Crossover Breakers? The only Crossover is a Hole!?
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Today’s Creative Deck Profile features the return of the Ryzeal to my channel, now empowered by their first wave of follow-up support in Alliance Insight. If you missed my last take on Ryzeal combined with Time Thief, be sure to check that out here to see the theme in action: https://youtu.be/F_kRUKn1yso
Now that you’re back, let’s talk about the two new cards that Ryzeal has to play with. First up is Star Ryzeal (YGOrg Translation), a new Level 4 LIGHT Pyro that can detatch any Xyz Material to Special Summon itself from the hand. When you do, it sets a Ryzeal S/T from your deck. This is a great way to grab the other new Ryzeal card, Ryzeal Mass Driver (YGOrg Translation) which just boosts the ATK of all Ryzeal by 1000 for the turn, before attaching itself to any R4NK Xyz Monster. Of course this works well with Time Thief Redoer to give yourself a Trap material to spin a face-up card back to deck, but it also can load another bullet in Ryzeal Detonator’s cannon. Mass Driver also has an effect when sent to the GY, except from the Field, banishing a card from the opponent’s GY, which just happens to work when detached from an Xyz monster.
Now, the Ryzeal theme is well known for its power level, so I decided to pair it with another Level 4 archetype in Traptrix, because the Traptrix has such an assortment of tools that let it build a fearsome Turn 1 Board. With Traptrix Sera generating advantage like noone’s business, the array of Trap Hole Trap Cards that can conquer anything the opponent throws at you, or just the threat of Traptrix Rafflesia activating a Trap Hole card from your deck, you have a real triple threat with this archetype. Paired with the consistent Ryzeal backing, it’s possible to make a full Traptrix play, then go into the Ryzeal cards, lock yourself into R4NK Summons, and build out the best endboard possible. There’s also a natural connection between these two archetypes in Ryzeal Plasma Hole – since the Traptrix cards support ‘Hole’ Traps, it counts! This lets you make some interesting combos with Star Ryzeal and either Traptrix Genlisea or Traptrix Vesiculo. Let Pyro and Thunder monsters into your Traptrip Garden and unleash a Terrifying Trap Hole Nightmare!
Provided Decklist:
Monsters: 20
|| Star Ryzeal
| Traptrix Dionaea
||| Ice Ryzeal
| Traptrix Myrmeleo
| Traptrix Mantis
||| Sword Ryzeal
| Node Ryzeal
| Traptrix Vesiculo
| Traptrix Arachnocampa
| Palm Ryzeal
| Traptrix Genlisea
| Traptrix Pudica
||| Ext RyzealSpells: 7
||| Bonfire
| Ryzeal Plugin
|| Ryzeal Cross
| Traptrip GardenTraps: 14
| Time-Space Trap Hole
| Bottomless Trap Hole
| Traptrix Trap Hole Nightmare
||| Gravedigger’s Trap Hole
| Ryzeal Plasma Hole
| Ryzeal Mass Driver
||| Traptrix Holeutea
| Terrifying Trap Hole Nightmare
| Network Trap Hole
| Banishing Trap HoleExtra Deck:
| Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder
|| Ryzeal Detonator
| Ryzeal Duo Drive
| Eclipse Twins
| Full Armored Utopic Ray Lancer
| Traptrix Pinguicula
| Time Thief Redoer
| Traptrix Allomerus
| Evilswarm Exciton Knight
| Abyss Dweller
| Traptrix Rafflesia
| Traptrix Atypus
| Traptrix Cularia
| Traptrix Sera
Note: This is continuing the style of Creative Deck Profile articles, designed to showcase a build through replays and an attached summary. If you wish to see a CDP for an archetype, theme, or strategy you love, feel free to private message me on the YGOrg Discord server, the comments section of any of my YouTube videos, or just post a comment in response to this article on our Facebook page or through the site with your ideas for me to keep under consideration! On most YGO-related communities my username is Quincymccoy, so feel free to reach out. Current pending requested profiles include: Valkyrie, Crystal Beast, Heraldic Beast, Motor, Deskbot, Maliss, Mayakashi, Regenesis, D/D, Six Samurai, Hazy Flame, Yummy, K-9, Suship
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3 Comments
Respect the concept and strat, but h8 the archetype (Traptrix)
a previous gripe I have combined with being a bit sleep deprived.
When playing a Rikka deck, I like using “Vennu, Bright Bird of Divinity”, because Rikka likes tributing, and Vennu could be used to recover monsters when monsters get tributed. But at the time I’ve been told that it would be too immediately costly and was a bad idea…. but what if it wasn’t?
Rikka likes to tribute, but Mitsurugi like to be tributed… is there some way to combine them, and make it work? (Ragnaraika maybe?)
Your problem is going to be that rikka tributes from field, and getting mitsu cards on the field isn’t super easy without being able to tribute from hand in the first place.