Shaddoll (Post BL-GG) Tinkering

Shaddolls are so back!

(This list will be occasionally updated along with the outcomes of my tinkering)

I normally don't post lists on here, but noticed Shaddoll testing has been pretty dead in the Genesys department so I wanted to get something out there

The Starters

Lev Shaddoll Fusion 

*10 Points / 3 Copies / 30 Total

It isn't hard to see why this card is instrumental for the Shaddoll archetype.

Send El Shaddoll Apkallone to search any Shaddoll card, then discard to trigger effects.

Send Infernoid Evil to search Void Liberation (Void Unleashing)

Send Granguignol the Dusk Dragon if you already have full access to Void Unleashing and Cartesia/Fusion Deployment to turn on a Despian Proskenion or you may choose to run Despian Quaeritis (Though I prefer the former over the latter). The addition of a Despian ED monster is completely optional however, and honestly its meta dependant. You could add more Shaddoll ED monsters instead for more consistency.

The lock is retroactive, so it will prevent you from getting too creative on the turn you use it. 

Perfectly reasonable adds to the deck for this card are usual suspects: Garura, Wings of Resonant Life, Elder Entity N'tss, any Albaz fusion monster that searches/specials/sets a card at end step

Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous 

3 Points / 3 Copies / 9 Total

Fusion Deployment

0 Points / 3 Copies

These both more or less fall into the same category, as seeing Cartesia in the opener is nice enough. She only competes with Armageddon Knight for the normal summon.

Fusion Deployment is ideal, as Cartesia obviously won't cost you your normal summon, or your normal set, which you actually can make a lot of use out of in this deck thanks to Reeshaddoll Wendikurhu 

Bringing out the Cartesia will turn on most hands, sometimes fusing away 3 Shaddolls from hand to immediately make El Shaddoll Meshahrail (Meshachrer) and starting a cascade of graveyard triggers

Fusion Deployment will lock you into fusions for the turn, which won't affect this deck, but may affect changes you choose to make to it

Void Liberation (Void Unleashing)

10 Points / 3 Copies / 30 Total

It searches Shaddolls, it triggers Shaddolls, it sets up Shaddolls (Traps included)

Reveal one that you have, to grab the two you need most (One of each)

Good seaches for discarding include: Shaddoll Squamata El Shaddoll Grysta Shaddoll Dragon  Resh Shaddoll Incarnation 

Searching or already having an El Shaddoll Fusion and a Squamata will allow you to ditch Squamata, dump Reeshaddoll Wendi, special Tohushaddoll Grysta to then El Shaddoll fuse your Grysta with any other Shaddoll in hand (or Cartesia) to make 2 fusions sequentially

Choices for what you grab depends on opening hand, on going 1st/2nd and also the matchup

Shaddoll Fusion

0 Points / Currently 3 Copies, *currently rolling with 2 in the Main, with the third in the Side for going 2nd

Likely doesn't require any introduction

The mere existence of this card deters decks that play on your turn from going into the ED

Meshachrer also gives it the massive bonus of sending 3 monsters from deck when its fully online

Armageddon Knight 

0 Points / 1-3 Copies (2-3 Copies for sure if you forego the Albaz line)

Even shaving the Shaddoll Fusion and El Shaddoll fusion to 2 and 2 to run 3 copies of Armageddon Knight is completely understandable

Arma send Squamata, Squamata send Grysta, 1 card Meshachrer

Arma send Squamata, Squamata send Wendi, Wendi Special Beast/Hedgehog/Ariel if you already have Reeshaddoll Wendikurhu access

The Winda Situation

I don't think the deck needs Winda, as good as it is

I also don't find Winda fun in modern Ygo to play as, or against

Winda is a very good card, and feel free to playtest builds with Winda, but I'd like to focus more on interactive Shaddoll builds

In 2015 she was fun, she produced obstacles for opponents to overcome

Now its more along the lines of: Run Pankratops, a Kaiju, open Book of Moon or die

Also worth saying, 60 points is a lot of points. Using Winda really limits the creativity of the deck building process that Shaddolls are generally very rewarding for testing out

Non-Engine & Misc

[[ Currently under construction ]]

Unsure at the moment what I would use for non-engine outside of a single copy of Sol and Luna after the recent points distribution

Interrupted Kaiju Slumber and a few different Kaijus seems reasonable for various matchups

Mixousia the Confounder patches attribute problems, while encouraging using Super Polymerization

I'm also interesting in possibly trying a single Fallen of Albaz alongside a Titaniklad the Ash Dragon since Albaz can be Fusion Deployed

Expected Hits

After both an incidental pre-hit, and an intention secondary hit this is what we're looking at

Lev Shaddoll Fusion - 10 (A bit surprised this wasn't a bit higher, very glad to still be able to run 3)

Void Unleashing - 10 (Went to 10 as I expected it would)

Infernoid Evil - 7 (Was mostly hit for deep draw decks, but I think it was smart to hit this card with Shaddolls coming along shortly after)

El Shaddoll Meshachrer 0 > 3-5 (If Shaddoll becomes any type of a lingering threat, I could see a few points getting tacked on here)

I could see Shaddoll Fusion taking some points if the fusing from deck accelerates the deck to some form of degeneracy

In TCG I fully expect a future banning of Winda, but I've been saying this for a decade now

Feel free to @ me, but be nice!