Ponix + Arvata

Thanks to its on-destruction effect, opening Fire King Avatar Arvata gives you access to higher-ceiling combos and endboards. It also gives you a lot of flexibility as you end up generating a lot of Link Material that you can use in any way you want.

Promethean Princess + Arvata setup (with Ulcanix in GY)

As Arvata is already in the GY at the time Sacred Fire King Garunix is summoned, you can deviate from the generic 2-card Ponix combo and destroy Fire King Courtier Ulcanix instead.

This allows you to still reach the same Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames + Fire King Avatar Arvata endboard while giving you more options. By Special Summoning Ulcanix during the interruption sequence, you can add any Fire King you need from your Deck to your hand, either to further interrupt your opponent, or set up your turn 3 plays.


This combo stops Nibiru, the Primal Being, as Arvata is the 5th summon.

Under Mulcharmy Fuwalos, your opponent draws 2 cards.

Steps

  1. Normal Summon Legendary Fire King Ponix.
  2. Activate Ponix: add Fire King Sanctuary from your Deck to your hand.
  3. Activate Sanctuary: place Fire King Island in the Field Zone.
  4. Activate Island: destroy Fire King Avatar Arvata, then add Sacred Fire King Garunix from your Deck to your hand.
  5. Activate Sacred: Special Summon it from your hand.
  6. Activate Sacred again: destroy Fire King Courtier Ulcanix in your Deck.
  7. Activate Ulcanix: Special Summon Fire King High Avatar Garunix from your Deck.
  8. Link Summon Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames.
  9. Activate Promethean Princess: Special Summon Arvata from the GY.

Promethean Princess + Arvata + High Kirin setup

An alternative to the previous line is to instead destroy Fire King High Avatar Kirin. This still allows you to set up Promethean Princess + Arvata safely, but you also get High Kirin on the field.


This combo stops Nibiru, the Primal Being, as Arvata is the 5th summon.

Under Mulcharmy Fuwalos, your opponent draws 2 cards.

Steps

  1. Normal Summon Legendary Fire King Ponix.
  2. Activate Ponix: add Fire King Sanctuary from your Deck to your hand.
  3. Activate Sanctuary: place Fire King Island in the Field Zone.
  4. Link Summon Salamangreat Almiraj.
  5. Activate Island: destroy Fire King Avatar Arvata, then add Sacred Fire King Garunix from your Deck to your hand.
  6. A chain forms:
    • CL1: Activate Sacred: Special Summon it from your hand.
    • CL2: Activate Arvata: Special Summon Ponix from the GY.
  7. Activate Sacred again: destroy Fire King High Avatar Kirin in your Deck.
  8. Activate High Kirin: Special Summon Arvata from the GY.
  9. Link Summon Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames.
  10. Activate Promethean Princess: Special Summon High Kirin from the GY.

High Kirin can either be used as material for Garunix Eternity, Hyang of the Fire Kings, or be destroyed by Hyang, triggering its second effect. This allows you to Special Summon a Fire King from GY (or hand), then destroy a card (maybe a Spell/Trap or any card that might have entered the field after Hyang was summoned).

A neat trick you can do with this endboard is using Arvata to negate a monster effect, destroying High Kirin on resolution. High Kirin's effect will trigger, Special Summoning a Fire King from your hand or GY, then you can destroy 1 card on the field (such as the monster negated earlier, turning Arvata's negate into a destruction effect too).

Promethean Princess + Arvata setup (with High Kirin in your hand, and a 3rd monster on the field)

Variating further on the previous line, you can instead opt to go for Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf and add Fire King High Avatar Kirin to your hand instead of summoning it to the field.

It's a very open-ended line, giving you access to a few different plays you can make before passing turn to the opponent.


This combo stops Nibiru, the Primal Being, as Arvata is the 5th summon.

Under Mulcharmy Fuwalos, your opponent draws 4-5 cards.

Steps

  1. Normal Summon Legendary Fire King Ponix.
  2. Activate Ponix: add Fire King Sanctuary from your Deck to your hand.
  3. Activate Sanctuary: place Fire King Island in the Field Zone.
  4. Link Summon Salamangreat Almiraj.
  5. Activate Island: destroy Fire King Avatar Arvata, then add Sacred Fire King Garunix from your Deck to your hand.
  6. A chain forms:
    • CL1: Activate Sacred: Special Summon it from your hand.
    • CL2: Activate Arvata: Special Summon Ponix from the GY.
  7. Activate Sacred again: destroy Fire King High Avatar Kirin in your Deck.
  8. Activate High Kirin: Special Summon Arvata from the GY.
  9. Link Summon Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf using Almiraj and Sacred.
  10. Link Summon Relinquished Anima using Ponix.
  11. Activate Sunlight Wolf: add High Kirin from the GY to your hand.
  12. Link Summon Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames using Sunlight Wolf and Anima.

You can further extend this board by using Promethean Princess' effect, giving you multiple options:

  • Special Summon Sunlight Wolf under the other Extra Monster Zone, forcing opponents on Link decks to let you recover another card from the GY (or try to play around it).
  • Special Summon Ponix, which can be used by Arvata, High Kirin or Promethean Princess' effects, or can just be destroyed by Garunix Eternity, Hyang of the Fire Kings so it returns to your hand next turn.
  • Special Summon Almiraj, in some niche applications where you need to protect Arvata/Promethean Princess from being destroyed by your opponent.
  • Summon any FIRE monster, then Link Summon Hiita the Fire Charmer, Ablaze using Promethean Princess and the summoned monster, thus setting up Promethean Princess in the GY while still keeping Arvata online.

Sunlight Wolf setup (with Ponix + High Kirin in your hand)

This line plays similarly to the Ponix + any FIRE line, using a Garunix Eternity, Hyang of the Fire Kings to extend during your turn.

However, instead of ending on a Level 8 Fire King Courtier Ulcanix, you can leverage Arvata's effect and make a Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf, under which you can summon Fire King High Avatar Kirin to recover a card from the GY.


This combo plays into Nibiru, the Primal Being - read the section at the end for more details on how to recover.

Under Mulcharmy Fuwalos, your opponent draws 3 cards.

Steps

  1. Normal Summon Legendary Fire King Ponix.
  2. Activate Ponix: add Fire King Sanctuary from your Deck to your hand.
  3. Activate Sanctuary: place Fire King Island in the Field Zone.
  4. Activate Island: destroy Ponix, then add Sacred Fire King Garunix from your Deck to your hand.
  5. Activate Sacred: Special Summon it from your hand.
  6. Activate Sacred again: destroy Fire King Courtier Ulcanix in your Deck.
  7. Activate Ulcanix: Special Summon Fire King High Avatar Garunix from your Deck.
  8. Xyz Summon Garunix Eternity, Hyang of the Fire Kings.
  9. Activate Hyang, detaching Sacred; target Island to destroy it.
    • At resolution, use Sanctuary's effect to destroy Hyang instead.
  10. Activate Hyang again; Special Summon Ulcanix from the GY.
  11. Activate Ulcanix: destroy Fire King Avatar Arvata, add Fire King High Avatar Kirin from your Deck to your hand, then declare on resolution that Ulcanix is now Level 8.
  12. Activate Arvata; Special Summon High Garunix from GY.
  13. Link Summon Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf.
  14. Pass turn.

Opponent's turn

  1. In the Standby Phase, activate Ponix: add it from the GY to your hand.

All the caveats, benefits and tricks you can do with the Ponix + any FIRE line apply here as well - so make sure you read that page!

If Nibiru hits
Regardless of where your opponent chooses to activate Nibiru, you will only lose access to Sunlight Wolf - you can still play just fine with the Ponix + High Kirin in your hand, but you can no longer recover a card from the GY.