Forum:Arms Loop!

I'm a big fan of Dragunity decks. I've found them to be fast, and quite consistent. But I used to think there was only one way to play them - synchro summons. And I rather think I was right!

But lately there's been a change, in the form of Structure Deck 19: Dragunity Drive. It introduces some new Dragunity cards, and one of them I've already shown off - Dragunity Acuris. But another one deserves mention: Dragunity Arms Laevatein. Not just because it has an annoying name, but because its effect is KICK-@$$. Especially when combined with a certain other card...

The basic idea for this deck is the Laevatein Loop. It goes like this:
 * 1) Summon Laevatein, in any way, while Light and Darkness Dragon is in the graveyard. Equip Light and Darkness Dragon.
 * 2) If Laevatein is sent to the graveyard, or if Light and Darkness Dragon is destroyed, in any way, its effect will activate, destroying my whole field. Then, special summoning any monster from my graveyard.
 * 3) Lather, rinse, repeat!

The first monster I'm including is Dragunity Legionnaire. Its effect allows for an easy -2 on my opponent. -2? Yes, because I'm also running 3 Acuris. It combos with Legionnaire to destroy my opponent's face-up monster, and another of their cards. It also allows me to special summon Laevatein from my hand, which is very good. Laevatein I've already mentioned, and LADD too. The latter I don't particularly intend to summon, though. Next up, 2 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragons and 3 Red-Eyes Wyverns speed up the deck, and can revive my Laevatein easily. I'm also running an Exploder Dragon and a Masked Dragon, to destroy stuff and search stuff respectively.

The only card I run three of is Trade-In, and it's good at discarding LADDs and Laevateins to the graveyard, where they can be very useful. From there, I run only single spells and traps: 1 Foolish Burial to instantly load up my graveyard; Burial from a Different Dimension to reuse monsters that have been removed from play (Wyverns, REDMD, and Laevatein). Future Fusion dumps any 5 dragons of my choice to the grave. Mystical Space Typhoon and Heavy Storm destroy spells and traps, but so does Double Cyclone! With it, I can destroy Light and Darkness Dragon with my opponent's card, which will wipe my field and re-summon Laevatein, which will re-quip LADD. It's another MST. Brain Control gathers tribute and synchro fodder. Enemy Controller can block an attack, but with roughly the same combo as Double Cyclone it's monster removal that can't be stopped by Stardust. Forbidden Chalice can negate the effects of naughty cards like Brionac and Caius that want to remove my cards without activating the loop.

The trap line-up is pretty basic. 2 Divine Wrath do the same thing as Forbidden Chalice. Widespread Dud works well when my field is wiped, taking two of my opponent's monsters with it. Dust Tornado is more S/T removal and gives me a card to have set on my own turn. Miyabi is some interesting control, and again is basically one for one thanks to the Laevatein loop. Finally, Torrential Tribute is very useful in general.

The extra deck isn't that special - tell me what you think of this concept deck. Runer5h 02:25, May 4, 2010 (UTC)Runer5h