Forum:Ice Barrier Deck

I'm building this Ice Barriers deck at the moment, and the core build is pretty solid but I have been considering running Royal Knights for the Shock Troop/Royal Knight combo where I can drop a token on their side then blast that token and tribute my Shock Troop for a new Ice Barrier to my hand. It would mean running a different build, but it's mostly an idea I've been toying with.

Explanation of choices

The Caravans are to fuel Dewloren's bounce effect to power him up, whilst providing some recycle to load my Ice Barriers back into the deck if it gets too thin. Admittedly the +1 draw to the opponent isn't ideal, but I don't have Blizzed and Blizzed's effect can't be triggered before returning to my hand. Tempted to drop 2 D. Prisons in but my partner has those, and I found that it ran better with more spells rather than traps, but that is my personal preference. Starlight Road's a pretty obvious choice for anti mass destruction such as T.T. or Dark Hole if I haven't got a Dai-Sojo up at the time, and it offers a quick special summon of my Stardust. Breaker and Fishborg are splashed in at 1 each for the sake of their effects, especially Fishborg who allows for more flexibility or a quick double synchro summon since with dewdark and 2 level 4s up I can drop both Dewloren and Magical Android in one turn. Leolightman 14:50, January 23, 2011 (UTC)

The alternative build involving Shock Troops and Royal Knights isn't that different, but I would not run Breaker and Fishborg in that as the Knights and Shock Troops would give the flexibility to my synchro summoning simply by being 3/5 star monsters.

The Synchro combos in this variant are 2+3 for Magical Android, 2+4 or 3+3 for 6 star monsters, 2+5 or 3+4 for a 7 star monster and 3+5 or 2+6 for the 8 star monsters. Medium is maintained as a control card despite lack of ability to be synchro summoned with, she does provide a special summon target for Magical Dimension.

Almost forgot to mention that having Shock Troops in the build doesn't only help keep up the Ice Barrier count in your hand, they are also special summonable through the effects of either Magician's circle or Magical Dimension. Leolightman 22:58, January 23, 2011 (UTC)