White Forest certainly has grown up and evolved with the various pieces of support given to the strategy over the months it has been around, and with the newest set Supreme Darkness, two key pieces of support propel these women to higher power levels! Elzette Azamina simultaneously bridges White Forest, Azamina and Sinful Spoils together into one cohesive deck since she summons herself essentially for free and can search any Sinful Spoils card when she's used as synchro material! Sinful Spoils of the White Forest also has come out with Supreme Darkness, allowing White Forest to fusion summon its fusion monsters Ilia Silvia or more notably, Guardian Chimera! Finally, Supreme Darkness also has imported Magistus Chorozo, which gives the deck an easily accessible tuner from the Extra Deck, just by sending the GY a spellcaster and Extra Deck monster! The extra consistency that this deck has now allows White Forest to not only use the sizeable Toy Box engine and Bystial package, it allows room for 15 staples cards!
Increased consistency, enhanced power level and additional extension for White Forest is now possible with the new Supreme Darkness support! Will this allow White Forest to compete with meta dominating decks like Maliss and Ryzeal - why not test this out for yourself to find out? It certainly has during my experience on ladder!
Want to see the deck in action? Scroll to the very bottom for the Youtube video!
ARCHETYPES AND DECKBUILDING
White Forest utilizes four different archetypes, but somehow still has room for 15 staples!
The WHITE FOREST section of the strategy are synchro-enablers, allowing the pilot to summon multiple synchro boss monsters to the field. White Forest cards also synergize very well with spell cards, since they use them as cost to enable them to spam tuners and synchro material on the field. The starters are 1 Astellar, 3 Elzette and 3 Silvy - all searchers and summoners from deck. 1 Rucia and 1 Azamina Elzette are used because they aren't starters, but it is a valuable extender since she summons from hand. 1 Tales of the White Forest (searcher), 1 Sinful Spoils of White Forest (quick fusion) and 1 Woes of the White Forest (interruption) are used since they all reset themselves on the field when they are sent to the GY as cost for a monster effect, and are combo pieces for the strategy.
A TOY BOX engine is used to further fuel the White Forest portion of the deck. Toy Box and Toy Soldier search each other, and Toy Box sets two cards from deck - giving White Forest plenty of spells to send to the GY as cost. It's not even a "hard" once per turn, so if you have multiple Toy Boxes you can keep setting resources from deck! The Toy Box monsters also summon themselves to the field whenever they're sent to the GY, so it gives additional bodies for synchro summons. Finally, Toy Box has a surprise battle phase effect to destroy attacking monsters by sending a set card to the GY, offering further defensive play. It is composed of 3 Toy Box, 3 Toy Soldier and 1 Toy Tank.
The BYSTIAL engine works extremely well with the White Forest strategy, granting the deck level 6 bodies to synchro summon with. It also allows access to a level 6 Dragon body to synchro summon into Bystial Dis Pater which has a lot of synergy with this light-focused deck. Since White Forest is a light deck, it also synergizes very well with the interactions Bystials offer. On top of that, Bystials counter a fairly big number of today's meta like Fiendsmith cards and rival White Forest duelists.
A mini AZAMINA engine is used to help bridge the Sinful Spoils and White Forest cards together. It is composed of 3 WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils, 1 Deception of the Sinful Spoils, 1 Diabellstar and 1 The Hallowed Azamina. In the Extra Deck, your fusion summon targets are Ilia Silvia (omni-negate) and Mu Rcielago (searcher).
This White Forest decklist has 15 STAPLE cards, despite having 4 different archetypes featured! The best handtraps for the current meta are included, including x1 Nibiru, x3 Ash Blossom, x3 Imperm, x3 Druiswurm, x1 Magnumhut and x3 Fuwalos granting a total of 14 handtraps. 1 Called By rounds out the staple line-up. If you have a dead handtrap in your hand (for ex. Fuwalos) you can simply tribute it with Sinful Spoils of Deception or send it to the GY for Diabellstar's summon.
COMBOS AND GAMEPLAN
White Forest has multi-layered interruption with Silvera's fieldwide "Book of Eclipse," Guardian Chimera's pop (summoned Sinful Spoils of the White Forest), Ilia Silvia's omni-negate and Diabell's quick-synchro -> Chaos Angel's banish (summoned through Zapper Shrimp) and S:P Little Knight's banish. Going second, White Forest can easily plow through boards with Selene -> Accesscode's two pops and 5300ATK. This deck also summons many high ATK beatsticks and easily generates a lot of attack.
With the Supreme Darkness support, White Forest combos are somewhat linear but resilient and can weave through interruption especially with the plethora of extenders available. They consist of climbing to Synchro 6s -> 8s -> 10s and potentially link climbing as the combo goes on. Depending on your hand, White Forest duelists end on a mix of Chengying (banish), Dis Pater/Dragoon (negate + destroy), Diabelle (quick synchro), Silvera (set opponent's entire field), S:P (banish) and several handtraps in hand due to draws and searches. These boards are generally enough to stop an opponent's turn and outresource them for an OTK the following turn.
Here is a regular opening combo for White Forest (Keep in mind this is only the basic combo, with more extenders like Bystials/Toy Engine the board gets stronger!):
Silvy + Elzette of the White Forest + 1 monster in-hand = Ilia Silvia (omni-negate), Diabell (Quick Synchro-> Chaos Angel banish or Silvera's "Book of Eclipse), S:P Little Knight (Banish), Sinful Spoils of the White Forest (Guardian Chimera's multiple pops/draws), Draw 3-4 (Draw 1 with Rucia, another draw 1 with WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils, and draw 1-2 with Guardian Chimera), Woes of the White Forest (Silvera's "Book of Eclipse), + Elzette, Astellar, Rucia and Silvy recursion (follow-up for next turn).
Normal summon Silvy to search for Tales of the White Forest.
Activate Elzette White Forest's effect in-hand to summon herself and search for Elzette Azamina.
Activate Tales of the White Forest's effect in the GY to reset itself.
Activate Elzette Azamina's effect in-hand to summon herself.
Synchro summon Rciela using Silvy + Elzette Azamina.
CL1 Elzette Azamina's effect to search for Sinful Spoils of Deception, CL2 sending for cost Tales of the White Forest to search for Woes of the White Forest.
Activate Sinful Spoils of Deception tributing one monster in-hand to search for The Hallowed Azamina.
Activate The Hallowed Azamina sending Sinful Spoils of Deception to the GY to fusion summon Azamina Mu Rcielago.
Mu Rcielago searches from deck WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils.
Activate The Hallowed Azamina in the GY shuffling back Elzette Azamina back into the deck to it from the GY.
Activate The Hallowed Azamina CL1 to fusion summon Ilia Silvia (summon it either in the middle or side zones for Cross-Sheep), then CL2 WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils to search for Diabellestar.
Banish WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils in the GY to shuffle back Sinful Spoils of Deception from the GY into the deck to draw 1 card.
Summon Diabellstar from hand sending 1 card from your hand.
Diabellstar sets from deck Sinful Spoils of the White Forest.
Link summon Cross-Sheep using Mu Rcielago and Diabellstar. Position it so its link arrows points to Ilia Silvera.
Synchro summon Diabell, Queen of the White Forest using Rcielago and Elzette White Forest (summon it either in the middle or side zones for Cross-Sheep).
Activate in CL1 Cross-Sheep's effect to increase every monster's attack by 700 and summoning Silvy from the GY, CL2 Diabell recovers Tales of the White Forest from the GY.
Activate Tales of the White Forest to search for Rucia from deck.
Special summon Rucia from hand.
Activate Rucia's effect sending Sinful Spoils of the White Forest to draw 1 card.
Activate Sinful Spoils of the White Forest's effect to reset itself from the GY.
Link summon S:P Little Knight using Rucia + Cross-Sheep.
Set additional cards and summon any extenders to possibly summon Bystial Dis Pater, Chengying, Chaos Angel, etc.
During your opponent's turn, you can use Diabell to either summon Silvera, Wolf Tamer to set all your opponent's monsters facedown or summon Zapper Shrimp to quick-synchro into Chaos Angel's banish. Sinful Spoils of the White Forest can fusion summon into Guardian Chimera for field destruction and additional draws. Ilia Silvia is an omni-negate. Woes of the White Forest can quick-synchro into Silvera Wolf Tamer as well to set all your opponent's monsters facedown. Finally, S:P Little Knight can banish monsters on the field. Elzette and Astellar automatically summon themselves or add themselves back to their hand if certain conditions are met, giving you ample follow-up next turn. Finally, Rucia and Silvy can summon themselves from the GY by placing back from the field/GY Silvera, Rciela or Diabell!
For your follow-up next turn, your incredible resource engines (Bystial/Toy Box) and White Forest recursion should allow you to out-resource your opponent!
Going first, you make an unbreakable board with multilayered interruption and with plenty of follow-up next turn.
Going second, you weaken your opponent with the 15 handtraps/staples you have. Then your engines should bait enough interruption and generate enough resources and beatsticks to push through your opponent's board!
This is only a basic combo for the deck, there are tons of 1-2 card combos White Forest can do. If you want more combos,
feel free to check out Yacine656's or
SuperNix's combo videos by clicking here!GENERAL TIPS
The interruption that White Forest does is complex and multi-layered. You get so much interruptions that it's sometimes difficult to do it optimally! Usually, the best order of interruption for the White Forest duelist is Ilia's omni-negate, Diabell's quick-synchro -> Chaos Angel, Woes of the White Forest's quick-synchro -> Silvera, then when you recurred Elzette, Astellar, Silvy and Rucia, you can use that additional material for Sinful Spoils of the White Forest's fusion -> Guardian Chimera. With your opponent trying to psyche you out, it's pretty difficult to do this properly, so practice makes perfect!
The Toy Box engine represents 3 separate pieces of material you get to use for White Forest's send fodder, as well as additional bodies on board for your Synchro, XYZ, Link and Fusion summons! Toy Box also isn't a hard once per turn, so if you have another copy, you can set more resources from deck!
If you have full combo (for ex. Astellar + Toy Box), try to go through your White Forest combo first, then go for Dragoon or whatever other synchro boss monster afterward. That way, if you get Nibiru'd you can still keep extending with your White Forest Synchro and level 4 White Forest lady in the GY.
If you get Shifter'd, Droll'd, Mulcharmie'd or get hit some other lingering floodgate and can't extend anymore, make Bagooska to stall until your next turn so you can try comboing again.
Bystial Dis Pater and the Bystial engine can recycle and resummon your banished Light/Dark monsters! Try to access Dis Pater as soon as possible since he does so much for the deck!
Want to see the deck in action? Scroll to the very bottom for the Youtube video!
CONCLUDING REMARKS
The synchro archtype of the Diabellstar storyline certainly doesn't disappoint! White Forest can pump out very competent synchro-centric boards with threats like Dis Pater, Chaos Angel and Chengying! This reminds me of how Mannadium used to function in both lore and game mechanics - a lore heavy combo deck that builds unbreakable boards with immense amounts of gas! The rare ability to field a fusion powerhouse like Guardian Chimera and an XYZ staple like Bagooska is an amazing boon for this strategy as well giving it a lot of adaptability in any gamestate. Its resilience through handtraps, it's flexibility in the meta, and its sheer power as a combo juggernaut has earned White Forest a place in the highly competitive metagame dominated by the likes of Ryzeal, Maliss and Fiendsmith.
Don't underestimate these mysterious sorcerers from the forest, or else you'll be blasted away by their myriad of interruptions and sheer card advantage! These ladies certainly are the Queens of Synchro since they are so incredibly powerful! They will get more support in the future with the next main set Alliance Insight, so stay tuned for another guide to White Forest!
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