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.