Chaos dragons was a deck that is near dear to me when first I bought the structure deck as a kid in 2012. The deck really taught me how to manage and pilot a more complicated deck that was much different from decks I was playing at the time.
I was looking forward to this one for a long time. Chaos/Lightsworn piles are some of my all-time favorite decks, so having a structure deck that gave me exactly what I wanted was such a treat back in the day!
Been waiting for this one! Have this deck still from 2012 and is my favorite deck in the format! Great video as always from the goat! Keep up the hard work and more importantly keep having fun!
Finally got my regional top with this deck! I remember the YCS Dallas feature the hero player activated torrential on pulsar + REDMD and brought them back. It had the advantage of no one knowing what the cards did for the first month or so after Dallas.
Hi joe! Appreciative of the insight in this video, chaos dragons has been my deck of choice for 2012. Question for you: I keep going back and forth with my friends on playing 2012 nationals format versus playing the September 2012 list. What do you think about that format compared to this one? I feel as though the lowered power ceiling of the fall format makes it less enjoyable. Thoughts? Thanks!
I feel like hieratic wasn't explored nor represented as well as it should have been throughout the duration of the format. at the time I know a lot of us on dgz and other communities really disliked march 2012 but looking back at the format, it truly was diverse and genuinely enjoyable (outside of getting looped/OTK'd)
With that being said, I'd love to hear your take on Hieratic as a whole. The deck felt very similar to Inzektor and Wind-Up to me in the sense that it felt like a bomb waiting to go off at any moment
Tiras is the better Rank 5 as of April 25 2012, revoking ignition priority killed Adreus' viability. Being able to pop both face ups and face downs is better especially against Macro Rabbit who will have a sizable trap lineup. Adreus isn't even safer against Macro Cosmos because he dies to Bottomless and Torrential which are staple traps (Torrential not so much in Rabbit) ever since ignition priority got removed. Both are equally vulnerable to Compulse and summon negation. Adreus' only edge over Tiras is that he gets a pop off before dying to D prison, but battle traps are less common because on summon traps are much better during Synchro and Xyz formats.
I remember Peter Gross winning YCS Toulouse without even playing Future Fusion! I understand that the idea is that almost every deck plays 3 MST and you guarantee they are dead by not giving your opponent any targets. But I still think that just automatically winning 8% of your games, not to mention all the other games where your opponent can't interact with Future Fusion is too valuable. It also puts the opponent in a difficult spot for game 2 where they kind of want to side out MST for lack of targets, but the threat of Future Fusion is just too big.
If u play 3 chaos sorc and 3 effect veiler, arcanite magician is worthy of consideration. Blackrose nukes the field so it loses to mirror match lightpulsar/REDMD combo and also starlight road. Arcanite can pop the lightpulsar first(assuming they dont have another redmd in grave) then pop the REDMD on field
Photon striker bounzer is super valuable when u play against inzektors aka the worst match up imo. Without photon strike bounzer Inzektors hard counter chaos dragons if they dont draw effect veiler or OTK quickly
Stardust dragon is kinda worth consideration, since when gorz is summoned the opp cant use their bottomless trap hole since its the damage step. So then u can normal summon veiler, they still cant bottomless since veiler is 0 attack, synchro with the token into stardust now your lightpulsar/REDMD has protection vs the opponents bottomless trap hole
Also keeping with the theme, stardust dragon gives u protection vs the worst match up(inzektors) u can negate hornet, but centipede/dragonfly will still get their effects off(i asked a judge to make sure on this)
