyo Drakmord Poison Potion

Trap Hole Negate Attack Threatening Roar Spellbinding Circle Michizure



In Conclusion
Flip Effect decks are decks that use the Flip Effects of monsters to clear the field of your opponents monsters, and then using stronger monsters to attack directly. Their advantage is that they are very sneaky, but their disadvantage is their low ATK and DEF. It is nearly impossible to destroy a Face Down monster without flipping it which makes them nearly impossible for your opponent to avoid. A good Flip Effect Deck will bring the ultimate downfall to any regular Beat Down deck, no matter how strong your opponents monsters may be.