Kuraz Explosion

From Yu-Gi-Oh!

This FTK deck is built around the abuse of 'Kuraz the Light Monarch', which is used to draw your entire deck and give to the opponent an impressive amount of Direct Damage thanks to 'Magical Explosion'. The deck is almost built in the OCG, due to 'Hidden Armory' and due to the recent bannings for the Advanced Format in the TCG, that make this deck only playable in the Traditional Format.

The deck uses two or three copies each of 'Kuraz the Light Monarch and 'Cyber Valley', that provide the useful cards for the combo. 'Hidden Armory' is used to search 'D.D.R. - Different Dimension Reincarnation', 'Premature Burial' and 'Divine Sword - Phoenix Blade' (the last one almost used only to boost 'Spell Reproduction', 'Magical Stone Excavation', 'Hand Destruction' and 'Card Destruction'). 'Destiny Hero - Disk Commander' is a good card, because it is a warrior type monster (so that it can be eliminated from the game via Phoenix Blade) and because it provides drawing via 'Premature Burial' or 'Monster Reborn. This deck also uses a Destiny Hero drawing mechanich, involving 'Elemental Hero Stratos', 'Destiny Hero - Dogma' or 'Destiny Hero - Plasma', 'Trade-In' and 'Destiny Draw' (less usual is 'Allure of Darkness'). Dogma is also used to halve opponent's Life Points in order to use an Explosion and win the game. The deck also abuses the combo 'Dark Magician of Chaos'/'Dimension Fusion'.

Keys for this deck are also 'Reasoning' and 'Monster Gate, that fill the graveyard with the spell cards needed in order to use the effect of 'Magical Explosion. Since in the TCG this deck can be used only for the Traditional Format, good choiches are also 'Pot of Greed', 'Graceful Charity' and 'Painful Choice'. 'Giant Trunade' is a good card, because it eliminates fastidious spell and trap cards and because it can be used to retrieve both 'Premature Burial' and 'D.D.R. - Different Dimension Reincarnation'. Sometimes one or two copies of 'Foolish Burial are also used.

Uncommon choices are 'Spell Economics' and 'Machine Duplication'. 'Destiny Hero - Diamond Dude' could also be put in the deck, even if it slows the combo very much (sometimes giving your opponent enough time to set 'Solemn Judgment', 'Dark Bribe' and other cards denying the effect of your monsters and spells).

The deck is weak against many cards. 'Royal Decree' and 'Jinzo' can deny the effect of 'Magical Explosion, and both 'Banisher of the Radiance' and 'Macro Cosmos' make this card unoffensive. It is still possible to win without the Explosion (since the deck is able to summon a bunch of monsters in a very short time), but those cards can make the deck very vulnerable. 'Skill Drain' denies the effect of all monsters in play, making this deck simply not working at all, and so is for 'Royal Oppression'. 'Prohibition' is also difficult to face off, since it can be used against the summoning of Kuraz - thus slowing the deck very much. 'Imperial Order' simply kills the deck.

It is important when using this deck to go as fast as possible and to be very attentive to the order in which the various cards are played.