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!!