Instructions for playing Horus - Part 3

By ReijIV Published Feb 21, 2024 Updated Mar 6, 2024

Have you noticed that recently there are some decks using level 8 monsters with the ability to massively spam from the grave? They are crowded, difficult to deal with, and when you deal with them, you get hit with some effect and they continue to reappear.

They are cards of the Horus card family. Let's see the strengths, weaknesses and playing style of this card clan!

Sections covered in this guide:

1/ Core deck

2/ The deck's gameplay

3/ Necessary staples and engines for the deck

4/ Sample deck 1

5/ Sample deck 2

6/ Conclusion

Core deck

You can review Part 1 and Part 2 to learn more about the playing style of this card clan.

Imsety Glory of Horus (Play the maximum amount)

Play maximum Imsety because it is the deck's important searcher.

King's Sarcophagus (Play 2 or 3)

Hapi, Guidance of Horus, Qebehsenuef, Protection of Horus, Duamutef and Blessing of Horus (Play 2)

Horus monsters such as Hapi , Duamutef , Qebehsenuef can be played 2 each.

Horus the Black Flame Deity (Play 2)

Horus the Black Flame Deity is one of the main monsters in this strategy, a necessary monster in the strategy but this monster should not always appear in hand, playing 2 is a suitable choice. physical.

This monster plays differently than the rest of the Horus monsters because you need this monster in your hand rather than in your grave.

Walls of the Imperial Tomb (Play 2 or 3)

Play 2 or 3 Walls of the Imperial Tomb depending on your play style. The two main targets that this environmental spell card can put in your hand are Imsety and Horus the Black Flame Deity .

Canopic Protector (Play 3)

Canopic Protector should be used 3 in the deck because this card cannot be searched with other Horus cards. This card can be returned face-down from the Graveyard immediately after you use it as a cost for Imsety or King's Sarcophagus .

The deck's gameplay

Main goal of the deck: Get King's Sarcophagus out of the deck and protect this card while on the field.

Spam level 8 monsters

The deck's gameplay when going first is to call xyz 8 monsters to stay on the field using Horus monsters as materials. Number 38 or Number 90 are both the best disruptions and also two large monsters that are difficult to handle by the opponent.

In the next turn, Horus monsters will be revived and attack, bringing the opponent's LP to 0.

Coach King will help you dig up the important pieces of your strategy

You can play card mining style by summoning Coach King Giantrainer , this monster allows you to draw 3 cards to search for Horus the Black Flame Deity or strong staples of the deck.

The Horus monsters themselves are also disruptions

Leaving Imsety or Hapi on the field with other disruptors on the field can also make it harder for the opponent to deal with when they don't know what to deal with first.

And yet, if your opponent decides to attack Horus monsters, King's Sarcophagus can send them to the grave immediately!!! This card also protects your Horus from being destroyed by effects unless they are targeted (while people prefer non-target effects in the current meta).

Canopic Protector lets you revive Horus monsters from the grave during your opponent's turn. This is a once per chain effect, not once per turn, meaning you can summon all of them that turn. . In return, each monster of the same name can only be summoned once per turn using this effect.

Canopic Protector 's chain of effects immediately after your opponent activates a card or effect causes your card to leave the field so that Imsety or Hapi 's effect can be triggered right in the new chain.

The reason is that these Horus monsters will appear first on the field (because Canopic Protector is resolved at a higher chain link) and "witness" your cards leaving the field with your opponent's effects.

They also cannot be targeted because the moment your opponent uses an effect, these monsters are no longer on the field. If your opponent activates the mass destruction effect, your Horus monsters will be safe thanks to King's Sarcophagus .

Solution when going later

Horus the Black Flame Deity is a good choice for both front and back. When going next, this card can destroy 1 opponent's card with its first effect. If your opponent tries to clear your Horus, Horus the Black Flame Deity will clear all their monsters!!!

If you use the effect while Walls of Imperial Tomb is on the field, you will draw 1 additional card from the deck.

Duamutef is often a forgotten beast until you realize how "muscular" it is.

King's Sarcophagus can help you clear monsters that are difficult to defeat by battle.

Rank 8 has a variety of break board effects

Necessary staples and engines for the deck

Trade-In (Support drawing cards)

Trade-In is indispensable in strategies with many level 8 monsters. This card can help you filter the cards in your hand by discarding 1 level 8 monster in your hand (cost) to draw 2 cards.

Vision Resonator, Baronne de Fleur and Crimson Gaia (Supports synchro summoning)

In addition to rank 8 xyz monsters, the deck also has the ability to summon synchro 10 monsters thanks to the Resonator engine (3 Vision Resonator , 1 Crimson Gaia ).

Vision Resonator can be special summoned from the hand if there is a level 5 DARK monster or higher on the field ( Imsety ). You can only summon Vision Resonator this way once per turn.

Crimson Gaia can be added from the deck to the hand using Vision Resonator 's trigger effect when this monster is sent to the grave. This card allows you to get 1 Vision Resonator from the deck or grave once per turn. Monsters added to the hand can be used for normal summons to upgrade synchro monsters 10, 12 or link monsters depending on the situation, or can also be used to pay the cost of effects that require discarding. cards in hand ( King's Sarcophagus ).

I think this is an interesting engine for this deck as the failure rate of this engine is very low. Even if the worst case scenario is that you draw Crimson Gaia , it won't count as losing your hand. The engine helps the deck to expand its strategy of summoning more synchro and link monsters instead of just xyz monsters.

Deep Sea Diva (Option for normal summon)

In addition to the Resonator engine, you can use the Deep Sea Diva engine (3 Deep Sea Diva ) to summon more synchro or link monsters from the extra deck. You can take advantage of the normal summon during your turn to summon Deep Sea Diva and use this monster's effect to summon another Deep Sea Diva from your deck.

Blackwing - Sharnga the Waning Moon and Blackwing Full Armor Master (Build a tower and bombard it )

Blackwing – Sharnga the Waning Moon can be summoned from the hand if there is a monster with 2000 ATK or more on the field.

Blackwing – Sharnga the Waning Moon can combine with a Horus monster to synchro summon Blackwing Full Armor Master , a monster with an effect that is immune to other effects and can change control or destroy its monster. enemy.

Furthermore, when Blackwing – Sharnga the Waning Moon is in the grave and Blackwing Full Armor Master is on the field, you can target and shoot 1 face-up card of your opponent by removing Blackwing – Sharnga the Waning Moon from the grave (cost).

Crystal Beast engine

Using the Rainbow Bridge of Salvation engine can help the deck pull up the deck's important environmental spell card, Walls of the Imperial Tomb .

Engine includes:

Rainbow Bridge of Salvation (3 or 2);
Crystal Beast Rainbow Dragon (2 or 1);
Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle (1 or 0);
Foolish Burial Goods (3 or 2).

The main purpose of this engine is to search for environmental magic cards you want.

B1: Use Rainbow Bridge of Salvation 's grave effect to search Walls of the Imperial Tomb on your hand.

Step 2: Activate Walls of the Imperial Tomb and search for Imsety on your hand.

B3: Activate Imsety 's effect, get King's Sarcophagus in your hand and perform Horus's combos.

This engine can help you get environmental spells very quickly instead of Terraforming being limited to only 1. Foolish Burial Goods are used in this engine with the purpose of sending Rainbow Bridge of Salvation from the deck to the grave (effectively). The search effect can only be activated when this card is in the grave!), in addition, you can also add 1 Crystal Beast monster from your deck to your hand.

This engine has an extremely fatal weakness, which is in the Crystal Beast monsters. They do not have any effect if you draw them and Rainbow Bridge of Salvation may become useless because the Crystal Beast monster search effect is a mandatory effect you use when you want to get a lip spell card. school up.

In other words, to use this effect of Rainbow Bridge of Salvation , there must be at least 1 Crystal Beast monster in the main deck when activating and resolving the effect.

Playing 2 Crystal Beast Rainbow Dragon can make the engine "live" if you draw 1 Crystal Beast Rainbow Dragon because there is still 1 Crystal Beast Rainbow Dragon in the deck. This monster can be used to pay the cost of Trade-In or King's Sarcophagus .

Utilize normal summons during your turn (Horus does not consume normal summons during your turn) to summon Cobalt Eagle . This monster can push itself back into the deck to help Rainbow Bridge of Salvation activate its effect if you draw Cobalt Eagle .

Rainbow Bridge of Salvation, Baronne de Fleur and Barricadeborg Blocker (How to deal with useless cards from the Crystal Beast engine)

A situation that can be quite difficult to handle is when you draw Rainbow Bridge of Salvation to your hand, this card is often sent directly from the deck to the grave thanks to Foolish Burial Goods .

In the Horus deck, one of the ways for you to move cards from hand to grave is through King's Sarcophagus or Imsety , however this is a bit unreasonable because the ultimate purpose of this engine is to search for King's Sarcophagus in your hand.

In this situation, you can use the effect of Baronne de Fleur , this monster has an effect that allows you to target and destroy 1 card on the field.

Another monster that can better handle this situation is Barricadeborg Blocker , the summoning condition of this monster is 2 monsters with different names. You can use Rainbow Bridge of Salvation to pay the cost, and at the end of your turn you will regain 1 continuous spell or field spell from your grave to your hand. Furthermore, when Barricadeborg Blocker is on the field, this monster can protect your King's Sarcophagus and Walls of the Imperial Tomb from being destroyed by the opponent.

Light and Darkness Dragon and Mausoleum of the Emperor (Boss trong main deck)

In addition to the bosses called from the extra deck, Horus can be played with a main monster of the main deck that has been feared by many duelists in the past, which is Light and Darkness Dragon .

Light and Darkness Dragon is a level 8 monster and must be normal summoned (cannot be special summoned), completely consistent with Horus's current strategy. Each time 1 chain, when a spell/trap card or monster's effect activates, Light and Darkness Dragon will automatically activate an effect that negates that activation and this monster loses exactly 500 ATK/DEF . Light and Darkness Dragon 's disabling ability does not occur once per turn, but can be activated up to 4 times.

Of course, in most cases, you will not use 2 monsters to summon and sacrifice this monster. Instead, we will use the effect of the environmental magic Mausoleum of the Emperor . This card will help you to normal summon Light and Darkness Dragon by paying 2000 LP instead of 2 sacrifices for the summon of this monster. Mausoleum of the Emperor is also another search target for Rainbow Bridge of Salvation besides Walls of the Imperial Tomb .

Several link monsters can be used

Some other options

Pot of Extravagance and Pot of Prosperity (Should NOT be used)

In most duels, Horus has never used 5 monsters from the extra deck. However, you cannot use Pot of Extravagance or Pot of Prosperity for this deck. The effects of these two card draw supports will block the ability to add resources from Imsety or Coach King Giantrainer in your deck.