Red-Eyes Fusion: deck recipe [Nov 12]

With so many Red-Eyes supports available, it can be quite the consistent deck. They can reliably search for the fusion, revival, or even the option to take control of your opponent's monster. Gearfried also plays an important role to help deal with opponent's spell/trap or monster, as well as being usable with Fang with Chain.

Use Red-Eyes Insight to send a either Wyvern or Gearfried from deck to grave to search for Gearfried. You can then equip Black Metal Dragon to activate Gearfried's effect to either destroy an enemy's spell/trap or revive a Red-Eyes monster in the grave to make a rank 4 XYZ. Sending the Black Metal Dragon to the grave will let you search for the Fusion or Fang With Chain.

A safe turn is if you can have a Gearfried on the field with either a set Fang with Chain or Blast with Chain. This will let you reactively destroy or take control of your opponent's monster during their turn.

Blast with Chain can be used during the Damage Step, which is relevant since Red-Eyes Fusion is often going to force you to Set Gearfried. So you can attach Blast with Chain to your Gearfried that was just flipped face-up because it was attacked by the opponent. Do said combo and destroy the attacking monster.

Fang with Chain can also be used during the damage step to take control of your opponent's monster, but you might need to equip it first outside of the damage step. Activating it this way is the best use since it limits the cards that your opponent can use to respond.

Since it's the only Warrior monster in the deck, you'll need at least 1 Gearfried to Red-Eyes Fusion to bring out Slash Dragon.

Special Summon Gearfried via Baby Dragon’s effect and equip Baby Dragon to Gearfried. Then destroy Baby Dragon with Gearfried’s effect to destroy one of your opponent's Spell/Trap Card. This will let you search or recover a Black Metal Dragon.

The fact that Baby Dragon has to be destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard in order to do anything at all makes it slow and unreliable in certain matchups, but the synergy with Gearfried is a good enough of a reason to run it.

If you Summon your Red-Eyes Slash Dragon on Turn 1, you are not going to be able to equip anything to it via its effect, which means your main monster will have no protection. You can equip Black Metal Dragon from your hand to your Red-Eyes Slash Dragon to make it gain 600 ATK and enable its effect.

Black Metal Dragon's search effect is usually triggered when you use it as cost for Gearfried or Red-Eyes Slash Dragon's effect. If you do not want to commit to the board right away, you can just Set your Black Metal Dragon and wait for your opponent to destroy it.

Due to the fact that Black Metal Dragon’s effect cannot miss timing, you can use cards like Enemy Controller or Share the Pain to tribute it, which will then let you search for Red-Eyes Fusion to make Slash Dragon.

Red-Eyes Insight is a good consistency booster in any Red-Eyes deck, letting you search Red-Eyes Fusion.

Keep in mind that you are going to need at least 1 Red-Eyes B. Dragon and 1 Gearfried in your hand, Deck or field to make Red-Eyes Slash Dragon, so mill other Red-Eyes monster when you're running low on these two.

Use Red-Eyes Roulette skill to add a Summoned Skull to your deck. You can then fusion summon Archfiend Black Skull Dragon by using Red-Eyes Fusion.

It has high ATK and its effect pretty much ensures that your opponent can't use spell/trap/handtrap when it attacks or gets attacked, which still works if your opponent attacks into it when it's facedown if it gets hit with something like Floodgate Trap Hole or Book of Moon.

Keep in mind that Red-Eyes Fang with Chain lets an equipped monster attack 2 times, so you can equip this to Archfiend Black Skull Dragon to have 2 safe attacks, and also prepares Fang with Chain to be ready to equip an opponent's monster.

The last effect is a pretty nice added bonus since it can deal 1200 damage. This only works only if you have a Red-Eyes normal monster, which also includes Red-Eyes Archfiend of Lightning if you happen to use it, and it will send them back to your deck. This can be good for card recovery, but just make sure that you still have any Red-Eyes in the grave to use Red-Eyes Spirit with.

Red-Eyes Slash Dragon already has a decent ATK stat which can be further boosted with his equipping effect. This effect will trigger even if your opponent is the one declaring battle on your “Red-Eyes” monster, and you can have multiple cards equipped to Red-Eyes Slash Dragon.

The equip cards serve a second purpose, being the fuel to Red-Eyes Slash Dragon's protection effect. This lets you negate an effect that targets any of your cards, useful for stopping Fiendish Chain, Paleozoic Canadia, and other targeting disruption.

If Red-Eyes Slash Dragon is destroyed by a card or effect, you can Special Summon as many monsters as possible from your Graveyard that were equipped to it. This applies even if the monster was equipped to Red-Eyes Slash Dragon by another effect, like Black Metal Dragon.

Red-Eyes Fusion functions similarly to Neos Fusion, but one key difference is it completely prevents you from Normal or Special Summoning other monsters the turn you activate it. You can't even summon monsters before using Red-Eye Fusion, or else you won't be allowed to activate it.

Send Red-Eyes Black Dragon and a Warrior-Type monster from your Deck to the Graveyard to Fusion Summon Red-Eyes Slash Dragon. Since it was Summoned properly, if Red-Eyes Slash Dragon is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, you can revive it with cards like Red-Eyes Spirit, Red-Eyes Retro Dragon, or Gearfried.

Keep in mind that if you activate Red-Eyes Fusion and your opponent destroys Red-Eyes Slash Dragon on the same turn, you will not be able to activate Red-Eyes Retro Dragon’s effect.

Being able to take control of your opponent's monster is a very powerful effect. It's essentially a quick effect monster removal, which can also be used to stop your opponents from making further plays like synchro or XYZ.

Keep in mind that you can't activate the card and immediately activate its second effect on the same chain. This matters if you think your opponent might be playing cards like Mystical Space Typhoon that can destroy your back row.

Taking control of your opponent's monster also changes your equipped monster's ATK to the one you equipped it with. Good when you take control of a strong monster, but having to use it to stop a low attack monster to stop a play like Shiranui Spectralsword can be dangerous.

One of the solutions to get over monster aside from Fang with Chains. Being 4000 ATK also makes it easier to secure some games it can get a direct attack.

You make this by using the high lvl Red-Eyes monster, which you can summon using Red-Eyes Fusion or Red-Eyes Spirit.

This monster has less attack than a Slash Dragon with a single equip, but the main effect of effect damage is not once per turn, and it can activate frequently depending on your opponent's deck/playstyle, making it quite powerful. The effect damage is halved due to Duel Links' rules, but it adds up and can act as a good finisher card to bring out when your opponent's LP is low.

It's last effect to special summon a Red-Eyes can't be used to special summon Slash Dragon since it's not a normal monster, but with 2 XYZ materials, you can essentially summon 2 other normal Red-Eyes to go into another Flare Metal Dragon.

Alternatively, you can bring other normal Red-Eyes monsters like Red-Eyes Archfiend of Lightning or Meteor Dragon Red-Eyes Impact to the deck if you want more variety.

A pretty strong generic rank 4 XYZ that's useful in a lot of decks. Its effect to temporarily banish an opponent's monster can help win games, but it can also continuously increase its attack.

One of the better generic rank 4 XYZ available. It helps control what your opponent can or can't summon.

To help make a rank 4 XYZ since it can be special summoned with Gearfried or Spirit, but also situationally helpful to bring back any Red-Eyes.

As long as you have a set Fang with Chain, being summoned during your end phase won't be that big of an issue.

Since non-effect monsters are rarely used anymore, Breakthrough Skill's effect is very relevant and can help stop your opponent's plays. While it may have a more limited use compared to something like Ultimate Providence, not having a discard cost and being able to use it a second time can be beneficial in a lot of situations.

The fact that it can be used again in the graveyard is an added bonus. This makes it still useful even if your opponent destroys your back row before you get to use it. However, the second effect only works during your turn, and only the turn after it's sent to the grave.

Even with Red-Eyes Fusion, Red-Eyes decks are quite slow especially when compared to recent decks. One way to level the playing field is by slowing down your opponent's deck, which can be achieved by negating their combo pieces. Negating a Fusion Spell prevents your opponent from bringing out their boss monster, and negating something like Shiranui Squire or Vision HERO Faris can force your opponent to end their turn.

Set Rebirth of Parshath and keep a Counter Trap onhand, for a Counter Trap that can negate practically anything.

You even get a free beater by Special Summoning Avenging Knight Parshath from the Extra Deck. Avenging Knight Parshath's battle position change effect can help you get rid of monsters by exposing their weaker stat. And the piercing effect is good for pushing damage.

If you are missing some other good extra deck cards, you can choose to bring this with the Parshath trap cards. Stopping an opponent's play and special summoning a monster can be a game winning decision.

After having Red-Eyes Slash Dragon on the field, you can simply go with more control cards to maintain the upper hand. Since Red-Eyes Fusion only needs 1 card, you can still keep many cards in hand to use with Ultimate Providence, but it can still be inconsistent at times.

Like in any DARK deck, especially Fusion decks, Chimerafflesia can be an alternate boss monster. His first effect is a free once per turn removal effect that banishes an opponent's monster. The banishing bypasses some floating effects, and prevents the removed monster from using its graveyard effect. And because this removal does not destroy, you can get around protection like Archfiend Zombie-Skull. The downside is you can only use this on level-7 and lower monsters so bigger boss monsters like Shiranui Sunsaga are safe.

The second effect makes Chimerafflesia practically unbeatable in battle, unless your opponent has a monster higher than 4500 ATK. Also watch out for monster effect negation like Witchcrafter Madame Verre, because Chimerafflesia's 2500 base ATK is not that good.

Chimerafflesia can float into Red-Eyes Fusion, giving you another boss monster to fall back on when he is sent to the graveyard.

Chamydosundew is what you will use to make Chimerafflesia. The Red-Eyes monsters in your field or hand can be paired with Chamydosundew to make Chimerafflesia. This way you can make use of a Red-Eyes monster affected by Wall of Disruption or Floodgate Trap Hole.

Chlamydosundew's best feature is its ability to use your opponent's monster as fusion material, giving you good non-targeting non-destruction removal. But this ability can only be used when you combo him with Predaplant Spinodionaea to put a Predator Counter on your opponent's monster.

To add more consistency if you plan on bringing more Predaplant cards, you'll definitely need these searchers.

To be used when your LP gets low. Normal summon Gaerfried and give it an equip to special summon another level 4 so you can XYZ into Utopia and then Utopia Ray.

Using Gearfried's second effect like this won't end up destroying your opponent's spell/trap, so there will be some risk if your opponent has a backrow. But using its effect 3 times and an uninterrupted attack can often lead to an OTK.

These rank 4 XYZ are situationally useful since the only lvl 4 in the deck is Red-Eyes Gearfried, but having it can help clear some monster zone, get over high ATK monsters, stall a turn, or close out games.

This effect can potentially win the duel, but this only works against certain decks that uses same name monsters like Harpies or Cyber Dragons. But since the deck only has a few level 4 monsters, it can be difficult to reliably bring a rank 4 out.

Noted By KINGPLAYER:

My most favorite deck of all time. Archfiend Black skull dragon is overpowered as hell. It hard counters many decks, especially melodious, Blue eyes, thunder dragons or yosenjus. This deck has a very strong turn 2.

There are great combos with gearfried and fang with chain or metal dragon to pop some backrow or steal opponent‘s boss monsters. I would add a 2nd fang with chain if I had one. So good.

3x MST is a must have to sack heroes, harpies or backrow heavy decks.

Lightning vortex + red-eyes fusion is Auto win. People just rage quit…

The skill can make a dead red eyes black dragon in your hand alive.

Love that deck. Hope there will be more red-eyes support soon.

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