Hopeless Dragon

Hopeless Dragon, known as Dragon of Despair among Japanese players, is a Dragon Deck centered around "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon" and swarming the field with DARK Attribute Dragons and other useful DARK monsters.

The goal of this Deck is to Special Summon Dark Monsters by the effects of "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon" or "The Dark Creator". "Foolish Burial", "Armageddon Knight", or Dark Grepher can be used to dump "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon" or "The Dark Creator" from your deck into the Graveyard. "Phantom of Chaos" is then used to copy their effects and Special Summon cards like "Dark Horus", "Van'Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord". If "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon" is removed from play, a player may use "D.D.R. - Different Dimension Reincarnation", "Escape from the Dark Dimension", or "Return from the Different Dimension" to bring it back and use it to Special Summon more monsters.

Another way to bring out Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon is using Red-Eyes Wyvern. Most effective if Future Fusion is used to bring the dragons into the graveyard.

The 'Hopeless Dragon OTK' consists of:


 * Future Fusion
 * The Dark Creator
 * D.D.R. - Different Dimension Reincarnation (or as an extension, Arms Hole)
 * Dark Armed Dragon
 * High-ATK DARK Dragons, preferably Dark Horus because of its 3000 ATK

First, Activate Future Fusion to send at least 2 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon and Dark Horus (or any other dragon-type DARK monster to the graveyard). Second, Special summon The Dark Creator, since there are 5 DARK monsters in the graveyard. Use its effect to remove one Darkness Metal Dragon and special summon the other. Third, special summon Dark Armed Dragon as there are now three DARK monsters. Third, used DDR to special summon the other Darkness Metal from the RFG zone (it would be best to discard a DARK Type monster for DDR's cost). Lastly, use Dark Armed Dragon to remove any possible threat (leaving high-ATK dragons in your graveyard as much as possible) and attack for over 8000 damage. If there are still dragons in your graveyard, special summon them through either of the Darkness Metal Dragons for good measure.

A counter measure for this OTK against Mirror Force or Torrential Tribute and the like would be to discard some Red-Eyes Wyverns (either by the effect of Future Fusion, the effect of Arms Hole, the cost of DDR, or through cards like Foolish Burial) to special summon the Darkness Metal Dragons at the end phase (as none of the above steps involved a Normal Summon or Set). Royal Decree can also make this combo extremely powerful by crippling your opponent's Trap Cards.

This type of build is usually expensive, but also very powerful because of the multiple OTK strategies.

Monsters

 * Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
 * Dark Armed Dragon
 * Van'Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord
 * The Dark Creator
 * White-Horned Dragon
 * Phantom of Chaos
 * Dark Horus
 * Armageddon Knight
 * Dark Grepher
 * Infernal Dragon
 * Red-Eyes Wyvern
 * Vice Dragon
 * Axe Dragonute (OCG Only)

Spells

 * D.D.R. - Different Dimension Reincarnation
 * Arms Hole (OCG Only)
 * Foolish Burial
 * Allure of Darkness
 * Trade-In
 * Future Fusion
 * A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon

Traps

 * Return from the Different Dimension
 * Escape from the Dark Dimension
 * Eradicator Epidemic Virus
 * Deck Devastation Virus