Are you sleeping on Structure Deck R: Warrior’s Strike? You shouldn’t, because its support is insanely powerful now.

Structure Deck R: Warrior Strike:

Unleash the Conquering Star:

Take Up your Noble Arms:

Sample Decklist:

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New-Age Dino Rabbit:

At the end of the day, this deck functions in a similar pattern to the old aggressive strategy of Dino Rabbit. In those days, the goal was to make one of the Evolzar Xyz to disrupt the opponent’s plays before winning the duel through consistent damage. That strategy was flexible, going first or second with ease, and had powerful 1-card combos to make their boss monsters. Basically ever portion of that description fits our Flaming Noble Knights strategy here today, so let’s talk about some of the really cool opening options.

1. Begin your turn by summoning Expaladin and equipping Squeaknight from the deck.
2. Using Squeak’s 2nd effect, unequip it and summon it to your field.
3. Link Summon Isolde using both monsters, using its first effect to add Noble Knight Eachtar to hand.
4. Use Isolde’s 2nd effect, sending a Cursed Bamboo, Phoenix Blade, and 3 other Equip Spells from your Deck to the GY, to summon Kaiki the Unity Star from your deck.
5. Activate Kaiki, by paying 500, and Cursed Bamboo, adding a Golden Bamboo Sword and Fusion Summoning Idaten the Conqueror Star with Kaiki and Eachtar.
6. Idaten activates, adding Super Quantum Red Layer from deck to hand.
7. Banish Squeak and Expaladin from GY to add Phoenix Blade to hand.
8. Equip Phoenix Blade to Idaten, making it increase to 3300 ATK.

Throw in Additional Layers:

1. Begin your turn by summoning Red Layer. (Next search Renaud with Heritage if needed)
2. Then summon Expaladin and equipping Squeaknight from the deck.
3. Using Squeak’s 2nd effect, unequip it and summon it to your field.
4. Link Summon Isolde using Red Layer and Squeaknight, using its first effect to add Noble Knight Eachtar to hand.
5. Use Isolde’s 2nd effect, sending a Cursed Bamboo, Phoenix Blade, and 3 other Equip Spells from your Deck to the GY, to summon Kaiki the Unity Star from your deck.
6. Activate Kaiki, by paying 500, and Cursed Bamboo, adding a Golden Bamboo Sword and Fusion Summoning Idaten the Conqueror Star with Kaiki and Eachtar.
7. Idaten activates, adding another Super Quantum Red Layer from deck to hand.
8. Banish Squeak and Red Layer from GY to add Phoenix Blade to hand.
9. Special Summon Flame Noble Knight Renaud from hand, using its effect to add Cursed Bamboo sword back from the GY.
10. Equip Cursed Bamboo to Renaud, then activate Golden Bamboo sword and draw 2 additional cards.
11. Equip Phoenix Blade to Idaten, making it increase to 3300 ATK.
12. Synchro Summon Herald of the Arc Light with Renaud and Expaladin.
13. Activate Cursed Bamboo, adding another Golden Bamboo from deck to hand.

While this is just a slight variation on the first combo, you also end the turn with a Synchro monster that doubles as a floodgate against certain decks and has a quick effect omni-negate, plus you got 2 additional draws and an additional Golden Bamboo to hand. This means that there is even more of a chance to draw into your God Phoenix, giving your board another negate! This is the power of this variant – offering flexibility while disrupting your opponent, all while offering sheer OTK power through strong Fusion monsters and main-decked Super Polymerization. Since your deck size gets so low by the end of a simple combo, you really do tend to draw into cards you can utilize well, especially since each draw just powers up your end state a bit better.

Additional Tech Options:

Conclusion:

It is strategies like this where I wish there was an official simulator for the game so I could show off so many of the neat combos and the sheer power behind this build. I hope that my description and explanations are enough to get that power across, but if it wasn’t, please go and try it yourself. SDR: Warrior’s Strike gave rise to a really unique strategy formed by collecting powerful cards from the Anime, TCG-Premieres, and OCG-Premieres, making it a cool mixture of card design, flames, and warriors. Plus it lets you channel your inner Joey by running numerous Gearfrieds – who wouldn’t want that?

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