Joms

The Joms are an archetype used by Perun in the anime, composed of warrior-types of the Light, Earth, and Dark attributes.

Design
The Joms are based off of the pseudo-legendary [wikipedia:Jomsvikings Jomsvikings]], a renowned company of vikings. Because of this, a number of their cards, such as Red Eric, are based off of real-life vikings. They are also considered to have taken inspiration from the Gladiator Beasts, due to their somewhat similar swarm mechanic.

Playing Style
The primary strategy of a Joms deck is to utilize the "recruitment" mechanic that most of them possess; almost every non-tuner Jom can either summon itself or another Jom to the field under certain conditions by paying a cost, typically life points equal to either half or the full amount of the monster's Life points, though there are cards that can negate this cost. This is meant to represent taking damage from the enemy and calling in reinforcements, and serves to allow for easy Synchro Summoning of the archetype's three Synchros. The Jom Synchros have effects that support the archetype, and each of them have a secondary effect: "At the beginning of your third standby phase after Synchro Summoning this card, destroy it and...". This allows for easy advantage, as the archetypes trump cards, Greatjom Huginn and Highjom Muninn, Special Summon themselves from the deck when a Jom Synchro monster is destroyed. Most of the archetype's spell and trap cards center around gaining field advantage by destroying opponent's monsters. Because of the high costs of most "Jom" monster's effects, it is vital that a Jom player get Jomsborg-in-Mist, or at least Jomscaptain - Gabriel the Stray out as soon as possible.

Suggested Cards
Jomscaptain - Gabriel the Stray Jomscaptain - Hákarl the Savage Jomscaptain - Surt the Hammer Greatjom Huginn Highjom Muninn Jomsguard - Red Eric Palnatoke the Jomsfounder Harbard - Jom of the Retreat Vedfolnir - Jom of the Charge Volundr - Jom of Victory Stamford Stand Hammer of the Holmgang Nithing Jomsborg-in-Mist Longship of Legends