Deck Analysis: "SOL Debris"

This is a really cool old deck that finally got the boost it needed to be good. Last format Yoshisrdragons and I decided to try and build a SOL deck that utilized Debris Dragon. For some reason we forgot to include Genesis Dragon, despite its obvious merits. That coupled with the limited targets for Lonefire Blossom left the deck as either a generic SOL build with Dandylions splashed or as an inconsistent SOL build attempting to incorporate Tytannial into its mix. With Black Rose limited the deck had very few useful targets to sync for. Needless to say the deck fell apart. Still the skeleton remained.

With the release of the Accel Synchros on DMG many members of the thread dedicated themselves to building some terrifyingly efficient engines to churn them out. Kahu I'm looking at you. Not all these decks utilized dragons, however. I designed a form of "Quickdraw Dragons" in an attempt to use Drill Warrior to reuse Debris and incorporate that into dragons. Again, in retrospect I have no idea why I didn't just use Genesis Dragon.

One of the deck ideas floated around was one attempting to utilize Battle Fader to Accel Synchro via The White Stone of Legend. This deck was thrown around for a little bit, tested with Kinkya-Byo and ultimately abandoned.

Then came Grow-Up Bulb. With the release of Starstrike Blast in the OCG plants received another beautiful Lonefire target. With its addition to the SOL arsenal in addition to that of Pot of Duality SOL Debris finally became a viable option.

Main Deck: 41

Monsters: 25
3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 The White Stone of Legend
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1 Genesis Dragon
3 Debris Dragon
1 Dread Dragon
1 Red-Eyes Wyvern
2 Dandylion
2 Lonefire Blossom
1 D.D. Crow
1 Sangan
1 Grow-Up Bulb
2 Chaos Sorcerer

Spells: 11
2 Trade-In
2 Cards of Consonance
1 Allure of Darkness
2 Pot of Duality
1 Dark Hole
1 Monster Reborn
1 Giant Trunade
1 Future Fusion

Traps: 5
1 Mirror Force
1 Torrential Tribute
2 Solemn Warning
1 Solemn Judgment

Extra Deck: 15
1 Five-Headed Dragon
2 Black Rose Dragon
2 Stardust Dragon
2 Formula Synchron
1 Shooting Star Dragon
1 Trident Dragion
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Dark End Dragon
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
1 Arcanite Magician
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Ally of Justice Catastor

The deck is pretty straight forward but I'll give a basic outline of how it runs.

Dandylion and Lonefire are Debris Dragons primary targets, Lonefire searches Dandy, thins the deck and also grabs me a direct route to Grow-Up Bulb. Dandylion gives me tokens to tune with via SOL, Dread or Debris Dragon or even to just act as a buffer for defense. SOL and Bulb are also Debris targets allowing for me to revive SOL for a Darkness Metal summon or to even tune the 1 star tuners with some tokens or other monsters that may be in play.

Debris Dragon is more powerful in this dragon deck than most because it has the ability to serve not only as a tuner via Dandy but also as Cards of Consonance fodder. The separating point between this deck and that do run Debris with Consonance is that it runs Genesis Dragon. In this deck Genesis Dragon has all of its usual utility with my dragons and draw cards, giving me access to SOL/Blue-Eyes and another method to summon Red-Eyes, etc. But it also acts as an instant Drill Warrior in that it allows me to recycle Debris Dragon for reuse. And of course this opens up a Trident Dragion OTK with Debris as well, which the Tokens from Dandylion supplement. Once Genesis dies it can give further targets for my draw cards and more use for my Debris by simply shuffling them all back into my deck should I so desire it.

Formula Synchron comes in and gives the deck advantage through drawing, thanks to CoC and Pot of Duality and Trade-In the deck already has consistency. Pot of Duality was a godsend for SOL decks. However, Formula gives yet another draw to the deck, which when paired with the thinning of Lonefire and SOL means I'm going to be seeing cards when I want them very often.

Sangan is in there to act as a dark, a floater and route to any of my weenie monsters from Dread and SOL to Dandylion and Lonefire.

Gorz should be self explanatory this format. Its dark, its level 7 so it combos with Bulb and SOL and in this field wipe heavy format it provides a nice solid defense.

Sorcerer is a power card as in most SOL decks. They feed off the Lights and Darks and have another 1 Star tuner in the form of Bulb now with which they can make Arcanite. They also provide a solid follow up to a Black Rose and when paired with tokens and/or Formula can make some awesome synchro plays.

Some card choices may not be universal. Most decks will want to run 40 cards and will thus likely drop the Crow. Chaos Sorcerer can be hard to get into play for builds that don't run D.D. Crow due to the lack of obvious Darks. Tragoedia isn't listed because while I was using this in New Zealand it was banned courtesy of Konami and their lovely blanket ruling. Yes I just ignored the fact they banned Genesis Dragon with it as well. Some builds may also choose to run Plaguespreader Zombie over Dread Dragon, or alternatively simply drop the Level 2 tuner altogether.

Some people try to fit Spore and Tytannial into this deck. Thats too many plants that do not contribute anything to the goals of the deck. They ultimately hinder its progress and screw with its consistency.

The Extra Deck is tricky. I have Colossal and Goyo sided as I rarely sync for them outside of select matchups. The choices you make with your Extra ultimately decide what plays you can make with the deck and some OCG players will obviously want a Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier in there.

If you can't afford Duality. Don't worry. This deck maxes out on Cards of Consonance very reliably. Just up that to 3 copies and then you have a free slot.

As for cards you don't see here; Bottomless fits into this deck well also, as does Mystical Space Typhoon. At the moment I'm just trading them around with other cards to see what works best.

The deck meshes well because there are a few plants which combine with the inherent structure of the deck and don't intrude any further. Overall the deck plays like a dragon form of Quickdraw.

New Blog

I've created a new blog.

This second blog will act as an archive for the Dragon Thread on Pojo.com forums.

Previously we had issues with the size of the opening post in our thread. Seeking to hold all relevant information on dragons it simply became too big for 1 post. As a result we divided it into smaller sections which we linked back to in each OP. However, as old threads were locked it prevented the ability to edit these posts and thus prevented us from adding new information to them.

The Dragon Thread Archives has been created in an attempt to alleviate that issue.

You can find it here.

Dragons Top 16 at YCS Milan

Yet another YCS top for dragons.

Kim Just Jensen

Monsters: 19
3 Koa’ki Meiru Drago
3 Red-Eyes Wyvern
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 Masked Dragon
1 Light and Darkness Dragon
1 Vice Dragon
1 Prime Material Dragon
1 Exploder Dragon
1 Totem Dragon
1 Delta Flyer
1 Dread Dragon

Spells: 12
3 Book of Moon
2 Gold Sarcophagus
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Future Fusion
1 Enemy Controller
1 Monster Reborn
1 Dark Hole
1 Giant Trunade

Traps: 9
2 Solemn Warning
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Mirror Force
1 Seven Tools of the Bandit
1 Burst Breath

Extra Deck: 15
2 Stardust Dragon
2 Black Rose Dragon
1 Dragunity Knight Gae Bulg
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Trident Dragion
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
1 Exploder Dragonwing
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Iron Chain Dragon
1 Five-Headed Dragon
1 Dark End Dragon

Side Deck: 15
2 Malevolent Catastrophe
2 Pulling the Rug
2 Nobleman of Crossout
2 Breaker the Magical Warrior
2 Effect Veiler
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1 Mind Control
1 Seven Tools of the Bandit

Source

Pokémon Special: "Giratina"

All hail Giratina!

Deck Feature: "SOL Unity"

Been testing this for several months now. The decklist choices seem pretty nailed out by now and with Dragunitys hitting stateside it seemed like a good time to reveal it.

SOL Genesis reshaped by the release of Dragunitys. It plays completely different to the other build, and is far faster. Though to be honest I prefer how the other build plays.

Main Deck: 40

Monsters: 18
3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 The White Stone of Legend
1 Dragunity Arms - Misteil
1 Red-Eyes Wyvern
1 Genesis Dragon
1 Dragunity Arms - Laevatein
2 Dragunity - Phalanx
2 Masked Dragon
1 Exploder Dragon

Spells: 15
1 Dark Hole
3 Cards of Consonance
3 Dragon Canyon
1 Future Fusion
1 Monster Reborn
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Giant Trunade
3 Trade-In

Traps: 7
2 Solemn Warning
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Mirror Force

Extra Deck: 15
1 Five-Headed Dragon
1 Magical Android
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Exploder Dragonwing
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Colossal Fighter
1 Dark End Dragon
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
1 Stardust Dragon
1 Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Trident Dragion
1 Red Nova Dragon

Deck Analysis: "SOL Genesis"

SOL Genesis has been my deck for the past format and a half now, and its running pretty well. I've got 2 Tops with it so far, placing 4th and 2nd. The deck is a lot of fun and I've been getting a lot of pressure from dragon users on pojo to write up an article on the deck. So that is what I'm going to try and do today.

Main Deck: 40

Monsters: 20
2 Chaos Sorcerer
3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 The White Stone of Legend
1 Dark Armed Dragon
1 Red-Eyes Wyvern
1 Genesis Dragon
1 Vice Dragon
1 Dread Dragon
2 Masked Dragon
1 Delta Flyer
1 Sangan

Spells: 13
2 Pot of Duality
1 Allure of Darkness
1 Dark Hole
2 Cards of Consonance
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Future Fusion
1 Monster Reborn
1 Giant Trunade
2 Trade-In

Traps: 7
1 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Seven Tools of the Bandit
2 Solemn Warning
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Mirror Force

Extra Deck: 15
1 Five-Headed Dragon
1 Magical Android
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Arcanite Magician
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Exploder Dragonwing
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Colossal Fighter
1 Dark End Dragon
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
2 Stardust Dragon
1 Trident Dragion

SOL Genesis is a control deck. Its a much slower paced deck than any of the others you've seen on this blog and it plays an attrition game. It favours singular versatile monsters that can profit from maximum interaction with other cards in the deck, not individual combos. As a result you won't see it running cards like Super Rejuvenation that you might see in other decks carrying a similar draw engine. This deck can support it, yes, but its not a combo deck, its not explosive, it doesn't OTK anymore than say... Disaster Dragon, so you have nothing to accelerate your draw into, plus the deck benefits from controlling the tempo and pace of the duel, recycling with Genesis, etc. Combos, whilst neat, are not welcome here.

SOL Genesis then is a control deck which capitalizes off of the advantage given by White Stone of Legend. If you're reading my blog I'll assume you know about my past decks by now and my obsession with the little egg. Like SOL Dragon before it this deck revolves around the advantage engine Stone of Legend creates. Utilizing SOL and Genesis Dragon the deck aims to constantly maintain its resources as it controls the duel with dragons; forcing the opponent to expend resources while your plays pay for themselves. Genesis Dragon and Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon maintain the versatile outlets for your dragon options, be it special summoning for +s and field presence, draw combos, or even just maintaining viable options in your hand. Cards like Chaos Sorcerer, Dark Armed Dragon and Dark Hole aim to enforce your plays, establishing field control and allowing you to gain further pluses off spent Dragons. One of my favourite combos from SOL Dragon is tuning Stone of Legend to Chaos Sorcerer to make Arcanite Magician then raking in the advantage the play creates. This play carried over to SOL Genesis, and although it may not occur with the same frequency the move is devastating in its own right.

The deck wins by whittling the opponent out of resources and just amassing its advantage, virtually leaning on them until they lose. At any point you find they present an opening you can, of course, simply swarm them with dragons in a manner akin to previous SOL decks. Blue-Eyes fuels the draw engine that feeds the deck its resources, and benefits from SOL recruiting it in that it gives you pluses in advantage whilst also making the draw engine more dependable and consistent. Its also just an amazing 3000ATKer - when brought back via Darkness Metal its just a +1 so its fate doesn't really matter, it can cause some serious disruption if you catch your opponent off guard with it.

It is this +1 off Red-Eyes that is so important. Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon is the backbone of many dragon decks. In SOL Genesis its role is not as necessary as in past SOL decks to ease the summoning of big hitters, however, its still a powerful asset to the deck. More often than not you'll use its effect to revive smaller dragons, or Genesis itself. Blue-Eyes being brought back as a floater won't often happen until you need to establish a push for game or feel the need for an even bigger hitter than your standard 2800 can muster.

Genesis Dragon is imperative to the deck, and it is for Genesis Dragon that I actually made the deck itself. Because he looks like a Rathalos. And Rathalos is awesome. Dragons used to be renown for their ability to bypass summoning requirements, cheat tributing costs, and carrying some of the heaviest hitters in the game. Now, however, dragons carry 9 possible draw cards, more than any other deck in the game; Trade-In, Cards of Consonance and Super Rejuvenation. Dragons carry some of the most versatile targets for these cards, something later developed on by Dragunitys and Dragons Canyon. Genesis Dragon allows for recycling of Draw card targets, and despite the fact that I am against the inclusion of Super Rejuvenation in this deck also feeds its cost. Genesis Dragon ensures that you never run out of fodder for Cards of Consonance and Trade-In, both with its discard and recycle effect and with its more Pot of Avaricesque effect; one that is actually very useful in this deck. In older variants I ran triple Consonance and Trade-In with double Genesis Dragon. This worked, however, it also led to some clogged hands. By cutting the draw cards down to 2 copies each I was able to ensure that I could still benefit from Genesis' abilities whilst also gaining more fodder for its effect. Spent SOLs and Blue-Eyes still serve a purpose in this deck in acting as free fodder for Genesis to recur other dragons. I still really want a 2nd Genesis in there but my tribute count is beginning to run a bit high.

A single Red-Eyes Wyvern is more preference on my end. Dual Wyverns could work well if you find you have the space, however, I personally find it to be a subpar deck building tactic. I found when I was running Deep Draw that the better I got with the deck the less I relied upon Red-Eyes Wyvern. This is the case with most dragon builds, bar perhaps Disaster which has no better alternative at the moment, however, I really felt it in Deep Draw. This realization eventually spread over to SOL Dragon and has since influenced my stance of dragon deck building; that is that running Red-Eyes Wyvern for the sole sake of recurring Darkness Metal is an inconsistent deck building tactic bordering on a subpar play at best - it reeks of the fact that we dragon users have no better altnernative and is something that should not be relied upon consistently. We may have had no better alternative in previous formats, but now we have Monster Reborn back. Wyvern should not be maxed.

The flaw in Wyvern is that it only has 1 target in the ENTIRE deck. Even if you run 3 Darnkess Metal (which, you should) you still only have 1 target for your Wyvern. Sure you can recurr other Wyverns, but thats moronic. The flaw in Red-Eyes Wyvern is it forces reliance on Future Fusion and Red-Eyes Darkness Metal. Whilst those cards may be our power plays, it does not bode well to construct decks that rely so heavily upon them that when they are disabled the deck falls flat on its face. Without Darkness Metal in play all copies of Red-Eyes Wyvern are vanilla 1800ATK piles of crap. 1800ATK isn't even high anymore, its average, its Shura/Firedog/Laquari fodder, feeds none of your draw cards and ultimately serves no more purpose than a vanilla monster until you get a Darkness Metal into play.

Thus when constructing a deck maxing Wyverns should not be considered "staples" as such. You wouldn't run 3 Mezuki for the sake of 3 other zombies, the fact that dragons virtually have to run Wyvern for the sake of Darkness Metal shows the flaw in our limited cardpool. Which brings us back to my focus on Genesis Dragons importance in this deck and its lack of reliance upon Darkness Metal.

All of that said, I have found despite my abhorring that which Wyvern stands for dragons as of yet do not have a fully viable alternative to it, and Monster Reborn will only get us so far, and thus a single copy is included in my deck.

The rest of the deck is fairly standard. The trap lineup is huge due to this deck aiming for a much loner game. If the game draws out you're better off; your monsters are self replacing and Genesis can refuel your deck and hand. The traps allow you to control your opponents ability to remove your control of the board, and in doing so help you to even further establish it. Solemn Warnings are virtually staples this format and it is for that reason that I'm running a single Seven Tools of the Bandit.

I had thought about running Trap Stun for a while this format, however, in the end 7 Tools outshone it. Last format the deck sided, and then eventually mained dual Royal Oppression. With Oppressions in deck Trap Stun allowed for a versatile method of shutting out my opponents traps for the turn whilst also preventing them from stopping my Special Summons via Oppression. This format, however, with the trap line-up shifting towards Counter Traps and Royal Oppression outclassed by Solemn Warning I find Trap Stun to be vastly inferior to 7 Tools.

SOL Genesis is not an OTK deck so the chances of it pulling off an OTK are low, sure it can, but any deck can. It lacks monster effects to destroy the set cards so the traps are still going to be there the next turn (unless you tech Tiger Dragon), and it has to then be used in the standby phase to block Solemn Warnings, since if they go off Stun cannot be chained. This then means that my Solemn Warnings and Solemn Judgments are down for the turn preventing me from blocking any Quickplays, Monster Effects and Trago/Faders that could impede my push for field control/game that turn.

7 Tools on the other hand may only block 1 trap but it ends the chain there and then. Unless they 7 Tools or Solemn back nothing can be activated after it due to its Counter Trap powaaaa. It also removes the trap in question, can be used reactively after a Solemn Judgment or Warning whilst also blocking any other traps I may have issue with. It also means in the case of those counter traps that are so rampant now; they still pay the cost. That helps my push more than Trap Stun not going off any. Since this deck is a control deck based around attrition that is better for its overall goals and playstyle.

7 Tools is better than Trap Stun in SOL Genesis, just as Solemn Warning is better than Royal Oppression. Oppression was good last format, but now we have better cards to run. Though yes, if you can't afford Warnings then run Oppression and in that instance Trap Stun becomes more viable, however, you should aim to not be running either as the deck is stronger without them.

Pot of Duality is back in force once more; especially in light of the latest Duality ruling on its interaction with Future Fusion there is really no reason not to run this card. For those of you who missed out here it is; If you play Duality then you can still activate Future Fusion on that turn and vice versa. However, obviously you cannot activate Pot of Duality on the turn Five-Headed from Future Fusion is summoned, nor can you End Phase a Wyvern the turn you play a Duality.

Anyway, thats my deck with a little write up on it. It gets a wonderful overhaul with the release of Dragunitys so stay tuned for that one.

Dragons Top 16 at YCS San Jose

This is old news by now for most, just thought I'd spread the word a little more.

William Miller (Top 32 – Dragons)

Monsters: 20
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 Red-Eyes Wyvern
3 Delta Flyer
2 Totem Dragon
2 Exploder Dragon
3 Masked Dragon
1 Yamata Dragon
1 Light and Darkness Dragon
1 Vice Dragon
1 Prime Material Dragon

Spells: 12
1 Gold Sarcophagus
1 Burial from a Different Dimension
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 My Body as a Shield
1 Giant Trunade
1 Future Fusion
1 Dark Hole
1 Foolish Burial
1 Monster Reborn
2 Book of Moon

Traps: 8
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Mirror Force
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Royal Oppression
2 Burst Breath
1 Solemn Judgment

Side Deck: 15
1 Consecrated Light
1 Pulling the Rug
1 Mind Crush
1 Koa’ki Meiru Drago
1 Light-Imprisoning Mirror
1 Malevolent Catastrophe
1 Dust Tornado
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1 Nobleman of Crossout
1 Battle Fader
1 Marshmallon
1 System Down
1 Enemy Controller
1 Starlight Road
1 Trap Stun

Extra Deck: 15
1 Armory Arm
1 Magical Android
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Exploder Dragonwing
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Stardust Dragon
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
1 Thought Ruler Archfiend
1 Colossal Fighter
1 Mist Wurm
1 Trident Dragion
1 Five-Headed Dragon
1 Iron Chain Dragon

Source.

S/T and Extra lineup look fairly standard. The monster lineup stands out due to obvious playset of Delta Flyers, lack of Dread and the inclusion of both LaDD and Yamata, which is uncommon. A single Vice is also an interesting move. One I doubt would have an apparent effect over dual copies, which I still prefer. No Koa'ki Meiru Drago mained is to be expected. And a move Ithquentbvare of Pojo.com has been urging Dragon Players to make for months now.

The side deck is where it gets trippy. That thing is a mess. And quite frankly; bad. Its designed for single swap exchanges with the main deck and isn't built to effectively deal with present metagame problems. It does lend the deck versatility in the way it sides, but also limits its response ability thus leading to the inevitable defeat in the top32 once he got into facing good players. The side does make sense from a maindeck perspective, but for a side decks purposes its a bad move, I feel.

Deck Analysis: "Dragunity!"

Dragunitys have long been a favourite deck of mine. Even before SOL Dragon I was running the basic Dragunitys in the OCG. Back in the days when triple Tribus was considered almost mandatory, followed up by Icarus Attack plays. Gadaerg was the best of the Dragunity Knights and the spoiler for Cards of Consonance was giving us nerd-gasms.

You know, all that fun nostalgic stuff people feel about a deck they used to play. Anyway Dragunitys recently got an overhaul, and by recently I mean, as of about 6 months ago. I promised the boys back on pojo I'd write an article and put it off until Jason wrote one on TCG Player. Given his article outlined the basics of Dragunity play I figured there was no longer a need for me to write one, but formats change and JDGloom's article is now several sets and a banlist out of date. Given that the TCG is about to get Dragunitys in Starstrike Blast and Hidden Arsenal 3 I figured now would be a good time to write a short spiel for the TCG dragon players who do not yet understand how the Dragunity deck works.

The decklist I'll be posting is the present deck I'm running, which means it runs Dragon Canyon a card dragon players should know all about. If you don't, follow the link in its name and learn about it quickly; in short its a searchable dumping engine for dragons that can be run in triplicate. Now Dragon Canyon and the Dragunity Arms series may not be the Dragunity promos being released in Starstrike Blast, but even if they aren't the fact that the Dragunitys are coming out in HA03 means they will not be very far behind, thus I feel this deck is appropriate. This decklist is built for the TCG metagame, not the OCG one just as a bit of a disclaimer. And cue decklist.

Main Deck: 40

Monsters: 18
3 Dragunity - Phalanx
3 Dragunity - Dux
3 Dragunity - Legionnaire
3 Dragunity - Arms Laevatein
2 Dragunity - Arms Misteil
3 Dragunity - Aklys
1 Morphing Jar

Spells: 16
1 Dark Hole
1 Monster Reborn
3 Dragon Canyon
3 Cards of Consonance
2 Pot of Duality
1 Pot of Avarice
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
2 Book of Moon
1 Foolish Burial

Traps: 6
1Mirror Force
1 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Torrential Tribute
2 Solemn Warning
1 Solemn Judgment

Extra Deck: 15
3 Dragunity Knight - Vajuranda
1 Dragunity Knight - Gadearg
1 Dragunity Knight - Gáe Bulg
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Magical Android
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Stardust Dragon
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
1 Scrap Dragon
2 Trident Dragion

Pojo Deck Link.

This build should look fairly familiar by now for those of you who are familiar with Dragunitys. Dragunitys have a solid skeleton that everyone tends to stick to and it actually originated in several points; I can remember constructing this build on DMG before the cards came out (minus DREV stuff) and then running over to Bubbledee on the Dragunity forums on Pojo who had an extremely similar build. Then a few weeks later Jason posted his build on TCG Player and again the lineups were virtually the same with only minor tech differences. If you follow the link to my deck on pojo you'll see its been posted for over a year; very little has changed to the inherent skeleton. Dragunitys are quite solid in the way they build themselves. Some people see this as a downside as Konami is effectively telling people how to build their decks, I prefer to think of it as a sign of a coherent theme. Over a year and very minor deck changes is a good sign of a strong skeleton. Its also a sign of being ignored by the banlist.

Dragunitys play very Junk and Debris; you set up the Dragon-Tuner (Generally Phalanx) summon the Dux/Legionnaire and then go from there; Dux leads into level 6 Synchros; if you elect for Vajuranda as your synchro that then leads to a level 8, whilst Legionnaire can either act as monster destruction or go for a level 5.

Those are your most basic plays with the deck. Legionnaire gets more explosive when equipped with an Aklys and his floating without a tuner makes him prime fodder for those of you who run Icarus Attack still; or to send to the grave for a Dragunity Arms - Misteil.

Misteil is awesome. A walking level 6 monster that can capitalize on any lone Dragunity you have on the field; even going so far as to normal summon Phalanx, send it to the grave for a Misteil Special Summon and then equipping it to it to Sync for a level 8 is a viable play. Not a recommended one in most circumstances due to the minus in advantage, but its still a versatile outlet of use for Misteil. Naturally Misteil is best used after a Legionnaire play via Aklys: Summmon Legionnaire, equip Aklys, send Aklys, proceed to +2. Send Legionnaire for Misteil, equip with Phalanx, SS Phalanx, beat face. You know, basic Dragunity tricks.

Dragunitys are all about field control and synchro spam. Because of their grave tricks they can very easily drop a Synchro of any level between 5 and 10 for the cost of a Normal Summon. Yes. I said 10. That 10 is a Trident Dragion. The Dragunitys OTK asset.

Trident Dragion is made possible through the incredible power that is Dragunity Arms Laevatein (DAL). Now, these days its actually quite common to only run 1 Laevatein. The general opinion is that hes a heavy monster that can't capitalize of Aklys effect. Now, the flaw in this is simple; when Dragunitys were first revealed a few TCG players got it in their heads that Aklys wouldn't abide by basic Equip destruction rules, I blame the fact that because we have so few competitive equips people have forgotten the basics of how they function. Anyway, they felt that Aklys could blow up when the monster to which it was equipped was removed for DALs summon, thus upon the ruling that it could not (apparently this was a big problem) it was perceived as a "nerfing" instead of the clarification that it was. This resulted in a percieved "loss" of power in DAL thus the card was cut in quantity.

I can understand the stance of not wanting to run 3 heavy monsters, however, I respectfully disagree; Dragunity Arms Laevatein is a 3 or 0 card. This is because it is not through Aklys that it gains its power, but through Phalanx. You see DAL carries with itself the same effect as Dux, Legionnaire and Misteil, while normally a level 8 monster having that effect is useless when paired with a tuner DAL also happens to be a Dragon. 2+8=Trident Dragion. This is the Dragunity OTK, and the reason for which I run 3.

You see 1 copy is simply not reliable. Sure its dumpable via Canyon; at the cost of a -1, but you won't reliably pull the OTK off as often as if you run 3. Because Laevatein can special summon himself from the hand or grave with his own effect it will very rarely be dead in hand; in fact, you more often than not SHOULD NOT summon it from the hand. This may sound contradictory; I said I wanted to run 3 so I could draw them, but I have no interest in summoning them from the hand. Its not, and by now I'm sure you know its not. Because of 1 card; Dragon Canyon.

You pitch the DAL for Canyon. You Draw it, you pitch it, and when the opportunity shows itself you go for the jugular with Trident Dragion.

Dragunity decks running only 1 copy of DAL can't do this. They have to set up the OTK. Given the sole copy of DAL this requires more investment in the longrun and in the middle of a duel thats not always possible. Running more copies of DAL gives you more options, whilst not hampering you at all thanks to the Dragon Canyon. It also allows you to put pressure on your opponent; if they can see that they can be OTKed at any time they're going to play differently. If its more conservatively you can punish them via Legionnaire+Aklys tactics, if its more aggressively you can outmuscule them. Of course if they don't see the OTK then you can just catch them off guard. 1 card in hand turns into a Trident Dragion with 2 attacks if you've got a DAL in grave and a Canyon in play. Surprise ending.

Of course I should talk about Canyon, but I really don't feel I need to. Its a Field Spell, so its searchable via Terraforming. Its a Field Spell, so it sticks around. And as long as its in play any card in hand turns into a Dragunity. Thats searchable Consonance fodder, thats searchable monster removal, thats searchable level 8 Synchro monsters. Of course discarding eats up hand advantage, which is why I'm running Morphing Jar. You don't overextend with Dragunitys, but you do play out a lot of cards. Jar helps you recoup that advantage. Avarice recycles spent bird Dragunitys so you can re-search them with Canyon, etc. The rest of the deck is really self-explanatory.

The reason I'm not running Terraforming is because I'm running Pot of Duality. I realize they don't serve the same purpose, however, in principle and play I find Duality to be the stronger card. Dragon Canyon is powerful in this deck, and needed. It turns the deck into a Synchro engine, and without it the deck often falls flat on its face; Dragunitys are a glass cannon. They are powerful, versatile and reactive, however it is Canyon that gives them the speed and consistency to maintain pace with tier 1 decks, thus without Canyon they fall behind. This is not to say that they are incapable of winning, however, it is a severe disadvantage to be playing without a Canyon and in the Dragunity Mirror he who controls the Canyon, controls the game.

This also ties into why I find triple DAL so imperative; because of the fragility of the deck you need to not only seize opportunities for game but also capitalize on your ability to take game at the drop of a hat. But I've been side tracked. I was explaining why I run Duality over Terraforming; Terraforming provides searchability for Dragon Canyon, allowing easy access to your ace card; and thanks to Canyons effect Terraforming can virtually never be dead; if you have a Field Spell in play then Terraforming turns into the discard fodder for its effect. Granted thats not to mean it isn't ever dead. Its still a wasted draw and the Canyon is still costing you a card in hand. By running higher utility cards than Terraforming the deck can ensure it has useful draws whilst Canyon is out.

Pot of Duality I find is more beneficial because it can give access not just to Canyon, but also to other cards in my deck. Pot of Duality makes my opening hands stronger, lets me dig into single copies faster and more consistently; helping with the fluidity of the deck, I consider it a more versatile form of Terraforming. At the cost of a Special Summon for the turn I also gain the ability to search out cards other than my Field Spell. If its not beneficial to play Duality that turn, I just hold it, or discard it. Granted, this is not to say it has to be either or, I'm certain people will run both, and in fact, I too may do so in a later version of this deck.

Dragunitys are a powerful and versatile deck. They're incredibly fun and with their imminent release I predict a lot of Dragunity decks cropping up in tournament standings.

For people who can't be bothered reading through this entire post here is a quick summary of some basic Dragunity combos:

• Legionnaire + Aklys = 1 Monster and 1 Card destroyed.
• Legionnaire + Phalanx = Catastor/ Tech Genus Hyper Librarian.
• Legionnaire floating = Mystletainn Summon.
• Mystletainn + Phalanx = Level 8.
• Mystletainn + Brandistock = 2100 dual attacker, sometimes this is better than a level 8; thats 4200 damage.
• Using Aklys to summon Mystletainn or Leyvaten from the hand with its first effect; they miss the timing on their equip, but are immune to Bottomless Trap Hole and Torrential Tribute.
• Dux + Phalanx = Level 6 Synchro.
• Dux + Brandistock = 1900 dual attacking 4 star, that can be really brutal. Especially against a heavy backrow where a Synchro climb is a weaker choice.
• Dearg: It sets up the deck.
• Vajrayana + Aklys = 3800ATK + 1 card destroyed.
• Vajrayana + Phalanx = Level 8 Synchro.
• Vajrayana + Brandistock = 1900 dual attacker (I'd just stick with Dux since it gains further ATK, this is a play I've never seen tbh).
• Leyvaten + Phalanx = Trident Dragion
• Leyvaten + Brandistock = 2600 dual attacker, in situations where you are low on advantage or Trident Dragion is risky this can be better than going into Trident. Considering Leyvaten can pop out of the graveyard for the cost of a Normal Summon its a pretty amazing play.
• Dragon Ravine searches all Cards of Consonance targets as well as Legionnaire and Dux, it can also dump Leyvaten. I run 2-3 Mystletainn because it can't be searched via Ravine.

Anyway, enjoy the deck.

Snipe Hunter

Snipe Hunter is back at 2, which opens up some pretty neat combos with SOL decks.

Main Deck: 41

Monsters: 22
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
1 Red-Eyes Wyvern
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1 Genesis Dragon
2 Snipe Hunter
2 Chaos Sorcerer
3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon
1 Dark Armed Dragon
3 The White Stone of Legend
2 Vice Dragon
1 Morphing Jar
1 Spirit Reaper
1 Sangan

Spells: 13
1 Dark Hole
1 Cold Wave
1 Future Fusion
1 Giant Trunade
1 Monster Reborn
2 Trade-In
2 Book of Moon
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
2 Pot of Avarice

Traps: 6
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Phoenix Wing Wind Blast
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Mirror Force

Deck Feature: "SOL Genesis"

New deck I've been playing of late. Its been doing really well. Props to ShadowNeji from Pojo for testing it while I was on break.

I have two builds to post. The one I took to nationals and topped a regional with about a month-two months(?) ago, and the one ShadowNeji has been testing with recently. Bit hazy on the dates, I've been on vacation. :D

I haven't yet had a chance to try his changes but they look solid.

Main Deck: 40

Monsters: 23
3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon
2 Genesis Dragon
1 Chaos Sorcerer
1 Dread Dragon
1 Dark Armed Dragon
2 Red-Eyes Wyvern
1 Phantom of Chaos
1 Flamvell Guard
2 Vice Dragon
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 The White Stone of Legend
1 Masked Dragon
1 Sangan
1 Tragoedia

Spells: 12
1 Foolish Burial
1 Allure of Darkness
1 Brain Control
3 Cards of Consonance
1 Future Fusion
1 Heavy Storm
1 Giant Trunade
3 Trade-In

Traps: 5
1 Mirror Force
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Torrential Tribute

Extra Deck: 15
1 Five-Headed Dragon
2 Exploder Dragonwing
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Arcanite Magician
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Mist Wurm
1 Colossal Fighter
1 Dark End Dragon
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Magical Android
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
2 Stardust Dragon

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Main Deck: 41

Monsters: 24
3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon
2 Genesis Dragon
1 Chaos Sorcerer
1 Dread Dragon
1 Dark Armed Dragon
2 Red-Eyes Wyvern
1 Phantom of Chaos
1 Flamvell Guard
2 Vice Dragon
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 The White Stone of Legend
1 Masked Dragon
1 Sangan
1 Tragoedia
1 Delta Flyer

Spells: 12
1 Mind Control
1 Allure of Darkness
1 Brain Control
3 Cards of Consonance
1 Future Fusion
1 Heavy Storm
1 Giant Trunade
3 Trade-In

Traps: 5
1 Mirror Force
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Torrential Tribute

Extra Deck: 15
1 Five-Headed Dragon
2 Exploder Dragonwing
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Arcanite Magician
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Mist Wurm
1 Colossal Fighter
1 Dark End Dragon
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Magical Android
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
2 Stardust Dragon

Deck Analysis: "SOL Sniper!"

In the past it has been a goal of many a dragon-user to try and mix Hopeless Dragon and Disaster Dragon. Such attempts have proved rather futile as the decks don't mix in goals. I attempted last format to mix SOL with Disaster as well to no avail.

When Cards of Consonance was first released many people suggested adding it to SOL. Lacking any targets beyond White Stone of Legend it was brushed off as being inconsistent. During attempts to make a viable draw engine to combine it with Trade-In the D.E.T. Exodia deck was born, which utilized both Trade-In and Cards of Consonance with Super Rejuvination, Card Destruction, Reckless Greed and other draw cards to attempt to draw Exodia. The deck was fast, however, despite the strength of the draw power its speed wasn't enough to fuel a deck built purely around drawing.

Such draw power would be best geared in the direction of fueling a turbo deck. D.E.T. paired White Stone of Legend with Flamvell Guard to take advantage of Cards of Consonance, the deck then expanded further into the realms of Normal monsters to further abuse Flamvell Guards status as a normal monster, however, for a control or turbo oriented deck Normal monsters wouldn't do. Many Normal Hopeless decks featuring Tri-Horned Dragon worked to great success but a deck that could utilize the engine when coupled with effect monsters lacked a good effect monster target for both Cards of Consonance and Trade-In.

At least, that was what I thought. A few weeks ago I stumbled across Jason Grabher-Meyer's article on "Deep Draw Dragons". It utilized the D.E.T. engine in a turbo-esque fashion, however, geared it towards effect monsters by using Debris Dragon and Light and Darkness Dragon to fill in the gaps. The obvious next step in its construction was the inclusion of Totem Dragon which added synergy between Debris and Light and Darkness Dragon as both profited from its inclusion. The deck is very fast and very fun, however, it lacked the advantage oriented 1 for 1 simplification game that I have grown to love so much.

Growing disgruntled by the fact that dragons lacked any monster akin to Chaos Sorcerer or Enishi, Shien's Chancellor I was chatting to some friends of mine online; Dragonic Horizons and ShadowNeji115217 from the Pojo.com forums who suggested Maximus might serve the purpose. At first Maximus failed the test, it unlike Chaos Sorcerer could not easily gain advantage off of its summon due to its reliance on an in hand spell card, however, on closer inspection Koa'ki Meiru Maximus, like Light and Darkness Dragon was a powerful level-8 monster that could cover the Trade-In aspect of the draw engine with Blue-Eyes White Dragon. As in Deep Draw 2 copies of Debris Dragon could also serve as Consonance fodder while still acting as useful tuners. In order for the deck to carry 3 Maximus it also needed to hold 3 Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru, and with the places already filled for it 3 Koa'ki Meiru Drago soon followed as well. So, without further ado I give you the child of Disaster Dragon - Maximium Sniper and SOL Dragon; SOL Sniper!

SOL Dragon + Disaster Dragon + D.E.T.

Main Deck: 40

Monsters: 21
3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon
3 The White Stone of Legend
3 Koa’ki Meiru Maximus
3 Koa’ki Meiru Drago
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
2 Red-Eyes Wyvern
2 Masked Dragon
2 Debris Dragon

Spells: 17
3 Trade-In
2 Book of Moon
2 Super Rejuvenation
3 Iron Core of Koa’ki Meiru
1 Card Destruction
3 Cards of Consonance
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Brain Control
1 Future Fusion

Traps: 2
2 Dust Tornado

The deck is pretty self explanatory. The draw engines power the deck as they did in D.E.T. while the dragons swarm the field and destroy all life; as they were meant to. The deck lacks any cards that can trigger Starlight Road; Heavy Storm, Mirror Force and Torrential Tribute are all side decked due to the hype surrounding the illustrious trap card. While I believe that Starlight Road itself is not good enough to merit siding out such cards almost every deck in my locals is maining 2 at the moment. As a result I find it beneficial to go into game 1 with nothing to trigger them, that way any Starlight Roads they draw are dead cards.

In place of Heavy I elected to run 2 Dust Tornado. Dust Tornado is a versatile trap card that can take care of problematic Royal Oppressions and the like while also handling cards such as Black Whirlwind and the soon to be released Infernity Gun. While the power of Royal Oppression against this deck may intimidate some into maining Heavy or at least attempting to run Giant Trunade I found that of the commonly played decks only Blackwings are consistently running Royal Oppression at the moment, against which I can side Heavy Storm back in against them on game 2. Gladiator Beasts, however are running at least 2 Starlight Road with no Oppression while Flame-Cat also runs 1-2 Starlight Road without Oppression either. Given those numbers and the fact that Machina and Lightsworn still exist; Lightsworn has little to no backrow and Machina in my area have been maining Roads as well I find that Heavy in the side is actually best for now. This decision will obviously change as the format and hype around Road settle.

The deck plays like Maximum Sniper but with a more SOL approach to advantage. It plays through aggressive disruption plays and locking the field down with Koa'ki Meiru Drago. However, I felt that the original Maximum Sniper was too slow to support such frequent dead draws and didn't draw into its combo pieces fast enough thus I incorporated a draw engine into the deck borrowing from D.E.T. and Deep Draw Dragons, that helps me see cards faster and get Maximus and Iron Core into play easier. It also opens up a lot of OTK options.

The deck is obviously very fast. It draws through itself in speeds comparable to D.E.T., however, unlike the Exodia deck it also has the ability to turn those draw cards into use. Maximus drops are powerful and carry heavy swings in momentum, because Maximus is a Semi-Nomi it can also be revived by Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon provided it has been summoned successfully. Once Maximus is on the field it can create huge swings in field control, easily followed up by a Red-Eyes Darkness Metal/Blue-Eyes swarm. Maximus is also Wind which means it can get in around Koa'ki Meiru Drago when its locking down the field. In addition to that both Drago and Maximus can supplement eachothers end phase costs, with Iron Core working for both of them and other Maximus' also serving to save the life of an inplay copy. Alternatively Maximus can simply be allowed to die after popping a card and attacking and be revived later, or even be removed for a Darkness Metal. The deck is as always very versatile.

Synchro plays are also capable in this deck; courtesy of it carrying 5 tuner monsters. While not as common as synchro plays in most other SOL decks they still act as a another facet of the deck which can catch most opponents off guard.

Yeah, so this is my latest deck. Its also going to be my primary deck this format since Starlight Roads release rather killed my SOL Demise deck. :P

Enjoy.

Deck Analysis: "SOL Demise"

With the advent of the new banlist drawing closer and closer any SOL Dragon user has already realized it won't be able to exist in the new format. Having lost multiple Tragoedia, Destiny Draw, Allure of Darkness and Chaos Sorcerer's the deck as it was is left quite crippled.

Luckily the new banlist also brings Demise, King of Armageddon to 2.

Demise and Blue-Eyes White Dragon have always got along well, especially with the help of Advanced Ritual Art, however, the release of White Stone of Legend only furthers their synergy by allowing Blue-Eyes to also be recruited to the hand for a normal Ritual Summon.

A new face of SOL for the new format, I give you SOL Demise:

Main Deck: 40

Monsters: 23
3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon
2 Luster Dragon
1 Chaos Sorcerer
1 Dark Armed Dragon
1 Magna Drago
2 Red-Eyes Wyvern
3 Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands
2 Demise, King of Armageddon
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 The White Stone of Legend
1 Plaguespreader Zombie
1 Tragoedia

Spells: 14
1 Advanced Ritual Art
1 Allure of Darkness
1 Brain Control
2 End of the World
1 Future Fusion
1 Heavy Storm
1 Lightning Vortex
1 Giant Trunade
2 Swing of Memories
3 Trade-In

Traps: 3
1 Mirror Force
1 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Torrential Tribute

Extra Deck: 15
1 Five-Headed Dragon
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Arcanite Magician
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Mist Wurm
1 Colossal Fighter
1 Dark End Dragon
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Magical Android
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
2 Stardust Dragon
2 Trident Dragon

The decks playstyle is pretty straight forward. It abuses the searchability of Demise to use it as a field clearer and as a recruitable Trade-In or Allure target. Advanced Ritual Art can be used to summon Demise, dumping 1 Blue-Eyes White Dragon or 2 Luster Dragons from the deck. Swing of Memories can be used in tandem with the normal dragons to revive them for an OTK, to act as ritual fodder, to synchro summon with or to remove for Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon.

Blue-Eyes White Dragon + Magna Drago makes an easy Trident Dragon, and when following up a Demise wipe spells game to the opponent bar Battle Fader or the like.

The deck plays similarly to the old SOL, abusing advantage to its benefit with a series of floater monsters and expending the opponents resources before clearing the field with Demise/Arcanite/Dark Armed Dragon and swinging for game.

Trunade is mained to deal with those pesky Starlight Roads and if they or Royal Oppression become a serious issue this format then the traps drop out for Royal Decrees.

The good thing about this build is that a lot of alterations can be made it. If you wanted to go for a more Demise OTK oriented build you could simply include Sonic Bird or Senju. Sangan could be included as another Dark monster that can recruit both White Stone of Legend and Manju, or even a more normal monster based focus could be taken. The deck is very flexible in its line up, and that in part is what makes me think it could be so powerful in the coming format.

Sorry this post is so short. University starts tomorrow so today is rather hectic for me. I'll be back later with a more in depth analysis of the deck.

Deck Analysis: "Eclipse Drain"

This deck is built for the new format. With the advent of the banlist SOL Dragons guts were ripped out so I decided it was time to move on. Introducing Eclipse Drain!

This deck is built around the recently released Sun Dragon Inti and Moon Dragon Quilla. The decks aim is to abuse their virtual immunity to Skill Drain and crush the opponent into the dust. Nicely, of course.

Thanks to Kahu from Pojo forums for the deck name and Kaiba's lil Mutt for suggesting the level 5 Fusions be Musician King - the reason being that makes them Spellcaster for Arcanite Magician, which if you've been following my blog may know I think is one of the coolest Synchros out there. Anyway, here is the deck list.

Extra Deck: 15
2 Musician King
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Arcanite Magician
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Dark-End Dragon
1 Goyo Guardian
2 Moon Dragon Quilla
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
2 Stardust Dragon
2 Sun Dragon Inti

Main Deck: 40

Monsters: 16
1 Dark Armed Dragon
3 Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World
1 Plaguespreader Zombie
3 Oracle of the Sun
3 Fire Ant Ascator
1 Sangan
1 Sillva, Warlord of Dark World
3 Supay

Spells: 12
1 Allure of Darkness
1 Brain Control
3 Dark World Dealings
1 Heavy Storm
2 Instant Fusion
1 Lightning Vortex
1 Mind Control
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Pot of Avarice

Traps: 12
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Call of the Haunted
2 Limit Reverse
1 Mirror Force
2 Skill Drain
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Torrential Tribute
2 Starlight Road

Pretty much every card in the deck works around Skill Drain with the exception of a few effects - Dark Armed Dragon becomes a free beat stick but can't nuke the field while its up and Moon Dragon Quilla can't use its life gain effect. Obviously under Skill Drain Arcanite is useless so despite the fact that the deck can make it through any combination of Musician King, Oracle of the Sun + Plaguespreader there is only a single copy in my extra deck.

The Dark World monsters serve as Darks and level 5 Special Summons to tune with Supay and Fire Ant. This gives me quick access to Inti and Quilla while also letting me utilize the Allure and Dark World Dealings draw engines.

Limit Reverse can bring back pretty much any monster in my main deck, I had someone recommend Ojama Knight to me as my level 5 fusion as it could be summoned as well but personally I've never been short of a target when I've had Limit Reverse in hand, although Ojama Knight is certainly worth consideration.

Starlight Road makes this deck awesome by covering Skill Drain as your dragons loop on and off the field. Pot of Avarice is for reshuffling in Synchros and other used up fodder monsters as you desire. It was also added due to my preference to play OCG where they have access to the dreaded Dragunity Knight - Trident which can strip your extra deck clean.

Anyway thats the basic skeleton of the deck that I'll be playing next format. I'll update as time goes on with changes to the deck. Till next time, Drong Waph wer Darastri!!

Deck Analysis: "SOL Dragon"

Just an update on the SOL Dragon main deck. Since a lot of people have been pming me on Pojo and asking if the one featured here is up to date I figured I might as well keep posting the updates on here.

Main Deck: 41

Extra Deck: 15
1 Five-Headed Dragon
1 Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
2 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
2 Arcanite Magician
1 Ancient Sacred Wyvern
1 Magical Android
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Dark End Dragon
1 Stardust Dragon
1 Colossal Fighter

Monsters: 25
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon
1 Elemental Hero - Stratos
2 Chaos Sorcerer
1 Prime Material Dragon
3 White Stone of Legend
2 Red-Eyes Wyvern
1 Destiny Hero - Plasma
2 Destiny Hero - Diamond Dude
2 Destiny Hero - Malicious
1 Plaguespreader Zombie
1 Dark Armed Dragon
3 Tragoedia

Spells: 14
1 Future Fusion
1 Lightning Vortex
2 Allure of Darkness
2 Destiny Draw
1 Scapegoat
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 Burial from a Different Dimension
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Heavy Storm
1 Brain Control
2 Trade-In

Traps: 2
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Mirror Force

New notable inclusions are a playset of Tragoedia. These were added in at the expense of Foolish Burial and a single Destiny Draw. 2 copies of each draw card seems to play it out more consistently as 3 D-Draws were clogging hands a lot. The loss of Foolish Burial is nothing major and simply prevents instant access to White Stone's effect from the deck. However, it encourages using White Stone properly towards the decks goals so I see it as a bonus in the long run.

Tragoedia's inclusion as not only knocked those cards out of the decklist but has also bumped it up to 41 cards to allow for 3 Tragoedia's inclusion. Tragoedia is pretty much the second best thing in the deck after White Stone of Legend itself. I have a tendancy to hoard cards in my hand and take direct hits in order to establish advantage over my opponent and Tragoedia not only profits from that but allows me to do so with more frequency. Playing conservatively lends to SOL's winning style and Tragoedia rewards it. I've never dropped it in a duel with less than 3000ATK.

Tragoedia makes up for the decks lack of traps and allows for Royal Decree to be sided in with easy to cut out Oppression, Icarus Attack and those pesky Light Imprisoning Mirrors. As its summon happens in the damage step its perfect against Oppression in game 1 and its ability combined with SOLs level range lets you steal pretty much anything. In the dragon mirror any in hand Tragos or Red-Eyes become perma brain controls for the opposing Red-Eyes, against people running their own Tragoedia they do the same, Blue-Eyes can steal Maximus/ Judgement Dragon/ Heraklinos/ Colossal Fighter/ Stardust Dragon and more. Prime, Mali and Sorcerer can steal Brionac and the like. Its just amazing, virtually every level but 2, 3 and 7 can be readily stolen and of those only 3 is unaccessible with the main deck. Its also got the level changing ability which really helps for synchroing, but I've actually yet to use it. Its so easy to just plunk it down and ride the Trago to victory.

Deck Feature: "Dragon Exodia Turbo"

This deck is wicked fun.

Its being tagged as a Feature as I'm a bit too busy to write an analysis at the moment.

Enjoy.

Monsters: 17
3 Tri-Horned Dragon
3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon
1 Left Arm of the Forbidden One
1 Left Leg of the Forbidden One
1 Right Arm of the Forbidden One
1 Right Leg of the Forbidden One
1 Exodia the Forbidden One
3 The White Stone of Legend
2 Flamvell Guard
1 Sangan

Spells: 17
2 Allure of Darkness
1 Card Destruction
1 Dark Factory of Mass Production
1 Summoner's Art
3 Super Rejuvenation
3 Trade-In
3 Card of Consonance
3 Upstart Goblin

Traps: 6
3 Common Charity
3 Reckless Greed

Pokémon Special: "Charmander"

Charmander is awesome.