Empty Jar
Empty Jar is a combo deck that seeks to deck out the opponent over the course of a single turn. The combo centers around using Book of Taiyou on Cyber Jar and/or Morphing Jar to activate their effects on the very turn they’re set.
Overview
Empty Jar is a combo deck that seeks to deck out the opponent over the course of a single turn. The combo centers around using Book of Taiyou on Cyber Jar and/or Morphing Jar to activate their effects on the very turn they’re set. Doing so yields five new cards, which hopefully enable the use of The Shallow Grave (on a Cyber Jar) or Book of Moon (on a Morphing Jar) followed by another Book of Taiyou to repeat the process. Each Jar activation has the additional effect of increasing the opponent’s hand size while decreasing their deck size. Once a critical mass is reached, the Empty Jar player activates Card Destruction and chains Serial Spell. Serial Spell will discard the player’s hand as a cost while keeping the opponent’s hand size the same. Card Destruction and Serial Spell (copying Card Destruction) then resolve. While the Empty Jar player has nothing to discard/draw, the opponent will deck themselves out.
While the deck is capable of a FTK, it is more appropriate to call Empty Jar an OTK deck. The deck is highly capable of playing a patient game compared to other alt win decks, such as Library OTK or Reasoning Gate Turbo. A skilled Jar player may hold off on their combo, even if they are capable of doing so turn one.
Deck List
One of the most common forms of the deck, Mystic Tomato searches for Cyber Jar, which can die to combat so as to be summoned back with a Shallow Grave, or flipped face-down with Book of Moon. Thunder Dragon thins the deck and pairs well with early Card Destructions and Reloads.
Monsters
1x Morphing Jar
1x Cyber Jar
3x Thunder Dragon
3x Mystic Tomato
1x Sangan
Spells
1x Heavy Storm
3x Mind Control
2x A Feather of the Phoenix
3x Book of Moon
3x Book of Taiyou
1x Card Destruction
1x Pot of Greed
1x Graceful Charity
1x Premature Burial
2x Upstart Goblin
1x Serial Spell
3x Reload
3x The Shallow Grave
3x Spell Reproduction
3x Giant Trunade
Traps
Additional Card Options
Most of the below cards are uncommon for any Empty Jar list, though they have been seen. Of the more popular ones, Card of Safe Return provides extra digging every time Jar is revived, Level Limit protects the Jar player while they assemble the combo, and Rock Bombardment grants immediate access to Jar should you have a Shallow Grave.
- Magician of Faith
- Mystic Tomato
- Newdoria
- Card of Safe Return
- Dragged Down into the Grave
- Level Limit: Area B
- Mind Control
- Scapegoats + Metamorphosis
- Swords of Revealing Light
- Rock Bombardment
- Gravity Bind
- Desert Sunlight
Articles and Reports
Modern Articles
- Goatformat.com's Previous Deck Page
- Format Library's Deck Page
- Yugioh Wiki Deck Page
- Empty Jar in Goat Format: By Anteaus
- Anketsu's Empty Jar Article
