Disaster Dragon
Deck Creator: Richard Clarke
"Disaster Dragon" is a deck created by Richard Clarke. It is an aggressive control oriented deck that plays disruption strategies to gain and maintain control of the duel. Utilizing a pure dragon lineup it is an evolution of the popular "Hopeless Dragon" deck from Japan. "Disaster Dragon" is one of the most popular dragon decks in the competitive scene and easily the most consistent, outranked only by SOL Hopeless in tournament results.
Here are two examples of a Disaster Dragon Decklist:
Yamata Disaster Dragon
Main Deck: 40
Monsters: 20
3 Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 Koa'ki Meiru Drago
3 Red Eyes Wyvern
3 Masked Dragon
2 Exploder Dragon
1 Yamata Dragon
1 Genesis Dragon
1 Magna Drago
1 Debris Dragon
1 Totem Dragon
1 Plaguespreader Zombie
Spells: 13
1 Heavy Storm
1 Brain Control
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Giant Trunade
1 Lightning Vortex
1 Foolish Burial
1 Creature Swap
1 Future Fusion
1 Burial from a Different Dimension
2 Book of Moon
2 Gold Sarcophagus
Traps: 7
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Mirror Force
1 Solemn Judgment
2 Burst Breath
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
Light and Darkness Disaster Dragon
Main Deck: 40
Monsters: 22
1 Genesis Dragon
3 Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
2 Light and Darkness Dragon
1 Exploder Dragon
3 Masked Dragon
1 Prime Material Dragon
2 Red Eyes Wyvern
3 Koa'ki Meiru Drago
2 Totem Dragon
1 White Night Dragon
1 Plaguespreader Zombie
1 Debris Dragon
1 Magna Drago
Spells: 12
1 Future Fusion
2 Creature Swap
1 Lightning Vortex
2 Gold Sarcophagus
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
2 Book of Moon
1 Burial from the Different Dimension
1 Heavy Storm
1 Brain Control
Traps: 6
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Mirror Force
1 Torrential Tribute
2 Burst Breath
Disaster Dragon is a control oriented deck that plays disruption strategies mixed with lockdown aggression to gain and maintain control of the board. It carries a lot of momentum and explosive power as the deck can consistently drop 2+ monsters per turn without losing advantage and often times they will be big monsters. This is done through the use of the decks backbone card “Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon”. Weighing in at 2800ATK this card is easily the most powerful or one of the most powerful dragons in the deck, outclassed only by a potential “White Night Dragon”. Red-Eyes effect allows for the constant recursion of monsters from the graveyard as well as the ability to bypass the normal summon limit and the requirements for tributes that many decks suffer from. As a result Disaster decks are packing some of the highest ATK monsters in the present Metagame, because they can bypass the tribute mechanic required to summon them.
Obviously ATK points don’t do much on their own but the fact that its carrying these powerhouses only serves to solidify Disaster Dragons real strength; disruption and lockdown. Through the usage of cards such as Koa’ki Meiru Drago, Exploder Dragon and Light and Darkness Dragon alone the deck is capable of shutting out and eliminating a majority of plays made by the current popular decks. The deck plays like a toolbox, with Masked Dragon working to recruit the dragons you need for tributes, Synchros, battle, monster removal, etc and cards like Red-Eyes Darkness and Genesis Dragon allowing you to reuse them. Cards such as Foolish Burial and Future Fusion allow you to dump dragons into your graveyard faster while also aiding in the deck inherent synergy; some dragons such as Yamata Dragon or Light and Darkness Dragon cannot be Special Summoned, thus they are unable to cheat their 2-tribute requirement via Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon as most dragons would. Instead the deck utilizes “Totem Dragon” a self-recurring dragon that can act as 2 sacrifices in order to summon a dragon-type monster. Being a dragon in itself Totem Dragon is a viable target to search with Masked Dragon or to dump with Future Fusion. It can also be easily revived via Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon.
The idea with Koa'ki Meiru Drago is to play it after Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon is on the field, or simply remove him from the field by other means in order to summon Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon. One of the most common analogies for Koa'ki Meiru Drago usage compares it to a switch, courtesy of a feature match involving Richard Clarke where he flipped Koa'ki Meiru Drago on and off the field allowing himself all the Special Summons and locking his opponent out of everything.
Future Fusion also carries synergy with the newly released Genesis Dragon. Allowing you to discard dragons from your deck to the grave and simply retrieve them to your hand in a form of reverse tutoring. Genesis Dragon also carries synergy with Yamata Dragon and Light and Darkness Dragon. Both dragons cannot be Special Summoned from the grave but via Genesis they can be resummoned again and again. An infinite loop exists with Light and Darkness Dragon and Genesis Dragon where in you sacrifice Red-Eyes Darkness Metal and Genesis Dragon for Light and Darkness Dragon. When that dies you bring back Red-Eyes and use its effect to revive Genesis who grabs back the Light and Darkness Dragon. Then you can sacrifice them both to summon it again and spam Light and Darkness Dragon. It’s fairly unstable for obvious reasons but the ability to infinitely reuse a monster as powerful as Light and Darkness Dragon is definitely an option the deck has at its disposal.
In basic summary Disaster Dragon is a more control oriented deck that utilizes a full deck of dragons. As it doesn't rely on any combo's to go off it’s by far the most consistent dragon deck and is one of the favoured choices online. Future Fusion is the power house dumper of the deck, and although it’s not needed it kicks the deck into high gear instantly by giving you 5 dragons of your choice in the grave - right where you want them. Masked Dragon acts as a recruiter toolbox engine, Red-Eyes can swarm the field or reuse dragons, Yamata and Light and Darkness rack up a ton of advantage and disrupt/lock down the field, Prime Material Dragon covers your dragons from s/t hate, Koa'ki Meiru locks out the top decks Light and Dark summons and also acts as another control measure and Genesis is basically the best thing ever, allowing you to recycle lost dragons, trade in dead ones and tons more. The deck does not pilot itself and requires forethought and careful consideration of options. Every choice made with what you dump, search, revive can tilt the scales in either favour. It plays aggressively - as almost every monster in the deck has higher ATK than opposing monsters they can utilize this in their favour and play a momentum game. By locking down the opponents options while you continue to amass your own it is quite easy to take complete control of a duel in a matter of turns.
You can also find this post on Wikipedia here. Thanks to Bahamut Dragon King from Pojo forums for making the page.
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