Forum:Equipped Gradius Deck

I've been interested in building a deck based off of some of the spaceships from Konami's arcade shooters. It seems to hold its own, even against some of the recent structure decks, but I wanted some constructive opinions from other players. Here is the current setup:(*indicates a card I do not currently have, but would like to have part of the deck)

The concept of this deck is to use equip cards to produce a longer-lasting ATK boost to the spaceships in order to increase the chances of destroying monsters by battle and activating their effects. This particular method does not seem to be used in most other decks based off this series as doing so voids the protection offered by Jade Knight, and as such that monster is not used. Instead, union monsters are used to prevent destruction of machine-type monsters and provide helpful effects. Synchro monsters such as Power Tool Dragon and the Vylons are used to provide further equip card support and a means to recover or replace equip cards lost to synchro summoning.

I'm currently aware that there can be the following issues:

-this deck relies on machines rather heavily. This makes it susceptible to anti-support cards such as System Down and Chimeratech Fortress Dragon.

-a general weakness of any deck using this series is that most of the monsters require you to destroy monsters BY BATTLE to activate their effects. Stall Decks and cards such as Scrap-Iron Scarecrow and Swords of Revealing Light that stop or negate your attacks can easily create problems.

-Problems can also surface with the equip cards. They tend to demand card presence, as when the equiped monster is flipped face-down or leaves the field, the equip card is destroyed. 69.205.55.162 (talk) 10:02, April 13, 2013 (UTC)