Ponix + any Fire King

Adding a second card to the 1-card Ponix combos makes them so much more powerful, allowing you to add multiple layers of interruption besides Garunix Eternity, Hyang of the Fire Kings.

Depending on the second card, though, the combos can vary slightly from one another, usually to optimize or improve them in some way. As such, we'll cover each specific 2-card combo in individual pages, discussing what makes it unique and what you should look out for.

That said, all those combos build on the same play patterns we covered earlier in this book, following most of the same steps and only diverging where necessary. Thus, it's possible to standardize them into a handful of generic combos that can be reused for any opening hand where you have Legendary Fire King Ponix and a Fire King monster. They might be slightly inefficient compared to the specific variants, but keeping things simple can be great when starting out and learning the deck.

Let's take a look at them and see what can be done with just 2 cards:

Princess + Arvata setup

This route aims to play under Nibiru, and avoid Fuwalos as much as possible.

As such, it ends on Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames and a Fire King Avatar Arvata. This ensures the combo stays as minimal as possible while still setting up multiple interruptions.

In the video above, Fire King High Avatar Garunix is used as a placeholder for "any Fire King", as its effects do not extend or impact our combo in any way. (Beware its Standby Phase effect though!)

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

Under Mulcharmy Fuwalos, your opponent draws 1 card.

Steps

Amblowhale setup (with a High Kirin in hand, via Sunlight Wolf)

This route trades Nibiru safety for more interruption, choosing to end on an Amphibious Swarmship Amblowhale backed up by both Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames and a Fire King High Avatar Kirin in hand, added with the Sunlight Wolf recycling pattern.

Fire King High Avatar Garunix is used as a placeholder for "any Fire King" in the following video, as it does not extend or impact our combo in any way.

In the video above, Fire King High Avatar Garunix is used as a placeholder for "any Fire King", as its effects do not extend or impact our combo in any way. (Beware its Standby Phase effect though!)

This route plays into Nibiru, the Primal Being - be careful!

Under Mulcharmy Fuwalos, your opponent draws 4 cards.

Steps

Amblowhale setup (with Ulcanix and Duelittle Chimera in GY)

This route, like the previous Amblowhale setup, trades away Nibiru safety, but this time in exchange for more utility.

We choose to destroy Fire King Courtier Ulcanix from the deck, setting her up in the GY and aiming to revive her during the opponent's turn and search a card we need, or set up a Rangbali negate.

Additionally, we make full use of the material for Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames by first Link Summoning Duelittle Chimera, which provides a nifty ATK boost, while also recovering a card from the GY when it's destroyed.

In the video above, Fire King High Avatar Garunix is used as a placeholder for "any Fire King", as its effects do not extend or impact our combo in any way. (Beware its Standby Phase effect though!)

This route plays into Nibiru, the Primal Being - be careful!

Under Mulcharmy Fuwalos, your opponent draws 4 cards.

Steps