This is the third in a series of Metal Raiders preview decks I have assembled, and out of them, this is potentially the most powerful and entertaining to use.

 

We're going to play a Direct Damage deck.  Yes, direct damage.  We now have enough cards to build a decent direct damage deck.  The deck will revolve around the Catapult Turtle, which we have seen Yugi use before (SPOILER: He uses it again in the Duelist Kingdom semifinals).  We will also throw in one of Joey's little tricks, Shield & Sword.

 

Metal Raiders cards are in bold.

 

"Catapult Turtle Launch"

 

Monsters: (18)

Giant Soldier of Stone

Giant Soldier of Stone

Giant Soldier of Stone

Aqua Madoor

Aqua Madoor

Aqua Madoor

Wall of Illusion

Wall of Illusion

Mystical Elf

Mystical Elf

Dark Elf

Dark Elf

 

This deck mostly revolves around the Catapult Turtle.  It is Level 5 with 1000/2000 stats and allows you to sacrifice a monster to deal direct damage to your opponent's life points equal to half the sacrificed monster's Attack power.  For example, if I used a Blue-Eyes White Dragon with this effect, it would deal 1500 points of direct damage to your opponent's life points.  You can use this effect AFTER your battle phase, so you can attack with BEWD for up to 3000 damage, then launch it for 1500 more!  That's over half your opponent's LP from one monster in one turn!

 

Giant Soldier of Stone, Aqua Madoor, and Mystical Elf are there for defensive purposes, and to combo with Shield & Sword and Last Will.  A full explanation of the entire combo will come later.  Sangan works PERFECTLY for this deck because all of the cards except Dark Elf have less than 1500 attack points.  La Jinn is there just for some kind of attacking =/

 

Magic: (19)

Pot of Greed

Monster Reborn

Change of Heart

Dark Hole

Raigeki

Card Destruction

Last Will

Last Will

Last Will

Soul Exchange

Soul Exchange

Soul Exchange

Swords of Revealing Light

Swords of Revealing Light

 

Now I know you're thinking "Why does he have three Last Wills and three Soul Exchanges?"  It's quite a simple explanation, actually.  With Last Will, you can pull pretty much ANY monster card from your deck (except Dark Elf) and play it as a special summon, including our friend Catapult Turtle (and you don't even need a sacrifice for it!).  Soul Exchange allows you to use your opponent's monsters to perform Catapult Turtle's effect. Shield & Sword will make your defensive monsters potent attackers with 2000 attack.  We can pull another combo with these in a second...

 

Tremendous Fire lets you do 1000 direct damage to your opponent with a cost of 500 direct damage to yourself.  If you can finish your opponent off quickly, the negative effect won't matter that much.

 

You can recycle Last Wills, Shield & Sword, and Soul Exchange with the Magician of Faith.

 

Traps: (11)

Castle Walls

Castle Walls

Castle Walls

Ultimate Offering

Ultimate Offering

Trap Hole

Trap Hole

 

Total: 48 cards

 

Castle Walls will increase your monsters' defense to 2500, then you can use Shield & Sword to have 2500 attack, then launch them for 1250 more!  Ultimate Offering lets you summon more monsters for the mayhem.

 

Let's walk through the long combo you can run with this deck:

 

1. Have a Catapult Turtle and Ultimate Offering face-up on the field.

2. Summon some monsters onto the field.

3. Activate any Last Wills you have.

4. If you have any Soul Exchanges or Change of Heart, use them to sacrifice your opponent's monsters for Catapult Turtle's effect (Edo says it's OK).  Now, if they have mostly defensive monsters, wait until the next step.

5. Use Shield & Sword to flip the attack and defense stats of the monsters on the field.  Now you can use Soul Exchange/Change of Heart to tribute your opponent's monsters for Catapult Turtle's effect.

6. Activate any Castle Walls you have face-down on the field to increase your monsters' defense powers (which are now their attack powers) (Edo says to make any modifications before swapping the stats).

7. Unless you used Soul Exchange, attack with your monsters.  If you used Soul Exchange, skip this step.

8. Use Catapult Turtle's effect to launch your monsters.

9. Take advantage of your Last Wills to special summon more monsters onto the field (the Shield & Sword effect will take effect AFTER they go onto the field), then launch them.

10. Watch your opponent's jaw drop down to the floor as their life points quickly vanish.

 

The entertaining part is this deck will get even more powerful when Labyrinth Wall and Millenium Shield are released, which each have 0/3000 stats for Level 5.  This is a really fun deck to play, and your opponent will cry.  However, you need to execute this deck's purpose QUICKLY, because if your opponent manages to get set up with any sort of powerful offense, you are going to be in trouble.  This is a fairly large deck, but there are enough ways to get all the cards you need to pull of the combo.  If you use a deck like this and you feel it is running too slow, I would suggest cutting a copy of some of the 3x cards.  You may want to, because there are only 18 monsters in this 48 card deck.  But hey, 10 of them have 2000 defense and we've thrown in Wall of Illusion for its powerful effect and Dark Elf for major attacking just in case.

 

This is a defensive version of a Catapult Turle deck.  Tomorrow, I will prepare an offensive version of this deck, which is certainly sure to knock the socks off your opponent.  You may prefer the offensive version.  If you have any comments, send them to NickWhiz1@buckeye-express.com.  See you tomorrow!