Instructions for playing Salamangreat x Code Talker Alive (post banlist)

By Ljkad Published Apr 21, 2023 Updated Apr 24, 2023

After the KC cup in February 2023, we witnessed the strength of Tiers such as: Shrimp Manure , Mekk-knight, Infernoid,... And right after that, there was a round of purifying tiers with a new banlist. extremely hot. However, we still have people who are able to live like Dung Shrimp and the Top 1 kc this time is Salamangreat x Code talker .

This is also the deck I will tell you about today. Although it is a little affected by the banlist, I am sure that it will still survive and compete well with Phantom Knights . Overall, this is a resource-rich deck, spamming many monsters from Salamangreat helps us ensure we have enough resources to summon Code Talker 's Link bosses.

Overall rating: 9/10. (Bonus mid-range price, quite friendly to f2p)

Sections covered in this guide:

Skill

Code Talker Alive (Skill Card) (100%)

The trap card Recoded Alive has a very powerful ability, not only helping us avoid effects, attacks, etc., but also summoning a CodeTalker Link 3 with a different name from the monster you choose from the Extra deck to the field.
Recoded Alive's second ability helps us bring back a banned CodeTalker to the field when this trap card is in the grave when we don't have any monsters in the Extra Monster Zone. (Yeah, recover is super ok, can cure Karma Cut , Zeta,...)

1 Strong card but with very miserable activation conditions, it becomes very brickkkk. With this skill we have solved the problem of bricks when placing a Recoded Alive out of nowhere when we have Decode Talker in the extra monster zone.

And the main problem here is that this skill helps us perfect combos, summoning a lot of high link monsters (up to 3-link 4 links) with just a little resource, that combo will be talked about later.

Main Monsters

Salamangreat Gazelle (x1)

It is the Main Core combo Setup of the Salamangreat deck.

You can free summon this monster if another Salad monster goes to the Graveyard, and immediately after that you can also discard 1 additional card from your Deck to the graveyard. I will throw Salaman Monsters to the grave to Link Combo like Foxy, Jack Jaguar, Falco,... The sad thing is that now I can't mix with the lovely counter trap card Roar because both are limited to 1 :(

In short, Gazelle is a Combo Extender card and a great, indispensable searcher in the deck.

Salamangreat Jack Jaguar (x1)

This one jumps while recovering, but it jumps into the Salamangreat monster box the link points to :)

Holding this in your hand is easy to have a heart attack because you will ask life why you don't hold a gazell or foxy, this one is often thrown into the grave by foxy or gazell and plays x1 so holding it in your hand is okay.
A Salamangreat monster with a stable amount of ATK and the ability to deal piercing DMG. Jack Jaguar is almost an indispensable card when we want to combo or OTK. Can easily be combined with Salamangreat Fowl to Xyz to get Number 70: Malevolent sin

Salamangreat Falco (x1)

Once Falco reaches the grave, its effect will be activated immediately: place 1 Salamangreat Spell/Trap card from the grave to the field. This card demonstrates the unique ability of the Sala deck when it has an extremely good Recycle ability, being able to restore spells/traps or monsters.

Falco's second ability is to return another Salamangreat on the field to the hand to summon this card from the Graveyard. We can combine Falco with Salamangreat Meer who is on the field, activating Meer's eff next and we will have both of these cards on the field. Or we can combine with Fowl to have up to 2 level 4s on the field to make XYZ rank 4 (Note: we can only use 1 Falco ability in 1 turn).

Salamangreat Foxy (x1)

Foxy, 1 f2p card we can get just by Farming the character. Its first ability is similar to the UR spell in Duel Links: Pot of Duality when Normal Summoned.

We can also bring this card back to the field from the grave by discarding 1 Sala card, in addition we can also Pop 1 Backrow facing up on the field. Using foxy will be a very good strategy against other decks that depend on Field or Continuous spells like Infernity or Dark Magician.

Salamangreat Fowl (x1-x2)

The first effect is an extended combo that combines while you Normal or Special Summon another Salamangreat monster to your field (except Damage Step). What's great is that Fowl's second effect can freeze your opponent's back row by sending 1 "Salamangreat" card from your hand or face up on the field, and this effect is not limited to once per turn.

Salamangreat Meer (x1)

is a card that has the ability to jump on its own by disposing another card and putting it in the hand by any means, except for drawing to a normal draw (drawing a card in the draw phase), it will slowly jump up, so Falco pushes this card from the field and jumps. Falco also activates the effect from his hand and jumps onto the field and can combo with Falco.

Lady Debug (x2)

When normal or special summon this card, you will immediately search for a level 3 or lower Cyberse monster. A perfect Searcher to start combos or prepare for Link summons.

After the recent banlist on April 20, 2023, Lady Debug was released from limit 2 to limit 3. Personally, according to Lady Debug, this seems to be a buff for her but in general, this is probably a light nerf to reduce Take away the power of Sala x CodeTalker when Salamangreat's 3 quick spell search cards have also been limited to 3. Now we can no longer play x2 Lady Debug with x3 Salamangreat Circle, the 2 cards increase the balance and make the deck almost cannot be deadhand when paired with Cynet Mining.

But maybe x2 Lady Debug with x1 Circle is probably "a bit" okay =)).

Micro Coder (x2-x3)

Super ngolll. Can be used as material to summon Link for Code Talker right on hand, and can also be searched. Too good, isn't it?

Depending on how it is used as a material for Link summon, from the hand or from the field, we can easily search for what we like: 1 Cynet spell/trap or 1 level 4 Cyberse Monster. These abilities help it become an indispensable Main core, setting up combos for us

Its only weakness is that it is not a F2P card, so I only recommend x1-x2 depending on conditions

Gizmek Kaku the Supreme Shining Sky Stag (x1-x2)

Although it's hard to find, this is actually a perfect tech card for every Link deck that everyone should have one.

When there is a monster in the Extra Monster Zone, whether the enemy's or your own, you can summon this card from the Hand (even without a summoning condition such as having to summon to the place where the Link Arrow points). ). A high ATK of 2750 is not enough, it can also steal monsters in the opponent's Extra Monster Zone and equip it and summon it if we use this card to destroy the opponent's monster.

In my opinion, this is a pretty OP card at the present time and is a card that has the ability to turn the odds very well.

Spell/Trap

Yep, you won't find Cynet Crosswire in this list because it's limited to 1 already :P

Cynet Mining (x2-x3)

It is the main card for us to search for Level 4 Cyberse Monster when Lady Debug only helps us search for Level 3 and below and it is also used to search for Lady Debug itself.

Pushing a card to the grave to activate an effect helps us perform many cool combos such as sending cards: Jack Jaguar, Falco,...

Actually, x3 of this card will be the most optimal for the deck to increase stability when the search ability of Lady Debug and Sala Circle is reduced. However, this is a UR card from the main box, so not everyone can own x3 of this card, so we can x2 it and play Cheap Versions.

Salamangreat Circle (x1)

1 Quick Spell card but it is the Deck's Main Searcher. Being Quick helps us search even during the opponent's turn, and on our next turn we can easily Recycle and search again.
In addition, the second ability of this card helps your Salamangreat monsters become immune to many unpleasant Monster Effects such as Galaxy-eyes, Phantom Knights, etc.

So why do I only spend x1 on a card that can both be searched and protect the effect?

We will need to search Micro Coder to be able to combo + 1 search Backdoor so Lady Debug will definitely have priority over the card that can only search Sala
Sala monsters make up the majority of cards in the deck, in addition, we can search for Sala with Gazelle
Falco will help us recycle this card so we will feel more secure to use it without fear of shortage.

=))) That's called "personal opinion", but according to my research, many people have built the Post-ban version and they only play x1 Debug or even x0 to put x3 into Circle. Well, but I still keep my opinion hihi

Salamangreat Sanctuary (x1)

Can be easily searched through Salamagreat Barelynx when it is Link Summoned (THIS IS ALSO THE MAIN REASON IT IS HERE) . Mainly put in the deck to be searched and thin the deck, its best ability when playing for Sala Link Summon the Sala monsters for the second time to unlock all their abilities but it is also eliminated because of the skill limit. Does not allow me to have 2 extra monsters with the same name and.....

As for the second skill, whether you use it or not depends on your LP calculation :)) 99% of the time it is also useless. If you get it in First Hand, reflect on your life and see what you did to deserve this =))

Cynet Backdoor (x3)

From a disgraced card to an indispensable card in the deck, even x3. Yep, sure, it's search again and also quick spell (search deck is very awesome xD), quick banish and search effects help us avoid effects that cause damage to our boss. On the next turn, that boss card can also attack directly.

It is the main card that we will search for after linking with Micro Coder. If combined with skills, it can create some pretty cool combos.

Extra deck

Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf and Salamangreat Balelynx (Salamangreat Link Monster)

The role of Salamangreat Link Monsters in this deck is only to help us combo, but they also have many great effects:

Salamangreat Balelynx: Free search Salamangreat Sanctuary when it is Link Summoned. With just 1 Cyberse monster, we can search for the Field card. In addition, it can also protect your Sala monster from being destroyed by banishing itself from the grave.
Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf: Mainly summoned to be able to reuse some Salamangreat cards, helping us not worry about resource shortages.

Decode Talker, Encode Talker and Code Talker (Code Talker Link Monsters)

- Code Talker: Buffs 500 ATK, resists Destroy but is usually only used to get Link higher or combined with Recoded Alive
- Decode Talker: Playmaker's Ace card, Buff ATK and tribute to Negate, used to activate skills
- Encode Talker: Defend, protect and Buff Dmg to turn the odds

Let's talk a little bit about the Effects of these Code Talker because their effects are quite simple and probably everyone knows, but each piece of them will also affect the combo (Link Arrow, effect,...) I will say more. Details are in the combo section.

Shootingcode Talker (x1)

uhmmm. You're probably wondering why I didn't throw this card together with the other Code Talkers =)).

It gets a special slot not because of its ability, nor because of its high ATK, but because of its Link Arrow, a link card with great Arrows to combine with FireWall Dragon and also the Code Talker it will create for you. We have a perfect combo that will make you happy every time you play.

As for the combo, let's talk about it later =)) I'll leave it alone so you guys can see it easily.

Firewall Dragon (x1)

The final boss of the deck, a good amount of Atk with a quick return effect (equal to the amount this card is co-linked) will harass the opponent right on their turn.

One thing worth noting is that its return effect can only be used once while it is on the field, but that doesn't mean we can only use its effect once. We can let it leave the field and then bring it back, (usually by Backdoor) and we can continue activating it.

Its second effect gives us a bonus of 1 summon, but we probably don't use it very often.

Link support (Optional)

Some link cards are very strong at the moment in Duel Links, we can bring one of them depending on what we have. Every card is quite powerful and has its own effects so we don't have to worry about it becoming useless and consuming an extra deck slot :))

Number 70: Malevolent Sin and Abyss Dweller (XYZ support (optional))

2 XYZ supporter rank 4 is quite common in many decks. In this version of the deck, we will spam Fowl, Falco and Jack Jaguar quite a lot, so ranking 4 is quite simple and consumes few resources.

However, we often summon links more, but sometimes when we encounter a very bad hand, we can summon Abyss Dweller to defend in turn 1 when facing decks that use the grave a lot.

Combo

This deck has a lot of links, so there will be many situations that will happen, thereby creating many combos. Here I will only mention typical combos through experience and combos I have seen.

There will be many cases where you find more powerful combos, many cards combine to create lordly combos, then remember to share with everyone ^^

Decode Talker and Code Talker Alive (Skill Card) (Necessary to be able to Make Play)

Because we carry the Recoded Alive skill, to be able to play, we must manage and summon Decode Talker to the Extra Monster Zone (condition to activate the skill), the Recoded Alive card placed face down by the skill can be activated right away. the turn it is face down.

As for how to summon Decode Talker, I probably don't need to say anything =)) We will revolve around swarming Salamangreats. If the hand is good, we can combine it with Lady Debug or Micro Coder, to have enough Link 3 is to be.

Basic combos

Basic combo of this Deck right after summoning Decode Talker.

Activate the skill immediately to have Recoded Alive on the field
Link Decode Talker with any monster on the field to get Link 4 Firewall Dragon (Although there is no image, the best place to place the Firewall Dragon is in the Extra Monster Zone on your right side)
Activate Recoded Alive, banish Decode Talker in the grave to summon Shootingcode Talker right below Firewall Dragon so we can Co-Linked these 2 cards and + 1 quick Return (If we placed Firewall Extra Monster Zone on the right, now Shootingcode Talker will have a Link Arrow pointing to the box in the middle of the field.)
Return and enjoy >1 attack of Shootingcode Talker

This is the basic combo of the deck. If you can place the correct box above, you can perform an extended combo. Don't worry if it's short because there are only 4 steps =)) To summon Decode Talker, we have to dance a lot and sometimes even get Misplay.

Extended Combo

This extended combo will be performed immediately after performing the basic combo (conditions when we have a pretty good hand):

There is Shootingcode Talker, Firewall Dragon and any monster on the field (assuming it is Salamangreat Gazelle)
Activate Firewall's Return effect (if your opponent has no cards, you can return your own to recover resources)
Link Firewall Dragon with Salamangreat Gazelle spawns any Link 2 monster (Code Talker, Knightmare Phoenix, Security Dragon,...) in the center of the field that Shootingcode points to, but does not summon the extra zone monster.
Activate Recoded Alive to bring back Decode Talker in the banish zone
At this time, we can also Link 3 continue to create Knighmare Unicorn using Link 2 in step 3 with Decode or Shootingcode

Activating Recoded Alive in the grave is a quick effect. If you don't need to summon anything else, you should activate this card in the battle phase to surprise the enemy.
This combo should only be used when the enemy has a fairly hard field, but if possible, we should keep the field right in Step 1 so that Shootingcode Talker can have 3 attacks.

One more thing, if we have a Backdoor, (can be drawn from hand or obtained from Micro coder), do not hesitate to use it on Firewall. From there we can continue the combo with the card we just searched for and empty the Extra Monster Zone to activate Recoded Alive