JJ's ATAD 8: Tuners

There are plenty of tuners out there, some with kick-ass effects that noone uses. Some are relitively common and used a lot, such as blackwing gale; some are pretty much useless because of their own effects, like tuned magician (It's a gemini that must be geminied to be a tuner, and tuners rely on cutting normal summons to a minimum), and some are generally pretty good and noone knows about them, and some just aren't used enough, like chaos end master.

This discussion will be about tuners and support cards for tuners, EG tuningware, needle soldier, level tuning.



Sorry it's so late, couldn't stay up till midnight last night.

D.D. Sprite is a good tuner which works well especially with things like koaki meiru rock stun in my experience. I also run it in decks running necroface because it is pretty good in those.

Primarily used Tuners if each deck should include Effect Veiler, Krebons/Psychic Jumper (depending on build of Tele-Variant), Psychic Commander, Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind, Alien Ammonite, Debris Dragon, Deep Sea Diva and many more.

Tuners allow access to powerful Synchro Monsters and showcased the main aspect of dueling from not even a year ago.

Xyz will slowly replace the usage of Tuners for Synchro Summons, but Tuners are still versatile in quite a few ways.

Most dead ATAD ever. Well, next one is in 7 minutes, so get some posts in maybe?

Tuners are best if they're recyclable. Glow-Up Bulb was an instant hit, and Plaguespreader Zombie the closest to as good as Glow-Up Bulb than any other card I've seen. 3rd is definitely Spore, then Effect Veiler, imo.
Problem is making a consistent set of moves with tuners and non-tuners, because of the varying levels of the Synchro monsters, the tuners, and the non-tuners is usually difficult, if not tedious.
Xyzs are going to dominate popularity over Synchros because it's easier to get two level 4 monsters out, put them on top of each other, and slap a powerful effect monster on top of it than to get a tuner, non-tuner, and appropriate level Synchro monster on the field in one turn.

On top of that, Xyzs tend to have better effect at the cost it takes to summon them.
Example? Heroic Champion Excalibur vs Stardust Dragon.

Excal=2 level 4 Warriors=4k ATK until end of opponent's next turn.

Stardust=3+5, 4+4, 2+6, 1+7 (easier said than done to accomplish)=2500 ATK beatstick that can only negate cards that destroy or aren't SS3.

Overall, Synchros are just comparably slower than Xyz, and most don't have strong enough attack to say they're worth the cost; not to mention the fact that some Synchro levels (like 6), don't have very many worthwhile Synchros to summon.
Without Brionic, Synchros are going to have a tough time competing against Xyz.