Gunkan Suship Card List

The Gunkan Suship archetype from Dawn of Majesty is one of Master Duel’s most distinctive rogue strategies. Rather than climbing a ladder of Link or Synchro monsters, Suship players assemble sushi boats on the field, stack toppings as Equip Cards, and then Xyz Summon warships that inherit those toppings’ effects. Understanding every card in the toolbox is the first step toward building consistent competitive builds or a lean budget list.

This hub organizes the full card pool into three practical sections. Main Deck monsters cover the ships and toppings that start your engine: Gunkan Suship Shari, Shari Red, Uni, Ikura, and Shirauo. The Extra Deck holds the Xyz fleet—Uni-class Dreadnought, Ikura-class Dreadnought, and Shirauo-class Light Carrier—that converts equipped toppings into board control and lethal damage. Spells and traps explain how Gunkan Sushipyard, Catch-of-the-Day, and Daily Special glue the deck together while tech choices like Painful Decision accelerate your Shari line.

How Suship cards interact

Every Gunkan card belongs to one of two roles on the table. Ships are the bodies you summon and eventually overlay: Shari and Shari Red are the standard hulls. Toppings are smaller Gunkan monsters that attach to a ship you control, usually through Sushipyard or Daily Special, granting ATK/DEF boosts and triggered effects. Once a ship wears the right toppings, you detach material and Xyz Summon the matching Dreadnought or Carrier from the Extra Deck. That single pipeline—summon, equip, overlay—is what every core combo line repeats.

The archetype’s power in Master Duel comes from layering searches and equips in one turn. Catch-of-the-Day triggers when you Normal or Special Summon a Gunkan monster, adding another name from the deck. Shari Red can place toppings directly from the deck, skipping slow brick hands. Sushipyard makes any topping in hand an instant Equip Spell, which matters when you need Shirauo’s negate or Uni’s removal right before an Xyz climb. None of these pieces is flashy alone; together they produce Rank 4 and Rank 5 boards that surprise meta decks unprepared for omnipresent equip effects.

What to read next

If you are learning the deck from scratch, start with the main deck monster guide to memorize each topping’s trigger and stat line, then study the Extra Deck ships so you know which overlay matches which equipped board. Spell and trap details—including when to set Catch before summoning—live on the support card page. For a full deep dive on the deck’s recursive search engine, read the dedicated Catch-of-the-Day guide covering multi-activate lines, Shari Red synergy, and hybrid cut decisions. When your card knowledge is solid, move to engine package ratios and the going-first and going-second OTK combo primers.

Competitive pilots also cross-reference the combos hub for line-by-line sequencing and the builds hub for hand trap counts and F2P crafting priorities. Suship rewards players who know card text verbatim: a mis-timed Daily Special or an overlay with the wrong topping order can end a duel, while precise play steals games from stronger engines.