Dragunity 4Dragons

Monster [26]
3 Blaster
3 Tidal
3 Redox
3 Tempest
3 Dragunity Phalanx
3 Dragunity Dux
2 Dragunity Arma Mystletainn
1 REDMD
1 Blackwing, Zephyros the Elite
1 Garuda the Wind Spirit
1 Flamvell Guard
2 Maxx "C"

Spell [14]
3 Sacred Swords of the Seven Stars
3 Cards of Consonance
3 Dragon Ravine
2 Terraforming
3 Mystical Space Typhoon

Trap [1]

1 Return from DD

Extra [15]

2 Dragunity Knight Vajrayana
1 Dragunity Knight Gar Dearg
1 Crimson Blader
1 Stardust Dragon
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Colossal Fighter
1 Queen Dragun Djinn
2 Hieratic Dragon King of Atum
1 Photon Strike Bounzer
1 Gaia Dragon, Thunder Charger
1 Dracossack
1 No11: Big Eye
1 No74: Master of Blades


I started building this like... 1 week after the OCG ban list was announced, so don't ask why this isn't identical to Patrick Hoban's build. In my opinion Hoban's (and Dale Bellido's) deck is REALLY bad. It lacks the true power of 4Dragons (3Dragons < 4Dragons no matter what), while also lacks the true power of Dragunity (1 Mystletainn? No Zephyros or Garuda? What the fucking duck? This is not March 2011 when SDLS was just released and the game went as Dux -> Vajrayana -> Stardust all day long)

I usually end my first turn with Atum, REDMD, Queen Dragun Djinn and 2 level 7 Dragons (xyz for Master of Blades or Big Eye, depends on the opponent's deck)

The set up of Gae Dearg + a level 6 dragon is so good. I mean the best thing that can happen to a YGO deck. If you want it to taste more delicious, make room for Mist Valley Baby Roc, Arma Leyvaten, Trident Dragion and (optionally) Gustaph Max

It goes like... Dux, Mystletainn, Phalanx -> Gae Dearg (search + discard Zephyros). Go for Atum, REDMD, get back Dearg, search Garuda and discard a dragon. Use Zephyros, use Garuda, make Queen Dragun Djinn, banish the first Atum for REDMD

Now you can go for the second Atum, or Bounzer, or if you have colors (and you usually do), you can go for some level 7 things

Some reasoning:

Gold Sarcophagus: I don't like unsearchable 1-of

Leyvaten, Baby Roc, 3rd Mystletainn: Space :<

Flamvell Guard: When you need to pop with Blaster, or have Blaster + Tidal + Redox + Cards of
Consonance without Phalanx, and, most frequently happens, when you run out of Dux/Vajrayana but you need your level 8 synchro

Garuda: Queen Dragun Djinn with Zephryos

Zephyros: Bouncing back REDMD = OP

Master of Blades: When you do not have enough spaces for 2 Dracossack tokens (which actually happens a lot)

No traps: People like Vanity's Emptiness but I prefer Maxx "C" because it's harder to stop and it has synergy with Redox

Tehys OTK?

Even though the idea is purely stolen from a friend of mine, this project is so incredible that I can't help posting it here

Just a way to share the idea with the whole YGO community, right?

/feels ashamed

So the idea here is:

1. Summon Tehys, Goddess of Light
2. Draw
3. OTK

A little more detailed:

September format

YCS Toronto just ended and Dragon Rulers, piloted by an Asian, took the champion

Honestly I am not surprised with this at all. Going deeper into the format with more and more testing people will soon realize how easily Dragon Rulers can be beat (Soul Drain rules them all). But this is just the start of the format, and it takes time to define a real top tier deck

The champion's decklist isn't even the "Dragon Ruler Plant" thing that has been floating around for quite some time. It's just Dragon Rulers, with some synchro elements like Debris Dragon/Card Trooper and Dragunity Corsesca. To be honest this is quite similar to my build when I first heard about the OCG ban list (my build was more about summoning Trishula but fuck it lol), aside from Card of Consonances

And, to be honest (again), I really think that Dragon Ruler Dragunity thing is a real joke. You can look at how Patrick Hoban played in the semi-final: It's not about Dragunity after all, and all those Duxes and Mysteletainns just make things worse. Dragunity is a good deck, Dragon Ruler is a good deck, Tempest is a good card and Tempest in Dragunity is broken. That's all. If you want to make more use of Dragon Ravine, play Eclipse Wyvern/LADD instead

Blackwing in top 4 is quite a surprise, but it's still reasonable because that kind of deck with heavy traps and a little aggression never wins but will top a lot. There was also Psychic Madolche in the top 32 (go on Youtube for decklist, I'm lazy now) and in my opinion that mix is another joke. Madolche is good, Psychic is good, but combining them into a deck sucks. I've tried myself, and I realize there're better cards that fuel the graveyard for Hootcake than Serene Psychic Witches

However the things that caught my eye the most was Sorosh Saberian's Mermail and Evan Daniel Waxman's Transmodify Herald Agent. Sorosh has been my favourite player for quite a while (the first time I really netdecked was "building" a Fabled Ragin turbo deck just like his) and Mermail has been my favourite deck for a shorter while. The interaction between Abyssocea, Mechquipped Angineer and Bahamut Shark is quite interesting and I've promised myself to spend some time working on it

That Herald Agent with Transmodify concept isn't new (Robert Boyajian showed us on CoreTCG blog weeks ago), but seeing such control deck in the top is really interesting. Advanced Ritual Art finally made it to the YCS tops

That's just some little talk about what I've seen after YCS Toronto. After some more testing I'll bring you a little more information about how I think the format will proceed. Until next time :D