Hello
readers, welcome to my second article. My last
article received a very positive few responses,
which I’m loving. As a break from the hard-hitting
stuff, im going to do a deck fix for a reader. As a
featured writer it is my job to keep writing what
you people want to read, so please tell me if you
like my articles , and if not, tell me what to
change. Ok, over to Chris :
‘’Hi I'm Chris and I am responding to your fist post
on pojo. I thought the article was good and realized
you were describing what has happened to my deck. I
went to the regional and my deck got beat bad. I
assume you are familiar with the warrior tool box
and structure deck? Well out of 8 matches, 6 of them
were warrior decks. All almost EXACTLY the same one.
Every warrior deck I faced beat me. The only reason
I won 2 matches is one guy didn't show up and the
other was a newbie who still used cards like "Two
Pronged Attack" "Skull Servant" and "Black Pendant".
My dragon deck used to be supreme but now it isn't
doing so well. I tried to fix it up but it still is
not working to its full potential. I REALLY DON'T
want to change strategies. Can you help me out by
doing a deck fix?
Main Deck
Monsters: 18
Tribute: 6
Red Eyes Darkness Dragon
Red Eyes Black Dragon
Armed Dragon LV 7
Armed Dragon LV 5
Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 8
Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 6
4 star or below: 12
Roulette Barrel
Luster Dragon X2
D.D. Warrior Lady
Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 4
Masked Dragon X2
Twin Headed Behemoth
Armed Dragon LV 3
Mask of Darkness
Red Eyes B. Chick
Spirit Reaper
Magic: 12
Level Up!
Lighting Vortex
Brian Control
Swords of Reveling Light
Reload X2
Dark Hole
Premature Burial
Level Modulation
Heavy Storm
Metamorphosis
Different Dimension Capsule
Trap: 10
Torrential Tribute
Covering Fire
Saksuretsu Armor
Compulsory Evacuation Device X3
Waboku
Negate Attack
Call of the Haunted
Magic Drain
Fusion Deck: 3
Ojama King
Dark Balter the Terrible
Thousand Eyes Restrict
P.S. This is for Advance Format’’
I sure can pal. The problem with this deck is that
it’s divided into many separate themes .Firstly, you
are using way too many tribute monsters. For a deck,
6 is just too much, we’re gonna have to halve that
before we can get anywhere. Tribute monsters are
almost always dead-draws, which aint a good thing.
On the plus side though, a good tribute monster can
really mess up an opposing strategy and deal some
major pain to an opponent. I find that this
environment supports the use of only 3 tribute
monsters without going into Soul Control.
The Red eyes black dragons are not a well supported
bunch of monsters at the moment, and they don’t fit
the theme of your deck, so I’m afraid, cool as they
look, they have to go.
That leaves the Armed Dragons and the Horus
Monsters. This creates a dilemma, either Horus or
the Armed Dragons. In this situation. both are very
powerful dragons, but both have weakness. Armed
Dragons promote massive destruction, and really has
synergy with cards like ‘Super Rejuvenation‘, where
as Horus, in the correct build can be a massive lock
down on the opponent, but are still very vulnerable
to DDA’s . This is an impossible decision, so I‘m
going to take the deck down both routes, making this
a two part Article.
The Armed Dragon Deck :
Tribute monsters:
Armed Dragon Lv 7
Armed Dragon Lv 5 (x2)
Now moving onto your low level.
Ok, Roulette Barrel, Horus, Red Eyes Back Chic, and
mask of Darkness do not fit this deck, most for
obvious reasons. The barrel for starters is a
machine with an effect far too random for it to be
used. The likely hood of the effect paying off is
dismal. The Horus and black chic have no place in
the deck anymore, and the mask of darkness can be
replaced with an upgrade.
If I were you , I’d add a Spear Dragon, another
masked dragon, and another Armed Lv 3. I’m also
going to add a Morphing Jar instead of the mask.
Reasons : Spear Dragon has always been a good card
to me, the decent atk and trample is a good counter
to the likes of Spirit reaper and Scapegoat.
Adding another masked Dragon will make good field
presence, as well as allowing for some good combos
after im finished with this deck.
With the extra Masked Dragon, you can now get off
the handy level up combo to get your LV5 ! Just use
with caution as the effect otherwise is difficult to
pull off.
And finally, Morphing Jar. This jar will keep your
hand full whilst you are using all the combos that
this deck allows for. Its essential in this meta
with it’s lack of draw power.
That brings your monster total to 15, which is a bit
low. I like to use a 20/20 ratio of monsters to
spells, but I think you’re a player who likes his
spells, so lets have 18 /20 .I’m going to suggest
some other cards to add :
Sangan will help the deck out, as well as a card
called Spirit Ryu. With all these Dragons and Super
Rejuvenation, this is a very good card. Finally , I
think you should definitely add a Breaker, he’s a
1st class monster in my books.
This is how your deck should look right now, :
Tribute monsters:
Armed Dragon Lv 7
Armed Dragon Lv 5 (x2)
Lower level :
Spear Dragon
Luster Dragon (x2 )
D.D. Warrior Lady
Breaker the Magical Warrior
Masked Dragon (x3)
Twin Headed Behemoth
Armed Dragon LV 3 (x2)
Morphing Jar
Spirit Reaper
Spirit Ryu
Sangan
Already this is looking a lot better. Moving on :
Spell & Traps . I think that 12s/ 10t is completely
unbalanced . The Deck is too trap full, one Morbius
/ Jinzo and it’s pretty much game over.
The 1st thing that im going to do , is cut your
traps down to 7, this means the loss of Covering
Fire, Negate Attack, and a Compulsory evacuation
device. Covering fire is a situational trap that
will not help out in this fast paced dueling
environment. Negate Attack, though pretty, is not as
chainable as your already decked Waboku, and 3 CED’s
are a bit over the top. Lets just replace these with
the Super Rejuvenations.
On the spell side of things, things aren’t so bad. I
think that you need to lose the reloads though, as
well as Level Modulation , Metamorphosis and DD
capsule. Reloads wont be needed anymore, what with
all the Advantage gain I’m putting in, not to
mention that they are a loss of advantage themselves
anyway. Metamorphosis does not fit the theme, and
would be nearly impossible to use one copy
successfully anyway. Level modulation is garbage,
and DD capsule is too risky.
The cards I will use to replace your losses are
Level up!, Scapegoat, Book of Moon , Snatch Steal
and Mystical Space Typhoon. The Level up promotes
the high level monsters, and the other cards are
very powerful.
Trap wise, I’d lose a Magic Drain for a very
powerful trap card called Burst Breath. This card
has massive destructive power , and is very
chainable, masking use of a defense position Spear
Dragon and the Lusters. I’d also ditch the CED’s,
good though they are for s/t control. I’d add a
royal Decree and a Dust Tornado.
So this is how the completed Deck should look :
Tribute monsters:
Armed Dragon Lv 7
Armed Dragon Lv 5 (x2)
Lower level :
Spear Dragon
Luster Dragon (x2 )
D.D. Warrior Lady
Breaker the Magical Warrior
Masked Dragon (x3)
Twin Headed Behemoth
Armed Dragon LV 3 (x2)
Morphing Jar
Spirit Reaper
Spirit Ryu
Sangan
Spell: 15
Level Up!(x2)
Lighting Vortex
Brian Control
Swords of Revealing Light
Book of Moon
Scapegoat
Snatch Steal
Mystical Space Typhoon
Dark Hole
Premature Burial
Heavy Storm
Super Rejuvenation (x3)
Trap: 7
Torrential Tribute
Saksuretsu Armour
Royal Decree
Dust Tornado
Waboku
Call of the Haunted
Burst Breath
Personally, I think it’s a lot better. You were
missing a lot of vital cards, but now the deck is
more fun , as well as powerful. I know it seems a
lot more CC than before, and it really is, but
certain cards are widely used because of how good
they are. The Decree and Dust Tornado were
essential, as a Dragon deck’s greatest fear is trap
cards. The monsters are now more focused , and
breaker and Sangan are more CC cards which are
essential for good decks. The monsters now also
combo nicely with the upgraded S/t’.
I hope you enjoyed this article, and found it
helpful. I’ll get back to the regular stuff after
I’ve finished the Horus Deck Fix. Expect a lot more
fire-power, lol.
Till Next Time ~ Dark Maltos |
