Subject: Pure Dragon Deck - En Pure Dragon Deck - En LORD OF D DECK When someone mentions "Dragon Decks", what do most people think? Ah.. 3 Lord of D, 3 Blue Eyes, 3 Flutes. Well with the release of LOD, would people still continue this slow and out-dated stratagy of Flute summoning? Don't get me wrong, the Flute-Combo does have it's advantage and is quite powerful if you pull it off, but it's too slow and has too many counters. For example: Summon - lord of D Activate - Flute of Summoning Dragons Special Summon - 2 Big Dragons Oppenent Activate - Torrental Tribute! Well why won't you just stuff in alot of Seven Tools you might ask, well if you put those in, how are you going to find space to pull of this combo? PURE DRAGON DECK In a Pure Dragon deck you don't have to rely so heavily on other cards. Mostly if not all the monsters should be of dragon type. I recomend playing 2 or 3 non dragons just for support like Cyber Jar. For this kind of deck what you really need are dragons of any type and you should be fine. With the new card from LOD more dragons are now playable. BURST BREATH An intresting combo with dragons. 'Tribute a dragon on your side of the field, destroy all face-up with the def of equal or less than to the tributed dragon's Atk. (You can tribute face down dragons.) With this card any of your dragons becomes a potential lesser DARK HOLE. Remember those weak dragons that came out long ago and never ever seen play because of their weak stats of about 1400/1000 or so. Well if you look at most of the monster that do see play, knowtice that their def aren't very high mostly around 0-1200 and just enough for a 1400 atk or even Baby Dragon 1200/1000 to take out with the use of Burst Breath. The use of this card can be chained if they play a card that will destroy your dragons so try and use it in a chain. For example use when your opponents play: (Rigeki, Tribute to the doom, Man-Eater Bug, Etc) Anything that would destroy your dragons, at lease they'll lose something too. DRAGON'S RAGE This card in my opion should be a rare instead of Dragon's Beed. Fairy's Meteor Crush was a rare and it's and it only works for one. Through my experiance this card is more feared than even dark hole. Although it doesn't seem like much the life points damage DOES add up. A great counter for cards like Nimbos/Germs and Scape Goat or any weak def monster in def mode. Rising Air Current Field card for Wind Types. As you can knowtice, most dragon types are of wind attribute and can gain bonuses from this card. This really helps when performing Burst Breath and Dragon's Rage. MESSENGER OF PEACE Since most Lv1-4 dragons are kinda weak this card should help out alot. GREY WING 1300/700 This dragon is pretty cool. I run 3 in my deck and wish I can have more. The effect is if you discard a card from your hand for this monster you can attack 2 times during your battle phase with it. The discarding effect can be good and bad. Through my experience it's been mostly a good effect. Can combo with Force Requisition, Monster Reborn, Super Rejuvenation. This card alone can do 2600 damage at most and with the attack of 1300, it is immune to the Messenger of Peace effect. Compareing this card to Hayabusa Knight, I think this card is better for the following reasons: +300 Atk, Discarding a card gives ways for more tactics and it's a dragon and can combo with burst breath. I like Burst Breath, if it's up to me, I'll rate it a 4/5 in Dragon decks 0/5 in Non-Dragon. Okay (BB)Burst Breath is good and all but why not just have Torrental Tribute? Burst Breath is a common and good for low budget. (TT)Torrental Tribute is more rare and harder to get. Lastly why not just have both Burst Breath and Torrental Tribute? Have 3 of each in your deck. If you do that means you'll have 9 Mass Removal against monsters, 3x BB 3x TT 1x Dark Hole 1x Rigeki 1x Mirror Force. I think Pure Dragon decks stands more of a chance in the current envirnment than Lord of D Decks. Their just faster more independent and has better support. When these cards are used in combinations they prove to be quite worthy. Well folks thanks for your time. Correct me if I'm wrong. Feel free to email me. -En Email at Enn1984@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail