About the Duelist:

Hey everyone, my name is Jessie and I'm here to bring you an Introductory Guide to True Dracos. I’ve not been playing this Deck for very long, but it's the only time an Archetype has ever perfectly clicked with my brain, and the only Archetype I’ve ever felt this close of an attachment to very early on, making me build various versions of the Deck to try them out, furthermore the help I’ve gotten from the True Draco channel in the Master Duel Discord server has helped me a lot when it comes to getting up to speed with this Archetype, making me feel comfortable enough to at least present a basic guide to you!


Overview


True Dracos are a very cheap Deck since they require only very few UR to function properly and can potentially even be played without using a single UR card, furthermore they can very well hold themselves against many of the Meta threats, especially in the Ranked ladder. Their overall gamestyle is a Control-heavy one, Tribute Summoning their own Monsters by using Continuous Spells and Traps as Tribute Material, slowly gathering resources via their Monster Effects and slowing the enemy down and then wittling them down turn by turn. Lorewise they’re an Archetype focused on dragon-based fantasy warriors, that is closely related to the "True King", "Dracoslayer" and "Dracoverlord" Archetypes. I'll give an overview of a mostly pure variant as mixing and matching these Archetypes makes them lose a lot of their consistency in the current Meta game, and their gameplay styles drastically diverge, if you want you can attempt a Deck like that on your own time. The variant I'll be explaining also features no Extra Deck, as that brings about a lot of benefits, that are specific to Archetypes like True Draco that Tribute Summon a lot, and that happens to be the most successful version of the Deck, currently.

All True Draco/True King cards always mention both Archetypes in their Effects due to some TCG translation shenanigans, so for the sake of this guide, I will abbreviate all Effects here as just relating to “True Draco” cards, and will give notes whenever this causes problems.

Also do note that True Dracos are absolutely not recommended as a Deck for Beginners, the more you know about the current Meta Decks, the better your chances are to beat them, while this is true for all Decks, it's especially true for Control Decks like True Draco, since we need to know the optimal points to disrupt our opponents to consistently win.


Important Archetypal Monsters


The relevant True Draco Monsters are all high Level Monsters that have the shared Effect of being able to use Continuous Spells/Traps as Tribute Material for a Tribute Summon. The main 3 Monsters of the Deck all require one Tribute and have a shared Quick Effect of being able to search out a card from your Deck if they've been Tribute Summoned, once per turn when your opponent activates a card or Effect. These are soft once per turns, so multiple copies of each card would also mean potentially multiple uses of their Effects.

Dinomight Knight, the True Dracofighter (×3)

Dinomight searches out any True Draco Trap card and lets you either activate it or add it to your hand. He is easily the best Monster in the current version of the Deck, since the True Draco Trap cards are the most powerful of the bunch, and help you out a lot, especially early game.

Ignis Heat, the True Dracowarrior (×2-3)

Ignis does the same thing as Dinomight, but with True Draco Spell cards instead. The Spell cards will help you more the longer the game goes on, so he is very important in the late game. He can be very helpful early on too, as the Spell cards give you access to more draw power and can help add field presence during your turn.


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3 years ago

My favorite Synchro deck

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3 years ago

Even if I think that any monke flip deck doesn't deserve an explanation, this is a very detailed guide. Good job, but guys don't play skill drain at home please

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3 years ago

Proud father moment

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3 years ago

Look ma, I'm on MDM

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3 years ago

My first Plat 1 deck!

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3 years ago

Synchro : The "True Draco" event

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3 years ago

Yo, True Draco! I love this deck, can't wait to read!!

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3 years ago

It's a good introduction, even thought I disagree with the Monarch's Strike statement. It doesnt negate monster effects only, it works for ANY card on the field. So lets say your opponent activates HFD while you have a TD and it set: Activate TD effect, chain strike to negate HFD; draw a card from it and also search/activate something off the TD you just tributed. It's also useful to dodge targeting effects and your own Skill Drain if needed. The card is insane, period, used to run 3 but 2 is pretty fine. Dont look at it as a worse Forbidden Droplet. Also, need to mention Impermanence: while it's the only Hand Trap I recommend using in this deck, you have to take care about using it while Erupt or Skill Drain is active, since you wont be able to negate something that is already negate, which means you probably wont be able to use its effect ever. So yeah, if you expect to also negate a spell or trap in its column remember to not have Skill Drain or Erupt face up. Other than that, solemn strike deserves a mention as well, but great introduction nonetheless.

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3 years ago

I recently dueled and lost against a Invoked True Draco deck. Would the author of this guide be interested in the deck list? I have saved it and could easily add it to masterduelmeta deck lists.

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3 years ago

Hey, i would be interested in seeing that. I'm trying a few draco variants but not many really match up. Don't think there is much synergy between invoked and TD but you never know.

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3 years ago

Known for its incredible back and forth gameplay. Fun for the whole family

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4 months ago

Ah yes I bought a whole set for only £12 at my local Home Bargains and we had such a good time destroying our coffee table and yelling at each other that we just might not open the game again. 10/10 in my books

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4 months ago

master peace has returned

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4 months ago

I thought that after the strongest dracoslayer named the banlist battled our beloved master peace we saw him fall under the heavy spell called forbidden but he has now escaped and is ready to battle the fiercesome dragons called the Ten Pies

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3 years ago

I do like Waterfall of Dragon Souls but since I'm searching Dinomight 95% of the time I use a trap called Ice Barrier which lets you search for a Water attribute monster (including Gameiciel if need a Kaiju). It needs to be triggered by an attacking monster but it changes their ATK to 0 (permanently), and you can even pop it using Dragonic Diagram to put it in the GY and activate the searching effect. Just be careful if you've activated a Dimensional Barrier because if you activate the GY effect right away it will send Dinomight to the GY (doh!) and also they can easily use Called by the Grave (double doh!). Still kinda cool that it can be used for both negating attacks and searching Dinomight and Gameciel though.

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3 years ago

It should be noted that Strike of the Monarchs can also stop LS, Duster and any other face up spell, it is really good. CL1 Lightning Storm CN2 True Draco Monster CN3 Strike of the Monarchs

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3 years ago

Soul Drain, Lose 1 turn is good too

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3 years ago

Wow thanks dude. I can't wait to smash the fusion event with an improved version of the deck I played in the synchro festival! Sorry guys, but those 5k gems were too tempting

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3 years ago

TD can summon up to 2 monsters in opponent turn and disrupted their combo. It's like Ghost Ogre but you can destroy spell/trap or monster according what card you use to tribute summon. . I met some TD decks but rarely see people use this gameplan. Every time I use Draco, at least I will summon 1 monster, tribute 1 trap, and destroy opponent monster in their turn.

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3 years ago

My favorite Fusion deck

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3 years ago

TRUE KING OF ALL EVENT!

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3 years ago

Well, it only took six months, but True Draco officially got their festival.

I'd say I hope Floow steals it from you guys, but I'm gonna be running True Draco myself for this. I've lost to this stuff enough that I can probably make a decent budget deck on the fly.

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3 years ago

My favorite dracøck

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3 years ago

floodgate: the article

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3 years ago

must be huffing copium if you think master peace every getting unbanned, good guide nonetheless

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4 months ago

MAD COPIUM IS WHAT TAKE EVERY DAY TO SEE MY KING ARISE TODAY

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3 years ago

Forgot to mention to only play it in events

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3 years ago

this deck is worse than eldicg,much more when played in event.

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3 years ago

F U ALL TRUE DRACO ABUSER IN SYNCHRO FESTIVAL, F U KONAMI AS WELL FOR MAKING A **** BANLIST IN THIS EVENT

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