Draw Engine
From Yu-Gi-Oh!
A draw engine, is as the name suggests, a method that refers to the way that a Duelist may draw cards from his/her deck, to maintain Hand Advantage.
The some popular Draw Engines at present are:
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[edit] Destiny Draw Engine
The Destiny Engine functions by using "Destiny Draw" to discard Destiny Heroes whose effect(s) are more beneficial from being in the Graveyard, such as "Destiny Hero - Malicious" or "Destiny Hero - Dasher", but more notably "Destiny Hero - Disk Commander" to revive it later with "Premature Burial" or "Monster Reborn", or with "Destiny Hero - Fear Monger". "Elemental Hero Stratos" is commonly used to get the Destiny Hero you need, and so "Reinforcement of the Army" is used. This became quite a useful method of summoning the Monarchs, creating the so-called Perfect Circle Deck.
Destiny Draw is currently Unlimited (September 2009 Lists).
[edit] Allure Draw Engine
This works by removing from play DARK monsters, such as "Dark Magician of Chaos", then reviving those monster(s) with either "Dimension Fusion", "Return from the Different Dimension" or more popularly, "Escape from the Dark Dimension".
Allure of Darkness is currently Semi-Limited (March 2009 Lists).
[edit] Card of Safe Return Engine
Can be better known as CoSR Engine. This Draw Engine uses the effect of Card of Safe Return to get an extra Draw for each monster special summoned from the grave and get Hand Advantage. This engine is especially useful and really only good in Decks that can Special Summon many monsters from the Graveyard. Zombie Swarm and Dark World Decks are great decks to use with this Draw Engine.
A variation of this draw engine uses 2 Manticore of Darkness to continuously loop by sending 1 to the graveyard and sending the second one from your hand or deck to bring out the next one. The "Manticore Loop" is often used in Exodia OTK decks.
Card of Safe Return is currently Forbidden (September 2009 Lists).
[edit] Trade-In Draw Engine
Although this may not be a particularly popular draw engine, "Trade-In" has an advantage over other draw engines; it is not Limited or Semi-Limited. This draw engine discards powerful Level 8 Monster Cards to the Graveyard, usually to revive later. This can be useful in Zombies ("Despair from the Dark" or "Skull Flame" only, but "Vampire Genesis", "Kasha", "Doomkaiser Dragon/Assault Mode" and "Berserk Dragon" could also be used but they can't be revived), Destiny Heroes ("Dogma", "Plasma" and "Dreadmaster" are all Level 8), and Dragons (discard "Tyrant Dragon", "Dark Horus", or other powerful cards, and revive them with "Decoy Dragon" or "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon" in Dragon revival decks; use the discarded Dragons for "Dragon's Mirror" in Dragon Fusion decks to special summon "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" or "Five-Headed Dragon").
