Due to all the varying element monsters in your deck, you could/should swap out the Dark energies for megamorphs. they'll do the same thing as Dark Energy does for Barrel Dragon but just work on everything else too in case of emergency! Then the riryokus could be swapped out for the dark energies in that instance if your DC is too high
My local retro game store has this game! Planning to get it and play it all over again! Brings back memories! You should play the capsule version too. i think its called capsule monster coliseum!
I personally find them problematic due to their high summoning cost, but if you have the right ratio of filler magic/trap cards, they are a brutal force to be reckoned with. They also perfectly demonstrate one of the biggest issues that pvp would have in this game. Going first is OP.
Machines are actually one of the strongest deck types in the game, IMO. Robotic Knight (one of the possible starting Deck Leaders in the un-modded game, though in REDUX Robotic Knight is swapped out as Deck Leader for the Giant Mech Soldier) can buff all of your Machines as long as it's in face-up DEF. Machine King buffs itself based on how many Machines are face-up on the field when it's flipped face-up (and this stacks with other Machine Kings, so that your last Machine King to flip face-up would get a *MASSIVE* boost from all of the other Machines in play). And then you have machines like Launcher Spider to be your "walls", and Blast Sphere to just bait the opponent into nuking their own cards just from Blast Sphere's DotR effect. And you also have Cannon Soldier & Labyrinth Tank to deal with Labyrinth tiles that would otherwise slow you down. And then if you happen to have a Mirror Wall & Gorgon's Eye trap in your deck, those two traps together can very easily cripple your opponent by forcing them to only play cards in attack position (since Gorgon's Eye will eternally spellbind any card they try and put into defense position), while Mirror Wall cuts the ATK of your opponent's monsters in half every time they try to go after one of your cards. Gorgon's Eye also works extremely well in tandem with Mirror Force, since by forcing the opponent to only play cards in attack position, if you also have a Mirror Force on the field, the instant your opponent tries to attack you, Mirror Force will wipe out every single card your opponent had on the field. You could also throw an Ancient Tree of Enlightenment into your deck as well, despite it not being a Machine, since it's like Royal Decree in monster form, except that it has an "off switch", as it blocks *ALL* traps (including your own) from being able to activate as long as it's in face-up DEF. But you can "turn off" that effect by simply switching it to ATK for your opponent's turn (so that your traps will work on them), and then switch it to DEF during any turn you want to go on the offensive so that it blocks any traps your opponent may have from being able to activate.
@@pangesturangga My recommendation for finding creatures is always to go to an opponent that you expect has it. Destroy it near the start of the duel so that it is guranteed to be in the slot if possible. If it isn't there and isn't in the slot rares or hidden cards its reincarnation. Pendulum machine is also from Keith in the slots. I don't remember if you can reincarnate for them, but reincarnating is way harder to have access to than just beating somebody repeatedly.
@@pangesturangga After you finish the first side, barrel dragon doesn't get its allegiance flipped, so it start shooting your own stuff. This is one of the major reasons I hate machines.
