Archetype Contest

The **Archetype Contest** which was never named was the annual contest in *SOUL Monsters*. It was the contest which had made Frisk create her Mt. Ebott Deck, and later enrolled into Duel Academy. Since then more winners kept being known featuring new, and strong Decks created from there imagination.

## Biography

While never really given a reason why it existed, the Archetype Contest allows several seasoned duelists to create there own cards to use for there own dueling prowess. While placing in creative spins, usually it also has several people to place in cards that are unfair, or focusing on just one card to where Seto Kaiba is usually the judge deciding which Deck works well, and decides with a fair evaluation.

## Rules

The rules are never listed as such but as was shown from Frisk attempting the contest, the cards have to be unique, and also have pictures taken to show the authentic touch of the different archetypes while also making a unique, and different playstyle.

The grand prize for winning the contest is a scholarship, and free tuition to enroll into Seto Kaiba's school, Duel Academy on Academy Island.

## Winners

1. Frisk Kumar. The first winner of the contest from The Duelist of Mt. Ebott. Her created Deck is a **"Mt. Ebott"** Deck from her adventures into the mountain with the same name primarily focusing on summoning monsters while using several effects to form unpredictable strategies, and form multiple attacks in a quick beat-down strategic style with several forms of defense.

2. Marek Kaiba. The second winner of the contest from Mt. Ebott vs the Society of Light. The Deck he created is a **"Metal Gear"** Deck ranging on effective burn damage with Machine monsters usually around the initial named monsters for effective lockdown combos or consecutive burn damage methods almost capable of performing a quick one-turn kill.

3. Kitsuna Foxel. The third winner of the contest from Dimension World of Destruction. The Deck she created is a **"Kitsune"** Deck, focused on Trap Cards, and field manipulation to use a wide array of Trap cards, and also quickly use them from the Hand while also providing numerous benefits to her monsters, and being the first Deck to debut Synchro Summoning.

4. Hakuoh Takemaru. The forth winner of the contest from the Nightshroud Arc of Darkest Determination. His created Deck is a **"Sovngarde (archetype)"** Deck where it focuses on his Field Spell, **"Sovngarde"** full of Dragon monsters or the "Dragon Priest" series of cards to use as "Phantoms" to build the strength of his cards, and use field lockdown to bring a quick offensive attack at the cost of not being allowed to attack when his monsters are summoned.

5. Troy Mason. The fifth winner of the contest from the Chara Arc of Darkest Determination which the contest was taken in early due to the contest's popularity. Troy's Deck is a **"Armada"** Deck focusing on forcing his opponent to draw cards, and gain benefits from doing so ranging from beatdown tactics, and in some cases locking down newly drawn cards while also readying large playing strategies that also involves Synchro Summoning the boss monster; "Armada Mothership".

Several other winners unknown.

?. Nicholas. A winner of the contest from the Starting Arc of The Hope Reborn that had been misplaced having entered with his sister but wasn't noticed before. His Deck was nicknamed the "Loser Deck" by his sister as he had always loses before entering the contest. It is a **"Brush God"** Deck with a playing style hinting to summon multiple monsters, and a summon the boss monster; "Sun Goddess Shiranui" for a later time but was never used in duels.