Notes & Combos

• The FlameSwordman engine is so underrated. Dark Flare is such a fantastic card for everything it can offer, even though the price for that is having two horrible cards in the Extra Deck. But even with the Flame Swordman summon, it serves to bridge to K9 in many situations.
• Likewise, the K9 engine has many uses in the deck. Being able to have a Ripper protecting Isolde early in the turn is amazing, and the fact that Noroi/Case are a one-card combo is also fantastic. An additional consideration I might have is the possibility of removing one Isolde to add another Rank 5, for the simple and obvious reason that the second Isolde is mainly for grinding or if the first effect is negated, which at this point shouldn't happen because players are supposed to know that the effect to negate is the second effect, so it doesn't make sense. For now, the second Isolde stays in the Extra Deck. I'll have to play more duels to see if my assumption that the second Isolde has no real impact is true, so I can remove it and add another Rank 5, because you tend to run out of Extra Deck Summons very quickly.
• The End Board of this Deck is so absurd that it's an instant win against the vast majority of Decks, but it tends to struggle against Decks that don't usually use spells/traps and that are more vulnerable to having their monster effects negated than to other forms of interruption (mainly because your only ways to negate monsters are Gearfried and Ripper, and sometimes that's not enough), so you have to play intelligently.