Best Old School Archetype?

[AlfaKayzer]

Hello guys,

I've been playing a ritual B-eyes White Dragon. Unfortunately, this deck has bricking issues, plus its best feature is slow summon high ATK monsters with barely any effects on them. Even playing with extenders (like chaos levianeer, baronne, XYZ dragons, etc) to add some negators into it, it still has consistency problems.

Is there any other old school archetype deck, that has better consistency and power? (Maybe a Dark Magician, Red-Eyes, Gaia or any others?) This is considering good extenders for them as well.

Not interested in a deck that can face meta decks. Just looking for another funny old school deck, that doesn't have that many bricking issues.

Thanks!

[ShakablePilot51]

HERO decks are always available, they have good consistency. Only problem is they lose to their own boss monster. Looking at you Dwayne.

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

Dark Magician does fairly well. Blue-Eyes can do okay too. Cyber Dragons are very respectable. HERO decks are borderline meta.

If we include more recent but still fairly old decks, then we can include Blackwings, Gravekeepers, Six Samurai, etc too who have all seen stellar support in recent years.

[Slyther]

DMG and their ilk are pretty decent, especially DMG with soul servant being a huge consistency booster. another fun one worth considering that isn't part of the big nostalgia archetypes is black luster soldier

[Just end trashbag.]

What about Exodia XD


Joke aside maybe Jinzo or Toons. I recommend toons since there is secret mission that need to take control of opponent monster.

[【𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙠】🧉]

Play Utopia, you can't brick with that old school deck

[Toffel]

blackwing

[Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!]

HERO

[Merilirem]

Originally posted by Pick stupidly i random:

What about Exodia XD


Joke aside maybe Jinzo or Toons. I recommend toons since there is secret mission that need to take control of opponent monster.

I think current Exodia is perfectly viable compared to those other recommendations. An actual Exodia deck not made to be an FTK gimmick can put in some real work.

[zeromaveric]

recently made a Skull Servant deck that utilizes Grass. it can be prone to bricking if i have no means of getting my combo starters out, but i've had some relative success in sending a King with 10,000+ atk for an easy win on the board

[Phrasmotic]

Blue Eyes decks use tuners and dragons - that means you should be using Halq and Dragon Link stuff to combo off turn 1. Really boggles me as to why nobody is doing this, and then they wonder why Chaos Max Turbo keeps losing...

[[ﻮΗc]StarLight]

Infernity

[AlfaKayzer]

Originally posted by Phrasmotic:

Blue Eyes decks use tuners and dragons - that means you should be using Halq and Dragon Link stuff to combo off turn 1. Really boggles me as to why nobody is doing this, and then they wonder why Chaos Max Turbo keeps losing...

I do use it. The problem is that many combos require an extra turn on my side to continue (like Chaos Max), while others have a more consistent OTK.

Some combos
- Mausoleum -> Sage (effect to bring another stone) -> stone -> Link 2 into Halq -> another stone (usually stone of ancients) -> That stone into Anima or Linkuriboh (just to have the stone on the graveyard) -> Special summon Abyss Dragon w/ stone of ancients and End of turn -> Ritual spell + Chaos Max Dragon for next turn -> Halq with Abyss into Baronne for negation.

- Nebula (effect) + Blue-Eyes -> Number 38 (for spell negations) or Galaxy Eyes (to clean some oponents monsters)

Cards like Trade-in, Melody, Sanctuary, Maxx C and others help me to not get that bricked. Problem is, at the end of the day, if my hand is not that good, an Ash can brick me completely.

Is there any other link or card that would extend my plays?

I've tried: Levianeer (good extender but inconsistent), Rokket cards (more consistent with Striker Dragon into Borreload, but I have to dedicate several cards into that combo).

[AlluMan96]

Depends on how far you wanna go back. I'd call Kozmos a pretty good "Old School" deck, but they are also from well into the XYZ-era. Monarchs are a solid archetype that dates back to the olden days of pre-GX, but their most definitive wave of support came out somewhere around the Pendulum-era, I believe.

If you want the feel of old-school, summoning big, beefy main deck monsters and smashing the field over controlling it necessarily, look up Gren Maju Da Eiza builds. Stack your banish-zone full of monsters, gain outright advantage from floodgates like Macro Cosmos or Dimensional Fissure, laugh at the very idea of Pot of Desires and Castle of Stromberg having "costs" and after all that, summon a level 3 beatstick that can easily surpass 10 000 in a way that will even have Skull Servants waking up in a cold sweat.

Speaking of, Skull Servants are good adjacent deck, playing with the older mentality of "Bring out the big guy for smashy boom bangs!". An outright hilarious self-mill deck that works alongside zombie-engines like ham and cheese on a sandwich. Whether your doing 60-card mill or splashing it with stuff like Eldlich or Zombie World Control, it is a good time to be had overall.

[RaysGoodLiquor]

I had a lot of success back in the day at locals with a gravity bind/clown deck. Clear the field and use Hayabusa Knight to chip away at them.

I played a hand destruction deck for a while too but the ban list destroyed it.

[Chaos 混沌 カオス]

How much of a % of the deck has to be "old school" to count?

For example, I use a Drytron deck that focuses on Chaos MAX, but I wouldn't know if that's what something OP is looking for.