Archetype Concept: Ferronyx
Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:37 pm
Archetype Name: Ferronyx
Attribute: Earth
Playstyle: XYZ based (Earth), Focuses on using Earth monsters to XYZ Summon, also has destruction protection with the Continuous Spells and Traps. Most, if not all Ferronyx Monsters can be summoned in Face up Defense Position by sending an Earth Monster to from your hand the GY. This is very similar to Venuslyph, I’m aware. The constant discarding can empty your hand quickly if you're not careful, so be careful.
Strengths: It’s an Earth Machine Deck, ergo, it can mix with other Earth Machines and succeed fairly well. Several of the same spells and Traps that Earth Machines use (Urgent Schedule, Iron Call, Crusher Run) can be used here. One major benefit is the lack of any Archetype lock on them, meaning you can mix them with some other Earth Decks to support them. Also, they hit REALLY HARD. They have searchers, and their GY set up is good.
Weaknesses: They can be a bit unfocused sometimes, despite having many different effects, they don’t exactly fix the main problem I was seeing during the review, lack of focus. Also, the fact that their monsters are summoned in Defense position means that they really can’t do OTK with their base monsters, and often have to rely on their Extra Deck monsters to deal most of their damage.
The boss monsters are the XYZ Monsters Ferronyx Steel Drake (Rank 4 XYZ monster), Ferronyx Osmium Ouroboros (Rank 8 XYZ) and finally, Ferronyx Terminal DragOS (Rank 10 XYZ). Has a final XYZ called Ferronyx World Breaker Dragoon (Level 11 XYZ).
Ferronyx Bismuth Basher
Level 4 earth Machine Monster
500 Attack/2500 Defense
Effect: When this card is Normal or special summoned, you can Discard one card, set one Ferronyx Spell/Trap from your GY onto your field. If this card is sent to the GY by card effect. You can activate one Ferronyx Alloy Foundry Field Spell directly from your deck. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Level 4 Earth
Ferronyx Pyrite Pounder
Level 4 Earth Machine effect monster
1200 Attack/1400 Defense
When this card is Normal or Special Summoned, you can add to your hand or send to the GY one Ferronyx Monster from your Deck. When this card is destroyed, special summon One Earth Monster from your GY in defense position with its effects negated, You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Barbed Bear
Level 4 Earth Machine Monster
1300 Attack/1600 Defense
Effect: When this card is Normal or Special summoned, You can change the position of an attack position monster on your opponent's field to Defense Position. When this card is sent to the GY, you can add one Ferronyx Spell/Trap to your hand from your Deck. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Cobalt Bull
Level 4 Earth Machine Monster
1100 Attack/1500 Defense
Effect: When this card is Normal or Special Summoned, you can send one Ferronyx Spell/Trap from your deck to the GY. When this card is sent to the GY, add one Earth Monster from your GY to your hand, except Ferronyx Cobalt Bull. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Silver Spearman
Level 4 Earth Machine Monster
1000 Attack/2000 Defense
Effect: When this card is Normal or Special summoned, you can discard one Earth Monster, target 1 Spell/Trap on the field, and destroy it. When this card is sent to the GY, you can Add 1 Earth Monster from your GY to your hand. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Ferrite Falcon
Level 8 Earth Machine Monster
1800 Attack/2800 Defense
Effect: You can Special summon this card from your hand in Defense position by discarding 1 Earth Monster. When this card is Special summoned this way, you can target one card your opponent controls and one card you control, send both to the GY. If this card is sent to the GY, You can special summon one Earth Monster from your GY in defense Position during the End Phase, except Ferronyx Ferrite Falcon. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Golden Goose
Level 8 Earth Machine Monster
2500 Attack/1500 Defense
You can Special summon this card from your hand in Defense position by discarding 1 Earth Monster. When this card is Special summoned this way, target one card you control and one card your opponent controls, return them to the hand. If this card is sent to the GY, you can set one Ferronyx Spell/Trap from your deck, it can be activated this turn.
Ferronyx Platinum Eagle
Level 8 Earth Machine Monster
2900 Attack/1900 Defense
Effect: You can special summon this card from your hand in defense Position by discarding one Earth Monster. When this card is Special Summoned this way, you can target one card your opponent controls and one card you control, shuffle them into the deck. If this card is sent to the GY, you can summon one Earth Monster from your GY in Face Down Defense Position. You can only use each effect once per turn (HOPT)
Ferronyx Tectonic Colossus
Level 10 Earth Machine Monster
Attack: 0 Attack/3500 Defense
Effect: You can discard 1 Ferronyx Monster, Special Summon this card in Defense position. When this card is Special Summoned, you can target one monster your opponent controls, change it to Face Down Defense position. If this card is sent to the GY by card effect while you control another Ferronyx Monster, send that Monster to the GY and special summon this card during the end phase. (HOPT)
Ferronyx Tectonic Berserker
Level 10 Earth Machine Monster
3500 Attack/0 Defense
You can discard 1 Ferronyx monster, Special Summon this card from your hand in Defense Position. If your opponent controls more monsters than you do, you can special summon this card in attack position instead. When this card is sent to the GY by card effect, you can send 1 card your opponent controls to the GY, you can only use each effect once per turn. (HOPT)
Ferronyx Earthshaker
Level 10 Earth Machine Monster
3000 Attack/3000 Defense
Effect: You can special summon this card in defense Position by discarding 1 Ferronyx monster. When this card is Special Summoned, you can target 2 monsters one on each field, change them to Face Down Defense Position. If this card is sent to the GY by card effect, add 1 Level 5 or Higher Earth Monster from your deck to your hand. You can only use each effect once per turn. (HOPT)
Extra Deck
Ferronyx Steel Drake
Rank 4 Earth Machine XYZ Monster
Requires 2 or more Level 4 Monsters
2000 Attack/2500 Defense
Effect: If this card is XYZ Summoned, You can detach 1 material from this card to Target 1 monster your opponent controls, change it to face down defense position,this is a quick effect if you detached an Earth Monster. If this card were to be destroyed by card effect while you have a Ferronyx XYZ Monster in your GY other than this card, special summon that XYZ monster and attach this card to it as Material. you can only use each effect once per turn. (HOPT)
Ferronyx Osmium Ouroboros
Rank 8 Earth Machine XYZ Monster
2 Level 8 Monsters
3000 Attack/2000 Defense
Effect: If this card is XYZ Summoned, You can detach one material from this card, send one card on the field to the GY. This is a quick effect if you detach an Earth monster. If this card were to be Sent to the GY by card effect, You can Special summon one Ferronyx XYZ Monster from your GY and attach this card as material, (this is treated as an XYZ Summon) You can only use the first effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Terminal DragOS
Rank 10 Earth Machine Monster
2 or More Level 10 Monsters
3500 Attack/3500 Defense
Effect: You can XYZ summon this card by detaching one Material from an Earth Machine XYZ Monster (Transfer its Material to this card) While this card has Material, it is unaffected by card effects, except Ferronyx cards. Once per Chain (Quick Effect) When your opponent activates an effect(s) that targets one of your cards, you can detach materials from this card, negate those card(s) effects until the end of this turn. When this card is destroyed by Battle while it has material, you can Special summon any Non-XYZ Monsters attached to this card in defense position. You can only use the second effect once per turn.
Ferronyx World Breaker Dragoon
Rank 11 Earth Machine XYZ Monster
3 or More Level 11 monsters.
4000 Attack/4000 Defense
You can XYZ Summon this card by using One Level 10 Earth XYZ Monster you control (Transfer It’s Materials to this card). Once per turn (Quick Effect) You can detach one material from this card, destroy all cards on the field, except this one. if you detached an Ferronyx XYZ Monster for this effect, your opponent cannot activate cards in response to this effect. If this card is targeted by a card effect, you can detach a Material from this card to negate the effect and send that card to the GY. You can only use the first effect once per turn.
Spells and Traps
Ferronyx Alloy Foundry
Field Spell
When this card is Activated, you can add one Ferronyx card from your deck to your hand, then send one Ferronyx card from the deck, hand or Field to the GY. All Ferronyx Monsters gain attack equal to their defense. When your opponent activates an effect that targets a card you control, you can send one Earth Monster from your hand or Field to the GY to negate that effect. If this card is destroyed by card effect you can banish one Ferronyx Monster from your GY, add this card to your hand. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Welding
Normal Spell
If you control an Earth XYZ Monster, Target up to 2 Earth Monsters in your GY, attach them to that XYZ Monster as Material. If this set card is sent to the GY by card effect, you can attach it to an XYZ monster as Material. You can only use each effect once per turn. (HOPT)
Ferronyx Excavation
Normal Spell
Send 1 Ferronyx Monsters from your hand to the GY, draw 2 cards, then place one card from your hand at the bottom of the deck. For the rest of this turn, your opponent takes no battle damage. You can only use this effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Superalloy
Continuous Spell
While this card is face up on the field, Earth Attribute Monsters cannot be destroyed by card effects. If this card is destroyed and sent to the GY, add one Ferronyx Monster from your GY to your hand. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Transmutation
Quick Play Spell
When this card is activated, you can Special Summon one Ferronyx XYZ Monster from your GY and attach one Monster on your side of the field as Material (this summon is treated as an XYZ Summon). If this set card is destroyed and sent to the GY while you have an XYZ monster on the field, target one monster your opponent controls, attach it to one XYZ monster you control as material. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Secret Spikes
Normal Trap
When your opponent special summons a Monster while you control an Earth Monster, you can activate this card, destroy that monster and inflict damage equal to its level x200. If this set card is destroyed, Set one Ferronyx Spell/Trap from your GY to your field. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Crush Trigger
Counter Trap
When an Opponent activates a card effect on the field in response to one of your Ferronyx Cards effects, you can activate this card, negate that effect, then send that card to the GY. If you control a Ferronyx XYZ Monster, you can activate this card from the hand.
Ferronyx Living Metal
Continuous Trap
When this card is Activated, Once Per turn, when a monster would be sent to the GY for a Special Summon while you control an Earth XYZ Monster, you can attach the sent Monster(s) to your XYZ Monster as material. When this card is destroyed by card effect, you can add one Ferronyx Spell/Trap from your GY to your hand, except Ferronyx Living Metal. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Attribute: Earth
Playstyle: XYZ based (Earth), Focuses on using Earth monsters to XYZ Summon, also has destruction protection with the Continuous Spells and Traps. Most, if not all Ferronyx Monsters can be summoned in Face up Defense Position by sending an Earth Monster to from your hand the GY. This is very similar to Venuslyph, I’m aware. The constant discarding can empty your hand quickly if you're not careful, so be careful.
Strengths: It’s an Earth Machine Deck, ergo, it can mix with other Earth Machines and succeed fairly well. Several of the same spells and Traps that Earth Machines use (Urgent Schedule, Iron Call, Crusher Run) can be used here. One major benefit is the lack of any Archetype lock on them, meaning you can mix them with some other Earth Decks to support them. Also, they hit REALLY HARD. They have searchers, and their GY set up is good.
Weaknesses: They can be a bit unfocused sometimes, despite having many different effects, they don’t exactly fix the main problem I was seeing during the review, lack of focus. Also, the fact that their monsters are summoned in Defense position means that they really can’t do OTK with their base monsters, and often have to rely on their Extra Deck monsters to deal most of their damage.
The boss monsters are the XYZ Monsters Ferronyx Steel Drake (Rank 4 XYZ monster), Ferronyx Osmium Ouroboros (Rank 8 XYZ) and finally, Ferronyx Terminal DragOS (Rank 10 XYZ). Has a final XYZ called Ferronyx World Breaker Dragoon (Level 11 XYZ).
Ferronyx Bismuth Basher
Level 4 earth Machine Monster
500 Attack/2500 Defense
Effect: When this card is Normal or special summoned, you can Discard one card, set one Ferronyx Spell/Trap from your GY onto your field. If this card is sent to the GY by card effect. You can activate one Ferronyx Alloy Foundry Field Spell directly from your deck. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Level 4 Earth
Ferronyx Pyrite Pounder
Level 4 Earth Machine effect monster
1200 Attack/1400 Defense
When this card is Normal or Special Summoned, you can add to your hand or send to the GY one Ferronyx Monster from your Deck. When this card is destroyed, special summon One Earth Monster from your GY in defense position with its effects negated, You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Barbed Bear
Level 4 Earth Machine Monster
1300 Attack/1600 Defense
Effect: When this card is Normal or Special summoned, You can change the position of an attack position monster on your opponent's field to Defense Position. When this card is sent to the GY, you can add one Ferronyx Spell/Trap to your hand from your Deck. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Cobalt Bull
Level 4 Earth Machine Monster
1100 Attack/1500 Defense
Effect: When this card is Normal or Special Summoned, you can send one Ferronyx Spell/Trap from your deck to the GY. When this card is sent to the GY, add one Earth Monster from your GY to your hand, except Ferronyx Cobalt Bull. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Silver Spearman
Level 4 Earth Machine Monster
1000 Attack/2000 Defense
Effect: When this card is Normal or Special summoned, you can discard one Earth Monster, target 1 Spell/Trap on the field, and destroy it. When this card is sent to the GY, you can Add 1 Earth Monster from your GY to your hand. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Ferrite Falcon
Level 8 Earth Machine Monster
1800 Attack/2800 Defense
Effect: You can Special summon this card from your hand in Defense position by discarding 1 Earth Monster. When this card is Special summoned this way, you can target one card your opponent controls and one card you control, send both to the GY. If this card is sent to the GY, You can special summon one Earth Monster from your GY in defense Position during the End Phase, except Ferronyx Ferrite Falcon. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Golden Goose
Level 8 Earth Machine Monster
2500 Attack/1500 Defense
You can Special summon this card from your hand in Defense position by discarding 1 Earth Monster. When this card is Special summoned this way, target one card you control and one card your opponent controls, return them to the hand. If this card is sent to the GY, you can set one Ferronyx Spell/Trap from your deck, it can be activated this turn.
Ferronyx Platinum Eagle
Level 8 Earth Machine Monster
2900 Attack/1900 Defense
Effect: You can special summon this card from your hand in defense Position by discarding one Earth Monster. When this card is Special Summoned this way, you can target one card your opponent controls and one card you control, shuffle them into the deck. If this card is sent to the GY, you can summon one Earth Monster from your GY in Face Down Defense Position. You can only use each effect once per turn (HOPT)
Ferronyx Tectonic Colossus
Level 10 Earth Machine Monster
Attack: 0 Attack/3500 Defense
Effect: You can discard 1 Ferronyx Monster, Special Summon this card in Defense position. When this card is Special Summoned, you can target one monster your opponent controls, change it to Face Down Defense position. If this card is sent to the GY by card effect while you control another Ferronyx Monster, send that Monster to the GY and special summon this card during the end phase. (HOPT)
Ferronyx Tectonic Berserker
Level 10 Earth Machine Monster
3500 Attack/0 Defense
You can discard 1 Ferronyx monster, Special Summon this card from your hand in Defense Position. If your opponent controls more monsters than you do, you can special summon this card in attack position instead. When this card is sent to the GY by card effect, you can send 1 card your opponent controls to the GY, you can only use each effect once per turn. (HOPT)
Ferronyx Earthshaker
Level 10 Earth Machine Monster
3000 Attack/3000 Defense
Effect: You can special summon this card in defense Position by discarding 1 Ferronyx monster. When this card is Special Summoned, you can target 2 monsters one on each field, change them to Face Down Defense Position. If this card is sent to the GY by card effect, add 1 Level 5 or Higher Earth Monster from your deck to your hand. You can only use each effect once per turn. (HOPT)
Extra Deck
Ferronyx Steel Drake
Rank 4 Earth Machine XYZ Monster
Requires 2 or more Level 4 Monsters
2000 Attack/2500 Defense
Effect: If this card is XYZ Summoned, You can detach 1 material from this card to Target 1 monster your opponent controls, change it to face down defense position,this is a quick effect if you detached an Earth Monster. If this card were to be destroyed by card effect while you have a Ferronyx XYZ Monster in your GY other than this card, special summon that XYZ monster and attach this card to it as Material. you can only use each effect once per turn. (HOPT)
Ferronyx Osmium Ouroboros
Rank 8 Earth Machine XYZ Monster
2 Level 8 Monsters
3000 Attack/2000 Defense
Effect: If this card is XYZ Summoned, You can detach one material from this card, send one card on the field to the GY. This is a quick effect if you detach an Earth monster. If this card were to be Sent to the GY by card effect, You can Special summon one Ferronyx XYZ Monster from your GY and attach this card as material, (this is treated as an XYZ Summon) You can only use the first effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Terminal DragOS
Rank 10 Earth Machine Monster
2 or More Level 10 Monsters
3500 Attack/3500 Defense
Effect: You can XYZ summon this card by detaching one Material from an Earth Machine XYZ Monster (Transfer its Material to this card) While this card has Material, it is unaffected by card effects, except Ferronyx cards. Once per Chain (Quick Effect) When your opponent activates an effect(s) that targets one of your cards, you can detach materials from this card, negate those card(s) effects until the end of this turn. When this card is destroyed by Battle while it has material, you can Special summon any Non-XYZ Monsters attached to this card in defense position. You can only use the second effect once per turn.
Ferronyx World Breaker Dragoon
Rank 11 Earth Machine XYZ Monster
3 or More Level 11 monsters.
4000 Attack/4000 Defense
You can XYZ Summon this card by using One Level 10 Earth XYZ Monster you control (Transfer It’s Materials to this card). Once per turn (Quick Effect) You can detach one material from this card, destroy all cards on the field, except this one. if you detached an Ferronyx XYZ Monster for this effect, your opponent cannot activate cards in response to this effect. If this card is targeted by a card effect, you can detach a Material from this card to negate the effect and send that card to the GY. You can only use the first effect once per turn.
Spells and Traps
Ferronyx Alloy Foundry
Field Spell
When this card is Activated, you can add one Ferronyx card from your deck to your hand, then send one Ferronyx card from the deck, hand or Field to the GY. All Ferronyx Monsters gain attack equal to their defense. When your opponent activates an effect that targets a card you control, you can send one Earth Monster from your hand or Field to the GY to negate that effect. If this card is destroyed by card effect you can banish one Ferronyx Monster from your GY, add this card to your hand. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Welding
Normal Spell
If you control an Earth XYZ Monster, Target up to 2 Earth Monsters in your GY, attach them to that XYZ Monster as Material. If this set card is sent to the GY by card effect, you can attach it to an XYZ monster as Material. You can only use each effect once per turn. (HOPT)
Ferronyx Excavation
Normal Spell
Send 1 Ferronyx Monsters from your hand to the GY, draw 2 cards, then place one card from your hand at the bottom of the deck. For the rest of this turn, your opponent takes no battle damage. You can only use this effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Superalloy
Continuous Spell
While this card is face up on the field, Earth Attribute Monsters cannot be destroyed by card effects. If this card is destroyed and sent to the GY, add one Ferronyx Monster from your GY to your hand. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Transmutation
Quick Play Spell
When this card is activated, you can Special Summon one Ferronyx XYZ Monster from your GY and attach one Monster on your side of the field as Material (this summon is treated as an XYZ Summon). If this set card is destroyed and sent to the GY while you have an XYZ monster on the field, target one monster your opponent controls, attach it to one XYZ monster you control as material. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Secret Spikes
Normal Trap
When your opponent special summons a Monster while you control an Earth Monster, you can activate this card, destroy that monster and inflict damage equal to its level x200. If this set card is destroyed, Set one Ferronyx Spell/Trap from your GY to your field. You can only use each effect once per turn.
Ferronyx Crush Trigger
Counter Trap
When an Opponent activates a card effect on the field in response to one of your Ferronyx Cards effects, you can activate this card, negate that effect, then send that card to the GY. If you control a Ferronyx XYZ Monster, you can activate this card from the hand.
Ferronyx Living Metal
Continuous Trap
When this card is Activated, Once Per turn, when a monster would be sent to the GY for a Special Summon while you control an Earth XYZ Monster, you can attach the sent Monster(s) to your XYZ Monster as material. When this card is destroyed by card effect, you can add one Ferronyx Spell/Trap from your GY to your hand, except Ferronyx Living Metal. You can only use each effect once per turn.