Remember how the last card of the week was titled "Fall of the Dragon"? Kinda ironic now since I'm going to go over 8 freaking dragons.
So latest OCG set LTGY, we have a new archetype called Elemental Dragon (and no it's not this Elemental dragon http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Element_Dragon).
all Lv 7/Dragon
and all share the effect of:
You can banish 2 Dragon-Type and/or SAME ATTRIBUTE monsters from your hand or Graveyard, except this card; Special Summon this card from your hand or Graveyard. During your opponent's End Phase, if this card was Special Summoned: Return it to the hand. You can discard this card and 1 other SAME ATTRIBUTE monster to the Graveyard to gain a unique effect. . If this card is banished: You can add 1 SAME ATTRIBUTE Dragon-Type monster from your Deck to your hand. You can only use 1 "insert name of dragon" effect per turn, and only once that turn.
The discard effect of each dragon:
Fire: target 1 card on the field; destroy that target.
Earth: target 1 monster in your Graveyard; Special Summon that target.
Wind: add 1 Dragon-Type monster from your Deck to your hand.
Water: send 1 monster from your Deck to the Graveyard.
So as you can see, this deck is insanely versatile and can get out of pretty much any situation. The draw back of the deck is you can only use one of the dragon's effect each turn (e.g. you can't use the discard effect then banish the dragon you just discarded and gain its banish effect). But if you plan out your moves, it should be no problem. And since these are "Elemental" dragons, guess what build I am going to make for them.
Anyway moving on. From premium packs 3 and 4 we have 4 smaller dragons to support the 4 above.
They all have the effect of:
You can discard this card and 1 other Dragon-Type or SAME ATTRIBUTE monster; Special Summon 1 "SAME ATTRIBUTE BIG DRAGON" from your Deck. It cannot attack this turn. You can only use the effect of "insert name of little dragon here" once per turn.
So this opens up even more combos with the big dragons. Discard a different element to summon the big dragon and then banish the one just discard to summon another big dragon and then use the banish search effect of the big dragon you just discarded (er... I think that makes sense).
Possible combo cards with these 8:
Gold Sarc - Hands down the best card for this deck. Banish a dragon, search for the same dragon through the banished one. Then two turns later you get free +1. How the heck is that even balanced
Super rejuvenation - since there are so many discarding in a turn, having one or two super rejuvs would not hurt at all
Seven Star Sword - Banish 1 Level 7 monster from your hand or your side of the field; draw 2 cards. You can only activate 1 "Seven Star Sword" per turn. (Do I have to say why?)
So as you can see this deck can pull out quite nice +1's. It can also pull out rank 7 Xyz like a joke (big eye troll anyone?)
I think that's enough for this week. Next week will be about a rather special synchro monster. Lasercut Signing off