Hey fellow duelists. I am trying to build an LV deck with whatever cards have been released so far. Any thoughts on how I can make this deck some what competitive for ranked play?
Hey Cobra, I've never played a level-up deck myself, so I'm no expert on the matter, but I think that Masked Dragon and Ultimate Insect are both too slow and vulnerable for PVP. If you want a competitive level-up deck use Horus the Black Flame Dragon or Silent Magician.
If those are not an option however, I'd say focus on either the Dragon or the Insect, not both. For example replace your insect monsters with Komoda Dragons and one or two Blue-Eyes, or replace your Dragons with cards like Pinch Hopper and Insect Imitation. But again, it might not get you very far in Ranked.
Also you can add a second SM LV8 to make this better, but if you are F2P, maybe you don´t want to reset the box.
The other cards may be a pair of monsters with 1800 atk and some traps like DW.
Level Up is not that good with Ultimate Insect, because you'll lose the effect of reduced ATK/DEF. Powerful Rebirth and Impenetrable Attac are far better because you can protect them (and Dragon LVL3) until your next Standby Phase to activate their effect. Add 4 of them (2 - 2 or 1 - 3). Straight Flush is useless in many duels.