Notes & Combos

If you really want to win with this deck then you should be putting Dimension Shifter or any of the banish floodgates in, but those aren't fun for me so I don't. Without having the banish floodgates, suddenly I'm not worried about turning off my graveyard. So, I threw in the Sky Strikers. Fiendsmith would be better for this purpose also, but I wanted the extra challenge.

Purpose of the Sky Strikers is twofold; if my opponent has ED hate, they look at the list and think I'm playing Sky Striker, which could cause them to adjust their gameplan. Second purpose is that Engage > Hornet Drones > Kagari add back Hornet Drones > Kaina is Silhouhatte without a normal, and baits negates along the way. Adra is Yu-Gi-Oh's Most Impermable Monster™, so getting them to throw Imperm or Veiler at Kagari or Silhouhatte makes it safer. Again, Fiendsmith serves this same purpose and also gives you more in general while also being more repeatable, but I play this game to be creative, not throw Desirae at every problem.

Droplet is pretty good in this deck. You can consistently send all 3 card types to make it unstoppable, and there's a lot of non-monsters to use as free resources for it in the deck. Anguish Pattern is played over Azurune or Apophis because it is repeatable destruction that also gives a negate with the Field Spell. Widow Anchor is just straight up better than Apophis, and Azurune is so much easier to play around vs. the dance of the Argostars between front and back to trigger Home Stadium and Anguish Pattern.

You don't need doubles of the Sky Striker cards, and I think I summoned Shizuku exactly once. But this deck just doesn't do much with the ED and I couldn't think of much else I wanted, so I decided to rep the 12k gems I sunk into the Sky Striker pack during the promotion. Doubles of Bagooska/Redoer/TY-PHON and a third Silhouhatte are better. Sky Striker main deck monsters are dead weight. Argostars are too dependent on normals for Raye to be worth it, and they're just used to link off so she doesn't resummon either.