Deck Guide: Floowandereeze, the Best Budget Deck to Destroy the Meta

The Floowandereeze archetype follows the adventures of "Floo" and its bird friends as each card tells a part of their story. We first saw it in (/en-us/sets/bode-burst-of-destiny)(Burst of Destiny), and it has focused on normal summons and tribute summons ever since (yes, that's viable in 2024).

Its biggest strengths are how it slows down the game with floodgates and its incomparable resource loop. Each bird in this deck has two effects - one specific effect that progresses your game plan, and another that gives this deck even more recursion, which is what makes it so powerful.

Interested? Let's see more about these powerful little birds and soar to victory!

The Floo archetype includes many cards and can play basically any flying monster, but we'll focus on the most popular ones for this article.

All these birds have a similar effect: they return from your banish pile to your hand when you summon another bird, and also give you another normal summon. So, keep this in mind when we discuss each card because we won't mention this effect every time.

Floowandereeze & Robina

It is common to use Pot of Duality, Pot of Prosperity, and Floowandereeze and the Magnificent Map just to find the most important card in your deck, Robina. That's because she can get you any bird in your deck and add it to your hand, and thus is your best starter. Floowandereeze & Robina opens an array of infinite possibilities, so do your best to protect her from effects like Infinite Impermanence and Effect Veiler.

Floowandereeze & Eglen

Eglen is essential to get your boss monsters. You'll mostly use it to find Floowandereeze & Empen, but you can also use it to search for other monsters, like Raiza the Mega Monarch or Mist Valley Apex Avian, depending on what you need. Even though it's less powerful than Robina, Eglen is still a must.

Floowandereeze & Stri

Stri is crucial to remove a few problematic cards from your opponent's graveyard (GY). You can use it to banish annoying cards like Destiny HERO - Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer, or any Snake-Eyes. Besides this, a cute trick you'll have is to use Stri to keep Dimension Shifter active, and banish the cards in your own graveyard.

This is a flexible card, so you can play one or two copies; whatever you prefer.

Floowandereeze & Toccan

Use Toccan to recycle banished Floowandereeze cards, like Floowandereeze and the Dreaming Town or Floowandereeze & Empen. With Dimension Shifter, Tocca is excellent to get Floowandereeze resources back from the banish pile. This is a must for this deck, as it gives you a lot of recursion.

Floowandereeze & Empen

Empen, most times, is how you'll win your matches. With it, you'll add Floowandereeze and the Dreaming Town, Floowandereeze and the Magnificent Map, or Floowandereeze and the Unexplored Winds to your hand.

Besides this, Empen gives you a normal summon and prevents your opponent from activating effects on any of their special summoned monsters in the attack position (bye, Link). Empen also halves the ATK of the monsters it battles, which makes destroying it through combat virtually impossible.

These cards are either not birds, or don't have "Floo" in their names.

Floowandereeze and the Magnificent Map

Magnificent Map gives you an extra summon besides a normal summon when you banish a Floowandereeze in your deck. This means that, with it, you'll be able to chain block and protect your normal summons from negation effects like Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring. This is incredibly important because it is the only way you'll protect your Floowandereeze & Robina from an Ash.

Floowandereeze and the Unexplored Winds

Unexplored Winds is an incredibly underestimated card that lets you use one of your opponent's cards to tribute summon something, and your opponent can't answer it. Besides this, it shuffles two monsters in your hand back into the bottom of your deck to draw two cards. Sp, it works as a board breaker and a Pot of Greed in this archetype.

Floowandereeze and the Dreaming Town

Dreaming Town lets you normal summon a level 4 or less Winged-Beast monster on your opponent's main phase. If it is in your GY when you tribute summon something, you can banish this card to tap all your opponent's monsters face-down. Usually, you'll get it with your Floowandereeze & Empen, and it's a must in this deck.

Swallow’s Cowrie

This is another way to find your Robina, and also redirects negation effects, so it's also essential for this deck.

Raiza the Mega Monarch

Raiza is vital in this deck; you can also get it with Eglen. Its effect removes up to three cards, including cards in your opponent's graveyard. Besides this, you can reuse it infinitely with Dimension Shifter.

Mist Valley Apex Avian

Mist Valley Apex Avian is the last big bird in this deck, also searchable with Eglen. It is an omni-negate and returns to your hand after you use its effect. With Floowandereeze and the Unexplored Winds, it lets you tribute your opponent's cards again and again. It's necessary in any Floowandereeze list.

Hand Traps

Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring: It is crucial to stop combos, so we have to play 3 copies of it.

Dimension Shifter: We also have to use 3 copies of this card because we love it when our resources are banished, and the GY is incredibly relevant in this meta,

Spells

Book of Moon: This card protects your monsters from cards like Infinite Impermanence and Effect Veiler.

Pot of Duality: This card lets you dig through your deck to get Floowandereeze & Robina, so we have to use three copies of it.

Pot of Prosperity digs through your deck even deeper than Pot of Duality, so I highly recommend you use three copies of it.

Called by the Grave: This card deals with enemy handtraps.

Traps

Infinite Impermanence is incredibly useful both if you play first and second, so you may use from two to three copies.

Harpies' Feather Storm is quite strong in decks like Floo, so two copies are a good idea.

Standard Combo

Then, follow the same steps in the standard combo.

Extra Deck Guide and Decklist

Floo doesn't rely on your extra deck to play, so what you'll use in it is up to you. However, I'll give you a few suggestions:

Knightmare Phoenix deals with your opponent's backrow.

Downerd Magician helps you play Zeus with a level 1 XYZ monster.

Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder is important to clear the board with multiple effects.

This is the decklist used by Gillaume Pelloquin in the National French Championship:

Final Words

In all, Floowandereeze is cheap and deals with decks that cost 10 times what it does. Its biggest weakness is that it is a bit too linear, so it's easy to play against it because it's very predictable. Some dedicated pilots also easily get tired of it because every match is the same.

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