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.
Nice work, its always nice to know we will have another killer SOL deck to compete with even in the new format. I look forward to seeing how great it will become. As always your build is nearly at perfection, and can expand in a couple of ways to assist the way you will want to play it. now I gotta try and prevent your OTK's >.> and with easy and continuous trident dragions too...your one crazy person. But Nerveless excellent deck, Yanni.
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