While many powerful extra deck monsters in the TCG are forbidden in Trinity Format, some powerhouse cards in the TCG are in fact legal here. Looking for a format to play a pendulum conglomerate with Heavymetalfoes Electrumite as your centerpiece? Look no further.

 

Pros:

• Very explosive

• Flexible

• Everything searches everything

Cons:

• Vulnerable to traps

• Vulnerable to quick-effect spell and trap removal

• Lacks comeback cards

Points: 6

Draco Face-Off: Two Extra Copies

Summoner's Art: Two Extra Copies

Performapal Skullcrobat Joker: 1 Point
Heavymetalfoes Electrumite: 1 Point

 

General Strategy:
The general playstyle of the deck is summoning a lot of big monsters fast enough to kill the opponent in the least amount of time possible. The deck's first turn usually sets up a big follow-up, while trying to put some disruptive or defensive threat on the field. You can even floodgate your opponent out of their extra deck. And If you go second, your goal is to break your opponent's field. Since the deck is very flexible, you can usually switch from your board building plays to board breaking plays with most hands, depending if you go first or second, and you can adapt to your opponent's plays.

Opening Plays:

Your ideal opening is summoning Heavymetalfoes Electrumite with one to two summons left and before the Pendulum Summon. To facilitate this, the deck plats many normal pendulum monsters and cards that summon them, such as Unexpected Dai, Rescue Rabbit and Draco Face-Off. Once you hit Heavymetalfoes Electrumite before your Pendulum Summon, you can use its effect to set up your hand and get one of your disruption pieces into the extra deck to pendulum summon it. For this, there are two main options: Amorphage Envy, to lock your opponent out of their Extra Deck, and Zefraniu, Secret of the Yang Zing, which nets you a free pop with Zefra Providence and Zefra War.

 

If you cannot summon Heavymetalfoes Electrumite before the pendulum summon, the best play, if you can make it, is to go for having Odd-Eyes Arc Pendulum Dragon and Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon on your scales with 1 summon left. While this may sound overly specific, it's surprisingly easy to set-up between Heavymetalfoes Electrumite and all of your other searchers, such as Sky Iris, Odd-Eyes Revolution Dragon, Performapal Skullcrobat Joker and Spiral Flame Strike. Once in the end phase, you can use Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon for a search, and on resolution Odd-Eyes Arc Pendulum Dragon will activate, summoning Odd-Eyes Persona Dragon from the deck.

 

Finally, there is yet another strong opening play; with Qliphort Scout and a way to pop it (one-summon Electrumite, a Metalfoes monster, Sky Iris), you can make Cyber Dragon Infinity, a really strong boss monster. In order to achieve this, start by placing Qliphort Scout in your pendulum zone, and pay 800 to search Qliphort Monolith. Then you can pop Qliphort Scout and pendulum summon it both it and Qliphort Monolith. With them, you make Cyber Dragon Nova and finally Cyber Dragon Infinity on top.

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Closing Thoughts:

There are a lot of ways to pendulum summon, and while this deck list tries to touch on as many possible ways of playing Pendulum as possible, the deck is so flexible that you could focus on any one specific engine and find success. And you could even play consider additional pendulum engines such as Dinomist or D/D/D! So my most important piece of advice is to try new things. Not everything will work as expected, but there will always be something to explore with Pendulum.

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Written by KrasherV

Edited by WideWalrus

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