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[YGO] Dragons FTW!
Well, I am going for a 'Lockdown' Dragon Deck. I would like it evaluated, because I would like to be able to beat a Black-Wing deck, that is very good atm. Here it is as it stands;
Total: 40 Monsters: 24 3x Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon 3x White Night Dragon 3x Blizzard Dragon 3x Exploder Dragon 2x Totem Dragon 2x Koa'ki Meiru Drago 2x Ryko Lightsworn Hunter 2x Horus lv4 2x Horus lv6 2x Horus lv8 Spells: 10 1x Swords of Revealing Light 1x Heavy Storm 1x Future Fusion 2x Book of Moon 2x Trade-In 2x Dragon's Mirror 1x Burial from a different dimension Traps: 6 1x Call of the Haunted 1x Solemn Judgement 1x Mirror Force 1x D Prison 1x Torrential Tribute 1x Return from the different dimension Side Deck: 2x Tuner's Scheme 1x Dark Mirror Force |
There is no real theme to it to make it be able to stand up to BW.
You need to run with a certain theme if you want to beat a T1 deck. Most of those cards are pointless in the meta game of today, so I would consider starting from scratch. I have played YGO for years and years and that deck would have held its own a few years ago, but now is a different story. |
Right now Blackwings has dropped in popularity (and X-Sabers have rised), and they are anti-meta now, so this might be okay, but like Fabio said, this deck is just Dragons. It has no "startegy", nothing of the sort. I suggest buying a Structure Deck (Rise of the Dragon Lords) and playing with that. It has many of the needed dragons to perfect a dragon deck. Back to BWs. If you want to beat them, I suggest trying to make a good X-Saber deck, but that's currently extremely expensive... And you sound like BWs are such a hard thing to beat, but that is def. not true. Trust me. ;)
On your current deck, it's too mixed up to be much good, too many monsters, too many high-level monsters, and too little spells/traps to balance it out. Try adding some dragon-related spells/traps and taking out crappy monsters that you put it just because they were dragon type. (When I started YGO I always did that XD) Hope this helped! By the way, BWs are not T1 anymore. |
Ok. So what do you recon I should add to it? I have modified it, updates posted above, and will update agin, if anyone makes suggestions. Thanks again for all comments.
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Good luck, and happy dueling to you sir! |
I have redecided to do a 'Lockdown' Dragon Deck. Any advice on this deck is gratefully accepted. Updates above.
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I believe you need at least one copy of Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon.
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I have just updated the Deck again with improvments suggested. Thank you Apple Juice and Eon-Rider for your comments, they are exremely helpful. I have added The Blue-Eyes' because I have a connection with those cards more than anything else and would like to keep them. I however cannot decide between Future Fusion or Dragon's Mirror the the Fusion 'ability', if you will, card. Help here is much apreciated, again, and further help is very appreciated.
Thanks once again! |
I actually think that either one is good, but don't take my word for it. Just read the cards and see which one fits best into your deck. Trust me, it works. ;D
Nice build, and I would love to duel it sometime! |
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No problem! (there is a way actually, if you're seriously interested PM me)
Great! Question: Do you have the cards in the build irl? |
Pretty much, there are just a few I currently need to get, but that shouldn't be hard. Why?
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Omg yes this is shaping up nicely :D. Dragons are a threat when used properly.
But what about cards like Stamping Destruction and Flute of Summoning Dragon...but maybe that's me xD. But yeah like I said its looking great and like Apple Juice up there I wouldn't mind getting stomped in dueling it against my Gemini's :D. |
Dragons?
King Dragun is... far too slow. Basically the only fusion engine you're going to run EVER is Future Fusion, and maybe a copy of Dragon's Mirror as well. Never play so many copies of Lord of D. and Ragnarok - seriously, they're really bad. :( The power of Dragons lies in the fact that they do everything quite well. Trade-In and Cards of Consonance draw you cards in an effective fashion. Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon swarms like no tomorrow, aided by Red-Eyes Wyvern. Super Rejuvenation is hilarious and effective when you Trade-In the Blue-Eyes White Dragon that you got by playing Cards of Consonance and discarding White Stone of Legend. Dragons combo well; they have Light and Darkness Dragon for field control, Exploder Dragon for spot removal, and Debris Dragon for synchro power alongside Decoy Dragon for pulling out random things in grave (or at the very least, being a great wall). Totem Dragon is excellent tribute fodder, a prime target for.. well, anything in the deck. Masked Dragon grabs it. Dragons are good. Gorz and Tragoedia aren't good in Dragons. They may seem like all-purpose cards to slap in, but they're slowpokes that don't do as much good as other cards can. Cut all copies of Compulsory, as well as Scrap-Iron. |
i don't see Five-headed Dragon it is a 5k beat stick and with darkness metal you can bring the fusion materials back (if polyed).
I run a Blue-eyes deck and Five-headed dragon is my only fusion... oh and add future fusion. also what about totem dragons. |
New Update. Hopefully, that should be better now.
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personally, assault modes should be outed, they have their own deck AND don't work well when you don't have many tuners or support for AM, they're dead draws pretty much.
don't really understand black winged dragon's effect and as to why you have it in your build :T ADD trade-in definitely, when you can't tribute/special summon a lvl 8, it'll recycle for 5-headed dragon and or spam with REDMD effect. and if its lockdown, where's the lockdown dragon? Blizzard dragon is a must and staple for dragons, lvl 4 1800 with an awesome ability to prevent your opponent's monster from attacking. same with tyrant dragon, negates trap cards that target it ie bottomless, sakuretsu etc. 2900 beastly atk, and can atk more than once. |
A Hopeless/Disaster Dragon hybrid should function well.
Sample decklist: Monsters - 22 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon 3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon 1 Light and Darkness Dragon 1 Prime Material Dragon 3 Red-Eyes Wyvern 2 Exploder Dragon 2 Koa’ki Meiru Drago 2 Masked Dragon 2 The White Stone of Legend 2 Totem Dragon 1 Debris Dragon Spells - 14 3 Trade-In 2 Book of Moon 2 Gold Sarcophagus 1 Brain Control 1 Burial from a Different Dimension 1 Future Fusion 1 Heavy Storm 1 Mind Control 1 My Body as a Shield 1 Mystical Space Typhoon Traps - 6 2 Bottomless Trap Hole 1 Mirror Force 1 Solemn Judgment 1 Torrential Tribute 1 Trap Stun |
make the assult modes wyverns and add future fusion. Future fusion is a must in any dragon deck. and if you want lockdown horus wont stray to far
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Dragons don't play lockdown. They play beatdown.
Unless you want a deck based on Stardust/AM, which is a WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY. :x Then it's not really "lockdown"... it's just Stardust Assault Mode Synchro Spam. |
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Its going to be a completely different deck if you wanna play lockdown that doesn't involve archlord krysta, namely Horus and Blizzard dragon, correct me if im wrong, those are the only 2 off the top of my head that locks the opponent down, other than usual stardust negation. |
Well, my deck has been pretty good at negation, and yes, dragons do do lockdown. They invole PMD, Stardust Assault Mode, and the Horus Lockdown. But the Horus Combo is a bit too expensive for me right now, so that's why it isn't there. I got my theme here, but it kind of has a half beatdown element to it, based on the powerful cards I can obtain through REDMD.
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Prime Material Dragon doesn't lock. Does My Body As A Shield lock? No, it prevents your guys dying to stuff. Prime Material's function is much the same; it protects your more powerful monsters from tricks such as Bottomless, Mirror Force, and Torrential. Half the decks on YuGiOh Wikia are pretty bad, so Idunno... fusing a teched Dragon, a very spotlight-grabbing Dragon, and another either teched or spotlight-grabbing Dragon is rather... awkward. If you want to do a pseudo-lock build you might as well do Blizzard Dragon and White Night Dragon focus (Frozen Ray!). Horus is decent, but Horus Lock is silly and not very difficult to break. Ryko was side-decked by 4 out of 5 of the top-ranking Infernities duelists last SJC, and was main-decked by most/all Dandydraw decks. X-Sabers deal with Horus via Faultroll + Gottoms, and you are basically powerless to stop it. Stardust/AM? Not very consistent or good unless you have a deck focused around it. And that deck isn't going to have many Dragons.
Depending on what kind of people you are playing against, your deck is either decent or completely bad. It has no semblance of consistency (Dread Dragon?! DREAD DRAGON?! Blue-Eyes without support?! Lord of D.?! Dandylion in DRAGONS? No Koa'ki Meiru Drago or Totem Dragon or Exploder, the bread and butter of all good Dragon decks? Staples!), has weird tech choices (Tuner's Scheme against Frognarchs or Frog OTK for example), and has subpar cards to boot (Sakuretsu over D-Prison, Draining Shield, Polymerization). It isn't a good deck, unless you're ONLY playing casual. Of course casually this deck is decent to good. But that's irrelevant. |
Well, that's it updated, and hopefully a lot better. C&C still gratefully accepted.
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Updated again. Looking pretty good now. I reckon I still need more help though, so C&C still appreciated.
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