Monarch Control Deck

Monarch Control revolves around using the following Monarch cards:


 * Granmarg the Rock Monarch
 * Mobius the Frost Monarch
 * Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch
 * Zaborg the Thunder Monarch
 * Raiza the Storm Monarch

The focus of a Monarch Control deck is to utilize the effects of the Monarch cards (Zaborg, Mobius, Thestalos, Granmarg and Raiza) to gain card advantage over the opponent. These decks use many strategies to ensure that the opponent is losing more cards than they are. Some of these strategies include: respawning tribute material (Treeborn Frog, and a side deck D.D. Survivor), utilizing Recruiter monsters and gaining control of the opponent's monsters for use as tribute material (via Brain Control, Soul Exchange or Snatch Steal).

While a very powerful deck types ever since their release, Monarch decks (due to high amounts of problems from Chaos Decks) have not truly made a game changing impact until September 2006, when Chaos Sorcerer was banned from competitive play. However, Monarch Control succesfully dominated the North Americian metagame for the duration of the format, and still prove to be a majorly competitive deck type today.

Here are some good cards to use in Monarch Control decks:

Monster Cards

 * Mobius the Frost Monarch
 * Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch
 * Zaborg the Thunder Monarch
 * Raiza the Storm Monarch
 * Gravekeeper's Spy
 * Treeborn Frog
 * Spirit Reaper
 * Cyber Dragon
 * Card Trooper
 * Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive
 * Mystic Tomato

Spell Cards

 * Brain Control
 * Snatch Steal
 * Soul Exchange