Forum:Deck Guide/Dragunity

Dragunity Decks - Take to the Skies!

Intro

The Dragunity archetype started off in Duel Terminal - Dragunity of the Hurricane, and have gained more support in Duel Terminal - Charge of the Genex, Duel Terminal - Pulse of the Trishula, and Structure Deck 19: Dragunity Drive. Some of their support will be released in Hidden Arsenal 3.

So what are Dragunities? They're a series of WIND-Attribute Dragon and Winged Beast monsters, and they revolve around equipping the former to the latter. With your Dragons equipped to your Winged Beasts, you can do a number of interesting things, including quick synchro summons, attacking twice, attacking directly, and destroying your opponent's cards!

Meet the Archetype!

Monsters

• "Dragunity Aklys": This card is very useful in any and all Dragunity decks. It's a level 2 Dragon Tuner monster, but more important are its two effects: Firstly, when it's normal summoned, you can use its effect to special summon any Dragunity monster from your hand, and equip Aklys to it. This ties in well to its next effect, as when it's equipped to a monster and sent to the graveyard in any way, it automatically destroys a card on the field! This is undoubtedly very powerful, but be certain you don't activate it when your opponent controls no cards - you'll have to destroy one of your own. Also note that its effect will not activate if the monster it's equipped to is flipped face-down or is removed from the field - then it is no longer equipped to a monster when it is sent to the graveyard.

• "Dragunity Angusticlavii": This is a level 5 Winged Beast monster, and when it's equipped with a Dragunity Dragon-type monster it can inflict Piercing damage.

However, it has no effect to equip itself with a Dragunity monster, so that somewhat limits its effectiveness. It also has only 2100 ATK, which is low for a monster that requires a tribute, so it's in general not that good.

• "Dragunity Arms Laevatein": This Level 8 Dragon has not only 2600 ATK, but a number of useful effects. First of all, it can special summon itself from the hand - OR graveyard - by removing a Dragunity monster equipped with a Dragunity Dragon from play. Furthermore, it can equip ANY Dragon - not any Dragunity Dragon, just any Dragon - to itself whenever it's summoned. And if it would be destroyed by a card effect, it will special summon the equipped Dragon first! Equip it with a powerful Dragon, and if your opponent manages to get rid of Laevatein they may have to deal with the new monster!

• "Dragunity Arms Misteil": This card can essentially be regarded as Laevatein's little brother. It has 2100 ATK and is level 6 - additionally, it can only special summon itself from the hand, and can only equip Dragunity Dragons. On the plus side, its summoning requirements are less strict, requiring only that you send a Dragunity monster from your side of the field to the graveyard.

• "Dragunity Brandistock": This card is pretty neat. It's a level 1 Dragon tuner, and when it's equipped to a monster, that monster can attack twice a turn! It's quite useful with some of the more powerful monsters of the archetype.

• "Dragunity Corsesca": Another level 1 Dragon tuner. When it's equipped to a monster and that monster destroys another monster by battle, you can use Corsesca's effect to add another monster from your deck to your hand. The monster has to be level 4 or lower, and must be of the same Type and Attribute of the monster that Corsesca is equipped to, but it's still very useful.

• "Dragunity Darkspear": This is a level 3 Dragon tuner with an odd revival effect. You can use its effect to revive a level 4 or lower Winged-Beast monster from your graveyard by tributing a Dragunity Dragon card you control - this includes equipped Dragons, and even Darkspear itself! Note that this does not work while Darkspear is an equip card, which makes it not that useful.

• "Dragunity Dux": Dux is one of the most useful of the Dragunities. It's a level 4 Winged-Beast non-tuner with 1500 ATK and two good effects. First of all, when it's normal summoned, it equips a level 3 or lower Dragunity Dragon in the graveyard to itself. Additionally, it gains 200 ATK for each Dragunity card you control. The upshot of this is that if you control just Dux, it has 1700 ATK - and when equipped, it has 1900! This is even better with Brandistock or Corsesca, the effects of which can make good use of Dux's ATK boosting.

• "Dragunity Javelin": Javelin is a level 2 Dragon tuner. If it's destroyed while it's a monster, and you control a Dragunity Winged-Beast monster, Javelin can equip itself to said monster. It's not useful at all, essentially.

• "Dragunity Legionnaire": This is another very useful Winged-Beast. With a level of 3 and an ATK of only 1200, its stats are meager, but its effects are great. It has the same equipping effect as Dux, but instead of gaining ATK, it can send any Dragunity equip card you control to the graveyard to destroy your opponent's face-up monster! This on its own is powerful, but when combined with Aklys - the one that destroys one card when it's sent to the graveyard - it can be a devastating one-two punch to your opponent's field!

• "Dragunity Militum": This level 4, 1700 ATK Winged Beast has an interesting effect. With him, you can special summon a Dragunity Dragon in your spell/trap card zone once per turn. This might seem very useful, except he has no ability to equip cards himself.

• "Dragunity Partisan": Partisan is a level 2 Dragon tuner, and it has a self-equipping effect similar to Dragunity Aklys - except while Aklys can equip itself to any Dragunity in your hand, Partisan only works on Winged-Beasts. However, when Partisan is equipped to a monster, that monster is treated as a tuner! That can make for some interesting synchro options.

• "Dragunity Phalanx": This card is the workhorse of the Dragunity archetype. Want to know why? Because it's a level 2 Dragon tuner that can special summon itself when it's equipped to a monster! Combined with all of the ways there are to equip monsters in this archetype, this card makes synchro summons easy! Synchro summon a level 5 monster with Legionnaire, a level 6 monster with Dux, a level 8 monster with Misteil, and the level 10 Trident Dragion with Dragunity Arms Laevatein!

• "Dragunity Pilum": This level 3 Dragon tuner has the same first effect as Partisan (equipping itself to a monster). However, when it's equipped to a monster, that monster can attack directly for half damage.

• "Dragunity Primus Pilus": This level 5, 2200 ATK monster has a very cool effect. When it's summoned, it can equip itself with a Dragunity Dragon FROM THE DECK. In other words, it requires even less setup than Dux or Legionnaire! Combine it with Dragunity Phalanx for an easy level 7 synchro monster. You can also special summon it with Dragunity Aklys, Partisan, or Pilum to give it two equip cards!

• "Dragunity Tribus": Tribus is a very weak Winged Beast, at only level 1 and 500 ATK. When it's summoned, you can send a Dragunity Dragon - level 3 or lower - from your deck to your graveyard. It can be useful for setting up combos, but there are other ways to get Dragunity Dragons into the graveyard.

Synchro Monsters

• "Dragunity Knight - Gae Bulg": Gae Bulg is a level 6 Dragunity synchro monster, and like all Dragunity synchro monsters, it's a Dragon that requires a Dragon tuner and a Winged-Beast non-tuner. Fortunately, this is easily accomplished with two Dragunity monsters: Dux and Phalanx. At 2000 ATK, Gae Bulg may not seem strong, but whenever it battles, you can remove a Winged-Beast in your graveyard from play to increase its ATK by that monster's ATK! Remove Dux to power it up to 3500, or Primus Pilus to buff it to 4200, enough to take down Obelisk the Tormentor!

• "Dragunity Knight - Gadearg": This is another level 6 Dragon synchro with the same synchro requirements as Gae Bulg. It has an ATK of 2400 and a useful effect - once per turn, you can add any level 4-or-lower Dragon or Winged Beast (not just Dragunities)from your deck to your hand, and then discard any Dragon or Winged Beast monster. You can use this to add a Winged Beast such as Dux, which can equip Dragunities, and then discard an equipping target such as Aklys or Brandistock. You can also use it as essentially a monster version of Foolish Burial, by adding a monster to your hand and then discarding that same monster.

• "Dragunity Knight - Vajuranda": This monster has the level, type, and synchro requirements of the other level 6 Knights. It has less ATK than even Gae Bulg at only 1900 - however, its effects more than make up for that. When synchro summoned, it equips a Dragunity level 3 or lower Dragon from your graveyard to it. It can then send that Dragon (or any equipped card, for that matter) to the graveyard to double its own ATK! This is particularly useful with Aklys, which destroys your opponent's card when it's sent to the graveyard. However, if you equip Phalanx to it, you can special summon Phalanx and pull off a level 8 synchro!

• "Dragunity Knight - Trident": This is a level 7 Dragon synchro with all the same requirements as the other Knights. Its effect is quite odd - you send up to three cards you control to the graveyard to send an equal number of monsters from your opponent's extra deck to the graveyard. Depending on the deck, this could be useful, but it generally isn't worth the extreme loss of cards.

• "Dragunity Knight - Barcha": Barcha is a level 8 synchro with 2000 ATK and the same requirements as the other 4 synchros. When it's synchro summoned, it can equip Dragunity Dragons to itself from your graveyard - as many as possible, in fact! And it gains 300 ATK for each equipped monster. It has a good effect, but its difficulty in synchro summoning severely limits its effectiveness.

Spell Cards

• "Dragon Canyon": This card is pure GOLD for a Dragunity deck, and 3 should be used in every single Dragunity deck. It's a field spell that allows you, once per turn, to discard a card to either add a level 4 or lower Dragunity monster from your deck to your hand, or to send any Dragon from your deck to your graveyard. It is simply amazing.

• "Dragon Control Technique": This is a continuous spell that allows you to equip Dragunity Dragons in your hand to any face-up monster you control - keep in mind that this doesn't mean only Dragunities! It also grants any of your monsters equipped with Dragunity equip cards an extra 500 ATK. The card can be fairly useful, but depending on the deck you may not want it.

Play Style

So, what do the Dragunities do best with their equips? QUICK SYNCHRO, that's what. Here's a quick explanation of one of the combos they can easily pull off:

1. Have a Dragunity Dux in your hand and a Dragunity Phalanx in your graveyard.
2. Summon Dragunity Dux, and use its effect to equip Dragunity Phalanx.
3. Use Phalanx's effect to special summon itself.
4. Synchro summon Dragunity Knight - Vajuranda.
5. Use Vajuranda's effect to equip Dragunity Phalanx.
6. Special summon Phalanx with its own effect.
7. Synchro summon any level 8 monster!

It's a very easy combo to pull off - all you need to have is one Dragon Canyon and one Dragunity Phalanx in your hand. Discard Phalanx with Canyon to get Dux, and the rest is easy. You can also use Dux and Phalanx to synchro summon any level 6 monster, or use Legionnaire and Phalanx for a level 5.

When you don't feel safe synchro summoning, try destroying your opponent's cards with Dragunity Legionnaire. Normally, Legionnaire can only destroy monsters, but if you equip it with Dragunity Aklys, you can also destroy any other card on the field, including face-down spells and traps. Are you worried about a face-down that could be Solemn Warning or Bottomless Trap Hole? Use Legionnaire instead. It can be negated by Solemn Warning, but not removed with Bottomless Trap Hole - and if your opponent used that Warning on your Legionnaire they won't be able to use it on your synchro monster for next turn.

Meanwhile, with the effects of Dragunity Dragons, you can also conduct a quick beatdown - especially with Dragunity Dux's ATK-increasing effect. Equip it with Brandistock for a double attack, and if your opponent has a clear field you can strip away nearly half their life in one go! Or you can attack directly using Pilum, and search out cards with Corsesca. These can be even more powerful strategies with the Dragunity Arms monsters, which generally have higher base ATK than the Winged-Beast monsters.

Possible support cards

So, you've got the Dragunity cards. You think you can make a really good deck out of just those cards? Think again. You'll be much better off with support mixed in as well.

Support Monsters

• "Flying Kamakiri 1": When this monster is destroyed by battle, you can special summon a WIND monster with 1500 or less ATK from your deck in ATK mode. It's good for blocking attacks and fetching tuners when you don't have one (or if you don't have Dragon Canyon). And it can search any Dragunity monster weaker than Dux.
• "Masked Dragon": This would be used similarly to Kamakiri, but it can only search the Dragunity Dragons. The only upside to this is that Masked Dragon can special summon monsters in DEF mode, so it's more helpful at protecting your life points.
• "Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite": This card may not be out yet, but I eagerly await the day it arrives in the United States, because it is very useful for a number of reasons.

1. It can be discarded with Dragon Canyon, and it'll be in the graveyard, ready to use.
2. It can return Dragon Canyon to your hand to use its effect twice in a turn for massive searching, or it can return a Dragunity Legionnaire to use its destruction effect twice. (The latter is a combo that can make your opponent lose lots of cards!)
3. As a level 4 Winged-Beast, it combos with Phalanx or Aklys for a level 6 synchro summon - such as a Dragunity Knight!

This is still a work in progress, guys

To the other guidemakers: Tell me what you guys think. Feel free to correct spelling errors, but don't add or remove content without telling me first. Runer5h (talk • contribs) 02:35, September 17, 2010 (UTC)Runer5h