Notes & Combos

A more casual take on Red-Eyes Armament using 3x Lightning and 1x Tempest for Rank 7 plays.

Basic combo, with Lightning + any dragon + Meteor (the former 2 are searchable via skill's 1st eff):

1. Lightning discard dragon + itself to summon Tempest from Deck. Meteor mill Red-Eyes to summon itself.
2. XYZ into Flare Metal. Detach Tempest to summon the milled Red-Eyes.
3. Tempest banish Lightning and dragon to summon itself from GY. XYZ into a second Flare Metal.
4. Activate the skill's 2nd eff, adding Dark Magician and Poly to hand. Importantly, the GY now also has Gemini Red-Eyes monsters, which are treated as Normals in the GY.
5. Flare Metal 2 now has a reborn target ('Normal' Red-Eyes), so detach Red-Eyes this time, to summon Red-Eyes.
6. Fuse the Red-Eyes on the field and Dark Magician into Dragoon.

• Note: if you are going first vs. Odion or Adena, consider making Doomrider instead of the second Flare Metal in Step 3.

The basic combo ends on two Flare Metals + Dragoon (and 3 cards left in hand): a board that is fully destruction-immune, with one omni-negate, and burns the opponent for 500 every time they activate an effect. This has potential to eat combo-heavy decks like PUNK alive. The Flare Metals can also revive Red-Eyes for extra defense, and because of the abundance of Red-Eyes monsters, Fang gets a lot mileage in this variant (which is why I run 2)

Drawing just Tempest is also great, going first or second. It can be used as fusion material for Dragoon and then reborns itself from the GY afterward: 2 in 1! It also handily triggers Lord of the Red in some instances.

While Ghost Mourner isn't the best hand-trap, it finds a place in this deck as it complements the burning effect of Flare Metal and is WIND fodder for Lightning/Tempest.