Let's play Hieroglyph Dragon/Seikoku (聖刻)

The new arch type which is introduced in the latest OCG expansion Galactic Overlord.

The theme of the deck revolves around tributing their monsters for effects and summons an additional Vanilla monster from the Deck, Hand or Grave when they are tributed.

I talked about them previously in this post.

http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Hieroglyph

For those interested and wants to read all the available cards.

So anyway, there are many ways of playing the deck. I have seen several version and I'll just highlight a few.

1) The Pure Build

2) The Atums Build

3) The Hanzo Build

4) The Neo Galaxy Turbo Build

The Pure Build

As the name implies, this build runs almost everything the arch type has to offer. The main play style would be leaning to more of a Control Deck as they abuse the multiple copies of Seal of Reflection and Seal of Erasure while getting the balls out and then summoning Rank 8 XYZ for their Boss monster finish.

The Atums Build

This is my build of choice and probably the most popular. It can do easy OTK by spamming Atums and getting Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon on to the field to special summon even more big beaters. This build would not run the balls since they are LV8 and would opt to go for the LV 6 Watt Dragon or Luster Dragon. The deck can perform easy 3 card OTKs.

The Hanzo Build

Obviously this build runs Hanzo and Super Transformation Ninjutsu Art on top of the Atums build. The addition of Hanzo makes this deck a little more versatile since you have more field removal and easy access to the higher level dragons while removing opponent's threat monsters such as E Hero Shining (or anything over 3000). I have not tested this yet so I don't really have much to put here lol.

The Neo Galaxy Turbo Build

This deck focus on nothing else but getting Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon on the field via Dragonic Tactics, overlay with 2 Balls and summon a Neo Galaxy Eyes with effect, which is almost a win condition by itself. Not many decks can answer to it but I feel that this build is not as good as hyped lol. Neo Galaxy, while pretty much invincible to most stuff, dies to Honest, Machina Fortress, or a well timed Effect Veiler with some traps. Ok neo galaxy sucks.

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Monster = 19

[3] Effect Veiler

[3] Card Car D

[3] Hieroglyph Dragon Shuu

[3] Hieroglyph Dragon Aset

[2] Hieroglyph Dragon Tofeni

[3] Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon

[2] Watt Dragon

Spell = 12

[1] Monster Reborn

[1] Dark Hole

[1] Heavy Storm

[3] Pot of Duality

[3] Hieroglyph Seal of Gathering

[3] MST

Trap = 9

[1] Solemn Judgment

[2] Solemn Warning

[2] Call of the Haunted

[2] Fiendish Chain

[2] Torrential Tribute

Extra

[3] Hieroglyph Dragon King - Atums

[3] Thunderclap Knight Gaia Dragoon

[1] No 25 Focus Force

[1] Photon Streak Bouncer

[1] Sacred M7

[1] Gustaph Max

[?] Random stuff, the stuff above is a "must put"

Note: This deck is for the new banlist.

Card explanation.

Card Car D

Pot of Greed in exchange for your turn. This decks needs to get the combo pieces ASAP, so this card is a nice fit into the deck.

Pot of Duality

Same reason as Card Car D. Duality into Card Car D for delicious cycling of your deck.

Effect Veilers/Fiendish Chain

Mirror match and Inzektors. Keep you alive from leaving yourself open after Card Car D.

Why No Geib?

It is quite pointless in this deck. It does nothing when tributed in this version of the deck since I don't run the LV8 vanilla.

This build is to fight Inzectors since they are the top meta deck now as TG Agents are out of the picture. You will find yourself getting destroyed by other decks such as Hero though.

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Combo time.

- Aset/Tofeni normal or special, tribute Special for Shuu

- Aset/Tofeni will trigger when tributed and you get Watt Dragon from anywhere

- Shuu and Electail Overlay into Atums

- Atums detach Shuu get REDMD from Deck

- REDMD sp back Shuu

That is the basic combo which is a +1 (even though REDMD has 0 stats).

If your opponent fails to clear the board, you repeat again and increase the card advantage gap.

If you have another Shuu in hand,

- Tribute the on field Shuu (or use the effect to MST stuff on field)

- SP another Watt Dragon

- Overlay another Atums

- Get another REDMD and SP back Watt Dragon (or Shuu, depending what you detached)

- Overlay both 0 stats REDMD for Gustaph Max

- Overlay both Atums into Gaia Dragoon

- 2600 2600 3000 2500 and a 2000 burn

Things can get even more creative if you have another REDMD in hand or some form of revival card like Reborn/Call.