Well I have had the pleasure to play against the Polar Gods (Aesir in EN) and I am beginning to believe that this deck type is a lot stronger and competitive than once believed. I'd like to use this thread as a way to develop tactics and techniques towards making this type quite competitive

It can depend on which one really.

Mixing them all up isn't nearly as viable as one would want, even with Vanadis being able to substitute for each Tuner in terms of the Synchro Summon and whatnot.

Polar Star Beast with Thor has the best advantage of having monsters being able to more easily bring out numbers without too big a cost to you in order to Synchro Summon out Thor. The downside is that Thor is pretty basic out of the 3 Polar Gods in simply negating your opponent's face-up monsters for the turn. Though, it's the 2nd strongest at 3500 ATK and Thor is known to be more about brute force than "tricks" like Loki.

Polar Star Spirit with Loki is a bit in the middle with somewhat trickier ways/higher cost to bring out (especially with Mara). Loki may be the weakest of the 3 at 3300, but its ability to negate a m/t during the Battle Phase comes in handy.

Polar Star Fairy with Odin comes at greater cost to you overall, but Odin being the most powerful (both ATK-wise at 4000, and effect-wise in being able to make itself immune to m/t for the turn, and being Thor's and Loki's father, lol).


One of the biggest (stupid) complaints people had/have/will have is "not enough Tuners" for each family, given their reliance on, for their Synchro Summon and revival, needing to remove a Tuner belonging to their respective family...not even considering that both were meant to balance them out given the anime versions were evil...

The TCG-exclusives do help though, like Polar Star Light.

Sadly, from what I've seen, the only way to make them "competitive" is butchering the theme until it's pretty much a "staple" Deck that just so happens to have a small number of the actual themed cards involved x_x

Well that's what works best.

I mean from each tribe you have

Ljostalf of The Nordic Alfar
Mara of The Nordic Alfar
Vanadis of The Nordic Ascendant
Valkyrie of The Nordic Ascendant
Guldfaxe of The Nordic Beasts
Tanngrisnir of The Nordic Beasts
Tanngnjóstr of The Nordic Beasts

These are pretty much the cards that get the work done. Odin gets the most abuse in this deck, but Loki would be the tech card and Thor is the standard. From this core of monsters, just about anything can happen.

Tyr of The Nordic Champions gets a bit of love on the ground that between he and the Ljostalf, there is definitely going to be a Loki summon when Mara hits the board.

The Key will be the draw/economy engine. If the deck is fast and has good economy, it may prove difficult to be beat.

Yeah, the main problem is lack of themed draw cards. The only one that does that being Odin and only when revived via his effect.

Otherwise, you gotta rely on Deck thinning via Gleipnir. Tanngnjostr only works for Polar Star Beast monsters, sadly, which further illustrates why Thor is the fastest while not costing you a whole lot while Loki and Odin has Mara and Valkyrja respectively costing you 2 monsters from your hand.


This also shows again that if Konami is going to release a family from the anime, then they should also be prepared to actually support it more outside of merely the anime cards and besides a pinch of originals (and not solely TCG exclusives either), and/or besides them simply being popular (whether because of "competitive" use or the anime). If they're just going to have it last 1 Set, especially if it has a lot of potential to improve, then they'd be better off NOT releasing it at all rather than constantly having it dangle in front of us, hoping they'll continue it, only to not have it happen for YEARS, if ever...(or tease us with said pinch of originals, then nothing else) =\

This is the same way I felt with the (Iron) Chain family back with CSOC; so much milling potential with the Deck if it had been expanded on after CSOC, but it was only in that 1 Set and nothing else ever came out of them after (not even exclusives). The only defense they have is that 5D's had only just started then too, so it's not like Konami had much to go on at the time in terms of anime themes to release.

In that, That is why you don't use valkyrie, but Vanadis. Valkyrie has too high a cost to pay for that I would be comfortable with, and frankly, I don't think valkyrie has a place in the build. vanadis is the key tuner, and that guldfaxe takes a secondary role. It's a easy summoned tuner which needs at least two spots. Deck thinning has to happen, but Fetters of Fenrir isn't the only option, but it is a viable one. There are more, but it does require a bit of... research.

Valkyrja is actually balanced overall when you think about it. For 1 Normal Summon, you essentially substitute 2 extra Polar Star monsters for the 2 Tokens, thus getting a quick Odin on your first (overall 2nd) turn.

Of course, earlier on is the preferred method as opposed to later.

at the cost of you giving up hand size, considering your hand can be used as psych weapon

For such an easy Odin, of course it's going to end up costing you more to get it out so much faster than usual rather than building up over a couple turns. Same with Mara and Loki. That's where the balance comes in, so people aren't able to simply mindlessly throw onto the field and get a big monster at little to no cost/downside like they may expect these days (the 5D's era TERRIBLY spoiled people, so now their expectations are really unrealistic for stuff and anything actually balanced is seen as "meh" or worse).

If indeed I had to, it would be double aesir and side the third. I would probably set aside a loki and thor to main and side Odin. He's the only one I'll need I'm getting hammered with backrow.

On a side note, does anyone have a skeleton of this deck to be used.

Even with the TCG-exclusives, I haven't really seen many builds for it.