Thunder Dragon: deck recipe [Feb 2021]

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Aloof Lupine has the purpose of accelerating your Thunder Dragon plays. Ideally you banish Dragondark and Dragonroar for a free search and Special Summon.

Try to avoid banishing Dragonhawk so you can use it for a follow-up Special Summon using its first effect and getting off two Special Summons in one turn.

Dragonduo’s main purpose is to increase the chance of delivering an OTK.

Assuming the GY is filled up correctly, Chaos Dragon Levianeer should always be used first to get rid of backrow primarily. Since its destruction effect does not target, your opponent has to decide whether to activate effects with Spell Speed 2, before you actually choose which "targets" to destroy.

If your opponent does not decide to use monster removal, you can follow-up this play with Normal Summoning Raiden and consequently go for a Assault Blackwing Onimaru the Divine Thunder Synchro Summon.

Your XYZ Special Summons should be based on what are you expecting, e.g. Photon Strike Bounzer presents a good Turn 1 play, as you can interact with your opponent’s plays during their turn negating a monster effect of your choice.

Noble Knight

Noble Knights prove to be a difficult matchup for this deck as Noble Arms of Destiny greatly diminish the usefulness of Chaos Dragon Levianeer‘s destruction effect. Arguably Cosmic Cyclone could be used, but it also increases brick chances, plus Level reduction does not profit from losing LP.

Levianeer adds a significant amount of firepower to the deck. Thanks to its high ATK and ability to destroy up to two cards upon summon Chaos Dragon Levianeer can be a truly devastating card especially in a deck that has no trouble filling the Graveyard with its summoning cost quickly and consistently.

Always summon Levianeer with a combination of LIGHT and DARK monsters as cost. The multi-card removal effect is its most useful effect. Another thing is to always use Thunder Dragons as cost when possible, activating their effects. But don't use Thunder Dragons whose effect has already been activated during the turn.

Thunder Dragonduo has a similar but less costly summoning condition than Levianeer. Its high base ATK contributes to this deck's power output, while its effects are good compliments the Thunder Dragon playstyle.

The ATK boost effect increases Dragonduo's damage output and can let it attack over stronger boss monsters.

The search effect is good for resource gain. And the activation cost triggers a Thunder Dragon's effect, banishing something like Dragondark further increases your potential resource gain.

Lastly, Dragonduo has a slow banish recovery effect which can be used to recycle your Thunder Dragons. This is useful since we don't actually run that many Thunder Dragons relative to our deck size.

The Thunder Dragons all have a unique effect that activates from the hand, an a second unique effect that activates when they are sent from field to graveyard or banished from anywhere. The second effect will usually be triggered by outside support such as Levianeer and Aloof Lupine.

The first effect lets you revive any Thunder Dragon from the graveyard or banish zone. This can be used to bring back a Dragonduo that was previously summoned with its own effect.

The second effect is used to return cards like Chaos Betrayer, Bacon Saver, and Glow-Up Bulb back to the deck because these are cards you want to mill.

We only run one copy of Dragondark to make room for Charge of the Light Brigade. This is also a way to balance the amount of LIGHT and DARK monsters in the deck. This essentially renders Dragondak's first effect useless.

However, its second effect is still a good enough reason to run it. This lets you search a Thunder Dragon as part of a combo that banishes Dragondark.

The first effect lets you recover Thunder Dragons from the graveyard or banish zone. You can use this recover a Thunder Dragon and immediately activate the recovered Thunder Dragon's effect. Retrieve Dragonhawk and discard it to revive Dragonroar. You can also use this to recycle your one copy of Dragonduo.

The search effect might not be as good as Dragondark because it puts the Thunder Dragon on the field, so you can't use their discard effect. One way this Special Summoning can be used to your advantage is by pairing the Thunder Dragon with a revived Glow-Up Bulb for a Synchro Summon. This triggers the effect of the Thunder Dragon used as synchro material.

In most decks Aloof Lupine might be a slow search card but this deck can exploit the slow part of Aloof Lupine's effect to its advantage. Upon Normal Summoning Aloof Lupine, banish a Thunder Dragon from your hand and another one from your deck to trigger both of their effects. The best ones to banish are Dragondark and Dragonroar so you get to search another Thunder Dragon.

Keep D.D. Crow and Sphere on hand until you need their effects. Being DARK Attributes, they also help with Levianeer's summoning cost.

Strategically banishing a card in the opponent's graveyard can prevent them from recycling key cards.

Use Sphere Kuriboh to defend against attacks and lethal damage.

Your opponent might fill their field with monsters when going for an OTK. And with many modern combos involving Synchros and Xyzs will spam monsters, Trifortressops' Special Summoning condition won't be hard to fulfill. In this case Trifortressops can be Special Summoned in defense position as a wall to stop the OTK.

If Trifortressops survives till your turn, it being a Level-6 makes it a good pair with your other Level-6 Thunder Dragons to make a Rank-6.

The Lightsworn engine's milling is a great way to setup your graveyard with Thunder Dragons, and then recover the Thunder Dragons with cards like Thunder Dragonroar and Thunder Dragonhawk. Or banish the Thunder Dragons to trigger their effects.

This consistent mill engine is also the reason why we run multiple graveyard effects in this deck.

Charge of the Light Brigade gives you a search and sets up your graveyard for free. When you go first you will want to search and set Ryko for its removal effect and even more graveyard set up. Search Raiden and summon him to get another mill during the Main Phase. Search Lumina when you already have Raiden in the graveyard so she can revive him.

Raiden is a decent low-level beater but the main reason we run him is his ability to mill during the Main Phase. This loads Thunder Dragons into your graveyard for summoning Levianeer or Thunder Dragonduo, which will inturn activate the banished Thunder Dragons' effects.

Being a level-4 Tuner is also a plus since you can easily make high-level Synchros.

A searcher for adding Chaos Dragon Levianeer from your Deck.

Vermillion Dragon Mech can be made with Raiden plus Thunder Dragondark. It's removal effect is simple and cost efficient but you don't really have much Tuners to use as cost in this deck. Usually you'll only be able to use this effect once with the Raiden you used as synchro material for cost.

Levianeer is effectively just a 3000 ATK beater after you use its effect and won't even be able to attack the turn it's summoned. Because of this you might want to pair Levianeer with Raiden to make Onimaru. Onimaru has the same ATK as Levianeer but with better DEF and protection from destruction effects.

Heliopolis can be made with any combination of Levianeer and Thunder Dragonduo. With sufficient cost, Heliopolis can destroy everything on your opponent's board resulting in an easy OTK. The fact that summoning Heliopolis implies you summoned Levianeer and used its removal effect, so you've already reduced the opponent's field beforehand.

Level Duplication makes summoning Heliopolis much easier because you can have a monster on the field become Level-8 before summoning Levianeer.

Ptolemy M7's provides non-destruction removal which also doesn't send the target to the graveyard, bypassing most floating. Monsters that do not end up in the graveyard are also harder to recycle, especially if it was an Extra Deck monster.

You can also select a monster in your own graveyard and recover it.

Negating enemy monster effects is great for disrupting their plays, especially since most combos involve the use of a monster effect. An example is negating Noble Knight Medraut, Utopic Onomatopeia, etc. The burn damage upon negation is also quite a significant amount.

However, the negation effect does not destroy the negated monster, so this can be dangerous against powerful monsters like Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon.

Adreus has a decent ATK stat and on-demand removal effect. Summon it to pop an enemy card like how you would with Dire Wolf, but less costly and using Level-5 monsters as material.

Dire Wolf destroys itself along with an enemy card. Summon it for quick on-demand removal.

If you don't need a permanent removal like Diamond Dire Wolf, or can't use destruction effects against the monster you want to remove, make Malevolent Sin. This monster also grows into stronger beater as it battles easily attacking over most monsters after a few turns.

Notably, when temporarily banishing an Xyz monster with Malevolent Sin's effect, the Xyz monster comes back with no materials attached. This can be used strategically against threats such as Number 37: Hope Woven Dragon Spider Shark and Abyss Dweller.

Glow-Up Bulb's effect essentially lets you revive it for free while also giving you free graveyard setup. Put Glow-Up Bulb in the graveyard with your Lightsworn engine and revive it when needed for a Synchro Summon. Usually you will pair Glow-Up Bulb with a revived Thunder Dragon monster or Chaos Betrayer to make a level-6 or 7 Synchro.

Put Chaos Betrayer in your graveyard with the Lightsworn engine, then revive it by banishing Thunder Dragon monsters. This will trigger the Thunder Dragons' effects while you also get to disrupt your opponent's graveyard with Chaos Betrayer's effect.

Chaos Betrayer is always revived in defense position with his effect so you can't really use him to push damage. Instead use him as Synchro material alongside Glow-Up Bulb.

Skull Meister can negate card effect activation from the graveyard and interrupt your opponent's combo play.

I faced Blackwings only a couple times, so I can’t be sure, but the matchup did not exactly feel favourable for me, especially because of Blackbird Close; let’s just say that this is a deck that I was simply not able to out-resource.

A previous version of my deck, that I was running back when I had only one Dragonhawk (I pretty much entirely built this deck while I was competing in the KC Cup), actually performed better in this matchup because I was making up for the lack of monsters with more copies of Karma Cut and one of Ultimate Providence.

Force Focus is good for negating the effects of high-leveled monsters. You can hit Synchro monsters with this negation because they're often high leveled and are quite common to toolbox.

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