January 2008
deck fix: dragons --pwii

lightgrunty wrote:

Hey, my name's Dentim, and I have a dragon-type deck that I would like you to fix.  I haven't been able to test it out much due to school, homework, and GameKing being very glitchy, so I can't really figure out what's wrong with it.  Since I made the deck, which wasn't that long ago (maybe a few weeks), I haven't lost a game against any of my friends with it.  That's not saying much, but I want my deck to be the best it can be.

It is a dragon deck, and it's worked great, but it really doesn't have to be a dragon deck, since I can't find any overall dragon support cards for it.  Mountain doesn't help much.  I've tried Rivalry of Warlords, but it doesn't work that well and is usually a dead draw.  The only real dragon support it has is Masked Dragon, but that means that monster with over 1500 ATK need not be dragon monsters.  It's okay as is, but it feels like something's wrong with it.

The deck is based around getting out some of the tougher monsters and supporting them with spell and trap cards.  There are some combos, although they're more like strategies.

They are combos like using Masked Dragon to get Armed Dragon LV3 at the end of the Battle Phase so that I can level it up during my Standby Phase.  There's also using Masked Dragon to pull Twin-Headed Behemoth so that I have a tribute for the next turn.  Some other types of combos would include playing an Armed Dragon LV3, then protecting it with Rush Recklessly and/or Burden of the Mighty or some other trap cards.

I have some other helpful cards like Element Dragon, for its effects.  Most of the monsters in my deck are either Fire or Wind attribute.  There's Mirage Dragon for trap negation during the Battle Phase.  Rush Recklessly to give the weaker cards a boost.  Ceasefire because it can do some damage as well as render a Flip Effect monster useless.  Burden of the Mighty because it weakens my opponent's monsters and has saved me many times.  And of course, Masked Dragon because it can search for other dragons.

Decklist:

Monsters: x19

Armed Dragon LV3 x3
Armed Dragon LV5 x2
Cyber Dragon x1
Element Dragon x1
Felgrand Dragon x1
Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6 x1
Marshmallon x1
Masked Dragon x3
Mirage Dragon x2
Night Assailant x1
Spear Dragon x2
Twin-Headed Behemoth x1

Spells: x13

Book of Moon x1
Brain Control x1
Burden of the Mighty x1
Enemy Controller x1
Heavy Storm x1
Lightning Vortex x1
Monster Reincarnation x1
Mystical Space Typhoon x1
Premature Burial x1
Pot of Avarice x1
Rush Recklessly x1
Shield Crush x1
Smashing Ground x1

Traps: x8

Call of the Haunted x1
Ceasefire x1
Dimensional Prison x1
Magic Cylinder x1
Mirror Force x1
Sakuretsu Armor x1
Solemn Judgment x1
Trap Hole x1

Now, I'm not a billionaire, so please don't say "Add 3 Dark Bribes and 2 Solemn Judgments!"  This is a real deck that I might consider using in leagues or something, so I'd like some help with it.  Thanks in advance for taking the time to look at this.

A side note: The deck was in Traditional Format, since that's what I play with my friends.  I swapped Monster Reborn for Monster Reincarnation, Pot of Greed for Pot of Avarice, Change of Heart for Brain Control, Dark Hole for Lightning Vortex, and Imperial Order for Solemn Judgment so that it would work in Advanced Format.