An old deck, new possibilities?

[John Danker]

As often happens when I'm judging and young players are around, I was reminded of an old card combination that, with the support for normal monsters may have at least semi-consistant results...

Red-Eyes B. Dragon & Inferno Fire Blast

With the ease to summon high level monsters and the ease special summon them back to the field this could be a nice casual play deck. Obviously with MOF gone it's not as nice but perhaps Serial Spell....but likely A Feather Of Phoenix is a better replacement since it would be easy to discard Red-Eyes as the cost for A Feather Of Phoenix and special summon it back to the field by means of numerous cards capable of doing so for a normal monster.

Non-Spellcasting Arena works nicely in this deck as well as it would let Red-Eyes attack the same turn Inferno Fire Blast was activated.

Just a thought to make a deck out of cards you might not use otherwise.

 

[LordLight2]

Nice idea. Won't work.

If you control "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" and activate "Inferno Fire Blast" to inflict damage, and then after that resolves you activate "Non-Spellcasting Area", "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" still cannot attack because "Non-Spellcasting Area" will not negate the condition.

Doesn't work the same way Burst-Stream of Destruction does for the Blue Eyes White Dragon. (Wish it did...)

 

[densetsu_x]

No, Non-Spellcasting Area will not work to let the Red-Eyes attack the same turn. That would be Blue-Eyes / Burst Stream of Destruction. In fact since Inferno Fire Blast Targets, if Non-Spellcasting Area is active, the effect of IFB disappears.

(For the record, the whole ruling in this regards in my opinion is way wrong. If you say the card targets 1 Red-Eyes, why should any others be penalized and not be able to attack? This also is one of the rules that still is different in Japan where only the targeted one cannot attack which would make sense.)

 

[John Danker]

<shrug> Oh well, it was just part of the thought, never have played this kind of deck so I haven't dug into the rulings for it yet. Just the same the deck has a lot more potential than it did before the most recent set was released and is worth a casual deck build.

 

[exiledforcefreak]

This is a discussion better suited to the rules forum :-:

 

[densetsu_x]

Actually it wasn't a ruling discussion. It was a general idea that John pointed out that had a ruling issue that was pointed out and subsequently acknowledged and left at that. It was what is.

 

[Oceanus]

Personally, I would just switch over to a Blue-Eyes build then. It is hands down the strongest 2 tribute, legal normal. Hey, at least after you use its monster attack, you have an open road for a direct! I just happen to have traded for 3 SDKs this week XP.

 

[John Danker]

I understand your thought pattern about Blue Eyes, personally I've always enjoyed my Blue Eyes / Creator deck (Kaibaman & The Creator Incarnate being warriors and easily searched & retrived from the graveyard) but my thought pattern on Red-Eyes was from the burn perspective, 2400 effect damage via Inferno Fire Blast is nothing to scoff at and with the cards I mentioned (normal monster support & Feather of Pheionix) should be able to be pulled off quite often.

 

[english chef]

Hmmm- thoughts.

If you cant attack with REBD, you could do something else with it. Fuse it into B.Skull dragon (probably with dark hex sealed), morph it into something 7 star (St. Joan or King Dragun probably), use Ring of Destruction for even more damage etc....