Yu-Gi-Oh!: How To Play Tri-Brigade
The Tri-Brigade are a rogue band of desert-faring animalistic gunners with a scrapyard aesthetic. They instantly stole the hearts of many Yu-Gi-Oh! players when they were first released in the Phantom Rage core booster set. As well as their eye-catching art design and their cameo in the Abyss lore surrounding Ecclesia and Albaz, the deck has unique mechanics that are generic enough to support many ways of playing it.
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Tri-Brigade has seen a strong competitive following since its release - once players pick up the deck it takes a lot to convince them to put it down again. The versatility it provides deck builders, as well as the sheer strength of its core engine, makes Tri-Brigade a firm favourite deck for many.
The core Tri-Brigade lineup is composed of low-level Beast, Beast-Warrior, and Winged Beast-Type monsters (these three types are collectively called tri-types) who each have effects that reward you for filling your Graveyard with Tri-Brigade monsters. Your basic gameplan is going to be to fill your Graveyard with tri-types, because much of the deck's combo power relies on having a full Graveyard.
Among the Tri-Brigade cards, your best starter here is Tri-Brigade Fraktall - he can discard himself to send any level-three or lower tri-type monsters from the deck to the Graveyard, enough to get your whole combo online. In fact, Fraktall is such a good card in your opening hand that Tri-Brigade decks almost always play as many copies of Fire Formation - Tenki as possible to search it out - even though Fraktall is the only valid target for the search in your deck!
Fraktall will usually send Tri-Brigade Kitt, whose effect will trigger when it's sent to Grave, to send another
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