What miffs me about the True Dracos is that they are only available in Master Packs, which means either getting ridiculously lucky in opening Master Packs or investing solely into crafting them. It's worth crafting, but between the True Dracos, True Kings, and True Dracoslayers, I feel like there's enough cards to justify their own secret pack.
Literally the only cards that are archetype specific cards are diagram which you can't play more than 1 anyway and dinomight... Idk if it's worth it pulling a pack where you get nothing but 1 Sr of what you need
@@sadfasdfdfasf5372 Fair, but other secret packs show that's not a hindrance for sparse archetypes because some have two or three meshed into them. For example, the secret pack Echo Chamber Nation has the Dogmatika, Sprigguns, and Tri-Brigade archetypes.
@Ngân Thiểm Phong Some of UR "True" & "Draco" cards are in Advanced Warrior pack. And in this pack, they add Dinomist and Igknight cards for the SR. I think True Draco and True King are more suitable in this pack than those pendulum deck.
I mean if they don’t have enough cards for a full pack alone just wedge them in with another archetype, like how musketeers and burning abyss are in the same pack. Also, if Ninjas can get their own pack then true Dracos can
Seeing ultimateness and mechaba get popped without a possible response is like a shot of serotonin Also holy moly you weren’t kidding this deck is *cheap*
i've literally been saying this since master duel came out, true draco literally hard counters drytron and trybrigade, since they literally can't respond when your traps pop, so they can't even stop you, and stuff like winda, and wind barrier statue doesn't do shit to this deck since this deck doesn't special summon
Hot tip: adding Summon Limit to this Deck makes it oppressive. You're barely ever Summoning more than twice yourself and it just completely shuts down combo plays, especially in combination with Imperial Order and Monarch Erupt.
I’m a Red Dragon Archfiend player, you don’t see many of us because hand traps and negates stop our combos up to Supernova pretty easy but when he’s on the field it’s great. I recommend you look for a trap called Red Reign it truly makes him almost unbeatable. It banishes all monsters on the field except those with the highest level and those left are unaffected by card effects except their own until the rest of the turn. Then you combine that with his abilities and I think the only way I’ve had someone get past that is with a Kaiju. It’s my favorite deck but I struggle getting past Plat 3 with it. Though I don’t use meta cards like Halq and Access Code, I just stick with the Red Dragon theme.
Let me post here some tips I have posted in other Draco lists, so they might help the community, also, feel free to ask anything, I have been playing this deck for quite sometime in the TCG and now in MD, so maybe what I've learned can help you. As a True Draco player (don't judge me) I might add that the spells and traps tribute summon effects are different from the other 2 effects. You can get the extra tribute summon of Disciples or Heritage even if you dont use the recycle or pop spells/traps effect, the same goes for Return and Apocalypse, you don't need to pop a monster, halve stats or revive a draco to get the tribute in your opponent's turn. The draco cards work as if they had a Escalation of the Monarchs type effect built into them, and you should read them as having 3 effects, each of them independent of the other 2: The extra tribute summon effect (just activate it to gaint the extra tribute), the destruction effect (that needs the card to be sent to GY) and the unique effect of each card. This explanation is long but the "after this eff resolves" part is kinda confusing for people. Second, Amano (or Inspector Boarder, if you decide to play one or the other) doesn't negate effects, it prevents the activation of monster effects on hand, field, GY, or pretty much everywhere. The difference between the 2 is that a negation stops the resolution of the eff, but lets the player pay the cost, and that cost may be important for some interactions (for example, skill drain negates Neptabyss effect to add after dumping a water monster, but the water monster dumping is a cost, and some water monsters gain effects in GY if sent by water monsters, so, you may have stopped one effect, but the ones in GY cannot be stopped by skill drain). Amano and Boarder prevent activation, so you can't even pay the cost of effects with them on the field. Finally, some tips when playing True Draco. 1st, there is no repetition during damage step: you see, when you attack and during attack declaration the attack target changes, you may choose to redirect the attack or stop it. This doesnt happen duting damage calculation, so, if you only have Apocalypse and 1 draco monster and are facing a possible lethal attack, you can wait until damage step to destroy that monster with Apoc eff to halve stats, so, the first attacking monster doesn't get a repetition, meaning you stopped the attack, and the other ones get halve stats, so you receive way less damage than you would originally receive. Second, the spells and traps effs on the GY don't workif their activation on field is negated. Let's say you activate a draco spell, your opp negates it with something and the card goes to gy, because the card activation didn't proceed, the card is treated as never have been on the field, so, the effect of "when this card leaves the field" cannot be used. This applies to everything in the game actually, if a summon/activation is negated, then the monster or card is treated as never been summon or activated. For spells and traps, this is called "activation window", so, if you activate from hand, or set a card and the flip to activate, your opp can negate its activation during that window. To avoid this, you can set the card, and tribute over it, so you dont give the chance for it to be negated. If a card is already on the field face up (meaning your opp didn't negate it when it activated) and you or your opp cause it to go to the GY, then the eff can proceed, because it was already on the field.
You know your stuff. But add 3x droplets 3 x amano 3x d fissure 3x xyz encore (rongo, zeus ,zoo ,toadlly cyber dragon can be annoying !!) Attack the grave stops the meta !!!
@@jeamialmatty439 Sry, but some of your choices are inefficient or completely inefective. Droplets wastes your resources in a deck where your cards are impactful when activated or destroyed, and you depend on your draws to make pushes since you cannot control the flow of draco cards unless you open Diagram, so, limitng your end board to disable negations leaves you completely open when going second, and Draco already has better things than droplet when going first. If you want to have a going second way to stop negations and fully stablished boards, Dark Ruler no More is way better. Amano is obviously the better choice here, since it stops activated effects everywhere, so, unless continuous effects are the ones that are bothering you, I dont see a reason to play droplet at all if you have Amano. Fissure is way worse than skill drain or TCBOO when dealing with stablished boards, and also, you run a few monsters in Draco, fissure banishing those few monsters can mess with disciples and heritage interactions. You literally dont care about Drident in zoo, you can play around 1 negate pretty easily, so Infinity and Toad are not a problem, if you are struggling against them, you are already in a bad position to begin with. A five material rhongo is unaffected by encore, and a 4 material rhongo is not a problem since the draco traps let you survive and summon on your opp turn, when the summon restriction is lifted, the only problem here is zeus, and running a 3 of that only works with XYZ when the main problems of draco are multiple negations when going second, that can negate encore or dont care since not all negations are XYZ might be a bad deckbuilding choice. Draco already stops the meta without having to risk your GY and consistency with situational responses
@@Darkros123 do you know how versatile droplets is in that deck ? Droplet stop you being otked, plus can be used to interupt your opponets first summon effect monster quite similar to infinite iperm. Plus it synergies with dumping continous trap and spell in the grave yard removing problematic cards especially if you have dead hand. Dead draw monster can be targets. In this current meta droplets in a must. Encore doesn't effect the monster it targets the material so it should work on a fully layered rongo. You have no idea what you talking about when you say d fissure affects interaction with disciples or heritage. It only banishes monsters not your continuous trap and spell they will resolve. D fissure stalls meta decks getting to much advantage all decks uses the grave but it doesn't affect draco that much because it doesn't s summon. Plus you may loss a few monster but that doesn't matter once you have board advantage your trap. Having d fissure in the deck is almost a auto scoop for drytron tri and eldilich .Im not struggling again no xyz monsters only stating other benefits of maining encore. I only play draco and have been for more than 12 years now .so the deck have been tested and ratio tuned so I know what I'm Tallking about .
@@jeamialmatty439 Target 1 face-up Xyz Monster your opponent controls that has Xyz Material That is literally the first line of encore, so, again you are suggesting and ineffective option.You want yo interrupt the first effect of your Opp? why not all of them? Draco has access to 6 copies to skill drain, you want to stop an OTK? 3 copies of apocalypse can do it way better that droplet. You are relying on dead cards to make droplet useful, and playing a card to make bad situations a little bit better is, again, a bad deckbuilding choice. Fissure messes with heritage and disciples DRAW interactions, (not having the 3 cards needed to recycle, monsters that dont count as been sent to GY for heritage draws) that can get you to your floodgates and your more powerful resources, so, if you dont see that as a problem pls check your deck. The only valid point you made was droplet as a removal tool with the destruction effs of the draco backrow, but besides that, must of your suggestions are suboptimal in a Draco deck. You might get results, but not the best your could get with a better deck and better understanding of that makes draco good
@@Darkros123 it only removes the material . Doesn't affect the monster itself nothing on the ruling that said it cant be targeted just monster itself is not affected not the material.Do your research before you talk mate. Plus what do you do against a competent player who tops up rongo with more layers ? encore synergies well as droplets targets . So everything works with each other . Only issues with draco is if you have too much duplicates youre fucked . Apart from that as longer as you dont mislay my build will beat any deck especially a one game match up.
First time playing this deck and man I had so much fun! Learned it pretty quick, and just like you said it’s both simple and complex absolutely love it!
In a more “standard” way and common decks, you can simply bait the effect of the Red Supernova and negate him with Apollousa while he is banished, since the special summon window is limited to the next turn, it can’t return to the field anymore once you negate it.
I love your energy man! your content is amazing I always love hearing and watching new decks that I could potentially run. Thank you! You helped me build my cyber dragon deck, and it's the most fun I've had in Yugioh for a while! I might have to build this deck too haha
I've been stuck on platinum rank 5 for weeks now, as soon as i used this deck I got to plat rank 3. This deck is cheap, easy to understand, competitive, and on top of that really fun. Thank you for the deck!
@@fung4959 Yes, I reach plat 1 with this deck. It's all about experience, you will need to understand the matchup and their chokepoints to pop their monsters. And if you have skill drain (or monarch version skill drain) you just win.
I use true draco to climb my way through gold and reach plat 3 last season. Yes it's cheap and also very strong, I'm not even using imperial order or vanity emptiness, but the deck is solid enough to fight meta deck like zoo-brigade or drytron.
I typically play this deck with monarch storm allowing me to tribute enemy monsters during their turn instead of using my trap effects. It's much more effective and works with true draco spells too.
Just a warning about Drytron Herald players. Most but not all also run F.A Dragster as it is able to negate effects and sure up the weakness of The Heralds.
@@basilrip7562 I think it’s run because makes the deck more consistent at flood-gating monster effects (which it really needs, note that in these wins most of his hands have a skill drain or monarchs erupt)
Draco is an insane control anti-meta deck... i think the most effective way to put it into submission is having a monster that is unnaffected by anything, which is very few..
@Dkayed Hey bro, I came back here to say thank you.. This deck brought me from merely Bronze 1 straight to Gold. I almost got complete winstreak, If only I wasn't spamming matches n got so tired. I'm a really old styled player. I played back then, only up until the beggining of Duel GX. I only know normal , tribute n fusion of oldies :D I was going to give up if it wasnt for this video. Cz I got wrecked while trying hard to keep playing on old flips deck , and Ring of countdown deck (20th turn win after activation) So thank you. I was reluctant to try this at first, cz I'm so inexperienced in this new metas. But, gosh wasn't it so easy to learn . I played it straight from learning at Ranked, yet it is still almost a total winstreak. Going to continue later . Subscribed 👍
This aged great 😂. All these decks are rogue or unplayable now. The power creep has been wild so far in Master Duel. I was looking for a profile on the new Dracoslayer support in MD, but this was a treat. This is gold in retrospect. Good work Delayed brother. Love your channel.v
You actually "can" run without Desire, some would argue it's needed to help with consistency, but in most of my games I tend to get the cards I need at hand and have different ways to draw. Oh, and Ash Blossom is heavily played too, so that's why I chose to cut it off my deck. I would say run no more than 2 if you were to need to have Desires in the deck, but like I've said, it can be left out. I'll cut the shit, the good options are cards that are good going second like Maxx C, Ash Blossom, Lightning Storm, and Nibiru being my personal favorite that I run 3 copies of. You can also try Kaiser Collosium, more Skill Drain, Necrovalley or Domain of the True Monarchs to be the other field spell target for Terraforming, Waterfall of Dragon Souls, Monarchs Stormforth, and even cheap removals like Botomless Trap Hole. You got a good amount of options, so experiment and see what works for you.
My all time favourite deck and these replies bring me so much joy. I honestly wish the card pool were similar in the TCG as I love to run 3 Card of Demise. My deck is a bit different but I may have to try more 3 of's because I see why Desires works well for you. I play Soul drain for the G.Y reliant decks and Stormforth for getting rid of some more problematic monsters.
I won against the red nova dragon thing with Dragonmaid Lorpar negating its effect, then it poof leaving the field open. Truly a difficult monster to handle.
Apollousa can negate him while he is banished, since his special summon window is limited to the next turn after he banished himself, by negating it while he is banished, he can’t return to the field anymore
lol I actually play this deck in real life, it's still a really good deck in 2022. By the way, try a card called Amano Iwato, it will make opponents rage even more. It's good turn 1 since they cant respond to your draw cards with hand traps. Good turn 2 since it turns off all their monster effects.Also, it returns to hand on end phase, so you can activate Card of Demise effect to discard first, then amano return to hand.
Just started playing draco and enjoying it, this vid taught me how to play it better. If i will be playing second against a rongo, is there a play a can do with this deck or should i add a hand trap?
I think is because of the activation from the graveyard. I think the fact that it is in the graveyard; it cannot just negate it because destroying the card is part of the condition to negate? If it doesn't have "destroy" as an addiction to the effect; it woulda negate it but since it does, it have to "destroy" that card to negate that card is my theory. Card texts are quite literally in this game. Need to pay close attention.
@@bruskydu No, herald cant negate that. There's a big difference between activate a spell/ trap card and activate the effect of a spell/trap, herald can only negate the first one.
Can u make deck guide for n/r rarity event please ??? I didnt hve much knowledge about card effects. I just found your channel several days ago, and really love your whole content. Its full of tips and trick which is really helpful especially for beginner like me.
most META problem is not to focus backrow card. They TOO depend on meta EFFECT, not for (NON-Meta) counter measurement. PLAY Cylone, De-spell (lol), any other backrow card to destroy all spell and trap, then you safe. META with special summon, then special summon, then special summon then END UP LOSING GAME, it is wasting time, LOL.. btw, you can play JINZO bye bye trap.. =p
I learn this deck only in a day (few days after watching this video) and only some duel. But after that, I can go to Plat 1 (from plat 3) easily and win 19-1 lose. I lost because of the brick hand and my only pot got Ash Blossom. And unfortunately, my opponent uses VW, so s/he can easily OTK me while I have no monster on my board. . But other than that duel, I can win fast. At least I can do my daily mission faster with this insane deck.
honestly I'm not a huge fan of skill drain in this deck as you already play a better card than it, also I don't really like desires as it has already banished all of my monsters like 4 times from deck leaving me with nothing, I think the monarchs stormforth is a card worth putting in this deck
I just made a true draco deck but use a few other cards because I have no mat for all the sr cards but I played against speedroid with borrel savage and herald of arc and he had also ash in hand but I had raigeki, pot and demise so he had to negate then I destroyed his borrel with raigeki because I activated it at last and he scooped so fun to watch xd
Trust me this deck is the most sinister truly Disgustingly overpowered deck ever I have had 4 opponents rage quit just after turn 1or2 in a row & so i am here to tell you that yes this deck is the best one for newcomers.
So this video is the reason I keep running into true dragon king skill drains even though all I run is a Nekroz deck, I don't know whether to applaud you for making a easy to make deck or curse you for giving people more reasons to use skill drain.
@@Thomastm33 That's interesting to know. I have a different theory I like to share. I think the fact that it is in the graveyard; it cannot just negate it because destroying the card is part of the condition to negate? If it doesn't have "destroy" as an addiction to the effect; it woulda negate it but since it does, it have to "destroy" that card to negate that card is my theory. You cannot destroy a card that is already in the graveyard therefore it can't do anything about it. Well not a theory, just how I think it works.
@@kinoshkiwa No. Nothing is activated when True Draco traps are sent to the grave. Therefore Ultimateness has nothing to negate since nothing is activated. True Draco traps's destruction is an effect that happens when they're sent to the grave, which bypasses negates like Ultimateness or Mechaba. The only way to stop them is with Royal Decree or Jinzo since those stop Trap card activations AND effect, but no one plays those anymore.
@@ryuuohdeltaplus7936 I think it counts as an activation because I got myself into a true draco vs true draco mirror match before. I tribute my trap in order to summon one of my monsters to destroy my opponent's true draco which also causes them to trigger their drawing effect from using my trap card in my graveyard effect to attempt to destroy it. Just to make this clear I didn't use the trap effect where I can tribute it off during my opponent's main phase.
@@kinoshkiwa True Draco Heritage's draw effect counts any true draco or true king cards sent from the field to the GY (regardless if they were activated on the field or not) from both player's side of the field, that's why your opponent was able to draw from your trap card being sent to the GY
Iv'e been playing for 2 days and built this deck card by card, I'm already 3w - 0l in pvp... I'm still bronze AND I'm as noob as they get but this deck just FLOWS man thank you
True Draco is just evil with how many floodgates it can get away with running, all because their monsters can just tribute the things away if they get personally annoying. And Draconic Diagram is also super obnoxious, no wonder they limited the thing. Metatron is like a harder to get out Master Piece(the good one) in a sense, though it gets a floating effect instead of a pop so it's a little easier to get to the point where you can beat over it(and can hopefully prepare for what it sends out from the extra deck if you choose to play one, though the two Monarch floodgates might unironically be preferable for some deck builds).
First time I faced this super nova dragon guy I was shook at how op it was, than I realized oh my guy you can be targeted? Well back to the extra deck you go, compulsory evacuation n pooof gone
i think the tri player won had they revolted the continuous spell... that was a game costing misplay. ofc they don't know that you didn't have it, but i think had they revolted they had an almost guarantee at winning the game. because they force erupt off of summoning something like a Knightmare phoenix, or they force the solemn. and they still would have 2-3 cards to work with outside of that. idk. def think that the tri player could've def played that sharper.
Honestly if your gonna set the spells anyways in this deck why not run anti spell fragrance? I know it is a slight hindrance to this deck because I run mine with anti spell but it’s another way to protect against harpies and lightning storm than judgement and another good floodgate that doesent completely shut you down but completely shuts down most decks
You could improve your list by cutting Maiden to 2 and Return to 1, and adding TCBOO as another floodgate, and maybe changing the 1 Skill Drain for a Vanity's Emptiness. Amano Iwato is also a choice to run at 2 or 3 to break fields and stop handtraps
@@Lamarr12g There Can Be Only One (TCBOO). It is good against Eldlich (Either they summon a golden land or a golden lord), Drytron (only 1 Drytron monster can be on the field, and they cannot tribute it for the summon of another one since they cannot attempt to summon another monster of the same type they already control) any Tri variant (Only one beast, winged beast or beast warrior) Adamancipator (only one rock, chain TCBOO to the excavation and summon eff) and many more Tier 2 or lower decks. TCBOO is a beast of a card
This deck made me to plat 1. thanks dkayed.!!! also banquet decks are running rampant but this deck doesn't run extra deck so when i face them they insta scoop so its eazy climb for me. ARIGATO DKAYED-SAN
Thanks for your content boi, ur reaction and wordings are sometimes really funny xD Is there also any expensive version of this deck to make it even more powerful or is this one already the best possible version?
Only fight True king 2 time 1 win 1 lose, If you let this deck going it really hard to stop, as for the game that I win, my Lunalight Chich got pop 3 times but I got perfect hand so I still win
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What miffs me about the True Dracos is that they are only available in Master Packs, which means either getting ridiculously lucky in opening Master Packs or investing solely into crafting them. It's worth crafting, but between the True Dracos, True Kings, and True Dracoslayers, I feel like there's enough cards to justify their own secret pack.
Literally the only cards that are archetype specific cards are diagram which you can't play more than 1 anyway and dinomight... Idk if it's worth it pulling a pack where you get nothing but 1 Sr of what you need
@@sadfasdfdfasf5372 Fair, but other secret packs show that's not a hindrance for sparse archetypes because some have two or three meshed into them. For example, the secret pack Echo Chamber Nation has the Dogmatika, Sprigguns, and Tri-Brigade archetypes.
@Ngân Thiểm Phong Some of UR "True" & "Draco" cards are in Advanced Warrior pack. And in this pack, they add Dinomist and Igknight cards for the SR. I think True Draco and True King are more suitable in this pack than those pendulum deck.
I mean if they don’t have enough cards for a full pack alone just wedge them in with another archetype, like how musketeers and burning abyss are in the same pack.
Also, if Ninjas can get their own pack then true Dracos can
@Ngân Thiểm Phong the only "True King" UR was forbidden due to it being too strong and too easy to summon.
Seeing ultimateness and mechaba get popped without a possible response is like a shot of serotonin
Also holy moly you weren’t kidding this deck is *cheap*
yep, ultimateness popped up is kinda satisfying
i've literally been saying this since master duel came out,
true draco literally hard counters drytron and trybrigade, since they literally can't respond when your traps pop, so they can't even stop you, and stuff like winda, and wind barrier statue doesn't do shit to this deck since this deck doesn't special summon
I gotta say how Dkayed played this is really good. I've survive vs True Draco they are insane, Skill Drain, even Necrovalley too? Thank god i won
@@NeostormXLMAX frrr
True!
Hot tip: adding Summon Limit to this Deck makes it oppressive. You're barely ever Summoning more than twice yourself and it just completely shuts down combo plays, especially in combination with Imperial Order
and Monarch Erupt.
How many do you put in your deck? Do you put that in place of others?
@@johncombs6369 I usually get rid of one or two of the archetype traps and then add in 2 summon limits.
It's funny seeing a chinese player using ancient warrior
lol
Lmao
I’m a Red Dragon Archfiend player, you don’t see many of us because hand traps and negates stop our combos up to Supernova pretty easy but when he’s on the field it’s great. I recommend you look for a trap called Red Reign it truly makes him almost unbeatable. It banishes all monsters on the field except those with the highest level and those left are unaffected by card effects except their own until the rest of the turn. Then you combine that with his abilities and I think the only way I’ve had someone get past that is with a Kaiju. It’s my favorite deck but I struggle getting past Plat 3 with it. Though I don’t use meta cards like Halq and Access Code, I just stick with the Red Dragon theme.
Why don't you use Halqifibrax?
I would love to see your theme in TH-cam. if you can post some videos.
Me too red reign is great. Chaos dragon helps u get abyss on the feild with supernova. Thats game
I remember I broke through Red Dragon board and monster reborned the one that quick effect monster negates with Dinos and my opponent just scooped 🤣
True Draco gets slaughtered by virtual world though. since the effects has to go to the GY but if Kyubi is out then Draco's basically become vanillas.
Supernova was my first deck, crazy strong especially with red reign. Simple too but hand traps hurt
Let me post here some tips I have posted in other Draco lists, so they might help the community, also, feel free to ask anything, I have been playing this deck for quite sometime in the TCG and now in MD, so maybe what I've learned can help you.
As a True Draco player (don't judge me) I might add that the spells and traps tribute summon effects are different from the other 2 effects. You can get the extra tribute summon of Disciples or Heritage even if you dont use the recycle or pop spells/traps effect, the same goes for Return and Apocalypse, you don't need to pop a monster, halve stats or revive a draco to get the tribute in your opponent's turn. The draco cards work as if they had a Escalation of the Monarchs type effect built into them, and you should read them as having 3 effects, each of them independent of the other 2: The extra tribute summon effect (just activate it to gaint the extra tribute), the destruction effect (that needs the card to be sent to GY) and the unique effect of each card. This explanation is long but the "after this eff resolves" part is kinda confusing for people.
Second, Amano (or Inspector Boarder, if you decide to play one or the other) doesn't negate effects, it prevents the activation of monster effects on hand, field, GY, or pretty much everywhere. The difference between the 2 is that a negation stops the resolution of the eff, but lets the player pay the cost, and that cost may be important for some interactions (for example, skill drain negates Neptabyss effect to add after dumping a water monster, but the water monster dumping is a cost, and some water monsters gain effects in GY if sent by water monsters, so, you may have stopped one effect, but the ones in GY cannot be stopped by skill drain). Amano and Boarder prevent activation, so you can't even pay the cost of effects with them on the field.
Finally, some tips when playing True Draco. 1st, there is no repetition during damage step: you see, when you attack and during attack declaration the attack target changes, you may choose to redirect the attack or stop it. This doesnt happen duting damage calculation, so, if you only have Apocalypse and 1 draco monster and are facing a possible lethal attack, you can wait until damage step to destroy that monster with Apoc eff to halve stats, so, the first attacking monster doesn't get a repetition, meaning you stopped the attack, and the other ones get halve stats, so you receive way less damage than you would originally receive. Second, the spells and traps effs on the GY don't workif their activation on field is negated. Let's say you activate a draco spell, your opp negates it with something and the card goes to gy, because the card activation didn't proceed, the card is treated as never have been on the field, so, the effect of "when this card leaves the field" cannot be used. This applies to everything in the game actually, if a summon/activation is negated, then the monster or card is treated as never been summon or activated. For spells and traps, this is called "activation window", so, if you activate from hand, or set a card and the flip to activate, your opp can negate its activation during that window. To avoid this, you can set the card, and tribute over it, so you dont give the chance for it to be negated. If a card is already on the field face up (meaning your opp didn't negate it when it activated) and you or your opp cause it to go to the GY, then the eff can proceed, because it was already on the field.
You know your stuff. But add 3x droplets 3 x amano 3x d fissure 3x xyz encore (rongo, zeus ,zoo ,toadlly cyber dragon can be annoying !!) Attack the grave stops the meta !!!
@@jeamialmatty439 Sry, but some of your choices are inefficient or completely inefective. Droplets wastes your resources in a deck where your cards are impactful when activated or destroyed, and you depend on your draws to make pushes since you cannot control the flow of draco cards unless you open Diagram, so, limitng your end board to disable negations leaves you completely open when going second, and Draco already has better things than droplet when going first. If you want to have a going second way to stop negations and fully stablished boards, Dark Ruler no More is way better. Amano is obviously the better choice here, since it stops activated effects everywhere, so, unless continuous effects are the ones that are bothering you, I dont see a reason to play droplet at all if you have Amano. Fissure is way worse than skill drain or TCBOO when dealing with stablished boards, and also, you run a few monsters in Draco, fissure banishing those few monsters can mess with disciples and heritage interactions. You literally dont care about Drident in zoo, you can play around 1 negate pretty easily, so Infinity and Toad are not a problem, if you are struggling against them, you are already in a bad position to begin with. A five material rhongo is unaffected by encore, and a 4 material rhongo is not a problem since the draco traps let you survive and summon on your opp turn, when the summon restriction is lifted, the only problem here is zeus, and running a 3 of that only works with XYZ when the main problems of draco are multiple negations when going second, that can negate encore or dont care since not all negations are XYZ might be a bad deckbuilding choice. Draco already stops the meta without having to risk your GY and consistency with situational responses
@@Darkros123 do you know how versatile droplets is in that deck ? Droplet stop you being otked, plus can be used to interupt your opponets first summon effect monster quite similar to infinite iperm. Plus it synergies with dumping continous trap and spell in the grave yard removing problematic cards especially if you have dead hand. Dead draw monster can be targets. In this current meta droplets in a must. Encore doesn't effect the monster it targets the material so it should work on a fully layered rongo. You have no idea what you talking about when you say d fissure affects interaction with disciples or heritage. It only banishes monsters not your continuous trap and spell they will resolve. D fissure stalls meta decks getting to much advantage all decks uses the grave but it doesn't affect draco that much because it doesn't s summon. Plus you may loss a few monster but that doesn't matter once you have board advantage your trap. Having d fissure in the deck is almost a auto scoop for drytron tri and eldilich .Im not struggling again no xyz monsters only stating other benefits of maining encore. I only play draco and have been for more than 12 years now .so the deck have been tested and ratio tuned so I know what I'm Tallking about .
@@jeamialmatty439 Target 1 face-up Xyz Monster your opponent controls that has Xyz Material
That is literally the first line of encore, so, again you are suggesting and ineffective option.You want yo interrupt the first effect of your Opp? why not all of them? Draco has access to 6 copies to skill drain, you want to stop an OTK? 3 copies of apocalypse can do it way better that droplet. You are relying on dead cards to make droplet useful, and playing a card to make bad situations a little bit better is, again, a bad deckbuilding choice. Fissure messes with heritage and disciples DRAW interactions, (not having the 3 cards needed to recycle, monsters that dont count as been sent to GY for heritage draws) that can get you to your floodgates and your more powerful resources, so, if you dont see that as a problem pls check your deck. The only valid point you made was droplet as a removal tool with the destruction effs of the draco backrow, but besides that, must of your suggestions are suboptimal in a Draco deck. You might get results, but not the best your could get with a better deck and better understanding of that makes draco good
@@Darkros123 it only removes the material . Doesn't affect the monster itself nothing on the ruling that said it cant be targeted just monster itself is not affected not the material.Do your research before you talk mate. Plus what do you do against a competent player who tops up rongo with more layers ? encore synergies well as droplets targets . So everything works with each other . Only issues with draco is if you have too much duplicates youre fucked . Apart from that as longer as you dont mislay my build will beat any deck especially a one game match up.
First time playing this deck and man I had so much fun! Learned it pretty quick, and just like you said it’s both simple and complex absolutely love it!
In a more “standard” way and common decks, you can simply bait the effect of the Red Supernova and negate him with Apollousa while he is banished, since the special summon window is limited to the next turn, it can’t return to the field anymore once you negate it.
I love your energy man! your content is amazing I always love hearing and watching new decks that I could potentially run. Thank you! You helped me build my cyber dragon deck, and it's the most fun I've had in Yugioh for a while! I might have to build this deck too haha
I've been stuck on platinum rank 5 for weeks now, as soon as i used this deck I got to plat rank 3. This deck is cheap, easy to understand, competitive, and on top of that really fun. Thank you for the deck!
Do you think this deck can get you to plat 1 and not struggling too much?(by struggling, I mean losing 3 duels in a row on Platinum rank)
@@fung4959 Yes, I reach plat 1 with this deck. It's all about experience, you will need to understand the matchup and their chokepoints to pop their monsters. And if you have skill drain (or monarch version skill drain) you just win.
@@fung4959 Update, im now Plat rank 1 using this deck. Post banlist tho altergeist might be better
@@pawloseendatresaw3111 lame
I use true draco to climb my way through gold and reach plat 3 last season. Yes it's cheap and also very strong, I'm not even using imperial order or vanity emptiness, but the deck is solid enough to fight meta deck like zoo-brigade or drytron.
I love how passionate are you about the game! Keep it up
I typically play this deck with monarch storm allowing me to tribute enemy monsters during their turn instead of using my trap effects. It's much more effective and works with true draco spells too.
Basically like a kaiju
Can you share your deck?
Just put this together and came here looking for this answer, good to know my big brain play will work
Just a warning about Drytron Herald players. Most but not all also run F.A Dragster as it is able to negate effects and sure up the weakness of The Heralds.
I think its better to use soul instead of skill drain coz we already have that monarch trap to negate all face up monster cards effect
Sorry, I’m new but what is soul? I had the same thought and I’ve been trying to find a replacement
I think what he meant is soul drain. A continuous trap that negate any effect in graveyard and banished zone.
@@basilrip7562 I think it’s run because makes the deck more consistent at flood-gating monster effects (which it really needs, note that in these wins most of his hands have a skill drain or monarchs erupt)
I've been using this for 2 weeks now and it is so fun. Made it to platinum with it.
Draco is an insane control anti-meta deck... i think the most effective way to put it into submission is having a monster that is unnaffected by anything, which is very few..
Dragon maid sheuo
I was wondering when the True Draco video was going to drop...easiest P1 yet.
Weird. Don't think I've ever lose to true draco omw to plat 1
@@arep1030 you are just to good..
@Dkayed
Hey bro, I came back here to say thank you..
This deck brought me from merely Bronze 1 straight to Gold.
I almost got complete winstreak, If only I wasn't spamming matches n got so tired.
I'm a really old styled player.
I played back then, only up until the beggining of Duel GX.
I only know normal , tribute n fusion of oldies :D
I was going to give up if it wasnt for this video.
Cz I got wrecked while trying hard to keep playing on old flips deck , and Ring of countdown deck (20th turn win after activation)
So thank you.
I was reluctant to try this at first, cz I'm so inexperienced in this new metas.
But, gosh wasn't it so easy to learn .
I played it straight from learning at Ranked, yet it is still almost a total winstreak.
Going to continue later .
Subscribed 👍
This aged great 😂. All these decks are rogue or unplayable now. The power creep has been wild so far in Master Duel. I was looking for a profile on the new Dracoslayer support in MD, but this was a treat. This is gold in retrospect. Good work Delayed brother. Love your channel.v
"Cheapest deck you can build"
*stares back in Budget Gadget Beatdown.*
8:12 that was absolutely filthy
No wonder I have faced this true Draco deck in the Synchro event so much lol. I got completely destroyed a few times 😅😅
3 years ago I used to play tcg with my herald deck and everyone said that I was stupid, its funny to see my lottle boy play along the mrtas
"Lose one turn" also works well with this deck.
What if i dont want to add pot of desire what other good options i have
You actually "can" run without Desire, some would argue it's needed to help with consistency, but in most of my games I tend to get the cards I need at hand and have different ways to draw. Oh, and Ash Blossom is heavily played too, so that's why I chose to cut it off my deck. I would say run no more than 2 if you were to need to have Desires in the deck, but like I've said, it can be left out.
I'll cut the shit, the good options are cards that are good going second like Maxx C, Ash Blossom, Lightning Storm, and Nibiru being my personal favorite that I run 3 copies of. You can also try Kaiser Collosium, more Skill Drain, Necrovalley or Domain of the True Monarchs to be the other field spell target for Terraforming, Waterfall of Dragon Souls, Monarchs Stormforth, and even cheap removals like Botomless Trap Hole. You got a good amount of options, so experiment and see what works for you.
Imagine true Draco with master peace at one
Ngl going up against True Draco with my Monarch deck is really fun. Two tribute summoning decks just clashing it out is just something great
My all time favourite deck and these replies bring me so much joy. I honestly wish the card pool were similar in the TCG as I love to run 3 Card of Demise. My deck is a bit different but I may have to try more 3 of's because I see why Desires works well for you.
I play Soul drain for the G.Y reliant decks and Stormforth for getting rid of some more problematic monsters.
I won against the red nova dragon thing with Dragonmaid Lorpar negating its effect, then it poof leaving the field open. Truly a difficult monster to handle.
Apollousa can negate him while he is banished, since his special summon window is limited to the next turn after he banished himself, by negating it while he is banished, he can’t return to the field anymore
@@bardockofalecido nice info, tho i don't have Apollo USA yet.
I faced true draco 2 times and it was hell. They can negate and summon a lot. I couldn't do anything
Brings back memories of old master duel mann😢
PLEASE ALSO SHOW A MOMENT WHERE YOU LOSE SO WE CAN ALSO LEARN WHY THE DECK WONT WORK
What is your card activation settings?? Is it on, off or auto??? I wonder how could u react so fast
lol I actually play this deck in real life, it's still a really good deck in 2022. By the way, try a card called Amano Iwato, it will make opponents rage even more. It's good turn 1 since they cant respond to your draw cards with hand traps. Good turn 2 since it turns off all their monster effects.Also, it returns to hand on end phase, so you can activate Card of Demise effect to discard first, then amano return to hand.
Just started playing draco and enjoying it, this vid taught me how to play it better. If i will be playing second against a rongo, is there a play a can do with this deck or should i add a hand trap?
Laughs in Kaiju
Just summon another draco on opponents turn with the spell and traps lol
I was wondering why my herald couldn't negate that trap effect, this game is really something with the ruling
I think is because of the activation from the graveyard. I think the fact that it is in the graveyard; it cannot just negate it because destroying the card is part of the condition to negate? If it doesn't have "destroy" as an addiction to the effect; it woulda negate it but since it does, it have to "destroy" that card to negate that card is my theory. Card texts are quite literally in this game. Need to pay close attention.
@@bruskydu No, herald cant negate that. There's a big difference between activate a spell/ trap card and activate the effect of a spell/trap, herald can only negate the first one.
My favorite deck I was wrecking people with this deck people would get so mad... could you imagine MP coming back to 1 and Diagram at 3🤣🤣
"He does not get to collect $200, and we win" Hahaha Monopoly slaps
What do you think of Starlight Road as a temporary replacement for 2 Solemn Judgment? Also for extra toxicity, Kaiser Colloseum is great in this deck.
Is starlight road can be activated by not having stardust in extra deck?
@@yazyaz2969 Yes it can.
beautiful too see drytron players scooping LOL
climbed 5 ranks in a row in a single day with this. thanks! definitely VERY cheap
Can u make deck guide for n/r rarity event please ??? I didnt hve much knowledge about card effects.
I just found your channel several days ago, and really love your whole content. Its full of tips and trick which is really helpful especially for beginner like me.
0:51 I mean Kaiju can solve the problem right?
I used this deck against a Dryton player and as soon as i popped his Herald he instantly surrendered.
most META problem is not to focus backrow card. They TOO depend on meta EFFECT, not for (NON-Meta) counter measurement.
PLAY Cylone, De-spell (lol), any other backrow card to destroy all spell and trap, then you safe.
META with special summon, then special summon, then special summon then END UP LOSING GAME,
it is wasting time, LOL..
btw, you can play JINZO bye bye trap.. =p
I learn this deck only in a day (few days after watching this video) and only some duel. But after that, I can go to Plat 1 (from plat 3) easily and win 19-1 lose. I lost because of the brick hand and my only pot got Ash Blossom. And unfortunately, my opponent uses VW, so s/he can easily OTK me while I have no monster on my board.
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But other than that duel, I can win fast. At least I can do my daily mission faster with this insane deck.
Thank you, I will try that deck with my Dark Magician without any extra deck 😁
Love this deck I built it beginning of season 2 and climbed the real ladder with ease
Can someone send the actual card list for this deck since he never shows the whole deck
honestly I'm not a huge fan of skill drain in this deck as you already play a better card than it, also I don't really like desires as it has already banished all of my monsters like 4 times from deck leaving me with nothing, I think the monarchs stormforth is a card worth putting in this deck
I noticed that too. Love this deck but those cards hinder it a lot.
The red nova has it herad of lost wind
I just made a true draco deck but use a few other cards because I have no mat for all the sr cards but I played against speedroid with borrel savage and herald of arc and he had also ash in hand but I had raigeki, pot and demise so he had to negate then I destroyed his borrel with raigeki because I activated it at last and he scooped so fun to watch xd
I miss the "back to duel links" in the intro :(
Trust me this deck is the most sinister truly Disgustingly overpowered deck ever I have had 4 opponents rage quit just after turn 1or2 in a row & so i am here to tell you that yes this deck is the best one for newcomers.
So many people forget that you can’t use masquerena in the battle phase
Will you be doing deck lists for the N/R festival?
Its my main deck now, love it. Thank you
Where can I find the list for this deck? I’m brand new and would love to start with a cheaper simple/effective deck like this. Someone please help
"Appolo USA"
That's a damn nice nickname. lmao
Wow it feels like Christmas. Thanks DKayed.
The DD dynamite cancer made me build this deck pretty much from scratch.
hey can i change the solomon to a ash blossom?
you are really a great duelist sir
Master Peace : *LET ME IN*
How fun is it to play? I've noticed some decks get repetitive really fast once you play them is this one like that?
can endymion mighty master negate that trap card in the graveyard?
Is there a deck description
Can someone tell me how do i know which once per turn is soft or hard?
So this video is the reason I keep running into true dragon king skill drains even though all I run is a Nekroz deck, I don't know whether to applaud you for making a easy to make deck or curse you for giving people more reasons to use skill drain.
This Is 🔥🔥🔥 I've never played or seen anyone use this Archetype!! Usually everyone that i know goes for the Tier 1 or Tier 0 deck
This deck was that strong when master peace was legal
I always wanted to build this but want sure this might have confirmed me building it
I'm definitely making this I got to plat with my Endymion deck and I'm so tired of running into these bs infinite negates.
My build stops the meta ... including tri/zoo zeus , cyber dragon and rongo. Basically attack the grave.
Can someone explain the ruling for herald not being able to negate the trap effect on tribute? Why does that not count as an activated effect?
True draco trap in the graveyard is a trap effect not a trap activation. So Herald or other cards that negate activations cannot negate it.
@@Thomastm33 That's interesting to know. I have a different theory I like to share. I think the fact that it is in the graveyard; it cannot just negate it because destroying the card is part of the condition to negate? If it doesn't have "destroy" as an addiction to the effect; it woulda negate it but since it does, it have to "destroy" that card to negate that card is my theory. You cannot destroy a card that is already in the graveyard therefore it can't do anything about it. Well not a theory, just how I think it works.
@@kinoshkiwa No. Nothing is activated when True Draco traps are sent to the grave. Therefore Ultimateness has nothing to negate since nothing is activated. True Draco traps's destruction is an effect that happens when they're sent to the grave, which bypasses negates like Ultimateness or Mechaba. The only way to stop them is with Royal Decree or Jinzo since those stop Trap card activations AND effect, but no one plays those anymore.
@@ryuuohdeltaplus7936 I think it counts as an activation because I got myself into a true draco vs true draco mirror match before. I tribute my trap in order to summon one of my monsters to destroy my opponent's true draco which also causes them to trigger their drawing effect from using my trap card in my graveyard effect to attempt to destroy it. Just to make this clear I didn't use the trap effect where I can tribute it off during my opponent's main phase.
@@kinoshkiwa True Draco Heritage's draw effect counts any true draco or true king cards sent from the field to the GY (regardless if they were activated on the field or not) from both player's side of the field, that's why your opponent was able to draw from your trap card being sent to the GY
The good old monkeflip without Master Peace, hopefully for a very long time.
Your so cracked wish I could make plays like that but I'm honestly just not smart enough this was amazing to watch though
Will this deck work with Uria as a boss monster? Or is it too weak in this meta?
its shite. its only a big beat stick with with s/t removal which draco already has along with atk/def reduction. but play if memeing
that's why we got Kaiju and Skill Drain
Iv'e been playing for 2 days and built this deck card by card, I'm already 3w - 0l in pvp... I'm still bronze AND I'm as noob as they get but this deck just FLOWS man thank you
What is this deck called the one DKayed is using
True Draco is just evil with how many floodgates it can get away with running, all because their monsters can just tribute the things away if they get personally annoying. And Draconic Diagram is also super obnoxious, no wonder they limited the thing. Metatron is like a harder to get out Master Piece(the good one) in a sense, though it gets a floating effect instead of a pop so it's a little easier to get to the point where you can beat over it(and can hopefully prepare for what it sends out from the extra deck if you choose to play one, though the two Monarch floodgates might unironically be preferable for some deck builds).
True draco is only good in a best of one, also a lot of the times it's a brickfest
First time I faced this super nova dragon guy I was shook at how op it was, than I realized oh my guy you can be targeted? Well back to the extra deck you go, compulsory evacuation n pooof gone
truly best bugget control deck, i am just play in new id for 2 days and reach plat 3. just only need 4 SR and 1 UR 😘
i think the tri player won had they revolted the continuous spell... that was a game costing misplay. ofc they don't know that you didn't have it, but i think had they revolted they had an almost guarantee at winning the game. because they force erupt off of summoning something like a Knightmare phoenix, or they force the solemn. and they still would have 2-3 cards to work with outside of that. idk. def think that the tri player could've def played that sharper.
also not to mention had they revolted the spell they wouldn't have to worry about the monster on field...
I can take banishing my cards, but please don't banish my curds.
Honestly if your gonna set the spells anyways in this deck why not run anti spell fragrance? I know it is a slight hindrance to this deck because I run mine with anti spell but it’s another way to protect against harpies and lightning storm than judgement and another good floodgate that doesent completely shut you down but completely shuts down most decks
You could improve your list by cutting Maiden to 2 and Return to 1, and adding TCBOO as another floodgate, and maybe changing the 1 Skill Drain for a Vanity's Emptiness. Amano Iwato is also a choice to run at 2 or 3 to break fields and stop handtraps
What is TCBOO?
@@Lamarr12g There Can Be Only One (TCBOO). It is good against Eldlich (Either they summon a golden land or a golden lord), Drytron (only 1 Drytron monster can be on the field, and they cannot tribute it for the summon of another one since they cannot attempt to summon another monster of the same type they already control) any Tri variant (Only one beast, winged beast or beast warrior) Adamancipator (only one rock, chain TCBOO to the excavation and summon eff) and many more Tier 2 or lower decks. TCBOO is a beast of a card
@@Darkros123 how many would you suggest running?
@@Lamarr12g TCBOO? 3, it is that good, it has been a staple in Draco since it was printed
@@Lamarr12g Also, dont run pot of desires, Upstart goblin and Into the void are better
I remember getting destroyed against an AI using True Draco
How to unlock true draco secret pack?
I like playing waterfall of dragon souls in this deck
This deck made me to plat 1. thanks dkayed.!!! also banquet decks are running rampant but this deck doesn't run extra deck so when i face them they insta scoop so its eazy climb for me. ARIGATO DKAYED-SAN
Thanks for your content boi, ur reaction and wordings are sometimes really funny xD
Is there also any expensive version of this deck to make it even more powerful or is this one already the best possible version?
solemn judge. There can be only one. skill drain
Those are some cards that are URs and are strong in true draco.
Go true Draco/eldlich
What about summon limit
I heckin love True Draco!
Fi ally something to make Herald players cry
Only fight True king 2 time 1 win 1 lose, If you let this deck going it really hard to stop, as for the game that I win, my Lunalight Chich got pop 3 times but I got perfect hand so I still win
Love you videos just wish you would do a damn deck list
Dude be rapping on 1.5x vid speed