Make a Tuner Monster Game

[Draconus297]

Galaxy Photonight

LIGHT - Level 4 - Warrior/Tuner/Effect - 2000/0

If this card is Normal Summoned, its original ATK is halved, then you can add 1 "Photon" or "Galaxy" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand. If you Normal or Special Summon a "Photon" or "Galaxy" monster with a Level: You can Special Summon this card from your Graveyard. You can only activate this effect of "Galaxy Photonight" once per turn. Once per turn, you can target 1 LIGHT monster on the field or in your Graveyard with a Level: This card's Level becomes equal to the target's.

 

Make a Tuner with two different effects that pull on the same resource for cost. For example, a monster that functions as a Ronintoadin and a DAD, a Zombie Master that's also a Snipe Hunter, etc.

[Black D'Sceptyr]

 

3-Second Salvo

LIGHT/Machine-Type Tuner Effect Monster/Level 3/100 ATK/1100 DEF

 

Lore: If this card is Summoned: You can banish up to 3 monsters from your GY; Special Summon 1 LIGHT Machine monster from your Deck whose Level is equal to the number of cards you banished +1, except "3-Second Salvo". If a card or effect is activated that would target a Machine monster you control (Quick Effect): You can banish 3 Machine monsters from your GY, including this card; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy that card.

 

 

Just in case this needed a back reference, I got the idea for this from Treasure Panda.

 

 

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In the same vein as "Alviss of the Nordic Alfar", let's make a Tuner for a Synchro Archetype that helps facilitate the Summon of 1 of that Archetype's boss monsters. Extra points if it's from the GY.

[Draconus297]

R-Genex Ally Replacer

DARK - Level 1 - Machine/Tuner/Effect - 100/0

This card is treated as "Genex Controller" on the field and in the Graveyard. If this card is Normal Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 non-Tuner "Genex" monster from your hand or Graveyard. Once per turn, you can target 1 "Genex" monster you control: Change its Attribute to any other desired Attribute, then either increase or reduce its Level by any amount up to the number of "Genex" monsters you control (min. 1). If you Normal Summon a "Genex" monster: You can Special Summon this card from your Graveyard. You can only activate this effect of "R-Genex Ally Replacer" once per turn.

 

Make a Tuner with a Meklord-esque SS effect (if a monster you control is destroyed, you can drop it from your hand).

[Black D'Sceptyr]

 

Futuristic Monk Usho

EARTH/Rock-Type Tuner Effect Monster/Level 4/1600 ATK/1000 DEF

 

Lore: If a Rock monster(s) you control is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can Special Summon this card from your hand. When you do: You can send 1 Rock monster from your Deck to the GY, then target 1 other monster on the field; its ATK becomes equal to this card's DEF until the End Phase, also it cannot attack except to attack this card. You can only use this effect of "Futuristic Monk Usho" once per turn.

 

 

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In the same vein as Bird of Paradise Lost, make a high-Level Tuner that gets better the more Tuners are in your GY-whether through different Attributes, Types, Levels, what have you.

[8bit Moonside]

How about just different names?

 

The Last Warrior From an Unknown Planet

Level 7 | DARK | Warrior/Tuner/Effect

2400 ATK / 2300 DEF

You can Special Summon this card (from the hand) by banishing 2 Tuner monsters from your GY. This card gains effects based on the number of Tuner monsters with different names in your GY or among your face-up banished cards.

• 4+: Once per turn: You can target 1 Tuner monster in your GY; change this card's Level to that target's, until your opponent's next End Phase.
• 6+: During either player's turn, you can (Quick Effect): Immediately after this effect resolves, Synchro Summon 1 monster from your Extra Deck, using this card as Synchro Material.
• 8+: A Synchro Monster summoned using this card as Synchro Material gains the following effect: ● Gains 200 ATK for each Tuner monster with different names in your GY.

 

Next: A low-level Synchro Tuner

[Gorlois]

Cosmic Compactor

2/FIRE/Psychic/Synchro/Tuner/200/200

1 Tuner + 1 non-Tuner

For this card’s Synchro Summon, you can treat 1 Level 2 or higher monster as Level 1. If you control a Synchro Monster while this card is in your GY: You can Special Summon this card, and if you do, it becomes Level 1, but banish it when it leaves the field. You can only use this effect of “Cosmic Compactor” once per turn.

 

Next: A Tuner with restriction(s) on how it can be used as Synchro Material.

[Black D'Sceptyr]

 

Blazing Brazen

FIRE/Pyro-Type Tuner Effect Monster/Level 4/900 ATK/2200 DEF

 

Lore: If you control no monsters, or if this card is destroyed by a card effect: You can destroy 1 other FIRE monster in your hand; Special Summon this card from your hand or GY. This is a Quick Effect, if your opponent controls a monster in their Extra Monster Zone. After the effect of a non-Pyro monster in the same column as the Extra Monster Zone resolves, destroy that monsterr. Cannot be used as Synchro Material, except for the Synchro Summon of a FIRE Synchro Monster.

 

 

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A Level 8 or higher Synchro Tuner monster, how about? The catch? It can't be a Dragon.

[Naidraug]

Mechanical High Mage

EARTH

Level 9

2000/3000

Machine/Synchro/Tuner/Effect

1 Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner Machine monsters

If this card is Synchro Summoned and it's the only monster you control, you can add 1 Spell/Trap card from your Deck to your hand that lists the type Machine in its card text. Once per turn, you can target 1 Machine monster you control; reduce this monsters level by the level of the targeted monster (Max. 8). this monster cannot be used as Synchro Material, except for the Synchro Summon of a Machine monster. A monster that was Synchro Summoned using this card as material is unaffected by your opponent's card effects until the Second End Phase after that monster was Synchro Summoned.

 

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A Tuner that provides some sort of protection to the monster it was used as material for. (Such as protection from battle, destruction, card effects, etc.)

[Draconus297]

Dimension Archer

DARK - Level 1 - Spellcaster/Tuner/Effect - 100/0

If a monster is banished from the field or Graveyard: You can Special Summon this card from your Graveyard (if it was there when that monster was banished) or hand (even if not), and if you do, and the banished monster had an original Level, you can increase this card's Level by that monster's. You can only Summon 1 "Dimension Archer" per turn this way. A DARK and/or Spellcaster Synchro monster Summoned using this card as Material gains the following effect:

●This card cannot be targeted for attacks or effects.

 

Make a Tuner that floats into a specific category of monster, that includes other copies of itself. The condition for said floating can be whatever you like.

[Gorlois]

Clustar Pixie

2/LIGHT/Fairy/Tuner/400/200

If this card is sent from the field to the GY: You can add, from your Deck to your hand, 1 Tuner with a Level equal to or lower than the number of Tuners in your GY. You can only use the effect of “Clustar Pixie” once per turn.

 

Next: A Tuner with exactly 1800 ATK.

[Kazuchika Okada]

D.D. Traveler

Level 4 - DARK - Warrior / Tuner / Effect - 1800/0

When this card is Normal or Special Summoned, you can target one monster in your banished zone and Special Summon it to this side of the field. On the turn you activate this effect, this card cannot be used for a Synchro Summon, except for the Synchro Summon of a Warrior monster.

 

Next: I could fancy a Level 12 Tuner, whose Synchro Summoning methods required the non-Tuner monsters to subtract from this Tuner's level (like Dark Synchro in the anime).

[Black D'Sceptyr]

I got you @@Kazuchika Okada. 

 

And with a forward to the 5D's manga and the history between its Rex Goodwin and Akiza's Duel Priestess predecessor, too!

 

 

Decieved Priestess Diak Izayoi

DARK/Reptile-Type Tuner Effect Monster/Level 12/3000 ATK/0 DEF

 

Lore: You can banish 1 non-DARK Tuner and 1 non-Tuner DARK monster from your GY with the same Level and Type: Special Summon this card from your hand or GY. You can shuffle 2 non-Tuner Synchro Monsters into the Extra Deck, that are either banished or in the GYs: Special Summon 1 LIGHT or DARK Dragon Synchro Monster from your Extra Deck whose Level is equal to the difference between those returned monster's Level and this card's, ignoring its Summoning conditions, but return it to the Extra Deck when this card leaves the field. You can only use each effect of "Decieved Priestess Diak Izayoi" once per turn.

 

 

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Something this time that can work with other Tuners to bring out a non-Synchro Monster more fluidly (Fusion, Xyz, Links, your choice.) The catch? It can't be by changing names - its own or others.

[Draconus297]

Tuning Traffork

DARK - Level 4 - Mahine/Tuner/Effect - 1400/0

If this card is Summoned by an effect that would negate this card's effects, this card immediately regains its effects. You can target 1 other DARK monster on the field (Quick Effect): Send 1 DARK Machine-Type monster from your Deck to the Graveyard, then both this card and that target become the Level of the sent monster, until the End Phase (even if the target did not have an original Level). You can only activate this effect of "Tuning Traffork" once per turn. If this card battles your opponent's monster whose Level is the same as this card's current Level: You can, immediately after this effect resolves; Xyz Summon, using both battling monsters as Material.

 

Done. Have fun making Rank 3, 4, 7, and 8 with literally any DARK monster in the game.

 

Retrain any pre-5Ds monster with a self-Summoning effect as a Tuner.

[8bit Moonside]

The Mystic Megacyber

Level 6 | DARK | Warrior/Tuner/Effect

2200 ATK / 1200 DEF

If your opponent controls at least 2 more monsters than you do, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand). If Special Summoned this way: You can target 1 monster your opponent controls; this card's Level becomes equal to that monster's. During your End Phase, lose 1500 LP if you did not use this card as Synchro Material this turn after you Special Summoned this card.

 

Next: A vanilla Tuner... that's also a Pendulum monster

[Tinkerer]

[spoiler Ninja'd in the best way]

The Tuned Megacyber

DARK 6*

Warrior/Tuner/Effect

If your opponent controls more monsters than you, you can Special Summon this monster from your hand, then you can activate the following effect:

- Special Summon a number of monsters from your hand equal to the difference between the number of monsters you and your opponent controls, and if you do, reduce this card's Level by the number of monsters Summoned by this effect.

2200/1200

 

Beast-Warrior Tuner

 

 

[Kazuchika Okada]

Enraged War Ox

Level 4 - EARTH - Beast-Warrior / Tuner / Effect - 1700/1000

If this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle, you can increase/decrease this card's level by half the level of the monster destroyed.

 

Now after @Black D'Sceptyr did a Level 12 Tuner, how about a Tuner monster in which its level counts as 0 when used as a Synchro material (Or a literal Level 0 Tuner if you prefer)?

[8bit Moonside]

Tune Replicator

Level 1 | LIGHT | Cyberse/Tuner/Effect

0 ATK / 0 DEF
Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must be Special Summoned by revealing 1 Synchro Monster from your Extra Deck while you control monster(s) whose Level(s) equal that revealed monster's, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. Gains ATK and DEF equal to half the original ATK and DEF of the revealed Synchro Monster. If this card is used as Synchro Material, its Level is treated as 0. Cannot be used as Synchro Material, except for the Synchro Summon of a monster revealed by this card's effect. You can only Special Summon 1 "Tune Replicator" per turn.

 

Repeating my original prompt because it got ninja'd (by the same base card, no less; what are the odds?): A vanilla Pendulum Tuner

[Draconus297]

Librarian of Shadows

DARK - Level 2 - Spellcaster/Pendulum/Tuner - 1200/0 - Scale 1

Pendulum Effect - If you Pendulum Summon only Normal monsters: You can Pendulum Summon once more this turn. You can only apply this effect of "Librarian of Shadows" once per turn. If you Pendulum Summon only Pendulum monsters: You can draw 1 card.

Monster Lore - Thousands of books are within this witch's purview, her aging having long ago halted due to the magic gained by all her knowledge. Within her collection, one may find first editions of the many Spellbooks, a book containing an entire world of insanity, and even a legal text that only harms the reader.

 

A Tuner for a user-created Synchro archetype that is not originally yours.

[Tinkerer]

Clownwork Pseudo Star

DARK *

Machine/Tuner/Effect

This card's name becomes "Clownwork Little Star" while in your hand, GY, or on your side of the field. During the turn this card was Summoned, double the effect damage inflicted by "Clownwork Little Star". If this card is returned to the Deck: You can add 1 non-Tuner "Clownwork" monster from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Clownwork Pseudo Star" once per turn.

0/0

 

https://forum.yugiohcardmaker.net/topic/377499-clownwork-archetype/

First Synchro (and Link) based archetype I could find.

 

 

A Tuner to help Summon Chaos Goddess.

[Kazuchika Okada]

Fallen Angel

Level 6 - LIGHT - Fairy / Tuner / Effect - 1000 ATK / 2000 DEF

If you control a non-Tuner DARK Monster, you can target that monster, then Special Summon from your Deck a monster with the same original name as the targeted monster, and then Special Summon this card from your hand. These three monsters cannot be tributed, nor used for a Fusion, Synchro, XYZ, or Link Summon, except for the Synchro Summon of a LIGHT Fairy Monster. 

 

Pretty specific, and also seems pretty broken. I regret nothing

 

Next: A Tuner that can only be used as material for the Summon of a Tuner Synchro monster

[Lystern]

Cluster Synchron

LIGHT

Machine/Effect

Level 1 - 0/0

 

This card cannot be used as Synchro Summon Material, except for Synchro Summon of a Tuner Synchro monster. (Quick Effect): You can Synchro Summon a Synchro monster; using the monsters on the field(including this card from your hand) as Material. You can use this effect of "Cluster Synchron" once per turn.

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A tuner monster that can use Xyz monster as material

[Draconus297]

Launcher Gorilla

EARTH - Level 2 - Beast/Tuner/Effect - 1200/400

If a monster(s) you control is destroyed by your opponent's card effect: You can Special Summon this card from your hand. If you would Synchro Summon using this card, you can use exactly 1 Link or Xyz monster on the field as Synchro Material, with a Level equal to its Rating/Rank. At the start of the Damage Step, if this card battles your opponent's monster: You can, immediately after this effect resolves; Synchro Summon, using this card and the opposing monster as Material. Your opponent cannot activate cards or effects in response to this card's Summon or effects. You can only activate each effect of "Launcher Gorilla" once per turn.

 

Hey, let's steal a Borreload/Borrelsword, or any Rank 4 in history, and make a Synchro 6 in the middle of the Battle Phase. Goyo Guardian's EARTH Tuner restriction doesn't look so bad, huh? You might also want to carry a few 5s and 7s, just in case. If your opponent makes Rank 8s, you can also drop Leo on their head.

 

Give it an effect that triggers if it's used as Synchro Material, that helps with a common issue a Synchro spam Deck has.

[Tinkerer]

Teleporter Synchron

WIND ***

Psychic/Tuner/Effect

If this card is used as Synchro Material, the Synchro monster gains this effect:

- (Quick Effect): You can banish this card until the end of the phase. When this card returns, increase its ATK and DEF by 500.

500/1800

 

(I figure a means of dodging removal/monster effect negation while moving out of the EMZ + extra perks is enough)

 

 

Make a FLIP Tuner.

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

Krawler Ramus
EARTH/Insect/Flip/Tuner/Effect/Level 2/1500 ATK/300 DEF
FLIP: All monsters you control gain 300 ATK/DEF.
If this face-up card in its owner's control leaves the field because of an opponent's card effect: You can Special Summon 2 "Krawler" monsters with different names from your Deck in face-down Defense Position, except "Krawler Ramus". You can only use each effect of "Krawler Ramus" once per turn.

Next: Make a Fusion Tuner.

[Kidan Dragneel]

Dimensional Magician

DARK|Spellcaster/Fusion/Tuner/Effect|Level 5|2100 ATK|1500 DEF

2 Dark Monsters Including 1 Tuner Monster

When this card is Fusion Summoned: Special Summon from your hand or GY 1 Level 3 or Lower DARK Monster to your side of the field in Defense Position. During your Opponent's Turn(Quick Effect): You can Synchro Summon 1 DARK Synchro Monster using cards you control as Synchro Material including this card. During Either Player's Turn, When a DARK Synchro Monster you control would be Destroyed by Battle or card Effect: Banish this card; Negate the destruction.

 

Next: Make a Tuner Monster that turns the Synchro Monster into a Tuner.