Forum:Innovative Monarch Deck (Opinions Please)

Monarch Dragon Power Stall Deck

Normal Deck:

1. Caius the Shadow Monarch x3---Field Control/High Attack

2. Kuraz the Light Monarch x3---Field Control/High Attack

3. Mobius the Frost Monarch x3---Field Control/High Attack

4. Raiza the Storm Monarch x3---Field Control/High Attack

5. Nimble Momonga x3---LP gain(Helps with using Dimensional Fusion)/Stall/Extra Summons for Monarchs

6. Troop Dragon x3---Stall/Extra Summons/Dragons used for synchro and Five Headed Dragon

7. Masked Dragon x3---Stall/Extra Summons/Retrieve Tuner Dragon/Used for syncro and Five Headed Dragon

8. Dread Dragon x3---Tuner for Synchro/Can bring any Lv3 Dragon to hand from deck/Useful for Five Headed

24 Monsters Total

9. Dragon Mirror x2-Potential to use twice with amount of dragons being used

10. Dimensional Fusion x1-Pay LP gained from Nimble Momonga/Obtain 5 dragons removed by Dragon Mirror

11. Lightning Vortex x3-Clears Opponents Aggressive Monsters

12. Heavy Storm x1-Clears Opponents S/T

13. Curse of Royal x2-Negates S/T that try to negate Key fusion cards

14. Judgment of Anubis x1-Negates Heavy Storm in particular as well as hits opponents LP.

15. Twister x3--Kills Dimensional Fissure/Skill Drain/Gravity Bind/Level Limit Area B/etc

16. Mystical Space Typhoon x1--Same as Twister without LP cost.

17. Messenger of Peace x2--Stall until Ready. Cease LP cost/Much easier to get rid of v.s. GB or LV Limit.

16 Spell/Trap Total

40 Total Cards in Normal Deck

Extra Deck:

1. Five Headed Dragon x3 (Key Card for Deck)

2. Stardust Dragon x3 (Recommended for any deck)

3. Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier x1 (Recommended for any deck)

4. Red Dragon Archfiend x3 (Recommended for facing Stall Decks)

5. Black-Winged Dragon x3 (Recommended for facing Burn Decks)

6. Dark End Dragon x3 (Decent)

7. Exploder Dragonwing x3 (Great Against another Monarch Deck)

8. Light End Dragon x3 (Decent in a pinch)

9. Trident Dragion x3 (Recommended for facing Stall/Aggresive decks)

10. Goyo Guardian x3 (Recommended for facing any deck with monsters)

Side Deck:

1. Imperial Iron Wall x3 (RFG decks)

2. Card Destruction x1 (Exodia Decks)

3. Chain Burst x3 (If You choose not to use Jinzo, good Burn effect)

4. Bad Reaction to Simochi x3 (LP Gain Decks)

5. Macros Cosmos or Dimensional Fissure x3 (Lightsworn Decks. While this may hurt this deck, it will hurt Lightsworn more)

6. Thunder King Rai-Oh x1 (Search Decks)

7. Protector of the Sanctuary x1 (Draw Decks/Exodia Decks)

Strategy Overview:

Nimble Momonga will help gain 3000 LP to counter loss from Dimensial Fusion and Twisters.

The Low Level Dragon Cards SS each other to help bring Five-Headed out faster. Low Level SS monsters and Messenger of Peace help buy you time for key fusion spell cards while providing tributes for Monarchs to dominate the field. As a Bonus, Messenger of Peace is extremely easy for the owner to get rid of when they wish to as they just have to stop paying the cost, unlike Gravity Bind and/or Level Limit Area B.

Lightning Vortex, Heavy Storm, MST, and Twisters help kill stall attempts from opponent as well as help to retain control of the field.

Dragon Mirror has the ability to remove from field or graveyard dragon monsters to SS Five Headed Dragon. Added to this, once it dies, Dimensional Fusion will let you get your monsters back, which will in turn let you use your second Dragon's Mirror to bring out another Five Headed Dragon.

Curse of Royal will help negate your opponent from stopping your Fusion Spell Cards.

Judgment of Anubis will negate Heavy Storm, as Curse of Royal is unable to.

Monarchs are self explanatory. (Field control through powerful effects and attacks)

Dread Dragon is a Tuner so can bring in Synchro monsters while also being a dragon type for Dragon Mirror.

Optional: Replace 3 Monarch Cards with 3 Jinzos to negate opponent using traps. This deck only uses 3 Traps and they are really only used to counter traps themselves, with the exception of Judgment of Anubis that counters heavy storm. So Jinzo should not be very detrimental to the deck and also has same atk and tribute requirement as a Monarch.

Optional: Add 3 Dragon Decoys to the deck so that when you have Five Headed Dragon destroyed you can bring it back using Decoy's effect. This will either stall the opponent from attacking or they will attack and suffer the wrath of Five Headed Dragon. A Ring of Magnetism or something with similar effect works nicely if equipped to Dragon Decoy as well.

Optional: Add a few Dark Armed Dragons to the deck if you like, as there are exactly 3 dark monsters in this deck (Shadow Monarchs) so you can't go wrong with it. Obviously they won't be as effective as in other decks, but they are still pretty powerful cards either way.

Possible Weaknesses: Deck Milling, Hand Milling, Exodia Decks, No Monster Stall/Burn Decks, RFG Decks, Monarch Deck that steals monsters for tribute.

Tutela 03:39, May 9, 2010 (UTC)