Shaddoll Guide

Shaddoll Squamata

The most important Shaddoll maindeck monster, Loading... is the main target that you send using Loading... 's or Loading... 's effect. When sent to the GY it will send another Shaddoll monster to the GY, getting your Shaddoll monsters into rotation and triggering that monsters effect.

Tohushaddoll Grysta

When sent to the GY, Loading... will fusion summon a Shaddoll fusion monster by banishing the requisite materials from the hand/field/GY. Using this effect will lock you out of the ED except for Shaddoll monsters for the entire turn.

Shaddoll Dragon

Loading... will destroy a spell/trap on the field when it 's sent to the GY, making it the only consistent backrow access of the deck.

Shaddoll Hedgehog

Loading... will add a Shaddoll monster from the maindeck to the hand when sent to the GY, a fairly simple effect and needed for a lot of the mainline combos.

Reeshaddoll Wendi

Loading... will summon a Shaddoll monster from your deck face-down when she's sent to the GY. While this seems like an underwhelming effect, it will be important later on.

Naelshaddoll Ariel

When sent to the GY, Loading... will banish up to 3 cards from the GY. This makes it a good disruption against a wide variety of decks that want access to the GY.

Helshaddoll Hollow

When sent, Loading... will send the top cards of your deck to the GY equal to the different attributes on your field. Not a real effect by today's standard, but you can try 1 of him mainly as a fire attribute for fusion summoning.

Shaddoll Beast

Loading... will draw one card went send to the GY. While you don't usually want to be banking on the draw by Shaddoll Beast, just a simple upstart goblin can be useful to gain some advantage over a combo.

Qadshaddoll Keios

If Loading... is sent to the GY, you can then send another Shaddoll monster in hand to the GY and buff all monsters you control with ATK and DEF equal to the level of the monster sent by Loading... 's effect. While a very underwhelming effect, this does alleviate one of this deck's biggest problems, that being big monsters. If the format calls for it you can try one of these.

Nehshaddoll Genius

Loading... when sent to the GY prevents a player from being able to activate the effects of one face-up monster on the field. This effect can be useful on your turn in order to force out interaction preemptively, or in niche cases on the opponents turn if you can send it.

Shaddoll Fusion

The prototype Loading... itself. While at base it's just a Loading... for Shaddolls cards, if your opponent controls a monster(s) summoned from the ED it lets you use materials directly from the deck, letting you go extremely advantageous with all the aforementioned Shaddolls GY effects, as well as any other potential GY effects triggered.

El Shaddoll Fusion

Quick-Play Loading... , nothing else to say further than letting you fuse during your opponent's turn is a very good effect to have as interaction while doubling as a way for your monsters to dodge targeting effects.

Nephe Shaddoll Fusion

A Loading... that changes the attributes of a monster you equip this to. Not a real effect worth including.

Shaddoll Schism

A Loading... on a continuous trap. Just like Loading... , this card lets you fuse on your opponent's turn while doubling as an interaction with its second effect of sending an opponent's monster on field to the GY with the same attribute as the monster you fusion summon using its effect. Monsters summoned using this card's effect cannot attack directly

Infernoid Evil

If Infernoid Evil is sent to the GY, you can add a Void Spell/Trap from your deck to your hand. While not technically a Shaddoll card, you can add Loading... from your deck to your hand when you send this card to your GY, making it fairly mandatory to play at one copy.

Shadoll Construct

El Shaddoll Shekhinaga

If a Special Summoned monster activates their effect while you have a Shaddoll card in your hand, Loading... may negate the activation, destroy that card, and send a Shaddoll card from your hand to the GY. It's a good way to interact with the opponent on either player's turn, and you can pretty easily get the required earth materials in order to make them. You also tend to have a large amount of names in hand from your recursion effects or what you naturally draw for turn, so discarding a card is usually not a hurdle either, especially since it triggers Shaddoll effects.

El Shaddoll Grysta

When a monster would be Special Summoned while you have a Shaddoll card in hand, Loading... may negate that summon, destroy that monster, and then send one Shaddoll card from your hand to the GY. Notably, this only works on inherent summons, or summons that do not result from a chain. The biggest part of this card is being the only Shaddoll fusion that can be made from a fire monster, meaning sometimes it can unclog hands if you're playing cards like Loading... .

El Shaddoll Anoyatyllis

Loading... prevents special summoning monsters from the hand or GY with Spell/Trap effects. It's a meta dependent effect, so it might vary in power level given the environment. The most important part of this card is that they're the only Shaddoll monster made with a water, meaning if you're playing a surplus of waters then sometimes you want to run this card.

El Shaddoll Wendigo

As a quick effect, Loading... can protect a monster you control from being able to be destroyed by battle with an opponent's special summoned monster. This can be useful in order to protect your Loading... from being destroyed by combat, but there's almost always a better way to do that.

Lev Shaddoll Fusion

• When Loading... is activated, you may send one Fusion Monster from the ED to the GY.
• You may tribute one Shaddoll Fusion Monster to Special Summon one Shaddoll Fusion Monster from your ED with a different attribute than the card tributed, but it's attack becomes 0.
• If you use this cards effects, you are locked into only Special Summoning Shaddoll monsters from the extra deck.

This card serves as a starter via sending Loading... or Loading... , extender through the same means, or end board piece by sending a card like Loading... . Furthermore, its second effect can be useful for strengthening your end board by cheating out Shaddoll monsters from the extra deck, as well as playing through interactions and being able to tribute cards like Loading... when your turn comes back around.

Void Unleashing

• You can reveal one Shaddoll monster in your hand, and if you do, add two Shaddoll cards with a different type (Spell/Trap/Monster) than the revealed monster from your deck to your hand, then discard one card.
• You can banish this card from your GY, then add an Infernoid monster from your deck or GY to your hand.

The second effect doesn't matter in this deck aside from very rare scenarios where you need to re-send Infernoid Evil, but the first effect makes this card the decks best starter and extender. It's the way you search your trap cards pretty frequently, and is the glue that holds the deck together.

Resh Shaddoll Incarnation

• You can target one Shaddoll monster in your GY, special summon that target in face-up or face-down Defense Position.
• You can banish this card and one Shaddoll monster from your GY, and change one face-up monster you control to face-down Defense Position, or one face-down monster you control to face-up Defense Position.
• You can only use one of this cards effects each turn.

You always want to play this card if you're playing Loading... , but even if you're not it's a good inclusion. It bolsters the strength of your endboard by being able to special summon a card like Loading... back to your field, as well as being another card you can search off of Loading... . It's second effect sometimes comes up as well, in situations where you don't have a Loading... in order to flip cards face up. It can sometimes clog hands if you play it however.

Shaddoll Core

• You can special summon this card as a trap monster, and it can be treated as any attribute for a Shaddoll fusion summon.
• When sent to the GY, you can add a Shaddoll Spell/Trap from your GY to your hand.

Not an awful card if you want to make a specific Shaddoll fusion monster, and the recursion effect sometimes comes in useful. It tends to be less useful than Loading... , but it sometimes comes up.