![]() “ Mystical Space Typhoon” serves as the standard backrow removal, while “ Lightning Vortex“, “ Torrential Tribute“, and “ Sakuretsu Armor” serve as destruction solutions against monsters. ![]() The theme of banishing cards continues in the backrow, although the deck makers could not get around fitting some of the usual stuff in there aswell. And so is “ Exiled Force“, but back then it at least was able to trade your Normal Summon against an opposing monster. ![]() “ Samsara Kaiser” is one of the odd-ones out since it is simply meant to provide a “free” tribute for your higher level monsters. – Different Dimension Master” probably has potential, but I struggle to think of a deck that could reuse him over and over again that would also banish enough cards for targets. Scout Plane” both return to the field when banished but feel too slow to be relevant in my opinion. “ Golden Homunculus” is not so fortunate since it needs a tribute and is outclassed by “ Gren Maju Da Eiza“, which is not only in the deck once but should definitely be played at three copies because you can drop it as a huge beatstick with almost no investment there days. “ Helios – The Primordial Sun” will never grow high enough in stats to be relevant but can be Special Summoned via “ Macro Cosmos” for a free body on the field. “ Banisher of the Radiance” actually makes sure everything that would hit the graveyard goes into banishment instead and works if you have neither “ Dimensional Fissure” nor “ Macro Cosmos” available.īut supporting banish cards does not only come down to banishing stuff from the field or the graveyard. Assailant” again is very similar, but needs to be destroyed in battle to trigger the effect. Warrior Lady” is a little better, having the same effect but letting you opt out of the banish while coming with 300 ATK more. Warrior” needs to survive which is unlikely most of the time. Warrior” banishes both itself and the opposing monster when battling, but since this effect only triggers after damage calculation “ D.D. “ Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer” banishes opposing monsters from the graveyard, while “ Bazoo the Soul-Eater” can banish monsters from your own graveyard to grow stronger. “ Chaosrider Gustaph” has a similar idea but banishes Spell cards from your graveyard as fuel instead. “ Dimensional Alchemist” banishes the top card of your deck for an ATK boost and retrieves a monster from banishment later on. “The Dark Emperor” really goes all out with the banishing idea as you can see with the monster choices. Overall, a solid package and a card that was highly sought after back in the day. “ Caius the Shadow Monarch” can also be used as an emergency burn option since the deck featured enough Dark Attribute monsters to banish one of your own monsters in order to inflict the burn damage to the opponent. “Monarchs” are a strategy on their own nowadays and I cannot tell you at this point how good or needed “ Caius the Shadow Monarch” is in a “Monarch” deck, but the package of spot removal against anything was quite nice back in the day since it was basically an upgrade to the popular “ Zaborg the Thunder Monarch“. On Tribute Summon, you get to banish any one card, making it both useful against monsters and backrow, and in case the banished card was a Dark Attribute monster you also get to inflict 1000 damage to your opponent. But do not let that fool you, since “ Caius the Shadow Monarch” does provide some bang for its buck. This is also the first Structure Deck to get rid of the boss monster idea, since the cover monster is just a Level 6 with 2400 ATK. ![]() “The Dark Emperor” therefore has layers, making use of cards that are normally hard to reach while showing any graveyard-needing strategy the finger. “ Gren Maju Da Eiza” is even more potent than ever since cards like “ Golden Castle of Stromberg” and “Pot of Desires” exist, and it was cool even back in the day when one of my friends decided to make that his strategy when “ Macro Cosmos” was still at three and no one could have seen how good of a floodgate it would be. – Different Dimension Reincarnation“ġx “ Return from the Different Dimension“īanishing cards as a strategy is a pretty cool idea in my opinion. Here are my thoughts on the product.Īnd here is the decklist for “The Dark Emperor”:ġx “ D.D.M. As you will see, some of the cards that “The Dark Emperor” uses are still seen in banishment-focussed decks today, so we do have an actual contender for buying in front of us. Instead of doing something as vague like interacting with monsters in the graveyard, “The Dark Emperor” focusses on banishing cards and let me tell you that it does a pretty good job of working with that theme. After “Rise of the Dragon Lords” took a different approach to deckbuilding and focussed on a strategy rather than a Type or Attribute, here we have “The Dark Emperor” which further improves on the formula. ![]()
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