While I was browsing set lists today, I found a tidy little Super-Ancient Dinobeast imitator named Sauropod Brachion. And I thought, hey, this guy's effect is a pretty cool one! Book of Eclipse without the draws for your opponent, or a worldwide Book of Moon. The extra battle damage they take doesn't hurt, either.
So, I began to mull over the dinosaur support cards in my head. And I came up with this deck - it's interestingly fun to play (though don't expect it to win any prizes!) and not really expensive to put together.
Monsters - (20)
3 Hydrogeddon
3 Gilasaurus
3 Hyper Hammerhead
2 Element Saurus
1 Black Ptera
1 Super Conductor Tyranno
1 Ultimate Tyranno
3 Super-Ancient Dinobeast
3 Sauropod Brachion
Spells - (14)
3 Trade-In
3 Fossil Dig
3 Big Evolution Pill
2 Nobleman of Crossout
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Brain Control
Traps - (6)
3 Fossil Excavation
1 Call of the Haunted
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Hunting Instinct
Gilasaurus and Hydrogeddon are early tribute fodder, Black Ptera can fuel Superconductor or Big Evolution Pill, and Element Saurus says no to the Goblin Zombies, the Mystic Tomatoes, and their friends to make people angrier at you. Super Conductor is for beating stuff down - stuff like Red Dragon Archfiend for example - and Ultimate Tyranno is for the free Raigeki on your opponent's monsters as well as its huge attack. Super-Ancient Dinobeast is the easy-to-summon 2700 attacker, as well as a free draw when you special from the graveyard - woo! And Mr. Sauropod Brachion sets up huge amounts of strategy and synergy with Hyper Hammerhead, which bounces whatever was just flipped if it wasn't killed already, and Nobleman of Crossout, which crosses out facedown monsters that might pose a threat, such as Ryko and his buddies.
Trade-In is for the obligatory dead-draw elimination, and Fossil Dig can search Gilasaurus during the early game when your opponent's graveyard has nothing or nothing useful in it that they can special summon. Big Evolution Pill is for Mausoleum-esque power without the LP costs, and the rest of the spells are clearly staples.
Fossil Excavation further gets rid of any dead draws you could POSSIBLY have by getting a Dino - effectless, but their huge attack and/or defense make up for it - and Call of the Haunted is obligatory because it gets back an effect dino, and Sauropod Brachion can just flip itself facedown to reset the Call of the Haunted effect. Torrential Tribute clears swarms off the face of the earth, and Hunting Instinct is funny - when your opponent uses Lumina to get Wulf and you chain it to get Ultimate Tyranno, the look on their face (if they do not have an Honest in their hand - I swear, that thing needs a Semi-Limit or something) is absolutely hilarious.
Sideboard - (15)
3 Tyranno Infinity
1 Black Tyranno
2 Book of Moon
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Return from the Different Dimension
2 Hunting Instinct
2 Light-Imprisoning Mirror
2 Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror
So, I began to mull over the dinosaur support cards in my head. And I came up with this deck - it's interestingly fun to play (though don't expect it to win any prizes!) and not really expensive to put together.
Monsters - (20)
3 Hydrogeddon
3 Gilasaurus
3 Hyper Hammerhead
2 Element Saurus
1 Black Ptera
1 Super Conductor Tyranno
1 Ultimate Tyranno
3 Super-Ancient Dinobeast
3 Sauropod Brachion
Spells - (14)
3 Trade-In
3 Fossil Dig
3 Big Evolution Pill
2 Nobleman of Crossout
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Brain Control
Traps - (6)
3 Fossil Excavation
1 Call of the Haunted
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Hunting Instinct
Gilasaurus and Hydrogeddon are early tribute fodder, Black Ptera can fuel Superconductor or Big Evolution Pill, and Element Saurus says no to the Goblin Zombies, the Mystic Tomatoes, and their friends to make people angrier at you. Super Conductor is for beating stuff down - stuff like Red Dragon Archfiend for example - and Ultimate Tyranno is for the free Raigeki on your opponent's monsters as well as its huge attack. Super-Ancient Dinobeast is the easy-to-summon 2700 attacker, as well as a free draw when you special from the graveyard - woo! And Mr. Sauropod Brachion sets up huge amounts of strategy and synergy with Hyper Hammerhead, which bounces whatever was just flipped if it wasn't killed already, and Nobleman of Crossout, which crosses out facedown monsters that might pose a threat, such as Ryko and his buddies.
Trade-In is for the obligatory dead-draw elimination, and Fossil Dig can search Gilasaurus during the early game when your opponent's graveyard has nothing or nothing useful in it that they can special summon. Big Evolution Pill is for Mausoleum-esque power without the LP costs, and the rest of the spells are clearly staples.
Fossil Excavation further gets rid of any dead draws you could POSSIBLY have by getting a Dino - effectless, but their huge attack and/or defense make up for it - and Call of the Haunted is obligatory because it gets back an effect dino, and Sauropod Brachion can just flip itself facedown to reset the Call of the Haunted effect. Torrential Tribute clears swarms off the face of the earth, and Hunting Instinct is funny - when your opponent uses Lumina to get Wulf and you chain it to get Ultimate Tyranno, the look on their face (if they do not have an Honest in their hand - I swear, that thing needs a Semi-Limit or something) is absolutely hilarious.
Sideboard - (15)
3 Tyranno Infinity
1 Black Tyranno
2 Book of Moon
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Return from the Different Dimension
2 Hunting Instinct
2 Light-Imprisoning Mirror
2 Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror