Apophis Deck Breakdown

LIGHT

2 monsters, including a LIGHT Fiend monster During your Main Phase: You can Fusion Summon 1 Fiend Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, by shuffling its materials from your GY into the Deck. You can target 1 LIGHT non-Link Fiend monster you control; equip this card from your field or GY to that monster you control as an Equip Spell with the following effect. ● Your opponent cannot target the equipped monster with card effects. You can only use each effect of "Fiendsmith's Sequence" once per turn.

Trap Normal

At the end of the Battle Phase, if your opponent controls more cards than you do: You can make your opponent banish cards from their field face-down so they control the same number of cards as you do. If you control no cards, you can activate this card from your hand.

EARTH

2 Level 4 monsters Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; apply this effect, depending on this card's current battle position. ● Attack Position: If this card attacks an opponent's monster this turn, it gains 1000 ATK, also the opponent's monster loses 500 ATK, during the Damage Step only. ● Defense Position: Inflict 800 damage to your opponent.

LIGHT 1

When this card is discarded to the Graveyard, Special Summon it.

EARTH 10

Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand or GY) while you have 3 or more cards in your GY with different names that are "Temple of the Kings" and/or Traps, by placing 2 of them on the bottom of the Deck in any order. You can send this card from your hand to the GY; add 1 "The Man with the Mark" from your Deck to your hand. If a Spell/Trap(s) you control is destroyed by card effect: You can target 1 card your opponent controls; destroy it. You can only use each effect of "Anubis the Last Judge" once per turn.

Spell Field

When this card is activated: You can Set 1 "Apophis" Trap from your Deck. This card's name becomes "Temple of the Kings" while in the Field Zone. Once per turn, if you have 2 or more Set cards on your field, or a Trap in your GY: You can add 1 monster that mentions "Temple of the Kings" from your Deck to your hand. You can only activate 1 "Treasures of the Kings" per turn.

LIGHT

2 Effect Monsters If this card battles a monster, neither can be destroyed by that battle. You can only use each of the following effects of "Silhouhatte Rabbit" once per turn. If this card is Link Summoned: You can Set 1 Continuous Trap from your Deck with an effect that Special Summons itself as a monster, also this card cannot be used as Link Material this turn. If a card in the Spell & Trap Zone is Special Summoned to the Monster Zone (except during the Damage Step): You can target 1 Spell/Trap your opponent controls; destroy it.

Spell Normal

Banish 3 or 6 cards of your choice from your Extra Deck, face-down; for the rest of this turn after this card resolves, any damage your opponent takes is halved, also excavate cards from the top of your Deck equal to the number of cards banished, add 1 excavated card to your hand, place the rest on the bottom of your Deck in any order. You can only activate 1 "Pot of Prosperity" per turn. You cannot draw cards by card effects the turn you activate this card.

LIGHT

2 Effect Monsters You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls this card points to; this turn, if you Link Summon a Link-5 monster using this card you control, you can also use that monster your opponent controls as material. You can only use this effect of "Moon of the Closed Heaven" once per turn.

Spell Normal

Add 1 LIGHT Fiend monster from your Deck to your hand, then discard 1 card. You can banish this card from your GY; Fusion Summon 1 "Fiendsmith" Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters from your hand or field. You can only use each effect of "Fiendsmith's Tract" once per turn.

Spell Quick

Target 1 monster in your opponent's GY; banish it, and if you do, until the end of the next turn, its effects are negated, as well as the activated effects and effects on the field of monsters with the same original name.

FIRE 3

When a card or effect is activated that includes any of these effects (Quick Effect): You can discard this card; negate that effect. ● Add a card from the Deck to the hand. ● Special Summon from the Deck. ● Send a card from the Deck to the GY. You can only use this effect of "Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring" once per turn.

EARTH 6

2 monsters that mention "Temple of the Kings" Must be either Fusion Summoned, or Special Summoned by Tributing 2 "Apophis" monsters. Once per turn: You can target up to 3 "Apophis" Traps with different names in your GY; Set them. Once per turn, if a Trap Card is activated (except during the Damage Step): You can target 1 card your opponent controls; destroy it.

Spell Normal

Destroy all Spell and Trap Cards your opponent controls.

WATER

2 Level 6 Fiend monsters When a Spell/Trap Card, or monster effect, is activated that includes an effect that Special Summons a monster (Quick Effect): You can detach 1 material from this card; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy that card, then you can make 1 other "D/D" monster you control and this card gain 1800 ATK until the end of this turn. If this card is sent from the field to the GY: You can add 1 "Dark Contract" card from your Deck to your hand.

EARTH 6

Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) by banishing 1 Level 10 or higher monster from your hand or Deck, while you control "Temple of the Kings". You can only Special Summon "Merciless Scorpion of Serket" once per turn this way. Once per turn, during your Main Phase: You can add 1 "Temple of the Kings", or 1 Spell that mentions it, from your Deck to your hand. At the start of the Damage Step, if this card battles an opponent's monster: You can destroy that opponent's monster, and if you do, this card gains ATK equal to half the destroyed monster's original ATK.

LIGHT 9

"Fiendsmith Engraver" + 2 LIGHT Fiend monsters (Quick Effect): You can negate the effects of a number of face-up cards on the field, up to the total Link Rating of Link Monsters equipped to this card, until the end of this turn. If this card is sent to the GY: You can shuffle 1 other LIGHT Fiend monster from your GY into the Deck/Extra Deck, then target 1 card on the field; send it to the GY. You can only use each effect of "Fiendsmith's Desirae" once per turn.

WIND 1

If a card(s) is added from the Main Deck to your opponent's hand, except during the Draw Phase (Quick Effect): You can send this card from your hand to the GY; for the rest of this turn, cards cannot be added from either player's Main Deck to the hand.

Spell Normal

Negate the effects of all face-up monsters your opponent currently controls, until the end of this turn, also, for the rest of this turn after this card resolves, your opponent takes no damage. Neither player can activate monster effects in response to this card's activation.

LIGHT 5

You can Set this card from your hand to your Spell & Trap Zone as a Spell. During your opponent's turn, if this Set card in the Spell & Trap Zone is destroyed and sent to your GY: Special Summon it. During your opponent's turn (Quick Effect): You can Tribute this card from your hand or face-up field; neither player can banish cards for the rest of this turn.

DARK

2 Effect Monsters If this card is Link Summoned using a Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, or Link Monster as material: You can target 1 card on the field or in either GY; banish it, also your monsters cannot attack directly this turn. When your opponent activates a card or effect (Quick Effect): You can target 2 face-up monsters on the field, including a monster you control; banish both until the End Phase. You can only use each effect of "S:P Little Knight" once per turn.

LIGHT 4

(This card is always treated as a "Fiendsmith" card.) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can send 1 "Fiendsmith" card from your Deck to the GY, except "Lacrima the Crimson Tears". During your opponent's turn, if this card is in your GY (Quick Effect): You can target 1 "Fiendsmith" Link Monster in your GY; shuffle this card into the Deck, and if you do, Special Summon that monster. You can only use each effect of "Lacrima the Crimson Tears" once per turn.

Spell Normal

If your opponent has activated a monster effect during your Main Phase this turn: Activate 1 of these effects; ● Draw 2 cards. ● Take control of 1 monster your opponent controls until the End Phase. ● Look at your opponent's hand, and choose 1 card from it to shuffle into the Deck. You can only activate 1 "Triple Tactics Talent" per turn.

WIND 4

If you control no cards (Quick Effect): You can discard this card; apply these effects this turn. ● Each time your opponent Special Summons a monster(s) from the Deck and/or Extra Deck, immediately draw 1 card. ● Once, during this End Phase, if the number of cards in your hand is more than the number of cards your opponent controls +6, you must randomly shuffle cards from your hand into the Deck so the number in your hand equals the number your opponent controls +6. You can only activate 1 other "Mulcharmy" monster effect, the turn you activate this effect.

Spell Continuous

You can activate 1 Trap Card the turn it was Set. You can send 1 "Mystical Beast of Serket" in your Monster Zone and this card you control to the Graveyard; Special Summon 1 monster from your hand or Deck, or 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck. You can only use each effect of "Temple of the Kings" once per turn.

Trap Counter

When a monster(s) would be Special Summoned, OR a monster effect is activated: Pay 1500 LP; negate the Summon or activation, and if you do, destroy that card.

Trap Normal

Target 1 Level 7 or higher LIGHT Fiend monster you control; send all cards on the field to the GY that are not that monster. If your opponent Special Summons a monster(s), while this card is in your GY: You can banish this card; send 1 "Fiendsmith" monster from your Deck or Extra Deck to the GY. You can only use each effect of "Fiendsmith in Paradise" once per turn.

Trap Continuous

During the Main Phase: Special Summon this card as a Normal Monster (Reptile/EARTH/Level 6/ATK 2000/DEF 2200) (this card is also still a Trap), then, you can negate the effects of face-up cards your opponent controls, up to the number of other Continuous Traps you control, until the end of this turn.

Trap Continuous

Special Summon this card as an Effect Monster (Rock-Type/EARTH/Level 7/ATK 0/DEF 2500). (This card is also still a Trap Card.) If Summoned this way, this card cannot be targeted by an opponent's card effects while you control another Trap Card that is a monster. If a card is Special Summoned from your Spell & Trap Zone to the Monster Zone while this card is a monster: You can target 1 card on the field; destroy it.

LIGHT

1 LIGHT Fiend monster You can only Special Summon "Fiendsmith's Requiem(s)" once per turn. During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 "Fiendsmith" monster from your hand or Deck. You can target 1 LIGHT non-Link Fiend monster you control; equip this card from your field or GY to that monster you control as an Equip Spell that gives it 600 ATK. You can only use this effect of "Fiendsmith's Requiem" once per turn.

LIGHT 9

1 "Fiendsmith" Fusion Monster + 1 Fusion or Link Monster Unaffected by card effects, except "Fiendsmith" cards, while equipped with a "Fiendsmith" Equip Spell. You can only use each of the following effects of "Fiendsmith's Rextremende" once per turn. If this card is Fusion Summoned: You can discard 1 card; send 1 LIGHT Fiend monster from your Deck or Extra Deck to the GY. If this card is sent to the GY: You can target 1 other "Fiendsmith" card in your GY or banishment; add it to your hand.

LIGHT 6

You can discard this card; add 1 "Fiendsmith" Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand. You can target 1 "Fiendsmith" Equip Card you control and 1 monster on the field; send them to the GY. If this card is in your GY: You can shuffle 1 other LIGHT Fiend monster from your GY into the Deck/Extra Deck; Special Summon this card. You can only use each effect of "Fiendsmith Engraver" once per turn.

Spell Normal

If your opponent has activated a monster effect during this turn: Set 1 Normal Spell/Trap directly from your Deck, except "Triple Tactics Thrust", or if your opponent controls a monster, you can add it to your hand instead. That Set card cannot be activated this turn. You can only activate 1 "Triple Tactics Thrust" per turn.

DARK 6

1 monster equipped with a Monster Card + 1 Fiend Monster Card Must be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by sending the above cards from your hand and/or field to the GY. You can only control 1 "Necroquip Princess". If a monster(s) is sent from the hand to the GY to activate a card or effect: You can activate 1 of these effects; ● Equip 1 of those monsters to this card as an Equip Spell that gives it 500 ATK. ● Draw 1 card. You can only use this effect of "Necroquip Princess" once per turn.

Trap Normal

Declare 1 monster card type (Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, or Pendulum); for the rest of this turn, neither player can Special Summon monsters of the declared type, also negate the effects of all monsters of that type while they are on the field. You can only activate 1 "Dimensional Barrier" per turn.

Trap Normal

Target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; negate its effects (until the end of this turn), then, if this card was Set before activation and is on the field at resolution, for the rest of this turn all other Spell/Trap effects in this column are negated. If you control no cards, you can activate this card from your hand.

LIGHT

2+ monsters, including a LIGHT Fiend monster Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 LIGHT non-Link Fiend monster in your GY; Special Summon it, and if you do, equip this card you control to that monster as an Equip Spell with the following effects. ● The equipped monster gains ATK equal to the total Link Rating of Link Monsters equipped to it x 600. ● If the equipped monster attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent.

LIGHT 11

During the Main Phase, if your opponent Normal or Special Summoned 5 or more monsters this turn (Quick Effect): You can Tribute as many face-up monsters on the field as possible, and if you do, Special Summon this card from your hand, then Special Summon 1 "Primal Being Token" (Rock/LIGHT/Level 11/ATK ?/DEF ?) to your opponent's field. (This Token's ATK/DEF become the combined original ATK/DEF of the Tributed monsters.) You can only use this effect of "Nibiru, the Primal Being" once per turn.

DARK 10

1 Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner LIGHT or DARK monsters For this card's Synchro Summon, you can treat 1 LIGHT or DARK monster you control as a Tuner. If this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 card on the field; banish it. This card gains these effects based on the original Attributes of materials used for its Synchro Summon. ● LIGHT: Synchro Monsters you control are unaffected by monster effects activated by your opponent. ● DARK: Monsters you control cannot be destroyed by battle.

Spell Normal

Add 1 Field Spell from your Deck to your hand.

DARK

2 Level 12 monsters During the turn, or turn after, your opponent Special Summoned 2 or more monsters from the Extra Deck, you can also Xyz Summon this card by using 1 monster you control with the highest ATK (your choice, if tied). (Transfer its materials to this card.) If you do, you cannot Normal or Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn. While this Xyz Summoned monster is on the field, neither player can activate the effects of monsters with 3000 or more ATK. Once per turn: You can detach 1 material from this card; return 1 monster from the field to the hand.

Trap Continuous

Special Summon this card as a Normal Monster (Reptile/EARTH/Level 4/ATK 1600/DEF 1800) (this card is also still a Trap), then you can Set 1 "Apophis" Trap from your Deck, except "Apophis the Serpent". It can be activated this turn. If this card is sent to the GY: You can add 1 "Embodiment of Apophis" from your Deck to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Apophis the Serpent" once per turn.

EARTH 4

If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can take 1 "Temple of the Kings", or 1 Spell/Trap that mentions it, from your Deck and either add it to your hand or send it to the GY. You can only use this effect of "The Man with the Mark" once per turn. While you control "Temple of the Kings", this card and "Apophis" monsters you control cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects. "Temple of the Kings" you control cannot be destroyed by card effects.