Six Samurai

Six Samurai is a warrior series that draws power from swarming. The original Six Samurai is The Six Samurai - Zanji, The Six Samurai -Irou, The Six Samurai -Nisashi, The Six Samurai -Yariza, The Six Samurai -Yaichi and The Six Samurai -Kamon. All of them gain their effects while another Six Samurai monster with different name is present on your field. Rely a lot on Grandmaster of The Six Samurai who is not included in the original Six Samurai, but share the Six Samurai name. This is due to the ability of Grandmaster of The Six Samurai that can be special summon easily if you control a Six Samurai monster. Serving their warlord, The Great Shogun Shien, the 2500 beat stick for Six Samurai. However, it doesn't share Six Samurai name, thus not supported by most Six Samurai support cards like Six Samurai United, Legendary Ebon Steed and many more. Several other Six Samurai related monster that doesn't share Six Samurai name is Shien's Foot Soldier and Enishi, Shien's Chanselor. Most of the Shien monster, support Six Samurai but it doesn't supported by most Six Samurai support cards. Thus including them in Six Samurai deck are not a pretty wise choice. Especially since that a newer Six Samurai cards is released.

Thanks to this new release, Six Samurai is now a favorite to many duelist. The new releases are called Legendary Six Samurai and seems like more of a predecessor to the original Six Samurai. The cards includes, Legendary Six Samurai - Enishi, Legendary Six Samurai -Kizan, Legendary Six Samurai -Kageki, Legendary Six Samurai -Mizuho, Legendary Six Samurai - Shinai and the new beat stick which is a synchro monster, Legendary Six Samurai -Shi En. Although, these new cards is called "Legendary Six Samurai", the rule for Six Samurai support cards can be apply to them this is due to the word "Six Samurai" that exist in the card name.

The new Legendary Six Samurai play style is different to the original Six Samurai where it focused a lot on swarming, this can be seen from cards like Legendary Six Samurai -Kizan, Legendary Six Samurai -Kageki, Legendary Six Samurai -Mizuho, Legendary Six Samurai - Shinai. Due to such overwhelming swarming capability, draw power is needed. So, new Six Samurai support cards like Gateway of the Six and Shien's Smoke Signal along with the old Six Samurai united, gives Six Samurai a major hand control. In addition to the old Asceticism of the Six Samurai and the new Shien's Dojo that special summon from deck gives Six Samurai an immense field advantage. Easy enough to summon Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En by using Kagemusha of the Six Samurai as the tuner which can be retrieve to your hand by using Reinforcement of the Army, Shien's Smoke Signal, Gateway of the Six or special summon to your field from deck by using Shien's Dojo or Asceticism of the Six Samurai while you control Elder of the Six Samurai vice versa.

Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En is becoming an almost broken card with the ability to negate spell or trap once per turn, and indestructible by destroying other Six Samurai monster, making this card limited on Sept 2011 ban list. High ATK (2500) for a level 5 monster with devastating effects. Due to the easiness of this card being played, it is now limited, so that Six Samurai deck users cannot abuse its abilities. Having 1 Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En is bad enough, what of there are 3 of them all at once. In addition to that, Shien's Smoke signal and Gateway of the Six is also limited to reduce the excess draw power in Six Samurai deck.

Thus, in order to improve back the draw power in Six Samurai deck, it is always suggested to use Upstart Goblin. Although it gives opponents 1000 LP boost, but it is nothing if you can thin your deck to search for a better card. not to mention, several swarm of SS monster can easily wipe a lot of opponents LP in a turn.



All Warrior Six Samurai Deck

Legendary Six Samurai - Kizan
Legendary Six Samurai - Enishi
Legendary Six Samurai - Kageki
Legendary Six Samurai - Mizuho
Legendary Six Samurai - Shinai
Kagemusha of the Six Samurai
Grandmaster of the Six Samurai
Shien's Squire
Shien's Smoke Signal
Reinforcement of the Army
Gateway of the Six
Shien's Dojo
Six Samurai United
Solidarity
Upstart Goblin
Heavy Storm
Musakani Magatama
Mirror Force
Double-Edge Sword Technique
Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En
Shadow of the Six Samurai - Shi En
Driven Daredevil
Collosal Fighter
Crimson Blader


Fast Offensive Six Samurai Deck

Legendary Six Samurai - Kizan
The Six Samurai - Zanji
Elder of the Six Samurai
Legendary Six Samurai - Kageki
The Great Shogun Shien
Kagemusha of the Six Samurai
Grandmaster of the Six Samurai
Shien's Squire
Shien's Smoke Signal
Reinforcement of the Army
Gateway of the Six
Asceticism of the Six Samurai
Shien's Dojo
Six Samurai United
The A. Forces
Upstart Goblin
Heavy Storm
Musakani Magatama
Mirror Force
Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En
Shadow of the Six Samurai - Shi En
Tech Genus Hyper Librarian
X-Saber Wayne
Scarred Warrior
Driven Daredevil
Collosal Fighter


The above is quite fast synchro summon for Six Samurai deck, as it has a lot of deck searcher and swarm capabilities. However it is kinda weak without synchro summoning and focuses a lot on level 5 synchro monster which only Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En and Tech Genus Hyper Librarian is strong enough, and not to mention both of these cards is currently limited.


Balanced Six Samurai Deck

Legendary Six Samurai - Kizan
Legendary Six Samurai - Kageki
Legendary Six Samurai - Mizuho
Legendary Six Samurai - Shinai
Legendary Six Samurai - Enishi
Grandmaster of the Six Samurai
Kagemusha of the Six Samurai
Spirit of the Six Samurai
Reinforcement of the Army
Upstart Goblin
Shien's Smoke Signal
Shien's Dojo
Gateway of the Six
Six Samurai United
Temple of the Six
Six Strike - Triple Impact
Six Strike - Dual Wield
Double Edge Sword Technique
Musakani Magatama


Key card for Six Samurai deck is Gateway of the Six which give you the ability to control your hand and field advantage. Plus is can be protected by the effects of Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En and Musakani Magatama.