Block Dragon: deck recipe [Nov 9]

Block Dragon is a support card for a Rock-Type deck because of its powerful search effect when sent to the grave. Using a deck that plays with a lot of milling, it makes it easier to bring out Block Dragon and synchro'ed away to get up to 3 Rock-Type monsters from the deck, which includes Amano-Iwato so it can disable all of your opponent's monster no matter where it is (hand/field/grave/banish-pile).

Gaia Plate is an easy boss monster to Special Summon. This monster is practically unbeatable in battle due to its ability to debuff enemy monsters, forcing your opponent to spend their removal effects to get rid of Gaia Plate.

The downside is that Gaia Plate can be costly to maintain. Aside from the two Rock monsters you banished to summon Gaia Plate, you'll continuously need to banish Rocks every turn to keep Gaia Plate alive. This fuel can provided by mill engines such as Lightsworns and Volcanic Wall.

Block Dragon barely has enough ATK to compete with other boss monsters. But what makes him good is his set of resource gaining effects. After milling Block Dragon banish 3 EARTH monsters from your hand or graveyard to revive it. The best thing to banish is Giant Rex so it revives itself. For the recovery effect when Block Dragon goes to the grave, the best thing to recover are Gaia Plate and Gigantes.

The protection to all Rock monsters makes Block Dragon good for stalling, but your opponent might have non-destruction removal effects as an answer to this, or weaker Rock monsters could just be destroyed by battle.

The graveyard recovery effect still triggers when you use Block Dragon as synchro material, so you can pair him with Glow-Up Bulb to make Vermillion Mech while also regaining some resources.

After milling, you should have self-reviving Tuner in the graveyard ready to be summoned on-demand. Revive them as you need for the purpose of Synchro Summoning and climbing.

Glow-Up Bulb's self revival cost actually helps you by further milling your deck. This can put an additional resource in your graveyard such as another Tuner for synchro climbing.

Searchable through Block Dragon's sent to graveyard effect and best used when you have enough ATK to win the game. Amano-Iwato has an incredibly powerful effect that essentially disables any monster effects, preventing your opponent from being able to use their monster's effects even in the hand, banished, or graveyard. This ensures that your opponent can't use any handtraps when you attack directly.

Against decks like Thunder Dragons, Metaphys, or pretty much any deck that relies on monster effects, a single Amano-Iwato straight up cripples their deck, making them unable to play at all.

The main downside of Amano-Iwato is that it goes back to your hand at the end of the turn. However, with "Smile World" skill, Amano-Iwato can remain on the field since the skill prevents Amano-Iwato's activation to return.

The card itself is not that important, the main use of this skill is to use it during the turn you summon Amano-Iwato. This makes it so that Amano-Iwato can remain on the field to stop all monster effects from your opponent.

Summon Gigantes as a beater or as Rank-4 material. You can intentionally crash Gigantes into a strong enemy monster just to trigger the backrow wipe effect, allowing your other monsters to attack safely.

Giant Rex is the best monster to banish for Block Dragon or Gigantes' summoning. This way Giant Rex revives itself, giving you an additional beater or Rank-4 material.

The Lightsworn engine's milling is a great way to get Rock monsters into the graveyard where they can activate their effects or be used to summon Gaia Plate and Block Dragon. Since Block Dragon can revive itself, the milling also helps you "fetch" it from the Deck.

We run Raiden because of his ability to mill during the Main Phase. Being a level-4 Tuner is also a plus since you can easily make high-level Synchros, or you can use Raiden as Rank-4 material.

We run Raiden because of his ability to mill during the Main Phase. Being a level-4 Tuner is also a plus since you can easily make high-level Synchros, or you can use Raiden as Rank-4 material.

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.

Volcanic Wall is a self sufficient mill engine; just put it on the field and activate its effect every turn to consistently stack your graveyard. Losing your Battle Phase can be rough but it shouldn't matter much in the early turns, especially when you don't have any powerful monsters on board yet.

Tackle Crusader's effect is mostly activated when he is milled, or when used as discard cost to summon Block Dragon. But another way you can activate it is by summoning Tackle Crusader and use him as synchro material. Pair him with Raiden to make the wide pool of Level-8 Synchros.

Special Summon Revival Golem when it is milled. This is generally better than putting it in your hand because monsters on the field are just more useful to this Deck. You can use it as Xyz material, Synchro material, or to be destroyed by Scrap Dragon. The only reason to put Revival Golem in your hand is to use it as cost for Block Dragon's summoning.

Use this to mill Block Dragon and any other EARTH monster from deck to grave. Special summon Block Dragon and synchro it away so that you can get Block Dragon's search effect to fetch an Amano-Iwato.

The burn damage is a nice bonus, but the main reason we run Rock Bombardment is to mill Rock monsters. As can be seen from your monsters, many of them want to go to the graveyard to activate their effects while others want other Rocks in the graveyard to fuel their summoning.

Vermillion Dragon Mech is summoned by Block Dragon with a level-1 Tuner, both being revived by their own effects.

The high amount of Tuners in this deck give you lots of fuel for Vermillion Dragon Mech's removal effect. The best costs to use for this effect are Glow-Up Bulbs after already using their effect.

Summon Scrap Dragon by using Raiden and any of your Level-4 monsters as materials. The you can use the self-reviving Tuners as the monster you destroy on your side. Even if you don't use Scrap Dragon's effect, you can still use it as a decent beater.

Armades' effect allows him to attack safely through multiple enemy backrow, so he is a good beater to make if you run Glow-Up Bulb.

Summon Onimaru with Raiden and Block Dragon as materials. It won't get its ATK boost effect but it's still a 3000 ATK beater with effect destruction immunity.

Make Heliopolis using a combination of Block Dragon and Gaia Plate as materials. With sufficient cost, Heliopolis can destroy everything on your opponent's board resulting in an easy OTK.

Abyss Dweller is used like a monster version of Necrovalley that can be made with any two Level-4s. The Graveyard lock only affects your opponent so your graveyard combos won't be affected.

Make sure to toggle your chain from "Auto" to "On" so you can use Abyss Dweller at the start of the opponent's turn where it is most effective. Chaining Abyss Dweller to an effect activation would not negate that effect.

Malevolent Sin is an anti-Xyz tech. Summon Malevolent Sin and use its effect to temporarily banish an enemy Xyz monster. The Xyz monster will return with no materials attached to it.

Useful for when you can't summon Amano-Iwato. Giant Rex and Gigantes can be special summoned so it can be somewhat easy to make a rank 4 XYZ. This card helps prevent powerful boss monsters from being summoned.

Noted by 4NUS_KiNG:

Basically summon Amato activate skill and thats it. It is also worth noting that sometimes you need to mill your deck and if you are lucky you can summon on your first turn bulb and block dragon , synchro summon and then search for amato. Either way a very fun deck that is also very viable in the current meta. Managed to get kog in around 60 wins.

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