Notes & Combos

Currently on a 10 win-streak in the Goha Festival with this deck.

In my opinion, the Red-Eyes skill is severely underrated and synergizes extremely well with the Royal Rebel strategy as it guarantees that, as long as you have Black Dragon’s Chick, you’ll have a high level tribute to make Growl and Heavy Metal’s effects live. On top of that, the Red-Eyes package is insanely handy and versatile:

1. It allows you to trade a card in your hand (usually a brick) for a 2400 beater and a 400 ATK debuff.
2. Since you it’s easy to get it back, you can safely use Red-Eyes to fulfill the requirements of Palace Gargoyle, Dian Keto, Monster Reincarnation and, of course, the Royal Rebel monsters.
3. When possible, you can hold a Black Dragon’s Chick in your hand to make plays on your next turn.

As for the rest of the deck, we’re running the cards and packages that give us the most advantages with the least amount of restrictions:

1. Seahorse Carrier excels at recycling resources for our bigger monsters. It’s much better than similar cards such as Kuribot since its requirement is quite lax.
2. King’s Majesty is very much worth running the level 1 fiends for as it allows us to stop any attack; crucial for saving us from a Dragias wipe or for keeping a high level monster as tribute fodder for follow-up plays. The only trap comparable to it is Music Princess’s Recital but the latter’s requirements is more limiting: we can only use it in the very specific circumstance it allows us to, not necessarily when we want or need to.
3. The Red-Eyes skill doesn’t let us attack with level 7 effect monsters on the turns in which we activate it so we’re running level 8 Dian Keto as an additional two-tribute beater. Her LP gain can also be quite useful.

Lastly, I’m running very few spells/traps to ensure that tribute fodder is plentiful and easily accessible. Also, running no backrow removal has been working for me so far since trap cards that manipulate ATK can easily be played around by our own ATK manipulation (Red-Eyes skill, Growl, Heavy Metal); trap cards like Widespread Ruin or King’s Majesty are more of a problem but, since the deck can fill the field with several high attack monsters with ease, I feel like they’re not as catastrophic as they can be against other strategies.

TL;DR: Play Red-Eyes with the Royal Rebel monsters. Red-Eyes Heavy Metal STRONK.