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Doomkaiser Dragon
Card# CSOC-EN043
Doomkaiser Dragon's effect isn't just for Zombie World duelists: remember that its effect can swipe copies of Plaguespreader Zombie, too!
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| Deck Profile: Quincy Gordon |
| Jason Grabher-Meyer |
| September 10, 2005 |
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 Team Scoop has really made an impact here today, and with a 3-1 record, Quincy Gordon has been a major part of the action. The best record of the team? Certainly not. But the deck itself is fantastic.
“The actual name is ‘Aqua Chaos,’ but I like to call it a Nightmare Lock. ‘Cause I lock my opponents in a nightmare.” He grinned at his own cheesy line. Here’s what his deck looks like.
Monsters: 18
2 Airknight Parshath
2 Nightmare Penguin
2 Abyss Soldier
1 Sinister Serpent
1 Mobius the Frost Monarch
1 Tribe-Infecting Virus
1 Magician of Faith
2 Tsukuyomi
2 Asura Priest
1 Breaker the Magical Warrior
1 Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
1 D. D. Warrior Lady
1 Sangan
Spells: 18
1 Pot of Greed
1 Graceful Charity
2 Book of Moon
1 Enemy Controller
2 Scapegoat
2 Metamorphosis
1 Brain Control
1 Lightning Vortex
1 Premature Burial
2 Nobleman of Crossout
1 Delinquent Duo
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Snatch Steal
Traps: 6
2 Royal Decree
1 Ceasefire
1 Mirror Force
1 Call of the Haunted
1 Ring of Destruction
Side:
1 Smashing Ground
1 Monster Reincarnation
1 Swords of Revealing Light
1 Book of Moon
1 Wave-Motion Cannon
1 Spell Shield Type-8
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Magical Merchant
1 Spirit Reaper
1 Penguin Soldier
1 Sasuke Samurai
1 D. D. Assailant
1 Big Shield Gardna
Fusion:
1 Cyber End Dragon
2 Cyber Twin Dragon
1 Gatling Dragon
1 King Dragun
2 Dark Blade the Dragon Knight
2 Dark Flare Knight
1 Ryu Senshi
1 Ojama King
2 Dark Balter the Terrible
1 Karbonala Warrior
1 Fusionist
1 Thousand-Eyes Restrict
 It’s essentially a Chaos Hybrid with some extra-neat tech. The lynchpins are Nightmare Penguin and Abyss Soldier, which both serve to mess with the opponent’s field. Abyss Soldier is a panacea of sorts, taking care of whatever happens to be ailing you at the moment. It’s a versatile answer to virtually anything, and really helps the deck react to a variety of problems. Feeding it, but also providing their own really cool bounce effect, is Nightmare Penguin. “I use the Penguins with Tsukuyomi,” he explained. “I can flip it down each turn, bounce a new monster. It creates sort of a lock.” A soft lock, but a lock indeed! And who doesn’t like penguins?
Abyss Soldier can be totally nasty in conjunction with Sinister Serpent, and while its effect can first appear underwhelming, it becomes incredibly powerful when you can use it reliably for virtually no cost.
Other interesting tech in the deck includes the use of two copies of Asura Priest. It’s no secret that Scapegoat often slows down or flat out stops the progression of a game, and Asura Priest is one of the best answers available. Running two copies turns it from a chancy single draw that takes luck to see at the right time into an out-and-out Sheep destroying engine. The use of two Royal Decree has become popular in many areas recently, and it gives Gordon more answers to traps beyond the Abyss Soldiers. “I really hate Jinzo, so I use Decree instead.”
 Two Airknight Parshath are also used in the list, putting it at four monsters of level 4 or higher. The other tribute monsters are the predictable Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, and the more surprising Mobius the Frost Monarch. While running four monsters that can not be normal summoned can be risky, Mobius shares synergy with the deck in two significant ways. First up, it adds to the deck’s sizable amount of spell and trap removal with its effect: the field control afforded by Nightmare Penguin makes it easier to keep monsters on the field. But Mobius can also be used for Abyss Soldier’s effect, giving it even more synergy: overall, the deck has six monsters at any given time that can be sacked to banish a card to the Abyss. Consider the fact that the deck is only running 4 Dark monsters to feed Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, and you start to see just how differently this deck operates from a typical Chaos.
The deck isn’t particularly complicated to play: it essentially runs like any other Chaos deck, but it tends to take a bit more time to get out Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning. In return for that slight loss, it gets a lot more control over the board, meaning that it can afford to be far more aggressive than other Chaos builds. It’s an interesting twist for a very old deck, and its success may give some useful information for the post-October metagame. Water decks may be competitive in the future if they adapt the approach taken here.
Quincy Gordon is just one of the promising players for Team Scoop, who were providing a stunning amount of the overall content for today’s event coverage. As one of the team’s more innovative players, his Aqua Chaos deck is certain to see play by netdeck testers everywhere.
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