Adam

I tried out a few different variations, like the Thunder Seahorse + Mahunder + Triple A build, but eventually decided I liked this one the most. It was setting up more consistently, and had better power plays.

Here's my build:

Monsters: 15

Batteryman 9-Volt x 3

Batteryman Micro-Cell x 3

Batteryman Charger x 3

Batteryman Fuel Cell x 3

Batteryman Industrial Strength

Maxx "C" x 2

Spells:

Pot Of Duality x 2

Upstart Goblin x 3

Trade-In

Battery Charger x 2

The Monarchs Stormforth x 3

Book Of Moon

Forbidden Chalice x 3

Mystical Space Typhoon x 3

Traps:

Breakthrough Skill x 2

Call Of The Haunted x 2

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Torrential Tribute

Solemn Warning

The extra deck is just staple Rank 4's, 5's and 6's, but rarely actually used.

Micro-Cell + Fuel Cell in your opening hand will usually leave you with a +3 and 9200 damage on the board on turn two, or just a Micro-Cell results in 6800 damage and a +3. The deck has great explosiveness, but also can grind, much like Geargia.

I haven't included Short Circuit in my build, because it's generally just obsolete. If you can set up three monsters on field, they don't have any backrow that's worth getting rid of with Short Circuit. Portable Battery Pack only is useful in the late game, with a set-up Grave. This deck doesn't often reach the late game, as it usually wins quickly. There's no point weakening the early game of the deck to increase your chances in the late game if the deck rarely reaches the late game.

Monsters: 28

Tethys, Goddess Of Light x 3

Archlord Kristya x 3

Master Hyperion x 3

The Agent Of Mystery - Earth x 2

The Agent Of Miracles - Jupiter x 2

Hecatrice x 3

Star Seraph Scout x 3

Star Seraph Sage x 3

Victoria x 2

Herald Of Orange Light x 3

Honest x 1

Spells: 9

Valhalla, Hall Of The Fallen x 2

Transmodify x 2

Reload x 2

Magical Mallet x 3

Traps: 3

Reckless Greed x 3

Extra Deck: 15

Orient Dragon x 1 (Soon to be Goyo Guardian)

Black Rose Dragon x 1

Michael, The Arch-Lightsworn x 1

Leo, The Keeper Of The Secret Tree x 1

Gagaga Cowboy x 1

Abyss Dweller x 1

Evilswarm Exciton Knight x 1

Fairy Cheer Girl x 2

Diamond Dire Wolf x 1

Number 101: Silent Honor ARK x 1

Number 50: Blackship Of Corn x 1

Number 103: Ragnazero x 1

Number 85: Crazy Box x 1

Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand x 1

The basic premise of the deck is to get out a Tethys, Goddess Of Light via Valhalla, Hall Of The Fallen or Transmodify, and then use some of the draw cards in my deck to abuse her effect, drawing me large hands which can result in me dropping 1 or 2 Master Hyperions and potentially taking game from there. However, this isn't always possible, so Archlord Kristya also provides a valuable line of defense, and it's summonable by Valhalla, Hall Of The Fallen also. The Star Seraph cards provide me with Level 4 monsters to use as Transmodify food, and can be used for Rank 4 xyz summons seeing as there's a powerful toolbox available there.

Monsters: 12

GB Laquari x 2

GB Darius x 2

GB Equeste x 2

GB Bestiari

Brotherhood Of The Fire Fist - Bear x 2

Traptrix Myrmeleo x 2

Thunder King Rai-Oh

Spells: 11

Pot Of Duality x 3

Fire Formation - Tenki x 3

Dark Hole

Book Of Moon

Forbidden Lance x 3

Traps: 17

Gladiator Beast's War Chariot x 3

Traptrix Trap Hole Nightmare x 2

Black Horn Of Heaven x 2

Wiretap x 2

Mirror Force x 2

Dimensional Prison x 2

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Bottomless Trap Hole

Torrential Tribute

Solemn Warning

Extra Deck: 15

GB Gyzarus x 2

GB Essedarii

GB Heraklinos

Rhapsody In Berserk

Gagaga Cowboy

Abyss Dweller

Evilswarm Exciton Knight

Heartlandraco

Silent Honor ARK x 2

Blackship Of Corn

BotFF - Tiger King

Ragnazero

Bujintei Kagutsuchi

Monsters: 23

Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth x 3

Tidal, Dragon Ruler Of Waterfalls

Royal Swamp Eel x 3

Oyster Meister x 3

Metabo-Shark x 2

Phantom Of Chaos x 3

Genex Undine x 3

Genex Controller x 2

Kuribandit x 2

Gorz The Emissary Of Darkness

Spells: 8

Allure Of Darkness

Foolish Burial

Moray Of Greed x 3

Soul Charge x 3

Traps: 9

Call Of The Haunted x 3

Breakthrough Skill x 2

Phoenix Wing Wind Blast x 2

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Torrential Tribute

Extra Deck: 15

Ghostrick Alucard

Leviair The Sea Dragon

Number 17: Leviathan Dragon

Evilswarm Exciton Knight

Diamond Dire Wolf

Number 101: Silent Honor ARK

Bahamut Shark

Number 11: Big Eye

Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack

Armades, Keeper Of Boundaries

Black Rose Dragon

Gungnir, Dragon Of The Ice Barrier

Stardust Dragon

Scrap Dragon

Crimson Blader.

The most basic combo of the deck is send Coelacanth to grave somehow and then revive it via Call Of The Haunted or Soul Charge, then discarding a card to summon 2 Oyster Meister and 2 Royal Swamp Eel. Sync Oyster and Swamp Eel for Gungnir, Oyster makes a Token for being sent to grave for a synchro, then sync the Token, Swamp Eel and Oyster Meister for Scrap dragon. The deck then has 8000 damage on the field. You can also do more if you have access to Tidal as you have extra damage on the field, or could go into stuff like Dracossack to pop more cards of your opponent. You can also do a similar play with Phantom.

Monsters: 20

Evolsaur Vulcano x 3

Evolsaur Cerato x 2

Evolsaur Diplo x 2

Evoltile Westlo x 3

Evoltile Lagosucho x 2

Evoltile Casinerio

Kuribandit x 3

Gorz, The Emissary Of Darkness

Blaster, Dragon Ruler Of Infernos

Maxx "C" x 2

Spells: 11

Pot Of Dichotomy

Pot Of Duality x 3

Evo-Diversity x 3

Soul Charge x 2

Forbidden Lance x 2

Traps: 9

Evo-Singularity x 3

Breakthrough Skil x 2

Phoenix Wing Wind Blast x 2

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Torrential Tribute

Extra Deck: 15

Evolzar Dolkka x 2

Evolzar Laggia x 3

Evolzar Solda

Ghostrick Alucard

Leviair The Sea Dragon

Number 80: Rhapsody In Berserk

Gagaga Cowboy

Abyss Dweller

Evilswarm Exciton Knight

Number 50: Blackship Of Corn

Number 103: Ragnazero

The deck forgoes the normal Evoltile + Evo-Force engine for the Kuribandit + Evo-Singularity engine instead. This gets the game moving very quickly, allowing you bring out a Laggia, Dolkka or Solda on your second turn. Lagosucho helps you with this as it sends an Evolsaur to grave for Singularity, and Soul Charge can also allow for some easy xyz plays. Phoenix Wing lets me discard Evols to make Singularity live, and it's also a great out to pretty much anything.

Monsters: 17

Blackwing - Shura The Blue Flame x 3

Blackwing - Bora The Spear x 3

Blackwing - Kalut The Moon Shadow x 3

Blackwing - Blizzard The Far North x 2

Blackwing - Steam The Cloak

Blackwing - Kochi The Daybreak

Blackwing - Gale The Whirlwind

Blackwing - Zephyros The Elite

Maxx "C" x 2

Spells: 8

Black Whirlwind x 3

Pot Of Duality x 2

Creeping Darkness

Allure Of Darkness

Soul Charge

Traps: 15

Icarus Attack x 3

Fiendish Chain x 3

Vanity's Emptiness x 2

Black Sonic x 2

Delta Crow - Anti-Reverse

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Bottomless Trap Hole

Torrential Tribute

Solemn Warning

Extra Deck: 15

Leviair The Sea Dragon

Abyss Dweller

Evilswarm Exciton Knight

Number 82: Heartlandraco

Ice Beast Zerofyne

Number 101: Silent Honor ARK

Number 50: Blackship Of Corn

Number 66: Master Key Beetle

Number 85: Crazy Box (I side Skill Drain)

Blackwing Armed Wing

Black Rose Dragon

Blackwing Armor Master x 2

Scrap Dragon

Crimson Blader

I've decided that Mythic Rulers are a good deck to play for tournaments, as they're not quite as sided against this format. Here's my current decklist, any suggestions you guys have are welcome.

Monsters: 18

Blaster, Dragon Ruler Of Infernoes

Tidal, Dragon Ruler Of Waterfalls

Tempest, Dragon Ruler Of Storms

Redox, Dragon Ruler Of Boulders

Mythic Tree Dragon

Mythic Water Dragon x 2

Flamvell Guard x 2

Debris Dragon

Influence Dragon

Blue-Eyes White Dragon

White Stone Of Legend

Kuribandit x 3

Maxx "C" x 2

Spells: 17

Trade-In x 2

Cards Of Consonance x 2

Upstart Goblin x 3

Soul Charge x 3

Dragon Shrine x 3

Foolish Burial

Burial From A Different Dimension

Gold Sarcophagus

Sacred Sword Of Seven Stars

Traps: 5

Phoenix Wing Wind Blast x 2

Raigeki Break

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Torrential Tribute

Extra Deck: 15

Orient Dragon

Stardust Dragon

Colossal Fighter

Scrap Dragon

Crimson Blader

Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon

Leo, The Keeper Of The Sacred Tree

Star Eater

Evilswarm Exciton Knight

Number 11: Big Eye

Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack x 2

Number 15: Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder

Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand

Hieratic Sun Dragon Overlord Of Heliopolis

The deck is fairly obvious in how it works, Dragon Rulers make Synchros and xyz summons easy, you can make Rank 8's fairly easy as well, and the draw power synergises well with the cards since Dragon-Type Tuners and Level 8 monsters are easy to tutor to your hand.

I've been getting bored of the meta recently so decided that Chain Beat would be fun to play, and as such I came up with this deck list:

Monsters: 8

Wind-Up Rabbit x 3

Evilswarm Thunderbird x 3

BotFF - Bear

BotFF - Gorilla

Spells: 10

Black Garden x 3

Terraforming

Pot Of Duality x 3

Fire Formation - Tenki x 3

Traps: 22

Fiendish Chain x 3

Accumulated Fortune x 3

Vanity's Emptiness x 2

Needle Ceiling

Compulsory Escape Device x 3

Dimensional Prison x 2

Mirror Force x 2

Pollinosis x 2

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Bottomless Trap Hole

Torrential Tribute

Solemn Warning

For those of you unfamiliar with the deck, the basic idea is that Rabbit and Thunderbird can just dodge pretty much anything, and your traps remove their monsters so that you can beat down on them. Black Garden halves the attack of all monsters when they're summoned, but Rabbit and Thunderbird can dodge this because they simply return to the field, rather than summon themselves. Most the traps are fairly obvious, just removal stuff, and then Pollinosis is really good in this deck, any time my opponent summons I get a Plant token from Black Garden, meaning that Pollinosis effectively becomes a free negate anything.

Any suggestions you guys have are welcome, thanks.

So Chaos Dragons have gotten quite a bit of support recently, and being one of my favourite decks ever since the structure deck came out I decided to give them another go. I don't like the consistency issues of the Lightsworn version, nor did I feel that the Baby Chaos Dragon engine left you with enough of an early game, which is pretty devastating considering how this format is looking. With these things considered I decided to try out something new, and here's what I've got:

Monsters: 23

Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon

Dark Armed Dragon

Lightpulsar Dragon x 3

Eclipse Wyvern

Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit x 3

Galaxy Serpent

Labradorite Dragon

Thunder King Rai-Oh

Kuribandit x 3

Tour Guide From The Underworld x 3

Chaos Sorcerer x 2

Black Luster Soldier - Envoy Of The Beginning

Maxx "C" x 2

Spells: 10

Hieratic Seal Of Convocation x 2

Dragon Shrine x 2

Foolish Burial

Soul Charge x 2

A Wingbeat Of Giant Dragon x 2

Mystical Space Typhoon

Traps: 7

Raigeki Break x 2

Fiendish Chain x 2

Mirror Force

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Torrential Tribute

Extra deck:

Mechquipped Angineer

Ghostrick Alucard

Leviair The Sea Dragon

Number 17: Leviathan Dragon

Hieratic Dragon King Of Atum

Gauntlet Launcher

Photon Strike Bounzer

Constellar Ptolemy M7

Gaia Dragon, The Thunder Charger

Ally Of Justice Catastor

HTS Psyhemuth

Stardust Dragon

Colossal Fighter

Scrap Dragon

Crimson Blader

So I've gone back to Wind-Ups for a bit and decided they're still fairly decent as they can spam out whatever xyz is needed for a situation, and with the recent release of Exciton and Honor ARK. Plus they can OTK easily enough still with Shark + Magician + Factory, or Shark x 2 + Magician which isn't too hard to get in hand.

Here's the decklist I'm using:

Monsters: 17

Wind-Up Rabbit x 3

Wind-Up Rat x 3

Wind-Up Shark x 3

Wind-Up Magician

Wind-Up Soldier

Tour Guide x 2

Brotherhood of the Fire Fist - Bear

Thunder King Rai-Oh

Effect Veiler x 2

Spells: 9

Fire Formation - Tenki x 2

Wind-Up Factory x 3

Book Of Moon

Mystical Space Typhoon x 3

Traps: 14

Fiendish Chain x 2

Mirror Force x 2

Dimensional Prison x 2

Trap Stun x 2

Seven Tools Of The Bandit

Black Horn Of Heaven

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Bottomless Trap Hole

Torrential Tribute

Solemn Warning

Extra Deck: 15

Wind-Up Zenmaines

M-X-Saber Invoker

Leviair The Sea Dragon

Ghostrick Alucard

Number 30: Acid Golem Of Destrution

Abyss Dweller

Steelswarm Roach (Hieratic Dragon Rulers are a thing)

Evilswarm Exciton Knight

Number 101: Silent Honor ARK

Photon Papilloperative x 2 (Both are required for the OTK)

Number 61: Volcasaurus

Tiras, Keeper Of Genesis

Wind-Up Arsenal Zenmaioh

Gaia Dragon, The Thunder Charger

Any feedback is welcome.

Cheers guys!

I've decided Fire Kings are still fairly decent this format, even with the loss of two Rekindling, so I've been running them for a bit. Here's the decklist I'm using:

Monsters: 14

Fire King High Avatar Garunix x 2

Fire King Avatar Barong x 3

Fire King Avatar Yaksha x 3

BotFF - Bear

Coach Soldier Wolfbark

Cardcar D x 2

Effect Veiler x 2

Spells: 14

Fire Formation - Tenki x 3

Onslaught Of The Fire Kings x 3

Circle Of The Fire Kings x 3

Rekindling

Dark Hole

Mystical Space Typhoon x 3

Traps: 12

Fiendish Chain x 2

Dimensional Prison x 2

Mirror Force x 2

Seven Tools Of The Bandit x 2

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Bottomless Trap Hole

Torrential Tribute

Solemn Warning

Extra Deck: 15

Gagaga Cowboy

Abyss Dweller

Maestroke The symphony Djinn

Evilswarm Exciton Knight

Diamond Dire Wolf x 3

Silent Honor ARK x 2

Blackship Of Corn

BotFF - Tiger King

Dragon Knight Felgrand

Heliopolis

I'm running Acid Golem Lockdown, with a dinosaur engine as well, so that when I don't draw Creature Swap/Mystic Box I can actually still do something, or push through the damage needed if they remove Golem before they lose. Here's the deck so far:

Monsters: 17

Rescue Rabbit

Kabazauls x 3

Hydrogeddon x 3

Gishki Ariel x 2

Gishki Beast x 3

Tin Goldfish x 2

Aqua Spirit x 2

Thunder King Rai-Oh

Spells: 14

Pot Of Duality x 3

Moray Of Greed x 3

Creature Swap x 3

Mystic Box

Forbidden Lance x 3

Book Of Moon

Traps: 9

Fiendish Chain x 3

Dimensional Prison x 2

Mirror Force

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Bottomless Trap Hole

Solemn Warning

Extra Deck:

Leviathan Dragon

Acid Golem Of Destruction x 2

Gagaga Cowboy

Abyss Dweller

Maestroke The Symphony Djinn

Evilswarm Exciton Knight

Diamond Dire Wolf

Silent Honor ARK

Evolzar Dolkka

Evolzar Laggia x 2

Bahamut Shark x 2

Crazy Box

Side Deck: 15

Smashing Ground x 2 (Bujin, Mermail)

Nobleman Of Crossout x 2 (Geargia, Ghostrick, Gravekeeper)

Dimensional Fisure (Mermail, Bujin)

Mystical Space Typhoon x 3 (General)

Eradicator Epidemic Virus (Spellbooks, anything Spell/Trap heavy)

Mind Crush (Most top decks right now)

Light-Imprisoning Mirror (Bujin)

Macro Cosmos (Mermail, Bujin)

Soul Drain (Mermail, Bujin)

So that's the complete deck, any recommendations on any part of the deck would be appreciated.

Thanks guys

I decided to run Acid Golem Lockdown for a while because I think it's a really fun deck to run, but to mitigate its inconsistencies I've also included a small Dinosaur engine that works alongside it to use the Evolzar xyz monsters as well.

Here's the deck:

Monsters: 17

Rescue Rabbit

Kabazauls x 3

Gishki Ariel x 2

Gishki Beast x 3

Hydrogeddon x 3

Tin Goldfish x 2

Aqua Spirit x 2

Thunder King Rai-Oh

Spells: 14

Pot Of Duality x 3

Moray Of Greed x 3

Creature Swap x 3

Mystic Box

Book Of Moon

Forbidden Lance x 3

Traps: 9

Fiendish Chain x 3

Dimensional Prison x 2

Mirror Force

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Bottomless Trap Hole

Solemn Warning

Extra Deck: 15

Number 17: Leviathan Dragon

Number 30: Acid Golem Of Destruction x 2

Gagaga Cowboy

Abyss Dweller

Maestroke The Symphony Djinn

Evilswarm Exciton Knight

Diamond Dire Wolf

Number 101: Silent Honor ARK

Evolzar Dolkka

Evolzar Laggia x 2

Bahamut Shark x 2

Number 85: Crazy Box

So for those of you not aware, the deck generally works by summoning out Bahamut Shark who uses its effect to summon an Acid Golem with no materials, which you then Creature Swap to your opponent, they then can't attack with it, it burns them for 2000 damage each turn and they can't special summon. Because it's not always possible to do this, and cards like Torrential Tribute and Dark Hole exist, I also included the Evolzars to negate effects that would get rid of Acid Golem.

Cheers guys.

So I've been playing for about 3 weeks now, and decided I quite like Priest (despite it currently being one of the worst classes), here's the decklist I'm currently running:

Circle Of Healing x 2

Power Word: Shield x 2

Northshire Cleric

Ancient Watcher x 2

Crazed Alchemist x 2

Nat Pagle

Sunfury Protector x 2

Wild Pyromancer x 2

Shadow Word -Death x 2

Thoughtsteal x 2

Injured Blademaster x 2

Auchenai Soulpriest x 2

Defender Of Argus

Holy Nova x 2

Holy Fire x 2

Cabal Shadow Priest x 2

Mind Control

The decks runs the usual Circle Of Healing combos with Blademaster + Northshire or Circle + Soulpriest for a beefy minion and draws or field clear respectively. I also found I was running in to a lot of rush decks, so the inclusion of Wild Pyromancer helps in those match-ups somewhat since I can't always draw in to Ancient Watcher + Sunfury Protector in the early game.

So yeah, feel free to rate and give any constructive criticism.

Thanks guys.

I've decided to run a variant of Lightsworns this ban list, but feeling that the pure version was too slow and that Twilight was too inconsistent I've gone with Lightsworn Rulers. I'm also well aware that the new Lightsworns were released in the OCG, but we haven't even had it confirmed if they're getting released in the TCG yet, so I will not be including them in any builds until they are released.

Anyway, on with the decklist:

Monsters: 33

Judgment Dragon x 2

Lightray Diabolos x 3

Lumina x 3

Lyla x 2

Wulf x 2

Ryko

Jain

Garoth

Ehren

Gragonith

Shire

Card Trooper x 2

Debris Dragon

Blaster, D-Ruler

Tidal, D-Ruler

Tempest, D-Ruler

Eclipse Wyvern x 3

Black Dragon Collapserpent x 2

Veiler

Swift Scarecrow

Maxx "C" x 2

Spells: 5

Charge Of The Light Brigade

Solar Recharge x 3

Foolish Burial

Traps: 3

Phoenix Wing Wind Blast x 3

Extra Deck: 15

WU Zenmaines

Leviair

Leviathan Dragon

Abyss Dweller

Lavalval Chain x 2

Starliege Paladynamo

Dire Wolf

Constellar Omega

Gem-Knight Pearl

Big eye

Dracossack x 2

Black Rose Dragon

Star Eater

So the deck doesn't run quite the same as a normal Lightsworn deck, instead it relies on sending my Eclipse Wyverns + a D-Ruler to grave, then you banish the Wyverns to summon the D-Ruler, the Wyverns search out my Diabolos/JD and I drop about 3-4 big monsters in a go, and if I'm using Diabolos then it means I can make Dracossack or Big Eye very easily.

I'll explain a few of the card choices that aren't necessarily obvious:

1 Ryko - It's not a great card this format, and two slow for the 2-3 turn set up that this deck tries to achieve.

1 Shire - It's a Debris target and another Light, Lightsworn monster for Diabolos/JD.

1 Gragonith - Same as Shire, but Dragon as well for the D-Rulers.

Black Dragon - Lets me get of Eclipse's effect, and sets me up for easy Lavalval Chain plays to send more Eclipses to grave.

Phoenix Wing Wind Blast - The card is very useful in place of MST since it can get rid of monsters as well, plus returning things like Mirror Force to top of deck actually works better in this deck that requires a couple of turns set up and then explodes. Whilst it's on the top of their deck they're effectively losing out on a turn of their own setting up, but even better, once I summon a Diabolos or JD Mirror Force no longer even affects me, because I just pop it. On top of that, I have 3 D-Rulers, 3 Eclipse Wyvern and 2 Wulf, if any of those are in my hand, they're pretty much just as good to me in the grave, so the cost of Phoenix Wing hardly affects me. Plus it can help put the last Light in grave I need to explode a turn earlier.

3 Diabolos Vs 2 JD - So in testing this deck I found I actually prefer Diabolos to JD in this particular build, since Diabolos lets me get rid of backrow and then xyz for 7 with another copy of itself/a D-Ruler. Really, most plays with this card are a +1 at least. For example, banish it with Eclipse, Banish Eclipse for a D-Ruler and add Diabolos which is a +1 or +2 depending on if the D-Ruler was in grave or hand. Then Diabolos gets to get rid of a set card for free, possibly even stunning my opponent by putting a dead MST or the like tot op of deck, and that's now a +3 overall. On top of that I can xyz for Big Eye, or Dracossack to gain even more advantage. JD is nice, but not being a Level 7 makes it just less important in the deck.

Any suggestions about the deck or things I might have overlooked are welcome.

Cheers guys.

It turns out that with the new OCG Lightsworn support (mainly Raiden and Michael) Lightsworn Rulers are just crazy broken. This is the decklist I'm using:

Judgment Dragon x 2

Lightray Diabolos x 3

Lyla x 3

Lumina x 3

Raiden x 3

Wulf x 2

Ryko

Ehren

Garoth

Jain

Minerva

Honest

Eclipse Wyvern x 3

Blaster

Tempest

Tidal

Black Dragon Collapserpent x 2

White Dragon Wyverburster

Maxx "C" x 2

Effect Veiler

Spells: 6

Reinforcement Of The Army

Charge Of The Light Brigade

Solar Recharge x 3

Foolish Burial

Extra Deck:

Black Rose

Michael, Lightsworn Ark x 2

Stardust

Crimson Blader

Zenmaines

Leviair

Abyss Dweller

Lavalval Chain x 2

Starliege Paladynamo

Constellar Omega

Big Eye

Dracossack x 2

So basically the deck uses the Lightsworn Milling engine to send Eclipse Wyvern and the E-Dragons to grave, and then spams a load of high level monsters. The Wyverns search out Judgment Dragon and Diabolos, you then banish them for Diabolos' effect or to summon the E-Dragons. Judgment and Diabolos clear backrow for you, and then you can spam out xyz monsters like Dracossack and Big Eye, or just put down a load of big hitters. Also, Lumina + Raiden allow you to mill 2 in your main phase, discard a card to grave, and make Michael who also happens to be a level 7 Dragon. The deck has some really great synergy, and as long as you're careful with how you move about the cards in your grave you can usually OTK within 2-3 turns.

If you feel I have missed out anything here, then feel free to let me know.

Cheers guys.

So I decided to run Chaos Ninjas until the end of this format, this is my build so far, but any recommendations are welcome.

Here's the decklist:

Monsters: 16

Grandmaster Hanzo x 3

Golden Upstart x 3

Grandmaster Sasuke

Tour Guide x 2

Eclipse Wyvern

Lightpulsar x 2

REDMD

Darkstorm Dragon

Chaos Sorc

BLS

Spells: 6

ROTA

Pot Of Duality x 2

Magic Planter

Dark Hole

Book Of Moon

Traps: 18

Ninjitsu Art Of Super Transformation

Fiendish Chain x 3

Call Of The Haunted x 2

Mirror Force x 2

D-Prison x 2

Trap Stun x 2

Compulsory

Bottomless Trap Hole

Torrential Tribute

Solemn Warning

Extra is really what you'd expect, normal Rank 4s with Excalibur and rank 3s, plus one Photon Strike Bounzer, just incase.

There's a couple of unusual choices I'm using in this deck, namely Sasuke, Darkstorm Dragon, Eclipse Wyvern, Tour Guide and Trap stun.

Sasuke is fairly easy to explain, basically I needed another Ninja and another Light, so he made sense. Besides that, it's not an awful effect, helps against Dragons when they just leave Redox, etc in def for a turn.

Darkstorm works in two ways, first off a dark and dragon, but also its effect to clear spells and traps is very useful both in getting rid of my dead Calls, Chains and Super Trans and as a pseudo-Heavy Storm.

Eclipse Wyvern is the only level 4 target of Super Trans that made much sense, I mean I could've run 3 Guiaba, but then I'd need Lance, and more extra deck space. Plus Eclipse makes for decent plays with Tour Guide and Lightpulsar in hand.

Tour Guide works well in this deck because it allows me to go into Leviair, grabbing back a Hanzo for a +2 overall, or making Giga-Brilliant to set up my grave with Lights and Darks. Plus they're more darks for the chaos element.

Trap Stun is in here over MST because it does pretty much the same thing, but also lets my monsters survive Call/Super Trans being destroyed, plus being a trap it's discard fodder for Upstart.

Any suggestions are welcome if you can provide some decent reasoning.

Cheers guys.

Dragon Rulers are of course utterly broke, and this is my build of them. Any tips on what you think my deck needs more of, then please do say. However, I'd appreciate it that if you do make any suggestions, give relevant arguments as to why you made those suggestions.

Anyway, here's the deck:

Monsters: 22

Blaster x 3

Tidal x 3

Redox x 3

Tempest x 3

Debris Dragon x 2

Dragunity Corsesca

Flamvell Guard

Trigon

Golem Dragon

Card Trooper x 2

Maxx "C" x 2

Spells: 11

Dragon Ravine x 3

Terraforming

Gold Sarcophagus

Sacred Sword x 3

Cards Of Consonance x 2

Dark Hole

Traps: 8

Castle Of Dragon Souls x 2

Phoenix Wing Wind Blast x 3

Vanity's Emptiness

Sixth Sense

Return From The Different Dimension

Extra deck: 15

Queen Dragun Djinn

Gem-Knight Pearl

Big Eye

Dracossack x 2

Catastor

Orient Dragon

Ancient Fairy Dragon x 2

Black Rose Dragon

Stardust Dragon

Scrap Dragon

Crimson Blader x 2

Star Eater

So for the most part it's fairly standard, because most Dragon Ruler decks are fairly similar really. The main things I feel I actually need to talk about are:

Trigon: It's a target for Debris Dragon, searchable by Blaster and it can be equipped to Dracossack to keep Dracossack from destruction, if needs be. Mostly it makes going in to the Ancient Fairy loop easier.

Golem Dragon: Once again it's a target for Debris Dragon, searchable by Redox, and it allows me to go in to Queen Dragun and Pearl. Pearl is very helpful for the Evilswarm match-up, and considering all the peices for Pearl are searchable, it gives me an easy way out in an otherwise awkward match-up.

Phoenix Wing: Doesn't need much explanation, I just prefer it to Raigeki Break, because this gets rid of Dracossacks, and Maestrokes, Stardusts, Fortune Tunes, Angineers, etc.

Ancient Fairy Dragon: Basically there is a loop with this card that leaves you with two Dracossacks, and all you need is a Blaster/Tempest in grave/Ravine on the field, and a Debris Dragon in hand. Normal Debris and make ancient Fairy, pop Ravine, search new Ravine send Blaster/Tempest to grave. Banish Tempest/Blaster to summon another Dragon Ruler, and add Guard/Corsesca to hand. Use Fairy Dragon's effect to summon the tuner, then overlay Fairy and Ruler for Dracosaack, make two tokens and sync tokens with tuner for another Fairy Dragon, rinse and repeat and summon another Dracossack.

So yeah, any suggestions would be great.

Cheers guys.

I decided to build Fire Kings since they're a fairly cheap deck, if you ignore the extra deck. I've been testing for a while now, and this is what I've ended up with:

Monsters: 15

FKHA Garunix x 2

FKA Barong x 3

FKA Yaksha x 3

Flamvell Firedog x 3

Brotherhood Of The Fire Fist - Bear

Effect Veiler

Maxx "C" x 2

Spells: 18

Fire Formation - Tenki x 2

Onslaught Of The Fire Kings x 3

Circle Of The Fire Kings x 3

Rekindling x 3

Pot Of Duality x 2

Forbidden Lance x 3

Dark Hole

Book Of Moon

Traps: 7

Mirror Force x 2

Raigeki Break

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Bottomless Trap Hole

Torrential Tribute

Solemn Warning

The extra deck is what you'd expect, Rank 4's with an Armades as well.

I've tried out a few different things like Wolfbark, Blaster, and various other cards that destroy my own cards.

Wolfbark I decided not to go with since it basically fulfills the exact same role as Rekindling except it takes up my normal summon, can be Veiler'd and can only summon back one monster at a time. I could run Wolfbark alongside Rekindling, but then I have the problem inconsistency since I'd be running 3 Rekindling and 2-3 Wolfbark all which require the Fire Kings to be in the grave. Opening up with even just 2 of those in hand would leave me with only 4 cards that I can actually use, and 2 dead cards.

Blaster is a nice card in a lot of Fire decks, but not this one. The effect to discard and destroy has a lot of synergy here as I need cards in the grave, however there are literally no Fire monsters that I want to banish to summon back Blaster. As such, it means that Blaster only has one use, which basically makes it a glorified Raigeki Break that can't discard spells/traps for its cost.

The rest of the cards that destroy my own monsters are just inconsistent in general, and Diamond Dire Wolf, Garunix, Circle and Yaksha get off Barong/Garunix's effect enough anyway.

Any tips would be appreciated, but obviously I'm not looking to include any of the cards I've just said I don't want to include.

Cheers guys.

So now that the official TCG banlist has been announced for Yu-Gi-Oh! the two best decks are getting hit pretty hard, rendering Dragon Rulers unplayable and Prophecy definitely lost out too. The banlist looks like one of the best I've seen since I started this game, it's extremely balanced and they've actually taken in to account which decks are likely to do well and nerfed them a little too.

Anyway, from what I've seen it looks like Genex Mermail could make a comeback as they can still use Dragoons when they need to, but can't OTK easily with the limiting of Diva. 4 Axis Fire Fist should do alright as well, as although they lost 1 Tenki, it is still searchable by a load of their monsters, plus they lost some of their traps, which will de-power them a little.

Whilst Evilswarm haven't directly been hit, they have lost a Rabbit making them a little more inconsistent, plus they've lost some of their traps. Perhaps even more importantly though, without Dragon Rulers (and the limiting of EEV) they just won't be that popular since they won't be stopping much.

Stellars look like they could actually shine now, seeing how they're very consistent, and they have Pleiades, which just owns. Blackwings may also make a comeback, though it's hard to judge really. Triple Whirlwind works very heavily in their favour, and they do have their own Heavy Storm-like card.

The last deck I think will do well is Zombies, since they gained a second PSZ and Mezuki, and the format is slowed down enough that they can probably get away with using Goblin Zombie and Pyramid Turtle to set themselves up over the course of a couple of turns.

Personally, I'll be running Zombie-DAD because it's a lols deck, and actually fairly consistent thanks to double Mezuki and PSZ now. So what will everyone else be running, and what do they reckon the top decks will be if I missed any out?