Superheavy Kashtira (July 2023)

Superheavy Samurai is a funny spicy deck that I cooked up with the main goal of fixing Kashtira's inherent weakness to interruptions. Composed of Superheavy Samurai, Kashtira, Bystial and Vanquish Soul cards while somehow sporting 14 handtraps, this deck can play through disruptions while making its own oppressive board (Standard Kash board + Baronne and potentially more). I designed this deck to give the Kashtira combo the highest chance of success through negates and interruption - so I thought, why not mix it up with a Superheavy Samurai (SHS) engine?

Theoretically, the SHS engine fixes the problem Kashtira experiences with interruption while it tries to combo, especially Nibiru. It also provides an additional way to summon level 7 monsters. SHS gives the duelist an omni-negate in the form of Baronne coupled with 1-8 pendulum scales, allowing for free extension for your high level 7 Kashtira monsters. Even if your SHS combo doesn't succeed at the very least the SHS engine will bait out negates/interruption, so you can perform the Kashtira combo with less hassle. 

 

No in-depth combo guide will be made for this deck as it is fairly straightforward. The gameplan is linear and one-dimensional. 

 

Superheavy Samurai Engine makes a Synchro (Ideally Baronne) then establish scales 1-8 -> Pendulum summon (resolves cards like Magnumhut and Borgor) -> Kashtira combo. This ends on Ariseheart, Shangri-Ira, Kashtira Unicorn/Fenrir and Baronne. 

 

Going second, the deck plays 14 handtraps, and the Bystial/Kashtira cards naturally break boards with ease with their easy to summon beatsticks and removal effects. 

 

A small Vanquish Soul engine is included to provide card advantage with Borgor drawing 1 card every turn. This deck doesn't use its normal summon, so the summon of Razen to search Borgor -> Rock of the Vanquisher to recover Razen from the GY -> Borger's draw 2 translates to a TON of card advantage. Borgor is also a level 7, which can be pendulum summoned and used as material for a rank 7 XYZ monster - effectively synergizing with Kashtira. 

 

A funny little advantage to this deck is that it is largely unaffected by Eradicator Epidemic Virus that's running rampant throughout Online Ladder, Locals and Tournaments since its mostly monsters because of the SHS engine! 

 

Overall, Superheavy Kashtira is a midrange aggro-beatdown deck that boasts a ton of handtraps, incredible card advantage and a solid gameplan. It is surprisingly competent - capable of consistently defeating meta heavyweights like Branded, Labrynth, Spright and Kashtira!