A strong dragon beatdown mixed with a bit of control - Mike Vleminckx Now this is my first deck build on this site and my second tip. I plan on posting more in the future. I'm thinking about a "spin of" on chaos and maybe a Dark fusion deck of some sorts. I wrote this article to help a friend of mine that's trying to build a dragon deck so I might as wel post it on pojo. Again I ask you to send me what you think of it and any questions you might have but please no flames. The Idea for my Dragon Master deck Now of course in a dragon deck there are dragon cards. Now for getting good tribute monsters you surely have no problem. It's the good level 4 monsters that pose the problem. Exept for the dragon dwelling in the cave, Black luster dragon 2 and spirit ryu you don't have mutch. Maybe cave dragon then. But stil it isn't that good if you want to win a tournament you cant go al dragon. Now if you yust addapt the deck and ad some general good cards, beat down monsters and some control M/T now then you wil have something. CARDS WE MIGHT USE High level cards There are realy some good cards here so yust pick Blue-Eyes White Dragon ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500 Level: 8 Atribute: Light Effect: none Reason: Yust his attack strengt makes him good. And hes kind of tradition in the dragon decks. Hyozanryu ATK: 2100 DEF: 2800 Level: 8 Atribute: Light Effect: none Reason: He has a reasonable attack and good defense. He could realy be a good wal. If he only was a level lower then he would be more usable. Tyrant Dragon ATK: 2900 DEF: 2500 Level: 8 Atribute: Fire Effect: When there is a monster on your opponent's side of the field after the first attack of your Battle Phase, this monster can attack once again during the same Battle Phase. In addition, negate the effect of a Trap Card that specifically designates this card as a target and destroy it. If this monster is Special Summoned from the Graveyard, you must offer 1 Dragon-Type monster on your side of the field as a Tribute. Reason: Wel you should definatly use this card. Its stats are almost the same as blue eyes and hes got some good effect. You wont be summoning this guy from the graveyard a lot in this deck but you could always summon that blue eyes. Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy Of The End ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500 Level: 8 Atribute: Dark Effect: This card can only be Special Summoned by removing 1 LIGHT and 1 DARK monster in your Graveyard from play. Pay 1000 of your Life Points to send all cards in both players' hands and on the field to the Graveyard. Inflict 300 points of damage to your Reason: Wel hes a dragon and a dam good one to. He can only be summoned by his effect so no monster reborn before you succesfully summon him with his effect and no flute. Now the dark part isn't realy a problem its more of the light part. In any case where not making a chaos deck where making a dragon deck. Luster dragon (versie 1 en 2) ATK: 2400 DEF: 1400 Level: 6 Atribute: wind Effect: None Reason: One of the two 1 tribute cards that are reasonable and this is even searchable. Kaiser glider ATK: 2400 DEF: 2200 Level: 6 Atribute: light Effect: This card is not destroyed as a result of battle when this card battles with a monster with the same ATK. When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, return 1 monster on the field to its owner's hand. Reason: Good attack and only one tribute. Both effects are good. If your enemy wants to beat this hell either need a good equip or at least a 1 tribute monster. So sending it to there hand is good indeed. And the second effect is against people who like to ram themselves in you. It also kils jinzo. Conclusion: We would best be using some blue eyes and tyrant dragons. Also some kaiser gliders as support. I prefer this one over the luster dragon because it has effects. You wil also not be searching that luster dragon with the witch you might be better of using that on a lord of D. No tribute cards Our first real problem thats why i sugest yust skipping the dificulty's and build in some good old beatdown monsters. Together with solid searchers and your lord of D. Lord of D ATK: 1200 DEF: 1100 Level: 4 Atribute: Dark Effect: All Dragon-Type monsters cannot be targeted by Spell Cards, Trap Cards, or other effects that specifically designate a target while this card is face-up on the field. Reason: For the flute of course. Troop dragon ATK: 700 DEF: 800 Level: 2 Atribute: Water Effect: When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, take 1 "Troop Dragon" from your Deck and Special Summon it to the field in face-up Attack or Defense Position. The Deck is then shuffled. Reason: Only het effect would be good but this card takes up to mutch space because you need 3 to work at its max. I sugest skipping it. Berserk gorilla ATK: 2000 DEF: 1000 Level: 4 Atribute: Earth Effect: If this card is in face-up Defense Position on the field, destroy this card. The controller of this card must attack with this card when possible. Reason: Hes the only no tribute monster with 2000 Atk that dusn't totaly suck or you have to build a deck around to work properly. Yust use it for the power. The effect is realy of no concern. It defeats any no tribute monster (exept for a rare few) and why would you even put this in defense. Archfiend soldier ATK: 1900 DEF: 1500 Level: 4 Atribute: Dark Effect: None Reason: The Best level 4 there is right now. Highest attack that hasn't got any drawbacks and highest defense thats stil witchable. Mad dog of darknes ATK: 1900 DEF: 1400 Level: 4 Atribute: Dark Effect: None Reason: Same as archfiend yust a hundred les defense. Gemini elf ATK: 1900 DEF: 900 Level: 4 Atribute: earth Effect: none Reason: An other solid 1900 with no drawbacks. Luster Dragon #2 ATK: 1900 DEF:1600 Level: 4 Atribute: wind Effect: None Reason: Wel hes a dragon and also 1900. He is however not witchable and no dark. I stil would consider using him if you think you need more dragons to cal it a dragon deck. Dragon dwelling in the Cave ATK: 1300 DEF: 2000 Level: 4 Atribute: Earth Effect: None Reason: We wil need some defens and hes a dragon to. Although if you put in chaos emperor dragon you better put in some light defenders like mystical elf. Mystic tomato ATK: 1400 DEF: 1100 Level: 4 Effect: When this card is sent to the Graveyard as a result of battle, you can Special Summon 1 DARK monster with an ATK of 1500 or less in face-up Attack Position from your Deck. Then shuffle your Deck. Reason: Wel this is good for your lord of D but you might not want to summon him yet. Though the best changce sobody has at killing your flute combo is either neating the flute or killing the Lord of with a trap hole. Since it's a special summon and botomless cant get him it might not be that bad. But I think we already have enough searchers. Now the other cards that you need are pretty wel known so i wont discribe them: Witch of the Black forest Sangan (optional) Magician of faith Mask of darkness Man eater bug Spell and trap cards Now most here arent that new so i'll only describe the ones that aren't. I know there are some dragon specific cards here but face it they al suck or have a better version. mirror force Fisure smashing the ground (same as fisure yust against highest defens and also face down monsters) Raigeki Dark hole Botomless trap hole Trap hole Skull lair Reason: Wel before we can summon the dragons we need to stal some time to get the cards and control the flow of gameplay so the opponent dussen't get the upper hand. Smashing the ground is goud against face down monsters. Trap holes help to and certainly the bottomless. Don''t kil a level 4 wait until he tibutes if you can. Skull lair works good aswel but reomoving cards from the graveyard might not help this playstile. Its powerfull though so dont trow it out the window. Finaly now who couldn't use old trusty mirror force. Card destruction Pot of greed Gracefull charety Reason: Your deck tipe is slow so anything that gives you lmore draawpower is staple here. You can also use the gracefull charety to dump a Blue eyes and then reborn it. The only deck that works at your pace is an exodia deck. Card destruction might mess that plan up. Axe of dispair Malevolent nuzler Blast with chain Reason: Now you aren't going to wait yust for those dragons. Relying yust on the combo makes you way to vonurable. Give your stronger monsters some equips to keep you going. Blast with chain is also an ugly surprise for your enemy's and they wont want to negate this guy. Only bad against a jinzo but then again al traps are. As soon as its equiped it safe though since then its treated as an equip magic. Gravety bind Swords of revealing light Reason: Even stalling for a few turns might help here. So you got to use them. Soul exchange Change of heart Monster reborn Reason: When your lord of D and flute combo yust wont come out yust snatch an enemy monster and tribute it. Also dumping a big one and reborning it wil help. Harpie's feather duster Mystical space typhoon Curse seal of the forbidden spel Reason: Wel we have to negate what they do and keep our own cards safe. You need both these cards. Curse makes sure they wont use that spel again but you have to discard a spel of yourown. Make sure you have one you hink you can mis in your hand. If you can get there mystical space typhoon with this you wil be very lucky. The harpies feather duster is great to use before you go for the Lord of D combo. Flute of sumoning dragon Reason: If i have to explain this then you better start reading your rulebook and some card revieuws first. The only card i'll fully explain here because it can be so good: DNA surgery Continuous Trap Effect: Select 1 Type of monster. As long as this card remains on the field, all face-up Monster Cards will be treated as the Type you selected. Reason: Use it on your own lord of D and his effect protects him to. Get an equip spel on lord of D and he truly cant be beaten. It works on other monsters to if you realy want to reborn that tyrant. DECK STRUCTURE Now i wont use al the cards ive given those are yust there if you would like to change something to fit your playstile. I sugest sitcking as close to a 40 card deck as possible and don't go over 50. Every card slows you down even more. Monsters (25) 2 Blue ice white dragons 2 Tyrant dragons (if you got chaos emperor dragon use only 1) 1 Kaiser glider (use 3 if you dont have a tyrant) 3 Berserk gorilla 3 Mad dog of darknes 3 archfiend soldier 3 Dragon dwelling in the cave (Replace by mystical elf when u use CED) 3 Gemini elf 3 Lord of D 1 Witch of the Black forest 1 Mask of darkness 1 Magician of faith you can also use a man eater bug or mystic tomato instead of the Mask of darkness if oyu think its better. Magics (17) 3 flute of sumoning dragon 3 Mystical space typhoon 3 Axe of dispair 2 Smashing the ground 1 Raigeki 1 Pot of greed 1 Gracefull charety 1 Change of heart 1 Monster reborn 1 swords of revealing light Traps (8) 2 gravety bind 2 botomless trap hole 1 seal curse of the forbidden spell 1 blast with chain 1 DNA surgery 1 mirror force You can addapt some here but i think its the best combo. If you feel you cant bring the blast out when you need it yust replace it by any other trap here. But considder this. Yust setting this trap when jinzo is on the field lets you destroy him if you wish. FINAL CONCLUSION With this deck you can defend yourself and using the equips you can do some attacking to. Stal some time with the M/T removlas while you use your gravety bind and Swords of revealing light. The lord of D combo is pretty easy to bring out this way though you wil have trouble with the CED. But as I sayd if you want him build a chaos deck there are enough models out there. Otherwise stick with it. Now an other change is removing a card for a curse seal. But be carefull with that curse seal 2 are more then enough. I would side deck that dark hole and maybe the 3 troop dragons i spoke of earlier. Also ad any of the high level cards you use so you can switch in 3 of one type. The main reason if there is a lot of negation around your better of sticking to 1 tribute though avoid having to deal with this when possible. The rest of the side deck is your choice. It depends on the enviroment you play in. As a side note I would mention that there might be a lot of good cards that help a dragon deck in the uppcoming soul odf the duelist so I might have to change this revieuw when it comes out. Also don't try to squeeze in any fusions. The black skul dragon is to hard to bring out unless you play a deck centered around it using swamp kings instead of 3 attackers and 3 polimerisations for the flutes. This also requires the summoned skulls. In any case that's a whole other deck type. If you want me to explain it in more detail email me for it. I wont do it unless I get several mails though. An other thing is that The Blue eyes ultimate dragon dussent exist yet and I wouldn't use him here either. Hes hard to bring out and would recuire polimerisations. Your better of with 2 bleu eyes then. Mike Vleminckx Mastermind_MV@msn.com