Zombie Slifer_ Zombie Osiris

Enjoy this creation of mine: Zombified Osiris !!!

(The Japanese name of Slifer the Sky Dragon is オシリスの 天 てん 空 くう 竜 りゅうOshirisu no Tenkūryū, Sky Dragon of Osiris. I love to use the original name of what many know as "Slifer" because it makes way more sense since it is supposed to be an egyptian God card and Osiris was indeed one of them, more precisely the one that according to the myth was murdered by his younger brother Set, brought back to life by his sister-wife Isis and became the lord of death and rebirth. When they translated this card into english they decided to name this card after Roger SliferSlifer, one of the 4Kids producers of the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh!.and so this card became known as "Slifer the Sky Dragon" or "Slifer the Executive Producer". Another interesting fact is that just like the Osiris of the myth this deck is based on reviving the Sky Dragon Osiris in order to use his power.)

I will tell you the story of how I came up with the idea of zombifying Osiris. I was trying to make Osiris stronger, untouchable even. I was using Shiranui Style Success for my Skull Servant deck and I thought "mhm it would be great if I could use it on Osiris to make him invincible". The thing is, as you surely know, Shiranui Style Success can only be used on Zombie monsters and so I thought "wait I only need to zombify Osiris with Zombie World!". After that I started creating this Deck and realized that after zombifying Osiris and making him a Zombie in the graveyard I could bring him back easily with Book of Life or Mezuki or other zombie monsters or spell cards that revive zombies from the graveyard. By special summoning Osiris however there was another problem to solve: his effect (like all the other egyptian god cards) that says that if he is special summoned you have to send him to the graveyard at the End Phase. In order to solve that and have Osiris on my field during my opponents turn (so that I can make use of his effect that says that every monster my opponent summons in attack position looses 2000 Atk points and gets destroyed if it comes to 0 Atk points because of this effect) I could revive him with call of the haunted but even a better strategy was reviving him during my opponents turn with Red-Eyes Zombie Lord. As you will see, it is very easy to summon Red-Eyes Zombie Lord with this deck thanks to Uni-Zombie and Spiridao but also Mad Mauler and Balerdroch. However what I found out next really shocked me. I had  Doomking Balerdroch as well as Osiris on my field and When Osiris´ effect activated I realized I could negate it with Balerdroch. Osiris´ effect states "Once per turn, during the End Phase, if this card was special summoned send it to the graveyard." Here I would like to emphasize the "Once per turn". Do you realise what this means? Yes exactly, after negating this effect once, Osiris will remain on the field even after the End Phase. So as long as you have not already used Balerdroch´s effect to negate another monster´s effect this turn or you have another monster negate on the field you can use it to make Osiris stay on the field forever. This interaction is truly marvellous. Another one is that after reviving Osiris with the trap Revived Sky god you have a 60000 attack and defense Osiris that, if you have Shiranui Style success in your graveyard, you can make unaffected by other card effects.

Now I will explain to you some strategies and objectives that you have with this deck as well as suggestions and adjustments that you may make. Your primary target is to have Osiris in your graveyard and in order to be able to revive him so that you can stop your opponent from summoning monsters in attack position. Unfortunately the only card that would let you add Osiris to your hand is the card named True name but in my opinion adding the cards True name and Card Advance (which is needed in order to use the effect of True Name properly) to this deck is not a good idea and makes the deck less consistent. I found out that the best way to get to Osiris is just by drawing cards thanks to Vampire Sucker and Balerdroch reviving himself or by sending cards from your deck to the graveyard with foolish burial, Zombie Vampire or Avendread Savior. Another card you could use is reasoning. I decided to take it out and add Trap Trick instead, because it can help you get to the powerful trap The Revived Sky God. Your other objective is of course to make Osiris unaffected by other card effects with Shiranui Style success in case he is being threatened. Alghoul Mazera will help you protect Osiris as well. Vampire fascinator will help you summon Zombie Vampire. Rivalry of Warlords together with Zombie World is a very powerful floodgate since the combination of these two cards zombifies every monster on the field as well as in the graveyards and this doesnt allow your opponent to summon other monsters (from the hand or from the extra deck) if he has at least one face-up monster on the field (because if he doesnt play zombies, which is almost always the case, he will have monsters of other types in the hand and in his extra deck and he won´t be able to summon them). Zombie World by itself is also a powerful floodgate since it doesn´t allow to tribute summon except for zombie monster thus stopping the floowandereeze players. But not only that, many decks rely on the type of their archetype and since every monster on the fields as well as in the graveyards are zombified, they are stopped from doing many of their combos. Super Poly as well as Radian the multidimensional Kaiju are there to help you break boards. If you have it you could also use Droplets. . Psychic End Punisher, Underworld Goddess of the Closed World and Gashadokuro the Skeletal Mayakashi are also monsters you can use.Predaplant Dracostapelia is a very good Super Poly target right now because of all the fusion monsters that are played by the current meta archetypes like Tearlaments, Despia and many others. Other cards that you may use instead of something I listed is Shiranui Style Swallow slash which is also a very good card for this deck. I Think that Book of Life is very risky because if you go first you won´t be able to use it, since your opponent hasn´t played yet and he doesn´t have monsters in his graveyard yet. Of course there are exceptions, like in the case your opponent uses handtraps, but in general I found out that it backfires a lot. Another very powerful option you should consider is playing the trap card Fiend Comedian. Like many others do I think that this card is underrated. In this deck it can be very helpful and at the same time it could destroy your opponent. Check it out and try it out, I promise you, you will be pleasantly surprised ;) The link monster Yuki Onna is very powerful so don´t forget to use it especially against decks that use monsters that activate their effects when they are banned and with Vampire Fascinator summoning Yuki Onna is very easy. I tried playing this Deck with 50 or 60 cards but I noticed that it lost consistency, even if I added very good options, so I would suggest you to keep it at 40 cards but of course you are free to experiment and to try it out yourself.

Beside that I think the other combos are pretty self-explanatory and already known especially for someone that is accustomed to playing Zombie Decks. The Side Deck I made is just a suggestion. You can modify it in order to better adapt it to the current meta. In general I tried to make this Deck the most competitive possible but you can also make a more for fun version of it. I hope you found my Zombie Osiris Deck inspiring. I really love this Deck and I hope many others will play this Deck in the future and even make it more and more powerful with other great ideas and strategies. After all, this is what I like the most about Yu-Gi-Oh! after years from its creation it still doesn´t cease to amaze and entertain us. If you have any suggestion to make this deck even stronger I would love to hear it. You are welcome to contact me on Discord: emrysthefirst

Have fun and good luck Duelists!! ^-^ 

XOXO, Emrys, aka Gabriel D. L.