March 2008

Rainbow Dark Dragon Turbo - captainkirk

I thought I would start this week off with a bang and put out two articles with completely different deck styles.

For my second article I decided that I would take a look at a Rainbow Dark Dragon deck. I used the version that Lance Leonhardt ran at Shonen Jump Costa Mesa as a template and tweaked the deck. The parts I changed are what I believe were causing the problems for the deck. The deck list is below and I will explain my changes.

Monsters: 22
1 Berserk Dragon
1 Dark Magician of Chaos
3 Demise, King of Armageddon
3 Destiny Hero – Dogma
3 Destiny Hero – Plasma
1 Doomsday Horror
3 Grinder Golem
1 Phantom of Chaos
3 Rainbow Dark Dragon
1 Sangan
1 Sky Scourge Norleras
1 The Dark Creator

Spells: 20
1 Card Destruction
2 Destiny Draw
3 Hand Destruction
1 Heavy Storm
1 Giant Trunade
3 Monster Gate
3 Reasoning
3 Recurring Nightmare
3 Trade-In

First you will notice that I dropped two Sky Scourge Norleras. I did this so that I could add in a Doomsday Horror which will allow me to use Rainbow Dark Dragon a second time if need be. The second change I made was to drop one Destiny Draw to add in Heavy Storm. The third thing that I did was add in a Giant Trunade as an extra back row removal card.

Now that I have told you what I changed I will explain why. I know that Phantom of Chaos is suppose to be the saving grace that takes Demise’s effect and clears the field, but what happens if you do not have Phantom of Chaos in your hand and your opponent only has two back row cards? Now Heavy Storm or Giant Trunade can be played to give that Rainbow Dark Dragon the opening it needs to destroy the field. Seeing as it is a special summon as well, you can still normal summon. This is why I included the Doomsday Horror, so that you do not have to remove every dark monster from your graveyard or if there is a monster on the field Doomsday can attack the monster first giving the Rainbow Dark Dragon the chance to push through for game.

Now I am sure all the draw hungry duelists are wondering why I took out a single Destiny Draw, right? I took it out in favor or a more consistent back row removal. There are still nine cards in the deck that replace your hand or let you draw cards for a discard. That is almost one fourth of the deck is just for drawing cards!

If you are curious how the deck works basically what you do is dump all monsters to your graveyard and then summon Phantom of Chaos to remove Demise and blow up the field or you can use Heavy Storm or Giant Trunade without summoning. Then you remove seven different Dark monsters to special summon Rainbow Dark Dragon. Now you either can attack for game if the field is open or you summon that Doomsday Horror in your hand to attack the monster to allow you to attack for game. This deck is capable of winning on turn one, but should consistently win by turn three for sure. In a format ere speed is everything, this deck will hold its own.

I would like to thank everyone for checking in once again to view my article and I hope that it has given you another idea on a type of deck for this format that does not involve Allure of Darkness or Dark Armed Dragon.

You can contact me below or just private message me through the forums. I will gladly review decks and make suggestions or if someone wants a card reviewed that they do not feel gets enough credit, I will gladly do that as well.

captainkirk
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