Yeah my updated list has one for one in it. I had completely blanked on it existing when I made the deck ngl. Small world can eat an ash blossom a lot though which is nice since it's a neutral loss compared to ash on one for one being -1

I would say it’s turn one. Ash/Infinite really hurt the two main combo lines. You can bait ash with small world or incoming machine. As long as you have metal illusionist or black metal dragon in hand.

Nah it's going first droplet and storm are just there for if I have to go second it's nice to have breakers

Any dark can go into 2nd fullmetal into BMD Droll and fuwa can bridge eachother into BMD Ash/Droll can bridge to BMD Ash/Illusionist can bridge to BMD Etc etc just find BMD

I think dragoon is something you specifically should build around and not just throw in hastily. If you wanted to dragoon theres a few options to make the bricks hidden such as playing black meteor and black stone to combo with bystials into atum to get to BMD to start doing combo then either you can make verte that turn for dragoon or you can have dragoon for your turn 3 by banishing black meteor from GY for REF.

Ultimately that makes black meteor a brick in.the deck unless 1. You're willing to stop your dragoon from being makeable or 2. You run 1 extra vanilla in deck so meteor can use its summon effect. That's specifically in the games you opened or searched it however. Theres a ton of dragoon+fullmetal shotgunned endboard out there if you wanna have that but I think a slow steady combo route can be pretty safe