Dinomist: deck recipe [Aug 23]

Dinomist is a pendulum-based deck that simply plays like a beatdown deck, but they come with decent protection since the pendulum effects can protect them from destruction and targeting effects, at least once each.

With the use of Dinomist Charge, they can cycle around a monster that is sent to the extra deck to mitigate the loss of resources, allowing them to make some continuous plays.

Since they are all WATER attributes, they can also take advantage of Reginald's skill to get easy access to some rank 4 WATER Xyz. But this can end up with issues due to lack of spell/trap zones.

The Dinomists have the same pendulum effects according to their pendulum scale, which is to protect the on-field Dinomists from destruction or targeted effects by sacrificing themselves.

The scale 3 Dinomists protects your on-field Dinomist(s) from destruction, while the scale 6 Dinomists negates cards that target your Dinomist(s). If multiple monsters are targeted/destroyed at the same time (through something like Treacherous Trap Hole), then 1 use of the pendulum effect will protect all of them.

Pendulum cards when destroyed will go to the extra deck, but with Dinomist Charge on the field, once per turn, you can recover a card that's sent to the extra deck. Another way to recover cards sent to the extra deck is to simply pendulum summon.

One of the deck's easy win conditions. It can attack twice in a turn, and attacks directly, ignoring all of your opponent's monsters and having some protection effects from the Dinomist pendulum cards.

Pendulum summon Spinos with other Dinomist cards and activate Spinos' effect. If you have Dinomist Charge on the field, the card tributed for Spinos will return back to your hand. If it's a low-level or has a special summon effect, you can bring it back to your field to be tributed for Spinos again.

Alternatively, you can special summon Spinos from the deck with Dinomist Rush and have it be unaffected by everything for that turn, but this is a risky all-in play. Even if you have Dinomist Charge, you can only recover 1 card per turn, while this OTK play requires several cards.

Since the Dinomist monster's pendulum effects are about protecting your on-field monsters from targeted or destruction effects, there's a pretty good chance that Spinos' attack will go through. With 2x 2500 ATK, it's enough to OTK a lot of the time, unless your opponent uses "Grit" or has handtraps.

If you have Concentrating Current in hand, you only need to activate Spinos' effect once to get an OTK.

Useful searcher so you can get both scales to make a pendulum summon, or to get the combo pieces for an OTK play.

1800 ATK for a low level is only decent, but you can increase its attack with cards in the deck like Abyss Dweller, Powerload, or Concentrating Current.

This lets you activate 2 Spinos effect in a single turn pretty easily. Pendulum summon Spinos + Ceratops then tribute the Ceratops for the first effect.

Follow it up by special summoning another Ceratops, or use the same Ceratops since it's added back to your hand if you had Dinomist Charge on the field.

Effect only works on your other Dinomist monsters, and only works after the damage calculation.

This lets any of your other Dinomists handle just about any monster your opponent controls, as long as they can be destroyed by a card effect.

It's less of a loss if you have Dinomist Charge on the field since you can recover the destroyed monster back to hand.

Has a powerful non-targeting card removal, or a decent OTK option if your opponent has at least 2 monsters. But Rex can only use its effect after it attacks, and needs to tribute another monster to do this, making it somewhat tricky to properly utilize often.

You can use its effect to get rid of dangerous monsters like Bloom Diva the Melodious Choir, but you'll need to sacrifice another Dinomist monster on your field as well as low scale Dinomist effect to prevent the destruction effect.

Brachion has a similar effect with Cyber Dragon, except you can special summon it as long as you don't control the highest attack monster and you control no other Brachion. It can allows you to Xyz Summon Rank 5 Monster quickly while you control another Level 5 Dinomist Monster.

Helps make this into more of a beatdown deck, but it can only reduce up to 300 ATK due to only 3 monster zones.

Dinamic Powerload will help increase the ATK gap so you can beat over most monsters with any Dinomist monsters.

Against decks that don't use the banish pile, this effect is pretty strong since it will remove them for the rest of the duel. But this is pretty situational, and needing to destroy them by battle only helps a beatdown version of the deck.

Use this to search for the other scale that you need for pendulum summoning. If you already have both low and high scales, then Spinos or Ceratops are good options to pick if you want to make an OTK play.

Its recovery effect makes it so you can more freely use certain Dinomist's tribute effects. But since it's only once per turn, you'll have to consider if you'll need to use the pendulum effects for protection as well.

If you're using the deck without a skill that gives pendulum zones, be careful with this since you can end up clogging your field after putting 2 pendulum cards on the field.

The best monster to summon with this is Spinos. As long as you have any other Dinomist monster, Spinos will be able to attack directly. With 2, the odds of being able to OTK is pretty high.

The only cards that can prevent an OTK from a Spinos that can attack twice directly are cards that prevent damage taken. Since the trap will destroy the summoned monster during your end phase, this isn't a good play if you think your opponent has any handtraps that's not Sphere Kuriboh since you'll end up with no monsters left on your field.

Volcasaurus gives the deck a monster removal that can be used outside of battle phase. Since it can't attack after using its effect, you can then use it to special summon Thunder Charger.

General Rank 4 Xyz Monster for players to use so far. Its effect essentially lets you deal 2500 (its own ATK) damage if this attacks the monster you targeted. The advantage is that your opponent's monster's ATK is also lowered, allowing you to attack over it with your other weaker monsters.

If your Volcasaurus are locked up or negated because of your opponent's card, you can rank up into this so that you can still attack.

Lower ATK compared to Tiras, but it has protection to battle and card effects. While it does give a good amount of protection, it's still vulnerable to cards like Cyber Slash Harpie Lady or Karma Cut, but since it's a quick effect, it can chain block a Cyber Slash Harpie Lady once.

Useful when your opponent only has 1 monster on the field. Temporarily banishing them will let you attack directly to secure some games.

It's also good against Xyz monsters since banishing them will also remove their materials.

Roach is great for monster suppresion, much like a Trap Hole card. When your opponent summons a boss monster, use Roach's effect to immediately destroy it. This is an especially good counter against Synchro Decks. But most of the time, just Roach's presence on the field is enough to deter the opponent from making big monsters.

Offers the deck more non-targeting card removals, but requires 3 monsters to make, but you can pendulum summon Dinomist monsters easily.

Its effect is kind of a gamble, but the high ATK makes it somewhat decent even if the effect fails. It's worth noting that sending cards from your opponent's deck to the grave can end up helping them instead, so you'll want to make sure that it counts when you use it.

Hand draw engine while you have 3 or more cards in your hand. This will allows you to increase resources for board setup.

Since this Deck contains more of Pendulum Monsters that can be special summoned all in once while you have a set of Pendulum Monsters with proper in your Pendulum Zone which will lowers the possibility for losing all your hand card during the End Phase.

Draw Engine for allowing you to shuffle 2 Dinomist Monsters from your hand into the Deck, then lets you draw out additional 3 card which will increases hand card advantage.

This makes it so that you can attack without any interruption and also prevents handtraps. The ATK bonus is just a nice bonus, but it helps with a beatdown version playstyle.

Gives the deck a card removal effect without having to attack your opponent. This plays around dangerous handtraps or battle traps that can happen during battle phase.

Mostly to prevent your opponents from being able to use cards that activate in the graveyard. Since the Dinomists are WATER attributes, Abyss Dweller will get the ATK increasing effect, making it 2200 ATK that also boosts your other Dinomists on the field.

Available via the skill without having to own a copy of it. If your LP is below 1000 and your opponent has a 3000 ATK monster or lower, then you can already get an OTK by making a Utopia Ray and activate its effect 3 times.

Only go into this if you're planning to go into Utopia Ray. This can be useful as a stall card if you're desperate, but if your opponent still has 4000 LP, then you'll want the 3 Xyz materials from Utopia Ray in order to get an OTK.

Potentially a game-winning card when you go against decks that uses same name monsters like Harpies.

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